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Robert Lopresti. Authorfella.
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When Women Didn't Count
Greenfellas
Shanks on Crime
Such A Killing Crime
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My Books » Greenfellas
A comic crime novel. With issues.
ONE OF THE BEST MYSTERIES OF 2015 - Kings River Life Magazine.
"This is an unusual, complex, and fascinating book about ethics as a last resort." - Peter Berryman
"What do you expect when you pick up a novel about New Jersey mobsters? Robert Lopresti's GREENFELLAS has plenty of genre motifs, but it's the unusual characters, vistas, and twists that will surprise and amuse the reader. In GREENFELLAS, Lopresti defies the reader's expectations in a contemporary way, and the result is a fun and suspenseful read." - Jackie Sherbow, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.
"If Carl Hiassen and Al Gore had collaborated on RESERVOIR DOGS, it might have come out something like GREENFELLAS" - Steve Steinbock, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.
"Sal is a delight as he figures out ways around what most would consider insurmountable objects. The dialogue and action are fast paced... I'm just jealous I didn't think of the idea for this book first—'green' with jealousy. " -Sandra Murphy, Kings River Life Magazine
Sal Caetano is a happy man. He's the brains behind a New Jersey Mafia family and he expects to be made the boss soon. But everything changes on the night his first grandchild is born and he hears a news report claiming that by the time she grows up climate change will have wrecked the world. For Sal this is unacceptable and he decides to use all of his Mafia skills to save the environment. Hey, how hard can it be? Pretty hard, it turns out. Turns out the mob doesn't want to change. Neither do the politicians he talks to. Soon Sal is fighting for his life with rivals inside and outside his own family; not to mention the FBI which holds a grudge against him. And all he wants to do is save the world…
WEBPAGES ABOUT THE BOOK:
Details Page (Sale Sheet)
Q and A.
Crime Against Nature: The video of a talk I gave about the book at WWU
SleuthSayers: How Green Was My Homicide
Ed Gorman's Blog: You can Take The Boy Out In New Jersey
The First Two Pages Blog: In Which Introductions Are Made
SPAWNews: Farewell, My Coastline. or How to Write an Environmental Crime Novel without Putting Your Reader into the Big Sleep
Kevin's Corner: The Anti-Hero's Journey
Terry Ambrose: GREENFELLAS: Robert Lopresti says it has issues
Western Front: The mafia fights climate change in Western librarian's New Book
Oak Tree Press Bookstore page
"A fine, fun story that is not without serious depth and warmth. I loved it." -Ed Gorman, Writer of the Sam McCain series
"A hilarious, albeit chilling, eco-Mafia novel -- a new species. Lopresti knows his mobsters, his New Jersey, and his science, and knows how to make it all sing." -- SJ Rozan, Edgar-winning author (as Sam Cabot) of SKIN OF THE WOLF
"GREENFELLAS has a great concept and vivid characters, both criminals and commoners. There's snappy patter and a fast-moving story, and it's funny, too. Elmore Leonard fans (and everybody else) should snap this up immediately." --Bill Crider, bestselling author of the Sheriff Dan Rhodes mysteries
"A funny, fast-paced crime story whose serious points pack the wallop of a forty-five."-Terence Faherty, Shamus-winning author of the Scott Elliott series.
Get your copy now, or we'll recycle it. Two of my favorite bookstores are Village Books and Seattle Mystery Bookshop. Or read how to buy my books.


Beat Crush Crew, B-Boy Tronik, Sonic Division and Freestyle Project who use more catchy Melodies as u know it from Trance ?
Dominance artists "check there website for more info"
You mean in the Music Instructor ~ Flying Steps style?
I'll try to remember some more.
Think they stopped making Freestyle Electro.
I dont really like this trance sounds... I respect it, but sounds so bad to me.
recieved recently these...wicked 12 inches!
Tears of Technology have 2 albums out. these are some serious breaks!
Thanks to this thread I discovered this new E-Freakz label, thanks so much....! It's great to see B-Boy TroniK back on the case - the last album "Overdrive" was disco nonsense lol, but I been following him since early days of Arktika on Soundclick (or maybe mp3.pl.com can't remember)... he is a brilliant musician. Good to see him finally signed.
....anywho, greetings from Australia, I have been a fan of Electro/Freestyle like this for many many years, and I can suggest some of my favourites for you. Here we go!
This guy is EXCELLENT and has many tracks. I think he is more commercially successful (in Germany at least) than Freestyle Project, he also has a MySpace profile.
Not sure if you'll like this, it has male singing in it so is more of a true Freestyle track - but I really like it.
I have five songs from this artist (wish there was more) they are all bangin' as sh!t check them out!
Maybe interesting - you can also buy a CD full of samples and loops from the producer of Freestyle Project. I think half the artists on the Freestyle Party CD's must have gotten this!
I uploaded this just now. It's a cover/remix of an 80's track, pretty damn good. Bought it off eMusic, it's from some German label that usually does techno doof crap. The 2CD album is pretty good, though most of them are not actually Freestyle and many are actually slower-paced... but I like that kinda chillout stuff when it's done this well.
Bomfunk MC's have a lot of similar sounding stuff. First album "In Stereo" is more Hip-Hop; second album Burnin' Sneakers is VERY Electro; third album Reverse Psychology is kinda Electroclash/Pop stuff.
Def Cut has some really good Electro stuff, though he does mostly Hip-Hop. Damn good either way.
I had to mention this. It doesn't seem to appear on the E-Freakz portfolio. Such a good track, the bassline is total electrofunk, the vocoded vocals are amazing, this is such an inspiring track... and this video has clips of Sofia Boutella breakin' in it WOO HOO what a goddess!
Flying Steps - not very well known, their album "B-Town" is actually a compilation disc - most tracks are by a guy named Engin it seems. I did dig further into those names a few years back but didn't find anything, maybe I will again soon.
A very trancey-sounding-electro track, this artist is from German label Apollo Freestyle. The label was founded by Nicki Daniels (from Double Effect) and has some artists formerly signed to Manifold Music (e.g. Jay R., the singer from Double Effect). They also have/had Johnny O. on their portfolio. Most of their stuff is true-Freestyle though without that synth hook and with much more romance-related vocals and/or rap.
SKR is worth a mention, but he is unsigned (I think) and no longer making music it seems... you can get all his MP3's for free from his profile here - skr.mp3.wp.pl/ - have a listen of "My Name Is Electro Adam" and also "Robot City", they are two of my favourites!
ToLeK is another artist from wp.pl so there are some free downloads here. Most the tracks are average.... but some are pretty catchy and well made. Check out "I Can't Stop (Electric Boogie)"
...there are a lot of indie Freestyle artists out there inspired by F.P. and stuff; but many of them sound like complete crap.... cheap songs using stock Fruityloops samples and really dodgy effects.
Cool! Thanks for all the suggestions to check out.
I'd also like to mention the russian freestyle collective "Freestyle Union" and their compilations.


It's the twenty-first century, and while the shortage of everyday Joes flying in to work on jetpacks might be seen as rather a disappointing failure of engineering to meet the demands of grade school dreamers everywhere, a patent filed by Ford back in June, 2015 details a bit of futuristic gadgetry with far less potential for serious bodily harm.
There's still some inherent danger, mind you. Just not as much.
Hybrid Cars reports that a patent application filed this year by Ford Global Technologies describes an electric unicycle which uses one of a car's rear wheels as its own. Here's how it works: the driver parks the car, raising one corner of the vehicle with an automatic jack, and removes the wheel from that corner. In the trunk is an assembly consisting of an electric drive motor and a simple drivetrain, a body, seat, and handlebars. After some basic setup, the driver has an electric unicycle to make short work of the rest of his or her commute.
The electric unicycle detailed in this patent filing isn't unlike a device already produced by a company called Ryno Motors. Whether Ford has – or intends to have – a relationship with Ryno is unknown, but like that company's electric unicycle, Ford's would most likely be self-balancing for easy everyday use.
We don't foresee this Ford electric unicycle ever actually making it to market in its present state. For one thing, many inventions prove too wild and zany for public acceptance, and this may well be one of them. (Remember that fifth-wheel parking assist invented back in the 1950s?) For another, even with the simplicity of an automatic jack, removing a wheel from an automobile is too much of a chore for us to imagine users performing the task daily, likely relegating this electric unicycle to service only in the occasional event of vehicle failure.


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Ottar Gladvedt, född 1890, död 1962, var en norsk regissör, filmfotograf och manusförfattare.

Gladvedt regidebuterade 1913 med spelfilmen Overfaldet på poståpnerens datter som följdes av Revolutionens datter 1918. Gladvedt skrev manus till båda filmerna. Under 1920-talet regisserade han flera kort- och dokumentärfilmer. Han regisserade sammanlagt tio filmer mellan 1913 och 1950. Han verkade också som filmfotograf.

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Naomi Fowler ■ Jainism and Ethical Finance
Jainism and Ethical Finance
Naomi Fowler
Ethical Finance
"The financial crisis of 2008 has led to a re-evaluation of the role of financial institutions and their relationship with the wider economy and society. There is an increased questioning of both the conduct of business itself and the principles behind commercial and financial activities. Yet non-western voices have been notably absent from this debate, as have alternatives to the dominant western-derived economic ideologies."
This is part of the description of a new book by Senior Lecturer in Accounting & Finance at the University of Suffolk, Atul K. Shah PhD (also author of 'Celebrating Diversity'). His latest book is co-written with Dr Aidan Rankin and is called Jainism and Ethical Finance: A Timeless Business Model.
We hand over to him to explain more about it:
Public concern about ethics in business and the professions is very high. However, 'solutions' so far have only appeared in the forms of codes of ethics, or processes and systems designed to 'follow the law'. We all know what that has meant in the area of tax – exploit every gap in the law to avoid paying anything for public services. Issues like culture and character have proven very hard to discuss and transform. One reason is that most of the debate has been a monologue – it has been dominated by western culture and a world-view of individualism, materialism and profit maximisation.
My latest research book with Dr. Aidan Rankin, draws upon 30 years of work in transforming global awareness of one of the oldest living cultures of the world – the Jain culture, and its profound wisdom for sustainable living. It is called Jainism and Ethical Finance. It is an ethic and wisdom which is at once scientific and spiritual, holistic and inclusive, and extremely relevant to the challenges we face today. At the same time, Jains make one of the largest per capita community of accountants, financiers and entrepreneurs in the world – yet they operate quietly and simply, that is why they remain unnoticed. Finance has been in their DNA for centuries. In India, they remain one of the highest taxpayers – despite being less than 0.5% of the population, they pay 25% of all taxes.
Our book is aimed at helping students and scholars learn about this culture, understand its core philosophy and science, and see its practical application and relevance in contemporary finance. It combines both theory and practice, bringing to life true stories and cases studies of how Jains have influenced local and global enterprises, and continue to do so. It is hoped that the book will be an exemplar for future studies which revive timeless wisdoms from all over the world, and show how they are lived and practiced in finance and business today. In our rush for enlightenment and freedom, we have forgotten the wisdom of the East, and its history of enquiry, meditation and experimentation, which has given the world some timeless gems.
The focus on technical education in accounting and finance is a major drawback as it removes the possibility of dialogue and debate around personal experiences, cultures and 'values'. In fact, it even makes it impossible for students to be critical or questioning about basic assumptions and actions of business. Yes our focus on 'value' has really emptied our reflection on 'values'. That is why the debates on ethics are so dry because they often lack references to lived cultures, communities and behaviours. Also focusing solely on business or finance is not an ideal way to learn ethics as often the parameters are restricted by profits and performance – some would say business eats culture for a living. Speaking of living faiths, cultures and communities gives us a much better alternative way of understanding ethics, and thereby transforming professional conduct and behaviour organically. Jainism and Ethical Finance could start you on the journey.
The practical benefits of reading our book are primarily in terms of thinking differently about finance, about ethics and also about culture and sustainability. The language in the book is simple and accessible, but the ideas draw from deep wells of thought and philosophy. The stories and examples bring the Jain philosophy to life, helping readers reflect on how they can live and act differently. The research is not presented as a dogma or grand theory but as an open resource for personal creativity and inspiration. Some readers may even decide to question their colleagues at work about their own culture and practices around finance, and how social capital contributes to building lasting success and happiness. Perhaps when you recruit someone, you may now have some new questions to ask. Readers may learn to see the value of a few good long-term relationships, and understand the patience required in nurturing them and keeping them. The book will make you reflect on death and materialism, seeing that life can easily become a self-imposed prison, rather than an opportunity for freedom and creativity. We hope you will embark on the adventure, and read the book to free yourself from the chains of greed, envy and vice.
The book can be obtained directly from Routledge and they're currently offering a 20% discount to everyone.
Naomi is the Tax Justice Network's creative strategist. She also produces and presents the Taxcast, the Tax Justice Network's monthly podcast/radio show. She also directs the Tax Justice Network's monthly podcast/radio shows in Spanish - Justicia ImPositiva, Arabic - الجباية ببساطة French - Impôts et Justice Sociale and Portuguese - É da sua conta. She produced programming for broadcasters around the world for 15 years, was Programme Director at a radio station in Latin America and has lived and worked in various countries. She's currently based between London, Sicily and Spain.


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In his dazzling #1 bestselling novel, Plum Island, Nelson DeMille introduced fans to detective John Corey in an iconic scene: sitting on a porch looking out across the ocean, contemplating the dangers around him. Years later, The Maze opens with Corey, on the verge of retirement, sitting on a porch, pondering the very same things. Scanning the horizon for his enemies; calculating escape routes; drinking a beer for breakfast. But then trouble does appear, and the justice-seeking former detective in Corey can't ignore it. A series of bodies has been found along a beach close to his home and he can no longer deny that a serial killer is on the loose, and that no one in law enforcement seems able to find the culprit. Is the failure to find the perpetrator a result of a clever cover-up by the police? Is it due to the fact the victims are prostitutes? Or is it something darker? Could the killer be someone powerful on the inside? The fact that Corey's beautiful girlfriend may have purposefully enticed him into this involvement adds further dangerous intrigue. John Corey must root out friend and foe in this dazzling thriller, which features his trademark irreverent voice, matched by brilliant investigative skills, and the masterful plot twists that are a signature of the #1 New York Times bestseller Nelson DeMille.
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The Maze: A John Corey Novel
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1858 earliest known date on a Sneden watercolor, "Sneden's Landing, opposite Dobb's Ferry, Hudson River, N.Y."
Oct 8 leaves Washington, D.C., to rejoin Third Corps near Brandy Station, Va.
Nov 12 signs parole at Camp Lawton, Georgia, prison camp to work for Surgeon Isaiah White C.S.A.
winter begins years work for architect William B. Olmsted, 50 Wall St.
1877 moves to Greenwich, Conn., later to Monsey, Rockland Co., N.Y.
1884-87 Century Magazine's serial on Civil War (Nov. 1884 to Nov. 1887) includes one engraving based on a Sneden watercolor; book form of the series, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, includes several dozens engravings based on Sneden watercolors.
1904 Jun 22 enters N.Y. State Soldiers & Sailors Home, Bath, Steuben County, N.Y.
1918 Sept 18 dies at Soldiers & Sailors Home, Bath, age 86; buried at national cemetery, Bath, N.Y. section J, row 11, grave 14.


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She had resolved never again to belong to another than herself.
Oil Rig Accidentally Drains Lake Peigneur
When Leonce Viator, Jr., set out in his boat for a day of fishing on Louisiana's Lake Peigneur, he never imagined he would end up fighting for his life. But that is exactly what happened after an oil rig on the lake's surface accidentally bored through the roof of a salt mine beneath it. Like a bathtub whose plug has been pulled, the lake began draining into the mine, creating a whirlpool that sucked in not just water but barges, trees, and acres of surrounding land. What happened to Viator?
Biorhythms are recurring patterns of physiological states in an organism or organ. One example is the circadian rhythm that governs humans' sleep-wake cycle as well as their blood pressure changes and urine production during a 24-hour period. Circannual rhythms are yearly cycles that respond to changes in the length of periods of daylight. Some people believe that biorhythms affect physical and mental states and behavior. Who thought that his students' good and bad days followed a 33-day cycle?
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Lagerlöf was a Swedish author who is best known for her children's book, The Wonderful Adventures of Nils. While working as a teacher, Lagerlöf got her big break as a writer when chapters of her first novel, Gösta Berling's Saga, won first prize in a literary contest. Lagerlöf rooted her work in legend in a reaction against contemporary Swedish realism. In 1909, she became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. What did she do with her medal during World War II?
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I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. I am also a Research Fellow at RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research and an Affiliate at the Hamburg Center for Health Economics. I obtained my undergrad degree from the University of Mannheim and my PhD from Yale University.
My research is in health and labor economics and applied microeconomics more broadly. I am currently working on projects about long-term care, the economic consequences of cancer, and the opioid epidemic.


Leanamore Wind Farm in Co Kerry, SSE's newest onshore wind farm, which entered full commercial operation in February 2018. Wind and tidal projects will be key to Ireland meeting 2030 targets.
All will change, change utterly. The Irish energy sector is about to enter a decade of unprecedented growth, fostered by a series of new supports from the State. The critical element should be the Renewable Energy Support Scheme (RESS), which seeks to boost a mix of technologies, but also requires – for the first time – that green energy brings local benefits.
The scheme, designed to help Ireland meet its renewable pledges up to 2030, replaces the Renewable Energy Feed-in-Tariff, which from 2009 helped the growth of onshore windfarms.
The first priority is to boost renewable energy production quickly, to meet Ireland's European Union target of turning 16 per cent of the State's energy needs "green" by 2020.
So if a solar farm, for example, can deliver quickly, then it will be supported under rules designed to give no one type of green energy an unfair advantage, though there will be limits on the dominance of onshore farms.
Initially, the Government wants to push developer-led projects, not those owned fully by communities; though developers will have to show that they are treating local communities fairly, including with share offers.
Community ownership and community benefits are "key design principles" of the new scheme, says Minister for Environment and Climate Change Denis Naughten.
"If a project wants to be supported [by the scheme], paid for by all customers, it will have to meet certain community-based criteria such as greater and more transparent community engagement and collaboration.
"I am not talking about solar panels for community centres or football jerseys for local GAA teams; I am talking about citizens being able to invest in, and own, and financially benefit from, renewable energy projects," he says.
Offshore wind and tidal projects will be the key to Ireland meeting 2030 targets. "But all of that cannot be unlocked unless we have a funding stream to support that. The RESS is key to driving that forward," he says.
The Government "National Energy & Climate Plan", due under an EU agreement, will lay out how Ireland will decarbonise and ensure that heat and transport needs are met by green-produced electricity, not fossil fuels.
"In the plan, Ireland must set out how it will make an appropriate contribution to EU level targets. As part of this process, we will of course be engaging extensively with stakeholders," Naughten says.
The next step for the Government is to secure EU approval for the RESS package, which typically takes six to nine months. It is estimated that the first auction will be in the second half of next year.
Throughout the EU, there is a move away not just from conventional generation to renewables, but also from large-scale generation to "smaller scale distributed generation".
The emergence of minnow energy producers, feeding in energy from home solar panels, or by other means, into the national grid will be helped by smart meters and other changes.
Naughten's department and the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) have devised a pilot scheme that will target solar PV initially and domestic self-sufficiency.
Later on, there will be help for those wanting to sell energy to the national grid, from solar panels on the roofs of homes, to larger operations run by small businesses and farmers.
Because Ireland's population is so spread out, and because it lacks continental-style district heating systems, it will be particularly difficult to cut fossil fuels from a sector that consumes 40 per of energy consumption.
The National Development Plan (NDP) offers future help to replace oil-fired boilers with electric heat pumps, along with solar panels, for at least 170,000 homes.
Naughten has also secured Government approval for a renewable heat incentive for the non-residential sector, though State aid approval from Brussels is required.
Peat-burning in the Midlands is always controversial. The €100 million-a-year support for peat-power generation is to end in 2019, but a transition process for the sector is in train, he says.
Despite the arguments against it, Naughten emphasises that the closure of the country's three peat-burning power stations and Moneypoint (which uses coal) would not impact on current emissions targets.
The burning of biomass in the Midlands plants is being increased. Edenderry currently fills 40 per cent of its needs this way. Lanesborough and Shannonbridge will follow suit.
The best approach, he believes, is to encourage the growth of a native biomass industry, providing jobs for the 1,500 people directly employed in the Midlands, while also developing local tourism.
Complementing this, a rewetting bogs programme, to restore natural ecosystems that act as a carbon store, is being carried out. No new bog has been opened by Bord Na Móna in the past decade.
Peat-burning will be finished by 2030; coal will be gone by 2025. A new division in Bord na Móna has been set up to drive progress: "This is a transition. We are determined to complete that transition," says the Minister.
The European Union must become as self-sufficient as possible in energy, not just for climate change reasons but also for energy security and long-term sustainable economic growth.
Instead, "second generation biofuels" developed from waste will provide part of the answer, along with using less energy and using it more efficiently, he declares.
Electricity generation has made progress on going green. Ireland is on track to get close to its EU target of 40 per cent electricity from renewable sources by 2020. He singles out EirGrid's achievement of a 65 per cent loading of variable renewable energy on the national grid – something that has not been achieved anywhere else in the world.
So far, onshore wind has been the most successful, but things will change in the years ahead, probably after 2022. "Solar and offshore wind are becoming far more cost-effective and cost-competitive.
"There is significant interest now from developers in relation to developing offshore wind energy projects in Irish waters. We have potentially 50 gigawatts (GW) of energy and electricity offshore.
Developments in the Irish Sea, some in the works for years, will come first, following by others in the Celtic Sea and in the Atlantic Ocean proper, "but it's not just wind, it is also wave as well".


For Mariners, the new "Marine Product Dissemination Information " webpage is now up on the net.
Tim Rulon NOAA did a great job, the site has a lot of good informations for mariners.
Interactive display of the latest US weather written in Sun Microsystem´s Java(tm) programming language. please click here.
Weather FAQ's - a comprehensive list of meteorology sites, data sets, satellite images etc.
Index of meteorology sites from Free University of Berlin.
Acronyms list from UCAR - What are QPF, LLWAS, TIWEX, BMRC? All acronyms.
Weather World - web version of Weather Machine.
World Weather Forecasts - 2 day forecasts for most cities.
World's weather - from Meteorology Department, University of Maryland.


Racist and racism are evocative words of a reality that cannot be denied. One of the renowned writers in English literature has given us some solutions to this contemporary problem. Walt Whitman has commonly been professed as one of the few white American writers who excelled the racial attitudes of his time, a great prophet rejoicing the cultural and racial multiplicity and embodying democratic ideals. When I think about Walt Whitman the first thing that comes to my mind is a big part of his poetic philosophy is kind of have a free spirit and treating everyone equally. He is against slavery at the time and against about racism. Even though he had his struggles of being gay at a time when people take that as the end of the world. Comparatively even five to ten years ago people in America had a concept that being homosexual is not the end of the world. But in his time slavery and being homosexual exiles were the same thing and you could be killed or be in prison. But it gives Whitman in his poetry the view of what his 'his' person if everyone knew he would be condemned as well. So, he had to live with that. That is why Whitman is considered as the first epic American poet who believes that we should treat each other equal.
Frederick Douglass's writing has also given us the viewpoint about racial judgment remains and which were a substantial problem back then, this must be understood against the contextual of extraordinary progress since decades. And the fact of the matter is that there is mostly no practicable alternative to some form of favorable action if we want to pledge the evil effects of certain forms of insight. Thus, although Whitman's racist opinions of blacks, shaped in part by the bad science of the day, were inconsistent and at times unsure, his poetic vision stimulated a way past his own conventional limitations toward better justice. His solution to the inconsistency was to avoid racial subjects, much as he would avoid issues about the massacre being committed against Native Americans. He could not even resolve such inconsistencies in his own spirit. Therefore, the first thing I consider as I explore this is the reality that Americans don't really believe America darn aware of.
In the same way, Douglass was writing for people who are not used to hearing this. He is talking to people through his writing only look at other Americans misconception of slavery today and American slavery was a part of the worldwide system. but by focusing on it he was writing for people who can only think of black people as 'slaves' that's all they can be and that is what civil war was about. People of north say that as human being we can't deal with the slavery anymore. And then Douglass is coming in and saying why don't I write and speak to everyone through my writing. As a result, both writers grab the attention of people who would not normally pay them any mind. As we can see for both sides of this issue that people voted is one of the most stressful if we added the likes of Douglass and Whitman into this dialogue and calm people for a second and brought intelligent wisdom into this that might solve a lot of problems.


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Q: Properties of black body to emit radio waves Usually the wavelengths of the radiation of a black body is like in the sketch below (from Wikipedia):

Which properties are needed to make a black body to radiate in the range of radio waves?

A: The blackbody radiates electromagnetic waves at all wavelengths $\lambda$, thus also in the radio wave range (ca 1m to kilometers). However, there is a strong dependence of intensity on wavelength and an increase with temperature, as shown in your graph. For a given absolute temperature T, the total emitted spectral power density per square meter $I(\lambda, T)$ over all angles diminishes at long wavelengths, following in the radio wave region approximately the Raleigh-Jeans law $$I(\lambda, T)=\frac{2\pi c kT}{\lambda^4} Wm^{-3}$$ where c is the light speed and k is the Boltzmann constant. The radio wave emission at $\lambda$ is thus proportional to the temperature T.

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Markets are never wrong, until there is a crash
Philip BakerAssociate Editor
Updated Dec 4, 2017 — 4.45pm, first published at 11.12am
There's an old saying that dictates the market is never wrong, that the price of any asset is in line with the basic fundamentals that are there for everyone to see.
There is always a reason for a good old fashioned price surge, up or down, even when nobody can find it, but it's fair to say the "efficient market hypothesis" has been tested in 2017 with bubbles all over the place.
For example, there's Bitcoin, the property markets in Sydney and Melbourne, Wall Street, that's now been in a bull market since early 2009 and even the art world where Leonardo da Vinci's Saviour of the World was bought for $US450 million in November.
That sale created a record for the most expensive painting ever sold a few weeks ago, while it changed hands for just £45 in the 1950s when there were doubts over its authenticity that still linger today.
Even the debt markets have had their moments this year when $US9 trillion of bonds were still trading with a negative yield as the US Federal Reserve hiked interest rates, a move that should send bond yields higher.
Then Austria sold €3.5billion of 100-year debt, the largest ever century bond to hit the market, while Argentina, a year after emerging from its latest default, also sold bonds that don't mature for another 100 years.
Is lending money to anyone for 100 years the right move?
The Austrian bonds delivered investors a yield of just 2.1 per cent and maybe shows that there is just too much money floating around or that prices can indeed be unpredictable and wrong, it just takes time.
It was 1984 when Robert Shiller, the economist, first said that the whole idea that the market was always right, was "one of the most remarkable errors in the history of economic thought".
Bitcoin is just like every other bubble financial markets have produced. Michael Nagle
Prices can always move around in a wide range without any obvious change in fundamentals.
When it comes to Bitcoin nothing much happened for years and even in May of this year the digital currency was around $US2000.
Now, in just seven months, it's closer to $US11,000.
Not even tech stocks went that hard in their heyday of the 1990s. Indeed, it took the NASDAQ around five years to create that sort of gain.
Of course a Bitcoin crash is on its way, it's just a matter of when not if. Chris Ratcliffe
Of course a Bitcoin crash is on its way, it's just a matter of when, not if.
But in the meantime the animal spirits of speculators can keep pushing the price higher, even if the market is wrong.
Eventually though the price gets pushed beyond the limits of confidence and that's when we have the crash.
When the bubble becomes too large, almost anything will prick it.
When it comes to Bitcoin, nothing much happened for years and even in May of this year the digital currency was around $US2000. David Rowe
It happened with tulips in 1637, in 1987 with shares, same again in 2000 with tech stocks, and then again in 2007 with debt securities in the US that were based on giving loans to people without jobs.
The first year of the loan was free but then the pace of the repayments picked up a notch.
Not that it mattered given the borrowers had no job.
The US subprime housing market was meant to be contained at just 2 per cent of the entire housing market and by spreading the risk it made the system safer, so the experts said.
The animal spirits of speculators can keep pushing the price of bitcoin higher, even if the market is wrong. Christophe Morin
Even then chairman of the Fed, Alan Greenspan, thought the idea of selling all the different tranches of subprime to fund managers and other investors was a good idea.
The theory was if the securities did go pear shaped then by everyone having just a small amount the whole system would be spared.
History shows the opposite happened. For a time though, the market was right. But all good things come to an end, eventually.
The obvious worry for investors now is if the Fed starts to lift interest rates quicker and higher than what the market expects.
If that happens shares will struggle but they have had a good run and been right for most of this year.
In 2017, for example, the US sharemarket has now posted eight consecutive months of gains — its best streak since 2007— while a good December will make it nine in a row.
The FTSE All-World index is also on a winning streak of 13 consecutive months of gains, while unfortunately for local investors the benchmark S&P ASX 200 index has just completed back to back months of gains for the first time since April.
Even then chairman of the Fed, Alan Greenspan, thought the idea of selling all the different tranches of subprime to fund managers and other investors was a good idea. AP
Philip Baker writes on markets specialising in bonds, equity markets and currencies. Based in our Sydney newsroom, Phil is a markets columnist. Connect with Philip on Twitter. Email Philip at pbaker@fairfaxmedia.com.au
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'Malcolm Turnbull, you're not on your own': My own spray from Donald Trump
By James Thomas
Don't worry Malcolm, I know how you feel. My phone call with The Donald ended with him threatening to sue me.
I was a reporter for Seven's Today Tonight at the time, circa 2008, and we'd heard of an enterprising young businessman in Ipswich who'd convinced Donald Trump to come to Australia on a speaking tour.
Yep, Malcolm Quinn had read one of The Donald's books of business inspiration.
Given what we now know, who knows if Donald ever wrote a single word of it, but it was enough to convince the boy from Ipswich to take a bite at getting the Big Apple's biggest ego, now POTUS, to come to Australia on a speaking tour.
And guess what — The Donald said yes. What a top bloke, we thought. My boss knew we'd be on a winner if we could take Malcolm to New York to meet his hero and future guest speaker.
So, Seven stumped up the cash and we set off to meet Donald — with Malcolm in the middle.
We passed many expensive cars in the basement of Trump Tower, I can't remember makes and models but think Rolls Royce Phantom etc, and ascended to the top — of course.
And there was Donald in a suitably oversized and over the top office, surrounded with sporting memorabilia and the signatures of famous people on baseballs, golf balls, NFL footballs etc.
The story went off without a hitch. Well, largely — Donald was a bit "pissed" when I asked him to re-do his walk down a corridor three times.
Billionaires never really get the need for cutaways. Even if they do work in TV.
Back home we broadcast our story on Donald — the billionaire who gave the little guy from Australia a break by agreeing magnanimously to come down under for a speaking tour.
Malcolm was also overjoyed with the publicity the story would provide for his upcoming tour with Donald.
There was one problem Malcolm didn't bank on. Back in 2008, Mr Trump was so unpopular/unknown, Malcolm told us he couldn't offload the tickets for the event.
It gets worse. Malcolm, a small businessman from Ipswich who had a wife and kids, said he had mortgaged his home to provide Donald with a $1 million advance for the Aussie tour.
This was terrible news for Malcolm as he stood to lose his house, not to mention the stress on his family.
Mr Trump hadn't lifted a finger, surely the billionaire would return the money? Nope. Donald refused to help Malcolm out — and so began the makings of a second Today Tonight story. Mr Trump isn't a top bloke after all.
Prior to filming, we contacted Mr Trump's office for an interview and to suggest he give Malcolm his money back.
After all, in Donald's (ghost written?) book that inspired Malcolm, he talks of the need for generosity in business, like when the banks forgave a mountain of his debt when he hit the skids in the '90s.
I wasn't really expecting Mr Trump to call. But we now know, he is one sensitive dude and even a TT journo from Australia can seemingly provoke the ire of a future president.
"Ring ring… Ring ring…"
"Is that James Thomas?"
"Yes… who is this?"
"Donald Trump."
No joke, the world's most (soon to be) powerful haircut was on the blower from New York.
The following is not an exact quote but as close as my memory allows. Let's call it a recollection in line with Mr Trump's post-fact era.
Mr Trump: I hear you are doing another story on me and Malcolm Quinn.
Me: Yes, we have heard you have $1 million of his money, you have done nothing for it, what's the harm in just handing it back? He has kids, a mortgage, a wife…
Mr Trump: You know, Malcolm Quinn is a bad businessman, he is a failure, he has failed to sell any tickets… I am not giving him the million dollars back. And you know, one day he will thank me. Because, I am giving him a valuable lesson in business… Business is tough.
Believe it or not, we were actually with Malcolm at the time, filming the second story. Yes, we recorded most of the conversation. And at some point, Donald twigged.
Mr Trump: Are you recording me?
Me: Aaah… yes, we are
Mr Trump: You can not do that. That is illegal. How dare you.
And then, in a bombast of red faced fury (I imagine), Mr Trump burst down the line with a parting comment.
Mr Trump: I am going to sue you…
Now, I'm not from a Muslim majority country, but let's just hope POTUS doesn't have a long memory. Oh and good luck Mr Turnbull, I kind of get what it may have been like!
Unfortunately, I can't recall if he hung up…
We did broadcast the story on Today Tonight and from memory, parts of the recorded conversation. We have asked our mates at Seven to see if we can find it. Let's hope my recollection of events is slightly more accurate than the President's recollection of how many people attended his inauguration.
Malcolm Quinn told the ABC he'd prefer not to comment any further. We're not sure if he ever got his money back.
This post originally appeared on ABC News.
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Salem Saberhagen 5 years ago
Wow. Trump really is a loathsome maggot. It beggars belief that regardless if you are right wing or hard right, that anyone could defend him. ANYone! Politics is one thing. Trump is a grub. How could any right wing person, in good morals and conscience, defend him? I could never do that even if I was hard right and agreed with all his politics and look at myself in the mirror. To do so, would be to sell my Christian morals and my soul.
Fiona 5 years ago
It's such schoolyard psychology. Jump on board with the bully to get even with the people who disrespect you. Which is why you hear Trump supporters still going on about how "we" won, and the "elites" (aka "people we think look down on us").
Snorks 5 years ago
I can't defend the man himself, but the president doesn't have to be the best person, they just have to be the one people think will do the most good for the country. With Trump he got a lot of support from the conservatives (no surprises there) and the lower / middle classes when he promised to bring the manufacturing jobs back.
That's obviously distilling something very complicated into a few lines.
Christian morals? Really?
Les Grossman 5 years ago
Trump supporters say it because so many trump haters are still in denial. It's just a reminder of reality.
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Watch The AMAs Live Stream This Sunday — Even If ABC's Live Stream Isn't In Your Area
By Lyn Atwood / November 19, 2017 / Tags: Live Stream, Stream TV
The 2017 American Music Awards are this Sunday on ABC. Here's how to watch the AMAs live stream, even for free or without cable.
Fans have a few ways to watch the AMAs live stream this Sunday.
This Sunday, November 19, it's once again time for the world's biggest fan-voted award show — the American Music Awards. The AMA Awards will be televised live from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.
The 2017 AMAs will feature live performances by Pink, Kelly Clarkson, Demi Lovato, BTS, Christina Aguilera and Diana Ross, who also receives the American Music Award for Lifetime Achievement.
⊕ SEE ALSO: How To Watch ABC's Live Stream In Any City
If you want to watch the AMAs live online, you have a few options. See below for how to get access, even if you don't have cable.
2017 AMAs Live Stream
The show starts at 8:00 PM EST. ABC will stream the entire AMAs live online this year, both on their website and on the Watch ABC app.
If you have a cable TV login, you can go here to watch the AMA Awards live on ABC for free.
Note that it will only be available in a handful of US cities (Chicago, Fresno, Houston, Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, Raleigh-Durham, San Francisco). So if you're not in one of the approved areas, see below for how to get access.
Watch The AMA Live Stream On ABC In Any City
You can watch the AMA live stream on ABC from any city in the country. You just need to bypass ABC's location-detectors.
For step-by-step help, see: How To Watch ABC's Live Stream Anywhere
You can do this to watch the AMAs live online on ABC.com, or with the Watch ABC app.
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Q: RandomOverSampler doesn't seem to accept log transform as my y target variable I am trying to to random oversampling over a small dataset for linear regression. However it seems the scikit learn sampling API doesnt work with float values as its target variable. Is there anyway to solve this?
This is a sample of my y_train values, which are log transformed.
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3.828641
3.401197
3.091042
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from imblearn.over_sampling import RandomOverSampler
X_over, y_over = RandomOverSampler(random_state=42).fit_sample(X_train,y_train)

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ValueError                                Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-53-036424abd2bd> in <module>
      1 from imblearn.over_sampling import RandomOverSampler

~\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\imblearn\base.py in fit_resample(self, X, y)
     73             The corresponding label of `X_resampled`.
     74         """
---> 75         check_classification_targets(y)
     76         arrays_transformer = ArraysTransformer(X, y)
     77         X, y, binarize_y = self._check_X_y(X, y)

~\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\sklearn\utils\multiclass.py in check_classification_targets(y)
    170     if y_type not in ['binary', 'multiclass', 'multiclass-multioutput',
    171                       'multilabel-indicator', 'multilabel-sequences']:
--> 172         raise ValueError("Unknown label type: %r" % y_type)
    173
    174

ValueError: Unknown label type: 'continuous'

A: Re-sampling strategies are not meant for regression problems. Hence, the RandomOverSampler will not accept float type targets. There are approaches to re-sample data with continuous targets though. One example is the reg_resample which can be used like the following:
from imblearn.over_sampling import RandomOverSampler
from sklearn.datasets import make_regression
from reg_resampler import resampler
import numpy as np

# Create some dummy data for demonstration
X, y = make_regression(n_features=10)
df = np.append(X, y.reshape(100, 1), axis=1)

# Initialize the resampler object and generate pseudo-classes
rs = resampler()
y_classes = rs.fit(df, target=10)

# Now resample
X_res, y_res = rs.resample(
    sampler_obj=RandomOverSampler(random_state=27),
    trainX=df,
    trainY=y_classes
)

The resampler object will generate pseudo-classes based on your target values and then use a classic re-sampling object from the imblearn package to re-sample your data. Note that the data you pass to the resampler object should contain all data, including the targets.


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This music video by Colbie Caillat is speaking my language right now. Thank you for this beautiful song full of truth.
Watch, and then remember this when society's ideals about what is "beautiful" threaten to keep you from living life to the fullest and loving yourself completely.
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Q: Identify group leader in librdkafka Is there a way to identify the group leader in librdkafka ?
As there is no way to pass a custom partition strategy, I am having some hack to serve the purpose. My specific consumer has to be the group leader if not I should exit.
Or is there a way to make sure there is no other consumer running with the current consumer group id ?

A: Currently the only way you can identify the leader of a consumer group is to enable the cgrp debug context (set the debug config property to cgrp) and then capture logs (with log_cb or the event API) and match this log line (which may change in future versions):
1591771297.737 RDKAFKA-7-JOINGROUP: rdkafka#consumer-1: [thrd:main]: JoinGroup response: GenerationId 1, Protocol range, LeaderId rdkafka-b5751775-49f4-4ac8-a912-f5800f5bffbe (me), my MemberId rdkafka-b5751775-49f4-4ac8-a912-f5800f5bffbe, 1 members in group: (no error)
The "(me)" part will only be included if the LeaderId is the same as the MemberId.


Following cuts to Air New Zealand's flight maps, Kiwi travellers may be left looking for other ways to get to some of their favourite holiday destinations.
The national carrier announced plans to close some services after what it calls a "challenging year."
The airline announced in an email to customers that it would no longer be flying to Vietnam and Toyko's Haneda Airport. Routes to Argentina and Taipei will also be reduced, with changes set to go into effect by 2019.
The announcement comes after pressure on Air New Zealand to rethink domestic services and "over-crowded lounges."
However, CEO Christopher Luxton said "the biggest challenge has been the unscheduled global maintenance issues with the Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines."
"I really do apologise and thank you for your patience and support of the airline at this time," Luxton wrote in the email, addressing what the airline refers to as "operational challenges."
The engines used to power the fleet of Dreamliner 787s were recalled earlier this year after damage was found to engines on trans-Pacific flights.
Since then, only eight of the company's thirteen Dreamliner 787 planes have been operational at any one time.
These planes service popular long distance routes, including Los Angeles and Houston, and have put increased pressure on Pacific flights.
But what does this mean for holiday planners?
As news comes of reduced flights and some popular holiday spots coming off the flight map, we've come up with a set of alternative routes to get you to your final destination.
In some cases, we've taken the liberty of suggesting some emerging holiday hot spots which might not yet be on your radar.
After Air New Zealand pull their route, there will be no direct flights to Vietnam.
The last chopper to Ho Chi Minh City is scheduled for 2019, but we've come up with an alternative holiday escape route.
Another fare: Cathay Pacific and Hong Kong Airways fly to Ho Chi Minh via Hong Kong, Singapore Airlines fly via Singapore Changi and Qantas and Jetstar fly via Melbourne and Sydney.
Chiang Mai: The Thai mountain kingdom is now on the radar for a South East Asian adventure. Easily reached from the Thai capitalof Bangkok, Chiang Mai's temples and hilltop fortress are beckoning Kiwi travellers. It's also only a short distance from neighbouring Laos and North Vietnam is only 700km away, should you be determined to push on through.
Direct flights to Bangkok are operated by Thai Airlines.
2019 is the big year for rugby fans heading to Japan. However, news that Air New Zealand will no longer be flying into the Japanese city's central airport may kick some travellers' plans into touch.
Another fare: Air New Zealand is still flying to Tokyo's Narita Airport in the Chiba Prefecture – though this is significantly further from the action.
Okinawa: You won't want to miss out on the rugby when things kick off in Japan next September. However, it might be a chance to use a layover over to see a little more of the Japanese islands. With the All Blacks' opening matches in Yokohama, Oita and Toyota - it's a chance to visit the imperial shogunate of Osaka, the subtropical Miyazaki or venture even further afield to the Japanese Pacific islands of Okinawa.
Cathay Pacific operate flights to Miyazaki via Hong Kong and Tokyo, and flights to Osaka via Hong Kong; Hong Kong Airlines fly to Okinawa via Hong Kong.
Air New Zealand has gone for a leaner schedule for its 2019 route to Buenos Aires, the Argentinian capital of red meat and tango.
Another fare: LATAM, Qantas and KLM share routes to Buenos Aires with stops in Santiago.
Patagonia is a destination opening up to more adventurous travellers. Torres del Paine National Park is a spectacular landscape of mountain glaciers and Argentine blue waters. Think of it like the Fiordland of South America - only bigger, beefier and blissfully untouched.
Meanwhile the Ushuaia resort on the Tierra del Fuego is holds more creature comforts but no less wow-factor as the gateway to Antarctica.


Published this week is Private International Law in Commonwealth Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2013) by Prof. Richard Oppong of Thompson Rivers University.
The book won the 2013 American Society of International Law prize in Private International Law. The prize 'recognizes exceptional work in private international law'. The Secretary General of the Hague Conference on Private International Law, Dr. Christophe Bernasconi, observes in his foreword to the book that: 'The publication of Private International Law in Commonwealth Africa marks a significant milestone in the history and development of private international law in Africa. Its encyclopaedic analysis of fifteen national legal systems – which account for over 40 per cent of the continent's population yet over 70 per cent of its economic output – will go a long way to filling a gap in knowledge in respect of this important region of the world'.
The book offers an unrivalled breadth of coverage in its comparative examination of the laws in Botswana, the Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The book draws on nearly 1500 cases decided by courts in these countries (the majority of which have never been cited in any academic work) and numerous national statutes. It covers the areas of jurisdiction, choice of law, foreign judgments and arbitral awards enforcement, and international civil procedure. It also provides an extensive bibliography of the literature on African private international law.
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This is a great dish that I like to use as an entree but is equally good as a main. Beef mince is stir fried with spice then wrapped in a lettuce leaf to serve. Works well with other minces such as pork and chicken.
In a frypan cook the meat until brown. Drain off all the excess fat. Reserve the meat.
Heat the butter in the frypan and lightly fry the capsicum, onion, celery and sunflower seed.
Add the cooked beef, spices and soy sauce then stir in until blended.
Peel off 4 large leaves from the lettuce, rinse and shake dry. Spoon in the meat mixture and gently roll up the leaf length ways.
Tie up the roll with a couple of long chives and knot or bow.
Serve immediately as the meat will go cold quickly and the lettuce will wilt from the heat.