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Book Review and Author Interview: All-American Muslim Girl and Nadine Jolie Courtney
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Title All-American Muslim Girl
Author Nadine Jolie Courtney
Target Audience Young Adult
Genre & Keywords Contemporary, Realistic Fiction
Publication Date November 12th 2019 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
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Nadine Jolie Courtney's All-American Muslim Girl is a relevant, relatable story of being caught between two worlds, and the struggles and hard-won joys of finding your place.
Allie Abraham has it all going for her — she's a straight-A student, with good friends and a close-knit family, and she's dating popular, sweet Wells Henderson. One problem: Wells's father is Jack Henderson, America's most famous conservative shock jock, and Allie hasn't told Wells that her family is Muslim. It's not like Allie's religion is a secret. It's just that her parents don't practice, and raised her to keep it to herself.
But as Allie witnesses Islamophobia in her small town and across the nation, she decides to embrace her faith — study, practice it, and even face misunderstanding for it. Who is Allie, if she sheds the façade of the "perfect" all-American girl?
1. Hi, Nadine! Thank you so much for joining me on Pop! Goes The Reader today. First, I'd love to learn a little more about you! What books and/or authors do you feel have inspired or influenced your life in a positive way? What books can currently be found on your bedside table?
Thank you for having me! Like most writers, I was a voracious reader as a kid. The writer who probably influenced me the most was probably Beverly Cleary, although I have to confess that I was also obsessed with Francine Pascal's Sweet Valley High series, as well as anything by Christopher Pike. I remember biking to the bookstore one summer when I was 12 every…single…day waiting for his latest novel. As far as modern writers, I would say that Becky Albertalli has been the most influential on me as a YA writer — I adore her books.
Here's what's on my bedside table right now:
The Light At The Bottom Of The World: My friend London Shah wrote this futuristic YA thriller and it's just stunning. She's such a beautiful writer, I love the main character Layla McQueen, and it's beyond a page-turner with a serious cliffhanger.
Shadow and Bone: I just finished reading the first book in the Shadow and Bone trilogy on the plane back from YALLfest and I am addicted! I bought Siege and Storm today while I was at a bookstore signing stock of All-American Muslim Girl and I also bought Ninth House a few days ago, which I only started reading tonight and am literally about 3 pages in. My university had a fancy secret society that everybody on campus was fascinated with, and I've always loved the lore of Skull & Bones, so I'm excited to dig in.
American Royals: I love anything royalty-related: not only was my first YA novel Romancing The Throne set in the world of royalty (about two sisters at a British boarding school with the future King) but I actually used to work for a British royal many, many moons ago. (Shh.) I sped through this book one night after getting home from YALLfest.
2. You're a prolific writer, having written three previous books and over two hundred articles for Town & Country, Self, Food & Wine, Harper's Bazaar, Vanity Fair online, Vogue online, Oprah Magazine online and more. How did writing All-American Muslim Girl differ from your many other writing projects?
My first two books were written in my twenties, and they're also for older readers: the first book was a non-fiction beauty guide called Beauty Confidential that I sold when I was twenty-four, and the second was a beach book-type novel called Confessions of a Beauty Addict, based upon the years I spent as a beauty editor in New York and my subsequent splashy outing as a popular, super-secret mystery blogger. There was a big gap in the middle while I figured out life, dealt with the death of my mother, traveled, and met my husband, so Romancing the Throne didn't come out until almost a decade after my first book. It was also my first YA novel, so was a complete introduction to the world. I think, if I were writing that book today — even though it's only a few years old! — I would approach it completely differently. But it's still a fun book, and I'm proud of it.
As far as All-American Muslim Girl, it's by far the most personal thing I've ever written — even more so than some of the various freelance essays I've written. Writing this book was like giving birth. There are so few Muslim stories, so there's so much pressure to be THE Muslim story that can represent everybody, and that's obviously not possible. It was hugely important to me to get it right.
3. At the outset of All-American Muslim Girl, Allie struggles with feeling disconnected from her faith, her heritage and her history. She isn't fluid in Arabic or Circassian like her cousins, is unfamiliar with the Qur'an and often worries she's not "Muslim enough". It's this journey of self-discovery that propels the novel forward as Allie undertakes an exploration of Islam and what being a Muslim means to her. In the process, Allie actively challenges and disproves misconceptions and prejudices held by her peers and others in her life when they learn of her chosen path. What's something you wish more people knew or understood about Islam and what it means to be Muslim?
I get frustrated when people seem to think that Muslims can only be one way, look one way, act one way. We are the world's second largest religion! There are nearly two billion of us on the planet! It's an issue both within and outside of the Muslim community, with pressure put on us by other Muslims and non-Muslims alike. In the book, I talk about how there's this misconception for some that if you don't practice perfectly, you shouldn't be practicing at all or don't have the right to call yourself a Muslim, and I personally think that couldn't be further from the truth. Everybody's religious journey is between them and God alone. It was important for me not to center the white, Western gaze too much with this book, and to write something that other Muslims could relate to and feel seen by, but I do find it gratifying that a lot of non-Muslims have told me how much this book educated them. There is so much misinformation, fear and prejudice surrounding our beautiful religion, and one of the points I try to hammer home is how genuinely feminist it is: women in Islam were among the first in the world to own property and we don't traditionally take our husbands' names, for example. The issues that non-Muslims finger point at and say "Muslim women are oppressed!" have nothing to do with the actual religion and everything to do with patriarchy in societies where the religion is manipulated for gain. I mean, we as Americans are going through a dark time in our history as it pertains to women's bodies, women's choices, and women's credibility, sadly and infuriatingly.
4. I loved Allie's close relationship with her parents, whom she's ultimately able to talk to and trust without fear of judgement or rejection. One of the many things they share is a love of musicals, something that Allie often draws on for support and comfort, like when she imagines "I Have Confidence" from The Sound of Music before entering her Qur'an study group for the first time. What do you draw on in your life when you're feeling anxious, intimidated, or in need of comfort?
Thank you! And I will confess that I have actually silently sung I Have Confidence to myself in times of trouble! When I'm in a position when I'm particularly anxious or fearful, I pray. That's the nice thing about Islam: there's a prayer for seemingly everything!
5. Over the course of the novel, Allie experiences a number of micro and macro aggressions against her family and herself, including one incident early in the novel when they are confronted by an aggressive and ignorant fellow passenger on an airplane. Is there any advice you could offer to marginalized teens as to how best to respond to this sort of confrontation and discrimination that prioritizes their mental health, well-being and safety first?
First and foremost, prioritizing your mental health, wellbeing, and safety is the most important thing – and that's something we, as Muslims, have to be particularly careful about. Especially under this administration, when bigots feel more emboldened than ever because of the top-down messaging they're getting from the people in charge, I think there's absolutely zero shame in quietly, quickly retreating when you feel unsafe.
6. One of the things I admire most about Allie is her passion for knowledge and education, like her dedication to learning Arabic. Is there anything you would love to learn to do or learn more about in the future?
I myself took Arabic lessons for a few years in my mid-20s and learned how to read and write it, but it's become extremely rusty; I'd love to rehone it! I love languages in general: I'm fluent in French, and over the years, have studied a bit of Spanish, Italian, and German. If I had all the time in the world, I'd like to become fluent in each.
Meanwhile, last year, I decided I want to learn how to write for TV, so I've spent the past 11 months taking courses, reading books, studying the craft, and of course writing scripts. And last week, at YALLFest, I was inspired to try my hand at YA beyond contemporary – I'm now brainstorming a YA historical with a magical element based upon a pivotal moment in my Circassian ancestors' history.
7. Let's talk food and have some fun! Both ice cream sundaes and cookies appear throughout All-American Muslim Girl and enquiring minds (i.e. mine) want to know: What's your favourite cookie and ice cream sundae topping?
I looooove a hot fudge sundae with nuts, no whipped cream! And, believe it or not, I personally don't like cookies. (Ducks!) If I were forced to choose, however, I'd say chocolate chip.
8. All-American Muslim Girl has a strong theme of faith – Faith in God, faith in family, and faith in oneself. What inspired you to write this particular story, and what's one thing you hope readers will be able to take from it?
I first started All-American Muslim Girl more than ten years ago, when I moved to LA. I had the idea of exploring my own story through the lens of a young white-passing Muslim girl, very much like myself, named Allie Abraham. In that initial idea — which I only wrote about 3 pages of – she was a little older: college-aged. I loved the concept but I genuinely thought nobody would ever be interested in a story about a Muslim girl like me, so I shelved it for a decade. Fast forward to the afternoon of the Muslim Ban, as I was watching footage of protestors at JFK airport waving signs saying "We are all Muslims." It was so counter to everything my father had ever taught me about having to hide my religion for safety's sake. I re-opened that document and started writing, tears in my eyes. I poured my soul into this book, trying to write something that young, dorky, confused 16-year-old Nadine could have read, related to, and felt less alone. I hope that anybody can find comfort in its pages, but I have especially prayed that young Muslim girls and cross-cultural girls will feel seen, respected, and loved. Ultimately, it's a love letter to Islam, as well as a love letter to everybody caught between two worlds.
High-school sophomore Alia "Allie" Abraham excels at fitting in. After years of transferring from one school to the next as her father, an American history professor, pursued various academic positions, Allie has become adept at making new friends and ingratiating herself with those around her. ("New town. New school. New look. New life.") One thing that Annie does not ordinarily feel comfortable or safe enough to confide in her friends, however, is that she is Muslim. ("Will people still like me if I show them the real me?") Because of her fair skin, hazel eyes and red-blonde hair, a result of her Circassian heritage (defined in-text as light-skinned Muslims from the Caucasus region), Annie is afforded a measure of privilege in that she's able to 'pass' as white and does not outwardly exhibit the superficial characteristics many associate with followers of Islam. ("I don't trigger people's radar. People have an image in their head when they hear the word Muslim, and I just don't fit.")
It hurts Allie to hide an essential part of herself, but her father encourages Allie to blend in for fear of the judgement, discrimination and harassment she will face if she reveals she's Muslim. ("I've spent the past several years trying on masks – taking my dad's lessons about hiding to heart, amplifying the American part of me, being whatever people need me to be.") Despite her father's concern and reservations, however, Allie can't help but feel she's missing a piece of who she is. As a result, Allie grows increasingly determined to learn more about the practices of Islam and what it means to be Muslim in more than name-only, even if she must hide what she's doing from her family in the process. As Allie purchases a Qu'ran, begins to learn Arabic, wears a hijab for the first time and raises money for Syrian refugees, what follows is a personal journey of self-discovery and learning to have faith in herself, her loved ones, and her religion.
In The Witches Are Coming, Lindy West wrote "Storytelling is an engine of humanization, which is, in turn, an engine of empathy." Stories like All-American Muslim Girl are invaluable both because they offer validation and visibility to those able to recognize themselves in the stories being told and because, for those unfamiliar with a story like Allie's, reading about a perspective and experience outside a reader's own creates an understanding and empathy that may previously have been lacking. While it's shameful that Muslims need to continue to assert their humanity and vulnerability in order to combat the stigmatization of their religious practices and way of life, All-American Muslim Girl offers a sensitive, nuanced, empathetic and ultimately hopeful portrayal of one girl's exploration of her culture, her community, her faith, and what it means to be Muslim in America.
Over the course of the novel, Allie must overcome a great deal of adversity as she pursues a greater understanding of her heritage and faith. This conflict arises internally, as Allie worries she's not "Muslim enough" because of her lack of knowledge about Arabic, the Qu'ran and Islam in general, as well as externally, both from inside and outside of the Muslim community. From discomfort, ignorance and micro-aggressions to outright hostility and discrimination, Allie is regularly confronted with the pervasive stereotypes and misconceptions about Islam in the Western world. Rather that being left to practice her religion in peace and harmony, Allie understandably feels as though she has a responsibility to dispel the toxic and often violent fallacies about an aspect of her life that brings her such joy. In doing so, All-American Muslim Girl itself addresses a number of important issues Muslims regularly face, including (but not limited to) Islamophobia, colourism, erasure, tone policing, privilege and how best to interpret and implement God's teachings.
The discrimination Allie faces in the novel never feels exploitative or unnecessarily cruel in its execution as Courtney illustrates the persecution Muslims are subjected to on a regular basis. It's exceedingly difficult to watch as Allie often feels compelled to conform to the role of the "Good Muslim" as a result in order to placate and comfort those who have little-to-no true understanding of what being a Muslim entails and who fear what they don't understand. ("I picture my grandmother in Dallas: my Teta sitting in my aunt Bila's cheerful purple room, watching Amp Diab music videos and reading gossip magazines spilling dirt on Arab Idol judges. I wish I could show the passengers behind me what a Syrian Muslim in America looks like. Ask them if she is something to fear.") The novel effectively demonstrates the collective trauma Muslims suffer from as they have been repeatedly asked to atone and take responsibility for those who claim a Muslim identity but who act contrary to Islam's teachings in a destructive or violent manner. ("Anxiety. Was a Muslim involved? Please, God, don't let there have been a Muslim involved. (…) Not that the facts matter. Chances are good we'll bear the blame one way or another.")
In addition to Allie's personal journal of discovery, All-American Muslim Girl also explores Allie's complex relationships with those around her, including her family, her boyfriend, and her new friends in the all-female Qu'ran study group she eventually joins. The latter is arguably the most influential in her life (and my favourite aspect of the novel) as Allie is allowed a safe space in which she's able to explore, question and rejoice in her newfound faith without fear of judgement or constraint. These moments of levity, comfort, community, and honesty among the girls, one of whom identifies as a lesbian and all of whom identify as feminists, underscore how commonly-held Western misconceptions of Islam being regressive or oppressive do not reflect the reality of the Islamic belief system or the people who have devoted their lives to it.
All-American Muslim Girl by Nadine Jolie Courtney is an informative and inspiring novel which will no doubt educate and empower readers of all ages and backgrounds and reminds us that there is no one, monolithic Muslim experience, but rather a myriad of ways in which to worship that are as varied as they are beautiful. I read this novel during a particularly difficult and stressful period in my life and I can't adequately express how much I loved All-American Muslim Girl or how much comfort I was able to draw from Allie's story. This is one of the best books I've read in recent memory and one I would not hesitate to declare a favourite of 2019.
Jenna @ Falling Letters says:
Great interview! I don't read a lot of YA, let alone contemporary YA, but Courtney's comments and your review have caught my interest.
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Sheremetyevo International Airport was first opened on 11 August 1959, providing the Moscow region of Russia with a public international airport. The first international flight from the grounds of Sheremetyevo was about six months later to Berlin. Of all the airports found in Russia, Sheremetyevo is rated second in the amount of passenger traffic it experiences, with Domodedovo International Airport at number one. In 2005 Sheremetyevo had approximately 12,174,000 million passengers pass in and out its doors, a number which is sure to increase in coming years.
The official operator and the joint-stock company that operates and possesses the airport is the 'International Airport Sheremetyevo'. The authorities of Moscow own none of the shares in the airport as the federal government owns them. The airport's elevation above mean sea level is about 190 meters or 622 feet. The Sheremetyevo airport has two concrete runways, one being 3,550 meters or 11,647 feet long and the other being slightly longer at 3,700 meters or 12,139 feet long.
There are plans to expand the Sheremetyevo International Airport in the nearby future by adding a needed third runway and another international terminal. Work is also being planned on the second runway as well as ideas on increasing the variety of transportation between the airport and the capital. The goal would be to increase the 12 million passengers a year to as much as 30 million passengers a year, which would of course increase the air traffic hence the new runway.
On the third of September 1964 Sheremetyevo-1 was opened specifically for domestic flights whereas Sheremetyevo-2 was only opened two decades later as the entrance for foreign flights for the Moscow Olympics. The second entrance is bigger and is where passengers coming in and out of the country will find the arrival and departure lounges. The Sheremetyevo-1 entrance for domestic flights is almost a separate airport, with its terminal building being some distance from the main terminals, although they use the same two runways.
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From the Cumberland Gap to the Atlantic Ocean, this is Virginia Water Radio for the week of May 29, 2017.
This week, music by a Nelson County- and Charlottesville, Va.-based band, vividly reminds us that water has great power, but also complete indifference, over human concerns. Have a listen for about 35 seconds.
That stark image underlines what's at stake in the annual National Safe Boating Week, which in 2017 ran from May 20-26. For that event, the National Safe Boating Council, the U.S. Coast Guard, the National Weather Service, and many other partners increase their efforts to educate boaters on how to stay safe on the water. This year the Safe Boating Council and the Weather Service have a safety lesson for each day of Safe Boating Week, covering these seven topics: distress-signal equipment, marine forecasts, life jackets, boating under the influence, fire extinguishers, thunderstorm safety, and hurricane preparedness.
In Virginia, getting that kind of boating information is the law for motorized boat operators: completion of a boating-safety course is required for personal water craft operators aged 14 or over, and for all operators of motorized boats of 10 horsepower of more. As of 2015, Virginia had over 230,000 registered motor boats, along with thousands of canoes, sailboats, and other non-motorized boats. If you plan to be in one of these vessels—whether on foamy, flat, or flowing water—please make sure that you know how to have a safe voyage: be prepared, be sensible, and wear a life jacket!
"Dirty Sea" and "Wandering Boots" are copyright by Chamomile and Whiskey and by County Wide Records, used with permission of Chamomile and Whiskey. More information about Chamomile and Whiskey is available online at http://www.chamomileandwhiskey.com/, and information about Charlottesville-based County Wide Records is available online at http://countywidemusic.worldsecuresystems.com/.
This episode is a revised repeat Episode 214, 5-19-14, for Safe Boating Week 2014; that episode has been archived.
Take a little quiz on this week's episode: In which situation shown below are boating safety and a life jacket necessary?
High winds and waves on the Chesapeake Bay, looking south from Kent Island, Md., February 25, 2011.
Kayaker on flat but deep water in a Dismal Swamp canal, April, 30, 2005.
The answer, of course: all three!
Following are links to the seven safe boating public service announcements (audio, video, or text) for each day of National Safe Boating Week 2017 from the National Safe Boating Council and the National Weather Service, online at http://www.nws.noaa.gov/os/marine/safeboating/week.shtml.
National Association of State Boating Law Administrators, "Operation Dry Water" Web site, http://www.operationdrywater.org/. See particularly "ODW Campaign," online at http://www.operationdrywater.org/content.asp?admin=Y&contentid=139.
National Safe Boating Council, online at http://www.safeboatingcouncil.org/. Information on Safe Boating Week is online at http://www.safeboatingcampaign.com/.
U.S. Coast Guard, Boating Safety Division Web site, http://www.uscgboating.org/. The Coast Guard's annual reports on boating statistics are available online at https://www.uscgboating.org/statistics/accident_statistics.php. The "2015 Boating Recreational Statistics" report is online (as PDF) at https://www.uscgboating.org/library/accident-statistics/Recreational-Boating-Statistics-2015.pdf; Table 38 includes number of registered boats and incidents by state (234,052 registered boats in Virginia in 2015; motorboats only). The Coast Guard's mobile application for safe boating is online at http://www.uscg.mil/mobile/.
Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (VDGIF), "Boating," online at http://www.dgif.virginia.gov/boating/; and "Boating Safety Education Requirement," online at http://www.dgif.virginia.gov/boating/education/requirement/. VDGIF's "2015 Recreational Boating Incident Summary" is online (as PDF) at https://www.dgif.virginia.gov/wp-content/uploads/2015-boating-incident-report.pdf. The main phone number for VDGIF's central office in Richmond is (804) 367-1000; contact information for local VDGIF offices is available online at http://www.dgif.virginia.gov/about/offices/.
Virginia Marine Resources Commission/Virginia Marine Police, "Boating Safety," online at http://www.mrc.virginia.gov/MP/boating_safety.shtm.
National Weather Service/National Safe Boating Council, "Boating Safety Tips and Resources, available online at http://www.nws.noaa.gov/os/marine/safeboating/.
All Water Radio episodes are listed by category at the Index link above (http://www.virginiawaterradio.org/p/index.html). See particularly the "Recreation" subject category.
Episode 270, 6-15-15, on Operation Dry Water and boating under the influence.


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Die Verworrenheit bezeichnet in der organischen Psychiatrie einen Begriff für eine  formale Denkstörung auf hirnorganischer Grundlage.

Sie ist identisch mit der Bezeichnung  Verwirrtheit, sollte aber streng vom Begriff der Zerfahrenheit, der für das schizophrene Denken als typisch angesehen wird, getrennt werden.

Die Verworrenheit hat Beziehungen zu Bewusstseinsstörungen mit Verlust der Orientierung und einem Durcheinander der Denkvorstellungen bzw. zum organischen Psychosyndrom. Analog für Verworrenheit ist inkohärentes Denken, das ebenso das Zerfahrene, Verworrene bei getrübter Bewusstseinslage kennzeichnet.

Sichtbare Kennzeichen der Verworrenheit oder auch Verwirrtheit sind räumliche und zeitliche Orientierungsstörungen, Unruhe und Umtriebigkeit, schlecht verständliche oder zusammenhangslose Sprache; Unfähigkeit, sich geordnet zu unterhalten (Gedankenflucht), Störungen des Gedächtnisses und der Merkfähigkeit sowie Konzentrationsstörungen.

Mögliche Ursachen
 Alle Formen der Durchfallerkrankungen, mangelnde Flüssigkeitsreserve, Exsikkose
 Medikamente oder Drogen (zum Beispiel häufig Alkohol), Dimenhydrinat (Missbrauch eines Arzneimittels gegen Übelkeit und Reisekrankheit)
 Unterernährung und als schwerster Grad Marasmus
 Stoffwechselstörung (beispielsweise häufig Diabetes mellitus)
 Hirnabbau durch Arteriosklerose oder Alter
 Demenzen (beispielsweise Alzheimer-Krankheit)
 Verletzungen des Gehirns (Gehirnerschütterung, Gehirnprellung etc.)
 Hirnorganische Erkrankungen wie Enzephalitis, Meningitis, Epilepsie, Hirntumor etc.
 Psychische Störungen wie zum Beispiel Psychosen
 Vitamin-B12-Mangel und Perniziöse Anämie

Deshalb ist Abklärung der Ursache dringlich.

Siehe auch
Bewusstseinstrübung

Psychopathologisches Symptom

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Paddleboarding is usually a low risk alternative to surfing, unless you're directly in the path of a pod of dolphins chasing a fish. The poor guy in this video thought he was going for a leisurely ride to become one with nature, instead he got body bagged by Flipper like a slot receiver going over the middle.
Maybe they thought he was a Sea World trainer and wanted revenge.


Dragon Lord is a MMORPG published by Esprit Games. Conquer mighty dragons in the vast universe of Dragon Lord, where orcs, elves, humans and dragons clash on the endless lands! These are disturbing times of chaos and havoc. Lord of the Dark Dragons rules over the continent causing panic and fear among its inhabitants. Build your castle, gather loyal troops and join your allies to bring down the empire using magic and power of the defeated opponents! Do yours in-game purchases now with Multi Game Card!
- Fight against orcs, elves and dragons.
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- Build a magnificent city that will hold against any threat.
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Q: Spring 3 MVC Multiple view resolvers(Jsp and Velocity) Because of some business/technical constraints  we should use spring3 MVC multiple view resolvers(JSP and Velocity). I tried to search on net on this but i couldn't find perfect solution. May be someone else had experienced the same scenario. So Could you please let me know is it possible to use both JSP and Velocity as vew resolvers in the SPring3 MVC application
All help is appreciated.

A: Spring support multiple view resolvers. You chain view resolvers by adding more than one resolver to your application context and use the order property to specify ordering.
you can use chain these jsp and velocity like -
    <bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
      <property name="viewClass" value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView"/>
      <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/"/>
      <property name="suffix" value=".jsp"/>
      <property name="order" value="2" />
    </bean>

<bean id="velocityConfig" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.velocity.VelocityConfigurer">
  <property name="resourceLoaderPath" value="/WEB-INF/velocity/"/>
</bean>

<bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.velocity.VelocityViewResolver">
  <property name="cache" value="true"/>
  <property name="prefix" value=""/>
  <property name="suffix" value=".vm"/>
  <property name="order" value="1" />
</bean>

Find out more about view chaining here

A: Yes, it is possible to configure multiple view resolvers, just ensure that you order the Velocity one higher than the JSP based view resolver:
<bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.velocity.VelocityViewResolver" p:order="0">
  ...
</bean

<bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver" p:order="1">
  <property name="viewClass" value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView"/>
  <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/"/>
  <property name="suffix" value=".jsp"/>
</bean>

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At the conclusion of the First World War the former Ottoman Empire was divided into two protectorates. The northern protectorate was managed by the French, while the southern area was managed by the British. Lord Balfour in 1917 made the Balfour Deceleration – approving the establishment of a Jewish Homeland with in the mandated area. In 1922 Churchill, the Colonial Secretary, divided the areas creating two states – 76% east of the Jordan River (Transjordan) and 34% that was to become Israel. This was ratified by the League of Nations in 1923. This is the two state solution! In May 1948 Israel was proclaimed as a nation occupying the land west of the Jordan as per the 1922 and 23 agreements. Immediately the Arab Nations declared war on Israel and sought to divide the second state (Israel) into two nations claiming this was to be the two state agreement – which it is not!
The Christian Democratic Party support Israel's right to exist in safe and secure borders, and if her borders are breached by combatants she has the right to use all necessary force to maintain her borders.
Israel's national capital is the unified and undivided city of Jerusalem.
At an appropriate time, as in other countries, Australia should plan to move the Embassy in Israel to the national capital, Jerusalem.
We are pleased to commit Australia to cooperate with Israel in many areas of research particularly in medical, water conservation, and IT development.
The Christian Democratic Party supports the Two State Agreement of 1922 and 1923 and rejects any expansion attempts by mediators and the combatants against Israel to encroach any further.


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Home Festivals Diggi Palace Will No Longer Be Organizing JLF: Attendees Are Crushed
Diggi Palace Will No Longer Be Organizing JLF: Attendees Are Crushed
The festival organizers of Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) have received orders to shift the event out of the Diggi Palace. As per the commands of the ruling government, the heritage palace might not be able to host the world popular festival.
Why is it so?
Diggi Palace has been home for the renowned JLF since the past 12 years. However the government has ordered the festival organizers to shift the global event out of the authentic palace. Due to security and heavy traffic issues the government was left with no choice but to ask the associates of JLF to look for another area. According to sources, it was reported that "Traffic congestion can't be a good reason for shifting out a global event."
The authentic aura, heritage touch and well manicured lawns of Diggi Palace have become synonymous with the five day long festival. Initially the event used to be held at it's Durbar Hall and two other lawns, eventually it spread to the front lawn, the music stage, the Mughal tent, the Baithak and many others. Over the past 12 years the lawns of Diggi witnessed more than 2000 speakers and hosted a million chunk of book lovers across the planet. Well known poet Arvind Krishna Mehrotra has called it the "Kumbh" of literature.
The problem with Diggi Palace was seen before the 13th edition of the JLF began. The Chief Secretary D.B Gupta told the organizers that they were granted permission to hold the festival at Diggi Palace for the last time, and that it should be held at a new venue from the next year. According to him, the police was facing challenges in order to make adequate security and parking spaces for the attendees.
About Diggi Palace
Structured in the heart of Pink City, Diggi Palace is a 17th century establishment that was converted into a heritage hotel in the year 1991. Located near the city's busiest roads and is environed by residentials and Sawai Man Singh Hospital. The only way to approach the venue is through a narrow lane. JLF being the busiest and much awaited festival for all the book lovers, the lane suffers a major chunk of traffic, honks and eager book lovers.
In 2019, it was estimated about 4 Lakh people attended the festival and the police called it an invitation for a disaster. Therefore in order to reduce the views the organizers introduced online registration and a fee of Rs. 300 for weekday and Rs. 500 on weekends for on spot registrations. Considering the crowd was no less the fee was hiked to Rs. 500 and Rs. 800, respectively and the volunteers were ordered to close the registration window early.
But still the eager book lovers and JLF lovers did not fail to amaze the traffic police as well the festival organizers as the number of attendees only increased. Hence the government is left with no choice but to order the JLF associates to look for a new venue.
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Tecore Networks Founder and CEO Jay Salkini to Participate in High Level FCC Meeting on Preventing the Use of Contraband Cell Phones in Prisons
National Thought Leader to offer insights, lessons learned in effectively addressing growing public safety crisis
Washington, D.C., February 7, 2018 – Tecore Networks, a pioneer supplier of innovative American-made mobile network infrastructure and the inventor of the iNAC™ Managed Access Solution, announced that its Founder and CEO, Jay Salkini today will join with policy makers, corrections officials, wireless carriers, and other key stakeholders in a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) meeting focused upon mitigating the growing risks associated with contraband cell phones operating within the prison system.
"For the Corrections Industry, our focus and experience is in the design, deployment, and operation of Managed Access technology," said Jay Salkini. "We are happy to share our key Managed Access experiences with the FCC, Cellular Providers and key corrections officials in an effort to determine the most appropriate solution to cease contraband cellular communications. We are also hopeful that these discussions expand beyond the technology to define a path for funding these systems."
For over a decade, Tecore Networks has been at the forefront of deploying a comprehensive solution for correctional departments across the country. Crafted from a cellular based solution, Managed Access takes a sophisticated approach to restructuring communications by differentiating user groups and enabling polices for each. The delicate balance of signals, parameter sets, and timing is what allows the system the freedom to operate inside the walls while minimizing any impact to devices outside the wall of the institutions. Tecore's iNAC, has been deployed in a number of facilities since 2008 and continues to successfully evolve over numerous years and generations of cellular technologies.
To learn more about Tecore's iNAC Managed Access Solutions please visit: https://www.tecore.com/product/inacmanagedaccesssolution/
Tecore Networks is the inventor of Managed Access technology and a pioneer supplier of multi-technology 3G and 4G LTE mobile core and network infrastructure. From millions of subscribers, to small private networks, Tecore Networks has serviced the commercial and government sectors for over 25 years. Offering cutting-edge voice and data technologies, and setting the standard for all-IP based architecture; Tecore Networks has exponentially increased performance while minimizing cost and space requirements. Tecore Networks offers value-added features and state-of-the-art professional services that enable their customers to increase ARPU and retention. Founded in 1991, Tecore Networks is ISO 9001:2008 certified, and a three-time winner of the Global Mobile Award. For more information, visit www.tecore.com.
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This project contains two .stl files that are ready to be sliced and printed. bridgeTest.stl is a complete test with 4 different lengths. oneBridge.stl contains only the longest of the bridges at 25mm. The other files is bridgeTest.ipt this is a parameterized inventor file for changing the parameters of the test for anyone who wishes to do that, but I think the default setup is good.
This print is designed to be fast to help you troubleshoot any issues your printer may encounter as your bridges increase in length. By default, the bridge spans are 10mm, 15mm, 20mm, and 25 mm. Another thing to note concerning this print is by default the bridge is 3mm above the print bed. In most cases, I think this is enough to avoid heat coming off your print bed to affect the bridge quality but your results may vary and it is something to consider.
From what I've seen, horizontal bridges will never quite match the quality of a normal print operation, but you can get pretty close. You will always have very defined lines, but if done correctly these should be connected to the print pretty well and shouldn't be an issue outside of being a slight eyesore on some prints.
If your speed is off it will be very obvious. Over extrusion is going to mean that you have a bridge that may sag lower than it should, meaning any layers above it aren't going to have anything to support them which will cause structural and visual issues above the bridge for a few layers before your printer hopefully recovers.
The other issue is under extrusion which in a worst case scenario means your bridge will break in the middle of the process leading to a huge mess under the bridge and may cause even more issues than over extrusion.
The key element in bridging is that your cooling melted plastic in place while it is suspended in the air. This means its important to make sure your temperature isn't higher than its required to be, and that your print head fans are running at full to ensure the filament hardens as quickly as possible once it leaves the print head.
I didn't use any, but if you're having issues with the print not sticking since it does have a very small surface area on the bed, or if your having an issue with the bed giving off too much heat I would imagine that a raft would help.
Definitely defeats the purpose of this print unless you're testing your support settings.
I would do something low like 10%-15%, more importantly, I would do 3+ exterior shells to ensure you are seeing how the bridge works with more layers on it.


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Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems - Volume 26, issue 2
The purpose of the Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems: Applications in Engineering and Technology is to foster advancements of knowledge and help disseminate results concerning recent applications and case studies in the areas of fuzzy logic, intelligent systems, and web-based applications among working professionals and professionals in education and research, covering a broad cross-section of technical disciplines.
The journal will publish original articles on current and potential applications, case studies, and education in intelligent systems, fuzzy systems, and web-based systems for engineering and other technical fields in science and technology. The journal focuses on the disciplines of computer science, electrical engineering, manufacturing engineering, industrial engineering, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, civil engineering, engineering management, bioengineering, and biomedical engineering. The scope of the journal also includes developing technologies in mathematics, operations research, technology management, the hard and soft sciences, and technical, social and environmental issues.
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Rough set based pose invariant face recognition with mug shot images
Authors: Singh, Kavita | Zaveri, Mukesh | Raghuwanshi, Mukesh
Abstract: This paper presents a pose invariant face recognition system to annihilate pose problem by using a modified log Gabor algorithm and the concepts of rough sets together. The proposed system consists of four separate modules; face detection, pose classification, feature extraction and recognition. Rough membership function (rmf) classifier has been used to classify the poses of an image. Log Gabor has been used as feature extraction to represent the face and SVDs to reduce the redundant features. And at last, the reduced log Gabor feature is applied to the nearest neighbour classifier for recognition. The aim of this paper is …to address the issues such as recognizing the individual from mug shot images, under limited number of training samples available for large degree of variations in poses. The proposed system has been evaluated for different pose variations under arbitrary tilt orientations for four different face databases. Show more
Keywords: Pose invariant, log gabor, rough membership function, mug shot
DOI: 10.3233/IFS-120708
Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 523-539, 2014
Hierarchical tree clustering of fuzzy number
Authors: Yazdi, Hadi Sadoghi | GhasemiGol, Mohammad | Effati, Sohrab | Jiriani, Azam | Monsefi, Reza
Abstract: This paper presents a new hierarchical tree approach to clustering fuzzy data, namely extensional tree (ET) clustering algorithm. It defines a dendrogram over fuzzy data and using a new distance between fuzzy numbers based on α-cuts. The present work is based on hierarchical clustering algorithm unlike existing methods which improve FCM to support fuzzy data. The Proposed ET clustering algorithm is compared with some of the newly presented methods in the literature. The major advantage of ET, first tree clustering method over fuzzy number, in comparison with other algorithms is its fault tolerance against noisy samples. Some examples prove ability …of the proposed ET. Show more
Keywords: Fuzzy data, tree clustering, dissimilarity measure, α-cuts
Hybrid model of pH neutralization for a pilot plant
Authors: Zanil, M.F. | Norhuda, A.M. | Hussain, M.A. | Omar, R.
Abstract: This paper proposes a hybrid model to identify the on-line pH characteristic of a neutralization plant. The hybrid model is the combination between neuro-fuzzy identification technique and first principle model. The neuro-fuzzy identification technique used training dataset to map the neutralization response curve in full ranges. The first principle model is based on material balances and chemical equilibrium equation. The objective of the proposed model is to extend the robustness effect for the on-line titration characteristic without having to re-design the model if the plant undergoes different conditions. In the experiment, the proposed model's dynamic response was compared with the …on-line pH data. It showed the best fit for hybrid model with dynamic weight adjustment in nominal condition (RSME = 0.1013) and in altered condition (RMSE = 0.5616) proved it capability in capturing the additional variations to a pH neutralization plant. Show more
Keywords: ANFIS, pH neutralization, hybrid model
Geometric properties of interval type-II fuzzy regions
Authors: Jifa, Guo | Tiejun, Cui
Abstract: Fuzzy geographical phenomena widely exist in the real world, and many modeling and measurement methods for such phenomena have been reported. The most common models and methods are based on type-I fuzzy sets; therefore, they cannot measure the uncertainty of the membership value or describe complicated fuzzy geographical phenomena. Several researchers have used high-order fuzzy theory to avoid the limitations of traditional methods; however, only a few successful models and methods in that domain exist. A fuzzy region model based on interval type-II fuzzy sets is proposed in this paper, considering the uncertainty due to error and to scale effects. …Two concepts are proposed to describe the spatial geometric properties of interval type-II fuzzy geographical regions: the geometric summary property and the geometric detailed property, which can reflect different aspects of spatial attributes. Next, some geometric attributes, the area, perimeter, height, width, and extrinsic diameter, of interval type-II fuzzy regions are discussed. The theories and methods proposed in this paper can objectively describe complicated and vague geographical phenomena and thus are meaningful for the development of fuzzy geographical information science. Show more
Keywords: GIS, interval type-II fuzzy region, error of membership grade, geometric property, scale effect, fuzzy set
Approaching activity duration in PERT by means of fuzzy sets theory and statistics
Authors: Chrysafis, Konstantinos A. | Papadopoulos, Basil K.
Abstract: Taking into account the intrinsic drawbacks of both classic and fuzzy PERT, the authors present a new approach in an attempt to deal with them. The tools for this approach are fuzzy statistics and fuzzy probabilities. A necessary condition for this approach is the existence of statistical data for the project activity duration. The final findings are the fuzzy activity times (earliest/latest start – earliest/latest finish), the fuzzy float, the Criticality Degree both for each activity and for each path, a fuzzy probability for the activity duration to be in a certain time interval and a fuzzy probability for the …project completion time to be in certain time interval. A numerical example is provided for thorough comprehension. Show more
Keywords: Project management, scheduling, fuzzy probability, fuzzy statistics
IMTL(MV)-filters and fuzzy IMTL(MV)-filters of residuated lattices
Authors: Zhang, Xiaohong | Zhou, Huijie | Mao, Xiaoyan
Abstract: Fuzzy logic has become a useful tool for computer science to deal with uncertain information, and various kinds of residuated lattices play an important role in modern fuzzy logic theory because they provide the algebraic frameworks to related fuzzy logic formal systems. The aim of this paper is to investigate the filter theory of residuated lattices. The notions of IMTL-filters (NM-filters, MV-filters) of residuated lattices are introduced, and the characterizations of IMTL-algebras (NM-algebras, MV-algebras) in residuated lattices are presented by these filters. Moreover, fuzzy IMTL(NM, MV)-filters and intuitionistic fuzzy IMTL(NM, MV)-filters are investigated.
Keywords: Fuzzy logic, residuated lattice, IMTL-filter, MV-filter, intuitionistic fuzzy IMTL-filter
Method for embedding context-sensitive information on "communicating textiles" via fuzzy AHP
Authors: Kubler, Sylvain | Derigent, William | Voisin, Alexandre | Thomas, André | Rondeau, Éric
Abstract: The amount of data output in our environment is increasing each day, and the development of new technologies constantly redefines how we interact with information. In the context of PLM (Product Lifecycle Management), it is not uncommon to use intelligent products to ensure an information continuum all along the product life cycle (e.g. for traceability purposes). However, it is not that easy to identify what information should be stored on the product. To answer this question, this paper proposes a data dissemination process to select context-sensitive information from the database, that must be stored/replicated on the product (especially if the …product is made of "communicating material"). Our approach uses the fuzzy AHP theory for aggregating points of view from different actors. The data dissemination process is then applied on a case study to embed context-sensitive information on a "communicating textile". Show more
Keywords: Product lifecycle management, data dissemination, fuzzy AHP, decision theory, intelligent product
Representation and reasoning of fuzzy ER models with description logic DLR
Authors: Zhang, Fu | Ma, Z.M. | Yan, Li
Abstract: Description logics have been studied in depth in data modeling. This paper proposes a description logic approach for representing and reasoning on fuzzy ER models. Firstly, an analysis about how to choose suitable description logic as a modeling language for fuzzy ER models is given, which motivates the use of the fuzzy description logic called FDLR (the fuzzy extension of DLR) for the purpose of this paper. Then, a formal definition of fuzzy ER models is proposed. Furthermore, based on the FDLR and the formalization of fuzzy ER models, we propose a complete formal approach for representing fuzzy ER models …with FDLR, i.e., transforming fuzzy ER models into FDLR knowledge bases at both terminological (schema) and assertional (instance) levels. On this basis, following the proposed approach, we implemented a prototype tool FER2FDLR. Finally, based on the transformed FDLR knowledge bases, we investigate how to reason on fuzzy ER models with FDLR, and the reasoning tasks of fuzzy ER models can be reasoned through the reasoning mechanism of FDLR. Show more
Keywords: Fuzzy ER model, fuzzy description logic, representation, reasoning
Developing a model for integrating decisions in technology roadmapping by fuzzy PROMETHEE
Authors: Ghazinoory, Sepehr | Daneshmand-Mehr, Maryam | Arasti, Mohammad Reza
Abstract: Roadmapping, a tool of strategic planning, visualize where and how an organization will be in the future. Visualization of strategic programs assists people in the organization to understand the strategy which is a key for implementing strategy successfully. A generic roadmap is included of three main layers such as; market, product and technology. Decision making in each layer are done separately because of the nature of each layer. Therefore, decisions in roadmapping can be done with different tools. Whiles, decisions in each layer of the roadmap cannot be done without considering the upper or lower layer decisions. In this study …we propose Fuzzy PROMETHEE method for integrating decisions in roadmapping. In this method, alternatives are in terms of ordered triple (technology, product, market) which are determined by analyzing each of related layer by considering other layers. Some criteria have been recognized by analyzing the strategies as well. Decisions across the layers of the roadmap are modeled in PROMETHEE approach during the roadmapping process. The input data are in terms of linguistic terms. So, we have considered a revised Fuzzy PROMETHEE method. This paper addresses integrated decision making applicability for wind turbine in roadmapping process as a real case. Show more
Keywords: Technology roadmapping, integrating decisions, strategic planning, Fuzzy-PROMETHEE, decision making method, wind turbine
Vague hypergraphs
Authors: Akram, Muhammad | Gani, A. Nagoor | Saeid, A. Borumand
Abstract: Hypergraphs are among the most ubiquitous models of both natural and human-made structures. They can be used to model system architectures and data structures, and to represent a partition, covering and clustering in the area of circuit design. In this paper, we introduce the notions of vague hypergraphs and dual vague hypergraphs and present some of their interesting properties. We also introduce the notion of A-tempered vague hypergraphs and investigate some of their properties.
Keywords: Vague hypergraphs, dual vague hypergraphs, A-tempered vague hypergraph
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A colorful bouquet of puffy peonies delicate roses and regal wolf's bane in a deep blue ceramic vase. Although the arrangemenst of his composition is traditional the dynamic brushwork and nuanced shading reveal the work of modern artist. Signed on the bottom left corner. Comes in molded frame with embossed nameplate.


I recommend going to Lobster Joint during the week when the G train is running promptly on schedule. Unless, of course, you live in Greenpoint, where Lobster Joint is located. For the rest of you, heed my advice.
Small and poorly lit, Lobster Joint has only three picnic-size tables indoors and counter seating, plus a small bar. There's a backyard, which I didn't see since it was monsooning, and I imagine this is the place to be during sultry summer nights. Patrons order at the bar and wait for their food on the outskirts of the restaurant.
Its menu boasts a lobster dinner, a lobster roll, and lobster macaroni and cheese, in addition to a Pat La Frieda burger and a raw bar. There's lobster salad and lobster ale, as well. I tried the lobster ale, which was a dark, full-bodied beer, and enjoyed it.
I ordered the lobster roll, which came with chips, fries, or salad, coleslaw, and a pickle. (I opted for the Cape Cod chips.) The lightly buttered, split-top roll spilled over with large chunks of lobster. One of the claw's meat preserved its shape and was visibly intact sitting atop the roll. Tossed with mayo, the lobster was sweet and delicious.
My dining partner ordered the lobster macaroni and cheese on my behalf. It was my birthday and he knew I wanted to take a bite of the mac and cheese, so he consented to trying it. He also ordered the clam chowder, which I wouldn't recommend as it was thinner and soupier than chowder ought to be. As for the macaroni and cheese, well, it was, in a word, spectacular. It was delivered in a small aluminum pan, straight from the oven. Large chunks of lobster were interspersed among the white cheddar shells. The upper crust was browned just enough to seal in the lobster/cheddar flavor.
We didn't order dessert (again, it was my birthday – there was cake to be had at home), but they offer Cool Haus ice cream sandwiches. I've tried them before and they are very tasty.
MDP didn't enjoy his dining experience, but I thought Lobster Joint was alright. I'm not sure I'd go back there, since I hate the G train and the place is a little bit far from the subway. Also, the seating situation is, at best, uncomfortable. If you're in the neighborhood, it's definitely worth a try, but don't expect to sit at a table unless the backyard is open (and even then, it's a crap shoot).


I tried my hand at creating a logo for the blog...tell me what you guys think.
I sat down this morning to read the Chicago Tribune over a cup of coffee and find on the front cover a blurb for an article in the Technology section about the iPod...but for once, and this is a rare occurance it would seem, that they were not head over heals in love with the iPod.
In the article the author discuses how he believes that Apple has over-extended themselves which has taken away from the core experience of music, which is the iPod's main purpose.
"Hence, Apple keeps giving us a little less with each iPod, save for increased storage, but keeps adding more content to sell.
I think this is a sign of whats to come. As Apple has hit critical mass, the iPod has gone from being the tell-tall sign of a hip trend setter, to being the standard...and in doing so lost its cool.
It looks preatty sweat, but as of this time there is very little that we know about the product. We'll keep you posted if any new happenings occur.


German: variant spelling of Kemmerling.
Where is the Kemerling family from?
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Use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Kemerling surname lived. Within census records, you can often find information like name of household members, ages, birthplaces, residences, and occupations.
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Census records can tell you a lot of little known facts about your Kemerling ancestors, such as occupation. Occupation can tell you about your ancestor's social and economic status.
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There are 642 immigration records available for the last name Kemerling. Passenger lists are your ticket to knowing when your ancestors arrived in Canada, and how they made the journey - from the ship name to ports of arrival and departure.
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How to get music videos on apple music5 min read
Apple Music offers a great selection of music videos, but they're not always easy to find. In this article, we'll show you how to get music videos on Apple Music.
To start, open the Apple Music app and tap on the "For You" tab. Tap on the "Browse" tab and then select "Music Videos." You can also search for specific music videos by tapping on the magnifying glass icon and typing in the name of the song.
Once you've found the music video you want to watch, tap on it and then tap on the "Play" button. If you want to save the music video for offline playback, tap on the "Download" button.
That's it! You can now watch music videos on Apple Music.
1 Does Apple Music offer music videos?
2 How do you show music videos on Apple Music?
3 What happened to Apple Music videos?
4 Where can I find music videos?
5 Where can I find music videos on iPhone?
6 Which app has music videos?
7 What is the app for music videos?
Does Apple Music offer music videos?
Yes, Apple Music offers music videos. The service includes a music video section where you can watch official music videos, live performances, and more. You can also view music videos on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch by using the Music app.
How do you show music videos on Apple Music?
To show music videos on Apple Music, first open the Apple Music app. Next, locate the song that you want to watch the music video for and select it. Once the song has been selected, the music video for that song will automatically start playing.
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If you want to watch a music video for a song that is not currently playing, you can search for it using the Apple Music app. To do this, select the Search tab and then type the name of the song that you want to watch the music video for into the search bar. Once the song has been found, select it and the music video for that song will start playing.
Alternatively, if you know the name of the artist that you want to watch a music video for, you can select the Artists tab and then type the name of the artist into the search bar. Once the artist has been found, select it and then select the Music Videos tab. This will show you a list of all of the music videos that the artist has released. Select the video that you want to watch and it will start playing.
What happened to Apple Music videos?
Apple Music is a music streaming service that was launched by Apple in June 2015. The service allows users to listen to music online or offline, and includes a library of over 40 million songs. Apple Music also offers a range of exclusive content, including videos.
However, it has been reported that the number of Apple Music videos has decreased in recent months. Some users have claimed that they can no longer find the exclusive videos that were available on the service before.
It is not clear why the number of Apple Music videos has decreased. Some have speculated that it may be due to licensing issues, while others have suggested that it may be due to a change in Apple's video strategy.
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Whatever the reason, it is disappointing that the number of Apple Music videos has decreased. Hopefully, Apple will address this issue in the near future.
Where can I find music videos?
There are a number of ways to find music videos. The most popular way is to search through a video streaming service like YouTube or Vevo. Another way is to search for music videos on websites like MTV, BET, or VH1. Finally, some people prefer to download music videos from websites like Dailymotion or Break.
Where can I find music videos on iPhone?
There are a few ways to find music videos on your iPhone. You can use the Music app, the Videos app, or a third-party app.
The Music app includes a section called "Music Videos." This section includes music videos that are available on Apple Music. You can watch these music videos with or without ads.
The Videos app includes a section called "Movies." This section includes music videos that are available on your iPhone. You can watch these music videos with or without ads.
If you want to watch music videos that are not available on Apple Music or in the Videos app, you can use a third-party app. Some popular third-party apps for watching music videos include Vevo, YouTube, and Pandora.
Which app has music videos?
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Capitalism Is Double-Billing Us: We Pay from Our Wallets only for Our Future to Be Stolen from Us
CAPITALISM, 2 Nov 2020
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service
25 Oct 2020 – Here is a word that risks deterring you from reading on much further, even though it may hold the key to understanding why we are in such a terrible political, economic and social mess. That word is "externalities".
It sounds like a piece of economic jargon. It is a piece of economic jargon. But it is also the foundation stone on which the west's current economic and ideological system has been built. Focusing on how externalities work and how they have come to dominate every sphere of our lives is to understand how we are destroying our planet – and offer at the same time the waypost to a better future.
In economics, "externalities" are usually defined indifferently as the effects of a commercial or industrial process on a third party that are not costed into that process.
Here is what should be a familiar example. For decades, cigarette manufacturers made enormous profits by concealing scientific evidence that over time their product could prove lethal to customers. The firms profited by externalising the costs associated with cigarettes – of death and disease – on to those buying their cigarettes and wider society. People gave Philip Morris and British American Tobacco their money as these companies made those smoking Marlboros and Lucky Strikes progressively unhealthier.
The externalised cost was paid – is still paid – by the customers themselves, by grieving families, by local and national health services, and by the taxpayer. Had the firms been required to pick up these various tabs, it would have proved entirely unprofitable to manufacture cigarettes.
Inherently violent
Externalities are not incidental to the way capitalist economies run. They are integral to them. After all, it is a legal obligation on private companies to maximise profits for their shareholders – in addition, of course, to the personal incentive bosses have to enrich themselves, and each company's need to avoid making themselves vulnerable to more profitable and predatory competitors in the marketplace.
Companies are therefore motivated to offload as many costs as possible on to others. As we shall see, externalities mean someone other than the company itself pays the true cost behind its profits, either because those others are too weak or ignorant to fight back or because the bill comes due further down the line. And for that reason, externalities – and capitalism – are inherently violent.
All this would be glaringly obvious if we didn't live inside an ideological system – the ultimate echo chamber enforced by our corporate media – that is complicit either in hiding this violence or in normalising it. When externalities are particularly onerous or harmful, as they invariably are in one way or another, it becomes necessary for a company to obscure the connection between cause and effect, between its accumulation of profit and the resulting accumulation of damage caused to a community, a distant country or the natural world – or all three.
That is why corporations – those that inflict the biggest and worst externalities – invest a great deal of time and money in aggressively managing public perceptions. They achieve this through a combination of public relations, advertising, media control, political lobbying and the capture of regulatory institutions. Much of the business of business is deception, either making the externalised harm invisible or gaining the public's resigned acceptance that the harm is inevitable.
In that sense, capitalism produces a business model that is not only rapacious but psychopathic. Those who pursue profit have no choice but to inflict damage on wider society, or the planet, and then cloak their deeply anti-social – even suicidal – actions.
Psychopathic demands
A recent film that alludes to how this form of violence works was last year's Dark Waters, concerning the long-running legal battle with DuPont over the chemicals it developed to make non-stick coatings for pots and pans. From the outset, DuPont's research showed that these chemicals were highly dangerous and accumulated in the body. The science overwhelmingly suggested that exposed individuals would be at risk of developing cancerous tumours or producing children with birth defects.
There were huge profits to be made for DuPont from its chemical discovery so long as it could keep the research hidden. So that's exactly what its executives did. They set aside basic morality and acted in concert with the psychopathic demands of the marketplace.
Not every day a Hollywood movie – Dark Waters, on DuPont's intentional, profit-driven poisoning of America (and the planet) – concludes that the system is rigged to protect corporations from being held accountable for their psychopathic criminality https://t.co/BMpJSinso9
— Jonathan Cook (@Jonathan_K_Cook) January 19, 2020
DuPont produced pans that contaminated its customers' food. Workers were exposed to a cocktail of lethal poisons in its factories. The company stored the toxic waste products in drums and then secretly disposed of them in landfills where they leached into the local water supply, killing cattle and producing an epidemic of disease among local residents. DuPont created a chemical that is now everywhere in our environment, risking the health of generations to come.
But a film like Dark Waters necessarily turned a case study in how capitalism commits violence by externalising its costs into something less threatening, less revelatory. We hiss at DuPont's executives as though they are the ugly sisters in a pantomime rather than ordinary people not unlike our parents, our siblings, our offspring, ourselves.
In truth, there is nothing exceptional about the DuPont story – apart from the company's failure to keep its secret hidden from the public. And that exposure was anomalous, occurring only belatedly and against great odds.
An important message the film's feelgood ending fails to deliver is that other corporations have learnt from DuPont's mistake – not the moral "mistake" of externalising their costs, but the financial mistake of getting caught doing so. Corporate lobbyists have worked since to further capture regulatory authorities and to amend transparency and legal discovery laws to avoid any repetition, to ensure they are not held legally liable, as DuPont was, in the future.
Victims of our bombs
Unlike the DuPont case, most externalities are never exposed. Instead they hide in plain sight. These externalities do not need to be concealed because they are either not perceived as externalities or because they are viewed as so unimportant as to be not worth factoring in.
The military-industrial complex – the one we were warned about more than half a century ago by President Dwight Eisenhower, a former US general – excels in these kinds of externalities. Its power derives from its ability to externalise its costs on to the victims of its bombs and its wars. These are people we know and care little about: they live far from us, they look and sound different to us, they are denied names and life stories like us. They are simply numbers, denoting them either as terrorists or, at best, unfortunate collateral damage.
The externalities of the west's war industries are opaque to us. The chain of cause and effect is nowadays obscured as "humanitarian intervention". And even when war's externalities come knocking at our borders as refugees flee from the bloodshed, or from the nihilistic cults sucked into the power vacuums we leave behind, or from the wreckage of infrastructure our weapons cause, or from the environmental degradation and pollution we unleash, or from the economies ruined by our plunder of local resources, we still don't recognise these externalities for what they are. Our politicians and media transform the victims of our wars and our resource grabs into, at best, economic migrants and, at worst, barbarians at the gate.
Exclusive footage of a beach landing at St Margaret's Bay, Kent. More illegal migrants hit the jackpot. pic.twitter.com/BqNaWaTIzU
— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) August 1, 2020
Snapshots of catastrophe
If we are entirely ignorant of the externalities inflicted by capitalism on victims beyond our shores, we are gradually and very late in the day waking up to some of capitalism's externalities much closer to home. Parts of the corporate media are finally admitting that which can no longer be plausibly denied, that which is evident to our own senses.
For decades politicians and the corporate media managed to veil two things: that capitalism is an entirely unsustainable, profit-driven, endless consumption model; and that the environment is being gradually damaged in ways harmful to life. Each was obscured, as was the fact that the two are causally connected. The economic model is the primary cause of the environmental damage.
People, especially the young, are slowly awakening from this enforced state of ignorance. The corporate media, even its most liberal elements, is not leading this process; it is responding to that awakening.
Last week the Guardian newspaper prominently ran two stories about externalities, even if it failed to frame them as such. One was about micro-plastics leaching from feeding bottles into babies, and the other about the toll air pollution is taking on the populations of major European cities.
The latter story, based on new research, specifically assessed the cost of air pollution in European cities – in terms of "premature death, hospital treatment, lost working days and other health costs" – at £150 billion a year. Most of this was caused by pollution from vehicles, the profitable product of the car industry. The researchers admitted that their figure was an under-estimate of air pollution's true cost.
But, of course, even that underestimate was arrived at solely on the basis of metrics prioritised by capitalist ideology: the cost to the economy of death and disease, not the incalculable cost in lost and damaged human lives, and even less the damage to other species and the natural world. Another report last week alluded to one of those many additional costs, showing a steep rise in depression and anxiety caused by air pollution.
The other story, on baby bottles, is part of a much bigger story of how the plastics industry – whose products are derivatives of the fossil fuel industry – has long been filling our oceans and soil with plastics, both of the visible and invisible kind. Last week's report revealed that the sterilisation process in which bottles are heated in boiling water resulted in babies swallowing millions of micro-plastics each day. The study found that plastic food containers were shedding much higher loads of micro-plastics than expected.
These stories are snapshots of a much wider environmental catastrophe unfolding across the planet caused by profit-driven industrialised society. As well as heating up the climate, corporations are chopping down the forests that don't burn down first, ridding the planet of its lungs; they are destroying natural habitats and soil quality; and they are rapidly killing off insect populations.
As should be obvious by now, the ecological destructiveness of capitalism is baked in: whether it's climate breakdown, pollution or the imminent extinction of most of the insect life on which wider life depends. Ignoring one doesn't make the others go away https://t.co/1pEojqcBiy
— Jonathan Cook (@Jonathan_K_Cook) November 13, 2019
These industries' externalities are, for the time being, impacting most severely on the natural world. But they will soon have more visible and dramatic effects that will be felt by our children and grandchildren. Neither of these constituences currently has a say in how our capitalist "democracies" are being run.
Perception managers
Capitalism isn't only harming us, it's double-billing us: taking first from our wallets and then depriving us of a future. We have now entered an era of deep cognitive dissonance.
Unlike a few years ago, many of us now understand that our futures are at grave risk from changes in our environment – the effect. But the task of today's perception managers, like those of yesteryear, is to obscure the main cause – our economic system, capitalism.
The increasingly desperate effort to dissociate capitalism from the imminent environmental crisis – to break any perception of a causal link – was highlighted early this year. It emerged that counter-terrorism police in the UK had included Extinction Rebellion, the west's main environmental protest group, on a list of extremist organisations. Under related "Prevent" regulations, teachers and government officials are already required by law to report anyone who they suspect of being "radicalised".
Extinction Rebellion's demands are the very minimum rationale response to an imminent climate catastrophe, and yet UK security services have been outed internally classifying it as an ideological equivalent to terrorism https://t.co/V9iJKSHEx2
In a guide explaining the purpose of the list, officials and teachers were told to identify anyone who speaks in "strong or emotive terms about environmental issues like climate change, ecology, species extinction, fracking, airport expansion or pollution".
Why was Extinction Rebellion, a non-violent, civil disobedience group, included alongside neo-Nazis and Islamic jihadists? A whole page is dedicated to the threat posed by Extinction Rebellion. The guide explains that the organisation's activism is rooted in an "anti-establishment philosophy that seeks system change". That is, environmental activism risks making apparent – especially to the young – the causal connection between the economic system and damage to the environment.
Once the story broke, the police hastily rowed back, claiming that Extinction Rebellion's inclusion was a mistake. But more recently establishment efforts to decouple capitalism from its catastrophic externalities have grown more explicit.
Last month England's department of education ordered schools not to use any materials in the curriculum that question the legitimacy of capitalism. Opposition to capitalism was described as an "extreme political stance" – opposition, let us remember, to an economic system whose relentless pursuit of growth and profit treats the destruction of the natural world as an uncosted externality.
Paradoxically, education officials equated promotion of alternatives to capitalism as a threat to free speech, as well as an endorsement of illegal activity, and – inevitably – as evidence of antisemitism.
Suicidal trajectory
These desperate and draconian measures to shore up an increasingly discredited system are not about to end. They will get much worse.
The establishment is not preparing to give up on capitalism – the ideology that enriched and empowered it – without a fight. The political and media class proved that with their relentless and unprecedented attacks on Labour opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn over several years. And Corbyn was offering only a reformist, democratic socialist agenda.
The establishment has also demonstrated its determination to cling on to the status quo in its relentless and unprecedented attacks on Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who is locked away, seemingly indefinitely, for revealing the externalities – the victims – of the west's war industries and the psychopathic behaviour of those in power.
Efforts to end the suicidal trajectory of our current "free market" system will doubtless soon be equated with terrorism, as the Prevent strategy has already intimated. We should be ready.
There can be no escape from the death wish of capitalism without recognising that death wish, and then demanding and working for wholesale change. Externalities may sound like innocuous jargon, but they and the economic system that requires them are killing us, our children and the planet.
The nightmare can end, but only if we wake up.
Jonathan Cook is an award-winning British journalist based in Nazareth, Israel, since 2001. He is the author of: Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish State (2006); Israel and the Clash of Civilisations: Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East (2008); and Disappearing Palestine: Israel's Experiments in Human Despair (2008). In 2011 he was awarded the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism. The same year, Project Censored voted one of Jonathan's reports, "Israel brings Gaza entry restrictions to West Bank", the ninth most important story censored in 2009-10.
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Enjoy seasonal food this summer – bake a traditional summer pudding using the finest produce in your region. The summer months are rich in produce, with berries and fruit being a natural highlight. Indulge your sweet tooth with our recipes for cherries and gooseberries.
Summer fruit is a real highlight of the British food season. If you grow your own, put in some fruit bushes. They are low-maintenance and high-reward, provided you keep them netted against the birds – who are also partial to our seasonal fruit! Gooseberries, blueberries and blackcurrants are all fairly compact bushes that can be fitted into a small garden.
Cherries come into season in mid June, and stay in fruit until July. Buy plenty while they're cheap – these wonderful berries are bliss straight from the bag, but also make a beautiful jam. Try baking them in a traditional French Clafoutis – see our recipes below.
Gooseberries come into season at the end of May (if you have an early variety) and continue through the summer months. They're a contrast to the sweet red strawberries and blueberries and, while some modern varieties are suitable for eating uncooked, most gooseberries demand to be cooked. This makes them perfect for traditional summer puddings like Pavlova and crumble – see below.
Elderflowers are also in season at the beginning of summer. They are here and gone in a flash, so look out for elder bushes and remember to call back frequently. Pick considerately, remembering to leave some flower heads to ripen into berries – bird food. It's easy to make traditional syrup by simmering the flower heads with lemon juice and water, straining, and adding sugar – recipes are available online.
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Serve with vanilla ice-cream and cherries marinated in kirsch, if liked.
Crumble is a traditional British pudding – and on a rainy day in summer, it's the perfect end to your meal.
Simmer the gooseberries in a small saucepan with the elderflower syrup until they are soft. Put the fruit into two ramekins and preheat the oven to 180 degrees C. Rub the butter, sugar and flour together until you have a sandy crumble. Divide it between the two ramekins and sprinkle with flaked almonds. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until golden on top.
Serve topped with a spoonful of clotted cream!


Reminder to all graduating seniors that applications for this year's Millor Orator are due Friday, March 15 at 5 p.m. in the Office of Student Engagement (located on the second floor of the Lombardo Student Center). If you would still like an application, they are available in the Office of Student Engagement.
Questions? Contact Elizabeth Poston (eposton17@jcu.edu).