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100 years since the unique Great Cancer Conjunction
Although I'm one full week late to put it down, this month is 100 years since the "Great Cancer Conjunction" which featured seven planets in Cancer – all except Mars in Gemini, Saturn in Pisces and Uranus in Aquarius. The state of six planets (not necessarily the Moon) in ♋ occurred from 11 to 19 July, when Neptune left ♋, apart form a brief retrograde from 20 March to 1 May 1916, until 4 July 2065.
United States chart for 1915 "Great Cancer Conjunction" at midpoint of seven planets in ♋
It is a unique conjunction for the following reasons:
it is the only case between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries of seven planets in a single water sign
the conjunction includes both Neptune and dwarf planet Pluto in the sign of the conjunction
it is the last occurrence of simultaneous empty fire and empty earth until 26 February 2053
This empty fire and empty earth combination, as it will, allows the naturally conflicting air and water signs to conflict much more strongly than otherwise, especially with the quincunxed planets in Aquarius that at times formed the rare phenomenon of inconjunct stellia during 1914 when Jupiter was in Aquarius.
The traditional ideal of mercy and equality before natural law of the feeling-oriented water signs has consistently conflicted with the ideals of justice and radical equality of result inherent in the psychological type of the air signs. Throughout the Enriched World, this conflict is symbolic of the class conflict played out over the past century and a half – the air signs feel the water signs are unfair, the water signs feel the air signs are uncaring and concerned with only worldly gain.
In the United States chart shown above, Aquarius rising with Uranus and the North Node, and Midheaven in Scorpio, symbolises the "culture wars" at its clearest. Eastern Canada also had ♒ rising, and produced an even deeper philosophical conflict brought to breaking point by the "Green Revolution"and changes in employment suggested by an even fuller sixth house than in the US chart:
Australia, with the conjunction on the Midheaven, becomes the globe's effective power (contrast with the 1899 Sagittarius conjunction) as its minerals gain a control over not only economy, but also the very climate and ecology of the planet as huge amounts of fossil energy are used to break extremely tight bonds between oxygen and Australia's superabundant lithophile metals:
Western Australia, with ♌ rising, is much more notable still in its status as a rising power. Vastly too old and infertile for civilised settlement before the discovery of chalcophile fertilisers and lithophile smelting, its extreme flatness and unlimited land supply has turned it, along with its vast resources of unexploited aluminum and titanium ores, into the world's future superpower. (So much so that I always take charts for future astrological events from Perth). ♌ rising is symbolic of power and autonomy, which Western Australia with its large comparative advantage in agriculture and minerals most definitely has. The Sun in the eleventh house is symbolic of Western Australia as the critical link in the new economy after titanium and zirconium metallurgy was developed in the 1920s.
The Arab Gulf States, with the conjunction on the Ascendant, are rising from poor and completely isolated to become major powers due to their natural resources. With Mercury on the Ascendant, their rulers use this power to spread ideologies that are extremely antiquated (♋) from the perspective of the Enriched World's native urban populace.
East Asia, with the conjunction in the tenth house, becomes the "mother of business" as it provides (more and more advanced) consumer goods for the rest of the world. ♍ rising in this chart for South Korea symbolises the role of perfection and efficiency in this quest to produce goods for the world, and eastern China would have had ♍ rising over its whole area:
Europe had Gemini rising for the most part with Uranus on the Midheaven (in high latitudes like Scandinavia Cancer would have been rising but Aquarius still on the Midheaven), and this Uranus conjunct Midheaven symbolises the degree of social experimentation governments have found necessary to deal with mass class struggle resulting (in part) from record levels of income inequality during World War I:
Africa, with Taurus rising for the most part, becomes devoted to agriculture as its largely illiterate and poor population and abundant flat land specialised in the least skilled field available. It consequently failed to advance in less practical fields, especially with the conjunction in the second house of Taurus itself.
on Sunday, July 19, 2015 No comments:
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The fallacy of forgetting climate history – and of believing averages
During the winter of 2013/2014, after I had told my brother Oklahoma would have "pleasant weather in March, April, October and November", said that "October was by far the most pleasant month" he had experienced in Norman, and that November was very cold due to the wind.
Today, well over a year later with my brother permanently back in Melbourne and working at Monash, I had a look at the weather in Norman during the period from November 2013 to January 2014 (figures courtesy of the US National Weather Service:
Daily temperature range for Norman, Oklahoma between November 2013 and January 2014
What one can see is that, for the most part, the winter was colder than average. However, no day was nearly as cold as some previous historic cold months in Oklahoma like February 1899, February 1905, January 1930, January 1940, February 1978, January 1979 or December 1983. In these months temperatures reached below 0˚F (-17.8˚C) occurred across the state, with very high wind chills. No doubt those would be dreadful to experience even compared with my 2009/2010 holiday in Japan, Helsinki and the Northeast.
Temperatures (˚C) for January (dark blue), winter (royal blue) and November to March (light blue) in Oklahoma City between 1890/1891 and 1996/1997
Although I cannot gain any ideal of wind chill temperatures, it is nonetheless clear than the winter of 2013/2014 was not unusually cold and that it may be my fault for not realising the effects of wind chill in what I said to my brother about the climate. I then asked my brother about several December days shown in the top diagram which went from -0.6˚C (31˚F) to 20.6˚C (69˚F). Although my brother was travelling around Texas and New Mexico during the period from 17 to 20 December 2013, he said days going from 0˚C to 20˚C were "basically cold", although to me 20.6˚C is shorts weather unless it is windy. However, I rebutted my brother by saying that Oklahoma city's hot spell in February 1930 – following a severe cold wave in January – "was not jumper weather", which can be seen from the graph below:
Oklahoma City temperatures during the winter of 1929/1930. Note the extremely cold weather from 6 January to 2 February and the very warm spell from 5 to 24 February.
The fact that temperatures in the Great Plains during winter can change dramatically has long been known to me: Havre, Montana in the north of this region has ranged in February from an arctic -49˚C to a warm-enough-for-shorts 24˚C, which must be close to a world record for the largest range of recorded temperatures at a single station during so narrow a range of calendar dates. In February 1962, Scottsbluff, Nebraska ranged from 25˚C to minus 33˚C. In fact, temperatures under the influence of Föhn or "chinook" winds in the region can range within one day by up to 56˚F or 30˚C, as was observed in March 1904 in Dodge City, Kansas:
Daily temperatures from December 1903 to March 1904 in Dodge City, Kansas. Note the extreme diurnal temperature ranges in late February and early March – on one day Dodge City went from 86˚F to 20˚F, both hotter and colder than was reached here in Melbourne in all of March 1904.
These figures taught me something I knew – that people should not ignore past weather as, notably in Western Australia and the Northern Territory, it can owing to the absence of Australian greenhouse emissions be vastly different from present weather. it also taught me something I did not know – that averages and even extremes can be misleading as to how comfortable the weather is. Wet-bulb temperatures in hot, humid climates are a well-known case, but wind-chill and sunshine in cold climates can be a major problem. This is especially true in nations like the US that provide few data on actual wind-speed (though many on wind-chill temperature) and on sunshine.
on Saturday, July 18, 2015 No comments:
Labels: climate change, family
The future for the Enriched World is here
The Greek referendum that has been in the headlines in recent days is a severe warning to the Enriched World. Most commentators – such as Time here – have argued that it stands impossible for Greece to carry out needed funding cuts without losing the trust of their electorate – and they are right.
Experienced economists know that, for a nation without natural resources to build a tax base upon with minimal risk of losing businesses – Greece is geologically much too young to possess deposits of iron, aluminum, titanium or other minerals abundant enough to constitute a long-term resource base – a one-third cut in welfare is totally inadequate to attack government debt. As Hans Hoppe long-ago noted in his Democracy: The God That Failed, public welfare would need to be cut out completely to fully eliminate Greece's debt. However, returning to the limited government of before universal suffrage would, throughout the Enriched World, definitely produce extreme violence demanding complete seizure of wealth from the business élite. Without the ability to seize Australian resources for the Enriched and Tropical World, this idealised "world communism" would simply not provide prosperity.
The extreme ease of exhaustion of natural inorganic resources in the Enriched World means it is (at all events today) impossible to maintain more than a primitive society without the resources of Australia, Arabia and southern Africa. This is even more true for renewable energy than for fossil fuel-based power: renewable technologies are heavily dependent upon minerals not found in the Enriched World, or found only in very localised regions thereof.
Whilst this business élite has many flaws in its way of life as is noted by insider Andreas Dracopoulos here, it is hardly likely that even if these could be corrected it would be the desired result of equality that the working class has always seen as its ultimate goal. Taxing what Greece's wealthy ship owners – an industry in which Greece has its only "inherent" comparative advantage owing to numerous islands on the tide-free Mediterranean – earn abroad might be plausible: as much as with Australia's much vaster and more polluting mineral wealth, if Greece were able to tax its shipping sector it would certainly reduce its losses. However, there are certainly extreme dangers in an economy with such a limited and singular resource base, because there might be switches away from shipping and to much-more-polluting (in terms of requiring extremely energy-intensive metals like titanium) air transport, which would add to the already-vast public losses of the Greek government. It is also possible that if the Greek government taxed what its shipping magnates earn abroad then they would move to bases in foreign nations. Whilst this is not easy because of Greece's location allowing for more shipping bases than just about anywhere else, it would still be almost certainly easier than for Australian mining magnates who, except with chalcophile elements, almost always live upon the world's largest reserves of the metals they mine.
The crisis in Greece potentially provides a great lesson for the rest of the Enriched World, which possesses the same comparative disadvantage, debt and unemployment problems as Greece to a lesser degree. If Greece were able to cut taxes and spending by the amount advocated by the Austrian School that its government debt would be reduced, but money wages would fall dramatically and, with the greater bargaining power of employers due to transport improvements, real wages might fall as they did not a century ago in order for each Enriched World nation to be potentially competitive.
Even if real wages did fall across the Enriched World, the benefits from lower prices there would be very large. For one thing, there would be potentially greater diversity in Enriched World economies than tourism and high technology, which have proven hopeless at preventing lowest-low fertility and extreme exclusivity in nations able to support large populations at low ecological cost. Secondly, the Enriched World's extremely individualistic culture might be ameliorated, and the development of family and community to end lowest-low fertility a possibility. Indeed, in the long-term the Enriched World might be in the long term be less powerless – more able to contain the ecological devastation of resource-rich nations like Australia, South Africa and the oil states with their greenhouse pollution and unsustainable agriculture – with lower wages and prices, because it would not be burdened wiht funding a selfish class without resources to do so.
on Tuesday, July 14, 2015 No comments:
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California schools suspend students at a lower rate, but there's still a racial gap
By Sonali KohliStaff Writer
California's public schools suspended students of all ethnic backgrounds at a lower rate in the 2013-14 school year than the previous school year, and the gap between the rates of suspension for black and white students narrowed — though black students were still disciplined at a much higher rate than whites, according to a UCLA report released Monday.
The report examined data that the state has collected since the 2011-2012 school year. Comparable data aren't available for earlier years, said report author Dan Losen, director of UCLA's Center for Civil Rights Remedies.
Tracking who gets disciplined, how often and for what offenses has become more prominent in education research in recent years, in part because understanding those issues can offer insight into other aspects of student performance, researchers say.
7:31 a.m.: An earlier version of this article stated that California's schools are suspending fewer students, but the UCLA study measured the number of suspensions per 100 students -- not the total number of students who were suspended. According to the study, the number of suspensions per 100 students in California decreased.
By removing students from a classroom setting, suspensions contribute to lower graduation rates and increased incarceration, affecting how students do in other areas of life, some studies have found.
For every 100 black students, there were 25.6 suspensions compared to 6.5 suspensions for every 100 white students, according to the UCLA study.
The number of suspensions statewide declined from 709,580 for the 2011-2012 school year to 503,101 for the 2013-2014 school year. Most of that decline stems from schools using suspension less frequently to address "disruption or defiance." That catchall category includes acts of "willful defiance," such as purposely interrupting a teacher or distracting a class.
Those offenses, Losen said, are the most subjective and lead to the most racial disparity in suspensions.
Racial disparities are much lower for the most objective and serious categories — violence with injury and possession of weapons or illicit drugs, Losen found.
The Los Angeles Unified School District led the statewide move to reduce suspensions by banning "willful defiance" suspensions in 2013.
That change affected the 2013-2014 school year, but suspensions were already on the decline before it was policy, in part because LAUSD reached an agreement with the federal Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights in 2011 to reduce the racial disparities in school discipline, Losen said.
The state Legislature followed suit last year with a law limiting willful defiance suspensions.
Some educators have worried that limiting suspensions for minor offenses could lead to more suspensions for violent behavior, but those figures are also lower, Losen said.
There isn't comprehensive data on what is happening to these students instead of suspensions, Losen said. Some districts are using restorative justice practices, a type of communal decision-making that can be difficult to implement effectively.
Training teachers to recognize their biases and to de-escalate classroom situations could also be helpful, Losen said.
Losen said his next step would be to look at the long-term effects of the decline in suspensions to see if graduation rates increase, if fewer students are referred to law enforcement and if academic achievement increases.
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Sonali Kohli is on leave from the L.A. Times until June 2021, completing the Spencer Education Journalism Fellowship at Columbia University. A product of Southern California, she grew up in Diamond Bar and graduated from UCLA. She worked as a metro reporter for the Orange County Register and as a reporter covering education and diversity for Quartz before joining The Times in 2015.
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NEW ORLEANS, LA (WWL-TV) - According to WWL-TV in New Orleans, five people were taken to a hospital after a house in the Lakeview area in New Orleans collapsed.
The house is near Mound Avenue and Catina Street. It happened around 11:30 a.m.
WWL-TV reports say the house was being shored at the time.
The subcontractor told WWL-TV that five men were working on the house at the time of the collapse and that they felt something shift, and the back and side of the house collapsed.
The five men were all transported to the hospital, at least two of them with broken bones, including a fractured leg and broken hand.
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Whatever you do, don't go on an extreme detox diet in an attempt to lose weight. While these diets might only be temporary, they can seriously harm both your body and your wallet. A lot of detox diets limit you to around 800 calories a day, which can really damage your body, resulting in an even slower metabolism and malnutrition.
Really think about what you enjoy eating and doing that can help you safely lose weight. Maybe you enjoy bike riding, hiking or dancing. Make it a goal to do these things a few times a week to burn extra calories. In terms of healthy eating, think about healthy foods you love -- do you enjoy salads, fruits, and smoothies? Then create a reasonable and nutritious meal plan incorporating the foods you actually enjoy eating. You'll be more likely to stick with a customized diet plan that takes your preferences into account.
Remember that you need to be realistic about your weight loss goals -- if you're hoping to lose 15 pounds in a month, that isn't realistic. Get a head start on your weight loss plan. You'll want to aim to lose between one and two pounds per week. Make sure to set quantifiable goals, such as a workout schedule or meal planning.
Are you tempted to embark on a gluten-free, dairy-free, or sugar-free diet? You should think twice. Instead of eliminating food groups, you should focus on positive things, such as eating two squares of dark chocolate. Focusing on the positives of a diet plan will help you reach your goals because you won't be fixated on what you can't eat.
Instead of eating sugary beverages, desserts, and candy, reach for fresh vegetables. For instance, eating carrots and snap peas with hummus or adding fresh spinach and bell peppers to your omelets will give you the bloat-busting minerals you need to slim down. This will help to cut down on water weight, automatically making you look and feel slimmer.
Drinking water keeps you hydrated and feeling fuller for longer. Most people don't drink enough water throughout the day. As a result, sometimes they confuse hunger for thirst. Drink a glass of water before each meal, which will help curb your appetite. Aim to drink at least 10 cups of water per day, and try adding in some fruits that have a high water content, such as melon and berries.
While this might sound contradictory, the true key to weight loss success is eating small meals every three to four hours. You should avoid skipping meals, and you should never feel completely famished, which can trigger binge eating. Make sure to eat healthy snacks that are high in protein and fiber but low in sugar.
You should disclose to your friends and family that you're trying to make healthier choices. Doing so will help you to stay more accountable for your choices. You can also track your progress and improve your accountability by writing in a personal journal every day or using a diet and fitness app.
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Uptrend: Widen the distance of the lower band from the average.
Downtrend: Widen the distance of the upper band from the average.
The greater width of one of the bands from the center moving average separates corrective moves from real reversals. This move can become labor intensive, not least because before you can widen either band, you must be sure of the trend direction.
In this figure, the price makes a bottom on the left side and starts an up move. The centerline is a moving average of the median price, or the average of the high, low, and close. The bands are formed by taking a moving average of the ATR and adding and subtracting it from the moving average.
This process creates an ATR test that a breakout has to pass to qualify as a true breakout. When the price starts a new uptrend, the price breaking the upper band confirms that you have identified the trend correctly.
A downside breakout has to pass a bigger test in an uptrend. Accordingly, you widen the lower band by adding a percentage of the ATR to it. On the chart in the preceding figure, the lower band is 50-percent wider than the upper band (it's 150 percent of the ATR). The last bar on the chart breaks the band, just after the support line is broken. This is no mere retracement! You have a double breakout of the trend (support) plus a volatility breakout (ATR band).
A breakout above the upper band signals continuation, but because breakouts are a sign of abnormally high volatility, you can usually count on a pullback to the median.


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High fructose corn syrup and sugar sweeten lots of food.
They're in sweet stuff like soda-pop, but they're also added to pasta sauce, gravy, bread, and other foods that don't seem sweet.
Scientists are debating whether high fructose corn syrup is worse than sugar when it comes to making us fat.
But Shawn Allee reports high fructose corn syrup is losing ground before that science is finished.
Let's face it, most of us did not know high fructose corn syrup sweetened so much food.
We have no excuse now: the food industry sponsors ads like this one.
Here, a policeman lines up suspects.
There's an ear of corn, a sugar cube, and a plastic honey-bear bottle.
The cop turns to the victim of the crime.
At this point … the policeman lets the corn sweetener go.
The sugar cube and the honey bear bumble out, too.
There's a reason we're seeing ads like this.
One market research survey showed more than half of consumers had "some concern" about corn syrup.
Some feel like the victim in that ad – they have this vague fear corn syrup's worse for your waistline than sugar.
And they know scientists really are looking at this question.
Dr. Bart Hoebel is from Princeton University.
A while ago his research team fed rats watered-down sugar.
Those rats didn't get fat, but recently his team looked at what happened when rats drank watered-down corn syrup.
Hoebel says there're several studies like his moving through the scientific pipeline.
They all look at whether eating high fructose corn syrup is worse than eating sugar … but he worries the public's missing a big point.
Nearly all scientists agree we get too many calories from both corn syrup and sugar.
But … market research shows people miss the caveats and mixed results behind the science.
They've made up their minds.
She studies food economics at Iowa State University.
She says some food companies don't care if customers have the science right or wrong.
That's why you're seeing products that say sweetened with real sugar.
For example, the Pepsi company is pitching a sugar-version of Mountain-Dew while its regular version is still sweetened with corn syrup.
Other companies are switching, too.
Jensen says this is a big change.
today it's a little different. While sugar is still more expensive, it's not as expensive as it used to be.
So, Jensen says if consumers are pushing a company to switch from corn syrup to sugar, the company just might pay more for ingredients to keep more customers.
But Jensen has a word of caution for people who hope sugar wins the battle over our sweet tooths.
She says countries like Australia sweeten a lot of food, too.
But they use almost no corn syrup … they use sugar, and Australians have gotten more and more obese, just like we have in the U-S.
We know eating too much sweet stuff puts on the pounds.
Shawn Allee reports a new study suggests the kind of sweet stuff matters, too.
Food companies mostly sweeten things with table sugar, called sucrose, or they use high fructose corn syrup.
Dr. Bart Hoebel is at Princeton University.
A while back, his team fed rats regular food and let them drink watered-down sucrose to see if they'd put on fat.
But, recently he let rats eat the same food, but drink a solution of high-fructose corn syrup.
"The ones with the high-fructose corn syrup became significantly fatter.
Hoebel says rat studies point out where we should do human studies later.
More research on corn syrup is in the pipeline, including work on animals and people.
For four years, the EPA has been trying to stop the use of the insecticide carbofuran.
The EPA says there are a couple problems. First, it's toxic to birds. Second, the agency says carbofuran residues on food are not safe for us.
FMC Corporation makes the chemical. It's been fighting the EPA for years. Now it's before a U-S appeals court.
Corn, sunflower and potato farmers say they need carbofuran.
John Keeling is the CEO of the National Potato Council.
The trial for the use of the insecticide is expected to last for months.
American corn is genetically modified?
Virginia Walbot researches corn genetics at Stanford University, and recently she got news that didn't just make her day – it kinda made her decade. Walbot says scientists just finished sequencing genes of an important corn genome.
Walbot says this research could allow us to breed new corn varieties faster than ever before. That's a big deal because even though we benefit from corn we have now, we could make it better. For example, corn creates environmental problems – take corn fertilizer.
Now, most corn researchers want to meet environmental goals, but there's a question science alone can't answer – what kinds of corn should we grow or improve?
Kinds of corn? Maybe you're thinkin' "corn chips" versus "popcorn" but there're bigger differences. We eat sweet corn – most corn's starchy industrial stuff.
That's Pam Johnson. She's with the National Corn Growers Association. Johnson says about half our corn goes to animal feed, then we eat the meat or dairy products from that.
But a lot goes to industrial products, too. Ethanol uses more than a third of the corn in the American corn market.
Johnson says corn farmers want scientists to create specialty industrial corn that can fetch premium prices – like corn just for ethanol or corn just for renewable, corn-based plastic.
Johnson predicts new genetic science will also improve corn we eat directly, but is that likely to happen?
That's Rainer Bussman. He's with The Missouri Botanical Garden, and he studies how people use plants.
Bussman says it's a shame food varieties of corn will get less attention from genetic research. He says he worries about food security. He figures if we grow more types of food corn we'll be better protected from crop diseases.
It's also a matter of taste, though. Bussman's traveled the world and tasted corn we don't grow here – like a blue kind in South America.
Bussman says Native Americans and the earliest settlers produced hundreds of varieties of corn for all kinds of food dishes – corn for just pudding, just bread, just porridge, and so on. They created this food diversity without modern genetic science, but we do have it.
Bussman asks why should our science just improve animal feed, ethanol, and bio-plastic? Why not make food our priority, too?
The U.S. Department of Agriculture reports, this past year, 88% of cotton, 91% of soybeans and 85% of the corn crops planted were genetically altered.
That means corn syrup, cotton cloth, and hydrogenated soybean oil are all more than likely are from genetically engineered crops.
Margaret Mellon is with the Union of Concerned Scientists. She says farmers might embrace them, but genetically engineered crops have not really advanced American agriculture that much.
The makers of genetically engineered seeds, companies such as Monsanto, say their crops do increase yields by stopping weeds and insect damage. The big bio-tech companies say their crops save farmers money, mean fewer harmful pesticides and reduce soil erosion.


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Les Rescapés de l'Alaska ( Anything to Survive) est un téléfilm américain réalisé par Zale Dalen et diffusée  en 1990. Il est vaguement basé sur l'histoire vraie de la famille Wortman.

Synopsis
Lors de son voyage retour de Prince Rupert à son village d'Alaska, le bateau de la famille Barton s'échoue sur une île. L'histoire traite de la survie de la famille sur l'île.

Fiche technique

Distribution
 Robert Conrad : Eddie
 Emily Perkins : Krista
 Matt LeBlanc : Billy
  : Wendy
 Tom Heaton : Dave
 William B. Davis : docteur Reynolds

Récompenses
 Ocean Hellman a été nominée en 1990 au prix Gemini en tant que meilleure actrice pour un second rôle

Liens externes

Références

Téléfilm diffusé en 1990
Téléfilm américain des années 1990
Téléfilm d'American Broadcasting Company
Téléfilm tourné en Colombie-Britannique
Téléfilm tourné en Alaska

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Aerodance dedicates this album to Goas crazy psychedelic 90s - the time when people could fly. The debut album of Aerodance 'Some More Sun' is releasing on 6th of february by Init Raimy Records, Greece and opening a 2002 serie of a morning releases of this label. It includes 9 never released tracks-the top hit of 2000, 'Matrix 649' in a live version and one of the best Aero tune 'Skazka'. All the rest 7 tracks are absolutely new and were written in August - September 2001 on Acidance Studio, Greece and Para Sense Studio, Moscow. Each track is a surprise-and has a remixed melody inside which you knew all your lifes, butcan recover it only by using your underconcous and 6th sense. All tracks were wirtten by Aerodance-X.P. Voo Doo, Alex Kurkin and Zolod. One of the best debut album we heard for a long time; excellent cd, don't miss it!


Ocean County kicks off its annual Household Hazardous Waste Disposal Program at the end of this month, with three dates announced, in Stafford, Lakewood and Toms River townships. The 2019 spring program runs from late March through June, with additional dates to be announced in early summer.
The popular and free program reaches the milestone 30th year of collections this year, according to Ocean County Freeholder Gary Quinn, liaison to the county's recycling program and to the Department of Solid Waste Management. The program is funded in part by the state Recycling Enhancement Act Tax Fund. The three spring dates will be serviced by Radiac Environmental Services at a cost of almost 50 cents a pound. Last year, the county collected 352,522 pounds of household hazardous waste at a cost of $164,904.
The first collection will take place at the Lakewood Township Public Works Yard on Sunday, March 31, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Next will be the Toms River Township Public Works Garage on Saturday, May 4; and finally at the Stafford Township Public Works Garage on Saturday, June 1.
Materials accepted: paints, thinners, boat paints, solvents, pool chemicals, pesticides and herbicides, aerosol cans, auto products, toilet and drain cleaners, silver polishes, oven cleaners, photographic chemicals, rug and upholstery cleaners, polishes and bleaches, waste oil and used gasoline.
Residents can drop off a maximum of 200 pounds of dry material and 20 gallons of liquid at the county's household hazardous waste collection sites. No containers over five gallons will be accepted.
Municipal recycling centers and the county's recycling centers also allow for year-round drop-off of a host of materials including used paint, motor oil and car batteries.
Residents should check with their local recycling center to determine what is accepted year 'round so they need not store potentially hazardous items in their home, Quinn said.
"We work to make certain this program is accessible to our residents," he said. To that end, pickups are scheduled in towns throughout the county for any Ocean County resident to attend.
While the program is free, registration is required. To register for the Stafford collection site, call 609-978-0913; for Lakewood, call 732-367-0802; for Toms River, call 732-506-5047. —V.F.


Deep, dense, ruby color. As has been the case with the reds of this vintage, the aromas are clean, pretty, spicy and complex. Tea, leaf, and dark fruit aromas are well-integrated with those of smoky oak. Whereas the 2013 reds were deep and brooding, inaccessible in the months before release, and evolving slowly, the 2014 wines, from another warm, drought year, have an attractiveness and softness in character that indicates earlier drinkability. On the palate, silky and bittersweet flavors of dark cherries and semi-sweet chocolate. Tannins are fine in texture and palate coating, though not as intense as those of our 2013 Cabernet. This wine will play well with rich, braised dishes and grilled meats, and has the finesse and balance to be a go-to wine for at least the next 10-15 years.


It reminds me of what I saw in Bolivia a couple of weeks ago– there's a tax or toll or fee for nearly everything you do. Driving on the highway (if you can call it that) outside of Santa Cruz, you pay a toll… obviously not for the maintenance of the road, but to pay the salary of the toll collector.
In the US, public pensions have been raided for years, Congress routinely 'borrows' from Social Security to make up budget shortfalls. This is what talking heads mean when they play down concerns of a $14 trillion debt "because we owe it to ourselves–" $4.6 trillion of the debt is owed to intragovernmental agencies like Social Security.
Right now, there is a window of opportunity to take action; US taxpayers with retirement accounts can set up a special kind of IRA structure that allows you to take control of your retirement savings, and even ship it offshore if you want to, completely legitimately.
After taking control of your IRA, you can do any number of things– buy and store gold and silver coins overseas; hold foreign currencies in an offshore bank account; buy securities on international stock exchanges; purchase agricultural property overseas, or even a beautiful apartment on the beach in some sunny country.


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An A-Z of Incredible Scottish Wedding Venues
BAaD, Glasgow
An A-Z of Incredible Scottish Wedding Venues: BAaD, Glasgow
You'd be forgiven for thinking that Glasgow's east-end, with its street trading and industrial past, wouldn't really work as a stage for romance, but you'd be very wrong! If you're looking for a badass wedding venue, BAaD (Barras Art & Design) is the place for you. Here's why:
• City Centre location (seven minutes from train stations)
• Humungous space to accommodate 230 (ceremony) and up to 800 (reception)
• Winner of 'Most Stylish Venue' at Scottish Style Awards
• Award winning chefs/restaurant
• Numerous dining options to suit all budgets/tastes
• Flooded with natural light for epic photography
• A massive 2.5m x 4.8m screen is available to showcase photography/videography
When barrow-hire entrepreneur, Maggie McIver, decided to organise a Saturday market on waste ground off Kent Street in 1923, she probably had no idea that it would become an east-end institution etched into the city's psyche. At the height of its popularity, the Barrowlands Market, or the Barras as it's affectionately known, was the largest open-air market in Europe and although its popularity has somewhat receded in recent years, the market is still going strong in 2018.
BAaD is located directly behind the Barrowlands and when Celebrant, Phyl Wright, married Dionne and Rebecca back in September, the entire Fuze team fell in love with it. Upon entering the elephantine courtyard with its spectacular glass roof, which is perched aloft rows and rows of steel arches, you become acutely aware of a distinct trading atmosphere. A bakery, dressmaker, pizzeria amongst other traders line the courtyard and BAaD's stalwart refusal to turn its back on its Barras heritage, choosing instead to wholeheartedly embrace it, is exactly why we love it so much.
From the shipping containers to the ginormous spaces complete with arches, exposed brick and tonnes of steel, BAaD is packed with industrial character; however, where the remains of the Barras trading past are still very much in abundance, it somehow manages to exude an elegant and exclusive charm to rival or even exceed that of any other wedding venue. It was, therefore, no surprise at all that BAaD took the title for 'Most Stylish Venue' at this year's Scottish Style Awards.
With all the light and industrial chic trappings, BAaD makes a truly magical place for a wedding photoshoot. Del and Jay, who photographed Dionne and Rebecca's fabulous September wedding said: "the venue was like a massive light box, we loved shooting there, and the Barrowlands location was great to get creative with their photos".
Depending on the size of the guestlist, couples can choose between saying their vows within the courtyard or up on the mezzanine, which overlooks the space below. The same flexibility can be offered when it comes to catering as couples can choose from enjoying an intimate celebration with their nearest and dearests in the award winning A'Challtainn fish restaurant or having a street food inspired spread for up to 230 guests in the courtyard.
In true Glasgow style, the venue comes into its own after dark where there is ample room for a band, DJ and up to 800 guests to dance the night away. The venue oozes party vibes, is fully licensed and can be hired from 3pm until midnight.
With warehouse and industrial wedding venues growing in popularity and set to become huge in 2019/20, we would recommend getting in there fast as it truly is a complete one-of-a-kind venue.
Venue: BAaD, 54 Calton Entry, Glasgow G40 2SB – www.baadglasgow.com – 0141 237 9220
Couple: Dionne & Rebecca
Celebrant: Phyl Wright
Photographer: Del & Jay – www.delandjayjayweddingphotography.com
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If you have overwhelmed by the attraction from different stroller brands on today's market, then, Contours Red Velvet Options Elite Tandem Stroller may satisfy you well. The model is designed for families with twins or more than one kid. It has the perfect combination between safety and comfort in long run. For the excellent performance, the smart tool deserves to rank 4.5 out of 5 stars.
Let your children enjoy wonderful experience when riding the stroller to the shopping mall or for a walk. We ensure that it is a right investment for long-term goals.
Contours stroller appears in the plenty of color options, including Sand, Envy Green, Red Velvet and Laguna Blue. Among all of them, red velvet attracts most of parents' eyes thanks to the appealing appearance at the first glance. Coming with 47 pounds in weight, it is rather compact than other double strollers in the same category. When folded, the stroller is so portable and takes less space for movement and storage. Thanks to this feature, it fits most of car trunk in an effective way.
The stroller is designed to withstand 40 pounds of weight capacity per seat. It is completely easy to fold the stroller in quick time without any difficulty.
Let's have a close look at Contours Red Velvet Options Elite Tandem Stroller. It is evidence that the tool equips a great number of fabulous features of an excellent double stroller. This allows you to carry small children in tight corners or limited spaces.
Flexibility is one of the most impressive features of the tool, which helps it run smoothly on different types of terrains. Which are factors leading to this result? Wow, it comes from smooth wheeling mechanism and 10 inch rubber to efficiently solve problems on the sidewalk. You will find it easy to control the stroller even in rough surfaces due to shock-absorbing rubber tires. Besides, all tires of the tool are covered by high-quality materials to strengthen its longevity and comfortable rides.
Comfort is another great benefit of the stroller. Children have chance to select endless seat options such as car seat for twins, one seat for single, various seat directions and more. The design of 3 positions recline seat offers deep short naps when your babies get tired. In addition to durable materials of seat, it is padded to improve the incredible comfort, especially for long walk.
Parents could be rest assured to let their babies safely sit on this stroller. It equips expandable canopies to protect small users from UV rays and other weather conditions. There are mesh peek-a-boo windows available to provide a great view to your babies.
To ensure the safety of your babies during the strolling process, you should consider these factors below. For example, remember to supervise your babies all the time sitting on the stroller seats. You had better not to store your belongings in incorrect places such as canopy, handle and seat. Avoid using this stroller on escalators or stairs. Besides, set the tire brakes when parking the stroller.
All in all, your babies actually love Contours Red Velvet Options Elite Tandem Stroller for many reasons. The model comes with sturdy design and excellent quality to bring remarkable comfort and safety to small children. If you are looking for a perfect stroller for your home use, Contours is a reliable brand to trust.


This article follows my previous article entitled "New gTLDs according to Registrants": an article dedicated to providing a feed-back on the ICANN ne gTLD program from a Registrant perspective. This time voice is given to accredited Registrars, the service provider in charge of selling domain names to end users: The Registrants.
I call a "Registrar", the company in charge of selling domain names. To do so, a Registrar needs to be "accredited" to the Registries of his choice. This way, website owners and law firms, webmasters and other IP departments can proceed to the registration of a domain name. There are resellers too but most of the time they are affiliated to a Registrar.
On the domain name pyramid, the Registrar sits o the second floor: above the Registrant and below the Registry. The Registrant buys to the Registrar and the Registrar buys to the Registry.
Early in the ICANN new gTLD program, a question was raised and as aperson involved in launching the .EU Registry (long before the ICANN new gTLD program), I admit it was a very sensitive one: "if it cost me €10,000.00 to accredit myself to become a ".EU" accredited Registrar, where shall I find the mony to become accredited to all new gTLDs?" It is lucky that this problem was solved a long ago because I cannot imagine any Retail or Corporate Registrar not being ble to offer all new domains because of a treasury problem.
Good: "new domain names offer an opportunity to reach out to my clients with new offers".
The average price for new domain names is much higher than a ".com": it is going to cost more to my clients: ma margin is going to be very low.
"We must block Registries from selling domain names" Remember the "Vertical Integration"?
Good for business, Registrants will have to buy more domain names or they will increase their chances to be cybersquatted...and actually, I am not responsible for that: it is ICANN's fault for allowing so many new domian name extensions.
Aren't we, Corporate Registrars, becoming the reselling network of the Trademark Clearinghouse? Just for the note, the Trademark Clearinghouse allows Trademark owners to participate in Sunrise Periods.
Becoming a Trademark Clearinghouse's agent is an excellent service to offer for Corporate Registrars.
Shall I buy my ".domains" domain name?
"New gTLDs according to ICANN" .


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Buddy Holly guitar tabs and chords is a traditional choice of either beginners or experienced players. Also try Buddy Holly Guitar tabs as they are seriously underrated. Alone with other Biffy Clyro Guitar Pro tabs, power tabs and lyrics Buddy Holly Guitar tabs will perfectly suit a beginner who searches easy tabs and chords. Are you tired of traditional and even rather boring guitar chords for this song? If so, then Buddy Holly Guitar tabs will definitely attract your attention. The last but not the least is Buddy Holly Guitar tabs - this tab may not be the highest rated one, but it provides really correct data that may attract all people who search quality Biffy Clyro Guitar Pro tabs, drum tabs or power tabs.
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Nut-based, paleo-friendly hummus with a slight kick of spice.
Add all ingredients to the bowl of your food processor or high powered blender and blend on high until smooth.
Begin with 2 cloves of garlic and 2 tablespoons of water and work your way up, if needed.


Animal rights group PETA claims that anti-animal terms, such as "bring home the bacon," are as offensive as racism and anti-gay slurs.
CNN reported that meat-based idioms, like "flogging a dead horse" or "taking the bull by the horns," can be compared with homophobic and racist language, according to animal rights organization PETA.
Peta is facing backlash for the new campaign.
However, the animal rights organization doubled down on their new campaign.
And that angered even more people.
You guys need to focus more on the actual issues going on. This isn't going to change anything and nor should it be a thing people take on. Pointless.
"Words matter, and as our understanding of social justice evolves, our language evolves along with it," PETA posted on its Twitter account on Tuesday, comparing these idioms to racist and homophobic language.
Instead of saying "kill two birds with one stone," people should say "feed two birds with one scone," although the first phrase refers to using resources wisely to accomplish multiple goals and nothing to do with feeding or literally killing birds.
Instead of "beat a dead horse," PETA recommends saying "feed a fed horse," even though "beat a dead horse" means one should not waste time doing something that will not work–nothing to do with feeding horses.
"Be the guinea pig" should change to "be the test tube" and "bring home the bacon" to "bring home the bagels," referring to PETA's stance that everyone should be a vegan.
According to the site "Peta Kill Animals," 95.9% of animals under PETA's care have been KILLED by Peta in one year.
You can read more here and decide for yourself.


Two recent releases from ZamZam Sounds should satisfy all fans of heavyweight dubs and both of them will do this in a different style. The releases number 51 brings two tracks of Systemwide; "Low Orbit", remixed by Alter Echo", delivers a message of the outer-space: a minimal but powerful bassline is a foundation for a universe of mysterious sounds and samples. This is the exploration of bass and dub universe which I love in ZamZam's releases. The B side is Dubkasm's remix of "Liberation" and it's a deep, mystical steppers in the best style of the Bristol duo.
The release number 52 continues delivering heavyweight vibes. From a mysterious atmosphere, we're moving to a sound system dance, where a powerful steppa riddim by Bukkha and Madplate Sound combined with the great voice of Junior Dread mashes the area – "Nada A Perder" ("Nothing To Lose") is a real dancefloor banger with a conscious message.


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Q: How to get ClusterManager click and ClusterManager item click in android I am developing Map Based application, I used cluster for arranging markers. It works fine. Now, I need to show a message when I click on clusterManager, and when I click on item (Only one marker), So that I can make the diffrence between them.
Here it is my code, setOnClusterClickListener and setOnClusterItemClickListener doesn't called, So please What's going wrong in my code.
    mClusterManager = new ClusterManager<MyItem>(this, getMap());

    getMap().setOnCameraChangeListener(mClusterManager);
    try {
        readItems();
    } catch (JSONException e) {
        Toast.makeText(this, "Problem reading list of markers.", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    }

    mClusterManager.setOnClusterClickListener(new ClusterManager.OnClusterClickListener<MyItem>() {
        @Override
        public boolean onClusterClick(Cluster<MyItem> cluster) {
            Log.d("cluster","clicked");
            return true;
        }
    });
    mClusterManager.setOnClusterItemClickListener(new ClusterManager.OnClusterItemClickListener<MyItem>() {
        @Override
        public boolean onClusterItemClick(MyItem item) {
            Log.d("cluster item","clicked");
            return true;
        }
    });
    getMap().setOnMarkerClickListener(mClusterManager);

A: you should call setOnMarkerClickListener before setOnClusterClickListener and setOnClusterItemClickListener
mClusterManager = new ClusterManager<MyItem>(this, getMap());
getMap().setOnMarkerClickListener(mClusterManager); //
getMap().setOnCameraChangeListener(mClusterManager);
try {
    readItems();
} catch (JSONException e) {
    Toast.makeText(this, "Problem reading list of markers.", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
}

mClusterManager.setOnClusterClickListener(new ClusterManager.OnClusterClickListener<MyItem>() {
    @Override
    public boolean onClusterClick(Cluster<MyItem> cluster) {
        Log.d("cluster","clicked");
        return true;
    }
});
mClusterManager.setOnClusterItemClickListener(new ClusterManager.OnClusterItemClickListener<MyItem>() {
    @Override
    public boolean onClusterItemClick(MyItem item) {
        Log.d("cluster item","clicked");
        return true;
    }
});

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Zlatko Koren (Zagreb, 16. ožujka 1967.), hrvatski katolički svećenik, monsinjor, kanonik Prvostolnog kaptola zagrebačkog

Rodio se 16. ožujka 1967. u Zagrebu. Za svećenika Zagrebačke nadbiskupije zaređen je 1995. godine. Službu župnog vikara obavljao je po dvije godine na tri župe: u Bjelovaru (Župa sv. Terezije Avilske) od 1995. godine, u Zagrebu (Župa sv. Petra) od 1997. i u Svetoj Nedelji od 1999. godine. Ondje su uspostavljene dvoje nove župe: Kerestinec, te Bestovje-Novaki-Rakitje, pa je tijekom tri godine bio njihov upravitelj, od 2001. do 2004. godine.

Bio je višegodišnji rektor Svetišta Majke Božje Bistričke od 2004. do 2016. godine, a nakon toga bio je župnik moderator u Župi sv. Blaža u Zagrebu, te povjerenik za pastoral braka i obitelji do ljeta 2020. godine, kada je postao kanonikom Prvostolnog kaptola zagrebačkog.

Član je Druge sinode Zagrebačke nadbiskupije održane 2017., dekan Gornjogradskog dekanata i član Povjerenstva Zagrebačke nadbiskupije za odnose s Gradom Zagrebom. Djelovao je i u Povjerenstvu za ekumenizam i dijalog (2011. – 2019.)

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The Whale's NYC Premiere Was a Family Affair
Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink, and Darren Aronofsky brought their friends and family to Lincoln Center on Tuesday night for a screening of the acclaimed new movie.
by Maxine Wally
Photo by Taylor Hill/WireImage
The actor Brendan Fraser arrived to the New York City premiere of The Whale early on Tuesday, November 29. With his girlfriend Jeanne Moore in tow, and two of his sons trailing behind him, Fraser hit the carpet for the movie that has marked his big comeback to Hollywood. After years out of the public eye, the star of the Darren Aronofsky-directed film has proved he belongs in the spotlight—and is a major contender in the Academy Awards Best Actor conversation.
Despite a slew of recent press that's heralded Fraser's return, the actor himself was infinitely chilled out on Tuesday evening at Lincoln Center, where he joined Aronofsky, costars Sadie Sink (who was breathtaking in a classic black Chanel tube dress with tulle, her fiery hair trailing behind her as she took pictures on the step and repeat) and Ty Simpkins, along with a real who's-who of the acting community, for the event. Stars including Charles Melton—who slung his arm over girlfriend Chase Sui Wonders' shoulder as they walked off the carpet—Michael Gandolfini, AJLT's Sarita Choudhury, Succession favorite Fisher Stevens, Eighth Grade actor Elsie Fisher, Danny Strong, and many more showed up. Most donned low-key looks and sidestepped the carpet, preferring to nestle into their seats for the screening in peace.
Jeremy Dawson, Ty Simpkins, Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink, Darren Aronofsky, and Samuel D. Hunter at The Whale premiere.
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Fraser, Sink, Simpkins, and Aronofsky worked the press line instead—they're seasoned vets for all the obvious reasons, but also because they've been touring The Whale the world over since it premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September.
The narrative of Fraser's comeback, of course, has dominated headlines, along with theories galore about how he channeled his real-life experiences—especially those which caused him to back away from Hollywood for a bit—to play the 600-pound recluse, Charlie. So did the actor take everything within him and throttle it into his character, who has shut himself out from the world save one friend who visits his house every day to bring him food?
"Yes," Fraser said. "It's an actor's job to draw on your own experience, to help give authenticity to it. The alchemy of actors' processes has always been a strange voodoo, but with a screenplay as well-written as Sam Hunter's and Darren Aronofsky directing this—which was really a departure from the types of material I've seen him create before—clearly, we were all keen to tell this story with as much dignity and respect as we possibly could."
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"What's next?" is a major question being thrown at Fraser these days. But when asked whether he has a dream role to play in the future, he admitted that, after all these years, he still doesn't.
"I promise you, I would tell you if I did," he said. "It's always whatever I'm doing is my favorite thing."
Aronofsky, who enveloped Sink in an enormous hug as soon as he saw her, sang the actress's praises farther down the carpet. "She's working at a speed so much quicker than everyone else on the planet," the director, who wore a nubby maroon Gabriela Hearst suit for the event, said. "Her brain is firing so fast. And if you watch the movie several times, you will constantly see new stuff that she's done. I first saw her in Stranger Things and I was like, Who's that? I want to work with her."
Fraser wasn't the only one whose family made an appearance. Aronofsky's son, who had just come from school and was still wearing his backpack, attended the screening with friends. Chosen family was also in attendance: the Requiem for a Dream actress Ellen Burstyn took photos with Aronofsky—a reunion 22 years in the making.
Sadie Sink Shows No Mercy
By Lynn Hirschberg, Jamie Hawkesworth and Sara Moonves


The Open Sea on Sweet Sorbet!
As I've mentioned MANY times before, having being born beautiful instead of rich (yes, I can laugh at myself – although these days it's more jiggling than giggling) I tend to save EVERYTHING. Eventually it all becomes useful.
My size determiner is the usability of the products. Ribbon for example have to be long enough to either fit across a two-inch wide tag which thus in-turn makes it's large enough to be used on the end of sentiment, tag or such.
For cardstock and DSP, my smallest punch is the determiner. Thus if I can put a scrap into a punch – I save it. Note the small punched circle on the tag above, seriously who wants to lose a sheet of fresh cardstock to that small-fry?!
As exemplified on the card below, the scrap doesn't even have to fit the punch completely. Don't you just love the Sahara Sand Cardstock which compliments this sheet of DSP from Sweet Sorbet perfectly?
This DSP is just one of the many delights which can be yours FREE during Sale-a-Bration 2014 when you spend $60 or more. EVERY $60 you spend you receive something FREE! Seriously, NOW is the time to stock your stash. Think of all those free Christmas gifts you could be accumulating for free leaving you more to spend on your stash!
Contact me soon to book your workshop, which by the way, I'm happy to host here down in the Inkee Fiddling Studio. All you need do is bring your friends and the snacks. Too easy huh?!
Stamp Sets: The Open Sea, Regarding Dahlias, Yippee Skippee!
Below are the Sale Items for this week through until next Monday 2nd March from Stampin' Up!
Looking at the items for this week is like looking at my own stash. Those ribbons, as you've probably already noticed, are regularly used on my creations. Particularly the Summer Starfruit Satin as it goes brilliantly with the Sale-a-Bration's Sweet Sorbet DSP perfectly!
Remember though, these are just weekly sales, so if anything take your fancy, please call or email me at your earliest convenient to place your order!


Saif Ali Khan speaks about his identity as a Muslim, his thoughts on living in a Hindu state, the Kashmir question and how he almost refused his Padma award till his father advised him. And then, he gives the most balanced view on Sonu Nigam azaan row.
Saif Ali Khan on religion and Islamaphobia: Freedom of speech is one thing but you learn that certain people will kill you if you abuse their religion.
When Bollywood stars are afraid to talk about anything beyond their films, Saif Ali Khan holds forth on a plethora of burning topics ranging from the rise of Nationalism in India, his identity as a Muslim, living in a Hindu state, Triple Talaq, Kashmir and understanding the construct of religion. He also has the most balanced opinion on the Sonu Nigam azaan row, accepting that he thought the tweet was "bit aggressive, initally".
I have taken a break for now from producing films in order to focus a bit more on acting. But I intend to come back to it eventually. I have a friend in Los Angeles who is a line producer, with access to rights to a number of films and TV shows. I should look at the family a little more than I have in the past. Maybe Kareena (Kapoor) can do a female-centric TV show that we can produce.
But there are a number of things that are a natural extension of self. It's just about working a bit harder. I'd like to even open a club perhaps, not a nightclub, but eating, drinking, music kind of a place… like minded people, and doing up Pataudi and the new flat. I quite enjoy doing up places, to create an atmosphere. Maybe to do it professionally will be a good idea.
To keep a low profile is important, and you wonder if there is a need. Salman Rushdie thought he had the freedom of speech and said incendiary things. A fatwa was passed that changed his life. He didn't enjoy that. Freedom of speech is one thing but you learn that certain people will kill you if you abuse their religion. Sitting in the comforts of our living rooms, it's different; various worlds intersect in India.
Don't know who you are offending. At one level I agree, the lesser sound the better, there should be certain decibel levels allowed across religious practices. I also understand the amplification of the sound during azaan comes from insecurity. Not just here but also in Israel apparently where three different religions co-exist. It's been written about so I believe it's the same. As a minority, you would like to make your presence felt and hopefully accepted. If someone says that it should be extinguished, it will make some people little uncomfortable. As a precursor to some sort of holocaust, it's the first thing you think of. There's a bit of fear there. It's fine to express your views on the decibel levels. I think that tweet was a bit aggressive though, initially. And I do think religion should be a private affair and we should be a secular country.
There is a basic advantage to it, Twitter for example, should be about spreading the news. But it's become about becoming the news. Initially, when someone criticises me on social media, I think it's coming from a spiritual and intellectual equal. But then I realise maybe not, that they are not as open minded as I am. And I am not interested in the opinion of these faceless, nameless people. And I don't want everyone's approval. Also, the fame such people gather on Twitter is a surrogate form of stardom. It comes from an interesting comment on perhaps another celebrity. It's not real talent being sold.
I think I have endorsed them a couple of times and I am told they are the largest selling things. But it's not a stand I have felt particularly strong about. Everyone in this country is obsessed with fair skin. It's the first thing people say when a child is born. And it's important that Abhay Deol's voice on the subject be heard. Perhaps we all know somewhere that selling that product is wrong, and somewhere we wish we took a different stand but we don't. If you don't sell it, someone else would. There should maybe be a law against it. Without a law how do you hope people won't bleach their faces?
When these foreigners came into the industry, there was a reason. The Indian background dancers used to be very unfit. But yes, this pricing and business and grades based on their skin colour is ridiculous. And it reflects a truth that might be a bit uncomfortable.
The idea of god and religion has changed and evolved over centuries. I am not an expert but I understand that at in the earlier part of the last century existentialists such as Camus, Sartre and Nietzsche talked about the death of god and a different kind of an awakening. So the future of god is something I am very interested in. What do we need to create so that it will fulfill the need of the hour, because it may not be the old one anymore. With science and philosophy advancing in this century, it's no longer the centrepiece of our life. What did Freud, or was it Nietzsche who said, 'There is a god shaped hole in our consciousness today.' This is of course not for the people for whom religion is the opium of, who haven't thought about it at all ever.
If you look at people from a generation ago, a Hindu who would say adaab seemed more accepting, made you feel a little more comfortable, sophisticated and kinder. It's the India we grew up in. Nationalism is amazing and important for development. But is that the same as Hinduism? I don't think so. In a country that has been secular, there are minorities, it will make them uncomfortable. On the other hand, my freedoms have been afforded to me based on economics. So it doesn't apply to me. To me, I am happy living in a Hindu state also. Make the same law for everyone.
Why should we see people as different? I know the argument, that the criminal law is the same but the civil law varies. But of course there should be one law for the land. Also on Triple Talaq. I have been married in the past, I have had a nikaah, but that's also because my ex-wife mother is also a Muslim. And also because we ran away and got married. But when I got divorced, I just couldn't think Triple Talaq was the way. There are responsibilities, financial one has towards the wife and children. These aren't just divorce arrangements, but so you sleep right. My arrangement expired when Sara turned 18 but I haven't stopped taking care of her and Ibrahim, to be a father, emotionally and financially. It's not a contract or a religious out. I don't agree with it because I haven't followed it, I could have. Yes Muslims say it was started at a time to give women rights but things are different now. Indian Constitution does try to address this with the Special Marriage Act. There is a way if people are willing to follow. Kareena (Kapoor) and I followed the Special Marriage Act. I think times have changed, and I have too. Although I had no interest back then either, to convert anyone. I think Taimur should have the freedom tomorrow to be a Buddhist if he wants, or an atheist.
It's so scary. We have had phobias against religion. The Jews have been historically persecuted. And anti-semitism has been used by the Western civilization as a political, philosophical and economic tool, to treat someone else as 'the other'. And after the holocaust, it's scary when people say Islamophobia because it feels like you will be persecuted or discriminated against no matter how you are. And I am not religious but as a kid, I was so proud to be a Muslim. One used to think of the Mughals, Turkey, calligraphy, art etc. And now it's this, which is a far cry.
But I'll tell you, there is no such thing as the Muslim or the Jew. We create the construct of the Muslim and give it certain characteristics, that he does this or that. But we are individuals. Our views will be different, even on religion. It's scary when we are all are called 'the Muslim' because it implies we all have the same beliefs and characteristics that can be easily summed up.
It's fabulous. Kanhaiya Kumar's intellectually regal behaviour when he was released, and the speech he gave was phenomenal. It's a schizophrenic situations and all voices are important right now.
Our families in Bhopal and Pataudi were divided by partition so we have a first-hand experience of what that was about. So when some people talk of a war as an option in a nuclear age, it's frightening. (laughs) And nobody is talking about how China is looking pretty aggressive these days. They have changed the names of places in Arunachal Pradesh. We probably don't like to admit there is a stronger neighbour around the corner. Because we think we can easily bash up Pakistan, apart from the nuclear missiles that are pointed towards us.
Also jokes aside, it's a complicated situation. And the fact that Pakistan exists really undermines the Muslim situation in India. The obvious reaction will be that why don't you move there if you like Pakistan so much. So the people living here also have to be pro Uniform Civil Code.
Make up your mind, make it a law if you want to. (Laughs) Also, there is a sense of exotic to them because they are from the forbidden land, like Fawad Khan. If they were from India, that would remove that extra glamour from them. Maybe they are just usual but there is a Mata Hari sense of a foreigner about them.
I can understand the ban. On one hand you are playing nice, casting each other in movies and playing cricket, and on the other hand they cut five people's heads — who are 'they' though, I don't know. We don't know how much to believe. A lot of what happens between the two countries is covert, there are a lot of underhand dealings and trade etc. And then there is an espionage situation then you don't know what's really happening? Is it a grave misunderstanding? Or is the bad, bad Pakistan trying to just hang someone? Or does this guy is really a destabilising factor? How do you say he should be released or not? Of course as a humanitarian you don't want anyone to die. Everyone tells you even in a spy movie that if you are caught, you are on your own. But you don't know what will happen? It's statecraft. Will they really hang him, or are they just saying so? Or will India trade him for someone else?
It's not an easy situation, and I feel bad for the Kashmiris. We can't be jingoistic about it unless we are taught to understand and view it objectively. I don't know what was really happening when the man was tied to the jeep by the army. The army is in there, it's a war zone. We cannot tell them sitting in our drawing rooms what's right and wrong. Kashmir is a complicated issue. My personal view is that the two governments have reached an agreement that this kind of a situation should be kept at it, because it cannot be better or solved and hopefully it won't get worse. It's insolvable legally, second probably to Lebanon or Israel.
The Dogras when they were awarded Kashmir, they were not the maharajas they became. And the fact that it's a Hindu maharaja and a Muslim population, the insurgency into PoK, the plebiscite with Pandit Nehru that never happened, the people were never asked where they want to go because there was a fear that it wouldn't go the way we wanted it. And the Kashmiris know that in this whole deal the people who have not been asked are them, so they want their own freedom, which is also not feasible really because from Khalistan to kashmir, separatists have been trying to break away from the Indian Union ever since it was formed.
There are actors looking fitter than ever. Though am not sure I approve of overuse of steroids (laughs). That seems the only way an average Indian can get ribbed in two weeks in the gym. They better be careful because their pe***es might just fall off. The new six pack Indian has sold his what-not to the devil in exchange for an eight pack. It's the new Faustian pact! And they don't care if it makes them look good.
I told her once try to concentrate on the art. Look at people like Aamir Khan, you can make your own rules. Don't get caught up with what it seems to be about. You can take a script and check into a Venice hotel by the canal, read your script, think etc. Be creative, see the world. If you don't get caught up in the tiny little politics but push creativity. The compromises define you. My first movie I was told if I didn't stop seeing the girl I was, I will be chucked out. I said okay chuck me out. But I bet a lot of people would, if they were told by the king of Dharshraj (laughs) to do that. Not that they would.
I know Sara is so bright, and having conversations with her on art and history when she was at Columbia University was so rich. I'd like her to be enriching. But this is what she always wanted to do. But so much of it is fear and insecurity. But as a parent, I know you don't own them, you can only provide them a good education, send them to a good school and university. I am from the Khalil Gibran school of parenting, like my father, am there if they want to talk to me but won't tell them what they should do. Ibrahim understands it's very competitive in the industry but then which career isn't these days. A BA from a good university will fetch you nothing, you need an MBA.
The age of privilege is threatening to be over. It's scary because we don't understand anything else. We all grew up reading about positions of power, the World War, the Queen of Britain, the Pope, such titles of privilege. But the more Arab Springs take place, you see a middle class obliterating the hierarchy of royalty and creating it's own. Social media, Instagram is also making them more available, people like Carey Grant or Mr Bachchan. And to be a star and be in a queue in an airport is a curse. Because you don't get paid enough to fly private so you are attacked and people will want to take selfies. And it's too intrusive. I dislike selfies. There's something very aggressive about it. Kids I never say no to, that's more innocent. But stars you know, they should be up there, they should be looking down from the galaxy, they cannot be standing in the same line as you (laughs out loud). Or change the word for it, call it 'representative of people' or something, become a communist, it's what we are after all. And everyone asks stars but no one asks industrialists or politicians where the money is coming from.
I wouldn't give up my awards, the National Award or the Padma Shri, but senior filmmakers like Kundan Shah and Saeed Mirza who protested against the appointment of Gajendra Chauhan as the head of the Film and Television Institute of India. I think that's fair, it's allowed in any democracy.
When I found out about my National Award for Hum Tum, I was having breakfast in my bed in London. Mom called me and asked me to take the first flight back. I told her I didn't want to because I'd have to buy my own ticket. Also, I have my father's blood in me, so I thought I didn't deserve it — although I think differently about it now. I did come back and it was nice. But there is also a story with the Padma award. I had asked my father if I could use the family letterhead. And he said to use the letterhead while I am alive is to denigrate it, like the Padma Awards have become. And a week later, they gave it to me. So I called him and told him I don't think I deserve it, there are so many people senior to me. So he said, 'I don't think you are in the position to say no to the Government of India just yet.' So I went.


Battleground City - "Prayer For My City"
As a dedication to the tragedy in Tucson, AZ last January. Battleground City artists Psalm Star. The Ark, & The Messenger teamed up to create this song not just for their city but for everywhere to pray for God to break the strongholds of sin and stop the violence occurring in the streets today.
YEA KEEP IT UP DAWGS!!


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Q: How to embed large (max 10Mb) text files into an Excel file What is the best way to store a large text file (max 10Mb) in an Excel file?
I have a couple of requirements:

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*It has to be embedded so that the excel file can be moved and sent to a different computer and all the text files will follow.

*It needs to be done from a macro.

*And a macro needs to be able to read the file contents after it has been embedded.
I already tried to store it by breaking the text into several chunks enough small to fit into a cell (~32 000 chars), but it didn't work. After my macro had inserted the first 150 000 characters it gave me an "Out of Memory" error.
I remember seeing one web page with a couple of options for this I but cannot find it anymore. Any suggestions are most welcome. I will try them out if you are not sure if it works or not.

A: It would likely be best to simply save the .txt file alongside the Excel file, and have the macro pull the text as needed from that folder. To read more on importing files see this:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2010-customize/vba-code-to-import-multiple-text-files-from/525bd388-0f7d-4b4a-89f9-310c67227458
Keeping the .txt within the Excel file itself is not necessary and will likely make it harder to transfer files in the long run. For example, if you cannot e-mail a file larger than 10MB, then you can simply break your .txt file in half and e-mail separately - using a macro which loads the text into Excel locally.

A: Very simple CustomXMLPart example:
Sub CustomTextTester()

    Dim cxp1 As CustomXMLPart, cxp2 As CustomXMLPart
    Dim txt As String

    'read file content
    txt = CreateObject("scripting.filesystemobject").opentextfile( _
                                      "C:\_Stuff\test.txt").readall()

    'Add a custom XML part with that content
    Set cxp1 = ThisWorkbook.CustomXMLParts.Add("<myXMLPart><content><![CDATA[" & txt _
                                               & "]]></content></myXMLPart>")

    Debug.Print cxp1.SelectSingleNode("myXMLPart/content").FirstChild.NodeValue

End Sub

A: Consider the method shown below. It uses Caption property of Label object located on a worksheet for data storage. So you can create a number of such containers with different names.
Sub Test()
    Dim sText
    ' create special hidden sheet for data storage
    If Not IsSheetExists("storage") Then
        With ThisWorkbook.Worksheets.Add()
            .Name = "storage"
            .Visible = xlVeryHidden
        End With
    End If
    ' create new OLE object TypeForms.Label type as container
    AddContainer "test_container_"
    ' read text from file
    sText = ReadTextFile("C:\Users\DELL\Desktop\tmp\tmp.txt", 0)
    ' put text into container
    PutContent "test_container_", sText
    ' retrieve text from container
    sText = GetContent("test_container_")
    ' show length
    MsgBox Len(sText)
    ' remove container
    RemoveContainer "test_container_"
End Sub

Function IsSheetExists(sSheetName)
    Dim oSheet
    For Each oSheet In ThisWorkbook.Sheets
        If oSheet.Name = sSheetName Then
            IsSheetExists = True
            Exit Function
        End If
    Next
    IsSheetExists = False
End Function

Sub AddContainer(sName)
    With ThisWorkbook.Sheets("storage").OLEObjects.Add(ClassType:="Forms.Label.1")
        .Visible = False
        .Name = sName
    End With
End Sub

Sub RemoveContainer(sName)
    ThisWorkbook.Sheets("storage").OLEObjects.Item(sName).Delete
End Sub

Sub PutContent(sName, sContent)
    ThisWorkbook.Sheets("storage").OLEObjects.Item(sName).Object.Caption = sContent
End Sub

Function GetContent(sName)
    GetContent = ThisWorkbook.Sheets("storage").OLEObjects.Item(sName).Object.Caption
End Function

Function ReadTextFile(sPath, iFormat)
    With CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject").OpenTextFile(sPath, 1, False, iFormat)
        ReadTextFile = ""
        If Not .AtEndOfStream Then ReadTextFile = .ReadAll
        .Close
    End With
End Function


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News > Pacific NW
Cherry growers looking forward to yet another bountiful harvest
Fri., May 6, 2016
In this 2012 photo, a worker places a load of Chelan cherries in a flat on KP Sullivan Farms north of Pasco. (Richard Dickin / Associated Press)
By Mai Hoang Yakima Herald-Republic
YAKIMA - A few years ago, a 20-million-box cherry crop was a record.
These days it's the standard.
Barring widespread heavy rain or other disasters, Northwest cherry growers expect to hit the 20-million-box mark during the upcoming harvest, according to the first forecast from Northwest Cherry Growers, a Yakima-based organization that promotes cherries grown in a five-state region.
The organization expects growers in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Utah to harvest about 20.7 million 20-pound boxes this season. The organization also predicted that because of the consistently warm weather, harvest in some areas, including Mattawa and the Tri-Cities, could start as early as May 23. That's about the same as last year, but about a week earlier than usual.
A crop of 20 million boxes was once considered staggering, but now such volumes are manageable thanks to industry investments, including packers and shippers, said James Michael, Northwest Cherry Growers' vice president of marketing for North America.
"We're able to handle a 20 million (box) crop much quicker and easier with a bigger return for the grower," he said.
The estimated figure is well-below the record 23.2 million boxes harvested back in 2014, but still more than the 19 million boxes picked in 2015.
This is the first of up to four estimates for the crop. Two more estimates are expected this month.
The organization also predicted that about ?11.3 million boxes – or ?55 percent of the estimated crop – are expected to be shipped in June, with another 8.9 million boxes to be shipped in July. About 200,000 boxes each are expected to be shipped in May and August.
Published: May 6, 2016, 5:23 a.m.
Tags: agriculture, cherries, farming, food, harvest, washington, yakima
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In honor of Armed Forces Day on May 21, we would like to thank all of the Phi Delta Theta brothers who have served or are serving. Read more to find out which brothers have served. If you are a member of the armed forces and not on this list, or if your information is not up-to-date, please let us know by clicking here.
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I use this recipe when all the kids are home. We allow 1 box (1 pound) of jumbo shells to feed 5 people and this leaves enough for an extra small pan (about 12 shells) that I freeze for later.
I use foil pans for easy clean up. It's not necessarily good for the environment but it makes it easy to do the dishes when we have large family dinners.
A half-steamer pan (approx 10×13 inches) holds about 24 shells and a 5×8 inch foil pan is about the right size for 12 shells.
2 10oz packages of frozen chopped spinach, cooked. Squeeze the water out of it.
1 pound cottage cheese or ricotta.
Stuff the cooked shells with about about 2 tablespoons of the filling. (I use a soup spoon to scoop the filling into the shells.) Spread spaghetti sauce in the bottom of a baking dish then arrange the stuffed shells in the pan. Spread more sauce over the shells and top with shredded mozzarella.
Bake at 350 for about 45 minutes, until bubbly.
If frozen, let thaw in the refrigerator and bake at 350 for about 45 minutes, until bubbly.


Two policemen are among four confirmed dead in a shooting incident on Friday morning in Canada's New Brunswick province, according to CTV Television Network.
The shooting happened in the city of Fredericton at around 7 a.m. (1100 GMT).
"At this time, we can confirm multiple fatalities. The incident is ongoing. More information will be available when we can. Please continue to avoid the area of Brookside Drive between Main and Ring Road," Fredericton police tweeted.
Police have arrested one suspect, local media reported.
Local residents have been told to avoid the Brookside Drive area and stay inside their homes with the doors locked as the police are investigating "an ongoing incident."
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau offered his condolences to the victims' families.
"Awful news coming out of Fredericton. My heart goes out to everyone affected by this morning's shooting. We're following the situation closely," he tweeted.


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Sunday, January 12, 2014 5:26 PM By Stephen J Christophers
Section C Urbex: (Photographs shot using a Nikon D5100 DSLR) A coastal area situated on the Gulf of Thailand between Pattaya City and Bangkok. I coined the term 'Section C' in respects to the industrial nature of the site and layout of the general area.
Section C is interesting from an explorers perspective for several reasons. It offers a range of locations from which one is able to observe contained urban decay on a large scale; a compound of factories and outbuildings, a school, temple and tenements that lay relatively untouched within the large boundary wall. The area of approximately twenty hectares is home to a Buddhist community and as such sits quietly undisturbed by modern intrusions; as buildings now unused fall into decay, others take on new functions. Sections of beach front property although derelict in appearance have given rises to a small shanty town between concrete remains of former building infrastructure. Now decorated with Buddhist inscriptions and housing an array of bric-à-brac, flotsam and jetsam, salvage and other articles of reconstituted goods donated to the monastery. Although, most of the buildings are of a monastic nature, it is clear that the area had a former life, either industrial or military. The main site of interest here is an abandoned modern ruin of a temple complex that has stood this way for over ten years. A large structure located approximately five hundred meters out into the bay area. With limited access points, it remains out of reach to the general public.
The following set of images have been processed using High Dynamic Range & Tone Mapping (HDR). A relatively new style of editing photographic images. For more information on this process please visit my post, "Creating High Dynamic Range".