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UFC 165 Preview
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The UFC will see another championship go up for grabs in a season that has seen more changes than ever. The era of the dominant champion seems to be on its way out as two very good champions have already lost their belts. The latest would be Benson Henderson who lost his lightweight belt to Anthony Pettis at UFC 164. Henderson was considered the first truly dominant champion in the UFC as the most talented division had found it hard to find a champion to defend their belt. Before that the man considered the most dominant champion in the history of the UFC would lose his belt. Anderson Silva was the man many believed would retire with his middleweight belt as their never seemed to be anyone that was able to beat him. Chris Weidman would do the impossible and would beat Anderson Silva ending the reign of the Middleweight champion. The war on the dominant champions in the UFC has begun and so far the score is 2-0 for the challengers. Now the Light Heavyweight Championship is on the line with another dominant champion looking to keep the streak going. Jon Jones is now considered the top pound-for-pound fighter in the world after Anderson Silva's loss and he will look to prove it by winning his sixth straight Light Heavyweight title defence. It won't be easy for him though as the UFC has placed his toughest opponent yet in front of him. Jones has become one of the most dominant champions in the UFC using his physical gifts. He is not only a very strong and well-rounded fighter but his wingspan keeps fighters at bay and does not let them get in close to unleash punches. This is what he has used to his advantage to get wins as he continues to be too long for many of the challengers. Now he faces a fighter that is an inch taller than him at 6'5" in Alexander Gustafsson. The height and reach advantage is gone for Jones and now he will show what he is truly made of. Gustafsson has used this height advantage much like Jon Jones as he has risen to a 6-fight win streak against some good opponents. His fight streak has seen his reach and height be used to its full advantage. Like Jones he has been able to keep opponents on the outside and keep these fighters in his range but stay out of theirs. Gustafsson loves to strike and use this reach to his advantage earning three KOs in his UFC career. His ground game is not too bad either as he has earned 2 Submissions along with his KOs. He will look to use his striking ability against Jones giving the champion something that he has never faced before in a fighter that can meet his reach. As a result of this Jones may look to take the fight to the ground and use his wrestling background to win the ground game. He will try to establish the ground and pound and take advantage of the lack of experience that Gustafsson has on the ground. If Jones does stay standing he may just get the advantage for his sheer creativeness but may want to think twice as many of the things that he has been able to do might not be possible without the reach. The fight will be an interesting one as Jones tries to prevent being the next big champion to lose and will face his toughest competition yet. Although Gustafsson will be a big challenge Jones will win this fight in a Unanimous Decision that will give him the record for Light Heavyweight Title defences.
The title fights are not limited to the main event at UFC 165 with the interim Bantamweight title also on the line. Interim champion Renan Barao continues to wait for the Bantamweight Champion Dominick Cruz to return from a lengthy absence. Cruz continues to recover from an ACL injury and recurring surgeries that have kept him out of the UFC for two years. In his absence Renan Barao would take over the championship for the time being. As the interim champion Barao is essentially fighting every fight to remain the #1 contender in the Bantamweight division. He has kept the interim belt through two fights so far beating Urijah Faber to earn the belt and beating Michael McDonald to retain the belt. Now with Cruz planning on returning in February Barao may only have one more fight until he can earn the belt for real. Standing between him and the real belt is Eddie Wineland who is looking to snatch the belt and the title shot from the grasps of Barao. Wineland has only put together two wins in a row but both of those wins were against impressive opponents in Brad Pickett and Scott Jorgensen. With a combination of solid wrestling and vicious striking Wineland has worked his way through some of the toughest in the division. It will be a classic matchup with Barao looking to take the fight to the ground and end with a submission while Wineland will likely try to KO the interim champion. Whoever does come on top will earn a chance against Dominick Cruz in his return from a 2-year absence for the chance to remove the interim from the title.
Main Event:
Jon "Bones" Jones vs. Alexander "The Mauler" Gustafsson (PPV)
Main Card:
Renan "The Baron" Barao vs. Eddie Wineland (PPV)
Brendan "The Hybrid" Schaub vs. Matt Mitrione (PPV)
Costa Philippou vs. Francis "Limitless" Carmont (PPV)
Pat "Bam Bam" Healy vs. Khabib "The Eagle" Nurmagomedov (PPV)
Undercard:
Mike "The Martian" Ricci vs. Myles "Fury" Jury (Sportsnet 360/Fox Sports 1)
Ivan "The Pride of El Salvador" Menjivar vs. Wilson Reis (Sportsnet 360/Fox Sports 1)
Chris "The Menace" Clements vs. Stephen "Wonderboy" Thompson (Sportsnet 360/Fox Sports 1)
Mitch Gagnon vs. Dustin "The Diamond" Kimura (Sportsnet 360/Fox Sports 1)
John "The Bull" Makdessi vs. Renee Forte (Facebook)
Michael "Tractor" Prazeres vs. Jesse "The Body Snatcher" Ronson (Facebook)
Roland Delorme vs. Alex "Bruce Leeroy" Caceres (Facebook)
Nandor "The Hun" Guelmino vs. Daniel Omielanczuk (Facebook)
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An acceleration of energy transition is urgently needed to combat further climate change, and all possible steps must be taken to bring that about. Qurrent is one of the many sustainable energy initiatives that DOEN has supported to that end. In 2018, following seven years of rapid growth and development, DOEN will give more impact to the innovative initiatives of this green energy pioneer by transferring its shares to Greenchoice.
€11.9 Million of the contribution from the Deamfund was devoted to setting up and developing Qurrent – a fully owned subsidiary of the DOEN Foundation – while €1.6 Million was assigned to HIER Opgewekt. Qurrent started as a dream, and was set up with the firm ambition to achieve large-scale reductions in the CO2 emissions of Dutch households through saving electricity and generating their own sustainable energy. In previous years, DOEN had seen that there were plenty of technical possibilities and that very many households were interested but, to our growing frustration, very few results had been achieved.
Qurrent started with the Qbox, a device to monitor energy consumption in the home. As their own energy company, customers were offered a total concept for generating and saving electricity. The business plan was further refined in 2013 with a major focus on building a customer group that could themselves contribute to the energy transition. In order to give both customer and electricity company the same objective of saving as much power as possible and generating power themselves, no profit was earned on supplying energy. Many customers decided to take part, but, in order to achieve real change, Qurrent had to be developed further. DOEN made an extra €7.2 Million available for this over the years.
In order to involve customers more, the Qurrent Co-operative was set up, of which all Qurrent customers automatically became members. In the Co-operative, they work together to generate electricity that cannot be generated in the home. Now, the Hellegatsplein wind farm has four turbines, each producing three megawatts. Their construction was funded by a loan from the Triodos Bank and DOEN Participaties BV. Now, in 2018, the co-operative is the biggest of its kind in the Netherlands. Members can share in a solar farm or buy an affordable share in a wind turbine in Qurrent's own wind farm.
Qurrent supplies totally 'green' energy at cost price. For the fourth year running, the Consumentenbond (the Dutch Consumer Association) and Greenpeace have ranked Qurrent the greenest energy supplier in the Netherlands. And as well as supplying energy, Qurrent actively helps customers to generate and save electricity. Thanks to Qurrent a growing movement of more than 120,000 customers has arisen in a short time, but the ambition is even greater. That's why Qurrent has been Feyenoord's main sponsor since 2017 and its Kuip stadium has switched completely to green energy.
On 11 March 2018, TV weatherman Piet Paulusma opened the first Buurtmolen, or Neighbourhood Turbine, in the Netherlands in the town of Herbaijum in Friesland. No less than 460 local residents are proud owners. They benefit from the lowest electricity prices in the Netherlands, because no energy tax has to be paid. The turbine was financed by crowdfunding, with additional donations from a local fund. This meant that the co-owners of the neighbourhood turbine did not need to invest in advance, but could purchase electricity straight away.
In August, DOEN announced that it wanted to sell its entire shareholding to Greenchoice, in order to provide Qurrent's initiatives with more impact. This joining of forces has enabled Qurrent's innovative energy generation and saving initiatives (120,000 customers) to reach Dutch consumers faster. The missions of both energy companies match each other perfectly. As a new shareholder, Greenchoice (with over 400,000 customers) will soon benefit from Qurrent's pioneering work and innovations. Together they can work more efficiently and invest even more in their green mission.


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Yeah...I already told you once! ::Sigh:: Keep the chonge...
Let's do this thing, tonight's Post-It says, and I quote, "Moments," "Checks," "nWo," "Countdown," "EZE," "Soaps," "Magicard," "Talking Teddy," and "XX119."
Come on down, let's have some fun...
[-] In the weeks leading up to Dwayn-O Johnson's return to SmackDown they showed, "People's Moments." Ugh. Ugh, Ugh, Ugh, Ugh, Ugh, Ugh, Ugh. I didn't need a three-minute montage of his stupid songs. If I had wanted to throw up I would have eaten the stuff in the back back BAAACK of the fridge, OK? OK.
[-] The newest Sprint ad pisses me off. "It's a broken bear!" FUCK YOU! Stupid little girl. If I were her parents I would have locked her in the shed for being such a whiny little bitch. Another thing that makes me sick.
[-] How exactly stupid can soap operas get?? I swear, I'm watching NBC and I see an ad for one of their moron soaps that ends with the phrase, "Have aliens landed in ::town::?" And they show the "aliens", two acting school rejects who look like something you'd find on MST3K. Male and female, in gold lame suits with concentric silver semi-circles protruding from each shoulder. It had B-Movie leftovers written all over it. I would have laughed out loud except it was late at night and my parents were asleep.
[-] I only have to wake up for work 12 more times. I declare now, if any of you ever decide to get a job at Wal-Mart, may god have mercy on your soul. August 1st can not come soon enough.
[-] I finally got my checks a few days ago, and the first thing I did was order WWF checks. Yes, that's right, WW
. I emailed FanChecks and asked and they said that they'll be changing it soon, but they hadn't changed it yet. So I got the WWF Logo set, which is three WWF styles and a Raw is War style, and the WWF leather checkbook cover. Check 101 was the payment check, check 102 was the voided check. It was sweet.
[-] I went bowling on Friday night and scored a personal best of 119, in a game that included 2 strikes in a row. Not as good as Sean, but oh well, I'm proud of myself.
[-] I HATE the ad for the Orlando Magicard. That girl just irks me. "$500! That's like a Zillion!" Oh Shut Up! You are the most annoying child on television since that Welch's grape juice girl. And that's bad, folks.
[-] Eric Frickin' Bischoff...
[-] And finally, from the "As suddenly as they appeared they were gone" Department, the nWo. Tonight on Raw Vince makes a totally random-seeming announcement that the nWo era is over. Last week they were strong as ever, threatening Triple H, fighting in a match, on Bottom Line Coach mentioned the ultimatum made to The Game...now what, "The nWo Era is Over!" Somethin just ain't right...
I hope it's cool where you are, cause it's humid as ape fuck here...
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Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (October 4, 1841 – March 23, 1924) was an American autodidact physicist and meteorologist. He was the first professor hired at The Ohio State University in 1873 and the superintendent of the .
Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (October 4, 1841 – March 23, 1924) was an American autodidact physicist and meteorologist. Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1889 to 1894. Alongside his work, he was also an advocate for the adoption of the metric system by the United States.
Thomas Corwin Mendenhall II (born July 10, 1910 in Madison, Wisconsin – died July 18, 1998 on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts) was a professor of history at Yale University, the sixth President of Smith College, and the leading authority on the history of collegiate rowing in the United.
Thomas Corwin Mendenhall II (born July 10, 1910 in Madison, Wisconsin – died July 18, 1998 on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts) was a professor of history at Yale University, the sixth President of Smith College, and the leading authority on the history of collegiate rowing in the United States.
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Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, rowing's foremost American historian and former president of Smith College, dies . The sport always had his passionate attention, and among his books are ''A Short History of American Rowing'' and ''The Harvard-Yale Boat Race 1852-1924.
Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, rowing's foremost American historian and former president of Smith College, dies at age 88; photo (M. The boat race book went beyond that event and justified its subtitle, ''The Coming of Sport to the American College. Mr. Mendenhall also wrote ''Have Oar Will Travel,'' a history of Yale's 1956 crew team, which won an Olympic gold medal in Melbourne, Australia. Mrs. Mendenhall recalled that her husband was always busy when he was teaching.
by Thomas C. Mendenhall. Select Format: Hardcover. ISBN13:9780891820260. Release Date:October 1980. Publisher:Charles River Books.
"A Short History of American Rowing", (1981). "Making history come alive: the place of history in the schools", by James Howard and Thomas Mendenhall; report of the History Commission of the Council for Basic Education (1982). "Harvard-Yale boat race, 1852-1924, and the coming of sport to the American college" (1993).
Mendenhall Correspondence. Thomas Corwin Mendenhall Papers, 1851-1951. Short description of collection. This collection documents the activities of Thomas Corwin Mendenhall in physics, seismology, geodesy, etc. It contains voluminous amounts of correspondence relating to societies such as the American Physical Society and the National Academy of Sciences.
Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, American physicist and meteorologist, the first to propose the use of a ring pendulum for measuring absolute gravity. Thank you for your feedback.
Thomas Corwin Mendenhall II (born July 10, 1910 in Madison, Wisconsin – died July 18, 1998 on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts) was a professor of history at Yale University . A Short History of American Rowing, (1981)
Thomas Corwin Mendenhall II (born July 10, 1910 in Madison, Wisconsin – died July 18, 1998 on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts) was a professor of history at Yale University, the sixth President of Smith College, and the leading authority on the history of collegiate rowing in the United States. A Short History of American Rowing, (1981). Making history come alive: the place of history in the schools, by James Howard and Thomas Mendenhall; report of the History Commission of the Council for Basic Education (1982). Harvard-Yale boat race, 1852-1924, and the coming of sport to the American college (1993).
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Emergency Commission votes to redistribute $221M in virus aid
AMY R. SISK
Members of the North Dakota Emergency Commission approved spending on Friday of CARES Act funds to state agencies. At the meeting were, from right, Joe Morrissette, director of the Office of Management and Budget, Secretary of State Al Jaeger and Gov. Doug Burgum.
TOM STROMME, TRIBUNE
State leaders voted Friday to reallocate $221 million in federal coronavirus relief to a host of state agencies to spend on everything from businesses' virus mitigation measures to education to fracking.
The North Dakota Emergency Commission approved the money, which stems from the $1.25 billion awarded to the state through the Coronavirus Relief Fund established by the federal CARES Act. The proposals from 33 state offices and colleges will now go to the legislative Budget Section for final approval. The body of 43 lawmakers next meets Wednesday.
The money approved Friday had already been distributed, but it was returned by state agencies who, for various reasons, were unable to spend all the money as it was originally designated. The money must be used by the end of 2020.
Some of the big-ticket items this time around include $33 million for education, much of it in the form of grants for virus-related needs including technology, mental health support, professional development, personnel costs, building improvements and recruiting workers. Another $29 million would go to the Department of Commerce's economic resiliency grants, which the agency is distributing to businesses across the state to purchase equipment and make modifications to prevent the virus from spreading.
The treasurer's office would distribute $61 million to counties and cities to help with law enforcement costs and other needs.
The Oil and Gas Division plans to award $16 million in grants to oil companies for the acquisition and disposal of water used in the hydraulic fracturing process. Regulators say the grants would lead to more wells drilled, helping to create jobs and stabilize oil production until mid-2021. Higher oil production would bring in more state revenue through production, extraction and sales taxes, State Mineral Resources Director Lynn Helms said.
The proposal to support fracking has been criticized by environmentalists and the North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party. Sen. Tim Mathern, D-Fargo, in a statement Thursday called the proposal "an incredible misuse of tax dollars that could help small businesses or independent contractors struggling to stay open or working families barely able to afford rent."
The Emergency Commission is made up of six people, including the governor, secretary of state and legislative leaders. All are Republicans.
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On March 26, the Mills art community lost one of its most revered and prolific members when professor Anna Valentina Murch died of cancer. Murch had been at Mills for 22 years and created art installations around the world.
Murch was born in Scotland and grew up in England, where she earned a B.A. at the University of Leicester, a masters degree from the Royal College of Art in London and a second masters degree at the Architectural Association in London. In 1988, Murch married Doug Hollis, an environmental artist; the two collaborated on numerous art installations until Murch's death. Murch's art can be seen in numerous places throughout the US and Europe. While at Mills, she was awarded numerous faculty grants and served as the Joan Danforth Chair of Studio Art from 2005 to 2007.
Catherine Wagner, professor of studio art, was a colleague of Murch's for about 20 years.
To commemorate Murch, MFA students Veva Edelson and Malena Lopez-Maggi recently collaborated on an art project they hoped would provide emotional release for the community. Together, the two created a hearth using wood that they charred in a Japanese technique called shou sugi-ban; traditionally, this process involves charring the wood, cooling it, cleaning it and finishing with natural oil, which is done to create a layer of protection over the wood. According to Lopez-Maggi, the hearth was inspired by a 1514 etching by Alfred Durer called Melancholia I. The hearth has a slot at the top where students and community members can place notes or messages for Murch or about their grief.
Murch was Lopez-Maggi's advisor and mentor; she described Murch as "radiant" and as a "pillar" of the Mills art community.
Although Edelson only had the opportunity to work with Murch for one semester, she felt that Murch was able to offer insight about her students' work and was extremely perceptive and inspiring.
Lopez-Maggi agreed that Murch's work was unique, as were her thought processes.
A memorial was held on May 4 at the Mills College Art Museum for Murch. During the memorial, the hearth constructed by Edelson and Lopez-Maggi was burned as a way of metaphorically releasing the community's grief. To learn more about Anna Valentina Murch and her work, visit her website.
This post appeared in The Campanil's special Commencement issue which came out on Tuesday, May 6. For more graduation-related posts, check out The Campanil's designated 2014 Commencement webpage here or click on the "Commencement" link in the upper right hand corner of the header.


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Harnessing Technology to Improve K-12 Education
Aaron Chatterji
Benjamin F. Jones
Associate Professor, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
Associate Professor of Management & Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Despite the facts that innovation has spurred increases in productivity in many sectors of the economy and that there is consensus on the importance of improved educational outcomes for publicly educated students, research and development around technology-based innovation in educational has been scant. When innovations are developed, they often suffer from sluggish adoption rates by school systems that cannot accurately gauge the benefits to students, and therefore cannot justify the cost or time investment.
To promote tech-enabled innovations within the education sector—particularly in the face of opportunities presented by the Common Core State Standards and broadband accessibility—a national, nonprofit EDU STAR system could be created to undertake rapid yet scientifically rigorous evaluation of novel approaches and new systems. The resulting analysis, made broadly available nationwide, would allow educators and administrators to make timely and informed decisions about a particular innovation's ability to meet the needs of their student populations.
Technological progress has consistently driven remarkable advances in the U.S. economy, yet K–12 education sees little technological change compared to other sectors, even as U.S. K–12 students increasingly lag behind students in other nations. This proposal considers how we can take a signature American strength—innovation—and apply it to K–12 education. We argue that the advent of Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and broadband Internet create promising opportunities for developing new learning technologies but that a fundamental obstacle remains: the effectiveness of learning technologies is rarely known. Not surprisingly, when no one knows what works, schools are unlikely to buy, and innovators are unlikely to create. Our proposed EDU STAR system will solve this problem by (a) undertaking rapid, rigorous, and low-cost evaluations of learning tools and (b) reporting results to the public. Coupling Internet-based real-time evaluation systems (demonstrated daily by many leading companies) with trusted reporting (modeled by Consumer Reports and others), the proposed EDU STAR platform will help schools make informed learning technology decisions and substantially reduce entry barriers for innovators. EDU STAR will bring together K–12 schools, teachers, and innovators and continually improve this critical foundation for economic prosperity.
Strategy Paper
Innovation is the Key to Better Education
A Dozen Economic Facts About K-12 Education
Learning from the Successes and Failures of Charter Schools
Back to School: Promoting Attainment and Achievement in K-12 Education
Strategy Paper Sep 21, 2012
Strategy Paper Feb 14, 2007
An Education Strategy to Promote Opportunity, Prosperity, and Growth
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Investing in the Best and Brightest: Increased Fellowship Support for American Scientists and Engineers
Economic Facts Oct 9, 2018
A Dozen Facts about Immigration
Economic Analysis Apr 20, 2015
Profiles of Change: Employment, Earnings, and Occupations from 1990-2013
Economic Analysis Mar 30, 2015
Increasing Education: What it Will and Will Not Do for Earnings and Earnings Inequality


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No, we don't actually mean drop England's Churchillian skipper from the team - we haven't entirely lost touch with what remains of our senses, we mean one place in the batting order.
That's the subject of our latest piece for All Out Cricket. And not before time either, as our creative juices have been thwarted for the recent past, which means that our weekly column for AOC has been non-existent these last couple of weeks. Birthdays, work, our lovely but challenging children and to be honest a bit of writer's block have all taken their toll on Reverse Sweep Towers.
We'll leave it up to our 11.5 readers to decide whether that block has extended to the aformentioned piece - but give Is It Time To Drop Andrew Strauss (Down The Order)? a chance before you scoff and shrug those shoulders. Yes, we mean you Monsieur Sarkozy.
We've gone on record before about Billy Bowden's irritating and incompetent umpiring. The crux of our argument being that Billy is the antithesis of a good umpire in that they should neither be seen nor heard.
With Billy, it is essentially all about Billy. Whether it is his silly hand gestures and signals or consistently irrational decision making, Bowden invariably becomes a major talking point of the day's play.
However, yesterday in Abu Dhabi, with Billy sidelined in the role of video umpire and England turning what should have been a straightforward pursuit of 145 into an attempt to scale Everest without oxygen, sherpas or any discernable plan, the last person we expected to hear about was Bowden.
But when the on-field umpires referred what appeared to be a simple appeal for a bat-pad catch at short-leg by Azhar Ali, Billy grabbed his opportunity to seize the spotlight.
Everyone else watching - English, Pakistani and neutral alike - saw that the catch had been taken cleanly and that Andrew Strauss was out, but not Billy. Oh no, not Billy.
Despite viewing the replay more times then he probably caresses and kisses a framed bedside picture of himself signalling a six every morning, Bowden inexplicably adjudged that the evidence was not clear and that Strauss should be reprieved.
In that moment Billy achieved what we thought was impossible and proved that he is an even worse umpire off the field than he is on it. It takes an especially unique character to make the case for DRS when he is on the field of play and then to make the contrary argument against it when he is esconsed in the video umpire's chair. But Billy did just that.
It was going to take something especially cretinous to outmanouvere England's batsmen as the biggest clown in Abu Dhabi yesterday, but good old Billy pulled it off with typically inept aplomb and consequently achieved the impossible not once, but twice in the same afternoon.


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Andres Mustonen (ur. 1 września 1953 w Tallinnie) – estoński dyrygent i skrzypek.

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W 1972 ukończył tallińską średnią szkołę muzyczną, a w 1977 Konserwatorium w Tallinnie w klasie skrzypiec Endela Lippusa. Następnie studiował w Australii i Holandii. Specjalizuje się w muzyce dawnej i prowadzi kursy mistrzowskie i wykłady w Estonii i za granicą
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Jest znanym wykonawcą dzieł takich kompozytorów jak: Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Anton Bruckner, Manuel Cardoso, Dmitrij Szostakowicz, Georg Philipp Telemann i Heinrich Schütz. W jego repertuarze znajdują się także kompozycje kompozytorów uprawiających współczesną muzykę awangardową, m.in. Krzysztof Penderecki, Sofija Gubajdulina, Wałentyn Sylwestrow i Gia Kanczeli.

Współpracował z wieloma wiodącymi orkiestrami, m.in. Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, Moscow State Academic Symphony Orchestra, orkiestra kameralna Musica Viva i Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks oraz z Tallinn Philharmonic i Estonian National Symphony Orchestra. Występował z wieloma artystami światowej sławy, taki jak Gidon Kremer, Tatiana Gridenko, Natalija Gutman.

Otrzymał wiele nagród, zaszczytów i wyróżnień. W 1998 został uhonorowany estońskim Orderem Gwiazdy Białej IV Klasy.

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Homebrew Industrial Revolution, Chapter Three: Babylon is Fallen (third installment)
December 17, 2010 2 Comments	Kevin Carson read
[Michel Bauwens has kindly invited me to serialize excerpts from my recently published book The Homebrew Industrial Revolution: A Low-Overhead Manifesto. Over the next several weeks, I will post two excerpts from each chapter. In this case I'm posting a third excerpt from Chapter Three, which is unusually long, and will post only one excerpt from Chapter Four.]
Failure to Counteract Limits to Capture of Value by Enclosure of the Digital Commons. As Michel Bauwens describes it, it is becoming increasingly impossible to capture value from the ownership of ideas, designs, and technique—all the "ephemera" and "intellect" that Tom Peters writes about as a component of the price of manufactured goods—leading to a crisis of sustainability for capitalism. "Cognitive capitalism" is capital's attempt to adjust to the shift from physical to human capital, and to capture value from the immaterial realm. Bauwens cites McKenzie Wark's theory that a new "vectoralist" class "has arisen which controls the vectors of information, i.e. the means through which information and creative products have to pass, for them to realize their exchange value." ….
Cognitive capitalism arose as a solution to the unsustainability of the older pattern of capitalist growth, based on extensive addition of physical inputs and expansion into new geographical areas. Bauwens uses the analogy of the ancient slave economy, which became untenable when avenues of extensive development (i.e. expansion into new territory, and acquisition of new slaves) were closed off. When the slave system reached its limits of external expansion, it turned to intensive development via the feudal manor system, transforming the slave into a peasant who had an incentive to work the land more efficiently.
The alternative to extensive development is intensive development, as happened in the transition from slavery to feudalism. But notice that to do this, the system had to change, the core logic was no longer the same. The dream of our current economy is therefore one of intensive development, to grow in the immaterial field, and this is basically what the experience economy means. The hope that it expresses is that business can simply continue to grow in the immaterial field of experience.
And the state, as enforcer of the total surveillance society and copyright lockdown, is central to this business model….
The ability to capture value from efficiency increases, through artificial scarcity and artificial property rights, is central to the New Growth Theory of Paul Romer. Consider his remarks in an interview with Reason's Ron Bailey:
…To the extent that you're using the market system to refine and bring ideas into practical application, we have to create some kind of control over the idea. That could be through patents. It could be through copyright. It might even be through secrecy. A firm can keep secret a lot of what it knows how to do…. So for relying on the market—and we do have to rely on the market to develop a lot of ideas—you have to have some mechanisms of control and some opportunities for people to make a profit developing those ideas….
And Romer makes it clear that what he means by "growth" is economic growth, in the sense of monetized exchange value…
Romer's thought is another version of Daniel Bell's post-industrialism thesis. As summarized by Manuel Castells, that thesis held that:
(1) The source of productivity and growth lies in the generation of knowledge, extended to all realms of economic activity through information processing.
(2) Economic activity would shift from goods production to services delivery….
(3) The new economy would increase the importance of occupations with a high informational and knowledge content in their activity. Managerial, professional, and technical occupations would grow faster than any other occupational position and would constitute the core of the new social structure. [Rise of the Network Society]
The problem is that post-industrialism is self-liquidating: technological progress destroys the conditions necessary for capturing value from technological progress.
By their nature technological innovation and increased efficiency destroy growth. Anything that lowers the cost of inputs to produce a given output, in a free market with competition unfettered by entry barriers, will result in the reduction of exchange value (i.e. price). And since GDP is an accounting mechanism that measures the total value of inputs consumed, increased efficiency will reduce the size of "the economy."….
Jeff Jarvis sparked a long chain of discussions by arguing that innovation, by increasing efficiency, results in "shrinkage" rather than growth….
[Eric] Reasons built on this idea, massive deflation resulting from increased efficiency, in a subsequent blog post….
And the issue is clearly shrinkage, not just a shift of superfluous capital and purchasing power to new objects. Craigslist employs fewer people than the industries it destroyed, for example. The ideal, Reasons argued, is for unproductive activity to be eliminated, but for falling work hours to be offset by lower prices, so that workers experience the deflation as a reduction in the ratio of effort to consumption:
Given the amount of current consumption of intellectual property (copyrighted material like music, software, and newsprint; patented goods like just about everything else), couldn't we take advantage of this deflation to help cushion the blow of falling wages? How much of our income is dedicated to intellectual property, and its derived products? If wages decrease at the same time as cost-of-living decreases, are we really that bad off? Deflation moves in both directions, as it were….
Every bit of economic policy coming out of Washington is based on trying to maintain a status quo that can not be maintained in a global marketplace. This can temporarily inflate some sectors of our economy, but ultimately will leave us with nothing but companies that make the wrong things, and people who perform the wrong jobs. You know what they say: "As GM goes, so goes the country."
Contrary to "Free" optimists like Chris Anderson and Kevin Kelley, Reasons suspects that reduced rents on proprietary content cannot be replaced by monetization in other areas. The shrinkage of proprietary content industries will not be replaced by growth elsewhere, or the reduced prices offset by a shift of demand elsewhere, on a one-to-one basis….
He stated this assessment in even sharper terms in a comment under Michel Bauwens's blog post…:
…Of course there's money to be made in the knowledge economy—ask Google or Craigslist—but by introducing such profound efficiencies, they deflate the markets they touch at a rate far faster than the human capital can redeploy itself in other markets. Since so much capital is dependent upon consumerism generated by that idled human capital, deflation follows.
These shortcomings of Romer's New Growth apply, more particularly, to the "progressive" and "green" strands of cognitive capitalism. Bill Gates and Richard Florida are typical of this tendency. Florida specifically refers to Romer's New Growth Theory, "which assigns a central role to creativity or idea generation." But he never directly addresses the question of just how such "idea generation" can be the source of economic growth, unless it is capitalized as the source of rents through artificial property rights…. [The Rise of the Creative Class]
But this approach is now failing in the face of the increasing inability to capture value from the immaterial realm. The strategy of shifting the burden of realization onto the state is untenable. Strong encryption, coupled with the proliferation of bittorrent and episodes like the DeCSS uprising (see later in this chapter), have shown that "intellectual property" is ultimately unenforceable.
The rapid development of circumvention technology intersects—powerfully so—with the cultural attitudes of a generation for which industry "anti-songlifting" propaganda is as gut-bustingly hilariously as Reefer Madness….
Cory Doctorow, not overly fond of the more ideologically driven wing of the open-source movement (or as he calls them, "patchouli-scented info-hippies"), says it isn't about whether "information wants to be free." Rather, the simple fact of the matter is "that computers are machines for copying bits and that once you… turn something into bits, they will get copied…. [I]f your business model is based on bits not getting copied you are screwed."
The proliferation of peer production and the open-source model, and the growing unenforceability of the "intellectual property" rules on which the capture of value depends, is creating "a vast new information commons…, which is increasingly out of the control of cognitive capitalism." Capital, as a result, is incapable of realizing returns on ownership in the cognitive realm. As Bauwens explains it:
1) The creation of non-monetary value is exponential
2) The monetization of such value is linear
In other words, we have a growing discrepancy between the direct creation of use value through social relationships and collective intelligence…, [and the fact that] only a fraction of that value can actually be captured by business and money. Innovation is becoming… an emergent property of the networks rather than an internal R & D affair within corporations; capital is becoming an a posteriori intervention in the realization of innovation, rather than a condition for its occurrence….
What this announces is a crisis of value…, but also essentially a crisis of accumulation of capital….
A good example is the way in which digital culture, according to Douglas Rushkoff, destroyed California's economy:
The fact is, most Internet businesses don't require venture capital. The beauty of these technologies is that they decentralize value creation. Anyone with a PC and bandwidth can program the next Twitter or Facebook plug-in, the next iPhone app, or even the next social network. While a few thousand dollars might be nice, the hundreds of millions that venture capitalists want to—need to—invest, simply aren't required….
The banking crisis began with the dot.com industry, because here was a business sector that did not require massive investments of capital in order to grow…. What's a bank to do when its money is no longer needed?…
The actual physical capital outlays required for digital creation are simply unable to absorb anything like the amounts of surplus capital in search of a profitable investment outlet—unless artificial property rights and artificial scarcity can be used to exclude independent production by all but the corporate owners of "intellectual property," and mandate outlays totally unrelated to the actual physical capital requirements for production. Since such artificial property rights are, in fact, becoming increasingly unenforceable, corporate capital is unable either to combat the growing superfluity of its investment capital in the face of low-overhead production, or to capture value through artificial scarcity by suppressing low-cost competition….
This shows why the "cognitive capitalism" model of Gates, Romer, etc. is untenable….
Networked Resistance, Netwar, and Asymmetric Warfare Against Corporate Management. We already mentioned the corporate governance issues caused by the growing importance of human relative to physical capital, and the untenability of "intellectual property" as a legal support for corporate boundaries. Closely related is the vulnerability of corporate hierarchies to asymmetric warfare by networked communities of consumers and their own employees. Centralized, hierarchical institutions are increasingly vulnerable to open-source warfare.
Networked resistance is based on a principle known as stigmergy. "Stigmergy" is a term coined by biologist Pierre-Paul Grasse in the 1950s to describe the process by which termites coordinated their activity. Social insects like termites and ants coordinate their efforts through the independent responses of individuals to environmental triggers like chemical trails, without any need for a central coordinating authority.
Applied by way of analogy to human society, it refers primarily to the kinds of networked organization associated with wikis, group blogs, and "leaderless" organizations organized along the lines of networked cells.
Matthew Elliott contrasts stigmergic coordination with social negotiation. Social negotiation is the traditional method of organizing collaborative group efforts, through agreements and compromise mediated by discussions between individuals. The exponential growth in the number of communications with the size of the group, obviously, imposes constraints on the feasible size of a collaborative group, before coordination must be achieved by hierarchy and top-down authority. Stigmergy, on the other hand, permits collaboration on an unlimited scale by individuals acting independently. This distinction between social negotiation and stigmergy is illustrated, in particular, by the contrast between traditional models of co-authoring and collaboration in a wiki. Individuals communicate indirectly, "via the stigmergic medium."
There is a wide body of literature on the emergence of networked modes of resistance in the 1990s, beginning with the Rand studies on netwar by David Ronfeldt, John Arquilla and other writers.
In The Zapatista "Social Netwar" in Mexico, Arquilla, Ronfeldt et al expressed grave concern over the possibilities of decentralized "netwar" techniques for destabilizing the political and economic order. They saw ominous signs of such a movement in the global political support network for the Zapatistas. Loose, ad hoc coalitions of affinity groups, organizing through the Internet, could throw together large demonstrations at short notice, and "swarm" the government and mainstream media with phone calls, letters, and emails far beyond their capacity to cope….
The interesting thing about the Zapatista netwar, according to Ronfeldt and Arquilla, is that to all appearances it started out as a run-of-the-mill Third World army's suppression of a run-of-the-mill local insurgency…. The Mexican government was blindsided by the global reaction. [In Athena's Camp]
Similarly, global corporations have been caught off guard when what once would have been isolated and easily managed conflicts become global political causes.
Natural-resource companies had grown accustomed to dealing with activists who could not escape the confines of their nationhood: a pipeline or mine could spark a peasants' revolt in the Philippines or the Congo, but it would remain contained, reported only by the local media and known only to people in the area. But today, every time Shell sneezes, a report goes out on the hyperactive "shell-nigeria-action" listserve, bouncing into the in-boxes of all the far-flung organizers involved in the campaign, from Nigerian leaders living in exile to student activists around the world….
The Internet played a similar role during the McLibel Trial, catapulting London's grassroots anti-McDonald's movement into an arena as global as the one in which its multinational opponent operates…. [Naomi Klein, No Logo]
In "Swarming & the Future of Conflict," Ronfeldt and Arquilla focused on swarming, in particular, as a technique that served the entire spectrum of networked conflict—including "civic-oriented actions."….
A recent example of swarming can be found in Mexico, at the level of what we call activist "social netwar" (see Ronfeldt et al., 1998). Briefly, we see the Zapatista movement, begun in January 1994 and continuing today, as an effort to mobilize global civil society to exert pressure on the government of Mexico to accede to the demands of the Zapatista guerrilla army (EZLN) for land reform and more equitable treatment under the law. The EZLN has been successful in engaging the interest of hundreds of NGOs, who have repeatedly swarmed their media-oriented "fire" (i.e., sharp messages of reproach) against the government. The NGOs also swarmed in force—at least initially—by sending hundreds of activists into Chiapas to provide presence and additional pressure. The government was able to mount only a minimal counterswarming "fire" of its own, in terms of counterpropaganda. However, it did eventually succeed in curbing the movement of activists into Chiapas, and the Mexican military has engaged in the same kind of "blanketing" of force that U.S. troops employed in Haiti—with similar success….
Social swarming is especially on the rise among activists that oppose global trade and investment policies….
The violent street demonstrations in Seattle manifested all the conflict formations discussed earlier—the melee, massing, maneuver, and swarming. Moreover, the demonstrations showed that information-age networks (the NGOs) can prevail against hierarchies (the WTO and the Seattle police), at least for a while. The persistence of this "Seattle swarming" model in the April 16, 2000, demonstrations (known as A16) against the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in Washington, D.C., suggests that it has proven effective enough to continue to be used.
Swarming—in particular the swarming of public pressure through letters, phone calls, emails, and public demonstrations, and the paralysis of communications networks by such swarms—is the direct descendant of the "overload of demands" Huntington wrote of in the 1970s.
Many open-source thinkers, going back to Eric Raymond in The Cathedral and the Bazaar, have pointed out the nature of open-source methods and network culture as force-multipliers. Open-source design communities pick up the innovations of individual members and quickly distribute them wherever they are needed, with maximum economy.
Open-source insurgency follows a similar development model, with each individual innovation quickly becoming part of a common pool of intelligence. John Robb writes:
The decentralized, and seemingly chaotic guerrilla war in Iraq demonstrates a pattern that will likely serve as a model for next generation terrorists. This pattern shows a level of learning, activity, and success similar to what we see in the open source software community. I call this pattern the bazaar. The bazaar solves the problem: how do small, potentially antagonistic networks combine to conduct war? Lessons from Eric Raymond's "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" provides a starting point for further analysis. Here are the factors that apply (from the perspective of the guerrillas):
* Release early and often. Try new forms of attacks against different types of targets early and often. Don't wait for a perfect plan.
* Given a large enough pool of co-developers, any difficult problem will be seen as obvious by someone, and solved. Eventually some participant of the bazaar will find a way to disrupt a particularly difficult target. All you need to do is copy the process they used.
* Your co-developers (beta-testers) are your most valuable resource. The other guerrilla networks in the bazaar are your most valuable allies. They will innovate on your plans, swarm on weaknesses you identify, and protect you by creating system noise….
One especially encouraging development is the stigmergic sharing of innovations in the technologies of resistance between movements around the world, aiding each other across national lines and bringing combined force to bear against common targets. The Falun Gong has played a central role in this effort…
The concept of networked resistance is especially interesting, from our standpoint, as it relates to two things: the kind of anti-corporate "culture jamming" Naomi Klein describes in No Logo, and to labor struggle as a form of asymmetric warfare.
In both cases, governments and corporations, hierarchies of all kinds, are learning to their dismay that, in a networked age, it's impossible to suppress negative publicity…. It's sometimes called the Streisand effect…. One of the earliest examples of the phenomenon was the McLibel case in Britain… Two important examples in 2004, the Sinclair Media boycott and the Diebold corporate emails, both decisively demonstrated the impossibility of suppressing online information in an age of mirror sites…. An attempt to suppress information on the Wikileaks hosting site, in 2007, resulted in a similar disaster…. The so-called DeCSS uprising, in which corporate attempts to suppress publication of a code for cracking the DRM on DVDs failed in the face of widespread defiance, is one of the most inspiring episodes in the history of the free culture movement…. The Trafigura case probably represents a new speed record, in terms of the duration between initial thuggish attempts to silence criticism and the company lawyers' final decision to cave.
Corporations are immensely vulnerable to informational warfare, both by consumers and by workers. The last section of Naomi Klein's No Logo discusses in depth the vulnerability of large corporations and brand name images to netwar campaigns. She pays special attention to "culture jamming," which involves riffing off of corporate logos and thereby "tapping into the vast resources spent to make [a] logo meaningful." A good example is the anti-sweatshop campaign by the National Labor Committee, headed by Charles Kernaghan.
Kernaghan's formula is simple enough. First, select America's most cartoonish icons, from literal ones like Mickey Mouse to virtual ones like Kathie Lee Gifford. Next, create head-on collisions between image and reality. "They live by their image," Kernaghan says of his corporate adversaries. "That gives you a certain power over them… these companies are sitting ducks."….
The Wobbly idea of "direct action on the job" was a classic example of asymmetric warfare. And modern forms of networked resistance are ideally suited to labor struggle. In particular, network technology creates previously unimaginable possibilities for the Wobbly tactic of "open-mouth sabotage." As described in "How to Fire Your Boss":
Sometimes simply telling people the truth about what goes on at work can put a lot of pressure on the boss. Consumer industries like restaurants and packing plants are the most vulnerable. And again, as in the case of the Good Work Strike, you'll be gaining the support of the public, whose patronage can make or break a business.
In an age when unions have virtually disappeared from the private sector workforce, and downsizings and speedups have become a normal expectation of working life, the vulnerability of employer's public image may be the one bit of real leverage the worker has over him—and it's a doozy….
Given the ease of setting up anonymous blogs and websites (just think of any company and then look up the URL employernamesucks.com), the potential for using comment threads and message boards, the possibility of anonymous saturation emailing of the company's major suppliers and customers and advocacy groups concerned with that industry…. well, let's just say the potential for "swarming" and "netwar" is corporate management's worst nightmare….
For example, although Wal-Mart workers are not represented by NLRB-certified unions, in any bargaining unit in the United States, the "associates" have been quite successful at organized open-mouth sabotage through Wake Up Wal-Mart and similar activist organizations….
The Wal-Mart Workers' Association acts as an unofficial union, and has repeatedly obtained concessions from store management teams in several publicity campaigns designed to embarrass and pressure the company….
Charles Johnson points to the Coalition of Imolakee Workers as an example of an organizing campaign outside the Wagner framework, relying heavily on the open mouth…
In late 2004 and 2005, the phenomenon of "Doocing" (the firing of bloggers for negative commentary on their workplace, or for the expression of other non-approved opinions on their blogs) began to attract mainstream media attention, and exemplified a specialized case of the Streisand Effect. Employers, who fired disgruntled workers out of fear for the bad publicity their blogs might attract, were blindsided by the far worse publicity–far, far worse–that resulted from news of the firing (the term "Doocing" itself comes from Dooce, the name of a blog whose owner was fired). Rather than an insular blog audience of a few hundred reading that "it sucks to work at Employer X," or "Employer X gets away with treating its customers like shit," it became a case of tens of millions of readers of the major newspapers of record and wire services reading that "Employer X fires blogger for revealing how bad it sucks to work at Employer X." Again, the bosses are learning that, for the first time since the rise of the giant corporation and the broadcast culture, workers and consumers can talk back–and not only is there absolutely no way to shut us up, but we actually just keep making more and more noise the more they try to do so.
There's a direct analogy between the Zapatista netwar and assymetrical warfare by labor and other anti-corporate activists. The Zapatistas turned an obscure and low-level military confrontation within an isolated province into a global political struggle. They waged their netwar with the Mexican government mostly outside Chiapas, isolating the authorities and pitting them against the force of world opinion. Similarly, networked labor activists turn labor disputes within a corporation into society-wide economic, political and media struggle, isolating corporate management and exposing it to swarming from an unlimited number of directions. Netwarriors choose their own battlefield….
Thanks to network culture, the cost of "manufacturing consent" is rising at an astronomical rate. The communications system is no longer the one described by Edward Herman, with the state and its corporate media allies controlling a handful of expensive centralized hubs and talking to us via one-way broadcast links. We can all talk directly to each other now, and virally circulate evidence that calls the state's propaganda into doubt. For an outlay of well under $1000, you can do what only the White House Press Secretary or a CBS news anchor could do forty years ago. The forces of freedom will be able to contest the corporate state's domination over public consciousness, for the first time in many decades, on even terms.
We have probably already passed a "singularity," a point of no return, in the use of networked information warfare. It took some time for employers to reach a consensus that the old corporate liberal labor regime no longer served their interests, and to take note of and fully exploit the union-busting potential of Taft-Hartley. But once they began to do so, the implosion of Wagner-style unionism was preordained. Likewise, it will take time for the realization to dawn on workers that things are only getting worse, that there's no hope in traditional unionism, and that in a networked world they have the power to bring the employer to his knees by their own direct action. But when they do, the outcome is also probably preordained. The twentieth century was the era of the giant organization. By the end of the twenty-first, there probably won't be enough of them left to bury.
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katie December 17, 2010 at 11:08 pm
quite an intriguing and rich analysis…however, IMHO, it suffers from the same analytic limitation that has ruined economics–a steady state is assumed, both dynamic and material.
now, because humans hunger and thirst, *all* analyses must account on continuing basis for the effects of their projections within the stage/proscenium of physical human needs being met–or not.
and the well written and exciting analysis above, neglects the unavoidable fact that the global locations where humans can live together without a state of internal war for subsistence, are shrinking, and the shrink is accelerating rapidly, e.g., the floods of pakistan, the killer heat waves, etc.
so money, as we now know and use it, as both a store of value, and a transnational and local medium of exchange–as the ultimate arbiter–is coming to its last act on the current stage of human culture.
and since money itself is devaluing vis a vis the value of one's physical location, then the strategies to acquire more money, or to press the capital structure to give way–these strategies are largely futile.
when the elephant is dying, the ants don't need to keep biting it.
Matthew Cooperrider December 18, 2010 at 7:16 am
Great chapter. One correction: the work on stigmergy is by Mark Elliott.
Kevin Carson
Kevin Carson is a senior fellow of the Center for a Stateless Society (c4ss.org) and holds the Center's Karl Hess Chair in Social Theory. He is an anarchist without adjectives whose written work includes Studies in Mutualist Political Economy, Organization Theory, and The Homebrew Industrial Revolution: A Low-Overhead Manifesto, and The Desktop Regulatory State, all of which are freely available online. Carson has also written for such print publications as The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty and a variety of internet-based journals and blogs, including the P2P Foundation, and his own (now inactive) Mutualist Blog.


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using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Runtime.Versioning;
using System.Windows;
using EnvDTE;
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.ExtensionsExplorer;
using NuGet.Dialog.PackageManagerUI;
using NuGet.VisualStudio;

namespace NuGet.Dialog.Providers
{
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    /// </summary>
    internal class SolutionInstalledProvider : InstalledProvider
    {

        private readonly ISolutionManager _solutionManager;
        private readonly IUserNotifierServices _userNotifierServices;
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        public SolutionInstalledProvider(
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        {

            _solutionManager = solutionManager;
            _userNotifierServices = providerServices.UserNotifierServices;
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        protected override void FillRootNodes()
        {
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                this,
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        protected override bool ExecuteCore(PackageItem item)
        {
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            if (!PackageManager.IsProjectLevel(package))
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                // user presses Cancel button on the Solution dialog
                return false;
            }

            // bug #1181: Use HashSet<unique name> instead of HashSet<Project>.
            // in some rare cases, the project instance returned by GetProjects() may be different
            // than the ones in selectedProjectSet.
            var selectedProjectsSet = new HashSet<string>(
                selectedProjects.Select(p => p.GetUniqueName()),
                StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase);

            // now determine if user has actually made any change to the checkboxes
            IList<Project> allProjects = _solutionManager.GetProjects().ToList();

            bool hasInstallWork = allProjects.Any(p =>
                selectedProjectsSet.Contains(p.GetUniqueName()) && !IsPackageInstalledInProject(p, package));

            bool hasUninstallWork = allProjects.Any(p =>
                !selectedProjectsSet.Contains(p.GetUniqueName()) && IsPackageInstalledInProject(p, package));

            if (!hasInstallWork && !hasUninstallWork)
            {
                // nothing to do, so return
                return false;
            }

            var uninstallRepositories = new List<IPackageRepository>();
            var uninstallFrameworks = new List<FrameworkName>();
            var uninstallProjects = new List<Project>();

            bool? removeDepedencies = false;
            if (hasUninstallWork)
            {
                // Starting in 2.0, each project can have a different set of dependencies (because of different target frameworks).
                // To keep the UI simple, we aggregate all the dependencies from all uninstall projects
                // and ask if user wants to uninstall them all.

                foreach (Project project in allProjects)
                {
                    // check if user wants to uninstall the package in this project
                    if (!selectedProjectsSet.Contains(project.GetUniqueName()))
                    {
                        uninstallProjects.Add(project);
                        uninstallRepositories.Add(PackageManager.GetProjectManager(project).LocalRepository);
                        uninstallFrameworks.Add(project.GetTargetFrameworkName());
                    }
                }

                removeDepedencies = AskRemoveDependency(package, uninstallRepositories, uninstallFrameworks);
                if (removeDepedencies == null)
                {
                    // user cancels the operation.
                    return false;
                }
            }

            ShowProgressWindow();

            // now install the packages that are checked
            // Bug 1357: It's crucial that we perform all installs before uninstalls
            // to avoid the package file being deleted before an install.
            if (hasInstallWork)
            {
                bool successful = InstallPackageIntoProjects(package, allProjects, selectedProjectsSet);
                if (!successful)
                {
                    return false;
                }
            }

            // now uninstall the packages that are unchecked
            for (int i = 0; i < uninstallProjects.Count; ++i)
            {
                try
                {
                    CheckDependentPackages(package, uninstallRepositories[i], uninstallFrameworks[i]);
                    UninstallPackageFromProject(uninstallProjects[i], item, (bool)removeDepedencies);
                }
                catch (Exception ex)
                {
                    AddFailedProject(uninstallProjects[i], ex);
                }
            }

            HideProgressWindow();
            return true;
        }

        [System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis.SuppressMessage("Microsoft.Design", "CA1031:DoNotCatchGeneralExceptionTypes", Justification = "We don't want one failed project to affect the other projects.")]
        private bool InstallPackageIntoProjects(IPackage package, IList<Project> allProjects, HashSet<string> selectedProjectsSet)
        {
            var selectedProjects = allProjects.Where(p => selectedProjectsSet.Contains(p.GetUniqueName()));

            IList<PackageOperation> operations;
            bool accepted = ShowLicenseAgreement(package, PackageManager, selectedProjects, out operations);
            if (!accepted)
            {
                return false;
            }

            // now install the packages that are checked
            // Bug 1357: It's crucial that we perform all installs before uninstalls
            // to avoid the package file being deleted before an install.
            foreach (Project project in allProjects)
            {
                if (selectedProjectsSet.Contains(project.GetUniqueName()))
                {
                    try
                    {
                        // if the project is checked, install package into it
                        InstallPackageToProject(project, package, includePrerelease: true);
                    }
                    catch (Exception ex)
                    {
                        AddFailedProject(project, ex);
                    }
                }
            }

            return true;
        }

        private bool UninstallSolutionPackage(IPackage package)
        {
            CheckDependentPackages(package, LocalRepository, targetFramework: null);
            bool? result = AskRemoveDependency(
                package,
                new[] { LocalRepository },
                new FrameworkName[] { null });

            if (result == null)
            {
                // user presses Cancel
                return false;
            }

            ShowProgressWindow();
            try
            {
                RegisterPackageOperationEvents(PackageManager, null);
                PackageManager.UninstallPackage(
                    null,
                    package.Id,
                    package.Version,
                    forceRemove: false,
                    removeDependencies: (bool)result,
                    logger: this);
            }
            finally
            {
                UnregisterPackageOperationEvents(PackageManager, null);
            }
            return true;
        }

        private bool IsPackageInstalledInProject(Project project, IPackage package)
        {
            IProjectManager projectManager = PackageManager.GetProjectManager(project);
            return projectManager != null && projectManager.IsInstalled(package);
        }

        public override IVsExtension CreateExtension(IPackage package)
        {
            IEnumerable<Project> projects = GetReferenceProjects(package);
            if (projects.IsEmpty())
            {
                var repository = PackageManager.LocalRepository as ISharedPackageRepository;
                if (repository != null && !repository.IsSolutionReferenced(package.Id, package.Version))
                {
                    return null;
                }
            }

            string commandText = PackageManager.IsProjectLevel(package) ?
                Resources.Dialog_SolutionManageButton :
                Resources.Dialog_UninstallButton;

            return new PackageItem(this, package, projects)
            {
                CommandName = commandText
            };
        }

        protected override void OnExecuteCompleted(PackageItem item)
        {
            _lastExecutionItem = item;
            SelectedNode.PackageLoadCompleted += SelectedNode_PackageLoadCompleted;

            // For the solution Installed provider, packages can be installed and uninstalled.
            // It's cumbersome to update the packages incrementally, so we just refresh everything.
            SelectedNode.Refresh(resetQueryBeforeRefresh: true);

            // repopulate the list of project references for all package items
            foreach (PackageItem packageItem in SelectedNode.Extensions)
            {
                packageItem.ReferenceProjects.Clear();
                packageItem.ReferenceProjects.AddRange(GetReferenceProjects(packageItem.PackageIdentity));
            }
        }

        private void SelectedNode_PackageLoadCompleted(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            ((PackagesTreeNodeBase)sender).PackageLoadCompleted -= SelectedNode_PackageLoadCompleted;

            if (SelectedNode == null || _lastExecutionItem == null)
            {
                return;
            }

            // find a new PackageItem that represents the same package as _lastExecutionItem does;
            PackageItem foundItem = SelectedNode.Extensions.OfType<PackageItem>().FirstOrDefault(
                p => PackageEqualityComparer.IdAndVersion.Equals(p.PackageIdentity, _lastExecutionItem.PackageIdentity));
            if (foundItem != null)
            {
                foundItem.IsSelected = true;
            }

            _lastExecutionItem = null;
        }

        protected override string GetProgressMessage(IPackage package)
        {
            return Resources.Dialog_InstallAndUninstallProgress + package.ToString();
        }

        public override string ProgressWindowTitle
        {
            get
            {
                return Resources.Dialog_InstallAndUninstallProgress;
            }
        }

        public override string NoItemsMessage
        {
            get
            {
                return Resources.Dialog_SolutionInstalledProviderNoItem;
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Get a list of projects which has the specified package installed.
        /// </summary>
        private IEnumerable<Project> GetReferenceProjects(IPackage package)
        {
            return from project in _solutionManager.GetProjects()
                   let projectManager = PackageManager.GetProjectManager(project)
                   where projectManager.IsInstalled(package)
                   orderby project.Name
                   select project;
        }
    }
}

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Florida QB Anthony Richardson declares for NFL draft
Florida quarterback Anthony Richardson is going to the NFL.
The redshirt sophomore announced Monday on Twitter that he will not play in the Gators' Las Vegas Bowl vs. No. 17 Oregon State and will declare for the 2023 NFL Draft. He had at least two years of eligibility remaining.
"As I take my next step in this journey, I will always be a Gator and strive to make Gator Nation proud," Richardson wrote.
A native of Gainesville, Fla., Richardson started all 12 games for the Gators this season. Florida went 6-6 in head coach Billy Napier's first season at the helm.
As a 6-foot-4 dual threat quarterback, Richardson completed 53.8 percent of his passes and threw 17 touchdowns and nine interceptions. He also rushed for 654 yards on 103 carries -- a 6.3 yards per carry average -- and scored nine touchdowns on the ground.
With Richardson opting out -- and backup Jalen Kitna dismissed from the team after being arrested on child pornography charges last week -- Florida will likely turn to Ohio State transfer Jack Miller in the Las Vegas Bowl. Miller has not taken an in-game snap for the Gators this season and has only ever completed seven college passes.
The other options for the Gators against the Beavers are walk-on Kyle Engel or true freshman Max Brown.


In April 2012 we had an interview with Raafat about his country. At that time he and many Egyptians were being trained in storytelling ministry. This week we hear some of what has been happening since. Stirring stories about lives changed, families and churches and villages impacted and some wonderful stories flowing from the martyrdom of 21 Egyptians in Libya recently.


'Fear the Walking Dead' will return to AMC on Sunday night, June 2 with some familiar faces returning to help round out the cast this season.
Austin Amelio, who plays former Savior second in command Dwight will make his debut as part of the cast of 'Fear the Walking Dead' after leaving 'The Walking Dead' at the end of season 8.
Dwight helped Rick Grimes and the survivors from Alexandria, the Hilltop, the Kingdom and Oceanside defeat Negan at the end of season 8 but he couldn't be forgiven for some of the past crimes he had committed. Rather than killing him, Daryl offered Dwight amnesty so long as he left town and never returned again.
So now it appears Dwight has made his way down to Texas where he will meet up with Morgan and the rest of the cast from 'Fear the Walking Dead'.
Meanwhile after going missing following the dam explosion at the end of season 3, Daniel Salazar will make his long awaited return to the show as you'll see in the trailer.
Check out what lies ahead for 'Fear the Walking Dead' in season 5 with the new trailer and get ready for the show to return on Sunday night, June 2.


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Hawk or dove? Fed's Powell showed markets both sides in debut
By Howard Schneider, Lindsay Dunsmuir
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Financial markets barely batted an eye on Tuesday when Jerome Powell's first public statement as Federal Reserve chief saw daylight, interpreting it as a steady-handed commitment to the U.S. central bank's policy of gradual interest rate increases.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell delivers the semi-annual Monetary Policy Report to the House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington, U.S., February 27, 2018. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
The calm evaporated about a couple of hours later, at 10:42 a.m. EST (1542 GMT), when Powell, testifying before a U.S. House of Representatives committee, struck a bullish, and personal, tone on the strength of the economy.
U.S. bond yields jumped as investors raised their bets for four rate increases this year, rather than the three that Fed policymakers projected in late December, and began asking one key question:
Is a hawk or a dove now running the Fed?
"The message coming from the written portion of the testimony did not signal any change," analysts from Barclays wrote on Tuesday, drawing a contrast with Powell's live remarks that "point to a risk of a steeper policy rate path."
Fed policymakers consider their public statements an important tool in shaping public perceptions and, in doing so, making monetary policy more effective.
Fed chiefs try to avoid off-the-cuff remarks that cause impromptu repricing, preferring to hew close to their job of representing the views of the Fed's rate-setting committee and avoiding disclosing much about their personal opinions.
Veteran Fed analysts were split over whether Powell had broken that unwritten rule in his remarks, which came just weeks after he took over from Janet Yellen.
"The tone of the testimony was definitely NOT hawkish," said Cornerstone Macro economist and former Fed staffer Roberto Perli, who emphasized Powell's written comments might be read as a willingness to allow the economy to run hot in order to boost inflation to the Fed's 2 percent target on a sustained basis.
"Powell more confident on growth, putting 2018 dots in play," is how JP Morgan's Michael Feroli summed up the day, referring to the quarterly "dot plot" of projected interest rates that Fed policymakers submit.
Feroli argued that Powell's "modestly hawkish" appearance in Congress strengthened the chance that policymakers' rate outlook would rise when the central bank issues its next set of economic projections next month.
MARKET MOVES
Traders in short-term interest rate futures were shading to the hawkish interpretation on Wednesday, betting squarely on rises in borrowing costs at the Fed's policy meetings in March, June, and September, and putting a high likelihood of a fourth increase sometime in 2018. The dollar rose to a five-week high on the prospect of tighter monetary policy.
Before Powell's testimony, investors had seen the Fed as likely to wait until December before raising rates a third time, if indeed it chose to do so at all.
The market moves, however, were hardly dramatic or unprecedented.
Former Fed chief Ben Bernanke famously set off a global bond rout - the "taper tantrum" - in 2013 when he indicated the central bank was about to scale down the bond buying program it began to fight the 2007-2009 financial crisis.
In 2014, at her first press conference as Fed chief, Yellen jostled markets when she said the central bank could raise interest rates around six months after ending its bond-buying program. The Fed's first post-crisis rate increase came in December 2015, more than a year after it ended the bond-buying.
Powell's comments on his personal outlook "was basically like him saying, 'my dot is going up,'" said Tim Duy, an economics professor at the University of Oregon, in contrast to Bernanke and Yellen who felt they should never reveal their own "dots."
The current Fed chief will have a chance to clarify his views when he goes before a Senate panel on Thursday. Powell may try to stick closer to the script set out in his testimony in which he pledged to gradually raise rates while preventing the economy from overheating.
Reporting by Howard Schneider; Additional reporting by Ann Saphir in San Francisco and Richard Leong in New York; Editing by Paul Simao


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West Forsyth grad in cookoff for Super Bowl
West Forsyth High School graduate Cullen Folks, right, and teammate Matthew Johnson are finalists in this weekend's PepsiCo Game Day Grub Match through The Culinary Institute of America. - photo by For the FCN
On the Net
To follow Cullen Folks' and Matthew Johnson's Super Bowl experience, go to:
* Twitter: @cfolks27 or @Matthew12345j
* Instagram: @cullen_reigh or @Matthew 12345j
* YouTube: BrainFood at youtube.com/brainfoodmfj
* Contest website: gamedaygrubmatch.com
FORSYTH COUNTY — A Forsyth County high school graduate is set compete at Super Bowl XLIX, but she won't be on the field. She'll be at the pre-parties, concocting something millions of viewers find vital to the Sunday experience: the game day menu.
Cullen Folks is a finalist in the PepsiCo Game Day Grub Match through The Culinary Institute of America, where she is a sophomore.
The competition pits two-person teams against each other to create the best football finger-food using at least three PepsiCo products.
Instead of a trophy, a ring and a lot of confetti, Folks and her teammate, Matthew Johnson of Duluth, Minn., may each win a ticket to the big game, a $5,000 scholarship and — who knows — maybe a lot of confetti.
Folks, a 2013 graduate of West Forsyth High, said she wanted to "take something from the South and put my flair on it, maybe with some Mexican. Matthew really likes healthy cooking. So we mashed them together."
What they ended up with was their original recipe, Tostitos chipotle chicken tacos. It is served in a grilled flour tortilla with Tostitos salsa and Pepsi-marinated chicken with sides of Sabra guacamole-based salsa verde and Sierra Mist red cabbage slaw.
To make it to Arizona, they had to submit a video as round one. Teams from all four CIA campuses — New York, California, Texas and Singapore — entered the competition. Teams whose videos were chosen had to create their dishes for judges, who narrowed the field down to four.
Judges include: Food Network chef Anne Burrell; James Beard Award winner and Bravo "Top Chef Masters" contestant David Burke; New York Jets Pro Bowl center Nick Mangold; Waldy Malouf, the culinary institute's director of food and beverage operations; and PepsiCo corporate executive research chef Stephen Kalil.
The final two teams will cater Saturday's Taste of the NFL's annual Party With a Purpose.
"I'm big into football," Folks said about why she entered the contest, "and I have to pay for school. And it doesn't really matter what's going on at school, Matthew wants to be a part of it. It was a no brainer."
Johnson said the two met two years ago on their first day of college.
"We're stuck with each other," he said. "We're a team."
He said he is excited to go to the pre-parties, where they will meet chefs and players. They plan to document the experience and post to their various social media accounts throughout the five-day trip.
Johnson said he has always loved food. He grew up watching Food Network shows and surrounding himself with his Italian-American family, who always seemed to be cooking.
"But they never cooked healthy," he said. "When I was a kid, I weighed about 310 pounds. I lost it in high school, about 110 pounds. Now food is so much a part of my life, as well as healthy food."
Folks found her attraction to the culinary scene at a young age, too.
"It's because of my dad," she said. "I think he missed his calling, and he lives vicariously through me in school. I was always in the kitchen with him. It was a good time to have with him, and now I'm doing it on my own."
She said she went to West for its three-year culinary program and that it prepared her for the culinary institute.
"It's the only way I knew of [it]," Folks said. "I thought it was so far out of my reach. It's like the Harvard of culinary schools, and you have to really be on top of your game.
"All I can say is, anyone who doesn't think they're good enough, work hard and you can do it … I never thought about doing anything else."
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What are the 3 types of laws in the Bible?
The Westminster Confession of Faith (1646) divides the Mosaic laws into three categories: moral, civil, and ceremonial. In the view of the Westminster Divines, only the moral laws of the Mosaic Law, which include the Ten Commandments and the commands repeated in the New Testament, directly apply to Christians today.
What is the law in Matthew 5 17?
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or. the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
What is the Mosaic law in the Bible?
The Law of Moses (Hebrew: תֹּורַת מֹשֶׁה Torat Moshe), also called the Mosaic Law, primarily refers to the Torah or the first five books of the Hebrew Bible. They were traditionally believed to have been written by Moses, but most academics now believe they had many authors.
What does Raca mean in Matthew 5 22?
Raca is most likely an Aramaic term that means, "empty-headed" or "worthless." Jesus seems to be using it as an example of an angry outburst of name-calling. The word is not the problem, but the spirit of anger behind it. #5 "And anyone who says, 'You fool! ' will be in danger of the fire of hell."
How is law related to morality?
Law and morality are intimately related to each other. Laws are generally based on the moral principles of society. Both regulate the conduct of the individual in society. They influence each other to a great extent.
What is mosaic artwork?
Mosaic, in art, decoration of a surface with designs made up of closely set, usually variously coloured, small pieces of material such as stone, mineral, glass, tile, or shell. Once disassembled, a mosaic cannot be reassembled on the basis of the form of its individual pieces.
What are moral laws?
: a general rule of right living especially : such a rule or group of rules conceived as universal and unchanging and as having the sanction of God's will, of conscience, of man's moral nature, or of natural justice as revealed to human reason the basic protection of rights is the moral law based on man's dignity — …
What is moral law and example?
Moral law is a system of guidelines for behavior. For example, murder, theft, prostitution, and other behaviors labeled immoral are also illegal. Moral turpitude is a legal term used to describe a crime that demonstrates depravity in one's public and private life, contrary to what is accepted and customary.
What is the most famous Roman mosaic?
Among these the most famous is the Battle of Issus, found in the Casa del Fauno in 1831. This is the largest of all known works, measuring about 11.22 by 19.42 feet (3.42 by 5.92 metres), in the miniature mosaic technique.
What is Mozaic?
a. A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface. b. The process or art of making such pictures or designs.
How many moral laws are there?
The 10 commandments – Moral law that stands on its own Nine of the ten commandments (Exodus 20:3-17) are recognized as the unchanging moral law of God in the New Testament. Only the Sabbath law of the ten commandments is rescinded under the New Covenant.
What materials can be used for mosaics?
Tesserae are pieces of ceramic, glass, stone, or other materials used to create a mosaic design. Try to re-use old or recycled materials as tesserae whenever possible, such as broken ceramic tiles, stained glass, mirrors, beach glass, china, and pottery.
What is Mosaic drawing?
A mosaic is a pattern or image made of small regular or irregular pieces of colored stone, glass or ceramic, held in place by plaster/mortar, and covering a surface. Mosaics are often used as floor and wall decoration, and were particularly popular in the Ancient Roman world.
What is the most famous mosaic?
13 of the world's most beautiful and intricate mosaics
St George's Church, Topola, Serbia.
Philadelphia's Magic Gardens, Pennsylvania, USA.
Madaba Map, Jordan.
Wat Phra Kaew, Bangkok, Thailand.
Moscow Metro, Russia.
Monreale Cathedral, Palermo, Italy.
Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy.
What is the new law of Jesus?
While the New Testament records several unique sayings of Jesus that may be described as "commandments," it only records one that he explicitly identified as such. This is the New Commandment of John that the disciples should love one another as he himself had loved them.
How many laws did God give?
613 commandments
How many laws did God give the Israelites?
What is the purpose of Mosaic law?
The Mosaic laws govern both domains—regulating worship as well as criminal law, family law, and torts—although the particular regulations are generally kept separate. A third noteworthy attribute is the form the regulations take. The Ten Commandments are direct, absolute, and incontestable.
What is the aim of morality?
In the essay, Louis Pojman claims that morality has the following five purposes: "to keep society from falling apart", "to ameliorate human suffering", "to promote human flourishing", "to resolve conflicts of interest in just and orderly ways", and "to assign praise and blame, reward the good and punish the guilty" ( …
Why did Jesus give the new commandment?
The New Commandment is a term used in Christianity to describe Jesus's commandment to "love one another" which, according to the Bible, was given as part of the final instructions to his disciples after the Last Supper had ended, and after Judas Iscariot had departed in John 13:30.
What is the meaning of Matthew 5 20?
Matthew 5:20 is the twentieth verse of the fifth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament and is part of the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus has reported that he came not to destroy the law, but fulfill it. But in this verse, he makes clear that the common understanding of the Law is not enough.


Drummer, composer and producer, from Guadalajara, Mexico.
Familia is his first record as a composer and band leader. This work counted with the participation of renowned national jazz musicians and was the winner of the FJ award given by Jalisco Jazz Festival 2018.
He has a career of ten years as a professional musician and has worked as a studio drummer for recordings of multiple artists, producer and made compositions for audiovisual projects.