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LxL's 10 Best Albums of 2016
I'm certainly not the first person to say 2016 was full of loss and turmoil, both with losing several music legends and the world experiencing all sorts of violence and tragedy. Some of our picks speak to that turmoil, whether it be speaking to police brutality and racism in our justice system, or the fear and xenophobia against immigrants that has spread throughout the U.S. and around the world. Other picks of ours were a comfort and escape from the madness. Others were just flat-out great albums.
William Tyler – Modern Country
Fitting firmly in the escape category, it's rare that an instrumental album makes our list for 2016, but William Tyler's country-guitar picking is breathtaking and cathartic. I probably listened to Modern Country more than anything else this year.
A Tribe Called Quest – Thank You 4 Your Service
A return almost 20 years in the making, influential rap trio returned just after the passing of the late Phife Dawg with an urgent, political album for Trump's America. It's warm and hopeful, but still cuts like a knife.
David Bowie – Blackstar
In truly prophetic fashion, David Bowie's last album delivered 3 days before his passing speaks to death, mortality, and the afterlife like a man embracing it. With the help of Donnie McCaslin's avant-jazz group, Blackstar was Bowie's most experimental and best album in 35 years.
Solange – A Seat at the Table
Fair to say, it was a great year for the Knowles sisters…not so much for Jay-Z (see Beyonce's Lemonade). We had a good conversation over which Knowles sister should make this list, so we sort of split the two, Beyonce on our songs list, and Solange on our albums list, for the more poetic album statement: about what it's like being black in America and how to persevere when life gives you lemons.
Drive By Truckers – American Band
Not many people wrote better about Black Lives Matter, anti-immigrant sentiment, and our current political landscape than the old white Southern rockers Drive-By-Truckers. Seriously though, Patterson Hood and his Southern compatriots sound like a band on fire on American Band, almost like Crazy Horse in their peak.
Chance the Rapper – Coloring Book
A joyful and unique expression, Chance the Rapper released his 3rd mixtape Coloring Book, which is a celebration of growing up, becoming a father, and expressing faith in a child-like fashion. Few people exert more exuberance and joy about their city, their art, and their life as Chance, and the world is better for it.
Angel Olsen – Woman
Over her work with folk singer/songwriter Bonnie Prince Billy and her first three solo albums, Angel Olsen's music has been expanding and becoming more of her own with each album. On Woman, Angel Olsen delivers song after song with her melodramatic voice and compelling arrangements for her best album to date.
Kendrick Lamar – untitled unmastered.
Even Kendrick Lamar's scraps are better than other artist's best feasts. Kendrick surprisingly delivered untitled unmastered, the b-sides to our 2015 album of the year To Pimp a Butterfly, and even those made for our favorite rap album of the year. Suffice it to say, I'm not sure any musician is as exciting or talented as Kendrick Lamar right now.
Nick Cave – Skeleton Tree
The story behind Skeleton Tree is simply devastatling: Cave's 15-year-old twin son Arthur tragically died after falling off a cliff near the family's home. Cave, who has always dealt with death, God, and the afterlife in his music, now had to face it head on. On Skeleton Tree, the mourning and emotion is palpable in Cave's voice, and the music is simply devastating. But there are moments of tremendous humanity and slivers of hope amidst the tragedy.
Car Seat Headrest – Teens of Denial
2016 isn't exactly the golden age for rock music, but 24-year-old Will Toledo aka Car Seat Headrest delivered the most riveting album of the year, a concept album on adolescence that is sharply written, inventively composed, and full of good-old-fashioned rock 'n' roll energy.
Beyonce – Lemonade
Mitski – Puberty 2
Anderson Paak – Malibu
Sturgill Simpson – A Sailors Guide to Earth
Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
Just Missed:
Wes – Jamila Woods – HEAVN
Chicago singer, rapper, and spoken-word artist Jamila Woods first became known on Chance the Rapper's joyful "Sunday Candy", but she showed what she's made of in her debut album HEAVN, a beautiful, and personal expression about her life as a black woman in Chicago that also keys on musical influences from surprising places.
Austin – Lucy Dacus – No Burden
Richmond's Lucy Dacus debut No Burden was a true surprise: a well-written rock album fronted with Dacus's classically beautiful voice.
Todd – Whitney – Light Upon the Lake
Chicago duo Whitney is as soft and soothing as it gets, sort of a 70's soft rock throwback, which makes this pick extra surprising for former wannabe-punk Todd. I guess he's becoming a softy in his old age.
Author WesPosted on December 31, 2016 December 31, 2016 Categories End of Year Lists, Top TensTags Angel Olsen, Car Seat Headrest, Chance the Rapper, Nick Cave, solange3 Comments on LxL's 10 Best Albums of 2016
LxL's Surprise Album Power Rankings
This spring has been full of musical surprises like no other year. Five major artists announced and released albums as a surprise on short notice, and instead of breaking each of them down in separate reviews, we thought it best to rank and mini-review each album. So here are our spring 2016 surprise album power rankings.
5. Drake – Views
Surprise Level:
Since Drake's 2015 mixtape If You're Reading This, It's Too Late and his phone jam "Hotline Bling", people have been anticipating the tentatively-titled Views from the 6 for almost two years. Then on April 4th, Drake finally announced the album with a slightly shortened title, Views. The album finally dropped at midnight on April 28th exclusively in Apple Music.
Best Moments: "One Dance", "Child's Play", "Hotline Bling"
After two years of anticipation of a big Drake magnum opus, Views is certainly ambitious at 20 songs but falls flat. Drake seems stuck in neutral for his past few releases, unable to move forward emotionally or musically.
The album suffers from being about 8 songs too long and some poor sequencing as well. The album only picks up speed about 10 songs in, when its biggest highlights hit. "Child's Play" has Drake singing playfully about America's favorite restaurant, "One Dance" is Drake picking up the dancehall vibe and running with it, and "Hotline Bling" which was tacked on the end of the album to just boost some sales. Mostly Views is severely disappointing.
Verdict: Leave Drake alone on his perch.
4. James Blake – The Colour In Anything
In November 2014, the neo-soul electronic musician James Blake said he was mostly done with his third album and it would be released in spring 2015. This, of course, didn't happen. In February 2015, some rumors surfaced that the album would finally be coming out soon but without a date. On April 28th, Blake released some photos on his social media revealing the album title, and then a few days later on May 6th, Blake released the album at midnight.
Best Moments: "I Need a Forest Fire (feat. Bon Iver)", "I Hope My Life", "Timeless", "Choose Me"
James Blake is someone I have been lukewarm on for two albums, but his latest, The Colour In Anything, showcases why he's one of the most sonically interesting musicians around. Beyond having a smooth and soulful voice, Blake undercuts and contrasts his voice with an incredible range of sonic distortion, electronic dissonance, and range in audio dynamics, going from extremely soft and sweet to an all-out alarming mix of noise.
Blake also knows how to build a hypnotic and arresting album like few others. "Love Me In Whatever Way" is a great example of how James repeats a phrase as the sonic waves build higher and higher before consuming him. "Timeless" showcases his ability to pick a variety of seemingly dissonant sounds that whirl together in wonderful and interesting ways. "I Hope My Life" takes the cold synth-pop of 80's greats like the Eurythmics and the Pet Shop Boys to great new heights.
Verdict: Give James a(nother) shot
Experimental rock greats Radiohead are a band that certainly needs no introduction, and a band that is known for experimenting with surprise releases ever since 2007's In Rainbows when the band allowed fans to "pay what you want" for the album.
The latest release cycle started on May 1st when the band deleted their internet presence entirely, deleting all posts from their social media and taking their site Dead Air Space down. Then the band released teaser videos on May 3rd before finally releasing the first single and video "Burn the Witch." A couple days later (May 6th), they released a second single and another video, this time the Paul Thomas Anderson-directed (There Will Be Blood, Boogie Nights, Magnolia) video for "Daydreaming." The same day the band announced the albums release on May 8th, where the album A Moon Shaped Pool, was released on all streaming and download services including Apple Music, Google, and Spotify, which Radiohead and previously criticized and kept their music off of.
Best Moments: "Burn the Witch", "Daydreaming", "Identikit", "True Love Waits"
The best comparison for Radiohead's latest is 2007's In Rainbows, where Radiohead created a truly beautiful record. In the same way, A Moon Shaped Pool has plenty of experimentation (primarily from the dissonant strings and orchestration of guitarist Jonny Greenwood) but at its core, it's pretty Radiohead: Thom Yorke singing tenderly over lush piano and orchestration singing with tenderness and urgency.
Lead track and single "Burn the Witch" was a song made for our times. Over menacing strings, the song drives an arrow through our irrational, witch-hunting, outrage culture which has led to this insane political climate and social media mess we live in. Like much of Radiohead's music, the album drips with the danger of an impending apocalypse, the darkness lurking right around the corner.
A Moon Shaped Pool is one of their most listenable albums, but also subtly brilliant in its detail. These little touches and flourishes on each song take these songs from good to great. "Identikit", which was produced in Jack White's Third Man studios, showcases the sophistication of drummer Phil Selway and each player adds layers of complement and turmoil. "Decks Dark" has almost an operatic tension as the haunting choir is a cloud hovering over Thom Yorke's voice and piano.
"True Love Waits" is an incredible example of Radiohead's timing and brilliance. The song was written in in 1995 and has been played occasionally live, but has never found an album home. Now, 21 years later, "True Love Waits" is the perfect, poignant close to Radiohead's prettiest album.
Verdict: The rock champs are back
Chicago rapper and pride of the South Side Chance the Rapper released his third mixtape Coloring Book at 11PM on May 12th. The mixtape was initially announced to release soon on April 4th, with Chance announcing the official release date on his live TV debut of "Blessings", his second single off the mixtape ("Angels" was released and performed on ate night month's earlier). The album released exclusively on Apple Music for two weeks, giving Apple another leg up towards catching Spotify in the streaming races.
Best Moments: "No Problem", "Summer Friends", "How Great", "Blessings"
Taking some notes from his musical hero and fellow Chicagoan Kanye West, Coloring Book is an ambitious step forward for Chance and similarly straddles the secular and spiritual like much of Kanye's work. Chance, though, leans heavily on the side of spiritual, since Coloring Book is more gospel as the main course with a side of hip hop and R&B. Chance's mix of the best in hip hop and R&B production into gospel breathes new and fresh life into a genre of music that played an incredibly important role in the formation of rock 'n' roll and soul.
Chance takes his child-like faith and boundless joy and puts it on record for all to hear, also showcasing the best of his home community. Turning on the nightly news, you tend to hear nothing but sad stories from the South Side of Chicago, but Chance paints a different story: a talented community filled with hope in the face of adversity, and faith that can move mountains. "No Problem" just jumps out of your earbuds with joy, "Summer Friends" snaps and crackles with incredible production with an assist from Francis and the Lights, and "How Great" somehow takes CCM anthem "How Great Is Our God", auto-tunes it, adds a bunch of clever bible rhymes ("The type of worship make Jesus come back a day early") and actually makes it sound cool and not corny. I've heard from a handful of people who were Chance skeptics who have said Coloring Book has made them believers.
Verdict: Glory Glory! Hail the new king of Chicago rap
1. Beyoncé – Lemonade
Beyoncé released lead single "Formation" right before her Superbowl performance in Feburary, making millions come to the shocking revelation that Beyoncé is black. Beyoncé then announced a mysterious video project on HBO called "Lemonade", and turns out it was the debut of her new visual album Lemonade. The brilliance of Lemonade as a visual experience and piece of musical expression instantly made the internet go crazy, as did the witch hunt from Beyoncé's fan base to find the woman that Jay-Z cheated on Beyoncé with. President Obama could cheat on Michelle and it would be less of a thing.
Best Moments: "Hold Up", "Don't Hurt Yourself", "Sorry", "Freedom", "Formation"
Beyoncé's last album was a self-titled surprise release during the holiday season in 2014, another visual album with a different video for each song. Lemonade, is a truly cohesive musical film, as Beyoncé wrestles with her husband's infidelity in 11 different emotional phases (Intuition, Denial, Anger, Apathy, Emptiness, Accountability, Reformation, Forgiveness, Resurrection, and Hope and Redemption). Beyond looking as good as Terence Malick's Tree of Life, Lemonade explores more musical flavors than any album before. "Hold Up" has Beyoncé on the verge of losing it with a reggae-tinged reworking of Yeah Yeah Yeah's "Maps" by saying "Hold up, they don't love you like I love you." "Don't Hurt Yourself" is Beyoncé finally letting her anger free with a thrashing rock track with the help of Jack White. "Daddy Lessons" is a southern-gospel flavored country tune with singing about her childhood. "Freedom" is an empowering anthem for anyone with obstacles to overcome, and specifically with the help of "Kendrick Lamar", stands as an anthem for the Black Lives Matter movement.
It's incredibly rare for someone to reach their artistic peak nearly 20 years into their career, but Beyoncé is finally reaching her creative peak, and it's awesome to hear.
Verdict: Beyoncé accomplished what Kanye couldn't: making people buy Tidal and not be angry about it.
Author WesPosted on May 18, 2016 May 18, 2016 Categories Albums, Reviews, UncategorizedTags Beyonce, Chance the Rapper, Drake, james blake, RadioheadLeave a comment on LxL's Surprise Album Power Rankings
The 10 Best Pitchfork 2015 Performances
Pitchfork Music Festival is consistent festival gold in my opinion. Despite me not being able to make it Friday, a torrential downpour temporarily delaying the fest on Saturday, and almost being conned out of a ticket on Sunday, PMF 2015 was no exception. With me as always, was LxL's own Wes (who was able to attend all three days), and another LxL regular/frequent festival coverage guru, Riley Johnson. We three squashed our mind grapes together, and this list is the winey result:
10. Bully
I'm trying to think of a better way to start the day; I am. Female lead garage punk at it's finest.
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Author ToddPosted on July 23, 2015 Categories Top Ten Thursday, Top TensTags best acts, Chance the Rapper, courtney barnett, Parquet Courts, pitchfork music festival 2015, run the jewels, sleater kinny, Wilco3 Comments on The 10 Best Pitchfork 2015 Performances
Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment: Surf
Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment
How did an relatively-unknown collective, Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment, get over 10 million song downloads? Well, they made it free for one, giving away the debut album, Surf, on iTunes, but more importantly, the collective includes one of the most exciting young names in hip hop: Chicago's own Chance the Rapper. And Surf shows anything the playful young rapper touches turns to gold.
Donnie Trumpet aka trumpeter Nico Segal is the ringleader for this project, which primarily includes musicians Peter Cottontale (keyboards), Greg Landfair Jr. (drums), and Nate Fox (producer). Beyond the main contributors and the larger instrumental collective that contributes, the group brings in some heavy-hitters to contribute vocals, from major rap names like J. Cole, B.o.B., and Big Sean, R&B queens Erykah Badu and Janelle Monae, and 90's hip hop staple and classic character rapper Busta Rhymes. Hip hop has always had a super collaborative approach in terms of sharing the spotlight – as most hip hop albums are littered with guest verses – but to have such a big and communal collective is pretty unusual regardless of genre. When you consider the wide-range of collaborators, it's amazing how cohesive Surf sounds: one big joyful and psychedelic dream.
Having just seen and reviewed Love & Mercy, the new Brian Wilson biopic, you can't help here a little bit of the Beach Boys' experimental, introspective period in Surf: and certainly the title doesn't hurt either. "Miracle" opens with a breezy vocal harmony before slipping into an intoxicating daze led by Chance, the sort of gospel-infused psychedelic soul that would belong right at home on a D'Angelo record.
"Slip Slide" pulls out the horns and the red carpet for the long-awaited return of Busta Rhymes, who delivers the sort of larger-than-life cartoony flow that made him one-of-a-kind. With the heavy use of horns and occasional marching band vibe, Surf recalls the better parts of Outkast's Idlewild. "Slip Slide" even includes one of Idlewild's biggest contributors, the beloved Janelle Monae, who delivers some nice harmonies into the mix. "Warm Enough" appears out of the haze that follows "Slip Slide" with a dynamite verse from Chicago slam poet Noname Gypsy, who delivers every one of her lines with incredible feeling and intent. There's a sense of care and consciousness for the city in everything Chance dips his toe in.
Like "Slip Slide" and first single "Sunday Candy", "Wanna Be Cool" serves as one of the only potential singles here. For the most part, Surf is one delirious and hazy ride built for the summer time, even though its lacks any big satisfying summer jam; it's perfect lazy summer afternoon music. Chance the Rapper shows his flexibility on Surf as well, sometimes punctuating a song with a gentle croon like at the end of "Slip Slide", sometimes going into his childish and cartoony rap-self like on "Wanna Be Cool", and sometimes just playing it cool like on "Familiar". At age 22 and already headlining festivals (like Pitchfork this July), the sky is really the limit for this young artist as long as he keeps exploring creatively and speaking truth.
I mentioned the amount of joy here, and there is some serious church in Surf. Particularly "Sunday Candy" could easily be sung out in churches all around Chicago, turning gospel into love songs like Ray Charles before him. It's a vibrant singalong perfect to belt out from the pews or your car windows.
If you are looking for something fresh and playful this summer that also has some layers to it, look no further than Surf. And while you're at it, pay Chance the Rapper' first two mixtapes a visit.
Can't Miss: "Miracle", "Warm Enough", "Sunday Candy", "Familiar"
Can't Hit: None
Author WesPosted on June 23, 2015 Categories Albums, ReviewsTags Chance the Rapper, Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment, Surf1 Comment on Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment: Surf
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Twitter announces work from home policy will continue indefinitely
Tessa McLean, SFGATE
May 12, 2020 Updated: Sep. 10, 2020 12:21 p.m.
The Twitter Building in San Francisco.
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Twitter employees don't ever have to enter the company's offices again.
CEO Jack Dorsey sent an email on Tuesday announcing that Twitter employees may work from home permanently, even once the coronavirus pandemic is over.
If employees want to come back to the office once it's open, it will be their individual decision. Jobs that require a physical presence, like performing server maintenance, will still host in-office employees.
"We were uniquely positioned to respond quickly and allow folks to work from home given our emphasis on decentralization and supporting a distributed workforce capable of working from anywhere. The past few months have proven we can make that work. So if our employees are in a role and situation that enables them to work from home and they want to continue to do so forever, we will make that happen. If not, our offices will be their warm and welcoming selves, with some additional precautions, when we feel it's safe to return," a Twitter spokesperson told SFGATE in a statement.
This pivot comes a year after the tax breaks the company received to set up its offices in Mid-Market expired, which gave a 1.5% payroll tax holiday to companies that operated in the area. While designed to inject billions of dollars of investment into the neighborhood, it didn't bring a reduction in homelessness, crime and empty storefronts that have plagued the area.
The company also said the offices won't open before September and once they do it will be a gradual reopening. There will also be no in-person company events for the rest of 2020.
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Do you think the cup will have a logo, or can I just make a bunch of them and just plaster a /icup/ mark on it?
good question, i'm working on the game cover and was just thinking about that.
This one should be way more fun!
The price for admission should be to submit a banner for your proposed team.
thanks anon, they've been added.
That /tv/ vs /bane/ clip is pre gold.


My daughter once had a doll. A doll that was lovingly knitted for her, when she was small, by my grandmother. We had this doll for many year,but, due to having to move house many times over the years, somehow she got lost along the way.
Fast forward a few more years and I decided to recreate her! So that my daughter could have her doll back. Although my daughter was by then a teenager, I thought she would like it.
I realised the doll had a similar look to another family doll we have, so from that I was able to identify that it was a Jean Greenhowe design, and was able to buy the pattern book our doll is in, Traditional Favourites. Her name is "Emily".
To give me some motivation to get Emily done I did this as a project in the Ravellenic Games on Ravelry, so I would have a deadline. However, on day one of the challenge, I had an accident moving things in my garage and really hurt my left index finger badly, so throughout this project I had it strapped up as it was healing. This made things a bit more difficult! But I managed it.
I took progress photos all through the making of Emily, so I could have a record of all her stages as she came to life, and I'd love to share these with you.
The body and head were the first piece. The features are made with wool and embroidered on. The pink blush on the cheeks is really cleverly done by rubbing a pink pencil over them.
She was already looking really cute!
The neck is drawn in by pulling yarn tight around the neck, I used two strands here for neatening it off; I felt it was tidier than one.
I took a lot of care with the stuffing as I think it's so important with toys to get the amount just right. I measured the circumference as I was stuffing to get it to match the amount of stuffing in the pattern directions exactly.
Next she got her main hair piece, it's like a small cap made in the hair colour which is stitched into place on the head.
Also some feet and legs. I love the way the little feet were made, similar to baby booties, and in two colours.
On the needles next to her are the start of her "pantelets" which are bloomer type under-trousers.
I knitted all of this project on straight needles, I found it more comfortable, possibly because of the injury!
The pattern is all pieces that are worked flat and seamed up.
She's posing on the back of my sofa there. I think she looks happy already!
The pantelets were such a lot of work!
They were made in two pieces and stitched up with a picot hem at the bottom, not difficult to knit and shape, but all knitted on 3mm needles with the dk yarn at quite a tight tension like all of the pieces are.
The double crepe yarn I picked for all her clothed parts looks lovely and gave the result I wanted for Emily, but is not particularly smooth to knit, so it's quite tiring on the hands. There isn't much give in it and it doesn't slide much over the needles.
Here she is taking a lie down!
Now she was really starting to look like a pretty dolly, and waiting patiently for me to get on with the rest.
I was getting a little tired by now, and hands hurting a bit but there was still lots of time to get her done, and seeing her take shape was really motivating!
My daughter kept checking up on my progress and giving encouragement, so that helped too!
Next came the skirt and belt. The skirt has a deceptively large amount of work in it!
It is seamed up at the back and gathered in at the waist. The pattern instructs to use a backstitch seam on the skirt and similar parts but I found it hard to avoid getting a seam gully that I wasn't keen on, so I used a bickford seam for a lot of these pieces.
I blocked the skirt really carefully before attaching it as I wanted it to look nice and smooth and keep a nice shape. The little belt was just a small strip which was a relief after the huge skirt!
The skirt looked just beautiful when it was on, and it's such a pretty design with the pantelets peeking out from under all that fabric.
Here we have the arms and hands! These were quite quick to make.
The important things to me here were achieving a nice neat oversew between the hands and sleeves (even though this would later be mostly hidden by the ruffles), and the stuffing again.
For the stuffing, I just didn't want to get the "muscled" look that can so often happen when stuffing toy arms so I was quite sparing with the filling at the tops of the arms and the shoulders.
I love her cute little round hands, something so charming about them!
So now all her limbs were on and her clothing in place, the end was starting to be visible!
This was a really fun part! Ruffles, ringlets and bows.
I really enjoyed seeing Emily come to life even more!
The ringlets are just darling, my daughter calls them "sausage hair" which is funny.
The little ruffles are all made with picot edging. I spent quite some time making sure everything was pinned very precisely, where the details would look best, before stitching on.
It's well worth it to me to take the extra time to be picky. Even though, I have to admit, I never feel like it after so much knitting and sewing already!
I think taking all that care at this stage did make a difference to the finished item.
The hat! Oh my goodness, this took so much yarn! I had bought a 50g ball of pure wool for this, thinking it should be more than enough.
I wanted wool for the hat and flower details rather than acrylic or a blend as I knew it would keep the best shape.
I wasn't concerned about mixing it with the acrylics in the other parts, as long as Emily is washed in cold water, which she will be.
I finished the hat with just a little bit left for sewing it together and onto the head, and only had a few millimetres left over once it was done!
Again I did some blocking here, the top of the hat and the brim won't lie flat without it. I blocked the hat upside down with a can inside it to flatten the top and give a good shape to the sides, a tip I had picked up from another project on Ravelry.
A little flower on the back…and Emily was finally done! here are a few more photos of her with her sweet clothes and pretty decorations. My daughter loves her, and so do I!
Have you made an Emily too? Or other Jean Greehowe designs? We'd love to see! Visit us in the forum where you can post your pictures..


text: Q: Line Model with Z-dimension I made a contour model of a specific area and named it by its height. I need this Data to import into AutoCAD, so I saved it as .dfx with Information about its Z-dimension, by choosing "include z-dimension" in the saving options. when I now open it with AutoCAD there is no more information about the height. What is the way to keep the information in the dfx data?

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you can only get one or the other of the edge or skintimate. I got both and only one RR printed out, so I returned one of them. I didn't realize they were the same brand.
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Five Reasons Public School Teachers Should Not Be Teaching Religion To Our Students | All Systems (Are) Go.
Recently, in the news in the LA school district, teachers are forcing students to participate in a three-week long journey to discover Islam. Not just about Islam's history and culture. This course is about being a Muslim. For three weeks, children are asked to dress as Muslims, change their names to Muslim names, memorize verses from the Koran, and make Islamic faith declarations (IVN, 2016). Where they visit a mosque, wear Muslim clothes, and engage in pray to Allah, to fully understand what it's like to practice Islam. This is a complete violation of the first amendment. There is a lawsuit, filed in federal court, alleges that students spent only one-day studying Christianity and two weeks studying Islam (Starnes, 2016). The First Amendment forbids religious activity that is sponsored by the government but protects religious activity that is initiated by private individuals. The relationship between religion and government in the United States is governed by the First Amendment to the Constitution, which both prevents the government from establishing religion and protects privately initiated religious expression and activities from government interference and discrimination (US Dept. of Ed., 2016). Religion should not overflow into the government funded education. According to Olivia Godfrey "many public school officials do not know enough about other religions beside their own, and lastly, teaching children about every religion is simply impossible" (Godfrey, 2013). Furthermore, according the article written by Charles C. Haynes states, "Despite the recent increase in study about religion in schools, many Americans still have little or no knowledge about religions other than their own—and even that knowledge is often thin" (Haynes, 2011).
Can Teachers Be Trusted to Be Unbiased Towards Religion?
The real question we must consider whether typical public school teachers-particularly teachers at the lower lever-can truly be trusted to be objective about "teaching" religion? According to Annie Laurie Gaylor, the president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation states, "We handle more than 2,000 complaints a year by members of the public concerned about violations of the separation between church and state, and the vast majority of these concern violations in our public schools" (Gaylor, 2014). In summary, no. Teachers cannot be trusted to be unbiased towards religion.
The main point is that religion should be for the church and home, not for the public school system. Indeed, religion is a major part of America, but there should be a fine line between church and state and this is where this line should be drawn: between religion and education (Gaylor, 2014). Not only is the a constitutionally protected right but, it also server to protect American against favoritism towards any one religion. The first Amendment prevents the government from officially recognizing or favoring any religion.
To address the concerns on diversity, I believe diversity is a good thing. But, diversity if meaningless unless those people are also descent. Ben Shapiro, the Editor in Chief of the Daily Wire, spoke at Yale University recently said, "Racial diversity doesn't mean anything. Decency means something. Diversity isn't a bad thing, but it isn't a good thing unless the people who are racially diverse are also decent. Diversity isn't a bad thing unless the people who are racially diverse are indecent. This is not a difficult thing; diversity isn't our strength. Decency is our strength." This point illustrates why being religiously diverse means nothing unless you are also decent. Shared values, such as the constitution and the golden rule are the backbone on society. I don't have to care about you, and you don't have to care about me. Unless, you are going to infringe upon another's rights, that's when the government should step in, not before. They should not be teaching morals and religion in schools. That is the right of the parent.
Education is primarily a State and local responsibility in the United States (US Dept. of Ed., 2016). The Supreme court has help the stance on the First Amendment that requires public schools to be neutral towards their treatment of religion, showing not favoritism. However, if you wish to have teachers including religion in their curriculum, then send your kids to Private Schools. My wife went to Private Schools her whole life, and I did not. Which is why I am a huge advocate for religion being taught in private schools. Why? Because of the free market. If I don't like what is being taught by the teachers then, I am free to peruse another school that aligns with my religious beliefs or the lack there of. Let's say I'm an atheist. Why would I want my child learning about other religions when I'm fundamentally against religion? In the same light, if I want my child to learn about Christianity, Judaism, Catholicism, etc. I have the choice to send my child to a private institution based on those beliefs. Furthermore, I can enhance their experience by also teaching these beliefs and other beliefs at home. They will have a solid foundation in their beliefs but, also be tolerant to others that disagree. Isn't that the original point, tolerance?


Christmas is coming soon, for a lot of us it will approach much faster than we anticipate. This seems to happen to me most years, at least. Below are the Canada Post shipping dates to ensure your package arrives on time. I will be doing gift wrapping with Christmas Cards and personalized notes for all of my jewelry. Please state the exact noting prior to purchasing (in the "comment" portion when checking out) and the exact address you would like it shipped to. Please state that it will be a Christmas Gift so there is no confusion and I can wrap it accordingly. Below is the Canada Post Brochure.
Please note that these dates are the final dates for placing items in the mail. I will need a minimum of 3 business days prior to shipping to put everything together. Thanks!


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1951—Act Oct. 31, 1951, ch. 655, § 4, 65 Stat. 711, added item for chapter 4.
Section 3 of act June 25, 1948, provided that the sections or parts thereof of the Statutes at Large or the Revised Statutes covering provisions codified in this Act are repealed insofar as the provisions appeared in former Title 3, and provided that any rights or liabilities now existing under the repealed sections or parts thereof shall not be affected by the repeal.
Former sections 21 and 22 relating to performance of presidential duties in absence of both the President and Vice President were repealed by act July 18, 1947, ch. 264, § 1(g), 61 Stat. 381.
Oct. 19, 1888, ch. 1216, § 1, 25 Stat. 613.
June 5, 1934, ch. 390, § 6(b), 48 Stat. 879.
June 5, 1934, ch. 390, § 6(c), 48 Stat. 879.
Oct. 19, 1888, ch. 1216, § 2, 25 Stat. 613.
June 5, 1934, ch. 390, § 7, 48 Stat. 879.
July 26, 1947, ch. 343, § 311, 61 Stat. 509.
June 5, 1934, ch. 390, § 1, 48 Stat. 879.
Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 297, § 1, 35 Stat. 859.
Aug. 2, 1946, ch. 744, § 17(c), 60 Stat. 811.
Feb. 26, 1907, ch. 1635, § 4, 34 Stat. 993.
Mar. 4, 1925, ch. 549, § 4, 43 Stat. 1301.
Aug. 2, 1946, ch. 753, § 601(a), 60 Stat. 850.
Feb. 13, 1923, ch. 72, 42 Stat. 1227.
June 7, 1924, ch. 292, § 1, 43 Stat. 521.
Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 468, § 1, 43 Stat. 1198, 1199.
Apr. 22, 1926, ch. 171, § 1, 44 Stat. 305.
Feb. 11, 1927, ch. 104, § 1, 44 Stat. 1069.
May 16, 1928, ch. 580, § 1, 45 Stat. 573.
Feb. 20, 1929, ch. 270, § 1, 45 Stat. 1230.
Apr. 19, 1930, ch. 201, § 1, 46 Stat. 229.
Feb. 23, 1931, ch. 281, § 1, 46 Stat. 1355.
June 30, 1932, ch. 330, § 1, 47 Stat. 452.
June 16, 1933, ch. 101, § 1, 48 Stat. 284.
Mar. 28, 1934, ch. 102, § 1, 48 Stat. 509.
Feb. 2, 1935, ch. 3, § 1, 49 Stat. 6.
Mar. 19, 1936, ch. 156, § 1, 49 Stat. 1148.
June 28, 1937, ch. 396, § 1, 50 Stat. 350.
May 23, 1938, ch. 259, § 1, 52 Stat. 411.
Mar. 16, 1939, ch. 11, § 1, 53 Stat 524.
Apr. 8, 1940, ch. 107, § 1, 54 Stat. 112.
Apr. 5, 1941, ch. 40, § 1, 55 Stat. 93.
June 27, 1942, ch. 450, § 1, 56 Stat. 392.
June 26, 1943, ch. 145, § 101, 57 Stat. 169.
June 27, 1944, ch. 286, § 101, 58 Stat. 361.
May 3, 1945, ch. 106, § 101, 59 Stat. 106.
Mar. 28, 1946, ch. 113, § 101, 60 Stat. 61.
Feb. 26, 1925, ch. 377, §§ 1, 2, 43 Stat. 1091.
May 14, 1930, ch. 277, § 1, 46 Stat. 328.
May 14, 1930, ch. 277, § 2, 46 Stat. 328.
May 28, 1935, ch. 154, 49 Stat. 304.
Apr. 22, 1940, ch. 133, 54 Stat. 156.
June 9, 1947, ch. 102, 61 Stat. 132.
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Hulda "Polly" Anifnson
Hulda "Polly" Anifnson, 97, of Pierson, passed away, Saturday, March 14, 2020 at Kingsley Specialty Care in Kingsley, Iowa.
Funeral will be privately held with the family at Rohde Funeral Home in Kingsley, Iowa, with burial to follow at Fairfield Rock Branch Cemetery in rural Correctionville, Iowa. Online condolences may be sent to rohdefh.com.
Hulda "Polly" E. Schaeffer was born August 6, 1922 — along with her identical twin sister, Hilda — to Ernest and Katherine (Bauer) Schaeffer on a farm rural Pierson, Iowa.
Hulda grew up and lived in the Pierson area most all her life. She graduated from Pierson Consolidated High School in 1939.
On October 14, 1944 she married Mervin Anfinson at Santa Rosa, California, where Mervin was serving as a Tech Sergeant in the U.S. Army. After his honorable discharge, Hulda and Mervin returned to the Pierson area, where they began farming with Hulda's parents.
After retiring from farming they would spend their winters going south, finding that Apache Junction, Arizona was their favorite location to be during winter months until Mervin's health concerns forced them to remain home.
Mervin passed away March 29, 2009. Following his death, Hulda continued to live in their home until health concerns forced her to assisted living and then to long-term care at Kingsley Specialty Care in Kingsley, Iowa.
Hulda was a member of Salem Lutheran Church and American Legion Auxiliary in Pierson, Iowa.
Survivors include two sons, Dennis (Barbara) Anfinson, and W. Lee (Luella) Anfinson, both of Pierson; two daughters, Rhonda K Anfinson of Bosque Farms, New Mexico and Cleone (Dan) Flemming of Cory Colorado; 8 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.
Hulda was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Mervin, three sisters and one brother.
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Wonder Woman 1984 Lifts the DCEU a Little Higher Thanks to Gadot and a Golden Lasso
By Michael Burgin | December 24, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Well, that's one way to tackle superhero movie fatigue. Thanks to COVID-19, Wonder Woman 1984 lands as just the year's fourth big screen release in the genre. And, no offense to Bloodshot and New Mutants, it's functionally just the second after February's Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey. That means that, while Patty Jenkins' anticipated sequel to the first DC extended universe (DCEU) success story has the usual challenges of pacing, plot and character development every director must solve, an audience over-saturated by costumed antics isn't one of them.
Set 66 years after the previous film, Wonder Woman 1984 has many of the same strengths and weaknesses as its predecessor. Fortunately, the exact mix and proportion of those strengths and weaknesses has shifted for the better.
Casting and character development remain a core pillar of the franchise. As pure casting alchemy, Gal Gadot's turn as everybody's favorite Amazonian princess is matched only by Chris Evan's as everybody's favorite super soldier. (Respectful nod to Hemsworth's Thor and Robbie's Harley Quinn.) With the return of Chris Pine's Steve Trevor, the simple, affable chemistry between the two is also back. The way in which Pine returns is one of several "Hm … nicely done" moments in the film (invisible jet!).
As crucially, when it comes to presenting viewers with her particular corner of the DCEU, Jenkins does so many of the little things well. That may seem like faint praise, but failure to handle the small moments well, or at all, has been a huge, hobbling issue for the DCEU even as it's been a cornerstone of the MCU's success. In part, moments like totally avoidable tornadic-assisted suicides, blasé infliction of collateral damage and straight up murder land so wrongly because they reveal fundamental misunderstandings of the characters involved. The success of the MCU's Captain America is due in large part because, as much attention as is given to Cap during the action set pieces, as much or more is paid to Steve Rogers during the smaller moments. The same is true here.
At two hours, 31 minutes, Wonder Woman 1984 will inevitably draw some criticism for being slow in stretches, but it's in these moments that Jenkins, Geoff Johns and Dave Callaham allow Gadot's Diana and the other characters in the film to breathe and develop. It's the kind of patience that may frustrate viewers looking for wall-to-wall action—or even just wall-to-wall Wonder Woman—even as it deepens the portrait of what it might be like to be a near-immortal force for justice whose true love perished decades ago. (The film also takes so much time transforming Kriten Wiig's Barbra Minerva into a villain that the film feels like it's setting up a Cheetah franchise.)
As for the action, despite devolving a bit into CGI messiness at the end, it's still pretty exhilarating thanks in part to an unexpected star—the lasso of Hestia. Much as Thor: Ragnarok let trusty Mjolnir have center stage before its crushing demise in the hands of Hela, pretty much every action scene in Wonder Woman 1984 puts Diana's magic lasso to work. It's another good choice—lariat use lends itself to far more creative action choreography than those "block a bullet, make a bang" bracelets of submission.
As for weaknesses, Wonder Woman 1984 has a bit of a villain problem, but, to be fair, it's one inherited from the source materials. The first film had Ares (eh, but undeniably a main foe of Diana) and Dr. Poison (oy). Now we get Maxwell Lord (Pedro Pascal, having a good year) and Cheetah, the latter of whom is the classic, go-to arch for Wonder Woman. And that's … pretty weak, to be honest. Batman (Joker, Riddler, Bane, etc.), Superman (Lex Luthor, Doomsday, Brainiac, etc.), the Flash (Reverse Flash, Gorilla Grodd, Captain Cold, etc.)—hell, even Green Lantern (Sinestro, Star Sapphire)—have immediate, iconic enemies that not only populate their rogues galleries but serve as obvious foils and antitheses. Meanwhile, Wonder Woman, one of the Big Three, gets … Cheetah. I'm not sure exactly what it says that this is the case, but it sure seems like gender inequity in storytelling over decades may be to blame.
Just as Wonder Woman's dark, stormy scuffle with a mostly transformed Ares (hold on to that Victorian 'stache Greek god of war!) was much less impressive than the No Man's Land battle scenes, Diana's dark, stormy meow-mix-up with the finally fully transformed Cheetah lacks the impact or fun of the earlier convoy and White House scenes. (Now that I think of it, between Thewlis' confusingly untransformed face and Wiig's confusingly transformed one, "facial CGI" seems like a dependable stumbling block in this franchise.)
Fortunately, Wonder Woman 1984 isn't so much about flexing some Infinity War muscle. Like Captain America: The First Avenger and Iron Man 3, this movie is focused as much on the emotional journey and intangibles that lie beneath the heroism. To that extent, it feels more like the introspective first half of Superman Returns even as, thankfully, its second half isn't near the mess the retread of "Lex Luthor, real estate magnate" proved in the former.
It's no secret the DCEU remains a universe behind the MCU is establishing its characters and franchises—not to mention box office muscle—but thanks to Momoa's Aquaman and Levi's Shazam, it feels like it could be on the verge of moving forward instead of stepping on more rakes. Part of that process calls for nailing down the character in the audience's imagination so you can then play with it. Will Pattinson's Batman work? How about the Rock's Black Adam? Are we still supposed to bond with Ezra Miller's Flash? Who will the next Superman be? Among all those unknowns, at least we have our Wonder Woman.
Director: Patty Jenkins
Writers: Patty Jenkins, Geoff Johns (story and screenplay); Dave Callaham (screenplay); William Moulton Marston (based on character created)
Starring: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig, Pedro Pascal, Robin Wright, Connie Nielsen, Lilly Aspell
Release Date: December 25, 2020 (theaters and HBO Max)
Michael Burgin is Movies Editor for Paste. He has never complained of superhero movie fatigue and is likely immune.
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A Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) is a document issued by the Federal Aviation Administration approving a product (aircraft, engine, or propeller) modification or alteration.
A STC is a change to the aircraft original Type Certificate (factory type cetificate).
The STC defines the product design change, states how the modification affects the existing type design, and lists serial number effectivity. It also identifies the certification basis listing specific regulatory compliance for the design change.
The STC and its related information - all drawings, data and specifications - are the property of the company holding the STC (STC holder).
To approve for return to service an aircraft modified by a STC, a FAA Form 337 must be completed. The STC is used as FAA approved data, a logbook entry is also required.
The 337 must be signed off by authorized persons : Item 6(Conformity Statement) must be signed off by the person performing the alteration(A&P or Repair Station). Item 7 (Approval for return to service) may only be signed off by an IA , a FAA Repair Station or FAA Designee.


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The best designed waterproof shoes are comfortable. When it comes to considering travel shoes, you should go for the most comfortable of all since you will have to spend a lot of time in them. Otherwise, your time in the shoes will not be great. Moreover, shoes that are comfortable will prompt you to keep on changing them. This means that you will have to carry another pair of shoes that increase the weight you carry in your journey. When you are out there trying to get a pair of travelling shoes, you should make sure that you go for the most comfortable of them. You can do this by purchasing the shoes a number of days prior to the trip and then trying them on. This will give you time to get used to them for more comfort.
Moreover, shoes that are best suited for your destination are the best designs ever. Shoes are designed to be worn but there are specific shoe designs for every occasion. This simply means that you will have to know the type of shoe that you should wear as you travel. It would be very inappropriate for you to rock in a pair of flat shoes in the long grass of Amazon. Also, wearing heavy duty boots in the New York streets might as well be inappropriate. Therefore, you should be aware of your destination and the nature of shoes that you should have.
Waterproof travelling shoes might be classy but the material making them is meant to keep your feet warm and protected. To ensure that a lot of heat does not accumulate in the shoes and that your feet are aerated, waterproof shoes are fitted with air vents. These ensure that air constantly flows in and out of shoes. The best designed waterproof travelling shoes are the ones with air vents to avoid excess heat and to prevent them from being soaked with sweat.
A shoe that you can only use for one purpose is not the best kind of shoe to wear. The best-designed shoes are the ones that you can wear in multiple instances and still fit in the crowd while at the same time being comfortable and looking elegant. The best-designed travel shoes are the kind that apart from providing you with comfort assures more traction, lightweight and stylish to ensure that you do not have to buy different shoes for every place that you go.
Shies that make you look like you are from the marsupials' era are not the best to wear when travelling. While style is not an option, it just does not come easily. You have to look for the most stylish shoes of all while at the same time enjoying the comfort and the protection they offer. Waterproof travelling shoes are also stylish but you have to look harder for the best of them. The best design of waterproof shoes is the stylish type that gives you the elegance you desire.
Responsible travel has been the biggest trend in the market. Therefore, the best designed waterproof travel shoes that you can acquire are the ones that conserve the environment. Vegan-friendly shoes that lead to less use of animal products ensure a green ecosystem. Make sure that you acquire such a pair of shoes and contribute to environmental conservation.
Have you been looking for travelling shoes? You should go for the type that best defines you and at the same time ensures your safety and comfort. The best designed waterproof shoes are the ones that have an eco-design, stylish, air vents versatile, comfortable and appropriate for your destination. This kind of shoes will ensure that you get the best out of your travel.
Humans have for the last two centuries destroyed, the soils, the air, water and the whole environment with the products that they every day put to use. In a bid to seek retribution, environmentally healthy products are now being introduced to replace the synthetic ones that were previously being used. Some of these products include common ones like grocery bags. The manufacture of grocery bags has had its course shifted towards the use of reusable organic materials like organic cotton grocery bags. The end products of this process are now economical, practical and ensure a healthy environment.
These high-quality products have assured the world of a better environment in future hence attracting the attention of many investors, innovators and manufacturers. Furthermore, organic cotton grocery bags come in different shapes and sizes as well as diverse designs which can be used by people of all ages and gender. This points out towards acquiring one of these bags with the minimum hustle possible. To ensure the success of this process, the Global Organic Textile Standards (GOTS) organization has come in to provide certification to all the companies that are involved in the manufacture of these bags. This organization stipulates the standards as well as the requirements for every firm involved in the manufacture of organic products. The regulations involve the social responsibilities, labour conditions and the whole ecology chain of changing the raw materials to finished product.
Organic cotton grocery bags enjoy numerous merits that surpass the involved shortcomings. One of the advantages is that the raw materials used are acquired directly from the farmers hence creating a market for locally produced agricultural goods. Various countries in the world enjoy a favourable climate for the production of cotton. However, for a long time, the uses of cotton have always been limited hence the product has been fetching little income from the international market. However, with the increase in cotton uses, its demand has arisen to unimaginable levels hence increasing the income the product fetches in the market. This has provided an opportunity for cotton farmers to have their product being obtained directly from the farms at the price they deserve and an opportunity for investment hence increasing the farmers' income and improving the general economic status of the involved countries.
Unlike most of the synthetic products that need sophisticated technologies to convert raw materials to simple finish products like plastic grocery bags, the technology involved in the manufacture of organic cotton grocery bags is pretty simple. Investors in this process spend less on technology whence the finished product is sold at a very pocket-friendly price. Moreover, the involved raw material is readily available, easy to acquire and easy to transport because it is less bulky compared to other forms of raw materials like petroleum products involved in the polymerization process to produce plastic grocery bags. The process of acquiring cotton as a raw material from the firms is very easy compared to the process of excavating crude oil. Also, unlike the exploration process to discover the areas rich in crude oil, cotton is cultivated in diverse known areas in the world where the manufacturers can easily locate and access.
Normal transportation mechanisms are the best for the transport of cotton to the firm without destroying the roads, polluting the environment or causing diverse catastrophes like fire. After the delivery of the raw material, a straightforward process of yarn spinning, knitting of the fabric and sewing of the bags follows with the use of rather simple machines. This makes organic cotton grocery bags the best to use since they are associated with less havoc and environmental conservation. The simplicity involved allows for the manufacture of large quantities of the final product in an easy way hence making them cheap and easy to acquire. A lot of income that can be used in different ways is saved in the process and the environment is saved as well.
Apart from the food we consume, another way through which we negatively affect our environment is through simple products like grocery bags that we use daily. The use of eco-friendly products is our only way out hence we must use the resources we have to seek ways to become eco-friendly as fast as possible. The road to identifying high impact products and practices has not been smooth but we are gradually succeeding. With the use of organic cotton grocery bags, I can see a light at the end of the tunnel for our planet.
The lovers of style and fashion will most definitely tell you that style is personal. Unlike men, women are known to be more attracted to the apparel world. This gender, therefore, constitutes the significant many in the current apparel market. When you speak of beauty, women's beauty lies in what they wear hence their innate attractiveness to diverse forms of apparels. Most recently, technological advancement has led to the rise of organic women's apparel. This article will shed light on this issue and how it has affected women all over the globe.
Organic women's apparel has recently become common in the world market. They are known to provide an exceptionally elegant look to those who choose them more than the chemically made apparels. More so, their contribution to the environmental conservation is commendable since their rate of decay is remarkably high compared to most the other forms of apparels. This means that once disposed of, they stay only for a very short period of time in the soil after which they completely decompose and contribute to soil fertility. This makes them the best apparels for use by every gender since they assure a more promising conducive environment than anything else in the world. As it is known, the earth as we know it is on the verge of getting destroyed. It is said that we might be the only civilization that will be able to document its extinction if we are not careful. According to the United Nations report, humans will have destroyed their habitat by the year 2030 which calls for immediate action. In response to this threat, women's organic apparels have been developed not because they are more superior to the chemically made apparels but also because they contribute a great deal to the environmental conservation.
Various companies have risen to specialize in the design and the manufacturer as well as the sale of organic women's apparels. Their efforts have largely been recognized through the existence of diverse and affordable women apparels in the market. These companies have flooded the market with modern apparel designs making the acquisition of women apparels irresistible. Thanks to the widely available resources, these companies have been able to offer a variety of organic as well as ecofriendly apparels sourced from different parts of the world. The major materials that have been used to design and manufacture organic apparels include clay-based dyes, low impact water, recycled plastics, recycled cotton, soy and silk as well as 100% cotton among others. These materials are widely available in many countries of the world which reduces the burden of raw material acquisition. Essentially, the rise of organically made women apparels has contributed to technological advancement in the same field of study hence giving more hope to our ailing world.
Just like the ancient world, human beings have shifted to the use of organic products since these products are easy to use, easily accessible, largely available and most of all, ecologically beneficial. Unlike the ancient world where dry skin and tree barks were used to wrap around the body, the modern world has introduced numerous designs that are captivating to the human eyes. Women have most definitely been used to steer this evolution through the introduction of organic women's apparel in different styles and designs.
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This is a hidden gem, I have lived in the area for 8 years and didn't know it was there! We had visitors from an Eastern European office and wanted somewhere different for myself and work colleagues to entertain. I enjoyed the atmosphere, the service was excellent, the food outstanding, it was superb. Friendly staff from the minute you walk in the moment you leave, everyone was super nice. I am returning the first weekend in June, I hope it will be equally enjoyable.
The staff were very helpful and show that they enjoy their jobs which is very important. There's a lovely ambience about the place.It felt very welcoming and most importantly the food was amazing.The steak was cooked exactly as I asked for it. I had a gorgeous prawn and feta starter and the new potatoes were cooked perfectly and we're so tender they melted in my mouth. I will definitely be back there soon.
Great food. Need some fans or better ventilation as we were very hot during the meal - and that was with no-one else in the restaurant! Staff were being trained so our mocktails turned up in different containers and with differing amounts of ingredients each time! Prefer drinking out of glasses rather than jam jars and if you're going to serve them with straws, please use long instead of short straws so can reach the bottom of the jam jar - apart from that, all good!
My daughter wanted to have brunch at Browns on her 18th birthday. I delivered all the usual table decs, cake etc prior to our arrival and asked the staff if they would kindly decorate our table. Sure enough upon our arrival the table looked lovely. The food was really nice, and well presented. The staff were very friendly and accommodating and we were even given a complimentary glass of Bucks Fizz each. Overall a very pleasant experience and we will definitely return!
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How to build a Solid Confidence In Yourself
Building your self-confidence is one of the best self-investment you can do. Confidence comes from doing. self-confidence people have the doers mindset, they don't just sit down think, or talk about doing something and sometimes end up not doing it, they either talk about it first then do it or they just do it.
I can summarize how to build a Solid confidence in one tip and it's Take action. If you're willing to do that hard work or take a step in working toward that big goal people told you, you can't do it! you will reach that day where you can say I can, I'll do it without the need to hear you can do it from others or though people are telling you you can't do it because your faith is in yourself. You will be willing to take that hard road even though you're by yourself because you already proved yourself to yourself.
Here are the 5 most important things that will help you build solid confidence in yourself.
1. Empower yourself with knowledge
You become powerful when you educate yourself. Empower yourself with knowledge at things you are passionate about, that's where you gain your confidence and know more about yourself. Also, empower yourself by Improving yourself. Become good at what you do. Study regularly and improve your academics, if you are a student. At work put an extra effort into what you do. When you improve, you give yourself a reason to be proud of yourself, you prove yourself what you are capable of.
2. Accept who you are
Accept yourself completely without others' opinions of who you are. Sit down with yourself dig into your thoughts of who you are since you were a kid, know your flaws, your motivation, your weak point, and your strength point because when you completely know and accept who you are, you will speak about yourself in public and feel good without fearing and feeling shy.
3. Just do it
No one ever became confident only by reading confidence quotes or just talking about confidence (only if it's fake confidence). There may be negative thoughts that pop up every time you want to start or do something, don't listen to it. If you want to join the Gym, just join it without thinking a lot, if you are afraid of approaching that girl you like, just approach her. You only build solid confidence by proving yourself to yourself and you only do that by taking action.
4. Talk positively to yourself
It doesn't matter how often you talk with yourself, but every time you talk with yourself alone, make sure you elevate yourself. If you made a mistake forgive yourself and tell yourself I'll do better next time, if you are working on something and others are doubting and underestimating you, tell yourself I'll do it.
Imagine every day you talk negatively to yourself e.g I'm not worthy, I can't do it, I'm weak and that's how I'll be, then you will stay like this, but if you made a mistake, and you tell yourself things like what can I learn from this mistake, I'll try better next time, I'll do it, you will grow mentally strong and start building confidence in yourself.
5. Never fake it
In today's world, the new trick for looking confident is to fake your confidence, but it's the worst advice. Faking will make you forget who you are, make you overconfident and create the fear of being exposed. It's ok to visualize your future self( strong and confident) but never fake who you are, in both cases, you wouldn't be able to concentrate on your goals.
You're building this solid confidence in yourself for yourself. Ask yourself do you want to be loud in the room not because you're strong but because you fear people might start doubting your words? It ain't the confidence you want, so never fake it but let your faith be in your ability.
Okay now you know what to do to build solid confidence and you did it, congratulation. After a while, your confidence might decrease and it's natural but how to boost your confidence and bring it back to 100% like it was when you proved yourself to yourself.
How to boost your self-confidence
Exercise has a lot of benefits, but here you exercise to free your mind from disturbing thoughts. Doing any simple exercise (10-15 minutes) or meditating can free your mind from all the disturbing thoughts that are decreasing your self-confidence.
2. Remember who you are
After clearing your mind from these disturbing thoughts, take a deep breath and remember who you are. You're that person who lifted 100 pounds when a lot said you can't, you're that person who became an engineer though a lot of people underestimated you, you're that person who grew a 100k channel on YouTube when some said you can't do it. Remember the achievements that gained you that confidence in yourself. In short, Remember who you're.
3. Dress Your Best
For sure you're not boosting your confidence to just stay at home. You may have an interview and you think you can't be accepted, or you are presenting that project you've been working on and you think you can't do good when presenting. Whatever the reason when you dress your best, you feel good. Looking in the mirror, admiring yourself will boost your confidence.
4. Speak Good to yourself
Though it's forgotten by a lot of people, in your last minutes tell yourself you can do it, there's only you in this world and other good words. These small positive words can shut down all the disturbing thoughts that always pop up decreasing your performance.
Causes of Low Self-confidence
In some situations you don't need to boost your confidence because you're already at your 100, but why do you feel unconfident. It's because you're doing things or still holding to thoughts that cause your low confidence. Things that make your confidence drop:
1. Self-comparison
The biggest cause of unhappiness, low self-confidence, and jealousy is self-comparison. The person you compare yourself with controls your mode. If you're doing better than him/her, you will feel good and brag about what you're doing. But if he/she is doing better than you, you will feel bad though you're doing better than how you were doing. Clap for those doing better than you but remember your biggest competitor is you. Always do better than you were doing because it's You Vs You. Win always.
2. Physical Insecurities
Not accepting the imperfect part of you will decrease your confidence.
3. Past Trauma
Low self-confidence starts developing at a young age. If you had parents who always say shitty things to you when you fail, you're more likely to develop low self-confidence and think you deserve the bad things.
Imagine two boys in the same class with different parents. The first boy is always appreciated by his parent for the academic work he had done (though he's not from the top 3 students) and always motivated to do better in the next class while the second boy who scored better than the first but always criticized by his parents for not being in the top 3 and considered dumb for failing in some subjects though he's good in the class. The first boy will develop high self-confidence and believe in his ability to do better in new things though he might fail in his first attempt than the second boy. Never getting positive feedback as a child can develop low-self confidence.
But you're not in that past anymore, whatever happened in your past that's holding you down. Let go of it, period.
4. Bad self-talk
Sometimes it's you who's lowering your confidence. Though others may talk bad to you but let it be not you.
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In short: Take actions
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Sonic tries to navigate the complexities of life on Earth with his newfound best friend -- a human named Tom Wachowski. They must soon join forces to prevent the evil Dr. Robotnik from capturing Sonic and using his powers for world domination.
Sonic the Hedgehog[b] is a 2020 action-adventure comedy film based on the video game franchise published by Sega. The film is directed by Jeff Fowler in his feature directorial debut and written by Pat Casey and Josh Miller. It stars Ben Schwartz as the voice of Sonic the Hedgehog and Jim Carrey as Doctor Robotnik, as well as James Marsden, Tika Sumpter, Natasha Rothwell, Adam Pally, and Neal McDonough. In the film, Sonic teams up with local town sheriff Tom Wachowski to find his lost rings and escape Dr. Robotnik.
Development for a film began in the 1990s, but did not go beyond the planning stage until Sony Pictures acquired the film rights in 2013. Production involved the collaboration of Sega Sammy's Japanese studio Marza Animation Planet, with Fowler brought in to direct in 2016. After Sony put the project in turnaround, Paramount Pictures acquired it in 2017. The majority of the cast signed on by August 2018, and principal filming took place between September and October that year in Vancouver and on Vancouver Island. Following the negative reaction to the first trailer in 2019, the film's release was delayed by three months to redesign Sonic.
Sonic the Hedgehog premiered at the Paramount Theatre on January 25, 2020, and was theatrically released in the United States on February 14, 2020. Critics praised the performances, Sonic's design, and its faithfulness to the source material, but criticized its plot and perceived lack of originality.[11][12] The film set the record for the biggest opening weekend for a video game film in the United States and Canada. It grossed $306 million worldwide, becoming the second highest-grossing film of 2020,[13] while also becoming the highest-grossing video game adaptation of all time in the US box office.
Sonic, an extraterrestrial blue hedgehog who can run at supersonic speeds, finds himself sought after by a tribe of echidnas for his power. His guardian, Longclaw the Owl, gives him a bag of rings that can create portals to other planets, using one to send him to Earth while she protects him from the echidnas. Ten years later, Sonic enjoys a secret life near the town of Green Hills, Montana, but longs to make friends. He idolizes the local sheriff, Tom Wachowski, and his veterinarian wife, Maddie, unaware the pair are planning to relocate to San Francisco soon, as Tom has been hired by the San Francisco Police Department.
One night, Sonic becomes upset over his loneliness when playing baseball by himself, and runs at supersonic speed as a result, inadvertently triggering an electromagnetic pulse that knocks out power across the Pacific Northwest. Roboticist and scientific genius Doctor Robotnik is enlisted by the United States Department of Defense to uncover the source of the outage. Robotnik discovers and tracks Sonic, who hides in the Wachowskis' shed. Tom discovers Sonic and accidentally shoots him with a tranquilizer, causing him to send his bag of rings through a portal to San Francisco. Tom reluctantly agrees to help Sonic before Robotnik arrives at the Wachowskis' house and the two flee. As the pair evade Robotnik, who labels Tom a domestic terrorist, they slowly bond, with Tom learning about Sonic's desire for a real friend.
Robotnik comes across one of Sonic's quills, discovering the power in it has the potential to fuel his robots, and becomes obsessed with capturing Sonic. As he tracks them down, Tom discusses his plans to leave Green Hills, which Sonic disapproves of. Shortly after defeating a robot sent by Robotnik, an explosion injures Sonic. Arriving at San Francisco, Tom brings him to Maddie, who revives him. While Tom explains about their situation to Maddie, Sonic receives a new pair of sneakers from Maddie's niece. The group soon head to the roof of the Transamerica Pyramid, where Sonic's bag of rings landed, and recover them. Robotnik arrives in a hovercraft and attacks them, forcing Sonic to use a ring to send Tom and Maddie back to Green Hills.
Sonic flees from Robotnik, who uses the power of Sonic's quill to match his speed. The two engage in a chase across the world, ultimately returning to Green Hills. Robotnik incapacitates Sonic, but Tom intervenes, allowing Sonic to regain his strength and reclaim his lost energy. Overcoming Robotnik, Sonic defeats him by sending him to another planet. Following the incident, Tom and Maddie decide to stay in Green Hills and let Sonic live with them. The US government erases all evidence of the events, including records of Robotnik's existence. Meanwhile, Robotnik, still in possession of Sonic's quill and having lost his sanity, begins plotting his revenge. On Earth, Tails, a twin-tailed fox from Sonic's world, emerges from a ring portal in search of Sonic.


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Q: Setting nullable int to zero if value is less than zero Using c# I was wondering if there is a way to cast an int to return 0 if null or less than 0
  number = ((int?) nullableNum) ?? 0

This will return 0 if null but I want a way to return 0 if less than 0

A: You can use Math.Max for that purpose, which will make the code more readable:
var number = Math.Max(0, nullableNum ?? 0)

or even better to use GetValueOrDefault instead of null-coalescing. It
retrieves the value of the current Nullable<T>
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var number = Math.Max(0, nullableNum.GetValueOrDefault());

A: You can use the following syntax for that
var number = nullableNum.HasValue && nullableNum.Value > 0 ? nullableNum.Value : 0;

You check that nullableNum HasValue and whether it's Value greater 0 or not and return a Value. If condition is false (nullableNum is null and its value less 0), simply return 0
Another and more simple option is to use GetValueOrDefault method for that, it return the default value for underlying type (0 for int)
var defaultValue = nullableNum.GetValueOrDefault();
var number = defaultValue < 0 ? 0 : defaultValue;

A: If you want an one-liner you could do (where nullable is your value or null):
int? nullable = null;
int zero = (nullable < 0 ? 0 : nullable) ?? 0;


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The Power of Nightmares, review of BBC documentary series, 2005
Posted by mtk in essay, reviews, short film
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The Power of Nightmares, a BBC documentary in three one- hour parts by Adam Curtis, is available free online and free from intellectual property burdens. It is in the Creative Commons so you can just download it from
http://www.archive.org/details/ThePowerOfNightmares
Watch it and rebroadcast it anywhere you can. The series takes as its subject a comparison of two ideological groups that have tried to shape the entire world for the past fifty years using money, power, influence, religion, violence and finally fear.
This doc also seeks to define and address a change in policy makers: from positivists who seek to represent humanity toward a better life into negativists who perpetuate stereotypes of fear to remain in power. But fundamentally the series is a comparison of two radical groups who now hold the world in their grip:
The Islamic Fundamentalist Extremists and
The US American Neoconservatives
The series begins with an examination of the intellectual pursuits of Egyptian philosopher and Islamic Fundamentalist scholar Syed Qtub and Neo-conservative Scholar and University of Chicago professor Leo Strauss in 1949 and details how their pursuits led to what would become the ideology behind these two currents of hyper-conservative thought that have been extremely active: struggling against their own societies, subsequently working together to defeat the Soviet Union in Afghanistan and ending up in direct conflict in a Winner-Take-All-Fight-to-the-Death, which is taking place even now in the guise of the War on Terror [which ought rightfully be called the War of Terror].
But more, this series properly addresses the tactic of fear used by both groups, and especially that used by the neocons, to propagandize humanity into electing politicians willing to use the fear model for their own selfish interests – Tony Blair is really exposed as an opportunist by this series.
I deeply wish more people could see this doc so we could begin a discussion to reframe the global power conversation that is being dictated to us by military and militant authorities.
Curtis' series does not address the possibility of Neocon or US American complicity in the attack on 9/11 nor does it properly address the Clinton era in context:
He says 9/11 was executed by extreme readers of Islamic Fundamentalism and leaves it at that [he says the actual events were executed by a plan drawn by KSM (that's Khalid Sheik Mohammad in CIA-speak)] and that Clinton was a fundamentally good agent who was buried by a neocon cabal which trained its powers of attack at him [painting Clinton as a victim].
In these readings, I have differences with Curtis, but he doesn't take a stance on these matters that threatens the possibilities lined out by many other researchers and documentarians with more access and focus on them. He simply leaves them as generally accepted media ideas for the sake of a wider, more historiographic perspective that is really very brilliant.
He proposes very effectively that the neocons have used the exact same exaggerative tactics to take down first the Soviet Union, then Bill Clinton and now, finally, Muslim Fundamentalism under the vague rubric of Terrorism.
The series goes further and proposes that "there is no al Qaeda." And fully debunks the Bush administrations claims of successful anti-terror work in the USA post-9/11.
This is a GREAT historical view of conflicts authored by and between the Neocons and the Islamist Extremists … really important work.
Please find some one with high speed connection universities would be perfect places to achieve this – and broadcast them widely.
Film clubs, organizations, peace groups, non-profits, NGOs, students or professors or faculty or staff with access to computer labs with high-speed connections: please download this important three part series from the BBC and have public viewings and showings.
I urge this because I think it would make a great beginning to reframing the 21st century conversation.
Posted by mtk in artists books, collage, Los Angeles, NYC, poetry, politics
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dereliction [2005]
13.5 x 21 in
an original poem by M.T. Karthik on seafarer's maps salvaged by G. Borsa from a derelict tugboat on the Newtown Creek that separates the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn, NY; with gouache, acrylic, ink, and collage of printed paper, printed plastic and color prints from digital media by M.T. Karthik; bound by C.K. Wilde
Initially authored during the Republican National Convention as it was taking place in New York City, "dereliction" [2004] begins with a slap across the face of the Prince of Wales in 2001. A reprint of the BBC World Service Internet screenshot features 19-year-old Alina striking Charles with a rose in Riga, Latvia, and is collaged into a map of the seagoing entrance to the Gulf of Riga in the Baltic. Accompanying text reports that Alina was protesting the then recently begun bombing of Afghanistan by the United States and the United Kingdom. This is the only spread in the book which maps an actual place.
An invocation:
"O, Chorus of unknown seas, drowning the known to smithereens"
leads the viewer from the map and image of an actual place into a fantasy cartography.
As an organizing principle each folio is designed such that no spread has paper from the same original map in its recto and verso facia. To achieve this, the maps were spread out, cut into quarters and recomposed, designed primarily with an aesthetic created from the juxtaposition of land masses and water. The land and water were then treated with media to create text that serves to obfuscate specificity further, but also to unify bodies of water and masses of land.
Each spread (including the title page and frontispiece) is composed from deconstructed maps positioned to create shorelines and seaways with no basis in earthly reality. The result is a deconstruction of the original maps that creates an atlas of a world familiar yet not accurately descriptive of any known place. The title page is companioned with a frontispiece detailing the title, as the first sets of waves of text appear in the sea: "the ship of state is derelict".
Figures rigid in concept, but loose and flexible in media, create a striking paradox, as patterns of zeroes and ones are painted in gouache across the land masses – a reminder of digital output and a haunting count.
Swiftly, the context leaps back in time to the era of the Atomic Bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as a play on words is employed in the repeating waves of text in the sea: Truman as the "worst president," the decision to use the bomb as the "worst precedent". [Curatorial note: there are momentary and unique changes in the underlying text in each spread. In this case, buried in the text are two additions: "the buck stops here" and "worst Missouri Mob" … meant to implicate unseen hands behind the Truman presidency.]
A spread follows featuring the English transliteration of the name of Hiroshima copied 1,000 times and of Nagasaki 750 times and leads to the A-bomb spread: the spread with the most text in the book, in all five layers, including the Sanskrit transliteration of Chapter 11, Verse 32, from the Bhagavad Gita, quoted by Oppenheimer upon seeing the cloud from the first successful test of his atomic bomb.
From the A-Bomb spread, "dereliction" [2005] continues to accuse the founders of the U.S. of genocide and the current leaders of the United States of militarization for centuries. A parallel is made between the figure cited by Bartholomew de las Casas as killed by Columbus' ventures and a figure representing those killed by the USA abroad in covert and overt operations between 1945 and 2001 and digital photos of pre-columbian sculptures from Oaxaca, Mexico float in the seas.
The centerfold of "dereliction" [2005] employs a quote from James Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" to make a point about the rush to war in Iraq. In the novel, Joyce describes his class being asked by his teacher, to copy the phrase "zeal without prudence is like a ship adrift," repeatedly. At the place marked in the maps as "Middleground" this quote is written over and over as instructed, and creates the central thesis of the text: that the USA is adrift, waging bungled wars led by men who don't know even simple philosophical truths.
The text then moves to an admonition of those adrift without such knowledge:
"Oh, woe betide ye, adrift at sea, without even a cosmology"
and concludes by offering a cosmology in the form of a Haiku [5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables]:
a cosmology :
sun father mother ocean
the moon is a god
Arcadia in Tokyo, 2005
Posted by mtk in journalism, reviews
Plays are events rather than texts.
They're written to happen, not to be read.
Tom Stoppard, 1979, NYT
The latest incarnation of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia – a wickedly clever postmodern play about meaning, mathematics, sex, literature and academia – will open in Tokyo on October 14, with a cast of actors from across the English-speaking world.
Irish Director Conor Hanratty's education in classical Greek has included Bachelors and Masters degrees in theater and trips to Greece to observe the ancient dramas live. He is in Japan on academic exchange from Dublin to study iconoclastic Japanese director Yukio Ninagawa (about whom he is writing a book) and, in his spare time, has connected with Tokyo International Players (TIP) to direct the dense and witty Stoppard two-act, which, as he puts it, poses far more questions than it answers while still managing to leave the audience wondrously sated. "The questions Arcadia raises really don't go away," Hanratty says, "asking, why we're here and 'why do things survive' and 'why do things get lost' and 'do we find them again'?
"There's a wonderful moment in the play when the tutor turns to his pupil and says, "It's okay, you know, we lose things and we carry things with us but it doesn't matter because the important thing is the march that we're on, and there's nothing outside that, so even if we drop something, someone else will pick it up later.' And they talk about all of the lost plays of the Athenians in Greece – which is, of course, close to my heart. Just very recently they found a big lump of a new Sophocles play that we didn't have before, so it's quite timely that they talk about these things that will reappear eventually … they do."
The play takes place in one room in different times set apart by two centuries, and pits academics in sexual dalliances against a discussion of events muddled by history. American assistant director Robb Dahlke says, "I especially find intriguing Stoppard's theme of not knowing exactly what has happened in the past – the mistakes that can be made by circumstantial evidence; how something can be read one way leading in the wrong direction from what actually happened."
TIP is the oldest English language theater company in Japan, having a history of a remarkable 109 years and employing an entirely volunteer cast and crew made up of English-speaking actors and hands that happen to be in Tokyo. "That's the difficulty," remarks Briton Alice Hackett, who plays Hannah in the production, "you never can be sure you're going to be able to cast a play with exactly the right pool of people. You have to count on what's available. But that's also very challenging for the actors who are available … you might find yourself playing slightly older than you normally would or in an accent you might not normally be acting in. It's a great opportunity to try out new things."
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard, Directed by Conor Hanratty, October 14-16, will be performed at the Tokyo American Club, for more information: http://www.tokyoplayers.org
(originally published in Japanzine here)


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Inštitut Võro (Võro Instituut) je estonska državna raziskovalna in razvojna institucija, ki se ukvarja z ohranjanjem in promocijo jezika ter kulture Võro.

Zgodovina

Võro ( Võro:   , ) je jezik, ki spada v finsko vejo uralskih jezikov. Dolgo časa je veljal za narečje južnoestonske narečne skupine estonskega jezika, danes pa je priznan kot samostojen knjižni jezik in čaka na uradno priznanje kot avtohtoni regionalni jezik Estonije. Võro ima približno 75.000 govorcev (Võri), večinoma na jugovzhodu Estonije, v osmih zgodovinske župnijah: Võru, Karula, Harglõ, Urvastõ, Rõugõ, Kanepi, Põlva, Räpinä in Vahtsõliina. Te župnije so trenutno prerazdeljene v okrožji Võru in Põlva, njihovi deli pa se raztezajo tudi v okrožja Valga in Tartu. Govorce tega jezika lahko najdemo tudi v mestih Talin in Tartu ter v preostali Estoniji.

Inštitut je leta 1995 ustanovila estonska vlada, nahaja pa se v južnoestonskem mestu Võru. Direktorji inštituta so do sedaj bili Enn Kasak, Kaido Kama in Külli Eichenbaum, sedanji direktor inštituta pa je Rainer Kuuba. Med raziskovalci na inštitutu sta toponimist Evar Saar in leksikograf Sulev Iva.

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Inštitut se ukvarja s številnimi dejavnostmi oziroma izzivi, s katerimi se soočajo manj govorjeni jeziki, vključno z vzpostavljanjem šolskih programov, izvajanjem jezikoslovnih in regionalnih raziskav, ohranjanjem tradicionalnih krajevnih imen in zgodb o njih (večinoma se s tem ukvarja Evar Saar), objavljanjem jezika võro, štipendiranjem in publiciranjem šolskih učbenikov ter organiziranjem letnih jezikovnih konferenc. Cilj teh dejavnosti je spodbuditi prebivalstvo Võro, da govori svoj jezik in ohrani svoj značilen slog življenja.

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