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YES CKUT! KEEP STUDENT RADIO AT MCGILL ALIVE!
Don't Cut C-KUT!!!
Vote YES here
CKUT-FM a campus radio station located at McGill University, needs a majority YES vote in order to continue existing on the FM dial.
We provide students with training in radio broadcasting and podcasting and employment opportunities, publicising tools for their research and a variety of free events on campus.
Keep CKUT on the air! vote YES!
CKUT needs its student members to reaffirm their belief in the value of CKUT 90.3FM (Radio McGill) as a viable student service by voting yes in our upcoming existence referendum!!! Since its inception as a licensed FM radio station in 1987, McGill students have played a vital role in CKUT. Students do everything from producing radio to sitting on the station's board of directors to participating in collective management. Many McGill students have found their niche at CKUT, which has helped launch many careers in a variety of creative and media-based fields.
What is this referendum about?
This referendum question asks students to maintain CKUT Radio's opt-out able fee levy. The fee levy came into existence in 1988. In 2007, McGill University mandated that all student fees must have an expiration date and be reaffirmed every five years. The fee levy currently represents 54% of our funding, without which CKUT could not maintain its current services and operations.
The full question that was drafted for CKUT by McGill Administration:
"Do you support CKUT continuing as a recognized student activity supported by student fees with the understanding that a majority "no" vote will result in the termination of [undergraduate] [graduate] student fees to CKUT?"
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What is CKUT?
CKUT is a non-profit, campus-community radio station based at McGill University. "Radio McGill began as a club in the 1940s. CKUT received its FM licence in 1987 and the student fee was put in place after a successful referendum in 1988. CKUT provides alternative music, news, and culture programming to the city of Montreal and its surrounding areas 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. We are made up of over 300 volunteers (more than half of whom are McGill students) who work with a staff of coordinators to make creative and insightful radio programming and manage the station's operations. The station functions on a collective management system that includes volunteers in all its decision making processes.
Students are involved with all aspects of CKUT: they program shows, organize events, produce documentaries, conduct interviews, sit on committees, fundraise, write radio dramas, maintain the music library, and generally make CKUT what it is. They are involved in all of our governing structures including the Board of Directors, Collective Management Committee, Programming Committee, and all types of policy-making and strategic planning committees. The station wouldn't exist without the energy and talent of the McGill's student community.
What do I get out of my fee to CKUT? What benefits do members have?
As a member of CKUT, you can vote at the Annual General Meeting and run for the Board of Directors. Students enjoy a plethora of benefits, including access to the largest alternative music archive in Montreal (78,000 physical releases and counting!), de facto journalism school (interview skills, writing for radio, documentary making, experimental radio art, DJ mixing, live sound engineering),and numerous employment opportunities through work study jobs and permanent staff positions. We are also moving into the future by producing podcasts focused on academic research and other creative ideas distributed via iTunes and Soundcloud. Last but not least, members get bragging rights for CKUT's title of the city's #1 radio station, as voted by the Cult MTL Best of Montreal Reader's Poll and was included in the top internet radio station in an article by the U.K.›s Telegraph!
I never use any of the services provided by CKUT, so why should I fund it?
McGill students pride themselves on having a diverse, lively campus community; however, McGill lacks a journalism school or the chance to gain experience within non-hierarchical governance structures on campus. CKUT is a crucial part of the campus experience for a large number of students. For a fraction of a course fee you can complement what you learn in the classroom by meeting and collaborating with an incredibly diverse array of fellow volunteers. CKUT is a gateway to investigating the many cultural activities and emerging artists in Montreal. A vibrant campus has activities that are diverse and speak to a multitude of student interests and concerns. . No one student could partake in all of these opportunities, but we like to have the options! Even if you personally don't plan to use a service, we hope you'll affirm the right of other students to do so.
What happens if the majority of students vote no?
Student fees constitute 54% of our funding. Losing this referendum would mean that we could not continue providing the current level of service and programming for McGill students. CKUT is licenced as a campus community radio station. If we lose an existence referendum we would no longer have an association with a university; therefore, we would no longer be fulfilling the condition of our licence. The 90.3FM frequency would become available and open to applicants.
Why Should I Vote Yes?
CKUT has brought you Thursdays Alive, the Total Eclipse Concert Series, the Under the Weather Panel series, Art's Birthdays, Hidden Gems on the Air, Community Engagement Day workshops, the 2015 Electoral Debate, and Brainwaves: Student Research on the Air, not to mention multitudes of panel discussions and conferences and so so so much more. Our mandate is to bridge the gap between students and the wider Montreal community, both through our programming as well as through dedicated outreach to bring a wide diversity of groups together. CKUT is one of the only groups on campus committed to bringing students and Montreal community members together to achieve common goals by providing a link to communities that are often inaccessible for students and by uniting people together through our partnerships with Montreal-based community organizations like The Native Friendship Centre, Dans la Rue, Head and Hands, and Project Genesis.
Vote YES for the organization that makes McGill about more than just the classroom.
Vote YES for the organization that offers vocational training for a fraction of a course fee.
Vote YES for the organization that has supported students for 30+ years.
Vote YES because McGill students deserve a diverse and vibrant campus life.
Vote YES for CKUT!
Word Around Campus
Prof. Lawrence Joseph
Prof. Darin Barney
Prof. Eric Lewis
MUNACA - 2011 referendum support
Drew Nelles - former Daily editor - 2011 referendum support
Adrian Harewood - Anchor CBC Ottawa news
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Suoni Per Il Popolo
Blue Skies Turn Black concert promoters
Inter-Tribal Youth Centre of Montreal - 2011 referendum support
Off The Hour / Dec 16, 5-6pm / International Day Against Violence Against Sex Workers
Off The Hour / Dec 15, 5-6pm / Activists ask Trudeau to increase Syrian Refugees' Commitment
Off The Hour / Dec 11, 5-6pm / AVEQ : a new voice in Quebec's education system ?
Off The Hour / Déc 8, 5-6pm / "The Algebra of Revolution" by Chris Hedges : exclusive interview on uprisings, occupations, and revolution !
En Profondeur / 7 déc., 17-18h / "Pipelines, pouvoir et démocratie" : entretien avec Olivier D. Asselin
Off the Hour / Dec. 4, 5-6pm / 26 years since the Montreal Massacre
Join the CKUT Board of Directors.
SHALABI & KOZ FILL UP YOUR EARS IN DECEMBER
Off The Hour / Nov.27, 5-6pm / Nightsticks I & II : 50 years of queers & cops in Canada and Québec: talk with Jordan Arseneault
Jilted X -Xtreme takeover December Montreal Sessions
Soyez le média! Joignez-vous à l'équipe d'En profondeur à CKUT
Off The Hour / November 17, 5-6pm / Tahoe Resources against Indigenous Communities : the voice of Luis Solano from Guatemala
En Profondeur / 16 nov., 17-18h / Felipe Uncacia : résistance autochtone contre les hydrocarbures et l'exploitation pétrolière
Prison Radio / Nov. 12, 5-6pm / Visionary Fiction, Prison Abolition, and Octavia's Brood
MIND SOUL & SPIRIT WINS 2015 GLASS ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
En Profondeur / 9 nov, 17-18h / Million Mask March 2015 a Montreal
CRAIG PEDERSEN HOSTS MONTREAL SESSIONS NOV 2015
No One Is Illegal Radio / Nov. 5, 5-6pm / Culture Shock at McGill


• Clemson snapped a two-game skid on Saturday with a 75-54 win over Virginia Tech, the Tigers' largest victory margin in an ACC regular season game since 2011.
• The Tigers have won the last 10 meetings in the series with Georgia Tech, including three last season. The longest streak in program history over another ACC school was 11 against Virginia from 1960-65.
• Clemson owns four straight wins over Georgia Tech in Atlanta, one shy of the program record for consecutive wins on an ACC opponent's home court. The record is five straight over Virginia, from 1960-64.
• The Tigers are coming off a season-high 11 made three-point goals in a 75-54 win over Virginia Tech on Feb. 14.
• The win over the Hokies was Clemson's largest victory margin in an ACC regular season game since 2011 against Georgia Tech.
• Clemson has out-rebounded five opponents by a double-digit margin in ACC play, most since the 1998-99 season.
• Jordan Roper has posted double figures in six of seven games as a starter, including a pair of 20-point games. Roper is averaging 14.3 points per game and shooting 54.5 percent from three during that stretch.
• Jaron Blossomgame played AAU basketball with Chris Bolden and Marcus Georges-Hunt of Georgia Tech. Blossomgame and Georges-Hunt are the teams' respective scoring leaders.


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Raila Junior Recalls Difficult Childhood: "I First Saw My Dad When I Was 10"
By Richard Kamau / Thursday, 14 Mar 2019 06:45AM / Leave a Comment / Tags: Massawe Japanni, Raila junior, Raila Odinga
Raila Odinga Junior had a difficult childhood growing up in a political family.
Seeing as his father and grandfather (Jaramogi Oginga Odinga) were fighting for multipartyism, Raila Junior says his childhood was not the best.
"I don't like speaking much about my childhood as it was a very hard time due to the politics at the time. As you know, we had one party and my father and grandfather were fighting for a multi-party system. The effects used to trickle down to us even in school," said Junior in a radio interview with Massawe Japanni.
Junior told the Radio Jambo presenter that he first saw his father Raila Odinga when 10-years-old. This was after Raila Odinga's detention.
"I can't remember well but I think I first saw my dad aged 10-years-old. He came home accompanied by many people and I wasn't aware of what was happening.
"I was wondering 'who's this coming to my mum's house?'"
Junior also opened up about his marriage and how his Yvonne had difficulties conceiving for the first four years of their union.
"Most trying moment in my marriage was the 4 years we stayed waiting for a child. I thank God for the blessing of children.
"I do have children but as per Luo customs, I can't reveal the number. During the first years, we really struggled to have a child. Eventually, God blessed us with a baby boy," he said, while urging couples undergoing similar situations to stick with each other and not give up hope.
The 39 year-old businessman also clarified his push for the legalisation of marijuana in Kenya, stating that "I am pushing for the legalisation of marijuana, not for recreational use but for medicinal purposes. Bhang has a lot of medical use especially for patients with cancer. It's not a cure but acts like a pain reliever. For instance, for someone like my honorable MP Ken Okoth suffering from cancer, it would help ease his pain."
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Drawing close on the Frame Denim popularity, J Brand jeans and Siwy Denim have the most stylish ambassador of them all: Kate Moss.
She's been photographed on more occasions than we have fingers to count on, wearing the Sateen Jean from J Brand or the Siwy Hannah Jean from Siwy Denim. Both in a very dark, black wash.
Both pairs go barely over $300, the retail price of a single Frame Denim Skinny de Jeanne pair. So that alone makes it a plus! It goes without saying that whatever Kate Moss wears becomes iconic as the wearer, so if I were to choose from that perspective alone (and the price), I would most definitely go for Kate's choice.
See also: Kate Moss is not afraid to wear the same sandals more than once!
sells for $185 and comes in eight different colors, although Kate's are black, there's nothing stopping us from considering other options. The name comes from the very fabric, the J Brand Sateen denim are made from a super soft fabric with a polished finish. The skinny hugging promise is delivered by a special blend of 97% cotton and 3% elastane, faux front pockets and the image of Kate Moss wearing them clearly imprinted on our retina.
See also: One of Kate Moss' favorite bags!
See also: What are Kate Moss's top style rules?
Good old, trustworthy Levi's have always been my faves.
Ellington, thanks for an advice I didn't ask for. I was thinking of the Gap Boyfriend jeans, their store is almost around the corner. I'm gonna try it. I own only three pair of jeans. Two really Levi's oldies and a pair skinny jeans brand……errr…..is in the washer!! LOL!
I would love to try Gap's Boyfriend cut as well – checked out their website but they only have them in one color? no dark wash?
They are both nice but I also have a pair of the Frame's in luxe noir and they are equally lovely. Trouble is, they really do sort of mould to your body, so if you're having one of those days when you feel fat, they're not the greatest choice.


Posted on February 7, 2016 by gangeshvarma.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) held its annual meeting at Davos from 20-23 January, 2016. The theme of the meeting was 'The Fourth Industrial Revolution' which referred to advent of new technologies that converge "the physical, digital and biological worlds" to create seamless 'cyber-physical systems'. Some of the main sessions and discussions were on the digital economy, privacy, internet fragmentation etc. While these are concerns that affect internet users currently, they will determine the future of the Internet and its users.
The WEF's interaction with the Internet and its governance is not restricted to these discussions at the annual meetings. It was instrumental in launching the NETMundial Initiative (NMI) in collaboration with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), and the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br). The WEF which was founded in 1971 has always promoted a 'stakeholder' management approach, which essentially based corporate success on managers taking account of all interests. This would mean not merely restricting it to immediate interests such as shareholders, clients and customers, but employees and the communities within which they operate, including government. The natural extension of this can be seen in the WEF's strong support for a multi-stakeholder approach to internet governance. This can be seen from its various reports and initiatives like the NMI and the Future of the Internet.
As the internet permeates deeper into the socio-economic fabric of human society it impacts various sectors. As a consequence, global fora that did not traditionally discuss the internet are impacted by it. This results in a growing number of fora that eventually discuss internet governance or any of its components. Among these, the WEF as a platform for collaboration may be considered old, but it was formally recognized as an international organization only last year. In the larger matrix of internet governance institutions and processes the WEF is merely one more addition. However, the WEF comes with extensive criticism for being a platform that is limited to an elite few while its relevance has often been debated. It has been called out for its hypocrisy while talking climate change, gender parity and inequality.
Unsurprisingly, these potential risks do not seem too far into the future if the multi-stakeholder approach is not reformed. In fact they resonate with most critiques of multi-stakeholder models. The support for multi-stakeholder approaches has grown as evidenced by the agreed outcome document of the WSIS+10 Review Process. However, the negotiations and consultations have revealed many aspects that need reform. ICANN's CEO, Fadi Chehadé's pitch at Davos was on the enormous impact of the Internet on global economic growth, and the importance of the Internet as an engine of growth. Fadi is scheduled to leave ICANN in March, 2016 and enter his role as Senior Advisor to the Executive Chairman of the WEF. One can only hope that while the WEF addresses its critics, it will also invest in reforming the multi-stakeholder approach it promotes in the internet governance arena.
Tagged ICANN, Internet governance, multistakeholderism, world economic forum, and WSIS.


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G-Tech, Panasonic and Atomos ProRes RAW workflow in FCPX
To test a host of brand new production technologies, Televisual took an actor and crew to the Cotswolds, in the UK, to start production a short film in 4K. Horror was the genre they chose, as it required a variety of challenging setups, from low lit interiors and night shoots, to bright sunshine. "Eva" was produced with the intention of pushing the boundaries of the latest hardware from G-Technology, Panasonic and Atomos combined with Apple's new ProRes RAW codec workflow in Final Cut Pro X.
Televisual used the Panasonic AU-EVA1 Super 35mm camera, launched last fall, offering 10bit RAW out at up to 5.7K. The film was shot at 24p, 4K DCI (4096×2160) for a later UHD delivery retaining the same aspect ratio for an Indie film feel which included working with a specialist light on a drone and a single 1.2 HMI up to 100 meters away.
Working with Apple, Atomos now has included the option to capture the new ProRes RAW codec on the Shogun Inferno and Sumo19 SSD monitor/recorders. If making edits and mastering on Final Cut Pro X the new ProRes RAW codec avoids the need to transcode while retaining the original assets in their native format throughout the post cycle ahead of final mastering – all within iMac Pro (or a heavily specified Mac). For "Eva", the post production of the film was on FCP X and immediately had natural, good-looking pictures ahead of up-converting the original 4K DCI RAW to ProRes 4444 (XQ) and grading on Baselight with a grade 1 reference monitor. Although FCP X's Color toolset is perfectly fine for many projects, Televisual wanted to see just how far they could push and pull the pictures, particularly for the night shots at the end of the film.
Bringing a speed that matches the film, G-Technology's recently launched series of Pro SSDs were used to store, backup and share the film data. With Thunderbolt 3 and read/write speeds up to 2,800MB/s on location and in post, they gave the project an extremely speedy, reliable and elegant media workflow: from copying footage recorded on Atomos Master Caddy 4K SSDs right through post. The net effect was less time spent transferring and transcoding and more time spent shooting and producing, reducing the overall project timeline, delivering time and cost efficiencies.
Symon Smith, director and editor of "Eva", was impressed with the speed and capacity of the new G-Technology Pro SSDs: "The data transfer system is probably the fastest on-set system in the world. I think the read/write speeds we were seeing were close to seven minutes a terabyte. We plugged the G-Technology G-SPEED Shuttle SSD into an iMac Pro running FCP X and the 303 shots (just over 4TB) loaded up within around 15 seconds. We were immediately able to look at everything we shot and review what we had and I was editing the film within 10 minutes. We had a first cut done within one day and locked by the end of day two. G-Technology have created a way to make the job even easier."
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I am a consumer. I am just like you. I struggled for years with skin issues and after countless visits to dermatologists and tons of money thrown into skincare products, I was left with minimal positive results. I realized I was just like millions of other women who had nowhere to turn. There were a lot of salespeople telling me; "This will REALLY work," and selling me a lot of products that, in the end, did nothing to help my severe acne and eczema.
It was then that I realized my results were in the ingredients of the products I was using vs. what was being marketed to me. While working on commercial and music video sets as a professional makeup artist, as well as for a top luxury brand, I enrolled in a post-graduate program at UCLA & received a certificate in Cosmetic Chemistry. From there, I learned the truth about what is truly best for the skin, and more importantly, what works and stays working. From this knowledge came SkinOwl, a skincare company that allowed women to feel as good as they looked.
It was from following this path I found that when I made the choice to care for myself on a small level, it opened the door to more impactful and authentic transformations…..and sacrifices. While most everyone I knew were in stable occupations and spending their hard earned money on vacations and certain "life upgrades," I was buying amber glass bottles and living the frugal life of the "self employed." I wasn't around for many of the birthday parties and couldn't attend my friend's weddings, due to the amount of work on my plate and money needing to be spent on the business. I quickly had to learn how to manage my money, my company's money and the many people who would eventually come to work with me. It was a different life than most everyone I knew, which at times felt lonely and out of touch with everyone else's reality. It was most certainly the less traveled path, the harder road, but worth it.
This is the greatest gift, one that has made me a more well rounded person and has given me a true appreciation for taking a risk and leaving a mark on your time on Earth.
1) Wake up the same time everyday – This creates consistency. From consistency, I am able to go to bed at a certain time and ensure that I'm ready to rock once my alarm goes off.
2) Get outside – Walking my dog in the morning BEFORE checking my emails has made me a better, more focused worker. When I sit down to work, I'm relaxed and present.
3) Say No – I've always thought NO was me being negative. Or me not being a team player. But that's only when "No" becomes about the people I'm saying no vs. how it effects me. Saying "No" has allowed me to take stock in my schedule and my bandwidth and see what is genuinely leftover for the people I love and want to share my life with. Without the power of "No," my world will be crowded, chaotic and exhausting.
4) Meditate – I used to hear this all of the time. "Meditate, Annie, it will change your life." I never listened until this year. And everyone was right. There is something about giving yourself 10-30 minutes of silence, mostly with how much information we receive daily. My brain shuts down. It's healthy to give my brain a real rest outside of sleep. It has changed my life.
5) Bring snacks everywhere – Gone are the days that I go 5 hours without eating. This made me tired, cranky, and not as sharp. Now I bring a little bag of snacks with me everywhere, i.e. nuts, dried fruit, dried snap peas, granola, etc. And I hard boil eggs, which makes it easy to grab something full of protein whenever I'm on the go.


Pulling out a chimney today…over the kitchen. Long ago it was taken down to the roofline. The mortar they used then was just lime and sand…it tends to lose the lime over the years and just turn to powder.
About 8 feet of this in the attic…I've pulled down about 6 feet of it so far.
The brick itself appears handmade and is not in great condition. Some of it is very crumbly. It's time for this mess to go, as it makes more room in the kitchen and it structurally questionable.
After I finish I can do the long awaited kitchen wiring and ceiling insulation. Being on the north side, and with beadboard walls and ceiling, the kitchen is the coldest room in the house in the winter, and definitely the warmest room in the house in the summer.
There was no real point in insulating it until I got this done or I would have a mess to clean up, and it would have been much more difficult to climb around the insulation.
Since I want to salvage some of the brick to patch the old vents in The Cupola building (another story) and possibly to line a garden or a path or such, I can't just toss them out a window or they would break.
Sooo…the hard part of the project. All the brick in the attic will have to be carried down the stairs, down the hall, out the door, and across the deck.
I've been getting ahead of the brick carriers…all three of them!
Yeah. That would be me, myself, and I.
Of course, once I get below the kitchen ceiling I don't have to carry them down the stairs anymore…just out the kitchen door!
Oh, and apparently slinging a sledge hammer and hefting bricks in the confined spaces of an attic is good for you…carrying bricks and buckets up and down stairs too…ya know…exercise!


The San Francisco representative pulled back that legislation when it met with resistance every bit as loud as one of the aforementioned raves — and far more organized. But she promised to rejigger the bill after attending a rave to see what all the fuss is about.
Actually, Ma must have been pleasantly surprised. In December, she told SF Weekly that 911 first responders she'd talked to when crafting her anti-rave bill had described "people walking around like zombies, sleeping all over, lying all over the floor, vomiting in the corners, vomiting in the bathrooms … people lying in their own urine." (Or was that St. Patrick's Day?).
There may yet have been vomiting, urine, and a creative combination of the two after Ma left the premises. But between 8:30 and 10:30 on Saturday night, people were keeping it together.
That's not to say everyone was behaving particularly well. But Ma came away impressed by the event organizer's intricate — and expensive — preparations. Wonderland was the kind of place where looking askance at the Queen of Hearts could lose you your head. A beheading wouldn't happen at "Beyond Wonderland" — but there were still ample opportunities to get in trouble. Some 60 police and 12 undercover DEA agents were brought in by the organizers to supplement hundreds of private security personnel. Ma claims 24 drug-dealing arrests were made at the rave.
At 8:30 p.m., nearly seven hours into the event, a powwow of cops, DEA agents, security, medical personnel, and management met to assess the rave thus far. Notable events: A group had, literally, attempted to gatecrash, making an abortive assault upon a barricade. Additionally, a troupe of men wearing faux security jackets and posing as staff had been arrested.
Also praiseworthy in Ma's eyes: free water for everyone and a no-questions-asked policy at the medical tents.
Rather than outright banning raves on state property with her forthcoming bill, Ma said she's inclined to introduce new rules. "There are 32 state fairgrounds, but no standard guidelines," she notes. And while Ma approved of the "Beyond Wonderland" policy of forbidding ravers from toting pacifiers and stuffed animals, it remains to be seen if that will — or can — be codified into state law.
In the span of just a few days, a group of entertainers, event promoters, and city officials have sprung into action to address safety problems at electronic music dance parties, prompted in large part by a surprise attempt by Assemblywoman Fiona Ma (D-San Francisco) to ban a broad range of music events altogether.
Ma's proposed legislation, known as Assembly Bill 74 or the Anti-Raves Act of 2011, would have criminalized events on public property at which prerecorded music is played for longer than three and a half hours. The bill was necessary, Ma said, to address a spate of drug-related deaths and injuries at massive dance parties held at public venues such as the Cow Palace.
Critics overwhelmed Ma's online social network sites with protest, and her office was deluged with calls. Within days, Ma announced that she would withdraw the bill and instead pursue a collaboration with stakeholders.
The overwhelming response was coordinated in part by Save the Rave, a brand new organization that quickly amassed thousands of Facebook fans and directed them to protest.
According to organizer Liam Shy, Save the Rave has been in the planning stages for some time as an advocacy organization for fans and producers of electronic music events. Ma's unexpected announcement hastened the group's formation, he said.
Shy is a local DJ whose performances have included Pride, Pink Saturday, Castro Halloween, and LovEvolution. He met with Ma this week to discuss next steps, which he said could include a task force and public hearings.
"It's very necessary for all the different sides to have input on this process," Shy said.
Wood pointed out that the gay community effectively addressed a mid-1990s spike in GHB (Gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid) use through outreach and education, rather than by banning events.
At a January 3 meeting of the San Francisco Youth Commission, Shy called for increased education. He acknowledged that drug abuse at raves is a problem, but argued that banning events would shift the abuse to settings that could potentially be more dangerous.
"We'd much rather have young people in permitted events. … If we don't have them, they go underground, where there's no protection," Shy said. Promoters are already willing to assist with outreach, he said, whether in the form of fliers handed out with tickets, booths at events, viral videos, or partnerships with the Department of Public Health.
Several youth commissioners expressed interest in holding joint hearings with the Entertainment Commission on the topic.
Here is the clip that played on KTVU today at 6pm!
A bill by a San Francisco assemblywoman who wants to ban raves at public venues in California is being criticized as too broad because it could forbid many other kinds of parties.
Assemblywoman Fiona Ma, D-San Francisco, said she simply wants to ban raves from publicly owned venues, such as Daly City's Cow Palace and the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. She said the drug-fueled dance parties are typically unruly and have led to numerous deaths, overdoses and arrests.
While Ma said the measure would not apply to private events, such as weddings and birthday parties, the bill would make it a misdemeanor for anyone to conduct "a public event at night that includes prerecorded music and lasts more than three and one-half hours" – with the exception of private entities, such as bars or clubs, that have business licenses.
Violators would be fined at least $10,000.
Critics of the bill say it's vague, could end up impacting events other than raves, and if passed, would be ripe for a court challenge.
Matt Kumin, a civil rights attorney in San Francisco, said the bill could violate two constitutional rights: freedom of assembly and equal protection. He said political assemblies and religious gatherings, for example, don't have business licenses and would also be swept up under the current language.
Ma said she is open to tweaking the bill and wants to hear from those in the nightlife community in the coming months. A law change is necessary, she said, because it's been hard for local or state lawmakers to hold publicly owned venues accountable. State venues such as the Cow Palace are owned by the state but are operated by boards of directors appointed by the governor.
Two people died after overdosing on drugs at the Cow Palace in May, and a teenage girl also suffered a fatal overdose at a June event at the Coliseum.
Alix Rosenthal, a nightlife and culture advocate in San Francisco, said the bill is targeting the wrong thing.
Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, has pushed for Daly City officials to have more oversight power over the Cow Palace facility. But his chief of staff, Adam Keigwin, said the senator would not support Ma's bill as written.
SAN FRANCISCO- Assemblywoman Fiona Ma (D-San Francisco/San Mateo County) introduced legislation today to ban raves in California. The bill was introduced after recent raves in Los Angeles and Daly City led to deaths, overdoses, and hundreds of arrests. Raves in California are notoriously associated with the use of the drug commonly known as Ecstasy. Many of the attendees are minors and the events have led to extensive pressure on law enforcement and emergency medical responders.
In June of 2010, a 15-year-old girl died of a drug overdose and an estimated 120 people were sent to the hospital after a rave that was held at the publically owned Los Angeles Coliseum. In May of 2010, two people died after overdosing at a rave held at the state-owned Cow Palace in Daly City and additional 5 attendees were hospitalized in critical condition. An additional 68 adults and 5 juveniles were arrested on drug-related charges.
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), many young adults and teenagers attending raves and all-night dance parties are using so-called "club drugs." These drugs include MDMA (Ecstasy), GHB, Rohypnol, ketamine, methamphetamine, and LSD. The NIDA and other scientific studies demonstrate that such drugs can pose serious health risks including death, coma, amnesia, addiction, physical dependency, and long term neurotoxic, behavioral, and cognitive problems.
The bill will be eligible for a hearing in Committee next month. AB 74 is the first bill introduced by Assemblywoman Ma in the 2011-2012 Legislative Session. Assemblywoman Ma, who serves as the Speaker pro Tempore of Assembly, represents Daly City where the Cow Palace is located.


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Cincinnati Yellow Lamps
An obsolete, vanishing traffic device warns Cincinnati drivers away from middle-of-the-road obstructions.
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Found only (as the name would suggest) in the City of Cincinnati, the Cincinnati Yellow Lamps are a distinctive but easily overlooked feature of the city's streetscape. Known officially as "Island Lights" and often colloquially referred to as "Turtle Lamps," the devices were installed to alert drivers to the presence of raised islands within the roadway.
The lamps are known for their distinctive shape and color; the yellow glass globe resembles a bell, fanciful helmet, or turtle shell (hence the nickname), and is adorned with a spun aluminum canopy that resembles a slightly-squished chocolate kiss.
Some residents and local authorities trace the lamps' origin to markers for streetcar platforms that were situated in the middle of roadways. This claim is bolstered by the fact that the yellow color matches the color branding of the last of Cincinnati's early 20th-century streetcar lines. However, photos of streetcar platforms show a different type of lamp, casting doubt on this assertion.
The current lamps can indicate any elevated median in a roadway within the city limits, including either a center island or a corner "pork chop" island associated with a channelized right turn lane.
The fragility, high replacement cost, and non-critical function of the Cincinnati Yellow Lamps leave them slated for obsolescence, with reports claiming that the city will no longer replace them when they fall or get damaged. However, after a lamp fell in August of 2014 and was salvaged by a local lamp enthusiast (thinking it was destined for the scrap heap) and turned into a floor lamp, the enthusiast community was surprised to find the fallen lamp replaced a few weeks later.
A "Cincinnati Yellow Lamps" Facebook group receives photos and other reports of existing and former lamp locations and has close to 300 followers. The group has also compiled a Google map of over 50 existing lamps and 15 former lamp locations found throughout the city.
Drive around the major thoroughfares of Cincinnati and look in any raised median. At night, keep your eyes open for the distinctive amber glow. Or consult the Google map included in the sources below for precise locations.
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The Betts House
Ezzard Charles' Former Boxing Gym
Cincinnati Mercantile Library
The oldest brick house in the state of Ohio.
One of Cincinnati's greatest fighters once trained at a now defunct gym in this Over-The-Rhine neighborhood.
Hidden on two floors of downtown building, the library has an incredible deal on rent.
Statue of Abraham Lincoln at Lytle Park
One of the few beardless depictions of Lincoln, George Grey Barnard's 1917 was denounced by many—including Lincoln's own son.
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Old Plank Road
The remnants of an early automobile route across shifting sand dunes can still be found in the deserts of Southern California.
The Bells of El Camino Real
A chain of bells connect the California Missions and honor the legend of the "King's Highway."
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Transcontinental Railroad Back Country Byway
This now-abandoned part of the original transcontinental railroad route provides a surreal driving and historical experience.
The Wrong Abbey Road
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SpaceX laying off 10 percent of its workforce
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SEATTLE — SpaceX is laying off about 10 percent of its workforce, a cost-cutting move the company says is required to focus on development of its next-generation launch system and a broadband satellite constellation.
In a statement late Jan. 11, the company confirmed that SpaceX is laying off a portion of its workforce in the first large-scale reduction of its workforce since the company was founded in 2002.
"To continue delivering for our customers and to succeed in developing interplanetary spacecraft and a global space-based Internet, SpaceX must become a leaner company," the company stated, referring to its ongoing work on its Starship and Super Heavy launch vehicles and Starlink constellation. "Either of these developments, even when attempted separately, have bankrupted other organizations."
"This means we must part ways with some talented and hardworking members of our team," the statement continued. "We are grateful for everything they have accomplished and their commitment to SpaceX's mission. This action is taken only due to the extraordinarily difficult challenges ahead and would not otherwise be necessary."
The statement did not disclose the size of the layoffs, but a company source, speaking on background, estimated the cuts at 10 percent of the workforce. That ...


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Blake Lively Opens Up About 'Gossip Girl' + Getting a Self-Esteem Boost From Beyonce
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Good news, Upper East Side! 'Gossip Girl' star Blake Lively recently reminisced about her time on the set of the iconic teen soap.
Earlier this week (May 4), the actress took over Vogue's Twitter account, answering questions about the show, her hubby Ryan Reynolds and why Beyonce boosted her self-esteem.
When asked what she misses most about 'Gossip Girl,' Blake said, "I miss the people that I worked with, our cast and our crew. But I don't miss the 16-hour days."
However, she added that the first season was especially memorable for her because "it was the 1st year I lived in New York City and what a way to live in NY. It was very special and surreal."
Although the actress is most well-known for her role as Serena Van Der Woodsen, she was offered a one-in-a-life-time opportunity to be in Beyonce and Jay Z's 'On the Run' short film. So how did it feel to be asked by Queen B herself to participate?
"It was the first moment in my life where I truly felt cool. It gave me a high sense of self-esteem for a good 10 min," Blake responded. (In case you're wondering, Blake's favorite song by the superstar is 'Love on Top.')
Before Blake married husband Ryan Reynolds in 2012, the two starred together in 2011's 'The Green Lantern.' But would she work with him again?
"In the olden days, a couple could be in every movie together, but it's just not like that anymore," Blake explained. She added, "We both wish we could go back to then, because that would be a lot of fun."
You can read Blake's full Twitter Q & A here.
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Why the Humanities?
By Linda Hasselstrom
Editor's Note: "Why the Humanities" is an SDHC blog series explaining the importance of the humanities to our state and nation. The series features guest posts from experts in the humanities disciplines and those who have been touched by humanities programming. The opinions expressed in this series do not represent official views of the South Dakota Humanities Council and are the sole property of the author.
Linda Hasselstrom is a South Dakota rancher, author of 15 books, full-time resident writer at Windbreak House Writing Retreats and former South Dakota Festival of Books presenter. She received the Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities Award in 2011.
Change the World: With the Humanities and the Arts
One child, one book, one teacher, one pen can change the world.
--Malala Yousafzai*
Why is the budget proposal calling for entirely eliminating the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities such a terrible idea?
After all, South Dakotans say they really don't like much government.
But what we say doesn't always square with the facts.
Less than one-tenth of 1 percent of annual federal spending goes to the NEA, the NEH, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting combined. Deducting that amount from the federal budget would do almost nothing to improve the nation's economy, but would do incalculable damage to South Dakota's culture.
Informed, enlightened and engaged citizens are crucial to our democracy, and the arts and humanities are fundamental to creating these citizens. South Dakota's Humanities Council and Arts Council provide literary, artistic and historical events which contribute money to local economies as well as contributing to our cultural heritage.
And let me be blunt: those "contributions" include cash spent in South Dakota communities large and small.
South Dakota is the 46th most populous state, and in the most recent census, in 2012, had 833,354 citizens. Many of them benefit from SDHC and SDAC programs, and the numbers are growing.
The SDHC and South Dakota
In 2016, a staggering 47,299 South Dakotans participated directly in South Dakota Humanities Council programs in libraries, schools, museums, senior centers and cultural centers in 72 communities across South Dakota. Hundreds of other people benefited by subscribing to the SDHC blog for news and literary discussions, and other artistic ventures.
One child, one book . . .
For 14 years, SDHC's South Dakota Festival of Books has inspired readers and writers, bringing in writers like former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser of Nebraska, demonstrating that Great Plains writers really are great. A total of 13 Pulitzer Prize winners visited the state during 2016 to celebrate 100 years of the prize's existence.
Presenters such as National Book Award winner Louise Erdrich and Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Michael Dirda have talked about their work. In 2016, the Veterans Writing Contest encouraged members of the military, retired and active, to share their stories. The 2017 Veterans program will feature Vietnam veteran and author Tim O'Brien, who won the National Book Award for his fiction masterpiece, Going After Cacciato, and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for "The Things They Carried."
Geneive Abdo, nonresident fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings and a fellow in the Middle East program at the Stimson Center, whose research focuses on modern Iran and political Islam, will discuss her book "The New Sectarianism: The Arab Uprisings and the Rebirth of the Shi'a-Sunni Divide."
The 2017 One Book South Dakota program will feature "Kitchens of the Great Midwest" by J. Ryan Stradal, and the Young Readers One Book program will showcase a bind-in of three books, "Adventures on Deckawoo Drive: Volumes 1-3," in book discussions, presentations and other events across the state.
One child . . . or 11,000 . . .
The Young Readers Initiative has provided more than 11,000 age-appropriate books to elementary students during the past three years and brought their authors, including Newberry Medal winner Kate DiCamillo, to the Young Readers Festival of Books.
A 2016 NEH Challenge Access Grant will expand the Young Readers initiative to elementary students on all nine South Dakota American Indian reservations, as well as to Spanish-speaking English Language Learners, promoting cultural diversity in the state.
The SDAC and South Dakota
The South Dakota Arts Council is celebrating fifty years of sponsorship for its various programs. According to Surveys by the NEA, 71.4 percent of South Dakotans are attending arts events every year, and 51.4 percent of South Dakotans personally perform or create artworks.
As a division of the Department of Tourism, SDAC advocates for the arts statewide as well as providing services that enrich state communities through "the promotion of the creativity and visitor industries, by nurturing cultural leadership and education, and recognizing artistic excellence."
In 2016, the activities co-sponsored by SDAC reached 920,000 people, including 270,000 youth, and involved more than 16,000 artists. The SDAC awarded 455 grants, supported with funds from the NEA and the State of South Dakota through a portion of the tourism promotion tax. The total 2016 budget of $1.59 million included $1.27 million in grants and special project support, which generated $17.59 million in local cash matching funds.
The Artists in Schools and Communities program sends visiting artists in in literature and creative writing, in music, in traditional arts, in theater, and the visual arts all over the state.
One child, one book, one teacher . . .
SDAC helps make the arts available in all regions of the state by providing funds to non-profit sponsor organizations for presenting Touring Arts, with artists and exhibitions selected on the basis of quality by review panels and the South Dakota Arts Council. For this program, the SDAC sponsored 190 events in 165 communities by 230 artists, and reached 22,725 people, 12,332 of them youth.
Other programs coordinated and/or funded by SDAC include the Art for State Buildings program, which ensures that state buildings include works of art for public display; the Traditional Arts Program, which helps artists and organizations carrying on skills and esthetic forms that are rooted in culture; and Poetry Out Loud, a free program for public and private high school students that uses memorization and recitation of great poetry to help young people master public speaking, build self-confidence, learn about their literary heritage, and compete for more than $100,000 in awards.
You can change the world.
To help these good programs continue contributing to our citizens, you can do three things.
Contact your congressional representatives and urge them to support NEH, NEA, and the state councils. Phone calls or post cards are most effective. Be sure to tell them what these programs have done for your community.
-- Senator John Thune, 511 Dirksen Senate Office Bldg., Washington, DC 20510; toll free: 1-866-850-3855; 1-202-224-2321.
-- Senator Mike Rounds, 502 Hart Senate Office Bldg., Washington DC 20510; toll free: 1-844-875-5268; 2-202-224-5842.
-- Representative Kristi Noem, 2457 Rayburn House Office Bldg., Washington, DC, 20510; toll-free: 1-855-225-2801; 1-202-225-2801.
Like SDHC and like SDAC on Facebook. Follow SDHC and follow SDAC on Twitter to keep up with current news.
Sign up for newsletters from SDAC and SDHC, and invite friends to do the same.
Contribute. Help sustain funds that will guarantee arts and humanities programs in South Dakota permanently, no matter what happens at the federal level. Learn more about donation opportunities at the respective websites.
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*Malala Yousafzai, (born July 12, 1997), is a Pakistani activist who, while a teenager, spoke out publicly against the Taliban's prohibition on the education of girls. She gained global attention when she survived an assassination attempt at age 15.
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Spreading Enlightenment to All Corners of the State
My parents introduced me to the humanities well before I was aware that there was such a thing. They didn't set out to do it. It just happened. Continue Reading
Celebrating NAHM: 12 Important Purposes of Humanities
How can the humanities improve your life? Here are 12 benefits of the humanities, in honor of National Arts and Humanities Month. Continue Reading
Why the Humanities: 'Hardwired for Story'
As far as we know, human beings are the only creatures that tell stories. Think about that for a minute. Let it sink in. Continue Reading
Why the Humanities: 'Connections Enhance the Human Experience'
The Humanities indiscriminately touch all of us. I was introduced to the humanities, without knowing it, in grade school. Continue Reading
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What is colour temperature (Kelvin)?
What Are LED's?
LED's are recognised as being the safest and most efficient product on the market. In terms of science, an LED is an unidirectional current-carrying device based on light emitting properties of a p-n (positive-negative) junction. When given power, current flows from the p-side(anode) to the n-side(cathode), but not the other way where electrons give up energy as they recombine with holes in the semiconductor crystal lattice. When an electron meets a hole, it releases energy in form of a photon (emits light).
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Training programmes for reseller groups add value for members and enhances relationships with Schneider Electric.
May 15, 2014 - PRLog -- London, United Kingdom - Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management, has announced that it will hold its first online webinar to offer data centre training specifically for members of the company's LinkedIn reseller group (http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&trk=anet_ug_hm&gid=4735997).
The first webinar will take place on May 19th, 2014 at 14:00 CET and will cover 14 data centre analysis tools and over 100 white papers available for all resellers. Schneider Electric have an extensive library of free resources to help resellers analyse, advise, educate and compare a range of technologies and solutions to ensure end customers benefit from more efficient, cost effective and successful data centres.
Hosted by Wendy Torrell and Patrick Donovan, Senior Research Analysts at Schneider Electric's Data Centre (http://www.schneider-electric.co.uk/sites/uk/en/solutions...) Science Centre, who research and publish on data centre excellence for the company and its reseller community, the webinar will cover a range of materials from Schneider Electric's library to help resellers ensure they know which tools will help best, in which situations to identify the optimum solutions for a range of different customer situations.
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Shri Sai Baba Sansthan, Shirdi was established in the year 1922 in the noble service of Shri Sai Baba. From the year 1922 to August of 1989 the establishment staff provided various facilities for the devotees. On May 4, 1990 Bhoomi Pujan of 'Sai Baba Bhakta Niwas' was performed. A building to accommodate 3500 devotees, having 560 self-contained rooms and two spacious halls has been constructed.
Sai Baba used to cure many diseases. Shri Sai Baba Sansthan, Shirdi built a 'Shri Sainath' Hospital to continue to provide medical service to patients. The Hospital is well equipped. It has a 'Manojkumar Intensive Care Unit', 'Smt.
Janaki Devi Suri Sonography Centre', 'Raju Batra X-ray Machine', .
The Hospital provides many services such as eye diagnosis, cataract operation, family planning, cancer research, homoeopathy treatment . The plans for the future are:- expansion of the Hospital, establishment of a medical research centre, and an addition of a nursing and medical college.
The Sansthan runs a 'Prasadalaya' to provide lunch and dinner to the devotees. Nearly 1000 devotees can partake of Baba's prasad at the same time. The kitchen of the Prasadalaya is equipped with modern cooking amenities. Food-packets are available to the devotees from 8:00 in the morning to 12:00 noon. There is a canteen service available to the devotees day and night.
The Sansthan is publishes various photographs and books on Shri Sai Baba in many languages. The trust has started English medium schools three years ago. Scholarships are given to the poor and clever students every year by the Sansthan. The Chairperson and the members of the trust are taking keen interest to provide facilities to the villagers and devotees.


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Al-Hasakah clans: We to support SDF against Turkish occupation
Al-Hasakah elders and sheikhs announced their support to SDF against the Turkish occupation and called on the international organizations and forces to put an end to the Turkish occupation threats against the peoples of the area.
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At the invitation of the Arab elders of al-Hasakah canton, a dialogue forum has been held today in al-Selam Hall in al-Hasakah city north of Syria to discuss the Turkish threats against the east of the Euphrates and to explain their positions of these violations.
At the end of the forum the elders clans issued a statement read by al-Jabour clan elder , Fawaz al-Zoba in which he said:
At a time when the terrorist forces in all of their forms and military organizations the last of which IS mercenaries backed by Turkey led by AKP and its president Erdogan to sabotage and corrupt all the areas of Syria…..and due to the sacrifices of the children of our country to protect their people and their lands of all forms of terrorism which are to be defeated soon, the Turkish regime at this time exactly started to threaten the security areas of north and east Syria which were liberated of terrorist gangs, the Turkish occupation started its violations on the border areas between Syria and Turkey by launching the brutal shelling to the safe villages which resulted in causalities among the civilians under the flimsy pretexts and it is clear to all that the Turkish real goal is to hit our safe and stable areas and to rescue IS mercenaries on the other side and ease the pressure on it.
We, as al-Hasakah elders clans in all of their components stand in one rank in the face of the Turkish occupation threats and violations in all of their forms by our unity and supporting Syrian Democratic Forces and all the national forces that work against the Turkish aggression.
We appeal to the peace and good forces of all countries and organizations to stand in the face of the Turkish occupation repeated threats and violations against our people.
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«Кахо́вський плацда́рм» (друга назва — «Суворі дні») — український радянський історичний фільм 1933 року. Прем'єра відбулася 25 грудня 1933 року.

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Фільм створений в дусі більшовицької пропаганли. 1920 рік. Частини Червоної Армії зазнають тимчасової поразки. «Куркулі» ховають хліб і не здають його державі. Максим Федько вагається. Він не хоче бути саботажником, але йому шкода свого добра. В цей час в село вриваються «банди» Махна. Заарештовано більшовицького активіста Ковальчука, селянина-бідняка, зятя Максима. Але Федьку вдається врятувати зятя від розправи. Слідом за махновцями в село вступають врангелівці. Ковальчуку вдається втекти, він вступає в Червону Армію. Загін червоноармійців звільняє село. Ковальчук зустрічається з дружиною, сином і тестем. Звірства білих розвіяли сумніви Максима — він віддає своїх коней в обоз Червоної армії.

Знімальна група
 Режисер-постановник — Олександр (Арон) Штріжак-Штейнер
 Сценарист — Соломон Лазурін
 Оператор-постановник — Микола Кульчицький
 Композитори — І. Овадіс, Валентин Костенко
 Художник-постановник — Д. Дем'яненко

Актори
 Георгій Бабенко,
 Борис Авшаров,
 Сергій Мінін,
 Степан Шкурат,
 Тетяна Вечора,
 Микола Надемський,
 Б. Іванов,
 Олександр Романенко,
 В. Крицький,
 П. Некрутенко,
 Н. Рудаков

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 Каховский плацдарм // kino-teatr.org

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Disney News · August 22, 2017
Julia Computing: Disney, Uber Interested in Tech Startup in India… but for what?
Disney, Uber, Apple and Amazon are all keenly interested in a relatively new Indian startup company called Julia Computing. But why?
The young company is behind a programming language that's catching on like wildfire. From the company's website…
Julia is the fastest modern open-source language for data science, machine learning and scientific computing. Julia provides the functionality, ease-of-use and intuitive syntax of R, Python, Matlab, SAS or Stata combined with the speed, capacity and performance of C, C++ or Java.
Obviously, with companies like Disney, Amazon and Apple being involved in the creative end side of technology, having something that aids in "machine learning" could be incredibly helpful.
However, there's something that Julia is already being used for — guiding self-driving vehicles.
Could it be that Disney is looking at the Julia platform to operate the rumored driverless vehicles that may be coming to Walt Disney World?
While it's true that the Minnie Vans have already been deployed, those were not the self-driving vehicles that have been rumored. And UC Berkeley is already using Julia to help its driverless race car navigate.
It's possible that Disney (or another company contracted by Disney, like Ollie) could be using Julia to develop a "learning" driverless vehicle system as we speak.
But knowing Disney, they probably have many uses for a language like Julia. Maybe we'll even see talking characters in the Disney parks who "learn" by having conversations with Guests, or make small talk by gathering data from MagicBands.
[Source: Times of India]
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The North Adelaide practice has grown rapidly, and we are moving the rooms to a new location. We will be moving on the 16th December, and will be sending details through the post to all our patients.
16th December 2014. If you have an appointment prior to this date, then please come to the old 175 Ward Street address. After the 16th December, all consulting will be at Calvary North Adelaide Hospital. We are on the ground floor. Just ask at reception, and they will point you to the new rooms.
We are writing to all our patients and their GPs to let them know about the move, with all the details of the new location. If you have any questions, Jane or Heather will be pleased to help. Before 16th December, call them on 8267 2200, after that date, call them on 82671424. We apologise for any inconvenience, and we are confident that you will find the new location is able to meet your expectations as a customer of the practice.
From 1 December 2014, a new drug for advanced prostate cancer will be available and listed on the PBS. Enzalutamide is an oral drug used for advanced prostate cancer (metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer). It works by inhibiting binding of androgens (such as testosterone) to the androgen receptor (AR), as well as inhibiting the AR from entering the cell nucleus and from binding to DNA. It has had encouraging results in clinical trials.
What are the PBS criteria for enzalutamide?
Patient must have developed intolerance to abiraterone of a severity necessitating permanent withdrawal of abiraterone.
From December 2014 , the PBS criteria for abiraterone acetate changed, meaning that patients deemed unsuitable for chemotherapy with doxetaxel can be prescribed PBS-subsidised abiraterone.
Abiraterone is an oral drug for metastatic prostate cancer that is castration resistant (meaning the cancer that is no longer sensitive to other forms of testosterone suppression). It works by inhibiting an enzyme involved in the production of androgens (testosterone is one of the body's androgens).
What are the new amended PBS criteria?
Patients must have failed treatment with docetaxel because of resistance or intolerance, or be considered unsuitable for docetaxel chemotherapy because of proven or predicted intolerance to the chemotherapy.
If progressive disease develops whilst on abiraterone, PBS-subsidised treatment with abiraterone cannot continue.
Patients cannot have previously received treatment with enzalutamide, or they must have developed intolerance to enzalutamide, which was bad enough to require that enzalutamide was stopped.
Australia has one of the highest rates of prostate cancer in the developed world. The PSA test is the first investigation that can be done to look for prostate cancer. It is not a perfect test, and there are problems associated with the test, which is why you should be as well informad as possible about PSA.
Prostate cancer is common. Most men will develop prostate cancer if they live long enough. Despite this, only about 3% of all men will die of prostate cancer.
This indicates that most prostate cancers do not cause trouble in a man's lifetime ('low-risk' or 'indolent' cancers). However, there are some more aggressive cancers that can cause trouble, and these benefit from detection and treatment.
Screening studies do show that the number of prostate cancer deaths can be reduced by screening with PSA. However, quite a large number of men need to be diagnosed by screening and treated to prevent one prostate cancer death.
One study (the Goteborg study) showed that 12 men need to be diagnosed to prevent one prostate cancer death. That means that 11 men were unnecessarily diagnosed. Another larger study demonstrated that (ERSPC) that 781 men need to be screened and 27 men need to be diagnosed to prevent one prostate cancer death. Thus 26 men are unnecessarily diagnosed.
Screening will detect many of these indolent cancers, and if they are detected, they may go on to be treated, perhaps unnecessarily.
Treatment is associated with long term complications in men, such as incontinence, erectile dysfunction (impotence) and bowel problems. Therefore, some men (indolent cancers that are treated) may have unnecessary treatment and suffer side effects.
The aim of screening should be to identify aggressive or high-risk prostate cancers early, before they have spread beyond the prostate.
Some men are at higher risk of aggressive prostate cancer than others. These are men with a family history of prostate cancer, or with a strong family history of breast or ovarian cancer in females of the family, men of African-American decent, and men who have been exposed to some environmental agents (fire-fighters possibly, and veterans exposed to Agent Orange).
Most prostate cancers found by screening are low risk and do not need to be treated, and can just be closely followed by active surveillance (click for link to AS).
If you choose to be screened, there is a reasonable chance you will be diagnosed with low-risk prostate cancer, and may be in a position where you have to consider treatment that may be unnecessary.
Your decision to be screened – what sort of person are you?
If you have risk factors for prostate cancer (see above), your risk of prostate cancer may be higher than the general population, and this may impact your decision to be screened.
If you are the sort of person who would be uncomfortable not being treated if low risk prostate cancer was discovered, screening may not be the right decision for you.
If you are the sort of person who would accept treatment for aggressive prostate cancer, but would be happy to observe (active surveillance) things if you just had low risk prostate cancer, then you may be a good candidate for screening.
Video consultation is now available at Nick Brook Urology, to reduce the need for long distance travel for rural and country patients in South Australia. This service offers a real time consultation over a video link from your GP's practice, so you can talk directly with a Urologist.
If your GP has made a new referral and has requested a video consult ('video telehealth'), this will be sent to Nick Brook, who will review the referral and see if it is suitable for a video consultation. If so, the staff at Nick Brook Urology will contact you and your GP and a time will be arranged for you to attend your GP practice for the video consultation. One of the staff from your GP practice will be with you during the consultation to help you. You do not need to do anything special – all of the organisation will be taken care of, and all you need to do is talk with Mr Brook, as per a normal consult.
Any investigations, such as blood tests or X-rays, can be arranged easily, and will be faxed to the GP practice so you can have them done near to your home. Follow up appointments can be arranged by video as well.
Are all consults suitable for video telehealth?
What happens if I need a physical examination by the Specialist?
Because examination cannot be done at the time of video consults, it may be that your consult may not be suitable for telehealth. You may still need to travel so that this examination can be done. Likewise, some specialised investigations may need to be done in person. However, an initial discussion by video can reduce the need for multiple visits, even if you do have to come to Adelaide for a face-to-face consult at some point.
No, there is no video recording made. However, medical notes are made as with a standard face-to-face consultation.
How do I request a video consultation?
Ask your general practitioner if they have the facilities available for a video telehealth consultation. You can also contact Nick Brook Urology to help arrange this.
Can I have a family member or friend in the room for the consultation?
Yes you can. It is helpful if you let your GP know about this prior to the consultation.
Just as in a standard face-to-face consultation, your privacy is absolutely respected. The only people involved in the consultation are you, Mr Brook, and one of the staff members from your GP practice. Contact will be made before and after the consultation by practice staff, to arrange investigations and follow-up. Your medical records are recorded and stored in exactly the same way as if you had a standard consultation, on our secure electronic record system.
Generally, a program called Facetime is used, and this is an encrypted system. Facetime is streamed via Secure Real Time Protocol (SRTP) using AES-256 encryption. Likewise, WiFi and wired systems at the practice are encrypted. Both of these encryptions work separately so it would be very difficult indeed for these systems to intercepted by a third party.
A video telehealth consultation has been suggested, but I do not want one. What do I do?
You are absolutely free to decline a video consultation and have a face-to-face consultation instead. Please let your GP and Specialist know about this, and this will be arranged for you.
Our First Guest Blog for May 2014 is by Dr Shankar Siva, a Radiation Oncologist from The Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne. He discusses the new technique of Sterotactic Ablative Body Radiotherapy for kidney cancer in patients who are not medically fit for surgery. This new approach is still in a study period, but may offer cancer control to patients who do not have other treatment options.
Shankar, can you explain what Stereotactic Ablative Body Radiotherapy (SABR) is, and what advantages it has over other forms of radiotherapy?
Stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy (SABR) is a high precision radiotherapy technique that involves between 1 and 5 treatments. This is very different from conventional radiotherapy that involves daily radiotherapy for up to 8 weeks. It is non-invasive, painless, delivered without any need for anaesthetic, and conveniently does not require in-patient hospitalisation. SABR requires high-tech radiotherapy equipment for safe delivery, such as motion management for the tumour, accurate image guidance, and robust immobilisation. When delivered correctly, SABR can achieve submillimetre accuracy. Because of its precision, the SABR technique allows for much higher biological doses than can be safely delivered using conventional radiotherapy techniques. As such, most studies in sites such as the brain, lung and spine report cancer control rates in the order of 90% or greater after SABR.
Sterotactic radiotherapy for some other types of tumour has been around for some time. Why has it only recently been looked at for kidney tumours?
Stereotactic radiotherapy was first devised for brain tumours by Swedish neurosurgeon Lars Leksell in 1951, who termed it "radiosurgery", so yes, it has been around for a very long time! Cranial "radiosurgery" was performed by using a rigid frame around the skull which allowed for accurate delivery of the radiation dose. However, tumours in other organs such as the lung, liver, and kidney are all highly mobile due to normal breathing or from the pumping of the heart. Only recently have technological advances allowed us to account for and manage tumour motion during radiotherapy delivery. The kidney in particular is a challenging organ, as it is quite mobile and surrounded by many sensitive organs.
Which group of patients is likely to be suitable for this treatment for kidney tumours?
Surgery is still the standard of care for patients with kidney cancer. However, kidney cancer is typically a disease of the older population, with the average age of diagnosis being 65 years of age. Some patients have other medical conditions which make invasive procedures potentially risky, particularly those patients who may have significant pre-existing kidney dysfunction, are risky anaesthetic candidates, or have heart disease and are reliant on blood thinners. In light of this risk, other procedures such as SABR and radiofrequency or microwave ablation have emerged as treatment alternatives for inoperable patients. In contrast to SABR, the disadvantage of radiofrequency ablation and microwave ablation is that those techniques can typically treat only treat smaller tumours, require the insertion of electrodes through the skin into the kidney (invasive), and are not as effective when tumours are close to blood vessels. On the other hand, the disadvantage of SABR is that it is typically restricted to patients who have not previously received radiotherapy to the upper abdomen. Otherwise, we expect that most patients who are not suitable for surgery on medical grounds may be eligible for treatment using the SABR technique.
In the early period after treatment, we expect that most patients feel tired. There may be some nausea, or loose bowel actions. Some patients may experience some reflux or heartburn. We typically prescribe preventative medications to help with these side effects. There may be a mild skin reaction, similar to a very light sunburn, particularly around the back. These side effects usually resolve within the first 2-3 weeks, and we expect all of these side effects to be resolved by around 6 weeks post treatment. The longer term effects of SABR in the kidney are less well understood. There is a potential for decline in kidney function, rise in blood pressure, scarring or narrowing of the bowel, or very rarely ulceration of the bowel or stomach. To date, studies have shown that the risk of severe side effects to be less than 5%.
This treatment is currently part of a study at the Peter Mac. What do you think the future holds for this treatment for kidney tumours?
We have pioneered this technique in Australia through the FASTRACK clinical trial, one of the few clinical trials using SABR for localised kidney cancer in the world. This study is expected to be complete later in 2014, and to date the results have been very promising. We would like to make this treatment accessible to all patients in Australia. However, the problem is that technology is very complex and varies from centre to centre. The Peter Mac is one of the largest radiation oncology institutions in the southern hemisphere and an Australian leader in the SABR technique, so we are not certain whether our results can be immediately reproduced in other institutions across Australia.
The next phase in our research program is to lead a multicentre study of SABR for kidney cancer involving multiple cancer centres across Australia. All the treatment plans will be centrally reviewed by our team at the Peter Mac for quality assurance, in order for this new treatment to be safely introduced across Australia. If this study is successful, I imagine that stereotactic radiotherapy will become a readily available treatment alternative for inoperable patients with primary kidney cancer.
Click this link to display a news item and video on the SABR technique.
Dr Siva is a Radiation Oncologist, Research Staff Specialist and NHMRC Scholar at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne. His major research interests are in high-tech radiation delivery and radiation biology. He is the lead clinician of the stereotactic body radiotherapy program at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, and coordinates the first dedicated Stereotactic Ablative Body Radiotherapy (SABR) clinic in Australia. He published the first original research using the SABR technique in Australia. He serves on the Radiation Oncology Research Committee (RORC) of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists, on the renal subcommittee of the Australian and New Zealand Urogenital and Prostate (ANZUP) trials group, and as the radiation oncologist on the Management Advisory Committee (MAC) of the Australasian Lung Cancer Trials Group (ALTG). He is the principal investigator of multiple radiotherapy clinical trials of SABR in the context of lung, kidney and prostate malignancies.


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 Björn Hertl (* 1976), deutscher Fußballspieler
 František Hertl (1906–1973), tschechischer Solokontrabassist, Komponist und Dirigent
 Jan Hertl (1929–1996), tschechoslowakischer Fußballspieler
 Michael Hertl (1926–2020), deutscher Dermatologe und Allergologe
 Tomáš Hertl (* 1993), tschechischer Eishockeyspieler

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By Colleen Harrison
Published 8:20 pm Friday, October 9, 2020
Man's love of building with rocks began as a child
WELLS — An area man has taken a hobby and made a home out of it.
Eugene Stenzel, now 80, played with rocks as a child. He would build mountains out of the stones, but didn't like that they would move, so he started to glue them down. At 10 years old, he started playing around with cement. After a number of failed attempts, he eventually got the hang of the mixture and created his first stone work — a shrine or grotto for the Virgin Mary.
"They're all low to the ground because I was 10 years old and couldn't lift (the stone pieces) any higher," Stenzel said.
That original piece and others that followed were made of broken stone pieces, but Stenzel said using such small pieces took too long for him, so he moved on to using whole stones in his work. He built his house, which took him 10 years, along with his garage, which took him three years. He also built a fence and a gate leading to the house, which each took one year.
Touring Stenzel's property, other stone creations catch the eye — a gazebo in the backyard, a pergola in the front, a series of arches leading next door where his niece and nephew live, and multiple bell towers throughout the property, among other stone works. He has a fountain housed underneath different archways in his front yard, with each of the four seasons represented in the arches.
The property originally belonged to Stenzel's great-grandparents, who immigrated from Poland in 1884 and bought the farm in 1887. It was passed down through his family, and now has been divided up between Stenzel and his niece and nephew, Shannon and Matt Zebro. Original pieces of the family farm have been preserved or reworked for other purposes — a grainery has been turned into a family sitting area, and the old one-room schoolhouse Stenzel, his siblings and ancestors attended has been moved to his niece's and nephew's property.
Stenzel retired from being a full-time priest about 10 years ago, after about 53 years practicing. He still leads masses when needed for a congregation in Mankato.
Elements of his faith have been worked into several of the stone pieces around the property, from Jesus Christ to St. Francis. The tributes are involved partially because of their own importance to Stenzel, but also because people often bring him religious statues and other items, so he decides to incorporate the pieces into his work.
Other elements of Stenzel's pieces have been given to him as well; a number of the bells used in his different bell towers have been offered up to him, including one that used to be part of a locomotive. A wire piece on top of his series of arches was created by a friend.
Stenzel lives in the house he built out of stone. He originally planned for the house to take about 20 years to complete, but was able to cut that time in half after finding a cement mixer at a garage sale that helped expedite part of the process. He also wanted to make sure his father was able to see the house completed, and he did.
Stenzel did all the stonework on the house himself, first starting with a load-bearing wall that is now in the center of the house, dividing his kitchen from his living room. He said he built about one wall a year, after digging 8-foot-deep trenches by hand, and would work on the house during visits home and time off. He paid to have the roof done, and while waiting for that to be completed he started work on his garage. His nephews and brothers helped him insulate the walls of the house. The house is made of stone, concrete, concrete blocks and 2-by-6 pieces of wood.
"It was built literally one rock at a time," he said.
Stenzel has lived in the house over 20 years now, and has also added a sunroom onto the home with stone archways leading out to it.
All his work is done by "eyeballing," Stenzel said.
Stenzel has routinely given tours of his house and his work, but has put those on hold this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He plans to offer them again once the pandemic is over. In the meantime, Shannon Zebro runs a Facebook page showcasing his work, under the name "The Stone House" — Stenzel does not own a computer.
Stenzel completed another bell tower this summer, and he said it will be his last large-scale project. He will likely work on some smaller projects, but said the larger productions have just gotten to be too much work for him.
He said he will keep busy, though, as he maintains a considerable vegetable garden as well as numerous flower gardens. He also enjoys cooking for his family, and has some projects in mind for next year, such as painting a mural with his niece on a shed on her property.
"I don't think I'll ever be bored," he said.
About Colleen Harrison
Colleen Harrison is the photo editor at the Albert Lea Tribune. She does photography and writes general-assignment stories.
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Early modern Protestants traditionally not only affirmed natural law, but wrote entire treatises defending and expounding it. So what happened to get us to the point where many (perhaps even most) Protestants are suspicious of natural law or outright reject it, and where many Protestants think that their core convictions somehow exclude natural law or undermine it? This lecture will outline how we got to this point and what strategies we might use to talk to Protestants about the importance of natural law for their tradition.
Niels Hemmingsen. On the Law of Nature: A Demonstrative Method . Translated and edited by E. J. Hutchinson. Grand Rapids, MI: CLP Academic, 2018.
Girolamo Zanchi. On the Law in General . Translated by Jeffrey J. Veenstra. Grand Rapids, MI: CLP Academic, 2012.


Michele LaRue in "Someone Must Wash the Dishes: An Anti-Suffrage Satire"
Michele LaRue in "Someone Must Wash the Dishes"
Many women fought against getting the vote in the early 1900s, but none with more charm, prettier clothes—and less logic—than the fictional speaker in this satiric monologue written by pro-suffragist Marie Jenney Howe, back in 1912. "Woman suffrage is the reform against nature," declares Howe's unlikely, but irresistibly likeable, heroine.
Reviewers have called this production "wicked" in its wit, and have labeled Michèle LaRue's performance "side-splitting." An Illinois native, now based in New York, LaRue is a professional actress who tours nationally with a repertoire of shows by turn-of-the-previous-century American writers.
Panel Discussion follows on the unfinished business of women's rights.
Pro-Suffragist Marie Jenney Howe wrote Someone Must Wash the Dishes in 1912. Titled "An Anti-Suffrage Monologue," it was published in 1913, by the National American Woman Suffrage Association (precursor of the League of Women Voters). This production was directed by Warren Kliewer for New Jersey's The East Lynne Company—which he founded to revive American plays and literature of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Dishes premiered in March 1994, at New York City's 4th-annual Women-kind Festival. Presenters in 13 states range from Chicago's Newberry Library to New York's Mohonk Mountain House, and include universities and colleges, museums and historical societies, women's clubs, active adult communities, theatre companies, corporations, and conferences.
TICKETS: $15 Order ahead of time by mailing a check payable to Worcester Women's History Project, 30 Elm St., Worcester MA 01609.


Writer Joe R. Lansdale carves a tale of sheer terror when hard-boiled private detective Chet Daly is drawn into a grisly case of homicide and supernatural horror. Investigating the strange behavior of his girlfriend's brother, Daly follows a bloody trail of death to the God of the Razor, an inhuman, elemental force of mutilation and murder.
The X-Files: Case Files—Hoot Goes There?
For 25 years, FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully have been shining their ash- lights into the shadows, searching for the truth. To celebrate this anniversary, IDW Publishing proudly presents The X-Files: Case Files! Under this banner, faithful fans will see the release of numerous micro-se- ries, featuring stories that explore X-Files of the past and present by top talent from comics and prose!