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, ismert művésznevén Toshi (Toshl formában stilizálva), japán énekes-dalszerző, az X Japan heavy metal együttes egyik alapító tagja. Az együttes 1997-es feloszlását követően 1998 és 2010 között szólóban énekelt, illetve 2008 és 2010 között a T-Earth nevű együttessel lépett fel. Összesen 14 szóló nagylemeze és számtalan kislemeze jelent meg, az Oricon slágerlistáján a legmagasabb helyezést a Made in Heaven című kislemeze érte el 1992-ben: második helyezett volt. 2007 óta az újraalakult X Japan tagja. 2016 óta a Fuji Games játékfejlesztő vállalat zenei producere. Japánban a  művésznevet is használja.

Élete és pályafutása

A kezdetek és az X Japan

1977-ben Toshi óvodáskori jó barátjával, Yoshikivel, akivel közösen hallgatták a Kiss zenéjét, elhatározták, hogy együttest alapítanak, Dynamite néven. 1978-ban Noise-ra változtatták a nevüket. Toshi eleinte gitározott, amikor az együttesük énekese kilépett, mert másik középiskolába vették fel, Toshi lett az énekes. Feldolgozásokat gyakoroltak, fellépniük azonban nem nagyon volt hol. 1982-ben a Noise feloszlott, Yoshiki és Toshi pedig X néven alapított új együttest. Átmenetileg akarták használni a nevet, azonban végül rajtuk maradt. Yoshikivel Tokióba költöztek 1985-ben, ahol gyakori zenészcserék mellett kis klubokban léptek fel. Egy műfajba nem sorolható zenéjük, furcsa külsejük és bizarr fellépéseik miatt hamar hírnévre tettek szert az underground klubokban, és telt házas koncerteket tartottak 200-250 fővel, ami akkoriban ritkaságnak számított.

Első nagylemezük, a Vanishing Vision 1988-ban jelent meg a Yoshiki által alapított Extasy Recordsnál. Hamarosan rendkívül ismertek lettek, úgy lettek népszerűek, hogy független kiadónál voltak, és nekik tulajdonítják a visual kei stílus létrejöttét is. A Blue Blood albumuk, mely első nagykiadós lemezük volt, 1989. április 21-én jelent meg, 6. helyen debütált az Oriconon és 108 hétig szerepelt rajta. 1990-ben az együttes elnyerte a Japan Gold Disc Award legjobb új előadójának járó díjat. 1991-ben megjelent Jealousy című lemezükből több mint egymillió példány fogyott. 1993-ban az együttes csak néhány koncertet adott, a tagok mindannyian szólókarrierjükre koncentráltak.

Szólókarrier, Home of Heart és az X Japan feloszlása

Toshi szólókarrierje 1992-ben kezdődött, a BMG Victor kiadásában jelent meg szólólemeze Made in Heaven címmel, mely harmadik helyezett volt az Oriconon. Legidősebb bátyja lett a menedzsere, azonban több incidenst követően kénytelen volt elbocsátani a testvérét. Új menedzsere, aki az X Japannel is kapcsolatban állt, mindkét helyről sikkasztott, így szintén el kellett bocsátani. Az 1990-es években kezdett el dolgozni Roger Love énektanárral, akivel azóta is együtt dolgozik.

1993-ban Toshi a Hamlet, dán királyfi musicalváltozatában játszott címszereplőként, itt ismerkedett meg Moritani Kaorival, akit négy évvel később, 1997-ben feleségül vett. Az asszony nagy szerepet játszott abban, hogy Toshi elkezdett kiábrándulni a rocksztáréletből, és önmaga akart lenni. Házasságkötése évében, felesége révén ismerkedett meg , avagy Masayával, a Home of Heart nevű szervezet vezetőjével. Toshit megérintette Masaya "gyógyító zenéje", és barátok lettek. Felesége, Masayával való kapcsolata és a Home of Heartba való bekerülése miatt gyakran veszekedett testvérével, aki 1995-ben lett a menedzsere.

1997. szeptember 22-én bejelentették, hogy Toshi kilép az X Japanből, ami az együttes feloszlásával járt. Utolsó koncertjüket december 31-én adták a Tokyo Dome-ban. 1998-ban a Súkan Gendai magazinban megjelent cikkek szerint a Home of Heart "agymosta" az énekest. Toshi később az önéletrajzi könyvében elismerte, hogy valóban ez történt, akkoriban azonban tagadta, és azt nyilatkozta, hogy már jóval korábban ki akart lépni az együttesből, mert a rocksztár életmód nem tudta "érzelmileg kielégíteni". Más médiumok is foglalkoztak a történettel, aminek következtében Toshi és Masaya több interjút is kénytelen volt adni, ahol Toshi bátyját, akkori menedzserét hibáztatták az agymosós történet kitalálásával. Amikor telefonbeszélgetések szövege is nyilvánosságra került, Toshi házában és a Home of Heart irodájában lehallgató-készülékeket találtak.

1998 októberében a Toshi menedzsmentjét ellátó céget átvette Masaya és Kaori, ami a BMG-vel kötött szerződésének megszegését jelentette. Távozni kényszerült a kiadótól és nagyobb összeget kellett fizetnie nekik. Ettől kezdve Toshi dalait Masaya írta és a Home of Heart kiadója, a Healing World adta ki. Sűrűn koncertezett, egész Japánt bejárta, kisebb közönség előtt adott akusztikus koncerteket. 2007-ig mintegy 3000 fellépése volt. 2004 áprilisában Kitó Maszaki, vallásos szektákra specializálódott ügyvéd gyermekbántalmazással vádolta meg a Home of Heartot. Toshi és a menedzsmentje is érintett volt a perben; majd nyilatkozatait követően Kitó becsületsértés miatt beperelte Toshit, amire válaszul Toshi is pert indított az ügyvéd ellen. Toshit nem találták bűnösnek a gyermekbántalmazás ügyében, érintettségének gyanúja sem merült fel.

2007–2010: Az X Japan újraegyesülése, T-Earth, válás

A Sports Nippon újságban megjelent cikk szerint Toshi 2006 novemberében kereste fel Yoshikit Los Angelesben, ahol együtt dolgoztak a Without You című, az X Japan elhunyt gitárosa, hide emlékének szentelt dalon. Toshi az önéletrajzi könyvében, majd a We Are X című dokumentumfilmben is azt vallotta, hogy eredetileg a Home of Heart szekta vezetőjének akaratából kereste fel Yoshikit, hogy próbálják meg újraegyesíteni az X Japant, mert a szektának pénzre volt szüksége; később azonban a Yoshikivel való együtt zenélés közben a feltörő emlékek és érzések hatására sikerült kitörnie a szekta hatása alól és önszántából akarni az újraalakulást. 2007. március 21-én Toshi a weboldalán bejelentette, hogy újra együtt dolgozik Yoshikivel egy új projekten. Ezt követően felröppent a pletyka, hogy az X Japan újraegyesülhet, hogy Yoshiki turnét szeretne és Patával, valamint Heath-szel tárgyal ez ügyben. 10 év után először, 2007. október 22-én jelentek meg együtt az X Japan tagjai Tokióban, hogy videóklipet forgassanak az I.V. című új dalukhoz.

Az X Japan újraegyesítése mellett Toshi újabb szólótevékenységbe is kezdett. 2008. június 11-én Toshi with T-Earth néven alakult új együttese, ahol a Phantasmagoria gitárosa, Jun, a Charlotte gitárosa, Touya és basszusgitárosa, Ruka voltak a társai. Élő fellépéseiken a La'cryma Christi dobosa, Levin, és a Luna Sea dobosa, Shinya kísérte őket. Első albumuk, az Earth Spirit augusztus 8-án jelent meg, második lemezük, a  pedig november 26-án. Októberben Chilében és Brazíliában koncerteztek.

2009 áprilisában az együttes felállása teljesen megváltozott, a 13 éves Riku lett a dobos, majd csatlakozott a 18 éves Ryo gitárosként, és a 24 éves Kain basszusgitárosként. Augusztus 13-án ebben a felállásban adták ki  című lemezüket, és annak angol nyelvű verzióját Truth címmel.

2010. január 18-án Toshi beperelte a Home of Heartot, azzal vádolva a szervezetet, hogy a megelőző 12 évben minden bevételétől megfosztották, ami miatt teljesen csődbe ment. Az énekes minden kapcsolatot megszakított a szervezettel és Masayával. Feleségétől is elvált, akivel saját bevallása szerint sosem éltek valódi házaséletet, mert Moritani a megelőző évtizedben Masayával élt együtt.

2010–: Szólóban és az X Japannel

Az X Japan újraalakulása óta Toshi aktívan az együttes tagja. Emellett azonban folytatta a szólótevékenységét is, 2010 februárjában minialbuma jelent meg Samurai Japan címmel. 2010 óta a művésznevét ToshI formában írja, feltehetően mert a Home of Heart birtokában van előző művésznevének tulajdonjoga.

November 22-én Toshi bejelentette, hogy ToshI feat. Yoshiki néven 2011 januárjában új projektet indítanak, melynek keretében új dalokat is bemutatnak. A 2011-es tóhokui földrengés és cunamit követően Toshi nyolc koncertet adott országszerte, akusztikus felállásban, Heath, a Luna Sea dobosa, Shinya és a Kanazavai Filharmonikus Zenekar részvételével. A bevételt teljes egészében a Japán Vöröskereszt kapta. Június 22-én két dala jelent meg digitálisan, a Hosizora no Neptune és a Haru no negai. Július 4-én Yoshiki és Toshi a párizsi Japan Expón lépett fel. 2011 szeptemberében bejelentették, hogy Toshi az európai Bishi Bishi kiadóhoz szerződött.

2013. március 27-én Cherry Blossom címmel jelent meg nagylemeze, melye június 12-én a Crystal Rock Chapter 1-3 követett. 2014. július 23-án megjelent önéletrajzi könyve, a , melyben elmeséli az X Japanből történt kilépését, az "agymosást", amin a Home of Heartban ment keresztül, az együttes újraalapítását és az anyagi csődjét is. Augusztus 25-én a Zepp DiverCityben adott koncertet, ahol egy ideiglenes felállásban Kei (baroque), Yuu (Merry), Akinori (lynch.) és Shinya (Dir en grey) kísérték.

2015-ben Toshi a Sukekiyo együttes Vitium című minialbumán működött közre a  című dalban. 2016-ban az énekes a Fuji TV-hez tartozó Fuji Games zenei producere lett. 2017-ben a vállalat okostelefonra tervezett Ordinal Strata című videójátékához komponált dalt Crystal Memories címmel. Ugyanebben az évben közreműködött Sugizo Oneness M című lemezén a Phoenix: Hinotori című dalban.

2018 januárjában a Maskmen című televíziós sorozathoz vett fel dalt Masquerade címmel. Május 14-én közreműködött AK-69 Brave című kislemezén. Szeptember 3-án jelent meg könyve  címmel. Szeptemberben bejelentették, hogy Toshl szólóénekesként a Universal Music Grouphoz szerződött, ahol novemberben egy coveralbuma jelent meg Im a Singer (sic!) címmel.

Diszkográfia

Toshl néven
Stúdióalbumok
 Cherry Blossom (2013)
 Crystal Rock Chapter 1-3 (2013)
 Crystal Rock Chapter 1-3 English Ver. (2013)
 Im a Singer (2018); Billboard Japan/Oricon: #4
 Im a Singer vol. 2. (2019); Oricon: #8
 Im a Singer vol. 3. (2022)

Minialbumok
  (2010)
  (2011)
 Samurai Japan English Ver. (2012)

Kislemezek
 Otoko no Pride (2010, csak rajongó klubtagoknak)
  (2011, ToshI feat. Yoshiki, CD és DVD)
  (2011, digitális)
  (2011, digitális)
 Haru no negai/I'll Be Your Love (2011, ToshI feat. Yoshiki, csak koncerten volt kapható)
  (2011, csak rajongó klubtagoknak)
 Love is Maria (2013)
  (2014)
  (2015)
 Be All Right (2020)

DVD-k
 ToshI feat. Yoshiki Special Concert Luxury Box Set (2011, ToshI feat. Yoshiki, 4 DVD és CD)
 Live Samurai Japan Special DVD Box (2012, 4 DVD és CD)
 Live Crystal Rock (2015, DVD)
  (2016, DVD)

Toshi néven
Stúdióalbumok
 Made in Heaven (1992), Oricon-helyezés: #3
 Mission (1994) #3
 Grace (1995) #5
  (1997) #15
 Canary (1998, ft. Hakasze Taró) #36
  (1999)
  (2004)
 Earth Spirit (2008, Toshi with T-Earth) #300
  (2008, Toshi with T-Earth)
  (2009, Toshi with T-Earth)
 Truth (2009, Toshi with T-Earth, angol nyelven)

Kislemezek és minialbumok
 Made in Heaven (1992) #2
  (1993; ft. Night Hawks) #12
 Paradise (1993; a Night Hawks-szal) #5
  (1993; ft. Night Hawks) #9
 My Treasure (1993) #13
 Bless You (1994) #10
  (1997; ft. Night Hawks)
  (1994) #21
 Asphalt Jungle (1995) #14
 Morning Glory (1996) #22
  (1997) #28
  (1997) #65
 Natural High (1997; ft. Hakasze Taró)
  (1998) #47
  (1998) #35
  (1999)
 Beautiful Love Song (1999; az Ai no uta vo utaitai angol nyelvű változata)
 Inocsi (2000)
  (2001)
 Perfect Love (2002)
  (2004)
  (2004)
  (2004)
  (2008) #118
  (2008)
 Beautiful World (2008)
 Pain (2009)
  (2009)
  (2009)
  (2009, ft. Wanku)
  (2009)
  (2009, Toshi with T-Earth)

Duettalbumok
  (2008, ft. Tierra és Moritani Kaori)
  (2009, Toshi & Wanku)

Koncertalbumok
 Live is Best (1997)

Válogatáslemezek
 Single Selection: Sacrifice (1998) #90
  (2008)
  (2008)
 Best II: Perfect Love (2008)

Videomegjelenések
 Toshi – Prelude – Made in Heaven (1993)
 Grace Live (1995)
 Aoi hosi no tabibito (1997)
 Live Spring to Your Heart: Aoi hosi no tabibito (1997)
 Toshi with T-Earth 2Days Final Live in Tokyo (2008)
 Toshi with T-Earth Summer Live in Akasaka Blitz (2009)
 Toshi & Wanku Summer Live in Akasaka Blitz (2009)
  (2010, CD és DVD)
  (2010, CD és DVD)
  (2010, CD és DVD)
 2008 Toshi Collection (2010, CD és DVD)
 2009 Toshi Collection (2010, CD és DVD)

Az X Japannel

Egyéb közreműködések
 The Inner Gates (Baki, 1989, háttérvokál a Kingdom of Heaven és Flying című dalokban)
 Shake Hand (L.O.X, 1990, dalszöveg és vokál a Daydream és Tragedy of M című dalokban)
 Vitium (Sukekiyo, 2015, vokál az Ameagari no júsi című dalban)
 Oneness M (Sugizo, 2017, dalszöveg és vokál a Phoenix: Hinotori című dalban)
 Crystal Memories (2017, az Ordinal Strata című videójáték betétdala)
 Masquerade (マスカレイド, 2018, a Maskmen című sorozat betétdala)
 Brave (AK-69, 2018, kislemez)

Jegyzetek

Fordítás

További információk

1965-ben született személyek
Élő személyek
Visual kei-előadók
Japán zeneszerzők
Japán dalszerzők
Japán énekesek
Tenorok
X Japan
Japán rockzenészek

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O 2.º Forte de Castelo Branco localizava-se na freguesia de Castelo Branco, no concelho da Horta, na ilha do Faial, nos Açores.

Em posição dominante sobre este trecho do litoral, constituiu-se em uma fortificação destinada à defesa deste ancoradouro contra os ataques de piratas e corsários, outrora frequentes nesta região do oceano Atlântico.

A estrutura não chegou até aos nossos dias. Terá sido sucedida pelo Reduto de Castelo Branco.

Bibliografia
 MACHADO, Francisco Xavier. "Revista aos Fortes das Ilhas do Faial e Pico (Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino)". in Boletim do Instituto Histórico da Ilha Terceira, vol. LVI, 1998.
 NEVES, Carlos; CARVALHO, Filipe; MATOS, Artur Teodoro (coord.). "Documentação sobre as Fortificações dos Açores existentes nos Arquivos de Lisboa – Catálogo". in Boletim do Instituto Histórico da Ilha Terceira, vol. L, 1992.

Ver também
 História de Portugal
 Lista de fortificações nos Açores

Ligações externas
 Fortificação/Ilha do Faial in Instituto Histórico da Ilha Terceira

Fortificações dos Açores
Horta


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PoliticsWorld
Howdy Modi Highlights at Houston with PM Modi and President Trump
by Deep Mehta September 23, 2019
written by Deep Mehta September 23, 2019
Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi and President of United States Donald Trump shared the stage in Houston. On Sunday 22nd September 2019, an event took place named 'Howdy Modi'. Grab your seat properly and we will let you go through the Howdy Modi Highlights.
This event was organized in NRG stadium, where Narendra Modi addressed the Indian diaspora. Later on, he has inaugurated Gandhi Museum in Houston and went to New York for attending the 74th UNGA Session. Pm Narendra Modi addressed more than 50,000 Indian American in the United States of America.
He has highlighted the government welfare programs in India. He also discussed the decision of India for scrapping the special status to Jammu and Kashmir. You also declared that the peoples of the Jammu and Kashmir have similar rights just like any other Indians.
PM Narendra Modi also sharply attacked Pakistan for opposing the decision of India on Jammu and Kashmir. Although he does name the country, he is strongly committed that they have started hatred towards India and made it the center of their agenda.
According to PM Narendra Modi's speech, Pakistan is supporting and also harbouring terrorists and every part of the world knows about this situation. Later on, US President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a bilateral meeting on Tuesday.
Highlighted Parts on the complete event 'Howdy Modi':
Howdy Modi Highlights: These are the few of the highlighted parts which happened in the event how did Modi in Houston. We have listed a few of the important parts of this event apart from the speech.
Howdy Modi Highlights
Sep 22nd, 18:12 (IST):
3-hour long event is being organized in NRG Football Stadium. It is considered as one of the largest in the United States of America.
John Cornyn, senator of the United States of America arrives at the stadium for the event.
Indian cultural programs get started in the event.
Sylvester Turner, mayor of Houston delivers a welcome speech at the mega diaspora rally.
All the Congressional delegation arrived on stage, in the Howdy Modi event.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was welcomed into Texas by John Cornyn.
Donald Trump, president of the United States arrived at NRG stadium.
US President Donald Trump and Indian PM Narendra Modi takes the stage in the event.
US President Donald Trump welcomes PM Narendra Modi and addresses him as the well-known person on planet.
PM Narendra Modi takes the stage and congratulates US President Donald Trump on his leadership in America.
PM Narendra Modi says 'Abki bar Trump Sarkar'.
US President Donald Trump addresses 50,000 hardworking American Indians in the event.
Unemployment in the United States is at the lowest level in over 51 years, and it will soon be a historic number said by US President Donald Trump.
Millions of poverties in India has been lifted, which is one of the incredible moments for India stated by Donald Trump.
According to Donald Trump, soon will be India in NBA basketball.
Sep 22nd,23:14 (IST):
The United States and India are most committed to protecting innocent civilians from radical Islamic terrorism, says US President Donald Trump.
Border Security is one of the vital factors to United States of America said by Donald Trump.
US President Donald Trump confirms that you will not let the politicians take away the health care benefits from the immigrants. He also said that United States will take care of the citizens in the first place and the Indian Americans before all the other illegal immigrants.
PM Narendra Modi greats India diaspora at NRG stadium by 'Howdy, my friends'.
He is excited to see the spirit of Texas reflecting in the crowd. He also this crowd is not restricted to an arithmetic number, we all be witnessing a new history in making.
PM Narendra Modi thanked Donald Trump and all the senators for their presence and speech about India's progress, it is a great respect to the achievements of 1.3 billion Indians.
PM Narendra Modi says 'if you ask howdy, Modi? then my answer is everything is fine in India'.
PM Narendra Modi says that many voters voted in 2019 Lok Sabha election. And after 60 years, the political party with full maturity came back to power in India.
PM Modi claims that 'Vikas' is the most popular word currently roaming around in India.
Modi confirms that within last 5 years India has built 11 crore toilets all around the country. Currently hundred percent of the families are connected to banks, and well known to the Banking procedure. Indians are focusing their energy to achieve higher goals, rather than focusing on basic necessities.
More than 95% of peoples in India having gas connection. Data is the new gold and it is available at cheapest rate only in India. Previously it would take around 3 months to get passport, but now come within weeks.
India is challenging corruption, and there were several steps taken to get rid of it. Recently India script of article 370, which was a big challenge for India to achieve.
Highlighted Speech of Indian PM Narendra Modi at 'Howdy Modi' Event in Houston:
PM Narendra Modi has talked about various agendas on the event which we have summarised in this list.
First of all, the speaker introduces and addresses the event with the following wishes. He wished good morning to Houston, Texas, and America. Later on, he greeted the Indians of India who are residing around the globe. Narendra Modi was addressed as a special person who does not need introduction in any part of the world.
Name after Narendra Modi came up in each and every conversation whenever global politics is discussed around the globe. He is having around tens of millions of followers, who are always following the words and ideology from him. Within very short time he has become a very popular person and a household name, even before he visited the highest office in United States of America.
It is confirmed by the US President Donald Trump, that each and every member of the White House felt the deep impact which he has left. Starting from CEO's of major companies to commander in chief, women in various boardrooms in oval office to the studios in every global stage. He has left impact on each and every agenda which included politics, security, and economy. After this wonderful introduction about him, US President Donald Trump invited him to the magnificent stadium to address the magnificent gathering.
US President Donald Trump also said that warmth and friendliness from PM Narendra Modi each time he met him.
PM Narendra Modi gets onto the stage and thanked US President Donald Trump and addressed the crowd 'Howdy, my friends?'.
The crowd went wild after the greetings and they greeted back.
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He said that every American friend is amazed by what he said in various events. He often said in most of the conversation that 'everything is fine'. But he said that in different languages which are originating from India. Different languages at the symbol of liberal and democratic society. He also said that the different languages in India who existed for more than thousands of years. Not just languages, there are different cultures and appearances which makes India more colorful and diverse.
According to speech by PM Narendra Modi, unity in diversity is the heritage of India. It is the specialty of India and also proves that India is having a vibrant democracy. These cultures, languages, and appearances are the power and the inspiration to each and every Indian around the globe. Even if the Indians are scattered around the world, they take the principles of diversity and democracy with them.
He also addressed that, the biggest festival of democracy and many of the citizens participated in 2019 general election. Around 61 crore voters participated in this general election. According to complete information from Election Commission of India, the highest number of women voters voted in this election. Most importantly highest number of women were elected in this collection as well. PM Modi describes this event as the success of Indians and happened because of Indians, not because of Modi.
He also said that even though patience is the identity of each and every Indian but in recent days Indian is impatient about progress in India.
Indians are currently challenging themselves and changing themselves. He also said that India is progressing at great speed. And India will challenge each and every one of them, who thinks that nothing can change. According to various data of last 5 years, 130 crore Indians as achieved different things which cannot be imagined in past. So, our motto is to aim high and achieve higher.
You also confirmed that currently rural sanitation is around 99% and cooking gas connection used within 5 years is around 95% which was previously on 55%. The new cooking gas connection was provided to 15 crore people around the country.
In the information and technology era, data is considered as the new oil. And peoples of Houston know well about oil, but PM Modi thinks data is the new gold. Recently industrial revolution 4.0 took place, and it is all about data. He proudly announces that the cheapest only available in India. Currently, 1GB data costs around 25-30 cents in India.
He also mentioned that India has scrapped the article 370. He claimed that article 370 was basically meant for keeping the people of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh from the progress and rights. This was a major advantage for terrorists and separatist who were using this as their advantage. Currently, the peoples of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh are having similar rights just as each and every Indian does.
Regarding this agenda, both the parliament houses debated on this matter for hours. The complete debate was telecasted live, even though ruling party is not having the majority in the upper house. Although both the houses of parliament cleared this motion with a two-thirds majority. He also stated that the crowd should give the standing ovation to the lawmakers of India.
Later on, he sharply attacked the neighbouring country Pakistan. He said that some of these achievements by India are troubling some people you cannot manage their own country. He also confirmed that they are using this agenda to create hatred towards India. They are supporting terror and harbouring terrorists in their country. Although each and every information regarding this country is known to every part of the world. He also stated that conspirators of the 9/11 attack on America and 26/11 attack in Mumbai were found in the same country. More
PM Modi is inviting other countries that; it is the high time to go for decisive fight against terrorism and those who support terrorism in the first place.
He also congratulates President Donald Trump about standing firmly against terrorism. And invited the crowd to give a standing ovation for this strong decision which president has taken against terrorism.
PM Narendra Modi also confirmed that India will be spending $1.3 alien on the infrastructure. He also said that the growth rate of India has averaged 7.3% in last 5 years. He claims that this never happened before the history of India. For the first time India is facing low inflation and higher growth.
You also said that he wants to have talked with US President Donald Trump over the next few days to have some positive results. He also said that President Trump calls him as a tough negotiator, and he wants to say that is the master of Art of the deal.
Lastly, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi invited US President Donald Trump and his family to visit India.
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This post will guide you step by step how to tastefully and securely install a deck light. In this demonstration we used a Kichler LED Half Moon Deck Light. (Product #15764 AZT), but this process can be adapted to other mountable fixtures. The site is a spacious cedar deck. We are mounting half moon fixtures to the insides of the posts surrounding the exterior and stairway of the deck.
First, we must install the deck light.
Unscrew the outer cover of the deck light using a Phillips screw driver.
Using a long drill bit, mark the mounting position on the deck post, ensuring that it is center. Drill a hole through this mark to the other end of the post. Insert the tail of the deck light wire through the newly drilled hole. Snake the wire through until the deck light is flat against the post.
Make sure the light is center, then tighten the interior screws, and refasten the deck light cover. The wire should be hanging on the other side of the post.
Next, drill about 3″ from the base of the post (on the same side as the loose deck light wire) at a down and outward angle until the drill bit emerges underneath the deck. Snake the wire through this new hole and pull taught, so that the line of wire opposite of the deck light is vertical and straight. The tail of the wire should be underneath the deck, where the main electric cable can be connected out of the way and out of sight.
Now, to mask that vertical strip of wire.
In this demonstration we used red cedar wood because it matches the color and finish of the deck. First, measure the length of the deck post, and cut a roughly 1″ wide strip of wood at that length.
Then, using an open table saw blade, press the strip slowly onto the saw blade, starting about 4″ from the end. Using a straight barrier such as the metal edge shown, guide the strip along the saw blade to continue the cut, stopping about 4″ from the end. Do NOT do this with your bare fingers. Use something to guide the strip, like the blocks of wood shown below.
The result should be an open groove in the strip of wood that stops 4″ from either end. Repeat this process about 2mm from the initial groove and then gauge out the 2mm center, as well as any extraneous wood. The result should be a larger open groove in the strip of wood that stops 4″ from either end. Be sure this groove is large enough for the deck light wire to fit inside, and if it isn't, repeat this step.
Next, drill a wide notch within the 4″ of space on either side of the strip. Mount the strip of wood against the vertical line of the deck light wire so that it fits inside.
Drill a narrower hole through each notch, then fasten screws to secure the top and bottom ends of the strip.
Now your deck light is simply and tastefully fastened in place, and all wiring can be done underneath the deck.


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The Geronimo Trail National Scenice Byway starts and ends in the Gila Wilderness. For those with 4-wheel drive, Forest Service Road 150 completes the loop. The Trail goes from mountain forests to dry desert and scrub-dotted hills, and past two of the largest lakes in New Mexico.
Driving north from the Visitor Center in T or C, the distance to Beaverhead is approximately 82 miles one way. Distance from the Visitor Center to San Lorenzo at the southern end of the trail is about 56 miles one way. A few great side trips are available, possibly adding to your mileage and travel time.
The Byway is located in southern New Mexico, in Sierra County. Sierra County is easily accessible from the north or south via Interstate Highway 25. The closest east-west Interstates are I-40 (through Albuquerque) and I-10 (via Las Cruces).
The trail can be driven end-to-end in a day, but we recommend you stop and explore some of the sites along the way.
The Northern Route
Beaverhead, Chloride, Winston, Monticello, Cuchillo
Truth or Consequences, Elephant Butte, Williamsburg, Caballo
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Emory Pass, Kingston, Hillsboro, Lake Valley, San Lorenzo
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The Geronimo Trail National Scenic Byway Visitor Center is located at 301 S. Foch (at Sims), between Main and Broadway in downtown Truth or Consequences.
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When the county's GOP-controlled Board of Elections tried to eliminate early voting sites in Burtonsville and Chevy Chase, Council Member Tom Hucker was one of the leaders in getting the decision overturned. Hucker is reminding his District 5 constituents of that achievement with the mailer below.
A few interesting things popped up in candidate filings today.
Krish Vignarajah has still not filed for Governor. Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz has filed, but his announced running mate, former Montgomery County Council Member Valerie Ervin, is not listed on his filing.
Grace Rivera-Oven, who was the Political Director of David Trone's campaign for Congress, filed to run for Council At-Large on February 26. She has started a traditional campaign finance account.
Jarrett Smith, who is a current member of the Takoma Park City Council, filed to run for Council At-Large on February 23. Smith was reelected to the City Council in November and will not have to leave his seat to campaign for county office. Smith has started a traditional financing account.
Kenge Malikidogo-Fludd has filed for County Council District 5. Bethesda Magazine previously reported that Kevin Harris is running against incumbent Tom Hucker. Malikidogo-Fludd is using public financing, as is Harris, while Hucker has not yet opened a public financing account. However, Malikidogo-Fludd's listed address is in Germantown, which is not in District 5.
Jaye Espy, who was running for Delegate in District 15, withdrew from the race on February 21.
Michelle Carhart of Rockville filed for District 18 Senate on February 22. Delegate Jeff Waldstreicher and Dana Beyer, who has run for Senate and House unsuccessfully in the past, are also running. Carhart's website is inactive at this writing.
Filing closes at 9 PM tomorrow night. There may be more news in store by then!
Note: an earlier version of this post reported that Jarrett Smith had not yet established a campaign account. We apologize for the error.
Reliable source tells me that MCEA is getting ready to revoke its endorsement of Chris Barclay for Montgomery County Council District 5 in the wake of the school board expenses scandal and endorse someone else unknown to me. Wise decision to maintain credibility in the wake of this disqualifying scandal.


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'A bad break': Kansas out of Big 12 tourney due to COVID-19
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Kansas head coach Bill Self watches player introductions before an NCAA college basketball game against Oklahoma in the quarterfinal round of the Big 12 men's tournament in Kansas City, Mo., Thursday, March 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — No. 11 Kansas withdrew from the Big 12 Tournament on Friday after a positive COVID-19 test within the men's basketball program, becoming the third major team to have its conference postseason end because of the coronavirus.
The development, which sent No. 13 Texas into the championship game against No. 12 Oklahoma State, came only hours after No. 16 Virginia pulled out of an Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament semifinal because of a positive test.
The Jayhawks learned earlier this week they would be without center David McCormack and backup forward Tristan Enaruna due to COVID-19 protocols. The tournament's second seed managed to squeak past No. 25 Oklahoma 69-62 in the quarterfinals without them Thursday night.
Kansas had gone the entire season without an outbreak that caused it to cancel or postpone a game.
"Obviously we are disappointed and our players are disappointed that they can't continue to compete for the Big 12 championship," Jayhawks coach Bill Self said in a statement. "We have followed daily testing and additional protocols that have been set up for us. Unfortunately we caught a bad break at the wrong time.
'"I look forward to preparing my team in probably a unique way for the NCAA Tournament," he said.
It's unclear whether the positive test came from a player or staff member. Kansas would need to return seven consecutive days of negative tests that produce at least five eligible players to participate in the first round of the tournament. It opens March 19 — just a week away — and will be played entirely in Indianapolis and the surrounding area.
The team remained in Kansas City and planned to practice with its eligible players this weekend before departing for the Indianapolis on Monday. McCormack, Enaruna and the player that tested positive Friday will not travel with the team, but McCormack and Enaruna are expected to join the Jayhawks before they play their first-round game.
The player that tested positive during the Big 12 Tournament will likely miss the opening weekend of the NCAA tourney.
At least the Jayhawks — they hope — get to play in the tournament. They were the likely No. 1 overall seed and had national championship aspirations before last season's NCAA Tournament was called off by the pandemic.
It remained to be seen whether Oklahoma will return a positive test as a result of playing the Jayhawks. The Sooners have tested daily leading up to their trip to Kansas City and will continue prior to leaving for Indianapolis.
On Thursday, perennial power Duke pulled out of the ACC Tournament after a pair of wins because of a positive test. The Blue Devils called off their season, cementing an end to their streak of 24 consecutive NCAA tourney appearances.
A day later, defending national champion Virginia also bowed out of the ACC Tournament in what Cavaliers coach Tony Bennett called a "gut punch." Several smaller schools, including Florida International and North Carolina A&T, also have withdrawn from conference tournaments this week.
"I'm hurting for our players, especially our seniors," Bennett said in a statement. "We are exhausting all options to participate in the NCAA Tournament."
The NCAA has put contingency plans in place should a team be unable to participate in its tournament beginning next week in Indiana. The last four at-large teams missing the field will be designated as replacement teams and put in the bracket in place of any team from a multi-bid conference that withdraws before their opening game.
Once games begin, though, there will be no replacements and the opponent will automatically advance to the next round.
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Cities need private investment to realise their smart city goals.
Given the nature of smart city projects and their payback periods, traditional infrastructure financing models may not work well.
Barriers to smart city creation and success will vary by market type; corruption may be an obstacle in emerging markets, whereas privacy may pose more of a problem in developed markets.
The return on investment and the definition of success may differ based on perspective: societal v financial.
The term "smart cities" conjures visions of a future where digital technology monitors and connects everything from buildings to street lights to self-driving cars. It allows governments to provide better city services more efficiently, creating a more accessible, safer, cleaner and greener environment in the process. The city's citizens are able to better utilise all the city has to offer, from the convenience of their smartphones. Most cities today are far from that vision but many are working towards it, both investing in smart infrastructure and creating ecosystems that allow urban innovation to flourish.
However, many cities, constrained by austerity, must look to the private sector to fund this development. Institutional investors, seeking yield and looking to meet their long-term liabilities, have long been touted as the ideal sources of funding for infrastructure, whether smart or not. So why isn't that much-needed flood of investment happening?
This report will examine the investment landscape for smart cities, and investigate the related opportunities and risks for investors.
The majority of private investment so far has been concentrated in the transport and mobility sectors.
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Prior to joining The Economist Group, Renée worked in a variety of roles: in Economic and Political risk consulting, in finance in the City of London as an Economist, a Macro strategist and a Bond fund manager, in the international and UK domestic policy spheres as an Economist to the Treasury Select Committee at the House of Commons and as Senior Economist and Chief Technical Advisor for the UN Development Programme's (UNDP) Regional Bureau for Europe and the CIS, and as an academic, designing and teaching economics courses at universities across London.
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NAME OF FILM: GO BACK TO CHINA
DIRECTOR(S): Emily Ting
STARRING: Anna Akana, Richard Ng, Lynn Chen
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SYNOPSIS: When spoiled rich girl Sasha Li blows through half of her trust fund, she is cut off by her father and forced to go back to China and work for the family toy business. What simply begins as a way to regain financial support soon develops into a life-altering journey of self-discovery, as Sasha learns the family business from the ground up, and more importantly, learns to reconnect with her estranged family.
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842 North Lincoln Avenue is a two story red brick house occupying an irregularly shaped lot located in the Allegheny West section of the city of Pittsburgh.
Robert Graham, an Irish-born rope maker, built 842 North Lincoln Avenue between 1862 and 1870. Before building 842 North Lincoln Avenue, Robert Graham worked as manager of John Irwin's Rope Walk, an early rope manufactory that operated in Allegheny City between 1813 and 1858.
Robert Graham and his family lived at 840 North Lincoln Avenue during the time that the Graham family owned 842 North Lincoln Avenue. Among families to whom Graham rented 842 North Lincoln Avenue were those of Walter L. McClintock, a carpet dealer, Charles Y. Wheeler, a Hussey & Co. employee, William J. Wilkins, a civil engineer and Robert J. George, a minister.
Detailed information on the ownership history, age, first owner, and early occupants of 842 North Lincoln Avenue follows.
John and Abigail Irwin of Allegheny County to Mrs. Martha Graham of the city of Allegheny, $450. This deed conveyed a 24′ wide by 140'9.625″ deep lot located on Central Street (earlier Irwin Avenue, later Lincoln Avenue and Lynndale Avenue, now North Lincoln Avenue), 168'4.5″ east of the corner of Central Street and Tremont Street (later Grant Avenue, now Galveston Avenue). The lot was known as lot 50 in a Plan of Lots laid out by John Irwin, later recorded in Plan Book Volume 2, Page 173.
Robert and Martha Graham of the city of Allegheny to Miss Martha Jane Graham, $1.
Bernard B. McGinnis of the city of Pittsburgh to Martha J. Graham of the city of Pittsburgh, $500. This deed conveyed a 7.375″ wide by 69'6″ deep lot of ground located 12'6″ north of the northern side of Lynndale Avenue. The lot was part of Lot 51 in John Irwin's Plan of Lots. With this conveyance, the lot on which 842 North Lincoln Avenue stands took on its present configuration.
Martha J. Graham of the city of Pittsburgh to Margaret J. Dietch of the city of Pittsburgh, $4,850.
Margaret J. and Conrad Dietch of the city of Pittsburgh to Harry R. and Alice J. Williams Seager of the city of Pittsburgh, $11,640.
Harry R. and Alice J. Williams Seager of the city of Pittsburgh to John A. Sharp of the city of Pittsburgh, $11,000.
ohn A. Sharp, widower, of the city of Pittsburgh to B.F. Jones Jr. Properties, Inc., a corporation located in the city of Pittsburgh, $1. The deed stated that John A. Sharp had taken title to the property as an agent for B.F. Jones Jr. Properties, Inc.
B.F. Jones Jr. Properties, Inc., a corporation located in Pittsburgh, to Julius H. and Mollie C. Luebkert of the city of Pittsburgh, $9,500.
The deed stated that B.F. Jones III was the president of B.F. Jones Jr. Properties.
Julius H. and Mollie C. Luebkert of the city of Pittsburgh to Daniel A. and Elizabeth M. McGeary of the city of Pittsburgh, $1 and other valuable considerations.
William R. and Eileen Guyton, Elizabeth M. and Edward P. Bowman Sr., and Donald F. and Mildred McGeary to David S. Boesel, single, $23,000.
Daniel A. McGeary had died on November 17, 1968, and Elizabeth M. McGeary had died on May 8, 1974.
David S. Boesel, single, to N.S. Andrews, single, $54,000.
N.S. Andrews of Chicago, Illinois, to Michael L. and Eleanor A. Coleman of Allegheny County, $70,000.
All available information indicates that Robert and Martha Graham had 842 North Lincoln Avenue built between late 1862 and early 1870.
The August 1862 sale of a 3379 square foot lot for $450, at 13 cents per square foot, indicates that the lot was undeveloped. Allegheny County mortgage records show that on May 4, 1870, recorded in Mortgage Book Volume 107, Page 3, Martha Graham borrowed $2275 from John Frazier, George G. Frazier, and William G. Frazier, "doing business as carpenters and contractors under the name and style of Frazier Brothers." A notation in the mortgage's margin indicated that the mortgage was satisfied on April 4, 1872.
Plat maps published in 1872 and 1890 show that 842 North Lincoln Avenue was known as 65 Lincoln Avenue.
The 1870 city directory and 1870 manuscript census indicate that 65 Lincoln Avenue was occupied by Walter L. McClintock. The directory first listed McClintock at 65 Lincoln Avenue in 1870.
Robert Graham apparently built 65 Lincoln Avenue as an investment. City directories listed Graham and his daughter Martha at 67 Lincoln Avenue (now 840 North Lincoln Avenue) between the 1860's and the 1890's.
Directories of the early 1870's listed John Frazier and William G. Frazier as partners in Frazier Brothers, lumber dealers, located at Pennsylvania Avenue and Sedgwick Street in Manchester. Both lived at 68 Lincoln Avenue. Directories did not list George G. Frazier.
Allegheny County deed and mortgage directories of the 1800's show that Frazier Brothers bought and sold many properties and borrowed and loaned money on many properties in the city of Allegheny and the borough of Manchester. Houses in Allegheny built by Frazier Brothers included 824830 Beech Avenue.
Frazier Brothers' work as contractors, carpenters and lumber dealers suggests that they served as contractors for 842 North Lincoln Avenue.
Pittsburgh city directories, U.S. census records, an obituary, a will and other sources provide information on Robert and Martha Graham, the first owners of 842 North Lincoln Avenue.
Early Occupants
The 1870 manuscript census indicates that Robert Graham rented 65 Lincoln Avenue to a family headed by Walter L. McClintock, a carpet dealer.
In 1870, the census did not indicate street addresses of individuals who were enumerated. However, the 1870 census enumerated Walter L. McClintock and his family between the families of Hugh Knox, of 63 Lincoln Avenue (now 844 North Lincoln Avenue) and Robert Graham. City directories of the early 1870's list Walter L. McClintock at 65 Lincoln Avenue.
Walter L. McClintock, 29, lived at 65 Lincoln Avenue with his wife Mary G. McClintock, 27, their son, Evan G., two, a servant, Maggie Healy and Jennie Miller, 15, whose relationship to the McClintock family was not given.
The census reported that all members of the McClintock family and Jennie Miller had been born in Pennsylvania. Maggie Healy had been born in England. The census also showed that Walter L. McClintock owned no real estate and had a personal estate of $3,300.
City directories show that Walter L. McClintock was a partner in Oliver McClintock & Company, dealers in carpets, oil cloths and window shades at 23 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh.
In 1880, the census showed that the family of Charles Y. Wheeler lived at 65 Lincoln Avenue.
Charles Y. Wheeler, 37, had been born in Indiana and worked for Hussey & Company. His wife Sarah V., 35, had been born in Ohio and had no occupation. The Wheelers had four children living at 65 Lincoln Avenue: Charles V. , 14, Mary Y., 12 and Harry M., 10, all born in Ohio, and George Y., four, born in Iowa.
In 1880, the Wheeler family had one servant: Georgeana Savage, 19, who was single and had been born in Maryland.
In 1900, 842 Lincoln Avenue was rented to William G. Wilkins and his family.
William G. Wilkins, 46, was a civil engineer who had been born in Pennsylvania. His wife of 19 years, Sarah, 46, had been born in Vermont. William and Sarah Wilkins had no children. Their servant was Isabella Dewar, 28, who had been born in Scotland and immigrated in 1885.
In 1900, all residents of 842 North Lincoln Avenue were able to read and write.
The 1910 census indicated that Robert J. George and his family lived at 842 North Lincoln Avenue.
Robert J. George, 65, was a minister, and his wife Margaret, 70 had no occupation. Both had been born in Pennsylvania to parents also born in Pennsylvania.
In 1910, Robert J. and Margaret George had been married 41 years and had had five children, with four of their children alive at the time of the census. Two of their children still lived at home: Roy, 34, and Ruth, 29. Both had no occupation and had attended school during the previous year.
Also living at 842 North Lincoln Avenue in 1910 were Robert J. George's sister Margaret A. Slater and niece Estell (sic) Slater. Margaret A. Slater, 61, was a widow who had had four children, with one child still living in 1910. Estell Slater, 31, was single. Both had been born in Pennsylvania.
a copy of part of an 1852 map depicting Allegheny City
a copy of an 1872 plat map showing Allegheny West, including Irwin Avenue
a copy of a 1910 plat map of part of the Northside, including Irwin Avenue
a listing for the Scully family in the 1920 Pittsburgh Social Secretaire
a description of the Walton sisters from the 1888 edition of The Social Mirror
an article describing a dance held for Alice Walton Scully from the Pittsburgh Gazette Times, December 15, 1915
a listing for The Crossways Shop, run by Ida Walton Scully, in the 1917 R.L. Polk & Co. Pittsburgh city directory
a photo of Joseph Walton from the 1901 Notable Men of Pittsburgh and Vicinity
the death notice of James W. Scully, from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 16, 1934
the death notice of Ida Walton Scully, from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 11, 1951
the death notice of Alice Walton Childs, from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 16, 1963
the death notice of James H. Childs, from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 23, 1963
the obituary of Rachel Mellon Walton, from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 4, 2006
a story on the home's inclusion in the Allegheny West Wine & Garden Tour from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 30, 2015


Based on a true story, Lion chronicles the life of Saroo Brierly, who was separated from his family at the age of 5 after accidentally falling asleep on a passenger train that departed during mid-sleep in his hometown of Khandwa, India. Twenty years later, while living in Australia with his adoptive family, Saroo begins to a search to find his origins using only Google Earth, and what he can remember. What follows is an emotional rollercoaster of a tale that touches upon themes of determination and family.
The film is split into two acts, with the first focusing on Saroo's separation from his family and detailing his journey alone in Calcutta, 1,200 miles away from home. Eight-year-old Sunny Pawar makes his acting debut in Lion portraying the young Saroo and does a phenomenal job accurately depicting to the audience the kind of mindset and emotions a kid may have who is unable to find his family. The things he experiences during his time alone on the streets of Calcutta are almost frightening to watch, which includes run-ins with slave rings for kids, poverty, abduction and more which is even more shocking to see when you realize that this is based on a true story. Director Garth Davis does a great job, especially in this half of the movie, creating some beautiful imagery and showing off the gorgeous, yet also brutish landscapes and lifestyles of Calcutta.
The second act of the film is where it tends to fall. Set 20 years later, we now see a much older and different Saroo, played by Dev Patel, who plays a rather unconvincing resemblance of an older version of Sonny Pawar. Regardless, Patel does a phenomenal job and was recognized for it during the Golden Globes when he was nominated, along with costar Nicole Kidman, who plays Saroo's adoptive mother, for best-supporting actor and actress. Despite the superb performances, this doesn't change the fact that the second act felt rather forced, instead of being more drawn out as compared to the first act. This part of the film focuses on Saroo's search for his hometown when he discovers that he can use Google Earth to do so. Being forced to rely solely on memories, he narrows it down to search radius of 1,600 miles of land, making it seem near impossible to find.
As interesting as it sounds, the film is forced to introduce other plot lines within, including one with a love interest played by Rooney Mara, which weakens the movie. Often following an important or emotional scene, the film gets drowned out afterward due to extended scenes that tend to drag and make the audience go from teary-eyed to just straight boredom. This is a cycle that repeats itself often throughout, in both acts, but more often in the latter part.
While the second act may not be as strong as the first, Lion is still a fantastic movie. You'll laugh at some parts, and cry at others. If you don't find yourself choked up or teary eyed by the film's final scene, you aren't human.


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Luther Balalaika Ensemble to perform at TMORA in Minneapolis on June 7
As part of the festival celebration "Days of Russian Culture," Luther College's Balalaika Ensemble performs at 7 p.m. Friday, June 7 in The Museum of Russian Art (TMORA) in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
This performance is open to the public. Tickets are $5 for students with ID, $10 for TMORA members and $15 for general admission. Tickets may be purchased online at https://tinyurl.com/lutherbalalaikamn. For more information about the "Days of Russian Culture" celebration, visit TMORA's page about the festival: https://tinyurl.com/tmoradaysofrussianculture.
The ensemble is directed by Laurie Iudin-Nelson, Luther full professor of Russian studies. Their program includes the classic Russian, Ukrainian and Romany songs "Kalinka," "The Ural Mountain Ash Tree," "Dark Eyes," "Two Guitars" and "Fellows, Unharness Your Horses." Additionally, they will perform the Jewish tune "Tum Balalaika" and Soviet tunes "Moscow Nights" and "Katiusha."
The only museum of its kind in North America, The Museum of Russian Art is a member-supported non-profit organization dedicated to granting opportunities to explore different perspectives on the civilization of Russia. For more information about TMORA, visit their website: https://tmora.org.
Members of the fully costumed ensemble include Luther students and alumni: Zachariah Mayer '20, kontra-bass balalaika; Annelise Myer '20, prima balalaika; Emma Everitt '20, prima balalaika; Greg Siems '12, prima balalaika; Sarah McRoberts '14, prima balalaika; Julia (Wymore) Buchkina '03, prima domra; and Aaron Murphy '06, vocal and percussion. Additional members include Matt Miller, kontra-bass balalaika, and Iudin-Nelson, accordion and vocal.
Iudin-Nelson founded the Luther Balalaika Ensemble in 1992. The ensemble has performed hundreds of concerts of Russian and Eastern European music throughout the country, including San Francisco, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., and Kansas City.
As director of Russian studies, Iudin-Nelson teaches courses in Russian language, culture, history, literature and film. She has also organized service projects for the ensemble, raising thousands of dollars for charitable causes in Russia and scholarships for Luther students to study in Russia.
Iudin-Nelson holds a bachelor's degree from St. Olaf College in Russian, Russian Studies and history. She received her master's degree in Russian studies from the University of Minnesota and her doctoral degree in Slavic languages and literatures from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A national liberal arts college with an enrollment of 2,005, Luther offers an academic curriculum that leads to the Bachelor of Arts degree in more than 60 majors and pre-professional programs. For more information about Luther visit the college's website: http://www.luther.edu.


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Rhode Island project may become nation's first offshore wind farm
Source: By Jack Newsham, BOSTON GLOBE CORRESPONDENT • Posted: Tuesday, March 3, 2015
While problems have mounted for Cape Wind's 130-turbine installation, a smaller developer may steal its thunder.
Deepwater Wind, a Providence-based renewable energy developer, said Monday that its Block Island wind farm project was fully financed. The $250 million, five-turbine project is on track to put "steel in the water" in Rhode Island state waters later this summer, the company said, and begin generating 30 megawatts of power in 2016.
If the project continues, it could be a small upset for Rhode Island and Deepwater Wind, which also has plans for a 200-turbine wind farm in federal waters further south. Federal and state officials and environmental groups proudly touted Cape Wind as the nation's "first offshore wind farm" on multipleoccasions as the project jumped through a series of regulatory hoops during the 2000s.
"Cape Wind will create local jobs, reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy, and is poised to kick-start a new US industry by making Massachusetts the site of the country's first offshore wind farm," said Massachusetts Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Richard K. Sullivan Jr. in 2011.
But after Energy Management Inc., the developer behind Cape Wind, failed to meet a January 1 financing deadline, National Grid and Eversource Energy pulled out of agreements to buy the vast majority of the wind farm's power output. Now, the project is fighting for its life, arguing that "relentless litigation" activated a clause in its purchase contracts with the electric utilities that would bring them back to the bargaining table.
Block Island is small by comparison, but work has already begun. The blades for the turbines have been manufactured by Alstom, the Danish company making the turbines. A Louisiana-based company started making the turbines' foundations in January, and onshore work has begun at the project's Quonset Point staging area in Rhode Island, a spokeswoman said.


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This past weekend, Mikey and I attended the Bite of Seattle, an annual food festival held in downtown Seattle.
Here's a wrap of what's moving Seattle this weekend!
Seattle People: Bite 'O Seattle: The 27th Annual Bite of Seattle Food Festival, held at the Seattle Center, attracted around 500,000 visitors. Keith eats.
The Northwest's Top Food Festival comes to town once again with the annual summer event, Bite of Seattle, bringing you all the food, music, .
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Dow Chemical Co. and the Saudi Arabian Oil Co. are going ahead with plans to build a $20 billion chemical complex in Saudi Arabia that will be among the world's largest.
The decision by both companies' boards to create a new joint venture, the Sadara Chemical Co., formalizes a project in the works since 2007.
The complex will go up in Jubail Industrial City, which sits about 60 miles (100 kilometers) northwest of the eastern Saudi city of Dammam. It will include 26 manufacturing units producing chemical products and plastics for use in the energy, transportation, infrastructure and consumer products industries.
"This premier partnership is the right economic ownership model with the right partner," said Dow Chairman and Chief Executive Andrew N. Liveris.
Once completed in the second half of this decade, the facility will have the capacity to churn out 3.3 million tons (3 million metric tons) of chemical products annually for use in everything from car parts to food packages. The companies hope to target fast-growing emerging markets such as China, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Africa.
Midland, MI-based Dow stands to gain from access to Saudi Arabia's relatively cheap-to-produce hydrocarbons, which they will use to make the chemicals Sadara produces.
The kingdom's government owns Saudi Aramco. It manages the OPEC kingpin's vast oil reserves, which it estimates at just over 260 billion barrels, and the world's fourth-largest supplies of natural gas.
Setting up the Sadara venture will cost $20 billion, the companies said. Dow and Saudi Aramco will have equal stakes in the venture, with additional funding coming from export credit agencies and financial institutions.
They will sell a portion of the company to shareholders through an initial public offering in Saudi Arabia in 2013 or 2014, said Bill Weideman, executive vice president and chief financial officer.
Initial production should begin in 2015. The plant should be finished the following year.
The companies hope it will generate $10 billion in revenue annually and generate thousands of jobs within a few years of opening. It will also expand Saudi Arabia's industrial base, helping offset the kingdom's longtime reliance on fossil-fuel production.


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Juliet Rumball-Smith, MBChB, FAFPHM, PhD
RAND Health; Northland District Health Board
The debate around a U.S. unique health identifier has resurfaced recently. There have been petitions (MyHealthID), competitions (CHIME), and numerous blogs and articles on the relative merits and issues associated with a national health identifier. I choose not to rehash old arguments ("the privacy! the cost! the ethics!") but instead offer a perspective from a clinician, researcher, and consumer of health services in a health system with a mature, entrenched national health identifier: New Zealand.
This uniquely identifying 7-character alphanumeric follows us through our health life, cradle to grave, as we journey through and across the health sector, consistent through changes of region, name or spelling thereof, or doctor."
For context, when I say New Zealand (NZ), think "Colorado with the VA for all." We have around 4.7 million people living in around 100, 000 square miles, whereby residents receive comprehensive health care funded primarily by government. Since around 1990, all New Zealanders have been assigned a National Health Index (NHI), or given one at birth. Currently, approximately 95% of the population have a valid and active NHI. This uniquely identifying 7-character alphanumeric follows us through our health life, cradle to grave, as we journey through and across the health sector, consistent through changes of region, name or spelling thereof, or doctor. Our unique NHI is utilized in the community (general practitioner, pharmacist, laboratories), by secondary and tertiary-based specialists, at acute care and elective hospitals, at emergency departments and urgent care facilities, by screening programs, and in the public health arena (immunization, child health, school dental services). There is timely and routine integration of the NHI with a number of clinical databases, including the National Medical Warning System. An encrypted version of the NHI is employed in health and disability databases and registers.
NZ has had a form of an NHI since the late 1970s, and a fully-implemented centralized system since 1992. This early adoption likely reflects a number of factors. First, as noted above, we are small in population and well-defined geographically. That is, it was achievable. Second, traditionally New Zealanders are eager and willing to try new initiatives and tools; the country is popular as a testing ground for global companies trialling new technologies. Finally, the population has sufficient belief in the benefits of integrated data, and in the ability of the broader system to keep personal information private. This is a critical factor, as confidentiality concerns are potentially more relevant in NZ than elsewhere. Kiwis are highly connected (only 4 degrees of separation for us); it is not uncommon to discover that the person who served your coffee that morning is dating your neighbor. (This is not a joke. I once met a Canadian at a conference in Boston who was moving to Vancouver into an apartment about to be vacated by a New Zealander. The conversation went like this. Her: "You won't know him." Me: "Try me." Her: "He's an orthopedic surgeon called X." Me: "I went to his wedding.")
What the NHI gives me is invaluable — safety and reassurance in clinical practice. The accurate identification of an individual and their health providers allows practitioners to provide sounder, more thoughtful, and more confident care."
Back to the NHI. What does the NHI mean to me as a clinician, a researcher, and a health care consumer?
As a clinician — the NHI may seem to offer little theoretical benefit to the individual physician; within your given health system, you presumably know your patients and have their accurate health information readily available. However, in practice, this perfect relationship rarely occurs. That is, the patient may be new to you or has visited out-of-network health providers; information may be unavailable, confusing, or conflicting. In this situation, what the NHI gives me is invaluable — safety and reassurance in clinical practice. The accurate identification of an individual and their health providers allows practitioners to provide sounder, more thoughtful, and more confident care.
However, clinically, the real beauty of the NHI is seen if we consider a broader population of patients and their overall well-being. One example: in NZ, we have a national Mobile Surgical Unit. It travels around the country, doing routine low-risk elective procedures (e.g., pediatric tooth extraction, insertion of tympanostomy tubes) in areas that are geographically isolated. Using the combination of the NHI and our National Immunisation Register, we can identify the under-immunized children from any part of country who are scheduled to have a procedure on this bus, and offer them vaccination while under anaesthesia during this visit. It is the perfect example of the health system working together to improve population well-being.
As a researcher — Information from patients attending all hospitals in the country has been collected in a national database for more than 20 years, all available at the individual level with an encrypted NHI as the identifier (conditional on ethical approval). In some regions, data from the community (including social services, pharmacy, primary, and ambulatory care providers) has also been merged to allow planners of health services to see the patient journeys of their entire population. However, now our "big" (NZ-level big) data has grown even bigger. Statistics New Zealand has recently developed a vast repository of linkable datasets from nearly 50 national surveys/registers, including those inside and outside the health system: the Integrated Data Infrastructure. Researchers can examine the intersection of social services (including welfare and benefits, child protective services), employment, interaction with the judicial and correction systems, travel and migration, income and tax, and education information across multiple generations. Using the NHI to enumerate a population, we are able to ask nuanced health questions with the incorporation of this social data. We are only at the beginning of our understanding of the potential of this dataset.
Using the NHI to enumerate a population, we are able to ask nuanced health questions with the incorporation of this social data. We are only at the beginning of our understanding of the potential of this dataset."
As a consumer — Here is another immunization example (which reflects the haze of raising multiple small children). In 2011, Christchurch — a city in the South Island of the country — had a major earthquake (6.3 on the Richter scale). The next day, residents were encouraged to leave town if possible, and we as a family packed up what we could carry and went north. In all of this mayhem, my twins needed their vaccines. Anyone who has premature twins living in a house with two dogs and two preschoolers knows that this is the one intervention that you do not delay and do not skip. So that week, in a different town and with no records or health cards or any documentation, I was able to go the general practitioner at the bottom of the road where they could find my babies' records through their NHI, see what vaccines they needed, provide the immunizations, and update the National Immunisation Register with a record of this service. They also added in my temporary address and contact details, and alerted my Christchurch doctor of this intervention.
However, like the clinician example, the real benefit of the NHI to the consumer is seen when you extrapolate my experience to a larger group. This is easy to do, as we were not the only family dispossessed that week. There were thousands of us, driving and flying throughout the country, looking for a safe haven while the city adjusted. The NHI allowed uninterrupted and safe health care for a population, irrespective of their location or access to documentation. It truly is an underrated resource of national importance.
There were thousands of us, driving and flying throughout the country, looking for a safe haven while the city adjusted. The NHI allowed uninterrupted and safe health care for a population, irrespective of their location or access to documentation. It truly is an underrated resource of national importance."
Writing this, I live in California. The sunshine and the enthusiasm are infectious, and the health IT start-ups exciting and boggling in their innovation. Currently, the U.S. has almost full adoption of a certified electronic health record (EHR) in acute care hospitals, and ambulatory care providers are not far behind. This last year, I have been exploring the role of the EHR and health IT in health care quality in the U.S., including its use to reduce low-value care and racial/ethnic disparities in quality, and its ability to facilitate individualized ratings of quality. Visits I made to leading innovators in predictive analytics such as Pieces Technologies in Dallas and the Center for Health Data Innovations at Montefiore Medical Center beautifully illustrated the blue sky benefits of the substantial investment made by the U.S. into the EHR over the last decade.
And here is the rub. New Zealand has the NHI, but not yet a national EHR, and we cannot yet capitalize on all of the potential of the NHI without this platform. However, the U.S. has made this investment already — you have done the heavy lifting. There is both the EHR infrastructure and the enthusiasm of the health sector and its consumers for digital tools and health IT. Put plainly, in this area, the U.S. of A. could simply soar. The country is uniquely poised — you've built the roads, you've invented the cars, all you need is free-flowing gas. By adding in an NHI, the potential for connected, synergistic care for the U.S. population, and for nuanced, leading-edge research, is unprecedented.
Funding/Support: Support for this research was made possible by a Harkness Fellowship in Healthcare Policy and Practice, awarded by The Commonwealth Fund.
Role of the Funder/Sponsor: The Commonwealth Fund had no role in the preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript or decision to submit the manuscript for publication.
Acknowledgements to Prof. Tony Blakely for his review of this article.
Director, Health Intelligence & Translational Medicine, and Public Health Physician, Northland District Health Board, New Zealand; 2016-17 Harkness Fellow in Healthcare Policy & Practice, RAND Health
Oliver Menzies, Geriatrician & General Physician, Auckland Hospital, NZ
Hi Juliet, it was interesting to read your article, and I agree we are priviledged in NZ to have a national unique identifier that can be used across the inpatient/outpatient, public/private divides. I think healthcare information communication would definitely be more tricky without it.
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Drake Reacts to The Weeknd's Grammys Snub
Drake has seemingly lost all hope for the Grammys.
A day after the Recording Academy announced its 2021 nominations, the OVO rapper weighed in on one of the year's most shocking snubs: The Weeknd's fourth studio After Hours failed to receive a single nod, despite being a critical and commercial success. Drake addressed the controversy in a lengthy note posted on Instagram, in which he reiterated some of his issues with the awards show.
"I think we should stop allowing ourselves to be shocked every year by the disconnect between impactful music and these awards and just accept that what once was the highest form of recognition may no longer matter to the artists that exist now and the ones that come after," he wrote. "It's like a relative you keep expecting to fix up but they just can't change their ways. The other day I said @TheWeeknd was a lock for either Album or Song of the Year along with reasonable assumptions and it just never goes that way."
Drake then said it was a "great time" for someone to offer an alternative to the Grammys—"something new that we can build up over time and pass on to the generations to come."
He also made sure to mention some of the artists who were also shut out of the 2021 Grammy nominations: He name dropped Lil Baby, Partynextdoor, Popcaan, and the late Pop Smoke … "too many missing names to even name," he wrote.
Drake, who is up for multiple 2021 Grammy awards, called out the Recording Academy last year while accepting the award for Best Rap Song ("God's Plan"). Not only did he allude to the academy's controversial track record with the hip-hop genre, he also reminded his fellow artists that the awards are subjective and should not be the sole indicator of achievement.
"I want to take this opportunity while I'm up here to just talk to all the kids that are watching this, aspiring to do music," Drake said on stage. "All my peers that make music from their heart that do things pure and tell the truth, I wanna let you know we're playing in an opinion-based sport not a factual-based sport. So it's not the NBA where at the end of the year you're holding a trophy because you made the right decisions or won the games."
Hours after the 2021 Grammy nominations were announced, The Weeknd took to social media to accuse the academy of corruption. The academy's interim president/CEO Harvey Mason Jr. released a subsequent statement insisting there was no scheme against The Weeknd. Mason also addressed the rumors that the XO artist was snubbed due to tense discussions regarding his upcoming Super Bowl halftime performance.
"We understand that The Weeknd is disappointed at not being nominated. I was surprised and can empathize with what he's feeling," Mason wrote. "His music this year was excellent, and his contributions to the music community and broader world are worthy of everyone's admiration. We were thrilled when we found out he would be performing at the upcoming Super Bowl and we would have loved to have him also perform on the Grammy stage the weekend before. Unfortunately, every year, there are fewer nominations than the number of deserving artists. But as the only peer-voted music award, we will continue to recognize and celebrate excellence in music while shining a light on the many amazing artists that make up our global community. To be clear, voting in all categories ended well before The Weeknd's performance at the Super Bowl was announced, so in no way could it have affected the nomination process."
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Apollo 15 Pilot Joins the Long List of Astronauts to Tell the World About 'Alien' Visitation
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If we look at the long list of astronauts to share their knowledge and beliefs about UFOs, as well as intelligent extraterrestrial civilizations that are or have been visiting our planet, the list is quite long and it never seems to stop growing.
Apollo 14 astronaut, Dr. Edgar Mitchell, told us that there "have been crashed craft, and bodies recovered."
Dr. Brian O'leary told the world that there is "abundant evidence that we are being contacted," Gordon Cooper, and others like Story Musgrave have all made some interesting remarks about their knowledge or beliefs.
Also joining them is a long and growing list of hundreds, if not thousands of high ranking military personnel, political figures, academics and many more.
On top of this we have hundreds of thousands of pages released by multiple governments that document these interesting cases. Although we may not quite know exactly what is going on, we know something is.
All of this information that's leaked over the past few years, in turn, has also provoked a response from the "mainstream world," a world that used to criticize and ridicule the subject is now taking corrective measures to bring more credibility into it, in some cases, despite doing a poor job.
This has been seen with recent citizens hearings on the manner, as well as popular people from within pop culture getting together with some "well known" people from companies like Lockheed Martin, and others from within the intelligence community and starting awareness initiatives, like Tom Delonge.
Take the founder of Bigelow Aerospace for example, who is one of many who has shared his knowledge about the fact that we are not alone, and that are being visited.
For so long, this subject has been swept under the radar by so many people, and all of a sudden we've had this burst of information that's made it clear to most that something is going on here.
The more popular this subject gets, the more it becomes dripped into the mainstream arena, and the more we need to put our critical thinking caps on.
For years, government, and those from within the government as well as intelligence agencies, have had a very heavy interest in this subject.
All of the mainstream organizations started to officially investigate this phenomenon, like NICAP, and MUFON, originate by those from within the intelligence and defence community. This is a common trend with regards to mainstream initiatives dealing with the UFO/ extraterrestrial subject.
The point is, our government and mainstream media, for the most part, have been deceiving us on so many different topics, with perhaps 9/11, and other false flag events that have happened in recent history.
People still question this narrative, despite the fact that multiple insiders, whistleblowers, and even active presidents, politicians and academicians have been providing the evidence for decades.
It seems that when something that is not heavily present or made known by our sources of 'reliable' information, which lie in the hands of a tightly knit, small group of financial elite with vested big powerful interests in multiple areas, is not considered to be of significance.
This comes despite the fact that our mainstream media has direct connections to the intelligence community.
There is news transpiring everyday that should be making headlines, but it doesn't and instead we are drip fed with lies, which is made even more clear by international media in other countries sharing information that contradicts the western world.
This is why, the solution is not to censor information or deem it as "fake news," but rather to have open discussions, teach people how to think critically, and examine sources for themselves. Let them decide, and not have some authority figure deciding it for them.
The latest example would be Vladimir Putin calling out the Syrian chemical weapons attack as a false flag.
After all, a lot of what we see is used for corruption, and brainwashing, and providing narratives that justify military action.
So, when it comes to the UFO/extraterrestrial topic, why should we really expect anything else?
This field, being a veteran researcher within it, has a long history of infiltration by special interests, to change narratives, and more. Hillary Clinton seemed to use the topic a lot this year and speak about it in a serious matter in order to rack up more votes, but who really knows.
This type of thing has been seen within our media, and even academia, to sway or persuade a perception.
"Behind the scenes, high ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense." – Former head of CIA Roscoe Hillenkoetter (source)
If you want to learn more about the UFO/extraterrestrial topic, we've published many heavily citied articles on the subject.
While we've had so many astronauts share their experiences, others are quick to dismiss any talk of UFOs, saying that they have not personally come across any evidence to suggest that the phenomenon is real.
This is quite confusing, and brings into question the possibility of a ridicule campaign in continuance, while a disinformation is currently underway. Who knows?
It's important for us to be able to distinguish between a 'credible reliable source,' that's honest, and another that fits the same description but is not reliable, and spreading disinformation. How we do that is a topic of discussion for another article.
Let's take a look at what the astronaut said
He said, very seriously:
"We are the aliens, we just think they're somebody else, but we're the ones who came from somewhere else. Because somebody else had to survive…they got in a little space craft and they came here and they landed and they started civilization here, that's what I believe. And if you don't believe me, go get books on the ancient Sumerians and see what they had to say about it, they'll tell you right up front."
Again, he is sharing his beliefs, perhaps he has more knowledge on the subject, but who really knows. After all, everything with regards what really happened and is happening on the moon is quite scattered and hard to piece together.
It's not like this astronaut is saying something along the lies of what Dr. Edgar Mitchell did when he said he "happens to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we are not alone on this plant " and that we have "been visited many times." (source) (source) (source)
As far as coming from space, this astronaut is not the only one who has brought for this theory. You can read more about that in the article lined below.
Obviously, this brings a lot of other questions into play. Anything on this topic really does open a can of worms that dive and related to multiple areas and aspects of human life and history.
By Arjun Walia, Guest author


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Q: Creating a cgi program in c using "POST" method I'm new at CGI. I want to create  a program in CGI using C language which takes 2 integers as input from an html form  and output the multiplication of them in a html form.I tried to use "GET" method to do this program (using the enviroment variable QUERY_STRING) and it is ok, but I want to learn how to make this program using the "POST "method(accessing the input data using stdin). Here is the program I made using "GET".Can someone help me with the program if I want to use "POST" so where the input data are read by stdin. I know that there are tutorials cause I've been searching for hours and I know very well how this works in theory, but I didn't find anywhere a concrete example of a c program using "POST".The html form :

<form action="http://www.cs.tut.fi/cgi-bin/run/~jkorpela/mult.cgi">

Multiplicand 1: <input name="m" size="5">

Multiplicand 2: <input name="n" size="5">

<input type="submit" value="Multiply!">

</form>

The program in c:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main(void)
{
char *data;
long m,n;
printf("%s%c%c\n",
"Content-Type:text/html;charset=iso-8859-1",13,10);
printf("<TITLE>Multiplication results</TITLE>\n");
printf("
Multiplication results
\n");
data = getenv("QUERY_STRING");
if(data == NULL)
  printf("
Error! Error in passing data from form to script.");
else if(sscanf(data,"m=%ld&n=%ld",&m,&n)!=2)
  printf("
Error! Invalid data. Data must be numeric.");
else
  printf("
The product of %ld and %ld is %ld.",m,n,m*n);
return 0;
}

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