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Tunji Balogun is a Nigerian American record label executive. A co-founder of Keep Cool, he is the executive vice president of A&R for RCA Records. Balogun has signed or played an integral role in signing artists including Brockhampton, Childish Gambino, Goldlink, H.E.R., Khalid, SZA, Bryson Tiller, and Cozz.
Balogun began his career as a marketing intern at Warner Brothers Records and was hired as an assistant at the label after he graduated from Pomona College in 2004. He later held a position in A&R at Interscope, where he worked with artists signed through Bad Boy Entertainment and Shady Records, in addition to Kendrick Lamar, ScHoolboy Q, Keyshia Cole, One Republic, and others.
He joined RCA in 2015 as senior vice president of A&R, and was promoted to executive vice president in 2018. At the time of his promotion, RCA announced that it had entered into a joint venture with Balogun, Courtney Stewart, Jon Tanners and Jared Sherman to establish Keep Cool. The first artist signed to Keep Cool was Normani. He was also instrumental in the Black Panther OST. He introduced Jorja Smith to Kendrick Lamar.
SANTA MONICA, August 10, 2021 — Universal Music Group (UMG), the world leader in music-based entertainment, today announced the appointment of celebrated A&R executive Tunji Balogun as Chairman and CEO of Def Jam Recordings, effective January 1, 2022.
Over his 17-year career. His appointment marks a return to UMG where he served as an A&R executive at Interscope Records from 2007 to 2015. In his new role, Balogun will be based in Los Angeles and report to UMG Chairman & CEO, Sir Lucian Grainge.
He is set to replace Paul Rosenberg, Eminem's manager who became Chairman and CEO in 2017, but stepped down in February 2021, after being strongly criticized for the company's inability to create a new range of stars after Logic and Justin Beiber.
Balogun, said, "I grew up on Def Jam's music – collecting, listening to and studying their albums and singles – those early moments as a young fan have had a lasting influence on who I am today. Def Jam remains one of music's most iconic brands and has always represented forward-thinking artists and partners that continue to shift ideas and impact culture around the world. I'm honored to lead Def Jam into its next chapter and thank Lucian and Jeff for their support and this incredible opportunity."
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Def Jam was co-founded by Rick Rubin in his dormitory in Weinstein Hall at New York University in 1984 and its first release was a single by his punk-rock group Hose. Russell Simmons joined Rubin shortly after they were introduced to each other, according to one story, by Vincent Gallo.
The label became one of the biggest subsidiaries in the music industry by taking advantage of the burgeoning sounds of Hip-Hop and R&B in the 80's and early 90's.
As reported on Mogul Podcast by the late great Reggie 'Combat Jack' Osei, the label was saved by Chris Lighty and Warren G when problems arose in the 90's.
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history of social work in healthcare
The Board supported representation of members from rural settings on all relevant society committees. Healthcare social workers are also involved in discussion and formulation of the ethical aspects of healthcare policy and administration. We maintained our on-going efforts with Products and Publications, Evidence Based Practice, Advocacy and the Leadership Toolbox. Press. It's much faster to generate diagnoses from labs and studies; it's much faster to write prescriptions than to listen to patients. Social workers' specialized role is to help patients and their families cope with illness and disability. Despite varying time zones and everyone's busy schedules, the Board worked consistently and collaboratively to achieve goals, develop thoughtful and strategic plans for longer-term goals, welcome and deliver customer service to new members, and astutely manage the budget. "Hospital Social Work." •Reformed Poor Law, 1834: workhouse for older and disabled people needing care, or small cash payments in the community. Their goal is to have the client achieve and maintain a state of optimal health so they can function in their daily lives. After tracing its development, the author suggests ways in which hospital-based social work can effectively play a role in the area of policymaking as the equal of other professions in shaping health care decisions and practices. Most importantly, the Strategic Planning Task Force led by Carol Maxwell and Margaret Meyer advanced the first phase of exploring the scope, mission and purpose of SSWLHC and the need/desire to become the premier and inclusive organization for all social workers in healthcare. They work to enhance the availability of community-based resources (e.g., healthcare clinics in low-income neighborhoods or residential programs for children with AIDS), advocate on behalf of individual patients who are in need of services, and advocate to ensure that important public policy issues related to healthcare are addressed (e.g., funding for lead screening or guidelines concerning involuntary commitment of mentally ill individuals to psychiatric hospitals). We developed the Partnership Committee to develop a current inventory of all social work groups in health care to eventually work on mutual issues. Controversial Issues in Social Work Practice. Books that reflect these themes include Day and Schiele 2013 , Katz 1996 , Patterson 2000 , Stern and Axinn 2012 , and Trattner 2007 . 2000. Developed a strategic plan. Our Leadership Institute held its first Regional educational LI event hosted by Tim Morrison at Stanford. If physicians don't get an accurate history, then physicians are more likely to generate wrong diagnoses. Retrieved October 16, 2020 from Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/social-work-healthcare. The Second Pre-Conference of Hospital Social Work Directors was held in New York City. The Leadership Institute served as a pilot for future leadership training programs and the Faculty Summit was attended by both academics and practitioners with 8 sponsoring organizations. The annual meeting was held in Philadelphia with both attendance and vendor support exceeding expectations. INDIVIDUAL CASEWORK Most historical accounts identify the COS as the initiator of the social theory that led to the formation of the occupation of social work (see, for example, Seed, 1973). 2013- 2014 Respectfully submitted by Shawna Grossman Kates, MSW, MBA, CMAC. Social workers perform some of the most diverse and important jobs today. Healthcare social work is a specialty within the social work field. 1987. By affiliating with National, the chapters would be provided with a communication link to national and supporting chapters through the coordination of quarterly conference calls and the Annual Chapter Presidents' Meeting. Silver Spring, MD: National Association of Social Workers. Social work is an integral component of the U.S. health care system. Copyright © 2016 Society for Social Work Leadership in Health Care. 1968 The Society's Bylaws were revised extensively, dues increased from $15 to $37, and, AHA's Conference of Affiliated Societies is established to address issues common to all of its affiliated membership groups. Several Initiatives were implemented this year, including a new product of Mentoring Program that will "go live" Fall 2014. Industrial welfarism 2008 The annual meeting was held in Montreal marking the Society's first conference outside the United States. The principles of classical liberalismwere being increasingly challenged by downturns in economic growth, a growing perception of the evils of poverty, unemployment and relative deprivation present within modern industrial cities, and the agitatio… In Encyclopedia of Social Work, vol. Conducted a planning session, resulting in refocus of society priorities and responsibilities. Social work was introduced to medical settings in the United States by Dr. Richard C. Cabot in 1905. Reamer, Frederic G. 2001. Social Work Issues in Health Care. Many times licensure by a state board of social work will be required for employment in medical settings.Prospective medical and health social workers should enter social work programs accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). Also, an outgrowth of the Annual Meeting in Philadelphia led to the plans to introduce another new award in honor of Joan Upshaw, as recognition to an awardee whose entrepreneurship was as evident as Joan Upshaw's. History Britain. Social workers are also skilled in organizing and facilitating support groups for various populations, such as cancer patients, rape victims, and parents of seriously impaired infants. Early social work involvement was centered exclusively on the psychiatric and tuberculosis patients. Although contemporary social workers provide services to individuals and families at all points on the socioeconomic spectrum, the profession continues to have an abiding concern for the disadvantaged. Encyclopedia of Bioethics. The John A Hartford Foundation program, "Advancing Compassionate Care through Interprofessional Education for Collaborative Care", will be attended by Anthony Yamamoto who will serve in dual roles representing NASW and SSWLHC. Kirk, Stuart A., ed. 1983 SHSWD sponsors the White House Briefing on PPS. 1972 By 1972, the Society had grown from its original 37 founding members to 1,000. Their sensitivity to ethnic and cultural diversity can be particularly helpful when there is a clash between patients' and families' ethnically or culturally based values and prevailing ethical norms, policies, and healthcare practices (e.g., concerning the use of mood-altering medication, autopsy, or blood transfusion). 1985 SHSWD established the Eleanor Clark Award for Innovative Programs in Patient Care to honor the memory of this leader by recognizing members who develop patient care programs that emulate her spirit of innovation. Attendance was excellent and the organization held its first preconference event in support of Habitat for Humanity. Auerbach, C., Mason, S. & Laporte, H. (2007). These include phenomena such as IECs, IRBs, utilization review and quality assurance committees, informed consent procedures, and advance directives. Our board also voted to go to 3 year terms for Continuity and goal attainment. 1987 The report of a 1986 SHSWD survey on trends affecting social work departments indicate that staffing in 86% of members' departments had stayed the same or increased since the implementation of DRGs and that their role as social work directors within their institutions had broadened for 81% of them. The Society for Social Work Leadership in Health Care is an association of 700 members dedicated to promoting the universal accessibility of healthcare. Encyclopedia.com. A data bank was established in the society's office in Chicago. Society website redesigned. Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon. A social worker is a helping professional who is distinguished from other human service professionals by a focus on both the individual an…, How to Become a Social Worker Significant challenges and opportunities in clinical care, research, education, and policy are discussed. 1999. FROM SHSWD TO SSWAHC TO SSWLHC: 1961-2012, 1961 The first Pre-Conference of Social Welfare meeting of Hospital Social Work Directors was held in Minneapolis, 1962 The American Hospital Association (AHA) Council on Professional Practice established the Committee on Social Services in Hospitals. The Bulletin, renamed Social Work Administration. Within the "Cite this article" tool, pick a style to see how all available information looks when formatted according to that style. 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Woolwich murderer Michael Adebolajo attacked & injured in prison
Michael Adebolajo, one of the two men who attacked and killed soldier Lee Rigby on May 22nd at Woolwich, has been injured in an attack in the prison where he's being kept, according to reports.
Prison officials said the attack occurred on Wednesday July 17th at HMP Belmarsh prison and Michael is believed to have lost two teeth during the violent incident.
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Q: Slim\\Route::__invoke() with Middleware is not accepting the right $request & $response I am currently writing a REST API using Slim Framework 3 and implementing Middleware for basic authentication.
My routing goes like this:
$app->group('/api', function () use ($app, $pdo) {
    $this->group('/v1', function () use ($app, $pdo) {

        // Guest Routes
        $this->group('', function() use ($app, $pdo) {
            require_once '../app/api/v1/authentication.php';
        });

        // Authenticated Routes
        $this->group('', function() use ($app, $pdo) {
            require_once '../app/api/v1/test.php';
        })->add(new \App\Middleware\AuthMiddleware($pdo));

    });
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In the AuthMiddleware class I am using the __invoke method in the following way:
namespace App\Middleware;

use \Psr\Http\Message\ServerRequestInterface as Request;
use \Psr\Http\Message\ResponseInterface as Response;

class AuthMiddleware extends Middleware {

/**
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    public function __invoke(Request $request, Response $response, $next) {

        $response = $next($response, $request);

        return $response;
    }

}

And I'm getting the following error:

Argument 1 passed to Slim\Route::__invoke() must implement interface Psr\Http\Message\ServerRequestInterface, instance of Slim\Http\Response given

on the following line:
$response = $next($response, $request);

What is happening? any ideas? I've been eating myself over this for 2 hours :(
Thanks a bunch!

A: Stupidly.. I noticed that on
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I reversed the parameters.. should be
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Debrecen vasútállomás (gyakran nagyállomás) Debrecen legnagyobb vasútállomása a város belterületén található ötből. Innen indul a 105-ös, a 106-os, az utasforgalomból kizárt 107-es, a 108-as, a 109-es, és a 110-es vasútvonal, valamint áthalad az állomáson a .

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Az első debreceni vasútvonalat 1857-ben nyitották meg, Budapest és Debrecen között. A 19. század végén, a 20. század elején több másik vonal is nyílt. Az épület a miskolcihoz hasonló volt. A  ezen szakaszát 1970-ben villamosították. Egyúttal a vasútállomás is el lett látva felsővezetékkel. A pályaudvar 1894-ben átadott épületét a második világháború során bombatalálat érte. Az új épület 1958-1960 között épült és 1961-ben adták át. A posta része 1963-ban készült el. Jelenleg felújításra szorul.  Az 1980-ban felszerelt pergőlapos Pragotron utastájékoztató rendszert 2014-ben cserélték le LED kijelzősre.

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Fejlesztések

Új utastájékoztató rendszer
A MÁV saját forrásból fejlesztette az utastájékoztató rendszert. Ennek keretében megújult a hangos és vizuális utastájékoztató rendszer is. A vizuális kijelzőket teljesen lecserélték. A vasútállomás egyik jelképét, a PRAGOTRON gyártmányú pörgőlapos táblát is lecserélték, mely közel 30 évig szolgált. Mivel ez volt az utolsó ilyen jellegű nagy méretű tábla az országban, megőrzésre félretették. Az összes többi kijelzőt is lecserélték, minden peronra 1 összesítő, vágányonként pedig 2 kis TFT technológiás kijelzőt szereltek fel.
A hangos utastájékoztató rendszer fejlesztése során lecserélik a légi férfi hangot (feltehetőleg Szalóczy Pált) és teljesen új technológiával fogják bemondani a vonatok érkezését, úgy mint Budapesten. Míg a régi rendszer előre felvett szavakat rakott egymás után, addig az új rendszer a begépelt szöveget betűről-betűre fogja felolvasni, úgy mint a Google Fordító. Ennek előnye, hogy bármilyen szöveget be lehet vele mondani.

Fűtőház

Ez a fűtőház volt az MDmotok egyik legnagyobb fűtőháza. A forgalomból kivonásuk után a helyüket főleg Csörgők találhatóak a fűtőházba, de néha Bézék is itt éjszakáznak.

Debreceni helyi közlekedés
A városnak a Segner tér mellett ez a legnagyobb helyi közlekedési csomópontja. A Nagyállomást a következő járatok érintik:
Villamos:
Trolibusz:
Autóbusz:

A villamosok itt eredetileg egy hurokban fordultak. A 2-es villamos elindulása miatt ezt ki kellett bővíteni, hogy az új, hosszú villamosok is gond nélkül elférjenek. A tervezők között sokáig vita folyt, hogy fésűs, vagy hurokvégállomás épüljön. Végül a hurokvégállomást valósították meg, melynek hátránya, hogy az éles ívben a villamosok csikorognak, és a középperonos kialakítású felszállóperon nagyon szűk lett. Ezt később úgy orvosolták, hogy a külső hurok jobb oldalára is építettek peront. Az intermodális csomópont megépülésével a villamosok végállomását újból át fogják alakítani.

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További információk

Hajdú-Bihar megye vasútállomásai
Debrecen közlekedése
Debrecen építményei
Pfaff Ferenc művei
1857-ben megnyílt vasútállomások

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Stephen reports on disappointing Olympic athletes and prepares to interview the only politician from New Jersey who hasn't been accused of corruption.
Accidental Shooting
After a week off, Stephen returns with tragic news: he accidentally shot a friend in the face.
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Anonymous Big 10 Coach Says The Wisconsin Badgers Are Still The Best In The Big 10 West
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David Hookstead Smoke Room Editor-in-Chief
At least one anonymous coach thinks the Wisconsin Badgers are still the crown jewel of the Big 10 West.
Nebraska has been receiving all the hype in the world this offseason, and I have no idea why. You would think the Cornhuskers loaded up on NFL talent without anybody noticing. Well, at least one unnamed coach still recognizes the truth. (RELATED: Wisconsin Coach Paul Chryst Has A 'Pretty Good Idea' Who Will Be The Starting QB)
One unnamed coach told Athlon, "That's still who everyone is shooting for in the West. They're the bell cow of the division even after an off year."
Unfortunately, another pointed out a very obvious flaw in the Badgers game last season when he told Athlon, "Their lack of a passing game hurt them more than they thought it would. You could load the box on them."
That's extremely true. Alex Hornibrook and Jack Coan didn't much at all in the passing game last season.
It's good to know at least one coach knows what's up. I thought I was pretty much the only one left on the planet with a good head left on my shoulders when it came to the B1G West.
Everybody is drinking the Nebraska delusion and just chugging it down without asking any questions. Meanwhile, I'm out here speaking the truth.
It's good to know at least one coach is in agreement.
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The good news is this will all be behind us soon enough. The season gets underway in a few weeks, and it be long before we don't have to hear about Nebraska for the rest of the year.
Can't come soon enough!
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Interview with Craig Power: Using cloud technology for automating isolations
June 29, 2017 NewsBen Creagh
Isolations are a hot topic in the mining space. Not only do they contribute to the cost of major downtime, but they're the first line of safety for people working on hazardous plant. Get them wrong, and people can die. We interviewed Craig Power, the inventor of iSOL8, a patented method for automating isolations using cloud technology, intelligent lock boxes, NFC (Near Field Communication) radio tagging and mobile devices.
To find out more on iSOL8, click here.
Craig, tell us about yourself…
I'm a Mechanical Engineer (FIE), a safety and commissioning expert and the inventor of iSOL8.
What's iOSL8?
iSOL8 is a patented process for isolating industrial plant. More exactly, iSOL8's a formal process for automating isolations using mobile devices.
For our non-technical readers, what's an isolation?
An isolation is a stepwise process for making plant safe so that workers can work on it. Right now, isolations are controlled using workers' personal locks, whose keys are then locked in a lockbox containing the master key to the locks on the isolated plant. Thus the plant can't be de-isolated until all the workers have tagged off.
Why are isolations important?
Isolations are the first line of safety for workers working on dangerous equipment. Isolations ensure that plant is isolated from hazards such as electricity, gas and water and cannot be operated.
Do isolations have cost implications for projects?
Absolutely. The time it takes to safely isolate and de-isolate plant feeds directly into plant downtime. It's not just the lost time cost of the downtime, but the downstream cost of lost production. In the event that an accident does occur, this can be disastrous for workers, the project and for businesses.
Do they have safety implications for workers?
Absolutely. Without stringent isolations, people are at risk of injury or death. It's as real as that. People can die or be seriously injured.
So good isolation positively impacts both safety and cost?
Yes. Some changes increase safety but increase cost. Other changes may reduce safety by reducing cost. Good isolations increase safety and reduce cost. That's ideal.
How can they be improved?
Firstly, by automation. Removing human touch points reduces the risk of human error. That means that the systems also have to be error-free.
Secondly, by providing better management information. The more we know about past isolations, the better we can plan for the future. Isolations planned at the design stage and recorded in systems can flow through operations for the life of the plant. That's a major improvement.
How does your iSOL8 system work?
iSOL8 automates isolations using cloud technology, intelligent lock boxes, NFC (Near Field Communication) radio tagging and mobile devices. Using one App [the Gatekeeper], authorised isolators record the state of safety assets by tapping their smartphone on a tag, like you tap your phone or credit card at the supermarket checkout.
Using another App [the Keymaster] workers can't tag on to work until all the assets associated with an isolation are safe. Using a browser-based back-office system, isolation planners create isolation plans and manage the assets. It's equivalent to physical personal locks, but provided electronically and with structure. We're in the process of building our own intelligent lockbox to facilitate the process.
We have a problem with employees leaving the work area with their isolation locks and tags still in place. How can your electronic solution solve this problem?
An Alarm in the control room and or security gate house is enabled if an employee moves out of a site Geo-Fenced zone and has not removed their electronic lock from the lockbox.
Gatekeeper and Keymaster sound familiar?
In the original Ghostbusters film, Sigourney Weaver played the Gatekeeper of Gozer. Rick Moranis played the Keymaster.
These are also ideal terms for these system components.
You have a patent, but we know technology is fiendishly difficult to patent. What aspects of isolation does your patent cover?
iSOL8's a process. It's independent of any technology solution. Patenting it was a complex and vital undertaking to protect the intellectual property.
But you also have a system?
Mineral Blue produced the iSOL8 system for me. I hope to license the technology to other developers in the future.
Is iSOL8 live anywhere?
Not yet. It's brand-new technology. We are actively seeking partners who recognise and embrace the significant benefits of this system.
What's the resistance?
In any enterprise, there is resistance to change and an unfounded fear of technology. Everyone I've spoken to has been enthusiastic. The increase in safety and production from using iSOL8 will be an important competitive advantage.
The "Key Change" is moving away from using physical personal isolation locks and keys to electronic locking.
What's the future?
That's a big question. The future of iSOL8 is winning a role in the Australian oil & gas and mining industries and then onto international oil and gas, mineral processing and energy markets in the USA and EU. I think that's achievable.
The future of isolations is exciting. Smart locks are coming online that'll enable plant to be isolated at the press of a control room button. iSOL8 slots straight into that model. In the meantime, a major new opportunity is providing real-time data to control panels. We're speaking with Honeywell and Woodside Petroleum about that.
Craig, is there anything you'd like to add?
The big data produced by iSOL8 enables enterprises to conduct detailed analysis of the time stamped activity data such as plant downtime enabling improvements to be made to task scheduling and task implementation and tracking the effective allocation and use of human resources.
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State Sen. Doug Ericksen out of order to approve of a sham foreign election
Originally published September 23, 2018 at 7:01 am Updated September 24, 2018 at 8:35 am
Washington state Sen. Doug Ericksen, R-Ferndale, talking to reporters in February 2017. (AP Photo / Ted S. Warren)
State Sen. Doug Ericksen should not be praising July's flawed elections in Cambodia, which the White House and others have condemned as undemocratic.
The Seattle Times editorial board
Washington state lawmakers should not be lending a false veneer of respectability to Cambodia's recent national election, which most outside observers have decried as a sham.
Yet state Sen. Doug Ericksen, R-Ferndale, doesn't see things that way. In an interview, Ericksen — who said he was invited to observe the July 29 election by members of the Cambodian government — described the voting process there as "amazingly transparent" and "incredibly well conducted." He said he plans to file a report relaying his sunny observations to the country's National Election Committee, a group dominated by members of Cambodia's ruling party.
This is far more insidious than it may seem at first glance. The very presence of elected lawmakers from the United States serving as election monitors contradicts our government's official message that the Cambodian election was not democratic.
The U.S. government and the European Union pulled their financial support for the Cambodian election after the country's main opposition party was dissolved late last year. Neither the United States nor the EU sent official election monitors to observe the vote, which the White House press office denounced as "neither free nor fair." Ultimately, the results were reported as a landslide victory for the party of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has been in power since 1985.
Ericksen should not make a bad situation worse by submitting a report that praises the election and suggests it was legitimate, despite significant evidence to the contrary.
To their credit, two state lawmakers who originally came along — state Reps. Drew MacEwen, R-Union, and Brandon Vick, R-Vancouver — cut their trip short after meeting with the U.S. ambassador to Cambodia and hearing his concerns.
Although Ericksen and Republican state Rep. Vincent Buys of Lynden were at the same meeting, Ericksen said the two of them decided to stay in Cambodia anyway.
Ericksen is a former leader of President Donald Trump's state campaign who has previously expressed hope about receiving a federal appointment. He is running for re-election this fall. Buys, who is also up for re-election, didn't respond to a request for comment.
Cambodia's National Election Committee has been known to recruit fake election monitors in the past to lend credibility to its elections, said Lee Morgenbesser, an assistant professor at Australia's Griffith University who researches authoritarian regimes. The NEC is the same group Ericksen said provided him with an interpreter to take him to polling places in Phnom Penh.
"A positive assessment from an elected official in the United States would be highly sought by any dictatorship, because they could filter that opinion through state-owned and state-directed media to create an impression of the election being free and fair," Morgenbesser wrote in an email.
Ericksen, who said he has never observed any other elections besides his own, should not have allowed himself to be used by Cambodian government in this manner.
And he certainly should not be submitting any reports that praise or validate an election that international experts have loudly denounced as illegitimate.
The Seattle Times editorial board members are editorial page editor Kate Riley, Frank A. Blethen, Jennifer Hemmingsen, Mark Higgins, Derrick Nunnally and William K. Blethen (emeritus).


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Q: SPAN with display block What is the difference between the default <div> element and the default <span> element with display: block?

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*The elements that can be contained in the div or span (making a span display: block doesn't, for example, allow you to put a table inside it)

*The rendering when CSS isn't available

A: <span> defaults to display:inline; whereas <div> defaults to display:block;
That is the only difference between the two, so if you specify display:block; for a span, it will act the way a div normally acts, and vice-versa.
display:inline; makes the element work flow in the text body, whereas display:block; makes it act as a block (oddly enough!).
(note there is also a less well known variant display:inline-block;, which is a half-way house between the two. <img> tags default to this setting)

A: <span> is an inline element by default. That is the <span> element does not generate any breaks before and sfter ir. Also, there are some properties that cannot be applied to inline elements, like height.
<div> is a block level element by default. That is a <div> generates breaks before and after it when rendered.
You can change a block level element into inline and vice versa via the display property.
See this for an explanation of all display properties.

A: There is a difference with regards to validity and semantics of HTML elements. Otherwise they are identical.

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*div and span are both defined as generic containers without deeper meaning in terms of HTML. The one defaulting to block display, the other to inline, since these are the two major groups where almost any other element falls into

*Certain elements must be contained by an element that is defined as a block. This has nothing to do with the CSS display property, but with the semantics of HTML: The general idea is based on inlines being always children of blocks (which is, if you think of it, a good idea in general)

*Now, if you have a span with display:block, it will, in the sense of CSS, act exactly like a div. However, from the semantic point of view, if you embed block level elements inside the span, you are creating invalid HTML, because you nest a block in an inline element.

A: A span element with a style of display: block essentially becomes a div element.  It makes the element's width stretch to fill whatever container it is in.

A: You can found here a definition of the display CSS property.
As stated in this link, the block value indicates that:

The element will generate a block box (a line break before and after the element)

By default, the value of this property is inline which is defined as:

The element will generate an inline box (no line break before or after the element). This is default

A: div is block element and span is inline element. There are two things that deserve attention.

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*Visible behaviour - block formating concepts VS Inline formatting context

*(X)HTML validity relations - basicaly you never should sink block element inside inline, so if you have to create some block behaving elements structure inside a link element (which is inline) use spans and set their display:block via CSS


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New coronavirus cases in Ohio fall below daily three-week average
Eric Lagatta
elagatta@dispatch.com
Sunday appeared to be a slow day for the coronavirus in Ohio, with new cases, deaths and hospitalizations all falling below the three-week daily average.
Ohio tallied 637 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, a significant drop from the three-week daily average of 1,037.
The figure — a decrease from the 1,119 new cases reported Saturday — represents an end to a three-day streak of more than 1,000 new cases statewide. The total number of confirmed and probable cases throughout Ohio now stands at 114,802, according to figures released by the Ohio Department of Health.
Stay informed on the latest coronavirus news. Find our complete coverage at Dispatch.com/topics/coronavirus.
COVID-19-related deaths also saw a dramatic drop from Saturday, with only three new deaths reported across the state. That's well below the three-week average of 21 new deaths a day.
The state has reported a total of 3,978 COVID-19 deaths.
While 59 people were hospitalized on Saturday, just 22 were on Sunday. That represents a significant drop from the three-week average of 90 new hospitalizations a day, bringing the total up to 12,800 hospitalizations in the state. Statewide intensive-care admissions also dropped in 24 hours from 12 to two, another drop below the three-week average of 15 per day.
Franklin County, the most populous county in Ohio, continues to have the most cases with 20,534. Its 553 deaths also lead the state.
Cuyahoga County trails with 14,995 cases and 552 deaths, followed by Hamilton County with 10,533 cases and 281 deaths.
Cuyahoga County, however, leads the state in hospitalizations with 2,338. Franklin County had 1,753 as of Sunday, while Hamilton County reported 1,036.
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Justin Lin Departs 'Fast X' as Production Begins
Justin Lin Departs Fast X Just as Production Begins
Nothing, not even family, lasts forever.
By Justin Kirkland Published: Apr 27, 2022
Throughout the Fast & Furious franchise, the word "family" has been uttered on several occasions. But on Tuesday (April 26), a Fast & Furious family member decided to separate himself from the celebrated film.
Director Justin Lin announced that he will be stepping away from his production duties of film's 10th installment, Fast X. This announcement came days into the film's production.
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Lin released a statement on his decision to leave the film: "With the support of Universal, I have made the difficult decision to step back as director of Fast X, while remaining with the project as a producer." According to a report from The Los Angeles Times, a source close to the publication said that Lin and the studio "cited creative differences." However, the split was amicable.
So who knows the exact reason for Lin's departure. There is no word as to whether or not Lin's decision will affect the 11th installment of the Fast & Furious franchise, in which Lin was also slated to direct.
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— The Fast Saga (@TheFastSaga) April 26, 2022
For outsiders, the news may come as a shock, but for Fast fans, Lin's departure isn't as scary as it sounds. Leading up to F9, the series took a two-film hiatus from Lin's direction, turning directorial duties over to James Wan and F. Gary Gray for the seventh and eighth films, respectively. Lin first joined the franchise for the third installment, Tokyo Drift, directing the next three films. When Lin returned for F9, he came in as a writer, producer, and director.
Despite Lin's departure, we're confident that Fast X will be highly successful.
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Justin Kirkland is a Brooklyn-based writer who covers culture, food, and the South. Along with Esquire, his work has appeared in NYLON, Vulture, and USA Today.


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Q: Initiate image capture using volume button (AVCaptureSession) Now that this functionality is available in iOS5, is it possible to initiate image capture using one of the volume buttons?
I am using AVFoundation framework for my image capture app.
Thanks!

A: Take a photo on the volume-up event when using UIImagePickerController with custom camera controls is used and we have set "showsCameraControls" to NO.
Here, the Notification event name was changed for volumeChanged event , @"AVSystemController_SystemVolumeDidChangeNotification" to @"_UIApplicationVolumeUpButtonDownNotification"
You can find an answer from this link:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/27180527/3759546


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It's been a while since I have paid attention to my good friend 110 Green Street. My buddy Larry da Junkman recently struck up a conversation with the doorman. Apparently they're asking a much more reasonable $1,800 for a one bedroom at this, Greenpoint's most famous, nondo. While still outrageously over-priced at least it is a step in the right direction.
But the Viridian is much more than a poorly planned and executed six story testament to the folly of the north Brooklyn real estate boom (and bust). I learned this when I checked my email last night; it can now list "bird killer" to its list of dubious achievements as well.
This is directly above the bird carcasses (which were removed with 30 minutes of my discovery). My guess is that the birds were fooled by the reflection in the glass. I'm sure this happens all over the city… And probably very little that can be done to avoid this type of collision.
P.S.: Apparently these are Cedar Waxwings. (See comments). Here's what Wikipedia has to say about them.
UPDATE, 2:55 p.m.: Crickey, it would appear someone is moving in!
I'm pretty sure those are Cedar Waxwings. Heartbreaking. They are such beautiful birds. People have had some luck getting some of the big commercial buildings in lower Manhattan to make their windows less lethal, at least during spring and fall migrations. Fall migration has already started.
I am so sorry, these help keep our neighborhood beautiful. How many more will die before the building management does something? Note that sensible mitigation is very cheap and it would be a neighborly gesture to be sure.
oh my god, this is so sad! What beautiful birds! What a shame.
Bombycilla cedrorum, Cedar Waxwings, are beautiful birds. Living specimens are difficult to photograph.
The collisions can be deterred by placing inexpensive polarizing decals on the outsides of the windows. They're transparent and nearly invisible when viewed from the inside. From the outside, the difference in light is enough to let birds know there's something there, and they avoid it.


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8 Cleaning Products You Should Never Mix
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Cleaning days are hard enough. Make sure you avoid these mixtures to prevent accidents or other harm.
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Double the clean
Sometimes it might seem like a good idea to mix different cleaning products to get double to power to clean up messes. Many cleaning products contain chemicals, that when mixed with other chemicals from a different product, can create something toxic. Before you start scrubbing down your bathroom or giving your kitchen countertops a much needed clean make sure you know about these cleaning products you should never mix.
1. Don't mix: Ammonia and bleach
"Never mix bleach and ammonia cleaners. This creates gases called chloramines, which can quickly cause eye, nose and throat irritation, and even death," says Laura, cleaning Pro from TIDY app. "When using bleach diluted with water, wear rubber gloves and eye protection. Open windows and turn on vents to dissipate the toxic fumes." Make sure to read the labels on your cleaning products before you mix them to prevent any accidents. For example, Windex typically has ammonia in it, and some brands of pipe cleaner, such as Drano, have bleach in them.
2. Don't mix: Vinegar and bleach
"Vinegar and chlorine bleach is a killer combination since the main ingredient in the bleach is the alkaline (a.k.a. basic) compound sodium hypochlorite, while vinegar is acetic acid," says Grace, cleaning Pro for TIDY app. It creates chlorine gas which will cause a burning sensation in your eyes, nose, and throat. It can also cause you to feel chest tightness, have difficulty breathing, and cause nausea or vomiting. "In large volumes, the gas has an extremely pungent smell and looks yellow-green, however in small quantities it's almost invisible and this is what actually makes is dangerous," says Grace.
3. Don't mix: Hydrogen peroxide and vinegar
Combining hydrogen peroxide and vinegar creates peracetic acid. It can create an irritant that, in high concentrations, can harm the skin, eyes, throat, nose, and lungs, says Laura. These two products can be used on the same surface (making certain the area dries in between applications), but they can't be mixed together in the same container.
4. Don't mix: Rubbing alcohol and bleach
"Bleach (containing sodium hypochlorite) and rubbing alcohol (a.k.a. isopropyl alcohol) creates heavy, sweet-smelling chloroform as well as hydrochloric acid and chloroacetone," says Grace. When exposed to low levels of chloroform you may become dizzy or nauseous. Higher levels can lead to damage of the nervous system, eyes, lungs, skin, liver, kidneys, and even death. "If you accidentally mix bleach with isopropyl alcohol, exit the room as soon as possible. Wait for the gases to dissipate before you go back in to neutralize and dispose of the waste. Dilute the mixture with large volumes of water and then wash it down the drain."
5. Don't mix: Bleach and toilet bowl cleaner
Mixing an acid-based toilet bowl cleaner with bleach is very dangerous. "Some people may add bleach to the [toilet] bowl, but the combination of bleach with the acid from a toilet bowl cleaner releases chlorine gas," says Sandra, cleaning Pro for TIDY app. "Even at low levels, it irritates eyes, nose, and throat and causes coughing and breathing problems. Very high levels can cause death."
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Most of them contain acid, which, when combined with bleach sets off the chemical reaction," says David, cleaning Pro for TIDY app.. Just like mixing vinegar and bleach, it will produce chlorine gas.
7. Don't mix: Different drain cleaners
If your drain is really clogged, you might be tempted to try this. Don't. "Mixing two types of drain cleaners, which contain acid and other ingredients, can release chlorine gas or other hazardous byproducts," says Sandra. Avoid mixing drain cleaners in the same container as well as using one right after another.
8. Don't mix: Bleach and oven cleaners
"A common active ingredient found in many "off the shelf" oven cleaners is sodium hydroxide (a.k.a. Caustic soda)," says Grace. If you mix both products together you'll produce chlorine gas resulting in eyes, nose, throat, and lung irritation.
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The Begriddled Story
The short version
I came up with Begriddled between December 2018, when I started looking at possibilities of connecting characters in different ways to reveal a hidden design, and 21 February 2019 when the light finally dawned that I could construct logic puzzles that work with the two simple rules I'd established by then.
Two years later, on 12 May 2021 I confirmed to myself I could eliminate one of the two rules at the expense of slightly further limiting the shapes that can be hidden in the puzzles. And so was born the new Begriddled!
The long version
Back story
Something new rarely comes out of a vacuum and this is no exception.
Somewhere about the middle of 2018 I had been playing with the idea of paint-your-own mugs.
That thought had sprung from an earlier one, but unless you stop going back through the "one thing leading to another" thing at some point, you eventually get back to looking up at clouds going by from a pram. Who wants that?
So let's say it sprung from thinking about doing paint-your-own mugs.
That led to me thinking about doing "secret messages on a mug." (It didn't have to be a mug. It could also be a tea towel. Or anything really. But mugs are easy things to paint on.)
First I played with shapes that looked like nothing in particular until you coloured them in as instructed. It sort of worked, as long as you could fit your message into about four characters.
Then, after some time trying hexagons with no great success, I thought I had it when I tried colouring in a grid of squares according to a character within each cell.
That worked reasonably well.
There are 52 upper and lower case letters plus all the other things like numbers and that squiggle character that only nerds like me know the name of. So even after weeding out visually ambiguous ones you are still left with enough to encode more than enough. Top right above the diagonal blue, below it red. That type of thing.
I was able to construct a complete (English) alphabet and a selection of punctuation made up of these encoded squares.
But though it was fun for a bit, and you could get a fair few more characters on a mug than with the earlier idea, it somehow didn't hit the spot.
I wondered about joining together points at the corners of squares in a simple grid pattern using some simple rule, and tried a few things that I couldn't make work very well.
When I tried simply putting numbers at those corner points and joining adjacent numbers that were the same or differed by one (looping back round from 9 to 0) it was frustrating to find it almost worked. Almost is no good.
At last, rules that work
But when I modified the rule so that numbers that are one different join in any direction, but numbers that are the same don't join diagonally, it suddenly looked promising.
I quickly found it was impossible to construct some shapes with those rules, and introduced other characters to fix that.
But it was becoming messy and I decided to work within the restrictions of the two simple rules: numbers that are the same join horizontally and vertically; numbers that differ by one (and 9 back to 0) join diagonally too.
I was surprised at how few impossible-to-construct shapes I could come up with, but remained pretty sure I needed something for situations where it all works except for points where every number results in unwanted lines.
For that I was torn between using an x or a space. I didn't want to use a dot – I reserved that as the one special character. A dot means a dot, and it's so obvious when you see it that it doesn't even need a rule.
But again I found that if I threw away the idea of a special character to mean "no line," I could nearly always get rid of the need of one by fiddling around with surrounding numbers. I've notionally kept that rule – missing number means no line. But it's so dissatisfying that so far I haven't succumbed to its allure and probably now never will.
And so gestation came to an end and a puzzle was born.
Babies tend not to pop out with a name tag, and neither did this.
It's hard to name something, especially when you want it to be new, somehow fitting, short enough to use in a domain name, and for the dot com to actually be available. But name it I eventually did.
I think the name Begriddled does work.
It's a sort of riddle in a grid, if you like, and whatever the numbers are hiding has been, well, begriddled!
And it's quite short.
And the dot com was available.
The first completed puzzle
Other than countless experiments, my very first complete Begriddled puzzle was a 2019 Valentine's day mug for my wife, handed over early out of impatience to see how well it really worked in someone else's hands.
The text was sparse because I still found it hard to position shapes right next to each other without hours of trial and error to get rid of spurious lines.
A surprising new angle
It was also before the logic version was conceived.
Not a glint in the eye yet, let alone born.
But eventually some idle brain cell decided it was about time it made a contribution and in one of those moments in life where you feel triumphant and a bit stupid at the same time (how on earth could someone be playing with this for weeks on end without the possibility of something like that even crossing their mind?) the realisation finally dawned.
So after experiments in the previous couple of days or so to see how practical it might be to "decrypt" a text design without first knowing what numbers join to what, the logic version of Begriddled was finally born on 21 February 2019.
Since then nothing fundamental has changed although I've come up with different forms of Begriddled puzzles using the same rules, and the numbers don't have to be numbers at all – you can use whatever you like.
So will there be another chapter to this story?
Watch this space 🙂
12 May 2021: Another Chapter
Over two years later I had just contacted a number of local magazines with a view to them publishing a regular word-finder Begriddled puzzle.
Having sent just a handful of letters it hit me that it appeared it might just be possible to do away with the rule about joining identical pairs of numbers for this particular puzzle variation. I expected it would be too limiting to be useful.
24 hours later, on 12 May 2021 I had confirmed it worked. I failed to find an example of this particular type of puzzle that I could make with the existing two rules but not with the single rule.
This goes right back to one of the first things I tried with a grid of numbers back in 2018 but which I decided couldn't work at the time. (It was all pencil and paper back then, and without the experience I have now, I failed to get anywhere with it. It looked like it wouldn't be possible to do anything meaningful, until I came up with the second rule, the one I've now been able to ditch.)
It won't work for everything (eg my small lower case character set) but it absolutely does work for my 3 by 3 capital letter character set, and puzzles built using them.
So the new reduced instruction set version of Begriddled was born with just its single rule – join adjacent numbers/characters in the grid that are next to each other in the circular sequence.
Adjacent numbers that are the same and under the (until then) existing rules are treated differently depending whether they are adjacent diagonally (not joined) or not (joined) no longer come into it.
This further limits what can be hidden in a puzzle, but the simplicity of the single rule means that I expect (as I write on 13 May 2021) to now work only with the new form. The biggest general restriction is that there must always be an even number of connections in a closed loop. It's easy to see why. Every join must be between two numbers exactly 1 apart (considering 0 as 10 for the purpose of joining with 9). So joins alternate odd and even. So to get back to the same point in a closed loop there must be an even number of line segments involved else you'd have switched from odd to even or even to odd.
I've a book of Christmas puzzles that I just failed to get out for Christmas 2020. I'll now be reworking that into the new version ready for Christmas 2021. I've also a whole bunch of other puzzles that were ready for another book I'm working on that I'll also need to rework.
August 2021 update: I'm still only working with the reduced rule set but have only been making puzzles that have no horizontally or vertically adjacent pairs or identical numbers. So they can be viewed as puzzles with exactly the same rules as there always were, but where the second rule is just not needed. I prefer that approach over including pairs of same numbers that previously would have joined but now don't, because it leaves the door open to doing more of the original puzzles, which I still like and which you can do more with.
Nick Rice
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Amen to Art: Amenra's Colin H. van Eeckhout
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Photo credit: Milton Stille
With the evolution of aggressive music being the curious beast it is, it's often hard to assess what makes an effective act so poignant. Belgium's Amenra serves as a perfect example of this, melding brooding atmosphere with a visceral, unrelenting carnage that transcends what words can afford.
After almost two decades as a band, Amenra made their Vancouver debut on July 7th, 2018, proceeding to tear the roof off the Commodore Ballroom, in support of Neurosis and Converge. To acknowledge the occasion, we threw a few questions at the outfit. Ever insightful vocalist Colin H. van Eeckhout was happy to indulge us with responses
-- Milton Stille
How does it feel to be back on this side of the pond to play some shows?
We are super stoked to be here again, we've been deprived of this part of the world for five years! But we intend on coming back here as much as we can now. It's a god's gift for us to be on tour with two bands who inspired us like no other. Neurosis and Converge both redefined heavy music in their own. So, it's still a little unbelievable for us to be considered as equals by them, let alone be their friends.
It is a humbling experience.
Your publicist mentioned that you played a couple of shows in NYC before joining up with the other bands to kick the tour off, and now that I'm looking it up, it's saying that the first show is already sold out. That's got to feel like something of a warm welcome. Do you have many other shows in North America booked beyond this tour?
We have a lot of friends living there, in Brooklyn. We always feel more than welcome. They helped us out big time when our guitars failed to show up for the first show, they moved mountains for us, to make it possible for us to do that show. It was amazing to do the shows there, and spend some days at one city. You know, mostly we arrive halfway through the day, and leave immediately after the show. So, it was awesome for us to spend some quality time together as well.
No dates yet, we're looking into doing a full-blown headline tour in 2019, Our friend Nathan Carson of Nanotear will be helping us out with that. We are really looking forward to that. we'll be able to play longer sets!
If I'm not mistaken, last summer's tour was your first of North America in quite some time. While it didn't make it to Vancouver, the run must have been a good one if you, Converge and Neurosis saw fit to do it again. Any particular stand out shows on that tour?
For us they all stood out, I mean, it's not common to be treated so well on an opening tour. Our friends in Converge let us use their backline, we share a bus, etc. That helps us out an awful lot. We cannot wish a better way to explore the USA as a band, we play for huge respectful crowds.
Philadelphia had a beautiful venue, for instance. The two shows in Chicago were awesome. They all were, really. The hangouts in the morning. Late night dinners.
What do you know about Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada? I saw you played in Toronto last summer... Does this make it your second time playing in Canada?
Nothing whatsoever :). Just hung around the venue, so no real eye-openers for us unfortunately. Maybe next time. We did Montreal and Toronto twice up until now. Feels quite familiar of course, since a lot of people speak French there. And it feels sort of European. We have good friend living there, so it's always nice to catch up with them.
Most people I've talked to about touring Europe have told me that there's a world of difference in how bands are treated there, in comparison to over here. Being from Europe, what's your impression of this?
I can only follow your impression. Getting drinks and food, is rather obvious in Europe. We are treated like kings really. Logistics, light and sound systems are off the charts there. Small distances between cities.
But when you tour the US or the UK you know what to expect. Our sound engineer Hein is probably one of the best in the whole damn world but since we are only an opening band here, they sometimes treat him as if he is incapable. And then you have to center yourself, you know. Go to a happy place in your head, it's funny, we have a lot of funny situations.
Photo credit: Stephan Vanfleteren
Does anything in particular stand out to you in terms of differences between North American and European audiences?
Well, you definitely feel that a lot of them here, are oblivious to the fact that we exist, let alone know that we've been around for twenty years almost. But we are here now to change that.
A lot of people travelled long distances to see us, and that's heartwarming to hear. There is a lot of love everywhere.
We are here to touch hearts, be heard. There is no such thing as a Euro audience, that differs from country to country, city to city.
You're known for taking your time with your output. While one can't really say the band's ever been truly inactive, the duration of your album cycle tends to be a bit longer than that of most active bands. Is this just the nature of your writing process, or does everyone just have so much on the go?
Yes, we like to take the time to write something that matters, you know. Something that is truly valuable in our life. We wait out the right timing, if we don't have anything worthy to write about we don't. We have an awful lot of other projects, or solo projects, like Oathbreaker, Wiegedood, Syndrome, CHVE, Absent in Body, etc. And we do a lot of things that pass by under the radar, some of us do music for a contemporary dance piece, a lot of soundtracks for film, special ritual gatherings, and so on.
You're also known for the prominence of your visuals, both onstage and in terms of your albums having striking artwork. To what extent would you consider that to be a part of the music itself, as opposed to merely being an added touch?
Our aesthetic is in my humble opinion a big part of the whole. We want to use art to its full extent. We do not want to limit ourselves to strictly one art form. All the different angles, be it our artwork from releases, live visuals… Everything we create comes from the same place. The core. The essence, of all beings… Everything should tell our story by itself and added together it should become clearer than anything. Word, sound, and visually, it should all make perfect sense, and speak to you like nothing else in this world.
Do you find it interesting to be sharing the stage with Neurosis, whose visuals on stage were integral to their performances for the majority of their career, but have now moved away from employing them?
Of course it's interesting and intriguing to see, what steps our forefathers take. There is no denying that they gave us direction like no other. And them embracing us along the way, is the highest compliment we could ever have gotten.
The US tour we are doing know comes by the grace of them. They allow us to partake in the most beautiful times of our lives, on the road.
I think I was first introduced to your band about six years ago, and since that time I'd say that people I'm talking to will mention you guys more and more frequently. In terms of recognition, is this something that you as a band are conscious of?
We are, and we are not, at the same time... but it will always be hard to see your evolution as a band. You always feel like that 16-year-old hardcore kid that just started his band, you know?
We merely continue doing what we did when we were teenagers.
We are always too centered. We cannot take a distance and see it for ourselves. We have to trust the people outside our circle, that determine how 'big' your band is or is becoming.
What's next for the band after this tour?
Lots of shows, now is the time for us to prove to the world that we exist. We have a lot of EU shows coming, then we go on a Japanese, Australian, and NZ tour. To tour EU again, and then come back to the states. We will be entering 20 years of existence as a band next year, and we are looking into organizing some special concerts or gatherings ourselves, to mark the occasion.
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Hibbing native Eli Tintor, who played for the Twins' Class A team in Beloit this season, has been suspended for 50 games for failing a drug test, the team announced Monday.
Tintor, who tested positive for a drug of abuse, will serve his suspension at the beginning of the 2008 season. He hit .286 with five home runs in the Midwest League this season, and was not invited to play for the Twins' fall league or instructional league teams.
Drafted out of Hibbing in the 18th round of the 2003 draft, Tintor has been a catcher and outfielder for the Twins.
Tintor is the second Twins prospect to be suspended under the minor league drug policy this season. New Britain pitcher Anthony Swarzak served a 50-game suspension over the season's first three months.


In "Who we are" unit of inquiry, Grade 6 starts to look through gallery walk of developed countries and predict what cities are. Then they discuss what values need as citizen to contribute in developing country to have similar quality of life such as facilitation, belief of families that can support community values, and individual goal setting. Grade 6 students will make their own reading goal and do action with keep reading books.


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Kim Jong Un's Ascent (2): Rocket Launch as a Sign of a Power Struggle?
Here is part one, where I argued that Kim's rise scrambles our conventional wisdom on NK, opening a lot of unexpected room, at least early in his tenure, to try to deal. The cold war stand-off in Korea is now so bad, that there is little to lose in trying to talk with him, and it would seem like a huge missed opportunity to simply blow him off as identically awful to his father. For my regular argument that negotiating with Kim Jong Il was impossible, try here and here (or if you'd rather just read about the ridiculous Homefront video game, try this).
The tentative 'Leap Day deal,' from the recent US-NK high level talks, of aid for a nuclear halt, represents just such a possible opening. As predicted, the extreme centralization of NK allowed a dramatic policy U-turn once Kim Jong Il was replaced. The deal is tentative, but it is almost certainly a direct consequence of the change at the very top. It is hard to imagine that Kim Jong Il would have agreed to this; his prestige was too tied to the nuclear program. So if Kim Jong Un is already willing to deal, only ten weeks after his father's death, this is very promising. It hints at wider possibilities for change. A new leader with such wide policy-making authority, who is not yet heavily tied to the nuclear program, military, or other vested interests, is encouraging. Talks should be pursued, if only because confrontation is always an easy fall-back position. The threatened rocket launch might also be interpreted in this way. Vested interests in NK (probably the military), worried about any opening or change, are pushing back. Rather than reading the contradictory progression from Leap Day deal to rocket launch as typical NK back-and-forth shenanigans justifying the cancellation of the Leap Day deal, it might instead be a sign of the widely-expected post-Kim Jong Il power struggle. If so, then abandoning the Leap Day deal over the rocket launch would set back Kim Jong Un internally against the military. But it is so frustratingly hard to tell.
Hawks will argue that Kim's room to move is less wide than I suggest. He will clearly face constraints, from the military, and from the regime elite's expectation that he will keep the kleptocracy rolling. Worse, in the back of the mind of everyone associated with the extreme repression of the DPRK is the fate of Gaddafi, Ceausescu, and the Nazi war criminals. So the new Kim is not likely a Gorbachev, because no one in Pyongyang wants to face an Arab Spring-style uprising, or SK post-unification courts with access to the death penalty. But Kim will also have room to change course, simply because the regime requires his lineage. Many observers expect a radical course change would provoke a coup. And indeed it is likely that Kim Jong Un's toughest years will be his earliest. There is almost certain to be a power struggle to establish the pecking order of the new regime. But Kim Jong Un will likely be retained regardless. With the collapse of communism, juche and other legitimizing ideologies, the Kim family cult is central to the DPRK as we understand it today. It is almost impossible to imagine a recognizable NK without a Kim monarch, as that is now the effective legitimating ideology of the country.
Hence a military backlash to any changes by the new Kim will be limited by the need of the regime to keep him and his family. While the military might be tempted to 'evolve' into a junta like Burma and dispose of the Kims, that would be uniquely risky in this case. The standing alternative of unification with SK requires that NK continually gin up unique and extreme justifications for its separate, poorer existence. The Kim god-cult provides this. It is therefore unlikely the Kims will be replaced, and if Kim survives the coming years as more than a figurehead, he will increasingly set the tone of NK foreign policy as his father did.
Hence engaging with him now is a unique chance to draw him out early, before he is locked into routines by other regime elements. International engagement and success may generate internal legitimacy for him and may vest him in further international successes as a route to greater legitimacy and autonomy when those around him seek to control him for his youth and inexperience. There is much to gain from a major SK-US-Japanese effort to engage the new Kim and little to lose, as the standoff with NK is already in deep freeze.
Clearly negotiations will follow the established pattern of inch-by-inch concession and counter-concession. Kim Jong Il's unexpected death does not alter the North's ministerial or bureaucratic players for talks, at least not yet. The regime is still desperately dependent on foreign imports of almost every variety, and Kim Jong Un apparently shares his father's outsized appetites. The usual gimmicks and twists will certainly apply, but these are now old hat for American and SK negotiators. After twenty years of this, it is extremely unlikely that the democracies will get conned at the renewed Six Party Talks. There is no reason not to try. The new Kim is probably no Gorbachev, but what do we have to lose?
At the one of countless conferences I have attended on the NK question, a colleague once remarked that just about every theory, idea, concept, bargaining tactic, negotiating ploy, gimmick, and other tactic has been thrown at NK over the years to no avail. At this point, we're so desperate that we'll try almost anything that has a chance of moderating the regime. This is, however disturbing, correct. As Churchill said, 'jaw-jaw is better than war-war,' and NK is so cruel, capricious, indecipherable, and dangerous, that just about anything that offers a chance to temper the regime is worth a try at this point. This does not mean the Six Party democracies should 'undersell' concessions to get any deal at all, but it does mean that we should be constantly trying to engage NK, always suggesting ideas, looking for opportunities. Like Europe's militaries before WWI, the militaries in the peninsula are highly attuned to each other's moves. The risk of escalation from a spark like Yeonpyeong is pronounced. The democracies should negotiate from a position of strength, but they should return to the Six Party Talks given this extremely unique opportunity.
Cross-posted at Duck of Minerva and Korean National Defense University.
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Sam on April 16, 2012 at 3:20 pm said:
"As predicted, the extreme centralization of NK allowed a dramatic policy U-turn once Kim Jong Il was replaced. The deal is tentative, but it is almost certainly a direct consequence of the change at the very top. It is hard to imagine that Kim Jong Il would have agreed to this; his prestige was too tied to the nuclear program."
I find it hard to agree with you that the centralization of power in NK allows for dramatic policy U-turns. While polities with few "veto players" have certainly shown to be, policy-speaking, unstable at times (Indonesia under Suharto is coming to mind), I think that for all the economic instability North Korea has seen during the past decades (i.e. fall of the Soviet Union, droughts, famines, etc.), the political system, in contrast, has actually proved to be one of the most stable in the world, with the main policies of the regime having pretty much remained unchanged for the past 60+ years.
Concerning the food-aid-for-stopping-of-nuclear-program rhetoric, unless I am wrong this has happened in the past 20 years a pretty good number of times. And if I am correct the leader at that time was Kim Jong-Il. I think the international community has had ample time to realize that this is just a political game NK is playing to extract some concessions from Western powers. Seems like Kim Jong-Un the son is just following his father's footsteps, or whoever is influencing the young generalissimo behind the scenes.
In any case, keep up the good work, I enjoy reading your blog.
Robert E Kelly on April 16, 2012 at 7:42 pm said:
I agree they have been pretty consistent over the years, but that doesn't mean it must be so because of institutional constraints. KJI choose to be consistent, ie, consistently a dangerous, nuclear megalomaniac.
Sadly, I am starting to think the KJU may indeed be sliding right into that dangerous megalomaniac role too, as you say. Maybe not. It's still early. Admitting the rocket failure was pretty remarkable, but on the whole so far, it doesn't look good.
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