The charity Explore is pleased to report the following changes that took place at its Annual General Meeting on June 20th. Mr Crispin Drummond had decided that, following the successful recruitment and probationary period of the new chief executive, Lisa Gagliani MBE, it was the right time to step down as Chair of the Board of Trustees and as a Trustee. Crispin had served as Chairman with extraordinary dedication for more than six years and the Board paid tribute to his forthright and visionary leadership during this time.
Mr Angus Somerville was elected new Chair of Trustees unanimously. He said that he was enthused by the growing awareness of Explore's work in schools and the opportunity afforded to the charity by the prospect of relationships education becoming mandatory in all schools across England from September 2019.
The Board also warmly welcomed Mrs Suzie Simmons as a new Trustee. Suzie will have a specific focus on the charity's fundraising, for which she is ideally suited as the current Head of Fundraising at Southampton Childrens Hospital, having been selected following the ongoing skills audit to enhance the Board's spread of capability.
In the coming months, the charity intends to review its Articles of Association and the terms of engagement for Trustees, in line with best practice and, in due course, seek to change its name officially from The Students Exploring Marriage Trust to, simply, Explore. This was felt to be more consistent with the operational theme of the charity and would overcome possible confusion about the charity's aims – which is to deliver relationships education, using marriage as a model, but not specifically to encourage students to marry per se. The charity remains very much committed to marriage as the ultimate model for long-lasting relationships and its overarching aim is to deliver hope to young people that they might aspire one day to marry, and thereby reduce the impact of family breakdown through better education at a time when romantic relationships begin to pre-occupy the minds of young people.
The board meets 4-5 times a year. There is also a fundraising & finance committee that meets 4 times a year.


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Domino Night
October 2020 | nonfiction
The ritual of Domino Night began the summer after we immigrated to the United States. On warm, dry Friday evenings, after we ate dinner, Mama and Papa collapsed the card table and a folding chair from our kitchen, then Papa hefted them the entire half-mile down the tenement-lined sidewalk to where Broad and Union Streets converged, ending in the emerald triangle called Salem Park.
Once there, Papa plunked his table and chair among the labyrinth of other players—all Russian-Jewish Papas and Grandpapas—and commenced doing battle. The United States and the Soviet Union were waging their own war in the eighties, each threatening to nuke the other into extinction. Speaking Russian within earshot of American passersby was asking for trouble. Too ashamed of their broken English, the players spoke to each other through the slide and click of their moving tiles.
When I wasn't off trapping fireflies in old jam jars, I was hiding behind the bushes on the northern angle of the park, which pointed towards Manhattan, secretly practicing my English curses with a tribe of equally naughty grade school kids. Or, I was hanging with Mama on the southern angle, which pointed towards home, my presence shielding her from heckling in-laws. Or, I was standing beside Papa, watching him play, a distraction he would allow only while winning.
Today I know that Domino nights were a proving ground for Papa's much later conquests—like wealth and corporate celebrity—personal victories that, according to Papa's polemic, upheld the American Dream as something available to all who were willing to work hard and sacrifice. In between moves, he used to sit in utter stillness on Domino nights to consider his hand, bony elbows propped on bony knees. A still life of sinewy limbs folded in on each other, poised to capture a hundred black dots, like a young mantis seconds before pouncing on a colony of beetles.
Meanwhile, Mama and I waited—often in corners of hedgerows, often until midnight—for it to end. Once it did, Papa hefted my small, sleepy body onto his shoulder, carrying me back along the concrete path lined with tenements, my head bobbing beneath his chin, the sounds of motors and the threat of epithets muted by the nighttime sigh of a city that was, for the moment, too tired. The world silenced by my ear pressed against his heart.
To make room for me, Papa left the card table and folding chair behind, to be delivered later by one of his opponents—a tacit consequence for losing.
Tali Perch
Tali Perch earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She enjoys writing about parenting, feminism, cultural anthropology, and her childhood as a Soviet-Jewish refugee. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Sweet: A Literary Confection, Under The Gum Tree, The Colorado Review, Longreads, Mom Egg Review, and elsewhere. Tali's essay "Records on Bone" (2019) was nominated by The Colorado Review for a Pushcart Prize. Currently, Tali is working on a memoir about the challenges of assimilating into American culture as a soviet-Jewish émigré during the Cold War.
To the River
October 2020 | fiction
As the nights grew longer, more children appeared at the swimming hole. Except they weren't children, not anymore. Months of solitude had hardened their bodies, as if loneliness were tougher than skin. Yet inside, they softened from the relief at finding others who were lonely too. We can say they knew more than they should. But that's only part of what came of their gathering.
I went down to the river
Before the break of dawn
But now the river's gone.
Down to the river, her phone lighting the path through the woods, Hollie wondered how many others she would find this time. Every night since the problem began, more were congregating at the water's edge. With the town in lock-down, they had nowhere else to loosen their fear except among these dank shadows, drifting first to one cluster, then another, like moths drawn to broken flames. Distances were breached, breath expelled too close in illicit sighs from mouths unmasked. They believed the danger couldn't follow them there. The river would keep them safe.
Beyond the trees, the half-moon hit the obsidian pool as the revelers held hands to jump from the bank above. The cold took their breath away before they rose to the surface with screams of laughter. After months of self-restraint, they craved spontaneity. They did it for kicks, just like kids had been doing for decades in this very spot, the clock turned back to a time when the biggest threat was gossip. Now, no one cared. Clenching and unclenching, they cleaved to each other in the night's unburdening.
I jumped into the river
To the place where I was drawn
Hollie looked for friends but saw only unfamiliar faces. It didn't matter. They were all here for the same thing—the ritual of water and the cleansing it could bring. Since entering the river was required, she shed shirt, jeans, phone, and shoes, bundling them at the bottom of a tree, not worrying whether they would be there when she returned.
Watching for an entrance into the current of bodies, her mind rewinds to a time when women in white were dipped backward, their unbound hair mingling with mud. As if all it took were water and prayer to cleanse a transgression. If she listens, she can hear the murmur of hymns promising salvation or heartache, with no guarantee as to which would be given.
I crossed the river
And found my way was wrong
Hollie wades out until the water reaches her chest. She raises her arms, takes a breath, and dives. Going under, she swims away from the pack before surfacing toward the pale light.
In five days or fourteen, she will know: has the river washed it away?
Kayann Short
Writer, farmer, teacher, and activist Kayann Short, Ph.D., is the author of A Bushel's Worth: An Ecobiography (Torrey House Press), a Nautilus award-winning memoir of reunion with a family's farming past and call for local farmland preservation today. Her work appears in Midwest Review, Hawk & Handsaw, The Hopper, Pilgrimage, Dash, Genders, Mad River Review, and the anthologies Dirt: A Love Story and Rooted: The Best New Arboreal Non-Fiction. Dr. Short organizes community writing events and teaches digital storytelling and ecobiography at her own Stonebridge Farm on Colorado's Front Range. More on her work can be found on Instagram @kayannshort and at www.kayannshort.com.
Patrice Boyer Claeys, Featured Author
October 2020 | poetry
the apple's green and glazed skin
something is taking place
hunched in darkness, an ache
for a rebirth of wonder.
The five unmistakable marks
little brown seeds
give birth to a single idea—
delicious rottenness.
The star-apple kingdom
lies waiting inside it to be born.
Cento Sources: Linda Hogan, Saul Touster, Robert Duncan, Alice B. Fogel, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Lewis Carroll, Anonymous, Jorie Graham, D. H. Lawrence, Derek Walcott, Li-Young Lee
A bite into a ripe Mariposa,
her blue bodice split at the bulging seams,
explodes like a hot stone
in my mouth.
Just one seed
widow's eye
in my two hands.
Cento Sources: Charles Atkinson, Paisley Rekdal, Louise Erdrich, Mymai Yuan, Jill Bialosky, John Fuller, Lenelle Moise, Carolyn Forché
Patrice Boyer Claeys
Patrice Boyer Claeys is the author of two poetry collections: The Machinery of Grace (2020) and Lovely Daughter of the Shattering (2019). Recent work appears or is forthcoming in *82 Review, little somethings press, Relief, Zone 3, Glassworks Magazine, Inflectionist Review, Pirene's Fountain and Aeolian Harp Anthology 5. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and twice for Best of the Net. Patrice lives in Chicago and can be found online at www.patriceboyerclaeys.com.

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Any other year — than 2019 — is a better year to buy a new vehicle. In fact, 2019 may set the record for the worst possible year – EVER – for buying new cars and trucks. Deals on used vehicles are likely to play out at least as badly.
You will lose money on any car you buy in 2019 when it's time to sell. Serious money. Like never before.
Your operating costs while you own it will set a record – and eat up your inspection fees.
A new era is here. Call it Generation 2 vehicles.
Autonomous vehicles (AVs), electric vehicles (EVs), and alternative transport (from "ride sharing" services like Uber and Lyft to bike and scooter racks) all are invading the remainder of 20th century transportation.Vehicles are getting like computers. No one needs to say again how fast technology is changing.
Alternative transportation – whether it's Uber or scooter racks or bikes – will mean fewer people, a LOT fewer, will be buying cars by the time you trade in that old obsolete 2019.
Then nobody will want it, any more than you want a typewriter or a record player.
"Intelligent" "autonomous vehicles" (AVs) and electric vehicles (EVs) are moving into the market, and going mainstream. It's happening far faster than most people ever imagined. Much, much faster.
The last, best, and greatest internal combustion (IC) engine has been built already. (We'll know for sure later, but it probably was in the Audi A8.) Internal combustion engines are history. They ll never get any better.
From now on, vehicles with older pure IC engines will be fading fast. In 40 to 60 months, the market for new and used IC vehicles will be people who use Payday Lenders.
It's not just that EVs – electric vehicles – that are making such inroads. They will be required in many larger nations, starting in 2020. China is outlawing ICs then. But out old habits die hard. People think tomorrow will be like yesterday. They still underestimate how fast EVs will make eat up mainstream market share.
In 2012, the Audi R18 etron quattro became the first electric hybrid to win Europe's classic and brutal 24-hour LeMans race. Electric motors powered the front wheels. This was no "one off," or pure luck. The Audi went on to win LeMans in 2013 and 2014 too. That was half a decade ago. As usual, yesterday's race technology is the front runner for street vehicles coming next. That would be now.
Total EVs on the road topped 3 million in 2018, a 50% increase over 2016. In November, the Tesla Model 3 was the best selling small/mid-size luxury sedan in the U.S. Model S Teslas outsold the competing, established Mercedes S Class, BMW 6- and 7- series, plus Audi A8 cars combined.
Meanwhile, AV variations on "autopilot" and "autonomous vehicles" are flooding into the market. Right now, it's one or two features at a time, just to get people used to them.
Last year's cars featured "lane assist," front end "collision protection" or "auto braking," and "self parking," for example. It was amazing to let go of the steering wheel and let a 2017 car automatically parallel park itself. Top end vehicles were loaded with even more systems like that.
The pace of change is faster than anyone can easily keep up with. Companies innovating in AVs have more cash than any businesses ever in history. Google's Waymo, Apple, VW, and GM are local examples. There's even money cash pour into China's car industry, and the first Chinese imports are due stateside later this year (after two years showing them in the Detroit Auto Show). Every maker has been pouring money into AVs for roughly a decade.
After paying down 48 months financing a 2019 vehicle, the "intelligence" of 2023 vehicles will leave 2019s in the dust. People who can afford practically any later model car will buy them, not 2019s. And the number of car buyers will be way down, probably the lowest in our lifetimes.
In 2017, you could still get a new car under a reasonable lease. That protected you from depreciation falling off a cliff. The car maker owned resale price risk. No more. Monthly lease payments have been soaring throughout 2018 as auto makers wake up to the chances they'll be left holding the bag on resale.
There is no place left to avoid the carnage coming in IC vehicles, only EVs and AVs worth waiting for.
The good news is that there are some great new cars and trucks coming down the road, way sooner than most people expect. You won't believe the 2020s and 2021s.
Their performance will be better.
So, no new cars today. Not this year. Just keep Ol' Faithful on the road.
Wait 'til you see what's coming next.
Thanks for the write up, Steve! I always appreciate you sharing the fruits of your research.


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London Opera Company to perform Wagner's Die Walküre
Saturday 27th February at 3pm, 2021 at St John's Church, Waterloo, London
The London Opera Company has announced that it will perform a new concert production of Wagner's Die Walküre at St John's Church, Waterloo, London on Saturday 27th February at 3pm, 2021 with a company of top-flight international singers and musicians.
The London Opera Company formed in the summer to give fellow musicians and international opera singers who had lost their work to the pandemic the opportunity to keep performing, and to give music lovers a first class treat after a summer devoid of live concerts.
Last month they performed a sold-out and rapturously received chamber concert of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde at The Warehouse, London.
'Not only was there no weak link in the cast; strength of ensemble and dramatic interaction rendered it considerably more than the sum of its parts' and 'Above all, this was an accomplished and moving company debut.' Quotes from Opera magazine review Nov 2020
Peter Selwyn will be Music Director for this project, and together with Kelvin Lim he will be arranging a version of the opera for two pianos and percussion.
Having assisted on productions of Die Walküre at Bayreuth and Covent Garden, and having also conducted the Jonathan Dove reduction, Peter is now excited by the challenge of conveying the essence of Wagner's powerful and beautiful score on two pianos. Born of the necessity in Covid times of keeping orchestral forces small, the large orchestral moments such as the 'Ride of the Walkyries' and 'Magic Fire' music are ideally suited to 4-handed treatment, and the use of percussion will, both forcefully and subtly, add to the range of colours.
The full cast is:
SIEGMUND – BRIAN SMITH WALTERS
SIEGLINDE- GWENETH-ANN RAND
HUNDING – SIMON WILDING
WOTAN – SIMON THORPE
BRÜNNHILDE-CARA MCHARDY
FRICKA – HARRIET WILLIAMS
GERHILDE – TANYA HURST
ORTLINDE – PHILIPPA BOYLE
HELMWIGE – NATASHA JOUHL
WALTRAUTE – SARAH PRING
SIEGRUNE – CAROLYN DOBBIN
ROSSWEISSE HARRIET WILLIAMS
GRIMGERDE – KATHERINE TAYLOR JONES
SCHWERTLEITE – ANGHARAD LYDDON
Tickets will be on sale from Monday 14th of December via our web page
https://www.thelondonoperacompany.org/
We have set up a fund raiser to appeal for donations towards the cost of putting on our concert. Please find the link below;
https://paypal.me/pools/c/8u5Hsf1jj7
https://www.facebook.com/The-London-Opera-Company-100333018519594/
https://instagram.com/thelondonoperacompany?igshid=6a949cjznjyj


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I am GREATLY relieved to be able to report that I have my cooking mojo back! This week everything I cooked turned out well. In fact better than well. . . it was all downright good!
Monday morning I went out a picked a great assortment of fresh veggies. Spinach, yellow squash and tomatoes shown here. I also trimmed a big basket full of basil and a bunch of onions.
In the fridge there were navy beans from last week, a head of lettuce and a big cucumber that we had gotten at Farmer's Market. It was obviously a Greek salad day.
We are now officially in summer and menus are guided by what I pick on any given more. This morning I had LOTS of basil that was either going to get harvested or bolt. I harvested.
Just so you know, Not everything I try is a success. I know that there are friends that think I am making it up. After all I am a proficient cook with lots of experience and knowledge.
There must be some Italian buried in my genes! It would at least explain why I love pasta so much! When David found out he was gluten intolerant I was pretty sure my life was over. No more pasta??
Fortunately there are a lot of great gluten-free pastas on the market. After trying brown and wild rice, corn and quinoa, we decided we like brown rice best. But if you haven't experiment with the kinds, you owe it to yourself to try.
This is my own version of veggie pasta based very loosely on a similar dish I once ate at California Pizza Kitchen.


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Q: using multiple sprite sheets for same object AndEnginge I have multiple sprite sheets for my object(Parrot) like eating, moving left to right, right to left and much more. I am using AndEngine gles2.0. How should I implement it? every time I have to use different sprite sheet, detach previous one and on same location add new one. This is going to be hectic!
Anyone here who already implemented this kind of scenario? If I use single sprite sheet for every animation it size will increase and it will throw a exception of out of memory!

A: This is my code to perform animations of different sprite sheets.
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I have to deepCopy the selected sprite because if I don't do that it will pass the reference and setVisible(false) and detach will happen on WalkingAnimatedSprite and EatingAnimatedSprite which I don't want in anycase

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Mansfield and Slough will replay their FA Cup first-round tie after a goalless draw at Field Mill.
Slough rode their luck at times as Louis Briscoe spurned a couple of great chances while Lindon Meikle also hit the crossbar for the hosts.
David Woozley's close-range effort for Slough forced a save from Shane Redmond while Briscoe hit wide when one on one.
Matt Green's shot over the bar was the best Town could muster, leaving Slough as the lowest side left in the cup.
"It was wave after wave of attack in the second half. We got a lot of width on the pitch and passed the ball excellently.
"We did hit the target, we hit the crossbar, and I think Matt Green blocked one on the line when it was certain to go in.
"It was a little bit frustrating to be honest."


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World food crisis
Climate change will continue to impact food production in unpredictable ways Low grain reserves—national grain reserve systems were dismantled in the late s. Rebuilding national food economies will require immediate and long-term political commitments from governments. The World Food Conference pledges to eradicate child hunger in 10 years.
The removal of customs duty on rice, salt, dairy-based products and baby foods The removal of value added tax on durum wheat, baby foods, soap and edible oils Establishing negotiated prices with wholesalers for sugar, oil and rice Releasing food stocks Strengthening of community grain banks Food distribution in-kind Reduction of electricity cost, partial payment of World food crisis bills for the poor Enacting special programs for schools and hospitals Fertilizer distribution and production support.
Biofuel subsidies in the US and the EU[ edit ] The World Bank lists the effect of biofuels as an important contributor to higher food prices. The assessment calls on governments for more open markets in biofuels and feedstocks to improve efficiency and lower costs. Policies that curbed overproduction and protected farmers from price swings were replaced by ones that encouraged maximum production and low prices.
And they use less oil, especially if food is traded locally or sub-regionally. Speculation—deregulation and poor oversight have contributed to the speculative bubbles in the futures markets.
The only records obtained are of violence between Portuguese and Africans during the Battle of Mbilwa in Speculation—deregulation and poor oversight have contributed to the speculative bubbles in the futures markets. But when oil shortages and inflation pushed up food prices—provoking widespread hunger abroad—then U.
In the s, despite a downturn in the economy, the Reagan administration cut support for social safety nets, pushing poor people into the street and forcing food banks to turn to the private sector for donations. Food vs fuel One systemic cause for the price rise is held to be the diversion of food crops maize in particular for making first-generation biofuels.
Because many food banks across the nation rely heavily on government surplus, the decline in USDA bonus commodities has pressured them to find alternative suppliers and sources of food.
In these documents the Portuguese wrote of African raids on Portuguese merchants solely for food, giving clear signs of famine. A dozen eggs costs 50 cents more than last year, a loaf of bread, 20 cents more.
The report discusses some existing problems and potential risks and asks the Brazilian government for caution to avoid jeopardizing its environmental and social sustainability.
Halt any expansion of government-supported biofuels programs and immediately revise all renewable fuels mandates, tax incentives, and other subsidies. However, a World Bank policy research working paper released in July [51] says that biofuels have raised food prices between 70 and 75 percent.
Federal support for food banks began during the food crisis of the s as an emergency anti-poverty measure to close what was thought to be a temporary food security gap. The Farm Bill called for a phase-out by Large banks quickly swallowed up small banks.
An account from the First Intermediate Period states, "All of Upper Egypt was dying of hunger and people were eating their children.
The famine in Ethiopia in the s had an immense death toll, although Asian famines of the 20th century have also produced extensive death tolls.
When the price is high, they prefer to sell their grains on the international market. The root cause of the crisis is a global food system that is highly vulnerable to economic and environmental shock.
Deregulation and consolidation both make markets extremely vulnerable to shock. The strong international collaboration network of research and development that spread disease-resistant strains some 40 years ago and started the Green Revolutionknown as CGIARwas since slowly starved of research funds because of its own success and is now too atrophied to swiftly react to the new threat.
When they saw food prices going up, they poured investments into commodities futures, pumping up the price of grains and worsening food price inflation. To solve the food crisis we need to fix the food system. This enables farmers to influence and drive their own development through community-run institutions, bringing food security to their household and region.
A primary cause of the famine one of the largest seen in the country is that Ethiopia and the surrounding Horn was still recovering from the droughts which occurred in the mid-late s.
Food, finance and speculation: Poor weather—back-to-back droughts in major wheat-producing countries in Because nations now depend on the global market for their grains, global reserves are down from to 54 days worldwide.
Another issue with rising affluence in India and China was reducing the "shock absorber" of poor people who are forced to reduce their resource consumption when food prices rise. But according to the FAO, there were record grain harvests in Hundreds of thousands of children became ill, China's milk exports virtually ended, executives and officials were arrested and some executed, and companies went bankrupt.
RFA and the USDA were recently accused of underreporting the number of ethanol plants under construction, so the degree of corporate control may actually be higher.
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The food crisis is a symptom of a food system in crisis. Bad weather, high oil prices, agrofuels, and speculation are only the proximate causes of a deeper, systemic problem.
The root cause of the crisis is a global food system that is highly vulnerable to economic and environmental shock. Watch video · The world currently produces more than enough food to feed everyone, yet million people (roughly 11% of the global population) went hungry in. Conflict and insecurity continued to be the primary drivers of food insecurity in 18 countries, where almost 74 million food-insecure people remain in need of urgent assistance.
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This is a shame because on a country level, the UK has a very healthy degree of multilingualism. There are 56 languages spoken across its lands meaning if we chose to, we could likely learn a new language from someone who speaks a different one.
Ethnologue, the premier authority on languages, has ranked the world's countries based on the number of living languages spoken within its borders. It's important to note that the ranking isn't a measure of multilingualism on a personal level (i.e. the number of people who speak more than one language), rather a count of the number of languages used as a first language in the country.
Papua New Guinea takes the top spot with an overwhelming 839 languages. This diversity is largely explained by the country's topography: deep valleys and unnavigable terrain separated hundreds of different clans for centuries, giving rise to distinct languages and customs. The country has a relatively small population of seven million, which means it is incredibly likely that two randomly selected people will have different mother tongues.
Can you guess which country is the least multilingual? It has only one language within its borders and therefore zero chance that two randomly selected people will have different mother tongues.
NORTH KOREA – which is predictable once you know the answer. This Asian country is notoriously insular with vice-like controls on press, freedom of speech, freedom of movement and freedom of association.
It's not surprising that small countries and islands comprise the rest of the bottom five: British Indian Ocean Territory has one language while Vatican State, Tokelau and San Marino among others have only two. Interestingly, Cuba has only five languages, explained in part by the fact that it's an island nation but perhaps also by its history of political isolation.
The full ranking of multilingual countries is below. 'Total' shows the overall number of languages spoken as a first language in the country. This total is then broken down into indigenous (ind.) and immigrant (imm.) languages.


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YouTube has removed R. Kelly's channels, but people can still listen to his songs on the premium YouTube Music platform
Cheryl Teh
October 6, 2021, 1:40 AM ·2 min read
R. Kelly turns to exit during a 2019 hearing at the Leighton Criminal Court building in Chicago. The singer's tracks are still on platforms like Apple Music and Spotify, but YouTube has removed two channels linked to the R&B singer. Antonio Perez/ via AP Pool
YouTube has removed R. Kelly's channels from its platform.
People attempting to access the R&B singer's YouTube channels on October 5 were greeted with an error message.
Kelly's music is still available on YouTube Music, and on Apple Music and Spotify.
YouTube has removed two channels linked to R&B singer R. Kelly, though his songs can still be accessed on the platform's streaming service, YouTube Music.
R. Kelly - whose real name is Robert Sylvester Kelly - was found guilty and convicted of federal racketeering and sex-trafficking charges in September after five weeks of testimonies and 10 hours of deliberation from the jury. He now faces life in prison.
The singer made it big in the 1990s with hit songs like "I Believe I Can Fly." But YouTube has now made moves to remove him from its platform entirely.
"Egregious actions committed by R. Kelly warrant penalties beyond standard enforcement measures due to a potential to cause widespread harm. Ultimately we are taking this action to protect our users similar to other platforms," said a memo by YouTube's head of legal, Nicole Alston, as seen by Bloomberg.
At press time, Insider saw that both YouTube channels related to Kelly, R. Kelly TV and R. Kelly Vevo, had been taken offline. At midnight on October 5, both channels displayed the message noting that they were "terminated for a violation of YouTube's Terms of Service." An hour later, attempts to access both channels' webpages were greeted with the message: "This page isn't available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else."
However, the singer's tracks were still available on YouTube Music. User-created content like covers of the singer's music were still up on YouTube, too.
According to Bloomberg, YouTube in 2018 also removed a channel linked to Larry Nassar, a disgraced USA gymnastics doctor who was sentenced to 175 years in prison for sexually abusing seven girls.
Kelly's music is still available on music streaming sites like Spotify and Apple Music.
In 2018, Spotify removed Kelly from its playlists under its "Hate Content & Hateful Conduct" policy. However, the policy was reversed after just three weeks. The platform then rolled out a new function in 2019, that allowed users to mute the singer themselves.
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Tag: violence
Household debt and political stability
Is there a connection?
Here's an hypothesis. If you have empirical evidence to support or oppose it please share.
Author Nitin PaiPosted on 4th April 2011 Categories Economy, SecurityTags debt, Economy, political violence, revolution, violence1 Comment on Household debt and political stability
The grammar of anarchy challenges the idea of India
The right to protest does not imply that the protests are right
K Subrahmanyam's piece warning against giving in to separatist demands makes a very important point—the tendency to tolerate and appease those who take to the streets to press their demands.
But the challenge facing India is whether we try to set right our governance and improve it or yield to the protesters. Disruption is being made part of India's political culture by most of our political parties.
Not only Kashmir, but violent agitations elsewhere pose a challenge to the idea of India. The country has to seek a comprehensive strategy to deal with this challenge. Yielding to the Kashmiri secessionists is not a solution. It would be the end of the concept of India. [TOI]
Once the 'grammar of anarchy' is accepted as legitimate, accommodating the demands of those who use it—whether it is the Gujjars of Rajasthan, the Amarnath Samiti of Jammu or the Communists in various parts of the country—becomes merely a matter of rationalisation. Any number of principles can be trotted out for the purpose. Shouldn't those who support yielding to separatist demands in Kashmir also support reservations as demanded by the Gujjars and oppose reservations as demanded by Youth For Equality? Does drawing the bigger, louder, angrier, more violent crowd help reconcile such opposing demands?
This is more than just about Jammu & Kashmir. It's about the model that Indians accept as the way to reconcile the diverse interests of a diverse population. Mobs, general strikes and public demonstrations might be legitimate means for citizens to express their opinions. But this does not mean that society—and certainly not the government—should accept demands made in this manner. Here the media deserves a share of the blame: the profusion of media outlets has encouraged the tendency of "camera-friendly" agitations—remember Rage Boy—which in turn are blown out of proportion by breathless on-scene reporters and shouting anchors.
Related Link: The inaugural editorial of Pragati; and Harsh Khare calls for "a fundamentalist belief in the curative power of Indian democracy" (linkthanks Anand Sampath).
Author Nitin PaiPosted on 23rd August 2008 23rd August 2008 Categories Public Policy, SecurityTags Constitution, democracy, home affairs, India, political violence, terrorism, violence17 Comments on The grammar of anarchy challenges the idea of India
And who will do the protecting?
Amnesty International sounds like Al Qaeda
Mukul Sharma, of Amnesty International, does the Amnesty International thing in the Hindu. Terror must be countered with justice he writes, which is all very fine. But Mr Sharma is also against special laws that can used to bring terrorists to justice. All he has to say is:
The only way people can be protected — from both governments and suicide bombers — is to treat every single human being as possessing fundamental rights that no government, group or individual may ever justifiably take away. Human rights are grounded in fundamental values that create 'no go areas' — acts that one human being must never do to another. [The Hindu]
And who can disagree with that? But Mr Sharma doesn't say who it is that should do the protecting, the government or the suicide bombers? If indeed the government should do this, it must bring the terrorists to justice, for which it not only needs laws, but needs to carry out investigations today, not at an ideal time when law enforcement agencies are perfect.
But then, Mr Sharma comes out against forceful investigations because of "the actions of certain groups and individuals, entire communities are being viewed with suspicion…If whole communities are antagonised and alienated by the security forces using terror, aren't those communities more likely to respond with supporting the use of violence?" That's a series of specious arguments—it is not reasonable to contend that a government of a multi-religious state can investigate and fight terrorism born of Islamic radicalism without antagonising a proportion of the Muslim community. Defeating Khalistani terrorism involved antagonising many Sikhs. Fighting ULFA antagonises many Assamese. Fighting LTTE antagonises some Tamils. The question Mr Sharma must answer is whether the cause of human rights is served by setting aside the pursuit of justice just because it would cause this antagonism?
The second specious argument, and a more egregious one, is that it is somehow justifiable for "antagonised and alienated" communities to respond with violence. So just how different is Amnesty International from Al Qaeda, then? "If governments abandon the rule of law and use methods of terror," Mr Sharma asks, "then won't groups fighting governments feel justified in using methods of terror themselves?" That's an explicit apology for terrorism and political violence, disguised though it is as a rhetorical question. Neither jihadi groups nor Naxalites really need external justification for their violence. Armed struggle is a core belief. So passing off terrorism as a "reaction" to some failing of the government is wrong, and even if were right, cannot be morally justified.
The case for human rights is built on a bedrock of morality, so it is not least paradoxical that an organisation claiming to defend those rights can throw up arguments based on vacuous morality.
Related posts: After terrorists, their apologists strike
Author Nitin PaiPosted on 27th May 2008 27th May 2008 Categories SecurityTags apologists, charlatans, Constitution, human rights, India, jihadis, terrorism, violence28 Comments on And who will do the protecting?
There are alternatives to Naxalism
…and armed struggle is blocking out conventional political movements
The recent post and op-ed on Naxalites and human rights sparked a good debate. It is also a timely and important one. Yesterday, Gautam Sen posted a longish entry on his blog responding to some of the issues raised last week. It is a well-composed post, not least because it reserves such delectable phrases as "the laptop bombardiers for India Shining" to describe Offstumped, and just perhaps, The Acorn. While Yossarin will certainly love that description, Mr Sen can rest assured that the only "alignment" between the Indian National Interest and the Nixon Center is on Realism in international affairs. [And ironically, Realism suggests that there are no permanent "alignments" between nations, only permanent interests.]
Mr Sen correctly notes that the main issue is about the state's "normative legitimate monopoly on violence". He then goes on to ask why the State has this monopoly and what kinds of violence can it employ. These questions have unambiguous answers. First, the State has the monopoly over violence as part of a grand contract between citizens—who give up some of their individual freedom in order to enjoy the security (a public good) that the State provides. Without security and law & order, society follows the 'rule of the jungle', matsya-nyaya, or law of the fish, in Ancient Indian parlance [1, 2]. The Indian State's monopoly over violence, therefore, safeguards equality and creates the necessary conditions for human development. Morally, the nature of the State is important in the context of the monopoly over violence, but we are dealing with India, a constitutional democracy. Yes it's imperfect, except for the alternatives.
Second, what kinds of violence can it employ? Only those authorised by the Constitution and the laws that follow from it. But what if it exceeds its brief? Well, both unconstitutional laws and unconstitutional acts by state officials can and should be challenged in court. And such challenges are fairly common in the Indian context. Mr Sen's feeling that "Pai doesn't want to constrain the hands of the state in the exercise of its legitimate right to violence" is misplaced. It may be that he didn't notice the condemnation of the extra-constitutional militia and the restrictions on press freedom—in the post, in the op-ed and in the link to March 2006 post. "In principle" The Acorn argued two years ago, "maintenance of law and order is the government's responsibility. It cannot outsource back to the citizens what citizens outsourced to it in the first place…It is naive to think that a society, especially one outside the mainstream, will be able to (turn) swords into ploughshares on its own, or that the government will be able to persuade it to do so. Tribal militias may show effective results in the short-term. But in the longer term, they are likely to become part of a larger problem."
Mr Sen then goes on to ask why "Pai never (concerns) himself with what causes the violence, either by the state, or by non-state actors?" On the contrary, Pai does, perhaps obsessively. But he does not accept explanations that suggest that a "rape victim, dispossessed tribal or bullied villager" will automatically join an armed movement against the state. Only an extreme degree of frustration causes people to resort to violence. And even then, the violence is local and targeted against immediate perpetrators of injustice. It takes something else to mobilise this into an "armed struggle" against the state. For someone who claims he does not support the Maoists, it is strange that Mr Sen cannot see the difference between local disaffection, even violence; and people's war.
It is from this point onwards in Mr Sen's post that the moral relativism and moral equivalence begins to creep in. In a bizarre rhetorical question, he asks "But from whom would you reasonably expect a greater responsibility in upholding law and order—the state, or those who fight it?" We should expect no responsibility in upholding law & order from the Naxalites, and entirely by the state. Not for a single instant have I expected otherwise. But that's not the issue. The point I made was that human rights activists must be alive to the context.
Activists who criticise only the state and spare the Maoists cannot be taken seriously. But those who "abhor violence of all kinds – both by Naxalites and the state" are freeriders at best and hypocrites at worst: for they use the very security that the state provides (through its monopoly over violence) to condemn it. It is entirely possible for reasonable people to agree that the methods used by the state are wrong, but it is entirely another matter for us to condemn the state for using force to ensure internal security. Does Mr Sen not know that "armed struggle" is not merely a tactic for the Naxalites, but central to their dogma? They differ from your garden-variety Communists in the sense that they believe violence is the only way. Say hello to Mao Zedong and Pol Pot.
It is in his final sentence that Mr Sen unambiguously justifies Naxalism: "so while I find the methods of the maoists morally abhorrent because they cause violence and suffering, I wonder what one is supposed to do when the institutional or legal alternatives to violence are so weak, scarce and ineffective?" Mr Sen either lacks imagination or is fatally seduced by Maoism, for he somehow cannot see alternatives. He makes two immense leaps of logic: first, that those with grievances must resort to violence, and second, that the violence must take the form of a mandatory armed revolution. This, in a country like India, which demonstrated that non-violence can defeat a superpower. This, in a country like India, where elected dictatorships were brought down by electoral politics and non-violent struggle. This, in a country like India, where leaders like EV Ramaswamy Naicker and Mayawati have demonstrated how conventional political mobilisation can upturn the status quo. [Also this, in a country like India, where not a single armed struggle has actually succeeded.]
If Mr Sen is genuinely concerned about the oppressed he would do well to realise that it is the Naxalites and their uncompromising insistence on violence that is standing in the way of democratic political mobilisation. As long as it is the Naxalites that mobilise popular disaffection, and not conventional political parties, the people are condemned to their oppression. Surely, right thinking people like Mr Sen would not want that?
Author Nitin PaiPosted on 9th March 2008 9th March 2008 Categories Public Policy, SecurityTags Chattisgarh, Communists, Constitution, debate, democracy, India, insurgency, Left, Maoism, Naxalites, violence14 Comments on There are alternatives to Naxalism
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Just wondering so I can schedule time off.
I am up for another one at my place! How is August for the peeps???
thats a long ride. I hope that I can bring home some nice fish.
First of all "I really appreciate you coming forward to host again". I really hope to be there this time as I couldnt make it last year.
I've talked with Al about having it at my place. I'm happy to go to your's, though, Rod.
Same here! Just offering in case we need a host, will gladly drive up instead, August is great for me!
conneticut would be better for my wife and I but we will go anywhere.
I'm about 10 minutes from Ct.
Whoops...I dropped the ball on this one , Sorry Martha, I was supposed to get back to you and it slipped my mind..... I'm glad to see the interest so far everyone. Martha or Rods works for me......or we can do Martha's in summer and Rods in The Fall? :) All good for me.
My weekends are getting pretty tight in August, How about August 6th?
Martha, your call since I always believe in ladies first.
I'd like to have it on the 6th, if that's ok Rod. My place smacks of summer party atmosphere and the roads can be difficult in the winter. Evelyn, I have a very nice futon and you (and hubby, if he comes) are welcome to stay on it. How 'bout some party games?! We could play "Who can mow the most in an hour" and "the Hundred meter weeding contest." We could break up in teams and play "Who can stack a cord of wood the quickest"! It wil be such fun!
I am in... I have no experience with lawn mowing though..
I will have to check with the hubby and see what his plans are. Just to clarify, 6th August? That looks like the upcoming 6th on a Saturday.
Just to clarify, 6th August? That looks like the upcoming 6th on a Saturday.
Sorry we are going to Martha! How about you drive up to my house and I'll drive from here?
Rods place and I think I could make it. Upper NE is just to far for me to drive. EdSame for me.
just thought i'd get this going again. Is anyone bringing any fish to the meeting?
Is anyone bringing any fish to the meeting?
These two are just babes, though, so early days. I got them from Al when he hosted the NEDA in Nov. This is their third spawn, first one in their own tank. I'll have some cherry shrimp and, hopefully, a few sterbai corys. I'm hoping others will have discus. I have oxygen if someone wants to bring some fish and needs to rebag.
martha if it is hard for you to get I can bring some 02. we have a huge supply at the ambulance garage. I would be more than happy to bring some.
Thanks - I already have it.
Where is your place Martha? Mary and I are looking good for 6 August.
That's great! 228 Munn Rd. Monson, Ma. I'm up against a state forest, so if people want to camp out in my back yard/woods, they are welcome to. I have a tent, sleeping bag and pad someone can borrow.
What - California is so far?
We could play "Who can mow the most in an hour"
:laugh: I'll have to factor in a handicap! Nice to hear from you, Mark. Does this mean you will be coming?
WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN. Missed seeing you around....hope everything is okay?
Awww...I was hoping to make it this summer. We will be at the cape. Maybe Fall.
Dang.. Aug 6th does not work for me.. Darn it.. Looks like I will miss it. I will be in the Toronto area that weekend attending a wedding. Have fun guys. Will C U in the fall.
I know.. I am going there to personally warn them for the act.


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Obama 'disappointed' in court's voting rights decision
President Obama says he's "deeply disappointed" with Tuesday's Supreme Court decision striking down a provision of the Voting Rights Act, and called on Congress to revamp the law.
The ruling "upsets decades of well-established practices that help make sure voting is fair, especially in places where voting discrimination has been historically prevalent," said the nation's first African-American president in a written statement.
Obama also called on Congress to pass a new provision of the law requiring federal preclearance of election plans in states and jurisdictions with a history of discrimination.
"While today's decision is a setback, it doesn't represent the end of our efforts to end voting discrimination," Obama said.
STORY: Supreme Court limits key part of Voting Rights Act
Vice President Biden also voiced disappointment with the high court ruling, saying that "voting is a fundamental right" and "voting discrimination still exists."
Speaking at a White House event on raising the minimum wage, Biden said "we're going to work with Congress" on revamping the Voting Rights Act.
Attorney General Eric Holder also weighed in, calling the decision "a serious setback for voting rights."
Obama's full statement:
"I am deeply disappointed with the Supreme Court's decision today.
"For nearly 50 years, the Voting Rights Act -- enacted and repeatedly renewed by wide bipartisan majorities in Congress -- has helped secure the right to vote for millions of Americans.
"Today's decision invalidating one of its core provisions upsets decades of well-established practices that help make sure voting is fair, especially in places where voting discrimination has been historically prevalent.
"As a nation, we've made a great deal of progress towards guaranteeing every American the right to vote. But, as the Supreme Court recognized, voting discrimination still exists.
"And while today's decision is a setback, it doesn't represent the end of our efforts to end voting discrimination.
"I am calling on Congress to pass legislation to ensure every American has equal access to the polls. My Administration will continue to do everything in its power to ensure a fair and equal voting process."


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Advice? I don't have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you're writing, you're a writer. Write like you're a goddamn death row inmate and the governor is out of the country and there's no chance for a pardon. Write like you're clinging to the edge of a cliff, white knuckles, on your last breath, and you've got just one last thing to say, like you're a bird flying over us and you can see everything, and please, for God's sake, tell us something that will save us from ourselves. Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone. Write like you have a message from the king. Or don't. Who knows, maybe you're one of the lucky ones who doesn't have to."
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Mysterious stone figures found on Orkney
by Richard Moss, 9-12-19 Post
One of the figurines discovered at Finstown, Orkney after cleaning. Courtesy ORCA Archaeology
Orkney archaeologists unearth a fascinating series of anthropomorphic stones…
Each year the ongoing archaeological excavations on Orkney bring more insight into the multi-layered history of an archipelago in the Northern Isles of Scotland that boasts a story of human occupation stretching back over 8,000 years to the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods.
The latest find to emerge from the depths of Orkney's rich pre-history is a series of remarkable half-metre tall stone-carved objects found hidden inside a former dwelling on the site of a proposed electrical substation in Finstown.
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After digging through sixty centimetres of an old domestic dump or 'midden', archaeologists from the Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology (ORCA) found a series of carved stones, some of which look remarkably like stylised representations of the human form.
Others look more like stones set upright into the floor of a Bronze Age building that was excavated by at the famous Links of Noltland site in Westray, which dates from about 3300 BC to 800 BC. These may have been used to tie mooring ropes onto, to help hold the roof on.
Little and Large: Two of the figurines before cleaning. Courtesy ORCA Archaeology. Orkney.
One of the figurines in situ next to the hearth. Finstown. Courtesy ORCA Archaeology. Orkney.
The carved stones were found scattered around a hearth within the remains of an enigmatic structure that contained three cists, two hearths and a partial ring of holes packed with broken off upstanding stones.
Three of the roughly carved figures were also important enough to the people who used the building to be incorporated within the structure of one of the hearths and in the foundations of one of the standing stones. However the purpose of the building and how it was used by the inhabitants of this site four thousand years ago is still an enigma.
This find adds to a tradition of rare pre-historic figurative art on Orkney, which includes the 5,000-year-old Neolithic female figurine known variously as the "Westray Wifie" or the "Orkney Venus", found at the Links of Noltland in 2009 and now displayed at Westray Heritage Centre, together with other finds from the archipelago.
Firmly dating the necked stones found at Finstown will however require further work, since they have also been found on Iron Age sites in Orkney. On initial evidence archaeologists think they could date to around the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age, roughly 2000BC.
Identifying the purpose of the stones, and whether they are indeed figurines, will also require further work, with a close study for abrasion, wear and any other marks on the anthropomorphic objects, but archaeologists are already hailing them as a very important find.
Finstown Figurine following removal from ground, but prior to cleaning. Courtesy ORCA Archaeology.
One of the figurines after cleaning. Courtesy ORCA Archaeology
Detail of the 'heads' of two figurines unearthed at Finstown Orkney. Courtesy ORCA Archaeology.
"This is a significant discovery in Orkney and probably within North West Europe," says Professor Colin Richards from the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute. "It is very rare to find representations of people in prehistoric Orkney and when found, they are usually individual or in very small groups.
"If they are figurines, to find nine figures within one structure is very exciting and together with the archaeology found at this site has the potential to add to our understanding of Orcadian society in prehistory."
The ORCA Archaeology team were also intrigued to uncover direct signs of people working the land some four thousand years ago at the site. In one of the trenches, long marks were found cut into the clay subsoil, which were made by ards (stone plough shares) providing valuable evidence for prehistoric farming in Orkney. These forms of prehistoric ploughs were constructed of wood with a stone shaped into a rough point placed into the wood to plough the soil ready for planting. The lines cross each other at various angles further suggesting that the ground was cultivated by intensively criss-crossing with the ard point by these early Orkney farmers.
Taken together with the remnants of the Early Neolithic and Bronze Age settlement structures the marks offer archaeologists a tantalising insight into the lives of Orkney residents who were living, farming and burying their dead across this windswept hillside.
The exploratory trenches at Finstown have now been recorded and covered over, while the significant artefacts are now cleaned and stored for future study.
Ard point marks, Finstown, Orkney. Courtesy ORCA Archaeology.
The Notland Carving commonly known as 'the Westwray Wifie' can be seen at Westwray Heritage Centre. Copyright Historic Scotland
Find out more about the work of ORCA archaeologists at www.uhi.ac.uk/en/archaeology-institute/
Follow the history of Orkney on this excellent website www.orkneyjar.com/
Westray Heritage Centre
Westray, Orkney Islands
We are situated in the centre of Pierowall village in Westray next door to the Pierowall Hotel. Inside we have an annual display plus permanent exhibition panels on walls, and GEO with model seabirds and sounds. There are also interactive displays which will attract youngsters, many records of the island's…
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Exploring Alsace by bike
Pedalling back through time
Alsace is an extraordinary region. After centuries of military feuding and war between France and Germany, you could say it's a region with a split personality. Better though, to view it as a region that blends the best of both in its culture, food, wine and general attitudes to life.
In the French manner, Alsatians have a deep love of food and an eye for the elegant. Like the Germans, their villages, chocolate box houses and profusions of hanging baskets are kept immaculately neat and tidy, in keeping with all the usual stereotypes.
As a region, Alsace is all too often overlooked by Brits – perhaps as being 'neither France nor Germany'. But this charming corner of France offers something truly different to anywhere else in France.
The classic Alsace terrain is to be found broadly from Strasbourg in the north to Colmar to the south and it borders the Rhine and Germany's Black Forest with the foothills of the Vosges tempting you to explore ancient forests, fairy-tale castles and incredible views.
Largely agricultural, dotted with impossibly picturesque villages with quaint half-timbered houses, bedecked with flowers in summer and offering a huge choice of hostelries and restaurants, this is magnificent cycling country. What a place to jump on a bike and enjoy some gentle pedalling, seemingly back through time itself.
There are all manner of reasons to do so. Here are a few of our favourites.
The grape harvest, or vendange, is always a big draw – think timeless scenes of busy workers toiling among the vines to bring in the masses of ripe grapes in a labour of love. As the wine is pressed, the smell of fermenting juice permeates every village and greets you around every corner and over the brow of every hill.
More prosaically, the Alsace cabbage harvest is no less important to many communities, indeed to Alsace regional identity. The story goes that pickled cabbage came to Alsace courtesy of the Huns, whose leader, Attila, headed west after coming up against the Great Wall in China. There the culinary process proved invaluable in inhospitable surroundings and was transported east to west by the marauders.
Route du Vin
The Alsace Wine Route stretches for 170 km and links fascinating vineyards and delightful scenery. The route winds around the Vosges, follows former railway tracks, stretches of Roman road and paths running through the vineyards.
The region is noted primarily for its white wines: fresh, fruity, crisp and zingy. They are aromatic and mostly dry, from the everyday value of the Pinot Blanc, through flinty Rieslings which can attain star quality to the Alsace classic Gewürtztraminer, uniquely spicy and capable of being one of the world's great wines, given a good vintage and expert vinification.
The sparkling Crémant d'Alsace is refreshing and zippy, made in the Champagne method. And yes, some reds are produced, though the northerly location restricts the ripening process so Alsace reds are typically light in body though juicy and refreshing.
Memorable cycle routes
Alsace features a wide range of cycling routes from tracks and paths, some running along canals, to roads varying from the moderately busy to the near-empty. As you'd expect, the distances between vineyards are not far and are usually rolling hills so expect some degree of modest endeavour, though hopefully not for long!
Wonderful cuisine
There is life beyond cabbage and Alsatian cuisine lifts the humble cabbage to sublime levels. Notably choucroute, usually accompanied by boiled potatoes and typically sausages or other meats. The flamekuche is almost a pizza, thin, crispy and with a variety of toppings.
Alsace is a paradise for hefty puddings, perfect for cyclists with cycling to do the next day. Look out for Kugelhopf, a cake featuring raisins, almonds and brandy – perhaps not ahead of a few hours pedalling though. On a more healthy level, look out for all kinds of mountain fruits, such as blueberries and plums, including the famous yellow Mirabelle (often featured in a fiery, warming digestif).
Alsace does Christmas, and especially Christmas markets, on an epic scale. Towns and villages are transformed into fairy-tale settings, with sparkling lights, fragrant spices hanging in the air and all kinds of traditional activities and festive food and drink on offer. Wandering around the ancient village centres you are transported back several centuries in an eerie, glittery time-warp.
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customers is enough incentive for the parties involved to "figure it out".
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each other. That would not necessarily preclude the current peering dispute.
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Q: Alternative expression that will always return true I am trying to build a dynamic Expression<Func<User, bool>> to use in MongoDB LINQ Where query filter.
I am building the expression dynamically using if-else blocks and combining the expressions using Albahari's PredicateBuilder.And() (http://www.albahari.com/nutshell/predicatebuilder.aspx).
Using PredicateBuilder.True<T>() among these AND blocks causes the MongoDB LINQ translator to throw this exception:
Unsupported filter: Invoke(f => True, {document}).

In what other expression format can I express user=>true kind of logic so that MongoDB LINQ provider will accept it?
Note: I tried using
return Expression.Lambda(Expression.Constant(true), Expression.Parameter(type, "_"));
which I saw in another SO post (https://stackoverflow.com/a/36773532/10811808) but I don't know how to convert this ConstantExpression to Expression>.


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Gabby is a short-lived Max Fleischer animated cartoon series distributed through Paramount Pictures. Gabby debuted as the town crier in the 1939 animated feature Gulliver's Travels produced by Fleischer. Shortly afterward, Paramount and Fleischer gave Gabby his own Technicolor spinoff cartoon series, eight entries of which were produced between 1940 and 1941. Gabby was voiced by Pinto Colvig, the voice of Walt Disney's Goofy, and Grumpy and Sleepy from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Jack Mercer (the voice of Popeye and King Little, Sneak, Snoop, Snitch, and Twinkle Toes in Gulliver's Travels) was regularly cast alongside  Colvig, as either a king, mayor, snitch, fish, castle worker, fire fighter, or sometimes even as Gabby's humming.

The Gabby cartoons were sold to U.M. & M. TV Corporation in 1955, which later became part of National Telefilm Associates, which became Republic Pictures, and was then sold to Paramount's current parent ViacomCBS (now currently renamed and rebranded as Paramount Global) in 1999. Today, the Gabby cartoons are in the public domain. For official releases, the cartoons are currently syndicated on television by Trifecta Entertainment & Media (inherited from CBS Television Distribution and other companies), original distributor Paramount owns the theatrical rights, and Olive Films owns the DVD rights. However, most Gabby cartoons can be found in faded public domain television prints, usually featuring National Telefilm Associates openings.

Filmography

References

External links
 Gabby at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on July 31, 2016.

Fleischer Studios series and characters
Television series by U.M. & M. TV Corporation
Film series introduced in 1940
Animated film series

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from __future__ import unicode_literals

import django.contrib.auth.validators
from django.db import migrations, models

class Migration(migrations.Migration):

    dependencies = [
        ('focus', '0001_initial'),
    ]

    operations = [
        migrations.AlterField(
            model_name='newuser',
            name='username',
            field=models.CharField(error_messages={'unique': 'A user with that username already exists.'}, help_text='Required. 150 characters or fewer. Letters, digits and @/./+/-/_ only.', max_length=150, unique=True, validators=[django.contrib.auth.validators.ASCIIUsernameValidator()], verbose_name='username'),
        ),
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Q: Configuring IIS 7.5 to be FIPS 140.2 compliant I need to configure IIS 7.5 (Server 2008 R2) to be FIPS 140.2 compliant.
Specifically, this involves disabling all SSL protocols other than TLS 1.0.
I have set the following registry keys:
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurityProviders\SCHANNEL\Protocols\SSL 2.0\Server
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurityProviders\SCHANNEL\Protocols\SSL 3.0\Server
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurityProviders\SCHANNEL\Protocols\PCT 1.0\Server

to Enabled(DWORD) = 0 as per this KB, but SSL Labs' checker says "SSL 2.0+ Upgrade Support" is enabled. (Everything other than that and TLS 1.0 is not available, so we're getting somewhere). It also says "FIPS ready - no" - presumably because SSL 2.0+ Upgrade Support is still enabled.
serversniff.net says SSL 2.0 is turned off, and doesn't say anything about SSL 2.0+ Upgrade Support. Could this be an anomaly with SSL Labs' checker?

A: It means that the server supports SSLv2 handshake, even though it may
not support SSLv2 itself. Essentially it's an optimization. Instead of
a client first requesting SSLv2 (with a SSLv2 handshake) and failing
(if the server does not support it), then having to request SSLv3 or
better (with a SSLv3 handshake), the client can use the SSLv2
handshake to indicate support for newer protocols.
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=20100629171623.43012oj4b2hgrzi8%40webmail.mxes.net&forum_name=ssllabs-discuss

A: You can confirm that it is an issue with the SSL Labs Checker by changing the configuration in your browser to only accept SSL 2.0. If you can connect to your site, then SSL 2.0 is still enabled. Otherwise, it is disabled.

A: A company called Nartac software makes a free IIS Crypto configuration tool that can be used to enable/disable protocols and cipher suites in IIS on Windows 2003, 2008 and 2012. It also comes with templates for configuring IIS to be FIPS 140.2 compliant, integrates with the Qualys SSL site analyzer for testing public urls, and has a list of other validation tools that can be used to validate internal sites.


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// <copyright file="BlockingMessageQueue.cs" company="Akka.NET Project">
//     Copyright (C) 2009-2016 Lightbend Inc. <http://www.lightbend.com>
//     Copyright (C) 2013-2016 Akka.NET project <https://github.com/akkadotnet/akka.net>
// </copyright>
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------

using System;
using System.Threading;
using Akka.Actor;

namespace Akka.Dispatch.MessageQueues
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Base class for blocking message queues. Allows non thread safe data structures to be used as message queues.
    /// </summary>
    public abstract class BlockingMessageQueue : IMessageQueue, IBlockingMessageQueueSemantics
    {
        private readonly object _lock = new object();
        private TimeSpan _blockTimeOut = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1);
        /// <summary>
        /// TBD
        /// </summary>
        protected abstract int LockedCount { get; }

        /// <summary>
        /// TBD
        /// </summary>
        public TimeSpan BlockTimeOut
        {
            get { return _blockTimeOut; }
            set { _blockTimeOut = value; }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// TBD
        /// </summary>
        public bool HasMessages
        {
            get { return Count > 0; }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// TBD
        /// </summary>
        public int Count
        {
            get
            {
                Monitor.TryEnter(_lock, BlockTimeOut);
                try
                {
                    return LockedCount;
                }
                finally
                {
                    Monitor.Exit(_lock);
                }
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// TBD
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="receiver">TBD</param>
        /// <param name="envelope">TBD</param>
        public void Enqueue(IActorRef receiver, Envelope envelope)
        {
            Monitor.TryEnter(_lock, BlockTimeOut);
            try
            {
                LockedEnqueue(envelope);
            }
            finally
            {
                Monitor.Exit(_lock);
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// TBD
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="envelope">TBD</param>
        /// <returns>TBD</returns>
        public bool TryDequeue(out Envelope envelope)
        {
            Monitor.TryEnter(_lock, BlockTimeOut);
            try
            {
                return LockedTryDequeue(out envelope);
            }
            finally
            {
                Monitor.Exit(_lock);
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// TBD
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="owner">TBD</param>
        /// <param name="deadletters">TBD</param>
        /// <returns>TBD</returns>
        public void CleanUp(IActorRef owner, IMessageQueue deadletters)
        {
            Envelope msg;
            while (TryDequeue(out msg)) // lock gets acquired inside the TryDequeue method
            {
                deadletters.Enqueue(owner, msg);
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// TBD
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="envelope">TBD</param>
        protected abstract void LockedEnqueue(Envelope envelope);

        /// <summary>
        /// TBD
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="envelope">TBD</param>
        /// <returns>TBD</returns>
        protected abstract bool LockedTryDequeue(out Envelope envelope);
    }
}


Together with the whole international community, we are deeply shocked by the series of terrorist attacks in Paris and Beirut that resulted in the deaths and injuries of hundreds of innocent people. We strongly condemn this act of barbarity on an unprecedented scale.
Once again we strongly emphasize that terrorism is a fundamental threat to the peace and tranquility of society. Those acts of terrorism cannot be justified by any reason and shouldn't be condoned by any group whatsoever.
We offer the families of the victims and the people of France and Lebanon our heartfelt condolences. We wish those injured a speedy recovery and pray for peace, unity and patience between communities around the world. We call upon everyone to stand together with solidarity and united against such murderous acts.


What is Gnostic Demiurge? The term Demiurge derives from the ancient Greek "demiourgos" (latinized demiurgus), meaning "artisan" or "craftsman". In various belief systems this is a deity responsible for the creation of the physical universe. The term occurs most notably Platonism and Gnosticism. The precise nature and character of the Demiurge however varies from a benign architect of matter in some, to the personification of evil in others.
Plato refers to the Demiurge frequently in the Timaeus as the entity who "fashioned and shaped" the material world. Plato describes the Demiurge as unreservedly good and hence desirous of a world as good as possible. The world remains allegedly imperfect because the Demiurge had to work on pre-existing chaotic matter. Christianity and Judaism claim "God" the Creator is good, but Christians claim the soul is corrupt due to the sin of Adam. Gnosticism is another matter. Plato had no such concept.


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Can I repay my account early?
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APR stands for Annual Percentage Rate and it is a legal requirement of all companies to display their APR on advertising and websites etc. APR shows how much money you would pay on a loan over a period of one year. Even if the term of a loan is 15 weeks the APR still has to be displayed, this is why some APR's look extremely high….. The shorter the term of the loan, the higher the APR.
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Greater Washington DC Area Physiological Society
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Matthew Barberio, PhD
Matthew Barberio is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences at George Washington University. He joined APS in 2009 as a graduate student in the School of Kinesiology at Auburn University where he earned his Ph.D. 2013. He was a NRSA T32 Postdoctoral Fellow at CNMC in the Genomics of Skeletal Muscle training program using transcriptomics and epigenomics to study molecular modifications of adipose and skeletal muscle tissue during disease and lifestyle interventions. He was also funded by the American Heart Association studying the epigenetics of macrophage cholesterol homeostasis in youths with obesity. Matt became involved in the Greater Washington DC Area Physiological Society in 2016, served as the Annual Meeting Program Chair in 2017, and Vice President 2018-2019. He looks forward to help diversify the physiology topics at the dmvCAPS Annual Meeting, and increasing the opportunity for new and young investigators to highlight their work.
Email me: mbarberio@gwu.edu
Jeremy Smyth, PhD
Jeremy Smyth an Assistant Professor at the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, MD. His research seeks to understand the role of intracellular calcium physiology in human health and disease, and his lab uses a variety of approaches including mammalian cell culture and Drosophila genetics. Dr. Smyth has been involved with dmvCAPS since 2018, and, as Vice President, will be working to plan engaging meetings with opportunities for trainees to present and network.
Email me: jeremy.smyth@usuhs.edu
Danielle Kirkman, PhD
Danielle Kirkman is an assistant professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Sciences. She earned her PhD in Clinical Exercise Physiology from Bangor University in Wales, UK and completed postdoctoral training at the University of Delaware. Her research is focused on integrative physiology at the nexus of cardiovascular and renal health. Specifically, her work investigates the underlying physiological mechanisms involved cardiorenal syndrome. She aims to identify novel treatment targets and implement interventions that may have a direct clinical impact (through improving exercise tolerance and quality of life) and a disease modifying impact (by way of preventing or slowing the progression of cardiovascular and/or renal disease).
Email me: dlkirkman@vcu.edu
Thomas Flagg, PhD
Thomas Flagg has been a member of the APS off & on since 1996 when he was a graduate student in the Department of Physiology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. While there, he completed his thesis project in the lab of Dr. Paul A. Welling, where he characterized the effects of Bartter's disease-associated mutations on the function of the ROMK1 (Kir1.1a) inward rectifying potassium channel. He went on to postdoctoral training in the lab of Dr. Colin G. Nichols at Washington University in St. Louis. It was here that he developed his interest in cardiomyocyte physiology, metabolism and the structure and function of the ATP-sensitive potassium channel (KATP). In 2008, he joined the faculty at the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, MD. Current work in his lab is focused on studying epigenetic mechanisms that determine when and where KATP subunits are expressed in the heart. He is also actively involved in helping to develop and advance medical physiology education in an integrated curriculum with a particular focus on developing laboratory exercises and interactive learning tools for students.
Email me: thomas.flagg@usuhs.edu
Courtney Petersen
Graduate Student Representative
Courtney Petersen is a fifth year student in the Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB) program at Uniformed Services University (USU), studying calcium dynamics in Drosophila heart physiology. At USU, she has served as the MCB program representative on the graduate student council and the founder of the Biomedical Educators student interest group. She has participated in dmvCAPS meetings since 2017, looks forward to participating as a member of the Executive Committee.
Email me: courtney.petersen.ctr@usuhs.edu
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Third quarter gold demand fell 10% to 992.8 tonnes (t). While this was the lowest quarter since Q2 2015, year-to-date demand is up 7%. Many of the themes present in H1 continued into Q3: Political and economic uncertainty continued to fuel ETF inflows, especially in Europe, while the sharp year-to-date price rise (+20%) continues to squeeze consumer demand, especially in Asian markets.
ETPs excel: ETPs were the only area of growth with inflows of 145.6t. Investors in Europe, faced with a busy, and potentially disruptive, political agenda in 2017, led demand in the sector. investors added significantly to their strategic holdings (+145.6t), although at a slightly slower pace than in H1. Year-to-date inflows total 651t.
Bars, coins and jewellery were weak: year-to-date consumer demand fell 16%. Losses were price-driven, although for differing reasons: jewellery demand (down 21% to 580.1t) was hit by high gold prices, while bar and coin demand weakened (by 36% to 190.1t) due to a lack of price momentum.
India inert: consumer demand is still weak (at 194.8t, its lowest year-to-date level since 2009) as the market gets to grips with near-record prices, still-fragile rural sentiment and government regulation.
China falters: jewellery demand fell more than 20% (to 141.5t) in the third quarter. Elevated prices played a role, but changing consumer behaviour is an important longer term trend: younger consumers have a greater preference for 18k jewellery, rather than 24k.
Central banks wane: While an additional 82 tonnes in third quarter brought central banks net purchases to 23 consecutive quarters, year-to-date purchases were the lowest since 2010 (271.1t). Central bank demand fell to its lowest quarterly level in six years.
Recycling rallies: high gold prices, combined with structural changes in some markets, pushed recycling to its highest level in four years (340.9t).
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