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Electronic Sound es el segundo álbum de estudio del músico británico George Harrison, publicado por la compañía discográfica Apple Records en mayo de 1969. El disco, el segundo del músico en solitario y publicado durante la existencia de The Beatles, fue un trabajo experimental integrado por dos canciones de larga duración improvisadas con un sintetizador Moog.

El álbum fue publicado a través de Zapple, una subsidiaria de Apple Records de corta duración que tuvo como finalidad editar trabajos musicales de vanguardia. Tras su lanzamiento, Electronic Sound obtuvo escasa relevancia comercial al no entrar en la lista de discos más vendidos del Reino Unido y alcanzar solo el puesto 191 de la estadounidense Billboard 200. Por otra parte, la crítica lo consideró como una simple prueba que presagió el uso más concreto y exitoso del sintetizador Moog en el álbum de The Beatles Abbey Road unos meses más tarde.

Historia

En 1968, The Beatles fundaron Apple Records, una compañía discográfica para publicar sus discos y que sirvió para contratar a otros artistas potencialmente interesantes. Con Apple, cada uno de los miembros de The Beatles tuvo la oportunidad de dar rienda suelta a sus deseos y fueron libres de publicar trabajos experimentales y poco comerciales. Al respecto, John Lennon inauguró el sello en 1968 con Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins, un trabajo vanguardista que desató la polémica al incluir una fotografía de Lennon y su mujer, Yoko Ono, desnudos en la portada. Para continuar con estos experimentos, el grupo fundó Zapple Records a modo de subsidiaria de la discográfica. Sin embargo, Zapple solo publicó dos álbumes antes de ser cerrado por Allen Klein, por entonces representante del grupo: Unfinished Music No.2: Life with the Lions, de Lennon y Ono, y Electronic Sound de Harrison.

Además de publicar sus trabajos, Apple sirvió como catalizador de algunos artistas descubiertos por los miembros de The Beatles en la escena musical. Al respecto, George Harrison contrató a Jackie Lomax y produjo su álbum Is That What You Want?, que contó con la participación de artistas como Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney y Nicky Hopkins. Aunque el álbum tuvo poco éxito, Harrison introdujo durante su grabación un nuevo instrumento musical, el sintetizador Moog, desconocido hasta el momento. El sintetizador fue dirigido por Bernie Krause, un músico interesado en los sonidos naturales.

Krause y Harrison se sintieron atraídos por el sintetizador Moog y volvieron a encontrarse en California en noviembre de 1968, donde grabaron una larga improvisación con el título de «No Time or Space». En febrero del año siguiente, Harrison adquirió un Moog que instaló en su casa de Esher, en el condado de Surrey, con el cual grabó una segunda canción, «Under the Mersey Wall». En ambos casos, los temas fueron abstractas improvisaciones de larga duración, con 25 y 18 minutos respectivamente. El primero comienza con un sonido semejante a un disparo y sigue con una interpretación de un Moog, aunque con el uso de efectos de eco. Porciones de ruido blanco de esta canción fueron usadas en «I Remember Jeep», una de las varias improvisaciones incluidas en el siguiente álbum de Harrison, All Things Must Pass, publicado en 1970. Por el contrario, «Under the Mersey Wall» usó el sonido de dos sintetizadores Moog sobregrabados uno encima de otro.

Recepción

La naturaleza experimental de Electronic Sound impidió que obtuviera un notable éxito comercial. El álbum no entró en la lista de discos más vendidos del Reino Unido, donde fue publicado con número de catálogo ZAPPLE 2, y solo alcanzó el puesto 191 en la estadounidense Billboard 200, país donde su número de catálogo fue ST-3358. Además, su publicación fue relativamente ignorada por la prensa musical, con varias reseñas de años posteriores. Al respecto, Richard Ginell de Allmusic lo describió como «un poema de cualidad abstracta», mientras que el biógrafo Simon Leng escribió: «Cuarenta minutos de demostración de que los Beatles no tenían idea de cómo tocar un teclado electrónico». Más allá de estas diferencias de perspectiva, Electronic Sound supuso un anticipo de un uso mayor del sintetizador Moog en el álbum de The Beatles Abbey Road, publicado unos meses más tarde.

En 2004, la revista Rolling Stone calificó el álbum con dos estrellas y media sobre un total de cinco y lo definió, junto a su predecesor, Wonderwall Music, como «interesante, aunque solo para aficionados». Por otra parte, Roger Catlin, de MusicHound, sugirió que Electronic Sound «podría interesar a estudiantes de tempranos experimentos con sintetizadores, pero a nadie más».

Electronic Sound fue también sujeto de controversia a raíz de la denuncia de Bernie Krause, que a pesar de pedir que su nombre fuese retirado del álbum, posteriormente afirmó ser autor del disco. Su participación es mencionada en la canción «No Time or Space», registrada en California, pero no figura en los créditos de «Under the Mersey Wall».

Reediciones
Electronic Sound fue publicado por primera vez en disco compacto en 1996, con las canciones invertidas y los títulos erróneamente escritos. Durante la siguiente década, el álbum, junto a otros trabajos de Harrison como Wonderwall Music, Dark Horse y Extra Texture, estuvieron descatalogados. Finalmente, en septiembre de 2014, el álbum fue remasterizado y reeditado como parte de The Apple Years 1968-75, una caja recopilatoria que incluyó los seis discos de estudio de Harrison publicados con Apple Records.

Lista de canciones

Posición en listas

Referencias

Bibliografía

Enlaces externos
Electronic Sound en GeorgeHarrison.com

Álbumes de George Harrison
Álbumes de 1969
Álbumes de Apple Records
Álbumes en inglés
Álbumes de música electrónica

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He studied languages and literature at Oxford University, graduating with a Masters' Degree in German and Italian. After periods living in Siena and São Paulo, Dan now divides his time working out of Los Angeles and London.
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Haudenosaune Healer Jane Burning New Book on Holistic Well-being
In Health & Wellness
Nahnda Garlow
Six Nations own Jane Burning, a healer and energy worker, will soon add best selling author to her credentials – the Seneca woman is a featured expert in a book all about holistic personal transformation being released today.
The book is called "Rapid Change for Busy Heart-Centred Women" and it is a compilation of 24 different authors, all empowered females and all experts in their own modalities, with thirty lessons on how to grasp personal transformation and walk forward in a balanced way.
Burning is the lone indigenous author in the collective. Following the significant traumatic impact of the sudden death of her brother when they were children and the discovery of her subsequent healing journey Burning says she was called to do energy healing.
She studied the healing arts of Reiki and other specific healing modalities to become an energy healer at the cellular level. Through personal fasting and prayer, Burning says she was given insight into the entire souls journey – from pre-birth onward – and shown the original instructions that human cells are given when they are birthed into creation.
It was during a certain fast a few years ago when Burning travelled into the bush to fast and pray and she received a message during about what she calls a "sacred bundle of love" that rests in the heart centre of every person. That bundle carries the original instructions we are all given by the Creator pre-birth. She says, "We can rise above anything when we are heart centred and connected to our source energy. We can raise our vibration to see beyond any pain here. That is really the truth about who we are is that purity, but a lot of people get stuck in the victim energy whether its historical or just from childhood."
Burning explained that when an individual goes through a traumatic experience that there is a spiritual bookmark of sorts that rests in the lower brain, remembering the flight or fight response of those moments. When a traumatized individual then reaches adulthood and is emotionally triggered by an event, suddenly that spiritual bookmark is activated and the traumatized person behaves based on the bookmarked responses of those beliefs and thoughts of the past. Burning has a studio in her home on Six Nations where she guides her clients through the journey of releasing energy blockages to enable them to heal by coming into balance and growing beyond those traumatic bookmarks.
The book is compiled by Loretta Mohl, an acclaimed healer who has put out a number of books on dealing with trauma. After the sudden traumatic death of her husband, Mohl developed something she calls Focused Intention Technique, accessing the body's natural ability to heal itself by drawing energy from creation and bring the body back to it's whole state. Through this technique Mohl was given the opportunity to work with Residential School Survivors across Canada to tap into inner healing.
Mohl's website says, "Rapid Change for Busy Heart-Centered Women who want to be their best version is leading the way for women to transform themselves in the 21st Century. The heart heals all, allows for patience, gratitude, emotion, simplicity, generosity, grace, understanding, awareness, life force, and meaningful intention that allows for letting go." The book is available for purchase today on amazon.com. Burning is also available for consultations through her studio, Jane Burning Holistic Consulting Services on Six Nations. You can visit her website www.janeburning.com or cal (519) 445-1904.
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Nahnda Garlow is Onondaga under the wing of the Beaver Clan of Six Nations. Nahnda has been a journalist with the Two Row Times since it's founding in 2013. She is a self-proclaimed "rez girl" who brings to the Two Row Times years of experience as a Haudenosaunee cultural interpreter, traditional dancer and beadwork aficionado. Nahnda is a member of the Canadian Association of Journalists and the Native American Journalists Association.
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The company's Global Research division has come up with a design consisting of a standards-based 13.56 MHz RFID chip with an antenna coated with chemically or biologically sensitive films.
Oct 17, 2008—Scientists at GE Global Research, a division of the General Electric Co., have developed a high-frequency (HF) 13.56 MHz passive RFID tag with an antenna capable of functioning as multiple sensors. The group—composed of analytical chemists, polymer scientists, and RF and microfabrication engineers—has created several prototypes of the RFID multisensor for various applications.
The researchers have successfully used an RFID interrogator to read the tag and its sensors' data. The new device could become commercially available in approximately two years, and could be employed for monitoring air, food or water safety, as well as for tracking the presence of chemical or biological contaminants in the surrounding area, or in a container's contents.
The GE sensor tag is smaller than a penny.
GE's battery-free wireless multisensor, however, would be a first of its kind, according to Radislav Potyrailo, a principal scientist at GE Global Research, and the leader of that company's wireless-sensor development team. Because GE's tag is battery-free and incorporates multiple sensor capabilities integrated on a single RFID chip, he says, it can be made smaller than a penny.
The sensor-tag could be used by the health-care industry, Potyrailo says, as well as for security, food packaging, water treatment, employee badges and pollution prevention, to detect chemical or biological threats. It could, for instance measure the presence of bacteria in foods or beverages, or of other toxins that could be present in such substances as vaccines.
Battery-powered RFID tags already exist that provide multiple sensing capabilities. Such a tag would typically require an array of separate sensors, each wired to an RFID chip that then transmits the sensor data to an interrogator. In contrast, GE's multisensing tag consists of a passive HF 13.56 MHz RFID chip (compliant with both the ISO 14443 and 15693 standards) with an antenna coated with chemically or biologically sensitive films.
"Our approach is to use the tag itself for sensing," Potyrailo says. "Thus, the tag still transmits a digital unique ID number but also becomes a sensor." For example, he says, to make it a gas sensor, the researchers would "apply a sensing film onto the tag antenna. With the deposited sensing film, the antenna becomes very sensitive to the desired gas."
The sensor's RFID reader can obtain a number of varied responses for this device—several toxic gases or volatile organic compounds, for instance (as many as three concurrently)—so that a user can identify the presence and level of individual chemicals in different mixtures, and under variable conditions. These conditions could include temperature or humidity fluctuations.


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Why does Labour need a Jewish voice?
The concluding part of this article was subsequently published here on 26 January.
Why does Labour need a Jewish voice? The question does not have a timeless answer. But today's global political crisis and its reflection within a rapidly changing Labour Party, gives it a new urgency, and requires a new response.
Labour has a number of recognised internal structures to reflect and represent the priorities of different self-defined minority groups among its members. BAME Labour grew out of 'black sections' to articulate the distinctive needs of people of colour within the party. It is open to all Labour members who identify as BAME.
Labour Party Irish Society, according to its website, is 'a socialist society affiliated to the Labour Party. The aims of the society are to promote the interests of the Irish community to and within the Labour Party and to promote the Labour Party to Irish citizens in Britain. The Society is open to all people of Irish heritage and anyone who simply has an interest in Irish affairs'.
LGBT Labour is also an affiliated socialist society open to all LGBT Labour members, with supporting membership open to others.
But there is no equivalent structure for Labour members who identify as Jewish. Instead the party treats the 'Jewish Labour Movement' [formerly Poale Zion], also an affiliated Socialist Society, as if it were the equivalent body for members who identify as Jewish.
But it is not. Being Jewish is not a requirement of membership but members must share JLM's stated purpose, to "maintain and promote Labour or Socialist Zionism as the movement for self-determination of the Jewish people within the state of Israel," and its belief in "the centrality of Israel in Jewish life". Membership is not an option for anyone, Jews included, with a different view of Zionism or Israel. Yet JLM claims quite illegitimately to speak for all Jews in the Labour Party, and to be treated as such by Labour.
JLM says it organises within the World Zionist Organisation (WZO), whose goals include establishing Eretz Yisrael as a greater Israel from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean, including the whole of Jerusalem. WZO's Settlement Division actively supports settlements in the Occupied West Bank, although both the Occupation and the settlements are illegal under international law.
JLM claims to work for a "two-state solution" under which Palestinians would have their own state with its capital in East Jerusalem. This is Labour Party policy. But the JLM's involvement with WZO, and also with the Israeli Labor Party which has backed the building of illegal settlements on Palestinian land for decades, puts it in conflict with this policy. What is extraordinary is that there is nothing on its website indicating any opposition to, or even disapproval of, Israel's oppressive policies; still less of any active campaigning against them.
For Labour to deal with JLM as if it were the equivalent for Jewish party members of BAME Labour or Irish Labour is simply unacceptable; especially in view of JLM's close links with the Israeli Embassy and opaque sources of funding. It denies to Jewish party members the opportunity of a collective voice without a prior ideological and institutional commitment to the Israeli state. It is as if Irish Labour demanded as a condition of membership adherence to a particular position on Irish unity, and was officially linked to an Irish party such as Sinn Fein, Fianna Fail or the Irish Labour Party. If Jews were discriminated against like this in any other context it would be regarded as institutionally antisemitic.
The writer is entitled to express his disapproval of the Jewish Labour Movement but he never really addresses his initial question: Why does Labour need a Jewish voice?


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Softline Group opens office in Denmark
Leipzig // London // Paris // Antwerpen // Nieuwegein // Munich // Vienna // Copenhagen January 25th, 2018 - The Softline Group, an international IT consulting group focusing on Software Asset Management (SAM), IT security, virtualization and Infrastructure Management, opened an office in Copenhagen in January 2018.
The new Danish office is managed by the subsidiary Softline Solutions Netherlands B.V. in the Netherlands. "The demand of the Danish market for an independent and established Software Asset Management expert, as well as a growing customer base in this region, have led us to the decision to open the new Danish office. The Copenhagen office forms an important next step to further expand our presence in Northern Europe," says Dennis Montanje, Managing Director of Softline Solutions Northern Europe.
The development of further revenue potential in the Northern European markets is another important step in the internationalization strategy of the Softline Group. "The growing demand for Software Asset Management services in this region also reflects the Group's revenue growth of this service in the first nine months of 2017 of 33 percent compared to the period of the preceding year," says Martin Schaletzky, CEO of the Softline Group. "We are well prepared for the further internationalization and consolidation of our core portfolio areas on group level. Therefore we invested strongly in further trainings of our employees and the hiring of highly qualified new consultants and sales staff in 2017 (Q4 2017: 188 employees compared to Q4 2016: 161), "adds Schaletzky.


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Nicole Sarauer elected Interim Leader of the Saskatchewan NDP
Nicole Sarauer, MLA for Regina Douglas Park, has been elected Leader of the Official Opposition and Interim Leader of the Saskatchewan NDP.
Sarauer will replace Trent Wotherspoon effective immediately and is the first woman to lead the Saskatchewan NDP.
Sarauer has served as the Deputy House Leader for the Official Opposition and has served as the Opposition Critic for several portfolios, including Justice, Policing and Corrections, Status of Women, SLGA, and Immigration and she served as the Associate Critic for Health.
Before being elected to the Legislature, Sarauer practiced law at a private firm until 2011 when she moved to a provincial charity providing free legal representation to those who need access to justice. She was also an elected Trustee on the Regina Catholic School Board.
"As I take over this Interim role, the people of Saskatchewan can rest assured that our team and our resolve have not changed," said Sarauer. "We are as determined as ever to keep fighting for Saskatchewan families and against the Sask. Party's callous cuts, unfair tax hikes, and desperate sell-offs."


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Centrosaurus
Quick Centrosaurus Facts: - Lived in what is now known as Canada - Weighed as much as an Asian elephant - Had a nasal horn like a rhinoceros - Was about 2 car lengths long - May have traveled in large packs like buffalo do
Dryosaurus
Quick Dryosaurus Facts: - Was a car length long - Weighed approximately as much as an adult human male - Lived in what is now North America - Lived during Late Jurassic Period - Was an herbivore
Gasosaurus
Quick Gasosaurus Facts: - Was the subject of an online hoax - Weighed a little less than a lion - Lived in what is now China - Lived during mid-Jurassic period - Was a carnivore
Bruhathkayosaurus
Quick Bruhathkayosaurus Facts: - Lived in what is now known as India - As long as the Chicago Water Tower is high - Weighed as much as 20 elephants - Its name means "huge-bodied lizard" - Was an herbivore
Camptosaurus
Quick Camptosaurus Facts: - Lived in what is now known as Europe and North America - As long as 1/2 the length of a semi-trailer - Weighed as much as 2 Grizzly Bears - Its name means "flexible lizard" - Was an herbivore
Giraffatitan
Quick Giraffatitan Facts: - Weighs as much as 10 Asian elephants - About 4 times as long as a giraffe - Lived in what is now Africa - Lived during the Late-Jurassic period - Was an herbivore
Procompsognathus
Quick Procompsognathus Facts: - Lived in what is now known as Germany - Could run as fast as an ostrich - Weighed as much as a liter of water - Its name means "before elegant jaw" - Was an carnivore or insectivore
Yangchuanosaurus
Quick Yangchuanosaurus Facts: - Lived in what is now known as China - Lived during the late Jurassic - Was approximately 3 car lengths long - Weighed as much as 2 adult giraffes - Was a carnivore
Quick Struthiomimus Facts: - Lived in what is now known as Canada and the United States - Lived during the Cretaceous period - Could run as fast as a gazelle - Weighed as much as a panda bear - Was an herbivore or an omnivore
Saichania
Quick Saichania Facts: - Lived in what is now known as China - Lived during the late Cretaceous period - Was 2 car lengths long - Weighed as much as 2 giraffes - Was an herbivore
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Quick Mosasaurus Facts: - Lived during the Late Cretaceous Period - Lived in oceans all around the world - Was about as long as a modern North Pacific right whale - Weighed as much much as a modern Sperm whale - Ate fish, shellfish and squids
Quick Anhanguera Facts: - Lived during the Early Cretaceous Period - Lived in what is now known as South America and Australia - Was 12 times heavier than a Red-tailed Hawk - Had 3 times the wingspan of a Crowned Eagle - Was an Omnivore
Quick Pteranodon Facts: - Lived during the Late Cretaceous Period - Lived in what is now known as North America - Was 12 times heavier than a Red-tailed Hawk - Had 3 times the wingspan of a Crowned Eagle - Was a Piscivore and/or Carnivore
Quetzalcoatlus
Quick Quetzalcoatlus Facts: - Lived during the Late Cretaceous Period - Lived in what is now known as North America - Was named after the mythic serpent god Quetzalcoatl - Its wingspan was 3 times larger than an Andean Condor - Weighed almost as much as a Panda Bear
Dimorphodon
Quick Dimorphodon Facts: - Lived from the Middle Jurassic Period through the Late Jurassic Period - Lived in what is now Europe and Central America - Was about the size of a modern-day American Crow - Weighed less than a liter of water - Was a Piscivore or Insectivore
Pterodactylus
Quick Pterodactylus Facts: - Lived during the Late Jurassic Period - Lived in what is now Europe and Africa - Was about the size of Common Buzzard - Was a Piscivore or Insectivore - Was the first Pterosaurus known to science
Quick Tapejara Facts: - Lived from the Early Cretaceous Period through the Middle Cretaceous Period - Lived in what is now South America - Had the wingspan of a modern-day Albatross - Weighed 4 times as much as an Albatross - Presumed Piscivore but may have been Carnivorous
Hatzegopteryx
Quick Hatzegopteryx Facts: - Lived during the Late Cretaceous Period - Lived in what is now Europe - Lived on Hatzeg Island - Was over 3 times taller than a human male - Had twice the wingspan of a modern Albatross - Was a Carnivore
Rhamphorhynchus
Quick Rhamphorhynchus Facts: - Lived during the Late Jurassic Period - Lived in what is now Europe - Was about the size of a Rock Pigeon - Had a wingspan as big as a yard stick - Grew slowly like a modern alligator - Its favorite fish to eat was Aspidorhynchus - Was a Piscivore
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Opeds
The day the Bernie dream died
There was something millenarian and apocalyptic about the scene. Everyone knew that Bernie was going to announce that the revolution was over. And no one wanted to go home.
Jul 31, 2016, 8:15 AM (GMT+3)
US Elections 2016Democratic National Convention 2016
Near Philadelphia's City Hall, an obese woman wearing a marijuana leaf bikini was telling a television reporter why she supported Bernie Sanders. City Hall, once the tallest building in the world, is a gloriously magnificent edifice whose pillars are held up by representatives of all the races of the world and whose clock tower is topped by a 37-foot statue of William Penn, was besieged by Sandernistas.
The Democratic convention was underway. Bernie Sanders had endorsed Hillary Clinton. But his followers still believed. If not in Bernie, then in the radical movement that had coalesced around him.
A cheerful woman wearing a "Bernie or Bust" t-shirt told me that even if Bernie won, she would be voting for Jill Stein and the Green Party. It was unclear how Bernie Sanders could possibly win. Let alone how Jill Stein could win. But Bernie and Jill were against drones, banks and GMOs while Hillary Clinton was for them. And the mood grew uglier as the temperature approached one hundred degrees.
The crazier elements had converged around the historic Arch Street United Methodist Church which was "training" activists to protest non-violently. There were illegal aliens in green t-shirts laughing uproariously and scowling elderly Trotsky fan club members wearing BDS buttons surrounded by posters denouncing America for its "ongoing war" in Iraq (against ISIS) not to mention Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan and most of the rest of the world. The Revolutionary Communist party marched angrily past.
There were also "Bernie Peacekeepers" wearing plastic placards proclaiming that they do not support violence of any kind. If anyone doubted their seriousness, the placards had a rainbow peace sign.
But the core Bernie elements had gathered around City Hall. They had marched the day before when there was no convention. And they were going to march today. A giant banner denounced the "racist drug war". The ragged crowd carrying it had clearly found themselves on the wrong end of that war. Younger fans wore Bernie t-shirts. Entire families with dreadlocks held up handmade signs.
Officially the Democrats were here to coronate Hillary. MSNBC had set up a giant stage outside the Independence Visitor Center where tickets were being distributed to Independence Hall and its recreations of the rooms where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were signed. MSNBC personalities leered at viewers from giant video monitors and NBC staffers had swamped the Independence Hall bathrooms. But on the ground, it was all Bernie, Bernie and more Bernie.
There were no Hillary shirts in the streets. It was all Bernie.
There were no Hillary shirts in the streets. It was all Bernie. Silhouettes of Bernie's glasses, Bernie and his bird, Bernie as a strapping young socialist and Bernie speaking to the masses. He was their Stalin or Saddam. His image was on shirts, signs and banners. Meanwhile elderly DNC delegates wearing blue lanyards nervously shuttled between bars eagerly catering to delegates. The painted donkeys in the squares, a tired gimmick, mostly went ignored. Even an "I'm With Her" button was a rarity.
In a hushed voice, a DNC delegate told me that it was important to elect someone in the middle. But the message in the streets was dramatically different. It wasn't even about Bernie anymore. Bernie Sanders had tried to address his supporters asking them to behave and they had booed him. And that made the booing of Hillary's name at the convention inevitable. Bernie the politician had sold out. But the radical left had already created Bernie the character who would go on fighting even when the politician wouldn't. Bernie could start the revolution. But he couldn't stop it. Because it was never
about him.
The most extreme Sandernistas had converged on Philly certain that they would win. And for all of Hillary's elaborate organization, her networks of influential cronies, she couldn't stop them from ruining her coronation. The DNC was on the run. Debbie Wasserman Schultz had resigned. And DNC delegates were outnumbered by angry radical leftists waving signs denouncing capitalism.
The radical left was trying to devour the Democratic Party ahead of schedule. And it wasn't a pleasant sight. Sandernistas crowded the 30th Street Train Station holding forth on a rigged election. They had arrived on stuffy Amtrak trains clutching wadded up cardboard signs. There were angry grad students down from Yale upset about income inequality and anti-war activists from New York City toting models of drones and photos of crying children. Meanwhile the temperature kept on climbing.
Philly was an oven. The locals apologized for the weather as if they had somehow caused it. But the sullen unforgiving heat seemed to echo the mood of Sanders supporters. The hotter it got, the louder and crazier the chants became. At the heart of what was supposed to be a celebration of Hillary, a passionate portion of her party's base was demanding that she be sent to jail. It was a secret wish that Bernie Sanders had been forced to swallow and abandon, but his supporters had not forgotten. And they would not forget.
Even before Bernie Sanders could sell out his followers at the DNC, the rising tension reached a crescendo and broke. The heat that had been growing all day could continue no more. Torrents of rain gushed down from the sky. Lightning flashed past skyscraper scaffolding and thunder boomed louder than the loudspeakers. Furious gusts of wind blew rain past a handful of umbrellas that had been used as parasols against the sun. The MSNBC stage was quickly deserted. And the Sandernistas, like drowned rats, raised up their cardboard signs as makeshift umbrellas against the rain.
Hours later, the final betrayal took hold. Bernie Sanders spoke at the DNC and sold out his loyalists. But they too had been preparing for the end.
More than one Sandernista spoke wistfully to me of Jill Stein and the Green Party. One leftist messiah had failed them. Bernie Sanders had put the Democratic Party ahead of the radical left's agenda. But there were always uncompromising leftist radicals who would never be practical no matter what.
Sanders' own supporters booed him. They booed any mention of Hillary. And they rode Amtrak home clutching wet signs calling for socialized medicine and an end to capitalism. Whether it is the Soviet Union or the Sanders Union, the left never recognizes that its revolutions have failed. It never learns anything from history except how to hate harder.
The Democratic Party had allowed the left to take over. And the left has no sensible stopping point. It is an endless cycle of revolutions, of mad political agendas and madder personalities that will not stop. Leftists like Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders unleash revolutions that they cannot control.
That is what always happens to the left. It is what happened at Berniegeddon in Philadelphia.
The Bernie dream is dead, but the dream of a totalitarian revolution of the left lives on. Next to the great historical monuments of America, the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall, Benjamin Franklin's grave and the Tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary War Soldier, the left vented its hatred for this country and its desire to erase its existence and its freedoms from the earth.
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Losing by winning: Researchers use stories, video games to combat obesity
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We've heard about the power of stories to, among other things, engage, delight, teach, challenge, and help us understand ourselves. Now new research from Northeastern assistant professor Amy Shirong Lu shows the power of stories to help children fight obesity.
The study, which Lu co-led and was published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, is the first to ask whether a storyline can increase children's physical activity while they're playing active video games—games, such as Nintendo Wii Sports Resort, that engage users in physical exercise.
The answer was decidedly yes. Lu and her colleagues found that the children in the study who watched a three-minute animated narrative before playing such a game took, on average, 18 percent more steps per each 10-second period and 42 percent more steps overall than those who did not.
We wanted to test whether stories, through their ability to suspend disbelief, increase attention, and provide characters to identify with, could motivate children to play active video games longer or more vigorously. And they did.
— Amy Lu, assistant professor
"I'm interested in the psychological mechanisms that determine how stories change people's views, attitudes, and behavior," says Lu, who holds appointments in both the College of Arts, Media and Design and the Bouvé College of Health Sciences at Northeastern. "Here we wanted to test whether stories, through their ability to suspend disbelief, increase attention, and provide characters to identify with, could motivate children to play active video games longer or more vigorously. And they did."
An imaginative leap
The researchers recruited 40 overweight and obese children ages 8 to 11, with equal numbers of boys and girls. They randomly assigned half of the group to watch an animation before playing Nintendo's "Wii Sports Resort: Swordplay Showdown" and the other half to jump immediately into the game.
Lu took extreme care in selecting the game. When she proposed the study, it was one of only two active video games on the market that the American Heart Association had endorsed for stimulating moderate to vigorous physical activity, she says, plus it featured a character that sparked her own imagination. "As I played, I imagined a hero wielding a sword in different locales against lots of attacking enemies and uncovering the world's secrets along the journey."
Amy Lu, center, assistant professor, explores video games with, l to r, Malcolm Matheson, research manager/project coordinator, and Jungyun Hwang, postdoctoral research associate, at Northeastern's Health Technology Lab. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University
The three-minute animation, too, required a great deal of vetting. In a previous study, Lu had collaborated with a professional media company to develop four narrative plotlines linked to the game that she had 20 children rank. The winner, titled The Door, tells the story of a sleeping child who wakes in a video game world full of stick people brandishing swords. The child, clasping a sword that miraculously appears, fights back, soon learning that the characters' unhealthy lifestyles landed them there and that to return home they need to start exercising. "We created a generic character so that the story would appeal to children of different genders, races, and ethnic backgrounds," says Lu.
The children in both groups were told they could play "Swordplay Showdown" for up to 30 minutes. "The children who had watched the animation were jumping up and down and holding the Wii remote control like a real sword," says Lu. "To me that said they were immersed in the story, that their imaginations were likely more active because they'd been motivated by The Door video clip. In fact, originally there was no time limit but we added one so they wouldn't get too tired."
In April, Lu received a five-year, $3.16 million grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to continue her research on the effect of narrative on children's experiences with active video games. Ultimately, she plans to recruit more than 200 children and extend her investigation from one story in one session to a serialized story or standalone episodes that will run for six months.
"I'm curious about which narrative approach will motivate children more," says Lu. The possibilities take her back to her own childhood. When playing video games, she says, she focused not only on scoring points but also on the characters and the stories, imagining scenarios and plot twists. "I want to take the research beyond the lab and into children's homes, into their daily lives," she says.
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FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. – Local Mother Heather Boswell was at a loss after the unexpected passing of her only son, she sought connection and a place to talk with others and when she could not find that in Fort St. John, she created it.
Boswell's son, Chris, died June 20th, 2018, at 35 years of age from fentanyl, that was in the drug he had taken. Boswell shares, "He had a good heart and trusted the wrong people. He was in a dark place when he died, and we never had a chance to fix it, my son died alone."
Grieving over the loss of her only son and best friend, Boswell shares, "My son and I were close we texted or talked on the phone almost every day," when the police found Chris, "Worst day of my life. I lost my precious son." said Boswell.
I asked Boswell why she would want to speak about this only 8 months after Chris's death and she explains, "There is nothing, nothing in this town, like resources, nothing. I figured if you had someone you could talk to it helps a lot." She felt someone needed to speak up.
Boswell found it hard to find other people in grief as she shares, "People don't want to talk, it is painful and she knows as she has been there."
Boswell was determined to put a group together, and longtime friend, Tara Lynch found out about Boswells desire to run a group for grieving and said she could facilitate the group and together they created 'Mending Losses'
This group is open to anyone that has experienced some sort of loss. Speaking with Lynch she shares, "Mending losses is a group of people that are able to come together and heal those hard topics, Those conversations you don't talk about, but you're feeling desperately lonely inside for."
The first meeting for Mending Losses is Tuesday, March 5th, 2019 from 7 pm to 8:30 pm at The Wolseley Building #11203 Talhtan Road.
Lynch goes on to share, "Mending Losses is not only to manage the loss of a loved one but it could be a loss of yourself or a divorce. There are so many different avenues of loss that we can explore in these groups.
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Hiero Day 2017: Music Highlights and Photo Gallery
Saba, the Chance the Rapper affiliate from Chicago, performs at Hiero Day 2017 in West Oakland. (Gabe Meline/KQED)
Nastia Voynovskaya
On the tail end of the great Bay Area heatwave of 2017, a diverse crowd of hip-hop fans spent Labor Day hanging out between artist warehouses and towering Burning Man sculptures at 18th and Poplar Streets in West Oakland. In previous years, Hiero Day was held in the street and felt more like a block party — but for its sixth iteration, Hiero Day provided a full-on festival experience, though with a more grassroots, underground feel than Outside Lands or Treasure Island.
Along with members of the long-running East Bay hip-hop collective Hieroglyphics, who founded Hiero Day in 2012 and headline each year, Bay Area artists like Mistah F.A.B. and IAMSU could be spotted roaming through the audience. Rare out-of-town veterans like Bun B and Yo-Yo were a treat to see onstage. And though the festival ran slightly off-schedule, the mood was upbeat and mellow, with the new spacious festival layout giving fans room to get up close and personal with their favorite artists.
Check our recap of the five most outstanding acts at this year's Hiero Day, and scroll down to see our photo slideshow below.
Rayana Jay performs at Hiero Day 2017. (Nastia Voynovskaya)
Rayana Jay
Rayana Jay's rise over the past year has been a fast, wild ride, and the singer herself at times seemed surprised by how enthusiastically her audience sang along to tracks from her breakout mixtape, Sorry About Last Night. Jay premiered her new track, "Sunkissed," a smooth, groovy track from her upcoming EP Morning After that celebrates black beauty. She prefaced the song with acknowledgement of the recent resurgence of white supremacists: "I wrote this song to say 'If nobody else got y'all, I got y'all,'" said Jay to her fans of color. The '70-hued track had her guitarist JHawk channeling Santana while Jay's velvety voice soared. When she performed "Magic," a funky, disco-inflected love song, Jay's elementary-school-aged cousin came on stage and showed off her adorable dance moves. Jay closed out her set with two surprises: Guest performances from Mistah F.A.B. (who paid homage to Mac Dre with "Still Feelin' It") and Sick Wid It Records' latest signee, OMB Peezy.
Bun B performs at Hiero Day 2017. (Gabe Meline)
Dirty South legend Bun B was a necessary, grounding presence at Hiero Day. Though most of his set was upbeat, the Houston rapper took the time to hold a moment of silence for victims of Hurricane Harvey and other lost loved ones — including his longtime partner in UGK, Pimp C. Even as his hometown remained underwater, Bun B's set offered a semblance of hope amidst continuing reports of the storm's devastating effects. (Bun B is hosting a telethon to benefit hurricane victims on Sept. 12 at 8pm EST.) And on a technical level, he was impressive, rapping in his smooth baritone sans backing-vocal track and absolutely nailing every song. He paid homage to the South's custom car culture with the candy-paint Cadillac anthem "Draped Up." The audience rapped along to his defining verse on UGK's "International Player's Anthem," and he also performed his features on Jay Z's "Big Pimpin" and Three 6 Mafia's "Sippin' on Some Syrup."
Goapele performs at Hiero Day 2017. (Nastia Voynovskaya)
Goapele looked like a vision of summer in her cutoff shorts and billowing kimono, and murmurs of admiration for her voice, hair, and outfit could be heard throughout the crowd. "I'm standing up here as a mom, an artist, as someone who cares about the future. A daughter of immigrants, an activist," she said before performing "Stand," the protest song she wrote in response to Oscar Grant's murder at the hands of police. She mostly played tracks from her recent EP, Dreamseeker, but the audience rejoiced when they heard the opening chords to "Closer to My Dreams," a gorgeous, uplifting track about realizing your destiny. Oakland singer Adrian Marcel came out to fill in for BJ the Chicago Kid's feature on "Stay," and stuck around to perform one of his own tracks. But the emotional highpoint of Goapele's set came when she sang part of Sam Cooke's civil rights anthem "A Change is Gonna Come" a capella, sending chills up everyone's spines.
Lil B performs at Hiero Day 2017. (Nastia Voynovskaya)
Lil B's set was the most climactic point of Hiero Day; as soon as the bass line of "Bitch Mob" came on, the energy in the crowd multiplied a dozen-fold. IAMSU and Rexx Life Raj climbed onto the stage, dreads swinging, while Mistah F.A.B., a godfather of hyphy, proudly looked on. Lil B also brought out Koran Streets, Kool John, and other peers in the rap scene, and everyone danced together gleefully, like one big family. Onstage and in the crowd, mosh pits erupted as Lil B performed "Like a Martian," and throughout his set, he offered affirmations and goofy quips. "Yeah, I got fat and Donald Trump's the president," he said as he took off his shirt while performing "I Own Swag." He then exemplified the message of peace and positivity he preaches online in the most beautiful way: He brought out his guitar and keyboard, and gave them away to two lucky young fans, encouraging them to learn to make music too.
Press about Hiero Day rarely goes into detail about Hieroglyphics, because they're the headliners every year — but the legendary Oakland crew's set was a reminder of why they're the best at what they do. It's pretty remarkable that the nine-person collective continues to collaborate after a decade-plus of working together, and their camaraderie was palpable on stage. The bandmates hyped each other during each other's verses and all seven MCs got their due in the festival's short closing time slot. Hiero classics like "You Never Knew" and Souls of Mischief's "'93 Til Infinity" transported the audience to Hieroglyphics' '90s heyday and served a reminder of the fact that the crew helped pioneer the freewheeling, individualistic Bay Area hip-hop culture celebrated onstage throughout Hiero Day. Opio, one of the Souls of Mischief MCs, closed the show by inviting the audience to hold up peace signs in defiance of the recent white nationalist rallies in the Bay Area, calling for the community to stand together in a gesture of unity as the sun went down.
Backstage at Hiero Day 2017. (Gabe Meline)
Hieroglyphics perform at Hiero Day 2017. (Nastia Voynovskaya)
Mistah F.A.B. performs at Hiero Day 2017. (Nastia Voynovskaya)
YMTK in the crowd at Hiero Day 2017. (Nastia Voynovskaya)
Amplive and Del the Funky Homosapien perform at Hiero Day 2017. (Nastia Voynovskaya)
OMB Peezy performs at Hiero Day 2017. (Nastia Voynovskaya)
Cunninglynguists perform at Hiero Day 2017. (Gabe Meline)
Lyric Jones performs at Hiero Day 2017. (Nastia Voynovskaya)
OT Genasis performs at Hiero Day 2017. (Gabe Meline)
Duckwrth performs at Hiero Day 2017. (Gabe Meline)
Saba performs at Hiero Day 2017. (Gabe Meline)
DJ Quik performs at Hiero Day 2017. (Gabe Meline)
Del tha Funkee Homosapien performs at Hiero Day 2017. (Gabe Meline)
Yo-Yo and Del tha Funkee Homosapien perform at Hiero Day 2017. (Gabe Meline)
Pam the Funkstress performs at Hiero Day 2017. (Gabe Meline)
Yo-Yo performs at Hiero Day 2017. (Gabe Meline)
The far corners of the grounds at Hiero Day 2017. (Gabe Meline)


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The Guardian Australia makes seven hires
The Guardian has appointed seven contributors to work on its local digital edition, including a former senior B&T reporter.
Oliver Milman, who was with B&T from 2008 to 2010 and is currently editor of StartupSmart.com.au, is set to join the Guardian as a reporter. He has also regularly contributed environmental articles to the Guardian since 2011.
Current SBS journalist Helen Davidson and Brisbanetimes.com.au reporter Bridie Jabour will also join the Guardian in coming weeks.
Fairfax Regional Digital Media's multimedia editor Nick Evershed has been hired as a data journalist.
Joining the political editorial team are Simon Jackman and Greg Jericho.
Jericho, author of Grog's Gamut blog will write on economics while Jackman, professor of political science at Stanford University, will join as a polling expert.
Rounding out the new hires is Mike Ticher who will take the role of Guardian site editor for the Asia-Pacific timezone. Ticher is currently working on the foreign desk for Fairfax Media.
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Gold Hawk Buys Machala Project
Bnamericas Published: Thursday, April 03, 1997
MONTREAL, QUEBEC--Consolidated Gold Hawk Resources Inc. announces that it has completed the acquisition of the Machacala Project located in Peru.
The Machacala Project is a gold and silver mining property located some 40k east of Trujillo, Peru. The property, which covers 974 hectares, is the site of former underground operations where the latest owner, Minera Santa Isabel S.A. mined, between 1979 and 1991, 232,645 tonnes of silver-gold ore at an average grade of 10 oz of silver and 6.0 g of gold per tonne (company's records). There is a 100 t/day mill, camp, office building and water supply on the site. The Mine is located at approximately the 3,000 meter level.
The mining concessions which constitute the Machacala project are held by a Peruvian subsidiary of Minas San Juan Ltd. In order to acquire the Machacala project, Consolidated Gold Hawk acquired all of the issued and outstanding shares of Minas San Juan Ltd. from its 16 shareholders. As consideration for the purchase, Consolidated Gold Hawk issued a total of 7 million common shares to the 16 shareholders. Of these shares, 4,880,000 have been placed in escrow pursuant to the policies of the Alberta Stock Exchange, and will be released on the basis of one share for every $0.25 in expenditures by Consolidated Gold Hawk on the Machacala project.
Minas San Juan Ltd. also has approximately $500,000 in cash.
The common shares of Consolidated Gold Hawk are listed on The Alberta Stock Exchange (CGK).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: Consolidated Gold Hawk Resources Inc. Mr. Mackenzie I. Watson President (514) 878-3551 (514) 878-4427 (FAX)
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Q: If I check all checkboxes the select all checkbox should automatically checked and vice-versa in AngularJS If I checked the check all checkbox at top then all checkbox are getting checked. But problem comes when i check every checkbox individually the select all checkbox should be automatically be checked and vice-versa.
Here is the code :

Click the table headers to change the sorting order:

      <button type="button" ng-click="remove($index)">Delete Selected</button>

          <input type="checkbox" ng-model="selectAll" ng-click="checkAll()" />

        Sl no
        Name
        Country
        Delete

          <input type="checkbox" ng-model="x.select" ng-click="xsetting(x)" />

        {{x.select}}
        {{$index+1}}
        {{x.name}}
        {{x.country}}

          <button type="button" ng-click="Delete(x)">Delete</button>

here is the link to plunker
http://plnkr.co/edit/LFShX3PTEITLaN7fSElX?p=preview
Can anyone help please?

A: You can have a ng-checked on your select All checkbox, like:
 ng-checked="allChecked()"

where allChecked is a function in controller which finds out whether all names have been selected or not. Something like,
$scope.allChecked = function() {
  return $scope.names.filter(obj => obj.select).length === $scope.names.length
}

working example
EDIT: Without arrow function,
$scope.allChecked = function() {
  var selectedNames = $scope.names.filter(function(obj) {
    return obj.select
  });
  return selectedNames.length === $scope.names.length
}

A: Below given code may help you . Once your are checking or unchecking any All Checkbox from top most checkbox then you done code to check All. But for Individual checkbox's on  ng-click you call a function but not implemented this function. Here is your updated code .

Click the table headers to change the sorting order:

      <button type="button" ng-click="remove($index)">Delete Selected</button>

          <input type="checkbox" ng-model="selectAll" ng-click="checkAll()" />

        Sl no
        Name
        Country
        Delete

          <input type="checkbox" ng-model="x.select" ng-click="xsetting(x)" />

        {{x.select}}
        {{$index+1}}
        {{x.name}}
        {{x.country}}

          <button type="button" ng-click="Delete(x)">Delete</button>

Here is http://plnkr.co/edit/TmF4jFtRmFFKoYngSYpq?p=preview and it is working.

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Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz tells Axios he's "unfazed" by the online trashing from Democrats who think that by running for president as an independent, he could split the anti-Trump vote and re-elect the president.
What he's saying: "I'm putting myself in a position that I know is going to create hate, anger, disenfranchisement from friends, from Democrats," Schultz said after last night's "60 Minutes" segment unveiling his plan to explore an independent bid.
"I'm concerned about one thing: Doing everything I can to help families who have been left behind, and to restore dignity and honor back in the Oval Office."
"I'm not considering this to win the Twitter primary," he continued. "I believe that lifelong Democrats and lifelong Republicans are looking for a home, and they're not spending hours and hours on Twitter."
Schultz's fellow billionaire, Mike Bloomberg, looked at running as an independent, but will run as a Democrat if he plunges in.
Howard Wolfson, a top Bloomberg adviser, tweeted after Schultz's appearance: "I have seen enough data over many years to know that anyone running for POTUS as an independent will split the anti-incumbent, anti-Trump vote."
"The stakes couldn't be higher. We can not afford the risk of spoiler politics that result in Trump's re-election."
A Schultz adviser tells me his team sees opportunity in "the most moderate population the country's ever had," with so many "disengaged and disenchanted."
In the latest Gallup data, 39% of people see themselves as independents, 34% as Ds and 25% as Rs.
The adviser said research by the Schultz team shows a centrist independent would draw evenly from the Republican and Democratic nominees, and bring Trump down to a "statistical floor of 26-27-28 percent."
Schultz talks of "the level of toxicity, the level of revenge" in national politics. But when I asked about Democrats, he said: "I don't want to get into specific people."
When I asked Schultz for examples of conservative ideas he supports that liberals don't, he said: "I have been a loud voice with regard to the national debt and the deficit, going back to the years of President Obama."
Schultz said it's too early to talk about a running mate.
But when I asked him a Republican he admires, he said Purdue President Mitch Daniels, the former Indiana governor.
And when I asked him a CEO he admires, he singled out IBM's Ginni Rometty, who "defines authenticity."
Schultz plans to travel the country for the next three months. He'll appear on "The View" tomorrow — the publication date of "From the Ground Up," which he calls "part memoir, part blueprint for how to induce positive change."
He told me he'll decide by late spring or early summer.
He left open the possibility of self-financing his campaign, which leaves him in less of a rush than candidates who have to build a fundraising machine.
"I think I've got plenty of time," he said. "I'll gauge the level of interest in what I've come to believe over the last year — that a choice between Donald Trump and a far-left-leaning progressive Democrat provides a wide and large opportunity."
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Janet Yellen co-opts Reaganomics phrase for new Davos speech
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen at a speech this week. Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images
The U.S. needs to focus on increasing its productive potential, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told world leaders Friday, calling for what she terms "modern supply side economics."
Why it matters: She co-opted a phrase traditionally used by political conservatives to describe low-tax and deregulatory policies — and framed the Biden administration's initiatives as the best path forward to achieve greater national prosperity.


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It wasn't the biggest demonstration of solidarity with Palestine, possibly it was the smallest, given that many tens of thousands marched to the Israeli embassy in London to protest against the carnage in Gaza. The little gathering in a remote town more than 900 kilometres to the north of the English capital, nevertheless expressed its outrage both at Israel's war crimes against innocent men, women and children and at the failure of individual governments and the United Nations to take action over Israel's latest murderous onslaught.
The small town protest still managed to involve its own Palestinian representatives, a doctor, his wife and three charming children, who swapped living in the hostile environment of Gaza, the world's largest prison camp where Israel keeps 1.8 million people under siege, for a quite different life in the peace and tranquility of the scenic Scottish Highlands.
The central London protest march filled the streets with estimates of up to 100,000 demonstrators, some occupying the entrance to government offices for a while, others chaining themselves to railings. What was important was that the protests - large and small - took place virtually unhindered without tears or tear gas. Britain, for all its failings, pays lip service to the democratic right to public protest.
In striking contrast in Paris, demonstrators absurdly had to risk jail sentences and hefty fines by defying a Socialist government prohibition against their protest over Israel's latest attacks on Gaza. Riot police, tear gas and violent clashes marked quite a different perspective on democratic rights. A Socialist government invoking draconian measures against people protesting against the mass murder of children?
It isn't clear yet how long the latest massacre of Gazans will continue or what the final toll of deaths, injuries, displacement and sheer human misery will be, but the savagery of the slaughter yet again reveals the true nature of Israel's militaristic mindset. No-one, least of all their prime minister, seeks to conceal their contempt for human rights, and particularly the rights of Palestinians, now openly regarded and treated as Untermenschen.
Israel's leaders - political and military - simply ignored the heartfelt plea from a veteran of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and an Auschwitz survivor, Chavka Fulman-Raban, when she urged her fellow Israelis to rebel against the occupation. Ironic then that Israel's defenders boastfully assert its spurious claim to be a democratic country despite its quasi-apartheid system, marked in the way it treats those Palestinians who live within its borders, let alone its violent occupation of Palestine's West Bank and its perpetual siege of Gaza.
The longer we tolerate governments not merely failing to halt Israel's systematic aggression when they should be taking decisive steps, but continuing to ignore the perpetuated injustice to Palestinians driven from their homes in 1948, the more we allow the continuing commitments to prop up Israel with military aid ($3bn a year from the USA) or the normalising embrace of the EU offering neighbourly close collaboration, the more blatant the democratic failures of our own countries become.


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DeFi Mainstay Aave Launches Money Market With CrescoFin
Aave is launching a money market in partnership with Swiss banking company CrescoFin. The move has been laid out as a way of attracting institutional money to DeFi.
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Aave is partnering with CrescoFin to launch a decentralized money market.
CrescoFin aims to bring the benefits of insured savings onto the blockchain.
The development is a possible first step towards institutions turning to DeFi to manage their money.
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Aave, one of the most established DeFi protocols, is launching a money market.
The development is thanks to a partnership with CrescoFin, a Swiss banking company advocating for the advent of decentralized finance.
CrescoFin announced the collaboration in a Medium blog post on Tuesday, citing the benefits of offering insured savings in DeFi, as well as Aave's strong security credentials. The Swiss firm highlighted its plans for "institutional adoption," pointing to Aave's focus on security as a "needed prerequisite" to attract potential investors.
The subject of "institutional money" has been an ongoing point of discussion in the blockchain space. While several large-scale investors have warmed to Bitcoin in recent months, certain signs suggest that institutional adoption has been slower within DeFi.
CrescoFin says it hopes that the integration with Aave will offer investors a "safe savings account option," in turn ushering in a wave of adoption. The firm has also confirmed that proof of reserves and price information will be sourced using the price oracle Chainlink.
The money market will enable investors to deposit funds into the protocol, with insured tokens provided in exchange for adding collateral. The tokens will then get burned when the investor withdraws their funds.
Higher rates will be paid to those who lend funds on a longer timeframe, effectively creating what's known as a "yield curve." It could also enable DeFi users to use "money legos"—a phrase often used to describe the process of interacting with multiple smart contracts with composability.
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It's a promising sign of progress for DeFi as a whole. The announcement points out that insured savings are not yet available in DeFi, but are widely considered fundamental elements of the traditional financial system.
CrescoFin highlighted Aave's standing as a key player of the DeFi ecosystem, specifically the team's "reassuring, long-term commitment" to the space.
"The amount of institutional money that will likely enter DeFi over the next few years is enormous and Aave is well placed to capture a meaningful amount of these funds," they wrote.
Aave has quickly become one of the most used DeFi protocols. Today, its total locked value is around $1.3 billion, an increase of a factor of 4,000 since the start of the year.
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General elections were held in Northern Rhodesia on 30 October 1962, with by-elections for several seats held on 10 December. Although the United Federal Party won the most seats in the Legislative Council, and Northern Rhodesian African National Congress leader Harry Nkumbula had made a secret electoral pact with the UFP, Nkumbula decided to form a government with the United National Independence Party.

Electoral system
The elections were carried out under the "15-15-15" system, with 15 seats elected by an upper roll, 15 seats by a lower roll and 15 seats by the national roll; the national roll seats consisted of four 'reserved' two-seat constituencies returning an African and a European member; three two-member 'open' constituencies that would return two members of any race, and one nationwide constituency for Asians. The initial plan for the reserved and open national roll seats was that candidates would have to receive at least 15% of the vote from both the upper and lower rolls to be elected. However, this was fiercely opposed by Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland Roy Welensky, as the lower roll was likely to be entirely black, giving his UFP little chance of winning seats. The system was later changed to require candidates to receive at least 10% of the vote from each race, and at least 20% of the vote from either the upper or lower roll.

To qualify for the upper roll, voters had to have an income of at least £720 or own at least £1,500 of immovable property. This was reduced to £480/£1,000 for those with a full primary education and £300/£1,000 for those with at least four years of secondary education. Several people were automatically allowed to register as upper roll voters, including chiefs, hereditary councillors, members of native authorities and courts, municipal councils, township housing boards and area housing boards, ministers of religion, members of certain religions with at least two years of secondary education, pensioners, university graduates, holders of an award from the Queen, those with a letter of exemption under the African Exemption Ordinance dated prior to 1 July 1961, or be the wife of a qualified upper roll voter (in polygamous marriages, only the senior wife qualified). Lower roll voters had to have an income of at least £120 or own immovable property worth at least £250. Certain other people were automatically entitled to be a lower roll voter, including tribal councillors, members of native authorities and courts, municipal councils, township housing boards and area housing boards, headmen, pensioners, members of certain religious bodies, holders of an award from the Queen, or people registered as Individual, Peasant or Improved Farmers for two years prior to their application. The wife (or senior wife) of anyone qualifying to be a lower roll voter also qualified.

The upper roll had a total of 37,142 voters, of which 27,893 were European, 7,321 were African and 1,928 were Asian. The lower roll had 91,941 voters, of which 91,913 were African and 28 Asian.

In order to vote, voters had to dip their thumbs in red ink, which would remain for two days. In Lusaka two European voters refused to dip their thumbs, and were barred from voting. One, Colin Cunningham, a former leader of the Rhodesian Republican Party, claimed it would be "trespass against his person."

Campaign
UNIP originally planned to boycott the elections in protest at the failure to move to majority rule. However, the decision was later reversed after the outcome of the Delimitation Commission.
UNIP leader Kenneth Kaunda spoke at over a hundred meetings during the campaign. In Sweden the Social Democratic Party and the Liberal Party started an appeal for £20,000 to contribute to UNIP's election campaign, calling federal UFP leader Roy Welensky "sabre-rattling" and a "leader of the white Fascists." The campaign raised only £3,700.

Conduct
On 26 October NRANC official Danwell Kuseka was killed when he was ambushed after an election meeting near Kitwe; three others were injured, one with a broken back. Kaunda called for UNIP members to co-operate with the police in finding the attackers. African candidates for the UFP were reported to have experienced a "living hell of intimidation."
Polling day took place largely without incident and saw a high turnout. In the Congolese city of Elisabethville a group of 100 Northern Rhodesians attended the British Consul to vote. However, after they discovered that only 17 of them had registered, they stormed the building and stoned the consul, resulting in him being hospitalised. Congolese police arrested 15 of the group.

Results
On election day, 14 of the upper roll seats and all 15 lower roll seats were decided, but only five of the 15 national seats; the UFP won 15 seats, UNIP 14 and the NRANC five. By-elections were subsequently held on 10 December for the Livingstone upper roll seats, and for the ten remaining national seats, with the UFP winning in Livingstone, and the NRANC winning the only two national roll seats to have a winner, leaving the UFP with a final total of 16 seats and the NRANC with seven.

By constituency

By-elections

Aftermath
With almost all candidates losing their deposits, the three Liberal Party ministers (John Moffat, Harry Franklin and Alfred Gondwe) resigned immediately after the elections. In mid-November the party announced that it was disbanding, with members advised to join or support UNIP instead.

Nkumbula held talks with both Kaunda and Roberts about the formation of a coalition government, saying he would consider a coalition with UNIP "if Kaunda and his henchmen made a statement unreservedly condemning Communism and the use of violence and intimidation.", and a coalition with the UFP if "thy stated that they wanted to see the end of political federation and its replacement with only an economic association". Kaunda subsequently released a statement stating "I believe that both Mr. Nkumbula and myself should forget the bitterness of the past and do what we can to establish majority rule in this country. On 14 December Governor Evelyn Hone announced the formation of a coalition government by UNIP and the NRARNC.

See also
List of members of the Legislative Council of Northern Rhodesia (1962–64)

References

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