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"Fag Limbo"
Unexpected comparisons are such delightful delicacies. In Hernan Bas' new show at Perrotin, the comparison is one he stumbled across in the annals of history: that of a "dandy" to an insect, their long trouser legs like a grasshopper's, their fancy prance like that of a praying mantis.
The young, fragile male figures in his show are hovering in many senses — between childhood and adulthood, male and female, human and insect. The artist refers to this purgatorial state as "fag limbo": the moment before a boy in his prettified youth becomes an animalistic adult man. Do they wish to escape or linger for a moment longer? Stay tuned.
"Insects from Abroad" will open at Perrotin, Tokyo, January 18th.
Text by John Martin Tilley
"I made a series a few years ago called "Delicate creatures from America" it was based on an old book on birds from North America, what I liked about the book was the way the author described the species', in a very poetic manner, not scientific really, and it made them sound as they were describing a person. I recently found a similar case with a book titled "Insects Abroad, a 'popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habitiats, and transformations" published in 1874. It has the same sort of descriptive poetics but this time with far less attractive (to most people) sources... being poetically anthropomorphic with a bluejay is going to come across sounding a lot lovelier then describing a hornet. I was drawn initially just to the title of the book, for the period of time (roughly the same time this book was published) "Dandies" where coming to prominence as these strange new kinds of characters and one descriptive seemed to stick...they where described in terms of insects. Long spider like legs, the movement of a Preying Mantis etc.,. There are a good deal of caricatures showing them as "monstrosities" and giving them the appearance of some otherworldly species completely separate from 'common decent society'. For this exhibition I wanted to bring a group of characters "from Abroad" both culturally and historically to an audience that may find an appreciation for these "monsters". The portraits will take their descriptive titles and inspiration for insect species but the references will not be so literal as to paint an insect with a human head. The illusion will be more subtle and to the trained eye you will find a room full of what I consider beautiful creatures."
-Hernan Bas
"Insects from Abroad" will be on view at Perrotin, Tokyo, from January 18th - March 11th, 2018.
Photos courtesy of Perrotin
A Language Without Words
Hans Hartung at Perrotin and Nahmad Contemporary.
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Todd Gray, MJ's personal photographer in the '70s and '80s, talks about 'On the Wall' at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Why Be You When You Can Be Me?
Petra Collins' photographs are an aesthetic testament to the post-internet era, representing both a reaction and a reflection of modern girlhood with a signature romantic/retro style.
Her images are, and have been since her start twelve years ago, intensely recognizable and well-loved, but her latest project presents a statement with a spin on anything we've seen previously—something deeply personal, political, dark and poignant.
Incorporating the work of artist Sarah Sitkin, whose lifelike silicon 'body suits' have been a burgeoning topic throughout the art world and web lately, Collins presents a series of 'selfies,' shooting herself as seen by way of a synthetic suit, set against thoughtful troubling scenery.
Interview by Anna Zanes
Photos by Mekael A Dawson
I met with Petra at Dover St. Market Los Angeles, where she was signing copies of the series, Why Be You When You Can Be Me?, a collaboration with Baron Magazine. Although, as we sat down to discuss, Sitkin herself strode into the room actually wearing one of the Petra suits, surprising (and scaring) both the artist and myself.
That mask display we just experienced was really something. Can you explain the whole concept of the masks overall, as they're the centerpiece of your work here?
Yeah, that was Sarah—she makes them. I started working with her after seeing her bodysuits online. I'd really never seen anything like them before. With this particular series, she would fill these suits that were silicon molds. But inside of them, she would place fabric that had some meaning to the person.
That's wild.
Well, what meant most to me was that she made them specifically weighted—so, if you try them on you feel what it is like to be that person. She also works with a lot of people who are in transition. And with her work, they're able to try on what another body feels like.
Pretty intense.
It's crazy because when we first shot with Sarah, we were doing that shoot for Replica. And when I first put them on I was like 'holy fuck,' because you can really feel what it is like to be that other person. That began my growing love for Sarah. I've been shooting people for probably twelve years now, and I feel like I needed a refresh—also on how I viewed myself.
I guess that's the issue you have to grapple with. Being successful at such a young age, you have a signature style, and it's hard to evolve.
Exactly. You also get stuck in this one field of how you view yourself too. It was strange. It's interesting, because when I started, one of the series that I started shooting was this selfie series when the selfie had just become popular—not to say selfies had never existed, but it was more when the iPhone was getting popular, and Instagram was new. So, I was seeing it evolve in the beginning and thinking, 'This is like a sick thing. A lot of people who never had the ability to create, or even see, images of themselves could finally do that.' And they also had a platform to do that—not to say Instagram is this amazing thing. But honestly, for the first time in history, that was happening. For me, it was really exciting to see and watch, but then I would also watch people taking a selfie—fixing themselves. But at that time, there were more positives than negatives.
I mean it's pretty noticeable when you go to the beginning of someone's instagram and see how different the images were, in terms of being posed, retouched, the editing, the standards overall.
It's so different. I guess also it's weird seeing what I did seven years ago around when Instagram was starting, being sold back to me. So there was also that realization of the place that we live in is full of people who are all 'diversity, love, self-love,' and don't practice it themselves.
Well those concepts have been commercialized and trademarked.
Exactly, we live in Trump's America. With all of this happening, there is this movement of people being body positive, yet Face-tuning themselves to death and getting crazy body modification—it all becomes very dangerous. It creates a disconnect. I thought, "Oh yeah i am not affected by any of that. I'm fine," but I found myself getting wrapped into it. For me, I had a really bad eating disorder. And it's crazy—you never really recover.
That's been true for me too—you can change your actions, but there's something still there in the back of your head that never really goes away.
Yeah! I was finding myself not triggered but hyper-focusing on a model's face—that's not her face—thinking, "Why doesn't my face look like that?" I realized that I was being affected by all of it.
As a recovered person myself, I get it. Sometimes working in the industry, I question my own recovered-ness.
I think it's even worse now, because we are so removed from, not reality—because everyone has their own reality—but personal reality.
And that goes back to these concepts being trademarked—mental health being one of them.
Yes. And that's why I did the masks. I am not someone who likes being in front of the camera, as I consider it a physical craft. I love being behind it doing the work. I don't like self-portraiture also, because I just don't feel the need to feature myself. I am not the narrative of my work. But with the masks, I was able to shoot my own body as an object—not an objectified object, but an object as the subject.
That sounds like an emotional and maybe upsetting experience?
Well, when Sarah was making them, she kept asking, "Do you want me to add this pimple, this hair?" And I had to be like, "Uhhhhh, yes, yes!" I've become desensitized to it all now though.
Are you truly able to have an objective view if it's your own body though?
It's the most objective I think I can get, because it's removed from myself. There's no photographic truth, but it's the closest to documentary-style that I can get. I basically was so sick of everything. I was like, "Fuck the world. I hate it all." So I took my body and put it in places that were scary, uncomfortable, that I hated, that were fantasies. I had an exorcism, and it was the best thing ever. Now I'm just like, "What's next?"
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Dog Day Afternoon
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Chronicles Volume 1: The Awakening, the timeless story of the world's creation is reimagined by Jimi Urquiaga and Justin von Oldershausen, and written by Christine Riggs. Breaths of life lie within each page, as this otherworldly narrative begins to unfold.
"When our universe began, young and mewling and still struggling into existence, the Creator had already stood for measureless oceans of time." The story opens up with the awakening of "the Creator," and her first creations in the universe. From there, a tale of Enlightenment and evolution of human and god kind unravels.
Photos courtesy of Jimi Urquiaga
Evil creeps its way into the seemingly perfect world after the first trace of darkness presents itself. The survival of the first humans: Aadya, Timur, and Ammon, becomes threatened, as their lush and heavenly oasis turns into scorching deserts and frigid ice. The loss of control, for both God's and humans, causes one to question their own morality and mortality.
Beautiful photography coincides with this poetic story. The gentle undertone of fashion photography provides stunning visuals, while not overstepping on the essence of the story. One can escape from the real world into this divine storybook, and get lost within the minds of both Gods and humans.
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Think Giggle
Anton Kern's two brilliant shows close tomorrow.
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Our interview from issue 8 featuring our fantasy collab: PeeWee Herman x Donald Judd.
The Return of Jordan Wolfson
The reveal of Wolfson's recent work at David Zwirner.
On PAPER VIEW
The Hole, a renowned contemporary art gallery located on Bowery, opens their doors for their latest exhibition: PAPER VIEW.
The exhibit features over 60 artists and showcases over 100 original works. The selected art pieces are unparalleled to one another, with one fundamental element in common—paper.
Run by Kathy Grayson, PAPER VIEW is a "proliferating paper show" linking works that vary from abstract to figurative form. Each artist approaches the universal medium of paper in their own elaborate manner. Beyond just viewing the frames, get ready to journey into each creator's frame of mind.
If you find yourself on SoHo between July 10 - August 18, make sure to stop by The Hole at 312 Bowery to check it out.
In the meantime, look through some of the works on display below.
In The Studio With Bil Donovan
An illustrator giving the fashion industry new life with age-old practices.
BOCKTROPOLIS 3.0
The final voyage into Dusty Futurism.
Noelle Lee and the International Hope Counterfeiters
A new type of cult classic.


Computing has evolved through a series of distinct architectural eras: mainframes, distributed computing, client-server, Internet, and cloud. Each offered a new way of organizing information and connecting people. However, the volume (and velocity and variety) of information is exploding. Today a PC generates only about 90 megabytes of network data per day, but in the not too distant future, a connected autonomous vehicle will produce many terabytes and a connected automated factory will generate over a petabyte. We need more than simply new ways to organize and connect to information, we need new ways to uncover the hidden insights within and to harness the full potential of machines. These paradigms are leading us to the next big wave of computing, which is analytics and artificial intelligence (AI).
Artificial intelligence isn't a new concept, but the hype it generated in the past didn't deliver on promises by early proponents. However, AI techniques are being increasingly embedded within many applications, and we expect this trend to accelerate going forward. We are experiencing a convergence of forces that make AI necessary and enable its success: the explosion of data, the computational capacity to handle it, and business and societal demand to drive it forward. Today I want to tell you about what we're doing at Intel in three critical areas to fuel this computing transformation.
First, Intel has the broad portfolio of products required to deliver end-to-end AI solutions, delivering breakthrough AI computational capability from datacenter to the edge of the network. In the data center, Intel brings to bear massive amounts of computing power specifically tuned to AI applications. To reduce time to train machine algorithms, the Intel® Xeon Phi™ processor is a bootable x86 host CPU that "on-loads" machine learning processing right onto the processor and further boosts performance by scaling out efficiently to many cores and nodes. When it comes time to analyzing new data using a trained model, commonly known as inference, the Intel® Xeon™ E5 processor family is a high throughput processor that can assess data in real-time. Both processors are general purpose CPUs, which reduce TCO, because they can run any other x86 workload in the datacenter. In addition, at the network's edge—where the data resides and decisions must often happen in real-time – Intel's portfolio of CPU products enables the seamless distribution of these machine models for inference.
Second, Intel is reducing the complexity that stands in the way of adoption, in order to make AI more accessible to businesses and institutions. One aspect is to create software tools and libraries that let data scientists focus more on generating insights and less on the drudgery of data preprocessing and tuning. Intel provides an optimized version of the Intel® Math Kernel Library (including an open source Deep Neural Network version called MKL-DNN) and is in the process of optimizing leading machine and deep learning frameworks for CPU performance. Intel also recently made available the Intel® Deep Learning SDK to help to set up, tune and run deep learning algorithms, and is leading the Trusted Analytics Platform project that simplifies analytics and traditional machine learning techniques. Finally, Intel is training record numbers of developers on AI, in order to broaden access and grow the talent pool that can deploy these powerful tools going forward.
Finally, we recognize that accelerating the promise of AI takes a village—an open ecosystem in which many minds participate, collaborate and contribute. As a leading sponsor of open software, Intel is contributing heavily to open-source communities in this field, including optimizations to aforementioned libraries, frameworks and the Trusted Analytics Platform (TAP).
The information explosion is leading to amazing new possibilities through analytics and AI, and the potential impact on industry and society is immense. At Intel, we believe in accelerating progress and making the power of technology more accessible to all. We are committed to fueling the analytics and AI computing era, and we hope you'll join us.


Get Ready: Groove Cruise Miami Sets Sail Tomorrow!
Leaning over with firmly gripped hands on the top deck railing, I squinted in deep thought and gazed into the endless pitch black of the night at the tips of waves sparkling from a full moon about to dip into the horizon signaling the near end of our last night. I had walked a ways away from my group, so alone in the moment, as we were gliding home on a wide open ocean with a warm sensual breeze all around, I knew this pensively blissful experience would be burnt into my mind forever. Nothing else mattered. It was perfect. I was finally starting to wrap my head around what had happened the past few days. It was not a dream after all, that on the Groove Cruise Los Angeles for 3 days straight there was over 72 hours of non-stop 24 hour a day music. I had walked the halls, taken shots and had meaningful conversations with over 70 of the world's top and most influential DJ's and their management staff, conversations only rivaled by my now close 2,500 friends. I had talked to likeminded people who traveled from all over the world for this. I made friends I knew I would keep and talk to long after this was over. I realized I was uncontrollably molded and shaped by nothing like anything I'd experienced before, and as I took my hands off the railing and threw them in the air to say to myself "this might be the happiest I've ever been," I couldn't help but be bought back to reality by the incredible magnetic energy of what was going on behind me. This wasn't my first rodeo, nor my first time on Groove Cruise, but it seems like it every single time and to top that Groove Cruise Miami ups the anti with 96 straight hours of music.
There is really one of two reactions that happen only differentiated by veteran or virgin status; when you first step on the boat you either smile at what you know you're getting yourself into, or your eyes open wide and your jaw hits the floor. For the 11th edition of Groove Cruise Miami, Whet Travel has prepared another special trip that not a single person who has booked can wait for. Let me paint the picture of what's about to go down.
Day 1 DAY THEME: REPRESENT! As we board the boat, show me where you came from! We've got California, Washington, the UK, Australia and just about everywhere else you can think of represented, and this is your time to show it off. This is also the last time most people will be wearing more than 3 articles of clothing. As we strip down around the pool for a forecasted clear skies and 80+ degree weather, we're going to let it all hang out around the pool. At 4pm the new them of SHINE THE F*CK UP takes over and we'll enjoy the afternoon and evening as we sail into the sunset with the sounds of Ferry Corsten, Oliver Heldens, George Acosta, Sharam, Dean Mason, Eric Morillo, Teenage Mutants, Syndey Blu, Luvelle Dupree, Doc Brown, Cato K, Louis D and Bam Bam Buddha, Keith Christopher, Louis Corrales, Patrick M, Ivano Bellini, Shannon Williams, Lujan and Luvelle Dupri. That covers us from 12pm til 10am….. did I mention its 24 hours a day around the clock?
Expert tip: Bring it. Can't decide if you want that extra outfit? Yes. Barely room for that inflatable monkey? Find room. You'll want every piece of glittery jewelry, every funny hat, every fluffy thing you can find. Groove Cruisers participate in every single theme, so…..bring it. Weirder the better.
Put on your official Groove Cruise Blenders eyewear! Its not only going to be bright, but hides your eyes because you've been starring at that booty for over 5 minutes now dude!
Day 2: We're going to go exploring! You know the old question, what would you do if you were on a deserted island? This. You would do this. A boat shuttle will take us to our own white sand clear blue water beach in the Bahamas, Great Stirrup Cay. There, right where the sand meets the water we have New World Punx, Darude, Mix Masterson, and George Acosta until 4pm. You can snorkel, jetski and get yourself into all sorts of trouble. After our beach party, we take the boats back to the Norwegian Pearl. Don't forget to grab an ice cream cone or 3 from one of the many eateries as part of the all inclusive food and dining experience. If you haven't had steak and lobster in a fine dining restaurant as a grown adult while wearing a tutu and a ninja cape you haven't lived.
DAY 2 EVENING THEME: AROUND THE WORLD. Here's where the decisions get more difficult. With multiple stages, sleep just isn't an option. THERE IS NO SLEEPING ON THE GROOVE CRUISE!!!!!!! The lineups go well into the night, just have a look at what's in store. Veteran expert tip: In the Spinnaker lounge a little secret known as the "chill lounge" or Electric Jellyfish lounge resides from 10pm-4am. Don't miss it. Explore to find a little getaway from all the madness and thank me for the tip, but find "Melissa" to thank her. By now you've made a few friends, gotten lost a few times, lost a couple things, and lost most of your group… its all part of the experience.
Day 3 THEME: ACCEPTABLE IN THE 80's. The neon is going to be intense and Friday is going to be solid all around. Trancehead heaven leads to Markis Schulz and Aly & Fila, Deep house is all around, or you can check out a special Meditation at Sea session on the sundeck led by world famous PLUR warrior Lady Casa & Kyle Head from 12-1pm. Ever thought about DJing? Darude and Scooter are leading a workship (excuse the pun) called How To DJ 101 with the basics from 2-3pm and more advanced techniques from 3-4pm. People would kick a puppy and French kiss their grandma for these types of opportunities.
Expert tip: Just when you say "I'm a little tired, maybe I should rest." Do not. There is nothing more magical (and I just got chills) than the Incorrect Music stage afterhours. People that have gone (still have the chills) will attest. Just do it… then find "Chaz" and give me a hug and tell me about it later. You're welcome.
Day 4 DAYTIME THEME: PUMP IT UP! Have we mentioned how imperative it is to bring inflatable toys, rafts, blow up dolls, animals and anything that holds air? Get them out! Release your blue beach balls and share them with the other captains as we head back to the beach during the day. As the afternoon and night approaches the NIGHTTIME THEME shifts to WHET CIRCUS. We're all a bunch of loose animals. The circus brings out the freaks, so let the freak flags fly. It's gotten a little weird by now anyways… the weirder the better. Haven't seen your friends in a while? It's all good, I saw them doing shots with a few of the DJs done playing. Don't forget they're walking around the ship just like everyone else.
Warning: the last night is always the craziest. You've made friends with almost everyone on the ship by now. You've seen some things that can't be unseen, taken a couple incriminating pictures of strangers, and lost most of your clothes. You will love every second of it, I guarantee you.
As we end the weekend and pull into port early in the morning, you'll pack what's left of your dignity, and try to find those missed connections from when you passed out. The cruise ended, but you think it stops? You're nuts. It's just getting started. The next weeks and months you'll spend countless hours online tagging and untagging pictures. You'll have city meetups, fly around the country to see friends and GC DJ's, and have huge club gatherings and reunions. It's impossible to say goodbye, and most veterans wont. The good old Groove Cruise "arrivederci" (I might have just found my next tattoo) or "until we meet again" is the only thing muttered, because now that you've survived, you're family.
EDM MANIAC has a few surprises of our own, so if you see us please say hi!!! Can't wait to grow the family larger, see you soon captains!
Brett has hard earned a well respected status among the music industry in Los Angeles, San Diego, Miami and Las Vegas. He brings to the table a multi faceted skill set including artist/guest relations, talent buying/booking, event promoting, marketing, sales, and an unrivaled capacity to party, attending over 40 music festivals and 300 shows in the last 3 years alone. He has been a captain and all American on teamnosleep international. Brett is known for his always energetic attitude and extensive contact list.


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The Constitutive Act of the African Union, African Courts and the Protection of Human Rights: New Dispensation?
Santa Clara Journal of International Law, Volume 11, 2013
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Joseph M. Isanga
Concordia University School of Law
This Article argues that on the whole, despite some notable achievements, the African human rights system remains inadequately equipped—from normative and procedural standpoints—to more effectively protect human rights, and that a number of radical, far-reaching reforms or amendments are imperative in order to present a more consistent, effective and comprehensive human rights protection regime. These reforms include, but are not limited to, the elimination of the requirement that states submit a separate declaration that allows individuals and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) access to the African courts, better financing of the African courts, expansion of the jurisdiction of an expanded African court, and amendments to the African Charter to provide for a better normative framework. Unless the African Union undertakes such radical changes, it will continue to engage in mere human rights rhetoric, which cannot constitute a genuinely new human rights dispensation or metamorphosis.
Keywords: African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights, African Commission on Human and People's Rights, Africa, Constitutive Act of the African Union
Isanga, Joseph, The Constitutive Act of the African Union, African Courts and the Protection of Human Rights: New Dispensation? (August 25, 2017). Santa Clara Journal of International Law, Volume 11, 2013, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3025940
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Concordia University School of Law ( email )
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Sri Lankan batsman struggle in ICC World Twenty20 warm-up
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April 28, 2010 (islandcricket.lk): Sri Lanka finished their 20 overs having scored 137/8 against South Africa moments ago at the Kensington Oval in Bridgetown, Barbados. It was not the start they were looking for when skipper Kumar Sangakkara won the toss and chose to bat first.
Sri Lanka's new opening combination of Tillakaratne Dilshan and Mahela Jayawardene lasted just two balls. Dilshan was the first to go dismissed for a first ball duck off the bowling of Kleinveldt. His opening partner Jayawardene followed shortly after in the 4th over. Having dismissed Jayawardene, Langeveldt then sent back skipper Sangakkara in the same over.
At five down for 42 runs with both Mathews and rookie Chandimal also back in the pavilion cheaply, the 6th wicket partnership of 52 runs between Jayasuriya and Kapugedera proved valuable.
Chamara Kapugedera, however, was the stand out batsman scoring 61 runs from just 35 balls. His half century included five sixers and three fours.
The pace and swing of the South African seamers appeared too much for Sri Lanka's top order who have historically struggled against them. Both teams played each other in a similar practise match ahead of the championships in last year's World Twenty20 in England. On that occasion Sri Lanka managed 109/9 in their 20.
For South Africa, 27 year old Rory Kleinveldt was impressive. But all their bowlers ended with good figures for this format of the game.
At the innings break: Sri Lanka 137/8 (20 overs).
FOW: 1-1 (Dilshan, 0.2 overs), 2-20 (Jayawardene, 3.3 overs), 3-22 (Sangakkara, 3.5 overs), 4-24 (Chandimal, 4.4 overs), 5-42 (Mathews, 8.5 overs), 6-94 (Jayasuriya, 16.3 overs), 7-125 (Jayasinghe, 18.6 overs), 8-126 (Perera, 19.2 overs).
South Africa bowling: RK Kleinveldt – 2/13, CK Langeveldt – 2/23, M Morkel – 2/25
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Food trucks incoming: Crane lifts double-decker bus and more to The Perch at Capital One Center
Angela Woolsey November 16, 2021 at 3:30pm
Commuters driving down Route 123 in Tysons this morning (Tuesday) might have caught an unusual sight: a double-decker bus emblazoned with a Union Jack ascending into the air via a massive crane.
The bus was one of three vehicles installed in The Perch, the sky park that opened at Capital One Center at the end of August.
A post on the mixed-use development's Instagram page also contains pictures and video footage captured by NBC4 of the crane lifting a 1947 Flxible bus and an Airstream caravan 11 stories in the air to the park on top of Capital One Hall.
A Capital One Center spokesperson confirmed that the vehicles will be repurposed as food trucks as part of The Perch's second phase, which will feature an 18-hole "Perch Putt" mini golf course as well as the food trucks.
The tenant that will operate the food trucks remains "to be named," the spokesperson said.
The second phase of The Perch is scheduled to open in spring 2022. The 2.5-acre park is anchored by Starr Hill Biergarten and already features bocce ball pits, a dog park, and an amphitheater.
A crane lifts a double-decker bus to The Perch over Capital One Hall (via Capital One Center/Instagram)
Capital One Center in Tysons Corner welcomed three new permanant food trucks, hoisted via crane today onto "The Perch" rooftop venue. Here's the final installment, a double decker bus being lifted into place (in ~10x speed) #Chopper4 @nbcwashington @charlienbc pic.twitter.com/C21slpLWOR
— ʙʀᴀᴅ ꜰʀᴇɪᴛᴀꜱ (@Chopper4Brad) November 16, 2021
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The World of Chocolate, Nuts, Cream and Cake is a god world. It defines Taste, Happiness, and Deliciousness and is just an arm's reach away when Dulcet is involved! Confined in this gift basket lies the Best of that world. This Bakers Deluxe Classical Gift Box includes 15 mini black and whites, 6 walnut brownies, and 6 blondies, individually packaged. And here some more!!!! For one can never get enough of something this enticing!!!! 3 chocolate ruggelach and 3 raspberry ruggelach, separately packaged-4 per bag. Arrives in Our Signature Gift box hand wrapped with care and ready for gift giving. Experience it. !!!! This Bakery Gift Basket Includes Our Famous Rocky Road Brownies the best of New Yorks famous mini black and White cookies and an assrt of our four signature flavors Rugelach Apricot Raspberry Chocolate Chip and cinnamon Strudel.


The Liverpool Playhouse is a theatre in Williamson Square in the city of Liverpool, England. It originated in 1866 as a music hall, and in 1911 developed into a repertory theatre. As such it nurtured the early careers of many actors and actresses, some of whom went on to achieve national and international reputations. Architectural changes have been made to the building over the years, the latest being in 1968 when a modern-style extension was added to the north of the theatre. In 1999 a trust was formed, joining the management of the Playhouse with that of the Everyman Theatre.


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Key hacks  Add 100 cash  Unlimited Health  Add 100 exp  Unlimited ammo  Add 1 Attribute point  Add 1 Skill point  Unlock all guns (just the guns not other items) + built in hacks - no reload, unlimited stamina, (REMOVED - weight hack as it's a premium item on AG). The game is 19MB it will load slow! Note : use the health hack after each level up, if you can't move after the weapons hack delete some to get less weight.
You arrive back in Union City to find that it has been overrun by zombies. You must battle your way through this awesome action game. Choose to play in either Survivor mode where you just take on an endless wave of zombies or Run'n'Gun mode where you have to escape Union city before its to late.


With all-solid back, sides and top, Paramount acoustics are built to project with the player's personality in mind. Mahogany back and sides coalesce with a solid top for tone that's lifelike, powerful and balanced.
Complete with tuner, frequency (bass and treble) and phase controls, this collaboration in preamp design is specially voiced for each Paramount body shape.
Inspired by art deco design and inlaid around the body and down the back of each acoustic, the black-and-white checkers offset the natural beauty of the Paramount tone woods.
Adding to the "art nouveau" vibe of the Paramount series are its elegant inlays, constructed from a fine combination of mother of pearl and abalone for a truly awe-inspiring look.
Each molded hardshell case features black plush interior lining—a regal touch that offsets the instrument's eye-catching tone woods and binding. It also sports a useful storage compartment, making gig-to-gig transport a cinch.


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This is Samsung's answer to the Motorola Razr 2019
While the Moto Razr reboot is yet to launch, Samsung teases its own clamshell
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By Paul Douglas
last updated 1 November 2019
The rebooted Motorola Razr should have been released by now. Earlier in the year, Motorola VP Dan Dery said that Motorola wanted to get the highly anticipated 2019 reboot of the fondly remembered Motorola Razr into customers' hands "no later" than its rivals.
Leak one: Here's your first look at the new 2019 Motorola Razr, launches November 13
Leak two: 2019 Motorola Razr leaks AGAIN: new images and now specs revealed
Leak three: Motorola Razr 2019 hands-on: latest leak shows live image ahead of November 13 launch
Well, the Samsung Galaxy Fold is now on sale and the new Motorola Razr is nowhere to be seen, so Motorola didn't get that particular wish.
Now Samsung has taken to the stage at the Samsung Developers Conference in San Jose to tease its own clamshell smartphone which suddenly looks a lot more real than the as-yet-unseen Motorola Razr.
In a short segment at the conference Samsung talked up the future of folding phones and showed a concept of a horizontally folding device alongside the current Samsung Galaxy Fold. Samsung didn't go into a huge amount of detail about the clamshell handset, which you can see in the video below, but Dutch site LetsGoDigital has produced a render of the device (opens in new tab) which you can see at the top of the page.
What the video does show is is how the phone's interface changes when the handset is folded – Samsung envisages it being a particularly useful form factor if you want to follow a recipe consisting of nothing more than lettuce, carrots and olive oil, from the looks of the video.
The video also shows a punch-hole camera as you'd see on the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Plus – a welcome departure from the huge right-aligned camera notch on the front of the current Fold.
What the video doesn't show is whether there is a second screen on the outside of the handset – something that is almost certain to feature on the new Motorola Razr, as shown in the render below by Sarang Sheth, Editor in Chief at Yanko Design (opens in new tab).
(Image credit: Yanko Design)
Samsung didn't go into any further details about the new handset. It may be a concept that never makes it to market or perhaps the firm will wow everyone by announcing it ahead of MWC 2020 as the Samsung Galaxy Fold 2.
And what of the reborn Motorola Razr? According to CNET (opens in new tab), Invites have gone out for a November 13 event in Los Angeles which include the phrase "You're going to flip" and mention the "highly anticipated unveiling of a reinvented icon". So there we have it: the Razr will finally be unveiled in a matter of weeks, meaning that while the new Razr may not be the first folding phone to hit the market, it's almost certain to beat Samsung to be the first flagship clamshell phone to go on sale.
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Kenji Suzuki, a 19-year-old restaurant worker, used to play video games five or six hours a day. Starting in elementary school, he developed a passion, acquired four different hardware systems -- PlayStation 2, Famicon, Super Famicon and Game Boy Advance -- and spent a small fortune on software titles.
Now he's lucky if he plays an hour a week. A demanding job, a newfound interest in playing soccer -- the real kind -- and learning new songs on his guitar are all part of the change.
"I'm not as interested anymore," he said astride a mountain bike in front of a video game promotional display in the Akihabara neighborhood, Tokyo's electronics district.
Suzuki and thousands like him are creating a huge short-circuit in the video game industry here, which at its peak accounted for one-third of total world sales and provided what was widely considered among the hippest activities for young Japanese.
Though the Japanese video game market is hardly in danger of totally drying up -- and there's still enough momentum to ensure that the industry can make money when a new generation of consoles comes out -- growth has slowed so sharply that leading analysts speculate it may have permanently downshifted.
Preliminary industry figures show that combined hardware and software sales fell for the second consecutive year in 2002 to $4 billion, down 2.4%.
"Of course the market won't shrink to zero," said Shunji Yamashina, analyst with Morgan Stanley Securities in Tokyo. "But video games just aren't cutting edge anymore. Kids have a lot more options now."
Arguably, the biggest factor contributing to the industry's slump in Japan is a demographic transformation that is creating one of the most rapidly aging populations on the planet. In other words, there is a steady decline in the number of young people here.
But more alarming to some is that even young Japanese don't seem to have the passion for games that their age groups did even a few years ago.
A survey by Bandai, one of Japan's largest toy firms, found that video games slipped from fifth place in 1995 to ninth place in 2000 in a survey of favorite activities among children up to age 12 -- with play-acting as action heroes, mini-cars, bicycles, balls and blocks ranking higher.
And the trend has only intensified, analysts say. Japanese in their mid- to late 20s continue to enjoy games, having acquired the habit in their early years. This in part explains the large number of video game sequels as software firms try to hold the attention of this group with new versions of familiar titles.
But people in this age bracket also have more responsibility and new interests competing for their time and dollars.
A commercial recently aired in Japan tries to hang on to their loyalty. The ad shows a tired salaryman in his late 20s eating a bowl of noodles in a restaurant by himself, exhausted after a long day of slogging at the office.
"Let's remember the dream of those days," it says, cutting to a shot of young people queued up to buy the latest game.
The ad hasn't worked on Manabu Mitsumura, a 23-year-old cook in a Chinese restaurant.
"I go to work at 8 in the morning and get home as late as 11," Mitsumura said. "I guess when you get into your 20s, you become much more interested in a girlfriend than staying at home with your game set."
Some blame such attitudes on the lack of innovative blockbusters in recent years. "There really haven't been any exciting games coming out for a while," said game analyst Masashi Morita of Okasan Securities. "It's just been sequels and sequels."
The tougher times and industry dynamics have sparked consolidation among Japanese game publishers. Two of the biggest players, Square Co. and Enix Corp., recently merged in a bid to become more cost-efficient. Smaller companies are under even greater pressure with production expenses rising and prices falling. Rumors crop up daily on the latest merger possibilities.
Analysts say that more and more, only the No. 1 seller in each gaming category -- role-playing, auto racing, sports and so forth -- can expect to prosper, with lesser lights falling by the wayside.
"The weak will be weeded out," said Yamashina of Morgan Stanley.
Sega Corp., another major player in Japan, does well in the U.S. market but faces fierce competitive pressure from Electronic Arts Inc., the dominant maker of sports titles. Sega's failure to mount a significant challenge to Redwood City, Calif.-based EA led it to revise its earnings forecast downward in November.
In Japan, Sega also has fared poorly against Nintendo Co. and Sony Corp., although Sega's strength in video parlors has helped counteract its weakness.
Nintendo, the oldest and most widely recognized game firm in Japan, is having problems too. The company has 2.04 million consumers who bought its GameCube console, compared with 11.36 million who purchased Sony's PlayStation 2.
Nintendo has held its own by concentrating on the market for elementary school children. But its hope of expanding beyond this niche to challenge Sony in the teen and young adult sectors hasn't panned out.
Its hand-held Game Boy Advance console has done well with children as a platform for playing the popular "Pokemon" titles. Parents, however, haven't sprung for other games.
"It's really become a one-time present for kids," Morita said. "Nintendo failed to attract adults, so it's going to be a tough battle ahead. Their growth is limited."
Meanwhile, Microsoft Corp., the only non-Japanese console maker, has made little traction despite its enormous buildup and brash publicity. A distant third in the console market, it sold just 340,000 Xbox consoles in Japan in 2002. The Redmond, Wash., company last week tried to stir up interest among Japanese buyers by launching Xbox Live, its online game network.
On a recent day, Akira Nagai, a 21-year-old college student, glanced at a promotion for Xbox Live in front of one of the electronics stores at Akihabara.
"I'm not interested in Xbox. It just doesn't have any games I want to play," he said. "I'll stick with PlayStation 2, which has sequels of the games I've been playing a long time."
Yet even Sony is starting to see a drop in console sales. In November and December, PlayStation 2 sales fell 27% from a year earlier, to 940,000 units.
Kenji Suzuki, the restaurant worker, suggests why. "It's not that cool staying at home playing by yourself," said Suzuki, who now devotes more of his money to his mobile phone. "I'd rather spend more time with my friends."
Hisako Ueno in The Times' Tokyo Bureau and Times staff writer Alex Pham in Los Angeles contributed to this report.


Suppose you aren't a job applicant who is merely rather intelligent—a very likely prospect these days, given what is called the "Flynn Effect", a well-documented historically very recent global increase in average IQ from 100 to 115. Instead, let's suppose you are very, very intelligent. So smart that you've mentioned your Mensa membership in your resume. Was that, in fact, such a smart thing to do?
Now suppose you are an equally smart recruiter, although one who has never considered joining Mensa. What, if anything, should you make of the resume mention of Mensa membership, which taps the intellectual top 2%—the "what" not being limited to just estimating the applicant's intellectual horsepower?
The debate is also about general attitudes toward intelligence, period—especially very high intelligence, and, as a sidebar, its relationship to wisdom and "success" (which are properly not universally taken to be synonymous).
But wait. How intelligent is it to assume there is such a thing as "the American (Canadian/Indian/German) attitude toward intelligence"? In fact, not very—because even within a single culture there are countless attitudes toward intelligence (and everything else), not some single chiseled stone-block attitude.
Nonetheless and without getting heavily statistical about this, intelligent anecdotal observation does suggest some cultural themes regarding the proper role of (high) intelligence. Of course, the vulnerability of personal or other anecdotal evidence is precisely that: it's only anecdotal and casual. Still, perhaps it's worth a try.
In remarking on the role of intelligence in various cultures, it may also be possible to intelligently and insightfully answer the initial main questions about whether or not to mention Mensa membership on a resume or in an interview, or to make much of an applicant's having mentioned or having it.
Competitively displayed intelligence is fine as a finished non-competing "product", but not as an interactive competitive "process": Taylor Wilson, the young prodigy who created his own fusion reactor when he was 14 and a "dirty bomb" detector a couple of years later, won awards, scholarships and fame for his efforts. The well-deserved "oooos" and "ahhhhs" have, I suspect, mostly been sincere—but probably because the admirers were not competing with him in that field and in the intellectual dimensions his success measured, e.g., mastery of nuclear physics. On the other hand, science-fair kids who have lost to him probably have felt, at best, ambivalent about his display of prodigious intelligence and cleverness.
That said, the question, in the context of the workplace, becomes this: If you are a recruiter or a current employee, are you one of those threatened and competing kids, or one of the unthreatened admirers? If, indeed, you feel threatened, the threat can take various forms: a threat only to your pride or also to your job, if you are a co-worker, rather than a recruiter. Accordingly, it is very likely that an applicant's mentioning Mensa will not be smart if it triggers a recruiter's or co-worker's competitive-process reflex (as opposed to the non-competitive product response).
Gaps in intelligence should be either so big that competitive feelings are utterly pointless or too small to not matter much: With respect to the IQ per se and at the purely personal ego-sensitive level, if your own recruiter IQ is at least Mensa level (and institutionally equivalent to the applicant's or new employee's) and an applicant (new employee) mentions Mensa membership, it is far less likely that you will respond to it negatively and competitively, than if you know your IQ is at least, say, 10 points lower.
Moreover, if in addition to mentioning Mensa, the applicant gets very impressively specific, e.g. "IQ = 220", the gap between such a score and those of virtually all other humans is so great that it cannot possibly reflect negatively on you or anyone else in the company. So, pure gain for all concerned. Hence, if that is indeed your IQ as an applicant, go ahead and be specific.
If you are a recruiter or co-worker, you will probably be less inclined to personally or professionally react negatively if you view the applicant "inclusively"—as a "we" asset or as an "acquisition" that adds value to the job being filled, rather than as a "loose cannon" elitist who sees himself or herself as superior to and apart from the prospective "team". In this latter instance, the higher the applicant's IQ, the greater the enhancement of your own in-house prestige, given such "team spirit". True in professional sports, this applies more broadly, in more ordinary workplaces: Super-stars are fine, so long as you hear them say "we" more than "me". Companies looking for brilliant soloists, on the other hand, should be unconcerned about this.
The recruitment challenge is to test for this sense of "we-ness" and its relevance as an adjunct to the Mensa membership in jobs that require team play and to forget about it in jobs that require stellar solo performance. Merely mentioning being a Mensan is not conclusive proof of either "we-ness" or "me-ness", since my impression of Mensans is that many are less interested in being superior to everyone else than in being inferior to none. Think of it as a kind of "not last among equals", rather than "first at all costs" mentality, although the latter will be found in any club, group or population.
The germane point here is that not only are high-IQ scorers more or less obliged to modestly minimize the importance of intelligence and test scores, but also that everybody else has a vested interest in doing so, especially those with (much) lower scores. In pragmatic, results-oriented cultures, e.g., North American, such simultaneous hopes to maximize those scores while publicly minimizing them as badges should be no surprise at all. "Results, not scores, count," American pragmatism and egalitarianism insist.
The counter-argument that potential is a great indicator of hoped for results is itself countered with the view that even where a high IQ is necessary, it is never sufficient—neither as a measure of performance nor of the person.
IQ scores and clubs are "undemocratic": Confusing institutional equality, e.g., before the law, with "natural equality", some egalitarian thinkers, as suggested above, reject any IQ measure or membership they see as artificially or unwisely propping up such natural differences that may exist. In a nation where in theory "anyone can become the President", there is an egalitarian temptation to fallaciously infer and imagine that also in practice an idealized "Everyman" will or should occupy the Oval Office.
Hence the popularity of "Joe the Plumber" (a richly resonating oxymoronic conceptual mix of ordinariness and specialness, which inspires by its use of "the" and its ease of outstanding egalitarian emulation).
This perception can easily put a recruiter into a bind: On the one hand, the recruiter's job is to seek out excellence; on the other, her job is to package it without a tinge of undemocratic elitism.
If you are not already in Mensa, think of this foregoing blizzard of opinions as your own personal, mini-IQ test.
Time allowed to answer: 3 minutes or your lunch break.
Michael Moffa, writer for Recruiter.com, is a former editor and writer with China Daily News, Hong Kong edition and Editor-in-chief, Business Insight Japan Magazine, Tokyo; he has also been a columnist with one of Japan's national newspapers, The Daily Yomiuri, and a university lecturer (critical thinking and philosophy).


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Advertisements that mimic magazine articles falsely report that Ellen DeGeneres is leaving her talk show to sell skin care products.
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Ellen DeGeneres has announced that she was leaving her talk show to sell skin care products.
In June 2016, a web site mimicking Woman's Health magazine published an advertisement disguised as a news article reporting that comedienne Ellen DeGeneres would be leaving her popular daytime television talk show to sell skin care products:
Ellen Degeneres recently announced she will be leaving The Ellen Show in November to promote a new skincare line that was recently voted #1 by Dermatologists. The 57-year-old, who now appears to be aging backwards, says, "I went through a complete transformation with two of the best skincare products on the market called Encante Anti-Aging Serum and Encante Eye Wrinkle Reduction."
Although the advertisement was hosted by the YourHealthyLiving.co domain, its text appeared under a Women's Health banner, making it appear to readers that the magazine's web site had vetted and reported a story containing that information:
A nearly identical ruse was published using the domain before-bed-beauty.com, only that version employed a banner for People magazine to trick readers into believing it had been genuinely reported that Ellen was leaving her show to sell skin care products:
None of the reports is true. These web sites, which are not affiliated with People or Women's Health, are using false advertising to promote their products by promulgating a false story attached to Ellen Degeneres' name.
In addition to offering conflicting information (one ad claims that Ellen is leaving in May, while other states November), neither Ellen nor NBC has made any statements regarding her show's cancellation. In fact, NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations announced in January 2016 that the Ellen DeGeneres Show had been renewed through 2020:
"The Ellen DeGeneres Show" has sewed up a three-year renewal with 10 NBC-owned stations, ensuring that the host will keep yakking in daytime through the 2019-20 season.
NBC O&Os have been home to Warner Bros.' "Ellen DeGeneres" since the series' debut in 2003. DeGeneres has solidified her place as the top-rated daytime talker among women in the four years since Oprah Winfrey ended her run in syndication.
"For more than a decade, 'Ellen' has anchored the daytime lineups of the NBC-owned stations, offering our viewers a great afternoon show, delivering a strong lead in for our early evening newscasts and helping to launch new hits," said Valari Staab, president of NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations.


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If the data subject wishes to exercise the right to withdraw the consent, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the Me Mechanical.
With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet website, which is operated by the controller and into which a Facebook component (Facebook plug-ins) was integrated, the web browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted to download display of the corresponding Facebook component from Facebook through the Facebook component. An overview of all the Facebook Plug-ins may be accessed under https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/. During the course of this technical procedure, Facebook is made aware of what specific sub-site of our website was visited by the data subject.
The data protection guideline published by Facebook, which is available at https://facebook.com/about/privacy/, provides information about the collection, processing and use of personal data by Facebook. In addition, it is explained there what setting options Facebook offers to protect the privacy of the data subject. In addition, different configuration options are made available to allow the elimination of data transmission to Facebook. These applications may be used by the data subject to eliminate a data transmission to Facebook.
12. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Google AdSense
On this website, the controller has integrated Google AdSense. Google AdSense is an online service which allows the placement of advertising on third-party sites. Google AdSense is based on an algorithm that selects advertisements displayed on third-party sites to match with the content of the respective third-party site. Google AdSense allows an interest-based targeting of the Internet user, which is implemented by means of generating individual user profiles.
The operating company of Google's AdSense component is Alphabet Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, United States.
The purpose of Google's AdSense component is the integration of advertisements on our website. Google AdSense places a cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. The definition of cookies is explained above. With the setting of the cookie, Alphabet Inc. is enabled to analyze the use of our website. With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the controller and into which a Google AdSense component is integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject will automatically submit data through the Google AdSense component for the purpose of online advertising and the settlement of commissions to Alphabet Inc. During the course of this technical procedure, the enterprise Alphabet Inc. gains knowledge of personal data, such as the IP address of the data subject, which serves Alphabet Inc., inter alia, to understand the origin of visitors and clicks and subsequently create commission settlements.
The data subject may, as stated above, prevent the setting of cookies through our website at any time by means of a corresponding adjustment of the web browser used and thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Such an adjustment to the Internet browser used would also prevent Alphabet Inc. from setting a cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. Additionally, cookies already in use by Alphabet Inc. may be deleted at any time via a web browser or other software programs.
Furthermore, Google AdSense also uses so-called tracking pixels. A tracking pixel is a miniature graphic that is embedded in web pages to enable a log file recording and a log file analysis through which a statistical analysis may be performed. Based on the embedded tracking pixels, Alphabet Inc. is able to determine if and when a website was opened by a data subject, and which links were clicked on by the data subject. Tracking pixels serve, inter alia, to analyze the flow of visitors on a website.
Through Google AdSense, personal data and information—which also includes the IP address, and is necessary for the collection and accounting of the displayed advertisements—is transmitted to Alphabet Inc. in the United States of America. These personal data will be stored and processed in the United States of America. The Alphabet Inc. may disclose the collected personal data through this technical procedure to third parties.
Google AdSense is further explained under the following link https://www.google.com/intl/en/adsense/start/.
13. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Google Analytics (with anonymization function)
For the web analytics through Google Analytics the controller uses the application "_gat. _anonymizeIp". By means of this application the IP address of the Internet connection of the data subject is abridged by Google and anonymised when accessing our websites from a Member State of the European Union or another Contracting State to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.
14. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Google+
On this website, the controller has integrated the Google+ button as a component. Google+ is a so-called social network. A social network is a social meeting place on the Internet, an online community, which usually allows users to communicate with each other and interact in a virtual space. A social network may serve as a platform for the exchange of opinions and experiences, or enable the Internet community to provide personal or business-related information. Google+ allows users of the social network to include the creation of private profiles, upload photos and network through friend requests.
The operating company of Google+ is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, UNITED STATES.
With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this website, which is operated by the controller and on which a Google+ button has been integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject automatically downloads a display of the corresponding Google+ button of Google through the respective Google+ button component. During the course of this technical procedure, Google is made aware of what specific sub-page of our website was visited by the data subject. More detailed information about Google+ is available under https://developers.google.com/+/.
If the data subject is logged in at the same time to Google+, Google recognizes with each call-up to our website by the data subject and for the entire duration of his or her stay on our Internet site, which specific sub-pages of our Internet page were visited by the data subject. This information is collected through the Google+ button and Google matches this with the respective Google+ account associated with the data subject.
If the data subject clicks on the Google+ button integrated on our website and thus gives a Google+ 1 recommendation, then Google assigns this information to the personal Google+ user account of the data subject and stores the personal data. Google stores the Google+ 1 recommendation of the data subject, making it publicly available in accordance with the terms and conditions accepted by the data subject in this regard. Subsequently, a Google+ 1 recommendation given by the data subject on this website together with other personal data, such as the Google+ account name used by the data subject and the stored photo, is stored and processed on other Google services, such as search-engine results of the Google search engine, the Google account of the data subject or in other places, e.g. on Internet pages, or in relation to advertisements. Google is also able to link the visit to this website with other personal data stored on Google. Google further records this personal information with the purpose of improving or optimizing the various Google services.
Through the Google+ button, Google receives information that the data subject visited our website, if the data subject at the time of the call-up to our website is logged in to Google+. This occurs regardless of whether the data subject clicks or doesn't click on the Google+ button.
If the data subject does not wish to transmit personal data to Google, he or she may prevent such transmission by logging out of his Google+ account before calling up our website.
Further information and the data protection provisions of Google may be retrieved under https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. More references from Google about the Google+ 1 button may be obtained under https://developers.google.com/+/web/buttons-policy.
On this website, the controller has integrated components of Twitter. Twitter is a multilingual, publicly-accessible microblogging service on which users may publish and spread so-called 'tweets,' e.g. short messages, which are limited to 280 characters. These short messages are available for everyone, including those who are not logged on to Twitter. The tweets are also displayed to so-called followers of the respective user. Followers are other Twitter users who follow a user's tweets. Furthermore, Twitter allows you to address a wide audience via hashtags, links or retweets.
With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the controller and on which a Twitter component (Twitter button) was integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted to download a display of the corresponding Twitter component of Twitter. Further information about the Twitter buttons is available under https://about.twitter.com/de/resources/buttons. During the course of this technical procedure, Twitter gains knowledge of what specific sub-page of our website was visited by the data subject. The purpose of the integration of the Twitter component is a retransmission of the contents of this website to allow our users to introduce this web page to the digital world and increase our visitor numbers.
With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the controller and on which a YouTube component (YouTube video) was integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted to download a display of the corresponding YouTube component. Further information about YouTube may be obtained under https://www.youtube.com/yt/about/en/. During the course of this technical procedure, YouTube and Google gain knowledge of what specific sub-page of our website was visited by the data subject.
If the data subject is logged in on YouTube, YouTube recognizes with each call-up to a sub-page that contains a YouTube video, which specific sub-page of our Internet site was visited by the data subject. This information is collected by YouTube and Google and assigned to the respective YouTube account of the data subject.
YouTube's data protection provisions, available at https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/, provide information about the collection, processing and use of personal data by YouTube and Google.
Art. 6(1) lit. a GDPR serves as the legal basis for processing operations for which we obtain consent for a specific processing purpose. If the processing of personal data is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party, as is the case, for example, when processing operations are necessary for the supply of goods or to provide any other service, the processing is based on Article 6(1) lit. b GDPR. The same applies to such processing operations which are necessary for carrying out pre-contractual measures, for example in the case of inquiries concerning our products or services. Is our company subject to a legal obligation by which processing of personal data is required, such as for the fulfillment of tax obligations, the processing is based on Art. 6(1) lit. c GDPR. In rare cases, the processing of personal data may be necessary to protect the vital interests of the data subject or of another natural person. This would be the case, for example, if a visitor were injured in our company and his name, age, health insurance data or other vital information would have to be passed on to a doctor, hospital or other third party. Then the processing would be based on Art. 6(1) lit. d GDPR. Finally, processing operations could be based on Article 6(1) lit. f GDPR. This legal basis is used for processing operations which are not covered by any of the abovementioned legal grounds, if processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by our company or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal data. Such processing operations are particularly permissible because they have been specifically mentioned by the European legislator. He considered that a legitimate interest could be assumed if the data subject is a client of the controller (Recital 47 Sentence 2 GDPR).


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The 2006 Bhiwandi lynching was the murder of two police constables in Bhiwandi, Thane district, Maharashtra, India by a Muslim mob. They were killed and then burned after police had shot at a mob pelting stones causing the death of two Muslim men. The bodies of the policemen were discovered at a distance variously stated as 200 metres and 500 metres from a police outpost. An existing curfew was extended after the event, described by The Times of India as a lynching. Some reports said the constables were stabbed to death. The police constables have been identified as R.Y. Jagtap of the Bhoiwada police station and B.R. Gangurde of the Narpoli police station.

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LOS ANGELES — A Disney princess no longer needs a prince to experience true love.
Sisterhood saves the day in Frozen. Motherly love breaks an evil spell in Maleficent. A little girl's love of her own life is a focus of Pixar's next film, Inside Out.
Where romance was once the goal of the cinematic princess (think Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty), Disney — long a key purveyor of princess ideology — is shifting its lens toward independent female protagonists defined by broader criteria than how they relate to men. Filmmakers, inspired by their daughters, hope the shift might change some real-life perspectives, too.
Woolverton reflects that in her work, which includes screenplays for Beauty and the Beast and Alice in Wonderland. She thought of her love for her daughter when writing the twist on true-love's kiss in Maleficent, she said.
Don Hahn, an executive producer of Maleficent, said it would be "totally inappropriate" to have a modern Sleeping Beauty rescued by Prince Charming.
Jennifer Lee also was thinking of her daughter when writing and directing Frozen. She wanted to create characters they both could relate to, and felt the bond between sisters would be more accessible to a young girl than the lure of romantic love. Lee also wanted to reflect the real girls she knows, which meant leaving familiar princess tropes behind.
Though Anna initially seeks a prince, she, like Elsa, is ultimately motivated by familial love. The two lead characters weren't originally written as princesses, Lee said.
Meanwhile, Cinderella is getting a face lift from Disney, with an updated, live-action version due out in 2015. The following year, the studio is releasing the animated Moana, centering on a female island adventurer. Pixar's Inside Out is set for release next summer.
Writer-director Pete Docter said his daughter inspired the Pixar movie, which tells the story of an adolescent girl growing up from the perspective of the emotions inside her head. The tale has nothing to do with her finding romance, he said.
Hahn acknowledged some concern among producers about how Disney traditionalists might view these evolved princesses.
Feminism pioneer Gloria Steinem said such independent female characters can make a difference in real-life gender perceptions.
It has paid off at the box office. Frozen has brought in more than $1.2 billion globally, making it the fifth highest grossing movie ever, according to box-office tracker Rentrak.Maleficent' was a hit over the summer, with $750 million in worldwide ticket sales.
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More and more, we hear the term gerrymandering and still there can be confusion as to what it is and why we should care. The quickest explanation is [that] gerrymandering allows politicians to draw their own district lines. This means they pick who votes for them, instead of us picking who represents us.
This causes a myriad of problems. It encourages a lack of cooperation and increases the partisan divide because incumbents have almost guaranteed their re-election based on partisan district lines. Millions of votes across the nation go unheard. Power is ripped away from the people and placed even more into the hands of politicians.
Gerrymandering lawsuits are expensive, and you know us taxpayers pay this in the end. This is a nonpartisan issue: Four times as many North Carolinians are against gerrymandering than are for it.
What can you do? Call the N.C. House Chairman of [the Committee on Rules, Calendar and Operations], Rep. [David] Lewis [(R-Harnett)], at 919-715-3015 and request he allow HB 200, a nonpartisan redistricting bill, to go to committee. Call your N.C. House rep asking them to support HB 200. For more take action ideas regarding gerrymandering, please join http://tinyurl.com/j448nhc or go to http://commoncausenc.org.
The GOP's gerrymandering here in NC is VOTER FRAUD on an epic scale -legalized and institutionalized of course. The Electoral College is more of the same (and was created so that southern slave-holding states would have an out-sized and [therefore] disproportionate influence on the outcome of presidential elections). All of it….. anti-democratic as all get out…. and how the fascists seized power here in NC and nationally culminating with the election of TheRump. Needs to end, now.
Well now…… many, many of our Democrats friends who post on this website will utterly insist that VOTER FRAUD does not exist. Over and over they have said so.
So, which is it? It does exist on many levels? Or, only in the ways that you say it does?
What civil person would not consider a reply of "yawn" to be rude? Not to mention juvenile and providing nothing of value. How in a reasonable world it passes the 'civility test', I cannot fathom. Perhaps bias is involved on the part of the moderator today.
For the record, the word hysterical describes a behavior. And it is apt.
More to the point: given that GIS tools exist to draw district maps to fit a particular voter profile down to the block level, and those tools aren't going away, the only way forward is to take mapping out of partisan hands.
In practice, the NC gerrymander at state and federal level makes representatives even less responsive to their constituents because they fear primary challenges more than they do the general election.
Of course, gerrymandering has it's humorous side, too. The attempt to create a GOP majority on Buncombe County's Board of Commissioners in 2012, for example. The Republicans botched the job using those GIS tools, and instead of extending the 'liberal ghetto' of Asheville out to encircle Warren Wilson College, they accidentally cut that block of liberal voters in half. They left hundreds of angry Democratic-leaning voters in the district they hoped would be "safe" for a GOP candidate. It was like kicking a hornets nest! Warren Wilson students and staff voted in numbers never seen before. Ha! Once the dust settled, the Democrats kept control of the Commission by about 15 votes.
But this also shows exactly why the LTE writer is correct – we need fair, nonpartisan redistricting.