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The Killing Electromagnetic Fields
Daniel Reid	| New Dawn Magazine via Zen Gardner	4,114 views
"Science tells us that everything is energy and that matter is nothing more than energy in a different form. Our bodies are a composite of many different energy patterns and vibrations. In fact, the universe and everything in it is made up of different levels of vibration." — Dr. John Veltheim, author & energy therapist, 1992.
In traditional medicine, the human energy system (HES) serves as a functional bridge between body and mind, and energy is the therapeutic medium that heal and balances both physical disease and mental malaise. Today, the HES has come under intensive attack from an entirely new phenomenon which the human system has never before had to face.
This new threat to human health and longevity is the rapidly growing hazard of electromagnetic energy pollution. Since the industrial revolution and the subsequent electronic age, the earth's electromagnetic energy environment has become intensely polluted with artificial electromagnetic fields (EMF), unnatural radio frequencies, microwave radiation, nuclear radiation, and many other forms of aberrant energy that cause severe deviations and imbalances in the HES.
Today, there are 250 million times more artificially generated radio frequencies in the earth's atmosphere than there were in 1930. These invisible but highly reactive energy waves and artificial EMF from high-voltage power lines, transformers, and home appliances have become the big unknown factor in all the vital equations of human health, and they constitute the hidden cause in many common human ailments, from cancer to schizophrenia.
This pollution of our energy environment is even more hazardous to the human system than chemical and ecological pollution, and it calls for an entirely new approach to healing, an approach that effectively protects the HES from distortion by artificial energies and EMF and cures the conditions they cause.
Let's take a quick look at some of the most widespread and hazardous forms of electro-magnetic energy pollution on the earth today. High-voltage alternating current power lines and transformers, which operate at 60 hertz, create an artificial EMF of 100 milligauss extending 20 meters around them. At a range of 30 centimetres from the human body, 3 milligauss has been determined to be the level of exposure to EMF above which cancer and brain damage can occur.
As Dr. Robert Becker, one of the world's leading authorities on energy medicine, writes in his book Cross Currents:
"At this time, the scientific evidence is absolutely conclusive: 60 hertz magnetic fields cause human cancer cells to permanently increase their rate of growth by as much as 1,600 percent and to develop more malignant characteristics."
The two types of human tissue most seriously damaged by artificially generated EMF are brain tissue and rapidly developing tissues, such as those in growing children, because these tissues display the most electrical activity and are therefore most strongly affected by external EMF.
Common household appliances produce artificial EMF that brings energy pollution straight into your own home and expose every member of the family to danger.
Electric blankets create fields of 50-100 milligauss, far above safe levels, and pregnant women who use them are known to experience a far higher than normal rate of miscarriage. Electric razors operated from a plug-in power line generate highly hazardous fields ranging from 200-400 milligauss, a risk to the brain behind the beard that's hardly worth the "convenience" of not having to use shaving cream and a razor.
A 10-watt fluorescent light tube produces an artificial EMF that is twenty times stronger than an ordinary 60-watt bulb, and in offices and school rooms lit by multiple banks of fluorescent tubes, everyone in the room is exposed to aberrant EMF far above the level of safety for human health.
Electric hair dryers produce a harmful field of 50 milligauss at six inches (15 cm), and this factor is suspected as the cause of the abnormally high rate of breast cancer among professional beauticians and hair dressers, who operate these devices all day only inches from their chests.
At 30 cm, an electric stove will expose you to an EMF of 50 milligauss, far above the 3 milligauss safety limit, so if you do a lot of cooking at home, it's much safer to use gas. The list goes on an on, but by now you probably get the picture.
All of these artificial energy fields and unnatural energy frequencies to which humans are today routinely exposed also catalyse extremely harmful reactions between toxic chemical pollutants and natural biochemicals within the human body.
These reactions create all sorts of noxious poisons in the tissues, and have extremely strong acid-forming effects in the bloodstream and other bodily fluids, thereby upsetting the all-important natural pH balance in the blood and tissues and causing a state of chronic acidosis. Acidosis of blood and tissues is a primary pre-condition for the development of all cancers.
Despite the proven risk of exposure to artificial EMF over 3 mG, very few countries have legislated legal limits to the EMF produced by machines and appliances at home and in offices and factories. In Sweden, there are strict laws prohibiting EMF exposure to humans above 2.5 mG, and in Russia, where this hazard has been extensively researched, the limit is an even safer 1.5 mG.
Compare that with the legal limit of 1,000-5,000 mG exposure to EMF for people in homes, offices, and schools in Australia, and similar hazardous levels in America, Canada, and the UK, as well as most of Asia. Small wonder that one in three people today develop some form of cancer, and that brain disorders and mental malaise have become rampant throughout the world.
The Global Microwave Oven
Brain tumours have also been conclusively related with microwave pollution, and the worst offenders here are wireless cell phones, which drive a powerful beam of microwave radiation straight into the brain.
Recall that during the Cold War, the Soviet Union beamed microwaves at the American Embassy in Moscow from a rooftop across the street, and as a result, one American ambassador and several staff members developed cancer. The level of microwave radiation they used for that purpose was less than that at which an ordinary household microwave oven operates.
Here's what Dr. Robert Becker has to say about microwaves:
"The scientific data at this time indicate that microwaves have major biological effects at power levels far below those required to cause heating [such as microwave ovens]. The majority of these effects are productive of various disease states, primarily cancer and genetic defects, in those exposed and in their unexposed offspring… The hazard comes from the fact that exposure to microwaves, like exposure to any abnormal electromagnetic field, produces stress, a decline in immune system competency, and changes in the genetic apparatus. Thus, the levels of exposure that the government says are 'safe' are in fact not safe at all."
Think about that next time you receive a call on your cell phone or heat up a pizza in a microwave oven!
The human body, particularly the electrically active brain, is extremely sensitive to disruption from the high-frequency electromagnetic radiation produced by cell phones and cell phone transmission towers.
Our brains and bodies depend on hundreds of delicately balanced, internally generated electrical impulses to conduct the vital functions of life, and these are thrown into disarray by the invasive ultra-high frequencies generated externally by cell phones and phone towers.
As Blake Levitt states in his book Electromagnetic Fields, "When it comes to mobile phones, a worse frequency could not have been chosen for the human anatomy." Researcher Carolanne Patton has found that "the brain reaches peak absorption in the UHF bands, right where cellular (mobile phone) telecommunications operate."
Since the advent of cell phones, there has been a 600% increase in automobile accidents among drivers who use these devices, and this alarming rise in road fatalities and injuries is not due to the "distraction" of speaking on a cell phone. It's due to impairment of brain function and nerve response while such phones are being used.
Tests conducted by the US Department of Energy found that "using mobile phones impairs memory and reaction times. 'Hand-free' mobile speakerphones cause even more crashes because they typically emit 10-times more brainwave interference than handheld units." This elevation of intensity is due to the metal frame of the car, which amplifies the field frequencies produced by cell phones and speakers used in automobiles.
A University of Toronto study concludes that "the heightened probability of crashing your car persists for up to 15 minutes after completing a call," and Dr. Chris Rumball of the B.C. Medical Association notes, "This is comparable to driving while dead drunk."
One of the leading experts on cell phone hazards was the late biophysicist Dr. Neil Cherry of Lincoln University in New Zealand, where mobile phone towers are prohibited on school grounds due to their hazardous influence on human health, particularly the rapidly developing nervous systems of children.
His research showed accelerated aging, rapid cell death, and an increase in cancer rates caused by microwave radiation from cell phones and phone towers. He warned that frequent exposure to these frequencies disrupt the delicate balance of the brain's electro-chemical communications and can result in chronic headaches, fatigue, lethargy, nausea, dizziness, depression, arteriosclerosis, and possibly Alzheimers.
"There is also a higher incidence of cardiac problems," states Dr. Cherry. "It has now been shown in many studies that mobile phone users get more heart attacks and more heart disease."
He also discovered that the imbalances in the brain of essential minerals such as calcium, various trace elements, and neurotransmitters such as serotonin caused by mobile phones can easily alter moods and result in depression, suicide, rage, and violent behaviour.
Another scientist who has issued public warnings about the hazards of mobile phones is Dr. George Carlo, who found that rare types of brain tumours have more than doubled among mobile phone users, particularly on the side of the head where they use their phones.
"Mobile phones cause genetic damage leading to cancer," states Dr. Carlo bluntly, and he recommends "prudent avoidance" of these devices after finding that every type of mobile phone tested exceeded US Federal Communications Commission's own standards for EMF absorption rates.
Dr. Carlo notes that "the more a person uses a mobile phone, the more cellular destruction and health risks they incur. Mobile phone confused cells can go crazy. Experiments on captive animals show that this cumulative DNA damage is passed on to succeeding generations."
A study conducted at Adelaide Hospital in Australia confirmed Dr. Carlo's conclusions when it demonstrated a doubling in the rate of B-cell lymphoma cancer in mice after 18 months of only one hour exposure daily to the frequencies used in mobile phone technology.
Studies conducted by Dr. Peter French in Sydney, Australia, show that "cells are permanently damaged by mobile phone frequencies and inherited unchanged, from generation to generation."
Since the introduction of mobile phones, metropolitan Sydney has experienced a 25% increase in the incidence of asthma and a 5% increase in asthma related deaths.
Dr. French found that "the production of histamine, which triggers broncial spasms, is nearly doubled after exposure to mobile phone transmissions. Mobile phones also reduce the effectiveness of anti-asthmatic drugs, and retard recovery from illness."
One of the most disturbing effects of exposure to mobile phone transmissions is the disruption of the delicate protective mechanism known as the "blood brain barrier," which is designed by nature to prevent toxins and other dangerous substances from entering the brain from the bloodstream.
Professor Leif Salford stated to the Daily Mail his finding that after a two minute conversation on a mobile phone, "It seems that molecules such as proteins and toxins can pass out of the blood, while the phone is switched on, and enter the brain. We need to bear in mind diseases such as MS and Alzheimers, which are linked to proteins being found in the brain."
The accumulation of toxic residue in the brain due to the malfunction of the blood brain barrier caused by exposure to radiation from mobile phones and phone towers can also lead to the formation of tumours in the brain, which then grow even faster than normal as a direct result of exposure to abnormal EMF, as noted above by Dr. Robert Becker.
You don't even have to be using your cell phone to receive or make a call in order to suffer serious damage. In one hospital in Australia, nurses noted a direct correspondence between which side of the body kidney cancer occurred in patients and which side of the body they habitually wore their cell phones on their belts. Men who carry cell phones in their front pockets run the risk of sterility, impotence, and even testicular cancer, and women who keep mobile phones in their pockets risk the same problems with their ovaries.
As EMF researcher Dave Ashton states, "because mobile phones constantly search for the nearest repeating tower, long-term damage comes from mobile phones in the stand-by mode."
And if you think the analogy of a global microwave oven is an exaggeration, then consider this: if you place a mobile phone on stand-by mode in the cavity of a fresh raw chicken and leave it there for about three days, the microwave radiation from the phone will cook the chicken.
The telecommunications industry is trying very hard to prevent these facts from coming to light in order to protect what has become a $50 billion dollar a year industry.
But the scientific research is conclusive: artificial electromagnetic fields, microwave radiation from cell phones, and transmissions from phone towers pose a serious hazard to human health and cause particularly serious damage to the brain and immune system.
There are only two ways to avoid these serious threats to your health and longevity: either stop using these high-frequency electronic devices, or else start using high-tech devices which are designed to transform harmful EMF and microwave radiation into harmonious patterns which are compatible with the bioelectric energies of life.
Daniel Reid is a bestselling author and a leading expert on eastern philosophy and medicine. He has written numerous books and magazine articles on various aspects of Asian self-health and self-healing practices, and has established an international reputation for the practical efficacy of his traditional approach to modern health problems. His website is www.danreid.org.
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December 16, 2013 archive
On This Day In History December 16 by TheMomCat
Punting the Pundits by TheMomCat
Anti-Capitalist Meet-Up: Joy in the Struggle, Fast Food Workers Are Standing Up by JayRaye by Anti-Capitalist Meetup
Sunday Train: A Vision for Rail in Sustainable 21st Century Transport by BruceMcF
Funding models, Glenn Greenwald, Omidyar, and tinfoil hats by ek hornbeck
Failure of the Elite
Our elites are inbred, gibbering, idiots.
Why Inequality Matters
By PAUL KRUGMAN, The New York Times
The best argument for putting inequality on the back burner is the depressed state of the economy. Isn't it more important to restore economic growth than to worry about how the gains from growth are distributed?
Well, no. First of all, even if you look only at the direct impact of rising inequality on middle-class Americans, it is indeed a very big deal. Beyond that, inequality probably played an important role in creating our economic mess, and has played a crucial role in our failure to clean it up.
It's now widely accepted that rising household debt helped set the stage for our economic crisis; this debt surge coincided with rising inequality, and the two are probably related (although the case isn't ironclad). After the crisis struck, the continuing shift of income away from the middle class toward a small elite was a drag on consumer demand, so that inequality is linked to both the economic crisis and the weakness of the recovery that followed.
In my view, however, the really crucial role of inequality in economic calamity has been political.
In the years before the crisis, there was a remarkable bipartisan consensus in Washington in favor of financial deregulation – a consensus justified by neither theory nor history. When crisis struck, there was a rush to rescue the banks. But as soon as that was done, a new consensus emerged, one that involved turning away from job creation and focusing on the alleged threat from budget deficits.
What do the pre- and postcrisis consensuses have in common? Both were economically destructive: Deregulation helped make the crisis possible, and the premature turn to fiscal austerity has done more than anything else to hobble recovery. Both consensuses, however, corresponded to the interests and prejudices of an economic elite whose political influence had surged along with its wealth.
Surveys of the very wealthy have, however, shown that they – unlike the general public – consider budget deficits a crucial issue and favor big cuts in safety-net programs. And sure enough, those elite priorities took over our policy discourse.
Which brings me to my final point. Underlying some of the backlash against inequality talk, I believe, is the desire of some pundits to depoliticize our economic discourse, to make it technocratic and nonpartisan. But that's a pipe dream. Even on what may look like purely technocratic issues, class and inequality end up shaping – and distorting – the debate.
On This Day In History December 16
December 16 is the 350th day of the year (351st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 15 days remaining until the end of the year.
On this day in 1773, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships moored in Boston Harbor and dump 342 chests of tea into the water.
The Boston Tea Party was a direct action by colonists in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the British government and the monopolistic East India Company that controlled all the tea coming into the colonies. On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor. The incident remains an iconic event of American history, and other political protests often refer to it.
The Tea Party was the culmination of a resistance movement throughout British America against the Tea Act, which had been passed by the British Parliament in 1773. Colonists objected to the Tea Act for a variety of reasons, especially because they believed that it violated their right to be taxed only by their own elected representatives. Protesters had successfully prevented the unloading of taxed tea in three other colonies, but in Boston, embattled Royal Governor Thomas Hutchinson refused to allow the tea to be returned to Britain. He apparently did not expect that the protestors would choose to destroy the tea rather than concede the authority of a legislature in which they were not directly represented.
The Boston Tea Party was a key event in the growth of the American Revolution. Parliament responded in 1774 with the Coercive Acts, which, among other provisions, closed Boston's commerce until the British East India Company had been repaid for the destroyed tea. Colonists in turn responded to the Coercive Acts with additional acts of protest, and by convening the First Continental Congress, which petitioned the British monarch for repeal of the acts and coordinated colonial resistance to them. The crisis escalated, and the American Revolutionary War began near Boston in 1775.
ek Holiday
Funding models, Glenn Greenwald, Omidyar, and tinfoil hats
(Reposted with permission. ek)
by lambert at corrente
Sun, 12/15/2013 – 5:35pm
On The Greenwald Question:
It is true that the "left" (for some definition of left that would include Greenwald's civil liberties work, even if under the aegis of strange bedfellows) has struggled with a funding model. If Corrente were 10 times its size (with concomitant increase in size for similar blogs) that would make, I'm convinced on no evidence at all, a big difference in the discourse.
Hitherto, a reader support model — though reasonably free from conflict of interest, i.e. buying into the bullshit — has enabled survival but not growth. I don't know why.
Another model is to become Kos or TPM or ThinkProgress, and to be funded by the Democratic nomenklatura. So here we have conflicts of interest. ("Who kidnapped Josh Marshall"?)
Another model is advertising, selling eyeballs (which, to be fair, Naked Capitalism does, in addition to reader support). At scale, and IMNSHO NC is not at scale, we have potential for a different sort of conflict.
And another model is finding a patron, which is what Hamsher did, CJR does (Soros, IIRC), and now Greenwald has done. A different sort of conflict. (Marx, we might remember, was funded by Engels, a Manchester factory owner.)
So what model do you use if you want to get a story out?
I find it hard to fault Greenwald on ethical grounds, especially if he got some up front "Fuck you" money from Omidyar. (I haven't been following the ins and outs, and it may be that Greenwald has disqualified himself on other grounds in his various defense of himself.) If Greenwald doesn't ruin his personal brand, he's free to walk away. For some definition of "free."
However, I'm not sure the funding model is the story. Let me now put on my tinfoil hat:
Call me foily, but if I were a really astute right wing billionaire who thought long term, and who wanted a lot more leverage over the government than I already had, I'd:
Get a technically astute and ideologically aligned mole into the NSA;
Have them steal a lot of extremely incriminating data;
Dole just enough out to the press to show what I had;
Keep the great bulk of it as a "fleet in being," as it were.
I've also considered the idea that Snowden was the tool of an NSA faction that didn't like the rampant illegality; that could combine with #1.
GG comes in at #3, and as an archivist/researcher in #4. He doesn't even have to know.
I know this reads rather like a real-life late William Gibson novel, with Omidyar in the role of Hubertus Bigend, and "the data" as the McGuffin, but real life these days resembles a Gibson novel, except more convoluted, darker, and with even nastier villains.
I had always had this way of thinking in the back of my mind, but this story really brought it to the forefront for me:
Officials Say U.S. May Never Know Extent of Snowden's Leaks
That story reads very much like normalizing the situation to me.
So, Omidyar becomes a sort of data-driven sovereign, with informational nukes. Of course, that would imply that the tippy top global ruling class runs on blackmail, but then you knew that.
Readers?
In Memoriam: Peter O'Toole 1932 – 2013
By TMC in News, Politics
Peter O'Toole 2 August 1932 – 14 December 2013
Peter Seamus Lorcan O'Toole, an Irish bookmaker's son with a hell-raising streak whose magnetic performance in the 1962 epic film "Lawrence of Arabia" earned him overnight fame and put him on the road to becoming one of his generation's most accomplished and charismatic actors, died on Saturday in London. He was 81.
His daughter Kate O'Toole said in a statement that he had been ill for some time.
A blond, blue-eyed six-footer, Mr. O'Toole had the dashing good looks and high spirits befitting a leading man, – and he did not disappoint in "Lawrence," David Lean's wide-screen, almost-four-hour homage to T. E. Lawrence, the daring British soldier and adventurer who led an Arab rebellion against the Turks in the Middle East in World War I.
The performance brought Mr. O'Toole the first of eight Academy Award nominations, a flood of film offers and a string of artistic successes in the '60s and early '70s. In the theater – he was a classically trained actor – he played an anguished, angular tramp in Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" and a memorably battered title character in Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya." In film, he twice played a robust King Henry II: first opposite Richard Burton in "Becket," (1964), then with Katharine Hepburn as his queen in "The Lion in Winter" (1968). Both earned Oscar nominations for Best Actor, as did his repressed, decaying schoolmaster in "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" in 1970 and the crazed 14th Earl of Gurney in "The Ruling Class" in 1973. Mr. O'Toole threw himself wholeheartedly into what he called "bravura acting," courting and sometimes deserving the accusation that he became over-theatrical, mannered, even hammy. His lanky, loose-jointed build; his eyes; his long, lantern-jawed face; his oddly languorous sexual charm; and the eccentric loops and whoops of his voice tended to reinforce the impression of power and extravagance.
Burton called him "the most original actor to come out of Britain since the war," with "something odd, mystical and deeply disturbing" in his work. [..]
He is survived by daughters, Kate and Patricia, and son, Lorcan.
At the start of both videos the screen is blank during the orchestral introduction and intermission.
Obituary, Peter O'Toole, TMC News, TMC Politics
Anti-Capitalist Meet-Up: Joy in the Struggle, Fast Food Workers Are Standing Up by JayRaye
By Anti-Capitalist Meetup
Remembering a Wonderful Day on Picket Lines Across the Nation!
DONE, & DONE RIGHT!
This is exactly the way it should be done, drumming, chanting, singing, marching, and statements of Solidarity. This diary is a celebration of the joy of the struggle with photos of unity and songs to fight by.
We did it! Solidarity and respect to everyone who took to the streets. #FastFoodStrikes pic.twitter.com/jjTXwOR37i
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Rise in all your splendid might;
Take the wealth that you are making,
It belongs to you by right.
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Should You Wear Face Shields to Ward Off COVID-19?
In the new normal, people use face masks when they go around public places hoping they might prevent transmission of the new coronavirus.
In America, governments and businesses now require or at least recommend people to wear masks in many public settings.
But as parts of the country reopen, some doctors want you to consider another layer of personal protective equipment in your daily life: the clear plastic face shields.
A team of experts from the University of Iowa headed by Dr. Eli Perencevich, an infectious disease physician, argued in an opinion article published last month in Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) that clear plastic face shields could help reduce the transmission of infections.
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"Face shields, which can be quickly and affordably produced and distributed, should be included as part of strategies to safely and significantly reduce transmission in the community setting," said Dr. Eli Perencevich.
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Many people also wear masks incorrectly, readjust them frequently or remove them to communicate with others, which increases their risk of being exposed or infecting others.
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And studies on how effectively they can reduce a person's viral exposure are scarce.
Even in close range, there can be scenarios where face shields are not as effective as masks like N95s that create a seal around one's face.
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"When the study was repeated at the currently recommended physical distancing distance of 6 feet, face shields reduced inhaled virus by 92%," the authors said.
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Изучая документацию aiohttp, на примере https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp-demos/tree/master/demos/polls/aiohttpdemo_polls, переписывая ее полностью(за исключением описания таблицы) столкнулся с проблемой:

В чем проблема? Python 3.8, AIOHTTP 3.6.2 AIOPG 1.0

A: После импорта asyncio смени имплементацию Event Loop:
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Никола́й Протопо́пов:
 Протопопов, Николай Адрианович (1876—1960) — русский художник.
 Протопопов, Николай Андреевич (1858—1891) — русский врач-бактериолог, доктор медицины.
 Протопопов, Николай Иванович (1853 — после 1917) — русский генерал от инфантерии.
 Протопопов, Николай Николаевич (1921—1998) — казачий деятель, атаман Войска Терского в Зарубежье, издатель.
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Teetering hedge funds fuel swings
By Patrice Hill - The Washington Times - Monday, October 20, 2008
The recent wild swings in stocks and other markets, including some of the biggest point losses and gains ever seen in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, are widely attributed on Wall Street to shadowy hedge funds experiencing big losses and forced sales that have the power to move entire markets.
Thousands of hedge funds, which serve mostly wealthy clients and have only recently been required to report their secretive trading activities to federal authorities, are in the midst of a monumental rout spawned by the global financial crisis. Many investors are pulling out their money after suffering record losses of 10 percent on average so far this year and, for some funds, as high as 30 percent. Some analysts predict that as many as half of hedge funds with nearly $2 trillion under management will fail or be closed in coming months.
But they're not going down without a fight, and leaders from Washington to New York are worried that some gigantic funds could flame out in spectacular fashion and dangerously roil already racked markets.
"People are nervous," said Robert Elliott, senior managing director at Bessemer Trust. "If we have roughly 8,000 hedge funds now, we might see 4,000 by the end of next year. … Hedge funds could be the next hiccup, and people could say this is another example of poor regulation."
David Dietze, president of Point View Financial Services, said the market made whipsaw moves in the past month as highly leveraged hedge funds and mutual funds were forced to sell positions to meet margin calls from their lenders and demands from shareholders for the return of their money.
Hedge funds get their loans from Wall Street firms and are the most highly leveraged market players, with leverage ratios as high as 60 for every dollar of cash invested. But the credit crisis has made it harder for the hedge funds to get loans, and they're being forced to sell even winning positions in some investments to reduce their debts and holdings.
"These hedge funds are getting hit by redemptions, their credit lines are being pulled and they are having to sell furiously," Mr. Dietze said. "Selling begets selling, which begets selling, which begets more selling."
One result is an index that measures volatility in the stock market has reached a record seemingly each day in the past month. On some days, the Dow fell several hundred points in the morning and then staged a near-1,000-point reversal midday that left it up by several hundred points at the end of trading, or vice versa.
Huge gains or losses typically are registered in the final hour of trading, when many computerized buy and sell orders from hedge funds and other large institutional investors are triggered.
"It is hard to pinpoint the dynamics driving the volatility ever higher, but we believe the selling at low levels is mainly led by funds either shorting the market or being forced to liquidate long positions to meet margin calls," said Paul Lennox, corporate treasurer at the Canadian investment firm Custom House, referring to the practice of short-selling stocks through complicated trades that profit when the stocks decline.
Hedge funds are the biggest practitioners of short-selling. Other big institutional investors, including mutual funds and pensions funds, are barred from the risky practice. While short-selling generally drives down stock indexes, short sales sometimes go awry and can generate dramatic gains in the market. When short-sellers get "squeezed" - that is, forced to exit their positions to cover losses - the stocks being sold short suddenly post huge gains.
"At the lows, short positions are being covered and value investors are also stepping in to scoop up quality stocks at bargain prices," Mr. Lennox said, comparing the recent volatility in stocks to the wild ride that hedge funds helped create for oil and other commodities earlier this year.
"Just like the commodities were driven to crazy heights by speculators earlier this year, stocks are getting all the attention now, but on the short side. Hopefully, the speculative hedge funds will soon find a new game and the value investors can establish a bottom to this market," he said.
Bill Gross, founder of Pimco, the biggest bond fund, blames liquidations by hedge funds for "mandating low prices" in stocks, bonds, real estate and other major assets.
While the wide gyrations leave many small investors bewildered, the turmoil generated by hedge funds is creating opportunity for prominent investors like Warren Buffett, who has been snapping up blue-chip stocks at bargain-basement prices. Mr. Buffett, who recently took major stakes in General Electric Co. and Goldman Sachs, said Friday that the low prices are providing a rare opportunity to load up on U.S. stocks that he views as long-term winners.
Hedge fund short-sellers in recent weeks have targeted financial stocks such as the now-defunct Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual as well as troubled firms such as Morgan Stanley to try to restore the double-digit returns that endeared them to wealthy investors. But now that the federal government is standing behind all the major banks with $1 trillion of capital infusions and other subsidies, they are looking for other targets.
Ironically, among the stocks in the sights of short-sellers now are the handful of hedge funds that are publicly traded, including the giant Citadel group, which has had a 30 percent loss so far this year. Forced sales by Citadel as bets went awry and investors pulled out of the fund were rumored to have helped fuel Wednesday's 733-point drop in the Dow, the index's second-biggest point drop.
Citadel founder Ken Griffin, who earned $2.8 billion in fees and commissions last year, complained in a letter to investors that "September was a devastating month" for institutional funds everywhere and that bans on short-selling by U.S. and European authorities during the month made it "the single worst month, by far, in the history of Citadel."
Hedge funds strenuously opposed the U.S. ban and persuaded the Securities and Exchange Commission to make it temporary, successfully arguing that market volatility during the three weeks it lasted was just as bad as it was when short-selling was allowed. But now that the ban is lifted, hedge funds themselves have become enticing targets because, like the Wall Streets investment banks that were targeted earlier, they have highly leveraged investments in toxic mortgages and they are not protected by the federal bank rescue program.
In an interview with Bloomberg Television last week, Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. ruled out any assistance to hedge funds. He said the Treasury plans to aid only "regulated" institutions like banks and thrifts. Hedge funds through the years lobbied hard to escape regulation - to their detriment, as it turns out.
"Big banks around the world are now mostly backstopped by governments, so the rumor mill has found new grist: hedge funds," said Robert Cyran, an analyst at Breakingviews.com. He said a well-established fund like Citadel should survive the onslaught because it has a leverage ratio of only 4-1 - not as "deadly" as other firms.
"Most of the biggest, conservatively managed funds should pull through. But losses, deleveraging and redemptions could claim a few big scalps," Mr. Cyran said. "Such failures are unlikely to pose the same kind of systemic risk as the collapse of a dealer like Bear Stearns. But even if they did, a hedge-fund rescue would be a tough political sell. Any managers on the brink shouldn't bank on help from Washington."
Far from helping hedge funds, legislators and regulators in Europe and the United States are considering much stricter regulations. Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti recently proposed abolishing hedge funds entirely. But the huge sums that hedge funds contribute to political candidates and lobbying in Washington make it unlikely that would happen in the United States.


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This is a tradition that measures the body fat of a contestant. Each family or clan is allowed to enter an unmarried contestant. The winner of this contest is awarded great fame by the tribe. Men also wear a headband with a feather attached to it during rituals. The women in the tribe wear goatskin skirts and have a plug inserted into their chin.


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August 25, 2015by Jason1 CommentFeatured, Money, Power
What's the AGOA and why is it bad for Africa?
The #African Growth and Opportunities Act (#AGOA) is a #trade agreement between the #US and 39 sub-Saharan African nations. It was originally signed in 2000, recently renewed for another 10 years by the US Congress and will be the subject of a summit in #Gabon later this month. Historically, however, US economic policy toward #Africa has done little to promote democracy, transparency, or sustainability on the continent and we don't believe the next ten years will be any different.
During a briefing last week ahead of the summit, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Linda Thomas-Greenfield said: "We were delighted — I mean, absolutely delighted — with the recent 10-year reauthorisation of AGOA. [It] garnered bipartisan support here in the United States, and that's a clear indication of promoting prosperity, opening markets, and inclusive development and stronger regional integration and good governance on the continent of Africa."
Assistant U.S. Trade Representative Florie Liser stated that the 10 year extension (the longest in the programme's history) will also provide more stability for all those involved: "Now that we are no longer worrying about AGOA expiring in the near term, the AGOA Forum will provide an opportunity for us to begin a more strategic conversation about the future of our trade and investment relationship with Africa."
Today we repost Jason Hickel's article for Foreign Policy in Focus from 2011 about the AGOA, the sentiment of which we believe still rings true today:
The last decade has seen a remarkable surge in U.S. economic interest in the continent of Africa. Policymakers who once considered Africa the languid backwater of global #economics are now rushing in to stake a claim in the continent's enormous resource endowment. Most of this effort operates with a rhetoric focused on "partnership" and "development," with the vision of using US trade and investment to lift Africans out of poverty. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton exemplified this attitude when she spoke last year at a US-Africa trade policy forum, saying, "Let's help each other make Africa all that it can be."
But a quick look at the trade policy itself shows that this sugary rhetoric of American benevolence and concern for African welfare is deeply misleading. It does little more than cloak an agenda firmly rooted in economic realpolitik. Michael Battle, the U.S. Ambassador to the African Union, has revealed the blunt urgency of this agenda in a candid but troubling statement: "If we don't invest on the African continent now, we will find that China and India have absorbed its resources without us, and we will wake up and wonder what happened to our golden opportunity of investment."
The centerpiece of U.S. trade policy for Africa is the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). Signed into law by President Clinton in 2000, AGOA is, according to Congress, "perhaps the most significant American initiative on Africa in our country's history." It provides trade preferences for duty-free entry into the United States for certain goods from #sub-Saharan Africa, which is touted as a way to boost African business by encouraging exports. President Bush signed the AGOA Acceleration Act of 2004, which extends the policy until 2015.
The Big Catch
It's hard to quarrel with the idea that reduced trade barriers around American markets would be a boon for African exporters. The quintessential example is Lesotho, whose textile industry has flourished since joining AGOA and now exports more than $400 million worth of garment manufactures to the United States annually.
But there's a catch. The U.S. president reserves the right to reevaluate each country for AGOA eligibility on an annual basis; 41 made the cut last year. In order to qualify, African countries have to meet a specific set of stringent "conditions." Topping the list is the requirement that the beneficiary promote "a market-based economy that protects private property rights… and minimizes government interference in the economy through such measures as price controls, subsidies, and government ownership of economic assets." In addition – and here's the big one – the beneficiary must make progress toward "the elimination of barriers to United States trade and investment."
In other words, AGOA eligibility requires not just mild economic deregulation but the outright destruction of any and all tariff protections, flinging open African markets to a flood of American goods that inevitably undermine local industry. And African countries don't really have a choice in the matter, for if they refuse to meet these conditions, they effectively forfeit their access to the American market. For all of the positive spin that U.S. policymakers put on AGOA, nobody ever so much as mentions these draconian measures, which are easily as destructive as the dreaded "structural adjustment" conditions that the International Monetary Fund attaches to its loans. Essentially, AGOA amounts to a coercive free trade agreement with most of the subcontinent.
Given that AGOA requires its beneficiaries to eliminate barriers to U.S. investment, it's not surprising that the balance of trade comes out strongly in favor of the United States. Trade data shows that Benin, for example, has exported almost nothing to the United States since it became an AGOA member, but has imported some $600 million worth of U.S. goods that have significantly undercut local producers. Some countries do actually export a great deal under AGOA rules – but only those with substantial petroleum and mineral deposits. Take Angola, for instance; 99 percent of all of Angola's exports under AGOA have been energy-related. In the Congo, that number reaches closer to 100 percent. The same is true of Nigeria, Botswana, and every other country with an oil and mineral portfolio. Indeed, more than 80 percent of all exports under AGOA fall under this sector.
AGOA, in other words, is designed to pry open new markets for U.S. goods while making it easier for the United States to extract oil and minerals. And since most of Africa's oil and minerals are controlled by Western corporations like Exxon, Shell, and Anglo-American, this is hardly an arrangement designed to benefit African businesses.
Dubious Eligibility
If that's the tragedy, then here's the farce. AGOA actually does include a number of progressive conditions for membership. In order to qualify, beneficiaries must develop "economic policies to reduce poverty," uphold "the rule of law, political pluralism, and the right of due process, a fair trial, and equal protection," construct "a system to combat corruption and bribery," and refrain from "gross violations of human rights." In addition, beneficiaries must implement "the protection of worker rights, including the right to organize and bargain collectively, a prohibition on the use of any form of forced or compulsory labor, a minimum age for the employment of children, and acceptable conditions of work with respect to minimum wages, hours of work, and occupational safety and health."
In practice, however, none of this actually applies. Countries renowned for corruption, human rights abuses, and labor law violations are routinely approved for AGOA eligibility. Indeed, the countries with the most flagrant abuses are those that trade the most under AGOA, giving blatant lie to the claim that good governance is a necessary precondition for successful U.S. investment in Africa. Cameroon, for example, enjoys AGOA eligibility even though the government there rules an undemocratic, one-party state, regularly obstructs political meetings, harasses journalists, tortures human rights activists, and turns a blind eye to child labor. But it has a lot of oil.
Neighboring Chad also enjoys AGOA eligibility, despite rampant corruption and a long tradition of arbitrary detentions and extra-judicial killings. But it has the Chad-Cameroon pipeline – the single biggest US investment in Sub-Saharan Africa – and Bush and Obama have been devoted to protecting the project's U.S. investors. Eritrea is another example. In 2003, the UN named Eritrea one of the "World's Most Repressive Regimes." But it gets AGOA eligibility in exchange for having joined "the coalition of the willing" during Bush's war in Iraq. Burkina Faso, Angola, Swaziland, and the Congo all benefit from similar double standards.
The issue here is not just that the United States benefits from corrupt and repressive regimes, but that while AGOA claims to create incentives for political reform in Africa, it actually does the opposite. By encouraging the deregulation of oil- and mineral-based economies, AGOA contributes to the development of "rentier states" that do not have to rely on income taxes for their revenue. Such states have no incentive to build up a strong middle class, diversify their economies, or respond to the needs of their citizens In turn, citizens have no incentive to scrutinize government priorities. As the social contract between citizens and the state erodes, endemic corruption inevitably follows, and states become increasingly repressive in order to maintain their grip on power.
This is what economists call "the resource curse" or "the paradox of plenty." An overreliance on huge oil and mineral deposits ends up generating corruption, inequality, and widespread poverty instead of positive development outcomes. This pattern contradicts the common assumption that economic liberalization translates into political freedom or democratic reforms.
Although AGOA purports to leverage exports as a way of boosting economic development in Africa, it does not stipulate that the exporting companies must be African. Indeed, most of them are American, Chinese, and Indian. The vast majority of beneficiaries under AGOA are not impoverished Africans, but wealthy foreign corporations. Indeed, AGOA's insistence on the elimination of local trade barriers allows U.S. companies to bid freely on things like mineral concessions and government contracts. And given that these companies have deep capital reserves, they can usually win, effectively blocking out their African competitors.
In addition, when it comes to industries like textile manufacturing, AGOA stipulates that producers must use U.S. raw materials, which effectively blocks investment in local upstream sectors. Furthermore, because AGOA requires that goods exported to the United States "originate" in the host country, Chinese and Indian clothing manufacturers frequently label their goods "Made in Kenya" and transship them to the United States through Africa to get preferential treatment. The overall effect, then, is that AGOA does not create greater market share for African companies but actively diminishes it.
One might argue that regardless of where the investment comes from, at least it creates jobs. This may be true. But AGOA does not require that the new jobs go to Africans. Indeed, many of the extractive industries that benefit from AGOA import highly skilled labor from developed countries like the United States.
In Angola, for example, most of Exxon's engineers are Americans. Furthermore, the jobs that AGOA does create for Africans are often deeply exploitative. AGOA has encouraged the development of Export Processing Zones (EPZs) across the continent, where labor laws are nearly non-existent and wages are rock-bottom in order to attract foreign manufacturers. In the textile industry, the net effect is that Asian sweatshops relocate to Africa to take advantage of AGOA incentives. In Kenya in 2006, the average wage of EPZ workers in Asian sweatshops was a paltry 20 cents per hour, which amounts to barely more than a dollar a day – the lowest wages in the country. Most EPZ workers – the majority of whom are women and doubly vulnerable to exploitation – have to work excessive overtime just to meet their basic needs, and live in constant danger of being laid off without compensation.
Changing AGOA
It doesn't have to be this way. With a few thoughtful changes, AGOA could be used to make trade work for everyday Africans.
First, the economic liberalization condition should be dropped. Rich countries like the United States, Britain, Japan, and China initially used tariff protections and subsidies to promote their industries in the early stages of development; it's cruel to deny those basic strategies to African countries desperately in need of development. Second, the political reform conditions should be taken seriously, and used to leverage best practices in human rights and labor law. Third, Local Content rules should require that all U.S. investments in Africa should tier up over a set period to at least 80 percent local labor and local contracts – characterized by genuine registration – and should require investment in local capacity where it proves too poor to meet the necessary standards. Finally, targeted quotas should be used to channel foreign investment to where it's needed most, rather than to where the regulations are most relaxed.
But changes of this order are not on the horizon, for – as I have demonstrated – the United States is concerned less about the well-being of Africans than about meeting its own energy needs and promoting the interests of American corporations. We need to cut through the deceptive rhetoric of U.S. trade policy and ask the tough questions: Who really benefits from AGOA? Does AGOA enhance welfare and development, or facilitate extraction and exploitation?
As Ambassador Battle's statement illustrates, the present trade arrangement between the United States and Africa is eerily reminiscent of the era of colonial conquest. In 1875, as Europe set its sights on Africa's vast riches, King Leopold II of Belgium wrote to his ambassador in London, "I do not want to miss a good chance of getting us a slice of this magnificent African cake." It's America's turn now, and it appears that the Obama administration – like Bush before him – is driven by a similarly disturbing vision: a new scramble for Africa.
This article was originally posted on Foreign Policy in Focus on 16 February 2011.
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Anthony Cohen August 26, 2015 at 2:11 pm	Reply
Like so many things brought to bear on the African continent from colonising mentality this is no different. Bribes backhand deal will be the norm and the general population will suffer. Only when this is actually created to uplift the local African will things be better. We as Africans are not interested in American investment unless it uplifts the lives of us Africans.
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As I celebrated my 60th birthday this past weekend, I realized something. Why do we wait for that special day to come around once a year to celebrate? We should be celebrating every day like it is our birthday (maybe minus the cake). Oh and be proud of your age. We are all so hung up on looking young, but we need to face the facts that one day we are all going to get old and die. Besides, it's what's inside that counts. I still feel as young as when I was in my 30's, but I must say, I am a lot more wiser now from my life experiences. I believe if you have a positive attitude, you will age gracefully. Life is good; we're alive and well, so be happy and grateful for every day!
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When all else fails, and you truly want to help yourself, reconnect with God (or whatever you call the entity or source from which you were created). Ask for help. You will receive the power, strength, and love from the source to overcome the obstacles you are currently facing in life. Don't be stubborn, because it is impossible to do it alone. When you reconnect with the source and have the fundamental belief that you really can do this, anything is possible.


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Q: On demand asset compile Rails I've some html5/ js game widgets that are shared between my webapp and my ipad app. I've used some ERB code here. The process is, whenever the user purchases a game from ipad, I copy all these assets to a temp folder, zip it and send it back.
Now the problem is, since I'm using ERB, the code is not compiled. This game widget folder is not a part of the asset pipeline as it is required only in certain  cases.
Is there a way I can compile these games on demand before copying?

A: From what I can understand, I'd say your problem lies with your use of ERB code
ERB, like HTML, can only be rendered by a specific technology stack (in our case Rails). This means you need all the other dependencies to make it work, which is where you're hitting problems

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I would recommend your best bet is to create a Rails process to "compile" the JS for you
As a matter of speculation, I'd recommend you'll have to look at creating either a queued job or a scheduled rake task to do this:

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*Use the controller action to load required data

*Use a way to create a ZIP file

*Save the file

If you'd like me to write some code (although I've never done it for this before), I'll have a look at it for you


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Le Havre Athletic Club FA (normalt bare kendt som Le Havre AC) er en fransk fodboldklub fra Le Havre i Normandiet. Klubben spiller i Ligue 2, efter i 2009 at være rykket ned hertil fra landets bedste række Ligue 1. Klubben blev stiftet i 1872 og er dermed Frankrigs ældste fodboldklub. Den spiller sine hjemmekampe på Stade Jules Deschaseaux.

Klubbens største triumf kom i 1959, da man vandt pokalturneringen Coupe de France.

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I assume it is a known issue, but still can't find a working solution. Any ideas?
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Enveloped in a world of technology, why do we still need a keyboard to place our bets? In this edition of Online Casino Archives "Future of Online Gambling", we delve into the odds of the microphone replacing the keyboard.
Coming soon - voice activated mobile gambling!
Voice recognition software has been around for decades. It was in the 1940's when AT&T Bell Laboratories first developed a primitive device that could recognize human speech. Today, speech recognition software is used mostly in health care and the military. Health care providers dictate medical information into microphones and pilots change radio frequencies and other routine commands.
Voice recognition has made steady strides to consumer markets in recent years. Both Windows and Mac OS operating systems come with speech recognition software built-in – though most computer users don't know they exist.
In the mobile world, iPhone has the edge when it comes to speech recognition. The iPhone S4, released only a few months ago, has the most advanced speech recognition capabilities ever to hit the market. "Siri" is iPhone's automated voice control system. iPhone users can say, "What is the weather going to be like" and see or hear responses on their smartphone. Apple is promoting Siri as making iPhone use easier for people to use while exercising, driving or when they have their hands full. If voice recognition is to go mainstream, Apple will likely be the early innovator who brings it to the masses.
How would speech recognition affect the online gamer?
Voice recognition and card games are a natural fit. Words like "hold, stay, double down" would be easier spoken than typed. Best of all, online gamblers wouldn't be stuck in the chair. Online gambling will be a healthier activity when gamblers will be able to place bets while on a beach walk. Mobile voice recognition gambling for the win!
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"I feel honored and privileged to serve the people of Cleveland Park and to have had my store for so many years."
by Linda Ayres
Meet Suprabha Amy Beckjord of Transendence-Perfection-Bliss of the Beyond
On June 7th, Suprabha Amy Beckjord of Transcendence-Perfection-Bliss of the Beyond will celebrate 35 years of having a gift shop in Cleveland Park.
Born in Schenectady, New York, she moved with her family to California, then Pittsburgh and Belgium. Her family finally settled in Northwest Washington and, after graduating in 1978 from Bennington College where she studied painting and printmaking, she moved here, too.
At first, she worked in a frame shop and then had a small studio on the grounds of the Washington Cathedral where she could immerse herself in her painting. But she missed spending time with other people and got the idea of opening a gift shop in 1983. The original location of her first shop, Visions of Beauty, was a block north of her current location on Connecticut Avenue, within walking distance of her home. The shop was in what is now the dining room of Laredo's (on the corner of Ordway), with a gallery and a private meditation center on the upper floor. The gift shop allowed her to continue her artistic pursuits in the items she selected for the store and the displays she created. She has always loved cards and paper and is especially attracted to items related to Asia.
Mrs. Mazza (for whom Mazza Galleria is named) owned the entire block. Suprabha remembers her as a wonderful, petite, and stylish woman. Mrs. Mazza sold the building in 1990, and Suprabha began to look for a new location. She began at Chevy Chase Circle and worked her way down Connecticut Avenue. When she stopped at the Roma, Mr. Abbo pointed at a banner that had just appeared across the street, indicating that the former Christian Science Reading Room was available.
An Oasis from the Cacophony of the City
Suprabha loves Cleveland Park and feels fortunate to be part of the community. She is particularly fond of her long-time customers, many of whom have become friends. People come in with their kids and tell them how they came in as children to buy stickers or other fun things.
Transcendence is an oasis from the cacophony of city. The colorful and serene shop sells more greeting cards than anything else; it's hard to keep them in stock. The kid's area, with its toys and books, is another highlight and gives her "a lot of joy." And then there is jewelry, incense, chimes, and candles. It's a delight to wander around the store to find just the right gift for any occasion or to treat yourself to something. Suprabha, often dressed in a colorful sari that goes with the nature of the store, is the smiling, quiet presence behind the counter, greeting everyone who walks through the door.
Some people come in because of the name of the store to see what is inside. What is behind the unusual name? People were calling Visions of Beauty hoping to schedule hair appointments, so Suprabha began to look for a new name. When Sri Chinmoy, a spiritual teacher with whom she studied for 40 years, visited the store in 1984 while in Washington to lead a meditation at Congress, he suggested the name of Transcendence-Perfection-Bliss of the Beyond.
"This was a special name that embodied a part of his philosophy that resonated with me," said Suprabha. "It inspired me to make the store better. I want to offer a place that is peaceful and positive where people can find things or just visit." Chinmoy, who died in 2007, was a writer, composer, and athlete, and also an artist. Cards based on his paintings (with names such as Grace, Compassion, Forgiveness, Dream, and Happiness) are among those sold in the store.
Chinmoy inspired his students not only to meditate but to be active. Suprabha belongs to an international marathon team and has participated in many long-distance runs. "Transcendence is an idea you can apply to any aspect of your life, like housekeeping. If you take the time to scrub and clean, it increases your consciousness and gives you a good feeling. No one can take away your own achievements," she observes. Sri Chinmoy also gave her the spiritual name of Suprabha after about six years of her studying with him.
She is involved in improving the community, serving on the board of the Cleveland Park Business Association and contributing to the upcoming Uptown Shuffle community dance party.
Suprabha has seen many changes since she opened the store. Gift shops across the city – and across the country – have closed. As for Cleveland Park, she says, "I feel hopeful. It still has enough small businesses to feel like a neighborhood. It's still a personal place. I feel honored and privileged to serve the people of Cleveland Park and to have had my store for so many years."
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In Client Centred Therapy (Rogers 1951) and On Becoming a Person (Rogers 1961) Rogers refers in the process of personality change to a move from rigidity to fluidity in a more fully functioning person.
When we are feeling guarded, defensive and closed down it's interesting how fixed and rigid we can become - routines can become oppressive and we dare not step outside and look at ourselves (counselling can help). In fluidity then we are more open to experience around us and of others. This is something I have mentioned before in that there is a concern currently around communication with younger generations in particular often being oblivious to their surrounds via the never ending "wired" society - mobile phones and Ipods for example creating a "white noise" which can cut people off. In effect attending to the moment and not getting distracted seems to produce a far more fulfilling moment by moment experience AND crucially allows an openness to the surrounds, people and communication.
So a challenge to some of the current status quo is to remain open and fluid within our being and simply seeing what comes up. The more we cram these moments then the less space for something coming up. Rogers goes on to talk about tolerating ambiguity and again this is something that needs practice. But often it means that we have to just sit with uncomfortable feelings and thought and not reach for an immediate solution.
These are all life's challenges and in many ways we are actively discouraged form the practice of them - this means we have to be very careful about how we treat our time.
Feeling the feelings keeps us alive.
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Branches of Barclays Bank across Devon and Cornwall saved for two years
The bank says it won't close branches in remote locations or where it is the last service in town
Neil ShawNetwork Content Editor
Barclays has pledged not to close branches in remote areas or where it is the last bank in town for the next two years.
Locations included on a lost of more than 100 branches that won't close before 2021 include Launceston, Camborne, Bideford and St Ives.
The bank is also launching a new cashback scheme enabling people to withdraw money at small businesses - but said that from 2020 its customers will no longer have a facility which allows them to withdraw cash over the counter at Post Offices.
The bank's new cashback scheme should make it easier for customers to withdraw money at businesses in remote towns and areas without a branch or ATM.
Barclays said the freeze on remote and 'last bank in town' closures will see more than 100 branches ring-fenced so that they remain until at least October 2021.
It is also exploring ways to boost demand in branches generally, starting initially with pilots in 12 areas.
Barclays said it remains "committed to the Post Office framework" and customers and businesses will still be able to pay in cash, cheques and check their balance - but the facility for over-the-counter cash withdrawals will end from January 2020.
Cash withdrawal by cheque will still be available, subject to arrangement.
It is writing to affected customers about the changes.
Adam Rowse, managing director of branch-based banking at Barclay, said: "By maintaining last-in-town or remote branches over the next two years, and working with the community, we hope to increase demand and keep these branches viable.
"We also recognise that there are opportunities to support customers with access to cash where there is no branch or ATM nearby.
"We are launching a cashback offering working with merchants to give customers access to cash over the counter."
Barclays' new cashback scheme will enable customers to withdraw cash at businesses in remote towns and areas where there is no branch or ATM alternative within 1km.
It will launch in more than 200 locations from January 2020.
Meanwhile, Barclays is trialling how it can work with customers and communities, including MPs, councillors and business groups, to see if customer demand can be increased, which would help to make branches more viable in the longer term.
The 12 trial locations include Pickering and Yarm in Yorkshire, Wombourne in Staffordshire and Risca in South Wales.
Part of the trial includes flexible branch opening hours and making technology available to extend services such as video banking.
Mr Rowse told the PA news agency: "We really want to focus on engaging customers in the local community.
"New technology allows even the smallest branch to become a full-service branch.
"We use video technology so our specialists across the country can help people with buying a home or starting a business or borrowing through a business or needing help or advice. That's what we're looking to do."
He said successes in the 12 trial areas could be quickly rolled out to other branches.
Mr Rowse continued: "We believe in the future that branches will be a lot more about education - about helping people with those things that are the most important in their life - whether it's: 'I'm opening my first account' or: 'I'm going off to university'... or: 'I'm starting a business'...
"We're really working with the local community to find out what it is that they want."
Barclays said "pop-up" banking facilities to help communities will also appear at 300 locations by the end of 2021.
Bank branch and ATM closures generally have sparked fears about people's ability to continue to access cash.
The Post Office, which has around 11,500 branches, offers banking services on behalf of many banks, but some commentators in the access-to-cash debate have argued that this should not be seen as a direct replacement for banks' own branches.
Some other banks and building societies have also recently announced initiatives to boost access to cash or keep branches open.
In March, Nationwide Building Society pledged that every town and city with a branch will still have one in May 2021.
In February, Lloyds Banking Group, in partnership with Visa, announced a pilot scheme to boost the number of retailers offering cashback.
Here are the 12 pilot areas where Barclays is looking at how customer demand in branches could be increased:
Yarm, Pickering and Guiseley in Yorkshire, Barnard Castle in County Durham, Wombourne and Kidsgrove in Staffordshire, Risca and Tredegar in South Wales, Shenfield and Burnham-on-Crouch in Essex, Esher in Surrey and Biggin Hill in London.
The 100 branches saved by Barclays
Last in town branches:
Bargoed
Barnoldswick
Builth Wells
Carnforth
Drayton, Norwich
Dunmow
Flitwick
Haxby
Hoyland, Nether
Kidsgrove
Llandeilo
Risca
Saltburn-by-the-Sea
Treorchy
Wroxham
Bedale
Framlingham
Remote branches:
Easingwold
Kirkby Lonsdale
Ulverston
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Cypriot president sends Chinese New Year greetings
Source: Xinhua| 2023-01-20 22:26:30|Editor: huaxia
NICOSIA, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- Cyprus' President Nicos Anastasiades on Friday stressed the close Cyprus-China relations while sending his greetings to China for the Lunar New Year.
"It is with distinct pleasure and sincere feelings of friendship that I join your celebrations today on the joyous occasion of the Chinese Lunar New Year, the Year of the Rabbit, a symbol of good fortune, great ambition, bright future, wealth and prosperity," Anastasiades said in a video.
Anastasiades expressed his "most sincere and warmest wishes" for a happy, prosperous and healthy new year.
He stressed that Cyprus and China, both among the world's most ancient civilizations, share a strong and deep-rooted friendship that is time-tested and founded on a common adherence to international law and world peace.
Cyprus and China adhere to the values and principles of the United Nations and international law, both aspiring to safeguard peace, security and stability in their respective regions and the world at large, he added.
"During my ten-year tenure as President of the Republic of Cyprus, I am particularly pleased to attest that -- despite the geographical distance and notable difference in size between our two countries -- we have managed to embark into a new era of partnership with substantial geopolitical meaning," Anastasiades said.
He also noted that in the framework of the European Union, Cyprus has always emphasized the need for engagement and cooperation with China in addressing global and regional challenges.
"Cyprus will also continue to advocate working with Beijing in many different areas, such as trade and investment, sustainable development, food security, climate change and environmental protection, education," he added. ■
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The Slavic languages (also called Slavonic languages) are the Indo-European languages native to the Slavic peoples, originally from Eastern Europe. They are thought to descend from a proto-language called Proto-Slavic spoken during the Early Middle Ages, which in turn is thought to have descended from the earlier Proto-Balto-Slavic language, linking the Slavic languages to the Baltic languages in a Balto-Slavic group within the Indo-European family.
The Slavic languages are divided intro three subgroups: East, West, and South, which together constitute more than twenty languages. Of these, ten have at least one million speakers and official status as the national languages of the countries in which they are predominantly spoken: Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian (of the East group), Polish, Czech and Slovak (of the West group) and Slovene, Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian and Bulgarian (of the South group).
The current geographic distribution of natively spoken Slavic languages covers Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the eastern parts of Central Europe and all of the territory of Russia, which includes northern and north-central Asia. Furthermore, the diasporas of many Slavic peoples have established isolated minorities of speakers of their languages all over the world. The number of speakers of all Slavic languages together is estimated to be 315 million.
Some linguists speculate that a North Slavic branch has existed as well. The Old Novgorod dialect may have reflected some idiosyncrasies of this group. On the other hand, the term "North Slavic" is also used sometimes to combine the West and East Slavic languages into one group, in opposition to the South Slavic languages, due to traits the West and East Slavic branches share with each other that they do not with the South Slavic languages. Mutual intelligibility also plays a role in determining the West, East, and South branches. Speakers of languages within the same branch will in most cases be able to understand each other at least partially, but they are generally unable to across branches (for which it would be comparable to a native English speaker trying to understand any other Germanic language).
The most obvious differences between the West and East Slavic branches are in the orthography of the standard languages: West Slavic languages are written in the Latin script, and have had more western European influence due to their speakers being historically Roman Catholic, whereas the East Slavic languages are written in Cyrillic and, with Eastern Orthodox or Uniate faithful, have had more Greek influence. East Slavic languages such as Russian have, however, during and after Peter the Great's Europeanization campaign, absorbed many words of Latin, French, German, and Italian origin, somewhat reducing this difference in influence. Although the South Slavic group has traits that distinguish it from the West or East Slavic branches, within itself it displays much the same variations: Bulgarian, for example, has some East Slavic traits (Cyrillic alphabet, Russian loanwords, and Greek influence) and Croatian many West Slavic ones (Latin alphabet, overall central European influence like Czech), despite both being South Slavic.
The tripartite division of the Slavic languages does not take into account the spoken dialects of each language. Of these, certain so-called transitional dialects and hybrid dialects often bridge the gaps between different languages, showing similarities that do not stand out when comparing Slavic literary (i.e. standard) languages. For example, Slovak (West Slavic) and Ukrainian (East Slavic) are bridged by the Rusyn of Eastern Slovakia and western Ukraine. Similarly, Polish shares transitional features with both western Ukrainian and Belarusian dialects. The Croatian Kajkavian dialect is more similar to Slovene than to the standard Croatian language.
The sound [ɨ] occurs only in some languages (Russian, Belarusian, Polish), and even in these languages, it is unclear whether it is its own phoneme or an allophone of /i/. Nonetheless, it is a quite prominent and noticeable characteristic of the languages in which it is present.
Russian мышь [mɨʂ] and Polish mysz [mɨʂ] "mouse"
Other phonemic vowels are found in certain languages (e.g. the schwa /ǝ/ in Bulgarian and Slovenian, distinct high-mid and low-mid vowels in Slovenian, and the lax front vowel /ɪ/ in Ukrainian).
Most languages of the former Soviet Union and of some neighbouring countries (for example, Mongolian) are significantly influenced by Russian, especially in vocabulary. In the south, the Romanian, Albanian, and Hungarian languages show the influence of the neighboring Slavic nations, especially in vocabulary pertaining to urban life, agriculture, and crafts and trade—the major cultural innovations at times of limited long-range cultural contact. In each one of these languages, Slavic lexical borrowings represent at least 20% of the total vocabulary. However, Romanian has much lower influence from Slavic than Albanian or Hungarian . This is because Slavic tribes crossed and partially settled the territories inhabited by ancient Illyrians and Vlachs on their way to the Balkans.
Church Slavonic language, derived from Old Church Slavonic, but with significant replacement of the original vocabulary by forms from the Old Russian language and other regional forms. The Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Russian Orthodox Church, Polish Orthodox Church, Macedonian Orthodox Church, Serbian Orthodox Church, and even some Roman Catholic Churches in Croatia continue to use Church Slavonic as a liturgical language. While not used in modern times, the text of a Church Slavonic Roman Rite Mass survives in Croatia and the Czech Republic, which is best known through Janáček's musical setting of it (the Glagolitic Mass).
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Slavic". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
↑ According to the data taken from Anatole V. Lyovin, An Introduction to the Languages of the World, Oxford University Press, New York – Oxford, 1997.
↑ cf. Novotná & Blažek (2007) with references. "Classical glottochronology" conducted by Czech Slavist M. Čejka in 1974 dates the Balto-Slavic split to −910±340 BCE, Sergei Starostin in 1994 dates it to 1210 BCE, and "recalibrated glottochronology" conducted by Novotná & Blažek dates it to 1400–1340 BCE. This agrees well with Trziniec-Komarov culture, localized from Silesia to Central Ukraine and dated to the period 1500–1200 BCE.
↑ Kapović (2008, p. 94) "Kako rekosmo, nije sigurno je li uopće bilo prabaltijskoga jezika. Čini se da su dvije posvjedočene, preživjele grane baltijskoga, istočna i zapadna, različite jedna od druge izvorno kao i svaka posebno od praslavenskoga".
↑ Hellquist, Elof (1922). "torg". Svensk etymologisk ordbok (in Swedish). Project Runeberg. Retrieved 2006-12-27.
↑ Hellquist, Elof (1922). "tolk". Svensk etymologisk ordbok (in Swedish). Project Runeberg. Retrieved 2006-12-27.
↑ Hellquist, Elof (1922). "pråm". Svensk etymologisk ordbok (in Swedish). Project Runeberg. Retrieved 2006-12-27.
↑ Harper, Douglas. "vodka". Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved 2007-05-18.
↑ Harper, Douglas. "sable". Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved 2007-05-18.
↑ cf.: Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob Grimm und Wilhelm Grimm. 16 Bde. [in 32 Teilbänden. Leipzig: S. Hirzel 1854–1960.], s.v. Vampir; Trésor de la Langue Française informatisé; Dauzat, Albert, 1938. Dictionnaire étymologique. Librairie Larousse; Wolfgang Pfeifer, Етymologisches Woerterbuch, 2006, p. 1494; Petar Skok, Etimologijski rjecnk hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika, 1971–1974, s.v. Vampir; Tokarev, S.A. et al. 1982. Mify narodov mira. ("Myths of the peoples of the world". A Russian encyclopedia of mythology); Russian Etymological Dictionary by Max Vasmer.
↑ Harper, Douglas. "vampire". Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved 2007-09-21.
↑ "Indo-European, Slavic". Language Family Trees. Ethnologue. 2006. Retrieved 2006-12-27.
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Leo Wiener (1920). "Slavic Languages". Encyclopedia Americana.


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Looking for a neat way to insert complete \header information for selected \score blocks in a sequence of \score blocks.
Found the below message in the archives.
Did the feature ever happen?
I send a copy of this to bug-lilypond since it's a feature request.
As you have noted, you will only get a new indication of piece and opus for each subsequent \score. I agree with you that it would be great to have some option to automatically print a number of individual parts from a single input file. However, then you would also like a new page for each new \score. Also, the page numbers should be reset and maybe the layout should be changed to typeset the instrument name in the page heading.
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