It was already late—just one hour before sunset on January 25, 2018—and they had yet to reach the summit. The shadows of the high Himalayan peaks were growing longer every second, covering the surrounding valleys with a dark veil and turning the air so cold that every breath became painful. Elisabeth Revol, a thin, 38-year-old French climber with four 8,000-meter peaks on her résumé, filmed the landscape as they began their final push. Her camera swept left, then right, capturing the steep terrain and the snow and ice interwoven with bald rocks.
For a second, the frame stopped on her partner, Tomasz Mackiewicz, a Polish climber who for a decade has been obsessed with climbing Nanga Parbat in winter. This was his seventh attempt on the mountain, and he had never tried to climb another 8,000-meter peak. On this day, Tomasz was slower than Elisabeth. In the video, he was roughly 300 feet behind her, barely visible, a small black dot moving up a shiny white slope.
Elisabeth turned off the camera, pulled out her GPS, and recorded their position. She was just 300 vertical feet from becoming the first woman to climb Nanga Parbat in winter. The weather was relatively calm. There was hardly any wind; the temperature hovered around minus 22 Fahrenheit. But that would change once the sun set. The winds would rise, and the temperature would fall to minus 60 degrees. They needed to move.
The main shopping street in Reykjavík is called Laugavegur, "the way of hot pools", because it was originally used by women hauling laundry from the town to the thermal springs two miles away. It cuts across Iceland's capital from west to east, with the Atlantic Ocean below and, above, the bone-white Hallgrímskirkja church looming over the city's brightly coloured roofs like a tower from Tolkien's Middle-earth. It was a street that Birna Brjánsdóttir knew well.
A vivacious 20-year-old woman with auburn hair and a sharp sense of humour, Birna grew up in the suburbs, a 30-minute walk away. She liked music – everything from hip-hop to folk – and she liked to drive, and so in the summer of 2016 she embraced the Icelandic pastime of rúntur, cruising slowly down Laugavegur in her father's car with her friends, windows open, speakers blaring, past the boutiques and coffee bars and tourist shops selling soft-toy puffins and knitted jumpers.
That winter, when the sun appeared for only five hours a day and the snow piled deep on the nearby mountains, Birna had been enjoying the nightlife around Laugavegur. After finishing work on a Friday, she would often play cards in a pub with some friends and then, after midnight, when people in Reykjavík finally start to party, they would go dancing, as they did on the evening of 13 January 2017.
Self-assured and carefree, Birna was one of the first people that night to get up and dance on the stage at Húrra, a popular live music venue and club. When her friends decided to leave at 2am, she told them she would stay on. She left the club just before closing time three hours later. She bought a falafel pitta and started slowly walking up Laugavegur, which is brightly lit at night, with glowing storefronts and lampposts every 10 metres or so.
She was drunk, dropping coins at one point and bumping into a stranger on the pavement. She ambled past the yellow-and-red awning of the Lebowski Bar, inspired by the Coen brothers film, and a coffee-and-waffle shop on a corner where a narrow lane led down to the sea.
His white Cutlass was idling at the curb outside the schoolyard at St. James, where he stood with the driver's side door propped open and the front seat folded forward so I could climb in the back. I threw my book bag in first and slid across the maroon interior, my Catholic school uniform of blue oxford shirt and khaki pants looking shabby against the smooth velour.
"Hey there, kid," said Bozo, my uncle's friend, who was riding shotgun. "Long time no see." He flashed an awkward smile in my direction as blue cigarette smoke billowed from his nostrils, two upside-down smokestacks spitting exhaust against a face scattered with freckles and a receding hairline of dirty red curls.
It was winter of 1986, not long after my ninth birthday. Pittsburgh looked as it always did: dejected and lost beneath a canopy of swollen gray clouds. Same as he had for much of the past year, my uncle assumed the role of de facto babysitter. It was an arrangement part circumstance and part convenience. My parents both worked, and my uncle had lost his job at Heinz the year before. This meant we no longer received plastic Heinz pickle pins as souvenirs, but we did see a lot more of my uncle. Since the layoff, his days were often spent holed up in my grandmother's house, where he lived with his wife and son—my aunt and cousin—drinking Miller High Life tall boys and watching Beverly Hills Cop on VHS.
When my uncle lost his job, I was old enough to know that it was bad to be unemployed. It must have stressed his marriage and his role as a father and placed undue pressure on his living arrangement with my grandmother. I was also old enough to have overheard conversations about his drinking problem. My father, my uncle's younger brother, would pull him aside, and I would hear them talking in hushed tones. I always assumed my father was offering whatever help he could, trying in vain to change my uncle's trajectory. But I never heard what they said to each other. Often my father's concerns seemed to be lost in all the noise, and my uncle would change the subject, talking at normal volume again about the home remodeling project he had thrown himself into or reminiscing about their childhood.
Much later, I would learn that my uncle had been in and out rehab several times, and that my father was always there to help him get clean.
I was young to walk the mile alone from St. James to my family's house in Princeton Park, situated high atop a hill in Wilkinsburg, so the responsibility of shepherding me home each day fell to my uncle. He often walked the half-dozen blocks from my grandmother's house to my school, where he stood waiting at the edge of the playground in his olive-green military jacket — the same piece of clothing that my father and so many men of his generation brought home after the war in Vietnam. From a distance, my uncle could almost be confused for my father, hands tucked in his jacket pockets, body sloped against the chain-link fence, and brown hair swept across his forehead. The most notable difference—visible, at least—was that my uncle had a mustache that curled at the sides of his mouth, while my father was usually clean-shaven. But there were other differences beneath the surface. My uncle was outgoing and could command a room, his wit sharp and his sense of humor wry. In contrast, my father was quiet, strong, and dependable, the type of person who was always in your corner. As brothers, they balanced one another out.
In simpler times, my parents might have strung a house key on a shoestring, hung it around my neck, and told me to walk home and lock the door until they returned from work. But after the 1977 abduction and murder of Beth Lynn Barr, a six-year-old neighborhood girl who disappeared on her way home from Johnston School — which sat a mere two blocks from our front door — an irreversible fear had crept into our lives. My parents, my mother in particular, fretted over the safety of my sister and me. To walk home unaccompanied would have been borrowing trouble, tempting the types of strangers who snatched up children and separated them from the world.
So, when school let out each afternoon, my uncle watched over us — a surrogate parent pulling shift work until my mother or father came to pick us up. My sister, who is five years older than me, would meet us after stepping off a Port Authority bus from Shadyside, where she attended a Catholic high school. We then picked up my younger cousin — my uncle's son — before returning to my grandmother's house to zone out on Merrie Melodies cartoons, MTV, and bowls of Fruity Pebbles. Those long afternoons are when I first watched an odd mishmash of movies, like Back to the Future, The Blues Brothers, and To Live and Die in L.A.; where I first heard "Nights in White Satin" from the Moody Blues' Days of Future Passed album; and where I flipped through my uncle's dusty old records just to marvel at the art on the album sleeves, soaking up the wild colors on Santana's Abraxas or the somber faces of the Doors on their self-titled debut.
"You know this song?" my uncle yelled from the second floor of my grandmother's house, the sound of needle on vinyl hissing from the stereo speakers in his bedroom. "It's 'the Boss!'" With a bandanna tied across his forehead, my uncle held the neck of an invisible guitar that was slung across his shoulder as the opening notes of "Born in the USA" rumbled through the floorboards. When the vocals came in, my uncle silently mouthed Springsteen's anthemic lyrics, his expression as animated as his body.


Your friends in podcasting have a lot of personal news to share: Dean's continued recovery from knee surgery, details for the upcoming release of their movie The Lady Killers, the latest on Fuzz Aldrin's miraculous return to health, and where in the world Dean will be living next! A couple of conversation threads from past weeks are picked up and amplified, as Dean and Phil discuss Dean's feelings about film noir and why the box office success of the Star Wars franchise has always been unrelated to the films' quality (or lack thereof). More than a half dozen current and recent movies get analyzed, including Atomic Blonde, A Quiet Passion, Blade Runner 2049, Red Sparrow, Ready Player One, A Quiet Place, Game Night and more.


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On the day Missouri's former governor Eric Greitens resigned from office, he signed legislation making it a misdemeanor to sell a product represented as "meat that is not derived from harvested production livestock or poultry." Mo. Rev. Stat. § 265.494(7), 265.496.
In short, companies are using cell culture technology to create animal-based food products they contend taste, feel, and look like meat derived from the slaughter of live animals. Despite these definitions, consumers and regulators alike are unsure of what the technology is and how it should be regulated. This uncertainty exists in part because the technology is proprietary and hasn't yet undergone regulatory scrutiny. There may also be uncertainty as to whether Memphis Meat's cell cultured animal-based foods may be labeled and sold as "meat" under Missouri law.
So what's Missouri's beef with labeling these products as meat? According to one state representative, "Missouri is just trying to protect our product." Livestock, poultry and related products alone contributed just under $5 billion to Missouri's economy in 2012. But Tofurky Co. (a maker of plant-based meat substitutes) is asking a Missouri federal court to chew Missouri's law up and spit it out, asserting that it violates a number of constitutional provisions.
Tofurky along with a proponent of cell-based meat products, the Good Food Institute (GFI), sued the Cole County, Missouri, prosecutor and a class of all prosecutors in the state of Missouri in August 2018, seeking an order preventing enforcement of the new labeling law, under 28 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs also seek a declaration that the law is unconstitutional and request attorneys' fees.
Meanwhile, in the Missouri lawsuit, the defendant prosecutor has taken a hands-off approach to the issue, answering that: (1) he takes no position with respect to the constitutionality of the law; (2) he has not initiated nor has had cause to consider initiating any prosecution under the statute; (3) he is not the proper party to defend the statute; and (4) he does not oppose any relief sought by the plaintiffs except for an award of costs or attorney's fees against him. The State of Missouri, however, seeks to intervene and defend its law, but has yet to be granted that right.
As it currently stands, the issues facing the court in the preliminary injunction battle are straightforward: (1) are the plaintiffs likely to prevail on the merits of the First Amendment claim; (2) do the plaintiffs face a threat of irreparable harm from the law; (3) does the potential harm to the plaintiffs weigh in favor of an injunction; and (4) does the public interest favor granting an injunction. Answering these questions, however, may not be an easy task for the court, especially given the national attention "meat" regulation and labeling has recently received.
Depending on the outcome, the ramifications in the food and livestock industries could be significant. As usual, Thompson Coburn attorneys are watching this case and are ready to consult on how this case and current federal regulatory initiatives may impact your business.


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Why I ran for the Dementia Revolution
Being part of the team leading the Dementia Revolution from behind the scenes and simultaneously being a runner was an amazing experience. I gained new insights into the work of my colleagues in the sporting, brand and comms teams, and well as a new understanding of what it's like to be a (very tired and stiff) supporter. A couple of weeks before race day I started to think about my marathon journey, and it's been much longer than the sixteen-week training plan suggests.
My mum was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's aged 48 while I was still at university. Like a lot of people, I was ill-informed about dementia and very naive about what the future would hold. The realisation of what dementia would mean for my family unfolded very slowly in tandem with the progression of her disease. I would like to say I was one of those people who immediately took charge and fought hard against the system and the disease, but I wasn't. I did what needed to be done and the attitude at home was 'keep calm and carry on'.
A part of me really needed to do something proactive, to try and make a change for a better future. This need for action is what drives many charity supporters to sign up for a marathon, a skydive or a trek. But not me, I signed up for the third sector! I took a big pay cut, headed right back down the one rung of the career ladder that I'd managed to climb and joined the Alzheimer's Society as an administrator. I worked supporting Alzheimer's Society colleagues who ran services across Yorkshire, experiencing first-hand their dedication to the people they support. After a while I took a secondment working with the Society's Ambassadors coordinating opportunities for people with dementia to share their stories and test new assistive technology.
I had my eye on becoming a fundraiser, so I volunteered to work on fundraising activities alongside my normal role. At the same time, mum's dementia became worse and I decided it was time to move home and support my dad. Like a gift from the gods Alzheimer's Society began advertising for a Community Fundraiser in East Anglia so I applied, got the job and moved. In this role I met some amazing supporters who were willing to give blood, sweat and tears to raise funds for the cause. Crucially, I also worked with an amazing and unorthodox manager who taught me that to be a success in the sector I needed to be myself and work hard; I didn't need to mimic others.
I eventually decided that I'd like to become a full-time Corporate Fundraiser and, as if they were listening, Alzheimer's Research UK advertised a role. Seven years on, I'm still working with the most engaged, passionate, inspiring and all-round astounding group of colleagues anybody could ask for. When Dementia Revolution launched it felt like all the pieces of the preceding decade had fallen into place. The two charities that I feel so passionately about came together to lead the charge towards a cure and I was lucky enough to be part of it.
Mum is the reason I ran the Virgin Money London Marathon for Dementia Revolution, and she's the reason I was able to cross the finish line on Sunday 28 April. However, I also ran for everybody else who I met on my journey to the start line (whether they know it or not!). I ran for:
Friends who supported me and dad.
For the amazing dementia support workers I met at Alzheimer's Society.
The Ambassadors and Champions who are brave enough to share their stories of dementia.
For all the amazing fundraisers I've met who go through, pain, laughs and embarrassment to raise the next £1 for our cause.
And for all the great colleagues I've worked with, particularly the Alzheimer's Research UK crew.
Behind this one runner was an army of people who had led me to the marathon start line and guided me over the finish. I'm sure there was a similar list of inspiring people behind every Dementia Revolution runner in the London Marathon 2019, and to me this feels really revolutionary. Add us all together and we're a powerful force who will overthrow old attitudes and lead the charge towards a cure for dementia.
How did I feel at the end of my first (and last) marathon? Honestly, I felt underwhelmed. I didn't get that rush of pride or emotion as I crossed the finish line and I was left wondering whether I'd missed something? Then, as I passed the baggage lorries my dad sent a text:
'I'm so proud of you, now I'm crying like a baby'
… then everything hit me, and I cried like a baby too!
Jade Rolph
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Less than a fiver is an astonishingly low price for this chunky Chilean blend of three red grapes including Carmenere which the South American state has made its own.
Plums and cherries with blackcurrant and a touch of tobacco make up a very tasty mouthful.
Alcohol is 13.5% and this quality is rare indeed at £4.99.
Another Aldi own brand all the way from New Zealand made with Pinot Gris grapes which give much more interesting flavours than the country's big white grape, Sauvignon Blanc.
Melon, pear and even a bit of mango make it an ideal choice with Thai or Chinese foods and other spicy delicacies. Alcohol level is 13% and the price is certainly right.


Varnish is a substance used by countless craftsmen and property owners alike. Having existed in one form or another for thousands of years, this type of coating provides protection as well as beauty. However, not many consumers are aware of how this process actually works. To better appreciate the principles behind varnishes as well as how to choose the best type, it is a good idea to take a look at this substance in a bit more detail.
From a very general definition, Varnish is a type of liquid that is applied to the surface of the wood. When it dries, it provides a hard coating that will protect against the elements. It is primarily comprised of a resin, a drying oil and a type of solvent that enables it to soak into the pores of the surface. There may also be an added colouring agent if the varnish is tinted.
Varnish is unique in the fact that unlike many other types of paint, it provides a waterproofing quality to woods. So, it can be used on both interior and exterior surfaces. This will greatly enhance the longevity of a surface and issues such as mould are all but eliminated.
Besides the physical benefits of modern varnishes, consumers will have a host of different colours to choose from. Many of these are organic tones although there are some instances when personalised formulations will be offered by the manufacturer. The tone should ultimately complement the existing colours that are present in order to provide an aesthetic appeal.
The second consideration is whether or not the finish will be transparent, semi-transparent or solid. Transparent varieties are great if the grain of the wood needs to be accentuated. Solid varnishes are commonly chosen when a more uniform look is desired. Transparent finishes will often be used on high-end pieces such as bannisters, stairwells and cabinetry.
Varnishes are available in different finishes such as matte, semigloss and high gloss varieties. This is once again up to the consumer. However, high-gloss wood varnish can be a great way to accentuate a piece of furniture or a highly crafted object such as crown moulding. Another advantage of choosing a gloss finish is that it generally offers a higher level of durability.
Wood varnish is a very useful treatment option and appreciating which types are available will enable you to make the most appropriate decision when the time is right.


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Sage Grouse Defies Feds, Environmental Lobby; Increases By Two-Thirds
Brian Seasholes Policy Analyst, Reason
August 04, 2015 1:51 PM ET
Viva La Sage Grouse Revolucion! This plucky bird has the nerve to defy the federal government and environmental lobby by increasing its population by two-thirds since 2013, according to data in "yet-to-be-published research," according to a story in Greenwire.
This is a huge deal because the Interior Department has a September deadline to decide whether to propose to list the greater sage grouse under the Endangered Species Act across its 11 state 165 million-acre range. If listed, the sage grouse will have enormous impacts on otherwise normal and legal forms of land and resource use, such as cattle ranching, oil and gas extraction and mining.
Unfortunately, and the penalty-based approach to sage grouse conservation being pursued by the Interior Department, and favored by the environmental lobby, will actually harm the bird by punishing landowners who harbor grouse. Landowners are the linchpin because they own upwards of 80 percent of the wetland habitat grouse can't survive without, 31 percent of all habitat, and are the critical piece for implementing conservation measures on federal land, which constitutes 64 percent of grouse habitat.
In order to justify listing the sage grouse, the feds and environmental lobby have aggressively pushed a narrative in which the bird is headed for extinction, despite that the population was estimated be 200,000-500,000. Now, the new data, compiled by the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, increases this estimate to 334,000-835,000.
Many scientists and others have long pointed out a well-known fact; sage grouse populations naturally fluctuate around rainfall patterns, driven by the 10-year El Nino cycle, in their semi-arid sagebrush habitat. When rains are good, sage grouse habitat improves and populations increase; when rains are poor, sage grouse populations decline. "Improved weather conditions are mostly responsible for the increased numbers," Tom Christiansen, sage grouse coordinator for the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, stated to Greenwire.
Proponents of listing the grouse contend that the recent sage grouse population trend is downward. In April, proponents released a report claiming sage grouse populations declined 56% between 2007 and 2013. "Our research should and must ring alarm bells," Edward Garton, report lead author and emeritus professor of biology, said. "These numbers indicate to us that if significant protections aren't established, this important bird and the entire sagebrush steppe region face irreparable harm." Others also chimed in. "This report provides definitive evidence about the fragile state of the greater sage-grouse," Ken Rait, director of the Pew Charitable Trusts Public Lands Project, stated. He also said the report "adds to a growing body of evidence that should encourage the [Obama] administration to establish broad conservation measures for this at-risk ecosystem."
A closer look at the report reveals a very inconvenient truth. "State wildlife officials said the report cherry-picked just the years of decline—2007 marked a major peak in sage grouse populations, and 2013 could be a trough, they said," according to a story by Phil Taylor in Greenwire.
It should not be surprising the Garton report cherry-picked data to push for draconian federal land and resource use controls for sage grouse. After all, the report, which was not published in a scholarly journal, was bought, paid for and published by Pew Charitable Trusts, an $810 million behemoth that made over $111 million in grants in 2013 and constantly pushes for more federal environmental regulation.
Edward Garton, along with report co-author John Connelly, are part of a coterie of scientists who aggressively advocate for increased federal control over the sage grouse. Garton and Connelly are the lead co-authors of a scholarly 2011 study that is the most frequently cited study by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's 2013 Conservation Objectives Team report, according to a legal challenge to the quality of the report's data brought by a coalition of 19 counties in Colorado, Nevada, Montana and Utah, along with ranching, mining and energy trade associations. The COT report is so crucial because it serves as the foundational document for the service on sage grouse, including whether to list the bird under the Endangered Species Act.
The challenge to the COT report and other federal sage grouse reports states:
The agencies are relying on an insular group of scientist-advocates who deviate from providing credible, accurate scientific data to advancing policies they personally support. This small group of scientists have interlocking relationships as authors of the Reports, authors of the studies used in the Reports, peer reviewers, editors, and policy advocates. Their conflicts of interest include receiving multi-millions of dollars from the agencies while supposedly developing independent studies. When faced with conflicting science, they simply ignore studies that don't fit their bias.
Not surprisingly, Garton and Connelly are also two of the eleven scientist-advocates who sent a widely-publicized letter to Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack urging them to enact ever more harsh land and resource use controls for sage grouse.
Fortunately, there is a much more successful, open and transparent approach to sage grouse conservation that is 180 degrees away from outdated, penalty-based, one-size-fits-all, top-down, scientifically unsound and ultimately unsuccessful approach to sage grouse conservation taken by the Interior Department, environmental lobby and scientist-advocates.
States, municipalities, industry and the Sage Grouse Initiative (a project of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service) are charting the course to an innovative and successful approach that is cooperative, incentive-based, flexible, site-specific and scientifically robust. Robert Bonnie, Undersecretary for Natural Resources and Environment at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, had this to say:
"I've been involved in rare species conservation efforts for two decades, long before I became Undersecretary and before I came to USDA. That gives me some perspective on the importance of the work that has been done under the Sage Grouse Initiative…There's never been an effort that's been this comprehensive, this scientifically based that's been so successful in working with partners on the ground to produce real conservation for the benefit of a rare species…This is historic. I think the work of the Sage Grouse Initiative is truly path-breaking. Of course the agency can take some credit for that but of course none of this happens without the relationships and partnerships on the ground…most importantly our landowner partners, the ranchers that have been involved in this. I think it's a true testament to the opportunities of voluntary conservation, of getting the incentives right and of getting the relationships right on the ground."
John Swartout, Senior Advisor to Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper and the state's point person on sage grouse, offers this perspective:
Let me stress this point: Colorado has worked closely with many partners across the spectrum, including local governments, landowners and conservationists. A decision by Fish and Wildlife to list the greater sage grouse puts at risk all this cooperation and threatens to pull apart the very coalitions that – to date – have made enormous progress is conserving the sage grouse and its habitat. Our partners will be left wondering: What was the point of all this effort? We've taken enormous steps to avoid a listing and the accompanying federal intervention only to have our efforts answered with a listing. That kind of outcome not only jeopardizes our progress with the sage grouse, but any other work we're doing to conserve these treasured species in Colorado and the Rocky Mountain west.
So if you want objective information on sage grouse, coupled with innovative, successful approaches to conserving this magnificent bird, look to states, counties, industry and the Sage Grouse Initiative, not the Interior Department, environmental pressure grouse and scientist-advocates.
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CORVALLIS, Ore. -- No. 11 Oregon State started conference play strong with a dominant 13-7 victory at home against No. 23 Simon Fraser on Saturday afternoon. The game was the first of the conference schedule for the Beavers, who have their sights set on another conference championship this year. A win against Simon Fraser, who has historically been one of OSU's toughest foes, this early in the year is just what the Beavers hoped for.
The Beavers dominated on the offense end of the field, which included standout performances from frosh attackman Kyle Baldes and sophomore midfielder Kevin Larkin. Baldes and Larkin accounted for six Beaver goals, each tallying three on the day.
A large part of the win can be attributed to OSU's midfield. With a focus on transition defense and rotating players in and out to keep guys fresh, the midfield dominated for much of the game. Oregon State pounced on just about every loose ball, leaving Simon Fraser to play defense for much of the afternoon.
Janssen Levin had a solid performance, picking up three ground balls and battling on faceoffs all afternoon.
The intensity of Oregon State started with the coaching staff, who knew the importance of coming out fast and keeping the pressure on for the entirety of the game. The Beavers jumped out to a commanding, 10-3 halftime lead and didn't look back.
The player of the game for Oregon State was goalie Nick Widmer. With 24 saves on the day, Widmer credited the play of his defense for such a stellar performance.
Oregon State must rebound quickly as Simon Fraser was just the first game of a doubleheader weekend. OSU hosts Washington State on Sunday, Feb. 28 at 1 p.m.
"Washington State is another conference game and we are going to try and carry this momentum into tomorrow," said Levin.


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Phase 2: EXPANSION
The Making Of Centennial Sculpture Park
Sculpture Park Donor Recognition Guide
Centennial Sculpture Park has recast ten acres of the Gallery's grounds into a showcase of public art and urban space. In the Sculpture Park, you'll find a new kind of 'town square' – a spectacular gathering spot located in the heart of the Neighborhood of the Arts and a destination for Rochesterians and visitors alike.
Four major artists were commissioned to create site specific work for Centennial Sculpture Park. Wendell Castle's Unicorn Family provides an outdoor grouping of chairs, a table, and a lamp for visitors who like to sit and enjoy the passing scene. Jackie Ferrara created Marking Crossways, geometric pathways and cameos leading from the 'quarry' area to the front entrance of MAG. Tom Otterness, known internationally for his engaging installations, created Creation Myth, two heroic figures at the corner of Goodman and University Street as well as 17 diminutive bronze muses scattered throughout the Park. Albert Paley installed Soliloquy, a colorful 25-foot stainless steel sculpture at the Goodman Street entrance.
In 2008, mindful of its 2013 Centennial, the Gallery initiated a master planning process for its grounds that would extend its mission, "Connecting People with Art," to include great works of art both inside the building and out. The plan included the removal of sections of the University and Goodman street fence line to extend a clear message of welcome to the community. The limestone amphitheatre near the Goodman/University corner provides new performance and events space. Even the parking areas have been designed to enhance visitors' aesthetic experience from the moment they arrive on the grounds. Read more on the history of the planning process.
Creation Myth, (detail) Tom Otterness, 2011-12
Shown: Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth Cady Stanton writing "Men, their rights and nothing more; women their rights and nothing less."
Learn more about landmarks and public art around Rochester:
Rochester Public Art.com is a searchable database of public art in and around Rochester, New York.
WALL\THERAPY – A public community-level intervention using mural art.
Her Voice Carries An installation at MAG which will serve as a key for the series of murals to be located throughout the city of Rochester, NY.
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VI COMMANDO
Tpr. John "Titch" Siddeway
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Tpr. John "Titch" Siddeway served with No.6 Commando from, at least, November 1942.
Tpr. John "Titch" Siddeway was recommended for a Military Medal by Lt-Col. Derek Mills-Roberts following the Battle of Steamroller Farm on 26th February 1943 . The citation reads:
'During the action between NO.VI Commando and a Battalion of Herman Goering Jaeger Regiment Trp. Siddeway was Capt. Robinson's runner. He maintained contact between two Troops whilst under constant MG and mortar fire and moved across ground devoid of cover with complete disregard for his own safety. His outstanding devotion to duty coupled with his excellence in carrying numerous verbal messages was beyond praise.'
He is mentioned as having served in No.1 Troop of No.6 Commando as the Troop Runner on D-Day and as having been seriously wounded during the abortive action by No.1 Troop to reinforce the No.4 Commando lines.


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Harley Bonner slams cancel culture after leaving Home and Away amid COVID vaccine mandate
One month after leaving his role on Home and Away, Harley Bonner lambasted cancel culture in an emotional Instagram outburst.
The serial star resorted to social media to call cancel culture "the lamest of the lame," referring to the tendency of ostracizing people or companies who are insulting.
"Why would you waste time wishing someone didn't exist purely because they said something that made you feel something perceived as negative? Because you're 'offended' So? What then?" his post began.
"Why is feeling offended suddenly the most unacceptable experience? Better use of time would be asking yourself why it was possible for it to offend you in the first place.
"Take control of your damn experience. Wishing the stimulus away rather than addressing your own mental triggers is the laziest s–t ever."
The 30-year-old then claimed the world needs to "screw its damn head back on".
While Harley didn't say what motivated him to speak out against cancel culture, the outburst appears to have started after he left Home and Away, with stories claiming he refused to get vaccinated against COVID.
On January 11, the actor, who is the son of Neighbours actress Carla Bonner, revealed his departure from the show, stating on Instagram: "Thank you for everything, and I wish you all the best. I'm overjoyed. It's a good life. Continue to show kindness."
Given that more seemed to be in store for Harley's character Logan, who only joined the show in August of 2021, his exit from the soap in early January came as a shock.
He'd recently started dating Emily Weir's character Mackenzie Booth, and teaser teasers for the following season revealed that a mysterious stranger known to Logan would be joining the show.
However, it is believed the role of Logan will not be recast.
Since Seven West Media mandated COVID vaccinations for cast and staff, Harley is the second individual to depart the show, following Sam Frost.
Last October, Director of Production Andrew Backwell sent out an email stating that the network will "only engage fully vaccinated presenters, cast, and crew."
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Q: Sum and count number of users within the same table Given the following table structure, I want to sum the number of users who have uploaded just 1 file, 2 files, 3 files all the way up to n files.
I'm struggling to wrap my head around this query - any pointers?
TABLE

+----+--------+-----------+---------------------+
| Id | UserId | FileName  | CreatedAt           |
+----+--------+-----------+---------------------+
| 1  | 4      | test.jpg  | 2019-09-05 14:42:12 |
| 2  | 4      | truth.png | 2019-09-05 14:42:12 |
| 3  | 5      | gen.jpg   | 2019-09-05 14:42:12 |
| 4  | 6      | bob.jpg   | 2019-09-05 14:42:12 |
+----+--------+-----------+---------------------+

DESIRED OUTCOME

+-----------------+------------------+
| Number of Items | Count            |
+-----------------+------------------+
| 1 uploaded      | 2 users          |
| 2 uploaded      | 1 users          |
+-----------------+------------------+

A: Firstly, get the number of files uploaded by a specific user in a subquery, using GROUP BY with COUNT(*) aggregation. Afterwards, you can use this result-set as a Derived Table, to count the number of users which has same number of uploads (group by on the previously calculated count):
SELECT
  dt.total_files_uploaded,
  COUNT(dt.UserId) AS num_of_users
FROM
(
  SELECT UserId, COUNT(*) AS total_files_uploaded
  FROM your_table
  GROUP BY UserId
) AS dt
GROUP BY dt.total_Files_uploaded

A: SELECT ab.UploadedFiles, COUNT(ab.UserId) AS NumUsers
( SELECT UserId, COUNT(*) AS UploadedFiles
  FROM table_name
  GROUP BY UserId
) AS ab

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Anatech Electronics Newsletter - January 2017
Anatech Electronics, a manufacturer of RF and microwave filters, has published its first newsletter of the new year. As always, it includes both company news and some tidbits about relevant industry happenings. In it, Sam Benzacar discusses, among other topics, the DoD's "onerous" task of dealing with the overwhelming number of potential interferers to its critical communications systems throughout the world. A significant source of interference is, ironically, the U.S. military itself, with its multitudinous transmitters across the entire EM spectrum. Anatech's business is to make certain that system and circuit designers have capable filters available to assure successful implementation.
A Word from Sam Benzacar
By Sam Benzacar
Like so things associated with "fields and waves", interference is a problem that often defies engineers' best efforts to eliminate it. Careful design and prudent use of filters can solve almost any interference issue, but sometimes this is just half the problem. The other half can be attempting to find out find out where it's coming from and convincing the person generating it that they ought to fix their equipment. However, if you think your interference issues are "the worst ever", consider the predicament of the Department of Defense.
DoD has the onerous task of managing the spectrum it uses in thousands of sites in the U.S. and throughout the world. The Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marines must make sure their equipment doesn't interfere with equipment from friendly forces, refrain from interfering with licensed services that vary from country to country, and fend off attempts to jam signals by non-state actors and even individuals. This was always a problem, but it's getting much, much worse, as communication, encryption, and jamming technologies advance, and more adversaries use them.
All this is occurring while DoD is attempting to better integrate the terrestrial and satellite communications, radar, and positioning, navigation, and timing systems used by its services to create a networked battlefield environment. In short, the interference challenges faced by DoD are arguably greater than any other organization in the world.
However, as comic strip savant Pogo once eloquently stated, "we have met the enemy and he is us," which applies perfectly to Navy ships like Arleigh Burke destroyers. These impressive ships are jam-packed with emitters ranging from ELF to millimeter-wave frequencies along with radar and EW systems sometimes located only a few inches from each other. Combine this with the fixed wing, helicopter, and UAV aircraft on board and interference becomes a virtual certainty. When even a single system is updated, the change affects every other RF and microwave system on board.
The problem is so severe that the Office of Naval Research created the high-level Integrated Topside (InTop) program with the goal of reducing the number of antennas to dramatically reduce the potential for interference. It's been supplemented by the Electromagnetic Command and Control (EMC2) program that expands this goal to ships, ground vehicles, and terrestrial sites. The program, which could ultimately reach $800 million over five years, teams 12 contractors with the task of allowing multiple services and operating frequencies to be accommodated using a single antenna.
Both programs have formidable goals but no matter how successful they are, interference will still be a problem. Fortunately, it's a problem Anatech Electronics has been solving for more than 26 years in land, sea and airborne platforms with high-performance RF and microwave filter solutions customized to each application. So, if you're faced with an interference problem, we're here to help. Just give us a call at (973) 772-4242 or send us an email: sales@anatechelectornics.com.
JSTARS Gets a Massive Reboot
The Air Force is upgrading is upgrading the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) ground surveillance, battle management and command and control aircraft that tracks ground vehicles and aircraft, collects imagery, and relays tactical pictures to ground and air theater commanders. The upgrade program covers all elements of the system from the E-8C airframe based on the Boeing 707, to radar, communication systems, and the command and control suite. First launched during Operation Desert Storm in 1991, JSTARS includes the AN/SPY-7 synthetic aperture radar, 12 UHF radios, two HF radios, and three VHF radios, and various other sensors.
T-Mobile Ramps up LTE, Exploring 5G
T-Mobile says it's LTE network reached 313 million potential customers covered by the end of this year, up from 304 million in 2015. The company is using spectrum at 700 MHz it has periodically acquired for the build-out and is a participant in the impending FCC 600-MHz auction that should yield 84 MHz of available spectrum for cellular and $10 billion for the government. Like seemingly everyone these days, T-Mobile is working on 5G and has achieved download speeds of 979 Mb/s in the lab through three-carrier aggregation, 4x4 MIMO, and 256 QAM modulation. T-Mobile CTO Neville Ray says the company has already demonstrated 5G speeds of 1.8 Gb/s and an impressive latency of less than 2 ms using 8x8 MIMO.
How Was Your Cellular Reception at CES?
Visitors to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this month should get better coverage in the convention center that is typically the case, thanks to a neutral-host distributed antenna system covering the 3 million square-foot facility. The system can simultaneously support more than 100,000 users, and all four major wireless carriers are supported. The system includes 38 indoor zones, six outdoor zones, and 52 remote locations. It uses more than 9 miles of coax, 4 miles of 144-strand, single-mode fiber, and 5 miles of 24-strand fiber, and has 295 MIMO antenna nodes and 42 equipment racks in the head end.
No Alien Messages Yet, But Still Trying
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence has been going on, fruitlessly, for decades and now an organization called Messaging Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (METI) based in San Francisco has taken up the cause. The team hopes to send either radio or optical signals to a planet that circles Proxima Centauri by the end of 2018. METI says its efforts will be the first to send signals repeatedly to the same places for years at a time, and is raising the $1 million a year it needs to pay staff and operate its facility.
QinetiQ Building Stealth Wind Turbines
JQinetiQ says it is building "stealth" wind turbines that have a very small radar signature and plans to deploy 35 of the 400-ft.-high structures in southern France. The company claims they have a radar cross-section of only 4 ft., and the installation will become the country's largest wind farm. Wind turbines are a problem for radar systems as their blades tend to interfere with return signals from Doppler weather radars, which is why most of the larger wind farms are built offshore. The system is being built at the request of French power company EDF that failed to get the French government to approve an earlier proposal. To solve the problem, QinetiQ designed blades made from composite materials that absorb radar signals and radar-absorbing material cladding in the towers and generators.
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Xin Shiji (, auch Nouveau Siècle, New Era) war eine 1906 von Li Yuying gemeinsam mit Wu Zhihui und Zhang Jingjiang gegründete und ab Mitte 1907 regelmäßig bis zum Jahre 1910 zweiwöchentlich erscheinende anarchistische Zeitschrift. Sie erschien in chinesischer Sprache im Stile des bekannten französischen Anarchisten-Blattes Les Temps Nouveaux. Somit war sie in der Zeit vor der chinesischen Revolution, mit der im Jahre 1911 die Qing-Dynastie abgelöst wurde, das Sprachrohr der chinesischen Exilstudenten in Frankreich.

Geschichte
Zwischen Juni 1907 und Mai 1910 erschienen 121 Ausgaben. Neben Angriffen auf die Rückständigkeit und Korruptheit der Qing-Monarchie und dem Verdammen traditioneller Institutionen, wie der Familie (Li Shizeng schlug 1909 sogar vor, heiraten zu verbieten), lieferte das Blatt Übersetzungen von Beiträgen der westlichen Anarchisten aus Les Nouveaux Temps. Darunter Artikel von Pjotr Alexejewitsch Kropotkin, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon und Élisée Reclus (von Li Yuying ist überliefert, dass er persönlich Kropotkins Gegenseitige Hilfe bei Menschen und Tieren übersetzt hat).
Die Veröffentlichung des Neuen Jahrhunderts hat entscheidend die Richtung dieser chinesischen Anarchistengruppe, der sogenannten frankophilen Lobby, geprägt, die sie deutlich von der sich zur selben Zeit gebildeten chinesischen Anarchistengruppe in Tokyo abhob. Das Blatt propagierte nicht eine Rückkehr zu einer idealisierten, nicht von den Annehmlichkeiten des modernen Lebens korrumpierbaren bäuerlichen Utopie, sondern sprach sich klar für die Segnungen von Bildung und Wissenschaft aus – ganz im Sinne von Kropotkin und Reclus. In den Augen ihrer Herausgeber war Frankreich eine Republik par excellence – frei von den ihrer Meinung nach unheilvollen Einflüssen von Monarchie und Kirche und daher mit idealen Umweltbedingungen für das Arbeiten und Lernen.

Noch 1912 ließ Cai Yuanpei, nachdem er zum ersten Erziehungsminister in der neuen chinesischen Republik ernannt worden war, seine geistige Übereinstimmung mit dem Neuen Jahrhundert erkennen, indem er die Ideale der französischen Revolution, Freiheit, Gleichheit und Brüderlichkeit, praktisch mit konfuzianischen Werten wie Ren (仁 – zu übersetzen etwa mit Güte oder Menschlichkeit) gleichsetzte.

Literatur
 Jean Maitron: Le mouvement anarchiste en France. Paris 1975
 René Bianco: Répertoire des périodiques anarchistes de langue française – Un siècle de presse anarchiste d'expression française, 1880–1983. Aix-Marseille, 1987.
 Wang Peili: Wilhelm von Humboldt und Cai Yuanpei – Eine vergleichende Analyse zweier klassischer Bildungskonzepte in der deutschen Aufklärung und in der ersten chinesischen Republik. Waxmann, Münster und New York, 1996.
 Lü'Ou zazhi () (Zeitschrift chinesischer Studenten in Europa), 8 (1 December, 1916), 9 (15 December, 1916), 10 (1 January, 1917), 12 (1 February, 1917).

Weblinks
 Élisée Reclus: L'anarchie et l'église, Publications des «Temps Nouveaux» n° 18, Paris, 1905 (französisch)
 Beitrag zur Geschichte von "Les Temps nouveaux" (französisch)

Anmerkungen und Einzelnachweise

Anarchistische Zeitschrift
Antiquarische Zeitschrift (Frankreich)
Ersterscheinung 1907
Erscheinen eingestellt 1910

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Happy Birthday Gord. To see the rest of the photos from their show at Supermarket, click the photo.
Yesterday was the birthday of Gord Downie. I didn't get to see any of their dates on the final tour in person, but this is a photo of the last time I saw The Tragically Hip play: a series of 3 song mini-sets at Supermarket to promote the release of Now for Plan A.
I couldn't tell you what the other two songs were that they played, but seeing "Grace, Too" in that small venue brought me back to being the teenage fan I used to be. It reminded me of how great a frontman Gord Downie was, and also how much of a role that group played in my youth. The Hip made me expect more from a live show than just playing carbon copies of songs from their album. The way Gord would improvise stories in instrumental breaks, or 'fight' with his mic stand, or just point to someone in the audience and connect with them for a moment, they always made their audience feel like a part of something. Each night, and show, was a unique experience.
Gord may be gone, but he'll never be forgotten. Happy birthday.


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At the center of Linfield's general education program stands the Inquiry Seminar, which is taken by all new first- and second-year students. Each Seminar provides an in-depth exploration of a compelling topic chosen because it is of passionate interest to the instructor and prompts significant questions for which there are no clear or absolute answers. Discovering the complexity of such topics is the essential mission of the Inquiry Seminar, which initiates students into the dynamic, collaborative exchange that is university learning at its best.
To help extend the conversation beyond the INQS classroom, students simultaneously enroll in a Writing Lab (INQUIRY SEMINAR (INQS 125)) led by a Writing Fellow. Writing Fellows are peer mentors who meet with INQS students to discuss the writing process, share revision strategies, and help with setting goals. Ultimately, though, INQS students and their Fellows do more than just talk about writing, they participate in a mutually beneficial exchange that allows them to shape their own education.
INQS 125 INQUIRY SEMINAR (4 credits)
See individual sections in specific terms for descriptions.
Prerequisites: Required 1 credit lab INQS 125L.
Typically offered: Fall and Spring Semesters, Annually
INQS 125L WRITING LAB (1 credit)
Discussion of writing process and strategies to support work done in INQS 125 courses. Taken in conjunction with an INQS 125 course.
(EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING)
Satisfies Inquiry Seminar requirement for Online/ Continuing Education students. Not applicable for McMinnville campus students.
SECTION DESCRIPTIONS
INQS 125-01 MULTICULTURAL AMERICA
What does the term multiculturalism in America really mean? Have we always been a multicultural society (historically speaking)? What about the history of Oregon in terms of multiculturalism? What are some rewards and challenges of living in a multicultural environment? In this course, we will read, write and discuss in a historical and in a contemporary sense America's experience with multiculturalism and difference, from the Chinese Exclusion Act to the post September 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the Muslim ban. We will also actively engage in addressing the changing racial and ethnic landscape of the U.S. where by 2045 we will become what is being called a "minority white" or a "majority-minority" nation, while also asking throughout the course what does it mean to live in a racially just society?
INQS 125-02 FOOD WRITING & THE WESTERN PSYCHE
Why are we fascinated with other people's experiences with food? From the writing of ancient Greek and Roman historians to today's explosion of food and cooking blogs and Instagram posts, Western cultures have long shown interest in writing and reading about food and eating. Food plays a key role in our cultural and social interactions both private and public, and food writing as become an increasingly popular way of engaging with others around our experiences of food. In this class, we will explore food writing throughout Western history and the personal, social, and cultural significance of sharing our experiences with food.
INQS 125-04 WHAT TO LISTEN FOR IN THE WORLD
Music is the product and expression of all humanity. Why should we listen to music? Where and when is music performed and for what reasons? What is the relationship of music and empathy? What impacts our listening choices? Who makes music and who should support the creation of music and why? What effect does music have on us as we listen? How does music connect us with our friends, family, and the rest of the world? In this Inquiry Seminar, we will explore the sounds and music of our own and other cultures of the world. Regardless of a student's music background, this INQS will help to develop a music vocabulary to understand and to convey in both writing and speaking the various properties of music and its impact on diverse cultures of the world. Through thoughtful research, reading, listening, and contemplation, students will consider , discuss and write about the human response to music from physical, emotional, intellectual, and other perspectives. Through engaged inquiry, students will draw conclusions about the value music has for the connection of people within their own and other cultures. 4 credits. $35 Fee.
INQS 125-05 WHAT IS A GOOD CITIZEN?
Explores ideas and commitments to citizenship. Is being a good citizen merely the paying of taxes and casting of ballots? Has economic and cultural globalization undermined traditional ideas about citizenship? Are the duties, obligations, and privileges of US citizenship peculiar to its borders? Has information technology and social media undermined national solidarities and dissolved borders? This class will consider these questions and outline many forms of civic engagement and responsibility taking its cues from sociology, political activism, and history as seen through literature, film, and classroom debate. Students will be challenged to create their own agendas for critical assessments of the present conjuncture and build toward another possible nation and world.
INQS 125-06 MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS IN THE U.S.
What role has Mexican migration played in the development of Mexico and the United States? In this course, we examine both the historical context of this process, as well as contemporary issues surrounding the migrant experience (legal vs. illegal immigration; employment and labor rights; racial and cultural discrimination; education; security issues/militarization of the border; use of resources; citizenship). Students will develop a more sophisticated understanding of the historical and contemporary importance of Mexican immigrants to the U.S. economy, the role Mexican immigrants have played in the shaping of U.S. cultural identity, and to challenge many of the myths about Mexican migrants that have persisted for over 100 years. This course is also meant to help you understand the relationship between the past (history) and present (current events), and how essential it is to understand historical backgrounds and how they inform current social and cultural issues.
INQS 125-07 PATH OF WISDOM
Do you ever wonder about the meaning of the life or the order of things in this world? What does a "happy" or "successful" life look like, and how might you pursue such a life? How do you make sense of suffering and injustice in the world? In this course, we will address these important and relevant questions in various "wisdom" traditions. We will consider ideas about wisdom, meaning and suffering through the study of the biblical books of Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs and Psalms and by bringing in texts from other religions and contemporary voices.
INQS 125-08 IN SEARCH OF THE GOOD LIFE
What is the "good life"? This is perhaps the deepest human question. It is not only a question we hope recipients of a liberal arts education will ask, it is also a question that permeates film and literature. Looking at thinkers as ancient as Aristotle and films as contemporary as Hell or Highwater, this class will discuss and evaluate different conceptions of a good life and provide a place for students to engage in their own inquiry. In short, we will ask big questions and answer them through thinking, reading, discussing, and writing.
INQS 125-09 RURAL AMERICA IN CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE AND FILM
One of our bedrock myths-just take a listen to most any truck commercial or country music video-is that of the family farmer, the rancher, the small-towner who is hardworking, neighborly, and patriotic, who stands on his own two feet, who is, it almost goes without saying, white and male, and who raises children who want to be just like him. Yet one of the nation's most pernicious stereotypes stands in direct opposition to this mythology: that of the redneck, those written off as crackers or white trash-think of the hillbillies of Deliverance or Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel on The Simpsons. But what happens if we peel back the mythologies and stereotypes? What, really, is going on in rural America right now? This semester, we'll turn to contemporary literature and film from and about rural America in the hopes that we might uncover-via close reading, careful discussion, and critical writing-deeper truths about rural America and those who call it home.
INQS 125-10 THE ENDANGERED SEAS
This course carefully considers the current state of our oceans and asks why we seem unable to do anything about it. How do we talk about climate change, especially in relation to the ocean? Does how we describe the current ocean crisis matter? Could we shift public perception by changing the way we communicate about this topic?


In sheep farming, the term Mule is used to refer to a cross between a lowland ram (usually a Bluefaced Leicester) and a purebred upland (or hill) ewe. The hill ewe, for example the Scottish Blackface, is a hardy animal with good, natural mothering instincts. She is, however, not very prolific and tends to produce one lamb: suited to the harsh conditions. The lowland ram, such as the Blueface Leicester is prolific, producing ewes which give 1-3 lambs and capable of producing enough milk to rear them. The cross between the two, in this case the Scottish mule, has good mothering instincts and good sized lambs.


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By Gruesome Greg Blogs, Featured, Gruesome Greg October 6, 2013
This Tour Cancellation is Brought to You by Nik Turner
I hafta say I was pretty stoked to hear that Hawkwind was coming to town–and I certainly wasn't the only one. The Toronto show sold out weeks in advance, with at least a few people planning on traveling from other parts of the province (and who knows where else) to see 'em. But alas, Hawkwind will not be playing the Mod Club tomorrow, and if you read between the lines, it's pretty clear who the band is blaming for this postponement.
A message on their official Facebook page states, "As many of you will now be aware, Dave was taken ill a couple of weeks ago. Doctors have confirmed that his condition is stress related, aggravated by the trademark dispute in the United States which could result in years of litigation." The posting continues, adding that "After much discussion about possible ways forward, the members of the band have reluctantly decided that it is necessary to reschedule the dates to March 2014, rather than putting Dave's health at unnecessary risk."
So I guess I won't get to see Black Sabbath and Hawkwind in the same year. Of course Hawkwind, much like Sabbath, released its debut back in 1970. The difference is that the former weren't spring chickens at the time; singer/guitarist Dave Brock and saxophonist Nik Turner were already pushing 30–and are now in their 70's, which makes their most famous ex-bassist a young whippersnapper by comparison. It would be completely understandable if either were suffering health issues, seeing as they've both outlived Jon Lord already. In fact, I'm pretty impressed that each was planning on hitting the road for a cross-continental tour…
Aye, but here's the rub. They won't be touring together, which is where the trademark dispute comes in. It seems that shortly after Hawkwind announced its North American jaunt, Nik Turner's Space Ritual came out with bookings in the exact same cities just a couple weeks later–and, in the case of Toronto, anyways, the exact same venue. I suppose this could have worked to Turner's advantage cuz hey, can't get a ticket to see Hawkwind? Here's the next best thing!
But then the embittered woodwind player went and upped the ante a couple weeks ago, trademarking "Nik Turner's Hawkwind" in the United States. So now it's no longer Nik Turner's Space Ritual that's coming to town, but Nik Turner's Hawkwind. Holy Competing Queensryches, Batman!
Now to be fair, Nik Turner's Hawkwind contains as many original bandmembers as the Dave Brock edition. But Hawkwind was never like Black Sabbath, where the same four guys played on the first seven albums; in fact, they'd already replaced half the band by their third record. Hell, if you tally them up, I'm pretty sure that Hawkwind's been through more musicians than Spinal Tap–although I'm not aware of any ex-Hawkwind drummer who had a bizarre gardening accident.
Sadly, at this stage of their lives, the feud between Nigel Tufnel (Turner) and David St. Hubbins (Brock) isn't as easily repaired as bringing the former up on stage for a rousing rendition of "Tonight We're Gonna Rock You Tonight." The next time these two see each other will probably be in court, not on stage.
Alas, while Turner might stand to profit from the Not-Nik-Turner's Hawkwind cancellations, I won't be seeing his show on the 25th–turns out I'm in Texas when they hit Toronto. So I'm hanging onto my Dave Brock's Hawkwind ticket in the hopes that the March date doesn't conflict with my usual plans of watching college basketball and/or traveling to watch college basketball that month.
And here's hoping that when Brock and company do come to town, they won't be forced to change their name to Vista Hawko. 😉
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Whiplash: Unborn Again
Returning from the late-90s to capitalize on the continuing bear hug the metal world given to every thrash band that ever existed in the 80s is Whiplash. The difference being that for a short while back in 1985-86, Whiplash fucking ruled – well, fucking ruled my world, at the very least.


Before the Gypsy's , for 25 yrs, we bred , trained and showed some of the best Arabian, AQHA , Paint , and 1/2 Arabians we could , Sought out the best bloodlines , breeding stallions and mares we could to produce the quality we felt was the best. Always keeping in mind, quality not quantity, as we are in our new venture with the gypsy horses. So some of these horses listed below are left from our breeding program, and we have had them since birth although hard to part with them, they need to move on to homes where they are being used. Some are horses that we are asked to sell or place in homes that are perfect for them. We have a strict guideline required to sell a horse , and pride ourselves, in an honest representation of the horses and finding the right owner for each horse, so everyone is happy including the horse. Thank you for looking..
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Jordan Brand is aiming to drop a brand new rendition of their iconic Air Jordan 1 silhouette featuring the classic "Chicago" colorway.
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QUE MEXICO SE VEA
Mexico's most talented filmmakers consider their oeuvre in celebration of Mexican Cinema Day.
By Jessica Oliva
3 August 20226 min read
Mexican filmmaker Luis Estrada knows one thing for certain: there isn't just one Mexican cinema to speak of. This is especially true now that Mexico's film industry has reached a historic production of 200 titles per year. Reviewing the past few years of Mexican releases is like traversing a veritable multiverse. Onscreen, we are the domestic worker spending her days in middle-class homes in the 70s in Roma, but we're also the gay couple struggling to break free of a conservative society in Dance of the 41. We are the corrupt civil servant of The Perfect Dictatorship; the boy who's in love with a classmate in All the Freckles in the World; the relentless elements of nature in Tragic Jungle. We are the young girls who, terrified, hide in the ground in Prayers for the Stolen, but we are also the "terko" who escapes through "cumbia rebajada" dancing in I'm No Longer
The diversity in these stories, which Netflix's "Que México se vea" campaign is celebrating throughout August, are nothing more than a reflection of the distinct worlds that coexist within Mexico. They put forth the multiple realities of a region that is dark, raw, surreal, bitter, generous, hopeful, bright, resilient, colorful, and yes, even funny.
For Estrada, director of a well-known tetralogy of political satires who is now preparing to release his newest film ¡Qué viva México! on Netflix, this plurality of voices is important because it allows Mexicans to confront their own contradictions. "I think it helps us understand ourselves, to think and reflect about ourselves, on where we are, where we come from and, above all, where we are going," he explains. Estrada's politicized and irreverent films have always been a kind of barometer to gauge the level of freedom of expression in Mexico. ¡Qué viva México! is, in itself, a critical look at the current polarization in society, but it also presents a fresh and biting portrait of what has been the ultimate protagonist of Mexican cinema: family.
Alejandro G. Iñárritu on the set of BARDO
The cast of ¡Qué viva México! with director Luis Estrada
Prayers for the Stolen
"I believe it has been depicted with a little condescension," the filmmaker explains. "I think every family harbors tiny infer-nos, and this movie focuses on that in order to create a sort of mural where everyone is represented, not just the members of this particular family. Each one of them has a symbolic and metaphorical connotation to represent someone in society." Social mirrors, with different reflections.
A large part of Mexican contemporary filmmakers have been restless, with an urgent need to understand the country's social wounds — those that fill the cold front pages of newspapers — from other angles and sensibilities. This quest to find new vantage points and perspectives that tune in to what makes us human has been led mainly by female filmmakers. "I think stories help us to feel a connection with those who live with the anguish of having a loved one disappear," says filmmaker Tatiana Huezo. "They help us to look inside ourselves and to not forget what has been happening for many years now in Mexico," Her movie Prayers for the Stolen tackles the region's gender violence crisis through the coming-of-age story of three friends trying to live their childhood and adolescence in a context that sees them as little more than spoils of war.
Nominated for an Independent Spirit Award, Prayers for the Stolen is part of a recent crop of films that use fiction to offer a complex and profound look at realities, like enforced disappearance, that used to be explored mainly through documentaries. This is also the case with Ruido, Natalia Beristain's newest film, which builds upon her short documentary Nosotras and weaves together the accounts of a group of mothers who search for their daughters in a story that shines a light on the systemic nature of their situation.
"I believe in the absolute power of fiction," says Beristain. "My documentary helped me understand that the different types of violence in this country are interwoven. You cannot talk about disappearances without talking about femicide, and we can't discuss femicide without mentioning impunity. And we can't talk about impunity without touching upon organized crime. Ruido might be about a mother in search of her daughter, but the film deals with other aspects. And fiction allows me to explore those as well."
Director Ihtzi Hurtado with the cast of El Guau
As a filmmaker, what's most exciting to Beristain about the movies made in Mexico today, besides the possibilities of fiction, is the diversity of authors, genres, styles, and the promise of a growing number of women behind the camera. The only thing missing now, explains Beristain, is for the audience to find out. In an exhibition landscape that prioritizes Hollywood blockbusters, and in which a platform like Netflix has become a home for a plurality of voices, Beristain thinks it's time to ramp up efforts: "It's about creating audiences, simple as that. How can we help Mexican consumers, who we know are there, to dive in and see the variety for themselves?"
"Que México se vea" is a celebration and an opportunity to further promote Netflix's wide selection of Mexican cinema. It's an invitation to discover places, cultures, and new ways of looking at the world that appeal to the curiosity of an audience that is increasingly aware of its heterogeneous reality. "We want people to show us the truth," says Mexican director Guillermo del Toro, whose film Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, which was partially produced in Mexico, will be released at the end of this year. "We want people to show us realities that are not ours, even if we exist in the same country."
His colleague and friend, five-time Oscar winner Alejandro González Iñárritu, returned to Mexico to film a nostalgic comedy that confronts his protagonist with the current — and past — realities of Mexico. BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, the first film he's shot in Mexico since Amores Perros (2000), represents a double return: one of a fictional journalist who returns to his native land, but also that of a filmmaker who comes back to explore, once again, his place of birth.
"Shooting again in Mexico after 20 years was like meeting up with a new old friend," says Iñárritu. "With time and distance, absences accumulated in me. Memories were also triggered, with their most profound mirages and contradictions. Truth. Mexico is not a country. It's a state of mind."
Someone else looking to explore new horizons is Fernando Frías de la Parra, director of I'm No Longer Here, which took home the most awards at the 2020 Ariel Awards ceremony (the Mexican industry's equivalent to the Oscar). Frías de la Parra's film tells the story of a young man from the slums of the northern state of Monterrey and a subculture of young "cumbia rebajada" music enthusiasts, who find an escape from the precariousness of their surroundings through dance. His film not only ventures outside of Mexico City (storytelling in Mexico has been heavily centralized in the country's capital city), but it also reveals another side of Monterrey, one that has been forgotten even by the state itself, which also houses the richest municipality in Latin America.
I'm No Longer Here
I'm No Longer Here found its audience through streaming during the pandemic. It wasn't foreign film critics or film festival juries who drove the film to reach the number one spot on Netflix, it was the consumers themselves. "It's exciting that people within Mexico are watching Mexican films, talking about them and engaging with them through these platforms," says Frías de la Parra, who is now working on his next movie for Netflix, No voy a pedirle a nadie que me crea, based on the novel by Juan Pablo Villalobos.
What new realities are we yet to uncover and present? "Decolonized stories, maybe," says Frías de la Parra. "We need to take more risks, and given the number of worlds that coexist in Mexico, there's a lot of stories left to tell. I think we need to move away from the sordid, from the uniquely violent."
To that effect, filmmaker Ihtzi Hurtado, one of the few female directors working in comedy in Mexico, wants a bigger onscreen presence for stories that depict the tenderness, innocence, and play that characterize Mexicans. Moving beyond romantic comedies, Hurtado is talking about films for teen audiences, a demographic that has remained mostly unexplored by the Mexican industry. Her film El Guau follows in the tradition of American coming-of-age comedies like Superbad to tell the story of a teenage boy who's desperate to start his sex life. "We Mexicans have a lot of love. We're very joyful. I think we need to tell more stories about how incredible we are," says Hurtado.
We are light and we are darkness. We are dance and we are exile. We are family but also hell. We are the love of a mother and the absence of a daughter. Mexico is many Mexicos and its cinema is many. It is what Luis Estrada calls a revolution of styles, of genres, and of voices. But also of ways of making, conceiving, and consuming movies. It's time to show the world, and ourselves, that Mexico is not, and can never be, one thing.
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Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg is planning to unify the underlying messaging infrastructure of its WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger services and incorporate end-to-end encryption to these apps, the New York Times reported on Friday.
Systems based on phone numbers have additional privacy concerns because governments and other entities can easily extract location information from them.
"It should be an open process because you can't have it all," Stamos said.


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Iman Islam - Islamic Education > Human Rights > Duty Towards Kin and Neighbors
Duty Towards Kin and Neighbors
AFTER the limited circle of the family, the next social sphere is that of kinship and blood relationship. Islam wants all those who are related through common parents, common brothers and sisters or marriage to be affectionate, cooperative and helpful to each other. In many places in the Qur 'an good treatment of the near relations (Dhawi-al-qurba) is enjoined. In the Hadith of the Prophet (peace be upon him) proper treatment of one's blood relations has been strongly emphasized and counted among the highest virtues. Islam looks with great disfavor a person who cold-shoulders his relations or treats them indifferently.
But this does not mean that it is an Islamic virtue to favor one's relations. If such support or bias towards one's relations results in injustice, it is repugnant to Islam, and is condemned as an act of Jahiliyyah (pre-Islamic times). Similarly, it is utterly against the principles of Islam for a government official or public servant to support his relations at public expense or to favor his kith and kin in his official decisions: this would actually be a sinful act. Fair treatment of one 's relations, as enjoined by Islam, should be at one's own expense and within the limits of justice and fairplay.
After relations come one's neighbors. The Qur'an has divided them into three categories:
1. a neighbor who is also a relation
2. a neighbor who is a stranger
3. a casual or temporary neighbor with whom one happens to live or travel for a certain time.
All of them are deserving of sympathy, affection, kindness and fair treatment. The Prophet (peace be upon him) once said that the rights of the neighbor were so strongly emphasized by Angel Gabriel that he thought neighbors might even share one 's inheritance. (Bukhari and Muslim)
The Prophet (peace be on him) said: Anyone whose neighbor is not safe from his misdeeds is not a true Believer. (Bukhari and Muslim)
Again, he said: A person who enjoys a meal while his neighbor is starving is not a true Believer. (Ahmad, Baihaqi)
The Prophet (peace be upon him) was once asked about the fate of a woman who performed regular prayers and fasted extensively and who was a frequent almsgiver, but whose neighbors complained of her abusive tongue. He said: Such a woman shall be in the Hellfire. He was, then, asked about another woman who did not possess these virtues but did not trouble her neighbors either, whereupon he said: She would be in Paradise. (Ahmad, Baihaqi)
The Prophet (peace be upon him) has laid so much emphasis on being considerate to neighbors that he has advised that whenever a Muslim brings home fruit for his children he should either send some to his neighbors as a gift, or at least take care not to offend them by throwing the peelings away outside their door. On another occasion he said: A man is really good if his neighbors regard him as such, and bad if they consider him so. (Ibn Majah)
Islam, therefore, requires all neighbors to be loving and helpful and to share each other's sorrows and happiness. It enjoins upon them to establish social relations in which one can depend upon the other and regard his life, honor and property safe among his neighbors. A society in which two people, separated only by a wall, remain unacquainted with one another for years, and in which those living in the same area of a town have no interest or trust in one another, can never be called Islamic.
Next to these come the wider relationships covering the whole of society. The broad principles on which Islam wants people to structure their social lives are:
Help you one another in Al-Birr and Al-Taqwa (virtue, righteousness and piety); but do not help one another in sin and transgression. (Qur'an 5: 2)
You are the best of peoples ever raised up for mankind; you enjoin Al-Maruf (i.e. Islamic Monotheism and all that Islam has ordained and forbid Al-Munkar (polytheism, disbelief and all that Islam has forbidden. (Qur' an 3:110)
Do not think evil of each other, nor probe into each other's affairs, nor incite one against the other. Avoid hatred and jealousy. Do not unnecessarily oppose each other. Always remain the slaves of Allah, and live as brothers to each other. (Muslim)
Do not help a tyrant, knowing him to be such. (Abu Daud)
To support the community when it is in the wrong is like falling into a well while catching the tail of your camel which was about to fall into it. (Abu Daud; Mishkat)
No one among you shall be a true believer unless he likes for others what he likes for himself. (Bukhari and Muslim)
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A slight nod of the head, a brief hello in the hallway or perhaps helping with a car stuck in the snow during winter. That's usually the most communication many of us have with those who are physically closer to us than most of our relatives, our neighbours.
The Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) once said, "Jibril kept recommending treating neighbours with kindness until I thought he would assign a share of inheritance" (Bukhari and Muslim).
Wow, our inheritance.
But let's think of something smaller. How about food? It's been said that food unites. While we all have our own tastes, "American" food (i.e. fruits, veggies, chips, cookies, chocolate cake, frozen pizza, etc.) can be found in virtually all of our homes, even those who staunchly cling to their ethnic identities. When was the last time we offered a bag of chips or cookies to the kids downstairs? When was the last time we cut up some watermelon on a hot day and offered it to our neighbours?
"O Abu Dharr! Whenever you prepare a broth, put plenty of water in it, and give some of it to your neighbours," the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) advised his Companion in a Hadith in Muslim.
It's not just about hunger. In America, the land of plenty, Alhamdu lillah, we won't find the shortage of food we would in many Muslim countries. Here, food really is about uniting people, sharing what's common to our humanity. It's also about building neighbourly relations through small acts of kindness.
"By Allah, he is not a believer! By Allah, he is not a believer! By Allah, he is not a believer," the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said. It was asked, "Who is that, O Messenger of Allah?" He said, "One whose neighbour does not feel safe from his evil" (Bukhari and Muslim).
Maybe we're not so bad. At least we don't yell and scream at our neighbours, threaten them, cheat them or lie to them. But we're reminded of our negligence towards our neighbours when we realize that how we treat them relates to our relationship with Allah, which is the very core of who we are as Muslims.
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, "the best of companions with Allah is the one who is best to his companions, and the best of neighbours to Allah is the one who is the best of them to his neighbour" (Tirmidhi).
The future of Islam doesn't only depend on this exchange of values and information. Our very faith and connection to Allah is reflected in how we treat our neighbours. Perhaps this is the push we need to start connecting with them so we can better our relationship with Allah.
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Q: How to pass variable parameters to Sprintf in golang I'm lazy, want to pass many variables to Printf function, is it possible?
(The sample code is simplified as 3 parameters, I require more than 10 parameters).
I got the following message:

cannot use v (type []string) as type []interface {} in argument to fmt.Printf

s := []string{"a", "b", "c", "d"}  // Result from regexp.FindStringSubmatch()
fmt.Printf("%5s %4s %3s\n", s[1], s[2], s[3])

v := s[1:]
fmt.Printf("%5s %4s %3s\n", v...)

A: Yes, it is possible, just declare your slice to be of type []interface{} because that's what Printf() expects. Printf() signature:
func Printf(format string, a ...interface{}) (n int, err error)

So this will work:
s := []interface{}{"a", "b", "c", "d"}
fmt.Printf("%5s %4s %3s\n", s[1], s[2], s[3])

v := s[1:]
fmt.Printf("%5s %4s %3s\n", v...)

Output (Go Playground):
b    c   d
b    c   d

[]interface{} and []string are not convertible. See this question+answers for more details:
Type converting slices of interfaces in go
If you already have a []string or you use a function which returns a []string, you have to manually convert it to []interface{}, like this:
ss := []string{"a", "b", "c"}
is := make([]interface{}, len(ss))
for i, v := range ss {
    is[i] = v
}


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