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Interview with Richard van der Laken, co-founder and creative director of What Design Can Do
'To us, design means action'
12 Apr 2018 Published in WDCD by WDCD Admin
Richard van der Laken, creative director of What Design Can Do, looks back on the platform's achievements to date, and shares his views on the creative community's contribution to solving the pressing social issues of our time.
by Annemiek Leclaire
'As the founders of the Designpolitie, Pepijn Zurburg and I were often invited to attend design conferences abroad. We thought it was strange that there wasn't any such conference here,' says Richard van der Laken. 'After all, the Netherlands is a well-developed country when it comes to design, but what we missed was real debate about the relevance of design.'
'When we launched What Design Can Do in 2011, our aim was to showcase the many ways that design could be relevant. Design isn't limited to chairs and candleholders. Design can make a difference in addressing major social questions. I still have tremendous respect for the Benetton campaigns of the 1990s. Photographer Oliviero Toscani, a keynote speaker at the first WDCD conference, used his photographic campaigns to highlight issues like racism and Aids. I remember thinking how fantastic it was that a commercial enterprise like Benetton understood the power it possessed. They realized that the advertising space they occupy gave them a huge platform, just like the New York Times. That's the power of the media.'
Oliviero Toscani's photographic campaign for Benetton
Design makes things tangible
'With our platform and annual conferences in Amsterdam, in São Paulo since three years and from March 2019 in Mexico City too, we want to showcase that same impact. Over the years we've provided a stage for designers who address major themes such as press freedom, poverty, emancipation and sustainability. To us, design means action. Design can make things tangible, visible, understandable.
'A good example of that is the work of Brazilian chef Alex Atala, who has raised the profile of Brazilian cuisine internationally. Instead of serving pricey delicacies flown in from far, he turned to the cultural potential of traditional foodstuffs closer to home. He travels to the Amazon with scientists and indigenous tribes to source his ingredients. He's a campaigner for the preservation of the Amazon region, for its rich culture, for the rights of native peoples. He's a genuine ambassador of Brazilian identity. Moreover, his restaurant ranks 16th on the list of the world's best restaurants. That's also the impact of design, this time in the domain of food.'
'This year, we'll have another top chef from Latin America on stage, Elena Reygadas from Mexico City, a young woman with a comparable approach to her local culture. I'm very much looking forward to her contribution.'
Refugee Challenge
'The most important change came when, after five years, we launched our first design challenge. That honoured a promise that WDCD had carried from the start. Now we could show what contribution we, the design community, could make in addressing urgent social issues. We started with the Refugee Challenge, the focus of so much attention in 2016. We worked on it with the UNHCR and IKEA Foundation.'
'With such a subject you first have to carry out really thorough research. If you simply say 'we're going to solve the refugee problem' and you haven't investigated the matter in detail to find out where you can and cannot make a difference, then you're finished. It's such a vast and sensitive subject.'
'That's why we teamed up with design research office STBY to produce thorough briefs that highlighted the problems faced by refugees in cities. This way of working, with a problem owner and knowledge expert, in this case UNHCR, and a sponsor, IKEA Foundation, and a research method, helped us lay a solid foundation for the challenge we then set. Three projects that came out of this challenge now are successful start-ups.'
'Last year, we launched the Climate Action Challenge, the final result of which we will see at WDCD Live in May when the 13 winners will present their developed projects and business plans. Because, and this is important to mention, what discerns our challenges from other competitions is that we offer the winners an extensive acceleration programme to help them turn their ideas into viable business cases. For this, we've worked together with Social Enterprise NL and they have done a great job.'
'Now we are planning a second climate action challenge, this time focused specifically on energy issues in the city. Preluding this challenge, we'll organize an international Design Jam during WDCD Live happening simultaneously in Amsterdam, Nairobi, São Paulo and Mexico City. The results of this will help us in focussing the briefings for the challenge which is due to be launched in September.
'Next to this, we'll launch yet another, invitation-only challenge in collaboration with the Dutch Public Prosecutor's Office about the serious and important topic of sexual exploitation of young, under-aged people. We'll kick-off this challenge on 24 May at WDCD with a series of lectures and discussions and an intense workshop.
Collaboration with powerful bodies
'The fact that we've managed to develop secure relationships with such powerful bodies as the UNHCR or the Public Prosecutor's Office, is in my view a huge endorsement of our ambition to get involved. The UNFCCC, the UN's climate change agency also is a partner of ours. Patricia Espinosa, the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, attended our event in São Paulo and is a member of the jury for the Climate Action Challenge. Espinosa said: "An organization like WDCD can help us step out of the climate bubble of endlessly drafting and discussing reports. They can make those abstract climatological and social issues more tangible.'
'If we, as a creative organization, can zoom in on the difficult subjects that these bodies are grappling with, and if we can show that we've an ambitious agenda and can achieve things quickly, then everything can move fast.'
'Just as important is the support we've got from IKEA Foundation since they teamed up with us for the Refugee Challenge. The Foundation is the first sponsor that acts as a real partner. With the IKEA Foundation we share a mission: to deploy design for a better world. For them it really is about keeping our organization healthy so that we are capable of putting the spotlight on humanitarian issues in a creative way. Awareness and inspiration are two crucial cornerstones of WDCD. But provoking people into action, bringing designers and other parties together, ensuring that the encounters result in proposals that you hope will make a difference in the world: that is the ultimate prize we are after.'
WDCD Live Amsterdam
'So, this year at WDCD Live on 24 & 25 May our focus is both on action and encounters. We're not only organizing the international Design Jam and the workshop on sexual exploitation of children, really aimed at activating designers to think of solutions for pressing problems. We've also made design activism somewhat of a theme for the conference. In Nairobi I met with Sunny Dolat, one of the founding members of The Nest Collective. This energetic group of creative people uses film and fashion projects for the emancipation of the LGBT community, which is in Kenya not as easy as in our part of the world. I'm very happy Dolat agreed to come to Amsterdam.
'We'll also have Daniel Freitag, co-founder of the recycled bag brand Freitag, who will tell us how he and his brother managed to combine design and sustainability into a brand with international economic success. That's a huge example to many, both from the design and the business communities. But, to be honest, it feels a bit unfair to name only these two while we have so many great speakers.'
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I'm often torn between two style impulses. One is to be be dainty and elegant. The other to be as bold and sparkling as possible. The first impulse has led to an over accumulation of tiny rings. And right now I'm in a statement jewelry mood.
Just as I was about to purge these simple rings, I realized that I could create a super sized effect by stacking them. I might try and sell them as a trio. I might keep them.


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Q: Is there a method in JavaScript to get End date based on Start date and Number of days?

$( document ).ready(function(){
  $('#n_days').change(function(){
    var nstart_date = $("#start_date").val();
    alert (nstart_date);

    var ndays = document.getElementById('n_days').value;
    alert (ndays);

    var end_date1 = new Date(nstart_date); // pass start date here
    alert (end_date1);

    enddate.setDate(end_date.getDate() + n_days);

    var end= $('#end_date').val( (end_date.getMonth() + 1)+ '/' + end_date.getDate() + '/' + end_date.getFullYear() );
    $("#end_date").val(dat);
  });
});

How to get 'end date' filled out based on start date and number of days. I want the user to enter 'start date' and when they enter 'number of days' then automatically end date should be filled out. For example: If user enters start date- 03/10/2020 and number of days-5 then end date should be 08/10/2020.

A: I added a prototype function to date object so that we can call add days to start date and second thing i did is that date control expects value in YYYY-MM-dd format which you get by calling toISOString() on date object. below code snipped should solve your problem.
reference post used for adding prototype function to date object. you may spend some time on this post to learn more.
Add days to JavaScript Date

Date.prototype.addDays = function(days) {
  debugger;
  var date = new Date(this);
  date.setDate(date.getDate() + Number(days));
  return date;
}

$(document).ready(function() {
  $('#n_days').change(function() {
    var nstart_date = $("#start_date").val();
    alert(nstart_date);

    var ndays = document.getElementById('n_days').value;
    alert(ndays);

    var end_date1 = new Date(nstart_date).addDays(ndays);
    alert(end_date1)
    var endDateFormatted = end_date1.toISOString().substr(0, 10)
    document.getElementById('end_date').value = endDateFormatted;

  });
});

  <form id="form1" name="form1" action="add_con.php" method="post">

              start date:

              <input type="date" id="start_date" name="start_date" size="20">

            No. of days:

                <input type="number" id="n_days" name="n_days" min=0 placeholder="Enter no. of days.." required size="20" style="font-size:14px">

             end date:

              <input type="date" id="end_date" name="end_date" placeholder="End date.." required size="20" style="font-size:14px">

          <input type="submit" value="Submit">

          <input type="reset" value="Reset" name="reset">

  </form>

A: Please see the answer for your question below. You can also pass negative values to the function addDays() to get previous dates.

Date.prototype.addDays = function (num) {
    var value = this.valueOf();
    value += 86400000 * num;
    return new Date(value);
}
$('#n_days').change(function(){
    var $datepicker = $('#start_date');
    var $datepicker1 = $('#end_date');

    var selectedDate = $datepicker.val();
    var result = new Date(selectedDate);
    var dateval = result.getDate();

    var ndays = $('#n_days').val();
    numdays =  Number(ndays);

    var expirationDate = result.addDays(numdays);

     end_date1 = new Date(expirationDate);
     var day = ("0" + end_date1.getDate()).slice(-2);
     var month = ("0" + (end_date1.getMonth() + 1)).slice(-2);
     var year = end_date1.getFullYear();
     var newdate = year + '-' + month + '-' + day;
     $datepicker1.val(newdate);

});

 <form id="form1" name="form1" action="add_con.php" method="post">

        start date:

        <input type="date" id="start_date" name="start_date" size="20" >

        No. of days:

         <input type="number" id="n_days" name="n_days" min=0 placeholder="Enter no. of days.." required size="20" style="font-size:14px">

         end date:

          <input type="date" id="end_date" name="end_date" placeholder="End date.." required size="20" style="font-size:14px">

    Day
    Date

    2

    <input type="date" id="date2" name="date2" size="10" style="width: 90%; ">

3

    <input type="date" id="date3" name="date3" size="10" style="width: 90%;">

4

    <input type="date" id="date4" name="date4" size="10" style="width: 90%;">

5

    <input type="date" id="date5" name="date5" size="10" style="width: 90%;">

6

    <input type="date" id="date6" name="date6" size="10" style="width: 90%;">

7

    <input type="date" id="date7" name="date7" size="10" style="width: 90%;">

8

    <input type="date" id="date8" name="date8" size="10" style="width: 90%;">

9

    <input type="date" id="date9" name="date9" size="10" style="width: 90%;">

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    <input type="date" id="date10" name="date10" size="10" style="width: 90%;">

      <input type="submit" value="Submit">

      <input type="reset" value="Reset" name="reset">

  </form>

This is working fine.
One more thing to ask, how can we enable other date fields based on the Input from 'Number of days'. I have another 9 date fields (date2--date10) and I want to  auto-fill the date as per the entry in 'Number of days'. For example: If user inputs start date- 03/10/2020 and number of days- 5 and end-date - 08/10/2020
then it should display like:
date2- 04/10/2020,
date3- 05/10/2020,
date4- 06/10/2020,
date5- 07/10/2020,
date6- 08/10/2020,
date7- disabled,
date8- disabled,
date9- disabled,
date10- disabled
added the new date fields in your code. Please suggest..Thanks.

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The borlotti bean is a variety of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) first bred in Colombia as the cargamanto. It is also known as the cranberry bean, Roman bean, romano bean (not to be confused with the Italian flat bean, a green bean also called "romano bean"), saluggia bean, gadhra bean or rosecoco bean. The bean is a medium to large tan or hazelnut-colored bean splashed or streaked with red, magenta or black.

Saluggia beans are regional, a borlotti bean named after Saluggia in northern Italy for marketing purposes and where they have been grown since the early 1900s.

Characteristics
The borlotti bean is a variety of the cranberry bean bred in Italy to have a thicker skin. It is used in Italian, Portuguese (Catarino bean), Turkish, and Greek cuisine.

The cranberry bean looks similar to the pinto bean, but cranberry beans are larger and have big maroon, magenta, or black specks on a creamy white background, more like Great Northern beans. After cooking, however, the specks vanish and the beans take on a more even, darker color.

A new cranberry bean variety, 'Crimson', is light tan speckled with maroon. It is resistant to viruses and has a high yield.

Cultivars

References

Phaseolus

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The email was sent via my domain registrar. Not the easiest way to manually find my contact info, but it's probably what someone would do if they were sending out loads of these emails automatically.
The email was from a generic yahoo.com address. I would expect for this kind of message to come from the site of concern, a marketing company of some kind or a serious sounding legal firm.
The tiny99.com URL shortened links stink of a scam (or of someone who doesn't know what they are doing). My original assumption was that Mr. SEO minion here wanted to measure his success to justify his paycheque.
No branding! Could there be a more generic title than 'URL Shortener'?
Only 252 total URLs have ever been shortened.
The 'Random Fun Link' is tiny99.com.
So, nothing too conclusive. I'm sure thousands of people tried to create URL shortening services back in the day, though I doubt many are any more. That ship has long since sailed, and it's been sinking the whole time.
Create a bare-bones URL shortening service.
Get loads of blogs to add your short URLs into their posts by making reasonable sounding requests in the name of reputable blogs.
At some point in the future, switch those URLs to point wherever you want them to go.
Bam. Instant inbound links to whatever new dodgy website you create or for your less ethical clients.
Even before I figured out what was probably going on, I wasn't prepared to put a short URL in one of my posts and introduce an arbitrary point of failure between my site and where I'm pointing to. I did edit my post with a direct link to Fast Co. (I had previously credited the people who produced the infographic that Fast Co. commissioned).
Potentially sneaky but I don't see how this would help SEO as the link is one step removed. The links ultimately come from tiny99 not the site of a sucker publisher/blogger who falls for the scam (present company excepted of course). But they would get some free clicks from your visitors.
My understanding is that URL shorteners typically use a 301 redirect, which takes themselves out of the equation. I'm sure search engines could blacklist dodgy domains so that even redirects through those domains got penalised though.
Ah, some research shows me that more well known shortening services use 301 redirects.
So you're right, they could be doing this.
The email was from luishill87@yahoo.com at first I got mad at the big company who the Tiny link went back to.
However, today I was hit up for an infographic that my team created and I know for a fact that this client did not request us to change the link.
I'm still confused on what exactly is going on here.
There is no way that the owners of the infographic are doing this… so I can only think that someone at TinyURL has gone rougue… but can't see it.
So it seems you can't change the TinyURL after the fact… which would be the obvious switcheroo trick.
Any more ideas on what this scam is trying to achieve?
I think your trickster is trying the same scam, for the same reasons I described in my post, just using TinyURL instead of a bespoke shortener.
They're hoping to get as many people as possible to use URLs they control onto our 'real' blogs. A link from a reputable (ie: older and with original content) blog counts for a lot more. When they switch their URL, the link on your trustworthy site points to their scammy operation, which Google then trusts a little more and ranks higher as a result.
Thanks for this, Geoff. I was just trying to work out why on earth someone would give me a link to a book coupon to credit against a Facebook infographic (that I had embedded from an infographics source) and that had not been created by the company that luis says he comes from.


Early indications suggest Australia's 'Banking Royal Commission' might be triggering a change in attitude of Australians – not only towards the country's Banks, but also towards the wider business community. This shift is reminiscent of what occurred in Europe and the UK in the wake of the GFC and reflects a legitimate expectation that businesses should always act in a manner consistent with the long-term best interest of society.
Contrary to conventional thinking, this is not just about businesses honouring their 'social licence to operate'. Once we have the right understanding, it becomes abundantly clear that no company can meet its true economic obligations to its shareholders unless it sets out deliberately to enhance the wellbeing of all genuine stakeholders – including the wider community.
We use the case study of the thwarted Kraft-Heinz bid for Unilever Plc in early 2017 to illustrate the potential negative consequences for all legitimate or genuine stakeholders (and particularly long-term shareholders) when this principle is not understood.


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The Big Sleep (1978)
4-Word Review: Hired to find blackmailer.
Philip Marlowe (Robert Mitchum) is an American detective living in London who gets hired by a aging, retired general named Sternwood (James Stewart) to locate the person who has been blackmailing him for money. He thinks it may have something to do with his colorful daughters: the gambling addicted Charlotte (Sarah Miles) and the promiscuous Camilla (Candy Clark) who enjoys posing for nude photographs.
The film is based on the 1939 novel of the same name by Raymond Chandler and a remake of the 1946 film that starred Humphrey Bogart. Here though the setting has been updated from the 1940's to the 1970's and the venue changed from New York to London. The movie was also able to tackle many of the more kinkier aspects of the story that the 40's version was only able to allude to.
Personally I felt the changes worked and made the premise more interesting. Why an American detective would be working in England is never properly answered, but the new setting does allow for some interesting on-location shooting like having the Knebworth House used as the Sternwood Mansion, which is breathtaking to look at both inside and out. The erotic undertones get used to their full potential especially with Candy Clark's nude scenes who looks fabulous naked and she plays the part with such spunk that every scene she is in is highly amusing and the whole film could've easily been built around her alone.
Mitchum's presence isn't as distracting as it was in Farewell, My Lovely where he played the same part, but in a 1940's setting. Having it upgraded to the modern-day actually makes him come-off as younger and a lot of the reason could be the snazzy suits he wears as opposed to the drab hat and trench coat. He also isn't forced to get into any physical confrontations with anyone, which would make him look foolish as he'd be too old to kick any young guy's ass, nor is there any romantic overtures with a younger woman, only Camilla who immediately throws herself at him the second she meets him, but since she does that with every man it doesn't matter, which all helps to make his advanced age, which was 60 at the time and far older than the intended character, a non-issue.
The main problem is the story, which I found to be just too damn confusing. I like mysteries, but more in the Agatha Christie realm where we have actual clues to follow and an interesting array of suspects as opposed to something with a dizzying pace where every line of dialogue creates a new twist and potential suspects popping up out of nowhere only to quickly get killed off or just disappear completely. It's possible in the novel, which I never read, this all got laid out better, but here it became convoluted to the extent that after the first 30 minutes I became lost and didn't care what happened next, or for that matter who got killed and who didn't.
Having a side-story thrown-in like Marlowe taking up some sort of quirky hobby that had nothing to do with the mystery that the film could cut back to every once in awhile in order to allow the viewer to catch their breath would've helped. The film still manages to be watchable mainly from the high production values and the eclectic cast. I also enjoyed the beginning and end segments where the camera takes the driver's point-of-view as we see the car drive through the winding roads as it enters the Sternwood Mansion property and then at the end while it leaves the property as the credits roll past.
Released: March 13, 1978
Director: Michael Winner
Available: DVD, Amazon Video, YouTube
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Luv (1967)
Promises in the Dark (1979)
Number One (1969)

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10+ Celebrities That You Didn't Know Guest Starred On Bob's Burgers
You know sometimes how a character sounds so familiar?
But you just can't put a finger on who it is. After all, this happens all the time in any kind of animated media. Especially in Bob's Burger. Since this show has been going on for 10 long seasons. There are bound to be some familiar voices in there.
And no I am not talking about the main cast because we all already know they are. I am talking about the celebrities that were just there for a few moments or a few episodes. Over the years this hit FOX tv show has had a lot of star power behind it.
So scroll on below and take a look at which celebrities have voiced which character. Some of these will surely make you raise an eyebrow.
#1 Damon with the voice of Josh Gad.
I think we all know Josh Gad from his numerous hilarious acting roles. The most recent one was him voicing Olaf from Frozen.
#2 Molly Shannon as Millie.
Other than being a brilliant actress, she also works with Saturday Night live from time to time.
#3 Upskirt Kurt with the voice of Will Forte.
Will Forte is the star and creator of The Last Man On Earth and is also SNL regular like Molly Shannon.
#4 Moody Foodie voiced by Patton Oswalt.
Paton Oswalt an actor, comedian and writer definitely knows how to play the harshest critic imaginable and he delivers in this performance.
#5 Zach Galifianakis lending his voice to Chet.
Zach Galifianakis needs no introduction and apparently neither does his character since Chet is kind of a regular on the show popping in and out at times.
#6 Art the Artist with the voice of Adam Driver.
How did an award-winning actor end up voicing a nude model who also sings? I have no idea but I love it.
#7 Amy Sedaris as Samantha.
It seems Amy Sedaris loves working as a voice actor since she also voiced Princess Carolyn in Bojack Horseman.
#8 Ian Amberson voiced by John Oliver.
Even the Emmy-award winner John Oliver couldn't resist voicing the snobby pet agent Ian.
#9 Tommy Jaronda with the voice of Fred Armisen.
It seems many Saturday Night Live members love voicing characters in Bob's Burgers and we are all the more lucky for it.
#10 Last but not least Talking Toilet featuring Jon Hamm as it's voice.
And who can forget Jon Hamm's portrayal of Don Draper in Mad Men.
Did any of these surprise you? Or did you already know who these characters were voiced by? Comment down below and let us know. And don't forget to share so your friends can chime in too.
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At Mindcor, we assist our clients in developing dual talent pools which includes identifying individuals internally with the potential for promotion and mapping the market to benchmark this talent against that which is available in the broader marketplace.
Talent mapping is the first step because without a clear understanding of the internal capabilities and potential that exists, organisations would be at risk of wasting time and resources developing individuals who either lack the capability or desire to follow the nominated progression pathway. Whilst it is good to peruse internal talent, the concept of bringing in fresh thinking from the outside is equally important. In order for an organisation to gain new talent, a clear strategy to understand where this talent sits and what it would take to bring them into the fold needs to be developed.
Mindcor partners with our clients to understand their talent requirements within the context of their business model and strategic objectives, allowing our team to provide local market insights into the availability and quality of talent. Our capabilities enable us to build an internal talent map of the business, providing an ideal platform for onward strategic planning, skills development initiatives, and succession planning. Further, we can also provide external talent mapping, ideal for benchmarking existing internal talent and identifying "outperformers" who could add value to the organisation.


Melanie Mark (BA, Political Science), who is Nisga'a, Gitxan, Cree, and Ojibway and the first First Nations woman elected to the BC Provincial Legislature, says she initially began her post-secondary education in the late 90s intending to become a police officer by studying Criminology at Douglas College. Instead, her passion for social justice took her in the direction of advocacy and social justice. Mark's employment and volunteer experience includes working for such organizations as Big Sisters Canada, Covenant House, Save the Children Canada, the Urban Native Youth Association, and the Office of the Representative for Children and Youth. In June 2016 Mark was chosen by the New Democratic Party as their candidate to replace Jenny Kwan as MLA in the Vancouver-Mount Pleasant by-election and she won the seat by a landslide in February 2016. Mark completed her BA in Political Science from SFU in 2005 and says part of what's made her path to leadership successful is continually moving between school and practice, not only studying and learning about social inequality or political systems, but also participating "in the trenches," seeing what is needed on the ground in communities.
At the Office of the Representative for Children and Youth, working for Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, Mark says her background in Political Science served her well. As the only representative with a degree in Political Science, Mark says she had a particular strength in interpreting legislation that impacted the Office and understanding what was within (and outside) their jurisdiction. While Mark was working at the Representative's Office, she also applied to UBC Law and was admitted to the JD program, however she turned it down in favor of continuing her work in advocacy at the Office of the Representative. With eight years in the Representative's Office, Mark is proud of the work she's done: helping young people and their siblings to be heard in decision-making processes and empowering people to speak for themselves and be their own advocates.
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At the age of 22, I received some wise words from Egami-sensei as a present for my university graduation. He told me, "From now on, your life is your Dojo. Remember that the more you develop your Karate in your life, the less chance you will have to use it. And finally, you may reach the level at which you will never use actual technique throughout your lifetime, if you are lucky. But, if you end up meeting an accident that causes you to use your Karate on a practical level, it is your misfortune. At that time, you must be ready to die".
At first, I simply appreciated this message as a kind of warning about my 'short temper', which I used to have in my youth. Later, I started to understand his wish for me, to keep improving on what I learned from him, until I accomplished his dream (Heiho to shiteno Karate, or to complete Karate as a way of establishing peace).
In the Spring of 1996, I discovered a new way to use Tenshingoso and Eiko when I helped Bill Peterson to die and saw him off. Since then, Tenshingoso has become a kind of gyrocompass which gives me guidance in my present life, and Eiko has become a kind of magical tool, with which I can create a bridge to Ten or heaven.
To reach this level of understanding, I visualized an actual opportunity to use Eiko would come right after my heart stop beating. Until then, I have to keep practicing, and when the time comes, I thought that I would accomplish Egami-sensei's message in/with my life.
In the first weekend of June, 1996, I was in Koln, Germany to lead a Shintaido weekend seminar organized by the Koln Shintaido group. People came from different regions of Germany: Stuttgart, Regensburg, and Berlin. Some came from France, and England. It was a small Gasshuku (15 people)– but it still had a nice international flavor.
When we had a Q & A session on Saturday night, three of them, Amras and Joey Weber, and Helmut (a friend of theirs from Schnega) asked me a question which I was not able to answer. Their question: How can Shintaido be used by the people who go to picket lines of public demonstrations? Is it possible to use some Shintaido technique to stop the forcefulness of the police which is used unfairly?
Amras saw Shintaido in 1986 in France for first time. She was attending the Annual National Gasshuku of French Shintaido as one of the macrobiotic cooking team. After the event, she came to me and asked if I would come to Berlin, where she was living, if she organized a local workshop. Not expecting too much, 1 gave my conditions 1 that she had to meet before I. would agree to come.
She surprised me six months later by sending me a letter and asking me to come to Berlin as she had enrolled enough people through her macrobiotic cooking class. Since then, she has organized three workshops in Berlin, and two workshops in Schnega, inviting me as a guest instructor.
In 1992, Amras & Joey bought an old farm house in Schnega, a small town located in the middle of triangle area of Berlin, Hamburg, and Hannover, and relocated there. They also started a local Shintaido class in conjunction with her macrobiotic cooking class.
The Wendland region is known for the anti-nuclear power movement since 1976 when the German government started to build an atomic waste deposit near the village of Gorleben. Since then the movement in this region got more and more established, becoming a broad movement among all citizens. They have successfully prevented high radioactive deposits in their area for over 18 years.
In 1995 the German government forced the first CASTOR transport with 30,000 cops to the deposit area, facing the resistance of thousands of activists. The resistance culminated in various sit-ins, blockades, and other colorful activities.
The second transport was in the Spring of 1996. The activists became more organized with a picket line, but the police force guarding the train was expanded as a counter-measure. After all the experiences of police violence, anger, fear and helplessness, Amras, Joey, and Helmut asked my advice for how to deal with such a situation because they believe that I am a Master of Japanese martial arts.
At first, I thought, do I know how to fight back against the police? Are they looking for actual fighting techniques? Secondly, I realized it would take at least a couple of years for them to get trained and become a kind of front line warrior. Thirdly, even if they succeeded in their training, there was no guarantee that they would not hurt themselves. Were they ready to get hurt, or hurt others if necessary? They might succeed in defending themselves temporarily, but sooner or later more police would come back with an even stronger force.
At this point, I realized I was stumped, so I asked them to give me some time to think about the question. Their question became my new Koan. I kept thinking about it, but never came up with a proper answer for them. After one year had passed I returned to Germany again, I was nervous and feeling guilty about going back there to meet the three of them.
On June 26, 1997, I took a flight from Paris to Hamburg, and then took a train from Hamburg to Uelsen. When I saw Amras at the Uelsen station, I told her that I had not come up with an answer yet, but was hoping it would come by the end of the workshop. She said, "I am sure you will!"
After giving me a couple of hours to rest at her quiet farm house in the peaceful country side of Northern Germany, she invited me to a practice session of the local choir group. On the way to the local community center she asked me if it would be possible to lead a half-hour Kenko-taiso session for the members. Of course my answer was yes!
That evening I lead a 40-minute Shintaido session for the members of the local choir group before they practiced their singing. There were about 50 people in the hall, including Helmut and a few local Shintaido members.
After their practice, many of them told me that they felt more power in their singing than usual. Of course I was happy to hear that because I thought they must have experienced Ten Ga Ichi Nyo or unification of Ten (heaven) and self through the effect of Shintaido. I also assumed that they all belonged to one church.
Later, I found out that the choir group did not have any affiliation with one church, but they were organized as part of their expression of the anti-nuclear power movement. They actually had formed a picket line at public demonstrations, and often ended up confronting the police force. I was really astonished. As soon as I started listening to the details of their activity at the picket lines, a moment of Shinku or true emptiness arrived in my mind (and body) and I received a great inspiration.
They mainly do two things in the picket line: sing, and apply first aid. But, before they go to a demonstration, together with thousands of other people, each of them writes a letter to the minister of interior. Each letter declares their wishes for no nuclear power, but they promise that they will never use their muscle to fight against the police force and they sign the letters with their own names and addresses.
Often, in an actual picket line, some individuals may unintentionally attract/invite the police to respond to them with violence, so it is very important for people who are protesting not to do this. It is not so easy to behave in a peaceful manner, unless you erase all anger in your mind. The point becomes how much peace can you keep in yourself, when you are in an unreasonable and unfair situation.
According to their experience, the more they remained quiet, and sang quiet songs, the more they created a positive effect in the picket line. They calmed people at the demonstration as well as the police. This let the police use more time and energy to remove people from the front line.2 This is a great example of passive resistance!3 When I heard their explanation, something clicked in my mind, and I realized that I had found the answer that I had been looking for the last year. I decided to teach Shintaido to the people who go to the picket lines just like I teach to health caregivers.4 Shintaido will not help them fight with the police, but help them prepare their minds to face them. The POINT is that it is not your arm and muscle but your mind control that protects you, and ends up saving you and your friends. The goal of our practice should be. to find and keep 'perfect peace' in our mind.
I have practiced Shintaido for the last 33 years after four years of Karate training, which I started at the age of 18. Now I know how to fight, with or without using weapons. My way of teaching fighting techniques has become more mature so I can help many students develop their fighting ability much faster. However, I also reached a new level of understanding: The more effort I put into developing martial arts for myself and my students, the more I create a space that invites people to use their martial art knowledge in a broader application.
I have to confess that my love and passion for my research and development of strong fighting art has reached an end. I recognize that I have been practicing martial arts all these years, without peace in my mind. Thirty-seven years I spent like this. What a long way I had to come to understand my original weak point. I wonder, was there any other way for me to find peace in my mind?
Egami-sensei's message came to my mind once again. On one hand, I was very happy and encouraged by the answer I found for Amras, Joey, and Helmut. On the other, I was sad, and discouraged, because I suddenly felt that all of my focus on studying and developing my fighting form throughout my life was now useless.
The weekend workshop which was organized by Amras, Joey and Helmut went well. Thirty people were there. We had two classes on Saturday, and one class on Sunday, and had nice weather, too. The same people whom I saw one year ago came back. At the end of the workshop, sharing my answer for the question posed one year ago. I told them that "Shintaido will not help them fight with the police, but help them prepare their minds to face them. The POINT is that it is not your arm and muscle but your mind control that protects you, and ends up saving you and your friends. The goal of our practice should be to find and keep perfect peace in our mind." I explained that the same people who asked me the question, gave me a chance to find an answer.
On July 13, 1997, at the end of British Shintaido Summer Seminar and Examination, I shared my latest thoughts on martial arts. The people who especially appreciated my growth in this sense were Marcus Grant and Vicky Meadows. They said Shintaido and environmental movements are the foundation of their relationship. They met each other 16 years ago, when Jennifer Peringer was offering Shintaido sessions at London meeting of the anti-nuclear power movement.5 All of sudden, I became very close to the three of them, and thanked them for 'running' ahead of me.
On August 17, 1997, I had an opportunity to discuss this issue (Shintaido's involvement to the environmental movement in Germany) with two peace activists and one scholar: Kaz Tanahashi, Alan Senauke, and Linda Hess in Berkeley, California.
Kaz is an artist, poet, writer, translator and calligrapher. Readers of Body Dialogue may remember Shintaido's participation in the "Circle of the World" at the Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago in 1993, and "Circle of All Nations" for the 50th Anniversary Celebration of United Nation in San Francisco in 1995. Kaz is the one who developed the original idea and gave us direction at both performances.
Alan is a musician friend of Henry Kaiser, a priest at the Berkeley Zen Center, and director of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship.6 He often visits the refugee camps near the border of Thailand and Burma, and provides them with medical aid.
Linda Hess is a specialist on Hindi literature and Hinduism. She has taught in universities including Stanford University and U .C. Davis. Her publications include Bijak of Kabir .
When I shared my latest thought about the effect of my martial arts and its new goal, they gave me some feedback.
1) They think that martial art training still has a lot of value for people who go to the 'front line'.
As long as you have patience, you can control your anger. Besides anger, the other emotion you must handle in this kind of situation is your fear. It is anger with fear that invites violence. The violence that comes from the combination of anger and fear is very scary. It can get out of control.
Here is the analysis: If you are trained in martial arts and know how to defend yourself, you have choices. For instance, you can fight back if you really wish, but you may choose not to on purpose. When you have choices in your mind, you feel free. If you are free in your mind, you end up having confidence. Once you start having confidence in yourself, it appears naturally and automatically in your actions.
Therefore, if practicing the fighting form of Shintaido can help people control anger and fear, and develop confidence, it still provides a positive and useful effect to those who go to public demonstrations. The harder you train in Shintaido technique, the calmer and steadier you will be able to keep yourself in an actual situation.
2) In the activity called Passive Resistance, your aim/goal does not have to be to win the battle on the day of the demonstration. In fact, you should not want to kill any of the policemen who represent the opposing principles. The point is how to win your situation. You must have a long range plan or Kokyu. It is okay to lose the battle in the picket line.
Plan to lose the battle, but as slowly as possible. Ideally, no one should get hurt. In a way, it is like pulling out your troops from a battle field; you may lose the battle so you do not lose too many soldiers. To contribute to this kind of protest movement, Shintaido's way is to use your power of concentration and clear consciousness, which Shintaido students usually develop through their daily practice.
Another day you may get to speak out about the situation. You may have a chance to write an article and put it in the newspaper, or get an interview by TV, Radio, or Magazine. You can send your letter of appeal to politicians. These kind of activities are also tactics in the quiet battle.
Shintaido can be cool and passive when facing the police, but it can help you be 'hot' and active when you do other activities. In this way, sooner or later you will meet with Ten no Toki, Chi no Ri, Hito no Wa, or heavenly timing, benefit of the earth, harmony of human, and finally you will find new directions for what was once a problem, and the problem itself will disappear.
At last, I would like to express my special appreciation to Amras, Joey, and Helmut for providing me with an opportunity to upgrade the level of my Shintaido wisdom. Also, I thank Kaz, Alan, and Linda for their encouragement to my work and their suggestions to the Wendland anti-nuclear power movement.


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Olav Hindahl (17 October 1892, Stavanger – 14 June 1963, Oslo) was a Norwegian trade unionist and politician for the Labour Party.

He started his career as a typographer, and became involved in the local labour union. He rose up the ladder and became leader of the Norwegian Central Union of Book Printers, and then of the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions in 1934. He left in 1939 to become Minister of Labour in the cabinet Nygaardsvold. During the German occupation of Norway he also headed, in exile, the Ministry of Trade. He relinquished both posts in 1945, but from 1946 to 1963 he directed the Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority.

On the local level he was a member of Stavanger city council from 1923 to 1925 and Aker municipal council from 1929 to 1931.

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It's hard to estimate the life of a door "gas spring" (proper term) because of the effect of the torsion bar setting on it's performance. A torsion bar often needs to be adjusted when replacing the gas spring to achieve the optimum result. Temperature also has a larger affect because of the heavy weight of the Delorean door compared to the hood and sunshade applications.
Based on my experience with previous versions of these parts I'm willing to go out on a limb and guess-timate the usable service life to be at least double the "typical three year" estimate. This should hold true especially if one is willing to adjust the torsion bar once or twice to compensate for temperature swings if you live in a temperate zone of the country like I do. Six years or more would be my guess but I could be wrong.
Sorry no lifetime warranties on gas springs! Only Ed B. would be bold enough to try that and it couldn't have worked out that well. Any oldtimers remember his"lifetime warrantied sunshade pistons"? Better question is how many of you got a second pair free?
These are high quality springs and I think my changes to the application will make them last longer, work better, and operate smoother than any previous piston on the market IMHO. I have one more trick still up my sleeve that I'd rather not disclose...maybe some other time!
Big thanks to Patrick Conlon for taking that video of his remote door opener with our new gas spring. Besides seeing it here I just saw it on Utube.
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We've shipped a decent amount of our new lift piston kits and was hoping to get feedback from owners to see if we got it right. I'd like to know what you think of the opening rate (time to open), charge rate (too strong, too weak, just right), appearance and any observations you'd care to offer.
While the door piston's are the main concern because ot the variables involved I'm also looking for feedback on the hood & sunshade pistons too.
BTW: I do think your updated website looks nice and easy to use.
Yes I'll hold a set for you for the 9th of January right?
Thanks for the reply, Rob. Definitely no intention to hold you to some guarantee. Like you said, I bunch of factors unique to each car like the climate or temperature the car is in or used, how often it's used or driven, and how often there is someone in the passenger seat as well as the driver's, etc.
Even if you replaced the door struts every three years, at $100 for the set of six over those three years, that's not much different than the cost of oil or air filters. Speaking of which, with many of the wear and tear or regular maintenance items we can all decide how to alter the change out frequency. For example, I've changed my air filter every oil change even though it's not likely necessary and I've changed my fuel filter far less than suggested (not ideal, but there it is).
What's that line about expensive toys or hobbies? If you can't afford to put new tires on it when they need it or have to be concerned about what the price of gas is, you bought the wrong hobby.
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The door "lift pistons" are fine. I need to adjust the torsion bars some - probably one notch. I've had a set of Hervey's soft-lift pistons on the car for about 6 years now with no problems other than they were wearing out, especially noticeable, as winter temps are here. I got some new soft lift pistons from Hervey a year ago or so and they did not seem the same so I didn't use them right away and now they are really flat. So, hard to beat Rob's special. The door pistons seem to have a great dampening action. Right now, if I want the door all the way open (another 6-8 inches) I have to push the door open by hand. Not a big deal and it will stay open. The adjustment is that close.
My goal is to get the adjustment as close as Patrick's.
I really like the bonnet pistons and louver pistons. The bonnet now opens full like OEM and I can quit worrying so much about hitting my head when I fuel-up. They also have appropriate piston power to keep the bonnet open in a breeze. Anyone who has tried to put in fuel with a wind blowing against the bonnet knows what I mean.
The louver pistons have plenty of opening strength. Just a hair on the strong side, which I like and prefer, but not that heavy to close. Basically a very smooth open and close so you don't twist, and possibly damage the louvers.
In all, I would give them a 4.5 on a 5.0 scale. The dampening in the door lift pistons seem to bleed off the opening power - which appears to require the additional torsion bar adjustment to get a smooth door open. I get nervous having the torsion bars tighter than they might otherwise need to be.
Thanks for the feedback Harold but you definately have your T bars set up on the loose side as I experimented with stronger pressures and it makes the door harder to close. These are substantialy stronger than both the NOS pistons and the version I used to sell so if that's holding you back on the A rating I'd humbly ask you to reconsider. I can even give you a stronger exchange pair if that's what it takes for your 5.0 rating but you should consider adjusting your bars one notch first IMHO! Look at Patrick's video a few more times and think about. Most people if anything will need to go down a ntch with these pistons if they were ever cranked up at all. Also consider the temperature if you're checking this outdoor's or you'll be re-adjusting them in the springtime. Adjust your TB's and gimme my A. I know now I'M sniveling!
Also be aware that it can be impossible to get both doors working 100% identically. For example, my passenger door is perfect in my 65 degree garage. But my driver door is a little bit weaker and opens a bit slower as a result, as going up one more notch on that torsion bar makes it a bit too strong. So I opted to leave it a tad on the weak side rather than a tad on the strong side. Every DeLorean will be different, I'm sure. And as Rob stated, different temperatures will affect how any gas spring works.
FWIW, I was using a ridiculously strong set of Hervey "soft lift" struts before these. When I installed those, I had to back the torsion bars down a notch from the factory setting. And the doors still rocked the car when opening. I have never found another set of struts that strong...I think they were way overpressurized. For these new PJ Grady struts, I only had to readjust the bars up a notch back to where they were when they left the factory (I still had a sharpie mark on each bar and bracket from when I did the first adjustment.) So I would guess most untouched torsion bars will work fine with Rob's new struts and won't need adjustment.
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Book Review: "Israel and the Clash of Civilisations"
by Gavin O'Toole
Chaos, of course, is the enemy of stability - and for Israeli hawks who worship chaos in the Middle East at the altar of security, there is no greater enemy than stability itself.
Insisting on behalf of her neoconservative allies in Washington that the US would pay a high price for embracing the delusion of stability as a goal, the Jerusalem Post diva Caroline Glick warned back in 2007 that, whatever the consequences for America of accommodations with Saudi Arabia based on the belief in a stable Middle Eastern balance of power, the costs to Israel itself would be far higher.
As if to underline yearning for a more balanced policy in the region, Prince Turki al-Faisal, a former Saudi intelligence chief and former ambassador to the US, told the Financial Times just last week that any failure by Barack Obama to reverse George W Bush's "sickening legacy" in the Middle East could threaten the countries' relationship.
Yet while Obama's early appointments have aimed to convey a sense of urgency in the search for something intact with which to build from the debris left by his predecessor, there are too many precedents to suggest that Washington either cannot - or will not - acknowledge Israel's real motives for there to be a credible chance of change.
Indeed, in response to Obama's pledge within days of taking office to "actively and aggressively" seek peace premised upon backing for international demands that Hamas recognise Israel and end violence, Osama Hamdan, a Hamas spokesman, told al Jazeera that his remarks seemed to suggest the US still viewed the situation through "Israeli eyes". In short, Obama was destined to fail.
Hamdan's early verdict is ominous, for it is Hamas that is now, perhaps unwittingly, the principal agent of the Israeli politico-military establishment's philosophy of divide and rule that so hypnotised the Bush regime and that Jonathan Cook unpicks so expertly in Israel and the Clash of Civilisations. Far from delivering a body blow to Hamas, the Gaza conflict has confirmed the Islamic movement's political ascendancy among Palestinians and strengthened Israel's ability to exploit the view it has nurtured of itself in the West as a pioneer on the frontier of the "clash of civilisations" between the Judaeo-Christian and Muslim worlds.
Cook presents compelling evidence of a synergy between the oil-thirsty agenda for the Middle East of Bush's neocon ultra-hawks and a vision developed by Israel's security establishment favouring destabilisation in the region. The encouragement of ethnic and religious discord would fragment and tribalise its unstable states, allowing the resulting bantustans to be controlled through a sophisticated replication of the policies of apartheid in South Africa.
For the neocons, fragmented states would enable Washington not only to dominate the production and distribution of oil in the entire region, but also to address more subtle threats pertaining to the potential influence that derived from the accumulation of Gulf wealth in the US financial system. For Israel, the inevitable outcome of Ottoman-style divide and rule would have a range of beneficial consequences that, together, would strengthen the country against all-comers and weaken the ability of the Palestinians to resist ethnic-cleansing.
Thus, the stability craved by Saudi Arabia as the basis for ensuring a profitable flow of oil to the West alluded to by Turki al-Faisal is precisely the stability despised by the neocons for providing sustenance to the oil cartel OPEC and by the Israeli right for enabling the Saudi regime to fund movements such as Hamas in the occupied territories and so limit Israeli regional ambitions.
Cook writes: "Control of oil could be secured on the same terms as Israeli regional hegemony: by spreading instability across the Middle East."
Given this strategic vision, the author says the view that Iraq's savage civil war was an unforeseen consequence of the US invasion - and any liberal pretence that the invasion had been well-intentioned, if perhaps foolhardy - is profoundly mistaken: debilitating sectarian strife in Iraq had been the specific objective all along of the ultra-hawks and the Israelis they were in bed with.
Cook uses their shared antipathy to Iran to delineate the close relationship maintained by neocon aides in Washington with Ehud Olmert's policymakers to show how the latter ramped up fears of Tehran's nuclear ambitions. He presents potent evidence to suggest that the war Israel unleashed against Lebanon in July 2006 was merely a prelude to planned attacks on Syria and Iran that would have had the backing of Washington. It was only Israel's failure in Lebanon that burned this blueprint.
Inevitably, Iran is set to become the defining issue of Obama's Middle Eastern policy - not least because his criticism during the Democratic primaries of Hillary Clinton's threat to "obliterate" the country if it turned on Israel maps out the key faultline in his administration. As a significant recipient of pro-Israel campaign funding, the new Secretary of State has been accused by US critics of literally "propping up" the untenable stance of the muscular, pro-Israel lobby AIPAC which so many neocons were in cahoots with.
But the real laboratory for the strategy of internal dissolution experimented with by the US in Iraq had been - and remains - Palestine, where, in the most recent phase of politicide, Israel has been deftly fuelling infighting between Fatah and Hamas, a policy that culminated in the de facto separation of Gaza and the West Bank - Hamastan and Fatahland - under Mahmoud Abbas.
In his latest book, Disappearing Palestine (Zed, 2008), Cook revisits the genesis of the policy of destabilisation that he analyses in Israel and the Clash of Civilisations by exploring how it has been employed to further Israel's primary goal in the occupied territories.
Hamas may have been bolstered by emerging undefeated from its tunnels following the latest assault on Gaza but, as Israel knows all too well, Palestinian national identity has not - and it is only the latter that can inject any sense of hope into a national liberation struggle against what is beginning to resemble genocide.
Gavin O'Toole is a journalist and author, and edits the Latin American Review of Books (www.latamrob.com).
Israel and the Clash of Civilisations: Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East by Jonathan Cook is out now, published by Pluto Press.
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Angry South Korean Crypto Traders Threaten to Quit over New 20% Tax
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Active crypto traders in South Korea said they are prepared to walk away from the scene forever – slamming "unfair" 20% crypto trading tax law proposals unveiled by the government earlier this week. It is a sign, perhaps, of what traders in other nations will have to deal with in the near future, with draft crypto tax laws now being drawn up by governments all over the planet.
The proposals, which will be bundled with a range of other tax changes, are almost certain to be voted into law in the next parliamentary session, which will convene in autumn. This would allow the law to promulgate in October 2021, and will see anyone earning over around USD 2,100 in crypto trading profits obliged to cough up 20% of their earnings to the taxman.
Speaking to Cryptonews.com, Mira Kim, a South Korea-based blockchain consultant, stated,
"A lot of people really seem to think that it's not fair, that the bar has been set too high. Stock traders, for example, are allowed to offset their tax payments for up to five years [depending on the size of their trading profits], but it doesn't look like that will be an option for crypto traders."
Kim added that many people have told her that going from paying nothing to paying 20% is just too much of a jump, that the government should introduce taxes more gently if it wants to make money from traders instead of just scaring them off.
"I don't know if it's just angry talk, but a couple of very active traders have told me that as of the end of this year, they will stop crypto trading for good," Kim said.
Per Chosun, even legal experts agreed that crypto traders and stock traders were "clearly being treated differently."
Those hoping to find legal loopholes to help them evade the taxman's grasp might also find themselves frustrated.
An unnamed lawyer told the media outlet,
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Eventually, said the lawyer, the tax authorities would be able to pick on the deal, and would come with questions. Furthermore, the taxman has been given the power to hit would-be crypto tax evaders with a second 20% tax bill should they fail to declare their earnings correctly.
Tax authorities might still struggle to identify and tax peer-to-peer (P2P) trading, said lawyers – a fact that could lead to a boom in harder-to-trace crypto deals.


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Almke-Neindorf ist eine Ortschaft der Stadt Wolfsburg. Zu ihr gehören die Stadtteile Almke und Neindorf.

Die Orte Almke und Neindorf wurden nach einer am 1. Juli 1972 vollzogenen Kreisreform zur kommunalen Neugliederung Niedersachsens, nach Umgliederung der vorher selbstständigen Gemeinden Almke und Neindorf aus dem Landkreis Gifhorn in die Stadt Wolfsburg, eingemeindet. Almke und Neindorf bilden seitdem einen gemeinsamen Ortsrat.

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Ortsbürgermeister ist Silke Hitschfeld.

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 Ortsteil Almke und
 Ortsteil Neindorf auf der Webseite der Stadt Wolfsburg

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The day was August 13, 1945. A Japanese kamikaze plane was heading directly for the deck of the U.S.S. Bon Homme Richard, an American aircraft carrier stationed in the South Pacific.
Gunfire erupted and the kamikaze was shot down before it could crash into the ship.
This is only one of many stories that former seaman 1st class Bill Kearns, 77, describes in his museum on 232 1/2 S. Potomac St. in Hagerstown.
The museum's five rooms are decorated with framed photographs of the Bon Homme Richard and other World War II memorabilia, including newspaper clippings from the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Kearns said he had saved much of the material he put in the museum, but many of his shipmates also contributed pictures, plaques, and other keepsakes.
Kearns, who is originally from Martinsburg, W.Va., but who now commutes from Towson, Md., said he started putting together the Skivvy Waver House museum two years ago. "Skivvy waver" was a nickname given to the signalmen on the ship.
"It was created for the men on the ship," Kearns said, "I wanted to have a place for the guys to come and see everything."
Ivan Eby, of Hagerstown, remodeled the house into the museum. Kearns said he was grateful for the help.
"If not for him, I don't know how I would have gotten it done," Kearns said.
During the remodeling process, Kearns said he wrote to many celebrities and public officials informing them of the Skivvy Waver House museum and asking for support.
On the second floor of the museum, Kearns lined an entire wall with signed photos of well-known people who wished him luck with the museum. They ranged from NBC morning show host Katie Couric, the four living former presidents, Ford, Carter, Reagan and Bush, to Maryland Gov. Parris Glendening.
Kearns said several of the signalmen he served with have visited the museum, including one who drove from Florida to see it.
Kearns said he and 35 other shipmates served from 1945 to 1946 as the signalmen of the ship. Their duties included communicating with planes by flags and signal lights. The Bon Homme Richard was the only ship on which signalmen helped planes land at night in complete darkness, Kearns said.
"We had special ultraviolet lights that would help us to direct the planes at night, but, yes, it was scary," Kearns said.
The ship was in the war zone in March 1945 during the Battle of Okinawa, and patrolled Tokyo Bay during the signing of the Japanese surrender later that year, Kearns said.
It is this sense of respect for the time the crew served and also for the close friendships he made that Kearns wants to preserve in the museum, he said.
The Skivvy Waver House will be open to the public beginning Aug. 27, Kearns said. In addition to the museum, Kearns said he also publishes the Skivvy Waver newsletter three times a year and sends it to several of his shipmates.
"It was the best time of my life and we all got along so well," Kearns said. "It was good that we could contribute to the war effort."


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Sarasota, located on the western coast of Florida, south of Tampa Bay, is a paradise vacation destination with luxurious restaurants and beach-front hotels on Siesta Beach, praised for its pristine white sand. The city is also famous for its festive Pineapple Drop on New Year's Eve. Pineapple Drop occurs during the annual Downtown Sarasota Block Party that starts on December 31 at 1 pm and lasts until 1 am of the following day. The celebration usually begins with family-friendly activities such as amusement rides and games at 5 Points Park. Then follows the live music concert on the stage at Main St. & Lemon. The culmination of the holiday occurs during the countdown. After the Pineapple Drop, there is a spectacular firework display over Sarasota Bay. About 20,000 people take part in this block party every year.
Marina Jack, located at the Sarasota bayfront, is also known for its NYE celebration. Special menus, live entertainment, and the fireworks display at midnight lure the festive crowds to the area. Special holiday cruise options are available at the marina as well.
Selby Gardens is another must-see place during the holidays. The gardens usually host an extravagant black-tie gala event on New Year's Eve. Not to mention the marvelous illumination that consists of over two million lights. The Lights in Bloom open-air holiday light show welcomes visitors in Selby Gardens on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, from 6 to 9 pm.
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The works on paper of H. C. Westermann (1922-1981) are recognized for their distinctive graphic style, a brilliant use of personal and cultural narrative, and the incorporation of language and humor. His drawings, sketchbooks and illustrated letters make clear how closely linked his works on paper are to his sculpture for all their apparent dissimilarity. His linocuts, woodcuts and lithographs restate and expand upon the images and themes of his drawings, and it was in the medium of lithography that he found the closest corollary to his drawing style.
Westermann made lithographs on only three occasions. In 1967 he was invited to the Kansas City Art Institute where he worked with master printer Jack Lemon, producing five independent prints. In 1968 he produced a suite of eighteen lithographs at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los Angeles entitled See America First. And in 1972, he worked with Jack Lemon again at Landfall Press in Chicago, which resulted in another suite titled simply Six Lithographs. This exhibition will include all of these works.
Some of the lithographs are made with just one or two colors. Those prints are similar to his drawings of that period, generally drawn with ink, with ink wash or watercolor. Certain lithographs are delicately drawn and colored while others, particularly those made with Jack Lemon, are printed with many, more vivid colors. Westermann's skill with the materials and processes involved with lithography was impressive from the start and became only more so during the course of the work.
Cargo ships, derelict buildings and diverse characters appear in wastelands from the Arctic to the Amazon. Flashes of violence contrast with lovingly imagined exotic landscapes; references to movie genres abound. The inclusion of the symbols p and C in Red Planet "J" and The Green Planet, for example, link these prints to early 1950s B-movies Rocketship X-M and Red Planet Mars, both of which conveyed messages of impending doom and scant hope for salvation from nuclear devastation. The principal source for Port of Shadows was the 1938 French classic Le Quai des Brunes. The images that constitute the series See America First are alternately tender and sardonic responses to several cross-country road trips Westermann made in the 1960s. The richly drawn and printed scenes of Six Lithographs reflect the growing complexity of the artist's drawings to which he was currently devoting increasing attention, and this suite presents the central narratives of his graphic works.
Two important exhibitions of H. C. Westermann's works will be on view this winter. A large retrospective exhibition of his sculptural works and related drawings is on view at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. (February 14-May 12, 2002); and an exhibition presenting all of Westermann's printed works from his early 1960's linocuts to the 1975 woodcuts, along with studies, related drawings, proofs and working materials is on view at the University of Virginia Art Museum in Charlottesville (January 26-March 31, 2002). Originating at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the Smart Museum at the University of Chicago respectively, both exhibitions will travel to additional venues in Los Angeles and Houston.


EOLIA, Ky. – Black bears in eastern Kentucky are taking a sweet, sticky cue from Winnie the Pooh in the search for honey.
WYMT-TV (http://bit.ly/1iMGAeu) reports that bears roaming in Letcher County have invaded bee hives. Carl Church says a bear broke through a window to get into his building where he keeps bee hives.
It's not the first time bears have ditched the garbage cans for something sweeter.
The beekeepers say they've seen multiple bears on their property, including a mom and two cubs.


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import com.droidkit.actors.mailbox.Mailbox;
import com.droidkit.actors.mailbox.MailboxesQueue;

/**
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Props is a configuration class to specify options for the creation of actors, think of it as an immutable and
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public final class Props<T extends Actor> {
    private static final int TYPE_DEFAULT = 1;
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    private final Class<T> aClass;
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    private final int type;
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    public T create() throws Exception {
        if (type == TYPE_DEFAULT) {
            if (args == null || args.length == 0) {
                return aClass.newInstance();
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            return creator.create();
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    public Mailbox createMailbox(MailboxesQueue queue) {
        if (mailboxCreator != null) {
            return mailboxCreator.createMailbox(queue);
        } else {
            return new Mailbox(queue);
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        return new Props<T>(aClass, args, type, dispatcher, creator, mailboxCreator);
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    public static <T extends Actor> Props<T> create(Class<T> tClass) {
        return new Props(tClass, null, TYPE_DEFAULT, null, null, null);
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        return new Props(tClass, null, TYPE_DEFAULT, null, null, mailboxCreator);
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    public static <T extends Actor> Props<T> create(Class<T> clazz, ActorCreator<T> creator) {
        return new Props<T>(clazz, null, TYPE_CREATOR, null, creator, null);
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    public static <T extends Actor> Props<T> create(Class<T> clazz, ActorCreator<T> creator, MailboxCreator mailboxCreator) {
        return new Props<T>(clazz, null, TYPE_CREATOR, null, creator, mailboxCreator);
    }
}


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Her: So, if you just put it on there… it's just doing it? It's live? That's hella stupid.
Him: Shut up. You hella stupid. You trying to smoke, fam? Is this the ashtray?
Her: Yeah. You ain't using it no more, right?
Her: Oh, that's a (expletive)? Oh, a (inaudible)?
The clip cuts off there.
The stupidity on display here is bedazzling. Smith is currently serving a yearlong suspension received last November for violating the NFL's substance-abuse policy. (The suspension was related to alcohol and a string of DUIs.) He's scheduled to apply for reinstatement in September. So the act of filming himself seshing out — while a friend actively warns him not to — becomes an act of self-sabotage so bizarre it merits its own psychological classification in the next edition of the DSM.
Aldon Smith's career may be over. But the damage he's done goes beyond his own sad narrative. Over the past few months, a number of NFL players, led by (now retired) Baltimore Ravens tackle Eugene Monroe, have elevated the conversation around medical marijuana and player health. Earlier this year Monroe boldly and courageously spoke out in favor of medical cannabis research and donated $80,000 to the cause. He elevated the conversation and forced the league to take the issue seriously. Two weeks ago former Lions wide receiver Calvin Johnson addressed the league's habit of feeding dangerous and addictive opioids to its players; Johnson said the drugs were handed out "like candy." The talk was of responsible research and medication. And now Smith has pitched it back to fire-up sessions.
Firing up has its place and time — in the homes of the Seattle Seahawks and Denver Broncos, it's as legal as drinking a glass of Chardonnay — but Smith's act of stupidity takes the NFL a half-step back, reinforcing a stereotype that Monroe and others have worked so hard to break.


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Thanks to the great facilitation from the company and full engagement from all the students, we enjoyed and learned a lot! And this is just a prologue of this amazing semester, more events are rolling out.