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Attacks in Europe
By NJJN Staff May 28, 2014, 12:00 am Edit
The cowardly attack that claimed four lives at the Brussels Jewish Museum May 24 represented a persistent strain of anti-Semitism in Europe. Xenophobic right-wing parties have appealed to nationalists in various countries, while anti-Israel agitation is seen among a growing Muslim population.
Attacks in Brussels, in Toulouse, and in Paris, combined with European elections that resulted in a surge in support for extreme-right and populist parties, have led some to ask questions about the future of Jews in Europe. Some believe that the best thing we can do for European Jews is to make it easier for them to leave.
What these alarmist calls overlook is that Jews throughout Europe have deep ties to the societies in which they live and the Jewish communities they have built, replete with community centers, synagogues, nursery schools, Jewish day schools, after-school programs, and summer camps. In an op-ed for JTA, two Jewish leaders — Alan H. Gill of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and Paul Anticoni of World Jewish Relief in the United Kingdom — called on Jews to respect the decision of Jews in Ukraine, for example, to emigrate or stay at home. "Then we must do all we can to support those who choose to remain there and continue to live their lives," they write. "The global Jewish community, through a variety of philanthropic partners and institutions, has been at the forefront of these efforts."
Those partners and institutions include the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ, which through the JDC and on its own is supporting Jews in Ukraine — especially in its partnership communities of Cherkassy and Odessa — and elsewhere in Europe. In a statement about the attacks, federation leaders called on "the international community to ensure that the growing hate crimes throughout Europe…are widely condemned and that the perpetrators of these violent acts are speedily brought to justice." They also call on supporters of the federation to be generous in order to assure that Europe's Jewish communities stay strong, organized, and ready to face the challenges of a roiling Europe whether they choose to leave or stay.


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The Digital Einstein Papers
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in science on 2014-12-11 12:00 (#2VVE)
Last week, the Princeton University Press published the Digital Einstein Papers, electronic versions of an enormous number of Albert Einstein's written works, including published papers, popular writings, and even personal correspondence with scientists and family.
The site presents all 13 volumes published to date by the editors of the Einstein Papers Project, covering the writings and correspondence of Albert Einstein (1879-1955) from his youth to 1923.
The volumes are presented in the original language version with in-depth English language annotation and other scholarly apparatus. In addition, the reader can toggle to an English language translation of most documents.
This is an incredible collection. An enormous amount of work has been put in by both projects to collect and translate the works. If you find any documents of particular interest, post a link in the comments!
Einstein Wasn't All That. (Score: -1, Troll)
by Anonymous Coward on 2014-12-12 04:14 (#2VVX)
Every element of E=m(c^2) can be found in the work of Einstein's predecessors.
Einstein gets credit for being the first to line up all the elements correctly but he wasn't the one who identified the mathematical elements - energy, mass, and the speed of light as a mathematical constant were introduced into the narrative by others whom do not receive anywhere near as much credit as they should.
1850: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fizeau–Foucault_apparatus
1881: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson–Morley_experiment (Michaelson)
1887: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson–Morley_experiment (Michaelson-Morley)
1892: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Length_contraction (Lorentz)
1904: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_equations (Lorentz)
1904: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_transformation#cite_note-4 (Poincare)
1904: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_transformation#cite_note-5 (Larmor)
1905: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_transformation#cite_note-7 (Einstein)
Einstein was not a genius.
He wasn't no saint, either.
He has a great Jewish press corps, though, and they just won't fuckin' shut up ... 'cuz Einstein's tattered reputation helps prop up their fading ethnic propaganda about being God's Chosen, the best and the brightest the planet has to offer.
Note that none of the people listed in that chronology are Jewish - EXCEPT for Einstein - and some say his wife did all the heavy lifting in that relationship.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mileva_Marić#Role_in_physics
But even if she DIDN'T do all the heavy lifting ... neither did Einstein ... most of the heavy lifting came from his predecessors.
Please quit beating that dead horse and let others share the limelight.
Re: Einstein Wasn't All That. (Score: 1)
by insulatedkiwi@pipedot.org on 2014-12-12 12:20 (#2VW3)
Your point is that he built his theory from the work of people before him? Like pretty much every scientist throughout history?
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." -Newton
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Liverpool have been boosted by the first round of contract talks with Philippe Coutinho's representatives as the midfielder returned to training.
Coutinho's absence from Monday's session sent Liverpool fans into meltdown as fears grew that he was set to sit out the visit from Southampton.
Southampton take a 1-0 lead to Anfield on Wednesday, but Coutinho is expected to play after taking part in Tuesday's training.
Coutinho's agent Kia Joorabchian met with Liverpool officials on Monday to discuss a new deal and Liverpool expect their star man to sign a new five-year contract in the coming weeks.
Liverpool sporting director Michael Edwards is confident a deal can be struck quickly after positive talks, according to the Liverpool Echo.
Coutinho is arguably Liverpool's most influential player, but has long been linked with a move to Barcelona.
The Brazilian has been in fine form this season with the attacker grabbing six goals and six assists before his injury in November.
Liverpool will be eager to have their talisman start against Southampton and are confident he will.
Coutinho must come through Wednesday's light morning session, but is in line to start the second leg of the EFL Cup semi-final.


Back-to-school time also means back-to-sickness for many families.
With kids spending more time indoors (often in one classroom) germs start running rampant and resulting in the spread of colds, flus, and more – yuck!
So it's a good idea to start getting the kids practicing healthy habits NOW, before heading back to school, so those habits are formed before they get there. I've gathered some fun ideas for promoting health and wellness in kids.
And according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other leading health organizations, proper hand hygiene is one of the most important preventative measures you can take to reduce your risk of illness and infection.
Get Moving – Get your kids exercising with fun games and activities; try setting up an obstacle course and go through it with them!
Get Outside – Exercise and movement come more naturally in nature. So get those kids outside and having fun. Try one of these outdoor activities for kids.
Practice Good Nutrition – Practice good nutrition with your kids; help them learn about healthy food and why it's important to their bodies. Have the kids use this free printable to ensure a healthy kid-packed lunch!
Learn About Germs – Teach the kids about the science of illness and germs; Put some glitter on one of your hands, then shake hands with the kids and watch the "germs" quickly spread around the house.
for when soap and water aren't handy.
Check out how we used construction paper, markers, googly eyes, and pipe cleaners to make "Sir Germs-Be-Gone! Wouldn't he make a cute Back to School Teacher Gift, too?
The glitter idea for teaching about the spread of germs is so clever! I know my kids will have fun learning with that idea-and recognize the importance of hand washing. Purell is a staple in our lives-diaper bag and car are where we keep it.
Love your Sir Germs Be Gone!! Cute and inviting to use!!
Thanks, Susen! My kids got a kick out of it.
Great tips, I used to carry a bottle of hand santizer in my son's diaper bag. I am not sure what happened to it. I also make sure that I have wipes too. They are perfect for cleaning up little hands, cleaning up small spills/messes, and sanitizing yucky tables/changing tables/ect.


A spring photography exhibit and series of events look at the effects of colonialism while highlighting Native American art and culture.
This spring, visitors to The Westmoreland Museum of American Art will experience visual art as well as performances, discussions, and culinary adventures, that explore Native American culture and the effects of colonialism. The program is anchored by an exhibit: Mingled Visions: The Photographs of Edward S. Curtis and Will Wilson, on display March 30 through June 30, 2019.
Mingled Visions offers an intriguing comparison of two photographers documenting Native American life. Edward S. Curtis spent three decades in the late 19th and early 20th centuries photographing and documenting American Indian life, culminating in more than 40,000 photographic images of more than 80 tribes throughout the American West.
Westmoreland visitors will have the chance to participate in this ritual themselves at a free event on Sat., May 18, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., when Wilson sets up a working portrait studio in the Museum. Using a large-format camera and historic wet plate collodion process, Wilson will photograph portraits of participants, inviting them into his series of contemporary tintypes. Those who sit for the photographs will be gifted their tintype portrait, developed on the spot, and a high-resolution scan of their image will become part of Wilson's ongoing portraiture project.
Concurrently with the exhibit and related events, The Westmoreland will release a land statement to acknowledge the Adena, Hopewell, Monongahela, Delaware, Shawnee and Seneca-Cayuga communities on whose land the Museum stands. This statement will appear within the exhibition and will be shared verbally by staff before events. Eventually, a permanent plaque will be installed.
These events are part of The Westmoreland's efforts to create more opportunities for people of all ages and backgrounds to experience art. Along with expanding programming by over 80%, the Museum has extended its hours and made admission free, eliminating a previous suggested donation policy.
Also new will be Café Marchand with culinary partner French Express, opening in the spring, which will serve sandwiches, salads, soup, baguettes and cheese plates along with wines and Pennsylvania craft beers.


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王子 is prince in Chinese characters and Japanese Kanji.
If you look at the meaning of each character, the first means king, and the second means son (or child). Thus, "King's Son," "Son of the King," or "King's Child," is the literal meaning of this title.
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Prince, noble, ideal man or woman; translit. kun.
Public, general, official; a duke, grandparent, gentleman; just, fair.
To revere, venerate; only; translit. j in 祇園精舍; 祇樹給孤獨園 The vihāra and garden Jetavana, bought by Anāthapiṇḍaka from prince Jeta and given to Śākyamuni.; The Earth-Spirit; repose; vast; translit. j, g.
(三光天) Sun, moon, and stars. Also, in the second dhyāna of the form-world there are the two deva regions 少光天, 無量光天, and 光音天q.v. Also 觀音 Avalokiteśvara is styled 日天子sun-prince, or divine son of the sun, 大勢至 Mahāsthāmaprapta is styled 月天子 divine son of the moon, and 虛空藏菩薩 the bodhisattva of the empyrean, is styled 明星天子 divine son of the bright stars.
The five categories, or divisions; there are several groups, e. g. (1) Hīnayāna and Mahāyāna have groupings of all phenomena under five heads, i. e. Hīnayāna has 75 法 which are 11 色法, 1 心法, 46 心所法, 14 不相離法, and 3 無爲法; Mahāyāna has 100 法 which are 8 心, 51 心所, 11 色, 24 不相因, and 6 無爲法. (2) The five divisions of 唯識 are 資糧位, 加行位, 通達位, 修習位, and 究竟 or 佛位. (3) The five evolutions in the womb are: kalalaṃ, embryo-initiation; arbudaṃ, after 27 days; peśī, 37; ghana, 47; praśākha, 57 days when form and organs are all complete. (4) Certain combinations of the 八卦 Eight Diagrams are sometimes styled 五位君臣 five positions of prince and minister.
The ten stages, or periods, in bodhisattva-wisdom, prajñā 般若, are the 十住; the merits or character attained are the 十地 q.v. Two interpretations may be given. In the first of these, the first four stages are likened to entry into the holy womb, the next four to the period of gestation, the ninth to birth, and the tenth to the washing or baptism with the water of wisdom, e.g. the baptism of a Kṣatriya prince. The ten stages are (1) 發心住 the purposive stage, the mind set upon Buddhahood; (2) 治地住 clear understanding and mental control; (3) 修行住 unhampered liberty in every direction; (4) 生貴住 acquiring the Tathāgata nature or seed; (5) 方便具足住 perfect adaptability and resemblance in self-development and development of others; (6) 正心住 the whole mind becoming Buddha-like; (7) 不退住 no retrogression, perfect unity and constant progress; (8) 童眞住 as a Buddha-son now complete; (9) 法王子住 as prince of the law; (10) 灌頂住 baptism as such, e.g. the consecration of kings. Another interpretation of the above is: (1) spiritual resolve, stage of śrota-āpanna; (2) submission to rule, preparation for Sakṛdāgāmin stage; (3) cultivation of virtue, attainment of Sakṛdāgāmin stage; (4) noble birth, preparation for the anāgāmin stage; (5) perfect means, attainment of anāgāmin stage; (6) right mind, preparation for arhatship; (7) no-retrogradation, the attainment of arhatship; (8) immortal youth, pratyekabuddhahood; (9) son of the law-king, the conception of bodhisattvahood; (10) baptism as the summit of attainment, the conception of Buddhahood.
The complete in faculties from command-keepers come.
khan. A Turkish term for 'prince'.
A king, prince, i. e. one who has attained to his present high estate consequent on keeping all the ten commandments in a previous incarnation; and being protected by devas 天, he is called 天子 deva son, or Son of Heaven.
sudana, 須達拏, 須大拏, 蘇達拏 ; i.e. Sakyamuni as a prince in a former life, when he forfeited the throne by his generosity.
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I recently made the decision to deactivate my Facebook account. I sent the following email to all of the family and friends whose contact information I have on file.
I've been thinking about leaving Facebook for a while and for a number of reasons. I'm not using it in a way that is productive. I find that I spend hours and hours going through photographs and pages of people I hardly know, becoming overwhelmed with emotions including regret, jealously, remorse, and sadness. I wonder if I'm living up to my potential, if I'm supposed to be engaged, or working a different job, calling into question my own happiness and very existence. I know, right? Facebook was making me have a partial identity crisis in addition to being a giant waste-of-time.
Good for you! I especially liked your line about reaching out and and taking the time to have conversations. I left Facebook a couple months ago and I have not regretted the decision.


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Stephen M. Khan  (born 1966 or 1967) is a Canadian politician who was an elected member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the electoral district of St. Albert. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative caucus. He was minister responsible for Service Alberta in the cabinet of Jim Prentice.

He was defeated by Marie Renaud of the New Democrats in the 2015 Alberta general election.

He later joined the Alberta Party.

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William J. Martinez, United States District Judge.
Before the Court is Plaintiffs' Objections to Magistrate Judge's Order Denying Motions to Restrict and for Sanctions ("Objection"). (ECF No. 245.) The Objection refers to United States Magistrate Judge Gordon P. Gallagher's August 14, 2017 order. (ECF No. 238 (filed under Level 1 Restricted Access).) Defendants filed no response.
For the reasons set forth below the Court sustains Plaintiffs' Objection in most respects. However, the Court defers consideration of sanctions to a later stage of the case.
When reviewing an objection to a magistrate judge's non-dispositive ruling, the Court must affirm the ruling unless it finds that the ruling is "clearly erroneous or contrary to law." Fed.R.Civ.P. 72(a); 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(A); Ariza v. U.S. West Commc'ns, Inc., 167 F.R.D. 131, 133 (D. Colo. 1996). The clearly erroneous standard "requires that the reviewing court affirm unless it on the entire evidence is left with the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed." Ocelot Oil Corp. v. Sparrow Indus., 847 F.2d 1458, 1464 (10th Cir. 1988) (internal quotation marks omitted). The "contrary to law" standard permits "plenary review as to matters of law, " see 12 Charles Alan Wright et al., Federal Practice & Procedure § 3069 (2d ed., Apr. 2016 update), but the Court will set aside a magistrate judge's order only if it applied the wrong legal standard or applied the appropriate legal standard incorrectly, see Wyoming v. U.S. Dep't of Agric., 239 F.Supp.2d 1219, 1236 (D. Wyo. 2002). In short, "[b]ecause a magistrate judge is afforded broad discretion in the resolution of non-dispositive . . . disputes, the court will overrule the magistrate judge's determination only if his discretion is abused." Ariza, 167 F.R.D. at 133.


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Florida Mom Charged With Child Abuse | NOT IN MY WORLD!!!!
A Florida mother is facing aggravated child abuse charges after her 18-month-old boy was taken to a hospital with burn marks and bite marks all over his body.
Naomie Paul, 25, was arrested Thursday, Local 10 reported.
La-Darris Smart, the child's biological father, told the news station that he suspects the boy has been abused. He said his son was in the intensive care unit at Plantation General Hospital with fever blisters in his mouth, burn marks on his head and buttocks, and bite marks on his stomach.
According to a police report, the boy would not sit still while Paul tried cleaning his ears with a Q-tip. The infant's injuries were classified as "intentional inflicted harm" by medical professionals, the report stated.
During the mother's court appearance Friday, Broward Judge John "Jay" Hurley set her bond at $1,500 and ordered her not to have any contact with the child until further notice, the Sun Sentinel reports.
Sammie Lee Worthy, Paul's current boyfriend, was also arrested Thursday on a warrant for outstanding traffic violations, Local 10 reported.
"I didn't want (the boy) around her boyfriend because he's been to, like, jail (previously) for something like this," Smart said.


We are pleased to bring the following programs to your community! This calendar shows all Knucklebones' classes that are open to the public. For more information on a specific class please click for details. If you do not see an event in your town please contact us and we will work with you to set one up.


James Delingpole is to join the late Andrew Breitbart's Breitbart.com.
Mr Steerpike hears that the pastures new are the launch of a London office of right-wing muck-racking website Breitbart. Set up by the late, but always missed, troublemaker Andrew Breitbart, the American conservative website is set to launch over here imminently.
It's a high traffic hire. Along with Buzzfeed UK, it seems our American cousins have accepted that London really is the capital of the world.


Home sellers have the upper hand in today's market, and higher prices aren't all they're commanding. Buyers are forced to make increasing sacrifices in hopes of landing a new home.
Here are some common things buyers today can expect to encounter, or hoops they might have to jump through.
It's not unheard of for a seller to put home security cameras to use during an open house, and a good number of Americans think it's perfectly fine. A recent NerdWallet survey, conducted online by The Harris Poll, found that 90% of Americans think it would be helpful for a home seller to put up such cameras for buyer showings. And more than one-fourth (26%) say such footage would be helpful to get a better idea of who the home buyers are prior to accepting an offer.
Depending on how the footage is used, it could teeter on discrimination. But 36% say it'd be helpful just to get feedback on the home.
Earnest money is a sum buyers put up as a show of good faith — if they walk away from the sale for reasons that aren't spelled out in the contract, that money goes to the seller. In a seller's market, the amount sellers ask for can trend higher, requiring potential home buyers to dig deeper into their pockets.
Personalized offer letters are common, in which buyers tell the current homeowner why their offer should be considered above all others. Some such letters include family photos and other details that scream, "Like me!" Money talks, but likeability could make one offer stand out.
Traditional buyers, with a lender's preapproval letter in hand, might be competing today with more all-cash buyers. The historic average rate of all-cash buyers is 10%, according to Freddie Mac. This rate peaked at 35% during the housing crisis. In 2017, it fell to 21%, according to the National Association of Realtors. Though no longer dramatically high, buyers now are far more likely to compete with investors and other cash buyers than they were before the crisis.
An offer that isn't contingent on the positive outcomes of a home inspection or appraisal, or on the sale of a buyer's current home, may be more attractive to sellers. These contingencies are typically written into contracts to protect buyers' interests, but leaving out the protections could entice sellers who want a smooth transaction.
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We are pleased to announce that tickets are now onsale for our Full-Time College showcase which is being held at the Shaw Theatre, Kings Cross on the 28th and 29th June at 7:30pm. The showcase features music from In The Heights, The Bodyguard, Waitress, Jekyll and Hyde, Grease 2, Avenue Q as well as some great current pop music.
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Much like The Tin Man, this little book is a compilation of poems which is an excellent healing tool for survivors of sexual abuse. The pieces therein profoundly express the emotions that came straight from Otten's own personal experiences. In Brides of Christ, as in all of Otten's works, she points the reader to Jesus Christ as the Healer, Redeemer and main resource for overcoming the effects of sexual abuse. The survivor who reads this book is sure to find affirmation, comfort, and inspiration.


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CLASSIC U-SHAPE DESIGN FOR MAXIMUM CARGO CAPACITY. Flip it out with the tailgate open to gain up to 2-feet of enclosed cargo area. Flip it inside and close the tailgate to keep tools and smaller cargo contained in the truck Bed.


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The city slapped a lien on the McCurdy building, alleging it continues to discharge water from its geothermal heating-cooling system into city sewers.
EVANSVILLE, Ind. — The City of Evansville has slapped a nearly $1.5 million lien on the McCurdy building saying the historic property continues to discharge water from its geothermal heating-cooling system into city sewers without paying.
As of December, the unpaid bill was $750,000, city officials said at the time.
"We obviously filed the lien because we hadn't been paid for services provided," said Marco DeLucio, a city government attorney. "The amount of the lien is, we think, accurate."
The Kunkel Group will try to reach a settlement with the city.
Evansville's sewers, which carry sanitary sewage and stormwater, are prone to overflowing into the Ohio River when periods of heavy rain overwhelm the utility's infrastructure and treatment plant.
Evansville is under a consent decree with the federal government to separate its sanitary and storm sewers and upgrade its facilities. The Water & Sewer Utility has several ongoing projects, which are to be funded by ratepayers over several years.
The Kunkel Group has said a spring used to cool heat exchangers in the McCurdy's geothermal system is natural and does not require treatment.
Lockyear pointed to Kunkel's years-long effort to redevelop the McCurdy.
DeLucio said he's hopeful the city and Kunkel will be able to reach a settlement, preventing litigation.
"All of the water coming into the system gets treated no matter where it comes from," DeLucio said. "The system isn't able to differentiate clean water from dirty water."


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The Autumn Excursion.
A MEETING of the Society was arranged for the afternoon of October 4th, 1916, at the Church of St. Mary, Nottingham, by kind permission of the Vicar, Canon Field. The Rev. A. Du Boulay Hill, with the help of Rev. A. M. Y. Baylay, undertook the task of preparing an account which was read in the Church. This is supplemented by a paper on some architectural details by Mr. Harry Gill, and by notes on the Regimental Colours preserved in the Church.
THE CHURCH OF ST. MARY THE VIRGIN, NOTTINGHAM.
By The Rev. A. Du Boulay Hill, M.A"
October 4th, 1916.
The fine church of St. Mary the Virgin, in which we are assembled, stands before us as the shell of a typical town parish church of the last quarter of the 15th century, for it can hardly have been fully completed until that period. The imagination must picture it with its great rood or crucifix, standing upon a loft over a screen across the western tower-arch and extending to the turret stairways on either side; another screen, or pulpitum, across the eastern tower-arch enclosing the chancel; its transepts divided by screens into various chapels for the gilds which played such an important part in the religious life of those times, with tombs of worthy citizens erected alongside of the altars in the chapels they had endowed or to which they gave special devotion; its windows glowing with the heraldic record of the armorials of its benefactors.
All this internal equipment has passed away, and the work of the antiquary is to trace the steps by which the church reached its present condition, a task which presents many problems difficult to solve in the absence of documentary evidence.
We know little or nothing of the building, or succession of buildings, which previously occupied the site of the present church. One Nottingham church only is mentioned in the Domesday Survey. The great Cluniac Priory of Lenton, founded twenty years later, dominated the ecclesiastical life of Nottingham, and all the three ancient parish churches are included in its charter of endowments; St. Peter's and St. Nicholas' being in the patronage of the Priory but not impropriated. The founder of the Priory, William Peveril, gave to the Prior and Convent "the Church of St. Mary in the English borough with all its appurtenances" in 1108; but there is no direct evidence that the Priory exercised the rights of patronage at first; perhaps Papal claims interfered. In 1234, Gregory IX commissioned "the abbot and prior of Stanlaw in the Diocese of Coventry to induct the prior and convent of Lenton into corporal possession of the Church of St. Mary, Nottingham, granted to them by the Pope on resignation of his nephew Nicholas, subdeacon and Chaplain, a Vicar's portion being reserved."1 From this time the prior and convent of Lenton exercised their right of presentation to the Vicarage, until the dissolution of the Priory, when it passed into lay hands.
Late Norman capitals.
The church was damaged or destroyed by fire on three occasions: 1140, 1153, and 1174, in the troubled days of Stephen and Henry II.; and evidence of an aisled church, built about 1175, was afforded by the discovery of two late Norman capitals, found and buried again in the rebuilding of the tower piers in 1843. Sketches of these capitals, made by Sir Charles Robinson at the time, were given in "Notts, and Derby Notes and Queries," 1894. By the kindness of the editor I am enabled to reproduce them here. Some fragments of an early 14th century column with filleted mouldings, now visible by removing a section of the flooring beneath a pier of the north arcade (second from the crossing) indicate some rebuilding of that date, but give no evidence of the size or position of the church of that period, as they are not in situ. Several floor stones with incised crosses of this and earlier dates may be seen forming the bench-table along the walls of the aisles.
We now come to the building of the present edifice, the story of which, in the absence of historical records, is mainly to be gathered from the evidence of the stones themselves. The religious revival which followed the terrible visitation of the "Black Death" in 1349, no doubt stirred the parishioners of St. Mary's, and made them feel that their church was too small and inadequate. The gild of All Saints was founded before 1375, and the gild of Holy Trinity in 1395, which perhaps gave the impetus to the renewal of the church. A great scheme for a new and larger building was set on foot, supported probably by the families of Tannesley, Samon, Plumtree, and Alestre, merchants of Nottingham, by Thomas de Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury, formerly of York, and Lord Chancellor, the Nevills, and perhaps King Richard II. himself, if we may judge by Thoroton's account of heraldic glass existing in his time.2 In 1401 the work was in progress, as shown by the following grant from Pope Boniface IX.3 "An Indulgence during ten years to penitents who on Sunday next before the Annunciation and the Sunday next after Corpus Christi visit and give alms for the fabric or conservation and repair of the parish church of St. Mary the Virgin Nottingham in the Diocese of York which has been newly begun with solemn wondrous and manifold sumptuous work, towards the consummation of which a multitude of workmen with assiduous toil fervently strive daily. All the oblations are to be converted to the utility of the said church."
This document obviously quotes the language of a petition which came directly from Nottingham. The work had been begun before August, 1401, and was in need of funds.
What was the "sumptuous work" which was then in progress? It is quite probable that the foundations of the new building were set out as far as possible entirely outside the old church. The transept ends, with the two turret stairways, the walls of the north and south aisles, and the west end extending 35ft. beyond the old church, were begun and carried up at least to the level of the window-cills. It is evident that in this case means of access to the existing church within must be provided, which should correspond to the position of the original entrances. There was therefore a good reason for the completion of the south porch which we see to-day as one of the earliest parts of the new work, perhaps from the benefaction of John Samon. His tomb, constructed at the same time, at the end of the south transept which we shall notice hereafter, exactly corresponds with the work of the porch. The west front has a central porch with similar foliated arch and panelled gable. This is of course entirely modern, but it reproduces the appearance shown in Thoroton's view of St. Mary's in 1667, giving the west porch as part of the undoubted scheme of the whole church.
Since the old nave was so much shorter, it may also have been narrower than the new one; but it is of course possible that the north and south aisle walls were rebuilt on the line of the old foundations and not outside them, in which case the porch would be actually on the site of the old one, and the former church would be of the same width as the present. This is somewhat corroborated by a difference to be noted externally on the north side between the two western and the four eastern bays; the windows of the former having a roll-mould continued down between each pair of windows. This is absent from the four eastern bays, which were probably the last to be erected. In any case the position of the south porch is clear evidence that the church was lengthened considerably to the westward. (See the Plan, page 52).
Nave and north transept.
I think the work was interrupted before it had gone very far. Perhaps the funds were not sufficient, and the builders hesitated before clearing away the old church in which the services had been all along continuously maintained. It was not until the latter part of the 15th century that the arcades, clerestory, and central tower could have been begun and carried up from the ground, and the whole church brought at last to completion in all its parts.
The piers of the arcades, lozenge-shaped in plan, with the shorter diameter between the arches, and shallow arch-moulds carried down without capitals, suggest a date of about 1470-80, and cannot be ascribed to any time much earlier than that period. The pier section is reproduced in miniature in the central mullion of the aisle-windows in each bay, and the sunk chamfer moulding is characteristic of the whole of the nave and transepts above the window cills.
The central tower belongs to the same late 15th century date. It was intended to be vaulted in stone at the crossing, as shown by springers at the angles. Settlements in the tower-piers, however, towards the west, south, and north, soon began, and the slender arcade of the nave afforded no sufficient abutment for the weight of the tower. In consequence the transept walls have become curiously distorted, and the ends of both transepts and nave were thrust outwards, so as to require much rebuilding in later years. The first part to give way would be the vaulting of the crossing, which, by its fall, probably gave rise to the legend of the collapse of the tower in the storm in 1558. The present vaulting in wood was erected in 1812 by Mr. W. Stretton.
(1) Papal Letters, Vol. 1., page 140.
(2) See a paper by Thomas Close, F.S.A., Allen's handbook of Nottingham, 1866
(3) Papal Letters, Vol. V., page 443. 1401 Kal. Aug.
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New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2016 / SIGNED AND INSCRIBED (TO Sarah) BY JOHN CURRIN on title page. Quarto, 126 pages. ISBN: 0847849864. Text by James Lawrence. Further images upon request. Velvety back cover somewhat scuffed, else Fine.
Paris: Chaval d'attaque, 1981, softcover, ISBN 2-86200-01705. Inscribed in French to the American sculptor Mark di Suvero in 1989. Some of the tipped-in plates are a little wavy from age. Very Good all around, if slightly cocked; a few small marks to covers.
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NY: Alicat Press, 1946. First Edition, first state. The suppressed original cover showing Nin in full male dress. Franklin says: "She had authorized the use of the head only, and when the three-quarter photograph of her in men's clothing appeared there were distasteful repercussions. Miss Nin asked to have the photograph replaced, and a new white cover was issued bearing a different picture of her." Glossy staple-bound 8vo,21 pages, some spotting to rear, otherwise very nice.
Very good in white pictorial stiff wrappers, some sunning to spine and mild rubbing to cover's edges. 151 pages.
Published on the occasion of Dan Torop: Frozen Period, June-Sept 2014. Texts by the artist as well as Nicholas Frank, Meriwether Lewis and Polly Morris, with all images by the photographer.
7" x 37" / from an exhibition in May-June 2002 at Gagosian Beverly Hills/ Depicted is a detail of "African Masks", 1984-85, 84" x 420" / Poster rolled in plastic mailer tube to which is affixed the mailing address of a well known art historian. Images depict four consecutive photos of the image.
Square 8vo softcover published by Walther König, Köln / John Weber, New York / Edizione Mario Pieroni, Roma 1990. Photographed by Carol Huebner using nine light sources and all their combinations.
OUT OF PRINT. Quarto in think photographic wraps, SIGNED and dated 2016 on title page by the artist /Texts by Jordan Kantor and Sabine Russ. Artist's first monograph. Gorgeous.
Zabrozas (2016) / Third Edition / 226 pages, color illustrations.
The story of YAKUZA is a personal visual account of the life inside an inaccessible subculture: a traditional Japanese crime family that controls the streets of Kabukicho, in the heart of Tokyo, Japan. Through 10 months of negotiations with the Shinseikai, my brother Malik and I became one of the only westerners ever to be granted this kind of access to the closed world of Japanese organised crime. I share their complex relationship to Japanese society, and show the personal struggle of being forced to live in two different worlds at the same time; worlds that often have conflicting morals and values. It turns out not to be a simple 'black' versus 'white' relationship, but most definitely one with many shades of grey.
Curator, writer and dealer Seth Siegelaub (1941–2013) is legendary for his promotion of Conceptual art in New York in the 1960s and '70s. Acknowledging the unusual scope and essentially unclassifiable nature of his manifold interests and activities, this volume shows how Siegelaub's projects and collections are underpinned by a deeper concern with printed matter and lists as ways of disseminating ideas. The book's chapters explore the various facets of and connections in Siegelaub's work, from his groundbreaking projects with Conceptual artists and his research and publications on mass media and communications theories to his interest in handwoven textiles and non-Western fabrics. It also highlights his collecting activity, which culminates in a unique ensemble of books on the social history of textiles and a textile collection comprising over 750 items from around the world.
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This copy SIGNED by the artist on title page thus: - carl andre. 88 pp. VG small quarto softcover, corners faintly curled.
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Medagliani, Eugenio / Gosetti, Fernanda ( Ed. ) Peter Kubelka, et al.
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Folded Invitation 1970 Howard Wise Exhibition. Ephemera.
7" x 10" folded announcement/invitation for the exhibition "FROM PIGMENT TO LIGHT" at Howard Wise gallery, New york. Text by Nan R. Piene. Image on rear is self-portrait photogram (Mondgesicht.) Very good with some rubbing to edges. Scarce.


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Q: How can I search words starting with capital letter and small letter using preg_grep command...? I am making a search criterion where it should search for inputted value (at least partial search).
An example is given below.
It searches only for words starting with EXACT match . But I want to make it to search for both caps and smalls...
$rr="In";
$matched_list =array('India','Pakistan','Ausis');
$m=preg_grep('/'.$rr.'/', $matched_list);
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It searches only for "India" and not for "india"....!!!!
What to do to make it to search for "india" also...?????/
Thanks in advance..

A: Very easy, just add a i (for case insensitive) after the closing /:
$m=preg_grep('/'.$rr.'/i', $matched_list);

Also, as a minor note. Your expression "In" would also match on "China" and others having the match somewhere in between. If this isn't intended, you'll have to tell it to look at the beginning only:
$rr="^In"; // ^ will match the beginning of the string or a line (depending on the settings)

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To: John Vosilla who wrote (2692) 1/4/2020 12:38:41 PM
From: renovator
No, I think they just ran into a lot more issues than initially expected. I handled a couple of claims earlier in the reconstruction process.
My wife worked in that building for several years as a legal secretary for Kaye Scholer LLP before a major downsizing purge when they reorganized a lot of low producing partners out and shipped a lot of back office work to Florida. That firm is now Arnold & Porter and has relocated to the West side.
Meanwhile at 425 Park the building rebuild was complicated by new/old height allowance rules--very arcane in NYC--which dictated that when they demo'ed the existing building the lower 18 floors had to stay in order to allow all the new floors above to be added. However, the existing superstructure would not accommodate the load from the new added floors so there was a 5 floor deep excavation and installation of new interior superstructure sistered to the existing and then all the way up for the new floors. In addition, I suspect they had some approval issues with the three fin arrangement on top, which I think was not part of the original approved design.
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To: renovator who wrote (2693) 1/6/2020 11:27:20 AM
From: John Vosilla
Thanks for explaining. Imagine the cost overruns will be substantial. Perhaps also building department is so overwhelmed these days with all the new construction going on? I know I'm doing a simple garage conversion to living space taking way too long.. Always issues pop up..delay, delay, delay
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From: renovator 1/18/2020 3:45:26 PM
Current example of the pressure for yield on the RE market.
This is a property I was just at for a claim--severe vandalism for pipe value--
zillow.com
The broker and I were talking about the market and he noted that this multifamily was about to close for a bit over $700,000 in cash and that he had received 63 offers upon listing it. Keep in mind that it will need no less than $150-200k in gut renovation before being rentable for an estimated $5,000-$5,500 monthly rent roll. All in all the buyer should yield around 6-7% on the investment without consideration for depreciation or appreciation.
This sort of property is very hot around the NYC metro region these days.
To: renovator who wrote (2695) 1/21/2020 8:38:32 PM
Tightening market that neighborhood. I calculated about 5 months inventory. Pending's about 1/3 of all listings..
From: John Vosilla 1/21/2020 8:39:38 PM
The Washington Post. "Millennials' share of the U.S. housing market: small and shrinking. Because homeownership is the chief builder of wealth, the trend is 'bad news for the economy overall.' In 1990, baby boomers, whose median age was 35, owned nearly one-third of American real estate by value. In 2019, the millennial generation, with a median age of 31, owned just 4 percent. They're not likely to reach 30 percent of the housing market — or even the 20 percent attained by the smaller Generation X at the same point in their lives."
"Because homeownership is the chief builder of wealth for middle class families, if this trend continues 'we're looking at a generation that will have lower lifetime wealth,' said Jenny Schuetz, a housing policy expert at the Brookings Institution. In many of America's most desirable cities, the median price of a home is well beyond the reach of a typical salary. For the past several decades, developers in major metro areas like New York City have built a glut of luxury condos while ignoring the needs of the middle class."
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From: renovator 5/11/2020 12:29:19 PM
Here is some insight from the clouds above nyc:
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To: renovator who wrote (2698) 2/7/2021 4:55:29 PM
Are we trapped in another housing bubble? A rapid rise in home prices has some experts worried
Home prices are rising coast to coast and are outstripping wages and rents. Some say it's another housing bubble. But it's nothing like the mid 2000s.
In the midst of a raging COVID-19 pandemic, with millions of Americans still out of work and facing the possibility of eviction and foreclosure, the United States is experiencing a real estate boom the likes of which it hasn't seen in 15 years.
Home prices are rising practically everywhere. From Augusta, Maine, to Phoenix and from Sarasota, Florida, to Aberdeen, Washington, prices are up by double digits.
Driven by historically low interest rates that make borrowing cheap and waves of people fleeing densely populated cities because of COVID-19, home buying has become as competitive as it was during the boom years of the mid-2000s.
To: John Vosilla who wrote (2699) 2/7/2021 5:30:31 PM
WA scrambles to avoid mass evictions as moratorium nears end
Tenants and landlords both favor more rent assistance, but some want lawmakers to go further.
For every month since evictions were banned in Washington last March, tenants in the state accrued somewhere around $100 million in owed rent. By that estimate — which comes from the state Department of Commerce — renters here could now be over $1 billion in debt, a sum that grows each week.
Even as that number swells, the end to the state's eviction moratorium is coming into view. After Gov. Jay Inslee extended the moratorium multiple times, most lawmakers, lobbyists and advocates expect March 31 will mark its true end — at least at the state level. Then the question of what will happen to renters without the moratorium's blunt relief will go from hypothetical to very much real.
Arianna Laureano knows the weight of that burden well. Had it not been for the protections from state and local governments, she's sure that she and her roommate would have lost their apartment in Seattle's University District. Laureano has been homeless before and the fear of losing her stable place to sleep was a "catastrophic feeling."
"I see what's coming because I've lived it," Laureano said. "I'm terrified for every single Washington renter."
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Pandemic Wipes Out Landlord's Living
After taxes, utilities, repairs, and tens of thousands of dollars lost through unpaid rent amid the Covid-19 pandemic, landlord Galina Zalman said she made a total of $2,552 in 2020 — sending her to a food pantry as she struggles to keep three local rental properties afloat.
Zalman, who is 72 years old, and her husband Andrey live on the ground floor of a two-family house that they own at 33 Hazel St. in Newhallville.
In a housing market increasingly dominated by mega-landlords and their associated property management companies, the two Russian-born Brooklyn transplants are a rare breed: Owner-occupants and small-time landlords whose sole source of income is local real estate.
During an interview outside of her Newhallville home, Zalman told the Independent that 2020 made being a small-time rental property owner in New Haven nearly impossible.
Several of her tenants simply stopped paying rent as the Covid-19 pandemic took its economic toll, she said. One tenant who was behind on rent passed away. Another who was behind on rent is now in jail. A few of her remaining tenants have not paid in full or at all in months.
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By rights, I should change my SI moniker, as I am a former renovator, I switched careers 14 years ago, to property claims adjuster. The bulk of my claims are in the NYC tri-state area except whenever I go out for an extended storm event.
I can confirm that landlords, small and large, are getting killed in the area. I have had numerous claims in large full floor office spaces where I was the only one in 3200-4000 sq ft surveying damage. The building managers tell me they are technically at close to full occupancy but that very little use is being made of the spaces and even less rent is being paid. As commercial leases end they are not being renewed and there is now a vast overflow of available commercial sub-let space in NYC. However, that is not exactly the case in the suburbs. I just had a claim the other day in a close-in suburban city with a landlord who owns many small retail buildings, some on commercial avenues and others small strip mall locations. He said they have been very successful re-leasing quickly after business blow up since Covid. Restaurants being the exception, but his firm has been reworking those spaces for straight retail or light office professional space.
On the other hand, even in the suburbs, the small residential rental claims I have are a very different story. I have had lots of claims where there is significant deferred maintenance and extensive back rent. Nobody knows when these will be subject to evictions, but it appears absolute that there will be a brutal slash and burn event whenever the protections cease. If that gets pushed out too far there will be a ton of small landlord foreclosures.
An unfortunate part of my work lately is the number of folks who have cut way back on policies or have let them lapse.
To John's point about a bubble--I have been seriously looking to leave NYC anyway, and particularly lately. I have thoroughly researched several markets within 1-1 1/2 hours of NYC, as my work is much more profitable here, in spite of traffic, parking, and every other NYC annoyance--bike lanes! Residential property in North Jersey, Rockland and Orange counties in NY has been extremely active and up a solid 25% across the board in the past year. Very quick market. I have lots of family up around Rochester, NY, where I grew up, and occasionally look that market over and it is similar with lower price points, but extremely active. My niece, a very well paid RN, has been shut out of several properties the first day of the listing by over-ask offers there.
To make matters worse, my wife hails from Austin, TX, and we have considered making that move several times over the years, put off by the serious cut-back in income we foresaw. That city has been on a wild run and standard ranch homes I considered in South Austin 10 years ago went from $200's then to $300's couple of years back and are now pushing $400's. The crappy ones are now close to $300k. Sheesh!
I see smaller, but still significant, changes in markets like Wilmington NC, where I got to know it well after Hurricane Florence in 2018 and note a significant rise in prices since then.


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US Rebalancing to the Asia-Pacific: Implications for West Asia
Gulshan Dietl
Professor Gulshan Dietl is an ICSSR Senior Fellow affiliated to the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA). Click here for more details.
States adopt postures and pursue policies in response to the global situation. As the global situation evolves, so do the strategic choices of the states. During the Cold War, the United States was completely focussed on the Soviet Union and constantly striving to contain – and if possible, to roll back - the Soviet presence from the Third World. The best and the brightest in the American academia studied the Soviet Union and the Kremlinologists occupied the best births among policy wonks.
The decline of Marxism and the disintegration of the Soviet Union changed all that. The ideologues of Marxism shifted their sights to the new ideology of Islam. Initially, the emergence of independent states in Central Asia and the Caucasus received its share of international attention. The US interest in the large quantities of oil and gas and US concerns over nuclear proliferation and re-emergence of Islam dominated its foreign policy calculus. Very soon thereafter, West Asia acquired the status of the most crucial region. After the nine-eleven, the "Global War on Terrorism" led the US into long-drawn-out wars on Afghanistan and Iraq. In the process its military reach extended and deepened throughout West Asia and beyond.
It is China that now occupies the epicentre of US worldview. In 2011, the Obama administration made a series of pronouncements on a pivot to Asia-Pacific, identifying it as a priority region. The US would deploy greater naval assets, create new military capabilities and prepare to engage in a newly formulated "Air Sea Battle" in the region. The first demonstrative act of the pivot was the US-Japan announcement of the Dynamic Defence Force in October 2011 that would lead to a broadened military alliance.
A year after the initial pronouncements on pivot, the policy was rechristened "rebalancing". It down played the military aspects of the pivot, emphasized economic cooperation and called for closer engagement with China. A Trans-Pacific Partnership (TTP) between the US and some twelve states in the region would create a free trade area. Simultaneously, the US would enhance its economic assistance and deepen its diplomatic involvement. Consequently, the attitude to China has moved from tacit confrontation to cautious accommodation.
The twenty-first century is widely expected to be the Asian Century. The economic growth in Asia is expected to outpace the West by a wide margin. At the same time, the Asia-Pacific hosts a number of formidable problems - some long-standing and some of recent origin. The legal and political status of Taiwan is fraught with the potential of conflict. A defiant North Korea has acquired nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities. South China Sea has become a jumble of contesting territorial claims by China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia and Indonesia. The islands in the East China Sea are disputed among China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. The recent Chinese announcement of an Air Defence Identification Zone over the East China Sea and the unhindered exploratory flights of two American B-52 bombers right through it may yet lead to an ugly situation in future.
These issues are central to the US concerns and directly impinge on the US security in the long run. In the circumstances, Asia-Pacific has become a hotbed of competition; mainly between the US and China. The US needs to stand firm with its Allies in the face of an assertive Chinese foreign policy. It also needs to demonstrate that the decade-long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have not sapped its will to lead the world, and that its economic downturn would not diminish its commitment to its Allies.
An interesting aspect of the pivot/rebalancing is that it has had a very short gestation period. Consequently, it has led to a lot of questioning among the US allies and adversaries. A vigorous public debate about its implications and fallouts has ensued. A bipartisan group of the US Congress has written to the National Security Advisor Susan Rice to conduct a formal strategy review of the Administration's approach to the US global military posture. The Europeans are unsure of what the pivot might bring to them. The US has had to placate the European Allies. The US vice president Joe Biden has had to reassure the Europeans that the US is not leaving them. "Europe remains the cornerstone of our engagement with the rest of the world. That is a fact. We are not going anywhere." In the Asia-Pacific itself, the sceptics view it as a lot of rhetoric and many fear destabilization and destruction as happened in West Asia during US decade of "democratization" there.
In West Asia, Israel and the Arab states in the Gulf are equally worried. The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is still insistent on the US strikes on Iran. Amitai Etzioni, an Israeli-American Sociologist at the George Washington University, argues that the pivot is premature. According to him, it will take decades before China's People's Liberation Army will be in a position to threaten the super power status of the US. In the meanwhile, turning away from West Asia where a number of urgent challenges remain, including the Syrian civil war, the ongoing struggle with the Taliban and al-Qaeda, and Iran's nuclear programme would undermine the US interests and needlessly antagonise China.
On the other end of the spectrum, there are diametrically opposite prescriptions from within the US think tanks calling for quietly downgrading involvement in the sorry mess of West Asia as the problems there can at best be managed, but never solved.
There is palpable fear among the Syrian rebels and their supporters inside the US establishment about the US distraction from West Asia. Senator John McCain, a leading Republican Senator and an advocate of greater US support to the Syrian rebels, threatened to hold up General Michael Dempsey's confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee as the Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff on the issue of US commitment to Syria.
The US administration has sought to assuage the West Asian feelings that the ties with Asia-Pacific would not be at the expense of West Asia. The US Central Command has rolled out staggering statistics of US military presence deployed there: 125,000 American troops around Iran including 90,000 in and around Afghanistan, 20,000 in West Asia and 15,000 to 20,000 serving on warships. The Secretary of Defence Chuck Hagel has pronounced the US ties to the region as unbreakable, but that they needed to be "renewed and reinvigorated after a decade of war." At the same time, however, he has had to defend the US commitment to prioritize its posture, activity and investment in Asia-Pacific leaving the people in Europe, West Asia and Asia-Pacific thoroughly confused.
The situation on the ground, in the circumstances, remains a better guide to assess whether the US is retreating from West Asia. The US forces have withdrawn from Iraq and are in the process of withdrawing from Afghanistan. The US chose to lead from behind on the Libyan "Spring". It refused to accept the French-Turkish proposal to set up a "No Fly Zone" in Syria and opted to work through the "Friends of Syria" instead. As of now, it has chosen to step back from a confrontation with Syria. And finally, it has signed an interim nuclear deal with Iran indicating its preference to work through multi-lateral diplomatic channel.
There are two factors that have facilitated the direction of perceptible US retreat from West Asia. One, the production of shale oil and gas has largely diminished US dependence on the imported energy from West Asia. In fact, the country may in future become an energy exporter. Two, the US economic turndown has put severe limitations on its power projection worldwide. The US federal government shutdown for over two weeks over budget allocations has rung alarm bells worldwide. The fact that President Obama had to call off his week-long visit to Asia to attend the APEC and ASEAN summits has raised serious questions regarding the US security assurances and economic contribution to Asia-Pacific as also to West Asia.
The soothing sounds to the European and West Asian Allies, in the circumstances, remain just sounds. A greater attention to Asia-Pacific would necessarily translate into that much lesser attention everywhere else. Asia-Pacific is bound to remain at the top of the US foreign policy agenda – till the international situation warrants a relook. In coming years, the US global posture may set less ambitious goals and allocate fewer resources to pursue them.
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Chipotle changes: Is this what post-pandemic restaurants might look like?
Chipotle has introduced its first-ever digital-only restaurant called the Chipotle Digital Kitchen. The new restaurant is located just outside the gates to the military academy in Highland Falls, NY and will open on Saturday, November 14 for pick-up and delivery only. (from Chipotle)
(NEXSTAR) — Chipotle is opening what it's calling a "digital-only" restaurant to reflect changes brought about by the coronavirus pandemic.
The company says about half of its sales came through its website and app in the third quarter, so this new-concept store will reflect that major business shift.
The restaurant won't have a dining room and employees won't take orders. Instead, customers will order through an app and pick it up — or meals will be given to drivers to make deliveries.
Rather than traditional tables where people can eat, there will be a center table for people waiting on orders.
With the Mexican Pizza officially gone, Taco Bell brings back a favorite
"With digital sales tripling year over year last quarter, consumers are demanding more digital access than ever before so we're constantly exploring new ways to enhance the experience for our guests," Curt Garner, Chipotle's chief technology officer, said in a news release.
The first of these new-concept stores will open in Highland Falls, New York and cater to cadets at the West Point military academy.
The design and business model mirror a similar process used at a Starbucks location in New York City.
Billionaire Mark Cuban, who is a regular on the show "Shark Tank," believes now is the time for businesses to rethink their workflows specifically citing the restaurant industry.
"If people aren't going back to downtown anymore, the whole ecology of coffee shops, diners — those businesses are really going to struggle," Cuban said during a CB Insights' virtual Technology Conference earlier this year. "Sustaining a business and trying to retain legacy revenue streams are going to be more difficult for physical businesses, but there will be equivalent opportunities to create new businesses that aren't held back by ways of the past."
Need more spice in your life? This new Popeyes meal is for you
Cuban believes there's no better time to start a company than during a pandemic-like experience. He said larger businesses will have to deal with legacy issues — like modifying or adjustment space and layouts.
"Existing businesses are going to have to figure out how to continue on, while new businesses may recognize the difference," he added.
We've already seen some restaurants rework their drive-thrus to allow for additional cars and other restaurants embrace delivery.
Chipotle believes its digital-only store will also keep workers safer by limiting face-to-face interaction with customers.


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Can high-income couples have an uncontested divorce?
On behalf of The Law Offices of Abbott & Abbott, P.C. posted in Divorce on Tuesday, September 5, 2017.
Yes, high-income couples can have an uncontested divorce. In fact, many do, and their divorces can be finalized in a mere two or three months. Whether a divorce is contested or uncontested is unrelated to how much money the couple earns, but rather depends on whether they are able to agree on issues (for example, child custody and property division).


Fall semester will end soon. For high school juniors and seniors, you're one semester closer to college, and deadlines are mounting—but it's nothing you can't handle. Here are a few ideas—and a lot of abbreviations—to keep in mind.
Juniors If you took the PSAT/NMSQT this month, review your test scores with your counselor. Your score may make you eligible for the National Merit Scholarship Program. Sign up for SAT or ACT prep courses, and then determine the best test date for you. Taking the tests in spring gives you the advantage of having completed or nearly completed your junior year coursework. Go to collegeboard.org for SAT registration, practice tests, and dates. For ACT information, see www.act.org.
Plan college tours to narrow your options. Find teachers who will be willing to write your recommendation letters—it will be easier to write about students they've known all year. If enrolled in Advanced Placement Program courses, take AP tests in May during your junior and senior years.
Seniors Submit the Federal Application for Free Student Aid (FAFSA), which is now available. Your state also may sponsor a College Goal Sunday or other financial aid event to offer FAFSA assistance.Visit fafsa.ed.gov.
Admissions Besides financial aid, it's time to apply for admission if you haven't already. Look at each school's individual application deadlines and be sure to apply before that date. Do your target schools use the Common Application? Check out the streamlined application process for multiple schools at commonapp.org.
Scholarships Don't forget scholarship applications, which have varying due dates.
The best course of action is to keep in contact with your school counselor to ensure you're on track.
If you qualify for the Regents' Scholarship Award and are the beneficiary of a UESP account, you may be eligible for a UESP Supplemental Award of up to $400. Annual contributions of at least $100 must be made to the account each year a student is 14, 15, 16, or 17—and the year is measured by birthday, not calendar year.
The UESP Supplemental Award will be added to the Regents' Scholarship, not the student's UESP account.
Questions? Visit regentsscholarship.org and my529.org.


John Cage accepted an invitation from Canadian artists to visit them at Emma Lake, Saskatchewan in 1965. My percussion ensemble was asked to play a concert of music that represented Cage's philosophies and might have influenced the artists at Emma Lake. Following are my two articles, the sources for them, the program of music and my program notes for that concert.
In 1935 the abstract film – maker Oscar Fischinger told Cage, "Every thing in the world has its own spirit. All we need to do to liberate that spirit is to brush past the object, and to draw forth its sound". According to Cage, that was the comment that led him to percussion. Now bereft of pitch, Cage structured his new compositions with rhythm and he took a fresh look at the remaining elements of music – amplitude, duration and timbre.
The discoveries made while working with percussion influenced all of Cage's later works. With the exception of his piano and prepared piano pieces, John Cage did not write a work for percussion instruments between 1943 and 1985, but as he explained, "I remain a composer of percussion because my music is always based on duration, timbre, sound and silence".
I've performed Cage's music for forty years, occasionally under his direction and I believe two ideals guided him. First, to free composers, performers and audiences from the inflexible rules of traditional music and second, to have them contemplate seriously the question, What is Music?
These ideals are exemplified by Cage's use of the Chinese Book of Changes to direct some of his compositional processes and his unswerving opinion that 4′ 33″ " the "silent" piece – was his best work. Book of Changes and 4′ 33″ made him famous " and infamous – ten years before Emma Lake.
No one but Cage and the participants at Emma Lake could speak definitively about things that influenced their art. Therefore, the repertoire for this concert was selected because it represents Cage's artistic ideals and that he was invited to Emma Lake because of those ideals and that the influence of those ideals would have been enhanced by Cage's presence.
The Western percussion ensemble began about seventy years ago and although John Cage did not invent it, "it was already in the air " he said, Cage was the first person to form an ensemble that rehearsed regularly. Its raison d'être was to explore through percussion, Cage's ideas about music. This ensemble and the music Cage wrote for it was the beginning of a new world for percussionists. The ensemble consisted of Cage and his friends bookbinders, dancers, and artists, whoever was available at the time. None of them were trained percussionists so they couldn't play rolls, a fundamental percussion technique for sustaining a sound with two sticks. Therefore Cage's music consisted of single strokes only, thus making it accessible to anyone with a fair degree of manual dexterity and an ability to read music. It is ironic that from this ensemble came the most important percussion music of the 20th century. Because Cage was financially strapped at the time, his instrumentations were affordable, small, and portable. Cage accepted the sound of anything as musical, as long as it was not a cliché. In Trio for Seven Wood Blocks, Not Chinese, Cage turned the negative – not Chinese – into a positive by condoning the use of any other blocks of wood whilst simultaneously suggesting a comprehensive exploration of wood sounds.Cage's music is about exploration. One cannot examine a score by Cage without reassessing one's musical craft and concepts. A percussionist's technique honed on instruments built for war with exercises developed centuries ago, are helpful in Cage's music, but not entirely necessary and anyway, his music is not a technical display for performers. It is music for virtuosos, but virtuosos of sound.John Cage understood the fact that percussion sounds were ambiguous, that no two instruments sound alike. Therefore, a successful performance depends upon the orchestration skills of the performers more than their technical abilities.
Cage took simple, tuneless instruments and with imagination and some elaboration, achieved for percussion an important independent position in western art music. Of course Cage was not alone. Berlioz, Ravel, Debussy, Stravinsky, Milhaud and Varèse also played important roles in our awakening, but Cage and Takemitsu, who wrote important works for percussion, say to us in a very special way, "Listen, to everything".
In my opinion, John Cage's percussion music and the ideas that shaped it helped transform percussionists from utilitarian time " keepers into artists. To be old enough to have known him and to have experienced that transformation is one of the most gratifying aspects of my musical career.
In 1972 there were three professional percussion ensembles in the western world, one each in Canada the United States and France. Today (2004) there are approximately forty worldwide.
Cage commissioned Carlos Chavez to write what became a classic of percussion ensemble repertoire, Toccata for Percussion. When the work arrived, Cage's ensemble could not play it because it relied heavily on rolls. Cage had to premiere the work with professional percussionists.
The information in the preceding texts is based on the author's conversations and experiences with John Cage and from the following publications.
> American Pioneers: Ives to Cage and Beyond, 20th Century Composers, Rich, Alan, Phaidon Press Ltd. London, 1995.
> A Year From Monday, New Lectures and Writings by John Cage, Wesleyan University Press, Connecticut, 1969.
> Conversations with Cage, Kostelanetz, Richard, Limelight Editions, New York, 1988.
> The Early Percussion Music of John Cage, 1935-1943, Williams, Barry Michael, Ph.D. Michigan State University, 1990.
> For The Birds, John Cage in Conversation with Daniel Charles, Marion Boyars Ltd., Salem, New Hampshire, 1981.
> John Cage Writer, Previously Uncollected Pieces, Kostelanetz, Richard, John Cage, Limelight Editions, 1993.
> Musicage, Cage Muses on Words, Art and Music, Retallack, Joan, Wesleyan University Press, 1996.
> The Music of John Cage, Pritchett, James, Cambridge University Press, 1993.
> Silence, lectures and writings by John Cage, The M.I.T. Press, Massachusetts, 1966.
A Demonstration of the I Ching or Book of Changes used to determine the structures of Child of Tree.
Program Notes for <Sound Tracks> See Hear!
I. > 0′ 00″ – John Cage visited Japan in 1962 at the invitation of composer Toshi Ichiyanagi, (1933-). While in Japan, Cage wrote 0′ 00″ and dedicated it to Ichiyanagi and his wife Yoko Ono. Unlike 4′ 33″, which involved one or more musicians who made no sound, 0′ 00″ stipulates an obligation towards others must be fulfilled, in a partial or complete manner, by a single person.
II. > Cage published Diary: Emma Lake Music Workshop 1965 in his book A Year From Monday (1969) and I think in relation to this art exhibit, his immediate daily impressions will be of interest.
III. > Some historians date Cage's debut as an experimental composer with Trio, (1936) although Quartet for Percussion, Instruments Unspecified written a year earlier would seem a more logical choice because Cage wrote that work for instruments he had not yet heard.
In 1943 Cage included Trio for Seven Wood Blocks, Not Chinese from Trio in Amores, a work for prepared piano and percussion. Amores is an important work because, as suggested by the title and stated by Cage, "it is the quietness between lovers"; an idea not often associated with Cage's music. Gentle and thoroughly unlike the powerful and mathematically conceived Constructions I, II, and III that preceded it, Amores is also the first concert work to include prepared piano, an instrument invented by Cage that 'released him from the sonic predictability of traditional notation'.
IV. > Cage said, "A Flower for Voice and Closed Piano (1950) is in the rhythmic structure of the dance by Louise Lippold for whom it was written. The dance being suggestive of Flora, an attempt was made to suggest Fauna".
V. > In 1951 the French born composer Christian Wolff introduced Cage to I Ching or Book of Changes, the ancient Chinese oracle which his father had just published in English. Like the Oracle of Delphi, I Ching communicates through indirection and purposive obfuscation, leading the questioner to seek out inner resources for dealing with specific problems: for example, 'Grace has success. /In small matters/It is favorable to undertake something.' Soon after being presented with this book, Cage began writing Music of Changes for Piano and Imaginary Landscape #4 for Twelve Radios.
Mandy Lau will demonstrate the techniques of I Ching and discuss Cage's instructions on preparing a performance of Child of Tree.
VI. > (In Child of Tree)(1975)" Cage gives directions for improvisation because; "the improvisation can't be based on taste and memory since one doesn't know the instruments. The pitch relations between the spines of a single piece of cactus often will be very interesting; microtonal. It's an improvisation within a structure determined by chance operations." Each performer consults I Ching to determine when and what they play.
VII. > Robert Rauchenberg's White Paintings that reacted to changing light and people coming and going in the rooms where they were hung inspired 4′ 33″. Cage thought of 4′ 33″ as a piece of music constantly in flux, subject to the ambient sounds surrounding each performance. Many people thought it ironic or a game. It was neither to Cage. Cage said, "Our inflexible attitude towards change must cease. My own experience proved to me that all I need to do is to listen to the sounds around me. They change. I always and everywhere listen to the sounds surrounding me, but if I were to feel that one of them didn't please me or wasn't suitable for me " if I would have preferred that it didn't exist or hadn't happened " then you could immediately see why such a notion of preference is in a way illegitimate, since in fact the sound did occur". Cage was forty years old when 4′ 33″ was premiered in Woodstock, New York. 'Good people of Woodstock', an artist in the audience stood and proclaimed, 'let's drive these people out of town'.


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Home|NEWS|New Ray White powerhouse in the Sutherland Shire
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New Ray White powerhouse in the Sutherland Shire
News RoomMay 22, 2017
Five of the most successful real estate agents in the Sutherland Shire have joined forces to open the new Ray White Cronulla office.
Matt Debreczeni and Gavin Ottaway, the owners of the Ray White Menai and Sutherland businesses, have teamed up with Matt Johnston, Jill Yankos and Charlie Yankos to open the Cronulla business, creating a real estate powerhouse across the Sutherland Shire.
"Our Cronulla office is an extension of the hugely successful businesses at Menai and Sutherland. We'll draw on the strength of the systems and structure already in place and bring an unrivalled one-on-one customer experience for the people of Cronulla and surrounding suburbs," Ms Yankos said.
"Everyone aspires to be in Cronulla, it is such a sought-after beachside destination with great lifestyle benefits of amazing cafes and restaurants.
"We see a lot of people who are downsizing from the Menai area and all over The Shire to live by the beach. We have a great choice of beaches and parks to enjoy, and beautiful coastal walks as well.
"We are seeing more family homes selling and we'll help all downsizers and upsizers.
"It is an aspirational suburb and there are many luxury apartments that have been built or are currently under construction in Cronulla."
"Our goal is to be successful in a competitive market and to keep growing the Ray White brand. We aim to provide a very strong brand for our clients," Jill said.
Combining their personalised service and local knowledge with the Ray White brand, Matt Johnston and Jill Yankos will be at the forefront of the Cronulla business.
"We promise to provide very strong communication to both sellers and buyers throughout the sale and continue to achieve outstanding results for our clients " Matt Johnston said.
"Collectively, we have 24 years experience working in the area. Our goal is to bring a greater level of service to the community we know and love."
With the real estate market in Cronulla going from strength to strength, Matt and Jill both agree that it's an exciting time.
"Cronulla is a diverse market with everything from affordable units to high-end prestige property. We're seeing lots of buyers move in which is having a really positive effect on property values in the area," they said. The current median price for houses in Cronulla is $1.945M and for units its $825,000.
Ray White NSW Chairman, Stephen Nell said it was a pleasure to welcome the Cronulla team to the Group.
"Matt and Gavin have enjoyed many years of success with Ray White and there is nothing more rewarding than seeing ambitious people taking their business to new heights. Matt Johnston, Charlie and Jill bring genuine value to the local real estate market. They have all enjoyed exceptional careers in real estate and we look forward to supporting the team as they grow," he said.
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For the Ray White Cronulla team, their ambition is clear: strive for excellence.
"Making sure our customers have the very best experience as they go on their property journey is the most important thing. Our goal is to be the business of choice for our community."