Before we left for our travels, we would have friends over every Thursday for dinner. It was an awesome time to get together and catch up while the kids ran around and had a blast. It was during these weekly dinners that our friends came to understand our crazy zero waste ways. They laughed at our foggy water glasses as I fooled around with DIY dishwasher detergents and remarked at the lack of suds in my latest batch of dish soap. One such change that caused a few shakes of the head from them was doing away with paper towels.
What do you do when you spill something on the floor? Need to wipe your child's face or wash a window? Ok, side note. I literally just had to Google, 'uses for paper towels'. Honestly. We don't use them any more. Sure we have a roll under our sink, but that's been there since BEFORE we left for our trip almost two years ago now. I think the only time we use them is when we make bacon and need to sop up the grease, which is rare.
So what do we use instead of paper towels? Rags, dish towels and sponges. That's it. Like so many zero waste swaps out there, it isn't about re-inventing the wheel, but rather it's about asking yourself what people used before that thing was invented. It's going back to a simpler time. We keep under our sink a basket of rags for mopping up the grosser messes, washing windows and general cleaning. For all else, we use the dish towels or sponges. It's simple.
Disappointed? Thought I'd throw something sexier at you? Something fancy? Sorry.
Still hooked on those paper towels? Can't imagine life without them? Some clever folks have started making "unpaper towels" to substitute for paper towels. These are essentially cloths than can be washed and used again and again.
These are just a few that are out there. A quick search on Etsy will reveal many, many more.
Of course, you can always make your own too!
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In its Philippines Economic Update, the multilateral bank has downgraded its 2019 growth forecast for the Philippines from the earlier forecast of 6.4 percent in April considering the weak global economy, rising protectionism, the escalating trade war between the US and China, and the weak public spending in the first half because of the delayed passage of the 2019 national budget.
World Bank downgrades Philippines growth forecast
Czeriza Valencia (The Philippine Star) - October 11, 2019 - 12:00am
MANILA, Philippines — The World Bank has downgraded its 2019 growth forecast for the Philippines to 5.8 percent, taking into account the weak and uncertain external environment and the slowdown in public investments in the first semester.
World Bank senior economist for the Philippines Rong Qian said that while the government is trying to accelerate public investment to compensate for the underspending in the first half, there are still implementation challenges that might prevent a full catch-up.
"Although we are seeing signs that this budget is disbursed more quickly in the last months, the challenge is a lot of agencies have not started the procurement process. And as you know, the procurement process in the Philippines is rather long," Rong said in a briefing.
"Another challenge is the absorptive capacity of the private sector. The budget delay caused some accumulation of projects and now that it has been passed, they all go to the market and at the same time the private sector, especially the construction sector in some LGUs don't have the absorptive capacity," she said.
Because of the weak external environment, growth in exports is expected to remain subdued.
Nonetheless, other drivers such as strong private consumption because of lower inflation, higher employment rates, strong remittance inflows, and rising wages will keep the economy buoyant, recovering to 6.1 percent in 2020 and 6.2 percent in 2021.
"Economic growth is expected to surpass six percent in 2020-2021 as the impact of the budget delay dissipates, assuming timely passage of new budgets, private consumption growth remains robust, and that uncertainties around the passage of tax reform program dissipate soon," Rong said.
According to Rong, fiscal policy can be expected to remain supportive of growth alongside the recovery of public investment.
"Monetary policy is also expected to be acomodative as inflation pressure diminishes," Rong said.
The report said that despite the slowdown in economic growth in the first half, the Philippines can sustain progress in poverty reduction as more workers are finding gainful employment outside agriculture, real wages are rising and inflation rates are stabilizing.
The continued implementation of social programs like conditional cash transfers also contribute significantly to poverty reduction.
Rong stressed that to regain growth momentum in the short term, there is a need to ramp up public investment and fast track the implementation of "game changing reform" to accelerate inclusive growth.
"To sustain the public investment momentum, timely passage of the 2020 budget would be important. Similarly, swift passage of the corporate tax and fiscal incentives reform will help to resolve uncertainties in the private sector," she said.
Likewise, the passage of reforms that facilitate the entry of foreign players such as the amendment to the Public Sector Act and Retail Trade Liberatlization Act would boost private investment.
The report also stressed the need to improve competition in the country to enable the entry of more players and page the way for the creation of more quality jobs.
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EXPLORATIONS OF EASTERN WISDOM – Chapter 1: Alan Watts' legacy; remarks on Yin & Yang, Interdependence and Flux; differences between Buddhism and the Monotheisms… and so on!
I've been immerging myself in Alan Watt's talks lately, plunging into his words and thoughts, and I seem to have reached a point in which, so to speak, my cup is about to overflow. In other words: his teachings, I suppose, are beggining to bear fruit in my inner gardens, and I've been wondering with myself, under Alan's inspiration and spell: why don't I open the gates to others to come and taste these fruits, even though they're still in a process of ripening? What starts here, right now, is an attempt to write about my pilgrimages through Eastern Wisdom. Not from the perspective of an historian who looks at it like dead curiosities in a museum of ruins, but as something alive and kicking, which still has many possible lessons to teach us, the "Modern Times". This is certainly a work in progress – but after all, is there any work that isn't necessarily in flux, embarked on the cosmos' ever-moving stream, and thus fated to wander and ramble on, constantly on the move?…
I cherish a lot Alan Watts' attempts to teach to the Modern Times the keys to the unlocking of the treasures of Eastern (and ancient) Wisdom. Maybe he deserves to be considered alongside figures such as Aldous Huxley or Heinrich Zimmer as a very important figure in the history of bridge-constructing between the so-called "East" and "West". A famous Zen proverb – quoted often in popular culture (in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's film Le Fabuleux Destin D'Amélie Poulain, for instance) – states: "When the wise man points his finger at the Moon, the fools regard his fingers." Alan Watts' uses words in order to get beyond words, to point at the stars and moons, at the waters and the rocks, at the breezes and the streams, in order to invite us, invoke on us, depict for us, a way of experiencing the world in which we inhabit Nature instead of feeling alien (or alienated) from it.
I don't listen to Alan Watts like he's an irreproachable Awakened One, who has all the answers and final solutions, to be worshipped on my knees, but rather as some sort of pilgrim of wisdom, of witty beatnik poet, of "spiritual entertainer" (as he himself jokingly called himself). He demands of us, his listeners and readers, not credulity or obedience, but rather creativity and singularity. A guru who is deeply anti-gurus and who repeats to us: "Don't respect any authorities or gurus without criticism, try to think and experience for yourself!"
Stuff like Nirvana – or other sorts of Ecstactic Awakenings and satoris and unio mysticas – aren't fully describable in words. They are truths of lived experience rather than statements of representational verbal language. "Words are too clumsy", Alan Watts loves to say, and he underlines frequently the simple fact we tend to take for granted: the mountains aren't made with words, and neither are the stars. Do words flow in rivers? Do we breath words in the air? Does it rain words on our umbrellas? In our cosmos, words seem to be a very small part of it. As far as we know, it's a recent extravagance of certain lliving organisms on a little corner of the Universe called planet Earth…
My plan is to begin a series here in Awestruck Wanderer's vast cyber-spaces (I see plenty of room to keep on expanding it!) in which I'll try to share some footprints of my own wanderings in the realm of Eastern Wisdom. The aim is not only to register a journey, but to invite others to add their own discoveries and different perspectives to this journey of quest for Nirvanic enlightenments and dispellments of burdensome illusions.
ALAN WATTS – Buddhism: The Religion of No Religion. Full Course (Audio Book) – 5 hours and 20 minutes – DOWNLOAD TORRENT.
I enjoy very much the concept of Buddhism not as a religion, with fixed dogmas and rituals, unquestionable and always worthy with blind obedience, but rather as a collective effort, extending over several generations, to discover ways to transform states of consciousness. Sidarta Gautama, some may argue, is the world's first great psychotherapist. The word "religion", perhaps, doesn't fit well when applied to Buddhism – Alan Watts calls it, rather paradoxically, "The Religion of No Religion" – cause Buddhism it's the poles apart from Christianity, Judaism and Islam, to restrict ourselves to the world's most popular monotheisms.
My perspective on this radical difference between Buddhism and the three major monotheistic religion is this: there's a radical difference between concepts such as Nirvana and Samsara and concepts such as Heaven and Hell. Samsara and Nirvana are existential states, are different ways of experiencing reality, are ways to inhabit the world; Heaven and Hell are mythological places, imagined to be absolutely transcendent, alien to this world, supernatural, outside Nature. Samsara and Nirvana only have meaning inside the realm of life, considered as journey of transformation; Heaven and Hell are thought to "reside" in a separate territory, outside the Physical realm, and the access to it is granted only after the body's death.
It would be quite absurd for someone to say: "I'll reach Nirvana when I die" – such a statement would probably provoke a zen master either to hit the person with a stick or to laugh his lungs out, joyously aware of how nonsensical that pretension is. But it's perfectly "normal" for a Christian, a Jew or a Muslim to say: 'I'll get to Heaven when I die" – and such a statement would be considered normal, trivial, in accordance with the predominant discourse of their particular communities, faithful to the main cultural trend.
Heaven, of course, is a place quite different from Earth: it's imagined to be a place of pleasure without pain, life without death, existence without change (no disease, no decay; no old-age, no new-born-baby…). Buddhists look at this Heaven dreamed by the Monotheisms and say: your Heaven is but a phantasy and an ideal impossible to attain. The way of liberation, a Buddhist will state, lies not in dreaming another reality, "purged" of all the elements usually called evil, ugly or sick. The way of liberation lies in understanding the inter-dependency and inter-relateness of the fabric of reality in which we exist, each one a part of the same whole.
This I've learned from Alan Watts (and, indirectly, from the masters from which Alan himself has learned from…): in reality, there's no eggs without chickens, no fingers without hands, no brains without stomachs, no planets without rocks, no black without white, no pleasure without pain, no life without death. I could go on forever: no seas without salt, no tears without eyes, no mind without matter, no life without bodies, no wisdom without folly. When we realize fully that the cosmos is in flux, filled by ever-moving processes, we begin to perceive ourselves not as separate egos, fixed in some sort of enduring permanence, but rather as whirlpools in the stream, interconnected beings in a web-of-evolution, boats embarked in cosmic change. Awakening or Nirvana refers to a state of consciousness in which the ilusion of separateness vanishes: in the Cosmos we plunge. The Whole, the All, Spinoza's God, the pantheist's object of adoration, we fill no longer apart from us – we're in it. We're one of its constituent parts.
To believe in Heaven and Hell – the first a realm of absolute enjoyment, pleasure, light, delight; the other a realm of terrible torture, un-ending pain, fiery darkness… – is pure folly, a Buddhist would argue, because it denies reality – it's nothing but a ghost created by the human mind in its alienation from its existential position inside Nature's bosom. The awakened one is not the one to preach fake promises, but rather someone who aims to free us from the burden of expecting reality to conform to a certain ideal that reality can never fulfill. In Lin Chi's words: "MY DUTY IS TO BEAT GHOSTS OUT OF YOU!"
One of the best visual representations of Eastern Wisdom is the Yin & Yang dancing diagram. It means not only that black implies white, and figure implies background, but much more: it depicts reality's eternal movement, in which are cointaned all differences. Just like it's impossible to take a magnet and separate its North and South poles (if you chop off any of the poles of a magnet, Alan Watts explains, you won't ever manage to get rid of polarity), it's impossible to sever reality in separate chunks. Reality comes like this: all mixed stuff, intermingled beings, connected in inter-relationships and webs. Just like the apple-tree bears fruit, the Cosmos has made Earth it's life-tree: our planet peoples, our Earth bears the fruits of life, and life bursts from the Cosmos not as something created by Transcendece but as a product of Immanence. Earth or Gaia, this flying sphere of multiplicity beyond words, locked in the embrace of solar gravity, dancing in the Universe's immense dancefloor, has life as one its fruits. The Cosmos is doing each of us just like a tree is doing apples or the oceans are doing waves. Life: We must cherish it, enjoy it, love it, but always aware that Life is dependent on Nature, involved in it, part of it, plunged in it. Lives in the cosmos are like fishes in seas.
Alan Watts explains this beautifully in several of his talks and lectures – here's one of the best of them: 1960's Buddhism and Science, part of Watts' TV-series Eastern Wisdom & Modern Life:
You might also enjoy this South Parkianesque video
(it could be nicknamed Alan Watts For Dummies):
"Man as an organism is to the world outside like a whirlpool is to a river: man and world are a single natural process, but we are behaving as if we were invaders and plunderers in a foreign territory. For when the individual is defined and felt as the separate personality or ego, he remains unaware that his actual body is a dancing pattern of energy that simply does not happen by itself. It happens only in concert with myriads of other patterns – called animals, plants, insects, bacteria, minerals, liquids, and gases. The definition of a person and the normal feeling of 'I' do not effectively include these relationships. You say, 'I came into this world.' You didn't; you came out of it, as a branch from a tree."
"The special branch of science which studies the relation of living beings to their environments – ecology – shows beyond doubt that the individual organism and its environment are a continuous stream, or field, of energy. To draw a new moral from the bees and the flowers: the two organisms are very different, for one is rooted in the ground and broadcasts perfume, while the other moves freely in the air and buzzes. But because they cannot exist without each other, it makes real sense to say that they are in fact two aspects of a single organism. Our heads are very different in appearance from our feet, but we recognize them as belonging to one individual because they are obviously connected by skin and bones. But less obvious connections are no less real…
Civilized human beings are alarmingly ignorant of the fact that they are continuous with their natural surroundings. It is as necessary to have air, water, plants, insects, birds, fish, and mammals as it is to have brains, hearts, lungs, and stomachs. The former are our external organs in the same way that the latter are our internal organs. (…) The sun, the earth, and the forests are just as much features of your own body as your brain. Erosion of the soil is as much a personal disease as leprosy, and many 'growing communities' are as disastrous as cancer. That we do not feel this to be obvious is the result of centuries of habituation to the idea that oneself is only the envelope of skin and its contents, the inside but not the outside. The extreme folly of this notion becomes clear as soon as you try to imagine an inside with no outside, or an outside with no inside."
(ALAN WATTS. "Does It Matter? Essays on Man's Relation to Materiality." New World Library, California, 2007. Pgs. 20 and 36-37)
A box of comments, in the Blogosphere, may well be used as a bridge [a meeting place, a cyber-symposium…] between humans interested in Wisdom Sharing. Anyone? "Hello… Hello… Hello… Is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me… Is there anyone at home?"
Eduardo Carli de Moraes, Awestruck Wanderer
Toronto, 13/08/2014 (my last week in the Twenties!)
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NIETZSCHE AND THE SHADOWS OF GOD – By Y. Yovel in "Dark Riddle: Hegel, Nietzsche and the Jews" (1998)
NIETZSCHE AND THE SHADOWS OF GOD
"Metaphysical fictions are involved in the central concepts and values of Western culture, which dominate and distort every individual's life. (…) The whole network of epistemological and moral concepts in which we live expresses, in this respect, a psychology of escape and repression. In Nietzsche's terms it is a fear of facing the truth, the cowardice of the person retreating before the abyss. Further, the system of rational fictions we project on the world enables us, the weak, to dominate the world in an imaginary way and thus express our will to power in a rather devious manner. In subjecting, as it were, the world to a network of rules and laws of our own invention, we establish our alleged superiority over it and subject the universe itself to our metaphysical illusions.
The Christian religion, even more than rationalistic science and morality, produces and offers a veil of mystification which serves human weakness, meekness, and the negation of life. Images of a transcendent god and a next world make real earthly life appear null and worthless; and by means of moral images of punishment and reward, divine Providence, a moral world order, conscience, repentance, and guilt feelings, men and women interiorize their hatred of life and become self-oppressed.
Though Nietzsche was called a nihilist, he himself regarded nihilism as his number one enemy. Genuine nihilism, he claims, resides in Christianity, whose essence is to deny life's value, to opress life, and to fight against it. The ascetic ideal – the summit of spirituality in Christian eyes (and also in the eyes of the atheist Schopenhauer) – is to Nietzsche the greatest distortion of the spirit which Christianity propagates." (pg. 108)
"This attempt at a radical critique, both in its roots and in its scope, is dramatically expressed in Nietzsche's dictum about the death of God, and even more in his less well-known but more accurate exclamation in The Gay Science: 'When will all these shadows of God cease to darken our minds? When will we complete our de-deification (*) of nature?' (GS, 125)
(*) entogöttilicht, literally "freed of God"
Even after God's death, his shadows still dominate the world. Hence the true role of philosophical criticism is to purge the world of the shadows of the dead God (GS, 108). These shadows are the vestiges of belief in a rational world, a cosmos ruled by a logos, the validity of the natural sciences, of the 'pure' laws of logic, the dominion of causality, and the cogency of the concepts of substance and identity. Modern natural science pretended to have banned God from the picture of nature, but has reinstated God's shadows through the back door.
Philosophical rationalism and the belief in science are disguised versions of the old religious notion of a moral world order, and are likewise based on anthropomorphism – the projection of man's wishes, needs, customs, and aspirations on the structure of the universe. (…) In contrast to Spinoza, for whom the world was saturated (because identical) with God, for Nietzsche the demand to grasp nature as 'clear of God' is the precondition for man to 'become nature again': that is, to be cured of decadence." (pg. 112)
"Life's meaning is not something ready-made, by its mere existence, but is shaped through a process of self-overcoming. A precondition for this is the recognition that there are no objective meanings and values out there in the world, that the world is disrobed of God and his shadows. Therefore the test of the noble person – the "overman" which Nietzsche pretends to announce – lies in the question: 'How much truth can be bear?'
Child Dionysus riding a tigress (Museum El Djem)
Tearing away as many of his protective masks as he or she can, the Dionysian person is supposed to face a universe stripped of rational meaning and of all support by permanent values, and to be capable of converting this terrifying recognition into a new source of life's power and even a new kind of joy. ('Joyous knowing' is, I think, a better rendering of Nietzsche's famous 'La Gaya Scienza').
But what kind of knowing is this? It is certainly not merely a cognitive disposition; it is equally a self-commitment, a passion, a form of willing. It is a mode of recognition and realization, two words which imply taking a stand, performing an act, placing oneself in some firm position. The Dionysian person's knowing is not the affirmation of a statement, nor even a simple disillusionment, but an act of the whole person which affirms a whole existentical 'fate' and accepts a certain way of living, which others would consider miserable, as a basis for joy and creativity.
The psychology of ordinary people is different. When facing hard truths, such people are liable to react by negating life, plunging into despair and nihilism, or running back to the consoling lap of illusion. Weak persons opt for optimism because they cannot overcome pessimism, whereas for the kind of person Nietzsche foresees, a "pessimist" view of existence is merely the starting point to be overcome, an introduction to the affirmation of life and the acceptance of difficulty and suffering, by which to gain new sources of power and joy.
This dialectical overcoming of the temptation of nihilism (and also of superficial optimism) is Nietzsche's main message; it is the crux of his Dionysian stance, the essence of tragedy and the tragic way of life. The Dionysian person neither shuns suffering (mental and physical) and the recognition of chaos, nor lets them drag him into the abyss of despair. Rather, by saying 'YES' to life with all its contingent, absurd, and horrible aspects, he converts this recognition into a source of existential power."
YIRMIYAHU YOVEL
Dark Riddle: Hegel, Nietzsche and the Jews
(1998, Pennsylvania State University, Pgs. 107 -114)
Yovel is Professor of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
and Hans Jonas Professor at the New School for Social Research in New York.
He also wrote Spinoza and Other Heretics and Kant and the Philosophy of History,
BBC's doc Human All Too Human
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Chopper I
Arcade marquee.
Chopper I is a scrolling shooter for the arcade developed and published by SNK in 1988.
I do not own this game, nor have I beaten it.
Overall: 1/10
The bosses are large and interesting.
The graphics are pretty attractive.
This graphics are pretty low-quality for a 1988 arcade release.
The game is obscenely difficult, too hard for the average gamer to enjoy.
There is only one upgradable gun. Kind of dull compare to other shooters which usually have around three.
There is little variety in the game, you'll see most of what the game has to offer by the end of the first stage.
The idea of having walls and towers block bullets is a good idea, but it gets over-used in the later areas and becomes annoying.
When you die, you are sent back to a previous check point, which is annoying.
The game forces you to play the entire game twice to beat it. This is a shameless way to make a game longer than it is. There's nothing wrong with letting a player play a harder second run, but they actually made this part of the game's story!
Screenshot of the game.
youtube.com/watch?v=oVOehsGUqzw - Longplay.
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Video Game Genre - Scrolling Shooter
Media Theme - Science Fiction
Scrolling Shooters


Lots of beauty treatments extensively use almond oil in them due to its many benefits. Mediterranean areas as well as South Asian countries all use it too. Although this is also because the almond tree typically grows in those areas. This exceptional oil can improve heart health as well as promote healthier skin. Organic almond oil has lots of benefits, being rich in vitamin E, potassium and lots of proteins.
Skin whitener. If you spend too much time in the sun, your skin can become irritated. All you have to do is apply some almond oil on the problem area. It provides a quick relief from the pain. In addition to this, it can also remove an unwanted tan. Almond oil makes for a great skin lightener. Mix one teaspoon of lemon juice with one of honey and some drops of this oil. Run it onto the desired area and leave it on for an hour.
Stops hair loss. It is normal to lose a certain amount of hair each day. When that amount becomes worrying, however, this is when you need to intervene. Try to use almond oil on your scalp. All you need to do it apply it onto your strands as well as scalp and leave it in for a few hours. Rinse it off and shampoo as usual.
Smooth skin. Almond oil is hypoallergenic. This means that you can us eit on all types of skin. Including on baby skin. It makes for a good massage oil and you can also use it to treat diaper rashes. The skin absorbs it easily and leaves your skin soft. You can try to apply it after a bath. Thats is when your pores are open and will absorb any oil faster. To get the best reusults, warm it up between your palms before you use it.
In conclusion, organic almond oil offers lots of health benefits to you. Include it in your beauty routine and enjoy all that it has to offer you.


Aerate and/or dethatch as needed. Aeration in the early spring along with a good pre-emergent fertilizer will set the soil up for a healthy season. When there's residual leaves and dead grass left over from the previous fall as well as compacted soil from the winter, nutrients, oxygen, and light have a harder time reaching the soil and roots. Aeration will penetrate the soil and open up pathways for nutrient transport.
Apply a good high nitrogen fertilizer as well as a high iron fertilizer to further prepare soil for health throughout the season by supplying critical nutrients.
Water 3x per week at about 10 minutes per zone as opposed to everyday at shorter time spans such as 5 minutes. Watering in the early morning before sunrise is recommended as opposed to the evening or during the day. In the early morning, the soil has time to absorb the water before it evaporates and this moisture will help protect the soil from the summer heat.
If water cost is an issue, dial it down to 2x per week but prevent from not watering at all as the lawn will eventually go dormant if there's not enough rain.
During the summer, especially if it's extremely hot and dry without rain for several weeks, it's best to keep your lawn cut higher (4 inches for example). This will help protect the soil from the heat as well as encourage deeper and more robust root growth. Higher cutting length = deeper root growth. Frequent cutting at short lengths = shallow root growth.
A high potash fertilizer applied during the early summer along with watering 3x per week will help prevent summer burning or yellowing of the grass due to excessive heat as shown in photo above.
The grass is under enough stress during the summer mostly due to the intense heat. Avoid additional stresses such as excessive foot traffic, mowing too frequently (more than once a week), or mowing too short.


SaintShares.Com is a social networking platform with a thought of making a platform for bringing people together with spiritual thought (not religious) to bring them together to make UNITY in DIVERSITY, to make whole world one country with one religion HUMANITY. Its features are : 1. You don't have to be a friend of nay body all are connected as there is nothing secret about any shearing, its just a knowledge shearing platform. But, still you can create groups and share some info internally. 3. All the thoughts which are sheared will be shown on each and every wall. 4. You can do create blogs for shearing your discourses, stories, poems, songs, videos etc. 5. You can tag people any where. 6. You can create event for Selfless service, assign task, milestones (if required in your event with dead lines) even you can tag people. 7. All people will be connected only via INVITATIONS. and many more.


The hottest new war poet doesn't look much like those of a century ago. In place of the clipped moustache that Wilfred Owen modelled in countless tattered school anthologies, PJ Harvey wears a headdress of black plumes. Streaming over her head, they call to mind an East End funerary horse, or Mercury bringing seriously bad tidings.
On the first of her two sold-out nights in this elegant art deco venue in London's easternmost parts, she wore black. Tonight she is in a gilled white dress that simultaneously suggests a Valkyrie bride and haute couture bandages. None of these associations are accidental, you suspect. Harvey's earliest output may have been more transparently personal – think of the wracked and honest Dry and Rid Of Me albums, and their unadorned live presentations. But since the vampish theatre of To Bring You My Love, Harvey's latter-day works have often (but not always) been exquisitely crafted communications.
Tonight her every glance feels choreographed. Harvey stands well away from her band, swapping between autoharp and a series of guitars, while the waistcoated trio of Mick Harvey, John Parish and drummer Jean-Marc Butty busy themselves playing vintage gear arranged on wooden pews. And yet this performance is no less visceral for being precise.
From Harvey we have long had rushes of lust and its opposite, plenty of doomed love, and a drowned daughter. "Down By The Water" and "C'Mon Billy" are two well-loved old songs included tonight, full of desperation and murderous intent. Now, on her latest album, Let England Shake, Harvey has got her teeth into the horror of war with all the graphic fury of Owen's "Dulce Et Decorum Est". Harvey has never been squeamish about body parts – hair, bones, "dirty-pillows" and the vulvas of sheela-na-gigs – and on "This Glorious Land" she has turned her attention to "deformed children"; on "The Words That Maketh Murder", severed arms and legs hang from trees.
Older generations have long sneered that, since punk, there has been little protest music. They might have missed the low-key rebellion inherent in everything Radiohead do nowadays. But even if Let England Shake works at more sophisticated levels than mere agitation, it is hard to miss its disgust at man's lemming-like bellicosity. There are points tonight – "On Battleship Hill", say – where a quiet weep wouldn't be out of the question. The song's deep sorrow at the madness of war is beautiful enough, but the richness of its sense-impressions are almost overwhelming. Harvey's crystalline soprano sings about the scent of thyme; the serene chug of guitars carries with it the song's lyrical fascination with landscape, how it slowly returns "to how it's always been" once the guns are rolled away. Mick Harvey – Australian multi-instrumentalist and former Bad Seed – is great on "The Colour of the Earth", a male voice bringing life to the testimony of a veteran.
Harvey, though, is having a good war. Death may be everywhere but fun is not out of the question. Let England Shake is well-named – insistent rhythms push the songs along, making them anything but dreary. Harvey never quite cuts loose but she does rock out, revealing high-heeled black boots under her flowing skirts. And if her sense of control rarely wavers, the band suffer a false start on "The Devil", from which they recover flawlessly.
"The Words That Maketh Murder" is punctuated by sassy handclaps, and some very funny 60s-style backing vocals from the men. There is something impish, too, about playing a set of songs about war and death, then pulling a trigger-happy old song like "Big Exit" ("Gimme a pistol! Gimme the gun!") out from a hidden holster.
Commercially, Harvey's Mercury-winning album, Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea is probably regarded as her high point. Artistically, though, her last one, White Chalk, is the work by which she should be judged.
One of its finest songs, "Silence", closes the encore tonight. On it, a muted Harvey describes someone (a woman?) stealing to some secret place, longing for an encounter (with an unrequited lover?) that never happens. It is both specific, and vague, and painfully well-observed. "Silence!" she sings slowly, louder and louder, as the band ratchet up the volume. It was hard to imagine how much better Harvey could get after the ghostly authority of the White Chalk songs. But her feathered headgear tonight could easily double as laurels.


Dan Rather: I'm Dan Rather… with another edition… of "60 Minutes". In past shows, we've investigated everything from the Tunisian Gulf… to the Love Canal. Tonight, we take a look at ourselves. In a recent poll, it was disclosed that what IRKS most viewers of "60 Minutes"… is that there ARE… NO… WOMEN. We explain this phenomenon as we examine… No Babes… In Newsland.
Dan Rather V/O: We talked to Bill Leonard, President of CBS News, about this situation.
Bill Leonard: There ARE women on "60 Minutes"! Ask anyone on the show!
Dan Rather: I AM on the show… and there ARE no women!
Bill Leonard: That's because — that's because 1 out of every 4 weeks, they wouldn't be able to work! [ chuckling ] You know what I mean, Dan?
Bill Leonard: I mean, after all, Dan — we're replacing you with a Black man. That's practically the same thing!
Dan Rather V/O: We decided to ask some of the women who work on the "60 Minutes" staff… why there are no women on the air. But we couldn't find any women… here.
Dan Rather V/O: — or here.
Dan Rather: — or here.
Dan Rather V/O: This is Heather Clark… award-winning journalist.
Heather Clark: I was almost hired by "60 Minutes" to be an acnhorperson, but it never materialized.
Dan Rather: Why not? What happened?
Heather Clark: [ she sighs heavily ] I don't like to say this, but… I just have a feeling that Mike Wallace did not want me hired.
Dan Rather V/O: So we spoke to Mike Wallace.
Mike Wallace: Ridiculous! Heather Clark is a fine journalist, and she'd be an asset to the show.
Heather Clark: Well, I just get the feeling that he did not want me hired.
Heather Clark: Well, there's this note I received.
Dan Rather V/O: We spoke to Mike Wallace about these allegations.
Mike Wallace: You know, Dan — I wouldn't do a thing like that!
Mike Wallace: Besides — it's not even my handwriting!
Dan Rather V/O: We asked a trusted CBS employee about Mr. Wallace's behavior. He asked not to be identified on camera.
Voice: [ obviously Walter Cronkite ] It's clear from every eye, from Maine to Alaska, that Mike Wallace is a good reporter. But when it comes to women, it's another matter ENTIRELY! You know, he's a close friend of Harry Reasoner's, and ever since Harry was viciously CASTRATED by Barbara Walters, Mike swore NEVER to work with a woman again!
Dan Rather: Mike? We'd like to ask you a few questions.
[ peeking through the door frame ] I'm not in!
Dan Rather: [ he picks up the sign and reads it ] "I'm No In". [ he glares at the camera ] He's not in!
Dan Rather V/O: Since we last broadcast that story… we received a number of letters.
Dan Rather: I'm Dan Rather. Join us next week… for another edition… of "60 Minutes".


1. Even the greatest sins, including those which one has committed before embracing Islam, are forgiven by repentance.
2. Smiling is also one of the Attributes of Allah, although we are unaware of the nature of it.


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Case Summary:
Xia Chen, a citizen of China, claimed to have suffered persecution in China as a Christian, and to fear future persecution for having once harbored a friend who practices Falun Gong. Chen fled to United States without a valid entry document in 2005. She was interviewed and served with a Notice to Appear charging inadmissibility.
Procedural History:
Chen conceded the charge in the Notice to Appear and applied for asylum, withholding of removal, and Convention Against Torture ("CAT") relief. The immigration Judge's (IJ) denial of her application for asylum and withholding of removal. Later, the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") dismissed her appeal. Chen filed this petition for review.
Chen had been arrested by the police in China for practicing her religion.
Chen was questioned at the Chinese station and was slapped on the face during the interrogation.
Chen was detained for three days and released after her mother paid 3000 RMB fine.
Chen harbored a friend who had been arrested by the police because of her friend's Falun Gong-related activities.
Legal Analysis - Requirements for Asylum:
The applicant has to meet her burden of proving that he suffered past persecution or that she has a "well-founded fear of future persecution" for his asylum or withholding of removal claims.
The persecution "is an extreme concept that does not include every sort of treatment our society regards as offensive." Fatin v. INS, 12 F.3d 1233, 1243 (3d Cir. 1993). "Abusive treatment and harassment, while always deplorable, may not rise to the level of persecution." Jarbough v. Att'y Gen., 483 F.3d 184, 191 (3d Cir. 2007).
The Court held that Chen's detention did not rise to the level of "persecution". The record did not compel a finding of past persecution. Because withholding of removal carries a higher burden of proof than asylum, Chen's request for withholding was denied, as well. Chen did not challenge the denial of CAT relief in her brief before this Court. Accordingly, the Court deemed that the issue was waived and did not address it. For the foregoing reasons, the Court denied the petition for review.
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State suspends plan for 'Rattlesnake Island' in Western Mass
Some industries in Massachusetts are dumping excessive pollution in to the state's waterways, according to a new report. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
'Rattlesnake Island' will not become a reality in Western Massachusetts' Quabbin Reservoir, state officials announced Wednesday.
The controversial project planned to place endangered timber rattlesnakes on an island in the Quabbin Reservoir to help repopulate the species.
The Fisheries and Wildlife Board voted to indefinitely suspend the project "after considering recommendations and comments by the Rattlesnake Working Group and members of the public," said Peter Lorenz, spokesman for the Office of Energy and Environmental affairs, in a statement.
The office oversees the Department of Fish & Game, which Lorenz said "remains committed to the protection and conservation of all endangered and at-risk species throughout the commonwealth." He added that the agency "looks forward to continuing to work with the public and stakeholders to utilize the best science available in an effort to strike a balance between wildlife protection and public access."
Mount Zion, the island that was to be inhabited by the venomous rattlesnakes, is off-limits to the public, but that didn't quell concerns from locals that the rattlesnakes would find their way to other areas.
Western Massachusetts state Sen. Anne Gobi, whose district includes the reservoir, supported the decision to cancel the project.
"Preservation of endangered species is a major priority of mine and members of the Fisheries and Wildlife Board," Gobi said in a statement. "However, the Quabbin Reservoir is a vital resource, with a history of sacrifice. The decision to convene the Rattlesnake Working Group was an important measure to hear from area residents and to determine if this plan was the right one. In the end, it wasn't."
State Sen. Eric Lesser, also of Western Massachusetts, and whose district borders the reservoir, agreed with the decision as well.
"From the beginning, residents in the Quabbin region did not feel like their concerns about this project were listened to," he said in a statement. "I'm glad that after a series of listening sessions in the various communities affected, a decision was made to suspend this plan, and to focus on protecting the rattlesnakes in locations where they already exist."
The snakes that were set to take over the island are currently being raised at Roger Williams Zoo and will now be released back into the existing populations within the commonwealth that they came from.
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Did I achieve my romantic artistic aspirations? No. I shivered miserably all week, suffered the isolation of visiting a country without a solid understanding of its mother tongue and shared a hostel room with a stinky, hostile girl with a chainsaw snore (as a bonus, the charming lass inexplicably slept with a noisy cluster of crusted-over pots and pans).
"But surely," you exclaim, "you must have reaped important life lessons from the floor sweepings of your shattered vacation fantasy, yes?"
Mais Oui! I'm so glad you asked: (1) Paris in April can be quite chilly, (2) watercolors aren't my forte (3) one can answer hunger and warm numb fingers on a diet of ubiquitous museums, crêpes and chocolat chaud.
From October through April, I order the hot chocolate whenever I go out and nearly always receive a mug of hot milk that vaguely remembers bumping into a tin of powdered cocoa at a party long, long ago... in any case, the milk and chocolate are not generally close friends. I blame mass ignorance. Most of the sipping public must be unaware of what they could and should demand from a mug of hot chocolate. They've been duped by some bratty little swiss miss into believing that chocolate flavor is the same thing as genuine chocolate.
It would appear that Paris still leads the known universe in consistently delightful hot chocolate. Thankfully, there are a handful of dependable mugs here in Gotham City. Jacques Torres will not let you down. MarieBelle brews chocolate with love (and rich single-origin Venezuelan beans). City Bakery conducts an annual Hot Chocolate Festival (complete with house-made marshmallows) to honor the beverage each February.
And then, there's always the date you make with a handful of quality chocolate nibs, a splash of milk and a saucepan on low heat. Never over-milky, never too hot or too cold. 101 Cookbooks had a good post last April.
Sometimes yummy, often over-milky... but the altitude!
Consistently thick, rich and delicious. One cup is enough for two to sip together.
The best of the 'burg... served with extra chocolate shavings in the spoon.
Arrives in a bowl large enough to drown you — adorned with love and chocolate.
This is a fabulous post and a bit eerie because just yesterday I decided for the first time ever to get hot chocolate from a place that didn't specialize in it, resulting in HORROR and DISAPPOINTMENT and...OH, SO SAD. It was a fine reminder of my childhood, but for "hot chocolate"? If I were expecting hot chocolate milk, it would've been fine, but to fulfill the name hot chocolate [period], it really ought to be the stuff that coats my stomach. City Bakery comes to mind. I've had Jacqes Torres' once, but I gotta try it again.
I just bought milk for no other reason than to make hot chocolate (I guess the other possible use for it is to make ice cream...yes, those are the only uses for milk in my world). My plan is to use less milk and more chocolate than whatever the recipe says. And then go into a chocolate coma.


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The Sandman Overture 5
Today, Drew and Michael are discussing the The Sandman Overture 5, originally released May 27th, 2015.
Drew: Neil Gaiman has never been shy about pulling down the curtains that separate fiction from reality. I might call it "breaking the fourth wall," but it's less winking at the camera, and more showing us the puppet's strings to better appreciate the puppet itself. In that vein, it's never been hard to see Gaiman as Dream, the raven-haired prince of stories, fighting to maintain order over his dominion of characters, settings, and situations. It makes for some fascinating commentary on the creative process, especially when Dream comes up against forces beyond his control, even within his own stories. That's exactly the name of the game in The Sandman Overture 5, as Gaiman pulls the curtain back on Dream's mother and brings in some surprises that even Destiny didn't see coming.
As the issue opens, Dream is facing the fate the stars had sentenced him to: permanent entombment in a black hole. Only, we quickly learn that this was by Dream's design — he needed to plunge into a black hole to visit his mother, Night. Whether she is obliged to live in that complete blackness, or just chooses to to be beyond the reach of Time isn't clear, but she's just as disinterested in helping Dream as his father was. That connection between Time and Night is an important one, and artist J.H. Williams III takes extra care to make it as explicit as possible.
That's a deceptively simple page, but it's rich with meaning. The panels within panels beautifully support Gaiman's script, which is a nested series of ideas, but the real beauty is how they render temporeality meaningless. There's no sequence to these panels. We read the largest one both first and last, rendering cause and effect meaningless. Dream makes a similar point about his father's realm in the previous issue, but importantly, that effect was still achieved through sequentiality, albeit a sequence counter to what we might expect.
Matching Gaiman's own postmodernism, Williams is playing with the form throughout. This is perhaps most apparent whenever we see passages from Destiny's book, which Williams cleverly represents as a comic itself.
Don't worry about reading the copy, the point here is the design of this layout. Note how, as soon as Destiny encounters something he doesn't expect, the images start busting out of the book. It breaks the two-dimensionality of the book, which is itself a three-dimensional object rendered in two dimensions. That might be enough postmodernism to break my brain, but that final panel isn't even a part of the book (notice how it casts a shadow on the book itself, as if floating above it), explaining how the Dream cat could "surprise" Destiny — these events are literally happening off the pages of his book.
Williams achieves that effect even more spectacularly later in the book, as the boat seems to pop right off of the page, but the passage above establishes the rules of Destiny's book before smashing them all to pieces. This all leads to my absolute favorite passage: Dream boarding the mysterious ship:
It's comicbook-iness couldn't be more explicit — it's based on a nine-panel grid — but Williams defies our expectations at every turn. In spite of the grid (and empty gutters), certain parts of the image bleed into the margins. Actually, we can be more specific than that: only the dream ship bleeds into the margins — note in particular the striking empty space in the middle of this spread, broken only by the ship. Again, we're reading this in Destiny's book — note the page edges we can see in the upper left corner of the spread — but the ship seems to exist outside of it, defying the conventions of the book even as it is superimposed on top of it.
It's crazy-meta stuff, but it's all in support of a crazy-meta narrative. This subtly emphasizes the otherness of that dream ship, something Williams gooses further in that final panel. The "rules" of this spread are all about breaking one continuous image into discrete moments, but that final panel jerks the camera in a totally unexpected direction, reinforcing the notion of the Dream cat as the one operating beyond the rules of Destiny's book. It's not totally clear what will become of the ark of survivors he has rescued, but that's the point: his actions are unpredictable (and reminds me that the fates were not expecting Dream when they saw him in issue 3 — also when he was traveling with the cat). It would be easy to dismiss that point as another love letter from Gaiman about cats, but it's too thrilling a development to write off completely.
Michael, I know you haven't been following this series religiously, but I think there's enough experimentation going on here to maintain your interest, even if the plot doesn't mean all that much to you. I didn't even mention Dave Stewart's colors, or the way letterer Todd Klein picks up on Dream's translucence during that conversation with Night, but holy smokes is this issue finely detailed. Or maybe I'm getting up my own butt here. Does that stuff work if you're not hooked into the narrative?
Michael: Drew I am all about meta-fiction that gets up its own butt and encourages readers like you to explore your own butt; in fact I think all of Retcon Punch is! In all honesty I had forgotten about this series (The Sandman Overture 1 came out almost two years ago!) but who doesn't love Sandman? And who doesn't love pouring over J.H. William's killer artwork? (side note: I desperately miss his Batwoman.) To travel back into the world of Dream and the Endless was a treat; so I will definitely play catch up with the rest of The Sandman Overture soon.
The first essential element of the meta-narrative that Neil Gaiman created with Sandman is the nature of The Endless: the personifications of the pervasive ideas that influence all of creation. The encounter of Dream and his mother Night in the black hole can simply be read as the protagonist confronting the latest conflict of the story. Since these are embodied concepts however, Gaiman allows the opportunity to engage the material from a metaphorical and philosophical perspective as well. Every line of dialogue instantly becomes rich with subtext when gazed at through that lens. What exactly does a conversation between Night and Dream look like? What does it mean? It kind of sounds like a bedtime story, really.
The opportunity to meet the mother of Morpheus, the legendary Lord of Dreams was tantalizing enough; but I find Night to be a very interesting character in her own right. Night says to her son that she "values her privacy," and is totally content without her ex-husband Time. (I'm not sure if marriage or divorce are customs that immortal concepts actually follow, but I digress.) Of course Night values her privacy; she keeps all of her goings-on under the cover of dark. And Night separated from Time makes Night truly "Endless;" without Time there is no dawn to end Night. See? This is so much fun!
If you strip away the metaphor, the conversation between Dream and Night is one that we have seen (and maybe even experienced) many times before. Dream is the child that has grown to adulthood and has learned to provide for himself outside of his mother's care. But hey, when things get really bad, it's always great to have the option of going home to Mom to "make it all go away." Night is the "bad mom" that we've seen innumerable iterations of in stories throughout history. She's Norma Bates, Livia Soprano, Lucille Bluth and every other woman probably not fit to raise children throughout history.
Night's a mother who picks favorites with her children and is not afraid to let the rest of them know it. She plays the "you never call" card with Dream — perhaps mockingly — making him feel guilty about neglecting his dear old mom. Night is a mother who resents the fact that she is no longer needed. In order to keep her treasured son Dream by her side she makes him a Faustian bargain to have everything he ever wanted. Night wants to be loved, regardless if it costs her son his happiness or extinguishes all of existence. If Drew's favorite passage from The Sandman Overtures 5 was Dream cat's ship, then I suppose mine was the mother/son scene at the top of the issue with Night and Dream. Dusk lifts the veil to reveal J.H. Williams' gorgeous floral-shaped layouts (which I think is a reference to Quorian from issue 1?) accompanied by Dave Stewart's midnight blues, blacks and purples. Among the exorbitant feast in front of Night lay a spread of phallic and yonic edibles. Night wants Morpheus to give up his "dream;" she wants to have control over everything; a permanent midnight across all of creation.
William Faulkner said that "In writing, you must kill all your darlings." As a writer, you often have to let some ideas go; they can't all make the final draft. As Drew noted, a lot of The Sandman Overtures is about the nature of storytelling. At the end of the issue, Dream cat presents his Ark of thousands of refugees that he has rescued from the Dreaming. As the protagonist of a story, Dream argues that even if you rescue one life there are trillions more who will die. As a facet of Neil Gaiman, Dream argues that despite all of the ideas he may come up with he can't ever use them all. Dream cat, either as a saver of lives or a salvager of ideas, counters that any life/idea preserved is worth the struggle. As a creator, Gaiman is saying that anything that makes it to the page is an achievement — no matter what. In the more black and white terms of superheroes the message is any life saved is worth fighting the bad guy. More still, on a more personal level you could say that any personal hurdles one attempts to overcome are worth it for the simple fact that they tried. Neil Gaiman loves talking about ideas guys — and I love talking about his idea talk.
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By Drew • Posted in Alternating Current, Drew Baumgartner, Michael DeLaney, Sandman Overture, Vertigo	• Tagged Dave Stewart, Destiny, Dream, Dream Cat, Dream Ship, J.H. Williams, Neil Gaiman, Night, Todd Klein
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Michael, I absolutely love the insight that Dream cat is essentially rescuing ideas from oblivion — it paints a vivid picture of how Gaiman sees this series. Sandman was such a rich outlet for ideas that it's conclusion — while a satisfying end to the story — deprived Gaiman of a space to unload them. That may have meant death for those ideas if this series hadn't been here to rescue a few of them.
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Whole Lotta Red
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by Paul A. Thompson
The Atlanta rapper's third record is both wildly innovative and strikingly consistent. It's hard, melodic, experimental, and unlike anything else happening in mainstream rap.
Whole Lotta Red functions like a pressure cooker. Playboi Carti takes an endless supply of bright and serrated beats and packs them together, end on end, so that the album seems to careen wildly toward an unknown destination. Those beats are then populated by the 24-year-old's most outré, expressive vocals yet, a string of barks, ad-libbed shards, and crooned melodies that compound the mania. The effect is to make Whole Lotta Red's predecessor, 2018's already intense Die Lit, sound nearly staid by comparison––and Carti's slightly cloudy, self-titled debut from 2017 seem positively tranquilized.
Despite his youth and his brisk release schedule, Carti's cultish fanbase would have you believe that the periods between his records are long droughts, ones that can only be weathered with frenzied detective work. It is easy to find hours-long playlists of unreleased Carti songs, some ripped in 15-second increments from Instagram stories, others leaked by hangers-on or purchased from enterprising hackers. For an artist who already has an audience's attention, snippets and half-finished leaks can be more effective than singles: Our brains correct for the compression of sound by imagining the fullest possible mix, and hearing the most interesting parts of a song—the bridge that everyone in the studio agrees is the best part, the opening four-bar run that justifies the track's existence—suggests a more exciting finished product than the one that, in all likelihood, exists.
Whole Lotta Red transposes that thrill of hearing an inspired work-in-progress and builds it out into a fully realized style. There is no imposed formality of structure or delivery that could stiffen Carti or bleed the life out of the demos; instead, there is "New Tank," which seems to have a half-dozen chorus ideas that are dispensed in a single long take. Verses disintegrate into Gregorian chants; "D-R-A-C-O" is spelled out repeatedly as if Carti's trying to win the world's most heavily armed spelling bee; the middle of the absolutely skull-rattling "Stop Breathing" is built around a single, constant ad-lib sound. Even when songs do conform to more traditional arrangements, they arrive at them in unexpected ways. "Beno!" opens with an aside about Carti buying his sister a Jeep, a cute and specific image in step with the beat, which sounds like an iPhone ringing in heaven. It's only halfway through the song that it becomes clear that aside—one of the least-produced vocal stretches on the album—will be repurposed and repeated as a chorus. At its best, Whole Lotta Red sounds like Carti's voice memos have been laid over the most punishing production he could find.
One of the signature elements of Carti's style has been his so-called "baby voice," a softer touch in a higher register. He has not completely excised it from Whole Lotta Red, but the album's most arresting moments come when Carti is rasping, evidently on the verge of losing his breath. (WLR smartly opens with one of its most propulsive songs, where Carti's voice sounds as if it's already been strained by an hour-long performance.) Most impressive is the way Carti has merged his delivery with his pared-down writing style, like when he gets stuck on the line "When I go to sleep, I dream about murder," delivered over and over in a threatening stage whisper.
For an album with such an extensive list of producers and co-producers—there are 24 beats, and only two from longtime collaborator Pi'erre Bourne—WLR maintains a strikingly consistent palette of mostly electronic sounds. But those sounds are deployed in dizzyingly varied ways, from the white-hot punkish tracks near the beginning to the evolutions of early-2010s molly rap that pop up toward its end. (Sometimes there are literal echoes: KP Beatz and Jonah Abraham's "No Sl33p," which comes immediately after Juberlee and Roark Bailey's "Slay3r," might as well have been built around a hummed recollection of "Slay3r.") There is sinister Atlanta rap scaffolding—Richie Souf's "JumpOutTheHouse" sounds like something an agitated Gucci Mane might have jumped on in 2008—but also a refreshing sense of humor, and a looseness that allows the zaniest idea to occasionally win. On "Vamp Anthem," when KP and Jasper Harris—I'm not sure how to say this—chop up Johann Sebastian Bach's "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor," you can practically see Carti laying the vocals in a black cape and those plastic Halloween fangs.
The core element of Whole Lotta Red is its hyperkinetic pacing, especially in its extended opening run. With the three-song set of "New N3on," "Control," and "Punk Monk," the album transitions from its buzzsaw front half to the more exultant back, but also introduces minor problems of bloat and pacing: Each of these three songs has a better-executed analogue elsewhere on the tracklist, though "Monk" is redeemed in part by the industry intrigue it airs. And the trio of guest appearances (a phoned-in Future verse on "Teen X," stock Kid Cudi on the texturally interesting but too-long "M3tamorphosis," and executive producer Kanye West's verse on "Go2DaMoon") should all have been left on a hard drive somewhere. These are quibbles, mostly, but they add up—less for being outright failures on their own terms, and more for derailing the momentum that Carti otherwise so carefully creates.
It's one thing for a 24-song, hour-long album that had become an object of such intense speculation to deliver on its promise. That it does so while maintaining an aura of mystery around its creator is doubly impressive. In some ways, Carti's public persona betrays his fixation on high fashion: the rapper as couture, something you can't simply walk into a department store and see, touch, own. His work, or at least traces of it, seems ever-present, but the man himself is a bit of a ghost. By contrast, the songs on Whole Lotta Red are urgent, immediate. While they seldom trade in anything like autobiography, they cut close to the bone all the same.
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Iowa is Succeeding With Unselfishness
I don't want to oversell this—Iowa is not a great team. The Hawkeyes have been outscored in conference play, and the non-conference slate included being run out of the gym against Virginia, losing to mediocre teams in Seton Hall and Memphis, and losing to Nebraska-Omaha at home (the Mavericks are currently 6-6 in the Summit League).
But after four starters departed from last year's 22-win team, that was to be expected. This season, Peter Jok was to lead a gang of mostly underclassmen through a rough rebuilding season. But that's only been kind of true. The Hawkeyes are currently 6-6 in Big Ten play, which is ahead of teams like Michigan, Minnesota, Indiana, and Ohio State. Believe it or not, there's still an outside chance Fran McCaffrey's team gets an NCAA Tournament bid, despite the fact it's one of the youngest teams in all of Division I.
How? Well, one reason might be how willingly this group passes. While McCaffrey's system will never be mistaken for Tim Miles' Ballhog Offense, the Hawkeyes have raised their assist numbers noticeably this season. Generally speaking, there's a correlation between assists and three-pointers taken, largely because the catch-and-shoot 3 is one of the best shots in basketball. But Iowa's 3PA numbers really aren't any different than a typical season under McCaffrey, and relative to the Big Ten, the assists are near the top:
Purdue leads the way, but the Boilers also shoot a lot of 3s. Exceptions abound for this correlation, of course, but those tend to be systematic. In other words, John Beilein's teams will always shoot a lot of 3s, but without a lot of assists.
Iowa this season is just assisting on more baskets, but without more 3s. This is just a team that is relying on the pass to set up scoring opportunities, and it's been noticeable.
And it's not just long possessions, either, as Iowa has the 2nd-shortest average possession length in the Big Ten.
Iowa does not enjoy a talent advantage relative to most of the Big Ten, so instead McCaffrey deploys a lot of screening—both on and off the ball—to get the defense to switch. Once that happens, Iowa exploits the favorable matchup.
Short of an exceptional finish, Iowa is not going to make the Dance this season (Bracket Matrix does not have Iowa in anyone's field). But, the Hawkeyes stand a reasonable chance of going .500 in the Big Ten this year. Considering where expectations were, that's remarkable, and the passing is a big reason for it.
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Volánbusz Reaches Agreement With Union
An agreement was reached between Volánbusz and the Solidarity Bus Transport Union (Szaksz) on the implementation of a uniform fuel standard system and the regulation of commuting to work, Volánbusz said, according to profitline.hu.
Thus, there will be no strike, the employer said. It recalled that Szaksz made several demands in October 2022 and held a two-hour warning strike on October 25.
Under the agreement, Volánbusz has increased the cost per kilometer of commuting to work by an additional HUF 2 from January 1 to HUF 20 and has undertaken to introduce the uniform fuel standard with the proviso that, taking into account its economic opportunities, it will continue to maintain the 80% payout limit.
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MATTHEW SOCKOL, Staff Writer
EATONTOWN – A shared service agreement that allows Eatontown to use the municipal court in Tinton Falls has been renewed by the Eatontown Borough Council.
During a meeting on June 22, council members authorized the agreement between Eatontown and Tinton Falls for the shared use of the Tinton Falls Municipal Court. The agreement will become effective on Aug. 1, according to a resolution.
Under the terms of the agreement, Eatontown will continue to use the facilities and administrative staff of the Tinton Falls Municipal Court, subject to the approval of the assignment judge of Monmouth County.
Tinton Falls has agreed to allow Eatontown to continue to use its municipal court offices and administrative staff.
According to the resolution, a state statute permits two or more municipalities to provide jointly for courtrooms, chambers, equipment, supplies and employees for their municipal courts and agree to appoint the same person to serve as a certified court administrator without establishing a joint municipal court.
The agreement between Eatontown and Tinton Falls regarding the municipal court was previously in place from Aug. 1, 2017 through July 31, 2022, according to the resolution.
The resolution states that Eatontown interim Borough Administrator William Lucia, who is the borough's police chief, believes it would be the most cost effective option and in Eatontown's best interest to continue to use the Tinton Falls courtroom and court offices and to share administrative employees, facilities and equipment.
In other business, the Eatontown council members authorized the award of a contract to Targeted Technologies, LLC, of Toms River, for information technology/computer network monitoring services.
According to a resolution, Targeted Technologies has provided IT/computer network monitoring services to the borough since 2016. The new IT managed services agreement will be for a one-year term that will become effective on July 14.
Targeted Technologies has charged the borough a general monthly fee of $6,148 and a monthly fee of $2,484 to the Eatontown Police Department. According to the resolution, $43,500 will be allocated toward the IT/computer network monitoring services for the remainder of 2022.
And, council members authorized the award of a contract to Off Duty Management, Katy, Texas, to provide police off-duty detail management system services.
According to a resolution, proposals were also received from Hart Halsey C (doing business as Extra Duty Solutions), Trumbull, Conn., and Visual Computer Solutions, Freehold Township.
The Eatontown Police Department determined Off Duty Management is the most advantageous and responsible proposal to the borough and to entities to which police department personnel provide off-duty services.
Borough Attorney Andrew Bayer found the proposal from Off Duty Management to be legally acceptable and the governing body supported the police department's findings.
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Benin crash toll passes 140
At least 141 people are now reported to have been killed in an air crash in the west African state of Benin on Thursday, among them some 15 Bangladeshi defence personnel.
Part of the plane's wreckage on the Cotonou beach
"I can only say now that 15 of our defence personnel were feared killed in the crash," a military spokesman said.
He said there were 14 officers and one trooper on the plane.
They were deployed in Sierra Leone on a United Nations peacekeeping mission and were going on holiday.
Most of those killed in the Christmas Day crash were Lebanese expatriates heading home for the holidays.
Meanwhile, experts say the crash at Cotonou in west Africa of the Boeing 727 passenger plane belonging to a Guinea airline, piloted by a Libyan crew and without a proper flying licence, highlights the problems of flying in Africa.
The plane, owned by Union des Transports Africains (UTA), botched its take off and skidded down the runway, smashing into a building before tumbling into the Gulf of Guinea.
No safety check
"In these countries there is no structure for working practices or for maintaining checks on operations," said Francois Grangier, a French accident investigation specialist.
"They don't have the idea of airports as places sealed off, closed and given over totally to aeronautics," said Grangier, an Air France pilot.
"Physical conditions are very tough for planes... Sometimes you're landing on territory that destroys tyres, storms can be violent, corrosion is a major factor"
Francois Grangier
French accident investigation specialist
"Neither is there any framework for radio communication, i.e. for navigation means," he said: "And there is no administration for this almost non-existent structure, only a semblance of organisation that exists solely on paper."
"Physical conditions are very tough for planes," Grangier said: "Sometimes you're landing on territory that destroys tyres, storms can be violent, corrosion is a major factor."
"But these African companies have an extremely unstable financial basis and they only want to make money, not to spend it, so it's tempting to get a hold of any old plane that can be exploited cheaply."
Qualifications problem
Pilot qualifications are yet another problem.
"The pilots are of all different nationalities because they can't find any other work," he said.
"African states don't have any pilots' schools or proper crew training facilities, so these pilots have to be trained abroad."
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Thus African states end up giving the equivalent of licences or work permits to pilots with licences acquired in foreign countries, "something which a European state such as France would never tolerate," Grangier noted.
Maxime Coffin, head of training and technical surveillance at France's civil aviation authority DGAC, identified problems such as obsolete fleets, pilots willing to work to lower standards, and problems of aircraft maintenance.
But Coffin insisted that flying is still the safest way to travel through Africa and denied some planes were just flying rustbuckets.
He said the norms of the International Civil Aviation Authority were more precise and kept under better surveillance than those of the International Maritime Organisation.
Unlike ships, he noted, planes cannot fly under flags of convenience.


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Sataplia Strict Nature Reserve () is located 10 km from town of Kutaisi in Imereti region of Georgia. Visitors center is located in village lower Alvani, Akhmeta Municipality at the slopes of extinct volcano — Mount Sataplia. The name Sataplia can be freely translated as a "honey place" (In Georgian language თაფლი, tapli means honey) and in fact bees used to live in small holes and caves and honey was harvested by the local population.

Sataplia Strict Nature Reserve  is part of Imereti Caves Protected Areas, which also includes Sataplia Managed Reserve, Prometheus Cave Natural Monument.

History
The Natural Park Sataplia was founded in 1935 to protect recently discovered karst cave  with exotic stalactites and stalagmites as well Colchian forest, geological and archaeological sites, by Petre Chabukiani. Park was expanded to it present borders in 1957. In 2010 and 2011 the Sataplia Managed Reserve was developed to accommodate tourists: visitor center was built, a coffee house in the middle of the park, a small museum, a small park with dinosaur models and glass observation deck built above the cliff. Furthermore, the main karst cave was equipped with lighting effects and a secure footpath.

Geography
Of the total area of 350 ha, 348 ha are covered with forests. Relief of the landscape is mountainous.
The reservation features a crater of an extinct volcano, a site of remains of a man of the Stone Age and fossilized traces of dinosaurs. The largest cave of Sataplia was discovered in 1925 and is about 900 m long.

Flora and fauna

Mount Sataplia Colchian forest (98% of the area) has both the alpine flora and subtropical plants. There are many tree species threatened with extinction.
Jackals, foxes, squirrels, martens and badgers belong to ordinary residents of the park. Occasionally there is a Roe deer and a wolf.

See also
 List of protected areas of Georgia
 Sataplia Managed Reserve

References

National parks of Georgia (country)
Protected areas established in 1935
Geography of Kakheti
Tourist attractions in Kakheti

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In December 2013, the volume of exports of goods was 0.1 percent up from twelve months previously. In November last year, the volume of exports increased by 1.1 percent. The volume of imports grew by 0.8 percent in December, after a marginal decline in November. Volume figures have been adjusted for the number of working days.
The value of exported goods totalled 34.5 billion euros, i.e. 1.9 percent more than one year previously. The value of imported goods rose by 1.7 percent to 31.2 billion euros, resulting in a trade surplus of 3.2 billion euros, 0.1 billion euros more than in December 2012. Value figures have not been adjusted for calendar effects. December 2013 had one working day more than December 2012.
Import and export prices in December were below the level of one year previously. Export prices fell by 0.9 and import prices by 1.8 percent. As a result, terms of trade improved compared to December 2012.
According to February's Exports Radar, circumstances for Dutch exports improved marginally compared to the preceding month.


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Wallace embraces economic development role for City of Lewisburg
In 2007, Terry Wallace took the position of Director of Economic Development for the City of Lewisburg and ever since his phone has not stopped ringing.
"I have been in almost constant contact with numerous prospective industries looking to relocate here or expand their operations here," Wallace said. "I've actually shown property to prospects all over Marshall County."
Lewisburg has long been the envy of cities across the state for its strong industrial base creating tax revenues and jobs. As the landscape of manufacturing jobs around the nation changes, the City of Lewisburg is adjusting its focus to accommodate those changes under the direction of Wallace.
"What we are looking for now are companies that are not related to industries that are in a state of flux or that are so volatile in nature so as to make the job base in Lewisburg unstable," Wallace said.
For years in the past, Lewisburg's employment base was heavy toward the sixty-five percent range and it remains heavy according to today's standards at around forty-six percent. Experts across the nation are advising that communities move more toward the technological, retail and service industry recruitment for growth, as more and more manufacturing jobs are leaving states such as Tennessee.
"Listen, industry is still are focus and I am working on not only recruiting companies but also on maintaining those existing industries we have here and that are successful," Wallace said. "At the same time, my focus will be split to also work on the recruitment to Lewisburg of more technical, service and retail industries."
Wallace worked 19 years in the Marshall County Ambulance Service and for the past 16 years served as Marshall County Mayor where he served on the Lewisburg Industrial Development Board for six years. Those experiences allowed him to work closely with the cities and agencies in Marshall County on economic development and improving the infrastructure to make Marshall County and Lewisburg a more viable option for companies seeking a new place to set up their operations.
"I work closely with the JECDB and Director Jamie Stitt to help devise strategies for economic development from industrial to retail," Wallace said. "I continue to meet with existing industries and will continue to seek out industries but there is more to my job today than simply industrial recruitment."
Wallace sees the new focus of the city in its development of the Lewisburg Business Park on Highway 373. Wallace helped to facilitate the relocation of U.S. Tank and Cryogenics from Florida to become the first industry to set up operations in the Lewisburg Business Park.
"I believe getting U.S. Tank in the Business Park is just the first step but an important one as it will be the catalyst to help expand the business park into the vision it was intended to be for the city," Wallace said.
The Lewisburg Business Park will not become a heavy industrial park such as the current Industrial Park; but rather, it will provide a location for more light industrial companies and even service or technological companies. According to Wallace, the Lewisburg Business Park should reflect the more modern focus of economic development for the City of Lewisburg as well as Marshall County.
"It's a new world out there as far as economic development goes," Wallace said. "We want to be on top of it and make sure our vision for the future is in line with the changes taking place."
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Abstract : Universal multifractal (UM) analysis was used to investigate the scaling properties of snowfall at high temporal and spatial resolutions. Snowfall data were recorded using a 2D video disdrometer (2DVD) in the Swiss Alps. Six 1-h-long periods of snowfall, half in calm and half in light wind conditions, were selected for analysis. UM analysis was performed on reconstructed 35-m vertical columns of snowfall structure, snowfall time series at 100-ms resolution, and two-dimensional snowflake accumulation maps over a 5.12 5.12 cm2 area. Multifractal scaling was observed for the vertical structure of snow particle number concentration, for scales between about 35 and 4.4 m, and sometimes down to about 0.5 m. At smaller scales, no scaling was observed. In high-resolution time series of snowfall, evidence of scaling was found for scales between about 7 min and ~26 s in most of the analyzed hours. Snowflake accumulations within a subset of the small sampling area of the 2DVD showed no scaling properties, suggesting homogeneous structure in snowfall at the very small (~5 cm) scale, which agrees with the results for vertical structure and time series.


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An update for ntp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
* It was found that the fix for CVE-2014-9750 was incomplete: three issues were found in the value length checks in NTP's ntp_crypto.c, where a packet with particular autokey operations that contained malicious data was not always being completely validated. A remote attacker could use a specially crafted NTP packet to crash ntpd.
* It was found that ntpd could crash due to an uninitialized variable when processing malformed logconfig configuration commands.
* It was found that ntpd would exit with a segmentation fault when a statistics type that was not enabled during compilation (e.g.
* It was found that NTP's :config command could be used to set the pidfile and driftfile paths without any restrictions. A remote attacker could use this flaw to overwrite a file on the file system with a file containing the pid of the ntpd process (immediately) or the current estimated drift of the system clock (in hourly intervals).
The CVE-2015-5219 and CVE-2015-7703 issues were discovered by Miroslav Lichvar (Red Hat).


As the Atlanta Better Buildings Challenge has expanded, various building types have engaged. From commercial to industrial to residential, the program touches nearly every kind of building in Atlanta. There are many educational campuses, healthcare facilities, and even fire stations that add to the diversity of participants within the ABBC. Honing in on the needs of different building types has become a primary focus of the program. One example is the City's Affordable Multifamily Housing Challenge launched through the Mayor's Office of Sustainability in 2015. The program provides tools and support services to multi-family housing buildings that are interested in energy and water efficiency in Atlanta.
The Atlanta Better Buildings Challenge also aims to measure its own success in terms of environmental results, but also economic impact. The program recently partnered with Invest Atlanta, the City of Atlanta, and Southface Energy Institute to complete a job creation coefficient that will help determine how work done locally on energy efficiency projects has a direct correlation to jobs created. For more information refer to the blog here.