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A Trailblazing Japanese-American Sculptor Is Getting Her Own Postage Stamps
Ruth Asawa also championed arts education—and had a great recipe for salt dough for sculpting at home.
by Isaac Schultz April 6, 2020
Ruth Asawa and some of her works in 1954. Nat Farbman/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images
Ruth Asawa's legacy comes in many forms. It sits on a wall in the Guggenheim, a six-pointed star that dissolves into fractals on its fringe. It hangs in the tower of San Francisco's de Young Museum as a cloud of massive inkblots. It is also present, if invisible, at the Santa Anita racetrack in California, where Asawa, a Japanese-American, was interned for most of 1942. (She was later interned in Arkansas as well.) Now Asawa's oeuvre will live on in the latest stamp assortment from the U.S. Postal Service.
Asawa, an outlier in a field dominated by white male artists, cultivated friendships with abstract painter Josef Albers and quixotic inventor and futurist Buckminster Fuller. She was also a student with Robert Rauschenberg at North Carolina's Black Mountain College.
An assortment of stamps celebrating Asawa. Courtesy USPS
The 20 new stamps commemorate some of Asawa's most iconic constructions, the wire sculptures she began to produce in the 1940s, which made her a household name a decade later. The method was a variation on wire-knitting techniques used by villagers outside Mexico City, where Asawa visited in 1947. The eccentric geometrics overlap and envelop one another, transparent from one angle, solid from another. Only up close does the intricacy of her work truly emerge. Now, the art will grace doorsteps and mailboxes in America and beyond.
Asawa, who died in 2013, was also an advocate for arts education, particularly for children, and served on a number of boards to further that goal. Just as she had developed her own techniques for making, she urged young students to "learn by doing." She created a famed art activity for making works like hers from milk cartons. And something you can do right now is try out her recipe for baker's clay or salt dough that can be made with a few pantry staples.
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describe('The operation options service', function() {
    var service;

    beforeEach(module('app'));

    beforeEach(module(function($provide) {

        $provide.factory('schema', function($q) {
            return {
                get: function() {
                    return $q.when({});
                }
            }
        });
    }));

    beforeEach(inject(function(_operationOptions_) {
        service = _operationOptions_;
    }));

    describe('operationOptions.setDefaultConfiguration()', function() {

        it('should change the value returned by the get method', function() {

            service.setDefaultConfiguration('foo');
            expect(service.getDefaultConfiguration()).toEqual('foo');

            service.setDefaultConfiguration('bar');
            expect(service.getDefaultConfiguration()).toEqual('bar');

        });

        it('should not forward any future local updates to the model', function() {
            var localValue = 'foo';

            service.setDefaultConfiguration(localValue);

            localValue = 'bar';

            expect(service.getDefaultConfiguration()).toEqual('foo');
        })
    });

    describe('operationOptions.getDefaultConfiguration()', function() {
        it('should not update the service value in the background as a result of local changes', function() {
            service.setDefaultConfiguration('foo');

            var localValue = service.getDefaultConfiguration();

            localValue = 'bar';

            expect(service.getDefaultConfiguration()).toEqual('foo');
        });
    });

    describe('operationOptions.getDefaultOperationOptionsAsync()', function() {
        var $rootScope, $httpBackend;

        beforeEach(inject(function(_$rootScope_, _$httpBackend_) {
            $rootScope = _$rootScope_;
            $httpBackend = _$httpBackend_;
        }));

        beforeEach(function() {
            spyOn(service, 'extractOperationOptions').and.callThrough();
        });

        it('should wrap the operation options in an asynchronous wrapper', function() {
            var existingDefault = {
                visible: [
                    {
                        key: 'key',
                        label: 'label',
                        value: 'value'
                    }
                ]
            }

            service.setDefaultConfiguration(existingDefault);

            service.getDefaultOperationOptionsAsync().then(function(defaultOptions) {
                expect(defaultOptions).toEqual({'key': 'value'});
            });

            $rootScope.$digest();

        });

        it('should return a wrapped undefined value', function() {

            service.setDefaultConfiguration(undefined);

            service.getDefaultOperationOptionsAsync().then(function(defaultOptions) {
                expect(defaultOptions).toEqual(undefined);
            });

            $rootScope.$digest();

        });

        it('should get the configuration and use the operation options if it is set to null', function() {
            $httpBackend.whenGET('config/defaultConfig.json').respond(200, {});
            $httpBackend.whenGET('config/config.json').respond(200, {
                operationOptions: {
                    visible: [
                        {
                            key: 'store.testoption',
                            label: 'test option',
                            value: 'test'
                        }
                    ]
                }
            });

            service.setDefaultConfiguration(null);

            service.getDefaultOperationOptionsAsync().then(function(defaultOptions) {
                expect(defaultOptions).toEqual({
                    'store.testoption': 'test'
                });
            });

            $httpBackend.flush();
        });
    });

    describe('operationOptions.getDefaultOperationOptions()', function() {
        var valueReturnedByExtractionFunction = null;
        beforeEach(function() {
            spyOn(service, 'extractOperationOptions').and.callFake(function() {
                return valueReturnedByExtractionFunction;
            });
        });

        it('should pass down a null configuration', function() {
            service.setDefaultConfiguration(null);

            service.getDefaultOperationOptions();

            expect(service.extractOperationOptions).toHaveBeenCalledWith(null);
        });

        it('should pass down an undefined configuration', function() {
            service.setDefaultConfiguration(undefined);

            service.getDefaultOperationOptions();

            expect(service.extractOperationOptions).toHaveBeenCalledWith(undefined);
        });

        it('should pass down a set configuration', function() {
            service.setDefaultConfiguration('test');

            service.getDefaultOperationOptions();

            expect(service.extractOperationOptions).toHaveBeenCalledWith('test');
        });

        it('should return the value returned by the extraction function', function() {
            valueReturnedByExtractionFunction = 'test operation options';
            service.setDefaultConfiguration('test');

            var value = service.getDefaultOperationOptions();
            expect(value).toEqual('test operation options');
        });
    });

    describe('operationOptions.extractOperationOptions()', function() {
        it('should return an empty object if the configuration is null', function() {
            service.extractOperationOptions(null);

            expect(service.getDefaultOperationOptions()).toEqual({});
        });

        it('should return undefined if the configuration is undefined', function() {
            service.setDefaultConfiguration(undefined);

            expect(service.getDefaultOperationOptions()).toBeUndefined();
        });

        it('should create an object of key value pairs based on the visible configuration', function() {
            var conf = {
                visible: [
                    {
                        key: 'foo',
                        value: 'bar',
                        label: 'Foo bar'
                    },
                    {
                        key: 'marco',
                        value: 'polo',
                    }
                ]
            };

            var expectedOptions = {
                'foo': 'bar',
                'marco': 'polo'
            }

            expect(service.extractOperationOptions(conf)).toEqual(expectedOptions);
        });

        it('should ignore undefined values', function() {
            var conf = {
                visible: [
                    {
                        key: 'foo',
                        value: 'bar',
                        label: 'Foo bar'
                    },
                    {
                        key: 'marco',
                        value: undefined,
                    }
                ]
            };

            var expectedOptions = {
                'foo': 'bar'
            }

            expect(service.extractOperationOptions(conf)).toEqual(expectedOptions);
        });

        it('should ignore all values in the hidden column', function() {
            var conf = {
                visible: [
                    {
                        key: 'foo',
                        value: 'bar',
                        label: 'Foo bar'
                    },
                    {
                        key: 'marco',
                        value: 'polo',
                    }
                ],
                hidden: [
                    {
                        'key': 'k',
                        'value': 'v'
                    }
                ]
            };

            var expectedOptions = {
                'foo': 'bar',
                'marco': 'polo'
            }

            expect(service.extractOperationOptions(conf)).toEqual(expectedOptions);
        });

        it('should create a comma delimted list from arrays', function() {
            var conf = {
                visible: [
                    {
                        key: 'test',
                        value: ['foo', 'bar'],
                        label: 'Foo bar'
                    }
                ]
            };

            var expectedOptions = {
                'test': 'foo,bar'
            }

            expect(service.extractOperationOptions(conf)).toEqual(expectedOptions);
        });

        it('should ignore empty arrays', function() {
            var conf = {
                visible: [
                    {
                        key: 'test',
                        value: [],
                        label: 'Foo bar'
                    }
                ]
            };

            var expectedOptions = {}

            expect(service.extractOperationOptions(conf)).toEqual(expectedOptions);
        });
    });
});

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After being hailed as heroic essential workers during the 2020 lockdown, Kroger employees have been rebuffed by bosses when requesting their due. Despite severe risks to their health, Kroger employees continued to provide food for the populace due to mass closures and supply shortages during the formal acknowledgement of the pandemic. In return, their bosses offered a contract that only provided a $1.80/hr raise (an improvement of 15 cents over their initial offer) spread over three years. That wouldn't even cover the difference in inflation, which saw US corporations arbitrarily raise food and fuel prices almost double their previous point. With little recourse left, 81% of UFCW Local 1059 Kroger employees in Columbus, OH have voted to strike, but have not yet taken the picket line, as Union leadership wants to make another attempt at negotiating.
The pittance offered as a raise is a huge slap in the face, as Kroger's top executives make between $5-20 million annually. This is contrasted with the median employee pay of $24,617, which would require that employee to place over half their income into rent, based on the median one-bedroom cost for Columbus. This pay disparity is imposed by Kroger bosses in a legal environment where landlords are allowed to reject applications when the prospective tenants' income isn't triple the rent or greater.
For its part, Kroger is making all the public airs about being a good negotiator. They grouse to local news about "an offer that included $120 million invested in new wages, $192 million invested in health care and $69 million in pension benefits for associates," being rejected, but how much of that money does the average worker see? How much of the approximately 6% operational income growth over the pandemic will return to those who created it?
Workers have pointed out that while the new contract does include a healthcare investment, that comes with the expectation workers pay a few dollars more, monthly, for insurance coverage. It may expand some prescription coverage, but this advantage is negated by pay cuts imposed on employees working less than 35 hours per week. These pay cuts are activated regardless of the reason for leave, effectively punishing workers for taking sick days or short-term medical leave. An inevitability for a physically demanding job.
Those abhorrent provisions are complemented by threats from the Kroger bosses of bringing in non-union temps to replace Clicklist workers on leave, instead of paying experienced union workers overtime.
Kroger union busting sheet, presented by middle management to rank and file workers.
In further attempts at union busting, higher-ups at Kroger are trying to dissuade workers on an individual basis. They've also circulated the flyer above which does not include the fine print that negates many of the benefits Kroger is claiming workers will receive. Further, this is the third contract to be rejected recently by the workers of UFCW Local 1059, which casts doubt on the "fully recommended" quote. Perhaps union leadership pushed it, but they are not the workers.
Some employees informed WSWS of a "Strive for 5" campaign that would boost the hourly wage high enough to keep up with inflation. Kroger bosses may balk, but they raked up $4 billion in profits last year off the backs of these workers and have offered less than half the workers' wage demand in recompense. To further compound the material insult, Kroger already pays less than other grocery stores in the region.
If there's hope to be found, its in the words of the workers of themselves, who reported a shift in union busting activity during the third round of contract negotiations. This is the first time Kroger executives required management to attempt to talk employees down individually, an act of desperation that could suggest they're slipping. Even in Spectrum1's boss-slanted coverage, Columbus residents took the workers' side. Should Columbus Kroger workers take the picket line, all who support them can find other grocery stores to shop at to bolster the strike with a boycott.
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package org.apache.kafka.streams.state.internals.metrics;

import org.apache.kafka.common.metrics.Sensor;
import org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.metrics.StreamsMetricsImpl;

import static org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.metrics.StreamsMetricsImpl.CACHE_LEVEL_GROUP;
import static org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.metrics.StreamsMetricsImpl.ROLLUP_VALUE;
import static org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.metrics.StreamsMetricsImpl.Version.FROM_0100_TO_24;
import static org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.metrics.StreamsMetricsImpl.addAvgAndMinAndMaxToSensor;

public class NamedCacheMetrics {
    private NamedCacheMetrics() {}

    private static final String HIT_RATIO_0100_TO_24 = "hitRatio";
    private static final String HIT_RATIO = "hit-ratio";
    private static final String HIT_RATIO_AVG_DESCRIPTION = "The average cache hit ratio";
    private static final String HIT_RATIO_MIN_DESCRIPTION = "The minimum cache hit ratio";
    private static final String HIT_RATIO_MAX_DESCRIPTION = "The maximum cache hit ratio";

    public static Sensor hitRatioSensor(final StreamsMetricsImpl streamsMetrics,
                                        final String threadId,
                                        final String taskName,
                                        final String storeName) {

        final Sensor hitRatioSensor;
        final String hitRatioName;
        if (streamsMetrics.version() == FROM_0100_TO_24) {
            hitRatioName = HIT_RATIO_0100_TO_24;
            final Sensor taskLevelHitRatioSensor = streamsMetrics.taskLevelSensor(
                threadId,
                taskName,
                hitRatioName,
                Sensor.RecordingLevel.DEBUG
            );
            addAvgAndMinAndMaxToSensor(
                taskLevelHitRatioSensor,
                CACHE_LEVEL_GROUP,
                streamsMetrics.cacheLevelTagMap(threadId, taskName, ROLLUP_VALUE),
                hitRatioName,
                HIT_RATIO_AVG_DESCRIPTION,
                HIT_RATIO_MIN_DESCRIPTION,
                HIT_RATIO_MAX_DESCRIPTION
            );
            hitRatioSensor = streamsMetrics.cacheLevelSensor(
                threadId,
                taskName,
                storeName,
                hitRatioName,
                Sensor.RecordingLevel.DEBUG,
                taskLevelHitRatioSensor
            );
        } else {
            hitRatioName = HIT_RATIO;
            hitRatioSensor = streamsMetrics.cacheLevelSensor(
                threadId,
                taskName,
                storeName,
                hitRatioName,
                Sensor.RecordingLevel.DEBUG
            );
        }
        addAvgAndMinAndMaxToSensor(
            hitRatioSensor,
            CACHE_LEVEL_GROUP,
            streamsMetrics.cacheLevelTagMap(threadId, taskName, storeName),
            hitRatioName,
            HIT_RATIO_AVG_DESCRIPTION,
            HIT_RATIO_MIN_DESCRIPTION,
            HIT_RATIO_MAX_DESCRIPTION
        );
        return hitRatioSensor;
    }
}


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Esaias Boursse (, Amsterdam - , à bord du bateau Rhenen) est un peintre néerlandais du siècle d'or. Il est connu pour ses peintures de scènes de genre.

Biographie
Esaias Boursse est né le 3 mars 1631 à Amsterdam aux Pays-Bas.

C'est le plus jeune fils d'une famille wallonne installée à Amsterdam. Ses parents Jacques Boursse et Anna des Forest se marient à Amsterdam en 1618. Sa première formation a été assurée par son frère Jan.

Bien que n'ayant pas de preuves, on suppose qu'il a été l'élève de Rembrandt, car ils habitaient la même rue Sint Antoniebreestraat à Amsterdam. Il a été admis à la guilde de saint Luc d'Amsterdam en 1651. Il a voyagé en Italie et est revenu en 1653.

Esaias Boursse n'a pas de finances florissantes, c'est pour cette raison qu'il s'engage auprès de la Compagnie néerlandaise des Indes orientales, et se rend à Ceylan en 1661 à bord du bateau Amersfoort. Sur place, il dessine les habitants autochtones, les villages ainsi que les paysages. Ses dessins sont regroupés dans un album, et visibles au Rijksmuseum d'Amsterdam. Il est de retour aux Pays-Bas en 1663.

Lors de son second voyage, il meurt à bord du bateau Rhenen de la Compagnie néerlandaise des Indes orientales en route pour Ceylan le 16 novembre 1672.

Œuvres
 Intérieur avec une femme en train de coudre, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
 Intérieur avec une femme en train de cuisiner, huile sur toile, , Wallace Collection, Londres

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Naissance à Amsterdam
Naissance en mars 1631
Naissance dans les Provinces-Unies
Décès en novembre 1672
Décès en mer
Peintre néerlandais du XVIIe siècle
Peintre de l'âge d'or néerlandais
Décès à 41 ans

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Bill Handel's Historical Ignorance
KFI-AM's Bill Handel often brags about his lack of knowledge, legal and otherwise. But he really outdid himself on October 15, 2015, during his radio show's 7 a.m. hour.
President Obama has reneged on his promise to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan. The troops will remain. In defending Obama from the charge of "flip-flopping," Handel said that it is appropriate for presidents to change policy when circumstances change.
Fair enough. Whether that principle applies to this situation -- Do circumstances in Afghanistan justifies Obama's change of policy? -- is another matter. We'll leave that open to debate.
But it was in discussing past presidents that Handel displayed his vast ignorance of history. In particular ...
* Handel said that Woodrow Wilson was re-elected president in 1916 on a platform of "He kept us out of the war." That Wilson then changed policy and supported a war against Germany in 1917. The reason for this change of policy, said Handel, was the sinking of the Lusitania.
NO, Bill. You are WRONG.
The Lusitania was sunk in 1915 -- two years before Wilson asked Congress to declare war on Germany. The sinking of the Lusitania had nothing to do with Wilson's change of policy.
* Handel also discussed President Richard Nixon's attempt to curb inflation with a policy of wage and price controls. Handel then mocked Nixon's WIN button campaign -- WIN for "whip inflation now."
Nixon did indeed call for wage and price controls. But the WIN campaign was sparked by President Ford. Not by Nixon.
You can listen to these examples of Handel's historical by clicking here. (The MP3 file is edited so that the Wilson gaffe is followed directly by the Nixon gaffe, removing some of Handel's other historical examples there were -- by some fluke -- accurate.)


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Gods and Football
June 13, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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A quick look into "The Guardian" of yesterday introduced me to a new style of complaint from Muslims, it is almost magical how the evolution of Muslim taking offense at virtually anything has progressed over the years, to try and make things more simple – imagine that you are reading this not in the year 2012 but in, say, 1982, only 30 years ago this kind of text would produce mainly laughs and jokes at the expanse of its author, not now, now it seems that anyone who is not Islamic in Europe accepts the fact that it is the original inhabitants of the continent (and England) to please and avoid offense of Islamists at any and all costs. Well, not so.
Click the photo on top to read this confused and, at best, arrogant opinion column, of a person who thinks that in order for himself to feel comfortable to join in the ranks of the English supporters they whole idea of English football needs to change, because he finds some of those things they do offensive.
A few very important points show that the author is unaware (or is aware but pretends not to be) of many historical facts and moral grounds that should be pretty clear to anyone living in England today. The very first point is the crusades, the writer feels bad when he sees English supporters dressed as Christian knights, because that reminds him – actually that makes him think of (since he was not there in person) of the crusades – "The Crusades are romanticised in the west as heroic battles to win back the holy lands in the name of Christianity. But for Muslims they are remembered as two centuries of brutal and unprovoked attacks on Arab lands."
Please pay attention to "unprovoked attack on Arab lands" because this is the same claim Al-Queda lays to ownership of Spain and parts France, because they believe that anything that was once Muslim is forever Muslim (god told them so). Well, the Muslims invaded Jerusalem, a city build by Jews, a city that – for hundreds of years was exclusively Jewish only to be taken by the Romans and convert to Christianity along with the whole of the Roman empire. Only after hundreds of years of Jewish ownership it moved, by force, to Roman, turned Christian and moved into Muslim hands by invasion and force.
Christians who went to the Middle East to gain back a land were not occupiers of any sort, rather they were owners moving in on the aggressors to take back what belonged to them. According to the behavior of just about anyone at that time the march to Jerusalem was a bloody business, not only for Muslims but for Jews as well, however you never hear them complain about the crusades.
So Englad supporters remind you of how your ancestors occupied by force lands that did not belong to them and they had not built or nourished, and upsets you because of the mere resistance to your religions aggressive and violent nature? that is a shame indeed.
Here is another gem – "There's an irony in the fact that images of Polish supporters chanting antisemitic slogans and giving Nazi salutes have been met with such deserved outrage, but to brandish a sword and recall the brutal and bloody invasion of Muslim lands is portrayed as harmless banter". Polish supporters who embrace the Nazi ideology are idiots who do not know their own country history, Poland had suffered immensely by the hands of the Nazis, the first prisoners in Awschwits were Polish (non Jews) and the Nazi government set out to eliminate the whole upper social level of Poland's society.
The last bit – "I wonder how England supporters would react to scenes at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, were masses of Arab fans to dress up in Saladin turbans and brandish Saracen swords emblazoned with Qu'ranic verse. I'm not sure it would be seen as friendly high jinx." – only time will tell, however it would not be a great surprise to find out that any females who plan to visit the warm climate country in the 2022 world cup would be celebrating in the stadiums with bikinis and shorts, or to see supporters sitting down for a bear at a corner pub. Of course these things will be instantly embraced as a positive thing, however have nothing to do with human rights or basic freedoms.
The fact is that the author of this text is simple not really English, he may hold an English (British) passport and live in the country, but he does not connect himself to the history and culture of that country, and he makes it worst by further embracing his religion and misconceptions about historical events (who are dictated by the religious narrative of this religion), this person has nothing to do with the real England supporters for he does not support England.
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Brothers Forever: The Enduring Bond Between a Marine and a Navy SEAL that Transcended Their Ultimate Sacrifice by Tom Siles and Tom Manion (Da Capo, $25.99, 320 pages)
Brothers Forever is a horrific yet gripping and engaging true story of two American soldiers – two heroes – whose courage on the battlefield was astonishing. Travis Manion, a U.S. Marine, and Brendan Looney, a Navy SEAL, were the best of friends. They wound up dying in service to their country, three years apart. One died in Iraq, the other in Afghanistan. They are buried next to each other in Arlington National Cemetery.
This book details not just their friendship – which made them close and competitive, but also helps the reader understand how it was that each was a role model for the other. It also serves to explain the mindset of those who very willingly elect to go into harm's way. As Travis said to a civilian friend, "If I don't go, they're going to send another Marine in my place who doesn't have my training."
Brothers Forever was written by a journalist and by Manion's father, a retired Marine. A fault is an abundance of military language, but it's a comparatively minor issue.
In Iraq, Travis wrote that he was "truly honored" to serve beside his fellow soldiers. This memorable account truly and finely honors the bravery of the late servicemen Manion and Looney.
A review copy was provided by the publisher.
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Full Black: A Thriller by Brad Thor (Pocket Books, $15.00, 379 pages)
If Barry Goldwater were alive today, he might well identify Brad Thor as his favorite author. For it was Goldwater who said, "Extremism in the pursuit of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." Thor's action-thriller protagonist, Scott Harvath, lives by these words; Harvath's a former Navy Seal Team 6 member who's now a covert counterterrorism operative for a CIA contractor. Harvath does not wear kid gloves to work. He often goes "full black" – meaning that his undercover missions officially do not exist. He not only hunts down and kills terrorists, he maims and tortures them to get the information he needs, and may kill them after promising to spare their lives.
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As Full Black opens, there's been a deadly home invasion – seemingly involving former Russian secret policemen – at the residence of a Hollywood documentary producer. This does not seem like a major development but interest on the part of the media builds when the producer suddenly disappears. And the company that Harvarth works for sees this as the signal preceding a major terrorist attack – the largest since 9/11 – financed by a billionaire who hates the U.S.
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Harvath is sent to Los Angeles to begin unraveling the mystery of the home invasion which he views as beyond the capabilities of the LAPD to solve. He's got several resources on his side, including a computer genius and a highly-experienced mentor, but it's hard to separate the good guys from the bad in Harvath's world. For Harvath, paranoia equals a very principled loyalty to the U.S., and he believes that the means are always justified by the end.
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On its face, this may sound like Kill Shot by Vince Flynn and Red Cell by Mark Henshaw, but unlike those espionage thrillers, Full Black does not start out in overdrive. Thor takes his time building interest in the story, making sure the reader's fully invested in the tale before building speed. Once Thor shifts into second, third, four, and fifth gear, you'll see why his books are found in bookstores, airports and your local grocery store. His writing style might occasionally be over the top, but as Mitt Romney might say, "You can't argue with success."
The end of Full Black is actually the beginning of Thor's next thriller. Get ready to put that one on your nightstand.
A review copy was provided by the publisher. Black List: A Thriller by Brad Thor will be released by Atria Books on July 24, 2012.
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SWAIA is pleased to announce that it will begin a search for an Executive Director – one that will be tasked with guiding the organization into its Centennial – in the coming weeks. In 2021, the Santa Fe Indian Market will celebrate its 100th year as the largest and most prestigious Native American art market in the world. Staff members Amanda Crocker and Yvonne Gillespie have been named interim Co-Directors during the search process. Plans are moving forward for a large-scale celebration that will engage artists, collectors, visitors, residents and local businesses alike. Click here for more information.
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Amanda Crocker is a native New Mexican and a graduate of the University of New Mexico, where she obtained degrees in Anthropology and Spanish. Prior to joining SWAIA, Crocker worked as Director of Programs and Marketing at El Rancho de las Golondrinas living history museum for 11 years, coordinating ten public events per year and handling all advertising and media relations. Other non-profit experience includes six years with Cornerstones Community Partnerships in Santa Fe, a community-based historic preservation organization.
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Yvonne Gillespie grew up in the military and lived in Europe and several states in the U.S. before her father retired in southern New Mexico. Her family's travels exposed her to many cultures, and she acquired a love of travel and diversity. Yvonne attended NMSU and UTA-Arlington, focusing on general studies, before making Santa Fe her home. Her 30 years in construction retail, project management and accounting gave her opportunities to work both in the office and the field. Yvonne has also been a member of Santa Fe Search and Rescue since 2001. She is a current Team Leader, and served on the Board as both President and Vice President/Training Officer.
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"When I was ten my mother died and I sought relief from my emotional pain by writing poetry and playing my violin."
When poet, accomplished musician, champion swimmer and a writer/editor who developed innovative Florida arts curricula entered Mexico, her experiences were deftly transformed into finely-nuanced poetry. Margaret Van Every's bilingual lyric poetry, following the seventh century Japanese five-line Tanka format, affords the reader one pleasurable moment after another. With well-honed sensibilities she unveils her day-by-day confrontation with Mexican culture and its people — a confrontation that soon became a love affair.
This profound and provocative collection of distilled poems offers a cross section of Margaret's experiences, beginning with her arrival and travel through Mexico, and comes into full bloom when she reflects on her human and cultural encounters. Persistent honesty and penetrating observations combine with this poet's mature intellect to create poetry that is simultaneously ingenious and ingenuous. Each poem delights, expands and enlightens the reader's consciousness.
"In A Pillow Stuffed with Diamonds I found tanka to be both compatible with my voice and the perfect vehicle for encapsulating the emotional and visual snapshots of my experience. What could be better than distilling an idea in five lines finished off by some twist?" M.V.E.
Her poems' organic form, their innate nature, has been developed with unswerving respect for cultural norms and inside understandings. The nuances of human strengths and frailties come to life.
Tanka (short songs) depends on an "aha!" moment where some unexpected truth is dramatically revealed at the end. For example, in "The Adelitas," a 'double-entendre' in the last two lines (written with unblinking honesty) forces the reader to reconsider the whole of the poem in relationship to his or her own life experience.
Margaret as the ability to impart depth and texture to establish a context that gives solidarity and a strong sense of place and time to her verse. This, when combined with realized truths, make her work unique in its capacity to reveal the "secrets" of life. For Margaret, form becomes a structure that reveals and then enhances what has been discovered.
The Adelitas of the charro ride sidesaddle lest they discover too soon the pleasures of straddling a galloping steed.
Both "Adelitas" and "Jesús" avoid sentimentality and create a reality not seen before (at least from this viewpoint). The players interact on a stage once concealed, just beyond the reach of most observers.
Consider what is usually learned about Jesus in church in contrast to where Margaret's poem about Jesus leads you.
We learn from Jesús, dancing teacher, the lost art of keeping the beat — moving with grace to music ignoring a gaping wound.
In "Jesús," profound and complex meaning has been compressed into just a few words. The reader is left wondering what gaping wounds of their own, or their society's, are being kept out of sight. Or are the wounds suffered by Jesús to be our concern?
In both poems (as in most of Margaret's short and longer poems), images are juxtaposed to challenge the reader to new openness in his or her own understanding of what it means to be human in a fractured, self-interested, normally unobservant, unconscious society. With every word tuned to the proper pitch, the high energy of her poems moves successfully from poet to reader.
Both poetry and music, docile under her mastery, have provided Margaret a way to deal with the joys of life as well as the pain of losses and breakdowns in personal relationships — all to the reader's gain. As an artist deeply concerned with the health of the human community, Margaret Van Every's poetic voice resonates, awakens and stimulates.


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 Markus Messling (* 1975), deutscher Romanist
 Miriam Meßling (* 1973), deutsche Juristin
 Oskar August von Meßling (1836–?), deutscher Rittergutsbesitzer und Politiker, Abgeordneter im Preußischen Abgeordnetenhaus


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Mysterious Hyperborea
by space · February 1, 2018
According to ancient legends, this people lived in the Far North, or "for Boreas." These people especially loved the god Apollo, who was tirelessly chanted in hymns. Every 19 years, the patron of the arts went on a chariot drawn by swans to this ideal country to return to Delphi at a certain time of summer heat. Apollo also rewarded the northern inhabitants with the ability to fly, like a bird in the sky.
A number of legends say that the Hyperboreans for a long time observed the ritual of offering Apollo the first harvest for Delos (the Greek island in the Aegean Sea). But one day, after the most beautiful girls, sent with gifts, did not return (were subjected to violence or remained there at their own will), the northern inhabitants began to leave the offerings on the border of the neighboring country. From here they were gradually transferred, right up to Delos, other peoples for a fee.
Hyperborea was famous for its favorable climate. The sun ascended there only once at the summer solstice and shone for half a year. It entered, respectively, during the winter solstice.
In the very center of this northern state there was a lake-sea, from which four large rivers flowed into the ocean. Therefore, on the map, Hyperborea resembled a round shield with a cross on the surface. The country was surrounded by very high mountains, through which no ordinary person could cross. The Hyperboreans lived in dense forests and groves.
The state of the northern inhabitants was ideal in its structure. In the Country of Happy reigned eternal fun, accompanied by songs, dances, music and feasts. "Always there dances of the virgins, the sounds of the lyre and the singing of the flute were heard." Hyperboreans did not know strife, battles and disease.
Even to death, the northern people treated themselves as a way to get rid of satiety with life. After experiencing all the pleasures, the man himself threw himself into the sea.
Until now, the question remains unresolved to which race the legendary Hyperboreans belonged. Some believe that they were people with black skin. Others argue that the skin was white and it was from the Hyperboreans that the Aryans subsequently occurred.
This highly developed civilization had close trade relations with many countries of the Mediterranean, the Near East and even America. In addition, the inhabitants of this northern state have earned the glory of fine teachers, thinkers and philosophers. It is known, for example, that the teacher of Pythagoras was a man from a country where "the day reigned for six months".
The famous sages and ministers of Apollo, Abaris and Aristeas, were considered to be descendants of this country. They are also considered as hypostases of Apollo, since they knew the designations of the ancient fetishistic symbols of God (arrow, crow, laurel). During his lifetime, Abaris and Aristeas were trained and endowed with new cultural values, such as music, the art of creating poems and hymns, and philosophy.
Here are a few information about the life of the people beloved by Apollo. They certainly are not proof that the Hyperboreans really existed many millennia ago, but scientists continue to search for and receive more and more confirming facts. A lot of interesting information researchers have learned from the myths, legends and legends of the ancient peoples of the Earth.
Hyperborea in myths and traditions
In the ancient Indian Vedas, there is a text that says that far away in the north is the center of the universe, in the very place where the god Brahma has fixed the Polar star. In the Mahabharata it is also reported that in the Dairy Region is Meira, or the World Mountain. In Hindu mythology, it is associated with the axis of the earth around which our planet rotates.
Here is a country whose inhabitants "taste of bliss". These are brave and courageous people, detached from all evil, indifferent to dishonor and possessing immense vitality. Cruel and dishonest there is no place.
The ancient Sanskrit legends mention the first inhabited continent, which was near the North Pole. Here lived the legendary Hyperboreans. Their country was named after the Greek god Boreas, ruler of the cold north wind. Therefore, in a literal translation, the name sounds like "the extreme northernmost country at the top". It existed at the beginning of the Tertiary era.
It is known that the Greeks and Hellenes knew about the northern country. Probably before Hyperborea disappeared, it was one of the main spiritual centers of the Ancient World.
Reconstruction of the city of Arkaim in the Southern Urals. Some believe that it was built by people from Hyperborea
Mention of a great power is also in Chinese writings. Of these, we learn about one emperor – Yao, who worked hard to rule perfectly. But after the emperor visited the "white island" inhabited by "real people", he realized that he had only "spoiled everything." There, Yao saw a pattern of a superman, indifferent to everything and "allowing the spinning wheel to spin".
The "white island" was also known for the peoples who inhabited the territory of modern Mexico. But what is this mysterious island? The researchers also correlate it with Hyperborea in general or with one of the islands that belonged to it.
The inhabitants of Novaya Zemlya also have legends about a mysterious country. They say, in particular, that if you go all the way to the north through long ice and wandering cold winds, you can get to people who only love and do not know enmity and malice. They have one leg, and they can not move separately. Therefore, people have to walk embracing, and then they can even run. When the northern people love, they work miracles. Having lost the ability to love, they die.
Legends and legends about the country of the Hyperboreans, located in the Far North, are available practically for all the ancient peoples of the world. They are the only sources of information about the legendary country. But since myths and legends were formed by people, many facts or events, which they did not understand, changed. Therefore, researchers interested in ancient civilization, seek to find scientific confirmation of the existence of Hyperborea.
Where did the Hyperboreans take the heat
Among all the questions concerning the existence of the legendary Hyperborea, scientists are particularly interested in the following: where did the Hyperboreans get heat from in the north?
The fact that once on the territory, now covered with eternal ice, was a fairly warm climate, even MV Lomonosov said. In particular, he wrote that "in the northern regions in the ancient centuries, great heat was, where elephants could be born and multiply".
According to modern science, at that time the climate in Hyperborea was indeed close to tropical. There are many proofs to this fact. For example, in Svalbard and in Greenland in due time have found the petrified remains of palms, magnolias, tree-like ferns and other tropical plants.
Scientists have several versions as to where the Hyperboreans took heat from. According to one hypothesis, they converted the heat of natural geysers (as in Iceland). Although today it is known that its capacity would still not be enough to heat the whole continent during the onset of winter.
The proponents of the second hypothesis believe that the Gulf Stream could be the source of heat. However, it also does not have sufficient power to heat even a relatively small area (Murmansk region, for example, near which the Gulf Stream ends) can serve as an example. But there is a suggestion that earlier this flow was more powerful.
According to another assumption, Hyperborea was artificially heated. If the inhabitants of this country decided for themselves the problem of air movement, longevity, rational land use, it is likely that they could provide themselves with warmth and even learned how to manage the climate.
Why Hyperborea died
Scientists today are inclined to think that the cause of the death of this ancient civilization, as well as of Atlantis, was a natural cataclysm.
It is known that the climate in Hyperborea was tropical or close to it, but then there was a sharp cooling. Scientists admit the thought that it happened due to global natural disasters, for example, displacement of the earth's axis.
Ancient astronomers and priests believed that this happened about 400 thousand years ago. But then the hypothesis with axis shift disappears, because, according to ancient myths and legends, the country of the Hyperboreans existed at the North Pole just a few thousand years ago.
Another cause of the disappearance of the continent could be glacial periods, following one after another. The last glaciation happened at the beginning of the Xth millennium BC. e. Latin America and Europe have suffered from the impact of this global process. The offensive of the glaciers was, most likely, very fast (since the mammoths found in Siberia were frozen alive). As a result of the subsequent melting of glaciers under water were huge areas of land.
It is assumed that Hyperborea was not completely flooded and Greenland, Spitsbergen, Iceland, Jan Mayen, as well as Siberia and the Alaska Peninsula located in this region are the remnants of the northern continent.
There are no other hypotheses as to why Hyperborea died. Scientists do not undertake to answer this question until they find solutions to the most important riddle: where was it located?
Where to search for Hyperborea?
There is no scientific evidence for the existence of the legendary seventh continent to date, if you do not take into account ancient legends, ancient engravings and maps. For example, on the map of Gerard Mercator, the Arctic continent (where Hyperborea was supposed to be) is designated, and the Arctic Ocean is depicted fairly accurately around it.
Arctic continent on the map of Gerard Mercator in 1595
This map aroused great interest among scientists and researchers. The fact is that it marks the place where the "golden woman" is located, in the vicinity of the mouth of the Ob River. Is it the same statue that is searched for centuries throughout Siberia – is unknown. The map shows its exact location.
Today, many researchers who are searching for the mysterious Hyperborea believe that unlike Atlantis, which disappeared without a trace, it still left part of the land – this is the northern territories of Russia.
According to other assumptions, Hyperborea was in the place of modern Iceland. Although neither there, nor in Greenland, nor on Spitsbergen, archaeologists have so far not been able to detect any traces of the existence of an ancient civilization. Scientists attribute this to the volcanic activity that has not ceased until now, which destroyed, perhaps, many millennia ago the ancient northern cities.
Targeted searches for Hyperborea have never been carried out, nevertheless, at the beginning of the 20th century a scientific expedition set off for the area of Seydozero and Lovozero (Murmansk region). It was led by the famous travelers A. Barchenko and A. Condiain. During the research work, they engaged in ethnographic, geographical and psychophysical study of the terrain.
Once the travelers quite accidentally stumbled upon an unusual laz that went deep into the ground, but could not penetrate into it for a strange reason: everyone who tried to go down there covered a wild, inexplicable horror. Nevertheless, researchers photographed a strange passage into the depths of the earth.
Returning to Moscow, the expedition submitted a report on the trip, but the data was immediately classified. The most interesting thing in this story is that in the years most hungry for Russia, the government approved the preparation and financing of this expedition. Most likely, she was given great importance. A. Barchenko himself as a leader on his return was repressed and shot. The materials he received were kept secret for a long time.
In the early 90-ies of XX century, Doctor of Philosophy V.Demin became aware of the expedition A. Barchenko. After acquainting herself with her results and studying the legends and traditions of the peoples, in which they mentioned the mysterious northern country, he decided to go in search.
In 1997-1999, an expedition was organized to the Kola Peninsula in search of the legendary Hyperborea. The researchers had only one task – to find traces of the ancient cradle of mankind.
Seydozero
It may seem strange why it was in the North that they tried to find these tracks. After all, it is believed that ancient civilizations existed in the Middle East, in South and East Asia between the XII and II millennia BC. e., but before that their ancestors lived in the North, where the climate was completely different.
As a result of research work it became clear that those peoples who live next to Seydozers still have respectful respect and awe of this locality.
Even literally two centuries ago, the southern shore of the lake was considered the most honorable place for the burial of shamans and other respected people of the Saami people. Even representatives of this northern people caught fish here only once a year. In the Sami language, the name of the lake and the afterlife are identified.
For two years the expedition discovered on the Kola Peninsula many traces of the ancestral home of civilizations. It is known that the inhabitants of Hyperborea were sun worshipers. The cult of the Sun existed in the North and in subsequent times. Here were found ancient petroglyphs with the image of the Sun: a point inside one or two circles. Similar symbols can be seen in the ancient Egyptians and Chinese. It also entered modern astronomy, where the symbolic image of the Sun remained the same as it was many thousands of years ago.
A great interest in the researchers caused artificial labyrinths. It was from here that they spread all over the world. Scientists today proved that these stone structures are the coded projection of the passage of the sun across the polar sky.
Stone blocks on Mount Vottovaara in Karelia
In the area of the sacred Saami Seydozer, a powerful megalithic complex was discovered: giant structures, cult and defensive masonry, geometrically regular slabs with mysterious signs. Nearby were the ruins of an ancient observatory built in the rocks. Its 15-meter trough with sighters is directed to the sky and strongly resembles the famous Ulugbek observatory near Samarkand.
In addition, the researchers found several destroyed buildings, road, stairs, Etruscan anchor and a well under the mountain Kuamedespahk. They also made numerous finds, which testify to the fact that once inhabited by people who perfectly master craftsmanship.
The expedition discovered several rock carvings of the lotus and trident. Of particular interest was the huge cross-shaped image of a man – the "old Koivu", who, according to legend, was embroidered in the rock of Carnassourty.
Of course, these findings are not proof that there once existed a highly developed civilization. But quite often it was like this: the most daring hypotheses, broken in their time in the dust and dust, were subsequently confirmed.
So far, no specific data have been obtained on the location of the island or the mainland of Hyperborea. According to modern scientific data, there are no islands near the North Pole, but there is an underwater Lomonosov Ridge, named after its discoverer. He, together with the nearby Mendeleyev Ridge, has recently fallen under the water.
Therefore, if we assume that in ancient times the ridge was inhabited, its inhabitants could well have moved to neighboring continents to areas of the Canadian Arctic archipelago, the Kola and Taimyr Peninsulas, or to the eastern delta of the Lena River. It is on this territory that people who have preserved the traditions of the "golden woman" and, as a result, information about the legendary Hyperborea live.
The answers to these and many other mysteries are to be found in the future.
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Participants (n=1615) ate a low-fat, high-carbohydrate, plant-based diet for 7 days. It was an inpatient, residential setting so their food was provided. They could eat as much as they wanted – calories, portions, or food intake were not restricted.
* This drop occurred even though most BP meds were reduced or stopped at study start. Salt shaking was not restricted. Drops were higher for high baseline BP (> 140/90).
** BG dropped 8 points for those with fasting > 100 at baseline, 17 points for those with fasting > 126.
*** Calculate your own 10-year CVD risk here. High risk is defined as >7.5%.
Conclusions: A low-fat, starch-based, vegan diet eaten ad libitum for 7 days results in significant favorable changes in commonly tested biomarkers that are used to predict future risks for cardiovascular disease and metabolic diseases. … These rapid results could motivate physicians to prescribe diet therapy before resorting to the pharmacy for helping their patients.
No animal-derived ingredients (e.g, meat, fish, eggs, or dairy products) and no isolated vegetable oils (e.g, olive, corn, safflower, flaxseed, or rapeseed oil) were used. Meals were based around common starches, including wheat flour products, corn, rice, oats, barley, quinoa, potatoes, sweet potatoes, beans, peas, and lentils, with the addition of fresh fruits and non-starchy green, orange, and yellow vegetables. The macronutrient profile was roughly 7% fat, 12% protein, and 81% carbohydrate by calorie.
When a food rationing system during World War I severely restricted the Danish population's intake of meats, dairy products, fats, and alcohol but placed no restrictions on such foods as barley, bread, potatoes, and vegetables, Denmark achieved the lowest mortality rate in its history.
These were older people, median age 58, and most (84.3%) self-reported a history of disease. It seems to me that eating plant food is a cheap, safe, and effective alternative to heart surgery and a lifetime of pharmaceuticals.
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Mostly known for its wide range of protective smartphone and tablet cases, OtterBox has slowly been broadening its product range into the outdoor market. Following up from the rugged Venture coolers released last year, OtterBox has now launched two new soft coolers designed to be easily carried, with one model even coming with straps enabling it to be lugged around like a backpack.
The Trooper soft coolers come in two models, both featuring premium thermal insulation. OtterBox suggests these soft coolers can keep ice for over 3 days, which of course isn't as long as a solid cooler, but is pretty substantial for such a portable, fabric-based cooler and it's entirely sufficient for short camping trips or day missions to the beach.
The smaller Trooper 20 has a capacity of 20 quarts (approx. 20 l) and weighs 6.49 pounds (2.9 kg). It has a flip-top lid and is easily slung over the shoulder with a 2-inch wide padded strap.
The Trooper LT 30 is a little more interesting, with a 30 quart capacity and a large mouth opening offering wide and easy access. The Trooper LT 30 also can function as a cooler backpack with built in straps enabling it to alternate between over-the-shoulder carry and a backpack. This model is only marginally heavier at 6.69 pounds.
Both models are rated IP-65 so while you can get them relatively wet you don't want to be fully submersing them in water. As an extra helpful design feature they come with an additional bottle opener. The Trooper 20 and LT 30 prices start at US$249 and $299, and they come in three separate colors – Hazy Harbor (white and blue), Alpine Ascent (tan and green) and Forest Edge (Realtree Xtra camo).