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DR Congo's Kabila backs ex-interior minister for election
08 August 2018 - 17:08 By afp
DR Congo's president Joseph Kabila has chosen former interior minister Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary to be his successor in the highly contested December 23 elections
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Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) President Joseph Kabila, ending months of speculation, has chosen former interior minister Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary to be his successor in upcoming elections, the government said on Wednesday.
The announcement came just hours before the deadline for lodging applications for the December 23 election -- a vote analysts say is crucial for the country's future.
Ramazani Shadary, a Kabila loyalist, is permanent secretary of the People's Party for Reconstruction and Democracy (PPRD).
He "will represent our political family in the presidential election," spokesman Lambert Mende told a press conference. "We will all rally behind him."
A country of some 80-million people, the Democratic Republic of Congo has never known a peaceful government transition since it gained independence from Belgium in 1960.
All eyes on Kabila as DRC election deadline looms
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was braced on Wednesday for President Joseph Kabila to announce either a successor, or his own candidacy for ...
Kabila, 47, has been in power for 17 years, taking over from his father, Laurent-Desire Kabila, who was killed by a bodyguard.
He should have stepped down at the end of 2016 when he reached a two-term limit.
But, igniting angry demonstrations, he stayed on thanks to a constitutional clause enabling the president to remain in office until a successor is elected.
Speculation had mounted in recent months that he would stand again, possibly contending that he was entitled to do so because of a constitutional revision in 2006.
Opponents staged protests that were bloodily repressed, triggering angry condemnations from the United States and the European Union.
Late Tuesday, Kabila held talks with his political allies, who are joined in an electoral platform called the Common Front for Congo (FCC), on picking a candidate who would succeed him.
Their choice was "the conclusion of consultations that the president..., the moral authority of the the Common Front for Congo, undertook to find the rare bird," Mende told journalists.
African Union issues call to uphold rights in DR Congo poll
The African Union on Monday called for the "rights and freedoms of all Congolese" to be upheld, amid mounting tensions over the country's ...
Clamour for change
Kabila's tenure over the vast mineral-rich country has been marked by a reputation for corruption, inequality and unrest.
Several provinces are in the grip of armed conflict and according to the UN High commissioner for refugees, more than four million people have had to flee their homes, many to Uganda, Tanzania, Angola and Zambia.
"There's a heightened political awareness and an understanding that the ruling party and Kabila hasn't brought the kind of change that Congo needs and that Congolese want," said Stephanie Wolters, Johannesburg-based analyst at ISS Africa.
"It's essential to have some credible process or the Congo will keep spiralling and none of the important human security priority issues will be addressed."
The African Union this week reiterated calls for "all stakeholders to ensure peaceful, transparent and truly inclusive elections" in the DRC.
DRC opposition leader barred from return
The Democratic Republic of Congo has barred Moise Katumbi from returning home on Friday to file a bid to run in the volatile country's presidential ...
Sixteen candidates, including three major opposition figures, have already submitted their names to the electoral commission.
Among them are Felix Tshisekedi, 55, leader of Congo's oldest opposition party UDPS, and Jean-Pierre Bemba, 55, a former warlord recently acquitted by the International Criminal Court of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The fate of opposition leader Moise Katumbi who was barred from entering the country last week to lodge his candidacy has been a key issue ahead of the deadline.
Katumbi, 53, a wealthy businessman and former governor of the province of Katanga, was unable to cross the border from Zambia where he and his team remains as of Wednesday.
The definitive list of candidates is set to be announced on September 19 after each name is validated by CENI.

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Sweden's DAMNATION came into being back in 1989 when vocalist / guitarist Richard Cabeza (DISMEMBER, UNANIMATED etc.) teamed up with drummer Peter Stjärnvind (UNANIMATED, MERCILESS, ENTOMBED etc.) and bass player Björn Gramell in order to do some BATHORY worshipping, mainly by playing covers of Quorthon's early period, but with a couple of own creations already thrown in there as well... They labeled their style as "Occult Swedish Black Metal" and released a demo ("Divine Darkness") in 1994, which included three own songs ('Eternal Black', 'The Dark Divine', 'The Mistress (Queen Of Sin)') as well as a BATHORY cover ('The Return Of Darkness And Evil')... And then there was silence... until now. The band recently returned into the spotlight with their debut full length album "Destructo Evangelia" via Threeman Recordings, which left a couple of questions unanswered for our Mr. Franke, who – despite the obvious musical charme of the record - wasn't completely convinced about the band's seriousness yet... Reasons enough for us to contact Björn Gra... ehh "Churchburner" for a more detailed feature...
Greetings Björn – it's been quite a while since we've been in touch (way back for the interview in VOICES FROM THE DARKSIDE # 7 to be a little more precise), so what have you been up to ever since the release of "Divine Darkness"? Did you release anything else afterwards or was DAMNATION put on ice shortly after?
"Yeah, it's nice to be in Voices From The Darkside again after all this years! After we spoke last time we have not really recorded anything official, but the production of ideas and riffs is always in work. The "Divine Darkness" demo sold a lot of copies worldwide, and the response was awesome, and because of that we got plenty of record-offers but we didn´t sign because we really didn´t care back then. We have always played and existed for our own needs first of all. The horde of DAMNATION will continue to the day we´re all dead, even if we're quiet as hell you can be sure that we're still around, lurking in the back… DAMNATION is our life."
I always wondered who the fourth member on your classic band picture was... I mean, as far as I know you always promoted DAMNANTION as a three-piece didn't you?
"Well, we are sort of a 4 piece band. We have never really got official with the number of the horde. No member has got fired since, let's see… '91 maybe, and we have no needs to do so either. On "Destructo Evangelia" I know people get confused by the pictures, but this is Damnation, 2, 3 or 4, it doesn´t really mather. We´re still the same band, just sometimes less members the day the pictures is taken!"
Was your bandname never a problem for you, especially considering the fact that there's a couple more bands around using it (including the Polish horde that already has several albums released)?
"No, not really! I only remember once when the polacks contacted me and told me to change name or… Hahaha! Fuck em! I couldn't care less about what they want! We have been around for 15 years now and no way hell that we even consider a name change. We ARE Damnation."
At which point of time did you start working on the band's debut album, who was involved in the writing process / recording line-up of it and why did you choose to use pseudonyms ("Curchburner" and "Insulter Of Jesus Christ") instead of your real names now?
"The working process is always in progress. More or less, but for this album Insulter has written the majority of the songs. The last 10 years we have had trouble to get all together to rehearse because of various reasons which have resulted in less productivity than it should have been. About the pseudonyms, they have always been used between us, and now we decided to use them on the record as well."
Back in the demo days Richard wrote the majority of the material – has this changed now?
"No, Daemon still is involved in the writing of lyrics and music. But as I said before, on this album Insulter has written the majority of songs but next time it may be more from him also."
I also noticed that your logo was changed quite a bit from the demo days to the actual album version... What was the reason for that? To me the old one looked pretty cool already, so...
"We really like both logos and use both nowadays also. We recently released the "Divine Darkness" demo on 7", and on that record it was perfect to use the demo logo, and on "Destructo Evangelia" we thought that this more simplified logo suits better. This album is dedicated to the really old Black Metal scene, and therefore this old logo fits just pefect! But you´re right, the demo logo is cool and will of course be used, but the album logo has been around since the beginning so…"
Why didn't you use the other two demo tracks 'The Dark Divine', 'The Mistress (Queen Of Sin)' for the album as well and decided to go for two cover songs (VOLCANO and BATHORY) instead? I mean, you could easily have included them as well as the playing time is only about fourty minutes, so...
"We couldn't exclude the covers, that's not an option! We have always played covers and will continue recording covers on every release. That's a part of Damnation. In a kind of way we´re like a tribute band for the really old and occult bands, and we need to honour them for everything they have meant for us! We didn´t want the album to be too long, so that's the only answer I have. Maybe next time we will record them…"
I suppose you are already aware of Stefan's critical comments in the review that we published on our website... Do you have to face those kinda comments more often these days? That people are questioning your seriousness because they are not aware of your past? How do you deal with that?
"That was a fuckin stupid review! Who the fuck is he to question the seriousness of Damnation? Just review the album, judge the music (which he actually did good) but don´t bother what the hell everyone does besides Damnation. I'm so fuckin tired of all this comparisons. No wonder why some bands need pseudonyms. If you do it for money this is certainly not the music to play, so why even think about it? Damnation's members live for this music and we are both dedicated and proud to play Black Metal the way it should be played!"
The packing of the album is pretty simple and there's not even a real booklet included, almost similar to the simple packaging of your demo back then... What was the reason for it this time? Once again lack of money or don't you like publishing lyrics and stuff in general?
"We wanted the whole production to be simple. That has actually nothing to do with money. We specified our needs, for example the Insert to be printed black and white on NO glossy paper, we wanted the old touch. The first printing was printed on glossy paper and we couldn't accept that, so they had to print it all once again. There is a thought behind everything on this design. There was no place left for the lyrics on the CD, that's why we didn't include them. We didn't want a book inside."
There's two additional names mentioned in the booklet though: Mörk, who's responsible for the lyrics to the album's titletrack and 'When Creation Dies' (as well as for speech in the latter) and "E." who contributed vocals to the titletrack... Could you tell us more about these two?
"They both hail from the almighty Watain from Sweden. E is the singer in Watain and Mörk plays bass. Mörk also has his roots in one of my favourite Swedish acts of all time, Malign. They are both very dedicated in what they are doing and there wasn´t a hard decision to have them on our album."
I was pretty surprised when I found out about the playing time of some of your songs (around seven minutes each) – as this is very unusual for the raw oldschool style you're playing... What made you do so anyway?
"You´re right, that's unusual but we like the songs to be longer than average if possible. Of course that is not something we really struggle for, usually it just happens. A mix between short and long songs is I guess the best..."
Visually the pictures on the back of the album pretty much look like old TREBILNKA, NIFELHEIM and the likes to me... are they band's that you feel close to? Which bands would you consider your main influences (apart from BATHORY of course)?
"Treblinka is for sure both visually and musically a very big influence for us, as well as lots of other bands hailing from that old era of Black Metal. Tormentor, Samael, Vulcano, Masters Hammer, Sarcofago, Grotesque, Sex Thrash to name a few. Nifelheim is truly one hell of a band and togheter with them, Watain and a few more I think we carry the flag for real Black Metal in Sweden!"
What made you record two cover songs for the album? Were you lacking in enough own songs? And why did you go for another BATHORY one? Was it your way of honouring the passed Quorthon once more? By the way, how did all you react when you find out about his tragic and way too early death?
"They were not chosen because of lack of songs. We could have recorded a lot more songs if we wanted. Like I said before, this is Damnation, and we will always cover bands as a tribute and show our respect for them. And Bathory songs is always going to be recorded, if not for a record, then for our own needs as we always have done. I got the information the day after the death from a source with connection to the family and I was in total shock. I lightened up 13 candles and listen to Bathory all night. As one of the few "dedicated warriors of the hordes of Bathory" I have been worshipping Bathory for a long time and I am for sure one of his most dedicated fans. The memory of Quorthon & Bathory will be honoured in Damnation forever!"
How did you hook up with Threeman Recordings? Was it due to Peter's involvement in ENTOMBED, who basically run that label? Did you have other label offers after "Divine Darkness" got released back in those days? If so, why did you turn them down?
"We got a lot of record deals sent to us in the mid 90s but we turned them all down. Demo releases was good for us back then, but things changes and 15-years of Damnation couldn´t be better celebrated than printed on vinyl (…and CDs for the new generation). Threeman was chosen as a label because that made us more in control of the production and distribution of the album than a deal with another label could offer."
Have you ever played live? Would you like to do so?
"No, we have never played live yet, and I don't think we ever will either."
Well Björn, I guess I'm running out of questions, so feel free to close this interview with any additional information that still might be of interest here... Thanx for taking the time and all the best with DAMNATION and "Destructo Evangelia"...
"Thanks Frank once again for showing the interest in Damnation! Anyone interested in real oldschool Black Metal should buy "Destructo Evangelia". Visit your local store or go to www.threeman.net for information regarding purchase of the album. In Memory of Ace! Hail The Hordes!!"


Xbox co-creator Seamus Blackley recently took to Twitter where he posted several original drawings of the Xbox controller from way back when, in November 1999.
They were inspired by older consoles that were popular at that time, like the SEGA Dreamcast. Blackley says that this was because the Dreamcast was popular back then, although he also goes on to add that the Xbox is its own thing.
The designs from back then look nothing like the original controller, although since then, the design has been refined further and we now have the Xbox One's controller which is slimmer and more ergonomic, These controllers looks cool and all but I don't think they are comfortable enough to play for hours. I think I am happy with the controoler I have it right now. What do you think?


Google and Amazon need to do better.
Two internet Goliaths are in the midst of a bitter battle, yet it's the Davids on the other side of their screens that may feel they've been pelted with a rock. On December 5, Google escalated an ongoing feud with Amazon by deciding to remove YouTube from Amazon's Fire TV, as well as its Echo Show device.
YouTube will disappear from the Show immediately, and will be gone from the FireTV as of January 1.
This move is purportedly a response to Amazon's decision to de-list Google Nest products from their online store, despite the Nest thermostat previously being listed as an "Amazon Choice" product that was advertised to work with Amazon Alexa. However, the animosity didn't start there. The feud between the two originates in an unwillingness, on both sides, to host and sell each other's products.
Meanwhile, it took years for Amazon to release a Prime video app in the Google Play store, and the retail store does not sell Google's Chromecast TV device, given it's in direct competition to their Fire TV Stick. There's also no Prime app available for the Chromecast.
If this battle were between a different type of company — imagine, for example, that Google and Amazon both published books, and wouldn't sell each other's titles in their brick and mortar stores — we might see this as typical competition, and little more than an inconvenience to customers. After all, this is all completely legal behavior. Yet that doesn't make it ethically justified. Since both companies impact how we obtain information through the internet, the customer ends up being the real loser.
Commentators have pointed out that Google and Amazon's churlish behavior is particularly ironic given their public stances on net neutrality, the idea that all data on the internet should be treated equally regardless of its source. For example: without regulations that require net neutrality, Verizon could provide slower internet connection speeds for users who access a search engine other than their own (Yahoo), or prevent Verizon users from accessing any other search engine altogether. Sound familiar?
In July, both Google and Amazon publicly protested after the U.S Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced potential rollbacks in net neutrality rules for national internet service providers. Google also hosts its own web page where you can sign up to "#takeaction" against these potential changes.
According to The Verge, some in the telecom industry are already mocking the companies for the disparity between their words and their actions.
With the FCC vote currently in progress, it seems apt to say this is not a great time for two of the biggest names in the web to display a distinct lack of conscience regarding net neutrality in their treatment of each other's content.


Companies are increasingly seeing the benefits of treasury management systems, but adopting the technology has its pitfalls. These best practices will make the transition less imposing.
Many companies are making treasury management systems a priority this year, and with good reason. These solutions have the potential to improve cash forecasting, protect companies from fraud, and generally boost the efficiency of corporate treasury.
Over the span of a generation, treasury organizations in many large companies have migrated from a reliance on spreadsheets toward the use of treasury management systems.


July 21, 2004 DeLand, Florida - On June 21, 2004, I received an e-mail from Jim Oglesby, a writer and retired U. S. Postal Service letter carrier who had worked for Bendix Corporation as a machine tool technician in its contract with the Apollo program at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Apollo 11 was the first mission to put the American flag and human footprints on the moon. Its commander was aerospace engineer Neil A. Armstrong. The lunar module pilot was USAF Col. Buzz Aldrin and the command module pilot was USAF Lt. Col. Michael Collins.
Left to right: 1969 Apollo 11 Commander Neil A. Armstrong; command module pilot USAF Lt. Col. Michael Collins; lunar module pilot USAF Col. Buzz Aldrin. Photograph courtesy NASA.
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The security of your projects relies on the security of your CVS repository, the repository's computer and its environment, all the computers that contain sandboxes, your access method, your backup storage, and your developer's working environments. The security of access methods is covered in Chapter 8. General computer security is outside the scope of this book, but you should consider it when securing your repository.
Sandboxes are checked out of the repository with the username of the user who creates them or does the checking out. If the client's computer has a group that matches the group ownership of files in the repository, files in the sandbox are usually stored with that group ownership.
Permissions in a sandbox depend on the settings for new files in the sandbox computer's operating system, on whether the user has the CVSREAD environment variable set, and on whether the files are being watched with the cvs watch commands. If a file is imported or added as executable, it is set as executable in the repository and the executable setting is preserved in the sandboxes. The CVSREAD environment variable is described in Section 6.10, later in this chapter.


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State lawmakers probe barriers to Black business development
October 11, 2020 [email protected]_84 business development
SPRINGFIELD — Black-owned businesses in Illinois face significant barriers to growth and opportunities that would enable them to compete with their white-owned counterparts, a problem that many Black leaders say is directly tied to Black unemployment rates and the deterioration of Black neighborhoods.
That was the message state lawmakers heard Thursday when three Senate committees held a virtual joint hearing that focused on entrepreneurship and financial development for Black business owners.
"If you drive or walk through our communities, especially on the south and west sides and other areas of the state, our areas look like a war zone," said Sen. Mattie Hunter, a Chicago Democrat and chair of the Senate Executive Committee. "And we keep saying well, how are our communities? Why are they looking so poorer and poorer and poorer every single day? It's because of the disparity and funding. That's the problem, you guys."
Thursday's hearing was part of a series of legislative meetings called by the Illinois Legislative Black Caucus to discuss that group's agenda for the upcoming fall veto session. One of the four "pillars" of that agenda is economic access, equity and opportunity.
Jason Johnson, director of the Chicago Urban League's Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, testified that Black Americans make up 13 percent of the U.S. population but only 9 percent of businesses, and those businesses account for less than 0.5 percent of all business revenues on an annual basis.
In addition, he said, only 4 percent of Black-owned businesses have paid employees, compared to 22 percent of White-owned firms, meaning the vast majority of Black-owned firms are family businesses or sole proprietorships.
"So as you can see, there's definitely disparities where there's not parity between the actual population and the number of African Americans engaging in entrepreneurship, and definitely not parity when it comes to the amount of revenue that's being generated," Johnson said.
Johnson said Black-owned businesses face three principle barriers to success: lack of management knowledge; lack of access to markets; and lack of access to investment capital.
As a result, he said, Black-owned businesses "aren't able to create jobs, people aren't employed, people are unemployed, which leads to issues such as crime and things like that; no tax base in the community, which leads to poorly funded education and the cycle continues."
Bruce Montgomery, founder and CEO of the Entrepreneur Success Program in Chicago, said there are a wide variety of services available to help start-up companies get off the ground. But he also said the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the landscape for entrepreneurs, possibly forever, and he said the state needs to play a role in making sure minority-owned businesses can gain a footing in the new economy.
"Clearly COVID has demonstrated the tremendous need, like right now, what we're doing right now, connecting through broadband, to have a conversation with our state support mechanisms," he said.
Even in Chicago, he said, many homes and businesses are not online because broadband technology is not available, which severely limits their ability to participate in an online economy.
"For those that don't know, going back to what was is no longer an option," Montgomery said. "There is no good old days. Those days are gone forever."
Much of the focus of Thursday's hearing was on state government and its ability to spur business development through its own contracting and purchasing policies.
"We must look at this economy moving forward and recognize that inside of a $40 billion state of Illinois budget, how is every department … spending that money with their constituents, Black constituents, so that they can be full participants in providing goods and services to the state of Illinois," Montgomery said.
Christyn Freeman, secretary of the Bronzeville Chamber of Commerce on the South Side of Chicago and cofounder of a group called the Economic Justice League, said many Black-owned businesses have trouble tapping into markets like state contracting and vending, or even the federal Payroll Protection Program, because they operate in what she called the "shadow economy."
"These are the businesses that don't officially have a business license, that are not on anybody's tax roster, and they are purposely avoiding participating in some of the mainstream," she said. "But that is, in some cases, what some of these underserved communities are primarily made up of. And so when programs are created, like PPP, that address more of the institutionalized organizations, there's still consistently is a huge gap for those organizations that operate within that shadow economy."
Legislative Black Caucus members did not discuss any specific legislation that they want to address in the upcoming veto session at the hearing, although some said they do want to see more progress from the state in meeting goals for contracting with firms owned by minorities, women, veterans and disabled individuals.
The fall veto session is scheduled for Nov. 17-19 and Dec. 1-3.
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The options of enhanced oil recovery (EOR), coal syncrude, and shale syncrude are compared by approximately equivalent methods. The physical constraints for the major enhanced oil-recovery processes are described, followed by updated processes are described, followed by updated estimates of cost. The range for all three options in terms of light syncrude equivalent are $22 to $40 per barrel (0.159 m3) in 1980 dollars under the assumptions made.
The U.S. has many options for future alternative energy sources. As more mature thinking enters the prolonged debates within the energy industries and prolonged debates within the energy industries and the federal government about the merits of each, certain unsettled concepts become more clear. 1. Relative economics determines choices. 2. Electric-power generation should be largely the province of coal and nuclear (solar will make significant contributions later). 3. Natural-liquid hydrocarbons will assume the principal functions of transportion fuels and principal functions of transportion fuels and petrochemical feedstocks. petrochemical feedstocks. 4. On the basis of hardening economics, shale oil will accelerate in importance followed by refined coal liquids. 5. The U.S. will remain heavily dependent on crude oil and natural gas through the 1980's and well into the 1990's. 6. EOR will become increasingly important. This paper emphasizes EOR as the energy alternative of greatest interest to petroleum engineers. The major processes of steam flooding, in-situ combustion, CO2 miscible, and surfactant/polymer are reviewed briefly with attention to constraints on predictable results. A revised set of consistent cost predictable results. A revised set of consistent cost figures for the same processes is presented as prepared by Lewin and Assocs. from preceding 1979 prepared by Lewin and Assocs. from preceding 1979 figures. Major cost components are given. A brief review of two advanced coal conversion methods for producing light synthetic crudes is given - i.e., the Exxon Donor Solvent (EDS) and Pittsburgh and Midway Coal Mining Co. processes Pittsburgh and Midway Coal Mining Co. processes (SRC-II) since recent good-quality economic estimates are available on a reasonably comparable basis within the U.S. DOE. A less-refined comparison by Engineering Socs. Commission on Energy (ESCOE) is discussed. Shale oil presents the same problems with respect to firm process data for commercial-scale operations; two sources are reviewed.
By definition, EOR means the additional recovery of liquid hydrocarbons from known oil or tar sands reservoirs not technically or economically feasible by conventional methods. The U.S. target is large and tantalizing. It totals about 300 Bbbl (47.7 x 109 m3) left after recovering one-third of the original oil in place (OOIP) [roughly 450 Bbbl (76.0 x 109 m3)]. place (OOIP) [roughly 450 Bbbl (76.0 x 109 m3)]. This means that the decline in U.S. oil production (barring major new finds) may be arrested by EOR. A major company forecast is that the demand-supply balance for liquid hydrocarbons will be essentially flat through 1990 for the U.S. EOR is not a mature science. It requires the injection of fluids and/or energy into known oil sands to produce additional oil. The added increment may be tertiary, but may be primary or secondary, depending on the reservoir and the contained oil.


This is an illuminated manuscript of the 15th century that contains medieval alchemical treatise. It is attributed to a writer called Pseudo-Aquinas. I like these, they remind me of Munch (you know the guy who painted The Scream)!
Mercury in the form of a serpent decapitating the Sun and the Moon. Gold and silver flowers in a vessel on the fire.
The Garuda Purana is known as one of the most stringent and difficult texts in all of the Vedas, it includes rules that most Hindus do not follow, including the practice of Sati, where the wife immolates herself on a funeral pyre.
I looked over the text during my emergence from jhana I looked over the purna and found nothing wrong with it, and in fact it seems to me to be a very necesary text expecially for the Kali Yuga.
It may not seem so, but Krsna is correct (imho) when he says "But ignorant and faithless persons who doubt the revealed scriptures do not attain god consciousness, instead they fall down"
It seems to me humans are very difficult, they want to argue with everything and they don't have the right mindset for learning from a guru. In this way the world is hopelessly mired in darkness. This is why we have Apep, or Ananta looking into things, which is bad luck in Egyptian lore but only something to be considerd very important and worth paying attention to in Hinduism. Now which do we want to use, fear or attentiveness?
This is just related to the first image, now the blue serpent in the last image where it is cutting off the heads of the red and white people is really strange, perhaps that's a warning....does the bluebird of happiness turn into an evil axe wielding snake murderer?!!?


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Q: What does the two standard deviations from the mean means according to statistics and probability? I heard that statement at the end of the lecture on Ted x by Arthur Benjamin on youtube at the end about why Probability and statistics should be at the top of the triangle before Calculus.
So what does it mean to say the two standard deviations from the means mean according to statistics and probability? Can anyone kindly give an example?

A: Standard deviation is a common way to measure the 'spread' of a probability distribution.
An informal definition is as follows: let $X$ be a 'nice' (it's square has a finite mean) random variable (or distribution), then the standard deviation of $X$, $\sigma_X$ is the root mean-squared of the difference between $X$ and its mean. That is, if $X$ has mean $\mu_X$, then $\sigma_X$ is the square root of the mean of $(X-\mu_X)^2$.
Standard deviation has nice properties for normal distributions in particular. Normal distributions come up a lot in probability and statistics, and are often used to approximate other non-normal distributions. One of the most notable properties is that if $X$ is normal, then about 68% of the distribution of $X$ lies between $\mu_X \pm \sigma_X$, about 95% lies between $\mu_X \pm 2\sigma_X$, and about 99.7% lies between $\mu_X \pm 3\sigma_X$.
One example of what this means is student grades. Grades distributions are often either approximately normal or adjusted to be normal (so I'm told), and thus if a student scored two standard deviations above the mean, then this means they scored in the top $\frac{1-0.95}{2}=$2.5% of students.

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Untold Tales Of The Beatles Come Out In Danny Boyle's Yesterday
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The Beatles don't need any introduction; they are evergreen. The iconic foursome created music that still lives on in our ever-changing playlist. But Danny Boyle would like to re-introduce us to the Beatles through his movie Yesterday. The rom-com takes place in a world where something terrifying has happened—none can remember the Beatles, neither their songs nor their legacy. Except one!
Struggling singer-songwriter Jack Malik discovers that after a mysterious global blackout, he's the only person who remembers John, Paul, George and Ringo. He's the only one in the world to still possess the knowledge of the greatest back catalogue ever written and he's struggling real hard. So, naturally, Jack starts using their songs to achieve the stardom he was always after. He becomes an overnight sensation, playing tunes like the titular Yesterday, Hey Jude, Let It Be and The Long And Winding Road to people who have no idea about the fab four- the Beatles.
And even though the Beatles have been with us since ever, there are still a great number of tales that are untold even today. And many such stories about these legends resurfaced while filming Yesterday. Danny Boyle recently told Mirror that his favourite is of Paul McCartney, who reportedly wrote The Long And Winding Road and Let It Be on the same day. Yes, that's right, one in the morning and the other in the afternoon. No wonder he's arguably one of the greatest songwriters of all time.
Even Himesh Patel shared his own share of the band's folk tale behind hits like Hey Jude and Yellow Submarine. "There is a story that goes round that a lot of early Beatles songs use this chord B7 and apparently John and Paul took a bus to find the only guy in Liverpool who knew how to play B7,' he said. 'Because you couldn't just google it so they had to find a guy! I don't know if it's true but I like it", said Patel to Metro, UK's leading newspaper. The actor even does all the singing in the movie by himself. It was, in fact Patel's particular musical talents and style that nabbed him the role in the first place.
Even Richard Curtis, the writer of the film had his own share of folk tale, though it's one directly from Paul McCartney himself. When Curtis asked if it was okay to call the movie 'Yesterday', McCartney wrote back asking why the movie is not called 'Scrambled Eggs?' which was in fact the original title. To this Curtis said, "I told him if it turned out to be a mess we'd turn it to Scrambled Eggs!"
Yesterday is set to release in the United Kingdom on June 28.
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In my experience there's a huge difference between spanish speakers depending on the country they're from. Puerto Ricans are generally legal residents and aren't sending their money back to families at home. The guys I was referring to are usually Mexican or some other central American country and are getting paid cash, sending money back home via Western Union.
I have always thought my idea was pretty good.
Tell everyone on welfare to earn their handout by making them round up illegals. The people on welfare could drive the buses to the border to drop them off, then go back and fill the jobs that have just been vacated by the illegals having to go home.
LOL, I definitely would rather my tax money go toward securing our borders and protecting American jobs than to pay people to sit on the couch and have kids!
I've got 6 families from Puerto Rico living around me, and believe me they WORK HARD, and THEY SPEAK ENGLISH, as well as spanish.
Perhaps I should've made clearer that the welfare recipients who generally "sit on the couch" AND "have kids" do not necessarily do both at the same time, nor does one inevitably cause the other.
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Illegal Aliens do paytaxes when made to pay taxes, here in California you have to give your employees w2 forms even if they are illegal. So if you do hire an illegal Alien it is your responsibility to make him pay taxes, it is a misconception that since they are illegal they can not pay taxes at least here in California all Illegal Aliens have to pay taxes if they are working.
now about hiring them? well it is illegal and you can get a $10,000.000 fine for hiring them, if a business owner hires them knowingly i think it is irresponsible since they can loose everything they have but if you do hire an illegal Alien without knowing (if they present you fake I.D's) then i would say its not your fault, i would never discriminate anyone simply by the way they look, Lincoln fought hard for the freedom and equality of all and for any of us to descriminate because of how someone looks it is as wrong as willingly hiring an Illegal Alien.
P.S. Illegal Aliens with W2 forms pay taxes with a business number.
BUT at the same time in California if you hire an Illegal Alien it is your responsibility to make them pay taxes???
That seems like two policies that don't really make sense together.
I agree that a lot of them present fake ids and those guys are paying taxes..but in those instances, as far as the employer knows, they are legal citizens.....however i know in NJ there's a lot of guys in landscaping who just get paid straight cash....and those dudes aren't paying income tax, soc security, or anything else that Uncle Sam says you and I have to pay.
Im not a tax expert but the employer pay taxes on that income don't they. You have to report where you money goes and in the instance of payroll you have to have a ss# or a other #.
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I assume they mark it as some other kind of expenditure instead of including it as a payroll expense when they do their taxes....I can't think of a reason to pay someone in cash if you were going to then report it as payroll. What would be the incentive to pay cash then?
This is an issue that hits close to home for me. In '57 my dad, aunts, uncle and grandparents immigrated from Austria. They had to come through the system legally with all the hassle that goes along with it. They also had to work and support their family.
On my dad's side of the family, I am the first generation born in this country. On my mom's side, my great grandmother came to Washington State in a covered wagon at the age of 3.
These are NOT undocumented workers they are illegal aliens. Law breakers and should be treated as such. If they want a better life then they either need to come through legally or do what we did over 200 years ago to make their lives better. Sure a lot of people will get killed but freedom is not free as we well know. Just look what happened in South Africa in the not so distant past along with other countries like Libia today. People fighting for their freedom.
I'm with you on that..Less than 100 years ago neither side of my fam was in this country. But when they arrived, they did it legally. Granted the US was pretty much letting anybody in at that point in time, which is not the case now.
It's a shame the Feds do such a bad job at fighting the problem.
Same here, my wife is from England and we're going through tons of paperwork just to get her a SSN so she can work and drive. Let alone having citizenship. The fees we have to pay are ridiculous and the wait time is annoying to say the least.
Maybe this thread isn't the one to say it, but Libya and Egypt are not fighting for their freedoms...Not all revolutions and protests are about gaining freedom. The only reason i'm bringing this up is it's a sore subject for me, I served two tours in Iraq, 27 month.....me and my brothers did not spend time fighting Al-Qaeda in Iraq and Afghanistan so our government could support them in another country, namely Libya and Egypt.
Yup California's government knows they have lots of Illegal Aliens in their borders so i guess it works for them.
on another note, i've always talked to friends and family about this issue extensively and i know that having an illegal alien working for us is not the way to go my father owns 2 different businesses and 3 apartment units here in california and he knows first hand that this Aliens are hard working people, having 2-3 jobs to stay on top of their payments, something other people might just ignore and go into bankruptcy, now I would hire someone who wants to work and help him/her try to get their documentation the right way, many would think this is wrong, but if i can find a good worker i would really try to keep him.
Illegal is illegal...my ancestors did it the legal way, i'm doing it the legal way with my wife... they can to.
If an 85 year old man can perform in the IronMan 140+ miles of swimming, biking and running. If a man with no legs can run a marathon. If some kid in poverty can grow up to make millions playing a sport, then a decent human being can go to a freakin office on his own and fill out the proper paperwork to start his or her way to being a LEGAL immigrant.
I do not care how hard you work, if someone sneaks in, and takes something from a diamond to money to a job illegally then he/she is not part of any puzzle i want to belong to.
"oh, he beats his wife and drinks a case a beer a night, but he's a hard worker" is as lame an excuse as "oh he snuck across the border, but he's a hard worker"...illegal is illegal...do it right or go home.


It's been a while since I had a brand identity project and this one was a long time coming– 20 years coming.
I've been volunteering with the Napa High Athletic Hall of Fame for a number of years but their 20th anniversary required some extra love, in the form of a new logo! We'd been using the high school's branding materials this whole time (if it ain't broke, why fix it?) but in honor of their 20th induction dinner, we are giving them their own unique look. Check out the special 20th logo (soon to be followed by a spiffy new website), as well as their new branding to take them into the next 20 years!


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Tourism Wildlife National Parks Goa South Goa
Bhagwan Mahavir Sanctuary
South Goa district, Sanguem Taluk, Goa
October to March
8.00am to 5.00 pm
King Cobra, Deer, Gaur, Monkeys
Bhagwan Mahavir Sanctuary earlier known as Mollem Game Sanctuary is situated eastern border of the state, close to the village of Mollem at the foot of the Western Ghats. It is 60 km away from the state capital, Panaji. This sanctuary is the largest of Goa's four protected wildlife areas. Covers an area of 240 sq kms, the core zone of the sanctuary comprising an area of 107 sq. km. was notified as a National Park in 1978 known as Mollem National Park.
The pristine vegetation in the sanctuary consists of Tropical evergreen forest, Semi evergreen and moist deciduous forest. The evergreen type of forests are mainly seen on higher altitudes and along the river banks.
The fauna comprises of herds of gaur (Bos Gaurus - often called Indian Bison), Monkeys, Elephant, Leopard, Sloth bear, Flying squirrel, Malayan Giant squirrel, Porcupine, Civet cat, Jungle fowl, Tigers and a few Black panthers.
The park is famous for King Cobras and there area also other snakes like python, Krait, Viper etc. About 200 species of birds are found in the sanctuary of which the better known ones are Indian Black Woodpecker, the Malabar Pied Hornbill, Paradise Fly Catcher, Fairy Blue Bird, Drongo, Wag tails, Barbets, Great Indian Horn Bill, Kingfishers, Shrikes, Emerald Dove, Grey Jungle Fowl etc. There is a Nature Interpretation centre at Mollem which gives information on the vegetation and the general biodata of the forest. Besides flora and fauna there are many places of tourist interest in this sanctuary.
The attractive Dudhsagar Falls (the highest waterfall in Goa) is in the south east corner of this sanctuary. It originates in Karnataka and the water cascades from a height of 200 mtr. This is a favourite tourist spot both for domestic as well as foreign tourists. The falls are easily accessible from Mollem by road which passes through the forest area and about an hour's journey from Colem by train. The 'Devil Canyon' (Devcharacho kond) is a beautiful geological rock formation and the river Khandepar cuts across the spot. The 13th century, Tambdi Surla, a Shiva Temple build by the Kadamba kings is about 13 kms from Mollem and 45km from Ponda.
One can also enjoy the the sunset from the Sun Set point in Bhagwan Mahavir Sanctuary. It can be reached by park vehicles driving along a zig-zag road carved from the mountain.
One should obtain entry permit from the Range Forest Officer, Bhagwan Mahaveer Sanctuary, Mollem, Goa. Ph: 91-832-2612211. Entry Fee is Adult: Rs 20 , Children: Rs 5. Extra charges for camera and vehicle.
There are jeeps available for venturing into the forest. Contact Forest range officer for the same. The best time to visit the sanctuary is either early in the morning or late in the evening.
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Dr Bohara is a member of the Faculty of Dental Surgeons at the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh. He has also completed advanced training in restorative dentistry at the prestigious Eastman Dental Institute in London.
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Office of U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan, D-N.C.
Washington D.C. � U.S. Senator Kay Hagan secured key provisions for North Carolina farmers and rural communities in the bipartisan farm bill agreement announced this week, including her amendment to strengthen efforts to deter and prevent crop insurance fraud that drive up insurance prices on honest law-abiding farmers. The agreement sets agriculture policy for the next five years and reduces the deficit by tens of billions of dollars. The Senate must now approve the agreement before it can be signed into law.
Agriculture is North Carolina�s largest industry, generating $77 billion in economic activity and employing nearly one-fifth of the state�s workforce.
� Hagan amendment to strengthen crop insurance fraud prevention. After the largest-ever crop insurance fraud ring was uncovered in North Carolina last year, Hagan heard from farmers across the state about their concerns that in these difficult budget times, the actions of a few bad actors could jeopardize federal crop insurance programs. Hagan sponsored an amendment that provides the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) with the necessary resources to combat fraud and preserve safety-net programs for honest law abiding farmers. That amendment passed the Senate last year by a vote of 94-0.
� Additional funding for a program that provides technical assistance to socially disadvantaged farmers and farmers returning from service in the U.S. military. Hagan requested that $50 million be included in the farm bill over five years to help these individuals successfully acquire, own, operate and retain farms.
� Reinstatement of the Economic Adjustment Assistance Program (EAAP). This program is vital to North Carolina�s textile and cotton producing sectors. The program provides a payment to U.S. textile manufacturers for all upland cotton consumed, stimulating new investment in textile plants and equipment and resulting in increased domestic cotton consumption and jobs.
� Full funding of the Payments in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) program. More than 1.7 million acres in North Carolina are federal lands that cannot be taxed and, as a result, county governments lose vital tax revenue each year. Many North Carolina counties depend on PILT to help pay for essential services such as law enforcement, public safety, infrastructure maintenance, education and health services.
� Provision that provides North Carolina's forestry industries with much-needed clarity on an EPA regulation that does little or nothing to protect water quality.
During floor debate of the 2013 Senate Farm Bill, Hagan also led a bipartisan coalition in defeating an amendment that would have prevented tobacco farmers from receiving federal crop insurance. Passage of the amendment would have significantly harmed roughly 2,000 small tobacco farmers in North Carolina, increased imports of foreign tobacco, and done nothing to lower smoking rates.
Hagan continues to work on behalf of North Carolina�s small tobacco farmers. In November, she urged the USDA and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to exempt the final year of the Tobacco Transition Payment Program (TTPP) from budget sequestration. Earlier this month, the USDA and OMB agreed to prevent reductions to the payments. For more information, please click here.
The farm bill conference report announced this week eliminates direct payments and creates new safety net programs for farmers. Instead of subsidies that pay out every year even in good times, the bill creates risk management tools that help farmers recover from losses caused by extreme weather.
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Old Rough and Ready – Part Four: Rough 4
Chapter: 2017 - November
Characters: Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, James K Polk, James Madison, James Monroe, John C Calhoun, John Quincy Adams, John Tyler, Margaret Taylor, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor
Location: Capitol Building, Washington Monument, White House
Old Rough and Ready – Part Two: 2 Rough 2 Ready
Characters: Black Hawk, James Madison, Jefferson Davis, Redcoat, Sarah Knox Taylor, Zachary Taylor
Good Guy With a Gun
Characters: James Madison, Ronald Reagan
Location: White House
The Republican Party's new gun policy these days is throwing up their hands and saying "welp! That's just the way it goes!" Celebrating the fact that their prophesy of the "good guy with a gun" came true for once, while[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
GUNS!
Chapter: 2017 - October
Characters: Andrew Jackson, Columbia, Dwight D Eisenhower, George HW Bush, George W Bush, George Washington, Harry S Truman, James Madison, James Monroe, John Adams, John F Kennedy, John Tyler, Ronald Reagan, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, Zachary Taylor
Location: Miscellany
Chapter: 2017 - September
Characters: Andrew Jackson, Crispus Attucks, George Washington, Harry S Truman, James Madison, James Monroe, John Adams, John Hancock, King George III, Redcoat, Robert E Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Zachary Taylor
Education Presidents
Characters: Dwight D Eisenhower, James Madison, James Monroe, Millard Fillmore, Thomas Jefferson, Woodrow Wilson
Location: University of Virginia
University of Virginia – 1819
Characters: James Madison, James Monroe, Thomas Jefferson
Theodore Prose-a-velt
Chapter: 2017 – August
Characters: James Madison, Theodore Roosevelt
Location: Lincoln Memorial
The Thirteen Stripes
Chapter: 2017 - July
Characters: Abigail Adams, Bill Clinton, Calvin Coolidge, Charles G Dawson, Chester A Arthur, James Madison, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Louisa Adams, Nellie Taft, Richard Nixon, Thomas Jefferson, Warren G Harding
Location: Jefferson Memorial
Characters: Andrew Jackson, George Washington, Harry S Truman, James Madison, James Monroe, John Adams, John Hancock, King George III, Redcoat, Thomas Jefferson, Zachary Taylor
Location: Former British Colonies
Happy Independence Day to all! Even if you're British (we're all good now, come celebrate with us!) Even though I had alluded to the document not even being signed until starting August 2nd, we celebrate the 4th of July since[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Collusion Round-Up


His teammates call him Monkey, because he is a scaffolder by trade. And in the heyday of Ireland's construction boom, there was never any shortage of bars for him to swing from. Chimneys, church spires, gable walls: Christopher McCrudden scaled and scaffolded them all.
In January of this year, a little known Irish gossip website landed a major scoop that every other news outlet in the world had somehow contrived to miss. In Pyongyang, North Korea's official news agency just announced the hermit kingdom had landed an astronaut on the sun.


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Mark Hulbert: Should you get ready for a June swoon?
A month ago, I reported that there was a surprising amount of skepticism, it not outright bearishness, among the short-term market timers I monitor, and that we therefore should see higher market prices during the next month or so. Sure enough, the S&P 500 is now 3% higher. Unfortunately, the market's sentiment foundation is a lot weaker now than then.


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Grain Management Vital Now
After enjoying a generally nice harvest season this year, now is the time for upper Midwestern producers to focus on managing the grain in storage, North Dakota State University's grain handling and storage expert says.
NDSU Extension Service agricultural engineer Ken Hellevang recommends producers check the moisture content of the grain at a few locations in the bin because this will determine the management steps they need to take to preserve the stored grain.
Producers should follow the moisture meter manufacturer's recommendations to obtain an accurate reading. They can verify the meter's reading by warming the grain sample to room temperature in a sealed plastic bag or other sealed container before measuring the moisture content.
Here are other grain management suggestions from Hellevang:
Check the grain temperature. Warm grain creates conditions conducive for insect infestations. Reducing the grain temperature reduces insect activity; insects in stored grain become dormant below about 50 F. In addition, the allowable storage time, which is related to mold growth, is approximately doubled for each 10 degrees the grain is cooled. For example, cereal grains such as corn at 16 percent moisture content can be stored about 70 days if maintained at 70 F and about 230 days at 50 F. Allowable storage time based on germination is approximately one-half as long.
Cool stored grain to near the average outdoor temperature during the fall using aeration. Grain temperature should be cooled to within about 20 degrees of the coldest average monthly temperature or below 40 F for winter storage. In North Dakota, with an average January temperature of 7 F, that would be about 20 to 30 F. For Kansas, with an average January temperature of 29 F, the goal is to cool the grain to below 40 F.
To estimate the cooling time of 56 pounds-per-bushel grain, divide 15 by the airflow rate. For example, about 75 hours of fan time is required to cool the grain using an airflow rate of 0.2 cubic feet per minute per bushel (cfm/bu). Cooling times of other grain are the ratio of 56 pounds and the grain weight. For example, barley with a weight of 48 pounds per bushel will cool more quickly than corn at 56 pounds per bushel (48 divided by 56 equals 0.86).
Check stored grain biweekly until it has been cooled to the winter storage temperature. Check and record the grain's temperature and condition at several locations. Temperature history can be used to detect grain warming, which may indicate storage problems. Look for indications of problems, such as condensation on the roof or crusting of the grain surface. Probe to examine grain below the surface.
Temperature cables are an excellent tool to measure the grain temperature, but they only measure the temperature of the grain next to the sensor. Grain is a very good insulator, so warm or hot grain just a few feet from the sensor may not be detected.
Because insects are dormant at colder temperatures, warm grain samples to room temperature and place the grain on a white cloth to inspect for insect infestations. Grain fumigants will not control an insect infestation adequately if some of the grain is cold. The fumigant does not volatize in cool grain adequately, and insects in cool grain near the edge of a "hot spot" may have limited metabolic activity, resulting in poor control. However, cooling the grain can control most storage problems.
Open or unlatch the grain bin's fill or access cover during fan operation to serve as a pressure relief valve. Bin vents may become blocked by frost or ice if fans run when the outdoor air temperature is near or below freezing. The resulting air pressure may damage the bin roof. Cover the aeration fan when it is not operating to prevent pests and moisture in the form of snow, fog and rain from entering the bin.
Hellevang says corn moisture content may be an issue this year. Corn at moisture contents up to 20 percent was harvested and placed in bins with natural-air drying fans sized to provide an airflow rate of at least 1 cfm/bu. Even though the outdoor temperature and relative humidity were conducive for drying during October, the drying zone may not have moved through all the grain.
The estimated drying time for corn with a moisture content up to 20 percent is 30 to 40 days with an average air temperature of about 50 F, about 50 to 60 days at 40 F and at least 70 days when the air temperature is near 30 F.
The moisture-holding capacity of the air at temperatures below 35 to 40 F is small, so drying becomes inefficient using natural-air/low-temperature (NA/LT) drying. Drying time also is related to the airflow rate, so at an airflow rate of 0.75 cfm/bu, drying time at 1 cfm/bu is extended from 40 days to about 53 days (40 divided by 0.75).
Warming the air by about 5 degrees will allow producers to continue drying corn with the typically higher air humidity level that occurs in November if the outdoor air temperature is averaging at least 35 to 40 F, Hellevang says. Adding more heat causes grain in the bottom of the bin to dry to a lower-than-desired moisture content.
Producers should use a bin-stirring device or do batch-in-bin drying with only a few feet of grain in the bin if the air is heated more than 5 to 10 degrees. NA/LT drying can be completed in the spring starting when outdoor temperatures again average about 40 F.
Visit https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/graindrying for more information from NDSU about grain drying and storage.
Source: Ken Hellevang and Ellen Crawford, North Dakota State University


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Release Round-Up: Week of June 10
June 10, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, with some of the most high-profile releases yet for 2016!
The Beach Boys, Pet Sounds 50 (Various Editions) (Capitol/UMe)
4-CD/1-BD Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
2-CD Deluxe Edition (CD 1 + highlights from 4-CD set): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Mono 180-Gram Vinyl Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Stereo 180-Gram Vinyl Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
The Beach Boys' landmark 1966 album Pet Sounds is turning 50, and Capitol/UMe is celebrating with a variety of releases including a 4-CD/1-BD Deluxe Edition featuring the contents of the previous Pet Sounds Sessions box set (newly remastered) as well as additional studio and live material plus the album and bonus content in high-resolution surround, mono, and stereo - including an all-instrumental mix - on Blu-ray Audio! Read the full track listing here, and don't miss Joe's review!
Paul McCartney, Pure McCartney (Various Editions) (Concord/Hear Music)
4 CD Box: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
2 CD Set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
4 LP Set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Paul tells his own musical story on this new personally-curated, non-chronologically-sequenced collection drawing on his solo and Wings work. It's available in 4-CD (67 tracks), 4-LP (41 tracks) and 2-CD (39 tracks) formats, and features material spanning between 1970's homemade McCartney through 2014's "Hope for the Future," featured on the Destiny video game. You'll find more details here!
Van Morrison, It's Too Late to Stop Now...Volumes II, III, IV & DVD (Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)
Legacy revisits Van Morrison's seminal 1974 double live album (see below!) with this release of additional material. The CDs ofVolumes II-IV collect previously unreleased concert recordings from the dates that yielded the original album, while the DVD contains professionally-shot footage from the Rainbow Theatre stand which originally aired on the BBC in the U.K. but has never before been commercially available. The original It's Too Late was compiled by Morrison and co-producer Ted Templeman from eight sets of live performances and was famously free of any subsequent studio overdubs. Volumes II-IV returns to those original performances, first captured on two-inch 16-track analog tapes, as newly remastered by Guy Massey. None of the tracks on this set are duplicated from the performances on the original album. Read more here!
Van Morrison, It's Too Late to Stop Now...Volume I (Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)
Van Morrison's classic 1974 live double album recorded in Los Angeles, Santa Monica and London gets the remastered treatment, while three CDs of additional material from the concerts is available as a stand-alone release. (See above!) Available on CD, DD and vinyl.
Kris Kristofferson, The Complete Monument and Columbia Album Collection (Columbia/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)
This 16-CD box set features 11 studio albums and three concerts (two previously unreleased) plus two more discs of bonus tracks from the legendary, prolific singer/songwriter who heralded the "New Nashville" sound as he brought country music into a more contemporary vein. Full info is right here!
John Coltrane, The Atlantic Years in Mono (Atlantic/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)
Rhino's new box set, available on both CD and LP, includes original mono mixes of Trane's Giant Steps; Bags & Trane (with Milt Jackson); Ole Coltrane; Coltrane Plays The Blues and The Avant Garde (with Don Cherry) plus one disc of outtakes. All of these remastered albums are housed in replica jackets and a 32-page booklet is also included with new liner notes by Ashley Kahn and photos by Lee Friedlander. The CD version has 6 CDs; the 6-LP version adds a bonus 7-inch single of the original "My Favorite Things" 45.)
Phil Collins, ...But Seriously: Deluxe Edition (Atlantic/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)
1989's ...But Seriously found Phil Collins and longtime producer Hugh Padgham adopting a more organic sound as they tackled weighty issues in song, including homelessness, apartheid and other global crises. Eric Clapton, David Crosby, Steve Winwood and bassists Pino Palladino and Leland Sklar were among the guests on this hugely successful LP which spun off four U.S. Top 10 hits (the chart-topping "Another Day in Paradise," "I Wish It Would Rain Down," "Something Happened on the Way to Heaven" and "Do You Remember?"). As has been the case for Collins' previous reissues in this series, the bonus disc for ...But Seriously combines live material with a handful of demo recordings; note that this bonus disc may feature the most previously released demos and B-sides, with four of the seven demos first appearing on singles of that era. The original album is also available on vinyl. You'll find the track listing and more here!
Phil Collins, The Essential Going Back: Deluxe Edition (Atlantic/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)
No stranger to the music of Motown, Phil Collins released Going Back in 2010 - an album packed with faithful covers of The Four Tops, The Miracles, Stevie Wonder, The Temptations and many more. With the assistance of both original members of Motown backing band The Funk Brothers and some crucial in-studio trickery (following a surgery on Collins' vertebrae, he was able to drum by taping his sticks to his hands), Going Back became an expansive love letter to The Sound of Young America. In fact, even Collins may have found Going Back too expansive in retrospect. First released as an 18-track standard album and 25-track deluxe package, The Essential Going Back now pares it back to a tight 14 tracks and couples it with a live bonus disc recorded on his brief summer tour, which made stops at Philadelphia's Electric Factory, New York's Roseland Ballroom, a televised concert in London and the Montreux Jazz Festival of 2010. The newly-abridged 14-track album will also be available on vinyl.
Glen Campbell, For the Good Times (Varese Vintage) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)
Varese Vintage anthologizes a lesser-known period of Glen Campbell's career: his 1980s recordings for Warner Bros. and Atlantic America. For the Good Times features sixteen cuts including a pair of songs by Jimmy Webb ("Do What You Gotta Do," "I Was Too Busy Loving You") and two previously unreleased tracks: Kris Kristofferson's title track and Dave Loggins' "Please Come to Boston." Watch for Joe's review coming soon!
Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels, All-Time Greatest Hits (Varese Vintage) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)
Varese Vintage has 16 prime cuts of Motor City-style blue-eyed soul via Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels! This collection (remastered by Steve Massie) features the original mono single versions of "Devil with a Blue Dress On/Good Golly Miss Molly," "Sock it to Me, Baby" and "(You've Got) Personality/Chantilly Lace" plus other hits like "Jenny Take a Ride" and "Little Latin Lupe Lu." In addition, you'll find three Mitch Ryder solo songs - and every track was produced, arranged and conducted by Second Disc favorite Bob Crewe for his New Voice label!
Jerry Lee Lewis, Rockin' My Life Away (Varese Vintage) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)
With this new compilation, Varese Vintage looks back to Jerry Lee Lewis' brief tenure at Elektra Records at the dawn of the 1980s. With productions by Bones Howe (The 5th Dimension, Tom Waits) and songs by Bob Dylan, Roger Miller and Johnny Cash, Rockin' My Life Away captures The Killer melding country, rock-and-roll and popular standards in his inimitable fashion.
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Gilbert O'Sullivan, The Essential Gilbert O'Sullivan (BMG) (Amazon U.S. TBD / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada TBD)
The quirky "Alone Again, Naturally" troubadour has handpicked the 43 tracks on this 2-CD set including his hits and favorites "Clair," "Get Down," "Matrimony," "Nothing Rhymed," "Ooh-Wakka-Doo-Wakka-Day" and his new singles "No Way" and "I Guess I'll Always Love You (2016 Radio Version)." This collection boasts 23 tracks not on O'Sullivan's last hits compilation from 2012.
Allen Toussaint, American Tunes (Nonesuch) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)
The final album by the late, great Allen Toussaint, American Tunes was recorded at two sets of sessions with producer Joe Henry: solo piano at Toussaint's New Orleans home studio in 2013, and with a rhythm section and guest artists in Los Angeles in 2015. On his solo performances including "Mardi Gras in New Orleans," "Hey Little Girl" and "Big Chief," Toussaint pays tribute to his hero at the keys, New Orleans' Professor Longhair. The album also features band arrangements of songs written and/or popularized by Toussaint ("Delores' Boyfriend," "Southern Nights"), Duke Ellington ("Come Sunday," "Rocks in My Bed," "Lotus Blossom"), Bill Evans ("Waltz for Debby"), Fats Waller ("(I'm) Confessin' (That I Love You)," "Viper's Drag"), Paul Simon (title track "American Tune"), and others. The double-vinyl LP release adds three bonus tracks: renditions of Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer's "Moon River" and the Professor Longhair pair "Her Mind is Gone" and "Bald Head." Read more here!
Charlie Faye and the Fayettes, Charlie Faye and the Fayettes (Amazon U.S.)
Austin's Charlie Faye joins with Betty Soo and Akina Adderley to form Charlie Faye and the Fayettes for this '60s-inspired girl group romp. With one foot in the past and one in the present, Faye pays tribute to The Shirelles, The Shangri-Las and Phil Spector's Wall of Sound. Find out why the great Peter Asher is a fan with this fun, one-of-a-kind release from a talent to watch!
Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Allen Toussaint, Charlie Faye and the Fayettes, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Glen Campbell, Jerry Lee Lewis, John Coltrane, Kris Kristofferson, Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels, Paul McCartney, Phil Collins, The Beach Boys, Van Morrison
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Home Culture Dictator's order to eliminate all sparrows failed horribly—instead, 78 million starve to...
Dictator's order to eliminate all sparrows failed horribly—instead, 78 million starve to death
In Chinese culture, the little sparrow has been looked upon with much affection, and the bird has been depicted in Chinese paintings as a symbol of hope and happiness for hundreds of years. One misguided dictator decided to decimate them, and as a result, millions of people died from the domino effect.
The Great Sparrow campaign, also called the "Kill a Sparrow" campaign, was instigated in China in 1958 by Mao Zedong, founder and first dictator of the Chinese Communist Party. The program resulted in the deaths of hundreds of millions of sparrows.
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The Daoist traditions of ancient times saw people live in harmony with nature, but Mao had other ideas. "Make the high mountain bow its head; make the river yield the way," Mao said in 1958.
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After the communist party had been in power for nine years, Mao initiated the Great Leap Forward, a plan to change China from a country of farmers into a modern industrialized society. He herded millions of people into communes, children were put into childcare run by workers, while most everyone else was assigned to small farming cooperatives or manufacturing. Many were forced into making steel in backyard furnaces, private farming was banned—and the results turned out to be catastrophic.
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As part of Mao's hygiene campaign, sparrows were targeted for elimination after he heard they were eating grains. He expected all citizens to take part, so they obeyed, and began shooting them down.
Some banged pots and pans to prevent them sleeping so they fell exhausted from the trees, most died because they were chased away, and kept in the air until they became so tired they just dropped down. Their nests were destroyed, eggs smashed and young chicks killed. Hundreds of millions of sparrows were killed.
Two years later, the leaders of the CCP realized that the sparrows had been eating insects as well. Such insects were now without natural predators. The ecological balance was severely disrupted. Bed bugs began destroying crops, and Mao Zedong switched his eradication program to target them, but by now it was too late. Locusts in swarms also descended on the countryside, and as there were no sparrows left to eat them, they also decimated the crops.
People ran out of food to feed their families, and as a result, up to 45 million people died from starvation. Some estimates go as high as 78 million.
Chinese reporter Yang Jisheng chronicled China's Great Famine by secretly collecting official evidence of the famine for over a decade.
"Documents report several thousand cases where people ate other people," Yang says. "Parents ate their own kids. Kids ate their own parents. And we couldn't have imagined there was still grain in the warehouses. At the worst time, the government was still exporting grain."
"At first when I was writing this book, it was difficult. But then I became numb. When you are writing history, you can't be too emotional. You need to be calm and objective," he says. "But I was angry the whole time. I'm still angry."
His book Tombstone is banned in China—much like any other book that reveals the crimes of the CCP—such as the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, which is the most comprehensive publication on the true history of the CCP.
An excerpt from the publication's foreword reads: "Since coming to power, the CCP has employed similar artifices in every single movement, including its elimination of counter-revolutionaries (1950–1953), the 'partnership' of public and private enterprises (1954–1957), the Anti-Rightist Movement (1957), the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), the Tiananmen Square Massacre (1989), and, most recently, the persecution of Falun Gong, which began in 1999."
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