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China Hosts Joint Strategic Military Drills with Russia
August 3, 2021 August 3, 2021 Lorena
China has welcomed Russian troops for their joint strategic military drills next week.
This will be the fourth joint training between the two countries — the previous three were held in Russia.
Officials from both countries praised China-Russia relations as built on equality and mutual trust.
China and Russia are further strengthening their ties, with the People's Republic hosting Russian troops for joint strategic military drills next week.
Chinese People's Liberation Army Lieutenant General Liu Xiaowu, who will command Chinese forces in the upcoming exercise, warmly welcomed Russian officials over the weekend.
Liu referred to the event as "the first joint strategic exercise participated by Russian troops in China."
Chinese and Russian troops have previously trained together, but those were held across different regions in Russia. These were the Vostok (East) 2018, Tsentr (Center) 2019, and Kavkaz (Caucasus) 2020 exercises.
The Zapad-Interaction (West-Interaction) drills are scheduled from August 9 to 13, and will most likely be held near the city of Qingtongxia in northwestern China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.
Around 10,000 personnel will train on various types of weaponry, equipment, vehicles, and aircraft from both countries. A joint command will plan and "conduct training in mixed combat groups, so as to improve the joint anti-terrorism capabilities of the troops."
Russian Deputy Defense Minister Colonel-General Alexander Fomin described the Russian-Chinese military cooperation as having "high dynamics of development, consistent expansion of areas of interaction, and a great intensity of contacts," having regularly held joint military training events.
He added, "China is one of the most active participants in the International Army Games."
Those annual games are scheduled from August 22 to September 4. A separate contingent of Russian military personnel has already traveled to the three games' location in Korla of China's northwestern Xinjiang Autonomous Province, while Chinese troops also traveled to Russia, where some of the games will take place.
People's Liberation Army Major General Kui Yanwei, China's defense attache at the country's embassy in Russia, remarked that through the leadership of Presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, "the Sino-Russian comprehensive partnership and strategic interaction in the new era has withstood the test of a pandemic and unprecedented changes in a century, reaching the highest level in all its history in all areas."
He described the partnership as "an unshakable guarantee of world justice and a progressive force that contributes to world development and prosperity, firmly protecting world security and stability."
The Sino-Russian Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation also held its 20th anniversary in July.
Xi and Putin declared that the countries' relationship is "based on equality, deep mutual trust, commitment to international law, support in defending each other's core interests, the principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity."
"While not being a military and political alliance… the Russian-Chinese relations exceed this form of interstate interaction," they declared. "They are not opportunistic, are free of ideologization, involve comprehensive consideration of the partner's interests and non-interference in each other's internal affairs… self-sufficient and not directed against third countries, they display international relations of a new type."
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Lets all remember Russia started out partnering with Hitler against Poland in WWII, Sept of 1939 till end of 1940 but switched sides just before Hitler's Operation Barbarossa, June 1941. Russians are great chess players. They always look three moves ahead and look for the advantage. China and Russia may be friends now, but I doubt that it will last. Since both governments like mind games and spoofing, it will be interesting to watch this relationship develop and who will make it toxic first!

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Office work does not have as many fans as one would think. But you will find many people doing it because it has a secured income. While it may be fun to spend time outdoors, there are bills to pay. The only way it would make sense is if you had a job to do out there. Here are examples of those you need to think of.
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Landscaping and lawn maintenance work ensures you are constantly out there. This service is important to so many homeowners. People will go to great lengths to ensure their homes remain the most beautiful in the neighborhood.
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If you happen to live where there is a water body; you may opt to start a canoe and kayak tour business. You can start with a few boats and expand from there. There is also guide services provided to people who come with their boats.
Those who love to craft with their hands can open a woodworking studio. You can produce furniture, art pieces, and other items.
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I am excited to introduce an interactive forum for enterprises, service providers and other stakeholders to exchange ideas on how to help companies maximize value through responsible IT Asset Retirement (ITAR) practies. I interact with hundreds of companies each year and learn best practices from them to maximize their returns from a better management of IT assets. I'd like to share some of these lessons with you.
I also want to learn more from you through this discussion to help me understand this industry better. This is a very immature industry and many companies are addressing planned and responsible ITAR for the first time. It may be due to increased security requirements or the need to demonstrate a positive ROI from this business unit, but there is often a particular motivating factor causing companies to rethink how they dispose of their surplus IT assets. Since it may be the first time a company has looked outside for resources, I'm sure there are many questions, and this would be a great place to ask those questions.
Finally, I would like to use this opportunity to share research performed I've conducted and other information I've come across to help companies excel in ITAR. Enjoy, and let me know what you think.


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How to Teach Syntax to Kids
Jody Hanson
How to Teach High School Grammar in a Fun Way
Without syntax -- the order of words in a sentence -- language would be gibberish. Changing the word order changes the meaning. "I can go," for example, is very different from "Can I go?" And "Go I can" is meaningless. Learning and Teaching, a peer-reviewed journal of the social sciences, reports that sentences with words in the wrong order are a problem for some children, as are confusing verb tenses and getting words that end in "ed," "s" and "ing" wrong.
Model correct syntax. Learning and Teaching suggests that rather than correcting, you rephrase the sentence as it should have been constructed. If a child says, "Home I went today," reply, "Oh, you went home today. What did you do there?"
Use sentence completion exercises to improve syntax. Give students open-ended sentences, such as "The duck waddled..." or "The man went..." and have them complete the sentences so that they make sense. These exercises can be done orally or as written assignments.
Write words on cards and have the students arrange them to form complete simple sentences. As with the modeling exercise, read the sentence and ask whether it makes sense. Students sometimes hear a syntax error that they do not see.
Develop basic skills. Teach students that sentences start with capital letters and that they end with periods.
Teach how sentences often use a noun-verb-direct object pattern. Build on the earlier sentence exercise and make flashcard piles of nouns, verbs and direct objects, identifying the categories with different-colored markers, and have the students construct more complex sentences by adding adjectives and pronouns.
Perform verb exercises. Write "yesterday," "today" and "tomorrow" on the whiteboard and have the students conjugate a list of verbs using the past, present and future tenses. Then have them construct short sentences, such as "Yesterday I went to school. Today I go to school. Tomorrow I will come to school." This short exercise can easily be done when you have five minutes before recess.
Use songs and nursery rhymes to help children improve their syntax. Repetition is essential to language learning, and singing helps make learning correct word order automatic.
Praise students when they get it right. Say quietly, "Oh, I'm so pleased that you got the word order right." A little positive reinforcement goes a long way toward improving language skills, particularly at the primary level.
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Jody Hanson began writing professionally in 1992 to help finance her second around-the-world trip. In addition to her academic books, she has written for "International Living," the "Sydney Courier" and the "Australian Woman's Forum." Hanson holds a Ph.D. in adult education from Greenwich University.


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Racial ambivalence and the Old/New South of "Show Boat"
Posted on May 13, 2012 May 13, 2012 by Kate Wilson
Poster for the 1936 "Show Boat," depicting both white and black actors.
The other night I had occasion to re-view James Whale's 1936 film version of the classic American musical "Show Boat." Unlike the much more inferior 1951 MGM film, this version is considered highly faithful to the original Broadway show, first produced in 1927 at the Ziegfield Theater. Based on Edna Ferber's 1926 bestselling novel of the same name, Show Boat chronicles the fates of a collection of performers on the Cotton Blossom, Cap'n Andy's show boat, which travels up and down the Mississippi in the 1890s offering cheap entertainment to the small towns along the river.
James Whale is perhaps best known a the director of "Frankenstein," and perhaps it is fitting that a horror director would produce a film depicting the post-Reconstruction South. Show Boat is filled with stereotypical representations of African Americans (a tragic mulatto, mammy, shiftless buck and more) and blackface performances by whites. Yet, Show Boat, which was largely anti-racist in the context of the nadir of race relations, is also notable for its frank portrayal of race, both the racial relations it seeks to critique, and those it inevitably reproduces.
The Show Boat is originally in trouble because one of the performers, Julie, is a mixed race woman passing as white, who is married to a white man and performing on the stage with him. Cornered by the local sheriff, her husband Stephen, surreptitiously cuts her finger and drinks her blood, allowing him to claim he has more than a drop of black blood in him, a declaration that reveals the constructedness of race in the social and legal code. Julie and Steve evade the law, but are forced to leave the showboat since "local folks won't tolerate the races mixing on the stage."
Yet the races seem to continue mixing. Filling in for Julie, Magnolia (played by Irene Dunne) performs a minstrel number in blackface, "Gallivantin' Around," which underscores the film's proximity to this era of popular entertainment. Apparently this was a conscious choice of Whale to include the number, which by 1937 was already controversial. It functions as a kind of window into another time. Irene Dunne, who was born in Kentucky in 1898 (and whose father, coincidentally, was a steamboat inspector), was clearly no stranger to these traditions. Whale interestingly breaks the camera away from Magnolia's performance for a shot of the audience, including a stoic collection of African Americans at the back of the theater, contrasting Magnolia's artificial blackness with the presence of actual black folks.
Irene Dunne, shucking in the showboat kitchen while Paul Robeson, Hattie McDaniel,and Helen Morgan look on.
Magnolia is the racial boundary crosser in the show boat family, she is like a little sister to biracial Julie, and portrayed hanging out in the kitchen, performing traditional African American songs and minstrel dances. "Look at that girl shuck!" exclaims one of the black onlookers, as delighted as Magnolia's mother is horrified. The black actors suspect appreciation aside, again we have a moment in which the films breaks into a strange kind of authenticity vis a vis period cultural representation.
Paul Robeson performing "Ol' Man River"
The performances of the African American actors are likewise ambivalent. The film retains and insists on the prominence of black people in the show boat world. The formidable talents of Hattie McDaniel as Queenie and Paul Robeson, as Joe, transcend the material, particularly Robeson's rendition of "Ol Man River," which Whale elevates to dramatic grandeur. Robeson is dignified, epic, in his vocal performance, only lapsing into a broad smile at the conclusion of the song like a reflexive concession to the white gaze. This mask characterizes all the black performances in the film, which inevitably collapse into eye rolling, broad smiles, and exagerrated gestures of the minstrel mask. "Show Boat" interrogates race as a cultural construct, but contains its black characters within this racial essentialism.
Another interesting ambivalence lies in the depiction of the the white characters.
As a symbol of the Southern gentleman of honor, Gaylord Ravenal is an embodiment of the falsity of the Old South code of honor. A two-bit gambler, he passes himself off as Southern aristocracy in florid speech and manners, yet his shoes are cracked and he is down on his luck, fleeing his debts. His is a facade of gentility whose specialty is "Make Believe," a game he indulges in with the ingenue Magnolia. Gaylord proves a faithless and cowardly husband, abandoning Magnolia and their daughter when he is down on his luck. Magnolia survives by marketing her talents as a "coon shouter," performing the song she learned from Julie, and becomes a major stage star.
Gaylord and Magnolia are reunited at the premier of a new show starring their daughter, Kim. Kim's big musical number is a grand plantation fantasy, set to the tune of "Gallivantin'," transformed through new orchestration and into a lilting, genteel waltz. African Americans are relegated to the background, literally a cluster of onlookers cast aside by the swirling white skirts of the dancing southern belles. Here the Old South can only be resurrected or reclaimed through deracinated nostalgia that effaces the presence of blackness that lay at its historic foundation.
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A gage linearity and bias study determines whether your gage is measuring accurately. The study assesses linearity (how accurate your measurements are through the expected range of measurements) and bias (how well your measurements compare to a reference value).
When you conduct a gage linearity and bias study, Minitab displays a graph of the best fitted line of the biases across the reference values.
In the linearity section of the output, Minitab shows how consistently the gage measures across the reference values. When the slope is small, the gage linearity is good.
Bias indicates how close your measurements are to the reference values. A positive bias indicates that the gage overestimates. A negative bias indicates that the gage underestimates. The %Bias value indicates the magnitude of the bias as a percent of the process variation (usually 6 sigma).
If the gage measures low at small reference values and high at large reference values, there may be a statistically significant slope (the p-value for slope shows the significance), which indicates large linearity. In this situation, the bias values are positive at one extreme and negative at the other, making the overall bias impractical to interpret.
Example of a gage linearity and bias study
An engineer works for a company that manufactures several types of screws that have different diameters. The engineer wants to know whether bias is present in the measurement system, and whether this bias is constant, independent of the outer diameter of the screw.
The engineer selects 5 screw sizes (0.25", 0.5", 1.0", 1.5", and 2.0") and an operator measures the outer diameter of each screw 12 times.
In all screw sizes, bias is present and significant (the p-value is less than 0.05 for all the reference sizes). For example, for the 0.25" screw, the average bias is 0.0057583. So, on average, the diameter measurements are higher than the reference value. The bias increases with the screw diameter, as identified by the positively sloped line in the scatterplot. The inconsistency of the bias across the sizes indicates that the measurement system also has linearity problems (p = 0.00).
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Old doors and windows can be extremely versatile when it comes to your DIY projects. If you've got an old door or window frames lying around why to repurpose them into creative things you can use around your home. Not only do they make for fantastic rustic decor, they can also have a beneficial purpose to your home.
These clever ways to reuse old doors and windows looks amazing, these examples include reusing your old door into shelving, repurposing your vintage doors into a hipster coffee table, turning your old window frame into a rustic chalkboard or even make a brilliant vintage style seat from your retro door!


0.1 The digital realm is multidimensional, and therefore not as easy to perceive as the physical world. This challenge is at the crux of the difficulties related to IT projects: How to determine when a delivery of a multidimensional project is of a satisfactory quality and ready for release?
The digital realm is multidimensional, and therefore not as easy to perceive as the physical world. This challenge is at the crux of the difficulties related to IT projects: How to determine when a delivery of a multidimensional project is of a satisfactory quality and ready for release?
Figure 1: Linear automation. 1,600 standalone test cases (100 tests per feature), each of which requires continuous maintenance.
Figure 2: Data-driven automation. The 1,600 test cases are deconstructed, and the same level of test coverage can now be achieved with just 200 data-driven test cases.
Data-driven automation hides another layer of unnecessary complexity for the tester who no longer has to worry about the individual data entries but just needs to know how to plug data sources into his/her automation flows. At this stage, the amount of test cases is much more manageable for any test team, but the complexity is instead moved to the test data, where there are still several dimensions to navigate. A test data set of 100+ parameters, the majority of which are either not used for each test case or spread across multiple data sources, is still incomprehensibly complex.
In practice, context-driven automation is made possible by having engineers do all the technical pre-configuration of data sources and relations, before these are used in automation flows. Complexity is split into layers, each of which takes care of a comprehensible part of the complexity. This way, flows are "reduced" to business processes per se. The pre-configuration includes any customizations required for testing your system in your organization — i.e. your context — meaning that a tester can build automation flows without having to take into consideration custom adaptations of the system under test.
As a result, entire test suites can be reduced to a few archetypes of flows that are contextual and compatible to changes in the surrounding context, e.g. test environment, data sources, system customizations, multiple product versions, etc.
Figure 3: Context-driven automation. The 200 data-driven automation cases can be further reduced to a few archetypes by moving contextual configurations from the cases themselves to an additional data source.
I came across your article on the Leapwork blog, and then found your site via google. I'm not sure if I'm just misunderstanding the concept of the Context-Driven Automation, but I think a practical example may be beneficial.
However, to see if I understand can I give an example?
I have a system where 4 types of absences can be booked. With data-driven automation, I would have a single spreadsheet data source that contained Log in details, and perhaps a relationship between manager and employee.
I would then have 4 flows for happy path tests to book 4 different types of absence and have a manager process them – I would specify the business parameters pertinate to the test within the flows.
The same system is used. Only this time I have a second spreadsheet data source. Within this source I would have a row per leave type, the row could also specify what would happen with the request.
I would then have 1 flow, that is driven by both data sources. All of the data that drives the test comes from the data sources – though I would generate any date related items.
Is this what is meant? Or do I have the wrong end of the stick?
I'm not quite sure I understand your example.
Each application can have different buttons, texts, images, tags, etc.
Each browser can have a different layout.
Each device can have different screensize, buttons, etc.
This would be a 4 dimensional figure (4x3x4x3), which can be converted, by multiplying all the dimensions and put them into columns 4x3x4x3=144 columns.
The data about the applications (buttons, texts, etc.), browsers, and devices would be contained in rows.
If you add even more roles, platforms, versions or other parameters this will grow quite large.
The grid could be reduced with for example the pairwise algorithm, but that would make it more complex to read, how the dimensions span over the columns.
There would be a datasource-table for the application, web browser, and devices, where data is stored as rows and different configurations of data is stored as columns.
The main data-source could then link to a column in each of the 3 datasources, describing it's context.
I could easily read the links, without having to read through all the data within each of the 3 datasources.
If I changed the application from application 1 to application 2, then automatically the buttons, tags, texts, would change, but I wouldn't see it.
Yes, I could still have 144 columns, but in this case I would only end up with 3 rows.
On the other hand, I don't have to have 144 columns, but can make script, that can execute all the possible combinations for all 3 rows or make a script that generates a pairwise setup and executes only a handful of them.
In this way I would only maintain 4 test cases (columns) instead of 144 test cases (columns), which is a reduction of 97,2 %.
The first 4 columns would contain 3 rows.
The second 3 columns could contain 60 rows.
The third 3 columns could contain 10 rows.
The forth 2 columns could contain 11 rows.
It would then give (4×3 + 3×60 + 4×10 + 3×11) cells = 265 cells, which is a lot less to maintain than the data-driven 11664 cells, from the data-driven example.
Which in this case is a reduction of 97.7 %.
Sorry about my example, I tried to contextualise it a couple of times, but failed. I understand what you're saying, but I'm a very visual person. Are you able to mock something up in Leapwork and share a screenshot of that? It would be wonderful if you could do a followup blog article and go into setting this up in Leapwork.
I'm at the stage where I'm trying to move to the 'context driven' and can do it from some level, but I was controlling part of it from variables in the schedule. I appreciate that you may not have time. Perhaps it's an idea to ask Leapwork to expand this idea in an FAQ or similar.


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2004 Portland Palestinian Film Festival, Art Under Occupation
author: Dan Denvir e-mail: dan.denvir@reed.edu
The 2004 Portland Palestinian Film Festival, will be presented Wednesday, March 24, through Sunday, March 28 at Reed College. Highlights of the festival will include several award-winning feature films, including Divine Intervention, Rana's Wedding, and Tale of the Three Jewels--all films are free.
Portlanders will have the rare opportunity to view feature films, shorts, and documentaries from and about Palestine, as Art Under Occupation: the 2004 Portland Palestinian Film Festival, will be presented Wednesday, March 24, through Sunday, March 28 at Reed College. Highlights of the festival will include several award-winning feature films, including Divine Intervention, Rana's Wedding, and Tale of the Three Jewels.
All films, which will be screened in Reed's Vollum lecture hall, are free and open to the public. For more information, the public is asked to call the Reed events line at 503/777-7755 or visit www.auphr.org/film.
The festival's purpose is to encourage careful contemplation and thoughtful action on issues in the Middle East, particularly in Israel and Palestine. Media images of the conflict often obscure the humanity of the Palestinians, a people who, despite and throughout the occupation, go on with life - art, love, ties of friendship and family, sadness, and death.
The Reed College chapter of Amnesty International sponsors Art Under Occupation, and is co-sponsored by the Reed Student Peace Action Network, Americans United for Palestinian Human Rights (AUPHR) Jews for Global Justice, Palestine Arab American Association, PSU Progressive Student Union, and Friends of Sabeel - North America
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Israel/Palestine:two states or one bi-national state? 15.Mar.2004 04:25
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In Defence of Marxism- http://www.marxist.com ---------------------------------------------------------- Israel/Palestine: two states or one bi-national state?
By Yossi Schwartz
It is becoming obvious to a growing number of Israelis and Palestinians, most of them left wing liberals and Palestinian radical left nationalists that the idea of two capitalist states is leading to hell. However, instead of grasping that on the basis of capitalism there is no solution, they advocate what appears to be a new solution but one that has failed even before 1948, a bi-national democratic state, namely a capitalist state with two nations.
The late Liberal intellectual Edward Said (1935 -2003) argued for this option in the last years of his life. In his January 1999 article, "Truth and Reconciliation," written for the Egyptian weekly Al Ahram, January 14-20, Said wrote, referring to Oslo, that it was time again to question the so-called peace process that had brought no peace. "It is my view that the peace process has in fact put off the real reconciliation that must occur if the 100 year war between Zionism and the Palestinian people is to end. Oslo set the stage for separation, but real peace can come only with a bi-national Israeli-Palestinian state."
Today, Dr. Ilan Pappe of Haifa University is one of the better known persons identified with this idea. In his article "Bi-National Realities versus National Mythologies: The Death of the 'Two States' Solution", [In Israel and a Palestinian state: zero sum game?, 2001]he has argued that the chances for a Palestinian state to survive and even come into a meaningful being are nil for two reasons. One is that of the balance of power. There is little hope for genuine Palestinian sovereignty and control over a future state. The balance of power in which the Israelis are the stronger party, is a precondition both for the Labor and Likud parties for dealing with the Palestinians; thus the concessions these parties will be ready to grant do not amount to a political entity that can be defined as a state in any reasonable and acceptable meaning.
The second reason is that within two separate states neither of the two nationalities would come into any meaningful existence. On the Palestinian side, even considering the most generous Israeli concessions, say under a Labor government, the Palestinian citizenry would include only a third of the Palestinians in the world, with an Israeli veto on the other two thirds from becoming Palestinian citizens. Furthermore, the potential Israeli citizenship granted to every Jew in the world on the one hand, and the discriminations inflicted upon about one million Palestinian citizens in Israel on the other, renders collective identity at best unclear and at worst non-existent.
On the other hand in Israel, as Jewish nationalism is defined by an affiliation to the Jewish religion, secularism, sectarianism, confessionalism and the presence of non-Jewish communities, all render any agreed definition of "Israelism" impossible. The conclusion Pappe draws from his analysis is that the only viable solution is one democratic state with equal civil and human rights for all.
For those who are not familiar with this idea and who may think that it is a new one, it is worth looking at the historical background to it and the reason why it failed in the past and why it would also fail in the future.
Unlike the current situation, where most supporters of this idea are Palestinians, during the Mandate period [when Palestine was under British rule prior to 1948] 99% of the bi-nationalists were Jewish. It is not difficult to understand the reason for this. Nationalists who feel weak at a given moment but dream of domination based on military power, sheer numbers, or technological advantage at some point in the future will advocate this idea as an interim measure.
Those involved in the discussions about the possibility of establishing a bi-national state in Palestine were mostly intellectuals, predominantly of Central European origin. They all believed in Zionism and in the Jewish right to return to the Land of Israel, but they thought that the idea of one Jewish state could not be realized because of the disparity in numbers.
Amongst the bi-nationalists there were several distinct groups. First of all, there was a group of Professors from the Hebrew University around "Ichud". The second group consisted of labor Zionists. Some of them maintained that the bi-national state should include the whole of Mandatory Palestine, both west and east of the River Jordan. A third group consisted of old-timers - people who had settled in the country towards the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries, spoke Arabic and had many Arab friends and colleagues. The concept of living together came naturally to them, and bi-nationalism to them was simply an extension of their own personal experience.
For a while, after the 1929"disturbances", (which included the massacre of the Jews in Hebron, after which the old Jewish community in the town ceased to exist), David Ben-Gurion himself, who was already leader of the Zionist Labor Movement but not yet leader of the Zionist Movement, was one of these. At that stage he started to play around with the idea of cantonisation (dividing Palestine into Jewish and Arab cantons).
The first group of liberal Zionist intellectuals, Martin Buber, Judah L. Magnes and Ernst Simon, who formed the Ichud Association, were conscious of the fact that the Zionist capitalists were stronger in terms of technology but did not have the numbers. They preached the idea of Bi-Nationalism not only as a way to securing the Zionist colonialist project, but also as a means of securing the domination of Zionist capital throughout the entire Middle East. Shimon Peres and his idea of a New Middle East is an echo of the same predatory vision.
In an article under the title The Bi-National Approach to Zionism the philosopher Martin Buber explained why the road to a successful Zionist project leads through the Bi nationalist state:
"When some years ago, a group of Jews from Jerusalem and elsewhere in Palestine combined their efforts in founding the Ichud (Union) Association, and later created the monthly Be'ayot as its organ, the main problem occupying their minds was the one usually referred to as the Arab question. This problem consists in the relationship between Jewish settlement in Palestine and Arab life, or, as it may be termed, the intra-national basis of Jewish settlement.
"... Jewish settlement in Palestine, which was embarked upon in order to enable the Jewish people to survive as a national entity, and which, in its social, economic and cultural aspects, constitutes an enterprise of universal significance, suffered from one basic error, which handicapped the development of its positive features. This basic error consisted in the tribute paid by political leadership to the traditional colonial policy...
"Whoever pointed to this state of affairs as constituting a decisive factor in the shaping of the future, had to realize that the Zionist public and their leaders were, in this respect, blind to reality. This blindness was bound to prove fatal. To a large extent, this attitude and its practical consequences are responsible for the fact that the self-confidence and desire for self-determination prevailing among the Arab population of Palestine have found a militant form of expression.
"What was needed at the outset of the settlement enterprise - in any case at the initiation of the modern one, undertaken with an international perspective - was a clearly defined program of do ut des (give and take). Such a program should have provided for the collective integration of the backward Arab population, as a whole, into Jewish economic activities and should have secured, in exchange, the indispensable demands necessary for the survival of the Jewish people as a national entity: free immigration, free acquisition of land, and the right of self-determination. What was actually put into practice, even when it seemed to answer real necessity, as was the case with the principle of "Jewish Labor" (1), was bound to have results almost contrary to the above program. In these circumstances, those in the Arab camp who wanted to shape the awakening Arab national movement in a negative, defensive manner, instead of allowing it to develop positive and social features, which would have threatened their interests, had an easy task.
"We describe our program as that of a bi-national state - that is, we aim at a social structure based on the reality of two peoples living together. The foundations of this structure cannot be the traditional ones of majority and minority, but must be different... The road to be pursued is that of an agreement between the two nations - naturally also taking into account the productive participation of smaller national groups - an agreement which, in our opinion, would lead to Jewish-Arab cooperation in the revival of the Middle East, with the Jewish partner concentrated in a strong settlement in Palestine. This cooperation, though necessarily starting out from economic premises, will allow development in accordance with an all-embracing cultural perspective and on the basis of a feeling of at-oneness, tending to result in a new form of society."
Recently, on January 9, even the so-called new Prime Minister of Palestine has threatened in despair that the Palestinians could call for a bi-national state. According to Agence France Presse: "The Palestinians could call for a bi-national state which they would share with the Israelis if diplomatic channels for creating a state of their own lead nowhere, Palestinian prime minister Ahmed Qorei said. 'Israel's continued policy of building the wall means that talk about a Palestinian state makes no sense,' Qorei told AFP, referring to the separation barrier which Israel is building in the West Bank. 'If this Israeli policy continues, we are going to come back to the option of a single, bi-national democratic state,' he added." (AFP 09/01/04)
Most liberals in Israel however oppose the idea of a bi-national state. Uri Avnery the leader of Gush Shalom (Peace block) has written an article under the title, The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, which exposes the weakness of the idea of bi-nationalism from the point of view of the mainstream "Peace lover" liberals - Liberals that in the context of other countries and other periods would be considered to be very conservative. It is written from a clear anti-communist and anti-internationalist perspective, reflecting his belief in the imperialist order that he wants to maintain as the only possible reality.
Nevertheless he makes a valid point. A bi-national capitalist state would be based on a form of Apartheid. What he hides of course is that two states, one strong capitalist Israeli state on most of the land, with the other one dependent on Israel with its main function being to provide cheap labor, would also be another form of Apartheid. And thus he wrote:" 'The wolf shall dwell with the lamb' prophesied Isaiah (11:6). This is possible in our times, too - provided you bring a new lamb every day."
Avnery is right that this cruel joke reflects the reality of the idea of a bi-national state." He explains that despair is pushing some Israeli left-wing circles to adopt this noble but unrealistic idea at a time when only nationalism prevails; at a time when the multi-national Soviet Union has disappeared, and even the multi-national Russian Federation is under pressure (see Chechnya); at a time when not only Yugoslavia has disintegrated, but even one of its former components, Bosnia, has also broken into two parts that are only glued together artificially, and kept together by the presence of foreign troops; at a time when even the unity of Canada has been threatened by movements within the French-speaking population.
He poses three questions: 1) Will both sides accept this solution? 2) Can a bi-national state function? 3) Will it put an end to the conflict? His reply to all three questions is an unqualified 'no'.
The Israelis are strongly nationalist. Some Palestinians do indeed talk longingly of a bi-national state, but he believes that for some of them, at least, this is just a code word for the elimination of the State of Israel, and for some others an escape from bitter reality to the dream of returning to their homes and villages of the past. The chance that the two nations will accept the bi-national idea in the foreseeable future is remote indeed.
At present a bi-national state would not be viable, because in order to function properly, one of two conditions must be fulfilled: either all sides give up their national identity or they must have equal economic and political power. He maintains that this is a communist utopia that reality has smashed.
Then he turns to the supporters of the bi-national idea who have developed the theory that in the beginning the joint state would indeed be some kind of an apartheid state, but one where the situation would change gradually over time, and the Arabs would become the majority. Even now, some 5.4 million Jews and 4.6 million Arab Palestinians live between the Mediterranean and the Jordan. According to this theory the higher Arab birthrate would soon change the ratio. The Palestinian majority would thus fight for equality. The world would support them, as it supported the South-African struggle against Apartheid. And this would finally lead to a real democratic state.
Avnery tells these people that that this is a wishful dream: "The white racists in South Africa were hated by the whole world. Unlike the Jewish Israelis, they had no powerful base of support. American Jewry has immense political, economic and media might, and they will not lose it for many years to come. Israel continues to rely on - and will do so for a long time - the guilt feelings of the Christian world inspired by the holocaust. At the same time, the Arabs are becoming more and more the bogyman of the Western world. It will be far more difficult for international pressure to influence the Jewish community that will dominate the bi-national state. It will take generations, and in the meantime the expansion of the settlements will go on relentlessly. In a bi-national state every Jew can, of course, settle wherever he or she wants. The Palestinians will continually lose out economically, and the gap between the two peoples will grow."
His conclusion as a "realist" - i.e. a person who supports the imperialist order - is that two states are needed for two peoples. However his solution is as realistic as the idea of a bi nationalist capitalist state for the simple reason that both are based on the assumption that the capitalist class, in the epoch of the decay of the capitalist system, can find a solution to democratic questions. Both are preaching to the workers and the poor peasants a message of submission to the masters. Both liberal visions are, in the words of the Wobblies' song The Preacher and the Slave, "Pie in the sky."
You will eat, bye and bye,
In that glorious land above the sky;
Work and pray, live on hay
You'll get pie in the sky when you die.
Thus the liberals are offering us two choices. After all they are "real democrats". They offer us one form of class and national exploitation and oppression in the form of two states or another form of the same class content in the form of one state.
In this epoch as Trotsky explained in the theory of The Permanent Revolution, the only class that can solve the democratic tasks including the national question is the working class. Unlike the despairing petit bourgeois intellectuals who are nationalists of different stripes, the world view of the working class is internationalist. The solution of the working class to the national question in Israel/Palestine is not one or two or three capitalist states but a socialist federation of the Middle East where all nations including the Israelis and the Palestinians would have their own territorial autonomies. The working class has no interest in a "solution" à la South Africa where the white capitalists are still the ruling class while the state is run by black bureaucrats who are using it to defend the same old rulers. The workers of South Africa wanted a socialist revolution that was within the reach of the working class had there been a revolutionary leadership instead of the nationalist ANC and the reformist leadership of the SACP.
The multi-national Soviet Union that was built by the Bolsheviks led by Lenin and Trotsky has disappeared for the time being, because of Stalinism that came to power as result of the isolation of the Soviet Union, isolation that the nationalist liberals did their best to enforce. As Trotsky explained many years ago, unless the working class removed the Stalinist bureaucracy and opened the road to socialism as part of the world revolution, the pro-capitalist bureaucrats would eventually destroy the Soviet Union. The nationalist hell that exists today in the former Soviet Union is the result of the social counter-revolution that Avnery supported for so many years.
Even in countries of advanced capitalism where the national question should have been solved years ago, nationalist separatist tendencies have re-emerged. This is the case in Britain, in Italy and many others. The example of Canada is an enlightening one. The unity of Canada has been threatened by nationalist capitalist movements within the French-speaking population reacting to the national oppression fostered by the English-speaking Conservatives and Liberals. The wave of nationalist sentiment in Quebec reinforces Lenin's description of nationalism as a question of bread. The world economy is in crisis and profits are down. Capitalism has forced its ruling class to cut costs, and it is always the working class who feel the brunt of these cuts. The reformist leadership is attempting to divert the class struggle against the ruling class along nationalist lines. As the Marxists Lorenzo Fiorito & Miriam Martin wrote in their article The Defeat of the Parti Québécois - An analysis of the 2003 Québec Election,
"It is an absolute crime on the part of the labour leaders any time that working people are allowed to be led down the blind alley of nationalism. While genuine socialists fully support the right of nations to self-determination, we call not for separation but for voluntary unity of the working class of all nations. Dividing the working class along national lines can benefit only the bourgeoisie, who are all too happy to divide and conquer. The Charest Liberals have already met to discuss strategy with the infamous BC Liberals and the near future will be full of attacks on the poor and on organized labour. There will be incredible volatility and it will need its political expression. Things will continue to get worse for Québecois families and the answer to their need MUST come from socialists, from labour. If this answer is not provided, in the next economic crisis, the absence of a working class leadership will lead to increased nationalism and working people will again be distracted from the only real solution to their problems - the emancipation of their class. A legitimate left labour party in Québec would draw in the best layers of the separatist movement. They would dump the capitalist separatists and unite under a labour banner, fighting first and foremost for working class emancipation - the only solution to the problems of working people in Quebec, Canada, and worldwide."
What is valid for Canada is even more valid and appropriate for Israel/Palestine.
Marxism and the National Question By Alan Woods and Ted Grant (February 25th, 2000)
Israel: The Nightmare Continues (February 23, 2004)
Bush and Sharon leaning on each other for support By Yossi Schwartz (February 3, 2004).
Geneva Accord Sell-out of the rights of the Palestinians By Yossi Schwartz
Geneva Accords: The Israeli capitalists want to find salvation By Yossi Schwartz and Leon Cohen (October 27, 2003)
Stop the bloodshed! End the Occupation! Hands off Syria! By Yossi Schwartz (October 6, 2003)
Israel: Mass working class action to stop privatisation! By Yossi Schwartz and Leon Cohen (October 1, 2003)
Protest of 27 pilots highlights deeper class divisions emerging in Israeli society By Leon Cohen in Israel (October 1, 2003)
Netanyahu attacks - Israeli working class responds. By our correspondent in Israel (September 25, 2003)
The threats to Arafat's life: in the end the USA always backs the Zionists By Yossi Schwartz (September 17, 2003)
After the resignation of Abu Mazen - From Nationalism and Bloodshed to a Class Position By Yossi Schwartz (September 10, 2002)
Palestine: The origins of Hamas and its role today By Yossi Schwartz (August 21, 2003)
Socialism: the only way out of the bloodshed in Israel/Palestine! By Yossi Schwartz (August 25, 2003)
Some historical clarifications on Israel/Palestine By Fred Weston (September 2002)


Blanch potatoes in a pot of boiling water until just tender. Drain, cool and reserve.
Place all spices into a small stainless or wooden bowl. Add vinegar. Whisk in California Olive Ranch Arbosana extra virgin olive oil until there is a little more than a paste consistency. Should resemble a thick sauce-like consistency (like hollandaise). Reserve.
Heat the quart of California Olive Ranch extra virgin olive oil to 350-365 degrees F in a saucepot large enough to hold the potatoes. In batches, add potatoes to the hot oil either with a basket or strainer, or loose. Fry until golden brown and crisp, approximately 3 minutes. Transfer to a small stainless bowl. Sprinkle with some kosher salt and toss.
Add a generous spoonful or ladle of sauce and toss to coat. Potatoes should be covered with spices and California Olive Ranch extra virgin olive oil and be very dark mahogany colored.


In early July, Chicago police officers arrested four men for taking over 14 vacant foreclosed homes — living in some and renting out the rest — mostly in prosperous neighborhoods. Seven years after the housing market crashed, there are still enough vacant homes to provide opportunities for this kind of creativity.
Eight of the houses were in Beverly Hills and Morgan Park— South Side Chicago neighborhoods that look like suburbs, complete with big brick houses, winding streets and a vigilant neighborhood group, the Beverly Area Planning Association.
One of the homes sits a block and a half from the group's office, on a street the association's executive director, Margot Holland, describes as "beautiful," lined with trees and spacious houses.
The taken-over house fits right in. The white-brick split-level is obviously well cared for, with tidy landscaping and a sign in front indicating that a security system is in place. "Yeah, it definitely doesn't look suspicious," Holland says.
So, how does a tidy home on a beautiful block end up ripe for the picking?
For help in understanding the context and in sorting through the public records, I turned to Rob Rose, director of the Cook County Land Bank Authority. Created in 2013 to help clear a backlog of vacant foreclosed properties, the land bank focuses on a collection of 23,000 tax-delinquent parcels.
His answer is based on a simple calculation. Rose thinks that clearing 500 properties a year — by finding new buyers or recommending targeted demolition — would be a pretty good pace for his small office. At age 44, that would keep him in the job until he's 90.
However, as a public records search on the taken-over homes shows, there are far more than 23,000 vacant properties.
None of the eight properties in Beverly and Morgan Park are on Rose's lists, because the property taxes are still being paid, presumably by the lender, as a hedge against forfeiting the parcel in a tax auction.
"This is the most difficult type of property to get to, because there's no immediate red flags," Rose says.
For the split-level, records show foreclosure started three years ago, but the lender hasn't taken title. That's about average in Illinois, which has more protections for homeowners than many states.
But even in a nice neighborhood, a few zombies here and there can provide an opening for creative operators.


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Ohio EPA Announces Recipients of Statewide Mosquito Control Grants
Ohio EPA Director Craig W. Butler and Ohio Department of Health Acting Director Lance Himes today announced nearly $1 million in funding for community health departments and related public entities across the state for mosquito control grants. The funding will help mitigate the spread of mosquito-borne viruses such as Zika, West Nile and La Cross Encephalitis.
"The Mosquito Control Grant program has been a major success," said Director Butler. "Tires are often a breeding ground for mosquitoes, and fortunately, we have developed an innovative way to put dollars to work to help prevent mosquito-borne illnesses."
Mosquito control grants will specifically target:
mosquito surveillance;
larval control;
adult mosquito control, such as spraying where mosquito presence poses a risk to public health;
community outreach;
breeding source reduction, including trash or tire removal; and
additional proposed activities.
Grants totaling $976,600 are being issued in 35 counties and four cities and are available in collaboration and support with the Ohio Department of Health's larger effort to mitigate the potential for an outbreak of mosquito-borne viruses. Over the last two years, Ohio EPA and the Ohio Department of Health have awarded nearly $3 million to local health departments and communities for mosquito control programs.
View more details on mosquito control grants:
epa.ohio.gov/Portals/47/media/MosquitoControl/2017-2018 Funding Recommendations.pdf.
The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency was created in 1972 to consolidate efforts to protect and improve air quality, water quality and waste management in Ohio. Since then, air pollutants dropped by as much as 90 percent; large rivers meeting standards improved from 21 percent to 89 percent; and hundreds of polluting, open dumps were replaced with engineered landfills and an increased emphasis on waste reduction and recycling.
Categories: District Location, Divisions, Grants, Materials and Waste Management, Statewide


Elected to the State Senate in 2012, State Senator Mark Stoops brings extensive local legislative and fiscal experience to the office, having served as President of the Monroe County Board of Commissioners and as past President of the Monroe County Council.
Stoops is a graphic design and marketing consultant. An advocate for sustainable community development, he also restores historic buildings in the Bloomington area.
A thoughtful and collaborative leader, Stoops seeks advice from experts, colleagues and constituents with a variety of viewpoints to make informed decisions. He understands the nexus between education and economic development, supporting a strong system of public education and higher education to train Indiana's future workforce. Stoops is also an advocate of environmental sustainability and green job development, human rights protections and health care accessibility.
Stoops is proud of his many accomplishments as an elected official in the state of Indiana. Stoops has authored and co-authored bills affecting a wide range of state functions, from the expansion of Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act, improving access to mental health and addiction services to water resources and quality protections, recycling goals, and public transit expansion. Stoops continues to work to support public education and funding. Stoops has been awarded "Indiana Legislator of the Year" by Mental Health America, "National Public Policy Advocate 2017," VIPS beacon Award, the 2015 AARP Capitol Caregiver Award, the 2013 INAPTA Star Legislator, and the 2016 Life Designs Stewardship Award.
Stoops and his wife Kara reside in Bloomington and have four children. Born and raised in Indiana, Stoops is the fourth generation of his family to live in Bloomington and Monroe County and is descended from families that settled in Indiana before it was a state. A graduate of Crown Point High School, he attended Indiana University and the University of California, Los Angeles.
Indiana Senate District 40 encompasses the majority of Monroe County and includes the Indiana University-Bloomington campus.


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Will Mushrooms Be Your Next New Crop?
FARM SHOW Magazine » Will Mushrooms Be Your Next New Crop?
Shiitake mushrooms are creating a lot of interest in the Midwest for their good taste and their profit potential as a sideline business for woodlot owners.
Says Kraig Kiger, project coordinator of the Shiitake Mushroom Project, Grand Rapids, Minn.: "The Shiitake mushroom variety is extremely popular in Japan and Asia. The popularity spread to the U.S. where it's now a favorite on the East and West coast.
"They grow to have a 3 to 6-in. dia. head and have a light brown color.
"They're unique taste is described as a cross between pork and lobster and can be used just like regular mushrooms ù fresh in salads, baked on pizzas or fried for steaks. We hope to sell the mushrooms to restaurants and grocery stores.
To grow the Shiitake (pronounced Shee-e-to-kay) mushroom requires hardwood logs;, preferably oak but others also work well. In Kiger's research he's tested a number of trees, including small diameter aspen which is commonly left as waste after logging.
He feels that mushrooms will make the otherwise wasted 3 to 4-in. dia. aspen logs productive. For growing mushrooms, he suggests cutting the trees into 4-5 ft. lengths so they're easy to handle. The trees should be cut in the winter so the tree has the most moisture left inside. You then stack the logs to let them air until May when they're innoculated with plugs. Another reason for using fresh cut trees is that they're normally disease free. The Shiitake fungi is extremely weak and won't grow if there's other fungi present.
The plugs contain mycelium (the mushroom's root system) and are placed in 5/16 by 3/4-in. holes drilled into the logs. On a 4-ft. log Kiger says you'd put in 4 rows of plugs each containing 25-30 plugs.
Once the log is innoculated it takes 18-24 months to get a "crop". The care needed during that time includes keeping the logs at the proper humidity by spraying a light mist over them and turning the logs once a year for aeration. Kiger suggest stacking the logs and keeping them off the ground. Cold weather doesn't kill the mycelium it merely puts it into dormancy.
Kiger figures a cord of wood (about 200 logs) will produce 500 lbs. of mushrooms in five years. He hopes to sell the crop for $6 to $12 a lb. noting that imported Shiitakes now sell for up to $18 a lb.
Plugs sell for $35 a thousand. One cord requires about 5,000 plugs.
For more information, contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Kraig Kiger Shiitake Mushroom Project, ICC, 18,51 Hwy. 169E, Grand Rapids, Minn. 55744 (ph 218 327-1760, ext. 227).
Will mushrooms be your next new crop? AG WORLD Ag World 9-4-17 Shiitake mushrooms are creating a lot of interest in the Midwest for their good taste and their profit potential as a sideline business for woodlot owners. Says Kraig Kiger, project coordinator of the Shiitake Mushroom Project, Grand Rapids, Minn.: "The Shiitake mushroom variety is extremely popular in Japan and Asia. The popularity spread to the U.S. where it's now a favorite on the East and West coast. "They grow to have a 3 to 6-in. dia. head and have a light brown color. "They're unique taste is described as a cross between pork and lobster and can be used just like regular mushrooms ù fresh in salads, baked on pizzas or fried for steaks. We hope to sell the mushrooms to restaurants and grocery stores. To grow the Shiitake (pronounced Shee-e-to-kay) mushroom requires hardwood logs;, preferably oak but others also work well. In Kiger's research he's tested a number of trees, including small diameter aspen which is commonly left as waste after logging. He feels that mushrooms will make the otherwise wasted 3 to 4-in. dia. aspen logs productive. For growing mushrooms, he suggests cutting the trees into 4-5 ft. lengths so they're easy to handle. The trees should be cut in the winter so the tree has the most moisture left inside. You then stack the logs to let them air until May when they're innoculated with plugs. Another reason for using fresh cut trees is that they're normally disease free. The Shiitake fungi is extremely weak and won't grow if there's other fungi present. The plugs contain mycelium (the mushroom's root system) and are placed in 5/16 by 3/4-in. holes drilled into the logs. On a 4-ft. log Kiger says you'd put in 4 rows of plugs each containing 25-30 plugs. Once the log is innoculated it takes 18-24 months to get a "crop". The care needed during that time includes keeping the logs at the proper humidity by spraying a light mist over them and turning the logs once a year for aeration. Kiger suggest stacking the logs and keeping them off the ground. Cold weather doesn't kill the mycelium it merely puts it into dormancy. Kiger figures a cord of wood (about 200 logs) will produce 500 lbs. of mushrooms in five years. He hopes to sell the crop for $6 to $12 a lb. noting that imported Shiitakes now sell for up to$18 a lb. Plugs sell for $35 a thousand. One cord requires about 5,000 plugs. For more information, contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Kraig Kiger Shiitake Mushroom Project, ICC, 18,51 Hwy. 169E, Grand Rapids, Minn. 55744 (ph 218 327-1760, ext. 227).


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Quibi Partners with Ridley Scott for New Horror Series About a Cursed Video Game
CURS_R is an upcoming shortform series produced by the director of Alien.
By L.B. Lubomski
December 12, 2019, 7:45 PM EST
CURS_R
Ridley Scott, celebrated director of such classic films as Alien, Blade Runner, and Gladiator, has partnered with upcoming shortform subscription service Quibi for a new horror series. According to Deadline, Scott will act as an executive producer for the show, titled CURS_R.
The series features the story of a broke student who plays an old 1980s computer survival game in pursuit of an unclaimed monetary prize. She soon realizes that it's not just a game as a series of terrifying events warp the reality around her, forcing her to play or die.
CURS_R is a joint production between Anton Corp and Stigma Films. Ridley Scott will executive produce alongside frequent television and short film writer Simon Allen, whose best work might be the episode "Floor 9.5" from the show Bite Size Horror. Allen will be handling writing duties on this project as well. He brings with him frequent collaborator and director Toby Meakins. Matthew James Wilkinson of Stigma Films will act as lead producer alongside Anton Corp and Ridley Scott's Scott Free Productions.
Short for "quick bites," Quibi is designed for on-the-go viewing, featuring shows with episodes running only seven to ten minutes in length. This mobile video subscription service will cost you $5 per month with ads and $8 without. All in all, this is an intriguing new format to bring horror to that has plenty of relevant names coming on board, including Steven Spielberg and Alexandre Aja, just to name a couple.
Does the premise of this new shortform series interest you? We will definitely keep our eyes out for more show announcements and industry news here on Dead Entertainment.
L.B. Lubomski
Lawrence "L.B." Lubomski is an avid horror movie fan, gamer, musician, historian, and aspiring author. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, L.B. was exposed to the works of local filmmaker and godfather of zombie cinema George A. Romero early on. He has since developed a particular fondness for Italian zombie/cannibal and slasher films. This passion for horror extends into other media, from survival horror video games such as Resident Evil to horror-inspired musical artists. In his spare time, L.B. pursues many interests including building his collection of vinyl records, action figures, and vintage video games as well as drumming in various local bands.
Mary Harron's Quibi Series "Emma" Adds Four Stars
The upcoming shortform series officially welcomes Mira Sorvino, Rory Culkin, Hannah Murray, and Michael Gaston.
Another Turn of the Screw Adaptation on Its Way, This Time in Shortform for Quibi
This new project comes from Alexandra McNally and Josh Berman.
American Psycho Director Mary Harron Helming Horror Series "Emma" for Quibi
The upcoming shortform mobile streaming platform adds another well-known filmmaker to the mix.
Sam Raimi's 50 States of Fright Sets Cast for Shortform Streaming Platform Quibi
The show is set to tell scary stories based on urban legends and folktales from across the United States.


From the east, Rye is 20 miles from Ashford along the A259; from the west we're just a short trip (14 Miles) from Hastings, again along the A259. From central London follow the M20 to Ashford, then take the A259 to Rye.
Rye Harbour village is 2 miles southeast of Rye town.
Set your SAT NAV to TN31 7TX, but when you get here don't go into the caravan site, turn right into the large car park before the Martello Tower.
There is a car park with toilets nearby at Rye Harbour. These are both now run by our Parish Council so please give a donation in the box.
If you are walking from Rye to Rye Harbour there is a footpath along an old railway line that avoids walking the whole length of the road.


JIUQUAN - China on Friday launched an experiment satellite, "TK-1", from northwestern Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.
The satellite, carried by the rocket "KT-2", blasted off from the launch center at 7:53 am Friday, and it later entered its intended orbit.
"TK-1" is the first satellite independently developed by China Aerospace Science & Industry Corp. (CASIC) and will be used for remote sensing, telecommunications and experiments in minisatellite-based technologies.
The "KT-2" rocket is one of the five carrier systems in the CASIC commercial space plan. It features high carrying efficiency and adaptability, according to the CASIC.


Well look who it is, it's the 'It' bag of 2005, the Marc Jacobs patent leather Stam bag! Okay now I know what I truly want for Valentine's Day. . I want this Stam Bag in blush! I know this bag was all the rage a few months ago, where you would go online and search for this stam bag but then get electronically hit with the waiting list or out of stock message. Well now this gorgeous MJ Stam bag bag is available online exclusively at eluxury in blush leather.
If you happen to go to eluxury and not see this bag there, then go back an hour later. Occasionally with their popular handbags they sell out so fast that they get rid of out of their entire inventory that's available. If you call and find out this bag is completely gone from their inventory, then check out the Marc Jacobs Quilted East / West Frame Bag . Both bags are lucky enough to share similar characteristics, such as the diamond quilted leather on a vintage inspired frame, with a chunky brass shoulder strap, topped off with a cute oversized kiss lock. Another difference is the Stam bag is much bigger (14″ x 9″ x 5″) while the little Quilted East / West bag (11″ x 4.75″ x 2.5″) has a more petite shape.
Marc Jacobs Quilted East / West bag $775.


Medical Assistance (MA) provides necessary health care for low-income people with disabilities, families, children, pregnant women and seniors. Get details here.
Medical Assistance for Employed People with Disabilities (MA-EPD) provides necessary health care for people with disabilities, who are working, earning more than $65 per month and are not otherwise eligible to receive MA at no cost. Get details here.
MinnesotaCare (MNCare) provides health care coverage for certain low-income Minnesotans who do not have other insurance. Call the Department of Human Services at 651-297-3862 or 1-800-657-3672 or visit this page for more information.
Call the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association at 1-800-762-4636 for more information.
Call the Disability Linkage Line at 1-866-333-2466 for more information.
Subsidized housing programs provide rental assistance for low to moderate income renters, including people with disabilities. There are both federal and state subsidized housing programs. Housing assistance is available for government owned properties (public housing), private, not-for-profit owned and operated properties and privately owned for profit properties.
A variety of housing programs are available depending where you live in Minnesota. Program rules are diverse and may differ from site to site. The information below is limited to housing most in demand and does not include all the programs that exist, nor details you need to make decisions about your housing. The links below have more information on the major housing programs and also include additional websites and phone numbers.
Note that rent in any of the subsidized housing programs can be affected by earnings and changes in benefits. Always discuss potential changes and their impact with your housing manager so you can plan for any increases or decreases in your rent in advance. Also, note that there are some annual income adjustments and earned income disregards that you may be entitled to – you should also discuss these with your housing manager.
Public Housing, Section 8 Project-based buildings, and Section 8 Vouchers are the federal government's main programs for assisting very low-income families, the elderly and people with disabilities to rent affordable, safe and sanitary housing.
4. The sum of the following in excess of 3% of the household's annual income include both: Unreimbursed medical expenses of a disabled or elderly person AND Unreimbursed reasonable attendant care and auxiliary apparatus expenses for each disabled member of the family to the extent necessary to enable any member of the family to be employed.
Some,but not all, HUD-funded subsidized housing agencies also allow a work incentive for people with disabilities who start working. If you qualify for the EID, your earnings would not be counted toward your rent for the first year that you work, and only partially count the second year that you work. Contact your Housing Manager to see if you might qualify for the EID or get more information in the Work Incentives Connection's HUD Earned Income Disregard (EID) flyer.
Contact your local housing authority to apply for Public Housing or a Section 8 program.
The GRH asset limit is $2,000. Assets include money in savings and checking accounts, stocks/bonds, most retirement accounts and some life insurance. There is no longer a monthly gross income limit for GRH. The amount of rent one pays in a GRH facility is based on the type and amount of income received each month. If you pay out-of-pocket for items related to your disability and those items are necessary in order for you to work, that expense may reduce the amount of rent you are responsible to pay.
Contact your local county human services agency to find out if you are eligible for the GRH program. Department of Human Services website.
For info on Emergency Assistance to pay rent, call First Call for Help at 2-1-1.
From food to tax help, here are additional resources in our community.
Receive our Moving Forward newsletter with a schedule of community meetings held each year throughout Minnesota, occasional updates on work incentives rules for SSDI, SSI, MA-EPD and other public benefits programs. To join our mailing list, please call us at: 1-800-976-6728.
Each year, the Work Incentives Connection holds meetings throughout Minnesota to provide in-person information about work and benefits to local communities. Topics include the SSI and SSDI programs, the rules those programs have about the impact of work on benefits and special work incentives available.
Both the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) programs have work incentives. These are special rules that offer you some kind of advantage when you work. Not everyone can use work incentives. Sometimes work incentives just don't apply to a person's situation. Keep this in mind as you look at the Work Incentive Plans below.
Social Security program names sound the same to most of us. Sometimes people will not be sure exactly which benefit they receive. Call 1-800-772-1213 to find out which benefit you are currently receiving. Some people receive both SSI and SSDI.
Fact sheets explain some of Social Security's program rules and provide general information about work incentives. If you need more detailed information about specific work incentives, see below. Each Work Incentive Plan explains who can use that work incentive, when it can be used and the benefits of using that work incentive. The plans also explain each step you must take to get Social Security's approval to use the work incentive.
You may want to ask a job coach, case manager or a family member for help.
Find the heading with the name of the benefit you receive—either Social Security Disability (SSDI) or Supplemental Security Income (SSI).
Choose a work incentive under the benefit you receive that you are interested in knowing more about and click on it.
Read all of the information in the Work Incentive Plan.
There are more work incentives than these below. On this page, we only show those work incentives for which the Work Incentives Connection has developed a work incentive plan.
Do any of these above work incentives apply to you?
If you think a work incentive may apply to you, contact your local Social Security office and ask whether you can use the work incentive. If Social Security says you probably can use the work incentive, ask them to send you more information. You might need to get receipts or a letter from your doctor or a form from your employer. Follow the steps of the Work Incentives Plan until you have done each one.
If you do not live in Minnesota, here is a list of local Work Incentive Planning and Assistance agencies by state. Go to Two Ways to Search, Option 2: Direct Search, and click Start Your Direct Search. Select Benefits Counseling (WIPA) and put in your zip code and click Start New Search. Scroll down the page to find the results. Your Work Incentives Planning and Assistance agency (or WIPA) will be listed with a green circle noting WIPA to the right of the agency name.
This service helps people with disabilities to achieve employment and independent living goals. It is available through Minnesota WorkForce Centers across the Minnesota. For more information, call toll-free, 1-888-GET-JOBS. Find a Minnesota WorkForce Center near you and get details.
Fosters the achievement of vocational and personal independence by persons of all ages who are blind or visually impaired. Visit the SSB website.
The Minnesota WorkForce Centers and numerous affiliate sites that make up the WorkForce Center System across Minnesota provide the tools, resources, and services you need for your employment, training, and related workforce development needs. The 50+ Minnesota WorkForce Centers represent a unique partnership of employment and training organizations that reflect the needs of each community. Workers, employers, students, and those looking for a first job or returning to the workforce will find that nearly all services are offered at no cost. Each Minnesota WorkForce Center houses a Resource Area that operates similarly to a public library. For more information, call toll-free, 1-888-GET-JOBS. Find a Minnesota WorkForce Center near you.
The Ticket to Work program is designed to help people with disabilities go to work and become self-sufficient. Most adults on the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) or Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) programs will receive a ticket in the mail from the Social Security Administration (SSA). They can use this ticket as a voucher to obtain employment-related services from either state or private vocational providers. Services may include vocational assessment, training, job placement, job coaching and other assistance needed to prepare for, obtain or maintain employment. To find Ticket to Work providers area, visit Choose work.ssa.gov and select Option 2: Direct Search, or check out the Ticket to Work program fact sheet.
The Small Business Administration can answer business start up questions and help with writing business plans. Visit the SBA website.


The Supreme Court ruled that illegal searches based on honest mistakes by law enforcement are valid in prosecuting accused criminals.
The justices split 5-4 along ideological lines to apply new limits to the court's so-called exclusionary rule, which generally requires evidence to be suppressed if it results from a violation of a suspect's Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable searches or seizure.
The conservative majority acknowledged that the arrest of Bennie Dean Herring of Alabama — based on the mistaken belief that there was a warrant for his arrest — violated his constitutional rights, yet upheld his conviction on federal drug and gun charges.
Coffee County, Ala., sheriff's deputies found amphetamines in Herring's pockets and an unloaded gun in his truck when they conducted a search following his arrest. It turned out that the warrant from neighboring Dale County had been recalled five months earlier, but the county sheriff's computers had not been updated.
Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the court, said the evidence may be used "when police mistakes are the result of negligence such as that described here, rather than systemic error or reckless disregard of constitutional requirements."
Herring was arrested after a Coffee sheriff's employee asked her counterpart in Dale County whether Herring, called "no stranger to law enforcement" by Roberts, was wanted in Dale. An arrest warrant had been issued in Dale, but it had been recalled by July 2004.
The sheriff's electronic records, however, showed it was still a valid warrant.
But the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta said that suppressing evidence in Herring's case would be unlikely to deter sloppy record keeping.


Mona, her husband Jehad, and their 6 children left Dara'a, Syria, in early 2014. The war had been going on for some time, but they had tried to hold on, hoping things things would get better. As more and more of their neighbors were being killed they were able to make it into Jordan just before the border with Syria was closed.
When the family arrived in Jordan they spent a few days at the Zataari refugee camp. At that time, the camps were really scary places, especially with small children, so they left and found a place to stay in the town of Marqa. Jehad also found some work in the area, though his job was illegal as Syrians are not allowed to work in Jordan.
Over the course of the following year the places where Jehad worked were raided numerous times, eventually resulting in the Jordanian police threatening to send Mona's family back to Syria. With few remaining options, Jehad left Jordan, along with his 2 brothers-in-law, to make his way to Europe. They were all forced to leave their families behind as they couldn't afford to bring everyone. After a flight to Turkey, boat trips, lots of walking, and a short stay in a Hungarian detention center, Jehad finally made it to Sweden.
In late August of this year, Mona had her interview at the Swedish Embassy in Amman, and miraculously the family had their family reunion visas just a few days later! Unfortunately, as the family was living on just a few hundred dollars a month in total, the $400 per person flights to Sweden seemed out of reach.
Mona's friends in Amman, some of whom are affiliated with the Collateral Repair Project, quickly reached out through their Facebook networks for help, and their story reached our friends at The Syria Fund. Lexi at The Syria Fund then reached out to Miles4Migrants, and we quickly notified our networks (as we had no current pledges large enough to cover the flights) to see if there was any way we could help this family of 7 reunite with their father in Sweden as quickly as possible. We found 2 donors (Alex Helin and one who wishes to remain anonymous) and an available flight for 7 people from Amman to Stockholm, and Mona and her children were able to fly from Jordan to Sweden and reunite with Jehad only a few short hours ago.
Miles4Migrants would like to give our best wishes to the entire family, as well as our sincere hopes that being together again in safety allows Zainab, Mohammad, Ibrahim, Asmaa, Rusul and Arak to flourish as they most richly deserve.
Below are pictures of the kids on a shopping trip before they left Amman, getting their first new clothes in several years thanks to our friends at The Syria Fund.


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An OPEC Cut Just Got Closer 12/1/2021
Enverus Intelligence Research, a subsidiary of Enverus, the leading global energy data analytics and SaaS technology company, has released its latest PetroLogic report covering oil price expectations for the near-to medium-term.
Chevron Announces $15B Capital And Exploratory Budget For 2022 12/1/2021
Chevron Corporation today announced a 2022 organic capital and exploratory spending program of $15B, at the low end of its $15 to $17B guidance range and up more than 20% from 2021 expected levels.
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Many people feel sluggish, fatigued and experience low energy levels. There are many and varied reasons for feeling this way including: stress, illness, poor diet, allergies, toxicity, inadequate amount or quality of sleep, depression and anxiety, to name a few. During a consultation, Belinda is able to isolate and treat the underlying cause of your tiredness and fatigue by using herbs, nutritional supplements and dietary modification. Typically, patients achieve quick relief from physical and mental fatigue and feel brighter, sharper and more motivated.
Good sleep is essential to optimum daytime energy levels and it is important to obtain both enough sleep hours but also quality. Naturopathic treatment is able to assist in falling asleep more easily, reduce night waking and help people fall back to sleep after being disturbed, more readily. Waking up feeling refreshed is one of the benefits which patients most often comment on.
Treating general health and wellbeing can also increase energy levels and reduce feelings of fatigue. Complaints such as headaches, digestive problems, depression, anxiety and muscle soreness are commonly linked to fatigue.
Stress is also a major contributor to fatigue and poor energy. Prolonged stress, high workload and pressure can all lead to adrenal depletion. Adrenal glands become exhausted from constantly secreting stress hormones, such as adrenaline. Herbal treatment is able to assist in restoring the adrenal glands and thereby increasing the body's natural energy.
If you are feeling particularly tired, stressed or fatigued, finding it difficult to get out of bed in the morning or are lacking motivation, Belinda would love to help you to put the spring back into your step and feel renewed with energy.


As of 14th February 2019, the Kintone Developer Network has undergone a complete design renewal to match the Kintone brand. A number of changes will also be rolling out in the next few weeks. See details below.
First and foremost, going forward, the Kintone Developer Network by name has been changed to the Kintone Developer Program.
With the renewal of the Kintone brand as a whole, the Kintone Developer Program website has been updated to reflect this change.
We are planning to reorganize the menu categorization for better navigation and find-ability.


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Chicago Reporter (https://www.chicagoreporter.com/citys-clearance-rates-decline-national-rates-down-few-minorities-assigned-to-detective-tactical-units/)
City's Clearance Rates Decline, National Rates Down; Few Minorities Assigned To Detective, Tactical Units
By Douglas Longhini | February 1, 1977
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For the CPD's Criminal Investigation Division, finding solutions to crime gets more difficult each year.
In 1975 the Chicago Police Department solved a smaller percentage of all crimes than in 1964. And for each of the twelve years between 1964 and 1975, the department's detective forces recorded a consistently lower "clearance rate" for all index crime.
Clearances are solutions to crimes. The "clearance rate" is the percentage of all crimes the police believe have been solved in the preceding year. A crime will be "cleared," or solved, if the police believe they have identified the perpetrator of a crime. Clearances occur through arrest, death or other circumstances leading to the identification of the alleged offender. One identification can result in one or more crimes cleared.
The clearance rate is a key tool for evaluating the police detective's performance. By solving crimes and arresting criminals, the police presumably deter future crimes.
In 1964, referring to the use of clearance rates as a performance standard, Chicago's former Police Superintendent, the late Orlando W. Wilson, said, "In no branch of police service may the accomplishment of the unit and its individual members be so accurately evaluated as in the detective division."
Wilson urged the comparison of clearance rates over long periods.
"Chance may cause an unfavorable comparison during a short period, but when the failure of performance extends over six months or a year, a conclusion of diminished effectiveness seems justified," Wilson advised.
In 1975, the most recent date for which clearance rates are available, the CPD reported cleared:
22 percent of all burglaries (10,330 burglaries) and 12 percent of all auto thefts (4,032 auto thefts).
In 1964, CPD detectives reported cleared:
35.6 percent of all burglaries (10,687 burglaries cleared) and 35.5 percent of all auto thefts (9,721 auto thefts cleared).
The Reporter singles out the comparison between burglary and auto thefts in 1975 and 1964 because the decline in clearances is so dramatic.
The department solved 357 fewer burglaries and 5,689 fewer auto thefts, an absolute, as well as a percentage decline over the past 12 years.
Classy Crooks
James O'Grady, the present chief of the CPD's Criminal Investigation Division, says at least one reason for the dwindling clearance rates is the increasing sophistication of the criminal.
"Certain crimes are very difficult to solve," says O'Grady, "particularly crimes against property because there are usually no witnesses to these crimes."
O'Grady concedes that crime is becoming more difficult to solve, but argues that the Chicago Police Department is doing no worse than the rest of the country. "Our clearance rates parallel the national trend," he Says.
Howard Saffold, president of the Afro-American Patrolmen's League blames the police department, more than the criminal, for the current drop in clearance rates.
Saffold puts it bluntly, "Racism is the basis of the low solution rate. No more than 13 percent of the department's detectives are black." Saffold argues that since most serious crimes occur in the black police districts, most detective work must also be done in these districts.
"You're not going to find a lot of white detectives tracking cases through these cold, rickety buildings in the inner city," he-says.
In 1975, of the CPD's 1,228 detectives, 122 were black (10 percent) and nine were Latino (0.7 per cent). In 1975, 32 percent of all murders and rapes, 32 percent of all robberies, 23 percent of all burglaries and 18 percent of all auto theft were committed in four black police districts — Wentworth, Grand Crossing, Englewood and Harrison.
Yet eight percent of the homicide detectives were black, five percent of the robbery detectives were black, 14 percent of the burglary detectives were black and 9 percent of the auto theft detectives were black.
Saffold also points out that few blacks or Latinos are assigned to the CPD's tactical units, extensions of both the CPD's Patrol and Detective divisions. Tactical units consist of police officers patrolling the streets in civilian clothing and unmarked police cars.
Saffold says, "The theory is to take a guy who blends into an area and give him an edge over the criminal element."
However, the Reporter found that in 1975 of the department's 393 0fficers assigned to tactical units, 24 were black (6 percent) and four were Latino (one percent).
Saffold argues that it is difficult for tactical unit officers, 93 per cent of whom are white, to "blend" into Chicago's black and Latino neighborhoods.
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