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Jay Jordan has worked at the intersection of social justice and politics throughout his career. He serves as ASJ's CEO, overseeing all of ASJ's state-based teams and reform advocacy efforts, as well as the #TimeDone National Director. Jay co-founded the organization's #TimeDone campaign to organize people living with past conviction records to eliminate the barriers to opportunity that block them from success. He previously served as executive director of ASJ's flagship state-based program, Californians for Safety and Justice (CSJ).
Prior to his time at ASJ and CSJ, Jay was instrumental in recruiting and training church congregations in the South Los Angeles area for LA Voice PICO. He served as one of the lead organizers for the Campaign to Ban the Box for the city of Los Angeles and co-founded Faith in Action, a group of crime survivors in the Westmont area of Los Angeles working to transform their community by employing an asset-based community development strategy. As Special Projects Manager for the California Applications Research Group in Stockton, California, Jay spearheaded the launch of the widely successful anti-graffiti mobile app, Clean Up Stockton. He also established a first-class call center that was instrumental in securing victories on several political and social campaigns across the West Coast.
Jay was compelled to create his own non-profit that focused on teen diversion and civic engagement because of his experience as a troubled youth who served time in prison. With the help of Stockton City Councilman Michael Tubbs, law enforcement, and several other allies, Jay launched the innovative youth organizing program, The First50 which in its first year saw both 100% high school graduation and college enrollment. He has been recognized over 20 times for his organizing talents including the American Red Cross' 2014 Hero of the Year, the Literacy Foundations' Innovative Library Concept Award, and a Special Congressional Recognition for Outstanding Youth Program.
In addition, Jay served as co-chair of San Joaquin County's Boys and Men of Color Alliance Juvenile Justice Committee and was a Board member for the African-American Chamber of Commerce of San Joaquin. He made history by becoming the first and only formerly incarcerated Field Director for Congressman Jerry McNerney's successful reelection campaign.


Did Floridians learn nothing from Bernie Madoff, the modern master of Ponzi schemes? Did we already forget Orlando boy band producer Lou Pearlman, credited with running one of the longest Ponzi schemes in U.S. history? Did we nap while Sarasota Ponzi schemer Arthur Nadel bilked locals of $162 million?
It seems so, judging from the torrent of financial ripoffs that continue to snare unwary investors across this state. Too many scams bear the distinct signs of fraud first masterminded by Charles Ponzi back in the 1920s. Literally dozens of Ponzi schemes involving scamsters or their victims are proliferating in Florida. Some are in the process of being uncovered by law enforcement, detailed in private lawsuits or being punished by court rulings and jail time. But there are far too many of them.
Who is affected by the new Social Security rules?
Assuming the Senate passes the legislation and President Obama signs it, these are the changes to look out for.
If you have already filed and suspended your benefits approximately May 1, 2016 — you can still request to file and suspend your benefits to trigger spousal or dependent benefits. If you are 66 or older within the first six months after the law is enacted in order to trigger spousal benefits for your wife or husband and/or dependent benefits for a minor or disabled child, your family will continue to receive benefits on your earnings record.
After May 1, 2016 (approximate date), the rules for file and suspend will change. No one will be able to collect benefits when the primary beneficiary files and suspends. And the person who files and suspends will no longer be able to request a lump sum payout of suspended benefits at a later date.
After May 1, 2016, the only use of file and suspend will be for those people who claimed reduced Social Security benefits before full retirement age. They will still be able to suspend benefits in order to earn delayed retirement credits of 8% per year between ages 66 and 70. But no one will be able to collect spousal or dependent benefits; known as auxiliary benefits; while the primary beneficiary suspends benefits. es.
Sharon Epperson, Judy Gee, CNBC: The year 2016 will send shockwaves to about 30 percent of Medicare beneficiaries, or roughly 7 million Americans. They're going to be paying a lot more for their monthly Medicare Part B premium. Individuals affected will see their monthly premiums rise from about $104.90 to $159.30, and $318.60 for married couples. Those whose income exceeds the threshold, as defined by individuals making more than $214,000 or couples making more than $428,000 per year, the projected increase is anywhere from $223 per month up to $509.80 per month. For high-earning married couples, their premiums can increase from $446 to $1,019.60 per month.
An integral part of managing client assets is meeting with our clients at least annually to review their current financial situation and adjust expectations and assumptions for their portfolio. With clients in 22 states, and many traveling during retirement we are always looking for new ways to connect and engage in a convenient manner.
Jeff Cox, CNBC: Investors will have at least one more month to worry about whether the Federal Reserve is raising rates. In the face of jittery financial markets and a global slowdown, the Fed blinked and held its key federal funds rate unchanged. September was supposed to be the month the U.S. central bank finally came off its zero interest rate policy, but instead it opted to hold steady for at least one more month. Following the decision, U.S. stocks initially traded lower but later jumped. Meanwhile, Treasury bond yields hit session lows and, safe-haven gold rose to highs not seen since September 4.
The first reason why past generations were largely immune from inflation creep on their lifestyles was due to shorter life spans. A male retiring at age 65 in 1970 was expected to live 10 years into retirement – a female 12 years, so there was less time for inflation to have an impact. Secondly, nearly 75 percent of retirees received a guaranteed lifetime income from pension plans and many plans included a cost-of-living adjustment. For them, any retirement savings could be used as surplus. Third, back then the yield on savings vehicles were more closely linked to the rate of inflation so their future purchasing power was not impacted as much.


Consumer credit counseling is offered to consumers so that they can be aware of how to spend their money properly and avoid accumulating debts. The counseling also aids the consumers on how they can repay their outstanding debts. DMPs or Debt Management Plans are used for this.
There are a lot of credit companies that offer this type of counseling. If you're interested in working for one yourself, you can get started by enrolling in an online counseling degree program.
Consultation. Credit counseling agencies can provide you with information regarding their services. They do not need to know your credit information at this stage. You can try calling different credit counseling agencies so that you can compare the services that they offer. One thing to ask during the consultation is how your credit records will be affected by you engaging in the consultation service. Some agencies update the records to show that participate in a credit counseling program. This can affect you in the future, as you are most likely to get denied when you apply for loans.
Pricing. Another thing that you should consider is price charged by the agency. If you cannot afford to pay the fees wanted by the agency, it is better to look for a different counseling agency. The whole point of going through credit counseling services is to decrease and get rid of your debts. An expensive counseling fee will just make consumer debts larger.
creditcounseling.org - Consumer Credit Counseling Services is a website that offers counseling services. This is a convenient service to use, as they offer online counseling or counseling through the phone. You will be given credit advice by credit counselors who are good at what they do. Their services include personal financial counseling, housing advising services, reverse mortgage counseling and many more. You can view the website to know more about this organization.
nfcc.org - The National Foundation For Credit Counseling is an organization that will help you with all your credit needs and problems. Some of their services include credit counseling, housing counseling, bankruptcy counseling and education and also financial education. There are also other tools on the website that you can use, such as a budget worksheet, calculators and consumer tips.
cccsatl.org - This is the official website of Consumer Credit Counseling Service. This organization provides services, such as federal loan plans, bankruptcy counseling and budgeting credit. The company has been providing their services for 44 years. They can also conduct the credit counseling services through the phone or the Internet.
These are the tips on how you can get consumer credit counseling. It is good to undergo these counseling services so that you can be more in control of your money and budget. You can learn how to handle your money so that you can pay all your debts and not have any future debts.
You can also earn your own counseling degree by taking online classes at an accredited school.


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by Claire Orange - DiGii Social | Jan 18, 2021 | Digital Life | 0 comments
As children head into the years sandwiched between childhood and adolescence – we call them the 'tweens' – there is often mounting pressure (and desire) to be online with friends. Whether chatting, gaming, making and sharing videos – there's a very big fear of missing out (FOMO) for children not allowed to access the online space.
In most other ways in child education, we get out in front of high-risk situations with good preventative education – road safety, sun smart and drug aware programs of learning. Yet, in one of the highest risk environments for children, there's a world of debate about whether we do, or whether we don't allow tweens access and how we teach them effectively in that space as they find their digital-life-legs.
There's the social media legal age to consider
Most social media and gaming platforms set the age of legal access as 13. In most developed countries though, in excess of 80% of 12-year olds already have 2 or more social media accounts.
Our 21st Century children are exposed to screens from early in life – for leisure and pleasure. Termed 'digital natives,' the proficiency with which many children access and use devices is almost like they were born with it in hand. In the tween years, with some children allowed access before the legal age to a range of apps and platforms, there's a lot of pressure on parents and children holding the line – and a LOT of tween monkey-business when it comes to secretly setting up social media accounts so as not to miss out or be the odd-one-out.
The case for early digital education
With so many social and emotional problems either starting or being extended through a tween's digital life, it's not uncommon to hear people say that preventing access would be the answer. If only it was that simple. Every parent of a tween will have been involved in some level of discussion about which friends are allowed various social media and apps, who have their very own devices and who is allowed to use that device wherever and whenever they want.
The tween years are very important ones developmentally. While friends are becoming more important and influential, teachers and parents are still significant shapers of behaviour. These years provide a window of opportunity to educate tweens, readying them for safe and responsible digital-life while they're still malleable and open to influence from the adults in their lives. Using the same rationale we apply to all other protective education, getting in early and providing children with an opportunity to practise their skills before using them in the real world is essential – vital even.
Expected parental worry
Any parent having to watch a little face crumble in absolute disappointment, to be blamed for single-handedly ruining their child's life and being told that they just don't understand will know that rock-in-the-gut feeling that follows.
When it comes to standing firm on no access to online chats and apps that other children have access to, and knowing the emotional impact of feeling (and being) left out, almost every parent will spend some time questioning whether they made the right decision or not.
Unfortunately, there is no definitively right or wrong move here – just the one that's right for your family. Applying parental controls, keeping open access to your child's accounts, and being part of the apps and accounts can provide a child with enough safe exposure to dip their toes in the water. Not every child will willingly work within limits though, and not every parent is willing to take the many risks associated with having their child online.
The most important consideration for every parent though, is ensuring that whether access is permitted or denied, that there is a lot of cyber-education before, and when, access is granted. Parents using their own social media accounts to educate themselves and their children is highly recommended. Just like building up competence for crossing roads over time, first holding hands, then walking beside, then watching from a distance – building up cyber-competence doesn't simply turn on at the legal age of 13 years.
Managing tween FOMO
Tweens can become very anxious about not having apps and accounts other friends do. Friends are becoming increasingly important and the thought of not being in on a chat or not knowing the rules of lunch-time game play because they originated in an online game that everyone else is playing can feel very isolating – and embarrassing too.
Managing this anxiety takes a plan. If a lunch-time game is based around an online game that a child is not allowed to play, figuring out the basic game play and running through that offline helps with inclusion. It's also important to help children to manage conversations with friends that might lead to them pretending that actually they do have access when they don't. This is just one of many parts of childhood that needs tuition in resilience. Rehearse lines that honestly address the situation or that deflect attention to something else. Rehearsal needs to be out loud with a trusted adult to guide the responses – it's always better to have a practise before doing it for real.
Your child, your choice
Providing preventative education is every parent and educator's core business. Every child who has been prepared before doing something for the first time does better. Simple. That's just how humans work.
There is no one-size-fits-all recommendation for whether to allow or withhold social media access until the legal age. Just like some young people are allowed to watch MA rated movies from a young age, others are not permitted by their parent and somehow, families work it out their way. While it would be so much simpler all round if no child was actually allowed social media before a certain age, the world just does not go round like that. So, what matters is choosing what's right for you and your child and working with that.
Either way, as the saying goes, a stitch in time saves nine. Education before the fact and long before the act is essential.
DiGii Social is a carefully designed digital-life training platform just for tweens. It provides the opportunity to practise skills towards mastery before spending too much time on other social media platforms. DiGii Social is easy to use and available as a school subscription with a parent education channel included.
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00:00:03 My name is Louise A. I work at London South Bank University. I'm a principle lecturer in law, and I'm also the director of recruitment and marketing for the faculty of arts and human sciences. I think what I'm most passionate about in my job is to see the difference that we make to our students, to see what they do when they leave with this knowledge, confidence, and skills, and they leave our courses and they become what they want to be. That is the best part of my job and it inspires me to do more.
00:00:34 Well, when I was a young girl at school we didn't have much careers advice back then. If you had said to me 'You're going to be a university lecturer, I would have laughed. I really didn't know. School for me was a nightmare. It wasn't fun. It wasn't relating learning to the real world, so school for me wasn't the best experience at all.
00:00:59 My parents hadn't gone to university themselves. My mother was a primary school teacher and my father, who I hugely admired, he worked his way up. He went into a firm – J Lyons and Company – and he started doing washing up and he ended up being one of their chief accountants, and always said to his kids 'It's best if you get yourselves a good education because your life will be so much easier. You can go into a firm or a company at a much higher level', so that's why I was strongly encouraged to go to university by my parents.
00:01:33 I appreciated the value of the advice that my parents had given me as soon as I went to university, from the first day because of all the… It's all the people that you meet, like-minded people, people who are completely different from you, people from all over the world, and the friendships that you form, and I saw hey, learning can be fun. You can study a subject that you really enjoy, in a lot of depth, in a fun way. It was a major, major turning point for me.
00:02:03 Something inside me said 'I want a profession.' And I met up with an old friend from university and she told me about something called the graduate diploma in law. I have to confess that I was really influenced by lots of programmes on television, and at the time there was something called LA Law. It just showed the glamorous side of being a lawyer, and I have to say it isn't as glamorous as the programmes make out, but that's why I wanted to be a lawyer.
00:02:31 I managed to get into one of the big city law firms and I discovered very quickly that I'd made the wrong choice. I didn't enjoy it at all. In the city your clients are insurance companies, for example, or banks, whereas I like to work with people, so Mr Jones and Mr Smith would have been a better bet for me. They wouldn't have paid me as well, but I would have been much, much happier.
00:02:58 Single event that has made the biggest impact on my life is having my son. That was fourteen years ago. Because once you have a child, you don't just think of yourself. You wake up in the morning and you think I've got x, y, and z, but I've also got my son to think about and how am I going to fit everything into a whole day? Your whole life changes when you have children, so the biggest impact on my life has been my son but I wouldn't have it any other way.
00:03:27 When I'm not at London South Bank University, and I'm not lecturing, and I'm not involved in recruiting and meeting kids in schools, I really love cooking and baking because it's something completely different, something creative, and I just love to see the response of friends and family when they eat my cakes.
00:03:46 Well the best thing really is to do a job that you enjoy and to get paid for it. That's the ideal job, and I feel I'm in it already.
Louise A is a law lecturer at London South Bank University and a director of recruitment. Her father said "best if you get yourselves a good education because your life will be so much easier" and she is very grateful for the advice. Now she thinks "what I'm most passionate about in my job is to see the difference that we make to our students."
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A 19-year-old Pakistani student who shot to fame after her five-second video went viral across the subcontinent, hopes numerous renditions of the monologue will translate into more dialogue between India and Pakistan.
The short video shot by Dananeer Mobeen in Nathiagali and uploaded onto Instagram shows a group of youngsters enjoying themselves by the roadside.
Swinging around the device is she is filming on, Mobeen gestures behind her and says in Urdu, ''This is our car, this is us and this is our party taking place.''
Seemly innocuous, Mobeen deliberately mispronounces the English word ''party'' as powri to poke fun at South Asians who adopt Western accents. It immediately struck a chord in both India and Pakistan, sparking top trending hashtags on social media and garnerin millions of views and hundreds of spin-offs.
''It was the most random video. I initially had no intention of uploading it,'' Mobeen said, expressing surprise at how viral it has gone and adding that trend showed the power and reach of social media.
The pawri monologue renditions have been used by the police in India and the Delhi Commission for Women in their social media outreach campaigns.
In one video, two Indian soldiers deployed in snowy mountains give it their own spin with ''This is us, this is our gun and we're patrolling here'' while popular Bollywood actors Ranveer Singh and Deepka Padukone each did a version that also went viral.
Indian dairy company Amul, known for inculcating trendy takes on current issues in its advertisements, did a ''this is out pav-tea'' version, in a nod to a popular bread snack eaten with tea.
Even politicians jumped on the bandwagon, with a leader from the BJP using the catchy hook at an election rally.
''I'm honoured and grateful for all the love across the border,'' said Mobeen, expressing her happiness at fostering some rare friendly cross-border dialogue,
India and Pakistan, both nuclear-armed nations, have fought three wars and often had tense relations since gaining independence in 1947.
Relations had most recently soured over developments in the northern region of Kashmir, which booth countries control in parts but claim in full.
Last week, the militaries released a rare joint statement saying they had agreed to observe a ceasefire along the disputed Kashmir border, after exchanging fire hundreds of times over past months.
Since the video went viral, Mobeen said she has been inundated with acting and modelling offers, along with requests for products and endorsements.
Instaad, she says she aspires to join Pakistan Foreign services. [Reuters]


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An inmate belonging to the Mara Salvatrucha or MS-13 gang stands inside the prison in Ciudad Barrios, El Salvador, March 26, 2012 (AP Photo/Luis Romero)
Gangs have made El Salvador one of the world's most dangerous countries. In March 2015, 481 people were murdered in El Salvador, a country of 6 million. That's more than were murdered in the state of Missouri, which has a similar population, in an entire year.
As Global Journalist's Taylor Nakagawa reports, the roots of the problem lie in a U.S. deportation policy from the 1990s.


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Caution - the value of your speculative contemporary art purchase can go down as well as up. Bloomberg has a cautionary tale:
Art dealer and collector Niels Kantor paid $100,000 two years ago for an abstract canvas by Hugh Scott-Douglas [above] with the idea of quickly reselling it for a tidy profit. Instead, he is returning the 28-year-old artist's work to the market this week at an 80 percent discount.
Such is the new art season. At auction houses in London and New York, sellers are preparing to bail on their investments after the emerging-art bubble burst and the resale market for once sought-after artists dried up.
"I'd rather take a loss," said Kantor, who is offering the Scott-Douglas work at the Phillips auction in New York on Sept. 20. "I feel like it can go to zero. It's like a stock that crashed." [...]
Kantor acquired the work privately in July 2014. Four months later, a similar piece from the series went for $100,000 at Christie's. Kantor expected the prices to keep surging, but in February 2015 another canvas from the same series failed to sell at auction.
"I feel like we were a little bit drunk and didn't think of the consequences," he said. "Then the bottom fell out. Everyone got stuck with their pants down."
Before consigning his piece to Phillips, Kantor tried selling it privately for a year -- through Blum & Poe, the work's former owner, even on EBay. At one point he was asking $50,000 but couldn't get an offer.
Here's the auction catalogue. Let's keep an eye on that one.
Update - it made $30,000. After comissions I guess that quates to about a 75% loss. And, perhaps, after the publicity a further downward pressure on Scott-Douglas' works. Of course, one always feels sorry for the artist in these situations. But maybe they'll have the last laugh yet...


My comments come from postings put up by our Park Boards in our city parks. Also, a few years ago a veterinarian had an article in the local newspaper asking people not to do it. Birds die all the time. Have you seen any dead ones on the streets lately?
An opportune time to tell all NOT to feed birds with bread. It swells up in the body and it can kill them. Feed them SEEDS instead.


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KHARTOUM (Sudanow) — This week's product is the Tabaldy (baobab) which is also known here as Gongolez and is identified in its scientific name as (adansonia digitata) which is an affiliate of the bombakia species. It is a tree with palm-like alternate leaves, 15 meters high, widely spread in West Sudan and the part used as food and medicament is its fruit, leaves and seed.
Its leaves and fruits are rich in vitamin C, sugars, potassium and calcium. The leaves are eaten fresh or cooked. The fruit is drenched in water, then scrubbed with a metal or wooden spoon or placed in an electric mixer for seconds and is then purified and is sugared and drunk as juice or curd is added to it to cure diarrhea or indigestion.
It is also sold in the form of powder to be easy for carrying about and is mixed with water as juice; and in this form it is predominantly used by Sudanese nationals working abroad and by school pupils who mix it with sugar and sold to them by women who normally wait for them out of the school. This Gongolez substance may be boiled in water with flour added to starch to be used in cases of dehydration.
The modern medicine has proved that Gongolez cures from cholesterol. Renowned journalist writer Mohamed Mohamed Khair wrote that his Canadian doctor advised him in an e-mail to have Gongolez juice instead of the drug he ordered him to have throughout his life, which was two pills, one for minimizing cholesterol in the blood and the other to confront the risk of angina. Khair said the doctor told him that the Canadian pharmaceutical board found out that the Gongolez is an anti-cholesterol substance and the doctor asked Khair to have a test two months after drinking the Gongolez juice. He said the test which he underwent showed a drop in the general average of the cholesterol in all of his veins, vessels, pores and artery. The result was so astonishing to the degree that the pharmaceutically accredited drugs could not in 20 years, Khair said.
It is widely known that the baobab trunk is used for centuries as water reservoirs during the rainy season for the dry
Although a number of medical herbs are useful, they are not substitutes to the modern medicine or medical drugs.
Specialists caution against the risk of absolute reliance on them without knowledge of their properties or the extent of their benefits and their side effects.
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TRAVERSE CITY — Supporting the Future, an event to benefit the annual John Lewis Veterans for Peace NMC Scholarship, will be held from 7 to 10 p.m. May 21 at the Dennos Museum Center.
Guests will also have an opportunity to view the current Dennos exhibitions: Not Ready to Make Nice: Guerrilla Girls in the Art World and Beyond and the Michigan League of Handweavers.
Tickets are $20 general admission, $15 for students, seniors and veterans, and available at Oryana, Grand Traverse Pie Company's downtown location and at the door.


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Issue 2014 -- Issue 2 (April/May)
Tennessee Invests in Main Street
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By Nolen Nychay
The Main Street Festival of Gallatin, Tenn., celebrates its 16th anniversary this October, keeping community traditions alive with local music and homemade food and craft vendors. Last year, the event drew more than 25,000 visitors looking to enjoy the rustic charm that the small communities of Tennessee pride themselves on.
The Greater Gallatin Inc. nonprofit organization hosts the annual festival to stimulate local businesses. The Tennessee Main Street Program, a statewide resource for communities revitalizing their downtowns, aims to preserve the authenticity of such small towns through their new "Ignite Downtown Economic Action" Initiative. "We're excited about the potential of this new initiative to set realistic, economically prudent goals for Tennessee's culturally unique towns," says Todd Morgan of the Tennessee Main Street Program.
Launching this April, the IDEA Initiative will be a one-year program designed to help 27 Tennessee Main Street towns identify areas of economic opportunity. Economic development experts will visit each town, including mountain communities such as Bristol and Kingsport, to identify what most effectively attracts visitors and how that might be expanded. Afterwards, small business owners, city officials and local residents can gather for a public workshop to hear these expert opinions and offer their own suggestions for improvement. A final report with recommendations will be presented to each town hall to use for future projects.
2013 Marks Banner Year for Open Space in Virginia
By Emmalee Zupo
This past year marked the fourth most successful period for land conservation by the Virginia Outdoors Foundation — a state agency responsible for preserving open space and areas of cultural significance.
Nonprofit organizations such as New River Land Trust, based in Blacksburg, Va., have been helping local landowners place their properties into permanent conservation under the stewardship of VOF. The 56,697 acres of land protected from development in 2013 included more than 900 acres added to the state's New River Trail State Park.*
Conserved properties also included historical landmarks such as the Shot Tower Historical State Park in Wythe County, Va., which protects one of the only remaining shot towers in the United States — and the remnants of what was once a major industry for the state. Shot towers are tall buildings that were used to create lead shot for firearms by dropping molten lead from a height of 150 feet into water, where the lead was then cooled.
John Eustis, executive director of the New River Land Trust, attributes the success of this past year to strong outreach efforts. "We couldn't do our work without the support of our community," Eustis says. "Thanks should always be given to those landowners and those community members who support conservation."
*CORRECTION: The print version of this article incorrectly stated that 900 miles were added to the New River Trail scenic route. We regret the error.
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2014 -- Issue 2 (April/May)
Va regulators warns of higher bills wtih Dominion's latest plan
Connecting the Dots of the Southern Appalachian Loop Trail
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Alberto Contador confirms that he'll race for two more years. But right now, the two-time Tour de France champion is scheming a way to beat defending champ Chris Froome.
Alberto Contador will have to crack Chris Froome's code to win his third Tour de France title. Photo: Tim De Waele | TDWsport.com (File).
SAINT-LÔ, France (VN) — Feeling fresh and motivated as ever, Alberto Contador is cautiously optimistic ahead of the 2016 Tour de France.
The 32-year-old reconfirmed Thursday he will race for two more seasons (with a possible move to Trek—Segafredo to fill the hole left by soon-to-be retired Fabian Cancellara), but said his mind is on the here and now.
"My future is still open, but I will race for two more seasons," Tinkoff's GC man confirmed during a pre-Tour press conference. "Right now, I am focused on the Tour. I've worked very hard to try to win another title."
Last year, Contador was out-gunned after coming into the Tour weary from winning the Giro d'Italia, riding to fifth in Paris. This July, the Spanish superstar has shrugged off a pre-race cold that kept him out of the Spanish national championships last weekend and said he's ready to win.
"I feel fresher, stronger than last year," Contador said. "I was able to prepare the way I wanted. I feel good and I am confident. In 25 days, we'll see if it's my Tour or not. I have the condition to win it."
After a strong spring, Contador also shrugged off his loss to Sky's Chris Froome at the Critérium du Dauphiné, saying he "lacked leg speed" during the June warm-up, and said he's ready for the Tour.
Contador is on a quest to claim another yellow jersey. A winner in 2007 and 2009, his 2010 title was taken away as part of his clenbuterol case, meaning he has two yellow jerseys on his official palmares. He missed the 2012 Tour, and was out-classed by Sky's Chris Froome in 2013. The following season, he crashed out in the Vosges, while in 2015, he attempted the Giro-Tour double.
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Contador admitted that Froome is the man to beat, though he has edged the two-time Tour winner in other races, including the Vuelta a España. But so far, he's been unable to seriously challenge Sky's stranglehold on yellow in July.
"Froome is the top favorite, because he's won before, and his team is incredible," Contador said. "You cannot overlook Nairo [Quintana], due to his quality and his team, but Froome is surrounded by big champions at Sky."
Contador said he would continue with his trademark attacking style, saying, "It's complicated to change the way one races," and said the Tour could come down to who can recover best throughout the endless string of climbing stages.
"Recovery will be key in this Tour," Contador said. "You have to be attentive in the first week and not lose any time, but the decisive part will come in the final week, and perhaps it won't be decided until stage 20."
Like last year, Contador will share the team with world champion Peter Sagan, who will be chasing the green jersey as well as stage victories. And like last year, Contador doesn't see that as a problem.
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Q: Junit4 test implementation with parameters passed from XML, (attribute value + nodevalue)? I know I can hardcode it (parse xml, extract), but is there a way to feed (attribute value + nodevalue) like it is done with Feed4TestNG (it currently support only csv, and excel files)?
I am new to Java, and any expert insight would be helpful. Thanks!

A: The body of a @Parameters is not limited to data only, you are able to use any java code you like in this method, including throwing exceptions:
@Parameters
public static Collection<Object[]> data() throws IOException {
    List<Object[]> data = new ArrayList<>();
    // replace getClass() with <nameofclass>.class
    try(InputStream in = this.getClass().getResourceAsStream()) {
        //parse body here
        data.add(new Object[]{attribute, value});
    }
    return data;
}

Depending on what XML framework you use, you need to parse your XML nodes, and put it in the list, that you are going to return.

A: So this is what I end up doing here:
Please submit your correction if you think I can improve my code.
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@RunWith(Parameterized.class)
public class DataDrivenTests {
private String c;
private String b;
private static Collection<Object[]> a;
@Parameters
public static Collection<Object[]> xmlData() throws IOException{

        File file = new File("xmlfile.xml");
        InputStream xml1 = new FileInputStream(file);
        return  new xmlData(xml1).getData();

}

public DataDrivenTests(String c, String b) {
    super();
    this.c = c;
    this.b = b;

}

@Test
public void shouldCalculateATimesB() {
    boolean assertion = false;

    if(c.equals(Parser.parse("Parse this string to Attribute and Value"))){
        assertion = true;

    }

    assertTrue(assertion);

}

}
xmlData.java
public class xmlData{
private transient Collection<Object[]> data = null;

public xmlData(final InputStream xml)throws IOException{

    this.data = loadFromXml(xml);

}

public Collection<Object[]> getData(){

    return data;
}

private Collection<Object[]> loadFromXml(final InputStream xml)
        throws IOException {
List <Object[]> ism_code_map = new ArrayList<Object[]>();

    try{
    DocumentBuilderFactory dbFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
    dbFactory.setNamespaceAware(true);
    DocumentBuilder dBuilder;

    dBuilder = dbFactory.newDocumentBuilder();

    Document doc = dBuilder.parse(xml);
    doc.getDocumentElement().normalize();

    XPath xPath = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath();

    XPathExpression expression = xPath.compile("//e");

    NodeList nodes = (NodeList) expression.evaluate(doc, XPathConstants.NODESET);

    for (int i =0; i< nodes.getLength(); i++){

        Node nNode = nodes.item(i);
        //System.out.println("\nCurrent Element:" + nNode.getTextContent());

                if (nNode.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE){
                    Element eElement = (Element) nNode;

                    if(eElement.getAttribute("attrname") != null && !eElement.getAttribute("attrname").isEmpty()){

                        code_map.add(new Object[]{"attrname",eElement.getAttribute("attrname")});

                    }

    }catch(ParserConfigurationException e){
        e.printStackTrace();

    }catch(SAXException e){
        e.printStackTrace();

    }catch(IOException e){
        e.printStackTrace();
    }catch(XPathExpressionException e){
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    catch(NullPointerException e){
        e.printStackTrace();

    }

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}

}

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 * These authors would like to acknowledge the Spanish Ministry of Industry,
 * Tourism and Trade, for the support in the project TSI020301-2008-2
 * "PIRAmIDE: Personalizable Interactions with Resources on AmI-enabled
 * Mobile Dynamic Environments", led by Treelogic
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package com.google.zxing.oned.rss.expanded;

import com.google.zxing.common.BitArray;

import java.util.List;

/**
 * @author Pablo Orduña, University of Deusto (pablo.orduna@deusto.es)
 * @author Eduardo Castillejo, University of Deusto (eduardo.castillejo@deusto.es)
 */
final class BitArrayBuilder {

  private BitArrayBuilder() {
  }

  static BitArray buildBitArray(List<ExpandedPair> pairs) {
    int charNumber = (pairs.size() * 2) - 1;
    if (pairs.get(pairs.size() - 1).getRightChar() == null) {
      charNumber -= 1;
    }

    int size = 12 * charNumber;

    BitArray binary = new BitArray(size);
    int accPos = 0;

    ExpandedPair firstPair = pairs.get(0);
    int firstValue = firstPair.getRightChar().getValue();
    for(int i = 11; i >= 0; --i){
      if ((firstValue & (1 << i)) != 0) {
        binary.set(accPos);
      }
      accPos++;
    }

    for(int i = 1; i < pairs.size(); ++i){
      ExpandedPair currentPair = pairs.get(i);

      int leftValue = currentPair.getLeftChar().getValue();
      for(int j = 11; j >= 0; --j){
        if ((leftValue & (1 << j)) != 0) {
          binary.set(accPos);
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        accPos++;
      }

      if(currentPair.getRightChar() != null){
        int rightValue = currentPair.getRightChar().getValue();
        for(int j = 11; j >= 0; --j){
          if ((rightValue & (1 << j)) != 0) {
            binary.set(accPos);
          }
          accPos++;
        }
      }
    }
    return binary;
  }
}

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US government advocates 'preventive' nuclear war
This video from the USA is called Sarah Palin doesn't know what the Bush Doctrine is.
By Alex Lantier:
US defense secretary expands pre-emptive war doctrine to include nuclear strikes
In a remarkable speech on nuclear policy delivered October 28 at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP), US Defense Secretary Robert Gates painted a dire portrait of international affairs and argued that Washington should expand the doctrine of pre-emptive war formulated by the Bush administration to include possible nuclear strikes.
It is widely rumored that, in the likely event that Democrat Barack Obama wins next week's US presidential election, Obama will keep Gates as defense secretary. Gates' speech, given in the waning days of the Bush presidency, has the character of a policy declaration of the next US administration.
Gates began by making extended and ominous parallels between the world situation today and that which prevailed at the founding of the Carnegie Institute in 1910, four years before the outbreak of World War I. At the time, he noted, Wall Street was passing through the panic of 1910-1911 and facing a credit crisis, the US had recently put down an insurgency in the Philippines at a cost of 4,200 American lives, comparable to today's US death toll in Iraq, and "Europe was arming itself to the teeth and forming a series of alliances whose implications were obvious to anyone who cared to look."
Gates argued that the pacifist illusions promoted by CEIP founder Andrew Carnegie—a US steel magnate at the turn of the 20th century, most famous in the working class movement for the brutal suppression of the 1892 Homestead strike against his company—— should not deter Washington from planning broader war.
He noted, "In August of 1913, Carnegie said that 'the only measure required today for the maintenance of world peace is an agreement between three or four of the leading civilized powers… pledged to cooperate against disturbers of world peace.'" Gates pointed out that, writing four years later to President Woodrow Wilson, who had been elected in 1916 on a platform of keeping the US out of the world war, "the same Andrew Carnegie encouraged the president in the strongest terms to declare war, because, he wrote, 'There is only one straight way of settlement.'"
Turning to US nuclear policy, Gates said, "As long as others have nuclear weapons, we must maintain some level of these weapons ourselves: to deter potential adversaries, and to reassure over two dozen allies and partners who rely on our nuclear umbrella for their security—making it unnecessary for them to develop their own."
This comment gives a sense of the highly tense and unstable character of international relations, and the paranoia of US officials. Gates' fears about the spread of nuclear weapons are not limited to existing programs of "potential adversaries," among which Gates included "rogue states such as North Korea and Iran, or Russian or Chinese strategic modernization programs." His fears extend to the nuclear policy of all states, including current US allies.
Gates later repeated this point: "We simply cannot predict the future. […] our adversaries and other nations will always seek whatever advantages they can find. Knowing that, we have to be prepared for contingencies we haven't even considered."
Gates' list of US-friendly states that have chosen not to develop nuclear weapons was significant: South Korea, Taiwan, Brazil, Argentina, South Africa, and Libya. Two of the most obvious such countries—ex-World War II enemies Japan and Germany—were not included. Gates did not explain what political factors induced him to omit them.
Gates then issued a remarkable threat: "As long as other states have or seek nuclear weapons—and can potentially threaten us, our allies and friends—then we must have a deterrent capacity that makes it clear that challenging the US in the nuclear arena—or with other weapons of mass destruction—could result in an overwhelming, catastrophic response.
"According to Gates, the US must be able to credibly threaten a nuclear holocaust against any state that "challenges" the US in the nuclear arena or with other "weapons of mass destruction." By his own words, such a challenge does not require a nation to threaten to attack the US. It does not even require that a nation possess nuclear weapons or other WMD. It is enough for a nation merely to "seek" such weapons for it to become a potential target for a preemptive "overwhelming, catastrophic response" from the United States.
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Anti NATO protest in Strasbourg, France: here.
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The Threat of Nuclear War Grows
Edward S. Herman
[Z Magazine, November 2008]
In this Kafkaesque age everything is stood on its head–the champion violator of international law and sovereignty and the territorial integrity of states is gung ho for respecting state sovereignty and territorial integrity (of Georgia, but not Pakistan); primary terrorist and ethnic cleansing states (the United States and Israel) invade, bomb, and torture, but wax indignant at retail terrorism that flows largely in response to their wholesale terror; and these same two states, brimming over with nuclear arms and increasingly threatening to use them, are aghast that Iran might want and someday be able to make a nuclear weapon.
These two states are mainly responsible for the steadily rising probability that nuclear weapons will again be used in the not too distant future. Both have a stock of nuclear weapons and up-to-date delivery systems: that of the United States is of course gigantic, but Israel's is substantial (estimated as between 60 and 200 ready bombs). Israel has developed its nuclear capability outside the authority of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, with the collusion of the Western powers, which have been so aggressive in denying any similar rights to Iran (except during the period of the rule of the Western-imposed dictator, the Shah). This weapons accumulation and refusal to accept the NPT has entailed no penalty for Israel–no threats, no sanctions, no refusal to assist its ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. Israel has threatened to use its nuclear weapons, earlier against the Soviet Union, today against Iran. Its threat of an attack on Iran, which is in itself a violation of the UN Charter, has not been treated at all critically in the West–in contrast with the horror at Ahmadinejad's fuzzy condemnations of Israel, which have never included any expressed threat to literally attack Israel.
The United States has also steadily violated both the letter and spirit of the NPT. It had agreed in signing on to this treaty in 1968 to work toward the elimination of nuclear weapons. Not only has it not done this, it has made them officially a core part of national defense strategy and in recent years has worked steadily to make them more usable in warfare. It has also withdrawn its NPT promise not to use nuclear weapons against any state that signs on to the NPT and promises not to develop nuclear weapons. The United States has also violated the spirit of the NPT by helping and supporting Israel's development of a nuclear weapons capability, of turning a blind eye to Pakistan's nuclear development during years when it was serving as a useful client, and now recently agreeing to assist India's nuclear program despite that country's refusal to join the NPT. Pakistan and China of course resent this U.S. support of a nuclear India, clearly based on political expediency and weakening further any control over nuclear weapons proliferation.
The End of Soviet Nuclear Containment
One important reason for Israel's and the U.S.'s greater openness on the possibility of using nuclear arms is that the countries they threaten, with the exception of Russia, have no nuclear retaliatory capability. In earlier years the Soviet Union, with its own large nuclear weapons arsenal, was a barrier to nuclear threats, especially to countries which were allied with the Soviets. Its termination diminished the containing force that had previously put some limits on U.S. and Israeli violence.
A country like Iran would surely respond to a nuclear attack, but it couldn't do so with a comparably devastating weapon. The stream of attacks in recent years by the two primary aggressor states has been grounded heavily in the imbalance of power and weakness and limited ability to respond on the part of the victims (Panama, Serbia, Afghanistan, Lebanon, and Iraq). A nuclear capability on the part of potential victims would enhance their power of self defense–a terrifying threat to aggressor states.
Russia could respond, but it is substantially weaker in its retaliatory potential than the Soviet Union: it is smaller and militarily less formidable in the wake of its economic disaster of 1992-1998, substantial cutbacks in military expenditures, and national demoralization. It has made some recovery in recent years with higher energy prices and a stronger and more independent government, and the short war with Georgia indicates that it is now prepared to resist the West's (mainly U.S.'s) political and military encirclement and possible attempts at further dismantlement. But it is still vulnerable and justifiably worried about a U.S. first strike capability, enhanced by the planned placement of U.S. anti-missile systems in Poland and the Czech Republic, with perhaps others to follow. With God-instructed politicians in command in the United States, a manageable (or ignorable) populace, and with its overweening power, aggressive nuclear attack and/or misreadings that set off trigger-alerts are more likely than in the recent past.
Not only are the Russian triggers more alert and sensitive as a U.S. first strike potential and threat grows, Russia has also warned that it is elevating its tactical nuclear weapons to potential use where it is threatened by advanced electronic technology that it cannot match. During the years after 1990, with its devastating economic and political setbacks, it fell further behind the United States in its weaponry, and feels obligated to offset this–or at least talk and threaten to offset this–with the formidable weaponry it still possesses.
Deteriorating Moral Environment
Another important reason for the growing probability of nuclear warfare is the deteriorating moral environment. This has resulted in good part from militarization and war itself, both of which get people habituated to the resort to force and a steady diet of killing, which are normalized. Militarization and war also contribute to justifying the development and use of outlandish weapons, allegedly needed to "defend" the home country and clients from the threat of demonized enemies. Enlightenment values erode and disappear quickly in such a moral environment; mass killing becomes acceptable and even laudable–the large-scale killing of civilians at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the basis of celebration in the United States.
One measure of the deteriorated moral environment is in fact the open acceptance of aggressive war as an appropriate policy option even in the absence of a military attack or serious threat. This was notorious in the case of the 2003 attack on Iraq, and is equally obvious in the case of the ongoing threats to attack Iran. Pugnacity and a willingness–even eagerness–to use force is a political necessity, at least for satisfying the establishment media and major election funders. What the public thinks on this is less clear–the public usually drags it feet in the war-making process, often preferring diplomacy and reliance on the UN, and has to be managed into a proper frame of mind, although once the bombs start falling patriotic zeal takes over. Writing during World War I, Thorstein Veblen pointed out, that "once a warlike enterprise has been entered upon, it will have the cordial support of popular sentiment even if it is patently an aggressive war." Furthermore, "The higher the pitch of patriotic fervor, the more tenuous and more threadbare may be the requisite moral sanction. By cumulative excitation some very remarkable results have latterly been attained along this line" (in his chapter "On the Nature and Uses of Patriotism," in An Inquiry into the Nature of Peace [1917]).
The Democrats are deemed by the establishment to be less trustworthy as war-makers than the Republicans–they are supposedly weak on "national security." This causes their politicians and aspiring political nominees to lean over backwards to demonstrate their bomb-worthiness. For both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama all options were "on the table" in dealing with that gigantic threat that Iran might be able to defend itself some time in the future, and Obama has compensated for his Iraq war foot-dragging by promising an escalation in Afghanistan and maybe Pakistan. He also chose Joe Biden as his running mate, for his "experience" (he's been wrong lots of times) and known foreign policy pugnacity.
Biden has recently proclaimed that he is a "Zionist," and in fact virtually every Democratic politician has appeared before AIPAC to pledge allegiance to the state of Israel. This steady genuflection, and the financial dependence of the Democrats on organized Zionist money, has been a further factor in moral degradation. It has completely stymied any political opposition to Israeli ethnic cleansing in Palestine and the war against Lebanon in 2006, and as Israeli leaders wanted the Iraq attack and are eager for a war with Iran, the Democratic Party went along with the Iraq war, dragged its feet in extrication even after the antiwar vote of 2006, and has demonized Iran and helped set the stage for war there.
It has been pointed out by Michael MccGwire that of the two first class global threats, nuclear war and global warming, the first could be eliminated with small costs (actually, its elimination would release large resources for human improvement and welfare), whereas combating global warming will be quite expensive. But eliminating the nuclear warfare threat, and in the process, demilitarizing, would be contrary to the interests of the Pentagon and rest of the military-industrial complex, and those special interests that benefit from or thrive on permanent warfare. At the moment these real special interests are in command. Whether the financial crisis and permanent war setbacks will change the situation and allow a move toward a decent and rational world order remains to be seen.
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Bush History-Bush Says Nukes are Greatest Threat, so Why Are They a Low
Priority? 12/11
Bush says nukes are the greatest threat to our security, so one wonders
why he seem to put such low priority on protecting us from them. From
choice of nations to invade, to securing nuclear material around the
world, the Bush administration is NOT treating nuke security as job
#1. Also, a related Bushism.
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Chief Dan George (1899 – 1981) was chief of the Salish Band in Burrard Inlet, BC. He became Canada's most distinguished indigenous actor, starring in films such as Little Big Man (1970). He was also a stage actor, longshoreman, musician, lecturer and poet.
Roger J. Bishop served Victoria College and the University of Victoria from 1945 to 1971. A longtime member of the English department, his efforts led to the establishment of the theatre division.


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Polars è il primo album in studio del gruppo progressive metal olandese Textures, pubblicato nel 2003.

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Jochem Jacobs - chitarra, cori
Bart Hennephof - chitarra, cori
Richard Rietdijk - sintetizzatore, tastiera
Dennis Aarts - basso
Stef Broks - batteria
Pieter Verpaalen - voce

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The Navy Transport is the logistical centerpiece of the Galactic Navy, transferring men and materials across all eight galaxies. Whether operating in a convoy or as part of a carrier group the Navy Transport is an indispensable part of any fleet. Each transport began as an ordinary anaconda trader. Before being commissioned into military service every ship is extensively re-fitted with the latest navy hardware and software. The final product is a model of military efficiency.
The most visible feature of any Navy Transport would be its four side mounted plasma turrets, but the truly notable changes lie under the armor plated hull. The re-fitted transports have half the cargo space of a traditional anaconda but twice the speed allowing them to keep pace with faster navy ships. The remaining 400 tons of cargo capacity is highly modular and can carry anything from fuel and ammunition to troops and vehicles. These features make the Navy Transport one the most important ships in the Galactic Fleet.
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Old soldier Warren, 69, tracks down Malaysian girl he fell for while serving in Army 47 years ago
SCOTS veteran was transferred after getting engaged to local girl Wan Jamilah Wan Hussein, who he met at a party in Penang in 1967.
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Warren and his Malaysian love
OLD soldier Warren Holbrook never forgot the first love he was forced to give up by Army chiefs in Malaysia.
He was transferred after getting engaged to local girl Wan Jamilah Wan Hussein, who he met at a party in Penang in 1967.
Now, 47 years on, he has tracked her down, only to discover she is married with two kids in Melbourne, Australia.
But Warren, a retired gamekeeper from Grantown-on-Spey, Moray, said yesterday: "I'm just pleased to find out she is alive and well. It wasn't a case of trying to rekindle our relationship.
"I always wondered what had become of her. I am 69 and probably will only have a few years left, so it was on my bucket list."
Warren, who never wed, got engaged to Wan at a party for an Army pal who was going back to Britain.
He said: "She walked in with her sister Nora and took my breath away."
Warren today
Warren even remembers the music they danced to – Wooly Bully by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs. He said: "I found her sitting by herself. I asked her for a dance and we just clicked."
It was against the rules then to fraternise with locals but, after dating for five months, they got engaged.
Warren said: "As soon as my superiors found out, they sent me to another Army base. A white man in the Army wasn't allowed to marry a local back then.
"I talked myself into believing it was just destined not to be."
But he never forgot her and traced her to Melbourne after flying to Penang where a paper told his story. Wan's brother rang her in Australia after reading the article.
Then Wan called him. Warren said: "We talked for a long time and she is happily married with two children aged 39 and 41.
"It was great to speak to her and I'm happy for her."
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Excerpt from CD review by Scott Yanow
"...On The Back Foot is a set that will be enjoyed by fans of straight ahead jazz, bebop and the jazz guitar. Dave Chamberlain shows throughout this easily recommended CD that he is a superior improviser and a guitarist who clearly has a strong future..."
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Tony Kofi Standard Time Trio
Michael Tippett Centre, Bath Spa University
Saxophonist Tony Kofi is well known in British jazz; his reputation has now crossed the Atlantic for a new album with Ornette Coleman and Jamaaladeen Tacuma. On this night at Bath Spa University he was in trio format with double bassist David Chamberlain and drummer Rod Youngs; it was pure jazz at the highest level.
Tony announced that they would be playing songs from "the great American songbook," but that songbook was not the Tin Pan Alley one older jazz fans might expect. These were standards within the jazz idiom, beginning with Joe Henderson's Isotope, followed by Toots Thielmann's Bluesette, ending with Charlie Parker's Relaxin' at Camarillo.
The band's approach to the tunes was oblique, often not stating the melody until deep into the piece, if not just at the end. They were playing the song, however: this was not free jazz. There is a certain amount of elusion built into a trio such as this, with no chording instrument, and it allows the saxophonist, in particular, greater freedom in building and interpreting the tune. This was, from the redefinition of "great American songbook" to the last note, a serious concert of serious music.
Not that they weren't having fun — many smiles passed between the three at points in the interplay; it was clear that this was an exceptional night and a high point in their individual gig schedules.
The Standard Time Trio has a big sense of history. David Chamberlain was a revelation, with chops that would turn any bassist green with envy. Like Ron Carter, he played a lot of walking bass at amazingly rapid tempos with perfect articulation, perfectly pitched even when playing at the top of the fingerboard.
Rod Youngs, recently seen with Denys Baptiste at St Georges, has a uniquely identifiable style, loose-limbed, ever so slightly behind the beat, giving everything a great sense of swing. It is a style that incorporates influences across the board from Sid Catlett to Tony Williams, but centres in the great post-Bop drummers of the 50s.
Tony Kofi, tonight sticking to tenor sax, can do it all and pretty much does no wrong. He too draws on a large range of jazz history with big echoes of Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk and some Eric Dolphy in his playing. The thing I think I like best, however, is his robustness. He is cerebral without being effete. Reminiscent of Cannonball Adderly, he digs into the core of each piece with gusto as well as creativity.
Charley Dunlap
Gig review by Don Emanuel
Good Intent 5th December 2008
Dave Chamberlain Trio featuring Chico Chagas (accordion) and Oliver Wilby (alto/tenor saxes)
So I knew what Brazilian accordionist Chico Chagas sounded like because when Colin told me that bassist Dave Chamberlain was bringing a Trio down to the Good Intent as a replacement for the Graham Harvey Trio, (who couldn't make it because of family illness), I looked him up on YouTube and found a good sample of his playing. So I knew he could play a bit.
Saxist Oliver Wilby was a more difficult proposition because apart from a couple of mentions of him with the Pasadena Orchestra, there was very little under Google. I was personally a little concerned that although a Pasadena Orchestra player needed to be a good player and reader; this didn't mean he would necessarily be a good jazz player.
I needn't have worried though, I should have just trusted Dave Chamberlain that he wouldn't let us down, and he didn't. Wilby was an excellent jazz player, on both alto and tenor.
An unusual line-up for the gig then but when the music started it was clear that we were in for some fine jazz, with generally a Brazilian tinge, which was very understandable as Chico was from the home of the bossa nova.
They started with Ellington's 'Satin Doll' and it was clear that this group would be providing us with some very melodic playing. They played some more bossa novas including 'Chega de Saudade' ('No more Blues'), 'Wave', some more Ellington with 'Caravan' (actually by Juan Tizol, but forever associated with Ellington) and 'In in a sentimental mood'. They cruised through Dizzy's 'Night in Tunisia' and ventured into more modern realms with Chick Corea's 'Windows.
Oliver Wilby has a cool toned measured approach on tenor, not really sounding like anybody else which was very welcome. His ideas were coherent and he swung, if not like Tubby Hayes or Simon Spillett, in a quieter more understated way. There was one solo which sounded a little like Warne Marsh, which for me was a welcome thing to hear. Whether he had been influenced or not by Marsh is irrelevant, it fitted perfectly in this context. His alto, I thought, garnered a different approach. It was like a lovely eclectic mixture of Johnny Hodges, Benny Carter and Paul Desmond. Absolutely lovely on 'In as sentimental mood' and 'As time goes by'.
Accordion is not the most natural instrument for jazz players. There have been a few over the years, especially in the US, guys like Art Van Damme, Tommy Gumina, Frank Marocco, Leon Sash, Pete Jolly and more recently Gil Goldstein and my favourite Eddie Monteiro (who puts so many midi devices on his instrument that is hardly an accordion any more) but there have not been many over the years. Chico Chagas is one of the very best, highly melodic on the bossas but he could stomp on the swingers, like 'Caravan' and a closing 'Now's the time'. First time I've ever actually seen a jazz accordion player but it was novel and very musical. Chico is a fine jazz player.
Dave Chamberlain is simply one of the best bass players in the country. He was THE rhythm section for this gig and we didn't need a drummer. Lightly amplified, his tone was exemplary, his lines were supportive and swung and his solos were musical statements, not just a series of licks. His arco work (bowing to you) was superb. I've never rated the bowing of most jazz players but Dave's, almost cello like in places, was truly excellent.
So an unusual gig but one that was full of musical highlights.
Thanks guys and special thanks to Dave for introducing us to two excellent musicians in Oliver Wilby and Chico Chagas, new to us in the Medway Towns.
Don Emanuel
Excerpt from New York Times review
"...Dave Chamberlain (excellent) on double bass..."
(New York Times review of Stacey Kent at Birdland, 11 Nov 2007)


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Interesting Motorcycle Stories Hitting The News
by admin1 | Jul 27, 2010
I was reading the editorial by Scott Cochran, in the June edition of U.S. Rider News this morning (I'm behind on my reading). Scott's editorial covered an interesting story about Anthony Graber from Maryland. Anthony Graber was driving his motorcycle on the I-95 quite recklessly and recording it with a camera on his helmet. He pulls off the freeway and is followed by an unmarked car that pulls in front of him and stops. A white male gets out of the car waving a gun and screams at Graber to get off the motorcycle. A few seconds into this the white male identifies himself as a police officer as a police car pulls up from behind. No big deal right? A young man stunting on his motorcycle gets nailed by an gun wielding cop. Graber posted the video on youtube and was busted for "illegally wiretapping police activity". What I find interesting is the cop was over the top but not crazy over the top and now, what would have been a non-issue is a huge issue. Now the cops are going to look bad, not for pulling over a reckless driver but for arresting him for the illegal wiretapping. The spin doctors should have commended the officer on being so concerned with public safety that while off-duty he pursued a reckless driver that posed a risk to the public. I have a lot of friends who are police officers and I, personally, get involved with a number of police motorcycle rides and the last thing the department needs is bad press. They need a new PR person because someone is giving them crappy PR advice.
In Baltimore, Maryland a police officer has been suspended due to a collision with a motorcycle rider which resulted in the bikers death. Officer Timothy Beall, a ten year veteran of the police force had been in a high speed pursuit with Haines E. Holloway-Lilliston of Cockeyes, when the two vehicles collided. Holloway-Lilliston died at the scene.
Baltimore police are prohibited from high speed pursuits unless given permission. Officer Beall, reported he witnessed the motorcyclist racing another vehicle. Officer Beall tried to get Holloway-Lilliston to stop but he did not and the pursuit began. It has been reported that Beall was given orders to stop the pursuit but ignored the orders. This has not been confirmed by the department so it will be interesting to see how this investigation pans out.
And now some good biker news, the motorcycle tour 'Motorcycle Ride for Dad's 10th Anniversary Cross-Canada Tour kicks off August 1. The Motorcycle Ride For Dad has raised more than $5 million for prostate cancer awareness since it began in 2000. For 10th anniversary, they partnering with the Canadian Armed Forces Military Family Fund.
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The exhibition is inspired by the world of Leonard Cohen and the great themes of his life and work. This major exhibition is the first to be entirely devoted to the imagination and legacy of this great singer/songwriter, man of letters and global icon from Montreal.
A truly multidisciplinary exhibition combining visual art, virtual reality, installations, performances, music and writing, Leonard Cohen – Une brèche en toute chose / A Crack in Everything offers the public a collection of brand new work commissioned from and created by local and international artists who have been inspired by Leonard Cohen's style and recurring themes. At the same time, it is a particularly Montreal-centric exhibition that has received outstanding support from the community.
Beyond the works to be created especially for Leonard Cohen – A Crack in Everything, the exhibition will also include innovative multimedia environments where Cohen's songs will be covered and performed, as well as a survey of his archival material (writings, drawings and recordings produced over the past half-century).
A world-renowned Montreal novelist, poet and singer/songwriter who inspired generations of writers, musicians and artists, Cohen is an extraordinary poet of sorrow and the human condition, giving voice to what it means to be fully alert to the complexities and desires of both body and soul.
Leonard Cohen's thinking, writing and music are a thing of beauty and despair. For decades, the novelist, poet and singer/songwriter tenaciously supplied the world with melancholy but urgent observations on the state of the human heart. With equal parts gravitas and grace, he teased out a startlingly inventive and singular language, depicting both an exalted spirituality and an earthly sexuality. He set the blunt but brilliant instrument of his famous voice a "velour foghorn" so deep and cavernous or, more recently, his raspy chant-like whispers to beautiful melodies and simple arrangements that belied a great musical intelligence. His interweaving of the sacred and the profane, of mystery and accessibility, was such a compelling combination it became seared into memory.


SB 6671 was heard in Ways and Means and is now in Senate Rules. The bill died in Senate Rules.
The Legislature concludes that state and local homelessness strategies require more frequent review and transparent reporting of spending and performance to improve the development of cost-effective programs and identification of best practices.
Commerce's annual Point-in-Time census must collect data on specific subpopulations of the homeless. At least every10 years, and subject to appropriation for this specific purpose, the Washington State Institute for Public Policy must conduct a statewide homeless study involving face-to-face interviews to better understand causes and characteristics of chronically homeless, unaccompanied homeless youth, and unsheltered populations to help persons gain housing stability. A study proposal is due to the Legislature by January 1, 2018.
Each February 1, Commerce must provide an update on the state's homeless housing strategic plan and its activities for the prior fiscal year. The report must include, but is not limited to: 1) an assessment of the current condition of homelessness; 2) the state's performance in meeting its strategic plan goals; 3) the results of the annual homeless point-in-time census; 4) an analysis of current drivers of homelessness; and 5) the amount of federal, state, local, and private funds spent on homelessness assistance, categorized by funding source and major assistance types. The report must be posted on its website and links can be included to updated information.
Every February 1, any local government receiving state funds for homeless assistance must provide an annual performance report on meeting the goals in its homeless housing strategic plan. The report must be posted on Commerce's website. Commerce must produce and report on local government homelessness spending from all sources by project during the prior state fiscal year in a format similar to the Commerce's report under subsection. If a local government fails to report or provides an inadequate performance report, Commerce must take corrective action, including withholding state funding for homeless assistance until the report is remedied.
Revenue from document recording surcharges are revised. Revenue from the $10 Affordable Housing for All surcharge and the $40 surcharge are first split 40 percent to the state and 60 percent to the county. The county may use up to 6 percent of its funds for county collection and administrative costs. Of the $8 surcharge, counties may use up to 6 percent of its funds for county collection and administrative costs. State annual reporting and auditing of document recording surcharge usage changed to fiscal year and due dates are changed to align with due dates of annual performance reports.


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Q: Unable to install ubuntu 12.04 on new motherboard Our PC configuration is as follows:
- ASUS Maximus V EXTREME LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Extended ATX Intel Motherboard
- Intel Core i7-3770S Ivy Bridge 3.1GHz (3.9GHz Turbo) LGA 1155 65W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 4000 BX80637I73770S
Windows 7 installation can proceed without any issues, but not Ubuntu. I tried 11.10 and 12.04 both 32bit and 64bit, same issue.
I have the BIOS settings to boot from CD drive. While booting, I get at the first screen with the little person and keyboard icons, then goes to Ubuntu splash screen and stays there forever. Only option is a hard reboot.
Can anyone share their experience with the motherboard I am using? Any suggestions for me to try?
Thanks.

A: Adding nomodeset to the boot options fixed the problem for me.

A: You should make sure also that you aren't trying to boot off of a drive that is plugged into the ASMedia eSATA ports.
This person reports that with the ASUS Maximus V Gene, which is like the little brother of the Extreme, they had a similar issue and solved it by using the Intel eSATA ports.
ASUS has a footnote about those ASMedia ports:

These SATA ports are for data drives only.

A: It is suggested to boot with minimal/safe options. Then while installation is running (or after the installation), you can have live updates for new drivers related to your hardware. Please see this post https://askubuntu.com/a/102441/37991 for using safe options at boot time.

A: I just experienced this problem today. I installed Ubuntu 14.04 in UEFI mode. I did the whole "custom BIOS partition with GParted + flags" thing. When it still wouldn't boot, I really scratched my head.
Silly me.
The solution is to update your BIOS firmware to the latest version. ASUS has offered quite a few updates for the Maximus V series motherboards.
How to update Asus Maximus Series Motherboard BIOS

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*Format a USB thumbdrive as FAT32 or MS-DOS

*Download the latest BIOS firmware from Asus for Maximus Extreme

*Extract the downloaded .zip and rename the file to M5E.CAP

*Copy M5E.CAP to the thumbdrive's root directory, then eject it

*Plug the USB thumbdrive into the designated BIOS update USB port (it should be outlined/called out on the rear motherboard port shield

*Reboot your machine and press F2/DEL to enter the BIOS, then use the easy updater tool to apply the M5E.CAP update

*Reboot and try your UEFI, non-windoze OS ;)