The Centre for Teaching and Educational Technologies (CTET) provides and supports two web/video-conferencing platforms, BlueJeans and Collaborate. Both are great platforms for conducting meetings and connecting synchronously with individuals or groups in a "virtual face-to-face" environment, but people often wonder what the differences are between the two and which is the right choice for their needs.
Both platforms are also mobile device (phone/iPad/tablet) friendly.
BlueJeans can be used for video-conferencing in learning spaces with built-in hardware (e.g. webcams, resident PC, cameras in the ceiling, etc.) like the LIC 4th floor conference room and the Centre for Dialogue. These units cannot connect to a Collaborate meeting.
The BlueJeans services comes with a toll free dial-in number, whereas long-distance charges to the USA may apply if phoning in to Collaborate Ultra.
BlueJeans has the option of setting a password to access the session.
The BlueJeans email meeting invite includes a calendar entry, which can be helpful for people who stay organised using their Outlook calendar.
Collaborate has unique virtual classroom features that promote student engagement and participation including: breakout rooms; participant statuses like agree, disagree, sad, happy, etc.; polling; presenter role; and profile pictures.
Collaborate is fully integrated with Moodle, which means students can access sessions from "under the same roof" as the rest of their learning activities and materials.
In Collaborate, participants can be designated as a "closed captioners", which means other participants can view what the captioner is typing in real time.
Both platforms are great options for connecting with people when you can't meet in person. Both can be used for team meetings, drop-in time, virtual office hours, supervision, etc. If both platforms allow you to do what you need to do, we suggest choosing the one that you are most comfortable with. For example, if you're already using Collaborate for teaching, you may wish to also use Collaborate for team meetings as well. However, if you are more familiar with BlueJeans, you may prefer to stick with BlueJeans.
We recommend BlueJeans for video-conferencing events from the 4th floor conference room or the Centre for Dialogue. BlueJeans is also the better choice for virtual meetings using the built-in hardware, e.g. from the meeting rooms in the castle.
We recommend using Collaborate Ultra for all learning activities with students because Collaborate is integrated into Moodle and comes with a number of unique virtual classroom features, including: breakout rooms; participant statuses like agree, disagree, sad, happy etc.; polling; presenter role; profile pictures; shared whiteboard; share files; and Learning Management System (LMS) integration.
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AP's reissue of this recording is extremely transparent, naturally balanced, and fulfills the "it's like he's playing in my room!" audiophile cliché Ryan K Smith used the original two-track stereo tape from the Sony archives and referenced an original Columbia "360 Sound" pressing to master this correctly and it shows. Never have I heard a blues recording that is so musically raw yet so sonically exceptional For fans of early blues and music in general, I can't recommend this reissue enough.Music 10/10 Sound 11/10 Analogue Planet
Muddy Waters' Folk Singer wasn't the only blues LP recorded with the due care rarely shown to albums in the genre, prior to the revival. Son House's rediscovery in the early 1960s reads like a Hollywood script, but all of the elements are there to make you realize that this John Hammond-produced LP, 50 years on, was one of the most important. Just House and his bottleneck acoustic guitar: his sheer presence must has been terrifying to those unfamiliar with the intensity of rural, unamplified blues. Every track is astounding, but skip straight to the voice-only 'John The Revelator' for an instant taste of House's abilities to captivate. And he lived long enough, too, to savor his renaissance." — Sound Quality = 92% — Ken Kessler, HiFi News,
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Mississippi's Son House was already legendary for a small collection of live field recordings made by folklorist Alan Lomax in 1941 and 1942, and for having taught some important licks to both Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters before he was rediscovered by a new generation of college-age fans in 1964.
The "Father of the Delta Blues" recorded this namesake LP for Columbia Records a year later in 1965. It's become, in the words of Living Blues magazine — "Essential recordings by one of the greatest bluesmen ever." And now, Analogue Productions presents a reissue unmatched in sonic quality and luxury presentation. .
Son was born Eddie James House, Jr., on March 21, 1902, in Riverton, Miss. By the age of 15, he was preaching the gospel in various Baptist churches as the family seemingly wandered from one plantation to the next. He didn't even bother picking up a guitar until he turned 25; to quote House, "I didn't like no guitar when I first heard it; oh gee, I couldn't stand a guy playin' a guitar. I didn't like none of it." But if his ambivalence to the instrument was obvious, even more obvious was the simple fact that Son hated plantation labor even more and had developed a taste for corn whiskey. After drunkenly launching into a blues at a house frolic in Lyon, Miss., one night and picking up some coin for doing it, the die seemed to be cast; Son House may have been a preacher, but he was part of the blues world now.
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New Award Will Increase Social Entrepreneurship Activity Within Asean Region
June 11, 2017 Blog, MarketingAdmin
A brand-new award for social entrepreneurship was announced on the eighth of May, 2017, within Singapore. The launch of the new award is designed to acknowledge people from social groups (in addition to individual philanthropists), for their achievements in terms of helping the needy. The award recognizes the efforts of worthy Singaporeans, as well as others within the Asean area.
Known as the Asean Social Impact Award, the new award is the brainchild of the Department of Social Work at the National University of Singapore. The University is known as NUS for short. The award was inspired by Dr. EE Peng Liang, whose good deeds earned him the nickname, "the father of charity". He was a businessperson who launched an array of charitable foundations, including the Singapore Council for Social Service and the Community Chest.
The chairman of the new award, Stanley Tam, feels that having a genuine practitioner is the best way to demonstrate the award's intended message and this is why the award will recognize the achievements of a person who has lived a truly charitable life in service of those who are disadvantaged. The award and the story of its recipient are designed to inspire others and push them towards social entrepreneurship. It's about exposing everything that it special and important about social work.
This award is available to candidates of many ages, from different nationalities. The candidates should work for groups which are marginalized within the Asean region. Candidates will need to have worked on their initiatives for three years, with measurable and positive impact.
It's anticipated that more than one hundred and twenty applications will be received. After these applications have been reviewed, a small group of five candidates will be short-listed, based on the level of social impact that they've triggered. Other factors to be considered by the review panel for the award include innovation quality, sustainability and entrepreneurial quality. The three chosen finalists will each get up to fifty thousand dollars which may be utilized in order to help them with their social entrepreneurship.
Giving inspirational social entrepreneurs access to more funding is a great way to empower them, so this new award is definitely something to get excited about. It's expected to spark even better social work initiatives which are cost-effective and effective in terms of helping those who need help the most.
Singapore is a Progressive City-State
The island city-state of Singapore is known for its progressive government. The government and other national leaders, such as universities, work together in order to support business entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs. As well, Singapore is known for its livability, as it has a very low crime rate and good real estate values. The nation is currently turning attention to its health care system in order to upgrade it with a mind to helping Baby Boomers get the care that they will need.
At all times, Singapore's leaders and great minds are making positive changes. This new award is just another shining example of why Singapore is a great place to live, work and move towards social change.
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Q: How to use trac for assignments and tasks I work in a company providing technical assistance and this our common work-flow: the guys in the call center or in the shop catch the customer request for assistance and, for every request, they open an assignment. After that the technicians work on the assignment and they append many tasks to the assignment. Once the assignment is declared closed and it's approved by the administration, then it goes to the accounting department which makes the invoice for the assignment (almost automatically).
To make it short: assignment = problem, task=action taken to solve the problem
assignment (opened by call center)
  |_______ task1 (technician A)
  |_______ task2 (technician B)
  |_______ task3 (technician C)
...
  |_______ taskX (technician A)
A task has mainly these attributes:
- description
- technician name
- hours spent
- kilometers spent
We have generally ~1500 assignments and ~5000 tasks per year.
Right now all these processes are handled by a customized application we made over the time.
I'm wondering if we can improve our company application by using and integrating Trac (which is already used by the development department to handle internal stuff), which has some interesting ready-to-go features like xml-rpc and work-flow.
Now the big deals:
1) due to the number of assignments I can't bind an assignment to a trac project.
2) If I bind each assignment to a trac ticket then tasks should be bind to trac ticket comments but they lack the possibility to add hours and kilometers spent.
3) It seems that there is no plugin to customize comments
How I tried to solve them:
a) I tried to customize the comment with this plugin: it works quite well but I can't get back a good data structure when I query trac via xml-rpc from the company application and it's not clear how much time has been spent per every "comment". Plus there is no way to add kilometers
b) I found the Trac Remote Plugin and it seems to be interesting because I could create two trac projects, one for the assignments and one for the tasks and then bind tasks to the assignment using the intratrac link. Pity it's not working for me.
Do you think that trac is a good choice? Do you see any other way I can use it? Is there any other tracking system (for linux) which better fits our needs?

A: You should be able to do this with Trac if you approach the problem from a slightly different angle.
Instead of treating Assignments and Tasks as different things, let both of them be represented by a ticket.  Each ticket has a customizable "Type" field.  You can make "Assignment" and "Task" two options for this field.  This should allow you to keep Assignments and Tasks in the same Trac instance while still being able to differentiate between them and query each group separately.  If you wanted to, you could even add some custom Javascript/CSS that displays the "View Ticket" page slightly differently for Assignments and Tasks (for instance, if you wanted to change the colors slightly to provide additional visual cues).
The tricky part is taking the different tickets that make up an Assignment and the related Tasks and making sure that they are all associated with each other properly.  Thankfully, there's a plugin that can help you do just that.  Grab the Trac-MasterTickets plugin.  This will add two fields to your tickets, named "blocks" and "blocked by" by default.  These are used to express ticket dependencies.  If you create (for example) ticket #8 and list "#4" in the "blocked by" field, you are indicating that ticket #4 must be completed before #8 can be completed.  When you do this, Trac automatically updates ticket #4 and lists #8 in the "blocks" field.  Now you have a cross-referenced relationship between two tickets that indicates a dependency.  This should be what you need to associate Assignments and Tasks.  You can change the names of these fields to something like "Sub-Tasks" and "Parent Assignment".  When you create a new Task, you can indicate the Assignment that it belongs to and Trac will cross-reference them automatically.  You could even use the DynamicFieldsPlugin to only show the "Sub-Tasks" field on tickets of type "Assignment" and only show the "Parent Assignment" field on tickets of type "Task".

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Music Friday: A 23-Year-Old Elvis Presley Asks Sweetheart to Wear His Ring Around Her Neck
Back in the heyday of drive-ins and sock hops, a 23-year-old Elvis Presley was dominating the music scene with an unprecedented string of 10 consecutive #1 hits. It was exactly 60 years ago when the handsome crooner from Tupelo, Miss., tried for number 11 with his sure winner, "Wear My Ring Around Your Neck."
Welcome to Music Friday when we like to bring you fun, throwback tunes with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the title or lyrics. In today's song, Presley wants his girlfriend to wear his ring around her neck. Of course, the ring would be on a chain — as was the custom in the 1950s — to signify they are going steady. No doubt, countless teen girls in the spring of 1958 imagined The King was singing to them.
Here's the first verse: "Won't you wear my ring around your neck / To tell the world I'm yours, by heck / Let them see your love for me / And let them see by the ring around your neck."
Written by Bert Carroll and Russell Moody, "Wear My Ring Around Your Neck" was a big hit, but stalled at #2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, narrowly breaking Presley's string of #1s. All 10 of Presley's previous chart-toppers had been released during a two-year period.
Born in 1935, Elvis Aron Presley ascended to stardom in the mid-1950s with his good looks, silky voice and outrageous performance style. Not only did he top the charts during the 1950s and 1960s, but he also starred in more than 30 movies, including Jailhouse Rock (1957) and Viva Las Vegas (1964).
Presley met Priscilla Ann Beaulieu in 1960 and married her after a seven-and-a-half-year courtship. Presley proposed with a 3-carat diamond ring in December 1966 and the wedding ceremony took place one year later at the Aladdin hotel in Las Vegas.
The King, as he was known, would eventually become one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. His first performance on the Ed Sullivan Show in September 1956 was watched by a record 82.6% of the nationwide viewing audience. Presley is the best-selling solo artist in the history of recorded music, with more than 600 million records sold worldwide. His Memphis home, Graceland, is still a major tourist attraction.
Presley died in Memphis on August 16, 1977, at the age of 42.
Please check out the audio track of Presley singing "Wear My Ring Around Your Neck." The lyrics are below if you'd like to sing along...
"Wear My Ring Around Your Neck"
Written by Bert Carroll and Russell Moody. Performed by Elvis Presley.
Won't you wear my ring around your neck
To tell the world I'm yours, by heck
Let them see your love for me
And let them see by the ring around your neck
Let them know I love you so
And let them no by the ring around your neck
They say that goin' steady is not the proper thing
They say that we're too young to know the meaning of a ring
I only know that I love you and that you love me too
So, darling, please do what I ask of you
Well they say that goin' steady is not the proper thing
And let them know by the ring around your neck
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This is the third of four parts in which Jason Somerville tells us his life story. In the previous parts you were able to read about Somerville's goals and aspirations with his YouTube show 'Run it Up,' his childhood, being a karate teacher and starting to explore the options of being a professional poker player.
This is the second of a four-part interview in which Jason Somerville tells us his life story. Today Somerville tells the story about his childhood, becoming a karate teacher at a very young age and his first contact with poker at 16.
In this in-depth four part series Jason Somerville tells us his life story. In Part 1 the poker pro talks about his YouTube show 'Run it Up' and analyses poker broadcasting in mainstream media.
In the second part Buddiga opens up about everything that's wrong with the school system in the United States, and how a University degree is worth a lot less than advertised. The 25-year old also opens up about his poker career, learning curve and potential.
According to an SAT scores website there were more than 1.3 million American teens that took this test in 2006. Just 631 students scored 2380 or better, and Buddiga was one of them.
In the second and final part of this interview series with Russian poker pro Antoly Filatov the youngester talks about how he became a poker player.
Russian poker professional Anatoly Filatov tells us what life in one of the biggest up and coming poker communities is like. By talking to Filatov you quickly realize that he's much more than just a poker player.
In the final part of this four-part series Daniel Negreanu talks about playing with Chip Reese, appearing on High Stakes Poker and a $170MM deal that never happened.
This is the third of a four-part series documenting the life of poker superstar Daniel Negreanu.
In the second of four parts Daniel Negreanu talks about getting robbed in a private poker game in Toronto, playing at the Horseshoe in Las Vegas and his first bracelet win.
Jeff Rossiter cuts to the chase, both at the poker table and when giving interviews. The young man from Adelaide in Australia has almost $5.5 million in live tournament earnings but he's the first to admit that its not all that glitters is gold.
Guillaume "Guimoura" Moorish is not just a great poker coach but also an excellent professional poker player. Moorish doesn't live the average poker player lifestyle, as the 33-year old resides on a farm in Tatui, Brazil, and is married with two young children.
This is the second and final part of an in-depth interview with Dan Smith, one of the biggest winners and still youngest players on the international poker circuit.
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Slavery Still Dwells Here, 155 Years Later [PHIL-OSOPHY]
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The word "slavery" conjures up images of shackles and transatlantic ships, but more people are enslaved today than any other time in history.
Human trafficking affects more than 40 million people worldwide, with 50,000 peddled into the United States every year, mostly from Mexico and the Philippines. Over half of them are young people bought and sold for sex, and it is most widespread in California, Texas and Florida. Girls comprise 70 percent of all modern slavery victims.
I know slavery has been back in the headlines in recent months, but 21st-century slavery is not being talked about enough, so I'm talking about it with a longtime friend, former network TV and radio show host Hon. Blanquita Cullum.
As part of Voices Against Trafficking, Blanquita joined me to make our listeners aware of a Facebook Live stream forum being presented Wednesday, July 29, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Leading national congressmen, senators, cabinet members, religious and human rights activists will share details on many aspects of the current state of human trafficking in the United States that is no longer just on the street as it's gone online.
It wasn't made illegal in the United States until 2000, when the Trafficking Victims Protection Act was passed, which made it a federal crime.
I support putting pressure on our government officials to implement a comprehensive system to defend all victims of slavery, most especially the hundreds of thousands of blameless children. Please watch the live stream event.
Phil Paleologos is the host of The Phil Paleologos Show on 1420 WBSM New Bedford. He can be heard weekdays from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. Contact him at phil@wbsm.com and follow him on Twitter @PhilPaleologos. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author.
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I am on flight from Dallas to Nashville now. I am heading to the Opryland Hotel for the International Play Therapy Conference. I am looking forward to seeing some peers from my Sri Lanka trip and listening to great visionaries in this field. But, I have to admit, this is also a little vacation for me. Eighty-eight hours of freedom from dressing, feeding and changing the stinkiness of little people. Eighty-eight hours to blend in to the scenery, to sit back and engage with others as I please. Eighty-eight hours with no updates on peers' marriage or child issues, no crisis management, no PUMP decisions to make.
Don't get me wrong...I love my life, very much. It won't take long for me to miss little arms wrapped around my neck with an "I love you, mommy!" followed close behind. I would rather be spending these 88 hours with my husband (preferably in Nashville or D.C., where he is right now) than to even have the gift of anonymity. I care deeply for my friends marriages and for their children. My ministry at PUMP rivals no other with a deep sense of purpose and a revival of direction.
Enjoy some sleep for me. I agree with what you wrote. I also enjoy those times away to refresh and refine my craft.
I have one coming up in January!
Enjoy!! The kids have been great, although they miss you. (A little tug at the heart.) Don't fret over missing them with your phone call, Allan was too late also. We have them for another 10 hours, and then it's over to the Martin's with them. Grammy and Granddaddy are off to Medford. No time for them to get bored, they were over at "William's" this afternoon. Don't feel guilty, we all like to get away once in a while, even from those we love. Being refreshed, we are capable of deeper love. Even while feeling the responsibility of saving the world in three years, Jesus went off by himself at times, to be alone with God.
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R296. Concentration Camps, USA: A Critical and Artistic Retrospective of Literatures of World War II Internment and Detention
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In this tribute to WWII internment literatures, authors of works exploring internment camps and detention centers discuss, contextualize, and celebrate the historical, political, cultural, and creative influences shaping the literature that emerged from, and continues to emerge from, the WWII internment/detention experiences of persons of Japanese, Italian, and German ancestry.
David Mura is the author of the memoirs Turning Japanese and Where the Body Meets Memory, four poetry collections including The Last Incantations, and the novel Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire. He teaches at Stonecoast MFA and VONA Writers' Conference. His blog is Secret Colors: blog.davidmura.com.
Garrett Hongo grew up on the North Shore of O`ahu and in Los Angeles. He was educated at Pomona College, the University of Michigan, and University of California, Irvine, where he received an MFA. His latest book of poetry is Coral Road. He teaches at the University of Oregon.
Tony Ardizzone is the author of eight books of fiction, including the novels The Whale Chaser and By the Fountain of the Four Rivers. His work has received the Flannery O'Connor Award, the Milkweed National Fiction Prize, the Pushcart Prize, and two NEAs.
Mariko Nagai studied English Literature and poetry at New York University. She has received the Pushcart Prize in both poetry and fiction and has received fellowships from art foundations around the world.


Harmony said I should stop at Parowan Gap on our way out of town from Cedar City. So we did of course. But first, I searched The Salt Project for her post about it so I could make sure I didn't miss anything. I thought the Gap was just the petroglyph, but it turns out a bunch of dinosaurs roamed this valley millions of years ago and left some prints in the mud and now you can find them plastered all over rocks. If I'm being honest, I never in a million years would have even noticed the prints, but luckily some really smart people found them and mapped them out with little mettle footprint markers. This area is not only a cool place to stop because of the prints, but the trails and giant rocks and incredible! The kids (age 13-1) had a blast walking around and exploring on their own. There were big rocks to climb, easy trails to explore, and the view was breathtaking.
There is the foot print marker. And that is a dinosaur footprint there on the rock. I'm just going to take their word for it.
This spot does not have bathrooms, but the petroglyp's do! Just keep heading west.


The first book on the life and work of the pioneer of American cast-iron architecture.
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Lester Beall, who died in 1969, was the first graphic designer to receive a one-man exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art (in 1937) and was awarded the 1993 Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Institute of Graphic Artists, a sign of his importance in American graphic design.
What styles of architecture are found in your neighborhood--Georgian, Prairie, International, Spanish, Colonial Revival?


Tariq Ramadan attempts to demonstrate, using sources which draw upon Islamic thought and civilization, that Muslims can respond to contemporary challenges of modernity without betraying their identity. The book argues that Muslims, nurished by their own points of reference, can approach the modern epoch by adopting a specific social, political, and economic model that is linked to ethical values, a sense of finalities and spirituality. Rather than a modernism that tends to impose Westernization, it is a modernity that admits to the pluralism of civilizations, religions, and cultures.
Tariq Ramadan is a professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Oxford and a visiting professor in Identity and Citizenship at Erasmus University. He was named by TIME Magazine as one of the one hundred innovators of the twenty-first century.


If your HVAC system is still under a manufacturer's warranty you should repair it.
A maintained heating and cooling system that is under 10 years old without major repair history should be a good candidate for repair.
Any HVAC system that has been properly maintained without major repair history should be considered for repair.
Any central-air system only requiring a minor repair that has had regular maintenance and no major repair history should be considered for repair.
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Togo to play Africa Cup of Nations
Football team decide to participate in tournament in spite of gun attack in Angola.
Emmanuel Adebayor, Togo's captain, said the team will meet on Saturday to decide their move [Reuters]
"The show will go on."
Authorities in Angola moved quickly to ensure they were doing everything possible to safeguard the tournament, which they insist will go ahead.
"We are going to further reinforce all the mechanisms and continue to guarantee security and create all the conditions which guarantee the success, and organisation and safety of poeple as planned," Goncalves Muandumba, Angola's minister for youth and sport, said.
Assurances sought
After seeing the aftermath of the attack, members of the Mozambique national team flying into Luanda were seeking assurances of protection.
"Of course I think that it is very worrying," Otshudi Lam, a player, said.
"Today we are boarding for Angola, am I afraid? Yes, I'm afraid."
Amade Chababe, the assistant coach of the Mozambique team, said: "We have goosebumps.
Profile: Cabinda separatists
"Because with these attacks we cannot say that it only happens to Togo. Who knows what is going to happen to us?"
Emmanuel Adebayor, the Togo team captain, said that the team would only stay if their security could be guaranteed.
"I think a lot of players want to leave," he told BBC radio in Britain.
"They have seen one of their team-mates have a bullet in his body, who is crying, who is losing consciousness and everything."
"I don't think they will be ready to give their life."
Organisers have said that the tournament, which is due to kick off on Sunday, will go ahead, but African football officials met the Angolan government beforehand to seek assurances that players would be protected.
Not convinced
Al Jazeera's Andy Richardson, reporting from Luanda, said that he expected that players from most nations would be considering their participation despite the organisers' assurances.
"I think a lot of players involved here, a lot of clubs that they play for, and obviously their families back home, are not as convinced as officials," he said.
"There are some multimillion-dollar players up there in Cabinda and a lot of them have clubs back in Europe who are obviously very concerned about them being exposed into an area where it seems security cannot be guaranteed."
FROM THE BLOGS
Shadow of death on Africa's football year
By Paul Rhys
Cote d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso and Ghana were also to be based in Cabinda, which is separated from the rest of Angola by a slice of Democratic Republic of Congo, for the tournament.
The Togo team had been training in DR Congo and were travelling to Angola by bus ahead of their match against Ghana on Monday.
However, local official questioned why the team were travelling by bus rather than air.
"The rules are clear: no team should travel by bus. I don't know what led them to do this. The incident would not have happened in the city," Virgilio Santos, an organising official, was quoted by A Bola newspaper as saying.
The Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda (Flec), which has been fighting for independence for three decades, claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was aimed at the team's military escorts.
"This operation is only the start of a series of targeted actions that will continue in all the territory of Cabinda," it said in a statement on Portugal's Lusa news agency.
Spate of attacks
Flec signed a peace deal with Angola's government in 2006, but in recent months has claimed a spate of attacks on the military and foreign oil and construction workers in the province.
Keir Radnedge, from World Soccer magazine, believed that the decision by the Togo team was the right one.
"Togo staying on really cements the general feeling that if you stop a sports tournament because of a terrorist attack, then you are giving in to the terrorists.
"I applaud them [the Togo squad] for their spirit and their loyalty to the game.
"Obviously there are some wider issues that are going to stem from the fact that an attack of this size and scope was possible in the first place".


Endorsements in the Race to Succeed JJJ Are Flying. Where's the Sun-Times?
The Democratic race to succeed Jesse Jackson, Jr. is a packed one—and one in which newspaper endorsements could do some good for voters and the state. But the editorial board standing by its no-endorsements policy.
Published Feb. 11, 2013, at 5:35 p.m.
Early voting has started in the February 26th special election primary to select a successor to the disgraced Jesse Jackson, Jr. who resigned last November. In the heavily Democratic 2nd district, winning the primary means winning the seat in the April 9 general election.
With its truncated campaign season, the race is likely to be low turnout—especially if the weather is nasty—and it's definitely low information.
It sometimes seems that the campaign's only issue is gun control—not surprising in the wake of the murder of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton and President Obama's upcoming stop in Chicago to discuss gun violence. But other issues must be of concern to 2nd district voters. How about job and business creation, for starters?
And then there's the fact that in the Democratic primary alone 16 candidates are vying for this very big prize. (Open Congressional seats don't come around too often, so why not give it a go?) That's only a bit better than when the special election was called. Ald. Will Burns dropped out; so did rookie state senator and former NFL running back Napoleon Harris; so did state senator Donne Trotter after getting caught bringing a gun on an airplane.
Others have raised little money and/or support—Sam Adams Jr. and Mel Reynolds, among the better-known names. Four candidates are running real campaigns—former state rep Robin Kelly, state senator Toi Hutchinson, Ald. Anthony Beale, and former congresswoman Debbie Halvorson. On many days, as I closely watch this race, it seems, to be a duel between Kelly and Hutchinson, at least on paper.
But who knows? With so many running, and voters sliced so thin, anyone could win.
When the Chicago Tribune endorsed Robin Kelly last month, it seemed a bigger deal to me than most endorsements, which often carry negligible weight.
As I read the paper's brief for Kelly, I felt that something was missing—that would be an endorsement from the city-centric Sun-Times.
But since its no-endorsement announcement in January 2012, the Sun-Times has skipped every race, including the Obama/Romney biggie and all those confusing judicial races in which smart editorial board members do the legwork that not even the most conscientious citizen could do.
Too bad. There's a particularly compelling reason for the paper to weigh in this time. Fifteen of the 16 candidates are African American—former Congresswoman Halvorson is the only white candidate among them in a district that stretches from the city's southeast side to Kankakee, and includes ailing city neighborhoods, the south suburbs, small rural towns, parts of Will and Kankakee counties. And the dreaded racial politics have openly reared their ugly head, not even bothering to don camouflage.
Preckwinkle is not the only pol issuing an endorsement. They've been flying all over the place, adding to the confusing trajectory of this race. Hutchinson also won the endorsement of AFSCME Council 31 as well as six state senators—Koehler, Lightford, Muñoz, Noland, Sandoval, and Steans. On Sunday, Congressmen Danny Davis and Bobby Rush endorsed Kelly. She already had endorsements from Napoleon Harris, Donne Trotter, Ald. Will Burns, Ald. Leslie Hairston, and Ald. Deborah Graham. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart has endorsed Ald. Beale.
So Preckwinkle is right; a ridiculously tiny number of voters could decide this primary on the Democratic side. (Five Republicans are vying for their party's nomination and have no chance of victory unless ex-con and congressman Mel Reynolds wins the democratic primary).
In the meantime, Kelly is crowing about her F rating from the NRA and knotting an A rating from the NRA around the necks of Hutchinson and Halverson.
The result sounds more like noise than clarity. The Sun-Times editorial writers might have helped to lower the former and enhance the latter.


Simon Gollo and Carlos Rubio stopped by before the quartet leaves for a tour taking them to North Carolina, Texas and other places in the south.
Carlos is considering a beautiful Leon Mougenot Paris 1930 which I have done a lot of work on inside & out….and is owned by a Philadelphia Orchestra member. This is the first time I've had the chance to adjust the post etc with him and we are working on getting the violin clear and focused for his upcoming concerts. I want him to push Simon with this great fiddle!
Simon plays on a fine violin by Claude Miremont that dates from the mid 1860 -1870 's. Sadly it no longer has its original label . The instrument has a stunning one piece back. I had to remove the top to repair a long crack on the top a month and a bulging rib at the chinrest area or two ago. While he was here I tightened the post on Simon's violin as well ….so now they will both be filling the halls with their great sound…..and holding their with Adriana and Jesus …who generate a lot of sound in the bottom half of the quartet!
This is a stunning Nicolo Gagliano from the 1760's. Its a marvel of sculptural power and subtle craftsmanship with a timeless feel of human hands …both those that made it and those that have used it.
Nicolo , son of Alessandro, is the pinnacle of Neapolitan violin making. He passed on the tradition to his four sons – Ferdinand, Joseph being the most prominent makers of his next generation. Giuseppe (Joseph) passed the tradition onto his sons Raffaelle and Antonio – often called "the brothers nGagliano" and they brought the fine story to a close in the second half of the 19th century.
This violin, though small in size at 35.2 cm body length, has great power and clear focus. It is also quite dazzling with its luminous varnish over a shimmering ground.
My wife Rachel's uncle is the noted American composer Ned Rorem and we will often make a visit in the summer to his charming home on Nantucket.
Nantucket is a fascinating mixture of a meticulously clipped, old village spatchcocked onto a wild island 40 miles out in the Atlantic. A typical day involves a bike adventure out to a remote beach – where you are left with the fascinating choice of the placid,Sound side – or the tumultuous ocean side. Either way there is plenty of room to let the frenetic density of city-living dissolve.
Ned is a thought provoking host …and another fascinating mixture. He is both a eloquent,incisive author of diaries , essays on music ,art and many other topics and a moving composer of art songs,operas, chamber music and many other genres of music.
All his linguistic ability and creative spirit can all come together to produce a daring and scintillating game of Scrabble on a quiet summer night.


MANILA, Philippines (UPDATED) – Senator Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr filed his certificate of candicacy for vice president of the Philippines on Tuesday, October 13, at the Commission on Election (Comelec) headquarters in Intramuros, Manila.
The 58-year-old senator made official his vice presidential bid 3 days after his declaration on October 10, with the promise to lead a revolution in heart, mind, and action.
Before going to the Comelec, he visited the historic San Agustin church to receive a blessing. He was accompanied by his mother, former First Lady Imelda Marcos.
Upon arriving at the Comelec office, he was besieged by a swarm of media, including many foreign journalists.
Save for a few words of thanks for his supporters and the media present, the senator did not grant interviews.
"Maraming-maraming salamat sa inyong interes. Magfi-file pa lang, nandito na kayong lahat (Many thanks for your interest. I am just about to file my candidacy and you are all here already)," he said.
But in a press release sent right after his filing, Marcos said he would lead a campaign for change.
"Pamumunuan ko rin ang isang kampanya upang makamit natin ang ating mga pangarap sa buhay (I will lead a campaign so we can achieve our dreams in life)," he said in the statement.
Marcos seemed to take a swipe at the Aquino administration. "Until now, our people are still waiting, watching, and hoping that our leaders do something to ease their suffering. We have not yet heard an answer," he said in Filipino.
Marcos has been vocal against the Aquino administration, echoing criticisms made by opposition standard-bearer Vice President Jejomar Binay on its handling of Super Typhoon Yolanda rehabilitation and Metro Manila traffic and public transportation woes; and the death of the Special Action Force troopers or SAF 44 in Mamasapano, Maguindanao.
Marcos' vice presidential bid goes against the hopes of his mother to see her son elected president. But the senator has said he believes "the time is just not right" for him to seek the presidency.
He is one of 3 members of the Nationalista Party seeking the second highest elective post in the land. The others are Senators Alan Peter Cayetano and Antonio Trillanes IV.


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WINERY DOGS – III (February 3, 2023)
WINERY DOGS – III
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The vibrant powerhouse trio known as The Winery Dogs. Richie Kotzen, Mike Portnoy, and Billy Sheehan, have had success with other bands. Guitarist/Vocalist Kotzen is known as a former member of Poison and Mr. Big: bassist Sheehan is known for playing with Steve Vai, David Lee Roth, and also Mr. Big; while Portnoy was the original drummer of many groups including Dream Theater, Sons of Apollo and Adrenaline Mob. The trio has again marked their recording territory with new music, back in full force with their aptly named third album III. III, once again self-produced by the band, erupts with the clarion call for connection and societal understanding in "Mad World" to the undeniable muscle-flexing reign of the white-hot "Pharaoh" and the album-closing energy spillage of "The Red Wine," all 50-plus minutes of III prove The Winery Dogs haven't lost a step when it comes to conjuring fresh hooks, gutbucket grooves, and bold harmonies. (text taken from Amazon.com)
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The Art of Change: Meet our visiting fellows
For close to eight decades, the Ford Foundation has helped mobilize movements for social justice by supporting ideas and the institutions and individuals who conceive and propel them. Nowhere is this legacy clearer—or richer—than in the arts, where we have stood behind creative visionaries for generations. The belief that the arts and creative expression are essential to justice is deeply embedded in our values.
In keeping with that core belief, the foundation is curating an extended conversation over the course of the year about the interplay of art and social justice around the world today. Our goal is to engage a wide cross-section of artists, cultural leaders, scholars, activists, and leaders in social justice movements to think with each other and with us about important questions, changing constructs, and emerging possibilities—and through these exchanges, to shed new light on the role of creativity and free expression in shaping a more equitable future for all. We're calling this year "The Art of Change."
A central component of The Art of Change is our visiting fellows program, which is enabling 13 distinguished artists and cultural leaders to conduct independent study and participate in the convenings, workshops, and other exchanges that will take place during the year. Drawn from around the world, the visiting fellows are all renowned in their field for their resolute focus on themes of arts and equity. Together they reflect the diverse and contemporary ways that creative expression and social justice are being twined.
Robert Battle
Artistic director, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Robert Battle is among the country's leading choreographers and one of just three artists who have led the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater since its founding in 1958. Widely admired for his commitment to commissioning new work and spotting young talent, in 2012 Robert launched the New Directions Choreography Lab to develop the next generation of choreographers, a key component of his vision for Ailey's future. Under Robert's leadership, Ailey continues to perform and teach in numerous US cities and serve as one of the leading international ambassadors for American culture.
Robert began his career in dance at a high school arts magnet program in Miami. His exceptional talent earned him positions at the New World School for the Arts and subsequently the Juilliard School. He honed his dance technique while performing with the Parsons Dance Company from 1994 to 2001 and then founded Battleworks Dance Company to pursue his own choreographic ideas. Battleworks made its debut in Düsseldorf, Germany, and subsequently performed at leading dance venues around the world. Robert has been honored as one of the Masters of African American Choreography by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and received the prestigious Statue Award from the Princess Grace Foundation–USA in 2007.
During his fellowship, Robert will continue his explorations of contemporary African American dance idioms, in partnership with choreographer Rennie Harris and members of the company.
Novelist and essayist
Amitav Ghosh is a master storyteller and one of India's most widely read authors. His fictional work explores historical narratives of colonialism and displacement, among other themes. The New York Times has called him an "archaeologist of the powerless," and the Literary Review has said of his work that "all of his writing to date has traced connections across cultures." He is also a widely published nonfiction writer, and his essays have been featured in the New Yorker, the New Republic, and the New York Times.
Born in Calcutta, Amitav travels widely and has lived in many countries, among them Bangladesh, England, Egypt, and the US. His work, which is available in at least 35 languages, is read all over the world. He has been recognized internationally for decades and has received numerous awards, including France's Prix Médicis in 1990 for The Circle of Reason, India's prestigious Crossword Book Prize in 2005 for The Hungry Tide, and the International Grand Prix of the Blue Metropolis Festival in Montreal in 2011 for lifetime achievement. He was also a joint winner, with Margaret Atwood, of the Dan David Prize in literature in 2010—an award recognizing outstanding scientific, technological, cultural, or social impact on our world. Sea of Poppies was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2008 and is currently on the shortlist for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize.
During his fellowship, Amitav will explore his lifelong interest in the natural world, and intersections between literature and climate change.
Director and chief curator, Studio Museum in Harlem
Thelma Golden serves as director and chief curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Thelma shook the visual arts world as a young curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where she was a member of the curatorial team for the landmark 1993 biennial and organized exhibitions such as the groundbreaking Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art of 1994. Trailblazing has been Thelma's signature ever since. Returning to the Studio Museum in 2000, she has continued to demand attention for emerging artists and provoke new thinking about contemporary culture. Under her leadership, the Studio Museum has secured its position as an internationally important catalyst in advancing the work of artists of African descent.
Thelma has curated more than 20 exhibitions at the Studio Museum and led an innovative curatorial team in organizing many more. Her exhibitions and initiatives bring new perspectives to the work of established artists and draw attention to emerging voices. Under her leadership, the museum's foundational Artist-in-Residence program has grown into a globally renowned launching pad for artists of African and Latino heritage. Thelma has also strengthened the museum's public and educational programs, research and scholarship initiatives, and deep commitment to serving broad and diverse audiences from Harlem and around the world.
During her fellowship, Thelma will explore what has—and has not—changed in the nonprofit cultural sector over the past 20 years, and examine strategies for expanding the presence and visibility of curators of color in the museum field.
Playwright, librettist, and screenwriter
David Henry Hwang is one of the country's leading playwrights and theater artists, known for his pathbreaking work in illuminating the experience of Asians in the United States and exposing hidden dimensions of race, sexuality, and identity in contemporary life. Collaborating with diverse artists and producers, David has created works in repertory theater, opera, musical theater, film, and television and excelled as a writer, librettist, and producer while often crossing traditional lines of commercial and nonprofit work. His first play, FOB, was produced at the Public Theater and won an Obie Award in 1980. This launched his career and a robust partnership with Joseph Papp that extended to four other productions, including the Pulitzer Prize–nominated drama The Dance and the Railroad. In 1998 David's play M. Butterfly won both the Tony Award for Best Play and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play.
David's prolific output has won him numerous other awards, including the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award as a Grand Master of American Theater, the William Inge Award for Distinguished Achievement in the American Theater, the Asia Society Cultural Achievement Award, and the ISPA Distinguished Artist Award. In 2012, he was named a fellow of United States Artists, and he received the prestigious Doris Duke Artist Award in 2014.
During his fellowship, David will explore the effects of US demographic shifts on social anxieties, and how China's authoritarian regime understands and uses the "soft power" of the arts.
Deeyah Khan
Filmmaker, music producer, and CEO of Fuuse
Deeyah Khan is a film director, music producer, and human rights activist. Born in Norway to parents of Punjabi-Pashtun descent, she began her career at 7 as a singer and stage artist. Deeyah experienced ongoing harassment, including threats against her life, from extremists who considered her musical career "dishonorable," hostility that eventually forced her into exile.
Deeyah's personal experience of repression has motivated her subsequent work. In 2010, she collaborated with Freemuse: The World Forum on Music and Censorship to produce Listen to the Banned, an album featuring censored artists from Africa, Asia, and the Muslim world. This album hit the top 10 on World Music Charts Europe.
In 2009, she directed and produced Banaz: A Love Story, a documentary about honor killings. The film won both an Emmy and a Peabody Award in 2013. While working on this film, Deeyah founded Memini, a global initiative to remember victims of honor killings worldwide. She is the executive producer of a forthcoming documentary about two female musical artists' struggle against censorship and patriarchal social structures, and she is completing her second documentary, which examines the social and psychological roots of violent extremism and the rise of the jihadi movement in the West.
During her fellowship, Deeyah will work with her Fuuse colleague Dr. Joanne Payton to conduct research on violent extremism and the role of artists and artwork in bridging gaps between communities, challenging extremist worldviews, and exploring underlying social and psychological issues.
Arnold L. Lehman
Shelby White and Leon Levy Director, Brooklyn Museum
For 18 years, Arnold L. Lehman has served as director of the Brooklyn Museum, one of the oldest and largest fine arts collections in the nation. His first official act as director was to march in Brooklyn's West Indian American Day Parade. Since then, he has focused on improving individual visitors' experiences and animating the community's engagement with the museum. In the past decade alone, museum attendance has doubled, visitation by people of color has risen to over 40 percent, and the average age of museum visitors has dropped from 55 to 35. Through daring and sometimes controversial exhibitions, imaginative installations of works from the permanent collection, public programs that connect with Brooklyn's diverse populations, and active support for the borough's extraordinary artists community, Arnold has helped reimagine the role of museums in 21st-century community life.
Arnold's unique brand of leadership has been recognized repeatedly in both the museum field and the community at large. Prior to coming to Brooklyn, Arnold was director of the Baltimore Museum of Art for almost two decades and was adjunct professor of the history of art at the Johns Hopkins University. He served as president of the Association of Art Museum Directors, was co-chair of Mayor Bill de Blasio's Arts and Culture Transition Committee, and currently chairs the Cultural Institutions Group of New York City.
During his fellowship, Arnold will conduct research and consider ways to increase the presence of people of color in leadership roles in the museum profession.
Joy Mboya
Executive director, GoDown Arts Centre
Joy Mboya is a performer and cultural activist who currently directs the GoDown Arts Centre, the leading nonprofit multidisciplinary arts facility in Nairobi, Kenya. Educated as an architect, Joy has led the center's development as a site for artistic experimentation, cross-sector partnerships, and creative collaboration locally, within the region, and internationally. An outspoken advocate for artists, she has spearheaded a variety of ambitious projects, including the visual narrative Kenya Burning (2008) and the Nairobi-wide festival Nai Ni Who (2013), and developed programs showcasing artists' work within the center's facility as well as at other spaces in the city.
Widely recognized for both her programming vision and her managerial skills, Joy was appointed to serve on the Governing Council of the Kenya Cultural Centre, which oversees the Kenya National Theatre, and was also elected to serve on the continental steering committee for the ARTerial Network, a pan-African consortium of individuals and organizations in craft, dance, film, literature, visual arts, and new media that supports the work of Africa's cultural sector. Joy has received numerous awards recognizing her work. The Head of State Commendation Medal in 2009, for instance, marked her contributions to the development of Kenya's creative economy, and the Order of the Golden Warrior State Commendation in 2013 celebrated her outstanding leadership in the field.
For her fellowship, Joy will explore new ways to strengthen connections between artists and build artistic capacity, and to fortify policies affecting Kenya's creative sector.
Laura Poitras is a filmmaker, journalist, and artist whose work bravely tackles some of the most pressing political and social issues of our day. She recently finished a trilogy of films on the post-9/11 war on terror. The final film in the trilogy, CITIZENFOUR, focuses on Edward Snowden's exposure of the National Security Agency's broad and invasive monitoring of citizens. It won the 2015 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, along with awards from, among others, the British Film Academy, Independent Spirit Awards, Directors Guild of America, and Cinema Eye Honors. In her acceptance speech, she said that NSA surveillance not only is "a threat to our privacy" but also endangers "our democracy itself." As a result of her work, Laura has been on government watch lists since 2006 and has been detained repeatedly at the US border. She edited CITIZENFOUR in Berlin, Germany, to protect the footage and her sources.
Laura has received many honors for her work, including a MacArthur Fellowship in 2012. With Glenn Greenwald, she won the 2013 George Polk Award for national security journalism and shared in the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. With Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill, she co-founded the Intercept.
Her fellowship will be devoted to researching new work for her first solo museum exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where she will create an environment of immersive installations that build on the themes she has been exploring in her filmmaking.
Bill Rauch
Artistic director, Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Bill Rauch has been challenging our ideas of what theater is, and who makes theater, since 1986 when he co-founded Cornerstone Theater. With Bill's unwavering beliefs that artistic expression is civic engagement and access to a creative forum is essential to the health of every individual and community, Cornerstone pioneered new approaches to produce outstanding new work based on the concerns of specific communities. Bill served as artistic director there until 2006.
Mixing ultra-urban Los Angeles with very rural Oregon, Bill guest directed several plays at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, one of the largest nonprofit theaters in the country, while still leading Cornerstone. In 2007 he was invited to become artistic director of OSF. Over the past eight years, he has led a process of reenvisioning the festival's overall artistic program and its relationship to its communities and has directed four world premieres and 15 other productions. Among other initiatives, he launched American Revolutions: The U.S. History Cycle to explore important moments in the evolution of American democracy and American identity. One of its commissions, All the Way, written by Robert Schenkkan and directed by Bill, last year won the Tony Award for Best Play and earned Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations for best directing.
Bill will use his fellowship to explore issues related to diversity and inclusion in American theater, among them enabling more young directors of color to work with the classics, diversifying audiences for regional theater, and fostering innovations in gender-blind casting.
Toshi Reagon
Singer, composer, musician, and producer
Toshi Reagon has been performing professionally since she graduated from high school. Described as a "one-woman celebration of all that's dynamic, progressive, and uplifting in American music," she has mastered folk and funk, blues and rock, and sacred and traditional music formats and is now working in music/theater and opera. Toshi's irresistible personality and activism, combined with her singular approach to music and song, has a galvanizing effect on her audiences. She has collaborated with diverse musical artists and her band, BIGLovely, to perform at venues around the world. She has produced more than 15 albums and benefit recordings.
In addition to her work on stage, Toshi's music has appeared in numerous films and television shows. Toshi's work as a curator includes the Schomburg Center's Women's Jazz Festival; the Black Rock Coalition's Deep Roots of Rock and Roll; and Celebrate! The Great Women of Blues and Jazz, a 17-piece women's blues and jazz ensemble. She's also collaborated as conductor, musician, and instrumental composer/arranger, with Robert Wilson and Bernice Johnson Reagon, on the operas The Temptation of St. Anthony (2003) and Zinnias: The Life of Clementine Hunter (2013). She is currently working on adapting Octavia E. Butler's postapocalyptic novel Parable of the Sower into an opera.
During her fellowship, Toshi will organize a New York City–wide festival, WORD*ROCK*&SWORD: A Festival Celebration of Women's Lives—All Are Welcome, focused on women's rights, talents, and artistry, and the impact of creativity on communities.
Artist and activist
Pedro Reyes uses sculpture, theater, seminars, public performances, and participation to address the interplay of physical and social space, calling for political and economic participation. Less interested in critiquing institutions than in reimagining them, Pedro uses art as a way to encourage collective and individual agency.
His works take on various forms, from penetrable vinyl sculptures to television production. In 2008, Pedro initiated his ongoing project Palas por Pistolas. In the first year, 1,527 guns were collected in a voluntary donation campaign and were melted down to produce the same number of shovels, to plant the same number of trees. This led to Disarm (2012), in which hundreds of musical instruments were made from 6,700 weapons given to Pedro by the Mexican army. Disarm is now a traveling workshop in which teens and young adults transform weapons into instruments and write and perform pacifist songs.
Pedro has had solo exhibitions in Canada, Japan, Mexico, and the US. He has been featured in numerous group exhibitions in France, Germany, South Korea, the United Arab Emirates, and the US, and he participated in the 50th Venice Biennale. His most recent project is The People's United Nations (pUN) (2013), a summit at which 193 delegates from every country in the world convene for a series of activities centered on global governance.
During his fellowship, Pedro will continue his planning for a series of annual festivals that will use the arts to reduce the presence of drugs and guns in communities across Mexico.
Albie Sachs
Former judge on the Constitutional Court of South Africa
Albie Sachs is one of the most important leaders in South Africa's struggles against apartheid and the suppression of human rights. At 20, in 1955, he participated in the Congress of the People, where the Freedom Charter was adopted, and following law school, he defended people charged under racial statutes and security laws. Jailed for this work, he eventually had to leave the country. In 1988, Albie nearly lost his life when a bomb exploded under his car. Undaunted, he worked on writing South Africa's democratic constitution and was appointed to the Constitutional Court by Nelson Mandela in 1994. His term on the court came to an end in 2009.
Winner of the Tang Prize for the Rule of Law in 2014, he is currently using a portion of the prize to tell the story of the making of South Africa's democratic constitution and the Constitutional Court, which abolished capital punishment and ordered recognition of same-sex marriages. A prolific author, Albie is one of only two people to win the Alan Paton Award twice—in 1991 for his book The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter and in 2014 for The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law. A documentary about his life, Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa, by Abby Ginzberg, was released last year.
During his fellowship, Albie will work to ensure that the story of the making of South Africa's constitution reaches the most marginalized person in the tiniest corner of the land. He will also seek to integrate the film Soft Vengeance into antiretaliation and antibullying programs.
Considered one of the most influential American artists, Carrie Mae Weems has investigated family relationships, cultural identity, class, political systems, and the consequences of power. Weems has developed a complex body of art that has sustained her ongoing dialogue within contemporary discourse for over 30 years. In a review of her recent retrospective in the New York Times, Holland Cotter wrote, "Ms. Weems is what she has always been, a superb image maker and a moral force, focused and irrepressible."
Weems has received numerous awards, grants, and fellowships, including the prestigious Prix de Rome, National Endowment for the Arts support, the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, and the Anonymous Was a Woman Award. One of her greatest honors came in 2013 when she received the MacArthur Fellowship, the "genius" grant. Weems is represented in public and private collections around the world, among them the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
She will use her fellowship to explore new ways to support artists of color, particularly those who are deeply rooted in and engaged with the communities in which they live.
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Fulham 0 Manchester United 3: Martial and Pogba send Solskjaer's men fourth
Anthony Martial and Paul Pogba combined to clinical effect to give Manchester United a comfortable win at Fulham.
09 February, 2019 20:34 IST
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Manchester United moved into the top four of the Premier League table with a 3-0 victory over Fulham at Craven Cottage on Saturday.
Two goals from Paul Pogba and a superb solo effort from Anthony Martial secured a comfortable win for the visitors, their 10th in 11 matches in all competitions under caretaker manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
United, who kept player-of-the-month Marcus Rashford on the bench as they made six changes from the 1-0 win at Leicester City, were rarely troubled by a Fulham side who have now lost 23 of their last 24 league meetings with 'big six' opposition.
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An encouraging start from Fulham saw Luciano Vietto scuff a volley wide from a promising position, and that miss was punished by Pogba 14 minutes in, the midfielder racing onto Martial's pass and blasting left-footed beyond Sergio Rico at the near post.
United seemed happy to invite Fulham onto them in order to strike on the break, and they did so in ruthless fashion 23 minutes in. Phil Jones won back the ball and released Martial, who burst forward while holding off Denis Odoi, skipped beyond Maxime Le Marchand and slotted past Rico.
Fulham were unable to make any inroads against the United defence, prompting Claudio Ranieri to shift formation by bringing on Cyrus Christie for Andre Schurrle, prompting cries of 'You don't know what you're doing' from the home fans.
Ander Herrera saw a half-volley beaten away by Rico as United pushed for a third, and they promptly found it from the penalty spot 64 minutes in, Pogba sweeping the ball into the right-hand corner after Le Marchand tripped Juan Mata.
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United substitute Alexis Sanchez shot straight at Rico when clean through and then saw his cross nodded just over by Scott McTominay, while Fulham's best chance for a consolation goal fell to Ryan Babel, who somehow hit the outside of the post from practically on the goal-line, drawing a wry smile from his manager.
What does it mean? United back into the top four
This result means United will finish a day in the top four for the first time since they beat Leicester City on the opening day of the season, although Chelsea will climb above them if they beat Manchester City on Sunday.
It is an 11th league game without defeat against Fulham and marks the first time they have won six matches away from home in a row since May 2009.
While Solskjaer's men will be feeling buoyed ahead of a daunting run of games, Ranieri's side will sense the pressure building. They remain seven points from safety.
Martial too much to handle
Martial's runs from deep down the left were causing Odoi problems even before he set up Pogba's opening goal and scored a sublime second himself. It was a clinical, sometimes classy display from the Frenchman.
Le Marchand a mess
Fulham's continued defensive problems were underlined by Le Marchand's display. He made a lame attempt to stop Martial's run for the second goal and clattered into Mata to concede the penalty.
Key Opta facts
- Fulham have conceded 58 goals in 26 Premier League games this season; only three sides have shipped more at this stage in the history of the competition (Barnsley in 97-98 - 62, Swindon Town in 93-94 - 60 and Blackburn Rovers in 11-12 - 59).
- Solksjaer has picked up 25 points in the Premier League since taking over in December (W8 D1), more than any other manager has achieved in his first nine games in charge of a single club in the competition.
- Manchester United have scored seven goals from the penalty spot in the Premier League this season, more than any other side.
- Pogba has reached double figures for goals for the first time ever in a single league campaign (11).
- Martial has now been directly involved in 50 Premier League goals (33 goals, 17 assists) - more than any other United player since his debut in September 2015.
United host Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League and travel for an FA Cup tie at Chelsea before their next league outing, at home to Liverpool on February 24. Fulham have 13 days off until they travel to West Ham for a London derby.


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Home Media Center In the Spotlight NovaMedica Launches Own Innovative Drug for the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease
NovaMedica Launches Own Innovative Drug for the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease
April 19, 2022, Moscow – Russian pharmaceutical company NovaMedica (investment project of RUSNANO) has developed and registered an innovative combination of Donepezil and Memantine molecules, which are the basic therapy for dementia associated with Alzheimer's disease. The drug is registered under the name MIOREOL®. This is the first such combination in the Russian market and in the markets of the EAEU and Europe.
MIOREOL® is NovaMedica's own-development product. It is intended for the treatment of patients with moderate to severe dementia associated with Alzheimer's disease. Its innovative element is combination in one dosage form of two molecules complementing each other's action. This improves patient compliance and effectiveness of treating such a complex disorder as Alzheimer's disease. MIOREOL® is produced in tablets of four different strengths, which makes titration and initiation of therapy easier: the dose of the drug is increased gradually.
MIOREOL® is manufactured in Russia at the Technology Center NovaMedica Innotech (100% subsidiary of NovaMedica), which ensures regular supplies and flexible production planning in line with the growing demand in the market. MIOREOL® will be available in pharmacies in the second half of April 2022. It will be sold on prescription.
Elena LITVINOVA, Director General of NovaMedica:
«"Creation of innovative drugs that are high on the agenda of the Russian healthcare system is an important part of NovaMedica's strategy, which is aimed at improving pharmacological support for Russian patients. We steadily develop our own R&D program, which includes a whole range of products at various stages of clinical trials or registration. Our projects are intended for the treatment of disorders of the central nervous system and cover such indications as neuropathic pain, migraine, cognitive disorders and sleep disorders, moderate to severe dementia, etc».
Zakhar LEIKIN, Medical Director of NovaMedica:
«As Alzheimer's is a multifactorial disease, use of a polymodal multicomponent treatment ensures simultaneous effect on several links of the pathological process. Practical value of this approach was confirmed in many clinical trials completed abroad with Memantine and Donepezil. Timely initiated combination therapy of dementia associated with Alzheimer's disease shows compelling results in slowing down the progression of cognitive deficit1, while optimization of the dosage regimen makes use of the combined product easier and more convenient for patients2».
Olga SHPICHKO, Deputy Chair of the Board of Directors of NovaMedica, Managing Director for Investments at RUSNANO Management Company:
«"We feel proud that the decision of RUSNANO to invest in development of the Russian pharmaceutical industry turned out to led to such outstanding achievements as creation of a local foundation for pharmaceutical R&D and development of modern Russian drug products. This forms a reliable basis for building a drug security strategy for our country. It is important that innovations are already becoming more available to Russian patients. NovaMedica is working on an entire range of other drugs for the treatment of disorders of the central nervous system. We believe in the company and we are very glad to see its successes"
Alzheimer's disease is the prevalent cause of dementia – according to the WHO, it accounts for 60-70% of all cases3. This neurodegenerative disease is incurable. About 50 million people in the world live with dementia, and almost 10 million new cases are diagnosed every year. In Moscow, 4.5% of the population of 60 years old and above suffer from Alzheimer's disease, and 40% of them have it in severe forms4.
Information on the company:
NovaMedica is a Russian pharmaceutical company created in 2012 by RUSNANO and the US venture fund Domain Associates LLC. NovaMedica's strategy is aimed at search and localization in Russia of innovative pharmaceutical products and creation of new drugs under its own R&D program. Some of these products already have marketing authorizations. Exclusive rights to manufacturing and commercialization of the first of them, Relifipin, were granted under the partnership agreement to the German pharmaceutical company Bayer. Besides that, NovaMedica has an advanced infrastructure for successful commercialization and promotion of prescription products.
In 2017, NovaMedica opened in Moscow the R&D center NovaMedica Innotech (100% subsidiary of NovaMedica, Skolkovo resident). NovaMedica Innotech has state-of-the-art technological capabilities and conducts research, development and manufacturing of innovative and effective drugs in full compliance with the GMP standards, including on a contract basis. Manufacturing capacity of the R&D center NovaMedica Innotech is up to 150 million drug units per year (tablets, soft and hard gelatin capsules with various fillers: micro-tablets, pellets, granules, powders).
1 Chen R, Chan PT, Chu H, Lin YC, Chang PC, Chen CY, Chou KR. Treatment effects between monotherapy of donepezil versus combination with memantine for Alzheimer disease: A meta-analysis.PLoS One. 2017;12(8):e0183586
2 Deardorff W J, Grossberg G T. A fixed-dose combination of memantine extended-release and donepezil in the treatment of moderate-to-severe Alzheimer's disease. Drug Des Devel Ther. 2016; 10: 3267-3279.
3 Alzheimer's Association. 2019 Alzheimer's Disease Facts and Figures. Alzheimers Dement 2019;15(3):321-87, World Health Organization ( https://www.who.int/ru/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/dementia)
4 Gavrilova S.I., Kalyn Y.B. Social and environment factors and state of psychological health of the elderly population. Vestnik of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. 2002. #9. P. 15-20


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Civic (CVC) is the utility token of the Civic ecosystem.


And yes, I remember many months ago when I said I was ready to "move on" from World of Warcraft and do something else, but they won't let me stop. I'm still having a lot of fun with the damnable game. At least I've mostly stopped playing solo; that seems like a step on the road to recovery. With the exception of my once-or-twice-daily auction house adventures, of course.


As previously reported, Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree went to the men's magazine FHM headquarters for a photo shoot recently and disappointed fanboys everywhere when it was found out that that it wouldn't be Liv who was stripping down.
Well the first photo of that session was just tweeted out by Liv and the whole article and photo shoot can be enjoyed in the current issue of FHM.
In addition to Liv's participation in the magazine, here's 5 other reasons to pick up this month's issue.


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Thomas William Barnes (ur. 5 marca 1876 w Hamilton, zm. 16 grudnia 1925 tamże) – kanadyjski strzelec sportowy specjalizujący się w strzelaniu do rzutków, medalista olimpijski.

Na arenie krajowej pojawiał się już w pierwszych latach XX wieku. W 1913 roku zdobył swoje pierwsze mistrzostwo Kanady w trapie. Z zespołem, z którym zdobył srebro na igrzyskach w 1924 roku, osiągnął również trzecie miejsce na mistrzostwach Wielkiej Brytanii.

Wystąpił w jednej konkurencji na igrzyskach olimpijskich w 1924 roku. Był to trap drużynowy, w którym Kanada zdobyła srebrny medal. William Barnes, George Beattie, John Black, James Montgomery, Samuel Newton i Samuel Vance przegrali wyłącznie z drużyną amerykańską. Punkty Barnesa nie były liczone do wyniku zespołu, Kanadyjski Komitet Olimpijski wymienia go jednak jako zdobywcę medalu.

Jego ojcem był Thomas William Sr, po którym w 1901 roku odziedziczył kopalnię. Po jego śmierci firmę przejął syn Rolph Barnes, który startował na tych samych igrzyskach co ojciec (jako lekkoatleta).

Wyniki olimpijskie

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Bibliografia

Kanadyjscy strzelcy
Kanadyjscy medaliści olimpijscy
Medaliści Letnich Igrzysk Olimpijskich 1924
Urodzeni w 1876
Zmarli w 1925
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Associate was quoted in the Law360 article "7 Ways To Shield Food Product Websites From Legal Troubles." The article discusses how food and beverage companies are facing an increasing slate of regulatory actions and putative class actions over claims made on their products' websites and social media platforms. Regulatory and case law on this matter is just starting to take shape, but there are several best practices that could help fend off legal trouble. She advised companies to monitor customer testimonials, saying "It's not sufficient to quote what someone says. They have to be representative of the typical consumer experience." While its unlikely regulators will come after a company the same day that an offending customer testimonial is put up, it's important to regularly monitor comments and any comments that are highlighted as customer testimonials should meet the same standards as any of the company's other advertising materials.


In December 2014, Attorney at Work conducted their first Social Media Survey, asking readers for their social media habits, preferences and attitudes. More than 450 readers responded to the survey, including 340 lawyers (56% fmale, 44% male).
91% said they use social media, and a surprising 60% identified their social media use as part of a marketing strategy.
91% are on LinkedIn, with 73% saying they are on Facebook. Twitter ranked third, with 45% of lawyers prepared to Tweet, and a paltry 21% say they use Google+. Conversely, the lawyers responding said the platform they use most frequently is Facebook with 43%. Only 2% say they most often use Google+.
39% said LinkedIn is the most effective client-getter. In fact, those who say their use of social media is part of an overall marketing strategy actually use Facebook less and LinkedIn far more frequently than those who identify no marketing strategy.
As for return on investment, only 4% said social media is "very responsible" for getting them new clients, while 31% said no social media platform is effective at bringing in new clients.
A significant amount of skepticism remains— 56% of lawyers responding think the talk about lawyers using social media for marketing is "more hype than reality." Women lawyers are slightly less skeptical than men, with 51% believing the talk is hype.
Does your firm use social media as part of a marketing (or other) strategy? What have you found works best? We'd love to hear from you!


Embattled Republicans are banking on an old foe — Mayor de Blasio — to help them in this year's state Senate races.
The local GOP is bombarding voters with TV ads and mailers linking Democratic candidates to Hizzoner in an all-out effort to hold onto their tenuous control of the chamber.
In the final days of campaigning, de Blasio is expected be featured as a bogeyman in a half-dozen contested races in Nassau County, LI, and the Hudson Valley, GOP sources said.
GOP candidate Chris McGrath — vying for convicted crook Dean Skelos' old Senate seat in Nassau — has produced a TV spot tying Democratic incumbent Todd Kaminsky to a shady $50,000 donation generated by two de Blasio cronies.
Kaminsky, a former federal prosecutor and assemblyman, narrowly defeated McGrath in the special election in the 8th District to replace Skelos in April.
Kaminsky's camp has denied soliciting the donation.
Meanwhile, in the 6th District in Nassau, GOP incumbent Kemp Hannon produced a mailer that paints Democratic challenger Ryan Cronin as a de Blasio crony.
The ad shows Cronin's face and a stack of $100 bills peeking out of a suit coat's breast pocket.
"He's in the pocket of Bill de Blasio and the corrupt NYC politicians!" it reads.
Senate Democrats scoffed that the GOP effort was only a desperate attempt to divert attention after two more Nassau Republicans — County Executive Ed Mangano and Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto — were arrested in alleged pay-to-play scams last week.
Still, a maverick Bronx Democrat may have the most sway over who controls the Senate.
State Sen. Jeff Klein heads a faction of six Democratic dissidents, the Independent Democratic Conference, which has been part of a governing coalition with GOP senators since 2010.
At present, there are 31 GOP senators in the 63-member chamber, short of a numerical majority.