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Traditionally, a nation-state is a specific form of state, which exists to provide a sovereign territory for a particular nation, and which derives its legitimacy from that function. The state is a political and geopolitical entity; the nation is a cultural and/or ethnic entity. The term "nation-state" implies that they geographically coincide, and this distinguishes the nation-state from the other types of state, which historically preceded it. If successfully implemented, this implies that the citizens share a common language, culture, and values — which was not the case in many historical states. A world of nation-states also implements the claim to self-determination and autonomy for every nation, a central theme of the ideology of nationalism.
Political science uses the term "nation-state" for most existing sovereign states, even if their political boundaries do not coincide with ethnic boundaries.
In some cases, the geographic boundaries of an ethnic population and a political state largely coincide. In these cases, there is little immigration or emigration, few members of ethnic minorities, and few members of the "home" ethnicity living in other countries.
Portugal is seen as one of the best examples of a nation-state. Although surrounded by other lands and people, the Portuguese nation has been the same for almost 900 years. Since its foundation, in 1143, Portugal remained as a single nation living in a single country. Ethnically, Portuguese people are related to Celts, Romans, Germanic peoples like the Suebi and the Visigoths and have been under Moorish control for nearly 500 hundred years being the south of the country the region which have suffered the most. Portugal had a great colonial Empire for more than 500 years. Nowadays, Portugal is a very singular country that is still seen as a nation-state though Galicians are still considered by some the same ethnic stock as the Portuguese (especially those in the north).
Iceland is often seen as a strong example of a nation-state. Although the inhabitants are ethnically related to other Scandinavian groups, the national culture and language are found only in Iceland. There are no cross-border minorities — the nearest land is too far away.
Japan is also traditionally seen as a good example of a nation-state, although it includes minorities of the ethnically distinct Ryūkyū peoples in the south, Koreans, Chinese and Filipinos, and on the northern island of Hokkaidō, the indigenous Ainu minority; see also Japanese Demographics and Ethnic issues in Japan.
Both Iceland and Japan are island nations. Portugal, curiously, is not an island and is surrounded by other historic nations in Europe.
The notion of a "national identity" also extends to countries which host multiple ethnic or language groups. For example, Switzerland is constitutionally a confederation of cantons, and has four official languages, but it has also a 'Swiss' national identity, a national history, and a classic national hero, Wilhelm Tell.
Many historical conflicts have arisen where political boundaries do not correspond with ethnic or cultural boundaries. For example, the Hatay Province was transferred to Turkey from Syria after the majority-Turk population complained of mistreatment. The traditional homeland of the Kurdish people extends between northern Iraq and eastern Turkey, and western Iran. Some of its inhabitants call for the creation of an independent Kurdistan, citing mistreatment by the Turkish and Iraqi governments. An armed conflict between the Kurdistan Workers Party and the Turkish government over this issue has been ongoing since 1984.
Belgium is a classic example of a disputed nation-state. The state was formed by secession from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1830 - protected by the Treaty of London 1839, and the Flemish population in the north speaks Dutch. The Flemish identity is also ethnic and cultural, and there is a strong separatist movement. The Walloon identity is linguistic (Francophone) and regionalist. There is also a unitary Belgian nationalism, several versions of a Greater Netherlands ideal, and a German-speaking region annexed from Prussia in 1920, and re-annexed by Germany in 1940–1944.
China covers a large geographic area, and uses the concept of "Zhonghua minzu" — "a Chinese people" — although it also officially recognizes the majority Han ethnic group, and no fewer than 55 national minorities.
Where part of the national group lives in a neighboring nation-state, it is usually called a national minority. In some cases states have reciprocal national minorities, for instance the Slovaks in Hungary and the Magyars (ethnic Hungarians) in Slovakia.
National minorities should not be confused with a national Diaspora, which is typically located far from the national border. Most modern diasporas result from economic migration, for example the Irish Diaspora.
The possession of dependent territories does influence the status of a nation-state. A state with large colonial possessions is obviously inhabited by many ethnic groups, and is not a mono-ethnic state. However, in most cases, the colonies were not considered an integral part of the motherland, and were separately administered. Some European nation-states have dependent territories in Europe. Denmark contains virtually all ethnic Danes and has relatively few foreign nationals within it. However, it exercises sovereignty over the Faroe Islands and Greenland.
The origins and early history of nation-states are disputed. A major theoretical issue is: "which came first — the nation or the nation-state?" For nationalists themselves, the answer is that the nation existed first, nationalist movements arose to present its legitimate demand for sovereignty, and the nation-state met that demand. Some "modernization theories" of nationalism see the national identity largely as a product of government policy, to unify and modernize an already existing state. Most theories see the nation-state as a 19th-century European phenomenon, facilitated by developments such as mass literacy and the early mass media. However, historians also note the early emergence of a relatively unified state, and a sense of common identity, in England, Portugal and the Dutch Republic.
In France, Eric Hobsbawm argues, the French state preceded the formation of the French people. Hobsbawm considers that the state made the French nation, and not French nationalism, which emerged at the end of the 19th century, the time of the Dreyfus Affair. At the time of the 1789 French Revolution, only half of the French people spoke some French, and between 12% to 13% spoke it "fairly", according to Hobsbawm. During Italian unification, the number of people speaking the Italian language was even lower. The French state promoted the unification of various dialects and languages into the French language. The introduction of conscription, and the Third Republic's 1880s laws on public instruction, facilitated the creation of a national identity, under this theory.
The theorist Benedict Anderson argues that nations are "imagined communities" (the members cannot possibly know each other), and that the main causes of nationalism and the creation of an imagined community are the reduction of privileged access to particular script languages (e.g. Latin), the movement to abolish the ideas of divine rule and monarchy, as well as the emergence of the printing press under a system of capitalism (or, as Anderson calls it, "print-capitalism"). The "state-driven" theories of the origin of nation-states tend to emphasize a few specific states, such as France and its rival England. These states expanded from core regions, and developed a national consciousness and sense of national identity ("Frenchness" and "Englishness"). Both assimilated peripheral regions (Wales, Brittany, Aquitaine and Occitania); these areas experienced a revival of interest in the regional culture in the 19th century, leading to the creation of autonomist movements in the 20th century.
Some nation-states, such as Germany or Italy, came into existence at least partly as a result of political campaigns by nationalists, during the nineteenth century. In both cases, the territory was previously divided among other states, some of them very small. The sense of common identity was at first a cultural movement, such as in the Völkisch movement in German-speaking states, which rapidly acquired a political significance. In these cases, the nationalist sentiment and the nationalist movement clearly precede the unification of the German and Italian nation-states.
The idea of a nation-state is associated with the rise of the modern system of states — often called the "Westphalian system" in reference to the Treaty of Westphalia (1648). The balance of power, which characterizes that system, depends for its effectiveness upon clearly defined, centrally controlled, independent entities, whether empires or nation-states, which recognize each other's sovereignty and territory. The Westphalian system did not create the nation-state, but the nation-state meets the criteria for its component states (assuming that there is no disputed territory).
The nation-state received a philosophical underpinning in the era of Romanticism, at first as the 'natural' expression of the individual peoples (romantic nationalism — see Fichte's conception of the Volk, which would be later opposed by Ernest Renan). The increasing emphasis during the 19th century, on the ethnic and racial origins of the nation, led to a redefinition of the nation-state in these terms. Racism, which in Boulainvilliers's theories was inherently antipatriotic and antinationalist, joined itself with colonialist imperialism and "continental imperialism", most notably in pan-Germanic and pan-Slavic movements. This relation between racism and nationalism reached its height in the fascist and Nazi movements of the 20th century. The specific combination of 'nation' ('people') and 'state' expressed in such terms as the Völkische Staat and implemented in laws such as the 1935 Nuremberg laws made fascist states such as early Nazi Germany qualitatively different from non-fascist nation-states. Obviously, minorities, who are not part of the Volk, have no authentic or legitimate role in such a state. In Germany, neither Jews nor the Roma were considered part of the Volk, and specifically targeted for persecution. However German nationality law defined 'German' on the basis of German ancestry (as it still largely does), excluding all non-Germans from the 'Volk'.
In recent years, the nation-state's claim to absolute sovereignty within its borders has been much criticized. A global political system based on international agreements, and supra-national blocs characterized the post-war era. Non-state actors, such as international corporations and non-governmental organizations, are widely seen as eroding the economic and political power of nation-states, leading to their eventual disappearance.
Nation-states have their own characteristics, differing from those of the pre-national states. For a start, they have a different attitude to their territory, compared to the dynastic monarchies: it is semi-sacred, and non-transferable. No nation would swap territory with other states simply, for example, because the king's daughter got married. They have a different type of borderer, in principle defined only by the area of settlement of the national group, although many nation-states also sought natural borders (rivers, mountain ranges).
The most noticeable characteristic is the degree to which nation-states use the state as an instrument of national unity, in economic, social and cultural life.
The nation-states typically had a more centralized and uniform public administration than its imperial predecessors: they were smaller, and the population less diverse. (The internal diversity of, for instance, the Ottoman Empire was very great). After the triumph of the nation-state in Europe, regional identity was subordinate to national identity, in regions such as Alsace-Lorraine, Catalonia, Brittany, Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica. In many cases, the regional administration was also subordinated to central (national) government. This process was partially reversed from the 1970s onward, with the introduction of various forms of regional autonomy, in formerly centralized states such as France.
However, the most obvious impact of the nation-state, as compared to its non-national predecessors, is the creation of a uniform national culture, through state policy. The model of the nation-state implies that its population constitute a nation, united by a common descent, a common language, and many forms of shared culture. When the implied unity was absent, the nation-state often tried to create it. It promoted a uniform national language, through language policy. (When Italy was united as a political entity, the majority of the population could not speak Italian.) The creation of national systems of compulsory primary education and a relatively uniform curriculum in secondary schools, was the most effective instrument in the spread of the national languages. The schools also taught the national history, often in a propagandistic and mythologized version, and (especially during conflicts) some nation-states still teach this kind of history.
Language and cultural policy was sometimes negative, aimed at the suppression of non-national elements. Language prohibitions were sometimes used to accelerate the adoption of national languages, and the decline of minority languages.
In some cases these policies triggered bitter conflicts and separatism. Where it worked, the cultural uniformity and homogeneity of the population increased. Conversely, the cultural divergence at the border became sharper: in theory, a uniform French identity extends from the Atlantic coast to the Rhine, and on the other bank of the Rhine, a uniform German identity begins. To enforce that model, both sides have divergent language policy and educational systems, although the linguistic boundary is in fact well inside France, and the Alsace region changed hands four times between 1870 and 1945.
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I'm not quite sure what I was looking for when I delved into The Testaments. I'm sure I expected an acknowledgement of where we are now, and a reflection on how it all seemingly got worse. Perhaps I was looking for some form of hope. An indication that no matter how bad it's going to get we can find a way out. Regardless of my hopes, I'm not sure I got what I wanted from Margaret Atwood's much-anticipated sequel.
I mostly enjoyed reading The Testaments. It's an engaging enough story. If it hadn't had such big shoes to fill perhaps I might appreciate it more. Having said that, even if it shed the heavy expectations I don't think it lives up to what I know Margaret Atwood can do.
The story is told through three perspectives, one of whom is the already familiar Aunt Lydia. These are the chapters I liked the least. I saw someone describe this book as reading like fanfiction of the original, and when we were in Aunt Lydia's head I felt that particularly resonated. I would be interested to know why Atwood chose to try and redeem Aunt Lydia. I would be interested to know whether other readers feel she was redeemed. I felt her characterisation was somewhat underdeveloped. I feel that perhaps anyone could have slipped into her shoes.
We can only assume the two other characters are June's daughters. As with Aunt Lydia, I am completely lost on the motivations of these characters. I think Atwood knew parts of the story she wanted to tell and knew which characters she wanted us to meet or explore, but maybe didn't consider whether these characters she was interested in were well matched to the events that she wanted to take place.
A further element that sat uncomfortably was the way relevance to our current society felt shoehorned in. The Handmaid's Tale has recaptured our attention in recent years because our fears for society increasingly line up with the events in the book. The Testaments had an opportunity to exploit that fear and really hit us where it hurts. Instead, the efforts to be more relevant to our present lived reality feel cheesy and poorly considered. A lazy mention of climate change that made no sense at all frustrated me with its thoughtlessness. The Handmaid's Tale did a much better job of reflecting a possible reality, if only because it wasn't trying so hard.
I love Margaret Atwood, and I think she creates spectacular things. I expected this book to be important, but I don't think it has added anything to the conversation that its predecessor wasn't able to.
What I am glad of is that Atwood did choose to offer hope. Sure, we knew Gilead eventually fell as the close of The Handmaid's Tale, but somehow throughout The Testaments, I was poised for everything to fall apart, and the characters good intentions to ultimately be hopeless. Most likely that says something about how helpless I've been feeling lately.
There will always be those of us willing to do the right thing no matter the cost. Let's hope we're not all left to do it alone.
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Baptists have historically held that this book has "God for its author." II Tim. 3:16 describes the Scriptures as "God breathed…" We understand this to mean that the men who penned the written words that we read in the Bible were "divinely inspired." That is, the Holy Spirit moved in the authors (for example, II Peter 1:21 and Acts 4:25, 26) to accomplish the revelation that God intended, in the Bible, uniquely, once for all time. The result is a Bible that records actual historical events, presents timeless propositions of divine truth, declares the saving plan of God through Jesus Christ, our Lord and speaks personally to its readers, in every nation, throughout all history. This book then becomes the source that declares and "instructs" what we believe, the biblical doctrines of our faith.
We believe that the Bible is "totally true." The BF&M 2000 and prior Baptist Confessions hold that the Bible has "truth without any mixture of error, for its matter." While the term inerrancy is not used, I would affirm that it is consistent with that statement, and I join other Southern Baptists who affirm the inerrancy of the Bible. The Bible has God, Who is perfectly truthful, as its author. (Titus 1:2) Jesus said, "…Your word is truth." (John 17:17) It will never make a false statement. This makes its message and teaching "trustworthy." The Bible presents us with the compelling divine story of God, His creation, redemption of fallen sinful people and most of all Jesus, Savior and Lord. We have complete confidence that the Bible is worthy of our faith and the faith of those to whom we proclaim it.
We believe that Jesus Christ is the Living Word. He is also God's final and full revelation. (Heb. 1:1-4) The BF&M 2000 states that, "All Scripture is a testimony to Christ, Who is Himself the focus of divine revelation." The Scripture presents and gives testimony to Jesus.
We believe that the Bible is fully sufficient and contains all we need to come to know God, His message of salvation and to live for Him. We do not believe there are other books divinely inspired by God, as is the Bible. (Gal. 1:6-10) The final book of the Bible, Revelation in 22:18-19 and Deut. 4:2, for example, strongly warn against this. We should not search for new books, old books or new "prophetic words" to add to the Bible or perhaps change it. While the Bible is an ancient book, it is a timeless book, a "treasure," completely relevant today. When we read the lives of the people in it, we see lives like ours today, people who need and find redemption, and we find the answers to life's greatest questions.
II Tim. 3:16-17 concludes that the Scripture "… is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work." Charles Spurgeon, the most famous of Baptist preachers, said, "The deeper you dig into Scripture, the more you find it is a great abyss of truth," and "The Scriptures teem with marvels; the Bible is a wonder land; it not only relates miracles, but is itself a world of wonders." The Bible is the Word of God.


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Luca de Meo is awarded Executive of the Year by AutoRevista
27th edition of the awards
The President of SEAT, distinguished for "his leadership in the company's latest achievements"
The publication has been giving this prize since 1991 to personalities with an outstanding career in the automotive sector
Madrid, 24/11/2017. - SEAT President Luca de Meo has been distinguished as Executive of the Year in the Vehicle Manufacturer category by AutoRevista, the leading trade publication in information about the car industry in Spain. The prize was presented at the 27th edition of the AutoRevista Directors of the Year Awards, organised by the magazine in Madrid. This is a new recognition for Luca de Meo's leadership in guiding SEAT following the prizes given by Automotive News Europe and Bocconi University for CEO and Alumnus of the Year, respectively.
As highlighted by AutoRevista, awarding the prize to Luca de Meo responds to "a splendid moment, underpinned by the achievement of the best results in the history of SEAT. With Luca de Meo at the helm, Martorell has launched a new generation Ibiza, which is now joined by the Arona, while progress continues on accommodating the Audi A1, which will be arriving in 2018".
AutoRevista also underscored that "beyond the Iberian Peninsula, SEAT is leading the Volkswagen Group's project in Algeria and will then see production of the largest vehicle in its range produced next year in Wolfsburg. Luca de Meo knows how to extract maximum value from SEAT both in terms of the product range and industrial aspects". It concluded by stating that "the strengthening of its brand image, its complete alignment with the most advanced market trends and its repositioning within the Volkswagen Group support this acknowledgement".
In his acceptance speech, Luca de Meo pointed out that "it is an honour to receive this award from AutoRevista, one of the sector's most relevant publications in Spain, and from its readers, professionals linked to the automotive industry". The President of SEAT added that this recognition "is the result of the work carried out by all the professionals who make up SEAT, and the success of each of the projects that have been developed in recent years. They are the true architects of the present moment we are experiencing, and I am just the public face".
Founded in 1959, AutoRevista is known for its detailed analysis of the sector and in-depth interviews, and is published in Spanish and English. AutoRevista has been giving the Director of the Year Awards since 1991, and they are considered among the most relevant in the automotive industry in Spain.
A steadily developing career
Luca de Meo has more than 25 years experience in the automotive sector. He began his career at Renault in 1992, prior to joining Toyota Europe, followed by the Fiat Group, where he was Head of Business Units Lancia, Fiat, Alfa Romeo and Abarth. Luca de Meo joined the Volkswagen Group in 2009 as Marketing Director of the Volkswagen brand and the Volkswagen Group. From 2012 he was a Board of Management member for Sales and Marketing at AUDI AG, until 2015 when he was appointed President of SEAT. He is also a member of the Supervisory Board of Ducati and President of SEAT Metropolis:Lab Barcelona.
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In a joint statement, Walmart, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and Nestlé pledge to send 176 truckloads (6.5 million bottles) of water to hydrate the approximately 10,000 students of Flint public schools through the calendar year.
The current crisis began in 2014, when Flint stopped sourcing its water from Lake Huron (via Detroit) and instead began getting it from the Flint River. The river water, more corrosive than what Flint's old pipes had been used to, eroded the protective linings of the city's service pipes.
Shortly after the switch, Flint residents began complaining of odd tastes and smells. Subsequent tests turned up alarmingly high levels of lead in the water.
Flint switched back to the Detroit water in the fall of 2015, but it will take some time for the pipes to stop leeching lead into the water.
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1a. On-station (VA Gulf Coast Veterans Health Care System) employees must submit an Application for Promotion or Reassignment, VA Form 5-4078, to Human Resources (05), Bldg 53, Room 2A-108. You must indicate the lowest grade you are willing to accept or we will only consider you at the Full Performance Level of the position. Application material can be delivered in person, sent via inter-office mail, or submitted electronically via VA intranet (VHABILHRM in outlook). Application material, to include VA Form 5-4078, must be received in Human Resources by the closing date of the announcement. Supplemental qualification form (i.e., VA Form 5-4676a) must be returned within 7 (seven) calendar days of the closing date of the announcement. No credit will be given for education unless substantiated by an official college transcript.
1b. Off-station applicants, to include on-station employees desiring consideration for a new appointment under non-competitive appointment authorities (e.g., VRA), must submit a written or electronic application for employment. You may use the OF-612 form (Optional Application for Federal Employment), a resume, or alternative format. You must indicate the lowest grade you are willing to accept or we will only consider you at the Full Performance Level of the position. You should also complete an OF-306 (Declaration for Federal Employment). You MUST include all of the information specified in the vacancy announcement and all information listed in the Office of Personnel Management's brochure "Applying for a Federal Job (OF-510)". Applications must be typed or printed clearly in dark ink. If application is submitted by mail, it must be postmarked by the closing date of the announcement and received within five (5) working days. If application is delivered in person (VA Gulf Coast Veterans Health Care System, Human Resources (05A), Building 53, Room 2A-108, 400 Veterans Avenue, Biloxi, MS), it must be received by close of business (4:30pm) on the closing date of the announcement. If the application is submitted electronically, it must be received by the closing date of the announcement (i.e., by midnight Central Standard Time). Current permanent VA employees may electronically submit application material via the VA intranet (VHABILJOBS in outlook).
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Maher Mahmoud is a Syrian composer and oudist. He was born in 1986 in Salamiya -a city in the middle of Syria- and lived in Damascus until 2012 when he briefly moved to Jordan. In 2013 Maher moved to Denmark, where he presently resides.
Since 2009, Maher has worked with different bands and artists in Denmark, UK and around Europe – among others are Damon Albarn and Brian Eno, Berlin Chamber Orchestra, Dunia Ensemble, The Syrian Expat Philharmonic Orchestra, EU.Terpe Orchestra, Dicte, JSO Bremen-Nord Philharmonic Orchestra, The Orchestra of Syrian Musicians, RUM band, Blood-Sweat-Drum & Bass big band, S. Møller Big Band, Art Ensemble Syd, Listen! Trio, Nouri Iskandar String Quartet, Li Dine, Simon Spang-Hansen & Middle Earth, Jiraan, Grænseløs, Jovan Pavlovic Trio and many others.
His debut album Mirage was released in 2010.
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The ensemble includes Syrian musicians who studied together previously at The Higher Institute of Music in Damascus and used to be members of the Syrian National Orchestra for Arabic music.
The musicians play different styles of music range between Syrian classical, traditional, and folk music.
Maher Mahmoud -composer and oud player- leads the ensemble. In 2015 He started reassembling the group in cooperation with the known Danish musician Morten Carlsen in Denmark, where they met the first time after few years of separation. Carrying many new experiences they played different events and concerts within The Syrian Culture Caravan (2015, 2016, 2017) in Denmark: Copenhagen, Aarhus, Roskilde, Hjørring, Odense, Køge and many others.
Beside playing in Denmark, they have been touring in Europe and UK with Damon Albarn, The Orchestra of Syrian Musicians and The Syrian Expat Philharmonic Orchestra.
The ensemble plays original compositions and other works belong to Syrian classical and traditional music, in addition to different contemporary works by Syrian composers.
The band 'Dunia' is creating new music with a palette of sounds from instruments like cimbalom, tablas, oud, bass, guitar, trombone and woodwinds.
As the nine musicians of highly diverse musical and cultural backgrounds met for the first time in December 2013, we didn't know its potential.
After touring in 2014 the group can look back at an overwhelmingly positive reception from audiences and venues. Expectations were exceeded and we are proud to present this album.


MOSCOW, 30 Jul — RIA Novosti. Roskomnadzor 1 February will conduct a planned inspection of Russian structure of Apple in compliance with the law on the localization of personal data of Russians in Russia, told RIA Novosti press-service of the Department.
According to the document on the website of Roskomnadzor, OOO "eppl Rus" at the end of December sent the Agency a notification stating that the company began processing data of Russian users in Russia. Office 28 Dec introduced the company in the register of personal data operators.
"The first of February the troops will conduct a planned inspection of "Apple Rus" for the observance of the legislation on personal data localization in Russia", — said the representative office.


There are most expensive T-shirts in the market. A T-shirt (T shirt or tee) is a style of shirt. A T-shirt is buttonless and collarless, usually with short sleeves and frequently a round neck line. T-shirts are typically made of cotton fibers (sometimes others), knitted together in a jersey stitch that gives a T-shirt its distinctive soft texture. T-shirt fashions include many styles for both men and women, and for all age groups, including baby, youth, teen, adult and elderly sizes. Here are the top 5 most expensive T-Shirts in the World.
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How Do We Make Our Music Economy Richer?
Music has always been an integral part of human culture, yet many musicians continue to struggle to make a living while major labels and streaming services reap the benefits. How can we make the music economy richer for musicians? In this blog post,
we will explore ways to pay fair wages to musicians, incentivize investments in music education, and reform copyright laws to benefit musicians. All of these things can help create a more vibrant and rewarding music economy. With the right policies and investments, we can create an environment where everyone involved in the music industry can thrive.
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Paying Fair Wages To Musicians
Music is an essential part of our lives, and it's important that musicians are paid fairly for their work. Unfortunately, the music industry is in a tough place right now. The demand for music is high, but so are the prices that musicians are paid. This isn't fair to the artists who make music, or to the fans who love it. That's why we're uniting together to fight for better wages and fairer treatment.
Unionizing is one of the most effective ways to raise awareness and fight for better wages. By working together as a collective, we can pressure governments into passing legislation that increases musician salaries. In addition to fighting for higher pay, unionized musicians can also negotiate better working conditions and benefits such as healthcare coverage.
While unionization is important, it's not the only way to improve musician incomes. We need to shift focus away from streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music and towards physical sales of albums. This would help to reduce prices on physical albums while also supporting independent artists who don't have major label backing.
Encourage Donations Third-Party Middlemen
We also need to encourage donations and crowd funding platforms directly towards independent artists instead of funneling them through streaming services or third-party middlemen. This will help ensure that artist incomes remain sustainable while giving fans more direct control over their favorite musicians' earnings (and making sure those dollars go towards supporting artist initiatives).
Finally, we need startup incubators that focus on nurturing creative businesses – something that will benefit both musicians and fans alike in the long run. These incubators should offer funding, mentorship, office space, marketing support, etc., so that fledgling businesses can grow into successful enterprises without having to struggle on their own accord. In short: We're all in this together – let's support each other along the way!
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Incentivizing Investments In Music Education
Music is one of the most powerful forms of expression out there, and it should be encouraged and supported. Too often, however, music education is not valued in the United States. This is unfortunate, because music has a lot to offer our nation – from enhancing cultural output to creating new jobs and generating wider variety of musical career paths.
That's why we're advocating for investments in music education. It's an investment that will pay off in the long run – not to mention it's something that can be done relatively quickly and cheaply. By incentivizing private contributions towards music education, we can create a circular economy that helps to sustain public school music programs while also empowering talented young musicians from all backgrounds.
Music is a powerful form of expression, and we should encourage everyone to explore its potential. By investing in music education, we're investing in our youth – the future of music. Let's make sure that they have all the opportunities they need to express themselves musically in the best way possible!
How To Make Music Education Accessible For Everyone?
Music education is an important part of any culture, and it's crucial that everyone has access to it. Unfortunately, music education is not always affordable or accessible for everyone. This is a problem, because music is a powerful tool that can be used to promote unity and understanding in communities around the world.
To address this issue, we need to expand access to music education for all ages and levels. This can be done through public programs that offer affordable tuition rates and scholarships, as well as online resources that are available to everyone. Additionally, we need to promote diversity and inclusion in the music industry – after all, nobody's music should be limited by their ethnicity or gender identity. We also need to support up and coming artists by providing grants and scholarships for professional development opportunities. In the end, by working together we can make music richer for everyone!
Reforming Copyright Laws To Benefit Musicians
Music is an important part of our lives, and it's an industry that has been growing rapidly over the past few years. However, the music economy is still not as equitable as it could be. This is due in part to outdated copyright laws that are often used to discriminate against musicians and inhibit artistic innovation. It's time for these laws to be reformed in order to make the music economy more accessible and equitable for all stakeholders.
Below, we will outline some of the reforms that could be made to benefit both entrepreneurs and artists. We will also discuss ways to promote access to music resources for all stakeholders, including musicians, listeners, music publishers, and streaming services. Last but not least, we'll provide best practices for setting up contracts between streaming services and musicians. By doing this, we hope to help reduce the power imbalance between these two groups and ensure a more sustainable future for the music industry overall.
Music is a powerful form of expression and should be accessible to all. To make the music economy more rewarding for everyone involved, we must pay fair wages to musicians, incentivize investments in music education, and reform copyright laws to benefit musicians.
This can help create an equitable and rewarding environment for everyone from independent artists to major labels. By uniting together as a collective and advocating for better policies and protections, we can ensure that the music industry remains vibrant and sustainable for generations to come. Now is the time to take action – let's work together towards a brighter future for music!
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How Obama Helped Lay the Groundwork for Trump's Thuggery
His refusal to prosecute torturers and his Wild West assassination of bin Laden show how moral complacency can all too easily degenerate into full-blown corruption.
By Rochelle Gurstein
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Trump's particular brand of maliciousness—his belief, as lazy as it is insolent, that he need not abide by the unwritten rules of civility or the written rules of the law—did not appear out of nowhere. The ground was well prepared by President George W. Bush's infamous declaration of personal war on Osama bin Laden shortly after September 11, 2001: "I want justice. And there's an old poster out West that says, 'Wanted: Dead or Alive.'" It is true that Al Qaeda did not constitute a country against which the president could wage war, just as it is true that crashing large commercial jets filled with people into skyscrapers and the Pentagon was no act of ordinary warfare. But the Bush administration's approach to "fighting terror" betrayed the kind of open contempt for the law that we normally associate with "rogue" nations. For what kind of country employs such euphemisms as "enhanced interrogation" or "extraordinary rendition," let alone carries out the actions they were meant to prevent us from thinking about (the torture of people who were all too often rounded up in mass sweeps with little evidence of wrongdoing or were kidnapped and sent to countries that were known to practice torture)? And what kind of country explains away the various forms of prisoner humiliation that took place at Abu Ghraib as "boys will be boys" antics, as many pundits did?
When President Obama, who used to be a constitutional law professor, spoke the words "habeas corpus" and vowed to shut down the Guantánamo prison camp if he were elected in 2008, I am sure I was not alone in entertaining the hope that the criminality unleashed upon us by the Bush administration would be defeated. But I soon learned there are other, more passive, ways to normalize lawlessness, such as moral complacency. This first occurred to me when it became clear even before Obama took office that he would not appoint a special prosecutor to investigate whether high-ranking officials in the Bush administration—perhaps even Vice President Dick Cheney—had authorized interrogation procedures universally recognized in human-rights law as torture. As president-elect, Obama said that "we need to look forward as opposed to looking backward," thus effectively looking the other way, knowing full well that CIA operatives subjected Al Qaeda suspects to "waterboarding"—that is, they made men over whom they had total power experience the sensation of drowning under strictly controlled situations, causing them to feel extreme pain and uncontrollable panic and terror.
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Art is never only about self-expression. It is also about nonverbal communication, creative thinking and alternative values. At this networking event, you can explore how art, with its essential qualities, can contribute to branding, value building and enhancement of communication skills in the business sector. Prof Kurt Chan, Acting Director of Hong Kong Art School, will share with members his insight on adopting artistic thinking in the business environment.
Prof Kurt Chan was graduated from the Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He then obtained his M.F.A. from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan, U.S.A. Professor Chan joined The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1989, teaching studio courses and supervising M.F.A. students.
Over the years, he has developed courses covering 4 major areas: Painting, Mixed media and installation, Public art, and Hong Kong art.


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September 23, 2014	/ Landscape Architecture	/ 0 comment / By Juan Brizuela
FIU Landscape Architecture + Environmental and Urban Design Chair Roberto Rovira, Assistant Professor of Architecture Nick Gelpi, and Jim Drain (artist and 2005 Bâloise Art Prize recipient) have won first place in the DawnTown Wynwood Gateway Park competition, with their design of "Wynwood Greenhouse Park." Their design was selected from among 238 submissions from 23 countries, and their interdisciplinary team (Gelpi the architect, Rovira the landscape architect, and Drain the public artist) was the only one based in Miami.
The Wynwood Gateway Park competition sought the design of an urban park and garden in Miami's Wynwood neighborhood. The following description was provided by DawnTown:
The competition was conceived by neighborhood visionary and Metro 1 President and CEO, Tony Cho, in partnership with DawnTown, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting architecture in Miami and AIA Miami, the local chapter of The American Institute of Architects, with the goal of creating a dynamic 14,000-square-foot space that offers the local community, visitors and tourists a place to come together and enjoy the neighborhood in a public environment. It is located at 2825 NW 2nd Avenue in Miami. (Source: http://dawntown.org/wynwood/)
The winning submission, "Wynwood Greenhouse Park," works "at the intersection of art, architecture, and landscape in a local community with a global presence," according to Rovira, Gelpi, and Drain.
"We are truly honored to be selected from among such a prestigious group of competitors," said the team. "We look forward to working with the city of Miami and Metro 1 to realize an ambitious vision that acknowledges the vibrancy of the Wynwood neighborhood and that emphasizes the unique natural wonders of south Florida. We hope that our park will be a place where people come together with nature and art in an urban environment, where everyone can feel at home and where people and nature thrive together." (Source: Wynwood Greenhouse Park)
In second place in the competition was "Graffito Green" by Meyer + Silberberg – Land Architects from Berkeley, California, and in third place was "Wynwood Commons" by Solid Objectives – Idenburg Liu / SO-IL from Brooklyn, New York.
The winners of the competition were selected by an esteemed panel of expert judges that included:
Enrique Norten – Founding Principal, TEN Arquitectos
Terence Riley – Principal, Keenan/Riley and Former Director of the Miami Art Museum and the Museum of Modern Art
Raymond Jungles, ASLA – FASLA, PLA, Founding Principal of Raymond Jungles, Inc.
Allan Shulman FAIA, Principal, Shulman + Associates
James Russell, FAIA, architecture critic and journalist
Andrew Frey – Development Manager, Codina Group and Founder of DawnTown
Tony Cho – CEO and Founder, Metro 1
Moderator: Joachim Perez, Executive Director
The featured images are provided courtesy of Wynwood Greenhouse Park.
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Last week, Sandbag submitted its response to the Commission's Consultation on the Circular Economy, drawing attention to the understated potential of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) and mineralisation technologies to close the carbon loop and recycle wastes into low-carbon products.
The circular economy was a concept conceived by Ellen MacArthur on her world-record breaking singlehanded circumnavigation of the globe. Over 71 days she realised her yacht needed to become a closed loop in as many ways as possible. Just as the yacht worked best when the minimum was discarded, and the majority reused, so would our global economy. This European Commission intends to embed this principle in the economy of the European Union, with a new strategy to be announced before the end of the year.
Mineralisation – a process in which CO2 is reacted with incineration ash, cement and steelmaking by-products and other wastes to make building aggregate and high value chemical products – is a prime example of a circular process. Waste streams that would otherwise be disposed of in landfill can be converted via the mineralisation process into environmentally-friendly, saleable products, while creating new jobs and expertise in waste management.
Sandbag's response to the Commission highlighted the specific and important role of mineralisation technologies in realising the circular economy for key industrial sectors. It included recommendations on easing restrictions around transporting hazardous wastes where they are useful as mineralisation feedstocks and called for a review of certification practices that can act as barriers to low-carbon construction materials entering the market.
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The European Commission's consultation for the Circular Economy (external website).
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Bhogar, traversing the sky, observes faraway places like Arabia, Rome, and China.
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Bhoganāthar or Bhogar, the Jñāna Guru of Babaji, in the poem "Bhogar Jñāna Sagarama" (Bhogar's Oceanic Life Story, consisting of 557 verses, verse number 2, lines number 3 and 4), identifies himself as a Tamilian, (Ramaiah, 1979; 1982. p. 17). In the same verse he states that the great Siddha Kālangi Nāthar initiated him in Jñāna Yoga (supreme self-knowledge).
Kālangi Nāthar was born in Kaśi (Benares). He attained the immortal state of swarūpa samādhi at the ago of 315, and then made China the center of his teaching activities. He belonged to the ancient tradition of Nava ('nine') Nāth ('lords') sadhus (ascetics), tracing	their tradition to Lord Shiva.
There are nine important shrines associated with this tradition, five of which are in the Himālaya Mountains: Amarnāth (where Shiva first taught Kriya Yoga to his Shakti partner, Parvati Devi), Kedarnāth, Badrināth (India), Kailāsanāth, (Tibet) and Paśupatināth (Nepal).
Meanwhile, Bhoganāthar practiced Kundalini Yoga in four stages. The first three stages arc described in a later chapter on "The Psychophysiology of Kriya Kundalini Pranayama". Bhoganāthar chose the Palani Malai (mountain) in what is now southwestern Tamil Nadu as the site for intensive yogic practice (tapas) for the final stage. He attained swarūpa samādhi at Palani, through the grace of Lord Muruga, or the eternal youth, "Kumāra Swāmi".
The Kumāraswāmi temple at Palani became the epicenter of his activities. He visited many countries astrally, and physically and through transmigration. In one of his songs Bhoganāthar claims to have flown to China at one point in a sort of airplane which he built: he held discussions with Chinese Siddhas before returning to India (Kailasapathy, 1969, p. 197-211). His visit to South America has been confirmed by accounts left by the Muycas of Chile: "Bocha, who gave laws to Muycas, was a white, bearded man, wearing long robes, who regulated the calendar, established festivals, and vanished in time like others (other remarkable teachers who had come across the Pacific according to numerous legends of Incas, Aztecs and Mayans)." (Lal 1965, p. 20).
He convened a meeting of many siddhas just before the beginning of the present Kali Yuga, in 3102 BC, to determine the best way for humanity to progress along the spiritual path during the coming period of darkness. The Yoga of love and devotion, Bhakti Yoga, was chosen as being the best means. Bhoganāthar was entrusted by the siddhas with the task of defining the rituals for the worship of their favorite deity "Palani Āndavar", the Lord (Muruga) of Palani.
Many rituals that center around the bathing (abhishekam) of an idol of Palani Āndavar with many substances, including panchaamirtam consisting of five fruits and honey, were developed by him and continue to be followed to this day. The idol had to be created from a substance that would last throughout Kali Yuga.
The most resilient of known substances, granite, was known to wear and crack after thousands of such rituals. So Bhoganāthar fashioned it out of nine secret herbal and chemical ingredients, nava pashanam, which made it harder than granite. Eight of the ingredients were combined in a mold of the idol. The ninth, was added as a catalyst, to solidify it.
In recent times the scientists who attempted to determine the composition of a small sample of the material of the idol, were startled to find that it immediately sublimated when heated. Thus its composition remains a mystery to date. The traces of the substance are contained in the ritual offerings in which it is bathed. When these are returned and consumed by the devotee, their spiritual progress is enhanced.
Kālangi Nāthar decided to enter into samādhi in seclusion for 3,000 years. He summoned Bhoganāthar telepathically from Tamil Nadu to China to take over his mission. Bhoganāthar traveled by sea, following the trade route. In China, he was instructed by Kālangi Nāthar in all aspects of the Siddha sciences. These included the preparation and use of the kaya kalpa herbal formulae to promote longevity.
After Kālangi Nāthar entered into trance, Bhoganāthar assumed his teaching mission to the Chinese. To facilitate this, he transmigrated his vital body into the physical body of a deceased Chinese man, and thereafter went by the name "Bo-Yang". "Bo" is a derivation of the word "Bhogam" which means bliss, material and spiritual.
This bliss, for which he was named "Bo-Yang" is experienced when the	Kundalini shakti, the feminine primordial yin energy awakens, passes up to the crown of the head, the seat of Shiva, the masculine yang pole, in the Sahasra cakra at the summit of the head and unites with it. The result of this integration of feminine and masculine parts of the being, or union ("Yoga") of Shakti and Shiva, Yin and Yang, is Satchidananda: Absolute Existence-Consciousness-Bliss.
who would not appreciate its hidden meaning and importance.
For twelve thousand years, my fellow!
(based upon translation by Yogi S.A.A. Ramaiah, 1979, p. 40-42).
He chose three of his best disciples and his faithful dog, and took thorn to the top of a mountain. After first offering a tablet to the dog, the dog immediately fell over dead. He next offered it to his leading disciple, Yu, who also immediately fell over dead.
The kaya kalpa tablets are working.
I restored faithful Yu and the dog.
Will chant the unifying verse of the Vedanta.
Will instruct you in the knowledge of the sciences, ranging from hypnotism to alchemy (kaya kalpa).
By millions of common people and chaste young women.
Verse no. I (based upon translation by Yogi S.A.A. Ramaiah, 1982, p. 40).
I know a bird can fly, a fish can swim, and an animal can run. For that which runs, a net can be fashioned; for that which swims, a line can be strung. But the ascent of a Dragon on the wind into heaven is something which is beyond my knowledge. Today I have met Lao-Tzu, who is perhaps like a Dragon. Among the Chinese, particularly, the Taoists, the Dragon is the symbol of Kundalini Shakti, the primordial force.
At the end of his mission to China, about 400 BC, Bhoganāthar, with his disciple Yu (whom he also gave the Indian name Pulipani) and other close disciples, left China by the land route. As recorded in the Taoist literature, at the request of the gatekeeper at the Han Ku mountain pass Lao-Tzu crystallized his teachings. He did so in two books, the Tao Ching, with 37 verses, and the Te Ching with 42 verses (MacKintosh, 1971).
In book two he says 'Do good to him who has done you injury', which was also said by the contemporary Tamil Siddha, Tiruvalluvar in his Tirukkural (Tiruvalluvar, 1968). Taoist yoga traditions continue to seek physical immortality using techniques remarkably similar to those taught in Tamil Shiva Yoga Siddhānta.
Along their way, they visited several shrines in the Himalayas and Kāmarūpa, the famous Tantric Shakti shrine in Assam. He composed his greatest work of 700,000 verses near Mt. Kailasa with the blessings of Lord Shiva. It was later abridged to 7,000 verses, and is known as Bhogar Sapta Kandam. He later visited Gaya, India and Arabia.
Upon his return to Tamil Nadu he introduced the Chinese salts and chemistry, which he called Cīna-cāram and porcelain making. He submitted his 7,000 verse manuscript for evaluation to his guru, Agastyar at Courtrallam and to an academy of siddhas there. It was endorsed by all of them as a great work.
Following this, many siddhas, including Konkanavar, Karuvoorar, Nandeeswar, Kamala Muni, Satta Muni, Macchamuni, and Sundarandar became his disciples to study the sciences of kaya kalpa and yoga. He eventually turned over his teaching mission to Pulipani.
After performing tapas at Sathura Giri, and Shiva Gin, he went to Katirkamam in Sri Lanka to perform tapas and win the grace of Lord Muruga. Under inspiration from the Lord he established the famous Yantra shrine, representing the 1,008 petalled lotus cakra, which blossomed in Bhogar there. Next he went to Palani where he attained swarūpa samādhi. He retired to Katirkāmam, where Babaji Nagaraj met him around 211 AD.
Later, after the period of the Six Dynasties (220 to 590 AD), Bhoganāthar returned with some Tamil disciples to China. He left his mission in Tamil Nadu with Pulipani, the Chinese Siddha. During the construction of the Brihitīswarar Shiva Temple in Tanjore, Tamil Nadu, around 900 AD.
Bhoganāthar advised its builders as to how to raise the eighty ton capstone to the top of the temple, more than 200 feet high. This was done through his disciple Karuvoorar and another Tamil disciple who acted as intermediaries and through messages tied to the legs of courier birds, like today's homing pigeons.
At Bhogar's suggestion a gradient ramp five miles long was built, up which the stone was pulled to the top of the temple. This was one of the most remarkable engineering feats of all times. About this time he also advised the King of Tanjore to build a small shrine dedicated to one of his greatest disciples, Karuvoorar, behind the Bhrihiteeswarar Shiva Temple.
While Bhoganāthar is reported to have left the physical plane at Palani, he continues to work on the astral plane, inspiring his disciples and devotees, and even in rare instances he transmigrates into another's physical body for specific purposes.
Source: Babaji and the 18 Siddha Kriya Yoga Tradition, by M. Govindan (Kriya Yoga Publications, 1991), pp. 113-118.
 Material in this chapter is based upon the life story of the Siddha Bhoganāthar narrated by Yogi S.A.A. Ramaiah in his introduction to the third volume of the collected works of Bhoganathar, Bogar Kandam Yogam: Babaji's Yoga of Boganathar, and notes in lectures.
 Authorities quoted by Bancroft in the Pacific States, Vol. V., 23-24.
 See 'The Wandering Taoist', by Deng Ming-Dao. 1983 for a contemporary account of Taoist immortals and their practices in China, and 'The Tao and Chinese Culture' by Da Liu. 1979 for a description of the highest goal of Taoist practices, 'golden" immortality.
 It is here that Macchamuni (Macchendranātha), one of his disciples, later composed the first great treatise on the scientific art of Kriya Tantra Yoga, from which arose the Kalpia and Kapalika tantric traditions.


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Man-in-the-Middle Attack – What is It and How Can a VPN Provide Protection?
A Man-in-the-Middle or MITM attack is when a hacker taps into the information traveling between you and the server you're trying to connect to.
Whether you're trying to make a financial transaction or are video calling your mom, with MITM, a hacker can see exactly what you're doing. Thankfully, with a VPN you can encrypt your traffic so any third party intercepting your data will not be able to read it.
In a MITM attack, the hacker might try to read your data or modify it. Or they may remove certain parts of data without your knowledge.
Imagine your postman taking a peek at your letters before he delivers them. He could read them, change the contents of some, and just keep the remaining with him. Since he sits in the middle and accesses the letters before you do, he can do anything with them without you knowing about it.
There just might be a guy on your network, watching you as you read this post! Or maybe not. You can't tell because MITM hackers are sneaky.
This is generally used by hackers to target the email accounts of big organizations. They may monitor the email accounts for a long time to gain sufficient knowledge before they spoof the email account and add their own bank (or crypto) details instead of the company's bank details.
This makes the customer think that the email has arrived genuinely from the company and they might make a payment to the hacker's account.
When you're accessing a website, you're in a session with the web server hosting the website. A hacker might hijack your session by spoofing your session ID and see what you're doing.
One way to do that is by manipulating the cookies on your device. Your cookies contain a lot of data about your online activity, login information, and form data. If a hacker steals your cookies, they can assume your identity and log into your accounts.
This is the most common type of MITM attack. A hacker might set up a public Wi-Fi connection with the same name as the café you visit. Now when you visit the café, you might connect to the hacker's network instead of the legit café connection.
Once you connect to it, the hacker will be able to read all your data transfers. This is why it's always advisable to connect to secure networks instead of public Wi-Fi networks.
There are some preventive measures you can take to ensure your network is secure and there are no sneaky snoopers on it.
You can set your browser to void http website. Since https provides an extra layer of security, even if there's a hacker on the network, they'll only know that you opened a website but not know what you're doing on it.
A hacker on your network might only have enough information to fake your contacts' details and will rely on you trusting your friends to gain more.
Email programs such as Gmail generally warn about spoofed emails. If the system thinks an email is spoofed, it will generate a warning. Watch out for such warnings and don't click on any links within emails.
VPNs are among the best ways to keep your data protected. Since a VPN will encrypt your data, even if a hacker gets access to it, they won't be able to read it. This means the MITM attack will effectively be useless.
MITM attacks can be scary. You won't know if someone is stealing your private information. But with tools like VPNs, you can stay protected. Even if the postman was opening and reading your letters, it wouldn't be of much use to him if the letters were written in encrypted cipher.
Check out our user and expert VPN reviews to help you find the best one!


Binance has announced the success of its seventh coin burn. The world's leading cryptocurrency exchange removed 829,888 of its native token Binance Coin (BNB) from circulation, valued at roughly $15.6 million. The amount of BNB burned throughout the first quarter of 2019 was about half the amount burned last quarter.
Coin burning, which reduces the total supply of digital assets by permanently removing them from circulation, can lead to a price increase of the digital asset.
BNB has surged 189% in Q1, from $5.98 to $17.31. The largest coin burn of BNB in terms of estimated USD value was $40,000,000 in Q2 of 2017 with 1,821,586 tokens burned. In the fourth quarter of 2018, 2,528,767 BNB tokens worth $32,000,000 were burned.
Binance says the rate of burning will slow down as the price of BNB increases.
"A few points here to take note of: First, with the rise in the price of BNB, the burning rate will become slower, assuming all other things stay constant. This is by design and we were aware of this dynamic effect back in the whitepaper days.
Second, the price of BNB began to rise before BTC even began to turn around in the market a couple months ago. This means fewer BNB were spent on trading fees by our users, resulting in lower revenue in BNB, while our revenue denominated in USD rose during this time.
Binance CEO, Changpeng "CZ" Zhao has made it his mission to shamelessly shill BNB, and says the coin has a number of growing use cases.
The Block estimates that Binance made $78 million in net profits in Q1 2019, compared to $47 million in Q4 2018, an increase of 66%.
Cryptocurrency investing is high risk. Investors should do their due diligence before making any high-risk investments in Bitcoin, cryptocurrency or digital assets.


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Meet Fabric8 finalist Amy Peppler Adams (PennyCandy on Spoonflower), a graphic designer from Seattle, Washington, with a love for 1980s ephemera. Voting on the final Fabric8 collections starts tomorrow!
I love to paint, use pastels, and also make collages with old photos and ephemera. Being a graphic designer by profession, though, the computer is almost always my tool of choice. However, it is nice to go back to my roots now and then and do a drawing in pencil or ink and then only use the computer to convert it into a digital file.
My favorite artist has always been Andy Warhol. I love that he used a mix of fine art and commercial methods in his work, and chose everyday, commercial and pop-culture subjects. I also admire the work of Maija Isola, Orla Kiely, Art Chantry, the typographers of House Industries, and the design firm Pentagram.
This will totally date me, but my favorite band is The Police. Listening to music while I design is a must! It is inspiring and uplifting, and since a lot of my ideas for projects come from my childhood, playing music from the '70s and '80s makes me feel like I'm right back in the middle of it. I have a 3-1/2 year-old son, so often the only time I am able to work is late at night after everyone else has gone to bed. Music helps keep me awake!
I would love to meet Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder's version). Not only is he a creative, confectionary genius, but his eccentric personality is magical.
There are too many places on Earth I have yet to see, and there's a chance I could see them someday. So if I had the chance to go ANYWHERE, I would choose somewhere completely out of my reach, literally and figuratively: outer space!
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Q: Environment configuration management? There is a team develops enterprise application with web interface: java, tomcat, struts, mysql, REST and LDAP calls to external services and so on.
All configuration is stored in context.xml --tomcat specific file that contains variables available via servlet context and object available via JNDI resources.
Developers have no access to production and QA platforms (as it should be) so context.xml is managed by support/sysadmin team.
Each release has config-notes.txt with instructions like:
please add "userLimit" variable to context.xml with value "123", rename "DB" resource to "fooDB" and add new database connection to our new server (you should know url and     credentials) named "barDb"

That is not good.
Here is my idea how to solve it.
Each release has special config file with required variable names, descriptions and default values (if any): even web.xml could be used.
Here is pseudo example:
foo=bar
userLimit=123
barDb=SET_MANUAL(connection to our new server)

And there is a special tool that support team runs against deployment artifact.
Look at it (text after ">" is typed by support guy):
Config for version 123 of artifact "mySever".

Enter your config file location> /opt/tomcat/context/myServer.xml

+"foo" value "bar" -- already exists and would not be changed
+"userLimit" value "123" -- adding new
+"barDb"(connection to our new server) please type> jdbc:mysql:host/db

Saving your file as /opt/tomcat/context/myServer.xml
Your environment is not configured to run myServer-123.

That will give us ability to deploy application on any environment and update configuration if needed.
Do you like my idea? What do you use for environment configuration management? Does there is ready-to-use tools for that?

A: There are plenty of different strategies. All of them are good and depends on what suit you best.

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*Build a single artifact and deploy configs to a separate location. The artifact could have placeholder variables and, on deployment, the config could be read in. Have a look at Springs property placeholder. It works fantastically for webapps that use Spring and doesn't involve getting ops involved.

*Have an externalised property config that lives outside of the webapp. Keep the location constant and always read from the property config. Update the config at any stage and a restart will be up the new values.

*If you are modifying the environment (i.e. application server being used or user/group permissions) look at using the above methods with puppet or chef. Also have a look at managing your config files with these tools.

As for the whole should devs be given access to prod, it really depends on a per company basis. For smaller companies where the dev is called every time there is a problem, regardless of whether that problem is server or application related, then obviously devs require access to the box.
DevOps is not about giving devs access to the box, its about giving devs the ability to use infrastructure as a service, the ability to spawn new instances with application X with config Y and to push their applications into environments without ops. In a large company like ours, what it allows is the ability for devs to manage the application they put on a server. Operations shouldn't care what version is on their, thats our job, their job is all about keeping the server up and running.

A: I strongly disagree with your remark that devs shouldn't have access to prod or staging environments. It's this kind of attitude that leads to teams working against each other instead of with eath other.
But to answer your question: you are thinking about what is typically called continuous integration ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_integration ) and moving towards devops. Ideally you should aim for the magic  "1 click automated deployment". The guys from Flickr wrote a lot of blogs (and books) about how they achieved that.
Anyhow .. there's a lot of tools around that sector. You may want to have a look a things like Hudson/Jenkins or Puppet/Chef.

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Rubio: 'We're the Underdog, and That's a Role That I Relish'
Perennial third place candidate Marco Rubio celebrated being the underdog in the current election cycle, saying that it was a role he relishes.
"Obviously, we're not the front-runner here, we're the underdog, and that's a role that I relish," he said on CBS's "Face the Nation" Sunday morning.
"I've been an underdog my whole life, both in life and in politics, and we're going to do well. We're going to pick up a lot of delegates on Super Tuesday. As you know, they are awarded proportionally, and we're going to move on."
He said the Republican Party will never rally behind presidential candidate Donald Trump. He then hit on Trump, saying the billionaire is neither a Republican nor a conservative.
"Donald Trump is trying to pull off the biggest scam in American political history," Rubio said.
"Basically a con job where he's trying to take over the Republican Party by basically telling people who he's not, and so we're going to do whatever it takes."
Rubio said he plans to stay in the race "as long as it takes" to win the nomination.
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore.


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Summer Backyard Nighttime Sky in New Jersey. Star, Moon, Jet, and Firefly Trails.
A composite of 980 images looking south taken before midnight. I used the Startrails program for creating the composite.
I had actually gone out to see what type of video I could take of the moon using the D3s camera and a telephoto lens. The moon phase (according to the US Naval Observatory site) is waxing gibbous (76% illuminated). I started by shooting some single images and found that ISO 200, 500 mm, f/8, 1/50 second should be about right. Even though I had the camera set to shoot in manual mode, all of the images of the moon were way over exposed. It didn't appear that I had manual control while taking the video. I made sure that the ISO setting was fixed (not Auto), that Active D-Lighting was off, and that the white balance was fixed (4000 K). I need to try this again!
Star, Moon, Jet, and Firefly Trails. Summer Night in New Jersey. Image taken with a Nikon D3x and 14 mm f/2.8D lens (ISO 200, 14 mm, f/4, 8 sec). Composite of 980 images combined using the Startrails program.


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Belgium booked their place in EuroBasket 2015 with a big road win over Belarus yesterday. The comprehensives 99-73 win means they don't need to worry about their final game of the second qualifying round on Wednesday night.
Technically it wasn't a buzzer beater. Practically, who cares? Austria pulled off a big upset win over Poland tonight in the EuroBasket 2015 qualifers. Considering Austria hadn't exactly impressed to date in qualification, this is a huge result as they are now tied with Poland and Germany at 2-1 in Group C.


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Dame Marjorie Louise Bean DBE (25 May 1909 – 16 March 2001) was the first Bermudian woman to be appointed to Bermuda's former Legislative Council. She was a trustee and founding member of the Bermuda Public Services Union (BPSU).

Life
She began her career in education teaching English and geography at the Berkeley Institute. In 1948, she became the first black person to be appointed to an administrative position in Bermuda's Department of Education when she took on the job of Supervisor of Schools. She attended Wilberforce University (in Ohio), Columbia University's Teachers College (in New York City), and the Institute of Education at the University of London.

Awards
Dr. Bean was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) "in recognition of the significant contribution she made to education in Bermuda" in 1968. She was later advanced to Officer (OBE) in 1981, and, lastly, to Dame (DBE) in 1995. In 1977 she was awarded the Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal.

Death
She died, aged 91, on 16 March 2001.

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1909 births
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For the last week, Americans have been following the dramatic story of twin baby girls from Guatemala, joined at the head -- until a daring, 22-hour operation by neurosurgeons in California separated them. The prognosis for both is cautiously optimistic.
Correspondent Jane Clayson reports on another amazing story of conjoined twins.
From the time she was a little girl, Emily Stark says she knew that twins were in her future. When she became pregnant in November, 2000, an ultrasound verified her premonition: she was carrying twins. Then she had another hunch: that they were joined. Doctors confirmed that she was right about that too.
At first, the Starks were devastated. But the twins were joined at the base of the spine and did not share any internal organs, which greatly improved their chances for survival. The Starks decided to keep the babies. Two months before the due date, Emily went into labor and delivered her twin girls, Alexandra and Sydney.
After the birth ot the twins Sydney and Lexi, the Starks decided to separate the girls. But the surgery carried the risk of paralysis. Could the team of doctors succeed?
"We could keep them forever or we can try to make their lives better with the potential that we may not be bringing them home," Emily said.
The key concern was whether the twins would be able to walk after the separation.
"What we don't know is exactly how commingled are the nerves that control the function of the legs," said Dr. Michael Handler, the pediatric neurosurgeon in charge of the case.
There were 57 medical personnel involved in the surgery.
The twins were joined at the base of their spine. Before doctors can operate on the tailbone, they had to carefully dissect their way through muscle in order to separate the twins' intestinal tract.
During the surgery, Dr. Handler had to determine where the twins' nerves were, and if necessary assign them correctly to each twin. It was this procedure that determined whether the girls would walk again. After 11 hours of surgery, the twins were separated.
Seeing them apart was an emotional moment for the parents. "I think Sydney was the first one. And I was just holding her, and hugging her, and kissing her," said Jim "And when I got up I couldn't even see out of my glasses because they were just covered with tears. And then I went over to Lexi and the same thing. So I think it was just that relief, and the joy of the realizing of our dream."
Soon after, both girls were moving their legs. Emily and Jim were ecstatic.
"They're just little miracles I think they have proven so many things," says Emily.
Jim and Emily learned they were expecting twins who were conjoined. The are separate now. But their family is bonded together in ways that can never be broken.
"I think one of the most important things we have learned is just to be grateful. Be grateful for the little things," says Emily.


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