The following article was authored by Immigration Works President Tamar Jacoby and originally published on New York Daily News.
President Trump gets one big thing right when he talks about immigration: We need an immigration system that serves American interests, putting American workers first, not the rights of immigrants or would-be immigrants. Last week, he announced a set of principles that he hopes will guide Congress in crafting new immigration legislation. He and his allies in Congress, most notably Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and David Perdue (R-Ga.), defend them by claiming they will create jobs, reduce unemployment and raise Americans' wages — particularly for the working class. These are essential goals, and the President's promises will resonate with millions of workers and families struggling to keep up with globalization and technological change.
Unfortunately, the "merit-based" reforms Trump and his allies propose are unlikely to advance any of these aims and, if anything, will hurt American workers by slowing economic growth and eliminating jobs.
The President's "merit-based" immigration proposal is based on four dangerous fallacies.
The first is that only highly skilled workers contribute to the economy and create jobs for Americans. The President and his allies are right: skilled immigrants drive innovation and productivity, spurring economic growth and creating jobs.
But less-skilled immigrants too contribute to the economy. On the whole, they are different from American workers — less-educated, less-skilled, with weaker communications skills — and because they are different, they fill job niches that would otherwise go unfilled, rounding out the workforce at many firms and enabling businesses to expand.
Consider the owner of a small restaurant group who wants to open another eatery. If he can't find workers willing to take jobs bussing tables and washing dishes, he won't be able to open a new restaurant. But if he can hire dishwashers and moves ahead with the project, he will likely hire an American chef, American waiters and one or more American managers. The venture will also create work for an American architect, an American designer, nearby farmers, a bank, a laundry, a hauling firm and a host of other local businesses.
The second fallacy: that fewer immigrants would be better for the economy. The centerpiece of the President's proposal — arguably its most radical provision — would cut legal immigration in half by sharply reducing family-based visas in favor of employment-based admissions. In this case too, the President and his allies get the answer half right.
The U.S. immigration system puts a heavy emphasis on family-based migration, with the overwhelming majority of the green cards issued every year going to relatives of other immigrants already living in the U.S. Just 7% of permanent visas go to newcomers coming to the country expressly to work. Most other developed countries balance these two categories very differently, often reserving a plurality or majority of visas for employment-based immigrants - and the U.S. should consider rebalancing.
What the President's proposal does not recognize: Most immigrants admitted on family-based visas get a job when they get here. Foreign-born men are much more likely to be in the labor force than native-born men. Immigrants are less likely to be unemployed. According to a group of leading economists convened in 2016 by the National Academy of Sciences, newcomers and their children will account for the "vast majority" of labor force growth in years to come.
And economists across the board agree: There can be little economic growth without an expanding labor force.
The third fallacy: that less-skilled immigrants reduce wages for most Americans. Trump and his allies accept the conventional wisdom that admitting thousands of less-skilled, low-paid foreigners reduces wages for native-born workers. This sounds plausible, and many Americans believe it to be true.
The only problem: Economists have been scouring wage trends for many years and cannot find a significant wage effect. Virtually no economist, even those highly skeptical of immigration, believes that it reduces wages for U.S. workers who have graduated from high school - the overwhelming majority of the U.S. labor force. Economists differ somewhat about the effect on Americans without a high school diploma — today, less than 10% of the workforce.
But even in this case, researchers agree that the effect is small — perhaps 5% over 20 years. Meanwhile, even these less-educated Americans benefit from cheaper food, housing, clothing and other goods and services — cheaper thanks to the relatively low cost of immigrant labor.
The fourth: that the government knows how to predict labor needs and determine which workers have "merit" in the eyes of employers. The President and his allies propose to dramatically change the way we select immigrants, moving to a point system they say is modeled on programs in place in Canada and Australia.
This too sounds good in theory: recruit the super-skilled and admit only the best and brightest.
But here too, policymakers in Canada and Australia have found, what sounds good on paper doesn't always work. Both countries have moved away from admissions based solely on applicants' resumes, taking more and more account over the years of national labor markets, employers' needs, applicants' prior experience in the destination country and other variables that have nothing to do with skills.
Even more concerning, most U.S. employers strongly oppose a point system. The last time one was proposed, in 2007, high-tech companies, hospitals and financial firms were all but unanimous, arguing that only they, not the government, could identify the skills and talent they need to grow their operations and continue contributing to the economy.
It's a policy priority in Washington and beyond: Lawmakers in both parties rightly want to help the working class, creating jobs and raising wages. But new immigration legislation based on a set of proven fallacies will likely do more harm than good. The President and Congress should rethink. There has to be a better way.


Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). If you have been wounded. If you have been in an accident while serving. If you have been mentally or physically abused, or raped. If you have been subjected to Agent Orange or any other chemical agent then it is important to you to find out what you are entitled to in the way of VA Benefits.
In most cases neither the VA nor the US Government is going to send you a letter telling you to come in and get the Benefits that are due to you!!! This is not their responsibility. It is yours!
You will need to go to the the VA and open a Benefits Claim. It doesn't matter whether you believe you are entitled or even if you have been turned down before. Talk to VA Benefits Personnel. Most are very helpful.
You can also start a Claim Online.
These things are very valuable to you. Do not take a no answer. Stand up for your rights. Get involved with Veterans Groups, The Vets Centers, The VFW or anywhere that Vets are involved.
Not only is talking to other Vets part of the healing process you will also learn the fastest and best ways to get the help that you need.
Many have been there and done that and will enjoy helpng you.
Get involved with therapy group meetings like the PTSD & Substance Abuse Program. Many of the Vets in these types of groups know the ropes and will save you tons of time.
Many Vets don't know that they can get Travel Pay for their scheduled VA appointments.
You can also get one way Travel Pay for a walk-in appointment. ASK!!!
Do not sit at home and wait for help!
The VA is there for you!!!
The Doctors and the Techs behind the counters work for you.
If you ask for help and don't understand the response - ask again. If you still don't like what you hear then ask someone else!!!
The VA is like any other institution.
Even doctors have bad days!
The VA has one thing that other hospitals and institutions don't have. It has lots of Vets!
No one understands the VA better than a Vet. Doctors & Techs come and they go but many Vets have learned The Ins & The Outs of the VA by being interactive with it for many years. The VA is a great instatution and you will get quality help once you too know how to ask for the help that you need.
If you spend some time at the Va you will find that it is easy to open a conversation with other Vets. Remember we all have something in common and that is huge ice breaker.
Another great place to get the ball rolling is at any of the Vet Centers.
If you are not in an emergancy situation and you do not feel comfortable at a hospital then the Vet Centers are a great place to learn what is available to you. Most of the Techs there are Vets and you will get a more relaxed type of approach to helping you get into the VA System.
They also have weekly Group style meetings that you can get involved with and much more.
Many Vets do not realize that they are elligable for travel pay to attend appoints at the VA. When you go to the VA be sure to ask. You will be asked to fill out a Means Test to determine if you are elligble for travel pay.
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· Mileage rates are $0.415 (41.5 cents) per mile (subject to change).
· Scheduled appointments qualify for round-trip mileage.
· Unscheduled visits may be limited to return mileage only.
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The Nürburgring is arguably one of the most impressive tracks in the worlds. The famous German circuit located in the Eifel mountains, is known for its motorsports history, length and challenge it provides. Therefore the Nürburgring a major attraction for petrol heads from all over the world.
Besides being a driving enthusiasts' Valhalla, the Ring serves nowadays as a demanding proving ground for car manufacturers and media. Many of them use the 22,8km long Nordschleife as a standard to publish their lap times achieved with their cars and sometimes even unveil a special Nürburgring Edition. This might upset Top Gear host James May, who has regularly expressed his dissatisfaction with the influence of the track when it's used by car makers to develop new models. But the huge impact of the Nürburgring inspires other people.
Bruton Smith, the CEO of Speedway Motorsports, has proposed to build an exact replica of the German circuit in Nevada. In an interview with SiriusXM Sports he talked about possibly building a duplicate of the Nürburgring outside of Las Vegas. The 84-year-old Smith has been talking to the Governor and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), which administers over 75% of the land in Nevada. Smith wants the BLM to donate 8,000 acres (32 km²) of land for the project.
If this project gets the green light from the authorities, Smith will ‒ with some help of engineers in Germany ‒ create an exact replica of the Nürburgring. He also said this track wouldn't be used for racing, but for only testing. A major benefit of this proposed circuit is the fact is could be used 12 months a year, which according to Smith is not possible in Germany. The Nevada Ring could be used by car manufacturers as well as individuals.
This idea might seem a little bit far stretched, but let's not forget this is Las Vegas ‒ a city filled with replicas of Paris, Venice, New York and more. But the myth of the Nürburgring in Germany is not only created by its history, but also by the regions sometimes challenging weather. While Las Vegas enjoys abundant sunshine year-round, this can't be said about the original track in Germany.
What do you think about the proposal to build a copy of the Nürburgring near Las Vegas? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments below.
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Mizuko Kuyo
Mizuko Kuyo is a Japanese Buddhist ceremony that focuses on a deceased fetus or stillborn child. This ceremony was originally developed to honor Jizo, a god believed to be responsible for transporting dead fetuses or children to the other world. The practice has become more popular in the last half century due to the growing number of abortions taking place and the particular views that Japanese Buddhists have about fetuses and abortion.
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The Time Has Come: A Catholic Doctor's Proposals to End the Battle over Birth Control (1963), by John Rock
In 1963, Roman Catholic fertility doctor John Rock published The Time Has Come: A Catholic Doctor's Proposals to End the Battle over Birth Control, a first-person treatise on the use of scientifically approved forms of birth control for Catholic couples. The first contraceptive pill, called Enovid, had been on the market since June 1960, and Rock was one of the leading researchers in its development. In The Time Has Come, Rock explicitly describes the arguments for and against the use of birth control from both a religious and a scientific perspective.
Subject: Publications, Religion, Reproduction
"Declaration on Procured Abortion" (1974), by the Vatican
As various societies around the world began legalizing abortive procedures or liberalizing government stances on abortion, the Roman Catholic Church's leaders felt the need to respond to these changes by clarifying the Church's position on procured abortion. One incident in particular that may have inspired the "Declaration on Procured Abortion" is the landmark case in the United States Supreme Court in 1973: Roe v. Wade.
Evangelium Vitae (1995), by Pope John Paul II
The encyclical entitled "Evangelium Vitae," meaning "The Gospel of Life," was promulgated on 25 March 1995 by Pope John Paul II in Rome, Italy. The document was written to reiterate the view of the Roman Catholic Church on the value of life and to warn against violating the sanctity of life. The document focuses on right to life issues including abortion, birth control, and euthanasia, but also touches on other concepts relevant to embryology, such as contraception, in vitro fertilization, sterilization, embryonic stem cell research, and fetal experimentation.
"Effraenatam" (1588), by Pope Sixtus V
"Effraenatam," the brain-child of Pope Sixtus V, was released as a papal bull in the year 1588. Papal bulls are formal declarations issued by the pope of the Roman Catholic Church and are named for their authenticating leaden seals (bullas). This particular document became famous for its official forbiddance of all procured abortions. "Effraenatam," meaning "without restraint," is often regarded as a specific response to increasing rates of prostitution and procured abortions in the Papal States, though this is not discussed in the actual document.
Humanae Vitae (1968), by Pope Paul VI
The "Humanae Vitae," meaning "Of Human Life" and subtitled "On the Regulation of Birth," was an encyclical promulgated in Rome, Italy, on 25 July 1968 by Pope Paul VI. This encyclical defended and reiterated the Roman Catholic Church's stance on family planning and reproductive issues such as abortion, sterilization, and contraception. The document continues to have a controversial reputation today, as its statements regarding birth control strike many Catholics as unreasonable.


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The pilot informed ATC that Flight SV832, from Jeddah to Kuala Lampur was returning to the airport because a passenger had forgotten her baby on the ground.
A video of the exchange, posted on YouTube, shows ATCs uncertainty as to how to respond.
"May God be with us. Can we come back or what?" the pilot is heard asking ATC.
The passenger, a Saudi Arabian national, had reportedly informed cabin crew shortly after take-off that she had forgotten her baby in the boarding area at the terminal of the King Abdul Aziz International Airport.
In the video comments, the airline was widely praised for its "humanity" in its handling of the incident.


Society is an ideal community formed by people who are living together in this world. Humans have their own set of rules based on which they live. Countries and their constitution and law are written based on the standards people are following since long, and they amend a few regulations which can be useful for the people. Law enforcement is such a representative body formed by many countries to take care of its citizens, and they make sure people follow and obey their constitution and rules. The name might defer in various countries, but the concept of the police department is to safeguard its citizens from multiple types of crimes and avoiding civil disorder.
The concept of policing is available for many generations and centuries in the form of soldiers at various kingdoms. They maintain the public harmony and work for the crime prevention. Nowadays police are under the control of governments, and they handle the security and safety of people, leaders, and government. They have the legal authority to arrest someone in case of a crime and use weapons at the critical moment for the protection of people.
Many places all over the world have Security camera systems in Hobart installed at various parts for easy monitoring of law enforcement department. They have special monitoring teams who alert when any criminal activity or illegal activity happens over any part of their jurisdictionWhenever there is a problem with citizens, they can go to the law enforcement and register a complaint about justice. The case will be registered, and after proper investigation, it will be submitted in the court. The judge or panel of judges will decide the punishment for the accused based on the evidence collected by the cops. Based on the crime punishment can be penalty or service or jail term. Many countries have the death penalty for heinous crimes committed by accused.
The cops are given specialized training after recruitment on various skills. They learn physical training skills to the technology-related abilities which can help them in tracking the criminals. They learn many techniques related to security monitoring starting from basic TV antenna installation Hobart to the satellite communication through untraceable phones. Many people work in the law enforcement whose work vary based on the department like patrolling teams, security personals, municipal and homicide department, etc. People all over the world have a peaceful life as they believe cops for their safety and security. They have various departments who work as detectives checking illegal activities by mingling within the crowds. They have promotions and transfers within the department based on their performance and requirement. Whenever there is a requirement, they coordinate with border security forces at the time of terrorist and anti-national activities. In the case of international criminal activities, they coordinate with law enforcement of other countries to handle the criminals.


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Why is Five afraid of Seven?
The God of Unknowable stands proudly in the Great Void, and hungers for those existing. The Fifth Coming is imminent, and those blind and weak have worshiped the edges of his existence. But he dares not venture into the realm of the Lord of Non-Existent, with whom he shares the same void. The Lord of Non-Existent rests in her black, silent corner, her seven horns that are not there call for Negation. The God of Unknowable fears the likes of her, and seeks their destruction. The former has an unspeakable name, the latter with no name existing.
The dark clouds gathered, bolts of lightning twisting down, and the ocean roared in response. Rain drops rushed down, scratching the deck and people on it. But the crowd didn't seek shelter, and the cruise ship sailed steadily forward.
On the horizon, a dark island could be spotted afar. An island made of dark, bare rocks, with seven tall mountains, rose high above. A slumbering beast with its black bones exposed, protruding from its enormous body. Amidst the great thunders and the turbulent sea, the mountains were silent. And if they were to grow eerie eyes, they would look judgingly at those sailing towards them.
A woman stood alone at the deck, facing the crowd. Her blonde hair mismatched by the long, coal-black robe. The scars on her face were long and ugly, and told of her torment. She held up a book, one with a shiny green star on it. Then she laughed and tossed the book into the sea. It was swallowed by the waves in an instant. The crowd gasped, and the rain poured, streaming down her face like tears.
"Sister!" a man shouted, "This is madness!"
More voices joined the man, reciting the fifth glory, chanting the virtues of smoke and calling for the stars to come forth. But the dark clouds were thick, and no light was shed. The crowd was disturbed, but their voices drowned out by the rain and the thunders.
They accused her of harming the flow of energy. They accused her of hatred and disbelief. They accused her of existence.
But she smiled, hearing the faint voice of her persecutor coming from the bowels of the ship. Even during a storm, the voice seemed crystal clear: "May their names and memories be obliterated! For they have called upon the false lord!" She could almost make out hands scratching on the cell door, desperate but futile.
"Five," she said, and the crowd quieted down, their attentions pointing at her once again, like sharp thorns of doubt and poison. "Five is indeed a number of grandness, but it is not the number of our Lord."
The crowd was disturbed once again, but they were interrupted by a giant thunderbolt, striking inches away from the deck. The ship shook, the crowd panicked, but the woman didn't move.
"It is two numbers short from true greatness, as Seven excludes them all!" She laughed. "The Colorless Green is not the true color, for now we shall praise the Horned Black!"
"Nonsense!" one of them shouted in protest, and began to cite the verses from their Book of the Past Stars. "The first one was Saint Protor, who pointed upwards and reached the stars; the second one was the One that Speaks Not, but showed us the Signal and taught us cosmos; the third was Brother Terres, who breathed out the Smoke, granting us the shapes of souls; the fourth was Sister Susan, who held the true color in her hand, one only eyes cannot see; and the Fifth was the Great Horace, who stood by the bottomless pit and introduced the face of God."
As he cited the holy text, it was as if the rain was slowed down, and the lighting had ceased. The sea roared, not of horrifying anger, but in a way that harbors strange, alien things deep beneath. The island now seemed smaller, shrouded by mists, dark and distant. But the woman, standing alone, laughed again at the crowd.
"But the sixth one has abandoned his name, and holds the Tomb that curses and denies, its sharp teeth grind through masks and lies; and the Seventh one has her name lost in Lord's realm, and hands over the dark emblem that negates." With her laughter, the mist was suddenly clear, and the things beneath the great waters seemed to have been torn to pieces brutally. And the increasing rain beats and the cracks of lighting are almost like their dying screams.
"Heretic!" a woman shouted, "You will—" Several were about to join her, but she stopped mid-sentence, and began to scream. The crowd was silent again, this time fearful.
She ignored the struggling women, and proceeded. "I pay no mind to you, for you are but ignorant beasts. I know that six others are dancing with me, that the dead stars are dead, that the sea shall devour, that the smoke smells of black coal, that the color is darkness, cold and silence. It is because the truth was not revealed, but I am now revealed to the Lord that is not."
The crowd shifted, but didn't dare to move away as they watched the one struggling on the ground become motionless and silent.
"You have brought me here, towards the hole at the bottom of the sea, for I will not adhere to your false god of five." She smiled. "But here also stands the Seven Mountains of Thorns, the New Abode."
As she said this, bolts of lighting struck, one after another. The darkness momentarily faded, as flashes of light moved towards the island. The island was still far on the horizon, but the jagged mountains seemed closer, and had grown pitch black horns.
The people on the deck held each other tightly in fear. Their prayers to their God of Fifth escaped their minds. Six others come forth from the crowd, three men, three women. One of them carried an obsidian amulet, in the shape of a seven pointed star.
"I have searched for the item of my Lord, the symbol of destiny, from the forgotten corners of the Library to the dead silent center of the Earth," she said as she was handed the item.
The crowd screamed, as the dark clouds rained down ever so fiercely; as the seven dark mountains drew near in an instant; as the sea shattered in pain, revealing a enormous hole underneath the ship.
"This is my trail, and this is the day that we welcome our Lord!" She laughed, and put the seven-pointed star around her neck. "This is— the narrative of the existence."
"Um, curious," one agent commented as he examined a small black box.
"Yeah?" The other one turned his head. "What is it?"
"Some jewelry box," the agent answered. "Judging by the shape inside, this thing used to hold a seven-pointed star."
"Really? Aren't these guy obsessed with five or something?"
"Yeah, that's the strange part. And there's a note here." He began to read. "Why is five afraid of seven?"
"Isn't the joke 'Why is six afraid of seven?'"
"Yeah, because seven ate nine. But who knows, madman logic I suppose."
The two agents shrugged it off, and proceeded to sort through the items on the large cruise ship. The sea around them was calm, and the water was clear.
Because Seven cannot exist. Because Seven negates.
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Enter the Realm of Live Coded Music
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May 13, 2016 by Soundfly Partners
Live Coding Music image courtesy of STEIM.org
By Mu from Livecoding.tv
This article originally appeared on Hypebot
From fashion to music, the things you love can be created in code. Coding is a superpower that writes your ideas on a computer program and then gives them the breath of life, in bigger, brighter, and more creative ways.
This superpower has mutated. It's even more powerful and enrapturing with the emergence of Livecoding.tv. Live coded music is now a thing. A trend. It's plainly a musician programming a computer onstage to create music, while streaming to their audience for their enjoyment.
The History of Live Coded Music
The phenomenon of live coded music stretches back to the demo-scenes of the 1970s to 1990s, where graphics and music demo programs were shared. This exchange caused the emergence of a public art form where the graphics and music were created real-time on live programming environments.
A pioneer of this phenomenon over the past decade is Toplap, it is an organization that was formed in a smoky bar in Hamburg in 2004 for the promotion of live coding. It has been the driving force in this field — collectively developing, exploring, and promoting live coding. Musicians and visual artists have since then been applying software engineering skills to construct their own live coding environments and languages.
Many musicians today are designing their own particular representational extensions to existing general-purpose languages, and even creating their own live coding languages from scratch. The most popular of these is Tidal, a mini-language embedded in the Haskell language created by Alex McLean.
Image courtesy of On-The-Fly Programming (Princeton)
Live Coding Music of the NOW
Live coded music is transforming. It's exploding in beautiful waves of sound through the dedication and work of these major contributors: Sam Aaron and Joseph Wilk. Together, they have brought fresh energy into live coding music. Their efforts have played a leading role in extending live coding beyond just pure music and sound, to the general digital arts that include audiovisual systems linked by shared abstractions.
Sam Aaron hails from Cambridge, England. He is the creator of SonicPi, a free software with an educational focus. It is used to teach programming and music in schools. He uses it in his own performances, as well. Along with Jeff Rose, he also developed Overtone. It's an open source audio environment that combines SuperCollider audio engine with Clojure, a state of-the-art Lisp, to create an intoxicating interactive sonic experience.
Alongside Jonathan Graham, Sam created Meta-eX, a live coding duo powered by Overtone that didn't rely on pre-recorded material. They defined, evaluated, and manipulated their code live. This gave them an immense level of control and power to perform. From intimate ambient sets to pulsating club nights, Meta-eX opened a new future for live electronic music.
+ Learn more: Explore another way to program music with our free course, "Chiptune Crash Course: Getting Started with Chip Music"!
Although Meta-eX is no longer performing as a duo, Sam is still actively developing, sharing, and performing solo with Sonic Pi. He is promoting its use to budding live coders and music programmers on Livecoding.tv, an educational livestreaming platform where you can watch programmers coding real products live.
Aaron's performances on Livecoding.tv involve defining, evaluating, manipulating, and running code to make live music for the audience. Harnessing the power of hand-coded algorithms, he surfs jets of deterministic random streams to improvise unique rhythmic and melodic structures you can dance to. Below is one of Sam's scintillating performances.
Coincidentally, Joseph Wilk, like Aaron, lives and works in England. On his blog he describes himself as someone who spends his time coding things that will hopefully make people happy. He has contributed to many open source projects across a number of languages. He has a number of open source projects of his own brewing. Joseph has spoken at conferences all over the world, covering topics such as testing, rhetoric, creative machines, and startups.
"I also use computers to make sounds, sometimes even music, performing live music programming as Repl Electric," he said. Wilk streams his skills on Livecoding.tv where he writes code to generate live music and visual. He bends light samples and synths with Sonic Pi and Ruby. Here is a video of one of his performances.
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The Future of Live Coding Music
As the new fangled type of musical expression, live coding music is gaining traction and creating a foundation for greater things that may well be the missing link between composition and improvisation.
Live coding environments are designed for fast exploration of musical patterns. Platforms such as Tidal and Livecoding.tv host a strong movement of video-based live coders and online communities that offer support and help with problems. Livecoding.tv is inclusive and accessible to everyone. There are no restrictions on the musical genre.
Visualize a nightclub in San Francisco, Cape Town, Beijing, or Tokyo where the DJ codes music live and revelers dance to it. Say hello to the future of live coded club music. It's a trend and the future for music.
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"Computer Music Journal Special Issue on Live Coding." TOPLAP. N.p., 01 Oct. 2012. Web. 27 Dec. 2015.
"A History of Live Programming." A History of Live Programming. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Dec. 2015.
"Tidal – Mini Language for Live Coding Pattern." TOPLAP. N.p., 04 Jan. 2014. Web. 27 Dec. 2015.
"What on Earth Is Livecoding?" Dazed. N.p., 14 May 2013. Web. 27 Dec. 2015.
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Honda love it when a plan comes together
Halfords Yuasa Racing left Donington Park with a proverbial spring in its step as an ultra-successful weekend yielded a race three one-two with Matt Neal leading Gordon Shedden home in formation.
This ensured the Team Dynamics-run squad retained top spot in the Teams' and Manufacturers' tables as well as first and second spots in the Drivers' standings.
It was an astute exercise in damage limitation from the outfit that would lay the foundations for a late-weekend surge.
As Neal and Shedden headed up the championship standings on the way into the Donington Park weekend, they were liable to carry 75 and 66kgs of ballast respectively. Teams can use the soft tyre in each of the three races a maximum of three times during the course of the season – Honda elected race one at the Leicestershire circuit as one of those occasions.
The thinking behind this was that the soft tyre – with maximum ballast, the circuit characteristics at Donington Park and changeable, cold conditions – would not yield the same level of performance over a race distance as the medium compound Dunlop SportMaxx tyre. This proved to be the case in race three with the BMWs of Sam Tordoff and Jack Goff eventually dropping away from the medium-tyre shod Hondas, amongst others, towards the end of round six.
On Saturday with that tyre choice made, Shedden qualified fourth and Neal followed up by sticking his Civic Type R into ninth spot on the grid. The two drivers knew they would face an uphill struggle in the opener, with that success ballast from Brands Hatch two weeks earlier and the less durable soft-compound tyres.
Race one duly yielded lower points-scoring finishes for the team – 11th and 12th but the soft tyre was now out of the way. Honda had taken the performance penalty along with their success ballast, in a round they would be most hindered in, leaving the plan to play out nicely – starting with race two.
With the ballast removed and the harder-compound Dunlop rubber bolted onto their Honda Civic Type Rs, the experienced team-mates moved progressively through the pack. Displaying strong pace, they flashed past the chequered flag in fourth (Shedden) and sixth (Neal), with the Scot barely a whisker shy of the rostrum.
This left the duo perfectly placed to take full advantage of the race three reversed grid format, scything their way to the front of the field and overhauling the early leaders to speed to a commanding one-two finish, as Neal tallied his first victory of the season to prove that he remains every inch the class act in his 26th campaign in Britain's premier motor sport series.
Matt Neal:
"Being championship leaders and with the associated success ballast, we came into this weekend knowing we would need to play a longer-term game. Our aim was to save the best 'til last – and that's exactly what we did. We bagged the points in race one, and then race two set us up nicely for the last one, with the reversed grid and the right tyres on both cars. It was great to come away with a one-two finish, and being my home circuit makes it even sweeter. It felt as good as my first BTCC win here all those years ago – I'll never get tired of that feeling. To leave still leading the championship is the perfect outcome – I'll accept 75kg ballast going to the next round with both hands!"
Gordon Shedden:
"We knew we were going to have to take a bit of pain this weekend with so much ballast in both cars, and we decided to take that pain early on. It was always the plan that as Sunday progressed, we would get closer and closer to the front. That meant we were a little bit under the radar until the last race, but we kept fighting and plugging away and snatching points as and when they were available. It was very difficult in race one, but we kept our noses clean in race two to very nearly nick a late podium and then the car felt great in race three. We just had to bide our time until the soft tyres on the cars ahead faded, which we knew they would do. It was fantastic to end the weekend with a one-two finish."


Alexandra Bristow is a Lecturer in People and Organisations at the Open University Business School. She completed her PhD in the Department of Organisation, Work and Technology at the University of Lancaster, where she also taught as a Postgraduate Tutor. Later, she worked as a Lecturer at the University of Surrey, and as a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, where she led modules on the Birmingham Distance Learning MBA and MSc programmes. She is also a Visiting Fellow at the University of Surrey.
Alex's research focuses on critical approaches to management, work and organisation, and on key issues faced by people in organisations, such as power, resistance, change, knowledge, learning, identity and new technology. Current interests include the changing nature of academic labour, the experiences, trajectories and identities of early-career professionals, the organisational impact of Brexit, Trumpism and populism, the production of knowledge and research philosophies in the field of management, and power, change and learning in public service organisations. She is a member of the Centre for Knowledge in Organisations and Professions (CKOP) and the Centre for Policing Research and Learning (CPRL).
Alex's PhD thesis on 'The Production of Objectivity in Organisation Studies: An Analysis of Some of the Field's Leading Journals' is a joint winner of the Best Dissertation Award (2011) of the Academy of Management CMS Division. Her work has been published in a number of international journals, including Organization, Organization Studies, Ephemera, Scandinavian Journal of Management, Culture and Organization, and Journal of Trust Research. She has also contributed chapters to the edited books on The SSCI Syndrome in Higher Education (2014), and The Dark Side 2: Critical Cases on the Downside of Business (2013). Alex is currently a guest editor with Sarah Robinson of a special paper series of Organization on 'Populist Responses to Austerity and Cultural Change: Brexit, Trumpism and Beyond'.
Alex has supervised four Doctoral students to successful completion, with two further supervisions currently in progress. She is also actively involved in the training and development of Doctoral students at institutional and national levels. She is a regular contributor to the British Academy of Management annual PhD Symposium, leading the session on 'Management Research: Philosophy and Design'. At Surrey, she has contributed to the development of the innovative IPhD programme, and designed and led the core Doctoral training module 'Foundations of Management Research'. Alex welcomes interest from potential PhD students in her areas of research.
Alex has experience of teaching at all Higher Education levels (PhD, MBA, MSc and undergraduate), different modes of delivery (full-time, part-time, executive, international, face-to-face, distance learning, online), and cohort sizes. She has successfully designed, validated, delivered and led modules and programmes in a range of subject areas and levels. She has also supervised over 30 postgraduate taught students (MBA and MSc) to successful completion of their dissertations.
Alex's favourite subjects to teach are power and politics, resistance, change, organisational meta-theory, the philosophical and theoretical foundations of the management field, and management research philosophies. She contributed to the Research Philosophies chapter in the 7th edition of the Saunders et al (2016) bestselling Research Methods for Business Students textbook. The chapter is freely available on Academia.edu and has been downloaded over 3,000 times by students and researchers around the world.
Isaeva, Neve; Bachmann, Reinhard; Bristow, Alexandra and Saunders, Mark N.K.


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Sex abuse case sparks Ottawa to assert papal ambassador's diplomatic immunity
Global Affairs Canada has issued a certificate of diplomatic immunity for the Pope's representative in Canada who faces a demand for archival documents in a sexual and physical abuse case involving a B.C. Roman Catholic seminary.
Jeremy Hainsworth
Pope Francis, head of the Catholic Church, apologized April 1 to delegates representing Indigenous Peoples from Canada for the church's role in the residential school system.Vatican News
Three weeks after Pope Francis apologized for Catholic residential school abuses, Ottawa issued a diplomatic immunity certificate for the pope's ambassador who faced a lawyer's demand for records in other Catholic school sexual and physical abuse allegations.
"Clearly, that consent is not forthcoming, because the certificate was issued," Sandra Kovacs, lawyer for complainant Mark O'Neill said.
"This position is not surprising, particularly in light of the frustration also expressed by residential school survivors, who have asked Pope Francis for unfettered access to records with the Vatican's missionary department, too," Kovacs said.
Kovacs said O'Neill and another client share those frustrations.
It was April 1 after Francis met with Canadian residential school survivors that he expressed indignation and shame about the church's role.
"For the deplorable conduct of these members of the Catholic Church, I ask for God's forgiveness and I want to say to you with all my heart: I am very sorry."
Further, the Pope said, "I encourage the bishops and the Catholic community to continue taking steps toward the transparent search for truth, and to foster healing and reconciliation."
That didn't sit well with Kovacs.
"There cannot be truth, justice, and sincere reconciliation between the Roman Catholic Church and any abuse survivors in Canada if the Roman Catholic Church continues to stonewall survivors when it comes to accessing historical records," Kovacs said.
O'Neill alleges he was sexually abused by Mission, B.C. Roman Catholic priests and a seminary employee. He was between 13 and 17 years old at the time of alleged events. He wants the pope's envoy to Canada to hand over documents related to the case.
However, on April 19, Global Affairs Canada sent a letter to B.C. Supreme Court regarding O'Neill's case and highlighting a certificate of diplomatic immunity for the nuncio and archives.
O'Neill and Kovacs intend to fight on.
The defendants listed in the suit are: Seminary of Christ the King; Westminster Abbey Ltd.; the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vancouver, a Corporation Sole; Emerick Lazar; Harold Vincent Sander a.k.a. Dom Placidus Sander; Rohrbach and John Doe.
In a March 24 application to B.C. Supreme Court, O'Neill and Kovacs seek an order that Rev. Ian Jurkovic, the Apostolic Papal Nuncio to Canada, hand over multiple records.
That may not happen, though.
"I hereby certify under the authority of the Minister of Foreign Affairs that a diplomatic mission of the Apostolic Nunciature (Embassy of the Holy See) was established in Canada with the consent of the Government of Canada and that its archives enjoy inviolability under the Foreign Missions and International Organizations Act," wrote Global Affairs Canada's Jessica Dawson, a deputy director in the criminal, security and diplomatic law division.
Further, Dawson certified that since Aug. 27, 2021, Jurkovic has been accredited as the apostolic nuncio or ambassador of the Apostolic Nunciature in Canada.
"As such, Mr. Jurkovic enjoys, in Canada, the privileges and immunities as set out under Schedule I of the Foreign Missions and International Organizations Act," Dawson said.
What O'Neill and Kovacs want includes correspondence between the seminary, the abbey, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vancouver and the papal nuncio about sexual misconduct at the seminary; speaking notes from meetings attended by the nuncio where sexual misconduct has been addressed; investigation records arising from a May 1987 anonymous letter to the nuncio from seminarians; and investigation records about sexual misconduct at the seminary.
O'Neill alleges Lazar, a priest, broke his arm. Sander, also a priest, then allegedly delayed access to medical treatment to conceal the fracture. Sander died in 2021, according to the suit.
The application also wants any correspondence or documents in the papal nuncio's possession relating to criminal proceedings against Sander.
A hearing into the application is set for April 28.
Kovacs said while the nuncio can use the immunity shield, he could consent to the release of documents.
None of the allegations have been proven in court.
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The Amaryllo Dynamics Roadshow will stop on April 28 in the Taipei International Convention Centre (TICC). This roadshow is a great opportunity to get detailed information about Amaryllo Dynamics products, especially as the road show is focused on RDS/TMC this time. Also, it is a great opportunity to meet the Amaryllo people in person and have informal chats with them.
Subjects addressed in this roadshow will be Traffic information systems using RDS/TMC, Broadcast based information services, European market for RDS/TMC, country differences, EUropean Union, legislation, government stimulation, subscription models, formats and licenses, RDS/TMC ISO standards. Also the Amaryllo Dynamics platform will be discussed and presentations will be held from Silabs and EDOM.
The roadshow is sponsored by Silabs and EDOM.


Look: Scroll down the page under the table below and you will see individual multi family property listings for Oak Park IL, starting with the highest price to the lowest.
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FRESNO, Calif. — A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment on Thursday, April 4, 2019, against Jose Luis Rivas Jr., 26, of Bakersfield, charging him with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute, heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine and fentanyl, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
According to court documents, between June 2016 and May 2018, Rivas conspired with another Bakersfield man, Juan Pina, 23, to use a national parcel service company to ship packages of narcotics to various distributors around the country. Records filed with the court indicate that Rivas and Pina made kilogram-quantity shipments of controlled substances on several occasions.
On May 3, 2018, search warrants were executed for Pina's residence and vehicle. Pina was arrested while driving his vehicle and in the back seat was a three-foot-long rectangular box, similar in size to the earlier shipments. The package was searched and found to contain approximately 700 grams of cocaine. In a search of Pina's home, agents recovered over 2 pounds of heroin, over 2 pounds of cocaine, approximately 70 grams of methamphetamine as well as a loaded handgun and three long guns all found within close proximity to the drugs.
On March 27, 2019, when search warrants were executed for Rivas's residence, agents recovered 12 cellphones and arrested Rivas.
On April 8, 2019, Juan Pina plead guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute, cocaine, methamphetamine, and heroin.
This case is the product of an investigation by Homeland Security Investigations and Bakersfield Police Department. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Brian K. Delaney and Thomas Newman are prosecuting the case.
If convicted, Rivas faces a maximum statutory penalty of life in prison and a $10 million fine. Any sentence, however, would be determined at the discretion of the court after consideration of any applicable statutory factors and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, which take into account a number of variables. The charges are only allegations; the defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
Pina is scheduled to be sentenced on August 12. He faces a maximum statutory penalty of life in prison and a $10 million fine. The actual sentence, however, will be determined at the discretion of the court after consideration of any applicable statutory factors and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, which take into account a number of variables.


An inspirational session sharing the importance of passion, networking and kindness to business success.
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Corporate: Pinky provides corporate seminars, which are inspiring, practical and delicious! Spice Magic Seminars & Team Building Days are for groups of up to eight delegates, and include a motivational talk, a demonstration of the various techniques in the use of spices, and a session on how to cook a selection of Indian dishes, followed by the opportunity to sample the food in an informal dining experience. The day provides a unique approach to team awareness and interaction.
On the move: If you can't come to Pinky, Pinky can come to you. She can conduct the same demonstrations on her portable tabletop cooker (if health and safety at your venue permits).
Private Parties: Spice Magic parties transport you into a deliciously different world. A world full of mouthwatering authentic Indian dishes. Where you discover the joys of learning to cook using traditional Indian techniques with the best fresh ingredients. Explore the myths and legends and and immerse yourself in the cultural richness of India. Experience warm traditional Indian hospitality and leave with the skills and knowledge to cook creatively in your own kitchen. Spice Magic parties are an unusual way of celebrating a special occasion, bridal shower, birthday or anniversary - they make the perfect gift or just a great evening out!