Ukhrul District is bounded by Myanmar in the East, Chandel District in the South, Imphal East and Senapati Districts in the West and Nagaland State in the North. The terrain of the district is hilly with a varying heights of 913 m to 3114 m (MSL). The district HQ. Ukhrul is linked with Imphal, the state capital by a NH 150about 84 Km.
The highest peak is the Khayang peak-3114 m (MSL), though the more popularly know peak is the Shirui Kashung Peak - 2,835 m (MSL). Ukhrul, the District HQ, is 2,020 m (MSL). Most of the major rivers originate from the crevices and slopes of this Shirui Peak.
The terrain of the district is rippled with small ranges and striped by few rivers. 1. Somrah - Angkoching range, striped by Sanalok and Namba Lok; Shangshak - Phungyar range adjacent to which is the Shokvao - Mapithel - Kasom range striped by Tuyungbi and Taret Lok in the middle and Thoubal river in the West and Kachai - Hoome - Tampak Ngashan (Mahadev) range, striped by the tributaries of Thoubal river n Eastern side and Iril River in the Western side.The entire district is inhabited by different tribes. The village people are mostly engaged in Jhuming activity near the National Highway (No. 39). In some cases the shifting cultivation is practiced in small pockets keeping the adjoining area for regeneration.


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River Reading List
Written by Bend Mag Staff
Fishing Literature and Modern Westerns.
The River Why
by David James Duncan
This 1983 novel has been hailed as not only a cult classic novel for fly fisherman, but also as part of the canon of great Western literature. It's a coming of age story that tackles the environment, family, love and what an ideal life really is.
Don't Skip Out On Me
by Willy Vlautin
Don't Skip Out On Me (Harper Perennial, 2018) follows a young ranch hand from Nevada who sets out to the Southwest to become a championship boxer and is forced to confront his own ideas about destiny. Willy Vlautin is an award-winning author from Portland who writes in sparse sentences and simple prose that cut deep to reveal a tender and ultimately hopeful story.
A Death in Eden
by Keith McCafferty
Keith McCafferty is a Western mystery author that fans of CJ Box and Craig Johnson will like. His newest novel A Death in Eden (RandomHouse, 2019) takes place on Montana's Smith River and is the seventh installment of the series that follows his fly fisherman detective Sean Stranahan.
by JP Gritton
In this forthcoming debut novel (TinHouse, November 2019), author JP Gritton takes an unlikeable character and tackles themes of forgiveness and redemption. Shelley Cooper has lost his construction job and finds himself running marijuana from Colorado to Houston, then finding his way back home in one piece.
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At Home with Gary Barlow er den første EP fra den britiske sanger og sangskriver Gary Barlow. At Home with Gary Barlow blev udgivet af pladeselskabet Polydor i samarbejde med Apple Music d. 4. December 2020. EP'en består udelukkende af indspilninger fra Gary Barlows hjemmestudie i hans private hjem.

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Q: Periods in Strongly Connected Digraph Let $D$ be a digraph. Define the period of a vertex $v \in V(D)$, denoted $per(v)$ to be the gcd of the lengths of all closed walks containing $v$.
Theorem: $D$ is a strongly connected digraph $\implies$ $\forall x,y \in V(D). per(x) = per(y)$
I am not sure how to prove this. Trying to break down the set of closed walk lengths containing $x$ into a union of walk lengths which do not include $y$ and those which do include $y$ has not gotten me very far. Another approach was to do induction on a set of closed walk lengths, starting with 2... $x \rightarrow y$ and $x \leftarrow y$, but this has also not gotten me anywhere. Is there a useful lemma or something?

A: For any two vertices $x,y$ in $D$ there exist a closed walk $x\rightarrow y\rightarrow x$ and let this walk be $w$ have length $m$. Then we know $per(x)|m$ and $per(y)|m$.
Consider any closed walk $p$ that $x$ is in, let its length be $l$ then $per(x)|l$ and since $y\rightarrow x\rightarrow p\rightarrow x\rightarrow y$ is also a closed walk of length $l+m$ we know $per(y)|l+m$. Also since $per(y)|m$ we can get $per(y)|l$.
Hence both $per(x)$ and $per(y)$ divides the lengths of all closed walks containing $x$ and similarly we can show both of them divides the length of all closed walks containing $y$ so they are both equal to the $gcd$ of all walks containing either $x$ or $y$.

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list May 3 2019 Written by Cis van Beers
Top 15 Hip Hop Concept Albums
[A concept album is an album unified by a larger purpose or meaning to the album collectively than to its tracks individually. This may be achieved through a single central narrative or theme, or through a sense of artistic cohesiveness.]
Author Jim Cullen describes a concept album as: "a collection of discrete but thematically unified songs whose whole is greater than the sum of its parts … sometimes [erroneously] assumed to be a product of the rock era." Author Roy Shuker defines concept albums as albums that are "unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical… In this form, the album changed from a collection of heterogeneous songs into a narrative work with a single theme, in which individual songs segue into one another."
We have selected the 15 best Hip Hop concept albums, with the unification of an album through a single central narrative or theme as the focal point for the compilation of this list.
Albums like OutKast's ATLiens, Raekwon's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… and De La Soul's De La Soul Is Dead almost fit the definition of a 'concept album' because of their cohesive feel accomplished through skits or themes, but they do not really have a central narrative and therefore these albums (and there are many more that can almost be considered concept albums) did not make the list. With that said, let's get into it!
15. Danger Doom - The Mouse And The Mask (2005)
Central theme/narrative: Adult Swim Cartoons.
A year after Madvillainy, the masterpiece collaboration with Madlib, underground hero MF DOOM dropped another gem on us in the form of The Mouse And The Mask, this time together with left-field producer Danger Mouse (best known for mashing The Beatles' The White Album and Jay-Z's The Black Album into The Grey Album).
MF DOOM is lyrically as strong as ever, mixing up his trademark abstract imagery with his usual intricate self-aggrandizing, this time all the way through sprinkled with cartoon references – all of it strengthened by Danger Mouse's instrumentals which definitely add to the thematic feel of the album.
Ghostface Killah, Cee-Lo Green and Talib Kweli drop by for guest verses, with especially Ghostface stealing the show on "The Mask". Other highlights are "Sofa King", "Old School" (with Talib Kweli) and the stab at former friend MF Grimm, "El Chupa Nibre".
14. Jay-Z - American Gangster (2007)
Central theme/narrative: Jay-Z chronicles his time as a street hustler, inspired by Ridley Scott's film of the same name.
American Gangster signified a definitive return to form for Jay-Z after the disappointing 2006 album Kingdom Come. According to Jay-Z himself, almost every song on American Gangster is based on a specific scene from the Ridley Scott film about the life of former drug kingpin Frank Lucas (played by a formidable-as-always Denzel Washington).
American Gangster feels like a more mature version of Jay-Z's classic debut Reasonable Doubt and is one of Jay-Z's better albums without a doubt.
13. Brotha Lynch Hung - Dinner & A Movie (2010)
Central theme/narrative: The fictional main character is the known as The Hang, a normal, everyday man who transforms into a serial killer at night, murdering rappers. It begins in an interrogation room, where the Coat Hanga Strangla is promising to confess to his crimes. The skits throughout the album tell of how the local police department are desperately trying to put a stop to the murders.
Dinner and a Movie is the first album in a trilogy of concept albums, preceding the equally excellent Coathanga Strangla (2011) and Mannibalector (2013).
Sacramento's Brotha Lynch Hung is one those rappers who is sure to polarize – you either love him or hate him. Fact is he is a skilled rapper, whether you like his subject matter or not.
Dinner & A Movie (as the other two albums in the trilogy) plays like a horror movie and should be enjoyed as such – a piece of (admittedly at times pretty sick) entertainment. Those who are able to stomach his horrorcore lyrics – and his depravity knows no limits – are in for a treat. Great production and rapping – this trilogy is dope as 'hell'.
12. Mr Lif - I Phantom (2002)
Central theme/narrative: "an exploration of the dynamics of everyday life, and the pursuit of our dreams, in a rapidly decaying society." The narrative begins with death ("A Glimpse At The Struggle") and resurrection ("Return Of The B-Boy") and ends with nuclear holocaust ("Earthcrusher," "Post-Mortem").
The cover of the album nicely sums up the lyrical content – I Phantom deals with media, government, food, religion, law, sex, violence, drugs, and money – and how these things control and run people's lives and how they are used to wipe out a person's individuality.
I Phantom is filled with excellent tracks – if you somehow missed out on this album and you want to have a taste of the album, check out the 8-minute epic "Return Of The B-Boy" (in which Mr. Lif is resurrected as a Hip Hop messiah), and you'll know what you're in for.
The thematic and narrative scope of I Phantom is incredible, and even it is heavy stuff at times, this is a brilliant album. Lyrically astute and the production to back up the poignancy of the narrative – this is an important album and one that has to be remembered.
In a year where an album like Nellyville sold over 6 million units, this Mr. Lif masterpiece went largely unnoticed. Fluf over substance – that's the world we live in and that's one of the points this album so cleverly makes.
11. Masta Ace - A Long Hot Summer (2004)
Central theme/narrative: the story follows Ace, an underground rapper through his "Long Hot Summer" in Brooklyn, accompanied by buddy Fats Belvedere. Ace ventures through the Brooklyn streets and goes out on tour with Fats as his unofficial manager.
Following the monumental Disposable Arts, A Long Hot Summer is another concept album by Masta Ace, almost as brilliant as its predecessor.
A Long Hot Summer serves as sort of a prequel to Disposable Arts. With guest appearances by Jean Grae, The Beatnuts, Big Noyd, Edo G., Punch & Words, Apocalypse, Leschea and Rahzel, A Long Hot Summer confidently manages to navigate its riveting storyline, resulting in another masterpiece for the unsung Masta Ace.
Masta Ace would conclude his unofficial trilogy of concept albums in 2016 with the excellent The Falling Season, another one of his albums that deserved to be included on this list, if only in a mention here.
10. Ghostface Killah & Adrian Younge - Twelve Reasons To Die (2013)
Central theme/narrative: Twelve Reasons To Die serves as the score to a fictive vintage Italian horror film. The album's story is set in 1960s Italy featuring an alter ego character of Ghostface Killah, Tony Starks. He is an enforcer for the DeLuca crime family, who is murdered by his former employers after striking out on his own and falling in love with the kingpin's daughter. His remains are melted in vinyl and pressed into a dozen LPs that, when played, resurrect him as the Ghostface Killah, a force for revenge incarnate.
Sounds crazy right? But it works – producer Adrain Younge goes all out here, integrating a wall of different soundscapes as the musical backdrop, merging iconic spaghetti Western film music from the likes of Ennio Morricone with haunting opera singing and 70's soul & blaxploitation vibes featuring thick bass lines and organs.
Younge's music is as much integral to the cohesiveness of the album as Ghostface's excellent lyrical performances are. Cuts like "I Declare War", "The Catastrophe" and "Beware of the Stare" are exemplary of the dopeness of this album, but it's all fire.
Twelve Reasons To Die is different and weird, but interesting and ultimately satisfying, up there with Ghostface Killah's best work – if you allow yourself to get into it.
9. MF DOOM - Mm... Food (2004)
Central theme/narrative: Food.
MF DOOM has dropped a bunch of left-field classics and dope concept albums in his career. While albums like Operation Doomsday and Madvillainy are true Hip Hop classics, they are not included on this list as they can not really be called 'concept albums' when you take the unification of an album through a single central narrative or theme as a starting criterium. Same applies more or less to DOOM's dope 2003 albums Vaudeville Villain (as Viktor Vaughn) and Take Me To Your Leader (as King Geedorah).
Mm… Food is one of those albums that can be labeled a concept album, as every track is compiled primarily of food related subject matter. The food related content works better than you might expect, particularly when DOOM uses it as a means to cleverly diss other emcees.
"Beef Rap", "Hoe Cakes", "Rapp Snitch Knishes", are some of the real DOOM bangers on this one. Creative and experimental production as always (mostly done by MF DOOM himself) and of course DOOM's conversational and complex flow and abstract lyrical imagery, make for a dope album, admittedly for people with an acquired taste.
8. The Roots - Undun (2011)
Central theme/narrative: Undun tells about the short, tragic life of fictional character Redford Stevens, set in urban poverty, and is told through a reverse-chronological narrative.
Undun is a dark and poetic masterpiece, different but intriguing. Short but (bitter)sweet, it chronicles the life and death of Redford Stephens, a fictional character who makes some bad choices in his life and ends up paying the ultimate price for it, and it tells this story in reverse – it begins with his death and works it's way back to the beginning of the story, which is the end of the album.
Few acts in Hip Hop can boast the same longevity and number of superior albums as The Roots can, and Undun certainly is up there with their best efforts – and that's saying something.
7. Sticky Fingaz - [Blacktrash] The Autobiography Of Kirk Jones (2001)
Central theme/narrative: the portrayal of the fictional Kirk Jones, a felon just released from prison who is now struggling to come to terms with life outside jail.
The greatest Hip Hop album you have never heard. Or have you? Either way – this is one criminally underrated album, easily one 2001's finest.
Blacktrash tells us the story of Sticky Fingaz' maniacal alter ego Kirk Jones and the trials and tribulations he went through. The album plays like a movie and lyrically Sticky Fingaz has never been this good, however dope his work with Onyx has been throughout the years.
With guest appearances from Eminem, Canibus and Raekwon (and others) the album has no shortage of star power, but the true star here is Sticky Fingaz / Kirk Jones. Blacktrash is a perfectly executed concept album which deserves a place in any self-respecting Hip Hop fans music collection.
6. CunninLynguists - A Piece Of Strange (2006)
Central theme/narrative: A Piece Of Strange follows the story of a man and those closest to him in their struggles with right and wrong, love and hate, faith and sin.
The third album from the underrated CunninLynguists is a masterpiece from start to finish. Much darker and denser than their more light-hearted and fun first two albums, A Piece Of Strange takes us on a journey following the story of a man and those closest to him in their struggles with right and wrong, love and hate, while at the same time exploring the religion and racism that were (and are) so prevalent in the south. The 16 songs contain loose connections with certain defined Biblical numerics and their interpretations. In Kno's own words:
"This album is not meant to be overtly Christian in theme or presentation, but more so delivering an amoral slant to a storyline communicated through Hip Hop. Deacon's life growing up as the son of a preacher definitely led us to some of the insights and story molding that went on when we were making and recording the album, but as most moderate Christians will tell you…you have to relate the material as generally as possible without preaching and talking down to people. APOS wasn't meant to teach faith-infused lessons necessarily, but simply to deliver a story."
A Piece Of Strange offers excellent production and clever lyrics – the whole album is as good as it gets. Standouts tracks aplenty, but cuts like Brain Cell and Nothing To Give especially shine. Don't sleep folks, this truly is a landmark album.
5. Little Brother - The Minstrel Show (2005)
Central theme/narrative: The Minstrel Show follows a fictional television network called "UBN" (U Black Niggas Network), which is a satire of stereotypical programs and advertisements for African Americans. Many of the skits contain tongue-in-cheek references to black pop-culture in the United States.
After their incredible debut The Listening, 9th Wonder, Phonte, and Big Pooh dropped another flawless album on us with The Minstrel Show. Another one of those albums that received widespread critical acclaim, but no radio play – as it was not about guns, money, and bitches but rather about intelligence and upliftment. Clever rhymes, dope beats, and HEART, this is Hip Hop as it is supposed to be.
With Common's BE, Ohmega Watts' The Find and Atmosphere's You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having, The Minstrel Show is one of 2005's very best albums, no doubt about it.
4. Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030 (2000)
Central theme/narrative: The album's story casts Del in the role of Deltron Zero, a disillusioned mech soldier and interplanetary computer prodigy rebelling against a 31st-century New World Order. In a world where evil oligarchs suppress both human rights and Hip Hop, Del fights rap battles against a series of foes, becoming Galactic Rhyme Federation Champion. To celebrate, Del takes a trip back to Earth for a vacation, but is ambushed by his enemies and has his memory wiped, plunging the world back into darkness.
Simply brilliant. One of the best concept albums ever created, this collaboration between producer Dan the Automator (as The Cantankerous Captain Aptos), rapper Del the Funky Homosapien (as Deltron Zero/Deltron Osiris), and DJ Kid Koala (as Skiznod the Boy Wonder) is as timeless a piece of music as it gets.
A challenging listen maybe, but ultimately extremely rewarding – a milestone not just for Hip Hop, but for music in general.
3. Masta Ace - Disposable Arts (2001)
Central theme/narrative: Disposable Arts follows a young Brooklyn man's release from prison, his return home, and his life at "The Institute of Disposable Arts", a school in which Ace enrolls after realizing how bad the situation in Brooklyn is.
Masta Ace is one of those few artists who are able to keep reinventing themselves while turning out consistent quality. This album is no exception. Ever since his 1990 debut album Take A Look Around Masta Ace has been one of Hip Hop's greatest talents, who was always able to capture the true essence of Hip Hop in all his work.
Disposable Arts offers excellent production and clever wordplay; from Masta Ace himself and guests like Rah Digga, Jean Grae, Greg Nice, Punchline, Wordsworth and more.
This album arguably is Masta Ace's magnum opus, although the sequel/prequel A Long Hot Summer is almost as formidable.
2. Prince Paul - A Prince Of Thieves (1999)
Central theme/narrative: A Prince Of Thieves follows the story of an aspiring young emcee named Tariq, played by Juggaknots emcee Breezly Brewin, who needs to collect money to record a demo tape before a meeting with Wu-Tang Clan leader RZA. The story follows a desperate Tariq, who quits his low-paying job and turns to his friend True, played by emcee Big Sha, who introduces him to drug dealing. The two make their way through the drug world, a police ambush, jail, and, finally, a deadly showdown.
The ultimate Hip Hop concept album? A Prince Among Thieves, sometimes dubbed the first 'rap opera', features cameos by Kool Keith, Big Daddy Kane, Chubb Rock, Biz Markie, De La Soul, Everlast, Sadat X, Xzibit, Kid Creole, Special Ed, Chris Rock, RZA and Buckshot. Fresh beats and dope rhymes throughout – without a doubt this is one of the best concept albums in Hip Hop, ever.
1. Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octagonecologyst (1996)
Central theme/narrative: the life and times of Dr. Octagon
Dr. Octagonecologyst introduces the character of Dr. Octagon, a homicidal, hypersexual, extraterrestrial, time-traveling gynecologist, and surgeon. Dr. Octagon's history is detailed throughout the album's songs, skits, and samples.
According to Mickey Hess, author of Is Hip Hop Dead? The Past, Present, and Future of America's Most-Wanted Music:
"The album's beginning and ending tie together the stories of the fictional character Dr. Octagon and the rap career of Kool Keith Thornton himself: We begin with '3000' and end with '1977,' which purports to be an audio recording from an early rap performance by Kool Keith … announcing a 1977 rap show featuring … pioneers Grandmaster Flash, Kool Herc, the L Brothers, and the original scratch creator Grand Wizzard Theodore [sic]. The message is clear: Kool Keith is a part of Hip Hop history, and even as rap moves on to the future, Dr. Octagon does not replace Kool Keith."
Is this Kool Keith's best album (outside Ultramagnetic's debut Critical Beatdown)? In a catalog as deep and diverse as Kool Keith's is, it may be hard to choose – but Dr. Octagonecologyst arguably is his magnum opus.
An all-time underground favorite, Dr. Octagonecologyst simply is a perfect album. The concept works, the album flows perfectly and the production by Dan The Automater is absolutely phenomenal – innovative, eery, spaced-out: the instrumentals provide the perfect backdrop for Kool Keith's trademark bizarre lyrics.
Dr. Octagonecologyst provided a new benchmark in pushing the limits of Hip Hop and has rarely been surpassed since its release in 1996.
Aceyalone – A Book Of Human Language (1998)
Handsome Boy Modeling School – So… How's Your Girl (1999)
Lupe Fiasco – The Cool (2007)
eMC – The Show (2008)
Plug 1 & Plug 2 Present… First Serve (2012)
Kendrick Lamar – Good Kid M.A.A.D. City (2012)
Masta Ace – Things Fall Apart (2016)
Written by Cis van Beers
HHGA founder. Hip Hop historian. Proud dad. Top 10 favorite MCs: Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, KRS One, Kool G Rap, Kool Keith, Pharoahe Monch, Percee P, R.A. The Rugged Man, Black Thought, Murs.…
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4 responses to "Top 15 Hip Hop Concept Albums"
Parker Jamieson says:
Not even an honorable mention for The Incredible True Story? That album had amazing voice acting and a great message behind it, great storytelling, and nice raps and flows to go with it.
Brian J Bruckner says:
Where are Public Enemy's "Fear of a Black Planet" & "Muse Sick n our Mess Age!!??" And BDP's "Edutainment" & "Sex n Violence????" WHERE IS PAUL'S BOUTIQUE?????? THIS LIST IS GARBAGE!!!!
Cis van Beers says:
Relax. All great albums, just wouldn't label any of them as 'concept albums'.
All b.s. this is what happens when nerds control the narrative of hip Hop. Lupe fiasco has the best concept albums.


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Home News The Digital Age and the EC proposal for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Regulation
The Digital Age and the EC proposal for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Regulation
Considering that the innovative, technological development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has globally skyrocketed throughout the years, it has become very important for the European Commission (EC) to take a closer look at the safety of AI technology.
On 21 April 2021 the European Commission proposed safety rules and actions, focused on Artificial Intelligence, with the purpose of harmonising the AI systems safety rules. Based on the Commission's 2020 study "A Europe fit for the Digital Age", the Commission proposed the following regulations:
A proposal for the first legal code ever
drafted on this subject
A proposal for the adapted
Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC
What are the aims of the proposed Regulations?
By proposing the AI Regulation the Commission aims to ensure the safety of people and businesses, as well as to inspire the growth and innovation of AI. It is, therefore, important that the right standards are developed to make sure that AI is safe and secure. This policy is further extended into the proposal for the Machinery Regulation.
In short, the AI Regulation will centre its attention on the safety risks of AI systems, while the Machinery Regulation will also focus on the safe integration of AI systems into machinery.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) refers to software applications that generate data (output) which influence its surroundings. These data may include content (e.g., of a website), predictions (e.g., weather forecasts), decisions (e.g., after voting online), and recommendations (e.g., after taking an exam). An AI system can be either a component of a product (imbedded software) or a product on its own (stand-alone software).
The AI Regulation proposal in a nutshel
In our daily routines we are often confronted with Artifical Intelligence in all kinds of areas, such as transport (e.g., your car gadgets), cyber security (e.g., on your computer), or health (e,g., a robot-assisted surgical device). Since there are also risks involved in the use of these systems, the EC aims to set the highest safety standards possible, at the same time tending to make Europe a global centre of first-rate AI.
AI definition from a risk-based approach
In view of the various risks involved in the application of the different AI products, while targeting at minimizing future problems with the AI (a future-proof approach), the Commission has made the following risk-based classification of AI technology:
Unacceptable risk High risk Limited risk (low risk)Minimal risk
That presents a clear threat to a person's safety, livelihood or right, e.g., applications that manipulate human behaviour, such as an interactive toy that evokes dangerous behaviour in children.
Which is a safety component (imbedded or not) that can present serious risks to the safety and health or fundamental rights of a person, e.g.:
critical infrastructure that could present danger to a person's life, e.g., in transport;
educational training, determining a person's educational level or professional career, e.g., test scores;
safety components of products, e.g., in robot-assisted automotive industry;
employment management, e.g., CV-software for recruitment procedures;
essential private and public services, e.g., keeping credit scores for citizens linked with the possibility to request a loan;
law enforcement that may influence a person's basic rights, e.g., the analysis of evidence;
migration, asylum and border control management, e.g., the verification of travel documents;
the administration of justice and democratic processes, e.g., when applying a legal procedure to a specific course of action.
That requires transparency, e.g., a software application with a chat option, i.e., a person should be aware that he is communicating with a software program.
Used in most applications, such as video games.
Conformity assessment of AI systems
Based on the classification in Table 1, the EC has outlined the necessary steps to be taken in case a manufacturer or provider intends to place an AI system on the market and/or put it into service.
Unacceptable riskHigh riskLimited risk (low risk) and Minimal risk
Title II, article 5 of the AI Regulation proposal refers to "prohibited ArtificIal Intelligence practices" that cause physical or psychological/manipulative harm (please be referred to Table 1). These AI systems will be banned, which means that these will not be placed on the market or put into use.
According to Title III, Chapter V, article 43, paragraph 1, one out of two types of conformity assessment procedures may be applicable to a high-risk AI system:
a conformity assessment procedure based on internal control (Annex VI),
a conformity assessment procedure, requiring a Notified Body and based on assessment of the quality management system and assessment of the technical documentation (Annex VII).
The option depends on the type of AI system, as well as whether or not a Notified Body is involved.
Both types of conformity procedures are broadly discussed in Chapter V, as well as the accompanying Annexes.
According to Title IX, article 69, paragraph 1, the EC and the Member States will support businesses that intend to place AI systems other than high-risk AI systems on the market, in drawing up codes of conduct , in order to have them voluntarily apply the mandatory requirements of high-risk AI systems (Title III, Chapter 2) to their non-high-risk AI systems.
The European Commission opted for a regulation instead of a directive. This will enable a speedier and more accurate legal implementation. Contrary to a directive that first must be transposed by enforcing similar laws and rules in each separate Member State, a regulation will be applicable immediately in all Member States. In this manner, the EC aims to maintain the consistency and conformity of AI technology.
The AI Regulation proposal will now (together with the Machinery Regulation proposal) be discussed by the European Parliament.
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The increasing international trade in rooted plants and the continual introduction of new varieties and/or species exposes nurseries, with particular emphasis on the potted ornamentals, to new host−pathogen combinations and creates new disease threats. Invasive pathogens have been frequently found on ornamental plants and their trade is considered a primary driver of new disease outbreaks since it causes large-scale distribution of pathogens beyond their natural endemic ranges with severe socio-economic impact
The water mold genus Phytophthora contains 140 species that are pathogens of dicotyledons. They are plant pathogens of considerable economic importance capable of causing enormous economic losses on crops worldwide, as well as environmental damage in natural ecosystems.
Both the identification of known and the discovery of new Phytophthora speces is difficult due to the limits of conventional culturing and bating methods. As a consequence, several invasive and previously unknown species have been identified only when it was too late and they already caused severe damage in nonnative environments.
In a recent study, Phytophthora diversity was analyzed in potted ornamental plant nurseries using genus specific primers combined with the Sanger sequencing of cloned amplicons. The analyses highlighted a complex assemblage of Phytophthora species with new host−pathogen combinations, evidence of species previously unreported in the investigated area, and phylotypes representative of species that remain to be taxonomically defined
A new study now investigated the power and reliability of a metabarcoding approach based on genus-specific primers and the 454 platform as it is considered more powerful and less costly which is needed if one is looking at broad testing. The colleagues used soil and root samples from potted ornamental nurseries, already analyzed as part of the former study.
The study indicates that the use of genus-specific primers combined with 454 is a very useful approach to investigate Phytophthora diversity in different ecosystems. Compared to the Sanger approach, it enabled deeper sequencing at a fraction of the time and cost. According to the authors several aspects confirmed the reliability of the method:
many identical sequence types were identified independently in different nurseries,
most sequence types identified with 454 pyrosequencing were identical to those from the cloning/Sanger sequencing approach and/or perfectly matched GenBank deposited sequences, and
the divergence noted between sequence types of putative new Phytophthora species and all other detected sequences was sufficient to rule out sequencing errors.


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Home Awards Hip Hop Superstar Nelly to Perform at Face Forward Gala and Speaks...
Hip Hop Superstar Nelly to Perform at Face Forward Gala and Speaks Out Against Domestic Violence
Face Forward Celebrates 7th Annual Gala at Vibiana on September 24, 2016
(Los Angeles-CA) Face Forward, a charity that provides pro-bono reconstructive surgery for victims of domestic violence, and human trafficking announces that Grammy winning, diamond selling artist, Nelly will be performing a high energy set at their upcoming gala event. The famed rapper's girlfriend Shantel Jackson was a victim and survivor of domestic abuse, and Nelly himself was exposed to domestic violence as a child. "I have daughters and I wouldn't want them to go through this. I hope I have raised both my sons and daughters to know how to treat people of the opposite sex, and know what healthy relationships look like. It's up to my generation and the ones that follow, to take a stand against domestic violence and inspire change."
On September 24th, 2016 Face Forward, an inspirational charity giving survivors a second chance at leaving external scars and stigmas behind by providing complimentary reconstructive surgery, will host its most important fundraising and awareness-building event of the year. The Seventh Annual Gala, "Havana Nights" will take place at beautiful Vibiana, in Historic Downtown L.A., where it will raise funds with a goal of $500,000 to support new patient costs and aftercare expenses for 2017. The evening will feature Cuban infused cuisine by Bravo's Top Chef Master and Iron Chef, Neal Fraser, Latin inspired music, dance and décor.
CEO/Founder of Face Forward, Deborah Alessi is a survivor of domestic abuse and a true advocate of this worthy cause. To assist other survivors to get a second chance at life, Mrs. Alessi recruited her husband and renowned facial reconstructive surgeon Dr. David Alessi M.D., who said, "Deborah and I are humbled by the continuous and growing support for our annual philanthropic event. Our wish is to draw attention to the atrocity of the worldwide problems of domestic violence and human trafficking. Face Forward's annual gala fundraising efforts enable us to help even more victims in their journey to achieve both physical and emotional healing and recovery. This year has been exceptional for us with amazing patients and exciting new partnerships which will help us raise awareness and funds to help even more survivors."
The gala event will recognize all star athlete and NBA head coach Byron Scott as one of the evening's celebrity athlete honorees for his philanthropic work and his pledge to help recruit athletes to learn and spread the word about domestic violence. Shantel Jackson will receive an honor as a Survivor/Advocate, other special guests and honorees to be announced shortly.
Event Sponsors Include: Etihad Airways, Roberto Cavalli, Alessi Institute, Torrey Pines Bank and Per Aquum Niyama Maldives
Tickets for the gala can be purchased at: https://faceforward.ticketleap.com/HAVANA/
Past performers, hosts and attendees have included: Chaka Kahn, Macy Gray, "Sugar" Shane Mosley, Brian McKnight, Marcia Gay Harden, Lana Parrilla, Gloria Allred, Sharon Stone, Tom Arnold, Anna Silk, Entertainment Tonight's Kevin Frasier, KTLA's Lu Parker, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Jennifer Coolidge, and La Toya Jackson.
Since its creation in 2007, Face Forward has worked with community leaders around the world to identify victims of violence who are working toward recovery yet carry the burdening physical evidence of past abuse. Face Forward does more than just provide pro bono reconstructive surgery to adults and children who have suffered traumatic and severe physical abuse; they also create a welcoming and safe environment for these survivors to start a fresh new life, and reclaim their confidence. The organization co-founders Mrs. Deborah and Dr. David Alessi both donate their time and skills 100% to the organization to provide Face Forward patients with the necessary surgeries and counseling services. Funds raised by the organization help with ancillary costs, travel expenses for patients including air fare, accommodations and transportation, nursing aftercare and more. Face Forward treats patients from around the world, and currently brings all patients for treatment to their office in Beverly Hills.
Domestic violence is a serious issue affecting 1 in 4 women and more than 4 million women in the US alone. The night will focus on celebrating survivors of domestic violence and human trafficking, raising money via donations, and live & silent auctions. The powerhouse-packed event will feature a stunning cocktail reception, complete with entertainment from the moment guests step out of their cars, a seated dinner, silent & live auctions, dancers and live musical performances, and "Havana Nights" inspired ambiance. Following the dinner will be the awards ceremony honoring individuals that have made a significant difference in this arena.
Multi-platinum, Grammy award-winning rap superstar, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and actor, Nelly, has continually raised the bar for the entertainment industry since stepping on the scene in 2000 with his distinctive vocals and larger-than-life personality. That year, his debut album, Country Grammar, landed Nelly four Grammy Award nominations and sold over nine million copies worldwide recently achieving diamond status. Nelly kept the momentum going with the 2002 release of Nellyville. The album debuted at #1 on top of scoring Nelly his first two Grammy Awards for "Hot in Here" – Best Male Rap Solo Performance – and "Dilemma" [feat. Kelly Rowland] – Best Rap Song Collaboration. He has since gone on to win multiple American Music Awards, a Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award, Soul Train Music Awards, MTV Video Music Awards, and was crowned "Top Pop, Rap, and R&B/Hip-Hop Artist of the Year" by Billboard. Topping Hip Hop Charts, Country Charts and Pop charts makes him one of the most versatile music artists in the industry. In particular, "Hot in Herre " has stood the test of time having recently debuted at No. 6 on Billboard & Clio's Top Commercials chart, powered by Shazam, with "HandClap." 2013-2016 brought top singles "Cruise" reached diamond status, "The Fix" sampling Marvin Gaye, and summer sixteens dance anthem "Millionaire" with Cash Cash and Digital Animal Farm. The St. Louis native released his seventh full-length album in 2013, M.O. [Republic Records] featuring guest appearances by Nicki Minaj, Pharrell, Future, T.I., and 2 Chainz as well as production powerhouses Rico Love (Beyonce, Usher) and Detail (Lil Wayne, T-Pain). In 2016, Nelly was featured in an unique opportunity to perform alongside the country's most prestigious orchestras including St. Louis, Columbus and Pittsburgh garnering great reviews. Nelly has performed on NBC's The Voice, The American Music Awards, ABC's Greatest Hits and served as a judge on CW's The Next. The music mogul has also left his mark in other aspects of the industry, introducing his hugely successful women's clothing line, Apple Bottoms, men's clothing line, Vokal, Pimp Juice energy drink and is part owner of the Charlotte Bobcats. In 2005, he made his big screen debut in the Adam Sandler and Chris Rock hit remake, The Longest Yard and in starred in Reach Me with Sylvester Stone 2014. Nelly joined the cast of the #1-rated BET sitcom The Real Husbands of Hollywood in 2013 and just announced the second season of his own show, Nellyville. Nelly also has strong philanthropic ties with Make a Wish, Face Forward and in 2003, he and his late sister Jackie Donahue diagnosed with leukemia, hosted the largest African American bone marrow drive to date. Currently he is the only rapper/music artist to own his own college, EI University, which provides education surrounding the music industry while Nelly himself provides scholarships.
About Face Forward:
Face Forward founder and CEO Mrs. Deborah Alessi founded Face Forward in 2007. Mrs. Alessi is a survivor of domestic violence and a true advocate of this worthy cause. To help other survivors get a second chance at life, Mrs. Alessi recruited her husband and renowned facial reconstructive surgeon Dr. David Alessi. The couple works constantly to help victims 'face forward' to the rest of their lives. Face Forward is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Since its creation, Face Forward has worked with other advocates around the world to identify victims of domestic violence and human trafficking who are working towards recovery, yet carry the physical evidence of past abuse. Face Forward does more than just provide pro bono reconstructive surgery to adults and children who have suffered from traumatic and physical abuse; they also create a welcoming and safe environment for the victims to start a new life and reclaim their confidence. Domestic violence occurs every 9 seconds in the United States, and 75 percent receive battering to their face and head area. Victims of human trafficking are subject to physical and psychological abuse on a daily basis, including broken bones, burns and brain injuries, 75 percent suffer from mental health issues such as depression and PTSD. Face Forward strives to alleviate the internal and external scars of victims and those affected, and provides treatment to victims who are not otherwise able to afford medical assistance. FaceForwardLA.org
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Meghan Markle's Speech About Women's Suffrage Is A Stirring Reminder Of Why Voting Matters — VIDEO
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The Duchess of Sussex has given her royal seal of approval to the people of New Zealand. During Meghan Markle's speech about women's right to vote on Sunday, Oct. 28 — in honor of the 125th anniversary of women's suffrage in New Zealand — the royal said "bravo" and expressed her admiration and appreciation for "the women who well deserve to have an active voice and acknowledged vote," as well as stressing the major impact the first nation to pass women's suffrage has had globally over the years.
While in New Zealand as part of the final leg of her and Prince Harry's 16-day royal tour (which also included recent visits to Australia, Fiji, and Tonga), Markle stood in front of a portrait of Queen Elizabeth at the Government House in Wellington, and addressed the crowd of dignitaries:
"Yes, women's suffrage is about feminism, but feminism is about fairness. Suffrage is not simply about the right to vote but also about what that represents: the basic and fundamental human right of being able to participate in the choices for your future and that of your community, the involvement and voice that allows you to be a part of the very world that you are a part of."
Markle, who is expecting a baby in the spring with Prince Harry, also paid homage to New Zealanders by opening her speech with a formal Maori greeting, and she also accessorized her black Gabriela Hearst dress with a necklace that featured a traditional Maori design, according to People. Additionally, the Duchess closed her remarks by quoting Kate Sheppard, one of the New Zealand women's suffrage movement's key figures: "All that separates — whether of race, class, creed or sex — is inhuman and must be overcome."
In the audience for the speech (aside from Prince Harry, of course) were Governor Dame Patsy Reddy and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who recently had a major feminist — and historical — moment when she brought her then-3-month-old daughter to the United Nations General Assembly for the Nelson Mandela Peace Summit in September. (Markle is also an United Nations ambassador for women.)
Ardern was also on-hand to meet the Duke and Duchess at the Wellington airport upon their arrival in the country earlier in the day. Maori elders also greeted the royals with a traditional hongi greeting, which involved touching noses and foreheads. Prior to Markle's speech, she and Prince Harry also met with local schoolchildren and also laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior.
Just one day earlier, the royal couple also both gave speeches to close the 2018 Invictus Games in Sydney, Australia. In Markle's speech, she talked about how inspired she was by the competitors in the week-long event (founded by her husband in 2014) for wounded, injured, and sick servicemen and women. Prince Harry echoed those sentiments and also stressed the importance of mental health awareness.
As evidenced in Markle's latest women's suffrage speech in New Zealand — as well as her extensive past charity work — the importance of feminism and women's rights clearly remains paramount for the new royal.


61. In 2015, by co-sponsoring Human Rights Council resolution 30/1, the Government of Sri Lanka recognized the need to address the past in order to build a brighter future, grounded in accountability, respect for human rights and the rule of law. The lack of decisive steps to that end, and of appropriate communication, has generated widespread frustration. The lack of accountability for past actions likely contributed to the return of violence against minorities in March 2018, and played a role in undermining the principles of democracy and the rule of law in October and November 2018.
62. The High Commissioner notes the constructive engagement of the Government of Sri Lanka with OHCHR and United Nations human rights mechanisms since January 2015. The Government has made progress in human rights issues and its engagement with civil society in some areas. Progress in its commitments to transitional justice has, however, been inconsistent and subject to considerable delay, partly because of the lack of a time-bound comprehensive strategy. Such important achievements as the establishment of the Office on Missing Persons and the Office for Reparations, and the national consultations have been neither adequately supported by the political leadership nor sufficiently linked to the accountability and truth-seeking components that should be at the core of the reconciliation and accountability agenda. The High Commissioner nonetheless praises the commitment of and efforts made by some A/HRC/40/23 officials, particularly in several ministries, the Secretariat for Coordinating Reconciliation Mechanisms, the Office on Missing Persons, the Office for National Unity and Reconciliation and the Human Rights Commission, who have relentlessly endeavoured to push the human rights and reconciliation agenda forward.
63. The importance of the separation of powers, the independence of the judiciary and other checks and balances in a democratic society was highlighted by a number of situations in 2018. The judiciary and independent commissions, including the Human Rights Commission, continue to play a vital role in strengthening reforms and cementing good governance in Sri Lanka.
64. The lack of progress shows that the situation of human rights in Sri Lanka should remain firmly on the agenda of the Human Rights Council. The High Commissioner therefore urges the Council to remain closely engaged with the Government of Sri Lanka and to continue to monitor developments in the country.
65. In particular, the High Commissioner highlights the recommendations below, and reiterates some already made in previous reports.
(d) Invite the Special Rapporteur on truth, justice, reparations and guarantees of non-recurrence to continue the engagement under his mandate in the above-mentioned process; the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment to examine allegations of torture and related human rights violations; and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict to visit Sri Lanka and to provide expert advice, including on relevant reforms.
(e) Support the independent commissions, fully respect their independence, and take into account their recommendations.
(h) Promptly investigate and prosecute all allegations of torture and other gross human rights violations, and give the highest priority to long-standing emblematic cases so as to regain public confidence in the justice system.
(b) Provide the Office on Missing Persons with sufficient resources and technical means to effectively fulfil its mandate, including specific forensic capacity and clear coordination protocols with the judiciary; and take interim relief measures for families of disappeared persons, regardless of their right to comprehensive reparations.
(b) Apply stringent vetting procedures to Sri Lankan police and military personnel in the selection of persons for peacekeeping operations, military exchanges and training programmes.
(b) Investigate and prosecute, wherever possible, in particular in accordance with universal jurisdiction principles, those allegedly responsible for such violations as torture, enforced disappearance, war crimes or crimes against humanity; and explore other options to advance accountability in the absence of credible domestic processes.
(c) Continue to accompany the people of Sri Lanka in their efforts to address past human rights violations by supporting the establishment of adequate systems of accountability, justice and reconciliation.


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Bremer trust invests in Minneapolis public housing
The Otto Bremer Trust awarded a $100,000 grant and a $500,000 low-interest loan to the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority (MPHA). MPHA will use the loan to support housing authority operations for its 6,000 public housing units and will use the grant to fund construction of the 16-unit Minnehaha Townhomes, slated to open in 2019.
Grand Opening of El Segundo and 127th Street Apartments
The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles alongside partner Meta Housing Corporation, opened El Segundo Apartments and 127th Street Apartments in Harbor Gateway, two new communities offering a combined 160 units of permanent supportive housing for formerly homeless families and individuals.
Ribbon Cutting of Watts Empowerment Center Sports Complex
The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA), partner Red Eye, Inc., and celebrity guests celebrated the opening of the Watts Empowerment Center Sports Complex at HACLA's Imperial Courts community with basketball games, soccer matches, a slam dunk contest, and other activities.
City coming together for affordable housing solutions
Fort Worth Housing Solutions (FWHS)President Mary-Margaret Lemons penned an op-ed in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram about FWHS's efforts to increase the city's affordable housing options, such as their utilization of the RAD program.
DCHA Officials Cut the Ribbon to New Affordable Homes at the Residences at Hayes Street
The District of Columbia Housing Authority (DCHA) and partners cut the ribbon on the Residences at Hayes Street, a 150-unit affordable housing community constructed with help from a $2 million DCHA loan. DCHA will also provide nearly $241,000 annually in rent subsidies to residents.
Housing Hope: Affordable housing proposal to address homelessness (Oklahoma City Housing Authority)
From The Oklahoman:
When it comes to addressing homelessness, service providers believe Oklahoma City is at a tipping point.
Housing costs are rising. Serious mental health disorders are a continuing problem. Substance abuse plagues communities. Social services are strapped for funding.
If left unaddressed, these factors bring about long-term crises comparable to the significant housing and homelessness issues in cities like Denver and San Francisco, said Ian Colgan, assistant executive director of the Oklahoma City Housing Authority.
"In those cases, the government wasn't quick enough to get ahead of those issues," Colgan said. "But we are in a position where we can still get ahead, which is really unique in American cities."
And to get ahead, organizations like the housing authority, the Homeless Alliance and Mental Health Oklahoma plan to take a $50 million investment from MAPS 4, leverage over $400 million in outside funding and reshape public housing in Oklahoma City.
Read The Oklahoman's article "Housing Hope: Affordable housing proposal to address homelessness," featuring the Oklahoma City Housing Authority.
New help for homeless (Lucas Metropolitan Housing Authority)
From the Toledo Blade:
After a year of drifting leaderless, Toledo-Lucas County Homelessness Board has a new director who has proven herself as a devoted community advocate and is a good fit for the job.
Rachel Gagnon, the former chief operating officer for Sunshine Communities, was named the new executive director for a restructured entity.
Along with hiring Ms. Gagnon, the board has nine new appointed members and a new formal partnership with the Lucas Metropolitan Housing Authority, all of which should offer some new stability.
Read the Toledo Blade's article "New help for homeless," featuring the Lucas Metropolitan Housing Authority.
New mixed-income apartments open in Pendleton Heights with a focus on local artists (Housing Authority of Kansas City, MO)
From FOX4 News Kansas City:
By the end of the month, Pendleton Arts Block will be filled with tenants. It's Kansas City's newest mixed-income living space.
"This will be a new neighborhood for me. I came from St. Joseph, Mo. Now I'm relocating back here," freelance artist and new tenant Shamari Robbs said.
Although you don't have to be an artist to live here, they've designated some space for creative tenants. It's one of the building's main draws.
"We're calling it a commercial area, but it's really designated for the artists," said Edwin Lowndes, executive director of KC's Housing Authority. "Some are going to be artisan residents that actually have their own apartment here and other artists from the neighborhood."
The development was partly funded by a $30 million grant from Housing and Urban Development to redevelop an old housing project. Kansas City was one of five cities selected to receive the money.
Read FOX4 News Kansas City's article "New mixed-income apartments open in Pendleton Heights with a focus on local artists," featuring the Housing Authority of Kansas City, MO.
News Update: Spotlight on Partnerships (Fresno Housing Authority)
From the Fresno Housing Authority's newsletter:
A letter from our Chief of Staff and Director of Strategic Initiatives & Housing Programs
Each year, as we approach the Thanksgiving holiday, I like to take time to reflect on what we as an organization are truly thankful for—our partners. I know I speak for our entire team when I say we are proud of the work we do, which includes engaging and empowering residents in their neighborhoods by providing stable, quality housing and connections to community resources. This work would not be possible without the support and efforts of our valued community partners. We are fortunate to work with local partners whose services and resources align with our core mission of creating and sustaining vibrant communities throughout Fresno County.
Our partnerships allow us to provide all Fresno Housing residents with services and resources that help put them on the path to success. We empower our residents by connecting them to partner-led job training, such as our free solar panel installation courses provided in partnership with GRID Alternatives Central Valley. We also partner with Sherwin-Williams to host a series of paint training courses that provide our residents with the opportunity to obtain an industry certification through a mix of classroom-based instruction and hands-on training. These programs provide the training needed to help position participants for success in the job market.
Read the Fresno Housing Authority's newsletter.
Submitted: $35M grant application for Stop Six (Fort Worth Housing Solutions)
From Fort Worth Housing Solutions' newsletter:
After months of public meetings and planning, Fort Worth Housing Solutions submitted a $35 million HUD Choice Neighborhood Grant application in early November. HUD's review process is expected to take about six months. If we win the grant, it will jump-start the transformation of Cavile Place and surrounding neighborhood.
Read FWHS's newsletter.


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It turns on the basement heater blower fan. It works in conjunction with the furnace to keep the area around the tanks warm.
I tried to run my blower one cold night and it made so much noise I was afraid I'd disturb the neighbors so I shut it down. Any suggestions on why it is so noisy?
Mark, you can check your heat outlet in the bay. The tin foil pipe vent in compartment, third one to the rear from LP gas tank, about a foot back from outlet you will see fan motor that cycles with furnace on and off if your switch is on in water bay. You may have something caught in fan, I had a mouse macerated in the barrel fan of furnace made for a loud squeel when it happened and fried remains on burner tubes. Scared the he!!! out of wife an sister inlaw. One could be setting up shop in tube or you may have crushed something against tube, don't see how fan is protected by metal plates on either side. "007"
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Vkworld Mix Plus is a mid-range bezel-less phone released in August. After half a year, vkworld is going to launch its successor--vkworld Mix3. Actually,Mix3 is the former Mix2 we know a couple of months ago. Because of new technologies and features, the phone has some changes. So vkworld changed the name to Mix3.
Mix3 will also feature a 5.99 inch 2160*1080 display with in-cell technology. The display will pack will sunlight mode, which can boost the brightness up to over 600nit in sunlight. So you can see the screen clearly. Also it will integrate with glove mode.
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More preview on the specs reveals that the Mix3 will come with 6G RAM and 128G ROM, with a 2.5GHz octa-core processor and a 5000mAh battery. Vkworld Mix3 will be release in Q1 2018. And vkworld suggests that it will be the most affordable 6G RAM+128G ROM full-screen phone.
More information about this device will be published in my subsequent posts. Watch out for the PRICE!
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'The Story of Conscription' by Leslie C. Jauncey
1968 reprint with foreword by Patrick O'Farrell, 1935 original text, 365 p.
Even though I have an ambivalent relationship with the tsunami of commemorative activities related with WWI, there may be a little flurry of book reviews related to the 1916/7 Conscription debates over the next month or so. As part of my work with Heidelberg Historical Society, I write a feature in our newsletter that looks at the Heidelberg-Ivanhoe district a hundred years ago. In December 1917 the second 'referendum' about conscription was held, and I'm speaking to our December meeting about how this Australia-wide political event played out at the local level a hundred years ago. Hence, my interest in conscription over the last year or so though historic walks (see here and here), a conference and the books in which I'm immersing myself at the moment.
A year ago I attended the launch of recently-published The Conscription Conflict and the Great War, which I reported here. I finally started reading it this week (books sit around on my desk for a long time!) In the introduction it was noted that there was little discussion of the conscription conflict as a distinctively Australian experience, and that "there has been no book length treatment of the conflict since Leslie Jauncey's effort to document some of the key actors, development and sources in 1935″(p.6). Well, I thought, I don't know anything of what Jauncey said, so I shut The Conscription Conflict and chased down Jauncey's book The Story of Conscription in Australia instead. After all, if a book is offering "new interpretations", perhaps I should know what the old interpretations were first.
Jauncey? Where have I read that name before? Then I remembered that it was a section on the Honest History website, where various authors took on the mantle of blogging as Jauncey. As well as writing The Story of Conscription, Jauncey also wrote about the Commonwealth Bank, visited Russia, lived in America and was of interest to the FBI as a possible (but unproved) Communist. What is interesting about this 1935 book is that it was republished with a foreword by Patrick O'Farrell (historian of the Irish and the Catholic Church in Australia) in 1968, during the Vietnam war when conscription was again to become so controversial. This foreword, now itself nearly 50 years old, criticizes the book for its one-sidedness (a very valid criticism) but also for its downplaying of factors in 1916/7 that were seen in 1968 to be far more significant than Jauncey suggested: most particularly, the role of the Catholic Church, farmers concerned about their labour supply and the socialist and industrial movements.
I'm not sure that Jauncey dismissed these factors as much as O'Farrell accused him of doing in 1968, but it is certainly true that Jauncey's approach privileged the religion-based groups who opposed compulsion, both in relation to conscription and to the Compulsory Military Training scheme which preceded it. As O'Farrell points out, Jauncey draws heavily on a book published in 1919 by J. F. Hills and John P. Fletcher, members of the Society of Friends (Quakers), called Conscription Under Camouflage. In this post-war book, Hills and Fletcher had compiled newspaper clippings, pamphlets and official materials relating to compulsory military training, which they and the Australian Freedom League (formed 1912) opposed, even before the commencement of WWI.
It is this approach based on document-collection that Jauncey takes up in The Story of Conscription in Australia. As Jauncey writes near the end of the book:
Those people in Australia who have during the past twenty-five years collected valuable data on militarism and suppression should pool their priceless information so that it might be available at a minute's notice. To-day [i.e in 1935] this material lies scattered all over Australia, being in cellars, lofts, sheds, and other places. Every year some of it is lost. If this data is not soon gathered and catalogued, it will be lost for ever. (p.348)
It's perhaps no surprise that, as O'Farrell points out, Jauncey's book could easily be called 'Selected Documents of the Anti-Conscription Movement' (p. ix). Many of these pamphlets and letters are reproduced in full, and there is an emphasis on the manifestos and motions passed during meetings of anti-conscription and pacifist groups. There is, as O'Farrell points out, no 'behind the scenes' material, and "one is left with a host of questions about motivations and feelings and atmosphere".(p. xi)
Nonetheless, even if this book is, as O'Farrell says, "a chronology of what happened rather than a detailed analysis of why"(p.xi), then it has to be said that it does the 'what happened' well. It is organized chronologically, taking its starting point from the introduction of Compulsory Military Training and the Defence Acts of 1903-1912. Pacifist groups opposed the compulsory nature of this training from the start, but their critique was muted in the early days of World War I, when there was almost unanimous support for the war. During the early days of publicity for the first conscription 'referendum' (a technically incorrect term, but in general usage), the 'yes' side was ascendant, but Hughes' decision to issue a 'call to the colours' for all men of fighting age just prior to the actual vote shifted the sentiment, leading to a narrow over-all 'no' result. Because of the closeness of the result, and the pro-conscription Hughes' election victory soon after the referendum, it was not surprising that a second referendum was foisted on the people in December 1917. In explaining the increased 'no' vote in this second referendum, Jauncey emphasizes the influence of the pacifist groups and their publicity of the plight of conscientious objectors in Britain and New Zealand under their conscription schemes. His treatment of the second referendum is relatively brief, comprising the final third of the book.
His closing pages, written in 1935, are interesting, knowing as we do what happened just four years later. He celebrates the Peace Ballot, held in England in 1934-5 where supporters went door-to-door, polling 11.6 million people, 38% of the adult population, and half the number who voted in a general election five months later.
The results of the peace vote in England in June 1935 was a ray of hope in a European sky overcast with the threatening clouds of war and oppression. Over ten million people asked for continued affiliation with the League of Nations… By six to one voters in the peace ballot favoured the abolition of the manufacture and sale of armaments for private profit…Over 92 per cent of the ballots favoured economic and non-military measures against an aggressive nation, while the vote for military action against an aggressor was under three to one. (p. 351)
He noted the increasing expenditure on armaments, and the moves towards increasing the periods of compulsory military training in Switzerland and France, and English moves towards compulsory air-raid drills. He predicted:
In general the peace movement today like all reform groups is waiting for something to happen that can be used to its advantage. It is likely that actions of the militarists during the next few years will bring together large sections of the peace movement, resulting in an active organisation that will go further than ever before in the direction of removing the causes of war. (p. 355)
I wish he'd been right.
He ends his book with an affirmation in the faith of the 'ordinary man'.
The anti-conscription movement in Australia showed that very little faith should be placed in the over-whelming majority of leaders as bulwarks against militarism. Archbishop Mannix of the Roman Catholic Church was the only authority in the Commonwealth who vigorously opposed conscription. Six out of seven of the Australian governments, together with almost all political, economic, and religious leaders, demanded compulsion. Yet against all this power and against the suppression and censorship of the time the will of the people prevailed against conscription. A determined people won. The "No" votes were those of the ordinary man and woman and of the ordinary soldier in the trenches. The peace movement must concentrate on the ordinary citizen. After all, it is he who has to put up with most of the hardship of wars. A well-developed and organized public opinion against war and conscription can prevail. (p.353)
But it was not just Jauncey's book that was overtaken by other events. In O'Farrell's foreword, written in 1968, he notes that "…in 1943 or 1964, the conscription question did not become again a matter of such deeply divisive national passion" (p.xiv). Although perhaps true for the introduction of conscription in 1964, the Moratorium marches of 1970 and 1971 eventually gave the lie to that statement, and perhaps vindicated for just a while, Jauncey's more optimistic view of the power of mass political protests. Not for long though, when millions of protesters world wide were impotent to stop the Iraq war in 2003. In the face of increasing expenditure on weaponry, and the sabre-rattling of 'Little Rocket Man' and 'the Dotard', I suspect and fear that we're just as impotent today.
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6 responses to "'The Story of Conscription' by Leslie C. Jauncey"
Lisa Hill | October 24, 2017 at 6:55 am | Reply
Well said, Janine.
I remember being astonished to find that polls said that the majority of Australians were against the war in Iraq – because I am so often out of step with popular opinion! But much good it did us.
I guess the problem was that being against the war was not a vote-changer. If it had been, Howard would have been voted out, but he wasn't.
David Stephens (@honesthistory1) | October 24, 2017 at 9:02 am | Reply
Nice, Janine. We'll work it onto the HH site. NB the world's leading archive on the history of the author of this book LC (Bill) Jauncey is here http://honesthistory.net.au/wp/category/jaunceys-view/ No joke; we became quite obsessive about him. He moved way beyond conscription and banking while remaining radical, if rather increasingly odd and even sad.
wadholloway | October 24, 2017 at 10:22 am | Reply
Politicians seem to be pretty safe in committing us to pointless wars (aren't they all) as long as no middle class boys are being conscripted.
residentjudge | October 24, 2017 at 10:33 am | Reply
Although, in the case of WWI, politicians DID send their own sons- and in some cases, their sons went irrespective of their fathers' opposition.
wadholloway | October 24, 2017 at 11:22 am |
Point taken!
leighton8 | October 25, 2017 at 9:29 am | Reply
Ah, yes, L.C. Jauncey …. a person whom at the very least always seemed to maintain the hope that humanity's better instincts (or more sane instincts) would win out in the end. Perhaps that sometimes vain wish was the source of much of his melancholy. This current period of "leaders" such as the "orange menace" in the U.S. and his "bad hair day" compatriot in North Korea should lead most of us with good reason into melancholia.
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Sister Katherine Louise, founder of programs to help the poor, dies
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By Andrea K. Walker, The Baltimore Sun
7:15 PM EDT, October 17, 2010
Fixture in Southwest Baltimore started programs to help the poor, disabled and drug and alcohol addicted
Sister Katherine Louise Nueslein, who started programs to help the poor, disabled and those addicted to drugs and alcohol, died of cancer Oct. 14 at Stella Maris Hospice in Timonium
She was 77.
The daughter of a newspaper typesetter and a homemaker, Sister Katherine Louise was born in Savannah, Ga., where she grew up and graduated from St. Vincent's Academy high school in 1951. She began studies at Sisters of Mercy in Baltimore in 1951 and professed her vows to become a nun in 1954.
After earning a bachelor's degree in elementary education from Mount St. Agnes College in Baltimore in 1956, she continued her studies, earning a master's degree in special education from what is now Loyola University Maryland in 1975. She went on to teach primary school in Rockville, Bethesda and Baltimore.
Sister Katherine Louise, known by most as "Kitty," became a fixture in neighborhoods in Southwest Baltimore after returning to St. Peter the Apostle Church and the Sisters of Mercy in 1978. It was then that she began her lifelong effort to improve the lives of the urban poor, developing several neighborhood services over the next three decades.
Using a grant from Catholic Charities, she opened St. Peter's Adult Learning Center in 1982 to provide job training for developmentally disabled adults. The program began with six students and today has 75.
She also started Southwest Visions, a program that renovated houses in the area, and Hezekiah Movement, a drug and alcohol addiction treatment program.
The idea for Hezekiah blossomed after Sister Katherine Louise met the Rev. John McDonough, who ran a program for addicts in Towson where she took a woman for treatment. He mentioned that he had wanted to start a program in Baltimore but couldn't really find the support. She vowed that day to make it happen.
"She said there were a lot of addicts in her neighborhood and we should do it," Father McDonough said. "When she saw something that needed to be done, she did it."
As part of its program, Hezekiah takes participants to West Virginia for a retreat. Sister Katherine Louise, who friends say never lost her Southern drawl, was prepared to go to the latest one even though she was sick with cancer, Father McDonough said. She died before the day of the trip.
Even after a hip replacement, Sister Katherine Louise could be seen walking around the neighborhoods helping people, those who knew her said. She was always encouraging the other nuns to help the neighborhoods, they said..
Sister Ruth Marie Johnson remembers when a day care center owned by the Sisters of Mercy on Poppleton Street shut down because of lack of funding. The sisters wanted to sell the building, but Sister Katherine Louise insisted on finding another use. It was eventually used for a drug treatment program.
"She was the type of person you couldn't say no to," said Sister Ruth Marie. "Not because she was pushy, but because you knew her interests were in the people and problems of the area. She had their needs in her heart."
Sister Katherine Louise reached across international borders. After visiting El Salvador in 1989, she became touched by the poverty and faith of the people there. She helped start a partnership with a Salvadoran church, Our Lady of Lourdes parish in Calle Real, and begin making annual trips to the region.
She also organized a trip to a small fishing town to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Friends say Sister Katherine Louise was modest about her accomplishments, often giving credit to others. Sister Ruth Marie remembers that Sister Katherine Louise had a quote from Desmond Tutu written on a page of her address book: "It's amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn't matter who gets the credit."
Nephew James T. Van Horn of Baltimore said it could be trying for his aunt to work with the poor, even though she loved it. To cope, she would begin each day by reading the Bible. Her sharp sense of humor also kept her grounded. She knew how to make fun of herself, Mr. Van Horn said.
There will be a viewing at St. Peter the Apostle Church at 9:30 a.m. Monday followed by a Mass of Christian burial at 11 a.m.
Also surviving are two nephews, Thomas J. Van Horn of Westminster and John B. Van Horn of Baltimore; as well as numerous great-nieces and great-nephews.
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Coming soon, a rumor come true--the new Pier 76, 76 Bay Street, St. George, offering "Darts, live music, sporting events, specialty pizza, fresh seafood," according to the signage on the awning above the entrance.
When we arrived in St. George in 1977, there were a handful of small, independently owned restaurants on the North Shore that didn't survive beyond the early 1980s.
These were middlebrow eateries that served straightforward meals with no pretensions, frills or highprices. Among others, there was the Brighton Lounge on Brighton Avenue and the Lido on lower Victory Boulevard, both Italian restaurants; the Kopper Cettle (cute, huh?) on Cary Avenue near Clove Road; and Pier 76, then a seafood restaurant on Bay Street near Slosson Terrace.
Interestingly, Pier 76 was one of the first to close its doors in the early 1980s and now appears to be the first to return. I've been following the rumors surrounding the ongoing renovation of the space, which now appears close to completion.
When I took this picture--on a hot Sunday afternoon in late July--I had just passed Steiny's, a small, recently refurbished bar on nearby Hyatt Street, where there were smokers congregated outside and people strolling up and down nearby streets. You could hardly have described the street as crowded, but it wasn't the usual Sunday ghost-town, either.
With the Every Thing Goes Book Cafe, Cargo, Pier 76, Karl's Klipper, Steiny's, Beso and Ruddy & Dean open, It's at least possible that a small weekend scene may be able to develop, fueled by tourists off the boat, shoppers at the various Every Thing Goes stores, and local diners and imbibers.
For a long time after I stopped smoking, I had a recurrent . . . what my Aunt Harriet would have called a 'yen' for something. But what? The what, of course, was a cigarette. Once I realized it (and it happened, again and again), I would dive straight into the fruit bowl, the candy dish, or the refrigerator. On the theory that it was better to have love-handles than a round of chemo at Sloan-Kettering.
This week I've been shadowed by just that kind of 'yen.' Except there's no mystery about what it is I have a yen for. Simply stated, I need to be on the road, any road, anywhere, now. But landlordly, grandparental and volunteer duties have grounded me and will continue to ground me till the weekend, when I hope to get back on track. Literally.
There's a lot I miss about a city increasingly dominated by real estate development and national brands, the only tenants who can afford today's outrageous commercial rents.
Two of the things I miss most are (1) used book stores run on a tiny margin by people who love books; and (2) independently owned coffee shops--not franchise operations--where you can spend the morning over a cup or a conversation and the person who serves you is likely to be the person who owns the place.
Here in St. George (Staten Island), we're lucky to live close by just such an establishment, the ETG Book Cafe and Neighborhood Stage--that serves Fair Trade coffees and a variety of teas and fresh baked goods, and has a really large and interesting used book selection, vintage LPs, and a small stage used for all kinds of performances, including an open mic night.


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Terminal Exposure is een Amerikaanse komische misdaadfilm uit 1987, geregisseerd door Nico Mastrorakis.

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De twee jonge mannen Lenny en Bruce fotograferen per toeval op het strand van Venice Beach een moord, waarvan de moordenares van achteren op de foto staat met een rozentattoo op haar achterkant. Hun speurtocht om deze misdaad op te lossen leidt ze naar Las Vegas. Daar worden ze achtervolgd door de georganiseerde misdaad.

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| Mark Hennessy || Lenny Hartigan
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| Scott King || Bruce Greene
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| Hope Marie Carlton || Christie
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| Steve Donmyer || Skip
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| Ted Lange || Fantastic
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| Patrick St. Esprit || Ned Carson
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