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Traditionalism v. Individualism: The Struggle of the Conservative Youth.
Red Families v. Blue Families
March 23rd 2010
Julio Torres, Intern
Red Families v. Blue Families by Naomi Cahn and June Carbone examines the differences between the value systems of conservative and liberal families. The book compares, contrasts and connects the differences to explain how these shape contemporary American culture, economy and law.
The following excerpt explores how red (conservative) families struggle to successfully impart traditional norms of sexual behavior to a generation that no longer lives in the world of unanimous values of the nineteenth century. Today, conservative teenagers subscribe to the irreconcilable values of purity imparted in the home and the individualistic, liberal way of thinking they find outside. The wide gap between "belief and behavior" stems from the disconnect between competing value systems, a challenge that Sociologist Mark Regnerus words as "serving two masters." Cahn and Carbone lay out the consequences of this dichotomy in red families.
Moral Backlash
This new middle-class ethic, unlike its nineteenth century counterpart, is a direct affront to those who do not accept its premises. The nineteenth-century emphasis on purity, with its condemnation of those who could not live up to its principles, may have been hypocritical (and often racist), but it reaffirmed consensus-based standards of morality. The new version, in contrast, is disdainful of traditional moral restraints, insistent on the rights of women and same-sex couples, and skeptical of once-venerated institutions such as marriage.
Traditionalists have responded to the changes in family form, the negative consequences for children, and the class-based nature of the transformation with a sense of crisis. If advocates of the new order are right that a promising future is the best contraceptive, this disturbing news for poorer men and women who face less-hopeful prospects. Moreover, if investment in women opens new opportunities to prosper in a post-industrial world, it does little for the poorly educated men who have less to offer in a society in which the factories that once employed them have moved overseas and the farms of their youth have given way to mechanized agribusiness conglomerates. The advice to defer childbearing until financial independence just does not resonate for those who may never achieve it.
At the same time, the growing gap between the beginning of sexual activity and marriage creates much more dissonance for evangelicals and their parents than it does for those with more tolerant attitudes towards sexuality. In today's society, Protestant evangelical teens experience the biggest gap between belief and behavior. Both the teens and their parents hold more-conservative sexual attitudes than many others, but evangelically affiliated adolescents, for a variety of reasons that include class differences, lose their virginity at younger ages than the average for many other religious groups, and they are almost likely to do so with someone other than the partner they will mary. Sociologist Mark Regnerus reports:
"[Evangelical adolescents]…are urged to drink deeply from the waters of American individualism and its self-focused pleasure ethic, yet they are asked to value time-honored religious traditions like family and chastity. They attempt to do both (while other religious groups don't attempt this), and serving two masters is difficult. What results is a unique dialectic of sexual-conservatism-with-sexual –activity; a combination that breeds instability and the persistent suffering of consequences like elevated teen pregnancy rates."
More than half of the weekly churchgoers, who constituted the most devout in Regnerus's sample, were no longer virgins by the age of 18, and well over 90% of all evangelical adults engage in sex before they marry; even those who delay sexual activity into their 20s nonetheless are likely to engage in premarital sex.
This combination of sex and conservatism breeds (in addition to generational tensions) a set of reinforcing cycles. More sex prompts more sermons and more emphasis on abstinence. More religion may, in fact, delay the beginning of sexual activity, particularly for the devout, who constitute 20-25% of the evangelicals Regnerus studied. It also, however, makes it more likely that teens who engage in sex will fail to use contraception, which in turn increases the likelihood of pregnancy. More pregnancy fuels parental concern and—as we will see in the next chapter—more forced marriages that raise the risk of divorce. Early marriage and childbearing, in addition to increasing instability, derails education and limits earning potential. More limited men's income compels women's greater workforce participation and, especially when it occurs because of the husband's limitations as a breadwinner, decreases family happiness, particularly among the most traditional families. The consequential sense of failure increase the demands to constrain the popular culture—and blue family practices such as contraception and abortion—that undermines parental efforts to instill the right moral values in children.
The red analysis of our changing mores and its prescription for renewal have some validity. Greater religiosity does have a positive impact on sexual behavior and family commitment—but only for the most observant. Teachings that reinforce sexual restraint are most effective in the context of a network of the like-minded, who "teach and enable comprehensive religious perspectives about sexuality to compete more effectively against ubiquitous sexually permissive scripts" and provide supervised time and space that reinforce parental values and an orientation toward future goals, such as education. The most significant effect of these teachings is delay—religiously devout teens do begin sexual activity a year later on average than less-devout teens who profess the same religious—but even the most devout overwhelmingly do not abstain until marriage. Halfway measures that preach without providing supervision or support, or that restrict access to contraception without persuading teens to abstain, may be counterproductive. Moreover, such measures at their best may have an impact on the most-religious teens (a minority even among evangelicals), while increasing the risk that the relatively less-religious teens in these communities will become pregnant or suffer from preventable sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Additionally, greater sexual restraint, even if it reduces the number of unintended pregnancies, does not entirely solve the matter of divorce… younger marriages provide a less-secure economic foundation for family life than they did in other areas, and lower income is a risk factor for divorce. That risk is compounded if the wife who would prefer a more-traditional division of family responsibilities has to work to support the family. Higher divorce rates, in turn, contribute to a sense of moral decay even in communities with more-stable family patterns than the country at large.
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package it.polimi.ingsw.cg_19;

import static org.junit.Assert.*;

import org.junit.Test;

import common.Coordinate;
import common.Sector;
import common.SectorType;

public class SectorTest {

	/**
	 * @author Andrea Sessa
	 * @see Sector Some tests for the sector class
	 */

	private Sector s;

	/**
	 * This test checks the constructor of the Sector Class verifying that
	 * legality is set according to the type of sector
	 */
	@Test
	public void testSector() {
		Sector s1 = new Sector(new Coordinate('A', 1), SectorType.ALIEN);
		Sector s2 = new Sector(new Coordinate('A', 1), SectorType.HUMAN);
		Sector s3 = new Sector(new Coordinate('A', 1), SectorType.DANGEROUS);
		Sector s4 = new Sector(new Coordinate('A', 1), SectorType.SAFE);
		Sector s5 = new Sector(new Coordinate('A', 1), SectorType.OPEN_RESCUE);
		Sector s6 = new Sector(new Coordinate('A', 1), SectorType.CLOSED_RESCUE);

		assertEquals(SectorLegality.NONE, s1.getSectorLegality());
		assertEquals(SectorLegality.NONE, s2.getSectorLegality());
		assertEquals(SectorLegality.ALL, s3.getSectorLegality());
		assertEquals(SectorLegality.ALL, s4.getSectorLegality());
		assertEquals(SectorLegality.HUMAN, s5.getSectorLegality());
		assertEquals(SectorLegality.HUMAN, s6.getSectorLegality());

	}

	/**
	 * This test checks if getCoordinate returns the correct coordinate
	 * according to the coordinates of the sector
	 */
	@Test
	public void testGetCoordinate() {
		s = new Sector(new Coordinate('A', 1), SectorType.SAFE);
		assertEquals(new Coordinate('A', 1), s.getCoordinate());
		assertNotEquals(new Coordinate('A', 2), s.getCoordinate());
	}

	/**
	 * @see SectorType This test checks if getSectorType returns the correct
	 *      sectorType according to the type of the sector
	 */
	@Test
	public void testGetSectorType() {
		s = new Sector(new Coordinate('A', 1), SectorType.SAFE);
		assertEquals(SectorType.SAFE, s.getSectorType());
		assertNotEquals(SectorType.ALIEN, s.getSectorType());
	}

	/**
	 * This test checks if equals(override of equals() Object) returns a correct
	 * boolean value true if equals, false if not
	 */
	@Test
	public void testEqualsObject() {
		s = new Sector(new Coordinate('A', 1), SectorType.ALIEN);
		assertTrue(s
				.equals(new Sector(new Coordinate('A', 1), SectorType.ALIEN)));
		assertFalse(s.equals(new Sector(new Coordinate('B', 2),
				SectorType.DANGEROUS)));
		assertFalse(s.equals(null));
		assertFalse(s.equals(new String("s")));
	}

	/**
	 * Checks that the contains method correctly spots the players in the sector
	 */
	@Test
	public void testContains() {
		Player p = new Player(PlayerType.HUMAN, "");
		Sector s1 = new Sector(new Coordinate('A', 1), SectorType.ALIEN);
		s1.addPlayer(p);
		assertTrue(s1.containsPlayer(p));

	}

}

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Barack Obama and Raul Castro meet, launch new era of U.S.-Cuba ties
By Kevin Liptak and Jim Acosta, CNN
Updated 1:47 AM EDT, Sun April 12, 2015
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Obama-Castro meeting begins new era
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Isolated Cuban town still calls US 'the enemy'
State Department pulls employees out of Cuba
MIAMI, FL - DECEMBER 20: A protester holds an American flag and a Cuban one as she joins with others opposed to U.S. President Barack Obama's announcement earlier in the week of a change to the United States Cuba policy stand together at Jose Marti park on December 20, 2014 in Miami, Florida. President Obama announced a move toward normalizing the relationship with Cuba after a swap of prisoners took place. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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'Wet foot, dry foot' policy: one thing to know
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Headed to Cuba? What you need to know
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Is this audio injuring US staff in Cuba?
A Cuban flag flutters on top of a rock near the U.S. Embassy in Havana on August 13, 2015.
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US: More victims of sonic weapon in Cuba
The American flag flies at the U.S. Embassy following a ceremony August 14, 2015, in Havana.
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US diplomats hit with possible acoustic attack
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Cuban immigration policy ends
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First U.S.-to-Cuba cruise in decades sets sail
US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks following meeting between the US and its European allies on the situations in Libya, Syria, Ukraine and Yemenon March 13, 2016 in Paris.
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President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama dance the tango with tango dancers during the State Dinner at the Centro Cultural Kirchner, Wednesday, March 23, 2016, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Obama and first lady dance the tango
"The Cold War has been over for a long time," President Obama says
The thaw in ties has dominated discussion at the Summit of the Americas in Panama
The top leaders from the United States and Cuba haven't met for substantive talks in more than 50 years
Ending a decades-long standstill in U.S.-Cuba relations, President Barack Obama met for an hour Saturday with his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro, the first time the two nations' top leaders have sat down for substantive talks in more than 50 years.
The meeting in a small conference room on the sidelines of the Summit of the Americas came as the two countries work to end the Cold War enmity that had led to a total freeze of diplomatic ties. And while both leaders proclaimed progress had been made, a key stumbling block – Cuba's place on the U.S. list of countries that sponsor terror – remained unresolved.
"This is obviously an historic meeting," Obama said at the beginning of his session with Castro, claiming that decades of strain had done little to benefit either Cubans or citizens of the United States.
"It was time for us to try something new," he said. "We are now in a position to move on a path toward the future."
Castro, who earlier in the day said he trusted Obama, acknowledged there would be difficult stumbling blocks as his nation works to repair ties with the United States. But he said those differences could be surmounted.
Raul Castro: 'We need to be patient'
President Barack Obama shakes hands with Cuban leader Raul Castro on Friday in Panama City, Panama.
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"We are willing to discuss everything, but we need to be patient, very patient," Castro said. "We might disagree on something today on which we could agree tomorrow."
Speaking to reporters after his session with Castro, Obama said the meeting was "candid and fruitful" and could prove to be a "turning point" in his push to defrost ties with Cuba.
But he said he hadn't yet decided whether to remove Cuba's designation as a state sponsor of terror, an outcome that had previously been expected during the summit. The State Department provided Obama with a review of the terror status this week.
"I want to make sure I have a chance to read it, study it before we announce publicly what the policy outcome is going to be," Obama said. "But in terms of the overall direction of Cuba policy, I think there is a strong majority both in the United States and in Cuba that says our ability to engage, to open up commerce and travel and people to people exchanges is ultimately going to be good for Cuban people."
On Friday night, Obama and Castro greeted each other courteously amid an explosion of camera flashes, shaking hands before dining at the inaugural session of the conference. The two sat at the same table but not directly next to one another.
Before Obama arrived in Panama on Wednesday, he spoke with Castro by phone, laying the groundwork for what will become a new era of relations between the neighboring countries.
No interest in old battles
"The Cold War has been over for a long time," Obama said during opening remarks at the summit Saturday. "I'm not interested in having battles, frankly, that began before I was born."
That exhortation, however, seemed to be lost on Castro himself, who expanded what was meant to be a six-minute speech into a 50-minute address lecturing leaders on Cuba's revolution and giving a litany of perceived grievances to Cuba over the past 50 years.
But he distinguished Obama from past American presidents, saying he respected Obama's move toward reconciliation.
"In my opinion, President Obama in an honest man," Castro said through an interpreter. "I admire him, and I think his behavior has a lot to do with his humble background."
A U.S. administration official said Castro's long list of grievances was expected, despite the move toward diplomatic ties.
"(What's) unique and new is what he said about the president," the official said of Castro's praise for Obama.
Ending a half century of strife
President Barack Obama holds a joint press meeting with Cuban President Raul Castro at the VII Summit of the Americas in Panama City, Panama, on Saturday, April 11. Regional leaders gathered for the historic summit that saw U.S. and Cuban leaders sit face to face for the first time in more than 50 years. In December, Obama announced he was seeking to renew diplomatic ties with Cuba after half a century of strife, including eventually opening embassies in Washington and Havana.
Obama announced in December that he was seeking to renew diplomatic relations with Cuba after half a century of strife, including eventually opening embassies in Washington and Havana.
Obama set to test engagement doctrine with Cuba in Panama
His meeting with Castro on Saturday isn't being billed as a formal bilateral session, but Obama's aides are still characterizing the event as the highest-level engagement with the Cuban government since then-Vice President Richard Nixon met with Fidel Castro in 1959.
"We're in new territory here," Ben Rhodes, Obama's deputy national security adviser, said Friday. "The reason we're here is because the President strongly believes that an approach that was focused entirely on isolation, focused entirely on seeking to cut off the Cuban people from the United States of America had failed."
Some skeptics in the United States
The overtures to Cuba have not been universally popular in the United States; some lawmakers were irate that Obama was seeking to engage what they regard as a corrupt government.
"A recommendation to remove Cuba from the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism would represent another significant misstep in a misguided policy," Sen. Bob Menendez, a Democrat who used to the chair the Foreign Relations Committee, wrote in a statement last week.
In Latin America, however, Obama was receiving a warm welcome after announcing he was seeking to engage Havana in talks over reopening embassies and removing barriers to commerce and travel.
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He noted to applause during a session Friday that this was the first summit with Cuba in attendance. And he's cast the decision to reopen the U.S. relationship with Cuba as beneficial to the entire hemisphere, which has also embraced his immigration executive action.
But even as Obama landed in Panama, the longstanding gulfs between the two countries' governments were on display. Dissidents opposed to Castro's regime were violently accosted this week by supporters of the Cuban government, a scuffle the White House said was unacceptable.
"As we move toward the process of normalization, we'll have our differences, government to government, with Cuba on many issues – just as we differ at times with other nations within the Americas, just as we differ with our closest allies," Obama said at a meeting of civil society leaders Friday. "There's nothing wrong with that."
"But I'm here to say that when we do speak out, we're going to do so because the United States of America does believe, and will always stand for, a certain set of universal values," he said.
The long history between the U.S. and Cuba
News conference brings out other topics
Obama closed out his time in Panama with a news conference where he covered topics ranging from Hillary Clinton's expected presidential announcement to his framework deal with Iran on its nuclear program.
The President had pointed criticism for Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona. Earlier this week, McCain accused Secretary of State John Kerry of intentionally mischaracterizing what the sides had agreed to in the Iran nuclear deal.
"John Kerry is delusional," McCain said on the Hugh Hewitt show, a conservative talk radio program, adding that the view from the Supreme Leader of Iran of the provisions agreed to "is probably right," rather than what the United States maintains are the agreed provisions.
While discussing the Iran agreement Saturday, Obama brought up those remarks without being asked.
"When I hear someone like Sen. McCain recently suggest that our secretary of state, John Kerry, who served in the United States Senate, (is) a Vietnam veteran, who's provided exemplary service to this nation, is somehow less trustworthy of the interpretation of what's in a political agreement than the Supreme Leader of Iran, that's an indication of the degree to which partisanship has crossed all boundaries," he said at the news conference.
After the President's remarks, McCain tweeted "So Pres. Obama goes to #Panama, meets with Castro and attacks me - I'm sure Raul is pleased."
As for his 2008 Democratic rival, Obama said, "If she decides to run, if she makes an announcement, she's going to have some strong messages to deliver," he said.

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Summerland Tour 2015 Set To Feature Everclear, Toadies, Fuel & American Hi-Fi
March 24, 2015 March 24, 2015 Terri
"Summerland Tour"
Set To Feature
Everclear, Toadies, Fuel & American Hi-Fi
Lineup and Tour Dates Announced
Everclear set to release new album Black Is The New Black on April 28th
via The End Records/ADA.
New York, NY – March 24, 2015 – The 4th annual 90's alternative music tour is proud to announce Everclear, Toadies, Fuel & American Hi-Fi to perform at each date of this year's "Summerland Tour." Summerland Tour, previously heralded by Rolling Stone as one of the "10 Hottest Summer Package Tours", will take the nation by storm kicking off on June 11th in Ft. Myers, Florida. For more information, please visit: http://summerlandtour.net/.
Formed in 2012 by Art Alexakis, lead guitarist and vocalist of Everclear, Summerland Tour has featured notable nostalgic bands such as Soul Asylum, Eve 6, Space Hog, Gin Blossoms, Lit, Sugar Ray, Marcy Playground, Live, Filter, and Sponge. Tickets for Summerland Tour 2015 are set to go on sale this weekend, on March 27th in select markets. Everclear VIP packages will also be available for purchase.
With tremendous excitement towards this year's Summerland Tour, Alexakis explains, "This is the kind of line up I've dreamed of when I started the Summerland Tour. With Toadies, Fuel, American Hi-Fi, and of course Everclear, this is guitar rock at its finest. I can't wait to see how people react each night. Game on!"
EVERCLEAR (http://www.everclearonline.com/)
For over two decades, Everclear's sound has reflected the rock, post-punk, and singer/songwriter influences of Art Alexakis, including acts like X, the Replacements, the Pixies, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, and Elvis Costello. The band found success with their first three albums on Capitol Records, Sparkle and Fade, So Much for the Afterglow, and Songs from an American Movie Vol. One: Learning How to Smile, which were all certified platinum.
On April 28th, Everclear will release their ninth studio album titled Black Is The New Black via The End Records/ADA. Across the album, the insistent kick of drummer Sean Winchester, athletic groove of bassist Freddy Herrera, and ridiculously skilled guitar shred of Davey French join forces behind the storm of giant guitar riffs swinging mightily from song to song. A bit of tasteful keyboards from Josh Crawley add atmospheric punch to songs that could crush a tiny dive bar or destroy the cheap seats in the world's biggest arena with equal force. Fans will be able to purchase the Black Is The New Black Vinyl starting June 16, 2015.
TOADIES (http://thetoadies.com/)
After bursting onto the national scene with their breakthrough Rubberneck album, which begat their signature single "Possum Kingdom," the successful follow-up single "Away" and the immense fan favorite "Tyler," Toadies have recently revisited their platinum-selling 1994 debut with a 20th anniversary reissue of the album.
The Toadies remain raw. Vaden Todd Lewis still sings as though he's on the precipice of insanity, clinging tenaciously but perhaps already plummeting. Lewis's and Clark Vogeler's guitars rip and tear like thick fingernails at supple flesh. Mark Reznicek and bass player Doni Blair (who joined the band in 2008) fuel the fury with relentless, seething rhythm.
FUEL (http://www.fuelrocks.com/)
Fuel formed in 1993 while playing the club circuit in and around Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The band signed to Sony Records and in 1998 released their critically lauded, debut album Sunburn with the massive hit single "Shimmer". Their second album Something Like Human took the band to a new level of stardom, hitting multi-platinum status driven by the singles "Innocent" and "Hemorrhage", which remained at #1 for ten weeks. In 2003 Fuel released their third record Natural Selection, and found success at radio again with the hit song "Falls On Me".
Made up of Brett Scallions (Vocals), Andy Andersson (Guitar), Brad Stewart (Bass) and Shannon Boone (Drums), Fuel released their most recent album Puppet Strings on MRI/Red. Catapulted by the first single, the driving, hypnotic "Soul To Preach To", the album entered the Billboard rock charts at #1.
AMERICAN HI-FI (http://www.americanhi-fi.com/)
Blood & Lemonade is American Hi-Fi's fourth full length and their first since 2010's Fight the Frequency. Featuring the "Golden State" and other notables "Allison" and "Armageddon Days," the record wholly embraces the sound and spirit of classic, balls-to-the-wall, guitar rock mixed with the power pop sensibilities that lead to their worldwide smash "Flavor of The Weak." Blood & Lemonade was released worldwide on September 16th, 2014 via Rude Records.
In support of the record, American Hi-Fi's Stacy Jones (vocals, guitar), Jamie Arentzen (guitar), Drew Parsons (bass)and Brian Nolan (drums) performed a special one-off at London's famed 100 Club, which sold out quickly after being announced. The band also performed select shows in Los Angeles, New York City, and Boston in support of the album's release.
SUMMERLAND 2014 TOUR DATES (subject to change):
June 11 – Ft Myers, FL @ Top Rocker Field at Six Bends Harley Davidson Fort
June 12 – Alpharetta GA @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park
June 13 – Charlotte, NC @ Uptown Amphitheatre at Music Factory
June 14 – Seminole, FL @ Screwie Louie's
June 19 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE – Outdoors
June 21 – Morristown, NJ @ Mayo Performing Arts Center
June 23 – New York, NY @ Irving Plaza
June 24 – Boston, MA @ House of Blues
June 25 – Bethlehem, PA @ Sands Bethlehem Event Center
June 26 – Utica, NY @ Saranac Brewery
July 9 – Arlington Heights, IL @ HOME Bar
July 10 – Woodhaven, MI @ Uncle Sam Jam – Civic Center Park
July 11 – Ft Wayne, IN @ Three Rivers Festival – Headwaters Park
July 12 – Cleveland, OH @ Agora Theatre
July 15 – Lubbock, TX @ Lonestar Amphitheatre
July 16 – Cedar Park, TX @ Cedar Park Center
July 17 – Houston, TX @ Bayou Music Center
July 18 – Corpus Christi, TX @ Concrete Street Amphitheater
July 19 – San Antonio, TX @ The Aztec Theater
July 21 – Springfield, MO @ Gillioz Theatre
July 24 – Kansas City, MO @ KC Live!/Power & Light District
July 25 – Pocola, OK @ Choctaw Casino Resort
July 29 – Bemidji, MN @ Sanford Center
July 30 – Minneapolis, MN @ Mill City Nights
August 1 – Denver, CO @ Denver Country Fair
August 4 – Garden City, ID @ Revolution Center
August 7 – Reno, NV @ Cargo at Whitney Peak Hotel
August 8 – Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl
August 9 – Tempe, AZ @ The Marquee
August 13 – Los Angeles, CA @ Club Nokia Live
August 15 – Fresno, CA @ Blackbeard's Family Entertainment
August 16 – Riverside, CA @ Riverside Municipal Auditorium
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Chris Ayres on the Wilshire Boulevard practice that's a sanctuary for Tinseltown's follically challenged stars.
Aside from the words "Alvi Armani" etched into a smoked-glass partition, the entry lounge of the tenth-floor suite at 8500 Wilshire Boulevard - located above a nondescript bank branch on the edge of Beverly Hills - gives no hint as to what goes on beyond the unmanned reception desk. There's just a sofa, a vase of purple orchids, a flat-screen TV and a coffee table with a glossy magazine placed on top at a perfect right angle.
Such meticulous anonymity - there are no product brochures on display, no informative posters, no slogans or branding of any kind - makes you wonder for a moment if you might have found yourself in a field office for someunofficial branch of the CIA.
The real explanation, however, involves a matter of far greater delicacy. Here in this suite, an unspeakable taboo is confronted, often after years - decades, even - of private anguish. In many ways, it is a place of Ultimate Reckoning: where the impossibility of death in the mind of someone living - as Damien Hirst so memorably put it - meets the unyielding reality of human decay. Yes, Alvi Armani is a clinic... for balding men. And not just any men, either - but some of the richest and most prominent individuals on the planet.
If the name "Alvi Armani" sounds familiar, it's most likely because of the alleged patient who was recently caught by paparazzi climbing into a limousine in the facility's underground garage - one Gordon Ramsay, of Kitchen Nightmares fame. In the photograph, the Michelin-starred chef was fitted with a surgical cap and looked dazed and puffy-eyed. "Gordon Barnet!" sniggered The Sun.
In spite of such jeers, however, the Armani clinic - founded by the esteemed Italian surgeon Antonio Armani (unrelated to the clothing designer of the same name) - is at the follicle-tip of a revolution in so-called "hair restoration" technology that is already well on the way to eliminating baldness in notable males of a certain age. Its secret? The treatment is pre-emptive. Plus, the new hair grows in over 18 months, which is why, if not for the occasional enterprising photographer, the work goes mostly undetected.
Although it is impossible to know who has had the procedure, the statistical fact that two-thirds of males should by rights have lost their hair by the age of 60 doesn't make it hard to guess. John Cleese, now 71, is one of the few who've come clean, explaining that he got a transplant because, "I've got a very strange-shaped skull, very pointy, and I don't like wearing wigs." In fact, the shock these days is more when men don't take action - hence the recent serious-minded reports on Prince William's scalp by the Associated Press, and the incredulous whispers in Hollywood whenever Hugh Laurie gets his thinning crown touched up with a spray can on the set of House, M.D.
"I would say that more than 90 per cent of everyone you see out there has had it done," says Dr Baubac Hayatdavoudi, the 35-year-old surgeon who took over the Armani clinic in Beverly Hills two years ago, when I ask him to guess how many suspiciously hirsute celebrities have undergone some kind of major scalpwork. "They just come here before it gets obvious. It used to be a taboo in this business to treat young people. It was always, y'know, 'Let's wait and see how your hair loss progresses...'" Well, not any more.
It was Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, who made the first scientific observation on the subject of baldness when he reported that of all the Ancient Greek men in 400BC, only the eunuchs never receded or thinned. He didn't know why, of course.
But we do now: men castrated before puberty don't produce testosterone, and therefore neither its evil mutant offspring, dihydrotestosterone, or DHT. It is DHT that acts like Kryptonite on men's follicles, but only if those follicles have been equipped with so-called "DHT receptors", a factor decided without consultation or appeal by the cruel lottery of genetics.
Before such things were known, "baldness cures" were nothing of the sort, really. Hippocrates treated his own dying rug with everything from sheep's urine to horseradish, cumin, pigeon droppings and nettles. It took a couple of millennia for the first big advance in follicular treatments to arrive - the 1804 experiment by an Italian doctor, Giuseppe Baronio, that involved cutting a strip of skin from a living sheep, then grafting it back on to the unfortunate creature 80 minutes later. To everyone's surprise, the skin survived - thus proving that "autografts" (removing skin from one part of the body and moving it to another) were viable. From here the action moved to Germany, where in 1914 a doctor named Franz Krusius used the same principle for a successful eyelash transplantation, and then to Japan, where Shoji Okuda announced in 1939 that he had performed some 30 hair transplants using various jerry-rigged circular punches of between 1.5mm and 5mm (they were driven into patients' scalps using nothing but "force and rotation"). Because his work was published in Japanese just before the Second World War, it took decades to reach the West. In the meantime, however, a New York dermatologist, Norman Orentreich - now 89 years old - discovered in the Fifties that hairs on the back and sides of the male head were immune to the influence of DHT, and that if sections of scalp were removed from these areas and grafted on to a balding pate, they continued to grow healthily. "Donor dominance" was the term he came up with, and it has been the founding principle of hair-loss surgery ever since.
There was a big problem with all of this, however. When clumps of 30 to 50 hairs were cut out of a patient's scalp and relocated - sometimes with the punch attached to an electric drill, to speed things up and increase profitability - they created scarring at the donor site, not to mention those unnatural-looking "plugs" of hair in the area being repopulated. As a result, various work-arounds were attempted, mostly with disastrous consequences: "scalp reductions" (the scars resembled axe marks); "hair flaps" (there was risk of oddly angled hair and, in some awful cases, "flap death", or tissue necrosis) and "micrografts" (splitting grafts into smaller pieces).
Some of these procedures were still being offered in the Nineties. Then finally came the "strip method", whereby all the donor hairs were "harvested" in one go by cutting out a long, rectangular section of scalp from the back of the head and sewing the gap shut. The donor strip was then split into micrografts and planted into holes on the top of the head made by a scalpel nick. It was a relatively clean technique with half-decent results, but still left a "happyInside faced" scar on the back of the patient's head, ruling out short haircuts.
This is where Dr Armani comes in. Basically, he founded his business in 1999 with the aim of harvesting only individual "follicular units" - made up of one to four hairs plus the surrounding oil glands, muscles, and connecting tissue - using tiny, needle-like pricks in the donor area. Each follicular unit, also known as an ultra-micrograft, is then transplanted to the top of the head using a tool like jeweller's forceps. Scarring is barely detectable, even with very short hair. Also, fewer hairs are lost during harvesting, and therefore "transplant density" is improved. Most importantly, the pluggy look doesn't happen - or at least not in theory. "In this clinic, plugs are a dirty word," says Dr Hayatdavoudi.
For privacy reasons, The Times isn't allowed to sit in on one of Dr Hayatdavoudi's consultations, but fortunately a test subject is on hand in the form of... well, your very own correspondent. I keep my hair closely shaved - after it became obvious in my mid-twenties that it was staging a retreat on all fronts. Thankfully, by then, the semiskinhead look was acceptable (thank you, Jason Statham and Bruce Willis) so I bought some shears and haven't thought about it much since. In fact, baldness came as something as a relief, given that I had been cursed in the first place with fluorescent ginger hair.
Clearly, for Dr Hayatdavoudi, this business is personal. He tells me that he began losing his hair in his midtwenties, pretty much at the exact moment he'd finished his medical studies and could finally relax. Like many of his patients, he soon entered the realm of "extreme styling" to conceal his loss. "I do a lot of yoga and other outdoor stuff, so it was really..." - he struggles to find a word - "bothersome." You also get the sense that his family's Iranian culture wouldn't have been cool with the Buddist monk look, although with his strong features and athletic bearing, he could surely have pulled it off as well as anyone. So in 2003, at the age of 27, he had his first transplant, performed by Dr Armani himself. And when the hair further back on his scalp began to thin 14 months ago, he had a second operation. The result is impressive enough that you'd never question it, as long as you didn't know what he did for a living. As it is, there's a certain level of perfection to the hairline that made me suspect from the beginning that he might be one of his own patients.
For the near future, then, the choice for men with underendowed scalps is a simple one: the buzz cut or the surgeon's knife. And, of course, the earlier any action is taken, the better - because these days, no one need ever know what happened. Which brings Dr Hayatdavoudi to the subject of England's future king, Prince William - and whether or not his horse has already bolted in that regard. "He actually has a great donor area and would be a great candidate," he says.
Alas, however, it's unlikely that even the Alvi Armani clinic, with its unmarked doors and security detail in the car park, could handle such a client. "A VIP session would be best suited for him," agrees Dr Hayatdavoudi, apparently unfazed by the prospect of an in-house transplant at Buckingham Palace.


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To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what evidence his Department holds on the effectiveness of Multi Academy Trusts in improving educational outcomes for pupils.

Performance data illustrates how disadvantaged pupils in academy trusts are making more progress at GCSE level than the equivalent national average. Data for key stage 4 and academy trust performance in 2018 is available here:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/774014/2018_KS4_main_text.pdf.

In primary schools within academy trusts, disadvantaged pupils performed significantly better than the equivalent national average in writing and maths. Data for key stage 2 and academy trust performance is available here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/774446/KS2_Revised.

The department has also conducted a series of assessments into the effectiveness of academy trusts in improving educational outcomes for pupils. In 2019, we published internal analysis of the performance of sponsored academies, which typically converted to academy status due to underperformance. Our analysis concluded that pupil outcomes in sponsored academies have typically improved since their formation in comparison with sets of similar schools. The analysis is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sponsored-academy-performance. Evidence shows there are now more than 550,000 pupils in good or outstanding sponsored academies, which typically replaced underperforming local authority schools.

In addition to our own internal analysis, we also hold evidence produced by external organisations, such as the one produced by the Institute of Education, available here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/763796/School_Improvement_in_Multi-School_groups_-_FINAL_10122018.pdf.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to incentivise multi-academy trusts to deliver effective school improvements; and if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of creating a mechanism for schools to decide to move between multi-academy trusts.

Academy trusts operate under a strict system of oversight and accountability for the quality of education they provide, which informs decisions about targeted support or intervention. Regional School Commissioners work to support academy trusts within their regions and, where appropriate, encourage academies and trusts to apply for funding to support school improvement, such as The Multi-academy trust Development and Improvement Fund.

Where a school wishes to leave a trust of which it is already a part of, this is possible with the consent of my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, providing both the school and the trust are in favour; that it can be demonstrated there will be greater benefits for the school from joining another trust; and that the capacity of the existing trust is not diminished.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the five growth checks for multi-academy trusts.

The department has conducted an assessment of the multi-academy trust (MAT) development programme, previously referred to as growth checks. A summary of the assessment will be published in due course.

The materials for the MAT development programme can be found at: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/722985/MAT_Development_Programme_2018_resource.pdf.

Regional Schools Commissioners: West Midlands
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to update the April 2016 Regional Vision Statement for the West Midlands and publish a new statement.

In light of changes over time to how Regional Schools Commissioners (RSCs) interact with the school system, we are reviewing the published Regional Vision Statements, and expect to decide on any replacements or revisions shortly.

The RSC for the West Midlands will be meeting my hon. Friend, the Member for Walsall North, on 22 July 2019 at which time he will be able to discuss the regional vision for the West Midlands RSC area.

What fiscal steps he is taking to grow the digital economy.

The UK's digital economy is thriving - growing ten times as fast as the wider economy - and we are pursuing a range of measures to reinforce its world-leading position. These include:

Implementing a 10-year action plan to unlock over £20 billion to finance growth in innovative firms;

Committing a further £7 billion for research and development since 2016, with major investments in artificial intelligence and quantum technologies; and

Providing internationally competitive research and development tax reliefs to support investment.

We are also embracing the opportunities presented by Distributed Ledger Technologies, including by:

Investing over £10 million through Innovate UK and the research councils; and

Creating the £20 million GovTech Catalyst Fund, to explore technology-based solutions for public sector challenges.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what (a) reassurances about the health of Jagtar Singh Johal and (b) information on when he will (i) stand trial or (ii) be released his Department has received from the Indian Government.

Our consular staff in India visit Mr Johal regularly to monitor his welfare and ensure he is able to access his legal representatives. They last visited Mr Johal on 27 June. The British Government cannot interfere in the judicial processes of other countries any more than we would accept interference in our own judicial system. However, we can consider approaching the authorities if there are concerns that a trial does not follow internationally recognised standards for a fair trial or is unreasonably delayed compared to local cases. In our representations to the Government of India on Mr Johal's behalf, we have raised his right to a fair trial.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what progress he has made with his Indian counterpart on securing the release of Jagtar Singh Johal.

We make frequent representations on Mr Johal's behalf. Most recently, the British High Commissioner to India raised Mr Johal's case with the Indian Foreign Secretary on 10 May, and with the Indian High Commissioner to the UK on 10 June. The Minister for Asia and the Pacific also raised Mr Johal's case with the Indian Foreign Secretary on 12 March. The Foreign Secretary and the Minister for Asia and the Pacific met with Mr Johal's family and their MP, Martin Docherty-Hughes on 24 April. Our consular staff in India continue to regularly visit Mr Johal.

Carbon Monoxide: Alarms
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Written Statement of 30 April 2018, HCWS657 on Carbon Monoxide Detection and Safety, when the review of the requirements and the evidence base for improving carbon monoxide detection and safety will be concluded; and if he will make a statement.

The Government carried out a review of carbon monoxide alarm requirements in 2018. The findings of this review are being considered alongside responses to the Social Housing Green Paper. We will set out the findings of the review and next steps in the Government response to the Green Paper in September 2019.

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Dinyar Anklesaria: A Culinary Journey
Food and Beverage | Individuals
If you happen to travel to Sacramento California and ask any one where one finds a good restaurant serving Parsi food, they will tell you not to miss the restaurant operated by Dinyar Noshir Anklesaria.
Parsi Khabar invites our readers to submit articles for publishing. This article has been written by Aspi Ustad of Vancouver, Canada
He is a name synonymous with Parsi Food in Northern California. People who know him well, call him 'Dino' with love.
Dinyar traveled thru East coast of US to the West, served many a celebrities in his restaurants and charmed many thru his delicious cooking recipes handed over for generations.
He is not only good at dishing out Parsi cusine to name a few Dhanshak, sali boti, chicken farcha, patra-ni-machi, but also serves mughlai dishes which includes, Mutton Biryani, Tikka Boti, Butter Chicken, Nihari, etc.
Born to Noshir and Roshan Anklesaria in Ahmedabad, India. Brought up in close knit parsi community of Karachi. His interest with food was attained at an early age, when he saw his mom cook delicious parsi dishes. Her Dal-ni-Pori, Bhakra, were very famous in Karachi households and till date in Vancouver.
After completing his schooling from B V S High School, Karachi, he went on to complete his studies in science. He always dreamt like many youngsters of setting foot on American soil and achieve what's called "The American Dream". This American dream of succeeding in life took him to the door steps of New York city, where he started working as a car salesperson. The job did not interest him much so he moved to try his hand at cooking and start a restaurant of his own. "Times were tough. It was not easy to penetrate the restaurant market with already established brands" says Dinyar.
He partnered with a Parsi friend to set up a Parsi restaurant. He met with good success and people were flowing thru but location had parking issues which made them draw down shutters and move. 'I had to sacrifice a lot, and make some life changing decisions at that time' says Dinyar.
He moved to Conneticut and later travelled thru a few states before making his mark in California where he now has his roots firmly sunk in. He has established himself well in California and is a household name amongst most parsis.
Dinyar says "They order food during special occasions like birthdays, anniversaries, Navjote, Weddings". He laughs and says "they need a reason to order my food".
He also provides catering service to large companies in the Silicon Valley. His vegetarian dishes are a hit amongst the cross section of population he serves in these companies. He states "Dal Makhani, Sak, topped up with mango lassi are instant hits". He goes on to say "if someone places an order for 50 people I make sure I have more food, in case of last minute arrivals. There have been instances where the crowd turns out to be more then the order placed by the host".
Dinyar knows his patrons well and they know that Dinyar will never disappoint even if there are changes to the menu at the last moment or if the number of guests goes up.
Dinyar attributes his art of cooking to his mom Roshan from whom he learnt cooking in his earlier days and attributes his taste for good food to his dad Noshir from whom he also learnt the art to negotiate at the time of buying groceries.
Presently he has ventured into consulting and managing restaurants, wherein he takes up restaurants which are not doing well and turns them into profitable ventures. He says "First thing I look at is the menu and suggests changes, then I look at the décor, if it is not suitable I get it changed. These things bring in more business for restaurants and some of the owners do not pay attention to these finer details". His consultancy is increasing and he has to turn down some of the offers he gets. As he says "I am a one man band and cope up with so much of quality work and do not want to disappoint anyone"
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