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Did Ronald Reagan Lower the Top Tax Rate from 70 to 28 Percent and Introduce Income Tax on Social Security Benefits to Offset It?
A popular tweet claimed that the former president lowered the top tax rate from 70 percent to 28 percent, balancing it with a novel income tax on Social Security Benefits.
'You Do Know that Eliminating the Payroll Tax Defunds Social Security, Don't You?'
The effects of a plan pushed by Trump depend on whether there is legislation passed to cover that cost.
Did the Trump Administration's 2020 Budget Propose $25 Billion in Cuts to Social Security?
A January 2020 set of two tweets (by Soledad O'Brien and Donald Trump) involved a claim that the Trump administration's 2020 budget planned to cut a huge chunk from Social Security.
Congress 'Rejects' Social Security Increase: Facebook Users Regurgitate Bogus Claim
A long-running falsehood about social security payouts continues to be spread online.
Did Public Assistance Programs Exist in the United States Before Social Security?
Claims that "our ancestors" who emigrated to the U.S. had no access to pensions or other types of aid when they arrived are ahistorical.
Turning Point USA's 'Truth About Social Security' Meme
On May 1 2019, the Facebook page for youth conservative outreach organization Turning Point USA shared a meme (archived here) purporting to detail "the truth" about several changes made to Social Security over the years: https://www.facebook.com/turningpointusa/photos/a.376802782368444/2202678636447507/?type=3&theater An appended status update read "Unbelievable… #BigGovSucks," and the meme claimed: THE TRUTH ABOUT SOCIAL SECURITY LIBERALS MOVED SOCIAL […]
Are FDR and LBJ Era 'Say No to Socialism' Buttons Authentic?
On February 21 2019, economist and former United States Secretary of Labor Robert Reich published a tweet alongside what appeared to be an image of two political buttons from Franklin Delano Roosevelt's and Lyndon B. Johnson's campaigns: Although Reich made no specific reference to the "say 'no' to socialism" buttons shown, he wrote: For over […]
The 'All Democrats Voted Against a Social Security Raise' Meme
Weeks before the 2018 United States' midterm elections, propaganda from across the political spectrum flew thick and fast. Some of it contained grains of truth, while other stories were completely made up, such as a particularly lazy cut-and-paste meme that appeared in mid-October: The meme asks rhetorically, without citation or supporting evidence: Were any of you aware […]
Illinois Resident Patty Nye Blasts Senator Dick Durbin for Calling Seniors "Greediest Generation"-Fiction!
False claims that Illinois woman Patty Nye blasted Sen. Dick Durbin for calling seniors the greediest generation ever are based on an earlier (and unproven) rumor involving a woman named Patty Myers and Sen. Alan Simpson.
Did 233 Representatives Vote to Steal Social Security's $2.9 Trillion Surplus?-Truth & Outdated!
It's true that 233 members of Congress supported a bill that would have stripped Social Security's $2.9 trillion surplus, but the measure failed.


It is also proposing to extend the life of the defunct U.S. coal industry by providing it with taxpayer-funded subsidies.
Here are seven reasons why the coal industry will die anyway.
Plumes of water vapor emit from the Tennessee Valley Authority Paradise Fossil Plant in Paradise, Kentucky.
We are all aware of the familiar corporate statement "This model has been discontinued." We should all become equally aware of the fact that the global coal-based economic model has also been discontinued. The historic coal industrial complex that includes both coal mining and coal-fired electric plants has been permanently and irrevocably replaced.
The world (or rather parts of it) experienced tremendous economic growth over the past one hundred years in large measure thanks to the use of coal for the generation of electricity. But that growth model has now moved into the annals of history never to return. Coal has been displaced by cleaner, cheaper and more effective forms of energy generation, indirectly because of the push of the Paris Agreement on climate change, but directly due to the many constraints emerging from the pernicious attributes of that geologically carbonized substance.
Second, there is growing concern over the impacts on fresh water. Mountain top removal for coal mining frequently buries streams, contaminates local water sources, and increases the risk of flooding. Furthermore, some types of coal need to be washed to remove excess oil and slurry, contaminating surface and ground water and making it unusable for any other purpose afterward. In a world in which fresh water is increasingly a scarce resource and is urgently needed for food security and sanitation, there is rising anxiety about coal's impact on water. Highly water-intensive, a typical coal plant uses up to four billion gallons of water a year.
Third, as a result of the above two effects, public tolerance of coal plants that pollute the air and mines that contaminate the surrounding water is quickly dwindling. The effects are becoming more understood and increasingly measured, therefore less acceptable.
Fourth, coal is an obsolete technology that creates no new jobs. In fact the industry has been contracting employment over the past 10 to 15 years worldwide as mining becomes every day more automated. In the U.S. the coal industry has shrunk from 130,000 to around 50,000 today, fewer than are currently employed by Arby's. Meanwhile the International Energy Agency said that the solar PV industry creates more than twice the number of jobs per unit of electricity generation compared with coal or natural gas. With the right support, coal miners can retrain and become key to the new energy generation industry.
Fifth, renewable energy is increasingly competitive and rapidly rising to utility scale, making finance institutions no longer willing to incur the risk of exposure to assets, which are no longer competitive and quickly losing their value in rapidly changing energy markets. The world's newest development bank, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB,), has said it will not fund coal. Bank of America was the first major private sector bank to adopt a policy to scale back financing for coal mining companies. Goldman Sachs has concluded that thermal coal has "reached its retirement age" and Bloomberg New Energy Finance has assessed the "beginning of the end" for fossil fuels, in particular coal.
Sixth, the myth that coal is the only avenue to poverty reduction has been definitively punctured. There are 1.2 billion people worldwide who still in 2017 have no electricity, a major driver of growth and wellbeing. If coal could have provided electricity to them, it probably would have done so over the past one hundred years, but the high cost of extending the grid has prevented this. Un-electrified homes stand a much better chance of benefiting from electricity now that renewables provide the opportunity to produce energy in a decentralized manner, e.g. through individual rooftop solar panels or mini grids for isolated villages.
There are of course vestiges of coal around the world and we will see the long tail of the transition toward cleaner, cheaper and more effective forms of energy. What is impressive is the growing number of coal companies that have themselves started to close coal plants because they are no longer financially viable or because they have high level of public opposition. But none of those closures are as emblematic of today's reality as the Kentucky Coal Museum that installed roof top solar panels to save on electricity costs. The writing is not on the wall, it is on the roof.


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A Christlike Response to Violence
We live in violent times.
This past month, the world was stunned as Christians in Sri Lanka were targeted as they arose to worship on Easter Sunday. The country's defense minister issued a statement shortly afterward reporting that Islamic extremist groups had claimed that these bombings were in retaliation for the shootings at Mosques in Christchurch New Zealand in March. These are just the latest examples of the violence that continues around the world. How do we respond to such violence? It would be easy to respond with anger and an escalation of violence. Is there another way?
True peace must begin with an examination of our own hearts and motivations.
We can not hope to accomplish peace while we hold bitterness in our hearts against another. How then can we act justly while demonstrating the love and grace that we see in Christ? Jesus didn't leave the disciples without instruction on this issue. Not only did Jesus teach his disciples that they should be peacemakers (Mt 5:9), but he also provides the perfect example in his life as he turned the other cheek and endured the violence of the cross. The Bible makes it clear that justice is an inseparable companion of peace (Isaiah 32:17; James 3:18). We hear the prophet's call "let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!" (Amos 5:24)
Perfect peace with justice has only ever been fully met at the cross.
Through the cross the punishment for human sin was fully absorbed in the divine love of Jesus. He obediently endured the humiliation of the cross because he knew that God would accomplish a deep and lasting reconciliation with human-ity through his death. Paul explains this reconciliation at the cross saying:
"For He himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility… His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace, and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility (Eph 4:14-16)."
For Christians the cross is the model of true reconciliation with one another.
Rther than insisting on retribution, we are called to pursue love, forgiveness, and non-violence. The way to find peace is to conform to the image of the cross. As we pursue Christ's peace with others we bear witness to the power of the cross to overcome the barriers of hostility, hate, and violence. We stand in the hope that through Christ all things can be made new.
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HOUSTON, December 17, 2013 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Vladimir Ingerman, President of the Amros Corporation, has been recognized by Worldwide Branding for showing dedication, leadership and excellence in the oil and gas industry.
Dr. Ingerman has more than 30 years of professional, world-wide experience in the energy sector. Over the years, he has gained extensive international and domestic experience in the evaluation of clastics and carbonates, conventional and unconventional hydrocarbons, the interpretation of open and cased hole logs and integration with geological, CCAL, SCAL, geophysical, and engineering data to build static and dynamic models. Dr. Ingerman has worked in many parts of the energy sector, from exploration to integrated field studies and from operations to data management, database optimization, and software development.
Earlier in his career, Dr. Ingerman was a vice president of Tyumenneftegeophysica, which was the second largest geophysical company in the former Soviet Union. Under his leadership this company designed, developed and implemented the first computerized system for log-data interpretation in the former Soviet Union. The system has identified perforation intervals, calculated reserves, and supported oil field development by most oil companies in Western Siberia - the largest oil region in the former Soviet Union - and it is still in use. The total number of wells processed by the system is around one million. While with Tyumenneftegeophysica he also made petrophysical zonations for Western Siberia that included several hundred oil fields and a dozen gas and gas-condensate fields. He has worked for Halliburton and Schlumberger in the United States and provided petrophysical consulting services for many oil companies, including Amoco, Shell International, El Paso, Mobil, Maersk Oil, W&T Offshore, Chaparral Resources, Union Texas Petroleum, Pemex, Pdvsa, Ecopetrol, Petrobras, and Petroecuador, among others.
He founded Amros Corporation and in five countries successfully tested a new technique for direct hydrocarbon identification using seismic data. In the last few years he has developed a technology for optimizing the development of shale oil deposits. When this Amros technology was applied to more than 100 vertical wells in the Permian Basin it demonstrated that for most wells, instead of fracking 10 to 12 stages it was sufficient to frack only 5 to 6 stages. This remarkable result could be achieved without decreasing production; in fact, because the Amros technology enables precise targeting of the best intervals, in the majority of cases production will be increased. With a potential ROI of 5,000%, the Amros technology has lower environmental impact than conventional technologies, significantly decreasing fracking water injection in shale formations.
Dr. Ingerman received a Doctor of Technical Science, as well as a Ph.D. in oil field development, and a Master of Science in geophysical methods. He is a member of the Houston Chapter of SPWLA, and has received government decorations in the Soviet Union. To give back to his community, he contributes to the SIRE - a therapeutic horseback riding program for people with special needs. In years to come, Dr. Ingerman will work to achieve international growth and expansion for Amros.
Amros Corporation is an oil and gas services company with proprietary technology for calculating production profiles and completions optimizations for shale oil deposits. In short, this means Dr. Ingerman has developed a new way of looking at the same data everyone else sees, but in a way that no one else can. This powerful and effective innovation was decades in the making. For more information about Amros Corporation, visit http://www.amros.us.
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Housing shortages will increase mica challenges, says Taoiseach
Micheal Martin said some people will have to seek alternative accommodation while homes affected by the mica scandal are being replaced and repaired.
Taoiseach Micheal Martin said housing shortages will present challenges when the mica redress scheme is implemented (Julien Behal/PA)
By Jonathan McCambridge, PA
The Taoiseach has said housing shortages will increase the challenges the Government faces with the mica redress scheme.
Defective building blocks containing excessive deposits of the mineral mica have seen thousands of properties start to crumble across the country.
An estimated 5,000 homes in Co Donegal are affected, with thousands more understood to have faulty blocks in counties Sligo, Clare and Limerick.
It will be challenging because of the overall shortage of housing in the country and that's manifest in Donegal Micheal Martin
In November the Government agreed that the mica redress scheme will be capped at 420,000 euro per home.
Homeowners will be able to receive 145 euro for the first 1,000 square feet, which will reduce to 110 euro for the second 1,000 square feet, and the remainder will be set at a rate of 100 euro.
The Government has committed that the scheme will take inflation into account, and the per-foot rate will be reviewed every year.
It is estimated that 7,500 homes will benefit from the revised scheme.
In October, tens of thousands of people from Donegal, Mayo, Sligo and Limerick flooded Dublin to demand the Government covered all the costs for homes that were crumbling due to the defective blocks.
Demonstrators on O'Connell Street, Dublin (Brian Lawless/PA)
Mr Martin said: "First of all there's very substantial resources being made available through the mica scheme.
"I think a lot of work still has to be done in terms of that phasing, but there will be challenges, of that there is no doubt, because of the fact that quite a substantial number of houses will have to be refurbished or redone again and some will have to be rebuilt.
"People will have to seek alternative accommodation for a period whilst that work is under way.
"So the resources are provided for both to enable people to rent whilst the houses are rebuilt, but it will be challenging because of the overall shortage of housing in the country and that's manifest in Donegal.
"We will work with local authorities there and those housing agencies to see what we can do in the interim.
"There's no super solution to that, we just have to work with people and, if we can, work things through."
Mr Martin said he did not expect housing shortages to force people to move away from Donegal.
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Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz says consumers are likely to see higher costs on "many things," after the U.S. imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. The central bank released its latest financial system review on Thursday.
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A tiny or a very small piece (of something).
(biology or biochemistry) An extremely small particle or substance, especially at cellular or structural level, as a biomolecule.
(physics and chemistry) The smallest unit of an element or compound, made up of two or more atoms held together by strong chemical bond.
In physics and chemistry, a molecule is an electrically neutral, group of atoms that can exist alone in free state while its characteristic properties are retained. The atoms comprising the molecule may be of the same kind (as in oxygen molecule made up of two oxygen atoms) or of different kinds (such as water molecule made up of oxygen and hydrogen).
In biology, particularly in biochemistry, a molecule is used less strictly that it can also refer to any minute particle such as charged organic molecules or to substances (called biomolecules) produced and occur naturally in living organisms such as proteins, carbohydrates, DNA, etc.
Word origin: French molécule, from New Latin mōlēcula, diminutive of Latin mōlēs, mass.


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Chrysler to Build New V-6 Engine Plant in Mexico
$570-million project to begin in 2008
Forging Staff | Jun 03, 2007
June 4, 2007 — Chrysler Group has plans to build a new engine plant in Saltillo, Mexico, a $570-million project the automaker says reaffirms its "commitment to maintain leadership in the production of advanced, fuel-efficient automobile engines."
The new Saltillo Phoenix Engine Plant will be sited in Derramadero, near a Dodge Ram pickup truck assembly plant in Saltillo. The new operation will have a capacity of 440,000 "Phoenix" V-6 engines/year, beginning in 2009. Construction will begin next June.
Chrysler indicated the new plant is part of its $3-billion Powertrain Offensive, announced in February and emphasizing production of fuel-efficient engines, axles, and transmissions. Another Phoenix Engine Plant will be located in Trenton, MI.
Both new plants will incorporate Smart manufacturing initiatives, flexible CNC-based machining, volume-bundled parts purchasing, volume-bundled capital investment, and standardized tooling.
The Phoenix family of engines is part of Chrysler's plan to concentrate its family of V-6 engines around a single design, rather than the four models now produced.
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Colin Doherty is a consultant neurologist and Honorary Senior lecturer in neurology at St James's Hospital in Dublin. He was trained in the partners neurology residency programme at Harvard Medical School, Boston and subsequently completed Fellowships in Epilepsy and Cognition. He has published widely the areas of brain imaging in epilepsy, the genetics of epilepsy, functional imaging of language and clinical epileptology and neurology. In the last few years he has become interested in the challenges of population health, health services research and care delivery in epilepsy. He was a member of the Irish government's 'expert group on resource allocation in the health sector' which produced it's report in the summer of 2010. He is a member of the national clinical effectiveness committee in Ireland and is a board member of the main government funding body for clinical research in Ireland, the Health Research Board. He is the Irish representative to the international League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) committee for the Global Campaign Against Epilepsy. Recently, he has been appointed National Clinical Lead for the Epilepsy Care Programme in Ireland, with a charge to develop epilepsy services nationally to improve quality of care, access for patients and value.


Growing your family is an exciting time. Here are five tips to help your older child adjust to a new baby in the house!
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Keep to Your Child's Routine: Consistency before and after Baby's arrival is key!
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Contractor of the crosscut through the Vistula Spit selected
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The Maritime Office in Gdynia has selected the most advantageous offer for the construction of the first stage of the shipping channel through the Vistula Spit. The works for PLN 992.27m will be performed by a consortium of companies composed of N.V.Besix S.A., NDI S.A. and NDI Sp. z o.o.
Additional over PLN 270m
The tender for the construction of the first stage of the crosscut through the Vistula Spit was launched at the beginning of January this year, and the opening of the offers took place on 22 May. Six bids were submitted, with prices ranging from PLN 992.17m to PLN 1.4bn. The cheapest offer submitted by the consortium of N.V.Besix S.A., NDI S.A., NDI Sp. z o.o., was considered the most advantageous, which means that with the budget set at PLN 718.09m, the investment will require over PLN 270m more than originally assumed.
The first stage of the project will include a ditch more than 1 km long and 5 m deep, a protective harbour and an artificial island, which will serve as a habitat for birds. The shipping channel is to improve access to the plumes in Elbląg and guarantee Poland free access from the Vistula Lagoon to the Baltic Sea, bypassing the Piława Strait controlled by the Russians.
The work is already underway
Although the contract with the selected contractor has not been signed yet, preparatory works on the construction site have been in progress for several months. The construction was symbolically inaugurated on 16 October last year by Jarosław Kaczyński, who buried a geodetic post marking the water path through the spit. In the place of the future canal, all the trees were cut down in February this year. The planned completion of works under the first stage is to take place in 2022.
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package mapconstruction2;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

/**
 * An object that represents an edge from vertex1 to vertex2.
 */

class Edge implements Comparable<Edge> {

  private Vertex vertex1; // first endpoint of edge
  private Vertex vertex2; // second endpoint of edge
  private double curveStart; // contains start point of white interval on curve
  private double curveEnd; // contains end point of white interval on curve
  private double edgeStart; // contains corresponding points on that edge
  private double edgeEnd; // contains corresponding points on that edge
  private Line line; // line from vertex v1 to v2
  /**
   * done is marked as true when an edge is done being compared with all segments of a curve.
   */
  private boolean done;
  /**
   * Contains start and end index of curves for white intervals corresponding to the edge.
   */
  private int curveStartIndex;
  private int curveEndIndex;

  /**
   * Contains a sorted list (in descending order) of positions indicating where to split this edge.
   */
  private List<Double> edgeSplitPositions;

  /**
   * For each split position the corresponding new vertex is saved in this list.
   */
  private List<Integer> edgeSplitVertices;

 // private static final FormattingLogger logger = FormattingLogger.getLogger(Edge.class);

  Edge(Vertex v1, Vertex v2) {
    this.vertex1 = v1;
    this.vertex2 = v2;
    edgeSplitPositions = new ArrayList<Double>();
    edgeSplitVertices = new ArrayList<Integer>();
    this.reset();
  }

  void reset() {
    this.curveStart = Double.MAX_VALUE;
    this.curveEnd = -1.0;
    this.edgeStart = Double.MAX_VALUE;
    this.edgeEnd = -1.0;
    this.line = new Line(vertex1, vertex2);
    this.done = false;
  }

  void set(Edge edge) {
    this.curveStart = edge.curveStart;
    this.curveEnd = edge.curveEnd;
    this.edgeStart = edge.edgeStart;
    this.edgeEnd = edge.edgeEnd;
    this.line = new Line(vertex1, vertex2);
    this.done = edge.done;
  }

  public Vertex getVertex1() {
    return this.vertex1;
  }

  public Vertex getVertex2() {
    return this.vertex2;
  }

  public Line getLine() {
    return this.line;
  }

  public boolean getDone() {
    return this.done;
  }

  public void setDone(boolean done) {
    this.done = done;
  }

  public double getCurveStart() {
    return this.curveStart;
  }

  public void setCurveStart(double cstart) {
    this.curveStart = cstart;
  }

  public double getCurveEnd() {
    return this.curveEnd;
  }

  public void setCurveEnd(double cend) {
    this.curveEnd = cend;
  }

  public double getEdgeStart() {
    return this.edgeStart;
  }

  public void setEdgeStart(double vstart) {
    this.edgeStart = vstart;
  }

  public double getEdgeEnd() {
    return this.edgeEnd;
  }

  public void setEdgeEnd(double vend) {
    this.edgeEnd = vend;
  }

  public int getCurveStartIndex() {
    return this.curveStartIndex;
  }

  public void setCurveStartIndex(int startIndex) {
    if (startIndex >= 0) {
      this.curveStartIndex = startIndex;
    } else {
     // logger.log(Level.SEVERE, "Invalid assignment of Edge.startIndex");
    }
  }

  public int getCurveEndIndex() {
    return this.curveEndIndex;
  }

  public void setCurveEndIndex(int endIndex) {
    this.curveEndIndex = endIndex;
  }

  public List<Integer> getEdgeSplitVertices() {
    return this.edgeSplitVertices;
  }

  public List<Double> getEdgeSplitPositions() {
    return this.edgeSplitPositions;
  }

  /**
   * Inserts a new split position if the list doesn't have it, otherwise return.
   *
   * @param position indicate the new split position
   * @param vertex indicates the vertex which should be inserted in this edge.
   *
   */

  public void addSplit(double position, int vertex) {
    int i = 0;
    //logger.log(Level.FINEST, "Inside updateSplits");
    for (i = 0; i < this.edgeSplitPositions.size(); i++) {
      if (this.edgeSplitPositions.get(i).doubleValue() == position) {
        return;
      } else if (this.edgeSplitPositions.get(i).doubleValue() > position) {
        this.edgeSplitPositions.add(i, position);
        this.edgeSplitVertices.add(i, vertex);
        return;
      }
    }
    this.edgeSplitPositions.add(position);
    this.edgeSplitVertices.add(vertex);
  }

  @Override
  public String toString() {
    return vertex1.toString() + vertex2.toString();
  }

  /**
   * Orders edges based on first their curveStart and then curveEnd.
   */
  @Override
  public int compareTo(Edge edge) {

    if (this.getCurveStart() < edge.getCurveStart()) {
      return -1;
    } else if (this.getCurveStart() > edge.getCurveStart()) {
      return 1;
    } else if (this.getCurveEnd() < edge.getCurveEnd()) {
      return -1;
    } else if (this.getCurveEnd() > edge.getCurveEnd()) {
      return 1;
    } else {
      return 0;
    }
  }

}

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Many schools nowadays do not teach cursive based on their own research and standards. It is sad to know how most schools especially in the US eliminated teaching cursive since it isn't included in the Common Core State Standards. However, in some Asian countries, cursive is still being taught at the age of 7-8. In Japan they start teaching cursive in the junior high school level. As teacher at Yokohama Christian School, I love teaching cursive not because it was taught to me in 2nd grade but because of its benefits to the learning process. Studies show that learning to write in cursive can improve brain development in the areas of thinking, language and working memory. Cursive writing increases comprehension and participation. It also helps students in spelling words by connecting consonants and vowels to form a word. Cursive writing develops motor skills and reinforces learning. In the later part, cursive will help students read legal documents; connect to the past when reading scripts written in cursive and for them to write their own signature.
Well, it's not bad to still teach cursive writing in schools because in a legal document we have to use cursive for signing to avoid forgery. Aside from that when it comes to taking notes it's easier to write in cursive. Also, as I have read, our histories are written in cursive so it's good if we can be able to read the original text.
Even though today's digital age is making pen and paper seem so outdated, I think we, teachers, should not take an opportunity to teach cursive writing.
I believe that it's important to incorporate kinaesthetic activity in language arts. Handwriting engages the brain in learning.
Also, teaching cursive writing gives an opportunity for integrated learning. Children can strengthen their fine-motor skills, be artistic and creative, learn the history/culture of cursive letters, and gain other way to express their ideas and voices.
A lot of people may find cursive to be not so important nowadays but it always has a benefit to some as long as we look at the positive side of it. Who knows that this might help any parent or teacher having problem at home or at school regarding their child/students poor handwriting.


While other members are leaving the Steinbach city council chamber behind, Michael Zwaagstra says he has continued energy and enthusiasm for his role, as he announced this week he will seek a fourth term on council.
"Things are always changing, especially in a city like Steinbach that continues to grow," Zwaagstra told The Carillon.
"I find there are new challenges that we face as a city and I certainly would be happy to help in addressing those new challenges. It doesn't get old because things change."
Change is guaranteed with Mayor Chris Goertzen and Councillor Cari Penner stepping down, along with councillors Earl Funk and John Fehr pursuing the mayor's chair.
Zwaagstra believes that his council experience, and commitment to balancing growth and expansion, with fiscal responsibility, will be an asset in the next term.
He said he didn't consider a run for mayor himself, noting the challenge of fulfilling that busier role along with his employment as a full-time high school teacher.
As a seasoned council veteran, Zwaagstra says sticking to many key city programs, like upgrading basic infrastructure need to remain a priority.
But, he too would like to see more action on files like recreation, which have lagged in recent years.
"This is an area that not as much has happened on some of these files as I would like to see," Zwaagstra said.
Still, for Zwaagstra, that means feasibility and transparency, to avoid wrangling that has emerged on projects like the failed performing arts centre plan.
"We need to do a better job of identifying our priorities and also putting out as much information as we can, identifying what our options are and also be realistic about what we can actually afford," he said.
He suggested looking to neighboring municipalities for ideas, noting that other proposed arena projects in the region aren't coming with a $30 million price tag.
Most importantly, the public needs to be brought onside.
"If we can show there's significant public support, we have buy-in, that shows that the community is behind this," he said.
A better process will serve community fundraisers well too, he suggested. Zwaagstra said timelines created by council, even after the project ballooned to $24.3 million, were unfair to fundraisers who championed the performing arts centre plan.
"When those numbers were first shown to us…I was astounded, because at that level it's not realistic," he recalled.
"I wish we had been more willing to say at that point, no, rather than make them work for another six months…that's not fair to people."
While big projects can be pursued, smaller projects shouldn't be lost sight of either, he argues. The creation of services, like the splash park at the library, offer "bang for the buck" that serves many people, he contends.
Zwaagstra says support for the city's RCMP and fire department needs to continue as well.
He knows with population increases that police officer staffing increases will need consideration, and suggested an expansion of the detachment's GIS unit might be warranted too.
According to Zwaagstra, election campaigns are a great time to get people talking about important issues. He said he looks forward to hearing from Steinbach residents when he begins door-knocking in the near future.
He declined to assess the qualities of his two council colleagues, Fehr and Funk, who now vie for the role of mayor.
"I respect the fact the people may select either of them, or someone else, and will work with whoever is elected and go from there."


Hawker's Cove lies about a mile and a half north of Padstow in North Cornwall. Despite its proximity to Padstow it is overlooked by many of the casual day visitors who tend to gravitate to Rock and Daymer Bay across the estuary.
The beach of fine golden sand faces east. It looks across to Daymer Bay and Pentire Point and is flanked to the north by Stepper Point and to the south by Gun Point, with its Napoleonic fortifications.
Hawker's Cove is best accessed by walking up past the war memorial and following the coast path north around Gun Point. At low tide there is plenty of space to enjoy and there is also a small tea garden for hot and cold drinks, ice creams, cream teas and small snacks near the Coastguard Cottages about 200 yards away. An alternative route is via Crugmeer to Lellizzick Farm with its car park in a field.
The beach is backed by the old lifeboat house, The first Padstow lifeboat, was kept at Hawker's Cove with a new boathouse constructed in 1931 complete with a roller slipway. By the 1960s however, silting was becoming a problem and in October 1967 the Padstow lifeboat relocated to a new boathouse and slipway at Trevose Head, a few miles to the west. The actor Edward Woodward lived at Hawker's Cove until his death in 2009.
There are no other facilities or lifeguard cover at Hawker's Cove.


In NSW, a charge of assault occasioning actual bodily harm carries a maximum penalty of five years imprisonment.
The consequences of a conviction can be serious depending upon what you do for a living. Some jobs require you to have no criminal convictions and a conviction for an assault occasioning in actual bodily harm might jeopardise your job or make it difficult to obtain visas for overseas travel. Moreover a conviction for an offence of violence can completely rule out certain career paths, such as teaching and a range of government employment options. Violent offences may also result in sentences that include imprisonment, even where an individual has no previous convictions.
An assault occasioning actual bodily harm is a more serious charge than a common assault charge. It can be further complicated if there are aggravating factors, for example, if the offence was committed in the company of another. It is important to get legal advice at an early stage to ascertain precisely what the consequences of a conviction may be and whether you have a defence to the charge. It is very important that you obtain legal advice before you take part in any police record of interview. Call us on 1300 168 676 for urgent advice.
Whosoever assaults any person, and thereby occasions actual bodily harm, shall be liable to imprisonment for five years.
A person is guilty of an offence under this subsection if the person commits an offence under subsection (1) in the company of another person or persons. A person convicted of an offence under this subsection is liable to imprisonment for 7 years.
WILL I GET A CRIMINAL RECORD FROM AN ASSAULT OCCASIONING ACTUAL BODILY HARM CHARGE?
Yes. A criminal conviction is very likely, given that the offence involves an assault that resulted in an injury. The starting point for the Sentencing Court is the recording of a conviction together with the imposition of other penalties. However, there is always a possibility that the Court may choose to exercise their discretion not to convict you of the offence.
Whilst the slightest touch might constitute an 'assault' in the basic sense of the word, the Police will generally not charge a person unless there is a significant degree of force applied. For example, punching, kicking or even pushing another person would constitute an assault.
In addition, the Police must show that the assault directly caused actual bodily harm to the other person. This means that a visible injury needs to be present to show that bodily harm occurred. For example, a bruise or a scratch would be sufficient in meeting those criteria.
There is also case law that defines the term actual bodily harm. This would include any injury that would interfere with another individual's health or comfort. McIntyre v R states that the injury does not need to be permanent, but "must be more than merely transient or trifling."
No, it is not possible to bargain with the court that you would pay a larger fine to avoid a criminal conviction. If the court deals with you under a section 10 non conviction order there will be no fine, but there may be court costs.
Jail for an assault occasioning actual bodily harm charge: This is the most serious penalty for the charge of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and involves full time detention in a correctional facility. Read more.
Home Detention for an assault occasioning actual bodily harm charge: As a result of amended legislation this penalty was repealed on 24 September 2018 as a standalone order but may be imposed as a condition of an Intensive Corrections Order (ICO). Home detention is an alternative to full-time imprisonment. In effect the gaol sentence is served at your address rather than in a gaol. If you receive a sentence of home detention you will be strictly supervised and subject to electronic monitoring. Read more.
Intensive correction order for an assault occasioning actual bodily harm charge (ICO): This option has replaced periodic detention. The court can order you to comply with a number of conditions, such as attending counselling or treatment, not consuming alcohol, complying with a curfew and performing community service. Read more.
Community service order for an assault occasioning actual bodily harm charge. (CSO): As a result of amended legislation this penalty was repealed on 24 September 2018 and replaced with a Community Corrections Order (CCO). This involves either unpaid work in the community at a place specified by probation and parole or attendance at a centre to undertake a course, such as anger management. In order to be eligible for a CSO you have to be assessed by an officer of the probation service as suitable to undertake the order. Read more.
Suspended sentence for an assault occasioning actual bodily harm charge: As a result of amended legislation this penalty was repealed on 24 September 2018. This is a jail sentence that is suspended upon you entering into a good behaviour bond. Provided the terms of the good behaviour bond are obeyed the jail sentence will not come into effect. A suspended sentence is only available for sentences of imprisonment of up to two years. Read more.
Good behaviour bond for an assault occasioning actual bodily harm charge: As a result of amended legislation this penalty was repealed on 24 September 2018 and replaced with a Community Corrections Order (CCO). This is an order of the court that requires you to be of good behaviour for a specified period of time. The court will impose conditions that you will have to obey during the term of the good behaviour bond. The maximum duration of a good behaviour bond is five years. Read more.
Fines for an assault occasioning actual bodily harm charge: When deciding the amount of a fine for a assault occasioning actual bodily harm charge the magistrate or judge should consider your financial situation and your ability to pay any fine they set. Read more.
Section 10 for an assault occasioning actual bodily harm charge: avoiding a criminal record. Normally, when you plead guilty to a criminal offence, the court imposes a penalty and records a conviction. If the court records a conviction, you will have a criminal record. However, if we can convince the court not to convict you, there will be no penalty of any type and no criminal record. In all criminal cases, the court has the discretion not to convict you, but to give you a Section 10 dismissal instead. Read more.


Larger production capacity, taproom planned for 2014.
SOUTH LYON – Barely two weeks into 2014, there's already big craft beer news coming from the little town of South Lyon.
Witch's Hat Brewing is announcing that they have secured a new home within South Lyon, resulting in a larger taproom and the ability to make even more of their popular beers. Brewing is expected to begin at 601 S. Lafayette Street in August 2014, with the new taproom opening four months later in December 2014.
Witch's Hat Brewing initially opened its doors in December 2011, and success quickly followed. The community-focused brewery has established itself as a favorite among South Lyon residents, and the beers have developed a strong reputation such that customers come from across Michigan to try them. This past year, further validation came in the form of readers voting Witch's Hat one of the "Best Michigan Breweries" via MLive.com.
But recognition has not been limited to the craft beer community. The brewery also garnished the MISBTDC 2012 Best Small Business and 2013 Main Street USA Awards, and even received a feature on the local Fox affiliate's "Made in Michigan" TV show.
The search for a newer, larger facility began once it became apparent that maximum production capacity at the brewery's current location at 22235 Pontiac Trail was no longer sufficient to satisfy demand. In 2012, Witch's Hat produced 350 barrels of beer, and this number ballooned to nearly 550 barrels in 2013. With the new brew-house, Witch's Hat expects to increase production over the next 18 months by 5 fold, estimating new capacity to be 2500 barrels per year.
With the added capacity, Witch's Hat says initial focus will be placed upon their flagship beers – Train Hopper India Pale Ale, Edward's Portly Brown Ale, Three Kord Kolsch, and Big Doedish Double India Pale Ale. Increased flagship production will be crucial to the company's plans to increase their presence in southeast Michigan, most notably through those bars and restaurants that support craft beer.
Outside of their flagships, the brewery will also be able to continue introducing seasonals and special releases. To date, beers like the Night Fury Imperial Stout, Tuscan Coffee Stout, Royal Rumble Double Red Ale, and 1908 Smoked Wheat have been limited to the brewery's taproom. Witch's Hat anticipates the additional capacity will afford the opportunity to introduce these specialty beers into the market, and also begin distribution of their popular barrel-aged beers and meads.


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Interlinking is one of the most powerful tools for technical optimization of a big web-site. Thanks to interlinking factors it's easy to get the pages several points up in Google search results for long tail and super long tail keywords.
Unfortunately, on many web-sites we face up typical interlinking problems – non important pages with too much weight, overspammed or insufficient anchors distribution, whole clusters of pages with just one leading link and others.
One of the main problems when working with interlinking is links volumes. For instance, an average web-site with 1 mln pages may have around 200 mln links and as you can guess it's quite inconvenient to work with them via csv files or Excel.
Most crawlers have such an indicator as "number of internal links to the page" – but the question is what links are those? How many of them are image links, how many are text ones, what anchors lead to the page, are those links from indexed pages or are they from non-canonical ones that add no internal weight?
This is a new tool for innerlinking analysis. It takes the data right from the link graph and shows aggregated information on incoming links, anchors distribution, what directories they come from and click distance.
The opportunity of working with url masks makes your work with page clusters much easier.
Example: YOU sell iphones, a wide range of models and colors. That means you've got lots of pages dedicated to Iphone. It is rather troublesome to check each link separately. Now you can simply set "iphone"url mask and get a full picture on the whole Iphone cluster.
Google analyzes the content and semantics of a landing page by the anchors leading to it. With the help of anchors it is possible to expand the page semantics. And as you can guess, when analyzing the anchors leading to the page we can either increase this list or remove the non-relevant spammed anchors.
Google analyzes the content and semantics of a landing page by image alt tags leading to it. With their help it is possible to expand the page semantics. So when analyzing this parameter we can either increase image alt or delete the non-relevant ones.
It can show the directories of those pages that contain links to the landing page. Example: if the landing page is "Buy a chair in London", then such incoming directories as "Buy a car in Edinburgh" are hardly acceptable.
It can show the click distance from index of those pages that contain links to the landing page. The click distance for important pages should be as close to index as possible.
This tool can work in segments mode on the web-site.
For example: you create a segment "Cell phones" (url contains "cell phone"). Staying in this segment Linking Explorer will show you the information on the links to the landing page exclusively from this segment.
You can also analyze external urls.
For instance: you have a related web-site site.de and now you can see the way it is linked with site.com. That means you'll get all the mentioned above data from the crawled web-site for the landing page on the external site.
Everything that you can see is clickable. Clicking a title you go to the Linking Explorer datatable where you can adjust all the necessary filters.
With Linking Explorer the process of interlinking becomes thousand times easier. All the important information you need is presented in just one tool and with absolutely no limits!
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I was surprised to find so many old, unsupported pages which are out of the website's structure. There were also a large number of 404 pages. We are really glad we've managed to get a breakdown of the website subdirectories. Thus we've made a decision which team we will start working with in the beginning.
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It's not just Twitter that Elon Musk is under pressure. Today, several former employees of the SpaceX company belonging to the billionaire, explain that they were fired for having criticized the whimsical boss in a letter, relays the Guardian based on information from the New York Times. Eight former employees therefore decided to turn to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), an independent agency responsible for investigating illegal practices in the world of work in the United States. They would have been victims of reprisals after writing this letter, they believe.
Laid off in June, they would have helped employees to write this letter pointing out the behavior of Elon Musk on social networks, in particular. The letter was largely in response to a joke the company boss made about a report that suggested he had paid $250,000 to a flight attendant who accused him of sexual harassment. Elon Musk had denied in block. In this letter which had been able to consult The Verge, it was written that the behavior of Elon Musk "in the public sphere" was "a source of distraction and embarrassment for all of us", and this, "especially during the last few weeks".
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Q: Регистрация домена (на личном сервере) Привет, сообществу.Возникли проблемки с регистрацией домена, а задача такая: зарегистрировать его, чтобы весь сайт был у меня, на сервере(компьютер с ubuntu 12. 04 LTS, самая последняя, короче) , статистический ip есть, создал анкету на ру-центр, перечислил туда уже 600 рублей, осталось только взять домен, но там написано:![Тут картинку посмотрите][1]  [1]: http://i.imgur.com/CCj5rO8.jpgКороче, помогайте. Что писать в поле имя, а что в поле ip адрес (свой белый, или провайдера, его ip узнал из cmd ipconfig /all). Мне главное, чтоб все было у меня на компьютере, про хостинг не говорите, нет, хочу все сам поднять и администратировать. Так, что нужно сделать?Посоветовали поднять днс-сервер, но как это делать, вообще новичок в этом деле, подскажите ,пожалуйста.

A: Ну и здесь подскажу )) Значит так, лучшим выбором, по моему мнению является сервер bind. Дальше идёшь в гугл и пишешь "начальная настройка bind", если попадёшь на opennet.ru.. а, хотя сразу можешь идти туда и читать про настройку, но сначала лучше прочитать вообще про ДНС тут
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Prayer is finding that secret place to hear the gentle voice that guides the way, opening that sacred door that's always ajar, that place where all are welcomed into the Holy Atmosphere where our spirits are reborn and every mind can be transformed. In Prayer, we can find the strength to live and finally forgive.
We enhance our spiritual practice, making the most of our meditation, affirmation, and Affirmative Prayer when we no longer approach prayer as the asking/demanding of a God who gives but as an understanding our At-One-Ment and allowing this unification with the One to move through us, as us, and through all of Life.
As Lightworkers, we live our Lightworkers Creed. Our purpose is to serve others, to contribute our hearts to the world, and to raise consciousness. How are you practicing being of service? What energies do you bring into this world? What are you already being in your personal life that you love?
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Teenage boy beheaded by militants in Pakistan's restive northwest
PESHAWAR: A 19-year-old boy, accused of being a spy for the Pakistan Army and the counter-terrorism department by militants, was found beheaded in a remote area in the restive northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, the police said. The teenager, identified as Raheedullah was found beheaded in Bargai village of Lakki Marwat on Wednesday.
An official said that the militant group 'Ittehadul Mujahideen-i-Khurasan' had left a dagger and a handwritten chit in the Pashto language along the body, carrying a message that Raheedullah was found guilty of spying for the army and counter-terrorism department, the Dawn newspaper reported.
The victim's uncle told the police that his nephew had gone to the fields on January 15 but did not return home, the report said. He also said that they later came to know that some armed men took him away along with his motorcycle.
The police have said an autopsy will be performed on the victim and an investigation is underway to arrest the culprits.
Pakistan's restive northwest bordering Afghanistan has seen a series of terror attacks in the past year, especially on police personnel and the army.
The attacks are mainly carried out by the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), also known as the Pakistani Taliban, who ended an indefinite ceasefire with the Pakistan government in November last year.
In December last year, a militant group from Balochistan announced its allegiance to the outlawed TTP.
Several other smaller splinter groups of militants have also joined the TTP including the deadly Jamaatul Ahrar.
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'Shagging, Drinking and Taking Drugs': How Oasis Made 'Definitely Maybe'
Corey Irwin
Creation Records
In the summer of 1994, a group of working-class Englishmen announced themselves to the world. They were brash, confident and carried with them a bunch of catchy songs. With Definitely Maybe, Oasis presented one of the most successful debut albums of all time.
Noel Gallagher had been penning tunes for several years before finding his future bandmates. The songwriter drew immense inspiration from classic rock's biggest acts. "My record collection consisted of the Beatles, the Stones, T-Rex, David Bowie and lots of great sticks," he admitted in Definitely Maybe the Documentary. "And that's what I used to listen to."
He went on to specify that mainstream hits held much more appeal to him than deep album cuts: "Don't fuckin' ask about fuckin' extra tracks on a fuckin' Pink Floyd bootleg from 1972. Who gives a shit, man? I'd rather listen to 'I Am the Walrus' 20 times in a row."
Noel's younger brother, Liam, was already part of a group called Rain, playing local gigs in the Manchester area. When the elder Gallagher attended one of the band's performances, he finally saw an outlet for the material he'd been piling up. He joined Rain in 1991, changed their name to Oasis and assumed the role of sole songwriter. He took pride in writing lyrics that were catchy, honest and relatable to his working-class peers.
"I wasn't trying to impress anyone with my lyrical prowess," he'd later admit. "I didn't give a fuck about that. And I wasn't trying to make a point. And I wasn't trying to build myself a platform where I could go and preach to the nation about this, that and the other. I was writing about things that were true to me. It was about shagging, drinking and taking drugs."
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Over the next two years, Oasis developed a reputation as one of the best live acts in Manchester. Still, the group's dreams extended beyond their hometown. In hopes of drumming up more interest, the band recorded a demo tape in 1993. "There was no thought of getting a record deal," Noel Gallagher admitted. "It was just songs to play when we were doing the Boardwalk on a Tuesday night. Which is probably why it sounds so free and easy. It just flows."
The quality of work wasn't lost of Chris Griffiths, a member of the Real People, a fellow English band of the era. The musician helped Oasis record their demo and was impressed with what he heard. "We were thinking something's gonna happen here with this," he revealed in Definitely Maybe the Documentary. "It was just the whole thing with Liam looking like a star, his attitude and all that anyway. When we were working together we weren't saying if it happens, we were saying when it happens."
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The quality of the demo tape, coupled with the band's growing reputation as a live act, earned Oasis a deal with Creation Records.
In late 1993, the band headed to Monnow Valley Studio in Wales to record its debut album. Dave Batchelor, who previously worked with various U.K. groups like the Kinks, the Sensational Harvey Band and Dr. Feelgood, was tabbed to produce.
As Oasis began laying down tracks, it became apparent that something was off. "It wasn't happening," recalled the band's guitarist, Paul Arthurs, in the book Britpop!: Cool Britannia and the Spectacular Demise of English Rock. Batchelor "was the wrong person for the job. ... We'd play in this great big room, buzzing to be in this studio, playing like we always played. He'd say, 'Come in and have a listen.' And we'd be like, 'That doesn't sound like it sounded in that room. What's that?' It was thin. Weak. Too clean."
Engineer Mark Coyle believed the studio setup was hindering the band. "There was no live music going on," he remarked in Definitely Maybe the Documentary. "It'd be drums, then bass, then guitar, and it wasn't what anybody was used to. I think it was just the vibe of the thing. The way it sounded. It just sounded soft. There was no edge to it."
As the band searched for answers, production costs continued to mount. Tensions within the group were high as recordings continually failed to meet expectations. "Behind the scenes, Noel was frantically on the phone to the management, going, 'This ain't working,'" Arthurs recalled. "For it not to be happening was a bit frightening."
Unhappy with what it had recorded so far, and unsure of how to proceed, the band made a tough choice: They would wipe the slate clean and start again from scratch. Surprisingly, they had their label's blessing to do so. "I'll always respect [Creation Records head Alan] McGee for that," noted Noel Gallagher. "He just said 'Look, fuckin' go and do it again.' And we were like, 'Are you sure?' He was like, 'Just go and do it again, cuz you've got to get it right.'"
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Batchelor was shown the door, Coyle was elevated to co-producer and the group assembled for a new set of recording sessions at Sawmill Studios in the south of England. The modest facility was accessible only by boat, giving the experience a summer-camp feel.
"It was all pretty cramped in and no frills," recalled the band's guitar tech, Jason Rhodes. "I slept in a sleeping bag by the pool table."
The quaint surroundings didn't slow the band's partying ways. "They were doing drugs," remembered engineer Anjali Dutt. "I've got no idea how bad the drugs got. But they were just funny."
In the studio, every effort was made to capture Oasis' raw energy. "We just set it up like a rehearsal room or like a gig," attested Coyle. "We didn't use any posh microphones. No headphones."
The new vibe gave the songs an edge not present on their first recording effort. Things began to click and the debut album started coming together.
Four of the songs which originally appeared on the band's demo tape were rerecorded for the LP: "Columbia," "Bring It on Down," "Rock n' Roll Star" and "Married With Children."
"Supersonic," a track Noel Gallagher penned in approximately half an hour, would be the band's first single. It was released before Oasis were even done mixing the album. The song hit No. 31 on the U.K. singles chart and No. 11 on the U.S. alternative song chart. Excitement behind Oasis was clearly beginning to build.
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Even though the second single, "Shakermaker," would also do well in their homeland, it was the band's third single, "Live Forever," that announced Oasis' arrival on the world's stage.
"It's a song of pride, it's a song about youth, it's a song about knowing who you are," Noel Gallagher declared during a 2007 interview with Blender. The Oasis songsmith gleaned inspiration from two rock legends when writing the track. The first was the Rolling Stones, whose song "Shine a Light" sparked the melody concept for "Live Forever." The second was Kurt Cobain. Gallagher had read an interview in which the Nirvana frontman mentioned his self-parodying song "I Hate Myself and Want to Die."
"It struck me that this fucker, an extremely talented guy, had everything I wanted," Gallagher later explained. "He was rich, he was famous, he was in the greatest rock 'n' roll band of its time — and he's writing songs saying he hates himself and wants to die! My way of thinking was, well, I fuckin' love myself, and I'm gonna live forever, man!"
"Live Forever" became a huge hit, reaching No. 10 on the U.K. singles chart and No. 2 on the U.S. Billboard modern rock chart. It has since been listed among the greatest songs of all time and been cited as a turning point in the Britpop music movement of the mid-'90s.
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By the time Definitely Maybe was released on Aug. 29, 1994, hype surrounding Oasis was monumental. The LP went straight to No. 1 on the U.K. chart, setting the record for the fastest-selling debut album in British history.
"I genuinely believed that people would buy it, but not on the scale that it did," Arthurs admitted. "I mean, that just went beyond me."
Pressed to explain the album's mass appeal, Noel Gallagher simply stated, "We seemed to catch the mood of the mid-'90s."
Definitely Maybe sold more than 8 million copies worldwide, going platinum in the U.S. and seven times platinum in the U.K.. "I'd say Definitely Maybe and Nevermind by Nirvana were the two most important albums in the '90s in terms of what they achieved, who they inspired and what they were about," noted Oasis' manager, Marcus Russell.
The album's legacy isn't lost of the album's writer. "I love it," Noel Gallagher confessed. "Not only musically, but for what it meant to people. And what it still means to people."
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Overrated Strauss vs underrated Gluck
Why are there so many productions of Richard Strauss's gargantuan operas, and so few of Gluck's works of genius?
Michael Tanner
Elektra at the Royal Opera House (Photo: Clive Barda/Arena Pal
This is the first of my more-or-less monthly columns, the idea of which is to report on operatic events other than those that take place at the two major London venues, with occasional trips to those areas (i.e., everywhere other than London) where the annual government grant for the arts is £4.80 per head, while in London it is £69.00. This fact was widely reported a few weeks ago, but while I thought for an hour or two that it might lead to a revolution, there was no widespread articulate reaction to it of any kind, nor, so far as I know, any indication that this gross inequity would be addressed. So if conspicuous consumption is what you're after, you'll know where you have to be.
That's not my main topic for this particular column, however. What I want to do is say something about the two operatic composers who have major anniversaries this year, one of whom I feel is grotesquely overestimated, the other, conveniently, shockingly underestimated. Peter Phillips mentioned them both in his article last week, saying that Richard Strauss is 'the only big name' this year, having been born in 1860; while Phillips categorised as 'second-rate' Gluck, who was born in 1714.
To take Gluck first, it has been perhaps the major disappointment of my years as a reviewer that there have been so few productions of Gluck's major operas: the two Iphigénies, Alceste, Orfeo ed Eurydice and its French version, Armide and Paride ed Elena, at the very least. I don't see how you can possibly call these works second-rate, though they may not be as great as Mozart's near-contemporaneous five masterpieces. The only one I went to an adequate, indeed revelatory performance of was Paride ed Elena, and that was in concert at the Barbican under Paul McCreesh in 2003. I see from the cover of the DG recording that was made of it that I described it as 'a milestone in our understanding of Gluck's genius', but though that's a judgment I certainly stand by, I don't think any productions or performances of this wonderful work have been forthcoming. Iphigénie en Tauride, Gluck's greatest work, has only had a silly semi-danced production at Covent Garden, in which Simon Keenlyside as Oreste was tossed around by the chorus, and the tense drama disappeared; and so on. These relatively brief, tightly constructed works, with their unique line in nobility (not used as synonymous with boredom) and pathos, and their high drama, need straightforward productions and austere, intense musical performances and it's hard to see that they won't finally get back into the centre of the repertoire where they belong. But so far as I can see none of the major opera houses is preparing to rise to the occasion.
Naturally, we are guaranteed plenty of Richard Strauss, with Glyndebourne opening its season in May with a new production of Der Rosenkavalier. If there is one work the thought of which never seeing again makes me happy, that's it. I love about half an hour of it and abominate the padding that constitutes the other three hours. But it will always be with us, if only because any soprano capable of singing the Marschallin can't resist that indulgence. Salome is fun, though when I say so people think it's a laboured attempt to be camp on my part. Elektra, the stunning Royal Opera performance of which I've just heard on Radio 3, is, like most Strauss, overextended and really a thriller rather than a tragedy. Ariadne auf Naxos is largely enchanting, but it's virtually impossible to make Bacchus tolerable, and in fact, as so often, Strauss is tempted to send himself up. Dedicated Straussians must be salivating over the prospect of Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Royal Opera, but given the portentousness of its subject matter, and the appalling longueurs of the final act, won't even they feel a bit fidgety?
Anyone who seriously respects what Strauss can do well and what makes him a striking phenomenon in the history of opera and music generally should be ready to admit that of all the great composers, if he is that, his taste is the least reliable. He came at the wrong time in the history of music, when gargantuanism was encouraged, whereas his gifts are most manifest in pieces of modest dimensions that don't take themselves too seriously, Intermezzo being the obvious case — but why isn't that being done more?
In the later operas the sheer amount of mellifluous but purposeless note-spinning gets absurdly out of hand, and that applies to some extent even to the swansong Capriccio. Aren't there parts of that which its admirers look forward to and others which, if they could bear to be honest with themselves, they would admit that they'd long to get past? On the other hand, if you like the kind of noise that Strauss makes, that tells you instantly that it's him you are hearing — and there is no composer whose identity is so immediately revealed in all his work — then you will delight in the fact that he produced so many hours of music that do nothing more or less for us than they did, on his own admission, for him: pass the time of day.
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As for Strauss when it comes to art, any art, there are three acid tests.
First, does the work bear repeated hearing, reading, or viewing?
Secondldy what sort of gap would the work of a particular artist leave if was never created.?
Thirdly, does it pass the Wittgenstein test (It is in vain to speak whereof that which cannot be spoken of).
Strauss passes all three with flying colours.his operas are continuously performed the world over so he must have been doing something right. He was also a composer in every department – the lovely Enoch Arden, the orchestral pieces, and the songs.
On the second count if the operas of Strauss are taken away from the 20th Century we are left with Puccini, Berg, Janáček, and Britten.
Thirdly, although points 1 and 2 cannot be disputed, point 3 is subjective. However, the end of Ariadne, and Die Frau, are, to me, pure magic, as are numerous other highlights such as the tenor aria at the Marschalln's levé.
There is another point which is an extra. Strauss, unlike many composers could do comedy. Wager, for example, could not , and his attempts at it are pretty dire. Strauss had a lightness of touch.
Like Britten he was an all round composer, and he moved music along.
As for passing the time of day, that is a splendid thing to be able to do. The Silent Women is a wonderful confection, and truly funny. i saw a production at Garsingtion which was superb and knocked spots off the Vienna opera's production which was too reverential. Bacchus worked well in the 1970s Glyndebourne production, of Ariadne; in Jonathan Miller's Broomhill production, and in the Garsington production.
If anything Strauss under-rated himself when he described himself as a good second rate composer. Der Rosenkavalier has everything, love, sadness, comedy, joy. He who tires of Der Rosenkavalier is surely tired of life.


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Q: Metric compatibility and torsion-free condition of GR In an introduction to general relativity, we see the unique connection of a manifold is described by both the conditions, matric compatibility and torsion-free condition. The metric free condition can be physically understood which allows us the parallel transport of vectors between two tangent spaces. But What is the importance of the torsion free condition? The problem would be no unique connection for a manifold. Is it an issue in GR? I mean is there any way which can relax this condition

A: For knowing why the Torsion tensor is important it is important to know what it is.So,
$$[\nabla_\mu ,\nabla_\nu]f=T^\lambda_{\mu \nu}\nabla_\lambda f$$
Where T is the torsion tensor, so if your covariant derivatives commute you have  torsion free manifold. Quickly working out the commutator of the covariant derivatives will shows you that
$$T^\lambda_{\mu \nu}=\Gamma^\lambda_{\mu \nu}-\Gamma^\lambda_{\nu \mu}$$
So when we talk about your metric compatibility we are assuming that the metric is diagonal. In that case your Riemann Christoffel Tensor is also symmetric under exchange of μ and ν which leads to a torsion free manifold. You bring out a metric that has a non diagonal and non zero component and suddenly both conditions vanish such as in the case of the Einstein Cartan Theory which is mentioned by@gold


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On the Political Implications of the Imperfect Subjunctive
Chavismo's long-rumored, long-feared push to crack down on the Internet is upon us, in the form of a draconian set of amendments to the Orwellianly named Law on...
Francisco Toro December 10, 2010
Chavismo's long-rumored, long-feared push to crack down on the Internet is upon us, in the form of a draconian set of amendments to the Orwellianly named Law on Social Responsibility in Radio and Television to extend its reach into the online world and dramatically expand the categories of banned speech.
The bill now before the lame duck National Assembly empowers – nay, mandates – the state to take action against a very broad, very nebulously defined set of speech crimes. For instance, the law now on the books already bans War Propaganda. But the bill the Council of Ministers just approved goes much further, banning messages that "could be considered war propaganda."
No fewer than ten categories of speech would be banned under article 14, most using the same, extravagantly vague formulation. The bill bans messages that "could be considered hate speech", and those that "could be considered to promote disregard for the law", and those that "could be considered as inducing magnicide" and those that "could be considered to disrespect public offices or the people who hold them".
The key here is the use of "pudieran": the imperfect subjunctive form of the verb "poder" (to be able to). As this Spanish grammar puts it,
The subjunctive mood is subjective; it expresses emotional, potential, and hypothetical attitudes about what is being expressed – things like will/wanting, emotion, doubt, possibility, necessity, judgment. In contrast, the "normal" verb mood is called the indicative and is used for factual or definite statements about reality.
No exact translation is possible, but I think the closest approximation to "mensajes que pudieran…" is something like "messages that could conceivably…" or "messages that could be considered to…"
So the new law doesn't just ban dissing that son of a whore Chávez; it bans messages that could conceivably be interpreted as casting doubt upon the chastity of Ms. Elena Frías.
The obvious question is: "by whom?" Who gets to decide what language could conceivably cross one of the red-lines in the bill?
The answer, of course, is "a panel of bureaucrats appointed by Chávez".
Article 15 of the bill orders all Internet Service Providers to create mechanisms to allow them to restrict access to any site containing offending speech immediately upon request from the aforementioned bureaucrats.
Hello Great Firewall of Venezuela!
That such sweepingly defined rules are – short of simply banning the internet – technically impossible to enforce is beside the point. The idea here is to intimidate, to give the government the legal tools it needs to justify moving against almost anybody who is even tangentially active in politics at almost any time. In likelihood, it will be enforced selectively, sporadically, to make a point here and there and, of course, pour encourager les autres.
Francisco Toro
Quico Toro is the founder of Caracas Chronicles.
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A woman has her hair dyed professionally. Doctors have warned against using cheap hair dyes lest they cause burns or reactions.
Low-income residents are at risk of injuries and burns when they purchase cheap hair dye, a leading physician has said.
Marwan Al Zarouni, head of plastic surgery at Rashid Hospital in Dubai, spoke out after a particularly severe case in which a woman suffered chemical burns after dying her sister's hair without gloves and needed to be admitted for four days of treatment. Her fingers had swollen to twice their normal size.
The physician said low quality imported dye, sold over the counter in shops, often did not include protective equipment. He is concerned that the true extent of the injuries the products are causing may be vastly underestimated as the low-income groups attracted to the cheap products are also the least likely to seek out medical care.
The 29-year-old patient he recently treated, who wished to remain anonymous, had previously injured herself with hair dye but used it again with bare hands because she was "in a hurry". The second case proved more serious, forcing the resident to seek professional care after trying unsuccessfully to treat her injuries with moisturiser for four days.
Dr Al Zarouni said that more effort is needed to educate people about the dangers of chemicals that can be found in cheap hair dye and called for tougher regulations on the products, some of which he suspects may be smuggled into the country illegally. Use of dyes in salons is subject to heavy regulation to protect hairdressers and customers, he said, but there is little protection for users of shop-bought products.
"We need to reach the people through proper channels," he said. "We need to spread awareness. We also need to have more control of the shops and what they are selling.
"We see only a few cases only because the majority don't come to us, because the people that do this are the low-income people and they don't seek the healthcare services. The people with better incomes will go to the salon. I think it's only the severe cases that come to us.
Respected hair dye brands will provide detailed instructions and safety equipment. However, Dr Al Zarouni said these were often not included in the dyes causing problems as they were designed to be made as cheaply as possible. The chemicals themselves are also more likely to cause swelling and burning, he said.
He described his recent patient, who he treated last month, as being in severe pain and distress when she arrived at his hospital with blisters covering her hands. She is believed to have suffered an allergic reaction as well as chemical burns. Those attempting to ignore pain or attempting to treat themselves risk further complications such as infections, he warned.
"People don't take this seriously," he said. "But once they arrive at our emergency room they realise it is serious.
The incident follows a court case last month about a Moroccan woman suffered scalp burns and lost much of her hair following a botched beauty treatment in Dubai in February. She was also treated at Rashid Hospital. The hairdresser was convicted of endangering lives and was ordered to pay a Dh4,000 fine.


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