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The Brooklyn designer weaving her Caribbean roots into crochet
Layered and multifaceted, designer and founder of Diotima, Rachel Scott imbues her collection with her Carribean heritage, dance hall culture and fine Italian fabrics
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By Tilly Macalister-Smith
Designer Rachel Scott's approach to fashion is both personal and theoretical, historical and forward-looking. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Scott now lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her photographer husband. 'I have been working in the fashion industry for 15 years, but this has always been a goal,' she says of Diotima, the line she launched from the studio that she set up in her home during the pandemic.
Scott left Jamaica 20 years ago to study art and French philosophy at Colgate University in New York. The label takes its name from the ancient Greek priestess and philosopher Diotima of Mantinea. 'The past few years I've continued studying philosophy recreationally,' says Scott breezily. 'Diotima is fascinating because it's never been clear if she was real or mythical,' she says, referencing Plato's Ladder of Love. 'When I'm designing, I try to approach it with the idea of working trans-historically – with history and the future.' Landing a place at Istituto Marangoni in Milan, she swerved to study fashion design, gaining a job at Costume National which she describes as 'a wonderful experience, an excellent education.' She learnt the rigour of a major Italian fashion house. 'There was such a reverence for craft,' she recalls. Today, she is vice president of design for Rachel Comey, where she has worked since 2015.
The pandemic allowed for a moment of reflection on how the fashion world was operating. 'Major orders were being cancelled and it impacted the factories and their people. Somehow the liability always ends up on the most vulnerable person, pushing the issues from the stores onto the designers, to the manufacturers, to the person doing the labor at the end of the chain. I wanted to change my relationship to labour.'
Diotima: 'You can always spot Carribeans anywhere because we are so proud of it.'
During the pandemic she made two trips home to the Blue Mountains in Jamaica, and while there, sought out the expertise of two local crochet makers. 'When the borders closed during the pandemic, they lost all their tourism trade. I thought, 'What can I do?' So I started talking to them over WhatsApp from New York about making some crochet pieces. The rest of Diotima's collection was made from very limited deadstock fabric in the US.' Now she works with 12 women in Kingston, including some younger women who are learning the trade. What is not made in Jamaica, Scott produces in New York. 'I take a lot of inspiration from New York. Not just manufacturing in the garment district, which is very much alive, but also so much about relationships and collaborations, making new connections,' she says.
Scott's roots are inextricably woven into her designs. Powerful and seductive, dancehall culture is ingrained in her clothes. 'The explosive dance and music means so much possibility for liberation,' she says. 'Carlene Smith was super influential to me as a teenager,' she says of the Jamaican dance hall icon. 'And the female musicians of this Caribbean postcolonial nation. It was such a fascinating time of gender dynamics. Carlene was not trying to operate in a man's world as a man, but owning it as herself.'
There are some literal dancehall references in the collection, such as the lacebody suits, short 'batty rider' shorts, masculine Nineties-style oversized boxy jackets and shirts. A macrame t-shirt finished with Swarovski crystals, a marina string vest lined with bias cut silk, and a pleated skirt inspired by her prim Jesuit school uniform are elevated versions of the original incarnations. Biographical scenes of domesticity crop up – she's 'obsessed with chintzes'; there's a starched doily top; and a skirt that borrows from a table runner and is unexpectedly slit high on the thigh.
Scott explored the Caribbean tradition of Junkanoo carnival for her Pre-Spring '22 collection. 'Historically, this would take place on Boxing Day, when slaves would be given the day off by their owners and the men would dress up as women, playing characters such as the plantation owner's wife. I started deconstructing this moment, and playing with tropes of what a woman should be,' she says. 'Reggae, ska and dancehall music was influenced by these early carnivals.'
The designer pays great attention to her fabrics. Diotima's luxurious Italian tweed suiting is treated with a pigment print to create an interesting texture. A neutral and earthy palette is punctuated with red, white and pink colours from the Junkanoo carnival.
'The BLM movement in the US has been so important in highlighting which voices get heard and which don't. As a woman of colour, I used to feel that if there was someone working as a Black or Carribean designer, that there was no more room for another voice. But now I know that's not the case,' she says. 'I always knew I wanted to try and find a way to not contribute to the Caribbean's brain drain – the youth and energy that leaves to find work elsewhere,' she says of the industry she is building in Jamaica. 'You can always spot Carribeans anywhere because we are so proud of it.'
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Tilly Macalister-Smith
Tilly is a British writer, editor and digital consultant based in New York, covering luxury fashion, jewellery, design, culture, art, travel, wellness and more. An alumna of Central Saint Martins, she is Contributing Editor for Wallpaper* and has interviewed a cross section of design legends including Sir David Adjaye, Samuel Ross, Pamela Shamshiri and Piet Oudolf for the magazine.
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Seth Rogen Details Anti-Semitic Rant He and Jonah Hill Experienced in an Elevator
In his new essay collection, Rogen recalls an awkward run-in with comedian Eddie Griffin in Las Vegas.
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Seth Rogen's recently published, candid collection of essays "Yearbook" is filled with stories, harrowing and hilarious, from the frontlines of his days in Hollywood as a comic and actor. One such tale to emerge is an anti-Semitic tirade he and actor Jonah Hill experienced in an elevator in Las Vegas, where they ran into comedian Eddie Griffin. (Via Uproxx.)
"I'm glad I saw you guys," Eddie Griffin said, according to Hill in a chapter of "Yearbook," when bumping into Rogen and Hill. "I saw your movie. The high school movie," Griffin said. (Rogen and Hill collaborated on the 2007 high school comedy "Superbad," among other films including "Sausage Party" and "This is the End.")
"I've been trying to make a movie for a while now, but no one will make it. But they made yours. And you know why?" Griffin asked
"No, why?" Rogen asked.
"Because I'm Black, and you're Jewish, motherf***ers," Griffin told Rogen, according to the book.
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Rogen said at first he thought Griffin's comments were simply a bad joke. "Oh yeah, what do you mean by that?" Rogen asked.
"I mean, you Jewish motherf***ers run Hollywood, and you only make movies with other Jewish motherf***ers."
"Oh," Rogen thought. "This isn't a joke. This dude is just going on some anti-Semitic tirade."
"Sorry, I guess?" said Hill, awkwardly trying to navigate the situation.
"Don't be sorry," Griffin said. "Tell your Jews to let other people make some movies."
After the elevator ride was over, Rogen recalled trying to process exactly what had just happened. "It's insane because he's ignoring the fact that if there's one thing the Jewish people are not above, it's making money producing things that are fronted by Black people," Rogen wrote. "Anyone who has ever seen a biopic of a Black musician knows the character I'm talking about, and he's usually very appropriately played by my dear friend David Krumholtz."
Rogen is currently on his press circuit promoting "Yearbook," but his acting career remains steadily busy. The performer next up has a supporting role in the Hulu series "Pam and Tommy," starring Sebastian Stan and Lily James, and he's also tapped to star opposite Michelle Williams and Paul Dano in Steven Spielberg's autobiographical new movie.
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Michelle Garza reviews Aletheia for This is Horror.
There are monsters that dress in the skin of men, and hauntings that go beyond your average apparitions, alive and threatening. Women turn to lizards, dead dogs can see, and the things that drive men mad can step from their imaginations into broad daylight or slink around by the light of the moon just beyond the sight of their own eyes.
Heartfelt thanks to Michelle Garza for this dark love. Read more at This is Horror.
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I finally got to see Dead Snow (dir Tommy Wirkola), and from start to finish, it could not have been more fun. Nazi Zombies, creepy-horny med students, Ski-Doos, out-house gross-out. Lots of intestine.
Four guys in one car and three girls in another head out to a cabin in the Norwegian alps. The forth girl, Sara (Ann Dahl Torp), dating the token cutie (Vegar Hoel), has gone on ahead, and, unbeknownst to her friends has met a grizzly end. The gang settle into the cabin—cue snow-fights, beer-guzzling, and a truly disgusting sex-in-the- shitter scene—to wait for Sara to join them. One dark and stormy night, a grizzled hiker calls by and tells them a tale of Nazi torture and pillaging in years gone by. Although played for laughs, the subtext for this scene, like that of the entire movie, is the brutal German occupation of Norway and the country's spirited resistance.
Heil to the yeah. The undead platoons close in on the cabin, picking off the students by one in a frenzy of flying limbs, buried war chests, and dead-cherry snow. Did I mention bowel? Lots of bowel. The action scenes are tight and the Nazi Zombies are fully sick in their SS drag. Upside-down teeth, Francis Bacon eyes, green skin. The kids are good too, more realistic than your average Hollywood fare. Chubby, boring, and inarticulate. One's allergic to blood, another has a thing for erotic asphyxiation. Your typical med students. But in their own way perhaps more interesting than the interchangeable paper dolls we've come to expect in US B-ville fare. So, you know, we almost care when they get bit.
Yeah, you can drive a Panzer division through some of the plot holes, but the Colonel Klink Zombi (Orjan Gamst) is a trip, and some of the shots are superb. A hoard of trench-coated undead push through the surface of the snow like crocuses in the devil's garden. Spring-time for Hitler? Some memories will never die.
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Jim Mickle's Stake Land
I watched this at the Sydney Film Festival and I dug it. There was Ginger Snaps (2000) and Bigelow's Near Dark before that, but U.S. indie offerings in the vampire genre have been somewhat wanting compared to what the British have been serving up for years: zombies (28 Days Later), for instance, and werewolves (Dog Soldiers). Some kind of antidote to the scourge of blockbusters like Blade and I am Legend seems long overdue, and Jim Mickle does it with Stake Land.
Teenage Martin (Connor Paolo) loses his family to the vampire epidemic sweeping the country, starts hanging out with a badass vampire killer known only as Mister (Nick Damici). The pair are joined by not your usual misfits—a middle-aged nun, pregnant barmaid, a marine—all trying to stay one step ahead of the bloodsucking scourge, plus some cannibalistic tribes and Fundamentalist nut jobs who drop live vamps from the sky into frontier settlements for fun, oh, and because God told them to.
Beyond 70s-era taut cinematography, and a brave take on a Matthesonian world in which the monsters evolve—get smarter—Stake Land has three essential things going for it. Read more
It Came From Del Rio, by Stephen Graham Jones
Just finished reading Stephen Graham Jones's It Came From Del Rio on my new Kindle. I'd wanted to read it for ages, but couldn't get it here in Sydney, so it was the first book I bought on the kindle. Okay, this is a read that grabs a hold of your psyche and just won't let go. Think Dashiell Hammett meets Carlos Fuentes in hell—radioactive bunnies, chupacabra (bald, blood-sucking canines) vengeful border narcs, zombie dads, and that's just the wildlife. Throw in a bad case of mouth ulcers, a Bonny-and Clyde subtext, and a lonely ham radio nerd and you've got one of the strangest murder mysteries this side of the border, told with Stephen Graham Jones's signature heart, elegant prose and killer sense of place. I became hooked on Jones after reading How Billy Hanson Destroyed the Planet Earth and Everyone On It—there's not many sff writers around of whom you can ask every single time—how the hell did s/he do that? Jones is one of them
Kris Saknussemm's Enigmatic Pilot
'Amazing technologies, deviant desires.' Map that onto antebellum America, throw in some hardscrabble characters and a strange journey that cuts across time and space, and you've got Enigmatic Pilot, the second installment in Kris Saknussem's Lodema Testament. This is a seductive, enfolding trip of a novel, an audacious yarn that nods to the New Weird and tips its hat to the evolving traditions of Steam Punk, but owes as much to the ghosts of Melville and Samuel Clemens, whose spirits, like the enigmatic script at the center of the story, illuminate the pages with the queasily addictive light of true lies. More than just a subtitle, this 'tall tale too true' takes up where Saknussem's cult hit Zanesville leeaves off, or rather before it begins, not so much a prequel as the source code. It is more accessible, less obscure, even more darkly hilarious, and packs quite a haymaker. If Saknussem has matured, he most certainly has not mellowed.
Lloyd Meadhorn Sitturd, the mysterious antecedent of Zanesville, is a six year-old mixed-blood genius with a towering ego and a libido to match. In 1844, his misanthropic dabbling forces him and his eccentric parents to flee Zanesville, Ohio, lured westward by a mysterious letter from Texas. It is thus that they find themselves in the great American fray. With the frontier closing on the century like a curtain, Lloyd finds himself center stage amongst a cast of Melvillian burnouts, Poe-ish zealots and Whitman-like dreamers. Prosthetic hands, glowing eyeballs, gibbering mooncalves and a mysterious abolitionist called Mother Tongue—it all comes crashing down on the boy when an experiment with manned flight goes hideously wrong and Lloyd must come face to face with, as his Creole mother says, " where yer mine true ends and de worl' begins."
Stare into the void for long enough, Nietzsche said, and it stares back. Only then—where the reflection in the broken mirror stands up to what can't be fixed—that the heart's journey can continue. At the heart of both Enigmatic Pilot and Zanesville, is both a ghost and a terrible crime, unspeakable, a crime that in the Lodema universe represents much more than loss of innocence. For this writer, no true American dreamer is innocent, and manifest destiny is just another word for dirty deeds done dirt cheep. No, for Saknussemm, a far greater loss than overvalued innocence is soul—that capacity for reinvention and renewal that, after an assault, is often the first thing to go and the hardest thing to get back. It is in such a way, on the fecal streets of St Louis, that Lloyd Sitturd loses his soul, only to find it rewritten in the scars of a runaway slave girl called Hattie.
Signs and scars. These are the recurring motifs throughout this astonishing novel, which conceives of them as one and the same. The act of writing is an act of scarring, a bleeding tattoo performed on the flesh of the world. As the Sitturd's journey unravels from St Louis to Independence with secret societies in hot pursuit and vigilante gangs lying in wait, where imploding androids and other blackly hilarious horrors lie strewn across their path, Lloyd feels caught up in something both organic and mechanical—'not quite meat and not quite metal,' a spiraling schematic reminiscent of the machine he tried to pilot over St. Louis. Hieroglyph, tattoos, scribble, musical scores, diagrams, patterns and code pulsate on the pages and push this narrative forward and back, west and east, toward the end and always in the direction of a new beginning as febrile and as inventive as anything in print today. Which all seems to suggest that the most enigmatic pilot of all is some strange amalgam of writer and reader, and the most thrilling flights are those which where the destination is anything but manifest. Welcome to Enigmerica.
And now back to the novel
Oh, but just before I do… watched Daybreakers last night, a little post Halloween treat. Killer take on the vamp story. Australian feel to it, but in a good way. Sam Neil wasn't entirely convincing as the evil corporate sucker, but he played it for camp, always good to see a fine actor enjoying himself. The best thing about the film was the premise, which was smart and tricky and original—the world literally turned upside down as vampires inexorably populate the planet—and the seamlessness of the world created by the Spierig brothers, from a blood-deprived hero chainsmoking to block his cravings to armor plated vehicles set to daylight drive mode—was truly impressive.


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'Frisk' kid freed by court shot a man months after release: DA
By Larry Celona
June 28, 2012 | 4:00am
NYPD officers conduct a demonstration on stop-and-frisk, a technique officers use to keep illegal guns off the street. One teen arrested after being frisked was later released -- and months later, he was busted for shooting a Queens man, sources said. Warzer Jaff
This is justice?
The teen thug who beat a gun rap because an appeals court said he was unfairly stopped and frisked had no trouble getting another gun three months later – and he used it to allegedly pump two bullets into a young dad he was trying to kill, The Post has learned.
The court's sympathy toward Darryl Craig, 14 — who was just starting his criminal career with his first gun arrest — infuriated NYPD cops, who rely on stop-and-frisk as a key tool for keeping illegal guns off the street.
"The ability of a police officer to stop, question and frisk an individual is a highly effective tactic when left to the discretion of a police officer," said Patrick Lynch, president of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association.
Michael J. Palladino, president of the Detectives' Endowment Association, echoed Lynch and urged courts to support this policing policy.
"This decision sounds like it plays into the recent anti-police politics," Palladino said. "If they want to do away with stop and frisk, they better replace it with more than just rhetoric. Crime has nowhere to go but up."
Craig, 14, had the original gun-possession conviction overturned, even though he had been stopped in a high-crime area in the wake of two gang shootings and the cops had employed textbook NYPD procedure.
KELLY: COURTS AGAIN PUT NYERS' SAFETY LAST
Craig's run-in with cops came in February 2010, when Bronx Police Officer Orlando Colon stopped him on the street after seeing him put a black object in his pocket.
Colon found a handgun during a pat-down, and Craig was arrested for weapons possession and sentenced to 18 months' probation — a conviction the appeals court threw out Tuesday after deciding that the cop had no legal grounds for the search.
Craig moved into his dad's Queens home while serving probation — and it didn't take long for him to get in more gun trouble.
On May 15, 2010, Craig and a pal confronted a gang rival outside a nearby Rosedale home, sources said.
The friend handed Craig a loaded pistol and he immediately opened fire on the victim, Calvin Williams, 26.
After taking a shot to the wrist, Williams tried to run, but Craig fired again, putting him on the ground with a shot to the leg, the sources said.
Craig then walked up to Williams for the kill shot, but was scared off when the man's kids began screaming and his brother came to the door.
Craig was arrested three days later and charged with attempted murder.
The Queens DA's Office lost its bid to try Craig as an adult — and the case was sealed.
"We did have a case with him out here, but he was granted youthful-offender status over our objections," a DA spokesman said.
The city Law Department plans to appeal the ruling in The Bronx stop-and-frisk case.
Additional reporting by Dan Mangan, Jamie Schram and Erik Kriss
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Jewish Christmas Sublime: Ed Schoenfeld's RedFarm Perfects the Upper West Side's Only Native Cuisine
By Joshua David Stein • 01/24/14 11:31am
Instagram has been overrun with images of RedFarm's signature Pac-Man dumplings.
"Who doesn't want to sleep with Sheryl?" asked the man to my left. "But Rick?"
The man shuddered at the thought, and the piece of barbecue beef clutched in his chopsticks dangled like a modifier, terrified.
"Even the thought of Rick watching from the corner turns me off," agreed the man's friend, who sat opposite him at the communal table at the new RedFarm on the Upper West Side.
The two diners were discussing a pair of co-workers rumored to be swingers. Judging by their cashmere blazers and large, angular watches, both worked in the financial services industry. Later, over spectacularly fragrant pork chops, they discussed upcoming vacations in Aspen, followed by the NFL playoffs, derivatives and Sheryl again. Subjects marched briskly by as if ordered by some silence-hating dictator, the conversation flitting from topic to topic as the men searched for a combination to unlock their camaraderie.
One thing unremarked upon was the food sitting before them—the aromatic pork chops, the barbecue beef fried rice, a cinematic salad of dayboat tuna, blueberries and jicama.
Had it occurred to them, they would have had plenty to discuss. Here, as they have downtown, Ed Schoenfeld, a jolly, Brooklyn-born, Chinese food-obsessed Jew, and Joe Ng, a Hong Kong-born, Park Slope-raised prince of dim sum, have gotten deliciousness down to a Henry Ford-level of automation. Almost everything that emerges from the kitchen is likely to be some of the best Chinese food you'll ever have.
That RedFarm is such a well-oiled (though not greasy) machine is a good thing too. The restaurant is as crowded as the downtown 1 train at rush hour. On the night I visited, well-heeled diners stormed the entrance like brigands on castle ramparts. If Messrs. Schoenfeld and Ng didn't know how to give their clientele what they wanted night after night, they'd have a room full of angry people used to getting their way. And that's a spectacle more terrifying than fucking Sheryl while Rick watches.
When RedFarm gets knocked, it's usually for being Chinese Food for White People. In the case of its Upper West Side location, it's Chinese Food for Old Jews (over a few visits, I saw Richard Kind, the archetypal nebbishy actor, and überjew Eli Zabar), with a clientele that makes the West Village look gritty and diverse. The madding crowd, in their Brooks Brothers button-ups, fill the restaurant with Shearith Israel behind-the-bima gossip and sentences that begin, "I heard on Leonard Lopate today …" The only Asians I saw, apart from the waitstaff, were a young Indian couple. ("Ew, preserved vegetables," I heard the woman say. "What does that even mean?")
Some of this has to do with the demographics of the neighborhood and some of it with the price point of the menu. This isn't the Golden Shopping Mall in Flushing, where $4 gets you 12 dumplings. It's the Upper West Side, where $12 gets you four dumplings.
Grilled chicken salad: not the Golden Shopping Mall in Flushing.
Charges of inauthenticity don't stick, however, mainly because RedFarm doesn't represent itself as something it is not. Like other restaurants, such as ABC Cocina and Mission Cantina, RedFarm draws inspiration from folk cuisines but gleefully bends them to a new culture, a different demographic and changing tastes. This isn't Elvis singing Big Mama Thornton's Hound Dog. It's Stravinsky using an old Russian folk song in Le Sacre du Printemps.
The other defense is that Chinese food has been accommodating the White Man's palate ever since it arrived in America. It started during the Gold Rush with Chinese restaurants in San Francisco catering to intrepid Westerners as well as immigrant laborers. By the 1880s, New York too had restaurants like Chung Fah Low, described as "the Chinese Delmonico's of New York," and the bohemian hangout Mong Sing Wah, a Mott Street chop suey joint.
But the most malign consequence of the inauthenticity critique is the injustice it does to the genius of Mr. Schoenfeld, a chef but not the man in the kitchen, and Mr. Ng, who is the man in the kitchen.
Mr. Schoenfeld is probably the city's preeminent scholar of Chinese food. In the late 1960s, he fell in with a group of elite Chinese chefs who had fled China after the fall of Chiang Kai-Shek and "brought with them a mastery of fine Chinese cooking we had never seen," Mr. Schoenfeld has said. Living at 99th and Broadway at the time, Mr. Schoenfeld befriended people like David Keh, the inventor of General Tso's chicken, and Tsung Ting Wang of Shun Lee Palace, who taught him the raffiné cuisine of Chinese banquets.
Some of this knowledge makes its way to RedFarm's menu in dishes like shrimp-stuffed chicken ($27), which with its golden crust of crispy chicken skin atop a bifurcated shrimp-and-chicken stratum looks like a cross-section of some delicious geological formation. The shrimpiness of the shrimp and the sweet meat of the chicken, two complementary textures, ping-pong off each other pleasingly. The skin is so crisp it could be tulle.
Other, more common dishes, like the grilled shrimp hot-and-sour soup ($12), are sexed up by Mr. Ng's uncommon knowledge and subtle ingenuity. A million little tweaks, such as thickening the broth with potato starch rather than cornstarch, and suddenly a dish that has long been denigrated as simpleton's fare is exciting. Mr. Ng's hot-and-sour soup is so good I want a waterbed filled with it, so when I'm dreaming of it, I only need to poke a hole, and out it'll spurt. Sheryl, Rick and I will be doused in the stuff.
But the signal achievements of RedFarm by far are its dumplings and meats. The dumplings, micron-thin and perfectly uniform in thickness, are mostly a matter of personnel, namely Yao and Mario, a pair of young Chinese men who make them in the back kitchen eight hours per day, six days per week. As for the meat, whether chicken, pork or steak, Mr. Ng performs an intricate dance based on Chinese and Western traditions in which it is soaked in a soy and fresh papaya marinade for 12 to 24 hours, then seared, cooled, grilled and finally served, velvety and subtly sweet, to a diner who eats it while talking about something else entirely or, not talking, eats it while surreptitiously checking his phone under the table.
To manhandle John Prine, how the hell can a person go to RedFarm in the evening, wake up in the morning and have nothin' to say? There's a lot to talk about, and that it's rarely even addressed by the people consuming it belies a major flaw.
Mr. Schoenfeld has an unsubtle, Rob Reiner-ish sense of humor that undermines the seriousness of his food. Instagram has been overrun with images of "Pac-Man" dumplings ($12.50), a RedFarm appetizer that features multicolored shrimp dumplings pursued by a fried sweet potato Pac-Man kept erect by guacamole. Not all restaurants have to be sober, but it's hard to take food seriously if it looks like it belongs on the IHOP kid's menu.
I was also bothered that the servers show little interest in explaining or even describing the dishes, part of which, I'm sure, is that no one wants a pedantic experience at a restaurant but which makes it feel as if Mr. Schoenfeld doesn't want diners to see beyond the walls of his restaurant. Mr. Schoenfeld himself told me he sees RedFarm primarily as a food brand, envisioning RedFarm soy sauce, RedFarm rotisserie chicken and RedFarm miso paste in stores. It's a great idea, but I can't help wondering if he's doing a disservice not just to the culture he professes to love but the clientele he serves, who come away without a broader interest in Chinese food—only a loyalty to RedFarm. If only Mr. Schoenfeld could find a way to create delicious food and spread the bounty of his cultural knowledge. Now that would be something to talk about.
RATING: ****
Filed Under: Lifestyle, Food & Drink, The Feed, RedFarm, Joe Ng, Ed Schoenfeld, PacMan Dumplings
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I promised earlier to post an article on a Russian missile (the "Sizzler") which just may have rendered the modern carrier fleet obsolete. The missile travels so fast and so low that American forces have not been able to come up with an effective protection against it.
I attach two articles on the subject, one from 2010 and one from 2007.
I'm not an armaments buff. The point I wish to make is that the American branch of the dark cabal want the world to think they are invincible so that they can control Earth's population but their view of their own invincibility has already proven to be just a myth.
My hope is these articles will demonstrate that we're operating under an illusion when we think the American cabal's military juggernaut reigns supreme in the world. It does not.
This article concludes the series I intended to publish exposing the myth of invincibility.
Deadly new Russian weapon hides in shipping container
Michael Stott
Apr 26, 2010 2:11pm EDT
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63P2XB20100426
(Reuters) – A Russian company is marketing a devastating new cruise missile system which can be hidden inside a shipping container, giving any merchant vessel the capability to wipe out an aircraft carrier.
A Russian company is marketing a devastating new cruise missile system which can be hidden inside a shipping container, giving any merchant vessel the capability to wipe out an aircraft carrier. <
Potential customers for the formidable Club-K system include Kremlin allies Iran and Venezuela, say defense experts. They worry that countries could pass on the satellite-guided missiles, which are very hard to detect, to terrorist groups.
"At a stroke, the Club-K gives a long-range precision strike capability to ordinary vehicles that can be moved to almost any place on earth without attracting attention," said Robert Hewson of Jane's Defense Weekly, who first disclosed its existence.
A promotional video for the Club-K on the website of Moscow-based makers Kontsern-Morinformsistema-Agat shows an imaginary tropical country facing a land, sea and air attack from a hostile neighbor.
It fights back by loading three shipping containers concealing Club-Ks onto a truck, a train and a ship, disperses them, and then launches a devastating strike on its enemy, destroying its warships, tanks and airfields.
"The idea that you can hide a missile system in a box and drive it around without anyone knowing is pretty new," said Hewson, who is editor of Jane's Air-Launched Weapons.
"Nobody's ever done that before."
Hewson estimated the cost of the Club-K system, which packs four ground or sea-launched cruise missiles into a standard 40-foot shipping container, at $10-20 million.
"Unless sales are very tightly controlled, there is a danger that it could end up in the wrong hands," he said.
The promotional video showed how an ordinary shipping container with the Club-K inside could be hidden among other containers on a train or a ship. When required, the roof lifts off and the four missiles stand upright ready to fire.
An official reached by telephone at makers Kontsern Morinformsistema-Agat declined to answer questions about the Club-K.
He said the firm had no spokesman and he needed time to study written questions before passing a request to the firm's management.
Russia is one of the world's top arms exporters, selling a record $8.5 billion of weapons last year to countries ranging from Syria and Venezuela to Algeria and China. Its order book is estimated to top $40 billion.
Mikhail Barabanov, a defense expert at Russia's Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST), said that as far as he understood, the Club-K was still at the concept stage.
"Potential clients include anyone who likes the idea," he said. "It is known that the United Arab Emirates has shown interest in buying the Club."
Barabanov said the Club-K used proven missiles from Novator, an established Russian maker of weaponry including anti-submarine, surface-to-air and submarine-launched missiles.
One of the missiles on offer is a special anti-ship variant with a second stage which splits off after launch and accelerates to supersonic speeds of up to Mach 3.
"It's a carrier-killer," said Hewson of Jane's. "If you are hit by one or two of them, the kinetic impact is vast…it's horrendous."
Navy Lacks Plan to Defend Against `Sizzler' Missile (Update1)
Tony Capaccio
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=a5LkaU0wj714&refer=home
March 23 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Navy, after nearly six years of warnings from Pentagon testers, still lacks a plan for defending aircraft carriers against a supersonic Russian-built missile, according to current and former officials and Defense Department documents.
The missile, known in the West as the "Sizzler," has been deployed by China and may be purchased by Iran. Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England has given the Navy until April 29 to explain how it will counter the missile, according to a Pentagon budget document.
The Defense Department's weapons-testing office judges the threat so serious that its director, Charles McQueary, warned the Pentagon's chief weapons-buyer in a memo that he would move to stall production of multibillion-dollar ship and missile programs until the issue was addressed.
"This is a carrier-destroying weapon," said Orville Hanson, who evaluated weapons systems for 38 years with the Navy. "That's its purpose."
"Take out the carriers" and China "can walk into Taiwan," he said. China bought the missiles in 2002 along with eight diesel submarines designed to fire it, according to Office of Naval Intelligence spokesman Robert Althage.
A Pentagon official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Russia also offered the missile to Iran, although there's no evidence a sale has gone through. In Iranian hands, the Sizzler could challenge the ability of the U.S. Navy to keep open the Strait of Hormuz, through which an estimated 25 percent of the world's oil traffic flows.
Fast and Low-Flying
"This is a very low-flying, fast missile," said retired Rear Admiral Eric McVadon, a former U.S. naval attache in Beijing. "It won't be visible until it's quite close. By the time you detect it to the time it hits you is very short. You'd want to know your capabilities to handle this sort of missile."
The Navy's ship-borne Aegis system, deployed on cruisers and destroyers starting in the early 1980s, is designed to protect aircraft-carrier battle groups from missile attacks. But current and former officials say the Navy has no assurance Aegis, built by Lockheed Martin Corp., is capable of detecting, tracking and intercepting the Sizzler.
"This was an issue when I walked in the door in 2001," Thomas Christie, the Defense Department's top weapons-testing official from mid-2001 to early 2005, said in an interview.
`A Major Issue'
"The Navy recognized this was a major issue, and over the years, I had continued promises they were going to fully fund development and production" of missiles that could replicate the Sizzler to help develop a defense against it, Christie said. "They haven't."
The effect is that in a conflict, the U.S. "would send a billion-dollar platform loaded with equipment and crew into harm's way without some sort of confidence that we could defeat what is apparently a threat very near on the horizon," Christie said.
The Navy considered developing a program to test against the Sizzler "but has no plans in the immediate future to initiate such a developmental effort," Naval Air Systems Command spokesman Rob Koon said in an e-mail.
Lieutenant Bashon Mann, a Navy spokesman, said the service is aware of the Sizzler's capabilities and is "researching suitable alternatives" to defend against it. "U.S. naval warships have a layered defense capability that can defend against various missile threats," Mann said.
McQueary, head of the Pentagon's testing office, raised his concerns about the absence of Navy test plans for the missile in a Sept. 8, 2006, memo to Ken Krieg, undersecretary of defense for acquisition. He also voiced concerns to Deputy Secretary England.
In the memo, McQuery said that unless the Sizzler threat was addressed, his office wouldn't approve test plans necessary for production to begin on several other projects, including Northrop Grumman Corp.'s new $35.8 billion CVN-21 aircraft-carrier project; the $36.5 billion DDG-1000 destroyer project being developed by Northrop and General Dynamics Corp.; and two Raytheon Corp. projects, the $6 billion Standard Missile-6 and $1.1 billion Ship Self Defense System.
Charts prepared by the Navy for a February 2005 briefing for defense contractors said the Sizzler, which is also called the SS-N-27B, starts out flying at subsonic speeds. Within 10 nautical miles of its target, a rocket-propelled warhead separates and accelerates to three times the speed of sound, flying no more than 10 meters (33 feet) above sea level.
On final approach, the missile "has the potential to perform very high defensive maneuvers," including sharp-angled dodges, the Office of Naval Intelligence said in a manual on worldwide maritime threats.
The Sizzler is "unique," the Defense Science Board, an independent agency within the Pentagon that provides assessments of major defense issues, said in an October 2005 report. Most anti-ship cruise missiles fly below the speed of sound and on a straight path, making them easier to track and target.
"We take the threat very seriously," Admiral Michael Mullen, chief of U.S. naval operations said today.
"Secretary of Defense England has asked us to come to him by April with our approach," Mullen said in an interview with Bloomberg Television. There "may not be a single answer. It would probably be a multifaceted."
The Sizzler "is very fast and it has maneuvering characteristics that are of concern," Mullen said. "That has put us in a position to make sure we evaluate it as rapidly and specifically as we can."
McQueary, in a March 16 e-mailed statement, said that "to the best of our knowledge," the Navy hasn't started a test program or responded to the board's recommendations. "The Navy may be reluctant to invest in development of a new target, given their other bills," he said.
`Aggressive Marketing'
The Sizzler's Russian maker, state-run Novator Design Bureau in Yekaterinburg, is "aggressively marketing" the weapon at international arms shows, said Steve Zaloga, a missile analyst with the Teal Group, a Fairfax, Virginia-based defense research organization. Among other venues, the missile was pitched at last month's IDEX 2007, the Middle East's largest weapons exposition, he said.
Zaloga provided a page from Novator's sales brochure depicting the missile.
Alexander Uzhanov, a spokesman for the Moscow-based Russian arms-export agency Rosoboronexport, which oversees Novator, declined to comment.
`Pressing Threat'
McVadon, who has written about the Chinese navy, called the Sizzler "right now the most pertinent and pressing threat the U.S. faces in the case of a Taiwan conflict." Jane's, the London-based defense information group, reported in 2005 in its publication "Missiles and Rockets" that Russia had offered the missile to Iran as part of a sale in the 1990s of three Kilo- class submarines.
That report was confirmed by the Pentagon official who requested anonymity. The Office of Naval Intelligence suggested the same thing in a 2004 report, highlighting in its assessment of maritime threats Iran's possible acquisition of additional Russian diesel submarines "with advanced anti-ship cruise missiles."
The Defense Science Board, in its 2005 report, recommended that the Navy "immediately implement" a plan to produce a surrogate Sizzler that could be used for testing.
"Time is of the essence here," the board said.
To contact the reporters on this story: Tony Capaccio at at acapaccio@bloomnberg.net
Last Updated: March 23, 2007 15:16 EDT


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 Paramento  – nella tecnica muraria, ciascuna delle facce parallele di un muro, o per estensione, lo stesso rivestimento murale
 Paramento  – in architettura, gli addobbi esteriori dei palazzi
 Paramento  – nella stereotomia, ciascuna delle facce esterne dei conci


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Catalonia Shows The "Clash Of Civilizations" Emerging After The Downfall of Liberal Democracy
by Brett Stevens on October 1, 2017
We are in the midst of a vast change here on planet Earth, for all of humanity. An old order has fallen, and while most of us are scrambling to catch up, all that was based on this old order is falling silently at the same time. You can feel the muted panic in the streets.
That old order is named modernism, and it is the series of ideas which flowed from The Enlightenment™ concept of individualism, where natural law and social order take a back seat to what the individual desires. To make society subsidize that by refusing to enact Darwinistic sorting on those whose desires lead to bad or useless things, individualism became egalitarianism, and from that, collectives form.
For humanity in all ages, the problem is herd behavior, sometimes called peer pressure, which is the root of our trends, gangs, stampedes, cults, panics, cliques and other behaviors that are "dark organizations" which counteract our goals as civilizations, and the actual needs of individuals versus what they will say are their goals.
It is a paradox to most that individualism is a form of collectivism, but when you think about it, there is nothing more selfish than a crowd: a group of people united by lowest common denominator wants, desiring to enforce those on others, and to do so without accountability because they are in a faceless mob.
Caste revolt of this nature has destroyed every civilization to date. The faceless mob, unaware of what they cannot understand, tears down those above them and assumes that civilization will just keep on trucking as it has in the past. Instead, they quickly find that social order begins to decay.
The recent history of humanity shows us trying to find ways to make mob rule work, and failing. Parliaments, the Constitution, Communism, Socialism, Communitarianism, Distributism, Anarchism and all of these other "isms" are simply attempts to adapt to a new reality in which we have an ad hoc hierarchy based on who has the favor of the crowd at any moment.
As with most unstable things, and following in the path of the French Revolution which led to economic collapse and ideological warfare, global liberal democracy — the political philosophy of equality, itself a form of individualism — has died of its own success. Illogical plans, when put into action, "succeed" for some time, but then their unrealistic approach causes them to collapse.
Arising from that, we are entering the age of what political philosopher Samuel P. Huntington described as "The Clash of Civilizations" in which people move away from ideological and economic definitions of who they are, and instead turn to civilization, which is formed of the intersection of culture, heritage, religion and values:
World politics is entering a new phase, and intellectuals have not hesitated to proliferate visions of what it will be-the end of history, the return of traditional rivalries between nation states, and the decline of the nation state from the conflicting pulls of tribalism and globalism, among others. Each of these visions catches aspects of the emerging reality. Yet they all miss a crucial, indeed a central, aspect of what global politics is likely to be in the coming years.
It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural. Nation states will remain the most powerful actors in world affairs, but the principal conflicts of global politics will occur between nations and groups of different civilizations. The clash of civilizations will dominate global politics. The fault lines between civilizations will be the battle lines of the future.
What is happening in Catalonia now fits this pattern. The Spanish state has smashed, jailed, censored and disenfranchised its citizens in order to try to prevent the inevitable: the breakup of the nation-state, formed of many different ethnic groups united by ideology and economic system, into smaller civilizations based on innate identity.
In the United States, a similar sentiment has arisen with the election of Donald J. Trump; people want America "before the change" to return, and by that they mean the 1950s style Western European America. In the United Kingdom, voters opted to escape the economic and political cartel of the European Union. In Germany, the proto-nationalist party Alternative For Germany won record gains.
The pushback has become, and it is consists of people not just rejecting the mixed-racial modern state, but the mixed-ethnic one as well:
People are people; differences, even intraracial differences (as those between English and Irish, or Ukranians and Russians, for example) exist, and frictions, up to and including warfare, happen. We can't wave a magic wand and make those things disappear.
Following this, other aspects of modernity are fading as well, including faith in democracy:
The next step will be a rejection of caste revolt itself. Cynicism toward equality is spreading. The sheer incompetence of our leaders has made us distrust the utilitarian premise of democracy, which is that whatever most people think is good, is actually good. The future includes hierarchy, both of leadership, and of social roles, with those who have the most prized traits rising above the rest.
Even more, recognition of the total failure of pluralism, or that we can coexist with those of other racial and ethnic groups, religions, philosophies and even political inclinations is collapsing on both Left and Right:
Obama was wrong when he said that we are not two countries, one blue and one red. Because, in fact, we are. Our job is to make sure that our country prevails.
As the fundamental ideas of democracy, equality, pluralism, and diversity unravel, something new is coming to take their place. It will be "new" in that, as history cycles, we will find ourselves back where we were before this disaster of modernism occurred, and when then start going the other way, toward the traditional forms of living that have protected us for millennia.
We will now be addressing the only question remaining which is that of whether, after this seemingly endless disaster, we can restore our civilization and ourselves to be something great again, as slumbers in our ancestral memory and imaginations:
I often wonder about this question: is the character or the spirit of a people genetic, and if so, is it passed down through generations — or can it be subverted by means of propaganda, dysgenics, and what amounts to psychological/spiritual warfare? Could the original character of these peoples re-assert itself, or can it be restored by conscious effort? Can decades, even centuries or manipulation be reversed?
It seems to me that we are entering a new dark age of terror as the old order falls. Most of our fellow citizens will not be coming with us into the future. Many of our most cherished beliefs are departing. But in this vast void, opportunity lurks for those who are brave and realistic. We finally have a chance to escape the disaster of modernism, and replace it with something better.
Courage!
Tags: brexit, clash of civilizations, democracy, diversity, donald j. trump, equality, modernism, modernity, pluralism
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Arriving in the ferry harbor at 23.30 after 1330 km today.
5 minute refuelling stop and then 200 km more – not much fun.
6 degrees Celsius and wet roads, so there's not much grip in the tyres.
At Col du Pt. St. Bernard. – 2188 meters.
so there is still plenty of snow left.
one of the highest mountain passes in Europe – 2770 meters.
We wer'e lucky to be there on a clear day, but a thunderstorm was closing in, so we had to move on.
Col de la Croix de Fer – 2067 meters.


Detroit entered Tuesday night one point ahead of both Florida and Montreal for fourth in the Atlantic. They came off a 4-0 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks from Sunday afternoon.
Meanwhile, the Dallas Stars have won 7 of their last 10 as they continue to fight for positioning in the ultra-competitive Central Division.
Detroit wasted no time finding the scoreboard, as Tyler Bertuzzi swung wide around the net of Ben Bishop, dragging the tall netminder out of position, before passing to defenseman Trevor Daley, who scored in the empty net. It was the game's first shot, coming only 44 seconds into the game.
Unfortunately for the Wings, that was the only positive of the period. Two minutes later, forward Radek Faksa scored for Dallas on a deflection goal (Lindell and Klingberg assisted). Soon after, Luke Witkowski and Dominic Turgeon received penalties only 54 seconds apart, giving the offensively-powered Stars squad a 1:06 5-on-3. Detroit had a few key clears, but managed to allow a goal with just two seconds remaining on the first minor penalty. John Klingberg wristed a shot from the point, which was tipped past Jimmy Howard by veteran forward Jason Spezza.
Midway through the second period, Andreas Athanasiou sped forward on a breakaway, tying the game at 2-2. Bertuzzi and Niklas Kronwall assisted.
Detroit's Luke Witkowski dropped the gloves with Dallas's Stephen Johns. With Witkowski receiving an additional minor penalty for roughing (served by Martin Frk), Dallas had a free power play.
Spezza struck again for Dallas on the man-advantage as he slapped a Radulov one-timer past Howard, who had no chance to stop the cross-crease pass/shot. All momentum was halted for the remainder of the period.
By the end of 40 minutes, Detroit had only a meager 10 shots, to Dallas's 23.
The Stars added to their lead 9:13 into the final stanza. Martin Hanzal poked the puck past Howard on a rebound (4-2). Detroit had only one shot in the first ten minutes of the period.
The Wings had few chances during the remainder of the period, and they fell by a score of 4-2.
Detroit is off until Saturday when they host the Carolina Hurricanes. Game time is set for 7:00 ET.
Following the weekend, they will fly to New Jersey on Monday (7:00) before returning home to face Philadelphia on Tuesday (7:30) and Chicago on Thursday (7:30).


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TRAVIS MEADOWS AT 3RD AND LINDSLEY NASHVILLE
DATE: TUESDAY, OCT 24, 2017
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Travis Meadows spent years trying to escape himself. He's anything but selfish, so he'd find a way to get away––a bottle, a bag, a sermon––and he'd share it with everyone. That was then. Now, Meadows isn't trying to get anybody lost or high. Instead, he's trying to get every single one of us to settle in deeply to ourselves––and love what's there. "I feel like what I'm doing is giving people permission to be okay with who they are, where they're at now," Meadows says. "A lot of us say stuff like, 'If I'd been married to this guy or this girl, or if I had enough money, or if I had a better job. If I wasn't an alcoholic, or if I drank more. If this, if that, then, I think I could be a better person.'" He pauses. "I think the key to life is being okay with who you are."
"Life can be a little challenging for all of us. It's beautiful and it's tragic, it's awesome and it hurts," Meadows says. "I hope people sense that through this record and want to come to a show, which is a lot of storytelling, a lot of tears, a lot of laughter. They'll come face to face with a damn lot of humanity. I hope they see themselves in it."
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Q: JComboBox mueve la posición de jPanel Estoy intentando hacer un menú desplazando un jPanel a una posición no visible y regresándolo a una posición visible en el jFrame. Este menú tiene un formulario y este contiene un jComboBox, al hacer clic en éste, cambia la posición del jPanel devolviéndolo a la parte no visible del jFrame, sólo pasa con este último, los demás elementos del formulario no causan este error. Adjunto las siguientes imágenes:
jFrame sin menú desplegado:

jFrame menú desplegado

Al hacer clic en el comboBox el menú se oculta.
Según lo que he leído es puede ser el layout que uso.
El proyecto lo estoy desarrollando en netbeans con el lenguaje JAVA, y el layaout que utilizo es "absolute layaout"
Link código fuente: https://github.com/CarlosMateoM/Planes_Academicos

No he dado con el problema. Hasta el momento estaba utilizando Netbeans
12.2, pero probé en Netbeans
8.2 y en este el JComboBox
no tiene ese comportamiento extraño, además ejecuté el programa por consola y tampoco ocurre. Por lo que concluyó que debe ser un error o una mala configuración de Netbeans.

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This titanium ring is slim and comfortable to wear. The flat profile accentuates the metal border which frames the wood, and the colours of the metal and the wood contrast nicely together. This ring has a keruing inlay, which has a dark, mottled grain.


Geographically, Agartala, the capital of the north-eastern state of Tripura, is shielded by low-lying hills on three sides and on the other side it opens up to the contagious plains of Bangladesh. Agartala was made capital of the princely state of Tripura way back in 1850 by Krishna Kishore Manikya, the ruler of the erstwhile princely state. Maharaja Bir Bikram Manikya (1923-47), the last ruler of Tripura is credited to have modernized his state.
Nobel Laureate, Rabindra Nath Tagore was a frequent visitor to Tripura as he was on friendly terms with the royal family. His association went a long way in influencing the royal family in the field of music. Truly enough, the contribution to the Hindi film music of Sachin Dev Barman and Rahul Dev Barman, scion of the Tripura Royal family, cannot be forgotten.
Agartala is a popular travel destination in the north-eastern India It is easier to be enchanted by the different landmarks of the city. The ancient monuments, architectural buildings, palaces, temples, museums and lakes attract a large number of people to this beautiful city every year. Tourists come over here to take a look at the beautiful Ujjayanta Palace, built in Indo-Saracenic style.
The piece de résistance of Agartala is the dome capped palace Ujjayanta Palace. Set amidst well-laid gardens on an area of five acres of land this two-storied mansion houses a museum which has an impressive collection of artifacts and memorabilia of the Tripuara's rulers. Located in the centre of the town, the Ujjayanta Palace palace is home to four temples around it. The most famous of these is the beautifully sculpted Jagannath Mandir.
Situated one kilometre away from the Ujjayanta Palace, Kunjaban Palace was built by Maharaja Birendra Kishore Manikya in 1917. The palace now serves as the official residence of the governor of Tripura. The part of the palace that is opened to the visitors is named Rabindra Kanan after Rabindranath Tagore, first Asian to win Nobel Prize. The Nobel laureate used to stay in the palace during his visits to Tripura.
53km from Agartala, the Neermahal Palace was commissioned by Maharaja Bir Bikram Kishore Manikya, Tripura's last ruler, as a pleasure house in 1930 and comes lauded as the only Lake Palace in the North-eastern region. Built in the Indo-Islamic architectural design, the palace stands majestically in the middle of Rudrasagar Lake which attracts a large number of migratory birds during winter. During the month of July, boat race is organised in the lake.
Set amidst green landscape the beautiful Maharaja Bir Bikram College is located adjacent to an expansive lake and a fine example of traditional architecture of Tripura.
Set amidst the tranquil surroundings, the Buddhist monastery of Venuban Vihar should be your stopover in Agartala. Here you can find statues of Lord Buddha and Bodhisattvas.
Known as Matabari in popular parlance, Tripura Sundari Temple is 55km from the Agartala town. One of the fifty-one Shakti Peeths in India, Tripura Sundari Temple is one of the highly venerated shrines in Tripura. It is believed that the toe of Sati's right foot fell here and later a shine was built at this very place. The kurma (tortoise) shaped Tripura Sundari Temple is situated 3km away form the temple town of Udaipur.
55km from the Agartala town, another famous shrine is the Tripura Bhuvaneswari Temple situated on the northern bank of the Gomati in Udaipur. A fine specimen of Tripura's temple architecture, the temple was built by Maharaja Govinda Manikya. This 17th century landmark has been immortalized by Rabindranath Tagore in two of his plays — Bisharjan and Rajarshi.
Located in West Tripura district, Kali Temple, sititng stop a hillock overlooking the sprawling Kamala Sagar Lake, is some 30 km from Agartala. Excavated by Maharaja Dhanya Manikya Bahadur in the 15th Century AD, the Kamala Sagar Lake attracts picnickers in large numbers.
For the lovers of wildlife, the Gumti Wildlife Sanctuary is the place to be. 100km from Agartala, the sanctuary, located in South Tripura district, comprises 389.54 square kilometres and is home to rich flora and fauna. For the birdwatchers, the huge water reservoir here offers a vast species of local and migratory birds.
How to reach Agartala by Air: Daily flights connect Agartala with different cities of India Delhi, Guwahati, Kolkata and Chennai.
How to reach Agartala by Rail: Indian railways is working to connect Agartala to all major cities in India.
How to reach Agartala by Road: Agartala is also connected by road with different cities. State and private run buses connect the city with Kolkata, Shillong, Silchar and Guwahati and.
Hotel Amber, Hotel Executive Inn, Hotel Galaxy Inn, Circuit House and Rajashree in Kujaban are some o the decent accommodation options in Agartala.


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Le Beilervaart est un canal néerlandais de la province de Drenthe.

Il relie la localité de Beilen, commune de Midden-Drenthe, au Drentsche Hoofdvaart à Hoogersmilde. La longueur du canal s'élève à un peu plus de 10 km.

Sa construction, en 1791, avait deux objectifs :
 alimenter en eau le Drentsche Hoofdvaart
 procurer aux habitants de Beilen une voie navigable avec Meppel.

Le canal a été amélioré en 1810 et en 1926, la dernière fois dans le cadre d'un projet de l'assistance par le travail. Depuis cette année, le canal est prolongé par le canal Linthorst Homan de l'autre côté de Beilen.

Aujourd'hui, le canal n'est plus utilisé par la navigation professionnelle.

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  Encyclopédie de Drenthe

Canal dans la province de Drenthe
Canal du XVIIIe siècle
Midden-Drenthe


The Borgata Hotel and Spa in Atlantic City is playing host to the Borgata Winter Poker Open 2019 with the action well underway since 15th January. The series will conclude on 1st February comprising of 23 events. The series opener, Borgata Deepstack Kickoff NLHE attracted a total of 5,130 entrants across six starting flights. It ensured $2 million guarantee was shattered with the final prize pool of $2.7 million. Pascal Zaklama reached a three-way deal with the other two contenders to seal the title and $328,695 in prize money. The runner up who remain anonymous banked an equal payday $328,695 and Vladimir Alexandrov finishes third place and collected $216,000.
Among top pros at the series is Team PokerStars pro Aditya Agarwal. He is back as he has two prior cashes at Borgata with his best score being 35th place finish in the WPT Borgata Championship re-entry for ₹10,69,127 in September 2014. He is expected to play in the NLHE WPT Main Event $3,500. Agarwal will be looking to better his score at the series.
Indian origin players Raj Desai took down the Almighty Stack NLH for ₹1.24 Crores. While Soheb Porbandarwala juggernauted his way to the top in the Saturday Series NLH and collected ₹37.05 Lakhs. Phil Hellmuth, one of the most recognizable faces in the global poker community and 15time WSOP bracelet winner also showed up at the series. He is known for on and off the felt antics added another accolade to his list of achievements by taking down the Heads-Up NLH for $37,248. He made Day2 with a workable stack of 88,500.
Daniel Hofer (HORSE for $13,000), Josh Bergman (Six Max NLH for $77,946), Alida Veliu (Ladies Deep Stack NLH for $3,325) and Kujdes Gagliardi (CSOP Charity NLH Tournament) were among the other side event winners.
The second day of the $3million GTD WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open Championship gathered a massive field of 780 entries. Now, the player pool has reached 1,204 entries falling short of the record 1,313 entries that was set up at the WPT Borgata Poker Open 2011.
Aditya Agarwal, the poker icon had a great start in the event and made it through Day2 with a workable stack of 89,600. Recently, Joey Couden finished fourth at the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown for $251,523, emerged as the chip leader with 321,600 in chips. He is trailed by Michael Smith (254,000) and Alex Aqel (246,700) who finishes sin second and third position on Day 1B leaderboard.
Couden with a total of 665 survivors will lead Day2 that takes place later today. The next few days the event will play down to final six players and televised final table will be held on 13th March in Las Vegas at the HyperX Esports Arena at Luxor.


Peter Chapman is director at Heavybit, a nine-month program for post-seed startups building developer products.
Developer product companies are asked to do two things: achieve near-ubiquitous adoption through an accessible, hobbyist-friendly offering, and convince large companies to pay them money. Unfortunately, these two goals often run contrary to each other.
Heroku's* free dyno is a great example of this. Heroku's initial pricing had a single unit — the dyno — and only charged for incremental dynos beyond the first. An app running one dyno would cost $0/month, an app running two dynos would cost $37.50/month, an app running three dynos would cost $75/month, etc.
This free dyno was immensely successful in driving active usage metrics — hobbyists and students loved the fact that they could create web apps for free. The company ran into trouble, however, when Heroku started charging large enterprises for the same functionality. These large customers were savvy enough to realize that they were paying more per dyno than many of Heroku's smaller customers that received one dyno for free, leading to some difficult negotiations. It took Heroku a couple of iterations to fix this problem — ultimately by decoupling its free tier from its standard offering.
The following is a list of the common mistakes developer-focused companies make when pricing their products and services.
Even if your company doesn't have an enterprise product yet (you aren't alone), you still need to build an "Enterprise" column into your pricing chart with a big "Contact Us" button.
This simple add-on immediately gets you three things: It provides a signal to investors, customers and future partners that you have an enterprise roadmap; it wins you trust from developers as they now know that they can one day implement your product at scale; and, most importantly, it gives you a list of people interested in paying for you product.
When your enterprise product is ready, you'll hand that list to your head of sales — and they will thank you for it.
This problem can be tricky to spot — your customers probably won't tell you that your product is worth more than what they're paying.
To avoid this, look for warning signs like sluggish conversion rates to more expensive plans or big logos that are "stuck" on low tiers. It's likely you've already done everything you can to have as awesome an enterprise product as possible, so this problem is going to require you to do something rather painful: You're going to have to remove features from your free offering to make it less attractive.
Be warned, you likely will not enjoy doing this. Your coworkers are going to strongly disagree with this decision. Your users will not be thrilled that you are doing this — and they will tell you that.
That's OK. Implement a generous grandfathering plan. Remind your team that you do, in fact, need to make money. Trust that this will be small news in a few months.
Unless you're selling infrastructure, it's rarely appropriate for your pricing to be a function of bytes. Don't base your pricing off storage, data transfer or compute. Not only do these plans make it difficult for customers to estimate how much your product will actually cost, it gets them thinking about it in entirely the wrong frame. All of a sudden they're doing some simple back-of-the-envelope math comparing the price of your infrastructure to how much the same stuff costs on AWS and you look very, very expensive — and they're wondering how hard it would be to just build this from scratch.
You've seen this pricing plan: use as much as you want, pay for what you use. This sort of free-form pricing provides flexibility, transparency and ease-of-use… and is a terrible idea. Your users may care about flexibility; their managers care about predictable costs. Nothing is scarier to folks who manage budgets than a vendor that could charge an arbitrary amount per month.
Thankfully, there's a straightforward solution here: Come up with a handful of plans with distinct thresholds across whatever metrics you care about.
*Disclosure: Heavybit was founded by Heroku's founder James Lindenbaum. James cut ties with Heroku in 2013 shortly after the company was acquired by Salesforce. Salesforce is an investor in Heavybit. The author of this post previously worked at Heroku and was a member of the team that worked on pricing.


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Home » Music News » Alex Van Halen Marks First Birthday Since Death Of Brother Eddie
Alex Van Halen Marks First Birthday Since Death Of Brother Eddie
Alex Van Halen paid tribute to his recently deceased brother Eddie Van Halen on his own 68th birthday.
"First birthday without you, Ed," the founding Van Halen drummer wrote in a statement posted on VHND.com. "The view from my drum set will never be the same. VH forever! #vanhalenforever."
This is the second public statement Alex has made about his brother Eddie, who passed away in October 2020 after a long battle with cancer. Two days after Eddie's death, Van Halen had posted a brief message saying, "Hey Ed, love you. See you on the other side."
The Van Halen brothers founded Van Halen in 1974 alongside singer David Lee Roth and bassist Michael Anthony. Eddie and Alex were the only two members who never left the group.
Roth was replaced by Sammy Hagar in 1985 and then by Gary Cherone in 1996 before rejoining the band in 2007. Anthony was replaced by Eddie's son Wolfgang Van Halen on bass in 2006.
Meanwhile, Wolfgang, who is set to release his debut solo album Mammoth WVH next month, paid his own birthday tribute to his uncle Alex.
"Happy Birthday to my badass uncle Al. Love you!" he tweeted along with a picture of them performing onstage.


For some reason Colwiz can't find out my existing JRE installation. Is there anyway I can explicitly set the path for JRE (in a Colwiz config file may be)?
I am most happy to help you regarding this issue. Please can I ask what version of Java you are using, and also which version of Mac OSX? Thanks.


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Freethought San Marcos: Failures of the court-appointed attorney system
Freethought San Marcos: A column
by LAMAR W. HANKINS
Twenty-three years before Michael Morton was wrongfully sentenced to life in prison, another man, Clarence Earl Gideon, was wrongfully sent to a Florida prison for five years for theft. One difference in their cases is Gideon had been a petty criminal all of his life, while Morton had been an exemplary citizen. The important similarity between their cases is that both were innocent of the crimes they were tried and convicted for, though their convictions occurred for different reasons.
Gideon's case is significant because the state of Florida would not provide him a court-appointed attorney, even though he could not afford to hire one. He represented himself and was found guilty. After educating himself a bit while in prison, he filed a request for relief to the US Supreme Court alleging that his right to an attorney under the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution had been abridged because of his poverty and the state's failure to provide an attorney to represent him. Gideon won his right to counsel and was subsequently acquitted of the crime for which he had served two years in prison.
Gideon's case, decided 50 years ago, required that all persons accused of a crime that could be punished by jail or prison time were entitled to an appointed attorney if they were unable to afford to hire one. The results were felt in every state as thousands of inmates were either released or given new trials with a court-appointed attorney. The requirement for appointed counsel placed additional financial burdens on state and local governments. Most courts implemented the Gideon decision by appointing local attorneys to represent indigent persons accused of jailable offenses. What those local attorneys are paid varies widely throughout the country.
While a limited number of court-appointed cases are handled by public defender offices established in some jurisdictions, there are few such offices, mainly because they cost more than the appointed attorney system.
In this column, I am not attempting a thorough analysis of the criminal justice system. That would take at least a book-length narrative. For readers interested in a thorough understanding of how the system operates, I recommend any of the books by Abraham S. Blumberg, a criminologist and sociologist whose provocative opinions of law enforcement and the legal establishment I encountered during law school. One of Blumberg's most famous works is an essay, "The Practice of Law as a Confidence Game: Co-opting of a Profession," which has been reprinted in more than 50 anthologies and can be found through an online search.
My purpose, instead, is to point to a recent advance in understanding the role of a criminal defense attorney, particularly a court-appointed attorney, in the criminal justice system, and propose some simple practices that may help those accused of crime, as well as those who represent them.
One of the few jurisdictions in Texas that has a public defender system is Harris County, Texas, where 70,000 criminal defendants are represented each year by court-appointed lawyers. In 2012, half of those cases were handled by the public defender office. A recent report on this pilot program, whose federal funding will end a year from now, is explained by an article in the Texas Observer: "[The report] found that felony public defender clients were acquitted three times as often as those with assigned counsel. Misdemeanor public defender clients with mental illness saw their cases dismissed five times as often, and both felony and misdemeanor defendants represented by public defenders were more likely to have their cases taken to trial than end in a plea deal."
Clearly, public defenders represented their clients more successfully than did private attorneys appointed by the courts. The Harris County Public Defender program is more successful partly because its staff is salaried, experienced, mentored, and supervised, with access to resources that don't cost them money out of their own pockets. Also, they cannot take too many cases, but must follow national standards for caseload size.
By contrast, court-appointed private attorneys in Harris County are paid based on the number of appearances in court they make and whether the case goes to trial, which assures that their pay is far below what they would make if the clients could afford to pay them directly. In past years, some attorneys took over 1000 court-appointed cases in a year, far more cases than they could defend properly and ethically.
The Texas Observer reported, "[W]hile the standard for misdemeanors is 400 cases a year, the top 10 percent of assigned attorneys in Harris County took on an average of 632 cases each." That is more than three cases per working day. It is difficult in eight hours for one solo attorney to review the DA's files and the offense report, have an appropriate interview with the client, do necessary legal research, and conduct an investigation on one case per day – let alone three cases. This is true even when no cases have a pre-trial hearing concerning constitutional issues (such as an illegal search or probable cause to arrest), or go to trial. In a recent DWI case I reviewed, there were nearly four hours of video evidence that an attorney would be compelled to look at as part of an investigation. Such a case can take many hours to evaluate adequately.
In Harris County, the average payment for a misdemeanor case is $84. That amount is far less than the charge for a half hour of an attorney's time, paid privately. The inadequacy of the compensation creates a disincentive to follow professional standards for the representation of indigent defendants and usually results in pressure on the client by the attorney to accept a plea bargain, even if the defendant is not guilty. Judges and prosecutors often add additional pressures to plead cases out.
While Harris County pays less for indigent criminal defense than other major metropolitan areas in Texas, the amounts paid elsewhere don't come close to matching the legal fees paid by private clients. It is rare in my experience for a court-appointed attorney to be paid more than one-fourth what that attorney would receive from a private client.
Under rules of ethics and other professional standards, an attorney should perform for a court-appointed client in the same way he or she does for a private-paying client, but in my more than thirty-five years of practice, I saw that happen in very few cases, whether the case was in Harris County or elsewhere. But I realize that other observers may have a more positive view of the system.
One example of a problem faced by many court-appointed attorneys comes from my personal experience. When living in Brazos County, I was appointed to represent a young man charged with capital murder. I willingly accepted the appointment, though in many jurisdictions, judges don't give attorneys a choice. The pretrial phase of the case took nearly a year. The trial lasted three months. I was paid about 20% of what I would have been paid if my client had been a private-pay client.
Taking that case meant that for about six months, while preparing for trial and during the trial, I could not take other legal work. That experience as a solo attorney in a general law practice, sharing a secretary with another attorney, helped me see that taking such low-paid, time-consuming cases would make it impossible to adequately support my family, and we lived very frugally at that time – in a small, double-wide mobile home.
Another factor to consider is that in all the years I was in a private general practice, my law office expenses were between 40% and 50% of my gross income. If I took in $90,000 in legal fees in a year, my office expenses left me with maybe $50,000 in net income. Some lawyers with specialized practices make considerably more than that, others less. Lawyers with big law firms typically make much more and don't have to pay for their office expenses.
There are wide differences in earnings among attorneys. Currently, in the San Antonio area, for example, half the attorneys made less than $77,000 a year, and 35% make about $66,000 or less per year. Fewer than 10% of attorneys in this area of Texas make over $100,000 per year. I don't expect the public to be sympathetic about what attorneys earn, given the high cost of legal services today, but I hope that looking at a few facts might inform the discussion.
Even though income for the average lawyer is far less than many non-lawyers assume, attorneys are held to ethical and performance standards in all of their legal work. Inadequate compensation in court-appointed cases creates pressures to cut corners and ignore some of the standards, often resulting in unjust outcomes for clients and dissatisfaction by conscientious attorneys. In 2011, the State Bar of Texas adopted "Performance Guidelines for Non-Capital Criminal Defense Representation." These Guidelines can be used as a checklist for attorneys, as suggested in its introduction:
"The Guidelines are intended to alert defense counsel to courses of action that may be necessary, advisable, or appropriate, and thereby to assist counsel in deciding upon the particular actions that must be taken in each case to provide the client the best representation possible. The Guidelines also are intended to provide a measure by which the performance of individual attorneys may be evaluated, and to assist in training and supervising attorneys."
The Guidelines are at posted online here and here.
Judges who appoint attorneys to represent indigent defendants in criminal proceedings could use these Guidelines in several ways:
1. All attorneys who want to receive appointments could be required to understand the Guidelines and agree to follow them, when applicable, in their representation. (Not all provisions are applicable. For instance, the section on examining trials applies to very few cases.)
2. Attorney fees in appointed cases could be determined by how well the Guidelines have been followed, using a check-list approved by the judges who make the appointments.
3 . Defendants could be provided a copy of the Guidelines at the inception of representation so that they know what they should expect from their court-appointed attorney. Judges could approve shortened versions of the Guidelines that will apply to most cases handled by their courts, or for use in special circumstances.
4. Court-appointed attorneys could be required to discuss the Guidelines with each client to explain which items don't apply to the case and which will be followed, and the reasons for those differences.
Implementing such a program would require that court-appointed attorneys be paid more for their services. If we can accept as a rough rule of thumb that office and overhead expenses are about half of an attorney's earnings, then payments for appointed work could take this into account by assuming that those expenses will be there regardless of court-appointed work. Rates of payment, then, for court-appointed work could be based on rates that are about half of the standard hourly charge for legal services in the court's jurisdiction, based on independent surveys of hourly attorney fees charged. In addition, adequate resources must be made available to court-appointed attorneys to secure investigators, experts, and witnesses essential for an adequate defense.
And it is important to understand that judges do not control the amounts budgeted for payment of court-appointed attorney fees. Those decisions are made by the commissioners courts in each county. The commissioners courts should accept their obligations to fairly implement the constitutional requirement that all people deserve competent legal representation even when they are unable to afford to hire an attorney because of their limited incomes. After all, the commissioners take an oath to uphold that Constitution.
Some commissioners courts may prefer to fund a public defender office. While that will likely cost more than the appointed attorney system, it will assure higher quality representation if the experience in Harris County applies elsewhere.
If the constitutional right to competent legal counsel is to have meaning, the government must do its part by making available the resources needed to breathe life into that Sixth Amendment guarantee. The commissioners courts in Texas have had 50 years to live up to their responsibilities. It should not take another 50 years to achieve what the Supreme Court ordered a half-century ago. It is time to assure that the scales of justice are always tipped toward justice, not toward convenience, parsimony, complacency, and venality.
© Lamar W. Hankins, Freethought San Marcos
LAMAR W. HANKINS is a former San Marcos city attorney.
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Q: Reversing a string recursively using only a reference parameter I'm having trouble figuring out to how to reverse a string recursively using only one reference parameter like the signature below.
void reverse(string &s)
{
if (s.size() == 0) //this doesn't work because the size is never changing
    return;

string new_word = s.substr(1) + s.at(0);
reverse(new_word);
}

I managed to do it just fine returning a new string but for some reason I'm stumped on this one.
Any suggestions? Thanks.

A: Here is a recursive version working :
void reverse( string& word )
{
    if ( word.size() <= 1 ) return;

    // Get the string without the first and the last char
    string temp = word.substr( 1, word.size() - 2 );
    // Reverse it
    reverse( temp );

    // Recompose the string
    word = word.substr( word.size() - 1 ) + temp + word[0];
}

But I really suggest you to stay on an iterative version :
// No need to explain, pretty clear
void reverse(string& word)
{
    unsigned int end = word.size() - 1;
    for ( unsigned int i = 0; i < end; i++, end-- )
    {
        char c = word[end];
        word[end] = word[i];
        word[i] = c;
    }
}

Example with both.

And like suggested syam use std::reverse :
std::reverse(str.begin(), str.end());

A: Since you already have a version that reverses the string but returns it, you simply need
void reverse(string& word)
{
    word = version_that_returns_reversed_string(word);
}