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Nebraska among 7 states suing federal government to end DACA
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May 1, 2018 Updated Jun 18, 2020
Nebraska is among seven states suing the federal government to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program protecting undocumented immigrants brought into the country as children from deportation.
The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, "is about the rule of law, not the wisdom of any particular immigration policy," according to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is leading the multi-state coalition.
Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson, who last summer was among 10 state attorneys general who signed a letter asking President Donald Trump to end the program, said Tuesday the lawsuit against the federal government seeks "to prevent the unconstitutional use of executive order to create immigration rights."
"This lawsuit is about protecting the constitutional separation of powers," Peterson said. "As we have stated from the outset, the executive branch possesses no authority to ignore laws duly enacted by Congress.
"The rule of law must be upheld," he added.
Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, South Carolina and West Virginia joined Texas and Nebraska as plaintiffs in the lawsuit against several federal agency chiefs leading the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the U.S. Border Patrol.
The states have asked the court to declare the 2012 Obama administration executive order creating the DACA program unlawful, or to prevent the federal government from renewing or issuing new permits to so-called Dreamers in the future.
Peterson noted the states are not asking the government to deport any DACA youth, nor are they asking the Trump administration to rescind any permits already issued.
The latest lawsuit comes eight months after U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the administration's plan to end DACA by March 5, 2018, calling it unconstitutional and a circumvention of Congress' role to enact legislation pertaining to immigration.
Under the administration's plan, DACA enrollees could apply to renew their permits by Oct. 5, 2017, for the March end date, giving Congress time to pass a law keeping protections for those youth in place.
Congress failed to act, however, and in the meantime, federal courts have halted the administration's plan to end the program, with one judge ordering the Department of Homeland Security to resume processing renewals and applications.
That leaves more than 3,000 undocumented Dreamers living, working and attending school in Nebraska hanging in the balance, among an estimated 690,000 undocumented persons in the U.S. protected from deportation through DACA.
Nebraska state lawmakers have incrementally provided more benefits to the undocumented youth living in the state.
In 2006, the Legislature overrode Gov. Dave Heineman's veto of a bill allowing undocumented youth to pay in-state tuition to Nebraska's universities and colleges if they graduated from a Nebraska high school.
DACA youth have also been granted the opportunity to obtain driver's licenses, as well as professional and occupational licenses from the state, through 2015 and 2016 bills voted into law over vetoes by Gov. Pete Ricketts.
And last year, the Legislature adopted a resolution opposing any federal action to rescind the Obama order creating DACA, with 24 of the 49 senators approving the resolution, and only Sen. John Murante of Gretna opposed. Seventeen others were "present not voting."
Peterson later announced his support for a previous lawsuit to end DACA, leading to 20 state senators signing a letter asking the attorney general to reconsider.
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Q: The infamous triangle loop... with a twist So I have to output a right angle triangle of asterisks... with a border. The triangle I can do no problem, but the border is causing me difficulties. I'm thinking another if/else inside the loop but I don't know how to phrase it. The result I want is this:
*******
* *****
*  ****
*   ***
*    **
*     *
*******

What I can get without help is this:
*******
  *****
   ****
    ***
     **
      *

And here is my code:
public class Pattern
 {
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        final int WIDTH = 7;

        for (int row = 1; row <= (WIDTH); row++)
        {
            for (int col = 1; col <= (WIDTH); col++)
            {
                if (row <= col)
                {
                    System.out.print("*");
                }

                else
                {
                    System.out.print(" ");
                }

            }
            System.out.println();
        }
        System.out.println("\n\nGoodbye!");
    }
 }

A: Hint, the border always on the first index and last index
Keep it on :D

A: Try this out :)
 public static void main(String[] args) {

    final int WIDTH = 7;

    for (int row = 1; row <= (WIDTH); row++)
    {

        for (int col = 1; col <= (WIDTH); col++)
        {
            if (col ==1){
                System.out.print("*");
            }else if (row ==WIDTH){
                System.out.print("*");
            }
            else if (row < col)
            {
                System.out.print("*");
            }

            else
            {
                System.out.print(" ");
            }

        }
        System.out.println();
    }
    System.out.println("\n\nGoodbye!");
}

A: This should work,
public class Pattern
 {
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        final int WIDTH = 7;

        for (int row = 1; row < (WIDTH); row++)
        {
            System.out.print("*");

            for (int col = 1; col < (WIDTH); col++)
            {
                if (row <= col)
                {
                    System.out.print("*");
                }

                else
                {
                    System.out.print(" ");
                }

            }

            System.out.println("");
        }

        for(int i = 1; i <= (WIDTH); i++) {

            System.out.print("*");
        }

        System.out.println("\n\nGoodbye!");
    }
 }

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.. _acl-eauth:

==============================
External Authentication System
==============================

Salt's External Authentication System (eAuth) allows for Salt to pass through
command authorization to any external authentication system, such as PAM or LDAP.

.. note::

    eAuth using the PAM external auth system requires salt-master to be run as
    root as this system needs root access to check authentication.

External Authentication System Configuration
============================================
The external authentication system allows for specific users to be granted
access to execute specific functions on specific minions. Access is configured
in the master configuration file and uses the :ref:`access control system
<acl>`:

.. code-block:: yaml

    external_auth:
      pam:
        thatch:
          - 'web*':
            - test.*
            - network.*
        steve:
          - .*

The above configuration allows the user ``thatch`` to execute functions
in the test and network modules on the minions that match the web* target.
User ``steve`` is given unrestricted access to minion commands.

Salt respects the current PAM configuration in place, and uses the 'login'
service to authenticate.

.. note:: The PAM module does not allow authenticating as ``root``.

.. note:: state.sls and state.highstate will return "Failed to authenticate!"
   if the request timeout is reached.  Use -t flag to increase the timeout

To allow access to :ref:`wheel modules <all-salt.wheel>` or :ref:`runner
modules <all-salt.runners>` the following ``@`` syntax must be used:

.. code-block:: yaml

    external_auth:
      pam:
        thatch:
          - '@wheel'   # to allow access to all wheel modules
          - '@runner'  # to allow access to all runner modules
          - '@jobs'    # to allow access to the jobs runner and/or wheel module

.. note::
    The runner/wheel markup is different, since there are no minions to scope the
    acl to.

.. note::
    Globs will not match wheel or runners! They must be explicitly
    allowed with @wheel or @runner.

.. warning::
    All users that have external authentication privileges are allowed to run
    :mod:`saltutil.findjob <salt.modules.saltutil.find_job>`. Be aware
    that this could inadvertently expose some data such as minion IDs.

Matching syntax
---------------

The structure of the ``external_auth`` dictionary can take the following
shapes. Function matches are regular expressions; minion matches are compound
targets.

By user:

.. code-block:: yaml

    external_auth:
      <eauth backend>:
        <user or group%>:
          - <regex to match function>

By user, by minion:

.. code-block:: yaml

    external_auth:
      <eauth backend>:
        <user or group%>:
          <minion compound target>:
            - <regex to match function>

Groups
------

To apply permissions to a group of users in an external authentication system,
append a ``%`` to the ID:

.. code-block:: yaml

    external_auth:
      pam:
        admins%:
          - '*':
            - 'pkg.*'

Limiting by function arguments
------------------------------

Positional arguments or keyword arguments to functions can also be whitelisted.

.. versionadded:: 2016.3.0

.. code-block:: yaml

    external_auth:
      pam:
        my_user:
          - '*':
            - 'my_mod.*':
              args:
                - 'a.*'
                - 'b.*'
              kwargs:
                'kwa': 'kwa.*'
                'kwb': 'kwb'

The rules:

1. The arguments values are matched as regexp.
2. If arguments restrictions are specified the only matched are allowed.
3. If an argument isn't specified any value is allowed.
4. To skip an arg use "everything" regexp ``.*``. I.e. if ``arg0`` and ``arg2``
   should be limited but ``arg1`` and other arguments could have any value use:

   .. code-block:: yaml

       args:
         - 'value0'
         - '.*'
         - 'value2'

Usage
=====

The external authentication system can then be used from the command-line by
any user on the same system as the master with the ``-a`` option:

.. code-block:: bash

    $ salt -a pam web\* test.ping

The system will ask the user for the credentials required by the
authentication system and then publish the command.

.. _salt-token-generation:

Tokens
------

With external authentication alone, the authentication credentials will be
required with every call to Salt. This can be alleviated with Salt tokens.

Tokens are short term authorizations and can be easily created by just
adding a ``-T`` option when authenticating:

.. code-block:: bash

    $ salt -T -a pam web\* test.ping

Now a token will be created that has an expiration of 12 hours (by default).
This token is stored in a file named ``salt_token`` in the active user's home
directory.

Once the token is created, it is sent with all subsequent communications.
User authentication does not need to be entered again until the token expires.

Token expiration time can be set in the Salt master config file.

LDAP and Active Directory
=========================
.. note::

    LDAP usage requires that you have installed python-ldap.

Salt supports both user and group authentication for LDAP (and Active Directory
accessed via its LDAP interface)

OpenLDAP and similar systems
----------------------------
LDAP configuration happens in the Salt master configuration file.

Server configuration values and their defaults:

.. code-block:: yaml

    # Server to auth against
    auth.ldap.server: localhost

    # Port to connect via
    auth.ldap.port: 389

    # Use TLS when connecting
    auth.ldap.tls: False

    # LDAP scope level, almost always 2
    auth.ldap.scope: 2

    # Server specified in URI format
    auth.ldap.uri: ''    # Overrides .ldap.server, .ldap.port, .ldap.tls above

    # Verify server's TLS certificate
    auth.ldap.no_verify: False

    # Bind to LDAP anonymously to determine group membership
    # Active Directory does not allow anonymous binds without special configuration
    auth.ldap.anonymous: False

    # FOR TESTING ONLY, this is a VERY insecure setting.
    # If this is True, the LDAP bind password will be ignored and
    # access will be determined by group membership alone with
    # the group memberships being retrieved via anonymous bind
    auth.ldap.auth_by_group_membership_only: False

    # Require authenticating user to be part of this Organizational Unit
    # This can be blank if your LDAP schema does not use this kind of OU
    auth.ldap.groupou: 'Groups'

    # Object Class for groups.  An LDAP search will be done to find all groups of this
    # class to which the authenticating user belongs.
    auth.ldap.groupclass: 'posixGroup'

    # Unique ID attribute name for the user
    auth.ldap.accountattributename: 'memberUid'

    # These are only for Active Directory
    auth.ldap.activedirectory: False
    auth.ldap.persontype: 'person'

    auth.ldap.minion_stripdomains: []

There are two phases to LDAP authentication.  First, Salt authenticates to search for a users' Distinguished Name
and group membership.  The user it authenticates as in this phase is often a special LDAP system user with
read-only access to the LDAP directory.  After Salt searches the directory to determine the actual user's DN
and groups, it re-authenticates as the user running the Salt commands.

If you are already aware of the structure of your DNs and permissions in your LDAP store are set such that
users can look up their own group memberships, then the first and second users can be the same.  To tell Salt this is
the case, omit the ``auth.ldap.bindpw`` parameter.  You can template the ``binddn`` like this:

.. code-block:: yaml

    auth.ldap.basedn: dc=saltstack,dc=com
    auth.ldap.binddn: uid={{ username }},cn=users,cn=accounts,dc=saltstack,dc=com

Salt will use the password entered on the salt command line in place of the bindpw.

To use two separate users, specify the LDAP lookup user in the binddn directive, and include a bindpw like so

.. code-block:: yaml

    auth.ldap.binddn: uid=ldaplookup,cn=sysaccounts,cn=etc,dc=saltstack,dc=com
    auth.ldap.bindpw: mypassword

As mentioned before, Salt uses a filter to find the DN associated with a user. Salt
substitutes the ``{{ username }}`` value for the username when querying LDAP

.. code-block:: yaml

    auth.ldap.filter: uid={{ username }}

For OpenLDAP, to determine group membership, one can specify an OU that contains
group data. This is prepended to the basedn to create a search path.  Then
the results are filtered against ``auth.ldap.groupclass``, default
``posixGroup``, and the account's 'name' attribute, ``memberUid`` by default.

.. code-block:: yaml

    auth.ldap.groupou: Groups

When using the `ldap('DC=domain,DC=com')` eauth operator, sometimes the records returned
from LDAP or Active Directory have fully-qualified domain names attached, while minion IDs
instead are simple hostnames.  The parameter below allows the administrator to strip
off a certain set of domain names so the hostnames looked up in the directory service
can match the minion IDs.

.. code-block:: yaml

   auth.ldap.minion_stripdomains: ['.external.bigcorp.com', '.internal.bigcorp.com']

Active Directory
----------------

Active Directory handles group membership differently, and does not utilize the
``groupou`` configuration variable.  AD needs the following options in
the master config:

.. code-block:: yaml

    auth.ldap.activedirectory: True
    auth.ldap.filter: sAMAccountName={{username}}
    auth.ldap.accountattributename: sAMAccountName
    auth.ldap.groupclass: group
    auth.ldap.persontype: person

To determine group membership in AD, the username and password that is entered
when LDAP is requested as the eAuth mechanism on the command line is used to
bind to AD's LDAP interface. If this fails, then it doesn't matter what groups
the user belongs to, he or she is denied access. Next, the ``distinguishedName``
of the user is looked up with the following LDAP search:

.. code-block:: text

    (&(<value of auth.ldap.accountattributename>={{username}})
      (objectClass=<value of auth.ldap.persontype>)
    )

This should return a distinguishedName that we can use to filter for group
membership.  Then the following LDAP query is executed:

.. code-block:: text

    (&(member=<distinguishedName from search above>)
      (objectClass=<value of auth.ldap.groupclass>)
    )

.. code-block:: yaml

    external_auth:
      ldap:
        test_ldap_user:
            - '*':
                - test.ping

To configure a LDAP group, append a ``%`` to the ID:

.. code-block:: yaml

    external_auth:
      ldap:
        test_ldap_group%:
          - '*':
            - test.echo

In addition, if there are a set of computers in the directory service that should
be part of the eAuth definition, they can be specified like this:

.. code-block:: yaml

    external_auth:
      ldap:
        test_ldap_group%:
          - ldap('DC=corp,DC=example,DC=com'):
            - test.echo

The string inside `ldap()` above is any valid LDAP/AD tree limiter.  `OU=` in
particular is permitted as long as it would return a list of computer objects.

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42 USC 1437l: Repealed. Pub. L. 105-276, title V, §522(a), Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2564 Text contains those laws in effect on January 21, 2020
From Title 42-THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARECHAPTER 8-LOW-INCOME HOUSINGSUBCHAPTER I-GENERAL PROGRAM OF ASSISTED HOUSING
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§1437l. Repealed. Pub. L. 105–276, title V, §522(a), Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2564
Section, act Sept. 1, 1937, ch. 896, title I, §14, as added Pub. L. 96–399, title II, §202(a), Oct. 8, 1980, 94 Stat. 1625 ; amended Pub. L. 97–35, title III, §§322(c), 329G, Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 402 , 410; Pub. L. 98–181, title I [title II, §214(b)], Nov. 30, 1983, 97 Stat. 1185 ; Pub. L. 98–479, title II, §204(b)(2), Oct. 17, 1984, 98 Stat. 2233 ; Pub. L. 100–242, title I, §§112(b)(6), 119(b)–(i), 120, Feb. 5, 1988, 101 Stat. 1824 , 1830-1837; renumbered title I, Pub. L. 100–358, §5, June 29, 1988, 102 Stat. 681 ; Pub. L. 101–625, title IV, §414, title V, §§509(a)–(g), 510, 572, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4160 , 4187, 4191-4193, 4236; Pub. L. 102–139, title II, Oct. 28, 1991, 105 Stat. 757 , 759; Pub. L. 102–550, title I, §§111(b)(1), 115, title VI, §625(a)(3), Oct. 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 3688 , 3692, 3820; Pub. L. 103–233, title III, §302, Apr. 11, 1994, 108 Stat. 369 ; Pub. L. 104–19, title I, §§1001(a), 1003A, July 27, 1995, 109 Stat. 235 , 236; Pub. L. 104–134, title I, §101(e) [title II, §201(a)(1)], Apr. 26, 1996, 110 Stat. 1321–257 , 1321-277; renumbered title I, Pub. L. 104–140, §1(a), May 2, 1996, 110 Stat. 1327 ; Pub. L. 104–330, title V, §501(b)(6), Oct. 26, 1996, 110 Stat. 4042 ; Pub. L. 105–276, title II, §208, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2485 , related to assistance for public housing modernization. See section 1437g(a) of this title.
Repeal effective and applicable beginning upon Oct. 1, 1999, except as otherwise provided, with provision that Secretary may implement the repeal before such date, and with savings provision, see section 503 of Pub. L. 105–276, set out as an Effective Date of 1998 Amendment note under section 1437 of this title.
Savings Provision
Pub. L. 105–276, title V, §522(c), Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2565 , provided that:
"(1) In general.-Section 14 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 [42 U.S.C. 1437l] shall apply as provided in section 519(e) of this Act [42 U.S.C. 1437g note].
"(2) Expansion of use of modernization funding.-Before the implementation of formulas pursuant to sections 9(d)(2) and 9(e)(2) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 [42 U.S.C. 1437g(d)(2), (e)(2)] (as amended by section 519(a) of this Act) an agency may utilize any authority provided under or pursuant to section 14(q) of such Act [42 U.S.C. 1437l(q)] (including the authority under section 201(a) of the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996 [see Tables for classification] (Public Law 104–134; 110 Stat. 1321–277)), as such provisions (including such section 201(a)) may be amended thereafter, including any amendment made by title II of this Act [see Tables for classification]), notwithstanding any other provision of law (including the repeal made under this section, the expiration of the applicability of such section 201 [see Tables for classification], or any repeal of such section 201).
"(3) Effective date.-This subsection shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act [Oct. 21, 1998]."
Conversion of Certain Public Housing to Vouchers
Pub. L. 104–134, title I, §101(e) [title II, §202], Apr. 26, 1996, 110 Stat. 1321–257 , 1321-279; renumbered title I, Pub. L. 104–140, §1(a), May 2, 1996, 110 Stat. 1327 , which required identification for removal from the inventory of a public housing agency of developments on same or contiguous sites which had more than 300 units and vacancy rate of at least 10 percent, were identified as distressed, and for which estimated cost of continued operation exceeded cost of providing tenant-based assistance under section 1437f of this title, provided for implementation and enforcement of provisions requiring identification, required each agency to develop and carry out plan for removal over 5-year period, and required provision of tenant-based assistance to families residing in any removed development, was repealed by Pub. L. 105–276, title V, §537(b), Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2592 . Amounts made available to carry out section 101(e) [title II, §202] of Pub. L. 104–134 authorized to be used, to extent provided in advance in appropriations Acts, to carry out section 1437z–5 of this title, and section 101(e) [title II, §202] of Pub. L. 104–134 as in effect immediately before Oct. 21, 1998, to continue to apply to public housing developments identified for conversion, or assessment of whether conversion is required, prior to such date, see section 537(c) of Pub. L. 105–276, set out as a Transition note under section 1437z–5 of this title.

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RHIC/ATLAS Computing Facility Team Hailed by DOE
One of nine groups to receive Secretary's Achievement Honor Award
UPTON, NY — U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Steven Chu has selected the staff of the RHIC/ATLAS Computing Facility (RACF) at Brookhaven National Laboratory — which manages vast amounts of data for two large-scale global physics experiments — as a recipient of the Secretary's Achievement Honor Award.
Energy Secretary Steven Chu (center) with members of the RACF team (left to right: Kevin Casella, John Fetzko, Michael Ernst, Richard Hogue, Tomasz Wlodek, Costin Caramarcu, Ofer Rind, David Yu). Photo courtesy Department of Energy.
The Honor Awards represent the highest internal non-monetary recognition given to DOE employees and contractors for providing exceptional service to the Department and the American people. The Achievement Honor Award is given to groups or teams for their outstanding accomplishments and contributions. The RACF team is one of nine groups and several individuals recognized this year at a ceremony held today at DOE headquarters in Washington, D.C.
The award recognizes the RACF team's "outstanding performance" in serving the experimental physics programs at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) — a particle accelerator located at Brookhaven Lab where scientists from around the world explore fundamental forces, the properties of matter, and the conditions of the early universe by colliding heavy ions such as gold — and the ATLAS experiment, located at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the European particle physics laboratory, which aims to discover why some particles have mass and the source of dark matter.
"The employees recognized today have gone above and beyond the call of duty, demonstrating an exceptional commitment to public service," said Secretary Chu. "Their dedication, knowledge and skills have served to strengthen our nation's economic and energy security and the work of the Energy Department."
As stated in the Honor Awards program, "The accomplishments of this staff have allowed scientists to perform computations of unprecedented scope, and coordinated data flow and management for thousands of scientists in 38 countries from 172 institutions around the world."
In addition to providing all data storage and access for research at RHIC, the RACF serves as the sole Tier-1 computing facility for ATLAS in the U.S., and is the largest ATLAS computing center worldwide. When both RHIC and ATLAS are conducting research, data streams into the RACF at a rate of 4 to 5 gigabytes per second. Some 12,000 computational processing units (CPUs) sift through 1.3 petabytes of data per day, store up to 50 terabytes on tape, and distribute a fraction of the processed data to collaborators around the U.S. and overseas. In 2010 alone, data collected from RHIC and ATLAS filled 7,000 tapes with the storage equivalent of 7 million CDs — a pile 10 miles high.
"Our staff has to make sure everything is running smoothly 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and we have a commitment to the scientific community to respond to any problems within two hours," said Brookhaven computational scientist Michael Ernst, who manages the RACF. "That is quite challenging given the complexity and the number of components we are running. But our team does whatever is required."
The award description further notes that the RACF team's dedication and commitment to excellence have resulted in "significant operational efficiencies and cost savings while continuing to improve the performance and capacity of the facility."
Ernst explains that having one facility to manage the data from both research programs with overlapping services has been one key to that success. And the savings in cost and efficiency will serve the scientific community for years to come.
"We're continuing to add storage and computing capacity each year to keep up with the ever-growing data stream, and our staff is ready to meet the challenges of the future," Ernst said.
The RACF is funded by the DOE Office of Science.
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Perth, 28 May 2013- With the WA economy in transition there has been considerable speculation about the likely impact on Perth's CBD office market, which has been the strongest performing in Australia.
The verdict from CBRE: expect a short term drag, but the longer term fundamentals remain sound supported by expectations of strong export led economic growth in the years ahead.
Those conclusions are continued in a new Australian ViewPoint, which analyses the outlook for WA after almost a decade of strong growth, driven by strong commodity prices and a doubling in the terms of trade.
Over this period, mining engineering investment soared, increasing from $5 billion in 2004 to over $35 billion in 2012.
However, changes are afoot, with the ABS survey of expected private capital spending in FY 2013/14 implying a reduction in mining capital spending; the first such fall since 2000.
CBRE's Head of Research for Australia, Stephen McNabb, said this was the first sign that the composition of WA's economic growth was transitioning from being a blend of mining and construction back to being primarily mining driven.
So what impact will this have on the Perth office market?
Looking at the market's performance over the past decade, CBRE's ViewPoint shows that net absorption in the Perth CBD and West Perth averaged 45,000sqm per annum between 2002 and 2012 – more than double the 20,000sqm average between 1992 and 2002.
Over the same period, net face rents grew by over three times the national average with the key driver being the downstream effects of engineering construction work.
• The remaining 130,000sqm reflected underlying growth linked to the broader economy as well as increases in government requirements.
"What is clear is that mining and investment appears to have driven at least two-thirds of the expansion in Perth office space requirements," Mr McNabb said.
While the reduction is significant, Mr McNabb said it was important to view this in context given that WA remained on a firmer trajectory than the 1990s, with demand for space expected to remain strong in the longer term (at around 35,000sqm per annum if one took a 10 year view).
This is reflected in office vacancy numbers, with CBRE forecasting an average vacancy of 8.7% between 2013 and 2017, easing to 5.6% between 2018 and 2022.
"While demand for office space will be considerably softer in the short term the market is clearly on a stronger footing than in the 1990s," Mr McNabb said.
CBRE's WA Senior Managing Director Peter Agostino said this view was being increasingly recognised by the capital markets.
"An increasing number of fund managers are understanding that the Perth market has matured and offers sustainable long term growth," Mr Agostino said.


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This year Mr Garry Brown has been MIA for three months! Although Fr Chris sees the benefits of imitating Mr Garry Brown and taking 3-months leave, Fr Chris will only be away for September 2018.
Thanks be to God that Fr Vincent Conroy will be taking care our Moora parish again this year.
Last year's adventure was in Vanuatu. This year I may never return ….I'm off to Zanzibar. Please keep me in your prayers and I will register with Smart Traveller. In case I don't return check with them.
Mr Garry Brown alleges that Fr Chris has gone fishing. Perhaps this is so. He could have gone to Guam because accommodation is cheap. However, he may be somewhere close to the ocean. This above picture might be a good spot to start looking for him.
Great place for diving - well, on the other side of the island. All dives here seem to be deep, meaning I haven't been on one less than 16 metres.
Tide's out. Is a Tsunami coming?
Welcome to Zanzibar! This dining hall is reminiscent of many others that I have been in on my last trip to Africa. I love Africa and the poverty. Somehow, this brings out many wonderful human characteristics and a great sense of joy. Also, there is suffering, hardship and possibly despair. Please pray for this great nation.
The women of Paje, Zanzibar.
This sign in front of the dining room says, "To the beach." Like it's the most unnecessary sign ever!


-- the power of the Israeli Lobby over Congress, the media, academia, the clergy, and most anyone confronting them.
During Israel's war on Gaza, only 5 of 535 congressional members dissented on pro-Israeli resolutions.
On January 8, 2009, the Senate unanimously passed S 10: "A resolution recognizing the right of Israel to defend itself against attacks from Gaza and reaffirming the United States' strong support for Israel in its battle with Hamas, and supporting the Israeli-Palestinian (no peace) peace process."
On January 9, the House, by a 390 - 5 vote, passed HR 34 "Recognizing Israel's right to defend itself against attacks from Gaza, reaffirming the United States' strong support for Israel, and supporting the Israeli-Palestinian (no peace) peace process." More on this below.
Then on October 28, Obama signed the expanded 2009 Hate Crimes Prevention Act, some call a stealth war on free expression and civil liberties. More on this as well.
Its "extent and severity is widely regarded as at its worst level since the end of the Second World War," despite contrary evidence and much to show how Israel twists opposition to Zionism and its international law violations to be an attack on Jews.
"Anti-Semitic attitudes in the United States are at a historic low, with 12 percent of Americans prejudiced toward Jews, an Anti-Defamation League (ADL) survey found" based on polling done from September 26 - October 4 with a margin of error of plus or minus 2.8%.
"convinced we currently face as great a threat to the safety of the Jewish people as the one we faced in the 1930s - if not a greater one," contradicted by Cato Institute research fellow Leon Hadar (writing in the January 2004 Chronicles) that public opinion polls "indicate anti-Semitism (both its racial and religious versions) has been in steep decline in most of Western Europe...."
Yet various Canadian Jewish organizations, including Hillel, B'nai Brith, and the Canadian Jewish Congress cite rising anti-Semitic incidents. On March 31, 2009, for example, B'Nai Brith Canada claimed Canadian anti-Semitic incidents rose 8.9% in 2008 over 2007, with "more than (a) four-fold increase in incidents over the past decade."
The result gets bodies like CPCCA to exploit it, with disturbing implications of where this may lead, including calling opposition to Zionism and Israeli crimes anti-Semitism, and criminalizing them at a time the global BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement is gaining traction in the wake of Operation Cast Lead and 42 years of military occupation.
"In February 2009, parliamentarians from around the world gathered in London for the inaugural conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Committee for Combatting Antisemitism." Over 125 legislators attended from nearly 40 countries, after which "The London Declaration for Combating Antisemitism call(ed) on all governments to face the problem...."
CPCCA is a Canadian body, formed in March 2009 by 22 parliamentarians from all parties in the House of Commons. An inquiry was begun on June 2 calling for written submissions followed by public hearings (excluding anti-Israeli groups) running from November 2 - December 8. When concluded, the Steering Committee will produce a report for the government, anticipating a response "no later than the fall of 2010."
"Anti-semitism is an age-old phenomenon, yet it is always re-invented and manifested in different ways.
For example, while accusations of blood libel are still being made against the Jewish people, instead they are being directed against the State of Israel, such that anti-Zionism is being used as a cover for anti-semitism."
Founded in 2002, CJPME (cjpme.org) promotes "justice, peace, prosperity and security for all peoples of the Middle East," and believes "all positions should respect international law....violence is not a solution, (and) all parties in a conflict must be held to the same standard."
-- a total silencing of debate on Israel out of fear of legal action."
Yet both outcomes would violate "fundamental protections enumerated in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms," so efforts must be made to prevent them.
"True peace is not the absence of violence, but the presence of justice," an element entirely absent in how Israelis treat Palestinians and their own Arab citizens.
-- its continued defiling of "the international consensus for respect for human and humanitarian rights - as reflected in international law....;"
-- its imposition of "elements resembling those of South African Apartheid."
As a result, it's unsurprising that anti-Semitism accusations are made to stifle Israeli criticism as a way to diffuse and perhaps criminalize them. The possibility worries CJPME enough to say they can't be used "to infringe on fundamental freedoms enshrined in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms comprising Part I of the March 29, 1982 Constitution Act. CJPME formally petitioned to participate in CPCCA's inquiry that so far excludes Israeli critics.
It was distinguished Palestinian American activist/scholar Edward Said's title for his New Left Review November-December 2000 article citing the "near-total triumph for Zionism in the United States." Then and now, Israel is cast as victim in a dangerous neighborhood acting only in self-defense against "rock-throwing barbarians (comprising) what is essentially an invasive force. (It's the) Palestinians who are encroaching on Israeli territory, not the other way around."
The message is so ingrained that the media repeat it ad nauseam, and Said more than once said that the entire US Senate can be marshaled in a matter of hours to support Israel on virtually anything - even a wanton attack as malicious as Operation Cast Lead and numerous previous ones for many decades.
-- "Hamas was founded with the stated goal of destroying the State of Israel."
Hamas was founded in 1987 during the first Intifada to resist repression and occupation through negotiation and international consensus, not war or terrorism as falsely portrayed. Yet as international law allows, it strongly defends itself when attacked.
-- "Hamas has been designated by the Secretary of State as a Foreign Terrorist Organization."
True because any organization or group opposing imperial aggression and dominance is so designated.
-- "Hamas has refused to comply with the requirements of the Quartet (the United States, the European Union, Russia, and the United Nations) that Hamas recognize Israel's right to exist, renounce violence, and agree to accept previous agreements between Israel and the Palestinians."
Hamas repeatedly called for peace and an end of violence and expressed willingness to negotiate on the basis of "hudnah" or temporary truce. Its founder, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, said Hamas would end its liberating struggle "if the Zionists ended (their) occupation of Palestinian territories and stopped killing Palestinian women, children and innocent civilians." More recently, Hamas offered peace and Israeli recognition in return for a Palestinian state inside pre-1967 borders, its Occupied Territories.
-- "in June 2006, Hamas crossed into Israel, attacked Israeli forces and kidnapped Corporal Gilad Shalit, whom they continue to hold today."
On June 25, Palestinians, including Hamas, responded to repeated Israeli attacks by striking an Israeli military post near Kerem Shalom crossing, southeast of Rafah, killing two IDF soldiers, injuring several others, and capturing (not kidnapping) a third, corporal Shalit. Israel's long-planned Operation Summer Rain followed resulting in mass killings and destruction ahead of its horrendous July war on Lebanon, causing over 1,000 deaths and destruction comparable to Operation Cast Lead.
-- "Hamas has launched thousands of rockets and mortars since Israel dismantled settlements and withdrew from Gaza in 2005."
Many dozens, not thousands, of crude homemade rockets and mortars were used only in self-defense in response to repeated Israeli attacks with the most technologically advanced weapons, mostly from Washington, including F-16s, helicopter gunships, and powerful munitions, some clearly illegal.
House and Senate resolutions also cite, but don't substantiate, Iranian help; Hamas locating "elements of its terrorist infrastructure in civilian population centers, thus using innocent civilians as human shields," a practice Israel has used for decades; the threat "hundreds of thousands of Israelis" face from rocket attacks, giving them no alternative but to respond.
Dismissive about Gaza's two and a half year siege, the resolutions stress how "Israel has facilitated humanitarian aid to Gaza with over 500 trucks and numerous ambulances entering the Gaza Strip since December 26, 2008."
It also says "the ultimate goal of the United States is a sustainable resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that will allow for a viable and independent Palestinian state living side by side in peace and security with the State of Israel...."
After Hamas' democratic January 2006 election, Israel, with Western support, collectively punished Gazans maliciously. It denied all outside aid, imposed an embargo and sanctions, and stepped up repression, repeated attacks, killings, targeted assassinations, and property destruction, followed by a medieval siege since June 2007 causing grave humanitarian harm by restricting essential to life foods, medicines, and medical equipment as well as electricity, fuel, construction materials, and virtually everything needed to function normally.
Israel facilitates misery, not humanitarian aid, peace or Palestinian self-determination it's spent decades to deny through violence, intimidation, naked aggression, confrontation over diplomacy and peaceful coexistence, and what scholar Joel Kovel calls "a machine for the manufacture of human rights abuses," facilitated by Washington's financial, military, and political support.
Ending "America's last taboo" is the way forward toward a viable, sustainable Middle East peace, possible only when 42 years of occupation end and Palestinians are again free - so far, what Israel and Washington won't allow or even consider.
"A hate crime, also known as a bias crime, is a criminal offense committed against a person, property, or society that is motivated, in whole or in part, by the offender's bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or ethnicity/national origin."
On April 29, the House passed HR 1913: Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 "To provide Federal assistance to States, local jurisdictions, and Indian tribes to prosecute hate crimes, and for other purposes."
On April 28, S 909: Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act was introduced "to provide Federal assistance to States, local jurisdictions, and Indian tribes to prosecute hate crimes, and for other purposes."
On July 15, 2009, the measure was adopted as an amendment to S 1390, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010. On July 23, the full measure passed.
On October 8, the House passed HR 2647: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 containing hate crimes prevention provisions.
"expands the definition of violent federal hate crimes to those committed because of a victim's (actual or perceived) sexual orientation (or identity). Under existing federal law, hate crimes are defined as those motivated by the victim's race, color, religion or national origin," even though, short of reading an offender's mind, there's no way to know if a crime was committed for other reasons besides "hate."
Further, the bill doesn't repeal the "don't ask, don't tell" policy, banning gays from the military if they admit their sexual orientation, or the Defense of Marriage Act, defining legal marriage to be between a man and a woman.
In addition, it doesn't address universal civil and human rights; patients' rights to effective health care; students' rights to a good education to the highest level; and everybody's right to the essentials of life, including safe food, water, and clean air; adequate shelter; full protection under the law; and democracy for everyone, not just the elite few.
Nonetheless, the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocacy group praised the bill as the "nation's first major piece of civil rights legislation" for LGBT. Others called it advancing civil rights, but critics expressed concerns.
"evidence of where 'hate crimes' legislation leads when it has been tried around the world: It paves the way for the criminalization of speech that is not deemed 'politically correct.' (These laws) fly in the face of the underlying purpose of the First Amendment, which was designed specifically to protect unpopular speech."
Others fear an attack on dissent against anyone expressing politically unpopular views at a time of disdain for human rights and eroding civil liberties putting everyone at risk.
Whether new measures will follow bears watching given a severe economic crisis and the fragility of American democracy at a time it's transitioning toward a full-blown police state with noted trends watchers like Gerald Celente predicting the "greatest depression" unleashing violence, street crime, and mass civil unrest because "when people lose everything, and they have nothing else to lose, they lose it."
If so, government repression will follow with harsh police state measures because when powerful people fear losing what's taken them decades to achieve, they'll do anything to defend it, including criminalizing protected speech, dissent, and whatever threatens their privilege or important allies, none more valued than Israel.


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Does Losing One Sense Improve the Others?
John Staughton 30 Nov 2015 (Updated: 22 Oct 2019)
Have you ever heard of the Netflix series Daredevil? Or perhaps you remember reading about that legendary comic book hero when you were a child?
Well, the premise of Daredevil's remarkable story is quite simple; Matt Murdoch was blinded as a young boy in a chemical accident, and has learned to survive in the brutal world of Hell's Kitchen without that vital sense. The superhero side of his story comes from his incredible abilities with his other senses, including hearing, smell, and touch. To fight crime in the underbelly of that corrupt city, he uses something akin to echolocation, diving off buildings, reading wind currents, listening to voices from blocks away, and identifying people by smell.
As awe-inspiring as Daredevil's life happens to be in the movies, does that sort of advanced ability have any basis in real life? In other words, if you lose one of your senses, do the other ones get better to compensate?
The Five Senses… What Are They?
Well, we all know what the five senses that we humans possess – sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing – but where do these miraculous powers come from? Well, that will require a bit of digging – into our brains!
The human brain is traditionally divided into six main areas: the frontal, parietal, occipital, temporal, limbic lobes, and the insular cortex. Our senses of smell and sound are controlled by the temporal lobe, while sight is handled by the occipital lobe. Taste is closely related to smell, and are also affected by the olfactory nerves, while touch is generally detected and processed by the parietal lobe. Other sections of the brain also impact our senses, such as processing visual cues (temporal lobe) and registering pain from touch (insular cortex).
Now, the most common senses that are "lost" are sight and sound, and these are more specifically controlled by the visual and auditory cortex, respectively. It is possible to lose the senses of taste, smell, and touch, but these are much less common.
When we are born, it is important to understand that our brain is still developing, and most of the processing powers are combined. It is only as we grow up that the individual senses begin to be controlled by independent sensory sectors. The beautiful thing about the brain is its plasticity, and studies have shown that the brains of blind infants don't separate into those individual sections, allowing the visual and auditory cortexes to "team up" and heighten the sensitivity of hearing.
Our Brain…the Flexible Supercomputer
The human brain is essentially a computer, so we can easily talk about it in terms of processing power. If you lose your sense of sight, for example, the brain will rely on other information sources to make sense of the world around you. Without the visual cortex functioning (blindness), a 2005 study argued that it will actually decrease in size, while other areas of the brain (auditory cortex and areas handling memories and smell) will actually be larger! If you think that our brain doesn't change and evolve as we move through life – you're wrong! Your brain is highly adept at rewiring itself if it thinks it can function more efficiently.
If you lose a sense do the others get stronger?
Since you no longer need to use that part of the brain to process images, more energy and processing power is shifted to the senses of hearing and touch, which will improve your ability to move through the world. For example, blind individuals often use a technique called "clicking", in which they make small clicking sounds and then interpret the echo they hear to determine the environment around them. This echolocation technique can even allow people to determine specific objects and walk normally without bumping into walls or obstacles.
The heightened sense of hearing allows the brain to differentiate the echoes that return after these clicks, a feat that seems impossible to those of us who typically rely on vision. More impressively, brain scans of blind individuals "clicking" reveals that the sounds are not only processed by the auditory cortex, but also in the occipital lobe (visual cortex), despite not being able to "see".
Research has shown that a similar thing happens for those who are deaf, although it was found that these individuals' brains use the auditory cortex to process touch and visual stimuli. Even though the individual can no longer hear, the auditory part of the brain is still useful as a "computer" component, so it contributes its processing power to the other senses, heightening them in a measurable way!
Smell, Taste and Touch Powers?
Taste and smell are largely controlled by the olfactory nerves, which makes them slightly unusual for our senses. Also, olfactory nerves are the only known parts of the nervous system to regrow after being damaged, so there isn't as much of a brain-shifting effort if those senses are damaged somehow. Essentially, the body and brain will attempt to fix these senses, rather than compensate for them in another way or in another cortex.
Touch is the final sense, and one that is very difficult to "lose". However, in terms of improving the sense of touch, blind individuals have reported that their sense of touch improved (particularly in terms of environmental stimuli), so they were able to avoid walls and windows based on the different temperature changes in those areas.
What About That Sixth Sense? Or a Seventh?
Some people argue that humans aren't limited to the traditional five senses, and can harness abilities like magnetoception (detection of magnetic fields), as well as more normal skills that we take for granted (the ability to stay balanced and upright, detecting the passage of time, unconscious awareness of where our body parts are, and some of those images shown below).
Although these are less commonly researched subjects in relation to the brain, it has been shown that these abilities are also heightened when we lose one of our "Big 5" Senses.
In other words, when you watch Daredevil flipping through the streets of Hell's Kitchen, perhaps it isn't so impossible! Although blind people leaping across rooftops, balancing on narrow railings and sniffing out bad guys from around the corner might be a bit of a stretch, solid research has shown that it is far from impossible.
The brain is a miraculous and mysterious machine, and we are still learning more about it every day.
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John Staughton is a traveling writer, editor, publisher and photographer who earned his English and Integrative Biology degrees from the University of Illinois. He is the co-founder of a literary journal, Sheriff Nottingham, and the Content Director for Stain'd Arts, an arts nonprofit based in Denver. On a perpetual journey towards the idea of home, he uses words to educate, inspire, uplift and evolve.
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At the 2019 Winter NAMM show, Zoar Studio Furniture debuted its new "VISION" line of ergonomic and practical custom furniture featuring 2 models expandable with multiple options. The "VISION O" is a 63-inch wide desk, by 32.5-inch deep, in an iconic black and white design that offers enough open space for all devices needed in today's creative workflow, while the "VISION W" features a second level incorporating 9-spaces for 19-inch rack units and shelf space above for computer screens and/or speakers.
"The new VISION designs were created in collaboration with designer Julia Kovacs and are fresh and daring but also very pragmatic—as well as ergonomic," said Klaus Gehlhaar, CEO at ZAOR. "We feel the new black and white desk designs and expansion options will be very appealing to musicians, engineers, producers, video editors, and others looking for a comfortable and stylish workspace solution." Both new desk models are designed to accommodate speakers and headphones, multiple screens (with optional screen arms available), computer Qwerty keyboards and mice, and keyboard controllers. The iconic look is centered around a large V-shaped technical trough underneath the back of the desktop giving open access from the sides both visually and physically. The modern scissor leg design allows the desk to be compact when shipped, yet very sturdy when set up due to the stabilizing bar at the bottom of the back legs. At a height of 30.25 inches, the desks will fit most users comfortably.
The added shelf section and the three 19-inch rack space bays (with 9 available rack spaces) give the VISION W model a back height of 35.75 inches, offing vital rack gear right in front of the user within easy reach, and a higher visual plane for computer screens and near-field monitors— ideally supported by the optional Isoplane isolators.
In addition to the new desks, two options have been created for the VISION line, one is a controller keyboard trolley shelf, the VISION K, which slides underneath the desktop and matches the style of the desks. Since it is almost impossible to predict the exact combination of body height, keyboard height and other gear, ZAOR made the key trolley height adjustable in 4 levels, so it always has the ideal compromise between legroom and best fit for any kind of master keyboard up to 88-keys. With a width of 57.75 inches and a depth of 15.75 inches, the keyboard shelf will fit most keyboards on the market. The VISION K adjustable shelf offers legroom from 22.75 to 24.75 inches that result in a height for the keyboard of between 4 inches and 6 inches. If the user has a longer period of time where they don't need the controller keyboard, it can put it to the side of the desk using the attached 4 wheels for even more legroom. Vision K can also be used away from the desk as a standalone setup for a large master keyboard.
The second option for the new VISION line of studio furniture is the VISION R side rack unit. The rack matches the style and profile of both new VISION desks and comes with 15 available 19-inch rack unit spaces. A flexible desktop area on the rack unit slides back and forward, allowing the user to position a laptop or tablet in easy reach without impeding full access to the rack-mounted equipment. With its matching height of 35.75 inches, the VISION R rack is also great for near-field monitors. The rack also features the V-shaped opening allowing users to run cables from a VISION W or VISION O desk to the rack and back. The VISION R unit can also be used as a standalone workspace and 19-inch equipment rack.
As implied by name, MIZA D-Stand MkII marks ZAOR Studio Furniture's new and improved revision of its original MIZA D-Stand desktop speaker stand from four years back. Benefitting from a more modernised (all-black) look, it includes more features. For starters, it is now height-adjustable by up to 50mm (above its 200mm-high horizontal configuration) and can also be angled at up to 9° while providing better acoustic isolation courtesy of four hemispheres made out of Sorbothane, a synthetic viscoelastic urethane polymer that minimises transmission by up to 95%. With weight-bearing capabilities belying its diminutive (260mm x 260mm) footprint — up to 25kg when used horizontally and 15kg when angled, a pair of MIZA D-Stand MkII desktop speaker stands can be added to any desk to turn it into a production environment easily and speedily.
Similarly, MIZA Jr. MkII marks ZAOR Studio Furniture's revision of its original MIZA Jr. flexible media desk for computer-based workflow while targeting video and audio applications. As such, this time the company set about streamlining the production process, resulting in a reduced RRP (Recommended Retail Price) — down to €439.00 EUR (for MIZA Jr. MkII) from €499.00 EUR (for MIZA Jr.), so the end result remains focused on providing the user with a no-compromise workspace without breaking the bank. Better still, specifications remain remarkably similar to what they were with a perfectly sized (1250mm: W x 650mm: D) top plate for fitting into smaller spaces. Saying that, this is supplemented by a 61-note keyboard controller-accommodating (1129mm: W x 308mm: D) pullout draw, which is height adjustable in seven steps of 7mm, while a lower passageway positioned rearwards retains unsightly cables, conveniently keeping them out of sight. Strongly constructed from Melamine-faced chipboard with solid wood worktop and additions, MIZA Jr. MkII is available in Cherry/Black and Wenge/Grey finishes, flat packed for easy transportation and assembled easily.
Appropriately-monikered, the MIZA Rack 12 MkII and MIZA Rack 16 MkII side racks represent revisions of ZAOR Studio Furniture's original MIZA Rack 12 and MIZA Rack 16, stylish 12U and 16U open airflow designs that both benefit from a repositioned cable passageway — sited behind the practical low-level drawer — to comfortably accommodate rack-mountable equipment without any depth restrictions via quality rails angled at a gentle incline using the included cage nuts, screws, and washers. What's more, both feature a sizeable (600mm: W x 500mm: D) top plate, providing an additional work surface suited to any studio setup. Strongly constructed from Melamine-faced chipboard with solid wood worktop and additions, MIZA Rack 12 MkII and MIZA Rack 16 MkII are available in (MIZA Jr. MkII-matching) Cherry/Black and Wenge/Grey finishes, flat packed for easy transportation and assembled easily.
Ending on a new-fashioned note, the self-explanatory MIZA V-Stand 36 and MIZA V-Stand 42 speaker stands are an all-new addition to ZAOR Studio Furniture's marketable MIZA product line. Like the musician-friendly MIZA D-Stand MkII before them, they marry a modern (black-finished) look with a moderate cost, but not at the expense of delivering a stable solution with zero resonance — everything needed in a fixed-height 36-inch (MIZA V-Stand 36) or 42-inch (MIZA V-Stand 42) speaker stand, in other words. While absolutely affordable, MIZA V-Stand 36 and MIZA V-Stand 42 adhere to the best standards of technical performance and design, both benefitting from a (300mm x 300mm) top plate-affixed Aerstop absorption pad for decoupling speakers weighing up to 40kg from within whatever room they are asked to perform — perfectly levelled, thanks to adjustable feet on the (300mm x 300mm) bottom plate. Put it this way: with the MIZA V-Stand 36 and MIZA V-Stand 42 additions available alongside the MIZA D-Stand MkII, MIZA Jr. MkII, and MIZA Rack 12 MkII and MIZA Rack 16 MkII revisions, ZAOR Studio Furniture is now even better positioned to cater to that ever- widening range of musicians, DJs, video artists, and such like looking for comfortable and yet affordable working environments.
Ein Maestro ist ein Künstler der auf der Höhe seines Schaffens angelangt ist und sein Handwerk gänzlich beherrscht. In diesem Sinne wurde der Maestro mit Hilfe der besten Künstler im Mastering/Mixing sowie Herstellern von hochwertigem Masteringequipment wie SPL entwickelt und sämtliche Eigenschaften wurden mit grösster Sorgfalt ausgesucht.
Beginnend mit dem Maestro 36+18, wurden alle Aspekte des Workflow gründlich analysiert und jeweils neue oder verbesserte Lösungen umgesetzt. Der Maestro User arbeitet an der Feinabstimmung von Mischungen oder Mastern und damit ist Hören im Herzen seines Tuns: ein besonders flaches Profil entfernt den Tisch aus dem Hörweg, auf der Rückseite werden VMT Absorptionspaneele von Vicoustic angebracht um chaotische Reflektieren und Resonanzen zu minimieren. Die Arbeitsfläche besteht aus AERstop, welches sowohl Reflektionen verhindert als auch als Mauspad dient. Eine schmale Armlehne sorgt für komfortables Tippen und Editieren und entspannte Handgelenke. Der gesamte Tisch besteht mehr aus Luft als fester Struktur, damit der Klang frei fliessen kann, auch kann Hitze leicht entweichen und für optimale Arbeitstemperaturen sorgen. Ein verdoppelter Kabelweg (Audio/Strom) trennt Signale von Stromleitungen und vermeidet derart Einstreuungen und Brummschleifen. Die Chromstange mit den Kabelbindern erlaubt schnelles und sauberes Ver- und Umkabeln. 36 Höheneinheiten - alle wichtigen Werkzeuge im unmittelbaren Zugriff und auf kleinem Raum schaffen ein ideales Arbeitsumfeld. Weitere 18 HE können unterhalb installiert werden, für Geräte die nicht oft bedient oder im Blickfeld liegen müssen. Wer Wert auf Beinfreiheit legt, kann den mittleren Bereich unten offen lassen. Hinter den oberen Geräten findet sich noch eine klanggerecht abgesenkte Ablagefläche für Bildschirm(e) oder Nahfeldmonitore, die am Besten auf den optionalen Isolatoren sitzen sollten, um Schallübertragung durch den Tisch zu vermeiden, was zu einem unpräzisen Klangbild speziell in den Bässen führen würde. which would lead to smear in the lower frequencies and/or metering. Nichts zuviel, nichts fehlt! Ergonomie und Akustik auf wunderschöne Art verbunden: Ein Kunstwerk für Künstler am Werk UVP 2999.-€ Kostenloser Transport in der EU.
Maestro 24+12: Herzstück und Prozesszentrale. Die unersetzlichen Einbaugeräte, bis zu 24 + 12 HE auf kleinem Raum: Gepolsterte Armlehne, verdoppelter Kabelweg, flaches Profil, akustisch optimiert für den nahezu völlig transparenten Hörraum mit integrierten Mauspads(L+R). Und sieht unverschämt gut aus. UVP 2399.-€ Kostenfreie Lieferung in der EU.
Maestro 24+12 Angolo: Erweitern sie ihren Workflow um ein zentrales Steuergerät, Mischpult oder, warum nicht, Masterkeyboard. Ein cockpitförmiges kreatives Umfeld mit ihrem Outboard in 24 HE und der DAW im ergonomischen Zugriff, einer weichen Armstütze und zusätzlichen 12 HE unterhalb. Eine trapezförmige und personalisierbare Arbeitsfläche für ein, zwei oder drei Bildschirme, ein oder zwei Pärchen Nearfields und sämtliche anderen Maestrofeatures. Optionales zentrales Rack oder Bildschirmneiger: wollen sie die haarscharfen Edits mit Leichtigkeit fahren - bringen sie die Bildschirme in eine vertikale Position! Wollen sie frei von visuellen und akustischen Ablenkungen hören - to listen without distraction (visual and Senken sie den Bildschirm ab, komplett flach und bündig mit der Tischplatte und geniessen sie puren Klang! Die Arbeitsplatte kann vorne 600 oder 1000 mm breit sein, und lässt sich anpassen um bspw. Mischpulte oder Steuergeräte zu integrieren. Diese personalisierte Kombo ist der Traum für Mischer, und kann genauso für Produzenten, Komponisten und Masteringingenieure funktionieren - entwerfen sie ihre Eigene. Für die nähere Zukunft sind des Weiteren eine höhenverstellbare Arbeitsfläche, ein integriertes Masterkeyboard und optionale Zusatzracks geplant. Maestro lässt sich auch ideal mit den höhenverstellbaren Lautsprecherständern von Zaor kombinieren. UVP 2999.-€ Freie Lieferung in der EU.
We as ZAOR Studio Furniture are proud to announce a distribution agreement with ProMusicals from Chennai, India!
With the first order in production and being shipped out during the month of July, ProMusicals is ready to take orders from now on and serve the complete indian market. If you have questions about ZAOR or you want to order a desk or stands, ProMusicals will gladly help you!
We as ZAOR Studio Furniture are proud to announce a distribution agreement with Audio Plus Services, known for their excellent work with Focal Studio Monitors, IsoAcoustics and SPL amongst others.
We have known extraordinary success in EUROPE, where it established itself as the number one go-to brand for studio furniture solutions as proven by recent deals with Abbey Road Institutes worldwide, Steven Slate, Steinberg, Universal Audio, MOTU and a large number of top pro audio dealers across Europe. Covering both the project studio market and the pro segment, Zaor offers a unique choice of materials and models including desks, consoles, racks, stands and in-store displays with materials ranging from MDF to solid wood, all hand built, painted and polished. Every piece is assembled and checked at the factory to make sure it is complete and without any defects.
"We created a line of intelligent furniture that not only comfortably houses equipment, but makes it sound better, enhancing both the aesthetics and listening experience," explains ZAOR Studio Furniture CEO Klaus Gehlhaar. "We would like to bring this choice and great value to customers across North America. Finding the right partner has been a challenge but after meeting the crew at Audio Plus Services and seeing the way they put Focal on the map, we felt that this would be a great partner and we're happy to go forward and build our presence in the market with their help."
Says Audio Plus Pro Audio sales manager Simon Cote: "Zaor Studio Furniture is a great fit and complements our current line-up perfectly! Its ability to cover both the home and professional studio markets, as well as producing custom-built furniture, makes them the ideal partner for today's fast evolving pro audio market. We're looking forward to equipping studios with Zaor for years to come!"
With the first order in production and being shipped out during the month of December, Audio Plus Services is ready to take orders for early January, and with their vast warehouse and farreaching logistics, they will make sure that the regular product range of ZAOR is available without any delays and at fixed costs: no extra shipping charges will be added to the order, across all of the United States and Canada.


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Osvald Elías Castro Hernández (Puerto Rico, 5 de enero de 1990), conocido como Darell, es un rapero, cantante y compositor puertorriqueño de reguetón, Hip hop latino y trap latino.

Biografía
Nació en Puerto Rico, el 5 de enero de 1990, pero se trasladó a vivir a Nueva York, Estados Unidos y conoció a Belto, quién también interesado en el ámbito musical deciden formar un dúo llamado Darell & Belto o Belto & Darell.

Carrera musical

2010–2012: Inicios
Comenzó en 2010 como parte del dúo Darell & Belto con la canción «Entrega a la maldad» para la producción Sangre Nueva 2, pero al final se descartó dicha canción para el álbum. Lanzó canciones como «Sateo» en 2010, «Si te dicen» en 2011 y «De Cali a Medellin» en 2012.

2013–2015: Carrera como solista
Debutó como solista con su participación en el álbum del 2011 Parandoles La Movie de Pichy Boy y Skaary con la canción «Bala» y participando en colaboraciones como «No quiere compromiso» y «Inmortal», pero no fue hasta 2013 cuando comienza su carrera como solista de manera permanente con la canción «Despedida de un hermano», el cual fue un homenaje para un conocido del exponente.

En 2014, firmó con el sello La Pompa Music con el cual lanzó varias canciones como «La verdad» en 2014, «La calle esta mala» y «No digas na» en 2015. Canciones como «To' el mundo carga un arma», «La noche es larga» y «Liberar el estrés» fueron liberados bajo el sello La Pompa Music por las plataformas digitales, luego de que el exponente saliera del sello en 2016.

2016–2018: La Verdadera Vuelta
Firmó con Real G 4 Life, Inc del cantante Ñengo Flow en 2016 con la canción «Ninguno se monta», el cual posicionó al exponente como unos de los nuevos talentos del trap y reguetón. Lanzó su primer mixtape titulado La Verdadera Vuelta, el cual contó con las colaboraciones de Ñengo Flow, Anuel AA, Tempo, Tali y Lito Kirino que se ubicó #7 en Latin Rhythm Albums por dos semanas consecutivas.

En 2017, participó en la canción «Te boté» de Nío García y Casper Mágico, el cual contó con una remezcla lanzada en 2018 junto a Bad Bunny, Ozuna y Nicky Jam, que se posicionó en la posición #1 del Hot Latin Song de Billboard durante 26 semanas y en 2018, participó en «Asesina» de Brytiago, el cual se posicionó en la posición #50.

2019-presente: LVV: The Real Rondon
En 2019, prometió lanzar su álbum debut titulado Everybody Go To The Discotek, en dicho año pero al final esto no logró concretarse. Participó en la canción «Otro trago» de Sech, la cual fue nominada a los Premios Grammy Latinos en la categoría de mejor fusión urbana y mejor canción.

Lanzó su primer álbum de estudio en 2020, titulado LVV: The Real Rondon. También es llamado como La Verdadera Vuelta 2, debido a que el artista aclaró que la esencia del disco sería la esencia que lo hizo conocido, el trap. Contó con las colaboraciones de Ñengo Flow, Miky Woodz, De La Ghetto, Kevvo, Gerardo Ortiz, entre otros. El álbum alcanzó la posición #48 en Top Latin Albums.

Discografía
Álbumes de estudio

 2020: LVV: The Real Rondon

Mixtapes

 2016: La Verdadera Vuelta

Premios y nominaciones
Premios Billboard de la música latina

Billboard Music Awards

Premios Latin Grammy

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 	Darell en Twitter

Hombres
Nacidos en 1990
Raperos de Puerto Rico
Cantantes de Puerto Rico


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The Lonely Hearts Hotel
by Heather O'Neill
Format: Paperback Hardcover eBook Downloadable audio file
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Longlisted for the 2017 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction
A Globe and Mail Most Anticipated Book
A NOW Magazine Book You Have to Read
A Toronto Star Book We Can't Wait to Read
"Heather O'Neill is just getting better and better." —The Globe and Mail
"It would be hard to overstate here just how the good the writing is in The Lonely Hearts Hotel. For it is stunningly, stunningly good." —Toronto Star
"By the end I was a gasping, tearful mess." —Miranda July, author of The First Bad Man and No One Belongs Here More Than You
"O'Neill is an extraordinary writer, and her new novel is exquisite." —Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven
Set in Montreal and New York between the wars, a spellbinding story about two orphans whose unusual magnetism and talent allow them to imagine a sensational future, from bestselling, two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Heather O'Neill
The internationally acclaimed author returns with a stunning national bestseller in The Lonely Hearts Hotel. Exquisitely imagined and hypnotically told, it is a love story with the power of legend.
Two babies are abandoned in a Montreal orphanage in the winter of 1914. Before long, their true talents emerge: Pierrot is a piano prodigy; Rose lights up even the dreariest room with her dancing and comedy. As they travel around the city performing for the rich, the children fall in love with each other and dream up a plan for the most extraordinary and seductive circus show the world has ever seen.
Separated as teenagers, both escape into the city's underworld, where they must use their uncommon gifts to survive without each other. Ruthless and unforgiving, Montreal in the 1930s is no place for song and dance, depicted by O'Neill as "a voyage across Montreal, from realms of innocence and districts of longing to zones of cruelty" (National Post). When Rose and Pierrot finally reunite they'll go to extreme lengths to make their childhood dreams come true.
"Heather O'Neill is just getting better and better." - The Globe and Mail
"It would be hard to overstate here just how the good the writing is in The Lonely Hearts Hotel. For it is stunningly, stunningly good." - Toronto Star
"[The Lonely Hearts Hotel] is a voyage across Montreal, from realms of innocence and districts of longing to zones of cruelty. . . . It's a sprawling saga that combines a fairy-tale narrative with touches of social history, following two orphans in their struggles against a hostile world." - National Post
"The novel's success resides in its deeply loveable protagonists navigating a world of brutality and melancholy. . . . Grotesqueness and pleasure run together in The Lonely Hearts Hotel." - Quill & Quire
"The Lonely Hearts Hotel is gaudy, rowdy and magnificent." - Winnipeg Free Press
"In a love story of epic proportions, O'Neill's excellent historical novel plumbs the depths of happiness and despair. . . . This novel will cast a spell on readers from page one." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Art, love, imagination-these values are held aloft in O'Neill's novel." - San Francisco Chronicle
"Fans of the Canadian author's swirling, lyrical prose will fall for this melancholic love story set in gritty 1920s Montreal." - Elle (Canada)
"A larger-than-life, gritty love story that reads like a fable. . . . The greatest strength of O'Neill's work, however, is her wholly unique narrative voice, which is at once cool and panoramic, yet shockingly intimate and wisely philosophical. The novel brims with shimmering one-liners." - Boston Globe
"This simultaneously heart-breaking and life-affirming novel depicts the range of the human experience through the eyes of its almost preternaturally charismatic hero and heroine… O'Neill's prose is gorgeous, with arresting imagery." - Library Journal(starred review)
"Walks a tightrope between social and magical realism . . . . She grafts Angela Carter-esque fairytale darkness on to her forays into her native Montreal's gothic underbelly . . . A gritty, giddy fairyground ride of a book [involving] rapture, wonder and an unquenchable faith in the extraordinary. - Daily Mail
"A fairy tale laced with gunpowder and romance and icing sugar, all wrapped round with a lit fuse. Each of Heather O'Neill's sentences pricks or delights. If you haven't read her other books, start with this one and then read all of the rest." - Kelly Link, author of Pulitzer Prize finalist Get in Trouble
"O'Neill is an extraordinary writer, and her new novel is exquisite. . . .O'Neill has taken on sadness itself as a subject, but it would be terribly reductive to say that this book is sad; it's also joyful, funny, and vividly alive." - Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven
"Heather O'Neill's style is laced with so much sublime possibility and merciless reality that it makes me think of comets and live wires and William Blake's "The Tyger." Between prose like that and a story like this, you have a book that raises goosebumps and the giddiest of grins." - Helen Oyeyemi, author of What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
"The Lonely Hearts Hotel sucked me right in and only got better and better, ultimately becoming much tougher, wiser than I was prepared for. I began underlining truths I had hungered for but never before read. By the end I was a gasping, tearful mess." - Miranda July, author of The First Bad Man and No One Belongs Here More Than You
"O'Neill is a mistress of metaphor and imagery…This is brilliant tragicomedy…in a melancholy love story that brings to life the bygone days of theatrical revues." - Booklist (starred review)
"Walking the hypnotic line between tragedy and fairy tale. . . . the love story that unfolds is a fable of ambition and perseverance, desperation and heartbreak. . . Big and lush and extremely satisfying; a rare treat." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"O'Neill's unique strength as a prose stylist has always been in the strength of her individual sentences, and in The Girl Who Was Saturday Night, the way she wields an image feels less like style than superpower." - National Post
"The Girl Who Was Saturday Night is Heather O'Neill's second novel, and it is the book where she emerges as a fully-formed artist." - The Globe and Mail
"The writing in Daydreams of Angels is characteristically crisp and playful, but with an undercurrent of cruelty that only amplifies each story's beating heart." - National Post
"A dazzling leap forward. . . . O'Neill writes like a sort of demented angel with an uncanny knack for metaphor." - Toronto Star
"An exuberantly written coming-of-age story ... Flashbulb-bright and memorable ... Nicolas and Nouschka are the beautiful, frozen, fetishised symbols of separatist Quebec. As they try to wrench themselves into being, their story is as entrancing and antic and sensual as a dream" - The Guardian
"Magical and inventive." - Maclean's
"Heather O'Neill does it again! The Girl Who Was Saturday Night is full of quaking love and true sadness, family rackets, heart attacks, feral cats of all sorts, risky trysts, and reeling abandon. O'Neill's voice is singular, brave, magical, and bursting with stark beauty." - Lisa Moore, Giller-shortlisted author of Caught
"[These stories are] united by the now-unmistakable O'Neill stamp: compassionately drawn characters from society's fringes acting out tales of hardship, resilience and sometimes redemption, all told in deceptively simple prose - nobody, but nobody, does simile quite like O'Neill - that at its best attains the level of music." - Montreal Gazette
Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers
BISAC1 : FICTION / General
HEATHER O'NEILL is a novelist, short-story writer and essayist. Her work, which includes Lullabies for Little Criminals, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night and Daydreams of Angels, has been shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Scotiabank Giller Prize in two consecutive years, and has won CBC Canada Reads, the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and the Danuta Gleed Award. Born and raised in Montreal, O'Neill lives there today with her daughter.
Other Works by Heather O'Neill
Lonely Hearts Hotel
Lullabies for Little Criminals
Daydreams Of Angels
The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O'Neill
The Billionaire's Secrets
Meadow Taylor
Hold Back the Night
Pat Frank
The Bone Cave
Sarah Remy
Hyena Road
Stepdog
Nicole Galland
The Painted Girls
Erin Duffy
T. Jefferson Parker
The Dracula Dossier
James Reese


The AGM 2012 took place on 18th - 20th May at Britannia Adelphi Hotel, Ranelagh Place, Liverpool L3 5UL.
It is no wonder that this vibrant city of Liverpool was designated, a few years ago, as European City of Culture. I think that there are three important strands which best describe the old and the new aspects.
A stands for Architecture. Around the city fine examples can be seen in abundance and the skyline displays a multitude of varying styles. Built on the side of the Mersey, Liverpool was both an entrance and exit for travellers and thus many cultures are reflected in Liverpool`s streets, not least China Town with its magnificent entrance gate. The history of the city tells us that Liverpool, at one time the second largest port in the country, saw manufactured goods, using the river Mersey, being transported mainly to far flung parts of the world. Prior to 1807, when the slave trade was stopped, slaves were transported from Africa to the Americas and on the return trip to Liverpool tobacco, sugar and cotton were brought back. Around the famous Albert Dock was built the Royal Liver Building which was the world`s first multi-storey reinforced structure. The shipping trade has now virtually ceased but the Albert Dock, in particular has been modernised to become a central attraction of the area. Many of the warehouses have been modernised with cafes and shops on the ground floors. One of the warehouses is now the six storey Merseyside Maritime Museum, opened to celebrate the 200th Anniversary of the abolition of slavery. Also right on the waterfront, near the Albert Dock is the brand new Museum of Liverpool which opens its doors in early July, this year.
The Adelphi Hotel, which we will be using for our AGM, next year, was built in 1912 with the purpose to cater for the flourishing passenger trade to the Americas. When built it was described as the most prestigious hotel outside London. Modern architecture is now evident in the city. The St. Johns Beacon, 133 metres high, built in 1965, overlooks a shopping centre and is used by a local radio station.
However, any description of Liverpool cannot omit B for the Beatles, who were responsible for putting the city back on the map. In the late 1950`s The Cavern Club opened as a jazz club and the Beatles performed at that venue about three hundred times. In time the club was pulled down but later was rebuilt using the original bricks. Again, by the Albert dock, there is an audio exhibition, in one of the original warehouses, where Beatlemania can be followed and it is from here that the "Yellow Duckmarine", (a bright yellow amphibian vehicle, named after the Beatles Yellow Submarine), takes you around the streets of Liverpool before splashing into the water and touring the dockland area.
Then C must be for Cathedrals. (The song states, " If you want a Cathedral we`ve got one to spare, ….") and this is certainly true as linked by the aptly named Hope Street are the two cathedrals. At the eastern end is the Anglican cathedral, started in 1904 but with delays from two world wars, was not completed until 1978. This building is of medieval style and is the longest cathedral in Britain. In complete contrast, situated at the western end of Hope Street is the Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral which you may have heard of in friendly terms as "Paddy`s Wigwam". Originally designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, the foundation stone was laid in 1933 but because of ever rising prohibitive costs, an open competition for a new design was held and the wigwam structure developed.
I hope that this short snapshot of the venue of the 2012 AGM will appeal to you and that you enjoyed the weekend.
Below is the AGM/Social Weekend Progamme and details of the optional excursions.
Friday 18th May 2012 1.30pm Albert Dock for "The Yellow Duckmarine" and the Maritime Museum (including the Museum of Slavery and Titanic exhibition).
The coach takes us to Albert Dock for a `private hire` tour on "The Yellow Duckmarine". This is a one hour sightseeing tour on an amphibious DUKW built for World War II, normally referred to as a Duck, and now painted bright yellow to link with the Beatles` song Yellow Submarine. All vehicles have been completely rebuilt and updated to incorporate the latest safety features and equipment but are still based on the 1940s chassis, body and mechanical components. Attendees should be warned that the "Yellow Duckmarine" has 5 steep steps and is unable to carry wheelchairs but that organisers do all they can to accommodate disabled passengers. This tour then takes us around the historic sights of Liverpool by both land and water without changing vehicles. After our tour there is time to visit the Maritime Museum also based on Albert Dock, with the history of Liverpool`s sea faring past, or to wander around the shops or take a leisurely coffee in one of the many cafes on the water front.
An afternoon excursion to the National Trust property of Speke Hall. Speke Hall is a rare example of a Tudor Manor House with restored Victorian interiors and William Morris wallpaper surrounded by attractive gardens and woodland. Once booked in, we are to enjoy a Victorian Costumed guided tour of the exterior and then in smaller groups we can explore the gardens further or see the House at our own speed, where there are guides in each room. There is also a shop and café facilities. Please note that there are two prices for this visit depending on whether you are a 2012 National Trust member. If you book for the reduced price, please ensure that you bring your National Trust membership card with you on the day.
After your time in the Beatles Story, it is planned to walk over (about 10-15 minutes) to the new Museum of Liverpool, or you may like to spend time exploring other aspects of the vibrant Albert Dock before the coach returns us to the Hotel for lunch. The Museum of Liverpool has four core themes: `The Great Port`, `Global City`, `People`s Republic` and `Wonderous Place` located in four main large gallery spaces, and through these tells of the creative personalities of the city, the experiences of people living in the city, how the city shaped and was shaped by the British Empire, The Industrial Revolution and all the issues and impacts of dramatic social change over the last 200 years.
PLACES ARE LIMITED SO PLEASE BOOK SOON. Please keep a record of your bookings.
A few places still left - book now on the Excursions booking form.