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'Kill All Normies' Is About the Alt-Right But the Left Ends Up Looking Worse
A new book from Irish author Angela Nagle chronicles the rise of the alt-right and how the worst of the internet went mainstream.
by Roisin Kiberd
May 12 2017, 3:00pm
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There are certain books where, as you're reading, you realize your mind is about to change. Reading Kill All Normies is one of those experiences. Written by Angela Nagle, an Irish writer and academic known for articles identifying "The New Man of 4chan," the book is a record of the recent online "culture wars", culminating in the 2016 US election and the triumph of the alt-right. It is also an indictment of the left, pinpointing just how it allowed this to happen.
The book opens with a cultural history, "From Hope to Harambe," outlining the progression from mid-00s pickup artist communities, to overtly anti-feminist "neomasculinity," to Gamergate (here Nagle's narration takes a near-audible sigh), leading to its collusion with 4chan's troll army and its political awakening as the alt-right. Nagle wrote her PhD dissertation on online misogyny, witnessing this evolution in real-time. "There's a sort of broad arch of reactionary politics which moves from anti-feminism to racism," she explains, meeting me in Dublin to talk about the book.
With its promise of a collective identity, the alt-right can seduce and assimilate these groups, lending them a sense of coherent identity.
Nagle approaches the alt-right as a tangle of wayward factions, united in their loathing of the left. Named for Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci who argued that political change follows cultural change, the "Gramscian Alt-Light" are those people you've seen on 4chan threads: creative, angry, unpredictable, but politically vacuous and messy. The "Manosphere" are men threatened by feminists, who they claim augur in civilizational decline and "cucking." They have converted their misogyny into racism, which links them with more old-fashioned far-right bigotry.
What each group shares is a fear of the future, an atomized life spent forever alone. With its promise of a collective identity, the alt-right can seduce and assimilate these groups, lending them a sense of coherent identity.
Among the alt-right's leaders, Nagle sees Richard Spencer as the most influential and the most likely to sustain a political career. "Mike Cernovich, Lauren Southern and Milo, all those people are brilliant at media," says Nagle. "They're really good at Twitter, but they're shallow thinkers. Richard Spencer is much smarter. He realizes that conservatism will never be cool, so he's trying to bring in figures from the dissident left."
Essentialist arguments about what it is to "be a man" have evolved to address what it is to be a white man. Nagle cites "Return of Kings" (a "neomasculinity" blog) author Roosh V's transition from pickup artist to alt-right proponent as an example. Overwhelmed by a sexual hierarchy in which they cannot compete, and immersed in anti-immigration rhetoric and talk of "white genocide," the alt-right has coalesced around an aggressive, ultra-conservative version of white masculinity.
Nagle identifies a contradiction at the heart of the alt-right's demands: It might call for a return to old-fashioned values, but it fails to recognize how those same forces that brings it together erode any chance of returning to that lifestyle (the kind lived by people who hardly use the internet in the first place). "I think they want out of their lives, because their own lives are nothing like that," Nagle explains. "They're living the ultimate kind of individualism. They spend their time watching porn and playing video games. They're not part of any greater purpose." Spencer himself alludes to this in speeches, stating that "in a culture which offers video games, endless entertainment, drugs, alcohol, porn, sports, and a thousand other distractions to convince us of another reality, we want to cut all of that away."
This argument for the "real" stretches far beyond the online right: As a generation born far away enough from lifetime monogamy, home ownership, job security and a life without technology, we have little concept of the "normal" we're denied. On the alt-right, this plays out as an irresolvable frustration. "When they talk about 'normies,' explains Nagle, "they're also saying 'I want a normal life. I want a wife and a house and a family.' They're deeply conflicted, because everything they hate in this world is what they are the ultimate example of."
It would be tempting to dismiss this as an attack on easy targets (a group of antisocial teenage boys), but Nagle never dismisses their hopes and frustrations. Instead, she traces where they come from. Nor does she spare the online left: Kill All Normies can be categorized alongside Jarrett's Kobek's 2016 anti-novel I Hate the Internet in that both titles attack the online left from the left. Beside the /b/tards and racists and the Men Going Their Own Way (aka "MGTOW," the anti-feminist group that claims to renounce women and sex entirely), still it is the left who come out looking worst of all.
This is what makes Kill All Normies so troubling, and in other ways so exhilarating to read. Nagle attacks a liberal internet sunk in filter-bubbled complacency, drunk on the relative ease of expressing one's politics in retweets, and obsessed with calling out the right-wing bogeyman.
Nagle links this stagnation to a poverty of thought: "The thing is, you cannot come up with new ideas if the intellectual culture of your movement is totally closed down. Which has been the case for years. That's why the alt-right has been such a shock, because everyone was banking on the fact that everyone now agrees with us."
Nagle's argument finds horrifying validation at the book's conclusion, which leaps forward to January of this year, immediately after the suicide of author and cultural critic Mark Fisher. Rather than mourning his loss, or expressing condolences to his bereaved family, members of the online left gloated and portrayed his untimely death as a victory:
Nagle is damning here, writing that "this response is a fairly typical example of precisely the sour-faced identitarians who undoubtedly drove so many young people to the right during these vicious culture wars."
In the recent past, Fisher came under fire online for his essay "Exiting the Vampire Castle," which argues against the online left's call-out culture as obstructing change, and breeding a further sense of futility among the online left. When I interviewed Fisher two years ago about his Facebook project "Boring Dystopia," he was certain that Facebook, Twitter and their ilk would die away within our lifetimes.
This hasn't yet come to pass. Rather, "online politics" have gone mainstream, and won an election. What went so horribly wrong in online life, that it got this bad? Have we learned to love the filter bubble so much that we've forgotten our own humanity?
More than anything, this book is about the a battle for the real. What is real? Who gets to be a normie?
It is tempting to dream of an end to Twitter, of Facebook imploding and Instagram going offline, to put an end to this culture war. But Nagle isn't convinced it would solve our dilemma: "I think it would be replaced by something that would fulfill the same purpose. I wouldn't want to suggest a technical solution to what is in essence an absence of ideas."
The book ends with the alt-right on the ascendant, spilling off the screen and into real life as riots erupt at American universities. The alt-right has been validated: we have already let them, to paraphrase Ivanka Trump (herself misquoting Ayn Rand). Now, who is going to stop them?
More than anything, this book is about a battle for the real. What is real? Who gets to be a normie? What will we accept as "normal," and what will we stand against? To Nagle, the challenge posed is a moral one: "We think of them as kind of a dirty word, one which reminds of us of reactionary politics, but moral questions are so important. We constantly make moral decisions, whether we want to or not. And the central issue of the alt right is a moral one."
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Mikl Mayer, de son vrai nom Michaël Mayer, est un dessinateur et scénariste français de bande dessinée, né à Pont à Mousson le . Originaire de Lorraine, il vit à Toulouse depuis 2004.

Biographie
Il est connu pour sa bande dessinée Les d'jeunes, qui raconte la vie d'un groupe d'adolescents dont Justin, le héros et ses amies, Kimberly et Morgane. Il s'est fait connaître pour ses affiches pour l'association Laurette Fugain ainsi que des visuels contre l'homophobie à Toulouse.

Son premier album est sorti en  : La dure vie des adolescents, suivi d'Amour & conséquences l'année suivante. Le troisième Problèmes en série, publié le , voit l'apparition de la tante de Justin, sous les traits de la chanteuse Mylène Farmer, ainsi que Laurent Argelier et Vincent McDoom dans leurs propres rôles. En , il a aussi réalisé l'affiche du moyen métrage Dynamo love, présenté au festival de Cannes la même année.

D' à , Mikl Mayer redessine aussi les peoples en BD dans le magazine Planète People de Jeremstar. Il y raconte les rencontres entre deux des héros des d'jeunes et des célébrités.

En , après une exposition en soutien avec l'association Laurette Fugain, Mikl sort un album racontant son parcours autour de sa BD : Dans l'ombre des d'jeunes : 2009-2012.

En  a lieu une exposition à Fonbeauzard, puis paraît People : Les dessous de la célébrité en septembre ; le quatrième tome des d'jeunes, L'art de la dérive, est publié en décembre de la même année, avec le soutien de Maurane.

En 2014, alors que le mariage pour tous fait débat, Mikl Mayer diffuse sur sa page Facebook une bande dessinée sur un couple gay et leur enfant dans Mes papas & moi. Un album de cette bande dessinée sort à automne 2015. Un nouvel album Manu Emmanuel D'Joké Dibango, centré sur le musicien Manu Dibango était prévu pour 2015, mais c'est finalement la bande dessinée Mes papas & moi qui est publiée cette année-là.

Mikl Mayer réalise son préquel Mes papas avant moi, qu'il édite fin 2016 avec Garçon Edition et dont la suite, intitulée Mes papas avant moi 2, sort en 2017.

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 http://www.mairie-bruguieres.fr/actualites2.asp?card=2456
 http://www.aectoulouse.fr/2011/06/il-y-a-des-mots-qui-tuent-vraiment-stop/

Naissance à Pont-à-Mousson
Naissance en septembre 1987
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At Eurovision, Pop Trumped anti-Israel Sentiment
The support for Israel's entry in the annual contest shows that music triumphed over the presumed anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic views of the continental audiences.
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Israel's Nadav Guedj (C) performs during the 60th Eurovision Song Contest final on May 23, 2015 in Vienna.Credit: AP
They've been saying it for years: The Eurovision Song Contest isn't really about the best pop song – it's just an international popularity contest. No matter how well-crafted the songs may be or how skilled the performers are when appearing before European audiences hostile to the Jewish state – if not downright anti-Semitic – they don't stand a chance. It's all politics.
Israel qualifies for Eurovision final for first time in five years
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WATCH: Nadav Guedj to represent Israel at Eurovision with 'Golden Boy'
That's what Israeli fans of the annual competition have been grumbling and complaining about, in order to comfort themselves after their repeated poor showings in the past several years, when they've failed even to make the finals of the campy, glittery event.
But this year's finals of the Eurovision event, held in Vienna on Saturday, held a big surprise for the traditional Israeli complainers – one that emerged the day after participants had removed their sequined costumes and stage make-up. The Eurovision's official website published the full results of the voting in each country, including those of both the professional judges and the home audiences, which had been combined for the final score.
The numbers showed that in the second semifinal round, which took place two days beforehand and in which Israel competed, the Israeli song "Golden Boy" by Nadav Guedj came in second among the viewers and in third place overall. Only the Swedish song, "Heroes," which eventually won the entire competition, did better.
Israel's success in the semifinal happened in a year when European public opinion toward the country is perceived by some as having reached new lows. But despite last summer's Operation Protective Edge in Gaza, the continuing construction of settlements and anti-democratic legislation, Israel seemed to have been viewed as just another Eurovision contender – even one with a pretty good song – at least in the dubious pop-culture arena in which it was competing.
Is it possible that music succeeded in winning hearts, as the theme of this year's competition –"Building Bridges" – suggested? And is it possible that Eurovision isn't as generally political and specifically anti-Israel as everybody thinks?
After all, it turns out that most European viewers of the semifinal round, besides those who liked the Swedish song the most, were willing to pick up their cell phones, blow some precious euros, and vote for Israel – a country that isn't even on the continent the competition is named for. Israel got the highest possible score – 12 points – from both Britain and Italy, countries whose residents are not believed to have a particular affinity for Israel these days, and 10 points (the second-highest score) from countries such as Sweden, Poland and Cyprus.
This was reinforced by Israel's relative success in the final, in which it came in ninth – seventh, if the preferences of only the home viewers were considered – and well ahead of such traditionally strong Eurovision contenders as France, Germany and Britain.
For even stronger evidence that art (if you can call overwrought pop songs "art") trumped politics at Eurovision 2015, you don't have to look further than Russia. Last year, the Tolmachevy Sisters, who represented that country with the song "Shine," were booed incessantly during their performance, due to the crisis in the Crimean Peninsula and the anti-gay policies of the Russian government. This year, however, singer Polina Gagarina was received warmly by the crowd in the hall and the viewers, and ended up winning second place, despite no substantive change in Russia's foreign or domestic policies.
Perhaps this is a sign that Europe is learning to accept what it cannot change – strongmen like Putin – and is now willing to make a distinction between unpopular political leaders and their country's performers.
If so, this seems to validate Israel's decision this year to send its carefree "Golden Boy" party anthem to Eurovision, after years of trying in vain to find favor with the Europeans with apologetic and hypocritical songs about peace and tolerance, and failed gimmicks like candlelight or a duet between a Jewish and an Arab singer.
After the sweeping victory of the right-wing bloc headed by Benjamin Netanyahu in the recent election, Israel stopped pretending and revealed its true face with its song, declaring: This is what we are. As Guedj sang in the song, "This is how we do it" – and the world had better get used to it.
The big question for 2016 is, if they aren't able to chalk up the Eurovision results to politics, xenophobia or a dose of presumed anti-Semitism – what possible excuse will next year's Israeli performers have if they don't win over the audience?
Israel's Nadav Guedj (C) performs during the 60th Eurovision Song Contest final on May 23, 2015 in Vienna. Credit: AFP
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News, Reviews and Features NEWS: Major cast changes at West End's Les Misérables include Dean Chisnall as Valjean
NEWS: Major cast changes at West End's Les Misérables include Dean Chisnall as Valjean
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There will be major cast changes at the West End production of Les Misérables at the Queen's Theatre from 11 June 2018. The musical is now in its record-breaking 33rd year.
Dean Chisnall [pictured] will star as Jean Valjean; Toby Miles as Marius; Elena Skye as Eponine; Vivien Parry as Madame Thénardier and Amara Okereke as Cosette. Continuing in their roles are Steven Meo as Thénardier and Carley Stenson as Fantine.
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David Thaxton continues to play the role of Javert until 21 July, with Bradley Jaden [pictured] starring taking over the role from 23 July. Further casting to be announced soon.
From 11 June 2018 the company will be: Tegan Bannister; Emma Barr; Adam Bayjou; Ciarán Bowling; Oliver Brenin; Dean Chisnall; Grace Farrell; Sophie-May Feek; Adam Filipe; Antony Hanson; Sam Harrison; Barnaby Hughes; James Hume; Ciaran Joyce; Katie Kerr; Rebecca Lafferty; Sarah Lark, Hannah Grace Lawson; Jessica Lee; Jo Loxton; Anna McGarahan; Steven Meo; Toby Miles; James Nicholson; Amara Okereke; Vivien Parry; Carley Stenson; Elena Skye; David Thaxton; Ben Tyler; Joe Vetch; Raymond Walsh and Andrew York.
Dean Chisnall's most recent theatre credits include the UK tour of Blood Brothers; The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ The Musical at the Menier Chocolate Factory; Working at the Southwark Playhouse; Shrek at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane and UK tour; Love Never Dies at the Adelphi Theatre; La Cage Aux Folles at the Playhouse Theatre and Never Forget at the Savoy Theatre.
Bradley Jaden is currently appearing as Fiyero in Wicked at the Victoria Apollo Theatre. He returns to Les Misérables at the Queen's Theatre having originally played Enjolras in the 30th-anniversary cast. His other theatre credits include: the UK tour of Ghost The Musical; Shrek The Musical at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane; The Blues Brothers at the Edinburgh Festival; and Stiles and Drewe's Peter Pan at the West Yorkshire Playhouse.
Toby Miles has recently graduated from Arts Educational Schools, London and will be making his professional and West End debut in the role of Marius.
Elena Skye has just finished playing the role of Lauren in Kinky Boots at the Adelphi Theatre having made her West End debut in the production in 2016.
Vivien Parry's most recent theatre credits include: Half A Sixpence at the Noël Coward Theatre; A Christmas Carol, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and The Shoemaker's Holiday for the Royal Shakespeare Company; The Girls UK tour and Top Hat at the Aldwych Theatre. Other previous West End credits include: Mamma Mia! at the Prince of Wales Theatre; Fame at the Cambridge Theatre and Blood Brothers at the Phoenix Theatre.
Amara Okereke trained at Arts Educational Schools, London and The National Youth Music Theatre. Her theatre credits for the National Youth Music Theatre include: The Hired Man at The Other Palace; West Side Story at Manchester Warehouse and 13 The Musical at the Apollo Theatre.
Carley Stenson's West End credits include Elle Woods in Legally Blonde, Princess Fiona in Shrek The Musical and Lady of the Lake in Spamalot. Stenson also starred as Christine Colgate in the tour of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
Steven Meo's previous theatre credits include Pride & Prejudice at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre and on UK tour; The Taming of the Shrew, Boeing Boeing, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog all for Theatre Clwyd; The Distance for Sheffield Crucible/Orange Tree Theatre; and Flesh and Blood for Hampstead Theatre and on tour.
David Thaxton previously played Javert in 2014, and has also played the role of Enjolras in Les Misérables at the Queen's Theatre. His additional theatre credits include Giorgio in Passion at the Donmar Warehouse, for which he won an Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical, Pilate in Jesus Christ Superstar at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, Raoul in Love Never Dies at the Adelphi and Major John Howard in Only The Brave at Wales Millennium Centre.
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I was sorely tempted to buy the whole inventory to save for "presents" but I'm valiantly trying to reform my hoarding ways and, let's be honest, none of that chocolate would have ever made it out of the house.
Thanks to a tip from Melissa that Target's Christmas items were 90% off on Friday (I posted it to Facebook here), I found a few bargains last week, including gift bags for $.10 and $.15, a Baby's First Christmas ornament for $1, shiny silver tissue paper for $.20 and some rolls of ribbon for $.20-$.30.
With any seasonal clearance, I try to look for items (like the tissue paper and ribbon) that can be used year-round.
The ribbon is being put to good use already. My son has requested a blizzard of paper snowflakes and we are hanging them from the ceiling with ribbon all over the house. He loves his winter decorations!
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Let's face it: The Force Awakens is not a very original movie. J.J. Abrams' Star Wars movie borrows heavily from previous films in the series, to the point that all of its main spaceships (and plot points) are pretty much lifted from the original trilogy. It looks like this is something that Lucasfilm is hoping to address with The Last Jedi, as we've seen a variety of new vehicles that mix up the formula, if only a little bit. Two more have just been announced in the form of the gorilla-like AT-M6, and a new, incredibly flat Dreadnought that looks like the Death Star sat on a Star Destroyer and squished it (the Dreadnought even has a large, round crater in the middle!).
Both First Order vehicles were revealed on The Star Wars Show—you can check out the episode below:
We've already seen the AT-M6 in schematic form as part of an earlier press leak, but now we get a full look at how the ape-like transport will appear in the movie. It's hard to argue that this is truly a unique offering for The Last Jedi, considering how similar it looks to the famous AT-AT, and even the AT-ACT that we got in Rogue One last year.
Considering that people are going to naturally draw parallels between The Last Jedi and The Empire Strikes Back, it's a bit disconcerting that the upcoming movie will feature a similar walker battle to the one we're all familiar with from Episode V, but at the same time, the fact that the AT-M6 has a sturdier, monkey-inspired design suggests that the First Order has deliberately made something that won't fall over when tripped by tow cables.
By comparison, it's harder to see any real mechanical difference between the First Order Dreadnought and the Super Star Destroyer (which was introduced in The Empire Strikes Back, making this another example of Star Wars recycling old elements). If we're lucky, we may get some big moment in the movie that plays with this new shape (as we did with the Hammerhead corvette in Rogue One), but it seems that in the creation of the Dreadnought, Lucasfilm simply wanted something that was similar to the Super Star Destroyer, while not being so unique as to risk another Phantom Menace situation where nothing on screen resembles anything that Star Wars fans are familiar with.
It is interesting how slavishly the First Order is adhering to the designs popularized by the Empire. Lucasfilm has found a smart way to bake nostalgia into the mythos of the movies, as Kylo Ren and his Stormtroopers attempt to relive the glory days through mimicking old aesthetics, the same way that Disney is trying to re-engineer the success of the original Star Wars trilogy. Presumably nobody has pointed out to the First Order that the Empire's downfall came from overconfidence in their superior technological might, but since that's also been Lucasfilm's downfall ever since 1997, there's some nice poetry at work here.
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Corn futures saw 1 to 2 cent gains in most contracts on Friday, with May up 1.34% this week. A private export sale of 300,000 MT of corn for 2018/19 delivery to China was announced by the USDA this morning. Friday afternoon's Commitment of Traders report indicated that spec traders in corn futures and options extended their record reported net short position for the week that ended on 3/19 to 261,326 contracts. An updated Farm Futures survey released this morning indicated 90.9 million planted corn acres for 2019. A Reuters report estimates ~13% of the US ethanol capacity is offline at the moment due to the recent flooding and both bridge and rail damage. Total export commitments for corn are 7.4% below this time last year. They are 69% of the USDA projected full year amount vs. the average of 78% for this date.
Lean Hog futures were anywhere from $2.10 lower to $1.075 higher on Friday, as April was up 13.84% following two limit up days this week. The 2020 contracts are anticipating over expansion due to these prices. The CME Lean Hog Index was up $1.53 from the previous day @ $60.75 on March 20. The USDA pork carcass cutout value was up $1.54 on Friday afternoon at an average weighted price of $77.79. The national base hog carcass value was up $2.29 in the PM report at an average weighted price of $66.44. USDA estimated WTD FI hog slaughter at 2.508 million head through Saturday. Total pork stocks in cold storage at the end of Feb were 615.979 million pounds, up 1.02% vs. a year ago and 9.46% larger than January. Belly stocks were seen at 53.796 million pounds, just 0.11% larger than January. Money managers in lean hog futures and options flipped their net position by 11,723 contracts for the week that ended on Tuesday to a CFTC net long position of 8,090 contracts.


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Florence and Tuscany
Also visit the Ponte Vecchio, Florence Duomo and Piazza della Signoria
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Our Florence Walking Tour visits the best things to see in Florence in three hours. Led by a local expert English-speaking guide, get insight into Michelangelo's David, the Ponte Vecchio and much more with skip the line access.
Accademia Tickets Included
Filippo Brunelleschi's Dome
Baptistry Doors
Florentine Gelato
Bronze Boar
Lampredotto/Trippa
Orsanmichele Church
Dante's District
Dante's Church
Discover the best of Tuscany's capital city, including the David statue, on a guided Florence walking tour. This is your chance to see the lasting legacy of Dante, the Medici family, Michelangelo, Machiavelli and Leonardo Da Vinci's lasting legacy on Florence. Under the guidance of an English-speaking guide, visit to the Accademia Gallery, Florence Duomo, Piazza della Signoria and Ponte Vecchio. This 3-hour tour includes:
- Skip the line Accademia tickets
- A walking tour of Florence
- A Maximum group size of 16
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Visit the Accademia Gallery
This Galleria dell'Accademia is home to one of the most celebrated statues in existence: the David. Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was the only artist in Florence willing to work with this block of white marble, and he turned it into a masterpiece: Biblical hero David, known for his battle with Goliath. Right behind the Uffizi Gallery, the Galleria dell Accademia is the most visited museum in Florence. This means that long lines are usually par for the course. Luckily, we reserve your skip the line Accademia tickets ahead of time. This means, that the only line you will stand in is a short security line.
Short delays at the security check may occur during the busiest months, June and July. However, our team of experts works to prevent delays as much as possible.
The Duomo of Florence - Exterior
This iconic Duomo is Florence's most recognized landmark. Florence's cathedral towers over the city, the cathedral is topped by a magnificent Renaissance dome designed by Filippo Brunelleschi. From outside the Duomo cathedral, learn about the amazing piece of architecture, and get a look at the famed bronze Baptistry Doors.
One Florentine man changed the dessert habits of Italy for the better. His name was Bernardo Buontalenti, and because of him, gelato was born. On this Florence walking tour, we pass by one of the best gelato shops in Florence. You're welcome to stop and buy one or take note of where the shop is for later on.
Piazza della Signoria, Florence
Filled with statues, fountains and beautiful architecture, Piazza della Signoria is the historical and emotional heart of Florence. The most prominent feature of the piazza is Florence's town hall, the Palazzo Vecchio. Note the Loggia dei lanzi, the beautiful exterior corridors of the Uffizi Museum, as walk by and learn about the Medici Family's impact on the history of Florence.
Dante's District and Church
If you're a fan of the Divine Poet, the next stop on the itinerary is not to be missed. See the outside of the house he grew up in, which now operates as a museum. Plus, see the little church of Santa Margherita. It's said that this is where Dante and Beatrice fell in love. Dante writes of Beatrice in his most famous work, "The Divine Comedy". Beatrice is buried in the church where a marker commemorates her life.
The Old Bridge
Ponte Vecchio means "Old Bridge" in Italian. Shops have lined the famed Ponte Vecchio since the 13th century. Originally, there were many types of shops, including fishmongers, butchers and tanners. These shops caused such a great stench in the area, that in 1593 Ferdinand I de' Medici proclaimed that only jewelers were allowed to ply their trade on the bridge.
After you visit the bridge, stroll to the Piazza San Marco and say arrivederci to your guide and group. If you've worked up an appetite, remember to ask your guide where to eat and drink in Florence, as locals they know tons of spots to try out.
At the big statue in San Marco Square. A representative will be there holding a sign with our company name on it.
Bring a little cash with you, for gelato and trippa (if you dare!). Since this is a walking tour, you'll need comfortable shoes. Avoid bringing large bags, both the Uffizi and Accademia require you to check them.
Q: Do we get to go inside the Duomo?
A: This tour includes a visit to the outside of the Cathedral and a chance to see the Baptistry Doors. It does not go inside. We want to make sure we cover as many sights as possible in a day and consider the Duomo to be far more magnificent from the outside. If you wish to climb the dome, we do offer a Florence Highlights Tour that proved tickets to do so.
Q: What should I bring with me?
A: Bring a little cash with you, just in case you want to stop for gelato (not included in the tour price). Since this is a walking tour, you'll need comfortable shoes. Avoid bringing large bags, the Accademia requires you to check them.
stevepwhs
Great tour including a fantastic host Elaine.
We weren't sure what to expect on our Vatican tour but Elaine was so great mapping out our morning and proceeded to inform us of everything we were seeing. She had my wife in stitches laughing and 3-4 hours went by so quickly....despite the scorching heat. I recommend highly taking this tour with Elaine.
Denise N
Incredible Tour
My husband and I took 3 tours with the Roman Guy and all were fantastic and helped Florence and Rome come to life. I would have to say this one was my favorite. Our guide was Michael and he facilitated a wonderful experience for our small group. There are simply no words for seeing Michelangelo's David. That alone is worth the cost of this tour, but there were just so much more included. I don't think I stopped smiling as he told stories, we saw beautiful sight after sight and we had gelato too. Highest recommendation!
Florence walking tour with statue of David
Great 3 hour tour of Florence. Got a better sense of the city and was able to skip the line at the Accademia to see the real Statue of David and other sculptures. I enjoyed the tour and would book through the Roman Guy again.
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Q: run mySql command in python I have a python program which connects to a mySql table and insert some values in it but it does not work. here is my code:
 doc = minidom.parse("wscanOutput.xml")
 tracks = doc.getElementsByTagName("track")
 for track in tracks:
     title = track.getElementsByTagName("title")[0]
     location = track.getElementsByTagName("location")[0]
     vlcOption = track.getElementsByTagName("vlc:option")[0]
     tit = title.firstChild.data[6: ].replace (" ", "-")
     loc = location.firstChild.data[18:27]
     sid = vlcOption.firstChild.data[8: ]
     dvbID = 0
     tuneID = 0
     db = MySQLdb.connect("localhost","root","paco","dvbDB")
     cursor = db.cursor()
     print("INSERT INTO dvbDBTable (dvb_id, tune_id, channel_name, sid, frequency) VALUES (%s" % dvbID + ", %s" % tuneID + ", '%s'" % tit + ", %s" % sid + ", %s)" % loc)
     sql = "INSERT INTO dvbDBTable (dvb_id, tune_id, channel_name, sid, frequency) VALUES (%s" % dvbID + ", %s" % tuneID + ", '%s'" % tit + ", %s" % sid + ", %s)" % loc
     cursor.execute(sql)
 db.close()

and here is my output print() that shows it works fine:
INSERT INTO dvbDBTable (dvb_id, tune_id, channel_name, sid, frequency) VALUES (0, 0, 'IRIB-QURAN', 108, 602000000)
INSERT INTO dvbDBTable (dvb_id, tune_id, channel_name, sid, frequency) VALUES (0, 0, 'IRIB-SALAMAT', 119, 602000000)
INSERT INTO dvbDBTable (dvb_id, tune_id, channel_name, sid, frequency) VALUES (0, 0, 'IRIB-NASIM', 120, 602000000)
INSERT INTO dvbDBTable (dvb_id, tune_id, channel_name, sid, frequency) VALUES (0, 0, 'RADIO-IRAN', 151, 602000000)
INSERT INTO dvbDBTable (dvb_id, tune_id, channel_name, sid, frequency) VALUES (0, 0, 'RADIO-PAYAM', 152, 602000000)
INSERT INTO dvbDBTable (dvb_id, tune_id, channel_name, sid, frequency) VALUES (0, 0, 'RADIO-JAVAN', 153, 602000000)
INSERT INTO dvbDBTable (dvb_id, tune_id, channel_name, sid, frequency) VALUES (0, 0, 'RADIO-MAAREF', 154, 602000000)
INSERT INTO dvbDBTable (dvb_id, tune_id, channel_name, sid, frequency) VALUES (0, 0, 'RADIO-QURAN', 155, 602000000)
INSERT INTO dvbDBTable (dvb_id, tune_id, channel_name, sid, frequency) VALUES (0, 0, 'RADIO-FARHANG', 156, 602000000)
INSERT INTO dvbDBTable (dvb_id, tune_id, channel_name, sid, frequency) VALUES (0, 0, 'RADIO-SALAMAT', 157, 602000000)
INSERT INTO dvbDBTable (dvb_id, tune_id, channel_name, sid, frequency) VALUES (0, 0, 'RADIO-VARZESH', 158, 602000000)
INSERT INTO dvbDBTable (dvb_id, tune_id, channel_name, sid, frequency) VALUES (0, 0, 'RADIO-EGHTESAD', 159, 602000000)

but database is still empty means curser.execute(sql) not executing. how to execute these inserts?

A: Try add conn.commit() to your code.
conn = MySQLdb.connect("localhost","root","paco","dvbDB")
cursor = conn.cursor()
sql = "INSERT INTO dvbDBTable (dvb_id, tune_id, channel_name, sid, frequency) VALUES (%s" % dvbID + ", %s" % tuneID + ", '%s'" % tit + ", %s" % sid + ", %s)" % loc
cursor.execute(sql)
conn.commit() #notice

OR set connection's autocommit to True
conn = MySQLdb.connect("localhost","root","paco","dvbDB")
cursor = conn.cursor()
cursor.connection.autocommit(True) #notice
sql = "INSERT INTO dvbDBTable (dvb_id, tune_id, channel_name, sid, frequency) VALUES (%s" % dvbID + ", %s" % tuneID + ", '%s'" % tit + ", %s" % sid + ", %s)" % loc
cursor.execute(sql)

A little advice on your execute style.
Try this way:
sql = "INSERT INTO dvbDBTable (dvb_id, tune_id, channel_name, sid, frequency) VALUES (%s, %s, %s, %s, %s)"
cursor.execute(sql,(dbvID, tuneID, tit, sid, loc))


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Q: any utility on centos 6 to sound an alarm when power is low Is there an application that will set an audible alarm when the battery goes low on a centos 6 IBM 430 machine?
Details of the problem here:
I have set it hibernate when battery is low. However, it does not hibernate possibly because most of the time I am working in a full screen windows VM that prevents it from going to hibernate when I try to do it manually.
Since I am not able to see the battery levels (I am working in a full screen windows VM), the nmachine switches off when battery goes low. So I lose all my data and in one instance, the VMs (I am running windows and ubuntu) got corrupted.

A: A quick google throws this up:
Check your battery status from the command line
A suggestion might be to parse out the percentage remaining of the battery charge, and play a sound when it falls to a certain low water mark/threshold.  You could then run this from cron/at every few minutes or so.  Very rudimentary but...
cheers
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UPDATE at 7.30am A toddler, who was found on the streets of Nowra early this morning, will be reunited with his parents. "Great news," South Coast Police District said via Facebook. "The little boy's family has made contact and are on their way to Nowra Police Station to be reunited. Thank you to everyone who shared our appeal - it is appreciated." Earlier A little boy – aged about 18 months – has been found wandering in Nowra just before 6am. He is described as being Caucasian appearance, with blue eyes and strawberry-blond hair. He's wearing a blue t-shirt with a surfing Santa motif, and a nappy. Call Nowra Police if you think you know this little boy. He's safe and happy and entertaining the Nowra Police.
A toddler, who was found on the streets of Nowra early this morning, will be reunited with his parents.
"Great news," South Coast Police District said via Facebook.
A little boy – aged about 18 months – has been found wandering in Nowra just before 6am.
He is described as being Caucasian appearance, with blue eyes and strawberry-blond hair. He's wearing a blue t-shirt with a surfing Santa motif, and a nappy.
Call Nowra Police if you think you know this little boy. He's safe and happy and entertaining the Nowra Police.


PARIS (CNA) — The Cathedrale Notre-Dame is on fire, according to the Paris fire department. Multiple eyewitnesses shared photos and videos of the cathedral with visible plumes of smoke and flames across the cathedral's roof.
Firefighters responded to an alarm raised shortly before 7 p.m., according to the newspaper Le Monde.
Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo issued a series of brief statements via Twitter saying that emergency responders are fighting to control the flames and appealing to local residents to keep the area clear to assist their efforts.
Officials have not yet determined what caused the fire, which is still burning.
The landmark cathedral in the French capital is one of the most recognizable churches in the world. The fire comes after several weeks of vandalism and arson attacks on church buildings across France.
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The term obese describes a person who's very overweight, with a lot of body fat.It's a common problem in the UK that's estimated to affect around 1 in every 4 adults and around 1 in every 5 children aged 10 to 11.
There are many ways in which a person's health in relation to their weight can be classified, but the most widely used method is body mass index (BMI).
BMI is a measure of whether you're a healthy weight for your height. You can use the BMI healthy weight calculator to work out your score.
BMI isn't used to definitively diagnose obesity because people who are very muscular sometimes have a high BMI without excess fat.
But for most people, BMI is a useful indication of whether they're a healthy weight, overweight or obese.
It's very important to take steps to tackle obesity because, as well as causing obvious physical changes, it can lead to a number of serious and potentially life-threatening conditions.
There are also some underlying health conditions that can occasionally contribute to weight gain, such as an under-active thyroid gland (hypothyroidism), although these type of conditions don't usually cause weight problems if they're effectively controlled with medication.
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Aston Martin's F1-Inspired Hypercar Is Supposedly Called Nebula, Has a 1000-hp V12
Details are starting to leak out about Aston's crazy vision of the future.
By Collin Woodard
A few months ago, we reported that Aston Martin's CEO Andy Palmer had confirmed his company is developing a hypercar. Built in collaboration with Red Bull and designed by Adrian Newey, Palmer said the goal was for the car internally known as AM-RB-001 to lap Silverstone as quickly as an F1 car.
At the time, Palmer was short on specifics, but according to Jalopnik, a tipster who attended an owners event has revealed the first details of the upcoming hypercar.
Reportedly, the AM-RB-001 is codenamed "Nebula" and will be powered by a 7.0-liter V12 making 1000 horsepower and revving to 10,000 rpm. It will also weigh only 2300 pounds and won't have wings or spoilers. Instead, the car will borrow heavily from F1 technology to create downforce using the body itself.
Supposedly, the Nebula will look a bit like the Caparo T1 but with typical Aston Martin design cues, including a recognizable Aston Martin grille. And while there will be room for two, the seating will be lined up in tandem and quite close together.
As with other ultra-exclusive cars like the Nebula, owners were reportedly being encouraged to buy multiple cars, including a Vulcan, in order to get a shot at buying one of the 99 that will be built.
We've reached out to Aston Martin to see if the company is willing to confirm any of these claims but are still waiting on a response.
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Report: White House Wanted USS John McCain Moved for Trump Japan Trip
The White House wanted the U.S. Navy to keep a warship named for the late Sen. John McCain "out of sight" during President Donald Trump's trip to Japan, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, citing an email it reviewed.
A U.S. Indo-Pacific Command official, in a May 15 email to U.S. Navy and Air Force officials, detailed plans for Trump's arrival over Memorial Day weekend that included instructions for the proper landing areas for helicopters and preparations for the USS Wasp, the ship on which the president was to speak, the newspaper reported.
The official then issued a third instruction: "USS John McCain needs to be out of sight," according to the email.
When a Navy commander expressed surprise at the instruction, the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command official answered, "First I heard of it as well," according to the email. The official said he would talk to the White House Military Office to get more information about the directive, the Journal reported.
In response to the story, Trump — who has feuded with McCain publicly for years, including by mocking his military service — tweeted that he "was not informed about anything having to do with the Navy Ship USS John S. McCain during my recent visit to Japan."
The president notably does not say that he was not informed about the ship before his visit to Japan. A message seeking clarification was left late Wednesday for White House press secretary Sarah Sanders.
The newspaper reported that a tarp was placed over the McCain's name before Trump's arrival, according to photos it reviewed, and that sailors were instructed to remove any coverings from the ship that included its name.
U.S. Navy Cdr. Clay Doss, spokesman for U.S. Seventh Fleet, told The Associated Press that the tarp was on the ship on Friday but was removed by Saturday morning, the day Trump arrived. He said, "All ships remained in normal configuration during the President's visit."
Trump and McCain had a frosty relationship and that continued, on Trump's part, even after McCain died in August 2018 of brain cancer.
In 2015, McCain, a Republican senator from Arizona, had gotten under then-candidate Trump's skin by saying he had "fired up the crazies" at a rally in Phoenix. Trump, also a Republican, later told a crowd in Iowa that McCain was only a war hero "because he was captured. I like people who weren't captured."
After Trump took office, McCain established himself as a leading critic, opposing Trump's immigration-limiting order, warning him against coziness with Moscow and lecturing him on the illegality of torture. The senator incensed the president with his thumbs-down vote that foiled the president's efforts to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law.
Trump was not welcome at McCain's funeral and raised the White House's U.S. flag back to full-staff shortly after McCain's death, despite U.S. Flag Code stating that it should remain at half-staff for another day. The flag returned to half-staff later in the day.
McCain's daughter, Meghan, tweeted Wednesday that Trump will "always be deeply threatened by the greatness of my dads incredible life."
She added, "There is a lot of criticism of how much I speak about my dad, but nine months since he passed, Trump won't let him RIP. So I have to stand up for him.
"It makes my grief unbearable."
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Home Blog reduce-reuse-recycle A Beginner's Guide to Buying and Cooking Tofu
A Beginner's Guide to Buying and Cooking Tofu
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Tofu is a versatile, protein-loaded staple food that has a deep culinary history in cultures throughout the world. In East and Southeast Asian countries, tofu's culinary importance is reflected in the many forms it takes and the variety of tofu products available. Cooking tofu was first recorded during China's Han Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago; today it's one of China's most consumed ingredients. In Japan, where the food is steeped both in the diet and psyche, tofu making is a high art; in Korea it's the food historically eaten when prisoners are released, and has developed into somewhat of a nutritious symbol of freedom.
The Different Types of Tofu
Tofu is made using a process very similar to cheese making: ground soybeans are cooked in water, then strained to create soymilk. That liquid is combined with a coagulant (an acid or salt), which separates the soy milk into curds. The curds are pressed to create tofu. The type of coagulant used and the length of time the curds are pressed determines the type or texture of tofu that results, although there is no standard, so the firmness can vary between brands.
Plain (or block) tofu: Snowy white or off-white, plain tofu is usually cut into large blocks and stored or packaged in water. Plain tofu is usually fairly firm in texture and can be used in a number of different ways, from stir-frying to soups to noodle dishes. You can often find plain tofu labeled by how firm it is (medium, firm, extra firm, etc.).
Soft: Soft tofu has a texture like yogurt or pudding, and works well in soups and served raw.
Medium: Medium firm tofu holds up, but is porous enough to absorb flavors and sauces. This texture is great for curries and saucy dishes like mapo tofu.
Firm/extra-firm: The firmer the tofu is, the less porous it will be, which means less flavor can absorb into it. It also means it has less water content, making this tofu great for stir-frying, pan cooking and grilling.
Super firm: Like firm tofu, but even more firm and less porous, this is the perfect tofu to pan- or deep-fry.
Silken tofu: Silken tofu is made using a thicker soymilk than block tofu and rather than being pressed, it is left to coagulate and thicken into a soft, silky, scoop-able tofu. It can be used to make smoothies, sauces, and salad dressings, and is often used as an egg replacement in vegan baking.
Fermented and pickled tofu: Tofu can be fermented and pickled using soy sauce, miso, rice wine, vinegar and more. It ranges from mild to super pungent.
Other tofu products: You can find tofu noodles, tofu balls, tofu pouches and more tofu items in many Asian markets.
Tofu Sustainability and How to Buy Quality Tofu
Soybeans are one of the US's main industrial crops — in 2014 farmers planted 83.3 million acres across the country, 94 percent of which were genetically modified to be herbicide-tolerant. The continued use of GM seeds and herbicides has led to "superweeds" resistant to the herbicide, requiring additional pesticides and other damaging farming methods.
Along with the widespread industry use of GM seeds and herbicides, recent British research suggests that processed soy foods like tofu might have a similar carbon footprint to some meat products. This is in part because of the energy required to process tofu, and also because tofu isn't as digestible as traditional meats, so more tofu is needed to provide the same amount of protein. A 2009 study of the environmental effects of vegetarian "meat substitutes" in the Netherlands found similar results, showing that tofu has a carbon impact similar to chicken — better than beef, but the same or even worse than some sustainable seafood options. As there has been no research done specific to American tofu, it's difficult to say where US-produced tofu lands on the spectrum of environmental impact, but a helpful barometer would be to look at what you'd be eating instead. Choosing tofu over beef or pork makes a large difference when it comes to your foodprint;in the case of a diet primarily focused on sustainable fish and mollusks, the impact of instead choosing tofu would be smaller.
When shopping for tofu, look for white, fresh-smelling tofu. Any discoloration or sour odor means that tofu has undergone temperature fluctuations or has been on the shelf too long. While shelf-stable tofu cartons have longer shelf lives, they are made with GM soybeans and generally have poor flavor. If possible, find tofu made from organic or non-GMO soybeans. Independent brands such as California's Meiji Tofu, Portland's Ota Tofu, and Chicago's Phoenix Bean use non-GMO beans to create their small-batch, no preservative tofu. Oakland-based Hodo Foods, whose tofu and other soy products are available nationwide, sources organic locally grown soybeans.
How to Store Tofu
Tofu is a fresh, perishable item that should be stored in the refrigerator and used within a week of its sell-by date. If you find some older tofu hiding in the fridge, open it and give it a smell. You will know if tofu has turned — it will have a funky, pungent smell — and also look for any signs of mold. If it looks and smells good to go, rinse the tofu in cold water before using. Once open, store unused tofu submerged in water in an airtight container in the refrigerator; it should keep 3 to 5 five days and water should be changed daily for maximum freshness.
Tofu can also be frozen, a method originally used to preserve tofu in the winter in China and Japan. Freezing tofu changes its texture, giving it a distinctive sponginess, which allows it to soak up more sauce and adds a unique texture to dishes. To freeze, cut extra-firm tofu into 1/2- to 3/4-inch-thick slabs or blocks, place in a single layer on a parchment-lined sheet tray and freeze until solid. Store in an airtight container in the freezer for up to a month. To use, thaw to room temperature, gently squeeze to remove excess liquid and pat dry before cooking. Frozen tofu is particularly delicious when fried; try it out with this recipe from Fuchsia Dunlop's "Land of Plenty" cookbook.
Cooking Tofu
One reason tofu is popular among so many cuisines is because it can be used in so many ways: stir-fried, deep-fried, pureed, steamed, baked, crumbled and marinated. While many Westerners cooking tofu think of it as a meat replacement, the ingredient has a traditional role in many cuisines with dishes like Japanese agedashi fried tofu, Korean braised tofu and Szechuan mapo tofu, all of which should be tasted on your journey to discover tofu's true culinary delights.
One question that continually comes up when discussing tofu cooking is whether you need to press it first to get some of the water out. While many Western recipes will tell you to weigh it down, wrapping it in paper towels and placing a plate and something heavy on top, many traditional Asian recipes don't include this step. "Asian people don't do that," Andrea Nguyen, author of "Asian Tofu" told Epicurious. "We just cut the tofu." Tofu will release water, however, when you cut it, so drain it on paper towels and pat it dry.
That being said, when frying tofu it is a good idea to push out some of the water if using firm or extra-firm tofu. While you can press it (and there are plenty of guides on how to do that online), Ngyuyen instead suggests pouring boiling salted water over tofu (put it in a strainer first), causing the tofu to squeeze out moisture and seasoning it at the same time. Blot to dry before using it.
How to Cook Soft Tofu
Because soft tofu is pressed the least amount of time, it has a smooth, creamy texture. It's most commonly eaten in soups or pureed. Here are a few ways to use it:
How to Cook Medium Tofu
While medium-firm tofu is rougher than soft, it still has a decent amount of moisture and will break up during vigorous cooking. This texture is great for baking, braising and boiling. Here are a few great medium tofu recipes:
How to Cook Firm Tofu
Firm and extra-firm tofu are most commonly used in Western recipes, as the mostly solid texture is easy to cut, easy to fry, easy to grill and easy to eat. While this is the most versatile of the types of tofu, firm tofu also can take on a slightly rubbery texture during cooking, which might lead to some of the generalized disdain for the foodstuff. Make sure not to overcook it to avoid this from happening.
Puree firm tofu into the classic Japanese sauce shiraae, a slightly sweet, umami-packed tofu-miso dressing that is usually served with greens such as green beans or steamed spinach and toasted sesame seeds.
Scramble extra-firm tofu to make a dish similar to scrambled eggs, which can be eaten on its own, or stuffed into breakfast tacos or other breakfast dishes. In this Chinese preparation, silken tofu is used to create a looser, saucier scramble.
Spear cubes of extra-firm tofu on veggie kebabs for grilling. This recipe from Bryant Terry's "Afro Vegan" cookbook uses a pomegranate-peach barbecue sauce and the smokiness of the grill to enhance the flavor.
Make a Japanese-style blended burger, combining minced meat and crumbled firm tofu. Tofu, Japanese writer Kaki Okumura explains, is not used as a meat substitute in Japanese cooking but a standalone ingredient. "When properly prepared, our favorite foods can actually taste better with a bit of tofu," she writes in Heated. "It's soft, absorbs spices really well, can char nicely, and adds a light and refreshing element to heavier, oily foods." A similar Chinese preparation combines minced pork and firm tofu.
Tofu is often sometimes used as a low-fat substitute for paneer in Indian recipes such as curries or soups. Try it in this version of palak tofu.
Deep-fry firm tofu, then marinate it in a sweet-savory sauce of Sichuan peppercorns, star anise and fennel seeds for this classic Chinese snack, sometimes called tofu bacon.
How to Cook Silken Tofu
Silken tofu can be found in soft and firm varieties, both of which are softer, creamier and more dense than block tofu because of the different style in which silken tofu is made. Soft silken tofu is the most malleable, and particularly good for pureed applications such as dressings, sauces, smoothies and yogurt or egg substitutions. Firm silken tofu has a firmer body that can stand up to cutting, making it great for sauced dishes or soup. It's rich dense texture also makes it great for desserts.
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Der Dallol Maouri (auch: Dallol Maori, Dallol Mauri, Dallol Mawri) ist ein Trockental im Westen Nigers.

Name
Dallol ist ein Wort der Sprache Fulfulde und bedeutet "Tal". Die ethnische Gruppe der Maouri, deren Angehörige entweder Hausa oder Zarma sprechen, waren das Staatsvolk von Aréoua, durch das der Dallol Maouri verläuft.

Geographie
Der Dallol Maouri ist neben dem Dallol Bosso und dem Dallol Foga eines der großen Trockentäler im Ullemmeden-Becken, die einst große Nebenflüsse des Stroms Niger waren. Er verläuft über eine Länge von etwa 250 Kilometern durch die Region Dosso. Sein Oberlauf ist das aus der Region Tahoua kommende Trockental Tadiss. Die Geologie des Dallol Maouri ist durch mehr oder wenige grobe, manchmal tonige alluviale Sande gekennzeichnet. Zumindest Teile des Trockentals führen in der Regenzeit Wasser, wovon in der Trockenzeit einzelne Teiche, mares genannt, übrigbleiben. Die Unberechenbarkeit der Wasserführung der vielen kleinen Nebentäler (koris) ist eine Hauptursache für Überschwemmungen.

Der Dallol Maouri verläuft grob von Norden nach Süden. Sein oberer Abschnitt in der Landschaft Aréoua liegt klimatisch am Übergang der Sahelzone des Nordens zur Sudanzone des Südens. Die mittlere jährliche Niederschlagshöhe beträgt hier 650 Millimeter. Nach dem Dorf Soucoucoutane mündet das aus der Hochebene Ader Doutchi kommende Trockental Zourourou, das häufig auch als das Tal von Keita bezeichnet wird, in den Dallol Maouri. Es folgen das Dorf Matankari und die Stadt Dogondoutchi. Größere Dörfer im weiteren Verlauf sind Kiéché, Tibiri, Fadama, Guéchémé und Dioundiou.

Der untere Abschnitt des Trockentals in der Landschaft Dendi gehört klimatisch zur Sudanzone. Hier beläuft sich die mittlere jährliche Niederschlagshöhe auf 850 Millimeter. Die Regenzeit fällt in die Monate von Mai bis September. Eine größere Siedlung am unteren Dallol Maouri ist das Dorf Yélou. Kurz vor dem Dorf Bana mündet der Dallol Maouri in das Trockental Dallol Foga, das weiter südwärts bis zum Fluss Niger verläuft. In manchen Veröffentlichungen wird umgekehrt der Dallol Foga als Zubringer des Dallol Maouri bezeichnet.

Umwelt
Im Talboden und auf dessen selten überschwemmten Anhöhen wachsen unter anderem Äthiopische Palmyrapalmen, Arabische Gummi-Akazien, Bauhinien und Feigen sowie Hundszahngras. Auf den sandigen Hügeln und kleinen Dünen, deren vernässter Boden weniger tief ist, gedeihen außerdem Karitébäume, Diospyros mespiliformis und Crateva religiosa.

Zur Vogelwelt im Dallol Maouri gehören folgende Arten:

In den Teichen im Tal findet man verschiedene Fischarten: Oreochromis niloticus, Zilles Buntbarsch, den Fünfflecken-Buntbarsch, den Afrikanischen Raubwels, Schilbe mystus, Marcusenius senegalensis und den Dunkelbäuchigen Schlangenkopffisch.

Das Feuchtgebiet des Dallol Maouri steht seit 26. April 2004 als eines der Ramsar-Gebiete Nigers unter Schutz. Das 317.520 Hektar große Schutzgebiet umfasst das gesamte Departement Dioundiou und den Osten des Departements Gaya.

Wirtschaft
Der Dallol Maouri ist für nigrische Verhältnisse dicht besiedelt und wird landwirtschaftlich genutzt. Nach der Regenzeit und vor den Hitzemonaten April und Mai gibt es gute Bedingungen für die Bewässerungsfeldwirtschaft. Am unteren Dallol Maouri wurde bereits im 19. Jahrhundert Salz gewonnen.

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Tal in Niger
Tal in Afrika
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Green Cognitive Relaying: Switching Between Data Transmission and Energy Harvesting
N I. Miridakis; T A. Tsiftsis; G C. Alexandropoulos; Mérouane Debbah
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications - Series on Green Communications and Networking, Volume 34, Issue 12, p.3725 - 3738 (2016)
Energy efficiency has become an encouragement, and more than this, a requisite for the design of next-generation wireless communications standards. In current work, a dual-hop cognitive (secondary) relaying system is considered, incorporating multiple amplify-and-forward relays, a rather cost-effective solution. First, the secondary relays sense the wireless channel, scanning for a primary network activity, and then convey their reports to a secondary base station (SBS). Afterwards, the SBS, based on these reports and its own estimation, decides cooperatively the presence of primary transmission or not. In the former scenario, all the secondary nodes start to harvest energy from the transmission of primary node(s). In the latter scenario, the system initiates secondary communication via a best relay selection policy. Performance evaluation of this system is thoroughly investigated, by assuming realistic channel conditions, i.e., non-identical link-distances, Rayleigh fading, and outdated channel estimation. The detection and outage probabilities as well as the average harvested energy are derived as new closed-form expressions. In addition, an energy efficiency optimization problem is analytically formulated and solved, while a necessary condition in terms of power consumption minimization for each secondary node is presented. From a green communications standpoint, it turns out that energy harvesting greatly enhances the resources of secondary nodes, especially when primary activity is densely present.
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Within the butterfly-breaking cogs of the music industry, big numbers can bring big problems. And The Wombats' numbers got big, fast. A platinum album with their 2007 debut 'Guide To Love, Loss And Desperation'. Over 300,000 combined sales of their indie dancefloor smashes 'Kill The Director', 'Let's Dance To Joy Division' (winner of the 2008 NME Award for Best Dancefloor Filler), 'Backfire At The Disco' and 'Moving To New York'. A two year tour during which Liverpool's biggest exports in a decade played to well over a million people, culminating in a massive homecoming Liverpool Arena show for 10,000 ecstatic local fans of their dark yet exuberant and infectious alt.pop.
"It was such a good way to round it off," says drummer Dan Haggis. "We had a two day party after that. Obviously you can't help but go 'bloody hell, remember a couple of years ago in Liverpool, we'd be lucky if we sold out the Academy downstairs to 500 people. How did we get to this?'"
Big numbers, big gigs, but for a band with the intense work ethic of The Wombats (lest we forget, in the build-up to their breakthrough hit 'Kill The Director' in 2007 they played 50 tiny pub and club shows around the UK in almost as many days) they took their toll. Having continued their breakneck schedule for eighteen months solid, they came off a mammoth US tour in 2008 "pretty broken... physically and mentally."
"We did a couple of months too long," says Dan. "I had problems with my arms so every night going up onstage hurt, so it wasn't really that enjoyable. I had a gig where I didn't want anyone to look at me. I sat on the drums at Glasgow and you start feeling guilty because you think you should be having the best night of your life but I didn't know why I was there."
Over the summer of 2008, between festival dates, two more singles were recorded the stop-gap classic 'My Circuitboard City' and their sardonic (anti-)Christmas song 'Is This Christmas?' before singer Matthew 'Murph' Murphy sat down to begin writing new material for album two. But in his new home in London, Murph found the loneliness, dislocation and routine of being off the road and writing in a big city difficult to cope with. He'd simply become too accustomed to the adulation of the stage.
"My downfall was I got used to it," he admits, "and then when it all stopped it was a bit of a reality bite-back and I had to level myself out. It was my general unhappiness of not being on the road and being in a new city."
"Every night for a couple of years to have always been on your way somewhere," adds Dan, "always about to do a gig or an interview or whatever, always people interested in talking to you about music. Then suddenly stopping and not doing gigs and not having the adrenalin rush every night, it's like hitting a brick wall."
The few gigs that the band did play occasionally ended in near-death experiences. On his way home from a show in Skegness, Murph almost flipped his car on an icy motorway but emerged miraculously unscathed (the incident inspired a new song called 'Motorphobia'). And during a trip to Dubai to play Liverpool Sound City, Dan had his own four-wheeled run-in with the reaper.
"It was fun but me and my girlfriend almost had a pretty serious accident," he says. "We went dune buggy racing with no insurance, no anything. They just went 'have you done this before?' and we went 'no, not really' and they went 'great! Put this on!'. We stuck this helmet on and went off over these dunes having a great time and ended up going too fast over one of them and basically coming off and crashing quite badly."
With so much alienation and vehicular trauma around, it's perhaps no wonder the first batch of songs Murph wrote in London in February 2009 were delivered to the record label and met with some concern. Lyrically they were the bleakest tracks Murph had ever written (he doesn't expand on their subject matter) and musically they were heavier than heaven and louder than war.
"The initial thought was to do things relatively far away from what you'd be known for or what your comfort zone is," he says, "which is maybe a good thing, but the first batch of songs that the label heard, they were like 'who the hell is this?'"
Bassist Tord Overland-Knudsen chips in. "They were much grungier. More like the 90s grungy thing, for those first four songs. We needed to get the energy back, make heavier music."
Or, more accurately, Murph needed to get his Merseyside Mojo back. "I went back to my mum and dad's house to recapture whatever former glory was once there. It was kind of miserable being locked away in a room for eight hours every day with just a little lampshade and piano. You kind of go round the bend, there was no reality to draw from. So I had to go up to Liverpool and get back to getting slaughtered and doing recreational things in order to find anything to draw on."
Back in Liverpool, The Wombats Mk 2 instantly clicked. They plumped for a synthier sound, Murph's keyboard often replacing the lead guitar, and the tunes poured forth in ever more innovative and colourful guises.
Tracks such as 'Perfect Disease' took on the sonorous disco moods of Depeche Mode and Echo & The Bunnymen, lashed to The Killers' arena pop sensibilities. One of the album's "curveballs" 'Jump Into The Fog' came out sounding like nothing more than The Horrors covering Queen. Often only their intense catchiness marked these songs out as traditionally 'Wombats' at all: no matter where the sonics strayed, the tunes were always glint-in-the-sunlight perfect - better even than the dancefloor killers of their first chart onslaught.
"I felt like I was rebelling against what we were as a band," Murph explains. "Somehow we've come back round and amalgamated bits of that into the newer stuff and it'll hopefully make it better. There are elements that are so different from what people will think. There's songs that are akin to the first album but it feels like we've escalated. I'm 100 per cent certain that some of the songs on this album are the best we've ever put out."
First single 'Tokyo (Vampires And Wolves)' certainly fits that category an instant radio hit that's so insanely catchy it's impossible not to spin again the second it's finished. An ode to the Neon City? "It's just a bit angsty," says Murph. "The new album hasn't got anything to do with touring, it just represents escapism and wanting to run away."
This new batch of songs finds Murph's lyrics developing a depth and personal confessional slant that's rare in modern song-writing: take the blunt and startling theme of 'Anti-D' for starters, in which Murph likens himself to an anti-depressant. But fans of his more story-based writing will find much to enjoy in the synth-rock, disco-destroying brilliance of 'Techno Fan' the tune where 'Mr Brightside' chats up La Roux in a drug-swamped Hoxton dive bar. Key line: "I'm in debt to you/But don't feed me plant food".
"That's more of a story," Murph says. "I went to a minimal techno rave in Shoreditch with my girlfriend. It was dirty, I didn't stay there for long. I've never seen a longer queue for the toilets in my life. People had their hands up going 'I actually need a wee' and everyone in the queue would go 'go on then'."
The album has been recorded through 2010 over three sessions with separate producers, all in L.A. first U2 and R.E.M. producer Jacknife Lee brought his precise technological nous to 'Anti-D', then Eric Valentine helped them put together 'Tokyo (Vampires And Wolves)' and 'Techno Fan'. Muse knob-twiddler Rich Costey joined forces with additional creative input from TV On The Radio's Dave Sitek and John Hill (Santogold, M.I.A., Devo) to complete a record that will shock, impress and spin opinion on this most uncompromising of 21st Century pop bands. The resulting album, subsequently titled 'The Wombats proudly present... This Modern Glitch', even finds rooms for a guest appearance courtesy of Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro on 'Girls & Fast Cars'.
"You take the electro and you take the grunge and you put it together with what we used to do on the first album," says Tord, "then that's what the album's going to be."
Dan nods, a sparkle in his eye. "It's gonna be a whirlwind adventure."
Having entered the charts at #3, the album has provided three of the band's biggest airplay hits to date with its first singles 'Tokyo (Vampires & Wolves)', 'Jump Into The Fog' and 'Anti-D' as The Wombats subsequently become one of the stand-out names on this summer's festival circuit with headline sets at Lovebox and Wakestock as well as other major events including Glastonbury, V, Radio 1's Big Weekend and Rockness. Always a resolutely popular live band, both of their recent UK tours were entirely sold-out and included major London dates at the Brixton O2 Academy and the HMV Hammersmith Apollo. Having recently released the single '1996', The Wombats culminated a triumphant year with three special homecoming shows at Liverpool's O2 Academy with further major shows already confirmed for 2012.
Dork Magazine have featured The Wombats' headline show at Wembley Arena in their latest issue, out now.
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Jaipur: Airlines buy tractors, register them as farm equipment!
Jaipur: A probe by the State Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (SDRI) of the Rajasthan Government has revealed that at least three airlines and the Airport Authority of India (AAI) purchased tractors from different dealers in the Jaipur and Ajmer and got them registered as agriculture equipment, thus availing of heavy concessions in registration charges and road tax.
These tractors were being used for hauling luggage of passengers and freight to be transported by aircraft at the Jaipur International Airport.
A total of 25 tractors were being used at the airport. They are owned by Indigo and SpiceJet Airlines, besides Indo-Thai Airport Management Services and Airport Authority of India. In addition, the airlines were also using 29 other vehicles which were not even registered. They included the buses used to ferry passengers from the terminal building to the aircraft.
After checking all the papers, the SDRI came to the conclusion that at least Rs 44 crore tax had been evaded by these companies and the Airports Authority of India.
"How were the tractors registered as farm equipment when it is mandatory to furnish documents showing ownership of farm land for is anybody's guess," a SDRI official said. He said that the tractors should have been registered as commercial vehicles and taxes should have been charged accordingly.


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More than 400 university newspapers destroyed
Police are investigating after a pile of more than 400 vandalized newspapers was left in front of the office of Drake University's student newspaper.
Updated: 6:53 PM CDT Sep 27, 2014
WEBVTT investigating after a pile of more than 400 destroyed newspapers was left in front of the office of Drake University's student newspaper. Managing editor of the Times- Delphic, found the pile of drenched newspapers at about 4 p.m. Thursday. On the pile an ad for a pregnancy resource center was circled in black marker. <" It's just a little disheartening to me because it doesn't mean that we support that organization and we have run ads from Planned Parenthood in the past. It's interesting to me that people are upset about it and they are very welcome to be upset about it, but it is upsetting that they are vandalizing our property ." Drake's President sent a campus wide email Friday calling the vandalism an attempt to curtail


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Arts & Humanities January 10, 2023
Amelia Walchli - Department of Art & Art History
Keep an eye out for University of Utah Department of Art & Art History associate professor Wendy Wischer's new public artwork on UTA buses and TRAX throughout the Salt Lake Valley for the month of January.
"In Search of Blue Sky" is a temporary public artwork by Wischer, in collaboration with atmospheric scientist John Lin and poet Lindsey Webb. This collaboration uses air quality data collected as part of the Wasatch Environmental Observatory (WEO) to personally connect the community and UTA riders to the experience of data collection along with their personal contributions, all while inspiring curiosity to dive deeper into the changing air quality and ways we might work together to achieve the blue skies we all value. Images of the signs and text can be found on the ecoart website.
The artists will use the unique communication of visual art to engage members of the public through a focus on common ground—blue skies and clean air—and connect them to air quality information collected as part of mobile platforms on the Utah Transit Authority—TRAX and electric buses.
Through their art, they will communicate this data to the general community by telling simple, and provocative statements about air and atmosphere, while at the same time, thanking those who take public transportation and acknowledging their personal contributions towards cleaner air.
This text-based artwork will exist on exterior bus signs and interior TRAX rail car signs in the Salt Lake City Area. These signs will have a URL or QR code that links to an ecoart website, which provides an introduction and access to the real-time data that is collected through WEO—possibly on the very TRAX car or bus that they are riding in. Easy links to the MesoWest Utah Air Quality Observations website provide the viewers, and riders, access to the current air quality in the Salt Lake Valley. This data is constantly changing so each time they click on the link, they have access to new information based on the WEO data collected for that day, at that time, in that location.
Wendy Wischer, GCSC faculty affiliate, associate professor of sculpture intermedia in the Department of Art & Art History in the College of Fine Arts.
John Lin, GCSC faculty affiliate, associate director of the Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy, and professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences in the College of Mines and Earth Sciences.
Lindsey Webb, doctoral student in creative writing in the Department of English in the College of Humanities.
Circulating throughout the Salt Lake Valley on multiple busses and TRAX rail cars.
The signs were installed on the exterior buses and interior TRAX rail cars on Jan. 1 and run through Jan. 28, 2023. The ecoart website and the MesoWest Utah Air Quality Observations website will remain accessible after the signs come down.
This project was generously funded by the Global Change and Sustainability Center, the Society, Water and Climate Research Group and Nexus: Interdisciplinary Exchange for Utah Science at the University of Utah.
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FAMU homecoming festivities come to a close
October 31, 2010 12:00 am by Julian Kemper
Hotels around Tallahassee were booked nearly to capacity as Florida A&M's homecoming festivities took place last week.
30,459 students, alumni, family and friends packed into Bragg stadium Saturday for the football game. The Marching "100," accompanied by alumni band members, performed a halftime tribute to William Foster, which spilled into the second half. The third quarter may have started, but the "100" could not be moved. The resulting delay of game penalties were not enough to derail FAMU, as the Rattlers went on to best the Bears 31-17.
The homecoming comedy/talent show was held Monday night, hosted by R&B artist Chrisette Michele.
The dorm and Greek step shows wowed crowds. The contests saw Paddyfote victorious in the dorm step show, as well as Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority in the Greek step show.
The "Delta's" show was unique in its use of marching band themes.
Coronation for the FAMU Royal Court was Thursday night in the Grand Ballroom. Joseph Agboola and Kindall "Sunshine" Johnson were sworn in as Mr. and Mrs. FAMU in the official ceremony.
That night was the Homecoming concert, featuring Musiq Soulchild and Charlie Wilson.


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Bruce Eisenberg
Bruce P. Eisenberg is the Associate Director of The Professional Institute for Instructional Coaching (TPIIC), a nonprofit established to continue his work with instructional coaches, instructional mentors, and administrators nationally and internationally. His work revolves around helping school districts implement an effective instructional coaching model designed around the before, during, and after (BDA) cycle of consultation and the 4-quadrant framework of effective core coaching elements. He is also the co-creator /co-facilitator of the PIIC Act 45 Continuing Education course entitled: Implementing Instructional Coaching Within a School Improvement Framework to Make Professional Development More Effective.
His career has spanned fifty years in public education. The first thirty-two years were spent teaching mathematics in a public high school for the School District of Philadelphia. For twenty-five of those years, he was also the coordinator of all Magnet Programs. Those programs were open to eligible students from across the city who were academically, musically and artistically talented. He designed and implemented curriculum for each program and monitored student achievement at all grade levels. As coordinator, he met regularly with students and teachers to identify student needs and measure student progress.
Shortly after his retirement from the School District of Philadelphia in 1999, Mr. Eisenberg became a consultant to the Johns Hopkins University's Talent Development High School model under the direction of the Center for Social Organization of Schools. His major focus was to facilitate the restructuring of low performing high schools around the country. He provided professional development in several districts including the Bensalem SD, Greater Johnstown SD, and the School District of Hawaii.
From 2006- 2009, Eisenberg was the Associate Director of the Pennsylvania High School Coaching Initiative (PAHSCI), a partnership between the Annenberg Foundation and the Pennsylvania Department of Education where his major focus was outreach and advocacy to the legislative and executive branches of local, state, and federal elected officials. He met regularly with representatives, sharing data about improved student achievement and ongoing teacher professional development.
Eisenberg continued supporting schools and districts in the implementation of the PIIC instructional coaching and mentoring model through the 29 Intermediate Units across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, New Jersey school districts, Minnesota, Michigan, and most recently South Africa, where he worked with officials from the Ministry of Education and other government approved consultants to plan an instructional coaching and mentoring system designed to help teachers and administrators at TVET colleges, a post high school program of instruction.
Mr. Eisenberg believes that guiding policy makers, i.e., legislators, governors, secretaries of education, and ministers of education, in implementing support systems for school leaders and teachers will help all students develop into life-long learners and productive citizens in the communities where they live.
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Joe Biden to appoint Nigerian-born Lawyer as US Deputy Treasury Secretary
US President-Elect, Joe Biden, is reportedly set to announce a Nigerian-born lawyer, Adewale Adeyemo, as deputy Treasury secretary.
According to the report gathered by Politico reported on Sunday, November 29, Adeyemo's appointment is one of many key cabinet positions Biden is expected to announce in the coming days as he prepares to start his White House tenure.
Adeyemo, who is a former senior international economic adviser during the Obama administration, will serve under former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, who Biden will reportedly appoint to lead the US Treasury Department.
When appointed, the 39-year-old Nigerian would have occupied the highest level a Nigerian-American has reached in the USA Government in the 244 years history of the United States of America.
Born in Nigeria but raised in California where he obtained a bachelor's degree before proceeding to Yale Law School.
Prior to his appointment into the Obama administration, Adeyemo worked as an editor at the Hamilton Project, then served as senior advisor and deputy chief of staff to Jack Lew in the United States Department of Treasury.
Later, he worked as the chief negotiator for the Trans-Pacific Partnership and also served as the first chief of staff of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under former presidential candidate, Elizabeth Warren.
Also, he was appointed to concurrently serve as Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economics and deputy director of the National Economic Council in 2015.
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