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Handmade, one-of-a-kind art a Native American artist's responsibility
A member of the Yavapai-Apache Nation, Jerry Whagado learned silversmithing on the Hopi reservation before he returned to the Nation's Middle Verde community about 25 years ago. VVN/Bill Helm
By:Bill Helm
Originally Published: April 8, 2019 10:58 a.m.
Nearly 40 years ago as a restaurant manager, Gerry Quotskuyva learned to carve from an ice sculptor.
Rimrock artist Gerry Quotskuyva at his home studio. Quotskuyva is working on his latest project, gnarly root. His work is on display at the Creative Gateways gallery in Sedona. Quotskuyva paints, sculpts and creates katsinas. VVN/Bill Helm
One dream later, Quotskuyva began carving katsinas.
Known as kachinas to most people, the Hopi call the doll katsina, as their language doesn't have the letters C or H.
Regardless of its name – or its pronunciation – the Rimrock artist has carved, painted and sculpted since his mid-30s.
There is a saying that the Hopi is born holding a paintbrush.
Perhaps that is why Quotskuyva said that making art is more than a vocation.
"How many cultures see art as a responsibility?" he asked recently.
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A member of the Bear Strap Clan from the Second Mesa village of Shungopavi, Quotskuyva's Hopi name is Lomahongva, which means "reed standing tall and healthy."
Quotskuyva likes to be isolated "from the chaos of the world."
"Life doesn't change if you live a peaceful life," he said. "When I'm in that world of chaos, I don't dream."
For Quotskuyva, to dream is not just about getting a good night's sleep. It's the inspiration that it is work.
"I'm following my energy's desire," he said. "When I wake up, whatever speaks to me is what I do. I'm following what's calling out to me."
Quotskuyva has made so many katsinas through the years, that some of his designs are retired. His most recent project, the gnarly root project, is a "piece with a statement," he said.
The front of the gnarly root will be a collection of female katsinas, Quotskuyva said, because "we are still a matriarchal society."
"I feel that modern America has lost its voice," he said. "Everything is based on profits and selfish needs. We need to listen to the woman again."
Regardless of the medium, color is a key component to his work,
Colors represent the "things of the Earth, different things in nature, also they represent directions," Quotskuyva said. There are six colors in Hopi that represent different directions.
Colors represent the "things of the Earth, different things in nature, also they represent directions," Quotskuyva said. There are six colors in Hopi that represent different directions. VVN/Bill Helm
White for the north, yellow for the east, red for the south, and blue for the west.
"We also have colors to represent the zenith and nadir," Quotskuyva said. "Black to represent above, and spotted corn for below. The various colors can also represent places, clouds, birds, flowers. It gets quite complex."
But Hopi art is about rain.
"Until you put the dots and dashes in, it's not finished," Quotskuyva said. "The dots represent rain, the dashes mostly represent time."
With all the Native American art out there, it's not always easy to know what's real.
That's why Quotskuyva recommends either shopping at the art markets or meeting the artists directly.
"Markets only allow you to carry what is authentic," he said. "If you're from a culture that does knock-offs, you're not allowed to bring the knock-offs."
No overnight success
A member of the Yavapai-Apache Nation, Jerry Whagado learned his silversmithing on the Hopi reservation before he returned to the Nation's Middle Verde community about 25 years ago.
Alhough familiar and fluent in Hopi designs, Whagado is now committed to doing work that depicts the Yavapai and the Apache.
"The Yavapai-Apache designs represent life, how we hope to achieve better things in life," Whagado said. "My culture, our ways have to continue. By showing these and explaining to people, it's carried on. We want to carry these stories that happened, to continue, to think of our culture."
Crown Dancers, for example, are also known as Mountain Spirits.
"They symbolize medicine," he said. "That's very important."
Whagado's silver work adorns belts, bolo ties and pendants. They are also rings, ear rings, and money clips. He works in turquois.
First learning art in kindergarten, Whagado worked for a time with kachinas – the C and the H are present in the Yavapai and the Apache languages – before he moved to silver work.
"Art has always been in my life," he said.
After a stiff cup of coffee in the morning, Whagado sets down to the work station in his home and begins to design. He's an early bird, not just to rise, but also to work.
His favorite show to work is the Santa Fe Indian Market, held each August. A successful show is when Whagado clears his expenses.
"Some people work Santa Fe and they'll be set for the whole year with sales from that market," he said. "It isn't an overnight success. But I believe in myself."
Learning about what's real
For Rachel Sahmie, a Hopi pottery maker who lives at the bottom of the First Mesa in northern Arizona, Native American artists "always welcome people to come to see our art."
"Most of the artists welcome you into their home," Sahmie said. "The Hopi potters will invite you into their homes and let you watch them make it."
Rachel Sahmie's pottery is on display at the Amerind Museum in Dragoon, AZ. Photos courtesy Amerind Museum
A descendant of Annie Nampeyo, Sahmie has been creating pottery since childhood and learned from both her mother and her grandmother.
According to Sahmie, most of the authentic pottery "is not perfect." Which she also said makes it unique.
"Each piece we make is handmade, one of a kind," she said. "The designs we use are from our ancestors."
As art is a personal endeavor, Sahmie said that "nothing is wrong" regarding how folks interpret her work.
"The artist painted what they saw, but people see what they see, and that's also okay," she said.
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Did you miss us?? There was a lot going on last weekend with Easter and us feeling "under the weather," so we took it easy on the Internet front, but today we're back for week 4 in our Stock Your Healthy Kitchen Series! We hope ya'll are enjoying this series. Transitioning to a healthier lifestyle can seem daunting, confusing and expensive, so we created this series as a way to EASILY incorporate healthier kitchen staples into your daily life. It's not expensive when you buy these things in bulk and have several ways to use them at your fingertips (ahem...like right here in our blogs). When these things are already in our kitchen, we're much more prepared to make healthier meals and snacks. Now - on to today's featured Healthy Kitchen staple: CH-CH-CH-CHIA!
You may have heard of chia thanks to those clay animals from the 90's, but chia seeds do a lot more than make chia pets. Chia seeds trace back as a dietary staple for indigenous people from Central America. They prized chia for its ability to provide sustainable energy… in fact, "chia" is the ancient Mayan word for "strength!" Stories have been told about tribes of super runners who would run 100 miles chasing and hunting down game. Powerful little seed!
We enjoy chia seeds for its versatile uses in smoothies, puddings, granola, breads, jams and pizza crusts. Chia seeds contain Omega 3s, fiber, protein, calcium, manganese, magnesium, phosphorus, zinc, vitamin B1, B2, B3, and potassium.
It's best to eat chia during breakfast to give you long lasting energy throughout the day. Our favorite ways to eat it in the morning are layered chia pudding parfait, blended in smoothies, sprinkled over oats and mixed in coconut yogurt. To make chia pudding, add ½ cup of chia seeds to two cups of your favorite milk. Flavor to taste (we like adding cinnamon, vanilla extract and raw honey).
It takes a couple of hours sitting in your fridge to form into a pudding, but the result is delicious and totally worth the wait. We like to make it at night in a glass jar so it's a grab n' go breakfast for the morning.
Got the midday sleepies? Opt for chia over that second cup of coffee. Chia will give you that boost of energy that you're yearning for without the post caffeine crash. It will also make you feel full and satiated. We like to shake up a tbsp of ground chia into our favorite juice; right now i'm on a lilikoi juice kick. This drink is tastier and much more satisfying than coffee. You want to use ground chia to ensure that you are absorbing all of the healing potential.
Have to bring a cake to your vegan friend's birthday party? No sweat! One tablespoon of ground chia whisked up with three tablespoons of warm water equals one egg. This can be used as an egg substitute in in most recipes. We use it most often to bind our veggie patties together. CLICK HERE for a link to our own lentil burgers.
Chia seeds can really help you slim down to your desired summer beach babe bod. Add chia seeds to coconut water and you'll flush out those toxins and tummy fat. The fiber helps pull blockages out of the colon. Chia seeds also expands in the stomach, leaving you feeling full and happy.
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whole: the image occupies the majority. The title is separate and positioned along the top edge, in black. The text is partially integrated and positioned across the whole, in black. All set against a white background. image: a map of Europe illustrating past French military campaigns in Germany, during the reign of Louis XIV, the Seven Years War and the reign of Napoleon. text: Die Raubzüge Frankreichs Deutschland der Tummelplatz der 'friedliebenden' Franzosen [map has various place names] Die Kriegszüge der Franzosen unter Ludwig XIV. im 7 jährigen Krieg unter der Revolution und Napoleon Sammelpunkte der französischen Armeen Vereinigte Kunstinstitute A.-G., vorm. Otto Troitzsch, Berlin - Schöneberg. [France's robbery series. Germany the play area of the 'peace-loving' French. The French war campaigns under Louis XIV, in the Seven Year War, under the Revolution and Napoleon. Assembly points of the French armies. United Art Institutes plc, formerly Otto Troitzsch, Berlin - Schöneberg.]
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The Dardanelles, a narrow 60-mile-long strip of water that divides Europe from Asia, has been of great strategic significance for centuries. Carefully secured by international treaty, it was the closing of the Dardanelles that eventually brought the Ottoman Empire into the war as a German ally at the end of October 1914.

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WESTMINTER, CO – Oct. 2, 2015 — PSA Security Network (www.psasecurity.com) today announced that it has become a Champion of National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) 2015. It will be joining a growing global effort among colleges and universities, businesses, government agencies, associations, nonprofit organizations and individuals to promote online safety awareness.
Celebrated every October, National Cyber Security Awareness Month was created as a collaborative effort between government and industry to ensure everyone has the resources needed to stay safer and more secure online. As an official Champion, PSA Security Network recognizes its commitment to cybersecurity and online safety.
Coordinated and led by the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) and the Department of Homeland Security, NCSAM has grown exponentially since its inception, reaching consumers, small and medium-sized businesses, corporations, educational institutions and young people across the nation and internationally. This year marks the 12th year of NCSAM.
As part of PSA's NCSAM efforts, PSA will continue its cybersecurity webinar series into October which highlights providers who can offer cybersecurity support services to integrators in the physical security industry. A complete list of the webinar series can be found at https://www.psasecurity.com/education/cybersecurity/training.
For more information about National Cyber Security Awareness Month, the NCSAM Champions program, and how to participate in NCSAM activities, visit http://www.staysafeonline.org/ncsam. You can also follow and use the hashtag #cyberaware on Twitter throughout the month.
Now in its 12th year, NCSAM is designed to engage and educate public and private sector partners through events and initiatives with the goal of raising awareness about cyber security in order to increase the resiliency of the nation in the event of a cyber incident. Since President Obama's proclamation establishing NCSAM in 2004, NCSAM has been formally recognized by Congress, federal, state and local governments and leaders from industry and academia. This united effort is necessary to maintain a cyberspace that is safer, more resilient and remains a source of tremendous opportunity and growth for years to come. For more information, visit http://www.staysafeonline.org/ncsam or www.dhs.gov/national-cyber-security-awareness-month.
The National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) is the nation's leading nonprofit, public-private partnership promoting digital privacy and the safe and secure use of the Internet. Working with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), private sector sponsors and nonprofit collaborators to promote cybersecurity awareness, NCSA board members include representatives from ADP, AT&T, Bank of America, BlackBerry, Comcast Corporation, EMC Corporation, ESET, Facebook, Google, Intel, Logical Operations, Microsoft, PayPal, PKWARE, Raytheon, Symantec, Verizon and Visa. Through collaboration with the government, corporate, nonprofit and academic sectors, NCSA's mission is to educate and empower a digital citizenry to use the Internet securely and safely, protect themselves and the technology they use, and protect the digital assets we all share. NCSA leads initiatives for STOP.THINK.CONNECT.TM, a global cybersecurity awareness campaign to help all digital citizens stay safer and more secure online; Data Privacy Day, celebrated annually on January 28 and National Cyber Security Awareness Month, launched every October. For more information on NCSA, please visit http://www.staysafeonline.org/about-us/overview/.
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Q: Iterate every md5 hash possibility I'm still pretty new to c# (and programing in general)
I've been trying to attack this with a forloop but im not making much headway as its not simply a numeric iteration its a Hex and not a dec
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A: To iterate through every possible value, that's 1632 iterations, or about 3x1038.
At one billion iterations per second, that's going to take you about ten thousand billion billion years :-)
If you somehow gain immortality and can survive the sun burning out in five billion years, here's how you do it.
1/ If you have a 128-or-better bit data type, simply start it at zero and count, outputting the hex value each time.
val = 0
while val < 2**128: # watch out for wrapping
    printline hex(val)
    val = val + 1

2/ If you have to construct it from smaller data types (like a single character):
# init to zero.

dim val[0..32]
foreach index 0..31:
    val[index] = 0

# keep going till done.

while val[32] != 1:
    # print current value.

    foreach index 31..0:
        print hex(val[index])
    printline

    # then increment it.

    carry = 1
    index = 0
    while carry = 1:
        val[index] = val[index] + carry
        if val[index] != 16:
            carry = 0
        index = index + 1


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Andy Mineo, KJ-52, & Marty of Social Club Misfits Announce 'Paisano's Wylin' Tour
Andy Mineo, Marty of Social Club Misfits, and KJ-52 are teaming up for the "Paisano's Wylin Tour" in October, just in time for Italian Heritage Month.
Mineo says he always envisioned doing something for his culture, and felt Italians are underrepresented in Hip-Hop.
"The track is definitely a crowd favorite, so why not make a tour out of it with my fellow Paisano's."
The self-proclaimed Italian Stallion himself, Marty of Social Club Misfits, is excited to go out on tour with Andy, a great friend, and KJ, a mentor.
"Rolling with these guys will make every night a pizza party," the half Sicilian said laughing.
KJ-52, who grew up in Florida and mostly around Latino's, is grateful to be doing something with some fellow Italians.
"Yeah man, for years people have thought I was Puerto Rican, but the last name is Sorrentino!" he said. "Ultimately, Andy and Marty made me an offer I couldn't refuse."
***Indicates intimate VIP performance
Oct 2 – Theater at Madison Square Garden – NY, NY
Oct 3 (Morning) – Famous Ray's Pizza – NY, NY ***
Oct 3 – Electric Factory – Brooklyn, NY
Oct 5 (Morning) – Goodfella's Pizza, Staten Island, NY ***
Oct 5 – St. George Theatre – Staten Island, NY
Oct 7 – D'Jais Night Club – Seaside Heights, NJ
Oct 8 – Stony Pony – Asbury Park, NJ
Oct 9 (Morning) – Paisano's Pizza – Hoboken, NJ ***
Oct 9 – PNC Bank Arts Theater – Holmdel, NJ
Oct 15 – St. Peter's Basilica – Vatican City, Rome, Italy
Tickets available here. YOU KNOW THIS WAS APRIL FOOLS RIGHT?
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Jered Sanders released the followup to his 2015 project Hope is Dope with part 2. Check out the crazy tracklist below: View this post on Instagram Every front cover has a back cover, right? Thanks to all involved in the creation/release of this project…from Biz…to the features…to Marcus on the artwork…to the pre-orders, the support to come, and the outlets that have helped push it. Friday. We're almost there. Featuring production from: @iamravo, @clifeonthebeat, @waynejvalentine, @dylanyousob, @epikthedawn, @onbeatmusic, @flawlesstrackz, @officialtjonez, & @george.rose.music. Mixed/mastered by: @mixengineerk1dd. Comment the song/songs below you're looking forward to hear. 🕊❗ . . . . . #instagood #rappers […]
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Judge rules that firefighter tapes from September 11 are public
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A New York Times reporter won access to substantial information from the tapes and transcripts of firefighters during and after the attacks of September 11, but likely will face an appeal by the city.
Feb. 7, 2003 — A New York City judge Feb. 5 granted New York Times reporter Jim Dwyer access to substantial portions of the tapes and transcripts of conversations with firefighters during the events of September 11 and oral histories of the city's firefighters created after September 11.
Dwyer, who has written extensively about the tragedy, filed a Freedom of Information Law request in June 2002 for the records but the city invoked exemptions to the law to protect privacy, to protect law enforcement investigations, and to avoid interference with confidential internal policy making.
Although Justice Richard Braun approved privacy exemptions to protect the emergency (911) calls of private citizens, he ruled that the reporter can inspect and obtain copies of tapes between city firefighters, dispatchers and other emergency personnel. Calling the situation extraordinarily difficult, Braun said that that they were "public employees" and as such are "not entitled to a privacy exemption."
Braun ruled that Dwyer may have the factual portions of tapes and transcripts of the more than 500 oral histories created as the fire department interviewed its own employees and reporting portions of the records from operators, dispatchers and units. He allowed the city to withhold from those records "intra-agency materials," essentially records concerning the policy-making by the agency
Braun also ruled that the city must disclose all information from emergency calls and other information concerning nine men who died in the World Trade Center and whose families filed a friend-of-the-court brief seeking release of the records. He withheld similar records concerning other persons under privacy exemptions to the New York law. Their recorded calls for help were "private utterances," he said, which should be protected for the sake of those who died and for "their family members and others who cared about them."
(New York Times v. City of New York; Media counsel: David McGraw, New York City) — RD
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I start my day out with the intentions of working out and making my physical health a top priority in my schedule. By the afternoon I start to feel tired from working all day and don't feel like I have the energy needed to take on that new workout routine just yet. So I end up spending an hour on the couch watching television and the time flies by before I can get a workout in.
I am a big fan of multi-tasking and getting a lot of things done each day in the most time efficient way possible. I decided if I was going to fit a work out into my daily routine I needed to incorporate my multi-tasking skills to keep me motivated. During my one hour television time I have figured out a way to Work Out While Watching TV.
Yoga is a great exercise to do while watching TV. This low impact stretching allows you to keep your face pointed in the direction of your television. Unlike kickboxing and many other high impact workouts, you won't be bouncing up and down while trying to catch your breath. How are you going to follow your program on television while bobbing up and down trying to catch your breath? Keeping it simple is important for longevity of this workout plan. You need to be able to stick to it and actually get your TV time in too!
This isn't just for the kids anymore, it's actually a great workout. I was skeptical at first and didn't think that I could hula hoop but I purchased a weighted hula hoop that anybody can work. It's not only fun but you can burn tons of calories while building up your core muscles and burn up to 100 calories in just ten minutes.
If you just aren't feeling motivated enough to get off the couch you can still get a workout in. While seated there are many different ways to use weights to workout your arm muscles. Alternate between forward and backward motions and left and right arms.
If you can catch up on all of your favorite shows while getting in shape there is no excuse good enough to keep you from living the healthy life you want to live. The only thing that stands in between you and your fitness goals is a good show to watch because you really can workout while watching TV.
I wish i could actually be this motivated to work out and watch tv! i ike the suggestions and hope to implentment them!


Sam is originally from Birmingham and graduated from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
He has just finished playing Nigel in 'Toast' at the Traverse Theatre at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and made his professional debut in the UK & World Tour of 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time' playing Christopher Boone (alternate) with the National Theatre and is delighted to be joining the show in the West End.
Other theatre training includes: A Serious Case of the Fuckits (CSSD); The Heresy of Love (CSSD); Slot Together, (MAC Birmingham); Americana (Workshop) (Stratford East Theatre); The Leeds Tealights (Sketch Comedy Tour); Cambridge Footlights and Friends (ADC Theatre).


The U.S.-India strategic partnership is moving on an upward trajectory, but not one that is predictably smooth. In fact, after the euphoric "indispensable partners" phase of the second administration of President George W. Bush, when the Civil Nuclear Energy Cooperation Agreement was successfully concluded in July 2005, the pace of growth has slowed down.
Though President Bill Clinton had realised the potential of engaging India and had begun the process to get India out of the nuclear dog house, it was President Bush who made it a key foreign policy initiative. India was recognised as a state with nuclear weapons outside the NPT, given an NSG waiver to import nuclear technology and fuel and allowed to sign an additional protocol with the IAEA to place only its civilian nuclear reactors under international safeguards while keeping strategic facilities out of the scope of safeguards. India was also permitted to reprocess uranium under safeguards for its pressurized heavy water reactors leading to the development of the three-stage thorium fuel cycle.
Under the Next Steps for Strategic Partnership and the Defence Framework Agreement of June 2005 signed under the Bush administration, the technology denial regime is being gradually eased and defence cooperation has been considerably enhanced. For both the countries, the growing partnership is a hedging strategy against Chinese hegemony in Asia and will prove to be mutually beneficial in case China implodes due to its internal contradictions.
Notable achievements of the recent past include enhanced counter-terrorism cooperation. The CIA has not only given India substantial evidence about the Mumbai terror attacks of November 2008, but also assisted Indian agencies to interrogate key plotter David Coleman Headley. The sale of U.S. defence equipment to India has gained momentum. Besides P8I Poseidon maritime reconnaissance aircraft, C-130J Super Hercules aircraft for Special Forces, C-17 Globemaster strategic airlift aircraft and the USS Trenton, an amphibious warfare ship, many other defence acquisitions are in the pipeline. India is likely to spend up to US$ 100 billion on defence purchases over the next 10 years. However, India would like to move away from a buyer-seller relationship towards transfer of technology and joint development, joint production and joint marketing of latest weapons and technology.
While the End User Monitoring Agreement was signed recently, the U.S. would like to see early progress on the Logistics Support Agreement (LSA) and the two technology and information safeguards agreements – the Communications Interoperability and Security Memorandum of Agreement (CISMOA) and the Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement for Geo-spatial Cooperation (BECA). India feels slighted at being left out of negotiations for the resolution of the conflict in Afghanistan despite its obvious strategic stakes and immense contribution to the development effort. The sale of conventional arms to Pakistan, including F-16 aircraft and 155mm artillery, ostensibly for counter-insurgency operations, also rankles with India as U.S. arms have emboldened Pakistan to launch both covert and overt military operations against India in the past.
There is no doubt that the growing U.S.-India strategic partnership will define the contours of the geo-politics of the 21st century. However, expectations from president Obama's forthcoming visit to India are rather low as he has not so far provided the type of leadership and impetus to the relationship that his predecessor had. At best the two countries might sign a free trade agreement, which in itself will be a good step forward for bilateral trade.


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Published August 7, 2019 at 3:39 PM MDT
Stories about being biracial in America, country music and President Bill Clinton's impeachment are coming to our TV screens - or any screens, I guess (laughter). NPR TV critic Eric Deggans has explored these subjects and more at the TV Critics Association's summer press tour in LA. He joins us now from NPR West.
Hey there, Eric.
ERIC DEGGANS, BYLINE: Hi.
CORNISH: So people have been talking a lot about all the new TV streaming services that are debuting over the next few months. Can you tell us about them and whether TV executives are nervous about an oversaturated market?
DEGGANS: Beyond nervous - I mean, this time next year, we're going to have, like, four new streaming services from big media companies, like Apple TV+ coming sometime this fall, Disney+ in November, HBO Max in the spring and the service that Comcast/NBC is putting together for April. And Disney recently announced that they're going to bundle together a subscription. So you'll get, like, Disney+, Hulu and sports-oriented ESPN+ for $12.99 a month, which is the same as Netflix's standard subscription price. So we are in the middle of the streaming wars.
I saw Amazon Prime trying to beef up their lineup with some really broad shows, like the "Jack Ryan" franchise and "Lord Of The Rings." And outlets like HBO and FX have been bought by bigger companies. And they've been told to increase their original output, so we're going to have a lot more TV coming at us.
CORNISH: I want to talk more about FX because they announced the latest installment of their anthology series "American Crime Story." It's raising a lot of eyebrows because it's about Bill Clinton's impeachment that was in 1998. And people are saying that the timing is controversial. Why?
DEGGANS: Yeah. It debuts on September 27 of next year, which is, like, five weeks before the 2020 presidential election. And from the moment that FX released news about this, there was backlash online from opponents of Donald Trump who are worried that the show is going to help the president by distracting potential voters with tales of Bill Clinton's infidelity. But the president of FX, John Landgraf, pushed back really hard on that. And we've got a clip. Let's check it out.
JOHN LANDGRAF: This certainty that says we can't have conversations. We can't make art. We can't have nuance, pronounce judgment on it - is toxic in the media environment. And I don't believe it's going to determine who's the next president of the United States. I think that's a little hysterical - from my standpoint, somebody saying that that's going to influence the presidential election. And from my standpoint, I am insistent that I'm going to support artists who want to make great art, and they want to put it at the time and place where people are going to watch it.
DEGGANS: So Landgraf said executive producer Ryan Murphy, who's co-created shows like "Glee" and "Pose," picked that date because people will be interested in presidential matters at that time. Monica Lewinsky's on board as a producer, so you get the sense that the show is going to feature her perspective. And, you know, personally, I've got a hard time imagining a show on a cable channel like FX really affecting a presidential election. But it's a measure of how nervous some people are that they think this air date is a bad idea.
CORNISH: But what are the upcoming shows that you're seeing that you think viewers will actually get excited about?
DEGGANS: Well, you know, there's a few things I like. I like - Ken Burns has got this amazing documentary on country music that's coming to PBS - very emotional, informative, breaks a lot of stereotypes. There's this show on HBO called "Watchmen" that's based on the classic graphic novel about white supremacists going after the police. And ABC's got this show "Mixed-ish" that's a spinoff of "Black-ish" that features sort of the childhood of one of the characters from "Black-ish," Rainbow. She's a tween growing up biracial at a time in the 1980s when people didn't really understand that. And they get to talk about race in a way that really is relevant to what we're going through today.
CORNISH: That's NPR TV critic Eric Deggans.
Eric, thanks so much.
DEGGANS: Thank you.
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They said they may have approached Sergei Skripal's house by chance, but did not know where it was located. They had stayed less than hour in Salisbury, they said, because of bad weather.
Britain has said the two suspects were officers with a Russian military intelligence agency known as the GRU, and were almost certainly acting on orders from high up in the Russian state. The Kremlin has repeatedly denied any involvement in the case.
Skripal — a former Russian military intelligence colonel who betrayed dozens of agents to Britain's MI6 foreign intelligence service — and his daughter were found slumped unconscious on a bench in Salisbury in March. They spent weeks in hospital before being discharged.
The Skripals' poisoning triggered a tense diplomatic showdown. Britain and more than two dozen other countries expelled a total of 150 Russian diplomats, and Russia kicked out a similar number of those countries' envoys.
The affair returned to the headlines in July when a woman near Salisbury, Dawn Sturgess, died and her partner, Charlie Rowley, fell ill after Rowley found a counterfeit bottle of perfume containing the Novichok nerve agent and brought it home.


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Q: C# clear selectbox and build it dynamically - Windows form application How to clear all the options in a select box in C# (Windows form application)?
Is there something easy or does the code need to loop over all the items?
How to dynamically add an option to this select box?

A: call the Clear() method on the Items Property
listControl.Items.Clear();

This will work for a ListBox or a ComboBox
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.listcontrol.aspx

A: If it's a Windows Forms ListBox control you can use ListBox.Items.Clear()


There are some points you need to note at any time you want to have your business promoted to the next stage. You need to have some points noted whenever you want to have the promotion of your business. On having a good foundation of the business on the previous year, it is vital too to make sure within the new year, you can promote your business to a greater level. If you are willing to have some growth in your business, you should have some of the important points noted.
Getting an assistant in place is one of the tips you should have in place. This is a note to have in mind when dealing with the business promotion. This is for the reason that an assistant can be of great help in various tasks. For the case of the assistants, they can make you time saved as well as the assistance of the task. On having the assistant too, they can help you remain organized and also assist you in the maintaining of your schedule. As an entrepreneur and you are worried about the cost, you can hire a part-time assistant or virtual assistant that works remotely. For the case of these assistants, they can use less amount of money in place and thus, it is vital to have them in place.
Make sure you can outsource what you have as it is a vital point too. This is in relation to the environment that you create for yourself as it is known to have a great impact on you and the people working with. The way in which you are keeping your office is a point you should note too. Note some of the work that is of help to you and are cheap.
For instance, for the case of cleaning services, make sure you can get the trustworthy cleaning services. You can get the CPA or the accounting services at any case you want to get the finances balanced. You can get the most reliable garbage collection services at any time you want to get rid of the garbage too.
The point of organizing your work space is also an important point to note. It is vital to make sure your office is well organized by any chance you have it in a disorganized manner.
It is vital to make sure that your office is organized in most of the cases. This is a point to note in order to have your office in the right manner always. Make sure you have enough space that will increase your productivity. Also, have some time to create an organized filing system. For the case of all the legal documents, make sure you can have them maintained as the hard copies.


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iKON's B.I and EXO's Suho Embroiled in Controversy Because of their Fathers
by Unknown 11/10/2014
Two young Kpop stars, iKON's B.I and EXO's Suho are embroiled in controversy because of their fathers.
B.I's father, Kim Jung Joo, former president of Seunghwa Pretech, was recently arrested and charged with embezzlement.
According to the prosecution, he posted false stock prices when he acquired the company in February 2013. He also raised capital of 18.1 billion won(about 17 million dollars) by posting false stock prices from June 2014 to August 2014. He is currently under suspicion of embezzling 2.4 billion won.(about 2.2 million dollars)
When it was learned that Kim Jung Joo is B.I's father, criticism against B.I grew. Here's why.
Not a few people were coned by B.I's father. And by using that money, B.I's family lived off the fat of the land. The family made luxurious overseas trips, while netizens pointed out that B.I's luxurious coat costs 1.8 million won.(about 1,650 dollars)
Some say that B.I has nothing to do with the embezzlement. However, the others insist that B.I should not make a debut as a singer because B.I's father had a great effect on B.I's exclusive contract with YG entertainment. Do you remember that B.I was featured as a rapper in MC Mong's former hit 'Indian Boy' in 2009? Actually, B.I's father was acquainted with MC Mong and he showed B.I's video to the singer. After then, B.I could get an opportunity to perform with MC Mong and make contract with YG.
Will the scandal have a disastrous effect on B.I's career? No, I don't think so. By using its friendship with Korean media outlets, and by using its overwhelming position in the world of Kpop, YG is successfully covering up the story. YG will push ahead its plan, and B.I will debut as a leader of the agency's rookie group iKON at the beginning of next year. As B.I has an enormous amount of talent in composing and rapping, he will be able to become extremely popular.
EXO Suho's father is Kim Yongha who is a professor currently teaching at Soonchunhyang university. And he is a member of Citizens United for Better Society.
The problem is that Citizens United for Better Society is regarded as one of the representative organizations which are closely related to New Right. Since years ago, Suho's father has participated in the organization's events and made remarks which caused controversy. He is the one who personally designed Park Geun-hye administration's set of measures to reform the pension program for civil servants in order to reduce the government's growing pensions deficit.
In Korea, generational conflicts are getting worse and worse over recent years, while young people's antipathy against Conservative politicians such as President Park Geun-hye and Former president Lee Myung-bak is very strong. The antipathy against pro-government professor is the same.
Will the scandal have a disastrous effect on Suho's career? No, but it may affect the young idol star's career a little. SM entertainment is covering up the story as well as YG, but young Korean people are usually not generous to a political issue.
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Japan 2016/17 crude steel output seen flat, exports to drop
Japan's crude steel output in the fiscal year that starts next April is likely to be flat from this year at around 105 million tonnes, with growing local demand offsetting faltering exports, an industry body said on Wednesday.
That tepid outlook from the Japan Iron and Steel Federation follows a string of weak signals on the country's economy that have raised doubts about government efforts to reignite growth and end decades of deflation.
It also comes as steelmakers around the world grapple with the fallout of massive exports of cheap steel from China, with producers there turning overseas as the local appetite wavers.
"Domestic demand will certainly increase next fiscal year thanks to higher capital expenditure and consumer spending ahead of the planned sales tax hike in 2017, on top of Olympic-related construction demand," Koji Kakigi, chairman of the steel industry body, told a news conference.
Japan plans to raise its sales tax to 10 percent from 8 percent in April 2017. The country is also gearing up to host the Olympics in 2020.
"The problem is overseas demand ... It's difficult to make a forecast now, but we expect a slight drop in steel exports next fiscal year," Kakigi said, without giving further detail.
Kakigi, also president of JFE Steel, a unit of JFE Holdings Inc, said appetite for the country's exports would be hit by increased shipments of Chinese steel.
Japan's crude steel production has been in a downtrend since late last year, pressured by slack consumption of cars and houses after a sales tax hike in April 2014.
Tumbling steel prices in Asia, hit by China's exports and weaker demand for energy-related steel products such as drill pipes because of plunging oil prices, forced steelmakers like Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal and JFE Steel to trim output.
Japan's industry ministry has predicted the country's crude steel output would fall 3.7 percent in October-December from a year earlier.