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Shia LaBoeuf: I Was Raped During Performance Art Project
Ben Beaumont-Thomas
The actor Shia LaBeouf has claimed a woman raped him during the performance of his one-man art piece #IAMSORRY earlier this year.
Speaking to Dazed magazinein an email interview, he wrote: "One woman who came with her boyfriend, who was outside the door when this happened, whipped my legs for 10 minutes and then stripped my clothing and proceeded to rape me."
#IAMSORRY consisted of LaBeouf sitting silently with a paper bag on his head, bearing the legend "I am not famous anymore" – members of the public queued to be able to sit in front of him in the one-on-one piece. It ran for five days in February at a Los Angeles gallery.
LaBeouf said that news of the incident "travelled through the line" of people waiting, and reached LaBeouf's girlfriend. "When she came in she asked for an explanation, and I couldn't speak, so we both sat with this unexplained trauma silently. It was painful."
The piece was part of a wider series of performance art events by the actor, triggered by what he calls a "genuine existential crisis" after he was accused of plagiarism when he lifted portions of a Daniel Clowes short story for a film he was working on. LaBeouf wrote streams of bizarre tweets, quoting notorious apologies from famous individuals, and hired a skywriting plane to etch an apology across the Los Angeles sky. He also wore a paper bag to the Berlin premiere of Lars Von Trier's film Nymphomaniac, and said he would be retiring from all public life.
In the Dazed interview, LaBeouf seems to regret some of these responses, saying: "I am a deeply ironic, cynical person. I was raised on The Simpsons and South Park, it's my default setting... [our generation] want to change things, we want to have hope, we just don't know how or where to look."
Of the assertion he would withdraw from public life, he explained: "The '80s and '90s fucked us; our culture became a product to be sold, and anyone in a tabloid is a product – an object. American culture is just about blowjobs and golf. I wanted to take back ownership. Fuck the money, that was never the impetus. I wanted purpose." His initial cynicism dissipated, and he began performance art in earnest – projects included writing #STARTCREATING with further skywriters, and running 144 laps around an Amsterdam museum. Following the Dazed email interview, his and journalist Aimee Cliff's face-to-face interview was conducted in silence, with each filming the other.
In the emails he also skirts further controversy in a discussion of masculinity centred around his current World War II film Fury. "Every primitive culture has a puberty ceremony where children become men. Jews still have it, but it's all religious nostalgia," he says. "I think the withholding of a puberty ceremony from young men in our society is a scheme which has been cunningly devised to make young men go to war."
The actor is currently undergoing treatment for addiction, following his June arrest for disorderly conduct and harassment after he interrupted a performance of Cabaret with obscene language.
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House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.), Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) talk to reporters at the White House April 30, 2019 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Schumer Revealed as Key Industry Ally in Defeat of Effort to Curb Surprise Billing
It was one of a series of lobbying victories by the healthcare industry in 2019 bolstered by top Democrats.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer worked behind the scenes through December in the Senate to defeat a bipartisan initiative to curb suprise medical billing, according to a new report Friday which details the lobbying victories won by the for-profit healthcare industry in 2019.
"The success shows how formidable the health-care industry remains."
Reporting Friday by the Washington Post's Jeff Stein and Yasmeen Abutaleb points to Schumer, a New York Democrat, as a consequential figure in stopping the surprise billing measure from being included in an end-of-year spending bill.
As Common Dreams reported on Tuesday, Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, effectively killed the bill last week by introducing a competing measure and pushing off the legislation until 2020.
According to the Post:
On Dec. 6, two days before a bipartisan group of lawmakers announced an agreement to their efforts, Schumer called a key player in the negotiations—Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate health committee—to express his disapproval of the measure, which negotiators had been crafting since the spring, according to three people familiar with the conversation who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private talks.
Several people close to the negotiations said it was widely believed that Schumer was acting on behalf of powerful New York hospital groups, who have donated at least $1 million this year to the Senate Democratic fundraising arm.
In a statement to the Post, Schumer's team denied that donations had anything to do with the senator's intercession in the process and that the New York Democrat was not affected in the decision-making process by political donations.
NY hospital and health system leaders met today with @SenSchumer on priorities including delaying the impending Medicaid DSH cuts (action must be taken by Oct. 1) and protecting patients from surprise medical bills. We thank Sen. Schumer for his continued leadership and support. pic.twitter.com/S3z0jnS3lW
— HANYS (@HANYScomm) September 10, 2019
Congress plans to look into the practice of surprise billing after the holiday, reported Politico:
Committee leaders are requesting information from eight companies about the billing policies and practices of insurers and physician staffing companies previously accused of sending surprise bills.
In comment to Politico reporter Rachel Roubein, Greater NY Hospital Association (GNYHA) president Kenneth Raske said the surprise billing legislation which failed included "needless provisions that benefit for-profit insurers while severely harming hospitals and physicians."
"This rush to get surprise billing language into an end-of-year funding bill, without regard to real-world consequences to health care providers, is dangerous and unnecessary," said Raske. "Congress should slow down to ensure that this important issue is done thoughtfully and carefully."
Greater NY Hospital Association slams "surprise" bill deal. (Notable, since Schumer has concerns about the deal that led to Murray not signing on) with @SusannahLuthi https://t.co/FFFENkk7sE pic.twitter.com/HWhiKcErZO
— Rachel Roubein (@rachel_roubein) December 9, 2019
GNYHA opposition to the legislation was noted in a piece in The Hill last month.
According to Open Secrets, GNYHA has given Schumer's Senate Majority PAC $4.5 million since December 2017. Two days before the minority leader reportedly intervened in the surprise medical billing legislation, GNYHA members met with a Schumer aide in the senator's office in Washington.
Wonderful meeting with Mr. Devenney of Senator Chuck Schumer's office to discuss telehealth and increasing access to quality care in NYC and across NY State. Thanks for all that you do and for meeting with @nyulangone @NorthwellHealth @GNYHA and @CTeLTweets today! @SenSchumer pic.twitter.com/jMGsuRurbs
— Shabana Khan, MD (@ShabanaKhanMD) December 4, 2019
As Stein and Abutaleb reported, the surprise billing legislation's collapse was just one in a series of wins by the healthcare industry in 2019, including victories on drug legislation, patents, and repealing parts of the Affordable Care Act that targeted the industry's bottom line.
"The success shows how formidable the health-care industry remains," wrote Stein and Abutaleb, "able to overwhelm Democrats with well-honed talking points and splinter Republicans through a concerted push."

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Olympiacos will play in the UEFA Europa League Round of 16 for the first time since the 2011/2012 season after thumping Osmanlispor 0-3 in yesterday's second leg encounter. Check out who are the 15 teams Olympiacos could be drawn with in the Last 16 of the competition.
Manchester United seem to be the toughest opponent in the Last 16 as they have set it a season goal to win the Europa League.
LYON from France are on FIRE and showed it in their second leg match where they thrashed AZ Alkmaar 7-1. They are definitely a team that Olympiacos would like to avoid.
Roma will be a team Olympiacos would like to avoid as they are on fire. They knocked out Villarreal in the Last 32 with a 0-3 away win in Spain during the first leg.
Borussia Monchengladbach pulled off a comeback away to Fiorentina to celebrate their place in the Last 16. Being that they come from the German Bundesliga, Olympiacos would like to avoid this opponent.
Celta came back in the second leg to knock out Shakhtar Donetsk in extra time and secure their place in the Last 16 of the competition. The Spanish side played Panathinaikos in the group stages of this year's Europa League and proved to be a tough opponent.
Besiktas house a great roster and currently lead the way in Turkey. They are definitely not one of Olympiacos' first choices, but would prefer the Turkish club before Manchester United, Roma, and LYON.
Schalke showed their class over two legs against PAOK, however with some change in tactics Olympiacos could well match up with the German side.
Ajax just passed the barrier of Legia Warsaw and is also a team that Olympiacos could evenly match up with. The Dutch club is currently fighting for the Eredivisie Title in Holland and has played both PAOK and Panathinaikos in this season's UEFA competitions without putting together convincing performances.
Rostov and Krasnodar from Russia do not have any upcoming games in domestic play but have proven to be very difficult opponents. The two sides knocked out Sparta Prague and Fenerbahce in the Last 32.
Copenhagen is the best team from Denmark and could well defeat Olympiacos over two legs. However, the Danish club (defeated Ludogorets in the Last 32) would not be an awful option for the Greek side in the Last 16 of the competition.
As a "name" Gent does not send fear to their opponents however they have proven over the last two years they are a strong side in Europe. Despite fighting for a sixth placed spot in Belgium, the club knocked out Tottenham in the Last 32 of the competition.
APOEL surprised Athletic Bilbao by defeating the Spanish side 2-0 in Cyprus to advance to the last 16. Olympiacos and APOEL met in the group stages, where APOEL defeated the Greek Champions in both matches to claim top spot in the group. However, APOEL remain a team that Olympiacos can evely match up with.
Anderlecht will be a welcoming opponent, despite knocking out Zenit in the Last 32. The Belgian club knocked out Olympiacos in last year's Europa League competition, but the Erythrolefki do house a better roster.
Genk is another favorable opponent for Olympiacos as they surpassed Astra in the Round of 32. They are currently fighting for a sixth placed spot in Belgium. Their star striker, Nikos Karelis, is out for the season due to an injury but the club maintains a strong attack while their defense is below par.


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The Foursquare Church
Headquarters Los Angeles, California
Founder Aimee Semple McPherson
Origin 1923, Los Angeles, California
Congregations claimed 90,000
The founding fathers of the Foursquare Gospel Church in Nigeria were Rev Odunaike Samuel Olusegun, Rev Boyejo James Abayomi and Rev Friday Chinyere Osuwa. The church's national headquarters are located at 62/66 Akinwunmi street, Yaba, Lagos.
It was a Gospel that faces squarely in every direction; it was the "Foursquare Gospel." These beliefs place the Foursquare Church in the mainstream of evangelical Pentecostal Christianity. The word foursquare is defined as equally balanced in length on all four sides, firm, solid, unyielding, unhesitating.
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International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, Pentecostal denomination established by Aimee Semple McPherson, a popular revivalist preacher, in Los Angeles in 1927.
The Foursquare Church came to Nigeria in the year 1955 through the Ministry of Rev. & Mrs. Harold Curtis who established the LIFE theological Seminary at Herbert Macurley Road, Yaba, Lagos.
Samuel Aboyeji has emerged as the new general overseer of the Foursquare Gospel Church in Nigeria. … Born in December 26, 1960, Aboyeji retired in March 2010 from Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd (SPDC) to become a full-time minister of the church.
Felix Meduoye was the General Overseer of the Foursquare Gospel Church in Nigeria. He served the church for eight years before handing over on Sunday, July 21 2019, to Rev. Samuel Aboyeji after attaining the statutory retirement age of 70.
Pentecostalism or classical Pentecostalism is a Protestant Christian movement that emphasises direct personal experience of God through baptism with the Holy Spirit. … It is distinguished by belief in the "baptism in the Holy Spirit" that enables a Christian to "live a Spirit-filled and empowered life".
Evangelical is the Christian Religion, which believes that the gospel is heard from God directly. The doctrine of the gospel is from God in person. Pentecostal is Christianity, which believes that God communicates directly with Baptism Christians with the Holy Spirit. Pentecostal follow the rules very purely.
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Current Source Inverters Advantages
Capable of regeneration back to the a.c. line because of d.c. link polarity can be reversed.
Large d.c. link filter inductor and regulated power supply act as a current limiter, making it easier to apply protective fuses.
Ability to ride through power-link interruptions.
The converter-grade thyristors are sufficient.
Current source inverters do not generate radiofrequency interference.
Current Source Inverters Disadvantages
Cogging can occur at speeds below 6 Hz.
D.C. link filter inductor is large, costly, and contributes to losses and enclosure size.
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Motor power factor appears on the incoming line to the controllers.
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Limitations of Terzaghi Theory
Limitations of Terzaghi Theory The value of the coefficient of consolidation has been assumed to be constant. The distance d of the drainage path cannot be measured accurately in the field. The thickness of the deposit is generally variable, and an average value has to be estimated. There is sometimes difficulty 1n locating the drainage face, and sometimes thin previous seams that can act as good drainage faces are missed in the boring operations. The equation is based on the assumption that the consolidation is one-dimensional. In the field, the consolidation is generally 3-dimensional. The lateral drainage may have a significant effect on the time rate of consolidation. The initial consolidation and secondary consolidation have been neglected. Sometimes these form an important part of the total consolidation. In actual practice, the pressure distribution may be far from linear or uniform.
Streamer Theory of Breakdown in Gases
Streamer Theory of Breakdown in Gases According to the Townsend theory firstly, current growth occurs as a result of the ionization process only. But in practice, breakdown voltages were found to depend on the gas pressure and the geometry of the gap. Second chances time lags of the order of 10-5 s, but practically it was observed to occur at a very short time of 10-8 s. Also, the Townsend mechanism predicts a very diffused form of discharge, that actually discharges were found to be filamentary and irregular. Townsend's mechanism failed to explain all these observed phenomena and as a result, The Streamer theory was proposed. The theory predicts the development of a spark discharge directly from a single avalanche in which the space charge developed by the avalanche itself is said to transform the avalanche into a plasma steamer. In Fig 1.7, a single electron starting at the cathode by ionization builds up an avalanche that crosses the gap. The electrons in the a
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Price Guard Wire Method Some form of Price Guard Wire Method is generally used to eliminate the errors caused by leakage currents over insulation. Fig. 3.14 illustrates the operation of This Method. In fig 3.14(a), a high resistance mounted on a piece of insulating material is measured by the ammeter voltmeter method. The micro-ammeter measures the sum of the current through the resistor (IR) and the current through the leakage path around the resistor. The measured value of resistance computed from the readings indicated on the voltmeter and the microammeter, will not be a true value but will be in error. Figure 3.14 Application of guard circuit for measurement of high resistance In fig, 3.14 (b), the guard terminal has been added to the resistance terminal block. The guard terminal surrounds the resistance terminal entirely and is connected to the battery side of the micro-ammeter. The leakage current IL now


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A Late Autumn Walk at Dusk
(Note: this first appeared on the Internet Monk, February 5, 2016.)
Dusk is my favorite time for walking, when the sun has just set over the western hills so that the last light of the day slowly dims like embers of a fire going out. Night is ascendant, but, for a few minutes at least, it is not fully dark. The shadows grow long and deep, but there are still gaps between the shadows where the dying light of day dimly and softly glows briefly before the full and final setting of the sun.
This transition time is particularly lovely when the moon rises, casting new shadows in its yellow-orange light. The woods become a silhouette of branches darkened to blackness in its dim glow. Nearby houses darken into the growing night, their lit windows signs of warmth and shelter.
To be outdoors at dusk is to be completely alone. The light of day is gone, and so, for a time, are the responsibilities and demands that accompany daylight. The glow of windows and all that goes on behind them are isolated islands of human habitation, whose demands now are quietly alien and distant in the gentle, soft glow of the November moon, as though I am sailing by strange shores inhabited by people with strange customs.
To be out at dusk is to be an outsider to the human world, a temporary stranger to a familiar place and to familiar people. Life's details disappear in the night's darkness and are revealed in new guise in the moonlight. One sees things differently. One remembers things differently. The silence of dusk both stills the mind and enlivens it. Everything is the same, but everything looks different. Having abandoned human habitation for a time, one becomes aware of a grander, deeper habitation, of which the glow of moonlight is a reminder.
In the dusk darkness, unlit by lamps and human lights, the moonlight glow is deep and rich and inviting. The sky becomes both dark and bright at the same time. One sees, but one sees little among what has now become a mass of shadows. But, what one does see is the halo glow above them, the glow that transforms black branches into geometric patterns, that transforms the broken asphalt of a country road into a thing of beauty, an unlikely reflector of a light that is itself the reflection of the light of a now unseen sun.
As heavenly bodies go, the moon is little more than a cratered, barren rock. Unlike Saturn, there are no rings around it. Unlike Jupiter, there are is no riot of color, and no giant red spot. Unlike Neptune or Uranus, the emerald-green gas giants, the moon has no color. Unlike Titan, one of Saturn's moons, there is no atmosphere. Yet, our moon is indeed a thing of beauty when the light of the sun shines upon it. Whether harvest moon, or blood moon, or just the plain, normal moon, it is not only beautiful, but a source of light as well, a source of light that makes other ugly things beautiful.
This soft, dim glow of light reflected off the heavenly rock shining in our night's sky points to things unseen, for those who bother to think about it. The light we see doesn't originate in the road's pavement, nor in the air around us, nor, even, in the moon. It's source is unseen. We see the light and see by it, we admire its beauty, but we can't see its source. Sometimes, of course, when the moon is crescent, we can infer the direction from which the light comes, the crescent being a sign pointing to an unseen source. From the perspective of dusk, that's all there is to see.
This is what it is like to live in the world's semi-darkness and to love the glow by which we notice the shadows, the glow of an indirect light by which we see what we can, but the source of which is hidden from us.
If we bother to notice, much of life is bathed in a similar glow, but one which is felt more than seen, where for no reason the mind knows we see ordinary, neighborly faces with new fondness, in a new light. Where small kindnesses appear out of life's shadows, becoming signs pointing to kindness' Source. Where self-sacrifices dramatic and mundane, big and small, shine gently around and even in the midst of the shadowy selfishness, greed and self-promotion that passes for human life.
There is an uncanny beauty loose in the world, if we but had the stillness of heart to notice it, if we were willing to venture out of the familiar conflicts of distracted living, of being mentally pulled and pushed electronically in a technological wasteland wonderland. But, to notice it, one must venture out and leave for a time the familiarity of normal life's demands and expectations, and mentally walk out of the doors of habitual perceptions into the dark, where the light glows.
Sometimes it takes awhile for one's eyes to get used to the darkness and the subtlety of dusk's light, being blinded by the synthetic light by which we keep the darkness away. Yet, it is the darkness which differentiates the light, and if you're going to see the real light, the light that points beyond this planet to something else, it means venturing outdoors beyond the confines of the steel-hard walls of technology, artificial connectedness, and manipulation, which we know all too intimately as a mental home that isn't a real home. It means leaving behind bent-inward desires for other desires that take us into the revealing darkness and out of ourselves.
Yes, it's dark out there. But, it's the dark that enables one to see what video screens can't show and what only human eyes and the human heart can, for it is only at dusk where one can see the light that reveals the shadows and the dark that reveals the light, and where we see the darkness-revealing light and the light-revealing darkness within our hearts.
"It was grace that taught my heart to fear," the old hymn tells us, "and grace my fears relieved," and so to walk in the moonlit dark is to walk in grace, the indirect light of a Presence we know in our heart, that is light and darkness, blindness and vision, by which we see what can't be seen. This is the moonlight that beatifies and beautifies, that plants in our hearts the hope to which Dame Julian of Norwich gave witness, "That all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all matter of thing shall be well."
To walk at dusk, to live for a time as an outsider to the surrounding islands of human habitation, is at once to see less and to see more, to see incomprehensible shadows, and also the transcendent glow of holiness. Here is the humble shalom peace that passes understanding, the inner glow of heaven's light on a barren, rocky soul.
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As Covid-19 infections soar and deaths rise, should kids go back to school?
By Patrick A. Malone
The nation's biggest health worry now has fallen on the country's little people: As Covid-19 infections have exceeded 3 million and the disease has killed at least 134,000, how many parents will send their kids back to school soon, especially as the coronavirus pandemic spikes in the South and West?
President Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, as poker players say, have pushed all (their chips) in, insisting that schools reopen and return to fall normality. The president assailed his own health experts at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for putting forth guidance on schools that he deemed too costly and complicated.
In doing so, however, he and his administration have only further muddied a profound decisions confronting parents and educators about keeping kids safe while also ensuring they don't lose the invaluable personal and educational experiences of learning together with peers — IRL (in real life or in person), as young people say.
School districts nationwide — in the midst of terrible budget shortfalls — are grappling with the nitty-gritty of how to get youngsters in classrooms and out of their homes, including with greater distancing, face covering, and hand washing and other infection-fighting hygiene.
The grown-up plans, of course, battle with the realities of how kids will be kids, hugging and kissing, as well as just plain dirty and unsanitary at times (because they don't know better). Educators' efforts to follow the best available medical-scientific guidance also will be neither cheap nor easy. Who will pay, for example, for steps like plexiglass dividers between kids, or more frequent and better sanitation of classrooms, or improved air circulation and cleaning systems? Who will cover the cost of more buses and drivers with fewer kids aboard each, or for increased kitchen staff for youngsters' in-person dining? And, given the strapped budgets that public schools already struggle with, the goal of fully reopened schools this fall seems far more formidable than bellicose presidential commanding may overcome.
Trump and Devos point to other nations and their successes. They have gotten kids back to class and the results, guarded as the results may be, look acceptable, especially with younger children.
But the United States differs from other countries because it does not have Covid-19 anywhere near control and instead has become the pandemic's world epicenter: Florida, Texas, Arizona, Georgia, and Mississippi report their hospitals and medical systems are on the brink of being overwhelmed with coronavirus cases, even as the state's infections mount by the minute. Younger people have become the disease's new and prime afflicted, with African Americans and Latinos bearing a terrible brunt. The feckless optimism has faded about the summer's heat causing the virus to magically disappear and the faint cheering is vaporizing about Covid-19's killing capacity: deaths and mortality rates, lagging indicators, are rising anew.
It takes an army of adults to get youngsters to school and to educate and care for them there. Teachers, with strong and vocal unions, have made clear that reopening classrooms put them at heightened risk — and many educators may be unwilling to imperil themselves and their loved ones by going back to school without greater health assurances. The independent, nonpartisan Kaiser Health Foundation reported that its analysis of the K-12 work force found that 1 in 4 teachers and school staff have higher coronavirus risk because of their age and underlying conditions.
Even if schools stagger schedules and teach online some, allowing fewer students to be in the building on a given day, teachers and staff will get higher exposure to youngsters, including potentially asymptomatic carriers. Their duties also may be far more stressful than before as they must monitor kids' wellness and police unsafe behaviors. Did we mention that many districts, due to budget issues, may lack rudimentary health support in individual schools, aka school nurses or health care workers?
If grown-ups aren't OK with having kids back in school, moms and dads and uncles and aunts and grandparents likely will need to be home providing youngsters' care and education there. That has and will be a persistent problem in trying to restart the nation's coronavirus staggered economy with its record-setting joblessness.
In my practice, I see not only the harms that patients suffer while seeking medical services, but also the high value in their staying healthy and out of the U.S. health care system. Until medical science comes up with a way to prevent or better treat it, the coronavirus will continue to pose the possibility of swamping our health resources. In their better times, they already had notable problems with infections acquired in hospitals, nursing homes, and other medical care giving facilities, as well as major challenges with medical error and misdiagnoses.
That said, the U.S. health system, and especially the public health system, is in dire need of thoughtful, sustained, and extensive support during this pandemic. It is unacceptable that the shambolic federal response, including the president's failure to so much as talk with his leading epidemic experts for months now, stumbles on as the coronavirus rages. How can it be, months in, that basic public health challenges have gone unanswered — notably at a federal and nationwide level where appropriate action would be difference making? There are still too few tests, with results taking too long. Health care workers are rightfully panicked, frightened, and angry about the dire lack of personal protective equipment, again and still. The White House dereliction of responsibility has left it to the states to deal with contract tracing and isolation of the infected — the administration seems to have adopted a blind eye to Covid-19 deaths and infections, even if they skyrocket from place to place to place across the nation.
How bad will the Covid-19 pandemic get in the days ahead? It is hard not to be pessimistic. We have difficult decisions to make, including about our young people's lives, and we have much work to do. It is tragic that too many of our elected officials won't be leaders in the battle against Covid-19. But we must be realistic, then, how little we should rely on them — and we are far past the point where we can wait for them to keep doing so poorly.
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Alex Metric is a rare breed in today's pigeonhole-happy game; over the last decade he's crafted such a broad repertoire and taken so many left turns he's created a reputation where the unexpected is expected.
Whether he's winning Grammys for production on the Black Eyed Peas album 'The E.N.D', producing top 10 hits for Silk City & Dua Lipa or remixing N.E.R.D & Daft Punk, Foals, Gorillaz or Bloc Party; whether he's firing underground techno cannons on Sololumn's Diynamic or slinky sleazy disco on Skrillex's OWSLA; whether he's working with the likes of Stuart Price, Aeroplane, Steve Angello or Ten Ven or conjuring up full strength club tracks on his own; Alex thrives off contrast, variety and the pursuit of personally unchartered pastures.
This is what's kept him excited about his own craft, relevant and engaged with all sides of the dancefloor since his debut tracks on cult bass labels Lot49 and Marine Parade. It's what kept him un-pigeonholeable through some of electronic music's most accelerated years and has led to all kinds of far ranging opportunities from performing in New York's Madison Square Gardens to having production credits with pop giants such as Avicii, Robbie Williams and Snow Patrol.
Digging deep into disco, electro, techno, house, breaks and all things in between, both as a producer, a songwriter and as a DJ, Alex Metric has achieved a unique singular status in electronic music where you never really know what his next record is going to be... And in today's pigeonhole-happy game, that's priceless.
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Metroplane (aka Aeroplane & Alex Metric) release a new single 'Be Where I Am', on Sweat It Out.
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Alex Metric was amongst the Grammy winners for 'Best Dance Recording'. For Silk City & Dua Lipa's 'Electricity', featuring Diplo, Mark Ronson, Jarami, Alex Metric, Riton & Silk City.
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The Electric Brixton will feature the following Primary Talent & Decked Out artists, on 15th March.
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Alex Metric's new video for 'Drum Machine', featuring The New Sins is premiered on Thump. Out now on OWSLA.
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Alex Metric's new single 'Heart Weighs A Ton', is previewed on Buzzfeed.
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Alex Metric and Yuksek together are The Alexanders, hear them in session here, for the Mixmag magazine.
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Alex Metric: New Single 'Safe With You'
Alex Metric and Jacques Lu Cont's new collaboration 'Safe With You', featuring vocals from Malin Dahlstrom (from Niki and the Dove) looks set to become a summer festival anthem.
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It's with no hesitation that UK floor-filler Alex Metric drops an assertive 4/4 thump line to initiate the beautiful, diverse and heavy 'Ammunition 3 EP', his second collection of all new tracks for Skrillex's OWSLA collective. The man can't sit still, his provocative sound leaning heavily on UK garage before slamming headlong into breakbeats while rave synth-work fills in the details, and I'm speaking merely about the final cut of the collection. On the four tracks that comprise his newest, diva vocals flit and build around precise claps, stabs punctuate the low-end, flecks of acid permeate the mix; His amalgam is precise and diverse, tied together with a measured ear and impeccable taste.
Alex is an anomaly in his immediate circle of peers, his tunes awash with appreciation for the historical library of UK electronic music while wholeheartedly borrowing the US's most recent, open-armed approach to bass. It's his keen ability to incorporate and reinterpret the influences of the distant past for a wide-eyed audience, and few are doing it better regardless of context. We've seen the first wave crash on western shores, Alex is dead set on proving there's plenty more in the distance.


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Mud * * * *
Director: Jeff Nichols.
Screenplay: Jeff Nichols.
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Tye Sheridan, Jacob Lofland, Sam Shepard, Ray McKinnon, Reese Witherspoon, Sarah Paulson, Michael Shannon, Joe Don Baker, Paul Sparks, Bonnie Sturdivant.
After such brave and exemplary displays in "Killer Joe" and "The Paperboy", Matthew McConaughey has completely turned his failing career around. He seems to have left his rom-com days behind him and cemented his reputation as a serious leading actor. "Mud"; the long awaited follow up of the award winning "Take Shelter" from promising director Jeff Nichols, is even further proof of McConaughey's commitment and keen eye for an intriguing character.
Ellis (Tye Sheridan) and Neckbone (Jacob Lofland) are a couple of kids who roam the backwaters of their local area. They soon stumble upon Mud (McConaughey), a known fugitive hiding on an island. They are drawn to him and his story of reuniting with his girlfriend Juniper (Reese Witherspoon) and decide to help him escape from the authorities and a gang of bounty hunters, to meet with her again.
Following on from his debut "Shotgun Stories", Nichols takes us back to his home state of Arkansas for another slice-of-life and coming-of-age yarn. It has been compared to the likes of "Stand By Me" and more accurately, the works of novelist Mark Twain and his "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" in our young protagonist's exploration of the colourful people and places along the Mississippi River. These comparisons are entirely understandable but Nichols doesn't merely tread old water, he delivers a competent mood piece with three dimensional characters that are entirely fleshed out and convincing. The two young leads, in newcomer Jacob Lofland and especially Tye Sheridan ("The Tree of Life") are absolutely outstanding in their natural deliveries of impressionable teenagers and there is solid support from the likes of Ray McKinnon, Sam Shepard and an understated Reese Witherspoon. Regular Nichols collaborator, Michael Shannon is really the only one who doesn't get much to work with, but that was due to time constraints as he had already committed to "Man of Steel". The real draw here, though, is a snarling and haunted McConaughey. It's yet another performance of a very high caliber as he perfectly embodies a man with emotional strength yet an almost crippling vulnerability and naivety. This multilayered attention is afforded to the rest of the film's script and almost all of it's characters have their differing approaches and struggles with relationships and the environment they inhabit. Nichols operates at a leisurely pace and is in no rush to tell his story. This is entirely suited for his material with the only major issues being that it, ever so slightly, overstays it's welcome and descends into formula in the final third. That being said, the characters and the environment (captured by cinematographer Adam Stone) are so rich and involving that it's flaws are easy to forgive.
What first strikes you as an engaging adventure tale soon becomes an emotional and intelligent fable that ruminates on love and loss. It massages both the heart and the head and confirms that Jeff Nichols and Matthew McConaughey are playing at the top of their game right now. We'll be seeing much more of young Sheridan in the near future too.
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Sounds good Mucker!
Boat Drinks!
Mark Walker Says:
It is good, man. I know a lot of people who rated it even higher than me but I found just a few little flaws that prevented it from being the masterpiece that some claim. Still, it was top drawer stuff. I enjoyed it a lot.
keith7198 Says:
So glad you liked it too. I lived "Mud". It's still my favorite film of the year so far. You nail so many of the things that I loved. Great, great review.
I really enjoyed it, man. Great little film. I found some minor flaws as it drew to a close but not enough to spoil the overall experience. It would make my top ten of the year for sure. Might even get in amongst the top five.
McConaughey will never beat his role in Eastbound & Down 🙂
I've never actually seen any of that but I think "Killer Joe" and "Lone Star" are two of his best. I also thought he was superb in "Dazed and Confused".
Joseph@thecinemamonster Says:
Easily my favourite film of the year thus far. McConaughey can do no wrong at the moment. Great review :).
I wouldn't say it's my favourite but its certainly up there with the best of them. Totally agree on McConaughey, though. I'm getting quite intrigued every time he releases a film these days. He's absolutely on fire at the moment. Cheers Joseph! 🙂
Shows what can happen when you have a great cast, and give them material that's worth their time and effort. Good review Mark.
Absolutely Dan. It certainly looks like the cast know they have good stuff and commit themselves accordingly. Very good film.
filmscorehunter Says:
Terrific review. I'm glad that McConaughey is finally making the films he should have been making all these years.
Cheers man! Couldn't agree more. I always had faith in McConaughey's abilities after really enjoying him in earlier roles like Dazed and Confused and Lone Star but he went completely off the rails with his choices. It's superb to see him realise his abilities now.
Nice review, Mark. Really enjoyed this one quite a bit myself as well. One of the better movies to release this year so far. 🙂
Thanks Chris. It certainly is amongst the best of the year so far. I'm really enjoying McConaughey's output these days. It's great to see Nichols continuing his solid work as well.
moeatthemovies84 Says:
One of the year's best for sure! Excellent review dude! 🙂
Cheers, man. Yeah, it's a great little flick. So far, it's definitely one of the best films of the year. Thanks for dropping by 😉
My pleasure, buddy! 😉
sanclementejedi Says:
Nice write up Mark, one of the best of the year so far. Can't wait to see what Nichols has in store next,
Cheers Adam! That's 3 for 3 for Nichols now. I've enjoyed all of his films and it will most certainly be interesting to see what he pulls out the bag next. The same could be said of McConaughey as well. I'm really enjoying his performances these days.
Nick Powell Says:
Glad you liked the film, Mark. It's one of my favorite of the year and a beautiful reminder that we are demanding more character driven stories than mega blockbusters. Glad you mention/touch upon everyone in the cast because they all do a phenomenal job. Also, I have to admit, I never even thought of the similarities with Huck Finn. I'm a terrible person.
Thanks Nick. Well mentioned on the more character driven demands from the audience. That's spot on, man, and long may it continue.
Three Rows Back Says:
Great work buddy. One if my favourites of the year so far.
Cheers mark. I hold it very highly as well, man. Great movie, filled with superb performances.
Excellent review Mark, I absolutely loved the intimacy of the setting and the characters in this film, and forgive me for going out on a limb here but I thought Reese Witherspoon was a nice touch as well. She may not have had a meaty role, but she was good playing a down-and-out, kind of rough type of girl. that was a nice change as well, on top of everything else that was firing on all cylinders. thanks for bringing me back to this.
Thanks for dropping in Tom. And, yeah, I absolutely agree about Witherspoon. She's one of my least favourite actresses but I have to put my hands up and admit that she was rather good here. Couldn't quite get over McConaughey, though. The man's on fire just now. Great film and great performances across the board. I do wish Shannon had a little more to do, though.
Yeah, really. . . because I sure don't remember much of what he did. that's crazy. also, attributable to the powerful performance put on by McConaughey. Mud was the movie that pretty much won me over with him honestly. great stuff. can't wait to see what he's gonna be like in Wolf of Wall Street!
Yeah, Shannon's time constraints were the reasons for his lack of a substantial role here but like you say, McConaughey is the real reason to see this. Really enjoying his displays of late and The Wolf of Wall Street shouldn't be any different, I'd imagine.
I can't wait to rent this! You probably already know my lamenting about missing the screening last April due to a snow storm!! Looks like a great one from McConnaughey, that guy's definitely on a roll!
McConaughey definitely is on fine form these days Ruth and this is no exception. I think this is a film that will very much appeal to you. I loved it. Considered rating it slightly higher but ill leave that for another viewing as I found some flaws to creep in, ever so slightly, toward the end.
After seeing it last nite i totally agree with ur rating Mark. It's excellent but not perfect, i have some questions abt the ending, too. McConnahey n that Sheridan kid are brilliant. Btw i love ur review so much i linked it from my Friday's post 😀
Lol. I just left a message on your post a couple of minutes ago, Ruth. Glad to hear we're in agreement. It was very good but the denouement didn't quite sit well with me either. It wasn't bad but could have been a bit tighter and stayed away from becoming formulaic.
I feel like perhaps they felt the need to end on a not-so-bleak note? I dunno, i guess i dont have a big issue with that per se but i felt like there's an unanswered question that kept me pondering afterwards. I'll bring that up in my review nxt week 😉
I think I might know what the unanswered question was. Did it have to do with Shannon's character while he was under the water?
ckckred Says:
Nice review. Glad you enjoyed this, it's one of my favorites of the year thus far. McConaughey is really delivering some great performances as of late.
Like I've said to so many other commenters, so far, man. McConaughey is definitely delivering the goods just now. He has quickly become one of my favourite actors over the last year or so. Can't wait to see his upcoming projects as well. It looks that his fine form is going to continue.
Nice Review Mark, McConaughey really seems to be getting taken seriously as an actor as of late.
Cheers Vinnie. He is getting taken seriously and for very good reason. Along with Ryan Gosling, I think McConaughey is one of the most exciting actors around at the moment.
Amonymous Says:
Spot on review Mark. McConaughey can do no wrong at the moment.
Cheers Amon. I totally agree. McConaughey is on fire at the moment and its now got to the stage where most are eagerly anticipating his next move.
70srichard Says:
Best film of the year so far, a terrific star turn and the kids are fantastic. I did not sweat the flaws that you saw, they are not obvious to me but maybe I will notice them when I see it again. A thorough review.
Thanks again Richard. Yeah, I did find flaws here but they were minuscule in the grander scheme of things. I thoroughly enjoyed the film and, like you say, McConaughey and the two kids were outstanding. So far, it's in my top three, after The Hunt and The Place Beyond The Pines.
The Focused Filmographer Says:
One of my top favorite films of the year and the highest I have rated so far. I really enjoyed Mud. Nice review. Jeff Nichols has done another great film…with Michael Shannon in it again no less.
Nichols is three for three in my opinion Terrence. All of them are great. I did find a few faults with Mud but not enough to ruin the experience overall. Fantastic little movie. Thank you sir!


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Antoine-Adolphe Lesourd né le  à Paris et mort en 1852, est un journaliste et haut fonctionnaire français. Il a notamment été sous-préfet de Sceaux et préfet et directeur des octrois de Paris.

Biographie

Après des études de droit, il débute dans le journalisme en 1822.

Il prit une part active à la Révolution de Juillet et fut chef du secrétariat particulier de Camille de Montalivet, quand celui-ci devint ministre de l'Intérieur le . le  il est nommé chef de la direction du personnel et du cabinet au ministére de l'Intérieur, puis sous-préfet de Sceaux le 12 mars de la même année. Il reste dans ce poste jusqu'en 1836, refusant à maintes reprises une préfecture, sans doute pour des raisons sentimentales. Il est ensuite préfet et directeur des octrois de Paris.

Il se marie le  avec Adélaïde-Louise de Silvestre (1798-1883), dont il a un fils, Georges Lesourd (1834-1877) qui devint secrétaire d'ambassade à Berlin.

Il est membre du Conseil d'administration de la Compagnie du chemin de fer de Fampoux à Hazebouck . En 1848, il est l'un des fondateurs de la société anonyme pour l'agrandissement, le prolongement et l'exploitation du canal d'irrigation de Pierrelatte .

Distinction
Officier de la Légion d'honneur.

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Naissance en octobre 1799
Décès en 1852
Journaliste français du XIXe siècle

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Die Transdanubische Vulkanische Region ist ein langer, fossiler Vulkanbogen in Südeuropa, der sich von Slowenien durch das südliche und südöstliche Österreich bis zur Grenze zwischen Burgenland und Ungarn hinzieht.

Manche Geologen sehen einen großtektonischen Zusammenhang mit der von Norditalien nach Osten ziehenden Periadriatischen Störungslinie, deren geometrische Fortsetzung der Vulkanbogen bildet.

Geologisch-Geografischer Überblick
Der leicht gekrümmte Bogen besteht aus einigen Dutzend erloschenen Vulkanen, die sich in annähernd linienförmiger Anordnung im Jungtertiär – im Zuge der alpiden Gebirgsfaltung – gebildet haben. Das Aufsteigen ihrer Vulkanite ist großteils eine Folge der Verschiebungen, die viele geologische Formationen durch den Druck erlitten haben, den die Afrikanische Platte bei der alpiden Gebirgsbildung über mindestens 30 Jahrmillionen gegen den Kontinentalblock Europas ausgeübt hat und dies bis heute tut. Dabei hat sich die Afrikanische Kontinentalplatte über die Europäische Platte geschoben, wodurch das Gestein im Untergrund schmolz und als Magma zur Erdoberfläche hochstieg (Ähnliche Vorgänge treten bis heute an den Subduktions-Zonen rings um den Pazifik auf).

Der Vulkanbogen beginnt im heutigen Slowenien südlich des Bachergebirges und setzt sich mit jungtertiären Vulkanit-Vorkommen im Süden Österreichs (Kärnten und Südost-Steiermark) fort: Er quert das Lavanttal und verläuft bis zum Oststeirischem Hügelland, wo die größte Zahl an ehemaligen Vulkanen festzustellen ist. Durchschnittlich tritt hier alle 10 km eine Insel aus vulkanischen (meist sehr harten) Gesteinen ans Tageslicht. In der Südsteiermark sind solche Berge zum Beispiel bei Weitendorf (Basaltsteinbruch Weitendorf) und Klöch festzustellen, setzen sich im Stradnerkogel (610 m) und den Gleichenbergen (nördlich der Thermalquellen von Bad Gleichenberg) fort und drehen ihren Verlauf langsam nach Norden. Die nächsten markanten Vulkane sind der Steinberg bei Feldbach und der steile Tuffschlot, auf dem die berühmte, nie eroberte Riegersburg sitzt. Über einige Vulkaniteinheiten bei Fürstenfeld überquert der Vulkanbogen die Grenze zum Burgenland, passiert die Günser Berge und bildet im Pauliberg bei Kobersdorf (Bezirk Oberpullendorf) den letzten hohen Vulkankegel. Der Pauliberg ist der jüngste Vulkan Österreichs und war vermutlich noch bis vor etwa 2 Jahrmillionen aktiv. Der dort abgebaute Basalt gehört infolge seiner Härte weltweit zu den Baustoffen mit der größten Haltbarkeit.

Ein Vulkan bei Oberpullendorf bildete die Hügelkuppe (Fenyős erdő) westlich des Ortskerns von Oberpullendorf. Dieser Vulkan besteht aus zwei übereinander liegenden Lavaströmen. Er wird in die Zeit vor dem bzw. um das Sarmat datiert.

Im Westen von Wien wurden beim Bau eines Wasserspeichers im Lainzer Tiergarten bei Mauer ebenfalls Hinweise auf vulkanische Tätigkeit gefunden. Auch an anderen Stellen in Mauer und Umgebung wurden vulkanische Gesteine (Pikrite, Tuffe) beobachtet. An den Gesteinen wurden Bohrlöcher von Meermuscheln beobachtet. Die Aktivität der Vulkane wird auf ein Alter von ungefähr 12 Millionen Jahren und damit in das Miozän geschätzt.

Genese der Vulkankette
In einem Bericht untersuchte der Leobener Geophysiker Leopold Weber (Koautor) einen Teil dieser transdanubischen Vulkanregion in der Steiermark und formulierte deren Entstehung folgendermaßen:

Laut dem Bericht erfolgte noch eine zweite vulkanische Phase im Gelasium vor 1,8 – 2,5 Jahrmillionen. Im Gegensatz zur ersten brachte diese Vulkantätigkeit vor allem "basische Vulkanite" an die Erdoberfläche. Der Fachmann erkennt sie in Form zahlreicher Durchschlagsröhren, die  – wie zum Beispiel im Basaltsteinbruch von Klöch (Steiermark).

Beispiel des Basaltsteinbruchs von Klöch (Steiermark)
Den Nordteil dieses Massivs bildet der Kindbergskogel. Er ist ein Aufschüttungskegel aus Vulkanschlacken und Tuffen mit Radialspalten, in die während späterer Extrusionen basaltisches Magma eindrang. Im Südteil des Klöcher Massivs erstreckt sich hingegen ein mit Basanit aufgefüllte Caldera. In diesem festen Basaltgestein befindet sich der Basaltsteinbruch Klöch. Die Caldera liegt in einer Decke von Tuffen und ihrer sedimentären Unterlage.

Der Basalt wird mit Böhler-Bohrraupen in einem 4 m-Raster und anschließenden Sprengungen abgebaut. Die Jahresbohrleistung von 52 km mal 9 cm ermöglicht eine Jahresproduktion von über 950.000 Tonnen. Die vier Brecher der Aufbereitungsanlage erzeugen etwa 350.000 Mt Edelbrech-Körnungen und 550.000 t Schotter für den Tiefbau; der ungebrochene Rest dient für den Wasserbau, für Bodenverbesserung und für Schüttungen.

Basalt am Pauliberg (Burgenland)
Das Ende des Vulkanbogens wird annähernd vom Pauliberg bei Kobersdorf, Bezirk Oberpullendorf markiert. Der sehr kompakte, 761 m hohe Berg besteht großteils aus Basalt und ist der jüngste Vulkan Österreichs, der vermutlich noch vor etwa 2 Jahrmillionen aktiv war. Nahe dem Gipfel befindet sich seit langem ein Steinbruch; der dort abgebaute Basalt gehört infolge seiner Härte weltweit zu den Baustoffen mit der größten Haltbarkeit.

Der Pauliberg liegt im Übergangsbereich der Ostalpen zur pannonischen Tiefebene, etwa halbwegs zwischen den Orten Kobersdorf und Landsee (bei Sankt Martin). Der Pauliberg-Vulkanismus begann vor etwa 20 Millionen Jahren und reichte bis ins Pliozän. In einer Lavazunge ist eine Höhle, die "Vierlöcherhöhle", eingebettet. Diese Besonderheit ist die einzige sekundäre Basalthöhle des Burgenlandes. Die Basaltkuppe durchbricht die Folge von Wechselgesteinen und liegt somit als einziger in der Kette pliozäner Vulkanberge des Alpenostrands auf dem Kristallin auf. Die um Landsee vorkommenden Wechselgesteine bilden den Ostteil des "Wiesmather Fensters".

Siehe auch: Geschriebenstein, Thermenlinie, Naturpark Geschriebenstein-Írottkő, Stradner Kogel, Semmeringfenster

Weblinks
 Steirisches Vulkanland
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Literatur
 Leopold Weber: Exkursion zum Basaltwerk Pauliberg und Einführung zum steir. "Vulkanbogen", Proceedings Bergbautechnik Heft 12, Wirtschaftsministerium Wien 2000.

Einzelnachweise

Vulkangebiet
Geographie (Alpen)
Gebirgsbildung
Geographie (Slowenien)
Geographie (Steiermark)
Geographie (Burgenland)
Geologie der Alpen


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So many great looks, loved seeing Danielle Prescod in your round up, love her and her sister.
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Dear Allie, oh, 300 – 400 pictures would be really a lot for one post! But I wouldn't mind if they are all that beautiful and inspirational as the pictures you show here today! You are a very talented photographer!
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