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package org.broad.igv.sam.lite;

import org.broad.igv.util.FileUtils;
import org.broad.igv.util.TestUtils;
import org.junit.Test;

import static org.junit.Assert.*;

/**
 * Created by jrobinso on 3/10/17.
 */
public class BGUnzipTest {

    @Test
    public void blockUnzip() throws Exception {

        String bgzFile = TestUtils.DATA_DIR + "/bgz/BCOST.gz";

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        byte[] uncompressed = BGUnzip.blockUnzip(compressed, 0);

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    }

}

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When the matter of the Matanzas Woods golf course's foreclosure last came up in Flagler County Circuit Court on May 31, the golf course's owners were a no-show. The next day, Circuit Judge Scott DuPont signed an order striking what defenses the golf course owners had produced (and not produced), handing Palm Coast government a victory. The next step would be judgement of foreclosure, which would then presumably enable the property to be auctioned off.
On Thursday, Palm Coast moved for a final judgment of foreclosure based on liens and money owned: $58,553 to the utility department and $170,138 in fines due Code Enforcement, for a total of $228,691.
The Matanzas Woods golf course has been a thorn in Palm Coast government's side and that of residents surrounding the golf course, who have pressured the city to act. Residents have been unhappy with the state of the disused golf course, blaming it for damaging their property values and opportunities to sell. The city followed through, at first attempting to resolve the problem by compelling the course owners to better maintain it, then last spring filing suit to foreclose.
The golf course is owned by attorney Michael Yokan and Stephen Richardson, who bought it under the name of Group Golf of Palm Coast LLC some three years ago for $266,800. They were sketchy last year about their plans for the course.
The city has not required chemical treatment, however, merely maintenance. That lawsuit has not been scheduled for a hearing. It is also in circuit court, before DuPont. Palm Coast's likely answer is a motion for dismissal.
After Palm Coast filed suit in 2016, the group responded last February in an eight-page filing that the city was acting illegally. It claimed, for example, that it did not use utility services as the city says it did, making the utility lien invalid. The group then denied having not paid utility fees and demanded proof that it had not (proof the city provided in line by line detail). It took much the same approach regarding the code enforcement lien, again disputing that it was not in compliance with city codes, and challenging the constitutionality of the code as applied to the golf course. (The city's Code Enforcement Board ordered foreclosure of the lien on March 17, 2016). Code enforcement liens have the same power to be enforced as any court judgment. The city proceeded along those lines.
Group Golf's position is that the acreage should simply be treated as vacant property, "and not a functioning golf course." The group then alleges that it was being treated differently than other real estate developers, "including Jim Cullis, the course of the code enforcement complaints which led to the purported fines and lien in this case," the group states in its answer. Cullis had tried previously to buy the property from the group. He would now be positioned to take ownership of the property through foreclosure. (Brad West, one of the residents around the golf course, has chronicled some of the history in detail here.) The group also included allegations that the city had violated its due process.
Palm Coast disagreed. In a six-page answer of its own–a motion to strike the Group Golf's affirmative defenses–the city argued that Group Golf never so much as appealed the decision of the code enforcement board, which in essence–according to the city, based on legal precedent–invalidates the group's subsequent claims.
"Because [Golf Grop] failed to appeal the code enforcement board orders, [Group Golf] waived the right" to constitutional defenses, while the circuit court "lacks jurisdiction to address the defenses." The city asked the judge to strike Group Golf';s defenses, which DuPont did.
Group Golf could have made its arguments before the judge on May 31, when a hearing was scheduled, but did not show. The group was represented by Christopher Wickersham Jr., a Jacksonville attorney.
We live on the course and the whole thing is very shady. Cullis has been trying to get his hands on it for years. He is a real estate developer and the homeowners here do not want any houses. It costs a lot of money to keep it mowed and pay the annual fees to St. John's Water Management District. What's strange is when the course was kept mowed the city started fining the owners. It's been kept decent, in fact the fairway behind my house was being mowed yesterday. The photo in the article is very misleading. It is of a section of cart path that is away from a fairway. I'll be glad to email you a photo of the course behind my house.
golfing is such an old school sport now why would anybody want to live near one the prestige is no longer there AND there are FAR too many in Palm Coast.
Isn't golf like watching paint dry?
Thanks for the article about this important matter that has impacted so many residents for years. Its not so much about golf anymore as it is about land usage, quality of life and property values. The owners even said in their affirmative defenses they had no plans to make it a golf course again. Recently, I noted as ad for a golf course home in Matanzas Woods. Its a nice, quiet area but it is not a golf course community and has not been for almost 10 years. Even if it was to be a course again, it would have some homes built around it. The city has said they will protect the views of existing homes on the property.
When I read an article about the Matanzas Golf Course. I think what a beautiful golf course it had been. I feel bad for the homeowners surrounding the course. It wouldn't seem likely that Matanzas will ever be resurrected. Golf courses for the most part are bad investments. Too bad the homeowners couldn't form a group to buy the course. Then the homeowners and the city of Palm Coast. Workout a plan to make this happen.
It was never about golf, and that has been the problem. Some residents made it about golf and golf advocacy. This has always been a problem about the impact on the properties surrounding the former golf course property. A good solution was put before this community over 2 years ago and a group of residents very actively worked to squash the conversation and any possibility of an alternate use of the property (a linear park) insisting it had to be a golf course. Those of us who live here could have had so much more by now, but unfortunately a selfish few put up barriers to a solution. One of them was a part-time resident, two others have since moved away. Go figure.
I think that there was a lot of misunderstanding going on between the residents, the city and the owners. The vast majority of residents still wanted their course. As a matter of fact, 90% signed a petition to bring back the course. There were a few who wanted Mr Cullis to develop the property immediately. They were dominated by the realtor community. I think they thought they would make more commission if it were a park and houses. However, any course restoration would have also have included homes and they would have been more valuable golf course homes. We were offered the property by the original owner for $200k. No one could get it together to buy it. A city council person related to me that the city manager would never allow restoration because it would compete with the inferior city owned course a few miles away. Mr Meeker worked tirelessly with us to find a solution. In the end a restoration was not economically possible. However, all bases had to be covered. Hopefully, the apathy and animus of neighbors will fade and they can work with the city to solve this vital issue. If we would have worked together, this could have been resolved years ago.
Yet again, the Matanzas Woods Golf Club is e n c u m b e r e d by a Federal Consent Agreement ; more specifically Federal Trade Commissions' ORDER – Consent Agreement F.T.C. C-2854 and Federally ORDERED '…15 Year Compliance Report…' of which it is many times named and identified within the Federal ' Exhibits '.
I hope that the plans to make an organic farm are successful. Palm Coast and Florida have plenty of golf courses. The opportunity to have clean, nutritious food grown right in the community would be invaluable. Forward thinking communities around the country are waking up to the FACT that our current food/farming system is not sustainable and makes both us and the land sick. We have a chance to be ahead of the curve. I would bet heavily that a working organic farm in the middle of the community would add more tangible value to the city/county/residents than another golf course, as well as many intangible benefits.
Hey Nick, I bet you don't live in the former course. We don't want a friggin organic farm in our backyard.
charging a business $170,000 in fines? No wonder they are broke!
Wonder if the city will fine itself after it forecloses and doesn't keep it cut!
Now comes the defendant! They showed up and filed for a re-hearing!
Owners were stuck in traffic on I95. Per their affidavit, they were only 19 minutes late and had called the court to notify the court of an accident and subsequent traffic jam. They are still due their day in court and due process.
I live on the old course with a piece of the fairway a cart path and a green on the other side behind my home. I don't care about it ever being a golf course again. I would much rather the land be used for a park. Building more homes is not the answer. We have already lost tons of money on property values here, so, more homes is not the answer. A park would be just fine. Oh before they build it, could they please kill the water moccasin den? I've killed about 1000 so far. Thanks.
JM who is going to pay to keep a park up? At least a golf course has income.


Last year I managed to attend two shows at 080 Barcelona Fashion. It was my first time at a fashion show so I didn't really know what to expect. I enjoyed it a lot anyway and I could not wait to go to some other shows in the future. To be honest, my aim was to go to LFWM this January, but it was impossible for me to make it happen. However, I did manage to get some tickets for 080 Barcelona Fashion again.
This time I knew which fashion shows I wanted to attend. Unfortunately, I could not go to all of them because of my job. In my opinion, 080 Barcelona Fashion is not given much attention globally, although there are quite a few interesting collections. For this reason, I though it could be a good idea to show you all my favourite shows from this season.
I would've loved to go to this show because I thought it was going to be very interesting, but I couldn't. It is the show that everyone talked about this season, basically because some influencers walked for them. Among them you could find people like Marta Riumbau, Dulceida or Laura Escanes. To be honest, this was an innovation at 080 but it is something that we have already seen at other fashion weeks with Dolce & Gabbana for example. I have to say that I normally like Ze García's dresses, but I was not massively surprised by the ones they presented this year.
This is the first show I went to this season and my favourite one as well. I discovered about Jnorig recently, but I think their designs are very fresh and very minimal. In fact, I would definitely wear some of the pieces I saw on their runway such as the grey jacket in the first picture below. The designer, Javier Giron, named the collection Un Caracal Blanc. It is basically inspired by a mixture of two different cultures: the north west of Canada, which is very cold, and the Arabian desert, which is much warmer. What I love the most is how minimal the pieces look and also how strong the geometric figures are. The whole collection has a very futuristic vibe in my opinion, but we can see where the designer got his inspiration from.
This is another show I attended. To be honest, I knew nothing about this brand but I thought it had an interesting approach. Their collection's title is Make America Great Again!, which is obviously making reference to Donald Trump's slogan. I can't say I am the biggest fan of their clothing, although I do think the whole collection was exciting. It was inspired by school uniforms from New York. We all probably have a very strong image of this kind of uniforms in our minds. This is why they tried to make it new. I loved the way they played with proportions and how they integrated trends such as oversized clothing or scarfs.
I have been following this designer for a while, and I was very curious about what he was going to present. For this reason, I was excited to go to his show. Even though I enjoyed it, it was not one of my favourite shows. The thing is that Oscar Leon has a very strong branding. This is extremely good because we can recognise his work easily, but I think it also makes it difficult for him to surprise the audience. Despite that, I always like the messages he writes on his clothing and the overall vibe the presentation has.
I really wish I had been able to go to Krizia's show because last season's was amazing, as I had so much fun. Her new collection Trendy Flock is completely different and very surprising. It is definitely not the kind of clothing that I would normally wear, mainly because of how colourful it is. What I like the most about it is the fact that the pieces are made as if they had been taken from a graphic novel. In fact, the illustrator Susana López help her with it. The collection is also full of irony and criticism to trends, aesthetics and forgery, although it is also very naive.
Right after Krizia Robustella's show, Pablo Erroz presented his new collection Goals. It is the collection that completes his trilogy that also includes Panorama and Leave to Live. It is full of comfy oversized clothes that have no gender distinctions. He also mixes lots of different materials that we would not normally put together. This is probably one of the things that I like the most about it because it inspires me to experiment more with my clothing. To be honest, I think that what Pablo Erroz tried to show was his own vision of the future. His vision is very minimalist and inspired by the club culture.
The first thing I noticed about Miquel Suay's new collection was the amount of different patterns that he had used. It is surprising how some of them can look really good together. To be honest, I would have never styled them like that but the result was excellent. Again, it is not the kind of collection that I would wear because it has a baroque vibe. In fact, this is why he used so many different patterns. Another interesting thing about it are all the different colours he used. I know I have chosen the worst photos to show you this, but if you check the other looks you'll see lots of other colours such as red and yellow.
I hope you found this post interesting and that you discovered some new designers. These are only a few of the brands and artists that showcased their collections at 080 Barcelona Fashion. You should definitely check out the rest as well. I would love to know your opinion about their collections. Which is the one that you loved the most? Also, if you want to watch some videos from the ones I attended, you'll find them in my highlights on Instagram (@zoelhl).


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Belgian city finds its former mayor's heart in a fountain
A small zinc casket containing the heart of Pierre David, the first official mayor of Verviers, is seen in a museum after being discovered by workers during the renovation of a fountain, in Verviers, Belgium on Sep 9, 2020. (Photo: REUTERS/Johanna Geron)
10 Sep 2020 09:47PM
VERVIERS: For years it was just an urban myth. Then the diggers moved in and found it was true: that the heart of a former mayor of the eastern Belgian city of Verviers really was buried under a fountain.
A small metal box, containing Pierre David's heart in an ethanol-filled jar, was uncovered during renovation work on the city's ornate stone fountain last month.
The relic is mentioned in civic documents, but until it was found "no one really believed it," Verviers city councillor Maxime Degey told Reuters.
"Today the legend is no longer a legend. It's a reality."
David, the city's first mayor after Belgium became an independent country, was still in office when he died in 1839 after falling from a building.
Authorities built a fountain in his honour and, with his family's permission, placed his heart under a stone in the monument in 1883.
A fountain where a small zinc casket containing the heart of Pierre David, the city's first official mayor, is seen in Verviers, Belgium on Sep 9, 2020. (Photo: REUTERS/Johanna Geron)
The box is on display at the Verviers Museum of Fine Arts and Ceramics. It will be returned to the Fontaine David in the city's Place Verte once the renovation is complete.
"I do not know of any other example of a mayor whose heart has been preserved in a monument ... in the middle of his town. That's unique," said Nathalie Weerts, the museum's deputy curator.
David first served as mayor of Verviers from 1800-1808, when Belgium was under French rule. His second stint in office began in 1830, the year that Belgium became an independent country.
He established the city's first fire brigade and opened up politics, letting the public in to watch city council debates.
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At the end of January, the first list of interim charges for House committees was released by the Speaker of the House. Appropriations, the budget-writing committee of the House, was given a charge to conduct a basic review of the public education funding formulas and specifically if items funded outside of the formulas should be brought into the formulas.
Of the $5.3 billion cut from public education by the 2011 Legislature, $1.3 billion was from funding outside the formulas. These cuts had a disproportionate impact on economically disadvantaged students because many programs and services targeted toward academic success of at-risk and economically disadvantaged students are funded outside the formulas. For example, $208 million for Pre-K expansion grants was eliminated in 2011, as was $97 million for the High School Completion/Success program and $20 million for the Teen Parenting Program. Of the small funding restorations made by the 2013 Legislature very little went towards funding outside the formulas.
Programs funded outside the formulas are often the first targeted for cuts, because they are a low-hanging fruit. It's easier to cut a line item in the budget than to adjust funding formulas. In an ideal world, the formulas would provide every district with just the right amount of money to meet the educational needs of its unique student body. However, as the school finance trial playing out in the courts right now shows, we are far from that ideal.
Unfortunately, this basic review of the formulas does not include an in-depth study of the weights and allotments and cost-of-education index—the major drivers of school finance. At the core of the plaintiff's arguments in the school finance lawsuit is the fact that the state does not know the cost of its requirements, and from the charges released so far, it appears that the state is in no hurry to tackle that question over the interim.


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Unverified narratives about virus origins spreads across the U.S.
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Infodemic worsens as unverified claims about Covid-19 dominate media coverage
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U.S. Senator Tom Cotton has continuously amplified the narrative that the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), which has claimed the lives of around 2,870 people as of February 28, 2020, may have originated in a biosafety lab in Wuhan: a theory that has been "strongly condemned" by scientists closely studying the virus outbreak.
The World Health Organization (WHO) describes the spread of damaging online information as an infodemic, a false information virus that spreads faster than a real virus does. Disinformation, misinformation, and incomplete information can spread via influencers and media amplification far more quickly than a virus can spread from one person to another. With over 208,000 Twitter followers and over 159,000 Facebook followers, as well as being a frequent guest on cable television where he made this claim, Cotton has the ability to spread his ideas to hundreds of thousands of people, who in turn spread the ideas further.
The theory that the virus started in the Wuhan lab has been picked up primarily by fringe sites and social media pages dedicated to conspiracy theories and further amplified by people with large public profiles online, such as Cotton. Cotton, who has fought to curb China's relationship with the United States since being elected to the Senate in 2015, has been criticized for playing fast and loose with facts about the novel coronavirus. Even Fox News referred to Cotton's unverified claims as "startling." As an influential and outspoken public figure, his statements on the origin of the novel coronavirus hold weight, and his verified status on Twitter lends him a degree of authority that the average user might not have. The DFRLab tracked the origin of the conspiracy theory to see where the theory originated, where it spread, and which groups or individuals amplified the narrative.
The Wuhan lab and unsupported claims around it
In January 2018, China opened the country's first level-four biosafety laboratory (BSL4-Lab). Located in Wuhan, the lab has the authority to experiment with easily transmitted deadly pathogens such as Ebola and coronaviruses. In order to operate at the highest level of biocontainment, the lab filters its air and purifies waste before it exits the testing space. Researchers are also required to change their clothing and shower before and after using the facility.
As a result of its proximity to the epicenter of the origin of the novel coronavirus, rumors have spread online that the virus may have been released or escaped from the lab itself. These rumors have been amplified by Cotton, who has repeatedly mentioned the BSL4-Lab in relation to the novel coronavirus in interviews and in official Senate convenings, suggesting that the virus may have originated in the lab. His tweet amplifying the conspiracy was retweeted more than 2,000 times and liked 3,800 times.
Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton noted that China's only biosafety lab is located in Wuhan while speaking in a Senate committee meeting. (Source: @SenTomCotton/archive)
A timeline of the lab and the novel coronavirus outbreak
According to a DFRLab query using Brandwatch, the first time the biosafety laboratory was mentioned in relation to the COVID-19 outbreak in English on Twitter was January 4, with two tweets that garnered little attention. Both tweets highlighted the lab's location in Wuhan, implying there may be a correlation between the lab and the outbreak.
The first two tweets about the Wuhan biosafety lab in English. @angelina_licca included screenshots of state news agency Xinhua News' announcement of the lab's creation. (Source: @angelina_licca/archive, left; @GloryT0HongKong/archive, right)
The following day, another Twitter user used the hashtag #ChinesePneumonia in a post about the Wuhan biosafety lab. Comments on the tweet referred to China as "terrorist" and "Nazi." Although the post was only retweeted 82 times, it potentially reached over 23,500 Twitter users.
One of the first tweets drawing a correlation between the biosafety lab in Wuhan and the novel coronavirus to garner significant attention on social media. The tweet was retweeted 82 times and, as of February 25, had reached 22,963 users. (Source: @alphacentauriii/archive, left; @awildknight/DFRLab via Brandwatch, right)
After the first set of tweets in the beginning of January, little mention of the lab cropped up on social media until January 21, when a video allegedly of the lab itself was posted to Twitter. The clip, which was originally uploaded to TikTok and copied to Twitter, was viewed over 90,000 times and retweeted over 400 times. Comments from Chinese Twitter users — made from outside China or via workarounds, given it bans direct access to the platform domestically — criticized the ruling party, suggesting the lab was used to create bioweapons and test them on the Chinese population.
In the following days, mentions of the lab on social media, blogs, and websites spiked considerably. Many of these posts linked to an article about the creation of the lab published in 2017 by Nature, one of the world's top scientific journals. The piece claimed that some scientists were worried about pathogens escaping the new laboratory, and also questioned the addition of the high-level lab when geopolitical tensions were high. It also stated, however, that the creation of multiple BSL-4 labs in Europe and the United States had also met with resistance from the scientific community.
Although the article raised valid concerns from the scientific community, the information was so distorted by COVID-19 conspiracy theorists that the journal's editor added a note in January stating Nature did not know of any evidence linking the lab to the coronavirus outbreak.
On January 22, a screenshot of the article — edited to emphasize location and lacking any context beyond the location — was posted to a subreddit dedicated to conspiracy theories. The post was upvoted over 5,000 times, with users commenting that the novel coronavirus had been created by the Chinese government and tested on its citizens.
A Reddit post on a subreddit dedicated to discussing conspiracy theories emphasized that China's only BSL-4 Lab was located in Wuhan, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak. (Source: u/hogancheveippoff/archive)
Then, on January 23, British tabloid The Daily Mail ran an article titled "China built a lab to study SARS and Ebola in Wuhan — and U.S. biosafety experts warned in 2017 that a virus could 'escape' the facility that's become key in fighting the outbreak." The piece took much of the content from the Nature article and drew a correlation between the location of the lab and the current outbreak without providing any actual evidence.
According to a CrowdTangle readout, the Daily Mail article was shared to Facebook pages and groups that promote non-traditional medical cures, anti-vaccination rhetoric, and pro-Hong Kong democracy pages. Many of the comments on the article shared to these pages stated that the virus was a bioweapon, that it originated in the lab, and that China created it with the intention of infecting hundreds of thousands of people.
CrowdTangle readout of Facebook pages and groups that linked to article from The Daily Mail, among which were pages and groups promoting dubious health supplements (red boxes), anti-vaccination rhetoric (blue boxes), and Hong Kong democracy (green box). (Source: @awildknight/DFRLab via CrowdTangle)
Following the Daily Mail article, the claim that the COVID-19 was released from the Wuhan biosafety lab was picked up by multiple fringe sites, including ZeroHedge,which compared the lab to the "Umbrella Corporation," a fictional corporation from the Resident Evil films that created biological weapons under the guise of creating vaccines, and The Washington Times, which published two articles linking the lab to an alleged covert Chinese biowarfare program.
On January 30, Cotton posted a clip of himself mentioning the laboratory to his Facebook and Twitter pages. This was the first time he had specifically mentioned the lab, days after the Daily Mail and The Washington Times posted their stories; there was no indication, however, that he picked the conspiracy up from those sources.
The spread of an infodemic
Following a Washington Post article calling out Cotton for perpetuating debunked claims, the Arkansas senator doubled down on Twitter and laid out his list of theories, which he insisted were "hypotheses." One theory suggested the virus emerged organically, while the other three involved the biosafety lab.
Senator Cotton explains his hypotheses about the origin of the novel coronavirus on Twitter. (Source: @SenTomCotton/archive)
Cotton's statements on COVID-19 come at a time when the WHO has declared misinformation and disinformation about the novel coronavirus particularly dangerous. The amplification of incorrect information, particularly by influential figures such as Cotton, diverts the attention of key decisionmakers, sows panic and fear, and makes the jobs of healthcare workers on the front lines significantly more difficult.
When conspiracies and public health intersect, the result is a particularly potent infodemic: one that hampers the crisis response to a global disease outbreak and puts lives at stake.
Update, May 7, 2020: In the seven weeks since this story was first published, the debate around the origins of the virus that causes COVID-19 continues among scientists, public health officials and policymakers. Last week, the New York Times reported on pressures from the White House to the US intelligence community to find evidence that virus came from a Chinese lab, as the Office of the Director of National Intelligence reaffirmed in a statement that the intelligence community "concurs with the wide scientific consensus that the COVID-19 virus was not man made or genetically modified," and that it will continue to investigate whether the virus was formed naturally or was accidentally released from a lab. Meanwhile, the Washington Post reported on bat virus research conducted at the lab in Wuhan, while public health official Dr. Anthony Fauci told National Geographic that there is no scientific evidence to suggest the coronavirus was made in a Chinese lab. As research into its origins continues, we've edited this piece to refer to claims that the virus came from a lab as "unverified" rather than "debunked," given the definitive finality of the latter term. We will continue to monitor this story as research into its origins progresses.
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no-1 + the inhabitants
Start: 9 Jun 2006 - 22:00
no-1 (wemakewith-records/montreal/can)
inhabitants (drip-audio/vancouver/can)
About no-1
this is a solo project of sounds and words sourced by hip-hop, films,
food, books, life, and the stories around me. i grew up listening to
& musically consuming everything and it all filters down through
technology to be spit back into digital finished form. the no-1 album
'stories are people too' is dropping in august. the idea for the record
started with doing a few tracks inspired by some amazingly good books:
i did "circular ruins" with dj finlaz - which was inspired by the short
story by jorge luis borges - and i did "oblivion" with dj phonograff
which drew from nabokov's 'an invitation to a beheading'...and i got to
thinking it could be a cool concept for a record. which isn't to say
that everything on the album has some cryptic literary source - i just
started with a few books & ideas in mind and got to writing. some
of the most interesting stuff made it onto the final album: there's
some haruki murakami, alenka zupancic, deleuze & guattari, and will
self in there if you start digging around...but generally it's just
whatever madness was in my head at the time. i've been listening to a
lot of dancehall, dub, and electronic shit - plus vibing heavy on plug
research peoples + the new anticon sounds (13&god etc). this one
was all self-produced, but the next record will find spots for all the
good peoples around me. i'm so used to collaborative projects it's been
kind of a trip doing it on my own. but hella fun. so don't sleep. let
me know what you think. i hope you like it.
About Inhabitants:
An intriguing new group, the Inhabitants surfaced from
the depths of Vancouvers music underground in the spring of 2005 to
release their self-titled debut on Jesse Zubots Drip Audio imprint.
Capturing the bands eclectic sound, the new disc has garnered
favourable reviews both locally and internationally. Described as "an
aural introduction to a dream" by Down Beat, the Inhabitants music
draws inspiration from great innovators such as Ornette Coleman and
Jimi Hendrix, and has been likened to electric-era Miles Davis and the
instrumental post-rock of Tortoise and Godspeed You Black
Emperor!.
four Inhabitants are major contributors to Vancouvers creative music
scene. Collectively they have worked with such diverse artists as Dave
Douglas, Bill Laswell, Peggy Lee, Franois Houle, Ron Samworth, Tony
Wilson, Wayne Horvitz, Steve Beresford, Wolfgang Fuchs, the NOW
Orchestra, Josh Martinez, Kevin House, The Be Good Tanyas, Submission
Hold and Dr. Lonnie
Smith.
Rich sonic textures,
subtle melodic ideas and a strong rhythmic sensibility are the
signatures of the Inhabitants, winners of CBCs Galaxie Rising Star
award at the 2005 Vancouver International Jazz Festival.
The Inhabitants are Dave Sikula, JP Carter, Pete Schmidt and Skye Brooks.
An intriguing new group, Vancouver's Inhabitants serve up a melange of sounds ranging from acoustic & electric experimental jazz to post-rock. They draw inspiration from musical corners such as Miles Davis' 70's catalogue all the way to the exploratory noise scapes of groups such as God Speed You Black Emperor & Sonic Youth.
"...seamless, smooth and spacious, Inhabitants is a beautifully mature debut for a band we hope will be around for years to come." - The Georgia Straight/Vancouver
"...delicious state-of-the-art sampling of compelling contemporary improv." - Williamette Weekly/Portland, OR
"The blissful yet dissonant ambience and lightly shuffling grooves these young cats create may also induce chills in folks with lots of titles from the Constellation and Thrill Jockey labels in their collections." - The Stranger/Seattle, WA
"Occupying an aural meadow somewhere between Tortoise's TNT and In a Silent Way-era Miles Davis are The Inhabitants." - Terminal City/Vancouver, BC
"...an aural introduction to a dream." - Down Beat
"...strikes just the right balance between experimentation and structure." - textura.org
"...serene minimalism" - The Oregonian


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La seconda economia rappresentava il settore informale dell'economia sovietica. Il termine fu ideato da Gregory Grossman nel suo articolo The Second Economy of the USSR (1977). L'economista Gérard Roland notò che, come anticipato da Grossman, "la logica della seconda economia nel corso del tempo minò la logica del sistema di comando e guidò l'espansione dei mercati neri." Questa predizione fu corroborata dall'analisi a lungo termine delle economie della RSFS Russa e della RSS Ucraina (1965–1989) da Vladimir Treml e Michail Alekseev. In modi diversi, la seconda economia influenzò tutte le economie del blocco orientale.

Grossman definisce il concetto di seconda economia con un test che rappresenta l'impostazione delle attività economiche che soddisfano almeno una di due condizioni: "(A) essere a favore del guadagno privato (B) avere un certo rispetto conoscendo le contravvenzioni della legge vigente." Gli studi sui vari strati dell'economia sovietica o di altri Paesi sono difficili a causa della mancanza di statistiche dirette e del solo uso di metodi d'indagine indiretti. Treml e Alekseev studiarono le relazioni tra il reddito monetario pro capite legale e variabili dipendenti dal reddito, come i risparmi pro-capite e gli acquisti di vari beni e servizi. Lo studio indicò che la disparità tra il reddito legale e la spesa legale era cresciuto gradualmente nel periodo 1965-1989 e verso la fine di quel periodo la correlazione tra i due era quasi sparita, indicando una rapida crescita della seconda economia. La proliferazione della seconda economia sarebbe stata impossibile senza una corruzione diffusa.

Un impatto significativo sull'economia dell'Unione Sovietica lo ebbe il sistema dei blat, una rete di favori che permise alle persone di procurarsi ogni genere di beni e servizi, operando all'interno delle economie legali e illegali, e che continuò nella Russia post-sovietica. Sin dai primi giorni dell'Unione Sovietica, è sempre stata esagerata la colpa data ai mercati neri per aver provocato le penurie di beni di consumo, spostando l'attenzione dai burocrati statali con la loro pianificazione inadeguata.

Durante la perestrojka, l'economia informale venne menzionata nel programma dei 500 giorni () di transizione economica come un fattore importante nelle riforme, prevedendo un assorbimento di almeno il 90% da parte del mercato libero.

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 Economia dell'Unione Sovietica
 Economia sommersa

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Science Women Need More Sleep Than Men Because Their Brains Work Harder, According To Science
Women Need More Sleep Than Men Because Their Brains Work Harder, According To Science
1.Get ready for bed, ladies.
The complexities of a woman's brain have science saying that women need more sleep than men.
Jim Horne, a Professor at Loughborough University in England says "For women, poor sleep is strongly associated with high levels of psychological distress and greater feelings of hostility, depression, and anger," and "These feelings were not associated with the same degree of sleep disruption in men."
2. 8 Hours? Not Necessarily...
The usual eight hours per night isn't right for everybody, as seven hours of sleep is enough for most people to function normally. However, Professor Horne has found that women's brains are "wired differently from men's and are more complex, so their sleep need will be slightly greater."
3. What makes a woman's brain more complex?
Compared to men, women do more multi-tasking and use their brains more strenuously. That means that they take more time to recover, which sleep provides better than any other activity.
4. But What About Tired Men?
Professor Horne also said that men who have jobs that require them to do a lot of decision-making may also require more sleep than the average male, but still not as much as an average woman.


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The Metropolitan Region of Vale do Paraíba e Litoral Norte () is an administrative division of the state of São Paulo in Brazil. It was created in 2012. It takes its name from the Paraíba Valley and the northern coast of São Paulo state. Its seat is in São José dos Campos, the most populous municipality in the region. It consists of the following municipalities:

Aparecida
Arapeí
Areias
Bananal
Caçapava
Cachoeira Paulista
Campos do Jordão
Canas
Caraguatatuba
Cruzeiro
Cunha
Guaratinguetá
Igaratá
Ilhabela
Jacareí
Jambeiro
Lagoinha
Lavrinhas
Miguela
Monteiro Lobato
Natividade da Serra
Paraibuna
Pindamonhangaba
Piquete
Potim
Queluz
Redenção da Serra
Roseira
Santa Branca
Santo Antônio do Pinhal
São Bento do Sapucaí
São José do Barreiro
São José dos Campos
São Luiz do Paraitinga
São Sebastião
Silveiras
Taubaté
Tremembé
Ubatuba

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US Trotskyism: Behind the Socialist Masquerade
Behind the Socialist Masquerade.
By Zoltan Zigedy / Source: Marxism-Leninism Today.
Ashley Smith recently wrote an essay (Anti-imperialism and the Syrian Revolution) ostensibly about Syria and imperialism but more properly understood as a rekindling and re-statement of anti-Communist "leftism."
Smith, an ideologue of the International Socialist Organization, unveils his true target when he inveighs against the "Stalinists": "Stalinist groups like the Workers World Party, Party for Socialism and Liberation, and Freedom Road Socialist Organization…"
Not content with these examples, Smith, in McCarthy-like fashion, feels the necessity to name further names. He sees the UK's Stop the War coalition as also duped by the Stalinists, along with the US United National Anti-War Coalition (UNAC). Jill Stein of the Green Party and her Vice Presidential partner, Ajamu Baraka, are similarly infected with the "Stalinist" virus.
Laughably, he ominously links the recent bold, fact-finding mission to Syria organized by the US Peace Council to the "American Communist Party," an association meant to conjure up the specter of Stalin; but it is an untenable association with a moribund CPUSA that has long distanced itself from "Stalinism" and the Soviet legacy with a fervor equal to the US Trotskyist groups.
Without re-visiting the old ideological wars (Trotsky has been dead for 76 years, Stalin for 63 years, and the Soviet Union for 25 years), it is nonetheless useful to point out a common characteristic shared by US Trotskyist organizations: they invariable live and breathe anti-Communism. Since the Cold War began, they traded on their distance from the "enemies" of Western Imperialism. The grip that these groups often had on middle class youth was predicated on the denial of Red connections.
For a university student, the McCarthyite stigma of Communism could be evaded by joining an anti-Communist organization that proclaimed that its anti-Communism was even more radical than Communism!US Trotskyism is part of the "Yes, but…" left. Yes, Communism, Stalinism, Maoism, Marxism-Leninism, etc. etc. are bad, but we're not like that! Like you, we're against them, too! We're the unthreatening, friendly advocates for change…
In the Cold War period and after, this was a safe tactic to appear radical without poking the bear of repression. Of course it didn't always fool those entrusted with thwarting even the most lame rejection of capitalism.Communists victimized by Cold War repression often joked that a US socialist was someone without the guts to be a Communist. The easy assimilation of much of the Trotskyist intellectual apparatus into the anti-Communist hierarchy and the subsequent entry of many into ruling circles certainly underscores the opportunism of this tactic.
Since the demise of the Soviet Union, US Trotskyism has been in crisis. With the departure of a foil of sheer evil, the appeal of anti-Communist radicalism has lost its punch. Apart from the intellectual Neanderthals serving Eastern European reaction (sponsored by the New York Review of Books, The Washington Post, and a few other inveterate anti-Communist organs), the epithet "Stalinist!" means little in current discourse.
Ashley Smith hopes to revive its relevance for the twenty-first century. He sets out to buttress Trotskyism as a thin and tortured alternative to the anti-imperialism of the "Stalinists." As with his Cold War predecessors, Smith hopes to trade on distancing Trotskyism from the rivals or antagonists of US and European Imperialism. In the absence of a Soviet Union, capitalist Russia will suffice as the source of evil.
And Syria's Assad will play the role of the bloodthirsty despot-- a mini-Stalin-- in this Trotskyist fantasy. Smith offers an unvarnished choice: "Which side are you on? Do you support the popular struggle against dictatorship and for democracy? Or are you with Bashar al-Assad's brutal regime, his imperial backer Russia, his regional ally Iran and iran's proxies like Hezbollah from Lebanon?"
It is breathtaking how simplistically, but presumptuously Smith characterizes the Syrian tragedy. It is equally astonishing to recognize how wrong he gets it.To be so blind to sources of information apart from Western reporters in Beirut, Amman, and Ankara, to rely principally upon a London-based, unfiltered, and non-independent anecdote collector like the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, and to credit US and European sponsored "revolutionaries" implies an indifference to the pursuit of truth.
Whatever grievances Syrians may have had against Assad, it is hardly credible to hail an armed struggle that began literally weeks after the alleged peaceful demonstrations that Smith praises. No insurrection has ever proceeded so swiftly and effectively against security services and a modern army without outside assistance. We now know from revelations exposed by the US media's fixation on the Benghazi fiasco that the CIA was vigorously engaged in shipping weaponry to Syria from stockpiles snatched from its Libyan venture. We know that regimes on the Arabian Peninsula were equally vigorous in supplying military equipment and recruiting volunteers.
Even US and Western European sources concede that the most numerous and most effective anti-Assad fighters are not democrats or reformists, but radical fundamentalists driven by religious fervor and feudal ideology, hardly the idealistic revolutionaries portrayed by Smith. In fact, US and European advisors complain of the difficulties of vetting anti-Assad forces sufficiently credible to receive advanced weapons. The few recipients of US supplied anti-tank missiles have displayed a troubling propensity to pass them on to the worst of the worse jihadist.
Smith shows an enormous conceit, from his secure perch, joining Western politicians in intuiting the sentiment of the Syrian people. Cavalierly dismissing the Syrian elections, he-- along with the Western media-- somehow divines that most Syrians hate Assad and that the opposition overflows with democratic, progressive sentiment. Where we have evidence of an independent vote-- for example, the May, 2014 national election vote of Syrian refugees in Lebanon-- the Washington Post's rabid anti-Assad reporter, Liz Sly, conceded that uncoerced refugees supported Assad.
One has to notice that, unlike previous chapters of the so-called "Arab Spring," there are no embedded Western reporters recording the march of democracy or the defeat of tyranny. Cannot CNN find any democrats in the Syrian opposition? Are there no freedom-loving fighters for NBC reporters to interview?Of course the Assad regime's invitation to allow Western reporters goes cynically unaccepted. To find on-the-spot reporting from Syrian battle zones, one has to turn to Lizzie Phelan, an independent UK journalist whose frequent front line footage appears most often on RT (her recent 20-minute cab ride through Aleppo gives a decidedly different picture of the city from that rendered by Western media reporting a Syrian "Stalingrad" from afar).
Smith does not hesitate to embrace the Libyan debacle as a pro-democracy revolution as well. One would think that the disastrous destabilization of Libya would serve as a sobering tonic for Smith's fantasies. As with Syria, the pro-democracy revolutionaries were largely a figment of the imagination of US and European politicians and journalists, a group that our erstwhile "socialist" seems happy to join. But that is not just my opinion or the opinion of other "Stalinists." On Wednesday, September 14, the UK parliament's cross-party Foreign Affairs Committee released a report on the UK's 2011 intervention in Libya. According to The Wall Street Journal, the committee found that the engagement was "based on 'serious erroneous assumptions and an incomplete understanding'... [and] failed to identify that the rebels included a significant Islamist element and that the [Gadhafi] threat to civilians was overstated." (my italics) It is striking that the UK government can shed its illusions, but Ashley Smith clings to his.
It is no accident that Ashley Smith's long essay makes only a passing mention of workers or class. Like most US Trotskyist organizations, ISO draws support significantly from the petty-bourgeoisie. Thus, the question of workers and their fate never arises in his argument. There is no notice taken of the Syrian General Federation of Trade Unions, a supporter of Assad, an opponent of class collaboration, a leader in Arab trade unionism, and a pillar of the class struggle trade unionism of the World Federation of Trade Unions. There is no attention to either the opinions of workers or the effect of a violent insurrection upon the working class. These issues are of little count for one who calls for all to "collaborate with Syrian revolutionaries" who exist only in the minds of political romantics.
Rather than concern himself with the fate of Syria's working class, Smith prefers to repeat the US and European media's obsession with civilian-targeted barrel bombs and poison gasses, claims that have defied objective verification. But he exceeds Western fear-mongering by attributing the entire UN estimate of 400,000 deaths in the war to "Assad's massacre." Recently, a delegation organized by the US Peace Council visited Syria and met with a number of Syrians, their organizations, and even oppositionists. They left the US with the notion that Syrians should decide the fate of Syria. They returned with the same notion, but even more strongly felt.
But, in addition, they returned with the view that events in Syria are far more complicated than the simplistic picture presented by the US State Department. They returned with the idea that peace in Syria would not be secured through the intervention of foreign powers or by supporting media-manufactured fantasies. Unfortunately, many on the left like Ashley Smith and some in the more conservative peace groups do not want to hear the Peace Council report, preferring to embrace the self-serving constructions of the regime-changers.
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Ireland's Haunted Hostelries
Europe Ireland
Meet Ghosts in Pubs and Guesthouses
By Bernd Biege
Ireland's hotels, guesthouses and pubs might be spooky - for that special holiday feeling ... why not drop into a pub with its own ghost? Or even stay a night with things that go bump in the night? Ireland has a fair share of ghostly happenings and finding a haunted hostelry is not a difficult task. Add a dark night with rain lashing the window panes and you are sure to feel some shivers running down your spine. But caveat emptor - while you will have a good pint or night's rest in all mentioned houses, otherworldly apparitions cannot be guaranteed!
Kavanagh's ("The Grave Diggers")
© Bernd Biege 2015
This Dublin pub from 1833 is named after the former landlord John Kavanagh - who fathered no less than 25 children! Commonly known as "The Gravediggers" due to its proximity to Prospect Cemetery and the frequently observed custom to order a pint by throwing a shovel of earth from the cemetery against the pub's wall. The resident ghost is said to be an elderly man in old-fashioned tweeds, sitting at the bar and enjoying a pint ... until he disappears without trace.
Location: 1 Prospect Square, Glasnevin, Dublin
Ross Castle
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Situated on the southern shore of Lough Sheelin (where you may fish for the brown trout) Ross Castle is rumored to be haunted by several specters and ghosts. An investigation in the Summer of 2006 provided no conclusive tangible evidence - but the participants agreed that "there was something". By the way ... the haunting is supposed to have started with the tragic love story of Sabrina and Orwin. Honeymooning couples are advised to avoid boat trips!
Location: southwest of Mount Nugent, Co. Cavan
Website: www.ross-castle.com
The Castle Inn
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Birthplace of James Clarence Mangan (1803) and one of Michael Collins' favorite watering holes with Mangan still hanging around today. The poet (his best-known work is "Roisin Dubh") died of cholera in 1849 after a drug-fuelled short life. Today the temperature is said to dip and the mood to darken whenever Mangan's ghost decides to drop into the Castle Inn. Unfortunately, he hasn't left any new poetry during his visits - and the pub has been modernized.
Location: 5 Lord Edward Street, Dublin
Grace Neill's
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This is reputed to be the oldest original pub in Ireland - built in 1611 as "The King's Arms". Your hostess Grace Neill will make the stay memorable. Mainly because she died in 1916, aged 98. This does not stop her frequenting the front bar, straightening glasses and furniture, switching lights on and off. You may also hear her shuffling about on the second floor and occasionally glimpse an old woman wearing Victorian clothing in dark corners.
Location: 33 High Street, Donaghadee, Co. Down
Website: www.graceneills.com
Renvyle House
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Once owned by Oliver St. John Gogarty and burned down by the IRA this hotel has been completely rebuilt - which did not get rid of several ghosts residing there. Even W.B.Years has witnessed the haunting, doors opening and closing, groans, bedsheets flying off or sleepers being thrown out of their beds and other unexplained happenings. Some female guests undressing have even spotted voyeuristic ghosts in the mirror - at least those shouldn't be vampires then!
Location: Renvyle, Connemara, Co. Galway
Website: www.renvyle.com
Ballygally Castle
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This (comfortably converted) castle from the 17th century has its own "haunted room", home to the ghost of Lady Isabella Shaw. She was imprisoned up here because she gave birth to a girl instead of a boy. Broken-hearted Lady Isabella clutched her child and leaped to her death. Today, Isabella's knocking at doors is said to disturb the occasional guest but to be much less frightening than the wailing of a child heard on other occasions.
Location: 274 Coast Road, Ballygally, Larne, Co. Antrim
Website: www.hastingshotels.com/ballygally-castle/
The Brazen Head
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Said to be Dublin's oldest pub (though the current building is not the original one, it still is one of the Dublin pub favorites) and formerly used by "Bold" Robert Emmet for meetings. He was hanged in September 1803 but still visits the "Brazen Head" in spectral form. Usually taking a place in the corner and looking out for enemies. Quite rightly so - today British tourists flock into the pub near the Liffey and even Emmet's executioner was a regular here.
Location: 20 Lower Bridge Street, Dublin
Website: www.brazenhead.com
Kyteler's Inn
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This pub is named after Dame Alice Kyteler, the "Witch of Kilkenny" - because it occupies the ground where her house once stood. She had somehow managed to survive several wealthy husbands. Accusations of wrongdoing and witchcraft followed. While Alice and her son bought their freedom back, her servant Petronella was burned at the stake. It is said that she is the female ghost haunting the premises, though more snobbish folk insist that it is Alice herself.
Location: Kieran Street, Kilkenny, Co. Kilkenny
Website: www.kytelersinn.com
Dobbins Inn
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This hotel used to be a tower erected by Reginald d'Aubin in the 13th century. The family name changed via Dobyn to Dobbins and fair Elizabeth Dobbins began an affair with a soldier. Which did not please husband Hugh who cut both of them down with his sword? Ever since then Elizabeth has been haunting the house ... caressing sleeping guest's faces, disappearing into the big chimney or simply hanging out in the reception.
Location: 6-8 High Street, Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim
Website: www.dobbinsinn.co.uk
O'Brien's Bar
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This pub is not haunted! But it was one of the favorite haunts for actor Oliver Reed, well-known as a great thespian and even greater drinker. Since his last (CGI-facilitated) appearance in "Gladiator", Ollie Reed is said to make occasional comebacks in Churchtown - he is buried in the graveyard opposite O'Brien's Bar and every once in a while can be seen merrily waving to drinkers leaving the pub late at night. Definitely not a CGI.
Location: Churchtown, Co. Cork
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Africa will be represented on the WorldSkills Champions Trust (WSCT) by son of the soil, Namibia's WorldSkills former competitor, Tjihimise Karaerua.
Karaerua, who represented the country at the 2017 WorldSkills Competition in Abu Dhabi, replaced Tayla Schou from South Africa who represented the continent from 2015-2017,Worldskills Namibia said in a media release on Tuesday.
Representatives from the other continents are as follows: Pearl So Ka Yu, Hong Kong, China (Asia), Kieron Kolhmann, US Representing (Americas), Giovanny Sanchez, Colombia (Americas), Amelia Addis, New Zealand (The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) / Oceania) and Jacqueline Tanzer, Austria (Europe).
Worldskills Namibia Marketing and Communications Coordinator, Katrina Newaka said to hone his skills to effectively represent the community of WorldSkills Champions, Karaerua will travel to Shanghai, China on 26 January where he will meet the rest of the WSCT representatives and participate in leadership and media training sessions, forums and conferences.
"I am truly honored and embrace this lifetime opportunity which will open doors for personal growth add value to the entire Namibian TVET sector, a catalyst for our economic development, " Karaerua said.
The WSCT is a group of former WorldSkills Competitors representing all six continents, working together to help bridge the gap between former WorldSkills Competitors (Champions) and WorldSkills International beyond the Competition.
The Trustees share skills, abilities, and creativity to develop projects and initiatives to improve the world through the power of skills. WSCT serves as advisory group to WorldSkills International on matters related to continued involvement of global youth in the skills development agenda.


James Conner Ruled Out for Week 14 - TSJ101 Sports!
After suffering an ankle injury last Sunday, Pittsburgh Steelers' running back James Conner has been ruled out for Week 14.
James Conner's injury is more significant than we thought. It's an ankle sprain, not a contusion and he will be OUT this week per Coach Tomlin.
Losing Conner is huge for the Steelers, as he's been a scoring machine for the team. Conner leads the Steelers' offense in several statistical categories this season, managing 16 touchdowns and 1,376 total yards. He also ranks within the top five of all NFL backs in rushing yards, touchdowns, and 20+ yard rushes. The loss of Conner for Week 14 is further magnified by the absence of Le'Veon Bell, who chose to sit out the rest of this season. Had Bell reported as he initially indicated he would, the Steelers would be well-equipped in Conner's absence.
Who Will Fill In for Conner?
Without Conner, Pittsburgh will have to lean on rookie back Jaylen Samuels and veteran Stevan Ridley. Pittsburgh has seen little production from the two, as they've combined for 40 touches, 159 total yards, and 2 touchdowns this year. The team featured Samuels as the backup over the past few weeks, a likely indication that he will be this week's starting back. Pittsburgh may catch a break, though, as they face a Raiders rush defense this week that's been terrible since Week 1. Oakland ranks 31st in rushing yards allowed this season, giving up an average of 153.3 per game. The team is also tied for 22nd-worst in the league in rushing touchdowns allowed, surrendering 11 this season. The Steelers will certainly struggle in Conner's absence, but a favorable matchup should ease these pains.
How Does Pittsburgh Match Up Against the Raiders?
While the Steelers are clearly the superior team, a trip to Oakland is not on their wish list. The Steelers have not won a game in Oakland since 1995 and have a miserable 1-3 record since then. The last meeting in Oakland between these two saw a Terrelle Pryor-led Raiders team upset the Steelers in the black hole. Pryor started the game off with a bang, scoring a 93-yard touchdown run just 19 seconds into the game. Although Pittsburgh opened as an 11 point favorite over Oakland, the Steelers' struggles out west could prove fatal to their playoff hopes.
Pittsburgh sits only a half game above the Ravens in the AFC North and a loss this week may cost them a playoff spot. The Steelers still have to play the Saints and Patriots in back-to-back weeks before a bitter rivalry matchup with the Bengals. Using the cliché of this being a "must-win game" seems premature, but feels truly fitting nonetheless for the Steelers this week.
The Steelers are 0-3 in their last 3 visits to Oakland to Raider teams that finished those three seasons (2006, 2012, 2013) a combined 10-38.


Sophomore Taylor Allard is leading the Spartans offens in 2018 with an average of .468 entering Thursday's doubleheader at UW-Platteville.
PLATTEVILLE, Wis. - The University of Dubuque softball team contined their tough road stretch on Thursday at UW-Platteville. The Spartans dropped both games, lost game one by a 0-6 margin and lost game two by a score of 2-9.
UD garnered just four hits in the opener and seven hits in the second game. Markin ended the day 4-7 at the plate and scored the Spartans only runs on the day in game two. Taylor Allard was 3-7 in her at bats, and Brandy Heraty went 3-4. Defensively UD committed five costly errors on the day and have 64 miscues on the season. Taylor Blair took the loss in game one after allowing just three earned runs in the complete seven inning game. In game two, Mackenzie Kopp took the loss after allowing seven earned runs in nine hits in three innings of work.
The Spartans (5-21 overall and 1-3 in IIAC) are scheduled to play at Wartburg College on Saturday in Waverly, Iowa, but current weather forecasts are not too favorable to get the games in over the weekend.


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15 Must See Artists at Osheaga 2018
Coralie Daigneault
Montreal's Osheaga festival is back this summer on August 3-4-5 with a great range of artists and headliners. From artists such as Arctic Monkeys, Florence and the Machine, Travis Scott, Blondie, Tyler, the Creator, James Bay and many more, there's always a lot of names that are often forgotten in smaller font. This list is all about enlarging those smaller artists and to make you discover new music. Osheaga is a 3 full day experience; take advantage of the site and all it has to offer! Go see those up and coming artists who play early in the afternoon, there's your chance to dance in the summer sun to amazing music!
Here are 5 artists from each day that you should look into!
RON GALLO
Ron Gallo's music is carefree but sentimental, full of baggage, fun, full of guitar shredding moments, really cool vocals and much more. Do yourself a favour and go see Ron, Joe Bisirri and Dylan Sevey play songs from 'HEAVY META' and his latest release 'Really Nice Guys'. Who knows, he might even skateboard on stage, you wouldn't want to miss that!
The LA formed and based alternative/indie rock band Sir Sly are coming back to Montreal and we will finally get to hear their brilliant sophomore album 'Don't You Worry, Honey' live. Landon Jacobs, Jason Suwito and Hayden Coplen have an undoubtable energy that is portrayed in their music and videos that we can't wait to dance to at the festival!
ESSAIE PAS
Essaie Pas is an electronic-synth pop duo from Montreal. Marie Davidson and Pierre Guerineau create a whole new universe with their elaborate sounds and few lyrics. There is something extremely intriguing about their music that makes you want to continue to listen to hear what's coming next. With their fifth album 'New Path' being released, they'll have lots of new music to share with everyone at Osheaga.
Many great artists come from Sweden and LÉON definitely is one of them. Her EP's 'For You' and 'Surround Me' were some of our favourite collection of songs to have been released in 2017. This singer-songwriters indie pop, catchy and relatable tunes about relationships with her sultry toned vocals and cool presence is a performance you don't want to miss!
JACK HARLOW
Curly hair, glasses and a great freestyle flow-yeah that's Jack Harlow. This young rapper from Louisville, KY is getting a lot of attention from his latest project 'Gazebo' with songs like 'Dark Knight' and 'Wasted Youth'. It's the right time to get to know Harlow and his crew (Private Garden) of many talented creatives just like him. Check out his set!
PAUPIÈRE
Paupière is a french synth-pop trio from Montreal. Their music is "a raw kind of poetry fitting in somewhere between Montreal's current psychedelic scene, and the French pop sound of the 1980s. Pop at once naïve and profound, lighthearted and powerful." We can't wait to hear songs like 'Rex', 'Cours toujours' and many more from their debut full length album 'À jamais privé de réponses' live!
This french rappers' record year is never ending! Since the release of his first solo album 'Une Année Record', LOUD's been on a high. Playing sold out shows in Europe and here in Montreal, and now Osheaga? We can't help but be supportive of his poetic and sharp 'franglais' songs, especially knowing that his concerts are always a blast. If you want to experience a rap queb crowd and artist, make sure to be there for LOUD's set on Saturday.
Oh Paul, Les, Jake, we love you so bad. After extensive touring for their debut full length album we were hoping this trio would make their way back to Montreal at some point! LANY's self-titled album is filled with heartbreak, love and hope laid on really dance-y beats. This one's going to be for all the romantics and dancers out there!
This four-piece young Canadian rock band are going to shake things up. With a clear influence from Twin Peaks (the band) and a super cool debut single, we are very curious to see Calpurnia perform!
Our favourite rock girls from Toronto are coming back! Their debut album 'Late Show' was one of our favourite releases last year with bangers like 'T-Shirt', 'Money', 'Sweet Life' and many more. The Beaches effortlessly cool attitude, their energy and the music itself should be enough to get you to their set this summer!
This 19-year old self-produced solo artist will make all your moody, dream pop wishes come true. CUCO released his second project 'Songs4U' this past year which stirred up a lot of attention, resulting in a very busy 2018 for the young artist. We hope to see you swaying and dancing to his music this summer!
ALEX LAHEY
Aussie singer-songwriter Alex Lahey is definitely one to watch. Her honest songwriting, heavy instrumentals and powerful energy make up the perfect combination for a great afternoon set at the festival. Don't miss her performing for the first time in Montreal!
Scottish newcomer Lewis Capaldi is going to have us all crying in the afternoon sun with those perfect vocals. His songs make you feel the heartbreak through his raw lyrics and pure voice. He is one of our favourite new musical discoveries and everyone should listen to him.
Fatimah Warner is the badass NONAME. Extremely talented and brilliant with a debut album that was beyond expectations, we are really excited for this set and hopefully new music!
GANG OF YOUTHS
"A five piece from Sydney founded in the confines of their religious youth, enchanted by the spectacle of worship and deliverance, it's no wonder their music burns with the desperation of apocalypse." Gang Of Youths is very much so that band that you stop to watch and listen to as your walking around the festival. Their recent album 'Go Farther in Lightness' is heavy in beauty and life experiences, you should definitely go see this band at Osheaga.
Check out our Spotify and our complete Osheaga 2018 playlist HERE
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ADAC Nordrhein has announced the scheduling of a Qualifying Race for the 24h Nürburgring on 5-6 April 2014. Walter Hornung, race director of the ADAC Zurich 24h Race and head of motorsports at ADAC Nordrhein, explained that the idea was to offer teams an "optimum testing opportunity… without the pressure of a championship." The weekend will also offer motor racing enthusiasts a first overview of the field for the 24h-Race in June, comprising practice sessions on the Saturday and the two-hour qualifying session and a six-hour race on Sunday. Tyre brands for whom endurance racing has become an important arena for product development – such as Dunlop, Michelin and Sumitomo's Falken brand, which is a major supporter of the 24h Nürburgring – will also welcome the chance for further competition and engagement with these high performance machines.
The newly created event will, like the first VLN rounds, be factored into top 30 qualifying ranking: 10 of the 30 positions for the individual time trials will be secured in the Qualifying Race 24h Nürburgring, presenting an incentive for top teams to compete.
"To make sure that the teams will be able to complete as many laps as possible even in the case of technical problems or minor accidents, we will interrupt the practice sessions by short breaks that will be used to tow damaged cars back to the paddock," adds Hornung. "And they also can practice driving in the dark, on this weekend – a move underlining our efforts to increase the safety for the 24h-Race competitors." ADAC Nordrhein hopes that this will increase the motivation for teams from abroad with limited Nordschleife experience to regard the new qualifying race as a must.


We are so excited that you want to learn more about Judaism. Our conversion process at Bnai Abraham reflects a traditional Jewish approach to conversion, with a focus on learning and observance.
Individuals and families will meet with Rabbi Stein to discuss an individualized course of study that will include both study sessions with the rabbi and classes within the larger Lehigh Valley Jewish Community.
Participants will be encouraged to incorporate Jewish ritual and observance into their daily lives, along with regular attendance at Bnai Abraham's religious services. The length of the process varies depending on individual needs, but usually requires at least a year. The process can be time consuming and emotionally demanding, but it is our hope that it is also an opportunity for deep reflection and spiritual growth.
At the end of the course of study, the potential convert has the opportunity to process the experience through meeting with a beit din (rabbinical court).
The final step comes when the new member of the Jewish people immerse him or herself in a mikvah (ritual bath) symbolizing the spiritual transformation.
If you are interested in learning more about converting to Judaism, please contact Rabbi Stein.
If you are looking to learn more about Judaism, Rabbi Stein recommends the Schocken Guide to Jewish Books. It is currently out of print, but used copies are available at a reasonable price at this literature link at Amazon.com.
To learn more about conversion ceremonies, please see Ritualwell.org.
Finally, a great information about Mikvaot (ritual baths) can be found at the website of the Mayyim Hayyim Mikvah outside of Boston.


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require_relative 'errors'
require_relative 'management'

module ContentfulModel
  # Adds CMA functionality to Base
  module Manageable
    attr_reader :dirty

    def self.included(base)
      base.extend(ClassMethods)
    end

    def initialize(_item, _configuration = {}, localized = false, *)
      super
      @localized = localized
      @dirty = false
      @changed_fields = []
      define_setters
    end

    def to_management(entry_to_update = management_entry)
      published_entry = self.class.client.entry(id)
      fields.each do |field, value|
        entry_to_update.send(
          "#{field.to_s.underscore}=",
          management_field_value(
            @changed_fields.include?(field) ? value : published_entry.send(field.to_s.underscore)
          )
        )
      end

      entry_to_update
    end

    def refetch_management_entry
      @management_entry = fetch_management_entry
    end

    def save(skip_validations = false)
      return false if !skip_validations && invalid?(true)

      begin
        to_management.save
      rescue Contentful::Management::Conflict
        # Retries with re-fetched entry
        to_management(refetch_management_entry).save
      end

      @dirty = false
      @changed_fields = []

      self
    rescue Contentful::Management::Conflict
      raise(
        ContentfulModel::VersionMismatchError,
        'Version Mismatch persisting after refetch attempt, use :refetch_management_entry and try again later.'
      )
    end

    def save!
      save(true)
    end

    def publish
      begin
        to_management.publish
      rescue Contentful::Management::Conflict
        to_management(refetch_management_entry).save
      end

      self
    rescue Contentful::Management::Conflict
      raise(
        ContentfulModel::VersionMismatchError,
        'Version Mismatch persisting after refetch attempt, use :refetch_management_entry and try again later.'
      )
    end

    private

    def management_proxy
      @management_proxy ||= self.class.management.entries(
        space.id,
        ContentfulModel.configuration.environment
      )
    end

    def fetch_management_entry
      management_proxy.find(id)
    end

    def management_entry
      # Fetches always in case of Version changes to avoid Validation errors
      @management_entry ||= fetch_management_entry
    end

    def define_setters
      fields.each do |k, v|
        if @localized
          v.keys.each do |name|
            define_setter(name)
          end
        else
          define_setter(k)
        end
      end
    end

    def field_setter(name, value)
      @dirty = true
      @changed_fields << name
      fields[name] = value
    end

    def define_setter(name)
      define_singleton_method "#{name.to_s.underscore}=" do |value|
        field_setter(name, value)
      end
    end

    def method_missing(name, *args, &block)
      if (matches = name.match(/^(?<field>.*)=$/)) && content_type_field?(matches[:field].to_sym)
        field_setter(matches[:field].to_sym, args[0])
      else
        super
      end
    end

    def respond_to_missing?(name, include_private = false)
      if matches = name.match(/^(?<field>.*)=$/)
        content_type_field?(matches[:field].to_sym) || super
      else
        super
      end
    end

    def management_field_value(entry_value)
      case entry_value
      when Contentful::Entry
        Contentful::Management::Entry.hash_with_link_object('Entry', entry_value)
      when Contentful::Asset
        Contentful::Management::Entry.hash_with_link_object('Asset', entry_value)
      when Contentful::Link
        Contentful::Management::Entry.hash_with_link_object(entry_value.sys[:link_type], entry_value)
      else
        entry_value
      end
    end

    # Management Class methods
    module ClassMethods
      def management(options = {})
        @management ||= ContentfulModel::Management.new(
          options.merge(raise_errors: true)
        )
      end

      def create(values = {}, publish = false)
        space = ContentfulModel.configuration.space
        environment = ContentfulModel.configuration.environment

        entry = management.entries(space, environment).create(
          management.content_types(space, environment).find(content_type_id),
          values
        )

        if publish
          entry.publish
          entry = find(entry.id)
        end

        entry
      end
    end
  end
end


A comment or an answer?
Experts Exchange > Groups > Experts Exchange Community Experts > A comment or an answer?
A visit to that question reveals that this is an answered question & the last comment is dated nearly 12 years ago.
Is this a new EE bug or just a confusing new EE feature that needs clarification?
Search the title, it was the first result.
My bad, I should have phrased myself better. I was hoping Al Jee would share the link that arrived in the email, which would have contained the comment ID. No mind, appears mystery is solved.
I should have had that 2nd cuppa coffee before posting.
Point of order: If I was going to screw with EE it would be a way better job then using an alias with my last name, so I didn't do this.
How do we know this is really you?


The attached image is part of a series of images that have been used in a PowerPoint presentation. The illustration has been created in Illustrator. My client is asking to create motion along each line (which I have done in the past with much simpler paths using Vegas Effect) from its source at the top down along the lines as they enter the funnel. I am also being asked to create little flashes at intersection points. Seems like a nightmare with my limited knowledge of AfterEffects. How can I create the effect without having to redraw each line as a separate layer in AE? Any resource/tutorial you can point me to would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
[Edward Tuttle] "...I am also being asked to create little flashes at intersection points. Seems like a nightmare with my limited knowledge of AfterEffects."
Sorry, but that's a nightmare for ANYONE working in AE. Not just someone with a couple-three years experience. This is all hand work!
If you can get away with doing several -- but not all -- of the intersections near the top you might be able to pull it off in a couple-three days.
Thanks, Dave. I thought as much. I needed the response from a forum to prove to the client that it was more work than it was worth. Appreciate the quick feedback.
Make a separate comp with each line on a separate layer and make that comp as long as your final animation (all lines in the one comp) Then apply an effect on each layer to turn the color of the line to white - there's a bunch - you can try tint or any of the change colors etc - you can do one layer and then copy and paste the effect to them all. If you've kept them as splines you can just change the stroke color in the layer settings or use as stroke effect.
Set each layer to "difference" for its transfer/blend function (again select all and then just change one and they will all change). There should be no background layer in this comp.
This should net you a lot of little black dots where the lines cross (assuming your comp color is not set to black).
Now precomp all of that and call the precomped comp "Lines" , then apply an invert effect to the precomped "Lines" comp and slip a black solid underneath. Now you have a bunch of white dots on black. Lets call this comp "Dots".
Now in the Lines comp, vary which of the lines are transparent - you could do a random expression on the opacity attribute on each layer to automate this and clamp it to 0 or 100 or you could key frame each one with hold keyframes, or you could key frame one of the lines and then copy those key frames to other lines and offset the keyframes so it's more random - if you now look in the Dots comp you will get a a bunch of sparkling white dots over black as the animation runs.
Take the Dots comp and screen it over your master comp and the white dots will appear wherever the lines cross and they will sparkle on and off.


I'm looking forward to serious Saturday fun!
Forgive me for keeping this short on this lovely Saturday, but I am off to do something really FUN. I'm in Lincoln to go to the International Quilt Study Center to attend Joe Cunningham's creative design workshop. Excited? You bet I am!!
I've long admired Joe's quilts and wondered just what happens inside that head of his. Here's hoping I get just a peek. If I learn one thing, just one thing, I will consider the day a success. I'm betting I'll learn a lot more.
You may know that I rarely take classes these days, mostly because I just don't have time. I love teaching them, but because of that, can't fit both into my schedule. It was kind of a last-minute decision for me to come to this one. I had gotten the postcard announcing it a couple of weeks ago and thought, "Yeah, I'd love to do that." But after a look at my calendar and my big fat to-do list, decided against it. But then Tuesday morning, when I realized it was just not going to get out of my head, I took the leap.
Last year, I won a cruise from World of Quilts Travel to Alaska on which Joe, Rob Appell, John Flynn, and Luke Haynes were teaching. I was really looking forward to it! In the end, though, I wasn't able to go. Yes, I was seriously disappointed, but life happens. You can see why it wasn't hard to ditch my responsibilities for this weekend, though, right? Really, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Three days. I figured I could spare them for some inspiration.
Another perk of the weekend is that I'll get to see Luke Haynes's exhibit, "Log Cabins by Luke Haynes." Sunday afternoon, Joe will be giving the Ghormley Inaugural Lecture at 2:00. Sounds like a great time, doesn't it?
Who wouldn't want to see this?
So, I'm off to learn today, and sew, and see what I can come up with. You'll forgive me for not staying to chat?
Have a great Saturday! Be sure to pop back by tomorrow for the Sunday Sewcial…you'll be the ones asking the questions. And keep your eyes on Lori East Quilts and my Instagram for in-the-minute photos! I'll tell you all about it on Monday.
Very cool. Looking forward to the updates! Enjoy every minute!
I know you will have a blast. Looking forward to your share on your time spent in Lincoln. How exciting! Joe Cumningham?! Wow!
I met one of your Fractured Fibers friends, Cindy!
Who? I'll probably hear about it at our quarterly meeting on the 16th assuming the mystery "she" is in attendance.
She usually shows. I'll see her at FFab I'm sure. Thanks!
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