Reprinted from the Marion (Ohio) Star.
Given that nearly every city or town of any consequence supported a brewery or two during the industry's turn-of-the-century heyday, it is not surprising that Marion once held a position, modest though it may have been, among the nation's great brewing cities.
Noted beer-manufacturing centers such as Philadelphia, New York, Cincinnati, and Milwaukee each boasted dozens of thriving breweries before National Prohibition (1920-1933). And how many in Marion? Well, just one. But the people of Marion took pride in their lone brewery, and in drinking a beer that was brewed right at home. Consequently, the brewery enjoyed a fairly prosperous existence for nearly twenty-five years.
It all began in 1894 when a group of area businessmen founded The Marion Brewing & Bottling Company. Mansfield business owner Frederick Walter was said to have been the primary figure behind the venture and, accordingly, he was elected the brewery's first president. By November of the following year, construction of the monumental new brewery at 640 Bellefontaine avenue was complete and the first batch of brew was begun.
However, brewing beer in the early days was not an overnight affair. The old-time brewmaster, who typically learned his craft under strict European training, had final say on all matters within the brewery, including when the beer was ready for consumption. Charles Earnest, brewmaster at the Marion brewery, was not about to release his inaugural brew even one minute before its maturity, lest his reputation be tarnished from the outset.
After nearly an entire winter's wait, the citizens of Marion were given the first taste of their hometown beer in February of 1896. Called simply "Marion Beer," about 100 kegs of the brew were released, two-thirds of which were consumed by saloons within the city. The remainder was sent to outlying areas.
Advertisements for the new Marion brew made the rather bold claim that, "The Best Beer In The World Is Made In Marion. That Is The Verdict Of All." Those wishing to put that claim to the test were initially forced to do so exclusively at saloons. Bottling for household purposes, which was often a secondary consideration for brewers, did not begin at the Marion brewery until later in the year.
Before Prohibition, as much as 90 percent of all beer was packaged in wooden kegs. Take-out beer often involved going to the local saloon with a small tin pail, called a "growler," and having the saloonkeeper fill it, usually at a cost of a nickel per growler.
Bottling was a troublesome task for early breweries, mainly due to the menacing tax restrictions which mandated that all beer be kegged initially, then bottled direct from the keg in a building separate from the brewery. The early lack of an effective bottle enclosure, too, meant frequent leakage and often resulted in spoiled beer.
Nonetheless, the Marion Brewing & Bottling Company, as suggested by its name, saw a bright future in bottled beer. Among the Marion brands which were available in bottles were Amber Ale, Cordial Brew and Walhalla Export. The latter brand was named in honor of the legend of Walhalla, a place in Scandinavian mythology where the souls of slain warriors feasted on a never-ending supply of food and drink. A colorfully titled brand name, after all, could only help to stimulate beer sales.
By about 1910, however, the Marion brewery had become best known for a brand called Banquet Brew, which was promoted vigorously as the brewery's feature product. Households were encouraged to place orders for Banquet Brew by telephoning the brewery, from whence a case of the bottled beer would be promptly delivered. This type of service reflected the brewery's strong commitment to its local market.
Indeed, The Marion Brewing & Bottling Company was truly a local entity. Nearly all of its directors, and most of its stockholders, were prominent local business owners and men of fine repute within the community. Clearly the most noted individual to be connected with the brewery was Warren G. Harding, who held stock in the Marion brewery for much of its existence. During his bid for the presidency, Harding once commented, "I am not a prohibitionist and never pretended to be...I have been owner of brewery stock for 25 years."
Among the directors of the brewery over the years were such local business figures as Timothy Fahey, president of the Fahey Banking Company; Godfrey Leffler, founder of the contracting firm of Leffler & Brand; William E. Scofield, senior member of the law firm of Scofield, Durfee & Scofield; and Oswald Wollenweber, president of the Wollenweber Lumber Company.
Despite this pool of presumably keen business savvy, the Marion brewery did not operate on a particularly large scale, even by the standards of its day. The brewery's annual capacity was reportedly 25,000 barrels (32 gallons per barrel), but its actual output seems never to have reached that capacity. In 1897, the brewery sold approximately 7,000 barrels, an amount equal to about one hour's output of any major brewer today. And a whole decade later, production had only increased to about 8,000 barrels.
Perhaps one reason for the brewery's relatively limited production was the constant threat posed by the prohibition movement. Beginning around the turn of the century, the war which had been waged against the beer and liquor industry for decades began to gain new strength. The fight was particularly active in rural Ohio, where prohibition was favored by the majority.
In 1908, the Rose Law was enacted, which allowed all Ohio counties to prohibit the operation of saloons within their boundaries by a popular vote. Marion County promptly voted to shut down all of its 49 saloons, essentially wiping out the Marion brewery's primary market.
Surprisingly, the new law was accepted with a healthy degree of optimism. Several of the city's saloons vowed to remain open, serving only non-alcoholic beverages.
The brewery began plans to produce near beer, a de-alcoholized version of real beer. A spokesman for the brewery was quoted as saying, "With the manufacture of near beer, we expect to make more money than we have through the manufacture of our present brew."
But performance of the non-alcoholic beer did not meet expectations, and the brewery was soon seeking outside markets for its original brands. As most of the surrounding counties also voted themselves "dry" under the Rose Law, the brewery undoubtedly relied heavily on the Mansfield and Columbus markets for its survival.
Despite the cries of the anti-saloon factions, abolishing the saloon, it was discovered, did not solve "the liquor problem," and Marion County returned to legalized drinking establishments in 1911.
However, the citizens of Marion County rarely ignored an opportunity to show their support for the prohibition movement. In a 1915 referendum for statewide prohibition, Marion County voted 4,726 to 3,588 in favor of prohibiting the possession, sale, and manufacture of alcoholic beverages inside Ohio.
Although that attempt failed throughout the rest of the state, a similar vote in 1918 succeeded in effecting statewide prohibition, thus spelling ruin for all of Ohio's breweries. A year later, the entire country followed suit with adoption of the National Prohibition Amendment.
The Marion brewery, like breweries nationwide, faced a bleak future. Many turned to the production of near beer, soft drinks, ice, and dairy products. But the owners of the Marion brewery, not wishing to venture the necessary capital to enter new fields, elected not to continue in business. Consequently, the brewery, which had been valued at $135,000 and had employed between fifteen and twenty-five men (depending on the season), closed its doors for good.
The old brewery buildings, stripped of all of their brewing equipment, were used for various purposes over the years. Automobiles were stored in the brewhouse during the 1920's, and the bottling plant served as warehousing for a biscuit company. By 1938, the brewery had been taken over by the Betty Zane Corn Products Company, which processed popcorn there until the 1970's. After sitting idle for a number of years, the brewery's main building was demolished in 1980, leaving only a parking lot in its place.
The saga of the Marion Brewing & Bottling Company is not unlike that of hundreds of other small American breweries which prospered before Prohibition. Little remains from the day when nearly every town of any size took pride in supporting its own hometown beer.
In Marion, two small buildings at 636 Bellefontaine avenue are all that remain of the once thriving brewery. Exhibiting few signs of their proud heritage, the buildings serve as somewhat of a humble monument to an era long forgotten.


Just a "Bird" Feeder You Say?
Review of Touch of Red and Giveaway!
Squirrels are pretty resourceful! Great pic.
Yep. I went to fill it the next day and the seed poured out the side. He chewed through that hard plastic! Now I need a new idea or a new place to hang one just for the birds.
They do amazing tricks…we call them our backyard pet.
I try to have a camera ready. They are quite the acrobats!


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Later, in 2016, Ton That Binh was a member of the winning team at the CDIO Academy in Finland, Le Dinh Nhat Khanh and his team won at the 2017 CDIO Academy in Canada and Le Quang Thanh at the 2018 CDIO Academy in Japan.
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At the 14th IDEERS event, in Taiwan in 2014, DTU was the only Vietnamese representative and beat other contestants from countries with long-time traditions in earthquake research with their "Earthquake-resistant buildings design" project. The DTU team confirmed its strength when it broke the previous IDEERS contest record, with a total of 139 points. The National Taiwan University of Science and Technology came second, 14 points behind and DTU continued to build on this success with several third and consolation prizes in the following years.
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Doan Thi Thu Ha (left) and Nguyen Thi Thanh received the Women in Business Award in the US
DTU won second prize in the 2018 Go Green in the City East Asia regional finals in August 2018, so Doan Thi Thu Ha and Nguyen Thi Thanh traveled to the finals in Atlanta with their "Braking system to convert friction into electrical energy" project. They competed with teams from the US, China, Germany, Algeria, Indonesia, Brazil, India, Spain and Canada and won the Women in Business Award, one of the three most prestigious prizes in the contest. The award recognized the intelligence and creativity of the two young women and helped promote gender equality in technology and engineering in Vietnam and globally.
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DTU students won a third prize at the 2019 ASEAN Student Information Security contest
The 2018 ISITDTU CTF team had already won several major big prizes in other online information security contests beforehand and took first place in Vietnam and 61st in the world in the CTFtime ranking of 2018.
Since 2015, DTU students have won first prizes at the Central Vietnam Student Information Security contest primaries. In the finals of the 2019 ASEAN Student Information Security contest, the DTU team won third prize and outshone teams from the Academy of Cryptography Techniques, the Hanoi University of Science & Technology and the People's Security Academy, as well as teams from Thailand, Singapore and Myanmar.
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PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc awarding the first prize in IT to the DTU group
In 2017, PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc awarded DTU researchers a first prize in IT for their project entitled "3D Virtual Reality Technology to Simulate the Human Body for Health Science Education and Research" at the 2017 Vietnam Talent Awards, which also won a Sao Khue Award from the Vietnam Software and IT Services Association.
The work portrays an almost complete 3D model of human systems and organs, by visualizing each organ and its specific anatomical details. The user can interact directly by rotating, hiding, displaying, moving, marking and animating movement, using a 3D projector, 3D glasses or virtual reality (VR) glasses. The product was highly appreciated for its practical effectiveness in health sciences education at universities.
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After a remarkable performance in the finals of the 2018 Eureka Student Research Prize, Le Van Thang, from the Tourism Culture major in Humanities & Social Sciences won a third prize. He outscored 14 other social sciences and humanities research projects with his submission "Quang Regional Rivers and Sea Folk Songs from a Neocritical Point of View", based on traditional folk songs, reinterpreted to focus on ecocriticism.
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Dr Nguyen The Duong, Dean of the DTU Faculty of Civil Engineering, with the students winning a second prize at the 2014 Loa Thanh prize
Loa Thanh is a prestigious prize for student graduation projects in architecture and construction. Engineers participate from prestigious universities nationwide and, in 2010, Dang Xuan Nam from DTU won first prize, followed by several second and third prizes between 2013 and 2019.
One of the first things that the judges look for is good drawing skills, in addition to meeting the general criteria of knowledge synthesis and scientific, practical and esthetic capabilities. DTU students also demonstrated humanistic values with the ability to create overall beauty in their projects. This difference allows DTU students to win big prizes.
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The national Architecture Festival is jointly organized biennially by the Association of Vietnamese Architects and Vietnamese universities offering architecture education. At the 2018 festival, DTU was the only representative from Central Vietnam and ended on the list of universities with the highest achievements:
First prize in Art awarded to Group 2, with project "Switch"
First prize in Photography to Group 18, with "Vertical axis of heritage"
One second, one third and one consolation prize in the Quick Design A round
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At the 2016 Architecture Festival, DTU students previously won one first, six second, six third and one "lucky" prize. For the achievements of DTU lecturers and students of Architecture over the years, the Association of Vietnamese Architects and the National Architect Training Club awarded the university rotating banners to host the national Student Architecture Festival in 2020.
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Feminist Theory Essay by Master Researcher
A debate on the complexities of feminism.
# 88239 | 1,125 words | 5 sources | 2006 |
Published on Dec 01, 2006 in Women Studies (Feminism)
This paper discusses the difficulty of claiming women as the chief subject of feminism. It is supposed that feminism is about the liberation of women who currently live in a system dominated by men. The paper compares and contrasts the views of structuralists and deconstructivism.
"It is often taken for granted that women are the chief subject of feminism. It is supposed that feminism is about the liberation of women, who currently live in a system dominated by men. However, feminist analysis itself has revealed the problems with this easy assumption. In particular, deconstructivism has been used to deconstruct the very concept of "women," and structuralists have demonstrated how the concept is socially and linguistically constructed. Thus, the key problem with claiming women as the subject of feminism is of course that it presupposes we know what "women" are - yet much feminist analysis directly challenges this notion."
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Feminist Theory (2006, December 01) Retrieved January 21, 2021, from https://www.academon.com/essay/feminist-theory-88239/
"Feminist Theory" 01 December 2006. Web. 21 January. 2021. <https://www.academon.com/essay/feminist-theory-88239/>
Feminist Theory: Critique Of Adler
A critique of Adler's feminist theory.
Feminist Theory in Adult Education
Looks at the issues and problems in female adult education.
Criminological Theories
A review and discussion regarding four different criminal theories: differential association theory, strain theory, routine activity theory, and a feminist theory.
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The Miccosukee story has been a story of survival through adaptation. They originally belonged to the Creek Confederacy; however, they migrated to Florida before it became part of the United States. During the Indian Wars of the 1800s, most of the Miccosukee were removed to the West, but a few families escaped and hid in the Everglades. They now number about 500 people. In order to escape the soldiers during the 1800s, the Miccosukees spread out through the Everglades with only one large family to a tree island, or hammock, as they call it. They used to travel by dugout canoes to hunt, visit each other, or trade. Some of the old canoes, each hollowed from a single cypress log, are displayed in the village. One canoe took almost two years to carve but they lasted a long time. The Miccosukees never settled in one community like the Indians on reservations in the West. They have always been rather independent. They stayed to themselves in the Everglades for about 100 years, resisting efforts to make them like everybody else, but when the highway, Tamiami Trail, was built in the 19230s, the Miccosukees started to accept some of the new world's concepts. In 1962, The Miccosukees were federally recognized as an Indian Tribe, thus separating Miccosukee from the Seminole Tribe. The tribe now has complete education, health and public safety departments, which combine appropriate aspects of Indian and nonIndian practices. Through all these changes, the Miccosukees have kept their own identity and language. They still celebrate their Green Corn Dance each spring. In that sacred ceremony, the clans get together and for four days, they sing and dance and celebrate the gift of the corn that renews them and is the secret of their tribal strength. Their Indian medicine knowledge remains strong, and the young people are educated in the Miccosukee traditional folklore.


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This Thursday, November 24th, took place at CATÓLICA-LISBON the Conference "Responsible Leadership for a Portugal with Future", in partnership with Expresso newspaper. The conference had as its purpose the presentation of the study "Responsible Leadership: what is it and what path for Portugal?" carried out by researchers of the Católica Lisbon School of Business & Economics.
In the year that celebrates 50 years of history, CATÓLICA-LISBON officially opened its anniversary celebrations with a conference that debated such a current and pertinent topic as Responsible Leadership. With an eye at the future but always living the present, the study presented focused on the exhaustive analysis of the existing literature on Responsible Leadership, also developing an empirical part of interviews and questionnaires to hundreds of business leaders, which explained the dichotomy between the studies and the perception of reality.
Framed in the celebration of CATÓLICA-LISBON's 50 years, the conference, lectured by names such as Filipe Santos, Dean of CATÓLICA-LISBON, Nuno Moreira da Cruz, Director of the Center for Responsible Business & Leadership of CATÓLICA-LISBON, Francisca Saldanha, Professor and Principal Researcher of the study, Isabel Ucha, Presidents of the Board of Directors of Euronext Lisbon, João Pedro Tavares, President of the Christian Association of Businessmen and Managers, Ricardo Pires, CEO of SEMAPA and Rita Sousa Almeida, President of CATÓLICA-LISBON Students Union, we had the opportunity to debate the behaviors and options of responsible leaders, and the best way to balance the interests of different stakeholders, in a demanding leadership practice that builds a more sustainable future.
CATÓLICA-LISBON is a school of reference worldwide and, therefore, wanted to kick off this celebration of five decades of achievements not only with a celebration but also with something as important as sharing knowledge about the practice of leadership, something that the school has developed since its foundation. For Filipe Santos, Dean of CATÓLICA-LISBON, the main concern of the school has always been to "create a strong community focused on knowledge, learning and action because knowledge without action has no effect. Therefore, this conference serves precisely for the sharing of experiences and for the bet on responsible leadership as a tool for the future".
Making the world a better place is the motto. The younger generations are helping today's leaders to be more responsible, and, above all, they aspire to be responsible leaders. Who says so is the young student Rita Sousa Almeida, President of the CATÓLICA-LISBON Students Union. "The leaders, in the time of my parents, saw themselves in a very different way. As owners of the company, they believed and defended that they could do everything by themselves. Now it's not quite like that anymore. What is expected of the leaders of the present and the future - and I hope that I too will be that leader - is to be more dynamic, more proactive, that they have more vision of the future and that they want to accompany it, not individually but as a team". The student also appeals to "not to stop giving importance to the team members, because only with everyone rowing in the same direction will we bring more results", she defended.
Responsible Leadership. After all, what is it and how is it practiced?
There is no denying that the social and professional paradigm has been changing in recent years. New generations are taking on a new vision on issues linked to the labour market, sustainability, and social responsibility. Companies should look at this vision evolutionarily and positively, adapting to the new demands of society and looking with other eyes at their business strategies.
"Responsible leaders must possess the following skills: stakeholder relations, ethics and values, self-knowledge, understanding of systems, change and innovation", can be read in the study conducted by CATÓLICA-LISBON. In short, those who continue to manage businesses merely focused on financial results will hardly adapt to the new reality and evolving professional context.
The results obtained through the questionnaires and interviews, reaffirmed by Francisca Saldanha, Professor at CATÓLICA-LISBON, and Principal Investigator of the Study during the conference, indicate that the "way forward to be a successful company is to go beyond what is established by law, and to take initiative in the search for increasingly responsible and more ethical solutions".
In the questionnaires carried out, there were identified five main characteristics as the most relevant for responsible leadership, and this should be the way forward:
Source of inspiration
Nuno Moreira da Cruz, director of the Center for Responsible Business & Leadership, says that "there is a link between sustainable companies, in the holistic sense, and financial results in the medium and long term. Society's demands have been changing opinions about responsible leadership. It is important that leadership in the future increase's engagement with stakeholders".
Good leadership can bring good financial results and creates more humane companies - that is what we believe. Therefore, there are some advantages of the implementation of Responsible Leadership that we think are fundamental to heightening:
Huge potential to retain talent
A motivated and aligned team
Identification of new opportunities to create value
Easy access to resources committed to sustainability
For Isabel Ucha, Chairman of the Board of Euronext Lisbon, the new generations are putting clear pressure on administrations to take them to a more egalitarian position "which is great", namely by demanding more women in management positions.
What is the way forward for Portugal in this step towards the future?
Portugal must keep its eyes on the future to keep up with the current market trends - and not only. In its DNA, CATÓLICA-LISBON is proud to share this common belief: that training responsible leaders with self-knowledge, able to perceive the world and frame its challenges, will lead us to a better world, striving to adopt innovative and fruitful educational practices regarding the training of young people - the future of society.
In this context, Nuno Moreira da Cruz explained that society is increasingly demanding. Companies are still very concerned and almost exclusively, with the financial results, and this is a problem. It's obvious that without profit, there will certainly be no social or environmental concerns. But what is also increasingly true is that without these concerns there will hardly be sustainability in the medium and long term. And this is the management challenge faced today by responsible leaders...
For Francisca Saldanha, the great challenge will be to create businesses that, besides being profitable, have a clear and positive impact on the world. And this should be the path of all businesses and their stakeholders. "You will only be able to have sustainable businesses in the long term if they are responsible. There are budgets to manage, results to deliver, and sometimes we must manage balances that are not easy. That is the challenge. Being able to put all this on the table and arbitrate on these issues without getting off course", she defends, adding that "being a responsible leader is a commitment that goes beyond the day-to-day business management. It encompasses a responsibility to society, the community and political responsibility".
According to João Pedro Tavares, President of the Christian Association of Businessmen and Managers, "in companies there is already a lot of talk about Responsible Leadership and the leaders themselves are already struggling with this reality that they are no longer just leaders, but people. And they start to work with people and not numbers. We must continue to sow this idea so that we lead with purpose. Lead with passion", he reiterates during his intervention at the CATÓLICA-LISBON conference with Expresso Newspaper, adding that "the responsible leader is the one who has a holistic vision, who understands that his company does not end at the entrance or exit gate, who goes beyond the finite, is part of the present and the future, who prepares good successors. And it pains me to have to adjective leadership as responsible. The very concept of leadership should already be fully assumed by everyone as an exercise in responsibility".
Ricardo Pires, CEO of SEMAPA and also a speaker at this session, addressed the fact that we are in a time of challenges, stating that "instead of looking at a current time of challenges and crisis, we should rather look at a time of opportunities. We must create a financial return, yes, but in an environmentally sustainable way and in line with the future, framed in this period of change and opportunities to do more and better".
Filipe Santos, Dean of CATÓLICA-LISBON, reiterates that "since we launched the school, the subject of ethics has always been something that we delve into with our students and in the community. This is because we believe that leaders should be based on solid values and ethical behaviour, creating organizations based on excellence and merit, where individual interests do not override the common good. Nowadays, the exercise of leadership is increasingly demanding. That is why, with this study, we wanted to delve deeper into what more modern and responsible leadership is".
We end with a golden key, quoting João Pedro Tavares, President of the Christian Association of Businessmen and Managers, who leaves a message for the young generation: "for the future generation, my advice is to look for leaders who teach you to know, to be, and to do. Be the best version of yourself. The biggest competitors are within us. Focus on others, because a responsible leader is more likely to be happier because he has a purpose and a mission to fulfil. If we make leadership just a job, we are impoverishing ourselves".
The way forward for Portugal? To become a more sustainable and inclusive country, where everyone could prosper, and where merit and responsibility are encouraged.
The path for CATÓLICA-LISBON? To continue to attract the best talent from faculty and students, integrate rigorous research with inspiring teaching, and launch brilliant careers that create a positive impact on the world.


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Q: How to access WSL files from Windows 11 task scheduler script In .BAT file running from Task Scheduler task as administator user
eriting to file Windows Subsystem for Linux drive using
echo test >\\wsl.localhost\Debian\var\lib\postgresql\12\test

throws error

The network name cannot be found.

If this command is issued from command line, it works.
How to access WSL files from Task Scheduler Script file ?

A: It seems you're trying to run a batch file that uses the batch mkdir
command to create a folder on the host, although inside the Debian
distribution's folder. So why do it through batch?
It would simpler to do something like (untested) :
wsl -d Debian -e 'mkdir /var/lib/postgresql/12/20221204'

Or
wsl -d Debian -- mkdir /var/lib/postgresql/12/20221204

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Drake - June 30, 2018
Drake - Scorpion
Drake Released his fifth studio album on the 29th of June 2018 labelled "Scorpion" and the internet is already on its knees.It seems as if it were only yesterday that we were talking about that Pusha T diss and how it gave Drake a bit of a beating. Well that is most certainly a thing of the past. The 25 song body of work is split into two "A side" and "B side" the first section being Rap based material and the second covers Drakes RnB qualities this is his first double album.As you can only imagine Drake has a lot to cover in these tracks and here just some of the interesting things that we have found:
Drake Confirms He Has a Son We Didn't Know About.
Drake addresses this in his new album explaining "I wasn't hiding my kid from the world, I was hiding the world from my kid," on the track "Emotionless"explaining that the child was the result of a fling and that both Drake and the child's mother are "co-parenting" and says that some of his close friends had met the child but even his father was yet to meet the boy.
Diddy Punched Drake
In the Track "Survival" Drake talks about the night he was hit by Diddy and discusses his beef with both him and Meek Mill saying "I've had real Philly n***** try to write my ending / I've had scuffles with Bad Boys that wasn't pretending."
He Talks About Being An Independent Artist And Leaving Cash Money
On the track "Is There more" he talks about scorpion being his fifth and final album with the label saying "Soon as this album drops, I'm outta the deal." And also says on "Survival, "I'm pretty sure we got a label, I'm still independent," this is made even more interesting by Lil Wayne's departure from the label following his ongoing disputes with Birdman the Cash Money CEO.
The new release is definitely something of a talking point with features from both Jay-Z and Michael Jackson the world of social media is being sent into a frenzy. Could this be his best album yet?
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Mark Linkous Estate Blocks Sparklehorse Charity Tribute Album, Supporters Won't Get Money Back
The Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev, Mark Lanegan, Califone, More Set for Sparklehorse Tribute Album
News in Brief: The Marvelettes' Gladys Horton, Azure Ray and Sparklehorse, Grails, Tibet House
Danger Mouse/Sparklehorse LP Dark Night of the Soul Gets Release Date
Artists React to the Death of Sparklehorse's Mark Linkous
R.I.P. Sparklehorse's Mark Linkous
by: Amy Phillips
Danger Mouse Buries Beef With EMI, Dark Night of the Soul to Be Released
Sparklehorse and Fennesz Record, Perform Together
by: Pitchfork Staff
Photos: Daniel Johnston and Friends [Dublin, Ireland; 07/28/08]
Mark Linkous Discusses the State of Sparklehorse
by: Dave Maher
The Sad and Beautiful World of Sparklehorse's Mark Linkous
Five years after the death of Sparklehorse leader Mark Linkous, Max Blau talks with many of the idiosyncratic songwriter's closest friends and collaborators, shedding light on an artist who compelled listeners to heed the beauty of darkness.
by: Max Blau
Sparklehorse
Mark Linkous on the long road to making his latest album, Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain and his future plans, which include potential collaborations with Danger Mouse and Fennesz.
by: Stephen M. Deusner
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EV parts producer BorgWarner creating up to 50 jobs at Tralee plant
by Colm Gorey
Production is to speed up at Tralee-based EV parts manufacturer BorgWarner, with the opening of a new production line creating up to 50 jobs.
While Ireland's days of manufacturing vehicles may seem like a distant memory, the onset of the electric vehicle (EV) age is giving new life to the industry.
In the near future, we could even see the first EV roll off the production line on the island of Ireland – the first car to do so since the last DeLorean was produced in 1982.
Now, American car parts manufacturer BorgWarner has revealed that its plant in Tralee, Co Kerry, is to receive a jobs boost, with up to 50 new roles being created as the company adds another production line.
This includes a €10m investment in capital equipment and a €1.5m investment in facility renovations to expand the plant's engineering and testing capabilities, and also improve its environmental footprint.
This year, BorgWarner said it plans to add a flexible manufacturing line for the high-volume production of high-voltage positive temperature coefficient (PTC) cabin heaters.
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This is in order to meet the growing demand for thermal management solutions, which add to the extended battery-powered driving range of hybrids and EVs.
In addition to expanding its manufacturing and test capabilities, the investment will go towards highly sophisticated assembly and test equipment.
Located in the Kerry town for more than 30 years, BorgWarner is also based in 61 other locations across 17 countries, employing 27,000 people.
"As the trend towards hybrid and electric propulsion continues, we expect demand for our efficient, high-voltage cabin heating solutions to grow," said Joe Fadool, president and general manager of BorgWarner emissions and thermal systems.
"By further expanding our EV capabilities, we are able to continue supporting our customers as they look to rapidly expand their EV product portfolio."
Also welcoming the announcement was the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Mary Mitchell O'Connor, TD, who said: "This is great news for Tralee. BorgWarner is a world-class company at the cutting edge of technologies for electric vehicles and this new investment represents key wins for the government's job creation policies."
Related: IDA Ireland, Kerry, jobs announcements, autotech, EVs, manufacturing
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Q: How to save a value of a private field (that was gotten in a method) in an object? I can't figure out the way to save the supplierName value in a class object. I'm trying to change it in an addItem method using user input, and store it in a class object. It doesn't work. What am I doing wrong? Do I need to change my constructor? Or use a getter method?
Here is my code:
import java.util.Scanner;

public class PurchasedItem extends Item {

    private String suppplierName;

    public PurchasedItem() {}

    @Override
    public boolean addItem(Scanner input) {
        super.addItem(input);

        System.out.print("Enter the name of the supplier: ");
        suppplierName = input.next();

        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {

        String str = super.toString();
        return str + " Supplier: " + suppplierName;
    }
}

A: A solution is to allow the constructor to take an argument such as:
public PurchasedItem(String constructorArgument){
    supplierName = constructorArgument;
}

Then, you can do something like: PurchasedItem item = new PurchasedItem("some supplier");.
Since the class variable is private, you will also need getters/setters.
For instance:
Setter:
public void setSupplierName(String s){
    this.supplierName = s;
}

Getter:
public String getSupplierName(){
    return this.supplierName
}

Then to manipulate, you'd do something like:
item.setSupplierName("some company");
item.getsupplierName();

Though, you should be conscious of thread safety in regards to utilising setters.


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All praise to the Immortal Guardians.
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Did the Guardians not create the most handsome and clever of men, Farid, who had no trouble convincing attractive women to sleep with him? Was Farid not a faithful wingman who gave his good friend Suleiman al-Kalim excellent dating advice, even if he was never as successful in love as Farid?
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Biden fires back after Ocasio-Cortez slams 'middle-of-the-road' climate change plan
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez probably wasn't expecting Joe Biden to fight back when she called his climate change plan a "dealbreaker."
But the presumptive Democratic frontrunner defended his record on the environment Tuesday, telling critics to "calm down" after a report emerged that his environmental policy is "middle of the road."
Biden hits back
Ocasio-Cortez criticized Biden last week after Reuters reported that Biden was planning a more measured environmental plan than her widely criticized Green New Deal, which Ocasio-Cortez introduced earlier this year. In a tweet, Ocasio-Cortez called Biden's plan a "dealbreaker."
"There is no 'middle ground' w/ climate denial & delay," she wrote. "We're not going to solve the climate crisis w/ this lack of leadership. Our kids' lives are at stake."
Biden confidently defended his record Tuesday, saying he doesn't think Ocasio-Cortez was talking about him when she again criticized politicians who "refuse to act" on climate change. Biden asked his critics to "calm down" and wait to see his plan before jumping to conclusions.
"You never heard me say 'middle of the road.' I've never been middle-of-the-road on the environment. Tell her…to look at my record. She'll find that nobody has been more consistent about taking on the environment and a green revolution than I have," Biden said. "I don't think she was talking about me."
He went on: "Look, all they've got to do is go back and read what I've done already and you'll be hearing very shortly the totality of what I plan on doing… It's a long campaign and they should calm down a little bit."
Ocasio-Cortez took a veiled shot at Biden at a Green New Deal rally Monday at Howard University.
"I will be damned if the same politicians who refused to act then are going to try and come back today and say we need a middle-of-the-road approach to save our lives," Ocasio-Cortez said. "That is too much for me."
Primary rift opens over progressive credentials
Ocasio-Cortez has not been shy about her disapproval of Biden, and while she has not endorsed any Democratic candidate for president, she has taken care to rule out the former VP, whom she considers uninspiring and a remnant of the party's past.
"I can understand why people would be excited by that, this idea that we can go back to the good old days with Obama, with Obama's vice president," she told the podcast Skulduggery last month. "There's an emotional element to that, but I don't want to go back. I want to go forward."
As the unofficial leader of a new generation of progressives, Ocasio-Cortez is something of a Democratic kingmaker, and progressive candidates in the field have sought her approval. But it's a different story for Biden, who has largely spent the first weeks of his campaign apologizing for his insufficiently woke policy record.
Biden defended his record as a liberal Tuesday, saying, "I don't yield anybody on my liberal credentials. Whether it's on women's issues, on LGBT issues, on speech, I have a record."
Biden has not endorsed the Green New Deal, something that Sen. Bernie Sanders (VT), Biden's chief primary rival, is seeking to exploit. Sanders has aligned himself with Ocasio-Cortez while attacking Biden's record on everything from climate change to the Iraq War. He even appeared alongside AOC at the climate change event Monday, where he urged: "The United States must lead the world with a global approach that emphasizes the Green New Deal."
The Green New Deal has been widely endorsed by 2020 Democrats, including Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), both progressives favored by Ocasio-Cortez. The freshman lawmaker said on "Skullduggery" that she's "very supportive of Bernie" and that Warren's ideas are "remarkable." Like Ocasio-Cortez, both have targeted Biden over his record, calling it too moderate and aligned with big corporations.
But Biden doesn't seem terribly concerned that he lacks AOC's approval, telling reporters in New Hampshire that "the idea that somehow the Democratic Party is gone so far to the left that is not recognized by the most Democrats who consider themselves liberal is not factually what's happening."
Biden may have a point. Ocasio-Cortez certainly exerts an outsized influence on her party, but Biden is the current frontrunner of the Democratic primary. In the real world outside of virtue-signaling, woke Twitter, Biden is faring much better in the polls than the far-left progressives more closely aligned with Ocasio-Cortez.
Though the liberal upstart certainly has more influence than most politicians her age, Biden made it clear that he's not intimidated by a fledgling legislator who boasts little more than a large Twitter following.


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A részecskefizikában és a magfizikában az izospin (izotópspin, izobárspin) az erős kölcsönhatás szimmetriája, a proton és neutron kölcsönhatásaiból ered a felismerése. Az izospin-szimmetria az ízszimmetria részszimmetriája, ez utóbbit a hadronok (mezonok és barionok) kölcsönhatásaiban figyelhetjük meg. Az izospin szimmetria ma is fontos fogalma a fizikának, ennek tüzetes vizsgálata vezetett történelmileg a kvarkok felfedezéséhez és megértéséhez, valamint a Yang-Mills-elméletek kifejlődéséhez.

A szimmetria

Az izospint Werner Heisenberg vezette be 1932-ben, hogy megmagyarázzon számos egymással kapcsolatban lévő szimmetriát:

 A neutron és a proton tömege közel azonos (majdnem "degeneráltak"), mintha egy nukleon nevű részecske két állapota lennének. Bár a proton töltése pozitív, a neutron pedig semleges, minden más szempontból nagyon hasonlítanak egymásra.
 Az erős kölcsönhatás erőssége bármilyen nukleonpár között ugyanaz, függetlenül attól, hogy neutron(ok)ról vagy proton(ok)ról van-e szó.
 A pionok – amelyek akkori elképzelés szerint az erős kölcsönhatást közvetítik – tömege ugyanaz. Pontosabban a töltött pionoké pontosan ugyanaz, míg a semleges pionéval majdnem megegyező a tömegük.

A kvantummechanikában, amikor a Hamilton-függvény (vagy a leírásban vele ekvivalens módon használható Lagrange-függvény) valamilyen szimmetriát mutat, akkor a szimmetria úgy nyilvánul meg sajátállapotok egy halmazán keresztül, hogy azok (majdnem) ugyanazzal az energiával rendelkeznek, azaz degeneráltak. A részecskefizikában a tömeggel ekvivalens fogalom (mivel E=mc²), ezért a proton és neutron közelítő tömeg-degenerációja az erős kölcsönhatás Hamilton-függvényének egy szimmetriájára utal. A neutron kicsit nagyobb tömegű, mint a proton, azaz a szimmetria nem egzakt. A proton töltött, a neutron nem. Mindenesetre itt, ahogy általában a kvantummechanikában, egy szimmetria lehet tökéletlen más erők jelenlétében, aminek perturbációi az állapotok közötti kis különbségekhez vezethetnek. Jelen esetben az elektromágneses kölcsönhatás ez a perturbáció, aminek nem szimmetriája az izospin.

SU(2)

Heisenberg hozzájárulása volt észrevenni, hogy ezen szimmetria matematikai megfogalmazása bizonyos szempontból hasonló a spinéhez, amiből az "izospin" elnevezés származik. Precízebben mondva az izospin szimmetria az erős kölcsönhatás Hamilton-függvényének az SU(2) Lie-csoport transzformációival szembeni invarianciából származik. A neutron és a proton egy SU(2)-dublettbe vannak besorolva, ami a spin-1/2 vagy ala pvető ábrázolása az SU(2)-nek. A pionok egy tripletthez, az SU(2) adjungált ábrázolásához tartoznak.

Csakúgy mint a spint, az izospint is két számmal írhatjuk le, az I a teljes izospinnel, és az I3 izospinkomponenssel, amit egy kiválasztott irányban veszünk az izospintérben. A proton és a neutron esetén egyaránt I=1/2, mivel mindketten – történetesen ugyanazon – dubletthez tartoznak. A protonra I3=+1/2 ('izospin-fel') a neutronra pedig I3=‒1/2 ('izospin-le'). A pionok esetén, tripletthez tartozván, I=1, és a π+, π0, π‒-ra rendre I3=+1, 0, ‒1.

Yang és Mills

Az izospin szimmetria központi szerepet játszott a Yang-Mills-elmélet első megfogalmazásában. A pionok voltak a javasolt SU(2)-mértékbozonjai. Bár ma már tudjuk, hogy az izospin nem egy mértékszimmetria, a kezdeti félreértés történelmileg fontos volt a mértékinvariancia gondolatának fejlődésében.

Az ízzel való kapcsolata

A nagyszámú hadron, mezon és barion felfedezése, majd tanulmányozása világossá tette, hogy az izospin szimmetria kiszélesíthető egy nagyobb szimmetriacsoportra, amit ma ízszimmetriának hívunk. Amikor a kaont és sajátos tulajdonságát a ritkaságot jobban megértették, rájöttek, hogy ezek egy általánosabb szimmetriához tartoznak, aminek az izospin-szimmetria egy alcsoportja. A nagyobb szimmetriát Murray Gell-Mann nyolcas útnak nevezte, amely az SU(3) csoport adjungált ábrázolásának felel meg. Ez vezette Gell-Mannt a kvarkok feltételezéséhez, amik az SU(3) alapvető ábrázolásához – az antikvarkok pedig ennek konjugáltjához – tartoznak, a mezonok és barionok pedig a magasabb dimenziójú ábrázolásokhoz. Röviden, váratlanul a Lie-csoportok Lie-algebrája bizonyult a fizikai valóság leírójának.

A J/ψ mezon és a báj (c-kvark) felfedezése az ízszimmetria SU(4)-re, az Ύ-mezon ("üpszilon") felfedezése a hozzá tartozó b-kvarkkal és a feltételezett további t-kvarkkal együtt pedig SU(6)-ra való bővítéséhez vezetett. Az izospinszimmetria ennek csak egy kis sarka. Erős elméleti érvek szólnak a mellett, hogy a dolog itt végetér, nincsenek további kvarkok.

A kvarkok izospin szimmetriája

A standard modell a proton és neutron izospin-szimmetriáját újraértelmezi az u és d kvark izospin-szimmetriájaként. Technikailag a nukleon dublett egy kvark (azaz dublett) és egy kvarkpár (szingulett állapotban) szorzata. Azaz a proton hullámfüggvénye kvarkíz-sajátállapotokkal kifejezve:

a neutroné pedig:

ahol perm permutációt jelent. Itt  az up kvark íz-sajátállapota, és  a down kvarké. Bár a fenti a technikailag korrekt leírása a protonnak és neutronnak a kvark-sajátállapotok nyelvén, ez többnyire leegyszerűsített formában jelenik meg, mint uud és udd.

Hasonlóan a pionok izospin szimmetriájának kifejezése:

A felülhúzás szokásosan az SU(2) komplex konjugált ábrázolását, azaz az antikvarkot jelöli.

Gyenge izospin

A kvarkok "érzik" a gyenge kölcsönhatást is, mindazonáltal az erős kölcsönhatás tömeg-sajátállapotai nem ugyanazok, mint a gyenge kölcsönhatáséi. Így az u és d kvarkok, amikor gyengén hatnak kölcsön, nem ugyanazok, mint az erősen kölcsönható u és d kvarkok. A kettő között egy koordináta forgatás a különbség, aminek a mértéke a Cabibbo-szög vagy általánosabban, az 's' kvarkot is figyelembe véve a Cabibbo–Kobajasi–Maszkava-mátrix.

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# Contact

The `Contact` object represents a user's contact.  Contacts can be
created, stored, or removed from the device contacts database.
Contacts can also be retrieved (individually or in bulk) from the
database by invoking the `navigator.contacts.find` method.

__NOTE__: Not all of the contact fields listed above are supported on
every device platform.  Please check each platform's _Quirks_ section
for details.

## Properties

- __id__: A globally unique identifier. _(DOMString)_

- __displayName__: The name of this Contact, suitable for display to end users. _(DOMString)_

- __name__: An object containing all components of a persons name. _(ContactName)_

- __nickname__: A casual name by which to address the contact. _(DOMString)_

- __phoneNumbers__: An array of all the contact's phone numbers. _(ContactField[])_

- __emails__: An array of all the contact's email addresses. _(ContactField[])_

- __addresses__: An array of all the contact's addresses. _(ContactAddress[])_

- __ims__: An array of all the contact's IM addresses. _(ContactField[])_

- __organizations__: An array of all the contact's organizations. _(ContactOrganization[])_

- __birthday__: The birthday of the contact. _(Date)_

- __note__: A note about the contact. _(DOMString)_

- __photos__: An array of the contact's photos. _(ContactField[])_

- __categories__:  An array of all the user-defined categories associated with the contact. _(ContactField[])_

- __urls__:  An array of web pages associated with the contact. _(ContactField[])_

## Methods

- __clone__: Returns a new `Contact` object that is a deep copy of the calling object, with the `id` property set to `null`.

- __remove__: Removes the contact from the device contacts database, otherwise executes an error callback with a `ContactError` object.

- __save__: Saves a new contact to the device contacts database, or updates an existing contact if a contact with the same __id__ already exists.

## Supported Platforms

- Android
- iOS

## Save Example

    function onSuccess(contact) {
        alert("Save Success");
    };

    function onError(contactError) {
        alert("Error = " + contactError.code);
    };

    // create a new contact object
    var contact = navigator.contacts.create();
    contact.displayName = "Plumber";
    contact.nickname = "Plumber";            // specify both to support all devices

    // populate some fields
    var name = new ContactName();
    name.givenName = "Jane";
    name.familyName = "Doe";
    contact.name = name;

    // save to device
    contact.save(onSuccess,onError);

## Clone Example

        // clone the contact object
        var clone = contact.clone();
        clone.name.givenName = "John";
        console.log("Original contact name = " + contact.name.givenName);
        console.log("Cloned contact name = " + clone.name.givenName);

## Remove Example

    function onSuccess() {
        alert("Removal Success");
    };

    function onError(contactError) {
        alert("Error = " + contactError.code);
    };

    // remove the contact from the device
    contact.remove(onSuccess,onError);

## Android 2.X Quirks

- __categories__:  Not supported on Android 2.X devices, returning `null`.

## iOS Quirks

- __displayName__: Not supported on iOS, returning `null` unless there is no `ContactName` specified, in which case it returns the composite name, __nickname__ or `""`, respectively.

- __birthday__: Must be input as a JavaScript `Date` object, the same way it is returned.

- __photos__: Returns a File URL to the image, which is stored in the application's temporary directory.  Contents of the temporary directory are removed when the application exits.

- __categories__:  This property is currently not supported, returning `null`.

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"I was showcasing for another label at the Exit/In, and Garth Fundis, president of Almo Sounds, was coming in to see somebody else. He happened to catch my set. I had always thought, though, that Garth would get what I'm doing."
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Heterogeneous Self-Employment and Work Values: The Evidence from Online Freelance Marketplaces
Andrey Shevchuk
Denis Strebkov
First Online: 18 March 2016
This study contributes to the literature on heterogeneous self-employment by investigating the diversity of work motivation. Using two samples obtained from freelancers, who participate in online freelance marketplaces, we analyze the relationship between individual work values and self-employment situations. Principal component analysis (PCA) revealed four value dimensions: (1) intrinsic, (2) social, (3) comfort, and (4) security. Using multinomial logistic regression, we found that people who work exclusively as freelancers, moonlighters who also hold regular jobs, and entrepreneurs who also run small businesses have distinct sets of work values. Genuine freelancers ignore security and social values, but seek intrinsic rewards and comfort to balance work and life. Entrepreneurs show the least preference for security, do not appreciate comfort, but seek intrinsic and social job rewards. Moonlighters show the highest preference for security, value social rewards, but ignore intrinsic rewards and comfort. Although the study deals with the self-employed, it also sheds light on the general association between work values and jobs.
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War and Peace, More or Less
There have been significant developments elsewhere while most of the world's eyes have been almost exclusively on the US elections and the COVID-19 pandemic. Remember my post from early last month about military conflict breaking out again over Nagorno-Karabakh? It now appears to have ended with a partial victory for Azerbaijan, who've retaken the second city of the region, Shushi, or 'Şuşa' in Azeri, some territory around it, as well as the former "buffer zone" to the east with the remains of the ghost town of Ağdam. The prime minister of Armenia is reported to have signed a Russia-brokered peace deal that cements these territorial gains/losses in return for an end to the war. Russian peacekeepers are to secure the corridor between Armenia and the remainder of the self-declared independent Republic of Artsakh (i.e. Nagorno-Karabakh to most of us). This deal sparked anger in Armenia and furious mobs stormed the parliament and government buildings, including the PM's official residence, who they accuse of "betrayal". In short: it's an awful mess.
What all this will mean for travel in the region in the longer term is impossible to say at the moment, but it's very unlikely to be as I found it ten years ago. For illustration, instead of repeating the photos from my previous post about Nagorno-Karabakh, I give you an image of the large Armenian cathedral in Shushi/Şuşa which was extensively refurbished after the 1990s war in the region and which in this new conflict was reported to have been damaged by Azerbaijani shelling.
Shushi cathedral in 2010
When my wife and I were there, a wedding was taking place in the church – and we later met the wedding party again at the tank memorial by the road leading up the hill to Shushi/Şuşa. (Visiting war memorials as part of a wedding celebration is an old Soviet tradition that apparently had survived in this ex-Soviet enclave too.)
wedding party at Shushi's tank monument
Clearly happier days they were. I wonder whether that couple are still in Nargono-Karabakh or whether they have joined the many thousands who have fled to Armenia now. I also wonder what will happen to that tank monument. Will it simply be rededicated or just removed?
Anyway, it's a peace deal (for now), and more peace has to be better than continued killing, although for Nagorno-Karabakh it means less territory. It'll be interesting to monitor the situation, especially in Armenia where many seem to believe the price paid for peace was too high. So whether it will last is also uncertain.
Even less peace and more war also has to be reported from the country which was the last one I visited before the outbreak of the pandemic: Ethiopia. When I was there it was reasonably calm, though the omnipresence of firearms was a bit disconcerting. In the meantime, the situation in the country has worsened to the point of it being on the brink of full-on civil war.
And that wouldn't be the first time. In a previous civil war that ended the military dictatorship of the Derg in 1991, a decisive role was played by the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF). Tigray is the northern province neighbouring Eritrea (which the country also went to war with after it broke away from Ethiopia to become independent again). Its people are one of the many different ethnic groups of Ethiopia's complexly diverse population. Although constituting only about 6-7% of that population, the Tigray (and the TPLF) have long been a dominant force in Ethiopian politics. When in 2018, after widespread anti-government protests, the new prime minister Abiy Ahmed was appointed, things began to change. First for the better, as Ahmed ended the still simmering conflict with Eritrea – for which he was even awarded the Nobel Peace Prize that year. Last year, however, the TPLF broke away from the government coalition, claiming it was being marginalized, and since then the situation has become increasingly vexed. Key leading figures of the Tigray were imprisoned in the capital Addis Ababa, angering the TPLF, and just a couple of months ago the regional government of Tigray went ahead with elections even though the federal government under Abiy Ahmed had postponed the election due to the pandemic. Over the past week or so, matters have escalated further and there are reports of aerial attacks on Tigray's capital city Mekele and of fighting on the ground along the border between Tigray and the neighbouring province of Amhara.
What is actually going on at the moment is very hard to tell because the federal government releases very little concrete information and the Tigray region has been cut off from all communications – and supplies (so the spectre of another famine resulting from this conflict is raising its ugly head yet again too). Neither side seem to be willing to negotiate and the rhetoric sounds hardened and bent on war.
Tigray is heavily armed – and its soldiers/militias are well-trained, partly because of Tigray's role in the recent military conflicts with Eritrea. So all-out civil war could become very bloody indeed. Ethiopia overall has one of the biggest militaries in Africa, and its location on the Horn of Africa, one of the world's most volatile areas, complicates matters even further, and there are fears of Sudan and Somalia potentially getting drawn into this conflict too. And there are also large military bases of both the USA and China in the small neighbouring country of Djibouti.
But so much for the current affairs issues that made me choose the topics for this post. Our main focus remains dark tourism, so for the rest of this post I give you a few photos from my trip to Ethiopia last December/January, with a focus on the martial side of the country and in particular Mekele, Tigray.
Tigrayan Martyrs Monument in Mekele
ready for battle – sculpture group at the Tigrayan Martyrs Monument
grim exhibit at the Tigrayan Martyrs Museum in Mekele
cracked skull
TPLF symbol
guy buying drinking water with a gun casually slung over his shoulder, Gondar, Amhara
armed Afar man at Dallol, Danakil Depression
armed scout in Awash National Park
Even without the ongoing pandemic and the restrictions that come with it, I suppose travelling to either Nagorno-Karabakh or Ethiopia, especially Tigray, could not be recommended at the moment, and it's hard to foresee when, if ever, it may become possible again. The current conflicts are also likely lo leave lasting changes. I'm glad I went to both places when I did.
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"The Stans" is shorthand for the five former Soviet republics in Central Asia whose names all end in -stan, that is: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan (but not Pakistan and Afghanistan!).
All of these have been in the media for more or less unsavoury reasons over the past few decades, but Kazakhstan seemed to be the calmest and least
6 January, Book Feature
How time flies – today it is already a whole year since the 6 January 2021 attacks on the Capitol building in Washington D.C.
The other reason I'm uploading a second post today (after this one, just posted) is to alert readers to a rather big feature about my book Atlas of Dark Destinations in the Mail online, the digital counterpart of the Daily Mail newspaper in the UK. This tabloid may have had its
climate change and all that rarely features in dark tourism (DT), probably because DT is predominantly about dark pasts, not about the future. Moreover, climate change symptoms already in evidence rarely produce visitable concrete tourist sites. But there are a few exceptions, most notably retreating glaciers.
Most glaciers in the world are shrinking due to global warming. And occasionally the shrinkage is marked by signs on tourist walking routes. Here's an example I spotted in Norway en route to the Briksdalsbreen


English Vocabulary - TRACT words - contract, subtract, abstract, and more!
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Home > US Military 'Closely' Monitoring Iran's Naval Exercises, After Threats to Gulf Shipping
US Military 'Closely' Monitoring Iran's Naval Exercises, After Threats to Gulf Shipping
The guided-missile destroyer USS The Sullivans transits the Strait of Hormuz on July 15, 2018. (Photo: U.S. Navy)
(CNSNews.com) – Iranian forces have launched naval exercises in the Persian Gulf – following veiled threats to oil shipments through the crucial waterway – and the U.S. military says it is keeping a close eye on the situation.
The development comes amid heightened tensions between Washington and Tehran, and with senior regime officials warning that U.S. attempts to cut off Iranian oil exports as part of a broader pressure campaign will not leave other oil supplies through the Gulf unscathed.
"We are aware of the increase in Iranian naval operations within the Arabian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz and Gulf of Oman," said U.S. Central Command spokesman Navy Capt. Bill Urban in a statement.
"We are monitoring it closely, and will continue to work with our partners to ensure freedom of navigation and free flow of commerce in international waterways," he said. "We also continue to advocate for all maritime forces to conform to international maritime customs, standards and laws."
U.S. officials told wire services that possibly more than 100 vessels are involved, including many small attack boats.
The only immediate regime response to Urban's comments came in a form of a sardonic tweet from Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, who picked up on his use of the term "Arabian Gulf."
"US Navy can't seem to find its way around our waters," Zarif tweeted. "Perhaps because it hasn't figured out its name: Persian Gulf, as it's been called for 2,000 yrs longer than US has existed. Or maybe it doesn't know what it's doing in our backyard, 7,000 miles from home."
Early this week Iranian navy commander Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadi announced that preparations were underway for "major naval drills," although he said they would be held late in the fall.
Following President Trump's withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal last May, U.S. sanctions are due to be restored in two batches – some on Monday and others, targeting the banking and energy sectors, in November. The administration wants to see Iran's oil exports reduced to "zero."
In response, officials including President Hassan Rouhani and senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) officers have hinted that Iran would respond by making the Gulf and its Strait of Hormuz chokepoint unsafe for oil tankers.
"Cruel sanctions against Iran will leave an impact on the performance of the Strait of Hormuz and we should know that the decisions made in the international environment will not affect just one country," Khanzadi told reporters in Tehran this week.
Days earlier the commander of the Army ground forces, Brig. Gen. Kiomars Heidari, said, "The Strait of Hormuz region should be either safe for everybody or unsafe for everybody."
About 30 percent of the world's daily seaborne-traded crude oil traverses Hormuz en route to markets in Asia and the West, according to the Energy Information Administration.
The strait, located between Iran, Oman and the United Arab Emirates, is 21 miles across at its narrowest point. Tankers use two-mile wide channels in each direction, sailing through Iranian and Omani territorial waters – exercising their right of "innocent passage" under the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea.
About 1,300 miles to the southwest lies another maritime chokepoint, the Bab el-Mandeb, where developments in recent days have highlighted the threat Iran could pose to shipping.
Located between Djibouti and Yemen, the 18 mile-wide strait guards the mouth to the Red Sea, plied by ships heading to or from Saudi Arabia's western coast, Jordan and Israel, and the Suez Canal and beyond. The EIA says 4.8 million barrels a day of crude and refined petroleum products moved through the strait in 2016.
Last week Iranian-backed Houthi rebels fighting in Yemen against a Saudi-led coalition attacked two Saudi tankers in the Bab el-Mandeb, prompting the kingdom's oil company to announce a temporary suspension of oil shipments through the channel.
Defense Secretary James Mattis last March described the Bab el-Mandeb as the Iranian military's "Aberdeen proving ground" – a place it was using to test its anti-ship missiles, radar, mines and "explosive boats."
The EIA says even temporary suspensions of oil transiting a major maritime chokepoint "can lead to substantial supply delays and higher shipping costs, resulting in higher world energy prices."
'An international response'
Iran's Navy and IRGC forces have harassed U.S. Navy vessels in the Gulf in the past, although this year marked a decline in the number of incidents.
"The provocative actions in the Gulf seem to have relented somewhat," Mattis said in March. "They're not doing as many bellicose confrontations and that sort of thing."
Cmdr. Russ Moore, left, commanding officer of the guided-missile destroyer USS The Sullivans, and Lt. Andrew Archbold stand watch as the ship transits the Strait of Hormuz on July 25, 2018. (Photo: U.S. Navy/ Lt. Daphne White)
Mattis said he could not account for drop in the number of incidents, which seemed out of step with Iran's belligerent activities elsewhere.
Last Friday, Mattis recalled that when Iran had threatened in the past to close Hormuz, "dozens of nations of the international community put their naval forces in for exercises to clear the straits."
An attack on international shipping, he said, would bring "an international response to reopen the shipping lanes with whatever that took."
Mattis noted that the U.S. 5th Fleet – based in Bahrain, around 300 miles to the west of Hormuz – is a combined fleet, comprising not just U.S. Navy ships but also those from Western and Arab partners.
Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned Wednesday that any threat by Iran to shipping in the Bab el-Mandeb – including vessels headed to and from the Israeli southern port of Eilat – would see the Israeli military join others to respond.
"At the start of the week we witnessed a sharp clash with Iranian proxies who tried to obstruct international navigation in the straits at the entrance to the Red Sea," Netanyahu told Navy officers in Haifa. "If Iran tries to block the Bab el-Mandeb, I am convinced that it will find itself facing a determined international coalition to prevent this. This coalition would also include the State of Israel and all its arms."
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Campaign managers of the world unite!
While Obama online organizers are busy trying to figure out how to adopt their online tactics to help them actually govern, Benjamin Netanyahu of the conservative Israeli Likud party has already adopted the look and feel of Barack Obama's Web site. It's not surprising that an overseas campaign adopted successful strategies from the US, but Netanyahu in particular may be more familiar with the US political scene, having studied business and political science at MIT.
The resemblance to the Obama campaign site is striking; the policy positions not so much. For example, the Russian version of his sight today shows missiles and the text "The Iranian threat" and a button to click for more information. It also allows you to join the party and ways to get involved.
The essay is accurate, indeed the Obama's campaign did have an impact on Israeli politicians regarding tactic of electoral efforts to mobilize resources. However. Israeli politicians have used the internet even before but to a limited degree. What Israeli politicians don't get, yet, is that the Internet cannot constitute communities rather it may enable to reflect and mobilize communities. The probability of virtual communities to be sustained for long as a source of political resources is limited without off-line roots of a sociopolitical collectivity.
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El escudo de Almorox es el símbolo más importante del municipio de Almorox en la provincia española de Toledo. Se desconoce el significado de la simbología empleada en este escudo que figura sobre el reloj del Ayuntamiento y que viene siendo utilizado por el mismo desde tiempos inmemoriales.

Composición

El escudo de armas se presenta adornado de lambrequines, de gules el siniestro y de azur el diestro, timbrado por una corona indefinida y un solo cuartel con bordura cargada de ocho aspas de San Andrés. Campo con cruz de azur trebolada, y en cada uno de sus huecos una torre o castillo de gules y aclarado de azur. En la parte inferior aparece la leyenda MUY LEAL Y FIEL VILLA DE ALMOROX.

Respecto a la bordura, Ruiz y Leblic consideran que podría eliminarse ya que no suele utilizarse en los escudos municipales, siendo más normal que aparezca en los escudos familiares en recuerdo de los caballeros que participaron en la toma de Baeza.

Véase también
 Anexo:Armorial municipal de la provincia de Toledo

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