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Mike T. Marino... Insightful, Subtle & Explosive, his Vintage Flavored Americana Rock derives intensity from the constant erosion of the American Heartland. Read what reviewers are saying about his RestlessSoul...
Tomorrow's Yesterday
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"Every song on the record out-did itself over & over again with a surprise in every corner - Mike Marino & his RestlessSoul proves to be an artist with staying power"
— Emily Hinde – No Depression–Journal of Roots Music
"If Tomorrow's Yesterday is any inclination of what to expect from this musical mastermind of talent, then the introduction of a new musical legacy is now born."
— Louise Parker – Paste Magazine
"Mike – I'm forwarding this material along, this stuff is great and as good as any new Americana artist I've heard in a long ass time."
— Taxi Screener ID #256
"The track we selected is Out of the Darkness – it should cross over into several different radio formats. Loved the arrangement. The song has a cool Traveling Wilbury's vibe."
— Bryan Klausing – Assoc. Producer-Poetman Records/Woodsongs
"These are the words of poet/sage with a guitar; like a combination of CSNY and Lou Reed, heartfelt and to the point with a real world edge to it all."
— Keith "MuzikMan" Hannaleck – MuzikReviews.com
"His Heartland Music sounds a bit like Rick Danko meets a countrified Clapton with a twist of Solo Tom Petty — Often Rustic but never outdated — Vintage Rock — for A Brave New World"
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Welcome to the new Website - Hope you like it!
Hey Folks! -- Several new songs for the album "EROSION" - scheduled for release in 2020, are posted now on the Home Page Player above
-GIVE 'EM A SPIN!!
- "Sad Radio" about the demise of old FM Radio format & the Record Business -TP got it right with The Last DJ! --"Watching the World Go By" is about an old man sitting on his front step I'd pass by on my way home from work... The first 10 tracks above are slated for the new album - "Something in Your Eyes" & "When Did We Become Strangers" feature backing vocals of the late great Bobby Campanell of The Shakes - RIP - The last two songs Bob recorded with me...
- Hope you enjoy these -- a few more new songs in the pipe line are being worked on now for official release in 2020 - Very happy to be working with Frank Kozak of The Bohemian Mechanics on this project! --
Oh yea -- check out the Featured Video of "What Do We Do Now?" -- for all my fallen heroes -- Inspired by Tom Petty
Keep an eye on the Schedule Page for some Original Showcases later this year
Another Restless Soul Records jam is in the works for this fall 2019- great line up of players & some of my favorite covers -maybe some old Traffic, Clapton & something from Super Session - & an original or two too! Keep an eye out for the videos later this year...
Videos are Posted Now - Live from Restless Soul Records - Full Band Jam - Mike M jams with friends - Bluesman Mike Dugan & featuring Don Plowman (Drums), Rob Fraser (Bass), Carlo Dalessandro (Keys) & Jenn McCracken -(Backing vocals)
The jam was filmed by Video Eng. Jay Yachetta & mixed by Jimmy Heffernan - Check out the videos in the Featured Section or Videos Page in the Gallery...
Thought for the Day:
Success is not a race with others but a journey with yourself...
I been waiting for somethin' to happen...that I'm supposed to start...
Half the world is on fire... the other half is playing with matches...
"Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax & float downstream"
The erosion of the American Heartland & Culture lamented in song from the perspective of a Shadow Boomer at the end of the line...
A life spent witnessing the fabric of America wither & fade away a little more with each passing year... Go Ahead, Google "The End of rural America" ...
The demise of the small family farmer to Corporate Farms & GMO's, the fading of traditional values & the constant erosion of the American Heartland & frontier of The Wild West... Is this truly the End of the Innocence - or the beginning of Theodore Rozak's "Technocracy" gone mad...?
Perhaps somewhere between George Orwell's Big Brother Mind Control of "1984", & Huxley's more sedate "Brave New World" - where the powers that be use the "pleasurable distractions" to seduce the masses into loving their servitude...
Have you hugged your I-Phone today for the latest media frenzy...?
Be careful what you wish for!
What would these great writers think of modern society today? The masses embracing the Digital-Techno world for quick convenience all at the expense of true freedom...
It makes a dreamer imagine the bygone days of Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac's - On the Road...
Oh, to be lost in the Heartland of old America...
Is anyone listening anymore? Does anyone care, - lost in this modern urban techno-infatuated, cyber world....? Well, they better if they can begin to appreciate what the Great Generation that won WWII gave to us.
As the pendulum swings what is this generation passing on to America's future generations, & what's the message? What have we learned from history as more of our traditions & values dissolve along with the rural landscape?
Medicated up & dumbed down... Welcome to the new Millennia...
Take a journey with Americana, Alt-Country, AAA Songwriter Mike T. Marino & his Restless Soul to find some answers... The next release with Heartland Rock Songs addressing the changing times such as:
"Apathetic Soup" - Our worst enemy is our own apathy...
"60's Child" - trapped in a material world...
"We Caught A Glimpse" - regarding the Woodstock Generation
"Time Passed You" - In a wink of an eye - 20 years went by you....
"My Old Town" - where everyone are strangers now...
"Are We Really Free?" - Lock the Door...
"Trouble in the Valley" - Keep your powder dry...
The Blistering "No Stone Unturned" & several more...
The Restless Souls Marino assembled for this album include Nashville greats Danny Eyer & Jimmy Heffernan, whose resumes include performances on the Tonight Show to the Grand Ole Opry & touring with folks like Brad Paisley, Chuck Berry & Wilson Pickett. Also on the lineup is Bluesman Mike Dugan who was voted Bluesman of the Year by Show Business News NYC after that honor was previously awarded to the likes of Mike Bloomfield & Eric Clapton.
Singers include outstanding performances featuring the backing of Rachel Conrad- appears courtesy Banner Records, Jenn McCracken appears courtesy of MCD Music, Mike Volpe (Founder of Abbey Road - the first Beatlemania) & Bobby Campanell. A young man named Jon Bon Jovi once opened for Bobby Campanell & The Shakes & named him an early influence.
And the list continues with an All Star cast to support Mike in this project...
Mixed by Grammy Winner Phil Nicolo (Amy Grant, Billy Joel, Bob Dylan, The Hooters)
Mastered by Multi-Grammy winner Richard Dodd ( George Harrison, The Traveling Wilburys, Joe Cocker, Tom Petty)
The new Album - "Tomorrow's Yesterday" - Available now...
So what is a RestlessSoul?...
- At first it sounds a bit negative - like someone who can't get any inner peace or spiritual satisfaction -- or according to one popular definition:
Any sense of restlessness is a sign that your soul is ready to grow. Answering the call of your soul by pursuing a new activity or form of creative expression, such as writing, playing music, or sculpting would be a natural process of aligning yourself with Spirit.
If you are restless, this is how you're being guided or invited by your soul to find deeper fulfillment through more satisfying work and meaningful service.
I'd agree & add that it means searching for something more meaningful than material wealth, which still eventually leaves you empty & void of true satisfaction & inner peace. So it's fine being a RestlessSoul so long as the energy expelled in the journey is positive & not destructive. There's way too much negativity in the world today... dig the music & find some Peace...
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Stewart Drug Company, 1908, Portal
This is one of four identical structures which once faced Railroad Street. It's the only one that remains and served as the office and pharmacy of Dr. J. A. Stewart. Two additional structures of identical construction were built by Dr. Stewart's cousin, C. W. Caldwell. Stewart (1880-1952), a native of Crawfordville, came to Bulloch County upon graduating from the Medical College of Georgia in 1906 and quickly became involved in nearly every aspect of its civic life. While boarding with the Kitchings family, in 1907, he met and married their daughter, Sarah. He served on the first city council in Portal and remained one of the town's biggest boosters for the remainder of his life. A much more detailed biography of Dr. Stewart can be found on the National Register Nomination Form.
In their nomination of the pharmacy to their 2015 Places in Peril list, the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation noted: (This) small wooden building served as a pharmacy, doctor's office and soda fountain over the years, and Dr. Stewart was known to do surgery in the back of the drugstore while his wife tended the soda fountain in the front. Though the drugstore closed in 1950, its interior remains largely intact. With medical books and instruments, stocked shelves and the soda fountain still inside, this is perhaps the most thorough and authentic example of an early community pharmacy in the entire state.
On 8 August 2011, Joe Brack wrote: My father's family was from Portal, the Bracks. Dr.Stewart was my uncle's father and in the mid to late 40's and early 50's he still traveled around the county by horse and buggy and many times paid with either produce or live stock when he was paid at all. Uncle Punk ran a beer and fish market next door and of course being the 40's it had separate entrances for blacks and whites. We would visit Uncle Punk and get a Nee High soda… fond memories.
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Ok, if Dresden was a librarian, and not a total whiner, this is probably be his story.
I'm sure this was a good story, at least, I didn't hate it. But all I could think of was Dresden Rip Off, Dresden Rip Off, the whole way through.
Sure, fans will point out ALL the differences, but all I saw was magician, loner, trench coat, on parole by the Magic Police, targeted by vampires and others.


So last nights progress . Made all the sensor connections at the Holley . Also made and additional 12v sensor out and ground sensor out from the Holley I'd I ever needed to add anything else . I have no reason for a 5v but if I ever do I'll make one too . So now I have the trans brake input for the 2 step , trans temp sensor wired , drive shaft speed sensor pig tail ready to go .
The premise is eventually when I do the Holley dash or a race pak I can use the DSS to get a speedo . Also use it to calculate converter slip , oh and maybe some traction control .
Eventually going to be the race pack or the Holley dash . Leaning toward race pak .
So the meth controller didn't fit in the little info center at the right corner of the bezel that goes around the cluster it was hitting and I just wasn't happy with it. So I came up with this tonight .
Atco??? you guys in the great hole, tax you to death state of NJ too?
this is such a simple thing, but im digging that bracket to keep the usb plugged in.
Well I got some more done . All wiring in the car is done . Interior is 3/4 re installed . Have to hole saw the console tomorrow for my usb charging port by the arm rest . Also on the pass side of the console where I'm going to put a pass through for the ecu usb connection.
Over drive button mounted .
Wires done for the usb charger .
Shifter box on and just laid the upper part of the console in place to get an idea .
SHifter position worked out just like I planned .
Took a little break from wiring tonight . Installed the lokar billet dipstick for the trans.
Put the trans back up and the stifflers mount back on and secured it .
Cleaned the fans , Radiatior, and polished up the end tanks + the reservior and installed it as well as the lower hose and 2 heater hoses .
Thank you for posting that pic of your trans dipstick tube, cause now I know that that leakin btch that I have ( Lokar) has a solution that they are offering. Mine uses two O rings, instead of that grommet looking thing...when will you use it, and when will you be filling the trans?
Some other little stuff done . New bumper showed up .


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Posted on July 2, 2021 July 2, 2021 by H.G.O
Julia Michaels – All Your Exes
Julia Cavazos, better known as Julia Michaels, made a name for herself writing hits for other pop artists such as Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez, and Shawn Mendes, just to name a few. Then, in 2017, she wrote a song that she liked so much that she kept it for herself. That tune, Issues, became a hit and even earned her some Grammy nominations (whatever that's worth). Julia is a established solo artist now and earlier this year released her debut studio album: Not In Chronological Order, which features the single being featured here today.
I hadn't paid that much attention to Julia before because most of her songs tend to be mainstream pop tunes that are not typically my cup of tea. That being said, I happened to listen to All Your Exes and found it so good that I had to write about it here. It starts as a decent pop track led by an acoustic guitar and Julia Michaels' great vocals. So far so good but nothing to write home about. Then the chorus starts and it becomes a very different song, swapping out the acoustic guitar with a gritty electric one. The end result is one of the best #poprock tunes of the year, which comes accompanied by a fun music video that nods to a few psychological thrillers. Well worth your time.
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2 Replies to "Julia Michaels – All Your Exes"
EclecticMusicLover says:
I've pretty much felt the same as you about Julia Michaels, but I agree this is a decent song. But wow, the video's pretty gruesome!
H.G.O says:
Haha yeah, I was surprised they let her do it but she must have had a lot of fun filming it.
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Tense moments erupt among Richland Co. lawmakers at annual meeting, amid accusations of a 'hostile environment'
By Greg Adaline | December 12, 2019 at 7:46 PM EST - Updated December 12 at 8:39 PM
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - At the annual meeting of the Richland County Legislation Delegation, lawmakers were scheduled to discuss what the agenda described as "delegation business and appointments to boards and commissions."
Instead, the meeting erupted into a shouting match and allegations that one lawmaker is creating a "hostile environment" among the group.
Executive Director James Brown read a letter detailing a closed-door meeting he had with State Senator Dick Harpootlian on November 22nd, in which he says Sen. Harpootlian launched into a profanity-laced tirade.
Brown claimed Harpootlian was "disrespectful, intimidating, and demeaning" and said Harpootlian labeled other members of the delegation as "incompetent, wasteful and corrupt". All in all, Brown said Harpootlian's actions create a "hostile work environment."
Harpootlian defended his actions and admitted to using strong language but said it was justified because he was questioning how taxpayer money is spent.
But other members including State Representative Todd Rutherford and Wendy Brawley said Harpootlian's actions are unacceptable and it led to a fiery exchange between Rutherford and the state senator.
The delegation unanimously passed a motion shortly after, stating "anyone member's actions to create a hostile environment, should not be tolerated."
While that heated exchange dominated the meeting, the board also voted to keep Chairman Jimmy Bales in place. Rep. Rutherford introduced a motion to remove Bales, but the motion was voted down, 10-6 with one "no vote."
The delegation also agreed to hold quarterly meetings instead of an annual meeting, promising to take up board appointments at their newly scheduled March meeting, with a cutoff for applications set for January 31.
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Greg Adaline is an Emmy Nominated Anchor / Reporter, who brings over 13 years of broadcasting experience to the WIS anchor desk.
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Chris Sale Not Expected to Undergo Tommy John Surgery
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Boston Red sox lefthander Chris Sale will not play for the remainder of the season due to an elbow injury. The issue is in his left Elbow. A second opinion… Read more
Tim Tebow to miss the rest of the season with nagging pinky injury
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Breaking: Tim Tebow's season is over, sources said. He suffered a deep cut on his left pinky last month, and it won't heal in time for him to play again… Read more
Bo Bichette Sets MLB Record with Double in Ninth Straight
August 9, 2019 By David A.
Bo Bichette can hit. The 21-year old rookie for the Toronto Blue Jays does not even have 50 at-bats in the majors but is already in the record books. Bo… Read more
Yankees Break MLB Home Run Mark Versus Orioles
The New York Yankees are doing a job on the Baltimore Orioles his season. On Wednesday at Camden Yards, the Yankees hit five more home runs off Baltimore pitching in… Read more
Houston Astros Co-Favorites to Win World Series After Acquiring Greinke
Of all the moves made on Wednesday's trade deadline, the biggest was pulled off by the Houston Astros. Houston acquired Arizona Diamondbacks' veteran right-hander Zack Greinke in exchange for four… Read more
Indians trade for Yasiel Puig, send Trevor Bauer to Reds
Cleveland Indians pitcher Trevor Bauer has been traded to the Cincinnati Reds. He's part of a deal that sends Yasiel Puig in the opposite direction, and both teams confirmed the news on Wednesday.… Read more
Giants reportedly mulling trading Madison Bumgarner to Astros
In the weeks leading up to Wednesday's MLB trade deadline, it appeared that the San Franciso Giants went from sellers to buyers. The team is currently in the midst… Read more
Astros Rookie Yordan Alvarez Sets RBI Record
July 23, 2019 By David A.
On Monday, Houston Astros slugger Yordan Alvarez hit a home run and drove in two runs in an 11-1 victory over American League West rival the Oakland A's. The rookie… Read more
Brandon Woodruff Strains Oblique, Nationals Zimmerman Hurts Foot
Milwaukee Brewers right-hander Brandon Woodruff will go a couple of weeks without playing. Woodruff will be placed on the team's injured list after the All-Star hurler strained his left oblique.… Read more
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Johannes Paulus Lotsy (, Dordrecht — , Voorburg), est un botaniste néerlandais.

Biographie

Ouvrages
Il publie, entre autres :
 Evolution  by  means  of  hybridization, 1916. The Hague, The Netherlands, Martinus Nijhoff
 Van den Atlantischen Oceaan naar de Stille Zuidzee en 1922.

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Botaniste néerlandais
Mycologue néerlandais
Naissance en avril 1867
Décès en novembre 1931
Naissance à Dordrecht
Décès à 64 ans

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Sitting on the steps of Greek democracy – reflections on an excursion
Antonis Pittas – Landart (2012)
Saturday was the last day of a three day excursion with students from the University of Hildesheim, concluding the seminar 'The Art of Describing Art' that I taught together with Julia Heuser this winter semester. We ended visiting Annet Gelink Gallery, where artist Antonis Pittas (part of the Chasing Rainbows exhibition on until 23-2) was finishing his last 'performative' public writing of the word 'implementation' on a rectangular slate of marble that has the same dimensions as one step of the stair leading up to the Greece parliament. As it goes with these excursions everyone was exhausted at the end of the three days, so when Antonis invited us to sit on the sculpture, everybody immediately obliged! One of the students noted with a sense of irony that the steps of the Greece parliament was now 'occupied' by German students. The observation was more than just a funny comment. It was a precise historical image of where we were: resting on the steps of Greek democracy, while trying to figure out where we are, how we got there and where we can go from here.
In the last days we had looked at modern and contemporary classics from Lissitzky to Kabakov, from Cézanne to Mike Kelley and with our eyes and bodies confronted the battlefield of aesthetics in the American-European 20th century. In a sense we had followed the simultaneous move inward and outward that marked this creative and destructive century. For it was in the depths of the human subject, in the movement of the eyes, the innate sensibilities of the bodies, in the unconscious, that during 20th century the workings of the world – both natural and social – were discovered, which offered the foundation for utopian designs to reshape the world. As Benjamin stated in his famous essay on 'art in the age of technological reproducibility' commenting on the complex spatial organisation of modernity (the moving in- and outwards): 'the modern masses have a desire to come closer to things', to 'absorb' the world in their being, to overcome the distance of reflection, to counter alienation, to let the aura of the work of art whither and decay into a new substance, a new subject, who would approach the world no longer as a Cartesian Mind, but as a complex weaving of body and mind. In the three days we were such a mass of bodies that tried to absorb modernity – perhaps to get beyond it.
We discovered this looking at Lissitzky in the Lissitzky-Kabakov exhibition 'Utopia and Reality' (still in the Van Abbemuseum until 28-4-2013). We followed with our eyes how the Prouns of this Russian avant-garde artist were not offering the mind an image that it could read as a story, but that it juxtaposed complex and contradicting shapes that activated eye and mind at the same time, producing a flux between imagined three dimensional space and physical shapes on the canvas. The picture addressed a 'new man', who would learn to think through doing; a man who would overcome the body-mind split through a new type of dynamic unity between form and content that marked constructivist graphic, architectonic and artistic design. This was the aesthetic utopianism that accompanied the Russian revolution at the dawn of the century. Looking then at the work of Kabakov after this we saw the clumsy and everyday man who struggled with the impossible demands of this clinical, mechanical constructivist dream that had turned into terror as quickly as the French Revolution did. Approaching human beings no longer as spiritual machines as Lissitzky, Kabakov introduced human beings as filled with stories and dreams, trapped in an everydayness that in no way reflects the exalted rhetoric and dream-like images that the Soviets made of their earthly, socialist paradise.
Looking at Lissitzky
After experiencing this confrontation between the two Russian giants, students the following day gave presentations to the Van Abbe-staff that focused on the website. Talking today about the 'art of describing art' requires talking as well about where these descriptions will be made public and here the Internet still poses many questions. By making proposals for the Van Abbe-collection-website, the students gave their views and ideas and were offered generous, but also critical feedback by Daniel Neugebauer (head of marketing, mediation and fund raising) and Christiane Berndes (curator and head of collection). It was a nice moment of exchange not only between the people involved, but also between the world of the university and the museum and as such another good experience in the now already three-year old structural collaboration between the Van Abbemuseum and the University of Hildesheim. During the days we also visited Onomatopee, MU and Piet-Hein Eek, which made the exchange not limited to the two institutions, but also made it an encounter with Eindhoven in a broader sense. (And, for those who also read the earlier blog-entry on this seminar, another high-point of course was the physical encounter with the Buste de Femme, from Picasso that had made the trip to Palestine and was subject to an assignment in the first part of the class.)
Attentive Audience
The last day we visited Amsterdam and went first to the Stedelijk Museum, who generously welcomed us by giving us free entrance. Walking through the quite majestic presentation of the collection of the Stedelijk, the story that had been presented to us in the first days through the iconic figures of Lissitzky and Kabakov now unfolded in its many different manifestations through the traditional narrative of Western art of the 20th century. In the end the visit became a kind of crash-course in Greenbergian aesthetics looking first at Cézanne, then Mondriaan and then Newman. Of course, there are many reasons to critique this modernist tradition, but when studying art within Europe it is difficult to ignore this history. Also, since it belongs to a much broader and more general history of exchange between art and society and the role aesthetics plays in politics it is impossible to ignore this episode in an art history curriculum or to consider it in only negative terms. And, as an added advantage, it proofed a good exercise before entering the absurd, humorous and terrifying world of Mike Kelley, whose work still seems very much connected to the aesthetics of the modernist period preceding his work and is legible as critique only from within this tradition.
Ilya & Emilia Kabakov – Let's Go Girls (1995)
And then, after all this looking and walking, we ended up sitting on the steps of the Greek parliament in Annet Gelink Gallery. In our discussion Antonis Pittas openly admitted his strong affinity with the modernist sensibilities of the Minimal and Conceptual artists. Like Kelley, he still has one foot in the old world of modernism. However, as he explained, what he does is 'unforgivable' to those Minimal and Conceptual artist's whose aesthetics he borrows. Closer to Lissitzky than to Kabakov, these artists also worked in an anti-anecdotal way and wanted to produce works which would, in the formula of Donald Judd, be 'specific-objects' that told of nothing but themselves. Antonis in contrast, takes as the measurements for his Judd-like slate of marble the real historical staircase in Athens. On it he writes with graphite a quote by Christine Lagarde (director of the IMF) 'implementation', which refers to the implementation of the hard austerity measures to get grip on public spending and reduce the deficit. But the work reflects the contemporary moment in many other ways. When Antonis visited Athens some time ago he noticed that everywhere marble stones had been smashed on pavements or from buildings to to throw at the police. The marble that was considered the strongest and noblest material with which to build the city that is the historical birthplace of democracy, today serves as a weapon for common people to fight a system that they no longer understand and see only as an enemy. The current situation gives wings to the proto-fascist movement Golden Dawn that is scarily popular. And even if it seems unlikely that they will follow a military trajectory similar to National Socialism, the fact that such open fascist sensibility can manifest itself again in Europe in synchronicity with an enormous economic crisis is cause for deep concern.
on the steps of Greek democracy
It makes me wonder what the meaning of 'describing art' could be in such a tense political moment. I don't have a clear answer to this. But thinking about it I'm reminded of the way in which the French philosopher Jacques Rancière describes how there is an aesthetic component to (democratic) politics, because it requires 'recognition' before any change, any decision, is possible. First we have to see the danger, we have to see our neighbour (strange and close) and recognize the fears and dreams of one another, to discuss possible solutions. It is the dream of democracy perhaps, extremely fragile and maybe more a vision than a reality, but what else do we have other than this vision? Even if it is no solution, the work of Antonis makes us see, and writing about it allows us to share what we see and as such allows us – perhaps – to see a little more. It may sound simple, but seeing is not simple, neither is talking about it. Seeing and saying are a crucial part of the human ecology and a world that doesn't care for them constantly is exposed to the risk of forgetting the difference between fact and fiction, between what is there in front of our eyes and what we intellectually know. The artist, the art historian, the art critic, the art mediator, the curator they all belong to a delicate economy that provides a platform where we can exercise the skill of seeing and saying. Of course, this alone will not solve our social or political problems, but I do believe that it is part of the solution. So, sitting on the steps of Greek parliament we rested from three days of hard work to gather strength, strength that I'm afraid we might need more than we would like in the days to come.
*Thanks to my colleague Nick Aikens for reading over the text
**Photos from excursion-participant Paula Rathjen


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Phage therapy
From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Phage injecting its genome into bacterial cell
An electron micrograph of bacteriophages attached to a bacterial cell. These viruses are the size and shape of coliphage T1
Phage therapy or viral phage therapy is the therapeutic use of bacteriophages to treat pathogenic bacterial infections.[1] Phage therapy has many potential applications in human medicine as well as dentistry, veterinary science, and agriculture.[2] If the target host of a phage therapy treatment is not an animal the term "biocontrol" (as in phage-mediated biocontrol of bacteria) is usually employed, rather than "phage therapy".
They would have a high therapeutic index, that is, phage therapy would be expected to give rise to few side effects. Because phages replicate in vivo, a smaller effective dose can be used. On the other hand, this specificity is also a disadvantage: a phage will only kill a bacterium if it is a match to the specific strain. Consequently phage mixtures are often applied to improve the chances of success, or samples can be taken and an appropriate phage identified and grown.
Bacteriophages are much more specific that antibiotic , they can " hypothetically" be chosen to be indirectly harmless not only to the host organism , but also to other normal flora like in gut to reduce the opportunistic infection . [3]
Phages are currently being used therapeutically to treat bacterial infections that do not respond to conventional antibiotics, particularly in Russia[4] and Georgia.[5][6][7] There is also a phage therapy unit in Wroclaw, Poland, established 2005, the only such centre in European Union countries.[8]
Phages tend to be more successful than antibiotics where there is a biofilm covered by a polysaccharide layer, which antibiotics typically cannot penetrate.[9] In the West, no therapies are currently authorized for use on humans, although phages for killing food poisoning bacteria (Listeria) are now in use.[10]
2 Potential benefits
3 Application
3.1 Collection
3.2 Treatment
4 Obstacles
5 Legislation
5.1 Safety
6 Efficacy
7 Other animals
8 Cultural impact
Frederick Twort
Phage in action on Bacillus anthracis
The discovery of bacteriophages was reported by Frederick Twort in 1915 and Felix d'Hérelle[11] in 1917. D'Hérelle said that the phages always appeared in the stools of Shigella dysentery patients shortly before they began to recover.[12] He "quickly learned that bacteriophages are found wherever bacteria thrive: in sewers, in rivers that catch waste runoff from pipes, and in the stools of convalescent patients."[13] Phage therapy was immediately recognized by many to be a key way forward for the eradication of bacterial infections. A Georgian, George Eliava, was making similar discoveries. He travelled to the Pasteur Institute in Paris where he met d'Hérelle, and in 1923 he founded the Eliava Institute in Tbilisi, Georgia, devoted to the development of phage therapy. Phage therapy is used in Russia, Georgia and Poland.
In Russia, extensive research and development soon began in this field. In the United States during the 1940s commercialization of phage therapy was undertaken by " Eli Lilly".(One of the large pharmaceutical company well Known in the Stock market ).
While knowledge was being accumulated regarding the biology of phages and how to use phage cocktails correctly, early uses of phage therapy were often unreliable.[14] When antibiotics were discovered in 1941 and marketed widely in the U.S. and Europe, Western scientists mostly lost interest in further use and study of phage therapy for some time.[15]
Isolated from Western advances in antibiotic production in the 1940s, Russian scientists continued to develop already successful phage therapy to treat the wounds of soldiers in field hospitals. During World War II, the Soviet Union used bacteriophages to treat many soldiers infected with various bacterial diseases e.g. dysentery and gangrene. Russian researchers continued to develop and to refine their treatments and to publish their research and results. However, due to the scientific barriers of the Cold War, this knowledge was not translated and did not proliferate across the world.[16][17] A summary of these publications was published in English in 2009 in "A Literature Review of the Practical Application of Bacteriophage Research" [18]
There is an extensive library and research center at the George Eliava Institute in Tbilisi, Georgia. Phage therapy is today a widespread form of treatment in that region.[19]
As a result of the development of antibiotic resistance since the 1950s and an advancement of scientific knowledge, there has been renewed interest worldwide in the ability of phage therapy to eradicate bacterial infections and chronic polymicrobial biofilm (including in industrial situations[20]).
Phages have been investigated as a potential means to eliminate pathogens like Campylobacter in raw food[21] and Listeria in fresh food or to reduce food spoilage bacteria.[22] In agricultural practice phages were used to fight pathogens like Campylobacter, Escherichia and Salmonella in farm animals, Lactococcus and Vibrio pathogens in fish from aquaculture and Erwinia and Xanthomonas in plants of agricultural importance. The oldest use was, however, in human medicine. Phages have been used against diarrheal diseases caused by E. coli, Shigella or Vibrio and against wound infections caused by facultative pathogens of the skin like staphylococci and streptococci. Recently the phage therapy approach has been applied to systemic and even intracellular infections and the addition of non-replicating phage and isolated phage enzymes like lysins to the antimicrobial arsenal. However, actual proof for the efficacy of these phage approaches in the field or the hospital is not available.[22]
Some of the interest in the West can be traced back to 1994, when Soothill demonstrated (in an animal model) that the use of phages could improve the success of skin grafts by reducing the underlying Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection.[23] Recent studies have provided additional support for these findings in the model system.[24]
Although not "phage therapy" in the original sense, the use of phages as delivery mechanisms for traditional antibiotics constitutes another possible therapeutic use.[25][26] The use of phages to deliver antitumor agents has also been described in preliminary in vitro experiments for cells in tissue culture.[27]
In June 2015 the European Medicines Agency hosted a one day workshop on the therapeutic use of bacteriophages[28] and in July 2015 the National Institutes of Health (USA)hosted a two day workshop "Bacteriophage Therapy: An Alternative Strategy to Combat Drug Resistance".[29]
Potential benefits
Bacteriophage treatment offers a possible alternative to conventional antibiotic treatments for bacterial infection.[30] It is conceivable that, although bacteria can develop resistance to phage, the resistance might be easier to overcome than resistance to antibiotics.[31] Just as bacteria can evolve resistance, viruses can evolve to overcome resistance;[32] however, the ability to evolve raises serious safety questions.[20]
Bacteriophages are very specific, targeting only one or a few strains of bacteria.[33] Traditional antibiotics have more wide-ranging effect, killing both harmful bacteria and useful bacteria such as those facilitating food digestion. The specificity of bacteriophages might reduce the chance that useful bacteria are killed when fighting an infection.
Some evidence shows the ability of phages to travel to a required site—including the brain, where the blood brain barrier can be crossed—and multiply in the presence of an appropriate bacterial host, to combat infections such as meningitis. However the patient's immune system can, in some cases, mount an immune response to the phage (2 out of 44 patients in a Polish trial[34]).
A few research groups in the West are engineering a broader spectrum phage, and also a variety of forms of MRSA treatments, including impregnated wound dressings, preventative treatment for burn victims, phage-impregnated sutures.[35] Enzybiotics are a new development at Rockefeller University that create enzymes from phage. These show potential for preventing secondary bacterial infections, e.g. pneumonia developing in patients suffering from flu and otitis.[citation needed] Purified recombinant phage enzymes can be used as separate antibacterial agents in their own right.[36]
For some bacteria, such as multiple-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae, there are no effective non-toxic antibiotics, but killing of this bacteria via intraperitoneal, intravenous, or intranasal route of phages in vivo has been shown to work in laboratory tests.[37]
The simplest method of phage treatment involves collecting local samples of water likely to contain high quantities of bacteria and bacteriophages, for example effluent outlets, sewage and other sources.[5] They can also be extracted from corpses.[citation needed] The samples are taken and applied to the bacteria that are to be destroyed which have been cultured on growth medium.
If the bacteria die, as usually happens, the mixture is centrifuged; the phages collect on the top of the mixture and can be drawn off.
The phage solutions are then tested to see which ones show growth suppression effects (lysogeny) or destruction (lysis) of the target bacteria. The phage showing lysis are then amplified on cultures of the target bacteria, passed through a filter to remove all but the phages, then distributed.
Phages are "bacterium-specific" and it is therefore necessary in many cases to take a swab from the patient and culture it prior to treatment. Occasionally, isolation of therapeutic phages can require a few months to complete, but clinics generally keep supplies of phage cocktails for the most common bacterial strains in a geographical area.
Phages in practice are applied orally, topically on infected wounds or spread onto surfaces, or used during surgical procedures. Injection is rarely used, avoiding any risks of trace chemical contaminants that may be present from the bacteria amplification stage, and recognizing that the immune system naturally fights against viruses introduced into the bloodstream or lymphatic system.
The direct human use of phages is likely to be very safe; in August and October 2006, the United States Food and Drug Administration approved spraying meat and cheese with phages. The approval was for ListShield and Listex (phage preparations targeting Listeria monocytogenes). These were the first approvals granted by the FDA and USDA for phage-based applications. This confirmation of safety within the worldwide scientific community opened the way for other phages applications for example against Salmonella and E-coli (http://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsis/topics/regulations/directives/fsis-directives)
Phage therapy has been attempted for the treatment of a variety of bacterial infections including: laryngitis, skin infections, dysentery, conjunctivitis, periodontitis, gingivitis, sinusitis, urinary tract infections and intestinal infections, burns, boils,[5] poly-microbial biofilms on chronic wounds, ulcers and infected surgical sites.[citation needed]
In 2007 a Phase 1/2 clinical trial was completed at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, London for Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections (otitis).[38][39][40] Documentation of the Phase-1/Phase-2 study was published in August 2009 in the journal Clinical Otolaryngology.[41]
Phase 1 clinical trials have now been completed in the Southwest Regional Wound Care Center, Lubbock, Texas for an approved cocktail of phages against bacteria, including P. aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli (better known as E. coli).[42] The cocktail of phages for the clinical trials was developed and supplied by Intralytix.
Reviews of phage therapy indicate that more clinical and microbiological research is needed to meet current standards.[43]
Phages can usually be freeze-dried and turned into pills without materially impacting efficiency.[5] Temperature stability up to 55 °C and shelf lives of 14 months have been shown for some types of phages in pill form.[5]
Application in liquid form is possible, stored preferably in refrigerated vials.[5]
Oral administration works better when an antacid is included, as this increases the number of phages surviving passage through the stomach.[5]
Topical administration often involves application to gauzes that are laid on the area to be treated.[5]
This article's Criticism or Controversy section may compromise the article's neutral point of view of the subject. Please integrate the section's contents into the article as a whole, or rewrite the material. (May 2015)
The high bacterial strain specificity of phage therapy may make it necessary for clinics to make different cocktails for treatment of the same infection or disease because the bacterial components of such diseases may differ from region to region or even person to person.
In addition, due to the specificity of individual phages, for a high chance of success, a mixture of phages is often applied. This means that 'banks' containing many different phages must be kept and regularly updated with new phages.[44]
Further, bacteria can evolve different receptors either before or during treatment; this can prevent the phages from completely eradicating the bacteria.[5]
The need for banks of phages makes regulatory testing for safety harder and more expensive. Such a process would make it difficult for large-scale production of phage therapy. Additionally, patent issues (specifically on living organisms) may complicate distribution for pharmaceutical companies wishing to have exclusive rights over their "invention", making it unlikely that a for-profit corporation will invest capital in the widespread application of this technology.
As has been known for at least thirty years, mycobacteria such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis have specific bacteriophages.[45] No lytic phage has yet been discovered for Clostridium difficile, which is responsible for many nosocomial diseases, but some temperate phages (integrated in the genome, also called lysogenic) are known for this species; this opens encouraging avenues but with additional risks as discussed below.
To work the virus has to reach the site of the bacteria, and viruses can sometimes reach places antibiotics cannot. For example, jazz bassist Alfred Gertler got a bacterial infection in his bones after breaking an ankle. A physician in the U.S. told him that the foot must be amputated. He refused and was largely bed ridden for four years until phage therapy at the Eliava Institute in Tbilisi, Georgia, eliminated the bacterial infection.[12] Then he had surgery to repair his ankle and resumed his career and family life.[46]
Funding for phage therapy research and clinical trials is generally insufficient and difficult to obtain, since it is a lengthy and complex process to patent bacteriophage products. Scientists comment that 'the biggest hurdle is regulatory', whereas an official view is that individual phages would need proof individually because it would be too complicated to do as a combination, with many variables. Due to the specificity of phages, phage therapy would be most effective with a cocktail injection, which is generally rejected by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Researchers and observers predict that for phage therapy to be successful the FDA must change its regulatory stance on combination drug cocktails.[44] Public awareness and education about phage therapy are generally limited to scientific or independent research rather than mainstream media.[47]
The negative public perception of viruses may also play a role in the reluctance to embrace phage therapy.[48]
Approval of phage therapy for use in humans has not been given in Western countries with a few exceptions. Washington and Oregon law allows naturopathic physicians to use any therapy that is legal any place in the world on an experimental basis.[49]
In Texas phages are considered natural substances and can be used in addition to (but not as a replacement for) traditional therapy; they've been used routinely in a wound care clinic in Lubbock, TX, since 2006.[50]
In 2013 "the 20th biennial Evergreen International Phage Meeting ... conference drew 170 participants from 35 countries, including leaders of companies and institutes involved with human phage therapies from France, Australia, Georgia, Poland and the United States."[51]
Much of the difficulty in obtaining regulatory approval is proving safety for using a self-replicating entity which has the capability to evolve.[20]
As with antibiotic therapy and other methods of countering bacterial infections, endotoxins are released by the bacteria as they are destroyed within the patient (Herxheimer reaction). This can cause symptoms of fever; in extreme cases toxic shock (a problem also seen with antibiotics) is possible.[52] Janakiraman Ramachandran[53] argues that this complication can be avoided in those types of infection where this reaction is likely to occur by using genetically engineered bacteriophages which have had their gene responsible for producing endolysin removed. Without this gene the host bacterium still dies but remains intact because the lysis is disabled. On the other hand this modification stops the exponential growth of phages, so one administered phage means one dead bacterial cell.[7] Eventually these dead cells are consumed by the normal house-cleaning duties of the phagocytes, which utilise enzymes to break down the whole bacterium and its contents into harmless proteins, polysaccharides and lipids.[54]
Temperate (or Lysogenic) bacteriophages are not generally used therapeutically, as this group can act as a way for bacteria to exchange DNA; this can help spread antibiotic resistance or even, theoretically, make the bacteria pathogenic (see Cholera). Carl Merril claimed that harmless strains of corynebacterium may have been converted into c. diphtheriae that "probably killed a third of all Europeans who came to North America in the seventeenth century".[55] Fortunately, many phages seem to be lytic only with negligible probability of becoming lysogenic.[56]
In Russia, mixed phage preparations may have a therapeutic efficacy of 50%. This equates to the complete cure of 50 of 100 patients with terminal antibiotic-resistant infection. The rate of only 50% is likely to be due to individual choices in admixtures and ineffective diagnosis of the causative agent of infection.[57]
Brigham Young University is currently researching the use of phage therapy to treat American foulbrood in honeybees.[58][59]
The 1925 novel and 1926 Pulitzer prize winner Arrowsmith used phage therapy as a plot point.[60][61][62]
Greg Bear's 2002 novel Vitals features phage therapy, based on Soviet research, used to transfer genetic material.
The 2012 collection of military history essays about the changing role of women in warfare, "Women in War - from home front to front line" includes a chapter featuring phage therapy: "Chapter 17: Women who thawed the Cold War".[63]
Enzybiotics
Phage monographs
Phage display
Phagoburn
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title: Laporan mentor khusus Idaman Andarmosoko
date: 2015-11-11
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From: idaman andarmosoko

Date: 2015-11-13 15:10 GMT+11:00

Subject: Pertemuan khusus Proyek Desa 2.0

To: Heru Tjatur, Siska Doviana, Biyanto Rebin

Pertemuan khusus Proyek Desa 2.0

Tgl 11 november 2015

Jalan Pati, Jakarta

1. Tentang pertemuan ini
Pertemuan dilakukan di kantor Wikimedia di Jalan Pati, Jakarta.
Hadir para pertemuan ini:
Yossy S. Mewakili pelaksana proyek Desa 2.0
Idaman Andarmosoko Mentor diperbantukan
Heru Tjatur mewakili ICT watch
Biyanto Rebin Wikimedia

2. Status dan situasi
Status Proyek Desa 2.0
Proyek Desa 2.0 resmi mulai September 2014, dan resmi berakhir Agustus 2015
Laporan
Laporan naratif I: harusnya dikirim 4 Februari 2015, namun sampai saat ini laporan belum dikirim ulang dengan Microsoft Word
Laporan keuangan 1 : harusnya 4 Februari (diputus laporannya per 30 Maret) , baru Dikirimkan 1 Juni 2015
Komunikasi atas laporan: Pihak Wikimedia telah mencoba berkomunikasi dengan Proyek Desa 2.0 namun tidak mendapatkan tanggapan (tambahan Siska: surel dikirimkan pada 7 Maret 2015 dan pengingat dikirimkan via surel tanggal 24 Juni 2015, dan via whats app 6 Oktober 2015)

3. Kemungkinan akar dari masalah
Masalah pada pelaksanaan suatu proyek bisa berakar pada beberapa kemungkinan antara lain soal itikad pelaksanaan, proyek, soal pemahaman pelaksana, soal komunikasi, atau soal kapasitas.
Team CMS ingin memahami dalam soal Desa 2.0 mana yang menjadi sumber masalah, sehingga dapat membuat keputusan yang paling tepat.

4. Prinsip-prinsip yang mendasari CMS
Team CMS menjelaskan beberapa prinsip prinsip CMS. Prinsip ini akan menjadi pertimbangan dalam merumuskan tindak lanjut status Desa 2.0.
Perubahan di masyarakat sebagai tujuan CMS
Semangat dan substansi dari CMS adalah menggunakan teknologi seluler sebagai alat pencapaian perubahan di masyarakat. Oleh karena itu proyek mitra tidak akan dianggap berhasil apabila berhenti saja di pembangunan teknologi, dan tidak menunjukkan nalar, arah, dan bukti indikatif pencapaian perubahan masyarakat.
Komitmen kepada transparansi dan akuntabilitas
Transparansi dan akuntabilitas adalah salah satu kunci penting bekerja di masyarakat melibatkan multi-fihak. Seluruh jajaran CMS yang terdiri Ford Foundation, ICT watch, Wikimedia, dan para individu yang terlibat berkomitmen secara ketat terhadap aspek transparansi dan akuntabilitas. Segala hal tentang CMS ada dalam website yang terbuka di ruang publik.
Cita-cita membantu mitra dalam mencapai cita-citanya
CMS membangun pengelolaan yang meliputi unsur website wiki, dan melibatkan banyak sumber daya manusia, para mentor, para pengelola harian yang secara aktif melakukan komunikasi baik lewat telpon, email maupun kedatangan tatap muka. Semua ini dilakukan demi membantu cita-cita mitra, yang sesuai dengan butir 4.1. dan 4.2 di atas. Oleh karena itu:
Fokus pada itikad program
Bertumpu pada ke tiga butir di atas, CMS mengasumsikan bahwa mitra berfokus pada itikad program kerja seperti terjabar di proposal dan kontrak. Jika ada indikasi bahwa fokus pada itikad program talah ditinggalkan oleh mitra, maka CMS akan mempertimbangkan pengehentian atau menghentikan program.

5. Itikad untuk mempertimbangkan kemungkinan penghentian program
Berdasarkan masalah yang dirinci pada butir 2 dan prinsip yang dirinci pada butir 4, CMS menyatakan itikad mempertimbangkan kemungkinan penghentian program
Itikad ini walaupun telah dinyatakan secara lisan pada rapat tgl 11 november, namun akan dikirimkan juga dalam surat formal
Pihak pelaksana proyek Desa 2.0 diminta memberikan tanggapan tentang ini.

6. Soal akta notaris
Sebuah akta notaris telah dikirimkan tentang konflik yang melibatkan lembaga yang menjalankan proyek Desa 2.0. Konflik ini telah diselesaikan di notaris publik. Sebagai lembaga yang transparan, dokumen akta ini akan dipasangkan oleh CMS dalam rangkaian materi Proyek Desa 2.o. Jika Pihak mitra pelaksana mempunyai dokumen atau tanggapan tertulis dipersilahkan mengirimkan kepada CMS untuk diperlakukan secara serupa.

7. Tanggapan dan pembahasan
Atas itikad CMS, Yossy mewakili mitra pelaksana proyek Desa 2.0 telah menanggapi dengan memberikan penjelasan-penjelasan, antara lain bahwa yossy mengakui adanya masalah laporan dan komunikasi, dan dari internal mitra ada persoalan kesibukan yossy yang harus menangani berbagai hal dan dalam keadaan sering tidak sehat.
Ditegaskan kembali bahwa kontrak ini adalah antara CMS dengan yayasan Gedhe Nusantara.
Mentor CMS, dalam hal ini Idaman andarmosoko, menanggapi dengan menjelaskan dan menegaskan tentang perbedaan organisasi dan individu, dan bagaimana organisasi dituntut untuk punya pengelolaan yang jelas dan handal, agar dapat menjalankan kerjanya di tingkat yang mendasar.
Mentor juga menjelaskan pentingnya menyusun kerja yang akuntabel dan bagaimana hal ini akan tercermin dalam laporan keuangan yang wajar.
Mentor juga mendiskusikan dengan yossy tentang isi (tujuan, capaian dan kegiatan) proyek Desa 2.0.
Pada akhir pembahasan Mentor menyarankan dan menanyakan komitmen dsankesanggupan mitra untuk memperbaiki pengelolaan organisasi, menjalankan program secara lebih terfokus, mengelola keuangan mengasilkan laporan yang wajar dan menyelesaikan laporan-laporan lain.

8. Keputusan Rapat
 1. Komitmen perbaikan kinerja
  Yossy/Yayasan Gedhe nusantara akan memperbaiki kinerjanya dalam soal fokus, arah, transparansi, dan pelaporan serta komunikasi
 2. Komitmen penyelesaian laporan narasi
  Laporan narasi akan diserahkan selambat-lambatnya 30 November 2015
 3. Komitmen penyelesaian laporan keuangan
  Laporan keuangan akan diselesaikan selambat-lambatnya 30 November 2015
 4. Kelanjutan proyek
  Dengan adanya dokumen yang akan dihasilkan komitmen di atas, maka CMS akan sangat mungkin melanjutkan proyek ini, denga catatan skala sesuai denga sisa waktu kerja proyek yang tersedia.
 5. Hal hal lain
  Yossy menyatakan rapat ini bermanfaat,dan yossy memahami dan sanggup melaksanakan komitmen yang diputuskan pada rapat ini.

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For having the temerity to request an audience with the new Don of the City of Toronto, John Tory, the President of the Toronto Private Property Rights Association, Jessica Lauren Annis, is singled out and targeted with legal threats by bureaucratic minion.
"Initially, I was scared; I started shaking when I first read the letter from the Director of Toronto Water, Lou Di Gironimo. It is not pleasant receiving a threatening letter from the thugocracy for the high crime of refusing the imposition of a "smart" water meter in my home. Now, however, I'm angry. It is becoming increasingly clear to anyone who is paying attention that bureaucratic thugs run our municipal government and our elected representatives no longer feel the need to either respond to or act on behalf of their constituents." Jessica remarked.
Something is drastically wrong when bullycrats, with the tacit support of the mayor and municipal councilors, feel empowered to terrorize residents with threats of financial ruin.
During his mayoral campaign, candidate John Tory promised to bring civility back to City Hall. Apparently that means appeasing Council, the bureaucracy and his corporate buddies, not representing his constituents.
TPPRA will continue to fight to protect residents' common-law rights. TPPRA may be relatively new to the political scene in Toronto, but the Ontario Landowners Association, of which TPPRA is a chapter, is one of the largest civil rights activist groups in Ontario, with a long history of vigorous political engagement, including the use of civil disobedience, in their ongoing effort to cause elected representatives and public servants to do their jobs, i.e., protect and defend the rights of their constituents.
TPPRA members have chosen to opt out of the government's surveillance-control ("smart") grid. How on earth is this a punishable offense?
It is time to push back!


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Pita Taufatofua has made headlines every time he's appeared at the Olympics. The Tongan flag bearer is best known for the shirtless, oiled-up look he has sported during each opening ceremony during his three Olympic appearances. He even did it at the 2018 Winter Olympics, despite it being the Winter Olympics.
It's obviously impressive to make it to any Olympic competition, but Taufatofua has now entered the record books. Following his appearance in men's +176 lbs tournament in tea kwon do, he is the first athlete to appear in three straight Olympic Games—summer and winter—since the introduction of the Winter Olympics in 1924, per NBC.
He has competed at Rio 2016, Pyeongchang 2018, and, now, Tokyo 2020. In Rio, he also competed in tea kwon do, losing in the first round of competition. Then he became the first-ever Winter Olympics athlete from Tonga when he qualified for cross-country skiing. Fortunately, the Olympic record books don't have a "no shirt, no shoes, no service" policy.
https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/shirtless-tongan-pita-taufatofua-first-athlete-three-olympic-games
Millions of tenants at risk as federal eviction ban ends
The US Carefully Documented Its Total Failure in Afghanistan for 12 Years
For 12 years, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan issued grim and detailed reports about America's failures in the country. No one listened.
"Whenever I think about the U.S. government's failure in Afghanistan, I remember the goats. In 2013, a government project meant to kickstart Afghanistan's economy granted Colorado State University $1.5 million to start a goat farm in Herat Province, Afghanistan. It bought five cashmere-producing Italian goats and transported them to Afghanistan for the purposes of breeding them in large numbers and turning Afghanistan into a cashmere-producing hotspot.
But CSU ran into problems immediately. It had 300 goats, only nine of them the expensive cashmere goats from Italy. The college was bad at farming and the expensive Italian goats caught a disease that killed most of them. Worse, they were spending $50,000 a year to feed the rest, an incredible amount of cash to spend on an animal that will eat almost anything.
When CSU tried to turn the farm over to locals and told them what it was spending to feed the goats, the Afghan called the farm a "poisoned chalice." Keep in mind that Afghan farms have been raising goats for generations and already had cashmere-producing animals.
According to a goat expert who testified in the fallout, the college "had no idea what they were doing and the CSU staff determined what the project should cost, despite no one at CSU having any experience with cashmere."
https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvzaxz/the-us-carefully-documented-its-total-failure-in-afghanistan-for-12-years?utm_medium=social&utm_source=vice_facebook&fbclid=IwAR2t3kn7OqTJFlP7bdh3T7RqtrnckD3oi9wKkZ7GT-0rP0zDDWYWZE2K1ns
NYC Ferry is starting its first-ever ferry service on the Hudson River
NYC Ferry, which shuttles New Yorkers up and down the East River, is finally expanding to the Hudson — and to Staten Island.
Not only will it be the first NYC Ferry route on the Hudson but it'll be the first connecting to Staten Island, allowing those in midtown and higher to skip catching the Staten Island Ferry downtown and for those coming from Staten Island to be taken right to midtown rather than stopping at Whitehall Terminal.
The new St. George route between St. George on Staten Island and Midtown West at West 39th Street takes just 35 minutes, with a scenic stop in Battery Park City along the way. It'll only take 18 minutes to get to Manhattan from Staten Island.
Commuters will also be able to connect to other NYC Ferry routes by getting off at Battery Park City and walking 25 minutes (or taking a taxi/bus) to Wall Street Pier 11, where all ferry routes make a stop. You can also hop on the free Downtown Connection shuttle provided by the Downtown Alliance that can transport you between the landings within 11 minutes.
And remember, tickets to ride the ferry start at the same price as a ride on the MTA— $2.75 per trip.
All in all, the new ferry service is a welcome addition to the transit map. Thankfully, getting to Staten Island will be less of a long journey.
The St. George Route officially launches on Monday, August 23.
https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/nyc-ferry-is-starting-its-first-ever-ferry-service-on-the-hudson-river-081621?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&cid=~newyork~natsoc~facebook~echobox&fbclid=IwAR1hMkpjICgp1h_Auej438KojByZ_jnv7wdc3eWcoW66Z26i-fDF29g24KE#Echobox=1629146377
Biden visits Louisiana as Gulf Coast, Northeast recover from Ida's toll
Middletown lost the most residents on 9/11 after NYC. Here's how the community is healing
Many Afghans haven't eaten in weeks as Taliban rule triggers humanitarian crisis
Millions of sleep apnea machines recalled over potential cancer risk
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A delayed transportation infrastructure project moves forward in the Northeast Corridor
California High School Is Teaching Teens to Drive 18-Wheelers
At first glance, it may sound odd to hear that high schoolers are learning to drive big rigs, but that's exactly what's happening at California's Patterson High School. As NPR reports, Patterson High recently began offering a students the opportunity to attend a truck driving school as part of its Career Technical Education Program.
To be clear, it's an elective course, so students who don't want to go into commercial trucking aren't expected to participate. But seniors who are interested have the opportunity to learn about the industry itself, proper safety practices, and how to obtain their commercial driver's license all before they graduate high school.
According to the school's website, after completing the year-long class, students will need to apply to a partner trucking company for real-world training before they can earn their CDL. It's not all classroom instruction for the high schoolers, though. They also spend time in a lab setting, including about 20 hours on a simulator where they learn basics such as how to shift, reverse, and drive defensively.
"A lot of [students] who enroll in the course have never considered trucking as a career. Trucking doesn't have a great reputation and it comes with a lot of misconceptions about what exactly a truck driver is," said instructor Dave Dein in an interview with NPR. "If we don't start promoting trucking to our youth, they only can make decisions on the information that they have."
Speaking to NPR, senior Eduardo Dominguez-Sotelo — one of those aforementioned students who previously had no interest in trucking — said, "It was not an elective I would've chosen because I didn't think that truck driving was for me. In the end, it actually ended up being a good fit for me."
That doesn't mean he plans to make trucking his entire career. Instead, Dominguez-Sotelo said he thinks it will be a good way to earn money part-time while studying computer engineering. Even if he only drives over the summer, he can expect to make quite a bit more than he would in food service or retail. Potentially as much as $12,000 according to the school's website.
https://jalopnik.com/california-high-school-is-teaching-teens-to-drive-18-wh-1847895765
Navient plans to cancel some student borrowers' loan debt. Who qualifies?
Student borrowers who took out loans that were serviced by Navient, one of the largest student loan collection companies in the country, were cautiously celebrating Thursday's announcement that tens of thousands of them would get their loans canceled under an agreement with more than three dozen states.
The total amount of debt to be canceled, as well as an accompanying restitution agreement, is major — a deal worth about $1.85 billion.
A bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general are calling the resolution "a victory for student loan borrowers" in holding Navient accountable, after suing the company for allegedly misleading borrowers with deceptive lending practices and offering risky subprime loans. For its part, Navient is denying it violated consumer protection laws or caused borrowers harm, insisting it is settling the agreement "to avoid the additional burden, expense, time and distraction to prevail in court."
But for the average Navient customer hoping for immediate relief, they may be left disappointed, said Mike Pierce, executive director of the Student Borrower Protection Center, a consumer advocacy group.
"Yesterday was a very big deal for certain people that have really been forgotten in our national conversation in the student debt crisis," Pierce said. "This will be life-changing for a specific group of those people. But for everyone else, the fight continues."
Who qualifies for debt cancellation?
About 66,000 student borrowers with Navient loans may see their debts forgiven.
These are borrowers with private loans — specifically, subprime student loans taken out through Navient's predecessor company, Sallie Mae, between 2002 and 2014. (Navient was formed in 2014 after Sallie Mae split into two business entities.)
In addition, those borrowers must have had more than seven consecutive months of delinquent payments prior to June 30, 2021.
Student borrowers who don't have subprime loans may still qualify if their private loans were made between 2002 and 2014 and they attended a for-profit school that was later the subject of state or federal law enforcement actions. Those schools include Corinthian Colleges, DeVry University and ITT Educational Services. A full list can be found on a website for the agreement.
Who qualifies for a restitution payment?
About 350,000 federal student loan borrowers whom Navient placed into a long-term forbearance plan would be eligible for a payment — about $260 per borrower.
State attorneys general say those forbearance arrangements had driven student borrowers further into debt because while those borrowers were able to pause or reduce their payments temporarily, their loans still continued to accrue interest.
Certain conditions apply to get the restitution, such as having at least one federal loan that was eligible for income-driven repayment and the borrower not having enrolled in income-driven repayment prior to the forbearance period.
Borrowers whose federal loans were recently transferred to another servicer, Aidvantage, may still be eligible for restitution.
Which states were involved in the settlement?
Qualifying residents of the following states will be covered under the restitution agreement: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin. Washington, D.C., is also included.
In addition, borrowers who qualify for debt cancellation must also reside in one of the aforementioned states or in the following states: Arkansas, Kansas, Michigan, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont and West Virginia.
What actions should borrowers take?
If a borrower qualifies for either debt cancellation or a restitution payment, they will be contacted directly.
A settlement administrator is expected to send those borrowers a postcard in the mail this spring, and checks would go out in mid-2022.
For those borrowers who are set to get their private loans forgiven, they would be contacted in writing by July 2022.
The agreement among Navient and the states is still awaiting final court approval.
In the meantime, should borrowers keep paying off their loans?
Pierce recommends borrowers with private loans to keep paying or, if they can, consult an attorney about their situation.
Those with federal students loans are still benefiting from a moratorium on such payments through May 1, after the Biden administration extended the pause last month.
But there is permanent good news for those whose debt is forgiven, including under this latest settlement agreement with Navient, Pierce said.
Student loan forgiveness is tax-free as part of the White House's coronavirus stimulus package signed into law last year. Previously, any student loan debt canceled by the government was taxable.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/education/navient-plans-cancel-student-borrowers-loan-debt-qualifies-rcna12229?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma#anchor-Whoqualifiesforarestitutionpayment
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