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Q: How to i communicate with this api using volley I have the following api on phpmyadmin. Now i want to learn how to send the email and password (String values) using volley lib.
<?php
 defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');

class Login extends MX_Controller {

public function index()
{
    $json = file_get_contents('php://input');
    $obj = json_decode($json, true);

    $email = $obj['email'];
    $password = $obj['password'];

    if ($obj['email']!="") {

        $this->load->module('camps');

        $mysql_query = "SELECT * FROM accounts where email='$email' and password='$password'";
        $result = $this->camps->_custom_query($mysql_query);

        $query = $result->num_rows();

        if ($query==0) {
            echo json_encode($password);

        }

        else {
            echo json_encode('OK');
        }

    }

    else {
        echo json_encode('Try Again');
    }
}

}

}

I have already tried using getParams() method like this but its not working.
Note: uname and password are EditTexts
protected Map<String, String> getParams() throws AuthFailureError {

                    Map<String, String> params = new HashMap<String, String>();

                    params.put("email",uname.getText().toString());
                    params.put("password",password.getText().toString());

                    return params;
                }

A: You can make a stringRequest using volley.
Make sure you added access Internet permission in your manifest
uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"
RequestQueue queue = Volley.newRequestQueue(this);

StringRequest stringRequest = new StringRequest(Request.Method.POST, Your_url, new Response.Listener<String>() {
        @Override
        public void onResponse(String response) {
            parseYourResponse(response);

        }
    }, new Response.ErrorListener() {
        @Override
        public void onErrorResponse(VolleyError error) {
            Toast.makeText(LoginActivity.this, "Some Error Occurs!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        }
    }) {
        @Override
        protected Map<String, String> getParams() throws AuthFailureError {
            Map<String, String> params = new HashMap<>();
            params.put("username",uname.getText().toString());
            params.put("password", password.getText().toString());
            return params;
        }
    };

    queue.add(stringRequest);

A: Additionally, in your web service you should use prepared queries, and do not directly use the variables in the sql query. That is a very insecure practice. For example:
<?php

    $email= $_REQUEST['email'];
    $password = $_REQUEST['pass'];

    if (isset($email)){

    $res=$dbh->prepare("select * from accounts where email=:email and password=:passw ;");

    $res->execute(array(':email' => $email, ':passw' => md5($password)));

    $datos = array();

    foreach ($res as $row) {

        $datos[] = $row;

    }

    echo json_encode($datos);
?>

With this you avoid sql injections and your code is more secure.


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ClearIAS » Current Affairs Notes » Indus Water Treaty: Everything you need to know
Indus Water Treaty: Everything you need to know
Last updated on November 26, 2016 by Clear IAS Team
The Indus Water Treaty (IWT) is a water-distribution treaty between India and Pakistan signed on September 19, 1960. The treaty was signed by the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Pakistan's President Ayub Khan. It was brokered by the World Bank (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development).
Indus Waters Treaty (IWT): Simplified
The Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) deals with river Indus and its five tributaries, which are classified in 2 categories:
Eastern rivers:
Sutlej
Western rivers:
Chenab
According to treaty, all the water of eastern rivers shall be available for unrestricted use in India.
India should let unrestricted flow of water from western rivers to Pakistan.
It doesn't mean that India can't use western river's water. The treaty says that India can use the water in western rivers in "non-consumptive" needs. Here non consumptive means we can use it for irrigation, storage and even for electricity production. (But India has not fully utilized this provision so far).
The treaty allocates 80% of water from the six-river Indus water system to Pakistan.
A Permanent Indus Commission was set up as a bilateral commission to implement and manage the Treaty.
Though Indus originates from Tibet, China has been kept out of the Treaty.
India-Pak Disputes Connecting Indus: Timeline
1948: India cuts off supply in most canals that went to Pakistan. But restores it later.
1951: Pakistan accuses India of cutting water to many of its villages.
1954: Word Bank comes up with a water-sharing formula for two countries.
1960: Indus Waters Treaty signed.
1970's: India starts building hydropower projects in Kashmir. Pakistan raises concern.
1984: Pakistan objects over India building Tulbul barrage on Jhelum. India stops it unilaterally.
2007: Pakistan raises concern over Kishanganga hydroelectric plant.
2008: Lashkar-e-Taiba starts campaign against India. Its chief Hafiz Saeed accuses India of water terrorism.
2010: Pakistan accuses India of choking water supply consistently.
2016: India reviews working of Indus Waters Treaty linking it with cross-border terrorism (Uri attack).
Why Indus Water Treaty in news?
Indus Water Treaty is considered to be one of the most successful water-sharing endeavours in the world today. For 56 years, both India and Pakistan are peacefully sharing the water of Indus and its tributaries, thanks to The Indus Water Treaty (IWT).
Because of the confrontations between India and Pakistan over other issues, the water treaty naturally comes into picture.
After the Uri cross-border attack by Pakistan in 2016, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said "Blood and Water cannot flow simultaneously."
There are issues between India and Pakistan, but there has been no fight over water after the Treaty was ratified. Most disagreements and disputes have been settled via legal procedures, provided for within the framework of the treaty.
Can India stop water flow to Pakistan?
No. Not as per the treaty.
What India can do is to reduce the water flow to Pakistan by utilizing the provisions of the treaty.
But any project which may affect water flow will take time for implementation, considering the cost and objections involved. Pakistan has reportedly objected to five Indian hydro power projects, and the Wullar Barrage (Tulbul Navigation Project) which must be settled before India can resume work on them.
Can India walk out of the pact unilaterally?
The treaty has no provision for either country unilaterally walking out of the pact. Article XII of the treaty says "The provisions of this Treaty, or, the provisions of this Treaty as modified under the provisions of Paragraph (3), shall continue in force until terminated by a duly ratified treaty concluded for that purpose between the two governments." Still if India wants to go about abrogating it, the country should abide by the 1969 Vienna convention on the law of treaties.
Had the Indian President signed the treaty?
The validity of the treaty is being challenged in court as it was signed by the Prime minister of India who is not head of the Indian republic. The President of India is the official head of the state.
Tulbul Project: By India
The Tulbul project is a "navigation lock-cum-control structure" at the mouth of the lake, located on the Jhelum river. It is a key intra-state channel to ferry state's goods and people.
The idea is to ensure year-round navigation along the 20-km stretch from Anantnag to Srinagar and Baramulla, and on the 22 km-stretch between Sopore and Baramulla that becomes non-navigable in winter with water depth of only 2.5 ft (to sustain navigation through the year a minimum depth of water in the lake is necessary).
The project envisages water release from lake to maintain minimum draught of 4.5 feet in Jhelum.
India had started constructing a 439 feet long barrage at the lake's mouth.
India unilaterally suspended the Tulbul project (Islamabad calls it Wullar Barrage) in 1987 after Pakistan objected.
The decision to review the suspension signalled the Modi government's intent to revive it irrespective of Pakistan's protests.
Implication: India gets to control Jhelum water, but that may impact Pakistan agriculture. The project can create problems for Pakistan's triple-canal project that connects Jhelum-Chenab with Upper Bari Doab Canal. With a barrage, India controls release of water into Jhelum, which could trigger a flood or drought in POK and Pakistan.
Left Bank Outfall Drain (LBOD) Project: by Pakistan
Without taking consent from India, Pakistan has constructed Left Bank Outfall Drain (LBOD) project passing through the Great Rann of Kutch area (Gujarat, India) with the assistance from the world bank. The purpose of LBOD is to bypass the saline and polluted water which is not fit for agriculture use to reach sea via Rann of Kutch area without passing through its Indus delta.
The LBOD water is planned to join the sea via Sir Creek but LBOD water is entering Indian territory due to many breaches in its left bank caused by floods. Water released by the LBOD is enhancing the flooding in India and contaminating the quality of water bodies which are source of water to salt farms spread over vast area.
Gujarat state of India being the lower most riparian part of Indus basin, Pakistan is bound to provide all the details of engineering works taken up by Pakistan to India as per the provisions of the treaty and shall not proceed with the project works till the disagreements are settled by arbitration process.
Indus Water Treaty: Matters Beyond India and Pakistan
Indus originates from Tibet in China. If China decides to stop or change the flow of the river, it will affect both India and Pakistan.
Climate change is causing melting of ice in Tibetan plateau, which scientists believe will affect the river in future.
Should India violate a bilateral treaty with Pakistan because of cross-border attacks?
The Indus Water Treaty (IWT) was meant to reduce hostilities between India and Pakistan. It should be kept in the same spirit.
India has always dealt with security and water issues separately with Pakistan.
80% of Pakistan's 21.5 million hectares of farmland is irrigated by river Indus and its tributaries. Reducing the water flow to Pakistan will unleash havoc there (especially in Punjab and Sindh province).
Breaking the Indus Water Treaty doesn't make any sense as India at present does not have enough infrastructure to use the additional water available. It may create flood in the Kashmir valley as well.
The decision of not giving water to Pakistan may further enrage the terror elements in the country, making them intensifying their attacks on India.
Not respecting the Indus Water Treaty, may invite global condemnation to India as the treaty is an international agreement.
Neighbours like Nepal and Bangladesh with whom we have water treaties may turn skeptical.
There are concerns that China may also block the water of Brahmaputra to Assam.
The Kashmir issue will get a whole new dimension if India withdraws from the treaty. Not only this, it would trigger the formal beginning of water wars
India, aspiring for a seat in the UNSC, should safeguard rather than violate bilateral treaties.
The approach of government should be to utilize provisions available in Indus Water Treaty itself. But building infrastructure across Indus will take time.
India has never used our rights on the western rivers. Under the Indus Water Treaty, we can make use of the waters of the western rivers for irrigation, storage, and even for producing electricity, in the manner specified. If we just do what we are entitled to under the Treaty, it would be enough to send jitters through Pakistan. It would be a strong signal without doing anything drastic.
Hindustan Times.
The Hindu.
Times of India.
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Ankur Shrivastava says
but according to article 62 of Vienna convention, cant India revoke the Indus Water Treaty?
Thank u, sir
Pawan priye says
80% water allocates to Pak it's doesn't show the big brother attitude of India but still confronting India's peace
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Todekh says
Thank you very much, but I have a doubt to clarify –
What does, "the country should abide by the 1969 Vienna Convention of law on Treaties" means??
Can you further elaborate about 1969 Vienna Convention that concerns the drawback of walking out of the treaty unilaterally??
Akanksha Pandey says
India as of now will never break the treaty the amount of water which was actually should have been used by Indians was also given to Pakistanis as a good will gesture which is now being stopped we are not sharing our water with them…
Whoever has written this article please make sure to make the point clear .. which I just have mentioned
India has not broken the treaty just stopped giving their share..
Abhishek says
Its 80% of the three west flowing rivers that could be used by pakistan. But its written 80% of the six west flowing river.
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Definitions for "Légumes"
Keywords: pea, alfalfa, clover, legume, peanuts
Related Terms: Legume, Pulse , Pea, Pulses, Lentil, Soybean, Bean, Peanut, Broad bean, Straw , Crops, Haulm, Mung bean, Groundnut, Milo, Earthnut, Cowpea, Kudzu , Agave, Cereal, Silage, Combine, Kernel, Vegetable, Alfalfa, Fodder, Cereals, Mast, Lima bean, Hay, Haricot, Green bean, Chaff, Seedbed, Mimosa, Frijole, Green pea, Bean sprouts, Direct seeding, Haylage, Fruit, Pine nut, Nut , Banana, Maize, Sow, Cover crops, Orchard, Stubble
The group of pod-bearing land plants that is virtually alone in its ability to fix nitrogen; includes such common plants as peas, beans, clovers, alfalfa, and locust trees but no major cereal grains. (See nitrogen fixation.)
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A family of plants including many valuable food and forage species, such as peas, beans, soybeans, peanuts, clovers, alfalfas, and sweetclovers. Legumes can convert nitrogen from the air to nitrates in the soil through a process known as nitrogen fixation. In this data product, we used the term "legumes" to include pinto beans, navy beans, great northern beans, red kidney beans, dry lima beans, black beans, and other beans (blackeye, garbanzo, small white, small red, pink, cranberry, and other beans not elsewhere classified), plus dry peas and lentils.
A family of plants, including many valuable food, forage and cover species, such as peas, beans, soybeans, peanuts, clovers, alfalfas, sweet clovers, lespedezas, vetches, and kudzu. Sometimes referred to as nitrogen-fixing plants, they can convert nitrogen from the air to build up nitrogen in the soil. Legumes are an important rotation crop because of their nitrogen-fixing property.
ilrdss.sws.uiuc.edu
A large group of plants that produce seed pods that split along both sides when ripe. Legumes commonly used for human consumption include beans, lentils, peanuts, peas and soybeans.
vegetariantimes.com
any of a large family (Leguminosae) of plants with nodules on their roots that contain nitrogen-fixing bacteria, including important food and forage plants such as peas, beans, alfalfas, and clovers.
bioprocessintl.com
a large family of plants having fruit that are dry pods; South
africanculturalcenter.org
dry fruits such as peas, beans, and vetch
globalcommunity.org
Legumes are plants or crops such as soybeans, alfalfa, and clover that are high in nitrogen production and are helpful when replenishing the soil and improving its ability to prevent eventual soil erosion.
danpatch.ecn.purdue.edu
Legumes are plants that can fix nitrogen from the air to make nitrates. Nitrate is nitrogen in a form available to plants. Legumes, through pinkish colored nodules on their roots, form a mutually beneficial relationship with soilborne bacteria. It the bacteria who are able to perform the chemistry necessary for nitrogen fixation; the plant pulls the nitrogen from the air through stomata in its leaves and transfers it to the bacteria via its phloem. In return, the legume and the plants nearby are supplied with the nitrates. However, if legumes are fed nitrogen (in the form of fertilizer or manure), they will cease to produce their own. Legumes are heavy feeders of phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, and calcium; so they (or the crops that follow) may need feeding if the soil is deficient in these nutrients. Legumes are used as green manures. Common examples are clover, vetch, soybeans, peas, and alfalfa. See also inoculant.
earthandtable.com
Edible seed pods that split along two sutures, and/or the seeds themselves.
foodwords.com
Plants of the pea family (Fabaceae or Leguminosae). In many species, the fruit is the distinctive "legume" or pod with rows of seeds.
ibiblio.org
Plants of the pea family (Fabaceae) that form characteristic elongated seed pods and fix atmospheric nitrogen through symbiotic interaction with soil bacteria of the genera Rhizobium and Bradyrhizobium. Ex., alfalfa, beans, clovers, peas, peanuts, soybeans, tamarind, etc.
pas.byu.edu
(luh-goom) - peas or dried beans. Peanuts are legumes, and many kids are allergic to them.
allergyabcs.com
The seeds and/or pods of a large number of plants related to the bean family including beans, peas, peanuts, and lentils.
allfood.com
Plants that bear their seeds in pods; examples are beans, soybeans, and alfalfa.
bcci.bg
Plants in the pea that produce organic nitrogen from nitrogen gas in the air.
cnr.berkeley.edu
the pod, bean or pea of plants from the legume family, which includes peas, beans, alfalfa and peanuts
kmcnetwork.healthwords.com
Family of plants bearing seeds in a pod.
sheepnet.iofm.net
The family of beans, peas, and lentils.
theworldfeast.com.au
French] vegetables; plants with seed pods, such as peas and beans. Seeds of a legume are most often soaked and used in soups, stews and baked dishes.
ae.kulichki.com
(French) Dried beans, peas, lentils and such.
anenglishoasis.com
Members of the large family of plants known as leguminosae. In this context the term refers to the fruits or seeds of leguminous plants (e.g., peas and beans) that are used for food.
triarco.com
Plants, such as clover, lucerne, peas and beans, which are capable of fixing atmospheric nitrogen due to the presence in their root nodules of Rhizobiurn bacteria.
hhydro.com
Seeds or pods of a certain kind of plant that are used as food. Examples of legumes are different kinds of beans such as black, garbanzo, and pinto, and also lentils.
4girls.gov
Plants of the bean and pea family (examples include pinto beans, black-eyed peas and soybeans). Legumes are rich in high-quality protein compared with other plant-derived foods.
quixtar.com
The fruit or seeds of certain plants (as peas or beans) used for food.
gotmom.org
plants of the family leguminosae, e.g. clover, peas
ecifm.rdg.ac.uk
A group of starchy foods from plants that includes peas, beans, peanuts, soybeans.
diabetes.ca
Plants that bear fruits such as beans or clover. Most legumes have the capability for symbiotic nitrogen fixation.
stockmangrassfarmer.net
Beans, peas and lentils which supply fiber and nutrients and are high in vegetable protein.
moondragon.org
Forest Stewardship] Plants that produce organic nitrogen from nitrogen gas in the air. These plants, which typically form seeds in pods, include soybeans, peas, alfalfa, lespedeza, and locust.
dfr.state.nc.us
Any member of the pea family these plants have fruits which are pods containing one or more seeds.
boredofstudies.org
A family of plants that includes valuable food and forage species such as peas, beans, soybeans, peanuts, clovers, alfalfas, and sweet clover. Legumes convert nitrogen from the air to nitrates in the soil through a process known as nitrogen fixation. Many of these species are used as cover crops and are plowed under for soil improvement.
pfb.com
also known as pulses. This term includes beans, chickpeas, lentils and soya beans. Important sources of energy, protein and bioactive compounds.
wcrf-uk.org
a large group of plants that have double-seamed pods, containing a single row of seeds; depending on the variety, the seeds, pod and seeds together, or the dried seeds, are eaten.
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Interviews	 December 7, 2001
Interview with The Charleston Gazette, August 1990
The Charleston Gazette
Colleen Anderson
CARLOS RUBIO – Martinsburg writer distinguished citizen of the country of writers
His voice bears a musical remnant of his native Cuba, yet Martinsburg writer Carlos Rubio has spent more than half of his 45 years in West Virginia.
Conversely, although he has attended college, married, raised his family, and written his books in the Mountain State, the majority of his published work is in Spanish. He admits that he sometimes wonders where he truly belongs.
Add to that the effect or a writer's necessary companion, solitude.
"One of the things literature has done to me is that every day I become more isolated," said Rubio in a telephone interview. "I can only relate to other writers. I told this to a friend of mine, also a writer, and he said, 'You are a citizen of the country of writers.'"
Rubio cerently became a much more distinguished citizen of that country. Earlier this year, his novel Quadrivium won the annual Nuevo Leon International Award for Novels, sponsored by Ediciones Castillo, a major Mexican publishing house. With its publication this month, Rubio enters a considerably larger community of writers and readers. The award also earned him a cash prize of $7,500.
"It was really very exciting," said Rubio. "This is an international competition. They had 78 entries-from South America, France, Cuba, Mexico and the United States.
"When I went down to Mexico to receive the prize, I took my 16-year-old son with me. He had never been out of the country. I wanted him to see that the things I do are considered important, not just by me, but by other people."
Rubio worked on the winning work for six years. "It is the story of four women. One is a Chinese magician, one is an American prostitute, another is a Brazilian choreographer, and the fourth woman is a Cuban singer of boleros. The opening and closing chapters take place in Miami. The four women are sitting around a hotel pool, drinking and talking. They tell their stories. The novel ends in the same hotel, that night."
The book's theme has to do with the nature of illusion. "These four women, you see, they are all masters of illusion."
Part of the satisfaction of writing the story was Rubio's awareness that all of it was framed by another illusionist, a male novelist speaking in the voices of four women. "Writing from a woman's point of view, yes, it was very challenging. But it's not my first experience."
Nor is the role of magician. In Rubio's short story Xinef, the Eternal, the narrator is a sort of supernatural P.T. Barnun, purveyor of the fabulous and fantastic that includes invisible clowns, wireless trapeze artists, and a mirror that reproduces the unrealized dreams of those who look into it. This story also won an international prize, from the National Hispanic Honor Society, and it was subsequently published in the journal Entre Nosotros.
In a 1980 interview with critic Sharon Magnarelli, Rubio said, "Writing in Spanish while living in an English-speaking community is essentially an act of rebellion… It all comes down to a question of identity. Language is one of the few things, perhaps the only thing, that I have left of my cultural heritage."
But Rubio cannot be classified as a writer in exile. His most recent novel, Orpheus' Blues (currently under consideration by New York publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux), is about a quintessentially American subject, jazz.
"I have many passions; I have many interests, and they are reflected in my writing," said Rubio. "This is the novel I have dedicated completely to jazz. It is the American music, and at the same time it is the most ignored music.
"If you want to be a jazz musician, you need your head examined, you know? There's such a rich legacy of jazz in this country. People are working day after day after day -not for money, but because they love it. These people devote themselves, like writers, to their art. If you want to make money, you go into heavy metal.
"The novel is not just about jazz, but about a man finding his own, what I call his center of gravity. The scenes in the novel shift from the character's adulthood in New York City to his childhood in southern Virginia. So it's a kind of point-counterpoint, which is a device used in music. I was very, very happy with the way it turned out. And I'm happy that it's finally off my desk."
One of the greatest compliments he ever received, Rubio says, was from a reader of the manuscript of his new novel.. "That person asked me what instrument I played. I am a frustrated musician. I can't play anything. The only thing I can do is write about playing."
In addition to Orpheus's Blues, Rubio has written two short stories about jazz. A Day of Rest and For My Sins. Music also figures heavily in another of his English novels, Secret Memories.
Writing in any language is hard work, Rubio maintains, but writing in English is very different for him than writing in Spanish.
"There are really two sides to my writing, two extensions of my personality. When I write in English I am more serious, more somber. In Spanish, my prose is lighter, but more elaborate. I will give you an example. With Quadrivium (Spanish), I laughed . There were times with that book when I laughed so hard that I collapsed on the typewriter. With Orpheus' Blues, the final scene always makes me cry. Every time I read it, it makes me cry."
Rubio knew from an early age that he would be a writer. Growing up in a small town about a hundred miles west of Havana, he learned his love of the arts from his parents.
"My mother was a poet. My father was a criminal lawyer. You would not believe that house. We had access to all kinds of interesting people. I remember, as a child, staying up late, listening to recitals. That house was just like a magnet for musicians, for poets. I was just very fortunate.
He reveres the memory of his mother. "Right now, downstairs in my house, I have all her poems. She was a tremendous influence for me. My most-prized possession is her pen. The final draft of all my books is written with her pen. The pen is not mine, I'm just using it for the moment. Someday, someone-perhaps my daughter, or my niece-witll pick it up and carry on the tradition."
Rubio left Cuba in the early 1960's, but did not come to West Virginia until 1965. "It was an accident. I was living in Delaware, and then I decided that it was time for me to get on with college. A friend of mine mentioned that there was a college in West Virginia, in a placed named Athens. I chose it because it was so remote. And, you know, some of the happiest years of my life were spent at Concord College."
After receiving his bachelor's degree from Concord, Rubio earned a marster's degree in Latin American Studies from West Virginia University. He has begun work on his doctorate at the University of Maryland, but has no plans to leave West Virginia. "Believe it or not, when I go away, I miss Martinsburg. My family's here, my children were born here, and here is where I have made my life."
He leads a busy life. He teaches Spanish at Musselman High School, continues to write novels and short stories, and circulates his unpublished work without the help of a literary agent. Not that he woldn't like to have an agent. "I'll tell you, it's a Catch-22 situation. You approach a big publisher, and they say, 'Have your agent contact us.' And you try to get an agent, and they say, 'Well, where have you been published?'"
Of Rubio's five novels and a short story collection, only Caleidoscopio, a collection of short stories in Spanish, has been published in its entirety. Many of his stories have been published individually, however, and sections of several novels have appeared in anthologies. He has been the subject of interviews in a number of publications, including The Miami Herald, El Mundo (New York City), and La Nacion (Mexico City).
He believes that the Nuevo Leon Award, and the publication of Quadrivium, will advance his writing career. "Doors will open. That is true."
But years of working in relative obscurity have taught him that the true reward of writing is in the writing, not the publishing.
"I love writing. I have tried not doing it, and it's almost like an addiction. I feel that if a day goes by, and I have not written something, that day is wasted. I wouldn't trade it for anything.
"Well, maybe I would trade it for one thing. Being a jazz musician."
Anderson is a writer and graphic artist in Charleston.
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New research from the University of British Columbia (UBC) and the Child & Family Research Institute at the British Columbia Children's Hospital shows that risky outdoor play is not only good for children's health but also encourages creativity, social skills and resilience.
Mariana Brussoni, lead author of the study, and assistant professor in UBC's School of Population and Public Health and Department of Pediatrics explained "we found that play environments where children could take risks promoted increased play time, social interactions, creativity and resilience.
Brussoni concluded "monitoring children's activities may be a more appropriate approach than active supervision, particularly for older children.
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A Superior Court jury in Burbank on Wednesday awarded three adult siblings $25.5 million for the St. Patrick's Day deaths five years ago of their parents and teen-age brother who were hit by a drunken driver.
The jury deliberated 2.5 days before reaching its verdict against the estate of Tracy Michael Courrege, 26, who was killed in the head-on collision.
An autopsy showed Courrege's blood-alcohol level was twice the legal limit at the time of the accident.
"This is a very close, tight-knit family," Panish said.
Richard, 53, and Pamela Sherman, 51, along with their 15-year-old son, Ryan, were traveling home to Mammoth from Bakersfield on U.S. Highway 395 when their car was struck by Courrege on March 17, 2000. Courrege, along with two other people in his vehicle were drinking screwdrivers and had stopped at a liquor store to replenish their vodka supply when the car accident occurred, Panish said.
Courrege's two passengers were the only survivors of the quadruple fatal accident. An autopsy revealed Courrege's blood-alcohol content was 0.181.
The Shermans' remaining children, Jeffrey, Andrew and Karen Sherman – ages 28 to 35 – sued Courrege's estate, culminating in an eight-day trial beginning June 27. Estate of Sherman v. Estate of Courrege, BC030284 (L.A. Superior Ct. July 20, 2005).
Earlier in this case, one of Courrege's passengers settled with the family for $500,000, Panish said. Panish estimated that the family could get an additional $8 million in prejudgment interest on the $25.5 million award.
But another attorney involved in the case said the family is unlikely to see anything close to that amount. State law that allows for pre-judgment interest doesn't apply in this case, and Rosemarie S. Lewis, who represented Courrege's Insurance carrier, Mutual Casualty Insurance CO.
Metro Motorsports of Texas, owned by the brother of Courrege, was the registered owner of Courrege's car. The company carried a $1 million policy on the car. Before the trial began, they offered $1 million.
"The only issue in this trial was who was going to get the $1 million," she said.
Steven J. Freeberg, who represented Courrege's rear-seat passenger Kevin Magner of Dallas, also was trying to collect on the policy.
"This settlement's one of those big numbers no one's going to see," Freeburg said.
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The Nacht Family Foundation Throws Lifeline to Music Industry Workers
The Inbar and Marius Nacht Foundation will donate NIS 3.5 million (approximately $1 million) to music industry workers who have been in dire straits in recent months. The donation will benefit 700 musicians, lighting professionals, amplification technicians, and production workers who will each receive NIS 5,000 ($1,407)
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The Inbar and Marius Nacht Foundation will donate NIS 3.5 million (approximately $1 million) to music industry workers who have been in dire straits in recent months, the foundation announced Tuesday. The donation will benefit 700 musicians, lighting professionals, amplification technicians, and production workers who will each receive NIS 5,000 ($1,407).
Marius Nacht is the co-founder of Nasdaq-listed Israeli cybersecurity company Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.
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Many of the music industry employees are freelancers or independent employees who do not enjoy social security or unemployment benefits. The grant will be transferred directly to their bank accounts in accordance with the criteria set out in the fund, including consultations with the Tel Aviv-Jaffa City Performing Arts Department.
The foundation, which was established by Attorney Inbar Nacht, greatly increased its activity during the coronavirus crisis. Among other things, it initiated the establishment of a dedicated center to support the elderly population during the crisis, in collaboration with the United Union Rescue Organization, and launched the fundraising campaign for the nonprofit organization Leket Israel to provide meals to those in need. In addition, the foundation provides pro bono legal representation to self-employed and single mothers affected by the epidemic.
The foundation also funded a campaign in the ultra-Orthodox communities to explain the importance of maintaining the Ministry of Health's guidelines. In addition, the foundation established a national cancer network for cancer patients during the closure period when public transportation was greatly reduced.
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Taylor Hawkins Honored in Special Tribute at the 2022 Grammy Awards
Lauryn Schaffner Published: April 3, 2022
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Taylor Hawkins was honored in a special tribute during the 2022 Grammy Awards ceremony.
The drummer, who died last Friday (March 25), was up for several nominations this year with the Foo Fighters — Best Rock Performance with "Making a Fire," Best Rock Song with "Waiting on a War" and Best Rock Album with their 2021 effort Medicine at Midnight. Foo Fighters won all three awards at this year's ceremony. They've now won 15 Grammy awards during their career so far.
The Grammy Awards broadcast an "In Memoriam" segment each year during the special, which serves to remember all those who were lost from the music world. However, when certain artists die, especially those whose death had a very large impact, they are honored individually. After Eddie Van Halen died in October of 2020, the 2021 Grammy Awards included a brief tribute specifically for him, which featured a spotlight on one of his Frankenstrat guitars on the stage as a clip of "Eruption" played in the background.
During the 2022 event, Host Trevor Noah allowed for a moment of silence before showing footage of Hawkins throughout the years set to the sound of Foo Fighters' "My Hero." You can watch the video below.
In addition to three Grammy nominations for 2022, Hawkins and the Foo Fighters have achieved a lot in the last couple of years. Medicine at Midnight, their tenth studio album, came out in February of 2021, and a few months later they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Earlier this year, the band released their horror-comedy film Studio 666, which was based on the paranormal encounters they experienced while recording Medicine at Midnight in a house in Encino, Calif.
They had several performances scheduled for 2022 as well, but announced last week that all of their upcoming dates have been canceled as a result of the loss.
Since the Grammys aired in 2021, we've lost a great deal of talent, including founding Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison, The Rolling Stones' longtime drummer Charlie Watts, ZZ Top's Dusty Hill, Metal Church's Mike Howe, Screaming Trees' Mark Lanegan, former Skid Row singer Johnny Solinger, Meat Loaf and more.
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In our technological age, we can work from almost anywhere. When your home is at 555TEN's Hudson Yards apartments, where the standards of luxury and convenience are as high and far-reaching as the views, you may find it harder and harder to leave for work in the morning. Luckily, with 555TEN's amenities, building-wide Wi-Fi, and work-friendly environment, you can make that desire a reality. You may, in fact, find that the expansive outdoor and live-work spaces in the building, in addition to your masterfully appointed apartment, will give you not only greater ease, but an increase in inspiration and productivity.
At 555TEN, you can set up a home office where the parameters lie well beyond your own apartment. On chillier days, you can get cozy with your laptop in front of the fire in the 56th floor bar/lounge and work while taking in the views through the floor-to-ceiling windows. In the summer, you can take a conference call from a poolside chaise lounge. The rooftop means you can work alfresco whenever you want to feel the breeze or catch the sunset as you transition smoothly from work to play right where you are.
With so many options, it's easy to combat the ever-dreaded health risks of being stuck at your desk all day. At the 555TEN luxury rentals, you can transform a work break into a relaxing dip in the pool—getting to the water is a matter of feet instead of blocks or miles. Or, make it a workout break—take advantage of 555TEN's Health and Wellness floor where you can get your cardio fix, do a high-intensity interval workout on a Peloton stationary bike, let off any work-related steam with the Nexersys Boxing Exergame, or take a yoga class. With a studio that's also open to you to use on your own, you can develop your personal yoga practice, tailor-made to work with your needs and work schedule.
Working in and around 555TEN also means you don't have to feel isolated by the convenience of working from home. The 555TEN community will always be there to help you feel more connected to other people "IRL." But when privacy is what you crave as you work from home, or is something you need for especially important projects, your apartment just may be the perfect home office space. With double-paned windows to offer you the peaceful views of the city without the noise, and with interior designer Paris Forino's serene color and texture combinations as a backdrop, work will start to feel like a seamless part of luxury New York living.


New Zealand has announced its selected artists for Botanical Art Worldwide - Ngai Tipu Taketake - Indigenous Flora. The exhibition will open on March 30 at Auckland Botanic Garden and run through July 1, 2018. It will then travel to Wellington Botanic Gardens, Millennium Art Gallery in Blenheim, and further venues are in the planning stages. Jurors Sri Benham, Dr. Ross Ferguson, and Rebecca Stanley chose 40 artworks for inclusion by the following artists: Suzy Abbott, Lesley Alexander, Jan Barker, Wilma Blom, Margaret Blue, Karen Bowman Atherton, Rebecca Brown-Thompson, Vicki Catlow, Carole Cornes, Ann Cryer, Valerie Cuthbert, Jennifer Duval-Smith, Jo Ewing, Hamish Foote, Erin Forsyth, Jenny Haslimeier, Jane Humble, Annette Judd, Janet Marshall, Jill McIntosh, Maria Mercedes Trujillo Arango, Sandra Morris, Helen Nutt, Neal Palmer, Bryan Poole, Liz Powell, Denise Ramsay, Gillian Receveur, Kathleen M. Reilly, Emma Scheltema, Paula Shelley, Gail Timmerman-Vaughan, Jeana Trent, Kohl Tyler-Dunshea, Sue Wickison, and Jane Zimmerman. More information can be found at the Friends of Auckland Botanic Garden's website here. Congratulations New Zealand!


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Eliseo Meifren Roig – Painter
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Eliseo Meifrén y Roig ( Barcelona, 1857 – 1940)
Meifrén was born in Barcelona in 1857 and began his career at La Lonja, the Academy of Arts in Barcelona under Antonio Caba Casamitjana (1838-1907). After his return from Italy he specialised in landscapes which he frequently showed at the National Exhibitions of Barcelona and Madrid. Not long after his return from Paris, where he had moved in 1879, he won his first gold medal in a regional exhibition in Valencia. From then on, his name as an artist was established and he became a prominent figure in the artistic circles of Barcelona and a fundamental artist in the Catalan School.
Although Meifrén was influenced by his Spanish colleagues from the Olot School and the Sitges group, and from foreign influences of the Barbizon School and Impressionists, he never really belonged to one group or style.
1875-90 was a period of experimentation for Meifrén. The present work, painted in 1889, shows a few characteristics of that period: a signature in capitals with a distinctive M and a date. Prominent also are the two most important elements throughout his career, the sea and sky and its incessant movements. He made great efforts to depict the movement of water and the delicacy of the sky, their corresponding changes in tone and had no difficulty in capturing the details of the unlimited space as well as the changes in nature.
Meifrén reduced the human element in his works and only a few pictures incorporate figures, such as the Puerto de Barcelona, to lay emphasis on the overwhelming space and the grandeur of nature.
Miquel y Badia the famous art critic of El Brusi spoke very highly of the Puerto de Barcelona for which Meifrén received a bronze medal in the Exposition Universal in Paris, 1889; the year of his first solo exhibition in Sala Parés, Barcelona.
Meifrén had used the subject of the Harbour of Barcelona once before, in 1887, for which work he also received a bronze medal in the Exposicion General de Bellas Artes in Madrid.
In 1915 he traveled to the United States, using the International Exhibition in San Francisco and San Diego, both receiving the Medal of Honor. Later that year, moved to New York, where he exhibited primarily landscapes of Mallorca and Cadaques, returning to Barcelona in 1917. Then he traveled around the world including to Argentina, and in 1939 civil war has ended, after a period of rest with his family in Mallorca, he returned to Barcelona, where he was preparing for hist his last exhibition.
The December 16, 1939 was opened as a solo exhibition at the Sala Gaspar in Barcelona with great public success and sales. However, a Meifrén was sick and could not attend the event. A few weeks later, the artist suffered a deterioration in his state, died in early February 1940.
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New Delhi, Jan 28 (ANI): Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday demanded Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy's resignation for his alleged involvement in the solar scam. Sitharaman alleged the Kerala government of supporting corruption and said that minister after minister have resigned on charges of corruption. She further asked the Congress high command to speak on the Kerala corruption issue, rather than attending every other campaign.


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In a prior post, I examined minimum lot sizes as a general concept with reference to a few examples. Another way of approaching the subject is to examine regional and national patterns and trends on lot sizes. Although the subject doesn't get a great deal of attention, and Census information is not as detailed as one might like, it is possible to cobble together some statistics.
The outlier value for New England in the median lot size map seems to fit the well-known historical account of agriculture in that region, where after the arrival of railroads carrying midwestern grain in the later 19th century, farms were rendered unprofitable and were abandoned en masse, leaving only stone walls -- 250,000 miles worth -- through new-growth forests as a sign of their former presence. During the height of this abandonment in the 1890s, some New England counties, like Tolland County in Connecticut or Rutland County in Vermont, actually declined in population. Post-1950 tract homes in New England, built in forested, rocky terrain, prefer to sit Walden-like in their own little forest clearings, as though each homeowner were an 18th century pioneer carving out a homestead in the wilderness. Much of New England, as William Fischel also notes in Zoning Rules!, with a wet and cool climate, is heavily well-watered, with the result that homes need not be clustered closely together.
Outer suburbs of Hartford, CT.
The Villages: homes built for former residents of Hartford, CT.
Farm towns in Heibei province, east of Tangshan, China.
A few exceptionally large cities of the ancient world imported grain by ship, but for the most part cities were dependent on their agricultural hinterlands. Until the early industrial era, the high value of this land for crops probably did not impose significant constraints on city expansion (as opposed to the limits of sanitation, transportation, the need for a defensible perimeter, etc), but in an age of rapid population growth and urbanization, the cost of land acquisition gained greater significance.
Where land has little value for agriculture, we should not be surprised to see greenfield development taking lower-density forms.
The Villages is interesting. It's clearly targeted at retirees, who typically don't need large houses (all their children having since grown up and left home of course). I wonder how these retired folks feel about the increased density, and if they feel that it being in a regular (non-retiree) area and with an extra story or two on the house for space, if it would have been suitable for raising children.
The diagonal slant of many of the houses is peculiar too - a concession to having a driveway I guess.
And of course the endless dead-end streets with few to no walk paths through to other streets make it virtually useless for walking, even more so when you're 65 and over.
Thanks for posting more articles, btw!
Yes, the diagonal orientation reminded me of the arrangement of manufactured home lots. Many of the houses in The Villages have similar dimensions. And I agree it is utterly useless for walking -- I think golf carts are an important mode of internal transport (partly for the obvious reasons, partly due to weather/topography, and partly due to the self-contained nature of the settlement).
Glad to be writing a bit more, although I had something of a backlog to clear out. Have not given up on the blog by any means, but life intrudes!


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I Will Compete With Myself At CWG: Chanu
Jun 27, 2022 | Pratirodh Bureau
FILE PHOTO: Mirabai Chanu of India celebrates on the podium after winning the silver medal in the women's 49kg weightlifting event, at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan (Getty Images)
It won't be surprising if diminutive Mirabai Chanu stands atop the podium, flashing her radiant smile, after winning a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games on July 30.
Chanu's personal best is 207kg (88kg+119kg) which is far better than the best effort of Nigeria's Stella Kingsley, who will be her nearest rival and has managed only 168kg (72kg+96kg) till date.
Chanu's legend has only grown since the last edition of the CWG. She has added an Olympic silver, an Asian Championship bronze and a world record to her kitty.
It is not baffling when she avowed that she herself will be her real competition in Birmingham and not her rivals.
"CWG will be easy for me. I will be fighting with myself," Chanu, who already has a silver (2014) and a gold (2018) at CWG, asserts politely.
"There is not much competition in CWG, but that doesn't mean there is no competition. I have to give my best performance keeping in mind future tournaments," she said during a candid chat at Netaji Subhas National Institute of Sports (NIS).
Since there won't be competition, Chanu has bigger targets in mind.
She is eager to rewrite her own clean and jerk world record of 119kg.
"I am thinking of attempting 120kg in the CWG."
The former world champion also wants to breach the much-anticipated 90kg mark in the snatch section, which she confesses has become somewhat of a mental block.
"Yes (it has become a mental block). We have planned to lift 91kg or 92kg at the CWG. Hopefully, it will happen."
But lifting close to twice your body weight is easier said than done specially when Chanu still struggles with a shoulder imbalance.
Earlier this month, she failed to improve her snatch lift, unable to hoist 89kg twice at a domestic event due to her back.
"My back became stiff (tight) 2-3 days before going. The journey to Nagrota was also five hours. We went from Patiala to Chandigarh a day before the tournament, then took a flight from Chandigarh, which was also late. So the back became more tight."
Aware of her weakness in snatch, Chanu has worked on tweaking her technique.
"I haven't gone above 88kg. That is the weight I have set. But training wise right now I am better placed than I was at the Olympics."
"To lift 90kg in a competition, we set the weight between 80-90kg which we lift consistently everyday. It's not like we lift 90kg everyday," she explains.
Her personal best of 88kg is 8kg less than Tokyo gold medallist China's Hou Zhihui's world record lift of 96kg.
"I have changed my snatch technique. In snatch, while rising, the toes, back and shoulder should be in a line. Back and shoulders are very important, they need to move fast. Earlier my movement was not synchronised. Now I have changed it."
Chanu conceded that she feels compelled to compensate her frailty in snatch by lifting more in clean and jerk.
"Yes, I feel if not one, then in the other I have to improve. To reach 96kg, it will take some time and it will be a little difficult for me."
"93kg-94kg I can reach. If I perform well in clean and jerk, I can get the same total (as the Chinese) or even more."
'Will Wear My Olympic Earrings At CWG'
Chanu, who will be vying for her third CWG medal, will once again be wearing her gold earrings shaped like Olympic rings, which had stolen the show at the Tokyo Games.
The earrings were a gift from her mother, who had sold her own jewellery ahead of the Rio Games, in hope that it would bring her daughter luck. And luck it brought.
"I will wear those earrings at the Commonwealth Games. They brought me luck in Tokyo," Chanu said with an ear to ear grin.
Up And Downs In Life
After she won the silver at the Tokyo Games, in a heart-warming gesture Chanu felicitated the truck drivers who used to give her free rides till her training academy in Imphal, which was about 30km away from her village.
"I found all the truck drivers and because of Corona they were all sitting at home," Chanu reminisced.
"They were really happy. I saw them and I thought of those days when they used to keep blowing their truck horns and I would run to get a lift. When I reflect, I remember all the difficulties I had to go through to reach here. But what to do, life is a cycle, kabhi upar kabhi neeche."
Eagerly Waiting For Asian Games
The Asian Games now remains the only big ticket-event where Chanu is yet to stamp her authority.
Chanu had missed the last edition due to a back injury. And the wait for a medal at the continental event has increased as this year's Asiad has been postponed indefinitely.
"Asian Games is the only medal left. Now I want that."
"On the one hand, it's good that it has been postponed. On the other hand, it will now be held closer to the Olympics. I have got time for training. But now it will be held alongside other Olympic qualifiers, which means I will have to be in competition throughout that period." (PTI)
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MINNEAPOLIS, MN - NOVEMBER 22: Corey Brewer #13 of the Minnesota Timberwolves. Copyright 2014 NBAE (Photo by David Sherman/NBAE via Getty Images)
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The Minnesota Timberwolves still have two open roster spots remaining, and they are hosting workouts for a handful of NBA veterans throughout the week.
For as much attention is being paid to Minnesota Timberwolves' head coach and front office boss Tom Thibodeau's apparent infatuation with bringing in as many former Chicago Bulls players as possible, the Wolves are apparently at least doing their due diligence with a handful of other remaining veteran free agents.
It is, of course, entirely fair to react to the most recent rumors surround Luol Deng (who is a free agent) and the Knicks' Joakim Noah (who is not) with some combination of "here we go again" and jokes about refusing to think outside the box.
TimberBulls jokes are finally getting old, but it's hard to fault folks for thinking that things will end up with a lineup that looks more like the 2011 Eastern Conference Finals Bulls squad than any team that should be taking the floor in 2018.
The Jimmy Butler and Taj Gibson acquisitions could be explained away by the fact that Butler is a perennial All-Star in the prime of his career and Gibson a solid starter, but things started to get away from Thibs when the Derrick Rose rumors surfaced and then resurfaced until they finally came to fruition this past spring.
All that said, Thibodeau and general manager Scott Layden are reportedly at least considering some fairly recognizable names.
Scoop that didn't make podcast episode 171, but I can elaborate on in episode 172 later this week: #Twolves are hosting some recognizable names for free agent workouts this week. Among those here, I am told: Nick Young, Arron Afflalo and Corey Brewer. #AllEyesNorth pic.twitter.com/beM3BoTNHH
— Darren Wolfson (@DWolfsonKSTP) September 4, 2018
Talk about a who's who of veteran wing players when it comes to the first week of September!
Coincidentally, yours truly listed Brewer and Afflalo as tied for 10th on the list of wings the Wolves could pursue this summer. (Young did not make the list.)
Nick Young
You'll recall that the Wolves were aggressive in their pursuit of Young last summer before he ultimately chose the Golden State Warriors and Jamal Crawford ended up in Minnesota. The Wolves reportedly "kicked the tires" on Swaggy P earlier this summer as well.
Young would provide a lot of what Crawford did for last year's squad: high-usage, relatively inefficient scoring off the bench with above-average 3-point shooting and poor defense.
The Wolves improved by getting out from underneath Crawford this summer and, at least to this point, replacing his minutes with some combination of rookie Josh Okogie, James Nunnally, and Rose. It would seem unnecessary to bring in Young, who is coming off his lowest minutes-per-game average since his rookie year back in 2007-08.
Brewer would be on his third tour of the Wolves if he were to sign in Minnesota. He was their lottery pick the same summer that Kevin Garnett was traded, and was shipped away by David Kahn in the three-team deal that brought Wolves legend Darko Milicic to town in 2011.
Brewer returned in 2013, signing on to the final Rick Adelman-Kevin Love squad that won 40 games in 2013-14 and narrowly missed the playoffs. He was then sent to Houston midseason the following year as Flip Saunders' Love-less team stumbled to 16 wins.
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Since then, Brewer has played for Houston and the Lakers before finishing last season as a starter on the Oklahoma City Thunder team that lost in six games in the first round of the playoffs to Utah.
Brewer is now 32 years old and remains a strangely decent player. He never figured out how to consistently make 3-pointers, although he hit a shocking 38.9 percent of corner threes in 18 games for the Thunder down the stretch last year.
That said, he's still a serviceable wing defender and is potent in the open floor. It's unclear what role he'd play on this year's Wolves team, but I think I speak for all Timberwolves fans when I say that the fanbase needs a third tour of Brew.
Arron Afflalo
Afflalo has had one of the more precipitous declines from a once-productive player in recent memory.
There was a period of time only about five years ago that Afflalo was considered a borderline top-five shooting guard in the league. He averaged 15.2 points per game for Denver in 2011-12 and was traded to Orlando as part of the Dwight Howard-Andrew Bynum-centric, four-team blockbuster trade that summer.
In his first year with the Magic, he averaged a career-high 18.2 points per game for a bad Orlando team and saw his defense take a step backwards. That was his only his age-27 season, but things have only gone downhill from there.
Afflalo spent two years in Orlando, and then headed back to Denver for a half season. The rest of that season came in Portland, and then a year each with the Knicks, Kings, and back to the Magic last year.
Wolves fans may remember the elbow he threw at the neck of the now-departed Nemanja Bjelica last season. It was probably the highlight of Arron's year, as he played a career-low in minutes and averaged a career-low 3.4 points per game, finding himself virtually out of the rotation by spring.
Afflalo is still a 38.6 percent career 3-point shooter, but beyond that skill, there isn't much to write home about.
All things considered, these would all be decent depth additions. Young would probably represent the greatest risk, Brewer would bring the most joy and energy, and Afflalo the best steady shooting. But only Brewer is a playable defender at this stage, and that should factor into the Wolves' decision.
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Christopher Moran
Spies should not write books. The word 'disclosure' should not enter their vocabulary. They are trained to be inveterate 'hiders' of things, taught neither to confirm nor deny. And yet, for almost as long as its existence, the CIA has produced memoirists.
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A study of CIA memoirs is highly revealing of the Agency's approach to information management, and represents a unique vantage point from which to assess the depth of secrecy in US intelligence. The arbitrary decision-making of the CIA is often reported in the press. It is also well-known that the CIA has frogmarched authors off to court. Behind these familiar methods, however, exist a range of ad hoc (and sometimes disturbing) tactics. Company Confessions will disclosure occasions where the CIA has stolen book manuscripts from publishing houses; required staff to take polygraph tests to reveal their publishing intentions; and carried out domestic surveillance of authors. In the case of Phillip Agee, the Agency even bugged his typewriter, fitting it with microphones and transmitters. Company Confessions will also reveal that, behind the scenes, the CIA has been lending discreet support to selected memoirists with the objective of improving the Agency's image and correcting popular misconceptions. Privileged authors, chosen for their willingness to toe the line, have received remarkable access to classified materials to help them produce 'surrogate official histories'.
Author: Christopher Moran
Published Year: 2015
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Christopher Moran was born in 1982 and raised by the sea in Weymouth, Dorset. He has since become a countryside dweller, having spent the last 13 years at Warwick University, first as a student and now as an Assistant Professor of US National Security in the Department of Politics and International Studies. His research has been funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council, and most recently by the British Academy. He is a frequent visitor to the United States for research purposes, and in 2011 was a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress, Washington DC. He is the author of Classif...
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"Intrigued by the many memoirs of former American spies, British historian Moran (Classified: Secrecy and the State in Modern Britain) proceeded to read them all and then write them up in this delightful account of true spy stories and the agency's often-bizarre responses to them…. an irresistible niche history that mixes cruelty with tragicomic wackiness. "
"This scrupulously researched narrative will appeal to specialists and general readers alike, who will be fascinated by how agents' memoirs fashion public perceptions of national security and the CIA itself."
" a vastly entertaining, though ultimately depressing, discussion of the inner logic of intelligence, at least as it is interpreted by the Central Intelligence Agency ."
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"scholarly in intent but proves a surprisingly cracking read…An informative historical summation of CIA memoirs with enough skulduggery to entertain casual readers."
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Rosa Luxemburg's pamphlet The Mass Strike, Political Party and the Trade Unions clearly builds on Marx's belief that the emancipation of the working class is an act of self-liberation. No one can bring socialism to the people. Her pamphlet is a powerful celebration of socialism from below. Marx's opposition to sectarianism is also central to Luxemburg's conception of the unifying qualities of the mass strike. It is original too as it identifies what she considered to be the strategic concept of the revolution: the mass strike.
If Marx in The Communist Manifesto had explained that the working class was a product of capitalist relations of production and had the potential power to become the gravedigger of capitalism, it was Luxemburg who realised that the overthrow of the state and the economic powers the state was protecting would need more than street battles and a fight on the barricades to get rid of them. Waves of strikes involving the mass of unionised and non-unionised workers would be necessary.
Her argument was that in the process of participation in strikes workers would shed all their ideological ties to the dominant ideas of society and develop a capacity to organise society themselves, in the interests of the vast majority. In short, she believed that although some workers could be won to socialist ideas by meetings and propaganda, the vast majority would be won to socialism in struggle. In short, the mass strike had an educational outcome.
This was new and Luxemburg knew that it would be controversial. Her starting point was the wave of mass strikes that culminated in the great dress rehearsal for 1917, the 1905 revolution in Russia. Starting with an analysis of the numbers involved and the demands raised, she polemicises against those who believed there should be a separation between economic and political demands. This was the view of the majority of the leadership of German Social Democracy: the trade unions taking care of the everyday bread and butter issues whilst the SDP leaders, particularly in parliament, putting forward political demands for a shorter working day and more social reforms.
The mass strike, she argued, was important because it challenged both the economic and political power of the ruling class. So, for instance, there were huge mass strikes in the wake of the sacking of two men in the mighty Putilov engineering factory in Petersburg. The workers turned to a police union, the Assembly of Russian Factory and Workshop workers, to get support. Worried that they might lose credibility if they refused, the union leadership called mass meetings across the city. This boosted confidence and new demands were added to the one of reinstatement of the dismissed men, including an increase in the daily wage and an eight-hour day. Economics and politics became fused.
The strikers turned to the Czar for support and a huge demonstration led by a police agent, Father Gapon, was called. In the agitation leading up to the demonstration, socialists had successfully argued at mass meetings across the city that more political demands should be incorporated into the petition of grievances to be presented to the Czar, including the end to the Russo-Japanese war.
The strikes began on 3 January 1905 and fed into a demonstration of over 200,000 on 9 January. Troops guarding the Winter Palace turned on the protesters and killed over a 1,000.
Luxemburg recognises that no one could have ordered this mass strike into existence but, importantly, identifies the effect of the struggle on the confidence, combativity and consciousness of workers. She explains that to overthrow absolutism workers need a high degree of political education, which no amount of 'pamphlets and leaflets' could achieve. Mass political consciousness can only be developed 'in the fight and by the fight' (p.34). This is one of the key themes of the text: that self-activity is the key to self-change.
She goes on to argue that the most important element of the mass strike is that it nurtures the 'intellectual, cultural growth of the proletariat' (p.38). Workers' ideas change in struggle and their position in relation to the boss is turned around. The managers' so-called 'right to manage' is challenged on the shop floor. Petty fines or disciplinary measures are knocked back. Respect for those in power and forelock-tugging go out of the window. Power lies in the workplace, hence why the mass strike is of such strategic importance to Luxemburg.
Embryonic to Luxemburg's thought then, albeit in an undeveloped form, is the idea of dual power. It is true that she doesn't take up the issue of the organisation of that power in the form of the Soviets – workers' councils – that began to vie with the Czarist state power at the height of the 1905 revolution. Nevertheless, in using the experience of the so-called 'backward' Russian workers' movement to teach the so-called most 'advanced' workers' movement in the world, the limitations of SPD strategy are being challenged. She is sketching a different kind of power, not only to those like Bernstein, who did not want to see a revolution but also to those like Kautsky, who were vague.
In many ways her idea of the mass strike, one in which the economic and the political are woven together, points forward to the Communist International's idea of transitional demands: demands which are rooted in the present but which the struggle to achieve them leads to a confrontation with the whole capitalist order: ideological, political and economic.
The mass strike is then the 'method of motion' of the class struggle and as such has the potential to undermine all the divisions created by capitalism and its supporters in the media. Divisions between country and city, skilled and unskilled, unionised and non-unionised workers are broken down by participation in the action. Old prejudices such as sexism, racism and elitism, are torn apart as those who have been formerly passive are propelled into action, realising that success in the prosecution of the struggle necessitates a new world view and a dumping of all the rubbish believed in the past.
This goes hand in hand, she argues, with astonishing levels of self-sacrifice, the likes of which most of us think impossible. Thoughts of mortgages, job security, where the next meal might come from, no longer have the debilitating effect of holding back the struggle and vast reserves of strength and determination are found to carry forward the battle as a new found power infuses workers with confidence that those in control can and must be beaten. Luxemburg writes that once workers enter into a period of mass strikes the 'ocean' of troubles and privations that would normally shackle the desire to fight, all such 'costing operations'are forgotten.
She is, of course, clear that there is no such thing as the mass strike in the abstract. For her, the truth is always concrete. She sees what she calls 'demonstrative strikes', often time-limited actions called by the trade union leaders, as less important as they are controlled from above. Of course, even these strikes can overrun the control of those who call them. She argues that these centrally co-ordinated strikes often occur at the beginning of a mass movement when confidence is still uneven. Nevertheless, her contrasting of the mass strike with demonstrative strikes is a part of her critique of the false separation of economics and politics, upon which reformism is built. It is the dialogue that she is having. Her foil is the camp of 'revisionists' who want merely to fight for the minimum, partial demands of the SPD and not use the struggles to move onto realising the maximum programme.
In fact the whole concept of minimum and maximum demands, so favoured by the reformist parties of the Second International, is blown apart by the concept of the mass strike as it not only breaks down the separation between reform and revolution, economic and political demands, defensive and offensive tactics, but releases a dynamic which sees 'cause and effect… continually change place'.
There are some that still see her as the messiah of the 'spontaneous' but in many ways this is to misunderstand the targets of her polemic. She has even been subject to sexist stereotypes. Others have argued that she understood spontaneity because she was a woman or she believed in a metaphysic of labour, a spiritual, irrational joy for unplanned action. The opposite is the case.
Luxemburg is arguing that mass strikes can't be sucked out of a trade union or socialist leader's thumb. The objective conditions are the soil in which the struggles are nourished. However, what she also recognises is that when an idea is taken up by millions of workers it can take on a material force and transform that objective reality: cause and effect are again turned on their heads. The Mass Strikeis therefore a profoundly dialectical text.
The final chapter on the need for united action makes explicit what has been a thread throughout: piecemeal reform to improve conditions will not lead to the building of a new society but merely a renegotiation of the terms of exploitation, which can be overturned once those in power have regrouped. Luxemburg therefore poses a completely different orientation to the Social Democratic and trade union leaderships of the time. Taking the pamphlet out of its polemical context misses the point – one not lost on Trotsky, who clearly saw that her conception of the mass strike put her in opposition to the leadership of the SPD. She even makes the first steps in the pamphlet to sketch the economic roots of this reformism.
The Mass Strike recognises that the economic boom in Germany at the end of the 19th century allowed for the development of paid officials in the movement who could specialise in 'professional activity' and who thus had developed a lack of audacity, a 'restricted horizon' and a 'narrowness of outlook'. This leads them to the 'over-valuation of the organisation' and fear of the 'disorder' created by mass strikes. Clearly, this is not a criticism of the need for socialist organisation but of bureaucracy. So, while some have criticised her undeveloped account of the development of the trade union and political bureaucracy, it is certain she understood the barriers that would be put in the way of those trying to orientate towards a mass strike movement by those who led both the trade unions and the SPD in Germany at this time.
Of course, it is not a fully worked out account of why and how this process occurs. Greater clarity might have led to an earlier break from the SPD or at least the building of an organised tendency within the SPD that could have challenged the direction of the leadership. Certainly, when the SDP voted for war credits in 1914, she had few to turn to in order organise resistance to the capitulation. She had not built a cadre around her that could offer a political alternative.
When the German Revolution did kick off at the end of 1918, mass strikes played exactly the role Luxemburg had identified in Russia, galvanising wide layers of workers and disintegrating bourgeois power. At the beginning of December 1918, in an article entitled 'Acheron has Begun to Flow', Luxemburg analysed the effect of these mass strikes, which began as economic ones but then led to the exposure of the political bankruptcy of the establishment of the republic of November 1918. On 8 December, well-known bosses were arrested by the workers' and soldiers' council. The army began to collapse and a gulf opened up between the General Staff and the government on the one hand, and the mass of soldiers and sailors on the other.
The revolution was turning upside down the second most powerful capitalist country in the world and the mass strike was at the heart of the process. Luxemburg had been vindicated. Sadly, a few weeks later she was murdered by those she had been criticising in her pamphlet.
 Marxism and the Party, Molyneux, J, Bookmarks, 1978, p. 116.
 A Revolutionary For Our Times: Rosa Luxemburg, Bronner, S. Pluto, 1981, p. 62.
 The Mass Strike, Luxembourg, R, Bookmarks, 1986, p31. Tony Cliff puts the number at four in Lenin: Building the Party,Bookmarks, 1986, p151.
 A point made in The Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg, Geras, N. Verso, 1976, p127.
 The Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg,Geras, N. Verso, 1976, p127.
 Rosa Luxemburg, Cliff, T. Bookmarks, 1986, p. 26.
 Marxism and the Party, Molyneux, J, Bookmarks, 1978, p. 107.
 The German Revolution 1917-1923, Broue, P. Haymarket Books, 2006, p. 228.


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