More quite often than not, clients are completely enticed by the heavily discounted selling price schemes presented by businesses, and this is applicable to almost all market sectors including all those functioning in the embroidery digitizing service category. However, a knowledgeable client sure is aware of the fact that this price tag scheme is simply a play put up by businesses to attract customers. It is always advisable to know the products and its features and benefits before deciding to get anything and not spend on something impulsively just because it is reduced in price. And, although some businesses would seem to charge much less initially; nevertheless, customers do end up having to pay more in the long run in order to secure their work adjusted from reputed embroidery digitizing service suppliers. So, it only makes sense to provide yourself with insight and be aware of precisely what you are paying for.
In the embroidery digitizing service sector, most businesses charge on a per ONE THOUSAND stitch basis. These businesses price their products and services anywhere between 1 to 5 AMERICAN Dollars, usually with respect to the sophistication of the design offered.
The per ONE THOUSAND stitch basis fee is a non-biased price tag scheme that has offered design houses and organizations the assurance to queue up with mass orders.
However, this set up still does not rest very well with specific customers, who acquired ad-hoc requests. Because of this, a few embroidery digitizing service providers have develop a separate flat rate for just about every type of request. These businesses now charge a flat rate for the most common requests, which consist of hat logos, left chest and full back designs. Regardless of the number of stitches used up by the design and style, you can be assured of spending the right price, without any having to bother much about becoming familiar with the concept of stitches or any other such complex jargon.
The most recent to join the band wagon of models enjoying flat charges in the embroidery digitizing service industry is the portrait design. You can walk-in with a picture of your loved ones or domestic pets, and have them commemorated without gusting a hole through your finances.
Apart from the price tag charged for digitizing the designs, generally there are a few embroidery digitizing service providers that request extra for the edits that are needed to make the design more 'stitchable' or embroidery friendly. Equally, the resizing of the design may be done free of charge by some businesses, yet certain other embroidery digitizing service providers charge even more for the same. This is done mainly with the one-time clients who come up with smaller orders.
When it has to do with the time period taken to create the design, there are a few embroidery digitizing service providers that promise to take just a 24 hrs turn-around time; nevertheless, it is always very good not to presume things. Therefore, it is recommended to make sure you confirm the time and also the simple fact whether the business charges extra to create the design at the initial stage while you are yet in the negotiation phase.


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Ian Edmund Wooldridge, ("Woolers"), British sportswriter (born Jan. 14, 1932—died March 4, 2007, London, Eng.), was considered one of England's best sports journalists, writing with wit and a passionate enthusiasm for sports in a career that lasted almost 60 years (1948–2007). He started as a reporter with the New Milton Advertiser and advanced through several other jobs before moving in 1961 to the Daily Mail, where he covered the cricket beat before being named sports editor in 1972. He received numerous writing awards, notably being named Sportswriter of the Year four times. In addition, he wrote several books and made a number of BBC television documentaries on sports. Wooldridge was appointed OBE in 1991.
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Following up from my post on my Simple Rules I thought I'd start doing month end posts as a recap and log on how I'm doing. Mostly for myself to read back on to see how far I've come but hopefully help other people too. It'll also be a great place to list the odds and sods I've done but not written a standalone article about.
Regarding tinkering, I've hacked my home server to act as a TV server and now installed a PCIe tuner to hopefully get Freeview HD hooked up to Kodi. I've also done work on Hugo to get started with the EFI upgrade, after dropping the coolant I've removed the starter motor, distributor, the radiator and next up is installing the crank sensor and fuel tank.
Regarding The Rules I'm not going to lie, this month hasn't been great though they are proving their worth because of that. I've had a perfect storm of end of project stress, which despite the best of planning always happens, and a bout of some kind of cold bug. I literally worked through the cold but it really wasn't a good idea, it needed doing though, the result was that I was utterly wiped out mentally and physically. I broke and ordered takeaway as I didn't have the energy to cook. Hell, I didn't even have the energy to go to the pub at the weekend it was worst so that says something! The flat got a bit messy but not too bad, cluttered more than actually untidy.
One thing I'm glad didn't stop was tinkering. I didn't have the energy for big projects but messed around with Linux from the comfort of my sofa under a comfy purple fleece blanket. Considering that in the past my tinkering has really suffered at times like that I take it as a sign things really have change for the better.
Though I have had a blip I take it as such, a blip. The great thing about the rules though is that once the dust starts to settle, as it already has, I have a ready made template for getting back no track and tonight I already have.
Oh, I've also signed myself and Hugo up for a track day just after my birthday so there's a big fat deadline right there!


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Antitrust and Inefficient Joint Ventures: Why Sports Leagues Should Look More Like Mcdonald's and Less Like the United Nations
16 Marq. Sports L. Rev (2005-2006)
Penn State Law Research Paper , Forthcoming
48 Pages Posted: 24 Feb 2016
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Stephen F. Ross
The Pennsylvania State University (University Park) – Penn State Law
Stefan Szymanski
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Antitrust law generally favors joint ventures that allow separate firms to integrate economic functions while continuing to compete as independent entities. In evaluating the risks to competition that joint ventures could pose, insufficient attention has been paid to the risk that joint ventures with market power may be structured so that the parties, acting in their independent self interest, will prevent the venture from providing innovative goods and services responsive to consumer demand. In these cases, it may be better if a single firm provided services rather than having them provided jointly.
We illustrate this problem by challenging the conventional wisdom that sports leagues must be organized and run by clubs participating in the sporting competition. The fastest-growing competition in the United States is organized by NASCAR, a distinct business entity that is not controlled by the drivers who participate in stock car races. We suggest that the club-run sports leagues in the major North American sports impose significant costs on sports fans in a variety of markets. If instead, relevant rules were decided by an independent Board of Directors of "NFL, Inc.," "MLB, LLC," or the like, we suggest that franchise allocation, broadcast rights, effective club management, marketing and sponsorship, and labor markets would be regulated more efficiently and more responsively to consumer demand.
Our analysis blames significant transactions costs for the inability of club owners who run leagues to reach efficient, consumer-responsive results. These same transaction costs may prevent an efficient restructuring of sports leagues. Thus, we apply conventional antitrust doctrine in innovative ways to argue that courts could view the current structure as an unlawful refusal of club owners to participate in a sporting competition that they themselves cannot control, which we argue unreasonably restrain trades and unlawfully maintains monopoly power.
Ross, Stephen F. and Szymanski, Stefan, Antitrust and Inefficient Joint Ventures: Why Sports Leagues Should Look More Like Mcdonald's and Less Like the United Nations (2006). 16 Marq. Sports L. Rev (2005-2006), Penn State Law Research Paper , Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2736432
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Once you have an LPA in place, you can have peace of mind that there is someone you trust to look after your affairs if you became unable to do so yourself during your lifetime. This may occur, for example, because of an illness, old age or an accident.
Having an LPA in place can allow your attorney to have authority to deal with your finances and property, as well as make decisions about your health and welfare. Your LPA can include binding instructions together with general preferences for your attorney to consider. Your LPA should reflect your particular wishes so you know that the things that matter most would be taken care of.
You can only put an LPA in place whilst you are capable of understanding the nature and effect of the document (for example, you have the required legal capacity). After this point, you cannot enter into an LPA, and no one can do so on your behalf.
Many people don't know that their next of kin has no automatic legal right to manage their spouse's affairs without an LPA in place, so having to make decisions on their behalf can become prolonged and significantly more expensive.
Without an LPA in place, there is no one with the legal authority to manage your affairs, for example, to access bank accounts or investments in your name or sell your property on your behalf. Unfortunately, many people assume that their spouse, partner or children will just be able to take care of things, but the reality is that simply isn't the case.
In these circumstances, in order for someone to obtain legal authority over your affairs, that person would need to apply to the Court of Protection, and the Court will decide on the person to be appointed to manage your affairs. The person chosen is appointed your 'deputy'. This is a very different type of appointment, which is significantly more involved and costly than being appointed attorney under an LPA.
If you wish to have peace of mind that a particular person will have the legal authority to look after your affairs, and you want to make matters easier for them and less expensive, then you should obtain professional advice about putting in place an LPA.


Botanically known as 'Chlorophora Excelsa or Chlorophora Regia', Iroko is widely distributed in Africa, ranging from the west of Sierra Leone, Senegal and Ghana, extending east-bound to Tanzania and Uganda.
Visibly, it is distinguishable by appearance with a golden yellow colour, though the colour tends to darken over time. Iroko has a medium to coarse texture with an interlocked grain.
Naturally, it has been compared to teak, sharing similar robust qualities and excellent strength properties.
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Appaholic: Top 5 Jewish Radio Apps by Zohar Friedman
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March 15, 2012/By Zohar Friedman/In Press
This article was written by Zohar Friedman, and originally published by The Jerusalem Post.
Radio may seem like a somewhat antiquated form of media, but download it to your smart phone and suddenly it's undergone something of a rejuvenation. Read on to discover a range of applications that appeal to a variety of Jewish interests. From musical to religious, from lifestyle to hard news, there's something for everyone. Tune into any of these 5 great listening alternatives:
Connected by sound waves
Who would have thought that a Jewish radio app could connect you to Jewish communities around the world? Well, we're here to tell you that there's an app that will make the global Jewish community appear that much smaller.
Download The Jewish Radio app and tune into radio shows from Jewish communities as far away as Warsaw. Perhaps these communities might reflect your interests and personal understanding of Judaism; perhaps they'll reflect a different portrait of Jewish life altogether. Regardless, we guarantee that you'll be left feeling that much more tuned in to the larger tribe.
Hear O Israel
We hate to hand it to the Israelis so easily, but when it comes to Jewish interest media, Israeli radio may just be the way to go. And besides, what mobile-device collection of Jewish media applications would be complete without the Israel Radio app? This little app will prove to be a gold mine of entertainment, especially if you harbor an interest in Hebrew music.
Not your father's Jewish radio
Jewish music has undergone something of a revolution in recent years. Countless artists have emerged to prove that Jewish musical expression isn't limited to Klezmer music and hits from the Fiddler on the Roof soundtrack. To help emphasize this point, we recommend you check out Jewish Rock Radio.
Defining itself as the voice of Jewish youth, this isn't your father's Jewish radio station. JRR features a mix of contemporary artists from Israel, US and the wider world and will likely introduce you to a host of Jewish voices you didn't realize existed. So, don't fight the feeling, the rhythm is going to get you.
No bells or whistles
Some of you, like my mother, prefer the straight forward approach; no bells, no whistles, and certainly none of the jingles or jangles that are liable to confuse, distract or disorient. And it's ironic that we've mentioned instruments, because while Jewish Music Stream is full of nice melodies, pleasant sounds and Jewish artists, it comes with none of the offensive extras that clutter rather than support an application's function. So give it a download—it's free—go to the single page of the app and hit play.
Some may feel a little overwhelmed by applications that feature a number of radio stations and shows. For those of you who are indeed looking for a one-stop shop approach to all of your Jewish radio interests, give Radio-J a shot. Designed to appeal to the broader Jewish community, Radio-J really does offer something for everyone: from programming for children and young adults, to insightful talk shows, to Israel news, to those klezmer music hours we all go crazy for, this station hasn't forgotten any segment of the Jewish community. So go ahead, give it a listen.
Appaholic is a bi-weekly column which thematically reviews mobile apps with a Jewish or Israeli twist. If you have an app to suggest, send details to [email protected]


Ok, we all know 2013 was the year that celebrities decided tweeting pictures of themselves in Bikinis was like "the cool thing to do." Name any female celebs on twitter and chances are 9 out of 10 of them have shared a bikini shot, one that's taken glancing down from the breasts at stomach and legs tanning in the sun. For those paying close attention, you will have noticed something called the Bikini Bridge - something that's actually been a term for a while now. The Bikini Bridge is the clear space between one's jutting hip bones, the bikini and stomach area. The Bikini Bridge is achieved, usually, only by people thin enough to produce said space between stomach and hip bone. We hope this accurately explains the Bikini Bridge.
Now, here's where the Bikini Bridge became a "thing." On the 5th of January, 2014, internet trolls created a campaign encouraging 4Chan users to spread the word socially on the #bikinibridge. Their goal was to get people talking about this new hit craze to achieve a #bikinibridge, get it trending and then use the trend to draw attention to our society's sick obsession with weight. Today, the 8th of January, one thing is clear... they succeeded in making this is a viral obsession and at warp speed. The internet went gaga for the hashtag. People were creating pictures, some false and some real, to share on their social networks. People in on the hoax were using open platforms such as CNN and Buzzfeed to create stories around the new obsession and all of the sudden we had news stories popping up around the world about the latest thinspiration - the Bikini Bridge. Even the Daily Mail wrote a story covering the new phenomenon. When it reaches the column of shame, you know this bad boy has gone viral.
Reports of The Bikini Bridge being the new "inner thigh gap," swiftly started making the rounds. It was hard to tell who was in on the hoax and who was jumping on the bandwagon, proud to display their big ole bikini bridge.
So what's the outcome? While the whole idea took off, we're not sure there's a clear winner here. A trend was created to send a message, yet the message seems to be more about how awesome the Bikini Bridge is at this point, rather than the idea that the Bikini Bridge is a bad thing.
What we're delivering here is a message that the Bikini Bridge is just exactly what it is, a gap in your bikini. What you make of it is your business. But what the internet makes of it is something that was solely created as a viral test it seems. So ignore the hoopla or laugh it off and move on. If you have one, great, if you don't who really cares? We're Bikini Bridge neutral.
Want to know more about the hoax? Check out this Buzzfeed Bikini Bridge Breakdown.


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Episode 34 2 September 2021
Aligning our laws with Universal laws
Aligning our laws with Universal lawsGeraldine Johns-Putra
I discuss Universal laws and how lawyers can align our Earth laws or human-made laws with Universal laws. Many of the lawyers I interview on my podcast are doing just that.
We are learning to practise law so that we align with the Law of Oneness, Law of Correspondence, Law of Vibration, Law of Attraction, Law of Intention, Law of Purpose and many more Universal Laws.
I am a legal advisor to not-for-profits with a national reach in impact and purpose. I work with Boards to optimise performance and help enterprises embed purpose and integrate human rights into their business.
[0:29] Universal laws are principles or laws that apply universally. We are multi-dimensional beings awakening to our true selves. We are part of a vast and populated Universe. As we awaken to this, we will need to align our Earth laws to Universal laws.
[4:14] The main Universal law we need to understand is the Law of Oneness. This means our legal system will not need to be punitive, as we will understand that what we do to others, we do unto ourselves.
[7:07] The Universal Law of Correspondence states that as above, so below and as within, so without. We will need to harmonise our laws with Universal laws so that we are in harmony with other timelines and dimensions.
[8:08] We live on a three-dimensional plane where our thoughts and actions have consequences. Therefore, although we should recognise the Law of Non-interference, we need to deal with transgressions of Earth laws.
[10:25] The Law of Attraction, which is related to the Law of Vibration, states that we attract into our lives those things that we vibrate on the same frequency as. The Law of Intention is also related to this, because people can apply their intentions to move into a certain frequency and attract things of that frequency to them.
[12:52] To empower people to move in and out of situations so they can express themselves using the Laws of Attraction and Intention, our laws should deal compassionately with conflicts, whether they be personal or professional. We can have laws that are less rigid around contracts, employment, property and marriage.
[15:29] Laws that give people flexibility will also empower people to pursue their purpose and thus live in accordance with the Law of Purpose or Dharma,
[15:55] Finally, the Law of Perpetual Change which holds that things are constantly changing at a microscopic level requires that our laws are able to change and our law makers serve the collective so that they can be prepared to make changes for the greater good as concepts become obsolete.
What are Universal laws? Here is one explanation that contains 12 Universal Laws, including some which I discuss here, like the Law of Oneness, the Law of Vibration, the Law of Attraction, the Law of Constant Change:
Hi, everyone, welcome to the New Earth lawyer podcast. My name is Geraldine Johns-Putra. I'm your host, I'm a lawyer, I live in work in Melbourne, Australia, this is Boonwurrung country and so I'd like to pay my respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.
Today I'm going to talk about something that's got a spiritual bent to it. I've been doing a few of these lately. And today's just a continuation of it. What I wanted to talk to you about today was this concept of Universal laws. Universal laws is this idea that there are some principles or laws that apply universally, not just to human beings. It comes from the idea that we are multi-dimensional beings, you know, that we exist, that there's a deeper reality that we can access beyond our five physical senses. And there're aspects or dimensions of ourselves that exist in other realities, either past or future, on this plane, this planet, or in fact, in other dimensions.
So this whole awakening that we're going through, is a transformation of humanity. It's an awakening not just to our realisation that we are in charge of our own lives, that we are in control of our own realities, that we need to govern ourselves but it's also an awakening to a deeper reality, the multi-dimensional aspects of our being. So it's a consciousness shift. So there's two broad aspects to our awakening, we are really growing up as a species. And that means understanding our autonomy, our sovereignty, and understanding that there's more to us than what we have been taught.
So what we begin to understand then, is that we are part of a very complex, very vast, very busy, populated Universe. We just haven't learned how to access different parts of the Universe as other races have done. So we haven't learned to master the physics of time, and the physics of deep space. But it's my belief, that that point is coming very soon when we will understand how to traverse significant distances and we'll learn how to manipulate timelines, which means that we'll be able to move instead of just in a linear direction, past, present, future, we will understand that there are really parallel timelines and that time is just another dimension that we can actually travel in. To travel to a particular point in time just as we can travel to a particular point in space.
So what does this mean? Well, we're going to have to think about how the laws on this planet align with the laws of the Universe essentially. So a lot of the work that I do on the New Earth lawyer podcast, when I'm interviewing other lawyers, as I say, lawyers who are changing the practice of law to change the world, what I'm really doing is that I'm talking to people who are beginning to align Earth laws with Universal laws. They may not realise it themselves but what I perceive is that that's what they're doing.
So I'm going to give you some examples of this by talking about a set of Universal laws. The main one I'm going to start with is is the Law of One, the law of Oneness. So we all come, according to this Universal law, we all come from the same source, whether you want to call it God or Prime Creator, or All That Is, it's everything, that all of the material in the Universe actually originates from the Source, including us. And we all have consciousness from this one Source. We're just fragmented aspects of Source. And we're split off to have individual experiences. So this is why everything in the Universe is interconnected. Because we share, actually originally, we share one consciousness and so we still do, we still are able to access each other's consciousnesses, because it's all the same field. So to live in accordance with the Law of One, we need to recognise that we are all one. And you know, we are part of everything around us. And vice versa. And every action, word, thought, belief, we have will have an impact on the world, and the people in our lives. And therefore, what the Law of One really reflects as is the Golden Rule. And that's why it appears in all of the religions in in this world, do unto others as you would have done to yourself. Because if we're all one, whatever you want for yourself, you should want it for everyone else. We should treat each other as we would treat ourselves. That's the interconnectedness aspect. And so when it comes to laws, we should be thinking of laws not as penalties or don'ts, do's and don'ts, but rather as, you know, recognising that there are a set of principles by which we want to live our lives, and therefore we want everybody to live their lives. And we wouldn't break a law because we wouldn't want that to be done to us, we wouldn't steal from someone because we wouldn't want anyone to steal from us, we wouldn't hurt someone because we wouldn't want anyone to hurt us. So the Law of One actually is the underpinning of a New Earth law, a new system of laws for Earth. So laws should be based in compassion and love. Because we want everyone to have an opportunity to express themselves and to operate in society that way, and not to have fear and to reach our fullest potential. Because that's what we want for ourselves.
So the next thing to realise is that because we're all one, we have what's called the Law of Correspondence. And this is sometimes cited as, as above, so below, as within so without, it's this whole idea of a holographic universe, that patterns are repeated everywhere, above, meaning, you know, in other dimensions in the heavens, they're repeated on Earth. And if we do something on Earth, it's reflected in other dimensions. And so it is within your conscious self. Also, whatever you're thinking and feeling will project out into the world around you. This is the Law of Correspondence. So what does law have to do with this? Well, we want laws that are going to be flexible, and reflect Universal Laws, because we want what's happening on Earth to be aligned with what's happening elsewhere in the Universe, and be harmonious with all other timelines and dimensions.
You know, that Star Trek thing of the Prime Directive, and that you shouldn't interfere with others, you shouldn't interfere with another race or planet, that's really concerning free will. And that's a Universal Law, that we shouldn't interfere with the intentions or the wishes of others. So our laws should be as pro-choice and pro freewill as possible. But while we do that, we need to recognise that on Earth, we are in a three-dimensional reality and we are a race that's very attuned to emotions. So our actions, our thoughts and our actions, have physical and emotional consequences. So therefore, even though we want to respect free will, we need to recognise that when people transgress society's laws, they're going to have an impact physically and emotionally on others. So we do need to deal with transgressions of our laws on our plane, on Earth. So what do we do? How do we how do we deal with them? Well, we could do things the old way where we punish people and we throw them into jail and lock them up and throw away the key. Or we can look at resolving root causes and bringing in not just the offender and the government but also considered the victim's rights and considering the community. And this kind of thing is consistent with the practices that I've been speaking to lawyers about on my podcast, such as restorative justice, which looks at restoring the community and restoring the harm and the damage, and also what's called therapeutic jurisprudence, which focuses on the psychological well being of the offender. So that's more about rehabilitating people and really getting at why they've committed whatever offence or crime that they have. So that's a New Earth law concept. And it's aligned with the Law of Correspondence, you know, because we want to be harmonious as other parts of the universe are.
Another law that we need to think about is the Law of Attraction. Now, we've heard a lot about the Law of Attraction, I don't know over the last decade, two decades, maybe, that's often been used in a very materialistic way to manifest things that you want to bring, good things into your life that you want, you know, like, lots of money, or you know, a great partner, or a nice house or a great car or whatever. But really, what the Law of Attraction is, is it has to do with another law, which is called the Law of Vibration, this whole idea that things, we all have a certain frequency, we're all made up of units of consciousness that vibrate at a certain frequency. And, you know, you can actually increase your vibration, which is a concept we hear about a lot. And that whatever vibration you're at, you'll attract things that are vibrating at the same rate, you'll attract things and people that are on the same frequency. And so if you're positive and proactive and loving, you're going to attract more of that into your life. So that's just the Law of Attraction, it is just an extension of the Law of Vibration. So what it comes to with that is, you know, if you recognise the Law of Vibration and the Law of Attraction, then you also recognise the Law of Intention, which is that when people visualise something with intention, intent, then they can exploit the Law of Attraction and bring that thing to them, because they're intending to be at whatever frequency is necessary to bring that thing to them. So they're putting themselves intentionally on a particular frequency. So what does that mean for laws? Well, it means that we need to have a kind of flexibility to prevail, so that people can align themselves with whatever they want to attract, you know, they can have the flexibility to do that to move in and out of situations as they grow and expand in the consciousness, or as they decide that they want to experience new things. We want to have laws that don't tie people down to things too much.
You know, so for example, in my podcast, I talk to people who are specialists in a certain kind of conflict resolution, that's called collaborative practice. And that can mean any kind of disputes. You know, there's a way of resolving disputes with people so that you know, what's best for both parties is achieved in a non confrontational way, in a way that avoids trauma and harm. So what that does is it allows people to leave relationships or leave positions without negative impact or minimising negative impact, so that they can align themselves with whatever they want to in harmony with the Law of Attraction or the Law of Intention. Conscious contracts is another one that allows this because the conscious contract, which is a values-based contract, which is a contract that is around, you know, achieving what's best for both people will have enough flexibility in it so that if circumstances change for one person, they can move on in a way that isn't harmful, and isn't going to attract all of this, these penalties and punishments. We could even think about legal systems that are more flexible in terms of employment, so that people aren't tied down to a job necessarily, they may move into things that are more like independent contract work, the gig economy, so that they can move from situation to situation. They're not owned by their employers. We may rethink things like property laws, some people may decide in a freer world, that they don't want to be tied down to a house, or they don't want to own things that are going to feel like a millstone around the neck. They might want to share those things with other people so we can have laws around sharing property and sharing assets rather than owning. I've mentioned family laws that we can have. And we can also work with, lawyers can work with other disciplines who can help people move through changes, life coaches, financial advisors, psychologists, counsellors, so that rather than people feeling like they have to stay in the same place, and if they want to change, they have to fight to change, people will will be enabled and empowered to make changes.
And this is also going to be consistent with the Law of Purpose, or Dharma, as the Buddhists call it, which says that each soul has a purpose. Sometimes we call it the soul blueprint. So in a legal system that's aligned with spiritual laws, or Universal laws, with enough flexibility and compassion for everyone involved, each person would be freer to pursue their soul purpose.
There's also a law that I'm going to mentioned, which is Perpetual Change, which holds that everything around us is in constant flux, and comes and goes according to our consciousness, our thoughts on an individual, but particularly on a collective level. Now we can't observe every single change because they they occur at a microscopic level. But a legal system that aligns with the Law of Constant Change would be fluid. So for example, I've spoken in the past about making sure we have lawmakers who understand that they work for the people, have a duty that they recognise, to the public trust. So they wouldn't have very rigid laws, they would have laws that, you know, can accommodate change, that can accommodate societal changes. And if needed, that they needed to, they will be attuned to changes in society that will allow them to pass new laws that society needs. If things become obsolete for us, particularly as we advance further and further, we may find that we're just not requiring certain concepts in our laws. And our lawmakers would need to be prepared to move with that quickly. And flexibly.
So those are just some of the Universal laws that I wanted to mention. You know, my thinking is around how are we going to get from here to there? Obviously, we're all moving together forward, but how are the lawyers going to help? How can we be of best service to make sure that really, we get to a place where we, we join the multi-dimensional reality that we were always meant to, that we we as Earthlings, as human beings, have a system of laws, and a system that governs how we live that really is deserving of our place in the Universe. So that's all I want to say. I hope you've enjoyed it. I really have enjoyed thinking about the different Universal laws and what kind of Earth legal system would best match Universal laws. I'll see you next week. Thank you for watching.


LevyGrey dropped an official music video for "Temptation" last week and now he returns with the rest of Figures.
The project contains five songs and features Beam and Cruch Calhoun leaving the rest for Levy to handle by himself.
The CMG artist is also preparing to hit the road alongside YK Osiris for the Worth It tour beginning February 21st.


FD Stonewater acquired this three-building office portfolio in 2015 from COPT. The portfolio is located in White Marsh, MD, and is situated adjacent to I-95 with highway visibility. Johns Hopkins University is an original occupant since construction and has expanded several times. Franklin Ridge is 100% leased and represents high-quality, newly constructed office product relative to the market.


In March the news came that Barry Hines had died. My mind flashed back to the time when I went with my mother to a cinema in Barnsley to see Kes, Ken Loach's second feature film that was based on Hines's short novel, A kestrel for a knave, published in 1968.
It was late 1969 or early 1970. There was a lot of interest in the film in and around the town, and the cinema was full. Barry Hines was a local lad – he came from Hoyland Common, a village a few miles south of Barnsley (we lived in Hoylandswaine, to the west). Key parts of the film had been shot locally, notably the scene in Monk Bretton Priory, in the ruins of which the central character, Billy Casper, first encounters his kestrel.
The film left a deep impression on me. I still think it's Loach's finest achievement, though he's made many great films since (his latest, I, Daniel Blake, has just appeared at Cannes). It was impossible not to be affected by the simple story. Billy is a runt of a lad. He comes from a broken and loveless home, he's already been written off by his teachers as a secondary modern failure, and he's picked on by his brother and schoolmates. But he has enough native wit and extra-legal guile to survive. And he has one special ability and all-absorbing interest – taming and flying a kestrel. It's the passionate relationship with Kes that gives Billy meaning and intensity to his life that nothing and no one else can provide. The climax of the film comes when the adored kestrel is killed by Jud, Billy's elder brother, in an act of petty revenge for Billy's failure to place his bet on a winning horse.
But what was special about the film wasn't just the story. It was that it was rooted in a kind of community that normal movies usually ignored, a northern working class village, and it dealt with that community in a new way. It didn't sentimentalise, either by romanticising northern grit or by laying on the misery trowel (there's a hilarious scene in which the PE teacher, played by Brian Glover (a Barnsley wrestler, in his first acting role), presides, dictatorially but absurdly, over a school football game).
The other exceptional aspect of Kes was the acting. Loach had a magical knack of finding young actors who were inexperienced but perfect for the demanding roles they had to play, and the performance of David Bradley, a Barnsley boy with almost no acting record, as the downtrodden but resilient and even triumphant Billy, was admired by everyone.
I was in a bookshop a couple of weeks ago – it was the excellent Pen'rallt Gallery Bookshop in Machynlleth – and saw a Penguin reprint of A kestrel for a knave. And I realised that for some reason I'd never ever read the novel. I bought it and read it straight away (it's a short book, under 200 pages). From the first pages, when Billy wakes up in his poor and cheerless home ('There were no curtains up') and prepares to do his early morning paper round, you're immersed in his world, following him through his day to its sad conclusion ('When he arrived home there was no one in. He buried the hawk in the field just behind the shed; went in, and went to bed').
The Employment Officer printed MANUAL on the form, then raised his pen hand as though he was going to print it again on the top of his head. He scratched it instead, and the nails left white scratches on the skin. He smoothed his fingers carefully across the plot of hair, then looked up. Billy was staring straight past him out of the window.
Simplicity doesn't rule out suspense and tension, either. Your reading pace accelerates with Billy's increasingly frantic attempts to hide from his angry brother when Jud appears in his school, and it slows with sympathy in the scene at the end of the book, as Billy breaks into 'The Palace', a derelict cinema where his father had taken him to see a film shortly before abandoning the family.
Another regret of the older Hines is that some of the characters are shown too unsympathetically. Billy's mother gives him little or no affection, and we're not reminded of the harshness of Jud's work in the coal mine that might explain, if not excuse, his fury at missing out on his racing winnings. But it's against this background, Billy's almost exclusively hostile environment, that we can admire the miraculous things he's able to create from his own inner resources.
From the viewpoint of 2016 A kestrel for a knave may seem to describe a remote and long-gone world – of sink schools reserved for children already marked out as failures, of manual industries unable to pay their workers adequately, of social relations where indifference, cruelty and violence were taken as norms. Novelists like Barry Hines, raised in working class communities and eager to write about them, seem thin on the ground today. In retrospect Hines belongs comfortably to a tradition that began with DH Lawrence and included Stan Barstow, David Storey and Alan Sillitoe – and is now, it seems, moribund, at least in England. Scotland still has its James Kelman and Alan Warner, and Wales has Niall Griffiths and Rachel Trezise, but aside from David Peace few English names come to mind. Yet, in the age of reinvigorated political reaction, declining social mobility and worsening incomes, the need would still seem to be there. Where are the writers today who will tackle the complexities of our own, different but ever more unequal society? Barry Hines, one of the best of his kind, will be missed.
Hi Andrew: just read your piece on Barry Hines. I saw the film when I was about 12 at the little cinema in Conway – don't know if it's still there. I cried. What got me thinking about the film was finding a baby kestrel in my yard yesterday. I emigrated to Canada in 1991, and live 60 miles north of Winnipeg, Manitoba- 'out in the boonies' as they say here. I was having my first cup of tea siting out in the shade enjoying the morning when my 3 dogs started kicking up a racket. Closer investigation revealed a young falcon, whose ferocity was deterring their homicidal (avicidal?) intentions. I put them in the house and checked out the young bird, after throwing a towel over him. He seemed fine, so I put him in a pine tree, out of the reach of the dogs. An animal rescue organization told me over the phone that this was normal in the falcon world- parents get their offspring used to being independent by leaving them on the ground for a couple of weeks, with intermittent supervision. I went out later with a mouse from a mouse trap in case he was hungry but the bird had, quite literally, flown! He must have glided across the ditch and the road to the field opposite, where I can hear loud scolding from one of his parents. He'll be safer there. Such is the bucolic idyll out here in rural Manitoba!
I enjoyed your blog and look forward to reading more- I notice that you are a rambler, which was my passion back in Wales. I still get to do that here, but, counter intuitively, there aren't that many trails out in the wilderness. I get to go kayaking instead- rivers are the highways out here!
That's kind of you to write, Kim, and with such an interesting story. I've only once been to Canada (Quebec), but ever since reading Jonathan Raban's book 'Passage to Juneau' I've had an intermittent desire to sail north from Vancouver along the coast.


During the holiday season we make great efforts to reach out and connect with others. Whether your holiday season is bustling with people or quieter, be sure to take time to make the most important connection – the one with yourself! It may be over a cup of tea and a cookie, a walk in nature, or if you have a yoga practice, om for the holidays!
Like many, I am in the midst of addressing cards, purchasing gifts, sending and receiving invitations and cooking and baking for the holiday.
Take a moment to see beauty in your surroundings and find peace within your heart and mind. Look for it. It will always be there in the stars, the frost, a snowflake, in the bonds of family and friendship and in the food we make and share.


Now that spring has officially arrived, it's time to break out of that winter malaise and enjoy the season's fantastic warm weather and sunshine. As a dad, this is also the perfect opportunity to introduce your kids to your favorite outdoor recreation and leisure activities that your own father shared with you when you were young. So ditch those heavy winter jackets and grab your hiking boots – here are three great spring adventures to enjoy with your children.
While it's still early in the season, you can begin planning for a mid-spring camping trip. Depending on your children's age, you may want to determine how intensive this expedition should be and tailor it to their maturity level. For younger kids, you might want to settle on visiting a relatively tame camping ground where you'll never be far from a hot meal or shower. If you're looking to rough it a little more, grab a tent and head out into the true wilderness. The days you spend cooking over an open fire, exploring local wildlife and gazing up at the stars from your sleeping bags are ones your children won't soon forget.
If you're looking for some outdoor adventure without all the organization that camping requires, consider going on a hiking trip for the day. Investigate some of the local nature preserves, wilderness trails or state parks near your home. You can also make a day of hiking more engaging for your little ones by allowing them to read the map and giving them a list of birds, trees and animals to identify.
Sometimes the best spring days are spent relaxing in a boat in pursuit of some fish. You can teach your children the finer points of angling while clocking some quality conversation time together. And at the end of the day, you'll have a delicious dinner to cook up.


It's the first concert list of the semester! Get those concert reports done sooner rather than later. This is a sampling of upcoming events in Knoxville, Maryville, and Oak Ridge. Other concertgoing tools: Facebook events, my Twitter lists, and the Do's and Don'ts of Concert Attendance.
Mei Han, director of the Center for Chinese Music and Culture at Middle Tennessee State University, and colleagues will demonstrate traditional Chinese music and instruments.


I'm getting remarks similar to the ones people in the LGBT community get. You know, the most common one: "All you need to find is the right guy (for lesbians) or the right girl (for gays)."
Another remark I get along these lines is that apparently, despite my "thing" about Asians, I must deep down inside want a white guy. Something like that, I can't remember the exact words.
Only in these cases do I wish people would keep their thoughts to themselves.
These aren't things I was saying; they were random remarks made by acquaintances, mostly.
You know, one of the arguments Hsiaokwai is trying to make in regards to my staying here (not in relationship terms, just in terms of practicality in regards to Olivia) is that it'll be supposedly easier on me, factoring in college and work, plus his reasoning that either me or him will be with Olivia at all times. That's all fine and dandy, but sometime in 2007 I *will be* moving out, and we need to be realistic here.
He says I shouldn't worry about dating until I finish school. I'm not concerning myself with finding another relationship just yet, however, I'm not waiting till I finish school (I mean, c'mon now, both of you are still in college lol) to find someone else. I'll do what feels right to me.
All that said, it has nothing to do with what people are saying to me. They said it to me before me and him split, and they're still saying it.
*hugs* I love you, Cherie. It always cheers me up when we talk.


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Dogs are man's best friend. While we may not be able to have a conversation, dogs seem to be in tune with our emotions and thoughts. Even though we see our canine friends every day, there's still a lot about them that we don't know.
Have you ever watched your dog sleep and wondered why he was twitching and whining? Dogs have dreams just like we do, and sometimes, they act out those dreams.
Researchers have found that dogs have similar sleep patterns and brain activity as humans. Smaller breeds tend to dream more often than large breeds.
Experts believe that our dogs are imagining familiar activities when they dream, like chasing their tails or running and playing outside.
It's true – dogs are intelligent creatures. Canine researcher and author Stanley Coren says dogs and toddlers are on par when it comes to intelligence. Coren says that man's best friend can understand more than 150 words, can count and even trick other people just to get treats.
As you may have suspected, intelligence varies from breed to breed. Border collies consistently rank as the most intelligent breed, but all dogs have the intelligence of a two-year-old.
A dog's mouth, on average, exerts 320 pounds of pressure. Humans, by comparison, exert 120 pounds of pressure.
With that much power, it's not surprising that 885,000 people are hospitalized each year due to dog bites.
Our canine friends also have more adult teeth than we do – 42 versus 32. Some breeds have stronger mouths than others, but even small breeds can exert quite a bit of force with their tiny mouths.
Ever heard the saying that dogs can smell your fear? That may literally be true.
Because a dog's sense of smell is 1,000 to 10 million times better than yours, they can pick up on subtle changes in your scent. These subtle changes can help your pup understand what you're feeling. For example, Fido may pick up your anxiety just by smelling your sweat.
A dog can predict an epileptic seizure up to 45 minutes before it happens. Researchers are still unsure of how dogs can pick up on them, but they theorize that it may have to do with an unknown smell or small behavioral changes.
Dogs can also smell other diseases, like cancer. Researchers think that our canine friends may be able to pick up on "extraordinarily faint" scents that are emitted by abnormal cells.
Humans are covered in sweat head to toe after a rigorous workout, but dogs can only sweat through their paws. More specifically, a dog's sweat glands are located between their paw pads.
This is why dogs rely on panting to cool themselves down. Wetting their feet on a hot day can also help keep them cool.


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Afghanistan Crisis Needs Unified Response from Diverse Powers (Chanakya Forum)
It is a mystery as to why Moscow has so stubbornly remained in the minds of policymakers, as part of any solution to the situation in Afghanistan. From the 1970s in particular, the Kremlin was the most significant factor in the lack of success of Afghan moderates, to fashion a democratic state with perhaps a UK-style monarchy, technically at the apex of an elected government.
Repeated interventions by the USSR resulted in the downfall of the moderates and the temporary takeover of Soviet proxies in Kabul. These quislings soon began to fight each other, and the Soviet army was sent into the country to occupy it. This was a move reminiscent of the Czarist period and was resented and resisted by the Afghan people.
The US saw its chance at damaging the USSR and began under President Carter, a strategy of converting Afghanistan into a quagmire for the Soviet Union. Unfortunately, both the Carter and Reagan administrations handed over the keys of the fire brigade to Chief Martial Law Administrator (CMLA) of Pakistan, General Zia-ul-Haq.
Wary that Pashtun nationalists across both sides of the lapsed Durand Line would seek a unified Pashtun state (thereby fulfilling the wishes of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan), Zia persuaded the US to instead back Pashtun religious zealots. At the same time, both Carter and Reagan saw Wahhabism, as an effective antidote to the Khomeinism that had begun flowering in Iran in 1979, and prodded Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries to empower this variant of a faith, whose fundamental teachings are far removed from fanaticism.
This grievous error by the US followed the playbook of Britain, which had propped up Wahhabism much earlier to create Arab disaffection with the Turkish Caliphate. Rather than curb the impact on the global Shia community of Khomeinist impulses, the sponsored war by Saddam Hussein on Iran made those variant wings, even while the Wahhabi International was empowered by US policy, to become the dominant strand in several locations worldwide.
The roots of 9/11 are in the terms of Carter and Reagan, but the US is not a country that examines its past except through tinted lenses. A substantial section of the polity in the US still believes that slavery was a boon rather than a curse to those enslaved, and blocks teachings that prove the opposite to be true.
Until he abruptly betrayed, first the Kurds to their fate at the hands of neo-Wahhabi Erdogan, and compounded that error by betraying the Afghan people and its government by negotiating a surrender to the Taliban, President Trump had sought to reduce the influence of Wahhabism in the Middle East.
Amazingly, the Biden administration has thus far continued with such disastrous policies, even while it has succumbed to the influence of Wahhabi elements and turned its back on reformist rulers in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere who had shown commitment in the existential battle being waged in that region between the Wahhabis and those fighting to recover the modernity and moderation, that the holy text on which the Muslim faith is based on explicitly states.
From 1979 onwards, efforts were made to re-interpret the holy text in a Wahhabi direction, an effort that for over a century had the backing of first London and subsequently Washington, as has been pointed out by several in the Middle East, including the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.
As for President Biden, he seems finally to have rid himself of at least some of the influence of the Wahhabi lobby while the conflict between Hamas in Gaza and Israel was ongoing this year, finally bringing himself to call the President of Egypt (who had arranged the cease-fire which ended the conflict, and for which the White House claimed credit). Thus far, he had refused to do so, thanks to the influence of religious supremacists in the US administration, who had looked on Biden as being a gullible tool in their game plan of turning back the counter-Wahhabi tide that is sweeping over so many Muslim-majority countries.
The Wahhabi International holds considerable sway over several leadership elements of both the Republican as well as the Democratic Party, and it is presumably this strand that was responsible for the sell out by President Donald J Trump to first Erdogan and later the Taliban, and the continuation of this disastrous policy by President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.
Unless Biden awakens to the security threat to the US through a takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban, his tacit "Mission Accomplished" claim of 2021, on ensuring that this tortured country will never again be a threat to the US homeland, will be found to be as hollow as the "Mission Accomplished" boast of President George W Bush in 2003, was shown by subsequent events to be.
Unless President Biden resets US policy on Afghanistan and fast, the error he made may come back to bite him even before the 2024 Presidential elections.
Such a reset needs him to work closely not with Pakistan but with India on Afghanistan, and through India with Iran. The Atlantic Alliance has been brilliant, at following the example set by Winston Churchill, after the 1939-45 war with Germany of writing its own history.
An example is Libya. Looking at texts and commentaries in the US or in the UK and France (the three that ensured the destruction of Libya as a functioning state), it would appear that the entire battle was between a tyrant (Muammar Gaddafi) and his people. Even his death, in which the intelligence services of a NATO member state played the keystone role, has been portrayed as entirely driven and guided by popular anger.
Had the US, France and the UK taken the precaution of reading some of the pamphlets written by several of those they backed with weapons, training and cash to finish off the admitted dictator and eccentric Gaddafi, they may have discovered that the reason for their hatred of Gaddafi was that he was not extreme enough for their tastes and that he was a lackey of the very powers that joined hands to finish him off.
That much is correct, as Gaddafi handed over his WMD stockpile to the members of NATO in 2003, just as Saddam Hussein in Iraq had destroyed (or shifted abroad) his own WMD stockpile in 1991, after the disaster in the subsequent war with the US, caused by his reckless and indefensible occupation in 1990 of his principal benefactor, the State of Kuwait.
Bashar Assad was the last individual to begin a process of destroying his WMD stockpile, beginning with chemical weapons, which soon afterwards appeared in several theatres and gave rise to charges that they were his, when in fact they had been handed over thanks to pressure from Moscow. Fortunately for him, unlike in the case of Libya, neither Russia nor Iran allowed the collapse of his regime and the termination of his life. After these examples, if any country (such as North Korea) hands over its WMD stockpile, to the very powers that have shown a propensity to intensify their attacks, on what they believe to be a defenceless entity, it would be because its entire leadership is ignorant of the history of the past three decades.
By its actions, the US, in particular, has brought down to an asymptote of zero, the chances for any country with significant WMD stockpiles, to hand them over to others unless defeated in war.
If the Taliban is securing additional territory in Afghanistan, through engineering the surrender of Afghan National Army troops, in the manner ISIS took over vast swathes of Iraq in 2014, the reason is lack of confidence in ANA elements about the sincerity of President Biden's commitment to ensure that its 300,000 soldiers are adequately equipped to defeat Taliban forces. Thus far, they have not been given anywhere close to the equipment they need to fight a force that Biden dismissed as hardly a challenge.
Fortunately for the 46th US President, the White House press corps did not ask why if that were the case, 600,000 US troops and $2 trillion of expenditure, could not in 20 years finish them off. The litany of errors is long, and it is unlikely that any replay of what took place in the Pentagon Papers will ever get done, much though such a study is needed.
The US needs India and needs Iran as well, a country that can be left to India to bring on board. Given the animosity of the Wahhabis to the Shia, it is unlikely that the elected government in Tehran will seriously believe in the protestations of the friendship of GHQ Rawalpindi and the Erdogan administration in Ankara. The problem facing them is the Sino-Wahhabi alliance, and the fact that Washington has by its policy of seeking to strangle the Iranian economy, made that country dependent on China.
Unless there is a return to common sense in Washington, and in its European partners who committed to the JCPOA in 2015, such dependence is unlikely to get reduced to a point, where Tehran is free to act in concert with Delhi and through it with Washington, in ensuring that the elected government in Afghanistan is rescued from the Taliban and the territory captured by that entity begins to be rolled back.
Only Afghan troops are needed in Afghanistan, not US or Indian forces. But Washington needs to keep supply lines flowing and India needs to train the ANA. Much of the training is already imparted in India. The combat training given by NATO forces (which have been defeated by the Taliban), is worse than useless, it is counterproductive.
Unless the US and the EU are willing to fund the government in Kabul enough to ensure its salience, many times that amount will need to get spent in the future, once the Taliban take control as they did in 1996 with the backing of the Clinton administration, presumably influenced by Zalmay Khalilzad, who at that time appears to have been a lobbyist for Union Oil Company of California and Unocal Corporation (Unocal).
Securing Afghanistan from the Taliban is key to ensuring that GHQ Rawalpindi ceases to run the government in Pakistan, but comes under civilian control. If this does not take place (and General Secretary Xi is working assiduously to ensure that it does not), the meltdown of Pakistan will be the next problem the Indo-Pacific alliance will need to deal with.
Before that, they need to ensure that the Afghan people be rescued from falling once again into the darkness of fanaticism. India is essential in this, the US and Iran being the other countries needed. The stakes are global.
It may be noted that the Russian Federation has not been included, in the list of countries between which partnership is essential for success against the return of Afghanistan as a base from which international terror organisations launch attacks, the principal targets remaining the major countries in the Atlantic Alliance.
Owing significantly to policy errors that date back to the Clinton administration and which were continued under successive administrations, Russia under Putin, has gone on to form the Sino-Russian alliance together with Xi. To expect Moscow to play a role helpful, not to its PRC ally, but to the democracies is to continue to function as though the past era were still extant.
Delhi has been slow in grasping this reality and the consequences for India, especially when it is confronting the Sino-Pakistan alliance within the country and on its borders. It is not only Washington that needs to adjust from living in the past to the realities of the present. The same goes for Delhi as well.
The evolution of the situation in Afghanistan will in time convince even the romantics among policymakers in Delhi that tectonic shifts have occurred in global geopolitics, beginning in 1990 and continuing to the present. Unless an understanding of the need to adjust policies to meet the exigencies of the present with solutions, relevant to the contemporary situation dawns soon, the situation in Afghanistan may before long be what it became for the Soviet Union in the 1980s and to the US since 2003, a cauldron of chaos that would pose a danger even to those countries that believe they are far away and therefore safe.
The first step to cure is to diagnose the sources of the disease and devise ways of eliminating them. Within the Indo-Pacific, that role in the case of Afghanistan, falls mostly on President Biden and Prime Minister Modi.
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SOME WORDS BY THE PRESS
"The highlight of the program was the first performance of three (choral) works by James Cohn, to texts by Ogden Nash. They proved to be indescribably funny. Mr. Cohn has technical skill, an inventive musical imagination, a flair for setting text to music and a sense of humor. All these qualities are as rare as they are admirable. "It is hoped that we will hear from Mr. Cohn soon again." ~ The NEW YORK TIMES
"Mr. Cohn's opus (Variations on "The Wayfaring Stranger", premiered by Paul Paray and the Detroit Symphony) proved to be spectacularly appealing. The Variations run the gamut of human emotions with delightful solo lines… It was a superb performance of a superb work." ~ THE WINDSOR (ONT.) STAR
"Cohn's Symphony (No. 3) is an eminently attractive one which makes its claim on the attention with the opening phrases and sustains the interest throughout the performance and comes as a refreshing experience in modern music." ~ DETROIT FREE PRESS
"I am an unabashed fan of the music of James Cohn… Thus I was excited by the prospect of a new clarinet concerto (No. 1)… and I was not disappointed. It is melodic and charming, without sounding old-fashioned or stuffy… Cohn seems not to mind writing music that one can enjoy, and I applaud him for it." ~ AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE
"Imagine: here is contemporary music that is easy to listen to and enjoyable, with infectious good humor and high spirits." ~ AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE
"James Cohn's music is light and gay yet thoroughly classical; the wind music has something of the spirit of Parisian wind pieces, but with a distinctly American flavor." "Chief characteristics are brevity, wit and clarity; Cohn's melodies are charming." ~ FANFARE
"The six works on this disk ( James Cohn - Concertos & Tone Poems) are high on charm and craftsmanship."
~ CLASSICS TODAY.
"Cohn's music, on this new album (Naxos Release) is thoroughly, romantic in spirit, full of waltzes and light-hearted romps." (Symphonies #2 & #7, Variations on the Wayfaring Stranger & the Waltz in D). "The Waltz in D, coming at the end, is like a "slice of key lime pie coming after a wonderful meal."
~ AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE – September/October, 2008.
"Listeners attuned to tuneful, jazzy, audience-pleasing fare are sure to like the music of James Cohn" in this new XLNT release "Of Muskrats & Butterflies" (Two Piano Sonatas, his Piano Concerto, 9 Miniatures & 4 smaller pieces – performed by the "always superb Mirian Conti."
Cohn moves easily into and out of ragtime, tangos, boogie-woogie, blues and waltzes, "just the thing for assuaging the pain of inspecting your latest 401K statement." ~ AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE - March/April 2009.
"Given the evidence supplied by these two releases, "Of Muskrats & Butterflies" XLNT Music, Inc. & Symphonies #2 & #7, Variations on the Wayfaring Stranger & the Waltz in D (Naxos), it is apparent that James Cohn takes great delight in his music making. As a result, so can we." ~ William Zagorski – FANFARE – May/June, 2009.
COHN Symphonies: No. 7;1 No. 2.2 Variations on "The Wayfaring
Stranger."3 Waltz in D, op. 29a4 • Vakhtang Jordania, cond;1, 3 Kirk
Trevor, cond;2, 4 Slovak RSO • NAXOS 8.559376 (65:53)
COHN Miniatures. Variations on "Muskrat Ramble." Piano Sonatas: No. 2; No. 5 (A slightly "blue" sonata). Americana. Waltz in D. Strutting Butterflies. Piano Concerto1 • Mirian Conti (pn); Vakhtang Jordania, cond; Latvian Natl SO1 • XLNT 18012 (69:02)
James Cohn was born in 1928 in Newark, New Jersey. He studied composition with Roy Harris, Wayne Barlow, and Bernard Wagenaar, whose conservative and largely tuneful influences are writ large in his music. The two symphonies demonstrate fine motivic development, resourceful and appealing harmonic structure, long-limbed melodic arcs in their slow movements, and stunning orchestration. It is clear that Cohn revels in the sonic possibilities of the orchestra and exploits them with uncommon mastery and delight, as if his favored medium were a vast musical playground. Variations on "The Wayfaring Stranger" depends as much upon its orchestral colors as it does on its harmonic manipulations for its success. The result is 11.5 minutes of gratifying and often hauntingly moving music.
Cohn is fully at home in large-scale forms. Both symphonies—No. 7 composed in 1967, No. 2 in 1949—show a remarkable uniformity of utterance. This stems not from any lack of technical or emotional development over time, but from the strength of Cohn's musical profile. One cannot mistake a Cohn work for that of anyone else. In sum, both works continue the mid-20th-century efflorescence of the American symphony, and do so with distinction. The Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, variously under Vakhtang Jordania and Kirk Trevor, provides incisive, vibrant, and beautifully balanced performances.
The nine Miniatures, composed shortly after Cohn's graduation from the Juilliard School of Music in 1950, demonstrate his mastery of scale. As the symphonies can be likened to novels, these Miniatures can be likened to poems—each a self-contained musical universe. The apt titles of some of these pieces—Variations on "Muskrat Ramble," 5th Piano Sonata (a slightly "blue sonata"), Strutting Butterflies—show both Cohn's sense of whimsy and his love of jazz, which organically permeates much of the music on this disc. The main offering is the ebullient Concerto for Piano and Orchestra. It was commissioned by pianist Mirian Conti, who plays it, as she does everything else on this release, with absolute technical security and total sympathy with its stylistic diversity, which ranges from jazz to tango. The melancholy little Waltz in D is the same piece—first conceived as an octet for brass instruments, then scored for a small orchestra, and finally worked into the solo piano piece found here—encountered in its orchestral garb on the Naxos disc. I found Cohn's reworking of the tasty musical morsel illuminating.
The Naxos disc was recorded back in 2001. I am assuming that it was first released on the XLNT label. The XLNT release was recorded in 2008. In both cases, Cohn served as executive producer, and in both cases the sound is uncommonly fine. The Naxos disc is particularly distinguished by its clarity of line. No instrumental voice is lost even in the most powerful and complex of tuttis, the dynamic range is huge by current standards, and instrumental colors are tangibly vivid.
Given the evidence supplied by these two releases, it is apparent that James Cohn takes great delight in his music-making. As a result, so can we. ~ William Zagorski Fanfare - May/June, 2009
JAMES COHN: Symphonies Nos. 2 (1949) & 7 (1967); Variations on "The Wayfaring Stranger" (1960); Waltz in D (1957/1962) - Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra/ Vakhtang Jordania & Kirk Trevor (Sym. 2 & Waltz) - Naxos Worthwhile works of an American composer who has Naxos to thank for the exposure the major labels have failed to give him.
JAMES COHN: Symphonies Nos. 2 (1949) & 7 (1967); Variations on "The Wayfaring Stranger" (1960); Waltz in D (1957/1962) - Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra/ Vakhtang Jordania & Kirk Trevor (Sym. 2 & Waltz) - Naxos American Classics 8.559376, 65:53 ****:
Cohn celebrated his 80th birthday this year. He graduated from Juilliard in 1950, having studied with Roy Harris, Wayne Barlow and Bernard Wagenaar. Most of his works are for symphony orchestra, although he has written three string quartets, five piano sonatas and much choral music. His music is usually tonal and often highly lyrical, with jazz elements occasionally heard in it.
The composer was still a student when he wrote his Second Symphony, studying with Dutch composer Wagenaar. It's third movement is based on a serial tone row, but used in a highly emotional fashion, similar to Berg. The Seventh is a longer work - nearly a half hour - and full of great contrasts in its themes: between thoughtful and explosive and between formal and nearly hysterical. Cohn's Variations uses the Southern folksong popularized by Burl Ives for a series of 12 variations. The short and tuneful Waltz was created for a brass octet and then later orchestrated by Cohn.
The Slovak Radio Symphony, founded in 1929, has become an internationally known concert ensemble and tours frequently. The sonics are high quality and communicate well the very worthwhile works of this American composer who has Naxos to thank for the exposure the major labels have failed to give him.
~ John Sunier Audiophile Audition
There is something about the combination of piano, violin and clarinet that brings out playfulness and lighthearted humor in composers. James Cohn's Trio Con Brio, written in 1995, is a three-movement work with a welcome absence of jazzy inflections. Rather, it incorporates themes reflective of carnival music, square dances and childlike melodies — the first movement frolicsome, the second beginning with a cortegelike theme and the last, Allegro Deciso, a charming romp that, at its end, returns to the beginning theme. New York-based composer Cohn, now in his 80th year, was in the audience and received enthusiastic acknowledgement from the audience and the performers. ~ Cape Cod Times
The Seventh Symphony by Newark-born James Cohn – and for that matter the Second - is in four movements. The first of these is busily insistent and has about it a touch or two of Hindemith and Prokofiev as does the piping hot finale which suggests the influence of Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra. The Allegro cantabile is an exercise in pastoral calm – a rustic cross between his teacher Roy Harris and Copland and RVW. The salty Piston-like grotesquerie of the third movement is amusingly disquieting.
The Second Symphony is a later student work written while he was studying with Bernard Wagenaar as a Juilliard graduation piece. The piece won a Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians Prize. Its first movement charms with grace but enlivens with a hard-jawed urgency. Bartók's concerto returns in echo in the second movement and also in the busy originality and carhorn blurt, blare and military brashness of the finale. Serial procedures inhabit the third movement but as ever this is accomplished with great textural transparency.
The Variations on 'The Wayfaring Stranger' deftly explores the country pastoral and is initiated by a long-winding cor anglais solo. The piece is cut from the same misty serenity as Vaughan Williams' Dives and Lazarus and Moeran's rhapsodies yet with a distinct Percy Grainger lilt. The Variation were premiered by Paul Paray with the Detroit Symphony who had also introduced Cohn's Symphony No. 3 to the public.
The little Waltz in D sidles and nudges its way into the memory. It merits a place next to the eruptive Grand Era dances in Barber's Souvenirs and just ever so slightly recalling Ravel's La Valse – just with less impressionistic miasma.
The recording is as clear as a bell and the orchestra puts the music across well allowing for a suggestion of shrillness in the violins. The woodwind own a direct presence and appear to lean in towards the listener.
One is certainly left intrigued to hear the remaining six symphonies. In addition there are three string quartets and five piano sonatas. Among much else there is also an opera, The Fall of the City premièred in Athens, Ohio, after winning the Ohio University Opera Award.
Most pieces in these discs are fairly short, perfectly proportioned and all superbly crafted, so that the music never outstays its welcome. This often unpretentious and good-natured music is most refreshing and attractive. Moreover, the concertos display a remarkable resourcefulness (particularly evident in the Concertina Concerto), as do the somewhat unusual Sonata Romantica Op.18 (for double bass and piano) and the Sonata Robusta Op.55 (for bassoon and piano). Listening to these beautifully made pieces often had me thinking of Poulenc, Ibert and Sauguet, which – I think – gives a fairly good idea of what the music sounds like. Add to this, the not infrequent quotations of American hymn tunes or folk songs, which brings the composer into the orbit of American composers such as Copland or Thomson. Now, of course, I would really like to hear the symphonies for a fuller assessment of his achievement.
~ Rob Barnett - MusicWeb International.
"Witty and well-crafted music." "Cohn's orchestral music ( James Cohn - Concertos & Tone Poems) is well structured, warmly tonal and rich in grace and wit" ~ GRAMOPHONE"
The orchestration (A Song of the Waters) is brilliantly satisfying, and the performance leaves one wondering why this has not yet become an Americana concert hall standard. This album (James Cohn - Concertos & Tone Poems) stands as a solid introduction to the works of American composer James Cohn, which will hopefully serve as a vehicle to introduce more people to his impressive catalogue of compositions.
~Jane Ellen - Composer/Performer/Reviewer
There seems to be an unmistakable and attractive American breadth and flavour to this music, not difficult to place as mid-century, and rewarding in the sound craftsmanship and spirit. ~ Patric Standford - "Music and Vision" U.K.
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Q: RobotFrameWork with Eclipse - SSHLibrary doesn't seem to do anything. (based on book: Practical Security Automation and Testing) I am studying in the book: Practical Security Autmation and testing.
on page [124] there is a script which uses RIDE with the SSHLibrary.
But I'm using Eclipse, so I tried to install it.
pip install wheel
pip install --upgrade robotframework-sshlibrary
did the trick, now you can start editting the .robot script.
I made it till the point: (so it is different from the book, but this works for Eclipse)
*** Settings ***
Library  SSHLibrary
*** Variables ***
${HOST_URL}  http://demo.testfire.net
${output}=  Execute Command  python sqlmap.py -u ${HOST_URL} --batch --banner

*** Test Cases ***
SQL Injection Testing
  Should Not Contain  ${output}  vulnerable

Now the problem is: it says 'passed' but when I alter the host_url  in something I'm sure of it should fail it also says 'passed'.
in other words: it doesn't seem to check or do anything.
I don't know what I am doing wrong here. need help.

A: You are not executing the command at all - keywords cannot be called in the Variables section. This line here
*** Variables ***
${HOST_URL}  http://demo.testfire.net
${output}=  Execute Command  python sqlmap.py -u ${HOST_URL} --batch --banner

will just create a string variable with that content. Move it inside the case (or in a keyword of its own)
*** Test Cases ***
SQL Injection Testing
    ${output}=  Execute Command  python sqlmap.py -u ${HOST_URL} --batch --banner
    Should Not Contain  ${output}  vulnerable

A: I mixed the content of page 124 and 126 (of book: Practical Security Automation and Testing)
there is an error on page 126. The code at the ride image is actually that of the RBFW one.
this is how it turns up without errors:
*** Settings ***
Library  SSHLibrary
Library  Collections
Library  String
Library  RequestsLibrary
Library  OperatingSystem

*** Variables ***
${HOST_URL}  http://demo.testfire.net
${url}  http://demo.testfire.net
${SpiderScan}  http://localhost:8090/JSON/spider/action/scan/?zapapiformat=JSON&formatMethod=GETurl=${url}&maxChildren=&recurse=&ontextName=&subtreeOnly=

*** Test Cases ***
SQL Injection Testing
  Get Connection    host=http://demo.testfire.net
  ${output}=  Execute Command  python sqlmap.py -u ${HOST_URL} --batch --banner
  Should Not Contain  ${output}  vulnerable

ZAP Spider Scan
  [Tags]  get skip
  Create session   ZAP  ${SpiderScan}
  ${resp}=    Get Request     ZAP   /
  Should Be Equal As Strings    ${resp.status_code}    200

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Kelly Giacobbe has called Buffalo home for most of her life. She became a licensed Real Estate sales person in 2017. Before finding her way into real estate, Kelly earned her Series Seven license and worked as a financial advisor for several years. She then transitioned into selling orthopedic equipment to surgeons for several more years, before having her two children. Kelly and her family love to spend as much of their free time as they can outdoors. They can often be found riding their bikes around western New York, skiing and horseback riding.
Kelly's approachable personality, patience and understanding of the challenges in buying and selling a home help to make your experience in buying or selling your home as easy as possible.


Merle Navis, 92, Waupun, passed away Saturday, Jan. 5, 2019, at The Christian Homestead in Waupun.
Merle was born July 26, 1926, near Brandon, the son of John and Genevieve Greenfield Navis. On Aug. 27, 1948, he married Evelyn Vant Hoff in the town of Alto. The couple farmed in the town of Alto most of their married lives. Merle's passion was his family and farming. His social life revolved around playing cards with family and friends. Merle was heavily involved with 4-H as a leader, the Alto Fair and the Farm Bureau. He was a member of Alto Reformed Church and served as elder and deacon. He sang in the men's chorus, church choir and sang solos and duets with his son, Mark, accompanied by Evelyn. He took great joy in being around his children and grandchildren. Merle was a veteran of the U.S. Army and served during World War II.
Merle is survived by four children, Sandy (Richard) Whisler of Lake Mills, David Navis of Muncie, Indiana, Mark (Lana) Navis of Waupun, and Shelly (Bob) Andrews of Farmington, Missouri; 12 grandchildren, Tyler Vande Zande, Laura (Richard) Beddingfield, Amanda (Jeff) Cihak, Michael (Tiffany) Navis, Heidi (Seth) Braker, Alyssa (Ben) Homan, Ben and Andy Navis, and Bobby, Katherine, Jake, and Kaylin Andrews; 10 great-grandchildren; and a sister, Ardell (Art) Nicolas of Hartford.
Merle was preceded in death by his wife, Evelyn; a son-in-law, Gary C. Vande Zande; brothers, Glenn Navis and Howard Navis; and a sister, Pat Redeker.
A funeral service will be held Saturday, Jan. 12, at 11 a.m. at Alto Reformed Church with the Rev. Kevin Van Wyk and the Rev. Doug Shotsky officiating. Burial will follow at Alto Cemetery. Friends and relatives may call on the family Friday at Werner-Harmsen Funeral Home in Waupun from 4-7 p.m. and Saturday at the church from 10 a.m. until the time of service. American Legion Post 210 of Waupun will provide military honors.


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8VC Venture Cup 2016 - Final Round
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F. Island Puzzle
A remote island chain contains n islands, with some bidirectional bridges between them. The current bridge network forms a tree. In other words, a total of n - 1 bridges connect pairs of islands in a way that it's possible to reach any island from any other island using the bridge network. The center of each island contains an identical pedestal, and all but one of the islands has a fragile, uniquely colored statue currently held on the pedestal. The remaining island holds only an empty pedestal.
The islanders want to rearrange the statues in a new order. To do this, they repeat the following process: first, they choose an island directly adjacent to the island containing an empty pedestal. Then, they painstakingly carry the statue on this island across the adjoining bridge and place it on the empty pedestal.
It is often impossible to rearrange statues in the desired order using only the operation described above. The islanders would like to build one additional bridge in order to make this achievable in the fewest number of movements possible. Find the bridge to construct and the minimum number of statue movements necessary to arrange the statues in the desired position.
The first line contains a single integer n (2 ≤ n ≤ 200 000) — the total number of islands.
The second line contains n space-separated integers ai (0 ≤ ai ≤ n - 1) — the statue currently located on the i-th island. If ai = 0, then the island has no statue. It is guaranteed that the ai are distinct.
The third line contains n space-separated integers bi (0 ≤ bi ≤ n - 1) — the desired statues of the i-th island. Once again, bi = 0 indicates the island desires no statue. It is guaranteed that the bi are distinct.
The next n - 1 lines each contain two distinct space-separated integers ui and vi (1 ≤ ui, vi ≤ n) — the endpoints of the i-th bridge. Bridges form a tree, and it is guaranteed that no bridge is listed twice in the input.
Print a single line of integers:
If the rearrangement can be done in the existing network, output 0 t, where t is the number of moves necessary to perform the rearrangement.
Otherwise, print u, v, and t (1 ≤ u < v ≤ n) — the two endpoints of the new bridge, and the minimum number of statue movements needed to perform the rearrangement.
If the rearrangement cannot be done no matter how the new bridge is built, print a single line containing - 1.
In the first sample, the islanders can build a bridge connecting islands 1 and 3 and then make the following sequence of moves: first move statue 1 from island 1 to island 2, then move statue 2 from island 3 to island 1, and finally move statue 1 from island 2 to island 3 for a total of 3 moves.
In the second sample, the islanders can simply move statue 1 from island 1 to island 2. No new bridges need to be built and only 1 move needs to be made.
In the third sample, no added bridge and subsequent movements result in the desired position.


What I love about eating in London.
I visit London fairly regularly and food is always a big part of that. There's just so much choice and so many amazing places to eat. Whenever I make plans to do something in London – shopping, the theatre, etc – I always make sure I take time to figure out the best places to eat near to where I'm going. I probably get as excited about that as I do about whatever it is I'm going to London for in the first place!
In a couple of weeks, I'm going to London with my very best friend, to visit three Christmas markets. In one day. That might seem excessive to some, but I love Christmas markets. Really, I'm just being efficient by fitting as many as I can into one day. You can be sure that there will be plenty of food being eaten that day. (It's OK, I've planned to have that day off plan and I already know how I'll get back on track).
You're just spoiled for choice when it comes to eating in London, right? Christmas markets are no exception. The food is probably the thing I love most about Christmas markets. I love walking around all the stalls, enjoying all the amazing smells and finding different types of food to try (or finding my old favourites to endulge in!). The atmosphere is so festive and wonderful and eating food out of paper wrappers or cardboard plates is one of my favourite things, when I'm not on plan.
I'm talking Bratwurst from the Bavarian Village at Winter Wonderland, cheese boards and mulled wine by the river at Southbank and festive sweets at Leicester Square – I just can't wait to enjoy everything all three Christmas markets have to offer. All the walking will work it off, right??
There are so many restaurants to choose from. I love that you can turn a corner in London and find any kind of food you could think of. Fast food restaurants just a stones throw from fine dining establishments is not something you will find in many places, but it's completely normal in London!
I love that we can travel to London, hop on the tube and rock up to somewhere like Leicester Square or Covent Garden (to name just two of my favourite places to visit – Leicester Square has M&M World, so what's not to love?) and find the perfect place to eat, whatever we're in the mood for.
I'm sure there are other cities that offer a wonderful selection of amazing places to eat. Please do feel free to tell me all about them in the comments below. After all, the UK is full of great cities.
But nowhere beats London for me.


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We're delighted to announce that Joel Dommett, widely recognised from BBC 3's Impractical Jokers, will be joining us at our comedy club evening this Friday at Marine Hall.
Sadly due to family circumstances Iain Stirling has had to drop out of the show, however we are really pleased to be welcoming Joel to the night.
Joel has had a hugely exciting career since starting stand-up comedy in 2007. He was the face of MTV in 2012 and presented their daily news bulletins. He also worked on the live new Channel 4 aftershow, Live in Chelsea, How to Survive a Disaster Movie (Channel 5) and the hugely successful Impractical Jokers (BBC3).
Joel is one of the fastest rising stars on the UK comedy circuit having gained rave reviews for his debut solo Edinburgh show, Neon Hero, in 2011 and second show 'Nunchuck Silver Medallist 2002' in 2012.
Joel has since performed stand up on Russell Howard's Good News on BBC Three and has numerous acting credits to his name, including Popatron on BBC Two and Skins on E4.
Joel will be joined on the night by Alfie Brown, plus support act Tommy Rowson and MC Mark Smith.