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"Of course, Trotsky was an alternative to Stalin"
An interview with Professor Mario Kessler on the Trotsky biography by Robert Service—Part two
By Wolfgang Weber
This is the second part of a two-part interview with German historian Professor Mario Kessler on the 2009 biography of Leon Trotsky by Robert Service. The first part was posted on Monday, May 21. Professor Kessler is a co-signatory of a letter sent by 14 European sociologists and political scientists to the Suhrkamp Verlag publishing house raising grave reservations about its plan to bring out a German edition of Service's book.
WSWS: Even after the Civil War, anti-Semitic sentiments and prejudice still existed in the Soviet Union in certain layers…
Professor Kessler
Mario Kessler: Here too, more concrete details should be given than can be found in Service, especially from Trotsky's essay "Thermidor and anti-Semitism", which, unfortunately, remained unpublished in his lifetime.
The anti-Jewish prejudices from Tsarist times had survived revolution and civil war for the most part. How could it be otherwise? Many opponents of the revolution tried to present this event as the work of the Jews, personified by Trotsky. Since the layer of petty traders that arose under the New Economic Policy [8] included many Jews, professional jealousy and anti-Semitism often coincided. Even within the party there were prejudices against Jewish officials, most of whom became Bolsheviks only after 1917. Previously, they had mostly belonged to the socialist groups that were enemies of the party of Lenin.
In the 1920s, the Bolshevik Party initially fought anti-Semitic phenomena by a variety of means. Remarkably, it was often non-Jewish communists who distinguished themselves here: Kalinin, Bukharin, Preobrazhensky, Lunacharsky, Riutin. Of course, Jewish Bolsheviks were also involved in the fight against anti-Semitism. They published a series of enlightening and analytical writings, among which Yuri Larin's book The Jews and anti-Semitism in the USSR (1929) stands out.
In this, Larin wrote about the spread of anti-Semitism "in the backward sections of workers bound up with the peasantry and among women", and continued: "We often hear workers making anti-Semitic remarks who do not recognize the counterrevolutionary role of anti-Semitism. Many facts point to the presence of Komsomol (Communist youth organisation) members and party members among the anti-Semites". [9] Trotsky also cited anti-Semitic remarks and behaviour among workers in his Problems of Everyday Life.
Anti-Semitism among workers was accompanied by anti-Semitic attitudes among a section of Russian intellectuals. This was nourished by a (groundless!) sense of inferiority towards the internationally-oriented and often educated Jews. Political activists who before the revolution had been members of the Jewish Labour Federation or the Poale Zion entered the party apparatus of the Bolsheviks in the wake of the process of radicalization and the dissolution of these two most important Jewish socialist parties. Thus, a type of Jewish "neophyte" arose, who sought to conceal his anti-Bolshevik past by an excess of loyalty to the party line.
Of course, this did not apply to all Jewish members of the party, not even to all those whose date of admission was after the October Revolution and the Civil War. However, by their prominent actions, some of these "newly converted" Jewish Bolsheviks considerably influenced the picture that non-Jewish Soviet citizens had of Jewish party functionaries.
This includes some of the administrative actions of the Jewish Section of the Communist Party, the Yevsektsiya. Its officials sabotaged the exercise of religious worship often practised by their Jewish fellow citizens, in part by ruthless means. They also denounced Hebrew as an allegedly Zionist idiom and tended to propagate the official ideology in very clumsy ways. Probably unintentionally, with their fight against "Jewish religious relics", they weakened the basis for the livelihoods of their people, since, given the lack of a self-contained territory (apart from the Birobidzhan project), religion and ethnicity were more closely related among the Jews than other nationalities.
The role of Jews in the campaign of forced collectivization in the early 1930s, mainly the implementation of this brutal campaign by Kaganovich, a Jew, in the Ukraine, contributed greatly to the growth of rural anti-Semitism. Still, it seems to be clear that the Stalinization of the Soviet Union did contribute to the growth of anti-Semitism, and that the Stalin faction adeptly exploited anti-Jewish sentiment. But without the overt pre-revolutionary impact of anti-Semitism upon the masses, all of this would not have been possible. On the one hand, the Stalinists used anti-Semitic sentiments to their own advantage, on the other hand, they often encouraged anti-Semitism behind the scenes. They did not act against anti-Semitism in any way—something that was both necessary and possible.
The ban on emigration from the USSR after 1928 also contributed to the alienation between Jews and non-Jews. While this affected all citizens, the ending of Zionist immigration to Palestine by the Jews created a specific "emigration jam". (As the ban was gradually interpreted less restrictively in the 1970s, there were waves of Jewish emigration, seeming once again to make the Jews more privileged than other Soviet citizens).
In the run-up to the Hitler-Stalin-pact in 1939, a number of Jews were removed from the diplomatic service, including Foreign Minister Litvinov. This seems to be related mainly to the fact that most Jewish diplomats were involved in Litvinov's policy of collective security, and thus advocated an alliance with the West against Hitler.
But the heaviest losses Jews suffered were those caused by the closure of many cultural institutions, the dissolution of a number of organizations, and the execution of many party and state officials in the Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobidzhan in the Far East. Where had Trotsky—for Service so similar to his opponent Stalin—tolerated these things, let alone initiated them?
WSWS: The stirring up of anti-Semitism also played a role in the fight of the bureaucracy led by Stalin against Trotsky and the Left Opposition. What form did this take?
MK: From about 1926-27, the Stalin faction began to make use of anti-Semitic prejudices in the struggle for power against the rival United Opposition. As explained earlier, these prejudices stemmed from the Tsarist era and still slumbered in rural areas or in working class layers still strongly rooted in the peasantry.
At that time, Stalin, according to Trotsky, semi-publicly said that the opposition was headed by three disaffected Jews: Trotsky, Kamenev and Zinoviev. In the campaign running beneath the surface, the word "Jew" was only rarely used. But Stalin's assertion that the opposition troika was being fought not because its members were Jews, but because they were enemies of the party, there was an implicit invocation of the constructed Russian-Jewish antagonism. At the same time, the identification of Jews with the opposition would have occurred even without any direct encouragement. Stalin and his faction took advantage of anti-Semitic sentiments, but they did not create them.
The Moscow show trials of the 1930s, however, provided a new "quality". The terror trials were accompanied by an anti-Semitic propaganda campaign, poorly disguised as "Soviet patriotism", against the defendants as allegedly "alien to the people". Stalin exploited a dilemma that faced all internationalist-oriented Bolsheviks after the late 1920s: "[T]he Bolsheviks of Jewish origin were the least likely of all to idealize rural Russia in its crudity and barbarity, and drag the local farmers' carts at a 'snail's pace' behind them", wrote Isaac Deutscher. "Not for them was the ideal of socialism in a single country." [10]
The new Soviet patriotism did not necessarily have to have an anti-Jewish component; on the contrary, anti-Semitism was officially declared to have been overcome and the fundamental antagonism was to Nazism. But the anti-Semitic undertones of the show trials raised the temperature, as did, in a seemingly opposite way, the relatively large presence of Jews in the organs of power and repression.
WSWS: In what way could these anti-Semitic undertones be observed in the show trials? Were existing or latent anti-Semitic prejudices aroused or utilised by addressing the Jewish defendants not by their party name, but by their Jewish name?
MK: Of course. Trotsky himself pointed this out, and rightly so. "In order to strengthen their rule," he said in an interview in January 1937 in Mexico, "the bureaucracy is not afraid to resort to even thinly veiled chauvinist, especially anti-Semitic, tendencies. For example, the last trial [of Zinoviev, Kamenev and fourteen other Bolsheviks] was carried through with the barely concealed intention of presenting the internationalists as faithless Jews who sold themselves to the Gestapo. Since 1925 and especially since 1936, a veiled, intangible anti-Semitic demagogy has gone hand in hand with symbolic actions against real pogromists. [...] The leaders employ clever means to channel the discord, which is directed against the bureaucracy, and focus it particularly on the Jews." [11]
Given the virulent anti-Semitism that obsessed Stalin in his last years, this assessment resonates, unfortunately, far more convincingly than it could have to many contemporaries of Trotsky. Subsequent research findings by Salomon Schwarz, Zvi Gitelman and, more recently, Matthias Vetter—all authors who were or are far from Trotskyism—have confirmed Trotsky's statements empirically. Why would Service ignore all this?
WSWS: In the first four chapters of his book, Service seeks to convince his readers that Leon Trotsky was called Leiba during his childhood and youth. Only at the age of 18, Service claims, did he decide to change his forename—a fact which, Service says, Trotsky concealed in his autobiography My Life. Service thereby seeks to prove that Trotsky is an unreliable author. In almost every paragraph, Service refers to Trotsky only by the name "Leiba," probably to work on the reader until he believes the claim in the absence of any evidence.
MK: If Trotsky had been raised in a Yiddish-speaking environment, he could certainly have been called "Leiba". But that was not the case. He was called by the name of Lev, and this is what he should probably be called in the German edition of the book, if one can trust the announcement by Suhrkamp on the Internet. Once more, the impression arises that whereever Trotsky can be shown in a dubious light, Service does so, even if the historical facts take a hammering.
WSWS: What is to be understood by the fact that Service revives this pattern well known from the time of Stalin's persecution? What is the context?
MK: I see two reasons. One has to do with the atmosphere, specifically in parts of the Anglo-Saxon intelligentsia, where, according to my observation, some pertinent prejudices thrive at present. It's about, I must say, a vulgar materialistic view of the Middle East conflict and Israel. The necessary and principled criticism of the Israeli occupation regime in the West Bank and Gaza Strip is confused—perhaps on purpose—with adventurous ideas to "boycott" and "end the Zionist project," and this includes the Israeli left and left-liberals.
Concretely, in England a few years ago the linguist Gideon Toury, whose father was a progressive historian who had been banished by the Nazi Reich, was thrown off the advisory board of a scientific journal, not at all because of his political stance, but simply due to the fact that he is Israeli. As far as I could follow, British "left and liberal public opinion" did not see it necessary to exercise solidarity with Toury or distance themselves from the editors of the magazine, in contrast to the National Student Association and the American philosopher Judith Butler. [12]
Is this the policy of "Solidarity with Palestine"—calling for an indiscriminate boycott of Israeli academics, no matter what their political positions? Is that not a blanket condemnation of Israelis? How far removed is such an attitude from anti-Semitic sentiment? Don't such sentiments at least prepare the ground? Is this the way to anti-Semitism in Enlightenment garb?
I'm not going too far when I fear that a "dose" of mockery of Trotsky, the revolutionary, theorist, and Jew, fits very well in an atmosphere in which former "salon lefts" have abandoned everything they once learned about class analysis to foster old and new prejudices—whether these come in the guise of a false "anti-Trotskyism" or a genuine, though measured, anti-Semitism.
The second, more general reason is that in the whole world, right-wing circles, but also reactionaries, liberal sections of the capitalist elites and their intellectual phrasemongers are gripped by a great fear of a renaissance of socialist ideas. To counteract it, every socialist alternative to Stalin must be burdened with the stigma of violence and terror. What could be more convenient than to present Trotsky—the wisest and most courageous opponent of Stalin, whose writings still give cause to reflect on socialism—as being, in principle, barely distinguishable from Stalin?
WSWS: Thank you for your time.
8. The New Economic Policy (NEP) was introduced in the Soviet Union in 1921 following the end of the civil war.
9. Ju. O. Larin, Evrei i antisemitizm v SSSR, Moskau/Leningrad, 1929, p. 239
10. Isaac Deutscher, The Prophet Unarmed: Trotsky 1921-1929, New York and London, 1959, p. 259
11. The passage can be found in German in the book by John Bunzl, Klassenkampf in der Diaspora. Zur Geschichte der jüdischen Arbeiterbewegung, Vienna, 1975, p. 150.
12. Regarding the position of the World Socialist Web Site in the case of Gideon Toury, see: "Against the boycott of Israeli academics," statement by the World Socialist Web Site, 12 July, 2002; "A letter on the boycott of Israeli academics and an answer by David North and Bill Vann," 17 July, 2002; and "WSWS replies to letters on boycott of Israeli academics," 30 July, 2002
This week in history: July 15-21
Charité at War: A chilling portrayal of Nazism and its crimes
Britain: Gang convicted of running "extensive and prolific" modern slavery network
Part 2: Stalinism, communism and anti-Semitism
Paul Hanebrink's A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism
The Post-Soviet School of Historical Falsification
Right-wing Humboldt University Professor Jorg Baberowski threatens students
Preface to the Russian edition of In Defense of Leon Trotsky
Foreword to Scholarship or War Propaganda? The Return of German Militarism and the Dispute at Berlin's Humboldt University
A review of Stephen Kotkin's Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928: Part three
A review of Stephen Kotkin's Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928: Part two


Yesterday I made a post about my time within my grandparents' farm. I cannot tell you enough how much I am enjoying this life-style–but that will have to come at another time.
This time I must provide you a small post but one of victory.
I finally got images to share of the camera-shy Bridgette!
She's such a pretty girl, it's a shame she won't let the paparazzi capture her model-like features.
We've apparently started a NOM-NOM-Game. She really enjoys to attempt to gently nibble on me.
She was notorious for giving out warning bites to us before, but now she is just wanting attention and tickles. Girl has some powerful lips and a big, snuggly nose (yes, I am using this post to gush).
Here she is watching over me as I started working on cleaning my grandfather's garden. She is so interested in me and not the grass. 100%.
It was certainly nice having her company as I did the sweaty work. Though, yes, she did want me to give her some snacks (which I did, don't tell anyone) she stuck with me the entire time.
And it's time for dinner! Though there is an intruder in the distances. Time to keep an eye out on that little ninja.
Yes, not the most inspiring of posts (that'll return tomorrow!) but I just had to showcase my victory over Bridgette. Ha! I now must bask in my glory.


"Astronomers have cracked the Milky Way like a piñata, and planets are now pouring out so fast that they don't know what to do with them all."
While up to now, there have only been a few hundred exo-solar planets discovered, today they announced the discovery of 1200 more.
Quite a few are nearly Earth sized, some others are in the habitable zone of their stars. A few are nearly Earth sized and in the habitable zone (where liquid water can exist).
Great news for humanity on a day of riots, cyclones and snow storms.
Wonder if on one of those earth sized planets, there is a race of beings f*****g everything in their path up... and looking at our planet as a nice place to escape to when they completely screw it up.
We'll prolly pass their spaceship... in our spaceship... on the way to eachothers F****d up planets.
Yeah, but do they have universal healthcare?
I have a place upstate, in the middle of nowhere (no light pollution)...one of the kids' favorite things to do is lay in the field on a clear night and look at the stars. It's amazing...the Milky Way is a broad white stripe across the sky -- almost more light spots than dark background...you don't have to look for more than a couple of minutes to see "shooting stars"...the ridiculous amount of stars you can see in the sky vs. the few stragglers you can see from here on L.I. is amazing.
Anyway, my question is, have the bizarro Jets won the bizarro Superbowl on any of those other planets?
Coolest news story I've read in a while.
My parents have a house up in the Catskills as well. I spend a week up there every summer. Better than any paid vacation.
When we're up there, my wife and I tend to sit outside and watch the stars at night just like your kids do. It's truly beautiful.
Is Earth in Federation space or Kligon space?
If you or anyone with you has an android device, try the Google Sky Map app. It's awesome - point it at the sky, and it will tag the stars in view - want to find a particular constellation, planet, etc., tell it and it will guide you to find it in the sky. The kids love it.
Let's hope some of those planets don't subscribe to the Prime Directive. This planet bores the ish out of me.
on iPhone it is called "Star Walk" the picture of the day function is pretty neato, too.
But can they dance, rap, blow eachother in the name of god. That would be one boring planet!
***disclaimer*** this has nothing to with this thread, except of course, anything space related prompts my brain to wander off and think about this epic show.
This video was made using Hayden Planetarium's Digital Universe. You can download DU onto your computer and fly around the solarsystem/galaxy/universe. There is a feature when flying around the galaxy for highlighting the stars that we have discovered that have planets around them. I doubt this latest group is included though.
I'm thinking of DU because of the Battlestar Galactica comment. In DU you can show the outlines for the constellations. Then, as you fly around our small neighborhood of the galaxy, the constellations become all skewed. I remember that there were a few episodes of Galactica where they had to find Taurus or something, and that would help them find Earth. Makes me wonder if people will really navigate like this one day.
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Ex-deputy guilty in Aug. Co. gun soliciting case
Brad Zinn
bzinn@newsleader.com
STAUNTON - Damaging audiotape of a former Augusta County deputy asking a friend to purchase a gun — allegedly in an effort to kill his estranged wife and son in 2014 — was heard Thursday in court in the trial of George Stephenson, 82, who is now facing an automatic five-year prison term following his conviction for illegally trying to solicit a gun purchase.
Authorities arrested Stephenson in November 2014 after a Stuarts Draft woman, Brenda Downs, said she was approached by Stephenson on more than one occasion in an effort to persuade her to buy a .380 handgun for him. Stephenson was under a protective order at the time.
While on the stand Thursday in Augusta County Circuit Court, Downs was questioned by Edward J. O'Shea, a special prosecutor from Rockingham County. Downs testified she's known Stephenson since 1972 when they both worked at the Augusta County Sheriff's Office, and said she was also his realtor in 2014.
Downs said Stephenson was "quite specific" in his requests for her to purchase a gun "because he wanted to kill his ex-wife and her son."
On Oct. 30, 2014, Downs contacted Stephenson in a phone call that was recorded in front of two sheriff's investigators. On the tape, inaudible at times in open court, Stephenson is heard asking Downs to get her a handgun, and said he'd pay her back. "Don't you mention my name," he said on the recording.
Defense attorney James Dungan said during opening arguments that it was Downs who pushed for the gun purchase, not his client. "She's the one who orchestrated the incident," he said.
Dungan also argued that Stephenson later called Downs — confirmed by an investigator's report — asking her "to forget about the whole thing." However, Judge Victor V. Ludwig said that couldn't negate the fact that Stephenson asked Downs to buy him a gun.
"What he did, he did," Ludwig said. "You don't get a do-over after you knock off a 7-Eleven."
Given a chance to address the court, in a rambling statement Stephenson said, "Everything we heard today is a pack of lies." Stephenson blamed Downs for repeatedly bringing up the issue of him buying a gun. "It didn't stop, your honor. It kept on," he said.
Stephenson, held now for 1 1/2 years, also asked for probation. "Confinement right now is a death sentence," he said.
Stephenson then spoke of his previous heart attacks, claiming he had one in jail last summer. He also talked about two separate incidents where he disarmed a suspect while a deputy before the judge finally halted him.
The gun soliciting charge carries an automatic five-year minimum sentence, according to Virginia code. Judge Ludwig set a sentencing date of July 21.
Stephenson had been scheduled for a jury trial Thursday before all parties agreed to a bench trial. He pleaded guilty to two charges of violating a protective order prior to the trial.
In a divorce filing by Nancy Stephenson, she accused George Stephenson of having a "violent temper," and said in 2013 there were numerous verbal and physical assaults. She said he threw a billy club at her, and on another occasion threatened to "knock the hell out of her."
On Nov. 23, 2013, the legal separation date for the couple, George Stephenson reportedly demanded his then wife to add his name to her certificates of deposit. When she refused, he reportedly became irate. Sheriff's deputies were called to their Fishersville residence to safely escort Stephenson's wife from the home, records show.
Two weeks later, she obtained a protective order against Stephenson.
He remains at Middle River Regional Jail awaiting sentencing.
Retired Aug. Co. deputy, 82, could get prison

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I'm sure Mary Norwood will be trumpeting her lead in the lastest poll from Insider Advantage. I still don't think it means much.
Take a look at the demographic breakdown (.doc file) for the latest mayoral poll from Insider Advantage. Sure, Mary Norwood has three times as much support as the next candidate (36.5% to Lisa Borders 10.4%), but the poll also shows Norwood with 35% of the black vote to Borders' 12% and Reed's 5%. 43% of the entire electorate is still undecided. There is simply no way these numbers stay this way, and I would be surprised if Norwood really got 1/3 of the black vote when there are two high-quality black candidates with ties to the civil rights movement and/or the current administration in the race.
I wouldn't put much stock in this polling data until the campaign has really started and ads have started to air. In some ways, I wonder if this isn't a ceiling for Norwood, as I believe the more folks learn about her the less interested they will become. This isn't a candidate with a lot of depth, y'know. Reed and Borders have much heftier resumes and (for Borders at least) a much more compelling personal story. They also both exude an intellectual capacity I haven't seen in Norwood. Now, I'm not saying Mary Norwood is stupid, or anything. Far from it. I just haven't seen indications of intellectual curiosity in her actions. But hey, I've been wrong before.
Shooting fish in a barrel..
How useful will this piece of paper be?


If we looked for a quality that is fundamentally human and universal, our curiosity about the world that surrounds us would probably be it. This feeling peeps into young minds, it grows and flares, pushing us to know more, to break our limitations, to rise up from the ground into the shining eternity of the Universe. On this quest we might sometimes feel small, lost or bewildered, but we can also envision humankind as one people, united in a journey through the cosmos on this one-of-a-kind spaceship called Planet Earth.
Visiting a school of the Colombian part of Constellation. Credit: GalileoMobile.
This universal passion that emerges when curiosity and disquietude mix does not only translate into a desire to know the sky, but also into a need to see with new eyes and to share these eyes with others. This is the passion that gave birth to our astronomy outreach program, GalileoMobile, and the one we wish to kindle in the young people we meet across the world. Actually, when asked about GalileoMobile we always describe it as an itinerant outreach program. For the last six years we have travelled in three continents, talking about astronomy at schools and sharing precious moments with people in different places, with different cultures and backgrounds.
Talking about interstellar space in Cusco – Perú. Credit: Dennis Ezequiel.
As it often happens to travelers, the road eventually tuned our feelings, changed our perspectives and gave us new ideas. This is how we noticed that our experience with GalileoMobile has a lot in common with a constellation, and decided to build one out of the schools we visit. For an astronomer, a constellation is essentially a map. But in reality, it's so much more than that! In constellations humans depicted images with their imagination, inspired by their culture, uses, habitudes. The disposition of stars in our sky was the offspring for such images and stories related to them. But up close and deep within a constellation one finds planets, "the wanderers", those lights able to travel around stars and witness their turbulent lives. For this project, the shining stars of the constellations were the schools, whose grand design and stories we could admire from a distance. We were both the observers and the wonderers, knowing each one and changing with its every turn.
Planets, stars and smiles in Lumiar – Brazil. Credit: GalileoMobile.
GalileoMobile Constellation is a route connecting some of the shiny little points known as schools, hidden in the Latin American continent. GalileoMobile team members were the "planets" of such project, wandering across the Constellation and meeting its stars. Just like for stellar constellations, the closer one approaches it, the higher the amount of stars one can see. If in its first stage Constellation was an idea to connect 20 schools with each other, now it has already become a network between hundreds of students and professors, which are the real stars of the Constellation.
Fun at the end of activities in Cariquima, northern Chile. Credit: GalileoMobile.
There is nothing more rewarding for a wonderer than to give life to something stable and long lasting. In 2015 we saw this constellation shine both as wonderers and as distant observers. We met the teachers, we spoke with them first by email then with video calls and then in person. We met the students, heard their stories and answered their questions about the sky. Those of us who couldn't travel observed this constellation from a distance. We exchanged pictures and videos in social media, heard recordings from the activities and chatted about the Universe. More than 50 people worked to make this happen, and thousands of life paths crossed such Constellation. Now we stand in admiration, wishing our constellation shines on for years to come!
If you'd like to know more about GalileoMobile Constellation visit our website, blog and Facebook pages!
Evangelia Ntormousi received her PhD in Astrophysics by the Ludwig-Maximillians University of Munich in 2012. She is a post-doctoral researcher at CEA/Saclay in France, studying interstellar turbulence and star formation.
Fabio Del Sordo was born in 1979 in Campobasso, southern Italy, and he is currently working as postdoc at Yale University and NORDITA. His research focuses on Exoplanets and astrophysical magnetic fields.
Fabio and Evangelia are among the founding members of GalileoMobile and the initiators of the Constellation project.
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Ширина ставится под размер картинки нормально, но при уменьшении всё ниже и ниже от своего нужного положения.
Как можно текстовый блок четко привязать к своей позиции, дабы он не уезжал куда не следует?

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p.s. postition: absolute для блока с текстом пробовал, все равно сползает, также пробовал вместо top использовать bottom.

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A: Первый вариант просто поставить фиксированную высоту для блока с картинкой:
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With some of the nation's best hospitals, surgeons and rehabilitation facilities, Houstonians may take for granted the specialized medical care provided across the Bayou City and its surrounding communities. It's a level of care that inspires people from all over the world to travel here. Haya, a native of Kuwait, is living testimony to that.
"I have been to Massachusetts General, Cedars Sinai, the Mayo Clinic, and nowhere did I receive the same level of coordinated care that I received at Memorial Hermann," says Haya.
It all started in November 2017 when Haya was experiencing a variety of health issues and sought care through the International Patient Program offered at Memorial Hermann Memorial City Medical Center. The program works with patients from around the world to facilitate their medical journey.
"Personalized guidance is provided through every aspect of treatment for our international patients, including translators and caring for special religious and cultural needs," says Abeer Saqer, Director of International Services and Business Development at Memorial Hermann Memorial City.
Haya's annual physical through the Memorial Hermann Executive Health Program uncovered something serious: a blockage in her carotid artery. The physician recommended Haya visit Arash Keyhani, DO, a vascular surgeon.
"Haya's carotid artery was 70 percent blocked when I saw her. Unfortunately, her history of uncontrolled diabetes likely played a role in creating that blockage. I performed a carotid endarectomy, which opens and cleans the artery to help restore normal blood flow," says Dr. Keyhani.
Haya returned to Kuwait, where the surgical site became infected. To obtain treatment, she came back to Memorial Hermann Memorial City, where Dr. Keyhani then performed a vein graft.
"Due to her recent carotid endarectomy, Haya was at a higher risk for having a stroke after this second surgery. Luckily, the team at Memorial Hermann Memorial City is highly trained and takes the steps needed to prevent the formation of clots, which could lead to a stroke," says Dr. Keyhani.
While recovering from her vein graft, Haya underwent an angiogram to check the condition of other blood vessels in her body. Cardiovascular disease specialist Salah El Hafi, MD, discovered she had multiple blocked arteries in her chest and needed triple bypass surgery.
"Usually, people who have similar arterial conditions as Haya would feel chest tightness or pain. However, because she is a woman who has diabetes, it wasn't surprising that she didn't experience the classic symptoms. She experienced fatigue and shortness of breath and was at a very high risk to have a heart attack," says Donald Gibson, MD, the heart surgeon who performed a triple bypass on Haya in December 2017.
Haya stayed in Houston for several months recovering from surgery, receiving wound care treatment, getting her diabetes under control and participating in the cardiac rehabilitation program. Haya says she was impressed by the level of communication between all of the physicians she saw during her months in Houston.
"Without the close supervision I received from everyone here — the nurses, physicians, wound care center — I would not have recovered as fast. Memorial Hermann gave me a second chance at life and I can't thank everyone enough," Haya says.
"Haya had a very complex medical history and it was a team effort to get her to where she is today. The affiliated cardiologists, cardiovascular surgeons and vascular surgeons at Memorial Hermann work together on a daily basis to make sure we provide coordinated care that results in the best possible outcome for patients," says Dr. Gibson.
"It's rewarding to see a patient strive to make changes to their lifestyle and habits, especially someone like Haya who was very sick. If she continues on this healthier path, and manages her diabetes, hopefully she won't have to return anytime soon!" says Dr. Keyhani.
Learn more about the International Patient Program at Memorial Hermann Memorial City Medical Center, or about the full spectrum of heart and vascular services offered at Memorial Hermann Heart & Vascular Institute-Memorial City.


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Report: Orlando Citrus Bowl Will Be Host Venue For Next Summer's Copa America
According to an ESPN report, the Orlando Citrus Bowl has been selected as a venue to host games for next summer's Copa America Centenario in the United States.
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The Orlando Citrus Bowl will be a host venue for Copa America matches next summer, according to a report from ESPN.
The 16-team tournament, which is set to take place next June, will feature in 12 different cities, with MetLife Stadium in New Jersey set as the site of the tournament's final, according to the report. Pasadena's Rose Bowl, which was the early favorite to host the final, will also be one of the venues, likely serving as the semi-finals host.
In addition to the Citrus Bowl, MetLife, and the Rose Bowl, Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, CA, Seattle's CenturyLink Field; Reliant Stadium in Houston; Soldier Field in Chicago; Philadelphia' Lincoln Financial Field; the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona; and Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, MA, are all locked in to host games, according to the report.
This will be the first major tournament hosted in Orlando since the 1994 World Cup, which also played at the old Citrus Bowl.
Earlier this summer, the Citrus Bowl hosted an international friendly between Mexico and Costa Rico in front of a loud crowd of almost 54,000, a crowd that Orlando was hoping would seal it's case as a host city when it launched it's bid earlier this year.
The City Beautiful also recently hosted the USWNT vs. Brazil and is the home of the Florida Cup, as Orlando continues to strive toward becoming the "soccer capital of the south."


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Q: How to do random select from two tables with the exception? I have two tables
[users]
id, username, age, sity .... and other
and
[teacherlook]
id, userid, teachid, data
When teacher look user from first table [users], he insert value to the second table

NULL, userid (it is id value from first table), teacherid (it is unic
  id of teacher - can may be 1,2,3 ... 10), and time in unix

It's done, it works,
Problem with second part of script:
The teacher should see 10 random users whom he has not yet tested - those who are not yet in the second table.
I try
SELECT *
  FROM users
  JOIN teacherlook
 WHERE users.age>18
   AND (users.id<>teacherlook.userid AND teacherlook.teachid<>$teacherid)
 LIMIT 0,10

And get a blank issue. Please, help make the right request to select 10 random users from the first table, with the exception of the users viewed by the teacher in the second table.

A: LEFT JOIN is what you need. It will return all rows from LHS table that is not present in RHS table.
SELECT *
FROM users
LEFT JOIN teacherlook
ON users.id = teacherlook.userid
   AND teacherlook.teachid = $teacherid
   AND users.age > 18
WHERE teacherlook.id IS NULL
ORDER BY RAND()
LIMIT 0,10


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This is a gigantic THANK YOU. A few weeks ago, I passed around a sign-up sheet. It was to get some contributions to make our Vacation Bible School day camp happen. I didn't know what to expect.
When I got home and took a look at it, it was completely filled out. There was maybe one thing that was left blank. I was amazed. I was dumbfounded. Thank you for sharing out of your abundance. Thank you for your generosity. Thank you for your love.
We had a grand total of 11 kids that came to our day camp. Different families came on different days, but each one of those young people heard that they are loved by a loving God. That felt like a good thing to me. That felt like it was worth every ounce of effort.
I'd like to give this a try again next year. I learned a lot in this month about what went well and what could be better. I think that this area has no shortage of kids who could hear that God loves them. And I'm so grateful to all of you for how you contributed. Every donation of something small went into creating an atmosphere of love. Every loaf of bread, every bottle of juice, every snack, every craft item. (Oh, and the fire engine, too. That was here because for the day camp, not because of an actualfire.) It was all part of how we help kids learn that God's love is for them.
Meanwhile, right before the day camp happened, there was a vote to decide about me being your permanent part-time pastor. And now, I'm delighted to be able to do ministry together for the long-term. I want to tell you something important to remember: I'm imperfect and likely to fail at lots of things. There's a good likelihood that papers will get lost in the shuffle or my cluttered brain will forget some details. But I will always, ALWAYS try to share God's love in the best way that I know how. I am so thankful for these congregations. I am so thankful to be able to serve God in your midst. I'm so thankful that I get to be your pastor.
God is alive and on the move. And God loves you. I can't wait for our next chapter together in the story that God is writing through us.
I've been browsing church hymnals since I can remember. It's a sure sign of being a church nerd and it's possible I'm not the only one who does it.
If you were to browse the front portion of the ELW, you might stumble across the Service for Healing. It is a very brief service designed to simply offer prayers for wholeness of body and spirit. We did the service a handful of times when I was in seminary and there was something very powerful about the simplicity of its prayers.
I'd like to do this service on a semi-regular basis. I'd like to give it a first try on May 20th after service at both churches. The service itself takes about 20 minutes, so you won't miss your brunch reservation if this is something that worries you. You're invited to come for anything from which you need healing. Maybe it's a big medical concern. Maybe it's a hangnail that bothers you. Maybe you've been doctoring for years, or maybe you just don't feel like smiling as much as you used to. Maybe you worry more than you would like, or maybe your job makes you feel stressed. Everybody is welcome. No exceptions. No restrictions. I'll have the prayers printed out for you. And maybe in that 20 minutes or so, we can nurture each other's souls a little as we pray for wholeness and healing.
Father in heaven, for Jesus' sake, send your Holy Spirit upon your servant, <your name here!>; drive away all sickness of body and spirit; make whole that which is broken; deliver her/him from the power of evil; and preserve her/him in true faith, to share in the power of Christ's resurrection and to serve you with all the saints now and evermore. Amen.
More than anything else, I know that you are loved by a loving God. I also know that prayer is a gift from God and it helps. So if you'd like to attend, you are invited and welcomed. If you don't want to attend, no pressure, no guilt.
Let's pray for each other. Let's love each other. Let's be the people of God.
P.S. I heard that some of you DO read these articles. Thanks!
P.P.S. Only one person came to claim their newsletter-reading-cash-prize a few months ago. That was shocking.
P.P.P.S. If you've gotten this far, you might also be a church nerd. Good thing we've got each other.
The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when New Year's resolutions will be made yet again. Wait.
That's not in the bible.
But it certainly does seem prophetic. They come around every year and sometimes they improve our lives in countless ways, and sometimes they just make us frustrated. But somehow every year, I get swept up in the idea of making improvements. I love the idea of learning something new or making better some aspect of my life. So, I've been thinking about how to do this in my professional life and I have (yet another) crazy idea. Are you ready?
I'm thinking about starting a congregation-wide reading plan. There are some really outstanding books out in the world that teach about life together as a congregation that I think would be great for us to read together as a community of faith.
But here's the tricky part of all of this. It's not really *my* New Year's resolution if I'm asking you to do it. So, I guess what I'm asking is this: would you join me in doing just a little bit of reading together as a congregation? I think it might be good for our church. I feel like it might start some valuable conversations about who we are and what we believe and why we care.
Crazy, I know. But…I think we can do it. I really do.
Friends in Christ, I think we're going to have a great year. I think God's going to do some amazing things. You are loved by a loving God. Isn't that good news?
Home: 570-966-9674, Cell: 570-768-5020—feel free to text me, too. And then call me if important things happen, okay? Thanks!
Have you ever heard of a BHAG? It stands for Big Hairy Audacious Goal.
I have a tendency to make BHAGs that are ridiculously big. They can get a little crazy if you don't limit yourself. Do you have a BHAG for your life? For your home? For your health? For your church? Some people have BHAGs as their new year's resolutions. Get in shape. Get finances in order. Try new things. Eat less junk. But a BHAG for your faith life or a BHAG for your church could affect more than just your waistline or your wallet. It could affect people. It could mean that the gospel is being made known.
Do you ever think of a Big Hairy Audacious Goal for our church that you think could be something amazing for the kingdom of God? What is it? I want to know. I think you've known me long enough now to know that I'm open to crazy ideas. I want to know what you think. What's the thing that you think could share the love of God with our communities? Who do you think needs to feel God's love more than anybody else?
Dear friends, you are loved by a loving God. Let's tell the world. Let's start making our BHAGs a reality.
This month…..I'm going to do something totally crazy. (Some of you are probably thinking that's not a big change for me, since I usually act a little crazy.) On September 10th, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has a nation-wide celebration known as "God's Work, Our Hands Sunday." Churches all over the country do service projects in their community.
So, here comes the crazy part. On Saturday, September 9th, I'm going to do two things. First, I'm going to bake a couple batches of cookies. Second, I'm going to make a sign that says something clever about how God loves you. (I haven't worked out the wording yet, because I can't think of anything theological that rhymes with "chocolate chip.") And then after church on Sunday, I'm going to take these items out of my car. I'm going to set up a table somewhere in Shamokin where there's a lot of foot traffic, and offer cookies to passers-by and tell them that they are loved by a loving God. And that's it.
**I dare to believe that God's love is sometimes spoken best through a baked good.
If you feel like spending an hour or two after church with me, bring a bag lunch and a batch of cookies and an open heart. You don't have to join me if you don't want to. But it sure would be fun if you did. I think that telling people about God's love should have some fun involved. We don't have to be SO serious, do we?
 If you love this idea, please join me.  If you really do not love this idea, please, PLEASE don't tell me. Tell the mail carrier or the grocery checkout person or anyone who will listen to you complain about your cookie-loving pastor. (But if they hand you a cookie, you might be complaining too much).  If you love this idea, but can't come that day, no problem. Maybe bake a batch of cookies for someone who could use a little pick-me-up, or maybe we could try it another day.
You are loved by a loving God. Isn't that good news?!
A few years ago, I read a great article in the Lutheran. The author, Michael Rinehart, is the bishop of the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast synod. That region that has seen a lot of challenges in the last decade or more, and Bishop Rinehart shared some thoughts about change in the church.
I hear from so many people (in every church that I have served), a deep concern about the Lutheran church's shrinking numbers. So I want to offer this article to you to address those concerns. I wonder if this article might be a springboard for the churches that I serve. I wonder how we might reach out to our neighborhoods as children of a loving God. So, please read Bishop Rinehart's words and tell me what you think. Tell me your ideas. Tell me your feelings. I want to know how you're thinking and feeling about the church—stuff you love and stuff you don't love. But as you enjoy the rest of summer, let Bishop Rinehart's words sink in….
Here's my hunch. Everything for me rises or falls on this bet. I'm putting all my eggs in this basket: The turnaround of mainline churches will happen when we in those churches care as much about those outside the church as we do those inside. To embrace relevance, we will have to let go of survival.
That's it. That's all I've got. If I'm wrong, fire me now. I'll die on this hill.
What does this mean? My theory is that mainline churches have ceased to be relevant to the culture because insiders trump outsiders every time. All decisions, even little ones, are made for the benefit of those inside the church. Insiders trump outsiders.
Take hymns, for example. Musical decisions aren't made considering what will attract spiritually hungry outsiders but what will please the card-carrying, bill-paying membership.
Time and time again church leaders receive heat from insiders upset about this or that because they are trying to re-create a childhood church experience or simply have a rigid idea of church. Leaders cave in to these insiders because they control the purse strings.
Insiders are inherently change-averse. People don't like change, especially those who have status in the church.
Peter L. Steinke, author of Healthy Congregations (Alban 1996), taught us that every church is an emotional system. Some people benefit from the system as it currently is. Some benefit emotionally. They are revered as church saints. Or everyone seeks their approval for decisions. By receiving recognition, an emotional need is met. Or perhaps they are simply tirelessly defending "the tradition," regardless of how new or unhelpful that tradition may be.
People in power, who have privileges in the current system, resist change and make life hard for any leader who seeks to be a change agent. Pastors are paid from members' giving, so there is a potential conflict of interest. If they do the right thing, some leaders will end up losing their job (or up on a cross, to reference an often-told story).
Why is this happening? Church structures were set up to preserve what exists, not change it. These stable structures work well when society is changing slowly, imperceptibly. If something is working, protect it at all costs. But what if it's not working?: What if the rate of societal change skyrockets and old patterns and structures no longer work?
What do we do about it? Change. Adapt. The church has adapted, survived and even thrived in times of tectonic change in the past. It can again.
Stable structures are a high value in a stable culture. But in a climate of rapid change, adaptability is the higher value. In a time of stability, experience is crucial. In times of change, experience can be a liability, especially if the experienced make the fatal mistake of assuming that what garnered success in the past guarantees success in the future. What got you where you are now won't get you where you need to go in the future. Sorry. Leaders who don't get this are in for some rough sledding.
Any kind of change creates conflict. Leaders can only tolerate so much discontent. And even a little discontent sounds loud when you're in the hot seat. So when things heat up, leaders circle the wagons, which is precisely the wrong thing to do. Instead, leaders need to sin boldly. Lead boldly. Look at any successful enterprise and you can be certain that someone, at some point, took a huge risk along the way. Nothing great is accomplished without risk.
But risk is risky, and change is simply too difficult and painful. Most organizations won't change until they're desperate, like the alcoholic who won't go to rehab until she or he hits rock bottom.
So what will give us the courage to take those risks? This takes us back to the beginning. Churches won't adapt to the new realities until they care as much about reaching those outside as appeasing those inside.
The world is hell-bent on destruction in countless ways. It is desperately in need of a church that offers a way of peace, truth, compassion and hope, as opposed to the world's way of power, materialism, exploitation and violence. It needs a church that looks less like the Pharisees' religion and more like Jesus' ministry. It needs a church that will sacrifice everything for those outside: buildings, budgets, sacred cows, traditions, structures. It needs a church that so loves the world, she'd be willing to die for it.
So here's the plan. New policy. Every decision made by staff, council and committees is made on behalf of those not yet here. Every sermon choice, every hymn or song choice, every building and grounds choice, every spending choice is made with outsiders in mind.
When we become a church for the world, the outsider, when the pain of staying the same (and dying of irrelevance) for those already here exceeds the pain of changing (and sacrificing old ways) for those not yet here, we will be the church for which God incarnate came to this earth and gave his life.
I don't know anybody who likes to stay inside more than I do. I love doing crafts, I love baking, I love doing all kinds of things that require copious amounts of time indoors. And in God's hilarious way, I am paired up in my life journey with a wonderful man who runs a camp. A place which, by its very definition, gets people to be outside more than their normal day would allow. I'll take a pass at having to look for ticks later on, thank you.
1 I lift up my eyes to the hills— from where will my help come?
3 He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber.
4 He who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
8 The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time on and forevermore.
I know that summertime brings its own kind of busy goings-on. I know that lots of you will travel and be on your way hither, thither, and yon. But in your coming and going, I know that "He who keeps you will not slumber….He will keep your going out and your coming in." I pray that your summer is full of joyful sunshine, of restful sleeping, and most of all, a reminder of God's abundant love for you!
Every year around this time, I remember celebrating Mayday as a kid. My mom, my sisters and I would get up in the wee small hours of the morning and hop in the car before the sun was up. The plan was to deliver a little potted plant to both sets of grandparents and anybody else we could squeeze in before it was time for school. We were vigilant in our attempts to be awake before the grandparents so that the May basket could truly be a surprise.
May baskets are the memory that comes most quickly to mind when I think about springtime.
This month of the year seems to be even busier than December with all of the graduations and celebrations that go on. No matter how organized a calendar can be, somehow May starts to run at break-neck speed. And more often than not, we can start to feel like that busy calendar is complaint-worthy. We're running too fast, we've got too much to do.
But I wonder if we can find a kind of surprise May basket in that crazy schedule. Not an actual begonia left on your doorstep by a mischievous neighbor, but a joyful surprise in your spirit.
You might be looking over your schedule or your calendar and feeling a little stressed or frustrated. But I think it's possible that in this coming month, rather than yelling "Mayday! Mayday!" as a distress signal, you might see the beginning of this month as a joyful surprise. Our creator wants us to "look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now." There may be all kinds of things that you could see as negative….but blessings abound and God is alive. This is the day that the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Back when Dave Letterman was on TV, I always enjoyed his top ten lists. The top ten list is so useful! It is so often one of the best ways I can think of to write down ideas or thoughts. So, it occurs to me that since most of you don't know me very well, I might offer a "getting to know you" edition of this month's newsletter article. Here are a few handy things to know about me as we start in this season of ministry together.
1. I'm 42 years old. Just so you don't have to guess.
2. Chad and I are coming up on our ten-year anniversary in September.
3. I am the mother of Claire, (age 7), and Aaron (age 4). They are delightful.
5. I am forgetful, so please remind me of prayer requests that you've mentioned, visits that might be needed, or other concerns that are on your mind.
7. I am forgetful, so if you tell me something on the way out of church, there's a good chance it will slip out of my brain before I've left the parking lot.
9. It seems important to me to mention that I'm forgetful.
I am looking forward to getting to know all of you more!! Thank you for already being so welcoming and friendly.
In the meantime, may the joy of the resurrection come alive for you as we move from Lent into Easter this month.


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How Avenue Beat's Year Went From Worst to First With 'F2020'
Sam, Savana and Sami check in from Nashville
By Tim Nudd on Nov 02 2020 - 4:00pm
Sam Backoff, Savana Santos and Sami Bearden of Avenue Beat
For the Nashville-based band Avenue Beat, the year 2020 completely sucked—until it was completely awesome.
The pop trio of Sam Backoff, Savana Santos and Sami Bearden, originally from Quincy, Illinois, released the deadpan, zeitgeist-busting anthem "F2020" over the summer, all about their horrible year. And it quickly went viral on TikTok—reversing their own personal fortunes in a matter of days, and bringing a measure of joy to all who could relate during the pandemic.
The TikTok video got more than 16 million views. And it earned the trio a ton of new fans, especially after the radio edit started getting airtime.
The band released their first single, "Ruin That for Me," through Big Machine Label Group's Valory Music Co. a few months before "F2020." After their viral hit, they were invited by Spotify to record a "Vote 2020" version as part of the streaming giant's "Play Your Part" campaign around this year's election.
Muse caught up with Sam, Savana and Sami over Zoom to find out how it's been going since "F2020" took off, why TikTok is great for going viral (or not), and what's next for the group in this struggling time for musicians.
Muse: I saw that Susan Rice, the former national security adviser, wrote about your song in the Times. How insane is that?
Sam Backoff: I saw that and was like, "What is Susan Rice doing tweeting about us?!" [laughs]
Sami Bearden: What is this year?
Sam Backoff: That was so cool. I loved it so much. It made me so happy. I literally laughed about it for like 20 minutes.
That must have been your most mainstream media mention yet.
Sami Bearden: Oh definitely. It was so out of left field!
Now you just need Joe Biden to play your song at a campaign event.
Savana Santos: At a rally! Anything. We'll take it!
Everyone's been hating on 2020 since March. Why do you think you were the first to capture it in song?
Sami Bearden: I mean, I don't think we really set out to do anything other than just vent.
Sam Backoff: Get our frustrations out.
Sami Bearden: Yeah. Just vent about how the year affected us personally. And then it just so happened that a lot of people agreed with the sentiment.
Sam Backoff: They felt it.
Definitely a zeitgeist moment.
Sami Bearden: Listen, it would be very cool if years and years and years down the line it was a thing. Because it's definitely a thing this year, but it would be cool if, every time the song comes on, all of these survivors of the year 2020 just look at each other, like, "Yeah."
Tell me about writing the song. Did it come quickly?
Savana Santos: I did the first verse and chorus, and it was literally just me getting up on the microphone and the words falling out. Because all we were doing was complaining about things that had happened to us this year. So it wasn't something you had to sit down and think about writing. I was just like, "Oh, I'm going to complain about this and this and this."
Sam Backoff: It just kind of poured out.
Savana Santos: There were so many things to complain about.
Do you have any favorite lyrics from the song?
Savana Santos: "My cat died." Because Sam's cat actually died! Everyone's like, "Did you just put that in there?" And we're like, "No."
Sam Backoff: Everyone asks me if it's actually true. It's like, "Did the cat actually die?" And I'm like, "Yes. Unfortunately, he did."
Sami Bearden: It was very unfortunate!
TikTok is getting bigger all the time as a platform for breaking new music. Is that why you wanted to put the song on there first?
Sam Backoff: We had the most power on TikTok. We were like, our team's never going to let us put this up [on YouTube], because we swore a gazillion times. And we're like, we're just not going tell anybody and we're just going to put it on TikTok and maybe they'll let us release it if it does well. And then it did!
Sami Bearden: We didn't even think that far ahead. We were just like, oh, this will never see the light of day. Let's put it on TikTok.
That's where it could go viral quickly, though, compared to YouTube these days.
Sami Bearden: Yeah. This is true. There's so much on TikTok that can either go viral or can just disappear into the ether and no one ever sees it again. That's kind of comforting.
You obviously didn't think it would get enormously viral.
Savana Santos: No, absolutely not!
Sam Backoff: We were getting like 6,000 views on our TikToks before that one. We were just assuming it would follow suit with the rest of our flop TikToks!
Sami Bearden: Fun fact, I did have to Google how many views you can get for something to be considered viral.
Savana Santos: What is it?
Sami Bearden: I don't remember. This was months ago. I don't have a brain anymore.
Well, whatever it is, you surpassed it. Do you know what the numbers are now?
Savana Santos: I think it's like 15, 16 million. It's a lot.
The Ocean Spray guy stole a bit of your thunder, though, right?
Sam Backoff: [laughs] I support that guy.
Savana Santos: I love the Ocean Spray dude!
Sami Bearden: You know what? If we were to lose it to anybody, I'm glad it's that man with his skateboard and his Ocean Spray and his Fleetwood Mac. He deserves it. He deserves it more than us.
The funny thing about this song is how it made 2020 your best year, even though it's about being your worst year. That's pretty ironic.
Savana Santos: It's so ironic.
Sam Backoff: [sings] It's like rain on your wedding day. ... Yeah, I mean, I feel kind of bad, honestly.
Sami Bearden: The worst year other people have, the bigger the song would get.
Sam Backoff: I don't want people to have a bad year! I want them to have a good year!
Sami Bearden: But I also want the streams. [laughs] So, you can understand.
How are you adjusting to your popularity? You're probably doing a lot of these Zoom calls.
Savana Santos: Yeah, but it feels pretty normal because we're still in lockdown in our homes and stuff, which is nice. I don't know if we could handle having to do a whole thing around this right now.
Sami Bearden: It's nice to know that while this is still going on, it's OK, I'm still a loser dealing with the same crap I was dealing with before. Who knows, if the world was there for us to go out into, and party hard, maybe we would have problems, I don't know. I guess we'll never really know! So it's kind of nice. It felt kind of like a soft launch. OK, we can do this from the safety of our own home, but we can wrap our head around it before we really dive in, eventually.
You're in Nashville. What's the scene like there right now?
Sami Bearden: It is a tough time. Downtown is still open, though. I haven't actually driven down Broadway, though, just yet.
Sam Backoff: I drove down it one time and I was mortified.
Sami Bearden: Really?
Sam Backoff: Yeah.
Sami Bearden: Oh, that's scary.
Sam Backoff: It was terrifying. I rolled my window up.
Are you in touch with other musicians there?
Sami Bearden: Oh, yeah. Everybody's really close-knit here. So it's really just like talking to your friends about, "Oh, my God, remember that time we played that show and we actually felt something?"
Sam Backoff: We're friends with other artists and also other people who just have jobs in the industry. Touring just isn't happening, so everybody's just trying to regroup. It's a weird time.
What's the next step in your career? This must change the equation a little bit.
Sam Backoff: It definitely does. Yeah, we try to not have any expectations. We want to just put out more music, first of all. Because that's really all anyone can do right now, is release new music.
Sami Bearden: Put out new music. Work on ideas for a live show someday, when those happen again. We have so much time to practice, and it's going to be the day before we go out and we're going to be like, "Oh, crap, we have to practice!"
Have you been making new music?
Sam Backoff: Yep. We literally stopped working on a song to get on this call.
How's it going? Do you feel any pressure, now that you've had this hit?
Sami Bearden: A little. It's underlying. It'll pop into your head and you'll be like, "No, go away." I want to have fun while I make this. I don't want to think about that.
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The Gallatin Creative Arts Center
Please join us for a special presentation by the students of The Foundation for CAP, our ministry outreach to Children Are People. The kids, and adults, have been working hard on a music video, dance program, drum presentation, and skit, as well as individual performances on the violin and piano. The kids have even designed the tie-dyed t-shirts for this special performance. Lorianne Crook of Crook and Chase fame will be hosting.
We are inviting the students' families and the community to attend this presentation, so this will be a wonderful opportunity for First Presbyterian Church to welcome our neighbors with open arms. We would love to see the sanctuary filled, and that begins with our congregation.
The program begins at 4:00 and shouldn't last much longer than an hour, with a simple reception following in the fellowship hall. Please help us love on these kids, and their families, and also show our support for the adults who give so much of their time and effort and talents to this program throughout the year. A love offering will be taken to provide funds for next year's Foundation.
The Foundation for CAP is a First Presbyterian Church Gallatin arts ministry for the students of Children Are People, an after-school program for at-risk children.
We are all created to create!! The Gallatin Creative Arts Center exists for the church and community to directly link our creative lives and our practice of Christian spirituality. Located just across Trousdale Place at 114 Locust.
Volunteers and children alike enjoy interacting with one another as they learn new creative outlets through The Foundation Ministry, FPC's partnership with Children Are People.
CAP Kids Bring Their Art to FPC at Celebration Dinner
What a wonderful night we had Wednesday, May 17th as we wrapped up the 2016-2017 year of The Foundation.
The Foundation, a ministry of our church, is a partnership with the non-profit after school program Children Are People Inc. Founded by Fred Bailey, CAP works with at-risk children to mentor and challenge them to succeed despite their circumstances. The Foundation, first launched by former pastor Kyle Gott, seeks to encourage them to explore their creative spirits.
For our final Wednesday Night Together, we invited our Foundation students as well as their families to join us for a spaghetti dinner and to show off some of the activities we've done this year. Around 60 people were in attendance, and it was great to see the children and their families sitting among our church family. Jennifer Anderson, director of The Foundation, led the program, which included video from the photography students, a demo of our "green screen" video fun, displays of the paintings, flower arranging, sewing and other crafts we've worked on, and music performances from 4 of our students. Susan Superczynski, director of CAP, spoke about what an important part The Foundation plays in the education of their students, offering instruction and mentorship in areas that they themselves do not have the time or resources to provide. Mr. Bailey, who stopped by briefly, echoed that sentiment. He understands that introducing his students to music and art and creating things with their hands is vital to their education, and he expressed his gratitude for what we do.
The Foundation served over 30 kids each semester this past year, with more than 30 adult and teenage volunteers participating in one way or another. We were able to offer classes in songwriting, drama, cooking, sewing, photography, jewelry-making, painting, flower planting and arranging, videography, and lots of crafts, as well as lessons in violin, piano and guitar. Volunteers included church members as well as many people from the community. One volunteer, Kelly Roberts, a Facebook friend of Jennifer's, shared that she had prayed that God would show her a way that she could give back to the community. A week later, Jennifer called her to ask if she would teach a class or two on photography. Though she didn't feel qualified to teach, she felt that she couldn't ignore such a direct answer from God, and she committed for the entire semester.
The evening ended with Jennifer's vow that The Foundation will return this fall. If you would like to be involved in this worthwhile program, you don't need to be an expert. While we do seek those who can teach classes, we also need folks to just assist teachers and to love on these wonderful kids. (We really need a drum teacher! Can anyone teach drums?) Watch for details at the end of the summer, and if you have an idea for a possible class, please let Jennifer know sometime this summer by emailing her at jander216@yahoo.com.
Want to see The Foundation in action? Check out this video of highlights from the past year.
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Q: Google play configuration to push different APKs for different Android versions At the moment we have two app versions in production:

as you may see, we have version 1420028 for API levels 19+ and 218 for API levels 7+
Now we've prepared a build for API levels from 16 to 18
We see following error after uploading that build to the GP:

Frankly I can't get what following error message says, it looks grammatically incomplete to me.

This configuration cannot be published for the following reason(s):
It is forbidden that a device upgrading from API levels in range 16-18 to API levels in range 19+ should downgrade from version 1420029 to version 218, which would occur when
Screen layouts containing any of [small@mdpi, small@hdpi, small@xhdpi, small@xxhdpi, normal@mdpi, normal@hdpi, normal@xhdpi, normal@xxhdpi, large@mdpi, large@hdpi, large@xhdpi, large@xxhdpi] and
Features containing all of [android.hardware.LOCATION, android.hardware.location.GPS, android.hardware.screen.PORTRAIT, android.hardware.TOUCHSCREEN, android.hardware.WIFI].

Any way to achieve configuration explained above? Is it a Google Play bug or just me getting something wrong?


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Richard Berndl (Munique, 08 de fevereiro de 1875 — Munique, 26 de janeiro de 1955) foi um arquiteto alemão, arquiteto, artesão e professor universitário. Sua obra mais conhecida no Brasil é o projeto do Mosteiro de São Bento de São Paulo, construído entre 1910 e 1912.

Vida
Richard Berndl era filho do mestre carpinteiro Michael Berndl e de Maria Adler de Munique. Ele recebeu seu treinamento como arquiteto e designer em Berlim e na Politécnica de Munique, onde estudou com Friedrich von Thiersch. Em 18 de maio de 1903, ele morou em Kreuzplätze 4 em Munique e se casou com a filha do professor Anna Genovefa Wind (*1876) de Augsburgo. Também em 1903, ele projetou um mausoléu para Dionýz Andrássy em Krászno-Hôrka Varalja, no condado de Gömör, que o tornou conhecido de uma só vez e trouxe a posição de professor na Royal School of Applied Arts de Munique. Como o sucessor de Leonhard Romeis foi nomeado professor lá em 1905. Além de seu trabalho como professor, Berndl também se tornou conhecido como arquiteto freelance, designer de interiores e oficial de planejamento urbano nos anos de 1903 a 1937. Ele projetou edifícios, vilas e monumentos Art Nouveau na Alemanha e na Áustria. Por volta de 1907 desenhou a fachada do Hotel Union e do Casino Católico de Munique, algumas igrejas com acabamentos interiores, como em Memmingen, Aichach e Starnberg, e em 1910 o novo edifício do Mosteiro de São Bento em São Paulo. Ele também ganhou vários concursos de arquitetura, incluindo para o Mozarteum em Salzburg, que foi construído de acordo com seus projetos de 1910 a 1914 em Munique Art Nouveau. Berndl foi agraciado com a Ordem do Mérito de São Miguel III pelo Rei da Baviera em 1917.

Mesmo na década de 1920, ele permaneceu professor na Escola Estadual de Artes Aplicadas de Munique (sucessora da Escola de Artes Aplicadas). Antes de 1922, ele já havia trabalhado por quatro anos como construtor municipal no Departamento de Planejamento Urbano de Munique sob o comando do oficial de planejamento urbano Hans Grässel.

Em 1946, após a retomada do magistério na Academia de Artes Aplicadas, ainda lecionava no departamento de arquitetura com as disciplinas de construção civil e design de interiores. A partir de novembro de 1946, a academia foi dissolvida e tornou-se o departamento de artes aplicadas da Universidade de Belas Artes, onde Berndl lecionou como professor até se aposentar em 22 de fevereiro de 1947. Seus sucessor foram Harald Roth (1910-1991) até 1953. Como professor emérito, Berndl foi membro honorário da academia por volta de 1953.

Richard Berndl viveu com sua família em Munich-Neuhausen na casa Orffstraße 15 até 1955. Seu túmulo está localizado no cemitério de Neuhauser Winthirkirche.

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We have an ongoing battle in our home during the holidays when it comes to cranberry sauce. My husband is a die-hard, must have it on the table, fan of the jellied cranberry sauce in a can. I just can't look at it, y'all. I've tried and it's appearance makes me cringe.
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ICAR- KVK, Hailakandi conducted SANKALP SE SIDDHI- New India Movement (2017-2022)" on 29th August 2017 in collaboration with Assam State Rural Livelihood Mission Hailakandi District with the gracious presence of Shri Radheshyam Biswas, Honorable Member of Parliamentary, as Chief Guest along with Jagadish Das, Additional Superintendent of Police Shri Tridip Roy Circle Officer and Shri Abdur Rahim Mandal Block Development Officer Hailakandi Block, AR Ahmed SDAO, BC Borkakoty, Senior ANO and Dr JK Talukdar Veterinary Surgeon. The programme was started with the felicitation of Chief Guest and other invited Guest. This programme was organized for creating awareness among farmers and officials regarding approaches and strategies adopted by Government of India for doubling farmers' income by 2022.About 249 famers from different villages of Hailakandi and 19 officials from line departments' and all the staff of KVK Hailakandi were present in the programme.


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Tallard  (Talard en occitano) es una comuna francesa situada en el departamento de los Altos Alpes, en la región de Provenza-Alpes-Costa Azul.

Geografía

Localización
Tallard se encuentra a 20 km al sur de Gap, cerca de la carretera que va de esta ciudad a Marsella. La autopista A51 termina al sur, cerca de la villa La Saulce. Se halla también a 21 km de La Bâtie-Vielle y es la sede del famoso aeródromo de Gap-Tallard, del club de paracaidismo CERPS y del centro de formación de paracaidistas militares de Francia.

Historia

Prehistoria
En el siglo XIX se encontró un dolmen cerca del aeropuerto (una de sus piedras se expone Museo Departamental de Gap). Esto da testimonio de una población presente en el lugar al final de la prehistoria.

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El nombre de Tallard aparece por primera vez en una carta del siglo VII; probablemente de origen alemán (varias oleadas de invasión recorrieron la región en los siglos anteriores). Este nombre podría significar "ciudad vieja" o "tierra alta", en referencia a su ubicación en el momento, en el lado de la colina al norte de la actual población.

Entre el siglo VIII y el X, los sarracenos representaron una constante amenaza de saqueos. Después de numerosos abusos, incluido el ataque a Mayolo de Cluny, en el año 974 fueron diezmados por Guillermo I de Provenza y finalmente expulsados de la región.

Bajo el reinado de los príncipes de Orange, los tallardienses bajaron al valle y erigieron una torre de madera en la cima de una colina a modo defensivo, bajo la cual la población se va refugiando, a modo defensivo pero también para practicar el comercio. Posteriormente sería el emplazamiento del castillo.

Desde el siglo X, Tallard se protege de ladrones y saqueadores con la construcción de unas murallas rodeadas por un arroyo, cuyo trazado es aún visible hoy en día. La entrada a la villa era por la llamada Porte Belle, en la que se encontraba la casa del guardés, que permitía o no el paso a la urbe.

Los príncipes de Orange acuerdan un fuero con los tallardienses en 1209, entregándoles las llaves de la ciudad. en 1215, sin embargo, la princesa viuda y su sobrino venden todos sus derechos sobre Tallard a los caballeros de la Orden de San Juan de Jerusalén, que juagrán un papel de caridad, a la vez que militar y religioso, protegiendo a peregrinos y viajeros durante 107 años. En 1326, los caballeros entregan la villa al Condado de Alife, integrado en el Reino de Nápoles, convirtiéndose el conde Arnaud de Trian, sobrino del Papa Juan XXII, en vizconde de Tallard.

El castillo
Arnaud de Triand fue el primer señor de Tallard (1280-1350), siendo igualmente el constructor de la enorme fortaleza que domina el asentamiento, que tras diversas reformas, permanecerá en manos de su familia hasta ser comprado por el mariscal de Luis XIV Camille d'Hostun, para ser destruido durante el ataque al pueblo que llevó a cabo el Duque de Saboya, enemigo del rey, en 1692. Así permanecerá hasta ser comprado en 1897 por el historiador Joseph Romano, que lo restaurará parcialmente. Luego será recomprado por los descendientes de los antiguos dueños, que lo mantendrán durante un tiempo hasta ser definitivamente adquiido por el ayuntamiento en 1957, que lo devolverá a su antigua gloria.

El pueblo
Desde el x º siglo, existieron las murallas que defendían el pueblo, rodeadas por el arroyo Reynaudia (que fluye desde el norte). Las puertas estaban coronadas por un puente levadizo utilizado para penetrar en el corazón de la ciudad medieval. Un guardés permitía o denegaba el ingreso. Después de las Guerras de Religión, hacia el siglo XVII se reforman las casas. Anteriormente el río llegó al pie de la localidad de Tallard. Para acceder a sus tierras, los agricultores se veían obligados a atravesar la Durance con una balsa, como se atestigua en documentos de 1291. En la Revolución Francesa, el curso de agua es desviado para el acceso directamente a los cultivos. En 1860, se construye el primer puente sobre el río Durance pero es arrastrado por la inundación de 31 de mayo y 1 de junio de 1877.

En el centro histórico, las calles eran muy estrechas y aún hoy en día podemos ver este patrón en el pueblo. En algunas casas, las bodegas están comunicadas entre sí, para que, en caso de ataque, se facilitara la defensa.

Lugares y monumentos de interés
 El Castillo: construido en el siglo XIV y declarado monumento histórico desde 1969, se puede visitar la capilla señorial de la Santísima Trinidad, las salas de la guardia y los caballeros y los vestigios de los aposentos señoriales y las criptas.

 La Iglesia de San Gregorio: monumento histórico desde 1931, podemos admirar la pila bautismal, el órgano, la imagen de San Gregorio, el púlpito y la nave central, adornada con cuadros de la vida del santo.
 El parque de La Garenne: calificado como lugar pintoresco por el departamento.
 El aeródromo de Gap-Tallard.

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December 12 , 2017 – Throtle, a data onboarding company focused on deterministic identity resolution, announced today that it has closed a Series B funding round led by global credit risk and information solutions provider, TransUnion with additional participation from Auren Hoffman, the former founder and CEO of LiveRamp. The new funding will accelerate the growth and breadth of Throtle's ability to resolve more consumer touch points down to a single user, and provide valuable audience insights for analysis, optimization and product development.
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