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Change for the sake of change doesn't necessarily get you where you want to go.
Now that I am more or less officially in the Ni-Ni camp (that is I support neither Chavez nor his opponents) I think its important that people know why I support neither side. Of course, from recent posts people should be able to clearly see why I feel disillusioned with Chavez and think he is leading himself, his movement, and his country to almost certain disaster. And of course, I will say more on this in future posts.
Sadly though, those who oppose Chavez have never really given any good reason as to why anyone should support them - save for being fellow ABCs - Anyone But Chavez. The ABCs have no program, have never stood for anything other than what their name implies, insanely deny the real achievements of the Chavez government, and thoughtlessly seek to overturn everything Chavez has done, even that which is clearly good and which has worked.
Sorry, there may be many people who are perfectly happy being ABCs but I am not joining that group. Change for the sake of change, and not even caring what type of change it is, rarely works. In fact, it often leads to complete disaster. Just take a look at the Ukraine:
Ukraine Teeters as Citizens Blame Banks and Government
By CLIFFORD J. LEVY
KIEV, Ukraine — Steel and chemical factories, once the muscle of Ukraine's economy, are dismissing thousands of workers. Cities have had days without heat or water because they cannot pay their bills, and Kiev's subway service is being threatened. Lines are sprouting at banks, the currency is wilting and even a government default seems possible.
Ukraine, once considered a worldwide symbol of an emerging, free-market democracy that had cast off authoritarianism, is teetering. And its predicament poses a real threat for other European economies and former Soviet republics.
The sudden, violent protests that have erupted elsewhere in Eastern Europe seem imminent here now, too. Across Kiev last week, people spoke of rising anger about the crisis and resentment toward a government that they said was more preoccupied with squabbling than with rallying the country.
The sign held by Vasily Kirilyuk, an unemployed plumber camped out with other antigovernment demonstrators here in the past week, summed up the pervasive frustration: "Get rid of them all," it said.
Mr. Kirilyuk did not hesitate to take that further. "There will be a revolt," he said. "And people will come because they are just fed up."
Mr. Kirilyuk, 29, was standing in the same central square where throngs in 2004 carried out the Orange Revolution, a seminal event that brought to power a pro-Western government in Ukraine. He said he was a fervent supporter then of the protesters, but now he and a few dozen others who have set up tents here are demanding that the heroes of that revolution step down.
It is not hard to understand why world leaders are increasingly worried about the discontent and the financial crisis in Ukraine, which has 46 million people and a highly strategic location. A small country like Latvia or Iceland is one thing, but a collapse in Ukraine could wreck what little investor confidence is left in Eastern Europe, whose formerly robust economies are being badly strained.
It could also cause neighboring Russia, which has close ethnic and linguistic ties to eastern and southern Ukraine, to try to inject itself into the country's affairs. What is more, the Kremlin would be able to hold up Ukraine as an example of what happens when former Soviet republics follow a Western model of free-market democracy.
"Ukraine is a linchpin for stability in Europe," said Olexiy Haran, a professor of comparative politics at Kiev Mohyla University. "It is a key player between the expanding European Union and Russia. To use an alarmist scenario, you could imagine a situation in Ukraine that Russia tried to exploit in order to dominate Ukraine. That would make for a very explosive situation on the border of the European Union."
That Ukraine can cause problems for Europe was highlighted in January when Ukraine engaged in a dispute with Russia over how much it would pay Russia for natural gas, as well as over gas transport to the rest of Europe. The Kremlin shut off the gas for several days, and some European countries went without heat. The Kremlin also shut off gas to Ukraine in 2006 in a pricing dispute.
While Ukraine's economy is dependent on exports of steel and chemicals, which have plummeted, the crisis has cut deeply because people are disillusioned with the government.
President Viktor A. Yushchenko, a leader of the Orange Revolution, who garnered attention around the world in 2004 when his face was scarred in a poisoning episode, is so widely scorned that a recent poll found that 57 percent of people wanted him to resign.
His rivals have also lost popularity, as the public has become exasperated by years of political bickering. In February, the International Monetary Fund refused to release the next installment of a $16.4 billion rescue loan to Ukraine because the government would not adhere to an earlier agreement to pare its budget.
Around the same time, Ukraine's finance minister resigned, saying that the job had been "hostage to politics."
On Friday, the monetary fund projected that Ukraine's economy would shrink by 6 percent this year, and said that it was continuing to work with the government to find a way to disburse the rest of the rescue loan.
A presidential election is coming, probably to be held next January, and this prospect is making politicians, especially Prime Minister Yulia V. Tymoshenko, reluctant to adopt an austerity program that might alienate voters.
Mr. Yushchenko and Ms. Tymoshenko were pro-Western allies during the Orange Revolution, but have bitterly feuded since then, and he fired her once. A third rival, Viktor F. Yanukovich, a former prime minister who heads an opposition party that favors closer ties with Russia, also wants to be president.
On Friday, Mr. Yushchenko and Ms. Tymoshenko held a public meeting in an effort to demonstrate that they were working together. Mr. Yushchenko said he wanted "to show the readiness of all sides to take political responsibility for decisions which today are not easy."
Even so, the two did not announce further anticrisis measures.
All over Kiev have been signs that tensions are building.
On the city's outskirts, more than 200 tractor-trailer rigs were parked Thursday, their drivers threatening to block roads if the government did not help them with their debts, which they said were caused in part by the drop in the value of Ukraine's currency, the hryvnia.
The truckers dispersed Friday, only after the government said it would try to address their demands, but they said they would be back soon if they were ignored.
"The government is to blame for all this," said a trucker, Viktor V. Zarichnyuk, 26, who had been at the protest for 12 days. "We want the government and the national bank to agree that the money allocated by the International Monetary Fund, at least part of it, should go to regular people."
At a branch of the Rodovid Bank across town, a tense crowd gathered Friday morning. The bank, close to failing, was allowing withdrawals of only $35 a day. And so people, some of them pensioners fearful for their life savings, have been trooping each day, ever more aggravated, to try to get what they can.
"Every day we come here — it's insulting — in the cold and line up," said Alevtina A. Antonyuk, 58, an engineer. "They are nothing at this bank but a bunch of thieves."
Who is to blame, she was asked. Before she could answer, Dmitri I. Havrilkiv, 78, a retired crane operator, interrupted.
"The government has to be replaced," he shouted. "They just can't handle it!"
Back in the heady days of the "Orange Revolution" some of these people probably didn't give any thought to what came after that "revolution". It was probably taken as a given that what ever it was it had to be better than what existed at the time.
Sadly, for Ukrainians, it turned out to be much worse.
Wondering where your next meal is coming from and spending cold winter nights with no heat can't be much fun. And rest assured, the CIA and NED handlers who funded and cheered on the "Orange Revolution" are nowhere to be found.
Of course, the Venezuelan ABCs are a varied lot. Some of them are certainly honest citizens who want the best for Venezuela, even if their ideas on what that means are very vague.
But just as certainly there are some who are salivating at the idea of getting their positions of power back - of having control over an extremely rich oil company, $27 billion in cash reserves, and untold billions in other savings accounts.
If there is a change in Venezuela someday (hopefully peacefully through elections) who is to say it won't be the latter who would end up back in power? Given their money, their control over the private media, and their close links to the U.S. government I wouldn't bet against them. And if they do get back into power what will THEY do? I can only guess, but I think it is probably a good guess that they do won't make most Venezuelans better off.
Those who seek change in Venezuela thinking that Anyone But Chavez would be better should really think about that.
Starting to pay a debt with Venezuela's environment
Aproximately, a year and a half ago I wrote a very detailed post on an environmental catastrophe taking place in north central Venezuela around the Lago de Valencia (Lake Valencia). Those not already familiar with the problems surrounding that lake should read that post.
There were two fundamental problems with Lake Valencia. The first was that the water in it was extremely polluted, so much so that humans should never even enter the lake, much less drink its water. The same goes for animals and even plants. The lake is therefore a dead lake.
The second problem is that because it is in a saucer like region with no natural outlet water only leaves the lake through evaporation. Due to water being piped into the area to supply the ever growing populations of Maracay and Valencia the natural balance of the lake has been disrupted and the lake levels are rapidly rising. These rising water levels are already flooding parts of Maracay and, if unchecked, threatened to flood virtually the entire city. As parts of Maracay were already being destroyed this was rapidly becoming a New Orleans type problem, only in slow motion.
It now appears the government has at least partially solved this problem. Today President Chavez inaugurated a water project that will remove at least some of the water that naturally flows into Valencia Lake, pipe to another area where it can be used for irrigatioin, and have it empty into another drainage basin. In fact, where I pointed out in my original post that the were piping 11,500 liters per second into the Valencia Basin this project will remove 7,500 liters per second from that basin and should therefore reduce the rise in the lake if not stop it all together.
To be sure, this is a big accomplishment and not a moment too soon. The lake was visibly rising and simply from driving by it a few times each year I could clearly see it was flooding more and more land. Stopping the rising waters was imperative and explains why they worked 24 hours a day seven days a week to complete this project.
Here are some videos explaining the project:
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The video with the engineer was particularly interesting as he expained some of the significant technical difficulties they ran into with the unusual geography of the area in addition to what a key role community liasons played in ensuring project/community collaboration and worker/management collaboration which helped the project proceeed smoothly and without interruptions.
He also made interesting points about how when past projects were built they weren't built to be scalable where as this one was. That is, things like tunnels were built signifacantly bigger than they needed to be right now so that if in the future they need to put additional piping through them they can without having to expand them or build new tunnels.
The project cost aproximately $100 million but this was clearly money well spent solving a problem that was truly urgent.
Of course, Valencia Lake is still highly contaminated and that in and of itself is a major problem that this project doesn't fix. Fixing that problem will probably be much more expensive. Still this is a HUGE and CRITICAL first step. President Chavez, the Environment Ministry and all the workers on this project deserve to be congratulated for the work they've done on this.
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What is Iccha Shakti in Hinduism?
Iccha Shakti means will power and is a philosophical concept associated with Kashmir Shaivism.
Iccha means desire and power of will.
In Vedas, the term Iccha is not found, there the term kama is used to convey the same meaning.
Iccha is of two types one towards the fruit and another towards the attainment of the fruit.
Iccha Shakti of the Supreme Truth resulted in the creation of the universe and all animate and inanimate beings.
It is the first principle of activity – the first seed of the mind. Thus the sweet will of Shiva to create universe is Iccha Shakti.
Shiva is full of five energies - Chitta Shakti, Ananda Shakti, Iccha Shakti, Jnana Shakti and Kriya Shakti.


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2018-14007. Marine Mammals; File No. 21006
National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
Notice; receipt of application for permit amendment.
Notice is hereby given that Linnea Pearson, California Polytechnic State University, 1 Grand Ave., San Luis Obispo, CA 93407, has applied for an amendment to Scientific Research Permit No. 21006.
Written, telefaxed, or email comments must be received on or before July 30, 2018.
The application and related documents are available for review by selecting "Records Open for Public Comment" from the "Features" box on the Applications and Permits for Protected Species home page, https://apps.nmfs.noaa.gov, and then selecting File No. 21006 from the list of available applications.
These documents are also available upon written request or by appointment in the Permits and Conservation Start Printed Page 30702Division, Office of Protected Resources, NMFS, 1315 East-West Highway, Room 13705, Silver Spring, MD 20910; phone (301) 427-8401; fax (301) 713-0376.
Written comments on this application should be submitted to the Chief, Permits and Conservation Division, at the address listed above. Comments may also be submitted by facsimile to (301)713-0376, or by email to NMFS.Pr1Comments@noaa.gov. Please include the File No. in the subject line of the email comment.
Those individuals requesting a public hearing should submit a written request to the Chief, Permits and Conservation Division at the address listed above. The request should set forth the specific reasons why a hearing on this application would be appropriate.
Sara Young or Amy Sloan, (301) 427-8401.
The subject amendment to Permit No. 21006 is requested under the authority of the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.) and the regulations governing the taking and importing of marine mammals (50 CFR part 216).
Permit No. 21006, issued on September 15, 2017 (82 FR 48985; October 23, 2017), authorizes the permit holder to conduct research on Weddell seals in the Antarctic. The permit holder is requesting the permit be amended to include authorization for: Increased take of pups to twelve total, sedation of six additional pups at one week of age, collection of blood samples at four time points for six additional pups, use of a cannulated needle for biopsy instead of a biopsy punch, attachment of flipper mounted VHF and accelerometer tags to pups at one week of age, and use of antibiotics to treat local or systemic infection.
In compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), an initial determination has been made that the activity proposed is categorically excluded from the requirement to prepare an environmental assessment or environmental impact statement.
Concurrent with the publication of this notice in the Federal Register, NMFS is forwarding copies of this application to the Marine Mammal Commission and its Committee of Scientific Advisors.
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Here we report the synthesis of graphene oxide nanoscrolls (GONS) with tunable dimensions via low and high frequency ultrasound solution processing techniques. GONS can be visualized as a graphene oxide (GO) sheet rolled into a spiral-wound structure and represent an alternative to traditional carbon nano-morphologies. The scrolling process is initiated by the ultrasound treatment which provides the scrolling activation energy for the formation of GONS. The GO and GONS dimensions are observed to be a function of ultrasound frequency, power density, and irradiation time. Ultrasonication increases GO and GONS C–C bonding likely due to in situ thermal reduction at the cavitating bubble–water interface. The GO area and GONS length are governed by two mechanisms; rapid oxygen defect site cleavage and slow cavitation mediated scission. Structural characterization indicates that GONS with tube and cone geometries can be formed with both narrow and wide dimensions in an industrial-scale time window. This work paves the way for GONS implementation for a variety of applications such as adsorptive and capacitive processes.


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ARTURO ESCOBAR ENCOUNTERING DEVELOPMENT PDF
His academic research interests include political ecology , anthropology of development , social movements , anti-globalization movements , and postdevelopment theory. Escobar was born in Manizales , Colombia. He received a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering in from the University of Valle in Cali , Colombia, and completed one year of studies in a biochemistry graduate program at the Universidad del Valle Medical School. He subsequently traveled to the United States to earn a master's degree in food science and international nutrition at Cornell University in After a brief stint in government working in Colombia's Department of National Planning, in Bogota , from to , [3] in he received an interdisciplinary Ph.
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O ne response to the development impasse caused by modernisation and dependency theories was "can do" neoliberalism ; another involved reflection on the very purpose of development. This took shape across "alternative" approaches including environment, gender and sustainability. All these approaches grew up alongside the neoliberal right, but most were drowned out, for a time at least, by its noisiness. Perhaps the most distinctive new approach, however — one set on meeting the new right's noisiness with a strategic and all-encompassing silence — was the post-development thinking embodied by the work of Colombian scholar Arturo Escobar.
Escobar's ideas are best summed up in his book Encountering Development , which offered much more than an analysis of mainstream development economics or the sprawling array of development actors and institutions it spawned.
It was a critique of the whole rotten edifice of western ideas that supported development, which Escobar regarded as a contradiction in terms and a sham. For Escobar, development amounted to little more than the west's convenient "discovery" of poverty in the third world for the purposes of reasserting its moral and cultural superiority in supposedly post-colonial times.
Escobar felt development was, unavoidably, both an ideological export something Walt Rostow would willingly have admitted and a simultaneous act of cultural imperialism. With its highly technocratic language and forthright deployment of norms and value judgements, it was also a form of cultural imperialism that poor countries had little means of declining politely.
But what exactly did he mean? Surely some planning is better than outright anarchy? Surely, whatever one's political views, when confronted by a world as unequal as our own, it is important to try to do something? As a glance at his intellectual influences suggests, Escobar's argument was a good deal more sophisticated than such questions allow.
The first of these influences was the French philosopher Michel Foucault and his idea that power is not simply something that rich, powerful people hold over others, but is produced in and through all the things we do — even things like helping others. Through Foucault, Escobar came to the conclusion that development planning was not only a problem to the extent that it failed; it was a problem even when it succeeded, because it so strongly set the terms for how people in poor countries could live.
Told how to behave, poor people were made subjects of development as much as they were subjects of their own government. Escobar also sought to channel the insights of the Palestinian literary theorist Edward Said and his analysis of what he termed "Orientalism". Said had shown how western constructions of the Orient as exotic and enticing, yet also dangerous, were not merely passive descriptions of other people and places, they were central to the imaginative production of those places.
And they were usually constructed either as sites of excess sexuality, say or conversely as lacking in some fundamental value civilisation, say. In either case, those abnormalities needed bringing into line. Development was just a modern way of doing this: a re-enactment of Orientalist tropes in technocratic guise. Hence it was ultimately a way for the west to manage the rest for their own gain, only ever allowing poor people a future that the rich could imagine for them.
Coming at a time when western universities were in the grip of the postmodern challenge to systems of knowledge, Escobar's post-development critique sparked considerable debate.
Coming at a time when mainstream development was beginning to incorporate a softer, more human approach alongside the market-driven solutions of the s, Escobar found ever more evidence to support his ideas.
As he saw it, the more the development industry claimed to be improving on past practice — as it tramped from anti-poverty to pro-poor to basic human needs approaches — the more it continued to fall into the serious trap of imposing a western agenda on others. But if the first finger that people lift to help is on a hand destined to meddle, what are those who wish to see a fairer world to do? While some anti-development writers have encouraged a back-to-the-soil populism in response, Escobar's answer is again a good deal more sophisticated.
For him the answer lies in creating space — intellectual first and foremost — for "local agency" to assert itself. In practice this means one of two things:. First, it means encouraging local communities and traditions rooted in local identities to address their own problems.
Not buying into the western development agenda does not mean denying that some societies lack both resources and power relative to others. This was an argument that Escobar developed in dialogue with feminist scholars like Vandana Shiva, and it can be found today in such initiatives as the Buen Vivir moment in Latin America. Second, and related to this first, it means criticising any existing distortions — economic or political — that limit peoples' ability to develop.
Escobar has therefore been highly critical of free trade zones , such as the maquiladoras in Mexico, or what is happening on a vaster scale in parts of China. Instead, he points to a politics of "degrowth" as a way of addressing some of these distortions. But can local always be the answer to the problems of globalisation? As many have argued, and as Escobar would doubtless acknowledge, when there are material differences in life chances not to mention life expectancy between different places, an excessive localism may end up as no less essentialising than an all-out universalism: little more than a romanticism of the poor.
But these are lessons that development has in large measure learned which isn't to say it doesn't repeat many others. And if it has indeed failed to the extent that great poverty still exists, it has nonetheless helped bring about remarkable gains in life chances and opportunities.
It has done this, moreover, despite as much as because of the unequalising effects of global capitalism. In practice this means one of two things: First, it means encouraging local communities and traditions rooted in local identities to address their own problems. Topics Global development Theories of development. Reuse this content. Order by newest oldest recommendations. Show 25 25 50 All. Threads collapsed expanded unthreaded.
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O ne response to the development impasse caused by modernisation and dependency theories was "can do" neoliberalism ; another involved reflection on the very purpose of development. This took shape across "alternative" approaches including environment, gender and sustainability. All these approaches grew up alongside the neoliberal right, but most were drowned out, for a time at least, by its noisiness. Perhaps the most distinctive new approach, however — one set on meeting the new right's noisiness with a strategic and all-encompassing silence — was the post-development thinking embodied by the work of Colombian scholar Arturo Escobar. Escobar's ideas are best summed up in his book Encountering Development , which offered much more than an analysis of mainstream development economics or the sprawling array of development actors and institutions it spawned. It was a critique of the whole rotten edifice of western ideas that supported development, which Escobar regarded as a contradiction in terms and a sham.
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Kenny Ortega To Direct Dirty Dancing Remake
"Nobody puts lucrative marketing opportunities in the corner!". Well at least not for long. Dirty Dancing, which was once in the works for a remake in 2009, is now back on the radar with Kenny Ortega in the director's chair.
Ortega might not immediately spring to mind but he's been behind such muscial successes/apocalypses (delte as appropriate) as the High School Musical Trilogy and Michael Jackson's This Is It. He was also the choreographer for the orginal Dirty Dancing so he's got some vested interest in making sure it doesn't suck.
"The opportunity to direct Dirty Dancing is like returning home for me," he said in a statement, which Deadline were fast to pick up on.
"Growing up in the 60s on the dance floor helped define me as a person and as an artist. I am looking forward to assembling a great creative team and an exciting cast to bring Dirty Dancing to the screen for a new generation. Patrick Swayze set the bar for men dancing in the movies as Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire did before him. I believe everywhere you look there is evidence that the talent is out there and I can't wait to begin the process of discovering the next breakout triple-threats."
There's that old chestnut "bringing it to a new generation" which gets trotted out as an excuse to remake formerly decent movies. Just pay to have it rereleased in cinemas and be done with it.
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Today marks Human Rights Day (10 Dec), recognising the day that, in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
As part of Fly the Flag 2020, Birmingham Repertory Theatre has collaborated with Birmingham Poet Laureate, Casey Bailey, on a new commission in response to Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Fly The Flag is a unique collaboration between arts organisations and human rights charities which celebrates and reminds us of the human rights we all share. This year the campaign moves online as it focuses on Article 25, the right to food, shelter, healthcare, social services and security. Over 30 Poets from across the UK have been commissioned to write and record new works, including this brand-new poem from Casey Bailey commissioned by The REP.
Birmingham Poet Laureate, Casey Bailey said: "For me this project is important because it refocuses us on human rights, and this is essential in a world where we often get lost in issues that centre around us, and forget that without our active engagement, people's lives are destroyed and even lost in situations that are fixable. This made me instantly what to be involved in a project that shines a light and draws attention to Article 25".
The REP's Artistic Director,  Sean Foley  added:  "In a year that has been difficult for everyone, and extremely hard for many, it is right that we draw our attention those who are the most unfortunate of all. Article 25 of the UDHR enshrines the right to food, shelter, healthcare, social services and security to everyone, and The REP is proud to have commissioned Birmingham's Poet Laureate, Casey Bailey, to deliver a work that reflects the constant human relevance and importance of these rights, both nationally and internationally."
The series of poems specially commissioned in response to Article 25 and performed digitally will be available to watch here and Casey Bailey's work can be viewed and shared here.
Alongside the poems, schools will receive a new virtual assembly pack with the poems, providing a moment for creativity in their assemblies and some thoughtful provocations around Article 25.
Fly The Flag 2020 builds on two years of activity, and propels the project towards the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 2023. Launched in 2018 on the 70th anniversary of the ratification of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), Fly The Flag is a reminder of the human rights we all entitled to, in particular raising awareness of the UDHR amongst young people and shining a light where human rights are violated.
To mark the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 2018, artist and activist Ai Weiwei was commissioned to design a flag. This flag was launched in 2019 at Somerset House and displayed by hundreds of arts organisations, schools and charities with children and young people across the UK taking part in activities to learn about Human Rights.
Poems by Amina Jama, Anthony Anaxagorou, Arji Manuelpillai, Belinda Zhawi with filmmaker Jolade Olusanya, Bridie Squires, Casey Bailey, Cecilia Knapp, Courtney Stoddart, DL Williams, Elliot Waloschek, Hafsah Aneela Bashir, Haris Ahmed, Inua Ellams, Jonzi D, Keisha Thompson, Laura Nyahuye, Louise Page, Malika Booker, Matt Abbott, Michelle Tiwo, Molly Naylor, Neelam Saredia, Nick Makoha, Sabrina Mahfouz, Sonali Bhattacharyya, Steve Jones, Susannah Hart, SL Grange, Vanessa Kissuule, Wambui Hardcastle and Elizabeth Doyle, Wayne Holloway-Smith, Yomi Sode.
Poems commissioned by Fly The Flag with Birmingham Rep, Brixton House, Common Wealth, Coventry City of Culture 2021, Edinburgh International Festival, Farnham Maltings, Fuel, Greyscale, Ideas Test, Improbable and Emergency Exit Arts, Kali Theatre, Manchester International Festival, Northern Stage, Roundhouse, Sadler's Wells, Stratford Circus, Talking Birds, Young Vic.
Birmingham Repertory Theatre has today announced a raft of shows for spring 2020. The programme precedes new Artistic Director, Sean Foley's first full season of work in autumn 2020. Speaking...


Diggers Rest, a small township set in rural surrounds, is on the Calder Freeway 30 km north-west of central Melbourne.
Unlike several small townships on the plains north-west of Melbourne, Diggers Rest is not positioned in a protected hollow or beside a watercourse. Rather, several streams flow away from the slight rise where the town is built, making it exposed and prone to dry conditions. Diggers Rest's origins lay in it being a convenient stopping place for gold miners en route to the Bendigo and adjacent goldfields, and Caroline Chisholm had a women's shelter at Diggers Rest. A hotel (1852) was opened at the junction of the roads to Bendigo and Bulla.
The exposed landscape provided a suitable venue for the escapologist, Harry Houdini, to achieve Australia's first officially recorded powered flight in 1910. There is a commemorative marker south of the town.
Diggers Rest became well known to car travellers in the post-war years, where the highway negotiated an awkward crossing of the railway line. The Calder Freeway later bypassed the town, probably providing relief for the residents in the growing numbers of houses. The town has three recreation reserves, a community hall, football club and Houdini Drive beside the largest reserve. Large Defence Department communication installations once occupied space south of the town. The hotel burnt down in 2008 and fire damaged part of the general store and post office in 2011. Diggers Rest-born freestyle aerial skiier Lydia Lassila won a gold medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
The Diggers Rest primary school had 72 pupils in 2014.
South of Diggers Rest there is Plumpton Park, with a house dating from about 1922. The property is one of several resulting from the break-up of the vast Rockbank pastoral holding held by the Clarke family until the early 1900s. Plumpton road runs south towards Rockbank. The rural locality between Diggers Rest and Rockbank is named Plumpton. It has several rural heritage sites, along with the award-winning Galli Estate winery on the Melton Highway. There is a housing estate on Plumpton's eastern edge, adjoining Caroline Springs.


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What Is Elder Abuse?
Sadly, elders are abused in America every day. According to the National Center on Elder Abuse, between one and two million Americans over the age of 65 are mistreated, abused or taken advantage of by people on whom they depend for care every year. Many believe that figure may grossly under-represent the number of actual occurrences, as many elders are hesitant, or unable, to report abuse.
Elder abuse can take the form of physical, emotional or sexual abuse as well as neglect or financial abuse. Physical abuse can be anything from pushing or shoving to much more serious abuse such as restraining a patient or intentionally inflicting harm. Emotional abuse, while less obvious, can be just as devastating as physical abuse. A caregiver may lead an elder to believe that he or she is unwanted or unloved or may allow the elder to think that nobody has called or visited to inquire about his or her health. Allowing an elder to feel abandoned can be emotionally devastating. Just as children who are vulnerable are often more likely to become the victims of sexual abuse, so are elders who are less able to protect themselves from an attack. Neglect may be the most common form of elder abuse. Sometimes, not doing something can be as detrimental as doing something. Failing to give needed medication, failing to bath a patient or simply ignoring the cries of a patient are all ways in which elders are neglected. Finally, elders are highly susceptible to financial abuse. Many elders are forced, either from a practical standpoint or by a court, to turn over their financial affairs to someone else. The guardian then has free reign to take advantage of the elder's finances in many cases. Elders are also more susceptible to con artists and others who prey on the kind nature of many elderly individuals.
Elder abuse is a crime in most states. If you believe that someone you love has been the victim of elder abuse, contact the authorities as soon as possible. You may also wish to contact an attorney who specializes in elder law for advice on how best to protect your loved one in the future.
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8 Concerts to Catch in Cleveland This Weekend
By Jeff Niesel on Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 8:06 am
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FRIDAY, FEB. 8
Dead Fall Release Show/Elbow Room/The Dollyhoppers/Taylor Scott/As Time Fades
The punk band Dead Fall formed in Kent five years ago while the majority of the members were still in high school. The group released its debut, Desperate Situations, in 2016, and since then, the band has embarked on several tours of the Midwest and shared the stage with a number of national acts. The guys recorded their latest effort, Never Expected, with Seth Henderson at Always Be Genius Studios. The album's lyrics address "the impact major life changes can have on one's mental health," and the band recently released a music video for the first single, "Drowned Out." Tonight's show serves as a release party for the album. (Jeff Niesel), 7:30 p.m., $10. Mahall's 20 Lanes.
Fear of a Black Planet: J Dilla Edition Featuring Amani Cove/Jah Nada/Delofi/DJ Candi Fresca/DJ A-Live/Mourning [A] BLKstar/Muamin Collective
Four years ago, MC Josiah "Zion" Quarles, a local guy who plays in the hip-hop group MuAmin Collective, launched a showcase for local acts that he dubbed Fear of a Black Planet. This year's event features a tribute to the late hip-hop producer and rapper J Dilla and include performances by local acts such as DJ Candi Fresca, Amani Cove, Delofi, Muamin Collective, Mourning [A] BlkStar and Jah Nada. A-Live will spin music from Dilla's extensive catalog. (Niesel), 8 p.m., $10. Now That's Class.
Niights Album Release/The Desert Noir
This local indie rock band cites the Smashing Pumpkins and Cranberries and My Bloody Valentine as influences, and you can hear those influences come across well on the band's new album, Hellebores. With their high-pitched vocals and waves of shimmering guitars, songs like the beautiful, Cocteau Twins-like "Generators" and the careening "I'm So Into You" evoke the best British alternative rock of the '90s. Tonight's show serves as a release party. (Niesel) 8:30 p.m., $6. Happy Dog.
SATURDAY, FEB. 9
Concert for Truth With Alex Bevan/Rachel Brown/Michael Stanley/Austin Walkin' Cane/Diana Chittester/Leonardo DiCosimo/Afi "I Play Bass" Scruggs/Charlie Mosbrook/Dr. Joe and the Squeeze Play Band/John Hardy/Brent Kirby/Ray Flanagan
Earlier this year, The Plain Dealer announced that the paper will cut nearly 30 jobs when it outsources copy editors, designers, curators and artists in a couple of months. Other union members could lose their jobs at the end of February as well. To show support for the union members of Local 1 of the Northeast Ohio Newspaper Guild at The Plain Dealer, local musicians such as Alex Bevan, Colin Dussault, Ray Flanagan and Rachel Brown have teamed up to play a benefit concert. Michael Stanley, the dean of the Cleveland music scene, will also perform. At the night's end, the musicians will gather on stage for a final jam featuring Bevan's song "Ink on Paper." (Niesel), 6 p.m., $10. Beachland Ballroom.
Lords of the Highway — CD Release Show/The Legendary Hucklebucks
Local rockabilly heroes Lords of the Highway got their start in the early '90s and issued their debut on cassette in 1992. Since that time, the group has gone through numerous lineup changes and slowly evolved. It's just finished its latest album, More Rock Than Billy. Another stellar effort, the album kicks off with the raging ""Getting Sweaty with the Yeti," a tune that sounds like a terrific mash-up of X and the Blasters. The band also indulges its psychobilly impulses with the spooky "Creeper Stare" and "Carnival Freakshow."
8:30 p.m., $8. Beachland Tavern.
Seeress Release Show/Pillars/Two Hand Fools/Brain Cave
Two years ago, the locally based self-described "post-rock/instrumental/atmospheric metal" band Seeress followed up two self-released EPs, 2015's Self-Titled and 2016's Many Worlds, with its first full-length, Great Void. Next week, it returns with another full-length, The Dream Passes. The disc features the same kind of intensely intricate post-rock instrumentals that can be found on previous efforts. Produced by Dave Piatek, mixed by Kurt Ballou and mastered by Magnus Lindberg, The Dream Passes aims to be "both challenging and deeply rewarding for the thoughtful, involved listener, the one that has moved beyond the frivolous music-as-accessory and is longing for music-as-statement," as it's put in a press release. (Niesel), 8 p.m., $10. Mahall's 20 Lanes.
SUNDAY, FEB. 10
Davina & The Vagabonds/Alyssa Boyd Quartet
Drawing from New Orleans jazz, Memphis soul and musical theatre, Davina and the Vagabonds capably defies categorization. Singer Davina Sowers rightly draws comparisons to Etta James, Amy Winehouse, Billie Holiday and Betty Boop. Another remarkable mish-mash of musical styles, the group's latest release, 2016's Nicollet and Tenth, represents Sowers' eclectic taste in music and shows her maturation as a singer and songwriter too. (Niesel) 8 p.m., $20 ADV, $25 DOS. Beachland Ballroom.
Dorothy/Spirit Animal/The Damn Truth
San Diego-born Dorothy Martin started singing when she was a kid and found inspiration by sifting through her father's vinyl collection, listening to lots of Dolly Parton, Credence Clearwater, Janis Joplin and Pink Floyd. After moving to Los Angeles a few years ago, she put together the hard rock outfit Dorothy in 2014 with the intention of making hard-rocking music that, as she puts it, metalheads like Beavis and Butthead would like. The band's dynamic live show lives up to expectations. (Niesel) 8 p.m., $20 ADV, $25 DOS. House of Blues.
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As trainer Mike Deters prepares for his first start in the Breeders Crown, he's got a good feeling about Ideal Feeling. Deters sends out Ideal Feeling in Saturday's first of three $25,000 eliminations for 3-year-old male pacers at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono. The colt is out of the family of Hall of Famer Rainbow Blue and a three-quarter brother to stakes-winner Zero Tolerance...
RUS MidAtlantic race Saturday at Big M
A field of eight trotters will be competing in the $3,000 RUS MidAtlantic Trot at the Meadowlands on Saturday. Post time for the non-wagering racing under saddle event will be 7 p.m., prior to the first wagering event on the card. Four of the eight horses figure to be competing for the major spoils in this mile with a fifth horse providing a little foreign intrigue. F...
Veteran horseman Doug Hamilton dies at 71
Veteran horseman Doug Hamilton, 71, died of a heart attack early Wednesday morning, Oct. 17. A native of Port Elgin, Ont., Mr. Hamilton followed his grandfather, Lambert, and father, Irwin, onto the harness racing county fair circuit. At age 17 he moved to Windsor, Ont., to race at Windsor Raceway. After working for Gerry Bookmyer and Ron Feagan, he went on his own. He spent time ...
Foiled Again tour hits Harrington on Oct. 22
Harness racing's richest horse of all-time, Foiled Again, will make a stop on his farewell tour at Harrington Raceway Monday, Oct. 22. The venerable pacer is in his last year of racing at age 14, and will compete in the third race on the program. At approximately 6:30 p.m., he will then be available for a meet and greet in the west grandstand parking lot where fans can take photos...
Yoder makes Crown debut with Woodside Charm
Verlin Yoder has sat behind his share of good trotters, such as millionaire Natural Herbie and a number of Indiana state-bred champions, but none impressed him as quickly as undefeated world-record-setting filly Woodside Charm. "It was the middle of March," Yoder said. "I have a filly called O So Easy and last year she was a very nice (1):55-(1):54 horse as a 2 year old, which is very good ...
My MVP to Winbak Farm of Ontario
My MVP, the sire of this year's Goodtimes and Stanley Dancer Memorial winner Wolfgang 3,1:51.2 ($577,310), will be relocated to Winbak Farm of Ontario. His stud fee has been set for the 2019 season at $4,000 (Can.) He stood his first four seasons in Ohio at Sugar Valley Farms. In making the announcement, Winbak owner Joe Thomson said he welcomes the son of Cantab Hall...
Charmbro Brie repeats in Harvest Series leg
Charmbo Brie will have a chance at a Harvest Series sweep following a second-leg victory on Monday evening at Woodbine Mohawk Park. The Betterthancheddar 2-year-old filly and driver Mike Saftic battled through a strong headwind in the lane to win the first of two $17,000 divisions in 1:58.1 for breeder/owner/trainer John Rier. Charmbo Brie converted off a two-hole tri...
You Got Trumped best in Pocono feature
You Got Trumped got a first-over journey into a slow pace to overcome, but he proved to have the necessary late sprint to win the $13,000 featured pace on Monday at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono in 1:55.3. Racing over a track that was downgraded to "good +1" early in the card, You Got Trumped got away fourth for driver Matt Kakaley as favored Record Machine marched right to the ...
Eleven Breeders Crown champs in Saturday elims
Been there, done that. It could be the slogan for Saturday's Breeders Crown eliminations for 3-year-olds and older horses at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono. Eleven former Breeders Crown champions will be in action Saturday, led by two-time winners Hannelore Hanover, Ariana G, and Pure Country. A 12th former champ -- McWicked, who claimed his trophy at age 3 in 2014 -- will a...
Meadowlands revises '19 dates request to 76
At the request of the New Jersey Racing Commission the Meadowlands has submitted a revised 2019 live racing schedule application comprised of 76 dates with the addition of eight racing dates in September. Monmouth Park has submitted an application for 20 Fall Thoroughbred dates at the Meadowlands, racing Friday and Saturday from Oct. 4 through Dec. 7. The Meadowl...
Foiled Again tour heads to Dayton on Nov. 10
The Foiled Again Farewell Tour will make one final stop in Ohio when the richest Standardbred of all time returns to Hollywood Gaming at Dayton Raceway to race on Saturday night, Nov. 10. A winner of 104 races and more than $7.6 million, Foiled Again has made 21 starts in the Buckeye State during his illustrious career, including a pair of appearances in the Dayton Pacing Derby. "...
After 2 years, Daylon Magician wins in return
After having not recorded a charted line since July of 2016, O'Brien Award winner Daylon Magician was in action during the Tuesday morning qualifying session at Woodbine Mohawk Park. In rein to Jack Moiseyev, Daylon Magician, who is now 10, competed in the fifth of the session's eight races. The track was rated as 'fast' for the session, but a two-second variant w...
Wind Of The North tops $1 million in earnings
Wind Of The North, a speedy, rugged and durable trotter throughout his career, vaulted over $1 million in lifetime earnings with an in-hand victory in Tuesday's $18,000 Preferred Handicap Trot at The Meadows. The 8-year-old Cantab Hall-Talk To The Wind gelding has won 47 of his 160 lifetime starts and banked $1,005,098. Wind Of The North retook the lead with a quarter-pole move for Aaron Me...
Former Almahurst stud manager Bob Sewell dies
Robert Duane Sewell, 77, husband of Mary Margaret Deiter Sewell, passed away Monday, Oct. 15. Mr. Sewell was born in Bloomdale, Ohio, on Nov. 5, 1940, to the late Earl Cecil and Helen Leota Cline Sewell. Mr. Sewell was a stallion manager for Almahurst Farm, a night watchman for Overbrook Farm, and retired as farm manager at Lane's End Farm. In addition to his wife, who has been a longtime...
P L Molly breaks maiden with Harvest victory
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John Bowers dies at age 87
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Virginia Breeder's Championships close Shenandoah
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USTA, Northfield Park reach agreement
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Kagebrandt has connection with Int. Trot champ
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Breeders Crown elims for all 2YO divisions
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Active Inference
The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior
Thomas Parr, Giovanni Pezzulo, and Karl J. Friston 2022
The first comprehensive treatment of active inference, an integrative perspective on brain, cognition, and behavior used across multiple disciplines.
Active inference is a way of understanding sentient behavior—a theory that characterizes perception, planning, and action in terms of probabilistic inference. Developed by theoretical neuroscientist Karl Friston over years of groundbreaking research, active inference provides an integrated perspective on brain, cognition, and behavior that is increasingly used across multiple disciplines including neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy. Active inference puts the action into perception. This book offers the first comprehensive treatment of active inference, covering theory, applications, and cognitive domains.
Active inference is a "first principles" approach to understanding behavior and the brain, framed in terms of a single imperative to minimize free energy. The book emphasizes the implications of the free energy principle for understanding how the brain works. It first introduces active inference both conceptually and formally, contextualizing it within current theories of cognition. It then provides specific examples of computational models that use active inference to explain such cognitive phenomena as perception, attention, memory, and planning.
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Andreas K. Engel, Karl J. Friston, and Danica Kragic 2016
Experts from a range of disciplines assess the foundations and implications of a novel action-oriented view of cognition.
Cognitive science is experiencing a pragmatic turn away from the traditional representation-centered framework toward a view that focuses on understanding cognition as "enactive." This enactive view holds that cognition does not produce models of the world but rather subserves action as it is grounded in sensorimotor skills. In this volume, experts from cognitive science, neuroscience, psychology, robotics, and philosophy of mind assess the foundations and implications of a novel action-oriented view of cognition.
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When I first started learning about self-confidence and self-esteem, I came to discover many things about humans when concerning self-esteem. I realized that many people actually believed they are self-esteem while it's the reverse. I also came to discover that most of them never struggle to work on their flaws but instead they tend to seek for ways to justify and confirm their false beliefs.
But at the same time, they are totally unconscious that the manner in which they go about doing things still portray a sign of lack of self-confidence. For example, you may see someone claiming to be confident but at the same time, you find him being afraid to start new things or openly express his thoughts. All this are signs of low self-confidence.
This comes from inner self-doubt else he would have believed in his own ideas. In this article, I am going to explain to you some of the main reasons why some people lack self-confidence and how you can use it to your advantage in order to build solid self-confidence, right?
Making unnecessary comparison: You will realize that most people suffering from self-confidence always try to seek acceptance by trying to make comparison in almost everything they do. When someone starts comparing his skills with others, it tends to weaken his self-confidence because later on, he will no longer believe in his own self.
Inferiority complex: Have you noticed that most people who believe they are not attractive is highly due to lack of self-confidence in themselves? Yes, it's true. When someone is suffering from inferiority complex, he tends to lack self-confidence because he doesn't believe in his own self. The worst part of it is that they usually compare their weak points and when they're defeated, it tends to weaken their self-confidence. And this is why it's difficult for such people to get over a breakup than a normal person since most of them feared they'll not be able to attract another partner.
False belief system: This process is common among such people. People having false belief always see things differently. They see things when there is nothing. They wrongly interpret others and come up with incorrect conclusions about the worthiness of their selves. This therefore means that when someone starts trying to interpret almost every word he hears about himself, he soon tends to lose his self-confidence, right? Else, he would not have doubted anything about himself.
Past failures in life: Do you know that one of the main reasons why some people easy lose confidence in their selves is as a result of their past failures and inexperience? For example, if someone tried something in the past and failed, the probability that he will lose self-confidence is very high. But if he would have discovered that in order to succeed, one doesn't have to give up, he would not have lost his self-confidence, right?
Trying to be perfect: When someone starts trying to be perfect in what he or she does or says, he or she indirectly tells others that they're suffering from a lack of self-confidence. This is because; most people who lack self-confidence always try to hide their flaws by trying to be perfect. This therefore means that trying to be perfect is an indirect way to lose your self-confidence.
Becoming self-confident is not something that cannot be learnt or studied. It's nothing more than debugging all the errors in your belief system and the way you perceive people, yourself and other things, right?
If you found some of the above mentioned weaknesses in you, then use it to your advantage in order to build your self-confidence, right?


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Michelle is available for appointment as a Title 11 Guardian ad Litem in King, Snohomish, Skagit and Whatcom Counties. She has been a GAL since 2007 and has been appointed in more than 200 cases. Michelle was a panelist in the annual GAL training in 2017, discussing the challenges of finding guardians for indigent elders in our community. She takes pride in being kind, respectful, patient, thorough and fair.
Guardian ad Litem (GAL) means a "guardian for the case" in latin.
Title 11 Guardians ad Litem are appointed by a court in a guardianship matter for an allegedly incapacitated adult.
The GAL acts according to the directions from the court- most often, the GAL investigates whether the alleged incapacitated person needs a guardian, who the guardian should be, and whether there are viable less restrictive alternatives to guardianship, like a power of attorney. In rare cases, the GAL is authorized to take other actions, like freeze bank accounts or make medical decisions.
The GAL is not a "guardian" and does not act as the attorney for the alleged incapacitated person. She does advocate for what she believes is in the best interests of the alleged incapacitated person.
The GAL is paid by the alleged incapacitated person, a party to the guardianship action, or by the County, depending on what the Court orders.
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Israel closes borders with Egypt, Gaza after deadly ISIS attacks in Sinai
Israeli army officers close the Kerem Shalom border gate on September 12, 2005. (David Silverman/Getty Images))
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel closed its borders with Egypt and Gaza after Islamic State terror attacks on Egyptian army checkpoints in the northern Sinai.
Dozens of soldiers, with estimates as high as 50, were reported killed in the attacks Wednesday on some 15 checkpoints. The checkpoints had come under attack by terrorists affiliated with Islamic State, or ISIS, using pickup trucks equipped with antiaircraft guns, The New York Times reported. Soldiers also were taken captive by the terrorists.
Fighting in the Sinai continued into Wednesday afternoon, according to reports.
The closed border crossings include the Nitzana border crossing with Sinai and the Kerem Shalom crossing with Gaza.
The attacks come two days after the assassination of Egypt's prosecutor-general in a car bombing in Cairo.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the attacks during hospital visits on Wednesday afternoon in Jerusalem with victims of two Palestinian terror attacks this week.
"Terrorism is knocking at our borders," Netanyahu said. "ISIS is not just opposite the Golan Heights. At the moment it is also in Egypt, opposite Rafiah, facing our borders, and we are joined with Egypt and with many other countries in the Middle East and the world in the struggle against the extremist Islamic terrorism."
Egypt in recent months has destroyed tunnels between its territory and Gaza, and created a security zone in the northern Sinai in an effort to halt rebel attacks.


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Edgardo "Dado" Moroni (born 20 October 1962) is an Italian jazz pianist and composer.

Biography
Dado was born in Genoa, Italy and started playing piano at age four.  A self-taught musician, by his mid-teens he was playing professionally around Italy and by age 17 had recorded his first album.

Throughout the 1980s Dado worked mostly in Europe playing at festivals and in clubs, including a long stint as part of former Duke Ellington bassist Jimmy Woode's trio at Widder Bar in Zurich.  Dado moved to the U.S. in 1991, becoming part of the New York jazz scene, and appearing regularly both as a leader and sideman, in some of the city's most prestigious clubs, including Blue Note, Birdland, Village Vanguard as well as recording several CDs.

During his 35-year career Dado has played with legends including Freddie Hubbard, Clark Terry, Zoot Sims, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Ray Brown, Ron Carter, Oscar Peterson, Ahmad Jamal, Hank Jones, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen and Alvin Queen. A highly respected musician, at age 25 he was granted the honor of serving as a juror at the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Piano Competition in 1987.

Based in Italy, Dado continues to perform worldwide.  In 2007 he won the Italian Jazz Awards as Best Jazz Act. In 2009 Dado was named Best Italian Jazz Pianist in the Top Jazz referendum sponsored by Musica Jazz magazine. In 2010 he was appointed Professor of Jazz Piano at Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory of Music in Turin, a position he currently holds.

Dado is married to Ada Toure.

Discography

As leader
 Jazz Piano (Dire, 1980)
 Bluesology (Dire, 1981)
 Sound Sound Sound (Dire, 1987)
 Insights (Jazz Focus, 1995)
 Out of the Night (Jazz Focus, 1999)
 Jazz Im Gartnerplatz (Chaos, 2001)
 Super Star Triok  with Moriconi & Bagnol (Abeat, 2002)
 Live Conversations with Enrico Pieranunzi (Abeat, 2006)
 Heart of the Swing (Music Center, 2006)
 Jazzitaliano Live (Casa Del Jazz, 2006)
 The Cube (Abeat, 2008)
 Solo Dado (Abeat, 2009)
 Live in Beverly Hills (Resonance Records. 2011)
 Quiet Yesterday (Abeat, 2012)
 Five for John (Via Veneto, 2014)
 Kind of Bill with Eddie Gomez, Joe La Barbera (BFM, 2017)

As sideman
With Franco Ambrosetti
 Grazie Italia (Enja, 2000)
 European Legacy (Enja, 2003)
 After the Rain (Enja, 2015)
 Cheers (Enja, 2017)

With Clark Terry
 Take Double (Philips, 1986)
 What a Wonderful World (Red Baron, 1993)
 The Good Things in Life (Red Baron, 1994)
 Remember the Time (Red Baron, 1995)

With others
 Ray Brown, Two Bass Hits (European Music, 1988)
 Ray Brown, Some of My Best Friends Are...The Piano Players (Telarc, 1995)
 Ron Carter, Ron Carter Presents Dado Moroni (EmArcy, 1987)
 Barbara Casini, Uragano Elis (Via Veneto, 2004)
 Franco Cerri, Barber Shop (Abeat, 2014)
 Tiziano Ferro, 111 Centoundici (Capitol, 2003)
 Larry Franco, Introducing...Larry Franco, Jazz Singer! (Philology, 2004)
 Larry Franco, Two in One (Philology, 2007)
 Roberto Gatto, Deep (CAM Jazz, 2003)
 Roberto Gatto, Jazzitaliano Live 2006 (Casa Del Jazz, 2006)
 Tom Harrell, Visions (Contemporary, 1991)
 Tom Harrell, Humanity (Abeat, 2007)
 Wolfgang Haffner, I Should Have Known (Jazz4Ever, 1990)
 Wolfgang Haffner, Whatever It Is (Jazz4Ever, 1991)
 Bert Joris, Live (W.E.R.F., 2002)
 Bert Joris, Magone (Dreyfus, 2007)
 Joe Locke, Stepping On Stars (EGEA, 2011)
 Bruno Lauzi, Paolo Conte, Back to Jazz (Dire, 1989)
 Andy McGhee, Dusko Goykovich, A Tribute to Jimmy Woode (Sound Hills, 2005)
 Bob Mintzer, La Vita e Bella (Abeat, 2010)
 Mark Nightingale, What I Wanted to Say (Red Baron, 1994)
 Eros Ramazzotti, E2 (Sony BMG, 2007)
 Bobby Watson, At the Gouvy Festival In The Groove (Challenge, 2000)

References

External links
 Dado Moroni on Resonance Records
 Dado Moroni's biography on International Jazz Productions
 Dado Moroni Trio In Concert – review on All About Jazz

Italian jazz pianists
Italian male pianists
Living people
1962 births
Resonance Records artists
20th-century Italian musicians
21st-century Italian musicians
21st-century pianists
20th-century Italian male musicians
21st-century Italian male musicians
Male jazz musicians

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Specially-assigned Professor at Tokyo Zokei University, Guest Professor at Tama Art University, Lecturer at IAMAS, International Advisory Board members of Tsinghua University's TASML (Beijing), She curated many exhibitions at Canon ARTLAB (1990-2001), Mori Art Museum (2002-04), NTT InterCommunication Center[ICC] (2004-10), and in parallel, has realized many projects as an independent curator including "Amodal Suspension" by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (Inaugural project, of YCAM, 2003), MobLab (2005), Interferenze Seeds Tokyo 2010 (2010). Selected exhibitions at ICC are "open nature" (2005), "Connecting Worlds" (2006), "Light InSight" (2008), "Mission G: sensing the earth" (2009). She worked as a jury of National and International competitions including Prix Ars Electronica.


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The Egyptian Nights
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The Queen of Spades A Pushkin Short Story
Narrator: Deaver Brown
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The Queen of Spades is the best known and probably the best of all Russian short stories. It confronts the great riches of a few, the impoverishment of the many in the form of the...
Eugene Onegin
Meet Onegin, a dandy from Saint Petersburg, about 26. An arrogant, selfish and world-weary cynic. One day he inherits a landed estate from his uncle where he strikes up a...
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Hermann, an ethnic German, is an officer of the engineers in the Imperial Russian Army. He constantly watches the other officers gamble, but never plays himself. One night, Tomsky...
The Coffin Maker
Narrator: Cathy Dobson
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Bilingual edition of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin in both Russian and English languages. Meet Onegin, a dandy from Saint Petersburg, about 26. An arrogant, selfish and world-weary...
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USC Upshifts to the Cloud
By Jerome M. Wendt November 17, 2011 Cloud Computing, DCIG
Right now many organizations are debating about who to select as their preferred cloud storage provider. But for organizations like USC that already manage petabytes of unstructured data, the decision is not about which provider to choose. Rather it is about deciding on the right technology that can transform it into both a private cloud storage user and a public cloud storage provider.
This mindset helps to explain why USC announced earlier this week that it will deploy over 8 petabytes of unstructured data on a Nirvanix Private Cloud Storage solution so USC may act as a private cloud provider for its internal users even as it lays the foundation to offer public cloud storage services–as part of the USC Digital Repository banner–to outside companies looking for deep content archival and preservation. To accomplish this USC worked closely with Integrated Media Technologies (IMT) and Nirvanix to architect a private cloud storage solution that will enable it to manage internal data growth and external business opportunities.
To say that enterprise organizations that have hundreds of terabytes or even petabytes of data under management are reticent to move all of their data to a public cloud provider is an understatement. Aside from the requirements to first determine the viability of the provider and the stability of its solution, these enterprises have more practical concerns such as:
Where and on what storage platforms will the provider physically store the data?
Do they understand the nature of the data being stored with them?
How well trained are the provider's IT staff?
What are the provider's liabilities?
What is my organization going to do with my staff and data center floor space if this is outsourced?
Will the solution have resources on demand?
Will the solution flexibly expand or shrink the storage pool as needed?
Can the solution deliver expected service levels on a consistent basis?
Do they only get charged for the storage they actually consume?
These and many other questions give enterprise organizations pause as they look at how to take advantage of public cloud storage services. It is as they do so that they are coming to two conclusions.
Put in place a private cloud for their own needs
Transform themselves into a public cloud provider to solve the needs of others in their particular vertical industry where they have the right mix of relationships and expertise
The key now is for them to pick the "right" solution that delivers on these two requirements. So while the verdict may not yet officially be in as to what the "right" solution is, more and more of the largest enterprises on the planet are turning to the Nirvanix Private Cloud Storage solution to deliver on these cloud storage requirements.
Further evidence of that was one full display earlier this week when Nirvanix announced that USC will put over 8 PBs of unstructured data into a Nirvanix Private Cloud Storage solution. While Nirvanix has announced just in the last few weeks that IBM Global Services and Cerner are also putting in place a Nirvanix Private Cloud Storage solution that they can offer to their clients as their own public cloud services, the USC announcement is even more significant for the following reasons.
First, it strongly suggests that current cloud storage solutions are not meeting enterprise cloud storage needs for data that will be backed up, archived and used for content collaboration. USC has very specific needs that are global in nature, especially its own internal USC Digital Repository that is serviced by USC. The USC Digital Repository may gather data from multiple contributors around the globe so it needs a cost-effective means to confidently aggregate, store and then share this data with the appropriate individuals within USC.
There are other storage offerings that are positioned as "private cloud storage" but some of these are basically existing storage systems that have been rebranded with a cloud label. What Nirvanix is doing is taking the same software, services and infrastructure that make up its global grid of nodes known collectively as the Cloud Storage Network and placing those exact nodes in customers' data centers, in essence building them a miniaturized version of its public cloud.
A Nirvanix Private Cloud requires a minimum of two data centers for two reasons. First, one data center acts as the primary data center and the other as the secondary location. Second, because a single data center does not constitute a "storage cloud" because in Nirvanix's view there is no failover and a cloud needs to have redundancy.
Using the Nirvanix Private Cloud, USC does not have to share resources with anybody that it does not want to. Instead USC has its own global namespace, its own multi-tenant file structure that it controls, and its own object store that can handle billions of objects. So while USC likes the elastic flexibility of a public cloud, USC also wants the security and peace of mind of using its own data centers that Nirvanix affords.
In this respect, DCIG is not aware of any other public storage cloud provider that is taking the same architecture that it offers as its public storage cloud network and also deploying it in customer sites and then using it to manage that storage infrastructure as a service with usage-based pricing.
Second, it confirms the trend that internally IT is getting serious about converting their data centers from cost centers to profit centers. USC can now resell access to its Private Cloud and treat it essentially as a Public Cloud under the USC Digital Repository brand. By deploying the Nirvanix Private Cloud, USC has created a cloud-based archival service based on a virtual construct that can scale to meet its needs.
So just as Cerner intends to sell cloud storage to hospitals and doctors, USC can similarly sell cloud storage archival services to the entire entertainment industry in Los Angeles and other media-centric cities. With NBC Universal already storing in excess of 2 petabytes of digitized movies and TV shows in the Nirvanix Cloud Storage Network and adding 100 – 150 TBs monthly, USC is in a similar position as it has multiple post production houses and studios to call on that have similar digital content storage requirements.
Third, USC is going full throttle to the cloud–not experimenting, not testing the waters, but loading up by moving over 8 unstructured petabytes of data to the cloud immediately.
USC's decision to immediately put 8 PBs of data under managements indicates that it is immediately shifting its cloud strategy into high gear as it transforms its IT strategy and direction. In so doing, it is also making a clear message to other universities that the time is now to deploy, leverage and monetize the cloud.
Many companies and universities in the IT space are still struggling to articulate a cloud storage strategy and then put a solution in place. But in the case of USC, the debate is over. USC grasped its storage challenges, identified a cloud storage solution that aligned with its needs and now is aggressively moving to deploy it. In so doing, it sets a new standard for enterprise cloud storage deployments by which others will be measured going forward.
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This is one of my ways of making Gobi masala,it's simple and tastes very good as compared to all other ways i have tried. It includes all green spices good enough to leave a long lasting impression on your tongue.
Process: Heat 2tbsp oil in a medium sauce pan, add the cumin seeds, ginger and green chilies. Saute it for few seconds. Add the celery or cabbage and saute for another 1 minute. Cover with a lid and reduce the heat to low, cook for 2-3 minutes. Add the chopped tomatoes, all the spices and cook again with covered lid on low heat for 3-4 minutes. Remove the lid, increase the heat to medium and stir it continuously for 2 minutes. Empty the cooked part in a blender and add 1/4 cup cold water to it.
In the same pan, add oil, the potatoes and cook by covering with a lid on medium to low heat till the potatoes turn little golden and tender. Add the florets and repeat the same procedure.
Blend the cooked mixture and add to potatoes and cauliflower. Add another 1/4 cup of water, mix well, cover with lid and cook on medium heat till it starts showing little bubbles.
Remove the lid and garnish with cilantro.
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AG Kaul Releases Data On Use Of Body-Worn And Dashboard Cameras Amongst Law Enforcement
For the first time, statewide data on the use of body cameras and dashboard cameras is now available for Wisconsin.
Attorney General Josh Kaul | News Release
Thursday, January 21, 2021 | Updated Jan 21, 2021 12:04 pm CST
MADISON, Wis. – For the first time, statewide data on the use of body cameras and dashboard cameras is now available for Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) worked with Wisconsin law enforcement to collect data and found that out of 434 responding agencies, 88% indicated using at least one form of recording device among their officers. 48% of respondents indicated using both dashboard and body-worn cameras.
"This data provides—for the first time—a statewide overview of the use of body cameras and dashboard cameras by law enforcement agencies in Wisconsin. It also provides further clarity about the barriers to implementation," said Attorney General Kaul. "Thank you to the law enforcement agencies across the state that helped with the collection of this data."
The data was collected by the DOJ Bureau of Justice Information and Analysis (BJIA) in November 2020 to gain a better understanding of the implementation of body-worn and dashboard cameras in police departments across the state. 434 out of 553 law enforcement agencies responded to the data request. Highlights of the data include:
380 agencies (88% of respondents) indicated using at least one form of recording device among their officers.
210 agencies (48% of respondents) indicated using both dashboard and body-worn cameras.
170 agencies use only one form of device.
208 agencies (76% of agencies that used body cameras) indicated they had as many body cameras as officers so that every officer who uses a body camera would have a dedicated device.
54 agencies indicated that they do not have any form of recording device.
37 agencies (66%) reported being interested in the implementation of devices.
When asked about prohibitive factors preventing the use of recording devices, 87% cited cost.
65% of agencies who do not use either form of recording device has an agency operating budget of less than $1 million.
The most frequently indicated barriers to full recording device implementation are device cost and the cost of recording/preserving footage.
Video footage of both body-worn cameras and dashboard cameras is retained for at least 90 days by most agencies.
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The Politics of Ethnicity and National Identity (Peter Lang, 2007)
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Religious Fundamentalism in the Contemporary World: Critical Social and Political Issues (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2003).
Islamic, Hindu, and Christian Fundamentalism Compared: Public Policy in Global Perspective (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2003).
Religious Fundamentalism in Developing Countries (co-edited with Thomas Carr) (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000).
Dictionary of Human Rights Advocacy Organizations in Africa (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999).
Culture in Liberia: An Afro-centric View of the Cultural Interaction Between the Indigenous Liberians and the Americo-Liberians (New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1998).
The Romance of Nationhood in Liberia: Attitudes of Educated Africans, 1847-1980 (Conyers, GA: SCP/Third World Literature Publishing House, 1995).
History of the Tonga Chiefs and Their People in the Monze District of Zambia (New York: Peter Lang, 1994).
A History of Agriculture in Liberia, 1822-1970: Transference of American Values, Vol 5 (New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1990).
A History of Agriculture in West Africa: A Guide to Information Sources, Vol 6 (New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1990).
Indo-US Relations, 1947-1989 (New York: Peter Lang, 1990)


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Christian Lopez Bermudez, 22, of Radcliff was lodged for fourth degree assault. He was later released from LCDC.


Development and standardization of novel metrics to quantitatively and qualitatively measure student-learning outcomes at both the program and institutional level.
Development, implementation and assessment of innovative teaching tools & strategies in the education of health professionals.
Development, implementation and assessment of strategies in the recruitment and retention of minority students in postsecondary education.
Also, my doctoral training and additional research interests focus on pharmacokinetics, particularly drug metabolism, transport, and elimination.