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NYPD Raids Bronx Apartment In Drug Bust, Several Officers Taken To Hospital For Possible Fentanyl Exposure
Filed Under:Ali Bauman, Crime, drug bust, fentanyl, Local TV, New York, NYPD
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Multiple police officers are among several people taken to a local hospital in the Bronx after a major drug bust.
All of those people, including the suspects in the drug bust and at least four members of the NYPD, are being treated for exposure to fentanyl.
The NYPD tells CBS2's Ali Bauman they were conducting a search in an apartment building on Willis Avenue by East 140th Street Thursday night.
Officers found what they believe to be fentanyl inside an apartment and – because it is such a highly dangerous substance – several people were taken to Lincoln Hospital for evaluation.
RELATED: Fentanyl Now The Deadliest Drug In The United States, CDC Says
Authorities say most were taken as a precaution. One officer reported feeling some sort of effects from what they were exposed to, but no one has been severely injured.
CBS2 spoke to one woman who lives across the hall from the apartment that was raided and watched the commotion through her peephole.
"You heard a big bang, police open up, they raided in, flash grenade, and boom next thing you know they're taking out people," the neighbor told Ali Bauman.
"It was just scary, it was a little scary, but it's not normal in this neighborhood."
Residents were evacuated for some time but have since been allowed back in their homes. Officers are still guarding the front door and it's still an active investigation.


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Journal of African Elections — Recommend this title to your library
Journal of African Elections
The Journal of African Elections is an interdisciplinary biannual publication of research and writing in the human sciences which seeks to promote a scholarly understanding of developments and change in Africa. The journal is published by the Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa.
Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa (EISA)
Vol 2 Issue 1 Apr 2003 - current
French/English
Election 2019: Change and Stability in South Africa's Democracy, Collette Schulz-Herzenberg and Roger Southall (Eds.)
The South African national and provincial election of May 2019 was a watershed in South Africa's ongoing process of democratisation. It was also the most analysed election in the democratic era before the actual voting took place. Numerous attempts to predict the result demonstrate how high the stakes were and still are for all the parties and citizens, rich and poor, in South Africa. As is to be expected, the pollsters and their instruments failed to capture the dynamics of voting and the actual result. Of interest were alternative approaches to predicting the outcome. These entailed examining party performance in past elections (national, provincial and local as well as local by-elections) based on voting station and ward data. I dare say that these approaches got close to being accurate.
Opinion - the world Robert Mugabe left behind
Being in Harare, Zimbabwe, as the news came through that Robert Mugabe had died, was in many ways a welcome and anti-climactic experience. If that was my personal sense – as a Commonwealth official who supervised the observation of the independence elections from January to March 1980 when he came to power, and who has visited Zimbabwe almost 70 times since – it seemed also to be the mood of the city. Harare remained quiet. The news came at night, too late for the newspapers that had already gone to press. Not everyone has wi-fi access, many of those who do face constant electricity cuts and cannot recharge their cell phones or computers, so the news spread to a large extent by word of mouth. If there was one intangible sense that hung in the air, it was a sense that this was about time. Mugabe had hung around too long. And even though he had been ousted from power in 2017, his shadow had clung to Zimbabwe.
The manifesto experiment and internal electioneering in the Botswana Democratic Party
Written manifestos seem to be a rarity in intra-political party electioneering in Africa, and there is a view that African party electioneering is largely nonissue based, instead being personality-driven. This article observes that the phenomenon seems applicable even to Africa's supposed 'senior democracy', Botswana. Yet, the enduring, issueless factional electioneering of the long-ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) resulted in a significant, albeit one-off, interregnum in 2015. In the 2014 general elections, the combined opposition had garnered 53% of the popular vote, while the BDP received just 47%. The BDP managed to hold onto power, however, due to the country's first-past-the-post (FPTP) electoral system. This development appears to have shaken and confused the elites of the BDP and caused concern among the party's hard-line factionalists. Subsequently, Botsalo Ntuane did extremely well in the party's 2015 central committee elections. In an unprecedented move he competed for the influential position of secretary general as an independent candidate and with an actual policy manifesto. This move was outside of the traditional factional sponsorship method long-dominant within the BDP. However, the factionalists soon regrouped and acted to marginalise him and his manifesto. Ntuane consequently performed quite poorly in the later 2017 elections, which once again were fought along strict factional lines with no space for ideas or policies. This article argues that Ntuane's manifesto may have been perceived as too radical and unacceptably ambitious by the conservative party elites. This manifesto also seems to have threatened entrenched personal interests and corrupt practices within the BDP-led government. The article concludes with a note on the dynamics and results of the 2019 general elections.
The 2019 South African elections - incumbency and uncertainty
The 2019 South African elections marked the country's sixth iteration of free and fair electoral contests since its democratisation in 1994. Although the outcome gives the African National Congress (ANC) yet another five-year mandate, the party has not gone unchallenged at the polls. It registered its lowest national vote share since the transition, a major concern for the party of liberation. The most recent contest also demonstrates the resilience of the main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), and the continued upward trajectory of its closest rival, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF). In this article, we analyse available survey data on South Africans' attitudes and offer some empirical answers to account for the election results. We argue that race continues to feature prominently in electoral decision-making but it does so in ways that deviate slightly from conventional wisdom. Further, we put forth an explanation that the parties' leaders played a central role in shaping citizens' voting behaviour, especially among their own partisan supporters.
Facebook image-making in Zimbabwe's 2018 election campaigns - social media and emerging trends in political marketing
This article explores changing political communication and marketing trends in Zimbabwe when presidential candidates used Facebook to reach out, largely to the youth and urban voters, during the 2018 election campaign. Recent studies have identified the power of social media as a platform on which politicians portray images that convince the electorate to vote for them. These images can be created through the photographs, video footage and texts that politicians post on their Facebook pages. The study employed a qualitative approach to establish the role played by political imagery used by contesting parties and candidates in the campaign period ahead of the 2018 elections in Zimbabwe, in particular the frontrunners and larger political parties. MDC-Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa and Zanu-PF candidate Emmerson Mnangagwa were both serious contenders for the presidency. The analysis sheds light on the implications of image-making and modern political trends in Zimbabwe and how Facebook manages to reach out to the targeted electorate.
Political parties and electoral offences in Nigeria - a critical analysis
The paper examines the Nigerian Constitution and Electoral Act 2010 (as amended) on the role and complicity of political parties in electoral offences in Nigeria. It explores the extent to which political party activities or inactions constitute or contribute to electoral offences. The objective is to find out whether political parties are complicit in electoral offences, and whether the Electoral Act needs to be reformed to accommodate political party culpability, reduce the criminal complicity of political parties, and improve political party accountability. The paper adopts a mixed method of normative and critical analysis. Normative analysis arises from examination of doctrinal data which consist of the principles of law, provisions of the Electoral Act 2010 and the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (CFRN) 1999 and other relevant laws regarding jurisprudence in democracy and constitutionalism, in order to determine their coherence and validity. Critical analysis, on the other hand, is applied to electoral and democratic principles in extant literature and policy in order to justify the necessity of reforming electoral laws. The paper finds that the Electoral Act is silent in many instances of potential political party complicity in electoral offences. However, the law could be reformed to improve political party accountability and reduce the incidence of electoral offences in Nigeria. It recommends some policy reforms and amendments to improve the effectiveness of the Electoral Act 2010.
© Publisher: Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa (EISA)
http://sabinet.metastore.ingenta.com/content/journal/eisa_jae

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Walk into any nice hotel, and what is the first thing you see? A beautiful display of flowers. How did it make you feel? Many hotels and resorts use flowers to create a first impression and make you feel welcome. Likely the reason for your stay is for vacation or a business trip — either way, you want to be put at ease, and if a smile appears on your face, even better. Flowers can do that.
It's not just a theory that the presence of flowers makes you happy, it's scientifically proven. In fact, a study by Rutgers University demonstrates flowers' unique ability to create instant delight — the same kind of true smiles that come when you see a baby or a puppy.


Popular crowdfunding platform GoFundMe launched a "Government Shutdown Direct Relief Fund" yesterday for federal workers affected by the shutdown that has dragged on for 29 days with no resolution in sight.
In a statement, released on Saturday, GoFundMe CEO Rob Solomon explained that the donations "will be distributed to several nonprofit organizations across the country offering direct assistance to government workers" such as "providing hot meals, necessary counseling, and housing relief." The company has partnered with American-Indian author Deepak Chopra on the campaign.
The campaign comes after more than 1,000 federal staffers — who have either been furloughed or working unpaid — turned to the crowdsourcing site to raise money for their daily living expenses. The partial government shutdown began last month after President Donald Trump refused to sign a stop-gap measure designed to keep the government running through to February because it didn't include funding provisions for the border wall he promised to deliver during his campaign trail. Last weekend, the shutdown became the longest in American history at 22 days, beating a previous record set in 1996 by Bill Clinton's administration.
Celebrity chef José Andrés' nonprofit, who has already provided food for around 12,000 federal workers in Washington D.C., will be one of the first to receive donations.
"Government workers, through no fault of their own, can't afford to put diapers on their newborns," Solomon said. "Employees of the most powerful nation in the world are being forced to work without pay and line up at diaper or food banks. It makes no sense."
Created on January 18, the campaign has raised $78,451 of its $125,000 goal as of Sunday evening, with 897 donor contributions. Approximately 1,300 users have also shared the campaign on social media, propelling the site to trending status.


The algorithm correctly predicted 9 out 10 of the suggested trades in the Dividends Package for this 1 Month forecast. STX was the highest-earning trade with a return of 31.41% in 1 Month. Additional high returns came from BBY and IP, at 11.42% and 10.80% respectively. The package had an overall average return of 7.49%, providing investors with a 1.73% premium over the S&P 500's return of 5.76% during the period.


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WIG OUT
Norwegian rock n' roll warriors Wig Wam have announced the release of a new studio album entitled 'Out Of The Dark' on 10th February 2023. Following fresh interest in the band thanks to their classic song 'Do Ya Wanna Taste It' being used as the theme song for HBO's popular Peacemaker superhero TV series, 'Out Of The Dark' sees the band feeling truly reinvigorated and inspired. A first single and video for the album title track is available from today.
"We came out of the pandemic and had a pretty rough 'rebirth' doing a comeback in the midst of this dark period of live music," explains vocalist Åge Sten Nilsen. "The new album is, of course, also a 'happier' record, even though some of the song lyrics reflect on darker themes in our society. However, they all have one thing in common: a positive outcome and never giving up."
Wig Wam will tour the USA, mainland Europe and Australia in early 2023, with more dates to be added that can be checked HERE.
Wig Wam are vocalist Glam (Åge Sten Nilsen), guitarist Teeny (Trond Holter), bassist Flash (Bernt Jansen) and drummer Sporty (Øystein Andersen). They formed in 2001 and have been mixing '80s inspired glam metal with classic hard rock, entertaining lyrics and OTT imagery to create an old fashioned rock n' roll vibe ever since. Having issued a debut album in 2004 entitled '667…The Neighbour of the Beast' (later changed to 'Hard To Be A Rock N' Roller'), they made an international breakthrough when they represented Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest, finishing 9th with the song 'In My Dreams'. They went on to release three more studio albums, 'Wig Wamania' (2006), 'Non Stop Rock 'N Roll' (2010) and 'Wall Street' (2012) before splitting in 2014.
They reformed five years later and recorded 'Never Say Die' (2021), following which film/TV director James Gunn selected their 2010 song 'Do Ya Wanna Taste It' (from 'Non Stop Rock 'N Roll') as the opening theme song for 'Peacemaker', which stars the famous WWE wrestler and actor John Cena and is based on a DC Comics character. This stroke of good fortune has helped to showcase Wig Wam to a brand new audience; now, with 'Out In The Dark' in tow, the group are ready to show off their entertaining brand of hard rock 'n roll to a worldwide audience.
1 Out Of The Dark
2 High And Dry
3 Forevermore
4 Bad Luck Chuck
5 Uppercut Shazam
6 Ghosting You
7 The Purpose
8 The American Dream
10 God By Your Side
11 Sailor And The Desert Sun
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Glam (Åge Sten Nilsen) – vocals
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Flash (Bernt Jansen) – bass
Sporty (Øystein Andersen) – drums
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The list below shows some recent talks. For a more complete list of presentations, please visit my Speaker Deck profile (talks since 2014) or my SlideShare profile (talks until 2013).
I presented the following keynote at the International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2015).
We live in the golden age of data. In industry, data science is more popular than ever. People with data science skills are in high demand. In this talk, I will shed light on the emerging roles of data scientists. I will distill some of the lessons learned from doing empirical research at Microsoft as well as observing successful data scientists into what I call the lenses of empirical software engineering. You haven't seen anything until you've seen everything.
The slides for the paper Ramp-up Journey of New Hires: Tug of War of Aids and Impediments, presented at ESEM 2015.
I presented the following keynote at the Brazilian Software Engineering Symposium (SBES 2015).
There is a new kid in town. Data scientists now help software teams to infer actionable insights from large amounts of data about the development process and the customer usage. To understand this new role, we interviewed and surveyed data scientists across several product groups at Microsoft. In this talk, I will motivate the need for data analytics, introduce questions for data scientists, and characterize how data scientists work in a large software companies such as Microsoft. I will highlight opportunities for researchers, practitioners, and educators.
Software and its development generates an inordinate amount of data. Development activities such as check-ins, work items, bug reports, code reviews, and test executions are recorded in software repositories. User interactions that reflect how customers experience software are recorded in telemetry data, run-time traces, and log files and helps to track application and feature usage and expose performance and reliability. Software analytics takes this data and turns it into actionable insight to better inform decisions related to software.
In this talk, I will summarize our efforts in the area of software analytics with a special focus on digital games. I will present several examples of games studies, that we have worked on at Microsoft Research such as how players are engaged in Project Gotham Racing, how skill develops over time in Halo Reach and Forza Motorsports, and the initial experience of game play. I will also point out important differences between games development and traditional software development. The work presented in this talk has been done by Nachi Nagappan, myself, and many others who have visited our group over the past years.
Here are the slides for a short talk that Andreas Zeller and I presented at MSR 2015 about the MSR 2005 paper When Do Changes Induce Fixes?, which won the Ten Year Most Influential Paper Award.
I presented the following slides as an invited talk at the SIGSOFT FSE 2014 conference.
I presented the following slides at the CHI Play 2014 conference. The initial slides were created by Gifford Cheung.


If you have an interest in audio there are plenty of opportunities for home construction of hi-fi equipment. You can make yourself an amplifier which will be as good as any available commercially, and plenty of the sources you might plug into it can also come into being on your bench.
There will always be some pieces of hi-fi equipment which while not impossible to make will be very difficult for you to replicate yourself. Either their complexity will render construction too difficult as might be the case with for example a CD player, or as with a moving-coil loudspeaker the quality you could reasonably achieve would struggle match that of the commercial equivalent. It never ceases to astound us what our community of hackers and makers can achieve, but the resources, economies of scale, and engineering expertise available to a large hi-fi manufacturer load the dice in their favour in those cases.
The subject of this article is a piece of extreme high-end esoteric hi-fi that you can replicate yourself, indeed you start on a level playing field with the manufacturers because the engineering challenges involved are the same for them as they are for you. Electrostatic loudspeakers work by the attraction and repulsion of a thin conductive film in an electric field rather than the magnetic attraction and repulsion you'll find in a moving-coil loudspeaker, and the resulting very low mass driver should be free of undesirable resonances and capable of a significantly lower distortion and flatter frequency response than its magnetic sibling.


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Israeli Woman Forced To Return Haredi Son To Non-Jewish Father
Israeli Woman Forced To Return…
An Israeli woman who is accused of kidnapping her son while he was staying with his non-Jewish father in Belgium in 2006 gave up the boy in exchange for immunity for her accomplices.
Following the deal between Ronit Bitton and the Israel Police, her son, 17-year-old Solal Georis, was reunited with his father last month after eight years in which she had kept him hidden from authorities in haredi Orthodox circles in Israel, the Belgian Jewish paper Regards reported Friday.
Both a Belgian and Israeli court affirmed the sole custody of Vincent Georis over the boy after the father filed a missing persons report and accused Bitton of kidnapping him.
The boy is halakhically Jewish.
The mother claimed she did not know where the boy was despite suspicions that she had accomplices hide him.
An Israeli court in 2013 sentenced her to five years in prison for kidnapping. During her interrogation, she claimed that her ex-husband Vincent Georis psychologically abused and intimidated her.
She also claimed he was behind the boy's kidnapping and is accusing her of kidnapping him to divert attention from his own actions.
A Belgian court fined Bitton for defamation against Georis, after finding these claims to be false.
Vincent Georis has made countless trips to Israel over the past eight years and hired a local detective.
He also launched an appeal in Hebrew, French and Yiddish asking anyone with information concerning Solal to come forward.
Ultimately, though, police in Israel promised to not go after Bitton's presumed accomplices if Bitton consented to allow the boy to remain in contact with his father, Regards reported.
Georis, who has complained of inaction by the Israel Police and has also said that the fact that he is not Jewish made them take him less seriously, approved the deal with Bitton, he told Regards.
"I accepted. I was interested in his well-being above all, even if I was shocked by this amnesty to people who kidnapped a child and denied the existence of his father," he said.
There is another side to the story. A report by Channel 1 presented Vincent Georis as abusive and conniving. Similarly, former MK Moshe Feiglin wrote of him:
"Vincent gave up, by his own will, the right to be a father, and cruelly prevents Ronit from being a mother.
He abused the childhood of his son and sentenced him to a life of suffering, he trampled his honor and negated his freedom and money, by means of a dark and degraded connection with bullies and a trampling of the laws of human decency.
But reality can't give cover forever, and we believe that the day will soon come when the legal systems in Israel and Belgium, the prosecution and all those complicit in the terrible crime against the poor, helpless mother and son will pay the price."
Following the deal, Solal reported to a Jerusalem police station where DNA tests proved his identity.
He and his father are to be reunited in the coming days, after not seeing each other since their last encounter at a Beersheba child services station. Solal was wearing a kippah and a suit of the kind worn by haredi Orthodox children.
Category: IsraelBy Joe Levin September 5, 2016
Tags: BelgianIsraelJerusalem policekidnappingRonit Bitton
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Joe Levin says:
Sources close to Ronit Bitton, who sat in jail for three and a half years for interference with legal proceedings dictating custody of her 17-year-old son to her non-Jewish ex-husband in Belgium, deny claims that the youth will soon join up with his father.
"We're talking about a 17.5-year-old youth," the sources said. "He is haredi. It is impossible to force him to go live with his non-Jewish father. Word to the contrary on this matter is incorrect."
The Jewish Belgian paper Regards reported that Bitton agreed that the son be given to his father's custody; in exchange, authorities in Israel agreed not to press charges against Bitton's accomplices for hiding her son.
According to that report, Bitton "kidnapped" her son from his father in Belgium in 2006, when the boy was seven years old. Belgian and Israeli courts ruled that the father, Vincent Georis, was the sole legal guardian, and that the son needs to be transferred to his guardianship. The mother claimed that she did not know where her son was and, in an interview with Arutz Sheva in 2013, had asserted that she hadn't seen him for five years. An Israeli court sentenced her to five years imprisonment for interfering with legal proceedings; she began to serve her sentence in 2013.
Last month, she was released from prison. It is unclear whether a third of the sentence was simply deducted or whether some sort of bargain transpired between Bitton and enforcement authorities which enabled her early release. The son, as far as is known, reported to a Jerusalem police station, and took a DNA test that verified his identity.
The father told the Belgian newspaper that he had spoken with his son on the telephone. "I have no words to describe my happiness," he had said.
Nevertheless, a report by Channel 1 presented Vincent Georis as abusive and conniving. Similarly, former MK Moshe Feiglin wrote of him:
"Vincent gave up, by his own will, the right to be a father, and cruelly prevents Ronit from being a mother. He abused the childhood of his son and sentenced him to a life of suffering, he trampled his honor and negated his freedom and money, by means of a dark and degraded connection with bullies and a trampling of the laws of human decency. But reality can't give cover forever, and we believe that the day will soon come when the legal systems in Israel and Belgium, the prosecution and all those complicit in the terrible crime against the poor, helpless mother and son will pay the price."
Sources close to Bitton said: "Most important is the happiness of the mother and son; he is a Jew who merited growing up with his Jewish mother."


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Q: PHP, get result set in two variables from single mysql_query This is not working
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$resbody=$restab;

This is working
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$resbody=mysql_query("SELECT `tb_id`, `tb_head` FROM `tbs` where dashboard_id=$dash_board_id") or die(mysql_error());

A: $result = mysql_query("SELECT `tb_id`, `tb_head` FROM `tbs` where dashboard_id=$dash_board_id")
    or die(mysql_error());

while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
    .... do some stuff
}

mysql_data_seek($result, 0);
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
    .... do some more stuff
}

But as the mysql extension is deprecated, you really should be switching to mysqli or pdo, and learning to use bind variables

A: Major update:
Create var:
$query = "SELECT `tb_id`, `tb_head` FROM `tbs` where dashboard_id=$dash_board_id";

Call function multiple times:
$resbody = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
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Do not use deprecated function nex time, take a look at MYSQLI or PDO

A: If you really want to duplicate the result object, I propose to clone the object using php clone function
Something like this
$resbody = clone $restab;

A: If you do not want to make the same query again, use
mysql_data_seek($restab,0)
And then use it again. The internal row pointer will be reset.
More info here: http://www.w3schools.com/php/func_mysql_data_seek.asp

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This is the easiest mode of 'focusing on breathing', easy to teach, understand, remember and practice even by preschoolers (3).
Start with any one hand, say the left hand. Gently flex the little finger (8). Breathe in, feeling the coolness inside the nose. When breathing out, silently and slowly say 'one – one – one'. Breathe in second time, feeling the coolness inside the nose. When breathing out, silently and slowly say 'two – two – two'. Breathe in third time. When breathing out, silently and slowly say 'three – three – three'. Release the little finger.
Repeat the above steps at the other four fingers – ring finger, middle finger, index finger and the thumb.
Then switch to the right hand and repeat all above steps. Continue practicing, switching the hands.
Why repeat the number being counted? See (5).
Who developed this mode? See (1).
(1) I demonstrated the 'Tip mode' (2) to Dev Udugula, a 10 year old boy, whose dad works in a local Indian store. I made him practice this mode on two hands in my presence, to make sure he got it right. I met Dev after a month, at my next visit. I asked him whether he remembered about the breathing. He said 'yes'. When I asked him to show me how he was doing it, he showed me this 'folding finger mode' which he devised on his own! His dad said the boy was found practicing the technique at home.
(5) Why repeat the number being counted?
(7) VIDEO I thank Norris Wilson, a practitioner who attended my seminar for making this video and uploading into Youtube on my request.
(8) Some people including children find it difficult to fold only the little finger or the ring finger. When they fold the little finger, the next finger, the ring finger also folds partly. These are not problems as long as they are aware of which finger they are working on. Even a little flexing of the targeted finger serves our purpose. Ignore the partial bending of the adjacent finger.


Four-to-floor with Fire, Earth, Air and Water, the characterizing elements of "Snowing on Lava", the artistic maturity for Martino Nencioni. His classy electronic compositions transfuse with naturalistic components characterized by typical rave-culture aesthetics. The "4 elements" fully shine in "Snowing on Lava", a 60 minutes space-less and silent suite. A dense album, which transports the listener to meditate about the origin of cosmos through a whirling and hypnotic crescendo. Fast transformation and ecstatic contemplation, natural elements like stones and aquatic sounds are melted with technoid rhythms, creating a mutable and harmonic world. Echoes of krautrock a là Neu mixed with trancy IDM components from Anglo-Saxon school (see James Holden or Clark). "Snowing on Lava" is the kingdom of Martino Nencioni, in which all the things exist and consist.
Taggato free download, idm, martino nencioni, net release, netlabel day.


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The GNU 3DLDF Animation Page
Author: Laurence D. Finston
This copyright notice applies to the text and source code of this web site, and the graphics that appear on it. The software described in this text has its own copyright notice and license, which can be found in the distribution itself.
!!Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 The Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute, and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of this license is included in the file COPYING.TXT
Full and Limited Animation
The Birth of a Dodecahedron
Rotating Sphere
Titles and Text Effects
Animation, with cartoons and puppets as well as computer animation, is my main interest. It's also one of the reasons I started writing GNU 3DLDF in the first place. Now that I've started to use it for making animations. I will be putting examples and explanations on this webpage.
Cinematic film is projected at a rate of 24 frames per second (fps). This translates to 1440 frames per minute. Video, on the other hand, generally runs at a faster rate. This is why artistic animation is measured in seconds or small numbers of minutes rather than hours.
In Germany, the United Kingdom, and possibly other European countries, video runs at 25 fps or 1500 frames per minute. In the US, I believe it runs at 30 fps per second. The ppmtompeg program from the Netpbm package creates an MPEG-1 video stream with a frame rate of 23.976, 24, 25, 29.97, 30, 50, 59.94, or 60 frames per second.
An animation sequence where the image changes with every frame is said to be animated on ones . Often, however, when the motion depicted isn't too fast, the images are displayed on two subsequent frames; this is called animating on twos . If you have a video player with single-frame advance, you can step through an animated film frame-by-frame, which can be very instructive. If you do so with a video containing full animation , such as Hollywood cartoon animation from the 1930s or 1940s, you are likely to see predominantly animation on twos interspersed with short sequences of animation on ones.
When nothing moves in a scene for more than 1/12 seconds (at 24 fps) or 2/25 seconds (at 25 fps), then, of course, the same image will appear on more than two subsequent frames. For example, for a title to appear for 5 seconds at 25 fps, there will have to be 125 frames containing that image.
The greater the number of frames per second, the smoother the animation can be. 24 or 25 frames per second is not really a lot. When I started watching videos with single-frame advance, I was surprised at how far apart the drawings were, especially during drastic action. One of the advantages of computer animation is that one is not limited to a single rate of advance.
During the 1920s and '30s, animation studios in the US, primarily in Hollywood and New York City (Fleischer Studios), made high-quality animated cartoons assembly-line fashion using lots of personnel. Many animation drawings were used, producing a convincing illusion of movement. This type of animation is called full animation.
Due to a number of factors, Hollywood-style cartoon animation began to decline around 1940. By around 1950, techniques of limited animation were well established in Hollywood animation. (By this time, Fleischer Studios had left New York for Florida. Soon thereafter, Max and Dave Fleischer lost control of the studio, which became Famous Studios. The name was apt---it became famous for making lousy cartoons.)
A typical limited animation technique is to have sets of mouths, eyes, noses, etc., which are placed on top of a head and photographed. In full animation, the whole head and all of its features would be redrawn. This allows the shape of the head to change depending on the expression, whereas in limited animation, the expressions will tend to look pasted-on .
There is no fixed borderline between full and limited animation. Nor is there anything wrong with the limited animation techniques in themselves. The reason why a lot of limited animation looks so bad is because the studios were trying to imitate the look of full animation while trying to make cartoons on the cheap .
In traditional cartoon animation, the animation drawings were transferred to cels, which were (nearly) transparent sheets of acetate. The name comes from celluloid , and was therefore a misnomer, since they were never made from this material. I doubt that anyone mourns the passing of the cel. They were probably not very much fun to work with. Only certain inks would stick to them, and since they were only nearly transparent, different shades of ink had to be used, depending on the position of a cel in the stack of cels being photographed. This took careful planning. In addition, only about four cels could be stacked before the combined effect became too dark. (Cels are still in use for some purposes, though. Acrylic paints do stick to them.)
Combining images using ImageMagick's composite program is analogous to stacking cels, but, theoretically, at least, there is no limit on the number of images that can be combined. Nor is there any need to use different colors depending on the layer.
Rotoscoping is another animation technique which can be simulated by using computer programs. The rotoscope (and rotograph) were tools for tracing outlines from live-action footage. There's nothing wrong with rotoscoping per se, but however you slice it, it's not really animation. I think it can be used creatively, but I find that I lose interest in cartoons where it's used too much, and too obviously as a way of cutting costs.
Incidentally, rotoscoping is not the worst debasement of the art of animation. I remember as a child watching the cartoons Space Angel and Clutch Cargo , which were notable for having virtually no movement, except for the mouths, which were real mouths from live-action footage---an effect of singular hideousness.
L. Nobre G., the author of the FEATPOST and ANEEMATE packages, has experimented with using the programs potrace, autotrace, and pstoedit to make MetaPost code from raster images. See his Vectorization page. This technique can be used to make vector images from artwork, which wouldn't be cheating .
Text Fading In and Out
The effect of text or objects fading in or out can be achieved within the 3DLDF code. A loop is used to produce an image for each stage of the fade. The smoothest results are achieved by making an image for each frame, but a smaller number of images can be produced and copied. The text or object is drawn and/or filled using one or more color variables, whose values are reset in the loop. For example:
verbatim_metapost "verbatimtex \font\large=cmbx12 scaled 5000 etex";
color c;
color d;
for i = 0 upto 30:
j := i / 30;
k := (30 - i) / 30;
set c (j, j, j);
set d (k, k, k);
beginfig(i);
label.rt("{\large Fade out}", origin shifted (0, 1.25)) with_text_color c;
label.rt("{\large Fade in}", origin shifted (0, -1.25)) with_text_color d;
endfig with_projection parallel_x_y;
verbatim_metapost "bye;";
This is the result: fade_2.pdf.
Blurred Text
The effect of text going in or out of focus (blurring), on the other hand, can be achieved by using ImageMagick's mogrify program with the -blur option. For example:
3DLDF code:
beginfig(1);
label("{\large Blur}", origin);
Assume that the result of running 3dldf and MetaPost is the EPS file blur_1.1. The following Emacs-Lisp code performs the following actions:
Calls cnepspng to create the structured PostScript file blur_1_1.ps.
Copies the latter four times, creating the files blur_1_2.ps, blur_1_3.ps, blur_1_4.ps, and blur_1_5.ps.
Calls ImageMagick's mogrify program with the -blur option using the number of the file for both the radius and sigma arguments. Different values for these arguments will produce different effects.
Calls ImageMagick's display program in the background to display the images in order.
(let (i i-string (display-string "display blur_1.ps "))
(shell-command "cnepspng 3DLDFmp 1 1 1cm 1cm")
(setq i 2)
(while (<= i 5)
(setq i-string (number-to-string i))
(shell-command (concat "cp blur_1.ps blur_" i-string ".ps"))
(shell-command (concat "mogrify -blur " i-string "x" i-string " blur_" i-string ".ps"))
(setq display-string (concat display-string " blur_" i-string ".ps "))
(setq i (1+ i))
) ;; while
(setq display-string (concat display-string "&"))
(shell-command display-string)
) ;; let
) ;; progn
I like to use Emacs-Lisp for trivial tasks like this. Other people may prefer to write a shell script, or use some other method.
MPEG movie: The Birth of a Dodecahedron.
Download compressed version.
MPEG animations like this one can be created by following these steps:
Run 3dldf to generate MetaPost code.
Run MetaPost to generate EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) files.
Run cnepspng to generate structured PostScript files from the EPS files. The source of cnepspng is available here: cnepspng.web. The reason for this step is that it's not possible to use EPS directly in the following step if the EPS files contain text typeset using TeX. I don't know whether it's possible if they have no text; I'll have to test this.
(Authors note : I've replaced cnepspng with conveps. The source code of the latter is available here: conveps.web.)
Convert the structured PostScript files to PBM files. PBM is a format defined and used by the Netpbm package. If the resulting movie should have frames which are duplicates of previous frames, the PBM files should be copied the appropriate number of times. Additionally, the images in PBM are coerced to the size 640x480 (width by height in pixels). The frame files must be numbered sequentially.
Call ppmtompeg to generate the movie.
The file generate.el contains Emacs-Lisp code for automating these steps, including the function (or defun , in LISP jargon) generate-file. I plan to use this code as the basis for an animation controller written in C using CWEB.
Thanks to L. Nobre G. for teaching me how to generate MPEG movies from the EPS files generated by MetaPost.
The explanations that follow the animations were originally postings to a forum on an animation website. They require some editing, which I will do as I find time.
MPEG movie: Scrolling Closing Titles 1
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Source code: scroll_1.ldf scroll_1.tex
This animation is already here, its title is Coming Soon 1 .
MPEG movie: Coming Soon 1
Source code: titles_2.ldf titles_2.tex
MPEG movie: Rotating Title 1
TeX is a very powerful and flexible typesetting package. It is also Free Software. Therefore, it seems like a good choice for making titles and text effects for animations.
The short animations above demonstrate the use of TeX for text effects and titles.
While it is possible to use TeX by itself for these purposes in a limited way, I find it better to use it in combination with MetaPost. MetaPost can use TeX (or PostScript) for its labelling commands: label and dotlabel. It's much easier to position text in MetaPost than it is in TeX itself. It's also much easier to draw ruled boxes in MetaPost.
However, I generally use GNU 3DLDF instead of using MetaPost directly. It's more convenient for me, it gives me the chance to see whether I need to make any additions or changes to 3DLDF, and it makes it possible to combine titles with 3D objects.
3DLDF writes MetaPost code, MetaPost calls TeX as a subprocess for the labels and writes PostScript code. If you're using PostScript fonts or no text at all, you can have MetaPost write structured PostScript (PS) right away. However, if you're using TeX fonts, you will have to have it write Encapsulated PostScript (EPS). This is what I'm describing here. In order to continue, you must convert EPS to PS. I use a utility called cnepspng for this purpose. (Authors note: I've replaced cnepspng with conveps, as described below.) It is included in the 3DLDF package. You then convert the PS files (containing the individual images) to PNG and then to PPM. Then you pack them into an MPEG animation using ppmtompeg, which is part of the NETPBM package.
In order for this to work, the size of the images must be either 320×240 or 640×480 pixels. I coerce them to this size after converting them from PS to PNG.
The original images (before coercion) must be of the same size, and they should also be aligned correctly. Otherwise, your animation will not look right. The easiest way to do this is to surround them with a frame. As far as MetaPost is concerned, the frame can be drawn in the background color, and it will still contribute to the final size of the image. However, cnepspng currently uses mogrify -crop 0x0 to cut off the margins created when converting from EPS to PS. So here, if the frame is in the background color, it will be ignored, and your image will almost certainly end up in the wrong size. Recently, I've just been keeping the black frame, but I may change cnepspng to use mogrify with the -shave option with specific values instead (it used to work this way). However, it would also be possible to use a color for the frame that's not used elsewhere in your image, and change it to the background color using mogrify with the -opaque and -pen options, after it's been resized. mogrify is part of the ImageMagick package.
It's also possible to use convert (ImageMagick) to make an animated GIF or MNG out of your images. However, I haven't found this to be very practical, because the files can get very large. The compression used for MPEGs is much better.
The 3DLDF code for the examples I've uploaded is here .
I've uploaded a new MPEG movie with a Speech Balloon Test . The bottleneck in this method is the conversion of Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) files to one of the Netpbm formats (PBM == Portable Bitmap, PGM == Portable Graymap, PPM == Portable Pixelmap, or PNM == Portable Anymap) so that they can be passed to ppmtompeg.
I've renamed the program cnepspng to conveps (included in GNU 3DLDF) and revised it a bit. It's primary purpose is no longer to convert EPS files to PNG, so I wanted to give it a more suitable name ( convert EPS ). I've added options for replacing colors and making them transparent. It was a bit tricky getting this to work, because ImageMagick's convert and mogrify programs perform pixel aliaising by default. This can increase the number of colors in an image. If this happens, it spoils the result if you want to make, for example, the blue regions in your image transparent, or change the orange regions to yellow.
Another problem is that I wasn't able to get convert or mogrify to resize the structured PostScript (PS) files. I was able to resize them by hand in display (also part of ImageMagick) and GIMP, but it's not practicable to do this for more than a couple of files. However, there's no reason to use the PS files for making animations, so I don't consider this a serious problem.
Speech Balloon Test 1 has 990 unique frames and 1050 frames in total. At 30 fps, this is only 35 seconds of animation. I think it took about 15 minutes to convert all of the EPS files to PNM. I plan to use POSIX threads to call convert and mogrify. There's always a certain amount of overhead involved in using threads, but I think it will increase the speed of conveps considerably.
conveps now uses threads, which increases its speed dramatically. I haven't yet tried using it with more than 51 images, though. It seems to work, but it may require some debugging. Currently, it will only work on systems supporting threads. I may add code for systems that don't support threads, but this doesn't have a high priority for me.
There's a lot of debugging output that I plan to put into conditionals. Since terminal output in one thread will cause other running threads to block if they try to write to the terminal, eliminating output will tend to increase speed.
I've also added the options --new-filename and --renumber, so that it's possible, for example, to generate the PNM files b_12.pnm to b_20.pnm from the EPS files a.0 to a.8.
It is now possible to remove the frame using the --fill and --opaque options, as long as it's in a color not otherwise used in the drawings. It's also possible to make colors transparent using the --transparent option. This will, of course, only work when converting to formats that support transparency.
I think it would be interesting to try to use GNU 3DLDF, MetaPost, and conveps for color separation. Multiple images could be generated where one had only the cyan areas, another the yellow, a third the magenta, and a fourth the black. One could also generate grayscale images and process them in GIMP using the Hue-Saturation-Value color model.
I used the threaded version of conveps to make the new version of the speech balloon test which I've uploaded to my website: http://wwwuser.gwdg.de/~lfinsto1. This animation has 991 unique images and 1050 frames. I have found that trying to do anything with this many images is difficult and time-consuming.
I ran into the unforeseen problem that using multiple threads for this many images caused so many temporary files to pile up that I ran out of disk space. I have now added code to limit the number of active threads at any given time. The default is 100, which seems to work on my system. It can be set to a different value using the command-line option --threads-limit.
Please note that conveps can still be called start and end values for any number of EPS files (subject to the limits of one's system): The threads limit simply limits the number of threads that can be active at one time. If the number of files exceeds the threads limit, one set of threads is created and run, then the main() function joins with them. Subsequently, a second set is created, main() joins with them, etc.
The number of active threads permitted by the system is likely to be large enough for most purposes. However, conveps calls system(), so it also creates heavy-weight processes (by means of fork()). It is quite possible that fork() could fail, because conveps has created too many processes. A threads limit value of 100 or less will probably solve this problem, too.
A frame in a color different from the background color is required in order to use mogrify --crop 0x0. However, this frame can be removed by using the --fill and --opaque options. In order to get rid of it without spoiling the rest of the image, the frame must be in a color not otherwise used in it, because these options will replace all pixels having the --opaque color.
The predefined color names in ImageMagick refer to different colors than the same names in dvips. It is therefore best to use explicit values for the arguments to the --opaque and --transparent options. For example: conveps --fill white --opaque rgb(255,0,0) 3DLDFmp 0 1 will create 3DLDFmp_0.pnm and 3DLDFmp_1.pnm from 3DLDFmp.0 and 3DLDFmp.1, replacing the red pixels with white ones. This will get rid of the frame, if the frame was drawn in red in GNU 3DLDF or MetaPost. The --fill option can use ImageMagick's names, because this is the new color that will appear in the converted and/or mogrified image or images.
I believe that it would be possible to draw to the edge of the image, i.e., to draw over the frame. However, this would require some extra care. It will be necessary to add a path corresponding to the outer edge of the frame and clip the picture to this path. I've added code to GNU 3DLDF for clipping pictures to paths, namely the clip_to command.
The basic idea behind the scrolling text examples is to make a picture containing the text, output it, and use a path as a mask to clip it. (picture and path are data types in GNU 3DLDF and MetaPost, which they are formatted in bold). Then I use a loop to shift the text picture slightly with each iteration.
The path must be closed, but needn't be rectangular. Nor does it have to be drawn or filled in order to be used for clipping.
The path used for clipping can be the outer frame, which is needed for aligning the images and ensuring that they're all the same size. This is the case in the example of vertically scrolling titles ( Scrolling Closing Titles 2 ). However, it can also be some other path, as in the example of the horizontally scrolling text in Speech Balloon Test 1 .
I thought it would be possible to shift the paths representing the frame or frames rather than the text picture, but this causes the images to go out of alignment. You can see this in Speech Balloon Test 1 . I've uploaded a corrected version to my website ( Speech Balloon Test 0 , at http://wwwuser.gwdg.de/~lfinsto1).
Since the text effects, the frame, and the path used for clipping are all two-dimensional, it would have been possible to use MetaPost for the examples I've made so far. There are a few differences between MP and 3DLDF that would have to be accounted for. For example, pictures are not output in MP and the syntax of the label command (used for including the text) is slightly different.
It would, however, be possible to combine scrolling text with 3D constructions, animated or still, moving along with the text or remaining in one place behind or in front of it. I may try to make examples of this, if I get the chance.
TeX is designed for texts that are divided neatly into lines and pages, and not for really long, unbroken ones. It is therefore possible that using such texts will exceed some memory limit or other in 3DLDF, MetaPost, and/or TeX. In the examples I've done so far, the entire text has been in a single block, a vbox , or vertical box, in Scrolling Closing Titles 2 and an hbox , or horizontal box, in Speech Balloon Test 0 .
A better way of doing this would be to divide the text into several vboxes and/or hboxes and only output the ones that are wholly or partially within the clipping path. However, in order to ensure that the texts appear and disappear at the right times, and that there is always the correct distance between them, it must be possible to determine their size.
MetaPost provides a way of measuring TeX text and this is documented in the manual. I have now added a way of doing the same thing in 3DLDF. This code:
numeric_vector nv; nv := measure_text ABCQabcq ; show nv;
produces the following output:
size: 3 (0) : 1.762184 (1) : 0.244069 (2) : 0.068339
The text ABCQabcq is put into an hbox and measured. Boxes in TeX have width, height, and depth. \hbox{ABCQabcq} has width 1.762184cm, height 0.244069cm, and depth 0.068339cm.
The measurements of the text boxes can be used in the loop controlling the motion of the text picture to include or exclude text boxes according to their positions with respect to the clipping path. I haven't had a chance to try this out yet, though.
Part 6 Sep 04, 2005
The MPEG movie MND Titles 0 doesn't contain any rotations or translations (shifting), but it is a realistic example that I plan to actually use, rather than just a test. I also did discover a couple of things while working on it.
It is possible to write in white on a black background using TeX (and MetaPost and 3DLDF), but I used the -negate argument to mogrify instead. I added a --negate argument to conveps in order to make this possible. I've also added one or two other options, and documented the options at the beginning of conveps.web.
When making the empty (black) image, --negate seemed not to work, unless I made some other mistake. I also had a problem with cropping, which I think may have to do with the way ImageMagick determines the background color. I use crop 0x0 to remove the part of the image in the background color outside of the frame. In an earlier version, the program measured the image and used explicit values to remove the unwanted edges. However, I could only measure in dimemsions of printer's points, and I determined that converting these to pixels was unreliable. I believe the problem is connected with the relationship between image size and resolution, but I haven't had time to look into this.
The order in which options are passed to mogrify and convert also affects the results. I had to make some adjustments, and it may be that I'll have to do so again.
At any rate, I was ultimately able to crop the image, and it did work to negate the pixels in the empty image with an additional, explicit call to mogrify (i.e., not via conveps).
This time, I built the movie up gradually by creating GOPs (GOP == Group of Pictures) and then calling ppmtompeg with the --combine-gops option. This allows more flexibility, because you can save the GOPs, rearrange them, insert new ones, etc., and then regenerate the movie. For example, if you make a GOP with 30 frames of the same image, and you decide you want to show it for two seconds instead of one, all you have to do is copy the GOP and call ppgmtompeg --combine-gops ... again. This is much faster than regenerating the whole movie. The GOPs are compact enough to save.
I did have a couple of problems with the entries in the parameter file (required by ppmtompeg) used for combining the GOPs. It didn't work to specify a different input directory or to list the names of the GOPs. However, I haven't yet read very far into the documentation for ppmtompeg or the MPEG format, so I may yet figure this out.


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Danijela Majstorović: It is not true that we will always be hostages of one ideology, it is possible to think again and give birth to new policies
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It is not always that we will be hostages of one ideology, that we will be useful idiots who will work for the system, it is possible to think something new and give birth to a new political one.
Retrieved from: BUKA Milica Plavšić / February 12, 2021
In recent days, we have had the opportunity to hear and see many examples of hate speech in public discourse in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but also in the region. In another radio show of Buka magazine on the topic of hate speech, we talk to prof. Danijela Majstorović, full professor at the Faculty of Philology, University of Banja Luka. In her work, Professor Majstorović, among other things, deals with the connection between language and society, politics and ideologies, so we talk about how we can fight against hate speech and change public discourse. What would be alternatives to hate speech? Is it a speech of solidarity, love, empathy? Is it possible to change society by changing discourse?
– 10 years ago I wrote a text for Mediacenter about alternatives to hate speech. At that time, I was 10 years younger and more idealistic in terms of how the public sphere can be changed through education, through the proliferation of different content, critically oriented authors. Those were still my beliefs, but despite the occasional great articles, the democratic public sphere we once dreamed of didn't happen … so it doesn't matter, we don't all have to agree, but let's leave room for learning, discussion , controversy. Now, 26 years after the war, we only have one general peripheralization as a constant. It is also the topic of my book Peripheral Self, that feeling of abandonment, the feeling of failed opportunities, spent money, colonization and peripheralization, both from within our society, because in a society that does not sanction such ventures, awakening cannot happen. I used to think it was possible, that it would happen for someone in my young life, and today I'm not sure if it will happen in the lives of our children.
There have been attempts to change things in our society in recent years. Recalling all the protests and movements that have taken place since 2012, Majstorovic says it is difficult to change hate speech without changing political and economic practices, such as violence and privatization, which are deeply ingrained in the post-war societies of the former Yugoslavia. One of the key levers in that is the judiciary, she believes, analyzing the latest moves of the new mayor of Banja Luka in the fight against corruption, hoping that these are not just cosmetic changes.
– People who at one point were thinking whether to occupy public space, whether to fight for something, open a small business, try to survive in BiH, whether to open opportunities for themselves, some of them went to the squares, fought at the 2012. protests, 2013. Bebolucija, Picin Park, protests, plenums, Justice for David, Justice for Dženan … We are finally beginning to see that one of the key pillars of the problem in our country is the judicial system, police brutality and police work. Here, today we saw that the current mayor has filed criminal charges. Whether these are the beginnings of some changes, I don't know, but it's certainly not that cosmetic change of discourse that we thought 'yeah, let's sanction, fix that hate speech, abolish it, abolish it, start writing in space some speech of love '… We see political-economic practices that last, that sediment. It was not the peripheral bodies and peripheral selves that fell to us from Mars, we were made that way, going through different regimes, struggles, sufferings, and finally departure and migration.
The language we use on the one hand reflects our social reality and social relations, and on the other hand shapes them. However, in order for things in society to change, it is not enough to change the discourse alone, Majstorović believes.
– Structural violence is largely responsible for the non-sanctioning and release of hate speech, so that we can no longer fix it today. It's irreparable, we can't just say 'ah, now we're going to be cultural, nice, no, we have to change society from the ground up to fix society and to change the attitude towards hate speech.
Speaking about power relations in society, Majstorović explains how the existing social order is maintained through public discourse and hate speech. Those in a position of power, namely the owners of capital, use hate speech to maintain the status quo in society, that is, to maintain their privileged position.
– This is one of the views on things where the interest of capital will always flow and find its way, in our country it is ethno-national capital in BiH. A striking example is the case of two films 'Quo vadus, Aida' and 'Dara iz Jasenovca'.. These are all universal stories, however, when you look at the members of another nation that committed crimes based on some historical facts, that nation is criminal … In fact, we have not yet reached a situation where Dara can be seen in Croatia, such as "Dnevnik Dijana Budisavljević", affirmatively, to make it a part of school practice, as 'Quo vadis, Aida' will always be considered anti-Serbian propaganda in Republic of Srpska. This is clear to us as day and accordingly, we can say, each ethnicity will continue to produce those contents that correspond to the relations in the base, under different disguises. We can then rightly ask ourselves whether it will be possible to produce a film in one of such societies, which is what Dežulović did with Poems from Lora. Is it possible for a Serb man or woman to make a film that critically observes Serbs, or for a Croat to make a film that critically observes Croats, and Bosnjak critically observes a Bosnjak …?
However, our interlocutor believes that there is hope and that, faced with events that touch the human in us, the ruling nationalist ideologies are losing their primacy, leaving room for the establishment of new social relations and, possibly, new policies.
When we talk about the ruling nationalist ideologies, I am somehow afraid of the overly deterministic in them, that we are always inevitably hostages to some ideology from which we cannot pull ourselves out. I believe that this is only partially true, that is, I am more inclined to believe that it is sometimes completely incorrect. The ruling nationalist ideologies in the past 20-30 years have established new social relations and policies, which we still live in today, based on the effective legitimacy of the past war. Everything that politicians use today to affirm their story draws legitimacy from the past war. However, today we see some different effects of today's social movements, such as Justice for David or the regional version of the Me too movement, which happened after actress Milena Radulović reported longtime well-known and recognized acting teacher, Miko Aleksić, whom we learned that is a rapist. These two recent movements are building one political moment with a turn to left and feminist politics, precisely from the grassroots level, even in environments where we thought it was impossible. For example, it is easy to say that Banja Luka is a city dominated by some kind of nationalist hatred, with which I strongly disagree, of course, with all the criticism of certain practices in our city, we have also witnessed an affective coup, adjustment, where citizens shared their truths through messages circulating, both in the Square and on the Facebook group Justice for David, which pointed to the early 1990s, which were never publicly addressed, nor were they addressed in a public space in Banja Luka. So it is not always that we will be hostages of one ideology, that we will blindly listen to what someone tells us and be useful idiots who will work for the system, we will not. I think that precisely these effects create a kind of interruption, a rupture, from where it is possible to think something new and give birth to a new political one.
Hate speech directed at a particular group speaks to their status in society and contributes to maintaining it. One of the most current examples is certainly the attitude towards migrants or people on the move. We ask Professor Majstorović if we can bring hate speech towards this population into a cause-and-effect relationship with the inhumane conditions in which they live, with the brutal migration policy, with the violation of their human rights, not only in our country but also globally, with frequent cases. police violence against these people…? Has the dehumanization of these people through hate speech partly led to a lack of empathy and solidarity among the majority population? At the same time, not only thinking about the hate speech directed by individuals, but also about the systematic placement of negative discourse about this population. How important is the name we give to a group? Does it matter if we say that someone is a refugee, migrant or person on the move? Are these real questions at all?
– I do not suffer from whether we will call these people migrants, people on the move, we will not change anything. We can also ask the question of whose responsibility they are. Are they the responsibility of Bosnia and Herzegovina or some other richer countries that give a lot of money? 44 million by 2018 has been given to the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina, for camps, securitization, humanitarianism … Some money has flowed from the European Union, however, we can also rightly ask ourselves whether BiH has been assigned a role a country of double transit, into which people enter and exit, and white people enter, non-white people enter, there we have on our peripheral border country the question of racism is broken and the question of labor is broken, that is, that new labor force. The day these non-white people respond to the European market as labor, Europe will let them go. Until then, they remain where they are and in my opinion the key question is not whether we are merhametli, whether we will help, so, of course, people in Bihac have been helping for four years, but we as BiH citizens cannot take care of migrants privately, nor can we that's what we need to do. These are questions not whether we are compassionate or empathetic, it is wrong to blame the issue of migration on ordinary citizens. In my opinion, the essential question is again the question of power relations, who gives money for this, to whom it suits, why BiH got so much money for the police, why the Croatian police and pushbacks … now they are horrified in the European Parliament when they see what they did to them how they were beaten .. Why don't these stories reach public discourse? These are the real questions, and don't we have compassion. Of course the media reports horribly, the media cannot see what they have not learned to see. But that is the essential problem with us, not that we don't have a public dialogue, we don't even have a public discussion about anything at all, we immediately just grab each other by the neck, who is on whose side.
– The question of what will be the role of BiH, whether they will be different are metaphors, garbage dump, reservoir, country of double transit, a kind of waiting room, where it happens that some non-white people come and white people leave, who are adaptable. our people in Germany and Austria are seen as ideal migrants, good workers, they are white, they are adaptable, their children are already integrated and they become little Germans and Austrians. It is that ideal subject that is coming, so, here, I have tried in my book to deal with the emergence of this new political subject, however, I am afraid that this subject does not exist and I am afraid that we are witnessing some kind of turmoil. The issue of nationalism, Bosnia was a mine, it was strong scientists who came to investigate some kind of nationalism, I don't think it's a question at all anymore, the question is how human capital will be redone, what will happen when the vast majority of people leave and when some other people come in who at one point say 'well, wait, I'm not going to be in that mall anymore for five years, I want to work, I want to live, I want my kid to go to school'. In my opinion, that is the question of how BiH will again become a kind of border, a border, where the European periphery and the European center will be redesigned.
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Purdue University researchers testing 3D-printed concrete in offshore wind applications
The wind off the U.S. coasts could be used to generate more than double the combined electricity capacity of all the nation's electric power plants, reports have suggested. But building wind turbines offshore is expensive, requiring parts to be transported at least 30 miles off land.
Purdue University engineers are conducting research on a way to make these parts out of 3D-printed concrete, a less expensive material that would also allow parts to float to a site from an onshore plant.
"One of the current materials used to manufacture anchors for floating wind turbines is steel," said Pablo Zavattieri, a professor in Purdue's Lyles School of Civil Engineering. "However, finished steel structures are much more expensive than concrete."
Conventional concrete manufacturing methods also require a mold to shape the concrete into the desired structure, which adds to costs and limits design possibilities. Using 3D-printing would eliminate the expenses of this mold.
The university researchers are working in collaboration with RCAM Technologies, a startup founded to develop concrete additive manufacturing for onshore and offshore wind energy technology.
"Purdue's world-class capabilities and facilities will help us develop these products for offshore products for the U.S. Great Lakes, coastal and international markets," said Jason Cotrell, CEO of RCAM Technologies. "Our industry also needs universities such as Purdue to provide the top-quality university students for our workforce needs for these cutting-edge technologies."
The work also is funded by the National Science Foundation INTERN program. The team is developing a method that would involve integrating a robot arm with a concrete pump to fabricate wind turbine substructures and anchors.
The group's current research involves scaling up their 3D printing by using a mixture of cement, sand, aggregates and chemical admixtures to control shape stability when concrete is still in a fresh state.
"Offshore wind power is a nearly perfect platform for testing 3D printing," said Jeffrey Youngblood, a Purdue professor of materials engineering.
The goal is to understand the feasibility and structural behavior of 3D-printed concrete produced on a larger scale than what the team has previously studied in the lab. The researchers will determine how gravity affects the durability of the larger-scale 3D-printed structure.
"The idea we have for this project is to scale up some of the bioinspired design concepts we have proven on a smaller scale with the 3D printing of cement paste and to examine them on a larger scale," said Mohamadreza "Reza" Moini, a Ph.D. candidate in civil engineering at Purdue.
"Printing geometric patterns within the structure and being able to arrange the filaments through or playing around with distribution of the steel are both possibilities we have considered for optimizing and reinforcing the structures," said Jan Olek, Purdue's James H. and Carol H. Cure Professor of Civil Engineering.
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Take a second to pause in your planar reality, and step with me into the prism that is Panda Bear. If we could go back to 1967 and bottle the moments the magic paper stoked Lennon's madness to utterances such as "I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together," those moments...
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MPMF.14 Schedule Released
MidPoint Music Festival has released their full performance schedule for the festival that takes place in downtown Cincinnati, September 25-27, 2014. MidPoint has always been the place to discover new indie music on our own turf, and we are more excited for this year than ever! The festival...
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MPMF Adds OK Go + More!
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Hey guys, I am still in the land of the living. I just had to take a break. If you've been following this blog for a while, you know I'm prone to go MIA from late Nov through Christmas. I really go off the grid! Why? Here's the deal: Thanksgiving: last Thursday of November Our … Continue reading I'm Still Alive Y'all!
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Our Mission is to promote gender equality and support the education of girls to create a more just and equitable society.
Now we fund the higher education (undergraduate college) of motivated and hard working girls whose families lack the resources to support them. MDIP collects the money through crowd-funding, our ambassadors, and fundraisers and sends it directly to the girls' schools/colleges through our partner, an NGO Shikshadaan, based out of Gurgaon. We keep the donors updated on the girls' progress on our Facebook page through videos and exam results so that they know how their money is being put to use.
With the help of our partner Growing Leadership of Women (GLOW), we pair each student with a mentor. The mentors are educated women who volunteer their time to be a resource for our MDIP daughters and guide them in both professional and personal matters. Our mentors also host life skill sessions on topics such as Communication or Goal Setting to help our MDIP daughters prepare themselves for life after college.
More about the program can be found at this link.
Our 2019-2020 Mentor-Mentee Cohort
We visit lower socioeconomic areas in various cities, interact with families and speak to them about gender equality and importance of educating girls. We take their photographs and write their stories. Posting these on our Facebook page creates awareness for the cause and enables crowd funding. The polaroids act as a reminder to cherish and value their daughters.
In 2016, we partnered with BitGiving ( a crowdfunding platform) and Nanhi Kali ( a n NGO that supports girls education) to raise more than INR 3.0 lakhs through a crowd-funding campaign which helped send 108 girls to primary school for a year.


STATUS: Consultation complete and final design underway. Construction due to start in April 2019 for completion in February 2020. Lawson Street in Redfern is set to undergo a streetscape upgrade to improve passage for people walking and riding bikes, as well as amenity for local residents.
A new cycleway will be built on the northern side from Eveleigh Street to Regent Street to provide a connection for people to ride safely between Newtown and the City.
The upgrade will create more space for people walking, while balancing the needs of local residents, parking and the general appeal of the street.
The work will include crossing points for people walking and riding bikes at intersections.


When I arrived on the Sylmar High campus I made my way towards the administrative office I noticed students hard at work. Today was the day that the PSAT was administered to high school students across the United States. There was a collective hush on campus that indicated students, as well as teachers, were in test mode. However, the career counselor was cheery and happy to talk with me about Scout.
I jumped over to Arleta High afterwards where students were also working hard on their PSATs. Luckily, one counselor had a little bit of time to talk with me about Scout. She was excited at the prospect of partnering with us!
The last school I dropped by in this part of Los Angeles County was Francis Polytechnic Senior High. As I walked to the Career Center with someone from the administration office she explained to me that this high school was one of the largest in Los Angeles County. Pathway after pathway was filled with students and after walking for 10 minutes I understood what she was talking about. The picture above was one of the pillars we passed by on the way to the Career Center. With a large student population we hope that our courses will help students on their path to college so their new beginning after high school will be filled with opportunity!


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The Institute also contributes to teaching in UJ's humanities faculty.
Its courses are well integrated into the University's intellectual life, and
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Since 2018, IPATC has taught 2 courses on "Pan African Thought", and
"Conflict Resolution in Africa" to African Honours students.
Pan-African Thought
Conflict Resolution Course
Institute for Global African Affairs (IGAA)
This course represents a concrete effort to contribute substantively to the University of Johannesburg's (UJ) efforts to decolonise the academic curriculum, and to ensure that the epistemology of the university's syllabi reflects its African context.
Pan-Africanism can be defined as the efforts to promote the political, socio-economic, and cultural unity and self-reliance of Africa and its Diaspora. The subject of Pan-African political thought is one that has historically been under-researched.
One of the first attempts to synthesise these ideas into a single volume was Guy Martin's African Political Thought, which was published only as recently as 2012. This course is thus particularly timely in ensuring that Pan-African knowledge production is part of, and influences, mainstream global thinking.
The course provides a historical overview of Pan-Africanism focusing on its political, economic, and cultural aspects before unpacking the political, economic, and philosophical dimensions of contemporary Pan-Africanism.
The perspectives of Pan-African theorists and practitioners are highlighted in this course including such figures as Edward Wilmot Blyden, Henry Sylvester-Williams, W.E.B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, Amy Ashwood Garvey, Frantz Fanon, Kwame Nkrumah, Julius Nyerere, Cheikh Anta Diop, Walter Rodney, Steve Biko, Ruth First, Angela Davis, Mariama Bâ, Valentin Y. Mudimbe, Ali A. Mazrui, Samir Amin, Maya Angelou, and Thabo Mbeki.
Conflict Resolution in Africa
Welcome to the module on "Conflict Resolution in Africa"(POL8X06) taught by the Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation (IPATC) at the University of Johannesburg. This module employs an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of conflict resolution in Africa, focusing particularly on the continent's historical, political, and economic dimensions. The focus of the course is on Africa's evolving security architecture centred on the African Union (AU) and regional bodies such as the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
Of particular relevance is the critical understanding of the roles of key hegemons in managing Africa's conflicts – particularly South Africa, Nigeria, the United States (US), and France. The module also assesses UN peacekeeping and peacebuilding efforts in Africa, including case studies from the Suez crisis of 1956 to the current conflicts in the two Sudans.
The module then conceptualises the link between security and development and analyses the security-migration-development nexus in Sudan. It also examines South Africa's peace diplomacy and development agenda, as well as the multifaceted responses to security challenges in Africa. The course finally critically analyses issues beyond Africa's state-centric security architecture.
Critical challenges of gender and conflict are examined, exploring the role of women in conflict and their representation in decision-making efforts in peacebuilding issues in Africa; as well as the role of Africa's broader civil society in conflict management, HIV/AIDS, climate change, poverty reduction, and governance.
July - November 2021
1. Pan-African Thought
Pan-African Thought and Leadership Course
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1. Conflict Resolution (POL8X06)
Welcome to the module on "Conflict Resolution in Africa" (POL8X06) taught by the Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation (IPATC) at the University of Johannesburg. This module employs an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of conflict resolution in Africa, focusing particularly on the continent's historical, political, and economic dimensions. The focus of the course is on […]
2. Launch of the University of the West Indies (UWI) and the University of Johannesburg (UJ) Institute for Global African Affairs
1. Global Africa in the Post-Apartheid Era


It may have taken Jay-Z a couple of years to make it big after his dropped his debut album Reasonable Doubt, but it looks like his daughter is hitting the charts early. Blue Ivy Carter, Hova and Beyonce's newborn daughter, is now the youngest person to be credited on a Billboard chart entry.
According to Billboard, Jay-Z's recent song "Glory," which featured a recordIng of his daughter Blue Ivy's first moments after birth, entered the Billboard Hip Hop/R&B charts at No. 74 this weekend. As a result, the daughter of the Roc Nation impresario, who is credited as B.I.C. on the song, became the youngest person to ever be featured on the Billboard charts only 48 hours after her birth.
The song's release marked a new achievement for newfound dad Jay-Z as well. "Glory" became Hov's 107th entry on the Billboard charts and debuted as the highest new entry on the R&B/Hip-Hop Songs list with 1.7 million listeners.


There's no doubt about it, Gwinnett County has seen unprecedented growth in recent years. This newfound popularity and influx of people is happening all around the metropolitan region, and Snellville is no exception. Regardless of how this growth affects our community, our team at Scholle Law will be there to service the Snellville region. In-fact, we've been a part of the community for a number of years. We take great pride in providing our neighbors with legal advice and representation.
For Snellville residents old and new, Scholle Law is the name to know when in-need of legal help. From car accidents to workplace injuries, our personal injury attorneys have your back when you need it most.
It's easy to think it'll never happen to you, but the truth is that traffic-related mishaps are in the rise in Georgia. According to a 2016 National Safety Council report, traffic fatalities in the state increased 34% between 2014 and 2016. State officials cite the usual causes for this abnormal trend: high speeds, intoxication, and distracted driving.
It's fair to say that we meet most of our clients immediately following one of these auto accidents. Sometimes the incidents are severe and traumatic, while other times they only result in minor injuries. Regardless, it's important to contact our offices in the event of a collision with another vehicle.
Traffic accidents can cause serious injuries, missed time from work, substantial property damage, or prolonged mental anguish, especially when the incident involves high-speeds or large commercial vehicles. If you're involved in a car accident through no-fault of your own, consulting an attorney is undoubtedly in your best interest. An experienced personal injury lawyer will take these factors into consideration and argue for a fair settlement on your behalf.
The American Trucking Association likes to state, "without trucks, America stops." Truthfully however, commercial trucks pose a huge risk on Georgia roadways, and this risk is only becoming greater as Snellville grows in size. As our region increases in popularity, so does local industry and commerce. We're already beginning to see more freight and commercial traffic come through Snellville, and we believe these traffic levels will only continue to rise.
Collisions with commercial trucks can result in serious injuries, catastrophic property damage, and sometimes death. Despite the precautions and regulations aimed to minimize trucking-related injuries, collisions with these massive freight vehicles are still on the rise. These dangers are only heightened when the drivers that control these large machines are not fully alert behind the wheel.
Truck driver fatigue is an issue of growing concern on roadways across the country. In-fact, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) recently passed regulations aimed to combat truck driver fatigue by limiting the number of daily hours a driver is allowed to operate their machine, capping the number of service hours per week, and enforcing mandatory breaks with shorter driving intervals. Unfortunately, some commercial freight companies implement systems that promote the explicit violation of these regulations, such as incentivizing speedy deliveries.
If you've been in an accident involving in a negligent truck driver, it is important to understand your legal rights. Appropriately, if a claim were to be filed, the freight company is usually one of the primarily liable parties. Proving negligence in these cases is no easy feat, which is why victims should turn to an experienced legal professional for help.
For folks in Snellville and the surrounding areas, there's some confusion surrounding medical malpractice claims. In a medical malpractice suit, a claimant entrusts their well-being and livelihood with a medical professional—perhaps their primary care doctor, nurse, or surgeon—and the medical professional's negligence results in catastrophe.
So what are some examples of medical malpractice? According to a recent study, the majority of malpractice claims made against physicians were related to misdiagnoses. Errors in medication prescription were the second most common cause of malpractice cases, accounting for 5.6% to 20% of all filed claims.
Obviously, healthcare professionals are not expected to be mistake-free for the entirety of their professional career. However, legal action should be taken when they knowingly deviate from the standard protocol. For instance, with the extensive use of electronic medical records and documented patient histories, there should be little reason that prescriptions are incorrect. When a patient has a fatal allergic reaction to a wrongly-prescribed medication, someone in the hospital must be held accountable.
If you feel you or a loved one may have been involved in a malpractice situation, contact our office today. You shouldn't bear the financial and emotional burden of a medical provider's negligence.
Premises liability—also called a slip-and-fall—is a type of personal injury claim that an individual may pursue if they slip, trip, or fall on the premises of another and, as a result, suffer an injury. Slip and falls can occur virtually anywhere, and may lead to significant injuries, especially for older individuals. For example, torn carpeting, slick steps, inadequate lighting, cracked walkways, and slippery floors are all common conditions that may lead to an individual falling as a consequence of a property owner's inattention. Over the years, we've helped Snellville residents pursue compensation in all kinds of premises liability cases.
However, proving your fall is directly caused by another's negligence is surprisingly difficult, thus it's wise to speak to an experienced personal injury attorney. A quality attorney can discern whether your accident may constitute a strong and legitimate legal claim.


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Boris Johnson and Ursula von der Leyen to hold Brexit call
Published: 11:09 AM December 23, 2020 Updated: 11:17 AM December 23, 2020
UK prime minister Boris Johnson and Ursula von der Leyen from the European Commission - Credit: PA
A top-level Brexit call between prime minister Boris Johnson and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen will be held before the end of Christmas Eve.
An EU source has confirmed to Reuters that the pair will hold a call on Wednesday or Thursday to discuss the potential for a trade deal.
The two spoke on Monday as they tried to bridge the gaps on fishing quotas and the level-playing field before it was reported Downing Street had offered a compromise.
It is hoped a deal can be achieved before Christmas to allow MPs to ratify the agreement before the end of the transition period.
On Tuesday, the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier said he was preparing the "final push" for a deal and claimed talks were at a "crucial moment".