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Public Review and Comment: 2015-2018 Transportation Improvement Draft #21 – Deadline 2/7/18
Aloha CAC Representative,
The Oahu Metropolitan Planning Organization (OahuMPO) is releasing the public draft of the FFYs 2015-2018 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) Revision #21 for public and intergovernmental review.
The public draft may be viewed on our website at: http://www.oahumpo.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Draft-OahuMPO-TIP-FFYs-2015-2018-Revision-21.pdf
The Federal Fiscal Years 2015-2018 TIP is the current four-year programming document that lists regionally-significant, short-term transportation projects that will be undertaken on Oahu. Because Revision #21 involves major changes to projects in the TIP, we are soliciting public comments. For more information about the TIP, please visit the TIP webpage: http://www.oahumpo.org/plans-and-programs/transportation-improvement-program-tip/.
Your review and comments on this draft will be greatly appreciated. Please submit comments via mail, email, or in the form under "Public Review and Comment" on the TIP webpage by February 7, 2018. Mailed or emailed comments may be submitted to:
OahuMPO
707 Richards Street, Suite 200
Email: OahuMPO@OahuMPO.org
Kiana Otsuka
Oʻahu Metropolitan Planning Organization
Honolulu, Hawaiʻi 96813
Email: Kiana.Otsuka@oahumpo.org
Website: http://www.oahumpo.org
Lawmakers want to give sex abuse victims from decades past the chance to file suit
Posted on January 25, 2018 by maileshimabukuro
By: Lynn Kawano (Hawai`i News Now; 01/24/18)
…Hawaii lawmakers want to give more abuse victims the chance to come forward and file civil lawsuits, no matter how much time has passed.
Bills introduced in both the House and Senate failed last session, but a national movement to expose abusers and the high profile case against Kamehameha Schools could add momentum for the legislation.
Representative Linda Ichiyama and Senator Maile Shimabukuro introduced companion bills which would extend the window for lawsuits despite the statute of limitations.
"What we're learning from data and research about trauma and what happens to a person's brain when they undergo trauma is that they're not ready to bring suits until much later," says Ichiyama, "I think we need to adjust policies to reflect that research now that we know."
More than a hundred victims came forward between 2012 and 2016, a four-year window that was opened for old sex abuse cases. Most of the cases involved catholic church priests and a psychiatrist who molested boys while they attended Kamehameha Schools.
Shimabukuro says national movements like the "#MeToo" campaign have also highlighted the need for victims to stand up and expose abusers.
"Less and less people are having shame for something that happened to them that wasn't their fault," says Shimabukuro.
Attorney General Doug Chin testified about similar bills last session warning lawmakers that reopening the window could be costly for his office to defend if the state is sued, but Chin says he does support the new proposals. "Legislators pointed out there weren't that many cases that were brought against the state even when the window was open."
Another bill introduced would make it a felony for teachers and doctors, so called 'mandatory reporters' who don't take action if they have knowledge of sex assault. That bill, H.B. 2429, directly mentions Kamehameha Schools and the cover up that allowed psychiatrist Dr. Robert Browne to continue molesting Kamehameha students for decades.
http://m.hawaiinewsnow.com/hawaiinewsnow/db/330510/content/A5UkvhFa
Ulua Lagoon 4 Sand Reclamation & Beautification Work 2018: Jan. 18-Feb 17
Appended is an information sheet on the sand and maintenance work to be done on Ko Olina's Ulua Lagoon 4 from January 18th to February 17th, or upon sooner completion. Wanted to make sure you were informed. The work will be done using best practices, will be completed as quickly as possible, is scheduled now during the off-peak season, and when done, will result in a better beach experience for all to enjoy. Thank you, Ken Williams
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Turn Lane on Farrington Highway Complete; Contraflow to Continue Utilizing New Lane
Source: KITV.com 01/10/18
…thousands of drivers that commute in and out of the Leeward Coast can expect a smoother drive through Nanakuli. The State Department of Transportation is scheduled to open an additional lane on Farrington Highway.
Gridlock traffic in and out of West O'ahu is typical in the morning and then again in the afternoons.
Nanakuli resident Demont Conner is one of many here that gets caught up in the rush. He says the extra lane cant come soon enough.
"This is the west side and there's only one way in and one way out. We're grateful for this new lane getting ready to open up. We really need it to be done," said Conner.
The lane is aimed at helping ease east and west bound traffic.
Right now, drivers headed townbound only have access to one lane in the afternoons which has led to major backups. The added lane will now give townbound drivers access to two lanes. It also gives drivers trying to turn off of Farrington a way out.
"All those people that are looking to turn left on Haleakala and Nanakuli Avenues will have a dedicated area to stay. So it's important because all those people going straight behind them will be able to continue going straight without having to wait for that car turning left to find an opening and go," DOT spokesman Tim Sakahara explained.
That's welcome news for April Longoria who's used to dealing with big backlogs on her way home to Aiea.
"If anybody is trying to turn left or right, if they're waiting for that opportunity to turn you're going to get stuck there waiting for them to turn. And if you're a few cars behind you're waiting a while," Longoria said.
DOT says the addition will cut the afternoon drive out of Nanakuli for many from an hour down to 15 minutes.
The $16 million project took DOT crews about three years to complete- after the department ran into a number of delays, part of it having to do with existing utility work underground.
Senator Maile Shimabukuro who helped rustle up funding for the project says her district deserves this much needed addition. She plans to rally behind even more traffic improvement projects this legislative session.
"We do hear the community, a lot of people say, 'It's great you're improving Farrington, thank you very much but we also need a [parallel] route,'" Sen. Shimabukuro said.
DOT says the new lane will also allow DOT to keep the westbound contraflow going in the afternoons. But to complete the new lane by Tuesday Dot's cancelling the westbound contraflow Thursday and Friday.
http://www.kitv.com/story/37240558/dot-to-open-extra-lane-on-farrington-highway-in-nanakuli
[Note: DOT opened the new turn lane on 01/11/18]
Hearings 2018 for Construction of Photovoltaic Utility in Kalaeloa: 1/18-19, 3/13
Posted on January 9, 2018 by JimS
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1/10/18 – Scholar Speaker Series – 5:30pm to 8:00pm
Posted on January 8, 2018 by district21staff
Hulikoʻa Kaiāulu – Scholar Speaker Series is hosting Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu at CLC-Māʻili
Community Learning Center at Māʻili
87-790 Kulauku Street near Sea Country
"I Welo Mau Ku'u Hae Hawai'i – May my beloved Hawaiian flag fly evermore"
In 1893, Kaulana Nā Pua, the most recognized Mele 'Ai Pōhaku, or stone eating song was penned by Ellen Wright Prendergast. It became the epitome of resistance expression amongst the Lāhui Kanaka of our pae 'āina. It spoke of the loyalty of our people to our beloved Queen Lili'uokalani and our love for our land that would supersede any desire for money. In the 21st century, we the Lāhui Kanaka continue in our political and socio-economic struggles to maintain the dignity, honor and rightful place of our kanaka in Hawai'i. We continue to sing our honored Mele 'Ai Pōhaku and we now sing other songs of love and loyalty to land and culture, and most of all the respect and love we have for our Hawaiian flag.
Dinner, child care and college/higher education resources will be available.
Bring the whole 'ohana!
RSVP to clcprograms@ksbe.edu or call 670-2045.
Hulikoʻa Kaiāulu was developed through a partnership between Kamehameha Schools, INPEACE, MAʻO Organic Farms and UH Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge.
Closure of Farrington Highway in Kapolei scheduled for Sunday night, Jan. 7
See the announcement from HIDOT below regarding road closures in Kapolei:
DAVID Y. IGE
JADE T. BUTAY
For Immediate Release: Jan. 5, 2018
HONOLULU – The Hawaii Department of Transportation (HDOT) advises Oahu motorists of closures on Farrington Highway between Wakea Street and Kalaeloa Boulevard for the Kapolei Interchange Complex, Phase 2 project. All lanes will be closed in both directions on Sunday night, Jan. 7, 2018 through Monday morning, Jan. 8, 2018 from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m.
All ramps will remain open during closure hours. Westbound motorists will be diverted around the work zone via Kamokila Boulevard, Kapolei Parkway, and Kalaeloa Boulevard. Eastbound motorists will be detoured around the closure via Kapolei Parkway, Kamokila Boulevard, and Wakea Street. (See detour map below.) A full closure of the highway is necessary for concrete overlay work on the Farrington Highway overpass.
Electronic message boards will be posted to warn motorists of the closure. Special Duty Police Officers will be on-site to assist with traffic control. Emergency vehicles, first responders, and TheBus have been notified of the roadwork and will not be allowed through the closure.
In addition to the full closure, other daytime lane closures associated with this project are listed below.
Lane closure on the Farrington Highway between Wakea Street and Kalaeloa Boulevard on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018 through Friday, Jan. 12, 2018 from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., for bridge deck work. Traffic will be contraflowed.
Left lane closure on the H-1 Freeway in both directions between the Wakea Street onramp and the Makakilo Drive overpass on Monday, Jan. 8, 2018 through Friday, Jan. 12, 2018 from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., for median construction.
Right lane closure on the H-1 Freeway in the westbound direction between the Farrington Highway offramp (Exit 1E) and the Kalaeloa Boulevard overpass on Monday, Jan. 8, 2018 through Friday, Jan. 12, 2018 from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., for overhead sign work.
HDOT advises motorists to prepare for the closures by checking traffic apps, mapping the best route, and adding extra travel time to their commutes. All roadwork is weather permitting.
Kapolei Detour Map
1/11/18 – DOFAW Community Meeting – 7:00pm
The State of Hawai'i Department of Land and Natural Resources Division of Forestry and Wildlife will be hosting a community meeting on January 11, 2018, regarding proposed aerial shooting.
DOFAW Makaha Community Meeting – Aerial Control
S & L Building
85-888 Farrington Hwy


Machines - Scarlett Machinery Inc.
One of the major problems facing the American economy is escalating energy prices.
The composite manufacturing industry is positioned to provide solutions, offering energy-saving products for markets such as automotive, aerospace, wind energy and infrastructure. The growing demand for lightweight composite products is prompting suppliers to develop specialty fibers.
At Scarlett we have a great deal of experience cutting these ever changing materials and can provide advice and suggest creative fixturing and cutting solutions.


From '03 to '05, Hunter's Moon was serialized on Girlamatic, and went through several different covers, including special ones for the holidays.
Eventually the blue cover changed to this.
The pink cover changed to this, which I used for quite awhile (and am still using on my Webcomicsnation page).


Recently, an article purported that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) turned down requests from FBI forensic units to look at its server and instead opted to use ThreatConnect and two other cyber security firms. While we cannot speak to the veracity of the first part of that statement, we can with certainty say that we (ThreatConnect) were not contracted by, nor did we work on behalf of, the DNC.
The analysis that we've done over the last year and a half of Fancy Bear has been independent of their organization and for the larger purpose of helping the cyber community understand an adversary and better defend themselves.
The article may be misinterpreting its referenced testimony where ThreatConnect is described as a "leading private cybersecurity firm" that "reviewed the evidence of the (DNC) hack." We certainly aren't disputing that testimony, but it's worth noting that our analyses of the DNC hack and subsequent activity conducted by Fancy Bear and Russian faketivists was done without any inside knowledge or access to the DNC network, digital assets, or data. In fact, our analyses are based almost entirely on openly available or commercial sources of intelligence that any organization could procure.
We pride ourselves on the fact that our analyses and publications are the direct result of independent intelligence analysis and the use of the ThreatConnect Platform. Whereas other organizations may hide or obscure their sources and methods, we continually strive to "show our work" and thoroughly describe how we arrived at a given conclusion or identified additional intelligence on an attack or actor. In doing so, our hope is that we help generate repeatable research methodologies that other organizations can incorporate into their own threat intelligence function.
Rebooting Watergate: Tapping into the Democratic National Committee – An initial review of indicators shared in Crowdstrike's blog on the DNC hack.
Our blogs "Belling the Bear" and "Cyber Operations on Steroids" on Fancy Bear activity targeting organizations outside of the DNC like Bellingcat and the World Anti-Doping Agency.
Any of our five blogs — "Shiйy ФbjЭkt?", "The Man, the Myth, the Legend?", "All Roads Lead to Russia", "Hacktivists vs Faketivists", or "Does a BEAR Leak in the Woods?" — on Guccifer 2.0 and other Russian influence operation efforts.
Research methodology-focused blogs — "What's in a Name Server?", "Let's Get Fancy", "Stepping to Fancy Bear", "Parlez-vous Fancy?", "Finding Nemo(hosts)", and "Track to the Future" — where we describe how to use the ThreatConnect platform and its various integrations to expand our knowledge of Fancy Bear and proactively identify potential indicators of their activity.
Okay, maybe we didn't do a great job of narrowing down our recommendations, but for an APT like Fancy Bear it's hard to say that any one bit of research is more important than others. Check out our blog homepage for a full list of blogs on a variety of topics.
If you have no idea what ThreatConnect does or who we are, have a look-see at our website and log into the Platform to check out some of the threat groups and incidents that we've shared into our Common Community. Entries like APT28 / Sofacy / Fancy Bear and Incident 20160614A: Russia-based Groups Compromise Democratic National Committee demonstrate the utility of our cybersecurity platform for organizations that are looking to incorporate threat intelligence into their defensive efforts.


In this section you will find all currently published resources that can be used. This section will be updated regularly as we continuously enrich our ecosystem.
Fleet Manager Plugin SDK The Fleet Manager Plugin SDK enables MindSphere web developers to create plugins for MindSphere Fleet Manager.
MindConnect Library The MindConnect Library is a collection of functionalities which allows a client application to connect and exchange data with MindSphere.
MindSphere OS Bar The MindSphere OS Bar connects all MindSphere applications on a UI level. It can be used for showing the application name and routing back to the launchpad.
MindSphere SDK for Java The MindSphere SDK for Java enables Java developers to work with the MindSphere IoT platform easily. It provides a Java client implementation for the RESTful MindSphere Platform APIs.
MindSphere SDK V2 for Java The MindSphere SDK Version 2 for Java enables Java developers to work with the MindSphere IoT platform easily using service specific SDKs. The SDK is generated automatically using the MindSphere Platform Service's specification yaml files to provide Java client implementation for the RESTful MindSphere Platform APIs.
mindconnect-nodejs NodeJs library with command line support, which enables the user to upload time series data, files and events to MindSphere via MindConnect.
node-red-contrib-mindconnect Node-RED agent for x86, Raspberry PI, Siemens IoT2040 ..., which enables the user to upload time series data, files and events to MindSphere via MindConnect.


We are so excited to unveil the cover of Philip Reeve's final book in the Railhead trilogy - and announce that it will be called Station Zero!
We've been completely hooked on Zen and Nova's story through Railhead and Black Light Express but we still have a little while to wait for Station Zero, which will be out in May 2018.
'When I was reading science fiction novels as a young teenager one of the things which drew me to them was the covers, which tended to feature colossal multi-coloured spaceships and exotic planetscapes by artists like Chris Foss and Peter Jones. The modern-day equivalent of those illustration giants is Ian McQue, a concept artist for movies and computer games and also the creator of a wonderful body of personal work featuring shifty-looking characters, wild landscapes and rusty airborne boats (check out his Twitter or Instagram accounts).
'Like the previous books, Station Zero is full of strange machines and alien landscapes. Set in a future where trains travel from planet to planet through hyperspace wormholes, it traces the interstellar railway network all the way back to the place where it began, and reveals more about the mysterious entity who created it.
'But, as with the first two books, Ian has chosen to focus on the characters rather than the technology: here are Zen and Nova, pictured during a quiet moment between heists and adventures. That's fine by me, because Zen and Nova are my favourite characters, and I hope they're the heart of the book.
Station Zero will be published in May 2018 by Oxford University Press. Railhead and Black Light Express are out now.
A sci-fi adventure about a petty thief who gets in way over his head when he's asked to infiltrate the Emperor's train.
Philip Reeve is a master world-builder and the nuances of the Network Empire world are executed beautifully in this sequel to the stunning RailHead.


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Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik arrived here Friday on a long discussed three-day visit, the highlight of which is expected to be the implementation of a liberalized visa regime agreed to in September. »
Islamabad: Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik, who reached New Delhi on a goodwill visit to India, Friday invited Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for a visit to Pakistan.
Stressing that Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari had already invited Manmohan Singh to Pakistan, Malik said: "I would also invite the Indian prime minister for a visit on behalf of our leadership."
Before his departure from the Benazir Bhutto International Airport in the capital, Malik told the Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) that his visit to India was a "victory of peace" and for those who wanted to see improvement in bilateral relations.
Malik said now people from both countries, especially senior citizens, businessmen and journalists, could easily visit either country to further enhance trade and cultural relations.
He said the new visa accord was a gift from the leadership of both countries to the coming generations.
Peace and stability between the two countries would usher in a new era of progress and development in the region, Malik told APP.
The minister lauded the media for playing an important role in bringing the two nations closer.
Malik appreciated the role of the two high commissioners and said they worked hard for the improvement of relations.
He said that during his visit, he would give the message to the entire world that Pakistan and India were peace loving nations that believed in co-existence and wanted to live as peaceful neighbours.
US House condemns anti-Sikh attacks
SC allows private medical colleges to hold own admission tests
Quota politics: Chaos in parliament
Youth re-education needed for Russian moral crisis: Putin
Millions vote in first phase of Gujarat elections
Millions voted across Gujarat Thursday in elections that have pitted Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who has ruled the state since 2001, against »
LensOnNews survey gives BJP 122 seats in Gujarat polls
With Irfan Pathan, Modi woos youth, minorities before polls
What's the mystery of the Indira-Abdullah accord?
For nearly 37 years, Jammu and Kashmir's regional National Conference (NC) has been criticizing the central government for not implementing the terms of the 1975 Indira-Abdullah accord. All of a sudden, some elements of the NC leadership now say there was no accord. After 22 »
Unfair to withhold student's degree for dues: Consumer court rules
"Such kind of practice is not fair," the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission said in a recent ruling in connection with a case involving Sushith, a student pursuing an MD degree »
Minorities constitute a meagre 81,056 in Indian paramilitary forces
A meagre 81,056 people from the minority communities that constitute about 20% of the total population of the country serve in India's paramilitary forces and the Intelligence Bureau, official figures show. Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and Parsees are notified as minorities, according to the National Minority Commission. »
71,397 vacancies in paramilitary forces
Gujarat textbooks have anti-Muslim contents, portray Hitler as hero
Says Asghar Ali Engineer; Bureaucracy and security forces are infiltrated by RSS, alleges Ram Puniyani
From questioning the funeral with state honour of Shiv Sena leade »

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Looks like a Robotech Live Action Movie Is Getting Close…
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The rumors of a Robotech live action movie have been circulating for almost a decade with names like Tobey Maguire, Lawrence Kasdan and even Leonardo Di Caprio attached.
But now that the rights have gone from Warner Bros to Sony Pictures, events behind the scenes have started to pick up the pace (finally). As reported on DenofGeek.com, Harmony Gold's president of animation Tommy Yune does point out that Sony did not pick up any of Warner Bros previous work on the Robotech project. This means none of the previously plots or script ideas come into play and Sony is talking a page one rewrite.
Robotech fan James Wan will now be directing and he has some serious cache behind his name with recent successes like "The Conjuring" & "Furious 7" and the upcoming "Aquaman" for Warner Bros. Wan was interviewed about his interest in this project back in March where he mentioned the Macross saga in particular
Director James Wan (Image Fredrick M Brown/Getty Images)
Macross was the most popular of the series with characters like Rick Hunter, Roy Fokker and Max Sterling, the large transforming fighter jets and massive SDF-1 Battleship (think S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier in space) that people think of when they think Robotech.
Robotech was actually comprised of three completely separate anime series (1982's Super Dimension Fortress Macross, 1984's Super Dimension Calvary Southern Cross and 1983's Genesis Climber Mospeada) that Harmony Gold USA picked up the North American distribution rights to. They then wrote alternate storylines connecting the three series and dubbed them in English with a whole new soundtrack. Unlike most cartoons at it's time, Robotech dealt with many adult core values including love, war, insecurities, death and interracial relationships.
How Cool?
The end result was the Robotech series which was one of the pioneers credited with kicking off North America's still growing interest in anime.
With the special effects available today and a strong character driven storyline, a Robotech live action movie could be incredible!
Also in recent Robotech news, Titan Comics announced that they have picked up the rights to begin publishing all new Robotech comics sometime this year.
I will keep you posted more movie news is released.
Show your support for the Skull Squadron!
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Socializing A Young Ringneck Parrot
Determining Gender of Ringneck
Indian Ringnecks As Pets
Hand Feeding Day Old Chicks
Feeding Your Indian Ringneck
Choosing a Cage for your Ringneck
Ringneck Breeding Methods
Eggs & Hatching
Bringing Home Your New Ringneck
Indian Ringneck Bluffing
Alexandrine Parakeets
Popular Indian Ringneck Myths
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IRN Help
Indian Ringnecks:
Rose-ringed Parakeets, Ringnecks, IRNs
It's no secret Indian Ringneck parrots, also known as Rose-ringed Parakeets, are exotic creatures. In fact, just looking at these birds, you can't help but be drawn in by their appearance. These birds have a hooked beak, a long tail, and are roughly 16 inches in length.
Typical wild Indian Ringnecks are green with undertones of blue that can be seen during overcast days. These parrots have yellow feathers showcased under their wings and tail when fanned open. Both males and females look very similar; however, the male has a black ring around his neck. This ring is highlighted with turquoise, pink, and blue. Although the female may not exhibit this impressive ring, many Indian Ringneck enthusiasts will argue a slight green ring is visible.
The male and female both have large tails that are comprised of 12 feathers. The two largest tail feathers, which are blue, make up a large part of the parrot's size. These elaborate tails can extend as much as 7 inches outward for the male and 6 inches outward for the female. Because these parrots are mostly green, they are very difficult to see during roosting or when perching in trees. Most of the time, the presence of these parrots can be given away through their contact calls.
Indian Ringnecks are native to Asia and Africa and can be seen in the forests or arid environments. It's not uncommon to see them thrive in urban areas as well. They have established colonies in environments which are not native to them, some significant points of interest include California, Florida, and the UK. These birds are believed to cause major damage to crops; however, little evidence has been published to prove this accusation. Rose-Ringed Parakeets can be seen in rural areas feeding on bird feeders or relaxing in parks.
Like most parrots, Indian Ringnecks are intelligent and DO make great pets. They learn concepts quickly and love to show off. Along with being intelligent, they are great at talking. Quaker Parakeets are known for their talking ability, but a Ringneck can speak with clarity that is phenomenal. These birds are indeed masters at talking for their size and can easily compete with Quakers, African Greys, and Amazons.
With that being said, I have decided to start an Indian Ringneck site that is devoted to these majestic parrots.


Castle Estate Agents are pleased to present new to the market Apartment 7 The Weavers, Meath Place. This fine 1 bedroom,1 bathroom first floor apartment comes to the market in beautiful condition and would be ideal as a first purchase or investment.
Located just off the just off The Coombe, On the doorstep of the City Centre just meer minutes away access to the City has never been easier. There are also host of excellent local shopping conveniences, speciality shops and bars within easy reach of the property.
The accommodation comprises entrance hall, a large living/dining room with French doors onto a private balcony with beautiful views, Also there is a separate fully fitted kitchen and one bedroom, and a bathroom.


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Kel Mitchell × Blessed Mode
Emmy-nominated actor, comedian, pastor and author Kel Mitchell released his new book Blessed Mode on December 14, 2021. Blessed Mode currently is the #1 new release and #1 best seller in youth Christian ministry. The book follows Kel's moving 90-day challenge where he believes that when you place focus your faith and trust in God, blessings will follow.
Starring in Nickelodeons' Kenan & Kel, All That and feature film Good Burger, Kel has had a vast career in the entertainment industry. Now, in his new book, Kel shares his spiritual side with the world. Kel personally knows the battles of depression and addiction, but aims to communicate that power he found through God's presence. Kel trusts in the freedom and blessings that he believes comes from his relationship with his faith in God. Kel aims to share his testimony of hope with the next generation, and even serves as a youth pastor at Spirit Food Christian Center.
In Blessed Mode, Kel offers 90 strong devotions to support his audience, including:
Find freedom in God's life-changing presence.
Experience God's power through prayer.
Recognize God's many gifts in your life.
Share the blessings you've received with others.
Kel speaks on the book, stating, "As you read through the pages of Blessed Mode, you will learn that in every emotional wall there is a blessed way out! You will be breaking through these walls widening that crack of light a little bit, day by day, so you can discover God's blessings on you. I hope this book can inspire others to embrace their blessings and find strength spiritually, mentally and physically! Life is a beautiful blessing giving to us by God! I cannot wait to show the world this side of me and how to activate BLESSED MODE!!"
You can order Blessed Mode on Amazon, Barnes & Nobles, Target, Christian Book and Cokesbury.
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Nikki Sixx – The First 21
Mötley Crüe and Sixx:A.M. founder Nikki Sixx is now a four-time New York Times best-selling author with his new book, THE FIRST 21: How I Became Nikki Sixx entering the coveted list at #8 on the Hardcover chart and #11 on the Combined Print And Ebook List. THE FIRST 21 joins Nikki Sixx's other three bestsellers, The Heroin Diaries, This Is Gonna Hurt, and the Mötley Crüe biography, The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band. In addition, THE FIRST 21 also quickly rose to Amazon's bestsellers list since its release on October 19, occupying the top spot on Amazon's rock music books chart and in the Top 40 overall biographies and memoirs chart. THE FIRST 21 is also #22 on the USA Today's best-selling books top 150 list, as well as #9 on Canada's The Globe and Mail bestsellers list, evident of the book's global appeal.
"I am such a fan of books and storytelling," said Nikki Sixx. "The whole process is extremely creative from the beginning to the end, which allowed me to open up candidly in the memoir about addiction, sobriety and reflect about the formative years of my life, while unpacking the complicated childhood that had some twists and turns along the way. I am really happy THE FIRST 21 connected with people in such a deep way."
THE FIRST 21: How I Became Nikki Sixx is available at book sellers everywhere including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, INDIEBOUND, BOOKSHOP, HUDSON BOOKSELLERS, Powell's, Target, and Walmart, among others. Fans can also listen to the latest release of his band Sixx:A.M, SIXX:A.M. HITS via Better Noise Music. The album serves as a companion piece to the book. The album debuted at #2 on the iTunes Metal in the US (#2 Rock), UK, Canada and Australia, as well as top 10 in numerous other countries. For more information, please visit: www.hachettebooks.com, or www.TheFirst21Book.com for the book and www.betternoise.com for the album.
About THE FIRST 21: How I Became Nikki Sixx:
Rock-and-roll icon and three-time bestselling author Nikki Sixx tells his origin story: how Frank Feranna became Nikki Sixx, chronicling his fascinating journey from irrepressible Idaho farm boy to the man who formed the revolutionary rock group Mötley Crüe.
Nikki Sixx is one of the most respected, recognizable, and entrepreneurial icons in the music industry. As the founder of Mötley Crüe, who is now in his twenty-first year of sobriety, Sixx is incredibly passionate about his craft and wonderfully open about his life in rock and roll, and as a person of the world. Born Franklin Carlton Feranna on December 11, 1958, young Frankie was abandoned by his father and partly raised by his mother, a woman who was ahead of her time but deeply troubled. Frankie ended up living with his grandparents, bouncing from farm to farm and state to state. He was an all-American kid—hunting, fishing, chasing girls, and playing football—but underneath it all, there was a burning desire for more, and that more was music. He eventually took a Greyhound bound for Hollywood.
In Los Angeles, Frank lived with his aunt and his uncle—the president of Capitol Records—for a short time. But there was no easy path to the top. He was soon on his own. There were dead-end jobs: dipping circuit boards, clerking at liquor and record stores, selling used light bulbs, and hustling to survive. But at night, Frank honed his craft, joining Sister, a band formed by fellow hard-rock veteran Blackie Lawless, and formed a group of his own: London, the precursor of Mötley Crüe. Turning down an offer to join Randy Rhoads's band, Frank changed his name to Nikki London, Nikki Nine, and, finally, Nikki Sixx. Like Huck Finn with a stolen guitar, he had a vision: a group that combined punk, glam, and hard rock into the biggest, most theatrical, and irresistible package the world had ever seen. With hard work, passion, and some luck, the vision manifested in reality—and this is a profound true story of finding identity, of how Frank Feranna became Nikki Sixx. It's also a road map to the ways you can overcome anything, and achieve all your goals, if only you put your mind to it.
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A Little Spark
By: Merilee Kern
Whether gifting for the holidays, a birthday, Valentine's Day or "just because," children's literature is a timeless gift that can impact the recipient, families and society at-large in meaningful ways. This truth is exemplified with "A Little Spark " children's book authored by Chris Parsons—a truly unique title that was recently awarded the prestigious Mom's Choice Award Gold Medal for best in family-friendly media. Fittingly so, as this distinctive interactive, read-along chapter book is centered around the noble theme of finding, and doing, good in the world.
A Little Spark is redefining children's literature by driving its overarching message home by combining a compelling narrative and cast of identifiable characters with full color illustrations; a custom-scored musical soundtrack of original songs like this accessible through QR Codes while reading the book; an audiobook featuring delightful performances; fun on-and-offline activities; and invaluable life lessons that are highlighted throughout each chapter. It's a heartening activity to enjoy with young children, grandchildren and students.
To complement the beautifully illustrated 160-page chapter book, Parsons collaborated with renowned music producer Bruce Faulconer to develop the full album with an original soundtrack and accompanying audiobook. "Lyrics range from playful to heartwarming and, in one instance, even a bit ominous," noted Faulconer. "The music keeps the reader poised and, at times, thrillingly on the edge of their seat. We worked with an amazing group of performers and have created something truly special that's resonating with kids and adults, alike."
Enhancing the read-along story and the various audio components, A Little Spark also comes complete with a free companion online Resource Library available at BeThatSpark.com, which boasts over 50 book-related family activities like coloring pages, character puppets, word searches, mazes, dance videos, character drawing video tutorials and more. A "Parent's Guide" is also available to help plan and optimize the overall experience.
"Parents, grandparents, caregivers and educators are indelibly seeking great content to engage with kids, and A Little Spark is written with purpose and intention toward that end," said Parsons. "The storyline, and the various lessons embedded throughout, underscore that even the smallest creature can make the biggest difference. This takeaway message is especially important for young, impressionable children to hear because they so badly want to be seen and heard…in today's culture more than ever."
"Children's literature is a powerful force that can shape and nurture the minds of kids," continued Parsons. "In the case of A Little Spark, the combination of a great story, captivating illustrations and rich characters—in combination with mood-inducing music—can truly engage young minds in an impactful and immediate way. It's one that not only entertains and inspires young audiences, but also helps them develop critical thinking skills and encourages a sense of adventure and the confidence to take that first step."
As per the Mom's Choice Award, "A Little Spark is an innovative, inspiring, and entertaining tale about unlikely comrades who join forces on a quest to defeat a threatening enemy. A little Spark reminds us that, to awaken our passion and spirit, we all need something in life to make the world be a warmer place, and to always look for ways to 'Be That Spark.'"
Working in partnership with a teacher advisory group, the "Be That Spark" elementary education pilot program launched this October in multiple first grade classrooms. This one-of-a-kind scholastic program combines the book, music and all of the related material into a formal academic lesson plan designed to provide a fun, inspiring experience for educators and their students. The Be That Spark program includes a focus on helping students develop positive character traits based on the characters and lessons from the book. It aligns with U.S. standards by creating meaningful and challenging lessons for students intended to increase their reading, listening and comprehension skills.
"Our panel of judges really felt this book merited a place on our list of the best in family-friendly media products that parents and educators can feel confident in using," said Dawn Matheson, CEO, Mom's Choice Awards. Other accolades include A Little Spark earning its place as an Amazon new release best-seller in a number of categories, including #1 in Children's Music Books.
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Moving – The Atlantic
In this first volume of Remember the Internet, a series that tells a complete history of the Internet, one book at a time, journalist Ana Valens introduces us to the erotic gifs, hashtag fetish fan art, and sex worker resource blogs that combined to transform Tumblr into the vanguard of a user-generated sexual revolution. As she tells the story of her own online sexual and political awakening, Valens investigates how Tumblr's technical architecture made it a convenient laboratory for social justice and sexual freedom, one that would ultimately clash with the government's crackdown on sexuality online. 2021.
In the second Volume, Not just anyone can join the most elite Tori Amos tape trading webring of 1998. In a world before "search" and "social media," teenage Megan Milks has what it takes, negotiating two-to-one trades of rare concert audio with some of the most intense "ears with feet" in the Toriverse, using their living room computer to navigate fandom friendships haunted with nascent queer meaning. In this new volume of Remember the Internet, Milks leads us through a world of bootleg concert recording on DATs and USEnet meetups, a world still inventing the rules for being with one another online: bring references, bring blanks.
Available September 21, 2021
In the third volume, Google Glass was supposed to replace phones and PCs, becoming the peripheral that turned the internet itself into a bodily function, making the instant overlay of real-time information into a new organic language. Where did everything go wrong? Was it the unchecked hubris of Big Tech, which had become addicted to solving problems that didn't exist using grandiose solutions with prohibitive price tags? Was it a tone deaf marketing campaign that failed to take into account the secret loathing of Silicon Valley's haughty elites? Or was it simply too early, a product before its time like the Palm Pilot or disco? Journalist Quinn Myers gets the inventors, users, developers, detractors, lovers, haters, models, and members all on the record in this slim new entry in the Remember the Internet series. NOT AVAILABLE FOR GOOGLE GLASS.
Available November 16, 2021
In the fourth volume, On Myspace, Noor al-Sibai is a scene queen: artfully curated and presented to rise to the top of the top 8. Off of it, she's a teenager: dealing with trauma both personal and political, bad relationships, and understanding the ways in which the new world of social media is changing her relationship to each of these. In this new installment of Remember the Internet, Noor al-Sibai tells the story of growing up on Myspace as part of the first generation to come of age online.
Available Spring 2022
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KO Média – ELLE DECORATION CANADA
KO Média is excited to unveil the fall issue of ELLE Decoration Canada featuring a new way of imagining your dream home by designer Nicholas Ancerl. Crestwood, described as "a dramatic home among the treetops" of Barrie, Ontario, has yet to be built. Instead, it has been brought to life with 23 photo-realistic renders. "The contemporary interiors will have a rustic touch and a neutral colour palette," Ancerl explains. "We want the colours of nature, seen through the expansive windows, to dominate the interiors." When asked about setting expectations too high for homeowners with such stunning renders, the designer assures: "Nothing can take away from the experience of actually stepping into a real space."
This edition is imbued with a desire to create bright, airy living spaces that are both functional and serene. Included are Toronto-based architect Anya Moryoussef's transformation of a single-car garage into a modern workspace inspired by traditional Italian studiolos; a prefabricated house reimagined by architect Alain Carle to capture the natural play of light and shade throughout the day; an architectural firm's ingenious use of every nook and cranny in a tiny Vancouver home brimming with joie de vivre; and wood-and-glass containers fashioned by a Montreal couple to give their Old Port loft structure without sacrificing any natural light.
In the spirit of the season, Athena Calderone, author of Cook Beautiful, shares recipes that capture the tones, textures and tastes of fall and tips for creating the ultimate autumn table settings. Readers will also find a curated list of outdoor armchairs, loungers and swings from which to soak up the sun, and patio heaters in all shapes and sizes for the chilly months to come.
We caught up with Quebec native Philippe Malouin, creator of the Hanger chair, to find out how he continues to keep things simple after being listed among the world's 100 top designers by Architectural Digest. Designer Montana Labelle offers advice for combining elegance and simplicity from her newly opened Lifestyle Studio in Toronto; and Quebecer Danielle Carignan, a pioneer in the personal organizer profession, shares tips to declutter your space and your life.
And for those seeking an escape, this issue has everything from top coffee makers for a meditative morning routine; to a seaside hospitality complex in Iran that blends seamlessly into the blazing red, yellow and orange rock formations of Hormuz Island.
The fall issue of ELLE Decoration Canada will hit stands and Apple News+ today.
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The Town Hall × The Boys
The Town Hall has announced a special evening with brothers Ron Howard and Clint Howard as they reflect on their new book The Boys. The live evening, moderated by Malcolm Gladwell will take place on October 12 at 7PM at The Town Hall the same day The Boys is released.
What was it like to grow up on TV? is not a question most of us know the answer to, but Academy Award-winning filmmaker Ron Howard and fan-favorite actor Clint Howard do. The brothers rose to fame on popular shows of the 1960s and 70s like Happy Days, The Andy Griffith Show, and Gentle Ben. At The Town Hall, they chat about their new dual memoir The Boys, in which they reflect on the importance of family and share memories of their extraordinary childhood spent on sound stages, hanging out with Hollywood legends like Andy Griffith, and working with trained bears. Theyߣll also dig deeper, examining the industry with the perspective of life experience behind them.
Tickets prices, which include a copy of The Boys are $47-$52 and are available at
The evening is presented in partnership with Strand Bookstore and is also providing copies of The Boys.
After the last year and a half of working on this book, I am really looking forward to sitting with Clint and Malcolm at Town Hall to dive into our life experiences, as well as share all that we have learned throughout this process, said Ron Howard.
Clint Howard agreed. Writing a memoir with my brother has been an awesome experience and kicking off our book tour in New York City is a dream come true.
We are excited to welcome Ron and Clint Howard to The Town Hall to discuss their book The Boys, said Artistic Director Melay Araya. This is an exciting opportunity for audiences to get a peek behind the scenes of Hollywood from two these two prolific men and to see that while their family's circumstances may have been different, they have gone through some of the same struggles and triumphs that many families do. Our goal at The Town Hall is to welcome important voices commenting on the American experience, and we know this evening will be fun and enlightening.
With the perspective of time and success Ron as a filmmaker, producer, and Hollywood A-lister, Clint as a busy character actor the Howard brothers delve deep into an upbringing that seemed normal to them yet was anything but. Their Midwestern parents, Rance and Jean, moved to California to pursue their own showbiz dreams. But it was their young sons who found steady employment as actors. Rance put aside his ego and ambition to become Ron and Clint's teacher, sage, and moral compass. Jean became their loving protector sometimes over-protector from the snares and traps of Hollywood.
By turns confessional, nostalgic, heartwarming, and harrowing, The Boys is a dual narrative that lifts the lid on the Howard brothers' closely held lives. It's the journey of a tight four-person family unit that held fast in an unforgiving business and of two brothers who survived child-actor syndrome to become fulfilled adults.
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Interview with Dean Karnazes
Dean Carnazes is a marathon runner known for serious feats of endurance. He recently wrote a book, Runner's High: A Life in Motion, about running and his experience as a marathon runner. I got the chance to speak with Dean about his marathon career and Runner's High.
What was your favorite experience while running?
While I was running across the country—from LA to NYC—I got a call from the White House saying that Michelle Obama wanted me to stop in to say hi. Prank call was my first reaction. But it was real. I'll never forget running down the hallway of the White House and out to the South Lawn to meet with the first lady. She welcomed me with a hug and said, "It's such an honor to meet you." I'm not making this up.
What is your favorite part of the marathon experience?
The pain and the struggle. You remember the joyful moments, but the tough moments leave a more indelible imprint.
Do you have a marathon that you particularly liked?
How long is the interview? (laughter) I've run hundreds of marathons and each is memorable in it's own way. I once ran 50 marathons, in all 50 states, in 50 consecutive days. That experience in its totality was quite extraordinary.
Do you have a favorite place to run?
Greece. I'm 100% Greek and Greece is the birthplace of the marathon. It doesn't get more real than that.
What athletes do you particularly admire?
The back of the packers struggling to reach the finish line before the cutoff. Sure, I admire the elite, but watching the last place finisher is more inspiring.
I've been in a 2-week quarantine in a hotel in Sydney in preparation for this crazy 1,000-mile run across Australia, so I've been watching a lot of the Tokyo Olympics. In fact, I've probably watched more television in the past two weeks than I've watched in the past two years!
Are there any Olympic athletes, in the most recent Tokyo Olympics, that you were particularly impressed by?
So many of the athletes impress me. But I think what impressed me the most this Olympics' was Simone Biles withdrawal because of mental health concerns. She is such a dominant force but she became very human in showing her vulnerability.
How do you feel about energy drinks and other products that may change/enhance athletes' performance?
Athletes will always seek anything that can provide an edge. So long as it is not a banned substance, I'm okay with it.
What, in your opinion, is your biggest accomplishment as a runner?
The fact that I am still just as passionate about running as I was when I first started. The stoke is still there after all these years.
What was it like to write a book about something you're so passionate about like running?
To capture my authentic running voice, I do a lot of writing while I run (by dictating into my phone). People say I truthfully capture the essence of running in my writing, and that's because at a time when I'm experiencing the thoughts, feelings and emotions of a runner I'm taking note. To put that passion into words makes compelling reading.
Are you happy with the way people have spoken about your book thus far?
I got an email from a gentleman this morning who said he had intended to read a couple chapters of my book last night before going to bed. Five hours later he finished the book, he told me. Then, he said, he got up. He just had to go on a run.
Yes, I'm happy with the way people have spoken about my book. That message says it all.
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Q&A WITH AUTHOR DAVID THEO GOLDBERG
A pervasive sense has taken hold that any and all of us are under suspicion and surveillance, walking on a tightrope, a step away from erasure of rights or security. Nothing new for many long-targeted populations, it is now surfacing as a broad social sensibility, ramped up by environmental crisis and pandemic wreckage. We have come to live in proliferating dread, even of dread itself.
In this brilliant analysis of the nature, origins, and implications of this gnawing feeling, author David Theo Goldberg exposes tracking capitalism as the operating system at the root of dread. In contrast to surveillance, which requires labor-intensive analysis of people's actions and communications, tracking strips back to the fundamental mapping of our movements, networks, and all traces of our digitally mediated lives. A simultaneous tearing of the social fabric – festering culture wars, the erosion of truth, even "civil war" itself – frays the seams of the sociality and solidarity needed to counter this transformation of people into harvestable, expendable data.
This searing commentary offers a critical apparatus for interrogating the politics of our time, arguing that we need not just a politics of refusal and resistance, but a creative politics to counter the social life of dread.
David Theo Goldberg is Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute.
Interview by: Heather Skovlund-Reibsamen
To begin, when did you realize that you first wanted to be a writer?
Quite young. I liked to write as a teenager, fifteen or sixteen, won a prize at high school for English writing. Looking back, I was not nearly as compelling as I fantasized. In training to be an academic I started attending closely to my technical writing. While at graduate school in New York I was involved in making independent films and music videos. I co-wrote the outline and voice-over text for an experimental film on apartheid South Africa which I also co-directed. The film won some international film festival awards. My early published academic writing was dense. I worked hard at getting myself to be clearer, cleaner, more concise. Like all art, writing requires endless attention to its detail, rhythm, flow.
What would you say is your interesting writing quirk?
I have a couple. I lap swim quite seriously early every morning. When I am struggling with an idea, or even to articulate a sentence, the quiet solitude of pulling through water on one's own unbothered by anything around often leads one, or even a whole sentence or two. The challenge, of course, is to recall accurately enough what I thought so great to be able to write it down at swim's end. Until injuries caught up with me a few years ago I surfed extensively, and for many decades. I would travel to some surf spots further afield as much to be able, between surfs, to write uninterrupted by day-work at home as to enjoy the great surf and culture at hand.
When I have things pouring out of me and I am writing fast I tend to plug into fast jazz. The likes of the great Cuban jazz pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba or Japanese pianist Hiromi. Or the big band Snarky Puppy, with Hammond organist Cory Henry, who are fun. Writing has rhythms and I hope some of the music has rubbed off in my writing. There are times, nevertheless, when I like to write in silence, completely alone with my own thoughts.
What kind of research do you do, and how long do you spend researching before beginning a book?
It depends on the book: I usually read extensively regarding the subject matter until I feel saturated and an argument thread for the book is mostly in place. Jacques Derrida, the great French philosopher, was once asked by the documentary filmmaker, Amy Ziering, if he had read all the books in his enormous personal library. "I have read only four," Derrida responded. He then added, the crease of a smile at the corners of his mouth, "But I have read them very well." The challenge is to read whatever one is engaging to find insights and ideas with which one can think.
I also find it thought-provoking to observe cultural, technological, political and economic trends and changes at work around us. My writing itself is as much an unfolding of the argument line, often enough surprising me in the writing, through where the writing takes me.
Edward Said, the great intellectual of the late twentieth century, wrote a book, Beginnings, which is about how challenging it can be to open a book, to write the first sentences. But also how to end, to bring it to a close in ways that will linger with the reader. Whether creative or analytic writing, not that it is always easy to distinguish the two. Said's book has stuck with me through much of my writing career.
How many books have you written? Which is your favorite?
Ten sole or co-authored monographs; another ten edited or co-edited books. Naming a favorite, especially publicly, is like saying who among your children are your best ones. Tough to do. There are two books that stick out because they have both expressed key developments in my thinking and have been impactful in scholarly debates around these questions.
The first is The Racial State (2002), about how the modern state since the 17th century was founded on racial structures, structuring into its very formation the elevation of Europeans/those of European descent at the expense of all others. Obviously these structures transformed over time, and from one place to another, but the driving principle has largely remained in place. The key argument is that modern states become modern by taking on the technologies of race as structuring mechanisms.
The second is The Threat of Race: Reflections on Racial Neoliberalism (2009). This book traces the ways the neoliberalizing of polities globally—the financialization of everything; the divorcing of contemporary social, economic, and political conditions from the historical forces that produced them; the complete personalizing of responsibility for one's standing and experience in society, no matter the social structures and challenges one has faced–has sought to empty the concept of racism and its affiliated racial conceptions of any critical charge or meaning. The conservative attacks we are currently witnessing on critical race theory have their foundations in this neoliberalizing turn starting in the 1980s. Conservatives of this stripe find discussions, analysis, and engagement of racial issues threatening precisely because they challenge their view of the world.
What inspired you to write Dread: Facing Futureless Futures?
In 2016 family, friends, and colleagues were waking up each day with a sense of anxiety, some calling it a sense of doom. The rise in authoritarianism here in the U.S. but also across a widening range of societies was in part fueling this sense. I was feeling it too. I started by trying to put my finger on what this feeling was, what it amounted to, to name it. "Dread" was the concept I came up with to best express this sense. When I mentioned it aloud, others would exclaim, "That's it!" What followed was the urge to write a book exploring the underlying conditions prompting this generalized sense, and the implications.
What is the significance of the title?
Dread is a socially produced pervasive anxiety the basic cause(s) of which it is difficult fully to identify. Like Kierkegaard in the 19th century, I contrast dread with fear. Fear is a feeling the object of which one can usually identify, name concretely. The object of dread is a feeling of anxiety and unsettlement the sources of which I cannot concretely or precisely articulate.
"Facing Futureless Futures," the subtitle, speaks to the ways in which we have created or collectively allowed to be created social conditions that threaten our very wellbeing, if not existence. That some are talking about "the sixth extinction" exactly expresses this heightening anxiety about the survival not just of lifestyle but of life, of the world that supports life itself.
Can you tell us about the book?
I wanted to account for the conditions prompting this pervasive sense of dread, of uncontainable anxiety. The authoritarianisms that seemed to be taking hold, the unhinged statements and expressions struck me as symptomatic of something deeper, structurally more pervasive and difficult to address. So I was concerned to string together an analysis of those conditions, to offer a language of analysis for what is happening to us, what we are doing to ourselves and over which we think we have little if any control.
These include the pervasive emergence of algorithmic culture, the ways algorithms are structured increasingly into and order our everyday activities, the overwhelmingly instrumentalist mode of thinking it insists upon, often in increasingly intrusive ways (the "internet of everything"). This pervades not just how we order consumer goods, how we invest, how we learn at school and college but how we run our homes and businesses, increasingly how cars drive, how and with whom we interact, how we relate to each other, indeed, the quickening pace of worker and work function replacement by robots. Everything we do when electronically connected is now being tracked—where we go, who we interact with, what we consume, how we vote, our medical conditions, our work habits, everything! And that in turn becomes the basis for shaping and reshaping our desires but also the (narrowing of) possibilities presented to each of us.
Increasingly, chips are being inserted into human beings, for a variety of purposes, from medical reasons to consumption accessibility (we are in the early process of being turned into walking credit cards), to tracking productivity, and government control. The digital is transforming the very nature of the human into the techno-human.
The anxiety all this is producing, consciously or not, includes the sense of lost privacy and transparency, depersonalized desire, and undermined self-control. This is readily exacerbated by events and even structures over which we take ourselves to have little or any control, like the pandemic and the impacts of climate change, the conditions for the production of both of which have been dramatically over-politicized. And all of this has laced through it structurally produced differentiations of class, race, and gender, further intensifying the concerns. The outcome of all of this, I suggest, is the ramping up of "civil war," less conventionally understood than as more or less violent contestations over how we should all be living in the world.
Did you learn anything while writing the book?
One cannot address a dominant set of social concerns without first understanding it. The given is not indelibly cemented into place. What looks like natural conditions is often, at the very least, socially arranged. That means what we have made with debilitating effect we can unmake.
Above all, this invites a relational mode of analysis. It involves seeing—in the sense of looking at the world—in its deeply relational constitution. What we do in one place both affects and is affected by what others are doing elsewhere. Like the weather, environmental impacts and pandemics know no national boundaries or borders. Tracking is at once individually isolating and, less visibly, deeply relational. Racial ideas circulate globally, even if taken up and expressed differently in one place from another, just as racisms in one place are shored up and sustained by racisms elsewhere. For example, critical race theory was originally formulated and fashioned in American law schools but both its application and of late its facile condemnation have been taken up as far afield as Britain, France, and Australia.
And second, I found myself reaching a more hopeful conclusion, if not ending. I suggest that those societies that have taken seriously infrastructures of care for members of the society at large are far better able to address collective challenges such as pandemics and the impacts of climate change, or indeed racisms, at least in principle. Societies that fared better in quickly addressing the pandemic and saving their populations from rampant infection and death have been those that have invested more readily and enduringly in social infrastructures of care.
What is the purpose of the book?
To elaborate an analysis and vocabulary for understanding the debilitating social and ecological conditions we have created and face, and how we might address the challenges in creatively relational ways.
What are you wanting your readers to take away from the material?
Three insights: that we have created a world that in all it gives us is undermining the very conditions of possibility for sustaining those affordances; that the technological apparatuses so completely transforming our worlds and who we are in them, especially tracking technologies, enable possibilities not previously available. But at the very same time they have proved debilitating, socially, ecologically, and increasingly politically; that a completely self-regarding disposition to the world, individually and nationally, is in stark contrast with one that recognizes our deeply relational condition socio-ecologically; the deeply relational ways in which socio-ecological worlds are constituted become key to addressing the challenges we are facing interactively.
What were the key challenges you faced when writing this book?
The conditions unfolding across the world were transforming remarkably quickly. The pandemic took hold in the middle of writing the book, shutting down much of what we had taken for granted. It revealed deep socio-economic disparities, racially indexed, exacerbating the impacts. These were further ramified by the George Floyd murder, among others, and the protests that followed. While I was already lacing racial analysis into the analytic contours of the book, the series of police killings and protests as well as the attacks on Asians, especially women, needed to be referenced. Nor could one write a book about dread without addressing the pandemic. So I added a chapter devoted to Covid and its social impacts and implications pretty much in situ.
What was the highlight of writing this book?
Being in sustained conversation with close intellectual friends and colleagues about the range of conditions I address in the book. This was especially productive and meaningful given our extended collective remoteness as a pandemic consequence. But also, because I was thinking and writing in the midst of an unfolding of the very conditions which I was addressing.
Is there anything that you would like to add for the readers?
The world we have inherited and from which we make ourselves today has furnished us with extraordinary possibility. But in being less mindful of the cumulative impacts of the many generations of this making we have just begun to understand that our world also is in advanced process of radically undermining the conditions making its enduring sustainability possible. The book is about our present circumstances with a view to understanding some of what it will take to have futures to which to look forward. I very much hope it is read in this spirit.
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BRETT NEWSKI – IT'S HARD TO BE A PERSON
Songwriter and touring musician Brett Newski (who has played alongside the Pixies, Violent Femmes, Courtney Barnett, Manchester Orchestra, Better Than Ezra and more) is releasing his first illustrated book, It's Hard to be a Person: Defeating Anxiety, Surviving the World, and Having More Fun, accompanied by a soundtrack to the book featuring 8 original songs. The book has been endorsed by Stelth Ulvang of The Lumineers, "I love how easy Newski makes it to plow through the dark stuff with some well-placed humor and grit."
Newski been featured on Rolling Stone, NPR, American Songwriter, SiriusXM, Boston Globe, and Billboard. He continues to tour over 100 dates per year. He's also the host of the popular podcast, Dirt from the Road, where he chats with musicians about their strangest travel stories, mental health boosts, and how to navigate the hurdles of being a person in modern times. Guests include All American Rejects, Dashboard Confessional, Nada Surf, Stelth Ulvang (The Lumineers), Guster, Heartless Bastards, The Verve Pipe, Toad the Wet Sprocket and Barenaked Ladies co-founder, Steven Page.
Starting with couple of doodles Newski posted to social media making light of his struggle with anxiety and depression, they garnered a surprising and overwhelming response and he decided to make his relatable coping mechanism of drawings into a series. Now, Newski presents three years' worth of drawings in his new book, It's Hard to be a Person, offering mental health boosts through humor and relatable quips about the perils of living in our world with a mental illness. Newski's drawings offer a warmth and innocence that comforts readers and reflects their own experiences to assert that, despite the taboo of mental illness, most of us relate to each other on a deeper level when it comes to mental health.
Newski's book shares the message of:
How anxiety is useful and can cultivate creativity
Using humor to overcome mental health struggles/phobias
How creating music, art, and writing can help ease anxiety and depression
Helping introverts shine
Shared experiences – how art can connect us by allowing us to express difficult emotions
The importance of speaking up about mental health issues
Dispelling the stigma around mental health, therapy, and discussing difficult things
Book and album preorder available here.
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New Book on the Volkswagen Type 4: 411 and 412
There's a new book out now via Veloce Books about the Volkswagen Type 4 by Marc Cranswick, going over everything from the history to the specifications on the vehicles. Sections from the book have been provided below. You can purchase the book HERE.
"If ever there was a car in search of a context and market, it was the VW Type 4. Volkswagen's first foray into the upscale sector brought engineering innovation to Wolfsburg. It also tried to convince worldwide buyers that VW still had the right stuff. With design origins in the Porsche consultancy, the signs were hopeful. However, globally, the automarket was rapidly changing."
"The VW Type 4's portfolio ran to unitary construction and fuel injection, but had to face fancy competition from Detroit's European subsidiaries. All the while, VW was searching for its future road, and faced challenging developments. The fuel crisis and Japanese competition in North America kept the pressure on at Wolfsburg."
"The Type 4 411 and 412 held to VW tradition, while introducing new engineering directions and refinements. VW's biggest ever car faced off against mainstream competition."
"It was also Volkswagen's first mid-size car and it's final design in a thirty year air-cooled odyssey."
"Could the VW 411 and 412's solid traditional virtues carry the day? Then and now the Type 4's unbreakable VW quality, and flat out sustainability, appealed to air cooled devotees. The 411 and 412 brought a new dimension in comfort to VW, and its hardware design was utilized by the air cooled clan both on and off road. The Type 4 even had a sportscar connection, and never lost the power to surprise."
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Dont Ever Bet Against Americas Wealthy
by Sam Pizzigati | May 11, 2011 | Blog | 0 comments
Financial industry analysts are going ga-ga over the soaring cohorts of mega rich in China and India. But researchers at one influential global financial consulting group are calculating that the U.S. millionaire share of world millionaire wealth will actually increase over the next decade.
Deloitte LLP has just become the latest global financial industry giant to take a stab at tallying the wealth of the world's wealthy, joining, among others, Merrill Lynch, the Boston Consulting Group, and Credit Suisse. But Deloitte seems to be carving out a niche all its own in the wealth census sweepstakes: the future.
The global wealth study Deloitte's Center for Financial Services released last week projects, a decade ahead, the wealthy's wealth in 25 major countries "selected for their size, growth potential, and strategic importance."
By 2020, Deloitte calculates, the holdings of all these wealthy will have more than doubled, from $92 trillion in 2011 to $202 trillion in 2020.
How reliable can we rate these projections? Deloitte's investigators, working with Oxford Economics, have tried to avoid "subjective judgments." They've instead categorized the current holdings of the world's rich by asset type, then projected overall growth in each category.
The goal: A snapshot of world wealth, in 2020, that financial managers can use to plan their marketing — to the rich — efforts.
And the main advice Deloitte now has to offer these financial managers? Don't let those rising growth rates in China and India, Deloitte advises, get you dazzled. Grand fortune's real home, for deep into the future, will remain the United States.
In 2020, the Deloitte projections indicate, Americans will hold 43 percent of the world's millionaire household wealth, up slightly from the 42 percent share of this wealth that wealthy Americans hold today.
The Deloitte wealth totals, unlike most other recent global wealth tallies, encompass both financial assets — stocks, bonds, and other investments — and nonfinancial assets like primary residences and consumer durables.
About 38 million households in the nations the Deloitte study tracks hold at least $1 million in total net worth. By 2020, Deloitte projects, over 65 million will have hit the million mark. Over 20 million of them will live in the United States.
The U.S. share will be equally pronounced among the richest of the rich, those households worth at least $30 million. The United States has 496,000 such households today. In 2020, an estimated 620,000 U.S. households will hold $30 million or more in wealth. China will rank second, with 327,000 super rich.
These figures, of course, all represent just good guesses. The Deloitte projection model, like all forecasting models, has to make assumptions. Chief among these assumptions: the expectation that tax policies around the globe won't change significantly between now and 2020.
That's a reasonable assumption to make, particularly for financial industry analysts. Their rich clients in the United States and around the globe have, after all, been doing a fairly efficient job quashing any and all moves to tax, at significantly higher levels, the incomes and wealth of the world's most fortunate.
If that quashing continues, the new Deloitte numbers make plain, the world's wealthy — and America's wealthy particularly — will enjoy a golden decade, no matter how rocky a road the rest of us may have to travel.
Sam Pizzigati edits Too Much, the online weekly on excess and inequality published by the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Policy Studies. Read the current issue or sign up to receive Too Much in your email inbox.
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import static com.alibaba.citrus.util.ObjectUtil.*;
import static com.alibaba.citrus.util.StringEscapeUtil.*;
import static org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils.*;

import java.io.PrintWriter;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

import com.alibaba.citrus.service.requestcontext.buffered.BufferedRequestContext;
import com.alibaba.citrus.turbine.dataresolver.Param;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;

/**
 * 动态生成下载文件。
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 * @author Michael Zhou
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public class Download {
    @Autowired
    private HttpServletResponse response;

    @Autowired
    private BufferedRequestContext brc;

    public void execute(@Param("filename") String filename) throws Exception {
        // 为了增强用户体验,关闭buffering,让下载立即开始,而不是等待整个文件生成完才通知用户下载。
        brc.setBuffering(false);

        // 设置headers,下载文件名必须避免非us-ascii字符,因为各浏览器的兼容程度不同。
        filename = defaultIfNull(trimToNull(filename), "image") + ".txt";
        filename = "\"" + escapeURL(filename) + "\"";

        response.setHeader("Content-disposition", "attachment; filename=" + filename);

        // 只要设置了正确的content type,你就可以让用户下载任何文本或二进制的内容:
        // HTML、JSON、JavaScript、JPG、PDF、EXCEL等。
        response.setContentType("text/plain");

        PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();

        for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
            out.flush(); // 立即提示用户下载

            for (int j = 0; j < 100000; j++) {
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        }
    }
}

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This scares me. It's equivalent to 5 rolls of filament, which is almost a mile of filament total, weighs 11 lbs, and costs around $60.
Please pong back ONLY if you have been pinged.
@mikexcao and @Scout6088 both posted yesterday, so they should be good, right?
DO IT! I dare you.
…You can do it all 45 nights long!
Give me the 5 kilo roll of PLA first.
Uhhhhmm… Sure, but I'm still pinging them early.
Pong, I'm on a bus to a regional right now, so don't expect much out of me.
Alive. I was just getting home from a hectic prep for Asheville this weekend.


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Why should you become an IBEW member?
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When you join IBEW, you expect to have the most opportunity to secure the best pay and benefits in the industry. And you do! Our members have adequately established and maintained fair wages and benefits for their labor. Our strength in numbers equates to bargaining power to improve wages. Our collective working agreements help to achieve a higher standard of living for all in the electrical construction industry.
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Budapest, September 7 (MTI) – Hungary's Nobel laureate author Imre Kertesz (85) has written about Europe's liberalism as childish and suicidal in his latest book entitled The Last Refuge, Monday's daily Magyar Idok said, citing a recent report by Swedish news portal FriaTider.
The paper said that Kertesz had sharply criticised the Western establishment's decision to allow Europe to change its population through mass immigration from Third World countries.
"Europe will soon go under because of its previous liberalism which has proven childish and suicidal," according to a summary of Kertesz's book by the blogger Thomas Nydahl. "Europe produced Hitler, and after Hitler there stands a continent with no arguments: the doors are wide open for Islam; no longer does anyone dare talk about race and religion, while at the same time Islam only knows the language of hatred against all foreign races and religions," the blogger cited Kertesz's book as saying.
"I would talk about how Muslims are flooding, occupying, in no uncertain terms, destroying Europe; about how Europe relates to this, about the suicidal liberalism and the stupid democracy . It always ends the same way: civilization reaches a stage of maturation where it is not only unable to defend itself, but where it in a seemingly incomprehensible manner worships its own enemy," he said.
Magda Kertesz, the writer's wife, told MTI on Monday that her husband still stood by his statements written down several years ago. The book includes a selection of writings from the period between 2002 and 2009.
"The text is not hate-enticing or discriminatory, it is just a sad diagnosis that Imre Kertesz has made," she said. Kertesz's writing can be considered a prophecy that fits the current situation well and it has started being fulfilled, she added.
A wake up call for the civilisation.
It is worth noting that Imre Kertesz' book titled "The Last Refuge" is very very difficult to locate and obtain.
Would anyone, please, provide an answer?


Fancy a game? Yes it is a sliced vintage Bakelite pool ball beautifully framed with embellished sterling silver, done by my Balinese silversmiths, creating this interesting pendant. I was really excited to be able to compliment the vibrant colors in the ball with the resin beads. This is a truly eye catching piece, dress it up, dress it down, either way, lots of fun to wear! Completing this necklace is my own design Sally Bass signed clasp.