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The Greatest lends image to snack foods
By David Whitley and Sentinel Columnist
Muhammad Ali turns 65 today. To mark the big occasion, a new line of snacks is being unveiled.
Don't you find that a little hard to swallow?
It's become almost sacrilegious to criticize Ali, and I sure don't mean to on this special day. But it was hard not to feel a tinge of sadness when I read about "Fruit Flight," "Thrill-A-Dill-A" and "Slammin' Salsa."
Those are three flavors being rolled out by the "Greatest Of All Time" brand. It's the first creation from CKX Inc., the company that last year paid Ali $50 million for his marketing rights.
CKX also has the rights to Elvis. The mind reels at the thought of Muhammad Ali shampoo and conditioner.
Look, if somebody gave me $50 million, it could put my face on suppositories. It's just that nobody ever called me The Greatest. I can't help sighing at the prospect of snackable Ali boxing gloves.
They are being marketed to 18-to-24-year-olds as a healthy snack alternative. If CKX really wants to help its target audience, it will put a Surgeon General's warning on every pack of Rumbles, Shuffles and Jabs:
"Eating This Snack May Obscure How Muhammad Ali Got His Nickname."
Listen up, kids. Ali wasn't just arguably the greatest heavyweight ever. Long before you were born, he did something we might never see from another mega-athlete.
He took a stand that had real consequences.
With the Vietnam War raging, Ali converted to Islam and said his beliefs would not allow him to join the fight. Whatever your opinion of that, nobody could contend that Ali sacrificed his principles.
Nowadays, you're surprised when a superstar even says something controversial. As Michael Jordan once explained after declining to endorse a Democratic candidate, "Republicans buy sneakers too."
We don't necessarily need to hear Tom Brady's views on the troop surge in Iraq. It would be refreshing, however, if the first thought athletes had wasn't "How might expressing my true feelings affect my portfolio?"
Ali didn't just sacrifice endorsements. His title was stripped and he gave up three prime years of his career.
Millions of people despised him. A few still do, but time has shown that Ali's beliefs were genuine.
That's how he became so much more than a boxer. Now he's becoming a brand like Paris Hilton or Donald Trump, neither of whom knocked out Joe Frazier.
Does the average 20-something really know anything about Smokin' Joe, much less Vietnam and Ali's conscientious objection? Or will The Greatest become like The King, a marketing gold mine even if many consumers can't recall why?
I wonder how Ali really feels about that. It's hard to know, given how Parkinson's disease has affected him. I called Angelo Dundee, who trained Ali for all his epic fights.
"One thing I never get involved in is a fighter's personal life or religion," Dundee said. "You can't win either one."
Being 83 years old brings a level of wisdom. If George Foreman can make $150 million selling grills, who are we to tell Ali he doesn't deserve a billion for just being himself?
Dundee called him Tuesday with birthday greetings. He hadn't seen Ali in a while, other than a brief TV appearance before the Orange Bowl.
"He looked lousy, didn't he?" Dundee said. "We're used to seeing the guy bouncing around like a little kid. That's not the case now.
"He's 65 years old. I hope he has a great birthday."
We all do.
It will just be hard to celebrate by cracking open a package of Thrill-A-Dill-A.
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Vanity Fair (UK), September 1, 1904
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In the Stocks.
A NEW variety of potato has been disposed of by a Lincolnshire firm at £11,760 per ton. There is a nasty shock waiting for the man who orders a chop and fried potatoes, and is charged just under a hundred pounds for his lunch.
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Mr. Tree, according to the Express, says that he approves of more than one tier in a theatre. This is, perhaps, the reason why, as stated in the same paper, he intends his reading of Caliban "to arouse the pity rather than the laughter of the audience."
An armless youth of the wild and woolly West has been fined £1 for stealing vegetables with his toes. Even the armless, it seems, are sometimes dangerous.
"Where did the accused strike you?" asked a Brentford magistrate last Tuesday of a plaintiff. The injured man hesitated. His delicate mind shrank from mentioning in full Court the medical title of that part of the human frame divine, and Mr. Barrie's euphemism was unknown to him. But he was equal to the emergency. "He struck me——" he began. "Yes?" said the eager magistrate. The clerk of the Court, suffused with anticipatory blushes, covered his ears with his hands. "He struck me, your Worship," said the plaintiff, firmly, "in the Ealing Broadway." A sigh of relief ran through the Court.—The crisis was over.
THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS.
(According to a West End manager, the theatre of the future will have no gallery.)
Up till now we've always acted
With a trembling at the knees,
For the men who paid a shilling
Were so difficult to please:
And with feverish excitement
We would estimate the odds
Of the piece that charmed the boxes
Being hooted by the gods.
But, according to an expert,
Novel theatres will be planned,
And the gallery will vanish
In our revoluted land.
The millennium must be coming:
Can we need a better proof
Than the total abolition
Of the critic in the roof?
Yes, there's something to be looked for
In the golden time to come,
For the stalls will all be crowded,
And the gallery be dumb;
And the sensitive young playwright
Dreams of happier days in store,
When the hooters cease from hissing,
And the booers boo no more.
A shrewd American financier, in England for a visit, has been much mortified at seeing in a society paper that he is "doing" London. He wishes to point out that he is not here in his professional capacity.
In a jeweller's shop in the Strand there is displayed a notice to the effect that "this shop must be cleared in a week." Now that Sergeant Brue has left the Strand, burglars should find little difficulty in accomplishing what the jeweller asks of them.
Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge denies Mr. Swift McNeill's statement concerning flogging in the Navy. According to this Bridge a grand slam is unknown, and the Navy is so strong in trumps that even a little slam is infrequent.
Just for the present New York is conscious of a certain loss of appetite. Somehow, it does not seem to enjoy its meals as it once did. The Bureau of Chemistry has been examining the City's food and drink, and telling everybody all the jolly things it has found in them. German sausage, for instance—a food to which New York is passionately devoted—is made, it seems, of Continental dog-meat and horse-flesh. Scotch whisky is tinctured with creosote to give it a smoky flavour. We should now recommend the Bureau to turn its attention to champagne. There is more champagne drunk in the United States than all the vineyards of Rheims could produce. Pending further investigations, it would be better if New York gave up eating and drinking altogether.
If rumours are to be believed, the state of the English Merchant Service is parlous. British ships are getting into foreign hands, and foreign hands are getting into British ships.
Rasper.
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Despite being a bold title 'death: the human experience', in all of the exhibition's branding, omits the use of capital letters. Perhaps this is a nod towards the universal nature of death and its (nonhierarchical) relevance, which is very much the focus of the exhibition. 'All eligible, everyone welcome' a further subheading might read. Alternatively, it is an invitation to review the word 'death' without the established connotations that accompany known and capitalised nouns; familiarity is dismantled and interpretation is set free. There is certainly the sense of the open-ended and unresolved to this exhibition, compelling to an extent, but at times leaving me floundering.
The exhibition contemplates five key human experiences of death, each with its own space and display style: symbols of death, stages of death, attitudes to death, human remains and science and ethics. It is a comprehensive survey, objects and images relating to every aspect of the subject are presented alongside engaging interactive features and a selection of thought-provoking quotes. The curators have been careful to warn visitors about the sensitive nature of the exhibits and I am gently informed as I enter that there are human remains in one room that I might choose to avoid if I wish.
Such is the presence of death in society that metaphor and connotation are unavoidable, but maybe this one should have been avoided… Walking into the first, corridor-shaped room of the exhibition is like entering a huge and gaudy coffin. Luxurious pink material drapes from the walls with a pronounced but distracting opulence. In front of this magenta mass, exhibited in glass-domed displays are objects symbolic of death: a taxidermy vulture, a funeral wreath of white lilies, the fragile orange and brown frame of a Death's-Head Hawk Moth and the exquisite, delicate skeleton of a small Horseshoe Bat. Here, and throughout the other rooms, the exhibits range from recognisable articles, commonplace in British mourning ritual, to the more obscure and unfamiliar objects of other cultures and ages.
As someone wary of the most escapable of enclosed spaces, the thought of being buried underground unnerves me to say the least. There is also a poignant sense of futility to this tender, almost hopeful act. In my opinion, highlighting these very personal and very human responses to death are where the exhibition is most successful. It poses the question to the viewer, about what we would wish for our own death and burial. How do others see us, and how might this be summarised in the objects left with us when we die?
"A hearse represents death and funerary rituals because it's seen at the time of a funeral. Even an empty hearse is associated with death".
It is at points such as this within the exhibition, that it feels necessary to question the purpose of museums and the intentions with which they display their artifacts. Aside from collecting and cataloguing, the most obvious function of the museum is to impart knowledge; while this display is certainly educational, it is with a sense of something lacking. As many of our Cafe Morte members make work involving found and made objects, the notion of conceiving death through tangible artifacts seems very relevant to our collective research. Our upcoming show 'Lost for Words' could likewise be titled 'death: the human experience' and we are likewise exhibiting objects and images with a broad and encompassing scope on the topic of death. However, where I feel art may have more of an emotional and meaningful impact is the freedom it allows viewers to interpret the matter with their own sensitivities and experiences. Where the museum is informative to the point of being problematic, the art exhibition illuminates with the bounds of the viewer's imagination as its only limit.
We can now officially and very proudly announce the exhibitors for Café Morte's 'Lost For Words' Exhibition. There will be a series of events and discussions running alongside the exhibition from the 6th-10th January which will be announced closer to the time, so make sure to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for updates from the Café Morte team.
Joanna Hulin- What makes painting (or the act of painting) important when depicting death or dying?
To start with, I established why painting (out of all the choices we have today) could possibly be the medium of choice when expressing death. Through numerous pieces of prose by other painters and my own experience, there are various points of discussion to be had, particularly the questions of What aspects of it make it individual, and how is it different from a practice such as photography? How does one 'read' a painting, and what makes it successful or interesting?
As host this week I focused specifically and deliberately on painters of varying technical skill throughout the 20th/21st Century who had experienced grief and loss, and whether this had affected their work. A question I wanted to open up for discussion was, "if they were affected, how did it change their way of painting?" Painters that were brought up in the discussion included Edvard Munch, Francis Bacon, Marlene Dumas, Picasso, Justin Mortimer and briefly, myself – which gives an idea of how varied I wanted the work to be. It is notable to point out that each of these artists have all experienced loss in a completely different way, under various circumstances. Munch lost his sister, Bacon his partners, Picasso his friend, and Dumas her mother.
These all turned out to be pivotal in deciding the direction of their artistic careers. Munch experienced the death of his sister very early on within his career, and this would then turn out to be an incident that would haunt him for the rest of his life. This has been portrayed in the work 'The Sick Child', the composition of which was constantly revisited throughout his entire life. The piece is a portrayal of his sister, Sophie, sitting up in bed at the time of her illness. Munch seemed to want to recreate this scene just before her death 'perfectly', but apparently never could, as seen by his numerous attempts. At this point it should be noted that more traditional methods of making art (sculpture, printmaking, painting) were the only things available to make an image, however this did not stop Munch straying from the norms of 'classical' painting at the time, as we can see through his fluid, rapid brush marks.
This hurried, expressionistic style is also seen in Picasso's painting of his friend Casagemas lying in a coffin, after committing suicide at the age of 20. It is argued that this event heavily inspired his 'blue period', with Picasso noting that "Thinking of Casagemas being dead makes me paint in blue".
Though many of his friends and colleagues died over the years, the ones that most notably affected him were the deaths of his lovers, Peter Lacy and George Dyer. Dyer's suicide the evening before the opening of one of Bacon's exhibitions left him distraught. Though Bacon was often cynical and did not speak particularly openly about his many losses, this changed with the production of 'Triptych May-June 1973'.
Other painters that were touched upon throughout the session included the work of Justin Mortimer, Jenny Saville and Daphne Todd, whose works are all, in some way, commentaries on mortality. Many of these use transference to create a discussion around mortality: Mortimer and Saville's most well-known works do not use any references in which the artist is familiar with the subject being painted. Many are extremely detached – which creates an interesting discussion into whether this 'barrier' is a product of over-saturation of troubling news articles, as well as the almost chronic fear of death in today's society. I noted that despite this trend, Todd in particular is interesting due to her literal painting 'Last Portrait of Mother', for which she won the BP Portrait prize in 2010. This image seemed to resonate quite intensely with the rest of the group.
"In 2007 my mother died at noon.
and departure, but also about transformation and freedom.
A spirit set free. My grief and her relief.
I touched briefly on my own experiences with personal deaths being integral to my work; and I stressed the importance of anonymity. The conversation then turned to moral dilemmas in visual art, particularly when talking about personal themes in work. At what point is it 'acceptable' to introduce who the sitter is, particularly if they are the person who is facing the realities of being mortal? Upon writing this post I realised that the anonymity could possibly be essential in the work due to the mystery – the tantalisation of the audience, leaving them wanting to know more. In my case it was both this and feeling uncomfortable with the thought of something personal being so open, which many artists find a difficult obstacle.
Andrew [Ross] and I also spoke about why we feel art relating to death needs to be made at all. I was asked what I would like from making the work, and whether it is something for myself or for the audience. My own opinion is that if the work was merely for myself, there would be no point in being a practising artist, as I would not be showing anybody my creations. I personally place an importance in the feeling of being 'connected' with others – that is, to be able to relate or empathise with certain situations or people, and in this case it is being able to 'speak' to those who have experienced grief, or being able to inform those that have not necessarily been as affected by it.
CAFÉ MORTE meets at the Saatchi Gallery. The exhibition is Dead – literally. A sculptural pile of dead mice greets the audience on entering the space. Artist David Falconer titled the work Vermin Death Stack, which is exactly what it was: a floor to ceiling stack of dead mice. As a child I would have been enchanted by finding a multitude of death piled so high. My adult mind however finds it only mildly entertaining and I require so much more from art. Nothing is left to the imagination, nothing to contemplate and certainly no space for the viewer to enter the work. It's all very literal. Titled Dead – a celebration of mortality, a question is raised as to what if anything Charles Saatchi would like the audience to consider when viewing the works in this exhibition?
Jordan Baseman's skinned cat and dog (The Cat and The Dog) hang on the wall like hunting trophies. The trophies of death collected by artists. Meaningless conversations emerge between the works. We wonder how the artists felt to have their work presented in this context? If Saatchi had wanted to curate a powerful dialogue around the tabooed subject of death he could have selected any number of poetic works from his collection that address ideas relating to mortality such as Belinde De Bruyckere, The Black Horse, or Marianne Vitale sunken gravestones made from reclaimed wood or perhaps Sun Yuan and Peng Yu Angel. I have had numerous encounters with death at the Saatchi Gallery that have, left an impact on me emotionally. I felt I was able to question the deeper issues of mortality in the midst life while in the presence of these powerful works. Instead we encounter the somewhat humorous Littlewhitehead's It all Depends on Ones Fantasies as a Child, a pile of corpses emerging from black rubbish sacks.
Many of the works seem to reference a sinister desire, a dark place of the imagined horrors of death, a place perhaps reminiscent of childhood anxieties. I am reminded of the experience of riding on a ghost train and the delight in knowing that the gory exhibits were not real. The pleasure to be found in dark fantasy can be seen in Daniel Brajn's black melting dripping figure clinging to the floor. We know it is not real. It occupies the space of the nightmare. The associations with Gothic narratives in literature, the darker side of human nature are present if you are searching for a context, though somewhat limited.
In the heat of a summer day in the city we left feeling cold, unmoved, unchanged, untroubled and a little disappointed.
Hoping it would reveal something I had missed or not understood, a deeper level to the exhibition perhaps, I bought the book. However it was lighter than the exhibits- Presented in the shape of a slab of marble, gimmicky and full of entertaining stories, such as the story of James Campbell who was run over by his pet dog. Apparently he left the car running and jumped out to open the garage door when at that moment his pet dog jumped into the front of the car and sat on the accelerator. He was killed outright. His wife was unable to do anything, surely must have laughed a little? The book illustrates this point with a photo of a dog sitting behind a steering wheel in case we missed the content in the text. I wonder if the words have been generated by stories of death found in the Sun newspaper? I laughed a lot when reading the book. This must be the point. The unspoken language of death brought to us in a coffee table style book, light and entertaining, perfect in fact for our CAFÉ MORTE discussion over tea and biscuits. We were genuinely able to avoid any serious questions relating to mortality. Not sure if this kitsch and humorous exhibition is in fact a 'celebration of mortality' or could have more appropriately been tilled 'a celebration of the obvious'. It certainly did make the often, heavy subject of death light and entertaining.


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One of the aims of the St George Community Network is for us to work together influence plans for the area.
While the Network has no direct control over how the Council and others spend money in our area the community working together can have a strong voice.
The Network works to influence decisions through its Topic Groups and its Network meetings.
The SGCN hold community meetings to talk about the options and the spending of funds available to the St George area from past developments – Community Infrastructure Levy or CIL – and the projects on which the available funds could be spent. The final decision on spending these funds is taken by Councillors each year through the Area Committees.
At the formal Area Committee on 3rd October 2019, it was agreed that the following projects would be funded (CIL funding unless noted):
Carpark, Crews Hole Road – £50,053
Conham Road: safety improvements – £26,138.40 (S106)
Traffic calming, Hillside Road – £50,000
Meadowvale Community Association: Extension to Community Centre – £200,000
St George Community Association Ltd: Improvements to St. G Community Centre – £47,810.86
St. George's park: Improvements to boating lake – £135,000
Replacement Tree Planting – £33,842.65 (S106)
More information about CIL and the decision-making process >>
We also formed a Community Planning Group as a Topic Group to move forward with large scale plans for the park and other community buildings in St George (see Project List below).
Results of the survey carried out be the Community Planning Group as presented at the meeting on 6th April 2019 >>
Listed below are the projects that have been suggested and / or funded for St George over the last couple of years.
Projects agreed for funding – 2019
Meadow Vale Community Centre
In 2016, Meadow Vale Community Association applied for planning permission for a major renovation and extension of Meadow Vale Community Centre, providing an all-purpose hall and ancillary accommodation including toilets, changing rooms and stores. The planning application was approved by Bristol City Council in January 2017.
Some work to improve the existing centre is now been carried out, but significantly more funding is required for the extended centre to be built.
St George Park Lake
Friends of St George Park have long had an aspiration to improve the lake for wildlife. They are currently carrying out a study into the options for this that is Lottery funded. In addition part of the lake wall has collapsed and needs expensive repairs, this has led to part of the path around the lake being fenced off.
Ideas developed by the Wildlife & Wetlands Trust for Friends of St George Park can be seen below. These are provisional plans and a more detailed report is now being produced. Any project would need to consider the long-term maintenance of both the structures and the wildlife areas.
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St George Community Centre Improvements
Improvement works to the building and grounds of St George Community Centre to include:
• Improved front door entry system and disabled access
• Improved security and energy saving measures – including lighting and improved insulation
• Improved access from the park including new gate, fencing and more accessible pathway.
Car parking area – Crews Hole Road
The creation of a formal surfaced car park area on the current area of rough ground could reduce flytipping by making the area look more attractive.
It would give alternative car parking spaces for visitors to Troopers Hill (using the adjacent steps and footpath) and for people wanting to use the River Avon Trail.
Hillside Road – Traffic calming measures
Safety improvents at blind bend on Crews Hole Rd / Conham Rd.
This is where pedestrians using the River Avon Trail have to cross the road and it is particularly dangerous for people walking from Conham. There have been a number of proposals to improve this crossing over the years, some as part of schemes to include an improved cycle route but none have progressed. Proposals put forward in 2015 can be seen here.
Projects allocated CIL funding in September 2018.
St George Park Toilet
The public toilet in the park at the main entrance was closed by the Council in January 2018. There were then no public toilets in or near the park. Council's list of available toilets.
Cllr Asher Craig arranged for a temporary toilet block to be provided for summer 2018, it was hoped funding could be found to keep this until at least November, but this was unsuccessful and they were removed at the end of September.
The CIL allocated in 2018 was used to provide more permanent public toilets from 2019. Funding for maintenance (cleaning etc) will come from the Parks budget but some of this will be covered by increased takings from the café kiosk – which is also to be refurbished.
These new toilets and the refurbished kiosk café are now open
New Path on Troopers Hill Field
Troopers Hill Field between the play area built-in 2016 and Troopers Hill itself can be very muddy in wet weather. Friends of Troopers Hill were seeking funds to build a new linking path around the Field as part of their Ways to Nature Project.
The CIL funding allocated to this project was used by Friends of Troopers Hill as match funding to apply for grants to fund the rest of the cost of the paths. This funding was secured from from both Enovert Community Trust (ECT) and Ibstock Enovert Trust (IET)
This work is due to be completed in February & March 2020
Projects considered by Community Planning Group.
This would be a long-term project with a number of consultation stages over the next few years.
St George Park Buildings
The collection of buildings in the centre of the park include the bowling club pavilion, the café kiosk and the park keepers hut.
It has often been suggested that better use could be made of these buildings or that some of them could be replaced. Ideas include creating a new café / community building with indoor seating areas and toilets – this would be a long-term project needing at least 5 years to design, get planning permission, raise funds and build.
One of the existing buildings was converted into a public toilet during 2019, using CIL money allocated in 2018 (see above).
A respondent to our survey also suggested that the bandstand should be restored on the raised area, this would require relocating the community garden.
St George Park Play Area
Work was carried out in the summer of 2016 to replace the safety surfacing and rebuild part of the 'Dragon head' in the play area, however, the wooden structure will need to be completely replaced within the next two or three years giving an opportunity for the whole play area to be redesigned.
It has also been suggested that some outdoor fitness equipment should be added in the park, this could be done as part of the same project.
St George Library
The threat of closure of the library has now been removed with the Council confirming that all libraries will stay open, but the Council wants to look at options to modernise the library and make better use of the space.
The current building was opened in November 1963, over the years there have been a number of suggestions that better use could be made of the site. In the Area Green Space Plan produced in 2009, the library and part of the park adjacent to it were shown as 'area of possible multi-purpose building including library'.
The Community Centre requires some investment to keep it available for use for the next few years. An improvement to the entrance and boundary wall between the park and the centre has been agreed for funding from CIL in 2019 (see above).
In the longer-term it would be possible to consider moving to a new purpose-built community building on the same site or on the site of the Library.
Projects discussed in 2019 but not funded.
One way scheme for Beaufort Rd
Some Section 106 money has been allocated to this scheme but further funding is required. A Neighbourhood Partnership meeting in December 2013 decided to proceed with this scheme but funding and other issues mean is hasn't happened. Proposals put forward in 2013 can be seen here
Other highways projects that have been suggested in St George over the last few years can be seen on the Improve My Street Map – and you can also add your own ideas.
St George in Bloom
St George in Bloom would like to install a number of council approved planted containers within Church Road.
They would also like to enhance the Billboards site (currently owned by JC Decaux Ltd) at the junction of Marling Road and Bell Hill Road in St George with a planting scheme.
Drinking Fountain for St George Park
When first established St George Park was blessed with a magnificent drinking fountain.
A new fountain wouldn't be so ornate but they are now being installed around the City and indeed across the UK, we should have one in the Park.
Page last updated 19/01/20


Ford Theatre is the place where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. And in these days of horrifyingly regular public murders, it's reasonable to ask what kind of name this is for a rock and roll group. A sick joke? Absolutely not. These six young men are deadly serious, and they chose their name because it corresponds in a way to what they are trying to create -- a vision of America in all its present chaos and agony. Harry Palmer, the leader, talks about it with the intensity of a man who feels he has got to be heard. "We're trying to get at the kind of desperation and searching that people are going through," he says. "This is as much a dramatic work as a musical one. We're trying to create a whole environment -- an ominous kind of environment."
All the lyrics are in the second person, addressed to us. We're on the spot -- and there are very few of us who won't see parts of ourselves in these lines, or recognize the kind of tension that builds up in these long, corrosive instrumental breaks. The very least you can say about this album is that it's original, and fearlessly honest. And that's not nearly as common as some people think it is.
Trilogy For The Masses opens with the Theme For The Masses, the main theme that connects the whole of the album together. Played in a form of lament, the track is rich in both strings and organ very similar to a style that would be utilised by many of the proto-progressive rock bands such as Procol Harum and The Moody Blues. The subsequent track, 101 Harrison Street is a clear indication of the times. Featuring a lengthy and mesmerising guitar solo accompanied by a hypnotic continuous rhythm, this piece of music is a sure sign of the psychedelic drenched times the band were living in. This was the year of Woodstock and the height of flower power, and one can easily envisage this track being played endlessly with one solo being meted out after the other.
Excerpt (From the Theme) resurrects the opening theme to then lead into Back To Philadelphia, a track that would also be utilised for the bands second album, Time Changes. Slow paced and laid back, this track in contrast to 101 Harrison Street, lays more emphasis on the guitar work rather than having the organ dominate the sound of the music. Both Sides One and Two are linked by the short echo-filled The Race.
Theme For The Masses resurrects its head in bringing the album to a close with Postlude: Looking Back, the only composition credited entirely to Harry Palmer on the album. Musically this track is strikingly different to the remainder of the album as it is devoid of the elaborate arrangement present on the album giving this pleasant track an almost country rock feel to it. This is one album from my record collection that somehow finds itself regularly on the turntable. There is something innocent and unique about the sound of the album that is hard to find in many albums from this era. Musically I feel that it is a gem and should appeal to all those who like what is often termed as proto-progressive rock.


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Motorola to Cut More Jobs in Mobile Division
By Nancy Gohring
Struggling Motorola is laying off 74 more workers from its mobile-phone division.
The company will let the people go from its Libertyville, Illinois, offices starting the last day of this month, according to a filing with the state. The office houses workers in Motorola's mobile-phone group.
The announcement follows layoffs of 3,000 people in the mobile group earlier this year. Nearly 500 of those workers were based in the Libertyville offices.
After failing to sell its mobile-phone division as the economy weakened, Motorola has continued to struggle to improve the group's performance. Despite having designed iconic, market-leading phones in the past, Motorola has failed recently to keep up with current competition. Its last big hit, the Razr, now has a reputation of a low-end phone, against competitors that make hot smartphones like the iPhone, the new Palm Pre and BlackBerry devices.
Late last year, Sanjay Jha, co-CEO of Motorola and CEO of the mobile devices unit, said the company would focus on Android and Windows Mobile phones, cutting support for the other operating-system platforms that Motorola had used. At the time, analysts praised the decision, saying the company could do well by focusing its dwindling resources rather than spreading them too thin.
But the market continues to wait for Motorola to release new, innovative phones. Jha said recently that the company would release multiple Android phones during the fourth quarter. He also said it was still interested in spinning off the phone division, but that will depend in part on the economy.


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Well, it IS available, BUT if you try to obtain it through Amazon or Best Buy or anywhere commercially, you will not be able to get it yet. It is still not available because of problems with the cover art. However, by the middle or the end of February it should be again available. If you want a copy as it stands now, you can still send me suealehman@hotmail.com your address and $15 and I will send you one of the original ones with the boggus cover, autographed. Happy reading!
I read this and it is great.. lighthearted, fastpaced and easy to read and fun. Great book for those who like DOGS and mysteries!


8th Day Comes to Philly!
This Chol Hamoed Sukkos the music duo of brothers Bentzi and Shmuel Marcus, aka 8th Day, are bringing their signature act to Philadelphia, PA. Fans can expect a full feature show where the band will play all their current hits, the 8th Day classics and some surprises mixed in.
"This will be a chance for us to celebrate with the Philadelphia community", says Shmuel, "we've planned something very special for the occasion".
The grounds crew and concert producers have been carefully planning a beautiful setting with great sound and lighting effects to create an amazing concert environment.
The show will take place at The Kaiserman JCC on Tuesday October 14th. The doors open at 4pm with food and drink vendors available, and plenty of activities for children. The concert will start at 5pm with opening act Souls On Fire and then 8th Day's set to follow.
Proceeds of the concert will help raise funds for the Bravo4Freida campaign, an endeavor to help a young girl overcome the challenges of Idiopathic Anaphylaxis, an extreme allergy condition that is very dangerous.
"We are so happy to be joining in with Philly on this one" Bentzi added, "it's going to be a great show for a great cause G-d willing".


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Mar 08 - East Bay
Evidence-based Economic Policy - 2 MIT Trained Professors Share Perspective on Applying Evidence-based Economic Policy to Pakistan - Prof Atif Mian '96 PhD '01 (Princeton) and Prof. Asim Khwaja '95 (Harvard)
ISAS and Pakistan@Berkeley, a campaign to broaden and deepen Pakistan related research, teaching and programming at UC Berkeley, invites you to join us for a presentation on "evidence based economic policy" in Pakistan, a new initiative led by MIT trained professors: - Princeton economist, Prof. Atif Mian '96 PhD '01, Harvard economist, Prof. Asim Khawaja '95, and Mr. Syed Maroof, CEO of Center for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP).
Sponsored by: Institute for South Asia Studies, The Berkeley Pakistan Initiative, The Centre for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP)
For DIRECTIONS to the Institute please enter "Institute for South Asia Studies" in your google maps or click this GOOGLE MAPS LINK.
Please note that parking is not always easily available in Berkeley. Take public transportation if possible or arrive early to secure your spot.
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM PT
Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, 94720
Atif Mian SB '96, PhD '01
John H. Laporte, Jr. Class of 1967 Professor of Economics
Asim Khwaja '95
Professor, International Finance and Development
Maroof Syed
Center for Economic Research in Pakistan
Prof. Munis Faruqui
Chair, Institute for South Asia Studies, Associate Professor of South and Southeast Asian Studies


Thousands of miles separate China's water-rich south and the nation's coal-rich north. In northwest China where water resources are particularly scarce, including the provinces of Inner Mongolia, Ningxia and Shaanxi, the coal industry is rapidly expanding. In 2012, Greenpeace issued a warning that this coal expansion poses a serious threat to precious water resources in China's arid northwest and thus the crops and farming communities that depend on it. In 2013 the field investigation team dug up evidence of exactly that.
Video by Greenpeace East Asia 2013.


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INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS GROUP WANTS A PROBE ON 'HITMEN COPS'
By Nestle L. Semilla and Inquirer.net |November 06,2018 - 10:29 PM
An international human rights watchdog has called on the government to form an independent commission that would look into the alleged involvement of police officers in the killing of people supposedly involved in illegal drugs.
Human Rights Watch made the call after Chief Supt. Debold Sinas, chief of the Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7), was quoted as saying that some of the hitmen hired by drug lords were retired military or police officers, and, in some cases, could be policemen still in active service.
"The admission by a senior police official that police officers are working as hitmen for drug syndicates is yet more evidence of Philippine government complicity in 'drug war' killings," Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement on Monday.
"Given the total failure of the police to stop these abuses, it's clear that any serious investigation of the police role in the war on drugs needs full independence," he said.
The HRW stressed that the commission should be completely independent from the Office of the President and the Philippine National Police (PNP) and should include investigators from the Commission of Human Rights (CHR) and representatives from non-governmental organizations.
Sought for his comment, Sinas begged off from giving any comment to the call of the international human rights organization.
"No comment," he said in a text message to Cebu Daily News.
In an interview over Cebu Daily News' Facebook Live program Freshtalks last Oct. 31, Sinas said there could be retired or active police officers who were behind these killings in Cebu, especially the killing of people allegedly involved in illegal drugs.
He explained that in every drug group, the drug lord has three kinds of people under him: the distributors, the collectors, and the hitmen.
"Kinsa man ni sila (hitmen)? Most likely retired nga army o mga pulis. Or naa pa gani aktibo wala lang ta kahibalo," said Sinas.
(Who are these hitmen? Most likely these are retired military or police officers. Or there are active police officers we just don't know who.)
He said drug personalities hired retired military or police officers because of their expertise.
"Kung dismissed or retired ang usa ka pulis unsay expertise? Firearms and security. So naa siyay dala-dala nga expertise mao ni gipangita sa ilaha (by the drug groups)," Sinas said.
(What is the expertise of a dismissed or retired police officer? Firearms and security. So this person who has this kind of skills is what is needed by the drug groups.)
He stressed that these former or active police officers who moonlighted as hitmen of drug personalities are scalawags in uniform and a blight on the PNP.
He also revealed that the active police officers who are suspected to be into these killings for a fee are now being looked into.
Particularly suspicious, he said, are police officers who were once assigned in Central Visayas and were transferred to other regions but would keep on coming back to Cebu.
After President Rodrigo Duterte assumed office, a number of police officers in Central Visayas were transferred mainly to Mindanao because of suspicions over their alleged involvement in the illegal drug trade.
With these admissions, Adams stressed that it is high time to process the accountability of "mass murder" in the country.
"It's time for an independent commission to be created to officially identify those responsible and begin the process of accountability for mass murder," he said.
Meanwhile, Malacañang spurned the "reckless" proposal of the Human Rights Watch (HRW) to create an independent commission to investigate the alleged involvement of police officers in the killing of people allegedly involved in illegal drugs.
Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo stressed that the international human rights watchdog's recommendation intrudes the Philippines' domestic affairs.
"This proposal by the Human Rights Watch (HRW) for the creation of an independent commission to go after police officers allegedly involved in the killing of drug suspects smacks of another effort of this moribund group, which projects itself as a human rights organization, to intrude into our domestic affairs," Panelo said in a statement.
Panelo said HRW's "inference from an interview of a lone police official cannot be a valid ground for such reckless proposal."
"This is not new and is no different from those hurled by desperate critiques of this administration since Day 1 of the President's war against illegal drugs," he said.
"This group's latest effort to use media to resurrect an old issue clearly aims to undermine the integrity of the government's institutional mechanisms," he added.
Panelo insisted that the country has existing and functioning mechanisms to ensure that human rights are protected, citing the Internal Affairs Service (IAS) of the PNP, the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) and Congress.
Panelo stressed that government does not need "schooling from outsiders on how to run the country."
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After recording the script in windows recorder it got suuccessfully passed but After uploading to portal and configuring the test , I am getting error 31004: Wait for page complete timeout.
We have the soft deadline and the hard deadline only visible under the internal mode of Windows Recorder. The default soft deadline is 60s per the step level and 180s per the transaction level. The default hard deadline is 90s per the step level and 240s per the transaction level. Increasing wait time of any wait actions can take effect after increasing the soft deadline and the hard deadline in the scripts.
Please submit a ticket to our support team when you need to increase the wait time in the scripts.
Please refer to the definitions of these two parameters below.
The Soft Deadline applies to the cumulative network time recorded for a given page, or for the entire transaction level. Network time includes all the response times that Dynatrace Synthetic reports, with the exception of Client Time.
The Hard Deadline applies to the same things as the Soft Deadline. The only difference is that if the Hard Deadline threshold is met, the data is automatically cut from the database. Usually, this deadline is reached when the agent is stalled on a particularly large object on the page.
For more information about timeouts for the Wait action, see Wait actions in the documentation. For information about error codes, see Dynatrace Synthetic return codes and error codes.
It would be most helpful to have the test describe the element or condition that is causing the timeout. It's pretty unusual that a page takes >60 sec to load. If it does, it's normally problematic, and the error condition is valid. However, it's also difficult to break down the waterfall and headers to determine the actual element causing the timeout to occur.
I totally agree - we have resorted to putting things like validations and "wait for validations' in their own steps with names to indicate what they are waiting for, so when the test fails we at least know what action in the step failed. As for which page element may have caused the timeout? Yeah, that would be extremely helpful!
Could be very poor performance from the node it's running from. I would increase the timeout on that wait in the recorder (the default is 60s) and see if it ever completes. Are there any other details you can provide such as a waterfall from the test where you can see other objects loading succesfully?
Can you try increasing that timeout in the recorder?
I increased the wait time for 150s ,still same error coming.
One more thing ,the script is working fine with Chrome Agent but getting failed in IE and Firefox Agent.
That's not very unusual. Different browsers will play the same test differently since they can have different elements and different browsers also don't always fire the same 'events'. It's possible that the page complete event isn't occurring at all in IE and FireFox hence it is waiting forever and reaching the timeout.
In the recorder did you try playing it back in FireFox and IE or only in Chrome?
In windows recorder I tried with IE and Firefox as well , Script getting failed in both the browser agent .It is only passed when I select playback agent as Chrome.
In Firefox it is failing in second step giving ERROR :Page Soft Deadline Exceeded & Page Hard Deadline Exceeded .Even I increased the wait time to 150s.
It definitely sounds like the event it is waiting for in your wait does not occur in those browsers leading to it spinning until it reaches the deadline. I would try switching the wait to another option, such as a different event, a validation, or network activity completion and see if that works better. It's not unusual to require slight modifications to the versions of tests running in different browsers as they do have their own unique characteristics that can cause issues.
Are you saying we should be recording on Chrome only?


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Psychic 'who predicted Covid and Trump's defeat' warns pandemic 'will last until 2022'
byBiesloaded Nigeria November 23, 2020 0 Comments
A self-proclaimed psychic and regression therapist has warned that the effects of the coronavirus pandemic could last throughout the next year after turning his powers to predicting the future.
Nicolas Aujula has claimed he foresaw the devastating Covid-19 virus pandemic which crippled the world in 2020 – and has offered a mixed prediction for the next year over the continued fight against the virus.
The 35-year-old from London claims he receives his predictions from visions that are at times "very literal", while on other occasions can be "symbolic", and dreamlike and more open to interpretation.
Nicolas claims he foresaw global protests, an 'influenza' disaster, and even the fall of Donald Trump from office as US President before 2020 began.
Speaking to The Mirror, Nicolas has delved into the future again to suggest what he thinks will happen to the coronavirus pandemic in the coming year.
He told the publication: "One thing people have asked me about a lot this year is the coronavirus.
"I have visions of it plateauing after the new year and infection rates being right down to the point where they are under control by the spring."
However, he added a caveat, stating: "But, I predict that the panic and restrictions around the virus will go on until 2022."
Nicolas claims he had an "overwhelming" out of body experience when he was 17-years-old in which he saw all of his past lives, which included being an Egyptian queen, a maid, a deer, a lion, and even an extraterrestrial from another galaxy.
While he says he had experienced psychic powers since he was a child, it was this vision during his later teenage years that prompted him to abandon plans to study economics and history at university and instead train as a past life regression therapist.
Nicolas has revealed how he foresaw the disasters of 2020 as long as two years ago.
He explained: "Back in 2018, the word influenza kept coming to me. It stuck in my mind, as it's not a word I'd use. If I was talking in everyday life, I would just say flu.
"I saw it as a global disaster, linked to meat or livestock.
"The Covid-19 pandemic has been compared to the Spanish flu outbreak, hence the word influenza and some people think it originated at a wildlife market in Wuhan, China.
"I also envisioned the defeat of Donald Trump. The US election was obviously very neck-and-neck, so it was surreal seeing my vision come true when Joe Biden finally took the lead."
He has also claimed to have predicted Black Lives Matter protests, Ariana Grande's 2020 Grammy Awards dress, and health services around the world being under strain.
Those who seek more science-based predictions of the future will be encouraged that the fight against Covid-19 may be turning a corner.
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A trip down TikTok's rabbit hole
Business People and Community
First-year biology major Maddie Terry checks TikTok for new videos daily. Photo: Mike Montero/University of Miami
By Ashley A. Williams and Janette Neuwahl Tannen
TikTok's rapid rise in popularity presents a business opportunity, as well as concerns about privacy and censorship.
University of Miami sophomore Aliya Redd was studying for her finals outside the Shalala Student Center last week when she decided to take a break.
She pointed her phone toward her and began doing "The Woah," rotating her hands and pumping her shoulders to the beat of the song playing.
Redd wasn't just dancing for fun though. She was recording a TikTok video. She recently downloaded the application, and like millions of other young adults, she was hooked.
"All of my friends and my sister have TikTok so they wanted me to make one—I gave in and downloaded the app yesterday and it's kind of addictive," said Redd, a biochemistry major.
In the past few months, TikTok has skyrocketed in popularity, especially among people under the age of 24, who make up more than 40 percent of the app's estimated 500 million active users worldwide, reports from the analytics firm Sensor Tower indicate. It is also the second most downloaded free app among iPhone users, only currently surpassed by Disney+.
TikTok users create 15-second lighthearted videos, often set to music, that will loop until the viewer decides to swipe to a new clip. Video creators can also use filters to add words or pictures that will appear on their video, as well as special effects. Or users can simply watch.
Viral musicians such as Lil Nas X and Blanco Brown had their careers catapulted into stardom because of TikTok, and celebrities like Will Smith and University of Miami alumnus Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson use the platform as an expressive tool and avenue to connect with their fans.
Started by the Chinese company ByteDance in 2017, TikTok is the successor to Musical.ly, a karaoke app. Yet, TikTok improved upon its earlier model by using artificial intelligence and machine learning to zero in on the types of videos each user prefers. That keeps users on the app longer.
"Honestly, I used to hate it. It was something that I used to make fun of but then I starting watching," said first-year student and biology major, Maddie Terry.
She blames her old roommate for her new pastime.
"I've even been featured in some of her videos dancing. Now, it's a daily thing for me to toggle between TikTok and other social media apps," she said.
Jacobo Salvarriaga, a senior mechanical engineering major, downloaded TikTok after a few friends had reposted videos on their Instagram.
"I was bored of the other social media apps because they lack creativity," he said. "TikTok is more entertaining than other social media."
Now, he has to limit himself from watching it too much. Salvarriaga tries not to use it every day because when he does, a few minutes turn into two hours.
"I love it," he said.
Biomedical engineering major Melissa Suarez also downloaded TikTok because her friends were posting videos from it. She now uses the app daily and admitted sheepishly that she spends hours on it unintentionally.
"You lose track of time," she said.
When asked what video hooked her, Suarez paused for a few seconds and then remembered the adorable dog videos that populate her feed.
"It's the corgis that get me," she said, referring to the Welsh Corgi breed.
TikTok's fast growing success and the idea that it can reach so many people across the world makes it a fascinating business that is attractive to advertisers. It is also an alluring outlet for social media influencers who endorse products to their followers, said Michael Wilson, senior lecturer and faculty director of entrepreneurship programs at the Miami Herbert Business School.
"TikTok has perfected their algorithm," said Wilson, who has worked with many application companies including the free ride-sharing app started by three UM graduates called Freebee. "It's like a billboard that blinks."
However, since TikTok's parent company is based in China, many are questioning how users' data is stored. Computer science and engineering lecturer Lokesh Ramamoorthi, who teaches cybersecurity, said those considering downloading the app should proceed with caution because hackers can manipulate the videos to create inappropriate content. Also, anyone with foul intentions could contact a TikTok user through the comments section below videos or in a message.
"People should be skeptical about the app before downloading it or uploading any content on TikTok because even though the company publicly denied that there is any spying by the Chinese government, as with any app, there's no way to verify that they are not doing it," he said. "Anything we upload is stored on the servers of TikTok, and if you do not manage your privacy settings, anyone can see the videos."
Students do not seem to share the same concerns about privacy.
"I feel like [apps] have a lot of control over most things anyway, so if it's not TikTok, they could find some other source," Suarez said.
Yet TikTok is the first social media app from China to catch the world's attention. That has caused recent concerns about censorship from the U.S. government, which opened an investigation into the app after a video was taken down that criticized the Chinese government.
Tyler Walsh, a sophomore double majoring in broadcast journalism and psychology, understands the need for applications to limit hurtful comments. However, he also feels that TikTok users should have creative freedom.
"What damage is TikTok going to do in terms of furthering politics within the country?" said Walsh. "I don't know everything that's happening in China, but I do understand that they have to limit some things for security reasons, but it's just an app for users to have fun."
To follow University of Miami's official TikTok accounts, visit @miami.hurricanes, @um_sebastian, and @univmiami.


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The renowned Stupa Restaurant and The Heritage Convention Centre, are part of the hotel.
The hotel has 75 elegant rooms and suites, a rooftop bar, a gym, a pool and spa and antiques everywhere you look.


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Professor Emeritus Datuk Dr Shad Saleem Faruqi is a Malaysian legal scholar and professor of law at the University of Malaya, currently holding the Tunku Abdul Rahman Chair as Professor of Constitutional Law. He is also the fourth holder of the Tun Hussein Onn Chair in International Studies at the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia effective July 2019 to June 2021.
He has served Universiti Teknologi MARA in Shah Alam, Selangor in various capacities from 1971 onwards. He served as the Head of the Diploma in Law programme (1979–1984), as Assistant Rector (1996–1999), Assistant Vice-Chancellor (1999–2001) and Legal Advisor (1996–2006, 2010–2017).

He has also served in the faculties of law at the International Islamic University Malaysia, part-time at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and a visiting professor/Honorary Legal Adviser/Holder of the Tun Sambanthan Chair at Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang.

Education
He was educated in Colonel Brown Cambridge School and  at the age of 19, Shad Faruqi graduated from Wesleyan University in the United States with a degree in Government. He went on to complete his LLB (First Class, First Position) and LLM (First Class, First Position) from Aligarh Muslim University, India and his PhD from International Islamic University Malaysia where he was supervised by the renowned Tan Sri Prof Ahmad bin Ibrahim.

Work and contributions
In 1991 as part of an Asia Foundation Project, he drafted the constitution of the Republic of Maldives.
He was a one-time member and Secretary-General of the Manila-based Congressional Research and Training Services that conducted several institutional efficacy courses for legislators from many third world countries. He has presented seminar papers in the USA, UK, Germany, Iran, Kenya, Sudan, Maldives, India, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Hong Kong, Australia and Japan. He has helped to draft several international documents including the Kuala Lumpur Declaration to Criminalize War and a document for the UN on Protection for Places of Worship. He is a sitting Judge on the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal. He is an Executive Council member of the Kuala Lumpur-based International Centre for Law and Legal Studies.

At the national level, he has been called upon on several occasions to draft national legislation. On behalf of Institut Teknologi MARA he drafted the Institut Teknologi MARA (Amendment) Bill 1996 that went on to become an Act of Parliament. In 1999 he drafted the Universiti Teknologi MARA (Amendment) Bill that was enacted by Parliament as Act A1073. The Act converted Institut Teknologi MARA into a full-fledged university.

At the end of 2004, the Barisan Nasional Back-Benchers Club of the Parliament of Malaysia appointed him as a consultant to advise them on reforming and empowering Parliament in the face of the executive branch's dominance of the Malaysian Government.

In 2006, the Minister of Education appointed him Chairman of a Committee to propose amendments to the Universities and University Colleges Act 1971 [Act 30]. The Committee's recommendations were adopted as law in early 2009. In 2008, he drafted the new 'Apex Constitution' of Universiti Sains Malaysia. In 2010 he was reappointed to a committee to review the Universities and University Colleges Act 1971 [Act 30]. He is also a member of the Apex University Initiative; a Distinguished Fellow of the Institute of Strategic Studies; and one-time member of the Malaysian Human Rights Commission's Education Sub-Committee.

Awards and honours
In 2008, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia's first "apex university", appointed him as a Visiting Professor. Later he was appointed an Honorary Legal Advisor and the first holder of the Tun Sambanthan Chair. In 2009 UiTM honoured him with the University's first Emeritus Professorship award. In 2009, the Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King) of Malaysia honoured him with the federal title of "Datuk".

Honours of Malaysia
  : Honorary Companion of the Order of Loyalty to the Crown of Malaysia (J.S.M.) (2000)
  : Commander of the Order of Meritorious Service (P.J.N.) (2009)

Authorship

Articles
Between 1982–1985 Dr Shad contributed periodic articles and editorials to the New Straits Times. During 2001 and 2002 he authored a regular weekly column "Facets of Our Constitution" for the Sunday Star. His column "Document of Destiny" appeared in The Sun from 2006 to 2007. Presently he writes a fortnightly column "Reflecting on the Law" for the Star. he has written the following articles:
Faruqi, Shad Saleem The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission & War Crimes Tribunal.
Faruqi, Shad Saleem Freedom of religion under the Constitution.
Faruqi, Shad Saleem (18 November 2009). Understanding Our Basic Rights.

Books
Dr Shad is the author of Human Rights, Globalisation and the Asian Economic Crisis, Islam International Law and the War Against Terrorism, Islam, Democracy and Development,Document of Destiny: The Constitution of the Federation of Malaysia and "The Bedrock of Our Nation: Our Constitution". He is the co-author of Media Law & Regulations in Malaysia and Co-editor of "Decolonising Our Universities – Towards a Non-Eurocentric Paradigm". He has contributed over 350 articles to legal periodicals, anthologies and newspapers and has presented over 300 seminar papers in 15 countries including the US, UK, Australia, Germany and Japan.

References

Ahmad, Zainon & Phang, Lew-Ann (1 October 2005). . The Sun.
Lim, Kit Siang (2005). "Birth of a Parliamentary Committee System at last?". Retrieved 26 October 2005.
Speech by Prof Dr Shad Saleem Faruqi at the launch of his book, "Document of Destiny, The Constitution of the federation of Malaysia" (27 June 2008). .
Yuen, Meikeng (30 July 2009). Prof: 1Malaysia must address ethnic composition in civil service.
New Straits Times (26 July 2009). Inquest into sudden death mandatory, says expert.
Eminent Persons Lecture Series, Universiti Teknologi MARA (4 November 2008). .
Theophilus, Claudia (7 May 2007). Malaysian family split by faith. .

Living people
Academic staff of the University of Malaya
Wesleyan University alumni
Academic staff of the International Islamic University Malaysia
1946 births
Faculty of Law, Aligarh Muslim University alumni
Commanders of the Order of Meritorious Service
Honorary Companions of the Order of Loyalty to the Crown of Malaysia

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June 17, 2008, Columbus, OH — OFA, an Association of Floriculture Professionals will host its annual OFA Short Course from July 12-15, in Columbus, Ohio. Some 130 educational sessions have been scheduled.
Discovering the Synergy of Perennials, Annuals and Shrubs is the theme of this year's Greenhouse Canada Grower Day, being held June 18 at the Delhi German Hall in Delhi, Ontario.
The greenhouse industry remains one of the brightest lights in Canadian agriculture, despite a not as glowing as usual annual report issued recently by Statistics Canada. During my dozen or so years with the magazine, the federal statistical agency has every year pointed to significant growth by this sector.
When you think of greenhouse vegetable operations in the Leamington/Kingsville region of southwestern Ontario, you tend to think of sprawling individual ranges of 10 or 20 acres – or more – of production. Rows extending out towards the horizon, or so it would seem! That's certainly the typical image that's evolved over the past decade or so.
There's always considerable interest, both at home and abroad, in work being done at North America's largest greenhouse vegetable research centre.
The Canadian greenhouse industry has long been known for its culture of innovation. Yields improve every year. Niche market opportunities are developed. Fine-tuning, trialling and optimizing are constants.
Ontario farmers currently have nothing to fear by the province's proposed Cosmetic Pesticides Ban Act. Or do they?


Modular housing proposal for student campuses, January 2016. The design was inspired by current modular housing, in which easy to recycle material is used. This project was done primarily in Sketchup and Photoshop, to illustrate how the project would look like on university grounds.


United Way of Lebanon County focuses on those three "Building Block" areas: health, education, and financial stability, in addition to the basic needs and safety net services necessary for a good life. Our small team of Lebanon County natives is augmented by a strong Board of Directors, active community volunteers, and a variety of committees and partnerships.
We work collaboratively with corporate partners, service agencies, and other local organizations to ensure that resources (knowledge and capital) are appropriately aligned to address the needs in our community.
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Rewolucyjny Komitet Wojskowy Kraju Estońskiego – instytucja powołana przez partię bolszewicką w okresie rewolucji październikowej jako sztab i pierwszy organ wojskowo-porządkowy.

Komitet utworzono 4 listopada 1918, w jego skład wchodzili m.in.
Iwan Rabczyński;
Jaan Anvelt,
Viktor Kingissepp.

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Wojna domowa w Rosji 1917–1921


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Fox Sports Brings On BTN's Mark Silverman To Be President Of National Networks
Fox Sports hired MARK SILVERMAN as President of National Networks, a position that has been open since July when the net fired JAMIE HOROWITZ. Silverman, who currently is president of Big Ten Network, will have a bigger role than Horowitz, in that he will oversee all programming, production, marketing and digital for Fox Sports, FS1 and FS2.
Silverman will oversee all the live events and studio shows produced by those nets. Silverman, who was hired 11 years ago as BTN's first and only president, will also continue to oversee that channel. He will relocate from Chicago to L.A. and report to Fox Sports President & COO ERIC SHANKS. He starts Jan. 16. His direct reports include Fox Sports President of Production JOHN ENTZ, Exec VP/Programming, Live Operations & Research BILL WAGNER, Exec VP/Content CHARLIE DIXON and Exec VP/Marketing ROBERT GOTTLIEB.
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Submitted by Lia Fletcher on Wednesday, Apr 2nd, 2014
If acting chops are supposed to be something innate, then why is there a need for acting classes? Many people misconstrue acting as something akin to reading and memorizing scripts, and crying, laughing or going ballistic on cue. But it's farther than the truth.
Just like with any other artistic talent, acting needs to be forged in order for it to become a skill. Nobody becomes a star overnight with acting talents alone. If your aspiration is to be an actor or actress, you may take courses to obtain a degree in Associates of Fine Arts for Acting. These classes offer you knowledge, insights, training and even hands-on experience in a more in-depth and structured way. It has more perks, too!
Taking classes in acting could:
Bring you out of your shell. Got stage fright? Are you extremely shy? Taking an acting class can make you face your (public speaking) fears by building up your confidence and teaching you techniques on how to keep yourself calm and focused when you're in front of hundreds of people. In addition, it will teach you how to protect yourself with poise, finesse and confidence.
Make you well versed in literature. Yes, acting classes can do that to you. Where else can get more exposure to the famous works of well-known playwrights, from Shakespeare to Chekov?
Give you a more in-depth understanding of the characters. Many people mistake acting as merely reading out lines and crying and laughing when necessary. But that's not how acting is supposed to work. In order for you to become a good thespian, you need to delve into the psyche of the character you're portraying. You need to know his or her inner-most thoughts, desires and motivations. If you can, you need to be a psychologist in order to understand or portray the character better. Think of your acting class as a crash-course in psychology.
It makes you a better writer. You didn't see this coming. But if you want to gain more inspirations, create better characters and become more observant (a skill any writer must possess), then by all means, take acting classes.
Taking courses for Associates of Fine Arts for Acting may not be mandatory but it's a good route to take. Moreover, if you decide you want to further your knowledge in acting you may also pursue your degree in Bachelors of Fine arts for Acting after completing the AFA. The rigorous training you undergo and, of course, the connections you make in your drama classes will certainly come in handy later on.
Looking to become an actor or actress? Get more information on art degree programs in your area and online using our Art School Finder.
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Ontario is supporting the next generation of Indigenous leaders with new sport and recreation opportunities for Indigenous youth across the province.
Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport Eleanor McMahon was at the 2017 National Aboriginal Physical Activity and Wellness Conference in Guelph today to announce the province's support for a number of programs to enhance Indigenous youth's physical, emotional and spiritual well-being, including:
New funding for 12 leadership-in-training camps and more than 40 community camps, to prepare Indigenous youth across Ontario to be leaders in their communities by developing traditional knowledge, improving language skills and fostering leadership skills.
New support to help urban, rural and remote Indigenous youth get involved in competitive sports, through the Sport Pathway for Ontario Native Wellness program. This funding is expected to help a number of youth participate in the 2017 North American Indigenous Games.
Continued support for a dedicated "activator" in 27 First Nations communities, through the Community Aboriginal Recreation Activator program. This person will create a recreation plan for their local community to deliver physical activity programming that could include Elder walks, canoeing or baseball.
By working with Indigenous communities and organizations to provide culturally appropriate experiences to revitalize cultural knowledge, Indigenous youth will build a stronger sense of self, acquire skills to set them up for success and be able to move forward on a path towards healing and reconciliation.
Supporting Indigenous youth is one of the many steps on Ontario's journey of reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples. As part of The Journey Together: Ontario's Commitment to Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples, this initiative reflects the government's commitment to work with Indigenous partners, creating a better future for everyone in the province.
"As we work towards reconciliation, we are partnering with Indigenous communities to build resiliency in Indigenous youth through culturally relevant sport and recreation activities. By creating opportunities to connect with their culture, traditions and way of life, we aim to support Indigenous youth in gaining a positive sense of identity and ensure that their journey to adulthood is a successful one."
— Eleanor McMahon, Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport
"I am proud that our government is supporting an initiative rooted in language and culture to empower Indigenous youth through leadership training. The culture camps will provide young people with a solid foundation to be well-rounded, contributing members of their community. The empowerment of youth and preservation and revitalization of Indigenous languages, culture and traditional knowledge is part of our collective journey of reconciliation."
— David Zimmer, Minister of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation
Ontario is investing $4.5 million over two years to provide more than 12 leadership-in-training camps and more than 40 community camps with the Aboriginal Sport and Wellness Council of Ontario and other Indigenous organizations. These camps build on the success of the two pilot camps announced in February.
Since 2006, approximately $7.8 million has been invested in First Nation communities through the Community Aboriginal Recreation Activator Program.
The Aboriginal Sport and Wellness Council of Ontario will receive $3.9 million over three years for the Sport Pathway for Ontario Native Wellness program.
The Ontario government is investing $3.5 million over three years to support the Aboriginal Sport and Wellness Council of Ontario in hosting the 2017 North American Indigenous Games in the GTHA – the first time these Games are coming to Ontario.
Aboriginal Sport and Wellness Council of Ontario
The Journey Together: Ontario's Commitment to Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples
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Getting Ahead at Work»
How Much Do OB Gyn Office Nurses Get Paid?
by Dana Severson
OB/GYN nurses can earn more than other specialized nurses.
1 Comparison of Pediatric Nurse Salary to a Registered Nurse's Salary
2 How Much Does a Neurosurgery Nurse Make?
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4 How Much Can an Oncology Pediatric Nurse Earn?
The path to becoming a nurse often begins with college. You're looking at earning a bachelor of science degree or an associate's degree in nursing. But nurses may hold a number of specialties, and you can go on to earn certifications that narrow your focus in medicine. OB/GYN nurses are typically certified in subspecialties such as obstetrics, gynecology, labor and delivery, perinatal and neonatal. Holding a certification can improve your job prospects, and could increase your earnings.
Salary Overview
In 2011, licensed practical nurses averaged $42,040 a year, while registered nurses earned an average of $69,110 a year. Because high salaries in industries such as personal care, can skew these figures, median wage is often a better indicator of earnings. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates the median wage of an LPN at $41,150 a year, and an RN at $65,590 a year. All of these salaries, however, fail to account for unit type. Nurses in OB/GYN are paid a different scale than those working in emergency medicine, for example.
A survey by Wolters Kluwer Health, a global information services company, found that OB/GYN nurses earned closer to $58,300 a year in 2011. This salary is higher than those working in geriatrics or pediatrics, who earn $54,200 and $54,300, respectively. But OB/GYN isn't the top-paid position for nurses. This honor goes to perianesthesia/operating room nurses, whose salaries are estimated at $71,500 a year. At a close second is emergency medicine, with an average salary of $71,200 a year.
As with any job, location affects salaries. OB/GYN nurses working in Los Angeles, for example, earn an average of $88,718 a year, while those New York City earn an average of $85,485 a year. A Houston-based OB/GYN nurse also fares better than most, averaging $77,042 a year, reports the Economic Research Institute. Those in Orlando, Florida, however, earn closer to the average, making just over $61,000 a year.
The number of jobs for registered nurses is expected to grow by 26 percent from 2010 to 2020, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This compares to the 14 percent job growth projected for all U.S. occupations. The reason is simple. As the population continues to grow, so will the need for medical professionals, including nurses, which should drive health-care facilities to hire additional staff.
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocations Nurses
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Registered Nurses
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Occupational Outlook Handbook – Registered Nurses
Wolters Kluwer Health: Nursing 2011 Salary and Benefits Survey Report
Economic Research Institute: OG/GYN Clinical Nurse Salary Survey Data
Based in Minneapolis, Minn., Dana Severson has been writing marketing materials for small-to-mid-sized businesses since 2005. Prior to this, Severson worked as a manager of business development for a marketing company, developing targeted marketing campaigns for Big G, Betty Crocker and Pillsbury, among others.
Severson, Dana. "How Much Do OB Gyn Office Nurses Get Paid?" Work - Chron.com, http://work.chron.com/much-ob-gyn-office-nurses-paid-12974.html. Accessed 18 July 2019.
Severson, Dana. (n.d.). How Much Do OB Gyn Office Nurses Get Paid? Work - Chron.com. Retrieved from http://work.chron.com/much-ob-gyn-office-nurses-paid-12974.html
Severson, Dana. "How Much Do OB Gyn Office Nurses Get Paid?" accessed July 18, 2019. http://work.chron.com/much-ob-gyn-office-nurses-paid-12974.html
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Example: The inexperience of two young Gujarat players Udit Kamdar and Fenil Shah showed up at inopportune times and allowed the Grandmaster duo of Swapnil Dhopade and Himanshu Sharma escape to hard-earned victories in the ninth round of the National Challengers chess championship here on Saturday.
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package bloom;

import java.util.ResourceBundle;
import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.fxml.FXMLLoader;
import javafx.scene.Parent;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.stage.Stage;

public class MainApp extends Application {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Application.launch(MainApp.class, args);
    }

    @Override
    public void start(Stage stage) throws Exception {
        Parent root = FXMLLoader.load(getClass().getResource("view/Index.fxml"),
                ResourceBundle.getBundle("bloom.lang.es"));
        Scene scene = new Scene(root, 640, 480);
        scene.getStylesheets().add("bloom/view/css/Index.css");
        stage.setScene(scene);
        stage.show();
    }
}