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ExxonMobil, Rosneft agree on strategic cooperation including offshore GoM, Russian Arctic
ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM) and Rosneft (MICEX:ROSN) have signed an agreement on long-term strategic cooperation to jointly explore and develop in the Russian Black and Kara seas, and E&P projects in the United States and Canada.
MOSCOW –ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM) and Rosneft (MICEX:ROSN) have signed an agreement on long-term strategic cooperation to jointly explore and develop in the Russian Black and Kara seas, and E&P projects in the United States and Canada.
Exploration work in the Russian sectors is estimated to cost more than $3.2 billion. Offshore North America, Neftegaz Holding America Ltd. has the rights to acquire 30% interest in 20 Western Gulf of Mexico blocks. Other parts of the agreement are for onshore in West Texas.
Rosneft President Eduard Khudainatov and Rex Tillerson, president and CEO of Exxon Mobil Corp., said they were encouraged to proceed with these projects by the Russian government's efforts to reform taxation of the high-potential oil industry sectors and improve investment conditions for foreign and Russian oil companies.
As part of the Strategic Cooperation Agreement, exploration began in the Tuapse license in the Black Sea in Russia in September 2011. The seismic program is 70% complete at this point. Interpretation of data will be carried out following program completion, which is scheduled for 2Q 2012. Drilling of the first exploration well is planned for 2014-2015.
In the Kara Sea, plans are under way for seismic and environmental programs of East Prinovozemelsky blocks later this year in anticipation of a potential exploration well in 2014.
The Arctic Research and Design Center for Offshore Developments will provide a full range of research and design services to support the development of offshore fields. The main roles of the center include supporting all stages of oil and gas field development on the Arctic shelf and helping ensure projects are environmentally safe, including through the provision of technical support in environmental monitoring. The center will also support offshore safety. A special Offshore Accident and Emergency Warning and Prevention Service will be created to help prevent and respond immediately to any emergencies or accidents.
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About ASCI
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Daniel C Ciobanu
Daniel C. Ciobanu
Breeding & Genetics
1992, B.S., Animal Science, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
1999, Ph.D., Animal Breeding and Genetics, Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Bucharest, Romania.
1999-2002, Post-doctorate, Swine Molecular Genetics, Iowa State University, Department of Animal Science, IA.
2020 - present, Professor of Molecular Genetics, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE.
2014 - 2020, Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE.
2009 - 2014, Assistant Professor of Molecular Genetics, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE.
OTHER AFFILATIONS
2019 – present, member, Nebraska Center for Virology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
2019 – present, Courtesy Faculty, School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
2016 - present, Courtesy Faculty, School of Biological Science, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
I am applying functional genomics approaches in order to identify genes, DNA polymorphisms and pathways associated with variation of complex phenotypes, including viral disease resistance (Porcine circovirus 2, Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Virus, Atypical Porcine Pestivirus, etc.) and sow fertility.
Since 2010, I teach Genome Analysis (ASCI 432/832), a course designed for graduate and advanced undergraduate students from all areas of life sciences. In this class, the students are introduced to structure and function of eukaryotic genomes and to strategies to identify and characterize genetic variants responsible for phenotypic differences.
Wijesena HR, Kachman SD, Lents CA, Riethoven JJ, Trenhaile-Grannemann MD, Safranski TJ, Spangler ML, Ciobanu DC. Fine mapping genetic variants associated with age at puberty and sow fertility using Sowpro90 genotyping array, J Anim Sci. 2020, September 4. doi: 10.1093/jas/skaa293
Sutton KM, Lahmers KK, Harris SP, Wijesena HR, Mote BE, Kachman SD, Borza T, Ciobanu DC. Detection of Atypical Porcine Pestivirus Genome in Newborn Piglets Affected by Congenital Tremor and High Pre-weaning Mortality. J Anim Sci. 2019 Aug 9. doi: 10.1093/jas/skz267. PMID:31396615.
Wijesena HR, Rohrer GA, Nonneman DJ, Keel BN, Petersen JL, Kachman SD, Ciobanu DC. Evaluation of genotype quality parameters for SowPro90, a novel genotyping array for swine, J Anim Sci. 2019, May 31. doi: 10.1093/jas/skz185.
Walker LR, Jobman EE, Sutton KM, Wittler J, Johnson R, Ciobanu DC. Genome-wide association analysis for Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus susceptibility traits in two genetic populations of pigs. J Anim Sci. 2019, May 31 doi:10.1093/jas/skz184.
Walker L.R., T. B. Engle, H. Vu, E.R. Tosky, D.J. Nonneman, T.P.L. Smith, T. Borza, T.E. Burkey, G.S. Plastow, S.D. Kachman, D.C. Ciobanu (2018) Host genetics influences replication of Porcine circovirus 2, submitted to PLoS Genetics, Oct 31;14(10):e1007750. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007750. eCollection 2018 Oct.
Walker L.R., E.R. Tosky, K.M. Sutton, R. Griess, M.D. Abebe, S.Y. Barnes, T. Cunningham, S.D. Kachman, M.K. Nielsen, D.C. Ciobanu (2017) A 16.7 kb deletion in Sipa1l3 is associated with juvenile cataract in mice. Mamm Genome. 2017 Dec 28(11-12):515-519.
Wijesena H. R., C. A. Lents, J.-J. Riethoven, M. D. Trenhaile-Grannemann, J. F. Thorson, B. N. Keel, P. S. Miller, M. L. Spangler, S. D. Kachman, D. C. Ciobanu (2017) Integration of Genomic Approaches to Uncover Sources of Variation in Age at Puberty and Reproductive Longevity in Sows, Journal of Animal Science 2017 Sep;95(9):4196-4205.
Wang, X., Pandey, A. P., Mozhui, K. M., Li, Z. L., Williams, E. W., Auwerx, J. A., Quarles, D. Q., Xiao, Z. X., Huang, J. H., Capra, J. A. C., Pollard, K. P., Aggarwal, R. A., Ciobanu, D., Church, D. C., Reznik, A. R., Tishkov, A. T., Igor, Z. I., Chen, Z. C., Nelson, S. N., Taylor, W. T., Denny, J. D., Lu, L. L., Peng, J. P., W. Williams, R. Experimental Phenome-Wide Association Using Whole Genome Sequence. Nat Commun. 2016 Feb 2;7:10464. doi: 10.1038/ncomms10464.
Trenhaile M.D., J. Petersen, S.D. Kachman, R. K. Johnson, D.C. Ciobanu, Long-term selection for litter size in swine results in shifts in allelic frequency in regions involved in reproductive processes, Anim Genet. 2016 May 26. doi: 10.1111/age.12448.
Lucot K.L., M.L. Spangler, M.D. Trenhaile, S.D. Kachman, D.C. Ciobanu, (2015) Evaluation of reduced subsets of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms for the prediction of age at puberty and reproductive longevity in sows, Animal Genetics, 46(4):403-9.
Morota G., Peñagaricano F., Petersen J.L., Ciobanu D.C., Tsuyuzaki K., Nikaido I. (2015), An application of MeSH enrichment analysis in livestock. Anim. Genet. Aug; 46(4):381-7.
Kreikemeier C.A., T.B. Engle, K.L. Lucot, S.D. Kachman, T.E. Burkey, D.C. Ciobanu, (2015) Genome-wide Analysis of TNF-alpha Response in Pigs Challenged with Porcine Circovirus 2b, Animal Genetics, Apr;46(2):205-8.
Engle T.B., E.E. Jobman, T.W. Moural, A.M. McKnite, J.W. Bundy, S.Y. Barnes, E.H. Davis, J.A. Galeota, T.E. Burkey, G.S. Plastow, S.D. Kachman, D.C. Ciobanu (2014) Variation in time and magnitude of immune response and viremia in experimental challenges with Porcine circovirus 2b, BMC Veterinary Research Dec 4;10 (1): 286.
McKnite A.M., J.W. Bundy, T.W. Moural, J.K. Tart, T.P. Johnson, E.E. Jobman, S.Y. Barnes, J.K. Qiu, D.A. Peterson, S.P. Harris, M.F. Rothschild, J.A. Galeota, R.K. Johnson, S.D. Kachman, D.C. Ciobanu (2014) Genomic analysis of the differential response to experimental infection with Porcine Circovirus 2b, Animal Genetics, Apr;45(2):205-14.
Howard J. T., S. D. Kachman, W. M. Snelling, E. J. Pollak, D. C. Ciobanu, L. A. Kuehn, M. L. Spangler (2013) A genome-wide association study for body temperature regulation during periods of heat and cold stress in beef cattle, International Journal of Biometeorology, Sep;58(7):1665-72.
Tart J.K., R.K. Johnson, J.W. Bundy, N.N. Ferdinand, A.M. McKnite, J.R. Wood, P.S. Miller, M.F. Rothschild, M.L. Spangler, D.J. Garrick, S.D. Kachman, D.C. Ciobanu (2013) Genome-wide prediction of age at puberty and reproductive longevity in sows, Animal Genetics, Aug;44(4):387-97.
McKnite A.M, Perez-Munoz M.E., Lu L., Williams E.G., Brewer S., Andreux P., Wang X., Kachman S.D., Auwerx J., Williams R.W., Benson A.K., Peterson D.P., Ciobanu D.C (2012) Murine Gut Microbiota is Defined by Host Genetics and Modulates Variation of Metabolic Traits, PLoS One, 7(6):e39191. Epub 2012 Jun 18.
Whitney I.E., Raven M.A., Ciobanu D.C., Poché R.A., Ding Q., Elshatory Y., Gan L., Williams R.W., Reese B.E. (2011) Genetic modulation of horizontal cell number in the mouse retina. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 108: 9697-9702.
Mozhui, K., R.-M. Karlsson, T.L. Kash, J. Ihne, M. Norcross, S. Patel, M. Camp, H.A. Cameron, D.C. Ciobanu, D.G. Winder, R.W. Williams, A. Holmes (2010) Neuronal and molecular correlates of trait and stress-induced variation in anxiety-like behavior between genetic mouse strains, Journal of Neuroscience 30: 5357-67.
Kinghorn, B.P., J.W.M. Bastiaansen, D.C. Ciobanu, H.A.M. van der Steen (2010) Quantitative genotyping to estimate genetic contributions to pooled samples and genetic merit of the contributing entities. Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica Section A 60: 3-12.
Ciobanu D.C., L. Lu, K. Mozui, X. Wang, M. Jagalur, J.A. Morris, W.L. Taylor, K. Dietz, P. Simon, R.W. Williams (2010) Dissection of expression variation and downstream analysis of cis-modulation. Genetics 184, 119-28.
Du Z.-Q., D.C. Ciobanu, S.K. Onteru, D. Gorbach, A.J. Mileham, G. Jaramillo, M.F. Rothschild (2009) A Gene-based SNP Linkage Map for Pacific White Shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei. Animal Genetics doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2052.2009.02002.x.
Ciobanu, D.C., J.W.M. Bastiaansen, J. Magrin, J.L. Rocha, D.-H. Jiang, N. Yu, B. Geiger, N. Deeb, D. Rocha, H. Gong, B.P. Kinghorn, G.S. Plastow, H.A.M. van der Steen and A.J. Mileham (2010) A major SNP resource for dissection of phenotypic and genetic variation in Pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei). Animal Genetics doi:10.1111/j.1365-2052.
Mozhui K., Ciobanu D.C., Schikorski T., Wang X., Lu L., Williams R.W., (2008). Dissection of a QTL hotspot on mouse distal chromosome 1 that modulates neurobehavioral phenotypes and gene expression. PLoS Genet. 4: e1000260.
Whitney I.E., M.A. Raven, D.C. Ciobanu, R.W. Williams, B.E. Reese (2009) Multiple genes on chromosome 7 regulate dopaminergic amacrine cell number in the mouse retina. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 50: 1996-2003.
Olsen, C.M., Y. Huang, S. Goodwin, D.C. Ciobanu, L. Lu, T.R. Sutter, D.G. Winder (2007) Microarray analysis reveals distinctive signaling between the Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis, Nucleus Accumbens, and Dorsal Striatum. Physiological Genomics 12, 1212-24.
Ciobanu D.C., Bastiaansen J.W., Lonergan S.M., Thomsen H., Dekkers J.C., Plastow G.S., Rothschild M.F. 2004, New alleles in calpastatin gene are associated with meat quality traits in pigs. J. Anim. Sci. 82: 2829-39.
Ciobanu D.C., J. Bastiaansen, M. Malek, J. Helm, J. Woollard, G. Plastow and M. Rothschild, 2001, Evidence for new alleles in the protein kinase AMP-activated, gamma 3 subunit gene associated with low glycogen content in pig skeletal muscle and improved meat quality, Genetics 159:1151-62.
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Honda Life
Kei car
The Honda Life is a kei car sedan produced by Honda.
1 First generation (1971-1974)
1.1 Life step van
1.2 Life pick-up
2 Second generation (1997-1998)
3 Third generation (1998-2003)
4 Fourth generation (2003-2008)
5 Fifth generation (2008-present)
5.1 Specifications
First generation (1971-1974)
It was offered as a 2-door or 4-door sedan and in a 2-door wagon model. It had a water-cooled, 36 hp (27 kW) 356 cc engine.Honda Life 1971
Van version was introduced on 1971-09-06, followed by hatchback wagon on 1971-10-25.
Life step van
Step van
This van type variant uses a 360 cc, 2-cylinder water-cooled engine. The high back body increased its centre of gravity compared to the sedan version, making it easy to roll over under crosswind.
The van was first sold on 1972-09-20, at the price of 376,000, 388,000, 403,000 yen for standard, standard (after production of Life pick up), Super DX respectively. Total 17,165 vehicles were produced.
Life pick-up
Life Pickup
2-door pick-up
356 cc SOHC I2, 33 hp
2080 mm (81.9 in)
2995 mm (117.9 in)
1295 mm (51 in)
26 litres (Template:Convert/usgal impgal)
Introduced on 1973-08-21, the vehicle used the style of a pick-up truck. The production was ended in 1974, with 1132 vehicles produced.
Second generation (1997-1998)
1997 Honda Life
In 1997 the Life name was resurrected for a new line of small, front wheel drive 5-door MPV style cars for Honda, which required a redesign for 1998 because of new Japanese taxing regulations.[1]
Third generation (1998-2003)
The 1998 model was bigger than the 2nd generation counterpart, with 3395 mm (133.7 in) length and 1475 mm (58.1 in) width.
In December 2000, a turbocharged variant named Honda Life Dunk was introduced as 2001 year model. Honda Life Dunk and Honda That's were listed by Forbes magazine as among the weirdest car names. [2]
Fourth generation (2003-2008)
FF layout, 4WD
658 cc P07A SOHC I3 (DIVA, F, F Happy Edition, C, C Topic)
658 cc P07A SOHC I3 turbo (DIVA Turbo, F Turbo)
4-Speed Automatic Overdrive
1580 mm (62.2 in) (FF)
1595 mm (62.8 in) (4WD)
35 litres (Template:Convert/usgal impgal) (FF)
31 litres (Template:Convert/usgal impgal) (4WD)
Daihatsu Move
Honda Today
Daihatsu Mira
Subaru R2
In 2003 the model was updated, and now includes a 660 cc 3-cylinder engine, with an optional turbocharger, mated to a 4-speed automatic transmission and optional 4-wheel drive. The safety features were significantly improved and engine emissions were reduced.[3] A triangle window was placed at the mounting point of wing mirrors in 3rd generation vehicle.
In 2005, Honda introduced the DIVA model, which included aerodynamic styling and aluminium wheels.
2007 models started production on 2006-10-05. It marked the first use of Honda Smart Parking Assist System in a production Honda vehicle.
Fifth generation (2008-present)
In November 2008 Honda introduced the fifth generation Life. This generation is available in three flavours: Life G, Life Diva and Life Pastel.
DIVA Turbo
F, F Happy Edition
F Turbo
C, C Topic
model name (FF/4WD)
Honda DBA-JB5/CBA-JB6 Honda DBA-JB7/CBA-JB8 Honda DBA-JB5/CBA-JB6 Honda DBA-JB7/CBA-JB8 Honda DBA-JB5/CBA-JB6
38 kW (52 PS) @6700 rpm 38 kW (52 PS) @6700 rpm 38 kW (52 PS) @6700 rpm
61 N·m (6.2 kgf·m) @3800 rpm 93 N·m (9.5 kgf·m) @4000 rpm 61 N·m (6.2 kgf·m) @3800 rpm 93 N·m (9.5 kgf·m) @4000 rpm 61 N·m (6.2 kgf·m) @3800 rpm
tire (front/rear)
165/55R14 72V 155/65R13 73S
Honda Life page
Honda Life History
Press release of 1st generation Honda Life
Press release of Life Step-Van
Press release of Life Pick Up
Press release of 2nd generation Honda Life
Press release of 4th generation Honda Life
Lovestep Life StepVan page
StepVan room contain information on Step-Van.
Life StepVan review
Honda 2001 annual report
Retrieved from "https://www.honda-wiki.org/w/index.php?title=Honda_Life&oldid=4365"
Honda Primo
Kei cars


How did a newspaper that once represented a progressive alternative to the status quo ultimately come to be firmly identified with the state itself?
When Spanish daily El País began publication nearly four decades ago, it represented a vanguard force in the country's stifled political and cultural climate, a progressive alternative to the status quo. Yet over the years, El País's tendency to prop up many of the claims made by the young Spanish democracy left gaps in its coverage. This became especially apparent after massive protests erupted in May 2011 protesting the march of austerity and other ills of Spanish society. The protests created "a moment that demands a new kind of journalist outlook," as Jonathan Blitzer argues in this video.
In 2007, the newspaper Público emerged as a new voice to the left of El País. Blitzer explains how El País's journey to the mainstream of Spanish political culture leaves lingering questions about how both papers will fare as Spain's period of transition and change continues. For more on El País, Público and the journalistic climate in Spain, read Blitzer's article in this week's issue of The Nation, The Future Is Not What it Used to Be.


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Chvrches Cancel Hong Kong because of Airport Turmoil
British indie rockers Chvrches are among several acts who have cancelled concerts in Hong Kong after protests closed the city's airport.
Tagged as: alternative, CHVRCHES, electronica, indie, pop, Scotland, UK
New Music Releases for 21 December 2018
by Paul Cashmere
Major new titles coming this week from: Zayn (physical), 21 Savage, Within Temptation (Live), Reel Big Fish, DJ Shadow and Chvrches.
Tagged as: 21 Savage, Australia, CHVRCHES, DJ Shadow, new music, reel big fish, Within Temptation, Zayn
The Falls Festival 2018 Line-up Revealed
Falls Festival 2018 has delivered one of the most diverse line-ups ever with CHVRCHES to Toto and Vance Joy to King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard guaranteeing everyone should love something.
Tagged as: Amy Shark, Australia, CHVRCHES, King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard, The Falls Festival, Toto, Vance Joy
New Music Releases 25 May 2018
by Gavin Ryan
Major new titles coming this week from: Jessie J, Shawn Mendes, Snow Patrol, Chvrches, Xavier Rudd, Biffy Clyro (live), Judith Owen, A$AP Rocky, Spock's Beard and Davisson Brothers Band.
Tagged as: A$AP Rocky, Biffy Clyro, CHVRCHES, Jessie J, Judith Owen, music industry, new music, new music releases, Shawn Mendes, Snow Patrol, Spock's Beard, Xavier Rudd
New Music Releases 25 September 2015
Ryan Adams, Maroon 5 (GH), Disclosure, Don Henley, Parkway Drive, Chvrches, Pierce Brothers, Silversun Pickups, Julio Iglesias and Tony Bennett lead the week's new releases.
Tagged as: CHVRCHES, Disclosure, Don Henley, Julio Iglesias, Maroon 5 (GH), music news, new music releases, Parkway Drive, Pierce Brothers, Ryan Adams, Silversun Pickups
Chvrches Put Out 'Never Ending Circles' Lyric Video
A new Chvrches album 'Every Open Eye' is imminent and the band have released a lyric video for their new song 'Never Ending Circles'.
Tagged as: CHVRCHES, Every Open Eye, music news, Never Ending Circles
Lily Allen Leads Weeks New Releases
Lily Allen 'Sheezus' was released in Australia this week and also look for new albums from Santana and Chvrches.
Tagged as: CHVRCHES, Lily Allen, Santana
Coachella Complete Line-Up Revealed
by Roger Wink, VVN Music
The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival people tweeted out the poster for this year's show on Wednesday night, with a real host of great names scheduled to play this year's show.
Tagged as: AFI, Alesso, Aloe Blacc, Anthony Green, Anti-Flag, Arcade Fire, Bastille, Beady Eye, Beck, Big Gigantic, Blood Orange, Bombay Bicycle Club, Broken Bells, Cage The Elephant, Calvin Harris, Capital Cities, Carnage, Chance The Rapper, Chromeo, CHVRCHES, City And Colour, Coachella, Coachella 2014, Coachella 2014 Lineup, Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, Crosses, Dillon Francis, Disclosure, Duck Sauce, Dum Dum Girls, Ellie Goulding, Empire Of The Sun, Fatboy Slim, Fishbone, Flosstradamus, Flume, Foster The People, Frank Turner, Girl Talk, Grouplove, Haim, Holy Ghost!, J Roddy Walston & the Business, Kate Nash, Kid Cudi, Krewella, Lana Del Rey, Lineup, Little Dragon, Lorde, MAKJ, MGMT, Mogwai, Motorhead, Ms Mr, Muse, Nas, Neko Case, Outkast, Pet Shop Boys, Pharrell Williams, Queens Of The Stone Age, RL Grime, Skrillex, Sleigh Bells, Surfer Blood, The 1975, The Afghan Whigs, The Cult, The Glitch Mob, The Head and the Heart, The Knife, The Naked And Famous, The Replacements, The Toy Dolls, title fight, Warpaint, White Lies, Zedd, ZZ Ward
Laneway festivals Acts Announce A Bunch Of Sideshows
by Anthony Barton
Laneway Festivals acts, CHVRCHES, Jagwar Ma, King Krule and Savages have all announced sideshows.
Tagged as: CHVRCHES, Jagwar Ma, king krule, Laneway, Savages
Australia's Laneway Festival Announces First US Line-Up
Australia's Laneway Festival will hold its inaugural US festival in Detroit, USA in September and the line-up has been announced.
Tagged as: AlunaGeorge, Australia, Charli XCX, CHVRCHES, Deerhunter, El-P and Killer Mike (as Run the Jewels), festival, Flume, Frightened Rabbit, Icona Pop, Laneway, My Brightest Diamond, Phosphorescent, Savages, Sigur Ros, Solange, the Dismemberment Plan, The National, USA, Warpaint, Washed Out, Youth Lagoon
The Flaming Lips, Chvrches, Haim Win Inaugural SXSW Grulke Prize
The Flaming Lips have been named winners of the inaugural Grulke Prize by SXSW along with Glasgow's Chvrches and US act Haim.
Tagged as: Brent Grulke, CHVRCHES, Flaming Lips, Haim, industry, SXSW, The Grulke Prize
Laneway Festival Heads To The USA To Launch At SXSW
The St Jerome's Laneway Festival is heading to America with the official launch at SXSW in Austin next month.
Tagged as: Alpine, Blessed Feathers, Chugg Entertainment, CHVRCHES, Flume, Guards, Haerts, Laneway Festival, Merchandise, No Ceremony, Palma Violets, Vance Joy, xxyyxx
The New Alpine Song is 'Dumb'
Alpine have a new track. Its called 'Dumb'.
Sugar Mountain 2016 Line-up Confirmed
The Sugar Mountain festival will return for the second year in Melbourne in January.
Alpine Announce Foolish Tour
Alpine will head out on their 'Foolish' tour across Australia from June.
Alpine's New Album Is Yuck
After choosing April Fool's Day to debut their new song 'Foolish', Melbourne sextet Alpine have announced the title of their second album is 'Yuck'.
Groovin' The Moo To Head To South Australia In 2014
The regional Groovin' The Moo music festival will head to South Australia for the first time in 2014.
Melbourne's Alpine Perform On Jimmy Kimmel Live VIDEO
"From their album A Is For Alpine here with their song Gasoline from Melbourne, Australia, Alpine." That is how Jimmy Kimmel introduced Melbourne's Alpine for their first international television performance.
Tina Arena To Release First Album Of Original English Songs In A Decade
Tina Arena will release her first English language album of original songs since 2001 in October.


Exposed DC, 13th Annual Photography Exhibition will feature winning photographs selected from a contest for their unique view of the Washington, D.C. area as more than just a political hub and tourist destination. The exhibit will be hosted by Touchstone Gallery , with support from the Touchstone Foundation for the Arts.
Please visit http://exposeddc.com to purchase tickets to the opening reception and find out more about Exposed DC.
GALLERY A Touchstone Gallery is excited to announce "What We Are Made Of" exhibition by Communities In Schools (CIS). The exhibition will ask audiences to look closer and listen harder to our nation's students who are thriving in the face of significant challenges ranging from school violence to problems at home to hunger.
"Inch by Inch" 120+ Artists, each artwork ~100 sq.in.
Sally Canzoneri presents the same images in two and three dimensional works that invite viewers to find even more dimensions, seeing beyond what is immediately apparent in the pictures – and in the world around them.
A percentage of the sale proceeds will go to the YUKIEN SCHOOL for children with disabilities in Hiroshima, Japan.
Over 220 DC area artists have come together to demonstrate the power of visual communication to support true democratic values of tolerance, inclusion and openness and to resist efforts to divide us by race, gender, sexual preference, class or region. The vision of OneHouse is for a country where we stand together. Each artist contributed a 12" square panel dedicated to an ancestor who came to this country - voluntarily or involuntary - or was here before the arrival of the Europeans. A structure erected in the Touchstone Gallery will be covered entirely by those panels, representing the remarkable range of diverse humanity who have combined to make the strength of America.
In April and May of 2017 Touchstone Gallery artists worked with youth and adults at New Community ArtSpace to create works of art in a variety of media through a program called Touchstone@ArtSpace. A vibrant selection of work from the workshops will be on display at Touchstone Gallery. Touchstone@ArtSpace is supported by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the Touchstone Foundation for the Arts.
What's Next? A non-juried group show that presents all media artwork by 90 local contemporary artists.
The exhibition will present a wide variety of artwork created by 90 local contemporary artists in all media that responds to the question "What's Next?" mirroring present-day culture, society, its issues and solutions.
Juror: Jayme McLellan, Director and Founder of Civilian Art Projects.


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Russia unlikely to deepen oil output cuts: sources
*A pumping station in the Priobskoe oilfield, Nefteyugansk, Russia. Photo: Yuri Kochetkov/EPA.
Moscow — Russia is unlikely to agree to deepen cuts in oil output at a meeting with fellow exporters next month, but could commit to extend existing curbs to support Saudi Arabia, three sources said on Tuesday.
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries meets on Dec. 5 at its headquarters in Vienna, followed by talks with a group of other exporters, which includes Russia, known as OPEC+.
On the same day, Dec 5, Saudi Arabia is set to announce the pricing for the public share placement of its energy giant, Saudi Aramco, in what it hopes will be the world's largest IPO. The oil price at the time is likely to be critical to the pricing of the share offering.
The sources told Reuters that OPEC and its allies are worried about weak demand growth in 2020.
Russian President Vladimir Putin set the tone for the December meeting last week, calling Saudi Arabia's position ahead of the talks "tough".
Moscow argues that it will be hard for it to cut oil production voluntarily during the cold winter months. When the cuts agreement started on Jan. 1 2017, Russia implemented its commitments gradually, only reaching full compliance in May that year.
"We expect uneasy talks in December. Russia will not categorically agree to (deepen) cuts in winter," a source familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. The oil ministry did respond to a request for comment.
In the latest iteration of the deal, OPEC, Russia and some other large oil producers, have agreed to cut their combined oil output by 1.2 million barrels per day from Jan.1. The agreement runs through to the end of March.
"Serious consultations have not yet started. Rollover looks more likely. Russia cannot reduce more in winter time. But surprises are always a possibility," an OPEC source said.
On Monday, a source familiar with the data told Reuters that in November Russia had increased its oil production to 11.25 million barrels per day (bpd), missing its output targets.
Under the pact with OPEC and non-OPEC oil producers, Russia should cap output at around 11.17-11.18 million bpd, according to Reuters calculations, which use a tonne/barrel ratio of 7.33.
Russian natural gas supplies to China, which are set to start next month, will also boost output of gas condensate, part of the oil mix.
Another industry source said that Russian companies are seeking to boost their output in 2020 to support the state budget.
Alexei Kudrin, a close ally of Putin and head of the Audit Chamber, has said that Russia's budgeted spending will be 1 trillion rubles ($16 billion) lower this year compared to the previous year.


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Intel Trinity,The: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company
deMichael S. Malone
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Based on unprecedented access to the corporation's archives, The Intel Trinity is the first full history of Intel Corporation—the essential company of the digital age— told through the lives of the three most important figures in the company's history: Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove.
Often hailed the "most important company in the world," Intel remains, more than four decades after its inception, a defining company of the global digital economy. The legendary inventors of the microprocessor-the single most important product in the modern world-Intel today builds the tiny "engines" that power almost every intelligent electronic device on the planet.
But the true story of Intel is the human story of the trio of geniuses behind it. Michael S. Malone reveals how each brought different things to Intel, and at different times. Noyce, the most respected high tech figure of his generation, brought credibility (and money) to the company's founding; Moore made Intel the world's technological leader; and Grove, has relentlessly driven the company to ever-higher levels of success and competitiveness. Without any one of these figures, Intel would never have achieved its historic success; with them, Intel made possible the personal computer, Internet, telecommunications, and the personal electronics revolutions.
The Intel Trinity is not just the story of Intel's legendary past; it also offers an analysis of the formidable challenges that lie ahead as the company struggles to maintain its dominance, its culture, and its legacy.
With eight pages of black-and-white photos.
Titre :Intel Trinity,The: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company
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Trump: NBC's Lester Holt Fudged 2017 Interview on Comey Being Fired Over 'The Russia Thing'
By Harriet Sinclair On 8/30/18 at 8:27 AM EDT
Donald Trump on Thursday accused NBC's Lester Holt of "fudging" a tape of the 2017 interview in which the president discussed his firing of FBI director James Comey and the Russia investigation.
In a morning Twitter tirade, the president slammed the mainstream media, taking pot-shots at CNN and NBC, and firing off six tweets in just over an hour.
"What's going on at @CNN is happening, to different degrees, at other networks - with @NBCNews being the worst. The good news is that Andy Lack(y) is about to be fired(?) for incompetence, and much worse. When Lester Holt got caught fudging my tape on Russia, they were hurt badly! " he wrote, providing no evidence as to why he believed Holt had fudged the interview.
What's going on at @CNN is happening, to different degrees, at other networks - with @NBCNews being the worst. The good news is that Andy Lack(y) is about to be fired(?) for incompetence, and much worse. When Lester Holt got caught fudging my tape on Russia, they were hurt badly!
"I just cannot state strongly enough how totally dishonest much of the Media is. Truth doesn't matter to them, they only have their hatred & agenda. This includes fake books, which come out about me all the time, always anonymous sources, and are pure fiction. Enemy of the People!" he added.
The president spoke with Holt in 2017, shortly after he dismissed Comey, openly acknowledging to Holt that "the Russia thing" was on his mind when he took the decision to fire the FBI chief.
Describing his firing of Comey, Trump told NBC in May 2017: "In fact, when I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said: 'You know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made up story, it's an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should've won.'"
President Donald Trump in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on 29 August 2018. He has accused NBC's Lester Holt of fudging interview tapes. Reuters
In the interview, the president also appeared to disagree with a previous line from the White House that suggested Trump had taken the decision to fire Comey following a recommendation from the deputy attorney general.
Trump also commented that he had asked Comey on a number of occasions whether or not he was personally under investigation in the Russia probe, telling Holt: " I actually asked him, yes. I said, 'If it's possible would you let me know, am I under investigation? He said: 'You are not under investigation.'"
And Trump once again reiterated that Comey had assured him he was not under investigation as part of his tweetstorm Thursday, commenting: "The only thing James Comey ever got right was when he said that President Trump was not under investigation!"
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Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) means settling your dispute without asking a court to decide on your issue. The ADR Directive is European legislation which required Member States to act to increase consumers' access to ADR.
When implementing the ADR Directive the UK government noted in particular that there was an unmet need regarding complaints from consumers that stemmed from aviation contracts. As the UK's specialist aviation regulator the CAA was appointed by the government to be the UK's competent authority to approve ADR providers as fit to offer ADR services to consumers of aviation services.
The CAA's role, as a specialist aviation regulator, combined with its strategic objective of empowering aviation consumers, means it is best placed to consider the competence and suitability of ADR applicants to provide alternative dispute resolution procedures to consumers of aviation.
Organisations wishing to gain approval from the CAA to obtain 'ADR entity' status will need to read our guidance on how to apply as well as our general guidance for ADR entities.
The CAA charges an initial application fee to those organisations who wish to apply to be approved by the CAA to provide ADR services to aviation consumers in respect of disputes stemming from a contract. This fee is non-refundable even if the application is unsuccessful or withdrawn. We also charge an annual oversight fee to approved ADR providers.
The initial application fee from 1 April 2017 is £5,684. This fee is payable at the time of submitting an application to be approved by the CAA.
ADR providers approved by the CAA are also required to pay to the CAA an annual oversight fee as a condition of their continued approval. The annual oversight fee is currently £13,642, payable on 1 April each year.
The CAA will raise an invoice in respect of the annual oversight fee which is payable by the approval holder on demand.
Under the regulations the CAA must maintain a list of approved ADR providers.
We also publish a list of airlines who have signed up to ADR providers.
It refers to a range of processes that can resolve disputes between e.g. a business and a consumer, without the need to go to court.
It is the CAA's view that the provision of quality ADR services for consumer disputes stemming from contracts for aviation services will benefit consumers and lead to quick, fair, low cost (if not free) and binding solutions to their problems.
The CAA has approved independent complaints handling bodies that consumers can call on to help resolve consumer complaints to airlines about air travel if their airline has agreed to participate in ADR.
Under ADR, if a passenger is in dispute with an airline - for example, they are claiming compensation for a delayed flight - and the airline's own complaints process has been exhausted, the consumer will be able to refer their case to an ADR body.
The ADR body will then assess the case in an efficient and timely manner and provide a solution, which, if acceptable to the consumer, the airline must comply with.
This means that if the ADR scheme provider says the airline should pay compensation, the airline must do so.
If consumers do not accept the ADR provider's solution the consumer can reject it and may pursue their legal rights through the courts (subject to the courts' time limits for bringing a court claim).
How long will it take for the schemes to consider cases?
Once an ADR provider has all the necessary information to consider the claim, ADR bodies have to complete their handling of a case within 90 days. In practice, many cases will be dealt with quicker than this. Consumers should let the CAA know if approved ADR providers are not meeting these timescales.
Will passengers have to pay for the scheme?
EU rules do allow ADR bodies to charge a small fee for handling a complaint.
Do airlines have to join ADR schemes?
No, participating in ADR schemes is currently voluntary for airlines.
What about the CAA's complaints service?
We believe ADR delivers the best outcomes to consumers that have disputes stemming from a contract with an airline.
However, the CAA's complaints service will continue to handle complaints for consumers flying with airlines that have not agreed to participate in an approved ADR scheme.


Today in Brazil, Asus unveiled two new smartphones — the Zenfone M2 Max Plus and Max Zenfone Shot. It's the state that looks similar, like two drops of water. However, all the difference is inside the smartphone.
Both smartphones have received a 6.26-inch SuperIPS display with a resolution of FullHD+ (2246×1080 pixels). Of course, not without the cutout in the screen – it will place the 8-megapixel camera.
On the rear panel of both fingerprint scanners, the only difference in the main chamber, and then to the naked eye it is invisible. A Max Plus M2 camera dual, only the possibility of different cameras.
And now about the most features is the first phones with Snapdragon processors SiP1. This "child" cooperation Qualcomm and Taiwanese company Universal Scientific Industrial (USI), which has 8 cores with a frequency of 1.8 GHz and accelerator Adreno 506. All components are combined in a circuit, so the chip takes up less space than "traditional" SoC. In theory, this will reduce the sizes of smartphones, or to make room for a larger battery.
As for the price, the devices will be sold from $ 300, and the older model is $ 450.


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hen pastors are asked what makes the Annual Catholic Appeal successful, they are quick to highlight the generosity of their parishioners, embracing the vision, adherence to a plan of action, and the importance of prayer. Appeal planners also point to the critical role of pastors, who teach and witness to the important mission of the Annual Catholic Appeal, covering such initiatives as helping the poor, the elderly, families and retired religious, as well as ministries of evangelization, communication and vocations.
"[It allows] my parishioners to see what is going on throughout the Diocese." It's a combination that brought the 2018 Annual Catholic Appeal, "What Does Love Look Like?" to a successful close in December. The appeal raised $6.2 million of a $7 million goal, an increase of $600,000 over the previous year's appeal.
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Q: Google app engine and application scope data I'm developing a spring based web application that is deployed on Google app Engine.
I have a manager that store data in application scope. I'm using a spring bean (singleton) that hold a map and simply perform get and remove from the map,
 however GAE is a distributed environment and this design has a problem since each application instance will have its own manager and request are not guaranteed to be made to the same application instance.
So I've looked around and found 2 possible solution:

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*use data store

*use memcache

storing the data will cause a lot of read and writes and eventually I do not need the data to be saved.
second looked promising but Google mentioned  that:

In general, an application should not expect a cached value to always be available.

and I need a guarantee that when I ask my manger to get a value it will return it.
is there any other solution?
did I miss anything?

A: A common solution is storing the values in a memcache, backed by the datastore.
First fetch the application-scope value from the memcache, and if the memcache returns zero-result (a cache-miss event), fetch the value from the datastore and put the fetched value on the memcache.
In this way, the next fetch to the memcache would return your application-scope data, reducing the need for a (relatively) costly read to the datastore.
App Engine memcache is a least-recently used cache, so values that are frequently read would suffer from few cache-miss event.
A more complex solution to have a application-scope value is to store the values in-memory at a resident backend, and have all your other instances request/update the value from/to this particular backend via a servlet handler.

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Performances – Welcome to the Spirit of the South Seas!
The dance studio is available to perform for your events. Our decades of expertise ensure our performances are professional and exceed expectations. We'll work with you to prepare a show that fits your specific needs and timing. For special occasions, we will produce a commemorative CD to keep your memories special.
A few of the many recent performances have been: Air Tahiti Nui, Pacific Nation Exhibition (PNE), Kitsilano Showboat, Arts in Action, May is Art Month (Capilano Mall), Barclay Manor Mansion Luau, Culture Days Summer: Lynn Valley Village and Parkgate Plaza, Canada wide autumn Culture Cram, Hospitals, Seniors homes, Canada Day events, Caribbean Days at Waterfront Park, Greek Festival, and performances at Centennial Theatre (North Vancouver), Kay Meek Theatre (West Vancouver), Shadbolt Theatre (Burnaby) plus many other public and private functions.
In previous years, the hālau has held a luau, with proceeds to local charities, donating thousands of hours of their time and resources. In the annual summer celebration, the Spirit of the South Seas has hosted an outdoor Luau, in a secluded treed setting, with a sumptuous buffet including traditional kalua roast, lau lau's, lomi lomi salmon, poi, poke chicken long rice, haupia & more, surrounded by flickering tiki torches.
Our dancers have consistently won 1st, 2nd and 3rd place each year, including a child in our group recognized for a top overall award in 2015 and 2016.


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If you're anything like the city slicker I am, then the closest you've come to experiencing the West is through books and movies —not all of us have that urge to visit a working ranch à la Billy Crystal. But this month we can get even closer to rough-ridin' cowboys, tumblin' tumbleweeds, and squintin' gunslingers at the following events. We have until August 9 to catch "This Contest Is for Real Hands: Rodeo Photographs of the 1930's" at the Bell County Museum in Belton. Featuring 56 black and white photographs by Otho Hartley, the exhibit offers an in-the-arena glimpse at a life of trick-riding and bronco-busting. Beginning August 8, the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Fort Worth will display "Creating Hollywood's West: Historic Costumes and Reproductions From Cathy Smith," which features costumes from such television miniseries as Son of the Morning Star and Buffalo Girls (above, a cowgirl outfit made of raw silk). On August 19, connect with the spirit of Texas outlaw John Wesley Hardin, who was shot in (where else?) a saloon on this day in 1895. Members of the Six Guns and Shady Ladies will reenact the fatal scene at the Acme Saloon at Hardin's gravesite, in Concordia Cemetery in El Paso. When all is said and done, we'll be ready to ride off into the sunset. (See El Paso: Points of Interest; Fort Worth: Museums/Galleries; and Belton: Museums/Galleries.)
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This project is part of the University of Delaware's Bartol Research Institute neutron monitor program. One of the program's 11 monitors is installed at the South Pole. This season, researchers will focus on enhancing the ability of IceTop—the surface component of the IceCube neutrino observatory—to determine element composition of solar energetic particles in the energy range of 1-10 Giga-electron-Volts (GeV). Using many components of the former South Pole neutron monitor, researchers will construct an enhanced suite of neutron detectors whose response functions (primarily due to hadrons) have a different dependence on energy and element composition from those of IceTop (primarily due to photons and leptons).
One participant will deploy to test and repair the detectors as needed. Upgraded firmware will be installed in the recording system to increase data value by adding "multiplicity" recording and by synchronizing the data stream directly to GPS time.


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The Western Mega-drought's Impacts on Practicing Water Law in the West
Posted on October 4, 2021 by Thomas Sansonetti
Consider this advice for budding environmental lawyers: It's a good time to be practicing water law in the western United States.
The persistent drought extending into its third decade has reached the point where difficult allocations of available water are challenging the executive, legislative and judicial branches of both state and federal governments.
In the summer of 2021, the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation announced that, due to diminished water levels behind its dams and in its reservoirs impacting fourteen western states, water rationing would begin in earnest. This occurrence impacts the delicate balance between agricultural and urban interests. Western states have statutes declaring "first in time, is first in right" as to whom can use water, when, and in what quantity. Since the settlers of the West in the 1800s were largely ranchers and farmers, they applied for and were granted state water permits to take necessary amounts of water for their beneficial uses, thereby entitling them to "first in time" priority based on the issuance date of the permits. In contrast, most cities and towns did not obtain their water rights until the 20th century. Thus, under existing law, crops and cattle drink first. People in urban centers drink second.
Unsurprisingly, under the current drought circumstances, the fact that there are more urban dwellers than farmers or ranchers is putting tremendous pressure on state legislative branch leaders to change the law to provide more water resources for cities. Such attempts may fall short in those rural states like Wyoming and Montana where agricultural interests still hold sway in state capitols. However, the same initiatives could well pass in states like California, Oregon and Washington with large and thirsty coastal populations. Such changes to longstanding legal tenets can only lead to intra-state conflicts, and 5th Amendment "takings" claims among other lawsuits.
While western water is largely governed under state laws, the federal government plays a big role in the distribution of water associated with its reservoirs and dams. The same urban versus rural paradigm will play out in Congress where states like California will match their two U.S. Senators and 53 congressional members up against promoters of the status quo like Idaho and Montana with their two U.S. Senators and 2 congressional members each. Thus, it may come to pass that the House of Representatives will introduce legislation to shift water resources to cities. If passed by the House, the outcome of the battle over such legislation in the Senate will depend on the votes of eastern U.S. senators "without a dog in the fight."
"Federal reserved water rights" also come into play here. These creatures of federal law may come into being via treaty, agreement, statute or executive order and may be implied or express. The goal of a reserved water right is to supply from previously unappropriated waters an amount of water sufficient to meet the basic needs of a particular constituency or area.
The demand for federal reserved water rights takes many forms. Among them are water rights for National Wildlife Refuges, National Parks and the 562 federally recognized Indian reservations, or under the Wild & Scenic Rivers Act, the Endangered Species Act, and the Wilderness Act.
As far as priority under state law goes, years of litigation have resulted in a rule of thumb that Indian tribes get a date akin to the year the tribal reservation was created, usually via a treaty with the United States. The date of the water priority assigned to the other kinds of reservations is most often the date of the legislation's passage. Many of the proponents of reservation legislation are not from the states impacted by the loss of available water for domestic, agricultural, industrial, and recreational uses. As the mega-drought continues, these varying needs establish an intrinsic conflict between human consumption in-state uses versus protected instream flows for fish, threatened species, parks and scenic rivers. If negotiations between the conflicted parties for some form of pro rata water sharing cannot be achieved, aggrieved parties can only appeal to their legislators or to courts for relief.
The inevitable litigation, whether in state or federal court, will challenge traditional concepts like "first in time, is first in right", the priority of federal reservation rights, and the "practically irrigable acreage" measuring stick for tribal water quantification. There will be attempts to re-open the 1934 Colorado River Compact. There will be new state-legislature driven adjudications of in-state water basins which will involve hundreds of private, state and federal claims to the available water. States will exercise the original jurisdiction of the U.S. Supreme Court to sue one another.
Given that water is the lifeblood of any society, any of the foregoing actions will be lengthy, contentious and expensive, thus proving the old adage: "Water in the East is for drinking and water in the West is for fighting over!"
A newly minted attorney considering a 30-40 year legal career could do a lot worse than becoming proficient, adept, and well known in the field of Western water law.


WE are in the darkest hour. Yet in these times, we still bask in past glory. We can't continue holding on to our glorious past, making it a point of comfort to cover up for the present mess; putting off till tomorrow what can be done today instead of forging a way forward. Since Nigeria gained independence in 1960, the male gender has been in charge of the leadership of the country. But there has been little or nothing to show for it; rather, all we are holding on to is the story of the glorious past. The country has not been retrogressing on a daily basis.
Both the young and the old, male and female keep lamenting the present precarious situation of Nigeria. It sometimes appears we don't know the source of our problems or rather, the solution is what we don't have or better still we are in this mess because nobody is ready to take responsibility. Where are the elders who truly care? Where are the youths, who are ready to dare? How many children's childhood dreams come to past? And why is there so much religion but so little love? What are the religious bodies doing to our situation?
"Sooner begun, sooner done" they say, and I think it's high time we tries something new, and stop putting all our eggs in one basket; lets the female gender. Why do people believe things they don't know aren't true? You can't judge from appearance. If a woman can build a family, set things right in the home and give it a perfect shape, then building a nation might not be an exemption. While the defining characteristics of femininity are not universally identical, some patterns exist: gentleness, empathy, sensitivity, caring, sweetness, compassion, tolerance, nurturance, deference, and succorance are traits that have traditionally been cited as feminine. Women are innately nurturing, caring, and motherly: qualities which can contribute to the growth and development of our nation.
The strength and capacity of a woman cannot be underestimated. So, I am of the opinion that a female president should be given a trial in Nigeria. Hence the four female candidate for 2019 election; Funmilayo Adesanya Davis, Oluremi Comfort Sonaiya, Elishama Rosemary Ideh and Eunice Atuajide should be given due support. Let's try something new, as variety is the spice of life. Nigeria is no different from other successful like Ireland, China and England that are governed by women.
We have seen, from countries a round the world, women who led great empires since ancient times. Many of the most powerful countries including: United kingdom, Israel, Brazil, South Korea, Germany, India, to mention but few, have, at some point, elected women as their heads of state, prime minister. These women succeeded in building a robust and viable national economies, managed vast populations, and most importantly, they had respect for their people.
In the history of the United Kingdom, for example, we have the case of Margaret Thatcher who ruled as the prime minister. She managed the country that was, initially in permanent state of decline; it is on record that by the end of Thatcher's era; there was less unemployment in Britain. She revitalised the British economy through supply side reforms and entrepreneurship; hundreds of thousands of small businesses that are in modern Britain that formed the backbone of the economy, came on stream. Also through the right-to-buy scheme, she gave some of the poorest and previously disenfranchised people in the society a way to buy their homes; thus letting aspiration, hardworking people improve their security and increase their wealth by owning properties thereby having more of a stake in the society.
Among the fastest growing economies in Africa are Ethiopia and Senegal, who have in their history women of great substance who were willing to take risk and change the fortune of their countries. It's no longer news that Ethiopia's economy is booming and it shows no sign of slowing down anytime soon: a country currently ruled by a woman. Why can't we (Nigeria) as a nation take a bold step as fortune favours only the bold?
In the case of Liberia, Africa's first female president, Ellen Sirleaf Johnson, on her ascending the exalted seat, spent years repairing the damage done to Liberia by 25 years of violence and misrule. The country which was left as the world's poorest nation beset by illiteracy, hunger, pandemic unemployment was revived by the woman.
In 2010; Johnson Sirleaf was listed as one of the "ten best leaders in the world," while The Economist referred to her as "the best president the country has ever had." She was a popular symbol of democracy not only in Liberia but throughout Africa. She was credited for securing peace in Liberia; promoting economic and social development. If women have successfully ruled therefore mentioned nations, then Nigeria can't be an exception.
Therefore, it's high time for us to take responsibility for our mistakes, and stop being a bad workman, who always blames his tools. We should engage in the collective work of rebuilding Nigeria and stop crying over a spilt milk. Women should be give the opportunity to fully exploit their potential and participate in the affairs of the country.
Little is done, where many command; we should all agree on the best and speak in one voice as a nation. Let us be the architects of our own fortune. We should take the bold step now because time and tide wait for no man.
Nigeria women have a record of vast experience, resilience, diligence and accountability. We have such great names and icons like Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Madam Tinubu and Margaret Ekpo who was among the nationalists that led the struggle for Nigeria gaining independence from Britain on October 1, 1960.
Others amazons like Professor Dora Akunyili, Kudirat Abiola, Ayo Obe, to name just three carved a niche for themselves because of their uncommon bravery and doggedness in the fight against injustice and impunity in the country.
Oyebanji is an NYSC member with Sunday Tribune.
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To celebrate Oliviero Toscani's 80th birthday with his own words, we republish an interview from Collectible DRY Vol. 4
The master Oliviero Toscani celebrated his 80th birthday some days ago. With more than fifty years of career behind, Toscani is acclaimed as one of the greatest photographer of the century. Collectible DRY is pleased to omage his creative mind reproposing an interview by our Editor-in-Chief Silvia Motta, first time published in the fourth paper issue of the magazine.
OLIVIERO TOSCANI: PHOTOGRAPHY IS A POLITICAL MESSAGE
Silvia Motta: When you took those photos – which are today considered iconic and opened up a whole new, imaginary world – did you already know what you wanted to say? Did you have a specific project in mind, or were they simply a form of provocation?
Oliviero Toscani: Provocation is a consequence. You have to provoke interest. Why has that word taken on a negative connotation? All art is provocation.
SM: Did you know that there was a political statement wrapped up in that provocation?
OT: Every photograph has its own socio-political message. It's just that those produced by ad agencies aren't intelligent. Too bad for them. I've never worked with any ad agencies.
SM: But Oliviero, you did once, with Pirella…
OT: Forget Pirella! Pirella distributed the means. He had nothing to do with the creation of images. Nothing. He worked the same way as Agenzia Italia, distributing the means. He looked for spaces. And back then anybody who was looking for spaces signed the campaigns as well, so Pirella stole the credit. I did that work together with Maurizio Vitale. I've always worked with the bosses.
SM: Did you invent the slogan?
OT: No, no. Maurizio Vitale and I did together. The word "Jesus" popped up on Broadway. Maurizio and I were there, in 1972, after I'd been breaking his balls for six years to make blue jeans, and he finally decided to make them. That evening we were walking together along Broadway, wondering what to call them. We saw the title "Jesus Christ Superstar" and I said, "Hey, look! 'JJ.' That's not a bad name…" You see, you could never work that way with an agency. You've been lucky enough to encounter a few true visionaries along the way… Luck's got nothing to do with it. There's no point in working with stupid people. Frank Lloyd Wright once said, "The quality of your architecture depends on the client's intelligence." You have to find intelligent clients if you want to do good work. There's no way around it! It's pointless to go work for a newspaper if it's run by an idiot! The newspaper will be idiotic as a result…
SM: So Oliviero, you already had the project in mind? You were very young then, and already a legend by the time you were 30. You'd become a global figure, even though there was no internet, no social media. You became a legend overnight.
OT: A legend… I was talented. I'm part of my generation. I'm the same age as Muhammad Ali, the Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Bob Dylan… That's my generation. Bob Dylan was a legend by the time he was 20 too…
SM: Yes, and we can undoubtedly place you within that sphere. But the other photographers of your generation never became what you have become. How would you define yourself? What are you? A photographer, philosopher, politician…
OT: I'm an author. I use photography to bear witness to my times. That's it. It's not like the photographer is the guy who knows how to use a camera and the writer is a guy who knows how to use a typewriter or computer. A writer is an author, and a photographer should be the same. Instead it's always photographic skill, craft… I was never a photographic craftsman. To be honest, I find the means and machines of photography a little tiresome. But you have to use them if you want to express yourself.
SM: To what extent did attending the prestigious school in Zurich – the Kunstgewerbeschule – influence you?
OT: A great deal. It was the best school. There I learned about Bauhaus, five years of art school. I know typography, characters, pagination… The man who taught me about color was Johannes Itten, a true master of Bauhaus colors. Max Bill. Incredible teachers. There was a great deal of discipline for shapes, and especially the concept of what you draw. And my generation also had the good fortune to be a part of a generation that overthrew the status quo.
SM: But you were the only one capable of leading fashion imagery to such extreme consequences…
OT: Well, you know, on average photographers are not highly cultured, educated people. They improvise. A guy stands up and decides to become a photographer. But I was fortunate enough, first of all, to be a second generation photographer, so I already had a certain kind of culture of the image, and then the school, then my generation… I've been very lucky.
SM: Your father was a photo reporter. Did that influence your training?
OT: Yes. Basically it was news, knowing what was happening out there in the world. There was no television, not like today. Now we waste our time with social media; back then communication took place in 360 degrees. I didn't care if it was advertising, journalism or publishing. Getting put in print meant getting put in print. The poster is incredibly important.
SM: Do you feel there was a magical moment? How do you see the present day?
OT: Today is always magical, always interesting. I think we're experiencing an incredibly interesting moment.
SM: But there's not enough courage. Back then there was a lot of irony in your messages, a lot of detachment, a lot of intelligence. Today it seems that there are far more mannerisms in things…
OT: Things have been going downhill ever since they invented this word "marketing." We even created a financial crisis. Marketing, in other words doing things in relationship to a market, produces mediocrity. Everybody's looking for consensus. At heart, you want your magazine to sell, right? So in order to sell, you have to adapt to marketing. That's a big mistake. This search for consensus creates mediocrity. Back then the search for consensus was different than it is today, where we think it's right to do whatever marketing tells us… In my opinion, if you want to be successful you have to listen to what marketing tells you to do, then do the exact opposite.
SM: Ultimately you did things that made a major break with the past, and sold lots of shirts through a message, a socio-political message. But at a certain point it wound up on a collision course. Do you think your message had extended further than you'd intended it to?
OT: Clearly the Benetton brand had become too limiting for me. That's logical. But it also gave me an opportunity to be present all over the world. In Italy it was much more interesting to work for a company like that, rather than working for a magazine like L'Uomo Vogue. L'Uomo Vogue was just L'Uomo Vogue.
SM: Naturally that's true, but to what extent did the very fact that you used this means lead you to develop your
own, political project? In reality, you were in politics. You're a person who is deeply committed to social causes. Have you always used your own conscience to combat society's false consciences? What led you to decide to use a message – a message that couldhave been merely commercial and trendy – as a way to communicate something different to your audience?
OT: There's no such thing as a commercial message for fashion. There are interesting messages, or uninteresting messages. That's it. You try to do something interesting, seeing as you have this chance to benefit from an incredible distribution system that sends your image all over the whole world. That's why you try to do something interesting. Young people were a lot more interested in AIDS than they were in a lot of the other bullshit that fashion talked about or didn't talk about. Have you ever worried about body commodification?
SM: No, no, no, no. Obviously I've considered the problem, but I don't think it can be resolved like those that have those, you know, grandma complexes. What does "body commodification" even mean? Doesn't it exist in Michelangelo's Pietà too? Well, then! Art is full of body commodification. Here's the problem: you can't be a merchant, yet you have to deal with a market. Everything takes place in light of a market. OT: If we think about the way the female body is used in sacred imagery, for example a nursing Madonna… Yes, it's there in art, in Picasso, in everything… But that's not commodification. It's not true!
SM: Do you think we're living in a particularly puritanical era?
OT: No, it's not puritanism. It's the era of being afraid you won't have enough money. Economy! Fuck puritanism! Now it's
total immorality. People work, do everything, based on a relationship with money. That's what's immoral. We throw our lives away just struggling to make sure budgets are balanced, becoming mediocre, castrating ourselves just so that we can make it to the end of the month. Economy has got us by the balls and by the throat. We should have given power to the musicians and artists, not to these asshole Bocconi graduates. These economists, this Mario Monti, these imbeciles of modern finance. What's worse, they don't ever really know what's going on. If you ask them what's going on, they don't even know what to say. One day the balance sheets look good, the next they've gone to hell. I
think they're a bunch of idiots! Yet they've got our destinies in their hands.
SM: Yes, that's the problem with democracy. They make you believe you're in charge of your own destiny, simply because you can vote. But in the end you don't really have any power, do you?
OT: And people need to know it. That's all.
SM: Maybe we need to come up with another formula…
OT: It's all in the rules: you have to make advertising thisway, that way…but that's all bullshit! Believe me, you canoverturn everything. All you need is courage.
SM: People need courage, but in the end, they need to know how to have fun too, don't you agree? You have to have fun with what you do…
OT: It's not important what these economists tell you. Not in the least. They make me laugh. I've never gone into a bank in my life. There's always someone else, my mother, my sister, my wives… It's logical!
SM: Let's talk for a moment about the female universe. What is female? What is a woman to you? …Beauty?
OT: That too, of course. That's everything too.
SM: Love?
OT: That too, naturally.
SM: You've never been a romantic person, but in the end you've become quite romantic too…
OT: What does "being romantic" mean? Sweet-talking…?
SM: No! Being romantic doesn't mean being overly affectionate. Being romantic means being someone who experiences feelings.
OT: I've been an honorable man.
SM: What do you think of scrap heaps in politics? Do you think we should toss this conversation into one?
OT: This idiot Renzi is a true fuck up. A Christian Democrat. He's just like Berlusconi, the spitting image of Berlusconi.
SM: You are a maestro, a grand maestro. In my opinion, no one's been able to imitate you. My point is that you can't be imitated. If you say 'Newton,' you'll immediately find a horde of photographers who have copied him. If you say 'Penn,' same thing… But you're unique. How did
you do it? What do you have that the others lack?
OT: I think photography is a means to an end. I'm not a photographer because I like photography. You need a whole series of motives, history; you have to bear witness to your times. You have to add politics, ethics, the human condition. If you can add all that, you'll be creating an image that belongs to its era. An image of that which you've experienced, especially in its form and substance.
SM: Do you consider yourself a witness to your times?
OT: Absolutely. That's my job. Witness to my times.
SM: And those are pretty extensive times, because you started when you were quite young…
OT: Yes, it's been over fifty years now. Did you see the book? It's titled Più di 50 anni di magnifici fallimenti (More than fifty years of magnificent failures), published by Electa. You'll find lots of people's opinions in there. Everybody shares his or her opinion of me.
SM: Do they usually have good things to say, or bad things to say?
OT: They don't have bad things to say… I have to admit it's interesting. They analyze my work.
SM: Do you think they do an accurate job of describing you?
OT: Yes, each in his own manner, in different ways. I like criticism. I like to reason things out, discuss, be controversial, ferret out the reasons why someone is criticizing you. When someone criticizes you, it means that for better or for worse your work has made an impression. If they criticize you, it means they've thought about you. Maybe they don't like you – it's a judgment, and judgments are born of consideration and analysis, and I find that interesting. I'm not interested in being right. When everybody says I'm right, that's when I start thinking maybe I'm wrong.
SM: What do you think of this world of ours?
OT: It's wonderful! We're moving slowly, very slowly toward civilization. But we still have some dark years ahead.
SM: Are you still teaching? Do you still have a school?
OT: No. I teach some master classes, once a month, together with the psychiatrist Paolo Crepet, in order to teach students where to start photographing… Why we take pictures, what we take pictures of…especially the why. And not the camera's aesthetic pleasures. I hate that.
SM: What's changed with the advent of digital?
OT: Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Actually one thing: we're polluting the environment less. We don't use chemicals any more. They finally invented it.
SM: What about image manipulation?
OT: That existed before, too. Photography is like theater, and thetheater manipulates reality as well.
SM: What are you mostly focusing on right now?
OT: For over ten years now I've been working on a piece titled "la
razza umana" (The human race). I travel around the world with a white backdrop and shoot people in public squares. I've collected 70,000 portraits. Out on the street, just an itinerant photographer. But I give those photographs away. I don't accept any payment for them.
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Daesh flags and slogans cover a wall in Sirte, Libya, in 2016. (File/Reuters)
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The operation targeted the most prominent Daesh leader in Libya, leading to his arrest
Daesh gained a foothold in Libya amid the chaos that reigned after Qaddafi was toppled in 2011
TRIPOLI: Forces loyal to Libyan eastern commander Khalifa Haftar announced Sunday the arrest of a top Daesh figure in the south of the North African country.
The eastern-based marshal's forces led an operation in the southern desert town of Ubari targeting the "most prominent leader" of Daesh in Libya, Mohamed Miloud Mohamed — who goes by Abu Omar — leading to his arrest, said a statement by Haftar's spokesman Ahmad Al-Mesmari.
Abu Omar was among the top Daesh leaders in Libya when the group took control of the central coastal city of Sirte in 2015, the statement added.
The militants made Sirte a stronghold where they trained fighters and orchestrated attacks, including killing scores of foreign tourists in neighboring Tunisia, before they were driven out of the Libyan city in 2016.
Daesh gained a foothold in Libya amid the chaos that reigned in the country after dictator Muammar Qaddafi was toppled and killed in a NATO-backed uprising in 2011.
Described as a "dangerous terrorist," Abu Omar had "close ties" with Abu Moaz Al-Iraqi, the head of Daesh in Libya, who was killed last September by pro-Haftar forces, Mesmari's statement said.
Abu Omar is also accused of having abducted in 2015 four Italian engineers, who were freed after payment of a ransom estimated at four million euros ($4.8 million), it added.
A political crisis in the wake of Qaddafi's overthrow saw the oil-rich country split between rival authorities in the east and west and the disintegration of security apparatuses, creating fertile ground for militant groups like Daesh to take root.
After Daesh was ousted from Sirte the group was significantly weakened in Libya, but its members have retreated into the desert or blended in with the population on the Mediterranean coast.
A new transitional government was recently approved under a UN-sponsored inter-Libyan dialogue to unify the country's institutions and is due to be sworn in on Monday.
Five Syrian soldiers killed, 20 injured by Daesh
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March 31, 2017 / Michael Salazar
It's always wonderful hearing how COMPAS makes creators, but what about seeing it? Take a glimpse at how our artists and mission help cultivate meaningful artistic experiences that inspire generations young and old. Watch and share the magic with your friends and family!
In literary news, COMPAS artist Marcie Rendon debuts her first novel, Murder on the Red River (Cinco Puntos Press). Set in Fargo, ND, the story follows a 19-year-old heroine who see's her life as "a living, breathing country western song", and barrels on a journey through self-discovery. Marcie is a talented writer and poet on our artist roster and her novel now joins her other four amazing nonfiction children's books.
"But in this, her first mystery, she finds new depth and an ample storytelling platform for her informed views on the historic persecution of Indians." –Ginny Green, Star Tribune. Read the full-length review here.
Earlier this month we wanted to address a proposed federal budget plan that would ultimately eliminate funding for the National Endowment for the Arts. Days like March 3rd, where well over 500 people got creative in COMPAS programs, would be that much harder to obtain. Over 57,000 Minnesotans thrive from the creative access we provide each year and it's pertinent to be aware of how these plans affect our mission. Read more about this issue and what you can do to help.
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