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YOUNG WORLD ...
Ian McNabb started his musical career with this cabaret band playing working men's clubs, weddings etc. Chris Sharrock joined the band at the age of 9. Band also feat; Lynn Newall [bass], David Newall, Peter Newall and Cheryl Leigh [later Word For Word, When It Rains]. At the age of 16, Ian joined another band called CITY LIGHTS. Throughout this time, Chris and Ian remained good friends. Chris and Cheryl worked in a at least two bands later.
CITY LIGHTS ...
The band formed in Summer 1976 featuring James Hughes (keyboards) [later Cherry Boys, Exhibit B], Jimmy Sangster (bass) [later of Black], Kymm Morgan (guitar), John Scott (vocals) and Mark Cowley (drums).
This line up lasted about 6 months and recorded a 3 song demo in Amazon Studios [4 track]. Managerial/parent disputes led to Scott, Cowley and Morgan leaving the band. Scott still sings around Liverpool and Mark Cowley went on to manage Space.
Enter new guitarist Ian McNabb who answered a Liverpool Echo advert (early 1977) and Howie Minns (drums) [later Cherry Boys, Exhibit B]. The band worked extensively around north England clocking up an average of 170 gigs per year from 1977 to August 80. They recorded several studio sessions feat cover versions, together with the first original songs from McNabb and also Hughes. Demos rel 4 songs (covers) 1977, 13 song demo 1978, 3 song demo 1979, 12 songs prod by Roy White (1979-80). A few bits of film exist of the band from 1978 (silent cine film) and a full gig filmed in 1981. Last performance of the band was at the final night of the Warehouse club in Liverpool where they played as a birthday treat for Dave C empressario and later of Royal Court fame they played The Doors 'Light My Fire' and later that night the club burnt down, a film exists of this event (the gig, not the fire!). Howie became Eddie Shit and had a spell playing drums for The Macc Lads 1989-1992. Keith Gunsun (bass) [Cherry Boys, Caroline 199] also played at some point
CHERRY BOYS ...
Wirral mod band (1980-83) feat; Chris Sharrock (drms) (ex Young World, La's, Lightning Seeds), John Cherry (guitar,vocals), Keith Gunson (bass,vocals) (ex City Lights, later Caroline 199), James Hughes (keyboards) (ex City Lights, later Exhibit B) & Howie Minns (drums) (ex City Lights, later Exhibit B, Bamboo Fringe, Macc Lads) joined in '81. Rel 7″ Come The Day on Cherryoza recs, Kardomah Café on Crash Recs (1983), hitting No.17 in UK Indie Charts, also 7″ single Man to Man b/w So Much Confusion on Open Eye Recs OE5 (1981) which came in an embossed pic sleeve, other rel Shoot The Big Shot on Crash, (CRA 604, 1983). They also rel a tape with 6 tracks called "Give it Rice" incl, Kardoma Cafe, Come The Day, Why Don't You Write, She's So Young, Phone Call, Don't Leave Me That Way.
ELANOR ...
.. were formed out of a school band at SFX college in Liverpool (approx 1976), featuring Chris Layhe (drums, later bass, vocals), John Corner (guitar) [later of Sneex], Alan Redmond (guitar), Roy Martin (drums). Originally called Blind Owl & once Bandito. Songs include 'Sound of the City', 'Nothing's Right', and covers such as 'Bonie Moronie'. Played regularly at the Sportsman pub in St John's Precinct every Sunday. Chris interestingly called his daughter Eleanor (with an 'e')
EXHIBIT B ...
- band feat; Jimmy Hughes (voc) (ex Cherry Boys, City Lights), Howie Minns (ex Cherry Boys, City Lights, later Bamboo Fringe, Macc Lads), James Brady (keys), Jimmy Sangster (bass) (ex City Lights, later Black). Rel 12″ Who Killed The Smile? (Pentagon recs May86), 7″ It's Hypothetical (Pentagon Aug86) & an LP 'Playing Dead' (Pentagon Jan88). Howie once said; 'I'd like to round up all record company employees in a room & machine gun them all down.'. The LP will be re-rel (Jan07) on CD for the first time (with 7 bonus tracks)
HERE'S JOHNNY ...
- band (formed 1983) feat; Roy Corkhill (bass) (ex Black, Third Man, later Icicle Works), Dave Whittaker (bass) (ex Visual Aids, Jass Babies), Andy Zsigmund (gtr), David Knowles (keys) (ex Achilles, Virgin Dance), Steve Brown (drms) (ex Jazz Babies, Afraid of Mice), Colin McKay (ex Achilles) (voc,gtr) was the main force behind it, writing most or all of the material. Had track on 'Son of Jobs For The Boys' comp LP (Natalie recs Jun85) & rel 4 singles on RCA between 1985-86 - I Fall Apart (Jun85), Love You To Death (Mar86), Hellzappopin (Jun86), Idlewild. The band were tipped for stardom but RCA decided to put their money on Fairground Attraction and Here's Johnny faded away.
THIRD MAN ...
- band of mid-late 80s, feat; Pete McPartland (voc) (ex Jactars, now Rash), Elaine Harris (voc), Roy Corkhill (bass) (ex Black, Here's Johnny, later Icicle Works), and briefly Terry Jones (bass) (ex Blue Forest) who left after a couple of rehearsals, also had Paul Jones (bass) (later of Catatonia). Joey Musker (drms) (ex Wah!, Dead or Alive). There was a demo made and played at the Café Berlin. Band morphed into The Big I Am
BLACK ...
- 3-pc band, feat; Colin Vearncome (guitar,vocals), Roy Corkhill (bass) (later Third Man, Here's Johnny, Icicle Works), Martin Green (sax) (ex Numbers 28, White Russians, China Crisis), Jimmy Hughes (drms), Dave 'Dix' Dickie (keys) (ex Last Chant). Rel 7″ Wonderful Life on Ugly Man Recs (1986), then Colin went solo & signed to A&M & the song became a huge hit (#8 in UK Charts), following Sweetest Smile (also #8). Continued making the Top 75 until 1991 with Paradise, Big One, Now You're Gone, Feel Like Change & Here it Comes Again. Colin & Roy also did live work for Grown Up Strange (1986-87). Also feat; Jimmy Sangster (ex City Lights) who joined 1983. Dave Dix now works at the Kashmir Klub and has produced and engineered many chart acts.
The Early Years [1980 - 1984]
The band was founded in Liverpool in 1980 when bassist Chris Layhe (who had been in a couple of local rock bands including Elanor and Blind Owl) answered an advertisement for a musical collaborator placed by 20 year old Ian McNabb. The two got together and started writing. They quickly added drummer Chris Sharrock (who had previously drummed for the Cherry Boys), and began playing live shows as "The Icicle Works".
In 1981, the band recorded a six-song independently released cassette entitled Ascending that was primarily sold at Liverpool's Probe Records, they didn't make their official debut until October 1982, when the independent "Nirvana" single was issued on Troll Kitchen. It reached number 15 on the U.K. independent chart.
The following year, the Icicle Works were signed to the Beggars Banquet label, who issued the single "Birds Fly (Whisper To A Scream)" on their subsidiary label Situation Two.
Later that year, The Icicle Works' released their biggest UK hit, 1983's "Love is a Wonderful Colour", which was a UK Top 15 single. Their debut eponymous album (1984) followed shortly thereafter, reached number 24 on the UK charts and entered the U.S. top 40. Also appearing on the U.S. top 40 singles charts at around the same time (and hitting the Canadian top twenty) was "Whisper to a Scream (Birds Fly)", a retitled and slightly remixed version of the band's Situation Two release of 1983.
The Banquet Years [1985 - 1988]
After the release of their self-titled debut album the Icicle Works struggled to match their initial commercial success. However, they continued to receive critical acclaim as a live band and secured a loyal fan base both in the UK and abroad. Some have attributed the lack of commercial success to The Icicle Works' change in sound over the years, from an initial 'new wave' feel to a more straight-ahead (but then-unfashionable) rock sound inspired by Neil Young, The Doors and The Ramones, amongst others.
In September 1984 the band issued the single "Hollow Horse", which continued to be a live favourite and the folk-rock inspired "Seven Horses". The band continued to enjoy acclaim in the UK, US and Japan but struggled to reclaim their initial chart success.
Beginning in 1986, though the band was still officially a trio, keyboardist Dave Green became an auxiliary member of The Icicle Works, playing at live shows and contributing to the band's recordings. Prior to Green's arrival, Chris "Tugsie" Turrill played live keyboards for about 18 months. Both McNabb and Layhe had previously doubled up on instruments playing guitar, keyboard and percussion at live gigs. Layhe was often seen playing the octobans and McNabb occasionally played an open tuned guitar with his right hand and a keyboard with his left.
In early 1986, Beggars' Banquet compiled all the 12" mixes of the band's singles onto a UK-only LP entitled Seven Singles Deep, which hit number 52 on the British album charts.
In July 1986, The Icicle Works had a top 75 chart hit with the almost punk-sounding "Understanding Jane", which peaked at number 52. The pop-oriented follow-up single "Who Do You Want For Your Love" peaked at number 54, and January 1987's "Evangeline" peaked at number 53. All three songs found their way on to the 1987 album If You Want to Defeat Your Enemy Sing His Song, produced by Ian Broudie. The album was released in both Britain and North America and hit number 28 on the UK charts.
Later in 1987, The Icicle Works issued the single "High Time". It just missed the British top 75 (peaking at number 76) but in 1988 it hit number 13 on the newly created US Modern Rock charts.
The band's fourth studio album, Blind, was produced by McNabb and issued in 1988. The album featured 13 tracks in the UK and Canada, but the US version of the album featured a different track listing, slightly edited versions of a few songs, and a different cover. Still, both versions of the album contained "High Time" and the minor British hit "Little Girl Lost", which peaked at number 59.
The Epic Truth and Beauty [1989 - 1993]
By the late 1980s, tensions within the group were increasing, allegedly due to McNabb's controlling ways. By 1988, in addition to writing virtually all of The Icicle Works' material (as well as singing and playing guitar) McNabb was also producing the group's records.
Accordingly, shortly after Blind was issued, drummer Chris Sharrock departed to The La's. Sharrock would later be a member of The Lightning Seeds and World Party, and would also drum for Robbie Williams, Del Amitri, Eurythmics and Oasis. Layhe also departed at this time and Beggars Banquet dropped the group from their roster.
McNabb continued to perform under the name The Icicle Works for a while. Dave Green was promoted to official membership status, although he would leave the band within a year. Zak Starkey was added on drums for a time, and various keyboardists, bassists, and guitarists passed through before the band released their final album Permanent Damage (1990), recorded for Epic/Sony. By that time, the band's lineup was McNabb, bassist Roy Corkill, former 10cc and Jethro Tull drummer Paul Burgess, keyboardist Dave Baldwin, and backing vocalist Mark Revell.
This 'second-generation' version of The Icicle Works quietly broke up after Permanent Damage failed to chart, and Ian split with Epic that same year.
McNabb's solo career officially began in 1991 with the release of the single Great Dreams of Heaven.
In 1992, a compilation called The Best of The Icicle Works was released, containing the best of their work from the Beggars Banquet years. Two years later, a live recording of a 1987 concert was issued.
Over the next few months he began preparing songs for what would become his first solo album Truth and Beauty. Self-financed, and released on Andrew Lauder's new label 'This Way Up' in March 1993, the album was rapturously received by both fans and critics alike, finding its way into magazine end of year polls, and even making it into Q magazine's 'best albums released during Q's lifetime'!
The Solo Years [1993 - 1997]
Following the split of the Icicle Works in 1990, and the subsequent dissolution of The Wild Swans, McNabb issued two singles in 1991 to little notice. He then resurfaced in 1993 with a collection of demos which would form the basis of his first solo album, Truth and Beauty. Recorded on a shoestring, it won him a record deal with Andrew Lauder's new 'This Way Up' Label.
The album's first proper single "If Love Was Like Guitars" became a minor UK hit in 1993. Following this, the 1991 single "Great Dreams of Heaven" was re-released, but failed to gain much airplay, possibly due to lyrical references such as "babies being born H.I.V."
The next single pulled from the album ("I'm Game") failed to chart, so This Way Up went for a different strategy. "(I Go) My Own Way" was re-recorded with Stone Roses producer John Leckie at the helm, but it too failed to significantly impact on the UK charts. Still, This Way Up stuck with McNabb and vice versa.
Post-Truth and Beauty, McNabb was allegedly inspired to a rockier sound by the engineer who mastered that record, telling him "Aye, Ian, your rocking days are behind you." Legend has it that McNabb went back to his home in Liverpool, and recorded a demo of what would become the coruscating opener of Head Like a Rock, "Fire Inside My Soul".
Now on both a creative and commercial roll, Ian and his new record label knew they had to up the ante for the next release. Ian had written a song called "Fire Inside My Soul" which musically resembled the sound of Neil Young & Crazy Horse. Andrew Lauder had suggested to Ian that it might a good idea for him to record his next album with producer John Porter, who lived and worked in Los Angeles. Ian didn't relish the idea of recording out of his native surroundings, undeterred, Andrew insisted his idea was a sound one. Rather facetiously, Ian suggested that if the services of Neil Young's band could be assured, he would gladly make the long journey to California.
When Crazy Horse eventually met with Ian in November of 1993, they all got on famously and spent five days creating the music which would end up being exactly one half of the new record. Released in July 1994, Head Like a Rock was an immediate success. The album returned Ian to the upper reaches of the top forty once again, cementing his position of a great British singer-songwriter in the minds of both the public and the industry. Further weight was given to this fact when the album was deemed worthy of a nomination for the prestigious 'Mercury prize'. Ian ultimately lost out to 'M people' but reckons he had more fun at the party than they did.
Label boss Andrew Lauder then suggested that McNabb go to record in America, which McNabb was skeptical about. He facetiously suggested to Lauder that his new material sounded like Neil Young and Crazy Horse, and if Lauder could get Crazy Horse to play on the record, he would go to America. A few phone calls later, McNabb found himself in a Los Angeles studio with Crazy Horse drummer Ralph Molina and bassist Billy Talbot. This cast-iron rhythm section appeared on four of the ten tracks on Head Like a Rock, including the #54 UK hit "You Must Be Prepared To Dream". The album's other single, "Go Into The Light", did not feature Crazy Horse and peaked at UK number 66.
Head Like a Rock was subsequently nominated for the 1994 Mercury Music Prize, and although M People would end up taking the award home, the attendant publicity surrounding the award-nominated album propelled Head Like A Rock into the UK album charts, where it peaked at number 29.
Molina and Talbot toured with McNabb in 1994, featuring on the short live bonus CD which accompanied his next album, Merseybeast. This performance also featured Noel Gallagher of Oasis on uncredited rhythm guitar as the group covered The Seeds' "Pushin' Too Hard". Gallagher's refusal to be credited reportedly inspired the later McNabb composition "Don't Patronise Me", although McNabb has always denied this accusation.
The 1996 album Merseybeast saw McNabb with a new backing band called "The Afterlife". But despite high expectations for the new CD, the album's first single, the fierce "Don't Put Your Spell On Me" only hit UK number 72. The second single, the album's title track (which saw McNabb exploring his scouse roots and merging them with West Coast Americana) fared even worse, hitting UK number 74.
Although generally well-received by critics and fans, in the end Merseybeast failed to capitalize on the commercial success of its predecessor. This led to a two-year hiatus on McNabb's part from both touring under his own name, and recording full studio albums.
In 1997, This Way Up parted company with McNabb, and released a 'best-of' collection entitled My Own Way: The Words & Music of Ian McNabb.
Fairfield Records Era [1998 - Present]
On returning to performing his own material, McNabb focused on acoustic music, leading to a residency at the Birmingham club of Ronnie Scott. The material arising out of this became the low-key drummerless album A Party Political Broadcast On Behalf of The Emotional Party, released by McNabb on his own Fairfield label in 1998. Aside from McNabb, the only other musicians on the album were Waterboys Mike Scott and Anthony Thistlethwaite, and legendary bassist Danny Thompson.
McNabb followed APPBOBOTEP with a live acoustic album, Live at Life (2000), compiled from a pair of Christmas gigs in 1999. The album included one newly-written track, "Why Are the Beautiful So Sad", which continued to chronicle McNabb's dislike of celebrity culture as noted earlier in "Don't Patronise Me". The stark confessional nature of the songs, combined with the stripped down approach produced a work of dazzling intensity.
Ian McNabb (2001) marked McNabb's full-band return, and was issued by Sanctuary Records. The album's opening track, "Livin' Proof [Miracles Can Happen]", was written for The Go-Go's reunion which had recently taken place, but was declined by that band. McNabb's version was pressed as a promo single.
The album was moderately received critically, with reviewers complaining of a lack of variety in the rock bombast of the record as compared to its two predecessors. 2001 also saw the issuance of a demos and outtakes collection, Waifs and Strays, which included previously unreleased material and alternate versions of familiar McNabb chestnuts.
McNabb returned to his own Fairfield label in 2002, and issued the low-key The Gentleman Adventurer. Best described as a semi-acoustic album, it is similar in spirit to his first solo album, Truth and Beauty, with occasional use of the drum machine to accompany more upbeat numbers such as "Ain't No Way to Behave". Almost entirely performed by McNabb (with help from his long-time collaborator and bassist in the latter-day Icicle Works Roy Corkill), the album takes in a variety of styles from rock, through ballards, a touch of funk, and acoustic storytelling.
Another "bits and pieces" collection, Boots followed in 2003, the title being both McNabb's nickname (after his penchant for wearing Beatles-style boots in the mid-80s while with The Icicle Works), and a reference to the 'official bootleg' nature of the release. The double disc set includes some very hard to find items, demos, and alternative versions.
2004 saw McNabb issuing a second 'Best Of' album, Potency. This covered his whole solo oeuvre, showcasing his eclectic musical taste and output.
In 2005, McNabb successfully pushed a single, "Let The Young Girl Do What She Wants To" to #38 on the UK charts. This was McNabb's highest-ever chart placing as a solo artist, and his biggest hit since The Icicle Works' "Love Is a Wonderful Colour" reached #15 in early 1984, a span of over 21 years. This unexpected chart success was assisted considerably by his loyal fanbase buying several different formats of the single in an attempt to gain greater publicity and recognition for his then-current album, Before All of This. But despite support from a number of prominent DJs such as Jeremy Vine and Janice Long on BBC Radio 2, further widespread success continued to elude McNabb.
Later in 2005, McNabb released People Don't Stop Believin', an album of b-sides and outtakes from Before All of This.
In December 2007, McNabb's second live album (How We Live - At The Philharmonic) was issued. The album was culled from two June 2007 shows at Liverpool's Philharmonic Hall.
In January and February 2008, McNabb was involved with "The Number One Project", a concert and compilation album celebrating Liverpool's fifty-six #1 singles on the UK charts. McNabb played at the January concert, and subsequently appeared on the album, released in February, with his studio cover of John Lennon's "Woman".
In late 2008, McNabb participated in a concert reunion of City Lights, an early pre-Icicle Works band of which he had been a member as a teen. At the end of the year, McNabb released his autobiography, entitled Merseybeast.
McNabb's latest studio album, Great Things, was first made available at gigs in September, 2009. As of November, it was made available for sale on McNabb's website.
The Anniversary Waltz [2006 - 2011]
In October 2006, after 15 years as a solo artist, McNabb unexpectedly revived the name "The Icicle Works" for a series of UK concerts. However, this new version of McNabb's old band did not feature any original members other than McNabb himself. This version of the band consisted of McNabb, former 'second-generation' Icicle Works bassist Roy Corkill, and two new members: keyboard player Richard Naiff and ex-Dodgy drummer Matthew Priest, both of McNabb's long-time solo touring band. Original drummer Chris Sharrock had been invited to play with the revived group, but declined to participate.
In essence, McNabb seemed to be re-branding himself, using a somewhat more successful trade name in order to give his work increased exposure. Throughout 2007 and into early 2008, McNabb played dates as both a solo artist and with The Icicle Works.
The Icicle Works later appeared at GuilFest 2007 and played a nine-date UK tour in December 2007. However, certain shows on this tour were heavily criticized by fans on the Message Boards at www.ianmcnabb.com for their allegedly disorganised nature, especially with regards to McNabb's performance. Perhaps by way of an apology, McNabb and company played two free shows as 'The Icicle Works' in Liverpool in January 2008. Thereafter, The Icicle Works name was once again retired until the next anniversary, and McNabb reverted to playing gigs strictly as a solo artist.
A further reformation under the name The Icicle Works, has been confirmed by a series of planned 2011 30th Anniversary gigs.


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Families (TV series)
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In most societies, the family is the principal institution for the socialization of children. As the basic unit for raising children, anthropologists generally classify most family organization as matrifocal (a mother and her children); conjugal (a husband, his wife, and children, also called the nuclear family); avuncular (for example, a grandparent, a brother, his sister, and her children); or extended (parents and children co-reside with other members of one parent's family). Sexual relations among the members are regulated by rules concerning incest such as the incest taboo.
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Families was a daytime soap opera produced by Granada Television and created by Kay Mellor. It followed two families; the Thompsons, based in Cheshire, England (in the fictional market town of Westbury), and the Stevens, living in Sydney, Australia. It was produced and recorded at Studio 6 at Granada Studios in Manchester.
The link in the storyline was businessman Mike Thompson (Malcolm Stoddard), who walked out on his family on his birthday and flew to Australia to be with his true love Diana Stevens (Briony Behets), whom he had left years earlier. Unbeknownst to Mike, Diana had given birth to his son Andrew (Tayler Kane) and as complications ensued over the abrupt life changes for both families, Andrew travelled to England, where he met Mike's daughter, Amanda (Laura Girling), by his English wife Sue (Morag Hood), and they fell in love, not realising that they were half-brother and sister. This plot line was somewhat similar to the opening storyline of the popular Australian soap opera Sons and Daughters which had successfully aired on ITV daytime since 1983.
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In biological classification, family (Latin: familia, plural familiae) is one of the eight major taxonomic ranks; it is classified between order and genus. A family may be divided into subfamilies, which are intermediate ranks above the rank of genus. In vernacular usage, a family may be named after one of its common members; for example, walnuts and hickory trees belong to the family Juglandaceae, commonly known as the walnut family.
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IT users are apparently split on whether new legal indemnification programmes from major vendors will boost Linux adoption rates.
IT users are apparently split on whether new legal indemnification programmes from major vendors ,such as Sun, Novell, HP and SuSE Linux, will fuel a wider adoption of Linux within their businesses.
In interviews at this week's LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in New York, a sampling of users in businesses where IT is mission-critical, such as insurance and health care administration, said the expanded indemnification programmes make them more comfortable with Linux. But they said other factors remain to be addressed inside their companies before they can decide how to proceed.
Other users said indemnification is simply not an issue for them or , at best, is far down their list of criteria.
The issue of indemnifying, or protecting, companies that use Linux from legal actions similar to the lawsuit filed earlier this year by SCO against IBM has arisen numerous times during this week's event. On Thursday 22 January, IBM said it wouldn't offer any such programme because it doesn't believe indemnification is needed (see story). Users were less certain.
Rudy Ebisch, an IT manager at Canon in the US said legal concerns are definitely a factor, as his company eyes Linux as a possible alternative in a migration from multiple operating systems. "That's the number one question my general manager asked when I was coming here," Ebisch said. So far, the printer and copier vendor is trying out the open-source operating system only in small ways, including experiments with network monitoring tools. But as major vendors, including HP, Novell and Oracle adopt Linux strategies, Canon's options continue to expand. "It makes it legitimate. I'm not taking the risk I would have a year ago" [by moving to Linux].
For Canon, though, any move to Linux will be slow, he said. The company isn't looking so much for cost reductions as for long-term security. The company, which has deployments of Novell NetWare, IBM AIX, HP-UX and Windows NT on several hardware platforms, would more likely consider Linux as a replacement for one of the existing systems instead of simply adding it to the mix, he said. Richard Teasdale, a Unix administrator for a US-based insurance company that he asked not to be named, said indemnification programs "make it more palatable" to consider Linux. But that's just one issue of many that must be considered. "I don't think it's a make-or-break issue," he said. "We're looking at it. We're under tremendous pressure to reduce costs so we're looking at every way... and Linux is one of them." Colt Jackson, a systems engineer at CareFirst, a healthcare insurance company said IT planning in the insurance industry moves at a conservative pace. As a result, indemnification programs are helpful but won't likely trigger a mass migration. Health insurance companies "want to have a track record for technologies they put in place, but they don't want to create that track record themselves," Jackson said. "They definitely want to limit risks." Another user, an enterprise architect at a financial services company who asked to remain anonymous, said indemnification is indeed meaningful. "It actually is something we were really concerned about. We were in the process of putting together a position paper on Linux when the [SCO] lawsuit hit and we put it on hold," he said. "But to have companies say they're having indemnification programmes meant they were acknowledging and dealing with the problem."
Questions remain, though. "We're not coming away from this with any big reasons not to [move to Linux]," said the enterprise architect. But because it will likely take years for legal issues to be resolved, "it's important for the companies that believe in their [Linux] products to back them up with indemnification," he added. Alex Drought, head of technology for movie editing workers at US-based Blue Sky Studios said indemnification means little in his business, where film studios can quickly turn to other operating systems like Apple's Mac OS X in the event of legal problems such as the SCO lawsuit.
That's different from the situation at financial services and insurance companies, where a quick change isn't possible because of the depth of their IT integration and architectures, Drought said. "They cannot turn on a dime if things change overnight," he said. "They would really be in a tough position."
On Monday, Red Hat said it will offer a programme that it calls the Open Source Assurance Program to protect "all existing and future Red Hat Enterprise Linux customers from legal challenges" as long as they're using the software (see story). Red Hat's move comes on the heels of last week's decision by Novell to indemnify SUSE Linux customers against possible legal action from SCO. It is unclear whether this will apply to non-US customers. In its lawsuit, SCO alleges that IBM contributed some of SCO's System V Unix code illegally to the open-source Linux project. Additional suits and countersuits have been filed by Red Hat and Novell since the case began.


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Isolated on a rural hillside this freestanding Church of Ireland was built in 1846. Located to the south west corner of Lough Eske and to south east of Lough Eske Castle, this distinctive small scale Church of Ireland retains its early form and architectural character.
Gothic revival style in design typical of its type and date in rural Ireland.
This church is notable for the unusual and distinctive crossed saddleback upper storey to the tower and this feature creates an unusual composition that is perhaps unique to County Donegal.
Its construction was originally funded by Thomas Brooke owner of nearby Lough Eske Castle and was originally built as an estate church associated with this castle acting as a chapel of ease associated with the parish of Killymard. In 1870 it became a separate parish.
Following the death of Thomas Brooke in 1884 it was bequeathed that a considerable sum of money was used to fund the alterations of the church .
In 1905 Christ Church was restored. A chancel was erected with new East window, vestry room, heating chamber and the gallery stairs were moved from the main body of the church to the tower.
This unique church with its conspicuous tower is an important element of the heritage of Lough Eske area and acts as a focal point in the landscape to the north east of Donegal Town.
Morning Service at 9.30am (2nd & 4th Sunday of month).
2nd Sunday of the month: Holy Communion
4th Sunday of the month: Morning Prayer


text:
El escudo de Irak está compuesto por la figura de un águila de oro aclarada de sable que sostiene sobre su pecho un escudo con los colores de la bandera nacional. El águila reposa sobre una franja horizontal en la que aparece escrita la denominación oficial del país, جمهورية العراق Ŷumḥūriyat Al-'Irāq ("República de Irak").

Este escudo fue adoptado el 2 de julio de 1965 pero desde entonces se han introducido algunas modificaciones. En 1991, las franjas y estrellas de la bandera iraquí pasaron a estar colocadas horizontalmente y se introdujo, como en la bandera nacional, la frase: "Allahu Akbar" ("Allah es Grande"). La figura del águila que aparece en el escudo de Irak es conocida como "Águila de Saladino" y fue adoptada del escudo de la República Árabe Unida. En el año 2008 al escudo de Irak se le retiraron las tres estrellas de cinco puntas, igual con la bandera.

Escudos históricos
El primer escudo de Irak después del periodo monárquico (adoptado bajo el régimen de Abdul Karim Qasim) estaba basado en el antiguo símbolo solar de Shamash y no contenía elementos panárabes. En 1965 se adoptó el primer emblema que incorporaba el Águila de Saladino, basado en el escudo de la República Árabe Unida, con el escudo central con los colores de la bandera, con las franjas colocadas en posición vertical y tres estrellas de sinople en la parte central. Dicha versión fue usada hasta su sustitución por otra con las franjas horizontales que incorporaba el takbir en escritura manuscrita intercalado entre las estrellas, a raíz del cambio de bandera que había habido. Según una versión más legendaria que no es oficial, el takbir impreso en la bandera y el escudo iraquíes habría sido escrito de puño y letra por el exdictador Saddam Hussein.

En el año 2004 hubo una nueva modificación, también siguiendo el cambio de bandera, consistente en el paso de la caligrafía manual en la cúfica, escritura ornamental de rasgos rectilíneos. Finalmente, la versión del 2008 coincide también con un nuevo cambio de bandera en la que se prescindió de las tres estrellas verdes, símbolo introducido por el partido Partido Baath Árabe Socialista de Saddam Hussein, y se conservó la inscripción en caracteres cúficos en la franja central. Cuando haya la anunciada modificación de la bandera se volverá a cambiar el escudo.

Véase también
 Águila de Saladino
 Bandera de Irak

Símbolos de Irak
Irak
Irak
Irak
Irak
Irak

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text:
"""Support to keep track of user controlled booleans for within automation."""
import logging
import typing

import voluptuous as vol

from homeassistant.const import (
    ATTR_EDITABLE,
    CONF_ICON,
    CONF_ID,
    CONF_NAME,
    SERVICE_RELOAD,
    SERVICE_TOGGLE,
    SERVICE_TURN_OFF,
    SERVICE_TURN_ON,
    STATE_ON,
)
from homeassistant.core import callback
from homeassistant.helpers import collection
import homeassistant.helpers.config_validation as cv
from homeassistant.helpers.entity import ToggleEntity
from homeassistant.helpers.entity_component import EntityComponent
from homeassistant.helpers.restore_state import RestoreEntity
import homeassistant.helpers.service
from homeassistant.helpers.storage import Store
from homeassistant.helpers.typing import ConfigType, HomeAssistantType, ServiceCallType
from homeassistant.loader import bind_hass

DOMAIN = "input_boolean"

_LOGGER = logging.getLogger(__name__)

CONF_INITIAL = "initial"

CREATE_FIELDS = {
    vol.Required(CONF_NAME): vol.All(str, vol.Length(min=1)),
    vol.Optional(CONF_INITIAL): cv.boolean,
    vol.Optional(CONF_ICON): cv.icon,
}

UPDATE_FIELDS = {
    vol.Optional(CONF_NAME): cv.string,
    vol.Optional(CONF_INITIAL): cv.boolean,
    vol.Optional(CONF_ICON): cv.icon,
}

CONFIG_SCHEMA = vol.Schema(
    {DOMAIN: cv.schema_with_slug_keys(vol.Any(UPDATE_FIELDS, None))},
    extra=vol.ALLOW_EXTRA,
)

RELOAD_SERVICE_SCHEMA = vol.Schema({})
STORAGE_KEY = DOMAIN
STORAGE_VERSION = 1

class InputBooleanStorageCollection(collection.StorageCollection):
    """Input boolean collection stored in storage."""

    CREATE_SCHEMA = vol.Schema(CREATE_FIELDS)
    UPDATE_SCHEMA = vol.Schema(UPDATE_FIELDS)

    async def _process_create_data(self, data: typing.Dict) -> typing.Dict:
        """Validate the config is valid."""
        return self.CREATE_SCHEMA(data)

    @callback
    def _get_suggested_id(self, info: typing.Dict) -> str:
        """Suggest an ID based on the config."""
        return info[CONF_NAME]

    async def _update_data(self, data: dict, update_data: typing.Dict) -> typing.Dict:
        """Return a new updated data object."""
        update_data = self.UPDATE_SCHEMA(update_data)
        return {**data, **update_data}

@bind_hass
def is_on(hass, entity_id):
    """Test if input_boolean is True."""
    return hass.states.is_state(entity_id, STATE_ON)

async def async_setup(hass: HomeAssistantType, config: ConfigType) -> bool:
    """Set up an input boolean."""
    component = EntityComponent(_LOGGER, DOMAIN, hass)
    id_manager = collection.IDManager()

    yaml_collection = collection.YamlCollection(
        logging.getLogger(f"{__name__}.yaml_collection"), id_manager
    )
    collection.attach_entity_component_collection(
        component, yaml_collection, lambda conf: InputBoolean(conf, from_yaml=True)
    )

    storage_collection = InputBooleanStorageCollection(
        Store(hass, STORAGE_VERSION, STORAGE_KEY),
        logging.getLogger(f"{__name__}_storage_collection"),
        id_manager,
    )
    collection.attach_entity_component_collection(
        component, storage_collection, InputBoolean
    )

    await yaml_collection.async_load(
        [{CONF_ID: id_, **(conf or {})} for id_, conf in config.get(DOMAIN, {}).items()]
    )
    await storage_collection.async_load()

    collection.StorageCollectionWebsocket(
        storage_collection, DOMAIN, DOMAIN, CREATE_FIELDS, UPDATE_FIELDS
    ).async_setup(hass)

    collection.attach_entity_registry_cleaner(hass, DOMAIN, DOMAIN, yaml_collection)
    collection.attach_entity_registry_cleaner(hass, DOMAIN, DOMAIN, storage_collection)

    async def reload_service_handler(service_call: ServiceCallType) -> None:
        """Remove all input booleans and load new ones from config."""
        conf = await component.async_prepare_reload(skip_reset=True)
        if conf is None:
            return
        await yaml_collection.async_load(
            [
                {CONF_ID: id_, **(conf or {})}
                for id_, conf in conf.get(DOMAIN, {}).items()
            ]
        )

    homeassistant.helpers.service.async_register_admin_service(
        hass,
        DOMAIN,
        SERVICE_RELOAD,
        reload_service_handler,
        schema=RELOAD_SERVICE_SCHEMA,
    )

    component.async_register_entity_service(SERVICE_TURN_ON, {}, "async_turn_on")

    component.async_register_entity_service(SERVICE_TURN_OFF, {}, "async_turn_off")

    component.async_register_entity_service(SERVICE_TOGGLE, {}, "async_toggle")

    return True

class InputBoolean(ToggleEntity, RestoreEntity):
    """Representation of a boolean input."""

    def __init__(self, config: typing.Optional[dict], from_yaml: bool = False):
        """Initialize a boolean input."""
        self._config = config
        self._editable = True
        self._state = config.get(CONF_INITIAL)
        if from_yaml:
            self._editable = False
            self.entity_id = f"{DOMAIN}.{self.unique_id}"

    @property
    def should_poll(self):
        """If entity should be polled."""
        return False

    @property
    def name(self):
        """Return name of the boolean input."""
        return self._config.get(CONF_NAME)

    @property
    def state_attributes(self):
        """Return the state attributes of the entity."""
        return {ATTR_EDITABLE: self._editable}

    @property
    def icon(self):
        """Return the icon to be used for this entity."""
        return self._config.get(CONF_ICON)

    @property
    def is_on(self):
        """Return true if entity is on."""
        return self._state

    @property
    def unique_id(self):
        """Return a unique ID for the person."""
        return self._config[CONF_ID]

    async def async_added_to_hass(self):
        """Call when entity about to be added to hass."""
        # If not None, we got an initial value.
        await super().async_added_to_hass()
        if self._state is not None:
            return

        state = await self.async_get_last_state()
        self._state = state and state.state == STATE_ON

    async def async_turn_on(self, **kwargs):
        """Turn the entity on."""
        self._state = True
        self.async_write_ha_state()

    async def async_turn_off(self, **kwargs):
        """Turn the entity off."""
        self._state = False
        self.async_write_ha_state()

    async def async_update_config(self, config: typing.Dict) -> None:
        """Handle when the config is updated."""
        self._config = config
        self.async_write_ha_state()

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
Banning Cash : Serfdom in Our Time (FreemansPerspective)
Paul Rosenberg, "Banning Cash : Serfdom in Our Time", © FreemanPerspective.com (09 February 2016)
Over the last few months a stream of articles have crossed my screen, all proclaiming the need of governments and banks to eliminate cash. I'm sure you've noticed them too.
It is terrorists and other assorted madmen, we are told, who use cash. And so, to protect us from being blown up and dismembered on our very own street corners, governments will have to ban it.
It would actually take some effort to imagine a more obvious, naked attempt at fearmongering. Cash – in daily use for centuries if not millennia – is now, suddenly, the agent of spring-loaded, instant death? And we're supposed to just accept that line?
But there are good reasons why the insiders are promoting these stories now. The first of them, perhaps, is simply that they can: After 9/11, a massive wave of compliance surged through the West. It may not last forever, but it's still rolling, and if the entertainment corporations can pump enough fear into minds that want to believe, they may just get them to buy it.
The second reason, however, is the real driver:
Negative Interest Rates
The urgency of their move to ban one of the longest-lasting pillars of daily life means that the backroom elites think it will be necessary soon. It would appear that the central banks, the IMF, the World Bank, the BIS, and all their backers, see the elimination of cash as a central survival strategy.
The reason is simple: cash would allow people to escape from the one thing that could save their larcenous currency system: negative interest rates.
To make this clear, I like to paraphrase a famous (and good) quote from Alan Greenspan, back from 1966, during his Ayn Randian days: The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves.
That was a true statement, and with a slight modification, it succinctly explains the new war on cash:
The preservation of an insolvent currency system requires that the owners of currency have no way to protect it.
Cash is currency that you hold in your own hands, that stands more or less alone. It is primarily external to bank control. Electronic money – bank balances, credit, etc. – remains inside the banking system and fully subject to bank control.
A combination of no cash and negative interest rates would be a quiet, permanent version of what was done in Cyprus, where the government simply shut down everything, allowed only the smallest deductions via ATMs, and then stole money from thousands of bank accounts at once.
The Cypriot spectacle was fairly large, however, and that tends to undermine the legitimacy of rulership. So, it is much better to have no ATMs and no cash at all. There would be no lines of angry people talking to each other, only isolated losers with no recourse, licking their wounds while the talking heads on television tell them to stay calm and watch the flashing images.
Negative interest rates would give the banks 100% control over your purchases. They could, even in the worst pinch, allow you to purchase food while freezing the rest of your money. The average person would have no recourse and would simply be robbed… but very smoothly and with no human face to blame on.
Negative interest rates mean that your bank account shrinks day by day, automatically. Your $1000 in January becomes $950 by December. And where does that money go? To the banks, of course, and to the government. They syphon your money away, drip by drip, and there's nothing you can do about it. This accomplishes several things for them at once:
It finances government, limitlessly and automatically. Forget tax filings; they can just take as they please.
It pays off the bad debt of the big banks. (And there are oceans of debt.)
It forces you to spend everything you've got, as soon as you get it. (Otherwise it will shrink.)
It gives the system full control over your financial life. Everything is monitored, everything is tracked, and every single transaction must be approved by them (or not). If they decide they don't like you, you're instantly reduced to begging.
In short, this is a direct return to serfdom.
I suggest that you start talking to your friends and neighbors about this now, before it's too late. Don't let them comply without a fight.
Paul Rosenberg
www.freemansperspective.com
The above article is Copyright © 2016 Freeman's Perspective (http://www.freemansperspective.com/) all rights reserved, and appears here with kind permission.
Image: "Cash Machine" by Tax Credits on Flickr (CC BY 2.0); resized


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Norwegian Justice Minister in Hot Water for Plan to Revoke Terrorists' Passports
© CC BY 3.0 / Bård Gudim, FrPMedia / Sylvi Listhaug
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https://sputniknews.com/europe/201803141062512844-norway-minister-terrorism-scandal/
Justice Minister Sylvi Listhaug, who is no stranger to controversy, has triggered a nationwide debate with a divisive Facebook post, in which she accused her political rivals of valuing "the rights of terrorists" above national security. The debate veered in an undesired direction after talk of Anders Breivik resurfaced.
In a post that became the most written-about story in the Nordic country, Sylvi Listhaug of the right-wing Progress Party, currently part of the "blue" government coalition, claimed that the opposition Labor Party cherished "the rights of terrorists" above national security. The post was accompanied by a graphic image of balaclava-clad militants.
Listhaug's post was aimed at mocking the rivals, led by Jonas Gahr Støre, who promised to vote against the recent proposal to revoke the citizenship of Norwegians fighting for terrorist groups without having to wait for a conviction.
"We want to revoke the passports and citizenship of foreign fighters and terrorists quickly and effectively! Labor wants to vote against. In the fight against terror, we cannot sit and twiddle our thumbs," Listhaug wrote.
However, Listhaug's post appeared the very day "Utøya July 22," a film about Anders Breivik's massacre, was released in Norwegian cinemas, which many perceived as lack of fair play on Listhaug's part. In 2011, Breivik killed 69 people at the Labor Youth Camp located on the island of Utøya in the worst act of violence in Norway's post-WW2 history.
"We have been victims of terror, and we are fighting against terror. For Listhaug to make such a claim so offensive and unfair is disappointing and unbefitting of a Norwegian justice minister," Labor leader Støre told national broadcaster NRK.
READ MORE: Norwegian Integration Minister Fails to Seduce Muslims With Pork and Alcohol
Before the attacks, Breivik, who is often referred to by his initials ABB in Norway, was a member of the Progress Party from 1999 to 2006, but found Norway's most anti-immigrant party not radical enough. As Listhaug's post apparently hit a sore spot with the Labor Party, the Breivik connection quickly sprung up in the debate.
"We have been very careful not to link ABB and the Progress Party after July 22. However, Listhaug has now made it more difficult," Oslo Mayor Raymond Johansen of the Labor Party tweeted.
Vi var veldig forsiktig med å koble ABB til FrP etter 22 juli. Listhaug har nå gjort det vanskeligere. pic.twitter.com/JS08D3juQJ
— Raymond Johansen (@RaymondJohansen) March 10, 2018
Prime Minister Erna Solberg told NRK that rhetoric occasionally overshadows political content in politics, arguing that this is what has happened in this case. According to Solberg, the image and the tone used in Listhaug's attack on Labor took the focus off the measures to fight terror.
READ MORE: From 'Crass' to 'Devastating': Strong Reactions Over One-Take Breivik Thriller
Knut Erik Engh, a Progress Party representative in Ulstein, conceded that he would have used different rhetoric, while fundamentally agreeing with Listhaug about the message.
"What she means is we must make sure it is not easy for foreign fighters to travel and that there must be a consequence. She thinks Labor has been too weak in its position on this, and they really have," Engh told NRK.
Listhaug later defended herself by claiming her idea was only to discuss the proposal of withdrawing "foreign fighters'" citizenship in a fast and efficient way.
"It has never ever crossed my mind that it could be linked to the cruel massacre on Utøya that hit so many innocent people and Norwegian democracy. <…> Nor was my intention to hurt anyone, and I really hope to be believed," Listhaug wrote, assuring the public of her "great compassion" for the Utøya survivors and those who lost their loved ones.
READ MORE: Worst Killer in Norwegian History Breivik Claims He Has Remorse — Or Has He?
A devout Christian, Listhaug previously served as Norway's Integration Minister, during which she saw to a toughening of Norway's immigration laws. She is also in favor of the repatriation of migrants.
The Progress Party, which is EU-skeptic and Atlanticist, is currently Norway's third-largest. It is led by Siv Jensen, Norway's Finance Minister since 2013.
Flowers of Speech: Muslim Leader Dodges Handshake With Norwegian Female Minister
Cat-and-Dog Life: Norwegian Anti-Immigrant Party Seduces Voters With Sweden Row
Norwegian Integration Minister Fails to Seduce Muslims With Pork and Alcohol
From 'Crass' to 'Devastating': Strong Reactions Over One-Take Breivik Thriller
Worst Killer in Norwegian History Breivik Claims He Has Remorse – Or Has He?
terrorism threat, terrorism, Progress Party, Jonas Gahr Store, Sylvi Listhaug, Erna Solberg, Anders Breivik, Scandinavia, Norway


text:
Birdwatching & Relaxation
Birdwatching Package
SEEWINKEL SAFARIS - DISCOVER FROM THE FIRST LODGE IN CENTRAL EUROPE
Discover the special bird life of the region under expert guidance as part of this package. Ornithologists accompany you through the varied programme and there is much to see, experience and also learn! We are looking forward to see you!
price per person in double room/seewinkel
double room/seewinkel for single use
€ 144 Airport Transfer (per route)
Offer valid from 08th until 11th of May 2023. Offer available upon request and availability. All quoted prices are per person and night and include all applicable taxes and fees, apart local tax.
08th until 11th of May 2023
3 nights including:
St. Martins Explorer Features
4 Observation excursion to parts of the Neusiedler See - Seewinkel National Park
St. Martins photo hide
Bird ringing station
TOURS INCLUDE:
- All of the tours are led by professionally-trained rangers
- Binoculars, spotting scopes and various materials from SWAROVSKI OPTIK
- Transfer
Use of the Lodge Spa, Lodge Lake Spa, St. Martins Thermal Baths, Summer Island and the Lodge Beach on the day of your departure
Monday, 08th May 2023 - Arrival day
04.00 p.m. Check-in, arrival and use of thermal baths possible from 9.00 a.m. onwards
05.00 - 07.00 p.m. Observation excursion to parts of the Lake Neusiedl - Seewinkel National Park
afterwards: Dinner at St. Martins Restaurant
Tuesday, 09th May 2023
06.30 - 09.30 a.m. St. Martins Photo-Hide
approx. 10.00 a.m. Breakfast at St. Martins Restaurant
afterwards: free time to enjoy the thermal baths
Afternoon:
03.00 - 06.00 p.m. Bird Watching excursion to Halbturn Castle Park
afterwards Dinner at St. Martins Restaurant
06.30 - 09.30 a.m. Early morning safari in the Hanság
afterwards: free time to enjoy the Therme
03.00 - 06.00 p.m. Excursion to the Parndorf Plateau
Thursday, 11th May 2023 - Departure day
08.30 - 10.00 a.m. Birding walk on the grounds of St. Martins Therme & Lodge
Check out afterwards
The programme is subject to change due to weather conditions!
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Diane Brown on her way to receive an "I Love My Librarian" award. Markeshia Ricks for the New Haven Independent.
Almost exactly a year ago, the main reading room of Stetson Library was filled with kids getting in the Christmas spirit. Grammy-nominated jazz musician Chris "Big Dog" Davis and his band members looked over a thicket of red and white Santa hats to the back of the room, where parents milled around with Branch Manager Diane Brown. On one side of the room, Charles R. Smith's Rimshots: Basketball Pix, Rolls, and Rhythms and Jason Reynolds' As Brave As You rubbed up against a collection of essays on the work of Richard Wright.
The setting, with its sprawling grey carpet and harsh fluorescent light, wasn't like the jazz clubs where Davis usually performs. But it signaled a different site of pilgrimage, where bibliophiles and community organizers have risen up to make a Black mecca on Dixwell Avenue. Not just in the winter months, but all year round.
Diane Brown outside Stetson's current building. Harold Shapiro Photo.
That place is Stetson Library, a squat brick and concrete building that sits at 200 Dixwell Ave., in the middle of a shopping plaza. With plans to move to the new "Q" Community House next year, the library is looking back at how it has become a place for pilgrims expected and not—and how it will continue that legacy in a new home.
Earlier this year, the library announced a campaign to raise $2 million by the end of 2018, as it moves into the new Q house. Once there, Stetson will occupy the first and second floors of the building's southwest corner, at the intersection of Dixwell Avenue and Foote Streets. A groundbreaking took place earlier this month, on Nov. 4. Brown said she hopes to make the Dixwell Ave. building into a museum for the neighborhood's Black history.
But Stetson's history goes a century back, its own path to success a sort of institutional pilgrimage. Originally called the Dixwell Avenue Branch Library, Stetson first opened 100 years ago at 213 Division Street, in a modest house provided by the then-booming Winchester Repeating Arms Factory. With another building in Fair Haven, it was one of two branches of the New Haven Free Public Library.
Even then, its aspirations were restless: It moved to a larger building at Dixwell and Thompson Streets in 1922, and again to the plaza in 1968. Before its second move, it was re-christened to honor the city's first librarian, Willis K. Stetson, in 1941.
In almost 50 years at the Dixwell location, library staff has struggled with the building's size and structural limitations, braving leaks, low lighting, cramped meeting rooms and fights between local teens that used to break out at the library's parking lot and inside. In 2008, then-Mayor John DeStefano suggested that the city might have to close Stetson due to budget cuts and low circulation numbers; the community successfully rallied to save it the same year.
But for both City Librarian Martha Brogan and Branch Manager Diane Brown, a change is long overdue.
During her 11-year tenure at the library's helm and longer career for the New Haven Free Public Library (NHFPL), she has made sure that happens. That started in the early 2000s, when she was working as a business specialist for the NHFPL. After three years in that position, the now-late City Librarian James C. Welbourne began to train her, first with two years of work as a librarian and then with a position as branch manager in 2006.
Her coworkers weren't happy with the promotion, she recalled. They pointed to her lack of training, and insisted it was an instance of favoritism. Brown said she felt alone: She was the only Black librarian in the city's library system, and only one of two Black women employed by the NHFPL. Brown said other branch managers refused to train her. So she trained herself. And she looked at the neighborhood—and decided that it needed a change from within.
At that time, over 60 percent of Dixwell's community was Black (in 2014 it was 64 percent Black and 17 percent Latino, according to DataHaven). That number was 76 percent for neighboring Newhallville. And yet, Brown only counted two shelves of Black fiction in the entire library. So she got on the phone with the companies the library had been ordering books from, and asked what works they had by Black novelists, short-story writers, poets, historians, playwrights, and graphic artists.
"I was very honest, I told them I had no training and no one to train me and they got me on a computer and walked me through each step and I did that with each company," she recalled.
As she grew the collection, she also turned her attention to the community's stretched resources, transforming the library into a safe haven for local teens and students who needed a place to do their homework. She has library victory stories: A little boy named Kenny, who went from coming to a library with a water gun to arriving after school with his homework in hand. Or, an adult book club that hasn't stopped evolving since its first session.
Gradually, she brought in community leaders, artists and activists to teach classes. From virtually no programming sprang up new initiatives like Hanan Hameen's jubilant"Africa Is Me!" workshops, a chess club, after-school homework help, and semi-monthly collaborations with Long Wharf Theatre.
"I reached out to the [New Haven] Fire Department, I reached out to community leaders, I reached out to anyone who looked interested in helping." she recalled.
And they helped her back, spreading the word that she was a community organizer, dressed as a librarian. Brown was a recipient of a 2013 Bill and Melinda Gates Fellowship that allowed her to go back to school for library science, where she finished in record time. In 2015, she was one of 10 librarians nationally to win an "I Love My Librarian Award," traveling to a ceremony in New York. Earlier this year, she was awarded a Connecticut Library Association 2017 Special Achievement Award.
But her love affair with the library—and the Dixwell neighborhood where it lives—goes back much further. Brown's mother was one of Newhallville's first Black homeowners, and she grew up with the library nearby. She learned that books were a way to unlock possibilities. And, a way to learn about herself. Now, she's helping kids do the same.
"My job is not just to order books, it's to be an advocate." she said. "People who come here are the village."
That was visible on a recent fall day, as the library greeted viewers from the street with a flash of Pan-African colors. Under a purple awning announcing the library's name, a mural of the word READ sat front of the building, each letter filled with depictions of Black history and New Haven culture. Flyers for an upcoming Harvest Festival, community celebrations, and free HIV testing covered the windows.
It's what she wants for the community, Brown said. And she knows that the library has growth left in it yet.
Throughout the month of November, The Arts Paper will be profiling winners of the 2017 Arts Awards. Those winners are: Kevin Ewing, Diane Brown, Musical Intervention, New Haven's Nasty Women Exhibition, the Architecture Resource Center (ARC) and Jock Reynolds. This is our second installment. Lucy Gellman contributed reporting for this article.


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Congress lights up orange to end violence against women
The Congress will have a special color this Friday night (26). It is because the House will be illuminated in yellow in allusion to the international campaign 16 Days of Activism for the End of Violence against Women.
The action is one of the activities planned by the "16 Days of Activism" campaign, to end violence against women. The beginning of the campaign was marked by a solemn session in Congress, held last Thursday (26).
The date created in 1999, by decision of the United Nations General Assembly, was chosen in memory of the murder of three sisters, Patria, Minerva and María Teresa Mirabal, in 1960, in the Dominican Republic. They were fighting against the dictatorship of General Rafael Trujillo. The crime caused worldwide outrage.
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Extremism is not a only a deviation of true religion particular to Islam. Examples of religious extremism are to be found in the other two religions of the book, i.e. Christianism and Judaism.
Below follows an article of Haaretz (a liberal Isaeli newspaper) on a particular type of Jewish Extremism (in te Hasidic community) that ended tragically.
"Ex-Hasidic woman's apparent suicide sparks funeral strife"
were denied entry to her funeral over the weekend.
being denied access to her children.
is a former member of the Skver Hasidic sect, which founded and controls New Square, a village about 50 miles north of New York City.
obedience to the town's rabbis, do not drive.
September 29 to witness her funeral and pay tribute to one of their own were unable to do so.
shame she had brought upon the family and the community.
According to her friends, Tambor became depressed after leaving the New Square community four years ago and divorcing her husband. Weiss, her live-in boyfriend, said her family had disavowed her earlier, when she told family members that she had been sexually abused by a member of the tight-knit New Square community as a child and they denied it.
to block her from seeing her children, who are now 11 and 13.
group for Jews who are "off the derech [path], or OTD, as many former ultra-Orthodox Jews refer to themselves.
came, stayed about 30 minutes and then left, saying that the friends had a right to be there, said Weiss and others who were present.
candles. A few friends spoke about Tambor. They then observed a moment of silence before dispersing.
coffin or take off the top so that he could see her face.
Later that morning, at around 10 A.M. the same brother texted him that Tambor's funeral was taking place at that moment at a cemetery in West Babylon, Long Island, Weiss said.
"It was nice what they did yesterday. It would have been nicer if they let me come to the funeral," Weiss said.
community were he to be quoted by name.
The head of the New Square burial society, Yaacov Byer, declined to answer any questions about Tambor's funeral.
observant]. But my friend told me it was because she has relations with strangers and everything. It's like she was free."


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Stands heavily defoliated in 1936-37 by the Douglas-fir tussock moth, Hemerocampa pseudotsugata McD., at Mammoth Lakes, California, were studied to determine the incidence and extent of decay in top-damaged trees. This was done by dissecting the tops of trees felled during logging. Comparisons were made with white fir in a nearby logged area that was not defoliated during the old outbreak. Few decay organisms were isolated from trees top-killed by Douglas-fir tussock moth. However, old top damage and a condition known as wetwood were common in the infested area. Wetwood was found in 17 of 21 top-damaged trees in the infested area and in one of 50 trees in the uninfested area. We conclude, therefore, that in eastside Sierra Nevada white fir stands, the threat of defect is not economically serious in large trees that will be logged within 35-40 years after top damage.


It's easy to look at the list of Olympic sports and have a little laugh. I mean, c'mon.
Trampoline? These are sports that barely enter our sporting consciousness during the Olympics, let alone in the four long years between their turns on the world stage.
But here's the thing. For every one of these sports, there are countries that care deeply about them, where Olympic trampoline is like the World Cup and something like the quarterfinals of women's handball is akin to the Champions League.
So it is for the Norwegian fans packing the Copper Box, where the quarterfinals of the women's handball tournament are being played. The Norwegian women are four-time Olympics medalists and the current world champions, European champions and defending gold medal winners from Beijing. But thus far in the 2012 Summer Games, they've been far off their usual form, finishing fourth in their qualifying group and having to face Brazil, the top qualifier in the other group.
How bad has it been? Back home, the Norwegian papers were questioning the team's spirit and commitment.
Norway was simply blown off the court at the start of the game.
Handball is a game of breathtaking athleticism and surprising brutality. As players try to approach the goal to score, they're bumped, pushed, shoved, grabbed and generally beaten to hell. Most of this is even legal under the rules of the game.
It's also a game of momentum and fast breaks, where it seems a team can run off goal after goal. And that's what Brazil did, building a 15-9 lead just four minutes into the second 30-minute half. It's looking like a rout. The Norwegian fans look like they've just been served some bad lutefisk.
Then things totally shift. Norway tears off a run of four unanswered goals. Then another run of four goals. When Norway completes the comeback to take a 19-18 lead, the crowds erupts in a roar punctuated by the ringing of cowbells. It has the feel of a rock concert and a downhill ski race all in one.
It's easy to scoff at these "fringe" sports. But remember, to most Norwegians, rugby is about as relevant as say, well, handball is to people in the United States. That's too bad, because handball is awesome. I'm not the first to point this out, but if I could humbly ask you to check out handball in some way before it disappears for another four years, I think you'll be impressed.
It's super-fast and fun. They put resin on the ball to make it easier to throw and catch; you can hear the ball sticking to the floor ever so slightly when it bounces. Plus, there's the "jump-in-the-air-double-clutch-and-shoot" move that never, ever stops being completely cool. Seriously, check out these goals.
Norway holds on to win the game, 21-19. Afterward, there are tears of disbelief on both sides, Norway's from happiness and relief, Brazil's from shock and disappointment.
And in the time-honoured tradition of all sports, great and small, the Norwegian players responded to their critics in the press, in a most unique way. At the end of the team's press conference, the entire team lifted their shirts. There on their stomachs were written the words, "NORGES LAGAND."
That means "Norwegian Team Morale" if you're not fluent in the language. "This is a message of our players' solidarity," said Norway left winger Camilla Herrem, who scored the clenching goal. "This was to show the press who were highly critical that our morale is as high and indestructible as ever; we play together, we stay together."


Jonah Hill — hot off his appearance for the second annual "Jonah Hill Day" — has a new movie. This time with the actor behind the camera and marking his directorial debut. The A24 film has a Kids (Harmony Korine film) vibe with themes of youth, skateboarding, and older siblings coming into the fold.
Mid90s stars Sunny Suljic (Atreus in God of War) as 13-year-old Stevie living in 1990s L.A. who soon makes friends with a group of skaters that rubs his older bully brother (played by Lucas Hedges) the wrong way. It's a coming-of-age tale filled with debauchery, growth, and self-realization. Check the footage above and share your thoughts below. Mid90s is set to release October 19.
In related news, Dragon Ball FighterZ welcomes Goku and Vegeta in their base forms.


(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Pittsburgh physics and astronomy professor will lead a multiyear effort to use the world's most powerful digital camera to search the sky for explosive and violent deep-space events that could help astronomers better understand cosmic activity, from the universe's expansion to the savage interaction of stars and black holes.
Michael Wood-Vasey, an assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy in Pitt's School of Arts and Sciences, and a group of 10 scientists around the world will identify supernovae, gamma ray bursts, and tidal disruption events-when black holes rip young stars apart-that appear in images captured by the newly operational PS1 telescope managed by the University of Hawaii-based Pan-STARRS (Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System) consortium. The PS1 is located atop Hawaii's Haleakala volcano and includes a refrigerator-sized 1.4 billion-pixel camera that will snap about 500 pictures nightly, each of a swath of sky six times wider than the moon. The PS1 is the first of four digital telescopes planned under the Pan-STARRS project.
Pitt researchers are involved in a large number of international telescope projects, of which Pan-STARRS is the latest. The particularly active cosmology group in Pitt's physics and astronomy department participates in projects ranging from the longest single project ever carried out with the Hubble Space Telescope to capturing color images of a strip of sky that document the past 10 billion years of galactic evolution. Wood-Vasey also is Pitt's lead representative for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III, an international effort to better understand dark energy, the structure of planetary systems, and the genesis of the Milky Way.
For Pan-STARRS, Wood-Vasey's group will search PS1 images for transient events, as space's more intense phenomena are known because of their typically short duration. As they observe new events, the team will provide real-time updates to any of the 300 Pan-STARRS scientists worldwide on the lookout for these bursts of cosmic activity, which can reveal information about the universe's basic structure. Wood-Vasey himself will focus on the various ways a star can meet its end, including tidal disruption events and Type Ia supernovae, the explosive byproducts of dying white dwarf stars. Type Ia supernovae also emit a consistent amount of light, so any variation in their visible brightness could be used to help gauge the rate of the universe's expansion and understand the nature of the as-yet-undetected dark energy thought to make up most of the universe's mass.
The PS1 is the precursor to another international project involving Pitt-the multimillion-dollar Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). The University of California at Davis-based undertaking involves scientists from 23 partner institutions, including researchers from Pitt's physics and astronomy and computer science departments. The 14-year effort will result in the construction of the world's largest digital camera (3 billion pixels) and record the movement and development of the Universe in a color movie of the sky.


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Five ways to make infection control more exciting
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Robert Elsenpeter
Brushing up on matters of infection control is certainly important. Unfortunately, it can also be boring, and staff may find themselves not as receptive as they could be, running the risk of shutting down. An alternative to plunking staff down in front of a video or a website is to bring in a consultant who can customize a training program for the practice. The upshot of that interpersonal interaction is that the material is more accessible to team members. An essential part of that interaction is to have a bit of fun.
"When I go into office, they're not excited for it," says Dr. Lisa Kane, DMD, a dental consultant at Dental Office Compliance of New England. "Everyone always says, 'Oh I know this. We've done that before.' Once I do the classes, then they always say, 'Oh my gosh, that was fun.' I think that having someone come into your office versus doing something online is really helpful. I think that makes it more relatable and you can talk about exactly what's going on in your office."
"Safety is definitely a dry subject," adds Mary Borg-Bartlett, president of SafeLink Consulting. "However, by making the training session interactive, I've found employees actually look forward to spending that time with us each year. We've developed some of our own games and purchased others. Also, using the team approach in these activities provides a fun atmosphere for dentists and staff to work together."
Show, don't tell, is a good way to get a lesson across. That is, physically demonstrating a given task is a far superior way to convey the message than just describing the steps. For instance, demonstrations are the best way to explain the proper use of personal protective equipment (PPE).
"It makes it more real," Dr. Kane says. "Demonstrations are really important. Personal protective equipment and understanding how to use it correctly is really important. So, I have people demonstrate that and make sure that they know what they're doing. If they do it wrong, that can cause a lot of cross-contamination."
PPE is an especially critical topic, and one where team members really benefit from an effectively conveyed message.
"Doing a demo on PPE is really important, because a lot of people have gotten illnesses from taking off their PPE off incorrectly," Dr. Kane explains.
Proper use of a facemask seems to be the biggest source of confusion.
"Everyone's putting them under their chin," Dr. Kane says. "Everyone's walking out of the operatories with them. I try to make people understand that the front desk people are not protected. They do not have any personal protective equipment. So, you want to really make sure that you're not touching anything that you're giving to them. I really try to make them understand that the operatory is 'dirty'
Clinic staff works around safety materials and equipment every day. They see it so often, it may just all blend into one overly familiar blur. One way in which staff can help combat desensitization is by refamiliarizing themselves with the office via a scavenger hunt.
"This is fun with emergency equipment, such as the eyewash station, fire extinguishers, first aid kit, AED, outside assembly place, inside assembly area, etc.," Borg-Bartlett says. "If there are ten team members, then divide into two teams. Make clues out of each type of emergency equipment, or location, so that each team is given the first clue, and then when they reach that item, the next clue awaits them. Start one team at the end of the clues and the other at the beginning. The team that finds everything first is the winner. This is not only fun, but it reminds them of where these items are located."
Simple, well-known games are great ways to make a dry topic more accessible.
"We also have Safety Bingo game," Borg-Bartlett says. "We made up Bingo cards that contain safety terms. As we conduct our training, the attendees are listening for us to say those words so they can 'X' them on their card. We also show slides during the presentation so they can also 'X' the word if it shows up on the slide. If the training is about infection control, then the words would be names of diseases, types of PPE, names of chemicals used for infection control purposes, and we even put some odd words in and tell them that they can ask a question where the answer will be that word. They are instructed at the beginning to yell out, 'Bingo!' when they get one on their card. The purpose is to 'X' all words on the card – and we even provide a prize for those who cover the card."
Games need not be complicated to keep staff engaged.
"A simple game to play is with cards with the number '1' on them," Borg-Bartlett says. "As we present the information, we ask questions and attendees raise their hand to answer the question. If they answer correctly, then they are given one of the number cards. If teams are formed, then the team that collects the most numbers is the winner. You'd be amazed at how competitive this gets, but it also helps increase the knowledge of everyone."
There is no limit to the types of games that can help staff have fun while learning.
"We've also used store-bought games, such as Jeopardy, Millionaire, Family Feud, Deal or No Deal, Hollywood Squares, and Wheel of Fortune," Borg-Bartlett says. "Look for activities for teachers, and you'll get some great ideas."
Social media I SPY
Dr. Kane turns to her practices' social media presence to help teach valuable infection control lessons. One of which is by taking pictures from the practice's website or Facebook page and asking staff to find safety violations.
"If you go on any of them, you can play games and see who can find 10 different violations," Dr. Kane says. "Most pictures out there on websites and social media platform usually has something wrong, infection control-wise."
While it is a game that she likes to play during consultations, it is certainly something practices can do on their own.
"I have people figure out what's wrong with the picture, but they also could do that independently in their office, say, 'Hey everyone, go on our Instagram, and go find 10 violations, and then you get a prize," she explains.
Contaminated dental water lines have made the news lately, and Dr. Kane uses that as a teachable moment for her clients. She conducts in-office water tests, alongside staff.
"A company gave me free test samples, so I use them," Dr. Kane says. "And I go, and I show them how to do it. We test their water. We have to wait 48 to 72 hours, but it makes them actually do it, and then they can see the results. Then they see that, 'Oh my gosh, my water is great' or, 'It's not great and I need to do something,' versus just lecturing them and telling them, 'You've got to fix your water.'"
Safety training is a regular part of life at a dental practice. These trainings have the potential to be dull and boring, but by adding a little spice, the material becomes more user-friendly.
"Safety Training is required by OSHA upon hire, when a new hazard is introduced into the workplace, and annually for infection control," Borg-Bartlett observes. "We like to review infection control-plus chemicals and emergency planning-in our annual review, just to make sure that everyone understands how to stay safe in all of these areas. Having dentists and staff evaluate the training afterwards will also help identify the effectiveness of the training. OSHA expects the training to be specific to your work environment, so we customize the presentations."
Dr. Kane gives out prizes to game winners. Given the current state of the world, in the face of the COVID-19 scare, some seemingly inconsequential prizes suddenly became relevant and highly sought after.
"Well, right now I happen to have hand sanitizer, and apparently I'm the only one that does," she laughs.
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