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Star Trek: Enterprise – Shuttlepod One (Review)
Posted on January 21, 2015 by Darren
Next year, Star Trek is fifty years old. We have some special stuff planned for that, but – in the meantime – we're reviewing all of Star Trek: Enterprise this year as something of a prequel to that anniversary. This January, we're doing the first season. Check back daily for the latest review.
Shuttlepod One is the best episode of the first season of Star Trek: Enterprise.
If you want to be particularly cynical about it, you could argue that it's the show's first absolutely unequivocal success. Enterprise's first season is a lot stronger and more interesting than most give it credit for, even if most of its stronger episodes were qualified successes – like Breaking the Ice, Cold Front or Dear Doctor – that hinted at a new type of character-driven Star Trek without entirely committing to it.
… it is very cold in space…
The first season of Enterprise tried quite a lot of new things that didn't always work. That's fine. That's what a first season should be for. The greater tragedy is that the second season (or even the tail end of the first season) didn't necessarily try to improve on those experimental successes, and instead fell back on that conventional Star Trek plotting that had been competing with that more experimental style in the first two-thirds of the first season.
In many ways, Shuttlepod One is the unlikely zenith of the first season. It comes off a string of flawed-but-intriguing episodes only briefly interrupted by the misfire that was Sleeping Dogs. However, the episode was written by creators Rick Berman and Brannon Braga to save budget in the second half of the season, filmed as a way to recoup budget overruns from elsewhere in the year. Despite that, it's a compelling glimpse of Enterprise as it seemed to want to be – very much character-driven Star Trek.
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"The university, in a countersuit, accused Shaw of illegally breeding with the pipeline cultivars on behalf of his new company, while still employed by Davis. Entrusted with the "crown jewels," the university contended, Shaw had attempted to destroy the public breeding program in order to enrich himself and his friends. Steven Knapp is a genomics expert, formerly of Monsanto, who was hired as Davis's new breeder. When I talked to him by phone not long ago, he was apoplectic at what he perceived to be Shaw's breach of loyalty.
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Thanksgiving History – George Washington's 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation
by David Lundquist | Nov 23, 2021 | Uncategorized | 0 comments
Rather than sending out a devotional this Saturday, I thought I would give you a little history of how the Thanksgiving holiday was established. I also love George Washington's first Thanksgiving Proclamation. These are great resources for your family Thanksgiving celebration!
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A Thanksgiving History
The Pilgrims who sailed to this country aboard the Mayflower were originally members of the English Separatist Church (a Puritan sect). They had earlier fled their home in England and sailed to Holland (The Netherlands) to escape religious persecution. There, they enjoyed a measure of religious tolerance, but they eventually became disenchanted with the Dutch way of life, thinking it ungodly. Seeking a better life, the Separatists negotiated with a London stock company to finance a pilgrimage to America. Most of those making the trip aboard the Mayflower were non-Separatists, but were hired to protect the company's interests. Only about one-third of the original colonists were Separatists.
The Pilgrims set ground at Plymouth Rock on December 11, 1620. Their first winter was devastating. At the beginning of the following fall, they had lost 46 of the original 102 who sailed on the Mayflower. But the harvest of 1621 was a bountiful one. And the remaining colonists decided to celebrate with a feast — including 91 Indians who had helped the Pilgrims survive their first year. It is believed that the Pilgrims would not have made it through the year without the help of the natives. The feast was more of a traditional English harvest festival than a true "thanksgiving" observance. It lasted three days.
Governor William Bradford sent "four men fowling" after wild ducks and geese. It is not certain that wild turkey was part of their feast. However, it is certain that they had venison. The term "turkey" was used by the Pilgrims to mean any sort of large wild fowl.
Another modern staple at almost every Thanksgiving table is pumpkin pie. But it is unlikely that the first feast included that treat. The supply of flour had been long diminished, so there was no bread or pastries of any kind. However, they did eat boiled pumpkin, and they produced a type of fried bread from their corn crop. There was also no milk, cider, potatoes, or butter. There was no domestic cattle for dairy products, and the newly-discovered potato was still considered by many Europeans to be poisonous. But the feast did include fish, berries, watercress, lobster, dried fruit, clams, venison, and plums.
This "thanksgiving" feast was not repeated the following year. But in 1623, during a severe drought, the pilgrims gathered in a prayer service, praying for rain. When a long, steady rain followed the very next day, Governor Bradford proclaimed another day of Thanksgiving, again inviting their Indian friends. It wasn't until June of 1676 that another Day of Thanksgiving was proclaimed.
On June 20, 1676, the governing council of Charlestown, Massachusetts, held a meeting to determine how best to express thanks for the good fortune that had seen their community securely established. By unanimous vote they instructed Edward Rawson, the clerk, to proclaim June 29 as a day of thanksgiving. It is notable that this thanksgiving celebration probably did not include the Indians, as the celebration was meant partly to be in recognition of the colonists' recent victory over the "natives,"
October of 1777 marked the first time that all 13 colonies joined in a thanksgiving celebration. It also commemorated the patriotic victory over the British at Saratoga. But it was a one-time affair.
George Washington proclaimed a National Day of Thanksgiving in 1789, although some were opposed to it. There was much to be thankful for as the newly form nation had recently ratified the constitution, with only Rhode Island still deliberating ratification. Later, Thomas Jefferson scoffed at the idea of having a day of thanksgiving.
It was Sarah Josepha Hale, a magazine editor, whose efforts eventually led to what we recognize as Thanksgiving. Hale wrote many editorials championing her cause in her Boston Ladies' Magazine, and later, in Godey's Lady's Book. Finally, after a 40-year campaign of writing editorials and letters to governors and presidents, Hale's obsession became a reality when, in 1863, President Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday in November as a national day of Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving was proclaimed by every president after Lincoln. The date was changed a couple of times, most recently by Franklin Roosevelt, who moved it up one week to the next-to-last Thursday in order to create a longer Christmas shopping season. Public uproar against this decision caused the president to move Thanksgiving back to its original date two years later. And in 1941, Thanksgiving was finally sanctioned by Congress as a legal holiday, as the fourth Thursday in November.
George Washington's First National Thanksgiving Proclamation 1789
Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor; and Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me to "recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness:"
Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold mercies and the favorable interpositions of His providence in the course and conclusion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enable to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and, in general, for all the great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us.
And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions; to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually; to render our National Government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially such as have shown kindness to us), and to bless them with good governments, peace, and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and us; and, generally to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone knows to be best.
Given under my hand, at the city of New York, the 3d day of October, A.D. 1789.

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The Le'Veon Bell saga has taken yet another turn.
Bell was reportedly expected to report to the Steelers' facility during their bye week. But that now appears unlikely to happen, according to a new report from ESPN.
The team reported to its headquarters Monday, where there was no sign of Bell. But he could return later in the week and the Steelers would still be required to pay him his Week 7 check. A late arrival Thursday or Friday would allow Bell to avoid practice.
This is just the latest news in the three-time Pro-Bowl player's prolonged holdout.
On Sunday, it was reported that Pittsburgh team officials and players had not heard from their star running back. Bell has forfeited over $5 million in salary by sitting out the first six games.
The Steelers have started James Conner in his place and he has filled Bell's shoes well. The second-year player has averaged 118.3 yards from scrimmage through Week 6 — by comparison, Bell averaged 129.7 yards in the 2017 season.


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The BMW 5 Series is a large family, or 'executive' car. It has been manufactured by BMW since 1972 and is currently (as at 2019) in its seventh generation.
The E39 is the fourth generation of the 5 Series. It was available between 1995 and 2004. At launch, it was only available as a sedan, and a wagon (branded as 'Touring') was launched in 1996, superceding the wagon of the previous model.
The E39 was the first 5 Series to significantly introduce aluminium components into the front suspension and chassis, accomplishing the intention of reducing the vehicle's weight.
The steering system for the V8 model used the recirculating ball system of previous models, however the 4 and 6 cylinder models used a rack and pinion steering system for the first time.
The E39 was, the first 5 Series where a four-cylinder diesel engine was available, but unlike its E34 predecessor and E60 successor, the E39 was not available with all-wheel drive.


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How an unemployed single dad managed to start a business and turn his life around.
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From crippling anxiety to a $6 million success story, we uncover the fascinating story of how one man went about growing a new business and changing his life.
In 2009, Mat Stillone was unemployed, battling anxiety and depression and in need of a fresh start. After heading to Brisbane with his young son, he spent two years on the Centrelink Parenting Payment and working in low-paid jobs before striking out for himself.
Now some years on, Protein Supplies Australia, the enterprise he founded with $5,000 and a healthy dose of hope, is a $6 million success story. Its supplement range, marketed as 'natural nutrition without the crap', is stocked in 1,500 gyms, health food stores and speciality retailers.
In addition to producing its own lines, the company has branched into contract manufacturing for the likes of Australia's largest supermarket and retail chains, and is pursuing an international business expansion strategy.
Stillone's business entrepreneurship has netted him his share of laurels, including publishing group Business News Australia's Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2016, Wholesaling, Manufacturing and Distribution (two years in a row), plus a spot on the shortlist for the Telstra Business Awards 2016, in the Queensland micro-business category.
Growing up on an organic farm in northern NSW, Stillone spent his weekends picking vegetables and working in his family's Lismore health food store. After leaving school, exposure to the region's drug culture led to what he admits were questionable friendships and destructive choices.
"I became a father at 19 and pretty quickly after that a sole parent," he says.
"If it wasn't for my son and having that responsibility so early I'd be scared to think where I would have ended up. I was a bit of a wild younger guy and a bit lost. I continued down that path for about five years before I had a huge wake-up call, seeing some friends of mine arrested and sent to jail.
Jobs at a health food store and pharmacy chain saw Stillone thinking about the viability of a business idea to sell protein supplements without additives and, by December 2010, he was itching to give his vision of producing a range of all-natural supplements a go.
Signing up for Mission Australia's New Enterprise Incentive Scheme (NEIS), an education and mentoring program to help job seekers start a new business, enabled him to receive the Parenting Payment while working on his fledgling venture.
The enterprise kicked off with a pallet of dairy protein acquired on trust from a Sydney distributor, hand-packed by Stillone, and labelled with stickers printed on his home computer.
"I didn't have big overheads – I was doing everything from home," he says.
"I'd drive around to stores, gyms, cafes, delis, fruit and veg shops – you name it – all day looking for stockists. I had a diary and I'd write down where I was going then I'd head out and tell them my story. Ninety per cent of people said no but 10 per cent said yes".
He describes it as really hard work: "There were times when I struggled to put food on the table and pay rent, because we had no money."
The venture turned over $120,000 in its first year and $2 million in its second, after Stillone's offering caught the eye of a distributor who took the range national.
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Ahead of the channel's launch on Tuesday 20th September 2016, Blaze has been added to Freeview channel 83 and a +1 channel on 84, also visible on YouView and EE TV receivers. The channel will also be available on Sky, but a channel number hasn't yet been announced. It will broadcast in standard definition.
Blaze will be the first free-to-air channel for A+E Networks here in the UK and will unite the company's biggest franchises, such as Pawn Stars, Mountain Men and American Restoration under a single brand. It is not immediately clear if there are any plans for scripted content. While at present the channel will only be launching in the UK, the ambition is for A+E to roll out Blaze across their international footprint, making it the first global free-to-air brand.
"I'm really excited about the launch of Blaze. It's great that we can offer free-to-air audiences the chance to enjoy many of A+E's hit shows, with much of the content new to Freeview", said Heather Jones, A+E Networks General Manager, UK. "Blaze's name and identity were created to celebrate the spirit of the extraordinary characters featured on the channel. We are thrilled that Blaze will also include a digital launch as a full TVE service, so viewers can watch and catch up with their favourite shows wherever they are and whenever they want".
The logo looks like it's an American car shampoo brand. Programming wise, largely what we expected I think.
Where Blaze really is attempting to tap into is the male market, as the majority of recent Freeview channel launches from pay TV channel operators have aimed for a female audience (TruTV, YourTV). And I feel that the programmes brought from History seem to suit Blaze well, even more so than History itself, because of the distorted remit that History relies itself upon.
Blaze, as well as its timeshift, has been put on an almost completely full COM4 mux, so whether it gains a stream off another channel, or that it will use space from an extra stream created on the multiplex, it's completely unclear on what will happen.
Off topic - with Hochanda moving to LCN 85, I wonder where that leaves the Store. It's a waste of valuable Freeview spectrum that the ITV digital channels subsidiary could use instead to extend the hours of CITV, and the timeshifts of ITV3 and ITV4. The Store really doesn't have much use now, it's almost as useless as the Big Deal was back in the day.
Not, as the all-too-familiar phrase has it, available in the Channel Islands, of course.
Is A&E itself going to launch in the UK any time soon?
Seems to me like the logo looks like Spike's logo, but as we can see on this promo, the logo is actually a flag without a pole.
Might be nice to have some new HD channels rather than loads of new SD ones, but I guess the market dictates! Sure it'll be good.
Agree - a516digital reporting this is now the 16th channel on the commercial muxes and I really think with the future in mind OFCOM should be blocking Freeview from adding DVB-T channels and have them begin working towards switching to DVB-T2.
Another Freeview channel that I'll never watch.
Yep it looks like another channel similar to the likes of truTV and YourTV, output wise. I've never watched YourTV, and I only ever really watched truTV when Conan (US late night talk show) was shown on the channel.


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Trustworthiness is being worthy of trust. People can count on you to do your best, to keep your commitments. Others can rely on you. They can trust that if it is at all possible, you will do what you said you would do, even if becomes really hard. When you are trustworthy, others can be sure of you and you can be sure of yourself.
Without trustworthiness, agreements and promises don't mean anything. If we aren't trustworthy, people never know if they can believe us or count on us. When we practice trustworthiness, people don't have to check on us to see if we are doing something we promised to do. They can relax, knowing we keep our promises. Trustworthiness is the key to success in anything we do.
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Traumatised families demand reforms after Ecuador prison riots (Al Jazeera)
GUAYAQUIL, ECUADOR – Alex Burbano's youngest brother, Jonathan, was quiet and serious. The 23-year-old was halfway through a two-year prison sentence when he was killed in a massacre at Guayaquil's Litoral Penitentiary in September 2021. It was one of the deadliest in a string of Ecuadorian prison riots last year, resulting in 119 deaths. Alex …
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'We are all suffering': What's going on inside Ecuador's prisons? (Al Jazeera)
QUITO, ECUADOR – More than 300 people have been killed inside Ecuador's prisons so far this year, as a series of violent riots between rival gangs left officials scrambling to find ways to end the bloodshed. The latest riot took place last week behind the cement walls of Penitenciaria del Litoral, a facility in the …
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Court convenes historic hearing in Indigenous territory on land consent issue (Mongabay)
SINANGOE, ECUADOR - Early on the morning of Nov. 15, five Constitutional Court judges arrived by canoe to the Indigenous Cofan community of Sinangoe in Ecuador's northern Amazon rainforest, wearing rubber boots and loose clothing to weather the intense jungle heat. This visit marked the first time in the country's history that judges from the …
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How corruption has added to Latin America's COVID death toll (The New Humanitarian)
QUITO, ECUADOR - After coming down with COVID-19 in December, Vinicio Sánchez visited three health centres in a single day. At the first, a clinic in the south of Ecuadorian capital, Quito, he was told he needed oxygen but they had none left to give him. He was referred to a specialist COVID-19 centre in …
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Colombian refugees in Ecuador trapped in loops of poverty and insecurity (The New Humanitarian)
QUITO, ECUADOR - Claudia's* life changed the day she saw a paramilitary group kill a man in her hometown of Buenaventura, one of the most violent places in Colombia. Not only did she see the killers. Worse, they saw her. They threatened to murder her if she told anyone what she had seen. She promised …
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'I'll never be ready for this port,' locals say of Colombia's proposed project (Mongabay)
TRIBUGÁ, COLOMBIA — Aida Leides Palacios Moreno strolls through the narrow dirt streets in the Colombian town of Tribugá surrounded by palm and plantain trees rustling in the seaside breeze. She's trying to round up her neighbors for a meeting to discuss yet another ecotourism project. It's a quiet morning in February. Most of the …
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Coronavirus pandemic exposes inequality in Ecuador's Guayaquil (Al Jazeera)
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U.S. allies, encouraged by Washington, said goodbye to their Cuban doctors. As coronavirus surges, some are arguing for their return. (Washington Post)
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Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (Brescia, 5 januari 1920 – Lugano, 12 juni 1995) was een Italiaans klassiek pianist.

Michelangeli werd geboren in Brescia. Op driejarige leeftijd begon hij met muzieklessen, aanvankelijk speelde hij viool, maar al snel ging hij over op de piano. Op zijn tiende werd hij toegelaten tot het Conservatorio "Giuseppe Verdi" van Milaan. Op aandringen van zijn vader studeerde hij korte tijd medicijnen. Zijn professionele carrière ving aan met zijn deelname aan de internationale Ysaÿewedstrijd (de latere Koningin Elisabethwedstrijd), waar hij op de zevende plaats eindigde. Een jaar later vergaarde hij zijn eerste roem op het internationale festival van Genève waar hij werd uitgeroepen tot "een nieuwe Liszt" door de pianist Alfred Cortot, die deel uitmaakte van de jury.

Hij wordt beschouwd als een van de meest indrukwekkende en virtuoze pianisten van de twintigste eeuw, tussen namen als Horowitz en Richter, en geldt als de belangrijkste Italiaanse pianist na Ferruccio Busoni.

Michelangeli staat bekend om zijn perfecte uitvoeringen. De muziekcriticus Harold Schonberg schreef over hem: "Zijn vingers kunnen net zomin een foute noot aanslaan of een passage verknoeien, als dat een afgevuurde kogel van zijn koers kan worden gebracht."

Zijn discografie bevat hoogtepunten als live uitvoeringen in Londen van Ravels Gaspard de la Nuit en Chopins pianosonate nr. 2. Zijn gecombineerde opname uit 1957 van Ravels pianoconcert in G en Rachmaninovs vierde pianoconcert op EMI wordt beschouwd als een van de belangwekkendste concertopnamen ooit gemaakt. Voor een concertpianist had hij een opvallend klein repertoire.

Benedetti Michelangeli heeft 19 volksliederen a capella voor het mannenkoor van de S.A.T. (Società Alpinisti Tridentini) uit Trente (Italië) bewerkt; dit is zijn enige productie als componist, maar met grote artistieke waarde.

Michelangeli had de reputatie om het minste of geringste optredens op het laatste moment af te zeggen en gold als een geobsedeerde perfectionist achter het toetsenbord. Zijn laatste optreden vond plaats op 7 mei 1993 in Hamburg. Na een slepende ziekte overleed hij in Lugano in 1995.

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Motion Music Music tech
The mash-up of an 808 and the US elections no one asked for
I'd wager at this point 100% of you would rather think about drum machines than the American elections. But somewhere, vintage voting machines – they of the hole punch and hanging chads – await retirement. Here, they get a second lease on life. Instead of gloomily voting for Trump or accidentally for Pat Buchanan, they can produce sliced-up audiovisual jams. (Hey, if you're going to have to watch debate clips ad infinitum, why not turn it into something you can dance to?)
Maybe beat box voting machines would be the answer to get Millennials to the polls.
So, basically what you get is an instrument made from the booth. It's the work of artist/professor Mike Richison, of New Jersey's Monmouth University (in the Department of Art and Design).
I think these machines probably want DJ Pierre for President, but that's just a guess.
Fortunately, since at their heart they're just punch drum machines, they could be re-engineered for non-political purposes.
What do you get when you combine news footage from this year's election cycle, hanging chads, and the machine responsible for the birth of techno? New Jersey artist Mike Richison has spent the last few months designing, programming, and constructing the answer to that question. He calls his new piece Video Voto Matic, and he wants everyone to have one.
Richison, a professor in the department of Art and Design at Monmouth University, is a multimedia artist that has been working with found video since the early 2000s. Every four years he makes presidential-themed video art as a way to make sense of the glut of video clips and sound bites saturating the media. Video Voto Matic is a mashup of the legendary drum machine – the Roland TR 808, and the Votomatic voting booths that were used during the 2000 Bush vs. Gore Florida election debacle. The project lets participants build musical video loops with footage and sound from the current presidential race.
At first glance, Video Voto Matic resembles what a voter would see in a typical polling site. There are multiple stations – banal, suitcase-style voting booths with wobbly aluminum legs and flimsy plastic dividers. As viewers draw closer, they will notice that each station has an embedded iMac with an accompanying external flat screen TV. The iMac displays a custom-programmed musical interface, while the TVs play what appears to be severely edited and looped versions of some familiar faces. There's Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Tim Kaine, Mike Pence, Bernie Sanders, and even Barack Obama. However, once viewers decide to interact with one of the stations, they make a transformation from spectator to participant.
To experience the installation, participants insert a specially-designed paper ballot into the Video Voto Matic polling device. Like the real Votomatic from 2000, they use a stylus to punch holes through the voting booklet into their ballot. However, instead of a providing the names of candidates, the booklet is filled with sample drum patterns. And rather than encouraging a single vote for a single presidential hopeful, the booklet helps users create a beat from short video clips stored in the computer. Debate footage and rally speeches were dissected into small sound bits – "t" and "s" sounds become high hats while "ch" and "sh" sounds translate to snares. Rather than standing for a set of issues, each nominee mutates into a set of sounds, which users can manipulate at will to create unique loops. Users can follow the tablature in the booklet to re-create rhythms from 80s era hits like Afrika Bambaataa's Planet Rock, Cybotron's Clear, and Run-D.M.C.'s Tricky – or they can improvise.
The resulting track is continuously fed to a set of speakers and the video monitor, completing the participant's transformation from disenchanted voter to amateur electronic music producer. When they've had enough, users remove their ballot (complete with hanging chads) and take it home as a keepsake. To see documentation of the work on youtube.com, please visit: http://bit.ly/2duV9ST
Richison has exhibited and demonstrated Video Voto Matic in New York and Washington, D. C., and has most recently installed it on 14th Street in New York during the public art festival Art in Odd Places. Additionally, he will exhibit the piece in at the Internet Yami Ichi Market at the Knockdown Center in Maspeth, NY on Sunday November 6. He has begun to post his plans online – complete with his custom-programmed interface so anyone with copious amounts of free time can take democracy into their own hands. You can get the plans for Video Voto Matic and see Richison's election-themed artwork (including an absurd loop of Trump drinking a lot of water) on his website www.mikerichison.com, his Instagram accounts @mikerichison and @videovotomatic, and his tumblr archive presgifs.tumblr.com.
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Muslim business owners look to their faith as Wisconsin reopens
Posted by Sandra Whitehead | May 15, 2020 | Featured
Picture © Cari Taylor-Carlson for Urban Milwaukee
Muslim business owners in Wisconsin are walking a tightrope as the state gears to re-open businesses that have been closed for the past two months to slow the spread of coronavirus. On one side is the risk of contributing to the spread of a deadly, highly contagious disease; on the other, is potentially inflicting financial devastation on their employees or even their own families.
How does their faith inform their decisions about when and how to re-open?
The Wisconsin Muslim Journal talks with three Muslim business owners and a leading Islamic scholar about the difficult decisions business owners face.
First, some background on the current situation.
The push to reopen
"Effective immediately, Wisconsin is back open," wrote State Sen. Chris Kapenga (R-Delafield), after the state Supreme Court overturned the Department of Health Services' "Safer at Home" order Wednesday. "It is now up to each individual person to decide how restrictive they feel they need to be, instead of the government mandating it."
Under Safer at Home, all Wisconsin businesses deemed "nonessential" have been closed for the past two months ago. The order was to end April 24, but was later extended to May 26. Republican legislators, saying the administration exceeded its authority, took their case to the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
Gov. Tony Evers' administration began the shift this week to its Badger Bounce Back plan, which calls for a phased reopening of businesses, based on meeting benchmarks for reducing Covid-19 cases and increasing capacity in Wisconsin's healthcare system. Evers has likened the approach to "turning a dial" rather than "flipping a switch."
Wednesday's Supreme Court decision flipped the switch.
Opinions about when to open businesses have largely split along partisan lines. A new Marquette Law School Poll surveying Wisconsin registered voters finds increased division over response to the coronavirus pandemic.
The threat to financial survival is real. Some small business owners report facing economic ruin. A University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh statewide Covid-19 Economic Impact Survey released in April found that one in three Wisconsin businesses will be forced to close permanently if the shutdown extends for three months.
On the other hand, so are the health risks. In a hearing before the United States Senate Committee for Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Tuesday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, warned that states opening prematurely could trigger a rise in Covid-19 cases that would also set back economic recovery. "There is a real risk that you will trigger an outbreak that you may not be able to control," he said.
Amid mixed opinions and uncertainty, Muslim business owners must decide if and how to reopen responsibly. Here's what three business owners had to say.
A Call of Faith
Dr. Ahmad Nasef
For Dr. Ahmad Nasef, the owner of Damascus Gate, 807 W. Historic Mitchell St., Milwaukee, operating a restaurant has never been about money.
Nasef opened the Syrian restaurant a year ago in January to help refugees make a living. His eight employees include Iraqi, Syrian and Sudani refugees. He also shares ownership with them.
"I am not restaurateur by any means, said Nasef, a doctor who also owns Quality Sleep Institute at 8500 West Capital Dr., Suite 202, in Milwaukee. "I have no experience. I don't know how to cook. But I have seen the struggles refugees go through and I have seen that if we give them a chance, the reward from Allah will be tremendous.
"My happiest day is the day I pay them their salaries," he said. "I feel so content in my heart seeing them excited. They make plans. They feel they are productive and don't have to ask people for money.
"What Allah and Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, asked us to do is to ease suffering," Nasef said.
"My faith tells me we are not only to be happy and healthy ourselves without looking outside. If we don't help each other, what is the purpose of our existence?
"The restaurant is not a money-maker because we don't sell alcohol," he added. "And the food mark-up is not that much, especially when you offer good quality food.
"We just want to stay afloat," he said. "So far, I'm paying my bills and paying the salaries of the employees, and I didn't let anybody go. Thank God, our customers show us great support."
During the shutdown, Damascus Gate switched its services from dine-in to pick-up. Orders and payments are made over the phone or through delivery apps. Packaged food is placed on a table at the entrance for customers.
"Safety is the number one issue we have to focus on," said Nasef. "From an Islamic perspective, preserving life is the key to all existence. If I'm going to jeopardize my life or somebody's life for the sake of making a buck, I don't want this buck. I know that God is the sustainer."
Cleaners come in twice a day to wipe down all surfaces with chlorine and water. As employees enter, they wipe their shoes on chlorine-soaked mats, leave keys and cell phones in a designated place, and wash their hands. They wear masks and gloves "at all times."
Nasef understands the importance of minimizing health risks. More vulnerable than most, he is being treated for cancer with both chemo and immunotherapy, and has previously had operations on his kidney, lungs and brain. "I'm wearing my 95-mask and my gloves, maintaining distance from everyone and rarely leave my house," he said.
Nasef is optimistic and planning for the day they can bring diners back in. He expects to reduce the seating capacity by 50%, spacing tables widely and using two tables for groups of four.
"Just because the government opens the country, that doesn't mean corona isn't there," Nasef said. "We will have to operate our businesses in the safest manner possible, assume the virus is there and protect each other from it."
Nabil Salous
Jehan Salous
March, April and May are usually the busiest months of the year at Salous Men's Wear & Tailoring, 3861 N. 60th Street, Milwaukee. Customers pack in to be fitted for graduation and prom dresses, wedding gowns and bridesmaid dresses, tuxedos and suits.
But in Spring of 2020, it isn't business as usual.
"All these large gatherings have been eliminated, so my business went from extremely busy to absolutely nothing," said Nabil Salous, who has operated this family-owned business in the same location 27 years ago. "There have been slow-downs, but I have never seen anything like this."
With work at a standstill, Salous and his wife Bayan looked for ways to help in the community. "Part of our faith, as well as in many other faith communities, is the feeling that you don't want to be a bystander," said Salous. "When you see something happening, you have to step up and put your best effort to be helpful."
"We help support the work of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee and it does many things to help the Milwaukee community. They were doing food packages for those in need," Salous said. "Many people lost their jobs. The unemployment rate hit close to 18%, a jump from 3%, an almost fully employed economy."
The ISM also provided meals to many frontline workers in hospital emergency rooms.
"Those people are extremely busy. They don't have a chance to get out to grab a sandwich," said Salous. "Our community did a great job. Of course, the need is greater, beyond our capacity, but you have to do whatever you can do."
He saw another need as well. "I felt deep in my heart that if people wear masks that will help eliminate a lot of infections," Salous said. So, alone in his tailor shop, he started designing masks.
"I went to work every day and each day I created different masks until I mastered it," Salous said. Salous came up with a universal design that fits the face well, has a filter, a nose guard and a professional look, he said. It attaches above and below the ears and is easy to lower around your neck. A black and white checkered Keffiyeh design proved to be popular. All the masks sell for $10 a piece.
"They are not money makers. The idea is that I wanted to be helpful and productive, to be a positive element in the community," Salous said. "In some cases, I donate them."
Salous believes the world has changed. "We will wear masks. If I interact with anyone, I put my face mask on," he said. "In our culture, we always shake hands and greet people. This had to change. So, you see people but can't shake hands or give hugs. It was awkward in the beginning, but we had to adjust." In the shop, the new morning routine is to sanitize all the surfaces and doorknobs, he added.
"I don't think we will see large groups uniting together anytime soon," Bayan mentioned. "It will be interesting to see what the future holds."
Salous does not feel they are in danger of closing. He is eager to open. "Recovery is going to take time. It is far beyond the government saying, 'Now you can open for business.' It has a lot to do with the confidence of the consumer, which has diminished in the last two months," he said.
Trust in Allah
Ibtisam Khaddour
Ibtisam Khaddour closed her Islamic fashion boutique, Morjana Fashion, at 867 W. Layton Ave., in Milwaukee, "even before they asked us," she said. "I was worried about my workers and customers. I would feel guilty if someone got sick.
"I thought it would be for one or two weeks," she said. "I never expected we would still be closed. It is a stressful time. There are a lot of expenses every month and those don't stop."
Also, Khaddour expects she is losing customers who are her becoming used to shopping online.
It's not that she needs the money. "Thank God, my husband has work," said Khaddour. Rather, she likes "serving the people around her."
That is what motivated her to offer curbside delivery during the shutdown. She advertised the service on Facebook and went in a few hours every day for drop-offs and pick-ups. "I'm doing this to help with the need; it's not going to help the store. Especially in Ramadan, people need prayer clothing and mats."
Morjana Fashion has been opened for seven years. "I started ordering my own scarves and abayas from Jordan with the help of my family members back there," Khaddour said. "Then friends asked me to order for them. That is how the idea came up. When people kept asking, I thought, 'I do have customers.'"
She started working from home, then opened her shop. "Some ladies like the idea that they can shop where they can buy something to wear that no one else is wearing," she said.
Khaddour said she is not sure what the future holds. "I feel like I'm living in a dream, waiting to wake up. I hope everything will go back to normal but I don't expect it."
She is trying to be very patient and trust Allah, she said. "Allah will always look for us. There is a reason this is happening.
"I do see a lot of good things. As a working mom, I realize that many other women have demanding jobs and little time to spend with their families. I am lucky that I can have days off, but life is short and the time passes quickly.
"For some, this is the first Ramadan when the whole family is at iftar. Everyone is together eating and praying as a group. It is a blessing."
What Islam teaches us
"The first objective of Sharia law is the preservation of life. If the medical professionals unanimously agree that opening nonessential businesses will cause more deaths, then Muslims should keep theirs closed," said Dr. Zulfiqar Shah, the religious director of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee and the Secretary General of the Fiqh Council of North America, the highest body of recognized and qualified Islamic jurists from the United States and Canada. "Money and business come after that."
But the decision is not as simple as it sounds, Dr. Shah noted. The shutdown's impact on the economy also causes suffering, and business owners have responsibilities to their families and their employees, he said. "Clearly, business owners must take every precaution the medical experts are recommending: masks, gloves, glass between them and their customers, and social distancing."
He suggests business owners ask themselves, "Can I open to the extent necessary to survive for the time being, while avoiding transmission of the virus and without becoming greedy? Can I implement the safety measures necessary to keep my employees and customers safe?"
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Supertall Timber: Functional Natural Materials for High-Rise Structures
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March 15, 2018 Volume 48 Issue 1
Author: Michael H. Ramage
Wood and wood products have been used as building materials since before recorded history, but the full potential of timber and other plants as building materials has not yet been realized.
Engineered timber materials, among them cross-laminated timber (CLT) and laminated veneer lumber (LVL), have enabled architects and engineers to design and build larger and larger timber buildings. The tallest is Brock Commons, a 55-meter, 18-story student dormitory completed in 2016 at the University of British Columbia. Before that, the tallest was Treet ("tree" in Norwegian), a 53-meter, 14-story condominium completed in 2015 in Bergen, Norway (figure 1). Brock Commons has two concrete cores, while Treet is a fully timber structure, so each may be the tallest of its type (Foster et al. 2016).
The scale of these contemporary buildings is significant, as the first metal-framed skyscraper, William Le Baron Jenney's Home Insurance Building in Chicago, was 55 meters tall when completed in 1891, and 1931 saw the completion of the Empire State Building in New York City, at 381 meters.Innovation in natural materials, design, and construction may allow a similar increase in the height of timber skyscrapers.
The use of natural materials instead of steel and concrete in taller and larger buildings can reduce carbon emissions. Furthermore, CLT construction requires only about 30 m3 for an apartment for two people. Using wood from only 30 percent of Europe's managed forests with current practices, the entire population of Europe could be housed in perpetuity, even assuming the entire housing stock was renewed every 50 years (Ramage et al. 2017a).
Timber has exceptional properties for building, many of which have been overlooked in the construction of ever-taller buildings in the past century. Advances in biological knowledge, engineering of plant-based materials, and interest in renewable construction are converging to create new possibilities for materials and allow for larger, taller, and more natural engineered wood buildings (Green 2012; Ramage et al. 2017a).[1]
There is also competition in the building industry to construct the tallest timber tower. Height increases are currently incremental, but through a combination of theoretical design and physical testing, the viability of timber buildings can be demonstrated at much greater heights than previously possible (Ramage et al. 2017b).
By pushing the limits of theoretical designs into the realm of the supertall[2]—and sometimes beyond that which is feasible using current materials and construction technologies—our research sets out the requirements for the next generation of engineered plant-based materials. Research and the design and construction of contemporary large-scale timber buildings together further the architectural and structural engineering knowledge necessary to make tall timber buildings a reality.
Materials science has advanced the industrial production of steel and reinforced concrete since the mid-19th century. The materials science of natural materials is less well understood, but the use of biofuels has helped drive fundamental research on the makeup of plant cells and their constituent parts.
Improved information about how to break down plants into useful components can also enhance understanding of their underlying properties. As an example, the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, whose genome is well defined and editable, is essentially the mouse of plant science. Through biochemistry, it can be grown with lignin-depleted cells for studies of the role of lignin in giving plant cells their characteristic properties. In Arabidopsis, lignin appears to help control the way cells move past each other as they are pulled apart in tensile tests.
With better knowledge of how the elements of cell walls contribute to the properties of plants and forest products, it may be possible to breed or genetically engineer plants with specific functional properties that are more favorable to construction.
Current Developments and Applications
Novel properties in trees may give rise to a new class of natural materials, but engineered timber products on the market are already giving designers around the world opportunities to innovate with large-scale construction. CLT can be used much like slabs of concrete in walls and floors, and glue-laminated timber and LVL can substitute for steel or concrete columns and beams. All can be used with existing modes of construction.
But there are limitations. For example, platform construction with CLT is limited by the perpendicular-to-grain crushing of panels at floor junctions, a phenomenon that is difficult to overcome above 10 stories or so. And although the axial strength of some hardwood LVL in compression and tension is sufficient to engineer very large buildings, the ability to transfer tensile loads that can be carried by the full section from one element of timber to another remains to be determined.
Our supertall timber project, in which we have designed wooden skyscrapers (figure 2), shows the viability of commercial and residential buildings at a new scale in timber, using components and materials that are commercially available today. Our design and research demonstrate the architectural, engineering, and economic possibilities that stem from thinking about traditional materials in new ways.
A variety of plants may add to the materials available. Bamboo has excellent properties in tension and compression, and is among the world's fastest growing plants—it can be harvested every few years. In addition, a number of processing methods exist to turn the raw product into an engineered material (Sharma et al. 2015), and more are being developed. Engineered -bamboo looks like wood and is crafted with woodworking equipment. It behaves differently as a structural material (Reynolds et al. 2016), so new engineering codes are necessary.
Other crops, such as flax and hemp, are being used to make structural composites for automotive and industrial design and at the same time engineered to deliver improved properties. All of these crops are available at a scale necessary for construction.
Construction with timber has many advantages, not least for the environment.
Timber is the only major building material that can be grown, and the sustainable harvest of lumber is vast—crop-planted forests around the world are expanding.
Timber is five times lighter than concrete, so to construct an equivalent volume of building, only one timber truckload is needed, as compared to five concrete mixers.
No formwork needs to be brought to site (and removed) and no reinforcing steel is necessary. The steel in timber connections is negligible. We roughly redesigned the Treet building in reinforced concrete for comparison and discovered that it would have five times as much steel in it as the timber building.
The savings multiplier on construction truck traffic can be as high as eight.[3] These savings have implications for today's crowded metropolises: smaller foundations, or indeed no new ones, as the existing foundation for a demolished 10-story concrete building can hold a timber building three to four times as tall, with quieter construction and smaller cranes.
Contemporary timber buildings are largely prefabricated for component assembly, meaning they are quick to erect accurately on site and tend to be naturally draft-proof and efficient, saving time and energy and improving overall quality.
As manufacturers, architects, engineers, and contractors learn to expand what they can do with large-scale engineered timber, a new architecture of 21st century timber will arise, drawing on a rich tradition of centuries of wooden construction while reaching higher to embrace the full potential of innovation and construction with natural materials.
This research is supported by EPSRC Grant EP/M01679X/1 and by a Leverhulme Trust Programme Grant.
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Ramage MH, Foster RM, Smith S, Flanagan K, Bakker R. 2017b. Super tall timber: Design research for the next generation of natural structure. Journal of Architecture 22(1):104–122.
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[1] Also see the 2013 technical report of the SOM Timber Tower Research Project, available at www.som.com/ideas/research/-timber_tower_research_project.
[2] Supertall buildings are 300–600 meters. For reference, the original 110-floor World Trade Towers in New York were just over 540 meters, and the Sears Tower in Chicago is 442 meters.
[3] Personal communication, February 2, 2017, with Ralph Austin of Seagate Structures, which has built a number of large-scale timber buildings in Vancouver.
About the Author:Michael Ramage is senior lecturer at the University of Cambridge, fellow and director of -studies for Sidney Sussex College, and director of the Cambridge University Centre for Natural Material Innovation.


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In celebration of the bicentenary of Charles Dickens, PNPF in association with Ovation present the New Musical 'A Tale of Two Cities.'Based on the much loved Dickens story, this classic tale depicts one man's ultimate sacrifice for love. Set against the brutal conflicts between the rebels and aristocracy during the French revolution and its parallel world in 19th Century London society. With well over 200 million copies sold, A Tale of Two Cities ranks among the most famous works in the history of fictional literature.
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Q: image uploading using MultiPart I am writting the code to upload a file using Spring's MultipartFile on server for that I have written following code
if(!partnersContentBean.getFile().isEmpty()){
        MultipartFile file = partnersContentBean.getFile();

    if(file.getOriginalFilename().endsWith(".jpeg")||file.getOriginalFilename().endsWith(".jpg")|| file.getOriginalFilename().endsWith(".gif")){
        File dirPath = new File("//125.22.60.37/image/dev/cmt/");
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       }
        URL url = new URL("http://125.22.60.37/image/dev/cmt/");
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           file.transferTo(destination);
           String url1 = request.getContextPath() + ApplicationConstants.imageUploadDirectory + file.getOriginalFilename();
           System.out.println(url.getPath());
           partnersContentBean.setPartnerImagename(file.getOriginalFilename());
           partnersContentBean.setPartnerImagepath(destination.getPath());

        }else
        {
            userModuleDetailBean.put("errorMessage", "File should be in type of jpg,Jpeg or GIF");
            return new ModelAndView(new RedirectView("partnersAdd_CMT.htm"),"userModuleDetailBean",userModuleDetailBean);
        }
     }

but when I upload a file I get following exception java.io.FileNotFoundException: http:\125.22.60.37\image\dev\cmt (The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect)  dont know what path should i give to upload it

A: It looks like you're trying to transfer the uploaded file to another remote server (125.22.60.37). You can't do that - you can't represent an HTTP URL using a File object.
FileUpload is for storing the uploaded files to your local machine. Once there, you can worry about moving them to another remote server, but the two tasks are separate.


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These are the types of people who grow their careers the fastest
BYScott Trezise
September 29, 2015, 11:00 AM UTC
Courtesy of CenturyLink
The Fortune 500 Insider Network is an online community where top executives from the Fortune 500 share ideas and offer leadership advice with Fortune's global audience. Scott Trezise, executive vice president of human resources at CenturyLink, has answered the question: Looking back, what advice would you give your younger self about career development?
I'm happy to step into my role as executive vice president of human resources for CenturyLink (CTL) at a time when the company is making big changes. But it took time to get here, and there's a lot I wish I knew before starting down my career path.
The first advice I would give my younger self would be to work hard and to work smart. For generations, people have learned the lesson that good things come to those who work hard, and despite a world that changes faster every day, working hard remains a constant. In today's world, we not only have to work hard, but we also have to work smart. We need to be able to leverage today's changing technologies to make ourselves as effective and efficient as possible.
Second, I would say to be intellectually curious. Ask questions at every opportunity. In most situations, people love being asked questions — it gives them the opportunity to share their perspectives and impress those who are listening. By asking questions, you're not only gaining knowledge, but you're showing those around you that you want to learn. Intellectual curiosity challenges the status quo and creates a path for things to become bigger, better and faster.
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To be intellectually curious requires courage — courage to distinguish oneself from the masses. My third piece of advice would be to be the one who asks the first question, be the one who challenges the status quo, be the one who volunteers for the toughest assignments, and be the one who has an opinion that's different than others. Courage separates the few from the many. It can be scary, but it can also have a big payoff.
Fourth, think analytically: Speak with facts and data. I remember one of my senior leaders telling me, "Scott, you are a great debater, but as long as I am boss, if you have an opinion and I have an opinion, my opinion wins." That was a great lesson. Anyone can have an opinion, but it's data and facts that carry the most weight. Today, it is the analytical thinker who consolidates the massive amount of available data and synthesizes it into just a few compelling points who wins the day.
Finally, and most importantly, be optimistic. Those who can distinguish themselves by having a can-do attitude are those who grow their careers fastest. Those who believe they can get things done, get things done. Optimism not only breeds better individual results, but it's also contagious and makes all those involved more productive. Optimism simply makes work more fun, but the most important aspect of professional optimism is that it ends up bleeding over into one's personal life. More optimism leads to a happier personal life and greater career success.
Read all responses to the Fortune 500 Insider question: Looking back, what advice would you give your younger self about career development?
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