"He lived in simple style, surrounded with plenty and practicing a rude hospitality while his sway was kind and patriarchal".
Thus is "Cornplanter" described in his old age by a writer of the 1830s. "Cornplanter" (literally from the Seneca "Kiiontwogke", meaning "what one plants") earned fame in his youth as a valiant warrior - taking part in the infamous destruction of Gen. Braddock's army in 1755 in which Colonel George Washington first gained notoriety. Later he was known as a wise as well as a powerful chief and one of the last great spokesmen for his people.
In his youth, the Seneca were still basking in the reflected glory of the great Iroquois half-century of conquest (1641 - 1701). Through brutal warfare and shrewd diplomacy they controlled a vast area stretching from the coast of Maine to the Mississippi and from north of Lake Superior to Northern Alabama. But their power was fast waning and by the end of his life, the barriers which had held back the flood were swept away and their land was reduced to scattered islands in a sea of white civilization.
"Cornplanter's" contemporary and great rival, "Red Jacket" spoke eloquently of this transformation in his poignant farewell address (1830): "I am about to leave you, and when I am gone and my warnings shall no longer be heard or regarded, the craft and avarice of the white man will prevail. Many winters have I weathered the storm but I am an ancient tree and can stand no longer. My leaves have fallen, my branches withered and I am shaken by every breeze. Soon my aged trunk will be prostrate and the exulting foe of the Indian may be placed upon it in safety; for I leave none who will be able to avenge such an indignity. Think not that I mourn for myself for I go to join the spirits of my fathers where age cannot come; but my heart fails when I think of my people who are soon to be scattered and forgotten..."


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While I may have done a previous review of the first two episodes of American Gods season two, I feel I can now do a more detailed description of the premiere now that it is finally here! If you scoot over to the Starz app, season two's first episode is available to watch and enjoy, and from my own personal experience, along with reviews I'm seeing from fans online, I can truly say that the negative articles are clearing latching onto the "drama" behind the scenes with those reviewing never having really watched the show before. I'm sorry, season two is already gearing up to be better than season one – there's no lag, i.e. large chunks in the beginning dedicated to unrelated stories, and we're thrown right into the plot, with the actors better than ever.
I digress. We saw the beginning of the first episode when the first three minutes were shown during Starz's rewatch of the first season. Technical Boy and Mr. World have fled the scene after Mr. Wednesday unleashed an attack on Mr. World, leaving him wounded. Media has gone somewhere else, though; we know that it will be New Media that Technical Boy ends up finding.
Mr. Wednesday has gathered a dozen Old Gods for his war, though; none really seem convinced that his war is worth it – in reality, it more so seems that they mostly went to talk Odin out of his attempts to wage a battle against the New Gods. It seemed as if Wednesday may not have any of his side, if it weren't for Shadow and his grandiose speech – though, when Shadow was stating how he had lost everything, it made me wonder how Shadow will feel once finding out Wednesday and Sweeney were the ones who killed Laura. If Shadow ever finds out.
As always, Sweeney and Laura's banter continue to be some of the best moments in American Gods. There were moments during the car ride to House on The Rock and even the diner scene afterward where it felt more like Shadow was the third wheel, not Sweeney. Other honorable mentions are the Jinn and Salim's reunion, which clearly did not pan out the way I'm sure Salim had hoped it would. And we cannot forget Queen Bilquis, how she commanded the scene and also, how she made good on her agreement with the New Gods.
The New Gods did not appear all that much in the new episode, but their presence was much more dangerous than it had been in the previous season. At this point, Mr. World knows that he cannot stand back and wish for Mr. Wednesday to go away. And he knows now that offering a deal to Odin will not work either. With Mr. World at Black Briar, he's readying himself for an attack. I believe that his line to the one guy at Black Briar "I am the man behind the man behind the man" was incredibly well-delivered. And really played on the idea that many have – that someone like the President is simply a "cardboard cutout" and there is something greater pulling the strings.
I, of course; have to give a nod to Technical Boy, who always serves as an irritated device just waiting to be properly used. As the literal God of Technology, Tech Boy could have the potential to really do some damage but the leader, Mr. World; and virtually everyone else underestimates him. Even while the two are looking at the footage from Bilquis's tracking, Tech Boy simply says "I could have tracked them for you" to which Mr. World offers up an explanation that they needed Bilquis to feel complicity. To which Tech Boy just urges him to get it on already – tired of the back and forth games the two sides seem to play with each other.
We see that Mr. World is now not afraid to lead an attack on the Old Gods, calling out to Mr. Town to strike. Mr. Town, played by Dean Winters; succeeded in bringing "shock and awe" to the table, not only abducting Shadow, but killing Zorya in the process. Possibly the only one who Wednesday shows genuine feeling for, we also see Chernozbog mourn her death – a character who I'm glad we're seeing more of. Doing this in the first episode really made a statement and that is: the New Gods did not come to play and Mr. Wednesday needs to consider his enemies more seriously.
American Gods Season 2 Episode 1: House of The Rock Gets a 5/5 rating from me.


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It is December 2001 and Argentina is in meltdown. Pablo Martelli, once in an elite branch of the police force known as the "National Shame", is a shadow of his former self, scraping by as a bathroom-appliance salesman. Late one evening, Martelli is summoned to a friend's coastal retreat. He arrives to find his friend dead, and is caught up in a bewildering odyssey that leads him though vast, empty pampas, along endless highways and into ghost towns seething danger and brutality, to the ailing heart of his country.
Late one evening, Martelli is summoned to a friend's coastal retreat. He arrives to find his friend dead, and is caught up in a bewildering odyssey that leads him through vast, empty pampas, along endless highways and into ghost towns seething with danger and brutality, to the ailing heart of his country.


Sometimes the return and rescue of a struggling company by its former CEO makes perfect sense. Apple, Starbucks and (probably) Dell stand out as strong examples. But sometimes you just have to shake your head in disbelief.
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Ken Eastwood—superintendent of Middletown City School District, NY, a member of the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools—shares four key points to consider when trying to implement a successful edtech plan.
"Given the enormous potential of edtech to assist teachers in highly diverse classrooms to truly personalize learning and obtain significant student academic growth, why are we seeing such consistent and large-scale edtech failure when it comes to gains in student academic achievement?
My answer is simple: the failure occurs because when we introduce edtech into our classrooms, we continue to focus on things rather than on the process—on devices instead of on good pedagogy.


As we come closer to the Academy Awards on March 2nd, we'll be posting short profiles of each Best Picture nominee, attempting, in our own ways, to not only sum up what the movie is about, but why we believe it scored one of the nine coveted nominations, and why it could possibly take home the big prize come Oscar night. Enjoy!
A good film aims to take the audience on a journey, sometimes literally. By the end of the film, something has changed, we're a different person, or at least we're at a different place from where we started. Woody Grant (Bruce Dern) knows exactly where he wants to go, but he might be the only one who knows why. The beauty of Nebraska is that the $1 million sweepstakes prize Woody is after isn't what he wants; he just wants more.
Filmed in beautiful black and white, Nebraska exists to record a time and place that may soon be long forgotten; the American small town. The towns are small, and the conversations are smaller. Everyone knows everyone, and there's rarely such thing as a secret. This is where Woody grew up, in Hawthorne, Nebraska , and where he takes a pit stop on his way to Lincoln to claim his prize. His life before setting forth on this journey isn't too glamorous. He lives at home with his wife, Kate (the hilarious, Oscar-nominated June Squibb), and is visited regularly by his two sons, David (Will Forte), and local news anchor Ross (Bob Odenkirk). Woody has retired, and is restless in his Montana home, and as soon as he finds the sweepstakes prize, he spends every day trying to find a way to get to Nebraska, until David decides he'll take him there.
Some people may choose to laugh at the people of Hawthorne. Others may actually find it quaint, wholesome. Reminiscent of a time and place that we don't usually see portrayed in film. In fact, not much really happens in Nebraska, because nothing really happens in Hawthorne. But David's commitment to take his father on this journey can be seen as a way of saving Woody. How much longer could Woody stay sane locked up in his home? Sometimes the only thing you can do is to just drop everything and go on what could be your last adventure with your dad. That's what David realizes, especially by the end of the film. It's a lovingly bittersweet ending, but again, not so eventful in comparison to some of the other nominated films.
So why Best Picture? Because it's hard to think of another film this year that had such a fascinating character study of such a forgotten pocket of contemporary America. Many of the other Best Picture nominees paint a beautiful picture of America's past and America's future, but Nebraska marvels in its' portrayal of the America that exists in the here and now, the one we didn't even know still existed. It's one of the only Best Picture nominees where you can honestly just feel comfortable hanging out with these characters for two hours. This is helped by the genuinely charming and honest performances by Bruce Dern, Will Forte, and June Squibb, not to mention the residents of Hawthorne, played by mostly unknown actors (except an antagonist of sorts played by Stacy Keach).
Nebraska is beautiful to look at, hilarious to watch, and quite charming to marvel at. Hilarious drama, dark comedy, whatever you'd like to call it, it's definitely a worthy Best Picture nominee. For those who believe the journey is the reward, then set a course for Nebraska.
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Here is your detailed horoscope for May 2019.
The calculation of the horoscope based on your date of birth, the 23rd November - 21st December, your lucky number, your zodiac sign Sagittarius combined with the fact that you are Single and considering the date from today.
In May you should go out with a few friends that Cupid can shoot his arrows for you.
And he will do, already in May!
The square stands for your house, for your apartment.
For the place where you are rooted.
In financial matters it means that you either plan to work from home, which can now be implemented by you, or that you have to pay expensive work for your home.
You will experience an inner disunity, a feeling of discomfort.
Do not ignore it, because it is a defense reaction from your body.
Something is wrong in your environment.
It may well be that it is because of another person.
The horoscope of this media card tells you that you will be thinking about a new job.
House and duty are both shown on the card.
According to this, it will be a work that you can manage from home. Most likely by the Internet.
You have been playing with the idea of self-employment for a long time already.
May is the right month to put the plans into reality.
All signs point to a victory.
Be vigilant at this day and distrust the situations and people around you!
A person in your immediate environment will try to harm you at this day.
Do not try to reach your goals by any means, it will not go well.
It can also happen that at this day you will lose something, what is dear to you.
Take things as they come at this day, and take it one step at a time.
How do you like the monthly Sagittarius horoscope?


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CEO of Born Free USA; international expert on animal welfare and wildlife conservation.
How much suffering can you stand to watch?
The raccoon is trapped in a shallow creek, her paw ensnared by the hidden steel jaws on the ground below the water. She gasps for air and tries to survive, even as the trapper slams her face with his wooden pole... and then slams again. She gasps for air as he uses that pole to force her head beneath the surface, seconds ticking away... but death does not come. She gasps for air as the trapper steps on her awkwardly, searching for the right angle to keep her submerged. With inexplicable resilience, she battles death. You can see it in her eyes: unfathomable fear and utter helplessness.
The coyote is innocently walking through a field, as he may have done hundreds of times before. He is bewildered by the searing pain on his paw. He can't move. Minute after minute, he struggles, mud starting to encase his precious fur as he falls on his side. You can see that he is starting to lose his breath. You can see that he is starting to lose his will. The trapper approaches. A swift kick in the coyote's side. Why? You can see it in his eyes: unfathomable fear and utter helplessness.
How much suffering can you stand to watch... and do nothing?
The trapping industry is barbaric and archaic, fundamentally unchanged for centuries. Steel-jaw leghold traps set out for unsuspecting furbearers on both public and private lands. Jaws slamming shut to cause agony to the trappers' prey. Conibear traps baited to attract their victims and crush their backs, stomachs, or necks. The fur industry causes shameful and unnecessary suffering to feed a business that should finally die.
And, while Born Free USA has worked for years to stop cruel trapping in the National Wildlife Refuge System, we now applaud Congressional representatives Alma Adams (D-NC) and Nita Lowey (D-NY) for introducing the Public Safety and Wildlife Protection Act (H.R. 5560), which would ban the import, export, and interstate transport of Conibear and steel-jaw leghold traps (including all modifications: padded, toothed, enclosed foothold, "dog-proof" foothold, etc.). It would also ban the purchase or acquisition of any leghold or Conibear trap that was transported illegally.
Nearly 90% of American trappers use these devices that cause such distress, misery, suffering, and death. These traps are indiscriminate, so, despite being set for a beaver or a coyote, other animals--including people's companion animals--could be caught instead.
People can be harmed, as well. One of the inspirations behind Congresswoman Adams' support for H.R. 5560 was the story of a 12-year-old boy who got his arm caught in a Conibear trap in Whitsett, North Carolina (just outside of her district). The boy suffered tissue damage and had a very bad, very long day in the emergency room, as six doctors tried to figure out how to release his arm from the trap.
Upon introduction of the bill, Congresswoman Adams stated, "The preservation of human life and wildlife is a priority that lawmakers must take seriously. We can no longer afford to disregard the ill-effects that animal cruelty has on our ecosystem and on us, as well. Steel-jaw leghold and Conibear traps are body-gripping tools that are inhumane and archaic. They also pose unnecessary risks to humans, especially young children."
In the U.S., more than four million animals are trapped every year for their fur. Shockingly, the trapping industry is growing: increasing by 20% over the past decade. It's not an important source of household income, though. It's "sport"; it's a hobby or recreation. It's also shockingly pathetic, arrogant, and barbaric. I think that warrants repeating... Trapping is shockingly pathetic, arrogant, and barbaric.
The time has come to rid the U.S. of the trapping industry. No one needs fur except the wolves, coyotes, beavers, foxes, mink, raccoons, and other animals who live in wild areas.
Today, I'm asking you to support legislation aimed at banning or restricting this industry. Don't buy real fur, and consider boycotting stores that sell it. Better yet; shop at stores that are officially fur free.
How much suffering can you help end?
Keep Wildlife in the Wild,
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Canada should ban Huawei from 5G networks, says former spy chief
Published Mon, Jan 21 2019 11:33 AM EST
David Ljunggren
OTTAWA, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Canada should ban China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd from supplying equipment to Canadian 5G networks because the security risk is too great, a former spy chief said in an article published on Monday.
China last week threatened repercussions if Ottawa blocked Huawei, a warning the Canadian government dismissed. Relations between the two nations soured after a top Huawei executive was arrested in Vancouver last month on a U.S. extradition warrant.
Canadian officials are studying the security implications of 5G networks, the latest generation of cellular mobile communications, but their report is not expected in the immediate future, a source close to the matter said last week.
Richard Fadden, who served as the head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service spy agency from 2009 to 2013, cited what he said was mounting evidence for blocking Huawei.
"Canada's government should ignore the threats and ban Huawei from Canada's 5G networks to protect the security of Canadians," he wrote in the Globe and Mail.
Some Canadian allies have already imposed restrictions on using Huawei equipment, citing the risk of espionage.
China detained two Canadians last month after the arrest of Meng Wanzhou, Huawei's chief financial officer, and demanded she be released. A court later retried a Canadian who had already been jailed for drug smuggling and sentenced him to death.
"If China would resort to putting Canadians to death to defend its corporate national champion, what might it do if the Chinese Communist Party had unfettered access to Canada's vital communications networks?" said Fadden.
Neither Huawei nor the Chinese embassy were immediately available for comment.
John McCallum, Canada's ambassador to China, said last Friday that his top priority was the release of the two detainees and scrapping the death penalty for the condemned man.
"But at the same time Canada has already invested a lot in China," he told reporters. "China still will play a very important part in Canada's future and so I think it is best if we move forward as much as we can under the circumstances."
McCallum, pressed as to when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau might call Chinese President Xi Jinping, said such an act "is essentially the last arrow in our quiver and I think other actions have to be taken first".
Trudeau has called a number of world leaders in recent weeks to garner support for Canada's cause. (Reporting by David Ljunggren Editing by Marguerita Choy)
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Towards electronic minimal improvisation: the imitation game
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When we were beginning the research on minimal improvisation, we started in the Phyla duo constellation, Jennie Zimmermann and me: doing very little, just repeating one sound, variating it over time.
We did not create very elaborate musical structures, but subtle variations of sounds in relation. The sounds we made could be imitative or contrasting, our activities could be synchronized, like a call-and-response or, more or less, unrelated.
When we began working with a group of musicians and dancers, the basic constellation of two people responding to each others actions remained and important topic:
At the time, I knew that these interactions demonstrate principles that are relevant to all time-based arts. Repetition gives a sense of continuity, variation keeps things alive. Within the minimal improvisation research, we put a lot of emphasis on the process, but at the same time, individual intentionality became very apparent. Within improvisations, it felt like we were witnessing an alchemic process: sounds or movements, that were initially unrelated started to become 'music' or 'dance', started to 'make sense'.
So I was thrilled when I came across 'comparing notes' by Adam Ockelford – he explains music using the very same categories that we concentrated on in our research (quoted from 'comparing notes, page 61):
'…imitation provides a sense of agency, which leads to the perception of musical structure, which enables music to make sense.´
Ockelford is not particularly interested in minimalism or improvisation, he comes from a classical background and mainly refers to written scores by dead male composers. Still, I feel that the minimal improvisation approach is almost like a practical demonstration of his 'Zygonic Theory'. A meta-music stripped of virtuosity, stylistic conventions such as harmony, voice-leading, even tuning, just concentrating on the very basic aspects of what constitutes music at all.
I had already done a lot of experiments of emulating minimal improvisation with Ableton live music software, focussing on moving from the quality of flowing, non-quantized time to a quantized rhythmical grid seamlessly. But now, I started revisiting the special constellation not of two performers, but two instances within a process, reacting to each other.
Looking at this constellation again, after months of minimal improvisation research, after reading about Zygonic theory actually blew my mind. Because, from a technical point of view, the two main components involved here are two very well known processes in electronic music:
feedback & delay
Being a guitarist, my first encounter with feedback was listening to Jimi Hendrix. Also I have played with the possibilities of the no-input mixer – but I saw it as a special technique. I did not grasp how fundamental the principle of feedback is to music.
In the context of of loud, amplified music, I had associated feedback with the notion of going to extremes: very fast, feedback can escalate, become louder and louder and wreck ears and equipment. To act as an agent of musical structure, feedback needs a mechanism to restrain this tendency of escalation: delay. Inserting a delay prevents the signals in the feedback loop from following faster and faster, getting louder each time around the cycle. In order to do this, the delay has to function not like an echo, which would add a – delayed – signal to the original. Instead, the delayed signal must be the only signal that is heard, while the original incoming sound must stay muted.
Here is an example of such a setup: two channels, each containing a listening device, a sound generating device and a delay are connected within a feedback loop:
Once you get past the awkward 80s charm of the Junatik synth sounds, the structural resemblance to the two duo improvisations in sound and dance should be obvious: variations of pitches are send back and forth, leading to a gradual, sometimes abrupt, developement. There is a rise in dynamics, then the 'dialogue' becomes more calm, sparse and finally ends.
The function of 'listening' on each of the two channels is solved by using VoiceKeys II, a free device for Reaktor by Bertrand Antolin. It analyzes the incoming audio and converts it to MIDI, which is in turn processed by the Junatik synth to make the next sound. It is a marvelous device, singing into Reaktor and hearing my voice accompanied by a synth sound is so much fun! It was created nine years ago but still gives me the feeling of living in the future.
Marvelous as it is, it does not function entirely correct. The sound that is created as a response does not completely match the incoming sound. In the case of my example that is a good thing, because it creates the dynamic of repetition and variation that leads to gradual developement of sonic material. In this case, the artefacts of incorrectness are the very spark of machine 'creativity'.
This becomes evident, when the feedback loop is not set up on the level of audio signals. Instead of converting audio to MIDI, it is also possible to set up a loop between two MIDI channels. The lack of mistakes leads to an ever repeating loop of the same pitch. To avoid stasis and get the impression of interaction in dialogue, randomness has to be inserted intentionally.
MIDI is a standardized system for machine communication between musical devices. Working with MIDI means to work on the level of language, of symbols that stand in for sound, not the actual sound. The constellation I described above, utilizing feedback, delay and also randomness is a formal one, it may differ vastly depending on which sounds are actually used and result in totally different music. Still, it remains the very same constellation.
To me, at the moment, the best environment to approach music on such a meta-level is the coding-environment Sonic Pi, stay tuned for some examples of minimal improvisation code.
Towards electronic minimal improvisation: code
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The final men's qualification playoff game is set between Switzerland and Germany.
Gruden doesn't let up on the WHEN I WAS YOUNG AND EVERYTHING WAS RIGHT crap. You see, conforming and getting your block Cheap Jerseys Toronto knocked off, bell rung and all that other pseudo-militaristic stuff is what made him a slightly better than .500 football coach, dang it!
"I wasn't worth a damn, but I was on a team, I had to [report] by seven o'clock," Gruden says of his time playing in high school and college. "I had to run through the line, not to it; my coach made me do it right. And I hated it at times. But if it wasn't for football, I wouldn't have any of these benefits. These geniuses tell you, 'It's a dangerous game, we shouldn't play, you can [learn the same things] in drama class.' I say bulls—."
Both of them have to do with the adversity Smoltz faced as a result of issues with his elbow ligament, but like most things, the fierce competitor to the challenge and overcame it with aplomb.He was enormously popular, flew planes, played the organ Vegas gigs and on records, and was married to the daughter of Hall of Famer Boudreau.You kept your family together.how to get these tickets?
Unfortunately for them, a revolving door at right wing has prevented the two from being a part of one of the league's most dangerous lines.Holzer goes from a sinking Leafs team to a Cup contender Anaheim.Trienens received two degrees from , a bachelor's degree 1945 and a J.D.Servais said that Sardinas won't be the every day shortstop.There are players who can and probably should start taking his minutes, and poor decisions like that hit aren't going to help him get more ice time.
As for Slovenia, the country had two overtime wins — including a shocking victory over Team USA — and a loss in the preliminary tournament to land against a Norwegian team that was also winless. The winner of this playoff match will face the Olympic Athletes from Russia in another quarterfinal.
The women's hockey tournament begins to wrap up Tuesday, as Switzerland and Japan will play at 2:40 a.m. ET to determine the fifth and sixth place seedings for the tournament at large.
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Mon, Mar 26th 2018 3:36pm — Timothy Geigner
Just a quick update on the current craziness going on in the Swedish court system. In the middle of 2017, we wrote about the Swedish authorities raiding the offices of Undertexter, a site that provides fan-created subtitles of movies. Many people were confused by this, but the film industry has long branded fan-made subtitles as contributors to piracy, allowing people in foreign countries to download films and append the subtitles to watch them, rather than buying the localized version. The industry also argues that these subtitles are themselves copyright infringement, as they essentially reproduce the film's script in another language.
Founder Eugen Archy was convicted of copyright infringement. Ever the fighter, he appealed, but now we learn that Archy has lost his appeal as well.
On appeal, Archy agreed that he was the person behind Undertexter but disputed that the subtitle files uploaded to his site infringed on the plaintiffs' copyrights, arguing they were creative works in their own right.
While to an extent that may have been the case, the Court found that the translations themselves depended on the rights connected to the original work, which were entirely held by the relevant copyright holders. While paraphrasing and parody might be allowed, pure translations are completely covered by the rights in the original and cannot be seen as new and independent works, the Court found.
The Svea Hovrätt also found that Archy acted intentionally, noting that in addition to administering the site and doing some translating work himself, it was "inconceivable" that he did not know that the subtitles made available related to copyrighted dialog found in movies.
Now, the good news is that losing this appeal only results in his original conviction and punishment of probation and a $26,000 fine. All told, that isn't the craziest punishment we've seen for copyright infringement. Those caveats aside, let's all remember that Undertexter gave away the fan-translations it hosted. The site didn't sell them. They were offered for free. And for the crime of providing free translations in markets that are often underserved by Hollywood, he now has a copyright infringement conviction on his record and a five-figure bill to pay.
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Asanti has published more than a thousand articles, essays, poems, and short stories in her career as a writer and journalist. She has served as the editor of "Urban Spectrum Newspaper," "In the Black Business Journal," and "Gay Black Female Magazine," and has contributed to lesbian.com, GBM News, and "Essence" magazine, among others. Asanti broke ground as the first African American columnist for the "Lesbian News," where she wrote a nationally syndicated column and news stories for eight years.
Asanti is the author of five books: "The Sacred Door: A Spiritual Guide to Power Living," "The Seer: Legacy of Stone & Spirit," "The Bones Do Talk," "The Master Breakthrough: A 24 Hour Spiritual Revolution," and "Fluid: Out of Darkness Comes Light," which she co-authored with Pink Dewberryjuice. Asanti also edited two award-winning anthologies, "Tapestries of Faith," and "Letters to My Bully."
Her essays, poetry, and fiction have been published in best-selling anthologies such as "Black Love," "Best of Black Women's Erotica 2," "Chicken Soup for the African American Soul," "Age Ain't Nothing But a Number: Black Women Explore Midlife" with Terri McMillan and Nikki Giovanni, "Bed: The Anthology," and "Role Call: A Generational Exploration of Gender, Race & Class."
Asanti is a Yoruba/Ifa priestess. Ifa is a West African spiritual tradition that originated among the Yoruba in Nigeria. Variations of the faith were practiced across Africa and throughout the Diaspora. In her work as a Yoruba priestess, Asanti founded Ile Ori Ogbe Egun, a Yoruba/Ifa temple in Denver, Colorado, and the Institute for Transformative Education & Collective Healing, which has members in cities across the United States and London. She has also studied Ifa Theology and divination at Oyeku Otua Traditional Healing Center in Nigeria.
Asanti lives with her wife, Pepper, and partner, Jacquelyn, in Marina Del Rey, California. They split their time working on projects, teaching, doing healing work, and performing on stages across the country.
Asanti is passionate about healing women, ending racism, experiencing love in the greatest capacity possible, and writing books and screenplays that inspire, educate, and entertain. For more, visit her website visit and blog.
We thank Ifalade Ta'Shia Asanti for her numerous contributions to our community.
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considered another field sobriety test.
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Lori Graham paired a marble-topped dining table with Lucite and upholstered dining chairs; the chocolate-brown living room is visible beyond.
An elegant yet welcoming foyer accents dark-wood pieces with pops of teal.
With its bright colors and vivid patterns, the sunroom is a welcoming and nearly indestructible space.
The kitchen is white with bright accents.
A desk in the mudroom is both convenient and alluring.
Walls and bedstead are painted in Benjamin Moore's Steel Wool in the master bedroom.
The master bath features a rug-like mosaic tile design.
The renovation was like peeling an onion—when one problem was fixed, another problem would reveal itself. And on it went for more than a year after Jackie Perrins and her family purchased a house in Northwest Washington that hadn't been updated since Kennedy was president.
Yet the chaos of construction presented an opportunity. While walls and ceilings were ripped up and ductwork and electrical wires exposed, the owners decided to bring in an interior designer who could plan and decorate new spaces specifically suited to two city-loving parents and their four young children.
They were going for the edgy chic of a boutique hotel that would somehow survive heavy kid traffic and multiple juice spills along the way. And they had a strict budget, with no room for overruns.
Graham dove right in, working with architect Chris Snowber of Hamilton Snowber Architects to redefine spaces and create interiors that would flow together through color, shape and form—with nothing off-limits to the kids.
She set the tone in the foyer, which is marked by the strong presence of black mirrors, a console table and stools. "It's clean and modern with curvy lines," Graham says. The vignette also speaks to Perrins's desire for a bit of Asian influence throughout the house, as her two youngest children are adopted from Korea.
The same went for the reframed children's portraits in the dining room—a key space that "had to carry the weight of a formal dining room, but be forgiving of small children who spill stuff," Graham says. She had a slab of spill-proof Calacatta Gold marble cut to fit on top of an elegant base, and chose inexpensive Lucite ballroom chairs from 1stdibs.com to create a dining space that beautifully accommodates both guests and children. She purchased affordable outdoor seat cushions, then indulged the parents with dramatic host chairs at either end. Instead of spending a lot of money on custom built-in cabinetry for the dining room, Graham ordered the same cabinets she used in the kitchen in a different finish, dressing them up with fancy hardware.
In keeping with the indestructible-luxe theme, the kitchen, too, is "very kid-friendly even though it's modern and chic," Perrins says. The bright white Corian counters can be cleansed of multiple pen and marker stains without a trace left behind.
Upstairs, Graham helped Perrins and her husband redefine the master bedroom, which was disproportionately large when they started. Snowber and his team designed a wall that would bisect the room, allowing the addition of a much bigger master bath. Graham concealed off-season clothes and bed and bath linens behind built-in shelving and decorative molding; a TV slides conveniently out over a window-seat niche.
Jennifer Sergent is a writer in Arlington, Virginia. Photographer Erik Johnson is based in Alexandria, Virginia.
RENOVATION ARCHITECTURE: CHRISTOPHER R. SNOWBER, AIA, Hamilton Snowber Architects, Washington, DC. INTERIOR DESIGN: LORI GRAHAM, Lori Graham Design, Washington, DC. CONTRACTOR: Horizon Builders, Crofton, Maryland.


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Q: golang: read file generator I'm learning go language and try to rewrite some of my Python code using golang.
I wrote a generator function that reads a text file line by line and send (using yield keyword) only "valid" lines (blank lines are ignored, uncompleted lines are recomposed).
Sample file (myfile.txt):
#123= FOOBAR(1.,'text');

#126= BARBAZ('poeazpfodsp',
234,56);

parse.py:
#!/usr/bin/python
def validlines(filename):
    with open(filename) as fdin:
        buff = ''
        for line in fdin.readlines():
            line = line.strip()
            if line == '':
                continue
            buff += line
            if line[-1] != ';':
                continue
            yield buff
            buff = ''
        fdin.close()

for line in validlines('myfile.txt'):
    print(line)

displays:
#123= FOOBAR(1.,'text');
#126= BARBAZ('poeazpfodsp',234,56);

Now, I try to do it the same way using a closure in golang:
parse.go:
package main

import (
    "bufio"
    "fmt"
    "os"
    "strings"
)

func validLines(filename string) (func() (string, bool)) {

    file, _ := os.Open(filename)
    scanner := bufio.NewScanner(file)

    return func() (string, bool) {
        buff := ""
        for scanner.Scan() {
            line := scanner.Text()
            line = strings.TrimSpace(line)

            if line == "" {
                continue
            }
            buff += line
            if line[len(line)-1] != ';' {
                continue
            }
            return buff, true
        }

        file.Close()
        return "", false
    }
}

func main() {
    vline := validLines("myfile.txt")
    for line, ok := vline(); ok; {
        fmt.Println(line)
    }
}

displays:
#123= FOOBAR(1.,'text');
#123= FOOBAR(1.,'text');
#123= FOOBAR(1.,'text');
#123= FOOBAR(1.,'text');
#123= FOOBAR(1.,'text');
#123= FOOBAR(1.,'text');
#123= FOOBAR(1.,'text');
...

What's the right way to do it in golang?

A: In Go you can use channels instead of yield, it's very convenient.
package main
import (
    "bufio"
    "fmt"
    "os"
    "strings"
)

func ValidLines(filename string) (c chan string) {
    c = make(chan string)
    buff := ""
    go func() {
        file, err := os.Open(filename)
        if err != nil {
            close(c)
            return
        }

        reader := bufio.NewReader(file)
        for {
            line, err := reader.ReadString('\n')
            if err != nil {
                close(c)
                return
            }
            line = strings.TrimSpace(line)
            if line == "" {
                continue
            }
            buff += line
            if line[len(line)-1] != ';' {
                continue
            }
            c <- buff
            buff = ""
        }
    }()
    return c
}

func main() {
    for line := range ValidLines("myfile.txt") {
        fmt.Println(line)
    }
}

A: Just little addition to pav5000's answer, you should make the channel buffered:
c := make(chan string, 1)
Otherwise, it will be reading the whole file into a channel and there is no point in using it.

A: This is the for loop of your main which is the problem. With this syntax, here is what it does:

*

*Initialize line and ok with a first call to vline()

*If ok is true, run the loop once

*Update something at the end of the block, and go to 2.

So, your problem is that you never update lineand ok. Here is the correct version:
for line, ok := vline(); ok; line, ok = vline() { ... }

A: small change:
func main() {
    vline := validLines("myfile.txt")
    line, ok := vline()
    for ok  {
        fmt.Println(line)
        line, ok = vline()
    }
}


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Hillary Clinton Vows to 'Get to the Bottom' of What's in Area 51
"Maybe we could have, like, a task force to go to Area 51."
Kate Scanlon
Signs outside of Area 51 (Image source: Shutterstock)
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton pledged to "get to the bottom" of what's in Area 51 should she be elected president during an interview with a New Hampshire newspaper.
The reporter, Daymond Steer of the Conway Daily Sun, asked Clinton if she remembered discussing the topic with him during her previous campaign.
"Yes, I'm going to get to the bottom of it," Clinton replied.
According to the Daily Sun, at the time, Clinton revealed that "the No. 1 topic of freedom-of-information requests that her husband, former President Bill Clinton, received at his library was UFOs."
Asked about the former president's 2014 interview with Jimmy Kimmel where he remarked that he "wouldn't be surprised" if aliens came to Earth, Hillary Clinton replied, "I think we may have been [visited already]. We don't know for sure."
Hillary Clinton during the Democratic debate on Dec. 19. (Getty Images/Andrew Burton)
She added that John Podesta, her campaign chairman, is a believer in UFOs.
"He has made me personally pledge we are going to get the information out," Clinton said. "One way or another. Maybe we could have, like, a task force to go to Area 51."
During his interview with Kimmel, the former president promised that "there are no aliens there."
The Twitterverse had fun reacting to Clinton's remarks:
I suspect that the number 1 topic of FOIA requests for her presidency will not, unlike her husband's, be UFOs. https://t.co/wPRgnhO3cX
— Gabriel Malor (@Gabriel Malor) 1451918108.0
If elected she'll say there aren't any but thanks for the votes https://t.co/59qULz4E1y
— Peter Hopkins (@Peter Hopkins) 1451852902.0


An insurmountable gambling debt is owed to crooked bar owner Bob Harmon by naive teenager Jimmy Rowell. Holding a stack of IOUs from Jimmy, Harmon threatens to ransack Rowell's family's homestead when the lad cannot pay up. Harmon is in cahoots with killer Bart Gills, and their crimes have drawn the attention of the Range Busters. Crash, Dusty and Alibi smell a rat and ride in to investigate. One of the twenty-four Range Busters movies produced between 1940 and 1943 for Monogram Pictures, The Kid's Last Ride features the towering 6'5" character actor Glenn Strange as the villainous Bart Gills. Today, Strange is fondly remembered as Frankenstein's monster in several Universal films, notably Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), and for countless cowboy roles on the large screen and small, including television's "Gunsmoke" (1961-1973).


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Do you pay attention when your Muse calls to you?
Do you heed the voice, the nudging, or the burst of energy that brings you from the seed of a thought, not fully formed, to a completed work?
Perhaps you have had many seeds planted and are still cultivating your garden of creativity. Perhaps your harvest has been abundant and your writing prolific. Either way, you know the feeling of being inspired by a source of energy that comes through you but not entirely from you.
All artists, writers and creative people channel the energy of the Divine constantly through our work. Yet we don't always realize it. Maybe the word 'channel' sounds a little too risky. Too much like not being in control. We can admit to being inspired. To having an epiphany that we can build into a story or article. When you work openly with the connection to your Muse, Higher Wisdom, Intuition or whatever name you wish to call it, the words flow freely. The channel of inspiration is open. When we are blocked emotionally or creatively, it reflects a block in our connection to this higher part of our guidance as well.
Many writers use games and prompts to trigger the creative process and overcome blocks. In doing so, they are actually bypassing the logical mind and allowing the spontaneity of the creative, right brain, intuitive self to emerge. Similar to the practices which help us develop our connection to Higher Guidance through intuitive development. Tarot cards, for example, can be used to glean insight from our intuition as well as to trigger the creative process.
Heeding the call of the Muse and opening to Intuition involve the same basic processes. When we are willing to step out of the formulaic plans created by the ego and open ourselves to receive direction from a higher source, we are following this process. When we surrender and trust the process, walking through the story word by word, page by page, allowing the energy to flow in the moment, we are engaging in this process.
Whether you are seeking guidance in your writing process, or guidance in your life, career, or relationships, working with Tarot and intuition can open up your channel to your higher wisdom and your muse. In life, as in the writing process, our conscious planning and logic sometimes fall short. Our intuitive side, Higher Guidance, or Muse can help us overcome these roadblocks.
If you are feeling stuck in writing or in life, here are a few exercises to help you connect with your Muse or Higher Self.
Play- Spontaneity arises from our playful side. Whether you have an important decision to make or are staring frustrated at a blank document on Word, take a moment to not take the situation so seriously. Play a game, play with children or animals, play games with the words on the screen. This switches gears from logical to intuitive and free flowing and that is where the magic happens.
Ask for guidance and expect to receive it. We are constantly being guided. We just don't usually step back to see the patterns, symbols, and synchronicities falling into place around us. Questions demand answers. One of the best ways to trigger the flow of information from your Higher Self or Spirit is to ask a question. Doing this turns your problem over to a higher source which will respond. Ask for guidance and then pay attention in the moments, hours, days that follow. Pay attention to the 'coincidences' which are not really coincidences but the language of Spirit. Pay attention to symbols around you and the messages you receive from seemingly unrelated conversations. We are constantly surrounded by teachers.
Talk to your work. Speak or write a 'conversation' with your characters. If you are writing a work of non-fiction which does not contain characters, then invoke through your imagination, the energy of the work. Start a discussion with the Source of your work and let it guide you. Don't get sidetracked by doubting yourself or wondering whether the dialog is coming from yourself or another source. It is coming from a combination of both your subconscious and Higher Self.
For Intuitive and Tarot guidance for writing and life situations, schedule a session with Angela Kaufman at Women at Woodstock by emailing her at intuitiveangela@gmail.com, or make arrangement in person at the retreats. She'll be available at both the Workshop Retreat and the Writers Retreat!
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