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Haft Paykar: Seven Beauties
Nizami's "Seven Beauties"
Ancient Wisdom for the
by Laurel Victoria Gray
Azerbaijan International
APRIL 2,2005
Publick Playhouse
Cheverly, Maryland : Metro Washington DC Area
DC Choreographer Brings
Persian Epic to the Stage
The 2005 World Dance Showcase, sponsored by the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (MNCPPC), featured a major new folkloric ballet, 'Haft Paykar: Seven Beauties,' by award winning choreographer Laurel Victoria Gray and her Silk Road Dance Company.
Haft Paykar celebrates ethnic diversity, extols the beauty of other cultures, and praises the wisdom of women. Written by the Persian poet Nizami in 1197, it is an epic romance. In the tale, the young warrior Bahram Gur enters a mysterious, locked room to discover the portraits of seven beautiful princesses, each from a different land. After he wins a kingdom and achieves great wealth and power, he remembers the maidens and sets out on a quest to bring each to his kingdom, commissioning the architect Shideh to build seven domed structures – one for each bride.
No simple fairy tale, Haft Paykar is an erotic allegory about a quest for human perfection steeped in numerology, geometry, astrology and color symbolism. Not only does each princess of Haft Paykar come from a different country, or "clime," but each is associated with a different color, planet and virtue. Each of the seven maidens tells a tale to her bridegroom that imparts a specific moral lesson. From these wise women the hero learns patience, truth, faith, passion, serenity, fairness and devotion to God. Since Bahram Gur is destined to become Ruler of the World, he must learn these lessons in order to govern wisely. His spiritual journey is a reminder that only through self-knowledge and self-mastery can humans find perfection.
Gray views this ambitious project as an opportunity to bring to American audiences the ecstatic, esoteric side of Islamic culture. "As one familiar with the culture and history of both East and West, I feel it is imperative to use art to build a bridge of understanding between Americans and the Islamic world. Instead of falling prey to the false notion of a 'clash of civilizations,' we need to remember that East and West have interacted for millennia, often crossing cultures with positive results." Gray feels the framing story of Haft Paykar -- the education of a ruler who has achieved great wealth and power but is in need of wisdom from other cultures -- gives the medieval epic "an eerie immediacy."
To view Haft Paykar as the stereotypical "sultan and the slave girls" story of Hollywood movies, Gray contends, would be "primitive and superficial." Bahram Gur sends to the far reaches of the known world to bring the wisdom of other lands to his court. "When he embraces a princess, he embraces her culture, her traditions." Gray believes that "the exquisite beauty of the dance, poetry and music of the Islamic world reveals a different face from the austere fundamentalism known to most Americans. Nizami uses movement, color, words, music, scent and taste to express deep mystical concepts. Here, in the hidden gardens of allegory, beauty that appeals to the senses becomes a way of finding oneness with God."


Esther Mobley Dec. 7, 2017 Updated: Dec. 7, 2017 6 a.m.
At long last, wine growers in the Petaluma Gap area will be able to put "Petaluma Gap" on their wine labels, as the Petaluma Gap officially becomes California's newest American Viticultural Area (AVA) on Friday, Dec. 8.
The passage of the AVA, however, comes almost a year later than its stakeholders expected, delayed by bureaucratic shuffling in the new presidential administration.
"It's been a very long, frustrating road," says Rickey Trombetta Stancliff, president of the Petaluma Gap Winegrowers Alliance and owner of Trombetta Family Wines.
AVAs are government-designated boundaries for grape growing, and they affect how wine can be labeled. Grapes grown within the boundaries of the Napa Valley AVA, for example, can produce wines labeled as "Napa Valley." The Petaluma Gap would be the 17th sub-AVA within Sonoma County, though its 203,000 acres — from Tomales Bay to Sonoma Mountain — encompass slivers of Marin County, too.
Viticulturally speaking, it's marked by its west-east wind pattern, which can result in wines with high acidity and high tannin, whose flavors can develop over a longer growing season.
A group of vintners meet at the Forestville home of Trombetta Family Wines owner, Rickey Trombetta Stancliff, to taste wines from what is expected to be announced as a new American Viticultural Area in Sonoma County, named the Petaluma Gap on Dec. 15, 2016.
The original Petaluma Gap AVA petition was filed in early 2015, and moved through the pipeline relatively quickly; a public comment period ended last December, with no opposition. At that point, Stancliff believed, it was just a matter of a couple of quick signatures in Washington.
"We thought, terrific, this won't take very long," Stancliff said.
If only it had been so simple. In the final step before it can publish a new rule (as AVAs are classified) in the Federal Register, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) needs to obtain final approval from the Department of the Treasury. When President Donald Trump took office in January, several crucial positions at Treasury, whose signatures would have been necessary for the AVA passage, were left vacant.
On Aug. 3, the U.S. Senate confirmed several of Trump's nominees for Treasury positions, including Brent James McIntosh as general counsel and David Kautter as assistant secretary for tax policy. Four months later, the Petaluma Gap AVA rule was signed off.
Many in the wine industry also feared that the executive order issued by Trump on Jan. 30, directing government agencies to repeal two regulations in order to pass one new regulation, would halt the passage of any new AVAs, which might have been interpreted as regulations themselves. Fortunately for Petaluma Gap producers, that did not seem to be a problem.
"Starting Dec. 8, we can start submitting our labels to the TTB for putting the Petaluma Gap AVA on our labels," Stancliff said. This applies to any wines that have not yet been labeled, which could mean you'll be seeing wines from the 2014 vintage (or even, in some cases, earlier) labeled as Petaluma Gap.
For small wine producers, being able to label a wine with the Petaluma Gap AVA could make a big difference. Such labeling helps with marketing, as it can communicate nuances to customers about vineyard qualities at a more precise level than a simple "Sonoma County" or "Sonoma Coast" label could. And it helps a region's members communicate a coherent message about what makes their place special: One Petaluma Gap vintner's success becomes every Petaluma Gap vintner's success.
"It's really significant," Stancliff said. "Now instead of competing with a cast of thousands (in Sonoma County), we're now down to a much smaller number, a more rarefied group.


Milo, you're no Hall of Famer and I can prove it – HEY, IT'S PAT RYAN'S BLOG!
Listening to a baseball game on the radio is a special treat, but I haven't been able to tune in to my Houston Astros since the mid-1980s because I cannot abide the play-by-play announcer. So I was quite pleased recently when Milo Hamilton announced he was retiring from the broadcast booth after the 2012 season. Appreciation of one broadcaster or another is to some degree a matter of taste, I grant you; in this case, I'm finally getting the bad taste out of my mouth after more than 30 years!
In the days of my first experience with cable television in Austin, Texas in the late 1970s, when all you got was a dozen or so channels in total including the local stations, the special offerings including the independent "super stations" WTBS (originally WTCG) in Atlanta and WGN in Chicago which carried a ton of syndicated programming plus all the games of the Atlanta Braves and Chicago Cubs baseball teams. To a fledgling broadcaster and long-time baseball fan it was pretty cool to see how stations in other cities put on their broadcasts, and since the Cubs played all their home games in the afternoon back then I saw them a lot. In a very short time I decided that I did not care for the style of either of the Cubs play-by-play men, Harry Caray and Milo Hamilton.
By 1985 I was back in Houston, and was disgusted at the news that the Astros hired Hamilton to be the second play-by-play guy behind long-time local favorite Gene Elston. By 1987 Elston was unceremoniously dumped and Hamilton had the top spot in the radio broadcast. He has some ardent fans—most notably Astros management, that hasn't fired him in all these years—but Hamilton is the subject of high derision and ridicule, and it's not just me: check out the comments forum at Houston's Leading Information Source, or even the Astros' own website, when the news broke that Hamilton was going to announce his retirement.
There you have it boys and girls, the bar-bet-settling evidence straight from Cooperstown! Milo Hamilton, no matter which halls of fame you claim, you are not a member of baseball's hall. Happy trails! Oh, frabjous rapture!
So, I was relatively proud of myself for coming up with information that like-minded baseball lovers can appreciate. I shared it among a group of friends, and made the parenthetical aside that "this may be the most worthwhile thing I have done this week;" my friend Tom Adolph, no doubt voicing the sentiment shared by many others, replied "This may be the best thing you have ever done." If so, I can live with that.


Christine Eyene is a Research Fellow in Contemporary Art at the University of Central Lancashire where she works on Making Histories Visible, an interdisciplinary visual arts research project led by Lubaina Himid MBE artist and Professor of Contemporary Art at UCLan.
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Leading CBD Brand Premium Jane Launches New Website, Updates USA-made Product Range
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LOS ANGELES, July 8, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Premium Jane, one of the USA's leading domestic CBD oil manufacturers, has announced the launch of several new products in addition to a revamped website and an updated online store that offers faster, more streamlined shipping options to international customers.
Featured among several highly-rated cannabis websites as a top three pick for the USA's best CBD oil, Premium Jane has quickly become a reputable, well-established brand in the American hemp market. In recent months, however, the company has made steps to broaden its international appeal, and is now offering shipping to the UK in addition to several other countries around the globe.
"Of course there's a general aesthetic appeal involved with the launch of the new website and online store," Adam Baker, Marketing Manager said. "However, there's also a practical element involved as the new platform has allowed us to optimize and streamline the increasing amounts of domestic and international orders we're receiving."
CBD oil has indeed been on the rise in the USA in recent years, and Premium Jane has solidified its spot as one of the country's most reliable sellers. While their product range is smaller than other competing brands, customers have remarked on a tangible difference that exists in terms of quality and effectiveness.
"What it comes down to really is just a simple matter of quality. From day one we have refused to cut corners; we are still extracting and producing each product right here in the USA from organic, American-grown hemp," continued Adam Baker.
In addition to the newly renovated website and updated online store, the company has launched a 1,500mg topical lotion, which many are saying is the most potent CBD cream available outside the medical cannabis market.
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World Focus: Reinventing the Evil Empire
Posted on Tuesday, August 26 @ 07:56:13 UTC
Topic: Russia-USA
By Stephen Lendman
For the West, everything changed but stayed the same, hard-wired and in place. Things just lay dormant in the shadows during the Yeltsin years, certain to reemerge once a more resolute Russian leader took over. If not Vladimir Putin, someone else little different.
Russia is back, proud and reassertive, and not about to roll over for America. Especially in Eurasia. For Washington, it's back to the future, the new Cold War, and reinventing the Evil Empire, but this time for greater stakes and with much larger threats to world peace. Conservatives lost their influence. Neocons are weakened but still dominant. The Israeli Lobby and Christian Right drive them. Conflict is preferred over diplomacy, and most Democrats go along to look tough on "terrorism." Notably their standard-bearer, vying with McCain to be toughest.
Nine former Warsaw Pact and Soviet Republics are part of NATO: the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. In addition, Georgia and Ukraine seek membership. Russia is strongly opposed. And now for greater reason after Poland (on August 20) formally agreed to allow offensive US "interceptor missiles" on its soil. A reported 96 short-range Patriot ones also plus a permanent garrison of US troops - 110 transfered from Germany, according to some accounts. Likely more to follow. In addition, Washington agreed to defend Poland whether or not it joins NATO, so that heightens tensions further.
The Warsaw signing followed the Czech Republic's April willingness to install "advanced tracking missile defense radar" by 2012. In both instances, Russia strongly objected, and on August 20 said it will "react (and) not only through diplomatic protests." Both former Warsaw Pact countries are now targets. The threat of nuclear war is heightened. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Doomsday Clock heads closer to midnight - meaning "catastrophic destruction." It's no joking matter.
The US media downplays the threat and hails a pact Zbigniew Brzezinski (a Polish national, former Carter National Security Advisor, and key Obama foreign policy strategist) calls a watershed in the two countries' relationship - "This changes the strategic relationship between the US and Poland. There is a clear and explicit understanding that if there are negative consequences of stationing the missile shield, the US will come to Poland's defense."
On the one hand, a surprising statement from a man critical of Bush administration policies, its failure in Iraq, and the dangers of a widened Middle East war. He fully understands the heightened potential for world conflict but sounds dismissive of the threat. On the other hand, he has bigger fish to fry and apparently willing to wage big stakes on winning. The Iraq war and Iran are distractions by his calculus. The real Great Game embraces all Eurasia and assuring America comes out dominant - not Russia, not China, nor any rival US alliance.
The major media also downplay the dangers and explain nothing about the high stakes. Instead they beat up on Russia and highlight comments from Secretary Rice that missiles aren't "aimed in any way at Russia," or White House spokesperson Dana Perino saying: "In no way is the president's plan for missile defense aimed at Russia. (It's to) protect our European allies from any rogue threats" that suggests Iran, but, clearly means Russia, according to Hauke Ritz's recent analysis in Germany's influential Leaves for German and International Politics journal.
He explained that Iran's missiles can't reach Europe, and that Washington rejected Russia's proposed Azerbaijan-based joint US-Russian anti-missile system - to intercept and destroy Iranian missiles on launch. He thus concluded that Washington's scheme is for offense, not defense. That it targets Russia, not Iran, with Alaskan and other installations close to Russia as further proof. He wrote: "The strategic significance of the system consists of intercepting those few dozen missiles Moscow (can launch) following a first strike. (It's) a crucial element....to develop a nuclear first strike capacity against Russia. The original plan is for....ten interceptor missiles in Poland. But once....established, their number could be easily increased."
According to Ritz, Washington wants a missile system that "guarantee(s a) US (edge) to carry out nuclear war without (risking a) counter-strike." It can then be used for geopolitical advantage "to implement national interests," but it highlights the dangers of possible nuclear confrontation and the catastrophic fallout if it happens.
In an August 20 Veterans of Foreign Wars convention address, Bush was essentially on this theme in focusing on "terrorism" and saying: "We're at war against determined enemies, and we must not rest until that war is won." Georgia "stands for freedom around the world, now the world must stand for freedom in Georgia" - clearly linking Russia's response with "terrorism" and suggesting from his September 2001 address to a joint session of Congress and the America people that: "Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists." Any that are "will be regarded....as a hostile state." Clearly, Russia is on his mind just as Moscow is carefully evaluating his threat.
The BBC echoed the US media, covers all the bases, mentioned the Iranian threat, singles out Russia, obfuscates facts about the conflict, sides with Washington and Poland on the new missile deal, and quoted Polish President Lech Kaczynski saying: "no one (with) good intentions towards us and (the West) should" fear the missiles. It also cited a miraculous turnaround in sentiment saying two-thirds of Poles now favor them. Astonishing since overwhelming opposition was recently evident, so it's hard imagining it shifted so fast.
High-Octane Russia Bashing - The Dominant US Media
The Wall Street Journal asserted that Poles "see the US as their strongest ally" given "two centuries of invasions and partitioning by Russia" and other European powers. It also highlighted Russia's "nuclear threat" (not Iran's) in a Gabriel Schoenfeld article painting Russia as an aggressor and America aiding its European allies.
Schoenfeld (a senior editor of the hawkish, pro-Israeli Commentary magazine) cites "Moscow's willingness to crush Georgia with overwhelming force (and claims) the Kremlin has 10 times as many tactical (short-range) warheads as the US." The "shift in the nuclear imbalance....helped embolden the bear." He ignores America's overall nuclear superiority, but it hardly matters as both countries combined have around 97% of these weapons (an estimated 27,000 world total) according to experts like Helen Caldicott - more than enough to destroy the planet many times over.
Nonetheless, Schoenfeld supports the Polish agreement in the face of a "pugnacious Russia (determined to acquire) economic and military power (and) not afraid to use threats and force to get (its) way (with) nuclear weapons central to the Russian geopolitical calculus." It's reminiscent of "the dark days of communist yore (and captures the threat of what) we and Russia's neighbors are up against."
For the moment, anti-Iranian rhetoric has subsided with Russia the new dominant villian. En route to the NATO Brussels August 18 meeting, Secretary Rice called Russia's action against Georgia a "very dangerous game and perhaps one the Russians want to reconsider." Russian "aggression" is the buzzword, and the media dutifully trumpet it.
So do the presidential candidates. John McCain was especially belligerent in denouncing "Russian aggression" and calling on Moscow to "immediately and unconditionally cease its military operations and withdraw all forces from sovereign Georgian territory." He called for emergency Security Council and NATO meetings in hopes condemnation would follow and "NATO (can act) to stabiliz(e) this very dangerous situation." He also wants Russia expelled from the G-8 nations and an end to 10 years of partnership and cooperation.
Barak Obama first said that Russia's "aggression" must not stand and denounced "Russian atrocities." He then softened his tone somewhat with: "Now is the time for action - not just words....Russia must halt its violation of Georgian airspace and withdraw its ground forces from Georgia, with international monitors to verify that these obligations are met." But expect those comments to harden as Democrats meet in Denver, and the party's nominee will likely match his opponent's tough stance. Or at least try under a slogan of "Securing America's Future" to advance the nation's interests in the world. Beating up on Russia is now fair game and made easier with lockstep media support.
The Wall Street Journal is more hostile than most, and practically frothed in its August 16 - 17 weekend edition. It called for "Making Putin Pay (and) Turning Russia's Georgian rout into a political defeat." It cited Russian aggression "to remove President Saakasvili from the office to which he was elected in 2004 (and to) overthrow a democratic government."
It called on "western authorities (to) explore the vulnerability of Russian assets abroad (or) at least make life difficult for the holders of those assets." The Journal might remember the billions of US fixed income and other investments Russia holds - although the country's Central Bank reported late July that it pared its $100 billion in US "mortgage bonds" to $50 billion early in the year. The US Treasury reports that Russia holds around $36 billion of Treasury securities with considerably more in private hands.
The Journal then compared Russia to China and managed a slap at both. It said: "In the world of global commerce....China calculated that....staging an Olympic extravaganza (could enhance its) ambivalent reputation....By contrast, the Putin government....seems to believe its power grows in sync with its reputation as an international pariah, an outsider state," and George Bush added that "Russia has damaged its credibility and its relations with the nations of the free world" - with the Journal writer hardly blinking at such brazen hypocrisy.
Nor did Journal editorial board member Matthew Kaminski in his headlined piece: "Russia Is Still a Hungry Empire" without a hint about the Soviet Uni0n's bloodless 1991 dissolution now down the memory hole in light of today's inflammatory headlines.
Kaminski highlights "Russian tanks rolling through Georgia (with) images of Chechnya in 1994 and '99, Vilnius '91, Afghanistan '79, Prague '68, Hungary '56" and before that Poland, the Baltics and other Eastern European states. "The war in Georgia marks an easy return to territorial expansion and attempted regional dominance."
Boris Yeltsin "tried to give Russians an alternative narrative. (He) put forward democracy as a unifying and legitimizing idea for the new Russian state." But that was swept away when "Putin took over." He's unresponsive to the idea of "partnership with the West and freedom at home." He aims to force "young democracies around Russia....back into Moscow's sphere of influence....The worldview of a Russian nationalist is hard for outsiders to comprehend," and for Kaminski one that mustn't be allowed to stand.
Nor for other Journal contributors daily (in op-eds and editorials) with some of the most outlandish attack journalism heard since before Gorbachev. Claims that "Kremlin capitalism is a threat to the West....by using its market strength in oil and gas resources to strong-arm its neighbors and outmaneuver the US and EU." And that Russia's real aim "is to replace a pro-western government with a new Russian satellite....reminiscent of the Brezhnev doctrine. (It's) part of a broader campaign (to annex new territory, expand the Russian empire, conduct) cyber attacks against the Baltic states, (assassinate enemies, and use) economic intimidation (through) cutoffs of Russian oil and gas shipments to Ukraine and the Czech Republic....It is important that Moscow pays a concrete and tangible price for its latest aggression, at least comparable to (what) it paid for the 1979 invasion of Afghanistan."
The New York Times is more measured but, on August 19, highlighted "Survivors in Georgia Tell of Ethnic Killings" with suggestions of "ethnic cleansing" - a practice that "haunted the borderlands of the old Soviet bloc." Villages were "burned and houses broken; unburied bodies lay rotting; fresh graves were dug in gardens and basements....most victims interviewed (were) ethnic Georgians....(In central Georgian) villages, some killings were carried out for revenge....some (involved) theft (and still others) seemed to be that the power balance was shifting, away from ethnic Georgians to the Ossetian separatists and their Russian backers."
Independent reporters on the ground contradicted The Times and similar US media accounts. One wrote: "Georgians living in several of the villages said the Russians occupying their land had treated them well, done nothing to encourage them to leave and offered the only protection available from the South Ossestian militias they feared most" and perhaps their own army in an effort to inflict harm and blame it on Russia.
On August 21, The Times headlined: "US Sees Much to Fear in a Hostile Russia (by) usher(ing) in a sustained period of renewed animosity with the West....problems extend(ing) far beyond (arms deals with) Syria and the mountains of Georgia." Others with "anti-American states like Iran and Venezuela." Pressuring US "military bases in Central Asia....counterterrorism, Hamas" and numerous other issues. Obama's chief Russia advisor, Stanford University professor Michael McFaul, was quoted saying Russia appears intent on "disrupt(ing) the international order" and can do it. They're "the hegemon in that region and we are not and that's a fact."
"Russia has all the leverage," according to Carnegie Moscow Center's Masha Lipman (with) potential for causing headaches" if it chooses - in the region, the UN, on Iran, Zimbabwe, and to halt "any kind of coercive actions, like economic sanctions or anything else," according to former National Security Council advisor Peter Feaver. An old post-Cold War concern is now arisen. Russia is now "a spoiler."
An August 21 AP report cites an example in its headlined piece" "Russia blocks Georgia's main (oil) port city" of Poti and continues to hold positions around Gori and Igoeti....30 miles west of....Tbilisi."
Reports from Other Sources
On August 21, Russia Today reported that "Abkhazia rallie(d) for independence (and) the Abkhazian Parliament has approved an official appeal to Russia to recognize its independence." Tens of thousands rallied in support, and on August 23, Reuters reported that South Ossetia did as well and its president, Eduard Kokoity, plans to ask Russia and the international community for recognition. Russia's Deputy Federation Council Speaker, Svetlana Orlova, told the rally that "Russia is always with you and will never leave you in the lurch."
On August 23, The New York Times reported that "the Kremlin is nearing formal recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, possibly as early as next week." Apparently likely according to Russian Regional Development Minister, Dmitry Kozak, who told Itar-Tass "support is likely (and) that after all the events that have occurred, one should not expect otherwise."
On August 21, Abkhazian President Sergey Bagapsh "appealed to Russia and to governments of other countries to recognize Abkhazia's independence," for both his province and South Ossetia. On August 20, Interfax reported that the Russian Federation Council (Russia's upper House of parliament) is prepared to recognize both provinces' independence if their people "express such a will....and if the Russian president makes a relevant decision on this score," according to Federation Council Chairman Sergei Mironov.
On August 25, Russia Today reported that (in emergency session) the Federation Council unanimously voted to ask President Medvedev to recognize Abkhazian and South Ossetian independence. Both province presidents addressed the chamber and "again said they will never agree to remain within Georgia" and are more entitled to independence than Kosovo. Konstantin Zatulin, deputy head of the Duma Committee for International Affairs in Russia's State Duma, its lower chamber, stated that his body "most probably" will go along.
At the same time, tensions remain high. Both sides continue hostile accusations. Russia maintains it's conducting an orderly withdrawal "in accordance with the international agreements (to their) previous (places) of deployment," according to Col. Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn, deputy chief of Russia's General Staff. US military officials at first said they saw no significant pullback. On August 22 with a clear withdrawal underway, the International Herald Tribune reported that the "US and France say Russia is not complying" with the cease fire.
Russia is observing a 1999 joint Russian-S. Ossetian-N. Ossetian-Georgian agreement prepared by the Joint Control Commission, an international South Ossetian monitoring body. It lets Russian troops secure a corridor five miles beyond either side of South Ossetia's border that extends into Georgia. It also allows Russian peacekeepers to operate under the auspices of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
On August 23, RIA Novosti reported that Nogovitsyn said Russian forces will patrol Georgia's Black Sea Poti port as "envisaged in the international agreement. Poti is outside of the security zone," he said, "but that does not mean we will sit behind a fence watching them riding around in Hummers." Nor allow Georgia to rearm for more aggression as Russia suspects, and that Georgia's deputy defense minister, Batu Kutelia, admitted doing initially. On August 22, he told the Financial Times that his government attacked the S. Ossetian capital, Tskhinvali, and attempted to seize it.
On August 22, Nogovitsyn heightened tensions by claiming Georgia is now preparing for new military action against Abkhazia and South Ossetia. "We have registered an increase in (Georgian) reconnaissance activities and preparations for armed actions in the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict zone." As a result, he said that Russia reserves the right to maintain peacekeepers in both provinces. For its part, RIA Novosti reports that America now refuses to participate with Russia in "NATO's Operation Active Endeavour naval antiterrorism exercise," according to a Russian Black Sea Fleet source. The announcement came after Russia's NATO envoy, Dmitry Rogozin, said his country was "temporarily suspending military cooperation with NATO until a political decision on relations" between the two nations had been resolved.
Also on August 22, the Israeli Ynetnews.com published a Russian daily Kommersant interview with Washington's new Moscow ambassador, John Beyrle, sure to embarrass his superiors. He called Russia's response justified after its troops came under attack. "Now we see Russian forces which responded to attacks on Russian peacekeepers in South Ossetia, legitimately...." He went on to criticize Russia's over-reaction and warned about its impact on US - Russia relations as well as investor confidence. Nonetheless, his first comment is telling and quite contrary to everything from Washington and biting anti-Russian media responses.
Finally on August 23, Russia Today reported that the "local (S. Ossetian and Abkhazian) population (said) they fear Georgia might repeat its regional aggression. They also (want) Russian troops to stay in the area to shield them from any possible attacks." Russia has set up 18 S. Ossetia peacekeeping posts and plans a similar number in Abkhazia "to deter looters and the transportation of arms and ammunition."
All the News Not Fit to Print
Not a major media hint that Georgia is a US vassal state. That its military is an extension of the Pentagon. That its aggression was manufactured in Washington. That it's well-supplied and trained by America and Israel. That pipeline geopolitics is central. Beating up on Russia as well. Diverting Moscow from any planned intervention against Iran. Even enlisting Russia's cooperation - not to sell Iran sophisticated S-300 air defense missile systems and agreeing to tougher sanctions in return for perhaps Washington deferring on Georgian and Ukrainian NATO admission and recognizing S. Ossetian and Abkhazian independence. Perhaps more as well to put off greater confrontation for later under a new administration.
Clearly, however, the fuse is lit. It has been for some time. It relates to everything strategic about this vital area with its immense energy and other resources as well neutralizing Russia's power as America's top rival and key Eurasian competitor.
Controlling the region's oil and gas is crucial and what Michel Chossudovsky explains in his August 22 article titled: "The Eurasian Corridor: Pipeline Geopolitics and the New Cold War." He calls the Caucasus crisis "intimately related to the control over energy pipeline and transportation corridors (and cites) evidence that the Georgian (August 7) attack....was carefully planned (in) High level consultations (between) US and NATO officials" months in advance. On August 23, RIA Novosti said a Russian security source accused Georgia of involvement a year ago in "coordinat(ion) with NATO's plans to strengthen its (Black Sea) naval presence."
Chossudovsky discusses America's (1999) "Silk Road Strategy: The Trans-Eurasian Security System (as) an essential building block of (post-Cold War) US foreign policy." Proposed in House legislation but never enacted, it was for "an energy and transport corridor network linking Western Europe to Central Asia and eventually to the Far East." It aims to integrate South Caucasus and Central Asian nations "into the US sphere of influence." It involves "militariz(ing) the Eurasian corridor," much like Security and Prosperity Partnership plans are for North America.
Efforts are largely directed against Russia, China and Iran as well as other Eastern-allied states. It's to turn all Eurasia into a "free market" paradise, secure it for capital, assure US dominance, control its resources, exploit its people, transform all its nations into American vassals, and likely aim to dismantle Russia's huge landmass if that idea ever comes to fruition.
Russia, however, isn't standing idle and is partnered in two strategic alliances:
the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) since June 2001 along with China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan with Iran in observer status. It defines its goals as: "good neighborly relations;" promoting "effective cooperation in politics, trade and economy, science and technology" and more as well as "ensur(ing) peace, security and stability in the region." Given NATO's potential threat, its main purpose is military; and
the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) since 2003 "in close liaison with the SCO" with a heavy emphasis on security against NATO Eurasian expansionism; its members include: Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
The stakes are huge as both sides prepare to confront them. All part of the new Cold War and Great Game. Reinventing the Evil Empire and beating up on Russia as part of it. Risking a potential nuclear confrontation as well and what a new US president will inherit with no assurance a Democrat will be any more able than a Republican. And with a global economic crisis unresolved, either one may resort to the age old strategy of stoking fear, going to war, hoping it will stimulate the economy, and be able to divert public concerns away from lost jobs, home foreclosures, and a whole array of other unaddressed issues.
In early 2003, it worked. Will 2009 be a repeat? Will it deepen what author Kevin Phillips calls "the global crisis of American capitalism?" Will the Doomsday Clock strike midnight? It moved two minutes closer on January 17, 2007 to five minutes to the hour. It cited 27,000 nuclear weapons, 2000 ready to launch in minutes. It said: "We stand at the brink of a second nuclear age. Not since....Hiroshima and Nagasaki has the world faced such perilous choices." It said the situation is "dire." It called for immediate preventive action. Its message went unheeded, and conditions today have worsened. The high Eurasian stakes up things further, and neither side so far is blinking.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com, and listen to The Global Research News Hour on RepublicBroadcasting.org Mondays from 11AM—1PM US Central time.
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Separate back- and frontend development

Basically backend side will be installed to some *nix machine

Frontend side of this POC is just for example

Implementation to _your_ own frontend application should be fairly easy

        Simple file(s) watcher to send socket messages about file updates

Watched files can be configured to backend side

Updates of files are send to clients via WebSockets

User can define which files to "listen"

Simple file content update, to demonstrate actual changes of files

        Frontend - backend communication is authenticated by JWT

CORS support

All data access routes are secured via sails policies

Actual user authentication is done in the backend

### Why?
Just for fun and to learn how to make this kind of stuff work with node.js.

### Directory structure

backend  = Sails.js server, just API nothing else
frontend = Slush-angular, just frontend side

#### Backend
For backend side this POC uses Sails.js (imho awesome). See more info at https://github.com/balderdashy/sails.

#### Frontend
Boilerplate uses slush-angular for frontend (AngularJS using Google Angular App Structure Recommendations).
See more info at https://github.com/slushjs/slush-angular This library is awesome to distribute frontend.

### Used libraries, guides, etc.
* Sails.js, http://sailsjs.org/
* slush-angular, https://github.com/slushjs/slush-angular
* AngularJS, https://angularjs.org/
* Bootstrap, http://getbootstrap.com/
* Techniques for authentication in AngularJS applications, https://medium.com/opinionated-angularjs/7bbf0346acec
* Json Web Tokens, http://angular-tips.com/blog/2014/05/json-web-tokens-examples/

### Installation
First of all you have to install npm and node.js to your box. Installation instructions can
be found there http://sailsjs.org/#/getStarted?q=what-os-do-i-need

After that you need to install bower, slush and sails main packages to make all things to happen. These
can be installed with following commands on your *nix box.

sudo npm install bower -g
sudo npm install slush -g
sudo npm install sails -g

After you need to download codes of this project to your computer, please follow instructions below.

#### Back- and frontend installation
Navigate yourself to directory where you downloaded or cloned this repo and run following command on shell:

npm install

That will install all needed packages for back- and frontend. You can also install those separately just by run that
same command on backend or frontend directory.

#### Configuration
You can configure your backend and frontend applications to use your environment specified
settings. Basically by default you don't need to make any configurations at all. With default configuration backend will
be run on http://localhost:1337 and frontend on http://localhost:3001 (development) http://localhost:3000 (production).

##### Backend
There is an example of backend configuration file on following path.

backend/config/local_example.js

Just copy this to backend/config/local.js and make necessary changes to it. Note that this
local.js file is in .gitignore so it won't go to VCS at any point.

##### Frontend
There is an example of front configuration file on following path.

frontend/config/config_example.json

Just copy this to backend/config/config.json and make necessary changes to it. Note that this
config.json file is in .gitignore so it won't go to VCS at any point.

### Running of this POC
You need to start both backend and frontend servers to run this POC.

#### Backend

cd backend
sails lift

This will start sails.js server on defined port. By default this is accessible from http://localhost:1337 url. If you
try that with your browser you should only see page that contains Not Found message on it. This means that
everything is ok.

#### Frontend

##### Development #####

cd frontend
gulp serve

This will start simple web server that you can use within developing frontend side. By default this is accessible from
http://localhost:3001 url. You should be see login page if you try that url with your browser.

##### Deployment #####
As in production

cd frontend
gulp dist

This will create a deployment code to ```frontend/dist``` folder. After that you can serve those static HTML, CSS,
Javascript and asset files by any web server you like (Apache, nginx, IIS, etc.). For testing this production ready code
you can also use ```gulp production``` command which will serve those dist files. By default this is accessible from
http://localhost:3000 url.

#### Testing POC

Start back- and frontend servers as described above

Open http://localhost:3001 with your favorite browser

Login with with following credentials:

username: liukko

password: poc

Start watcher for files you like

Open terminal and modify backend/data/{watcherFile}

You should see changes of that file on the browser

### Possible failures
Below is small list of possible failures that can occur while trying this POC.

Sails won't lift and you get error message like: Fatal error: watch ENOSPC

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16748737/grunt-watch-error-waiting-fatal-error-watch-enospc

tl;dr just run npm dedupe

Frontend side is missing some 3rd party libraries. eg. browser console is full of some errors.

Try to install bower packages manually by command bower install in frontend directory.

## Author
Protacon Solutions

## Contributors
Tarmo Leppänen

## License
The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014 Protacon Solutions

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
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World AIDS Day: 6 Songs Of Remembrance
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December 1st is World AIDS Day, an annual remembrance of those who died of the disease and a day to raise awareness about prevention.
Several talented music artists have succumbed to AIDS-related illnesses, including Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, CCR's Tom Fogerty, Level 42 guitarist Alan Murphy, rapper Eazy-E, R&B singer Jermaine Stewart, and disco star Sylvester.
Erasure's Andy Bell, Frankie Goes to Hollywood frontman Holly Johnson, pop singer Paul Lekakis and Canadian R&B singer Billy Newton-Davis have publicly revealed they are HIV-positive.
Others have been inspired to write and record songs about people lost to AIDS.
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"Together Again" – Janet Jackson
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"Hold On" – Sarah McLachlan
The Canadian singer is said to have written "Hold On" after learning about a woman whose fiancé was diagnosed with AIDS. "I lie awake and pray / That you'll be strong tomorrow / And we'll see another day," she sings.
"Il Adore" – Boy George
This song from the Culture Club singer's 1995 solo album Cheapness and Beauty was written about a mother whose gay son dies of AIDS. "Here in this cold white room / Tied up to these machines/ It's hard to imagine him as he used to be," he sings. "Laughing, screaming tumbling queen / Like the most amazing light show you've ever seen."
"The Last Song" – Elton John
Included on his 1992 album The One, this emotional song co-written with Bernie Taupin is about an estranged father reconnecting with his son, who is living with AIDS. "I can't believe you love me / I never thought you'd come," John sings. "I guess I misjudged love / Between a father and his son."
"Gone Too Soon" – Michael Jackson
This song about loss was first performed by Dionne Warwick on a TV special in early 1983. A decade later, Michael Jackson recorded a version as a tribute to Ryan White, the Indiana teenager who died from AIDS-related pneumonia in 1990, and released it on World AIDS Day. "Like a rainbow fading in the twinkling of an eye / Gone too soon," Jackson sings. "Shiny and sparkly and splendidly bright / Here one day, one one night."
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La costituzione dell'Albania (in albanese: Kushtetuta e Shqipërisë) è stata adottata dal Parlamento il 28 novembre 1998. È divisa in molti atti diversi. La precedente Costituzione del 1976, fu adottata il 28 dicembre 1976 e pesantemente modificata il 5 settembre 1991.

Storia
A causa dell'instabilità politica, l'Albania ha avuto molte costituzioni durante la sua storia. La nazione che inizialmente era costituita come una monarchia nel 1914, per breve tempo è stata una repubblica nel 1925, poi è tornata ad essere una monarchia democratica nel 1928. In seguito una repubblica socialista fino alla caduta del comunismo in Albania che portò all'emanazione dell'attuale costituzione nel 1998.

Descrizione
L'attuale Costituzione definisce l'Albania come una repubblica costituzionale parlamentare unitaria. Ha un corpo legislativo unicamerale composto da 140 membri, che eleggono il Presidente, come capo dello Stato, il Consiglio dei ministri, il Primo ministro come capo del governo, il Vice primo ministro e tutti gli altri ministri.

La Costituzione è divisa in due parti, una delle quali è la sovranità e l'altra i diritti fondamentali dei cittadini. La Costituzione soddisfa tutti i requisiti per una moderna costituzione europea.

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Voci correlate
 Politica dell'Albania
 Kanun of Lekë Dukagjini
 Referendum costituzionale in Albania del 1998

Diritto in Europa
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tucson to see building of new hampshire school facility
A university whose main campus is nearly 2,700 miles away has announced plans to carve out a new services office in Tucson, Arizona.
Southern New Hampshire University is a private university based in Manchester, New Hampshire and known for its engineering, business, and arts and sciences.
The school, ranked by US News & World Report as the number one most innovative school in the country, also has a large national online enrollment.
As part of an effort to better serve those online students who live in the Western states, SNHU will build a new operations center in downtown Tucson.
That facility will be designed to house the university's admissions, financial aid, and information technology services.
It will officially be called the Tucson SNHU Operations Center.
If all goes as planned, the new facility, which is expected to be built out of an existing, but as of yet undisclosed downtown Tucson building, will be open for business sometime in early 2020.


If you thought 12 minutes for a game of Siege in SMITE's new timed queue system was a bit much, developer Hi-Rez Studios agrees with you. After analyzing the data since the new queues' launch in patch 5.13, SMITE lead designer HiRezAjax announced four game modes will have their timers reduced in patch 5.14.
Timed Queues have had a strong positive impact on SMITE matchmaking!
Ranked Conq stays as is for best possible matches.


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TikTok parent's company is planning to make their own smartphone
28 May, 2019 Reviews
Who hasn't heard about TikTok? It is one the most popular streaming apps right now. Its parent's company - a Chinese IT firm is planning to take a step into the smartphone manufacturing industry as well. ByteDance, whose $75 Billion valuation ranks it one of the world's biggest start-up plans to launch a phone pre-loaded with its own apps - which include newsfeeds, video and gaming apps to reach out more global audience. This move is seen by many as an initiative by Chinese companies to rely on their own services, software, and hardware after the US ban. ByteDance is one of very few companies from china who has global audience in Asia and west, other than its home country.
Earlier than this, Amazon has tried similar effort but it was pulled a year after launch due to its disaster failure. Analysts predict ByteDance phone could have a similar outcome. Analyst Jia Mo said, there is basically no space for them in the mass market. They lack experience and advantage in supply chain, in channels, so their likelihood of being successful is very low, he further added. If they target only the niche market, may be they have a chance by attracting niche customer groups through certain pre-installed software.
Bytedance's own international expansion has helped the company to acquire its lip-syncing Musical.ly app in 2017. But despite racking up huge number of downloads- it was fined by the Federal trade commission for illegally collecting personal information from users younger than 18 years. Wang Xi, research manager said that may be they could have a chance if they offer something new and at lower price. He said, So if they really will go down this path, I think they will probably let hardware lose money in the beginning and try to make up through their service later.
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Armed man shot dead by a police officer in a Publix parking lot, Miami-Dade police say
A Saturday evening encounter in a Publix parking lot between police officers from Miami-Dade and Homestead agencies and an armed man ended with the man being shot.
Miami-Dade police say the man was airlifted by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue to Jackson South Medical Center, where he died.
Neither the name of the officer who said Miami-Dade police had been with the department for 30 years, nor the person shot have been released.
Graphic video of the encounter and shooting and the was posted to the Instagram and Twitter accounts, @HomesteadSocial.
Miami-Dade police say a security guard was told about a man looking into a car parked at the Publix, 2950 NE Eighth St. in Homestead at around 6 pm When the security guard came over to the man, police say, the latter pulled out a gun.
On the video, someone can be heard yelling "Get down! Put the weapon down!" before the man fires into the driver's side of a white minivan four times. He then starts repeating, "I'm going home…go home…go home…go home…I'm going home" while walking toward the rear of the car, gun in his right hand and held at shoulder level.
"I want to go home," he says before shooting into the car twice more.
Miami-Dade police says the gunshots got the attention of an off-duty Miami-Dade officer parked in his personal car.
Meanwhile, the video shows, a Homestead officer, using a post near the front of the Publix as a partial shield, drew his gun and yelled at the man, "Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop!"
"I'm going home. I'm going home. I'm going home!" the man shouts as the Homestead officer shouts, "Put the gun down, sir!"
The Homestead officer repeated his request as the man gave the angle analysis, "You can't hit me from there!" and started to do something with the driver's side door handle.
The Homestead officer again repeatedly shouted "Stop!" Someone yells, "No one's trying to hurt anybody!"
When the Homestead officer shifted back to "Put the gun down!" the man replies, "No, I'm going home."
More repeated shouts of "Put the gun down!" are ignored as the man continued facing the driver's side door with his gun still in hand. He appears to look to his right a breath before shots come from that direction.
Into the video's frame from the right comes the off-duty Miami-Dade officer, who yells at the Homestead officer, "I'm a cop! Miami Dade!" and Miami-Dade Fire Rescue.
Florida Department of Law Enforcement will investigate the shooting, as is standard procedure.
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Why Meditation Helps: The Empirical Evidence
By Jessie Kissinger
There's always been a weird cultural connotation around the word "meditation." First off, all it really means is mindfulness. And secondly, it's not all that hard to do. You can do it at home — in fact you probably should. And here's the hard evidence as to why:
In a University of Wisconsin study, 25 people took an eight-week mindfulness course. Researchers then injected them and 16 control participants with a flu vaccine. The mindful group generated more antibodies in response to the virus.
Cheaper Health Care
In a 2011 study published in the American Journal of Hypertension, patients experienced a 28% cumulative decrease in physician fees after an average of five years of practicing transcendental meditation.
Improved Sleep
Mindfulness training can decrease the time it takes to fall asleep and improve sleep time and efficiency to a degree comparable to taking three milligrams (the maximum dose) of Lunesta, a sleep drug, according to a recent University of Minnesota study.
Researchers from the University of Kentucky found that regular practice of transcendental meditation can reduce systolic blood pressure by about 4.7 mmHg and diastolic blood pressure by 3.2.
Healthier Heart
In a Maharishi University study of black patients with heart disease, those who meditated had a 48% lower risk during the study period for mortality, myocardial infarction, and stroke, and 24% lower risk for cardiovascular mortality, revascularizations, and hospitalizations.
Good Genes
A Massachusetts General Hospital study found that relaxed response practice — meditation, deep breathing, yoga — inhibits the expression of genes that activate inflammatory response and pathways linked to cancer.
Published in the September 2013 issue
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MojPosao recently carried out a survey that involved 300 respondents in order to learn what is an average raise in Croatia as well as how often, to whom and for what reasons it is given.
According to the survey almost 70 percent of respondents advanced to a higher job position during their career, whilst 30 percent never advanced. Respondents with higher education advanced more often (78%) than respondents with secondary education (68%). Similarly, respondents with higher education asked for career advancement themselves more often (32%) than respondents with secondary education (21%). The vast majority of respondents (87%) advanced within the same company, whilst 29 percent of respondents obtained career advancement by starting a new job in other company.
In terms of gender, men and women are progressing equally; 73 percent of women and 72 percent of men progressed during their career. Among respondents who advanced within the same company, around 84 percent of them did not ask for advancement themselves but were offered one by an employer. Only 29 percent of respondents asked for career advancement themselves.
On the other hand, women are more likely to ask for promotion. The survey showed that almost 28 percent of women who progressed within a company asked for advancement themselves. As far as men are concerned, only 23 percent of them asked for advancement themselves. However, men were offered career promotion more often (77%) than women (72%).
In the case of starting work with a new employer, most respondents (40%) expected promotion after a year of work, whilst 28 percent of them expected to advance after two years. A fifth of respondents (21%) expected to advance after less than a year of work in a new company, whilst 7 percent of them did not expect to advance at all.
Interestingly, the survey data showed that almost 86 percent of respondents never refused a promotion. The rest of respondents explained that they refused a promotion due to small benefits in relation to responsibility and work that accompanied the promotion.
Moon River, the new video by the world famous duo 2Cellos takes their fans to Dubrovnik again, just after their Game of Thrones video. Filmed mostly in front of the Rector's Palace with ballerina silhouettes dancing all around and the well-known romantic theme from the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's, this video is quite enchanting and again a great success for Stjepan Hauser and Luka Sulic.
This track is from their newest album 'Score', made with the London Symphony Orchestra, and will be published on March 17th and is, just like Game of Thrones video, made by Darko Drinovac.
Dubrovnik loves 2Cellos and 2Cellos love Dubrovnik – they just make a perfect combination.
Croatia is full of beauty and it's not easy to make lists of top places to visit. That's why we like when somebody else does it!
Youtube channel ''World top 10'' recently published a video with 10 best places to visit in Croatia. It's full of beautiful footages of Croatia and every place chosen to be on the list comes with few words of explanation.
Places that made it to the list are: Krka National Park, Zagreb, Korcula, Pula, Zadar, Rovinj, Split, Plitvice National Park, Hvar and at the first place... Dubrovnik!
Don't miss beautiful scenes filmed all around the country and maybe you'll get inspired for your next vacation.
I have to be honest with you, dear readers, it's not easy writing this column lately. Since the start of the year I've been on a low carb diet accompanied by serious sugar detox and I'm hating every minute of it. Not only that, but I'm having real problems concentrating and being creative. I've asked my friend to help me with ideas on what to write and she suggested writing about the new American president. The problem is, I don't want to write about things that are negative and ugly. I want to write about things that are beautiful… like the president's wife.
In all seriousness, finding positive things to talk about these days is quite a task. There are so many pessimistic views and conflicting information being thrown about in the media, you would think the world is ending tomorrow. It makes me want to turn off the TV and close my news accounts. I was reminded today of a scene from the 1999 sci-fi film "The Matrix", which is on its way to become a modern pop-culture classic.
In the film, the main protagonist realises reality as we know it is nothing more than a dream, while the actual reality sees our world completely destroyed, with humans acting as nothing more than a power source for the alien race that is controlling Earth. He meets up with an underground resistance movement which is trying to reclaim this desolate planet. At a certain point in the film he is offered two pills, a blue one and a red one. If he swallows the blue one, he will go back to sleep, dreaming he lives in a modern society with access to all the material goods we take for granted. If he takes the red pill, he will remain awake and aware of the truth, but will also be condemned to live and fight in a dystopian world.
Throughout my life, I've always strived to be the "red pill" type of person. I like being well informed and always try to understand the truth behind the headlines. Lately, this seems more difficult than ever. With all the news, fake news, and gossip emitted from countless sources all around us, it is pretty much impossible to know what is really going on in the world. Not only that, but with global society more connected now than ever before, we have access to information from all corners of the planet. This can be quite a mental burden if one gets too involved.
For this reason, I am lately moving away from the information sharing social networks like Facebook or Twitter in favour of those like Instagram, where you spend your time only looking at pretty photographs or posting your own. With modern phone cameras and image filters, everything you capture ends up looking wonderful, making your mundane life look special and appealing. When I post photos of my low carb meals, people think they taste great and I'm having the best of times preparing and eating them. Who wouldn't want a confidence boost like that to their average day? Yes, there is an entire culture of fake beauty and false values developing and it's within our grasp every time we want to go for the blue pill.
So what is the right way to go? Nobody in their right mind can honestly believe denying the world's problems and distracting ourselves with videos of cute kittens or expensive cars will solve anything. That's like thinking building a wall between two countries will cure their immigration problems. On the other hand, we can't live our lives constantly worrying about everything. There must be some healthy ratio of serious news vs. entertainment fluff that one can sustainably enjoy in order to be both well informed and distracted enough. Something like making that piece of steamed kale on my plate palatable by the surrounding it with pieces of grilled meat (I'm hungry).
It seems we will have to adopt new skills of screening out unnecessary information if we want to keep our sanity in this brave new world. Whatever the case may be, we can't stop searching for a way to live our lives both dreaming wonderful dreams and fighting for better tomorrow.
Bozidar Jukic, AKA The Restless Native, is a Dubrovnik local with too many interests to name them all, with writing being at the very top of the list. He is a lover of good food, music and film, and a firm believer in the healing power of laughter. His professional orientation is towards tourism and travel so it comes as no surprise he spends most of his time alongside Mrs. Jukic running their own local tour company. Their goal is helping travellers from all over the world get a more intimate experience of Dubrovnik and what it has to offer. To find out more about their work, visit their website or Facebook page.
The Croatian shipyard Brodotrogir stated on the 8th of February that the company laid the keel, thus launched the construction of an icebreaking tanker for Arctech Helsinki Shipyard from Finland.
The contract, worth 28 million Euros for the construction of a part of the ship was concluded in July 2016; the project is to be finished within a year.
The front section of the ship will be 167 metres long, 32,5 metres wide, 18 metres high with a draught of 11,7 metres, whilst a total load capacity of the ship will be 44,000 tons. On the otherhand, a shipyard in Finland will construct the rest of the icebreaker.
The ARC7 ice-class tankeris being built under the dual class Bureau Veritas and Russian Maritime Register of Shipping.
As far as the book of orders is concerned, the capacity of Brodotrogir shipyard is fully booked. Apart from the Arctic tanker – icebreaker for the Finish orderer, the company is equipping two tankers for the Viterlef Management Ltd company which are by the main characteristics very similar to Brodotrogir's chemical tankers.
The Croatian shipyard also states that there are possibilities for additional employment as well as for providing operations for other companies in Croatia engaged in the shipbuilding industry.
According to the latest data from the Croatian Bureau of Statistics (DZS) in the first eleven months of 2016 Croatia's exports and imports grew in comparison to the previous year.
Therefore, exports amounted to almost 83.7 billion Kunas (an increase of 3.6 percent annually), whilst imports recorded an increase of 3.9 percent to nearly 134.7 billion Kunas.
The main trade partner of the country in the period between January and November 2016 was the European Union. Croatia exported 7.4 billion Euros of goods to the EU market or 5 percent more compared to the same period in 2015. However, the country imported almost twice as much i.e. nearly 14 billion Euros of goods or 5.6 percent more in comparison to 2015.
As far as the EU countries are concerned, the principal trade partners of Croatia were Germany, Italy and Slovenia.
Croatian exports to Germany increased by 10.4 percent and amounted to 1.3 billion Euros, whilst imports grew by 10.9 percent to 2.9 billion Euros.
The total of exports to Italy was 1.5 billion Euros or 7.2 percent annually, whilst imports increased by 2.9 percent to 2.28 billion Euros.
In the first eleven months of 2016 Croatia exported 1.4 billion Euros of goods to Slovenia or 8.8 percent more in comparison to 2015. Imports to this country grew by 8.6 percent to 1.9 billion Euros.
Apart from the EU, Croatia's main trade partners were the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) countries. Croatia exported 1.8 billion Euros of goods to this market, or 2.6 percent less, while imports increased by 12.8 percent to 1.05 billion Euros compared to the same period in 2015.
On the other hand, outside the EU market Croatia exported the most to Bosnia and Herzegovina – 1.01 billion Euros or 1.4 percent less in comparison to 2015.
It is well-known that the historic Old City of Dubrovnik is a pedestrian only; all vehicles have to have a special license from the city council to enter onto the stone streets. There are however some exceptions to this rule, well we are not even sure if this "vehicle" falls under the size category to be granted a licence.
This young local certainly had fun driving his Mini down the Stradun today and managed to turn the heads of passersby. And his Mini had room for a friend; our gentleman driver took his sister for a spin along the Stradun.
On Tuesday the 14th of February, Valentine's Day, the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra will hold a special concert in the Marin Drzic Theatre.
At 7.00pm on Valentines Day the orchestra will be joined by the British conductor Colin Metters in what should be a magical evening. An evening of romance is planned with movie theme tunes, such as the music from Titanic, as well as Girl from Ipanema and Greensleves.
Vocal group Sebenico from Sibenik is currently touring in the USA and according to their Facebook page, really having a great time in New York. They made ''ad hoc'' performance in Times Square singing ''Ballad of Sibenik''. People walking by seemed quite interested by this surprise concert and caught a chance to film it.
This vocal group is quite young, made back in 2011 and already won quite a few rewards. Maybe this performance will make them well-known on the American market.
One of the most popular rock bands these days is coming to Croatia! Kings of Leon were presented as the big surprise of the INmusic festival.
- With great pride we announce the concert of one of the greatest and most wanted rock bands today, endlessly adored – Kings of Leon! INmusic #12 becomes a host of the so far biggest performance in the region, where Kings of Leon will be joined also sensational Arcade Fire, Alt-J, Kasabian, Mixhael Kiwanuka and many others – it's written on the official Facebook page of the festival.
This will be the first concert of Kings of Leon in Croatia and the news made their Croatian fans (and those in the region) excited. But they'll need to wait for the concert until June, when the festival is held.