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The Poet and His Readers: Three Lyrics and an Unfinished Story of Alexander Pushkin
By Manukyan, Kathleen
Now and then, in the course of events, when the flow of time turns into a muddy torrent and history floods our cellars, earnest people are apt to examine the interrelation between a writer and the national or universal community; and writers themselves begin to worry about their obligations. I am speaking of an abstract type of writer. Those whom we can imagine concretely, especially those on the elderly side, are too vain of their gifts or too reconciled with mediocrity to bother about obligations. They see very clearly, in the middle distance, what fate promises them--the marble nook or the plaster niche. (1)
One of the features of Pushkin's longer works, made famous in Eugene Onegin, are his many asides addressed to his "dear reader." Often delivered as apologies for straying from the plot or clarifications of the narrator's opinion about the matter at hand, they add to our curiosity about the author's relationship with his readers. How does Pushkin envision, accommodate, or avoid his reader? For that matter, how much does this vary from genre to genre or evolve as the poet matures? These questions could occupy volumes and warrant analysis from an array of academic approaches--textual, archival, and sociological to name a few. This paper, first, will attempt to scratch the surface and illustrate some complexities of the question through an analysis of three short lyrics from different periods in the poet's life. Then, it will frame, elaborate upon, and connect its observations in light of "Egyptian Nights," a short, unfinished prose work from the last years of Pushkin's life.
In the three poems which will be discussed, Pushkin expresses a comparable view of the reading public, but each is uniquely colored by the stage of the poet's career during which it was written. In the first, "To Zhukovsky" (1818), the aspiring young poet expresses appreciation for and solidarity with a mentor in poetry. In the second poem chronologically (which, however, will be analyzed third in this study), "Conversation of a Bookseller and Poet" (written in 1824 and first published in 1825 as a forward to the first chapter of Eugene Onegin), the poet announces that he is ready to turn professional by showing, in dialogue form, the interplay of his artistic conscience (poet) with his consciousness of practical and social needs and influences (bookseller). In the third, "Exegi Monumentum," known by its first words "I have erected a monument to myself ..." (written in 1836 and left unpublished during the author's life), the celebrated poet considers his legacy. Thus, each of the poems features a poet's encounter with some form of authority: mentor, publisher, laureate predecessors.
I have opted to consider the poems in a functional, rather than chronological order for the purposes of this study. Therefore, the first section of the paper looks for common themes between the two works most chronologically distant: "To Zhukovsky" and "I have erected..." This highlights language and thoughts that were common to Pushkin in both his earliest and latest periods of poetic production. The second section takes up "Bookseller," which lays out the conflicts in Pushkin's thought on his readers and his poetic calling most plainly. It also serves as a transition to the discussion of the prose work because of its generic innovation and use of a literary double. The third and final section of the article takes up "Egyptian Nights," speculating on the issues raised in the other poems--thematic and biographical--which complicate the work and perhaps prevented its completion.
These three lyric poems all express the elevated position of the poet over society and disdain for the bulk of society's readers. In "To Zhukovsky" this opinion is put forth in verse from the point of view of a reader, but, as the poet/reader does not fail to point out, not an ordinary one. Thus we read:
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Publication: Pushkin Review
Volume/issue: Vol. 12-13
Manukyan, Kathleen
Pushkin, Alexander--Works
Pushkin, Alexander--Criticism and interpretation
Poets--Works
Poets--Criticism and Interpretation
Unfinished Books--Criticism and Interpretation
Unfinished Books--Authorship
Writing as Exorcism: The Personal Codes of Pushkin, Lermontov, and Gogol By Ilya Kutik Northwestern University Press, 2005
Authorship as Alchemy: Subversive Writing in Pushkin, Scott, Hoffmann By David Glenn Kropf Stanford University, 1994
Pushkin and Romantic Fashion: Fragment, Elegy, Orient, Irony By Monika Greenleaf Stanford University, 1994
Alexander Pushkin's Novel in Verse, Eugene Onegin, and Its Legacy in the Work of Vladimir Nabokov By Lachmann, Renate Pushkin Review, Vol. 14, Annual 2011
"Giants against Gods": (Regarding the Plastic Nature of Sculpture and Theater by the Example of the Exhibition and Installation of the Pergamon Altar in the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts) By Portnova, T. European Research Studies, Vol. 18, No. 4 SI, October 2015
The Influence of Barry Cornwall and the Phenomenon of Polygenesis in Alexander Pushkin's "Little House in Kolomna" By Agayev, Zaur Pushkin Review, Vol. 8-9, Annual 2005
Pushkin Was Here (Perhaps) By Skopich, Yulia Russian Life, Vol. 62, No. 3, May-June 2019
My Pushkin, Our Pushkin By Ivanov, Mikhail Russian Life, Vol. 42, No. 4, June-July 1999
Some Talk of Alexander By Hensher, Philip The Spectator, Vol. 283, No. 8918, 1999
Russian Celebrations Honor Pushkin's Birth Ceremonies Cap Months of Tribute for Acclaimed Poet By The Florida Times Union, June 7, 1999
Can Russia's Pushkin Survive the Ad Men? By Judith Matloff, writer of The Christian Science Monitor The Christian Science Monitor, June 10, 1999
Reading Pushkin in Brussels By Johnson, Michael International Herald Tribune, May 12, 2012
FREE! Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeyevich The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2018
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A: Use Bayes:
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Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine är en administrativ region i Québec i Kanada. Den består av två delar: halvön Gaspésie och (sedan 1987) ögruppen Îles de la Madeleine – båda vid Saint Lawrenceviken i östligaste Québec. De viktigaste näringarna är fiske, skogsbruk och turism. Regionen omfattar 20 308,1 km² och hade 94 336 invånare 2006. Med undantag av ett fåtal byar bor hela befolkningen längs kusten, i samhällen med oftast mindre än 5 000 invånare. Den största staden är Gaspé, nära halvöns spets, som hade 14 819 invånare 2006.

Administrativ indelning
Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine är indelat i sex sekundärkommuner, varav fem av typen municipalité régionale de comté och en av typen agglomération urbaine (Agglomération des Îles-de-la-Madeleine, som består av kommunerna Grosse-Île och Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine). Två indianreservat, Gesgapegiag och Listuguj, står utanför sekundärkommunindelningen. Sammanlagt finns 44 primärkommuner inklusive indianreservaten, och sju kommunfria områden.

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 Avignon (centralort Nouvelle)
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 La Côte-de-Gaspé (centralort Gaspé)
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I have come to loathe people that have stopped making an effort to describe things, use adjectives, and relay a story.
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I told him I was from Korea, and he displayed numerous facts about the fish they sent to Korea, the commerce they had with them, and pointed us towards a big painted sign that said Seoul Peche, Seoul Fisheries.
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Where I'll mostly be from now on.
The buzzword for this week is 'unprecedented times'. And yes, we've never had a lockdown before. And we haven't had a totally new virus, as far as we know, since medicine became a science. And it's all a bit weird. There are people out in the streets – not too many today – giving each other a very wide berth, and we're smiling and grateful. Our village has teddy bears in the windows so that small children on their daily exercise can go on a bear hunt. Over the river, the windows are full of rainbows, painted by the children who aren't in school. The pharmacy has barrier strips up to stop us breathing over the staff on the other side of the counter, and sticky barrier strips on the floor to tell us how far apart to stand. If you believe social media there is a lot of baking, gardening, sewing and DIY going on, and we're all learning new kinds of software so we can talk to families and friends.
I have never known churches to be closed, or an Easter without prospect of the Triduum (three days of special services on Holy Thursday, Good Friday and the Easter Vigil). But there are folk memories of the Penal Times when Catholics weren't allowed to worship (or be educated, or own property for that matter), and Masses were held in secret, when a priest could take the risk of being in the country. I was at Primary school in Liverpool when the canonisation process of the 40 English Martyrs was begun, and several of them had local connections. Their story became part of school life – classes and Houses were named after them, and the children of Polish immigrants added their awareness of how practising your faith in a time of persecution went.
It isn't the same now. We are doing this voluntarily, as an act of solidarity with the people in our society who are most vulnerable to illness, and in support of NHS workers who are going to be under enormous strain looking after them. Plus you can follow the Mass on social media, which turns out to be a very prayerful experience. And the comfort of being able to celebrate funerals and last rites is still considered essential, though not baptisms and weddings. (Another characteristic of our upbringing was that we were all taught how to baptise a person, it's perfectly legitimate in an emergency, which I mention in case anyone in lockdown finds themselves worrying about it). But the feeling is oddly familiar.
I recognise 'lockdown' too. When I was much younger we lived in Sri Lanka for a while, in a village purpose built for engineers working on the Mahaweli Dam and their families. We had two children under two, the village was still under construction and I couldn't drive, so we couldn't go anywhere except on an occasional bus into Kandy. The monsoon failed, the reservoirs were running dry, which meant that the hydroelectric power was cut for hours at a time – and when the power was off, so was the water. And then there was a cholera epidemic. 'We thought we'd better get round to chlorinating the water,' said our parish priest. 'Would you like a cup of tea?'
I feel like I just made all that up. How could all that happen to one person? But it did, and we survived, and some of it was very interesting. But we were glad to come home!
Baby in a carrycot, toddler and me on a travelator at Heathrow
It's very odd to be accessing my history just now. Although I know in my head that these things happened, I mostly don't. But what I'm taking away from it is that these times are not quite without precedent. There is experience we can channel, memories we can share, skills we can pass on.
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Evra Off to Juventus, new signing Shaw Injured, Now Manchester United may turn towards Daley Blind of Ajax as they need a defender.
After a summer of un-fulfilled transfer expectations reaching its climax, Manchester United have been dealt a huge blow in their pursuit of the Premier League title. After successfully completing the USA tour in which the 20 times Champions of England signed off with a Champions Cup trophy, Luke Shaw debut in the BPL has been dealt a huge blow after suffering hamstring injury in training. This means that the record Premier League signing will play no part in the opening month of the Premier League.
While United have put their full faith in Englishman earlier this campaign after seeing off Patrice Evra, it might become a headache for the new Manchester United manager as only Alexander Buttner is left in the sideline to replace the 31million pound signing. And if any new signing is not made sooner, it will be the Dutch left back who might get a nod.
Buttner just started 2 games for Manchester United last season.
While Manchester United are known to play with a 3-5-2 formation under Luis Van Gaal in the Pre-Season friendlies, wing backs are very important for the trinity of the left back in this model. That position was occupied by Daley Blind in the Dutch squad as the defender turned midfielder played in the wing position in the mid with going backward to support his team mates.
Luke Shaw has been earlier told by the Manchester United boss that he should work on his fitness and just when he could have come with an answer to that criticism, the former Saint left back has been dealt a huge blow. However, if we look at the 1st 5 fixtures of the United team, that this injury might not affect early pursuit towards the title as United play no top-7 team in their 1st 5 fixtures which can only be described as a welcome sign for United after seeing their star man go injured.
United first 5 fixtures: Swansea, Sunderland (A), Burnley (A), QPR, Leicester.
And now according to Sunday Express, Manchester United will now turn their attention towards Daley Blind after losing out on Thomas Vermalen to Barcelona. Blind, who was renowned as the Dutch player of the year was brilliant under Van Gaal ownership as he scored 1 goal and provided 3 assists in successful campaign of the Dutch team. However since we all know that Van Gaal was handed a 200million war-chest at the start of his Manchester United tenure, deal to bring Blind might cost the English giants 17million pounds.


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16 Books By Black Authors Everyone Should Read
By News Videos on June 15, 2020
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Whether you missed out on reading some classic novels in high school or are getting caught up on books you missed a few years ago, everyone should read these books by Black authors.
Historically, a lot of literature taught in schools is written by white — and, typically, white male — authors. The publishing industry is also predominately white.
So although you may remember reading books like "The Great Gatsby" and "To Kill A Mockingbird" in school, you may have missed out on many classics by Black authors like Maya Angelou's "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" and "The Autobiography Of An Ex-Colored Man" by James Weldon Johnson.
There has been a "significant effort made to diversify" the books read in schools since the 1960s, according to Joanne Hyppolite, a supervisory curator at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture. However, she said, "selections were focused almost solely on well-known authors" — which meant some students didn't get to read works from lesser-known Black writers in school.
The book industry still has a long way to go to become more inclusive, but there are so many stories you can add to your to-read list from Black authors that are considered modern classics, like "The Mothers" by Brit Bennett. (And you can support Black creatives all the time — whether it's buying from Black-owned jewelry shops, Black-owned beauty brands or Black-owned bookstores like Bronx-based The Lit. Bar and Shelves Bookstore in Charlotte, North Carolina.)
"Diversifying what we read, what we watch, where we eat and where we shop can save us from ignorance."
– Abbigail Glen, owner of Shelves Bookstore in Charlotte, North Carolina
"Diversifying what we read, what we watch, where we eat and where we shop can save us from ignorance," Abbigail Glen, owner of Shelves Bookstore, told HuffPost Finds. "That's why I encourage my customers to become comfortable with being uncomfortable because growth can't happen in your comfort zone."
"Why wouldn't you want to diversify your reading list?" she said.
We wanted to find recommendations for both old and new classics by Black authors that everyone should have on their bookshelves. We asked Hyppolite, Glen and the literary experts at Goodreads for their takes on the books we should be bookmarking right now.
As always, you should first check to see if your local independent bookstore has these titles in stock and support Black-owned bookstores in your neighborhood and nationwide.
Here are the 16 books our experts recommended:
"The Underground Railroad" by Colson Whitehead
"The Underground Railroad" is one of Goodreads' most popular "new classics" byBlack authors.
Cybil Wallace, senior editor at Goodreads, said it's a "Pulitzer Prize-winning dark and nightmarish reimagination of the underground railroad."
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"The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" by Ernest J. Gaines
This novel was one of Glen's recommendations. "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" features the story of its eponymous protagonist, who lives through slavery and the civil rights movement.
"The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration" by Isabel Wilkerson
"The Warmth of Other Suns" is a nonfiction work that Hyppolite's currently reading. "It resonates powerfully with current events because it shows how deep-seated this violence is," she said.
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Glen recommended this classic novel from Richard Wright. "Native Son" tells the story of a young Black man living in 1930s Chicago.
"Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Recommended by Hyppolite and Goodreads, "Americanah" is the story of Nigerian lovers who end up in separate places — the U.S. and the U.K.
"Sing, Unburied, Sing" by Jesmyn Ward
Jesmyn Ward was one of the authors Glen recommended. Her novel "Sing, Unburied, Sing" is one of Goodreads' most popular books right now. Wallace described it as "beautiful and haunting story of a family coming undone."
"Brother, I'm Dying" by Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat is one of Hyppolite's favorite contemporary writers — and she especially recommends "Brother, I'm Dying," an autobiography about leaving Haiti for New York City.
"Plum Bun: A Novel Without A Moral" by Jessie Redmon Fauset
"Plum Bun: A Novel Without A Moral" is one of the older classics that's been popular with Goodreads members. The novel tells the story of Angela Murray, who decides to pass for white and move to New York City.
"Flyy Girl" by Omar Tyree
"Flyy Girl" is one of Glen's recommendations. She first read it when she was in the eighth grade, when she otherwise saw a lot of "chapter books written by white authors."
"And although I enjoyed those stories, it's nothing like being able to see yourself in a story," she said.
"Homegoing" by Yaa Gyasi
"Homecoming" was on Glen's list of recommendations and is popular right now among Goodreads members. The novel follows two sisters — one who is sold into slavery, and another who marries an Englishman — and the generations that come after them.
"The Fifth Season" by N.K. Jemisin
"The Fifth Season" is among Goodreads' most popular books currently. Wallace called it "N.K. Jemisin's redefining of the fantasy genre."
One of Glen's recommendations, "The Hate U Give," tells the story of Starr Carter — the only witness when a police officer shoots her unarmed friend.
"Kindred" by Octavia E. Butler
"While science fiction fans already know and love the groundbreaking work of Octavia Butler, she should be a household name for all book lovers," Wallace said. This book is among the most popular older classics on Goodreads.
"The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears" by Dinaw Mengestu
Hyppolite's a fan of Dinaw Mengestu. "The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears" is a novel that tells the story of Sepha Stephanos, who fled Ethiopia after the country's revolution and now finds himself running a grocery store in D.C.
"Passing" by Nella Larsen
"Passing" is an older classic that's been popular with Goodreads members lately. The book follows two friends, one of whom is "passing" as a white woman.
"The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man" by James Weldon Johnson
"The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man" is one of Goodreads' most popular classic books now. The novel follows a young biracial man working as a jazz pianist through the late 1800s and early 1900s.
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As we have gone through this journey, we developed a groove and what would seem as a daunting task to many is truly living for us. When I started this journey, it started with butter and then I started to think about what I spend my money on. Like many Americans, I loved the Costcos, Sams and BJs out there. As a matter of fact, I was a member of at least two of the three at one point and had a charge card with one. I loved the convenience of going into that one store and buying EVERYTHING and in bulk. That's what America is all about, supersize everything, even lettuce. I noticed that I spent on average $300 per visit. I bought produce, canned foods, ready made meals, paper goods, detergent, etc. in bulk. I would go once every 6 weeks. I also noticed that I was throwing out about 20% of the produce that I was buying, because a family of 3 is not going to finish the 6 heads of lettuce, the 10 cucumbers, or the large tub of strawberries in a week or two before the produce go bad. I was throwing out a lot of food. Isn't that money down the drain? So I started by buying my produce weekly from the local grocery store. I realized that I cut about 99% of food waste and I was saving at least $50 to $60 per month on just the produce. What a revelation!
I also started researching produce in the super markets. Produce are not picked when they are ripe because you have to ship them, so some are quite tasteless. So I started searching out our local farms, I mean for crying out loud, my house is surrounded by farms. In the winter, I started going to the local organic market once I realized that they carry local produce when possible. I also frequented farmers markets in the summer as well as joining a coop in a near by small farm. The difference in taste was astounding. A peach tasted like a peach, the bananas were sweet and incredible. These were not Dole bananas on steroids, but they were small organic bananas from Peru where the banana tasted like a banana. The North Carolina honey crisp apples were to die for. I started buying my needs for the week. I knew that my family will consume 5 apples this week, so I only bought 5. This allowed me to buy the best apples even if the price per pound was much higher than their Costco bulk counterpart. The key was, I wasn't throwing out 20% of those bulk apples. So if you figure that you are going to waste 20% for the apples in bulk, the price per pound is no longer much cheaper.
I started saving more and more as I started buying our weekly needs and being conscious to only spend about $60-$70 per week on produce and milk. So now that I am saving money on my produce, where else can I save money? Canned goods, poultry and beef? I used to buy broth, tomatoes sauce and all of my condiments in bulk. But did I really need 4 large bottles of mustard? I also bought huge packs of boneless chicken thighs and breasts all under the guise that buying bulk was cheaper. So how do I save money there? Breasts are much more expensive than thighs, so I bought only thighs. I thought to myself, there is no way I was going to be able to make broth and tomato sauce myself because I don't have time, so there was no money saving in this area at all. I should just be happy with what I was able to accomplish with the produce. Boy was I wrong! I hope my next revelation will inspire you to go on your own journey into self sufficiency and truly living unprocessed.
If you buy really good vegetables and greens, you will find that you don't need all those salad dressings that are meant to cover and coat the veggies to give them some taste, but you will get the taste of each vegetable working in harmony together and all you need to enhance the flavor of the veggies is a little salt and some good finishing oil. Try this recipe and let me know what you think.
Cut the vegetables to your preferred size. I like smaller pieces. Make sure that you mince the arugula and the onions; this will ensure that it is fully incorporated and you get the perfect bite each time.
Add the salt, pepper, zest, oil and juice if you are going to use the juice and toss the salad and serve immediately.
You won't miss the dressing!
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Here is your weekly update and the worship preparation for this upcoming Sunday, March 17.
... by joining the adult Sunday school class continuing March 17 on apologetics. Apologetics is the task of presenting a reasonable demonstration of the Christian faith to unbelievers and of building each other up in Christ. Our class will cover such topics as defining apologetics, knowing your audience, clues to faith, and gateways to hope.
#103, "Holy God, We Praise Your Name"
#348, "Jesus, with Thy Church Abide"
#346, "Hail to the Brightness of Zion's Glad Morning"


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Il Muirfield è una montagna sottomarina localizzata nell'Oceano Indiano circa 70 miglia nautiche (130 chilometri) a sud-ovest delle Isole Cocos. Le Isole di Cocos sono territorio australiano, e perciò anche il Muirfield è incluso nella Zona Economica Esclusiva dell'Australia.

L'incidente della MV Muirfield
Il Muirfield fu scoperto accidentalmente nel 1973 dopo che la nave mercantile "MV Muirfield" (da Muirfield, campo da golf in Scozia), la quale stava navigando in acque che in base alle carte nautiche avrebbero dovuto essere profonde più di 5000 metri, urtò improvvisamente un oggetto sconosciuto subendo un danno esteso alla chiglia.

In seguito  venne localizzato nel 1983 dall'"HMAS Moresby", una nave della Reale marina militare australiana che si era recata in loco per studiare l'area dell'incidente. Il monte, appartenente all'arcipelago Cocos, aveva un diametro di circa 1,5 miglie nautiche, ma la sommità era posta appena 16-18 metri sotto la superficie del mare. Si riconobbe da allora che i monti sottomarini possono costituire anche un inatteso pericolo per la navigazione, sebbene la probabilità che passino inosservati ad una nave provvista di sonar appaia abbastanza bassa.

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Collegamenti esterni
 Studio sul Muirfield

Montagne sottomarine dell'Oceano Indiano
Naufragi e incidenti marittimi


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Joie GmbH celebrated its fifth anniversary in August. And not only that: The company has recently been renamed to Allison GmbH and has moved its 40-member team to newly built company headquarters in Frankenthal.
The company, which was founded in summer 2013 by Oliver Mecky and Sven Hering, has grown rapidly over the past five years. In 2017, the company increased its turnover by around 70 percent. The Joie and Nuna brands are in demand among young families in Germany and Austria. From strollers and buggies to baby carriers, car seats and rockers to highchairs and travel cots, the GmbH, now renamed Allison, offers a diverse range of children's products.
"With a neutral name we can position the brands Joie and Nuna and soon the new brand Graco even better. We are currently developing a sales strategy for Graco in Germany and Austria," explains Managing Director Oliver Mecky. "And why Allison? As a company, we belong to the international Wonderland Nurserygoods Group. Allison in Wonderland is a perfect match for us and our products".
In addition, the company headquarters were relocated to Frankenthal. With office space spread over two floors, there is plenty of space for the after-sales service and the product showroom for the Joie and Nuna brands.


Another sign that nitrate levels are high is the appearance of excessive algae, algae thrives in water where nitrate levels are above 10ppm so keeping nitrate levels low will also help reduce the outbreak of algae.
I copied the above from the internet today. Just another tip.
Sorry Hobbs, gotta disagree with you there. That's the common misconception and it's been proven wrong many many times on plantedtank.com by now. After euthanizing my tank, I personally tested this out myself and added 60ppm nitrates to my tank. Nada. Nitrates does not cause algae if you add it as a dry fert, ammonium does. But in many tanks, high ammonia/ammonium levels eventually breaks down into high nitrate levels, which is how people make the false connection. However, doing constant water changes to keep nitrates low doesn't change the fact that you have too much ammonia going into the water, ie bioload.
In fact, too little nitrates actually causes algae like clado or blue-green algae.
I just passed on here what I read elsewhere.
Says the same here on another site.
I just posted this if a person possibly is having algae problems and tends to have high nitrates. This wasn't to be a huge thread trying to prove who is right and who is wrong. Since this same information is given all over the net, there just may be a possibly that lowering the nitrates may also help with algae. I can't believe that every site is lying.
All of those sites draw from anecdotal evidence. There has not been one credible experiment relating excess pure nitrates to algae. On the other hand, the notion that excess nitrates causes algae is easily proven wrong by a simple experiment: Just add nitrates via KNO3 and see what happens. I did, and just as many others who tried to same thing, found out that nothing happened.
Like I said, high ammonia output results in high nitrates, which makes you think that the nitrates are causing the bloom, but to think that the nitrates itself causes algae is wrong. This is because you would be led to think that removing nitrates would solve the issue, but it doesn't. If you are experiencing excess nutrient related algae, then you have too many fish in the tank or are feeding too much, resulting in lots of ammonia.
It really seems to mention it more as for saltwater tanks. As I don't know much about saltwater tanks, I'll defer. Very vague too.
Don't understand how or why a newly setup aquarium would even have nitrates?
As I said, they have nothing to back them up. Good knowledge comes from credible sources, and I have full faith in Tom Barr's findings (his word is basically law at plantedtank, because he is so an-l about conducting rigorous tests before making any conclusions) In this particular case, many many many planted tank experts have concurred with his findings, namely Takashi Amano (the famous Japanese aquascaper), and the fellow that runs Tropica, Europe's largest aquatic plant nursery.
This, by the way, only pertains to planted tanks. In a non planted tank, it's still the best idea to reduce all nutrients period.
I'm not trying to start up a big debate or anything, just trying to stop the myth that high nitrates causes algae in planted tanks. Don't take my word for it (anecdotal evidence again heh), try it for yourself.
That's part of it. Excess lighting will always cause algae regardless of other factors, though with lots of CO2 and a balanced level of ferts, you can get up to 4-5w/g without any problems. Past that, the balance is next to impossible to maintain.


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Which is a bit large! file reports "ASCII text, with no line terminators"
Personally I suspect that 1048576035 is a pointer to the value the program intended to pass.
in length (so 34 + 1 for non-existent NULL grabbed).
a greatly different file size limit.
in three weeks at 35 bytes a time to hit the limit!
but pam_sm_close_session calls mangle_refcount with cookie==NULL so a.size is uninitialized.
This patch fixed the problem for me.  I added it to the SPEC file with -p1.
my question is , when can we expect an update to PAM ?
7.2 updates) and later.  Can you check if this fixes the problem?
pam-0.75-16 fixes the problem here.


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RealEstateRama NAIOP Appoints Marc Selvitelli, CAE, as Senior Vice President
NAIOP Appoints Marc Selvitelli, CAE, as Senior Vice President
By NAIOP -
WASHINGTON, D.C. – (RealEstateRama) — Marc Selvitelli, CAE, has been named as senior vice president for NAIOP, the Commercial Real Estate Development Association, effective February 13, 2017. In this role, Selvitelli will guide the association's staff, chapters and volunteers to execute NAIOP's mission of providing education, advocacy and connections to 18,000+ members in 51 chapters across North America. He will oversee the association's daily business operations and serve as executive director of NAIOP's Research Foundation.
Selvitelli served as vice president for membership and chapter relations at NAIOP from 2006-2013, where he helped increase membership more than 20 percent and provided best practices counsel to leaders and board members of the organization's chapter network.
"I am extremely pleased that Marc is joining NAIOP to serve in this critical role leading our staff and advancing NAIOP's position as a leading trade association for commercial real estate," said Thomas J. Bisacquino, president and CEO of NAIOP. "He brings a wealth of both association and industry experience, which will undeniably help us to further elevate NAIOP's work on behalf of its members. His passion for his work and the organizations he serves has earned the respect and recognition of our members, volunteer leaders, chapter executives and staff. I am grateful that he is returning to NAIOP in this leadership role."
Selvitelli is a seasoned association leader with more than 20 years of experience in providing association management consulting services to numerous organizations in the areas of strategic planning, leadership development and board management. He returns to NAIOP after four years with SmithBucklin's Business + Trade Industry practice, where he served as the executive director of the Restoration Industry Association and as the executive director of the National Association of Local Housing Finance Agencies. He previously served in a legislative role as the National Association of Home Builders, where he developed policy with state and local governments as well as numerous associations representing county officials, mayors, and municipal leaders.
Selvitelli is a graduate of the Pennsylvania State University with a degree in Political Science and was awarded the Certified Association Executive (CAE) credential in 2002 by the American Society of Association Executives.
About NAIOP: NAIOP, the Commercial Real Estate Development Association, is the leading organization for developers, owners and related professionals in office, industrial, retail and mixed-use real estate. NAIOP comprises 18,000 members in North America. NAIOP advances responsible commercial real estate development and advocates for effective public policy. For more information, visit www.naiop.org.
Kathryn Hamilton
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Pema Chodron has many teachings - I almost typed Buddhist teachings, because she is and the teachings are. But I believe her teachings are not just for Buddhists; and I think she would agree, but I can't be certain except in my heart. There are many books of her teachings and videos. She is wise and compassionate.
I have subscribed to an email list which sends out weekly excerpts of her teachings. Some of these I have in the books I own or have read elsewhere. And sometimes just the perfect teaching shows up in my email inbox.
Today as I searched for a video to post, I thought of her. One of the videos which came up was the one below - about Tonglen (the spelling I've usually seen - although here they spelled it Tong Lin). This is something I needed right now and I need to share this with my readers, too.
She explains what Tong Lin is for those who don't know and then you will do it. It's simple. It's powerful.


Stowmarket Community Health Team Lead, Michelle Chaplin was one of only two ESNEFT employees to receive a commendation earlier this year following her resolve to make patient visits during adverse weather conditions last winter.
Nominated by the Stowmarket Team, Michelle was very quick to state that it was "amazing" to receive the commendation and paid tribute to her team whose "resilience shone through" with every member pulling together, and some even coming in on annual leave to help out.
While we are still enjoying a particularly warm summer, it's hard to remember the snow and harsh winter of just a few months ago. The challenging conditions that brought huge snowdrifts and freezing temperatures to the region saw many team members work even harder than usual to deliver excellent care and keep services going. Michelle Chaplin, team lead of Stowmarket Community Team, was one of them.
Even though many rural parts of Suffolk were inaccessible by car, Michelle was not deterred. She collected staff from home to bring them into work by borrowing a John Deere tractor from a neighbouring farmer. Michelle went on to use the tractor to drive nurses through the countryside to visit their patients who were not able to be reached by car due to severe snow drifts.
Michelle borrowed two further tractors with volunteer drivers for other community teams so they could also fulfil their commitments to see their patients. She worked "tirelessly" to maintain morale within her team, whilst ensuring the safety of her staff at all times.
After the event, Michelle emailed everyone in her team to thank them for their hard work, but they all agreed that without her amazing efforts, many patients would have gone without their essential nursing visits.
After the event, Michelle emailed everyone on her team to thank them for their hard work, but they all agreed that without her amazing efforts, many patients would have gone without their essential nursing visits.


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Paul McBrayer, Eastern Kentucky University's winningest basketball coach, died Friday of pancreatic cancer. He was 89.
McBrayer coached the team from 1946 to 1962, compiling a record of 219-144.
"Coach McBrayer will be remembered for his outstanding record, his competitive spirit and the tremendous impact he had on the lives of his players and associates," EKU president Bob Kustra said.
McBrayer was inducted into the Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame in 1987. The Eastern arena inside Alumni Coliseum was named for him and dedicated 10 years ago.
He was an Anderson County native and a 1930 All-America guard at the University of Kentucky.
In his first year at Eastern, with practically an all-freshman team, McBrayer won 11 straight games and the team finished with a 21-4 record.
During his time at Eastern, the school won two Ohio Valley Conference titles and made two trips to the NCAA tournament, losing to Notre Dame and Louisville.
Survivors include his widow, Katie.


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by Calvin Sun | Jul 2, 2019 | Fit for Foodies, Flying Fancy, July 2019: Rwanda & Uganda, Layovers, Rwanda, Serendipitous!, Summer 2019: Unknown UAE, Afghanistan, Rwanda, & Uganda
After a week in Afghanistan and a sobering day in Kabul, it's definitely time to get out of harm's way and return home. There's no need to exacerbate the situation by lingering during what will be another tense period in Kabul. On our way back,...
Flying The Qatar Airways QSuite Business Class (777-300ER From Dallas To Doha)
by Calvin Sun | Mar 11, 2019 | Flying Fancy, How Did You Do That?, Layovers, Qatar
So nice it deserves its own post. The Occasion After the past weekend speaking at MAASU 2019 Spring Conference in Boulder, Colorado, and hot on the heels of an upcoming destination wedding in Islamabad 5 years in the making (and one I wouldn't miss for the...
From Den Haag (The Hague)/Amsterdam Via United Polaris Business Class
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Yesterday afternoon I took Austrian Airlines' Business Class from Vienna to Amsterdam where I got in a great 2 hour nap and try some of the best food you can get within the Star Alliance network: I landed in Amsterdam at around 7:30pm, from where I took a...
Flying ANA Business Class From Sydney To NYC Via Tokyo
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Time to end this trip with class, business class that is — since I'm due to work an overnight shift in the ER 4 hours after I'm scheduled to land in JFK, I might as well be as rested as possible. Transferring 90,000 Chase Ultimate Rewards points I...
Flying First Class (EVA & Thai Air) To Oz Via Taipei
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Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall just got served At a journey that could clock at more than 42 hours from NYC, flying to Sydney can be a real ballbreaker for even the most dedicated of jet-setters. And I wanted to make the most of it — so last week I transferred...
British Airways Club World/Business Class From NYC To London
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I never thought I would be back in London so soon. Although it was 5 months ago where I was able to review my experience flying First Class on British Airways, it really feels like it was only yesterday where I was in London blogging from the British Airways...


Mark and I spent some time earlier in the month figuring out a plan that would get us leveled up with our summit lists AND hit our ADK 46er 1/2 way point by Labor Day. This weekend's plan was to hit Dial and Nippletop – repeats for Mark, but numbers 12 and 13 in my journey. The original idea was to head out from the Ausable Mountain Reserve, down Lake Rd out to visit Indian Head, then up Elk Pass to Nippletop, and off to Dial and Bear Den on the way back out. This was an excellent plan because it visited Indian Head early enough to avoid potential crowds, and it got a lot of the super steep climbing (Elk Pass) done early in the day.
As it turns out, this was not the right plan for us.
We really enjoy having Daisy on the hikes with us — she's a super friendly puppy, and she does a great job on the trails. AMR, however, doesn't allow dogs on their private lands. So, on Thursday we decided on a different approach to these two mountains so Daisy could come along on the adventure. We parked the Jeep at the Round Pond parking area on Route 73, and took the Dix trail out to Gravestone Brook. From there, it was a mile and a half bushwhack up to the Leach trail to go up to Dial, and then over to Nippletop. Unfortunately, this meant that we'd have to climb up and over Dial again before the day was through.
The day started like many others — an early meet-up and drive up the Northway into the Adirondack High Peaks region. Since Mark and I had never hiked out of the Round Pond trailhead, we kept a close eye out for signs on the side of Rt. 73. Turns out, the parking area was pretty well marked and easy to find. Unfortunately, what we both missed was that the parking area was a couple hundred feet up the road from the actual trailhead. Once we strapped on our gear and started out, we realized that the little "trails" leading away from the parking lot weren't really trails, but more likely paths of other confused folks. We decided to check a little further up Rt. 73, but didn't find anything. After a few more minutes of discussion and trying to find a path out of the parking area, we saw a blue trail marker leading down Rt. 73 away from the parking area. Since we were so focused on finding the right place to park, we didn't even notice the DEC trailhead sign that marked the actual beginning of the Dix Trail through Round Pond.
We signed in and started the trek into the Dix Wilderness. We passed a small group of hikers coming out from an overnight at Round Pond — they looked like they had a lot of fun, and were in pretty high spirits. After a quick chat, it was a fairly short walk until we came to Round Pond, where the trail splits – off to the left is the trail to the lean-to and off to the right was the Dix Trail. Knowing that we had a long day ahead of us, we opted to skip visiting the lean-to and continue on towards Gravestone Brook. The next "landmark" we were slated to find was the junction to for the Noonmark trail. I'd really like to hit this trail up on another outing to this area — Noonmark Mountain is one of the more popular non-High Peaks hikes in the ADKs.
A little more than a mile past the Noonmark Trail junction, Mark and I started questioning each and every brook we crossed. We came across one brook that seemed to be at the correct distance and heading off in the right direction, so we started making our way through the woods. After about 50′ I decided to head back down to the trail to build a small cairn to denote where the trail and the bushwhack met up. I'm grateful for that decision, because as I was getting rocks together, a group of three hikers came down the trail towards me. After a quick greeting, we found out that they had bushwhacked up to Dial from the Dix Trail on the previous day, and that we were "really close" to Gravestone Brook. With that information, we continued further down the Dix Trail. A tenth of mile down the trail, we were at another brook and met up with a couple of guys coming out from the Boquet River lean-to. We asked them if they had crossed any larger brooks very recently and they couldn't remember one, so Mark and I decided to head up from here.
Part of the 1.5 mile bushwhack was as simple as following the brook — in fact, we walked along the rocks in the brook for a bit because it was easier than trying to find a path through the trees and brush. After a bit, the water was moving too fast, or was too deep, so into the woods we went. We mostly followed the right side of the brook up the mountain. With branches and fallen trees taking their toll on our arms, legs, heads, and almost eyes, we forged up the eastern side of Bear Den Mountain through the thick Dix Wilderness.
Overall, it took us 2 hours to bushwhack from the Dix Trail to the Leach Trail. Mark and I are not speed hikers, by any stretch of the imagination – including breaks and rests on the peaks, we typically average ~1 mph for a full day hiking, so the bushwhack didn't really slow us down very much, and it was a very cool experience. I'm feeling a lot better about my orienteering skills and I can't wait to go on another bushwhack.
Once we reached the Leach Trail that would bring us to Dial and Nippletop, we took a small breather, and I tied a bright yellow cord around a tree to indicate where we should start the 'whack back down to the Dix Trail on our return. We popped out onto the trail in the col between Bear Den Mountain and Dial, so we needed to head south on the trail. From this point, we were going to make up approximately 800' in elevation within ~1/2 mile — a decent leg-burner, to be sure.
We stayed on the summit of Dial for 30 minutes – the other 3 hikers hung out for much less time – and decided to get a move on with the rest of the day's plan. Two miles to our next stop – Nippletop – but first, a series of false summits to get us warmed up. Seriously, there were 4 or 5 different points on the trail between Dial and Nippletop where we legitimately thought that we were at the highest point on the range. These false summits have a strange effect on the brain, and motivation sometimes takes a dive. At one point, Mark laid down on a rock and said that he was going to nap. The benefit of having a hiking partner is that you have someone there to pick you up when you need it, so we moved forward — one foot in front of the other.
On the up-and-down between Dial and Nippletop, we were lucky enough to have some really nice views of the Dix Range to the East — with the Dix Mountain slides and the Beckhorn so close it looked like we could reach out and touch them. We also ran into a small section of snow that was hidden from the Spring sun. On the way up, we passed by, but on the way back down, we decided to dig into it for a quick frozen treat — cold and delicious! After a 2 hour trek (again, within our average pace), we reached the top of the 13th tallest point in New York State — Nippletop Mountain. Coincidentally, Nippletop was also the 13th High Peak on my trek to becoming a 46er!
From the summit, we were treated with another amazing view of the Great Range, a nice clear view of the remaining mountains in the Colvin Range (Colvin and Blake), and a peek of Elk Lake. With a gorgeous backdrop, Mark and I took another break to enjoy the day and a small snack. We also cracked out the GoPro to take some test video before our upcoming Cranberry Lake 50 hike. It turns out that the waterproof case makes it hard to hear the audio, but the video is nice and clear, so I put some nice Celtic music behind it and posted it. I think I'm going to start doing that more often so I have some video documentation of our adventures.
With the clock ticking, and the knowledge that we had roughly 8 miles back to the truck, we began the trek back down off of Nippletop, up-and-over the multiple false summits, back over Dial Mountain, and finally down to our yellow cord marked tree. We stopped for a moment, got our bearings, and started our descent East through the woods towards Gravestone Brook, and ultimately the Dix Trail. After we found the brook, we stopped and refilled with some cold and refreshing water, then continued down to the trail all the while getting snagged and scraped up on the trees and bushes as we walked through them. At one point, Daisy stopped, looked off into the thick woods, and growled. Knowing that we didn't have the time or energy to chase after her if she decided to pursue whatever she smelled, Mark and I quickly refocused her, and moved further down along the brook.
The bushwhack down was a little quicker, and when we reached the Dix Trail, we only stopped briefly for some jerky and to put on our headlamps. With tired legs and feet, we hoofed it 3.5 miles back to the Jeep through the rain and dark. It took 2 hours, and when we finally make it back to the parking area, we split a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, a banana, and downed some cold water. We started the trip back home at 11:06pm, and knowing that we both had to work in the morning, we decided to forego the traditional post-hike food stop in favor of getting hot showers and sleep.
This turned out to be a long day, but it was another amazing adventure in the Adirondack wilderness. Regardless of how sleep deprived or how much pain we're in, being out in the ADKs is one of the best feelings I'm fortunate enough to be able to experience.


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WITH ALL KINDS OF ATTACKS HAPPENING IN THE WEST TODAY, HOW CAN ANYONE CLAIM MUSLIMS LOVE PEACE?
In an introspective article exposing the role of violence in Western history, with excerpts below, France's pre-eminent 20th century philosopher Jean-Paul Sarte put it best in condemning his fellow French for their brutal rule in Algeria: "First, the only violence is [ours]; but soon they will make it their own; that is to say, the same violence is thrown back upon us as when our reflection comes forward to meet us when we go towards a mirror . . . So by all means, let us blame Islam for the carnage done in its name. But let's be honest about how much all of our most cherished ideals, identities and ideologies have contributed to the death and destruction piling up around us". (Source: Go ahead, blame Islam by Mark LeVine, 15 November 2015, Aljazeera.com)
MUSLIMS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR SOME OF THE WORST VIOLENCE OVER THE LAST 50 YEARS.
Since 1980, the U.S. has bombed, invaded or occupied at least 14 Islamic countries. Who invented and actually used the atomic bombs? Who invented and used the chemical bombs? Who launched illegal wars under the pretence of bringing freedom to a country? Who launched illegal wars under the disguise of WMDs and War on Terror? How about Catholic IRA bombing versus Protestants bombings? How about the destruction of black churches by white racists? In fact, who was behind the bloodiest wars that is, WWI & WWII in human history? Did Islam have anything to do with any of the above? (Source: Unknown)
Also, what about people with no religion who are just as much, if not more – guilty for crimes against humanity? Citing only a few brief examples, how about Pol Pot, Stalin, Chairman Mao, among others? Last but not least and given what a number of oil-producing Islamic countries are going through, further complicated by the failed Arab uprising disappointingly unsupported by the West; Western-led misdirected foreign policies that has led to several civil and sectarian conflicts under the pretense of the "War on Terror" – And yet even at its worst, violence by Muslims doesn't compare with the horrific atrocities committed by the West's global and colonial wars over the last hundred let alone fifty years.
BUT ISLAM IS A VIOLENT RELIGION AND THE MUSLIM WORLD MUST BEAR COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE RISE OF EXTREMISM.
Considering the wars waged by the Christian and secular West over the last 50 years killing millions of Muslims and non-Muslims worldwide in Africa, the Middle East let alone Central Asia, it is a classic example of the pot calling the kettle back to accuse Islam of violent tendencies. In fact, Raba K writing for Huffington Post neatly surmised the following points:
Individuals who seek to blame Islam for all that is wrong in history, the world, and anything in between [need to be asked] how through centuries of history, spanning the Spanish Inquisition, the Holocaust, European Anti-Semitism [The expulsion of Jews from Christian Europe], the Cuban genocide, the American genocide of more than 100 million Native Indians, and the brutal British colonisation which stole the lives of more than 15 million Indians [as well as deaths that occurred in] the First World War, Second World War, nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (with a lasting impact to this very day), the British concentration camps of Africans and the enslavement of black Africans which resulted in the death of 158 million as well as the ethnic cleansing of Australia's Aboriginals, Vietnamese being subjected to phosphorous gas by the US [during the Vietnam war in the 1970s], up to 200,000 killed in the Mexican Caste War of Yutucan, and millions of Russians by the hand of Stalin, etcetera, and yet not one of the above [more than a billion] corpses piled, involved the role of a Muslim or individual associated with Islam . . . (Source: How the Islamic State & The Mainstream media lies about Islam, 28 Oct 2014 by Rabah K, Huffington Post)
Given such, isn't the secular atheist West or Christianity many times over more violent than Muslims collectively can ever be and whether each and every Christian or secularist today ought to apologise until he is on his dying bed for something well outside the pacifist teachings of Prophet Jesus (PBUH) and Christianity?
BUT AT LEAST THE JEWS AND CHRISTIANS HAVE NEVER BEEN THIS VIOLENT TOWARDS PEOPLE OF OTHER FAITHS.
A man of a Jewish and Irish background should know better about religiously motivated violence. Both Judaism and Christianity had their own violence-ridden dark ages and how the Old Testament in Christianity talks a lot more about violence, than the Qur'an does. The stoning of fornicators, blasphemers and the killing of homosexuals can all be found in the Old Testament. The Jewish Torah is not so different from the Old Testament either but this has no bearing over whether this makes a person following the Christian or Jewish faith any more violent than an atheist or agnostics could be. (Source: An Atheist's (Somewhat) Relaxed View of the Qur'an on 1 Aug 2014 by Ronald Lindsay, President, Center for Inquiry)
Therefore let us all have a little sense of perspective. Muslims today are going through what it must have felt like being a Catholic in the 16th and 17th centuries. They too had "religious terrorists" who caused mayhem and bloodshed or in fact in some ways:
"Muslims have become, at least in many ways, the new Jews [of the 19th century]. They have become the scapegoats onto whom Europeans are projecting their anxieties about the future. Conservative and far- right politicians constantly intensify and exploit these anxieties in order to enhance neoliberal and nationalist agendas, while most liberal and left-wing parties have imitated the racist right, perhaps hoping it will bring them more votes." (Source: On anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in Europe on 5 June 2014 by Dr. Sara R Farris, Aljazeera.com)
STILL, THERE IS SOMETHING INHERENTLY VIOLENT ABOUT MUSLIMS AND ISLAM.
The imperialist West always try to dislocate the blame. It's always the foreigner's, the non-Westerner's, the Other's fault; it's never the fault of the enlightened West . . . The West is incapable of addressing its own imperial violence. Instead, it points its blood-stained finger accusingly at the world's 1.6 billion Muslims and tells them they are the inherently violent ones . . . This does not mean we should not mourn the Paris attacks; they are abominable, and the victims should and must be mourned. But we should likewise ensure that the victims of our governments' crimes are mourned as well . . . If we truly believe that all lives are equally valuable, if we truly believe that French lives matter no more than any others, we must mourn all deaths equally . . . The West, in its addiction to militarism, played into the hands of the extremists, and today we see the rotten fruit borne of that rotten addiction: ISIS is the Frankenstein's monster of Western imperialism. (Source: Our terrorism double standard: After Paris, let's stop blaming Muslims and take a hard look at ourselves by Ben Norton, 15 November 2015, Salon)
WHY THEN ARE MUSLIMS FIGHTING EVERYWHERE?
Not all of the world's Muslims live in countries with civil war. In fact, most of them do not. Among the 10 countries with the largest Muslim populations, only three – Pakistan, Nigeria and Iraq – saw civil war in 2014. (That's the last year for which the Uppsala Conflict Data Program has data.) . . . The other seven – including Indonesia, India, Bangladesh and Egypt, four of the five countries with the world's largest Muslim populations – haven't faced civil war for a decade or more. They may not necessarily be peaceful – certainly countries such as India and Egypt have seen their share of turmoil that has turned violent at times – but that violence hasn't been sufficiently severe to be defined as a civil war, an armed conflict with at least 1,000 battle-related deaths in a calendar year . . . Over the past 15 years, several military interventions replaced relatively stable dictatorships with unstable semi-democracies where civil war still rages. The Arab Spring, which was at first a nonviolent popular uprising, wasn't successful in toppling Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, leading to the chaos and humanitarian disaster we see today. (Source: Are Muslim countries more violent? By Nils Petter Gleditsch and Ida Rudolfsen, May 16 2016, The Washington Post)
WHAT ABOUT VIETNAM THEN? THE COUNTRY WAS ATTACKED BUT THE VIETNAMESE DID NOT GO ON MURDER SPREES.
33,000 people were killed by Vietcong terrorism in South Vietnam in the 1950s, according to Carol Winkler, author of In the Name of Terrorism or how about the 80,000 people who died between 1954 and 1975 from Vietcong terrorism, according to Benjamin Valentino, author of Final Solutions: Mass Killings and the Genocide in the Twentieth Century? Surely, this classifies as a murder spree.


A Denver health inspection cited the restaurant for nine critical violations September 26, 2018.
New Saigon is located at 630 South Federal Boulevard.
The Thornton location scored 10 critical violations in September.
Taste of Philly on Thornton Parkway corrected the violations.
Repeat performance for an "A" we featured earlier this year. The East 33rd Avenue location in Denver scored another perfect inspection.


Stutzman doesn't just want to be the Armless Archer, he wants to be one of the all-time greats.
Matt Stutzman didn't start archery with the intention of making it to the Paralympic Games.
"In 2011 I was in Vegas for a tournament, and someone approached me and said: 'You should shoot Paralympic archery'," said Matt. He had no idea what the Paralympics was.
He started shooting para archery qualifying tournaments and soon made the US squad for the Paralympics in 2012. After making the trip to London, a then-unknown Stutzman took a silver medal in the compound open competition, and became a minor media star.
His profile was raised even further by a Guinness World Record for archery's "farthest accurate shot" set in 2015.
"The weird thing about it is the fans now. Everywhere I go there's like pictures, people interrupting. Learning how to manage that and not make anybody mad is part of it, because they're your fans and they help pay the bills," he said.
Stutzman originally took up archery as a means of putting food on the table.
"I mean, I Googled 'how to shoot with no arms', and there was nothing," he said. Stutzman developed a method of shooting involving holding the bow with his right foot and triggering the release with his jaw.
That was then. Now, he's developed a far deeper understanding of the sport and his archery technique.
"In London, I used a trigger release that was activated by my jaw. The new one is actually a hinge, and it's activated by my back. So it's become a process shot, let it happen, aim in the middle. It enables me to be a lot more consistent," he explained.
The road to Rio hasn't been easy. Stutzman injured his shooting leg a couple of months before the Games and had to take four weeks off for rehab.
He spent five hours a day on mental training, pretending he was at the Paralympics, smelling the air, visualising the crowd and what a shot would feel like when he hit the 10.
"That way, when I got here, I felt like I had been here before," he said. Stutzman even jumped out of a plane, then shot an arrow, to simulate the kind of adrenaline he'd feel in the Paralympic stadium.
Stutzman's only weak point, by his own admission, is timing.
Archers in Olympic and Paralympic competition get only 20 seconds per arrow to shoot, and Stutzman takes more time than other archers to load the bow with his feet.
"I've practiced a lot with the 20 second clock. I'll run it down to two seconds a lot, but my brain is comfortable with those last few numbers. I can still hold and execute, because I practice it a lot. I always say that if you gave me more time, I could never lose," he said.
Stutzman smiled. He's prepared in Rio.
He's also got medal expectations, but was keen to emphasise the wider picture, too.
"Whether I win or lose, I'm leaving a legacy for people to watch. Look at that guy, he has no arms, and he's shooting. He didn't let having no arms stand in the way of doing something he wanted to do, and for me that's what's important, changing just one person's life. If I get a medal that's great on top of everything else," he said.
Whatever happen in Rio, Stutzman has big plans for after the Paralympics.
"In the US you have to decide to shoot para or able bodied archery. You can't do both. I want to make the World Cup team, shoot with Reo and Brady and those guys. My focus next year is able-bodied archery. So I won't be doing para events next year. To be the best I have to shoot with the best in the world. Not that people here aren't good, because they're excellent, but my goals are World Cups, baby," Stutzman said.
And Stutzman's scores are up there to be able to take on World Archery Champions. His best ranking round, in practice, is 702 out of a possible 720 points.
"I shoot a lot of 699s. There's a little hump there. In practice around 708-715. I still have to work on my release, how to get it with less movement," he explained.
Matt's list of achievements is already long, and includes the silver he won in his Paralympic debut. One other event he highlighted, though, was the USA indoor nationals in 2014. He was just one of seven people not to drop a point.
"I believe I was the first person with a physical disability to clean a professional tournament. I beat Reo Wilde, Levi Morgan. For me, that says I'm there, I can hang with the best," he said.
Stutzman, although he brands himself as the Armless Archer, the description doesn't define him.
"When I was younger I wanted to be Michael Jordan. I'd still like to be the Lebron James of archery or something. That guy who is good, and people like him because he's good or they hate him because he's good," he said.
Stutzman, probably the only archer in the world that can truly call his technique unique, is 33 years old. He is a Paralympian, he is an athlete and he is extremely talented.


On December 5, 2018, the Memorandum of Understanding between Saadabad Cultural Historical Complex and Iran-France friendship association was signed by Dr. Kia Parsa, the director of Saadabad and Dr. Sohrab Fotouhi, the head of Iran-France friendship association.
According to the Public Relations of Saadabad, this memorandum aims to introduce culture, civilization and art of Iran and France and also promote cultural, artistic and research activities, and finally attract more tourists to the Cultural Historical Complex of Saadabad.
In this meeting, Dr. Parsa, announced his full support of the international programs, and expressed the facilities, capacities and potential of Saadabad complex and demanded Fine Exhibitions, scientific meetings and cultural events which can present the culture of the two countries.
Then Dr. Fotouhi, called for a long-term cultural planning, and informed the readiness of this association to launch any upcoming event in Saadabad.


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Once upon a time in Silicon Valley, a hot new messaging app enthralled the tech elite. It was called Secret, and everybody was using it to post anonymous messages to their friends on an Instagram-like feed they could endlessly scroll through. It was addictive, and at times crude. As is often the case with anonymous, online networks, users lost their inhibitions and fragrantly posted gossip about real people and local technology startups.
Investors didn't seem bothered by the ethical implications, or the obvious potential for bullying, and poured millions of dollars into the app. But one year later, in mid 2015, Secret's creators shut it down. The app had become another flash in the pan. People had stopped logging on because they'd grown tired of the mud-slinging and rumours. Facebook is at risk of going down the same road, if it does not get a grip on its pernicious problem of trust.
The company had seemed to be addressing this, as it reassured the world that its tweaks to get rid of conspiracies and fake news would make it trustworthy once again. But all that work looks redundant when founder Mark Zuckerberg refuses to take a tougher line on lies. When asked by technology journalist Kara Swisher about taking down the thriving array of posts by Holocaust deniers on Facebook, he remained stubbornly neutral.
To unpick that mind-boggling logic, Facebook's founder won't tackle false content if the person posting it is just being naive. It must be the trendy power move of 2018 (see also Donald Trump and Elon Musk), to double down on a stance that's been widely-criticised for some time.
Zuckerberg's highlights one of the great flaws of Silicon Valley, that of the Sincere Techie. They truly believe they are changing the world, but become so swept up in money and power that they become blind to the consequences of what they're building.
Zuckerberg's line continues to be that Facebook is making the world more connected, and that it gives more people a voice. "My top priority has always been our social mission of connecting people," he has said. Yet that social mission is clearly at odds with Facebook's bigger goal of making money by feeding an addictive stream of content, aimed at keeping users logged on for as long as possible.
The newsfeed promotes content you'll nod your head to. It builds an echo chamber with posts from friends who hold your same views, so that being on Facebook feels immediately satisfying.
But it should take a tougher, more authoritative line on conspiracy theories, which have taken a greater hold in the last five years or so thanks to social media. Facebook could post warning tabs, for instance, on Holocaust denial pages that point to historical evidence or highlight a group's racist links. If the UK government and America's surgeon general could do it for cigarette packets, why not for social networks which have become just as addictive?
If Zuckerberg can't take a tougher line, Facebook risks going the way of Secret, though it wouldn't wind down quite so quickly. It has 2.2 billion active users, which means a greater number of people than the population of China or India are logging on at least once a month. But user growth has slowed to the low-single digits recently, and it's now become passé among Millennials to post photos to the site or even talk about Facebook.
People instead complain of its toxic swirl of stage-managed lives, fake news and political arguments. Much of Facebook's growth is now coming from emerging markets or seniors, while younger folk in the US and Western Europe have fled for Snapchat and Instagram.
It's difficult to make radical changes to a publicly-traded company that's worth $600 billion, but Zuckerberg is CEO and still owns the majority of the voting rights of Facebook's shares. He can and should make more fundamental changes to the site.
It's been more than a year and a half since Trump was elected, plenty of time for Zuckerberg to change his stultifying refrain that Facebook is a 'technology company' first, and can thus shirk the responsibility of a 'media company' to censor hate speech and flag false content. But little seems to have changed. Yes, Facebook has made tweaks here and there: it has posted educational ads with tips for spotting fake news, and it has more recently begun fact checking photos and videos to reduce hoaxes, with the help of news organisation AFP. But the view from the top has stayed the same. Facebook doesn't want to get its hands dirty.
The good news is that life is short for technology companies that don't adapt. Nokia, for instance, was king of the mobile world in 2008, but in less than a decade its $100 billion smartphone business was wiped out by smarter competitors like Apple and Samsung. There are other would-be social networks and news sites waiting in the wings to capitalise on all the grumbling about Facebook. Many have been built from the ground up to filter out fake news with the help of clever machine-learning tools, and they're already doing a better job of it than Facebook.
When the founders of Secret released their anonymous posting app, they said they wanted to help people become more open and less inhibited with their friends. But the platform they designed came with costs that outweighed those noble-sounding benefits. Unless Facebook finally takes a radical, authoritative stand against fake news, it'll also find itself buried under the weight of its own high-minded ideals.


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The time has come again – for another movie review. To be completely honest, whenever I do these movie reviews, I feel extremely bad. That's because I always bash the movie. Since Thor Ragnorak, I don't think there has been a time where I walked out of the theatre fully satisfied.
Unfortunately, the movie review for Maleficent: Mistress of Evil is unsurprisingly the same.
Although Angelina Jolie's performance and visuals were altogether wonderful, the same cannot be said for the storyline and character development. These are the two main issues that I have with the movie.
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1st: Storyline
The storyline was interesting enough and made sense for most of the movie. It was just the ending that threw me off. Near the end when the final battle occurs, Maleficent "dies". The reason why I put the word "dies" in quotation marks is that she doesn't really "die". A good two minutes later, she comes back to life again! For me, that made no sense at all. Even though Maleficent is a Disney movie, this plot was the most Disney of Disney movies – which I had a problem with.
2nd: Character Development
The second reason why the movie did not sit well with me was because of its character development. Moreover, it was the character development of Aurora. In the middle of the movie, there's a scene where the neighbouring Queen purposely put her husband, the King, under a spell so she can kill Aurora's (her son's fiancé) kingdom. Then, the Queen puts the blame on Maleficent with the purpose of turning Aurora against Maleficent. And Aurora totally took the bait! She believed every single thing that the Queen said without even properly consulting Maleficent first (who is her GODMOTHER). Who would have thought that she would be so easily swayed?
In conclusion, other than the two factors which bothered me, I watched the movie satisfactorily with no other major concerns. I am sorry that this movie review is another pessimistic movie review – I still hope that I will be able to write a positive one soon.
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"Our nations are bound together by ties of history, family, values, commerce and culture. Today these ties give us an unprecedented opportunity. We have a chance to build a partnership that will improve the lives of citizens of both nations."
The United States and Mexico enjoy close and cordial bilateral relations that cover an unprecedented range of issues and engage a wide range of participants in government, the private sector and civil society. At the federal government level, U.S.-Mexico relations are coordinated by the Binational Commission (BNC). The BNC is a unique forum that allows for regular exchanges at the cabinet level on a wide range of issues that are critical to the bilateral relationship.
This year, a streamlined and reorganized BNC will meet on September 4, immediately preceding the State Visit by Mexican President Vicente Fox. On September 6, at a joint Cabinet meeting, the results of the BNC sessions will be briefed to the two Presidents. This year, the U.S. and Mexico will have held working group sessions on a wide range of bilateral topics, including agriculture, border affairs, science and technology, education and cultural affairs, energy, environment, financial issues, health, housing, labor, legal affairs, migration, trade, investment and transportation.
Several other separate bilateral organizations deal with the U.S.-Mexico border, including a commission of the border governors and organizations devoted to health, the environment, water and border crossings. The U.S. and Mexico consult closely on improving the safety of the border and improving the orderly flow of legal migration. Over one million people cross our common border every day.
Trade relations with Mexico have blossomed under NAFTA, with Mexico becoming the second largest trading partner of the U.S., second only to Canada ? the other NAFTA partner. Total trade between the U.S. and Mexico reached over $260 billion in 2000. Law enforcement cooperation remains a high priority of the two nations and is an area where we have seen steady progress.
-- Bilateral on May 3 at the White House.
The State Visit of President Fox will mark the fifth meeting between the two leaders.