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THE REVIVAL OF KING CREOLE: ARE YOU READY FOR DAWN RICHARD?
April 20, 2021 by Mickey Duke
Dawn Richard's Second Line: An Electro Revival arrives worldwide April 30, 2021, on Merge Records. Much like the New Orleans-born artist who created it, Second Line is an unapologetic genre bender that pushes boundaries, expands possibilities, and shatters expectations. It's more than just an album: Second Line is a cohesive sensory experience that questions traditional ideas of sound, production, and visual aesthetics as they relate to music. Its interlocking parts tell an epic story about the quest for artistic expression, with Dawn describing her project as "a movement to bring pioneering Black women in electronic music to the forefront."
She elaborates further: "You never see women appreciated as producers and artists alike—especially Black women in the electronic space. The time is now for us to start recognizing their talent, not only in electronic music but in all genres. I wanna be the reason why a young Black girl from the South can be whoever she wants to be musically, visually, and artistically." Second Line cuts to the chase with its opening suite of dancefloor bangers, immediately displaying Dawn's mastery of layered production and melodic hooks. On the hypnotic "Nostalgia," her pleas of "Do you love me anymore?" are answered on the following track "Boomerang." "Bussifame" builds slowly and assuredly to become a feverish boogie before melting into the complex rhythms of "Pressure." Second Line treats Louisiana Creole culture, New Orleans bounce, and Southern Swag as elemental, allowing Dawn to weave in and out of house, footwork, R&B, and more. As she says, "I am the genre."
The story of Second Line centers on Dawn's persona King Creole, assassin of stereotypes, a Black girl from the South at a crossroads in her artistic career. To move forward, she decides to look back, but where previous album New Breed took influence from her father, Second Line is illuminated by Dawn's mother. Her proud repeated proclamation of "I'm a Creole Girl" introduces the ecstatic dancehall pop of "Jacuzzi," and later, on the cinematic album centerpiece "Mornin | Streetlights," she answers Dawn's question of how many times she has been in love. Intimate conversations like this between the two are interlaced throughout Second Line, giving credence to how the protagonist came to be, and direction to build a lane forward.
It's no surprise that King Creole's story parallels Dawn Richard's. As a founding member of Danity Kane, and later with Diddy's Dirty Money, Dawn was able to explore the ins and outs of commercial pop music. As a solo artist, she opted to self-release her music. Over the span of five critically acclaimed full-length albums, Dawn has made the message clear that she will not bow down or bend to industry norms. All the while, she's built her resume with enough extracurriculars to make your head spin: Cheerleader for the New Orleans Hornets? Check. Animator for Adult Swim? Check. Owner-operator of a vegan pop-up food truck? Check. Martial arts expert? Check!
Why "revival"? Because Second Line embodies the heritage of soul music and the roots of New Orleans, all surrounded by the influences of electronic futurism. "The definition of a Second Line in New Orleans is a celebration of someone's homecoming," says Dawn. "In death and in life, we celebrate the impact of a person's legacy through dance and music. I'm celebrating the death of old views in the industry. The death of boxes and limits. I'm celebrating the homecoming of the Future. The homecoming to the new wave of artists. The emergence of all the King Creoles to come. This is our revival." Dawn Richard is bold, confident, purposeful, and a King throughout Second Line. Are you ready to dance? Are you ready for the revival?
Are you ready for Dawn Richard?
Dawn Richard – Second Line: An Electro Revival releases on April 30th. Support the artist, support the label. Buy your music! Listen and buy here – https://dawnrichard.bandcamp.com/
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Joel Embiid is available Wednesday against the Cavaliers
After being listed as questionable, Joel Embiid will play.
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Ahead of Wednesday's duel with the Cleveland Cavaliers, Joel Embiid was listed as questionable with back soreness. However, the Sixers have announced that Embiid is available.
Philadelphia 76ers head coach Doc Rivers said during morning shootaround that he anticipated both Embiid and James Harden would suit up against Cleveland. Harden was not included on the injury report.
Cleveland, meanwhile, is without Dean Wade (right knee soreness), Rajon Rondo (right ankle sprain), Jarrett Allen (fractured left finger) and Collin Sexton (torn left meniscus). Embiid is the only non-G League assignee mentioned on Philadelphia's injury report.
The Sixers are set to face the Cavaliers for the third time in a five-week span. Philadelphia won the first two matchups and will go for the series victory Wednesday. These teams will also square off in Cleveland on April 3.
In two games against the Cavaliers this season, Embiid is averaging 31 points, 11.5 rebounds, 7.5 assists and 2.5 steals on 66.6 percent true shooting. On Feb. 12, Embiid exploded for 40 points, 14 rebounds, 10 assists and three steals in one of his finest showings of the year.

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Jenkins thinks voters should back her because she has the most experience as a prosecutor, and is "the one person who is committed to balancing the interests of the need to reform and (the need to) improve inequities within the system," vowing to be a champion for victims of crime. "I think the majority of the city has reached a point of feeling fed up with the state of things, and the status quo is not working anymore," she says. In her first seven weeks in office she says she's made "significant strides in helping to restore things."
Alioto Veronese says his 22 years as a civil rights attorney, time on the police commission, three-year stint as a San Francisco police officer, and career as an investigator in former San Francisco District Attorney Terrance Hallinan's office, all prepared him to serve as district attorney . "At the time, I wasn't as progressive as Hallinan, when, if you remember, he was the ultimate progressive DA," Alioto Veronese says. Hallinan started some of the first diversion programs for offenders. Alioto Veronese initially opposed the diversion programs but now believes in that work, saying "I've come such a long way."
Hamasaki Believes his 14 years as an attorney and "broad experience within the law" gives him a strong foundation to be the next district attorney. He also touted his time on the San Francisco Police Commission as valuable experience in terms of interacting with San Francisco's criminal justice system. Responding to Jenkins' critique that he lacks prosecutorial experience, he says that would be important "if they were hiring a line prosecutor ," but that the district attorney's office is "a job opening for a leader." Hamasaki says he has that experience from the American Bar Association and experience in criminal litigation.
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Tigers end season with a win
The Tigers picked up their second win of the season in a 28-0 shutout of Johnson on Friday night. - photo by File photo
Dawson County finished the 2014 football season with a big 28-0 win over visiting Johnson High School on Friday night.
Head Coach Jeff Lee's Tigers finished the season with a 2-8 overall record. The visiting Knights also completed their season with a 2-8 record.
The Tigers got on the scoreboard on the last play of the first quarter on a 55-yard touchdown run by Kyle Hayes. Zach Buchan added the extra point to give Dawson County a 7-0 lead.
Dawson County added another touchdown with just 4:53 remaining before halftime on a 13-yard score by Hunter Mitchell.
The point after attempt was good and the Tigers took a 14-0 lead into the locker room.
In the third quarter, the Tigers scored on second and goal from the 2-yardline on a run by Jeffrey Partain. Once again the extra point was good by Buchan giving Dawson County a 21-0 advantage.
The Tigers defense was stellar in the win, allowing Johnson 178 total yards. The Knights managed just 137 rushing yards and 41 passing yards.
Sophomore Luke Martin led the Tigers in tackles with 22. Martin now stands alone in the single season tackles list with 170 total tackles for the season.
Linebacker Conor Woodbury also had a great game with 18 tackles. Woodbury totaled 144 tackles for the season.
Picking up 14 tackles apiece for the defense were Jeremy Whalen, Brett Whalen, Colin Glover and A.J. Maner.
Dawson County's season is now over.


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The Greenwich Senior Center, formerly Greenwich Town Hall, is a historic municipal building at 299 Greenwich Avenue in the business district of Greenwich, Connecticut. USA.  Built in 1905, it is a prominent local example of Beaux Arts architecture, and served as the town's center of government until 1977.  The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 21, 1987.

Description and history
The former Greenwich Town Hall is located near the center of the Greenwich's central business district, on the east side of Greenwich Avenue at Havemeyer Place.   The building is shaped like a vertical cube, three stories, with single-story wings extending to the sides.  The first floor is rusticated stone, while the upper floors are more finely finished, with two-story Ionic columns rising to a mansard roof. The roof rises above a copper cornice and has a clock built below a domed cupola.  The main entrance has an elaborate surround, with pilasters rising to a heavy gabled pediment.

The building is a Beaux Arts design by Mowbray and Uffinger, and was built in 1905 by W.J. Smith to serve as the Town Hall of Greenwich.  Its construction was funded by Robert M. Bruce and his sister Sarah.  Robert Bruce was a New York City cotton merchant and philanthropist whose home is now the Bruce Museum of Arts and Science; the Bruces were well known for their local philanthropy.  In 1977, the town government offices were moved to a building that was formerly used by the Greenwich High School at Field Point Road. This building is now used as a senior center.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Greenwich, Connecticut

References

City and town halls on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut
Beaux-Arts architecture in Connecticut
Government buildings completed in 1905
Buildings and structures in Greenwich, Connecticut
Town halls in Connecticut
National Register of Historic Places in Fairfield County, Connecticut
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Rumour mill keeps on grinding.
Despite denials, LittleBigPlanet will get a "full sequel", according to the latest Official PlayStation Magazine. The comment apparently comes from the magazine's rumours section.
Elsewhere, we have received word that OPM are claiming E3 will see Killzone 3, Resistance 3 and inFamous 2; Infinity Ward aren't behind the next Modern Warfare game and – interestingly – Sony haven't even mentioned some of the "major titles" they've got lined up for the PS3 this year.
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Q: Is it possible to make two buttons with same id in one layout? Is it possible to make two buttons with same id in one layout?
I tried to do through the tag <include>, but does not work for the listener one of the buttons

A: EDIT 2016:
This is no longer possible,android lint checks prevent you from adding same ids in the same xml file.
A work-around would be to use the include tag to include other xmls with repeating ids.
Nevertheless this is an approach that should be avoided.
OLD ANSWER
TL:DR; You can have only distince ids in a View Container,if you create one more container,you can refer to it using parent.findViewById(R.id.child_id);
Although your use case seems flawed at a design level,this is possible
 <LinearLayout
    android:id="@+id/parent"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
   android:padding="30dp">

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
         />
<RelativeLayout
android:id="@+id/button_2"
android: layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<include
    android:id="@+id/second_buttonLayout"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    layout="@layout/title_bar" />
</RelativeLayout>
</LinearLayout>

in order to set listeners for both buttons,
  findViewById(R.id.button1); //referring to first button
((RelativeLayout)findViewById(R.id.button_2)).findViewById(R.id.button_of_include) //referring to second button

EDIT based on the OP's answer,a crucial point is giving an id to the parent layout containing the include.This would allow you to reference the layout and its child layout consequently. ie:
<RelativeLayout
        android:id="@+id/button_2"
        android: layout_width="80dp"
        android:layout_height="80dp">

            <include
                 android:layout_width="80dp"
                 android:layout_height="80dp"
                 layout="@layout/include_layout" />
    </RelativeLayout>

A: It's impossible. But if i want to bind same listener to some equals Views you may use tags. For example:
<ImageView
                android:id="@+id/map_button_1"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:tag="button"
                android:src="@drawable/button" />

Add method to get all views by tag:
private static ArrayList<View> getViewsByTag(ViewGroup root, String tag){
ArrayList<View> views = new ArrayList<View>();
final int childCount = root.getChildCount();
for (int i = 0; i < childCount; i++) {
    final View child = root.getChildAt(i);
    if (child instanceof ViewGroup) {
        views.addAll(getViewsByTag((ViewGroup) child, tag));
    }

    final Object tagObj = child.getTag();
    if (tagObj != null && tagObj.equals(tag)) {
        views.add(child);
    }

    }
    return views;
}

Now just use it like
List<View> myViews = getViewsByTag(rootView, "button");

A: I did so
<LinearLayout
    android:id="@+id/parent"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:padding="30dp">

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button_1"
        android:layout_width="80dp"
        android:layout_height="80dp"
         />

    <RelativeLayout
        android:id="@+id/button_2"
        android: layout_width="80dp"
        android:layout_height="80dp">

            <include
                 android:layout_width="80dp"
                 android:layout_height="80dp"
                 layout="@layout/include_layout" />
    </RelativeLayout>
</LinearLayout>

inlcude_layout.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button_1" // the same id
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
         />
</RelativeLayout>

In my class
Btn[0] = (Button).findViewById(R.id.button_1);
Btn[1] = (Button)((RelativeLayout).findViewById(R.id.button_2)).findViewById(R.id.button_1);

The result was to place two buttons with one id in one layout with one listener!
Project https://github.com/kgsnick/TwoButtonWithOneId

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MDF Recovery (MDFR) has developed the world's first continuous technology to recycle medium-density fibreboard (MDF) waste.
MDF Recovery (MDFR), based in Anglesey, North Wales, has successfully completed proof of concept trials and is now actively scaling up the process that will allow the recovery of wood fibre from waste MDF. The technology offers the first-ever alternative to the landfilling or incinerating of waste MDF and produces high-quality natural fibres that can be re-injected into the manufacture of new MDF boards. They are also suitable for valuable markets such as insulation and horticulture.
Craig Bartlett, MDF Recovery's MD, has devoted the last six years to creating a solution that has the potential to be a game-changing technology on a global scale. Until recent additions to the board, Craig had run MDFR alone, which is why KTN's support and guidance has been invaluable.
Successful commercialisation of MDFR's technology will see revenues of over £18M generated for the UK economy by 2024. This represents a return on investment of nearly 400% on Innovate UK's grant funding. Due to the global nature of the MDF product sector, much of this revenue will be derived from export sales.
KTN has been a source of support and guidance for MDF Recovery over many years.
In 2013, when MDFR was a start-up with limited manpower and resource, KTN helped the company to identify funding programmes that might help move the business forward; encouraging them to apply for SMART funding in order to move the technology away from successful bench trials towards a pre-commercial prototype. KTN helped by signposting MDFR to the relevant people at Innovate UK, and provided expert oversight of the application process; ensuring that MDFR focused on the core messages of improving UK competitiveness and high value job creation. This application was successful, with a grant of £237,000 being awarded against a total project value of £527,000.
During this time, KTN made MDFR aware of another Innovate UK competition that was aligned with its technology and commercial ambition.
Again, MDFR received substantial support and guidance from KTN by for partners who might be suited to the 'Supply Chain Innovation for a Circular Economy' competition.
After a positive evaluation at first stage, Innovate UK agreed to put the SMART award on hold until MDFR had heard from the second-stage evaluation for the Circular Economy project, thereby allowing it the opportunity to expand the context of the R&D with a larger grant and more joined-up supply chain involvement.
Despite stiff competition from the many large-scale organisations that bid into this funding programme, MDFR received confirmation that it had secured, on behalf of the eight partner consortium, a grant exceeding £500,000.
This was a crucial moment in the MDFR story and demonstrated just what can be achieved when business innovators such as Craig Bartlett and organisations like the KTN work in tandem.
The 'Supply Chain Innovation for a Circular Economy' project got underway in October 2014 and was completed at the end of 2016, achieving its key objective of delivering a pilot plant capable of recovering high quality wood fibre from waste medium density fibreboard in a continuous fashion.
This proved to be a critical milestone in the development of the MDFR business and a significant number of industrial stakeholders have since visited the plant to see the process in operation. Without the help of KTN and Innovate UK, it would have taken MDFR much longer to reach this stage.
As a result of witnessing first-hand the recovery process, several multi-national MDF manufacturing groups have now engaged with MDFR to begin the commercialisation process. The technology is getting close to market at a time when raw material costs are rising for the sector and demands from customers to take back MDF-based waste are increasing.
Having been successful in the second open competition from Innovate UK MDFR are now involved in a £400k+ collaborative project with one of Europe's leading panel board manufacturers with the aim of scaling up the process to take the technology to market.


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For those who like ice cream, Mandy's offers a sumptuous banana split.
Are the kids pestering you for ice cream? Does dad want a fried fisherman's platter? Are you watching your weight? Mandy's Cape Creamery has a few ideas on how diet conscious parents can treat the kids and still watch mom and dad's weight.
For the second year in a row, Mandy's offers ten flavors of all natural fruit smoothies. From strawberry, to apple, to banana, to pomegranate, to interesting blends, these frozen treats are made from 100% natural crushed fruit. That's all fruit and nothing but the fruit!
A typical 16 ounce smoothie includes up to four servings of fruit. Rich in Vitamin A, C and E, fruit smoothies also provide a healthy dose of antioxidants. They also taste very good!
This reporter tried the strawberry smoothie. Not only did it taste wonderful, the aroma of fresh strawberries emanating from the drink added to the vivid flavor.
As Americans have become more nutrition conscious, many of Cape Cod's independent dairy bars and restaurants have made it a point to carry nutritious alternatives. For example, Mandy's now offers a wide variety of salads, fat free soft serve, frozen yogurt and sugar free treats.
So it's summer on Cape Cod, the kids are hungry and you can still eat sensibly.
For those less diet-conscious (and for those of us who cheat on occasion), Mandy's makes a sumptuous banana split and a lobster roll that's to die for.
Mandy Cape Creamery is in its fifth year of operation at the former Friendly's location on Canal Road in Orleans, next to Cape Tradewinds.


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Fletcher Hawley Swan - Class Of 1941
Fletcher Swan passed away on April 12, 2017, at the age of 94. He was a long-time South Pasadena resident, businessman, and city leader.
He attended El Centro Elementary School, South Pasadena Junior High School, and graduated from South Pasadena-San Marino High School in 1941. Fletcher served in the US Army Air Corps, was attached to the 9th Air Force Adjutant General, and was in Paris on VE Day.
He joined his parents, Fletcher and Minnie Swan, in the family business, Swan Stationery Store on Mission Street. The store moved to its home on Fair Oaks Avenue in the late 1960s. His wife Marilyn, and daughters, LIbbie and Molly, also worked at the store over the years.
Fletcher served on the South Pasadena City Council and served two terms as mayor, from 1974-1976 and from 1978-1979. He was instrumental in developing the Community Redevelopment Agency for the Monterey Hills (Altos de Monterey). He also served as the president of the South Pasadena Exchange Club, the South Pasadena Chamber of Commerce, the Oneonta Club of South Pasadena, and remained an active member of the Rotary Club of South Pasadena until shortly before his passing. He also served on the board of the South Pasadena High School Alumni Association.
His passions were railroading, photography, and writing and, over the years, he combined these loves and wrote and published several articles for various train magazines and South Pasadena's 'Quarterly' magazine. He became quite well known for a photo he took on January 25, 1948 of a Santa Fe engine that had run through a wall on the south side of Union Station and was hanging over Aliso Street. A copy of the photo has been on display at Philippe's on North Alameda Street in Los Angeles for years.
Fletcher is survived by his daughter, Molly (SPHS '70), and his long-time companion, Madalynne Coleman Wardlow (SPHS '41). He was preceded in death by his wife, Marilyn, and his daughter, Libbie Swan Bussen (SPHS '67).


New Delhi: With age not on his side, the chances of a national comeback look relatively bleak for Gautam Gambhir despite his golden run in domestic cricket, but the feisty India opener says he won't give up just yet.
For Gambhir, regarded one of the most complete batsmen in Indian cricket, what matters is "motivation" and the day he loses it, he won't shy away from calling it quits.
Gambhir continues to turn up for Delhi, which made it to the final of the premier Ranji Trophy this season after 10 years.
Gambhir might be out of national reckoning, but he has been in ominous form this season and that is precisely one of the reasons behind Delhi's success.
"Keep scoring runs, that is what you can control and you can do. You can't control things which are not in your hands. The only thing you can control is to get a bat in your hand, go out there, perform and score as many runs as possible," Gambhir said.
"That is what you are meant to do and that is what I am trying to do. This year is no difference from what I used to do last year. The motivation is exactly the same. The day I don't feel the same I will not hang around."
At 36, it is unlikely that Gambhir would get a look in for the national team again, especially in a fitness freak Virat Kohli's team, but that hardly bothers the feisty left hander, who was once India's regular in all three formats of the game.
"I don't speak to the selectors and I don't need to speak to the selectors. Ultimately, my job is to score runs and that is what I only focus on," Gambhir said.
Way back in January 2008 it was under then skipper Gambhir, Delhi made the final of the Ranji Trophy last time. That season Gambhir played a key role with the bat and this year too the left-hander was one of the reasons behind Delhi's rise.
In this Ranji season, Gambhir has scored 632 runs which includes three centuries and two fifties. He is eight in the top-scorers chart.
"We reached the finals so obviously the achievement is great. Hopefully we can go one step ahead and win it after 10 years which is going to be great," Gambhir said.
"So far it's been decent. Obviously, when you get 600 plus runs it's good. The most important is that you have contributed in the games which are very crucial as well, whether it was the quarterfinal or the semi-final. As a senior player you have to be good in the crunch games and there is still one more game to go," he said about his own form.
Gambhir has always been known to be outspoken and didn't shy away from confronting even Delhi Ranji coach KP Bhaskar over differences in the handling of the team last year.
Gambhir was handed a suspended four-match ban from first-class cricket for his ugly confrontation with Bhaskar.
"Ultimately, it's not the coach or the support staff that matters. What matters is the performance of the team. If the players are performing that is all that matters," he said.
Refusing to pinpoint any particular player for the success this season, the senior-most player in the Ranji team, however, feels that Delhi has a long way to go to be in the leagues of sides like Mumbai and Karnataka.
"I don't like mentioning about one or two because it's unfair to mention one or two names. Most of the guys have grabbed their opportunities and that is why we are where we are. I don't believe in talking about individuals in a team sport. People have done well, people have taken their opportunities and that is a good sign for Delhi cricket," he said.
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ThyssenKrupp Aufzüge GmbH, the German subsidiary of ThyssenKrupp Elevator AG, Düsseldorf, has acquired a 100% interest in Arnold Leichsenring KG and its subsidiary ANZ Aufzugs-Notdienst-Zentrale Nord GmbH.
Founded in 1914, Arnold Leichsenring KG has an excellent brand name built on flexibility and innovation in the elevator market. The medium-sized companies have around 30 employees operating mainly in the greater Hamburg area and achieve sales of some 4 million euros in the modernization and service business.
Arnold Leichsenring KG will continue to operate as an independent company with its current workforce and a management board from within the Group. At the same time, in ThyssenKrupp Aufzüge it will enjoy the support of a strong partner with the full technical expertise of the parent company. The present owners wish to withdraw from the business for reasons of age.
ThyssenKrupp Aufzüge GmbH intends to use the acquisition to further strengthen its market position in northern Germany.
ThyssenKrupp Aufzüge GmbH is a subsidiary of ThyssenKrupp Elevator AG. It has approximately 4,200 employees at over 20 locations in Germany and achieves sales of some 480 million euros. ThyssenKrupp Elevator is the third largest elevator company in the world, with activities in over 60 countries at more than 800 locations. ThyssenKrupp Elevator AG has some 29,000 employees and achieved sales of approx. 3.5 billion euros in fiscal 2001/2002 (year ended Sept. 30, 2002). The company`s products include passenger and freight elevators, escalators and moving walks, stair and platform lifts, and passenger boarding bridges plus top quality service for the entire range.


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Q: How do I figure out what this code is doing? I am trying to get my hands dirty by doing some experiments on Data Science using Python and the Pandas library.
Recently I got my hands on a jupyter notebook and stumbled upon a piece of code that I couldn't figure out how it works?
This is the line
md['genres'] = md['genres'].fillna('[]').apply(literal_eval).apply(lambda x: [i['name'] for i in x] if isinstance(x, list) else [])

The dataset comes with a genres column that contains key-value pairs, the code above removes the keys and replaces everything with only the value if more than one value exists a | is inserted as a seperator between the two for instance
Comedy | Action | Drama
I want to know how the code actually works! Why does it need the literal_eval from ast? What is the lambda function doing?! Is there a more concise and clean way to write this?

A: Let's take this one step at a time:
md['genres'].fillna('[]')

This line fills all instances of NA or NaN in the series with '[]'.
.apply(literal_eval)

This applies literal_eval() from the ast package. We can imply from the fact that NA values have been replaced with '[]' that the original series contains string representations of lists, so literal_eval is used to convert these strings to lists.
.apply(lambda x: [i['name'] for i in x] if isinstance(x, list) else [])

This lambda function applies the following logic: If the value is a list, map to a list containing the ['name'] values for each element within the list, otherwise map to the empty list.
The result of the full function, therefore, is to map each element in the series, which in the original DF is a string representation of a list, to a list of the ['name'] values for each element within that list. If the element is either not a list, or NA, then it maps to the empty list.

A: You can lookup line by line:
md['genres'] = md['genres'].fillna('[]')

This first line ensures NaN cells are replaced with a string representing an empty list. That's because column genres are expected to contain lists.
                           .apply(literal_eval)

The method ast.literal_eval is used to actually evaluate dictionaries, and not use them as strings. Thanks to that, you can further access keys and values. See more here.
                           .apply(
                             lambda x: [i['name'] for i in x]
                                       if isinstance(x, list)
                                       else []
                             )

Now you're just applying some function that will filter your lists. These lists contain dictionaries. The function will return all dictionary values associated with key name within your inputs if they're lists. Otherwise, that'll be an empty list.


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» Saudi blogger may face death penalty for apostasy Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!
» Saudi blogger may face death penalty for apostasy Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!.
Saudi Arabia: release @raif_badawi now. We won't accept anything less. He needs to join his lovely wife and kids. He must be free.
— Maryam Namazie (@MaryamNamazie) December 26, 2013
Saudi blogger and activist, Raif Badawi, currently serving his 7-year prison term for "insulting Islam", may soon appear in a higher court on graver charges of apostasy. If found guilty, he could be sentenced to death.
Bringing Badawi back to court to face graver charges was recommended by a judge in Saudi Arabia, the activist's wife, Ensaf Haidar, told CNN on Wednesday. The news has caused an uproar in social media.
Raif Badawi is the founder of the Free Saudi Liberals website, created in 2008 to discuss the role of religion in Saudi Arabia freely. Badawi's persecution for what was described as "insulting Islam" started the same year the site was set up. The blogger then fled the country to escape arrest. He returned when the charges against him were dropped, but was eventually jailed in June 2012.
In July this year, a criminal court in Jeddah found the man guilty of insulting Islam through his online forum and of violating Saudi Arabia's anti-cybercrime law. Badawi was sentenced to 600 lashes and 7 years in prison.
The court's ruling was condemned by international human rights watchdogs.
A choice Muslims have to make: Will you demand the freedom of blogger Raif Badawi or will u back the Saudi regime? pic.twitter.com/rRDdq9n0aN
— Tarek Fatah (@TarekFatah) December 26, 2013
"This incredibly harsh sentence for a peaceful blogger makes a mockery of Saudi Arabia's claims that it supports reform and religious dialogue," said Nadim Houry, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. "A man who wanted to discuss religion has already been locked up for a year and now faces 600 lashes and seven years in prison."
Badawi's possible retrial is the latest episode in the country's crackdown on dissent. Four members of the Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association (ACPRA) were jailed in 2013. In the most recent case in December, 24-year-old Omar al-Saed was sentenced to four years in prison and 300 lashes after calling for political reform. Amnesty International called for the activist's immediate release.
"Amnesty International considers Omar al-Hamid al-Saed to be a prisoner of conscience, imprisoned solely for his peaceful activities as a member of ACPRA and calls on the Saudi Arabian authorities to immediately and conditionally release him and to ensure that he is not subjected to flogging or any other corporal punishment," the group's public statement , released on December 19 reads.
Earlier, the watchdog criticized Saudi Arabia for failing to follow up on any of its promises to improve the country's human rights record. The pledges were made following a 2009 review, issued by the UN Human Rights Council.
"Four years ago, Saudi Arabian diplomats came to Geneva and accepted a string of recommendations to improve human rights in the country. Since then, not only have the authorities failed to act, but they have ratcheted up the repression," Philip Luther, Director of Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty International said in October.
Amnesty's criticism however did not prevent Saudi Arabia from being elected to the UN Human Rights Council in November. Its three-year term in UNHRC starts January 1, 2014.
Saudi website editor could face death for apostasy
Blogger gets 7 years in jail, 600 lashes for offending Saudi gov't
Saudi Prince Defects Tyrannical Regime
Syrian blogger gets five years' jail
Arab Spring? Jailed Egyptian blogger on hunger strike 'ready to die'
PatternDynamics: Following The Way Nature Organizes Itself to Deal with Complexity
PatternDynamics: Following The Way Nature Organizes Itself to Deal with Complexity.
by David MacLeod, originally published by Integral Permaculture | TODAY
The natural world is staggeringly complex, and yet amazingly elegant in how it manages the multitude of interconnected parts into organized, unified wholes that thrive. What is the secret for harnessing this elegance for use in human systems? Tim Winton found that observation of the most common patterns found in the natural world led to the development of high level principles which can then be used to address the most complex challenges that human systems face.
After learning some of the common patterns found in all natural systems, we can then begin to recognize these patterns in human systems , and learn how to balance the ones that are skewed, and to integrate in the ones might add a greater level of enduring health. We can "make a deeper difference by changing the system!"
PatternDynamics is a systems thinking tool for creating systems level change that Winton has been developing over 20 years as he's worked in diverse fields, including: environmental services contractor, organic farmer, sustainability educator, designer, project manager, consultant, executive leadership, and corporate governance.
What is unique about PatternDynamics is that it combines the patterns of nature with the power of language, to produce a sustainability pattern language.
In a recent paper by Barrett Brown, referring to a study he had done in 2012 of top performing organizational leaders, he observed that these top leaders "use three powerful thinking tools to design their initiatives and guide execution. They are (a) Integral theory, (b) Complexity theory, and (c) Systems theory. These models help them to step back from the project, get up on to the balcony, and take a broad view of the whole situation. They use these tools to make sense of complex, rapidly changing situations and navigate through them securely."
And famed Permaculture teacher Toby Hemenway (author of Gaia's Garden)recently posted on his blog the following recommendation: "To enrich our ability to use recipes and put them into context, without engaging in a full-blown design analysis from scratch, we can use pattern languages. The term was coined by architect Christopher Alexander to mean a structured grammar of good design examples and practices in a given field—architecture, software design, urban planning, and so forth— that allow people with only modest training to solve complex problems in design. … Like recipes, pattern languages are plug-and-play rather than original designs, but they allow plenty of improvisation and flexibility in implementation, and can result in rich, detailed solutions that fit. A handbook of pattern languages for the basic human needs and societal functions, structured along permaculture principles, would be a worthy project for a generation of designers."[my emphasis]
PatternDynamics is firmly rooted in Integral theory, Complexity theory, and Systems theory, and as well contains Permaculture's emphasis on patterns and principles (PatternDynamics was developed during Tim's time as Director of the Permaforest Trust, a 170 acre Permaculture education center in New South Wales, Australia). In addition a fifth strong influence was Alexander's ideas on pattern languaging. These five robust theories and practical application tools provide a very firm foundation that will continue to support PatternDynamics long into the future as it continues to evolve. It is probably not the recipe book that Hemenway envisions, rather the patterns are more like a set of key ingredients from which we are invited to collaborate to co-create the needed recipes for a given context. The goal is to facilitate collective intelligence.
"The key to complexity is systems thinking, and the key to systems thinking is patterns. The key to patterns is using them as a language – an idea I borrowed from architect and mathematician Christopher Alexander's book 'Notes on the Synthesis of Form'."
– Tim Winton
Systems thinking itself is complex and difficult to learn, which is why the series of Patterns in PatternDynamics can be so helpful in simplifying that complexity – "If we don't have a symbol for something, it does not become enacted in our reality" Winton says.
Secondly, as these Patterns become part of a shared language, this gives us the ability to collaborate with others –hence the facilitation of collective intelligence. Noting the increased complexity in our human systems, Winton states that "No longer is any one person brilliant enough to solve the complex problems we face; we really have to use our collective intelligence." This innovative method of facilitating collective intelligence is proposed as an essential 21st century skill.
Speaking for myself, after completing the Level II training in PatternDynamics, I notice that I am starting to see "wholes" much more often, in extremely diverse systems. Everything from systems at work in my own body, to systems in organizations I'm involved with, to the systemic problems facing our world, and all the way up to long term processes going on in our universe. Being able to see these wholes then helps the next step – ideas are flowing more easily on how to balance and integrate to improve the health of the systems I am involved with.
Therefore, it is with some excitement that I am preparing to host a One Day PatternDynamics Workshop on January 26, 2014 here in Bellingham, Washington. Click Here for more information about this event. A workshop is also being held in Oakland, CA on January18th – more info here.
To read a longer article I co-wrote about an introductory workshop I attended last year, go here: Integral Leadership Review
The Stock Market Has Officially Entered Crazytown Territory
The Stock Market Has Officially Entered Crazytown Territory.
It is time to crank up the Looney Tunes theme song because Wall Street has officially entered crazytown territory. Stocks just keep going higher and higher, and at this point what is happening in the stock market does not bear any resemblance to what is going on in the overall economy whatsoever. So how long can this irrational state of affairs possibly continue? Stocks seem to go up no matter what happens. If there is good news, stocks go up. If there is bad news, stocks go up. If there is no news, stocks go up. On Thursday, the day after Christmas, the Dow was up another 122 points to another new all-time record high. In fact, the Dow has had an astonishing 50 record high closes this year. This reminds me of the kind of euphoria that we witnessed during the peak of the housing bubble. At the time, housing prices just kept going higher and higher and everyone rushed to buy before they were "priced out of the market". But we all know how that ended, and this stock market bubble is headed for a similar ending.
It is almost as if Wall Street has not learned any lessons from the last two major stock market crashes at all. Just look at Twitter. At the current price, Twitter is supposedly worth 40.7 BILLION dollars. But Twitter is not profitable. It is a seven-year-old company that has never made a single dollar of profit.
Not one single dollar.
In fact, Twitter actually lost 64.6 million dollars last quarter alone. And Twitter is expected to continue losing money for all of 2015 as well.
But Twitter stock is up 82 percent over the last 30 days, and nobody can really give a rational reason for why this is happening.
Overall, the Dow is up more than 25 percent so far this year. Unless something really weird happens over the next few days, it will be the best year for the Dow since 1996.
It has been a wonderful run for Wall Street. Unfortunately, there are a whole host of signs that we have entered very dangerous territory.
The median price-to-earnings ratio on the S&P 500 has reached an all-time record high, and margin debt at the New York Stock Exchange has reached a level that we have never seen before. In other words, stocks are massively overpriced and people have been borrowing huge amounts of money to buy stocks. These are behaviors that we also saw just before the last two stock market bubbles burst.
And of course the most troubling sign is that even as the stock market soars to unprecedented heights, the state of the overall U.S. economy is actually getting worse…
-During the last full week before Christmas, U.S. store visits were 21 percent lower than a year earlier and retail sales were 3.1 percentlower than a year earlier.
-The number of mortgage applications just hit a new 13 year low.
-The yield on 10 year U.S. Treasuries just hit 3 percent.
For many more signs like this, please see my previous article entitled "37 Reasons Why 'The Economic Recovery Of 2013' Is A Giant Lie".
And most Americans don't realize this, but the U.S. financial system and the overall U.S. economy are now in much weaker condition than they were the last time we had a major financial crash back in 2008. Employment is at a much lower level than it was back then and our banking system is much more vulnerable than it was back then. Just before the last financial crash, the U.S. national debt was sitting atabout 10 trillion dollars, but today it has risen to more than 17.2 trillion dollars. The following excerpt from a recent article posted on thedailycrux.com contains even more facts and figures which show how our "balance sheet numbers" continue to get even worse…
Since the fourth quarter of 2009, the U.S. current account deficit has been more than $100 billion per quarter. As a result, foreigners now own $4.2 trillion more U.S. investment assets than we own abroad. That's $1.7 trillion more than when Buffett first warned about this huge problem in 2003. Said another way, the problem is 68% bigger now.
And here's a number no one else will tell you – not even Buffett. Foreigners now own $25 trillion in U.S. assets. And yet… we continue to consume far more than we produce, and we borrow massively to finance our deficits.
Since 2007, the total government debt in the U.S. (federal, state, and local) has doubled from around $10 trillion to $20 trillion.
Meanwhile, the size of Fannie and Freddie's mortgage book declined slightly since 2007, falling from $4.9 trillion to $4.6 trillion. That's some good news, right?
Nope. The excesses just moved to a new agency. The "other" federal mortgage bank, the Federal Housing Administration, now is originating 20% of all mortgages in the U.S., up from less than 5% in 2007.
Student debt, also spurred on by government guarantees, has also boomed, doubling since 2007 to more than $1 trillion. Altogether, total debt in our economy has grown from around $50 trillion to more than $60 trillion since 2007.
So don't be fooled by this irrational stock market bubble.
Just because a bunch of half-crazed investors are going into massive amounts of debt in a desperate attempt to make a quick buck does not mean that the overall economy is in good shape.
In fact, much of the country is in such rough shape that "reverse shopping" has become a huge trend. Even big corporations such as McDonald's are urging their employees to return their Christmas gifts in order to bring in some much needed money…
In a stark reminder of how tough things still are for low-income families in America, McDonalds has advised workers to dig themselves "out of holiday debt" by cashing in their Christmas haul.
"You may want to consider returning some of your unopened purchases that may not seem as appealing as they did," said a website set up for employees.
"Selling some of your unwanted possessions on eBay or Craigslist could bring in some quick cash."
This irrational stock market bubble is not going to last for too much longer. And a lot of top financial experts are now warning their clients to prepare for the worst. For example, David John Marotta of Marotta Wealth Management recently told his clients that they should all have a"bug-out bag" that contains food, a gun and some ammunition…
A top financial advisor, worried that Obamacare, theNSA spying scandal and spiraling national debt is increasing the chances for a fiscal and social disaster, is recommending that Americans prepare a "bug-out bag" that includes food, a gun and ammo to help them stay alive.
David John Marotta, a Wall Street expert and financial advisor and Forbes contributor, said in a note to investors, "Firearms are the last item on the list, but they are on the list. There are some terrible people in this world. And you are safer when your trusted neighbors have firearms."
His memo is part of a series addressing the potential for a "financial apocalypse." His view, however, is that the problems plaguing the country won't result in armageddon. "There is the possibility of a precipitous decline, although a long and drawn out malaise is much more likely," said the Charlottesville, Va.-based president of Marotta Wealth Management.
So what do you think is coming in 2014?
Don't Feed the Libertarian Trolls – Rebutted!
Don't Feed the Libertarian Trolls – Rebutted!.
The following video was produced by Stefan Molyneux
In the following video, Libertarian activist Stefan Molyneux thoroughly dismantles a leftist propaganda article attacking our movement, which has grown exponentially in the past several years. I highly recommend watching his entire rebuttal, primarily because the leftist arguments presented are the most common out-of-hand dismissals of the Liberty Movement and Libertarianism today.
A decade ago, when I was a registered Democrat, I became utterly disgusted with the Alinsky-style debate tactics used by the leftists around me. To me, the dishonesty and the distraction felt unnecessary. Why couldn't Democrats simply argue based on the core facts and truths inherent in the discussion? Why did they need to put on such grandiose theatrics, veiling thin social insight with layer upon layer of pomp and pretension? Isn't that the kind of behavior they were always accusing conservatives of?
What I realized was that "neo-libs", some of whom were my associates and friends, were just as afraid of a fair fight as the "neo-cons" they despised. The two political orientations were far similar than anyone wanted to admit, and indeed, at the top of the pyramid Democrats and Republicans were essentially identical in their motivations and goals. At the bottom of the pyramid where the common leftist resides, there is no examination of state power. They aren't concerned about the system itself, they are only concerned about the system ending up in the hands of conservatives. They believe that only THEY have the wisdom and benevolence to utilize the government machine to its best purposes. What they do not seem to have the reason or intelligence to grasp, however, is that you do not use the state, the state always uses YOU. Perhaps if Democrats finally understood this they would stop supporting the evil and unconstitutional policies promoted by the Obama Administration; the same policies they used to protest back when Bush was in office.
My former party and its acolytes are drowning in a sea of their own hypocrisy. Is it any wonder why I became a Libertarian?
Brandon Smith, Founder Of Alt-Market.com
oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: The Only Leverage We Have Is Extreme Frugality
oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: The Only Leverage We Have Is Extreme Frugality.
Debt is serfdom, capital in all its forms is freedom. The only leverage available to all is extreme frugality in service of accumulating productive capital.
There are only three ways to better oneself financially: marry someone with money, inherit money or accumulate capital/savings and invest it in productive assets. (We'll leave out lobbying the Federal government for a fat contract, faking disability, selling derivatives designed to default and other criminal activities.)
The only way to accumulate capital to invest is to spend considerably less than you earn. For a variety of reasons, humans seem predisposed to spend more as their income rises. Thus the person making $30,000 a year imagines that if only they could earn $100,000 a year, they could save half of their net income. Yet when that happy day arrives, they generally find their expenses have risen in tandem with their income, and the anticipated ease of saving large chunks of money never materializes.
What qualifies as extreme frugality? Saving a third of one's net income is a good start, though putting aside half of one's net income is even better.
The lower one's income, the more creative one has to be to save a significant percentage of one's net income. On the plus side, the income tax burden for lower-income workers is low, so relatively little of gross income is lost to taxes.
The second half of the job is investing the accumulated capital in productive assets and/or enterprises. The root of capitalism is capital, and that includes not just financial capital (cash) but social capital (the value of one's networks and associations) and human capital (one's skills and experience and ability to master new knowledge and skills).
Cash invested in tools and new skills and collaborative networks can leverage a relatively modest sum of cash capital into a significant income stream, something that cannot be said of financial investments in a zero-interest rate world.
We hear a lot about the rising cost of college and the impossibility of getting a degree without loans or tens of thousands of dollars contributed by parents. I think my own experience is instructive, as there is another path: extreme frugality.
At 19, my two sets of parents were unable to provide me with more than a rust-bucket old car. My father sent me an airline ticket to visit him, but nobody ponied up any cash for tuition, books, or living expenses.
Step One was eliminating housing costs until I earned enough to pay rent. By good fortune, I was able to secure a work-trade housing situation: I was given a room filled with boxes of accounting records, and a path through the boxes to a bathroom and tiny kitchenette in trade for yard work.
Step Two: cut all other expenses to the bone. Since I was working for a remodeling contractor, I needed the car to get to the various jobsites, but I bicycled whenever possible to save on gasoline. I prepared all my own meals and avoided buying snacks, drinks, etc. until my income rose enough to swing such luxuries. I can count the number of drinks or meals I bought on campus in four years on one hand.
Music purchased: none. (We played our own music or listened to the radio on the jobsite.) Clothes purchased new: none. (That's what church jumble sales/bazaars are for: $1 shirts, etc.) And so on.
Step Three: find a job with upside earnings and skills. I'd worked in snack bars and mowed lawns, but construction opened up opportunities to advance my skills and gain sufficient proficiency to deserve a raise in pay.
Since I wasn't guaranteed any opportunity for advancement, I volunteered to work Saturdays for my bosses or anyone else on the crew who had sidework on the weekends. I volunteered my construction services to community groups to gain experience (there's nothing like being responsible for the project, as opposed to just following orders) and open access to new networks of productive, accomplished people.
For example, I rebuilt the rotted redwood rear steps to the historic Agee House in the back of Manoa Valley for free. (Sadly, this wonderful building burned down a few years later.)
In business, the word "hustle" has the negative connotation of high pressure sales or a scam. In sports, it has a positive connotation of devoting more energy and effort as a means of compensating for lower skills or physical size. Step Three requires hustle: when you don't have any advantages of capital, connections or skills, you have to acquire those by hustle and initiative.
Step Four: apply for obscure, small-sum scholarships. $500 may not sound like a lot, but it means competition will be lower and if you get it, that's $500 you don't have to earn. As you build your networks in the community, put the word out you're looking for small scholarships for next semester's tuition. In general, people tend to respond more positively to helping you with a specific goal rather than an open-ended or undefined goal such as "I need money for college."
Step Five: work productively and ambitiously, i.e. work a lot but work smart. It never occurred to me that working 25+ hours a week and taking a full load of classes (4-5 classes and 15+ credits a semester) was something to bemoan–I was having a great time, and earned a 3.5 grade point average and my B.A. in four years.
60-hour work weeks should be considered the minimum effort necessary–but only if those hours are 100% productive work, not hours interrupted with games, phone calls, goofing off, etc. Those 60 hours are flat-out, power-out-the-work hours, not hours diluted by half-effort, distractions, etc.
Step Six: learn to do things yourself that cost money, such as maintaining your car. It's not that hard to change the oil and other basics of maintenance.
If you push yourself and maintain a disciplined life, huge amounts of work can be ground through in a few hours. This is as true of digging a ditch as it is of plowing through texts and writing papers.
Tuition at the state university I attended (the University of Hawaii at Manoa) has risen enormously in the decades since I worked my way through college (roughly $9,000 a year now), but it's still possible to work one's way through if the student pursues all six steps assiduously and with perseverance and hustle and secures full-time work in summers.
One reason I did not bemoan working long hours and practicing extreme frugality was that this was still the default setting in a few dwindling enclaves of our culture and economy. The idea that you could borrow money for everything you wanted had not yet conquered the culture and economy: thrift in service of big goals was still a cultural norm.
In other words, what I did wasn't heroic or unusual; it was the norm.
I should mention that my university years overlapped with the deepest recession (at that time) since the Great Depression: 1973-74. Work was hard to come by, gasoline skyrocketed in price, and inflation started to outpace wages, especially in the low-wage jobs typically available to college students.
It was not a cakewalk by any means.
The upside of relentlessly pursuing Steps One – Six is tremendous: personal integrity, financial independence, and the other powerful freedoms that accrue to these foundations. Measured by income and things I owned, I was "poor." But measured by independence and by skills and networks gained, I was wealthy in many important ways.
Extreme frugality enabled me to not just finish college in four years but to buy a (cheap) parcel of land while still a student with cash and have a substantial savings account by graduation day.
I don't look back on those years of voluntary deprivation in service of independence, freedom, knowledge, and social and human capital as "poor me:" I see them as the extremely positive, productive template that I have followed in the decades since. I never did marry or inherit money, and so whatever I have now is the direct result of extreme frugality in service of integrity, independence and the accrual of capital that can be productively invested.
The only leverage available to all is extreme frugality in service of accumulating savings that can be productively invested in building human, social and financial capital.
Debt is serfdom, capital in all its forms is freedom.
Debt = Serfdom (April 2, 2013)
How Frugal Are You? (August 7, 2010)
Chinese Media Compares Japan PM To "Terrorists And Fascists"; Blasts Abe's Homage To "Devils", Urges Boycott | Zero Hedge
Chinese Media Compares Japan PM To "Terrorists And Fascists"; Blasts Abe's Homage To "Devils", Urges Boycott | Zero Hedge.
On Thursday, Japan prime minister Shinzo Abe stunned the world by defying everyone – including the EU and the US whose embassy sent a tersely worded letter in which is said that it is "disappointed that Japan's leadership has taken an action that will exacerbate tensions with Japan's neighbors" – when he visited the Yasukuni Shrine where Japanese leaders convicted as war criminals by an Allied tribunal after World War Two are honored along with those who died in battle, for the first time in 7 years. The response was fast and furious. Below, courtesy of Reuters, is a snapshot of the morning after in the Chinese media. The reviews of Abe's action were not glowing.
In an editorial headlined "Abe's paying homage to the devils makes people outraged", the Chinese military's People's Liberation Army Daily said Abe's action had "seriously undermined the stability of the region".
"On one hand, Abe is paying homage to war criminals, and on the other hand, he talks about improving relations with China, South Korea and other countries," the newspaper said. "It is simply a sham, a mouthful of lies.
"Today, the Chinese people have the ability to defend peace and they have a greater ability to stop all provocative militarism."
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Abe's visit to the shrine "has already attracted the Chinese people's ire and denunciation".
"How can a person who is not willing to face up to their own history, to facts, win the trust of the international community or cause people to believe he has a role to play in maintaining regional and global peace and stability?" Hua said at a daily news briefing.
In a separate commentary published under the pen name "Zhong Sheng", or "Voice of China", the Communist Party's People's Daily said: "History tells us that if people do not correctly understand the evils of the fascist war, cannot reflect on war crimes, a country can never (achieve) true rejuvenation."
The Global Times, an influential nationalistic tabloid owned by the People's Daily, urged China to shut its door to Abe and other Japanese officials who have visited the shrine this year.
"If condemnations are China's only recourse, then the nation is giving up its international political rights easily," the newspaper said. "Ineffective countermeasures will make China be seen as a 'paper tiger' in the eyes of the rest of the world.
"In the eyes of China, Abe, behaving like a political villain, is much like the terrorists and fascists on the commonly seen blacklists."
A survey on China's Sina Weibo microblogging site on Thursday showed that almost 70 percent of respondents would support a boycott of Japanese goods, with many users expressing outrage at the shrine visit. The survey was later removed.
And yet, all of this appears set to blow over since China, like America, is now more focused on daily noise: the topic was not one of the most talked about on Weibo, with people being more distracted by the latest celebrity gossip and the upcoming new year.
Why Political Protests Ultimately Always Fail | The Underground Investor
Why Political Protests Ultimately Always Fail | The Underground Investor.
Currently in Bangkok, Thailand, protests against the government remain strong with tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands regularly gathering across the city in an attempt to oust Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra from office. However, there are many reasons why such protests never achieve their long-term goals, even when they achieve their short-term objectives. For example, were the protestors to successfully oust current PM Yingluck Shinawatra from office as they so desire, the political system is so corrupt that another corrupt PM would just replace her. Therefore, the protestors, who fail to understand and attack the root of the underlying problems of corruption- the bankers that monopolize control of the country's monetary supply- instead attack the symptoms and manifestations of the corruption. Thus, corruption will always remain. When a Prime Minister or President anywhere in the world states,and actually does, the following: "I will rout out all bankers that manipulate interest rates, stock markets, commodity markets, real estate markets, forex markets and every single banker that prevents free markets from operating within my country", then that will be a politician worthy of the people's support. Any politician that fails to do this is unworthy of leading their country and unworthy of the respect of the citizens whom they supposedly serve. Though there have been some violent confrontations among Thai protesters and police thus far, since the bankers that run all countries know that the people's focus on a corrupt politician is a welcome distraction from the true culprits of economic malaise (them), they are willing not to escalate violence against the protesters. However, if the protesters ever turn their protests to the people they should be trying to kick out of their country – the banking elite – such tolerance will go right out the window, as it did with the US police and Occupy Wall Street protesters when the Occupy Wall Streeters brought much too much attention upon them corrupt banking cartels for their comfort.
Thailand Political Protests, Sukhumvit Road, 22 December 2013
Kicking Yingluck Shinawatra out of office in Thailand, as is the misinformed goal of the protesters, will bring no sustainable change to Thailand despite the misguided ideals among the protesters that doing so will bring about a "better tomorrow" for their country. Leave the same corrupt bankers in control of your country and they will replace an ousted corrupt politician with another. One merely needs to learn from the mistakes of other misguided citizens. In Mexico in 2000, Mexicans were enormously ecstatic in replacing the corrupt Ernesto Zedillo and the 71-year ruling PRI government with Vicente Fox, until Fox revealed his true colors as a corrupt wolf in sheep's clothing. In America in 2009, corrupt Barack Obama replaced corrupt George W. Bush, and so on and so on. There is an old saying that we must be the change we desire to be. The problem with this saying is that many of us will support corruption as long as we benefit from that corrupt leader because we have a "what's in it for me?" mentality that is detrimental for not only the citizens of the countries in which we reside, but also for the citizens of the world. Until we can expand our horizons beyond our socio-economic demographic and beyond our countries to support integrity, honor, courage and justice for all peoples in all countries outside of our race, religious and political affiliations, and socio-economic statuses, we will continue to fail to bring about real positive change in this world no matter how many hundreds of thousands of people stand beside us and protest corruption in this world.
In the end, ousting political leaders is just about cutting off one of the snakes from the head of Medusa only to see another one grow back in its place. I spoke today to a good friend that attended the protests. He said that he spoke to an elderly woman that told him she was participating in the anti-government protests so she could leave a better country for her grandchildren. This false belief is precisely what is wrong with political protests of this nature, because ousting Yingluck Shinawatra from Thailand will accomplish nothing long-term in preventing corruption if the criminal bankers that back all corrupt politicians are not ousted along with her. If we desire real change, we must unite with all of our brothers and sisters engaged in similar struggles around the world and attack the individuals that fund these corrupt politicians and rout the money masters behind these politicians out of our countries first and foremost. And that is how we can bring about real, sustainable positive change for all of humanity. If political protests focused on the real culprits of economic instability within their countries, then they could be immensely successful in bringing about real change. However, as long as they focus on distractions and the players of the game rather than the real culprits, politicians will continue to sell all of us "hope" and "change we can believe in" and continue laughing behind our backs all the way to the bank.
Why Political Protests End Up Changing Absolutely Nothing
Glenn Greenwald and Sibel Edmonds: Two Whistleblowing Heroes Washington's Blog
Glenn Greenwald and Sibel Edmonds: Two Whistleblowing Heroes Washington's Blog.
Greenwald and Edmonds Have Both Done Tremendous Good
Glenn Greenwald and Sibel Edmonds are both heroes.
Greenwald has not only published the Snowden leaks, but has railed against torture, drone warfare, government secrecy and many other forms of government corruption and abuse for many years.
Former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds was very well known after 9/11 for her allegations about corruption in U.S. intelligence agencies.
Edmonds was been deemed credible by:
The Department of Justice's Inspector General
Several senators (free subscription required)
A coalition of prominent conservative and liberal groups
The ACLU described Edmonds as:
The most gagged person in the history of the United States of America.
As such, Edmonds knows what it's like to be a whistleblower.
And famed Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg – who is a hero to Greenwald and Snowden – says that Edmonds possesses information "far more explosive than the Pentagon Papers".
Additionally, Edmonds broke the story this summer that a former NSA whistleblower says the government is using the information obtained by spying to blackmail people … including government officials. Edmonds' reporting led PBS and other media to interview the whistleblower.
Greenwald has recently become much better-known that Edmonds:
But that doesn't mean that she should be brushed off as unimportant.
The Main Difference Between Greenwald and Edmonds
Greenwald and Edmonds have butted heads concerning allegations that Greenwald's new employer – EBay founder Pierre Omidyar – has cooperated with the NSA and is suppressing Snowden documents. (We have no idea whether or not the allegations are true, because we have not talked to any sources who would know.)
But we believe that a more important difference between Greenwald and Edmonds has to do with their interest in false flag terrorism.
Specifically, governments from around the world have ADMITTED that they carry out false flag terror… terrorist acts which they falsely blame on their enemies in order to justify.
Edmonds frequently writes on the topic … but Greenwald has never written a single word on it.
Given that the NSA spied on the 9/11 hijackers and Americans BEFORE 9/11, and that one of the NSA's main justifications for spying – the lone wolf terrorist – is a myth, Greenwald should be naturally-curious about this topic.
And given that the NSA has carried out offensive attacks which were intentionally made to look like mere equipment malfunction, Greenwald should be interested in this area.
And given that it is well-documented that false flag terror has routinely been used by governments around the world (Christian, Muslim, Jewish and otherwise) to consolidate control and justify wars – two topics that Greenwald repeatedly addresses – it seems like false flags should be an area of interest for Greenwald.
The bottom line is that Greenwald has done a tremendous amount of good for many years writing about spying, secrecy, torture and war.
His blind spot appears to be false flag terror…
Fury with MPs is main reason for not voting – poll | Politics | The Guardian
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Fury with MPs is main reason for not voting – poll | Politics | The Guardian.
The Houses of Parliament at dusk. Rage against politicians is the dominant sentiment across just about every sub-stratum of the electorate. Photograph: Andrew Winning/Reuters
Nearly half of Britons say they are angry with politics and politicians, according to a Guardian/ICM poll analysing the disconnect between British people and their democracy.
The research, which explores the reasons behind the precipitous drop in voter turnout – particularly among under-30s – finds that it is anger with the political class and broken promises made by high-profile figures that most rile voters, rather than boredom with Westminster.
Asked for the single word best describing "how or what you instinctively feel" about politics and politicians in general, 47% of respondents answered "angry", against 25% who said they were chiefly "bored".
Negative sentiments vastly outnumber positive, with only 16% reporting feeling "respectful" towards people doing a difficult job, while a vanishingly small proportion of 2% claim to feel "inspired".
Responding to fears about disengagement by young people from politics, the Tory MP Chloe Smith, a former minister at 31, told the Guardian there was a danger of a political disconnect between young and old, with "generations far apart and not talking to each other". One of her ministerial briefs included improving voter engagement.
"I think there is an existential problem coming for traditional forms of British democracy, which it is in everyone's interests, all of us as democrats, to respond to," she said. "We have to demonstrate what politics is for, why a young person's individual action in voting matters."
When Harold Wilson won the 1964 election, more than three quarters of people cast their vote and turnout was roughly equal across the generations. But according to data from Ipsos Mori, at the last election 76% of over-65s were still voting, while only 46% aged 18-24 were going to the ballot box.
Rage is the dominant sentiment across just about every sub-stratum of the electorate, but is especially marked among men, northerners, voters over 45 and the lower DE occupational grade.
Labour voters, too, are disproportionately cross. But supporters of Ukip, the party that put itself on the map in 2013 with big gains in local elections, reflect the mood of the times most intensely: more than two-thirds, 68%, say the thought of politics and politicians makes them more angry than anything else.
Deborah Mattinson, a former pollster to Gordon Brown and now an expert at BritainThinks, believes politicians have not begun to grasp the scale of the problem. "Voter disengagement is getting worse and worse," she says. "Nobody is really taking it seriously enough."
Recent high-profile celebrity interventions on the subject have served to underline the growing disconnection. The former England footballer Michael Owen told the Guardian for the paper's series on voter apathythat he had never voted.
Russell Brand expressed the disaffection of many in October when he told Jeremy Paxman on Newsnight that he had never voted because he "can't be arsed", adding later: "The only reason to vote is if the vote represents power or change. I don't think it does."
After the interview, which received more than 10m hits on YouTube, Paxman said he understood Brand's decision, dubbing Westminster politics a "green-bench pantomime … a remote and self-important echo-chamber".
Reflecting such sentiments, the polling shows that ennui is more marked among the young, rivalling fury as the dominant feeling about politics among voters aged 18-24, who are evenly split 34%-34% between boredom and anger.
Boredom is marked in one other group, too – those voters of all ages who admit to being unlikely to vote. But even among those who rate their chance of turning out as four or lower on a 10-point scale, the angry marginally outnumber the bored, by 41% to 40%. When asked what puts people off voting, the cause of that anger is the perception that politicians do not keep their promises. Nearly two voters in every three, 64%, nominated the failure of governments to honour their pledges as something that would put them off casting a ballot – higher than any other factor.
In the week that the former Labour minister Denis MacShane was jailed for fraud, the continuing damage done to parliament's reputation by the expenses scandal of 2009 is also plain – 46% of respondents identify the sense that "MPs are just on the take" as a thought that would discourage them from turning up at the polling station.
Only around a third of potential voters, 34% of the total, say they are put off by careerist candidates who "don't say what they believe". Just 26% regard the parties as "so similar that [voting] makes little difference", and only 25% see the failure of the parties to "represent my mix of views" as a particular problem.
Meanwhile, the mechanics of democracy – the focus of thinktank proposals for automatic postal ballots or weekend voting – emerge as a virtual irrelevance.
Only 2% of the electorate regard the inconvenience of registering and then casting a vote as a reason not to do so, suggesting that proposed measures such as weekend or electronic voting are unlikely to make a big difference to election turnout.
Other findings though suggest that Britons remain convinced that politics matters. An overwhelming 86% told ICM that the "decisions politicians make" are either "very important" or "fairly important" to their own lives, as against just one in ten who said that such choices were "not that" or "not at all" important in day-to-day life. And there is remarkably little difference between voters and non-voters here: even among those unlikely to turn-out some 80% do believe that political choices will affect them.
Furthermore, Britons continue to talk politics regularly. A clear majority of the electorate as a whole, 62% of respondents, claim to discuss "politics or the sort of issues affected by politics" with friends and family at least once every fortnight, and a substantial minority of 29% claims to do so at least "every few days". Across the population, the pollster estimates an average of 72 political discussions a year. ICM finds somewhat less frequent political discussion among the youth and among likely non-voters, but even among these disaffected groups such conversations will crop up in more weeks than not.
ICM Research interviewed an online sample of 2023 adults aged 18+ online on 20-22 December 2013. ICM is a member of the British Polling Council and abides by its rules.
Beirut Blast Killing Ex-Minister Shows Creeping Syrian Divisions – Bloomberg
Beirut Blast Killing Ex-Minister Shows Creeping Syrian Divisions – Bloomberg.
A car bomb shook downtown Beirut today, killing former Finance Minister Mohamad Chatah and five other people, underscoring how the fallout from Syria's civil war is deepening divisions in neighboring Lebanon.
Fifty others were injured when the bomb, rigged with about 50 kilograms (110 pounds) of explosives packed inside a stolen Honda, detonated around 9:45 a.m. local time, the state-run National News Agency reported. Chatah, 62, a member of the Western-backed March 14 coalition, was traveling to meet other people in the group when the attack occurred.
The strike was the first to target a member of the March 14 organization since a wave of explosions began shaking Lebanon in July. Most of the assaults have targeted Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group, a member of the rival March 8 alliance that has supported Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
"This comes in the context of the Sunni-Shiite conflict triggered by the war in Syria," Sami Nader, a professor of international relations at Beirut's St. Joseph University, said in a telephone interview. This blast was a "direct message to the moderate Sunnis in Lebanon and their Saudi supporters," he said.
News of the death of Chatah, an adviser to former Prime Minister Saad Hariri, was posted on March 14's official website.
Security officials and forensic experts inspected the scene of the blast in an area of Beirut that houses the Parliament building, government headquarters and Hariri's house, where the March 14 coalition was set to meet. Hariri has been living abroad for security reasons.
Hezbollah Powers
The attack occurred amid deep divisions in Lebanon over the war in Syria, pitting mostly Sunni rebels against Assad, who is an Alawite, an offshoot of Shiite Islam. March 14, a coalition of several parties including the mostly Sunni Muslim Future Movement, supports the opposition while the March 8 alliance, which includes Iran-backed Hezbollah, supports Assad.
In his last statement on Twitter, posted shortly before today's blast, Chatah, a Sunni Muslim, wrote that Hezbollah "is pressing hard to be granted similar powers in security & foreign policy" that Syria exercised in Lebanon for 15 years.
Hezbollah, a U.S.-designated terrorist group, with a stronghold in southern Lebanon, receives support from Iran. The group has sent fighters to support Assad's army in Syria.
"This ugly crime comes in the framework of the crimes and bombings that aim at destroying the country," Hezbollah said in an e-mailed statement. The group "strongly condemns the crime" that led to Chatah's death, it said.
Violence Surging
Iran, whose Beirut embassy was targeted by twin blasts last month, alleged today's attack carried "fingerprints of the Zionist enemy," the Islamic Republic's ambassador to Lebanon, Ghzanfar Asl Roknabadi, told Hezbollah's Al Manar TV today in an interview.
Violence has surged in Lebanon in the six months since Hezbollah acknowledged joining Assad's side in the Syrian civil war. Attackers have targeted Hezbollah strongholds in Beirut and the Bekaa Valley while twin explosions also ripped through Sunni Muslim mosques in the northern city of Tripoli.
Chatah's assassination came two weeks before the U.N.- backed Special Tribunal for Lebanonbegins the trial of four Hezbollah suspects over the 2005 killing of Hariri's father, former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
"This is a message of terror to Lebanon," Hariri said in a statement on Future TV, adding that those responsible for assassinating Chatah were the same who killed his father.
Chatah spent years learning and working in the U.S., according to his resume. In 1983 he received a doctorate in economics from the University of Texas. From 1997 to 1999 he was Lebanon's ambassador to Washington. A former adviser to the International Monetary Fund, Chatah was married and had two children.


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Salem Wins "Distinguished Delegation" in NYC
By Eva Andrews
Salem College's Model United Nations has attended Model United Nations conferences for roughly thirty years. Each college that attends the conference acts as a delegate of different countries. This year, Salem students represented delegates of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) over spring break. About 14 students, including Head Delegate Shannon Salzman and Assistant Head Delegate Utang Enyenihi attended the conference. After extensive research, students split off in pairs acting within committees and to discuss international topics. Students from other colleges represented other countries and together the delegates from every college and university hashed out a resolution for each topic presented.
Hotel expenses for the trip are covered by Salem College. The expenses left over are the delegate fee, travel, and personal needs. The delegate fee was about $135, and the plane tickets could range from $150-300 depending on the time it was bought. The total cost of the trip could be roughly $400-500 depending on how you spend your money. The Model UN delegates spend five nights in a hotel in the middle of Times Square.
It's an educational and impactful experience that Salzman, a veteran Model UN delegate, believes will benefit any participant. There are no prerequisites for the Model UN class or club trips. Enyenihi says that "the team really varies; there are some people who have done the conference…and there's some people who have never done Model UN before at all. So there's really a mix of experience." The idea is to get in where you fit regardless of experience level.
Salzman describes the Model UN experience as "kind of a boy's club."The "boys" do not expect women to dominate these conferences and well-articulate the points needed to be made. The Salem College Model UN delegate team was the only women's college in attendance at this event.
The demographics for the conference is disproportionate, so when women show up, the guys are "not really expecting much out of you" says Salzman.
The Salem College Model UN team show the boys "what's what" says Salzman. Our team seems to be revered at conferences like Model UN conference in NYC.
If you would like to get involved, gain experience, and show up the boys, contact: shannon.salzman@salem.edu. The trip takes place every two years, so the next chance to attend the event is the 2017.-2018 school year.
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The men and women of the Dallas Police Department continue to make tremendous strides to address the overall rise in violent crime that has been felt across the country as well as in our city. Their efforts can be measured by seeing the 29.9% rise in overall violent crimes cut in half to 14% in just over two months.
The Violent Crime Task Force (VCTF) began its enforcement operations in March of 2016 with the goal to sharply decrease offenses in targeted areas by providing a strong officer presence. The strategic deployment of these select officers was determined by current and actionable intelligence developed by street officers, outstanding arrest warrants, drug complaints, and briefings conducted by Crimes Against Persons detectives.
Since March, the VCTF has successfully arrested 233 individuals for offenses committed in the act, seized 74 weapons, confiscated $50,592, checked 382 locations reported as drug houses, executed 44 hazardous search warrants resulting in the arrest of several individuals with a history of violent crime, attempted to make 44 illegal narcotic buys, made 371 drugs seizures, and responded to over 3,620 calls for service.
In addition, the VCTF, working in partnership with the Department of Public Safety Gang Unit and the DPD Gang Unit, arrested 88 gang members with outstanding warrants.
The Narcotics Division's Drug House Task Force (DHTF) began its enforcement operations in April of 2016. The goal of the task force was to address and resolve citizens' complaints about increasing drug sales in their communities. Since April, the task force has successfully investigated 1,794 complaints, closing 1,096 of them by conducting numerous community foot patrols, performing 69 enforcement operations, executing 28 search warrants, and making 29 arrests. The enforcement operations included collaboration with the Property Crime and Violent Crime Task Forces. Thus far, the operations have confiscated over $80K in cash, 168 gambling machines, 21 kilos of assorted illegal drugs, 16 weapons, and four vehicles.
On March 23rd the Property Crime Task Force (PCTF) was created to address rising property crime offenses that impact Dallas neighborhoods. Approximately 100 uniform and undercover officers work around the clock to target crimes such as residential burglaries, auto thefts and burglaries of motor vehicles. Since its inception, these dedicated officers have answered nearly 1,400 calls for service, made 374 arrests, recovered 39 stolen vehicles, and seized 28 firearms. The PCTF is working in partnership with the Dallas County District Attorney's Community Response Team to identify habitual property crime offenders who are committing these offenses. Once a subject is arrested for a property crime, the subject will be evaluated for prior property crime offenses and their impact in the community. It is the goal of this partnership to seek higher sentencing penalties and remove this criminal element from the community.
On March 7th we enhanced our community engagement efforts by implementing foot patrols in high crime areas. These efforts brought our officers out of their vehicles and into the neighborhoods, providing the opportunity for more interaction between the citizens and our officers. Since its inception, Dallas Police officers have performed a total of 37 foot patrols in various areas throughout Dallas. Each patrol division's Neighborhood Police Officers also perform daily foot patrols in various areas throughout their divisions.
On April 19th the Dallas Police Department had 637 active Domestic Violence Warrants. In an effort to reduce that number, the Domestic Violence Warrant Team was created. Of those active warrants, 342 were felonies and 295 were misdemeanors. As of May 17th, that number has been reduced to 462. Of those, 285 are felonies and 177 are misdemeanors.
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Sovetski  es un posiólok del raión de Výselki del krai de Krasnodar, en Rusia. Está situado en las llanuras de Kubán-Priazov, 33 km al nordeste de Výselki y 112 km al nordeste de Krasnodar, la capital del krai. Tenía 314 habitantes en 2010

Pertenece al municipio Gazyrskoye.

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Este artículo contiene datos geográficos extraídos de Google Earth y el mapa de Rusia de Yandex.ru, accesible desde este enlace.
Este artículo es en parte una traducción de su correspondiente en la edición en ruso de Wikipedia, Советский (Выселковский район).''
El municipio en la página web del raión .
Mapa en maps.vlasenko.net .

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