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Michael: you can also play this pattern on the 2nd string B, but it's called a different name, the E minor scale has E, F#, G, A, B, C, D, there is also a pattern you can play on the 2nd B string, it's relative to the first scale, does anybody know what the term "relative" means in the context of scales?
Rick: the 4 of maj is rel min?
Chris: G is relative because of the shared f#?
Michael: yes Chris, if we were going to play those exact notes starting from the B what order would you have?
Chris: Ok I have one small question -> the scale modes are just different starting positions within a scale?
john: Dorian Scale = Natural Minor with raised 6th, right?
mike: how are you getting that tone?
john: like it was the ii scale, played perhaps as part of a ii-V-I turnaround?
Ed: is grunge always in Dorian mode?
Michael: no, I don't think there's any set mode, most grunge players play by feel or sound, but actually they are playing in all kinds of creative modes and not even knowing it. It's like Jimi Hendrix, he had no idea technically what he was playing, but MAN, he did it!
justus: if im gettin ready to do a lead, solo, etc, and i go towards the bottom of the neck, which scale should i use, allot of them use the same notes???
Chris: is this a Major or Minor Pentatonic?
Michael: do you want to try a lick using that pattern in the open position?
Chris: what is the difference between the two?
Skedman: That's cool with alternating triplets.
justus: ok, im pretty creative at coming up with little ditties, licks, etc...so i have a little something going...how do i know which scale to use to build or expand their rest of the jam?
Skedman: It has a Joe Walsh feel to it.
justus: yes but a G maj, and a min pent can have almost the same patterns, no?
Gigi: The B Dorian scale makes me think of the second degree of the A major scales. I am a bit lost.
justus: so lets say i have a song...prog is c Em Gmaj7 Am....what would sound goog as a lead over it?
justus: yeah..thats the style i play tho so i get confused or lost on which scale to use..
justus: it is??? not C?
justus: i thought if the song starts in key C that would be the key.. hmm?


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JUAN ORTEGA Staff WriterStaff Writer Brittany Wallman contributed to this reportSouth Florida Sun-Sentinel
Three days after Broward County's primary election day, Roseann Minnet couldn't help but wonder: Am I Lauderdale-by-the-Sea's new mayor?
"It's a numbing feeling," Minnet said. "You want to move forward and get this process over with. I do want to be mayor. I've worked hard for it."
At the Lauderhill warehouse of the Broward Supervisor of Elections Office, Minnet sat for hours Friday in a yellow chair. She stared at a nearby clock and played a game of Sudoku in a magazine, eager to learn new election results for her mayoral race.
She watched as the elections canvassing board updated its results for two close races in two small beach-side towns. Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes said it's all but certain Minnet will be Lauderdale-by-the-Sea's new mayor and that Celinda Sawtelle won a commission seat in Hillsboro Beach.
But official results won't be available until next Friday, when countywide results will be certified.
Minnet and Sawtelle were the candidates who celebrated Tuesday, when they saw initial results showing they won by 16 votes and 10 votes, respectively. But they said they later learned from South Florida Sun-Sentinel reporters who phoned them that the race was still too close to call.
"You've got to have a sense of humor in Florida," Sawtelle said. "It gives me an idea of the ins and outs of politics and how nothing is for certain."
Added to the results Wednesday were absentee ballots, and added Friday were provisional ballots - paper ballots that voters must use if they cannot prove their eligibility at the polls.
About 3,300 voters used such ballots countywide and in six cities, towns and villages that had elections for council or commission positions.
But because Minnet's and Sawtelle's races were so close, Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes on Friday prioritized reviewing provisional votes for those towns. Provisional ballots for the other cities will be examined next week.
Because officials searched through the provisional ballots to find the ones for the two towns, some ballots might have been overlooked, Snipes said. If some were, they would be added to the tallies next week, as officials examine the other ballots.
"I don't think the results are going to change," Snipes said. "But I can't guarantee it."
Friday's new results for Lauderdale-by-the-Sea showed Minnet got 1,334 votes, or 21 more votes than her opponent, L. "Peanuts" Wick. In Hillsboro Beach, Sawtelle got 424 votes, or 12 more votes than her opponent, Claire Schubert.
"It's not like I had a high and then I'm crushed today," Schubert said in a telephone interview Friday night. "I pretty much had accepted it after the initial election."
Wick couldn't be reached for comment despite two phone calls to his cell phone.
Mary Cooney, an elections office spokeswoman, said she initially thought all votes would be certified Friday. But the certification will occur next Friday, to accept ballots from military personnel overseas.
Snipes said only presidential primary votes would count.
If military personnel wanted to vote in municipal elections, election day was the deadline for their ballots to have been received by the elections office.
Staff Writer Brittany Wallman contributed to this report.
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Back to the Future: Local Resilience in a Global Economy
Hanging Mountain Farm in Westhampton, Massachusetts presents a case study in clashing global and local economic forces and sensibilities. It is a story of outsourcing, enterprise, niche-making, community, state support for family farms, innovative "green" architecture and landing on your feet. We in Michigan can learn from the experience and perseverance of the Aloisi family in western Massachusetts.
Owned and operated by Nita and Leo Aloisi, Hanging Mountain Farm specializes in maple products and features the Strawbale Cafe, a unique straw bale structure, designed by their daughter, architect Missa Aloisi, and built by friends and family over a three year period.
The Aloisi family's connection to the farm goes back to 1930 when Leo's father began work there. He purchased it in 1947 and Leo acquired it in 1983. According to Leo, the sugaring operation dates back at least to 1917.
In 2002, the family began construction of the cafe while Leo was still employed fulltime in IT with Dow Jones. But late last year, after 16 years with Dow Jones, Leo was "downsized." His job was sent to New Jersey. Other colleagues were "outsourced," their positions being sent to India.
Fortunately, Leo and Nita had been working to diversify their sugaring business to include a cafe. Although they had planned to develop it at a slower pace in retirement, downsizing compressed their timeline. They originally planned to serve pancake breakfasts during sugaring season, but neighbors urged them to remain open year round. Now they serve breakfast and lunch Wednesday through Sunday. This has proven a boon to the farm and created a community gathering place.
The Aloisis were able to obtain state start-up funding for the building and most recently, Leo attended a business course geared toward small farms and sponsored by the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources Farm Viability Program. Leo said, "It allowed me and others to develop a business plan for where we wanted to go with our individual farms. There were 15 in that class and there were 15 different plans."
A big issue for farmers in Massachusetts is determining a niche product or market in order to sustain viability. Leo described the situation of dairy farmers as a case in point: "Farmers need to become competitve with products from across the country and are doing so with products that are specialized, locally grown or unique to an area. In order to remain competitive, milk producers are selling raw milk and organic raw milk. Organic raw milk is one of the cornerstones of the new dairy market in Massachusetts. It is sold locally on the farm or delivered to customers' homes." Instead of trying to beat Big Ag at its game, small producers are creating something that Big Ag cannot produce--a specialized locally-based product with the added service of home delivery.
I told Leo about the economic difficulties in Michigan and asked him what advice he might have for workers who have been downsized or outsourced. His words were encouraging and action- oriented: "Small business is the backbone of the U.S. economy. The innovations that small businesses create are necessary to the country's economy. Find a niche. Small businesses can find and develop a unique niche more cost-effectively than large businesses can."
As for the challenges of starting a new small business, Leo emphasized the importance of a positive attitude,"The one thing that has always helped us is trying to keep a positive attitude about what is going on. It really helps you keep moving forward. Lots of things happen that can definitely throw a monkey-wrench into what you are doing. And all you can do is just smile at it and keep going forward and try not to let it overwhelm you."
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Kokavil transmission tower (; ), often nicknamed Kokavil Tower, is a  tall multi-functional transmission tower at Kokavil, Mullaitivu, Sri Lanka, which is used for  television, radio and telecommunication transmissions as well as military communications. Its mast structure is made of lattice steel.

History
Kokavil transmission tower was built in 1982 as a part of grant-aid provided by the Government of Japan. It was a guyed mast tower. It provided analog television transmission on VHF band of frequencies to the Northern part of the island beyond Vavuniya.  Kokavil area came under the control of Tamil Tigers in 1990. Before this the Kokavil Tower had been destroyed by the LTTE. However, the Tamil Tigers had utilised the location for their transmissions, including Voice of Tigers using a smaller temporary tower. In 2006, it was bombed and destroyed by Sri Lankan Air Force.

Restoration/New tower
After the end of civil war, Government of Sri Lanka rebuilt the tower by spending 330 million Sri Lankan Rupees constructing it at a location closer to the original site. Now, the tower provides digital  television transmission (using DVB-T2) and Analog television transmission to the northern part of Sri Lanka.

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import os
import sys
import json

from todo.commands.base import Command
from todo.utils.compatibility import safe_print
from todo.utils.styles import Fore, Back, Style

class ListCommand(Command):
    def print_project_name(self, name):
        """Prints the name of the project"""
        if not name:
            name = self.UNTITLED_NAME
        print(
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            .format(
                name=name,
                blue=Fore.BLUE,
                bold=Style.BOLD,
                reset=Style.RESET_ALL,
            )
        )

    def print_todos(self, todos=[]):
        """Print all the todos"""
        checked = lambda t: t['done']
        for todo in sorted(todos, key=checked):
            is_done = todo['done']
            status = ' ✓ ' if is_done else ' x '
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                .format(
                    status=status,
                    title=todo['title'],
                    color=color,
                    black=Fore.BLACK,
                    background=background,
                    reset=Style.RESET_ALL,
                )
            )

    def print_list(self, todos=[]):
        """Prints the entire todo list with information"""
        if not todos:
            safe_print(
                '{green}Congrats! 🙂{reset}'
                .format(
                    green=Fore.GREEN,
                    reset=Style.RESET_ALL,
                )
            )
            safe_print('There\'s nothing else to do. 🎉')
        else:
            self.print_todos(todos)

            no_items = len(todos)
            no_checked = len([t for t in todos if t['done'] ])
            print(
                '{info}{no_items:>2} items: {no_checked} completed, {no_unchecked} left{reset}'
                .format(
                    no_items=no_items,
                    no_checked=no_checked,
                    no_unchecked=(no_items - no_checked),
                    info=Fore.INFO,
                    reset=Style.RESET_ALL,
                )
            )

    def run(self):
        try:
            with open(self.PROJECT_FILE, 'r') as project_file:
                data = json.load(project_file)
        except FileNotFoundError:
            self.ask_create_project()
            return
        except:
            print(
                '{fail}An error has occured while listing the todos.{reset}'
                .format(
                    fail=Fore.FAIL,
                    reset=Style.RESET_ALL,
                )
            )
            sys.exit(1)

        try: name = data['name']
        except: name = self.UNTITLED_NAME

        try: todos = data['todos']
        except: todos = []

        self.print_project_name(name)
        self.print_list(todos)

List = ListCommand()

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Alex Ross Talks Watch_Dogs Poster, Digital Comics And Video Games As Art
John Gaudiosi Contributor
I've been covering video games, Hollywood and technology for 20 years
Alex Ross has done it all in the comic book world, drawing super heroes and super villains from both the DC and Marvel comic book universes, as well as working on Image, NOW and Wildstorm Comics. The famous comic book artist has also worked with Hollywood on movies like Unbreakable and Spider-Man 2 and even designed the promotional poster for the 2002 Academy Awards. More recently, he's delved into the video game world.
After working with Ubisoft on the box art for Assassin's Creed III, he's teamed up with the game publisher to create an exclusive GameStop pre-order poster for the upcoming Watch_Dogs game. The game ships for PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii U on November 19 and will be available for the PlayStation 4 and the next Xbox console for their respective launches. Ross talks about the intersection of comics and gaming in this exclusive interview.
What was your inspiration for this Watch_Dogs art?
I was trying to interact the characters with the city of Chicago in an interesting way. There was early composition that the did internally at Ubisoft that they sent me. On this particular case as we were working together, I got a chance to spin that a number of different ways where it showed the multiple other options of putting the figure, Aiden Pearce, and the way he was interacting with the backdrop of Chicago behind him. That put us off in a new direction where I was working closely with them and how that would mature and develop.
How does being a Chicagoan impact things for you in bringing a virtual representation of the city to life?
I went downtown to a photographic area that would position both the Sears Tower as well as the elevated train track, which was part of the team's concept that they wanted to show in the piece. They wanted to show how the character can control some of the city's crime by putting the brakes on the train passing by. All that became the guide of what they wanted to achieve and I had to find if that was possible within the physicality of the city itself. I had to imagine, here's the city with its own limitations or options that were there. I combined all those things together so that it was a harmony of both looking at the positioning of the body to look somewhat heroic or dramatic and how it showed the city and follows the line and angles converging nicely together.
What do you think of this new game?
It's very cool when you get a chance for the Chicago cityscape details to be the subject of a major game like this. It's very exciting to know we get that kind of play because we're a unique city that deserves to be the subject of many video games or movies.
What makes Chicago unique as a city?
Some of the details that keep our city looking the way it does, we're a lake-facing city where the whole city is built against the side of Lake Michigan. That presents a great view, and we have the elevated train. That defines a bit of the city's look and character in unique detail, where we always are able to have the characters walk in and around under those train tracks. The El is omnipresent of the look and character of the city of Chicago, so it's a symbol of the city's life around the L train coming around and speeding by in some of these locations.
Coming from a comic book background, what do you think of the almost super villain-like powers that this game presents using technology that exists today?
It's more scary for somebody like me because I'm a complete luddite who has absolutely no computer savvy. I don't own a smartphone. But this is what a super villain would do but that's a whole other observation. I'm about as technologically removed from the modern world as one gets these days practically.
What are your thoughts on the evolution that we're seeing with digital comics and motion comics?
It's all good if it expands our base to more people. If it just replaces it to where everybody switches over to virtual media to read everything, I do feel that's a sad loss for not having physical print that has existed for almost 100 years. We have a history of how it's a tactile medium and I think that there are aspects that are not really being replaced by something better when it's all gone virtual. But this is all very recent, this shift into more and more businesses being done with downloads and it's probably all for the best, making sure we're reaching more people that are using those devices and we can all live together harmoniously. Digital is not the way I'm used to or desire to read things myself.
What impact do you feel video games have had on attracting a new audience to comic books?
Realistically, if they are adapting the characters from comics, it's in many ways only fair because they stole most of our audience away over the last 25 years. The growth in the computer gaming industry and it's an evolution of getting better and better has only taken further the time and the resources away from the people that we would normally sell to. The idea that now a lot of the characters for comic books make their way into that media and they're starting to turn more of that superhero type adventures and characters is kind of turning about to be balanced the other way. It's all a similar audience. It's all the same mindset that is drawn to comics as well as to video games.
You previously worked with Ubisoft on the Assassin's Creed III box art. What are your thoughts about that game franchise?
It was very exciting because I really liked what I was seeing with the character's eye, and I was familiar with the game of course. The interesting thing for me collaborating on something like that was to illustrate something where the details from the character costuming comes into play. Even the Aiden Pearce character from Watch Dog is so much more what I remember having illustrated for comics. The kind of texture maps that are used to create these clothing details have so many little qualities of whether it's the threading, the fabric. There's so much going on there that it could never be registered within a comic book illustration. The challenge as an artist is to try to register that appropriately.
Assassin's Creed has been translated into a comic book. What potential do you see with Watch_Dogs as a comic?
It provides further content for the audience that is engaged in the story line that is built off of these games. I know that there's a DC video game adaptation of their recent Injustice and that involved the ideas created from the comics and then the video game makers took that in another direction. It's a great way for the two industries to collaborate together to build more depth into these worlds and backstory.
Have you played video games at all?
When I was 13 in about 1983. I had a second hand Atari set with Pac-Man and the very earliest versions of video games and that would be my greatest extent of time ever spent playing them.
Having worked with Ubisoft on these past two games, even from afar, what are your thoughts about how far things have come with games today?
I'm very satisfied with the idea that these games can get up to the point of feeling so utterly real, to be so developed and thought out that it has a quality like walking into another world. There's an immersive reality. I hope that games continue to go in that direction, where you really feel like visually everything you can hope for is being satisfied and developed in these worlds. It's very impressive and it's also very deflating for somebody like me working in two-dimensional images that now there's a three-dimensional representation that has so much more physically in it that it's hard for me to even compete with.
Do you get tempted having worked in gaming to play or watch someone play these games, because a lot of these games are often fun to watch someone play?
Absolutely. I have enjoyed watching people play videogames before. I don't have either the finger dexterity or even that instinct to want to use my hands to guide a mouse or a handheld controller to play a game, but I'm perfectly content to watch somebody else make that journey and I find it fascinating.
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Washington, Jan 4 (EFE). – About 200 employees in Google Other Alphabet-owned companies announced today that they are forming a union within the company, after a year of covert regulation, the Communications Workers of America (CWA) reported.
The union, called Alphabet Workers' Union and affiliated with CWA, will be the first union open to membership of all employees and contractors of any Alphabet company, where members will pay dues, elect a board of directors and have permanent representatives.
The CWA in Puerto Rico is represented by union employees who work for AT&T, and now Liberty Puerto Rico.
"Our union provides a sustainable structure to ensure that the values we share as employees of Alphabet are preserved," said Nicky Anselmo, Program Manager, citing CWA.
Anselmo added that workers had fought for years with their employers and protested against "blatant payments, estimated in the millions of dollars, to CEOs who participated in sexual harassment."
For his part, said Don Trementozzi, District Chief CWA He noted that his organization "is a democratic federation, led by members, who have experience in training and sustaining the workforce of some of the largest companies in the United States."
CWA, which represents workers in the fields of telecommunications and traditional and digital media, is one of the largest trade unions in the country with more than 700,000 members.
Alphabet currently employs around 260,000 workersBut nearly half of the 120,000 Google employees at Alphabet companies are temporary employees, contractors, or subcontractors who don't enjoy the benefits afforded to full-time employees.
American worker membership declined from 35% in 1954 to 20% in 1984 and 10% in 2019, while conditions and prospects for the middle class deteriorated.
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In recent years, employees at companies like Amazon, Salesforce, Pinterest, and others in the digital world have converged on issues such as diversity, pay discrimination, and sexual harassment.
"Our goals go beyond the question, 'Are people getting well paid?'" Chewy Shaw, a Google engineer in San Francisco and vice chair of the organizing committee, told The New York Times. "Our concerns are much broader," he added.
"Alphabet continues to punish those who dare to speak out, and forbids workers from speaking publicly about sensitive issues of public importance, such as monopolies," he added.
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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — Fitness buffs can now generate electricity while they burn calories at a western Colorado fitness center.
Eight elliptical trainers at Mesa State College's Hamilton Recreation Center produce electricity that help power the building's system.
Officials say a 30-minute workout can produce enough electricity to power a laptop computer for an hour. Michael Wells, director of campus recreation services, says the machines won't eliminate the building's electricity bill, but they'll help reduce it.
Wells hopes to have stationary bikes, stair climbers and adaptive-movement training machines producing electricity later this year.
He says colleges in at least 10 other states use the same technology but Mesa State is the first in Colorado to do so.
The class was dreamed up by Matt Yeazel, the head of the psychology department. He says introductory courses have been overflowing in recent semesters, so he settled on the new time slot as a way to reach more students.
Community colleges in Massachusetts, Indiana, Missouri and Oregon have also started offering late-night classes. Enrollment at two-year schools is up 17 percent this year.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education has set tuition limits for the state's public universities and colleges for the 2010-2011 school year.
According to a news release, the council voted to allow state resident undergraduate tuition and fees to increase no more than 6 percent at the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville.
It also set a 5 percent limit at Eastern, Western, Northern, Murray State and Morehead State universities, and a limit of 4 percent for the state's community colleges.
After the schools' boards set their tuition increase requests, the council will consider approving them at its May 21 meeting.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — United Tribes Technical College has created a fellowship program named for its president to help develop American Indian leaders.
The Bismarck school says the program will award fellowships to students who exhibit significant leadership qualities and meet certain conditions such as good grades and work experience. Their goals must be related to the betterment of an Indian tribe or community.
Students accepted by the David M. Gipp Native American Leaders Fellowship program will receive professional and personal skill development and a stipend to help with educational expenses.
AVON, Ind. (AP) — Ivy Tech Community College will move three instructional sites from Indianapolis' west side and consolidate them in a suburban shopping center.
Officials in the western suburb of Avon have approved a plan for spending $250,000 to turn a vacant 15,000 square foot space in the Beechwood Centre into 12 classrooms and a computer lab.
Classes are expected to begin this fall.
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A San Jose college that focuses on serving Hispanic students is being purchased by one of the country's largest owners of for-profit colleges.
Laureate Education Inc. said that it is acquiring National Hispanic University, which offers certificate programs in business, education and information technology.
About 600 students attend class at the 11-acre campus, which was founded in Oakland in 1981. About 70 percent of its students are Latino.
NHU began serving older Latinos seeking vocational degrees, but after winning full accreditation, it focused on educating young people who would be the first in their families to attend college.
Baltimore-based Laureate owns more than 50 accredited colleges with almost 600,000 students around the world.
PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) — A former interim president of the state Community College System has been appointed president of Pueblo Community College.
Patty Erjavec becomes president on June 1. She replaces J.D. Garvin, who resigned on Feb. 1. Nancy McCallin, president of the Community College System, announced Erjavec's appointment.
The college has about 18,000 students and campuses in Pueblo, Canon City, Durango and Mancos.
Erjavec is currently president and CEO of El Pueblo, a behavioral treatment center for adolescents in Pueblo.
She was interim president of the state community college system in 2004 and served eight years on the State Board for Community Colleges and Educational Occupation.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Some Chattanooga State Community College student records are missing after a contractor took them to create electronic files.
Students and parents received letters informing them the records for nearly 2,000 students are gone.
School spokeswoman Eva Lewis told the Chattanooga Times Free Press officials don't know if the records have been destroyed.
Lewis said a contractor was making digital copies and shredding the papers when the school recalled the files after finding the company was accused of dumping medical records.
Lewis said when a record was needed in March, school officials found a whole section of files missing.
She said the documents contained students' high school transcripts, home addresses, phone numbers and Social Security numbers.
BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — Whatcom Community College students spent Earth Day digging through the campus trash. In the process, they have learned that as much as 75 percent of campus garbage could be recycled or composted.
Blanche Bybee of the college's sustainability committee says it was a great learning experience for both students and the college. She says the information they gathered is being used to strengthen the campus recycling program.
The Bellingham college has already ordered more recycling and compost bins and is working on new signage to educate students and staff about what trash should go where.
Bybee says the project will not only benefit the earth but should help the college's bottom line.
CONCORDIA, Kan. (AP) — For the first time in its history, Cloud County Community College will have a female president.
The Board of Trustees at the Concordia school has hired Danette Toone to be the institution's sixth president. The board offered Toone a two-year contract, paying $118,000 a year plus benefits.
Toone is currently vice president of academic and community initiatives at Temple College in Temple, Texas.
She replaces Toone Richard Underbakke, who left the school in early January to become president of Black Hawk College in Moline, Ill.
CRAIG, Colo. (AP) — Colorado Northwestern Community College has broken ground on two buildings at a new campus west of Craig.
A ceremony formally started construction on a 70,000-square-foot academic building and an 18,000-square-foot Career and Technical Center.
The campus is scheduled to open in the fall of 2011.
The college website says the academic building will cost about $23.5 million and the Career and Technical Center about $3 million.
About 1,400 students are enrolled at Colorado Northwestern.
HANCEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Some students and staff members at Wallace State Community College in Hanceville will soon be getting text messages or e-mails alerting them to emergencies on campus or other activities.
The new capability recently went into effect, and a test message was sent to all students to let them know the service is now available.
College officials say messages will be sent by text or e-mail on weather-related closings, severe weather alerts, criminal activity, threats or other emergencies.
The Wallace State Director of eLearning, Bruce Tenison, said the system is a way for students to receive accurate information when emergencies or other events occur on campus.


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The German Question In Literature
30 Sep 2017 | dorabenley | Adult Thrillers, News, World Events, Young Adult Thrillers | Arminius, Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, British Empire, Caesar, Caesar's Gallic Wars, Caesar's Legions, Cheops Books LLC, Edward Ware Thrillers at War Series, German question, Heinrich Himmler, Herman the German, Imperial Britain, Julius Caesar, Natural History, Nazi identity, Pliny the Elder, Pliny the Younger, Pliny: A Novel, Richard Wagner, Roman Britain, Tacitus, the Germania, Vercingetorix
The German Question In Literature:
You may have hit upon a very central conflict in European history. Germany was not largely occupied by the Romans and from the time of the Romans you have the "German question". The Romans wrote about it themselves. There is a lost work by Pliny the Elder, the author of the Natural History, probably called the Germania, and I make much of this in one of my novels. His nephew, Pliny the Younger, wrote about the subject, too. And Pliny the Younger's friend, Tacitus, wrote the only surviving work on the subject entitled the Germania for sure. Tacitus's work was the subject of the fascinating audio book I listened to on the subject at the beginning of last year.
Tacitus's Germania has been a subject of discussion for the past two thousand years. It is the earliest work we have on the habits and customs of the early pagan Germans which emphasizes their warlike qualities and the "German question". The Romans themselves were scared of them. No wonder! During the ugly Battle of the Teutoburg Forest Roman legionaries were captured in wooden cages and burned alive in the forest, sacrificed to pagan gods.
Richard Wagner during the 19th century made much of this ancient and medieval heritage in his operas. Heinrich Himmler was later to try to seize upon this material as the "origin" of what he called the Nazi identity.
I have looked up various works on Roman Britain on Amazon and curiously enough the British archaeologists have all noted that the British attitude about Rome differs from the attitude of France and Germany, and this influences their attitude about the "German question". In France they celebrate Vercingetorix from Caesar's Gallic Wars. He is supposed to be a national hero in France. In Germany they celebrate Herman the German, or Arminius. In Britain they celebrate the Romans. As many have noted, Britain seems to take on the identity of Rome itself. It all comes from the days of the British Empire and Imperial Britain. Nobody else on the Continent has anything like this and so recently, too! They look dubiously upon rebels against Rome such as Vercingetorix and Arminius.
It has also been said that the British have a better attitude about preserving ruins than they do in Italy. So the Roman ruins in Britain are better preserved than their Italian counterparts. You can get a better feel for the Roman world there including all those villas and mosaic floors that are much talked about.
Cheops Books LLC has two upcoming works about the "German question". The concern Roman Britain and the ancient Germans battling the Romans: Pliny: A Novel and Caesar's Legions, both works in the Edward Ware Thrillers at War Series.
Old Faithful Plot: Hitler's Portal To The Center Of The Earth
21 May 2017 | dorabenley | Adult Thrillers, News, World Events | best thriller novels, Cheops Books LLC, German reparations, Germania, Great War, Helga von Wessel, historical thrillers, novels about ancient Rome, novels about Hitler, Old Faithful Plot, Paris Peace Treaty, Pliny the Elder, Pliny the Younger, Rhine River, Tacitus, thriller novel authors, Vesuvius, von Wessels, World War 1
Old Faithful Plot: Portal To The Center Of The Earth
Adolf Hitler tears up the Paris Peace Treaty that ended World War 1. He and the National Socialist Party of Germany refuse to pay reparations to France anymore. Germany does not owe them anything for the last war. Hitler wishes that he could change history and make sure that Germany never lost the Great War to begin with.
In fact he deplores the whole scheme of western history where Huns were disliked and thought suspicious. He thinks the name of Germany was taken in vain all too many times. He researches where it all went wrong. He traces it back to 9AD when the Germans expelled the Romans from Germany forever and made them draw a line at the Rhine River by winning the Battle of the Teutonburg Forest. But that did not stop Roman writers such as Pliny the Elder, Pliny the Younger, and Tacitus from penning diatribes against the uncivilized German tribes. Hitler thinks that is an unfair badge of shame that ever since Germany has carried through history.
If only he could travel through time to the source of all this agitation, Pliny the Elder, by far the most influential Latin writer, and shut him up before his works got a chance to be passed down through the generations. True his work the Germania was not to survive to modern times. But it was influential in the past, and he wanted to stop it from being read at all.
He discovers a portal through time in a modern volcanic field and seeks to send his agents, the von Wessels, back into the past to snatch the Germania from Pliny the Elder at the moment of the eruption of Vesuvius since all volcanoes and all volcanic eruptions seem to be linked. Pliny the Elder reputedly died in the eruption, but who knew if historic legends were true? Hitler instructs his agents to make sure that the author of the Natural History and a work on the Germans is dead by assassinating him. Also he instructs the von Wessels to bump off his nephew Pliny the Younger who also defames the Germans and his best friend Tacitus who was to write the Germania which must not survive into modern times. Three in one blow would be the best thing.
Will Hitler succeed in his plot? Find out in the upcoming historical thriller, the Old Faithful Plot, soon to be published by Cheops Books, LLC.


Les Deux Alpes lies in a beautiful corner of the world with a lot to offer anybody who loves the mountains. The town is perched on a high plateau on the edge of the Ecrins National Park. On the pistes, a vertical drop of over two kilometres can be skied from 3520m on La Lauze down to 1294m in Mont de Lans. The resort is often described as being 'upside down' due to having some of the easiest terrain at the top. Steep lower slopes hold challenging black runs (plus the brand new Jandri 1 blue) while above 3200m the glacier hosts cruising blues with a spectacular view. In summer the glacier draws international athletes from around the world to train on guaranteed snow while the lower slopes turn into a downhill mountain biking paradise. Beyond the lift served area there is easy access (perhaps too easy) to the wild high mountains and glaciers that the region has to offer.
Geographically, the ski area forms part of a long, broad ridge which rises from Bourg d'Oisans to the peaks of Le Rateau and La Meije, separating the Upper Romanche and Veneon valleys. This gives a wide selection of long and involved off-piste routes and ski tours which take you from the high reaches of the ski area to the remote tributary valleys and picturesque villages of the Veneon or to the steep north facing slopes of the Romanche.
Aside from Les Deux Alpes itself, there are several other ski areas close by ranging from enormous to a pair of lifts in a field. This is a region where tiny, unspoilt ski stations like Chazelet and Col D'Ornon stand alongside the world class resorts of Alpe D'Huez and Serre Chevalier.
For some the biggest draw in the region is the freeski mecca of La Grave La Meije. The Telepherique runs from the village at 1450m to the glacier at 3200m giving access to a huge playground of ungroomed and unpatrolled off-piste terrain. Above that a unique drag lift on the Girose glacier takes skiers to 3600m and the tenuous link to Les Deux Alpes. Avalanche safety equipment is essential and an off-piste instructor or mountain guide is highly recommended. There are many dead ends and following tracks can easily get you into trouble in an area with a large population of extreme skiers. That said, it is a truly amazing place to ski and a descent of the Vallons de la Meije should be on every skiers must-do list.


J. Scott Yaruss helping a patient in stuttering therapy.
Stuttering impacts three million people in the U.S. alone and 70 million people worldwide. Research on the condition shows that those who stutter experience adverse effects of the condition in their daily lives, including decreased communication ability, a lower quality of life, underemployment and discrimination.
J. Scott Yaruss, a professor in the Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders (CSD), has studied the condition for 28 years and is determined to understand how to help by educating clinicians, conducting research and reducing the stigma of the condition in society.
Yaruss came to MSU in the Spring of 2017 to continue his research on stuttering in the newly opened Spartan Stuttering Lab. The lab's mission is to educate speech therapists about how to better help those who stutter. To accomplish this, Yaruss and his team will be hosting a series of ongoing trainings for clinicians about the condition.
He began developing the Overall Assessment of the Speaker's Experience of Stuttering (OASES) tool in 1998 while he was an assistant professor at Northwestern University. He published the tool in 2006 while he was an associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh. The inspiration for designing OASES came from his desire to help clinicians effectively gather information throughout the treatment process and track their patients' performance. The data gathered using the tool reveals how stuttering affects a person. Clinicians and faculty members all over the world are using OASES in therapy sessions, and it is currently being translated into 30 languages.
Although stuttering has been studied for millennia, as evidenced by Egyptian hieroglyphs of the condition, there are still several gaps in the research literature about what happens during the moment of speech disruption.
Most of the research in the field is based on when the listener hears the problem, rather than when the speaker senses the problem. This moment is experienced by the speaker before the actual disruption is heard by a listener.
Yaruss and the team of researchers aim to discover what the speaker perceives and feels during this moment that prevents them from being able to move forward with their words. They will talk to participants about their experiences and record their communication, all while monitors measure brain activity, eye gaze, physiological measures, skin conductance and heart rate. Instead of having a listener report when they hear an issue with the speech, the participants themselves will report when they sense a problem.
Stuttering differs from day to day, minute to minute, from listener to listener and from topic to topic. Yaruss and his team want to examine that variability, because there is very little understanding about the factors that contribute to it and few studies that have looked at variability for its own sake. The variability of stuttering poses a barrier to research as well as to therapy because the behavior is not constant.
One of the stages of formulating language is called phonological encoding, which occurs when we get ready to prepare the sound production instructions or phonetic plan that will be executed by our mouths to ensure smooth speech. Previous research has shown that people who stutter often process language less quickly in some aspects of phonological encoding. Yaruss and his team plan to pursue this line of inquiry in his lab by tracking eye movements to identify what stage of the language processing phase individuals are in.
Yaruss used his OASES tool to analyze data from people who stutter around the world to see if individuals experience the impacts of the condition differently depending on where they live. The data revealed that people who stutter in certain countries report a lower quality of life due to their stuttering.
He hopes to expand these findings to future studies that will examine to what extent people's negative experiences are related to the societal views of stuttering. Yaruss hypothesizes that these societal views influence the speaker's own opinion of themselves. Using a large-scale survey study, he hopes to find out about individual's experiences of stuttering and match that to societal views worldwide to identify that link. With this knowledge, he wants to develop public education campaigns to reduce the stigma of stuttering.
"From a societal standpoint, if we can reduce the stigma, improve the life experiences of people who stutter and improve their communication ability and their social interactions, then that releases them from this burden that they're living with, and can make a real difference in their lives," said Yaruss.
Yaruss received his undergraduate degree in linguistics and psychology from the University of California Berkeley. After searching for a path that would combine his interest in language and psychology, he received his doctorate in speech language pathology from Syracuse University.
He wanted to come to MSU because he believes there's a tremendous opportunity for collaboration on questions related to stuttering with other faculty and staff in the Department of CSD.


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Consumer Product Safety Commission Says Some Tappan Built-In Ovens May Pose Hazard To Consumers
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 8) - The Consumer Product Safety Commission Friday said it has learned from the Tappan Company of a defect in certain Tappan Company built-in gas ovens manufactured for installation primarily in mobile homes and other newly constructed homes.
The Commission said the defect --a possible loose fitting connection-- could result in a hazard to consumers from gas leakage. The ovens in question were manufactured between January 23, 1973, and May 31, 1973, by the F.H. Lawson Company, Springfield, Tennessee, for the Tappan Company.
While the majority of the ovens carry the "Tappan" name, some were produced for Montgomery Ward and carry the brand-name "Signature."
According to Tappan, the problem occurred in some 15,185 ovens, of which 11,974 have been shipped from the place of manufacture.
The ovens carry model numbers AZ12-1239; AZ12-1249; AZ12-1441; AKTM-3850; and AKTM-3893. Some 8,172 of the ovens-- model number AZ12-1239-- are used exclusively in mobile homes.
The Montgomery Ward ovens--"Signature"--carry the "AKTM" model number prefix.
CPSC Chairman Richard 0. Simpson said the Commission is asking wholesalers, distributors, and retailers who may have the affected ovens in stock or installed in mobile homes or newly constructed homes immediately to contact the Tappan Company.
In addition, Simpson said consumers who may have purchased a Tappan or "Signature" built-in oven with one of the model numbers in question should contact their local gas company or the nearest Tappan dealer regarding possible gas leakage between the shut-off valve and the pressure regulator.
The Commission was told by Tappan that consumers can locate the model number on the oven by opening the top oven door and looking at the metal strip at the top of the oven which carries the model number on it.
CPSC investigators have been sent to the Tappan headquarters, Mansfield, Ohio, and to the F.H. Lawson Company to determine whether the remedial action proposed by Tappan is appropriateand to determine the degree of potential hazard to consumers.
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'93 Robert LEBEAU joined the Whittier Trust Company of Nevada, Inc., as vice president, client advisor. LeBeau will provide financial and fiduciary services to high net worth individuals and their families and work closely with multi-generational relationships including grantors, trustees, beneficiaries, and business owners.
'75 Eric M. BERG retired from the San Jose office of PricewaterhouseCoopers in August 2017 after 29 years with the firm, including seven years as a managing director. Between 2007 and 2017, Eric led the group that designed and enhanced Aura, the software used by PwC professionals around the world to perform and document audits. Eric continues to reside in the Redwood Shores area of Redwood City, Calif.
'89 Clay Bonnyman EVANS's new book, Bones of My Grandfather: Reclaiming a Lost Hero of WWII, will come out on July 3, 2018. The book tells the story of Evans's grandfather, Alexander Bonnyman Jr., who was killed Nov. 22, 1943, in the Battle of Tarawa and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. Unbeknownst to their families, the remains of some 500 U.S. Marines and Navy personnel were never recovered from the island. In 2015, Evans was present when his grandfather's remains were recovered. After a long career in journalism, Evans is now a freelance writer.
'91 Gary GORDON, a finance executive with over 20 years of financial and administrative experience across multiple government sectors, will join Shedd Aquarium in Chicago as chief financial officer in April.
'94 Jody GEHRMAN's new novel, Watch Me, came out in late January. A gripping psychological thriller about a college student's dark obsession with his professor, Watch Me plunges readers into a tense, twisty, and terrifying tale about how far obsession can go.
'97 Herbert G. RUFFIN II, associate professor of history and chair of African American Studies at Syracuse University, coedited with Dwayne A. Mack a new book entitled Freedom's Racial Frontier: African Americans in the Twentieth-Century West. The editors gathered established and emerging scholars in the field to create an anthology that links past, current, and future generations of African American West scholarship. Ruffin is also author of Uninvited Neighbors: African Americans in Silicon Valley, 1769–1990.
'85 Daniel WEISS headed back last fall to Capitol Hill as chief of staff for House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi. He had spent the previous nearly three years working in Washington, D.C., as vice president for federal policy for San Francisco–based Common Sense Media and Common Sense Kids Action. He joined Common Sense after a long stint as chief of staff and committee aide to long-time champion for the environment, kids, and working families Congressman George Miller (D-CA). He continues to be impressed by UC Santa Cruz students and graduates he meets in D.C.
'92 Ingrid WALKER is an associate professor of American studies at the University of Washington, Tacoma. She researches and teaches issues in contemporary American culture. She has a recently released book, High: Drugs, Desire and a Nation of Users. She says it's an unusual but very UC Santa Cruz project—and a long time coming. She's also done a related TEDx talk, Drugs and Desire. Find more information about both projects at Ingridkwalker.com.
'79 Pamela C. VENTRA, MD, MA, Dip.P.M, passed away November 6, 2017, after a long battle with dementia. After graduating from College Eight [now Rachel Carson College], Dr. Ventra headed to UC San Diego School of Medicine. She earned additional degrees from Duquesne University and the University of Wales, Cardiff. She was a retired hospice physician.


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Glenn Kaino, Photography by Matthew Scott
Pace Welcomes Glenn Kaino
Marc Glimcher, CEO and President of Pace Gallery, is pleased to announce the gallery's worldwide and exclusive representation of Glenn Kaino.
Kaino is known internationally for his expansive vision and activist-minded practice, which encompasses painting, sculpture, installation, performance, monumental public art, theatrical production, and feature film. Examining a wide range of political, social, and environmental issues in his work, Kaino takes a multidisciplinary and collaborative approach to art making. His work brings together systems of knowledge, forms of production, and people that do not normally have a chance to connect, and often involves long-term partnerships with a diverse array of visionary collaborators. Kaino's work in any media and within any system is distinguished by his obsessive investment in technical virtuosity, functionality, and legitimacy.
[Pace's] enthusiasm for new modes of art marking and new ways of engaging diverse audiences far beyond the art world makes this a tremendously exciting context for my work.
Glenn Kaino
Glenn Kaino, Bridge, 2013–14, Fiberglass, steel, wire, gold paint, 100' x 35' x 6' © Glenn Kaino, Photography by Glenn Kaino Studio
The artist's practice, which has focused on equity, social justice, and climate change, among other urgent topics, traces through lines among various art historical movements, including Arte Povera, Conceptualism, and performance art. A relentless optimist, Kaino creates work that is imbued with hope, revealing structures of power and domination and creating opportunities for direct action and progress, all rooted in the belief that cultural production can affect real change. Kaino often highlights the illusionistic and mesmeric effects of scientific and natural phenomena in his large-scale installations to explore notions of empathy and subjectivity and to bring legibility to the often invisible forces that shape our world.
Kaino's current solo exhibition at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts, reflects the artist's interest in how paradigmatic shifts might be rendered visually. Titled In the Light of a Shadow and running through September 2022, the presentation features a monumental, immersive installation considering the links between protests that have taken place across different time periods and locations around the world. The artist's participatory installation Tidepools, which comprises cloud chambers that make cosmic particles visible and a bioluminescent wishing well, will debut at Compound, a new Long Beach, California–based center for contemporary art and wellness, in July. Works from his nearly ten-year collaboration with Tommie Smith, whose historic salute for human rights at the 1968 Olympic Games stands today as an iconic gesture of strength and activism, will be exhibited this fall at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
As part of the 2024 edition of the Getty Foundation's initiative Pacific Standard Time, which includes programming from arts institutions across southern California, Kaino will co-curate the exhibition Breath(e): Towards Climate and Social Justice at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. The artist is also partnering with The Atlantic magazine and the arts platform Superblue for a forthcoming experiential project launching in March 2022, and he will open a solo exhibition at the Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, in fall 2022.
Glenn Kaino, Colonial Division Stage 3, The Troubles Within, 2019, Gold plated model parts, amber, insect pins, and high density urethane 90" x 50" x 4.5" © Glenn Kaino, Photography by John Davis
Among Kaino's past projects are his 2016 series Tank, which situated cast resin fragments of a decommissioned military tank inside a grouping of aquariums growing multi-colored coral to explore the practice of sinking decommissioned tanks and other military apparatuses to construct artificial reefs and render tools of destruction into life-sustaining habitats; Arch, a 2008 monumental public work commissioned for the city of Pittsburgh on the occasion of its 250th anniversary; and the 2016 work Invisible Man, a monumental sculpture of a man standing atop a pedestal with his hands up in surrender that disappears or reflects the viewer as they move around the work.
Recent major projects in media include In & Of Itself, the critically acclaimed off-Broadway show that resulted from his decade-long performance art collaboration A.Bandit with celebrated writer and performer Derek DelGaudio, which culminated in a feature-length film on Hulu produced by Kaino, and the critically acclaimed feature-length documentary With Drawn Arms, a film co-directed by Kaino that traces the significance of Tommie Smith's storied salute and its resonance for generations of activists and athletes.
Kaino has presented solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, San José Museum of Art, California; the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York; the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; and elsewhere. The artist's works are part of the collections of the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; and other institutions.
Learn more about Glenn Kaino.
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Yoshitomo Nara at The Art Gallery of Western Australia
News — Pace Welcomes Glenn Kaino, Jul 6, 2021


When Melissa Hedlund Nelson was a child, she was mesmerized by the book "Harold and the Purple Crayon" by Crockett Johnson.
Hedlund Nelson attended College of DuPage, loving the campus vibe and happy that it was close to home, affordable and had amazing teachers.
After leaving College of DuPage, Hedlund Nelson earned two bachelor's degrees in Psychology and Biological Sciences (Pre-Medicine), a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology and Art Therapy, and post-graduate specialized training in trauma and Jon Kabat-Zinn's Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. She is working on her Ph.D. in Expressive Therapies at Lesley University in Cambridge, Mass., which she plans to finish in 2019.
Her accomplishments are many: Past President of the Illinois Art Therapy Association, director on the Board of Directors for the Coalition of Illinois Counseling Organizations, and Past Speaker of the Assembly of Chapters for the American Art Therapy Association. She works as a Clinical Art Therapist at Linden Oaks Hospital and is an adjunct faculty member at College of DuPage and Waubonsee Community College.
Hedlund Nelson also followed her calling and developed what has become the love of her life, The Light of The Heart: A Community Art Therapy Project. It is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization that is not only the first of its kind in Aurora but also in the state of Illinois and the country.
"Our purpose is to provide high quality and affordable art therapy programming for children, adolescents, adults and allied professionals in the Aurora area and beyond, regardless of income level, reaching those who have limited or no access to mental health care," she said. "Our mission is to provide a safe and encouraging environment for individuals to uncover the light of their hearts through the creative process of art making. Our vision is to create a community that embraces and utilizes the creative process of art making to allow for the light of all of our hearts to shine bright, building a safer, connected and more supportive community for all to heal, grow, prosper and love. We bring words to the wordless through imagery.
Hedlund Nelson is honored to be a graduate of College of DuPage. As for students thinking about attending, she doesn't hesitate with her advice.
"Do it! It will change your life."


Before the multiple problems that arise in our days, it is necessary a change of paradigm in education that is taught in our country, since we are in a change of era, in a change of consciousness, which implies the presence of a crisis (Gallegos: 2008: 17) which must be overcome over time if we want to live in a world betterwith human beings living a human experience as Ramon Gallegos points out. Since in regards to society in general we live in a consumer society, in which prevails the hedonism and nihilism that has created a miserable world where only hoped some sensory pleasures at the bottom of the depression and life without sense (Gallegos, 2007:49) are both product and reinforced by modern and postmodern life, scientistic and materialistic culture that lacks spiritual sensitivity, since only the body prevails in which mind the satisfaction is in the pleasure of the senses. Here it can noted that human beings have above all three major problems such as they are: the problem of material, social, and spiritual. Gallegos said that in what refers to the material that derives from the need that man has to meet your needs such as clothing, housing, feeding among other goods than the considered for their well-being, which has taken him to the control and destruction of nature. You may find Sam Mikulak to be a useful source of information. In regards to the social refers to how to live in society without destroying or cause discomfort to another, in an environment in which prevails the security, justice and social integration. And finally, in what refers to spirituality, is a problem that arises from the human need to relate to the last things truth, to the longing for transcendence and connection with one whole greater than the ego, the need to take spiritual sense life itself to make it significant.(Gallegos 2007: 50) Meet this need is paramount so that individuals can live in happiness, tranquility and harmony with themselves, so this way you see reflected in beings who surround him and his social environment and environment. For this the spiritual intelligence is the way to address and solve this problem; Since having it filled to the world of sense, making life more meaningful with a profound purpose. .
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It is an appreciation in itself that Pirates of the Caribbean is the sole franchise owned by Disney which has met a very favorable fate indeed. Compare d to other franchises owned by Disney, such as, The Country Bears and The Haunted Mansion, Pirates of the Caribbean has proved itself a very worthy movie amidst all its sequences.
now contracted inside a modest bottle, Jack Sparrow is considerably more hapless than expected, responsible for a no frills vessel named the Dying Gull. This is not a terrible sign, as Salazar's Revenge is an immensely charming ride.
The story seems to have nothing new to it; it is basically the same plot as its prior sequences. Jack Sparrow's ship is on the run from a former Spaniard whom Sparrow hurdled towards the deep sea. Little did everyone know that the Spaniard would return for vengeance and as usual, Jack Sparrow is on the run for it. Additionally laced in the story is Henry, child to Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann, who is hesitant to open his dad (Orlando Bloom) from underneath the ocean rubble. At the point when Henry experiences Salazar, it drives him to Sparrow, and also Kaya Scodelario, "a lady of science" who is most likely a single sufficiently keen to discover the Trident of Poseidon, the sea controlling, revile lifting MacGuffin everybody's after. Furthermore, in the event that you were missing him, Geoffrey Rush's currently rich opponent privateer Barbossa gets reserved in, as well.
The POC Franchise hasn't conveyed an essential film since Dead Man's Chest's larger than average waterwheel, and on numerous occasions, this plummets for diversion over result, flooding the screen with pictures that accomplish scale – like the ship that backs up on its rump in preparation for assault – yet hardly any significance. The greatly trailed zombie shark grouping comes to have a craving for watching someone playing a tie-in a computer game.
The best moments in the movie and the ones that speak for it are the opening bank robbery and when Salazar unleashes ghostly sharks (somewhat decaying sharks). These scenes are super intense and action packed when watched in 3D.
Driven by Depp, the cleverness is salty (jokes around a one-legged man with 18lb balls) yet not in abundance. With two or three slick cameos as well, including a specific artist who rivals Keith Richards' hand over the prior Pirates motion pictures; it's surely the most pleasant passage since 2003 arrangement starter "The Curse of The Black Pearl". Calculate a shockingly fulfilling finale – passionate, sentimental, and swashbuckling – it's all that you could need from a Pirates motion picture.
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Клептократија је израз којим се описује стање у држави у којој је корупција највиших политичких институција доведена до нивоа када власт постоји само зарад личне добити појединаца и странака који је чине, на рачун шире популације и често без сакривања. Реч клептократија потиче од грчке речи клептос /κλέπτης/ - лопов и кратос /κράτος/ - власт, држава (у слободном преводу лоповска власт, држава лопова) и по правилу има пежоративно значење.

Карактеристике
Клептократије се обично везују за искварене облике ауторитарних власти, посебно диктатуре, олигархије, војне хунте и облике аутократских и непотистичких власти у чији рад није могуће имати увид, због могућности клептократа да управљају како приливом тако и расподелом државних средстава. Клептократије се типично јављају у земљама трећег света, а посебно у последње две деценије у посткомунистичким земљама источне Европе. То су углавном земље чију економију (као наслеђе колонијализма) карактерише одлив средстава и ресурса.

Једна од доминантних карактеристика клептократије је свеприсутна и свеобухватна корупција која залази у све поре друштва. У таквом друштву где је корупција системска, суделовање у корупцији или бар прећутно одобравање исте је предуслов за недискриминисан друштвени статус (могућност запошљавања у државним институцијама и фирмама, неретко и у приватним које су блиске држави или не желе да буду у немилости државе, личну, правну и имовинску сигурност, приступ социјалној и здравственој заштити...).

У државама где влада клептократија властодршци јавном имовином располажу као својим приватним власништвом, а средства или троше на властити луксуз или их пребацују на рачуне страних земаља чиме обезбеђују себи лагодан живот у егзилу за случај губитка власти. Клептократска пракса се јавља у разним облицима, као што су намештања продаје предузећа властодршцу или члановима његове породице, изнуђивање новца од пословних људи за "хуманитарне акције" владајуће странке, проневера новца из државних фондова, скретање страних инвестиција у своју корист, и сл.

Специфичан случај клептократије је "Raubwirtschaft", њемачки израз за "пљачку економије", где се цела економија државе заснива на пљачки, отимању и пљачкању освојених територија. Такве државе су или у континуираном рату са својим суседима или једноставно израбљују своје субјекте све док имају опорезиву имовину. Арнолд Тојнби је тврдио да је Римско царство било таква држава.

Последице
Последице клептократског режима по правилу су штетне у погледу слабљења државне економије, државне политике и грађанских права. Клептократија у влади често обезвређује стране инвестиције и драстично слаби домаће тржиште и прекограничну трговину. Због проневера новца грађана злоупотребом средстава која потичу из плаћања пореза, као и разних шема прања новца, клептократски организован политички систем тежи да деградира квалитет живота скоро сваког појединца.

Као додатак томе, новац који клептократе краду често се узима из фондова намењених изградњи јавних добара, као што су болнице, школе, путеви, паркови и сл. - што додатно појачава ефекат смањења квалитета живота у земљи којом управљају клептократе.

Клептократија обесмишљава вишестраначку власт због удруживања политичких елита, па стога подрива како демократију тако и било који други политички формат под којим је држава.

Примери

Међународни ранг

Ране 2004, Немачка антикорупцијска невладина организација Трансперенси Интернешнел објавила је листу владаоца за које се верује да по количини средстава које су на рачун грађана прибавили у своју корист спадају у првих десет последњих година.

По количини присвојених средстава (у Америчким доларима) они су:
 Бивши Индонежански председник Сухарто ($15 милијарди – $35 милијарди)
 Бивши председник Филипина Ferdinand Marcos ($5 милијарди – $10 милијарди)
 Бивши председник Конго-а Mobutu Sese Seko ($5 милијарди)
 Бивши Нигеријски шеф државе Sani Abacha ($2 милијарде – $5 милијарди)
 Бивши председник СР Југославије и Србије Слободан Милошевић ($1 милијарда)
 Бивши председник Хаитија Jean-Claude Duvalier ($300 милиона – $800 милиона)
 Бивши Перуански председник Alberto Fujimori ($600 милиона)
 Бивши Украјински премијер Pavlo Lazarenko ($114 милиона – $200 милиона)
 Бивши председник Никарагве Arnoldo Alemán ($100 милиона)
 Бивши председник Филипина Joseph Estrada ($78 милиона – $80 милиона)

Види још
 Transparensi internašonal
 Конвенција Уједињених нација против корупције

Референце

Литература

Облици владавине
Политика
Социологија


This post is mainly written for people familiar with Amethyst and I won't be spending a lot of time going over the history of the project and how we got to where we are today.
A small summary and some reminders is in order though.
For those who aren't familiar I have opinions on how an ECS should be implemented for Amethyst.
We have three names flying around for our ECS project so I'll provide a quick summary of them here.
specs The OG amethyst ECS, this has been kicking around for a long time. It's got a few problems that have manifested for Amethyst in unfortunate ways which inspired two spin off/reboot projects.
nitric @torkleyy's spin on an ECS, developed here on gitlab.
igneous My proposal for a fork of specs that can be used to solve problems with it. Doesn't actually exist beyond a few drafts and proposals.
When I first wrote the igneous proposal I hadn't spoken with torkleyy as much as I should have about my ideas. I'm hoping that with the creation of this blog I can get better at sharing my ideas. So I'll start with my perspective of what's happened since the igneous post.
Torkleyy reached out to me to express interest in unifying our efforts. Nitric has some interesting ideas and enhancements that igneous didn't, but some of those ideas and enhancements have made integrating some igneous features more difficult. So we're working towards solutions that express the best of both worlds as best we can.
There's a lot of nuance and smaller ideas that I'm not quite as interested in covering here especially because I consider them unproblematic. So I'll cover the most important ideas.
At one point I wanted to automatically register component types to lift a cognitive load from the user. This has proven difficult, mainly in that components with generics are very important, but also incomplete types. The type becomes "complete" as soon as the generics are filled, but I haven't yet figured out how to submit the type to the inventory only when the component type is complete. I'll keep pondering this, and if any readers have ideas about how this can be done and can make a proof of concept please let me know.
Making this work with macros to generate systems has been difficult, mainly because my existing proposals have been highly focused around only needing a type.
This works pretty well and solves most of our problems, my only concern is the fact that keys are separate from the types syntactically. That might not be such a big deal though.
Oh hey! The keys are now adjacent to the types. That's neat. This approach has problems of its own though.
I used a semicolon to separate the type and key here, but that has a few known collisions with existing Rust syntax. May or may not be a problem if the decl macro can identify a "complete type" vs an incomplete one.
Even if you use a different delimiter that doesn't collide you can't guarantee Rust won't use that delimiter in the future.
This is another option we're considering. there is some utility in the newtype design pattern. and it would drastically simplify the implementation.
There's a lot of similarities between this problem and the system macros, to the point where I'll declare this problem automatically solved as soon as we pick a solution for that one.
Still on track! No reason we can't do this.
I think both torkleyy and I lack concrete plans for this as of right now, but we're very eager to make this happen.
We've decided to go with nitric since it's the older name.