Ecosocialism: For a Society of Good Ancestors!
Ian Angus was a featured guest at the World at a Crossroads: Fighting for Socialism in the 21st Century conference , in Sydney Australia, April 10-12, 2009.
The event, which drew 440 participants from more than 15 countries, was organized by Democratic Socialist Perspective, Resistance and Green Left Weekly.
The following is Ian's talk to the plenary session on "Confronting the climate change crisis: an ecosocialist perspective." He has lightly edited the text for publication.
The world is getting hotter, and the main cause is greenhouse gas emissions produced by human activity. Enormous damage has already been done, and we will have to live with the consequences of past emissions for decades, perhaps even centuries. Unless we rapidly and drastically cut emissions, the existing damage will turn to catastrophe.
Anyone who denies that is either lying or somehow unaware of the huge mass of compelling scientific evidence.
Many publications regularly publish articles summarizing the scientific evidence and outlining the devastation that we face if action isn't taken quickly. I highly recommend Green Left Weekly as a continuing source. I'm not going to repeat what you've undoubtedly read there.
But I do want to draw your attention to an important recent development. Last month, more than 2500 climate scientists met in Copenhagen to discuss the state of scientific knowledge on this subject. And the one message that came through loud and clear was this: it's much worse than we thought.
Later this year, the world's governments will meet, again in Copenhagen, to try to reach a new post-Kyoto climate treaty. Will they meet the challenge of climate change that is much worse than expected?
The politicians' record does not inspire hope.
Seventeen years ago, in June 1992, 172 governments, including 108 heads of state, met at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
That meeting produced the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the first international agreement that aimed "to achieve stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a low enough level to prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system." In particular, the industrialized countries promised to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions below 1990 levels.
Like the Kyoto Accord that followed it, that agreement was a failure. The world's top politicians demonstrated their gross hypocrisy and their indifference to the future of humanity and nature by giving fine speeches and making promises – and then continuing with business as usual.
But there was one exception. In Rio one head of state spoke out strongly, and called for immediate emergency action – and then returned home to support the implementation of practical policies for sustainable, low-emission development.
That head of state was Fidel Castro.
After the 1992 Earth Summit, only the Cubans acted on their promises and commitments.
The Cubans have adopted low-fertilizer agriculture, and encouraged urban farming to reduce the distances food has to travel. They have replaced all of their incandescent light bulbs with fluorescents, and distributed energy efficient rice cookers. They have stepped up reforestation, nearly doubling the island's forested area, to 25% in 2006.
As a result of these and many other projects, in 2006 the World Wildlife Federation concluded that Cuba is the only country in the world that meets the criteria for sustainable development.
By contrast, the countries responsible for the great majority of greenhouse gas emissions followed one of two paths. Some gave lip service to cleaning up their acts, but in practice did little or nothing. Others denied that action was needed and so did little or nothing.
As a result we are now very close to the tomorrow that Fidel spoke of, the tomorrow when it is too late.
The World Wildlife Federation deserves credit for its honesty in reporting Cuba's achievements. But the WWF failed to address the next logical question. Why was Cuba the exception? Why could a tiny island republic in the Caribbean do what no other country could do?
And the next question after that is, why have the richest countries in the world not cut their emissions, not developed sustainable economies? Why, despite their enormous physical and scientific resources, has their performance actually gotten worse?
I've never known any socialist organization to make this point explicitly, but Marx's words imply that one of the key objectives of socialism must be to build a society in which human beings work consciously to be Good Ancestors.
And that is what the Cubans are doing in practice.
The idea that we must act in the present to build a better world for the future, has been a theme of the Cuban revolutionary movement since Fidel's great 1953 speech, History Will Absolve Me. That commitment to future generations is central to what has justly been called the greening of the Cuban revolution.
The Cubans are committed, not just in words but in practice, to being Good Ancestors, not only to future Cubans, but to future generations around the globe.
But what about the other side of the question? Why do we not see a similar commitment in the ruling classes of Australia, or Canada, or the United States?
If you ask any of them individually, our rulers would undoubtedly say that they want their children and grandchildren to live in a stable and sustainable world. So why do their actions contradict their words? Why do they seem determined, in practice, to leave their children and grandchildren a world of poisoned air and water, a world of floods and droughts and escalating climate disasters? Why have they repeatedly sabotaged international efforts to adopt even half-hearted measures to cut greenhouse gas emissions?
When they do consider or implement responses to the climate crisis, why do they always support solutions that do not work, that cannot possibly work?
Karl Marx had a wonderful phrase for the bosses and their agents – the big shareholders and executives and top managers and the politicians they own – a phrase that explains why they invariably act against the present and future interests of humanity. These people, he said, are "personifications of capital." Regardless of how they behave at home, or with their children, their social role is that of capital in human form.
They don't act to stop climate change because the changes needed by the people of this world are directly contrary to the needs of capital.
Capital has no conscience. Capital can't be anyone's ancestor because capital has no children. Capital has only one imperative: it has to grow.
The only reason for using money to buy stock, launch a corporation, build a factory or drill an oil well is to get more money back than you invested. That doesn't always happen, of course – some investments fail to produce profits, and, as we are seeing today, periodically the entire system goes into freefall, wiping out jobs and livelihoods and destroying capital. But that doesn't contradict the fact that the potential for profit, to make capital grow, is a defining feature of capitalism. Without it, the system would rapidly collapse.
Under capitalism, the only measure of success is how much is sold every day, every week, every year. It doesn't matter that the sales include vast quantities of products that are directly harmful to both humans and nature, or that many commodities cannot be produced without spreading disease, destroying the forests that produce the oxygen we breathe, demolishing ecosystems, and treating our water, air and soil as sewers for the disposal of industrial waste.
It all contributes to profits, and thus to the growth of capital – and that's what counts.
In Capital, Marx wrote that from a capitalist's perspective, raw materials such as metals, minerals, coal, stone, etc. are "furnished by Nature gratis." The wealth of nature doesn't have to be paid for or replaced when it is used – it is there for the taking. If the capitalists had to pay the real cost of that replacing or restoring that wealth, their profits would fall drastically.
In short, pollution is not an accident, and it is not a "market failure." It is the way the system works.
"Inefficiency" in this case means that there is no profit to be made by preventing food waste – so waste continues. In addition to exacerbating world hunger, capitalism's gross inefficiency poisons the land and water with food that is harvested but not used.
Capitalism combines an irresistible drive to grow, with an irresistible drive to create waste and pollution. If nothing stops it, capitalism will expand both those processes infinitely.
My only disagreement with that statement is that it places the blame on "people" as an abstract category. In fact the devastation is caused by the global capitalist system, and by the tiny class of exploiters that profits from capitalism's continued growth. The great majority of people are victims, not perpetrators.
In particular, capitalist pollution has passed the physical limit of the ability of nature to absorb carbon dioxide and other gases while keeping the earth's temperature steady. As a result, the world is warmer today than it has been for 100,000 years, and the temperature continues to rise.
Greenhouse Gas Emissions are not unusual or exceptional. Pouring crap into the environment is a fundamental feature of capitalism, and it isn't going to stop so long as capitalism survives. That's why "solutions" like carbon trading have failed so badly and will continue to fail: waste and pollution and ecological destruction are built into the system's DNA.
No matter how carefully the scheme is developed, no matter how many loopholes are identified and plugged, and no matter how sincere the implementers and administrators may be, capitalism's fundamental nature will always prevail.
We've seen that happen with Kyoto's Clean Development Mechanism, under which polluters in rich countries can avoid cutting their own emissions if they invest in equivalent emission-reducing projects in the Third World. A Stanford University study shows that two-thirds or more of the CDM emission reduction credits have not produced any reductions in pollution.
CDM continues not because it is reducing emissions, but because there are profits to be made buying and selling credits. CDM is an attempt to trick the market into doing good in spite of itself, but capitalism's drive for profits wins every time.
One of the greatest weaknesses of the mainstream environmental movement has been its failure or refusal to identify capitalism as the root problem. Indeed, many of the world's Green Parties, including the one in Canada where I live, openly describe themselves as eco-capitalist, committed to maintaining the profit system.
Of course this puts them in a contradictory position when they face the reality of capitalist ecocide.
In Canada, as you may know, oil companies are engaged in what the British newspaper The Independent accurately called "The Biggest Environmental Crime in History," mining the Alberta Tar Sands. If it continues, it will ultimately destroy an area that is nearly twice as big as New South Wales, in order to produce oil by a process that generates three times as much greenhouse gas as normal oil production.
It is also destroying ecosystems, killing animals, fish and birds, and poisoning the drinking water used by Indigenous peoples in that area.
It's obvious that anyone who is serious about protecting the environment and stopping emissions should demand that the Tar Sands be shut down. But when I raised that in a talk not long ago in Vancouver, a Green Party candidate in the audience objected that would be irresponsible, because it would violate the oil companies' contract rights.
But as capitalist destruction accelerates, and as capitalist politicians continue to stall, or to introduce measures that only benefit the fossil fuel companies, we can expect that many of the most sincere and dedicated greens will begin to question the system itself, not just its worst results.
An important case in point, and, I hope, a harbinger of what's to come in green circles – is James Gustave Speth, who is now dean of the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
Last year, after 40 years working inside the system, Speth published a book called The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Stability. In it, he argues that working inside the system has failed – because the system itself is the cause of environmental destruction.
That's exactly correct – no Marxist could have said it better. Nor could we improve on Speth's summary of the factors that combine to make contemporary capitalism the enemy of ecology.
Speth is not a Marxist. He still hopes that governments can reform and control capitalism, eliminating pollution. He's wrong about that, but his analysis of the problem is dead-on, and the fact that it comes from someone who has worked for so long inside the system makes his argument against capitalism credible and powerful.
The socialist movement should welcome and publicize this development, even though Speth and others like him, don't yet take their ideas to the necessary socialist conclusions.
Similarly, we should be very encouraged that NASA's James Hansen, one of the world's most respected climate scientists, joined in the March 20 demonstration against a planned coal-fired electricity plant in Coventry, England. Hansen is another environmentalist who has worked inside the system for years.
"What is frustrating people, me included, is that democratic action affects elections but what we get then from political leaders is greenwash.
"The democratic process is supposed to be one person one vote, but it turns out that money is talking louder than the votes. So, I'm not surprised that people are getting frustrated.
Like Speth, Hansen is not a socialist. But he condemns the most widely-promoted market-based "solution," and he calls for demonstrations and protests, so ecosocialists can and must view him as an ally.
Why not just say 'socialism'? Marx and Engels were deeply concerned about humanity's relationship to nature, and what we would today call ecological ideas are deeply embedded in their writings. In the 1920s, there was a very influential ecology movement in the Soviet Union. So why do we need a new word?
All that is true. But it is also true that during the 20th century socialists forgot or ignored that tradition, supporting (and in some cases implementing) approaches to economic growth and development that were grossly harmful to the environment.
"The socialism practiced by the countries of the Socialist Camp replicated the development model of capitalism, in the sense that socialism was conceived as a quantitative result of growth in productive forces. It thus established a purely quantitative competition with capitalism, and development consisted in achieving this without taking into account that the capitalist model of development is the structuring of a consumer society that is inconceivable for humanity as a whole.
"The planet would not survive. It is impossible to replicate the model of one car for each family, the model of the idyllic North American society, Hollywood etc. – absolutely impossible, and this cannot be the reality for the 250 million inhabitants of the United States, with a huge rearguard of poverty in the rest of the world.
In my view, one good reason for using the word 'ecosocialism' is to signal a clear break with the practices that Martinez describes, practices were called socialist for seventy years. It is a way of saying that we aim not to create a society based on having more things, but on living better – not quantitative growth, but qualitative change.
Another reason, just as important, is to signal loud and clear that we view ecology and climate change not as just as another stick to bash capitalism with, but as one of the principal problems facing humanity in this century.
Although he has never used the word, so far as I know, one of the strongest defenders of ecosocialist ideas in the world today is Evo Morales, the president of Bolivia, the first indigenous head of state in Latin America.
In a short essay published last November, Evo brilliantly defined the problem, named the villain, and posed the alternative.
"Competition and the thirst for profit without limits of the capitalist system are destroying the planet. Under Capitalism we are not human beings but consumers. Under Capitalism, Mother Earth does not exist, instead there are raw materials. Capitalism is the source of the asymmetries and imbalances in the world. It generates luxury, ostentation and waste for a few, while millions in the world die from hunger in the world.
"In the hands of capitalism everything becomes a commodity: the water, the soil, the human genome, the ancestral cultures, justice, ethics, death … and life itself. Everything, absolutely everything, can be bought and sold and under capitalism. And even "climate change" itself has become a business.
That's a powerful and profound metaphor. Capitalism has been so destructive, and taken us so far down the road to catastrophe, that one of the first tasks facing a socialist government will be to slam on the brakes.
The only choice, the only way forward, is ecosocialism, which I suggest can be defined simply as a socialism that will give top priority to the restoration of ecosystems that capitalism has destroyed, to the reestablishment of agriculture and industry on ecologically sound principles, and to mending what Marx called the metabolic rift, the destructive divide that capitalism has created between humanity and nature.
The fate of the ecological struggle is closely tied to the fortunes of the class struggle as a whole. The long neo-liberal drive to weaken the movements of working people also undermined ecological resistance, isolating it, pushing its leaders and organizations to the right.
But today neo-liberalism is discredited. Its financial and economic structures are in shambles. There is growing recognition that profound economic change is needed.
This is an historic opportunity for ecological activists to join hands with workers, with indigenous activists, with anti-imperialist movements here and around the world, to make ecological transformation a central feature of the economic change that is so clearly needed.
Together we can build a society of Good Ancestors, and cooperatively create a better world for future generations.
It won't be easy, and it won't be quick, but together we can make it happen.
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Wow – this says it all. I totally agree with Ian's comments (and wish I could articulate them so). I recently saw a great little film on how Cuba transormed itself into a sustainable society, and its just wonderful to know SOMEONE has done it, to prove it can be done, and that many of the tangential advantages (read: big spike in social capital generated by closer social relationships) do in fact accrue. Its a win win win. God help the rest of us get there.


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Temperature Changes
Another global warming effect is ice-albedo. When global temperatures increase, ice near the poles melts at an increasing rate. As the ice melts, land or open water takes its place. Both land and open water are on average less reflective than ice, and thus absorb more solar radiation. This causes more warming, which in turn causes more melting, and this cycle continues. Warming is also the triggering variable for the release of methane from sources both on land and on the deep ocean floor, making both of these possible effects.
Thawing permafrost, such as the frozen peat bogs in Siberia, creates a positive effect due to release of CO2 and CH4. Methane discharge from permafrost is presently under intensive study. Warmer deep ocean temperatures, likewise, could release the greenhouse gas methane from the 'frozen' state of the vast deep ocean deposits of methane clathrate/methane hydrate, according to the Clathrate Gun Hypothesis, Ocean ecosystems' ability to sequester carbon are expected to decline as it warms.
This is because the resulting low nutrient levels of the mesopelagic zone (about 200 to 1000 m depth) limits the growth of diatoms in favor of smaller phytoplankton that are poorer biological pumps of carbon (McKibben, B,2007). Global temperatures have increased by 0. 75 °C (1. 35 °F) relative to the period 1860–1900, according to the instrumental temperature record. This measured temperature increase is not significantly affected by the urban heat island effect. Since 1979, land temperatures have increased about twice as fast as ocean temperatures (0. 25 °C per decade against 0. 13 °C per decade). Temperatures in the lower troposphere have increased between 0. 12 and 0. 22 °C (0. 22 and 0. 4 °F) per decade since 1979, according to satellite temperature measurements.
Temperature is believed to have been relatively stable over the one or two thousand years before 1850, with possibly regional fluctuations such as the Medieval Warm Period or the Little Ice Age. Sea temperatures increase more slowly than those on land both because of the larger effective heat capacity of the oceans and because the ocean can lose heat by evaporation more readily than the land. The Northern Hemisphere has more land than the Southern Hemisphere, so it warms faster. The Northern Hemisphere also has extensive areas of seasonal snow and sea-ice over subject to the ice-albedo feedback.
More greenhouse gases are emitted in the Northern than Southern Hemisphere, but this does not contribute to the difference in warming because the major greenhouse gases persist long enough to mix between hemispheres (Houghton, J. T. 2004). Based on estimates by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 2005 was the warmest year since reliable, widespread instrumental measurements became available in the late 1800s, exceeding the previous record set in 1998 by a few hundredths of a degree.
Estimates prepared by the World Meteorological Organization and the Climatic Research Unit concluded that 2005 was the second warmest year, behind 1998. Temperatures in 1998 were unusually warm because the strongest El Nino-Southern Oscillation in the past century occurred during that year. Anthropogenic emissions of other pollutants—notably sulfate aerosols—can exert a cooling effect by increasing the reflection of incoming sunlight. This partially accounts for the cooling seen in the temperature record in the middle of the twentieth century, though the cooling may also be due in part to natural variability.
James Hansen and colleagues have proposed that the effects of the products of fossil fuel combustion—CO2 and aerosols—have largely offset one another, so that warming in recent decades has been driven mainly by non-CO2 greenhouse gases(Langholz . A. J and Turner. K. 2003). Pre-human Climate Variations Earth has experienced warming and cooling many times in the past. The recent Antarctic EPICA ice core spans 800,000 years, including eight glacial cycles timed by orbital variations with interglacial warm periods comparable to present temperatures. A rapid buildup of greenhouse gases amplified warming in the early Jurassic period (about 180 million years ago), with average temperatures rising by 5 °C (9 °F).
Research by the Open University indicates that the warming caused the rate of rock weathering to increase by 400%. As such weathering locks away carbon in calcite and dolomite, CO2 levels dropped back to normal over roughly the next 150,000 years (Gore, A. 2007). Sudden releases of methane from clathrate compounds (the clathrate gun hypothesis) have been hypothesized as both a cause for and an effect of other warming events in the distant past, including the Permian–Triassic extinction event (about 251 million years ago) and the Paleocene– Eocene Thermal Maximum (about 55 million years ago).
Attributed and expected effects Environmental Sparse records indicate that glaciers have been retreating since the early 1800s. In the 1950s measurements began that allow the monitoring of glacial mass balance, reported to the WGMS and the NSIDC (Weart, R. S. 2003). Although it is difficult to connect specific weather events to global warming, an increase in global temperatures may in turn cause broader changes, including glacial retreat, Arctic shrinkage, and worldwide sea level rise.
Changes in the amount and pattern of precipitation may result in flooding and drought. There may also be changes in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. Other effects may include changes in agricultural yields, addition of new trade routes, reduced summer stream flows, species extinctions, and increases in the range of disease vectors (Weart, R. S. 2003). Some effects on both the natural environment and human life are, at least in part, already being attributed to global warming.
A 2001 report by the IPCC suggests that lacier retreat, ice shelf disruption such as that of the Larsen Ice Shelf, sea level rise, changes in rainfall patterns, and increased intensity and frequency of extreme weather events are attributable in part to global warming. Other expected effects include water scarcity in some regions and increased precipitation in others, changes in mountain snow pack, and adverse health effects from warmer temperatures. Social and economic effects of global warming may be exacerbated by growing population densities in affected areas. Temperate regions are projected to experience some benefits, such as fewer deaths due to cold exposure. A summary of probable effects and recent understanding can be found in the report made for the IPCC Third Assessment Report by Working Group II.
The newer IPCC Fourth Assessment Report summary reports that there is observational evidence for an increase in intense tropical cyclone activity in the North Atlantic Ocean since about 1970, in correlation with the increase in sea surface temperature (see Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation), but that the detection of long-term trends is complicated by the quality of records prior to routine satellite observations. The summary also states that there is no clear trend in the annual worldwide number of tropical cyclones.
Additional anticipated effects include sea level rise of 180 to 590 millimeters (0. 59 to 1. 9 ft) in 2090-2100 relative to 1980-1999, repercussions to agriculture, possible slowing of the thermohaline circulation, reductions in the ozone layer, increasingly intense (but less frequent) hurricanes and extreme weather events, lowering of ocean pH, and the spread of diseases such as malaria and dengue fever. One study predicts 18% to 35% of a sample of 1,103 animal and plant species would be extinct by 2050, based on future climate projections. However, few mechanistic studies have documented extinctions due to recent climate change and one study suggests that projected rates of extinction are uncertain(Lafreniere, F. G. 2008).
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Carrie & Lowell — седьмой студийный альбом американского автора-исполнителя и мультиинструменталиста Суфьяна Стивенса, изданный 31 марта 2015 года на лейбле Asthmatic Kitty. В отличие от предыдущего студийного альбома Стивенса, содержащего электронную музыку The Age of Adz, диск Carrie & Lowell мало инструментирован и отмечает возвращение исполнителя к инди-фолку. Альбом получил недельный предварительный просмотр на радиостанции NPR.
Альбом был многими изданиями назван одним из лучших в 2015 году, получил положительные отзывы критиков.

Альбом был инспирирован печальным событием в жизни Стивенса, смертью матери, которую звали Кэрри (Carrie) и в честь которой и её второго мужа Лоуэлла Брамса (Lowell Brams, отчима Стивенса) и был назван.

История
Песни из альбома были записаны в 2014 году в офисе Стивенса Dumbo (Бруклин) и в студии Pat Dillett в Midtown (Manhattan). Некоторые из песен были также записаны в Орегоне, на Портлендской студии Flora Recording & Playback и на телефон iPhone в комнате отеля Klamath Falls. Несколько песен были также записаны в Oklahoma, на Norman студии Blackwatch Studios, и в Висконсине, на студии Eau Claire April Base Studios. Песни были вдохновлены смертью его матери Кэрри в 2012 году и семейными поездками в Орегон, которые они предпринимали в детстве Стивенса. Мать Стивенса, которая страдала от депрессии, шизофрении и токсикомании, бросила его, когда ему был год. По словам Стивенса, запись альбома помогла ему смириться с её смертью. В названии альбома также упоминается его отчим Лоуэлл, который помог основать звукозаписывающую компанию Стивенса, Asthmatic Kitty.

Отзывы
Альбом получил положительные отзывы музыкальной критики и интернет-изданий: AllMusic, Pitchfork, Spin, The 405, Pitchfork, Exclaim!, The Boston Globe. Он получил 90 из 100 баллов на интернет-агрегаторе Metacritic.

Коммерческий успех
Carrie & Lowell дебютировал на 10-м месте в американском хит-параде Billboard 200 с тиражом 53 тыс. альбомных эквивалентных единиц; из них 51 тыс. копий в первую неделю, а остальные единицы пришлись на стриминг и треки. Альбом также дебютировал на 10-м месте в Canadian Albums Chart с тиражом 4,400. К июлю 2015 году тираж Carrie & Lowell составил 105 тыс. копий в США, включая 44,9 тыс. на виниловых пластинках.

К июню 2017 года получил серебряную сертификацию British Phonographic Industry за тираж 60 тыс. единиц в Великобритании.

Список треков
Все треки написаны Стивенсом.
 «Death with Dignity» — 4:00
 «Should Have Known Better» — 5:08
 «All of Me Wants All of You» — 3:41
 «Drawn to the Blood» — 3:18
 «Eugene» — 2:26
 «Fourth of July» — 4:40
 «The Only Thing» — 4:44
 «Carrie & Lowell» — 3:14
 «John My Beloved» — 5:03
 «No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross» — 2:40
 «Blue Bucket of Gold» — 4:44

Участники записи
Музыканты
 Sufjan Stevens — вокал, гитара, микширование
 Thomas Bartlett — вокал, микширование, фортепиано на «Should Have Known Better»
 Sean Carey
 Casey Foubert
 Ben Lester
 Nedelle Torrisi
 Laura Veirs — бэквокал на «Should Have Known Better»

Технический персонал
 Josh Bonati — мастеринг
 Pat Dillett — микширование
 Chad Copelin — звукозапись (на Black Watch)
 Jarod Evans — звукозапись (на Black Watch)
 Brian Joseph — звукозапись (April Base)
 Tucker Martine — звукозапись (на Flora)

Carrie & Lowell Live

Carrie & Lowell Live — это концертный альбом (продолжительностью 88 минут и 47 секунд), записанный в виде фильма и изданный 28 апреля 2017 на лейбле Asthmatic Kitty. Запись проходила в North Charleston Performing Arts Center, в Южной Каролине 9 ноября 2015 во время Carrie & Lowell Tour.

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Список треков
 «Redford (For Yia-Yia and Pappou)» — 3:27
 «Death with Dignity» — 4:07
 «Should Have Known Better» — 6:04
 «All of Me Wants All of You» — 6:30
 «John My Beloved» — 5:49
 «The Only Thing» — 5:42
 «Fourth of July» — 6:41
 «No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross» — 3:34
 «Carrie & Lowell» — 4:38
 «Drawn to the Blood» — 4:27
 «Eugene» — 2:52
 «Vesuvius» — 8:14
 «Futile Devices» — 3:36
 «Blue Bucket of Gold» — 5:35
 «Blue Bucket Outro» — 12:46
 «Hotline Bling» (кавер песни Дрейка, при участии Gallant) — 4:44

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We answer several phone calls from birders who would like to help wildlife. Sometimes they want to protest against insulation works, other times they find a helpless chick. Many people inquire about cutting trees during the breeding season. We are not always able to answer all the questions immediately. The most common ones are what to feed a chick with and how to give it water, where to look for help of a specialist and how to write a letter to an office.
Unfortunately, we are not able to run a bird aid.


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Best 2015 April Fool's Day Marketing From The Aviation World
Best April Fool's Day 2015
Smart marketing comes in all forms and sizes. The following is a list of the best marketing used by the aviation industry to celebrate today and build brand awareness.
WestJet Airlines (WS), based out of Calgary, Canada, created SmartSeats. It is a new concept in boarding flights. You will be transported from the boarding lounge to your plane using the same seat. This will safe time and solve all the boarding issues.
Virgin Australia (VA) based out of Sydney, Australia launched an airline first – a dedicated airport lounge for pets. This ingenious concept is only available for four legged members of its Velocity Frequent Flyer program and has specific Premium Paw Door Entry. This might be something pet owners would like airlines to implement in reality!
Flight Radar 24
Flight radar 24 is a well known tracking system for commercial aircrafts around the world. This year, it unveiled new options to track bugs such as bees, wasps and mosquitoes. Watch out!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS4YREcaN4k
Scandinavian Airlines System
Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) launched SAS Space Travel in 2015. By the year 2020, it will be capable of taking passengers beyond earth to reduce travel times. A new cabin called SAS AstroClass has been developed to bring a new level of comfort for passengers. Additionally, travellers of these flights can enjoy the new Floating Lounge and AstroBonus.
Southwest Airlines (WN) introduced new bag fees for travels immediately as part of its April Fool's Day efforts to highlight the lack of hidden charges the airline employs.
Everyday can be used by companies to build brand awareness and strengthen loyalty. Using April Fool's Day as a jumping point can be tricky as the marketing can be seen as distasteful if not done in a cheeky fun way. All four examples shown above brought along some playfulness to itself without over emphasizing that aspect with too much reality.
WestJet has built a tradition for itself with fun videos over the past five years. The videos give them national and international press coverage and are designed to introduce the airline to a new audience not familiar with the discount carrier. This is especially important in 2015 as it is looking to expand its international operations with Boeing 767s.
April Fool's Day is not well known to be used to implement marketing efforts around. However, companies are starting to realize that everyday can be important in building brand awareness and are injecting creative ideas to gain press coverage in untraditional ways.
Which of 2015 April Fool's Day marketing videos did you like the most? http://wp.me/p571ls-yk
WestJet - SmartSeats
Virgin Australia - Premium Pets Lounge
Flight Radar 24 - Bugs Radar
SAS - Space Travel
Southwest - Bag Fees Bandwagon
Contact us if you have other marketing efforts you would like to share from the aviation industry.
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Research nonprofit joins orthopedic partnership in US, India
Carly Behm - Tuesday, March 29th, 2022
The Fort Myers, Fla.-based Institute for Mobility and Longevity is joining a partnership that would create 11 orthopedic Centers of Excellence in the U.S. and India.
The Institute for Mobility and Longevity will conduct educational seminars for medical engineers under the partnership, according to a March 29 news release. Short-term traveling fellowships between the U.S. and India aim to give direct experience at surgical centers using new learning and training tools.
The IML's work in India will be part of a recently-established partnership between a Florida orthopedic group and a health system in India. Earlier in March, a partnership between Fort Myers-based Gardner Orthopedics and Shalby Advanced Technologies, a division of Shalby Hospitals in Ahmedabad, India, was announced. The collaboration will form 11 Centers of Excellence at 11 multispecialty hospitals.


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י״ח בטבת ה׳תשע״ח (January 5, 2018)
Shevuot 39a-b: A Trick With a Stick
The Mishna (35b) teaches that when the defendant is required to take an oath he is warned that the oath is not his own, but is a biblical requirement made by God and carried out by the court. The Gemara asks why such a warning is necessary, and explains that it is because of kanya d'Rava – Rava's stick.
The story is told at length in Massekhet Nedarim (25a).
Two people were arguing. One claimed that he had lent money to the other; the second one claimed that the loan had been repaid. Rava ruled that the borrower had to swear that he had repaid the money. The borrower went home, hollowed out a stick, and placed all of the money that he owed into the stick. He returned to the courtroom leaning on the stick and volunteered to hold a sefer Torah and swear that the money had been returned. He asked the lender to hold the stick, ostensibly so that he could hold the Torah. Taking the Torah in his hand he said, "I have returned all of the money that I borrowed from this man; he now has them in his possession." The lender – knowing that this claim was untrue – became angry and in his anger broke the stick that was in his hand. It then became clear that the oath taken by the borrower was technically true, even though it was an attempt at trickery.
The Ge'onim explain that only in the case of an oath that is required by the Torah would a person hold the Torah in his hands while swearing; in cases where the oath is Rabbinic in nature, there is no need to hold a Torah. Thus, in our case, it would appear that there was no real need for the borrower to hold a Torah while swearing (someone who is a kofer ba-kol – one who denies that he owes anything – is only obligated to swear on a Rabbinic level).
The Meiri explains simply that although he was not personally obligated to hold a sefer Torah in his hands, he wanted to do so, since he needed an excuse to hand the walking stick to the lender.
Shevuot 40a-b: Admitting to Barley in the Face of a Claim of Wheat
As we learned above (daf 38) the halakha is that a kofer bakol - a defendant who totally denies a…
Shevuot 38a-b: An Oath on a Partial Claim
The sixth perek of Massekhet Shevuot, Perek Shevuat HaDayyanim, begins on today's daf. The focus of this perek is those…


Hanifin is the 21-year old restricted FA, not Hamilton. Does anybody proofread these articles before posting?
Isn't hanifin the one getting acclimated to Calgary, not Hamilton?
I wish Toronto and Calgary would get together on a trade involving goalie Sparks. He'd likely be ready for backup + playing time. Plus… a guy named Sparks should play for the "Flames".


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69th Bomb Squadron?
The new B-52 unit that the Air Force intends to establish at Minot AFB, N.D., will apparently be called the 69th Bomb Squadron. So reported the Minot Daily News Jan. 10, citing a senior Air Force civil engineer who briefed members of the Minot area chamber of commerce on the previous day on the service's basing plans. That's the first time we've seen the unit designation mentioned publicly; our efforts to confirm the designation yesterday did not bear fruit. But this we know for sure: The Air Force divulged last April its plans to create a fourth operational B-52H squadron so that it would have enough combat-ready B-52s to support combatant commanders around the world with conventional capability and still have enough assets so that individual units could be fenced off for year-long stints to concentrate solely on training for the nuclear mission. The desire then was to beddown the new unit at Minot as part of the 5th Bomb Wing, which already has the 23rd Bomb Squadron. (The 2nd BW at Barksdale AFB, La., is home to the Air Force's two other operational B-52 squadrons, the 20th BS and 96th BS.) Subsequent to that, the Air Force formally announced in November that Minot was the preferred location for the new bomber unit, pending completion of the environmental impact analysis required by federal law. In the meantime, according to the Minot Daily News, the Air Force expects to dispatch a site activation task force to Minot next month to help the base plan for the new unit, which could bring about 1,000 airmen plus family members to the North Dakota site.


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Governor Dodge Discusses Canada's Experience with Inflation Targeting
Bank of Canada Governor David Dodge said today that Canada's experience under inflation targeting has been "unambiguously positive" since the central bank and federal government agreed to adopt this monetary policy framework in 1991.
In a speech to the National Association for Business Economics, Governor Dodge stressed that for both the Bank of Canada and the federal government, inflation targeting has been seen as a means to an end, not as an end in itself. Inflation targeting is "the best way to achieve high, sustainable growth of output and employment," he said. "It is the best means of fulfilling our commitment to promote the economic and financial welfare of Canada."
Inflation targeting has lived up to the expectations that the Bank had about it when it was adopted in 1991, Governor Dodge said. Not only has inflation become more stable, but because expectations of future inflation are also stable, the performance of the Canadian economy has also improved.
"There is evidence that inflation targeting has been successful as a macroeconomic stabilizer, helping to smooth the peaks and valleys of the business cycle," Dodge said. "With inflation targeting, our policy is more focused, our communications are clearer, and Canada's inflation expectations are more solidly anchored."
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Inflation Targeting: A Canadian Perspective
Remarks David Dodge National Association for Business Economics Washington, D.C.
The invitation is timely, given that the Bank of Canada's inflation-targeting agreement with the Canadian government is up for renewal next year. At the Bank, we are always reflecting on our framework, deciding what works well and what we can improve. Against that backdrop, we have watched with interest the debate taking place here in the United States - inside and outside the Federal Reserve - about whether that institution should join the ranks of inflation-targeting central banks.
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When trying to preview a report in ArchiOffice, a blank report page displays or user gets java script error message "... is Undefined".
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1. Copy crystalreportviewers13 folder located at: C:\Program Files\Business Objects\Common\4.0\.
2. Right-click 'My Computer' and select Manage>Services and Application> IIS.
3. On the Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager, expand Web Sites>Default Web Site>aspnet_client. Expand system_web and select 4_0_30319.
4. If the folder 'crystalreportviewers13' does not appear here, then paste it in the 4_0_30319 folder.
If the above step fixed the problem you can skip the next step.
1. Make sure to meet all the software and hardware requirements for ArchiOffice.
2. On the Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager, expand Sites>Default Web Site.
3. Right-click and select Manage Web Site>Advanced Settings.
4. Ensure the Physical Path is set to C:\inetpub\wwwroot and NOT a blank directory.
1. In the IIS Manager, expand Sites>Default Web Site and select the AO20xx folder.
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3. Make sure to uncheck all the checkboxes in that section.


The Scripture tells us to "contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints" (Jude 3). Welcome to our study titled "Answering Denominational Doctrines." In this series of lessons we are going to note various doctrines that are promoted by denominational teachers and denominations themselves. We are going to look at what they say, and compare it with the Scriptures so that we can help people see the truth of God.
Millions of people buy into these doctrines. The end result—if they live out these doctrines in their lives—will be that people will be lost. I hope you will consider two things. First, our motivation in looking at these doctrines and examining them biblically is to help people get to Heaven. We love people's immortal souls, and we want them to go to Heaven. Second, we are here to please God and to preach the truth in love (Eph. 4:15). In what we say, we want to honor God, say what the Bible says, and ultimately point out error in order to help people know God's truth and be saved.
The first doctrine that we want to answer from the Scriptures is known as "once saved, always saved." It also is known as the doctrine which teaches that a person, once saved, cannot fall from grace. Or, it is known as "perseverance of the saints." What is the core of this doctrine? In a nutshell, it says that once a person becomes a Christian, there is nothing he can ever do to be lost. Once a person obeys the Gospel and becomes a child of God, he never has to worry about being lost because he cannot be lost. I would like to represent this doctrine fairly by quoting from men who believe and teach this doctrine. Baptist preacher Sam Morris, in a tract titled, Do a Christian's Sins Damn His Soul?, said, "We take the position that a Christian's sins do not damn his soul. The way a Christian lives, what he says, his character, his conduct, or his attitude toward other people have nothing whatever to do with the salvation of his soul. And all the sins he may commit, from murder to idolatry, will not make his soul in any more danger." That is pretty clear. The way a Christian lives, what he says, how he relates to other people, and the things in which he gets involved cannot ever cause him to be lost. At least this man is logical in his belief. This doctrine is not new. The following quotation from the 1950s shows that it has been around a long time. Bill Foster, a Baptist preacher in Louisville, Kentucky, made this statement: "If I killed my wife and mother, and debauched a thousand women, I couldn't go to Hell. In fact, I couldn't go to Hell even I wanted to." That's quite blatant and abrasive. But that is the logical conclusion of this doctrine, which teaches that once a person is saved, even he wanted to he could not go to Hell. Why? It is because, according to this doctrine, once a person is saved he is always saved. He can never fall from grace. Today I want to ask the question, "What does the Bible teach about this doctrine?" We will be asking the great question of Jeremiah 37:17—"Is there any word from the Lord?" Or, as Paul said in Romans 4:3, "What do the Scriptures say?" Today we are concerned with what God has to say about this topic. Be sure that this doctrine is not taught in the Bible. In fact, the first passage we are going to examine takes the exact language of false teachers and says exactly the opposite of what they are saying.
does not repent and live faithfully.
of 1 Corinthians 10:12 have great meaning.
spend it on wasteful (prodigal) living. He goes to a far country and spends all of his money.
father is there with open arms to receive him. But do you understand what this parable represents?
same is true of Christians today. We can sin so as to ultimately be lost.
Scriptures do teach that a Christian can be lost.
relationship with sin if he gets involved with it.
at first is living as he ought to live. But then he gets involved in abominations and wickedness.
Thus, it is possible for him to sin and turn away from God. What does the text say?
will no longer help him, and he will be lost (unless he changes his ways).
and been cleansed of his sins, but then once again gets entangled in sin and is overcome.
the point. We would never say that a person in that state was in a right state before God.
a struggle to be sure that he was faithful to God.
be "blotted out of God's book" and lost forever is he does not remain faithful.
to what John said, we make God a liar. When we sin, we have an Advocate in Jesus Christ.
give you the crown of life" (Rev. 2:10). A person can so sin as to lose his immortal soul.
But the good news is that such a thing is a possibility, God, does not want that to happen.
our hearts, it will help prevent sin in our lives.
should. Plus, you will not think that such sin could cause you to be lost in the first place.
1. What does the denominational doctrine of "once saved, always saved" teach?
2. What important question did King Zedekiah ask in Jeremiah 37:17?
3. What important question did the apostle Paul ask in Romans 4:3?
4. According to Galatians 5:4, what had some first-century Christians done?
what sin did he commit?
doctrine of "once saved, always saved"?
you do these things you will never stumble")?
but who then turned back to a life of sin?
from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels.")?
for the doctrine of "once saved, always saved"?
sin, because he has been born of God.")?


Happy Friday!! What are you guys up to this weekend?? We have the usual sports and birthday parties tonight and tomorrow. Sunday, though, we are going to a "Going Away – We Are Going to Miss You Guys Terribly" brunch for my sister and brother-in-law. They are moving to Seattle because my brother-in-law took a job with Amazon. We are obviously going to miss them but are super excited to have a GREAT place to visit!!


I do not pay my salary on a regular basis. What are my rights?
Articles I do not pay my salary on a regular basis. What are my rights?
In view of the current legislation in the field of labor law as a conscientious worker / employee, I should enjoy the protection of the law against abuse by the employer. The payment of the agreed remuneration is mainly his responsibility. Failure to do so puts me in a difficult situation, so the legislator has taken care of me for a number of rights to emerge. This Right (a so-called article from us) aims to provide me with more information on what I can do in the event of a delay in the payment of my salary.
First of all, it's always good to consult with a commercial law specialist. So I'm sure I have all the options. It's not expensive, it's fast and easy on this page.
My salary is changing. What can I do?
1. First of all, it is primarily my right to get my monthly salary on time. If my obligations are fulfilled in good faith, the Labor Code guarantees the payment of at least 60 percent of my salary, but not less than the minimum wage for the country. The difference to the full amount of wages is still due to me and must be paid to me additionally with interest. Even a one-day delay in my salary - salary, premium, bonuses, missionary or other cash that is related to my work is considered a delay and is a requirement on my part!
2. If the delayed amount is not paid on a voluntary basis and my employer has delayed at least one monthly salary, I have the right to terminate my employment without notice. I can make the application for free here. For this purpose, I must notify my employer in writing by letter that would look like this. The employment relationship is deemed terminated from the moment my employer receives the letter without the need for his / her consent.
In case I work on an indefinite employment contract, my employer owes me compensation in the amount of the fee for the term of the notice of termination specified in the contract.
In case I work on a fixed-term contract and suffer damages as a result of the termination of the employment relationship, the employer must pay me the amount of the actual damage suffered.
I am also entitled to an allowance for unused annual leave for the current calendar year. More about my leave and rights related to them -> "Paid and unpaid leave", "How and what leave to ask for" and "My right to school leave".
They did not pay me after we terminated the labor contract !?
If my employer objects to the order of execution issued within the time limit, the court will inform me of the possibility of claiming my claim within one month.
If he does not object, the court will issue me an Execution Sheet for the amounts due.
I do not pay my salary on a regular basis. What are my rights? I do not pay my salary on a regular basis. What are my rights?


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Diseases and injuries of the nervous system can have a significant impact on the body's ability to function appropriately, as the nervous system's role is to control the muscles of the body and their coordinated movements. Physical Therapy plays an important role in working with individuals who have incurred a neurologic deficit and works to help you develop a plan to aid in helping you reach your maximum level of function. Neurologic Physical Therapy can help with pain reduction, restoring balance and coordination, improving walking patterns and safety, and modification of daily activities to improve independence within the home and community.


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coronavirus Health Tourism Transportation and mobility2. July 2020
Slow takeoff for aviation in Europe
Paris – After coronavirus lockdowns brought civil aviation to a near halt, air traffic is slowly resuming in Europe as borders reopen but tens of thousands of jobs are still hanging in the balance.
– Slow awakening –
The lockdowns saw air travel plunge by 94.3 percent in April compared with the same month last year, when measured by kilometres travelled by paying passengers.
IATA, the leading trade association for the aviation industry, believes the recovery in air travel is likely to be determined not only by the pace of restrictions being lifted but also by the extent health worries keep people from travelling.
IATA expects the recovery to begin in domestic air travel, then extend to continental travel and finally, at the end of the year, to long-haul inter-continental flights.
It sees air travel returning to its pre-coronavirus levels only in 2023.
Daily flights in Europe from March 1 to June 29, 2020, compared to the same period in 2019
Most travel restrictions within Europe have been lifted and starting Wednesday nationals from 15 countries are allowed into the EU. The United States, Russia and Brazil — where the virus is still spreading quickly — were left off the list.
In Europe, during the week of June 15-21, an average of 7,706 flights were recorded each day, a 78 percent drop from the same week last year, according to Eurocontrol which manages European airspace.
The airlines operating the most flights were Turkish Airlines, Lufthansa, Wizz Air, the Norwegian regional airline Wideroe, and Air France.
The busiest airports were Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Frankfurt, Amsterdam-Schiphol, London-Heathrow and Istanbul.
Paris-Charles de Gaulle was the busiest airport in Europe during the week June 15-21, Eurocontrol said. Photo: Eric Piermont / AFP
Paris-Charles de Gaulle was the busiest […]
– The most popular destinations in Europe –
Lisbon was the top destination for tickets booked in the first half of June, beating out Paris, Amsterdam, Athens, Rome, Madrid, Frankfurt, Vienna, Barcelona and London, according to data released Monday by ForwardKeys, an outfit which analyses trends in air travel.
Last year during the same period, London topped reservations, and its relegation is due to quarantine measures, according to the firm.
IATA's chief economist Brian Pierce said nations which have imposed quarantines have seen drops in traffic similar to a complete ban on flights.
IATA has instead urged authorities to instead adopt sanitary measures like requiring travellers to wear masks, conducting temperature checks and requiring health declarations.
Lisbon was Europe's top destination for tickets booked in the first half of June, ForwardKeys said. Photo: Patricia De Melo Moreira /AFP
Lisbon was Europe's top destination for […]
– Worst yet to come? –
Government support measures for the industry "have saved thousands of jobs and are enabling airlines to keep connectivity going," said IATA's regional vice president for Europe, Rafael Schvartzman, last month.
"But I'm afraid the worst may be yet to come," he said, as airlines rely on the summer holiday travel season to earn profits that carry them through the lean winter months.
"There will be no summer cushion" this year, he said.
IATA expects European airlines to suffer losses of $21.5 billion this year compared to a profit of $6.5 billion last year. It believes 6 to 7 million jobs linked to aviation are at risk.
In recent days, Airbus has unveiled 15,000 job cuts — 11 percent of its workforce
– Job cuts –
Airlines and other businesses in the industry have already begun to cut jobs.
In recent days alone, Airbus has unveiled 15,000 job cuts — 11 percent of its workforce — as it seeks to adjust to the plunge in the commercial aviation business and as airlines eye delaying taking delivery of new aircraft.
SSP, the British owner of food outlets in railway stations and airports worldwide including sandwich chain Upper Crust and Italian takeaway Caffe Ritazza, said it may cut up to 5,000 UK jobs as the coronavirus pandemic keeps customers away.
Airport services group Swissport has announced it will cut 4,000 jobs in Britain. Photo: Oli Scarff / AFP
Airport services group Swissport has ann […]
Airport services group Swissport that provides check-in agents and cargo-handlers for airlines announced it was eliminating 4,000 jobs in Britain.
Swiss duty-free shop operator Dufry, which has more than 2,400 shops and 31,000 employees across the globe, said it plans to reduce its spending on staff by up to 35 percent.
By Sonia Wolf
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The RCILTS-II (Assamese and Bodo) team, as one of its tasks, compiled an English-Assamese-Bodo Trilingual Dictionary keeping in mind the usability of the lexicons of the Assamese and Bodo languages in machine translation and other computational work. Every entry is provided with a set of four fields viz. "English" (Source Language), "Grammatical Category", "Assamese Meaning" (1st Target Language) and "Bodo Meaning" (2nd Target Language).


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Premiere: 'Give It Time' by TUMBLE
Listen to TUMBLE's 'Give It Time' exclusively at the end of this article
By nicholas fraser
"I'm going by the recording name TUMBLE now, but my friends all know me as Jacob. I'm 19 years old, life has been pretty good so far. I'm still based in the south of England but I'll be heading back home to Wales once this new song releases. Music is still just about getting me by each month, I'm hoping this rebrand will allow me to continue for the foreseeable future. Since my last interview (read it here), I've spent a lot of time converting my dad's old garage into a personal recording space. It turns out I've got a pretty good hand when it comes to D.I.Y. The only issue I've been having recently is finding a good split between finishing off my new project and working on the studio…"
Where did you draw inspiration for the making of 'Give It Time'?
I'm not sure where I drew the majority of my inspiration from, although for the most part, this new project is formed of comparisons between childhood summers and the wide mix of emotions thrown into those periods as time passes by. I also found myself creating fun rhyme schemes to form catchy hooks and verses, much to the similarity of somebody like Still Woozy or The Wallows. During the course of writing tracks for Sunblast, they were my go-to guys.
What's your favorite song from the EP?
Right now I can't talk all that much about the tracks that'll appear on the EP, but there's a few stand out pop songs to stick in the ear of listeners. There's also a really beautiful interlude track to round off the project, it's something I worked really hard on and I hope doesn't go unnoticed.
What can we expect from you in the near future?
As for the future, I'm not too sure. There's a music video for 'Give It Time' that's set to release in the next few months. I'm also putting together a CD package that'll feature lots of cool artwork and unfinished demos that didn't make the final cut on Sunblast. But for the time being, I'm just focused on getting out this EP and hearing what people have to say about it.
While waiting for the release of TUMBLE's upcoming debut EP 'Sunblast' later on in July, listen to 'Give It Time' below:
http://esthetedigital.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/TUMBLE-Give-It-Time.mp3
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Every day, people can be seen walking in beautiful downtown Vancouver and throughout Clark County. When we're out walking, most of us never think about the possibility of being in an accident. Yet pedestrian accidents happen regularly and can leave people seriously hurt. The Scott Law Firm, PLLC represents the injured and helps them recover financial compensation.
These types of accidents are especially dangerous because pedestrians have no protection when they are hit by a car or another motor vehicle. As a result, they can be left with broken bones or in severe cases, spinal cord injuries or traumatic brain injury. Some accident victims are left with permanent disabilities.
Attorney Colin Scott knows the impact pedestrian accidents can have on victims and their families. Recovery can take months or years. Some victims never fully recover and require lifelong care. The medical expenses can become overwhelming very quickly. And if an accident victim is unable to work, there is less money coming in to pay for these medical bills and your everyday needs.
That's why Colin has dedicated his practice to helping accident victims recover the financial compensation they need and deserve to get their lives back on track. Our firm is focused on getting the best possible outcome on behalf of our clients who have been injured in a pedestrian accident.
These accidents frequently happen because a driver was distracted. For example, a driver may have been texting, talking to passengers or adjusting dashboard controls. Some drivers in pedestrian accidents may have been speeding or driving recklessly. Others may be under the influence of alcohol or other drugs.
You would think recovering compensation after a pedestrian accident should be simple. A driver was negligent and caused an accident that left someone hurt. Under these circumstances, one would assume that a driver's insurance company should provide compensation for the various economic and non-economic losses that have been incurred. But it's usually not that simple.
Drivers often deny responsibility for the accident. They may even try to blame the pedestrian for what happened - for example, by claiming the person was not using a crosswalk or "darted out" into traffic. That leaves you in a position of having to prove the driver's negligence caused the accident.
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Yeti Holdings Inc. (YETI) came up during the fast-paced Lightning Round of Mad Money Monday night. "Yeti is a winner and I'm sticking with it," said Mad Money host Jim Cramer.
We last looked at YETI in late November, when we wrote, "If you understand the company and you are comfortable with risk, you could approach the long side of YETI around $17.25, if available." Prices fell below $13 in December, so I would not be surprised if longs took a loss and moved on. Let's see if the charts are on a stronger footing now.
In this daily bar chart of YETI, below, we can see a little more than three months of price action. Using a 20-day and a 50-day moving average combination (instead of 50-day and 200-days), we can see that prices are above the rising 20-day average line and the flat 50-day line. The trading volume has been unremarkable, but the daily On-Balance-Volume (OBV) line does show a rise from late December and the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) is above the zero line and looks like it is turning higher.
In this first Point and Figure chart of YETI, below, we can see that a rally to $18.50 will be a small upside breakout while a decline below $16.50 will be negative.
In this second Point and Figure chart, below, we can see the price action arranged differently. Here a trade at $18.49 will be an upside breakout. A decline to $17.25 will be bearish.
Bottom-line strategy: With more trading history than back in November, it still looks like YETI is poised to move higher. Experienced traders can approach the long side of YETI. Risk below $16.50. No price targets yet.


Diversity is core library value. As a response to this issue, the library will make the two restrooms on the main floor gender neutral, retaining restrooms designated for men and women on the lower and upper levels. This guide explains why.
In the fall semester of 2015, a group of students created the Third Door project to highlight the need for gender-neutral bathrooms. The research they did and what they heard from Gusties in response informed the library's plan of action.
We want to have at least one all-gender bathroom in the library in a highly visible place as soon as possible.
The library doesn't have clear bathroom options for people who don't fit traditional gender binaries.
There have been student requests for gender-inclusive bathrooms for several years. They are not widely available on campus. A gender neutral bathroom is in the basement of Beck, but it's pretty well hidden. The student center has some single-use bathrooms. Some dorms have gender-neutral bathrooms, an outcome of student activism and work with Residential Life. The library has quite a lot of traffic and students often spend hours here. It seems inhospitable to ask them to leave the building just to go to the bathroom.
The assumption that people can simply use the bathroom that matches their gender identity has grown less clear that it was before bills have been introduced in many state legislatures requiring people to use public bathrooms that match the gender at birth. People (no matter what kind of bathroom they prefer) are more aware than in the past that this is an issue.
Both our institutional mission statement the American Library Association's core values statement state that we support diversity, and Minnesota law prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender identity.
In 2015, student researchers who held focus groups with Gustavus students found the students they talked to are either in favor of having gender-neutral bathroom facilities or (once they learn about the issues) are not opposed.
We have enough bathrooms that we can provide facilities that give every patron one of three options: men, women, or gender-neutral. Nobody will be forced to use an all-gender bathroom.
Some people have good reasons to feel safer in a women-only or men-only restroom, so we need to keep that option available.
Some people may have religious reasons to feel a men-only or women-only bathroom is appropriate, so keeping those options is also a way of supporting diversity.
The main floor is probably our busiest one, but it's also where we have the most staff presence to address any questions or concerns.
Because this has become a national political issue it's important to be clear that while we strongly support LGBTQ people, we also respect the right of all, including those who oppose gender-inclusive bathrooms, to feel comfortable and safe in the library.


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Yang Concedes, Bottcher Leads and Johnson Trails
by Phil O'Brien June 23, 2021 June 23, 2021
Hell's Kitchen and W42nd Street resident Andrew Yang will not be the next mayor of New York City. He conceded the race to replace Mayor de Blasio last night after polling behind the front runner Eric Adams and contenders Maya Wiley and Kathryn Garcia.
"I am not going to be the next mayor of New York City, based upon the numbers that are coming in tonight. I am conceding this race. Though we're not sure ultimately who the next mayor is going to be, but whoever that person is, I will be very happy to work with them to help improve the lives of the 8.3 million people who live in our great city. And I would urge everyone here to do the same," Yang told supporters at a party held at Social Drink and Food at YOTEL last night.
With ranked-choice voting still not accounted for, Adams has 31% of the votes with Wiley at 22% and Garcia at 19%. Yang was showing at 11% when he conceded.
Andrew Yang with supporters at his party on W42nd Street last night. Photo: Celia Iervasi.
Meanwhile, overnight figures show that Erik Bottcher has a clear lead to replace term-limited Corey Johnson in the race for Council District 3. Early figures show that Bottcher took 47% of the first choice voting, with Arthur Schwartz in second place with 15% and Leslie Boghosian Murphy in third with 14%. In the rest of the voting, Aleta LaFaruge had 9%, Marni Halasa 8% and Phelan Dante Fitzpatrick 5%.
Bottcher thanked campaign workers and his challengers last night, saying: "We did it! I want to thank the voters of Council District 3. This is one of the most consequential elections in the history of New York City. Thank you to Aleta, Marni, Phelan, Leslie and Arthur for running. I look forward to partnering with all of you to continue serving our community together."
Bottcher thanking his supporters at a party last night.
Schwartz said: ""I want to offer Erik my congratulations. He ran a positive, optimistic campaign, and I hope that his prediction of better days ahead come true. I remain the Democratic District Leader in Greenwich Village, I am still in court challenging the constitutionality of the PACT/RAD program at NYCHA, and I remain the Political Director of the NY Progressive Action Network, so we will have lots of opportunities to work together. I consider Erik a personal friend, he has always been kind to my family, and I am happy that his dream has come true. I do hope he takes a stronger stand against luxury development in Hell's Kitchen, Chelsea, the Village and Soho than Corey Johnson did; if he does he will be a hero."
Boghosian Murphy offered "a heartfelt thank you" to all the residents and local business owners who supported her campaign. "I have been lucky to run in a race with amazing people that have been a pleasure to campaign with. I look forward to working with Erik, Arthur, Aleta, Marni and Phelan making our community better and putting resident voices first," she said this morning.
Fitzpatrick told us: "I'm so proud of our campaign and incredibly grateful for the opportunity and support we have received, and I will continue to advocate for my neighbors and our community Hopefully Erik will prioritize the issues and needs of small business operators like myself, and I wish him good luck and Godspeed. It's our collective responsibility to hold him accountable, and to work together to ensure that our city emerges from these challenging times more equitable and stronger than before."
Some of Hell's Kitchen (northwest of W54th and 10th Avenue) is covered by Council District 6. Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer appears a clear winner, with 54% of the poll in the Democratic Primary. She will face a run-off against Republican Nancy Sliwa in November for the seat.
In the race for City Comptroller, Johnson trails Brad Lander. In the Democratic Primary Lander took 31% of the first place votes, with Johnson behind with 23% of the poll.
We will update this story as more results come in.
Tagged: andrewyang, coreyjohnson, erikbottcher, politics
I am shocked that people would vote for Erik Bottcher, Corey Johnson's "mini-me". Let's prepare for years more of do nothing representation just like his mentor. This really makes me sad that candidates who have lived in these neighborhoods for years and years, and have the best interest of the areas in their minds and hearts, did not do better. Bottcher pandered to the LGBT community, just like Corey, and wants nothing other than to make a name for himself, just like Corey, and further his political ambitions. His many fake photo ops on the campaign trail are already clear evidence about what he's all about. As soon as he starts, assuming he does officially win, get ready to be disappointed again! Sorry to the real candidates that the worst possible option is ahead.
Sorry Hunter but Erik Bottcher won because he is the BEST person for the job and didn't
pander to anyone.
If you knew anything about him you would know that anything good that has happened in district 3 over the past few years has been done with Erik's input. During the 14 month pandemic, he rolled up his sleeves, put on his mask and reached out to thousands of seniors and made sure they were safe, fed and got their vaccines and HE delivered the meals with his volunteer team. Over the years people in district 3 could reach out to him and he would listen to their issues and solve them.
He ran the cleanest campaign and everyone he met on the street either knew him, had heard about the wonderful things he has done or thanked him for what he has done. And as for your comment about candidates, he is the REAL candidate and does have the best interests of the neighborhoods and people in his heart. You won't be disappointed.
@Richard Agree to disagree. Luckily we're allowed to have different opinions.
I had very different experiences with him when he was Corey's right hand man. He claimed to be so involved in "cleaning up the streets" and came outside my building, held a rake and shovel for some photos and was gone in 10 minutes.
You say we won't be disappointed, but many of us already are, and many more will be soon.


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I have a 2D logo. I want to create an alpha channel around the base image. I have tried all manner of combinations of inverting selection, etc., but cannot get GIMP to just fill the blank space with alpha channel. Do I really need to do this manually pixel by pixel with the eraser tool ?
(Aug 31, 2014 17:58)WhyDoIHaveToCreateAnAccount Wrote: I have a 2D logo. I want to create an alpha channel around the base image. I have tried all manner of combinations of inverting selection, etc., but cannot get GIMP to just fill the blank space with alpha channel. Do I really need to do this manually pixel by pixel with the eraser tool ?
Back to the question. Depends on the logo.
Does your image have an alpha channel to start with?
If that is grayed-out there is one. Then with a selection Edit -> Cut should remove something. If the wrong part invert the selection.
If the logo has a single colour background then a simple color-to-alpha should work Gimp menu Colors -> Color To Alpha.
Or make a selection using one of the selection tools and apply some principles. see: http://gimpforums.com/thread-proper-subj...-painting?
If the background is complicated then sometimes a layer mask is the way to go see: http://docs.gimp.org/2.8/en/gimp-layer-mask-menu.html and subsequent pages.
If your logo is not too controversial and you have worked through the above to no avail, then post it to get further advice.
The first thing to do is to make sure your layer has an alpha channel.
Now make your selection. Invert the selection if necessary.
Cheers, TY for the assistance. Sorry for my tone. I was rather frustrated.


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Top richest men in Lagos according to Forbes (2022)
Do you want to know the name of top richest men in Lagos with their net worth, type of an expensive lifestyle they live, cars they drive, etc. according to Forbes in 2022? Please read this post to find out top 20 richest men in Lagos one by one.
Lagos is the biggest city in Nigeria and in the whole Africa at large. We have compiled this article with the name of top famous richest men in Lagos with what they do as a career, how much is their net worth, cars they drive, houses they have in Nigeria and abroad, their private jets, etc.
Lagos' top 2022 richest men
#1. Akinwumi Ambode
#2. Folorunsho Alakija
#3. Segun Agbaje
#4. Adewale Tinubu
#5. Miriam Olusanya
#6. Babajide Sanwo
#7. Femi Otedola
#8. Mike Adenuga
#9. Sen. Remi Tinubu
#10. Musiliu Obanikoro
#11. Olujimi Kolawole Agbaje
#12. Bola Tinubu
#13. Tony Elumelu
#14. Jim Ovia
#15. Herbert Wigwe
#16. Davido
#17. Wizkid
#18. Linda Ikeji
#19. Odiong Ighalo
#20. Enoch Adeboye
Akinwunmi Ambode is one of the richest men in Lagos state and former Governor of the state who ruled from 2015 to 2019. At the time when he was not a politician, he was a civil servant who served for 27 years and a financial consultant.
The net worth of Akinwunmi Ambode is approximately $14 Million.
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Folorunsho Alakija is a Nigerian billionaire businesswoman and philanthropist born on 15 July 1951 in Ikorodu, Lagos state. The type of her business is involved in fashion, oil, real estate and printing industries.
She is not only known as one of the richest in Nigeria but also in other countries. In fact, in 2021, according to Forbes, she was known as the richest woman with an estimated net worth of $1 billion. In 2015, she was ranked as the second most powerful woman in Africa and 87th in the world by Forbes.
Folorunsho Alakija has different expensive properties including houses, cars, business, private jets and among others. Her residential mansion house is one of the most expensive houses in Nigeria as well as in the whole of Africa worth about $700M.
Segun Agbaje is the Managing Director of Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) and one of the richest men presently live in Lagos. Apart from being an MD, he is also a Director of PepsiCo and member of the Mastercard Advisory Board, Middle East and Africa.
He partially acted as the GTB's Managing Director when Tayo Aderinokun, the former one was on medical leave in April 2011. In June 2011, Segun Agbaje fully became an MD of GTBank.
Segun Agbaje is a professional entrepreneur with a background in investment, management and customer experience, seeking to progress his career in an organization focused sector. His net worth as of 2021 according to Forbes was ₦400 million.
Adewale Tinubu is a Nigerian businessman, consultant, lawyer and the chief executive officer of Oando PLC. He began his career in 1992 as an attorney specializing in corporate and petroleum law assignments.
Born on 26 June 1967, he is the nephew of Bola Tinubu, a Nigerian politician, former governor of Lagos State and the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) political party.
His net worth is $32.7 Billion Dollars according to Forbes in 2021 which makes him one of the richest and most influential men in Lagos and Nigeria at large.
Miriam Olusanya has in July 2021 became the Managing Director of Guaranty Trust Bank, the first woman to ever hold the position.
She did a degree of Pharmacy in the University of Ibadan and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Liverpool. Miriam Olusanya is one of the richest entrepreneur women currently lives in Lagos. Her net worth is yet unknown.
Babajide Sanwo is the current Governor of Lagos State. He is a member of the All Progressives Congress born in Lagos on 25 June 1965.
The current governor of Lagos state, Babajide Sanwo is one of the top richest men in Lagos having a net worth of over 200 Million US Dollars which is approximately 82.6 Billion) Naira as of 2021.
Sanwo had a BSc in Surveying and Geo-information and an MBA from the University of Lagos. He is also an alumnus of the John F. Kennedy School of Government, the London Business School and the Lagos Business School.
Femi Otedola is a businessman, philanthropist and former chairman of Forte Oil PLC, an importer of fuel products. Currently, Otedola is the founder of Zenon Petroleum and Gas Ltd and the owner of a number of other lucrative businesses across shipping, real estate, finance and among others.
Otedola was born in Ibadan on 4 November 1962. After his high school education, he then from 1980–1985 attended Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) where he studied a degree course.
Being one of the top richest men in Lagos state in 2022, Femi Otedola has an estimated net worth of $6b according to Forbes. Otedola has expensive houses in different location in Nigeria, Dubai, London, New York City etc.
His source of wealth include Oil & Gas, Hotels, Real Estates, investments etc. He has a Mercedes-Benz AMG G63 worth N73 million, a G-Wagon costing N53 million, a Mercedes SLR McLaren worth N250 million and among others.
Michael Adenuga is also one of the top richest men in Lagos also recognized as the third richest man in the whole Africa. He focuses on digital entrepreneurship. In fact, one of his digital companies, Globacom is Nigeria's second-largest network provider as well as in Ghana and Benin.
Michael was born in Ibadan, Oyo state on 29 April 1953. He is the second wealthiest Nigerian making his wealth from Telecommunication, Oil production and marketing. In fact, at the age of 26, he made his first million while importing lace materials and distributing Nigerian Bottling company products.
As of 2022, according to Forbes, his net worth is estimated at $6.2 billion. His has a private jets including the luxury AMG C63. He also has a luxurious cars including Armored Bentley Mulsanne worth about ₦110.5 million, Mercedes-Maybach S-Class worth about ₦72.1 million, Mercedes Benz AMG C63 worth about ₦24.3 million and among others.
Oluremi Tinubu was born on 21 September 1960 in Ogun State, Nigeria. She is the former first lady of Lagos State and currently a senator representing Lagos Central Senatorial District. She is a politician and a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) political party.
Being a senator in Lagos state and wife of former Lagos state governor, Bola Tinubu, Sen. Remi Tinubu is one of the top richest men in Lagos state having a networth estimated at $9.2 million.
She studied in Obafemi Awolowo University and now she is blessed with three children; Folashade Tinubu-Ojo, Abibat Tinubu and Seyi Tinubu.
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Musiliu Obanikoro is another one of the top richest men who was born in 1957 currently living in Lagos Nigeria. He was from 2003–2007 served as Senator in Lagos State before he had appointed High Commissioner to Ghana.
According to his properties including cars, houses and among others, the net worth of Musiliu Obanikoro is between $1 Million – $5 Million. He has an expensive range rovers, MERCEDEZ BENZ and among others.
Olujimi Kolawole Agbaje is a Nigerian Pharmacist born in Lagos on 2 March 1957. Beside from being a pharmacist, he is also a politician contested for Lagos state governor in 2015.
Bola Tinubu is a Nigerian politician and a current national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) born on 29 March 1952 in Lagos. He was a Lagos State Governor from 1999 to 2007.
In Lagos, Bola Tinubu is fondly called Jagaban. Presently, he is recognized as one of the top richest men in Lagos having an estimated net worth of about $4 Billion. He has a luxurious Land Range Rover, Prado Jeep, private jets, etc. He also has mansions built in different places in Nigeria and abroad.
Tony Elumelu is another one of the top richest men in Lagos who was born on 22 March 1963 in Jos, Plateau state. He is an economist, philanthropist, a Business owner and founder of The Tony Elumelu Foundation.
In two consecutive years, 2020 and 2021, Tony Elumelu was ranked to be 100th most influential people in the world. His net worth as of 2021 was more than $1 billion. His source of wealth is investments in business sectors such as financial services, energy, real estate, banking, etc.
Being the richest man, he has a lot of different expensive cars including Range Rover, Mercedes Benz S-class, BMW M3, Rolls-Royce Phantom, etc. He also has a private jet called Falcon 7X, the one of the most expensive in the world.
Jim Ovia is a businessman born on 4 November 1951 in Agbor, Delta State presently lives in Lagos. He is the founder of Zenith Bank established 1990.
The net worth of Jim Ovia according to Forbes in 2022 is estimated at $9 billion. He makes his wealth from the banking sector. His bank, Zenith bank is one of the best banks in Nigeria.
Jim Ovia's has a lot of other businesses across Nigeria and abroad. He lives in a well-furnished houses and can he can buy any type of car of his choice. He married to Kay Ovia who is an alumni of Enugu State University of Technology (ESUT) holding an MBA degree in Management. Both of them have been blessed with children.
Herbert Wigwe is also one of the top richest men in Lagos born on 15 August 1966 in Ibadan, Oyo state. He is a Nigerian banker and entrepreneur.
Wigwe is currently a CEO and Group managing director of Access Bank plc. He started his banking career with Coopers and Lybrand Associate, an international firm of chartered accountants.
His net worth according to Forbes in 2022 is around $69 million. He also has a luxurious cars and most demanding residential houses built in Nigeria and abroad.
David Adedeji Adeleke, also known as Davido by his stage name is a singer, songwriter and record producer born on 21 November 1992.
According to Forbes in 2022, the net worth of Davido is $50 million. He makes his money predominantly from music. He started his own record label in the year 2016 known as Davido Music Worldwide (DMW).
Davido is a musician from rich family. His father, Adedeji Adeleke is a businessman having an estimated net worth of about $900 million. He has a lot of different expensive cars including the latest 2021 Rolls Royce Cullinan worth about ₦585 Million, Lamborghini Huracán, Sprinter Bus, Bentley Bentayga, etc.
Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun, also by his stage name known as Wizkid born in Surulere on 16 July 1990. He is a singer and songwriter.
Wizkid is one of the richest and the most influential men in terms of music in Nigeria with an estimated net worth of $30 million Dollar. He has a private jet worth about $40 million.
At the Wizkid's car pack, there is Mercedes Benz G63 AMG worth about ₦60 Million. BMW X6 worth about N11 Million, Porsche Panamera worth about N13 Million, Bentley Continental GT Speed Convertible which cost around ₦45- ₦50 Million.
Linda Ifeoma Ikeji is a Nigerian blogger, writer, entrepreneur and former model born on 19 September 1980 in Nkwerre, Imo state Nigeria. She is one of the richest in Lagos known for her blog and controversial publications online.
Linda is the most influential bloggers in Nigeria and in the whole of Africa at large with an estimated net worth of $40 million dollars according to Forbes in 2o22.
In terms of expensive cars, Linda Ikeji has a lot of them in her garage. She had in 2016 purchased a Limited Edition of 2016 Range Rover worth N90M. She also has 2014 Range Rover Sport and among other expensive cars.
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Odion Jude Ighalo is a footballer born on 16 June 1989 in Lagos Nigeria. He is not currently living in Nigeria but he had his residential house built in his home town, Lagos. He spent 500 million Nigerian Naira to build the home which houses between 30 to 40 children with separated apartments for boys and girls.
According to Forbes and Wikipedia, Ighalo is rated as one of the top richest men in Lagos with an estimated net worth of $30.7 million which is ₦16 billion equivalent.
As a footballer, Ighalo does have chance for driving, hence, he hasn't got many cars, but he a White Range Rover Velar worth N50 million and one most expensive Mercedes Benz G-wagon.
Pastor Enoch Adeboye was born in Ifewara, Osun state Nigeria on 2nd March 1942. He is the current General Overseer of Redeemed Christian Church of God in Lagos.
Pa Enoch Adeboye is rated by Forbes and Wikipedia as one of the richest men of God in Lagos Nigeria and other countries in the world with an estimated net worth of $110m.
At his garage (car pack), he has Mercedes Benz Gelandewagen, Rolls Royce Phantom, Land Rover Discovery and among others. He has also for now got four expensive private jets of different types including gulf-stream 1, gulf-stream v, gulfstream 4, the challenger 604 model.
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