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Putting Their Parties Back Together
2016 Overview - With big wins in New York last week fueling them now, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are on track to win their Party's nomination this July. The central story in US politics these next few months will be how each of them puts their parties back together after what has been a contentious primary season. The challenges for Trump and Clinton are different, and perhaps can best be summed up by the national polling aggregate graphs from the Huffington Post below.
Today, Hillary Clinton has an insurmountable lead in delegates and has essentially won her nomination, but Democratic voters remain remarkably split between her and Bernie Sanders. For Clinton, putting her party back together will revolve heavily on the perception of how Sanders and his followers are treated, both at a national level and in every state. Given the success of the Sanders campaign against overwhelming odds, and his very high standing in the polls, many Sanders backers will be expecting to play a meaningful role in the emerging post Obama Democratic Party. Accommodating the Senator, his many delegates and his followers, will be a fundamentally difference process than the successful Obama Clinton rapprochement in 2008. The defeated Senator then was a professional politician with future ambitions, and the Clinton world knew how to fall in line and get on board. We simply cannot expect the same from Sanders and Sandernistas across the country. Many are new to politics, and come at the process with a degree of contempt for the system. For Clinton 2008 was a "loss." For Sanders 2016 will be seen by him and his supporters as a "win." Additionally, that there is such a wide held perception that the DNC and "the Party" improperly intervened on Clinton's behalf in the primary renders the Party, its Chair and the Convention itself a far less effective tool for reconciliation than is usual.
The team around Clinton is a sophisticated bunch, and I am confident they will be able to make all this work. But the constant references to one finds on social media to "we got on board in 2008, your turn," while perhaps comforting to Clinton supporters, is not now, and will not be a compelling argument to the very different sensibility of the Sanders world.
Trump, on the other hand, is in a less advantageous delegate position today than Clinton but does not face the kind of popular alternative Sanders has come to represent. It is possible that if a more attractive and less extreme alternative to Trump had emerged in the primaries than Cruz, Trump could have been beaten. But it didn't happen, and as one can see from the graph above, recent polling has Trump gaining and his two opponents losing ground. In some ways he enters this next phase in a more dominant position than Clinton, as he has doesn't have a real opponent any more. Yet, his party is far more deeply fractured than the Democratic Party, and putting it back together would be an extraordinary challenge for any nominee, let alone one without political experience. What will make Trump's job a bit easier is that he is not really at odds with his party on the big issues, arguing for big tax cuts, an interventionist foreign policy, a hard line immigration agenda, climate denial and rolling back Obamacare. He is perhaps louder, more boorish and less experienced than more establishment Republicans, but the ideological distance between him and Paul Ryan may be closer than the one between Clinton and Sanders today and thus easier to bridge than many realize.
The Pick of Vice President - The choice of Vice President will be an important step in this process of putting the party back together for both Clinton and Trump. I still think Senator Tim Kaine has the edge on the Democratic side – swing state, Spanish speaker, Catholic, former Party Chair, good guy, principled thoughtful national leader. He will help reinforce the "steady hand on the rudder" narrative that will contrast well with Trump this fall. But given my analysis above, will also be interesting to see if a nod to the next generation would be appropriate this time, with folks like Cory Booker and Julian Castro getting an extended look. Regardless of who Clinton picks, it would be wise for her to make a group of emerging, compelling Democrats – Cory Booker, Julian Castro, Tulsi Gabbard, Joe Kennedy, Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom for example – co-chairs of the Democratic Convention this summer. Something significant will have to be done to excite and engage younger Sanders supporters. Celebrating our inspiring next generation of leaders, the ones who will inherit the party after the age of Clinton, Reid and Pelosi, would be one savvy step in this effort.
For Trump, there is one pick that seems to make so much sense that I have to believe it will happen soon – Ohio's John Kasich. He brings delegates to help wrap up the nomination. He brings unparalleled government experience to complement Trump's inexperience. He hails from the swingiest of general election states, and the site of the GOP convention. He will be an effective bridge to the "GOP establishment." Given the events of recent days the cost of this deal clearly has gone up for Trump, but assume these talks are already well underway. There is just no one else who brings more to the ticket now than Kasich, and getting him to come on board will be of the most important tests of whether the Trump makeover has any chance of succeeding.
Further Reading - Two good reads from the last few days on this next phase of the process - The New York Times's Adam Nagourney "Can Clinton Feel the Bern?" and Politico's Gabriel Debenedetti's "Sanders Caught in a Political Trap."
Consequential Days Ahead
2016 Overview – As we discussed last week, the central question in the Presidential race now is whether Clinton and Trump can use the late April states to reestablish control over their nominating contests. Both are polling well in New York (April 19th), and on April 26's "Super Tuesday" of Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. If the polls hold, both Trump and Clinton will enter the final month of primaries in very dominant positions, raising questions about whether their opposition can or should continue. So there is a lot riding on the outcomes of these late April states.
On the Democratic side, the margin in New York will matter. Polls have Clinton with double digit leads. Recent states have found Bernie overperforming public polls, however, and in other large states like Michigan and Wisconsin without other contests Sanders has been able to close very strong. My guess is that the final outcome will be closer to mid single digits than 15 points. But whatever it is, the final margin tomorrow night will be important for setting the stage for the five states voting next week.
How Do Dems Make Peace? If Clinton does as well as is expected over the next week, calls for Sanders to drop out will get very loud. Clinton needs Sanders and his spirited following for her general election campaign. How will the peace be made? What can Sanders show his supporters they got for their remarkable run? Greg Sargent of the Washington Post wrote a few pieces on this matter last week, suggesting that at least one partof the deal could be the Democrats' adopting significant changes in their own party nominating process at the July convention. Among the things Sargent says that could be considered are eliminating caucuses, establishing an independent process to schedule debates, opening up primaries to independent voters, limiting the number of states that can vote on any given day and more. His pieces are well worth a read, and offer some smart thinking about the road ahead.
Is Trump getting a makeover? Perhaps the most interesting development in the Presidential race is the apparent rebooting of the Trump campaign. Shaken perhaps by unexpected losses, inadequate political preparation, legal challenges for his campaign manager and historically high disapproval ratings, it appears that Mr. Trump is in the process of professionalizing his campaign. This is a deeply pragmatic step, both by him and his party. He is still the likely nominee, and Republicans need to do everything they can to salvage his candidacy as a blowout this year will do particular damage to Rs across the country. With long time establishment figure Paul Manafort joining the Trump campaign, it will now become acceptable for others to follow, justifying it as "good for the party." This sensibility will eventually extend to Trump's choice for Vice President. If offered, the pressure on folks like Kasich, Walker and Rubio (all named by Trump for his shortlist) to join the Trump ticket, "for the good of the party," will be immense. And my assumption is that one of them will indeed hop on board.
Whether all of this will be enough to make the general election competitive given the damage Trump has already done to his brand of course is the big question. But remember, for the GOP, there is a huge and consequential difference between Trump losing with 48% of the vote, and losing with 45 or 44%. One early sign of this makeover will be in how Trump handles his victories over the next week. Will there be a change in tone? Style? Language? Worth watching.
Can the Frontrunners Reassert Control?
2016 Overview – The later part of April provides both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton the opportunity to reassert degrees of control over their nomination battles. Both frontrunners are polling well in the upcoming contests – delegate rich New York on April 19th, and then April's "Super Tuesday" of Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island on April 26th. . This is a welcome stretch of favorable terrain after what has been a tough few weeks for both candidates.
In a recent column, I discussed how Trump's refusal to embrace a modern and complete campaign – fundraising/bid budgets, paid advertising, grassroots organizing, delegate operations, etc – was a potentially fatal mistake. At some point, many have believed, the improvised, impulsive, free media driven Trump start up of 2015 was going to have to mature into a real organization in 2016 if he were to take advantage of the opportunity he had given himself. Over the past few weeks Trump has begun to pay a real price for his stubborn decision to run his effort on the cheap. He gave a series of terribly ill-advised interviews which reinforced how unprepared his was for the Presidency of the most powerful nation in the world. In Colorado this past weekend, he lost every delegate at the statewide convention to Ted Cruz, soon after losing almost all of the delegates in North Dakota and just two months after getting out-organized by Cruz in Iowa. This morning Trump even admitted his own children had missed the registration deadline to vote for him in New York next week. These kind of "can he play this game" mistakes are further driving the GOP establishment/party professional class away from him, a dynamic that is becoming so powerful that it could not only deny him enough delegates at his Convention, but create a sufficient public rationale for finding an alternative to him in Cleveland even if he recovers his standing and ends the primary with a string of victories.
Secretary Clinton faces a different set of challenges. Whereas Trump's problems are largely of his own making, the Clinton campaign is facing a far more spirited challenge from Bernie Sanders than almost anyone could have predicted. The Sanders campaign has dramatically outraised the extraordinary Clinton fundraising machine this quarter, won 8 of the last 9 contests, and appears to have pulled even in national polls with the Secretary. Whether all of this is enough to catch Clinton in the upcoming run of states where she has, according to early polling, meaningful leads, we will find out soon. The Clinton camp can find solace in that many of the remaining states have "closed" primaries, meaning only Democrats can vote. This will blunt the Sanders advantage with independents. Unlike Trump, she is likely to cross the delegate threshold needed to win the nomination in June. Additionally, the Sanders campaign has made a series of significant public missteps in the last few weeks, reminding us, perhaps a bit like Trump, of his own inexperience of playing the game at this level.
The Sanders camp, on the other hand, will find solace in that in many recent contests he has over-performed against the public polls, some by dramatic margins. No colleges are on break this month, unlike March, which is another thumb on the scale for Sanders. And of course he has the momentum from his remarkable wins of late, most notably his 14 point win in Wisconsin last Tuesday. All of this makes the Sanders Clinton debate on CNN this Thursday night the most important debate so far for the Democrats.
Sanders, Cruz closing in national polls - A close read of recent national polling shows a changing race in both parties. On the Democratic side, six new polls found two Sanders' leads, two slight Clinton leads and two with bigger Clinton leads. Four of the six found the race essentially tied. Using the Huffington Post poll aggregator, the Clinton lead is now 2.5 points, 47.8 to 45.3, down from 11-12 points from just a month ago. On the Republican side, Trump now leads Cruz by just 9 points, 41 to 32, down from 18 points, 42 to 24, just a month ago. Looking at the charts below, you can see that in each the slope of the lines indicates that public opinion in the race is moving rapidly right now away from the frontrunners. Will it be enough? Can Trump and Clinton use these coming states to recover their momentum? We will see.
Source: http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster
Sanders, Cruz Soldier On; A Year of Opportunity for Democrats?
If current polling holds tomorrow night and Cruz and Sanders prevail in Wisconsin, it will give them a vital boost heading into a very important stretch where the terrain looks less favorable for them – New York on April 19th and then the Northeastern "Super Tuesday" of Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island on April 26th. Polls from the past few days show Trump with large leads in these late April delegate rich contests, while Clinton retains about a 10 point lead in New York. So while each frontrunner may take another hit this week, April could be the month where both Trump and Clinton finally put their race away.
Having said that, these last few weeks have been challenging ones for both frontrunners. Sanders racked up big wins in recent states, and had another impressive record breaking fundraising month in March. Video of Clinton in an angry exchange with a voter got her off message this week, and the campaign has yet to really find its footing again. Recent Trumpian interviews with the Washington Post and New York Times have been disastrous for him, reinforcing not just his radicalism and misogyny but his extraordinary ignorance of global and domestic affairs. Polling showing him slipping behind Cruz in Wisconsin raises questions about whether we are beginning to see evidence of a broader Trump weakening (Tues am - NBC/Survey Monkey finds evidence of some Trump slippage this week). I remain unconvinced that Cruz or Kasich at this point are strong enough or capable enough to take full advantage of a potential Trump stumble, and am keeping my money on the one with the hair to prevail outright on the 1st ballot in Cleveland.
As of press time, the Sanders and Clinton campaigns had not resolved their differences to settle on a date and place for a promised 9th debate. This is an unfortunate occurrence, as people voting in April, May and June deserve their own fresh debates. I put the blame for this debilitating squabble squarely on the DNC (Democratic Party), whose original, inadequate schedule had the last English language debate taking place on February 11th, when only 2 of the 50 states would have voted. Remarkably, when confronted with the inadequacy of the schedule, the DNC repeatedly ruled out adding any additional debate beyond this early February one, suggesting that DNC expected/wanted the primary to end in March not June. The reason these debates are negotiated upfront, long before the voting begins, is to avoid exactly what is happening now – in the heat of battle both the Sanders and Clinton campaigns are having to spend time negotiating with one another (no easy thing), and fighting this out in the media rather than talking about the issues that will drive the fall election. That we are even talking about this at this point is a sign of the extraordinary mismanagement of the debate schedule by the DNC this cycle (Tues am - the two sides agreed to next Thursday, April 14th for a Brooklyn debate).
A Year of Opportunity for Democrats? Several reports this week signaled that the election could be shaping up to be a year of opportunity for Democrats. A new report from Gallup found Party ID starting to break open for Democrats, moving from 42/42 in October to 46/40 today. (see the graph below). Gallup's daily track of the President's approval rating, a key shaper of broader public opinion, has been consistently finding Obama in the low 50s, even hitting 53% this past week. Both the 46% Party ID and 53% Presidential approval are highs for the President's second term, and suggest a very favorable environment for the Democrats this fall.
A new poll by Stan Greenberg's Democracy Corps found similar movement toward Democrats, away from the Republicans and early indications that key elements of the Democrat coalition have begun to become far more engaged in the election. House specific questions yielded similar results, suggesting that the movement towards Democrats we are seeing could extend below the Presidential level. As my own recent analysis of this year's electoral map showed, Presidential success for the Democrats in 2016 is likely to have a disproportionate impact on the battle for the Senate and House, potentially even putting the House in play.
Despite the rancor of this tough political year, it could very well be that these numbers reflect the public giving credit to the President and the Democrats for a job well done. Millions more are working today, and wages have begun to tick up; annual deficits are a third of what they were, and interest rates remain low; the President's health care reform has insured 20m people in just its first few years and health care costs have slowed; the global energy paradigm is changing in ways good for the planet and the United States; and while the world remains a challenging and difficult place, far fewer Americans are dying today than during the previous President's terms, diplomacy has been introduced into the Middle East, the President has advanced a far reaching plan for Asia anchored in his hard fought TPP, etc. Much has gone right these past 7 years, and the country is stronger for it. There can be little doubt that this record of achievement will be used effectively by many Democrats this fall to help draw a stark contrast with a generation of ineffectiveness and ideological extremism on the other side.
So, yes, this data is early, and much can happen. But every election takes on a specific set of characteristics as the cycle unfolds. And at this point, there is a growing body of evidence that this could be a year of enormous opportunity for Democrats to not just win the Presidency but to make up valuable ground lost in the very tough 2010 and 2014 midterms.
A Very Good Week for Bernie Sanders; Our Creaky Democracy
The unpredictable 2016 race gave us some new twists and turns last week as Bernie Sanders won 6 of 7 contests by shockingly wide margins – 82/18, 79/20, 78/21, 73/27, 70/30, 69/31 (incl Democrats Abroad). As many of these states were small and did not award many delegates, the essential trajectory of the race hasn't changed – Clinton still holds a commanding lead. To date she has won 56% of the delegates allocated through voting, and retains a strong lead over Sanders in most national polls. But these convincing wins give Sanders and his team a powerful rationale to soldier on through what will be a busy April:
April 5 – Wisconsin
April 9 - Wyoming
April 19 – New York
April 26 – Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island
The nature of the April schedule is going to be very consequential to both the Sanders and Clinton campaigns. Sanders has done far better on days when fewer people were voting, using the power of his campaign/message to make significant gains (think MI on 3/8 or these last round of states) against the natural name ID advantage Clinton has wielded effectively, particularly on the two Super Tuesdays, March 1st and 15th. The first three April states are one on one contests, which have historically played to Sander's advantage. New York, however, is a closed primary (no independents), and the Clinton brand remains awfully strong in the Big Apple. But it is the final batch of states on April 26th which may indeed be Bernie's last stand. He has not performed well on these big Tuesdays, and if Clinton can come close to replicating her previous Super Tuesday performances it could end the race once and for all.
Alternatively, if Bernie can surprise in Wisconsin and New York, April 26th could be a day of enormous opportunity for the spirited Sanders effort.
Given Bernie's need for name ID in these large contests in late April, it should be no surprise now that the two campaigns have now begun to squabble about the previously agreed upon April debate. Debates matter in American politics, and one should not underestimate the power of debates to help insurgents gain recognition and support. A far superior GOP debate schedule has yielded 186m viewers, and helped power a telegenic insurgent, Trump, into a commanding lead. On the Democratic side, a late and poorly designed debate approach has yielded just 66m viewers, denying the Democrats' plucky insurgent national air time that could have made a difference for him, particularly in those Super Tuesday states where he just did not have the time or money to compete in so many states simultaneously. So watch this week for news on this new round of debate over debates, and be sure to see our report on the debate audiences so far.
As for Trump, it is belief he is going to win the Republican nomination. I will spend more time on Trump next week, but at this point I just don't see how Trump isn't the GOP nominee.
Our Creaky Democracy – We've seen it all these last few months – no paper ballots in Iowa, preventing a recount in an historically close election; 5 hour waits for voting, and far too many people leaving lines because they couldn't wait any more; voters denied the ability to vote due to new draconian "Voter ID" laws being implemented for the first time; and the absurdity of "caucuses," which guarantee a very low turnout even in a Presidential campaign. We are long overdue for a big national conversation about how to update our democracy for a new century – look for more from us on this in the coming days. The US must be an exemplar for the very best election practices, and we have a lot of work to do to get there in the years ahead.
Trump and Clinton Look Unstoppable Now; Some Thoughts About the 2016 Map
2016 Overview - Yes, there are scenarios where Clinton and Trump could come up short this summer. But they are increasingly unlikely, even remote. A Trump Clinton match up looks assured now, and what a titanic battle it will be.
Over the next week Democrats will vote in six states, Republicans four. The frontrunners are likely to lose some states in this patch. The nature of the states gives Sanders a bit more of a "comeback" opportunity, so there could be some drama this week. But it is also an opportunity for Trump and Clinton to re-assert their control over their nominating processes.
I spent some time recently looking ahead to a fall Clinton Trump matchup. A lot is unknown at this point but we do know a few important things: Clinton is consistently over 50 percent in the early match ups; Obama's approval rating is now up in the high 40s, low 50s, a critical development in the race; the Electoral College Map still favors the Democrats; and on the big issue – can Trump flip enough white men to put the Rustbelt in play? - there just isn't a lot of evidence yet that he can (and more here). For more on the fall, I recommend these good, early pieces from Dan Balz, Ron Brownstein and Greg Sargent.
The 2016 Electoral Map – New House rankings from the Cook Report now suggest that there is at least a mathematical possibility the Democrats could retake the House (they would need to win 30 of 31 targeted races). A bit surprised by this, I spent some time with the 2016 map and Cook's rankings of all the Federal races. Using the Cook rankings (with one change - I moved AZ Senate into Tossup/Lean GOP), I came up with the following cheat sheet and thoughts about a possible expansion of what has been a very small Presidential map for Democrats:
Presidential 10-15
Dem Hold (10) - CO, FL, IA, NH, MI, NV, OH, PA, VA, WI
Dem PickUp (3) – AZ, GA, NC
Dem Watch (2) – MN, NM
Senate 8-11 (Dems need to pick up 7 seats net for a majority)
Hold (2) – CO, NV
PickUp 1st Tier (8) – AZ, FL, IL, NC, NH, OH, PA, WI
PickUp 2nd Tier (2) – GA, IA
House 37 - (31 Dem PickUps and 6 Holds, 30 net needed for majority)
AZ (2), CO (1), CA (4), FL (5), IL (1), IA (2), ME (1), MI (2), MN (2), NE (1), NH (1), NJ (1), NV (2), NY (6), PA (1), TX (1), UT (1), VA (2), WI (1)
Key Takeaways - In 2016 there is remarkable overlap between the Presidential and Senate target states. 9 of the 10 top tier Presidential states also have priority Senate races (and Dems are trying to make the 10th, Iowa, competitive at the Senate level), whereas only 3 of the Presidential states in 2012 and 2008 also had competitive Senate races. This overlap offers the national Democratic Party coordination opportunities that could produce enough economies of scale to free up resources to expand the national map. Why is this important? It has my belief that in the Obama era the national Party has not taken enough responsibility for winning elections beyond the very small number (10) of states in each of the last two Presidential cycles. Expanding the map as we discuss below will not only help the Democrats win the Senate, but now that the House is mathematically in play, maximize gains in the House (and of course help at the state and local level too).
The counter of course is that it is too risky to spread limited resources too thin. Hunker down, the argument goes, weather the Trumpian storm, win the Presidency, remake the Supreme Court, etc. But this is an unusual electoral map offering unique opportunities this year; Trump as GOP nominee ensures substantial resources allowing Democrats to consider going on offense; and if successful, could allow Democrats to not just win but have a chance of getting some of their agenda through Congress next year. Let's look at two highly leveraged expansion paths:
Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina– Each of these longer shot Presidential targets also have targeted Senate races, and given where the polling is today in the Senate, it would be wise for the Democrats to put more races in play. There are questions whether any Southern state is open to the Democrats with Trump on the top of the ticket, but more will be known about this soon. Arizona looks particularly attractive this time as early polling has both the Presidential and Senate races as toss ups; there are also two Congressional seats in play; and Hispanics could be motivated by a ballot that may have both Arpaio and Trump. It should be noted that in 2008 team Obama ran a serious well funded campaign targeting Hispanics in nearby states with similar Hispanic populations - CO, NM and NV - turnout increased between 30 and 63%. Given where the polling is now, the first ever well funded and sophisticated Hispanic effort lead by the nominee could turn Arizona into a purple, lean blue state, as we've seen in other states with large Hispanic populations where the national party has invested.
Adding these three states would leave only the Illinois Senate race outside the national Democratic Party map and solely up to the DSCC to manage - though Illinois natives Obama and Clinton might have something to say about that.
California and New York - The map also suggests that the national Democratic Party and nominee should consider mounting some kind of coordinated effort in both New York and California. 19 of the 37 targeted House seats fall within the expanded 13 state map. 10 more fall in New York and California. Mounting targeted campaign in NY and CA to drive up turnout – something no national Democratic party has done in decades – could help put 10 more House seats in play. This means 29 of the 37 target House seats would fall under the national coordinated campaign's reach, leaving only 8 of the 37 House races and solely up to the DCCC. This kind of coordination and leverage would be unprecedented in recent national politics, and could make the difference not only in the Democrats winning the White House, but in flipping the Senate and getting the House very very close.
So the national party strategy could look like:
National Party Coordinated Strategy
Pres/Senate (10) – CO, FL, IA, NH, MI, NV, OH, PA, VA, WI.
Expansion 1/Pres P/U and Senate P/U (3) – AZ, GA, NC.
Expansion 2/Maximize House Impact – 17 targets in core 10 Presidential states, 19 in expanded map. 10 more in CA, NY.
Expansion 3/Presidential Watch (2) – MN, NM (states closer than expected in 2012).
Will the nominee and national Party expand the national map, taking advantage of unprecedented economies of scale and highly leveraged opportunities specific to this cycle? I hope so.
Oldie But Goodie - "In this election cycle the Republican's angry war against modernity has escalated and appears to have become institutionalized. It is almost as if the more the world moves away from the simplicity of the Reagan moment the more angry and defiant – and of course wrong – the Republican offering is becoming" - Simon Rosenberg, "Forward, Or Backward?" September, 2012
More on the 2016 Election - Our tally of the Presidential primary debates audiences which finds the GOP far outperforming the Dems; the Democratic bench is stronger than it appears; Clinton should become a champion of political and electoral reform; thoughts on the "children of Reagan;" my in-depth interview with conservative author Matt Lewis on what the GOP can learn from a generation of reform and success on the center-left; my long form magazine piece on the descent of the GOP into a reactionary mess, anticipating the rise of Trump; Rob Shapiro on Trump's economic plan and the crackup of the GOP.
Tuesday May Be The Last Day to Stop Clinton, Trump
Consequential Voting Tomorrow – Both parties face meaningful elections tomorrow, the second "Super" Tuesday of the 2016 race for President. 5 big states vote – Florida, Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio. The polls are close in enough states that we really don't know what is going to happen. And after polls missed so badly last Tuesday in Michigan, it would be wise to question whether inexpensive polls of large states can accurately capture a volatile and unpredictable election every time.
Having said that, the likely outcome tomorrow is Trump and Clinton win enough delegates to keep the march to their nominations on track. The big questions tomorrow: can Sanders replicate his big Michigan win, and prevail in the Midwestern states of IL, MO and OH to offset Clinton's likely wins in FL and NC? And can anyone defeat Trump outside of Ohio? A lot of the spin tomorrow night will depend on many states Clinton and Trump win, and whether it appears they are weathering their challenges, or being weakened by them.
As we gather tomorrow night to watch the results come in, keep two stats from Sanders' Michigan win in mind: he won the white vote 57/42, and received 30% of the African-American vote. If he can keep those margins in the coming states, he will do well tomorrow night. If not, will be a good night for Secretary Clinton.
Successful Insurgents - Regardless of what happens tomorrow night, we have to take a moment to reflect on the success of the three insurgent newcomers to the national political stage – Cruz, Sanders and Trump. Running for President is no easy thing, and for the three of them – with very limited national political experience – to get this far against experienced and talented opponents has been remarkable to see. To me it speaks to the power of the "system is broken" narrative each of them are carrying in their own way this election, a narrative so powerful that it is propelling these candidates far beyond where anyone believed they would go. I've discussed the need for Hillary Clinton to adopt a more direct narrative around this sentiment in previous columns, and have several quotes addressing the issue in Ryan Lizza's thoughtful new piece in the New Yorker.
The loss of faith in "establishment politics" here in the US is very similar to what we are seeing in Europe today. Is it a crisis of the "West" itself: an end to 20th century politics here and in Europe?; something passing, something grave? Commentators here and in Europe should be spending more time exploring the similarities of what we are experiencing today, as indeed the challenges appear to be similar in scope and scale. A new piece by the very able Alex Seitz-Wald of MSNBC reminds us that none of the remaining 4 leading candidates for US President support the Trans-Pacific Parternship, an ominous sign for the global order indeed.
No One Should Be Surprised By The Rise of Trump – Over the past few months, I've written a lot about the rise of Trump, even predicting this summer he would win the GOP nomination. I share two recent excerpts from my weekly column which help explain why no one should be surprised by the power of the Trump candidacy with Republicans:
GOP in full freak out over Trump (3/7/16) – While the GOP's attacks on Trump escalated this past week, most notably in Mitt Romney's high profile speech, I find these protestations a bit hard to take. Where exactly does Trump differ from the current GOP "establishment?" He is for large unfunded tax cuts which would drive up deficits and harm the economy; repealing Obama's health care plan; a militaristic foreign policy; and for getting the 11m undocumented immigrants to leave. Even on trade, hard to argue that he is all that different right now from the Washington Republicans refusing to vote on the President's hard fought TPP deal. The differences between the Romney and Trump approaches are far more about style and biography, and far less about their governing agenda. Donald Trump is very much a creation of modern Republican politics, and one can understand how worrisome that is to so many on the right.
But let's be clear about one thing – if you don't think exploitation of racial fear hasn't been at the center of Republican politics for 50 years now, you just haven't being paying attention. So Trump's new found dominance in the GOP, particularly when his two remaining opponents, are, dare we say it – Hispanic! – should be no great surprise to anyone.
Strength of Reactionary Forces in GOP Not News (2/24/16) – Hard to know the exact date when reactionary forces began to truly assert themselves in the modern GOP. You could argue these sentiments were there from the beginning, congealing around Nixon's Southern Strategy and its response to the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts. We could look to Bush's "Willie Horton" ads in the 1988 Presidential campaign, which put a black man who had raped and murdered at the center of the national debate. You could point to 2005 and the emergence of the Minutemen, and the GOP House's passing of the Sensenbrenner Bill, which called for the arrest and forced deportation of all 11m undocumented immigrants in the US. Perhaps it was in Barack Obama's ascent to the Presidency in 2009 and the rise of the Tea Party. Or in 2015 with the forced abdication (self-deportation?) of Speaker Boehner just months after he gave the GOP their biggest House majority in 80 years. As I wrote in my long form magazine article in Letras Libres in late 2012, whatever date you cite you could see this descent of the modern GOP into a reactionary, angry mess coming for years now. What it lacked was a charismatic leader to pull it altogether from an inchoate jumble of grievances into a coherent, compelling argument and movement. Well, in 2015 that leader emerged. Donald Trump.
More on the 2016 Election - Our tally of the Presidential primary debates audiences which finds the GOP far outperforming the Dems; why it is time to take Trump seriously; the Democratic bench is stronger than it appears; Clinton should become a champion of political and electoral reform; thoughts on the "children of Reagan;" my in-depth interview with conservative author Matt Lewis on what the GOP can learn from a generation of reform and success on the center-left; my long form magazine piece on the descent of the GOP into a reactionary mess, anticipating the rise of Trump; Rob Shapiro on Trump's economic plan and the crackup of the GOP.
Sanders and Cruz Live to Fight Another Day
Trump, Clinton still lead, but Cruz and Sanders not going away – Both Cruz and Sanders did well enough this weekend (Sanders won 3 states to 2 for Trump and Cruz, 1 for Clinton and Rubio) that their campaigns live to fight another day. Mathematically, however, Clinton is in better shape than Trump at this point; and there is some evidence now that the extraordinary attacks on Trump by Mitt Romney and others these past few weeks have begun to slow his momentum.
"Little Marco" Rubio appears to have missed his window of opportunity, and continues to underperform just about everywhere. John Kasich has picked up important endorsements and impressed on the debate stage. But it just feels too late for him, as the extraordinary investments made by more establishment Rs in Bush and Rubio has left him with very little time, and money. Finally, his "Midwestern nice," low-key demeanor seems ill-suited to in this particular election to allow him to emerge as a legitimate challenger to the more electric Trump and Cruz.
Each party has another debate this week, and there are big, delegate rich states voting between now and March 15th – FL, IL, MI and OH among others. So, we will know an awful lot more about this race on March 16th, and whether Sanders or Cruz can sustain a serious challenge in what amounts to the second half of the primary season that runs from mid-March through June early June. I for one hope the campaigns go on into the spring. If they end in March, almost 40% of the country will not be able to cast a meaningful primary vote this year. And as I've written elsewhere, it is becoming far too common for big chunks of the country to not be able to cast a meaningful vote in our national elections, a contributor no doubt to the distance many are feeling from Washington and our country's politics.
Cruz and Sanders will remain in the race as long as their public rationale for winning the nomination remains convincing enough to keep the money coming in from their supporters. As a Democrat, I remain impressed and surprised by what a strong campaign Sanders has run, and that he has been able to hold his own on the national stage with Secretary Clinton. These long primary fights are important times for parties to regenerate, test messages, revisit old fights, and innovate on tactics and media. A remarkable new ad from the Sanders campaign is one of those bright spots in this long, hard slog, as he and his team are clearly stretching, reaching deep to try to keep up with the formidable Clinton camp. It is well worth watching.
GOP in full freak out over Trump – While the GOP's attacks on Trump escalated this past week, most notably in Mitt Romney's high profile speech, I find these protestations a bit hard to take. Where exactly does Trump differ from the current GOP "establishment?" He is for large unfunded tax cuts which would drive up deficits and harm the economy; repealing Obama's health care plan; a militaristic foreign policy; and for getting the 11m undocumented immigrants to leave. Even on trade, hard to argue that he is all that different right now from the Washington Republicans refusing to vote on the President's hard fought TPP deal. The differences between the Romney and Trump approaches are far more about style and biography, and far less about their governing agenda. Donald Trump is very much a creation of modern Republican politics, and one can understand how worrisome that is to so many on the right.
The establishment, however, should be equally worried about Trump's lack of a traditional campaign as they are about his blustery manner and foul mouth. Building a national campaign in this day and age is like building a start-up company – you grow the company by doing, by trial and error, by learning from what works and what doesn't. It takes time to get it right, to learn the terrain of this particularly year, to adapt the latest media and data techniques in a rapidly changing communications environment, to have your team gel into something bigger than themselves. And it takes time. You are seeing both the Clinton and Sanders campaigns improve and grow as they move into terrain and voting groups beyond the early small states, raise money, do their debates, produce their ads, etc. Trump has in essence yet to start building his campaign. He isn't raising money in large amounts, isn't spending a lot of money, isn't producing a lot of paid media and appears to not have invested a lot on the ground in the states so far. It is hard to me to imagine given the national deficits he has now against Clinton and Sanders for him to win in the fall without a full-on modern campaign. Which means that he will have to start building it from almost the ground up starting in a few months, putting him at a significant organizational disadvantage to a far more experienced and capable Democratic presidential political operative class. He just won't be able to muscle through the general the way he has the primaries. And this is a real problem indeed for the GOP and Trump who are likely to enter the general behind the Democrats and their incumbent President's impressive 51% approval rating.
This theory will be tested over the next ten days. Cruz's strong showing this weekend and some other polls showing signs of Trump slippage in key states could be early signs of Trump beginning to meaningful weaken. A normal, well-funded campaign would respond with a big positive ad buy to maintain their edge and prevent erosion. If the Trump campaign does not do this in the next few days very loud alarm bells should be going off in GOP land about Trump's ability to fund and run a modern campaign.
A new poll of Michigan reinforces how little room for error the GOP has this fall. As I wrote last week, the likely 2016 map for the GOP offers a very narrow path to victory. They will have to flip a few states northern Rustbelt states like PA, MI, OH and WI to have a shot. This new Wall Street Journal/NBC poll (very credible source) of Michigan found both Sanders and Clinton with significant leads:
Clinton 48% Cruz 41% Sanders 54% Cruz 36%
Clinton 52% Trump 36% Sanders 56% Trump 34%
As the demographics of these other Rustbelt states are not that different from Michigan's, these are sobering numbers for the GOP indeed. And for Sanders too - this poll has Clinton leading him in the Democratic primary 57-40.
Heading into Super Tuesday, Trump and Clinton Remain in the Driver's Seat
This week's Monday Musings memo finds Trump and Clinton still in the driver's seat, with each appearing to have a very commanding lead in their Party's fight for the nomination. Both are doing well in the Super Tuesday states, and while neither may win every state it is hard to see how their current path to victory gets dramatically altered tomorrow. Let's drill down a bit:
Democrats – The most important polling we've seen these last few days is in Massachusetts, where two different polls in this Sanders must-win state show Clinton ahead. If Clinton denies Sanders in CO, MA, MN and OK tomorrow very hard to see a path for victory for him, despite what is shaping up to be a record setting fundraising month for his spirited campaign. Clinton continues to improve and grow on the stump, becoming ever more comfortable in the language and terrain of this challenging campaign in an unsettled time.
An issue we've been raising for months – the enthusiasm gap – has gotten a bit more attention this week. See this piece from Zach Carter in the Huffington Post, and this from Rachel Maddow. Our latest debate audience tally has the GOP now at 158m for their ten debates, and the Dems at 55m for six. The difference remains vast, and worrisome.
Republicans – I move on this morning to the general election for a bit of a reality check on the Trump insurgency. Using the 2012 Obama map as a guide, it shows how challenging it will be for Mr. Trump to win. Assuming NY, NJ/New England and all the southwestern heavily Hispanic states remain out of reach for him (and that is without Arizona, which could be in play for Dems this time), he has to take 63 electoral college votes from either the 83 in IA, MI, OH, PA, VA, WI or the 112 if Florida is in play. Of these states if Dems hold PA and FL, they only need to win one other of the five remaining states to win. In some of these states there are 2016 specific winds blowing the Democrats' way: in Michigan, the Flint water scandal has weakened the Governor and his party; in Wisconsin, the incumbent Senator Ron Johnson is being routed by his opponent Russ Feingold, and Scott Walker is no longer the same strong governor after his washout Presidential bid; in Pennsylvania, the Democrats were able to reclaim the governorship in 2014 and will have their convention there; and in Virginia, one knows that the current governor, Terry McAuliffe, one of Hillary Clinton's closest allies, will move heaven, earth and maybe more to get Hillary elected (and there may be a Virginian on the ticket). The path for Mr. Trump is challenging indeed.
It should also come as no surprise that when the choice for Republicans narrowed these three – a nationalistic Anglo and two Hispanics with recent immigrant roots – we discovered that the Hispanic candidates had a very low ceiling and the Anglo started grabbing most of the remaining outstanding votes. Was just too much of a leap for a party that could produce Trump to end up going for Cruz, or Rubio, who has, so closely identified with his Hispanic immigrant roots.
Another worry for the Republicans this fall is the unusual campaign Trump has run. As he hasn't raised money, put folks on the ground and bought television ads, he and his team will not have had the experience of working through all this in the primaries as most campaigns do. It means that he if begins to put on the trappings of a traditional campaign, which one will assume he will need to do against the Democrats this fall, he will be doing it all for the first time, reducing his chances of doing it well. Perhaps he can muscle through the general as he has the primary, but the Democratic Presidential machine has won more votes than the GOP 5 of the last 6 elections, is very modern and sophisticated, and has a built in electorate college advantage. Trump's refusal to learn and build a traditional campaign apparatus means he will have fewer tools at his disposal in what will be a tough election this fall.
Rubio and the "children of Reagan - In a 2014 post-election memo, I discussed the significance of the rise of the "children of Reagan" to national prominence in the GOP. Marco Rubio has started using this phrase in his campaign, and even cut an ad with it last week. Learn more about the idea behind the phrase here.
A note on the coming "GOP crackup"- Last week I wrote about why the rise Trump should be no great surprise. But I want to add one more observation to what is certainly one of the bigger stories in the campaign this year.
Looking back over the past generation of American politics, perhaps the starkest difference between the two parties is that Democrats have produced two successful Presidents, and the GOP have given us what were in essence two failed Bush presidencies (we cover this in a different memo here). There simply is far more reason for Republican voters to be angry at their establishment, for it has been almost 30 years since GOP voters have had a leader who they could be truly proud of; and in that time, the analysis goes, the failures of the GOP allowed the Democrats to bring far too much lasting change to the nation. It is literally astonishing that in the past year the House Republicans deposed a Speaker who had given them their largest majority in almost 80 years, and that the three remaining Republicans in the Presidential have all run explicitly against a failed GOP establishment. The "crack up" is much bigger than Trump, and where it goes and what it means very hard to tell right now.
Frankly, the nominees of both parties this time are going to have a harder time putting it all back together again than is typical in US politics.
More on the2016 Map - The emerging 2016 map makes the Dems choice of Philadelphia for their convention look more prescient now, while strengthening the case for Senators Cory Booker and Tim Kaine for Vice President. On the GOP side, the map suggests a northern Rustbelt or Florida VP strategy for Mr. Trump, putting Governors Christie, Kasich and Walker at the top of the list, with Senator Rubio perhaps a bit of a long shot. Will be talking about this more in the months ahead.
"Monday Musings" is a new column which looks at the national political landscape and is published most Mondays here on the NDN site. You can find previous columns here. It also appears each week on the U.K. progressive site,Left Foot Forward.
Taking Trump Seriously
2/26/16 - The Washington Post's Greg Sargent refers to this memo in his very smart new piece on Christie's endorsement of Trump today. It is very much worth a read.
Some hastily tossed together observations the morning after Trump's huge win in Nevada:
Strength of Reactionary Forces in GOP Not News – Hard to know the exact date when reactionary forces began to truly assert themselves in the modern GOP. You could argue these sentiments were there from the beginning, congealing around Nixon's Southern Strategy and its response to the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts. You could point to 2005 and the emergence of the Minutemen, and the GOP House's passing of the Sensenbrenner Bill, which called for the arrest and forced deportation of all 11m undocumented immigrants in the US. Perhaps it was in Barack Obama's ascent to the Presidency in 2009 and the rise of the Tea Party. Or in 2015 with the forced abdication (self-deportation?) of Speaker Boehner just months after he gave the GOP their biggest House majority in 80 years. As I wrote in my long form magazine article in Letras Libres in late 2012, whatever date you cite you could see this descent of the modern GOP into a reactionary, angry mess coming for years now. What it lacked was a charismatic leader to pull it altogether from an inchoate jumble of grievances into a coherent, compelling argument and movement. Well in 2015 that leader emerged. Donald Trump.
The Risks of Trump - The risks for the GOP in embracing Trump are most easily found in the new voter registration numbers in California. Twenty years after Pete Wilson took on the immigrants in California, the Republican Party is on its way to minor party status. Dems hold all statewide offices in California now and large majorities in both houses. By 2020 unaffiliated voters will outnumber Republicans, and for all intents and purposes the GOP will cease to exist in California. That this could be replicated across the country is of course the GOP's nightmare scenario.
Will McConnell and Ryan Act Before the Trump Storm Hits? Will be interesting to see if GOP Congressional leaders move on a few important priorities for them - tax reform and TPP come to mind - prior to Trump assuming total control of the party this summer.
But Can He Win The General? – It is my belief that Democrats should be more worried than they are about Trump. The Rs are putting up big numbers with their debates and with turnout in the early states, indicating their voters are very excited and engaged. Democratic turnout and debate audiences so far are off their 2008 pace, and are trailing the Rs now. While early and not predictive, these are not good signs for Democrats.
Will be possible perhaps for the Democrats to really motivate Hispanic, African-American, women and progressive voters scared of Trump this cycle, and if Obama plays the role Bill Clinton played in 2012, perhaps Millennials too. The Hispanic opening could cause the Democrats to go all out in Arizona and even Texas, and will be interesting to see how Florida breaks given Trump's long presence there (and that many Hispanics there are not of Mexican descent and do not immigrate to the US). But the real demographic question is whether Trump can break through in the Rustbelt states that have been so critical to recent Dem Presidential victories but which have trended significantly towards the GOP in recent years. An early sign of this comes in the new Quinnipiac poll of bellwether Ohio which finds Trump, Rubio, Cruz and Kasich all ahead of Hillary Clinton even while she holds a 15 point lead over Sanders in the Democratic Primary. My assumption is Trump will try to get a Kasich or Walker on the ticket with him, bringing on a well regarded Midwestern/Rustbelt GOP governor to double down on this regional approach, help with managing the government itself while reaching out to the more establishment parts of the GOP (who knows if any reasonable person will take the job).
The Broken System - There are many different things going on with Trump, which is one of the reasons he is growing as he plows through the GOP primary. Trump is no single issue candidate, and his "Make America Great Again" slogan is powerful and artfully integrated into his narrative. One strain of Trump that I think Democrats have to really come to understand better is his basic argument about he has gotten things done in the real world; that political elites are ineffective, corrupt and have left the nation down; and the system is so broken it needs an outsider "do guy" like him to come in and fix it. Democrats should not underestimate the appeal of this argument, and it is one reason I've been so vocal about the Clinton campaign developing a more compelling narrative around how she is going to bring fundamental change to Washington.. The last three Democrats to get to the White House - Obama, Clinton and Carter - all ran against the system. She will have to at some point too (and this does not mean distancing herself from Obama who is still in the high 40s and holding his own).
Put me in the don't keep underestimating Trump camp. My assumption is that he will make a very formidable candidate in the general election, and the demographic impact of his candidacy is not yet well understood. This thing could be a blowout for the Dems, and he could become the Pete Wilson of the national GOP. But sure would be a mistake to assume weakness now from him and not political acumen and strength. Could be that this time it is the Rs are who "fired up and ready to go." For Democrats in 2016, it is far better to plan for the worst rather than hope for the best. Time to take Trump seriously.
Apology to Sanders folks - I've written this piece as if Clinton will become the nominee. I promise to write a new version with Sanders as the nominee after Super Tuesday if he can put up good numbers in CO, MA, MN and OK.
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DOJ Casts Wide Net in its Tricare Investigations
By Nick Oberheiden May 6, 2016 Criminal Defense
While Tricare, the health insurance program for U.S. military personnel, veterans, and their families, stopped paying for specialized pain creams supplied by compounding pharmacies in May 2015, efforts by the Department of Justice ("DOJ") and a number of other federal agencies investigating allegations of Tricare health care fraud have continued to swing into high gear.
The DOJ isn't just going after pharmacies. For example, in March 2016, federal officials announced the arrest of Texas marketing executives whom the DOJ said had crafted an elaborate scheme involving a fictional medical study and fake grant payments. Tricare said it was bilked out of $65 million. A DOJ press release indicated that it was the first indictment in North Texas resulting from the Department's large-scale Tricare investigations.
DOJ Alleges Kickbacks
The DOJ's alleged, among other things, that the two marketing officials paid kickbacks to various physicians for the compounded prescriptions that they wrote. In turn, according to the recently unsealed indictment, DOJ alleges that various pharmacies paid kickbacks to the marketing executives.
Texas Case Shows How Wide a Net the DOJ is Casting
Compounding pharmacies became DOJ targets when Tricare data showed that spending on compounded creams (and similar medications) increased from $23 million in fiscal 2010 to $1.7 billion for the first nine months of fiscal 2015. Among the factors that lead to the increase, some say, was effective television advertising – some featuring retired NFL players – that would have made ad man, Don Draper, envious.
The indictment of the two Texas marketing executives shows that the DOJ is also quite willing to apply initial pressure on one or two tangential defendants, in an attempt to snare a larger group. Additional charges allege that a compounding pharmacy, and one or more physicians, were part of the scheme that included filling prescriptions written by physicians who were not licensed in the states where Tricare beneficiaries resided. According to the allegations, physicians spent less than two minutes on the telephone with the patient before writing the out-of-state prescriptions.
Those Investigated Face an Avalanche from DOJ
Most pharmacies, physicians, nurses, and other health care providers are ill-prepared for the avalanche of information requests, allegations, and attention that can come their way if they become a target of a health care fraud investigation. While they likely coordinate their activities, it is not uncommon for the DOJ to contact a firm, then only to have the Drug Enforcement Agency, or the FBI make further contact later.
Aggressive Defense in DOJ Investigations and Inquiries is Crucial
The federal government has an army of specialized attorneys and other experts at its disposal. The DOJ relies on computer analytics that can lead it to make false accusations. In order to mount a successful defense to a Tricare or other health care fraud investigation, you need the same kind of competent experience on your side. The penalties are severe, and in some cases, the DOJ need not even show that a violation was intentional.
Oberheiden, P.C. has successfully represented clients in all sorts of federal fraud proceedings, including Hospice and Medicare Fraud. Among the firm's attorneys are former federal prosecutors who understand the system and what it takes to develop a successful defense strategy. Located in Dallas, Texas, the Oberheiden, P.C. is a team of lawyers and courtroom warriors. The firm has the resources to provide the best defense possible. If you choose to work with us, we will use our decades of experience to help protect your vital interests. To start building your defense today, call (800) 701-7249 or contact us online now.
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Looking for an American band whose only album was released in a British prog label
Thread: Looking for an American band whose only album was released in a British prog label
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The name just escapes me: there was a early seventies band, either from New York or New Jersey, whose only album was only released in one of the elite prog labels of the time. I thought it was Vertigo, but I didn't find them on their lists. I know they were mentioned with a five star review in one or Record Collector's magazines retrospectives on prog or proto prog rock and their album is fantastic, kind of a similar style -I would say- to Blue Oyster Cult and the like, but included keyboards in their mix. The singer had a rough voice, a la Captain Beefheart or the Edgar Broughton Band.
Found it. Haystacks Balboa, from 1970. The band included Leslie West's brother.
Koreabruce
Chuncheon, South Korea
Thanks for finding it and bringing it to our attention. Really cool album!
Sturgeon's Lawyer
...blattid...
I hear some definite Zappa influence in there, plus Moodies and maybe a bit of ITCotKC
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400 Bahraini Shia students in prison with launch of academic year
The founder and president of the Bahrain Teachers' Association (BTA), and assistant Secretary General of the Arab Teachers Union, Mahdi Abu Deeb, said "while students wear their school costumes, carry their school bags and go to their schools, there are 400 students that are detained and deprived from the right to education."
His comments came on his Twitter account with the onset of the new academic year, as he called on students to exert utmost efforts in the next academic year, telling them, "you are our future, our hope, and we believe in you."
Mr. Abu Deeb noted that schools will open on Sunday to welcome tens of thousands of students at the beginning of the new academic year, hoping that they will not suffer from the woes that the country had plunged itself into, and whose impact was apparent in the field of education.
Abu Deeb, who spent five years in prison, said "we have teachers that are detained, and there aren't any competent institutions to defend them."
In addition, he confirmed that it is the government's full responsibility to overcome all hardships for the sake of the right to education, rather than create hardships. Therefore, "each detained student is in their protection as long as they are detained."
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Q: Getting a error for creating a app in react I uninstalled both visual studio code and node js. Restarted machine. Installed again both visual studio and node js. But the problem is there.
PS D:\React> npm create-react-app myapp
Usage: npm <command>
where <command> is one of:
access, adduser, audit, bin, bugs, c, cache, ci, cit,
clean-install, clean-install-test, completion, config,
create, ddp, dedupe, deprecate, dist-tag, docs, doctor,
edit, explore, fund, get, help, help-search, hook, i, init,
install, install-ci-test, install-test, it, link, list, ln,
login, logout, ls, org, outdated, owner, pack, ping, prefix,
profile, prune, publish, rb, rebuild, repo, restart, root,
run, run-script, s, se, search, set, shrinkwrap, star,
stars, start, stop, t, team, test, token, tst, un,
uninstall, unpublish, unstar, up, update, v, version, view,
whoami
npm <command> -h quick help on <command>
npm -l display full usage info
npm help <term> search for help on <term>
npm help npm involved overview
Specify configs in the ini-formatted file:
C:\Users\ee209495\.npmrc
or on the command line via: npm <command> --key value
Config info can be viewed via: npm help config
[email protected] C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm
A: Have you installed create-reat-app previously?
npm install -g create-react-app
Also, you can use npx so it would be using latest npm version
npx create-react-app my-app
A: You first need to install create-react-app package globally
npm i -g create-react-app
create-react-app my app
or alternatively you can use npx to always use the latest version of CRA
npx create-react-app my-app
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Speechmatics unveils Universal Time Alignment system
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Speechmatics releases Universal Time Alignment, our language-independent forced-alignment service to match words in text files to their counterparts in audio files, accurately and automatically delivering improved content discoverability, in any language!
The R&D team at Speechmatics have used their deep learning expertise to create a highly accurate and automated system for aligning audio to text. By synchronising audio to text, Universal Time Alignment can be used for the creation of closed captions and subtitles, indexing archives and enriching human generated transcripts with extra metadata that would usually be carried out laboriously by hand. In an industry where metadata and searchability is becoming increasingly crucial, time alignment offers a simple and very cost effective way of making audio, video and text searchable across any language.
To create Universal Time Alignment we extracted elements from our modular speech recognition technology, re-engineered them for the purpose and added additional alignment specific technology based on our machine learning expertise and experience. As a result we have created a system that is not only robust and accurate, but crucially able to cope with any language in the world.
"Any language in the world" was not quite specific enough as Dr Tom Ash (Director of Speech Recognition at Speechmatics) found out – "when we told the commercial team it would work with foreign languages, we were confident that we would cope with the French and German broadcast and telephony they were intending to throw at the system. However, when they discovered that we had successfully time-aligned 14th century Italian epics and the works of Chinese poet Xu Zhimo, even they were surprised."
Speechmatics' Universal Time Alignment system is a game changer in an industry that has long suffered from over-promise and under-delivery. This technology is a big step in helping bring the efficiency savings of these technologies to more difficult audio. There are still many cases where audio quality is too low for traditional ASR to add value or save time in the workflow. However, for the cases where a human transcript has to be created, time alignment can now be used on the human transcript to add further value, reduce the cost of human time stamping and aid discoverability.
We encourage everyone to visit our site at www.speechmatics.com/register to see for themselves how we can help content owners and transcribers extract the most value from their audio and video inventory.
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Powers Resource Center CEO Named 2020 'Woman to Watch' by ColoradoBiz Magazine
The award recognizes Colorado women CEOs, startup founders and strategists who are making an impact in every industry, enterprise and workplace as they inspire the next generation of women in business.
DENVER, CO, July 23, 2020 /Neptune100/ — Powers Resource Center, a Boulder-based employee engagement, talent development and leadership training company, is proud to announce that its CEO Tara Powers was named a '2020 Woman to Watch' in the current issue of ColoradoBiz Magazine (see page 46). The award recognizes Colorado women CEOs, startup founders and strategists who are making an impact in every industry, enterprise and workplace as they inspire the next generation of women in business.
As an expert in virtual work and the author of Virtual Teams for Dummies, Working From Home for Dummies (to be released September 16, 2020), and founder of virtualteamschool.com, Powers has had a busy year supporting the new remote workforce during the coronavirus pandemic. As she discusses in the ColoradoBiz Magazine article, "we knew the new world of virtual work was coming, but we never expected it to happen overnight."
To continue to support remote workers, PRC launched the Remote Teams Virtual Coach App, which uses patented behavior-change technology to create custom, event-based learning. A demo of the app, is available here: https://virtualteamschool.com/virtual-team-app/
"It's truly an honor to be recognized alongside these other extremely impressive women leaders in Colorado," said Powers. "During this time of such disruption and uncertainty, it's clear that coronavirus (COVID-19) has long-range implications for how we will work. I am proud to be able to share my experience and knowledge with remote teams and leaders during this global health crisis, and I am confident that we can emerge from this disruption even stronger by learning new skills that reinforce community and connection with our teams."
Powers Resource Center, a Boulder-based employee engagement, talent development and leadership training company, is proud to announce that its CEO Tara Powers was named a '2020 Woman to Watch' in the current issue of ColoradoBiz Magazine (see page 46). The award recognizes Colorado women CEOs, startup founders and strategists who are making an impact in every industry, enterprise and workplace as they inspire the next generation of women in business.
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Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F. For the bread chips, cut the baguette into thin slices and distribute on a lined baking tray.
Drizzle the slices with olive oil and bake in preheated oven at 180°C/350°F for approx. 5 - 7 min. until golden.
For the dressing, cook an egg in boiling water for approx. 2 - 3 min. Gently crack open the egg to remove the egg yolk. Put the parboiled egg yolk into a tall container.
Finely chop anchovy fillets and garlic.
Add chopped anchovy fillets and garlic, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce, mustard, white balsamic vinegar, and sugar to the egg yolk and mix with a hand blender.
Slowly stir the rest of the olive oil into the egg mixture. By doing this, mayonnaise will start to form. Season with salt and pepper.
Halve olives and tomatoes. Dice cucumber. Wash and dry romaine lettuce hearts and tear into bite-sized pieces.
Poach 2 eggs in hot, but not boiling, water to the desired degree of hardness. For a runny center, approx. 3 - 5 min. is recommended. Transfer to a paper towel to dry.
Mix the lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, and olives with the dressing and transfer to a plate. Sprinkle the bread chips on top and serve with a poached egg and Parmesan shavings. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,567 |
Dr. Robert V. McParland. Age 92, formerly of Park Ridge. Retired Chicago Dentist. Beloved husband of Jane and the late Ruth and Sadie. Loving father of James, Brian, Richard, Sean, Colin, Alana and the late Maureen and Robert. Devoted grandfather of 15 and great-grandfather of 3. Dear brother of Dr. Nathaniel McParland. Also survived by the Crist and Schuessler families. Visitation Friday, December 7, 10 a.m. at the Ryan-Parke Funeral Home, 120 S. Northwest Hwy., Park Ridge until time of prayers, 11:45 a.m. Funeral to follow at St. Paul of the Cross Church. Mass 12 noon. Interment Mt. Carmel Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorials to National Multiple Sclerosis Society, www.msillinois.org. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,568 |
Il TEB BNP Paribas Istanbul Open 2015 è stato un torneo professionistico di tennis giocato all'aperto sulla terra rossa. È stata la 1ª edizione dell'evento conosciuto come TEB BNP Paribas Istanbul Open. Il torneo fa parte dell'ATP World Tour 250 series nell'ambito dell'ATP World Tour 2015. Il torneo si è svolto nella Koza World of Sports Arena di Istanbul in Turchia, dal 27 aprile al 3 maggio 2015.
Partecipanti
Teste di serie
* Le teste di serie sono basate sul ranking al 20 aprile 2015.
Altri partecipanti
I seguenti giocatori hanno ricevuto una wildcard per il tabellone principale:
Nikoloz Basilašvili
Cem İlkel
Andrej Rublëv
I seguenti giocatori sono passati dalle qualificazioni:
Tejmuraz Gabašvili
Blaž Kavčič
Thanasi Kokkinakis
Oleksandr Nedovjesov
Campioni
Singolare
Roger Federer ha sconfitto in finale Pablo Cuevas per 6–3, 7–611.
Per l'elvetico è l'ottantacinquesimo titolo vinto in carriera, il terzo del 2015.
Doppio
Radu Albot / Dušan Lajović hanno sconfitto in finale Robert Lindstedt / Jürgen Melzer per 6–4, 7–62.
Collegamenti esterni
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Dual income properties are otherwise known as dual occupancy.
We simply refer to the situation where there is more than one home on a single block of land.
Dual dwelling are fully council approved, they can be rented separately with separate power and water. A fire rated dividing wall separates the living areas, and the extra soundproofing ensures your tenants privacy.
The dual dwelling (or dual key) concept is a far more economical alternative to a duplex. The yield is greater due to a reduction in building costs, and we eliminate expensive council fees that would normally be applied to the development of a duplex.
With two tenants paying rent, you receive a much greater income from your property.
You have two dwellings but only have one rates bill and no body corporate fees!
The tax deductions on a Dual Occupancy home is greater, meaning more money back from the tax man!
Higher income, larger tax benefits and a lower purchase price, means your Dual Occupancy Home may be Cash flow Positive.
With two potential rental sources, if one is vacant the other property is still working for you.
With only one block of land, the total price of owning two income producing properties is reduced.
2. Understand the council requirements for dual occupancies in this area. Read council's local environment plan (LEP).
3. Focus your attention on the area you want to develop in, making sure the location is correctly zoned for dual occupancies. But even if it is zoned for this type of development, there may be covenants on the land preventing it.
4. Search for land that meets the dual occupancy criteria. Make sure there are services to the site; electricity, sewerage, gas.
5. Check the planning certificate to see if it is in a bushfire or flood zone. You can still develop in these areas but it will add to your build costs.
6. Have your builder look at the site. This is very important as the builder will look at the land from a different perspective.
7. Run your feasibility to ensure the project will be viable. You will need to find recent comparable sales references then you can base your end value estimate on this.
The build costs will evolve over the design and planning process. Your builder can give you an estimate once a concept plan is available.
8. Secure the dual occupancy site and try for a long settlement period with permission to lodge a DA from the vendor. Make sure you include the subdivision on your DA.
9. Once you have the DA and CC approvals, you can then go back to your lender to obtain your unconditional construction loan. As soon as this is in place, the builder can start.
10. The build phase for a dual occupancy should be around three to four months or so, depending on whether you need to be on site each week to check the builder's progress and put out any 'fires' that may arise as you are under construction.
11. Once the building works are completed, an occupation certificate will be issued. You can now have your villas tenanted. Don't forget to order a depreciation schedule.
12. You can now apply for the subdivision certificate and once council issues this, you can register the subdivision (after your lender has signed off on it).
Alternatively you can view APPA's dual occupancy stock. Contact us to arrange access.
To find out if a Dual Income solution is right for you, fill in your details below. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,570 |
Howard Jacobson would sooner see Radio 4's Thought for the Day more not less religious and argues that humanists and the religious can meet in sermonizing when it's of the majesty of a great preacher like John Donne.
"I fall to wondering what exactly non-religious needs are, and whether, by insisting on a distinction between the religious and the non-religious, humanists aren't making an unpardonably limiting assumption about both."
Absolutely Thought for the day should be opened up to humanists and agnostics. We saw that take place at the Cenotaph remembrance event this year. Hopefully this could be a way to have more constructive conversations about important issues. Not least about religious and ethical education in schools. Alice Roberts was interviewed on the Sunday programme and mentioned there will be a new challenge about faith schools that will be launched by Humanists.
It is regrettable the BBC is axing Something Understood we need more not less of that kind of programming that enables thoughtful exploration using a variety of sources. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,571 |
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Ascham School, Sydney
daa/580
Marguerite Gillezeau
188 New South Head Road, Edgecliff
[email protected]
http://www.ascham.nsw.edu.au/
Ascham School is a non-denominational girls' day and boarding school established in Marathon Avenue, Darling Point by Miss Marie Wallis in 1886. The School moved to its current site in 1909. The school teaches students from preschool to year 12.
For an illustrated outline of key events in Ascham's history from 1886, see http://www.ascham.nsw.edu.au/a-strong-history/
The Archive was established in 1992.
The archives office and part of the collection are housed in The Octagon, a Georgian watchtower built in 1832 and the oldest building in Darling Point. The Octagon also has a small teaching museum on the second floor. The Octagon, along with the rest of the school buildings, stands on land that formed part of the original Glenrock estate first settled by the Smith family in the early 1830s.
The archival collection holds the following format-based collections drawn from both the official records of the school and donations received from the school community:
Paper records, including: School admission register, 1902- present; Headmistress' annual reports, 1915- present (digitised); Council minutes from Ascham's incorporation in 1937; Prize lists dating, 1900- present (digitised); Papers of the Old Girls' Union, 1915- present.
Publications, including: Charivari, the school magazine, 1903- present (digitised); Ascham Old Girls' Magazine (formerly Newsheet), 1943- present (digitised); weekly newsletters and student newspapers.
Photographic collection, 1895- present (in the process of being digitised, as at 2018).
Book collection, including: a fine collection of early edition Victorian novels; Miss Margaret Bailey's personal library; prize books, 1887- present; books about Ascham and its alumni.
Uniform collection, 1920s- present, with reproductions of the first uniform introduced in 1895.
Memorabilia and museum artefacts, 1800s- present.
Cartographic collection, including building plans, 1800s- present.
Audiovisual collection, including film, sound, video and digital recordings.
Finding aids are currently not available to researchers.
Publications about the school's history include:
Ascham: 1886-1952
Ascham: 1886-1962 (revised version), Monica Flower
Ascham Remembered, Annette Fielding Jones Dupree, Betty Winn Ferguson, Caroline Fairfax Simpson, 1986
The Search for Marie Wallis, Gerri Nicholas, 1st ed, 2007; 2nd ed, 2012
Margaret Bailey, Pioneering Headmistress of Ascham School, Jane Gilmour, 2016
Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 9am-4pm, by appointment.
Please make appointment by email or phone prior to visiting the archives.
Available. Researchers intending to publish must contact the Head of School in writing.
A small reading room exists for long-term researchers upstairs in the Octagon, subject to hours of opening.
Education (Thematic area)
Genealogical (Thematic area)
Local Studies (Thematic area) | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 1,572 |
Let's not get into the geek culture and pop culture argument when it comes to female role models. Both cultures have their negative sides, but you have to admit that pop culture seems to be bursting at the seams with terrible female role models. It is hardly surprising that the new age of geek culture is starting to attract as many women as it does men. Here are 15 great female role models from fiction (TV and movies). Due to the fact that so many characters are re-written and re-cast in modern TV shows and movies, I have stipulated which characters and from what.
Noted for her intelligence and not her looks, she was a role model for both women and men during the X-Files era. Sensible and professional, she was the woman all thinking men wanted as a wife, and she was a woman that younger girls could look up to. She earned her position in the FBI, always did the morally right thing, stuck to the rules, and often used honest logic to counter the eccentricity of her FBI partner. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,573 |
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Classes are taught for two hours every week, 50 weeks of the year. Students learn to draw. They are instructed, at their own pace, in color theory, perspective, composition, etc. Classes are big enough to promote socialization (making connections between peers) and intimate enough for personal instruction. Students are introduced to different media – acrylic, oil pastels, crayon, pen and ink, watercolor, collage. The emphasis in the classroom is on art for art's sake and on skills-building. As you can see for yourself on this website, the art created in Art With Elders classrooms can be extraordinary.
Currently, Art With Elders is hosted by long-term care facilities in five Bay Area counties – San Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, Santa Clara and San Mateo.
My 80-year-old aunt has been participating in the program for the past seven years. It has given her a new lease on life and she looks forward to the weekly art class. She is creating beautiful art that inspired me to write a book and produce a short film about her art."
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Manchester, NH —Cornerstone PDC, LLC has completed a 60,000 sf renovation for Easter Seals, NH. The renovation began in October and was completed in July 2017 with a continuation of their services throughout entire process. Easter Seals celebrated their 80th Anniversary with a new brand and kicking off their "Big Ideas for Building Independence Capital Campaign." Easter Seals has provided exceptional services to ensure the families and clients strive and grow through disabilities and challenges. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,575 |
È figlio di Giannīs Gkalitsios, ex difensore dell'AEL Larissa e della nazionale greca.
Carriera
Club
Ha giocato per quattro stagioni (dal 2004 al 2008) con l'AEL Larissa, con cui ha disputato la fase a gironi della Coppa UEFA 2007-2008.
Nel gennaio 2008 venne confermato l'accordo tra il difensore e l'Olympiakos, con cui milita a partire dalla stagione 2008-2009. Durante la partita di qualificazione per la UEFA Champions League 2008-2009 tra l'Olympiakos e l' subì un leggero infortunio al 75º minuto di gioco, che lo costrinse alla sostituzione.
Nazionale
A seguito delle prestazioni dimostrate nell'Olympiakos durante la stagione 2008-2009, il 15 novembre 2009 è stato convocato da Otto Rehhagel nella Nazionale di calcio greca per il ritorno dello spareggio contro l'Ucraina valido per le qualificazioni al in Sudafrica; non venne impiegato nel suddetto incontro.
Nel maggio 2010 è stato inserito nella rosa dei 30 preconvocati per il Mondiale sudafricano.
Palmarès
Club
Competizioni Nazionali
Larissa: 2006-2007
Olympiakos: 2008-2009
Olympiakos: 2010-2011
Lokeren: 2011-2012, 2013-2014
Anorthosis: 2020-2021
Note
Altri progetti
Collegamenti esterni
Calciatori figli d'arte | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaWikipedia'} | 1,576 |
Current: Invincible, Vol. 23 TP
Invincible, Vol. 23 TP
Series: Invincible
Read the First Issue of Invincible Online
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Imprint: Skybound
Mark has returned from the past...to a very different future. Now he has to pick up the pieces of his life and try to put them back together. INVINCIBLE co-creator CORY WALKER returns to the book to set the stage for the next chapter of Invincible's life! Collects INVINCIBLE #127-132
Invincible Compendium, Vol. 3 TP Jul 18, 2018
Invincible Ultimate Collection 12 HC Jun 20, 2018
Invincible, Vol. 25: The End Of All Things, Part 2 TP Mar 28, 2018
Invincible Ultimate Collection 11 HC May 17, 2017
Invincible, Vol. 23 TP Mar 29, 2017
Invincible Vol. 22 TP Feb 17, 2016
Invincible #1 Facsimile Ed. Jan 25, 2023
Invincible Undeluxe #1 Jan 25, 2023
Invincible #144 Feb 14, 2018
Invincible #143 Dec 20, 2017
Invincible #142 Nov 15, 2017
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Nick Cannon one tried gifting Mariah Carey a parcel of land for the holidays but she wasn't happy.
She told me, " I don't want a lot for Christmas."
The holidays are coming up, and I've set a New Years resolution for myself
My wife hinted she was gonna give me sex coupons for the Holidays this year.
Guess i'm getting nutting for Christmas!
The holidays are the most frightening time of the year for me.
I was a little dyslexic as a kid, and when I was a teen I started dabbling in the dark arts.
I think I sold my soul to Santa.
Every year when the jingle bells start ringing, I get nervous. It could be the elves coming for me.
Of all the holidays that jehova witnesses should celebrate...
... You'd think halloween would be it. Knocking on strangers doors, how could they pass that up?!
My wife said that sex is way better on holidays
Not the best postcard to get.
A young man tells his Mom he's gay
A young man decides that the upcoming holiday is a good time to tell his Mom that he's gay. He's in college, making new friends, and will eventually want to bring one of them home to meet the family. He spends the drive home going over the conversation, what he'll say, what she'll say, how he'll ans...
I told my wife I feel bad for criminals because they have to work holidays.
She said they deserve time and a half.
A guy walks into a bar decorated for the Christmas holidays and orders a beer. "That's a beautiful Christmas tree you have over there. I hope you're not offended, but I've always found that Christmas trees are a lot like boobs," he tells the bartender. "When you see really nice ones you just have to...
I ask my boyfriend where do you wanna go for the holidays. He said somewhere I've never been before
i said try the gym
Literal Omnipotence
As the holidays approach, many donation boxes spring up in the streets of New York, like mushrooms after rain, hoping for the holiday spirit to infect patrons with some extra generosity.
A tired commuter walks past some religious donation box, with the attendant soliciting, "Share in the hol...
Where do nuclear scientists go on their holidays
They go Fission...
My wife just called me and said, "Three of the girls in my office just got some flowers for the holidays. They're absolutely gorgeous!"
I replied, "That's probably why they got flowers then..."
What's something both hookers and Santa can say during the holidays?
It's my busy season.
So three friends met up for the holidays,
The first two are waiting on the third when one says to the other:
"Hey, I made you a song for Christmas!" and then starts beat-boxing this amazing tune. It's got great rhyme & rhythm, and the other guy is blown away.
A little later the third friend shows up, and the second one sa...
Two priests decided to go to Hawaii on their holidays.
They were determined to make this a real vacation by not wearing anything that would identify them as clergy. They packed colorful shirts, shorts, swim trunks and sandals, and each brought sunglasses.
The morning after they arrived, they went to the beach, wearing swim trunks and t-shirts. ...
What do grumpy sheep say during the holidays?
Baa, Baa, humbug.
Pavlov's dogs have started a charity for the holidays...
It's called "The Salivation Army"
I, the Penis, hereby demand a raise in salary
I, the Penis, hereby demand a raise in salary for the following reasons:
I do physical labor.
I work at great depths.
I plunge headfirst into everything I do.
I do not get weekends or public holidays off.
I work in a damp environment.
I work in a dark workplace that has...
What do you call two spices saying hello to each other during the holidays?
Where do bears go for winter holidays?
Hiber-Nation
A guy walks into a bar and orders a beer. "I hate this time of year. My wife and I can never agree on the holidays," he complains to the bartender. "I want to travel to exotic places and stay in 5-star hotels." "That sounds fun. What does she want to do?" the bartender asks. "She wants to come with ...
A mail carrier is about to retire…
So he puts a note in all of his mailboxes letting people know that his last day would be at the end of the week.
On his last day, neighbors were showering him with gifts and praise for his many years of faithful service.
As he approaches a house in his route, he realizes that he's ne...
Do You know why there's religious holidays but no scientific holidays?
Because science always works
After 25 years away, a man comes back to his home country for the holidays.
He decides to explore his old neighborhood, and when he reaches the building where he used to live, he notices that the shoemaker's shop across the street has not changed a bit.
All sorts of memories arise to the surface of his mind as he used to pass this shop everyday. And then he remembers...
My roommate in college always gave us advice on what drugs to try on different holidays.
He was the original trip advisor.
My mom has a rule that no friends are allowed at our house in November because of holidays. (It makes no sense.)
But she has a friend that she decided that she'll let over in November. My mom told her "You're an exception. You can come any time in November." So I said "Very poor choice of words." and her friend started dying of laughter, but I got grounded.
Happy Holidays and a Joyous A B C D E F G H I J K M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z to everyone.
A job interview
Reaching the end of a job interview, the Human Resources Officer asks a young engineer fresh out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "And what starting salary are you looking for?" The engineer replies, "In the region of $125,000 a year, depending on the benefits package." The interviewer ...
A french pastry chef spends his holidays in the US and needs to go see the local medic...
Pastry chef : Euh Docteur, I häv terribeul pain when I eat chocolate!
Doctor checks him out and after a few moments says : Ah yes, typical case of <puts on sunglasses>... PAIN AU CHOCOLAT.
A regional manager of a Chinese restaurant chain was visiting one of the stores around the holidays.
He was there to check how the store was doing, making sure safety protocols were in place, making sure it was clean, etc. Upon entering the restaurant he was greeted with Christmas decor, lights, garland, Santa clauses everywhere, and holiday music.
"What's with the get up?" The manager asked. <...
I always listen to Neil Diamond during the holidays.
He's got sweet carol lines.
The CDC advises practicing social distancing during the holidays
That is why I didn't call my mom this year
The french never go on holidays
They only go on retreats
A University of Alabama student was visiting a Yankee relative in Boston over the holidays. He went to a large party and met a pretty co-ed. He was attempting to start up a conversation with the line, "Where y'all go to school? " The coed, of course, was not overly impressed with his grammar or sou...
Many veterans experience PTSD from the loud bangs of fireworks around holidays like 4th of July and New Years. My advice to them is to use noise-cancelling headphones, Netflix, and pharmaceutical-grade weed.
Just like the children of Kabul.
So I went to Iraq for holidays...
And I found out that my girlfriend cheated on me back home...
Knowing that I can't trust anyone I wanted to kill myself.
So I called the suicide hotline...
They got excited and asked me if I can drive a plane.
Over the holidays, I'm participating in a pro-life bake sale
We'll be selling cups of uncooked batter and insisting they're actually cupcakes
9 of the top 10 days to give birth fall between Sept. 9 and Sept. 20. Given that pregnancies last an average of about 38 weeks, this means many people are conceiving in December, around the holidays.
In other words, if you can't afford to give presents, get f**ked.
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Oh, Basia, not only have you given me the gift of your music for the holidays, but you've helped me save some time, too. I'm in the middle of my annual trip to NOLA for X-mas with the better half, which is full of magic, gumbo, and anxiety. And not a lot of time to blog. So since I've already written about this one already, I'm letting myself off the hook. Not that I was holding myself to very high standards to begin with. . . | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,579 |
NOx Sensor Wins Invention Prize at National Commendation for Invention
NGK INSULATORS, LTD. (President: Taro Kato; Headquarters: Nagoya, Japan) has developed a built-in automobile sensor capable of highly precise measurement of nitrogen oxide (NOx) concentrations. The subsequent commercialization of this sensor has earned it a strong reputation, and now it has won the Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation's Category 1 Invention Prize at the 2014 National Commendation for Invention.
Held for the purpose of contributing to the progress of science and technology and the development of industry, the National Commendation for Invention award scheme commends persons who have accomplished extremely excellent inventions full of originality, persons who have rendered distinguished services in the achieving of inventions, and persons who have greatly contributed to the promotion of excellent technology and to the guidance and development of human resources. The Category 1 prizes are awarded for inventions that achieve outstanding progress in science and technology, in addition to realizing significant practical benefits. NGK has developed and commercialized the world's first automobile built-in NOx sensor. With the award, the Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation has highly evaluated the substantial contribution that the performance of NGK's NOx sensor has made to bringing about a "clean diesel automobile." The Awards Ceremony will be held in Tokyo on July 8, graced with the attendance of the institute's patron, H.I.H. Prince Hitachi, accompanied by H.I.H. Princess Hitachi.
Overview of Award
Award name: Category 1 Invention Prize, 2014 National Commendation for Invention
Organization name: Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation
Details of commendation: Development of thick-film multi-layered zirconia NOx sensor
Award winner: Kunihiko Nakagaki of NGK INSULATORS, LTD. (on loan to NGK EUROPE GmbH in Germany)
NOx sensors are mounted in the exhaust pipes of automobiles. These sensors can measure the NOx concentrations in the vehicle exhaust emission in real time with high precision at the ppm level (parts per million). The detected values of the NOx concentration in the exhaust emission are then used in controlling the exhaust gas after being treated and in its on-board diagnosis (OBD).
Automobile exhaust gas regulations are tending to be tightened worldwide. With regard to diesel vehicles in particular, the regulations for NOx emissions, in addition to particulate matter (PM) emissions, are being further tightened. NGK has skillfully applied its accumulated ceramics technology, formed the shape of its own original zirconia ceramics and used multi-layered elements to develop and commercialize the world's first in-vehicle NOx sensor. These components are indispensable in the control of diesel vehicles' exhaust gas after being treated. NGK expects to see an expansion in demand for NOx sensors reflecting the worldwide tightening of diesel exhaust gas regulations, and winning this award will be the impetus for a greater increase in sales.
NOx sensors for vehicles | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 1,580 |
This turned out to be the last 'regular' episode of Steptoe. Like many of the later Steptoe's Ray and Alan were more willing to bring in other actors. While the majority of the episode features Willy and Harry doing what they do best, a cast of other actors serve to broaden the piece, especially the excellent Patricia Routledge as Madame Fontana.
The following evening a number of people arrive including the spiritualist and Dorothy Duddy, Albert's new found love. Harold is persuaded to join the group, and so the lights are turned down and they all join hands around the table as Madame Fontana goes into a trance and calls for her spirit guide Geronimo. The first spirit to visit that evening is Dorothy's former husband, followed by Emily Steptoe, Albert's wife and Harold's mother. Both spirits approve strongly of Albert and Dorothy marrying, especially Emily who feels that "Harold needs a mother".
Harold is having none of it and takes drastic action to bring things to a halt.
As always in Steptoe there is more to the situation than meets the eye and the relationship between Madame Fontana and Dorothy Duddy is exposed. Albert goes to bed a wiser but sad man.
The final scene sees Harold contemplating the evening and thinking about how nice it would have been to talk to his mother. When I saw this episode over 30 years ago the end spooked me quite a bit, as I am writing this I find it still does. I wonder if I can sleep in my Dad's bed tonight ?
This episode stuck out from the rest.
This time the whole thing begins because Albert, has fallen for a little old lady, who so happens to be a spiritualist. I like how the episode used Harold, to portray a non-believer, and his responses to his father's new found beliefs. To prove a point, he moves the glass on the board to spell out a famous, dead person, knowing it would spook father.
At the Seance in question, the episode gets better, as all it seems to go, is encourage a marriage between Albert, and his new lady friend, as the Medium manages to get in touch with both dead Husband and Wife. Harold's reaction, is to go mad, believing the whole thing to be a big con, just as he did to begin with and he shruggs off the medium.
However, before bed, the episode takes a disturbing, turn, and Harold gets spooked. The acting was just so typically good, as I love how the characters take turns with being gulliable, in one sense or another.
Well, here it is. The worse episode of Steptoe and Son by miles. Sorry to the fans of the episode but I hate just about everything about it.
The storyline is ridiculous, the character Madam Fontana is cringe inducing and that stupid voice over at the end that's supposedly Harold's mother has me squirming.
It's a shame that this wonderful series had to have for it's final regular episode an absolute clunker like this. I can see why S&S was brought to an end, the fire had gone out.
Thank goodness that the xmas special that followed it was back to some kind of form.
Last year I decided to watch every episode in order and I was dreading reaching this, however I gritted my teeth and bravely faced it, I doubt that i will do so again.
Steptoe and Son was so brilliant that I was used to almost perfection every week but I suppose that there had to be one story that failed to live up to the colossal heights that the rest of the show aspired to.
Spooky goings on - Albert has been talking to the dead. That must have terrified them !
Don't miss the last ever regular episode of Steptoe and Son. Buy the DVD now. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,581 |
While Google's various products and Internet marketing services are updated on a continual basis, 3 recent changes are worth noting their impact on ecommerce businesses: Video previews, Google Adwords' appended URLs and Google Analytics' site speed report.
Google somewhat-recently launched Instant Previews in its SERPs (search engine results pages), where you can hover over a magnifying glass to preview a landing page before committing to a click. It now supports previews for video content, showing not only a few thumbnail images but also very short clips of the video, with or without sound.
Hat tip to Xavier Casanova from VideoRetailer.org for the screenshot.
This means video SEO is all the more important, to ensure your video assets have the best chance of appearing in blended search results. Check out the 7 Deadly Sins of Video SEO and 5 Heavenly Acts of Righteousness for tips.
Adwords announced a global change to the way your text ads are displayed. Ads are now appended with the display URL automatically.
My observation – this only happens when the ad is in the magic blue purple green yellow box and when there's enough room.
My concern with this tactic is stuffed headlines are actually harder to read and scan. While I suppose they can give a branding boost by showing the URL, they may make the headlines ignored altogether. Making some brands more prominent than others also seems a bit unfair. If it does impact click through positively, the "rich get richer" (the highest CTR ads that win the top spots will stay there).
Nevertheless, it's important that you understand your headlines have been changed without your consent, and this change can impact your campaign performance for the good or the bad. It's a good idea to annotate the date of this change so you can see the changes in your web analytics. Ideally, Adwords would have provided advertisers with the ability to split-test with and without the display URL in the headline, and an option to turn the feature off.
While there's been a whole whack of adjustments in the new Google Analytics (version 5), perhaps the most exciting is the site speed report.
This report will tell you which landing pages load the slowest, which campaigns correspond to faster page loads and how geography and browser type differ in performance. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,582 |
package storage
import (
"context"
"database/sql"
"fmt"
"github.com/lib/pq"
"github.com/matrix-org/dendrite/roomserver/types"
)
const stateSnapshotSchema = `
-- The state of a room before an event.
-- Stored as a list of state_block entries stored in a separate table.
-- The actual state is constructed by combining all the state_block entries
-- referenced by state_block_nids together. If the same state key tuple appears
-- multiple times then the entry from the later state_block clobbers the earlier
-- entries.
-- This encoding format allows us to implement a delta encoding which is useful
-- because room state tends to accumulate small changes over time. Although if
-- the list of deltas becomes too long it becomes more efficient to encode
-- the full state under single state_block_nid.
CREATE SEQUENCE IF NOT EXISTS roomserver_state_snapshot_nid_seq;
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS roomserver_state_snapshots (
-- Local numeric ID for the state.
state_snapshot_nid bigint PRIMARY KEY DEFAULT nextval('roomserver_state_snapshot_nid_seq'),
-- Local numeric ID of the room this state is for.
-- Unused in normal operation, but useful for background work or ad-hoc debugging.
room_nid bigint NOT NULL,
-- List of state_block_nids, stored sorted by state_block_nid.
state_block_nids bigint[] NOT NULL
);
`
const insertStateSQL = "" +
"INSERT INTO roomserver_state_snapshots (room_nid, state_block_nids)" +
" VALUES ($1, $2)" +
" RETURNING state_snapshot_nid"
// Bulk state data NID lookup.
// Sorting by state_snapshot_nid means we can use binary search over the result
// to lookup the state data NIDs for a state snapshot NID.
const bulkSelectStateBlockNIDsSQL = "" +
"SELECT state_snapshot_nid, state_block_nids FROM roomserver_state_snapshots" +
" WHERE state_snapshot_nid = ANY($1) ORDER BY state_snapshot_nid ASC"
type stateSnapshotStatements struct {
insertStateStmt *sql.Stmt
bulkSelectStateBlockNIDsStmt *sql.Stmt
}
func (s *stateSnapshotStatements) prepare(db *sql.DB) (err error) {
_, err = db.Exec(stateSnapshotSchema)
if err != nil {
return
}
return statementList{
{&s.insertStateStmt, insertStateSQL},
{&s.bulkSelectStateBlockNIDsStmt, bulkSelectStateBlockNIDsSQL},
}.prepare(db)
}
func (s *stateSnapshotStatements) insertState(
ctx context.Context, roomNID types.RoomNID, stateBlockNIDs []types.StateBlockNID,
) (stateNID types.StateSnapshotNID, err error) {
nids := make([]int64, len(stateBlockNIDs))
for i := range stateBlockNIDs {
nids[i] = int64(stateBlockNIDs[i])
}
err = s.insertStateStmt.QueryRowContext(ctx, int64(roomNID), pq.Int64Array(nids)).Scan(&stateNID)
return
}
func (s *stateSnapshotStatements) bulkSelectStateBlockNIDs(
ctx context.Context, stateNIDs []types.StateSnapshotNID,
) ([]types.StateBlockNIDList, error) {
nids := make([]int64, len(stateNIDs))
for i := range stateNIDs {
nids[i] = int64(stateNIDs[i])
}
rows, err := s.bulkSelectStateBlockNIDsStmt.QueryContext(ctx, pq.Int64Array(nids))
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
defer rows.Close() // nolint: errcheck
results := make([]types.StateBlockNIDList, len(stateNIDs))
i := 0
for ; rows.Next(); i++ {
result := &results[i]
var stateBlockNIDs pq.Int64Array
if err := rows.Scan(&result.StateSnapshotNID, &stateBlockNIDs); err != nil {
return nil, err
}
result.StateBlockNIDs = make([]types.StateBlockNID, len(stateBlockNIDs))
for k := range stateBlockNIDs {
result.StateBlockNIDs[k] = types.StateBlockNID(stateBlockNIDs[k])
}
}
if i != len(stateNIDs) {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("storage: state NIDs missing from the database (%d != %d)", i, len(stateNIDs))
}
return results, nil
}
| {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaGithub'} | 1,583 |
If you run a self-hosted mail server or are using an email service with Roundcube, there an effective way to stop most of your spam. That is to block top level domains in your filter settings.
Some spammers use the new top level domains to send out their massive amounts of spam. Because they are cheap. They rotate the domain names but keep using only a few top level domains. I stopped probably more than 80% of my spam by block top level domains.
If you read my previous article about Roundcube spam filter you are already familiar with how to block top level domains with Roundcube. It is almost the same as blocking domains.
Enter your settings by clicking the settings button in Roundcube. You will find that in the top right corner after you logged in to Roundcube. As before click Filters, then managesiev and then your filter rules (if you made some). Or you can create a new filter set just for top level domains. There are a few things to remember when creating a filter set. So if you haven't already, go back to my previous article.
We use "from" as we want to block emails "from" top level domains. Then we select "contains" as we want to block emails containing a string found in the domain names. One of the worst top level domains spammers use is "win". So in the last field, you enter ".win". Notice the dot before win. If you don't put in the dot Roudcube will block all email addresses containing win. In the example this one: [email protected]. If you keep the dot before the top level domain name, only emails from the .win will be blocked.
Here is my list of the 7 worst top domain names you should block to stop most of your spam.
This is Spamhaus statistics on top 10 worst top level domains for spammers. Not the same I got on my list. So your spam might come from other top level domains than my spam. You should find them easy enough.
Save your new filter setting, sit back and enjoy a much cleaner inbox.
Like most other people, I hate spam, and with a self-hosted mail server, I needed to learn about Roundcube spam filter. Sometimes I received more than 100 emails every day. That's really depressing when trying to avoid deleting the emails that are not spam. Something had to be done.
My first step was to block certain IPs and IP ranges. I will cover that part in another post. That can work really well against some spammers. Especially if they are using mass email services. Then you just run a whois against one of their IP's and you usually find their IP range quite easily. When the range is found, just block the entire range. More about that in another post.
In some cases, I also blocked entire top-level domains, as some of the top level domains seems to be very popular among spammers. I will cover that too in a later post. That is very easy to do once you know how to do filters in Roundcube. First, we will look at how to make your own Roundcube spam filter.
The first thing we do after logging in click the settings button, and you should see something like the picture below.
In the first row click Filters. Under filter sets you probably one have one item; managesieve. So, of course, click that one. The third and last row you have Filters. By default, you probably have one "named vacation". That's the one you enable if you want to send an out of office reply. The last filter is probably "Move Spam to Junk Folder".
At the bottom of the Filter row, click the plus sign. Now a filter definition window will appear on the right side of the screen. Give your new spam filter a name. You can not save it until you have created the first filter rule.
On the part of the filter name, your mail is ready for your filter rules. Change "subject" to "from". The next drop down menu can just stay on "contains". Or it can be "equal" for this example. It doesn't matter since we will block a specific mail address. The last text field you will enter the mail address you want to block. Like in the picture below.
When those two filter rules have been added you can save the filter. You could also have done that after the first filter rule. Now your filter set should appear in the third row at the bottom, under the "move spam to junk folder". Now you need to grab your filter set with the mouse and move it above "move spam to junk folder". That "move spam to junk folder" filter rule has enabled an option to stop evaluating more rules.
That's if for creating your own Roundcube spam filter.
If you are interested, please check out Linux live log files.
Check out Spamhaus for known mass spammers.
How to find color code is easy if you got access to Google. Open Google in a web browser and type in #ffffff (or any other hex code) in the search field. Now a color picking tool will open in your browser.
Googles color picking tool will give you the color value for several standards. The value codes you get is in Hex, RGB, HSV, HSL and CMYK. So this is how to find color code for most you needs.
How to find color code in Hex. Hex codes is six digits, or 3 groups of 2 digits. The first to digits in a hex code give you the value for red. The next two digits gives you the value for green. And the last two digits gives you the value for blue. Example on a hex code is #4365f5. That code will give you a nice blue color.
How to find color code in RGB. Like the Hex colors, RGB colors are supported by all browsers. RGB also works just the same way as Hex, just being in decimal instead. Same colors are defined, and in same order. Also with same value. If we use the same example color as in the Hex example (#4365f5). We can also write that as RGB(67, 101, 245). Because 43 in hex is 67 in decimal. 65 in hex is 101 in decimal. And f5 in hex is 245 in decimal.
How to find color code in HSV. This is completely different from Hex and RGB codes. HSV stands for Hue, Saturation and Value. It is some kind of cylindrical representation of the color map. If we continue to use the previous example, the example color code will be hsv(229°, 73%, 96%).
How to find color code in HSL. HSL is very similar to HSV. HSL stands for Hue, Saturation and Lightness. As the HSV this is also based on a cylinrical representation of the color map. With the same color example, the HSL code is hsl(229°, 90%, 61%).
How to find color code in CMYK. This is the color codes the printers use. CMYK is the first letter for the colors it uses for printing. Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Key (Black). The CMYK code represent the value for each of those colors in percent, to create the desired color. We continue with the same blue color as in the other examples. We will get the code cmyk(73%, 59%, 0%, 4%).
That is a little bit on how the different color codes, that you can find on Googles tool, works.
Example on how the tool on this video on youtube.
Stay safe from SS7 exploits is not easy. But a few easy measures can be done.
Anytime speaking on the phone, on normal lines not using any kind of apps like FaceTime or similar, dont say anything you wouldn't say on YouTube. Attackers can listen to your phone anytime they want. Doesn't matter if it is an iPhone, Samsung, Sony, Nokia or any other brand. The flaw is not in the phones. It is in the SS7 network, the network that connects all the phone networks together.
Same with SMS. Dont write anything you wouldn't write on your Facebook wall. Ever since the SS7 made their network an IP network around 2000, it has been pretty much wide open to anyone who is interested.
So how to stay safe from SS7 exploits? Use FaceTime or similar for talking to someone. FaceTime, Skype and several other services sends their data encrypted over the internet instead of using the SS7 network.
Same with messages. Instead of using SMS use iMessage, Messenger or similar services. Same as with voice and video, these services sends the data encrypted over the internet instead of using the SS7 network.
Be careful if you need to, and stay safe!
The Tor network dark web is one part of the part of internet called Dark Web. Tor network dark web is also referred to as onionland. Reason for the onionland name is because the top level domain of Tor is onion. Dark Web along with Deep Web not indexed by search engines like google. You will need a directory to find your way around the dark web. The Hidden Wiki is one of the the more popular directories is.
What do I need to surf Tor network dark web?
You will find a lot of sites there. There is no way you can access them from a normal browser. You need to be connected to Tor Network first. Which means fire up Tor browser from the link above.
There is a lot of stuff in the Dark Web any normal person will condemn because it is almost anonymous. As a result almost anything is out there. Seems like some users got a experience there, according to this article http://metro.co.uk/2015/07/08/12-scary-things-which-happen-when-you-go-on-the-dark-web-5285640/. Maybe not just scare stuff, some are as a result quite funny too.
Should i visit Tor network dark web?
Probably a interesting thing to do. You need to be aware that nothing is 100% "safe". Just because the Tor Network is anonymous doesn't mean the exit nodes cant be monitored.
Most of all stay safe. Tor Network is helping people to communicate freely.
As a result of that Russia is one of the countries that is offering money to hack Tor Network.
Google knows this about you, and probably a lot more. They are honest about a lot of things, and they share with you some of the information they have about you.
If you suspect that someone else uses your google account, you can visit this link and see what devices that are connected to your Google account. Visit this link https://security.google.com/settings/security/activity. Here you will get an overview of what devices that is connected to your Google account, the ip addresses and where in the world they connected from. You can also change and restrict the different devices have to your account.
Google knows what applications that have access to your data.
Sometimes there can be third party applications that is connected to your Google account. By visiting this link you can get an overview of which applications that is. https://security.google.com/settings/security/permissions. As with the devices, you can restrict and change the access for the different applications.
If you want to have a look for your self, and have a look at all the data Google have about you. You can download it all here https://www.google.com/takeout. You will get an email with an link to a zip file. The zip file contains everything from bookmarks, emails, pictures, YouTube videos an a lot more.
ZEEF is like the new google for me lately. There is like human driven databases of information about almost anything. I'll give you a few examples on list on ZEEF.
Give ZEEF a try. It is worth your time. Even better if you are collecting resources your self and want to share with others. This is the place where to do it.
YouTube is a huge source for music. But sometimes when you don´t have access to internet, you can´t play that music. Without Spotify or similar services you have the option to convert those YouTube videos to mp3 files. This might not be legal where you live, so I can´t take any responsibility for this. Anyhow, this is how you do it.
Paste the link to the YouTube video into the one and only text field on the site. Next click the Convert button. After a few seconds your video is processed into a mp3 file, and you click the download link to download your newly created mp3 file.
There are other sites that will do the same. And many of them are good. Some of them is not. If the site wants you to download a executable file, don´t open it. Just delete it. The executable file will not contain any music. And it will most likely harm your computer. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,584 |
Mus mahomet är en däggdjursart som beskrevs av Samuel N. Rhoads 1896. Mus mahomet ingår i släktet Mus och familjen råttdjur. IUCN kategoriserar arten globalt som livskraftig. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.
Arten lever i Etiopien och Eritrea. Den vistas i bergstrakter och i höglandet mellan 1500 och 3400 meter över havet. Habitatet utgörs av buskskogar, gräsmarker och skogar.
Arten blir 6,3 till 7,3 cm lång (huvud och bål), har en 4,6 till 6,0 cm lång svans och väger 6 till 13 g. Bakfötterna är cirka 1,5 cm långa och öronen är 0,9 till 1,3 cm stora. Håren som bildar den korta och lite styva pälsen på ovansidan är gråa nära roten och bruna eller ljusbruna vid spetsen vad som ger ett spräckligt utseende. Gränsen mot undersidans päls utgörs av en smal orangebrun till sandbrun linje. Själva pälsen på undersidan är vit och den kan ha inslag av orange. På svansen förekommer fjäll och några glest fördelade hår. Mus mahomet saknar ljusa fläckar kring öronen.
Individerna är aktiva på natten och de äter frön samt insekter.
Källor
Råttdjur
mahomet
Däggdjur i etiopiska regionen | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaWikipedia'} | 1,585 |
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In June 2006, the actor and bass Mark Coles sang the role of Joe in Show Boat in the first fully staged musical ever to be performed in the Royal Albert Hall. That production was directed by Francesca Zambello with whom he had first worked when he began his professional career with San Francisco Opera in 1985. In that year, for the company's Western Opera Theater, he sang Leporello in a tour of Don Giovanni, subsequently appearing in many roles on the main stage, including Starek (Jenufa) in 1986, and in the video production of La bohème in 1988. He returned in 2003 to sing the Old Convict in Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, later appearing as the Sacristan (Tosca) and Nourabad (Les Pêcheurs de perles). In 1989 he became a finalist in the Belvedere Competition, which proved the beginning of his European career. In Germany he has sung Daland (Der fliegende Holländer), Sparafucile (Rigoletto), Henry VIII (Anna Bolena), Bartolo (Le nozze di Figaro), Banquo (Macbeth) and Ferrando (Il trovatore). He made his debut as Sarastro (The Magic Flute) at Opera North, and in Lyon and Geneva created the role of the Missionary in Michaël Lévinas's Les Nègres. Besides Joe, which he has also sung in Copenhagen, Aarhus and Berne, his musical theatre credits include the Plant (Little Shop of Horrors), the Governor (Man of La Mancha) and Sweeney Todd.Mark Coles resides in Münster, Germany. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 1,586 |
German Parliament Approves 'Third Gender' Option
German Family Affair Minister: The law is "an important step towards the legal recognition of people whose gender identity is neither male nor female."
Posted by Vijeta Uniyal Saturday, December 15, 2018 at 02:00pm 14 Comments
The German parliament approved a 'third gender' identity, allowing people to identify themselves as "diverse" on official documents instead of the usual male or female option. The new law introduced by Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition has been passed by both chambers of German Bundestag, with the upper house adopting it on Friday.
The legislation is an outcome of a judicial campaign that ended with the country's top constitutional court ordering the parliament to create a third gender option. In November 2017, the court ruling had recommended the introduction of "another positive designation of … sex that is not male or female."
Members of Merkel's cabinet welcomed the move. The law was "an important step towards the legal recognition of people whose gender identity is neither male nor female," Family Minister Franziska Giffey said.
Germany's right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) was the only political party to came out openly against the new law. "Which gender you belong to has been an objective fact since the beginning of time — just like age and height," said party's parliamentary group leader Beatrix von Storch.
German state broadcaster Deutsche Welle reported the passing of the new legislation in the Bundestag:
Germans will soon be able to choose a third gender on the register of births, with "diverse" set to become an option.
Up until now, people had to choose between "male" and "female" when giving their gender, or leave the option blank.
But following a vote in the German parliament late on Thursday intersex people — people whose sexual anatomy does not fit the typical definitions of male and female — will be allowed to change their entry to "diverse."
The "third gender" option places Germany in line with other countries that have introduced measures to recognize intersex people or a third gender, such as Austria, Australia, New Zealand, India, Canada and Portugal.
Writing for the Deutsche Welle, a commentator complained that the new law does not go far enough as it "does not make using public bathrooms easier for intersex and gender nonconforming people" or exempt them from "uncomfortable physical searches while going through security at airports and other checkpoints," something they were being singeld out for.
Germany's ecological Green Party wants the gender identity to be a matter of free choice and not restricted to person's anatomy. Party's parliamentary chief, Anton Hofreiter, lamented the fact that changing one's gender in Germany still required a doctor's certificate. A medical examination in the matter was "preposterous and a sign of distrust of those who don't fit into an old-fashioned view of society," he said.
Germany's Lesbian and Gay Association (LSVD) decried the medical determination of gender as a "degrading assessments" and called for it to be abolished. "[G]ender is not only defined physical signs, but also by social and psychological factors," LSVD said, agreeing with the Green Party's position.
German Left, crying foul over the injustice inflicted by 'misgendering', has been eerily silent about the growing number of violent attacks by newly arrived Arab and Muslim migrants against homosexuals in Berlin and other cities. For the Left, appeasing migrants trumps gay rights.
The leftists are not only sore losers, as the aftermath of the Brexit vote and Trump's victory have amply demonstrated, they aren't any better at winning either. Every victory for them is just another opportunity for more grievance-mongering and moving the goalpost further. For the radicals on the Left, the struggle isn't about ensuring fairness or securing equal rights. It's about destroying the norms and institutions rooted in the Western history and tradition: a precondition for their magical post-modern Socialist utopia to emerge.
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14 14 Comments Gender, Germany, Transgender
Gender, Germany, Transgender
gonzotx | December 15, 2018 at 5:09 pm
Germany is gone
This reminds me of the fraud Obama's last year, surprised he didn't try to recognize polygamy or beastiality..
oldgoat36 | December 15, 2018 at 5:45 pm
I believe there will come a day in the future when the younger generation, after seeing freedom and affluent society become a thing of the past, when they realize that all these things which were done for "fairness" and "compassion" were horribly thought out, and we gave away our futures for folly.
How is it again that Conservatives are the anti-science people, even though it is the left which time and again deny science for votes?
Fuzzy Slippers | December 15, 2018 at 6:14 pm
Fantastic article as always, Vijeta. The part that really stood out to me was the following:
Writing for the Deutsche Welle, a commentator complained that the new law does not go far enough as it "does not make using public bathrooms easier for intersex and gender nonconforming people" or exempt them from "uncomfortable physical searches while going through security at airports and other checkpoints."
Wait, so people who don't "identify" as male or female should be exempted from security checks at airports and other venues? This is surreal. Who even thinks like this? Oh, right . . . .
Olinser in reply to Fuzzy Slippers. | December 15, 2018 at 9:59 pm
I've always said to the so-called 'transgender' bullshitters – ok, so 'men' and 'women' is unacceptable.
Fine. We'll change the signs on the doors to 'penis' and 'vagina'.
Now shut up and use the proper bathroom.
Vijeta Uniyal in reply to Fuzzy Slippers. | December 16, 2018 at 12:03 am
Thank you for those kind words. Means a lot to me!
The Deutsche Welle article argues that transsexuals are singled out for security checks making them discriminatory, but backs it up with no facts. Just more grievance-mongering, I guess.
tom_swift | December 15, 2018 at 8:05 pm
Possibly not that big a deal.
This information has no business being on most government documents anyway. For identification, height, eye color, hair color (ephemeral though that may be) are more useful; if more is needed, photo and fingerprint are much better. Sex they don't usually need to know, any more than they need to know religion, blood type, Zodiac sun sign, or one's middle name written in Futhark runes. I don't put in anything optional, like "race", and I wouldn't give them gender info if it's optional, either. Just on general principles; government should mind its own business, and I'll mind mine.
forksdad in reply to tom_swift. | December 16, 2018 at 11:00 am
No, sex, race, eye color, height, weight, hair color are best in that order. I might put eye color after height and weight except everyone always lies when asked about height and weight. The government does need to know the info, this is like saying they don't need race to identify criminals, they most certainly do need race. They need sex identifiers as well.
buckeyeminuteman | December 16, 2018 at 7:56 am
An equally disturbing factor in all this is that their supreme court ordered their legislature to create a law that allows for a third gender. The unelected court tells the elected legislature what to do. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 1,587 |
Q: Get access to removable SD Android To begin, excuse my English.
I would like to know how it is that the RAR application can obtain permissions to write about the removable SD without going through the storage access framework of android, only with this dialog:
https://i.imgur.com/DnDNAlg.jpg
I have a project in which I use the Storage Access Framework so that people can download files in the removable SD, but sometimes they tend to mess up a bit and this makes me a better solution, but I have no idea how, someone could explain me a little .
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Many neurodegenerative disorders, such as Parkinson's disease (PD), are characterized by progressive neuronal loss in different regions of the central nervous system, contributing to brain dysfunction in the relevant patients. Stem cell therapy holds great promise for PD patients, including with foetal ventral mesencephalic cells, human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) and human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs). Moreover, stem cells can be used to model neurodegenerative diseases in order to screen potential medication and explore their mechanisms of disease. However, related ethical issues, immunological rejection and lack of canonical grafting protocols limit common clinical use of stem cells. iPSCs, derived from reprogrammed somatic cells, provide new hope for cell replacement therapy. In this review, recent development in stem cell treatment for PD, using hiPSCs, as well as the potential value of hiPSCs in modelling for PD, have been summarized for application of iPSCs technology to clinical translation for PD treatment.
Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder, and concerns progressive loss of dopaminergic (DA) neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc) of the midbrain . The crucial pathological feature of PD is presence of Lewy bodies (LBs), which are abnormal aggregates of -synuclein (SNCA) protein. Reported standardized incidence rates of PD are 818 per 100 000 person-years worldwide . In China, prevalence of PD for those aged 65 years is 1.7% . PD patients suffer from motor symptoms such as rest tremor, bradykinesia, rigidity and abnormal gait. Non-motor symptoms, such as olfactory dysfunction, psychiatric changes and sleep disorders, further impair PD patients' quality of life. Up to now, multiple factors have been found to involve pathogenesis of PD, including genetic susceptibility, environmental toxins, interruption of autophagy, neuroinflammation and most importantly advancing age. Although the precise mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of PD are not well understood, interactions within these pathogenic factors give rise to loss of DA neurons within the SNpc. Unfortunately, current pharmacological and surgical treatments provide only insufficient symptomatic relief, but cannot reverse nor slow down the underlying loss of midbrain DA neurons. Stem cell transplantation, however, holds great promise in the treatment of PD.
Neural stem cells (NSCs) provide a potential endogenous source for neuron replacement therapy in neurodegenerative disorders such as PD. One of the most important essential features of NSCs is their proliferation potential. It has already been indicated that NSCs can differentiate directly into DA neurons and Suksuphew and Noisa have shown that they have high possibility for producing two undifferentiated daughter cells at early stages of development (symmetric division), and later cell division for production of differentiated neurons plus glial cells (asymmetric division) . A further feature of NSCs' multipotency is their potential to differentiate into astrocytes and oligodendrocytes, as well as into neurons [5, 6]. NSCs in the subventricular zone (SVZ) can differentiate into olfactory neurons, while those of the subgranular zone (SGZ) can differentiate into granular neurons of the dentate gyrus . Furthermore, when implanted into developing eyes, hippocampal NSCs have exhibited several morphological and immunological properties of retinal cells, including photoreceptors . Differentiation of adult NSCs can be influenced by their local environment as well as by intrinsic programmes .
Human ESCs were the first human stem cells to be identified and cultured, by Thomson et al. in 1998 , and were proven at that time to be self-renewing and pluripotent. These properties indicated hESCs as having great promise for cell transplantation therapy. However, ethical concerns arose immediately as generation of hESCs requires destruction of the fertilized human embryo. A further significant problem with transplanting stem cells is associated with immunological rejection after transplantation of specific cells derived from allogeneic hESCs. In 2006, Yamanaka et al. reported generation of ES-like pluripotent stem cells from somatic fibroblasts, the so-called iPSCs . Since then, many methods have been explored to generate hiPSCs from a wide variety of easily accessible source tissues, including skin, adipose and blood cells [11-14]. Unlike hESCs, there are no ethical issues preventing use of iPSCs. Refinement of reprogramming methods now allows for iPSC generation without genomic integration of reprogramming factors, using expression plasmids, non-integrating viruses, recombinant proteins, small molecules and synthetically modified mRNAs or miRNAs . Here, we review the existing iPSC-based models and treatments, with particular emphasis on PD, and explore the challenges associated with cell therapies using iPSCs-derived DA neurons, which have thus far hindered expansion of this research.
Cell replacement therapy with foetal ventral midbrain (VM) DA neurons has been shown, in some ways, to be beneficial to PD patients. Dopaminergic neurons lost in PD are primarily of the VM, and VM DA neurons arise from floor plate cells during embryonic development. The earliest study of DA neuron differentiation from mouse ESCs was performed by Lee et al. in 2000 . This group generated CNS progenitor populations from ESCs, expanded the cells and promoted their differentiation into dopaminergic and serotonergic neurons in the presence of mitogens and specific signalling molecules. Their differentiation involved a number of steps: generation of embryoid bodies (EBs) without retinoic acid (RA) treatment in a serum-containing medium, use of a defined medium to select for CNS stem cells, proliferation of CNS stem cells in the presence of mitogen, basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF), and differentiation of the stem cells by removal of the mitogen in serum-free medium . Finally, the differentiation medium consisted of N2 medium supplemented with laminin, cAMP and ascorbic acid (AA). Sonic hedgehog (SHH), FGF8 and AA also enhanced differentiation to DA fate, and increased yield of ES-derived TH+ neurons. The cells were incubated under differentiation conditions for 615 days at the last stage, in order to increase numbers of TH+ neurons and DA level . While this protocol succeeded in generating DA neurons at relatively high efficiency, extensive studies in Parkinsonian animals are needed to further assess complete function and safety of ESC-derived DA neurons in vivo . Efficiency and purification of generated cell populations also needs to be improved by genetic methods.
After some months, Kawasaki and colleagues introduced an efficient method for generating neurons from ESCs by using PA6-derived stromal cell-derived inducing activity (SDIA) in a serum-free condition requiring neither EBs nor RA treatment . High proportions of TH+ neurons producing DA were obtained from SDIA-treated ESCs. When transplanted, SDIA-induced dopaminergic neurons integrated into the mouse striatum and remained positive for TH expression . In accordance with Lee's group, Kawasaki et al. also avoided using RA in their experiment, as RA seemed to perturb neural patterning and neuronal identities in EBs, as a strong teratogen. Efficiency of DA neuron induction in the SDIA method is as high as maximum efficiency (~30%) obtained by Lee's method with SHH, FGF8 and ascorbate treatment . Neural induction by SDIA provided a new powerful tool for both basic neuroscience research and therapeutic applications.
Low efficiency of generation of DA neurons from primary cultures of foetal neonatal cells, or adult stem cells, limits their therapeutic potential as donor cells . In effort to improve efficiency of DA neuron generation, survival and maturation in vitro, Kim et al. used a cytomegalovirus plasmid (pCMV) driving expression of rat Nurr1 complementary DNA modified to establish stable Nurr1 ESC lines . Nurr1 ESCs raised the proportion of TH+ neurons up to 78%, combined with their previous five-stage differentiation method [16, 18]. They also demonstrated that these DA neurons from ESCs could functionally integrate into host tissue as well as lead to recovery in a rodent model of PD .
These results have subsequently been replicated using hESCs with some modifications, but efficiency was not satisfactory [19-21]. Perrier et al. have reported that co-culture of hESCs on MS5 stroma can yield highly efficient differentiation into midbrain DA neurons . Neural differentiation of hESCs was induced by means of co-culture on MS5, MS5-Wnt or S2 stroma at comparable efficiencies. Growth factors were added in various combinations and at various time points. Rosette structures were harvested mechanically from feeder layers on day 28 of differentiation and gently replanted on 15 g/ml polyornithine/1 g/ml laminin-coated culture dishes in N2 medium supplemented with SHH, FGF8, AA and BDNF. These cells were resuspended in N2 medium, and replated again on to polyornithine/laminin-coated culture dishes in the presence of SHH, FGF8, AA and BDNF. After additional 79 days culture, cells were found to have differentiated in the absence of SHH and FGF8 but in the presence of BDNF, glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor, transforming growth factor type 3, dibutyryl cAMP and AA . The workers observed that exposure to SHH and FGF8 from day 12 to day 20 differentiation, followed by differentiation in the presence of AA and BDNF, resulted in 3-fold increase in TH+ cells. Up to 79% of all the neurons express TH, the rate-limiting enzyme in the synthesis of DA. In addition to TH expression, cells in these cultures expressed key markers associated with normal midbrain DA neurons. However, the high-yield midbrain DA neuron derivation protocol reported here need to be transplantated into pre-clinical animal models of PD . Beyond this, cell survival and long-term maintenance of phenotype are essential parameters for testing in vivo.
In 2008, a group of Korean scientists reported a method for differentiating hESCs into functional TH+ neurons, with up to near 86% total hESC-derived neurons, the highest purity ever reported . The unique feature of their protocol was generation of pure spherical neural masses (SNMs). These SNMs could be expanded for long periods without losing their differentiation capability and could be coaxed into DA neurons efficiently within a relatively short time (approximately 2 weeks) when needed. SNM culture and DA neuron derivation from the SNMs did not need feeder cells, which reduced risks of contamination by unwanted cells and pathogens. More importantly, their hESC-derived DA neurons induced clear behavioural recovery after transplantation in a Parkinsonian rat model, indicating their functionality in vivo .
It has been reported that bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) can differentiate into not only osteogenic, adipogenic, chondrogenic cells, but also into other lineages including myogenic, hepatic and neurogenic cells . Furthermore, they are inducible to differentiate into cells with the DA neuronal phenotype suggested by expression of TH, DAT markers, as well as synthesis and secretion of DA after appropriate stimuli . Previous studies have shown that human BMSC engraftment can alleviate motor dysfunction in Parkinsonian animal models, but with limited efficacy and but few engrafted cells surviving. Our team transplanted equal amounts of hBMSCs into hemi-lesioned Parkinsonian rats with supplementation of bFGF, to assess whether a combination of bFGF and hBMSC therapy would enhance treatment effectiveness in PD rat models . As a result, bFGF promoted hBMSCs to transdifferentiate towards neural-like lineages in vitro . In addition, hBMSC transplantation alleviated motor functional asymmetry, and prevented DA neurons from loss in the PD model, while bFGF administration enhanced neurodifferentiation capacity and therapeutic effect .
Similar strategies have been applied for differentiating hiPSCs into DA neurons. Cooper et al. postulated that a major limitation for experimental studies of current ESC/iPSC differentiation protocols, was lack of VM DA neurons of stable phenotype, as defined by expression marker code FOXA2/TH/-tubulin . They demonstrated a combination of three modifications that were required to produce VM DA neurons. First, early and specific exposure to low-dose RA improved regional identity of neural progenitor cells derived from pluripotent stem cells. Secondly, a high activity form of human SHH established a sizeable FOXA2+ neural progenitor cell population in vitro. Thirdly, early exposure to FGF8a, rather than FGF8b, and WNT1 were required for robust differentiation of the FOXA2+ floor plate-like human neural progenitor cells into FOXA2+ DA neurons . FOXA2+ DA neurons were also generated when this protocol was adapted to feeder-free conditions. In summary, their new human ESC and iPSC differentiation protocol can generate human VM DA neurons as required for relevant new bioassays, drug discovery and cell-based therapies for PD .
The majority of PD cases are sporadic with unknown cause. Age, oxidative stress, toxin and environmental factors are risk factors , and remaining 10% is familial PD, where several causative genes have been identified . Before stem cell modelling appeared, the most used cell or animal models for PD were generated with toxins such as rotenone, 6-OHDA, MPTP or genetic models. The relationship between MPTP and PD was found in a cluster of young drug addicts, by Davis et al. in 1979 . MPTP easily crosses the bloodbrain barrier (BBB) where it is oxidized in glial cells into MPP+. MPP+ competes with DA for the DA transporter and after entering neurons, it exerts its toxic effect by inactivating complex I of the ETC . MPTP is commonly used to model for PD in primates and rodents in that the drug kills dopaminergic neurons, allowing researchers to study neuronal circuitry with reduced dopaminergic involvement . Many workers have demonstrated that MPTP administration is able to reproduce most, but not all, the clinical and pathological hallmarks of PD in monkeys [32-34] and, at least degeneration of dopaminergic neurons, in mice . Similar to MPTP, the pesticide rotenone disrupts complex I function of mitochondria . Our team has demonstrated that rotenone models for PD appear to mimic most clinical features of idiopathic PD and recapitulate the slow and progressive loss of DA neurons and LB formation in the nigral-striatal system . Both MPTP and rotenone have been important for establishment of PD animal models. However, while they promote dopaminergic neuron death with associated motor impairment, their side effects and lack of specificity are major drawbacks . 6-OHDA, a selective catecholaminergic neurotoxin, is used to generate lesions in the nigrostriatal DA neurons in rats . Unlike MPTP, 6-OHDA cannot cross the BBB. So, 6-OHDA must be injected into the SNc, medial forebrain bundle or striatum, to induce Parkinsonism, rather than systemic administration . Intrastriatal injection of 6-OHDA causes progressive retrograde neuronal degeneration in the SNc and VTA [39, 40]. Genetic models provide us with better understanding of underlying genetic forms of PD, even though their pathological and behavioural phenotypes are often quite different from the human condition . Many genetic variant models, including SNCA, LRRK2, PINK, Parkin, DJ-1 and Glucocerebrosidase (GBA), have been generated to explore inherent mechanisms in PD [42-45]. The well-established genetic models are able to interpret pathogenesis of only 510% familial PD, however, without replicating the entire genetic background of the patients in vitro . Moreover, differences between species in displaying neurodegenerative phenotypes make it difficult to extrapolate results obtained from animal models to humans . The discovery of iPSCs has for the first time enabled us to reproduce DA neurons from individuals who suffered from familial or sporadic PD [47, 48]. Moreover, these iPSC models allow us to explore pathogenic factors and discover interactions between genetic and exogenous factors involved in the pathogenesis of PD. As individuals' responses to drug compounds varies, patient-specific iPSCs may be used to distinguish between those individuals likely to respond to new therapeutics and those who are not, and more accurately predict toxicity and efficacy in screening drugs, from mechanisms, in comparison to animal models.
Differentiation of DA neurons from iPSCs has been demonstrated to be relatively robust and reproducible, allowing for generation of disease models from patients carrying a variety of mutations in key genes implicated in familial PD, including PARK2, PINK1, LRRK2, SNCA and GBA [49, 50]. Among genetic risk factors, Parkin (PARK2) is the most frequently mutated gene that has causally been linked to autosomal recessive early-onset familial PD . In patients with PD onset before the age 45, PARK2 mutations are seen in up to 50% of familial cases and about 15% of sporadic cases . Parkin knockout mouse models display some abnormalities, but do not fully recapitulate the pathophysiology of human PARK2. Jiang et al. generated iPSCs from normal subjects and PD patients with Parkin mutations and demonstrated that loss of Parkin in human midbrain DA neurons greatly increased expression of monoamine oxidases and oxidative stress, significantly reduced DA uptake and increased spontaneous DA release . These results suggest that Parkin controls dopamine utilization in human midbrain DA neurons by enhancing the precision of DA neurotransmission and suppressing DA oxidation . Imaizumi et al. used PARK2 patients' specific iPSCs-derived neurons to recapitulate pathogenic changes in the brain of PARK2 patients . The data indicated that PARK2 iPSC-derived neurons exhibited increased oxidative stress, impaired mitochondrial homoeostasis and SNCA accumulation . Recently, Ren et al. showed that the complexity of neuronal processes and microtubule stability were significantly reduced in iPSC-derived neurons from PD patients with Parkin mutations , suggesting that Parkin maintains morphological complexity of human neurons by stabilizing microtubules . Shaltouki et al. observed reduced DA differentiation, accompanied by reduced mitochondrial volume ratio and abnormal mitochondrial ultrastructure, consistent with the current model of PARK2 mutations .
PINK1 functions upstream of Parkin, and is involved in recruiting Parkin to damaged mitochondria, for example, following mitochondrial depolarization . Mutations in either PARK2 or PINK1 result in impaired mitophagy. Cooper et al. found that PINK1 mutant iPSC-derived DA neuronal cells were more sensitive to cell death and production of ROS elicited by mitochondrial and oxidative stressors, and further showed increased basal oxygen consumption and proton leakage suggestive of intrinsically damaged mitochondria . Moreover, cell vulnerability associated with mitochondrial function in iPSC-derived neural cells could be rescued with coenzyme Q10, rapamycin or LRRK2 kinase inhibitor GW5074. These data demonstrate that iPSC-derived neural cells are sensitive models for measuring vulnerability and doseresponses of candidate neuroprotective molecules and might help to identify disease causes and better individualize treatment efficacy .
Mutations in leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) are associated with sporadic and familial forms of PD. Nguyen et al. have reported that DA neurons derived from G2019S mutation-iPSCs have high levels of expressions of key oxidative stress-response genes and SNCA protein . The mutant neurons were more sensitive to caspase-3 activation and cell death caused by exposure to stress agents, such as hydrogen peroxide, MG-132 and 6-hydroxydopamine . Cooper et al. indicated that LRRK2 G2019S and R1441C mutations reduced availability of substrates for oxidative phosphorylation, and were associated with disrupted mitochondrial movement in PD patient-specific iPSCs . Laurie et al. further demonstrated the mechanisms by which LRRK2 mutations lead to loss of mitochondrial function. Their data revealed that mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) damage was induced in neural cells by PD-associated mutations in LRRK2, and this phenotype could be functionally reversed or prevented by zinc finger nuclease (ZFN)-mediated genome editing in iPSCs . These results indicate that mtDNA damage is likely to be a critical early event in neuronal dysfunction that leads ultimately to LRRK2-related PD .
The first genetic cause identified for familial PD was SNCA, as PD can be caused by mutations in SNCA or by overexpression of normal SNCA via gene duplication or triplication, consistent with a gain-of-function mechanism. iPSC-derived midbrain DA cultures from SNCA triplication patients exhibit several disease-related phenotypes in culture, including accumulation of SNCA, inherent overexpression of markers of oxidative stress and sensitivity to peroxide-induced oxidative stress . iPSCs, reprogrammed from patients with the most common A53T-SNCA mutation, had high nitric oxide and 3-NT levels compared to controls .
GBA mutations, which cause the lysosomal storage disorder Gaucher disease, have recently been linked to a 5-fold greater risk of developing Parkinsonism than non-carrier individuals , and are the strongest genetic risk factor for PD known to date. GBA1 mutated iPSC-derived neurons have low glucocerebrosidase activity and protein levels, and high SNCA levels as well as autophagic and lysosomal defects . Mutant neurons display dysregulation of calcium homoeostasis and increased vulnerability to stress responses involving elevation of cytosolic calcium . These findings using iPSC technology, have provided evidence for a link between GBA1 mutations and complex changes in autophagic/lysosomal system and intracellular calcium homoeostasis, underlying vulnerability to neurodegeneration. As monozygotic twins share identical genetic makeup, twin studies have been valuable for dissecting complex gene-environmental interactions in PD. Woodard et al., using iPSC technology , investigated a unique set of monozygotic twins and found that SNCA clearance was impaired in midbrain DA neurons carrying GBA N370S regardless of disease status. Moreover, DA levels of twins discordant for PD were different, suggesting that non-genetic factors further perturbed DA homoeostasis in addition to GBA mutations. These results verified the interactions between genetic and environmental factors in the progress of PD, and offer a theoretical basis for personalized medicine in PD (Table 1).
Although the cause of sporadic PD is not fully understood, various factors including environmental toxins, genetic susceptibility and age, have been implicated. Isogenic hiPSC PD models show that toxin-induced nitrosative/oxidative stress results in S-nitrosylation of transcription factor MEF2C and this redox reaction inhibits MEF2C-PGC1 transcriptional network, contributing to mitochondrial dysfunction and apoptotic cell death , suggesting that the MEF2C-PGC1 pathway may be a new drug target for PD. The advance of iPSC technology now enables widespread development of PD models for dissecting molecular mechanisms that contribute to its disease pathogenesis.
As previously mentioned, there is currently no cure for PD except for some extent of relieving the symptoms. Current treatments include the use of oral medication of l-DOPA dopamine receptor agonists, MAO-B, apomorphine in more serious cases, continuous intestinal infusion of l-DOPA, and deep brain stimulation (DBS) in subthalamic nucleus and globus pallidus by using surgically implanted electrodes . l-DOPA is the gold standard for treatment of PD. Up to now, no medical nor surgical therapy has been shown to provide superior anti-parkinsonian benefits than can be achieved with l-DOPA . Unfortunately, its therapeutic effect is reduced after around 35 years use . The problems and limitations associated with long-term use of l-DOPA, including on-off fluctuations and emergence of dyskinesia, facilitating exploration of better ways to restore dopamine neurotransmission. Dopamine receptor agonists are used as the first choice to delay initiation of l-DOPA treatment, with longer plasma elimination half-lives than l-DOPA. Their mechanism of action are by stimulation of presynaptic and postsynaptic DA receptors so that their use has therefore been considered to be opportunity to improve continuous drug delivery . Selegiline was the first selective, irreversible inhibitor of monoamine oxidase type B (MAO-B) used in treatment of PD, which can stabilize DA levels in the synaptic cleft . Because of its capacity for interfering with oxidative stress and for blocking MPTP toxicity, selegiline has been tested in the first major trial as a putative disease-modifying agent . Rasagiline is another MAO-B inhibitor, with different metabolites than selegiline, successfully developed for PD therapy. Good tolerance to rasagiline and its ease of use make it an appealing option at the start of therapy . DBS as surgical treatment has some serious limitations. It is costly and can produce cognitive disorders, which may be permanent . All of these treatments have considerable side effects such as ultimate loss of drug effect (wearing off) during disease progression, occurrence of dyskinesia (notably with l-DOPA) use, and appearance of non-motor symptoms that are largely refractory to dopaminergic medication . The concept of using cell transplantation to substitute for loss of DA neurons in the brains of PD patients has evolved. In addition to conventional clinical treatments, such as pharmaceutical drugs and DBS, cell replacement therapy has offered a novel basis for development of effective therapeutic strategies for PD. In 1987, Brundin et al. first transplanted human VM tissue into the striatum of PD patients in Sweden, and the era of cell therapy for PD patients started . Various source tissues have been assessed for therapeutic replacement of DA neurons, such as hESC, hiPSC or DA grafts directly converted from somatic cells. Our team also has transplanted DiI-labelled human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells (HUMSCs) to rotenone-induced hemiparkinsonian rats . We showed that intra-CPu transplantation of DiI-labelled HUMSCs 4 weeks after rotenone administration ameliorated APO-induced rotations gradually over a period of 12 months, indicating long-term therapeutic effect of this approach . By monitoring red fluorescence of DiI, we found that HUMSCs migrated in the lesioned cerebral hemisphere, from CPu to SNc, or even to the opposite hemisphere through the corpus callosum. HUMSCs survived for up to 12 months after transplantation, and differentiated into Nestin-, NSE-, GFAP- and TH-positive cells in the CPu and TH+ cells in the SNc. No tumour-like structures was observed in implanted CPu . As reported, vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a neurotrophic factor which has been proven to promote growth and survival of DA neurons in VM explants and animal models for PD [72-74]. Our previous work has also indicated that relatively low-level expression of VEGF in the striatum protects DA neurons of Parkinsonian rats . Next, we developed a more effective neurorestorative and neuroregenerative therapy combining VEGF and HUMSC . As a result, intrastriatal infusion VEGF-expressing HUMSCs to rotenone-induced Parkinsonian rats provided a significant behavioural improvement, more significant than HUMSC transplantation alone, and resulted in revival of TH immunoreactivity in the lesioned striatum and SNc . Importantly, VEGF expression enhanced neuroprotective effects by promoting DA neuron-orientated differentiation of the HUMSCs. Thus, our findings have presented the suitability of HUMSC as a vector for gene therapy and suggested that stem cell engineering with VEGF may improve transplantation strategies for PD treatment .
iPSCs, induced pluripotent cells, have the potential capacity for self-renewal and are able to differentiate into any somatic cells, including DA neurons . Alternatively, iPSCs have properties similar to ESCs but can be generated from adult human cells such as skin, adipose tissue and fibroblasts . Thus, they are ethically more acceptable than some other stem cells sources. In theory, iPSCs from patients are without risk of immunological rejection for autografting .
Before successfully generating hiPSCs, many efforts had been made in animal experiments. In 2006, Yamanaka et al. generated iPSCs from mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEF) and adult mouse tail-tip fibroblasts, by retrovirus-mediated transfection of four transcription factors, Oct3/4, Sox2, c-Myc and Klf4 . One year later, iPSCs were derived by the same group by viral reprogramming of human skin fibroblasts with the same four factors. These studies opened a new avenue for generating patient- and disease-specific pluripotent stem cells. Wernig et al. used 6-OHDA-lesioned rats to examine whether DA neurons derived from directly reprogrammed fibroblasts had therapeutic potential for PD animals . As a result, in the striatum of rats grafted with differentiated iPSCs, a large number of TH+ cells with complex morphologies have been observed, these grafted stem cells were also positive for En1, VMAT2 and DAT. Four of the five transplanted animals which contained large numbers of TH+ neurons showed marked recovery of rotation behaviour 4 weeks after transplantation .
Kikuchi et al. first grafted hiPSC-derived DA neurons into the brains of an MPTP-lesioned Parkinsonian monkey, which survived as DA neurons as long as 6 months . In order to reduce immune rejection, Deleidi et al. generated iPSCs from cynomolgus macaque (CM) skin fibroblasts carrying specific major histocompatibility complex (MHC) haplotypes, observing that neither tumour formation nor inflammatory reactions occurred in the transplanted animals, up to 6 months after transplantation . Concerning the aspect of directed differentiation of iPSC into DA neurons, Snchez-Danes et al. indicated lentiviral vectors driving controlled expression of LMX1A was an efficient way to generate enriched populations of human VM DA neurons . However, Mak et al. revealed that the protocol using dorsomorphin and SB431542 to replace SHH with purmorphamine or smoothened agonist could greatly improve conversion of hiPSCs to the neuronal lineage . These histocompatible iPSCs may allow pre-clinical validation of safety and efficacy of iPSCs for PD.
Two commonly used anti-convulsants drugs, valproic acid (VPA) and zonisamide (ZNS), have been tested to promote differentiation of iPSC-derived DA neurons . As iPSC-derived donor cells inevitably contain tumourigenic or inappropriate cells, finding better protocols to purify and sort iPSCs is urgent. Doi et al. have shown that hiPSC-derived DA progenitor cells can be efficiently isolated by cell sorting using a floor plate marker, CORIN . When transplanted into 6-OHDA-lesioned rats, CORIN+ cells survived and differentiated into midbrain DA neurons in vivo, resulting in significant improvement in motor behaviour, without tumour formation . Recently, Hallett et al. analysed CM iPSC-derived midbrain DA neurons for up to 2 years following autologous transplantation in a PD model. They observed that unilateral engraftment of CM-iPSCs provided gradual onset of functional motor improvement, and increased motor activity, without any need for immunosuppression. Postmortem analyses demonstrated robust survival of midbrain-like DA neurons and extensive outgrowth into the transplanted putamen . These experiments offered strong immunological, functional and biological rationales for using midbrain DA neurons derived from iPSCs for future cell replacement in PD (Table 2).
Although pre-clinical studies concerning iPSCs-derived cell therapies have shown great achievement, yet, some limitations hinder clinical usage of iPSCs for PD treatment. Tumourigenicity of iPSCs is an an important putative problem. Murine iPSCs and ESCs both form teratomas when transplanted into syngeneic mice. Also, hiPSCs and hESCs generate teratomas when injected into immunodeficient mice . A standardized sensitive teratoma assay to detect low numbers of tumour-forming cells within a therapeutic cell preparation would be highly valuable. Gropp et al. presented detailed characterization of an efficient, quantitative, sensitive and easy-to-perform teratoma assay . These tumours may be benign (also, they may be malignant), although even so can become fatal when very large. In some studies, when teratomas have been removed from mice, the animals survived . Importantly, aggressiveness of teratocarcinomas from iPSCs is greater than that of ESCs . Differences in oncogenicity between ESCs and iPSCs might be due to their different approach of being derived . As hiPSCs have been first derived by transduction of human dermal fibroblasts with integrating viruses carrying four transcription factors Oct4, Sox2, c-Myc and Klf4 , c-Myc is a well-established oncogene while the other three transcription factors are known to be highly expressed in various types of cancer [89-91]. Yamanaka et al. subsequently reported a further Myc family member, L-Myc, as well as C-Myc mutants (W136E and dN2), all of which indicated little transformational activity, promoting hiPSC generation more efficiently and specifically compared to WT C-Myc . A further cause of tumourigenicity may be attributed to random integration of foreign DNA into the host genome disrupting important genes or activating oncogenes, potentially leading to uncontrollable growth of cells .
Stadtfeld et al. generated mouse iPSCs from fibroblasts and liver cells by using non-integrating adenoviruses transiently expressing Oct4, Sox2, Klf4 and c-Myc . These adenoviral iPSCs (adeno-iPSCs) showed DNA demethylation characteristic of reprogrammed cells, expressed endogenous pluripotency genes and formed teratomas . Their work indicated that insertional mutagenesis was not required for in vitro reprogramming . Thus, more than 2 years after establishment of iPSC technology by Yamanaka's group, these newly generated adeno-iPSCs have been the first reported reprogrammed pluripotent stem cells with evidence of complete lack of viral transgene integration . Yamanaka et al. described an alternative method to generate iPSCs from MEFs by continual transfection of plasmid vectors free from plasmid integration ; this protocol took around 2 months to complete, from MEF isolation to iPSC establishment. The virus-free technique reduced safety concerns for iPSC generation and application, and have provided a source of cells for investigation of mechanisms underlying reprogramming and pluripotency . Introducing mRNA directly into host cells without altering their genomic makeup or using episomal DNA-based vectors which seldom integrate into the host genome, holds the potential to solve this problem, by providing sufficient reprogramming factor expression for successful transformation of somatic cells [96-98].
Anokye-Danso et al. showed that expression of the miR302/367 cluster rapidly and efficiently reprogramed mouse and human somatic cells to an iPSC state without requirement for exogenous transcription factors . This miRNA-based reprogramming approach was two orders of magnitude more efficient than standard Oct4/Sox2/Klf4/Myc-mediated methods, and the miR302/367 iPSCs displayed characteristics similar to the Oct4/Sox2/Klf4/Myc-iPSCs .
A further problem which hinders iPSCs treatment is that the therapeutic effect can be influenced by inherent pathogenic features of PD. Interactions between genetic and exogenous factors result in its pathogenesis. A general concern about use of autologous iPSC transplantation is whether underlying PD-associated genetic mutations presented in transplanted neurons increases vulnerability of iPSC-derived midbrain DA neurons to disease pathology. Environmental factors and age contribute largely to the pathogenesis of PD. Thus, iPSC-derived neurons represent a reasonable strategy for more advantages. It has been shown that LBs, the pathological features of PD, can be found in grafts of foetal VM tissue [100, 101]. The first reason is that LB pathology is a reaction to inflammation from host brain tissues, possibly mediated by cell stress induced by reactive microglia . Second, the spread of SNCA into the graft from the host may contribute to these pathological changes [103, 104]. However, Barker et al. believe that these pathological changes are not likely to limit widespread adoption of cell treatments, as numbers of cells with LB-like pathology in the grafts were small compared to numbers of healthy cells [105-107]. Patients can still be functionally stable, more than a decade after such a graft, at a time when accumulation of SNCA had been observed [108, 109].
Apart from the potential risk of tumourigenicity or inherent pathogenic features deriving from donor cells, pluripotent stem cell-derived cell populations for therapies also confer a risk for the contamination of transplantation cell populations with residual pluripotent cells . In order to resolve this issue, several sorting methods have been developed for enrichment of differentiated neural cell populations and elimination of pluripotent stem cells, using flow cytometric analysis (FACS) or MACS . Different combinations of CD markers have been explored to purify heterogeneous pluripotent stem cell-derived neural cell populations. Pruszak et al. identified a cluster of differentiation (CD) surface antigen code for the neural lineage, based on combinatorial FACS of three distinct populations derived from hESCs: combinatorial CD15/CD24/CD29 marker profiles . They found that CD15(+)/CD29(HI)/CD24(LO) surface antigen expression defined NSCs, and this could eliminate tumour formation in vivo, resulting in pure neuronal grafts . Yuan et al. performed an unbiased FACS- and image-based immunophenotyping analysis using 190 antibodies to cell surface markers on pluripotent stem cells . From this analysis they isolated a population of NSC that were CD184(+)/CD271(-)/CD44(-)/CD24(+) from neural induction cultures of hESCs and hiPSCs . To improve the sorting method, Sundberg et al. sorted primate iPSC-derived neural cell population with NCAM+/CD29low selection . They demonstrated that teh NCAM+/CD29low selection method enriched the FOXA2/TH and EN1/TH+ DA neurons in vitro compared to unsorted cell populations from >10% prior to sorting to > 35% after sorting. Importantly, sorting with NCAM+/CD29low selection prior to transplantation eliminated non-neural tumourigenic cells from the grafts and significantly increased the number of TH+ cells in the cell grafts compared to unsorted cell populations .
In this review, we have summarized a number of scientific and ethical issues in modelling and treatment with iPSCs for PD. iPSCs can be employed as relevant Parkinsonian cell models, for drug screening, studying disease progression and most importantly for treatment of PD by transplantation techniques. Compared with other stem cells, iPSCs stand out for their powerful pluripotency, few ethical issues and less immune rejection, although there are still several issues that need to be solved prior to translation of iPSCs into the clinical setting. First, the exact mechanisms of how transplanted cells restore host brain function and how to connect them with circumjacent brain tissues have not been yet elucidated. Second, tumourigenicity of iPSCs may surpass their therapeutic effects. Ultimately, iPSC, derived from autologous PD patients, may contain pathogenic gene mutations that affect prognosis of transplantation therapy. With improvements in differentiation methodologies and better understanding of pathogenesis of PD through patient-specific iPSCs, iPSC therapy can be a potential alternative for PD treatment combined with traditional drug development platforms and gene therapy.
This work was supported by grants 31171211 and 81471305 from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (to TW), grant 81200983 from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (to NX), grant 81301082 from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (to JSH), grant 2012B09 from China Medical Foundation (to NX) and grant 0203201343 from Hubei Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory (to NX). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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A: Try something like this;
function myFunction(numberOfRows) {
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var value = "";
var slots = numberOfRows * 2 - 1;
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value = spaces + '*'.repeat(asteriskSlots) + spaces;
arr.push(value);
}
return arr;
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A: Got it working! Here's a perfect solution.
function myFunction(n) {
let arr = [];
for(let f = 1; f <= n; f++) {
arr.push(' '.repeat(n - f) + '*'.repeat(f + f - 1) + ' '.repeat(n - f));
}
return arr;
}
console.log(myFunction(3));
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«Thank God, It's Doomsday» () — девятнадцатый эпизод шестнадцатого сезона мультсериала «Симпсоны». Премьера эпизода состоялась 8 мая 2005 года.
Сюжет
Скрываясь от плохой стрижки и от фотографирования одноклассниками, Барт и Лиза берут Гомера в кинозал. Они смотрят фильм «Брошенные Внизу». Гомер после просмотра фильма о Судном Дне опасается, что Судный день идет. Мардж рассказывает Гомеру, что Судный день не начался бы без предупреждения о нём (и Лиза соглашается, говоря, что мир может закончиться через 100 лет или от глобального потепления, но не из-за Судного Дня).
На следующий день, когда Гомер едет в своей машине, он видит дьявола (на самом деле внутри человек в рекламном костюме) и кровь, падающую с неба (на самом деле кровь из раненых китов, свисающих с вертолета), который он принимает в качестве признаков того, что Судный День идёт. Он использует бессмысленную нумерологию для вычисления даты и времени Судного Дня, считая, что он будет ровно через неделю.
Он ходит по Спрингфилду и предсказывает, что звезды спадут с неба, Кент Брокман снимает репортаж о поступке Гомера, и они действительно падают, когда дирижабль Красти терпит аварию во время прямого эфира. Это заставляет многих жителей Спрингфилда полагать, что Гомер предсказывает правду, что в 3:15 вечера 18 мая Апокалипсис наступит, и Гомер просит всех следовать за ним на Столовую Гору. Однако в предсказанное время начала Апокалипсиса час проходит без инцидентов, и все жители Спрингфилда идут домой. Все они разозлены на Гомера, в частности Мо, который переделал свою Таверну в японский Суши-бар. Гомер идёт домой и начинает выбрасывать книги, которые он купил, но вдруг понимает, что он сделал ошибку в своих расчётах: было тринадцать человек во время Тайной Вечери, а не двенадцать. Его новый прогноз попал на 3:15 утра 19 мая, но поскольку он не может убедить его семью пойти с ним снова, он возвращается к Столовой Горе в одиночку. Когда ничего не происходит, сначала он думает, что он ошибся снова, но в следующий момент он становится голым и плавающим в пространстве.
Гомер попадает в Рай, где гид даёт ему одежду, несмотря на то, что Гомеру комфортно быть голым (по словам гида, потому что «это рай для всех»). Они летят недалеко от таких сооружений на небесах, как водные горки, которые откроются через год (потому что, по словам гида, не надо брать на работу эльфов, потому что они будут долго строить сооружения). Гид сообщает Гомеру, что все его желания в Раю сбываются тут же, поэтому он желает, чтобы голова гида разорвалась, в результате чего гид даёт Гомеру комнату рядом с детским бассейном.
Так как его семья не следовала за ним на Столовую Гору, он спрашивает, может ли он увидеть их на большом экране телевизора в своем роскошном номере, на котором Земля на двадцать третьем канале. Показано, что Мардж, Барт, Лиза и Мэгги мучаются от мук на Земле. Он решает побеседовать с Богом о спасении его семьи. Когда Бог отказывается помочь, из-за страдания Иисуса на Земле, Гомер уверяет его, что он сделал Гомера сильным врагом. Гомер начинает вандализировать Рай, пытаясь изменить разум Бога, и его задерживает Бог. Бог, наконец, соглашается отменить Судный День, повернув время вспять (потому что Гомер отмечает «Супермен сделал это»). Бог восклицает Deus Ex Machina. Гомер поздно просыпается на Столовой Горе и воссоединяется с Мардж, Бартом и Лизой. Он подозревает, что все происходящее в Раю был сон, но факт, что его последнее желание было исполнено (Таверна Мо была восстановлена из Суши-бара в Таверну) указывает, что все события в Раю были реальными.
Культурные отсылки
Название эпизода — пародия на популярное высказывание «Слава богу, это пятница Thank God, It's Friday».
Сюжет эпизода в некоторых местах пародирует жизнь Уильяма Миллера.
Часовой пояс на Небесах может быть UTC+0 или UTC+12 по сравнению с другими часами, на которых помечены Лондон, Нью-Йорк и Токио.
Когда Бог поворачивает время назад, он восклицает: «Deus ex machina»(в дубляже 2х2 "По щучьему велению", который имеет отношения к сказкам, где ловили волшебную щуку). Это литературный прием используется иронически, поскольку это означает «Бог из машины» и относится к необъяснимым решениям неразрешимых проблем — что и происходит в эпизоде, когда Апокалипсис отменяется.
Чарли Браун показан в «Симпсонах» в четвёртый раз. Первый раз он был замечен в костюме привидения в эпизоде Treehouse of Horror II; второй раз он появлялся в виде свечи в эпизоде Grade School Confidential, третий раз Барт надевал хэллоуинский костюм с ним в эпизоде Treehouse of Horror XIV.
Песня, которая играет, когда Гомер выбрасывает его книги по восстанию, — это видоизменённая версия песни «Легко ли быть жестким» группы Three Dog Night из мюзикла «Волосы».
Название Суши-бара Мо «Суши-бар Токио Ро», очевидно, является отсылкой на Токио Роз.
Бог сидит на Аэроническом стуле, который сделала корпорация Герман Миллер в городе Зиланд, штат Мичиган.
Когда Гомер начинает рушить и ломать всё вокруг в раю, видно Леонардо да Винчи и Дина Мартина.
Музыка, которая играет, когда Гомер попадает в рай, — это песня «Цветочный Дуэт» из оперы Лакме, поставленной Лео Делибом.
Сцена в конце эпизода, в которой Гомер пьёт пиво в Таверне Мо, — пародия на картину Леонардо да Винчи Тайная вечеря, в которой Гомер занимает положение Иисуса.
В парикмахерской играет пародия на песню группы Baha Men «Who Let The Dogs Out?».
Жители Спрингфилда, едущие в автобусе на Столовую гору, поют пародию на песню «99 бутылок пива».
Серии «Симпсонов»
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I GOT some LEFT-handed accolades recently. Criticism by politically correct academics. A paper published in Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture, concerning a study of "racist" themes in computer games, entitled "Skinhead Super Mario Brothers: An Examination of Racist and Violent Games on White Supremacist Web Sites," by Andrew Selepak of the University of Florida, mentions a game that I wrote about twenty years ago. On the right is a photo of Andrew Selepak. If you examine a list of his published academic papers, you'll learn that he has only one skill: whining and carping about cultural phenomena that he does not like, such as, for example, white nationalism.
The game was Aryan 3: Adventures of the Aryan Hero, The Third Quest. It was a very simple game, but I dressed it up nicely. The player was tasked with saving the kingdom from an invasion of monsters called spicnigs. He had a magic sword with which he had to destroy all of the spicnig eggs in the 81 rooms of a 3x3x9 dungeon. He had only a certain number of moves in which to complete his mission and make good his escape from the enemies' lair. Randomly positioned throughout the dungeon were some of the monsters, and there was a 50% chance that the monster would get the first hit.
The game could be lost in either of two ways. First, the hero could lose all of his hit points and die. Second, he could run out of time before the eggs hatched, resulting in mission failure. But if the Aryan Hero was successful, and if he got away from the spicnig lair without suffering enough endgame damage to do him in, then he was rewarded by the King with the hand of his daughter in marriage.
Apparently, the leftists of the world don't like that game much. Too bad!
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Discussion in 'House of Debates' started by reedak, Oct 23, 2018.
1(a) Whenever Donald Trump faces difficulties or a crisis (now probably the midterm elections and the Khashoggi murder), he would "play that game" of diversionary tactics to distract attention from the real problems.
Hence it is not surprising that, out of the blue, he announced his intention to withdraw from a landmark arms control treaty with Russia that has kept mid-range nuclear-tipped missiles off the European continent for three decades.
1(b) Another possible reason, like his obsession to build "a great, great wall" along the US-Mexico border, is his pretensions to greatness. However, whatever legacy he leaves behind will end up like many self-aggrandizing monuments or statues -- "nothing remains, only the 'lone and level sands,' which stretch out around it", as in the following famous poem.
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Q: How can I resize the size of right-click tooltip menu on Ubuntu dock? I just don't like that size of the menu when I right-click on Ubuntu docked icons, please help me if you can.
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Chauveau est une circonscription électorale provinciale québécoise situé dans la région de la Capitale-Nationale.
La population de la circonscription est majoritairement francophone et a une situation économique plus aisée que dans le reste de la province. En 2016, 97 % de la population avait comme langue maternelle le français (contre 78,9 % pour le reste du Québec) et le taux de chômage était la moitié de la moyenne nationale.
Historique
La circonscription de Chauveau a été créée lors de la refonte de la carte électorale de 1965. Son territoire est à l'origine composé de la plus grande partie du district électoral de Québec-comté, qui cesse alors d'exister. Elle sera modifiée plusieurs fois par la suite. En 1972, elle perd la partie est de son territoire au profit de la nouvelle circonscription de Charlesbourg mais en gagne à l'ouest sur Louis-Hébert et Portneuf. En 1980, sa partie sud devient la nouvelle circonscription de La Peltrie mais Chauveau regagne le nord de Charlesbourg. En 1992, Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier et les environs sont transférés dans Portneuf. En 2001, le secteur de Val-Bélair est détaché de Chauveau pour aller dans La Peltrie. Puis, en 2011, Shannon et Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier sont déplacés dans La Peltrie . Enfin, en 2017, une légère modification de la limite avec Charlesbourg est effectuée.
La circonscription est nommée en l'honneur de Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, premier premier ministre du Québec.
Territoire et limites
La circonscription de Chauveau s'étend sur un territoire de dans la région de la Capitale-Nationale. Elle est située au nord-ouest de la capitale du Québec. En 2016, personnes y résidaient répartis dans les neuf municipalités suivantes :
Lac-Beauport
Lac-Croche
Lac-Delage
Québec (une partie des arrondissements de Charlesbourg et de la Haute-Saint-Charles)
Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury
Wendake
Liste des députés
Résultats électoraux
Référendums
Notes et références
Voir aussi
Articles connexes
Circonscription électorale (Québec)
Histoire de la carte électorale du Québec
Liens externes
Renseignements sur les circonscriptions provinciales. Chauveau — Directeur général des élections du Québec
Les membres de l'Assemblée nationale par circonscription. Chauveau — Assemblée nationale du Québec
Référendum du 20 mai 1980 — Directeur général des élections du Québec
Référendum du 26 octobre 1992 — Directeur général des élections du Québec
Référendum du 30 octobre 1995 — Directeur général des élections du Québec
Circonscription provinciale au Québec
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Park City Utah is one of the greatest cities in the great state of Utah. During the summer, Main Street is always busy with people roaming to and from bars, art galleries, quaint little movie theaters, and fun shops filled with things like interesting socks and accessories. During January, however, Main Street is crowded with people wandering through the blistering cold trying to make it to their Sundance showing. The Sundance Corporation will even rent out a few large buildings and parking lots just for the month-long event.
The Kris Bowen Team witnessed this for the first time last Friday night (Jan. 27). There were people everywhere. All the parking lots were full, and there was a $150 fine for anybody who stopped their car in the middle of the road. It was obvious that both the Park City PD and Sundance meant business.
Our showing was for something called the "VR Palace". For the most part we understood that we were attending a Virtual Reality movie of some kind, but we had no idea what we were getting into.
We arrived on Main Street via Uber - trust us, it was cheaper than parking. We had to be redirected to the next street over to find our "VR Palace". To our dismay, we did not find a palace, but a tent in a parking lot. However, it was a large heated tent, so it wasn't too bad. Our showing as it turned out, was nothing less than a small room with multiple booths with technicians and a large selection of VR headsets that you can put on. Every headset was playing something different. I happen to watch a short film about coral reefs. I followed that up with a film about a toy robot in the 80's, which I found surreal and very interesting. At the end of the tent was a small booth which held a few wandering folks with headsets on. I decided I would give this one a try, but non-the-less, I had to wait in line for the experience. When it was finally my turn, I slid the headset on, they placed the headphones on my head, and I was kind of blown away. This booth held a plethora of sensors and racks of wires that showed you where the walls of the booth were - already pretty cool. The showing was essentially a walkthrough timeline of random digitally exploding objects. If you moved to the right, the digital object was intact - to the left, the object blew up.
I had never experienced walk-around VR. It really blew me away, but to be honest, the showing wasn't that amazing. After this experience, though, I can conclude that Virtual Reality is the future of entertainment. Period.
There's so much that can be done with VR. There are multiple apps and programs being built for commercial, military, and personal use. In 10 years time, VR headsets will be the norm concerning our day-to-day entertainment. I don't know whether to be concerned or not.
Overall, we had a good time as a team. We talked about Virtual Reality for a while afterward and then proceeded to enjoy Park City's night-life.
So what did we learn? Sundance is hectic, and virtual reality is super cool. If you haven't done either yet, make sure they go on your bucket list. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,599 |
A quintessential urban destination, Bangkok is filled to the brim with travelers from around the world. Experience the city's lively markets and street food culture, then venture out to explore ancient Thai temples, trek through Kanchanaburi and lounge on the beaches of Ko Pha Ngan.
Bangkok is a traveler's paradise. What began as a lesser-known destination has grown to be a favorite place for backpackers. People from all over flock to Bangkok to enjoy a great experience at a low cost.
Start your day at the Mahraj Pier. There's plenty to see in Bangkok, so pack a light snack and start exploring. The Grand Palace and Wat Phra Kaeo are located here. Seeing both these attractions will cost around $15. If possible, hire a guide to explain everything inside.
Keep up the temple visits with a trip to Wat Pho and Wat Arun. Together the entrance fees will be around $5. Both temples are gorgeous and worth exploring. They house famous displays of art and culture. Walking through the temples is a great way to learn more about Thailand and the culture.
Stop for a quick lunch at the The Deck by Arun Residence. This spot is highly recommended by visitors to the area for its authentic Thai dishes. They also offer Western options, but the best is the Thai food.
Spend the rest of the afternoon exploring Bangkok and shopping. There are hundreds of stores to choose from and many are interesting enough for a quick walk. Walking around Bangkok is an experience within itself because of the intensity of the city.
Grab some food at May Veggie Home, which offers many vegan and vegetarian dishes. The food is amazing and will leave you stuffed after a long day exploring temples and Bangkok. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,600 |
Sarasota Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012 6 years ago
Champions unite for Crystal Classic
by: Alex Mahadevan News Innovation Editor
Onlookers watched — and at times dodged — bulldozers and backhoes moving hundreds of tons of sand into piles Nov. 5, on Siesta Key Beach.
Shirtless sand sculptors carve niches into a hardening wall of the soft sand, and fire hoses blast the piles with water.
It's less than one week until the Siesta Key Crystal Classic Master Sand Sculpting Competition, and the sponsor display is taking shape southeast of the beach pavilion. There will be three days of festivities, including the master sand-sculpting competition, amateur sculpting contest and quick-sculpting event, at the third annual event, which is shaping up to be the biggest so far.
Organizers sold out of spots for the vendor village, which will be made up of food and retail booths, a month ago, said Crystal Classic Steering Committee member Lourdes Ramirez.
Twenty-two sculptors competed in the inaugural event in 2010, and 24 participated the following year. Twenty-four sculptors from as far away as Singapore are scheduled to dig, pack and carve this year, including 2010 winner Sue McGrew and last year's champ, Karen Fralich.
"I love contests, I adore them; to me it's like cotton candy — I just can't wait for the next one," Fralich said.
The pair last worked together at the North American Sand Sculpting Championship in 2010 and sculpted two folk dancers they called "Celtic Sisters," which won a $3,000 fourth-place prize.
Fralich won the solo competition at the North American Sand Sculpting Championship this year and finished second at the 2012 Fulong Sand Sculpture Festival, where she was edged out by another 2012 Crystal Classic competitor: Singaporean artist Joo Heng Tan.
Fralich worked with Dan Belcher to create the dark equine-themed "Nightmares" at the 2011 Crystal Classic, but she said their schedules didn't align this year.
"Sue called and asked if I wanted to do it, and, of course, I was honored," Fralich said.
McGrew won the Crystal Classic in 2010 with "Circle of Life" and has been busy working on the Travel Channel show, "Sand Masters," this season.
Local master sandsculptor Brian Wigelsworth, who took third place in the North American Sand Sculpting Championships this year, said in an interview earlier this year one of the biggest challenges for a sculptor is setting out with a unique vision, as well as never-before-seen techniques.
"That's one of the hardest things for me," Fralich said. Ideas can bubble up during menial daily activities such as washing dishes, she said.
Another challenge comes from the fact that the world-famous Siesta sand loses a lot of hardness as it dries, meaning sculptors have to dig deeper for more course sand, Fralich said.
"But, it feels so nice — it's like talcum powder," Fralich said. "It carves like butter."
Fralich and McGrew have kicked around sculpture ideas through Skype, but haven't settled on a vision for the Crystal Classic.
"I'm just going to kind of dive in and see what happens," Fralich said.
What: Siesta Key Crystal Classic Master Sand Sculpting Competition
When: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 8 through Monday, Nov. 12
Where: Siesta Key public beach, 948 Beach Road, Siesta Key
Transportation: Buses available from Phillippi Estate Park, 5500 S. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota
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Fans of the '80s classic flick Top Gun will recognize this as the charming beachfront bungalow owned by Charlie (Kelly McGillis). Despite it being a significant Oceanside tourist attraction, over the years, the house became dilapidated and its future unclear. Thankfully, the 19th century Victorian recently got a makeover, and it looks like she'll be staying put for the time being. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,602 |
A yearning for a cheesy slice of pizza, a sudden urge for chocolate, a desperate longing for that wedge of cheesecake still in the fridge. As many of us know, desire and food can be synonymous.
"Food can be physically addictive," says Dr. Neil Barnard, a nutritional researcher and professor at George Washington University.
Dr. Barnard defines cravings and the biochemical processes that cause them, as well as steps to end the craving cycle, in his new book, "Breaking the Food Seduction: The Hidden Reasons Behind Food Cravings and Seven Steps to End Them Naturally." The book also includes 100 recipes using alternatives to addictive foods.
A representative for the American Medical Association says the group has no official stance on food addiction.
Dr. Barnard started to research and write his book after conducting an experiment in which 59 overweight post-menopausal women were put on a vegan diet.
Chocolate addiction has been talked about for years. Many people are aware that chocolate contains caffeine and other stimulants and that it also releases certain chemicals in the brain that ensure that the first bite of a chocolate bar isn't the last.
According to Dr. Barnard, however, most people are unaware that there are similar biochemical pathways triggered by cheese and meat. Cheese breaks apart during digestion to form a range of opiates, he says. Meats create both opiates and insulin in the body.
Dr. Barnard has come up with a three-week program to fool the body into forgetting the tastes it loves.
Because Dr. Barnard treats food cravings as a form of physical addiction, he expects people to fall off the wagon.
Food and desire might go hand in hand, but Dr. Martha Grodrian, a clinical nutritionist at Good Samaritan Hospital in Dayton, Ohio, would also add nurturing to the list.
Dr. Grodrian suggests making a list of ways you nurture yourself that aren't related to food.
Dr. Grodrian also urges people to come to terms with the reason for their addiction to a certain food. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,603 |
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Trump's growing list of apostasies puts him at odds with decades of Republican beliefs
Donald Trump speaks during a campaign press conference Monday at the Old Post Office Pavilion, soon to be a Trump International Hotel, in Washington. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
By Philip Rucker and
Philip Rucker
White House Bureau Chief
Chief correspondent covering national politics, the presidency and Congress
Donald Trump fits no simple ideological framework. The presidential candidate collects thoughts from across the spectrum. Added together, however, his ideas represent a sharp departure from many of the Republican Party's values and priorities dating back half a century or more.
The list of Trump's apostasies is lengthy and growing by the day. He said this week that he sees little value in U.S. military commitments in the Asia-Pacific region. He questions the terms of U.S. involvement in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). He opposes free-trade agreements. He advocates taxing imports from China.
Domestically, he opposes any restructuring of Social Security or Medicare. He favors hefty spending on infrastructure. He favors the use of eminent domain. He advocates closing a tax break the benefits Wall Street hedge fund managers, and he decries corporate inversions. He defends much of the work of Planned Parenthood outside of abortions.
Yet, on other issues, he embraces more doctrinaire conservative views. His tax plan is consistent with that of other Republican candidates. His tough talk on immigration is cheered by many in the GOP. He strongly supports Second Amendment gun rights and favors local control of education. His latest discussion of Middle East issues puts him squarely on the side of pro-Israel hawks.
"I am a common-sense conservative," Trump said in a telephone interview Tuesday. Asked how he would label his governing philosophy, he replied, "It would be governing through strength — and governing also through common sense and governing through heart."
Listen to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump discuss some of his foreign policy positions with The Washington Post editorial board. "NATO is costing us a fortune," Trump said. "We're not reimbursed fairly for what we do." (The Washington Post)
To many people in the party, Trump's ideas lack intellectual cohesion, but together they reflect the instincts of a dealmaker. He arrives at positions guided less by philosophy than visceral reactions to problems of the moment.
"I don't think he has an ideology," said Patrick J. Buchanan, the conservative commentator who twice sought the GOP nomination. "He very much is responding to the realities that he has encountered and his natural reactions to them. It's not some intellectual construct. He's much more of an instinctive politician."
[Transcript of Trump interview with Washington Post Editorial Board]
Trump's presidential candidacy has been described as a hostile takeover of the Republican Party. In reality it appears more a movement that threatens to subsume the GOP behind a menu of ideas and instincts that might best be described as "America Wins."
"I'm very, very conservative on the military and on taking care of our vets," Trump said. "I'm certainly conservative on education, I'm conservative on the budget and fiscally conservative."
On the economy, Trump said he calls himself a free-trader but wants to put teeth into the U.S. approach to trade agreements. "We're being absolutely mauled by Japan, absolutely mauled by Mexico," he said. "We're being absolutely destroyed on free trade."
Trump's critics argue that his provocative statements do not translate into either a coherent worldview or specific policies.
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump met with GOP leaders and surveyed the progress made on his new luxury hotel under construction in downtown Washington on Tuesday. (WUSA9)
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, speaking to a group of reporters Tuesday, dismissed Trump's national security views as those of a candidate with little understanding of the world.
"I don't think he has enough knowledge of foreign policy to be rewriting much of anything," he said. "I think he believes in isolationism, that we should withdraw from the world. And that if we do so, the bad guys will leave us alone. That view is hopelessly naive."
Some conservative Republicans see Trump's success as built more on personality, celebrity and perceived strength than on a set of ideas that constitute a political philosophy.
"For years the GOP failed to give people a clear sense of our principles and plans," Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) wrote in an email. "Donald Trump has obviously filled that vacuum with lots of showmanship, hooey, and bluster, but he's done more than just that. He's waged an effective war on almost every plank of the Republican Party's platform."
[Trump's views depart from GOP foreign policy orthodoxy]
The closer Trump comes to assembling the 1,237 delegates needed to win the GOP nomination, the more the party will confront the challenge of crafting a policy platform that reflects the views not only of the nominee but also candidates for federal, state and local offices.
The platform will be written and tentatively approved the week before the Republican National Convention opens in Cleveland. The process of drafting the platform has often been a source of intraparty conflict, but rarely has the presidential front-runner seemed so at odds with his own party. That could produce fireworks inside the platform committee if Trump decides he wants to push his views on reluctant delegates.
"You don't always get what you want in a platform," said Mike Duncan, a former Republican National Committee chairman. "There's always give-and-take. Delegates will feel strongly — and sometimes more strongly than the presumptive nominee."
Some GOP nominees have walked away from platform planks with which they have disagreed. Trump could choose to do the same, preferring to expend his energies on other battles.
At this point, the issue is mostly theoretical. The platform committee has not even been named, and most of the delegates have yet to be identified. One question is whether Trump and his team will work effectively to ensure that the delegates sent to Cleveland share his views on issues.
Phyllis Schlafly, the longtime conservative activist and now a Trump supporter, said she spoke to him before his recent rally in St. Louis and said she gave him a copy of the 2012 platform.
"He pledged to me to support the platform we have," she said. "I had a hand in writing the platform last time. I think it's the best platform we ever had."
Trump acknowledged Wednesday that he has differences with others in the party and said he wants to have a strong voice in shaping the platform, particularly on trade. "I have some differences with them," he said, adding, "I'm by far leading."
He also confirmed Schlafly's account of their conversation but said he has not yet had an opportunity to read the 2012 platform. Striking a conciliatory note as he finished the interview, Trump said, "I don't think there's going to be that many changes."
Robert Costa contributed to this report.
Philip Rucker Philip Rucker is the White House Bureau Chief for The Washington Post. He joined The Post in 2005 and previously has covered Congress, the Obama White House, and the 2012 and 2016 presidential campaigns. Rucker also is co-author of "A Very Stable Genius," a No. 1 New York Times bestseller, and is a Political Analyst for NBC News and MSNBC. Follow
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Business Article
MARKET CLOSE: NZ shares gain as investors eye Fed meeting
June 18, 2019Article
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June 18 (BusinessDesk) – New Zealand shares joined a rally across Asia, as investors have one eye on whether the Federal Reserve will signal lower US interest rates in what would be a further boon for equity markets. Vista Group International led the …MARKET CLOSE: NZ shares gain as investors eye upcoming Fed meeting
By Paul McBeth
June 18 (BusinessDesk) – New Zealand shares joined a rally across Asia, as investors have one eye on whether the Federal Reserve will signal lower US interest rates in what would be a further boon for equity markets. Vista Group International led the market higher.
The S&P/NZX 50 Index rose 21.07 points, or 0.2 percent, to 10,191.33. Within the index, 25 stocks gained, 16 fell, and nine were unchanged. Turnover was $125.5 million.
Stocks across Asia were generally stronger, with Australia's S&P/ASX 200 Index up 0.5 percent in late trading and Singapore's Straits Times Index rising 0.8 percent. The Federal Open Market Committee will review US rates this week, and investors are hoping for a steer on whether the world's biggest central bank will cut its benchmark interest rate.
"The market's drifting sideways a little bit, waiting for the outcome of the FOMC meeting," said Craigs Investment Partners investment advisor Peter McIntyre.
"Market pricing is that rates are going to go lower – the market's not looking for an immediate rate cut, but is looking for confirmation that over the coming six months the Fed is going to cut rates, which is supportive for equities."
Tech stock Vista, an export firm which develops cinema analytics software, led the market higher. It was up 4.6 percent at a record close of $6.12 on 93,000 shares, less than its 90-day average of 391,000.
Low rates have underpinned New Zealand's benchmark stock index and its large contingent of infrastructure companies, utilities, and property stocks which typically pay reliable dividends.
Infrastructure investor Infratil is among those firms, and closed at a record $4.59, up 2.9 percent, on a volume of 1.2 million shares. That was almost twice its 90-day average. The company allotted 45.5 million shares issued under the retail component of its $400 million capital raising.
McIntyre said the shares were issued at $4 each, meaning those investors who took up their entitlements are already in the money.
Meridian Energy rose 2 percent to $4.50 on a volume of 2 million shares, Ryman Healthcare advanced 1.9 percent to $11.58, Contact Energy increased 1.3 percent to $7.62 and Chorus was up 1.3 percent at $5.85.
Spark New Zealand was the most traded stock on a volume of 3.3 million shares, down on its usual volume of about 5.4 million. It rose 1.6 percent to $3.91 after saying it will offer free access to streaming coverage of the Rugby World Cup for customers who sign up to certain mobile or broadband contracts.
Sky Network Television, which has had a strong grip on rugby broadcast rights for the past two decades, rose 1.7 percent to $1.20.
Of other companies trading on volumes of more than a million shares, SkyCity Entertainment Group was unchanged at $3.78, Z Energy rose 0.3 percent to $6.10, Oceania Healthcare decreased 1 percent to $1.04, Auckland International Airport fell 0.7 percent to $8.77 and Kiwi Property Group was unchanged at $1.57.
A2 Milk Co posted the day's biggest decline, down 2.7 percent at $14.24 on a volume of 804,00 shares, in line with its 90-day average.
McIntyre said the benchmark held up well given A2's large weighting on the index. But he said the stock's been pushed around in the past month on fears that China's desire for more locally produced formula may weigh on the company over the next three-to-four years.
"The underlying story there hasn't gone away, it's just being buffeted by those factors," he said.
Synlait Milk, which supplies A2, rose 1 percent to $10.10. Fonterra Shareholders' Fund units declined 0.3 percent to $3.91.
NZX was unchanged at $1.09 ahead of tomorrow's Cannasouth listing. The pre-revenue medicinal cannabis firm is the first new listing in more than two years.
Vector's 2025 bonds, which pay annual interest of 3.45 percent, were the most traded debt security on a volume of 730,000. The notes closed at an unchanged yield of 3 percent.
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The west part of Paso Robles is the place to visit. Highway 101 is the dividing line. In the east you find easily-accessible but less remarkable wineries right off the highway. In the west, along winding roads, you find incredible wineries with grapes grown on calcareous soil — white soil containing calcium and magnesium, similar to that of the Rhone Valley. This soil, which smells strongly of chalk when wet, adds minerality and imparts complexity to the wine. The soil in the east, in contrast, is sandy.
Paso Robles AVA. (Located in Western Paso Robles.) All of Justin's wines are estate wines, grown in Western Paso Robles. They produce excellent, complex single varietals as well as an incredible Cab-Syrah blend called SAVANT. There's a very nice inn on the property called JUST Inn. Out front is a demonstration vineyard showing a few different systems for trellising vines, including Smart Dyson, Scott Henry, Lyre, Vertical Shoot, Sass Branco, Head Trained, Geneva Double Curtain, Double Guyot, and California Sprawl (untrellised).
Paso Robles AVA. (Located in Western Paso Robles.) This winery has it all: great wines, wonderful setting, interesting history, and much to teach the visitor. Oh, and olive oil, too. Let's start with the setting: it is enchanting, with hills and ponds and horses. As if the estate weren't already beautiful enough, co-founder Gary Carmody Conway has graced the estate with his colorful paintings depicting winery scenes ("Terroir Paintings"). Mr. Conway is a former actor, and his business partner and wife, Marion McKnight, was Ms. America, 1959. Now let's talk about the wines. All of their wines are estate-grown. Their land, containing calcareous soil and hills with microclimates, is the subject of a study by Cal Poly, to be released soon. By U.S. law, a wine bearing the name of a varietal (e.g., Cabernet Sauvignon) only needs to contain 75% of that varietal. Other varietals may be blended in to provide complexity, roundness, smoothness, color, etc. However, Carmody McKnight's varietally-named wines contain 100% of that varietal, allowing one to taste the true varietal and the impact of the terroir upon it. And the wines do not suffer from the absence of blending; they're good enough to stand on their own. Carmody McKnight also produces a peppery olive oil using four estate-grown Tuscan olive varietals.
Paso Robles AVA. (Located in Western Paso Robles.) Calcareous Vineyard, named after the soil on which its grapes are grown, has the best views in the area. From the top of the mountain where the lovely, airy tasting room sits, you can experience breathtaking, unobstructed views in all directions. Driving up the hill to the winery, you see the chalkiness of the soil. Calcareous Vineyards just started producing wines from their own grapes as of the 2006 vintage; everything I tasted was older, with grapes sourced from other Western Paso Robles vineyards. Given the quality of what they can produce with others' grapes, I am eager to one day experience what they produce with their own grapes.
Paso Robles AVA. (Located in Western Paso Robles.) Many of Minassian-Young's grapes are sourced from other vineyards in the Western Paso Robles area. But not the Zinfandel. These 28-year-old Zinfandel vines are dry-farmed on the estate. David Young, the winemaker, cares for his Zinfandel grapes as if they were his own children. The resulting wine is spicy, intense, and wonderful, with cherry cola flavors and a coffee finish. Minassian-Young's other wines are also quite good.
Paso Robles AVA. (Located in Eastern Paso Robles.) Eberle means little boar in German, hence the winery's boar motif. Eberle is a fairly large producer of wine, producing 30,000 cases/year. Some of their grapes come from their 40-acre estate; others are contracted from 19 Paso Robles vineyards. Twenty-six feet below the parking lot lies an extensive cave system (16,000 square feet) created by the owner, Gary Eberle. Despite my stated preference for Western Paso Robles, Eberle does make some very nice wines.
Paso Robles AVA. (Located in Eastern Paso Robles.) This tasting room was made for huge tour buses of people who just want to drink and not ask questions about the wine. It's big, impersonal, a little bit tacky, and filled with employees who aren't passionate about wine. (Two EOS employees mentioned that they were just doing this job until they found a real job. In contrast, at Calcareous, I spoke with a knowledgeable and experienced employee who had just moved to California from the Midwest specifically to work for Calcareous.) However, you must try EOS's 2005 reserve Petite Sirah, which is smooth, velvety, chocolatey, complex, and truly amazing. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,606 |
Ah, the femme fatale, one of the greatest literary-turned-film archetypes still being used today. In Greek Myths, there were sirens enticing sailors into shipwrecks, and today there are aliens in lady suits seducing men so they can be processed into food. Things don't change that much.
Femme fatales are most famous for being integral to film noir, a specific genre of the '40s and later defined by dark, complicated mysteries, German expressionism, and seductive women with ulterior motives. Femme fatales can exist outside of noir, of course, but the truest examples are found there. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,607 |
Original: Complete Score. Wedding March. Mendelssohn, Felix. A Midsummer Night's Dream, incidental music, Op.61. For Piano solo.
Translation: For Piano only. No.9. Arrangements and Transcriptions.
Translation: For Piano only. Lenschow. No.9. Arrangements and Transcriptions.
Original: Complete Score. Wedding March. Mendelssohn, Felix. A Midsummer Night's Dream, incidental music, Op.61. For Organ. No.9.
Translation: Jackson. Arrangements and Transcriptions.
Translation: For Piano only. Jaëll. No.9. Arrangements and Transcriptions.
Translation: Willing. Arrangements and Transcriptions.
Translation: Dubois. Arrangements and Transcriptions.
Original: Complete Score. Mendelssohn. Wedding March. Mendelssohn, Felix. For Piano 4 hands. No.9.
Translation: A Midsummer Night's Dream, incidental music, Op.61. Arrangements and Transcriptions.
Original: Harmonium part. Wedding March. Mendelssohn, Felix. A Midsummer Night's Dream, incidental music, Op.61. Vilbac. No.9.
Translation: For Piano and Harmonium. Arrangements and Transcriptions.
Original: Complete score. Wedding March. Mendelssohn, Felix. without pedal. A Midsummer Night's Dream, incidental music, Op.61.
Translation: For Organ or Piano. Gouin. No.9. Arrangements and Transcriptions.
Original: Complete Score. Wedding March. Mendelssohn, Felix. A Midsummer Night's Dream, incidental music, Op.61. For 2 Violins.
Translation: Pečar. No.9. Arrangements and Transcriptions.
Original: Source file. Wedding March. Mendelssohn, Felix. Sibelius. A Midsummer Night's Dream, incidental music, Op.61. Teuling.
Translation: For Accordion, Violin and Cello. No.9. Arrangements and Transcriptions.
Original: Piano part. Wedding March. Mendelssohn, Felix. A Midsummer Night's Dream, incidental music, Op.61. Vilbac. No.9.
Translation: Frederiksen. Arrangements and Transcriptions.
Original: Complete Parts. Wedding March. Mendelssohn, Felix. A Midsummer Night's Dream, incidental music, Op.61. Partridge. No.9.
Translation: For String Quartet. Arrangements and Transcriptions.
Original: Complete score and parts. Wedding March. Mendelssohn, Felix. A Midsummer Night's Dream, incidental music, Op.61. No.9.
Translation: For Accordion, Violin and Cello. Teuling. Arrangements and Transcriptions.
Original: Complete Score. Wedding March. Mendelssohn, Felix. A Midsummer Night's Dream, incidental music, Op.61. Kowalewski.
Translation: For String Quartet. No.9. Arrangements and Transcriptions.
Original: Piano score and parts. Wedding March. Mendelssohn, Felix. A Midsummer Night's Dream, incidental music, Op.61. Sitt.
Translation: For Violin, Cello and Piano. No.9. Arrangements and Transcriptions.
Original: Wedding March. Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn, Felix. A Midsummer Night's Dream, incidental music, Op.61. Selections.
Translation: For Piano 4 hands. Arrangements and Transcriptions. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,608 |
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The highest navigable lake in the world.
In the region of Puno, a plateau between Peru and Bolivia, is located Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the world, at an altitude of over 3820 meters. It extends over 8,300 km2, of which 4,700 km2 are in Peruvian territory. It was regarded as something sagradopor the ancient cultures of the Andes as the Quechua and Aymara were the main ethnic families in Peru. Manco Capac and Mama Occlo, the founders of the Inca Empire, the lake water appeared.
This lake is visited by a large number of tourists and scientists who are impressed and sorprenderados water wealth. Lake Titicaca has been declared a nature reserve and is home to several species of waterfowl, a dozen species of fish, amphibians, 7 species of mammals, including a giant frog species that only exist in this area.
It is very interesting to visit the floating islands made of reeds and where the Uros, a primitive people of the Altiplano, vivian. The islands of Taquile and Amantani Suasi, where you can see the trade and traditional farming systems are also very impressive.
In the city of Puno is a colonial district called the Rome of America, as the people of Julio also.
Puno: 3827 m.
Lake Titicaca: 3810 m.
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A Quietus Interview
Arsenic And Old Places: Kemper Norton Interviewed
John Doran , September 9th, 2019 06:58
Kemper Norton has just released a new album Brunton Calciner, which is replete with references to Cornish industry, amorous miners and the arsenic trade... but there's more to his music than the land beyond the Tamar, he tells John Doran
Live photograph by Jonathan Carpenter. Landscapes by Kemper Norton
Kemper Norton is a musician who was born and grew up, for the most part, near the Cornish coast. He had a peripatetic young adulthood - though never strayed that far from the sea - and now lives with his family in Portslade just outside of Brighton. A musical autodidact, he has forged a sound out of elements that include folk, ambient electronica, noise and DIY psychedelia.
His previous records have all come with lightly sketched narratives, enhanced by the inclusion of traditional song and field recordings taken at places of significant personal interest. The Lowermoor EP was inspired by the 1989 poisoning of the Camelford water supply and Toll partially concerned itself with the Torrey Canyon oil spill of 1967, so there is undeniably a political element to this music. However Hungan from 2017 took as its theme the story of the semi-legendary 18th Century pirate, Cruel Coppinger, so at the same time, it's clear what he does is not didactic like traditional protest music.
It is a sound that concerns place and time so it's fair that the twin terms of psychogeography and hauntology crop up in relation to what he does but, to my ears at least, Kemper Norton's music sounds quite different to the sonic spectres or audio pathways that these terms usually conjure in the mind's ear. It is ambient in the sense that it has something of the atmospheres and characters of the places in which it was (partially) made but these are still heavily impressionistic landscapes not highly detailed figurative scenes. Well, this is how I see it at least - maybe some listeners do find themselves exclaiming: "Yes! This conjures the exact vibe of an oil tanker running aground in the late 1960s!" His releases are not ambient in the sense that they are designed to be played in the background in a space, or that they belong to some hidebound fetishised subcategory like dark ambient. It is, at times, noise music but not in any kind of self-lacerating or macho way. What he produces is not binary music or easy to pin down. However, his output isn't difficult in that, mainly he uses textural (and some subtextual) complexity as a tool to avoid easy (to bracket or interpret) listening, rather than challenging musical composition.
His latest album, Brunton Calciner references a particular aspect of the history of mining in Cornwall. Calciners were large industrial structures used for roasting ore to remove arsenic via a process of crushing and burning using a rotating steam driven drum and a series of chimneys. The resultant thick soot was re-roasted in a bottle furnace producing a white powder which was 99.5% pure arsenic. (In alchemical practice, calcination was, it's interesting to note, also one of the so-called 12 "vital processes" by which base material could, apparently, be transformed into gold. Arsenic was once an industrial by-product that eventually earned mine and calciner owners a lot of money.) The substance was mainly used in dyes, paints and pesticides but that this toxic substance retains a fascinating aura today is probably related to its associations with sex, death and narcotic derangement. (It was an aphrodisiac, an instrument of both murder and accidental death and a briefly popular recreational drug.) Such was its relative popularity in inter-family murder at one point in 17th Century France, that the substance picked up the nickname, "inheritance powder".
In relative terms the sound has moved on in keeping with the theme of the album. As Bernie Brooks' excellent review for this very site states, Brunton Calciner "often radiates an almost industrial heat" and the elemental and geological sound set of Hungan has been augmented with more manmade-sounding textures.
Back in 2015 Kushal Gaya of Zun Zun Egui and Melt Yourself Down talked about his notion of a Mauritian proto-industrial music that had existed for well over a century. He was talking about workers in sugar cane plantations who would sing folk song to the rhythm of the loud machinery they were positioned near. Kemper Norton looks obliquely at a similar idea on Brunton Calciner. As on previous albums he has included a traditional folk song, the bawdy and euphemistic ''Sweet Nightingale' also known 'Down In Those Valleys Below' and it too raises the idea of a proto-industrial music existing well before 1976. As the Bandcamp page states: "Sweet Nightingale" ( trad) is arranged for mine works and diamond-cutter by Kemper Norton."
While listening to what is initially an a cappella rendition, we are perhaps invited to imagine a miner hard at work at a seam deep below the Cornish landscape, with his amour up overground in the forefront of his mind. It's a song that has a natural irony beyond the imagery of the valleys; there is an altogether more earthy interpretation of the lyrics lurking just below the verdant surface. As mentioned arsenic was as an ingredient in a quack aphrodisiac, (should you have had the misfortune to not be as lusty as a Cornish miner) but was also a relatively effective treatment for the syphilis that was rampant in cities like London. The noise of the ore extraction machinery gradually swells across the length of the track until it temporarily summons the idea of a strange four dimensional graph linking the complex relationship between English geography, land ownership, class, sex and EL Rostow's model of economic take off.
Momentarily the song looks back to the industrial scale leaching of Cornwall from a modern vantage point where the Brunton calciners themselves have calcified, now seemingly as much part of the natural geology as the Devonian crags and igneous outcrops they nestle among. Is this song acting as a clue to how one of the richest mineral areas in the known world became one of the poorest regions in Europe in such a short amount of time? Is this about recent history or is it about what is about to befall us? Both, I'd wager.
You can hear why it's tempting to talk about ghosts when it comes to Kemper's music. I'll go as far as saying it's certainly eerie, in the sense that Mark Fisher used in his excellent The Weird And The Eerie in 2017: "The eerie is... fundamentally to do with the outside, and here we can understand the outside in a straightforwardly empirical as well as a more abstract transcendental sense. A sense of the eerie seldom clings to enclosed and domestic spaces; we find the eerie more readily in landscapes partially emptied of the human. What happened to produce these ruins? This disappearance? What kind of entity was involved?"
Before adding: "These questions can be posed in a psychoanalytic register... but they also apply to the forces governing capitalist society. Capital is at every level an eerie entity: conjured out of nothing, capital nevertheless exerts more influence than any substantial entity."
Unless there is an issue of, say, language difficulty or extreme inaccessibility in global terms, I don't personally hold with email interviews, as they can often end up little more than questionnaires that flatter neither the interviewee or the interviewer. However, due to extremely pressing personal issues, this is how this interview had to be conducted. Each question was sent individually after the previous one had been answered, so that it was, in effect, a conversation. Just perhaps a conversation of an older sort. And I think it turned out well regardless.
brunton calciner by Kemper Norton
I've been reading a lot about the history of Cornish mining recently so I was quite interested to see that your new (and excellent) album is called Brunton Calciner. Can you explain the etymology of this phrase.
Kemper Norton: The Brunton calciner was a piece of industrial machinery used mainly in the 19th century to process the waste products of tin mining in order to produce arsenic. At the time Cornwall and Devon produced the vast majority of the world's arsenic, mainly for a range of everyday industrial and domestic uses. As you'd expect the toxic effects of these processes on the workers and the immediate environment were considerable. Remains of Brunton calciners litter Devon and Cornwall, including several near my childhood home and they're a key part of the post-industrial landscape. As my new album ended up being concerned with processes and physical transformations, and I was already fascinated with Cornish landscape and history (as well as the history of arsenic) the Brunton calciner seemed an obvious totem or portal. (As an older-than-average new father the concept of a redundant machine slowly falling apart having served its purpose also has some resonance I suppose!)
My research tells me that the 'iconic' thick crimp of the Cornish pasty is a piece of exceedingly clever design. The pasty was essentially an edible lunchbox for Cornish miners but because there was a high likelihood that their hands would have arsenic on them, the crimp was essentially a handle which would then be cast down the mine shaft after the meal was finished. But not everyone wanted to avoid ingesting arsenic did they? I believe in Victorian times it was also used as an illicit drug in some circles…
KN: Yeah, and supposedly you gave the crust to the piskies and spriggans, although like many areas of pasty lore this is still disputed as miners may well have needed to have eaten all of it. Also the miners could initial the crust to make sure everyone got the right one. This tradition continues in a different vein today - in our village bakery the vegan pasties or the chorizo ones get a special mark.
Arsenic was endemic in Victorian life in so many ways. As well as an occasional aphrodisiac, it was used in the manufacture of wallpaper as well as in a range of medicines and fabric dyes. William Morris used arsenic in his designs from time to time. And because it was soluble, looked like sugar (and was often stored near the sugar and flour in the home) it caused a tremendous amount of accidental poisonings (as well as several that were less accidental).
Arsenic in the Victorian era links to so many emerging areas in society as well. The rise of tabloid journalism is one of these as the popular press covered the more grisly arsenic poisonings (especially if committed by women). The substance also has links to the early days of forensic science and sophisticated criminal investigation. It was also key to producing specific colours for branded products, not to mention industrial pollution and the effects of cost cutting in mass production. All this from a byproduct of mining in a very specific area of the West Country.
Have you read Bruce Robinson's They All Love Jack? He fingers Michael Maybrick - the Masonic Ed Sheeran of his day - not only for the The Ripper slayings but also for killing his brother James Maybrick - a chronic arsenic addict who had probably worked out the real identity of Jack - and framing his wife, Florence for that murder (this was made all the more easy, like you say, by the tabloid obsession with such cases). Whether you believe Robinson's account or not it paints a vivid picture of how engrained arsenic use actually was in Victorian times. Perhaps you could say it was the modern equivalent of Oxycodin, Fentanyl or some other powerful opioid. Also these kind of testimonies reveal how much prosperity the arsenic trade would have brought into Cornwall and Devon in the mid 19th century don't they?
KN: I haven't read the Bruce Robinson but sounds fascinating! Arsenic was a strange mix of domestic substance, industrial product, weapon of choice, hipster drug and waste product. Like glue I suppose but with more (partially retrospective) glamorous associations. And of course at the time the mining areas of Cornwall were among the richest in the world.
Yeah, it's crazy now, looking at Redruth and all of the problems it has (which will undoubtedly get much worse if we end up crashing out of the EU with no deal) to think that it was once known as the Copper Kingdom due to its mineral/resource richness. When you end up with a theme like the arsenic industry and the idea of calciners as industrial technology, are there any concrete ways in which this informs the music you make? (Field recordings and the like for example.)
KN: In some previous works (Carn or Toll for example) the concept, a story and other audio such as field recordings came first and were the foundations of the album. Recently however I've drifted away from that way of working and with Brunton Calciner, I ignored any grand concept or narrative and ended up just carving away at tracks without much initial thought. Many of these tracks were based entirely on a single sample. For example 'halan 1', 'halan 2', 'halan 3', 'incence', 'exprence' and 'incexprence' are entirely built on the granular transformation and layering of a single key sound. I loved this singular and restricted way of working and it was only after a while that these processes felt linked to and symbolic of the industrial processes and post-industrial nature of where I grew up. The motif of the Brunton calciner then appeared and seemed to grow, fit and help shape the rest of the work. That allowed more specific sounds and songs to demand inclusion.
As is your wont, you've included a lovely, gauzy, haunting version of an old song on the album, this time 'Sweet Nightingale' which sometimes traditionally goes by the name of 'Down In Those Valleys Below'; I believe the zesty lyrics can be taken quite euphemistically…
KN: Like a lot of folk songs, and specifically like several other Cornish folk songs , it's quite bawdy and not that subtle. I've always loved the tune to " Sweet Nightingale " and how its delicate melody and the image of the nightingale seems to clash with the other content of the song. The reason it ended up on the album (and specifically at its centre) is that it was often sung by Cornish miners while they were working… I liked its escapist nature and the idea of some beauty down there. Of course in my version it's backed by underground industrial ambience, falling rocks and the sound of a diamond-cutter so I may have disturbed that beauty a little bit.
You've said in the past that you're interested in the uncanny in the Cornish landscape - can you expand on that a bit please.
KN: It's one aspect of what I find interesting in the Cornish landscape. As a child and teenager I didn't know anything about the industry or the history which informs the landscape of north Cornwall in particular, I just found it overwhelming and alive. If you define uncanny as eerie, unsettling or mysterious, then that was certainly how I felt and still feel about areas such as Penwith, the St Austell clay district, the Lizard peninsula or the cliffs around Trevaunance Cove. Discovering more about the landscape's social and physical history and present has made my responses to these places and my work more complex, and possibly it's made my work less straightforwardly romantic or perhaps it has focused it on the supernatural and the inhuman, on post-industrialisation, the history of fishing communities, poverty and gentrification as well as the occasional ghost!
I believe you were in the same year at the same school as Richard D James. Can you hear any kind of 'Cornishness' to his music, or in a more subtle way do you recognise how your local landscape has influenced his (or your) music?
KN: I think he was at the other school in Truro. I was far too uncool to have any idea about what he was up to. Luke Vibert was at my 6th form though. He was in charge of the common room tape player.
I'm not sure if I would identify a specifically Cornish element to his music, any more than I hear any Devon in Muse, but I think as he himself has said it's more the physical and cultural isolation from big cities and musical scenes that helped make his work unique. The landscape's definitely explicitly influenced my work and I'm on record as saying that, for me, an early goal in music was to try and describe it in sound, but I've also been affected by life events, other music, film, TV and indeed other areas and countries I've lived in. Cornwall's obviously a famously dramatic landscape, but I'm sure that musicians from Kent, Shropshire, London and Birmingham are just as influenced by what's around them and find beauty and eerie elements as well as history and folklore in the places they grew up and live in. I feel Cornwall's one of those counties which is sometimes granted a kind of supernatural mystical status which I think can both simplify its actual nature and the complex range of global influences and identities of other counties, cities and towns in the rest of the country. But yes, I definitely recognise that the physical nature of the landscape of my childhood has been a key influence.
As one inventor of niche genres to another (!) do you still describe your music as slurtronic?
KN: Not at all. It was kind of a stupid joke made long ago to try and stop the music being described as folktronica or whatever other description was floating around at the time! I don't mind it too much though. A friend who's released some of my stuff always says that he hates being asked to describe my work as it doesn't fit too neatly or simply into any single category, which of course I think is ideal.
My stuff used to be associated with hauntology as well, which I guess is inevitable as it's generally electronic music that deals with folklore, history and the supernatural, but the cultural signifiers and technologies of that movement (1970s TV, the Radiophonic Workshop, vintage synths etc.) aren't anything I was influenced by or am particularly interested in.
You've told me a couple of times during the course of this interview that you'll get back to me after you've taken your two-year-old daughter to the park and after you've dealt with her birthday party. My own experiences of becoming a parent are the opposite of that hoary old Cyril Connelly quote about the pram in the hallway being the death of art. But it does affect what you do, being a parent, doesn't it? What are some of the more unexpected ways in which becoming a dad has affected your artistic practice.
KN: It's affected me in every possible way and most of those are beyond words. I would assume for a number of reasons that it's much easier for a father than a mother to be able to say that a child didn't prevent them continuing with their creative work, and I have managed to carry on with mine. Hungan (the album I made in 2017 while waiting for Iris to be born) was explicitly concerned with impending parenthood and change at macro and micro level, including a narrative about an evil father figure and samples of her heartbeat running across several tracks. Now she's here as an actual living presence and growing person my daughter colours everything I do, think and feel so inevitably the work has also continued to be affected. Making music is pretty small beans compared to being a parent and as time is precious I've been less concerned with dreaming up grand conceits or narratives for my music. It feels a bit more everyday and more like an organic process. One thing that did happen after her birth was a sudden dramatic shift in my responses to violence and gore in film and literature. I could no longer handle such scenes and despite some of my favourite works and genres being quite violent I suddenly found I was affected deeply and negatively by anything concerning physical pain or suffering. A friend of mine suggested that witnessing a fairly eventful birth was the "rediscovery of physical fragility" and this makes sense.
I can't even imagine how a mother of even a successful and straightforward delivery may be affected; my role in my daughter's birth was essentially as a bystander!
I spoke to you earlier in the year for the New Weird Britain series I made with Alannah Chance for BBC Radio 4; did you have a sense of spirit d'escalier afterwards? Anything you wished you'd said, or has hearing the series sparked any more thoughts about the idea of odd DIY music being made outside of metropolitan centres in the UK?
KN: I was delighted to contribute to the show but at the time didn't have any particular strong feelings about "New Weird Britain" as a concept. However since then and hearing the excellent shows, I've been remembering events I've been lucky to participate in such as Supernormal, Wyrd Wild West, the Todmorden Tor Ist Das festival and Fano Free folk festival. There is such a great network of varied and interesting underground artists, and recently playing at Delaware Road and seeing old friends, new friends and performers I admire such as Sarah Angliss, Ekoplekz, Lone Taxidermist, R.E.EL, Embla Quickbeam, Alison Cotton and Howlround reminded me how important and life-affirming music, creativity and community at its best can be. Outside of my own fairly narrow orbit there's tons of fascinating stuff happening in other genres such as the weird world of Blah Records in UK hiphop. Musicians from all corners of Britain and beyond are making great stuff with a range of tools, talking to one another, collaborating with each other and supporting each other… It's fantastic.
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The most common expressions of Italian tourists in Neapolitan bars
Article written by Michele Sergio and published in Rome on 02 February 2020
From travelers of the '700 Grand Tour to modern food influencers, Naples has always been the ideal destination for those looking for new gastronomic experiences. Pizza, spaghetti, ragù, sfogliatella, babà , pastiera and many other typical dishes of the Neapolitan culinary tradition are today appreciated and known all over the world for two historical reasons.
Firstly, because the greedy kings of the Bourbon dynasty called the most refined chefs in Europe to their court. These created for the sovereigns an infinite variety of recipes that over the centuries have managed to maintain peculiarities and uniqueness, preserving their character in respect of tradition, with the result of delighting and amaze, even today, their lucky users with colors, the scents and flavors of an ancient and legendary land.
Secondly, the incredible contribution that the Neapolitan emigrants who brought their recipes to the new continent in the United States should not be forgotten. The Neapolitan gastronomy pleased the Americans so much that the latter, through cinema, songs and television, then promoted them all over the world.
Obviously, coffee too is part of our culinary tradition and those who go to Naples cannot help but try the famous "tazzulella 'e cafè". Here are the most recurring phrases spoken by Italian tourists when they go to the Neapolitan bars.
How can I drink it without burning my lips? Many tourists, unaccustomed to drinking coffee in the hot cup, as required by tradition, the first few times drink coffee with some difficulty.
Are you offended if I ask for a decaffeinated coffee? Being in the city of coffee often happens to see the embarrassment on the faces of many visitors when they ask the bartender a to prepare a "deca" for him.
But is it true that the secret of Neapolitan coffee is water? Who says that the key element of a good coffee is water certainly is not wrong, because water is one of the two "ingredients" (with coffee powder of course) of the most popular drink in the world.
But do you always drink coffee? When the visitor comes into contact with the customs of the Neapolitans, he immediately realizes the large daily consumption of cups that make the latter (an average of five coffees per capita per day).
Why do you always offer a glass of water before coffee? Not everyone knows that the moment of coffee in Naples is a real ritual made up of many small passages (drink a glass of water, always turn the coffee, be careful of the hot cup) which are, among other things, interesting profiles from an anthropological and social point of view (and it is for this reason that the process for the candidacy of the Neapolitan coffee ritual on the UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage has started.
I want to pay a hold. How you do it? The ancient, all Neapolitan custom, rediscovered in recent years, to leave paid coffee at the bar for a stranger who does not have the money to buy it, liked it so much that those who visit Naples can not help but practice it .
Most visitors are amazed by the landscape and architectural, as well as cultural and gastronomic, beauties of the city of Naples, also considering that, many of these, conditioned by the common places, arrive there with a low expectation of the Campania capital. Those who come into contact with the Neapolitan people and understand its ancient culture, its profound philosophy of life and the scents and flavors of its cuisine cannot help but fall in love with it and when they drink the last coffee, before the return journey, they greet with this phrase his (new) Neapolitan bartender friend. I will miss the Neapolitan coffee!
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The presidency of George W. Bush has led to the worst foreign policy decision in the history of the United States — the bloody, unwinnable war in Iraq. How did this happen? Bush's fateful decision was rooted in events that began decades ago, and until now this story has never been fully told.
From Craig Unger, the author of the bestseller House of Bush, House of Saud, comes a comprehensive, deeply sourced, and chilling account of the secret relationship between neoconservative policy makers and the Christian Right, and how they assaulted the most vital safeguards of America's constitutional democracy while pushing the country into the catastrophic quagmire in the Middle East that is getting worse day by day.
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Why George W. Bush ignored the sage advice of his father, George H.W. Bush, and took America into war.
How Bush was convinced he was doing God's will.
How Vice President Dick Cheney manipulated George W. Bush, disabled his enemies within the administration, and relentlessly pressed for an attack on Iraq.
Which veteran government official, with the assent of the president's father, protested passionately that the Bush administration was making a catastrophic mistake — and was ignored.
How information from forged documents that had already been discredited fourteen times by various intelligence agencies found its way into President Bush's State of the Union address in which he made the case for war with Iraq.
How Cheney and the neocons assembled a shadow national security apparatus and created a disinformation pipeline to mislead America and start the war.
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Provocative, timely, and disturbing, The Fall of the House of Bush stands as the most comprehensive and dramatic account of how and why George W. Bush took America to war in Iraq.
Craig Unger is the author of the New York Times bestselling House of Bush, House of Saud. He appears frequently as an analyst on CNN, the ABC Radio Network, and other broadcast outlets. The former deputy editor of The New York Observer and editor-in-chief of Boston Magazine, he has written about George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush for The New Yorker, Esquire, and Vanity Fair. He lives in New York City.
When Mr. Unger sticks to the facts…and focuses less on the personal lives of his subjects and more on policy making in the Bush administration, his narrative skills enable him to do a fluent job of putting the available jigsaw puzzle pieces together. He gives readers a powerful account of the long-standing campaign by neoconservatives (which long predated the terrorist attacks of 9/11) to topple Saddam Hussein, the ideological roots of the administration's ideas about pre-emption and unilateral action, and the efforts of hawks in the Pentagon and the vice president's office to bypass regular policymaking channels and use cherry-picked intelligence to push for war.
Michiko Kakutani
A sobering examination of the twin fundamentalisms that shape the current administration internally-to say nothing of the one it's supposed to be fighting. Compassionate conservatism? Nice, disarming rhetoric, writes Unger (Center on Law and Security/New York Univ.; House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties, 2004, etc.)-but merely a way of reframing the argument so that "the entire political spectrum-everyone from hardcore theocrats to liberal secularists-supported policies that would aid the Christian Right." The gloves came off as soon as Bush II entered the White House and turned operations over to the very neoconservatives whom his father had largely frozen out of power, writes Unger in a bit of psychodrama at the opening of the book, giving the son's repudiation of the father appropriately tragic undertones. The neocons-most of them former leftists and most of them without any apparent religious beliefs-made unlikely allies for the Christian right-wingers who entered government in droves on Bush's ascension, but they had many interests in common, including pressing the battle against Islam and advancing the American empire. Most of these fundamentalists, religious and political, notes Unger, have been idealists without much grounding in the real world-one reason, perhaps, that all band together in detesting Henry Kissinger, that master of realpolitik. But, however ethereal their thinking, they have plenty of real-world effects. Unger works much the same territory as Kevin Phillips did in his American Theocracy (2005), and he turns in plenty of news. One interesting bit: Katherine Harris, the Florida secretary of state soinstrumental in putting Bush in office in 2000, was an acolyte of the same fundamentalists who pushed Jerry Falwell and company into secular politics-and, as an aside, she helped see to it that more than a quarter of the votes cast in Florida were not recounted, contrary to law. What next? Fundamentalists and neocons alike have been thoroughly discredited-but, Unger hints, there's still plenty of damage yet to come. Armageddon, anyone?
Fall of the House of Bush: The Untold Story of How a Band of True Believers Seized the Executive Branch, Started the Iraq War, and Still Imperils Amer 5 out of 5 based on 0 ratings. 3 reviews.
The author has assembled a complete, fully documented account of the disaster that is the Bush administration's war in Iraq. I hope this information is more fully disseminated than it has been so far. This book has outraged me and saddened me hugely. It is well worth reading for its historical perspective.
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Scintillating exposure of what was going on behind the scenes. Step by step efforts to continue the connection between religious factions and the US government. Felt like I was reading an indictment. Well referenced chapter by chapter notes, index, etc. Buy this one and save for kid's library. What did religion and politics really accomplish? I found this copy at the dollar store for $1.00. This would make an interesting book club read. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 1,616 |
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So I have come to a point where I am trying online freelancing and hope to make it a source of income. It is starting off slowly but I am getting some fun projects. Here is a couple of examples of what I have been working on.
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Birmingham composer, John Joubert has died aged 91.
He died on January 7, 2019 after a fall on New Year's Day.
He was well known for his works including the carol Torches and the opera Jane Eyre.
The composer was born in Cape Town on March 27, 1927 and educated at the Diocesan College in Rondebosch.
The director of music there was Claude Brown, who had been an assistant to Ivor Atkins, organist at Worcester Cathedral (and therefore only one handshake away from Edward Elgar), who instilled in Joubert a love of the English choral tradition which would later inform so much of his work.
He came to England in 1946 after winning a Performing Right Society Scholarship which enabled him to study for four years at the Royal Academy of Music (RAM) in London.
By this time he had already started his portfolio of both choral and orchestral music, performed in South Africa.
In 1950, his first string quartet was accepted for publication by Novello and, with a few exceptions, his entire output of works from then on was made available through them - he takes the medal of composer with the longest ever association with that house.
After gaining several prizes for composition at the RAM, and gaining a BMus degree from the University of Durham, Joubert took up a position as Lecturer in Music at the University of Hull.
It was during his time there that he composed the carol Torches for his wife Mary to teach to her primary schoolchildren, and which has become a favourite throughout the Christian world since.
He moved to Birmingham in 1962 to teach music at University of Birmingham and the Jouberts have lived in Moseley ever since.
John Joubert became a highly-regarded figure in the musical life of his adopted home city, serving for 25 years as chairman of the Birmingham Chamber Music Society, frequently attending performances from the CBSO and from visiting opera companies at Birmingham Hippodrome.
He retired from the University in 1986 in order to concentrate on composition but he continued to teach privately and at the (now Royal) Birmingham Conservatoire for several years.
Novello' Managing Director, James Rushton, paid tribute to him, saying: "During a 60-year professional composing career, extending right to the very end of his life, John created a substantial catalogue of music that has enchanted all who have heard it.
"Whilst it is the choral music that has entered the global repertoire, with very few choirs untouched by his immediately singable, beautifully heard and sensitively felt work, the output is broad and varied, always sympathetic to the needs of performer and audience alike.
"John was a gentle man, and one of wisdom and humour. He was also very much in demand as a teacher, guide and adviser. He will be missed by us and by all who came into contact with him."
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Joseph Needham's pioneering studies Science and Civilization in China that began more than five decades ago has spawned a vast body of literature that looks not only at the contributions of Chinese science and technology to modern science, but also similar contributions made by other traditions of science—in particular the Indian and Arabic-Muslim. Such accommodation of Asian traditions of... 4 See in particular Needham, Science and Civilisation in China, vol 5, parts 2-4 (Cambridge University Press, 1974-1980). 5 For a sample of such work, see G. E. R. Lloyd and Sivin, The Way and the Word.
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Le lac Chesuncook () est un lac de barrage situé dans le comté de Piscataquis (Maine, États-Unis). Le lac est le résultat de la construction du barrage Ripogenus sur la branche ouest du fleuve Penobscot entre 1903 et 1916. Le lac fait environ 35 km de long et entre 2 et 6 km de large. Sa superficie est de , ce qui en fait la troisième plus vaste étendue d'eau douce dans le Maine (après le lac de Moosehead et le lac Sebago).
Le lac est divisé en 3 sections : la principale est aussi appelée lac Chesuncook, une autre, lac Caribou () et la troisième, lac Ripogenus ().
Présence dans la littérature
Le lac Chesuncook apparaît à plusieurs reprises dans la littérature. Henry David Thoreau visite le lac en 1853 et fait mention de cette visite dans Les Forêts du Maine (). Dans une nouvelle de Howard Philips Lovecraft, Le Monstre sur le seuil (), écrite en 1933, le héros va chercher son ami dans le village de Chesuncook, qui est situé sur la rive du lac. Le lac est le lieu d'un échange de drogues dans Le Premier Fulgur () d'Edward Elmer Smith. En 1957, le dessinateur Jijé fait apparaître le lac Chesuncook au début de L'Affaire Barnes, épisode de la série Valhardi.
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So VMI Isn't Structurally Racist After All
By Forrest L. MarionApril 26, 2022Blog
The Washington Post's Ian Shapira and his social justice allies in Richmond and Lexington, Virginia, must be worried, big-time. For nearly two years running, their Axis-Against-VMI has enjoyed remarkable success: forcing an honorable VMI superintendent to resign; removing Lt. Gen. "Stonewall" Jackson's statue, and his name from Jackson Arch; renaming buildings and recontextualizing the past; inserting divisive ideology into courses; and establishing a diversity office at the school. To explain all of this, and the sheeplike climate that has permeated a once-willing-to-stand-apart-from-cultural-faddishness military school of high reputation, one must return to the previous, disgraced governor of Virginia. Ralph Northam came within the proverbial gnat's eyelash of being forced from office in 2018 when his own racial insensitivities as a younger man came to light. But the VMI 1981 alumnus and former President of the VMI Honor Court – he included this on his official stationery – apparently experienced a change of heart. He embraced the demands of neo-Marxist-based, Critical Race Theory (CRT) devotees within the ranks of Richmond's political powerbrokers, and he kept his job. In September 2019, he hired Virginia's "first cabinet-level Chief Diversity Officer. . . . also the first [position] of its kind in the nation."[1] In the aftermath of Northam's insensitive behavior years earlier, one year after it had come to light he established a powerful new office – one previously unknown to the cabinet-level apparatus of any state in the country. This was astounding.
One year later, in October 2020 Northam leveled his sights at his alma mater with his infamous letter to the president of VMI's Board of Visitors, a broadside replete with outrageous, unsupported assertions against VMI, which I've previously addressed. That letter became the catalyst to the dramatic and damaging changes embraced by VMI in the last 18 months. All of this, in some cases perhaps meekly accepted but in others vigorously embraced by the school's leadership, has been even more astounding.
A cabinet-level office in Richmond – promoting so-called diversity, inclusion, and equity (DIE) – was intended to promote divisiveness, distrust, and discord within the commonwealth's citizenry, to the advantage and advancement of those running the show. It is Marxism repackaged, based on skin color in lieu of class.[2] Gone is Dr. King's judging based on content of character; now it's content of melanin that counts. At VMI, the intended divisiveness and discord has been achieved, manifested by verbal attacks against those (especially alumni) who disapprove of the ongoing cultural revolution they are witnessing – which they are asked to support financially, by the way. Distrust among the corps of cadets has been evident as well, including some of those who are soon to graduate expressing fears of speaking their mind even among their classmates. It must only be worse for the underclassmen. VMI's long-running newspaper, The Cadet, has struggled under administration pressure to retain its independent voice.
The divisiveness and fraudulence of CRT-DIE programming was seen in the words of Dr. Janice Underwood, Virginia's first Chief Diversity Officer, who in response to an interview question in August 2020 on how the administration in Richmond was addressing "racial inequities" said the following: "Because racism is institutionalized, we realize we must institutionalize mechanisms to confront it." Really? What did the interviewer mean by "racial inequities"? What did Underwood mean by institutionalized racism? These definitions – no doubt best understood only by the intelligentsia, to use the eminent Professor Thomas Sowell's favored term – were left unanswered. To charge or assert something is one thing, but for the assertion to carry weight in a culture (that expects to last very long) requires facts, evidence, argumentation. In his The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy, Sowell writes, ". . . the vocabulary of the anointed requires no clear definitions, logical arguments, or empirical verifications. Its role is precisely to be a substitute for all these things."[3]
Today's brand of neo-Marxism – whether voiced by Dr. Underwood or other spokespersons in the movement – is consistent with a trait described by the noted British military historian, Major-General J.F.C. Fuller, who wrote sixty years ago:
A fundamental principle in Marxian dialectics is verbal inversion. When the accepted meaning of a word or an idea is turned upside down, not only are Communist intentions obscured [to the unsuspecting], but the mind of the non-Communist is misled, and mental confusion leads to a semantic nightmare in which things appear to be firmly planted on their feet, but actually are standing on their heads.[4]
In terms of behaviors with an actual or perceived racial component, CRT-DIE disciples love to confuse structural-systemic-institutional racism with occasional misbehaviors. (In the misbehaviors category, evidence collected by the not-so-independent investigation of racism at VMI conducted in 2021 showed the school ranked favorably with other undergraduate institutions – the report's main complaint, rather, was unequal outcomes between white and non-white cadets, one of many situations Sowell argues is adjustable only by God or one with a view of the cosmos.) Likewise, neo-Marxists use the favorable-sounding term "equity," when what they actually mean is "payback" for the injustices of earlier generations.[5]
In the interview, Dr. Underwood went on to say proudly, "My entire family and I have participated in the BLM protests," before adding, "I am determined to turn the Black Lives Matter movement into actionable items."[6] BLM, it should be stated, is Marxist. Its leaders have openly stated this, even though they decided to take down from the internet their intent to "disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure," a Marxist aim as old as Karl himself.[7] In fairness, when Underwood admitted this not all of the 30 or more deaths, 1,500 law enforcement officer injuries, and $2 billion of destruction in American cities had yet taken place under the approving nods of BLM apparatchiks.[8]
But now that the Gov. Glenn Youngkin administration is established in Richmond – with a very different view of such matters – why even mention what happened in 2020 under Northam's misrule? Answer: because in 2022 VMI is continuing to implement the "actionable items" of Northam's diversity officer, albeit it seems with furtive backward glances toward Richmond. This is perhaps the reason for Shapira's latest exercise in disgracing the field of journalism as he has ("VMI alumni push to reverse diversity reforms, invoking critical race theory," dated April 16, 2022).[9]
In his latest hit-piece, Shapira focused attention on an alumni-organized petition protesting the entrance of CRT-DIE programming and ideology "into the VMI realm."[10] The 1,100 signatories – no small number for a school of VMI's size – requested that Virginia's Attorney General Jason Miyares halt further contract-award actions at VMI pending an investigation into the incessant – but still unsupported – charges of structural-systemic-institutional racism at the school – in contrast to the occasional acts of individual misbehavior that characterize a fallen world. The most titillating of the fraudulent charges, that a white second-year cadet made a serious threat to lynch a black first-year cadet, has been shown to be utterly without merit. While the word "lynch" was, in fact, used – and it ought not to have been – it was uttered in the heat of the moment during a workout session of the first-year "Rats" during which the black Rat deliberately sought to disobey the upper-class cadet trainers; he later admitted so. The offending upperclassman was suspended.
Shapira may not be alone among VMI watchers in having missed or forgotten a recent statement by the new VMI superintendent. On February 27, 2022, Gary Robertson of Virginia Business wrote: "While past acts of racism have occurred at VMI, [Maj. Gen. Cedric T.] Wins says that charges of 'institutional racism' at VMI are not supported by the facts."[11]
This is a transformative admission. Let me repeat that last part, for it undermines, indeed, destroys the rationale for nearly every major change that has befallen the Institute since late 2020: ". . . Wins says that charges of 'institutional racism' at VMI are not supported by the facts" (emphasis added). It is exactly what a number of VMI alumni have rightly concluded from their own examination of the facts and the evidence presented. To ensure that General Wins (VMI, 1985) had not been misquoted or taken out of context, on April 19, 2022, I emailed Col. Bill Wyatt, VMI's communications chief and asked him those two questions. Wyatt replied: "He was quoted correctly and in proper context."[12]
So, after nearly two years of nonstop assaults against VMI, including the implementing of far-reaching CRT-DIE measures based upon an assumed structural or systemic or institutional racism the VMI Superintendent now admits is not supported by the facts, where does that leave VMI? Time will tell. But we now know without any doubt that structural-systemic-institutional racism does not exist at VMI. "Behold this, we have investigated it, thus it is; Hear it, and know for yourself" (Job 5:27).
[1] "Q&A With Dr. Janice Underwood, Virginia's First Cabinet-Level Chief Diversity Officer," Health Leads [healthleadsusa.org], Aug. 10, 2020.
[2] Dr. Carol Swain, of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, says: "The greatest threat to American society today . . . is coming from the [DEI] industry. It is steeped in Critical Race Theory, which is Marxist. It divides people." See her discussion, "The Ingraham Angle," Fox News Channel, Feb. 17, 2021.
[3] "Q&A With Dr. Janice Underwood," Health Leads, Aug. 10, 2020; Thomas Sowell, The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy (New York: Basic Books, 1995), 187.
[4] J.F.C. Fuller, The Conduct of War, 1789-1961: A Study of the Impact of the French, Industrial, and Russian Revolutions on War and Its Conduct (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1961), 211-12.
[5] Victor Davis Hanson, "Wokeism Is a Cruel and Dangerous Cult," American Greatness [amgreatness.com], Jan. 23, 2022. He writes: "Wokeism's natural logic is to destroy the lives of people of both genders, of all races, and – if need be – those of every age, all to leverage an otherwise unworkable ideological agenda."
[6] "Q&A With Dr. Janice Underwood," Health Leads, Aug. 10, 2020.
[7] The writer took this quote from "Join Black Lives Matter in Our Request for a Meeting with President-Elect Biden and Vice President-Elect Harris," Black Lives Matter official website, Nov. 9, 2020.
[8] Victor Davis Hanson, "The Debasement of Our Professional and Political Classes," American Greatness [amgreatness.com], Apr. 10, 2022.
[9] One VMI alumnus, Class of 1979, wrote in an email on April 16, "Shapira is an absolute disgrace to journalism."
[10] Quote not from the petition itself but from the organizer's interview on the John Reid Richmond Morning News radio program [audacy.com], Jan. 18, 2022.
[11] Gary Robertson, "On the line: In the shadow of controversy, VMI marches forward," Virginia Business [virginiabusiness.com], Feb. 27, 2022.
[12] Robertson, "On the line: . . . VMI marches forward," Virginia Business, Feb. 27, 2022.
Forrest L. Marion
Forrest L. Marion graduated from the Virginia Military Institute with a BS degree in civil engineering. He earned an MA in military history from the University of Alabama and a doctorate in American history from the University of Tennessee. Since 1998, Dr. Marion has served as a staff historian and oral historian at the Air Force Historical Research Agency, Maxwell AFB, Alabama. Commissioned in 1980, he retired from the U.S. Air Force Reserve in 2010. Forrest L. Marion graduated from the Virginia Military Institute with a BS degree in civil engineering. He earned an MA in military history from the University of Alabama and a doctorate in American history from the University of Tennessee.
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So, how long does VMI have to wait for an apology from Mr. Shapira and his inept comrades of social butterflies? Will they be honorable and issue an apology for their malignant maligning of ALL past graduates of the Institute and the current corps of cadets? I hope it's soon, but then we are still waiting for an apology for the North Carolina students who were falsely accused, ya know, how many YEARS ago?
THOMAS HADAWAY HUBERT III says:
Don't hold your breath on that one. These people never apologize. They are intellectually and morally incapable of doing so.
I agree. My comments were 'tongue-in-cheek' knowing it would not be noticed by those to whom it was directed. Thanks for your comment.
William Quinton Platt III says:
If your middle name is Lee or Longstreet, you have the greatest name in Southern history.
Cameron Seay says:
If VMI's online directory of alumni is correct, the author's middle name IS Lee!
Valerie Protopapas says:
These parasitic traitors would never have achieved as much as they have of our destruction as a people and a culture had we stood up to them from the beginning. But the Klan and lynching were trotted out to show how wicked we are while daily headlines showed where most of the crime was located ~ and it wasn't with ordinary middle class people white OR black. We have allowed the criminals to determine what is a crime and as a result, we are being murdered and moved onto the trash heap of history without so much as an outcry. Time to stop being afraid of being called names and standing up for the Truth. That's what Col. John Mosby told one of his men to do in a dispute, "Don't stand up for me, don't stand up for him, STAND UP FOR THE TRUTH!"
Tom Wiggins says:
I imagine there will be no apology, he was accusing "white" folk. Also, it takes a degree of humility and character to ask forgiveness.
I have been hoping that with a new governor AND a new Attorney General for Virginia that a program of legal wrangling would be taken to apply some accountability to former Governor Northam and his cronies for their despotic actions; saving the Commonwealth, who gave us most all of the Patriot-Founders of Constitutional government, from sliding further into the socialist hell-hole. No sign of that happening – yet, but I still have hope it will come to pass.
Ken Comfort says:
IN MY OPINION: I will be disappointed if the wrongs that have occurred to VMI and this country over the past decade are allowed to go uncorrected. The investigation continuing today over the "January 6" debacle could possibly be a model to use to get to the bottom of the attempted coup by the "left" (BLM , various news media, wokeness etc.). Allowing it to go uncorrected invites another future attempt to destroy this country.
We seem to talk, talk, talk and do nothing to correct offensive actions.
It is time to push back against this country's enemies…yes, including domestic ones.
VMI '67
Rick Swan says:
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I've spent the past week drinking some pretty, uh, mysterious cups of coffee.
Well, not coffee, per se — I've been drinking Americano, which is made by adding hot water to espresso. It's my favorite coffee-like beverage.
I've been drinking cups of Americano at Alabaster, my favorite downtown coffee shop, for almost a year now. According to Alabaster's baristas, Americano has less caffeine than traditional drip coffee and less acid to boot. It's a pretty solid choice, then, for us anxious GERD-y types who insist upon drinking a coffee beverage.
I'm here to tell you about my experiment.
I've always connected caffeine intake with anxiety. And why? Well, the books and the news stories and the internet tell me it's true: caffeine intake can increase your anxiety. It increases your heart rate, which, in turn, could even produce panic in someone like me who finds a rapid heartbeat to be a triggering sensation.
Over time, however, I began to wonder: how much does caffeine affect my anxiety level and my panic frequency?So, during my last year of college, I decided to quit caffeine cold turkey. I stopped drinking coffee altogether, started drinking decaf tea, and made the switch to caffeine-free sodas.
This is when my two-week withdrawal headache began. It was a pain, sure, but at least I only had to deal with the headache for about 12 hours per day — because my body felt so incredibly worn out that I slept for the other 12 hours of the day.
I stayed caffeine-free for about a year.
CAFFEINE, I KNOW YOU SO WELL — RIGHT?
As time went on, I began experimenting with caffeine here and there — especially in grad school. After all, I was competing with other students who took ADHD stimulant medication to write papers about complex theoretical communication models — I needed something to give me an edge, right?
From then until now, I began using caffeine strategically instead of mindlessly. Need to read a book for comprehension? Have a cup of black tea. Need to do some brainstorming? Perhaps some green tea. Need to write a paper or a blog post? Coffee.
Still, I minded and monitored my consumption. Always hyper-vigilant, I could distinguish between the physiological effects of green tea (low caffeine) versus black tea (moderate caffeine) versus coffee (high caffeine).
Or so I'd claimed. But to what extent did my knowledge of consuming a certain amount of caffeine affect my body's reaction to it? In other words, if I know I'm drinking a highly-caffeinated product, am I more likely to feel a buzz than if someone had misled me into merely thinking that I was drinking a highly-caffeinated product?
Or what if I don't even know the caffeine content of what I'm drinking? What then? How would I react? Would I be able to discern caffeine content by my physiological reactions? By my mood? By my energy level? By anything?
To what extent would I experience the placebo effect (or even the nocebo effect) versus a bona fide reaction to the caffeine?
This is where the good folks at Alabaster come in. For the entire past week, they worked with me in setting up a personal experiment to test just that. Six cups of Americano. Six different days. Six different opportunities for me to blindly guess the caffeine content of each drink.
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Q: Solving equations with the base and exponent being a variable How do you solve an equation with the variable as the base and as the exponent, such as $x^{2x}=10$?I tried working it out using logarithms,roots and calculus and nothing worked.Or more general $x^{nx}= y$?
A: The solution can't be found in terms of elementary functions.
The solution of the equation
$$x^{nx}=y$$ can be written as:
$$x=\dfrac{1}{n}\dfrac{\ln(y)}{LambertW\left(\dfrac{\ln(y)}{n}\right)}$$
The function $LambertW(z)$ or better $W(z)$ has the following expansion:
$$W(z)=\sum_{k=1}^\infty\dfrac{(-k)^{k-1}}{k!}z^k$$
A: There isn't really a nice solution except if you accept lambert W as one.
$$x^{nx}=y$$
And for $y > 0$:
$$\ln(x^{nx})=\ln (y)$$
$$nx \ln (x)=\ln (y)$$
$$x \ln (x)=\frac{\ln (y)}{n}$$
$$e^{\ln (x)} \ln (x)=\frac{\ln (y)}{n}$$
$$\ln (x)=W(\frac{\ln (y)}{n})$$
$$x=e^{W(\frac{\ln (y)}{n})}$$
But $W(x)e^{W(x)}=x$ means $e^{W(x)}=\frac{x}{W(x)}$ so:
$$x=\frac{\frac{\ln (y)}{n}}{W(\frac{\ln (y)}{n})}$$
Numerical approximations can be found by newtons method.
A: It is not possible to solve the equation algrbraically. That means that you cannot solve the equation with using only using "common" relations and functions (square root, cosine, etc).
First option:
You can apply an approximation method to solve the equation, for instance the Newton-Raphson method. If you use this method you need the derivative. The derivative of $y(x)=x^{nx}$ is
$y'(x)=nx\cdot x^{nx}\cdot (log x+1)$
Second option:
You can use an the Lambert $W$ function.
The solution for $x^{nx}=\left(x^x\right)^n=y$ is
$\Large{x=e^{{W\left(\frac{ln(y)}{n}\right)}}}$
A: If you cannot use Lambert function, as already said in answers and comments, only numerical methods could be used.
Supposing that you look for the zero of $$f(x)=x^{ax}-b$$ I thing that solving the problem for $$g(x)=ax\log(x)-\log(b)$$ could be better since function $g(x)$ increases more slowly than $f(x)$. In such a case, Newton iterates would just be $$x_{n+1}=\frac{a x_n+\log (b)}{a (1+\log (x_n))}$$ For illustration purposes, let us use $a=\pi$ and $b=123456789$ and let us start iterating at $x_0=1$; the successive iterates will then be
$$\left(
\begin{array}{cc}
n & x_n \\
1 & 6.93055937563341832 \\
2 & 4.38057877158002436 \\
3 & 4.16244866627278281 \\
4 & 4.16017204007969000 \\
5 & 4.16017178335219682 \\
6 & 4.16017178335219356
\end{array}
\right)$$
which seems to be quite fast.
For sure, we could have generated a much better starting point using, as an approximation, $$W(z)=L_1-L_2+\frac{L_2}{L_1}+\frac{L_2(L_2-2)}{2L_1^2}+\cdots$$ given in the Wikipedia page; this uses $L_1=\log(z)$ and $ L_2=\log(L_1)$.
Applied to the example, this would give $x_0\approx 4.24253$ and very few iterations would be required.
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Q: Multiple asynchronous queries to SQL Server under transaction scope Trying to run multiple asynchronous queries to SQL Server under transaction scope - it fails unfortunately. Are there any way to make it work? Unit test is on GitHub.
I have a test table:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[People]
(
[Id] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
[Name] [varchar](10) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED ([Id] ASC)
)
With a single record:
INSERT INTO [People] ([Name]) VALUES ('John Doe')
The test code looks like this:
[TestMethod]
public void Should_Work()
{
using (var scope = new TransactionScope(
TransactionScopeOption.Required,
new TransactionOptions
{
IsolationLevel = IsolationLevel.ReadCommitted
}))
{
var tx = Transaction.Current;
var name = Task.Run(async () =>
{
using (var scope2 = new TransactionScope(tx,
TransactionScopeAsyncFlowOption.Enabled))
{
var result = await Task.WhenAll(
from i in Enumerable.Range(0, 2)
select QueryAsync());
scope2.Complete();
return result[0];
}
}).Result;
Assert.AreEqual("John Doe", name);
}
}
where QueryAsync is:
const string CS = @"Data Source = .; Initial Catalog = Test; Integrated Security = True;";
const string Select = "WAITFOR DELAY '00:00:05'; " +
"SELECT [Name] FROM [People] WHERE [Id] = 1;";
async Task<string> QueryAsync()
{
using (var c2 = new SqlConnection(CS))
{
await c2.OpenAsync();
var cmd2 = c2.CreateCommand();
cmd2.CommandText = Select;
cmd2.CommandType = System.Data.CommandType.Text;
return await cmd2.ExecuteScalarAsync() as string;
}
}
The problem is happening on second connection opening:
Message: Test method SqlTests.UnitTest1.Should_Work threw exception:
System.AggregateException: One or more errors occurred. --->
System.Transactions.TransactionAbortedException: The transaction has
aborted. ---> System.Transactions.TransactionPromotionException:
Failure while attempting to promote transaction. --->
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: There is already an open
DataReader associated with this Command which must be closed first.
---> System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: The wait operation timed out
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The UN and human rights groups have condemned a Haitian court's decision not to charge Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, the country former dictator, over allegations of torture and murder.
Duvalier will face trial for corruption during his 15-year rule, but not for human rights abuses, Carves Jean, the judge handling the case, said on Monday.
"I did not find enough legal grounds to keep human rights charges and crimes against humanity against him," he said. "Now my job is over. The case is no longer in my hands."
The judge said that the decision, based on a year-long investigation, must first be reviewed by the attorney general as well as by Duvalier and the victims of his regime who filed complaints against the former leader.
Rupert Colville, a spokesman for the UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights, said Duvalier must be tried for "very serious human rights violations" during his 15-year reign that were "extensively documented."
He said the UN is "extremely disappointed" by Investigative Magistrate Carves Jean's decision Monday to recommend that the ruler once known as "Baby Doc" face trial only on corruption charges.
Reed Brody, a counsel for Human Rights Watch, wrote in an e-mail: "Those who were tortured under Duvalier, those whose loved ones were killed or simply disappeared, deserve better than this."
Amnesty International researcher Gerardo Ducos said he was puzzled by the judge's findings, saying the "investigation was a sham and its conclusion a disgrace".
Rights groups said the judge ignored critical testimony that would have given weight to a prosecution of the once-feared ruler known as "Baby Doc" for crimes that include torture, false imprisonment and murder.
Mario Joseph, a lawyer whose Haitian-run firm is representing some of the Duvalier regime's victims, said the judge "made so many errors" that they had compromised his pre-trial investigation.
"Crime against humanity can be murder, it can be torture as long as it fits certain requirements that fit here, and is clearly applicable to Duvalier case."
He said the former dictator would appeal any decision to put him on trial for financial crimes, arguing that the supreme court had already cleared him of such charges following a previous investigation.
Brian Concannon of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti told Al Jazeera: "The arguments that Duvalier's lawyers have been making is that crime against humanity doesn't apply because there is no such thing as crime against humanity in Haitian legal code.
"But it is a pretty clear consensus that under international law the statute limitations do not apply to crimes against humanity.
"But courts have looked at it in other countries, including international courts that are binding on Haiti, and they have said, you don't need the words "crime against humanity,'" he said.
Duvalier inherited power from his father, Francois 'Papa Doc' Duvalier in 1971 and ruled Haiti for 15 years until his overthrow in 1986.
Under the father-and-son dictatorship, thousands of people were murdered, or were tortured in jails, such as the dreaded Fort Dimanche prison.
Duvalier, now 60, made a surprise return to his earthquake-stricken homeland in January last year after nearly 25 years exiled in France, opening himself up to possible prosecution.
More than 20 victims filed complaints shortly after Duvalier's return, among them prominent Haitians such as Robert Duval, a former footballer who said he was beaten and starved during his 17 months of captivity in Fort Dimanche.
"I don't understand how he could've done that,'' Duval said by telephone. "If that's the case, that's an outrageous decision."
Haitian President Michel Martelly had given mixed signals about the case, last week recanting a suggestion from a day earlier that he might be open to a possible pardon for Duvalier, citing a need to end internal strife that has long dogged the country. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,632 |
"Exciting Tomb Raider news" on the way. 20th anniversary something or other anyone?
Square has started its hype(ish) train with a 'Road to E3' blog post where it runs though its plans for the show. That's basically Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, and a bunch of other stuff.
However, it does tease that its next E3 update "will feature some exciting Tomb Raider news" as well as "details on a few new games that our team has been hard at work on".
Now, while it's possible that we could get a new Tomb Raider announcement (assuming the franchise has survived its Xbox exclusive suicide release) it's far more likely we'll get something anniversary related - the original game came out in 1996, 20 years ago.
Last time Lara reached her 10th birthday Square released an updated version of the first game remade in the then current engine, and called it Tomb Raider Anniversary. I wonder if we'll see a similar treatment for its 20th? | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,633 |
"The survey showed that encryption of sensitive and confidential data is often being applied either before the data is sent"
A survey by Ponemon Institute of 4205 business and IT managers around the world found that more than half now transfer sensitive or confidential data to the Cloud, while taking various approaches to encrypting that data.
Another 31 per cent said they expected to transfer sensitive data to the Cloud within the next 24 months, while 16 per cent said they did not. However, only 35 per cent of US-based respondents indicated they knew what steps are being taken by the Cloud provider to protect this sensitive data, which was not much different than the response from other parts of the world, including the United Kingdom, France, Australia, Japan and Brazil. Nevertheless, 57 per cent expressed confidence that "my organization's Cloud providers have the ability to safeguard sensitive or confidential data within the Cloud."
How will Cloud, virtualization and SDN complicate future firewall security?
Sponsored by Thales, the survey showed that encryption of sensitive and confidential data is often being applied either before the data is sent, or used in the transfer process, or the Ccloud provider encrypts it when it's stored in the Cloud.
Thirty-seven percent of respondents said their own organizations take steps to encrypt data as it's transferred to and from the Cloud service over the network. Thirty-one percent said they encrypted the data before transfer to the Cloud. Eleven percent said the Cloud provider encrypted their data in storage, while 11 per cent of organisations handled the encryption process themselves in the cloud environment. The remaining 10 per cent said "none of the above" or "not applicable". The survey notes that the various deployment options for encryption in the Cloud environment were relatively uniform for all three types of services, SaaS, IaaS and PaaS.
Management of encryption keys used to secure cloud data was another question asked. Twenty-nine percent said their own organization manages encryption keys when data is encrypted in the cloud, while 26 per cent said it was a "combination" of both, 23 per cent said it was the Cloud provider alone and 21 per cent said a third-party service (not the Cloud provider).
The internal IT organization was most likely to be managing the encryption keys for IaaS environments, while in a SaaS environment, it's most likely to be a combination of the organization and the provider managing the keys.
In a question about the relative importance of the encryption protocol called "Key Management Interoperability Protocol," 27 per cent called it "very important" or "important" now, while 33 per cent said KMIP would be important to their encryption strategy in the next 12 months. The areas of importance were named as cloud-based applications and storage, storage systems, application infrastructure and network infrastructure, while it was seen as less important for remote applications or end-user devices. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,634 |
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Lawrence Brooks, Oldest U.S. Veteran of WWII, Dies at 112
Brooks, who served in the predominately Black 91st Engineer Battalion, is survived by five children, 13 grandchildren and 32 great-grandchildren
by Article submitted January 6, 2022 January 7, 2022
World War II veteran Lawrence Brooks holds a photo of him taken in 1943, as he celebrates his 110th birthday at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans in this Sept. 12, 2019 file photo. For Veterans Day, a group of Democratic lawmakers is reviving an effort to pay the families of Black servicemen who fought on behalf of the nation during World War II for benefits they were denied or prevented from taking full advantage of when they returned home from war. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
By Doha Madani (NBC News)
The country's oldest surviving World War II veteran, Lawrence Brooks, died Wednesday at the age of 112, according to the National WWII Museum in New Orleans.
Brooks, a Louisiana native and resident, was drafted in 1940 and served in the Army's 91st Engineer Battalion. His battalion was a predominately Black group of servicemen, due to the military's segregation practices at the time.
Stephen J. Watson, president and CEO of the National WWII Museum, called Brooks a man of great faith and "gentle spirit."
"As the nation's oldest known living veteran, he proudly served our country during World War II, and returned home to serve his community and church," Watson said. "His kindness, smile and sense of humor connected him to generations of people who loved and admired him."
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards offered condolences in a statement on Twitter. "I am sorry to hear of the passing of Mr. Lawrence Brooks, America's oldest World War II veteran and a proud Louisianan," Edwards said Wednesday. "I am thankful I had the chance to meet him and learn from his service."
Born in a small village outside of Baton Rouge, Brooks was one of 15 children. His parents were sharecroppers who moved to Mississippi to find work after the Great Depression, according to the Army Times.
He was initially discharged and returned to New Orleans in November 1941 after his obligatory year of service, but rejoined the Army following the attack on Pearl Harbor weeks later.
Brooks served overseas in Australia, New Guinea and the Philippines, earning his way to private first class. He once shared the story of a harrowing journey on a C-47 going from Australia to New Guinea when an engine failed.
The crew began unloading cargo to make the plane lighter, Brooks said, and he moved toward the cockpit.
"You have a pilot and a co-pilot, only two of them, they're the only two who have a parachute," Brooks said. "I said if they run and jump, I'm gonna grab one of them."
At the end of his service, Brooks returned home to the racism of the Jim Crow era. He rarely talked about these issues with his fellow soldiers, saying it would just anger him, according to the museum's biography.
"I was treated so much better in Australia than I was by my own white people," Brooks once said. "I wondered about that."
Brooks was denied GI Bill benefits, his daughter, Vanessa Brooks, said in recent interviews supporting a proposed congressional bill that would target racial inequities in the bill's provisions. Her father had always wanted to go to college, but without the bill — which includes tuition benefits — he wasn't able to after the war.
"It's too late for him, but he wants me to go to school and I want to go to Tulane, but it's just a dream," she told CBS News last month. "If the G.I. Bill is revived, I'll have the opportunity to go back to school on my daddy's shoulders."
Instead, Brooks fell back into civilian life as a forklift operator until retiring his 70s. His wife, Leona, died in 2008. He is survived by five children, 13 grandchildren and 32 great-grandchildren.
Over the years, Brooks has been celebrated as one of the oldest surviving WWII veterans. The National WWII Museum has hosted birthday parties for him for the past seven years.
The parties shifted to drive-by events at his New Orleans home in 2020 and 2021 because of the pandemic. The museum also started a birthday card writing campaign for Brooks in 2020, which it said generated 21,500 cards from nearly 30 countries. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 1,635 |
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Why Blackjack is Still a Perennial Favourite in Online Casinos
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Interest in gaming as a whole is at an all-time high, from the latest generation of consoles being on the way to storied franchises releasing their next chapters. One of the ever-present popular sectors of entertainment is that of online casino gaming. The sites continue to update game libraries and explore new technologies to enhance the form of gaming.
However, amidst the thousands of eye-catching slot games and big jackpot titles, it's one of the oldest and least-changed games that remain a perennial favorite at Casino.com: blackjack. The table game continues to draw a massive digital crowd in the modern space, but how has the game of 21 managed to achieve this feat?
Blackjack is accessible in every regard
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To a tremendous degree, convenience is what drives a lot of the gaming industry. Even though there are many distinctly lacking mobile games available, those that rise to the top prove to be easy to understand, high-quality, and entertaining. Convenience is, of course, key, but the product also has to meet very high standards.
This is the sentiment that Casino.com followed, per this review of their blackjack offerings, by creating a nearly flawless total casino app that offers the pinnacle of convenient blackjack play. Having a high-quality mobile offering has become essential for casino games. While playing blackjack through the Casino.com website offers a larger screen, all of the in-game plays are present and easier to use through mobiles.
Now available through the classy mobile app with touch-screen controls and on laptops and PCs, blackjack has perfectly adapted to modern gaming. Being accessible explains how blackjack has remained so popular centuries since its invention. However, it doesn't explain the real allure of the card game.
The mystique of blackjack brings in the crowds
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Many people play casino games for their entertainment value or to test their luck, but since the 1950s, blackjack has been the game of the savvy gambler. Now known as the "Four Horsemen," James McDermott, Wilbert Cantey, Herbert Maisel, and Roger Baldwin formulated the optimized way to play blackjack. Their publication of Basic Strategy opened the floodgates, showing people that they can beat the casino.
The strategies that evolved after the Four Horsemen proved the existence of an optimal way to play require tremendous mental capacity. You need to be able to remember hundreds, even thousands, of optimized situational plays and be able to crunch probability on the spot. It wasn't long before organized teams trained blackjack to make money, with the MIT Blackjack Team being the most famous of those who did so.
Publicizing blackjack as a game that can be defeated while further escalating the persona of those capable of besting blackjack was Hollywood. Several series and movies delve hype-up blackjack players and the game as one that can be won, from Rain Man to 21 to The Hangover.
Not only does the mystique of blackjack keep it in high regard among casino gamers, but its sheer quality and accessibility through Casino.com allow it to remain a favorite.
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The Sensenbrenner Hospital offers all the amenities of a modern health care complex. The hospital offers a variety of services including diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative services, as well as in and out-patient care and long term chronic care. They also provide emergency and ambulatory care, joined with air ambulance capability.
Physicians practicing in the Kapuskasing area are accommodated in the Doctors' Complex, next to the Sensenbrenner Hospital. Specialty clinics are held on a regular basis where they welcome outside specialists, making it easy for patients to schedule appointments without travelling long distances.
The Centre de santé communautaire de Kapuskasing et région is a non-profit organization which provides a multitude of primary health care services, illness prevention and promotes healthy lifestyles to targeted clients.
The Centre also offers many community programs as well as the Aging at home program.
Their role is to provide and maintain health care services in French as well as pass on Francophone culture and encourage solidarity among the franco-ontarian minority.
The Porcupine Health Unit aids in the promotion of healthy lifestyles, prevention of tobacco and alcohol misuse, offers protection from infectious diseases and environmental hazards in food, water, soil and air and assists in emergency situations when needed.
The Kapuskasing-Smooth Rock Falls-Hearst Counselling Services offers a variety of mental health programs and many services for victims through Habitat Interlude and Victim Crisis Assistance and Referral Services (VCARS).
The North Eastern Ontario Family and Children's Services offers programs and services to children, youth and their families. This agency provides child welfare, children's mental health, youth justice and prevention programs along with many other programs and services.
North Cochrane Addiction Services provides community treatment services for substance abuse and gambling problems.
The Kapuskasing Extendicare Nursing Home is a facility which provides comprehensive nursing, medical, therapeutic and rehabilitative care to people with a wide range of individual care needs, from clinically-complex to recovering after surgery.
The North Centennial Manor is a long-term care establishment which provides high quality care and services to the elderly, people with disabilities, and people who suffer from a chronic or prolonged illness.
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#10. Antarctic Island (The World, Dubai)
This island was gifted to former Formula 1 racer Michael Schumacher by Dubai's crown prince Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, as a retirement present. Antarctic Island is worth a whopping $7 million and can only be reached via boat or helicopter.
#9. The Coco Privé Resort (Maldives Islands)
Located on the private island known as Kuda Hithi in the Maldives, the Coco Privé Resort is an authentic dream island, which seems to have been made specifically for relaxation. The luxurious villas can accommodate up to 12 guests and feature discreet butler services as well as individual private swimming pools.
#8. Fowl Cay (The Bahamas)
Fowl Cay is located on the Exuma archipelago, in the Bahamas. The resort features a total of 6 villas, ranging from 1 to 3 bedrooms, each. Each villa has breathtaking ocean views, which can be further appreciated through a multitude of glass doors which lead onto the patio, overlooking the azure sea.
#7. Little Thatch Island (The Caribbean)
Sea Grape Cottage is nested happily on the beach of the quaintly named Little Thatch Island, which is part of the Virgin Islands. The cottage is really a villa, which was built in the traditional West-Indian style, featuring a simple but understated and authentic décor with white painted wood, clay tiles, and terracotta trim.
#6. Punto de Vista (Costa Rica)
This fully-staffed Pacific coast luxury villa overlooks Manuel Antonio beach and is the only hotel on a 2.5-acre tropical reserve. The edgy, modern villa has won several awards for its design and somehow fits in nicely with the natural landscape. Punto de Vista has an elegant interior décor, with plenty of earth colors and a neutral, harmonious palette.
#5. Easter Sister Rock Island (Florida Keys)
The villa was built in Bahamian-style, with plenty of glass doors and an open plan kitchen/living room, ensuring plenty of social and entertainment space. The interior of the villa employs soft, muted tones, leaving center-stage to the vista which can be admired through the glass doors.
#4. Lady Blue Villa (Great Exuma, the Bahamas)
This beach-front villa was completed in September 2014 and was designed along the lines of a Tahitian village. Each bedroom is a separate structure, with its own bathroom. All 5 buildings are connected by a covered deck. A large outdoor living area ensures that guests can make the most of their experience at Great Exuma.
#3. Tavern Island (Connecticut)
Located in Connecticut's Norwalk Islands Chain, this 3.5-acre island was purchased by the Zesigers for just under $1 million in 1981. The island has a pool, an Asian style tea-house, and a boat house. The private mansion, which was once owned by the showman Billy Rose, is now up for sale for a whopping $10 million.
#2. Bougainvillea House Villa (Great Exuma)
This Villa, which opened in 2003, has hosted the likes of Penelope Cruz, Javier Barden, Glenn Close and Maury Povich, together with a host of other celebrities. With 7 bedrooms, 9 bathrooms and two kitchens, the villa can host up to 18 adults. The going rate is of $28,000 per week and includes the use of a 10-passenger 26-foot catamaran and captain.
#1. Necker Island (British Virgin Islands)
This is the home and favorite hideaway of Virgin Group CEO, Sir Richard Branson, by his very own admission. He purchased the 74-acre island way back in 1978 for a measly $180,000 and invested $10 million developing the resort in a three-year timeframe. He built a 10-bedroom Balinese-style villa, with Brazilian wood, Asian antiques, Indian rugs as well as fabrics and bamboo from Bali.
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Vegan Soul Kitchen: Fresh, Healthy, and Creative African-American Cuisine 283 copies, 11 reviews
Afro-Vegan: Farm-Fresh African, Caribbean, and Southern Flavors Remixed 145 copies, 2 reviews
The Inspired Vegan: Seasonal Ingredients, Creative Recipes, Mouthwatering… 78 copies, 1 review
Vegetable Kingdom: The Abundant World of Vegan Recipes 71 copies, 1 review
Black Food: Stories, Art, and More than 75 Recipes from Across the African… 25 copies, 1 review
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Feed the Resistance: Recipes Ideas for Getting Involved (Contributor) 78 copies, 10 reviews
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Bryant Terry (Afro-Vegan)
A national leader in the movement to promote healthy eating, Bryant Terry is the author of The Inspired Vegan and the critically acclaimed Vegan Soul Kitchen. Along with Anna Lappé, Bryant co-authored Grub, which the New York Times called "ingenious." He is also the host of Urban Organic—a multi-episode web series that he co-created. Bryant's work has been featured in the New York Times, Gourmet, Food & Wine, O: The Oprah Magazine, Essence, Yoga Journal, and Vegetarian Times, among others. He has made dozens of national television and radio appearances including the Martha Stewart Show, Emeril Green, The Splendid Table, and Morning Edition. He lives in Oakland, California. Visit www.bryant-terry.com to learn more. (added from Random House)… (more)
Larkspur - Winter Cookbook Extravaganza
Diesel, A Bookstore in Brentwood, Saturday, December 6, 2014 at 1pm
Diesel, A Bookstore in Larkspur invites you to our Winter Cookbook Extravaganza on Saturday, December 6th at 1pm.
Yes, friends, the holidays are upon us once again, which means it's time for family, friends, and food. Lots and lots of food. As we all know, nothing else brings people together in quite the same way: we bond over flavors, we swap stories and recipes, and we sit back sated and sedated. Sure you've got your time-honored recipes and go-to dishes, but isn't it time to bring some fresh flavors to your table?
Come to our ever popular Winter Cookbook Extravaganza! Joining us this time to present their new cookbooks (and of course bring some excellent food) will be authors: Bryant Terry, Karen Solomon, Jean-Pierre Moulle, Denise Moulle, and Josey Baker!
Chef and activist Bryant Terry is a leader in the movement to promote healthy eating, host of the web series Urban Organic, and author of Inspired Vegan and Vegan Soul Kitchen. His new cookbook is Afro-Vegan: Farm-Fresh African, Caribbean, and Southern Flavors Remixed.
Karen Solomon is the author of Jam It, Pickle It, Cure It; Can It, Bottle It, Smoke It, and the recently released Asian pickles: Sweet, Sour, Salty, Cured, and Fermented Preserves from Korea, Japan, China, India, and Beyond. She is a contributing author to Chow! San Francisco Bay Area and a former contributing editor to Zagat Survey: San Francisco Bay Area Restaurants.
Until his retirement in 2012, Jean-Pierre Moulle was the executive chef at Chez Panisse, where he began working in 1975. Denise Moulle comes from the Bordeaux wine-making empire of the Lurton family. She worked as a wine distributor in California for many years before starting Two Bordelais in 1987, which offers guided tours through France. Their new cookbook is French Roots: Two Cooks, Two Countries, and the Beautiful Food along the Way.
Josey Baker is a one-man bread-baking empire based in San Francisco's NOPA district. He likes kids, and jumping into rivers, but mainly, he likes baking. His new book is Josey Baker Bread.
Location: Street: DIESEL, A Bookstore in Larkspur Additional: Marin Country Mart, 2419 Larskspur Landing Circle City: Larkspur, Province: California Postal Code: 94939 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)
BRYANT TERRY BOOKSIGNING (AFRO-VEGAN: Farm-Fresh African, Caribbean and Southern Flavors Re-mixed)
Eso Won Books, Saturday, May 31, 2014 at 5pm
African, Caribbean, and Southern food are all known and loved as vibrant and flavor-packed cuisines. In Afro-Vegan, renowned chef and food justice activist Bryant Terry reworks and remixes the favorite staples, ingredients, and classic dishes of the African Diaspora to present wholly new, creative culinary combinations that will amaze Vegans, vegetarians, and omnivores alike.
Blending these colorful cuisines results in delicious recipes like Smashed Potatoes, Peas, and Corn with Chile-Garlic Oil, a recipe inspired by the Kenyan dish irio, and Cinnamon-Soaked Wheat Berry Salad with dried apricots, carrots, and almonds, which is based on a Moroccan tagine. Creamy Coconut-Cashew Soup with Okra, Corn, and Tomatoes pays homage to a popular Brazilian dish while incorporating classic Southern ingredients, and Crispy Teff and Grit Cakes with Eggplant, Tomatoes, and Peanuts combines the Ethiopian grain teff with stone-ground corn grits from the Deep South and North African zalook dip. There's perfect potluck fare, such as the simple, warming, and intensely flavored Collard Greens and Cabbage with Lots of Garlic, and the Caribbean-inspired Cocoa Spice Cake with Crystallized Ginger and Coconut-Chocolate Ganache, plus a refreshing Roselle-Rooibos Drink that will satisfy any sweet tooth.
With more than 100 modern and delicious dishes that draw on Terry's personal memories as well as the history of food that has traveled from the African continent, Afro-Vegan takes you on an international food journey. Accompanying the recipes are Terry's insights about building community around food, along with suggested music tracks from around the world and book recommendations. For anyone interested in improving their well-being, Afro-Vegan's groundbreaking recipes offer innovative, plant-based global cuisine that is fresh, healthy, and forges a new direction in Vegan cooking. Come early and enjoy the feast.
Location: Street: 4327 Degnan Blvd Additional: City: Los Angeles, Province: California Postal Code: 90008 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)
Greenlight Bookstore - Fulton Street, Thursday, May 10, 2012 at 7:30pm
Thursday, May 10, 7:30 PM Chef Bryant Terry presents The inspired vegan with a live cooking demonstration Vegan treats provided by Greene Grape Annex
Eco-chef Bryant Terry, a former Fort Greene resident, made a huge splash with his reinvention of African-American and Southern cuisine in his first cookbook Vegan Soul Kitchen. Now he's back with a revolutionary new book The inspired vegan, a collage of stories, music, art, and of course absolutely mouthwatering and unexpected Vegan cuisine. This new book encourages readers to improvise in the kitchen and to create wonderful soulful recipes that will become their own family traditions. Bryant will inspire cooks in person with a live cooking demo at Greenlight, with additional samples of the book's great food provided by Greene Grape Annex!
Location: Street: 686 Fulton Street City: Brooklyn, Province: New York Postal Code: 11217 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)
G.R.a.S.P. {Green Resources and Sustainable Practices}
Busboys and Poets - Shirlington, Wednesday, June 3, 2009 at 7pm
Bryant Terry discusses Vegan Soul Kitchen: Fresh, Healthy, and Creative African-American Cuisine.
Interested in leading a more "earth-friendly" life but not sure how? Join us each month for our new sustainable living series, G.R.a.S.P. {Green Resources and Sustainable Practices}, during which we offer a forum for the everyday person to learn about, ask questions, and actively engage in ways to live a more eco-conscious lifestyle. There will be a new theme each month! *G.R.a.S.P. takes place on the first Wednesday of the month* ... This week's theme: ECO-COOKING featuring Oakland-based eco chef, food justice activist, and author of "Vegan Soul Kitchen(VSK): Fresh, Healthy, and Creative African-American Cuisine", Bryant Terry. In this deeply personal and cutting-edge cookbook, Terry revisits his Southern roots and offers innovative, animal-free recipes mostly inspired by African American and Southern cooking. Discussion at Shirlington Library, followed by a demonstration at Busboys and Poets. (karenharris)… (more)
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Kevin J McDevitt
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(410) 925-8992 22835 Washington St
Leonardtown, MD 20650
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Kevin was listed as one of the Best DUI Lawyers in Maryland on HubPages.com, 2012; National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Criminal Defense Lawyers in Maryland, 2014 & 2015; National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40, 2014 & 2015; Maryland Super Lawyers Rising Stars, 2014 & 2015; and Accepted into National College of DUI Defense (NCDD), 2015; Avvo Clients' Choice, 2016; Avvo 10.0 Superb Rating, 2017.
Lee Eidelberg
Towson, MD DUI & DWI Lawyer with 37 years of experience
(410) 321-0600 502 Washington Avenue
Towson, MD 21204
Lee J. Eidelberg is a former Assistant State's Attorney for Baltimore County with extensive experience in criminal and traffic court, having prosecuted many hundreds of cases during his tenure in public service, including serious felonies and misdemeanor violations. Since entering private practice more than 20 years ago, Lee has brought a unique combination of extensive trial skills, passion, and commitment to protecting his clients' rights, whether defending CDL holders charged with federal regulation violations, common motorists charged with DUI, or appearing on behalf of both Maryland and out-of-state drivers charged with non-incarcerable moving violations. Lee also assertively pursues financial...
Arya Saleh
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Bowie, MD 20715
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Widener University Delaware School of Law
Arya Saleh, Esq. is an experienced former Assistant State's Attorney who has prosecuted a diverse array of criminal matters before judges and juries in multiple jurisdictions throughout the State of Maryland.
He began his career as a judicial law clerk for the Montgomery County District Court, working alongside eleven District Court Judges. He was then appointed as an Assistant State's Attorney for Frederick County, Maryland. He was first assigned to the District Court team, prosecuting thousands of misdemeanor cases, including DUI/traffic cases, drug offenses, domestic violence, and white-collar financial crimes. During this time, he was also designated as Special Prosecutor.
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Jonathan Scott Smith
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Michael A. Mastracci
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Michael A. Freedman
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University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law and University of Maryland - College Park
Maryland based law firm Michael A. Freedman P.A., was established in 1983. With over thirty years of experience we pride ourselves in providing the Baltimore, Glen Burnie, Owings Mills and entire Maryland community with quality, personal and professional legal representation.
Abby Ticse
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Ms. Ticse represents businesses and individuals in a wide range of complex commercial litigation matters, including financial, contract, business, employment, and fiduciary disputes. Ms. Ticse also works with the firm's Criminal Defense Department. Since she has joined Silverman Thompson, Ms. Ticse has represented individuals and companies at trial in both state and federal courts. Ms. Ticse was recognized by her peers as a top business litigation attorney in 2019.
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Mr. G Randolph Rice Jr.
Baltimore, MD DUI & DWI Lawyer with 14 years of experience
(800) 470-7423 6914 Holabird Avenue
The Law Offices of Randolph Rice provides experienced and trusted legal knowledge and advise to individuals and businesses in the Baltimore Maryland region. Concentrating in the areas of Criminal Defense, DUI/DWI, Personal Injury, Injury Law, Medical Malpractice, Wills, Estates, Domestic Matters. Providing personal service to each client. Handling Drug Crimes, Assault Crimes, Domestic Violence, Driving Violations, Traffic Citations, and all other criminal and traffic charges.
Young S. Song
Ellicott City, MD DUI & DWI Lawyer with 22 years of experience
(410) 696-2256 3201 Rogers Avenue
Ellicott City, MD 21043
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Divorce and Bankruptcy, with Dignity. Licensed in MD, VA, and DC, with offices in Ellicott City, Maryland and Annandale, Virginia.
Jennifer M. Alexander
(410) 266-9909 888 Bestgate Road
DUI & DWI, Appeals, Criminal Defense and Insurance Defense
Ms. Alexander is an experienced criminal and civil trial attorney who has tried hundreds of criminal and civil cases in her career, in both state and federal courts. In addition, Ms. Alexander also defends international and national retailers and businesses throughout Maryland. Jennifer previously spent six years working as an Assistant State's Attorney at the Anne Arundel County State's Attorney's Office. While a prosecutor, Ms. Alexander was a member of the Violent Crimes Trial Team, and regularly prosecuted high profile violent crimes. In addition, Jennifer has helped train numerous police officers and agencies across the State of Maryland on various...
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It's common now to get alerts from your bank on your smartphone. It's even fairly easy to find a good app where you can take credit card payments from your cell. But how about the rest of your mobile accounting needs? Finally, the solution is here with Xero Touch for the Android, iPhone, and iPad.
What Xero calls reconciling is quite different than what you might be used to. Much of Xero's functionality is based around bringing banking data into the system and then either matching it with bills and invoices already entered or coding it to the proper account. Xero Touch allows you to do matching, coding (which they call creating), transferring between accounts, or adding comments. These are the same four functions you have available online, and we'll go into these in more detail in next month's article.
We know, it might be a bit of a stretch to have the words "excited" and "accounting" in the same sentence, but we're excited about Xero Touch and the future of mobile accounting.
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THE PERIDOT BIBLE: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT IT
Posted on 06/24/2019 05/27/2020 by Ahmed Fathallah
Peridot is one of the most visually striking gemstones, with its mix of bright summery greens and gorgeous glowing golden tones. Unlike many gemstones, which are colored by impurities and known as allochromatic, Peridot is idiochromatic, which means its color comes from the chemical composition of the gem. It has a fascinating history stretching back over 4,000 years, and has been found in meteorites, on Mars, and on the Moon! There's a lot to talk about with 'the gem of the sun' so let's get started.
THE HISTORY OF PERIDOT
Peridot is one of the oldest known gemstones and has been mined as a gem for over 4,000 years. It is actually mentioned several times in the Bible, although you may not recognize the name as it is referred to by its original title, Chrysolite. The name Chrysolite was taken from the Ancient Greek word 'chrysolithos' meaning 'golden stone', as there are often flashes of golden brilliance seen within the gem. There are several possibilities for the origin of the word 'Peridot', though nobody seems certain which one led to the modern name. It could have come from the old French word 'peritot' meaning 'unclear' because the gem once had a reputation for being quite oily in appearance. The Arabic word 'faridat' meaning 'gemstone' has also been cited as a possible source, as has the old Latin word 'paederot' which referred to a kind of Opal. Wherever the word originated, it's been around for a long time – an English bishop used the word Peridot in his will in 1245 when he left the stone to St Albans Abbey.
Some of the first Peridots were mined by the Ancient Egyptians on an island located in the Red Sea. Many of these were carved into talismans and as beads. Today this island is known as St John's Island (or Zabargad Island locally), but historically it was named Topazios Island, which was also the Ancient Greek word for the gem. Some 3,500 years ago, the early miners on Topazios did not work in the daytime as they believed this golden green treasure was invisible in sunlight. They thought the gem would absorb the sun's rays and then release them at night, essentially believing it could glow in the dark. They, therefore, mined the gemstone at night, when the unmistakable sparkle of the gem probably did help them in their search. Gemologically speaking though, Peridot is neither fluorescent or phosphorescent, though it has been referred to as 'the gem of the sun' throughout history. Incidentally, there is no relationship between Peridot and Topaz. Over time, the word Topazios developed into the word Topaz and came to represent an entirely different gemstone family.
Peridot has been mistaken and confused with many other gemstones throughout history. This includes Emerald, which is somewhat surprising due to the yellow-green color of the stone. However, we must remember the complete lack of scientific identification methods thousands of years ago, and the lack of understanding of the subtleties of gemstone color. You may have heard that the Egyptian queen Cleopatra had an enviable collection of Emerald and that it was by far her favorite gemstone. Well, some modern historians are now saying that her Emeralds may have been Peridots! The gem has also been mistaken for Apatite, Demantoid Garnet, Chrome Diopside, Chrome Tourmaline, Moldavite and Green Zircon over the centuries. The Romans were also big fans of this gem and nicknamed it the 'Evening Emerald', once again because of its perceived ability to almost glowing in the dark.
Peridot has long been associated with luck, and many cultures have celebrated the unusual and mystical elements of the stone in their myths and legends. Historically, there was an apparent belief that Peridot could ward off evil spirits and that if the stone was then set in gold (and other precious metals) its capacity to bring the bearer good luck and fortune was intensified even more. In days gone by, goblets and sword handle of the wealthy and powerful landowners and aristocracy were encrusted with Peridots. They believed that anything they drank from these encrusted goblets would become a potion to stimulate greatness. The same theory applied to the swords, as it was thought Peridot would bring power on the battlefield and strength to the bearer's legions.
There's a big gap in the history of Peridot that may well be down to the gem being grouped together with other green gemstones, mainly Emerald, for significant periods of time. Peridot was first brought to Europe in large quantities in the Middle Ages and was a very popular gemstone during the 18th and 19th centuries. As time marched on, the mines of St. John's Island were forgotten about for many centuries. Indeed the location of the island itself was lost for a considerable amount of time, only being rediscovered in 1900. Tiny amounts of gem-quality material are still occasionally discovered here, but most meaningful attempts at further commercial mining had been abandoned by the start of World War II.
The most substantial Peridot of all time was discovered at this original source and now resides in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. It weighs in at a phenomenal 311 carats, which is all the more incredible when you consider that most gemologists would be very excited to see a stone above five carats come out of the ground, with many of them weighing one carat or less. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, significant deposits of jewelry grade Peridot were found in China, and the country continues to provide a large number of stones to the market. In 1994, Peridot was discovered in Pakistan, which has remained a significant source of the gem ever since. Larger Peridots of between 25 and 100 carats were reasonably common from the Pakistan deposit in the early years of production, though barring the discovery of new deposits these are now mined out.
PERIDOT GEMSTONE INFORMATION
Peridot is the birthstone for August and the gem for the 16th anniversary. It can also be given as an alternative choice for the 1st anniversary. It has an orthorhombic crystal system. As the gem of the sun, Peridot is a perfect birthstone choice for the summer month of August (in the northern hemisphere at least) with its bright natural greens and golden flashes of brilliance. Peridot is the only famous member of the Olivine mineral family, which is a magnesium iron silicate composition. Peridot and Olivine are essentially the same minerals, with the word Peridot only being applied to gem-quality specimens. Non-gem quality Olivine is actually relatively common in the Earth's crust, but the magical golden glowing green with sufficient clarity and sparkle to be set into jewelry is much, much rarer. Peridot is a sophisticated gem that has rightfully regained its position as one of the most popular gemstones around the world in recent years.
Today the stone is cherished by people more for its beauty than its perceived powers (see history section, above), but the history of this stone still remains a significant part of its mystery and is a fascination for many who wear it. This gem is one of only a few available in just one color. This makes it an idiochromatic gem that, in simple terms, means the color of the gemstone is caused by its basic chemical composition. In Peridot's case, it is colored by the iron in its structure. Other gemstones such as Sapphire, Tourmaline, Zircon and many more are colored by impurities in their compositions and are known as allochromatic. Take the impurities out of Sapphire, and it's still Sapphire, albeit a different color. Remove the iron from Peridot, and it's no longer Peridot.
Its greens range from bottle green to an almost yellowish, olive color, and its surface appearance can often have an oily, greasy look. The gem is also mildly pleochroic, meaning that it is possible to see different shades from different angles. Natural green gemstones are rare, but Peridot bucks the trend and is almost never treated. Like its color rival Emerald, Peridot often has inclusions which can be caused by the presence of small particles of silica. Occasionally you will find needle-like inclusions which are sometimes referred to as Ludwig needles. Very rarely, it is possible to discover Cat's Eye Peridot (a phenomena known as chatoyancy) and Star Peridot (known as asterism). Other quirks of the stone include that it can shatter under pressure (which is why you seldom see it in tension set designs) and also that it is not resistant to acid.
Almost all gemstones form in the Earth's crust, the top layer of the planet which is about 20 miles deep. Only two gems form in the next layer down, the mantle. These two stones are Diamond and Peridot. Diamonds form around 90 to 120 miles deep, while Peridot forms a little nearer the surface at between 20 and 55 miles down – the upper mantle. Peridot forms in magma and is brought to the surface by volcanic activity – something that was actually happening in Hawaii at the time this article was being written in 2018. Peridot is also an extraterrestrial gemstone. It has been found in meteorites that have crashed down onto the surface of the planet over the centuries, and we can only assume these crystals either formed far, far away or were thrown out by the formation of the Earth and eventually crashed back down here billions of years later. Though you're unlikely to see Space Peridot set into jewelry, go to the Natural History Museum in London and view the 4.5 billion-year-old Imilac Meteorite, which is partially made up of Olivine. The gem has also been found on the Moon in rocks that were brought back to Earth during the iconic Apollo missions of the 1960s and 70s, and in 2003 NASA also found the gemstone on Mars!
Cutting the gemstone can be quite tricky as it has high birefringence (meaning that the gem significantly bends light as it enters) making the angle of the facets on the pavilion crucial. It is also a brittle gemstone with strong cleavage. Both of these qualities mean that the lapidarist must be sure to take extra care while faceting this gem. Peridot is found in the San Carlos Apache Reservation in Arizona, where the US Bureau of Mining claims that approximately 80% of the world's supply is currently being sourced. Luckily for the Apaches, many decades ago they were given sole rights to all mineral deposits in the region. Most of the mines are run by families and, similar to mining communities in Africa, every day they take their haul to local gem traders in plastic boxes, carrier bags, fruit bowls, and buckets! There is very little sophistication in family-run artisanal gem mining.
Although mining for the gem over the centuries has also taken place in China, Australia, Brazil, Norway and Myanmar, the most recent discovery was in Pakistan in 1994. Located some 15,000 feet above sea level in the ice-capped mountains of the western Himalayas lie the remote, and often inaccessible, Peridot mines. From the nearest town, you would first have to ride ten hours on horseback, and then set off on a two to three-day hike (or climb) before you reach the first mines. What's more, because of the snow, the miners (often up to two thousand of them) can only make the trip in July, August, and September. However, it all seems worthwhile as the quality of the Peridot is among the finest in the world.
PERIDOT CRYSTAL HEALING
Gemstones are as old as time and in the years since their first discovery they've picked up a lot more than adoring collectors and fascinated mineralogists. Many have gained stories regarding their legend, lore and healing properties, and whilst there's no evidence to suggest that any of these properties are real, it's still interesting to explore the esoteric side of Mother Nature's miracles. It's worth asking ourselves, "If you truly believe in something, does that mean it's true"? Scientifically, the answer is no, but what about on a more personal, spiritual level? If you really truly believe that an item in your house is having an effect on you, are you more likely to feel that effect? It's really not for us to say, but it's a very interesting concept that deserves further research. Once again though, we must point out though that no studies have ever found any therapeutic effects or properties in gemstones, and the following is for your information only.
A gemstone with such a long and storied history comes with many a tale of legend and lore. Peridot has long been associated with the sun and as such has been seen as a gemstone to drive away from the darkness. It has been said to relieve feelings of guilt and lessen obsession, along with helping to calm feelings of fear and anger. It has been thought to open up one's ability to learn new things by increasing focus and cognitive ability, and with giving one the strength to persevere in challenging situations and times. Thought to increase motivation and self-worth, the stone has also been thought to decrease feelings of envy in the wearer. Peridot is the zodiac gemstone for the sign Libra.
WHERE IS PERIDOT MINED?
VARIETIES OF PERIDOT
Changbai Peridot
Pakistan Peridot
Chinese Peridot
HOW TO CLEAN PERIDOT
To keep this beautiful stone looking fantastic, here's how to best clean Peridot. The warm soapy water and a soft cloth method is a perfectly safe method for this gem. Don't go too hot or cold with the water – keep it room temperature or thereabouts – as Peridot doesn't like sudden temperature changes. For this reason, it should never be steam cleaned, and you should never put Peridot in an ultrasonic cleaner either. Most dirt will come loose with a gentle rubbing motion, don't forget to clean underneath the stone too as this can affect the brilliance and brightness of your stone.
WHERE TO BUY PERIDOT
Peridot is an often overlooked stone full of the beautiful colors of summer that is just waiting to join your jewelry collection. We sell a number of stunning varieties in a range of designs and at a range of prices. It can be owned for relatively little when set in sterling silver, and really comes alive when set into yellow gold. chek out our store and browse our designs to finding your perfect Period piece.
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THE PEARL BIBLE: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT IT
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The FindSim project maps models of neural and cellular signaling to experimental protocols and readouts. It runs the experiment on the model, and provides a score that reports how closely the two match.
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Integrated Ventures Launches Chia Mining - An Environmentally Friendly Bitcoin Alternative
Philadelphia, PA - May 26, 2021 /Via PRNewswire/ -- Integrated Ventures Inc. (OTCQB: INTV), ("Company") is pleased to announce a purchase order with NGD Systems, Inc, for custom designed Chia 2U Mining Server.
In addition, the Company has acquired 8 HP ProLiant DL380/G8/2.2 GHZ servers, designed to increase plotting and storage capacity.
INTV is currently mining the following cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin, Etherium, Litecoin and Zcash. The Chia network is powered by energy efficient blockchain with less damage to the environment. The Chia coin will be the fifth type of cryptocurrency to be mined by INTV.
To create or "farm" Chia (symbol: XCH), miners aka farmers must install Chia's software that creates cryptographic data known as "plots" to the hard drive. The blockchain broadcasts a problem for each new block, approximately every 18 seconds — with the likelihood of farmer, winning the block being determined by the availability of unused computational storage capacity.
Specifications for the sample Chia Mining Server:
BRAND/TYPE: 2U Server By Dell
CPU: Duel-socket Intel Based AMD EPYC
DRAM: 128gb (16 x 8TB/pre-plotted and pre-tested NVMe SSDs)
$PLOTS INCLUDED: 800
CONCURRENT PLOT CAPABILITY: 64
> About Chia Network:
Chia was created by BitTorrent inventor Bram Cohen. It was developed through a powerful, easy-to-audit and secured new intelligent transaction programming language called Chialisp. Chia uses a proof of space and time (POST) consensus algorithm. Users can use the remaining hard disk space in the storage device for transactional verification with relatively lower computing power and electricity consumption, rendering Chia a higher green and environmentally friendly blockchain technology. Chia's main network went live on March 19. As of 05/20/2021, Chia (Symbol: XCH) is listed on the Huobi and OKEx exchanges and has been trading in the range of $550.00 - $1,800.00.
Blockchain startup "Chia Network" has raised $61 million in a funding round, which included investment from top venture capital firms Andreesen Horowitz and Richmond Global Ventures. The decentralized smart contract platform was valued at around $500 million in the funding round, according to an anonymous source cited by Bloomberg. The funding round was also backed by the CEO and co-founder of Angel List Naval Ravikant, Breyer Capital, and True Ventures.
> About NGD Systems, Inc:
Founded in 2013 with headquarters in Irvine, Calif., NGD Systems has focused its breakthrough technology will fundamentally change the IT Industry by bringing compute to storage in ways never implemented before. NGD Systems enables infrastructure success and growth by delivering the industry's most innovative Computational Storage NVMe SSDs in the largest capacity and most power-efficient storage products available. NGD Systems' Computational Storage products enable compute at the edge without moving data from storage devices, overcoming challenges that current system architectures cannot solve. NGD Systems' breakthrough technology is ideal for hyperscale environments, edge computing, and AI/data analytic applications. For more information, please visit https://www.ngdsystems.com.
> About Integrated Ventures,Inc:
Corporatly structured as a Technology Portfolio Holdings Company, INTV is focused on Blockchain Technology and Cryptocurrency Mining. For more details, please visit the Company's website: www.integratedventuresinc.com.
The information posted in this release may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of1995. You can identify these statements by use of the words "may," "will," "should," "plans," "explores," "expects," "anticipates," "continue," "estimate," "project," "intend," and similar expressions. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected or anticipated. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, general economic and business conditions, effects of continued geopolitical unrest and regional conflicts, competition, changes in technology and methods of marketing, and various other factors beyond the company's control. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 1,648 |
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There are times where you just have to git push --force, such as, but not limited to, cleaning up your Git history on a branch ahead of a merge. But git push --force is super dangerous because it will wipe out whatever is on the branch at the point you push, so one solution is to just tell people not to push to the branch.
This isn't great UX, so Git added a lesser-known flag to git push which makes it slightly safer to force push to a shared branch.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 278 bytes | 278.00 KiB/s, done.
Great, this has set up the case where there has been some divergence between copy-0 and the upstream.
Writing objects: 100% (6/6), 429 bytes | 429.00 KiB/s, done.
We will see that by the forced update message, our local changes in copy-0 have overriden the important changes that copy-1 had pushed, oops!
We can see that the changes haven't been pushed to the remote, saving us some very angry people.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 245 bytes | 245.00 KiB/s, done.
Note that the ref could be one of many Git refs, such as the branch name.
So how does this work? When using the 'lease', Git negotiates with the remote to determine whether its local set of refs are aligned with the refs of the branch the local client is pushing to - if these are different, we're told we have "stale info", otherwise we'll be able to push normally.
How `git push --force-with-lease=ref` can save you from overriding others' changes on shared Git branches.
The canonical URL for this post is https://www.jvt.me/posts/2018/09/18/safely-force-git-push/ .
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Martin Luther King Jr Day – History and Importance
November 26, 2020 by calendarcraze_rlq558
Martin Luther King Jr Day is a holiday that celebrates the life and achievements of the iconic Martin Luther King. An American civil rights leader, the spokesman is still remembered for his campaigns for racial awareness and equality in the United States.
When Is Martin Luther King Jr Day?
Martin Luther King Jr Day is held on the third Monday of January each year. For example, we celebrated Martin Luther King Day 2016 on the 18th of January. That's when we said "Happy Martin Luther King Day!".
This particular time period was not chosen by coincidence. Martin Luther King Jr. was born January 15, 1929.
Is Martin Luther King Day a Federal Holiday?
Yes, Martin Luther King Jr Day is a federal holiday. Federal holidays are authorized holidays that have been recognized by the United States government.
Martin Luther King Jr Day became a federal holiday in 1983 and holds the title of the most recently established holiday.
Are Banks Open on Martin Luther King Day?
Because it is a federal holiday, most banks will be closed on Martin Luther King Jr Day. However, those who have smart ATMs are able to make deposits and transfers, but these actions won't be reflected until the next day, on Tuesday. It is advised to take care of any urgent banking business prior to the holiday.
While open banks are hard to find, there are exceptions. TD Bank, for example, keeps its branches open on Martin Luther King Jr Day. People can also try their luck with banks located in retail outlets.
Is the Post Office Open on Martin Luther King Day?
No, post offices are not open on Martin Luther King Jr Day. No businesses nor homes will get mail on the third Monday of January. This counts out USPS packages as well.
However, chances are that FedEx and USP will remain open, so you could get your packages delivered even on this particular holiday.
Who Was Martin Luther King?
Martin Luther King was an influential leader of the Civil Rights Movement. He was the chief spokesman for nonviolent activism that successfully protested against racial discrimination in federal and state law.
Going back to where it all began, Martin Luther King was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. His educational path took him to segregated public schools, and he received a B.A. degree from a traditionally black college.
It all changed when he enrolled in the Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania. This was an integrated school comprised primarily of white students. Nonetheless, he was elected president of his senior class. This was his first significant achievement in many more to come.
Martin Luther King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 and was also selected as Man of the Year by Time magazine. His eloquence as a speaker and a fearless determination to establish racial equality helped him gain a worldwide following.
His "I Have a Dream" speech is still frequently quoted. It is considered to be among the most powerful and sensible speeches in American history. The Nobel Prize lecture and "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" are also among the most appreciated orations and writings in the English language.
His accomplishments are now taught in schools to American students of all races. His work as an activist has lead to significant achievements. After serving as a spokesman for the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public transport was unconstitutional.
He also led a coalition of numerous civil rights groups in a campaign aimed at Birmingham, Alabama. The result was the push unprecedented civil rights legislation in "the most segregated city in America".
Martin Luther King was a driving force behind the March for Jobs and Freedom. It was here that he delivered the world-famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
He was also involved in the March on Washington. The outcome was the passing of the Civil Rights Act. This landmark piece of civil rights legislation made it illegal to discriminate against African Americans or other minorities.
Unfortunately, Martin Luther King Jr.'s nearly thirteen years of non-violent leadership ended on April 4, 1968. He was assassinated on the balcony of a motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
It was shortly after the influential activist died that a campaign pushing to make his birthday a holiday was started. The legislation for a commemorative holiday was first introduced just four days after Martin Luther King's death. Over six million people signed the petitions endorsing the holiday.
It took fifteen years to create the federal Martin Luther King Jr Day. The Congress passed the federal holiday legislation in 1983. It was signed into law by President Ronald Reagan. The holiday had to be moved from the 15th of January to the third Monday of the same month because it was considered to be too close to Christmas. Yet thanks to this compromise we can now celebrate the life of this iconic personality on Martin Luther King Jr Day.
Martin Luther King Day 2017 will be celebrated on the 16th of January.
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The World of 'Aladdin' From 'Game of Thrones' Production Designer Gemma Jackson
Skyler Shuler on May 17, 2019
A new featurette from Disney's upcoming live-action adaptation Aladdin has been released. "World of 'Aladdin'" takes you to the bustling streets of Agrabah that production designer Gemma Jackson (Game of Thrones) brings to life, as well as to the stunning desert vistas of Jordan where the Aladdin production filmed for several weeks in order to capture the natural beauty of the region.
"Aladdin" is the exciting tale of the charming street rat Aladdin, the courageous and self-determined Princess Jasmine and the Genie who may be the key to their future. Directed by Guy Ritchie, who brings his singular flair for fast-paced, visceral action to the fictitious port city of Agrabah, the film is written by John August and Ritchie based on Disney's animated classic "Aladdin."
Aladdin stars Mena Massoud (Jack Ryan) as Aladdin, Naomi Scott (Power Rangers) as Jasmine, Will Smith (Bad Boys) as the iconic Genie, Marwan Kenzari (The Mummy 2017) as the villainous Jafar, Numan Acar (Prison Break) as Head of the guards Akim, Navid Negahban (Homeland) as The Sultan, Nasim Pedrad (SNL) as Dalia, Billy Magnussen (Into The Woods) as Prince Anders, and Alan Tudyk (Ralph Breaks The Internet) as the voice of Iago.
Aladdin will hit theaters on May 24, 2019.
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Тиму́р Альбе́ртович Сирази́ев (род. 23 декабря 1978 года, Казань, Татарская АССР, СССР) — татарин по национальности. Российский журналист, корреспондент «Первого канала» в Лондоне. Работал на 4 Олимпиадах. Ведущий новостей и ток-шоу. Лауреат премии ТЭФИ (2014).
Блогер, в своем Инстаграме пишет про здоровый образ жизни и спорт
Биография
Тимур Сиразиев родился в Казани, где к 2001 году окончил Государственный технологический университет имени Кирова. Ещё в студенческие годы он увлёкся журналистикой, присоединившись к изданию «Молодёжь Татарстана» и локальной радиостанции. Через три года после выпуска из университета он принял участие в программе обучения журналистике и телекоммуникациям Государственного департамента США, работая в Нью-Йорке, Вашингтоне, Солт-Лейк-Сити, Мадисоне. В 2005—2007 годах он продолжал изучать профессию в фондах «Независимое радиовещание» и «Образованные Медиа».
Начало карьеры
Одновременно с обучением в университете в 1999 году, Сиразиев получил должность редактора филиала радио «Эхо Москвы» в Казани. Параллельно он сотрудничал с филиалом телекомпании ВГТРК в Татарстане. В 2004 году он перешёл в штат региональной телекомпании «Эфир» в качестве новостного журналиста.
С 2005-го он был ведущим программы «Говорит и показывает радио», где в разное время выступали первые лица Республики Татарстан: её президент Минтимер Шаймиев, министр МВД Асгат Сафаров, начальник ГИБДД Рустам Минниханов и другие. Новостной проект был удостоен награды всероссийского конкурса «Вместе радио». В 2006—2007 годах Сиразиев занимал должность корреспондента ТРК «Петербург», в 2007—2008 годах — ведущего информационных выпусков из Казани на телеканале «Вести».
Первый канал
В 2008 году Сиразиев присоединился к штату «Первого канала» в качестве корреспондента.
Работал на Чемпионате мира по футболу в ЮАР, на 4 олимпиадах: в Лондоне (2012), Сочи (2014), Рио-де-Жанейро (2016) и Пекин (2022). Во время последней вел новости спорта из выездной студии в Китае.
Работа в Британии
С октября 2017 года, в связи с уходом Дмитрия Сошина, который 7 лет работал собственным корреспондентом в Великобритании, Сиразиев заменил Сошина в качестве собственного корреспондента 1 канала в Лондоне, откуда он продолжил освещение международной повестки и российско-британских отношений. В частности, в 2018 году он выпустил материал об английской «пропагандистской» 77-й бригаде вооружённых сил Великобритании. Так как журналист и оператор российского телеканала снимали репортаж в непосредственной близости к военной базе и якобы пытались проникнуть внутрь, им было выдано предупреждение, а местные СМИ обвинили Сиразиева в шпионаже. В ответ российское посольство заявило, что британские власти намеренно препятствуют работе журналистов, назвав подобные ситуации «давлением на российские СМИ». Также внимание общественности Сиразиев привлекал, когда негативно высказался в отношении парада ЛГБТ сообщества в социальных сетях.
Другое
В настоящее время развивает свое направление в Интернете. Сиразиев называет себя "фитнес-журналистом". На его аккаунт в Инстаграме подписано 28 тысяч человек. Пишет про исследования в области медицины и здоровья, создает программы для пожилых и тех, кто только начинает заниматься фитнесом.
Награды
В 2014 году Сиразиев стал обладателем премии ТЭФИ в номинации «За профессионализм и мужество при исполнении журналистского долга». Заслуги журналиста также упомянул заместитель премьер-министра Республики Татарстан Равиль Ахметшин.
По состоянию на 2019 год журналист входил в состав Медиаклуба, созданного при Полномочном представительстве Республики Татарстан.
Примечания
Ссылки
Выступление Тимура Сиразиева на Первом телеканале о своей работе в Англии
Интервью с Тимуром Сиразиевым на сайте Эхо Москвы
Официальный аккаунт Тимура Сиразиева в Инстаграм
Персоналии по алфавиту
Журналисты по алфавиту
Лауреаты премии ТЭФИ
Журналисты Первого канала
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Flavoured milk could have your days' worth of sugar
2:43pm Jun 8, 2018
Health authorities have warned just one carton of flavoured milk could contain the same amount of sugar as one packet of lollies.
More than 90 popular flavoured dairy milks were put to the test by LiveLighter, a nationwide campaign supported by the Cancer Council.
Of the milks surveyed, 20 were found to contain more than the World Health Organisation's recommended daily intake of six teaspoons of added sugar.
Ice Break Regular Strength Iced coffee (750ml) was rated the worst offender, with a toothache-inducing 9.2 teaspoons of added sugar in each bottle.
As bad as a packet of lollies: Ice Break Regular Strength Iced coffee topped the list of most sugary flavoured milks. (9NEWS) (9NEWS)
That equates to 22 red frogs, or just a little over the amount of sugar in a can of Coca-Cola (10 teaspoons).
Following close behind on the list was Ice Break Extra Shot Iced coffee (8.6 teaspoons), Brownes Chocolate Honeycomb (8.5 teaspoons) and Oak Chocolate milk (8.4 teaspoons).
Sugary line-up: your morning tea treat could be hiding more than your daily maximum of added sugar. (9NEWS) (9NEWS)
Nearly a third of flavoured milks surveyed had more than the recommended daily amount of added sugar. (LiveLighter) (LiveLighter)
Alison McAleese from LiveLighter said the findings were surprising.
"There's far more sugar than a lot of people would realise," Ms McAleese said.
"I think the portion size also contributes (to the added sugar level)… far more than people need to be consuming," she said, adding that a regular serving of milk is about 200mls.
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Khaitov R.m., Il'ina N.I.
The basic and applied medical research in the Russian Federation: differentiation, prioritization, funding channels
Currently, there is no consistent view for the differentiation of basic and applied medical research in the Russian medical research community. Priority areas of applied science (but not fundamental) can be determined by the state on the basis of scientific methods and mechanisms implemented through competitive funding. The state as a qualified customer of applied research can be an important component of the development of Russian medical science.
Solar urticaria
Belan E.B.
Solar urticaria is defined as relatively rare photodermatosis induced by visible or ultraviolet (A) light. The diagnosis of the disease is based on the anamnesis and phototesting data. Management of the solar urticaria includes dark clothes, sunscreens, non-sedative antihistamines. Alternative interventions may be considered if high doses of non-sedative antihistamines are ineffective.
Immune parameters in moderate seasonal allergic rhinitis
Sizyakina L.P., Andreeva I.I., Semenova N.I.
The results of the immune parameters changes of 29 moderate seasonal allergic rhinitis patients are presented in this study. The humoral and cellular parameters of innate and adaptive immune system were investigated during clinical manifestation and remission. The interpretation of the obtained data according to pathogenetic principle showed no difference between recognition phase, active phase or remission phase. The number of peripheral Treg cells was reduced only in the active phase, at the same time Il-4, CD3+CD8+Gr+, IgA, IgE - indicators of effector phase remained elevated during clinical remission.
Regarding to the issue of the role of cytokines in the pathogenesis of asthma and the possibilities of anticytokine therapy
Fedoseev G.B., Trofimov V.I., Negrutsa K.V., Timchik V.G., Golubeva V.I., Aleksandrin V.A., Razumovskaya T.S., Kryakunov K.N.
The study involved 210 people, of which 32 had mild bronchial asthma, 39 had moderate bronchial asthma, 39 had moderate bronchial asthma combined with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, 38 had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, 17 patients suffered from community-acquired pneumonia, 25 patients with essential hypertension and ischemic heart disease (comparison group) and 20 healthy patients. We assessed sIgE to mite allergens, dust allergens, and the mixed grass, trees, weeds and flower pollen allergens , Str. pneumon., Haemofil. influenzae, Neisseria perflava. The levels of interleukin-4, interleukin6, interleukinlO, interleukin-7, gamma-interferon, tumor necrosis factor were investigated. All patients were studied in the acute condition of the disease. We assessed the infectious potential and atopic potential in every patient. Results of the study allow to resume that cytokines levels, their combinations (cytokine profile) testing has not to be advisable for clinical diagnostics, assessement of the severity of the disease and treatment strategy including anti-cytokine therapy.
Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis in patients with asthma: dynamics of immunological parameters during antimycotic therapy
Kozlova Y.I., Sobolev A.V., Frolova E.V., Uchevatkina A.E., Filippova L.V., Aak O.V., Shurpitskaya O.A., Klimko N.N.
Background. To determine the frequency of allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis in patients with asthma and to study the dynamics of immunological parameters in patients with allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis during antimycotic therapy. Methods. During investigation of 176 patients with asthma the group of patients with allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis was isolated. Allergological (skin tests with fungal allergens, serum total IgE, specific IgE to fungal allergens), immunological (IFN-γ, IL-10) and mycological (microscopy and culture of respiratory samples) examination was performed. Computer tomography of the chest was done when indicated. Results. In patients with asthma frequency of sensitization to Aspergillus spp. was 27%, with allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis - 4%. The increased activity of T-helper type 2 in patients with allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (n=7) was revealed. After itraconazole treatment during 24 weeks serum total IgE reduced (p=0,04), spontaneous and induced production of IFN-γ ratio was normalized. The reduction of the absolute number of eosinophils in 4 (80%) patients, decreased production of sIgE to Aspergillus spp. in 3 (60%) patients were noted. Conclusion. All patients with severe asthma needed additional allergological and mycological examination for the detection of allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis. Itraconazole therapy was effective, reduced fungal burden, and resulted to restoring of Th2/Th1 imbalance in patients with allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis.
Allergen-specific immunotherapy with monomeric allergoid from house dust mites dermato-phagoides pteronyssinus in a mouse allergic rhinitis model
Laskin A.A., Babakhin A.A., Kamishnikov O.Y., Gushchin I.S., Khaitov M.R.
Background. The aim of this study was to investigate the efficacy of the allergen-specific immunotherapy (ASIT) with monomeric allergoid (sD1) obtained by succinylation of the allergenic extract from house dust mite Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus (D. pteronyssinus) (D1) in experimental mouse allergic rhinitis model (MARM). Materials and methods. BALB/c mice were immunized with non-modified extract D1 from house dust mite D. pteronyssinus (Der p) in mixture with aluminum hydroxide [Al(OH)3] three times in a three week intervals and then in 6 weeks after the last immunization were challenged with allergenic extract D1 by intranasal administration. Experimental ASIT was performed during the interval between the last immunization and the beginning of challenge. The first group of animals was treated with «sham ASIT» receiving of 16 subcutaneous (s.c.) injections of phosphate-buffered saline (PBS); the second group received 16 s.c. injections of non-modified D1 in increasing doses (in protein equivalent): 1; 10; 100 and 1000 pg/mouse; the third group received 8 s.c. injections ofsDl in increasing doses (in protein equivalent): 100; 550 and 1000 pg/mouse; the fourth group received combined ASIT consisted of 4 s.c. injections of sD1 in doses (in protein equivalent): 100; 550; 1000 pg/mouse and 4 sublingual (s.l.) administrations of sD1 in a dose of 1000 pg/mouse. The fifth group served as a negative control and received sham immunization, ASIT and challenge with PBS. Immediately after the last challenge and 24 hours later the clinical signs of MARM: sneezings (counts per minute) and breath frequency (assessed by non-invasive plethysmography) were evaluated. 48 hours after the last challenge animals of all groups were sacrificed and necessary material (whole head) was collected for histological assessment of the severity of allergic rhinitis in the nasal cavity. To obtain sera samples blood was collected from all groups of animals three times: 7 days after final immunization, 1 day before the challenge and 24 hours after the last challenge. Levels of anti-Der p IgE, IgG1, IgG2a in individual sera samples were determined by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Results. It is shown that all three variants of ASIT (groups 2, 3, 4) significantly reduced the number of sneezing acts. The greatest decrease was seen in the group 3 which was treated s.c with monomeric allergoid sD1. The number of respiratory acts per minute in the animals of groups 2 and 4 treated with non-modified D1 and monomeric allergoid sD1 (combined ASIT - s.c. and s.l. administration) respectively, were significantly higher than that of group 1 (MARM). The levels of anti-Der p IgE in groups 1, 2, 3 and 4 were increased after the 3rd immunization in comparison with group 5 (negative control). After ASIT the levels of anti-Der p IgE in groups 2, 3 and 4 were elevated in compare to group 5 (negative control) and group 1 (positive control - MARM). However, after the challenge the highest levels of anti-Der p IgE were observed in groups 1 and 4, while in group 3 we saw a moderate decrease of anti-Der p IgE and in the group 2 the levels of anti-Der p IgE were significantly lower than that of group 1 (MARM). The levels of anti-Der p IgG1 were significantly increased in groups 2, 3, 4 during and after ASIT as well as after challenge. The levels of anti-Der p IgG2a in groups 3 and 4 demonstrated a trend of increasing after ASIT. Anti-Der p IgG2a levels in group 4 after the challenge were significantly higher than that of group 1 (MARM). Histological evaluation has shown that overall inflammation, mucous exudation, hyperplasia of the mucosa in the nasal cavity were expressed significantly in groups 1 and 2 in comparison with group 5 (negative control). At the same time group 2 demonstrated a slight reduction of features designated above, and in groups 3 and 4 (ASIT with sD1 and combined s.c/s.l. ASIT, respectively) we observed a complete suppression of these inflammation parameters. Conclusion. These data indicate that ASIT with monomeric allergoid from house dust mite D. pteronyssinus obtained by succinylation may be a novel safe and effective approach for the treatment of allergic rhinitis including carrying out of combined course of injectable and sublingual therapy that may enhance the effect of treatment and patients' quality of life.
Federal dinical recommendations. Allergic contact dermatitis (L23)
Oral allergy syndrome in children with pollen sensitization in Tomsk region
Fedotova M.M., Fedorova O.S., Ogorodova L.M., Evdokimova T.A.
Background. Oral allergy syndrome (OAS) is defined as immediate IgE-mediated allergic reaction localized in the oral mucosa and developing after consuming raw fruits, vegetables, nuts, legumes in pollen sensitized patients. Objective. To study the prevalence of OAS in children in the Tomsk region. Material. The cross-sectional study in random groups of primary schoolchildren aged 7-10 years (n=13 010) from the Tomsk region, Russia, was performed in frames of (EuroPrevall, № FP6-2006-TTC-TU-5 Proposal 045879). During the screening phase a survey with standardized questionnaire was carried out. Clinical stage (n=1288) included clinical interviewing with parents/guardians, the clinical examination of patients, skin prick testing with extracts of food and pollen allergens (ALK-Abello, Spain), measurement of specific IgE level in serum to food and pollen allergens, component resolved diagnostics (ImmunoCAP, Phadia, Sweden). Results. OAS registered in 13,71% of children with pollen sensitization. The main triggers were apples, carrots, peaches, peanuts. Main cause of OAS in the Tomsk region was cross-reactivity to Bet v 1 - homologues belonging to PR-10 family: to apple - Mal d 1 (r=0,92; p=0,01); to peach - Pru p1 (r=0,87; p=0,01); to peanut - Ara h 8 (r=0,74; p=0,01); to hazelnut - Cor a 1 (r=0,76; p=0,01); to carrot - Dau c 1 (r=0,54; p=0,01). Conclusion. OAS was observed in 13,71% of children with pollen sensitization and was developesed due to crossreactivity to the birch allergen Bet v 1.
Clinical efficacy of subcutaneous and sublingual allergen-specific immunotherapy of allergic rhinitis and conjunctivitis
Kozulina I.E., Pavlova K.S., Kurbacheva O.M.
Objective. To evaluate the efficacy and safety of subcutaneous and sublingual allergen-specific immunotherapy (AIT), a comparative pharmaco-economic analysis. Materials and methods. The study included 60 patients with allergic rhinitis and conjunctivitis with or without asthma induced by birch pollen. In the first group patients received subcutaneous AIT (SCIT) by «Phostal - allergen of trees pollen», in the second group - sublingual AIT (SLIT) by «Staloral - allergen of birch pollen». Results. All patients after the SCIT or SLIT in the first pollen season noted a decrease in the severity of nasal and conjunctival symptoms (SMD -1,93 [95% CI -2,39; -1,47] and -1,57 [95% CI -2,39; -0,75] for groups 1 and 2, respectively) and a decrease in the rescue medication requirement (SMD -1,98 [95% CI -2,57; -1,39] and -1,86 [95% CI -2,61; -1,11] for groups 1 and 2, respectively). There were no statistically significant differences between the SCIT and SLIT efficacy. After AIT in both groups there was a significant reduction in the cost of medication and medical services (on average 5 times). In a comparative pharmacoeconomic analysis «cost/efficacy» and «cost/utility» was showed comparable results of SCIT and SLIT.
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Think about any of the major life areas for transition, (living situation, career goals, community membership, etc.) and select one area on which to complete the activity. Come up with a long-term goal that reflects the particular area you selected. For example: A long-term goal regarding living situation may be- "To own my own home."
Now identify steps that must be taken toward achieving the goal of owning a home. What knowledge, skills, abilities, resources and support must be in place for home ownership? List these. Next make a list of subject areas typically taught in school, (i.e. math, English, science, home economics, etc.). Match the items on the first list to relevant subject areas taught in school. Using the transition process (post-school outcomes, annual goals, benchmarks, programs, services, modifications, etc), develop a sample IEP goal for the area you selected. How might the course-work be modified to allow inclusion in the regular education curriculum? Does the process seem to flow forward providing opportunities to explore and experience learning that is related to the goal area? Will this learning provide greater insight and information into the identified goal area to enable you to make an informed decision about what to do/where to go next?
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Yaniv studied Sport Business and Innovation, and was a recipient of the Dean's Award for Enterprise scholarship.
Retno Lestari Ningsih
Retno studied MSc Internet Technology with Business Management (now entitled MSc Digital Innovation Management) at Loughborough University London and is now the Founder and CEO of SAVSKIN.co.
Biying Li
Biying studied MA Media and Creative Industries and now works in Content Operation for The Beijing News.
Chia-Ping Liang
Chia-Ping Liang studied MA Media and Creative Industries and now works as a Performance Account Executive at Wavemaker.
Karen Liu
Originally a journalism graduate, Jing (Karen), graduated from Loughborough University London with an MA in Media and Creative Industries.
Eleanor Lloyd
Eleanor graduated with an MA in Media and Creative Industries in 2017 from Loughborough University London.
Yishu Lu
Yishu, from China, graduated from Loughborough University London in 2017 with a master's degree in Managing Innovation in Creative Organisations.
James McAllister
James had been working in investment banking for a number of years before he made the decision to change careers and undertake his MSc in Sport Business and Innovation.
Anna Meshcheryakova
Anna studied Entreprenuerial Design Management and is currently working as a Research and Teaching Associate at the University of Wuppertal.
Arthur Milroy
Arthur completed his MSc in Sport Business and Innovation in 2017 and currently works at the International Olympic Committee.
Kristeena Monteith
Chevening scholar, Kristeena, studied MA Media and Creative Industries and now works at Talk Up Radio as a Media Producer and Creative Director.
Stacey Morley-Jepson
Stacey studied our MSc Sport Marketing programme within the Institute for Sport Business.
Husain Mukadam
Husain graduated from Loughborough University London with a degree in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management in 2017.
Aarti Nair
Aarti studied our MA Global Communication and Development programme (now called MA Global Communication and Social Change) within the Institute for Media and Creative Industries.
Benjamin Ndubuisi
Chikeruo (Benjamin) graduated from University of Lagos in Nigeria before he began studying Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management MSc at Loughborough University London.
Paul Ntulila
Paul was Loughborough University London's first deaf student, studying our MSc Diplomacy, Statecraft and Foreign Policy (now entitled MSc Diplomacy and International Governance).
Jonathan Reid
Jonathan completed his MSc in Sports Business and Leadership in 2017.
Yasantha Chamara Samarawickrama
Yasantha studied a master's programme within the Institute for Digital Technologies.
Xiaoqian Shang
Xiaoqian studied MA Global Communication and Development and now works at the Beijing Foreign Studies University.
Simon Smallbone
Simon completed his MSc Sport Business and Leadership at our London campus in 2017.
Daniyar Tussupbekov
Daniyar studied our MA Global Communication and Development MA (now named MA Global Communication and Social Change) within our Institute for Media and Creative Industries.
Federico Vas
Federico, a Chevening scholar, studied our Design Innovation MSc programme and is now pursuing a PhD with the Institute for Design Innovation.
Danilo Jr Vidad
Danilo Jr, a Chevening scholar, studied Security, Peace-building and Diplomacy MSc and chose to study with us because Loughborough University London gave him the opportunitity to learn from some of the UK's leading professors and innovators.
Duosi Wang
Duosi studied our International Management MSc programme and took part in the Digital Skills programme.
Letian Wang
Letian studied MA Media and Creative Industries as part of the 2018-2019 cohort, he now works at Maker Sustainability Conuslting (MSC) in China as a Senior Consultant.
Andrea Wueest
Andrea studied our Diplomacy, Statecraft and Foreign Policy MSc programme and currently works at Dragon Racing, an American racing team in Formula-E.
Kearn Williams
Kearn studied MA Media and Creative Industries at Loughborough University London as part of our 2017/18 cohort.
Hanzhi (Teresa) Zhang
Teresa studied MA Media and Creative Industries and now works at China Life Property and Casualty Insurance Company Limited as an IT Business Partner in China.
Siya Zhou
Siya studied MA Media and Creative Industries at Loughborough University London and is now looking to continue her studies working towards a PhD.
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The troubled families initiative, where councils take an holistic approach to the needs of families, has the potential to deliver billions of pounds in savings.
Latest calculations by councils show the potential for savings. Barnet Council spends almost £100,000 on average every year on responding to each of its troubled families, compared with costs that can be as little as £10,000 per family for a successful intervention. Solihull Council spends 18% of its overall budget on just 3% of its families before it started working on the troubled families.
Similar savings are predicted elsewhere. Greater Manchester council is making an overall saving of £224 million from spending £138 million more effectively on their 8,000 troubled families. West Cheshire estimates that the average family costs around £7,795 to the local authority alone, while the average troubled family costs an estimated £76,190.
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles said: "The prize here is potentially huge, both in terms of reducing the financial cost on the public purse and the human costs on families and communities. The savings we can make for the taxpayer would far outweigh the extra money we are putting in. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,659 |
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