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The Alt Weekly Roundup (8/2)
Posted: 2nd August, 2021 by The Editor
The Alternative Weekly Roundup is a column where our staff plugs a variety of new releases in a concise, streamlined format. Albums, singles, videos, and live sets. Check back each Monday to see what we were jamming the week prior.
Snow Ellet – "Wine on the Carpet"
Snow Ellet announced this week that the Suburban Indie Rock Star EP, one of our favorite releases of the year so far, will get a digital re-release with two new songs on August 13. "Wine on the Carpet" is the first of those two new songs, maintaining the band's hot streak for stellar pop-rock tunes that yearn for the sound of early-aughts emo. One of the lower-key songs to come out of the project so far, "Wine on the Carpet" is remarkable for the way it authentically earns its ending in under 2 minutes' time, Reyes remarking in wonder "this is the perfect year to be a better me" at the song's climax.
wine on the carpet by snow ellet
Jordan Walsh | @jordalsh
It will forever be a mystery how Australian indie pop duo Carb on Carb never took over the scene. But if ever a song could change that, it'd be "Be My Mirror." A sterling powerpop song with enough grit to keep their cred, "Be My Mirror" is an absolute earworm.
Be My Mirror by Carb On Carb
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Hate Club's "Portland" is a grungy slow burner, with the first minute featuring a lone guitar and Audrey Goodmote's vocals before the rest of the band kicks in for the chorus as she sings, "I still count the time by you / and I wonder if you do that too." The song blossoms into an undeniable rocker, closing out with an intense coda beneath the repeated line "you deserve to forget about me."
Something about Gustaf's new song "Book" makes them sound like a hyped New York rock band from the late 2000s — I'm not sure if it's the fuzzy '70s production sound, the deep and slinky post-punk bass, or the general swagger and charisma of the whole ordeal. Regardless, "Book" is surprisingly fresh, the group vocals and the back and forth chanting all packing a vibrant, fun experience into a usually dusty aesthetic. Their debut full-length Audio Drag For Ego Slobs is out October 1.
Audio Drag For Ego Slobs (Pre-Order) by Gustaf
Within the first few seconds of Sad Park's video for "Nothing Ever", I knew they were going to be very much my jam. A song about anxiety stealing your joy backed by chugging guitars and bass? The drummer wearing a Worry hoodie? Catchy L.A. pop punk with a twist that would be at home on a Prince Daddy tour? I am 100% in.
Jami Fowler | @audiocurio
Bands like Sparing are rare these days. Their style of pop-punk/melodic hardcore seems completely dead in 2021, which is a shame, because they do it really well. The spirit is clearly alive and well on Old Dreams, which boasts roofs and hooks that'd make The Movielife proud.
It's 2021. Why are we still being shamed for liking pop music? That's kinda the theme for BAXTR new single, "In Pop We Trust." A group that's never shied away from being unbridledly spunky within the pop-sphere, the trio only amplified this sound with this party anthem full of distorted guitars, vocals akin to pop soda fizz, and colorful gang chants. Mixing in the music video, the single is unapologetically pink, electric, and catchy as hell — nailing every foundation for a great pop track. I've yet to hear a bad BAXTR song, and I have a feeling I never will.
Hope Ankney | @hope_ankleknee
The Sound as Language label has been quietly dropping a stream of incredible records all year, many of them ambient, experimental, or electronic. Unweather's soundtrack to Methuselah (out August 7), which is described as "an interactive digital narrative by artist and experience designer Elle Bulger," is their latest and one of my favorites so far, a gorgeous mixture of video game sounds and orchestral world-building. "Questions for the Ancient One," which came out this week, is a tense, pulsing track that at times reminds me of something like 22, A Million if it were smoothed out and stretched thin to emphasize the lurking, creeping empty space around the edges.
Methuselah OST by Unweather
"anyone seen my serotonin?" — the first single from the forthcoming diet weed EP — is a brutal onslaught of raw, frantic folk punk. Tommie Summerville's vocals sound as if they are wrenched from the absolute depths of their psyche as they belt out lines like "I'll go out on top in a blaze of glory / with a gun in my hand and a bottle of whiskey" and "waking up at 5 to make a living / I die inside every time I hear my alarm." It's a fun two and half minutes.
anyone seen my serotonin? by diet weed
Young Culture's new Godspeed EP wastes no time. It's all straight-ahead earworm pop rock that hovers around 3 minutes; it gets in, it gets you hooked, it gets out. It's one of the band's best skills, and it absolutely leaves you wanting more.
The Alternative's 'New Music Friday' playlist
Each week our editor Lindsy Carrasquillo compiles a playlist of songs our staff has been jamming. We'll post it on Fridays on Twitter and then include it in each edition of the 'Weekly Roundup' to make sure you don't miss all of the great music we're recommending.


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Glavin: Ireland's gay-marriage referendum: The long slog of emancipation
No country has ever put the issue of gay marriage to a national referendum. This is a first.
In this Thursday, April 23, 2015 photo, a gay rights mural decorates the side of a building in central Dublin, Ireland. Barely a generation ago, Ireland listed homosexual acts as a crime and made gays lead secret lives or emigrate to more liberal lands. But on Friday, May 22, 2015, in the world's first national referendum on the matter, the Irish could vote to legalize same-sex marriage.	Shawn Pogatchnik / AP
"In this my native land – in the land of my sires – I am degraded without fault or crime, as an alien and an outcast. We do not, my lord, deserve this treatment. We are stamped by the Creator with no inferiority; and man is guilty of injustice when he deprives us of our just station in society."
Those words could have come from a troop-rallying speech to get out the Yes vote for Friday's gay-marriage referendum in the Irish Republic – the historic plebiscite that has been offhandedly characterized as a sort of do-or-die battle between the Catholic Ireland of old and the new, liberal and European Ireland. But those words were spoken by the Liberator, Daniel O'Connell, the great Irish champion of Catholic Emancipation, in July, 1812.
It would take until 1829 for the British House of Commons to enact O'Connell's Roman Catholic Relief Act. It would take another century to overturn a corpus of English law that had debased and disenfranchised the overwhelmingly Catholic Irish since 1607: no Catholic could attend Trinity College in Dublin, or serve as a barrister, a judge or a teacher, or stand for election to public office, or vote, or own a horse worth more than £5. Intermarriage between Catholics and Protestants was banned. No Catholic could adopt an orphan.
Until the Irish government decriminalized homosexuality in 1993, Ireland's gays and lesbians were still carrying the discriminatory burdens that came with the continued application of the British Offences Against the Person Act of 1861. It's taking quite a while for the Irish to get out from under the Vatican's old yoke, too, and it is not a simple story of Irish Catholics having carried too much old-timey obscurantism with them into the 21st century.
It's mainly because Éamon de Valera, the last president of the 1922 Irish Free State, granted the Vatican a kind of veto power over the provisions of the 1937 constitution that secured full republican independence. It was De Valera's wish that Ulster's six counties would one day rejoin the 26-county republic, but that no matter what happened Ireland would remain not just Catholic, but drearily devout and obedient to Rome. That's what the Vatican wanted, too.
What Irish citizens are being asked on Friday is whether they will consent to the addition of the following sentence to the Irish constitution's Article 41: "Marriage may be contracted in accordance with law by two persons without distinction as to their sex." All of Ireland's main political parties are backing the Yes side. Ireland's turf accountants – the country's oddsmakers and bookies – are calling a win, so long as the Yes supporters roust themselves to actually take the trouble to cast their ballots.
It has been a long slog.
Over the objections of the Catholic hierarchy, Ireland's ban on contraception was repealed in 1980, but the Vatican's campaigning played a key role in establishing a constitutional ban on abortion in 1983. It took two constitutional amendments in 1992 to ease the abortion ban, if only slightly. It took a national referendum and a constitutional amendment in 1995 just to repeal Ireland's ban on divorce. A limited right to abortion was established by statute in 2013, and only four months ago another attempt was made to widen the right.
In these ways the arguments have carried on. It's not as though Friday's marriage-equality referendum is a matter of the Irish suddenly waking up from centuries of Popish slumber. No country has ever put the issue of gay marriage to a national referendum. This is a first.
It was only last February that same-sex marriage was legalized in Scotland, and a month later in England and Wales. In Northern Ireland, it's hardline Protestants who have been most vocal in their opposition, and the provincial assembly has voted several times against same-sex marriage, most recently on April 27.
In the Irish republic, the Catholic clergy has rabble-roused a bit, but most of the opposition is coming from activist groups within the Catholic laity. The No vote has raised some good points, too. Limerick's Bishop Brendan Leahy, for instance, insists that the Yes campaign hasn't taken Ireland's school system into account. The Catholic Church runs almost all of Ireland's primary schools, and church leaders have made it clear they don't want their near-monopoly anymore. "What will we be expected to teach children in school about marriage?" Bishop Leahy wants to know.
But there are outspoken Yes supporters even among the Catholic clergy. The roughly 1,000 members of the Association of Catholic Priests is split equally on the referendum question, says Association organizer Fr. Brendan Hoban. Writing in the Irish Times on Monday, Fr Gerard Moloney, editor of the Redemptorist order's magazine Reality, said he'll be voting Yes on Friday, because the church should mind its own business: "While I see it as a sacrament, I believe it's up to the citizens of the State to decide how they define marriage and who can enter into it."
While Canadians like to boast about being out in front on the issue of equality in matters of sexual orientation, Liberal Prime Minister Paul Martin's 2005 gay marriage law was adopted only after the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that gays and lesbians are entitled to the same common-law rights and benefits as heterosexual couples. Only six years earlier, in 1999, the Liberals backed a Reform Party motion opposing same-sex marriage.
After he formed his first government in 2006, Prime Minister Stephen Harper went ahead with a promised free vote on gay marriage, and when the vote was defeated Harper declared the issue dead. The Conservative government went on to become the loudest champion of gay rights at the Commonwealth and at the United Nations. This did not happen in spite of the Catholic majority among Canada's Christian denominations. If anything, it happened because of it.
Of the roughly 22 million Canadians who identify as Christians, about 12.7 million call themselves Roman Catholics. Recent polling suggests that Canadian Catholics are ambivalent about same-sex marriage, or at least hold views that don't track anywhere near Rome's party line. As for the Vatican's stance on contraception, University of Lethbridge pollster Reg Bibby says nine out of 10 Canadian Catholics oppose it. More than half of the Catholic laity opposes Rome's hardline stance on abortion, too.
If the Yes side wins on Friday, the great cause that Daniel O'Connell championed will not be betrayed. It will be vindicated. The Emancipation of 1826 will at last count within its embrace those who were "stamped by the Creator with no inferiority," and yet were set apart even so by Ireland's 1937 constitution as aliens and outcasts. Tá, comhionannas – Yes, equality – would stand not only as an overdue triumph in the cause of the emancipation of the Catholic Irish. It would stand as well as another small assurance, a tiny bit of hope, that the unjustly treated, everywhere, will one day win.
Terry Glavin is an author and journalist.
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Digital Monopolies: Dividing the Big Data Pie in Russia
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Companies close to the Kremlin are creating a monopoly on data in Russia. Although the data market has yet to take shape, it has already been turned into a monopoly by the president's decisions. Competition takes a back seat to matters of national importance.
The digital economy has evolved from a trendy topic into a matter of national importance, spawning priority projects and government commissions. As such, it is to receive substantial funding: almost 1.1 percent of GDP from the federal budget alone, plus about the same from the business community. These preparations suggest that the country's leadership doesn't just want to create a gigantic new data market in Russia, but also to divvy it up among the narrow circle of entrepreneurs and state capitalists that are close to the Kremlin.
Back in 2016, the Russian authorities conducted a successful pilot project to electronically tag fur coats in order to track their production and import. The innovation helped to reduce the number of counterfeit products, and generated 500 million rubles in budget revenues. Medicine and tobacco products were to become the next tagged items, and there were plans to expand the program to include every product by 2024.
In the fall of 2017, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev announced that President Vladimir Putin had decided to award the lucrative tagging project to a single operator, circumventing any bidding process. The project was transferred from the Federal Tax Service to CRPT, which is 50 percent owned by Alisher Usmanov's USM Holdings, while the state-owned Rostec Corporation and Alexander Galitsky of Almaz Capital Partners own 25 percent each. Sberbank also expressed interest in tagging, but was politely informed that the niche had already been taken.
The digital tagging system seeks to track a product's entire path from producer to consumer. Usmanov, Rostec head Sergei Chemezov, and their partners are to spend over 200 billion rubles on the project. Apart from earning 50 kopecks (half a ruble) on every tagged item, the operating company will have exclusive access to information about all industry-specific markets in Russia and all merchandise flow. This creates another problem in addition to questions about the fairness of the noncompetitive selection process. Who will be the proprietor of all of this data, and how will it be used?
Another digital initiative, the Platon electronic system of collecting payments from heavy trucks, triggered mass protests by long-haul truckers. Platon's operator, RT-Invest Transportation Systems, didn't take part in any bidding, either. Putin simply decided that the company would be awarded the toll-collection contract. RT-Invest, which is part of Rostec, owns 50 percent of the company, while another 23.5 percent belongs to Igor Rotenberg, the son of Putin's close friend Arkady Rotenberg.
The company's ambitions go well beyond toll collection: it envisions the creation of an enormous digital platform that would consolidate transporters, insurers, banks, Russian Railways, and warehouse and logistics operators. Market players are expected to use the platform to agree contracts, send payments, and much more.
In other words, all the data on transport and payments is to be concentrated in the hands of business entities close to the Rotenberg family (Arkady's brother Boris is also considered to be a close friend of the president). So far, it's only a proposal, but it could become reality with a stroke of the president's pen. Market players have no say in what's about to happen and will have to cooperate as directed.
Meanwhile, Inter RAO energy holding head Boris Kovalchuk is trying to convince Putin that it will be impossible to modernize the national utility information system without the involvement of his company. The unified system contains all the available information on Russia's housing resources, building management costs and services, utility service providers, debtors, and so on.
The president has approved this partnership, too. The details haven't been announced yet, but they are likely to mirror the Platon scheme. Inter RAO's digital technology subsidiary, Inter RAO EIRTs, could collect a commission on all utility payments.
These are just a few telling examples of how companies close to the president are creating monopolies on data services in Russia. Although the data market has yet to take shape, it has already been turned into a monopoly by the president's decisions. Competition takes a back seat to matters of national importance.
The integration of digital systems into the national security sector also provides numerous opportunities. Mikhail Oseyevsky, head of state-owned Rostelecom, believes that Russia's nearly 40,000 federal employees—or at least their management—should be required to use domestically produced smartphones running on the Sailfish operating system, which will cost the state 160 billion rubles.
In March, Rostelecom's board of directors approved the purchase of a 75 percent stake in the Open Mobile Platform and Votron companies that develop Sailfish. So far, only one mass-produced smartphone works on Sailfish, and no apps for the operating system have yet been developed. It's a half-baked project, and none of the responsible ministers like it. They are reluctant to discuss the proposal, and always look upward when they talk about it, essentially pointing to the place where the decision was made.
Rostelecom is also prepared to finance connecting practically every Russian school to broadband Internet in exchange for students' educational data, while state atomic energy corporation Rosatom is entertaining the possibility of participating in medical projects in exchange for medical data. Rostec's IT subsidiary, the National Informatization Center, is one step ahead: it has been working successfully in this field for some time.
The question of regulating access to users' data has so far generated rather limited discussion. The Russian state apparently doesn't mind sharing information about itself with state-connected capitalists. The project portfolio that certain companies could be pressured to finance using super-profits includes "storing government documents" at a cost of 7 billion rubles, "creating a navigational-telematic platform for big auto-data" (1.5 billion rubles), and "creating a digital platform for automobile auctions" (almost 50 billion rubles).
The government has agreed to subsidize interest charges on these projects and others like them, and promises to create the necessary regulations. In exchange for their investment in these projects, businesses will likely receive access to information, which will then be turned into cash in the new digital world.
Diversified companies like Usmanov's Megafon and Mail.ru are lobbying for amendments to the personal information law. The proposed changes will make it easier to obtain consent for processing personal data, allowing companies to better target users' interests. After receiving initial consent to data processing, the company will be able to freely transfer data to other companies, meaning that users might lose control of their data as a result of multiple transfers.
A data transfer market also exists in the United States, but the heads of giants like Twitter, AT&T, Alphabet, and Amazon are required to report their personal data protection measures to the Senate. In the EU, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that went into effect this May completely blocks user data transfers. In Russia, the fate of the data market hangs on companies' appetites and government officials' ethics. It's hard to imagine Usmanov and Chemezov reporting to the Duma on their efforts to protect user data.
In Russia, state interests always trump everything else. The big question is whether these interests can be distinguished from those held by captains of public-private partnerships. Industries that exist only on paper or don't yet exist at all (Russia still lacks legislation regulating big data) are given away into safe hands by individual decisions of the country's leadership. In other words, first, companies close to the Kremlin will gain access to personal data and information about the flow of merchandise, and then they will share that data with the state.
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Autolysis: Post-mortem change
When does a body become a cadaver? How have the mechanisms of death affect how archives are constructed? More generously, we flip the question around: how can radical concepts of death and rebirth pave new ways of knowledge-making technologies? For Derrida, there is no archive fever without the death drive, but what if we refuse the universality of death? Power brokers in this pandemic, not burnt out by anticipatory grief, establish an acceptable threshold of death for the economy. "Official" and national archives erase the death required to obtain objects in their collection. One such example are the Malay illuminated manuscripts, obtained during the British occupation of Malaya, currently being digitised by the British Museum. What to make of death, if a body never becomes a cadaver, like when a spiritual escape occurs?
The heavily visual Western conception of death makes its way into medical records, pandemic response plans, databases, digital wellbeing, pain porn, photographs of colonial death, museum catalogues to coffee table books. We count death as separate from life. How do we grieve in capitalist time? How do the ways we measure life transforms the passages of death?
Post-mortem change has been analogised as a form of self-digestion: membranes break, enzymes leak, and cells eat away at themselves from within. Known as autolysis, this feast finds its etymological origins in Greek, pointing towards a rupturing or a loosening. In bread-making, the autolyse method begins with leaving a water-flour mixture to its own devices. The enzymes present in flour break down protein and starch, making for a more elastic dough that's far easier to knead. Similarly, ageing wine sur lie calls for its sustained contact with accumulated dead yeast cells to impart additional aromas and flavours.
An offering in one sense, and an uplifting in another, the anaphora in orthodox Christian tradition precedes the Eucharistic prayer and sees to the preparation of bread and wine, consecrating the body and blood of Christ through spoken word. If a lysis of the self rests upon pliability, the sacrament is an exercise in stretching language. By way of loosening, lysis might articulate a reversal of crisis as the act of self-digestion locates life in death, re-construction in destruction.
It becomes clear that though death may be something that we think we are familiar with, we may not know anything about it at all. In this project, we take death to be the transformative catalyst that deserves more attention in how it permeates our ways of knowing.
Alif Ibrahim is a writer and artist based in Jakarta, Indonesia. He has previously been published in Real Life Magazine, It's Nice That and Running Dog. He works through net art, editorial design, experimental films, installations, computational art, as well as participatory workshops. He received an MA in Digital Media from Goldsmiths College. Parts of this project will contain contributions from CJ Park.
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Most people think of Alternative Medicine as dealing with plants, herbs and nutrition. At least I did, until I started researching for this article. Alternative Medicine is much more than just tea's, herbs and good food.
There are many different forms of alternative medicine such as: acupuncture, aromatherapy, energy therapy, holistic, naturopathic, reflexology, and many more.
Conventional medicine says… have a headache, take a pill…..got the flu, take a pill…..depressed, take a pill. Alternative medicine wonders why the head hurts, why your immune system was so low that allowed you to get the flu, why you feel so unworthy or helpless to feel depressed. Then we have our bodies filled up with chemicals the body doesn't need, or want.
Alternative Medicine is the most over-looked field in medicine….why? Think of how much you spend, just walking into a Dr's office, plus the drugs he/she prescribes and any follow-up visits. not to mention any surgeries you might need and follow up for that. Did you know most surgeries could be eliminated with some form of Alternative Medicine?
Why did you have that by-pass surgery? Why were you arteries clogged to lead to the by-pass surgery. Why all the pills for high cholesterol and high blood pressure that lead to the clogged arteries, that lead to the by-pass surgery.
Alternative Medicine does not stop at the 'why' of problems, it goes after the cause of it. In this case, a good healthy diet of fruit and veggies….grains and nuts could have prevented the years of pills and the end result that lead to the by-pass surgery in the first place.
To me, Alternative Medicine is a bit misleading. I like to think of it as 'Natures Medicine'. Alternative Medicine treat the whole body… mind, body and spirit, not just the symptoms of the body parts.
Nowadays, most of us have what I call 'crippled organs'. our organs are not as healthy as they should be. We're too busy racing through the week to the next paycheck, we're so busy thinking work, work, work, that what we don't think of is, our health determines even if we do work or not!
Advocates of Alternative Medicine believe the various alternative treatments are effective in treating major and minor medical conditions. And have acknowledged that recent published research proves the effectiveness of alternative treatments. They proved that a PubMed search showed nearly 400,000 research papers classified as alternative medicine published in Medline-recognized journals since the mid-1960's, in the National Library of Medicine database.
Read, research if alternative Medicine is for you. Do you want to keep taking pills for the symptom of the problem, or do you want to get to the problem itself, that is causing the symptoms?


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'So Lucky' Is a Powerful Indictment of Ableism
by Dana Hansen
Carrie Olivia Adams on Poetry that Challenges
Life, as the familiar expression goes, can turn on a dime. Mara Tagarelli, the headstrong protagonist of Seattle writer Nicola Griffith's fierce eighth novel, So Lucky, knows this all too well: in a matter of days her marriage ends, and she is felled by a diagnosis of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis.
The sudden onset of a debilitating illness would be devastating for anyone, but Mara's self identity is firmly formed around her view of herself as a strong person, physically and otherwise. An accomplished martial artist accustomed to a high degree of control over her body, Mara finds the prospect of being weak and unable to protect herself unthinkable. As someone living, even prior to diagnosis, in fear for her safety, she is always on guard against and mistrustful of others, especially men. She points to an attack in a bar when she was in her early twenties as the source of her long-standing rage regarding the narrative of women's weakness: "I was beaten by two men and I learned the story that most women already knew: that men beat women for no other reason than they could, because they were raised on the story that women are weak. We were taught we are weak."
While Mara managed to take that rage and redirect it into karate and her social work in HIV and AIDS—eventually becoming the executive director of the multi-million dollar foundation, The Georgia AIDS Partnership—her diagnosis resurfaces old fears and forces her to confront a future unlike anything she had anticipated. Her lifestyle, relationships, and even livelihood are all in jeopardy. Griffith, who herself has MS and was compelled to refocus her career trajectory upon diagnosis, does a masterful job of illustrating the many frustrations a newly-diagnosed individual faces trying to navigate the healthcare system, medication and treatment options, accessibility issues, and the ignorant attitudes and assumptions about people with disease.
In one particularly painful yet illuminating example of such attitudes and assumptions, Mara is travelling to Florida by plane to deliver a keynote speech at a conference on disability. The progression of her MS has limited her mobility and as she is shuttled around the airport in a wheelchair by an insensitive porter, she realizes, as so many do, "the chair had turned me invisible, written me out of the story." The conference is similarly disheartening for her as the crushing reality of her new status, in the eyes of others, as a disabled person becomes clear: "I had not really understood that I now belonged on the other side of the divide. I was a crip, not one of the real people. My purpose was to be brought up from the deep, exhibited, and cast back."
Because Mara is a fighter, she refuses to be defeated by her circumstances. In the midst of dealing with pain and drug reactions, sadness over the loss of her beloved wife, and uncertainty surrounding a potential new relationship, she sets about using her considerable nonprofit experience and reputation to establish a new and much-needed organization with the mandate "to help disabled people help ourselves."
As the organization begins to flourish, the novel takes a narrative turn in the direction of a psychological thriller, adding an effective and chilling dimension to the story. Violent acts are being perpetrated against people with MS, and there may be a connection to Mara's organization. Alone and feeling vulnerable, Mara thinks she too may be a target. But just who or what is it that threatens her? And will she have the inner strength to confront her worst fears?
Far too little fiction reflects the experiences and realities of those with disabilities, and when it does, it often reads as an exercise in tokenism. In So Lucky, a disconcerting but very necessary book, Griffith presents a protagonist with substance, complexity, and purpose. Mara is so much more than her diagnosis and limitations, but her story underlines the insidiousness of ableism and the lamentable mistreatment and neglect of the chronically ill and disabled among us.
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So Lucky
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Nicola Griffith is the award-winning author of six previous novels (Ammonite, Slow River, The Blue Place, Stay, Always, Hild) and a multi-media memoir (And Now We Are Going to Have a Party: Liner notes to a writer's early life). She is also the co-editor of the Bending the Landscape series of original queer f/sf/h stories.
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Dana Hansen
Dana Hansen is a writer, editor, reviewer, and professor in the English Department at Humber College in Toronto, Ontario. Her writing has appeared in The Globe and Mail, Quill & Quire, Literary Review of Canada, The Winnipeg Review, France's Books magazine, Australia's Westerley magazine, and elsewhere. She lives in Waterdown, Ontario, and is the editor-in-chief of the Hamilton Review of Books.
Dana Hansen June 22, 2018
lilie215 says:
Amen. Thank you.
justonemorepaige says:
Wow – this sounds amazing and super important.
Kieran McCaffrey says:
Reblogged this on KMStudio and commented:
"substance, complexity, and purpose" envelops more than just the protagonist of "So Lucky". As recurring and overarching elements to many of Nicola's novels, specifically "Slow River", they represent what she stands and writes for.
Cold Iron and Piercing Beauty in "Spear"
'Whiskey' Is a Fiery, Pacific Northwestern Noir


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Invitation to a Holy Lent at Grace Church 2020
An overview of our observances and resources this Lent:
Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper and Mardi Gras Party, February 25, 5:30-7pm
The last day before Lent will be celebrated with our usual pancake supper with all the trimmings and some new Mardi Gras fun. We will also burn the palms from last year's Palm Sunday and make the ashes for Ash Wednesday.
Ash Wednesday Services, February 26, Noon and 7pm:
Lent is a season for self-examination and spiritual renewal in Christ, beginning with Ash Wednesday. There will be a noon said service of Holy Eucharist and a 7pm Choral Holy Eucharist.
The "Anglican/Episcopal Church in Virginia" Lecture Series, March 3, 24 and April 28, 7pm:
In honor of our 275th anniversary year, Dr. Robert Prichard will be giving these special history presentations at Grace.
Open Church, Wednesdays, March 4 through April 8 from 5-7pm:
Bring some devotional reading, use the prayer book resources, pray, or just be quiet for a while in this sacred space.
Adult Forum: Paul's Letter to the Christians of Rome, Wednesdays, March 4 through April 1, 7-8:30pm:
Dr. Harry Gamble leads us in reading and studying this New Testament book.
Historic Prayer Book Liturgies, March 8, 15, 22, 29, at 11am:
Also in honor of our 275th anniversary year, we will be praying the Holy Communion liturgies of the last four editions of the Book of Common Prayer which have been a part of the American experience.
Special 275th Anniversary Music Concerts in March:
Three Notch'd Road Concert: "Ever Ancient, Ever New: Bach and Nowakowski on the Soul's Awakening, March 8, 4pm
Kimberly Marshall: "Bach's Birthday Organ Recital", March 22, 4pm
Holy Week:
Palm/Passion Sunday, April 5, 9 & 11am
Maundy Thursday, April 9, 7pm and Good Friday, April 10, noon
Easter Sunday, April 12, 9am & 11am with Flowering of the Cross, Easter Pageant, and Egg Hunt; Choral Evensong and Recital by Artist-in-Residence Erik Wm. Suter, 4pm
Special Resources:
"Reflections of Grace 2020", with daily devotions written by parishioners.
"Daily Devotions for Individuals and Families": simple one-page devotions for four-times a day in the prayer book, pages 136-140. Experiment with saying these during Lent.
"Lenten Madness": a fun way to learn about the Christian saints, especially for the sports-minded, using a tournament-like single elimination bracket. https://www.lentmadness.org/about/.
"Loving your neighbor as yourself" (Mark 12:31): Your compassion and service for those in need is a resource for renewal close-at-hand.


Former Cincinnati Bengals defensive tackle Devon Still is eager to continue his career, but it may have to wait until after the season.
Still, who worked out with the Titans and Colts this season after his release from the Bengals in September, told ESPN that he has two futures contract offers on the table. He did not specify which teams, but a futures contract allows a player to join a team immediately after the season and be eligible for offseason workouts in the spring.
Still and his 5-year-old daughter Leah captured the hearts of the nation last year as she battled pediatric cancer. Leah is now cancer free and a month away from finishing her post-cancer treatments, according to ESPN.com's Coley Harvey. Having his daughter back to health will allow Still to focus more on football.
"That was the issue for a lot of teams," Still said. "My daughter went into remission last March, but she still had a long way to go as far as treatment. They weren't really sure which direction that was going to go in, but now that my daughter is about to be finished, teams will be able to see that we can get back to living our normal lives."
While Still wishes he could've been a part of the Bengals 10-2 run this season, he has been pulling for his former team as a fan.
"They're getting exactly what they deserve," Still said. "When you do good, you receive good. And the way the Bengals organization stuck by me last year given what my daughter was going through, and seeing what type of season they're having now, I couldn't wish for anything better for them."


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Semantic is a set of specifications for sharing UI elements between developers. Semantic is also a UI library to make front end development simpler and easier to learn.

## Development Status

Semantic is pre-release. Build tools are not yet available, and APIs may be updated regularly prior to 1.0, so be warned!

Please [share any issues](https://github.com/jlukic/Semantic-UI/issues?state=open) you may have, we need your help to get all the kinks out.

If you need to create a test case, you can [fork this jsfiddle](http://jsfiddle.net/jlukic/Vbr9d/1/) to get you started.

If you want to keep track of development, please [join our google group](https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/semantic-ui)

## The Library

### Getting Started

The Semantic library describes many UI elements. In most instances it might be best to build a custom build with only the elements you need.

*Build tools are not yet available but stay tuned!*

~~You can use our build tool to select only the components you want~~

To download the entire library

    git clone git@github.com:quirkyinc/semantic.git

If you prefer to download the whole kit as a zip, it is so conveniently packaged.

    http://semantic-ui.com/build/semantic.zip

## The Specification

The aim of the specification is to develop conventions around structuring and naming code for interface elements.

By defining a vocabulary the development community can exchange javascript and css definitions of UI in a similar language, making new code easier to grok, and reducing the complexity of starting a new project, or changing a sites design.

## Types of UI

UI components are split into four categories, ranging from smallest to largest in scope:
* UI Elements
* UI Collections
* UI Modules
* UI Views

### UI Elements
UI Elements are interface elements which do not contain other elements inside themselves. This can be thought of as similar in definition as an "element" in chemistry.

UI elements can have plural definitions when they are known to exist together frequently.

In this case each button will be large because we understand it is a part of the large button group
``` html
<div class="large ui buttons">
  <div class="ui button">Cancel</div>
  <div class="ui button">Continue</div>
</div>
```

Examples of UI elements:
* Buttons
* Labels
* Headers
* Progress bars

### UI Collections
UI Collections are groups of heteregeneous UI elements which are usually found together. Carrying the chemistry metaphor, these can be thought of as molecules.

UI collections have a definition of elements that exist, or could exist inside of them. They do not usually require all elements to be found, but they describe a list of the "usual suspects". Unlike elements, collections are not typically useful to define in plural.

Examples of UI collections:
* Forms
* Tables
* Grids (Layout)
* Menus

### UI Modules

UI modules are elements where it's behavior is a fundamental part of its definition. UI Modules are dependent on the javascript which carry their definition. They also may be more complex, and have a variety of different functions. Further abusing the scientific analogy: These can be thought of as "organs".

Examples of UI modules:
* Popups
* Modals
* Chatrooms

### UI Views
UI Views are common ways to structure types of content so that it can be understood more easily. A view's definition in semantic only describes the content which typically occupies the view.

Examples of UI views:
* Comment Feed
* Activity Feed
* Product List

### How it is defined

#### Scope of a definition

**All UI**: The specification defines class name and html structures which can be used to represent an element

**Elements**: An element definition gives states which an elements can occupy, common types of that element, and if necessary, defines how the element functions in groups.

**Collections**: Collection definitions list elements that it can include, and variations which can apply to both the collection, or individual elements found in the collection.

**Modules**: Module definitions include a list of behaviors that are commonly associated with an element

**Views**: View specifications defines the types of content the view usually display, and the heirarchy typical to presenting this content to the user.

#### Based on class

Semantic is based on class names, instead of tags. This means, except for links, tables and form elements, you can use semantic with tags like ``<div> <article> <nav>`` without any difference.

#### Context sensitive

In Semantic, variations maintain context based on the element they modify, but keep the same vocabulary between elements. Just like how in English, the adjective 'big' may describe a different scale for a big planet versus a big insect.

For example, a form you can have a variation called "inverted". This changes the appearance of form elements to work on dark backgrounds.
```html
<div class="ui inverted form">
    <div class="field">
        <label>Name</label>
        <input type="text">
    </div>
</div>
```

The same variation can also be useful in the context of a menu.
```html
<div class="ui inverted menu">
    <div class="item">Section 1</div>
    <div class="ui simple dropdown item">
        Dropdown
        <div class="menu">
            <div class="item">Dropdown item 1</div>
            <div class="item">Dropdown item 2</div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>
```

#### Example

Here is part of Semantic's definition of a button

**Standard**: A button is a shape that can be pressed in to complete an action.
```html
    <div class="ui button"></div>
```
**State**: A button can sometimes be active, designating it is selected by the user.

```html
<div class="ui active button">
```

**Variations**: A button may sometimes look different than its prototype.
```html
<div class="ui large blue icon button">
  <i class="ui icon heart"></i>
</div>
```

**Plurality**: A button can sometimes exist in a group of buttons
``` html
<div class="ui large blue buttons">
  <div class="ui button">
    I am blue
  </div>
  <div class="ui button">
    I am blue too
  </div>
</div>
```

## Usage

### Developers

Prereqs Node, Grunt(``npm install -g grunt-cli``) and DocPad (``npm install -g docpad``)

Inside ``node/`` use the command ``docpad run`` to start your server

You can then access the docs locally at ``localhost:9778``

To have DocPad watch for changes while working on a component simply run the command
``grunt``

To build the release packages for Semantic
``grunt build``

#### I want to contribute to the spec

Semantic is very new standard, and we need a community to become truly useful. We're working currently to determine the best ways to engage the community for contribution. If you'd like to participate feel free to reach out by e-mail [jack@myfav.es](mailto:jack@myfav.es)


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Life Sciences Breakthrough Prize
Catherine Dulac
Harvard University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
2021 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
For deconstructing the complex behavior of parenting to the level of cell-types and their wiring, and demonstrating that the neural circuits governing both male and female-specific parenting behaviors are present in both sexes.
One of the greatest joys of being a scientist is to work with extraordinary talented students and postdocs, who are transforming hard work into an exciting scientific journey. Without them, none of the scientific accomplishments acknowledged by this award would have been achieved. I am also greatly indebted to people who helped me reach my dream of becoming a scientist: first, my parents who transmitted to me the love of knowledge and an insatiable curiosity for the unknown, the many excellent teachers who unraveled for me the innumerable wonders of biology and neuroscience, and my inspiring PhD and postdoc mentors, Nicole Le Douarin and Richard Axel, who taught me that great rigor, excellence and unbridled enthusiasm are the foundation of scientific discovery. Thanks also to Harvard and HHMI for placing their trust in me since I was an apprentice faculty, and to their remarkably skilled and supportive staff. Finally, I want to acknowledge my close collaborators who helped expand my scientific horizons and my colleagues throughout the world who I miss so much in this COVID time. Last, but not least, eternal thanks to my close friends and family who have helped me ride the rollercoaster of life in science.
photograph by Kris Snibbe
Breakthrough Junior Challenge


Twenty-Seventh Sunday of the Year. Fr Peter Hunter preaches on our dignity and humility.
Albert Nolan tells us in God in South Africa about a young black man who could not bear to say the words in the Mass, 'Lord, I am not worthy to receive you ...' He had been told all his life, he said, by the the white rulers of his country, that he was not worthy and he would not accept the same humiliation in church. It is often said of Christianity and especially of the Catholic Church that it instills an unhealthy sense of guilt in people. In a culture which sees believing in yourself as an important virtue, the excessive humility of Catholics is seen as something bad, self-destructive, and, let's face it, it can be. But is it the Church that is to blame? Maybe the foundational documents of Christianity, our Scriptures themselves, are full of the idea that human beings are worthless. In the Gospel today, the word the English translations politely render as 'servant' undoubtedly means someone who could expect no pay - the man in the parable is a slave. The master sees no reason to thank the slave since he is a possession and exists only to serve his master. If that is the whole story of the relationship of humanity to God, perhaps Nietzsche was right to want to get rid of God in the name of human freedom. If God is to be seen as the master and we as his slaves, belief in God doesn't look very attractive. In particular, it becomes hard to see how God could love human beings, for a master cannot love his slaves, at least as long as he sees them as slaves. Only when a master sees a slave as a human being, someone with whom he has some equality, can there be any kind of love between them, for love requires equality. But what kind of equality can there be between God and humanity? The answer is that, naturally speaking, there can be none at all. We are not even the greatest of God's creatures - that place is occupied by the angels - and there can be no question, it might seem, of creatures having any kind of equality with their Creator. When it comes to God and the possible, however, things are almost never how they first seem to us. As Jesus says, 'What is impossible for humans is possible for God.' The really extraordinary thing which Christians teach is that God does indeed love human beings. He shows this and has shown this in so many ways. This is shown even in our very origins: humans have the dignity of being made in the image of God. But of course he especially showed his love for us by becoming one of us. While we were still enemies of God, the Father sent his only-begotten Son, he came among us as a human being and died for us. In what clearer way could the dignity of humanity be shown? This love of God is made possible by an act of unimaginable generosity. Though creature cannot be equal to Creator, and though through our sin we have made ourselves even less worthy that God should come to us, through Christ's death and resurrection and the giving of the Holy Spirit we are not just healed but lifted up to God's level, made god-like, people who can be loved by God and love in return. Humility and humiliation, then, are two quite different things. The young man mentioned at the beginning was responding to being humiliated by (understandably) mistaking an act of humility as further humiliation. Real humility is not about considering ourselves to be so much rubbish, but about recognising the good in ourselves and then realising it comes from God. Our lives are valuable but we receive them from God and consequently owe everything we have and are back to God: that's what our slavery amounts to. But the amazing thing is that through the gift of God, when we recognise our debt and accept our slavery, it becomes possible to become children of God. That's where the most radical freedom of all is to be found.


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Ærfugl phase 1 starts production
AkerBP
The Ærfugl project has started production from phase 1 on time and within budget – a milestone for the subsea development in the Norwegian Sea. The field is operated by AkerBP, Wintershall Dea is a project partner with shares of 28 %. "We have worked closely together with our license partners to deliver this project as efficiently as possible. Along with AkerBP and the rest of the consortium, we are now reaping the benefits of the laser sharp project management on this development," said Synnøve Helland, Vice President for Non-Operated Assets for Wintershall Dea Norge.
The start-up of Ærfugl bolsters Wintershall Dea's position in this area of the Norwegian Sea, where the company already has a strong position as a major shareholder in the Skarv field. Ærfugl will add an additional five-year economic lifetime to the Skarv production vessel, double the produced amount, and significantly reduce the emissions per barrel produced. "The partnership has been excellent and finding extra value from our position around the Skarv field. The area is already a cornerstone of our production here in Norway, and this will contribute to it remaining that way for many more years to come," said Lars Olav Martinsen, Skarv area Asset Manager for Wintershall Dea Norge. The field will help Wintershall Dea to increase its natural gas exporting business, which is already among the largest in Norway.
Ærfugl is a gas/condensate field with approximately 300 million BOE of recoverable reserves according to AkerBP. The Ærfugl project is being developed in two phases consisting of three wells each. Both phases are tied into the existing production vessel (FPSO) on the Skarv field, which is located some 210 km west of Sandnessjøen on the West coast of Norway. Phase 1, which develops the southern part of the Ærfugl field, consists of three new wells that have now gone into production. Phase 2 consists of an additional three wells in the northern part of the field. In April 2020, the licensees put one well from phase 2 on stream three years ahead of schedule. The remaining two wells for Phase 2 are scheduled to come on stream in 2021.
Wintershall Dea/Ingmar Nolting
Communications Manager North Sea, Spokesperson
Production drilling starts on the Dvalin Field in Norway
Wintershall Dea receives promising license awards in Norway
16 exploration licenses on the Norwegian Continental Shelf awarded – four as operator.


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José Vento Ruiz (Valencia, 3 de julio de 1925 — Madrid, 16 de marzo de 2005) fue un pintor español.

Vento cursó estudios en la Escuela de Bellas Artes de San Carlos, en Valencia, y posteriormente, gracias a una beca de la Diputación de Valencia, los amplió en Madrid. Fue cofundador del grupo Hondo junto con Juan Genovés, e impulsor de la Nueva Figuración durante la década de 1950. También fue fundador del Grupo artístico Z. De 1954 a 1960 vivió en Madrid, donde trabajó en diversas pinturas murales.

Sus obras pueden verse en los Museos de Arte Contemporáneo de Madrid y Sevilla, en el de Arte Moderno de Alejandría, en el de Arte Abstracto de Cuenca y en el de Bellas Artes de Valencia.

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 https://www.facebook.com/pages/Página-de-Amigos-de-la-obra-y-la-personalidad-de-José-Vento-Ruiz/235024896543056

Pintores de España del siglo XX
Pintores de España del siglo XXI
Pintores de la provincia de Valencia
Alumnado de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos
Nacidos en Valencia
Fallecidos en Madrid

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El president de Xipre del Nord és el cap d'Estat de la República Turca de Xipre del Nord. Rauf Denktaş va ser el primer president fundador de Xipre del Nord, i es va retirar el 2005. El seu càrrec va ser ocupat per Mehmet Ali Talat, seguit per Derviş Eroğlu, llavors Mustafa Akıncı, i l'actual president, Ersin Tatar.

El president és elegit cada cinc anys. Les eleccions presidencials se celebren en dues rondes si cap candidat guanya més del 50% dels vots en la primera ronda. És necessari que el president sigui natural de l'illa de Xipre. El president ha d'haver viscut al país durant cinc anys, rebre educació secundària i tenir més de 30 anys.

La presidència no és una posició cerimonial en el sistema polític semipresidencial del nord de Xipre. El president es reserva el dret a destituir l'Assemblea de la República en cas que un govern no pugui formar-se en un termini de seixanta dies o tres governs successius rebin vots de censura. També poden presidir el Consell de Ministres si així ho desitgen, aprovar els nomenaments dels jutges i president del Tribunal Suprem i tenir dret a enviar lleis aprovades per l'Assemblea de la República al Tribunal Suprem. El president també ha estat tradicionalment el principal negociador per a la resolució del conflicte de Xipre i ha estat responsable de les relacions exteriors del nord de Xipre.

El president està representat pel president de l'Assemblea de la República quan el president és a l'estranger.

Les eleccions presidencials més recents es van celebrar l'11 d'octubre de 2020.

Llista de caps d'Estat de Xipre del Nord (1983-present)

República Turca de Xipre del Nord


This week is the 22nd anniversary of the establishment of Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument. SVP President David Polly wrote a compelling article about this important paleontological site. Please read about the Grand Staircase anniversary and why we should preserve it here.


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Magical Pillow Concert in Plovdiv
20.12.2015 (Sunday)
Regional History Museum
1, Saedinenie Square, Plovdiv
TICKETS HERE→
There are good, bad, beautiful, ugly, clever, smart, chatty, shy, enchanting… witches. Some call them sorceresses, others – fairies. But the exact terminology does not matter at all. The important thing is that one is never bored in their company as they would always do something unusual. At the second Pillow Concert in Plovdiv, we are expecting two of them. Will they arrive on brooms, flying carpets or through the lately-so-fashionable teleportation? We will soon find out. And somewhere between enchanting the most wanted prince in the kingdom and putting a spell on him and his beloved princess, they have promised us some music by the greatest magician among the composers – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Along with his opera The Magic Flute we will also enjoy excerpts from The Wizard of Oz and from some other magical musicals.
One hour before the concert, everyone can decorate their own magical pillow.
Parent – 20 leva
Child – 5 leva
Max price for a family – 35 leva
Dorothea Doroteeva, soprano
Alexander Mutafchiyski, baritone
Ralitza Georgieva, piano
Manuela Genova, piano
Musical programme
• W. A. Mozart – Sonata for Piano Four-hands in C major, part I
• W. A. Mozart – Arias and duets from the opera The Magic Flute
• Johann Strauss II – Duet of Pappacoda and Ciboletta from the opera A Night in Venice
• Andrew Lloyd Webber – Joseph's song from the musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
• Harold Arlen – Dorothy's song from the musical The Wizard of Oz
• Leonard Bernstein – Maria's song from the musical West Side Story
• Frederick Loewe – Eliza's song from the musical My Fair Lady
Program, 20.12.2015
10:00 Pillow workshop
11:00 Pillow concert
More information→
Pillow Concert with Alice
11:00 and 17:00
Central Military Club, Hall 1
Believing the unbelievable is a must for our next Pillow Concert as we are meeting the girl with the greatest imagination in the whole universe – Alice. Talking rabbits, mice and birds are a common thing in her fantastic world and no wonder if some of them come to our concert, too. The musical programme includes pieces by the American composer Edgar Stillman Kelley whose imagination is definitely up to Alice's standards, since he decided to tell her story in music.
The most original costume competition continues stronger than ever – this time our guests are invited to come dressed up as their favourite character among Alice's friends, even as Alice herself!
TICKETS HERE >
Veneta Neynska, piano
Veneta Neynska did her undergraduate studies with the world renowned pianist John Perry at the University of Southern California. She earned her Master's degree with Joan Havill in London, at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Veneta has attended masterclasses with Imogen Cooper, Alexei Nasedkin, Jerome Lowenthal and Dominique Merlet. She has won numerous awards at a number of competitions among which the First Prize at the 7th Piano competition in Larnaca, Cyprus; the Second Prize at the Christopher Duke competition in Watford, UK; the First Prize at the Beethoven Hradec competition in the Czech Republic; the Third Prize at the Alexander Tansman competition in Lodz, Poland. Currently, Veneta is serving as the Artistic Director and the mastermind of all of Modo Bulgaria's projects.
Ekaterina Stoyanova – Alice
MIlen Angelov – Storyteller, The Cheshire Cat, The Mad Hatter, The King of Hearts
Vanina Kondova – Storyteller, The Caterpillar, The March Hare, The Queen of Hearts
Edgar Stillman Kelley
Alice in Wonderland Piano Suite
II. The White Rabbit is Late
III. The Cheshire Cat
IV. The Caucus Race
V. The Forest of Forgetfulness
VI. The Red Queen's Banquet
Program, 13.12. 2015
10:00 Pillow music workshop
11:00 Pillow concert – Tickets here
The music is treasure
Family of the month
Family of the month November 2015
Our conversation starts with a story.
"… On the rocky formation of the Kaliakra headland, one can still see the ruins of a fortress that dates back to Thracian times. The cliffs beneath it harbour many caves and many legends, one of which tells about the treasure of Lysimachus. The one he seized, while on a campaign to quell the rebellion of several cities that had gone rogue. Some of them he plundered, others came on their own to give him their gold, silver and precious stones and be spared. Lysimachus hid the treasure in the caves beneath the castle, and…"
If we spend some more time with Denitsa, Kiril and little Thea, we will learn many more stories about beautiful and interesting places in Bulgaria. But apart from fascinating journeys, our family of month has much to tell us about music, as well.
MODO: Which is your most vivid memory of the Pillow Concerts you have attended?
Denitsa: It's from our first Pillow Concert! I won the Best-trained Parent Award then.
MODO: How did you learn about the Pillow Concerts?
D: I don't really remember. From friends or from Facebook… But as soon as I learned, I said to myself that this is the thing for us. I love all kinds of classical music. And this is what I like best about the Pillow Concerts: that the programme is different each time. We decided to give it a try and we liked it very much. Then my husband got hooked, as well.
Kiril: That's how it happens usually.
MODO: Do you remember which was the first concert you came to?
D: It was the one after Bach concert. I remember it very clearly, because I read about the Bach concert after it had been held and regretted that I had missed it. And I said to myself that I won't miss the next one. I'm talking about the German Pillow Concert; since then we have been coming every time. I think we haven't missed a single concert. And each time it's different, indeed – the instruments, the music, the singing. It's interesting for us because we hear something new every time, plus it's really positive for Thea. Because this is the idea, right? To give her the opportunity to listen to good classical music.
MODO: Do you have favourite instruments?
D: I like all the instruments but the keyboard ones are my favourite, especially the piano. I used to play a little when I was a child.
K: We have a piano at home, which is being played all the time.
D: A little by me and a lot by Thea.
K: In fact, Thea plays more often than anyone of us. She can't really play yet.
D: But she's very happy to keep trying.
K: The piano is her favourite toy.
D: It's an electronic piano but a big one. It looks like a normal piano but it has some buttons that light up and she always presses them and changes the rhythm. She really has an ear for music.
MODO: It seems that she enjoys music and it does her good.
D: Definitely! We will see how it will go in the future. We are looking forward for her to grow up.
MODO: Was classical music part of your childhood as well?
D: It was certainly part of my childhood. My father loves classical music, all kinds of it – Bach, Mozart. Growing up, I've also listened to recordings. Later on, I kept listening, of course. And I have also played a little. I love classical music.
K: They used to have a piano in their home and both she and her sister used to go to piano lessons. In my family, things were different because…
D: In his family, it used to be rock around the clock.
K: Yes, my parents are into rock music. There were no musical instruments at home. All we listened to was rock bands.
D: But he got to like the Pillow Concerts and classical music in general. We go to different symphony concerts at the Bulgaria Hall.
K: We used to go. We haven't been recently.
D: But soon we will start going again. Thea has turned one now and we can benefit from the help of her grandmothers. The organisers of the Pillow Concerts really deserve to be congratulated for offering something that both kids and their parents can enjoy. Because it's no secret that we also get to listen to good music, not only the kids.
K: The concerts really contribute to the kids' education; they expose them to classical music from an early age and help them develop a taste for it. For some of them, this could provide an incentive and turn into a model of behaviour.
MODO: If you have to organise a Pillow Concert, how would it be?
D: If it's up to me, I would make it a piano concert. For four hands, for instance. With two grand pianos. This would be great. But the kids would get bored if the programme is monotonous, so I would choose alternating pieces, some of which are more dynamic, others – more relaxed. What you do is actually very close to what I would have done.
K: Yes. I think it would be good to have more diversity.
D: That's what I meant. Even now the programme usually includes different pieces but it would be nice if they were not all dynamic.
MODO: Unless they are good for dancing.
D: Which kids love to do. I'm also looking forward for Thea to start drawing, so that she could enjoy all the activities you have to offer. But everything in its time.
MODO: Do you like to travel?
D: My husband is very interested in the older history of Bulgaria. We travel to all the places where there are traces of the Thracian civilisation or medieval fortresses. He knows a lot about them and we visit many of them. Now with Thea, it's more of a hustle but we will continue to make these trips. That's why I'm glad we'll have the concert programme in advance. Thus, we can plan our free time better.
K: We love to travel. I love Bulgaria very much; I think it's among the countries with the richest history and it has many fascinating places people do not know about; there is a lot to see, really. It's good to know Bulgaria first and then the world. Not that we haven't travelled outside the country, but here, there are so many things to be proud of.
MODO: What are your favourite activities with the child?
D: She swims. Really!
K: We like to go out on walks, to the swings.
D: Yes, all kinds of baby stuff. We take her to swimming classes for babies and to any other activities that are suitable for her age; we try to keep it interesting and entertaining – for her, for me, for all of us. We also play a lot at home and as her daddy said, one of her favourite toys is the piano.
D: We have a xylophone we bought from MODO. Also maracases. Everything that makes sound is very well accepted. And if she is grumpy, these things are always very helpful.
At the end of the conversation the only thing they asked us for was to keep organising even better concerts. And they wished us much inspiration, of course, because the Pillow Concerts cannot do without it.
Interview by Didi Brankova, Pillow Concerts' coordinator.
Photography by Minko Minev, http://minkominev.com
Visiting the Samarevi's family with a big smile
September Family of the month 2015
A beautiful dress, big smile, few tiny steps and young Nicole is already next to me. She tells me about Modo's Masterclass she is attending and about all the pieces she has learnt to play on the harp. Her father Peter and her mother, Maria join her and one can immediately feel how proud they are with the little musician.
MODO: Was there classical music in your family?
Maria: I'm not involved in the musical circles, but Nicole sparked my interest and now we educate ourselves together. When I was a young girl we listened to disco music. I haven't listened much rock music, mostly pop. I remember trying to listen to classical music on the radio but it didn't capture me. I always turned on the radio as background to everything I was doing. But I'm not musical. When I was young, I played the accordion for three years.
Peter: I've played a musical instrument when I was young. In a way, it wasn't entirely voluntary – my grandfather had insisted I became a violinist. I did it all – lessons, ear training. I was even told that I'm very good at it, but it was never close to my heart.
MODO: How old were you?
Peter: As old as Nicole. Five-seven years old.
MODO: Was your grandfather a musician?
Peter: No, he has just decided that I have to be a violinist. I was taking private lessons and they were expensive back then. Also visiting music centres and so on. But as every child, I was more attracted to the ball and the football, so in first grade, while I was attending at least fifteen more classes, my parents decided it was too much and we dropped out the music.
MODO: How come your grandfather decided to make you a musician?
Peter: I have no idea.
Maria: Didn't you have musicians in your family?
Peter: Yes, we did, but in this case it was different – he wanted me and my cousin to become musicians. She plays the piano and is currently a musician in Belgium. She graduated from the music school and the Conservatoire. His dream was for her to be on the piano and me – on the violin. He sponsored and encouraged us. It worked for her, but not for me.
Maria: Parents always have ambitions for their children.
MODO: How did you discover Nicole's interest in music?
Maria: Since she was little people were telling me she has a great sense of rhythm and is very musical. Actually, a friend of mine whose son is a musician sent us an invitation for a Pillow Concert and we started attending. Our first one was the Christmas Pillow Concert "Carnival of the animals" at the Military club. She enjoyed it very much, so we continued visiting. There we learned about Modo. Firstly, we visited the Music Circle group while you had it and in the summer I signed her up for the Summer Music School. It was only for a week, but we gradually found out that it shouldn't be for only one and there we are.
Peter: At home she is singing, dancing, listening to music, we have microphones, various headphones. Her older sister is a music fan and generally she influences her a lot. When she was her age, she played the piano at her own will. But she, too, just like me, lost her enthusiasm. Now she shows Nicole from time to time that she has played, too. It becomes a little competitive, but Nicole is the more ambitious one.
MODO: Nicole, which one is your favourite musical instrument?
Nicole: The harp.
MODO: Why the harp?
Nicole: Because it has a very beautiful sound.
Maria: Can I add to her answer? Last year, during the summer school, she could choose two musical instruments and she chose the harp and the flute, then from September she started taking piano lessons, too. When we signed up for the Sunday school, again, she had to pick up two instruments and the harp had a priority.
MODO: Do you have a favourite Pillow Concert?
Nicole: Yes. (She pulls out a folder with programmes from all concerts)
Maria: We collect the programmes. Of course, the harp concert – It was so tender and exciting, I truly hope you will repeat it. Back then, I didn't know much about the harp, so now I want to see it again, from a different point of view.
MODO: What do you actually like about the Pillow Concerts? What is your brightest memory?
Maria: I like that children are free to do what they want: some are dancing, some are drawing, the youngest ones are trying to walk, to touch the instruments and this is a challenge for the organizers. But I think you manage to find the golden mean very well – what is allowed and what is not. This is how children are brought up. Our brightest memory is from the Zoo Pillow Concert with all the stories and tales about the animals and Kosse Bosse. We acted out a scene during the concert, while listening.
MODO: Do you find your child changed in some way since you started attending the concerts?
Maria: Actually, this is what I like, that the Pillow Concert is an entrance ticket to the classical music for Nicole and thanks to her I also meet the classical music and learn about various instruments.
Peter: It is really nice that it uses untraditional approaches and young people participate, because children feel the young people closer to themselves, they are not afraid and stressed out. Because, indeed, there are many good musicians, pedagogues but in the beginning when you need to capture the children's attention it is better to have young people because of the mentality and understanding. It is easier for the children to feel the musicians in this way. Not to bump on someone that never stops repeating "Study! Stay still! Don't move! Listen! Remember!"
Maria: You always say: "Now, let the children show their parents what we should do during a concert – keep silent." The other thing I notice are the scripts you make up. There is always a tale, a story that is connected to the music. And even if it is not directly matched with the piece as they are still too young to understand, you try to include everything in the context of the story. Oh, I want to mention the Zoo Pillow Concert again – everything I like about your concerts was part of it. I really liked the Opera Pillow Concert as well.
Nicole: Me, too. Actually, these two are my favourite ones. (Nicole gives me the programmes from the Pillow Concert for flute, harp and marimba and the Opera Pillow Concert.)
MODO: If you have to make up a Pillow Concert, what would it be?
Maria: It will definitely include marimba, harp and flute. And there will be a dance in the script, a part where the children will be invited to dance together. Now I'm thinking that perhaps the presenter can show certain steps which all children can repeat making a joint dance together.
Our conversation was coming to its end and with his big smile Peter decided to tell us something that he intentionally kept for the final.
Peter: I'll tell you a nice story to which you greatly contributed. I was recently having an anniversary and Nicole surprised me by playing Happy Birthday. She have been secretly learning it at home while I was not there.
Nicole: I was listening to it on headphones, so you wouldn't know!
Peter: They performed it with a friend of hers: she was playing, he was singing. They really surprised me and they were so well synchronized that everyone was impressed.
Nicole: We also played the "Ode to Joy".
Maria: They were really cute.
Peter: I was stunned.
Maria: And they did it without warning us. They were playing together and when I told them it was time for the cake, she went to the piano, sat down, he picked up the microphone and it happened. This is why I want to thank Modo, for giving us the opportunity to feel many things – various musical formats for children – and I wish you inspiration and time for rest. These things need to be alternated, so you can feel great.
Peter:I will only say that when you do something with love, someone up there is watching, helping and everything happens in a better way.
"The world is full of magic…"
Family of the month October 2015
Modo: How old are you, Pressie?
Preslava: I'm ten, officially now. I celebrated my birthday at the Master Class and had a great time. Initially, I joined the harp class but then I moved to the piano. And at the end we even had some surprises.
Modo Bulgaria organised a two-week summer programme for advanced students at the Children Ecostation on the Vitosha Mountain. The Master Class is one of the many music education programmes of the cultural organisation. .
Preslava: Katia told us.
Valia: Katia is our friend. Her child attends your Music School.
Modo: Which was the first Pillow Concert you attended?
Preslava: The Street Quartet concert in the summer. They played Mozart.
Valia: And since then we basically haven't missed a concert.
Preslava: No, we did miss the one with the animals!
Valia: Okay, we missed one because we weren't in Sofia at the time.
Modo: Which is your favourite concert?
Preslava: The first one is my favourite!
Valia: Yes, mine too. I love everything that the Street Quartet does; they are really amazing.
Modo: Which are your favourite instruments, Pressie?
Preslava: The violin and the piano.
Preslava starts talking enthusiastically about her violin lessons and her brand new violin which she has been playing on just recently .
Modo: Why classical music? How did you choose this particular activity for Preslava?
Preslava: Let me answer this! We had a carnival in school and one of my classmates played the violin; that's how I decided to learn to play myself.
Valia: She used to sing at the Children's Choir of the Bulgarian National Radio. She was still in pre-school back then. They liked her but she gave it up. She didn't give up music, just the choir.
Preslava: No, I didn't give up because of the choir but because of the solfeggio lessons. They were very tough with us there; here it's different.
Modo: What kind of music do you normally listen to?
Valia: I like all kinds of music; maybe only jazz is something which I would rarely listen to. My favourite style is rhythm-and-blues.
Modo: During your childhood what kind of music you would listen to in your household?
Valia: I have an older brother; he used to be a metal fan. I only liked the ballads though.
Modo: What other concerts you go to?
(They answer simultaneously.)
Valia: We attend different concerts of the Radio Orchestra.
Preslava: We went to the Disney music concert and the Lord of the Rings concert in the Armeec Arena.
Valia: We've also been to the Christmas matinee and to many other concerts.
Modo: What is it that you like about the Pillow Concerts?
Preslava: The pillows, the fact that they explain everything very well and also that after the concert we can dig under the pillows with the other kids.
Valia: I like the liberating feeling. There are no strict rules, you're not forbidden to move around.
Preslava: Mom and I quarrel a lot, all day long, but when we go to the pillow concerts, it all stops. Mom listens to the music; I listen too and there is peace.
Modo: If you had to organise a pillow concert, how would it look like?
Valia: It would be on a meadow, out in the open. I have no particular preference about the instruments – the more, the better.
Preslava: My concert would also be on a meadow; I would play solo violin and I would have magical powers that make all the other instruments play by themselves. No, maybe all the teachers I know would play some of the instruments.
At the end of our conversation, Preslava drifts away to the land where everything is possible. She wished that Modo creates a chain of music candy shops and music clothing shops, moves into its own castle and launch its own TV channel. And most importantly, she sees herself playing a leading role in the future music world. We're listening to her, taking careful notes, so that we won't miss anything important. Meanwhile, she's convinced that everything would happen just like that and she is smiling the whole time.
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Happy Father's Day from Second Class Citizen. Please take a moment to watch this video, produced by our founder Operator 1, Sergeant First Class Terrence Popp. He filmed this in 2009 while we were just getting started. Help Second Class Citizen in our fight to improve rights for non-custodial fathers and end one third of military and Veteran suicides, which are caused by this travesty of justice in America.


Hey all I talked to Teebling and he said posting a recruiitment blurb here would be fine. I was hesitent because I don't want the site to fill up with spam. That said I am an experienced leader in game and in real life. I'm a retired military lawyer and I've been leading guilds for almost 15 years.
I want to extend my invitation to any of you that could make our raid times and are interested. I will gladly give advice to any of you even if you won't be joining my guild so please just let me know if I can help. I have literally years of experience playing vanilla warrior as tank and DPS and have seen so much in terms of guild leadership.
About: EoT started on Bloodscalp shortly after vanilla wow's release & became a top guild on the server. We've persisted as a gaming family ever since. Our goal has always been to clear content as a team while providing a second family for our members.
For classic we will be a top guild & clear Naxxramas. We have a solid core experienced through Naxx. Most of us have raided for years & are ready to devour classic content. We run a DKP-guided loot council focused on awarding gear where it best serves raid progression & best recognizes, attendance, & contribution to raid performance.
What we expect**: We expect dedicated, skilled raiders who show up with consumes, proper gear, & knowledge. We are team-focused so great performers are appreciated & recognized, but divas who are unconcerned with the health of the entire raid team or overly self-interested are not tolerated. We are a diverse group of raiders worthy of individual respect & the respect of everyone's time.
In short, be prepared, be knowledgeable, be on time, & don't be an A-hole.
Raid Schedule: Wed, Thu, Sun, 6 PM to 10 PM PST (GMT-8) (9pm – 1 AM EST) hard stops. Our guild has always been extremely active & 20-mans, Onyxia, etc. will continue to be ran on non-core days. On most days, if you log in, you will find a good group of people to smash content with.
Looking for: Great people of all classes are strongly encouraged to apply; specifically seeking: Fury/Prot & Mages. Core raid spots are earned through demonstrated competence & dedication. If you are interested in leadership roles within the guild please send me a whisper & let's chat.
We still need a nightfall hunter or two, preferably one who doesn't mind haviing a geared alt. We have lots of room for healers as well, but all classes have spots still. I won't consider any roster full until were 60, geared, and raiding and even then I run an inclusive guild where people don't perpetually sit on the bench.
Thank you I'll get there :); Looking for a few Fury MS, Prot off spec warriors and mages to round out our raid teams. Will not close recruitment but will soon go inactive on recruitment as our roster is looking amazing :). Thanks for the support BC I've gotten at least 3 members from here so far!
been lurking around and I haven't seen any strict Guild recruitment topic.
Hey guys, lets get even more details on what we are going to play when the Classic era begins.


Boelt, Birte (2003) Organic forage seed production. In: Loch, Donald S. (Ed.) Proceedings Fifth International Herbage Seed Conference, Gatton, Australia, 23-26 November 2003. Herbage Seeds in the New Millenium - New Markets, New Products, New Opportunities, pp. 43-47.
From January 2004 only organically produced seed can be used in organic farming systems within the EU. Optimal forage production relies on the access to improved cultivars of high quality clover and grass seed for forage mixtures. Currently the supply of organic forage seed in Europe i scarce. In Denmark a production of one of the main constituents of forage mixtures, perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) is established, however, another main constituent, white clover (Trifolium repens L.) is still in request.
In general seed yield in organic production is decreased compared to conventional production. In perennial ryegrass the seed yield reduction is approximately 25% whereas it similarly are 80% in white clover. Until now research initiatives has not been able to increase seed yields in white clover, whereas organic grass seed production in general are performed without larger difficulties. Currently the European Commission has put forward a proposal allowing derogations to use conventional grown seed if organic varieties are not available in species that will not be listed in an annex to the regulation.


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Provides a simple Google reCAPTCHA v2 component for Vaadin.
A simple wrapper around Klarnas XMLRPC API, written in nodejs.
Provides a shell for managing Elasticsearch instances.
Provides a simple web service for resetting LDAP user passwords.


Cook County Budget Town Hall Reviewed by Edgeville Buzz on January 3, 2011 .
Commissioner Bridget Gainer created a "Citizens Guide to the Cook County Budget" to provide a road map for taxpayers to the $3.5 Billion dollar annual budget. After consistently hearing from her constituents, local neighborhood groups and chambers of commerce that good information on the County budget was impossible to find, Commissioner Gainer organized a presentation that breaks down the $3.5 Billion dollar budget into information people really need: where does the money come from, where does it go, and who makes the decisions about how to spend it.
Residents of Edgewater and Uptown are invited to attend a Town Hall and weigh in on county spending. This Town Hall is sponsored by the Andersonville Chamber of Commerce, Business Partners – Chamber for Uptown, the Edgewater Chamber of Commerce, Buena Park Neighbors (BPN), North Uptown Neighbors Association (NUNA), Neighbors of Edgewater West (NEW), Edgewater Beach Neighbors Association (EBNA), and many other local groups.


Some couples struggle to come up with a child's name but usually they agree on something by the time the baby is born. That's just what happened for one set of new parents, who settled on Finley for a middle name, specifically spelled with an e. The baby was born via C-section but while the mom was asleep recovering after the delivery, something happened where the baby's middle name was written as "Finlay" on the birth certificate. She couldn't understand why her husband did that but then realized her mother-in-law was behind the name change.
The woman wrote in to Slate's advice column, "Care and Feeding," saying how she didn't discover the change for two months, only noticing it when she was filing away her son's official paperwork. She was furious with her husband but then began to suspect his mom when she sent a Christmas card to her son that featured the incorrect spelling of Finley. The woman eventually got the full story out of him, explaining, "Apparently his mother guilt-tripped him into doing this while I was asleep after my emergency C-section. Keep in mind she lives a few states away, so this was all over the phone. She tried to convince him to give our son a first name that I very much hated, saying that I would 'get mad, but get over it.' My husband thought changing his first name was too much but apparently gave in to spelling his middle name the way his mom wanted. She thinks that 'Finlay' is more masculine that 'Finley.'"
In response, the column's author explained that the woman's husband needs to decide who his co-parent is, his wife or his mom, and until he figures that out, he can't be trusted. She added, "Purposefully changing the name of your child on a birth certificate behind your back is pretty close to a fireable offense if you ask me. You and your kid deserve so much better."


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Le Boeing T-43 est un avion d'entraînement américain conçu à partir du Boeing 737 et servant au sein de l'US Air Force pour la formation à la navigation des équipages.

Origines
Au début des années 1970 l'US Air Force fit savoir qu'elle recherchait un nouvel avion destiné à des vols d'entraînement à la navigation afin de remplacer ses Convair T-29 que la propulsion par moteurs à hélices rendait obsolète. Bien qu'un appel d'offres fut lancé elle décida de se tourner vers Boeing et son avion de ligne 737-200 alors en plein essor commercial.
Officiellement le programme d'acquisition de ce nouvel avion reçut la désignation d'Undergraduate Navigator Training Program (UNTP ou en français « programme de formation de premier cycle pour la navigation ») par le Pentagone.

Développement
Pour réaliser son avion Boeing choisit de le construire à partir d'un 737-200 de série, et non ab initio comme un avion d'entraînement militaire. De ce fait son pilotage serait plus aisé pour des pilotes civils, comme ceux de l'Air National Guard ou de l'Air Force Reserve Command. En outre les coûts de développement s'en trouvaient fortement réduits.
Le prototype désigné XT-43 réalisa son premier vol en mars 1973. Hormis la livrée blanche et grise, les marquages, et les cocardes, pas grand-chose ne le distinguait des avions de ligne alors en circulation.

Extérieurement en effet l'avion ressemble trait pour trait avec le 737 civil d'origine. C'est au niveau de l'aménagement intérieur et de l'avionique que l'appareil se distingue. Celle-ci se compose en effet des éléments suivants :
 équipement de navigation inertielle ;
 radar altimétrique ;
 système de communication HF, UHF, et VHF ;
 système de radionavigation LORAN ;
 système VOR ;
 TACAN ;
 TCAS.
À l'intérieur son aménagement fait appel à douze consoles de travail pour les élèves en formation et à six stations de travail pour les instructeurs.

En service

En missions d'entraînement
Le Boeing T-43 a servi principalement depuis la base de Randolph, non loin de San Antonio. Là la majorité des 19 Boeing T-43 construits ont volé jusqu'à leur retrait du service actif en 2010. La mission d'entraînement à la navigation n'étant pas très médiatisée peu de sources existent dessus. Jusqu'à l'entrée en service du Boeing TC-18F, le T-43A était le plus gros avion d'entraînement militaire au monde.
Après son retrait du service sa mission principale a été reprise par le Beechcraft T-1A Jayhawk, un avion nettement plus petit.

En missions de transport
Au milieu des années 1980 six T-43A de série furent transformés en CT-43A, destinés à des missions de transport prioritaire rapide et de liaison intrathéatre. Ces avions perdirent leur aménagement intérieur spécifique au profit d'un similaire à celui des jets d'affaires.
Les Boeing CT-43A furent principalement utilisés au profit des hautes autorités politiques américaines et de l'état major de l'US Air Force. Tout comme les avions d'entraînement d'origine ils furent retirés du service en 2010. Le Boeing CT-43A n'a pas réellement eu de remplaçant, même si le C-40 Clipper et le Gulfstream C-37 remplissaient début 2012 la majorité de ses missions.

La carrière du CT-43A fut endeuillée en avril 1996 lorsqu'un de ces appareils, numéro de série US Air Force 73-1149, qui transportait le Secrétaire au Commerce des États-Unis Ronald Brown, s'écrasa lors d'une mission diplomatique en Croatie. Aucun des 35 membres d'équipage et passagers ne survécurent à l'accident.

Au moins deux CT-43A ont été utilisés sous une fausse livrée civile, aux côtés de 737-200 d'occasion par Janet Airlines, une compagnie appartenant au gouvernement américain et chargé des vols en direction du centre d'essais de Groom Lake. Ces vols existent toujours mais sont désormais assurés par des 737-600.

Versions
 Boeing XT-43 : Désignation portée par le prototype.
 Boeing T-43A : Désignation portée par la version d'entraînement à la navigation, construite à hauteur de 19 machines de série.
 Boeing CT-43A : Désignation portée par six T-43A transformés en appareils de transport de personnels.
 Boeing NT-43A : Désignation portée par un T-43A transformé en appareil de soutien aux essais en vol.

Utilisateurs
Boeing T-43A :

 US Air Force,
 Air Education and Training Command,
  Flying Training Wing,
 558th Flying Training Squadron,
 562d Flying Training Squadron,
 563d Flying Training Squadron,

Boeing CT-43A

 US Air Force,
 Air Mobility Command,
  Air Mobility Wing,
 310th Airlift Squadron,
 Janet Airlines,
 Air National Guard,
 Colorado Air National Guard,
 200th Airlift Squadron.

Boeing NT-43A

 US Air Force,
 Air Force Materiel Command,

Surnoms & sobriquets
Si le T-43A et le CT-43A ne reçurent jamais de nom de baptême officiel ; ils furent affublés de plusieurs surnoms différents, les plus répandus étant Gator (abréviation de Navigator, navigateur en français), Flying Classroom (salle de classe volante en français), et Bobcat ou Bobcat II (en référence au Cessna AT-17 Bobcat qui remplissait une mission similaire durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale).

Articles connexes
 Boeing 737 AEW&C,
 Boeing P-8 Poseidon,

Notes et références

T43
Boeing 737
Avion militaire de la guerre froide
Avion d'entraînement de l'US Air Force
Avion biréacteur
Premier vol en 1973


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Q: cakephp + cache + formhelper inside  = error in all my views i have a login/register (cake)form.
my question:
can i use the file cache engine with <cake:nocache>form</ cake:nocache>
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