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India's Tibet problem
By Dibyesh Anand
Dibyesh AnandPhotographer unknown
The cycle of self-immolations protesting China's policies frames the difficulty of finding a solution.
Last week, a Tibetan herder set himself on fire in China's Qinghai Province to protest government policies in the region.
On 27 May, even the presence of the paramilitary, the police, snipers and surveillance cameras could not prevent two Tibetan men from immolating themselves in front of the sacred Jokhang temple in protest against the Chinese rule in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa. This marks the nationwide spread of self-immolation by Tibetans calling for freedom and the return of the Dalai Lama. At least 37 Tibetans have immolated themselves since 2009. Do Indians care?
In 1959, when the Dalai Lama was forced into exile and tens of thousands of Tibetans followed him, India granted them asylum. Jawaharlal Nehru, aware that the asylum would antagonise China and likely destroy his vision of Sino-Indian cooperation, went ahead with it anyway. While Indian public and parliamentary opinion was sympathetic to Tibetans' suffering, the main factor behind the decision was Nehru's sense of morality and responsibility. Nehru was clear that the recognition of Tibet as part of China in the 1954 Panchsheel Agreement did not imply being blind to the human tragedy there.
Half-a-century on, more than one lakh Tibetans reside in India. Their dream of returning to their homeland is unrealised. Tibet has witnessed all forms of resistance to Chinese rule but in the last few decades, protests have been mostly non-violent. Moral, political and geopolitical considerations and the dominance of the Dalai Lama has ensured Tibetan commitment to non-violence and experimentation with forms of civil disobedience, including the Lhakar movement. However, the Chinese refusal to negotiate sincerely, combined with their focus on discrediting the Dalai Lama and the repressive rule in Tibet, have contributed to a new radicalisation amongst Tibetans.
During the BRICS summit in New Delhi in March, a young Tibetan man immolated himself at Jantar Mantar and died. This brought the reality of self-immolations closer to exiled Tibetans, Indians and the international media. How is the Indian government reacting to this new tragic-heroic turn? Mostly with silence and ignorance. The contrast with 1959 could not be greater. There is hardly any public and parliamentary pressure on the government to persuade the Chinese government to negotiate with the Dalai Lama. On the other hand, during the summit, the Delhi Police went about treating "Tibetan-looking" individuals in the capital with suspicion, and restricted the freedom of movement and expression of hundreds of Tibetans. There was no outrage in India at this racial policing, even though many victims were Indians from the Northeast.
While providing refuge to Tibetans and helping them rebuild their lives and preserve their culture, some actors within the Indian state also seem to be working hard to remove the Tibet issue from public debate and scrutiny. What explains the censoring of the word "Tibet" from a "Free Tibet" flag in a song from the movie Rockstar? Since when is Tibet a sensitive word in India? What explains India's discriminatory silence about the role of the Special Frontier Force, also known as Establishment 22, where Tibetans have sacrificed their lives and limbs for a country that is not their own without much public recognition? SFF has been used in East Pakistan, Kargil and is now in Siachen defending India, and yet most are unaware that several of these fighting men are not Indians but Tibetans. The treatment of the Karmapa in early 2011, a religious figure second in importance only to the Dalai Lama, is another example of growing inhospitality. It is only recently that the Himachal Pradesh government has withdrawn the charges against the Karmapa.
India should not forget that Chinese-controlled Tibet is its neighbour. The current Indian leadership's ignorance of Tibetans goes against principles of natural justice, humanity and ignores historic Indo-Tibetan relations.
NOTE--Dibyesh Anand is an Associate Professor at London's Westminster University, an expert on majority-minority relations in China and India, and the author of Geopolitical Exotica: Tibet in Western Imagination.


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CinemaCon 2013, Las Vegas—Apr 15, 2013
Wanda Cinemaline Selects Dolby Atmos for X-Land Giant Screen
Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE:DLB) today announced that Wanda Cinemaline Corporation, owner of the largest cinema chain in China, has chosen Dolby® Atmos™ as the standard audio system for its giant screen, X-Land, and plans to equip all current and upcoming X-Land screens with Dolby Atmos technology.
The chain aims to provision the X-Land screen in Wanda's Chongqing Wanzhou cinema branch with Dolby Atmos, with the debut scheduled for July 2013. Wanda executives plan to install Dolby Atmos capability in at least six of the cinema chain's X-Land locations by the end of 2013.
Dolby Atmos is a new audio platform that has revolutionized the experience of sound in entertainment. It gives filmmakers a new level of control, allowing them to place and move sounds anywhere in the movie theatre, drawing audiences into the story, and making them feel as if they are in middle of the action.
X-Land is a brand of giant screens from Wanda that aims to provide an extraordinary moviegoing experience. The adoption of Dolby Atmos will allow Wanda X-Land to offer a captivating listening experience with more natural, realistic sound that truly envelops the audience, transporting them into the onscreen story while staying true to the filmmaker's original artistic intent.
"When we build Wanda X-Land, we want to provide audiences with the best cinema audio and visual experience possible. Dolby Atmos brings the level of excellence and quality we look for in providing that experience," said Ye Ning, General Manager, Wanda Cinemaline Corporation. "We have been very impressed by the truly stunning sound effects and the extra dimension Dolby Atmos brings to cinemas. We look forward to immersing moviegoers in X-Land with Dolby Atmos."
"Major studios, directors, sound teams, and exhibitors from around the world have embraced Dolby Atmos as the clear choice for delivering next-generation cinema sound to moviegoers," said Doug Darrow, Senior Vice President, Cinema, Dolby Laboratories. "Patrons of Wanda's X-Land premium cinemas in China will soon get to experience cinema sound as if they, too, were right in the middle of the action."
About Dolby Atmos
Dolby Atmos unleashes the potential of sound in storytelling by giving sound experts the creative freedom to easily place or move specific sounds anywhere in the movie theatre, not just wherever there happen to be speakers. The result is what moviegoers have described as the most engaging and immersive cinema sound experience ever.
Since the introduction of Dolby Atmos in April 2012, major studios, award-winning directors and sound teams, and leading exhibitors worldwide have embraced its innovative approach to cinema sound. Nearly 40 movies around the world have been released or are scheduled to be released with Dolby Atmos sound; the first such title was released in June 2012. In 2013, the Cinema Audio Society gave Dolby Atmos its coveted Technical Achievement Award for Post Production.
For the latest list of Dolby Atmos titles visit, dolby.com/atmosmovies. To learn more about Dolby Atmos, visitdolby.com/Atmos.
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Jul 1, 2019 Dolby and Pathé Live Join Forces to Screen "MYLÈNE FARMER 2019 - THE FILM" in Dolby Cinema and Dolby Atmos Theatres
Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: DLB), and Pathé Live today announced that they will offer fans of renowned French artist Mylène Farmer the opportunity to see her concerts in Dolby Cinema® and Dolby Atmos® screens in France, and in Dolby Atmos screens across Belgium, Switzerland, Canada and Russia for a one night only event in cinemas on November 7th this year.
Jun 18, 2019 Dolby and Odeon Cinemas Group Expand UK Footprint with Dolby Cinema Screens Launching in Manchester and Birmingham This Autumn
Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: DLB) and ODEON Cinemas Group, an AMC Entertainment Company, (NYSE:AMC) today announced that Manchester and Birmingham will be the latest cities in the UK to have a premium cinema experience brought to their film fans with a Dolby Cinema.
May 17, 2019 First Dolby Cinema Opens in Germany with Kinopolis Gruppe in Munich
Dolby Laboratories, Inc. and Kinopolis Gruppe today announced the opening of the first Dolby Cinema in Germany at the renowned Mathäser Palast in Munich. Film fans can now enjoy the very best cinema presentation in the heart of the city, following the opening of the highly-anticipated site.
Mar 28, 2019 Dolby Drives Global Momentum at CinemaCon 2019
Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: DLB) showcases global growth for Dolby Cinema as well as a full spectrum of innovative, industry-leading solutions for cinema exhibition, including the new Dolby Cinema Processor CP950 at CinemaCon 2019.
Feb 25, 2019 Dolby Congratulates 91st Academy Award Winners Including Best Sound Editing and Sound Mixing "Bohemian Rhapsody" and Best Cinematography "Roma"
Dolby Laboratories celebrates the talented winners of this year's 91st Academy Awards who utilized Dolby's immersive audio-visual technologies within their captivating filmmaking. Dolby is proud to partner with filmmakers, artists, and creatives who have utilized Dolby Vision imaging – providing incredible brightness, contrast, and color – and the immersive flowing audio of Dolby Atmos, bringing their stories to life.
Jan 22, 2019 Dolby Technology Powers Academy Award Nominated Films Including "A Star is Born," "Black Panther," and "Roma"
Dolby Laboratories congratulates this year's Academy Award nominees who have tapped into the audio-visual power of Dolby technologies to draw audiences into their stories. Whether through Dolby Vision imaging – providing incredible brightness, contrast, and color, or Dolby Atmos, immersive audio that flows all around you – Dolby technologies bring every theatrical moment to life.
Dec 10, 2018 Dolby Showcases Strong Momentum of Dolby Atmos and Dolby Cinema at CineAsia 2018
Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: DLB) returns to CineAsia 2018 on December 10-13 at Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center (HKCEC) to highlight the growing momentum of Dolby Atmos and Dolby Cinema. Dolby will showcase its full spectrum of industry-leading solutions, including newly available products to deliver end-to-end audio, imaging, accessibility, and postproduction solutions for the cinema industry.
Dec 6, 2018 Dolby Laboratories and Tahoe Cinemas Partner to Expand Dolby Cinema Footprint in China
Dolby Laboratories, Inc.(NYSE: DLB) and Beijing Tahoe Film and Culture Development Co., Ltd. ("Tahoe Cinemas") today announced an agreement to expand the Dolby Cinema footprint in China. Tahoe Cinemas is a subsidiary of Tahoe Group and its professional investment platform in film industry. Tahoe Group is a major enterprise in China with businesses extended to real estate, healthcare, education, film, finance and other fields.
Nov 7, 2018 London's Glittering Home of the Premiere Returns
Europe's most famous cinema, London's ODEON Leicester Square, will reopen this Christmas following an 11 month, multi million pound Luxe refurbishment that has transformed the UK's 'home of the premiere' back into a global icon in the heart of London's West End. ODEON Luxe Leicester Square will be the European flagship for Odeon Cinemas Group, Europe's largest cinema operator, an AMC Entertainment company.
Oct 3, 2018 Dolby Surpasses Milestone of 4,000 Dolby Atmos Screens Worldwide
Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: DLB) today announced that the company has reached a major milestone with more than 4,000 Dolby Atmos screens installed worldwide. Dolby Atmos momentum continues to grow globally with screens installed in over 90 countries.


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Q: ReactJS - Handle parent event in child event handler I have a react container where I want to capture mousemove events. That is pretty straight forward. Further I have a react sub-component rendered by the container where actually the logic for the mousemove event handler resides. So I need to pass/delegate the mousemove event from the container parent to the child and get the mousemove handler of the child invoked. How is that done properly?
I need to capture the mouse event in the container rather than the sub-component because the container is a larger HTML element in the DOM and I need to capture events in that whole area.
The mousemove-handler-logic needs to be in the sub-component as it encapsulates some functionality the container should not be aware of.
The render method of the container:
render() {
    return (

 this.handleMousemove(event)}>

            <MySubComponent {// ... give some props here}>

    );
}

I tried an approach where MyContainer sets callback functions for MySubComponent to retrieve its DOM Node and register handler with addEventListener but that did not work consistently as occasionally the DOM Node got undefined:
export default class MyContainer extends Component {
    constructor(props) {
        super(props);
        this.state = {};

        this.getContainerRef = this.getContainerRef.bind(this);
    }

    getContainerRef() {
        return this.refs['containerWrap'];
    }

    render() {
        return (

 this.handleMousemove(event)}>

                <MySubComponent getContainerRef={this.getContainerRef} />

        );
    }
}

export default class MySubComponent extends Component {
    constructor(props) {
        // ... init something

        this.handleMousemove = this.handleMousemove.bind(this);
    }

    componentDidMount() {
        // add event listener for parent application frame
        let containerDOM = this.props.getContainerRef();
        containerDOM.addEventListener('mousemove', this.handleMousemove, false);
    }

    componentWillUnmount() {
        // remove event listener from parent application frame
        let containerDOM= this.props.getContainerRef();
        containerDOM.removeEventListener('mousemove', this.handleMousemove, false);
    }

    handleMousemove(event) {
        // handle the event
    }

    // ... more methods
}

I also tried to call the mousemove event handler in MySubComponent directly from MyContainer via this.refs.SubComponent.handleMousemove but that is regarded to be bad practise in react-redux.

A: Working with refs should be avoided if possible.
If you want to capture the onMouseMove in the parent container I think best is to just pass the relevant properties of the event to your child component. When the values change in the parent componentWillReceiveProps and shouldComponentUpdate in the child component get invoked and you can react to it.
class Container extends React.Component{
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
      this.state = {
        mouseX: 0,
        mouseY: 0
      };
    }
  handleMouse(event) {
    event.preventDefault();
    this.setState({
      mouseX: event.clientX,
      mouseY: event.clientY
    });
  }

  render() {
    return
 this.handleMouse(event)} className="demo">
        <Child x={this.state.mouseX} y={this.state.mouseY} />

;
    }
}

And your Child component:
class Child extends React.Component {
  shouldComponentUpdate(nextProps, nextState) {
    return this.handleMouseMove(nextProps.x, nextProps.y);
  }
  handleMouseMove(x, y) {
    if (x < 150) { // return true to invoke render for some conditions
      // your code
      return true;
    }
    return false;
  }

  render() {
    return
Child Component
;
  }
}

However your implementation in the child component will look like. It just has to know about its props and nothing about its parent component.
react component lifecycle: https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/component-specs.html

A: Although your mousemove should be in the subcomponent and your container should use mapDispatchtoProps, like this
const mapDispatchToProps = (dispatch) => {
  return {
    onmousemoveAction: (id) => {
      dispatch(toggleTodo(id))
    }
  }
}

and in your subcomponent dispatch(onmousemoveAction)
But if you still want to have logic in subcomponent do
this.refs.mysubcomponent.dispatchEvent(new Event('mousedown'))

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Gays Mills receives $4.4 million moving grant
PUBLISHED: May 20, 2010 at 5:58 a.m. | UPDATED: November 12, 2015 at 5:28 a.m.
GAYS MILLS, Wis.—The village of Gays Mills is receiving $4.4 million this week from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development to help reinvent itself after being devastated by floods.
Floods in 2007 and 2008 caused planners in the rural Crawford County community to relocate its business district and residents out of the Kickapoo River flood plain.
Village recovery coordinator Julie Henley tells The La Crosse Tribune that the money is "absolutely critical" to fulfill the planning work done for the project.
Henley says much of the new groundbreaking will begin in August and September, but that the first residents are expected to move into new townhouses in June or July.
Information from: La Crosse Tribune, http://www.lacrossetribune.com


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Q: How to print the codes in python? How does one print the lines of code?
Suppose we have here two variables.
var1 = 2*8
msg = "Answer is: "

What statement should i add here so that this program will print the source code?

A: The easiest way to print the lines of codes is through the use of the built-in functions.
   print open(__file__).read()

Or you could just write the code in string mode and simply print them. However that obviously won't be executable codes anymore once written in quotation marks.


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How to confront anti-Islam propaganda
There should be actions rather than reactions, the steps should be made after carefully examining the possible results, actions should be weighed by the scales of mind as well as the provisions and teachings of Islam. All the nation's actions should be taken after thorough consultations and understanding between all the nation's segments and denominations so that they agree on one opinion and the entire nation arrive on a unified attitude. In such a way the nation becomes unified against the enemies of Islam and its reactions to anti-Islam conspiracies become sound and conducive, balanced by the mind and abiding
Preserving the Islamic identity
A Muslim's personality should be built on the basis of the Islamic values and concepts conducive to creating an independent nation that is far from being influenced by other nations. The Muslim nation should be proud of its identity as it is rooted in such high values as Allah the Exalted warned against the Muslim nation being submitted to others as He said in the Holy Quran: (O you who have believed, do not take My enemies and your enemies as allies, extending to them affection while they have disbelieved in what came to you of the truth, having driven
Sinning Is Deviation From Human Nature!
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You are watching the movie The Nutcracker and the Four Realms produced in USA belongs in Category Adventure, Family, Fantasy with duration 99 Min , broadcast at 123MOVIES.LA,Director by Lasse Hallström,A young girl is transported into a magical world of gingerbread soldiers and an army of mice. In Disney's magical take on the classic The Nutcracker, Clara wants a one-of-a-kind key that will unlock a box holding a priceless gift. A golden thread presented at her godfather's holiday party leads her to the coveted key—which promptly disappears into a strange and mysterious parallel world. There Clara encounters a soldier, a gang of mice and the regents of three magical Realms. But she must brave the ominous Fourth Realm, home to the tyrant Mother Ginger, to retrieve her key and return harmony to the unstable world.


PHOTO PROVIDED Parrott Hall in Geneva is one of the Landmark Society of Western New York's 2018 Five to Revive.
The Landmark Society of Western New York has usually used its annual "Five to Revive" list to draw public attention and financial support to restoring historic buildings throughout the Rochester region. With the list, the Landmark Society is telling communities and developers that there's unmined gold in repurposing – rather than ignoring or demolishing — these architecturally significant properties. The program has been successful at saving and repurposing some buildings on its lists.
This year, however, the Landmark Society is taking a slightly different approach to its Five to Revive by including two sites that the Rochester community already recognizes as treasures, but that are surrounded by controversy: the aqueduct over the Genesee River and the Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School campus.
And for those projects, the Landmark Society isn't just calling for their protection. It's also weighing in on how the sites ought to be redeveloped.
For instance, the city is planning to remove the section of Broad Street over the river that covers the Erie Canal aqueduct to create a pedestrian area. Landmark Society officials say the aqueduct is one of the city's most important historical assets and preservationists should have a voice concerning any plans to change it.
"We're not saying don't touch the deck," says Tom Castelein, an architect who is president of the Landmark Society board. "But the journey from where they are now to what they're proposing is long and complicated. There's myriad questions and design issues that need to be addressed."
The aqueduct is a complex structure and transforming it will require removing some elements and adding others, and how that is approached is critically important, Castelein says. What's done with the aqueduct could be a catalyst for more downtown development, or it could lead to the aqueduct becoming a future problem like the Inner Loop, he says.
Landmark Society officials are equally concerned about the future of the divinity school property. The 24-acre site near Highland Park is a city landmark and it's eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places.
The property is being sold to local developer Angelo Ingrassia, and no redevelopment plans have been made public. But at a Highland Park neighborhood meeting earlier this year, Ingrassia said the property's picturesque hillside would someday need to be developed. That's something the Landmark Society would strongly oppose, says Wayne Goodman, the organization's executive director.
The full Five to Revive list includes Parrott Hall in Geneva, Odd Fellows Hall in Holley, and the former National Yeast Company and Iroquois Motor Car Factory in Seneca Falls.
Parrott Hall was built in the 1850's as the home of Nehemiah and Louisa Denton. The Italianate-style mansion and farm became the first property in Geneva to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was also the first home of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, used for research at Cornell University. The building is in need of significant repairs, say Landmark Society officials.
"It's a building that needs a champion," says Castelein. A coalition of organizations is working to raise the funds to repair and repurpose the building, he says.
Odd Fellows Hall, built in the late 1800's, is in the Holley Village Historic District anchoring the end of a block of storefronts. If it were demolished, it would leave the street looking like it was missing a tooth, Castelein says.
The former National Yeast Company and Iroquois Motor Car Factory is located in Seneca Falls on the Erie Canal. A recent proposal called for demolishing the 30,000-square-foot building and replacing it with a gas station. But the building is solid and a prime candidate for reuse as housing or offices, says Castelein.
Landmark Society officials revealed the list at Warner Castle this week, the organization's future headquarters. The residence was built in 1854 and resembles a Scottish castle.


Bollywood actors Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, Kriti Sanon, Varun Dhawan, Boman Irani and others at the special screening of their film Dilwale in Mumbai.
Varun and Kriti ready to rock and entertain with 'Manwa Emotion' appeared stylishly in black and blue.
Shahrukh and Kajol all set to rule hearts, after several promotions for their movie world wide here is what they looked like at the premiere.
The Bajirao was not left behind, with their grand premiere amid several stars.
Deepika and Ranveer smiles for the camera and welcoming other guest.
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When we put our money where our mouths are, what do people eat?
The principal aim of the SNAP program, formerly "food stamps," is important and simple: to ensure that poor people struggling with food insecurity have enough to eat. The program has always been of great public health importance, but in the aftermath of the great recession, more than one in seven American families found themselves on the SNAP rolls. Enrollment has recently declined, due likely to improving economic conditions. This shows the system works as intended, helping those who truly need it.
But even simple ideas can run into complications. SNAP funds cannot be used for tobacco or alcohol. This makes intuitive sense, since these are not necessary to alleviate the food insecurity SNAP is intended to combat. But it raises a question on a slippery slope: should SNAP funds be used for anything that does more to promote ill health than good? When that question is asked, sugar-sweetened beverages, a.k.a. sodas, come immediately to mind. They are of no nutritional value, and decisively implicated in obesity, diabetes, and other maladies.
Some argue that SNAP funds, which come from taxpayers, should not be used for items like soda that are unnecessary (water is a perfectly adequate, preferable, environmentally friendlier, and less expensive answer to thirst); harmful; and associated with additional costs.
Well, I have frequently lamented that despite its good intentions, SNAP uses some $80 billion a year in taxpayer revenue to help poor people choose poor food that results in poor health. Then, that poor health requires treatment, much of it covered again by taxpayers through Medicaid, at a cost enormously higher than SNAP itself. Everybody in this scenario loses: the SNAP beneficiaries have something to eat, but also have diabetes, and need coronary bypass; the taxpayers' good money is ill-spent on bad health; and the government has an empty war chest.
There is, in fact, evidence of just this. Colleagues and I found, in a study published in 2014, that diet quality was lower in SNAP participants than in matched, SNAP-eligible non-participants. In other words, the financial support provided through SNAP helped people make their diets, and by extension their health, worse.
There is nothing very surprising about this. We know that in general poverty and food insecurity are associated with poorer quality diets and health, and poorer quality food choices- in part because people facing socioeconomic disadvantage live in communities that conspire against health both by what they do offer (e.g., a particular density of fast food restaurants), and what they don't (e.g., appealing resources for physical activity and recreation; affordable fresh produce, etc.). We know, as well, that the modern food supply has been booby-trapped to induce maximal eating. This effect is greatest in the most highly-processed foods, the very foods that prevail in the fast-food outlets and bodegas that are apt to populate a community where SNAP is in wide use.
That's important, because it indicates clearly that bad choices associated with SNAP support are not the "fault" of the SNAP beneficiaries. There is a perfect storm driving poor people to poor food, and from there, to poor health.
The solution proposed by some is to fix the problem at the source, and limit the use of SNAP foods only to foods deemed suitable. But I trust you see the many problems with that. For starters it is quintessentially paternalistic. In effect, Big Brother gets to decide what you can have for breakfast. For another, it requires universal agreement on what foods are suitable, which in turn means some agreed-open standard for the nutritional quality of all foods. I know from personal experience that challenge can be met, but there is as yet insufficient consensus on the matter to inform food policy.
So we wind up between the proverbial rock and hard place, with an apparent choice between giving out carrots (i.e., no-strings-attached financial aid for food purchases), and wielding a stick (i.e., telling poor people what food they can't buy).
A new paper suggests there is a middle path, and as someone who likes to walk just such roads, I am delighted to see it.
A study in JAMA Internal Medicine compared the effects on diet quality of providing just incentives for uncontroversially 'healthy' foods; just restrictions on uncontroversially 'unhealthy' foods; both; or neither, in a population of SNAP participants. The best results were seen when incentives and restrictions were combined.
The alternative to outright food restrictions would be financial disincentives, so that foods comfortably catalogued as 'unhealthy' came with a penalty. A SNAP-specific application would levy such a penalty within the SNAP system only. A population-wide approach to the same disincentive would be a tax, like the soda tax approved recently in Berkeley, California and Philadelphia.
Whatever approach to financial disincentives is applied, it's easy to view it as the proverbial stick, and contrast it with the carrot of financial rewards for salutary selections. I have mused before in just that direction, as did my friend and colleague, Dr. Marlene Schwartz, editorializing on the new study.
My argument has been that I favor carrots to sticks, both when working to advance public health, and the forward motion of my actual horse. Experience in the saddle, however, makes the case for both- however seldom and gently the stick is wielded. The new study findings say much the same about SNAP.
Why? In the absence of restrictions or disincentives, the addition of incentives to the SNAP program seem prone to increase overall eating. Given the associations between poverty and obesity, and between obesity and chronic disease, an increase in total calories consumed is decidedly counterproductive. The real goal is to reduce intake of 'bad' foods, and increase intake of good in their place. Disincentivizing the former, while incentivizing the latter, aptly conforms to just such swaps.
With validated metrics for the overall nutritional quality of foods that enable us to go beyond the narrow categories of 'uncontestedly good' or 'uncontestedly bad' foods, we might think in terms of more nuanced gradations. We could, if so inclined, disincentivize the least nutritious entries in any food category, while incentivizing every movement up an objective scale. Future studies are required to determine how much greater the impact of this soup-to-nuts approach might be, but evidence to date suggests such comprehensive nutrition guidance is constructive all on its own.
Once we have the best methods worked out, there is no need for this approach to remain relegated to the SNAP program. The private sector would have all the same reasons to replicate the approach, promoting human health while reining in costs.
For now, the evidence we have for getting those reins to work argues for a generous accompaniment of carrots, with strategic, judicious applications of some kind of stick.
One thing's for sure. When we put literal money where people's mouths are, the intent should be to succor, not sicken. Data, like those newly provided, should help direct us there from here.


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These early inhabitants referred to themselves as "men of Sidon" or the like, according to their city of origin, and called the country "Lebanon." Because of the nature of the country and its location, the Phoenicians turned to the sea, where they engaged in trade and navigation.
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Demographics. The Phoenicians were an offshoot of the Canaanites, a group of ancient Semitic-speaking peoples that emerged at least in the second millennium BC.
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Cyrus the Great of Persia conquered Phoenicia in 539 BCE, and divided Phoenicia into four vassal kingdoms: Sidon, Tyre, Arwad, and Byblos. Alexander the Great conquered Phoenicia beginning with Tyre in 332 BCE.
Phoenician language, a Semitic language of the Northern Central (often called Northwestern) group, spoken in ancient times on the coast of Syria and Palestine in Tyre, Sidon, Byblos, and neighbouring towns and in other areas of the Mediterranean colonized by Phoenicians.
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Phoenicia, ancient region corresponding to modern Lebanon, with adjoining parts of modern Syria and Israel. Its inhabitants, the Phoenicians, were notable merchants, traders, and colonizers of the Mediterranean in the 1st millennium bce.
Religion of the Phoenicians The Phoenicians were polytheistic, meaning they worshipped multiple gods. They shared in religious practices common to other Canaanite-derived people and correlated many of their gods to stars, planets, and constellations.
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Angling for an Adventure
So what did you do this summer? It turns out, I went fishing....and winning awards doing it.
First there was Truman versus Dewey, Jesse Ventura in 1998, or even the Miracle Mets of 1969, but on Thursday I (yes I) shocked camp winning the much coveted Smoothrock Walleye Fishing Challenge" and got to hoist the Stan Peer Memorial Trophy for the first time ever and win the fabulous prize money.
Dr Rapp the 2019 champion presenting me in Duluth with Stan Peer Trophy
Why is this such a shock? You may ask. First of all, we spent more time blueberry picking than walleye fishing, mostly because we found a blueberry spot that was just incredible and we never win the walleye trophy, walleye fishing is just too ....slow.
Greg, boat partner, picking berries on "Burnt over Lunch Island"
Secondly, we aren't very good at it. We do not have the sophisticated sonar, fancy rigs, or anything, we just fish jigs, sometimes rotate colors, but only reluctantly, and well, catch many small ones but nothing large. Greg, my boat partner almost never catches even a fish for the "Slot Board," over 19 inch fish we release and mark on the board. This year the group had 58 registered fish, Greg, he caught 1, and was happy he caught one. The first one I caught, was on a pike lure in 2 feet of water.
Our boat spends almost our entire effort pike fishing going after a separate trophy, one in which we can win, one in which we have won, and won in which we expect to win, the only question is typically who in the boat is going to win it, and it becomes quite competitive, I the "Pike Whisperer" but also the guide, who usually fishes second on casts, so Greg has an advantage on each bay.
Greg admiring the Falun Sucker Club Memorial Trophy that hangs in Cabin #11 at Smoothrock Camp, first awarded in 1984 after being caught by me Musky Fishing on Big Trade Lake in NW Wisconsin (long story) and then fashioned into a traveling trophy of sorts, first won by me in 1985, since 2010, when Greg dedicated Canada fishing towards pike fishing, he has won it 5.5 times and me 3.5 times, one year not awarded due to Covid, two years we did not win it, and in 2016, I did a big year and did not go up there (but Greg won it with someone else.
3rd place, 37 inches. The group landed and released 19 pike over 28 inches
2nd Place 40 inch fish, although heavier than the winning fish, it was a 1/2 inch too short to win. Our boat caught 197 pike for the week, about average. Our best total 352 in 2013, a year in which we boated 5 over 40 inches
Greg holding the first large fish caught, last Saturday, 40.5 inches, but it held out for the entire week
Greg Peer holding his cash prize, and luckily getting a chance again to "pet the beaver" in an annual tradition under the coveted trophy which will have Greg's name on it for 2022.
But that is pike fishing, to win the walleye award is the big honor. My dad, Doug Segelstrom has never won it in the modern era despite first coming to Smoothrock with me in 1982 and many fishermen have came and went without having their name on the trophy. I won it in 2013 (but before we got the new trophy to award two years later), but with the smallest walleye ever at 22 3/4 inches and I think everyone must have been drunk that year or something odd was in the air.
So a newcomer named Butch from Phoenix took the lead on the second day, with a 24 and 1/2 inch fish, a respectable fish. Greg proclaimed most accurately that we would have a better chance to both beat his 40 1/2 inch pike than to beat that walleye. I had only caught one walleye bigger on the lake, and that was in June a few years back, well before an August contest. Greg had never caught one bigger. So we never even fished walleyes for days 2, 4,5, and on day six, bored we fished them for an hour, just the 2nd hour to do it. Everyone else fished for dinner and for ones to take home, but even though that was only our second hour fishing them (we had picked blueberries for four hours and pike fished for 50 hours during the week), I used some advice I gleaned earlier in the summer- fishing deeper down the drop offs away from the smaller fish and Greg and I caught three fish between 21 and 22 inches, his only one for the week. It seemed to hold true but only to get on the fish board.
But it wasn't like we were plotting an "attack," there was no attack, we were never going to win anything. We spent the week otherwise enjoying the sights and doing what we do while fishing.
BS-ing at camp, telling tale tales of ones that got away
stealing gas from a sister camp ten miles away so we can get home
wildlife watching and photography
Making shore lunch
Enjoying the many fantastic views.......
So the last day arrived, we went...pike fishing, rotating directions to hit the holes on the way to blueberry picking. While passing a spot I have fished once for walleye in June, for reasons never clear I stopped to walleye fish, Who knows why I do things on the lake. I found the reef and backed off and Greg immediately hooked something large....and undoubtedly green, it would be a feisty 31 inch pike that made us struggle to land on light tackle and no leader. But, we did.
It was pike #190 for the week and a tricky catch on the walleye rod
So we did it again, Finally after sorting out some small fish I kept catching while backing down the the drop off, I finally saw the depth dropping fast. I had a bite and set the hook then I got something on, it was notedly large. When hooking a bigger pike on jigs, if they don't cut the line immediately, need to be slowly hoisted off the bottom and then a quarter, half way up especially in August will just take off and swim away fast. Greg noticed my hoisting efforts with my even lighter rod than he uses for walleye. "Big one?" He asked.
"Yes, and if this is a walleye, It has money attached to it," I laughed at what I said knowing full well it was a pike just waiting for a big and fast run and which it would probably never be seen. Knowing such, I have changed my walleye reel to a smaller clone of my pike reel, a salt-water and hard to find, baitrunner series with two drags in which I use for different things than the company intended. I use the second "baitrunner drag," to have an emergency second drag set very light to allow a run away pike the chance to go fast without giving it a chance to either pull the rod out of my arms or to break the line since it is so hard to keep up. My 40 inch fish on heavy line ran 150 yards before it stopped enough for me to turn it back toward the boat. I once had a 38 inch pike on this same reel that ran and ran so much Greg had to take the tiller to chase it down as twice it was nearing the end of my spool. It took us 40 minutes and nearly a quarter mile to even land. As such, knowing this was a bigger pike, I had my finger on the second drag button ready, but how big was it? It is hard to tell at this stage. On my rod, they all feel huge. I struggled to pull the fish off the bottom knowing what was coming, I was ready for it to go. But then It gave up some depth, and then some more, I was thinking the new and a little heavier line I had put on had helped, (my wife on her similarly equipped rod was able to out hoist a rather lazy 40 3/4 inch pike that never ran and we got it in the boat). Maybe I could beat Greg's pike?
It was coming up and I struggled to look into the depth to see how big the "pike" was to determine what we had to do to get it into the boat. Maybe I would switch places with Greg so as to maybe chase it down when it ran. The boat sometimes scares the lazy ones into running. We prefer to hand land all pike but a walleye might cut you on a gill plate, and my fingers were sore for weeks in June from walleye fishing, so we use a net on them. Greg held the net but was also trying to get a plan of what we would do. My light trusty rod, was bent over double as I hoisted the fish.
Then Greg and I saw it together, "It IS a walleye." It came right up to the surface and without a word, He scooped it up and there it was a 26 INCH FISH!
We high fived each other, I let out a hoot as I measured it as my arms started to shake. It was not a record or anything. Then we laughed at the absurdity of it all. Then laughed the rest of the afternoon thinking about it again. It wasn't that big of a fish so other boats were out there fishing and fishing for walleyes in places were big ones lurked, I had not even won anything yet. But the laughing subsided...
So, what does Olaf do next? Well, then I tried to snatch defeat from apparent victory. We went blueberry picking two miles south of camp, but we were 12 miles north of camp and I never stopped to refill the gas tank, and after blueberry picking drove a mile even farther south. I kicked the gas tank of the boat accidentally. It showed empty and easily moved around. Crap, I'm out of gas. Would we even make it home?
There is a rule for the contest. All fish need to be registered by a certain time on the last day. Previously, it had been 5PM, BUT someone still fishing caught a tying walleye five minutes after five a few years back and was not given the award. There was also the event when a pike was trying to eat a walleye that was caught which was promptly netted by my dad which was never on a line, would that win (luckily Greg bested that fish two days later so it was never a real issue)? We have had rule SNAFUS and committee rulings, that have adjusted the rules. Quitting time now was 8pm, but if I ran out of gas, got stranded and would I even be rescued on Thursday, let alone by 8PM? I could hear the lore for decades more, of how I had neglected to stop and register my fish only to run the boat out of gas....and lose. Uff Dah!
I put the can up on the seat and shook it, it would be close and headed back to camp and into the wind, we would never even drift the right way home. We had seen no one fish that direction all week so no one was going to come to our rescue. I sighed and soldiered on. Keeping close to one shore so we could paddle the boat to a point to increase our chances. A mile ahead of us eventually I spotted a boat near an island not far from camp, it would turn out to be three boats. I shook the can. It was going to be close. They would never notice us a mile off so I started to cross the open water heading straight towards them, it was probably unwise to go a few extra yards but I needed to get as close to them as I could. Then I was a half mile, still too far to yell, then I crept to a quarter mile, and began to think we had a chance....
As I passed them, people I did not know, I was too close, I wonder if they got bothered by this crazy guy who was running flat out way too close to them but well, I might have needed them. I got passed them and I breathed easier. WE did have enough gas to get back to camp, but had I not kicked the can and noticed we would have ran out from where I was going.
Greg went and got more gas and I.....registered our fish. We fished a half mile from camp for the rest of the day, actually walleye fishing for fun and then the previous champion returned from the their spot to join me at a place we call the "Hump."
Dr Jeff Rapp and Butch fishing at the Hump.
As I was marking the underwater mound with buoys, the three boats I had buzzed earlier drove over, circled around me in what all I can surmise was some sort of "f" you gesture. I waved a small walleye on them and put down a second buoy and looked like I was not moving. They all eventually drove off.
So that was it. The fish held and in the morning, we organized our stuff for the flight out, luckily I was on the first flight out. Like usual the plane was delayed due to fog at the basecamp and now sitting in the office, I tried to take a nap.
The fog cleared, the plane came, unloaded reloaded, and then we were able to board led by the camp dogs...
The men in Cabin #11 2022, Most had not been here for three years due to COVID and Canada travel restrictions.
It is not the biggest award nor the biggest fish, and there is ALWAYS a bigger fish, but for an older guy, you do not get much glory in this world and this may be it, for me. My real glory is seeing my kids and wife and their pictures are what makes me happy, but everyone needs a little recognition in life. I am still feeling like I accomplished something special and that is why we live or at least why I live. In 2023, I will put in my tournament "fee" and well, fly to Smoothrock Camp and try again to win this award for two years in a row, something never done before. Will I fish walleyes more? maybe but probably not. Nothing beats a big time pike run like the biggest one I caught, nothing. Will I succeed in repeating, probably not, but heck, as they say it beats a day out at the office.
So go out there, go fishing, go blueberry picking, something I shall savor all fall, as I brought back 20 pounds of them and why only 20 pounds? It was all the containers we had with.....
Go out and enjoy yourself
Just a great fishing tale.
Heartiest congratulations and well done!
Olaf Danielson August 14, 2022 at 7:51 AM
Thx, yea, fishing tales, silliness
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Assam government criticized for giving a bad definition of transgender
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The All Assam Transgender Association (AATA) in a memorandum submitted recently to Social Welfare Minister Pramila Rani Brahma has stated that a cruel definition of transgender was given in the draft state policy on transgender formulated by the Social Welfare Department of Assam.
According to a report in the Assam Tribune, The AATA alleged that the transgender definition in the draft policy not only violates the respect, dignity and prestige of the transgender community but the essence of the NALSA judgement as well.
According to the policy, a 'transgender' means a person who is neither wholly female nor wholly male or a combination of female or male or neither female nor male and whose sense of gender does not match with the gender assigned to that person at the time of birth, and includes trans-men and trans-women, persons with intersex variations and gender-queers.
The AATA stated in its memorandum that the current policy includes persons with intersex variations under the transgender umbrella, reports The Assam Tribune.
The AATA stated that sex and gender are not same and both of them are separate concepts.
According to AATA, while sex is a biological or medical term to denote male, female and intersex, gender is a deep sense of oneself as a gendered being and may not have a one-to-one co-relation with sex.
The association also opposed the decision of the Social Welfare Department to appoint one of its senior most secretaries as vice-chairman of the state-level transgender welfare or justice board.
The association alleged that the department had assigned most of the functions to the district level board through the draft policy.
According to AATA, the draft policy has paralyzed the state level board with lesser function and empowered the district level board with more functions.
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I picked up a bundle of these from Hobby Lobby over the weekend and I'm head-over-heels in love with them. They are tee-tiny dried flowers in my favorite color scheme…creamy white…and in my opinion have "french farmhouse" written all over them. LOVE them!
I'm feeling more and more inspired with regards to finally decorating my house…after 4 years of pretty much nothing.
I've got more of a vision and direction in my mind AND…the energy to actually take on some projects.
So...my first SIMPLE project this weekend was to fill this pretty pitcher I picked up from HomeGoods.
I also found these Halloween napkins and cute wooden box that unexpectedly fit my napkins perfectly!!
It looks like it's an enamel pitcher but it's really ceramic. And again…it looks completely French Farmhouse to me….which if you didn't know is my decorating style.
I have fretted over exactly what to put on the island in my kitchen for nearly 4 years now. It sounds ridiculous, right? I've tried everything from glass apothecary jars to oversized pieces of pretty pottery. All of the things I've tried have either been too tall…too short…to bleh…or just plain impractical. I'm in the kitchen A LOT and most of the time our dinners are served straight from the island so I needed something I could easily move to accommodate dinners.
That's how I came up with the tray idea. I picked this one up from JoAnn's a couple of years ago.
I have loved it. But I haven't necessarily loved the items I've put on it. That is…until this weekend.
When I spotted the bundle of star flowers at Hobby Lobby I was concerned they wouldn't quite be right for the pitcher. But I decided to try them out anyway. I'm so glad I did. The stems are super thin but stiff so because they were originally too tall for the pitcher, I took my garden shears…stood over the trash can and easily cut them down to where I wanted them. I cut the whole bundle of stems at one time. Easy peasy.
I think what I love most about the star flowers is that as much as they are perfect for fall right now…they really adapt to every season - and that makes me happy knowing I'm not going to tire of them or be forced to change them out with every holiday. I'll only need to swap out the candle scent. And honestly…I'd burn pumpkin spice year-round…and anything with cranberry! I just LOVE those two scents. Actually, my two older daughters have me hooked on the scents that have a "fireside" smell to them. We LOVE bonfires and roasting marshmallows…so it only seems natural to gravitate towards those smells.
Anyway…this new flower-filled pitcher and candle makes this island my absolute favorite spot in the house right now. I'm not even kidding. I must've said to Clara at least three different times, "You have no idea how happy this makes me." while dreamily staring at the island and breathing in the pumpkin spice scent. I also told her if I was bride I would totally just carry a bundle of star flowers just like this. That's all I would need…tied with a pretty ribbon.
Once again…sticking with simple makes me the happiest. A pitcher of pretty flowers and a $5 Heritage Target Candle. Done. Not too tall. Not too much. Easy to move for meal prep. I can't stop staring!
I'm wondering if this new-found inspiration and energy are a direct reflection from the Whole90 I've been doing? Maybe? Regardless…I'm on Day 72 and I'm feeling good. So I'll take that.
If you love the French Farmhouse look too…you'll find MORE inspiration on my Farmhouse Love pinterest board.
All of these photos were taken with my iPhone because I'm too lazy to get out my real camera.
The top one is pretty awesome because there was actually sunshine this morning when I snapped that one! However, the other two are from this weekend when it was raining. They are okay - but blurry.
I went back to Hobby Lobby and purchased a 2nd bundle of these dried star flowers because I love them so! (I've got the Hobby Lobby App on my phone and used my 40% coupon for both purchases!!) Not sure if I should add more flowers to the existing pitcher or place them in spots all around the house. Still deciding.


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ALBUM REVIEW: SMZB- 'The Chinese are Coming' (2016)
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The new album celebrating the twentieth anniversary of SMZB.
One of the scene's best bands and the only celtic-punk band in China!
yes.. look again!
Celtic-punk in 2016 is truly a global music genre. Gone are the days when it was the preserve of spotty second, third or fourth generation Irish kids and welcome now to the World Of Celtic-Punk! SMZB hail from Wuhan in mainland China and were one of the first original Chinese punk bands forming in 1996. The name SMZB means Sheng Ming Zhi Bing and in English is literally, 'Bread of Life'. Unsurprisingly when you hear their music the Chinese authorities have never taken kindly to them and so three of their albums have been banned at home. Sometime around the mid-noughties they made the decision to move away from their original raw sound of early British punk, ska and '80s hardcore and add bagpipes, flutes and fiddles to their sound. Sounding like a combination of The Pogues, the Murphy's and Rancid they have deservedly become absolutely huge in their native country and their fame is growing outside China too. They have toured Europe a few times, including earlier this year though sadly never visiting these shores, as well as recording several acclaimed albums including a split with Norwegian celtic-punk legends Greenland Whalefishers.
The Chinese Are Coming was released on Maybe Mars Records on September 30 this year and begins with the drone of bagpipes through the 'Intro' with pounding drums joining in and soon enough the album explodes in your earholes with some quality celtic-punk. SMZB may have been the first and still are arguably the best Chinese punk band but the video to the album's real opener 'Ten Thousand Ways To Rebel' shows they are not alone and features several other local punk bands and is a tribute to Lei Jun China's first skinhead and Beijing's punk godfather, who passed away a year previous to this video being premiered this year on the 6th of May.
Reading through the lyrics and knowing the conditions they live in you can only marvel at how brave the band are for singing what they do. It certainly shows up some of the 'revolutionary' bands in the west who seem more concerned with getting on the bill at Rebellion festival and getting a huge payday.
"You cannot change anyone in the world,
The only one you can change is yourself.
When you find out the truth and their lies,
That's when you should do something"
The band to be referenced most here is of course The Dropkick Murphys and SMZB have nailed their sound perfectly. It is all bagpipes and catchy as hell punk rock. Up next is 'The Chinese Are Coming' which was the first single off the album and begins with a Ramones-ish
"Hey, Ho! Where shall we go?"
and while on the accompanying video the lyrics are sung in English on the album its in their native language but the words show SMZB's great sense of humour as well as adding in a great bit of Irish folk thanks to some expert tin whistle playing.
'Born In The PRC' is not a celtic-punk version of The Bosses song but an angry and vitriolic response to the nationalism of their government and what punk means to those who face real oppression on a daily basis not like the pampered students here in the west whose oppression is only inside their own imaginations.
"I was born in the P.R.C., it's such a tragedy,
It's a so-called nation, but really a fake nation.
I don't want to living here, I don't have any choice,
There's only one party here, I want to be their enemy.
I was born in the P.R.C., the nation with autocracy,
Punx Rebellion of China, is what it means to me.
I was born in the P.R.C., in 2 years I'll be 40,
Still can't live freely, that's why I'm still on stage"
SMZB keep up the pace with 'Road To Petition' which brings in the banjo to great effect while 'Generation' has a much more traditional folky feel to it showing that the lads can turn it up and down when required. The next song is 'Flower Of The Socialism' and is fast heads down, balls out, two fingers to the world, punk rock which slows down only briefly for a few seconds of tin whistle while band founder Wu Wei spits out the words that obviously come straight from his heart.
"You have to try to play your role well, or choose to be a bastard.
You have to try to forget your dream, and then into the arm of reality.
You can't to extricate yourself from here, you are the one of scars.
Socialism already in bloomed here, you have also sprouted in this land"
The next couple of songs, 'Sunny Speculation' and 'One Night In Prison' are sung in their native language again. Fast tuneful Murphyesque punk is the order of the day. They may have started as a straight up punk band but its thanks to the fantastic abilities of Tang on bagpipes and tin whistle and Tu Dou on banjo that that transition has been so successful. 'Welcome To China' sees a return to English in a song that bites back against tourism and the attitude of tourists when they visit China. Now if you have heard 'White Noise' on the Stiff Little Fingers album Inflammable Material then you will get what the breakneck 'The Chinese Are Coming Again' is about. If you haven't heard it then give it a quick blast here. Its fair to say their still enormous mistrust of Chinese immigrants and here SMZB expose the bigots that would treat people as a mass rather than individuals. 'Colonial Trip' features a guest female vocalist and is reminescent of The Dubliners/Pogues until an electric guitar bursts in and we are brought up to the present day. A great song that nicely straddles both the past and present and even ends with some trumpet playing thrown in to the mix. 'Tattoo The Earth' again is more Poguesy while 'Redemption Song' takes Bob Marley's original song and turns it into a celtic-punk classic with the pipes playing loud and proud. The Chinese Are Coming comes to an end with the absolutely stunning 'Song Of The Seagull'. The longest track on the album, at well over seven minutes, its a tribute to Lin Zhao. A Chinese student from Peking University who was jailed in 1960 for pro-democracy activities. The song is based on a poem she wrote in prison where, forbidden to use pens, she composed countless articles and poems using a hairpin dipped in her own blood. In 1968 she was executed and in 1981 Lin was officially exonerated though the Chinese government still to this day are reluctant to allow any mention of her or her writings. Find out more about the tragic life of Lin Zhao here.
Beginning with just piano, acoustic guitar and the beautiful voice of their guest vocalist (sorry but I couldn't find her name anywhere) before the full band kicks in with their tribute and some angry celtic-punk rock brings the curtain down on the song and the album. I simply cannot imagine a better way to end this album. A song dripping with emotion and meaning and that symbolises everything that SMZB stand for.
Fifteen tracks and over fifty minutes to boot that gives you more than enough for your money and if there is ever a band in the celtic-punk scene that demands your support than it is SMZB. Being the only celtic-punk band in your state or city can be a lonely experience but SMZB have become an icon of Chinese music that deserve to be heard far beyond their own country. What they have to say is important and we can be grateful that they have chosen to wrap it some of the best celtic-punk music you will hear.
(listen to The Chinese Are Coming for free by pressing play on the Bandcamp player below before splashing out your $10 on buying it and supporting this awesome band!)
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(full concert of SMZB from their 15th Anniversary show back in 2011)
ALBUM REVIEW: FOX n FIRKIN- 'No Vacancy' (2016)
Album Review, Australia May 12, 2016 Leave a comment
Mandolin, Banjo, Electric Guitar, Bass and Drums
Brisbane Australia Celtic-Punk
We are very lucky at the moment for the band that I consider to be the best celtic-punk band in the entire fecking world has embarked on a epic European tour that will eventually take in Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales. Yes The Rumjacks have already flown the coop and left Australia and at the moment are probably wandering round some city in mainland Europe taking selfies and boozing it up with the local celtic-punk brigade. Now if I have said it once here on the London Celtic Punks blog then I have said it twenty or thirty times that the best celtic-punk band in the world is The Rumjacks and the best celtic-punk bands in the world are Australian. Maybe its the history of Australia and the way the country was founded or the massive migrations (some forced some not!) of celtic people that made it that way but their bands tend to have something really authentic about them and especially lyric wise they definitely dominate. Well just the other week I received the new album from Fox n Firkin a band I had heard of before but knew very little about except that they shared a record label with the awesome Tasmanian celtic-folk-punkers The Dead Maggies so with that in mind I thought I would rather like them and rather like them I surely did!
(from left to right) Leigh Mitchell- Bass, Adrian Kay- Mandolin/ Banjo/ Vocals, Andrew Boyle- Guitar/ Vocals, Robbie Fraser- Drums/ Vocals
Formed in early 2012 in the capital city of Brisbane in Queensland in eastern Australia Fox n Firkin have taken the harder edged route into celtic-punk and though they would probably be nearer to the Dropkick Murphys than Flogging Molly but they don't sound much like the Murphys either. One of the things about the Aussie celtic-punk scene is how they manage to find new approaches in what you would think is quite a narrow genre and make it really original. Fox n Firkin are no different to their peers and have a fresh original sound that fuses those celtic and folk instruments like mandolin and banjo to quality punk rock melodies. Fiercely independent they released a couple of DIY EP's but have recently joined up, and have found the perfect label to support them in, Folk Till Ya Punk Records. They produced their first independently released EP To Hell And Back in May, 2013 and was produced By Fox n Firkin and Greg Arnott and is available as a 'name your price' download on Bandcamp below.
They followed this up with another brilliant 4-track EP 'Roppongi' release on December 1st, 2013 which if you buy the CD contains the best version of 'Waltzing Matilda' you will ever hear I fecking promise you.
Released on April Fools Day this year this debut album from Fox n Firkin is ten quality punky celtic-punk tracks with that unmistakeable Aussie sound that we go absolute ape shit for here at London Celtic Punks. Ten songs that clock in at just over half an hour and includes nine original F n F compositions and only one cover. No Vacancy kicks off with 'Drink The Lot' and from the first few bars of mandolin you know you are in for a treat. Catchy and tuneful punk rock with a load of folk influences chucked in as well. Bit of an anthem this I would suspect and good for getting the crowd joining in the simple but effective chorus. 'My Country's Shame' follows and tells the story of the birth of Australia under Britain's glorious control and the genocide and oppression they heaped upon the indigenous people. Faster and again the mando to the fore and a Rancid/Bad Religion feel to it. 'No Vacancy' was the lead single from the album back in March preparing the world for the album that was to come. The song has a bouncy ska feel to it and unlike the rest of the album has no swearing! I realise its almost a criminal offence to say you're not a big ska fan but there you go. I much prefer the rest of the album myself but, don't worry, I know I am in the minority here! The song is about the reaction in Australia to asylum seekers, refugees and economic migrants.
No Vacancy continues with 'Long Road From Hell' one of the (slightly) slower tracks and also one of the most celtic-punk tunes here. Banjo appears and the fits the song superbly and again as catchy as fecking hell. On hearing 'El Condor Pasa (If I Could)' you may think it familiar and you'd be right. Written by Peruvian song writer Daniel Alomía Robles in 1913 and made famous by 60's folk pioneers and legends Simon and Garfunkel.
"I'd rather be a hammer than a nail
A brilliant song and hats off to them for choosing such an unusual cover to record. Makes a change from 'I'll Tell Me Ma' at any rate.
'Days Long Gone' and 'The Violent Majority' follow and the sound is shifting about thanks to the use of banjo and mandolin in different songs but still following that trademark Fox'n'Firkin sound. 'Bastard Brigade' is another drinking song and the celtic is turned right up on this. Another one for the crowd to sing along to and punch the air. Nearly at the end and the fastest song here 'Too Hip 4ZZZ' puts the boot into shite music and music radio that only play trendy crap. Have to say that F n F never sound more Aussie that on this song! No Vacancy comes to an end with 'Burn The Rich' and no explanation of the lyrics is needed I am hoping? Another great track that doesn't sound like the rest of the album but is far from a novelty song I tells you.
So after their first two EP's I have got to say that Fox'n'Firkin have really hit the jackpot here with No Vacancy. A quality debut album that from beginning to end is just catchy as hell celtic-punk rock with great vocals and lyrics. On the punkier side of things but refreshing to these ears that they are doing their own thing and not aping any band I have heard recently.
"fusing traditional Irish instrumentation and melodies into blistering catchy punk rock"
is how they describe themselves and you know what? I couldn't put it better myself!
(you can have a sneaky free listen to 'No Vacancy' by pressing play on the Bandcamp player below before buying!)
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EP REVIEW: DRUNKEN FAIRY TALES – 'Пьяные Сказки' (2016)
EP Review, Free Download, Russia March 30, 2016 Leave a comment
A band from Moscow playing Irish punk.
Songs about pubs, Guinness, streams of whiskey, docks and romantic Irish fairy tales!
One of the best things about celtic-punk over the last few years has been the emergence of bands from all over the world who play the music as good as any band born on the 'auld sod' would. One of the best scenes going has to be the one in Russia with some truly great bands and people who work together to help push the scene along and keep it moving in a positive direction.
Drunken Fairy Tales are one of those bands involved in promoting the scene. They have been around since Christmas Eve 2010 and have been extremely prolific in that time recording and releasing several records and becoming very popular in Moscow and beyond. So it is in their sixth year they have released their best record yet and not just that but they have shown a progression that is sometimes lacking in the celtic-punk scene. Their can be a tendency sometimes for bands to rest on their laurels and coast along and as much as we like to hear what we know and love it's also good to hear bands shake it up a bit and try different things.
The EP is six songs long and is to be filed alongside Flogging Molly/the traditional Irish style of celtic-punk. Vanes accordion and Sasha's fiddle lead the way and from the very first few bars of 'Картошка' ('Potatoes') the music leaps right out at you. Fast, furious and extremely well played. The boys sing in Russian through out and as we have mentioned often time before we totally respect that and we even go as far as to promote it. This is followed by 'Пьяные Сказки' ('Drunken Fairy Tales') and is the bands signature tune. Starting off firmly in the celtic-punk camp it doesn't take long to veer through Russian folk and then ska before ending with a right auld Irish flourish! Sadly we can't tell you what the lyrics are about but you can bet your bottom dollar its pure uplifting stuff. No time for maudlin here with some proper party music. Another thing mentioned by us often is the ability of bands to capture on record their manic live performances and this is what Drunken Fairy Tales have managed. It is so well recorded that in parts it almost sounds a live gig! 'О'Хара' ('O'Hara') is next and the pace doesn't let up for a second with the accordion on fire and keeping it well lit! 'Старушка Молли' ('Old Girl Molly') as you could possibly guess has more than just a wee nod in the direction of those other famous Molly's and 'Изумрудная Борода' ('Emerald Beard') may be the slowest song on the EP, not that that means its slow, but for me works the best and is my favourite track here. The EP ends with 'Скейтборд' ('Skateboard') and sounds just like an Irish folk Rancid with that accordion again working overtime and the EP ends as it began… breathlessly!
'Пьяные Сказки' was released on March 21st and comes in just shy of twenty minutes. The band have been very very generous and have made the entire EP available for download for free! The boys don't even want a donation off you either… so you simply have no excuse at all NOT to download this great EP right away. DO IT NOW!!!!
(you can listen to the entire EP below by pressing play on the Bandcamp player and then follow the link below to download it)
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(a full concert from Drunken Fairy Tales. sound a bit iffy but still great)
ALBUM REVIEW: THE POTATO PIRATES- 'Raised Better Than This' (2014)
Album Review, USA December 13, 2014 Leave a comment
hard and fast blue collar American punk rock with bagpipes
The Potato Pirates hail from Denver, Colorado in the Rocky Mountain region of the United States. Known as 'The Mile-High City', Denver sits at an altitude of 5,280 feet (1,600 m) above sea level and lies where the Great Plains give way to the Rocky Mountains. Interestingly 10% of the population of Denver are Irish, which just goes to show how deeply embedded peoples roots actually are in America. The Potato Pirates are a five piece punk band with lots of celtic/folk punk influences. Forming in 2003 their sound is a mix of various styles of punk with touches of ska but all done with Scottish bagpipes.
The Potato Pirates (2009)
Tried & True,Black & Blue(2011)
'Raised Better Than This' is The Potato Pirates third album and easily their most accomplished to date. Twelve tracks that clock in at just a few seconds under half an hour means that the songs fly past at a good rate of knots with an infectious, youthful exuberance you dont often hear in celtic punk circles where sometimes bands can take themselves a wee bit too seriously. To be sure this is punk rock with bagpipes and of course comparisons with The Dropkick Murphys are inevitable but its The DKM's debut album 'Do Or Die' that it reminds me of. Heads down straight up punk with shouty duo vocals and superbly played bagpipes that completely fit in with the style of music rather than being shoe-horned in.
from left to right Andrew-Bass, Steve-Drums, Scott-Lead Vocals and Bagpipes, Vinny-Lead Vocals and Guitar, Matt-Lead Guitar
Kicking off with 'March On' a fast as hell celtic-punk blockbuster with the vocals shouted over driving pipes and bagpipes you instantly where this album is going. The next few songs leave out the pipes and the band concentrate on playing some solid punk. 'Bruised Deaf Sore' has a real Rancid sound to it started off with a ska beat crashing forth between punk. 'I Will Defend' is the fastest song on the album. Tuneful hardcore punk that's as clear as a bell and talks of the human instinct to protect those things dear to us- our families, our friends and ourselves.
'Cant Go Back' is an older song the boys have re-recorded. The pipes are back for next song 'Oh The Humanity' and so begins the most celtic section of the album with the punk a wee bit softer, but not soft!, and the pipes leading the way. 'Tequila Romance' chucks in ska, punk and celtic and comes up with a real standout track. 'Thinkin Bout Drinkin' begins with a slow acoustic guitar intro before thrashing guitars give way to ska and then returning to thrashing about. 'Dead To Me' has a melodic hardcore sound which as you can tell is about getting rid of mates who stab you in the back. 'Boots For Brains' has an absolutely great pipes solo from Scott and even though I would like to hear more myself I'd have to admit it's probably enough for most people.
The albums standout track for me. 'Outta My City' tella of the recent worldwide invasion of the 'hipster'. Cant be arsed to explain what this middle class phenomenon is just look it up and marvel at what some people/idiots will fall for. Tongue firmly in cheek The Potato Pirates have a grand sense of humour and 'Gullible'
"I'd rather die than live for you"
the lads sing in another album highlight and yeah The Potato Pirates can be a bit irreverent but they can also write some serious shit too. The album ends with 'Struggle' and sounds like a cross between Agnostic Front and the oft mentioned Rancid. Another great song with some more serious lyrics to end on.
"Celebrate disaster, It makes you live your life, Embrace conflict, It keeps you on your toes and putting up a fight"
Overall an anthemic album with shedloads of fist in the air moments. The Potato Pirates have surpassed themselves with 'Raised Better Than This' and have come up with an album where the sound though brutal at times is carried along with a clear sound, top musicianship and brilliant sometimes funny and sometimes profound lyrics. The celticness though only a small part of their sound it's still an important part and though I may be biased they were the songs I enjoyed most though thats not to say the rest of the album is pretty damn good as well!
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By Ann Filmer | News | Comments are Closed | 28 February, 2019 | 0
Julie Ganey, author of Good Enough (beginning March 14), was interviewed in the Chicago Tribune by Myrna Petlicki.
Here is an excerpt below:
"Sometimes, no matter how hard you try to do the right thing, you worry that you're not "Good Enough."
That's what author and actor Julie Ganey ponders in her humorous one-person show, which will have its world premiere at the 16th Street Theater in Berwyn March 14-April 20. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays, 5 and 8 p.m. Saturdays, and 3 p.m. select Sundays.
The inspiration for this show came when Ganey began thinking about her experiences as a teaching artist in public schools in Chicago, "and trying to reconcile with the choices I made regarding my daughter's education," she said. "It's something I've always wrestled with and, in ways, I'm still wrestling with it."
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Telamon Corporation Leverages a Manufacturing Readiness Grant to Deploy Collaborative Robots for Assembly Line Automation in its Carmel, Indiana, Plant
Q4, 2020
Telamon Corporation, a Carmel-based organization, specializes in solutions for telecommunication networks, industrial assembly and supply chain financing.
Albert Chen immigrated from Taiwan in 1968. He studied at Portland State University and just shy of his PhD, started working for GTE, which eventually brought him to Indiana. His decade at GTE helped steer him to a life of entrepreneurship and supply chain enhancement. In 1985, he founded Telamon Corporation in Carmel and remains Executive Chair of the Telamon Board today. The company is the largest privately-held company in Indiana where its headquarters remain and operates in 48 U.S. states and 3 foreign countries—Macedonia, Mexico, and India. Albert and the company's Chief Executive Officer, Stanley Chen, and Chief Administrative Officer, Stephanie Kim, oversee all operations of the family-owned Telamon business.
TELAMON INDUSTRIAL SERVICES DIVISION
The business is split into three branches with distinct focuses, all supporting the advanced manufacturing and logistics industries. Telamon Telecom Solutions assists telecommunications networks from supply chain and distribution services to complex builds including site acquisition, engineering and design to turnkey integration and installations. The Telamon Industrial Solutions arm is responsible for kitting and assembly as well as wire harness manufacturing. And Telamon Enterprise Ventures incubates cutting-edge services in both energy and robotics technologies to drive efficiency and save money.
Telamon Industrial Solutions embraces its first Industry 4.0 project in its Carmel manufacturing plant to automate part of the kitting assembly process.
Telamon Industrial Solutions works primarily with large original and reconditioned original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). Most of that work involves assembling 'kits' for those OEMs and as Director of Operations DJ Eddy explained, "it was a very manual process, highly operator dependent. As a result, it could be prone to non-conformances with our customer." Non-conformances, he added, related to having wrong parts in the kit, or wrong quantities of a given part, or missing a part. "We knew for the long-term we had to do something that was different with regards to how we processed kits," DJ said. A typical kit could contain anything from 3 to 25 parts, and hundreds of different variations. DJ added. "With a low volume-high mix program, the assembly lines need to be flexible." In our facility, there are no dedicated lines serving only one product or even one customer. In addition, one kit might have only one part different from another. "All of these complexities make a manual system prone to error," DJ said.
That is where the third arm of Telamon Corporation—Telamon Enterprise Ventures—proved helpful to Industrial Solutions. "The opportunity to adopt collaborative robotics to improve our process was enticing given the level of support we have in-house through the Ventures group," DJ said. While the assembly process of any one kit is variable, the last steps in the process are consistent. So, to enhance product quality and reduce errors, cobots were deployed at the end of the assembly process with the help of a Manufacturing Readiness Grant award. Telamon's new cobots are programmed to label, weigh and palletize the kits, removing the need for manual intervention at the end of the process. And if the kit is within predetermined parameters, then the Telamon operators know that all the right parts are included–significantly reducing error and nonconformity notices from customers.
"It's similar to self-checkout at the grocery," DJ said. "You scan what you are being charged for and add that same item to the bag. The computer knows the weight of each item, and if the object you add to the bag matches that weight, the assumption is it's the right object."
Manufacturing Readiness Grants provided by the Indiana Economic Development Corporation and administered by Conexus Indiana are available to Indiana manufacturers willing to make capital investments to integrate smart technologies and processes that improve capacity and productivity. Telamon Corporation invested its MRG award in smart manufacturing technology to automate it kitting line assembly process.
Key Learnings
With the cobot project fully implemented and working as planned, Telamon Industrial Solutions is recognizing other opportunities to enhance the kitting process.
With close to 40 years of manufacturing experience, DJ knows there are often unanticipated benefits to new technology adoption, and this project is proving to offer the same opportunities. "We've recognized there were opportunities to use the scanning portion of the system to enhance the traceability of the kit components," he said. "We're talking with a customer right now about labeling components within the kits themselves enhancing identification and traceability using bar coding" The process could provide each individual part with a unique serial number and place it within a kit that is uniquely serialized as well. With that kind of traceability, any problem that might occur in the field can be traced back to the process to identify its origins and correct any issues. "We see it as a potential value-add to our customers," DJ said.
Successful execution of a technology adoption project requires buy-in from the workforce.
The culture of the three Telamon divisions is built upon the four values the organization has long held. Those values are reduced to a memorable acronym that is easy to identify and recall: H2S2. Honesty. Harmony. Simplicity. Stewardship. DJ explained that by stressing these values with employees and stakeholders, Telamon sustains its strong relationships with its customers, vendors and the community. "What we needed to communicate to our employees was, in order to do the right things for the customer, we must invest in our existing processes," he said. "They understood that upfront. And the more they saw this project becoming a success on the shop floor, the more excited they were. It's very important to engage your workforce early on." The result, he said, was that employees were curious and eager to become involved and make the project a success. "They were particularly excited when connections were made between our division and the Ventures division as we worked together on the project."
TELAMON'S TECHMAN COBOT IN ACTION
The technology adoption project increases company revenues and improves customer satisfaction.
As the project became more integrated into the assembly process, the company's workforce understood the automation wasn't eliminating workers from the production line. Instead, employee productivity was enhanced as cobots perform collaboratively alongside our Team members. "That's a major selling point, and a very significant aspect," DJ said. "The robots are called 'collaborative' for good reason, but the technology also increases our flexibility on the shop floor. A likely next step for us is to integrate cobots for visual inspection within our assembly process."
The technology adoption project has been a winning investment for Telamon Industrial Solutions. "We promoted what we were doing with one of our large customers," DJ said. "We reported the results of the project to our customer, and during the implementation of this new process our compliance score started to improve. Our customer could see the benefits of this investment, and as a result awarded us substantial new business, with annualized revenues in the millions. And that is a direct result of our commitment to improving our processes and quality with Industry 4.0 technologies."
"The robots are called 'collaborative' for good reason, but the technology also increases our flexibility on the shop floor. A likely next step for us is using the cobots for visual inspection in our assembly process."
DJ Eddy
Director of Operations at Telamon Corporation