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Die Platia Agias Paraskevis () entstand 1935, nach dem großen Erdbeben von 1933, durch welches wesentliche Teile der historischen Stadt von Kos auf der Insel Kos zerstört wurden.

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Der Name des Platzes ist von der etwas oberhalb liegenden Kirche Agia Paraskevi abgeleitet. Während der italienischen Besatzungszeit wurde der Platz () genannt.

Lage
Der Platz liegt auf etwa 11 Meter über dem Meeresspiegel in unmittelbarer Nähe der Platia Eleftherias ( Platz der Freiheit). Räumlich im Wesentlichen getrennt durch die 1934 erbaute und quer stehende Markthalle von Kos ( ).

Bürgerhaus
Das an der Platia Agias Paraskevis befindliche Bürgerhaus wurde während der italienischen Besetzung der Inseln erbaut. Der Stil findet sich auch auf der Platia Eleftherias beim Haus der Faschisten () und dem Archäologischen Museum, beim Gouverneurspalast von Kos am Hafen von Kos, etwas weniger bei der Markthalle wieder. Der Stil dieses Bürgerhauses ist bezeichnend für den Architekturstil der Zeit von 1923 bis 1943 der italienischen Besetzung der Dodekanes-Inseln. Es wurde der Stil der Architektur nach den Vorstellungen der neuen Machthaber angepasst und von "orientalischen Einflüssen" gereinigt und in Anlehnung an das Römische Reich in Verbindung mit faschistischen "Idealen" ausgeführt.

Literatur
 Nikos Varelas: Kos. DumontExtra, DuMont Buchverlag Köln 2002. ISBN 3-7701-5759-1

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January 27, 2021 19:21 +08
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Cruz told Fox News host Sean Hannity that Democrats "hate Donald Trump" and their urgency of impeaching the former US leader was an "exercise in political rage."
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The Texas senator said: "Look, these are the same Democrats who four years ago in 2017—actually, in December of 2016 before Trump was sworn in—said they wanted to impeach him. They have wanted to impeach him from the beginning. They did it a year ago."
He said it felt like he was trapped in the Bill Murray time-loop comedy Groundhog Day where in every January there will be an impeachment. "I guess next year, I don't know, maybe it will be the impeachment of Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton or Barack Obama because that is what we do in Januaries," he told the Fox News host.
The last time a president faced impeachment was when President Bill Clinton was impeached in 1998. His presidency was plagued with repeated attacks from the Republicans. Clinton was charged with lying under oath to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice. But he was acquitted by the Senate in February 1999.
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When the Congressional proceedings were going on to confirm the Electoral College votes on January 6, along with a few more Republicans, Cruz stepped forward to challenge Arizona's electoral vote. He was one of those senators who supported Trump's baseless claims that the 2020 election was rigged and voter fraud was conducted to make Biden the President of the US.
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The confirmation proceeding was interrupted by violent pro-Trump supporters who stormed the US Capitol on January 6. That incident forced some lawmakers to hide inside the building until the riot could be quelled.
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Veterans accuse Boris Johnson of dropping amnesty for Northern Ireland troops from manifesto
Troops in the minutes before soldiers opened fire on Bloody Sunday in January 1972
Robert Mendick, Chief Reporter
26 November 2019 • 8:00pm
Robert Mendick
A former soldier facing trial for attempted murder has accused the Conservative Party of dropping a pledge to protect veterans from prosecution over historic allegations in Northern Ireland.
The Tory Party had announced on Armistice Day that it planned to re-write the Human Rights Act to give former troops a new legal protection.
But the manifesto, when it was launched this week by Boris Johnson, contained no such initiative. It instead repeated only a pledge to introduce new legislation "to tackle the vexatious legal claims that undermine our Armed Forces" - a reference to civil legal cases brought by human rights lawyers, which is separate to criminal prosecutions of former troops.
Dennis Hutchings hooked up to a kidney dialysis machine Credit: Geoff Pugh
Dennis Hutchings, 78, who is undergoing kidney dialysis twice a week but will go on trial for attempted murder in March next year, said: "I am absolutely disgusted with Boris Johnson over this and so are a lot of other veterans. They used Armistice Day to get lots of publicity and then it's not in the manifesto. It is outrageous they have claimed they would do something about this and then left it out the manifesto.
"It is cynical what they have done. It looks like they were just trying to win votes on Armistice Day."
Boris Johnson launching the Conservative Party manifesto on Sunday Credit: WILL OLIVER/EPA-EFE/REX
The row over the manifesto coincides with an announcement by the Public Prosecution Service in Northern Ireland that it is reviewing its own decision not to prosecute nine more soldiersfor murder and attempted murder over the deaths of 13 civil rights marchers in Londonderry on Bloody Sunday in January 1972.
Families of the victims have demanded the review. Currently one soldier is facing charges of murder and attempted murder. It is estimated that more than 200 veterans of the Troubles are under criminal investigation for unlawful killings.
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The furore had prompted the prime minister to find ways to prevent troops from being prosecuted over alleged killings that took place as almost 50 years ago.
In a press statement issued on Armistice Day, the Conservative Party then made a series of pledges over the treatment of former troops, being taken to court.
Among them was a promise "to end the unfair trials of people who served their country when no new evidence has been produced" and another to "amend the Human Rights Act 1998 to specify that it doesn't apply to issues – including any death in the Northern Ireland Troubles – that took place before the Act came into force in October 2000".
Bloody Sunday Timeline
A further draft policy document seen by the Daily Telegraph and which, it is understood, was supposed to be in the manifesto, had contained a proposal to introduced a statute of limitations, that would have prevented historic prosecutions unless compelling new evidence was unearthed.
Last night, the Conservative Party insisted that Northern Ireland veterans would be protected in the future. A source accepted the manifesto could have been clearer. "We of course understand the desire of those affected for absolute clarity. That is precisely why we are taking the action we are," said the source.
A Conservative spokesman said: "The manifesto states we will introduce new legislation to tackle vexatious legal claims. And when we say that we mean amending the Human Rights Act 1998 to restore it to its intended scope so that it doesn't apply to issues – including any death in the Northern Ireland Troubles – that took place before the Act came into force in October 2000. We are absolutely firm and clear in our commitment on this."


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 Elizabeth Wilmshurst (b. 1948), a former legal adviser to the UK government
 Ken Wilmshurst (1931–1992), English athlete
 Rea Wilmshurst (1941–1996), editor of  Lucy Maud Montgomery's short stories
 Walter Leslie Wilmshurst (1867–1939), Freemason
 George Cecil Wilmshurst (1873/1874–1930) - British painter and illustrator, active 1897-1917


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Volvo Trucks and DFDS cooperate to run electric supply chain transports
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DFDS, Northern Europe's largest shipping and logistics company, and Volvo Trucks are joining forces to electrify heavy truck transports. As a first step, DFDS will operate an all-electric truck to deliver parts to the Volvo truck factory near Gothenburg. The initiative marks a key step for building a fossil free supply chain for the Volvo Group.
"I am very happy and proud to cooperate with DFDS on this journey towards more sustainable transports. Volvo Group has set the target to build a fossil free supply chain and this is an important milestone on the way," says Roger Alm, President Volvo Trucks.
Volvo Trucks recently announced the sales start of three new heavy duty all-electric trucks. One of them is the Volvo FM Electric, which DFDS will be one of the first to operate in commercial traffic. Starting after summer, the truck will deliver supplies to Volvo's truck factory in Gothenburg, Sweden. Initially it will operate over a total distance of 120 kilometers per day.
"This full scale electric project demonstrates, in a tangible way, how serious DFDS is about being part of the shift to electric mobility and a more sustainable transport business," says Niklas Andersson, Executive Vice President & Head of DFDS' Logistics Division.
Volvo Group is one of the largest manufacturers of trucks and other vehicles in the world – and by that also a major transport buyer itself. The aim is to build a fossil free supply chain.
"Our joint goal is to learn from each other and gain deeper, useful insights covering crucial topics such as battery capacity, route planning, charging, the drivers' experiences and much more. Going electric is so much more than just a truck – it is a total solution," says Roger Alm.
Powerful charging station
To future-proof its investment, DFDS decided to build the most powerful charging station on the market at its home depot in Gothenburg, with a capacity of 350 kW.
"We are in the beginning of our e-mobility journey and understand that charging capacity is important. The learning experience with Volvo will be valuable when ramping up, allowing us to evaluate vehicle battery capacity based on routes and individual assignments," continues Niklas Andersson.
Most complete line up in the industry
With the sales start of the three new heavy electric truck models – the Volvo FH, FM and FMX – Volvo Trucks now has an impressive line-up of six medium and heavy-duty electric trucks. This is currently the most complete commercial electric truck range in the industry.
"With the introduction of these new fully electric vehicles, with higher load capacities and more powerful drivelines, we believe the time is right for a rapid upswing in electrification of heavy road transport," concludes Roger Alm.
Facts about Volvo Trucks electric range
Production of the new electric Volvo FH, FM and FMX models for Europe will start in the second half of 2022. They join the Volvo FL Electric and Volvo FE Electric for urban transports that have been in serial production since 2019 for the same market. In North America, sales of the Volvo VNR Electric started in December 2020.
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A prenuptial agreement is referred to as a premarital agreement. The Texas Family Code defines this as an agreement between prospective spouses made in contemplation of marriage and to be effective on marriage. The premarital agreement must be in writing and signed by both parties.
For example, a premarital agreement may include the parties right to buy, sell or use property as well as what happens to that property upon separation, divorce or death.
The agreement is enforceable without consideration; however, after marriage, the agreement may be amended or revoked only by a written agreement signed by the parties.


Although it has been on the menu as far back as O Cebreiro, Pulpo (octopus) doesn't seem to garnish much attention until Melide. Despite its apparent disconnect with the sea, Melide's thriving Thursday market meant that shipping pulpo was a profitable enterprise. It is served today as it was then: on a wooden plate, garnished only with a healthy drizzle of olive oil and a shake of paprika. It is eaten with a rather crude looking toothpick, alongside heavy Galician bread and a bowl of the local Ribeiro wine.
One of the better places to try it is Pulpería a Garnacha, the last door on your left before you get to the main road in Melide.


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Navy using Kitsap public parks for training
Posted on January 13, 2016 by usrv
For more than a year, elite Navy commandos have quietly used three waterfront parks in Kitsap County for nighttime combat trainings.
The Navy in late 2014 obtained special permission for small SEAL teams to stage water-based trainings from Illahee State Park in Bremerton, Scenic Beach State Park in Seabeck and Blake Island State Park in South Kitsap.
The Navy wants to expand its use of parks and other public lands in the Puget Sound region to allow more SEAL team training opportunities. Nearly 70 sites have been identified around the region for potential training sites, including Evergreen-Rotary Park in Bremerton, Manchester State Park in South Kitsap, Liberty Bay Marina in Poulsbo and more than 20 other sites in Kitsap.
Public lands activists object, saying military use of parks, marinas and boat ramps runs counter to their recreational purpose and could put public safety at risk.
"And there's the downright scariness of it," said Karen Sullivan, a member of the West Coast Action Alliance, a group that opposes what it considers the growing military use of public lands. "If people think there are Navy SEALS practicing in public parks — hiding in the bushes or swimming around in the water — they'll be less likely to use public parks."
The 68 sites were listed in documents obtained by activist news site Truth-Out.org. The documents indicate the trainings could include combat swimming exercises, simulated battles with paintball guns and various launch and landing actions with small inflatable boats and small submarines.
Navy Region Northwest spokeswoman Sheila Murray said the documents are part of a planning process and do not necessarily indicate where or if the Navy will conduct trainings.
"We're still very much in the planning stage," she said.
The documents indicate trainings could last between two and 72 hours and involve up to 10 personnel, two or three inflatable boats and a small submersible. The trainings would be "non-invasive in nature" with no gunfire, digging or vegetation cutting.
"A goal for personnel conducting this training is not to be detected by others in the area," states a paper attributed to Naval Special Warfare Group Three. "Upon exit from these areas there is no tell-tale sign of their presence."
Another Navy official who did not want to be named said the listed sites are places that likely meet the Navy's training needs. The Navy would narrow its list and then seek permission from each site's owner. Only a few of the 68 sites would be required for trainings, the official said.
A Truth-Out story indicates the trainings will begin this month, but state parks officials told the Kitsap Sun that trainings of a limited scope have been underway at five state parks since fall 2014. Along with the three state parks in Kitsap, the Navy has permission to access Mystery Bay and Fort Flagler state parks on Marrowstone Island, which is located near Naval Magazine Indian Island in Port Townsend Bay.
Washington State Parks spokeswoman Virginia Painter said the Navy has used state parks for low-impact trainings for at least eight years. Park officials approved a "right of entry" permit that allows the Navy to use the five state parks until late 2019.
"We're granting them the right to land," Painter said. "But they're not doing war exercises in state parks."
The permit requires the Navy to give three days' notice to park managers and limit use to after dark.
It wasn't clear how many trainings occurred, but most happened between May and July, Painter said.
"There's no more impact than any other boat coming ashore," she said.
Any use beyond basic beach access and the use of park roads to launch or retrieve vessels would require a lengthy permit process.
Trainings have typically occurred between midnight and 4 a.m. and were limited to the early summer, Painter said.
Kitsap County's Salsbury Point Park near Port Gamble was listed as a potential training site, but county park officials say they've not been approached by the Navy.
"It's news to us," Kitsap County Parks Director Jim Dunwiddie said. "We haven't heard anything like this — not even any rumblings."
The proposed sites list includes the Tracyton boat launch, Brownsville Marina and Bremerton's USS Turner Joy, which now functions as a museum. Several listings name general areas, such as Miller Bay, Oyster Bay and Bainbridge Island's Eagle Harbor and Point Monroe.
Possible locations for paintball gunbattles include the empty Seabeck Elementary School and Fort Worden State Park in Port Townsend.
Sullivan said military trainings in civilian areas and public lands cause public alarm and safety issues, disturb wildlife and limit public access to recreational areas.
The Navy sparked a similar controversy in 2014 when it proposed an electronic warfare training program in Olympic National Forest. The Navy's initial disregard for public input angered many Olympic Peninsula residents. A few of them, including Sullivan, founded the West Coast Action Alliance, which now tracks military training plans across around the region.
"The Navy poked the public in the eye with a sharp stick," Sullivan said.
Despite the Navy's assurances that the SEAL trainings will be low-profile and follow rules set out by public lands agencies, Sullivan remains skeptical.
"We feel besieged and voiceless," she said.
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Even where this was not the case the slogan itself could be "used practically everywhere as a general propaganda slogan." That is to say, the argument that the government should be under the control of the workers' organisations, should act in their interests against capital and should arm the workers' organisations is an elementary component of communist propaganda. The Fourth Congress did not complete the necessary work of elaborating the use of this slogan as a tactic.
Thereafter, scientific discussion of the question was first derailed at the Fifth Congress and later stopped altogether when the Stalinist Comintern dropped the term in favour of an open coalition with the bourgeoisie, the Popular Front.
However, if this is the content given to the slogan, "For a Workers' Government", by communists, it is clear that, since the slogan can be proposed as a united front, the reformists and reformist-led workers may, and probably will, give it another, non-revolutionary content. The Fourth Congress, therefore, found it necessary to identify five types of government to which such a label might be applied and to distinguish between them.
The first possibility was a "Liberal Workers' Government". By this was meant a government of a Labour Party which did not even profess to be socialist. This had been the case in Australia, and was likely to be the case in Great Britain. Secondly, the "Social Democratic Workers' Government" this identified a government of the social democracy, as had existed in Germany. Both of these first two were governments of "bourgeois workers' parties" and, in reality, covert coalitions with the bourgeoisie.
This was because, having ridden to power as representatives of the workers, such governments might be forced to go further than they wished, thereby raising the expectations and demands of their worker supporters. In addition, since they would, inevitably, side with the bourgeoisie wherever this was necessary, they could also accelerate the disillusionment of the masses in reformist parties.
The fifth possible form of workers' government was that in which the communists themselves formed the government. This was the only "pure" form of the workers' government and was equated, by the Comintern, with the dictatorship of the proletariat.
The Comintern's typology of workers' governments is, today, somewhat anachronistic in that a convergence of the old "Liberal-Labour parties" and the social democratic parties has taken place thereby "fusing" the two types of "bourgeois workers' governments" into one.
In addition, the degeneration of the Soviet Union and its counter-revolutionary politics since the Second World War has created the possibility of a further form of the workers' government—the "bureaucratic workers' government". Here we mean a government which, under exceptional circumstances, which always involve the prior political expropriation of the working class vanguard, expropriates the bourgeoisie's property through bureaucratic measures. Thereafter, it introduces the fundamental economic structures of the dictatorship of the proletariat—a planned economy and state monopoly of foreign trade. Although this is a degenerate form of the dictatorship of the proletariat, it cannot advance the proletariat's march towards socialism, and hence cannot be proposed or demanded by revolutionaries.
The specific measures taken by such a government against capital, can however be defended. The theses on the Workers' Government adopted by the Fourth Congress bear the marks of the conflict, already developing in 1922, that accompanied the later degeneration of the Comintern. Zinoviev, for example, wished to equate the workers' government directly and only with the dictatorship of the proletariat. Such an interpretation, that a "workers' government" is simply "a synonym for dictatorship of the proletariat", robs the slogan of its use as a united front proposal. In Zinoviev's usage the slogan could only be posed ultimatistically against, for example, a social democratic government.
However, such ultimatism can easily be transformed into its opportunist opposite. This was done by Stalin and Bukharin when they equated "workers' and peasants' government" with the historically obsolete and therefore reactionary concept of the "democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and the peasantry".
This served to obscure the crucial point, namely, that such a government would be, programmatically, a bourgeois government. Stalin and Bukharin presented the formation of such a government in China as a programmatic necessity when in reality, as Trotsky explained, such a government would be "a chief barrier upon the (socialist revolution's) path" and thus a negation of the workers' government tactic.
The dangers inherent in such loose formulations as those contained in the Comintern Theses are most clearly seen with regard to types three and four of the typology of workers' governments. These may, or may not, contain communists. The conditions upon which communists could enter such governments were strictly laid down by the Comintern: only by consent of the Comintern, only if the communist members of such a government were under the strictest party control and were in closest contact with the workers' revolutionary organisations and, finally, only if the communists were granted absolute independence and the right of criticism.
What was not specified was the attitude to be taken either where these conditions were not met, or where, for other reasons, communists were not members of these workers' governments.
Within a year of the Fourth Congress, divisions over the attitude to be taken toward SPD and USPD-dominated regional governments within Germany, and the conditions upon which Communists might enter them, were to have disastrous effects upon the German Communist Party (KPD). The correct usage of the "workers' government tactic" can be seen from the practice of the Bolsheviks in Russia in the months between the February and October revolutions.
When the Bolsheviks demanded that all power should pass to the Soviets, they were in effect demanding a government based on the workers' own fighting organisations, that is, in the later terminology, a workers' government.
The actual forces that should compose such a government were not laid down in advance by the Bolsheviks. In this sense the demand is "algebraic". In terms of the structure of the government all that is demanded is that it be responsible to the Soviets. Its political tasks, however, are spelt out most clearly: immediate peace, workers' control over production, nationalisation of all banking, land to the peasants and the use of the armed power of the state (i.e. the soviet militia) to put down bourgeois resistance to these measures.
By winning workers to the recognition that these were the minimum necessary demands, the Bolsheviks created even greater pressure on the Mensheviks and SRs to adopt this programme. When coupled with the demand, "Break with the Bourgeoisie!" and the refusal of the Mensheviks to base themselves upon the soviets or to carry out the programme, this pressure rapidly destroyed the Menshevik majority in the Soviets.
When power did pass to the Soviets the resultant Soviet government consisted of those political parties who were prepared to base themselves upon Soviet power and carry out the necessary measures, in this case the Bolsheviks and the Left SRs. The Bolsheviks did not fetishise the role of the Soviets in the conquest of power. After the July Days, when the Bolsheviks were barred from the Soviets, they dropped the demand "All Power to the Soviets!". Instead, Lenin began to see the factory councils as the possible organisational form of the power base of the workers' government. The Soviets were only brought back to the centre of Bolshevik propaganda when they were re-democratised after the Kornilov incident.
During the Kornilov incident, the Bolsheviks were prepared to defend, arms in hand, a "bourgeois workers' government", unconditionally, against reaction. Their purpose in this was not only to allow the military preparations necessary for revolution to proceed but, more fundamentally, to keep the Mensheviks in power so that their bankruptcy and class treachery would become clear for a majority of the working class to see.
This support proved precisely to be the hangman's noose for Kerensky. It paved the way for a workers' government which was, in fact, the governmental form of the dictatorship of the proletariat.
1) The raising of an "action programme" of immediate measures which both answer the needs of the workers and pose the need for working class state power.
2) The government necessary to fulfil this programme, a workers' government is posed, initially, algebraically, its precise composition is not defined.
3) The workers' and peasants' parties are called on to break with the bourgeoisie and form such a government, relying for defence and support upon the workers' own fighting organisations.
4) As long as the reformists retain the support of the masses, communists defend them against reaction, whilst giving no political support to them and maintaining their own complete independence.
5) Should a government, based upon soviets, be formed by reformists or centrists, communists will defend it, unconditionally, against reaction. As long as such a government respects soviet democracy, the communists will not violate this democracy by insurrection.
6) Throughout, the communists retain their independence of programme and organisation and their intention to seize state power as soon as the vanguard of the working class, and behind it the majority of workers, are won to the need for revolution.
Only the clash of real social forces can give the call for a workers' government a precise "arithmetical" content. Thus in 1917, the correct slogan before the Second Congress of Soviets was "All Power to the Soviets!" at the Second Congress the correct demand was "for a Bolshevik and Left S-R government".
Whilst the demand that the reformists should form a government based upon, for example, soviets is a central element of the use of the workers' government tactic, it must always be subordinated to political programme. Inasmuch as they are representative bodies, soviets can as well have a reactionary majority as a revolutionary one.
Their existence, in itself, guarantees nothing. This was proven, negatively, in the German Revolution of November 1918.
There, power lay in the hands of the councils of workers' and soldiers' delegates. As in Russia in February 1917, they handed power to their reformist leaders. The government proclaimed by SPD leaders Ebert and Scheidemann, after the failure of their attempt to save the monarchy in alliance with Prince Max von Baden, was a republican government based upon the workers' councils. It was, in its form, a workers' government.
However, its political content was that of a bourgeois workers' government, that is, a covert alliance with the bourgeoisie to contain and ultimately destroy the revolutionary offensive of the proletariat. The SPD leaders used their support in the councils to transfer their power base to a parliamentary body via the National Assembly and the Weimar Constitution.
In this they brought the form of their government into correspondence with its content. Throughout 1919 the reformists, now in open "popular front" alliance with the bourgeois and aristocratic elements, used their bourgeois state power to terrorise and liquidate the revolutionary vanguard of the working class, capitalising on their isolation from the majority of workers.
The Kapp putsch of March 1920 revealed both the flexibility and the limitations of reformism when forced to the absolute limit of its ability to manoeuvre between the classes. Ebert, Scheidemann and Noske were kept in power by the mobilised and, in part, armed workers when the bourgeois army deserted them. However, when Legien proposed a "Workers' Government" (by which he meant a "bourgeois workers' government") to ensure there was no repetition of the coup, the SPD leaders recognised that this would place them under too great pressure from the working class, In such a situation to openly proclaim the workers' councils as the basis of the government would create expectations amongst the workers which the SPD knew they could not, and would not, fulfil. Faced with this prospect, the SPD preferred to form a new alliance with the bourgeoisie.
Once the new government was firmly in power the Reichswehr was mobilised to disarm the workers' councils. At the time of Legien's proposal, the KPD opposed in principle the formation of such a "workers' government" and counterposed to it the need for revolution.
This in effect helped the SPD to get themselves off the hook and was a sectarian response. The value that the correct usage of the workers' government tactic could have had at this time is clear: insistence upon the political programme of such a government, legalisation of the workers' councils with their arms, demobilisation and disbandment of the Freikorps, immediate alliance with Soviet Russia, opposition to the Versailles reparations.
All this could have put a roadblock in Legien's path. At the same time, positive support for the idea of a government of the workers' parties and unconditional defence of such a government against reaction would have brought the KPD into closer contact with the social democratic masses and, thereby, increased the pressure on the reformists not to form an alliance with the bourgeoisie.
Had they, nonetheless, done this, the workers would have been better prepared to take independent action in their defence as soon as the reformists tried to demobilise and disarm them.
Given that Germany is considerably more representative of reformism's hold on the working class in the advanced capitalist countries than is Russia, the lessons provided by the German experience must be learned by revolutionaries. In particular, a distinction must be made between defence of governments and political support for governments.
With regard to governments led by reformists, whether these are formally bourgeois constitutional (i.e. bourgeois workers' governments) or formally based on workers' organisation (workers' governments), communists stand prepared to defend them, arms in hand if necessary, against reaction. Political support, by contrast, can only be given to a workers' government that takes the road of revolution, that is, one that implements the central elements that define a "real" workers' government.
The recognition by Trotsky of this remote, theoretical possibility, that the social democrats and Stalinists could form "real workers' governments" that broke with the bourgeoisie in some significant manner, has been distorted by the epigones of Trotsky into the proposition that governments that include such parties are "workers' governments".
To suggest that either a CP-SP government in France, for example, is a workers' government in anything other than the sense of a bourgeois workers' government (as does Pierre Lambert's Fl (IC)) or that the formation of a workers' government by the British Labour Party is not only distinctly possible but strategically necessary is the most craven opportunism.
We reject such usages of the term "workers' government". The spirit of the theses of the Fourth Congress is quite clearly the following: "workers' government" refers to a government which disarms the bourgeoisie, initiates measures to remove their control over production and, in order to enforce these policies and to defend itself, arms the working class through their own organisations and holds itself responsible to those organisations.
It is in this sense that we refer to the "demand" for a workers' government by which we mean the proposal, in accordance with the principles of the united front, for communists and non-communists to close ranks, even at governmental level, to protect or advance the interests of the working class. All other forms of government by reformists and centrists are correctly referred to as "bourgeois, workers' governments." Obviously, raising the workers' government as an immediate demand depends upon circumstances.
In general, except in cases of revolutionary crisis in which the question of power is raised, communists raise the workers' government as propaganda for a real, revolutionary workers' government, while at the same time demanding of reformist parties in government that they take concrete steps to break with the bourgeoisie and act for the workers.


Risk is the possibility that an investment will lose value and is a fundamental part of investing. Stock markets plunge. Companies go bankrupt. And there are countless other less dramatic ways to lose money. There's even risk in doing nothing. Because of inflation, money left in a savings account has to earn interest at least at the rate of inflation in order to stay even. To earn the highest returns, investors must assume a certain amount of risk. To minimize risk, investors must accept lower possible returns. It's simple: generally, the higher the rate of return, the greater the risk; the lower the return, the lower the risk.
1. Market risk is the risk that the stock market will go down and your principal, the amount you invested, will go down with it.
2. Financial risk is the risk that companies can go bankrupt. If you have invested in that specific company, you will likely not get all, or any, of your money back.
3. Purchasing power or inflation risk is the risk that your investments won't earn more than the rate of inflation. This means that you don't earn enough on your money to pay the higher prices of goods and services. You are essentially losing money because your money is worth less than it was when you invested it. Remember the $100 example above.
4. Interest rate risk is a more complicated concept, but an example will help. Say you buy a $1,000 bond (or a CD) that pays 5 percent per year for 10 years. If you hold the bond for 10 years at simple interest, you will get your 5 percent payment each year and the $10,000 back at the end of 10 years.
If you need the money within five years and the going interest rate at that time has gone up to 7 percent, nobody is going to want to pay you $10,000 for that five percent locked in product in year five. So, you must sell the bond at a price that will make the annual return to the new owner equal to 7 percent per year. You must sell your bond at a discount and take a loss in principal.
5. Fraud risk is the risk that someone is lying to you. Some investments are misrepresented. Therefore, it is important to investigate before you invest. A financial professional, like a Certified Financial Planner, can be a great resource to help you research and understand investments.


UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Gary Kesler, associate dean for academic affairs and outreach in the College of Arts and Architecture, and associate professor of landscape architecture, has been elected a fellow of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA), one of the highest honors bestowed by the organization. Only five new fellows are elected each year.
Kesler has a long record of service to CELA and to the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), including serving as chairman of the ASLA Council on Education (2004-05) and ASLA vice president for education (2005-07), among other positions. He was appointed as one of three academic members to the Landscape Architecture Accreditation Board in 2011 and has been elected to serve as chairman of the board in 2016. He is a fellow of ASLA and received the ASLA President's Medal in 2007.
During his tenure as associate dean in the College of Arts and Architecture, the role has expanded to include oversight of the eLearning Institute, the bachelor of arts degree in integrative arts and the new college initiative in arts entrepreneurship. In addition, he continues to co-teach, with professor Stuart Echols, the Design Implementation III course in the Department of Landscape Architecture each fall semester.
Kesler will receive the honor at the CELA annual conference in March at Kansas State University.


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Plans to change trespass rules could erode access to the countryside
The Ramblers is deeply concerned by government proposals to change trespass rules, which have been subject to a Home Office consultation. The current proposals could result in an erosion of people's rights to access the countryside, particularly in the context of the Conservative Party manifesto commitment to make intentional trespass a criminal offence. This needs an urgent rethink.
The Ramblers is committed to enabling more people to enjoy the benefits of nature and the outdoors. We believe that government's priority should be to make it easier for people to get outside, enjoy the benefits of walking and connect to the natural environment. Promoting access to the outdoors is a critical part of our response to the climate emergency, poor air quality, high levels of obesity and physical inactivity, and the mental health crisis.
The Ramblers has responded to the Home Office consultation to set out our position:
We oppose the criminalisation of trespass and any measures that deter people from accessing the outdoors. This would be a major change in the law - and could have a significant impact on people's ability to access the countryside.
Rules to criminalise trespass should remain limited to very specific circumstances. This should only apply where, for example, where there is an immediate risk to public safety -such as on railway land where trespass is currently a criminal offence – and there is no reasonable alternative. We do not believe this threshold has been reached.
A compelling case for changing trespass rules has not been made. Three quarters of police forces believe that their current powers in relation to unauthorised encampments are sufficient and proportionate, while 84% are opposed to the criminalisation of unauthorised encampments.
Walking in the countryside should not put you at risk of committing a crime. Criminalisation of trespass would put walkers and others at risk of committing an offence. People may have to leave a footpath to get past an obstruction or have sincerely held beliefs that they have a right of access.
The proposals threaten 'wild' camping and the right to protest. The lack of clarity within the current proposals risk criminalising other activity, including wild camping and people's legitimate right to protest. Our current rights to access the outdoors have been built on the legitimate protest of previous generations.what circumstances it might be applied.
We are calling on the Home Office to provide: 1) urgent clarification on the governments long-term plans around the criminalisation of trespass, and; 2) public commitment not to introduce measures that would limit people's access to and enjoyment of the outdoors, and to working with organisations such as ours to ensure this is not the case.
In January 2021, the Ramblers joined a group of campaigners in reiterating their concerns through a joint letter to the Home Office, Ministry of Justice and Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs. A copy of the letter can be found here.
* In November 2019, the Home Office announced a consultation about strengthening police powers to deal with unauthorised encampments. The Conservative party manifesto, published ahead of the 2019 UK general election, reiterated this commitment - but, it went further and committed to making intentional trespass a criminal offence. The Manifesto did not provide detail on what this would mean or under


Brief exposure of <1 hour to general anaesthesia during early infancy did not adversely affect intelligent quotient (IQ) at 5 years compared with exposure to local anaesthesia, according to the GAS* study.
Tumour treating fields (TTFields) therapy increases the permeability of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) cell membrane and thus renders the cells more permeant to chemotherapeutic agents, a study has shown.
Combination therapy with the multikinase inhibitor sorafenib and tumour treating fields (TTFields) has demonstrated potential for use in glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) treatment.
Tumour treating fields (TTFields) therapy, delivered with a wearable device launched in Hong Kong recently, offers a ray of hope for patients with glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), a disease with poor prognosis despite advances in surgical, radiation and systemic treatments.
Among patients with a recent acute ischaemic stroke treated with thrombolytic therapy, intensive blood pressure (BP)-lowering conferred no additional benefit in functional recovery compared with guideline-recommended BP-lowering, despite a reduced risk of intracranial haemorrhage with intensive therapy, according to results of the ENCHANTED* trial.
Hospitalization rates for stroke increased by 20 percent each year between 2008 and 2015, according to a large US study, and these incidents were apparently tied to spikes in opioid misuse and cases of drug-related infective endocarditis.
The evacuation of moderate-to-large brain bleeds using stereotactic catheter aspiration and the thrombolytic agent alteplase (ie, MISTIE* approach) was no better than standard medical therapy in providing functional improvement post-stroke, according to the results of the MISTIE III trial presented at ISC 2019. However, this strategy appears to hold promise in reducing mortality risk.
Patients presenting within 9 hours from stroke onset or with wake-up stroke can still benefit from thrombolytic therapy based on automated computed tomography (CT) perfusion imaging-guided patient selection, according to the EXTEND* study presented at ISC 2019.
Nicotine may not have a neuroprotective effect on intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH) as previously suggested in animal studies, with former or current smokers demonstrating no difference in post-ICH functional outcomes compared with non-smokers, according to findings from the US-based ERICH* study.
Prehospital, transdermal delivery of the nitric oxide (NO) donor nitroglycerin did not reduce blood pressure (BP) and post-stroke disability in patients with suspected ultra-acute stroke, according to the results of the RIGHT*-2 trial presented at ISC 2019, thus debunking the conventional belief that early NO administration to supplement the low vascular NO concentrations may benefit acute stroke.


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Пробовал разворачивать этот же код в Brackets, всё нормально и красиво распахивает.

Кто работает с Emmet, объясните, пожалуйста, где косяк.

A: Вопрос закрыт, на просторах инета нашёл мануал, как это настраивается.
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In a health survey released this week by the RAND Corporation, 6.1 percent of people in the U.S. military self-identified as LGBT . It's the first ever direct estimate of the military's LGBT population, even though LGB people, at least, have been allowed to serve openly for seven whole years.
The Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy, which forced LGB service members to hide their sexualities, was repealed in 2011. Trans people have had the right to serve openly since the Department of Defense dropped a ban on their enrollment in June 2016 — to the chagrin of President Trump, who has repeatedly attempted to renew the ban on trans people serving. Though a series of civil rights lawsuits have kept a new ban from going into effect, many trans people report that they are rejected from enlisting in the U.S. military when they apply.
Of the service members who self-identified as LGBT in the RAND survey, 0.6 percent identified as trans. More LGBT-identified people were women than men. The Navy had the highest concentration of LGBT people at 9.1 percent.
To be sure, the overall number of LGBT recruits is likely higher, given the notorious difficulties of measuring LGBT populations through surveys requiring self-identification, especially in a space like the U.S. military that has long sought to erase people of those identities.


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Concussion spotter couldn't pull Crosby for hitting boards
An NHL concussion spotter did not find Sidney Crosby's headfirst slide into the boards as a valid reason to remove him from Game 6 of the Pittsburgh Penguins-Washington Capitals playoff series.
STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer
An NHL concussion spotter did not find Sidney Crosby's headfirst slide into the boards as a valid reason to remove him from the Pittsburgh Penguins' Game 6 against the Washington Capitals.Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly said the centralized concussion spotter made the determination that the play did not meet the concussion protocol criteria for mandatory removal from play. The protocol says a player must be removed if a spotter sees symptoms after taking a blow to his head or upper torso from another player's shoulder, his head hitting the ice or taking a punch to the head.Daly says the current criteria without boards aren't random but based on a study that determined what events on the ice were "more likely indicators or predictors of (a) concussion."Crosby slid into the boards exactly one week after he was knocked out of Game 3 by a blow the head from the Capitals' Matt Niskanen. He missed Game 4 with a concussion.
An NHL concussion spotter did not find Sidney Crosby's headfirst slide into the boards as a valid reason to remove him from the Pittsburgh Penguins' Game 6 against the Washington Capitals.
Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly said the centralized concussion spotter made the determination that the play did not meet the concussion protocol criteria for mandatory removal from play. The protocol says a player must be removed if a spotter sees symptoms after taking a blow to his head or upper torso from another player's shoulder, his head hitting the ice or taking a punch to the head.
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Daly says the current criteria without boards aren't random but based on a study that determined what events on the ice were "more likely indicators or predictors of (a) concussion."
Crosby slid into the boards exactly one week after he was knocked out of Game 3 by a blow the head from the Capitals' Matt Niskanen. He missed Game 4 with a concussion.
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If Mathematicians Had Nicknames
Her name is Tara, but she should expect her friends to call her by a different name from now on.
Not knowing all seven dwarfs is forgivable. Not knowing that sneaky isn't spelled with two e's is less excusable. That she committed both errors simultaneously all but guarantees that her friends will call her Sneaky for the rest of her life.
Or maybe it's only a guy thing to give nicknames to their friends for colossal fails?
If a guy had made this mistake, his best friend would have texted him before the show was over:
Nice guess, Sneaky.
I got a nickname in a most inglorious fashion. After an Ultimate Frisbee tournament in Fort Devens, MA, we headed to the local bar and ordered a round of Irish car bombs.
The problem was, the Guinness arrived in a 16-ounce plastic cup, and the shot of Bailey's and Jameson's arrived in a 10-ounce plastic cup. When we tried to drop the smaller cup into the larger cup, it floated. We spent a good half-hour debating how we'd get the shot to the bottom of the larger cup, and I seemed to offer more ideas than most. The bartendress, finally tired of my yammering, looked at me and said, "Okay, cupcake, you gonna talk about it all night, or you gonna drink it?"
All I could think was, "Dear Lord, I pray that my friends didn't hear that."
When I turned around, they sang in unison, "Cuuuup-caaaaaake."
It stuck. That was 15 years ago, but there are those who still call me Cupcake on the Ultimate field. And sadly, there are those who still call me Cupcake when they run into me at the grocery store. Nothing like your seven-year-old, father-worshiping son asking, "Daddy, why did that man call you 'Cupcake'?"
Sadly, famous mathematicians don't have nicknames. At least not cool ones, not generally. Sure, Euclid may be the "Father of Geometry," but his friends didn't call him that when they were drinking mead around a campfire. And while textbooks may refer to Leibnitz as the "Aristotle of the 17th Century," none of his peeps did.
The only two cool mathematician nicknames I could find — and by "cool," I mean that they didn't start with "Father of" — were "The Passionate Skeptic" for Bertrand Russell and "The Samian Sage" for Pythagoras. Granted, it's not like "The Italian Stallion" for Rocky or "The Master of Disaster" for Apollo Creed, but mathematicians aren't generally nickname-acquiring types.
But I think mathematicians deserve nicknames, so here are some suggestions for your consideration.
Leonardo "No Questionacci, No" Fibonacci
Pierre "Not Fer Pa" de Fermat
Leonhard "If She's Squeaky" Euler
Carl Friedrich "Anyone's" Gauss
Blaise "Little" Pascal
John "Cock-a-Doodle-Do" Napier
Benoit B. "Benoit B. Mandelbrot" Mandelbrot
"Chortlin'" Lewis Carroll
Maria "Which Witch" Agnesi
George Bernard "Dirty" Dantzig
Emmy "I Barely" Noether
Girolamo "I'm Sick" Cardano
William "Off the Charts" Playfair
Alan "Fac" Turing
Charles "Too Much" Babbage
To be sure, the best thing you could do right now would be to leave a comment in which you refer to me as "cupcake."
While most nicknames above are silly, like the nicknames given to football by players by Chris Berman, some of them may require an explanation.
John Napier once covered a black rooster with lamp soot to catch a thief.
Benoit B. Mandelbrot is the "Father of Fractals," which are self-repeating.
Lewis Carroll coined many words, including chortle.
The Witch of Agnesi is a famous curve.
Girolamo Cardano was an infamous hypochondriac who predicted his own death.
William Playfair invented line graphs, bar charts, pie charts, and circle graphs.
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Hi! Nearly a year has passed since we restarted this project. Karajorma gave us the idea to start our own Developer's Blog similar to the Diaspora one. That way we can keep you informed about what we're currently doing and bring you some updates along with screenshots and other cool stuff.
Being a project leader isn't an easy task. Coordinating the jobs of all team members, getting stuff together and making sure everyone has a task to do is a very time consuming job. However it's fun to see the game take form and how fast we're progressing.
And what am I doing except leading Omega Team? Mostly FREDding and maintaning modpack with ShadowGorrath. My job covers adding and balancing ship and weapon tables, adding stuff in-game like POF models, music files, keeping file naming conventions along with other tasks. FREDding, for those unfamiliar with FreeSpace, is simply mission designing. I think it's the most time consuming job of everything that I'm doing for this mod but the results are pretty much always awesome. Most of missions for our first release are already FREDed, though there's some that need to be re-done from scratch or rethought, there's plenty of work to do yet!
And this vessel was modelled, UVmapped and textured in only three days! Sounds impossible, doesn't it? But it's true.
Stay tuned and expect more updates!
Psst, Shiv. How often are we gonna update this thing?
I mean, it's been a week already.
Well, there's not much to say... We completely want to redo all the mission scripts, but hardly anyone has time and inspiration. Snail's gotten up to mission 4 though.
The mission scripts are there now. About half of them are new, but we kept some as well. So not all 10+ missions of the first act have to be remade, luckily.
Also, peterv has returned. So you just *might* see a new model within the coming... Dunno.
We're selfish little bastards, keeping our fun toys to ourselves.
Erm... Being new, i know how others feel when they see theirs no new updates... Can anyone be on IRC in 12 hours or so, so we can discuss something to put here?


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Forsyth fails to stave off deep cuts
8th March 1996 at 12:00am
Scotland's education authorities pruned pound;78m from their budgets this week, a TES Scotland survey has established. It confirms that the Secretary of State's eleventh-hour injection of pound;96 million to protect council taxpayers and services has made little impact.
Michael Forsyth's deal, announced at the Scottish Grand Committee in Kilmarnock on Monday, was denounced on all sides. Judith Gillespie, convener of the Scottish Parent Teacher Council, said it was "a sticking plaster on a gaping wound". Fred Forrester, depute general secretary of the Educational Institute of Scotland, said raiding capital programmes to fund a rescue package was "storing up trouble for the future".
Elizabeth Maginnis, education convener of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities, said choice and quality in education would be severely damaged. John Mitchell, president of the Headteachers' Association of Scotland, said effective education would continue "only due to the supreme efforts of all teaching staff".
Council leaders, battling with the spending legacies of their regional predecessors, transitional costs of council reform, Government capping limits and a financial settlement that takes no account of pay rises, say they have little choice but to press ahead with planned savings.
The result will be school closures, a jobs freeze, a mounting backlog of repairs, major inroads into curriculum and in-service budgets and deep cuts in community and outdoor education, along with higher charges for school meals and the arts.
But Mr Forsyth's "sticking plaster" has succeeded in staving off predictions of compulsory redundancies and even more draconian measures. Most councils also took deliberate decisions to protect education services. South Lanarkshire cut by 2 per cent, for example, while spending on other front-line services was reduced by 5 per cent.
Mrs Maginnis said that without Mr Forsyth's intervention, which she helped engineer, Edinburgh would have faced 50 compulsory redundancies and the closure of the school meals service with the loss of 1,000 part-time jobs.
But she warned that job losses were inevitable as a result of natural wastage and a freeze on recruitment. In Edinburgh, this will lead to a loss of 70 to 100 jobs. Glasgow expects to lose 191 posts. Mrs Maginnis, Mr Forrester and Mr Mitchell all predicted a damaging impact on curriculum and staff development.


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#TBT: Remembering SLAM Omaha (Lazy-i, May 2009)…
Category: Blog — Tags: SLAM Omaha, TBT — @ 12:44 pm May 16, 2019
A few things before I cut you loose on this Throwback Thursday Lazy-i column from a decade ago.
First, SLAM Omaha is dead. In fact, it's long dead, so don't go looking for it online. Social media ate its corpse a long time ago.
Second, though it's been a decade since this was written, the typical cover for live bands at fabulous O'Leaver's remains just $5. Inflation be damned. I figured by now the going price would have risen to, say, $7 or $8 per show, but no. Still only $5 to see some of the best local and touring indie bands going. Yes, for special shows O'Leaver's does raise the price accordingly, but for the most part… $5.
Finally, who would have thought my comments about Facebook and social media would be relevant 10 years later. I blame Facebook for a lot of the political troubles we're facing these days. That said, I wouldn't want it to go away….
Lazy-i May 20, 2009: Column 222: The Art of Conversation
Online discussion boards are under siege.
Original SLAM Omaha logo.
Almost didn't have a column this week. These are, indeed, the doldrums, my friends; the time just before summer where nothing "musically" is going on, no CDs are arriving at my door (or in my e-mail box). Everything is on hold, waiting for something to happen.
So in these times of uncertainty, when I'm clawing for an idea — any idea — for this column, I do what I normally do — I check out S.L.A.M. Omaha to see what the chatter's all about.
S.L.A.M. Omaha (or just Slam), for those of you completely out of the loop (not by choice but by ignorance), is a website located at slamomaha.com that includes music and art events calendars, news and probably its most popular feature, message boards. For a decade at least, Slam has been a local musicians' and music fans' watering hole where folks shoot the breeze over last night's show, tonight's show, next week's show and everything else in between. The occasional well-thought-out analysis of a specific music genre, artist or performance is mixed in with assorted dick jokes, insults and personal attacks. It's the latter that keeps some musicians and music fans away, or chases away others who feel that the site isn't living up to what the SLAM acronym stands for: Support Local Art and Music. My response to them: It's a friggin' discussion board. It's the Internet. What did you expect? Along with unmonitored discussion comes controversy and general stupidity as well as the occasional thoughtful insight and humor.
Despite its outdated technology and general lack of interest (or contempt for) indie music and Saddle Creek artists, Slam continues to be one of the most important online resources for Omaha music information. It is the first place I go for a daily perspective on the local scene. If a musician had a breakdown on stage the night before, you'll read about it the next morning on Slam.
But lately, sites like Slam are under siege by new-ish social media "services" — Facebook and Twitter come to mind. Now musicians and music fans can create their own online communities and share their comments only with those who have a like-minded point of view — their "friends," their "fans," their "followers." It's safe, it's easy, it avoids uncomfortable feedback from those who might not dig what you're doing. For musicians, it paints a perennial rosy picture that almost always is untrue. Facebook can create a dangerous tunnel vision, a guarded, unnatural point of view, and before you know it, the emperor is parading down Maple Street naked with a guitar slung over his shoulder.
An example of an interesting recent Slam thread asked whether venues' "regulars" should be forced to pay a cover charge when there's a live band scheduled to perform. Well, as with most popular threads on Slam, the discussion morphed from "regulars" not paying the cover charge to roadies and even free-loading music critics. Wrote Klark Kent (the K Mart of Supermen): "I'm wondering how long it's been since (for example) MarQ (Manner, the patron saint of the Benson music scene) or Tim McMahan (has paid to get into shows — I had to finish the sentence because Klark apparently lost his chain of thought — don't go to discussion boards for good grammar or spelling).
There was a time when I always was on "the list," back in the Sokol Underground days, when the guys running the door just stamped my hand. Those days are gone, not because I pissed them off, but because those guys aren't working the door anymore, and quite frankly, they don't need to give the guy who writes Lazy-i a free pass. They know that — probably more than most people in the club — I can afford it.
Still, whenever I write a preview profile on a touring band or pimp a show in my column, I ask the record label to put me on "the list." Why not?
The only place where I've never been on "the list" is O'Leaver's. As One Percent Productions' Marc Leibowitz used to say way back in the day when he booked shows there: "O'Leaver's doesn't have a list." Nor should it. When a band rolls into town after driving in a dirty van all day, wondering if their petrol will hold out 'til they get to the club — hungry, tired, second-guessing this whole rock-star shtick — and then see the dump that they're going to play at, they deserve every penny of that $5 cover charge from fans who showed up to rock. They need the cash to get to the next town. And while you're at it, buy a T-shirt, too.
But should that include $5 from regulars? My answer: No, it shouldn't. These "regulars" are the life-blood of any bar. They're a hedge against tough times, showing up night in and night out to drop $10+ on booze. Without regulars, a venue is going to be forced to grind out shows on their stage every night, or quickly find themselves out of business (or both). Bands who feel cheated by a toll-free presence should feel lucky to even have a place to perform, because believe me, most bars or venues would rather cater to a roomful of regulars than those bands' fans, who likely will be bolting the minute they say "Goodnight."
So that's my take. After it's published, I'll post a link to this column on Slam Omaha. Some of the website's regulars will read it and hate it and will say so. But that's part of the fun. On a discussion board, you're going to catch a few turds along with any roses. But if we all lived in Facebook, where would we find our turds? — First published May 20, 2009 in The Omaha Reader.


This report on the addiction treatment market analyzes the current and future scenario of the global market. Rise in awareness initiatives by different drug manufacturers and government bodies and increase in abuse of prescription drugs are expected to drive the global addiction treatment market during the forecast period.
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Based on treatment centers, the global addiction treatment market has been classified into alcohol addiction treatment, tobacco/nicotine addiction treatment, opioid addiction treatment, and other substance addiction treatment. The segments have been analyzed based on awareness of addiction treatment, actual percentage accessing different insurance policies for treatment, and medical scenarios. The market size and forecast for each of these segments have been provided for the period from 2017 to 2025, along with their respective CAGRs for the forecast period from 2017 to 2025, considering 2016 as the base year.
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