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Cape Town - Haas F1 team principle Guenther Steiner sis confident his team won't be pushed over by rivals.
Haas have impressed many in the paddock since entering Formula 1 in 2016 and last year bagged fifth place in their championship.
Their arrival in F1, though, hasn't gone down well with all the teams as some, such as McLaren, continue to question the B-team status to Ferrari.
Asked if Haas are still building their reputation with other teams, Steiner told Autosport: "I think so because when you come into the sport you cannot just demand the respect.
"You have to earn your respect.
"We're putting a good show on and always do what we say we're going to do.
"We're competitive out on track and behaving well for the sport and a good addition to the sport.
"[So] you are recognised more.
"But there is still a long way to go, because always the guy that wins can have the biggest voice and we have got a long way to go to get there."
Haas aren't afraid of going for what they want, either out on track or behind the scenes.
Last year the team protested a rival's eligibility to race as they wanted the powers-that-be to rule on whether or not Racing Point was a new entity.
Haas lost the battle against the team racing as it was declared they could run the VJM chassis as they are a "new" team.
However, they may yet win the war as being a new teams means Racing Point should not be permitted to bag all sections of the prize money.
Haas were not awarded Column 1 money at the start of their F1 career.
Steiner says he's not fazed about annoying other teams.
"It's part of what you're doing.
"If you have to make a cake, you need to break eggs.
"You can't do it without it. [But] I don't do intentionally. I don't get up in the morning [to do that] but you have to.
"It's part of getting better. It's just like getting the respect, not be a pushover and do what you need to do.
"It's part of the learning as well. You have done all the steps, you've got the experience, then the second time you will be better.
"You have to start somewhere. And whoever is around, you start with them!"
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This time around, our team has partnered with Humane Animal Rescue, one of Pennsylvania's largest animal welfare associations. Founded separately as the Western Pennsylvania Humane Society (1874) and the Animal Rescue League (1909), the two groups merged in 2017 and now provide "enhanced services to domestic and wild animals alike" according to the organization's website.
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The problem is that I don't have the "Proprety list" in my pivot table like in can have in a Data table.
How can I highlight my variance based on a request that I dont display in my Pivot table ?
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If so, change the column for the percentage data item to property, set box type to none. This way it is still something that can be referred to, but is hidden from the final result

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The 2011 PartyPoker.com Premier League was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament. It was played under a variation of the standard rules of snooker. It was played from 18 August to 27 November 2011.

Ronnie O'Sullivan was the defending champion, and he won his 10th Premier League Snooker title by defeating Ding Junhui 7–1.

Format
All evenings in the league stage featured three matches: two semi-finals and a final. All matches were best of 5 frames, with no dead frames played, points were awarded for every frame won. Meaning that the maximum number of points a player could obtain was 24 and the minimum was 0. All frames were subjected to a 20-second shot clock and there were two 20 second extensions available for each player in every frame. The miss rule was also changed; meaning that a player had three attempts to make legal contact with the ball on or otherwise ball in hand was given to the incoming player anywhere on the table. The final frame of any match was played under shoot-out rules. Each player appeared on 4 nights and were seeded to determine who they face. This was the first and only time in the events history there would be a clear winner in each match of the league phase. Unlike other years of the league phase when matches were best of 6 and therefore players could draw 3–3 on the night. In 2012 the Premier League reverted to the best of 6 round Robin matches. The play-offs were played to the rules used in previous editions. This meant that the top 4 after the league phase qualified for the semi-finals. As in other years 1st played 4th and 2nd played 3rd in the semi-finals.

Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:
Winner: £60,000
Runner-up: £30,000
Semi-final: £20,000
5th Place: £17,500
6th Place: £15,000
7th Place: £12,500
8th Place: £10,000
9th Place: £8,000
10th Place: £6,000
Highest break (per night): £1,000
Maximum break: £25,000
Total: £210,000

Players
Players were seeded according to their world rankings apart from the defending champion Ronnie O'Sullivan who was the number one seed.

League phase

Top four qualified for the play-offs. The order of players was decided on most frames won, and then least frames lost. (Breaks above 50 shown between (parentheses); century breaks are indicated with bold.)

18 August – Embassy Theatre, Skegness, England
Semi-finals:
John Higgins 3–0 Jimmy White → 61–36, (105)–5, 71–69
Neil Robertson 0–3 Matthew Stevens → 18–63, 44–76, 13–(82)
Final: John Higgins 0–3 Matthew Stevens → 18–(91), 0–(95), 10–65
1 September – Guildford Spectrum, Guildford, England
Semi-finals:
Jimmy White 0–3 Mark Williams → 1–(105), 30–61, 5–82 (60)
Ronnie O'Sullivan 2–3 Shaun Murphy → 63–48, 45–71, 68–49, 6–(115), 0–91 (85)
Final: Mark Williams 3–1 Shaun Murphy → 67–(65), 14–66, 62–47, (101) 118–6
22 September – Ravenscraig Sports Facility, Motherwell, Scotland
Semi-finals:
John Higgins 0–3 Neil Robertson → 14–126 (57, 69), 0–93 (87), 35–95
Ding Junhui 3–2 Shaun Murphy → (92) 124–7, 36–(98), 8–117 (98), (87) 102–21, (80)–0
Final: Neil Robertson 3–1 Ding Junhui → 56–63, (140)–0, (109) 118–0, 54–42
29 September – The Dome, Doncaster, England
Semi-finals:
Ronnie O'Sullivan 3–0 Matthew Stevens → 70–0, (94)–0, 77–12
Ding Junhui 0–3 Ali Carter → 9–82, 14–120 (50,70), 0–92 (91)
Final: Ronnie O'Sullivan 3–1 Ali Carter → 41–54, 52–42, (68) 72–21, 36–6
6 October – Hutton Moor Leisure Centre, Weston-super-Mare, England
Semi-finals:
Mark Williams 1–3 Judd Trump → 0–79 (64), 76–14, 0–79 (50), 23–71
John Higgins 2–3 Matthew Stevens → 5–(104), 68–87, (57) 61–1, 68–67 (67), 0–51
Final: Judd Trump 3–0 Matthew Stevens → 72–43, (81)–0, 67–30
13 October – Biddulph Leisure Centre, Stoke-on-Trent, England
Semi-finals:
Mark Williams 2–3 Ali Carter → 27–69, 66–41, 45–63, (115) 131–1, 0–84
Jimmy White 2–3 Ding Junhui → (52) 87–39, (59)–66, (52) 72–(56), 24–115 (78), 20–59
Final: Ali Carter 1–3 Ding Junhui → (96)–0, 7–67, 51–72, 1–72 (66)
20 October – Riverside Leisure Centre, Exeter, England
Semi-finals:
Ali Carter 1–3 Judd Trump → (78)–0, 14–62, 16–(111), 31–57 (53)
Shaun Murphy 1–3 Neil Robertson → 37–66 (60), (53) 74–41, 35–83 (52), 49–68
Final: Judd Trump 3–1 Neil Robertson → 55–54, 38–76, 74–0 (59), 79–0 (76)
3 November – Southampton Guildhall, Southampton, England
Semi-finals:
Ronnie O'Sullivan 3–2 Judd Trump → 0–(139), (53) 94–32, (89)–22, 46–64 (58), (70) 78–4
Neil Robertson 2–3 Ding Junhui → 59–72, 14–(61), (66) 72–17, (55) 70–46, 7–100 (58)
Final: Ronnie O'Sullivan 1–3 Ding Junhui → (77) 82–0, 1–74, 58–68, 17–79 (76)
10 November – Spiceball Leisure Centre, Banbury, England
Semi-finals:
John Higgins 3–1 Ali Carter → 36–52, (101) 117–13, (79) 95–0, 67–38
Mark Williams 3–0 Matthew Stevens → 63–28, 76–5, (105)–0
Final: John Higgins 3–1 Mark Williams → (125) 130–1, 44–77, (89)–24, 69–22
17 November – Grimsby Auditorium, Grimsby, England
Semi-finals:
Judd Trump 0–3 Shaun Murphy 1–75, 0–(122), 14–111 (100)
Ronnie O'Sullivan 3–0 Jimmy White → (65) 87–29, 75–6, (103) 120–6
Final: Shaun Murphy 1–3 Ronnie O'Sullivan → 16–(82), 35–(78), (52) 83–0, 40–(100)

Play-offs
26–27 November, Potters Leisure Resort, Hopton-on-Sea, England

* 0–66, 70–33, 109(109)–3, 34–59, 96(55)–0, 85(84)–0, 92(88)–9
** 89–37, 28–53, 15–74 (58), 68(59)–17, 139(139)–0, 69–58,14–70,75(75)–25
*** 68(52)–31, 96(92)–16, 80(56)–24, 57–43, 33–70, 79–52, 63(63)–61(60), 77(77)–0

Qualifiers

The qualification for this tournament, the Championship League was played in eight groups from 3 January to 24 March 2011.

Century breaks

 140, 109  Neil Robertson
 139, 111  Judd Trump
 139  Ding Junhui
 125, 105, 101  John Higgins
 122, 115, 100  Shaun Murphy
 115, 105, 105, 101  Mark Williams
 109, 103, 100  Ronnie O'Sullivan
 104  Matthew Stevens

References

External links

2011
Premier League
Premier League Snooker

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Obama Set To Unilaterally Cut Nuclear Arsenal By One-Third
Tim Brown February 12, 2013
Barack Obama has indicated that he is willing to sign off on a new internal review of the United States' nuclear weapons strategy and is set to reduce our nuclear arsenal by one-third, which he claims would save billions to both the Pentagon and the Energy Department. According to a report by the Center for Public Integrity, which was issued last Friday, the recommended reductions were included in a draft version of a classified decision compiled by top defense and national security officials in the White House.
CPI reports,
Senior Obama administration officials have agreed that the number of nuclear warheads the U.S. military deploys could be cut by at least a third without harming national security, according to sources involved in the deliberations.
They said the officials' consensus agreement, not yet announced, opens the door to billions of dollars in military savings that might ease the federal deficit and improve prospects for a new arms deal with Russia before the president leaves office. But it is likely to draw fire from conservatives, if previous debate on the issue is any guide.
The results of the internal review are reflected in a draft of a classified decision directive prepared for Obama's signature that guides how U.S. nuclear weapons should be targeted in the future against potential foes, according to four sources with direct knowledge of it. The sources, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to a reporter about the review, described the president as fully on board, but said he has not signed the document.
While efforts were to finalize the new directive late last year, the administration didn't go along with it.
The Hill chimes in claiming that,
The Obama White House has adopted a nuclear defense strategy that eschews maintaining a large ballistic arsenal in favor of using a smaller arsenal to target a limited number of threats, such as China, North Korea and Iran.
Due to that smaller, more tailored target set adopted by the White House, the Pentagon can afford to slash the arsenal by at least one-third while still maintaining a viable nuclear deterrence strategy, according to the directive.
It remains unclear exactly how many nuclear weapons that one-third cut would come out to, because the actual total amount of nuclear weapons in the U.S. arsenal is classified.
All of this comes as Chuck Hagel looks to confirmation as the new Defense Secretary.
Last week, Senate Armed Services ranking member James Inhofe (R-OK) grilled Hagel on his work with Global Zero, a group that supports the elimination of all nuclear weapons.
Hagel responded by saying he and the organization never supported unilateral disarmament, and quoted former President Reagan's support for eliminating nuclear weapons.
"The position of Global Zero … has never been unilateral disarmament ever. Never," Hagel said at the time.
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Cause 126 of 2015
Japheth Muita Githaiga v Presbyterian University of East Africa [2019] eKLR
Japheth Muita Githaiga v Presbyterian University of East Africa
High Court at Nairobi (Milimani Law Courts)
Radido Stephen Okiyo
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Claimant awarded
REPUBLIC OF KENYA
IN THE EMPLOYMENT AND LABOUR RELATIONS COURT AT NAIROBI
CAUSE NO. 126 OF 2015
JAPHETH MUITA GITHAIGA................................................CLAIMANT
PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY OF EAST
AFRICA...................................................................................RESPONDENT
1. Japheth Muita Githaiga (Claimant) served the Presbyterian University of East Africa (Respondent) from 8 November 2010 to 30 September 2013 when he resigned. The Claimant was holding the position of Registrar at the time of separation.
2. Upon the resignation, the Respondent wrote to the Claimant on 22 September 2014 to advise him that his gratuity was Kshs 1,285,200/-.
3. Despite computing the gratuity, the Respondent did not pay the Claimant the gratuity save for Kshs 200,000/-, forcing the Claimant to institute these legal proceedings for the balances of the gratuity.
4. In its Response, the Respondent denied the authenticity of the computations and contended that the gratuity due to the Claimant was lower than the Kshs 1,285,200/- (but did not disclose such amount).
5. When the Cause was called out for hearing on 8 October 2019, the Respondent indicated that the parties were negotiating, nevertheless, the Court directed the hearing to proceed after the cause list call over.
6. For unexplained reasons, the Respondent and its advocate were not in Court at 1150am when the Cause was reached.
7. The Claimant testified and filed submissions on 24 October 2019. The Court has considered the pleadings, evidence on record and the submissions.
8. The Claimant's testimony was not interrogated at all.
9. The Court has no reason at all to doubt the authenticity of the letter dated 22 September 2014 signed by the Respondent's then Vice-Chancellor setting out the gratuity due to the Claimant and/or the Claimant's testimony that he was only paid Kshs 200,000/- of the gratuity.
Conclusion and Orders
10. The Court finds and holds that the Respondent owes the Claimant Kshs 1,085,200/- on account of gratuity.
11. The Court enters judgment for the Claimant in the sum of Kshs 1,085,200/- together with interest at court rates from 3 February 2015.
12. The Claimant to have costs.
Delivered, dated and signed in Nairobi on this 1st day of November 2019.
Radido Stephen
For Claimant Ms. Ingati instructed by Eshiwani Ashubwe & Co. Advocates
For Respondent P.M. Kamaara & Associates Advocates (disappeared from Court before the hearing)
Court Assistant Lindsey
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Bangkok – In their latest push to unseat PM Yingluck Shinawatra, Thai protesters on Monday blocked all major roads leading to the capital to shut down Bangkok in a bid to disrupt the snap elections scheduled for Feb 2.
Ratcheting up their campaign against the PM, the protesters donning T-shirts with "Shutdown" inscribed on them, thronged the major intersections in the country.
The protesters want to topple the Shinawatra government and establish an unelected "People's Council" that would oversee the electoral reforms.
The protesters are expected to converge on key sites in the capital in large numbers today.
Over 18,000 securitymen were deployed to maintain law and order in the capital.
The elections were called by the PM in face of the persistent protests led by Suthep Thaugsuban.
Suthep , who has vowed to uproot the Thaksin regime, has rejected the polls already, saying that it will retain the regime in place.
Speaking to the protesters from Bangkok's Democracy Monument on Sunday, he roared that the elctions would result not in a "win-win situation, but only one win – referring to that of the Thaksin regime.
"The people cannot negotiate … there is no win-win situation, there is only win," he said.
Suthep however said that he would give up if the violence escalated into a civil war, reported local newspapers.
Eight people have died in the protests and the demonstrations are said to be the biggest since that of 2010 when 90 people had been killed.
The protesters started their campaign in November last year that was triggered by a government bid to pass Amnesty law that would have paved the way for Thaksin Shinawatra's return to the country.
The protesters allege that the current government is being run as a puppet regime by PM's brother Thaksin Shinawatra.
Thaksin Shinawatra, who is now in a self-imposed exile, was ousted in 2006 in a coup after being accused of corruption and abuse of power.
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The 1994 genocide in Rwanda destroyed much of the socio-economic fabric of country as well as its health infrastructure. The healthcare system is still suffering in its aftermath. Although the health status of the Rwandan population has improved significantly in recent years, it remains insufficient. Training health workers to advanced levels has taken time and has not been rapid enough to meet the needs of the Rwandan population.
The health system in Rwanda is a decentralized, multi-tiered system. It is composed of the following tiers and associated packages of health services: 18 dispensaries (primary health care, outpatient, referral), 16 prison dispensaries, 34 health posts (outreach activities – immunizations, antenatal care, family planning), 430+ health centers (prevention, primary health care, inpatient, maternity), 39 district hospitals (inpatient and outpatient) and 4 national referral hospitals (specialized inpatient and outpatient). The 4 referral hospitals are: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Kigali (CHUK), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Butare (CHUB), King Faisal Hospital (KFH) and the Kanombe Military Hospital.
Rwanda's health system is financed both by state funds and by individuals' contributions through health insurance and direct fees for services. Health insurance is provided through a variety of programs.
The largest is the Community-Based Health Insurance Scheme which is primarily comprised of a social health insurance program called Mutuelles de Sante. Members pay annual premiums of approximately USD $6 per family member (increased in 2011 from USD $2 per person) with a 10% service fee paid for each visit to a health centre or hospital.
Membership is voluntary and payment of premiums is based on economic status. The program was first introduced in 2004. By 2010, 91% of the Rwanda population was insured through Mutuelles de Sante. Rwandans can access health care at all public and non-profit health centers in Rwanda, but the Mutuelles de Sante member's package does not include coverage at private health centers.
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We've all heard it said: "practice makes perfect." But just how much practice? And how should you go about it?
It this post, I'll look at what science has to say about how much you practice.
Malcolm Gladwell famously popularized the "10,000 hours" meme. In case you're not familiar with it, the gist of the study was that it takes roughly 10,000 hours of deliberate practice to master a skill. One other less-published finding of the study, though, is that the participants who took naps outperformed those who did not take naps. Clearly, there are factors outside the actual duration of the practice which have an effect (which is why I wrote a whole ebook on "optimal learning" habits, which you can get for free when you subscribe).
More recent studies have also challenged the idea that the 10,000 hour rule is really a rule at all. One study suggests that the amount to which any skill can be improved by practice depends on the type of skill. Highly declarative skills, like learning to play a game, can be improved a lot while creative skills are less susceptible to deliberate practice.
Whatever the case, the role of practice is still significant for any skill you want to learn. Whether you're studying for a test or practicing the guitar, how you structure your practice session will make a difference on the results.
It turns out, practicing for hours and hours on end may not actually be a good idea.
To understand why, it's first important to understand that when you practice you're "breaking yourself down." In the case of physical skills (like sports or playing an instrument) this is literally true: the muscle fibers tear. Even when memorizing or studying, you're fatiguing yourself through the act of practicing.
The real "growth" as a result of practice doesn't happen during the session itself. It happens after the fact, during the recovery phase. The most obvious place this happens is sleep: muscle is rebuilt and memories are consolidated. This is the time when the body actually turns the practice into skill. While scientists don't understand this process perfectly, they are able to study the effects (recall from above that naps were correlated with the higher performing students).
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What's most significant about these findings are that the amount of "down time" in the middle increases as the session gets longer. In other words, the relative effectiveness of any practice session decreases as the length increases.
The serial position effect suggests that we should keep practice sessions short. Of course, there comes a point at which a practice session is too short. You can't just sit down and look at one flashcard and then get up again. Much of the research suggests something in the range of the 20-30 minutes per session is optimal.
Practice using many short (20-30 minute) sessions, broken up by brief (5-10 minute) breaks.
What you're doing is giving your brain time to "reset" itself after each session, recovering a bit from the strain of the practice and cleansing your palette before you start again. As an example: when I practice the guitar, I'll play a song for 30 minutes and then get up and move around, eat some food, write an email, etc., before doing another 30 minute session.
In this post, I only covered the topic of how long to practice… but there's still lots to talk about with regards to the type and structure of the practice. Check out the side bar to learn more about these other important parts!


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Mogomotho è un villaggio del Botswana situato nel distretto Nordoccidentale, sottodistretto di Ngamiland West. Il villaggio, secondo il censimento del 2011, conta 843 abitanti.

Località
Nel territorio del villaggio sono presenti le seguenti 4 località:
Badiba di 2 abitanti,
Nende di 26 abitanti,
Shaowe di 22 abitanti,
Wao di 3 abitanti

Bibliografia
2011 Census Alphabetical Index of Districts  del Central Statistics Office del Botswana
2011 Census Alphabetical Index of Villages del Central Statistics Office del Botswana
2011 Census Alphabetical Index of Localities  del Central Statistics Office del Botswana

Voci correlate
Suddivisioni del Botswana
Distretti del Botswana
Sottodistretti del Botswana

Collegamenti esterni

Villaggi del Botswana


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Ari Shapiro & Michael Gottlieb Ari Shapiro (born September 30, 1978 in Fargo, North Dakota) is an American radio journalist who grew up in Portland, Oregon. He currently is White House correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR). On February 27, 2004, Shapiro and longtime boyfriend Michael Gottlieb were married at San Francisco City Hall.
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Dance Reaction was een Nederlandse discogroep begin jaren tachtig uit Den Haag en bestond uit vier leden: Glenn van der Hoff, zijn zussen Marlinda en Bridy, en Jeffrey Toorop.

Het bekendst werd de groep in 1982 met het disconummer Disco Train, dat begin 1982 acht weken in de Top 40 stond met als hoogste plaats in februari nummer 6. In het nummer, geschreven door componist Andy Free en tekstdichter Jean Kesteman, waren naast muziek en zang ook treingeluiden zoals stoomfluiten te horen. Het nummer werd geproduceerd in Canada door Frank Sauter en bevat samples uit Vertigo/Relight My Fire van Dan Hartman. Op de B-kant van de single stond het nummer Train Sound. Andere nummers waren Metro Area, Shanks Mare Honey en Honey Puppy is my Name.

Lang heeft de groep niet bestaan. De leden richtten in september 1982 jazzdansgezelschap Djazzex op, waar zij Dance Reaction als een (financieel) opstapje voor zagen.

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Q: Rotating image via javascript I'm trying to rotate a image using javascript and it should be simple but I can't figure how to draw the image rotated at specific coordinate on the canvas.
Here's the code I found and am trying to use:
ctx.save();
    // Translate to the center point of our image
    ctx.translate(selectedImg.width * 0.5, selectedImg.height * 0.5);
    // Perform the rotation
    ctx.rotate( rotAngle * 0.01745 );
    // Translate back to the top left of our image
    ctx.translate(-selectedImg.width * 0.5, -selectedImg.height * 0.5);
    // Finally we draw the image
    ctx.drawImage(selectedImg, 0, 0);
    // And restore the context ready for the next loop
    ctx.restore();

it just rotates the image on top-left corner. how can I draw the image to let's say bottom-right?

A: As it is documented on MSDN.
The function drawImage has three signatures.
void ctx.drawImage(image, dx, dy);
void ctx.drawImage(image, dx, dy, dWidth, dHeight);
void ctx.drawImage(image, sx, sy, sWidth, sHeight, dx, dy, dWidth, dHeight);

Where d stands for destination and s stands for source.
The solution here should be calculating the image resolution and canvas resolution and make sure to feet the image inside the canvas, then calculate the x,y axes where we should to draw the image.
ctx.save();
// Translate to the center point of our image
ctx.translate(selectedImg.width * 0.5, selectedImg.height * 0.5);
// Perform the rotation
ctx.rotate(rotAngle * 0.01745);
// Translate back to the top left of our image
ctx.translate(-selectedImg.width * 0.5, -selectedImg.height * 0.5);
// Finally we calculate the destination and draw the image

var selectedImgWidth  = selectedImg.width;
var selectedImgHeight = selectedImg.height;

var xOffset = selectedImgWidth < canvas.width ? (canvas.width - selectedImgWidth) : 0;
var yOffset = selectedImgHeight < canvas.height ? (canvas.height - selectedImgHeight) : 0;

ctx.drawImage(selectedImg, xOffset, yOffset);

// instead of ctx.drawImage(selectedImg, 0, 0);
// And restore the context ready for the next loop
ctx.restore();

I hope that resolve your issue.
Edit 1: Chenged destination target

A: This function works for me:
CanvasRenderingContext2D.prototype.drawImageRotated = function (img,x,y,angle)
{

this.save();

var cposX = x + img.width / 2;
var cposY = y + img.height / 2;

this.translate(cposX,cposY); // move canvas center

this.rotate(degToRad(angle));

this.translate(-cposX,-cposY);

this.drawImage(img, x, y);

this.restore();

}


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Struggling for ecosocialism in the time of Elon Musk
Originally published: Green Left by Aleks Wansbrough (January 13, 2021 ) | - Posted Jan 15, 2021
Democracy, Imperialism, Marxism, MediaBolivia, United StatesNewswireBig Tech, Elon Musk
Elon Musk has been pronounced the wealthiest person on earth, slightly overtaking Jeff Bezos. Musk is known for his unhinged outbursts online and generally bizarre behaviour. In this respect, he epitomises the increasing craziness of capitalism.
Even the fact that this has received so much discussion at a time of planetary crisis reveals the narrow focus of capital.
But it is telling that the wealthiest figures tend to be tech capitalists. The top nine wealthiest people include in their ranks: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Page. Their obscene, excessive wealth points to the tensions within private ownership of the means of production, where competition leads to monopolies and oligopolies.
In 2019, even Business Insider reported with a note of horror that: "Bezos' rate is equivalent to US$149,353 a minute. To put things in perspective, Bezos makes more than three times what the median U.S. worker makes in year—US$45,552, according to data by the Bureau of Labour Statistics–in one minute."
This level of entrenched inequality tells us something about how destructive and irrational capitalism is. Profits have subsequently soared for Big Tech, such as Amazon, amid the global pandemic and the deepest recession since the Second World War.
Digital technology has a profound effect on workers during COVID-19.
From Amazon warehouses with unsafe conditions to an increased workload that comes from working from home, we see that it is the capitalist elite that benefits from digital accumulation.
The fact is that those who harvest our data and profit from surveilling us are rewarded, while many lives and livelihoods have been lost.
Despite the celebration about working from home, the increased flexibility is more for the employer than the employees, with people now working longer hours.
Marx and Engels are more useful than ever in understanding these developments.
Already in Capital, Marx notes how technology doesn't really make life easier for workers. He quotes John Stuart Mill's observation that "It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being."
Marx's reply? They are not meant to.
Marx writes that "like every other increase in the productiveness of labour, machinery is intended to cheapen commodities and, by shortening that portion of the working day, in which the labourer works for himself, to lengthen the other portion that he gives, without an equivalent, to the capitalist".
In his 1878 book Anti-Dühring, Engels quotes Marx to describe the way machinery threatens and coerces workers. "Machinery becomes the most powerful weapon in the war of capital against the working class; that the instruments of labour constantly tear the means of subsistence out of the hands of the labourer, that the very product of the worker is turned into an instrument for his subjugation."
For Marx and Engels an emphasis on the commons–resources which ought to be accessible to all–was needed.
As Engels noted, communism is the community ownership of the means of production.
This contrasts with a tech capitalist approach, which affirms the role of the visionary. Musk is representative of the supposed ecologically minded capitalist. He promotes electric cars as much out of their futuristic coolness as their environmental friendliness, and positions gadgetry as the answer to ecological problems.
He frames himself as a saviour of the planet, but also as a saviour of humanity from the planet through his science fiction plan of colonising Mars. In such a vision, workers are either replaced by robots or service robots.
Against this tech capitalist dream, communist and socialist theoreticians as different as Álvaro García Linera (who served as Vice President of Bolivia under Evo Morales), Jodi Dean and Slavoj Žižek stress there needs to be a renewed emphasis on the commons to provide an opportunity for the left to promote its program of collective ownership.
As Linera stated: "It is capitalism's fundamental contradiction that it generates the possibility of a future society that is not capitalist. It is the possibility of a communist horizon that can save humanity from ecological disaster, save rural communities from destruction and liberate scientific knowledge from the prison of private appropriation."
Indeed, internet ownership entails debates about ecology and spaces.
While it was once common to think of everything online as free–a kind of nature yet to be colonised–we have woken up to the fact that our data is mined and harvested and that the internet is owned by capital. Technologies that were publicly funded have been commoditised to garner private profit.
More and more, people own less and less when it comes to digital technology: we're no longer just forced to rent land, but also apps such as Word and Photoshop. We generate content online that benefit corporations, a process that the political scientist Jodi Dean has framed as "proletarianisation". The spaces cultivated online by users have proffered new resources for capitalists to extract profit from.
This privatisation of communication technologies has had serious consequences for society as a whole.
We all now know how algorithms designed to generate profit have led to online reactionary clusters and echo chambers in what Yannis Varoufakis calls "the postmodern 1930s". This tendency may intensify as more people work from home and online, and facilitate the spread of right-wing conspiracy theories.
Meanwhile, neo-feudalist themes are emerging in theoretical and popular discourses, with Dean noting how technology enables online spaces to be understood along the contours of "peasants and lords of the internet".
These contradictions give rise to a concern that capitalism may birth a worse system.
The internet has become a new type of nature, dubbed the "digital commons", which most of us depend on to survive, especially with COVID-19 lockdowns.
As a new nature, the internet also provides new forms of control that threaten to swallow liberal bourgeois democracy whole.
Yet this new nature remains intimately connected to the old nature.
Media theorist Sean Cubitt in his Finite Media emphasises the material processes involved in conjuring seemingly immaterial spaces: cables tunnelled under the seas provide us with virtual connections; data requires material storage facilities; resources are required to power such technology and huge server farms all pose as challenges to a green future.
All this is largely hidden from view, but our virtual territories take up actual territory, and depend on mineral extraction.
Indeed, Musk boasted on Twitter about the United States-backed coup in Bolivia being connected to lithium reserves, proclaiming: "We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it."
Thankfully, the people of Bolivia did and returned the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) to office.
While much remains obscure about the internet and its shady owners, it is clear as day that the control of the technology cannot be entrusted to capitalists. To resist and overcome capitalism, ecosocialists must mobilise in the name of common ownership.
We ignore the relationship between digital technology and the environment at our peril.
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Yellow Candle Update
Under the current circumstances, unfortunately we are unable to distribute the Yellow Candles for Yom Hashoah on Monday 20 April.
Maccabi GB who manage the project have offered to post Yellow Candles to those who request it.
They are asking for a minimum donation of £3 towards the postage and packaging of the candles and all donations will be ring fenced to the Yellow Candle Project.
Please email : yellowcandle@maccabigb.org for further information.
Join the Whole Community on Yom HaShoah and
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in memory of a victim of the holocaust.
Light a #Yellowcandle
Woodside Park Shul are delighted to take part in the nationwide Yellow Candle Campaign for Yom HaShoah. Each bag contains a candle and the name of someone who perished in the Holocaust to light in their memory.
The purpose of this project is to remember individuals whose names would otherwise be lost.
The yellow recalls the yellow stars which Jews were forced to wear by the Nazis. Each yellow Yahrzeit candle provided will be accompanied by the name of a person from the Yad Vashem archives.
We are asking you to light your candle on Yom HaShoah evening of Monday 20 April in memory of the lost generation and, if possible post a picture on social media. #yellowcandle
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National Yom HaShoah Commemoration 'Remember Together - We Are One'
Important information about this year's Yom HaShoah commemorations
Sadly, due the current coronavirus situation, it is not be possible to bring everyone together on Yorn HaShoah on Monday 20 April as originally planned, and with much regret our stadium event has been cancelled.
However, we as a community can and will still remember, and although we cannot be together physically, it is still possible to honour our pledge and remember together as one through the wonders of technology online.
ONLINE NATIONAL COMMEMORATION: MONDAY 20TH APRIL, 7:30PM - 8:45PM
Therefore, on the evening of Monday 20 April as Yom HaShoah begins, we invite you to join us for a virtual National Holocaust Commemoration marking the 75th anniversary of the end of the Shoah and the liberation of Bergen Belsen.
In addition, during the day of Tuesday 21 April, from 10am onwards, we also invite you to participate in a series of online Holocaust education sessions together with our community and charity partners.
Thank you for your continued support in these difficult circumstances and we hope you will join us to remember, to educate the next generation and honour the survivors and refugees.
Join us live at www.yomhashoah.org.uk/live
More details will follow.
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Date: Yom HaShoah 20 - 21 April 2020
Holocaust survivors will be commemorating Yom HaShoah this year on an unprecedented scale, reaching a global audience to share their stories with the world
Be part of this amazing day -long event, that will honour the memory of those who have perished and celebrate strength, faith, hope and bravery in the face of adversity
Please join us on Facebook Live
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The Alfred Huberman Writing Award - Entries for 2020 now open.
The Alfred Huberman Award is a writing award designed to encourage young people to learn the lessons of the Holocaust and to ensure that its horrors should never be forgotten.
The Lake District Holocaust Project have set up the award in consultation with the family of Alfred Huberman who was one of the 300 child Holocaust Survivors who arrived in the Lake District in 1945. We are proud to invite young people up to the age of 18 in either full-time or part-time education to submit entries through schools, or as individuals.
The entries should demonstrate what understanding they have of the Holocaust, how the story impacts on them, and the hopes they have for the future.
The writing can take the form of a short essay, poem or creative writing but should be no more than 500 words. The entries will be judged by an independent panel of assessors and will include a member of Alfred's family.
To view and read entries from the prize winners please go to the website http://alfredhuberman.com/prizewinners/
For more information please go to the website www.alfredhuberman.com
Holocaust Remembrance Friday Night Dinner 2017
Woodside Park Synagogue hosted a Friday Night dinner in memory of Yom HaShoah UK. Holocaust survivor Mala Tribich MBE, and Theresa Villiers for Chipping Barnet viewed the 'memory quilt' where the stories of 'The Boys'/ 45 Aid Society: 'The Boys' are displayed.
More than 150 people then attended a candlelit Kabbalat Shabbat Service and dinner with Yiddish songs and a traditional Shabbat meal. Holocaust Educational Trust (UK)
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WPS visits Poland
Forty five members of Woodside Park Synagogue set off recently to begin an incredibly moving and thought provoking trip to Krakow and Auschwitz
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Shoah – a simple yet utterly incomprehensible word. What does it really mean to each one of us? by Laura Kaye
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my aunt Jenny Dreifuss came up as having a Stolpersteine set in her memory in the city of Mannheim, article by Doris Levinson
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"That's when Alfred grew up," she added, "That's when he knew it was real and not an adventure anymore." Alfred's story is told by his wife Shirley.


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The Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, has said despite the rising insecurity across the country. His regime and the security agencies' responses have been strong, determined and robust. He pointed out that his government will tackle insecurity in the country.
He added that in spite of the challenges, his regime has consolidated the peace in the Niger Delta. Also recovered vast territories formerly taken over by terrorists in the North East.
Buhari stated this on Friday at the graduation of Course 29 participants of the National Defence College in Abuja.
The President was represented by the Minister of Defence, Bashir Magashi.
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"We consolidated the peace in the Niger Delta and recovered vast territories overtaken by terrorists in the North East.
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This algorithm counts how many boxes are islands.
will create an imaginary line for each box (minX, maxY)-(minX, infinity) and count the number of intersections from this line with the others boxes.If the number of intersections is even then box is land otherwise it is sea.
I will apply an optimization and sort the list of boxes by maxY. Boxes with bigger maxY will have smaller indexes.
Using this optimization, each box will check intersection only with the boxes that have smaller indexes.


Skymaps is a really useful site that simply provides a free downloadable monthly sky map each month. The maps are of the type found in the centre of most monthly astronomy magazine, and can be printed quite clearly on a standard inkjet or laserjet printer. The main drawback of the maps is that they are prepared for North America, and therefore are for a latitude of around 40 degrees north. We are considerably further north at around 53 degrees, therefore objects shown near the southern horizon on the map will be below our horizon.
That said, the advantage of these maps is the second page which includes a list of objects visible during the month. The list is nicely categorized into naked eye objects, binocular objects and those visible in a small telescope. This is really useful for planning you observing and choosing objects suitable for your level of experience. Major astronomical events during the month. All in all a very neat package on two sides of A4, and one we often use at our CAS meetings.
In addition to the free downloadable maps (you can get a southern hemisphere one if you are heading south on your holidays), you can also purchase commercial sky maps, atlas and planispheres etc.


Choosing a college is not easy and takes time and effort for both parents and the student. Too frequently, this important decision is made on hearsay information or by advice given from relatives or friends. We often hear parents say, "My friend's kid went to Syracuse and had a great experience" In the new environment, this approach simply won't do. The parent, high school, and student must work as a team – researching, reviewing, and reconfirming information. A successful college choice should be based on personal learning style, campus culture, and family finances.
Another new development in the college admissions process is the increasing need for early career development and the direction toward a college major. No one wants to force a student to make a career choice before he or she is ready. However, many students and parents are insisting early on a career related education. Their hope is to provide the student with the opportunity for certain employment when the student finishes school. No more English or poetry majors – it's now all about engineering, computer science, and business administration. Unfortunately, this trend has caused concerns among educators. The colleges with their popular programs saturated, are not permitting students to transfer into those programs after their admittance. The colleges no longer have the space or the inclination to try to turn a junior majoring in philosophy into a computer programming major. Many parents can no longer support three or four more years of college while the student is trying to "find himself".
The colleges, of course, have an additional if somewhat paradoxical problem. They are coping with the reality of an increased overall student application pool while, at the same time, the walls are bulging in some classrooms, while other main stream courses are under-enrolled. In today's economic environment, it is also important to make sure that a college is financially stable, and will continue to offer the chosen majors.
At the same time, except for a handful of the most select colleges, all the schools are actively recruiting. They are offering all sorts of enticements…"merit" scholarships, "creative" loan programs, "special" academic programs, and dual majors. These measures must be considered objectively when deciding on the ideal school for a particular student.


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"I still miss him," The Real Housewives of Atlanta hitmaker shared.
When it comes to families, Kandi Burruss has one of the best with strong matriach Mama Joyce, supportive husband Todd Tucker, and three amazing children, son Ace, daughter Riley, and stepdaughter Kaela. However, there is one person missing from Kandi's family whom she will never forget.
Kandi honored her late brother, Patrick Riley, on what would have been his 50th birthday on Thursday, October 4. The Real Housewives of Atlanta hitmaker shared several throwback photos of Patrick with herself and Mama Joyce on Instagram, which also included an incredibly sweet and moving birthday message. "Happy Birthday to my brother Patrick! He was the best big brother in the whole world," Kandi wrote in the post. "Sometimes I wonder what would he be doing if he was still here. I still miss him."
Patrick passed away when he was 22 on June 17, 1991 after getting into a car accident in Mexico. Kandi was only 15 years old at the time. "It was devastating to me," Kandi shared on Xscape Still Kickin' It, which you can watch in the clip, above.
Kandi also shared that Patrick was the mediator in her family, even helping to resolve conflicts she encountered with her Xscape bandmates. "He got along with everybody, and even when there was drama, he was able to get us all on the same page," she said on Xscape Still Kickin' It. "If my brother had not passed away, we probably would have lasted longer as a group than we did."
Kandi continues to keep the memory of her brother alive today by always paying tribute to him on his birthday and the anniversary of his death. She and Mama Joyce visited his grave on Kandi's Wedding. You can see the emotional moment, below.
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The Cult of Hope, often called the Church of Hope or simply "the Church" by its members, is a religion founded by Sakura Kyouko based on Akemi Homura's veneration of the "Goddess" of magical girls.
Ever since 2011, Homura had payed her respects to a "goddess" whom she implied was once a friend of the Mitakihara Four. The others in the group humored her, but never took it seriously until the Battle of Epsilon Eridani, where Homura proved impossible to kill, whether by soul gem expiration or otherwise. Kyouko, witnessing this, along with what might be the only recorded use of black magic in the new world, reconsidered whether Homura's delusions might actually be truth.
On the first anniversary of the battle, Kyouko gave a speech, sharing Homura's beliefs (as she understood/interpreted them) with the world, and launching the Church of Hope. Since then, it's expanded rapidly, and holds the singular honor of being the only religion, in an age of silently-Governance-encouraged secularism, to be consistently gaining membership.
The Cult of Hope is superficially a Christian offshoot, but fundamentally differs from mainstream Christian doctrine in several respects. Most critically, it considers God to be benevolent but unable to understand humanity, holding humans to unworkable standards, which could only be reconciled with human nature by the intercession of a mediator/savior. In the case of "normal" humans, this was Jesus. In the case of magical girls - whose doom was not a spiritual hell, but a physical one (the nature of which Homura had never revealed) - it was the Goddess, who comes to claim magical girls whose soul gems turn black. Thus, the Cult worships Madoka, despite her technical humanity, because they consider her to be more relatable and worthy of veneration than a distant and out-of-touch Creator.
The Cult of Hope are the current custodians of the Ribbon, a relic of the Goddess provided by Homura before she vanished. It has been known to occasionally give people visions, which are somehow "cosmically censored" from any technological or magical transcription attempts by third parties.
So far all the known visions have been to magical girls. As the Cult of Hope doesn't give anyone else access to the relic, whether this is a fundamental limitation of the artifact or merely selection bias is unknown.
The Cult is headquartered in Mitakihara, at a rebuilt version of the church which used to be presided over by Kyouko's father.
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Schubert: Complete Masses
Schubert: Complete Masses (2015)
by Berlin Bach Collegium, Cappella Vocale Hamburg, Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Cornelius Hauptmann (bass), Elizabeth Thomann (soprano), Gerhard Faulstich (bass), Gertrude Jahn (contralto), Hilke Helling (alto), Jiri Sulzenko (bass)
Mass for soloists, chorus, orchestra & organ in F major, D. 105
Offertorium III ("Salve Regina"), for soprano & orchestra in A major, D. 676 (Op. posth. 153)
Magnificat for soloists, chorus, orchestra & organ in C major, D. 486
Mass for soloists, chorus, strings & organ in G major, D. 167
Mass for soloists, chorus, orchestra & organ in C major, D. 452 (Op. 48)
Mass for soloists, chorus, orchestra & organ in B flat major, D. 324 (Op. posth. 141)
Mass for soloists, chorus, orchestra & organ in A flat major (Missa Solemnis), D. 678
Deutsche Messe (German Mass), for mixed chorus, wind ensemble & organ, D. 872
Mass for soloists, chorus & orchestra in E flat major, D. 950
2015, Brilliant Classics
Label: Brilliant Classics


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Was Bin Laden ever buried at sea? No photos exist.
Enemy No 1: Internal emails released by the Defense Department show that no U.S. sailors witnessed Osama bin Laden's burial at sea aboard USS Carl Vinson
Internal emails among U.S. military officers indicate that no American sailors watched Osama bin Laden's burial at sea from the USS Carl Vinson, and traditional Islamic procedures were followed during the secret ceremony.
The emails, obtained by The Associated Press through the Freedom of Information Act, are heavily blacked out, but are the first public disclosure of government information about the al-Qaida leader's death. The emails were released Wednesday by the Defense Department.
Bin Laden was killed on May 1, 2011, by a Navy SEAL team that assaulted his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
One email stamped secret and sent on May 2 by a senior Navy officer briefly describes how bin Laden's body was washed, wrapped in a white sheet, and then placed in a weighted bag.
According to another message from the Vinson's public affairs officer, only a small group of the ship's leadership was informed of the burial.
'Traditional procedures for Islamic burial was followed,' the May 2 email from Rear Adm. Charles Gaouette reads. 'The deceased's body was washed (ablution) then placed in a white sheet. The body was placed in a weighted bag.
'A military officer read prepared religious remarks, which were translated into Arabic by a native speaker. After the words were complete, the body was placed on a prepared flat board, tipped up, whereupon the deceased's body slid into the sea.'
Final destination: Bin Laden's body was taken to an unknown location aboard USS Carl Vinson and dropped into the sea, but the Defense Department says that it cannot find any images showing the terrorist mastermind's remains on the ship
Fallen mastermind: In this undated file image from video seized from bin Laden's walled compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, the al Qaeda leader watches TV
Stronghold: Members of the anti-terrorism squad are seen surrounding the compound where bin Laden was killed by Navy SEAL Team 6 in Abbottabad May 4, 2011
The email also included a cryptic reference to the intense secrecy surrounding the mission.
'The paucity of documentary evidence in our possession is a reflection of the emphasis placed on operational security during the execution of this phase of the operation,' Gaouette's message reads.
Long-awaited news: U.S. President Barack Obama is pictured after announcing live on television the death of Osama bin Laden from the East Room of the White House in Washington May 1, 2011
Recipients of the email included Adm. Mike Mullen, then the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Gen. James Mattis, the top officer at U.S. Central Command. Mullen retired from the military in September 2011.
Earlier, Gaouette, then the deputy commander of the Navy's Fifth Fleet, and another officer used code words to discuss whether the helicopters carrying the SEALs and bin Laden's body had arrived on the Vinson.
'Any news on the package for us?' he asked Rear Adm. Samuel Perez, commander of the carrier strike group that included the Vinson.
'FEDEX delivered the package,' Perez responded. 'Both trucks are safely enroute home base.'
Although the Obama administration has pledged to be the most transparent in American history, it is keeping a tight hold on materials related to the bin Laden raid.
In a response to separate requests from the AP for information about the mission, the Defense Department said in March that it could not locate any photographs or video taken during the raid or showing bin Laden's body. It also said it could not find any images of bin Laden's body on the Vinson.
The Pentagon also said it could not find any death certificate, autopsy report or results of DNA identification tests for bin Laden, or any pre-raid materials discussing how the government planned to dispose of bin Laden's body if he were killed.
Historic moment: In this May 1, 2011, image, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden receive an update on the bin Laden mission in the Situation Room
The Defense Department also refused to confirm or deny the existence of helicopter maintenance logs and reports about the performance of military gear used in the raid.
One of the stealth helicopters that carried the SEALs to Abbottabad crashed during the mission and its wreckage was left behind. People who lived near bin Laden's compound took photos of the disabled chopper.
The CIA, which ran the bin Laden raid and has special legal authority to keep information from ever being made public, has not responded to AP's request for records about the mission.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2236617/Revealed-Military-emails-NO-U-S-sailors-witnessed-Osama-bin-Ladens-secret-burial-sea.html#ixzz2TMgjCbuv
Was Bin Laden ever buried at sea? No photos exist....


Yglesias, María Pérez: "Supertiñosa ayuda a Los Agachados … ¿Qué pensará Mafalda? Historiar la historieta: ¿un proyecto académico y/o político?" In: Anuario de Estudios Centroamericanos 11.2 (1985), S. 157–193.
The comic strip, as significant practice, participates in the struggle between tradition and change. From the 1960's, the comic strip rebelled, broke bounds, exceeded limits and institutionalized its marginal possibilities. The article not only synthesizes theoretical concepts but also outlines a history of the comic strip as practice and as metalanguage. It reflects on current perspectives—both in the developed countries and the Third World—emphasizes production and reproduction in Latin America, and concentrates attention on Central America and particulary Costa Rica. Hypotheses, assumption and empirical research are interwoven in a single text in order to generate discussion and other texts. Every page contain relativity, legitimate practices put pressure on marginal population, disinformation blocks and limits. The collection of material, the confrontations of different texts, the attempt to demonstrate contradictions and possibilities all have—from this perspective—political in addition to academic value.


Printer manufacturers should make their funds away from selling top quality printers. However, this is simply not the case. The real money is created by selling consumables, the ink and toner cartridges that go in the printers. In fact, they have gone to great lengths preventing the buyer from using generic alternative party and re-manufactured (recycled) cartridges to help make sure you are purchasing only their official OEM brand. In the effort to derail all attempts at competition within the consumables market, they've got succeeded in creating added expense and headaches for that user along with creating an impossible hurdle for those people wanting to "do the correct thing" by recycling and avoiding filling our landfills with spent and unfortunately non-biodegradable products.
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The cost with the HP laser toner all indications, the price of the cartridge will indicate an OEM from counterfeits. Due to the sophisticated nature from the HP cartridge, plus the hassle-free performance it delivers, consumers should expect an increased price. Producing the HP cartridge follows through many years of research, thorough testing, plenty of man-hours and money - so an affordable cost is just compensatory. Counterfeit printer consumablesare just copies and therefore are sold way below the OEM, if the prices are too tempting, expect the item to become an imitation.
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On episode 161 of the Americana Music Show, Chris Wood talks about starting the Wood Brothers with his brother, their father's folkie influence, and writing great songs that don't make perfect sense. Chris also sets up and plays three tracks from The Muse.
I also play hard hitting electric blues from Left Lane Cruiser, southern rock from Rob Nance, southern funk from the North Mississippi Allstars, a long slow burn from Tony Joe White, classic soul from Big John Hamilton, Texas soul from Mando Saenz, old school crooner from Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys, indie rock from the Motel Mirrors, and retro roots rock from Tim Easton.


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Written in Bone by Sue Black
Title Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We
Leave Behind
Author Sue Black
Publisher Arcade (June 1, 2021)
Format Kindle, Paperback, Hardcover
Genre Unabridged Adult Non-Fiction, Biographies
of Scientists, Scientist Biographies, Women's
Biographies, Biology
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"Dark, mysterious, and enlightening; Written in the Bone is as satisfying as it is truly disturbing; with a shocking personal revelation that comes out of no-where. "
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Professor Dame Sue Black DBE, FBA, FRSE, FRCP, FRAI
Written in Bone could be the best non-fiction book you will read this year. A colorful non-fiction dive into the anatomy of crime and all that remains.
Dame Sue Black's outlines her career as a Forensic Anthropologist (FA) investigating human and non-human remains as well as her work as a professional expert in criminal cases. She cleverly utilizes the skeleton as a roadmap of clinical and not so clinical facts in her investigations. She references historic accounts, such as the one involving Doctor Buck Ruxton who murdered his wife and housekeeper. The investigation that followed utilized some seminal forensic techniques, a number of which are still utilized today by forensic anthropologists.
Black manages to weave scientific fact with legal imperatives against the backdrop of horrific violence that leaves its mark on the bones. A work that is simultaneously chilling and compelling in equal measure. Written in Bone is a skillfully constructed dissection of the human skeleton from zygote [DIPLOID] to birth and on unto death. Black's book divides the skeleton into three sections beginning with the head, followed by the body, and finally the limbs. She further sub-divides the sections into their constituent parts. Using forensic techniques both new and old, she was a member of an international scientific team that investigated some of the most horrific crimes in our time; including the War Crimes in Bosnia, and the tortures and executions in Syria.
Written in Bone is a real life forensic detective account, a tutorial on the human skeleton and a Forensic Anthropologist's (FA) biography of an incredible career. It is neither dry nor stultifying and contains first-person examples of evil crimes and their terrible tragedies. Written in Bone puts the profession of the FA front and centre instead of in the shadows that the profession once inhabited. There is a consistent message from the author that FA's should always follow the evidence rather than unsupported assumptions.
Written in Bone manages to convey the reader into the world of the FA in a way never seen before. Hard cold facts meet the warmth of humanity on the frontline of the war on crime. It is accompanied by gallows humor and some slight irreverence for those experts that strayed into the field of FA, and fell flat on their face.
Black's narrative manages, throughout, to maintain the interest of the reader. She imparts her personality with the imprint. A genuinely remarkable work of non-fiction and definitely one for the true crime community. No true crime library would be complete without a copy of Written in Bone, by Sue Black.
I would like to thank, Professor Dame Sue Black, NetGalley, and Arcade Publishing for affording me the opportunity to review Written in Bone.
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The Times Are Racing
A Virtual Collaboration
By Madelyn Sutton, April 8, 2020
The social distancing required to help prevent the further spread of COVID-19 has consigned NYCB's many dancers, choreographers, ballet masters, and teaching artists to their homes, far from the familiar ballet barre—and each other. Using garages, living rooms, and nearby parks as their impromptu studios, they work to maintain their practice. But keeping the social connections alive that are so inherent to being a member of the Company is important, too.
Via a virtual collaboration, NYCB presents a separate-but-together performance of a short excerpt from Justin Peck's The Times Are Racing. Premiering in January 2017, this ballet incorporates not only the classical movements familiar to NYCB audiences, but tap, hip hop, and the sort of dancing that comes from individual expression within a communal effort. The Times Are Racing is an especially appropriate ballet for a project like this, not only because it's a sneaker ballet that's usually performed in streetwear-inspired costumes, but because it was choreographed with the NYCB family of dancers in mind.
Recreating the ballet brought back memories of its 2017 premiere for the participating dancers, whether they experienced it from the audience or the stage. Here are some of the recollections they shared about the premiere, and the experience of collaborating remotely.
"I remember being in the audience when the huge beat dropped and everyone in the theater made one large GASP (including myself). I knew right then I was about to watch something incredible," recalls India Bradley, who was a student at the School of American Ballet when she saw the premiere of The Times Are Racing—as were fellow Corps de Ballet Members Naomi Corti and Uma Deming. For Uma, seeing the premiere made her feel closer to the other SAB students. "My peers and I were all up in the fourth ring," she writes. "It completely captivated me for 24 minutes. The sense of community and raw love for dance was something I think everyone in that theater could feel." And that same sense of togetherness and community affected Naomi long after the curtain fell: "I left the performance feeling like I was on top of the world! My roommate and I couldn't stop dancing and jamming out our entire walk back to the dorms."
Soloist Brittany Pollack originated a lead role in The Times Are Racing, performing in the premiere described above. "[It] was one of the best feelings I've ever had onstage during my career so far at NYCB," she writes. "I felt a sense of community, a sense of freedom, and a sense of hope onstage that I'll never forget. The audience escaped my mind while I was dancing, and I actually got emotional during the performance."
"Dancing this ballet onstage while knowing that it was the audience's first time ever experiencing it was electric," echoes Corps Member Lars Nelson. "It was also a great experience getting to perform it with Justin. It's not often we get to perform something with the choreographer as well, so it had a unique feel to be dancing this with him."
For Kristen Segin, another long-time member of the corps de ballet, the experience of performing The Times Are Racing was downright transcendent: "During one show, after I fell onto the floor and rolled onto my back, I had a moment to stare at the ceiling stage lights before moving again. At that moment, I had a crazy out-of-body experience. I just remember thinking of how special this ballet is and how much I love my job. It brings tears to my eyes right now just thinking about it." Rather than turning inward, Soloist Claire Kretzschmar felt a distinct connection to the other Company members onstage. "Each time that I look at another dancer, no matter how tired we are, it feels like we are sharing a story or are part of a secret club," she writes. "In the end especially, I get to see Kristen Segin a lot since we share the same role on opposite sides of the stage, and it feels like we are initiating the unlocking of a puzzle as we are the last two to fit into our spots before the formations onstage change."
Long before the premiere, the ballet began as an obsession of Justin Peck's with a four-part song cycle by musician and composer Dan Deacon, "USA I-IV," a sonic exploration of America that combines sections performed by orchestral instruments with vibrant electronica and ecstatic vocals. Peck's choreography similarly weds the many styles of movement that contribute to his conception of contemporary American dance. Essential to this, as the rehearsal process demonstrated, was the NYCB dancers' input. "The first time Justin taught us this combo was unforgettable," recalls Soloist Harrison Coll. "We were all in sneakers jamming out to Dan Deacon's music on high volume, taking turns breaking down the sequence like it was a hip hop class. Everyone was allowing themselves to break free of their classicism just for a moment and allow their soul and emotion to really drive the movement. I feel like everyone was truly awakened to another dimension of their physicality that day."
Claire writes, "At one point before the premiere, Justin said that he wanted the finale steps to look like we were each jamming with a pair of headphones on, but doing so amidst a community of dancers onstage." In the process of recreating the ballet for this virtual collaboration, she returned to that idea—and made it a part of her performance. "I used my headphones to play the music so I could dance on the right counts, and I thought that it would be a cool look." She adds, "It was fun to make something like this to share with others again."
"The Times Are Racing is always a cathartic experience, and it is even more so now. In every performance of this ballet I throw all of my energy and feelings into every step," Kristen writes. Like Claire, Kristen used accessories to help recreate the sensation of performing the ballet on the NYCB stage: "To brighten my day, I also chose to wear an outfit that is very similar to my electric orange and black Opening Ceremony costume. It was so much fun to play dress up and virtually dance it out with my friends again."
And that sensation of togetherness, despite the separation demanded by the current situation, united many of the dancers as they prepared their portion of the video. "Collaborating on this put me in the best spirit as it gave me an opportunity to do something I love, in a place that I love, connecting me to a community of dancers that I love being a part of, in a time when I felt this was unattainable," writes Corps de Ballet Member Baily Jones. "It made me smile knowing that some other dancers of NYCB were doing the same sequence of choreography from the comfort of their own backyards too," adds Brittany. "I felt united for those few moments." Corps de Ballet Member Silas Farley put this cross-country sentiment into the simplest terms: "Even while apart, we are one."
And despite the distance between the dancers, some Company members found other ways to share the experience of recreating The Times Are Racing's finale. "I asked my sibling Gabi to help me record this and play the music from their phone as well," writes Soloist Indiana Woodward. "I taught Gabi some of the moves because they thought it looked so freeing and fun to dance." Naomi's family helped as well: "I went out into my street and had my mom film me. I was self-conscious about dancing in front of my neighbors at first, especially because I couldn't play the music and film at the same time. Once I started dancing, I got lost in the steps and didn't want to stop filming it. I ended up really enjoying silently dancing for my neighbors, even for just a few minutes."
"It was done all in one take, and I couldn't help but smile," Soloist Unity Phelan says about the recording process. "My boyfriend [former NYCB dancer Cameron Dieck] is working from home and is very busy, but we carved out two minutes to run out on the patio to film this quick clip."
"This is one of my all-time favorite ballets and whenever I watch it, it fills me with so much joy and happiness," writes Ballet Master Craig Hall." Along the same lines, Unity writes, "This ballet has so many wonderful messages that are only conveyed through movement." So, what messages might we take away from this collaboration?
Principal Dancer Lauren Lovette shares that the project helped her cope with the overall situation in unexpected ways. "It took me much longer than anticipated to remember the choreography, but when I sat there watching my friends dance their hearts out on my computer, my heart swelled with emotion. I sat there at my laptop with tears in my eyes and a new connection to myself that had been shut off for days … I felt alive again. I felt the blood back in my body again, and I knew that I had taken the first step to getting back to myself."
"Filming this video was such a turning point for me," echoes Harrison. "I've been injured since September, so I've been waiting and waiting to finally be able to dance again. [It] was literally the first time I really tested my body's strength again and there was a sense of liberty when I realized I wasn't even thinking about my injury. I was like, 'Alright, let's just go for it.' And that's what The Times Are Racing is all about—taking all of those emotions, fears, and anxieties that you may be experiencing, throwing a hoodie and some headphones on, and dancing it all off."
Fresh Faces 2020
Meet the Newest Dancers in NYCB's Corps de Ballet
Corps Dancers on SAB Workshop Performances
Catching Up with Gianna Reisen
A brief Q&A with the breakout choreographer