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Trump signs revised executive order banning immigration from Muslim majority countries
Russia probe is elephant in the room at confirmation hearings for Deputy and Associate Attorneys General
ACA repeal advances through two committees; next stop Budget Committee
Arkansas bill would ban Howard Zinn's writings from classrooms
UN representative meets with various Native American tribes about indigenous rights
Indian acid attack survivors strip away stigma while serving up orders at groundbreaking cafés
Kenyan community project restores mangroves while selling carbon credits
With no public ceremony or fanfare, President Donald Trump took a second crack at a controversial travel ban this week. Monday morning, he quietly signed another executive order, this time blocking new visas for individuals from six Muslim-majority nations for 90 days and restarting a 120-day ban on refugees entering the country, though this time around Syrians are not indefinitely barred from entry.
By Wednesday, Hawaii filed suit against the action saying the ban would hurt the state's tourism sector. And four others states, led by Washington, are asking a U.S. District court to apply the temporary restraining order that blocked the first ban to the second version as well, arguing the two are effectively the same. FSRN's Nell Abram has more.
Russia probe is elephant in room at confirmation hearings for Deputy & Associate Attorney General
The Senate Judiciary Committee continued the confirmation process for high level posts in the U.S. Department of Justice this week, with a joint hearing for Deputy Attorney General and Associate Attorney General nominees. The hearings came amid calls for an independent investigation into Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election, and on the heels of revelations that recently confirmed Attorney General Jeff Sessions made misleading statements under oath during his own confirmation hearing before the same panel. FSRN's Reaux Packard has more.
The GOP unveiled its long-promised proposal for repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act this week and opposition was swift, with critics ranging from the healthcare industry, to senior citizens groups to reproductive health providers to advocates for the poor. FSRN's Nell Abram has more.
Lawmakers in Arkansas are considering banning any material by or about historian Howard Zinn from public or state-supported school coursework. Zinn is best known for "A People's History of the United States" a book that looks at the nation's history from the perspective of marginalized and disadvantaged communities. Shannon Young has more.
Representatives of Native American nations and tribes are in Washington DC as part of a series of actions to put indigenous issues on the national political agenda. Standing Rock Sioux leaders led a prayer march Friday morning while drawing attention to the intersection of indigenous sovereignty rights and environmental protection. Indigenous activists and their allies are also marching in Los Angeles, calling on the City Council to cut financial ties with Wells Fargo over the bank's financing of the nearly $4 billion, four-state Dakota Access pipeline project. So far three cities have taken divestment action: Seattle, Santa Monica and Davis, California.
Oil could start to flow through the controversial pipeline as early as next week; Wednesday a federal judge turned down an eleventh hour bid to block work on the last leg of project. The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz recently visited North Dakota. She spoke with FSRN's Jim Kent at the conclusion of her mission.
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But for many, not showing up for work simply isn't an option; for others having a job is a political statement in and of itself.
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In its first few weeks in office, the Trump administration has already rolled back a number of Obama-era measures meant to protect the environment. And while some warn this could lead to a cascading effect of nations pulling out of international climate commitments, small scale efforts to heal damaged ecosystems continue in developing countries. Diana Wanyonyi has this story about an initiative in two coastal villages in southern Kenya to restore Indian Ocean mangroves while earning money by selling carbon credits on the international market.
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I would like to direct a love story with drama next: Kurangu Bommai's Nithilan Swaminathan
Nithilan Swaminathan speaks fast but it is with innate coherence — just like his film Kurangu Bommai. The debutante filmmaker who has wowed critics and the audience with his first film starring ace director Bharathiraja, Vidharth, Elango Kumaravel and Delma Davis chats with indianexpress.com about his entry, Kurangu Bommai and the kind of films he would like to make.
We don't know much about Nithilan before Nalaya Iyakkunar. When did you first aspire to make films?
I have always liked watching movies but can't really identify a moment when I decided. Back then, there was this notion that only the rich could enter the cinema industry. I am from a small village. I didn't have a proper mentor. In fact, I had wanted to get into the military as my relatives had gotten into the same. But, I used to write poetry at school. Maybe it was due to these habits, I leaned towards filmmaking. At the beginning, I started learning about cinema by watching Kamal (Haasan) sir's films and his interviews. In Chennai, I discovered that I could study about cinema and that there are diploma courses for the same. I couldn't get a seat so I ended up studying Visual Communication.
How did your short films experience aid you in creating a film for the silver screen?
I discovered what I could do and what I couldn't by making short films. It taught me how to deliver content and also handle practical things on set. I got my basics from my Visual communication course, but short films proved to be a major learning curve. We could see within ten days whether an idea worked or not. We get an idea, we complete shoot in 3 days, post-production happens for two days and we get to see the output. It taught me a lot about myself.
How did Kurangu Bommai come about?
Kurangu Bommai is a very simple story. If you look at its one liner, you could say it's a story from the era of MGR-Shivaji era. What I wanted to do is to be true to the content I take; infuse things from our normal way of life on the screen without disturbing the story. One of my first short films, Puthir had this idea of a 'play' in its story. The basic concept is from one of our school exercises — 'match the following'. We correlate the wrong answers at the start, only to figure out the right ones at the end. The main story thread is however from the newspapers. If you read the papers today, you can find a similar news story.
One of the most appreciated things in Kurangu Bommai was the ambient details that were incorporated — like the broken clock that Ganja Karuppu uses. While they aren't necessary, they add a lot of flavour to the character. Tell us about those.
As I said earlier, I love to infuse interesting things from our ordinary way of life into my stories. There will be lot more in my next films. We can't say everything in one movie. The main concern is that it shouldn't be obtrusive to the main story. If you see the movie again, you'll discover a lot more details. And you'll discover new things each time you watch the movie. I first saw the clock and the carrying the number plate idea from videos on Facebook. I found it interesting and added it as a small part in my script.
Let's talk about the consistency in Kurangu Bommai's characters. For instance Elango Kumaravel's love for cricket is constant throughout the movie and percolates to other things he does.
There are two ways to make a film. First, a story is written or a real life instance is chosen and the movie is made. Second, to first write a character and develop a story around it. If you see in a few of Scorcese's movies, there will be a limitation to the character and situations are created out of the character's attributes. This is a reflection of that. I decided that he likes and plays cricket, so those aspects kept coming along while his core character doesn't change.
However, it wasn't the characters that I decided first. Kurangu Bommai's crux is how it's people react when they meet with difficult situations. Does he stay in the white or cross over to the other side? Every character has a need. When there is a need and he encounters a situation that can satisfy that need, does he still stay righteous? This struggle is there in every character of Kurangu Bommai. Ekambaram is a rowdy but he tries to rescue a friend in trouble. Vidharth is supposedly a good guy who runs after pickpockets, but at the end he cuts off the arms and limbs of the villain. The point is no one is always a textbook good individual. They are all on the run to satisfy a need, including Bharathiraja sir's character. He could have easily refused to smuggle that idol, but he didn't owing to friendship. So this struggle was the initial point. Then came the narration style from Puthir, together forming Kurangu Bommai's script.
The film just runs about 106 mins. Was it planned? Were there any doubts about the short running time?
The first edit was around 2 hours. Then we cut a few portions before Censors. Subsequently, we edited with music and further trimmed it down. Thus, it wasn't planned. But for a story like this, it will become tiring if it is too long. Nevertheless, it's the director's flair. A director can make a movie for 5 hours and still keep the audience engaged. But I felt this was enough.
Both Bharathiraja and Elango Kumaravel are in avatars we haven't seen them in before. How did you decide upon casting them?
The faces we see with actors on screen are just a part of the entire skill set. It is the director's responsibility to use them. For example, how would it be if Rajini sir does a movie like Cyclist; How would have Kurangu Bommai been if Rajini sir had acted in it? When you think along such lines, you get a different dimension. It was one such thought trail that led me to Bharathiraja sir. I didn't have anyone in mind while writing the story. But after a few scenes, I was sure that he should do it. The other example Kumaravel is one of the 5-6 people I wished to cast myself. Uthiri Pookal Vijayan, Elango Kumaravel, Radharavi sir, Aadukalam Kishore, Aaranya Kaandam Soma Sundaram, the late Alva Vasu are some such artistes. Even in my forthcoming movies, I will continue to showcase actors in a different light.
What kind of movies would you like to direct in future?
A love story with some drama, maybe. But nothing has been finalised yet. Talks are on. I've been approached by many people but it is an important decision considering it is my second movie.
Bharathiraja, Elango Kumaravel, Kurangu Bommai, Nithilan Swaminathan, Vidharth
While Meesaya Murukku is a commercial film, Naragasooran will be a suspense drama: Aathmika
Mysskin is probably the Tarantino of Tamil cinema: Thupparivaalan actor Vinay

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After decades of believing that Danish immigrant Hans Pederson left us penniless, I uncover the truth about my father's wealth and prolific contributions to Seattle. I discover my mysterious father's boom to bust life in the early 1900s as I grapple with family secrets and deception in my recently published memoir, Mysterious Builder of Seattle Landmarks Searching for My Father.
100 years later, Hans Pederson's legacy continues to grow. The Roy Vue apartments have just been designated the seventh Seattle Landmarks building constructed by Hans Pederson. His last-named landmark was Washington Hall, the 1908 building that continues to be a melting pot a century later. For 100 years the building sheltered immigrants from Denmark, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Brazil. Its stage and dance hall brought such outstanding performers as Marcus Garvey, W.E.B. Du Bois, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, and Jimi Hendrix.
Historic Seattle purchased Washington Hall in 2009. After raising $15,000,000 to restore the building, it reopened in 2016 jointly hosted by anchor partners 206 Zulu celebrating Hip Hop, HIDMO relaunching community space, and Voices Rising an LGBT musical group of color.
Today's headlong rush to obliterate the old ignores the contributions of our past. Historic societies keep our heritage alive by preserving both the wisdom of bygone days and the changing contemporary culture.


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Q: How to install all packages of "Priority: standard" on Debian When installed from DVD, a new Debian installation has a lot of packages.  I've become used to having mutt, vim, etc. installed by default.
However, AWS AMIs and debootstrap installations have only a minimal set of packages installed (less than 300) which is not a bad thing if you're setting up a server to only do a few things, but if you actually want to log into the host regularly and use it, having to install basic packages all the time is a pain.
How do I tell Debian to install all packages of "Priority:  standard" from the repository?

A: Run the following commands:
sudo apt-get update
sudo tasksel --new-install

And make sure you turn off/on any options you do or don't want.
It will then scan the list of packages and install all available that have "Priority:  standard".
If it fails with an error indicating that dpkg failed, try running the second command again.  It worked for me the second time around.

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You will find below the horoscope of Nick Cannon with his interactive chart, an excerpt of his astrological portrait and his planetary dominants.
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Nicholas Scott "Nick" Cannon (born October 8, 1980 (birth time source: Viktor E., Astrodatabank, birth certificate)) is an American actor and rapper.
Cannon was born in San Diego, California, to 17 year old accountant Beth Gardner (née Hackett), and James Cannon, a televangelist who hosted a public access TV ministry in Charlotte, North Carolina. As a child, Cannon divided his time between living with mother and grandmother in San Diego and with his father in Charlotte. He began performing at age eight, and at the age of eleven, he landed a spot on his father's cable access program performing stand-up comedy.
Here are some character traits from Nick Cannon's birth chart. This description is far from being comprehensive but it can shed light on his/her personality, which is still interesting for professional astrologers or astrology lovers.
In a matter of minutes, you can get at your email address your astrological portrait (approximately 32 pages), a much more comprehensive report than this portrait of Nick Cannon.
Nick Cannon, the nocturnal North-western quadrant, consisting of the 4th, 5th and 6th houses, prevails in your chart: this sector favours creativity, conception and some sort of specialization or training, with helpfulness and relations as strong components. You need others' cooperation in order to work properly, although you are not very expansive: creating, innovating and thinking are what matter most to you because this self-expression enriches you and totally satisfies you.
Cheers for communication and mobility, Nick Cannon! The predominance of Air signs in your chart favours and amplifies your taste for relations and for all kinds of short trips, whether real (travels) or symbolic (new ideas, mind speculations). You gain in flexibility and adaptability what you lose in self-assertion or in pragmatism.
The predominance of Water signs indicates high sensitivity and elevation through feelings, Nick Cannon. Your heart and your emotions are your driving forces, and you can't do anything on Earth if you don't feel a strong affective charge (as a matter of fact, the word "feeling" is essential in your psychology). You need to love in order to understand, and to feel in order to take action, which causes a certain vulnerability which you should fight against.
Fire's qualities are not very present in your chart, with only 3.46% instead of the average 25%, which means that you may lack warmth, enthusiasm, conquering spirit, or energy. You may look indifferent to others, with almost no desire, no joy of life or no enterprising ability. Actually, it is not true, but you should let go, force yourself to be more daring, and show your amazement as well as your vitality. You certainly have as much energy as others, you just need to release it, and it is up to you to display more of it, since it will be all to your benefit: shout, sing, pull faces, dance! That's the right mean for you... In the end, you'll never be accused of being sad, phlegmatic or a killjoy!
The emphasis is on succedent houses in your chart, namely, the 2nd, 5th, 8th and 11th houses, Nick Cannon: this configuration usually endows a personality with affective and sensitive qualities. Obviously, to the detriment of self-confidence or self-assertion, but your heart qualities may be very important. These houses also favour realization. Time and patience are part of their characteristics. However, they are only indications and you must include them in the rest of your chart in order to see whether they are validated or not!
The three most important planets in your chart are Uranus, Mars and Mercury.
In your natal chart, the three most important signs - according to criteria mentioned above - are in decreasing order of strength Libra, Scorpio and Gemini. In general, these signs are important because your Ascendant or your Sun is located there. But this is not always the case: there may be a cluster of planets, or a planet may be near an angle other than the Midheaven or Ascendant. It may also be because two or three planets are considered to be very active because they form numerous aspects from these signs.
The 5th, 6th and 4th houses are the most prominent ones in your birth chart. From the analysis of the most tenanted houses, the astrologer identifies your most significant fields or spheres of activity. They deal with what you are experiencing - or what you will be brought to experience one day - or they deal with your inner motivations.
After this paragraph about dominant planets, of Nick Cannon, here are the character traits that you must read more carefully than the previous texts since they are very specific: the texts about dominant planets only give background information about the personality and remain quite general: they emphasize or, on the contrary, mitigate different particularities or facets of a personality. A human being is a complex whole and only bodies of texts can attempt to successfully figure out all the finer points.
You are sensitive to beauty, Nick Cannon, and your emotional reactions are often of an aesthetical order because, even in the appearances, balance and harmony are necessary for your well being. You easily identify with others, you have a talent for emphasizing their best qualities and you solve their problems with tact and diplomacy. You endlessly weigh the pros and the cons and you constantly try to please your interlocutors. In doing so, you may develop a strong dependency because you need their approval too much. It is difficult for you and your entourage to deal with your indecisiveness because it inclines you towards contemplation more than towards creation and you are tempted to procrastinate unless you try to charm others into doing things for you. But as long as harmony prevails... isn't it what matters?
You are the very type of the researcher endowed with great intellectual and imaginative capacities, Nick Cannon, and your curiosity is very deep. Researches, riddles and mysteries appeal to you and with a remarkable sixth sense and intuition, you endlessly try to unearth the truth, in all areas, like a psychoanalyst or a detective. You are a very secretive and introverted person, you find it difficult to open up and you rather prefer psychoanalysis. In spite of your clear-sightedness, you find it hard to deal with people: your critical mind, tinted with irony and causticity, may be destructive, especially since your determination and your stubbornness do not incline you to giving up. You are fond of provocations and you handle contradictions skilfully even though you may come across as dishonest.
Nick Cannon, inside yourself, feelings are strong and powerful. However, you never show them before weighing up and considering all the possible consequences of your words and your actions: fieriness and spontaneousness are toned down because you cannot help controlling yourself, probably due to your modesty, your discretion or your shyness; you are frightened because you are so concerned with other people's opinion that you see passion, or expressing your feelings too quickly, as sources of danger. However, you are helpful, simple, and you do not fuss around. Reason prevails in your love life but your heart may flare up when the context is well organized and everyday life is cautiously handled with good sense, tidiness and cleanliness. Your sensitivity prompts you to avoid excesses and outbursts and this is how you think that you can achieve happiness without risk.
The ruler of the Ascendant, Nick Cannon, is Mercury. It is posited in the sign of Scorpio and makes you appreciate mysteries and the unknown. You need to understand, to solve riddles, and to take action behind the scenes, perhaps so as to be even more efficient. Your criticising skill is a weapon, but it may also backfire on you, just like your sometimes excessive obstinacy.
Your iron will is part of your assets, Nick Cannon. It is supported by an ingenuity and a skilfulness that may turn you into a mighty and feared personality. You have the knack of spotting weaknesses in persons you deal with and you can easily hurt them with your innate propensity to drill or to test their force. You are extremely stubborn and you never let go when you are convinced that you are right. Sexually, you are potent and passionate. You are domineering and secretive, with a magnetic personality. It is safer to avoid being taken in a conflict with you because you may be very aggressive and you bear grudges. In some cases, you may also be sadistic. Your personality is as secretive as it is domineering in the areas of action and sexuality.
This text is only an excerpt from of Nick Cannon's portrait. We hope that it will arouse your curiosity, and that it will prompt you to deepen your knowledge of astrology, as well as to visit and use the wide range of free applications at www.astrotheme.com.
Your Life Path is influenced par the number 9, Nick, the path of travel and transcendence. You know how to take a new look at yourself and how to broaden your horizon. You are driven by the thirst for achievements and you cultivate the sense of the sacred and of sacrifice. Life teaches you to constantly push further the limits of your ego. Your destiny is based on altruism and devotion. You are very generous and you always listen to people's needs, which is among the reasons why you are very much sought after. You also show little interest in socializing or social futilities. Your spiritual growth means much more than worldly frivolities, even though it means that you have a hard time remaining grounded when you experience difficult circumstances! Your Life Path prompts you to learn, to increase the number of enriching experiences, and to constantly progress. You are interested in intellectual matters, and you set yourself high objectives. Meditation and contemplation are your valuable assets.


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Translating the poem "My Joy, My Sorrow"
When our young cultist falls in love, small, simple things become so important they eclipse his great mission. The girl's seeing him as her hero makes things even more complicated. He wants to live up to the beautiful image but knows that he can't. His mind understands he should leave her until it's too late but his heart wants to stay with her forever. In the end, he decides to become something he wasn't, for her sake.
The only details that connect this poem to the story are Saturday (Edna's favourite day of the week) and her songs (she liked singing), everything else can be safely omitted/replaced.
The original Russian text:
Мое счастье, моя беда
Что же делать мне теперь с тобою,
Счастье ты мое или беда?
Я предстал перед тобой героем,
А таким я не был никогда.
Что легло всей тяжестью на сердце,
Разве это выскажу тебе?
Но позволь теплом твоим согреться;
Много в жизни натворил я бед.
Натворил. И шрамы заработал.
И в душе, как море, плещет тьма...
Только я теперь люблю субботу –
Тот же день, что любишь ты сама.
И люблю твои смешные песни,
Нежность пальцев, нежность теплых губ...
Я предстал перед тобою честным,
Только честным быть я не могу.
Я как будто безнадежно болен,
Я лечу со сломанным крылом...
Нужно отпустить тебя на волю
Там, где свежий ветер и светло.
Знай же, я на всё глаза закрою,
Обманусь, что я тобой любим...
Добрым я предстал перед тобою
И хочу запомниться таким.
My rough translation
My joy, my sorrow
What do I do with you now?
Are you my joy or my sorrow?
As a hero I appeared before you
But it's something I've never been.
What lies a heavy burden upon my heart,
How can I tell this to you? (I can't)
But let me warm myself with your fire;
I did so much wrong in my life.
I did, that's how I earned my scars,
That's why the darkness in my heart is like a sea…
But now I like Saturday,
The same day you like.
Now I like your funny songs,
Gentle fingers, and soft lips…
As an honest guy I appeared before you
But honest I can't be…
It's like I'm terminally ill,
It's like I'm flying with a broken wing…
I should let you go free
Somewhere sunny where the breeze is fresh.
Know this: I will close my eyes to anything,
I will lie to myself that I am loved…
As a kind person I appeared before you
And I want you to remember me like this.
Alan Jackson's translation:
Are you my blessing or my curse?
I, a hero? Not true!
Although you think me one – and that is worse.
My heart's crushed to the floor;
I daren't say aloud what I've become
Your fire, so hot, so pure;
Let me warm myself, despite the ills I've done.
Ills I have done. My scars prove
Heart-darkness lies deep past measure –
Yet like you I love
Saturdays, the days that give you joy and pleasure.
The funny songs you sing,
Your tender lips, so soft, so hot,
Your tender fingers cling
Just as if I were honest – which I'm not.
I'm sick beyond all cure;
My broken wing can't beat the air;
I must hold you no more;
Release you where the wind and sun are fair…
From truth my eyes I'll blind,
Pretend you loved me – such a lie!
Once you thought me kind –
That's what I'd want to be remembered by
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List of translated poems 32 - Wolf Song 31 - Teach me 30 - Alone 29 - Fog 28 - Lur, the beautiful city 27 - My joy, my sorrow 26 - Looking for a Master 25 - Unsharpened blade 24 - Kuldagan Desert 23 - Moonshadow 22 - Hermit 21 - Chasm 20 - Snow in May 19 - Elusive dream 18 - Haiku 17 - Chance meeting 16 - The child's oath 15 - Lucky pirate 14 - Across the border 13 - The Other 12 - Light-starer 11 - All hail the young mage 10 - Books of apprentices 9 - Solace 8 - Who is it? 7 - Dean man's gold 6 - Dance of the burning souls 5 - Pirate songs 4 - Grey tower 3 - Smoky obsidian 2 - Hot obsidian 1 - Cold obsidian
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I'll tell you a secret: we, authors, need you, readers, much more than you need us. There would be no point to tell stories if there were no one to listen. And sharing our imaginary worlds with other people is a great joy. For some of us, the only joy in life, because we're often depressed and lonely. Thank you for reading :)
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Faith and Hope are fairly common English names. Love is not used as a name as often. It is not unheard of, but not as common. The trio of names first appeared in the Bible (I assume it was first appearance, the letters to the Corinthians were written about 1,900 years ago). Specifically, in First Corinthians 13:13, "And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." In the original Greek, they would be "πιστις" (pistis), "ελπις" (elpis) and "αγαπη" (agape).
Norns (Wyrd, Vernandi, and Skuld) come from North mythology, but there are similar mystical creatures (three women - old, middle aged, and young - having something to do with fate) in many different cultures, including Greek.
Aprillen:
The Norns were indeed Fates -- Urd means "fate", Verdandi means "in the making" and Skuld means "future". They would sit at the foot of the World Tree and measure out peoples lives and destinies. (Urd=Wyrd; I'm used to the modernised Norse variants of the names since I'm Scandinavian.)
To successfully transfer a psi-profile you need the human host to be at least six years old. Their brain at that age is 95% adult weight while their personalities are still very young, vulnerable, and easy to be replaced. Perfect combination. Take a younger host and you get crippled by the transfer into an underdeveloped brain. Take an older host and replacing the core becomes much more difficult.
I'm a cruel author. Not George Martin style cruel, but still...
Love didn't get her psi-profile until the age of six. It was transferred to her when she got close enough to the door the Elders arranged her to find. The transfer itself is painless, the takeover of the body is not, unless the host is peacefully sleeping.
The purpose of transferring a core psi-profile was recreating a certain man perfectly, just as he was when he died, with all his memories and personal traits. In other words, immortality. All other outcomes were seen as unacceptable. Including hybrid personalities (coexistence of multiple personalities in one body, Elie's case).
Nolan's case is even worse than, say, Rita's. Just stopping a cytokine storm would save her. Nolan's case is too old and had turned into a chronic autoimmune disorder over the years. The only thing that can save his current body is reprogramming of his immune system. And this is a huge problem.
Jude Wilkins:
Many greenhouses, at least the larger better ones will have fans that will mimic breezes that come on at night for air circulation and to toughen the plants like a wind does.
(discussing cat names of different countries)
Smoky Is a common name for grey or greyish cats. Socks is also fairly common for cats with different color fur on their feet.
Mildegard:
Blackie would be Chernysh in Russian (cherny = black). I had a black cat with that name. We have a cat name similar to Smoky. Dymok (dym = smoke). And I remember the name Socks... there was a movie where a man tamed a wolf and named him Socks. So I thought it was a dog name.
Jourell:
On the other side of the Sociopathy/empathy coin we have something like Jan and Rhoda from the film The Bad Seed. She's a high functioning sociopath but uses that knowledge and the fact shes an angelic faced little girl to manipulate people and hide her tendencies. At the time the time the movie was made, sociopathy wasn't well understood and it touches on some interesting discussion on whether someone can be "born bad". If you do see it, i recommend the 1950s version, the recent remake is lousy.
What we think of as fairy tales and folk tales were originally a lot darker and didn't always have a happy ending. Children weren't necessarily considered different, they had to be taught lessons in a world that was generally a lot harder than it was today. there were often morals yes, but they were as much warnings of things that could happen. For example Hansel and Gretal was about the dangers of trusting strangers, particularly if they deliberately tried to attract children to them. Red Riding hood had sexual undertones and was a warning against rapists. In Cinderella one of the ugly stepsisters cuts off part of her foot to try to fit inside the shoe and the blood gives her away.
By the 19th century attitudes towards kids were starting to change. The Brothers Grimm collected these folk tales and "cleaned them up" to something that was considered more acceptable to society at the time. But even then, many of their versions of these tales wouldn't be considered "kid friendly" today. Since then as morals and attitudes have changed these tales have become more and more "sanitized".
There's a quote I like: "Your genetics load the gun, but you pull the trigger". Sociopaths can make a choice how to live their lives. But yes, some of them choose to be like our Jan here.
The nursery rhyme at the beginning of GWI was born from recalling the short stories we read in our early school years. They were about little kids in WW2. Kids getting tortured and killed by Nazis, kids stepping on hidden landmines, kids seeing their loved ones executed, kids finding "gifts" - things like toys that trigger deadly traps... These stories are deeply ingrained in my mind. I remember them more vividly than anything else from my school years.
I'm a 3D artist at my day job, so I use some of my skills to make shortcuts when I work on GWI. I quickly model any furniture, rooms, objects, etc. in Blender (at home) or Zbrush (at my workplace) and use free 3d props when I can. It saves a lot of time. Like, 80% of time.
Was there a Norn before Faith? Otherwise how do the embryos get implanted a woman in each generation? Thinking that since Hope is 24, Faith is likely around twice as old. So wouldn't Faith surrogate mother still be around or is the life expectancy shortened because of all that happened?
Yes, there were many Norns before Faith. They go in and out of cryosleep as the situation demands and take shifts. Three are awake at every given time, but it's not always the same three.
I'm curious to see what size Faith is compared to Nolan. If Hope is 24 years old, she's an adult but she's so small compared to Nolan plus she looks childlike still. Is Nolan larger than the people being grown from the embryo stage or is this something that you'll explain later?
Nolan is tall, but not extraordinary tall. Just about 190 cm (no more than 40 cm taller than Hope).
Hope looks childlike just like I look childlike. I'm 34, but it's not rare for strangers to think I'm a 13 year old boy or that my husband (who is 5 years younger than me) is my father. It's just my face and the lack of makeup.
Why cytokine stopping drug is not a solution in Nolan's case.
Normally: we have a virus that makes the person's immune system go into cytokine storm. We use the drug to stop the storm, then we deal with the virus or wait for the body to deal with it. Once the virus is gone the patient no longer needs the drug. Problem solved.
Nolan's case: he no longer carries the virus and his immune system is mad at his own body cells. We can give him the drug and it might work, but once we remove it the effect won't last long. The drug will have to be present in his bloodstream every minute of his life (hello side effects and a deadly overdose!) just like the nanites he survived on. In theory, we can prolong his life for some days/weeks with the said drug but it will be torture and not really a solution. The solution is reprogramming his immune system so it wouldn't see him as an enemy anymore.
Most of the stories called sci-fi nowadays are actually space operas. Sci-fi uses real scientific things as a foundation for the plot and worldbuinding, it's the very point of sci-fi actually. Space operas focus on other stuff, like romance, action, etc. and doesn't bother much with science and explaining how things work (why people mutate, how lightrabers work, what power sources FTL engines use, how gravity is created on spaceships, etc.) . It doesn't make space opera stories bad, they're just not sci-fi.
Did you know humans can regrow fingertips? They can. Especially young healthy humans. We are way cooler than we think!
Once upon a time I was a kid and wrote a short story about a postapocalyptic world where icebergs bring strange ancient things to the shores where people live... It was six pages long and had only four characters. Now it's 1000(planned) pages monstrosity known as "Gifts of wandering ice".
Mute tribe in GWI is based on real life Neanderthals. Modern humans have up to 4% on Neanderthal DNA, which means our ancestors did mate with them, but none of this DNA is mitochondrial (the type that you can only receive from your mother), so it's either it was impossible for a Neanderthal woman to have a child with a Cro-mangon man or these hybrids were infertile.
Super empaths (people who mirror the others' feelings so strongly they feel the pain of others as their own, literally) are real and are as rare as psychopaths: less than 2% of the population.
Dinosaurs in this comic are actually "chickenosaurs" (novosaurs): birds with artificially reactivated ancestral traits (like teeth or clawed upper limbs). This, theoretically, can be done in reality, so we may yet see some chickenosaus in our lifetime.
Hexagonal basalt columns in GWI are based on volcanic honeycomb-like formations you can see in the real world across the globe, the most famous of them being Giant's causeway and Svartifoss.
In the original story GWI is (loosely) based upon Rikter wasn't a kind a cheerful kid we know. He was more like Jan. And Nikt didn't exist at all.
In the original story GWI is (loosely) based upon Elie didn't have any special abilities and was just a local girl, illiterate and curious about the ice gifts.
GWI has the same atmosphere as the old Soviet scifi novels I read in my youth had. And it's black and white like oldschool scifi movies too.
GWI is a black and white comic, but I color the pages occasionally, mostly the ones my Patrons choose. If you support me by becoming my Patron of buying me a Ko-fi you can choose one too.
I make GWI sketches and contours in PainToolSai, add basic colors and gradients in FireAlpaca, do shading and add details in SAI again, and then add effects, text, and bubbles in Photoshop CS3. I usually make pages in packs (3-4 at once).
Makeshift cableways and ziplines similar to those in the comic (with hooks, wheels, ropes, and brakes) are used in many rural areas of the world, often by kids, to get to school. Surprisingly, it's quite safe.
GWI character that resembles real life me the most is Hope. She's short, has a messy haircut and a mole on the cheek. She also looks like a boy much younger than she actually is and gave birth to her child at the same age I did (24).
Spiral jetties at the lake where Rita and Tim set up their tent are actually simple fish (and crayfish) traps. They have a real life artistic prototype, though: Spiral jetty sculpture by Robert Smithson, in Utah.
Rikter's tattoo didn't always look like three big red stripes on the right cheek. It started as a tiny dot when he was a baby and was expanded years later. Paint, when put under the skin, is toxic, after all.You don't want to put a little child to unnecessary risk by applying too much of it too soon.
"Apothecary well" mentioned in GWI has a real life prototype: Moray terraces in Peru. This site was probably used with the same purpose: growing up very different plants in one small place.
In GWI, cave dwellers' native language is Russian, and hunters' is English, but most people in both tribes are bilingual (just like cosmonauts and astronauts on ISS).
No donation is too small. Where I live 1$ can buy me a tasty protein-rich lunch or two bus tickets.
"Gifts of wandering ice" is a member of Spiderforest collective. It's a friendly community where comic creators help each other (that includes sharing readers, providing hosting, helping with web design, collaborating on various projects, and other stuff). If you have your own comic you can join too.
According to my counter's statistics, average time readers spend on a page while reading the comic for the first time is 20 seconds. So, yep, there are lots of pages and GWI seems huge, but don't worry, you can actually binge read it all in less than three hours.
Cats are very effective predators. Their hunting success rates vary from 25 to 60% between species (for domestic cat it's 32%). Wolves have 14%, and bears have 10%. Also, cats kill for fun, even when they're not hungry. And we love them anyway.
Comments are important. Very. Most comic artists are lonely people and get sad when they don't see any feedback from their readers.
There are two types of empathy: emotional and cognitive. The first type is natural (you are born with it or without it) and is based on the activity of mirror neurons. The second one can be learned by studying human behaviour and practicing imagining yourself in another person's place.
You can not be autistic and a sociopath/psychopath at the same time. These conditions require totally different brain types (not enough synaptic pruning in autistic brain and too much in sociopath's).
The are no religions in the world of "Gifts of wandering ice", no spiritism either. What hunter shamans practice is so called "placebo magic".
Icebergs come in lots of colours. Not only white, but all shades of blue and green. Red and black ones are rare but not unknown either. The patterns and shapes also vary a lot. Striped icebergs - yes please. Shaped like castles - sure. Wavy - yep, those exist as well.
See a typo or a badly translated phrase? Tell me about it and I'll fix it as soon as I can.
Real life hexagonal basalt formations can be quite lofty, just like the mountains in GWI. Devil's tower (in Wyoming), for example, is 265m (867 feet) tall.
I have "Dreams" series on Patreon (open for patrons pledging 2$/month or more) where I draw stuff that cannot happen or can but won't be mentioned in the comic. Like Jan being a good brother and not a tattooed exile. Or Lara and Ren as little kids. Or Nolan with lots of cats around. Or little Hope helping her mother with cyberarm repairs, etc.
Ancient diseases returning because of melting permafrost is a real life thing already happening in our world. And since we're entering the global warming era, it's damn scary.
If you're interested in more webcomics about memory transfer I suggest checking out "Cato's apprenticeship". It's about a boy with a brain implant.
If you're interested in learning more about Ash and his life before he met Elie I have a story on Patreon (open for all patrons) titled "Tsunami kid".
Remember the ammonite shelf in Tim's room? Yep, some ancient ammonoides were that large. I bet they wouldn't mind eating a human if we lived at the same time.
Hunter shamans are not just firedancers and ceremony masters. Their main task is maitaining their tribe's physical and mental health. So a shaman is actually a healer and therapist rolled in one. And while their healing skills are inferior to, say, a cave dweller surgeon, their "placebo magic" based therapy provides better results than any cave dweller psychologist can promise.
Mute tribe uses sign language and wordless singing to communicate. They cannot pronounce articulate sounds, but understand the islanders' speech. The islanders can learn to understand their wordless singing but are unable to use it themselves because their vocal cords are different. Both human species can equally use sign language, though. And "magic rope" figures (like the ones Ren uses) are a part of it.
Hunters don't write books but they do draw a lot. Drawing a realistic landscape or a portrait is no problem even for their kids. Cave dwellers, who rely heavily on written language, rarely go beyond drawing simplistic stick figures.
"Gifts of wandering ice" has a page on TVtropes and you can edit it.
Samovar is a Russian device for making tea. I love them. My mother has one. It's not very old (older than me, though) and uses electricity instead of wood to boil water, but it's still cool!
Originally, I'm a writer. I decided to learn to draw at the age of 22, because I wanted my novels to have nice covers and was too broke to pay an artist.
Common Russian name for a tomcat is Vaska, for a female cat is Murka (mur = purr).
"Gifts of wandering ice" has a Discord channel. You can chat with me and the other readers there.
"I love nightmares. There I'm always the most dangerous monster".
"Nightmares are fun and so much better than life".
"The world is so real it hurts".
How dreamcatchers "work": good dreams get caught in the web and slide down to the sleeper along the feathers, bad dreams just go through the hole in the center of the web.
Evacuation capsules similar to those used in the comic exist in real life. I heard that in Japan you can easily buy one in a supermarket.
Floating cities, like many other things in the comic, were made in Zbrush. It took about 30 min after work and saved me hours of drawing.
I'm a cat person. I have two cats at home. The boy's name is Trikster and the girl is Omegana (my nerdy husband named her after Omegon from Warhammer 40000, I have no idea why :D )
I work as a 3D artist in a local animation studio. The same studio that was making my favourite comics when I was a kid.
Что случилось с русской версией комикса "Дары бродячих льдов"? Сайт закрыт в связи с тем, что он не приносил автору ни радости, ни денег. Постоянные читатели были, но они не комментировали, не покупали книги и т.д. На сторонних же платформах комикс либо не замечали, либо реагировали негативно. В общем, автор устал и сдался :( Перевод на русский продолжается сейчас только для нескольких русскоязычных читателей на Патреоне: они ни в чем не виноваты и их жаль бросать.
Randomwebcomic.com is a side project of Olga's (the author of GWI). It's a simple website that sends you to a random webcomic - a webcomic roulette. If you are a webcomic artist, you can add your comics there too.
In the beginning there was only a short story - "Ice gift" (13 chapters, 4 characters) - that later turned into "Gifts of wandering ice" you know.
GWI has a store with 1$ books and juicy freebies! Check it out :)
"Tales from the Afterworld" is a collection of illustrated short stories in different genres (sci-fi, fantasy, magical realism) from the author of "Gifts of wandering ice". You can read it for free here or on Tapas.
Did you know that there is a way to support the author of GWI without spending your money? Here you go: download Tapas app, subscribe to one of Olga's stories on Tapas, earn Tapas Ink in the app by watching ads or playing games, donate the ink. Easy :)
Everything is better with a cat.
My main hobby is telling stories but I also have another hobby: I play the ocarina (a ceramic flute). If you're curious, here's a video of me playing an Irish folk song in a Russian forest.


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Google makes changes and tweaks its algorithm on a continuous basis; it appears seamless to us because these are small changes and therefore go unnoticed. But when the Pandas and the Penguins roll out, most of us take notice!
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Some NC Republicans plan shadow convention in Charlotte — to oppose Trump
By Jim MorrillTribune News Service
CHARLOTTE — If Andy Nilsson and Bob Orr have their way, they'll be attending a Republican convention in Charlotte next summer.
But not THAT Republican convention.
They'd host the National Republican Convention, not to be confused with the Republican National Convention.
They're among the founders of National Republicans, a fledgling group that adheres to the politics of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush — not that of Donald Trump.
"I'm doing all I can do to preserve the Reagan-Bush legacy of the Republican Party against the Trump takeover," Nilsson said.
Their group is small but growing. There are a few hundred members, Nilsson said, with organizers in states such as Maryland and South Dakota. Orr, a former North Carolina Supreme Court justice, is the national spokesman.
Nilsson hopes to have a kickoff event in Charlotte in January. If the group takes off, he said it would hold a shadow GOP convention in the city in August, around the same time as the Republican National Convention at Spectrum Center.
One impetus, he said, was the cancellation of 2020 Republican presidential primaries and caucuses in South Carolina, Arizona and a handful of other states, all moves designed to help the president.
National Republicans is just one grassroots group of Never Trumpers. There are a handful of Facebook groups called Republicans against Trump. In Washington, some presidential critics gather in what they call the Meeting of the Concerned.
"I'm struck that this is happening across the country," conservative journalist Bill Kristol told the Charlotte Observer. "It's interesting that people are getting organized spontaneously."
Kristol himself leads a group called Republicans for the Rule of Law that has run TV ads that accuse the president of corruption.
Polls have shown that Trump has the support of around 9 of 10 Republicans. Party officials say they're not afraid of defectors.
"President Trump has unleashed the American Economy, rebuilt our military and worked aggressively to promote an America First Agenda," North Carolina GOP Chair Michael Whatley said in a statement. "Anyone who wants to stand against that agenda — and the people of North Carolina — is free to do so, but they will do it without the backing of the Republican voters from across the state."
But Orr, who backed Democrat Dan McCready in the last two 9th Congressional District races, believes there are Republicans who share his sentiments about Trump.
"I think there are lots of people who feel the same way we do," he said. "There's just no national vehicle for them."
Orr said the party "is simply cowed" by Trump and has "abdicated any moral high ground" by sticking with him. Orr would take the party back to "the good 'ol days" of Republicans such as former Govs. Jim Martin and Jim Holshouser and former Charlotte Mayor Richard Vinroot.
Martin, for one, isn't ready to join the new group.
"I think (Trump) has done some good things and I think he's done some things I can't support," Martin said. "I see a lot of fault on both sides."
Nilsson, a Winston-Salem native who lives in Australia but returns often to North Carolina, was political director of Vinroot's 1996 gubernatorial campaign. But Vinroot isn't about to join his group.
Like Martin, he said he didn't vote for Trump in 2016 (or for Democrat Hillary Clinton). But he said he likes much of what the administration has done and is bothered by what he sees as the "constant drumbeat" of criticism toward Trump. He believes other Republicans feel the same way.
"They're suffering through the behavior but liking the results," Vinroot said. "I think a lot of people are holding their nose and saying, 'We've never had a better economy.'"
Evan McMullin, a former CIA officer and GOP congressional staffer, ran an independent campaign for president in 2016. A Trump critic, he said groups like National Republicans could provide a political home for disaffected Republicans who'd left the party after 2016.
He said the Republican Party "has been co-opted by Donald Trump to serve the interests of Donald Trump."
"If there is to be reform and correction within the Republican Party," he told the Observer, "it will only happen if there are groups like this taking the initial steps."
Nilsson said he believes there's little time to waste.
"Trumpism will eclipse and exile the Reagan-Bush tradition unless someone stands up," he said. "That's what we're doing."


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As this is a vast topic for discussion in length but i am trying to put my views in short ,and try to explain in a simple sentences for an easy understanding.
Happiness a function of healthy mindset and attitude.
How do we make ourselves happy ?
If we know what makes us happy then, by applying these methods we make ourselves happy very easily.
What impact it will have on others?
This has a great impact on others like , the entire mood of others will change, perception regarding the personality will change, people's view & their observation will change. Happy mind and happy people are always more productive so outcome of our work will change.
Where we more often complain & state the reason of unhappiness.
1. What makes us unhappy: The key reasons are : a. When we don't have the expected outcome as per our fixed desire b. When others have achieved more than us c. When the expectations does not match with reality d. When the situation is not under our control e. When People ignore us and makes us feel less valuable f. When the combination of our experience and knowledge are not properly recognised.
2. Who is responsible for our unhappiness?
Non other than we are ! our own mindset is only responsible ,which is being controlled by poor emotional factors. Few of us has only very strong and positive mindset with control on emotions.
But Unfortunately , none of these factors are having long term impact on happiness, we need to decide whether we want to lead a Happy life or Meaningful life as there is a big difference between the two.Only one thing is required to be happy in life and that is positive Mindset or Attitude.
DO I WANT TO BE HAPPY? DO I HELP TO MAKE OTHERS HAPPY?
We must understand the fact that , this is life and it does not take guarantee to run smoothly always, but this is a show which must go on .......with us , or without us ...so why to worry...Be happy and make others happy!
Merck, a leading science and technology company and leader in genome editing, today announced that the Canadian Patent Office has allowed Merck's patent application directed to the use of paired CRISPR nickases in eukaryotic cells.
The patent provides an important and more specific solution for scientists who need accurate methods when developing treatments for difficult-to-treat diseases that ultimately reach the patient.
"This patent allowance marks another advancement in safety for CRISPR-enabled therapeutics, as it covers technology that improves CRISPR's ability to fix diseased genes while not affecting healthy ones," said Udit Batra, member of the Merck Executive Board and CEO, Life Science. "Merck has been at the forefront of genome-editing innovation for 15 years and this allowance further expands our foundational CRISPR cutting and integration intellectual property to help scientists advance gene therapy research."
This Canadian patent marks Merck's second in Canada and the 13th worldwide. Similar patents were granted in Australia and Europe in late 2018. This latest patent covers paired nickases, which drive specificity through a highly flexible and efficient approach to reduce off-target effects.
Paired nickases are two CRISPR nickases targeted to a common gene target that work together by nicking or cleaving opposite strands of a chromosomal sequence to create a double-stranded break. This process can include an exogenous or donor sequence for insertion in the same manner as Merck's CRISPR integration technology. The requirement of two CRISPR binding events greatly reduces the chances of off-target cutting at other locations in the genome.
Merck's CRISPR integration patent portfolio includes granted patents in Australia, Canada, China, Europe, Israel, Singapore and South Korea. These CRISPR patents are for chromosomal integration or cutting of the sequence of eukaryotic cells and insertion of a DNA sequence, to make a desired genomic change.
In addition to basic genome-editing research, Merck supports development of gene- and cell-based therapeutics and manufactures viral vectors. The Life Science business of Merck has a dedicated genome-editing group aimed at advancing research in novel modalities — from genome editing to gene medicine manufacturing — further solidifying the company's commitment to the field.
All Merck news releases are distributed by email at the same time they become available on the Merck website. For more details, Visit,www.merckgroup.com.
HOW CAN WE MENTALLY BE STRONG!
As we do the physical workouts to keep our body in shape, similarly mental workouts are equally important in order to strengthen the function in tough times & to find out the solutions of the problem we face.
What should we avoid to display our strong mental power ?
1. Habit to please everyone: Don't try to be an ice cream man by pleasing all. We make our life miserable in the process of doing so.We loose our main focus from the decided objective, have a guts and courage to displeased few, in order to concentrate on objective.
2. Being jealous: We should never compare with others, this is something that makes us mentally & physically weak.Each individual is different & having the separate identity. Before comparing with others we must write down the challenges and hardship we have faced to achieve the success today , this will allow us to feel the inner strength and provide us more energy to do more.
3. Worrying about things that are not in control: we waste our time & limit our thinking when we worry about uncontrollable part.We start feeling that this is the end now and nothing can be done so ...close mind.We must focus on the area of influence rather than the uncontrollable.
4. Wasting time on self pity: This is the key element to keep us away from our vision & goal.we must not stuck in self pitying when any problem & hardship comes , we just move on ...and move ahead , by focusing on other assignments.
5. Giving the authority to others: At a time of emotional breakdown/ imbalance we give the authority and empower others to take the decision , never play a victim card and let others empower to act on your behalf. We must Empower ourselves and stay class apart.
•As a leader our responsibility is to elevate us with learning and acquiring knowledge, and this is a continuous process to stay class apart. One thing will never go out of fashion from this world is learning and knowledge, this gives us better insight and a wise direction to make a decision, only with the help of this tool we would be able to diagnose the challenging areas and be able to find the constructive solutions.
As we all learn about the SMART goals, where M stands for Measurement or Evaluation.
We evaluate the outcome of our taken initiatives.
Whatever we do, unless being evaluated on the certain parameters will not be worth.There are different tools available to evaluate.
Giving Excuses are the part of our behaviour, most of us are full of excuses,sometimes we have more no. Of excuses than the no. Of real challenges we face, and this is the only part in our personality which prevents us from moving ahead. There may be thousands of excuses for not happening ,but only one reason to accept and that is accountability.


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Port of Oakland commissioners OK deal to build DC on port property
DC Velocity Staff
The Port of Oakland's board of commissioners voted last night to approve a deal with developer CenterPoint Properties to build a $52 million, 440,000-square-foot distribution center on port property, clearing a key hurdle in Oakland's multi-year plan to erect a global logistics and distribution hub on 360 acres adjacent to its marine terminals.
The deal becomes official next month. Work is slated to begin in the first quarter of 2018 and be completed by the end of the year. The commissioners had tentatively approved the project in early November. Oak Brook, Ill.-based CenterPoint will build and manage the DC.
The DC has been touted by the port as the largest such facility ever built on the West Coast. The DC will be the first building constructed on the global campus, which is known as the "Seaport Logistics Complex."
Companies using the facility would require "transloading" services, the transfer of cargo between trucks, trains, and vessels for shipment. Transloading is a common practice at locations near to West Coast ports. However, Oakland officials said it would be one of the few ports to perform the function within its boundaries.
In 2016, the port opened a $100 million rail yard at the complex to enable Western railroads to facilitate the transloading process.
The idea for a global logistics complex has been in the works ever since the Army decommissioned its 364-acre supply base in Oakland in the late 1990s. The port received 187 acres over a four-year period starting in 2003. The city of Oakland received a similar parcel.
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Sax titans Euge Groove and Richard Elliot will spar during a raucous heavyweight jazz, soul and funk session.
The third edition of Las Vegas Jazz Festival taking place September 19-21 will be the largest gathering yet. Twenty big rollers – as in Grammy winners and nominees and No. 1 hit-makers - in contemporary jazz, R&B, soul and funk are booked to perform for thousands of exuberant fans coming in from all over the country. The Las Vegas Jazz Festival attracts an upscale urban adult audience that immerses themselves in a weekend of live music and lavish living provided by the first-class resort.
Top-lining the opening night marquee is a pair of old school R&B funksters: Maze featuring Frankie Beverly and Cameo. Young saxophone turk +Eric Darius will start the party that lasts all weekend long.
By day, the Saturday lineup at the Las Vegas Jazz Festival puts the focus on jazz. Guitarist Tim Bowman opens followed by the first ladies of jazz, Jazz in Pink featuring Gail Johnson, Karen Briggs and special guest Jeanette Harris. Sax titans Euge Groove and Richard Elliot will spar during a raucous heavyweight jazz, soul and funk session. The evening portion is devoted to R and;B crooners with hitmen Eric Benet, Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds and Keith Sweat taking the stage to perform solo sets.
Sunday is a more balanced blend of instrumentalists and vocalists starting with a few fresh faces – saxophonists Elan Trotman and Jessy J and singer +Selina Albright – teaming for the opening segment. The powerhouse voice of Leela James will precede the debonair and sultry vocal styling of Will Downing. Contemporary jazz multi-instrumentalist Brian Culbertson uncorks his effervescent energy while rifling through his hit-filled catalogue of multihued melodies and jazz-funk grooves. Ledisi's sophisticated sound in perfectly suited for the evening bill while Grammy-winner Anthony Hamilton's gravel and grit voice will cap the weekend in full-throated R and B mode.
The Pit (green): Oversize chairs, first four rows in front of the stage.
All reserved seating is assigned seating.


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Lakemont Park
Altoona, Pennsylvania, United States
Operating since
Trolley Park
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Toboggan Steel Sit Down Thrill
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Former names WALYland at Lakemont Park ( to )
Lakemont Park ( to )
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SBNO during
The local WALY 103.9 FM radio station moved it's offices to Lakemont's Main Street. This provided marketing for the park and the park name was changed to "WALYland at Lakemont Park". This arrangement is thought to have ended in 1991.
Operating schedule
Many references state Lakemont Park opened in 1894. This appears to be in error as a July 1st, 1893 article in the Altoona Tribune, writes that the Fifth Regiment drum corps, of Altoona, had a parade on Friday, June 29, 1893, as an early celebration to the grand opening of Lakemont Park on July 4, 1893. That is followed by many articles from July through October 1893, which speak about groups having events at Lakemont Park.
On May 2, 1936, the Logan Valley Railway company announced that Lakemont had been suffering losses for many consecutive years. While they used to be able to afford taking the hit, they no longer could. They wanted to donate the park to a local municipal authority, otherwise they would close the park. They had no interest in selling the park to another for-profit company. The park never officially opened in 1936. A substantial "Save Lakemont Park" campaign began in February 1937. A fund was created by the local Chamber of Commerce, but it required $10,000 in donations. They were able to raise the money and officially reopen the park in 1937.
Lakemont Park was closed for renovations for the 2017 and 2018 seasons. The park did hold their annual 4th of July fireworks and Holiday lights during these renovation seasons.


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