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Academic BDS Should Be Directed Against Turkey and the Palestinians, Not Israel
by Winfield Myers
https://www.meforum.org/57596/bds-turkey-palestinians-israel
This article was originally published in The Algemeiner under the title "BDS Is Contemptible, But Academic Boycotts Have Their Place".
Academic boycotts, rightly understood and employed, are an effective means of isolating and stigmatizing universities and other institutions that support authoritarian regimes (like Erdogan's Turkey) or provide a platform for spreading pro-terrorist propaganda (as at An-Najah or Birzeit universities in the West Bank). By refusing to acknowledge the legitimacy of universities controlled by regimes that deny basic academic (and human) freedoms, boycotters undermine corrupt systems and lend moral support to academics fighting for their rights and even their lives.
But not all boycotts are defensible. The academic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel provides the most obvious example of an unjust act masquerading as high-minded activism.
Contrary to the claims of BDS advocates, Israel is a free, democratic state with equal representation for all citizens, regardless of their religious or ethnic background. Israeli universities, far from suffering under state or party control, are home to some of Israel's harshest critics, who are free to condemn or praise governments and religious leaders or even question the legitimacy of Israel's existence. They are anything but tools of the state whose livelihood and freedom depend on praising the government or censoring their opinions.
In light of these widely known facts, BDS proponents reveal their antisemitic motivations in a myriad of ways, most obviously in singling out Israel — the world's only Jewish state — for condemnation, while turning a blind eye to genuine human rights abusers such as Iran, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Cuba, and China. The BDSers' false assertions regarding Israeli history — from denying the long and vibrant history of the ancient Hebrews, to claiming that Israelis are European "settler colonialists" comparable to Nazis — also expose their antisemitism.
These abuses do not, however, invalidate academic boycotts per se. Blanket opposition to boycotts willfully ignores the intellectual and moral corruption of academic institutions in countries controlled by authoritarian regimes. This refusal rests on a moral relativism that treats all regimes and their academic systems equally, regardless of the legitimacy of a nation's academic enterprise.
Far from mounting a brave defense of academic freedom, university presidents and others opposed to all academic boycotts shun their responsibility to make difficult and potentially unpopular decisions on a case-by-case basis. Unfortunately, ours is not the first era in which America's academic leaders have chosen expediency over justice, and hidden behind the cry of "academic freedom."
In their shameful failure to condemn the Nazification of German higher education systems following Hitler's rise to power in 1933, America's academic elite — led by Nicholas Murray Butler and James Bryant Conant, presidents of Columbia and Harvard, respectively — cloaked their antisemitism with high-minded defenses of academic freedom that would ring familiar today. Despite the odious "cleansing process" that legalized firing Jews and political opponents in German academe, plus daily press reports of the persecution of Jews throughout Germany, Butler, Conant, and many others maintained ties with their German counterparts, welcomed Nazi officials to their campuses, sponsored academic exchanges with German universities, and actively suppressed student and faculty demands for boycotts against Germany's once-great academic institutions.
An analogous situation exists today in Turkey, where an Islamist-inspired "cleansing" of academia has occurred since the July 2016 coup attempt. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's regime has fired over 5,000 academics and more than 33,000 teachers, while jailing thousands more. Many were charged with having connections to the Gülen movement, part of a network associated with exiled spiritual leader and former Erdogan ally Fethullah Gülen. As a result, government-backed Islamists control Turkey's universities, where any remaining secularists or moderates must keep a low profile on pain of termination or imprisonment.
Yet many American professors of Middle East studies are mimicking Depression-era academics in their refusal to acknowledge a tyrant's persecution of their colleagues. Last October, specialists from elite universities, including Columbia, Georgetown, UNC-Chapel Hill, and UC-Berkeley, gathered for the Second International Conference on the Muslim Ummah at Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University. That the conference chair was Sami Al-Arian, who pled guilty to aiding Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a State Department-designated terrorist organization, while teaching at the University of South Florida (and who was subsequently expelled to Turkey and now teaches at Sabahattin Zaim), bothered no one.
Nor were Americans and other Westerners deterred from participating in an earlier Istanbul conference sponsored by the Al Sharq Forum, a defender of Islamism, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Turkey's rulers. In October 2016, scholars from Harvard, Michigan, and UNC-Chapel Hill gathered to hear regime-approved lectures from, among others, Erdogan's chief spokesman Ibrahim Kalin, who earned his Ph.D. in Islamic studies from George Washington University, and is a senior fellow at Georgetown University.
Participants in both conferences didn't travel to Istanbul to speak truth to power by critiquing Erdogan's brutality and challenging the legitimacy of his actions. Rather, they ignored their host's ongoing destruction of academic freedom and, at the 2018 conference, harshly critiqued Israel, America, and the West. Their presence lent a veneer of legitimacy to Turkey's violations of academic rights while ignoring the plight of their colleagues languishing in prison or suffering from unemployment and internal exile.
Excusing the inexcusable was also the goal of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed by San Francisco State University (SFSU) and An-Najah University in the West Bank. Facilitating a series of trips by perennial anti-Israel activist Rabab Abdulhadi, the director of SFSU's Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Initiative, the MOU exists in spite of An-Najah's undeniable ties to Hamas operatives and terrorists. SFSU has also pursued agreements with Bir Zeit University, another West Bank school teeming with Hamas supporters. Such institutional arrangements with American universities serve to normalize the radical, antisemitic, pro-terrorist atmospheres at these schools.
America's university leaders can avoid the errors of their 1930s predecessors by first confronting the morality (or immorality) of any individual boycott effort, including the lies and hatred that drive BDS, and second by severing ties to institutions that have ceased to exist (if they ever did) as independent centers of higher learning.
Dissident academics suffering mass persecution — not the lackeys now running academe in Turkey — deserve the backing of their American colleagues. In the West Bank, universities honeycombed with terrorist supporters should be called out for their systemic corruption and cultivation of bigotry. By refusing to give their moral and intellectual support, American academics can strike a blow against vicious regimes and the academic establishments that support them, while exposing BDS supporters' dark motives.
Winfield Myers is director of academic affairs and director of Campus Watch, a project of theMiddle East Forum
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Wilsonov most je najstarejši most čez Loaro v Toursu v departmaju Indre-et-Loire v regiji Center-Val de Loire v Franciji. Povezuje ulico rue Nationale v središču mesta z Avenue de la Tranchée na severni strani.

Prvotno je bil cestni most s širokimi pločniki. Ko je bil leta 2013 ponovno uveden tramvaj, je dobil svoj pas na mostu; avtomobilski promet je bil dovoljen samo po enem pasu od severa proti jugu. Avgusta 2020 je bil tudi ta pas zaprt za promet, sprva poskusno do naslednjega oktobra, morda pa tudi trajno.

Imenovan je bil leta 1918 po Woodrowu Wilsonu, ki je bil 28. predsednik Združenih držav od leta 1913 do 1921.

Lokacija in dostop
Wilsonov most je most, ki prečka reko Loire v Toursu. Na severu povezuje avenijo de la Tranchée, ki poteka mimo kraja Choiseul, in ulico rue Nationale, ki poteka mimo kraja Anatole France, na jugu. Je sestavni del osi sever-jug, ki se začne na vrhu avenije de la Tranchée in konča ob vznožju mostu Alouette, prereže Tours na dvoje, prečka kraj Jean-Jaurès, avenijo de Grammont in Cher preko mostu Sanitas.

Kot sestavna os državne ceste 10 (ukinjena leta 2005) se je njen promet zmanjšal, ko je leta 2013 začel obratovati tramvaj, nato pa je poleti 2020 postal odprt samo za pešce in kolesarje.

Kamniti most je simbolična umetnina mesta Tours. To je znamenitost, ki jo cenijo prebivalci Touraine.

Južna obala je kraj življenja, turizma in srečevanja. Guinguette de Tours, predmestna kavarna, ki je ob vznožju mostu, je praznično mesto od maja do oktobra. Pristanišča ponujajo čudovit razgled na most in reko Loaro.

Opis
Kamniti ločni most je dolg 436,6 m in širok 14,6 m. Bil je eden prvih mostov, katerega krov se ni več vzpenjal proti sredini, ampak je potekal povsem vodoravno. Ima 15 enakih ovalnih lokov / obokov z razponi 24,36 m in 14 stebrov, debelih 4,87 m. Njihovo razmerje med puščicami je 1:3. Celoten most je temeljen na pilotih, pri čemer so pod severnimi 10 odprtinami na pilotih vgrajene plošče, ki so približno trikrat večje od širine mostu, da se prepreči drgnjenje.

Zgodovina

V srednjem veku je bil edini most v Toursu pont d'Eudes, ki so ga zgradili nekoliko višje proti toku med letoma 1034 in 1037. Ime je dobil po princu, ki ga je ukazal zgraditi. Sčasoma so ga razširili v kamniti most, ki pa je kasneje vse bolj propadal, tako da je nova gradnja postala neizbežna.

Mathieu Bayeux, znan kot Bayeux starejši (1692–1777), je leta 1758 predstavil osnutek, ki je po različnih spremembah postal osnova za razpis leta 1764 in dela, ki je sledila leta 1765. Načrti so predvidevali košaraste loke, kar je še vedno ustrezalo pravilu, da mora biti trdnost stebrov petina razpona lokov. Istega leta so se začela gradbena dela, ki jih je vodil Bayeux. Pet stebrov je bilo zgrajenih s pomočjo kesonov po vzoru malo prej zgrajenega Pont Cessarta. Ko se je leta 1774 Bayeux upokojil, je delo nadaljeval Jean-Baptiste de Voglie in ga končal leta 1778.

Most se je ves čas spopadal s težavami. Že leta 1776 se je tik preden je bil dokončan zrušil lok, ker je popustil že četrtič uporabljen in slabo popravljen oklep. Leta 1777 se je nenadoma zrušil steber, ki je delno zrušil en lok in deformiral sosednje loke.

Po močnem ledu januarja 1789 so se zrušili štirje oboki. Najprej se je bilo treba zadovoljiti s trajekti, dokler niso zgradili začasnega lesenega mostu. Obnova kamnitih obokov je trajala do leta 1810.

Leta 1835 so opazili deformacije tlaka in razpoke v enem loku. Preiskave so jih izsledile do erodiranih votlin pod stebri. To je bilo potrjeno z vertikalnim vrtanjem celotnega stebra, skozi katerega so te votline nato zalili. Meritve v letih 1840 in 1841 niso pokazale nadaljnjega ugrezanja. Zaradi varnosti so v tla med prizadete stebre vgradili široke betonske plošče. Zdelo se je, da je to rešilo vse težave in most je naslednjih sto let preživel brez večjih incidentov.

Leta 1926 je bil most registriran kot zgodovinski spomenik (Monument historique).

Med drugo svetovno vojno je francoska vojska leta 1940 razstrelila obok, da bi ustavila napredovanje Wehrmachta, ta pa je leta 1944 razstrelil tri oboke, da bi zagotovil njihov umik. Obnova je bila končana leta 1947.

Leta 1978 se je brez opozorila zrušil del stebra, ki mu je nekaj ur kasneje sledil še lok. Po premoru sta se zrušila tudi sosednja loka, naslednji dan sta se zrušila še dva, čez tri tedne pa še en lok. Kolaps je prekinil oskrbo z vodo za več kot 100.000 prebivalcev, pa tudi njihove električne in telefonske vode.

Vzrok so kasneje videli v kamnolomu gramoza in peska v Loari in posledičnem kopanju rečne struge, kar je pomenilo, da temelj iz lesenih pilotov ni bil več trajno pod vodo. Most je bil obnovljen z enakimi betonskimi loki, obloženimi z naravnim kamnom, in odprt za promet septembra 1982.

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Literatura
Louis Beaudemoulin: Mémoire sur les divers mouvements du pont de Tours et sur les moyens employés en 1835 et 1836 pour consolider les fondations des 9e, 10e et 11e piles de ce pont. In: Annales des ponts et chaussées. Mémoires et documents relatifs à l'art des constructions et au service de l'ingénieur, 1939, 2e semestre, S. 86–133 und Tafeln CLXXIII, CLXXIV und CLXXV (Digitalisat auf Gallica)
Louis Beaudemoulin: Mémoire sur quelques procédés, outils, machines, etc., employés à la construction des radiers en béton du pont de Tours. In: Annales des ponts et chaussées. Mémoires et documents relatifs à l'art des constructions et au service de l'ingénieur, 1941, 2e semestre, S. 210–251 und Tafeln 5, 6 und 7 (Digitalisat auf Gallica)
Guy Grattesat: L'effondrement partiel du pont Wilson à Tours. Ses causes et ses enseignements: In: Travaux, Juni 1980, Nr. 544, S. 28–36
Jacques Gounon: La reconstruction du pont Wilson à Tours. In: Travaux, Juni 1980, Nr. 544, S. 37–47

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Kamniti mostovi
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MINNIE HARMS NEEBE
MINNIE HARMS NEEBE was born in Chicago, in 1873, and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Fine Arts Academy of Provincetown, Mass. Her outstanding teachers were Lorser Feitelson, Charles Hawthorne, Walter Ufer, Louis A. Neebe, Charles F. Brown, E. Ambrose Webster and W. J. Reynolds. She has painted in the East, the Middle West, the Far West and along the Pacific Coast. She is a member of the Chicago Society of Artists, the Chicago No-Jury Society of Artists, the Art Institute of Chicago Alumni Association, the Illinois Academy of Fine Arts and the San Diego Art Association. Her work has been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, various other local exhibition places and in many other cities. She has had one-artist shows in Chicago and in several cities in Florida and California. Her work has been written about in the Chicago Evening Post, the Chicago Daily News, the Chicago Tribune and various other newspapers and magazines. She is represented in the permanent collections of the Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago City Commission for the Encouragement of Local Art.
Personal expression in art-what does it really mean? Well, as far as I can see, it means really nothing more than a collection of ideas. And these ideas are fused with one's self and with one's experiences. Anyone who is able to take ideas, experiences and emotions, make them his own, put the impress of his personality upon them, and give them to the world bodied forth in line and color or in figures and objects modeled or carved in stone, wood, clay, etc., is a creator in the realm of visual art. And in doing this he is giving vent to personal expression. Is all this a contribution to society? In the narrow sense it may or may not be. In the broader sense all art is decidedly something of benefit to all humanity. But the artist is not concerned with whether his work is a contribution to society or not. He is concerned with realizing himself, with satisfying himself, with achieving for himself a sense of fulfillment. So much by way of a general statement. Now to answer a few specific questions. Does form play a part in my art, I am asked. And I answer, a very important part, for in a sense, all art is nothing but form. Now as to color, I never use color for its own sake but always as a contribution to form and as a means of effecting the illusion of volume and of distance. The purely abstract in art occupies a most important place, although I always fuse it with the more realistic phases of my canvases. I consider my work an expression of the present age which in turn is, of course, an outgrowth and a continuation of former ages. To conclude, I am not influenced in my work by demands of galleries and the art market, and I believe that criticism does not affect me. Minnie Harms Neebe.

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An intense time to be alive
They say 24 hour is a long time in politics, but in the modern world of viral pandemics, it is even longer.
The rapid shifts in government policy are unsettling, personally and economically.
The current media onslaught on terms such as "deadly virus" and "killer disease" is fear-mongering and spreading panic which way more contagious than any virus.
Pictures of army trucks in Italy removing dead bodies look alarming. So many dead they can't cope right? Or maybe it is because funerals per se are banned and anyone who has died of any cause at the hospitals has to be cremated. That means all the deceased must be removed from the hospital and the army have to do it as funeral directors are not allowed.
The hourly death count is also an electric cattle prod to the amygdala.
If they did that with flu, people would never leave the house.
In the US, since the start of flu season in October, the estimated number of influenza-like illnesses is between 36 million and 51 million with an estimated 22,000 to 55,000 flu deaths.
It all comes down to statistics, and you know what they say about those…."there are lies, damned lies and statistics".
The stats are only as good as the data they are made with.
We need to know as best we can, how contagious is it and how lethal is it?
This is impossible to answer accurately because the data used to create the statistics on SARS-CoV-2 is completely unreliable and incomplete.
Patients who have been tested for SARS-CoV-2 are disproportionately those with severe symptoms and bad outcomes.
How many people in China and Italy are walking around with immunity from asymptomatic previous infection? How many had symptoms akin to common colds & seasonal flu and recovered but remain untested?
If we add these to the statistics the death rate % would drop massively from the current estimates which vary from 1-4 %.
"If one assumes that the number of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic cases is several times as high as the number of reported cases, the case fatality rate may be considerably less than 1%. This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%) or a pandemic influenza, rather than a disease similar to SARS or MERS." – Dr Fauci NEJM
https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMe2002387?articleTools=true&mc_cid=2c6662912b&mc_eid=7cee6dd4f2
Also, we have to consider the current death rates will be seen by people of all ages, but the majority of those who have died are elderly.
In Italy they have a disproportionate levels of population over 60 years old (29%) and above 80 who are very vulnerable it is 7%. Thus the fatality rate in Italy is currently 8%.
This is not to minimise the loss of life but to remind ourselves that this is always the case with all viruses. The elderly are always more vulnerable to infection. In care home settings the death rate from a SARS coronavirus outbreak in 2003 was 8.4%. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2095096/
But also note the symptoms in the staff members, look familiar? It should look like they have a virus that is stimulating their immune system, like a common cold or seasonal flu virus.
In countries like Germany and South Korea where the population is younger, the death rates are far, far lower, 0.18 % in Germany. But there are of course many variables involved not simply age.
In the case of the Diamond Princess cruise ship where passengers were quarantined, the death rate was 1%, but this was a largely elderly population. Prof John Ioannidis projected the data from the cruise ship onto the US population and suggests a death rate of 0.125%, though he acknowledges the data is very thin and the rate could be as low as 0.025% or as high as 0.625%.
https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-as-the-coronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold-we-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data/?fbclid=IwAR3aIH5U3e1Nf5RSppgqZJdukcg-JS9ZhJlRBKu962sYx5Icq5roYVmDx1g
His main concern (and mine) is that we (your governments) are making massive decisions that will echo through generations but with massively flawed data fueling mass hysteria.
Whatever the total number of deaths we end with is, the subsequent economic challenges we face could be catastrophic.
Suicides increased by 6.8% during the 2008 recession. Will the fabric of society with mass unemployment hold? Civil unrest? war?
How many older patients will lose all fitness and muscle by not going out and subsequently die from falls?
It is a complex emotive subject.
For now, I would recommend reading some of the following articles to gain some perspective
https://heated.medium.com/theres-an-epidemic-that-s-a-bigger-threat-than-the-coronavirus-ce6e0697185b
https://www.anhinternational.org/news/anh-intl-special-report-covid-19-fearmongering-born-out-of-uncertainty/?fbclid=IwAR0TlEwZJclqcXTM-0s4wFS4nz2UJZHcAmEsK6EhCmfZ33uyIa0V8OPvros
Remember to check in on any neighbours that are unable or afraid to go out,


ENCINITAS — Encinitas has temporarily shelved its proposed ban on Styrofoam food service products, citing the need to lessen the impact on local restaurants.
The ordinance was supposed to be discussed at the Oct. 14 city council meeting, but City Manager Karen Brust decided to keep it off the agenda late last week.
"The ordinance itself may be fine, but what we (the city) didn't do was ask for an implementation strategy," Encinitas City Councilwoman Lisa Shaffer said. Shaffer has been one of the ordinance's biggest supporters.
"It is unrealistic for us to go from zero to 60 in one step, so we asked the city manager to slow things down so we can look at different strategies for implementation," Shaffer said.
The ordinance would have banned expanded polystyrene products at restaurants, such as to-go boxes and cups. Supporters, including the Surfrider Association, say that packaging products pollute the environment in their manufacturing and wind up at beaches and other waterways where it can harm marine life.
Restaurant owners and the California Restaurant Association came out in force to oppose the ordinance at a public meeting in late September, arguing that the alternative packaging products were prohibitively expensive and could force some businesses out of Encinitas, a claim that supporters of the ban dispute.
Shaffer said the delay gives the city time to develop strategies that will soften the blow of a ban to restaurants, including potentially phasing the ban's implementation or bulk purchasing of alternative products to lower the price for restaurant owners.


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Home Blogs Private industry hails US Bill to streamline commercial space activities
Private industry hails US Bill to streamline commercial space activities
Anusuya Datta
The commercial space industry in the US is upbeat over the Trump Administration's move to streamline the sector and open it up to private players. The US House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology last week unanimously approved the American Space Commerce Free Enterprise Act of 2017. This comes closely on the heels of President Donald Trump signing into law the NASA Transition Act in March.
The American Space Commerce Free Enterprise Act of 2017, also known as the H.R. 2809, had support from both the parties – Republicans and Democrats – and now moves to the full US House of Representatives, following which it will be taken up by the Senate.
What is the Bill all about?
The Bill seeks to streamline the process of licensing for commercial remote sensing satellites and, if approved in its present form, will create a single authority for authorization and supervision of non-governmental space activities located at Office of Space Commerce of the Department of Commerce. At present, licensing issues are handled by an office within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The office would have a 60-day window to either issue a permit or deny the application. A permit will automatically be granted if a ruling doesn't come at the end of the 60 days.
"The American Space Commerce Free Enterprise Act addresses issues that the committee has been tracking for years, including international obligations and commercial remote sensing. The Bill establishes a favorable legal and policy environment for free enterprise with maximum certainty and minimum burden for stakeholders," said Committee Chairman Lamar Smith while introducing the Bill.
The innovative legislation will incentivize new space operators to set shops on American ground and allow the United States to maintain and adhere to international obligations as well as improving national security.
"This enterprising Bill provides an efficient, transparent, and streamlined structure for authorizing and supervising future space activities to create the path for future exploration of the final frontier," Smith added.
The Bill also seeks to provide greater certainty to assure non-governmental space activities conform to the United States' Outer Space Treaty obligations; preserve the ability to condition remote sensing operations to protect national security and enhance national security by ensuring insight into operations and capabilities by creating a competitive environment that discourages offshoring.
Also Read: Commercial space to enjoy larger role with NASA under Trump
Support pours in from all quarters
Support has poured in from all quarters from the private industry. "We applaud the passing of the American Space Commerce Free Enterprise Act of 2017 (H.R. 2809), which makes critical updates to the regulations governing space-based commercial remote sensing," said Dr. Walter Scott, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, DigitalGlobe, who is of the opinion that for too long, the American space industry has been hindered by outdated rules that lack transparency and allow for decisions to linger for months, and sometimes even years.
The reforms outlined in this Bill will have a positive impact on the American satellite industry, enabling US companies to be more competitive, creating jobs, and reaffirming the United States' leadership of this essential sector.
"Quietly, for many years, a debate has taken place in government and commercial space policy circles about the proper legal structure for handling actions by US entities that take place far from Earth. The American Space Commerce Free Enterprise Act of 2017 brilliantly resolves some of the contradictions inherent in more traditional models and proposes a new and, in my opinion, very effective legal structure for future activities," feels Jeff Greason, CEO, Agile Aero, a group of aviation and aerospace professionals with expertise in many aspects of advanced aerospace vehicle design, construction, and operations; rocket propulsion.
Many felt that the creation of a single authority for the registration of non-governmental space activities would immediately simplify the current processes. "[Additionally, the Bill also maintains] our international obligations to the Outer Space Treaty and recognizing any safety risks posed to our existing federal space systems," said Dr. Devrie S. Intriligator, Director, Space Plasma Laboratory, Carmel Research Center, Inc.
The simplification of space-based remote sensing regulatory system is of particular importance to companies for developing new commercial remote sensing capabilities and seek a predictable regulatory regime for such activities. "The Act would also ensure US compliance with international obligations, promote evidence-based regulation, improve national security and eliminate cumbersome regulatory barriers facing new and innovative space technology companies," felt Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr., VADM USN (ret.) and CEO, GeoOptics.
"The Act has a number of important provisions, most important is that the proposed legislation will simplify and strengthen the outdated space-based remote sensing regulatory system," said Geoff Crowley, President, and Chief Scientist, Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates (ASTRA), a system design and technology development company.
A joint statement from Jonathan Rosenblatt, General Counsel, Spire Global; Robbie Schingler, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Planet Labs; and Marcy Steinke, Senior Vice President, Government Relations and Public Policy, DigitalGlobe, stated: "It is so important that rules and regulations support and not hinder industry's ability to grow and innovate. We believe this bill will do just that by presuming approval, redefining what needs to be regulated, streamlining the permitting process with actionable deadlines, increasing transparency and establishing an Assistant Secretary of Space Commerce."
The Bill also drew strong support from the Satellite Industry Association. "SIA believes that introducing greater transparency and discipline into the U.S. Government's regulatory review processes will ultimately encourage industry growth and bring a multitude of benefits to the US economy and security," said Tom Stroup, president, Satellite Industry Association.
Other than simplifying remote sensing regulatory system, the Act is also expected to enhance US compliance with international obligations, improve national security, and eliminate cumbersome regulatory barriers facing new and innovative space technology companies, feels Guy P. Seeley, President, Atmospheric and Environmental Research, which helps government agencies better anticipate and manage climate and weather-related risks.
Michael Suffredini, President, and CEO, Axiom Space, praised the Act for its intention to maximize certainty while minimizing the regulatory burden placed on new and innovative space companies. "As a company who envisions a purely commercial business model, requesting no government funding and no guarantee of a government anchor tenant, we rely heavily on outside investment. Investors are, in turn, very focused on understanding risk, which includes knowing the impact of government-imposed regulation. For this reason, Axiom Space is fully supportive of the intent of the Act," he added.
The core principles of the ASCFEA to ensure a regulatory 'light touch' approach that enables technological innovation and also helps promote safe operations in space under an authorization schema though the registration of space objects found favor with many industry players. "I applaud the committee working tirelessly on a bipartisan approach that upholds and enhances American leadership in space as well as lays the foundation for commercial space activities grow and flourish," said Christopher M. Hearsey, Director of Legislative Affairs, Bigelow Aerospace.
"The member companies and institutions of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation are in strong agreement with all of the goals and most of the key elements of your legislation: significant reform of the Commerce Department's obsolete, burdensome, and dysfunctional regime for licensing commercial remote sensing satellites is especially welcome," said Eric Stallmer, President, Commercial Spaceflight Federation.
"As the first US company to request and receive US governmental 'mission approval' to send a private robotic spacecraft beyond traditional Earth orbit and to the Moon, we can attest to the need for certainty of process within a framework of minimal regulatory burden… This legislation creates a clear, objective, transparent, timely and appealable process for American companies like Moon Express to pursue innovative commercial space activities beyond traditional Earth orbit," stated the statement from Dr. Robert Richards, founder, President & CEO, Moon Express Inc, which has ultimate plans to mine the Moon for natural resources of economic value.
Given that enabling both space development and space settlement were vital to the strategic future of the United States, it was felt that the industry needed a solution which ensured that not only were obligations under the Outer Space Treaty met, but new non-governmental space activities were also encouraged.
Andrew Newman, Chairman, Students for the Exploration and Development of Space; Josh Guild, Interim Executive Director, Space Frontier Foundation, expressed happiness that long-standing issues related to commercial remote sensing licenses were being addressed, and that a transparent, timely, and appealable regulatory process would be available for new non-traditional space activities upon passage of this Bill.
"This legislation makes clear that the Committee has given thought to a long view of how to best enable American industry and entrepreneurs to pursue space commerce activities aimed at exploring, developing, and utilizing space resources," said Jim Ball, President, Spaceport Strategies.
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Wanton neglect: Actions taken to restore Bengaluru lakes found to be superficial
The Bengaluru Environment Trust (BET), in its report "Citizen's Agenda for Bellandur/Varthur Catchment", has found that the plan to rejuvenate Bellandur, Varthur and Agara lakes in Bengaluru is "ad-hoc, illogical and not supported by well documented data and scientific facts." Following is an excerpt from the BET report, which is actually an official submission to government bodies and the National Green Tribunal (NGT) appointed monitoring committee to oversee the rejuvenation process:
Actions taken by the government to restore Bellandur, Varthur and Agara lakes is found to be superficial and leaves the citizens wanting for more. In-depth analysis of the government's submissions to National Green Tribunal over the past few years revealed continued wanton neglect of responsibilities, eluding courts with inaccurate facts and escaping public scrutiny with non-transparent operations.
Treated wastewater is a precious commodity in today's times. In the absence of treated wastewater policy and the necessary data to make informed decisions, injudicious allocation of treated wastewater to Minor irrigation can leave the Bellandur and Varthur lakes with scant or no water, turning these large lakes into small ponds. The government must prepare treated wastewater utilization plan for Bellandur/Varthur catchment, with a very clear policy decision to use the treated wastewater to maintain the lakes of Bengaluru up to its brim.
Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) is using the oldest trick in the book -- Cherry picking data to show compliance to NGT. It must stop doing that. The existence of four million liters per day (MLD) Madivala sewage treatment plant (STP), so far hidden from NGT, must be included. Important transparency and accountability metrics like STP operating capacities, wastewater treatment efficiencies, flow levels in the raja kaluves and sewer trunk lines, sewage transportation efficiencies, most of which is generated, is not used adequately and must be used for decision making and compliance monitoring.
Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP)'s epic negligence is palpable from its inability in putting simple interventions like waste and silt trapping structures in the drains. Despite being flogged from many sides – high court, NGT, public – it is unable to clean up solid waste in the drains and clear encrochments. Appropriate silt and waste trapping structures at regular distances, with daily removal and disposal of solid waste, must be immediately done in accordance with law. Exact area and location of buffer zones, available for bio-diversity park plantation must be immediately determined and plantation must start as soon as possible.
Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) has self-diminished its role to issuing notices. The debate on hazardous nature of the slush and silt has continued for years till today while KSPCB should have put that to rest a long time ago. The real time monitors show wide fluctuations in water quality, which are unequivocally indicators of frequent episodic industrial discharges. KSPCB must wake up from slumber, investigate and find the sources. The issue of illegal industries is far from over. There is a need for speed in stopping the operations of illegal industries.
Bengaluru Development Authority (BDA)'s one-time rejuvenation is a complete mess. It's ad-hoc , piecemeal and impractical nature of work has worsened pollution of the lakebed and resulted in infructuous expenses. Ground truthing reveals that dredged muck dumped in mounds is rotting on the lakebed creating a hazard to the people around and also polluting the lake. Until the disposal plan is finalized, the dredging must stop. In terms of silt disposal, an astounding 77% of the desilting cost (i.e. Rs 131 crores) is allocated for disposal of silt to a quarry 25 kms away. A cost-benefit analysis must be done to determine if the disposal costs are justified. Perhaps desilting the drains leading to the lakes, is a better alternative.
More important than the one-time rejuvenation is the lake specific maintenance policy. Maintenance plan for Bellandur, Varthur and Agara must be developed at the earliest, clearly documenting the execution of maintenance activities with proper timing and with adequate resources esp. budget.
Several court orders -- NGT O.A No 593/2017 , NGT O.A. No 804/2017, NGT O.A No 111/2020 , High Court W.P No. 817/2008, High Court W.P No. 24739/2012 , High Court W.P No. 38401/2014 -- are relevant and those orders must be followed.
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And some of that stuff we made ourselves.
On our recent trip to the Emigrant Wilderness, we were particularly pleased with the pot cozy that P made out of some old closed-cell foam. It's pretty darn simple--just a cylinder and a lid, to match the pot--but it kept our freeze-dried dinners piping hot for the full fifteen minutes that we left them to re-hydrate. It worked perfectly. And it cost us nothing. And it weighs almost nothing. That's it upper right in the photo below, with it's silver foil outer covering that P cut out of a insulated package he got in the mail.
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23 Vesna Goldsworthy on re-imagining The Great Gatsby and Anna Karenina2019-02-10 12:00:00
24 Juan Gabriel Vásquez on how Colombia's violent past has shaped his fiction and his life2019-02-03 12:00:00
25 Esther Kinsky on the ebb and flow of memory in River2019-01-27 12:00:00
26 Ondjaki captures the humour and heartache of life in his hometown, Luanda2019-01-20 12:00:00
27 Nadine Labaki highlights the heroism of children in Beirut in her new film, Capernaum2019-01-13 12:00:00
28 Kiese Laymon bears the weight of a difficult past in his powerful memoir, Heavy2019-01-06 12:00:00
29 Patti Smith on the immediacy of photography - and why she prefers Polaroids2018-12-30 12:00:00
30 Alain Mabanckou on his profound connection to the Republic of the Congo2018-12-23 12:00:00
31 The enduring magic of The Little Prince: with Stacy Schiff, Mark Osborne and Éric Dupont2018-12-16 12:00:00
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 I ask because we have the opportunity to recruit a Prothean into our crew according to some reviews I've read.  He will appear as downloadable contect, so will be optional to the story.

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The Protheans as a powerful, space-faring race, are dead and gone, either killed or

 converted into Collectors by the Reapers.

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For over half a century it was a truism among Palestinian refugees that those areas of Palestine where British Mandatory authorities had surveyed, thoroughly investigated, and registered the ownership rights were the same areas that came under Israeli control as a result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Those areas that had not been surveyed and registered—a process called "land settlement" by the British—escaped depopulation and Jewish control, thus remaining under Arab control after 1948. So deeply ingrained was this belief, this fear, that surveying and land settlement represented the first steps toward eventual Israeli control of land that members of a later generation of Palestinian landowners were known to dig up the iron boundary markers placed in West Bank villages by Jordanian surveyors in the 1950s for fear they could lead to alienation from their land. Some Palestinian refugees even feared that Jordanian land settlement operations underway near Amman as late as the 1970s might somehow facilitate an eventual Israeli takeover of their land in Jordan!
Beyond this popular perception, scholars have investigated the connection between British land policies in Palestine and Zionist land purchases and, eventually, Israel's victory in 1948. No scholar has disputed that British surveying and land settlement policies made Zionist land purchases easier. However, the wider question of whether or not British authorities did this purposely to facilitate implementation of the Balfour Declaration, or whether British land policies were just another iteration of standard colonial practice designed to increase production and generate revenue, has in fact been the subject of debate. Three names emerge as central to the debate about the British, the Zionists, and land policy and conflict in Palestine. Dov Gavish has argued, based on a close reading of the archival records, that Zionist needs were the driving force behind British land policy in Palestine. On the other hand, Martin Bunton has argued, based on his own thorough research, that development and fiscal needs were what drove British land policy during the Mandate, at least through 1936. For his own part, Kenneth Stein has argued that problems within Palestinian society itself, including sale of land to Jews, were inter alia responsible for the loss of the Palestinians' patrimony.
With her new book, Aida A. Essaid has made a worthwhile entry into this debate over Mandatory land policy and the related question of the aims of British land policy. Essaid, who works at the King Hussein Foundation in Amman, conducted the research for her book while pursuing doctoral work in the department of politics at the University of Exeter. Her book's conclusions align closest to Gavish's thinking, arguing that the Mandatory government "allowed Zionism to take an active and collaborative role in every stage of the land tenure system…" (p. 15). As a result, Essaid believes that Zionism then used the resulting system to acquire the land needed for a Jewish state. The author arrives at this conclusion by way of an intricate, archives-based study of the legal framework and of British land policies that were promulgated in Palestine during the Mandate. She also offers a detailed examination of land tenure in three villages chosen as case studies. The source of information about those villages was derived from a hitherto unutilized source: British "land settlement" records from Palestine that came into the hands of the Jordanian government during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and that have been hidden away from public view at the Jordanian Department of Lands and Survey in Amman for over sixty years. Although there are many strengths to this book, unearthing and researching those documents alone makes this book unique and immensely valuable.
Essaid's work is a major contribution to our understanding of several related fields of inquiry: overall land tenure in Mandatory Palestine, British legislation and land policies, and Zionist participation in the creation of such laws and procedures. Essaid's spadework also sheds impressive light on certain heretofore unknown factors that contributed to Zionist acquisition of Palestinian land. For example, her three village case studies reveal that one of the greatest methods of such acquisition came through the land settlement process, particularly the partition of collectively-owned (musha') lands into individual parcels in the 1930s, not sales by small Palestinian landholders.
Despite a few typographical mistakes and some less-than-felicitous syntax and organizational problems related to transforming a dissertation into a book (all of which the editors should have caught), Essaid has produced a milestone work on land, British rule in Palestine, and the transformation of Palestine during the Mandate that is sure to generate debate.
Michael R. Fischbach is author of State, Society and Land in Jordan and Records of Dispossession: Palestinian Refugee Property and the Arab-Israeli Conflict.


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Q: Split one column to multiple columns but data will vary SQL I have a set of row in my database that look like this:
Mr Joe Bloggs
Joe Bloggs
Joe Jim Bloggs
Joe Jim David Bloggs
Mr Joe Jim Bloggs
Mr Joe Jim David Bloggs

Output required:
Title | First Name | Middle Name | Surname
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Mr | Joe | x | Bloggs
x | Joe | x | Bloggs
x | Joe | Jim | Bloggs
x | Joe | Jim David | Bloggs
Mr | Joe | Jim | Bloggs
Mr | Joe | Jim David | Bloggs

This will be run in a SQL Stored Procedure. What i need is this output generated while looping through a CURSOR and the 4 variables to update the 4 columns in the database. But as you can see the data is in 1 column and varies.
I am finding it hard to understand the best way of doing this and would like your help please. Let me know if you need anything else.
Similar Questions to mine but i feel these dont give me the full answer i need or i think it doesnt answer my question:

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*Split column string into multiple columns strings

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*Table column split to two columns in sql?
EDIT:
    --Temporary Table to Merge the full name together in order to split by comma. Each split will have a unique record but with the same address information for each name.
    CREATE TABLE #TempOutput
    (
        ClientReference varchar(MAX),
        Prefix varchar(MAX),
        Reference int,
        MergedFullName varchar(MAX),
        FormatName varchar(MAX),
        Title varchar(MAX),
        FirstName varchar(MAX),
        MiddleName varchar(MAX),
        Surname varchar(MAX)
    )

    DECLARE @Ref varchar(MAX)
    DECLARE @Prefix varchar(MAX)
    DECLARE @Reference int
    DECLARE @MergedName varchar(MAX)
    DECLARE @FormatName varchar(MAX)
    DECLARE @Title varchar(MAX)
    DECLARE @FirstName varchar(MAX)
    DECLARE @MiddleName varchar(MAX)
    DECLARE @Surname varchar(MAX)

    DECLARE ExtraNameSplitCursor CURSOR FOR
        SELECT
            [Client Reference],
            Prefix,
            Reference,
            CASE
                WHEN LEFT(Surname,3) = 'Mr,' THEN (Title + ' ' + [First Name] + ' ' + [Middle Name] + ' ' + Replace(Surname,'Mr,',''))
                WHEN LEFT(Surname,4) = 'Mrs,' THEN (Title + ' ' + [First Name] + ' ' + [Middle Name] + ' ' + Replace(Surname,'Mrs,',''))
                ELSE (Title + ' ' + [First Name] + ' ' + [Middle Name] + ' ' + Surname)
            END AS [Merged Full Name]
        FROM #StartResults

    OPEN ExtraNameSplitCursor

    FETCH NEXT FROM ExtraNameSplitCursor INTO @Ref, @Prefix, @Reference, @MergedName
    WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
        BEGIN
            INSERT INTO #TempOutput (ClientReference, Prefix, Reference, MergedFullName)
            SELECT @Ref, @Prefix, @Reference, GUID, FROM dbo.fn_SPLIT_LIST_STRING (@MergedName)

            --SELECT CASE
            --  WHEN @FormatName.GUID = 'Mr ' THEN @Title = 'Mr'
            --  WHEN LEFT(@MergedName,4) = 'Mrs ' THEN @Title = 'Mrs'
            --  WHEN LEFT(@MergedName,5) = 'Miss ' THEN @Title = 'Miss'
            --  WHEN LEFT(@MergedName,3) = 'Ms ' THEN @Title = 'Ms'
            --  WHEN LEFT(@MergedName,3) = 'Dr ' THEN @Title = 'Dr'
            --  WHEN LEFT(@MergedName,4) = 'Rev ' THEN @Title = 'Rev'
            --  WHEN LEFT(@MergedName,5) = 'Lord ' THEN @Title = 'Lord'
            --  ELSE @Title = ''
            --END AS Title,
            --CASE
            --  WHEN MID(@MergedName,2,1) = ' ' THEN @FirstName = '' ELSE @FirstName = CHARINDEX(' ', MergedFullName + ' ') FROM #TempOutput AS FirstName

            FETCH NEXT FROM ExtraNameSplitCursor INTO @Ref, @Prefix, @Reference, @MergedName, @FlatNo, @HouseName, @HouseNo, @Street, @District, @PostTown, @County, @PostCode
        END

    CLOSE ExtraNameSplitCursor
    DEALLOCATE ExtraNameSplitCursor

    --Select statement for temporary table
    SELECT
        ISNULL(ClientReference,'') AS ClientReference,
        ISNULL(Prefix,'') AS Prefix,
        ISNULL(Reference,'') AS Reference,
        ISNULL(MergedFullName,'') AS MergedFullName,
        ISNULL(Title,'') AS Title,
        ISNULL(FirstName,'') AS FirstName,
        ISNULL(MiddleName,'') AS MiddleName,
        ISNULL(Surname,'') AS Surname

    FROM #TempOutput Result
    ORDER BY ClientReference
    for xml auto

    --Drop all temporary tables
    DROP TABLE #TempOutput
    DROP TABLE #StartResults

END

A: I have resolved my issue and thanks for the clues and help.
I have basically added a 2nd cursor which does the following:

*

*Grab the Merged Full Name field and put into a temporary variable.

*Checks the title by running a case statement to check Mr, Mrs etc.
else enter blank string into Title.

*Update Title Trim the title of the Merged Full Name

*Check the surname by RIGHT(@TempName,    CHARINDEX(' ',
REVERSE(@TempName)) - 1) and assume that this is the    surname.

*Update Surname Trim and Replace this of the Merged Full Name

*Check the left for First Name by LEFT(@TempName, CHARINDEX(' ',
@TempName + ' ') -1)

*Update First Name Trim and Replace this of the    Merged Full Name

*Anything else is put in the middle name.

Bit long winded but in 99.9% cases in my database it formats pefectly.
If you would like the above code let me know.
Thank you for you time.


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Super Bowl, Elton John, Sting, Rush, Pearl Jam, NKOTB, Luke Bryan & More
January 30, 2013 Cliff
In less than two weeks, Super Bowl XLVII descends upon New Orleans, as the San Francisco 49ers, who pulled off a tremendous win over the Atlanta Hawks, face the Baltimore Ravens, who pulled off a massive upset over the New England Patriots. The game will feature the first brother-against-brother showdown in Super Bowlhistory, as the Raven's John Harbaugh coaches against his brother Jim Harbaugh on football's biggest stage. In addition to the game, Super Bowl parties and events will be happening all weekend, adding to the already festive spirit of the city as Mardi Gras season is already underway.
The news is everywhere, New Kids On The Block is teaming up with not only 98 Degrees but also Boyz II Men for 2013's "The Package Tour." With the three bands selling millions of records in the '80s and '90s, they helped usher in a new era of vocal pop groups that continue today. The tour is in support of NKOTB's new album "10," which will be released in April with a new single "Remix (I Like The)," which will be released later this month. It also marks the first time 98 Degreeswill have performed together in 12 years. The tour comes to Uncasville, Uniondale, Boston, Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, Auburn Hills, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, East Rutherford, Washington, DC, Philadelphia, Nashville, Charlotte, Atlanta, Orlando, Sunrise, Cincinnati, Houston, Dallas, and more.
Sting is resurrecting his popular "Back To Bass" tour when he once again embarks on a spring-summer North American tour starting May 30th. Once again Sting will be playing stripped-down versions of his songs along with a few Police classics. Backed by a five-piece band, Sting comes to Kelowna, Victoria, Daly City, Santa Barbara, Morrison, Highland Park, Baltimore, Altantic City, Kitchener, Kingston, Bangor, Boston, Uncasville, Summerside, and St. John's.
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Pearl Jam has announced two summer gigs, one in Canada and the other in the U.S. The concerts are billed as "An Evening With …" and will feature an evening of nothing but Eddie Vedder and the band, with no supporting bands or opening acts. The group promises a fall tour announcement in the coming months, but until then you can catch them July 16th in London, Ontario and July 19th in Chicago.
After more than a 20-year career, renowned opera singer Andrea Bocelli is looking to crossover into the pop world with the release of his next album "Passionate" later this month. The album has songs in six different languages and contains duets with Nelly Furtado, Edit Piaf, and Jennifer Lopez. Andrea's U.S. schedule includes Sunrise, Denver, Los Angeles, Anaheim, Newark, Albany, and Phoenix.
Elton John recently added a handful of dates to his set of spring dates down South. He comes to Birmingham, Memphis, Macon, Montgomery, Chattanooga, Baton Rouge, Biloxi, and Nashville before returning to his Las Vegas residency. On January 11th, Elton and his partner David Furnish welcomed their second son, Elijah Joseph Daniel Furnish-John.
Detroit rockers Bob Seger & Kid Rock are joining forces for two nights of "Rebel Soul Rock And Roll." The shows are scheduled smack in the middle of Kid Rock's "Rebel Soul" tour and Bob's "Rock And Roll Never Forgets Tour." The back-to-back co-headlining shows start in March in Saint Paul, MN, and travels to Fargo, ND the next night. You can also catch Seger as he comes to Denver, Portland, Tacoma, Vancouver, Saskatoon, Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg, Green Bay, Grand Rapids, and Toledo.
Grammy-winning R&B singer Alicia Keys has been tapped to perform the national anthem for this year's Super Bowl. She recently released her fifth studio album, "Girl on Fire," and performed at the Presidential Inauguration. Despite everything on her plate the songstress is setting off on her own "Set The World On Fire" tour. She will be joined on the 24-city tour by special guest Miguel and they come to Seattle, Vancouver, Oakland, Los Angeles, San Diego, Las Vegas, Grand Prairie, Houston, New Orleans, Miami, Tampa, Southaven, Atlanta, Greensboro, Toronto, Montreal, Brooklyn, Boston, New York City, and more.
Country fans, listen up. Live Nations's Country Megaticket is back for another year, offering country fans the opportunity to catch as many country shows this summer as they possibly can without straying too far from home. Here's how it works, Country Megaticket is a multi-show country music package for Live Nation venues across the country, so with a season ticket you can secure the same seat for every show of an incredible line up of country music artists. 2013's featured artists include, Lady Antebellum, Tim McGraw, Rascal Flatts, Brad Paisley, Luke Bryan, Blake Shelton, Miranda Lambert, Jason Aldean, Dierks Bentley, Keith Urban, and more. Packages are offered in Mountain View, Atlanta, Charlotte, Raleigh, Maryland Heights, Wheatland, Noblesville, Wheatland, Tinley Park, Phoenix, Camden, and more.
Fleetwood Mac have added 13 more dates to an already jammed pack tour itinerary. With already 35 dates starting in April, the Hall of Famers are now coming to Rosemont, Cleveland, Montreal, Albany, Mansfield, Wantagh, Charlotte, Des Moines, Spokane, Portland, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Sacramento.
The performers and presenters for the 28th annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductionhave been announced. The ceremony, which will be held at Nokia Theatre Live in Los Angeles on April 18th, will include Jennifer Hudson, Christina Aguilera, and John Mayer as presenters and performers. This year's inductees include Heart, Randy Newman, Rush, Public Enemy, and Donna Summer.
Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers are doing a series of dates this year with Edie Brickell. The tour starts late May with stops along the East Coast. Edie recently collaborated with Steve on his latest album "Love Has Come For You" due out April 23rd on Rounder Records. The tour comes to Atlanta, Blacksburg, Red Bank, Atlantic City, Buffalo, Easton, Fort Myers, Saint Petersburg, West Palm Beach, Tallahassee, Nashville, Greensboro, Waterbury, Morristown, and many more.
Scotty McCreery has announced the first round of dates for his "Weekend Roadtrip Tour 2013." It's the 19-year-old "American Idol" winner's first headlining tour. In addition to winning Idol, Scotty also took home American Country Awards' Artist of the Year and Academy of Country Music's Best New Artist. His sophomore album is due out later this year, and the tour brings him to Bethlehem, Niagara Falls, Pittsburgh, Plant City, Kansas City, Aurora, Prior Lake, Albany, Wallingford, Wilkes Barre, Lancaster, Hampton, and Morristown.
Jeff Mangum,
Jewel,
Andrew McMahon,
Cannibal Corpse, Napalm Death & Immoulation,
Demetri Martin,
Marianas Trench,
Super WHY Live!,
The Xx,
Bullet For My Valentine, Halestorm & Young Guns,
Billy Bragg,
The Airborne Toxic Event,
Needtobreathe,
A Day To Remember,
The Expendables,
Senses Fail,
Clutch, and
They Might Be Giants.
Thompson Square & Florida Georgia Line
Miranda Lambert & Dierks Bentley
Buddy Guy & Jonny Lang
Blake Shelton, Easton Corbin & Jana Kramer
Jason Aldean, Jake Owen & Thomas Rhett
Maroon 5 & Neon Trees
Kenny Chesney, Eli Young Band & Kacey Musgraves
Kevin James & Ray Romano
Super Bowl XLVII: San Francisco 49ers vs Baltimore Ravens
Advance Auto Parts Monster Jam
Alicia Keys & Miguel
Monster Energy AMA Supercross
Ringling Bros. And Barnum & Bailey Circus
NFL, NHL, Elton, Chesney, Seger, Shelton, Muse, McGraw, Alicia Keys & More
The 2013 NFL Playoffs are closing in to a harrowing conclusion withSuper Bowl XLVII only weeks away. The San Francisco 49erstriumphed over the Green Bay Packers last week to set up a showdown with Atlanta in the NFC conference championship game. Ray Lewis and the Baltimore Ravens had an inspired win over Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos to face the New England Patriotsfor the AFC championship title. Winners of the conference games meet in New Orleans for the Super Bowl Championship one week after the Pro Bowl.
It's time for Hockey! With hockey set to return after a four-month lockout, the NHL has taken full-page newspaper ads to apologize to fans for the delayed season and shortened schedule, cutting the season from 82 games to 48. The league states it is "committed to earning back [fan's] trust and support." Which may not be too hard since fans are already welcoming back NHL hockey with open arms. The season officially starts this Saturday.
It seems in addition to adding more dates to his national tour, Elton John is welcoming a new addition to the family. The 65 year old singer welcomed the birth of his second son, Elijah Joseph Daniel Furnish-John. However his new patriarchal duties won't keep him away from the road as he comes to Birmingham, Memphis, Macon, Montgomery, Chattanooga, Baton Rouge, Biloxi, Dayton, Nashville, and Las Vegas.
Kenny Chesney is beefing up his "No Shoes Nation" tour by adding new dates, including shows in Peoria, Fort Wayne, Fresno, Las Vegas, and more. He is accompanied on most of the new dates by tour matesEli Young Band and Kacey Musgraves with Zac Brown Band andEric Church appearing on selected dates. Chesney promises the tour will be a passionate fan experience to return the support the fans have given him throughout the years. The tour kicks off in March and also comes to Lafayette, Grand Rapids, Des Moines, Raleigh, Boise, Virginia Beach, Noblesville, Cuyahoga Falls, Maryland Heights, Cincinnati, Salt Lake City, Mountian View, Charlotte, Toronto, and many many more.
Directly after wrapping up his Las Vegas residency with his wife Faith Hill, Tim McGraw gets right back on the road for his "Two Lanes Of Freedom" tour. Tim is touring in support of his latest album "Two Lanes Of Freedom" that will be released in February, and marks his debut release on Big Machine Records. He hits the road withBrantley Gilbert and Love and Theft and comes to Birmingham, Charlotte, Raleigh, West Palm Beach, Tampa, Atlanta, Camden, Burgettstown, Clarkston, Maryland Heights, Tinley Park, Cincinnati, and more.
Bob Seger is gathering up The Silver Bullet Band and is setting across the country this spring for the "Rock And Roll Never Forgets Tour." As of now, the tour kicks off in February with 13 stops, including shows in Saint Paul and Fargo with Kid Rock. With more dates to be announced and a new studio album in the works, Bob comes to Toledo, Grand Rapids, Green Bay, Winnipeg, Saint Paul, Fargo, Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Vancouver, Tacoma, POrtland, and Denver.
CMA Entertainer of the Year and Grammy nominee Blake Sheltonhas a busy 2013 ahead of himself. With festival appearances at theFlorida Strawberry Festival and the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo, he is also embarking on his second headlining tour in July. The "Ten Times Crazier Tour" features special guests Easton Corbinand ACM New Female Vocalist of the Year nominee, Jana Kramer. The tour comes to Virgina Beach, Bristow, Wantagh, Maryland Heights, Noblesville, Cincinnati, Cuyahoga Falls, Burgettstown, Tinley Park, Raleigh, Camden, Bethel, Atlanta, Tampa, and many more.
Alicia Keys' "Set The World On Fire" tour is coming ever so closer. Hitting 24 cities in a little over a month, the songstress looks to share the energy from her new album "Girl On Fire" with her fans. The tour starts in March and she will be joined by special guest Miguelas they come to Chicago, Detroit, Washington, DC, Atlantic City, New York City, Boston, Mashantucket, Brooklyn, Montreal, Toronto, Greensboro, Atlanta, Southaven, Tampa, Houston, New Orleans, and more.
With the release of Leonard Cohen's acclaimed twelfth studio album "Old Ideas," the legendary singer, songwriter, and poet will once again return the road with the "Old Ideas World Tour 2013." Singer of such classics as "I'm Your Man" and "Hallelujah," the Canadian singer-songwriter will perform 19 shows over a seven week time span on the North American leg of his tour. He comes to St. John's, Moncton, Halifax, Hamilton, New York City, Wallingford, Louisville, New Orleans, Memphis, Atlanta, Miami, Tampa, Milwaukee, Chicago, Winnipeg, Regina, Victoria, and Oakland.
British band Muse has added more dates to their 2013 North American Stadium tour. Never having really played the largest venues, this tour Muse focuses on stadiums and large arenas such as Tampa Bay Times Forum in Tampa and TD Garden in Boston. The tour is in support of their latest album "The2nd Law" which debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200. The band comes to Dallas, San Diego, Los Angeles, Oakland, Sacramento, Portland, Seattle, Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, Sunrise, Tampa, Orlando, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Columbus, Minneapolis, Saint Louis, Houston, and more.
The King of Ranchera Music, Vicente Fernandez, is on tour for 2013 with three chances for you to experience the legendary artist. Performing all of his greatest hits, including his classic songs of vaqueros and revolutionaries, Vicente comes to Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and San Jose.
Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell are launching a co-headlining tour with acclaimed British songwriter Richard Thompson. The two recently collaborated on the soon-to-be-released "Old Yellow Moon," a collection of duets that pairs Rodney, who wrote several songs on the album, with Emmylou's sweet soprano. Richard Thompson will also be supporting his latest album "Electic" which will be released in February. Kicking off in March, the tour comes to New Orleans, Saint Louis, Milwaukee, Chicago, Toronto, Boston, Huntington, Philadelphia, New York City, Rockville, Durham, Charlotte, Savannah, and Atlanta.
Alice in Chains have yet to announce the name of their upcoming 2013 album but they have announced a new month-long U.S. tour starting in April. This will be the first full tour the band has embarked on in over two years. What's more, the band recently released a new music video for their new song "Hollow." Catch this legendary grunge rock band as they come to Miami Beach, Birmingham, Augusta, Norfolk, Bethlehem, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, Camden, Fort Wayne, Evansville, and Lincoln.
Punk rockers Bad Religion have booked close to 30 new North American dates for March and April. In addition, even though their new album "True North" is officially out January 22nd on Epitaph Records, you can listen to the full album now via their label's YouTube page. Along with the tour the guys have appearances at the Musink Tattoo & Music Festival in Costa Mesa, CA, and on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon." Catch the guys as they come to San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, Tampa, Orlando, Atlanta, Nashville, Washington, DC, Montclair, Philadelphia, New York City, Boston, Portland, Montreal, Toronto, Detroit, Chicago, Denver, and more.
Dave Matthews Band,
Gordon Lightfoot,
Cold War Kids,
Martin Sexton,
Conspirator,
Sevendust,
Dark Star Orchestra,
Circa Survive & Minus The Bear,
Awolnation,
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club,
Animal Collective & Dan Deacon,
The Ready Set & Outasight,
The Revival Tour,
Major Lazer,
The Expendables, and
Arrival – The Music Of ABBA.
Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo
NFC Conference Championship: Atlanta Falcons vs San Francisco 49ers
The Price Is Right Live Stage Show
Randy Rogers Band
Shaquille O'Neal All Star Comedy Jam
Taylor Swift & Ed Sheeran
AFC Conference Championship: New England Patriots vs Baltimore Ravens
Super Bowl XLVII
Alicia Keys, NFL Playoffs, CSN, Leonard Cohen, Elton John, UFC 158/159, WSP & More
Alicia Keys looks to "Set The World On Fire" with her latest 24-city North American tour. Her "Set The World On Fire" tour is in support of her best selling album "Girl on Fire," and she has recruited Miguel to join her on the road. The tour kicks off in Seattle and comes to Vancouver, Oakland, Los Angeles, San Diego, Las Vegas, Grand Prairie, Houston, New Orleans, Miami, Tampa, Southaven, Atlanta, Greensboro, Toronto, and more.
Not only did Crosby Stills & Nash receive critical praise for their 2012 tour, it also resulted in the first live performance film of the group in more than 20 years. The DVD, CD, and Blu-ray package includes their 25-song set, interviews, and behind-the-scenes footage of the artists' lives. The famous trio returns to the U.S. in 2013 before their European tour, and come to Orlando, Sarasota, Hollywood, FL, Spokane, Fort Myers, Melbourne, FL, Jacksonville, Greenville, Montgomery, and Biloxi.
Leonard Cohen is back to "dance you to the end of love" with the second North American leg of his "Old Ideas World Tour." The tour is another opportunity to experience the legendary singer/songwriter as he performs his ageless classics like "I'm Your Man," "Suzanne," and "Hallelujah." "Old Ideas," Cohen's 12th album, debuted at number one around the world and became the highest charting album of his career. He comes to Oakland, Victoria, Regina, Winnipeg, Chicago, Milwaukee, Tampa, Miami, Atlanta, Memphis, New Orleans, Louisville, Wallingford, New York City, Hamilton, Sait John, Moncton, and more.
The Houston Texans grinded out a win over the Cincinnati Bengalsin 2013 NFL Playoff action to set up a showdown with the New England Patriots. Seattle triumphed over Washington and an injuredRG3, and now must prepare for a dominant Altanta Hawk team that is 13-3 on the season. In other playoff action, Baltimore travels toDenver to face the Broncos and Green Bay travels to San Franciscoto face the 49ers, which bring us that much closer to a hotly anticipated Super Bowl XLVII.
Dispelling rumors of a breakup, Widespread Panic announces a four week Spring Tour for April and May. The American rock back from Athens, Georgia, who followed in the steps of other Southern rock jam bands such as The Allman Brothers also confirmed that it will take to the stage for a confirmed appearance at Wakarusa in late May. The Spring Tour features two night stops in Saint Louis, Chicago, Minneapolis, Louisville, Columbia, SC, Alpharetta, and Whites Creek.
Elton John is coming to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, at the end of the March followed by a show in Biloxi. Elton hasn't performed in Louisiana or Mississippi in several years so these rare appearances should be a special treat to his Gulf coast fans. In addition, he revives his Las Vegas residency at Caesars Palace on April 20th.
What do you get when you combine a blues rock duo withpsychedelic rockers? A tour featuring The Black Keys & The Flaming Lips. With The Black Keys headlining, the tour marks the first U.S. outing for the band in 2013 after supporting spots for The Rolling Stones and two New Year's Eve headlining shows in Las Vegas. The tour comes to Kansas City, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, and Nashville.
All Time Low is already out on the road with Yellowcard but that hasn't stopped them from announcing their co-headlining Spring Tour with Pierce The Veil that kicks off in April. The bands are co-headlining "The Spring Fever Tour 2013" which also features Mayday Paradeand You Me At Six. Pierce the Veil is supporting their 2012 release "Collide With The Sky" while All Time Low is touring in support of their latest release "Don't Panic." The tour comes to Housotn, Saint Petersburh, Orlando, Atlanta, Charlotte, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, New York City, Lowell, West Long Branch, Detroit, Saint Louis, and Los Angeles.
In an event already chalk full of 170-pounders, UFC 158: St-Pierre vs. Diaz has added yet another captivating bout to the card with a welterweight fight between former Toronto police officer Sean Pierson and Rick Story who desperately needs an amazing showing to ensure his tenure with the UFC. The main event features a bruising Championship fight between Champion Georges St-Pierre and fiery contender Nick Diaz. The event comes to Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec on March 16th.
Jon Jones and big-talker Chael Sonnen will first coach opposing teams for Season 17 ofThe Ultimate Fighter before facing off with each other in the octagon for UFC 159: Jones vs Sonnen. While some question whether Sonnen deserves a title fight not having fought at light heavyweight in quite some time, UFC president Dana White made it very clear that "Sonnen got the gig by stepping up when the promotion came calling." Jones defends his title against Sonnen April 27th in Newark.
The Houston Live Stock Show and Rodeo 2013 has finalized all of this year's performers. The world's largest live entertainment and livestock exhibition comes to Houston'sReliant Stadium February 25th to March 16th. This years performers include Toby Keith, Gary Allan, Zac Brown Band, Mary J. Blige, Brantley Gilbert, Styx, Demi Lovato, Lady Antebellum, Dierks Bentley, Bruno Mars, Tim McGraw, Jason Aldean, Pitbull, Blake Shelton, and many more.
Rodeo Austin 2013 has also announced its musical lineup for its rodeo spectacular which comes to the Travis County Expo Center March 8th through the 23rd. Performers include the Josh Abbott Band, Charlie Daniels Band, Eli Young Band, Sara Evans, Alabama Shakes, Megan & Liz, Easton Corbin, Merle Haggard, Cody Johnson, and many more.
Hot Tuna,
Crystal Castles,
Hall & Oates,
Hoodie Allen,
Opeth,
Jesus Culture,
Solange,
Tyrone Wells,
That 1 Guy, and
Ralphie May
Cavalia Odysseo
PBR Professional Bull Riders
NFC Divisional Game: San Francisco 49ers vs Green Bay Packers
Eric Clapton & The Wallflowers
Recommended Local Art/Band Shows January 17 – 19, 2013
When: Thursday January 17th
Where: Mangos; located at 403 Westheimer
Who: Sick SeaCloudeater, La Sien, The Beans, Beach Bones
Cost: 8:00 p.m.
When: Friday January 18th
Where: BFE Rock Club; located at 11528 Jones Rd
Who: The Apostles, Engine 69, The Vessel, Initial
Cost: All ages welcome/ $8 21+/ $10 under 21/ 9:00 p.m.
Where: Fitzgeralds; located at 2706 White Oak
Who: The Whigs, Alkari
Cost: All ages/ $10/ 8:00 p.m.
Where: Walters; located at 1120 Naylor
Who: Straterra
When: Saturday January 19th
Where: Acadia Bar & Grill; located at 3939 FM 1960 West
Who: A Bitter Season, Blackout Heist, Three 33, SixL6
Where: Natachees Supper n Punch; located at 3622 Main
Who: Andrew Karnavas acoustic show
Cost: 6-9 p.m.
Where: Rising Sun Sushi; located at 9506 North Sam Houston Parkway
Who: The New Siblings
Cost: 6-10 p.m.
Where: Concert Pub; located at 5636 Richmond Ave
Who: The Limos Reunion Show
Where: Deans & Notsuoh; located at 314 & 316 Main
Who: A Night of Music Benefitting American Red Cross & Hurricane Sandy ReliefSee flyer for complete line-up
Cost: 4:00 p.m.- 2:00 a.m./ $10 21+/ $12 under 21
Who: Nicki Bluhm, & The Gramblers, Rebecca Loebe
Cost: $10/ all ages
Upcoming Event Flyers
BCS, NFL Playoffs, Green Day, Teen Choice, Allman Bros, Ellie Goulding & More
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Green Day has rescheduled a slew of dates for 2013 after having to cancel much of their 2012 tour after frontman Billie Joe Armstrongtook time off to seek treatment for substance abuse. Problems began to reveal themselves during the band's September performance atiHeart Radio Festival where Armstrong complained about the band's set time and smashed his guitar on stage. The newly released schedule includes East Coast, Midwest and Canadian dates, with additional West Coast dates to be announced. The band comes to Rosemont, Moline, Pittsburgh, Rochester, Philadelphia, Fairfax, Uncasville, Brooklyn, Providence, Toronto, and Quebec.
Alabama faces Notre Dame in the 2013 BCS National Championship Game. The Crimson Tide are heavy favorites over the Fighting Irish led by Nick Saban and a talented roster of players, however Notre Dame proved in 2012 that their defense isn't to be taken lightly and is capable of halting the conference's best offensive attack. The Championship Game is anticipated to be a hotly contested defensive display as it comes to Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida.
Broncos get top seed in the AFC for the 2013 NFL Playoffs, with theVikings and Redskins cinching NFC playoff spots. With their win over the Dallas Cowboys the Washington Redskins won their first division title in 13 years and earn a home playoff matchup with theSeattle Seahawks. A late season slump finds the Houston Texansfacing off against the Cincinnati Bengals and the Colts competing against Baltimore. New England, Denver, Atlanta, and San Francisco wait with first round byes to see who will ultimately compete for Super Bowl XLVII.
Teen Choice Live is a celebrity-packed music and sport spectacular featuring a superstar ensemble of Olympic Champions Gabby Douglas, Aly Raisman, and Jordyn Weiber, paired with Pop starsMegan and Liz. The one-of-a-kind show is coming to a city near you as it comes to Cedar Park, Cypress, Tulsa, Rochester, Youngstown, Cleveland, Evansville, Moline, Dubuque, Hoffman Estates, East Lansing, Trenton, Fairfax, Uniondale, Boston, Portland, Providence, Albany, and more.
The start of a new year means The Allman Brothers Band are back with their annual New York City residency. Playing March 1st to the 16th at the Beacon Theatre, you never know who could join them on stage. Previous special guests have included Eric Clapton, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, and Bruce Hornsby. The Allman Brothers have also announced they will be playing Eric Clapton's annual "Crossroads" benefit show, which takes place April 12th and 13th at NYC's Madison Square Garden.
3 Doors Down & Daughtry continue their co-headlining adventure late January. The bands have been playing to sold-out houses since November and have added additional shows in Kansas City, Rapid City, Kearney, and Green Bay. Daughtry is supporting their new album "Break The Spell" while 3 Doors Down just released a greatest hits compilation. The tour also comes to Grand Prairie, Tulsa, Tupelo, Saint Louis, Battle Creek, Louisville, Erie, Poughkeepsie, Worcester, Bethlehem, Uncasville, Sunrise, Pensacola, Peoria, and more.
Ellie Goulding is coming to the U.S. to support her latest album "Halcyon," the follow-up to her 2010 breakthrough "Lights." Ellie kicks her tour off mid-January, and is excited to start touring her new album properly." The British artist not only wrote all the songs on the album but co-produced them as well. She comes to Miami Beach, Orlando, Atlanta, Silver Spring, New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, Montreal, Royal Oak, Chicago, Saint Louis, Denver, Salt Lake City, Seattle, Vancouver, Portland, Oakland, and Los Angeles.
Advance Auto Parts Monster Jam, where monster trucks face off in Racing and Freestyle competitions have added tons of new shows. Every fan attending a Monster Jam event is given the opportunity to meet the stars of the show during their unique "Pit Party" and autograph sessions. The drivers of Monster Jam will stay at the "Pit Parties" until the last autograph is signed. New shows have been added for Sacramento, Council Bluffs, Salinas, Moline, Bismarck, Hamilton, Cincinnati, Fresno, Las Vegas, Grand Rapids, Tupelo, and many more.
Ringling Bros And Barnum & Bailey Circus, billed as The Greatest Show on Earth has also added tons of new shows for this year. Providing family entertainment since 1919, catch high-flying acts, spectacular acrobatic feats, and majestic animals as the circus comes to Macon, Tampa, Miami, Pensacola, Jacksonville, Augusta, Greensboro, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Florence, Knoxville, and more.
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BCS National Championship Game: Notre Dame Fighting Irish vs Alabama Crimson Tide
NFC Wild Card: Green Bay Packers vs Minnesota Vikings


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