When we last left the House Republicans, they were balking at bipartisan immigration reform while laboring to cut domestic spending to Neanderthal levels, not merely the Eisenhower-era levels of the sequester.
Now, Roll Call reports, the House GOP has ascended to an even loftier altitude of nuttiness—an insistence that any bill keeping the government open past September 30 include a provision to defund Obamacare, something that will cause the Senate to reject it and (failing that) Obama to veto it. This could, in turn, trigger a government shutdown, the blame for which would land squarely on the GOP. Even Republicans known for their uncompromising (some would say lunatic) brand of conservatism—like Senators Tom Coburn and Richard Burr—have pronounced this approach idiotic. ("The dumbest idea I've ever heard," Burr called it.) And yet, according to Roll Call, House Speak John Boehner is seriously entertaining this stratagem, having recently received a letter from 60 House Republicans urging it on him.
All of which brings us back to a perennial question: What's the deal with House Republicans? Despite every indication that they've simply lost their marbles, the question isn't so easy to answer. In fact, I see three distinct possibilities: That they're genuinely crazy; that they're rational, but with perverse incentives; or that they're just a little slow.
"Crazy" is pretty much self-explanatory. Whether they do what they do because they believe they're the second coming of James Madison, or because space aliens told them to, is neither here nor there. "Rational," by contrast, is a little more complicated. It means they're acting in their self-interest; it just happens to be in their self-interest to appear crazy. For example, as multiple commentators have pointed out, many House Republicans represent ultra-conservative districts, in which the biggest threat to their survival is a Republican primary challenger, not a general-election opponent. Under these circumstances, it's perfectly rational to come off as relentlessly conservative as possible.
Of course, even in that case, there's probably a limit to how zealous you can be. It may be rational for individual Republicans to look crazy. But, at a certain point, the sum total of their craziness could force the House to do something truly disqualifying—like defaulting on the national debt and triggering a global financial crisis—which could, among other things, cost the GOP its majority. Still, as Jonathan Chait pointed out Tuesday, House Republicans have such built-in advantages when it comes to the electoral map and to midterm election-turnout, that the amount of craziness they can evince and still retain the House is incredibly high. In Chait's view, then, the House is basically rational: GOP members can cater to the cranks who control their respective fates them without imperiling their overall majority.
In fact, while it would be hard to imagine a level of craziness that could cause Republicans to lose the House in 2014, as Chait points out, it's not so hard to imagine them losing the House in 2016 if they stay on their current trajectory for three more years. As I say, the electorate in a presidential election—with tens of millions more young and minority voters—is far more favorable to Democrats than the midterm electorate. Long story short: Right-wing House members may think they've got it all worked out—having identified the precise amount of craziness that maximizes their self-interest—but there's a good chance their calculations are off. Perhaps disastrously so.
So which explanation is right? The answer is of more than academic interest. If House Republicans are bona fide clinical, there isn't a whole lot Obama or anyone else can do to end our current legislative and political stalemate. If, on the other hand, they're rational, there are ways that Obama can change their incentives—say, by inflicting more political pain than they're willing to tolerate.
And what if they're rational but none too bright? This one's incredibly tricky. Dealing with such an opponent would require a delicate two-step from the president: First, educating House Republicans on what's actually at stake amid all their posturing (a shot at the presidency in 2016, preserving their House majority that year, etc.) as opposed to what they perceive to be at stake (nothing more than their individual House seats). Only once that's accomplished could he begin to treat them as rational and rough them up until they cooperate.
The problem for Obama or anyone else trying to get a handle on what's driving the House GOP is that all three explanations can produce the same outcome in the short term. Crazy people would threaten a shutdown in order to win a debater's point on Obamacare. So would rational people responding to goofy incentives. As would aspirationally rational people too dense to grasp the big picture.
Fortunately, we should have some clues before too long. After next year's midterm elections, there will be little standing between the GOP and a 2016 beat-down if it sticks with its current meshugas. At that point, we can at least eliminate "rational" as an option and pick from "crazy" or "stupid." How much simpler life will be!


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The Originals Season 3 Episode 4 Review: "A Walk on the Wild Side"
Jen Winkler 7 years ago
A gathering of The Strix delivered a bloody good episode of The Originals. The humor that's been lacking in the dark and frankly boring season so far has started to make a comeback as storylines continue to slowly drag along.
We're being hit over the head over and over again with this bloodline war, but I fail to see any threats yet. Aside from Lucien and his seer Alexis, who claims she's now seen the downfall of Klaus in the future, there's nothing of substance brewing between the siblings' sires other than old feuds. The fact that The Strix is made up entirely of Elijah's sires is a little intimidating, but they're all too noble to make a move unless provoked. Maybe that's the point of this slow burn at the beginning of the season. A domino effect will follow once one wrong turn is taken, and it'll all be downhill from there.
Lucien and Klaus crash this elitist party in comical fashion. I may not know enough about Lucien to trust him, but he's definitely funny. He shares in Klaus' disgust when he makes the comment that it's a "room full of Elijahs." Take away the supernatural aspect of their circumstances, and I would love to see Lucien and Klaus as two old college buddies reuniting.
The reason they crashed wasn't to instigate Elijah further, but rather to get Alexis back with Freya's help. It was pretty cool to see how Alexis uses her knowledge of the future to outwit every spell Freya tries on her. This all begs the question, though: isn't it possible for the future to change? Alexis has a clearer vision of at least Klaus' death, or so she claims. Confusingly, she'd rather not speak of the specifics but offers her hands to Elijah and Hayley to feed off her and see the vision for themselves. Her blood must've been poisoned along the way and I thought she'd died. Apparently not, but it would've been interesting if she died being the only person to know Klaus' fate.
Of course, at the end, we see that Aurora has made her way into New Orleans unnoticed. She presumably had a hand in the poisoning. The preview for next week shows her making her presence known to Klaus, and there's a romantic history between them as we already know. Clearly, they didn't end up living a fairytale life together so there's bound to be some fun bickering between the exes.
The only unpredictable twist of the night comes when Marcel outsmarts Tristan and the rest of the Strix leaders in his initiation. By allowing Hayley's werewolf venom to poison his blood, he knew he'd end up the winner in this scenario. He then has to go humbly ask for Klaus' blood to heal himself, which he reluctantly does. Klaus is right to be weary of everyone. I'm not sure Marcel even understands the extent of what he just signed up for. Especially since he's the first member to be sired by Klaus, he's got to be extra careful. Once the tides in this war shift, he'll be the easiest target to get to Klaus. It all seems like a huge conflict of interest for The Strix to even be feigning an interest in Marcel, because if they happen to be responsible for Klaus' true death, they'll be killing their new friend off in the process.
What did you think of this week's episode of The Originals?
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There are myriad ways to spend a free day in New York, not one of which are "wrong" per se. Between five boroughs, 800+ languages and enough cuisines and cultural events to match, excitement lies every day in every pocket of this great, vast grid we call home. That being said, allow me to now share with you how I decided to spend the past few glorious days off.
I am currently transitioning jobs and decided to take a little time off in between. At first, I was apprehensive to take more than a long weekend, but after some thinking, I changed my mind. And let me tell ya, I'm glad I did. This break has been a truly wonderful period of reflection, enjoyment and relaxation. At a time when spring is finally coming out of it's half-frozen shell, 10 days off couldn't have been more aptly received.
One of the greatest aspects of this city is its rich collections of art and history. But, what New Yorker wants to spend their free Saturday afternoon being suffocated by throngs of crowds just to get a short-lived peek into some of even the most wonderful exhibits? This past Monday, I grabbed a cappuccino from my favorite cafe, Cafe Lalo, and strolled over to the American Museum of Natural History. I most enjoyed the Butterfly Conservatory (duh), the Hayden Big Bang theater, and the Countdown to Zero (Disease Eradication) exhibit. My entire experience was easy, swift, and relatively quiet. I spent a solid 20-25 minutes in the tiny conservatory with 500+ butterflies and maybe 10 other people, tops. I waited less than 4 minutes for the Big Bang theater, and was virtually the only person in the Disease Eradication exhibit.
If you have only one thing to do on a free weekday in New York, this is it.
Yes, I know. I adore spas. But, who doesn't? With some nifty research and calculated planning, I've been able to score hour-long massages for as little as $30 in the city. That, however, did not come without its fair share of work. I've used deal sites like Groupon or memberships like CandleSpas and then literally had to plan 4-8 weeks ahead of time for a weekend pampering session. Why? Because you don't get massages that cheap without it coming at a price -- the price being convenience due to mass competition for weekend appointments by other "savvy" New Yorkers who are doing the same exact thing.
However, if you've ever tried to schedule a spa appointment Monday-Friday, the tides radically shift. Spas are virtually empty during the week and you can schedule one as little as 24 hours ahead of time usually. So, when I received a nice little text from Red & White spa in Soho advertising their 50-minute massage & 50-minute facial for $99 total, viable during the dates I was conveniently on staycation, I jumped at the chance. What ensued was a luxurious friday afternoon at one of my favorite spas, feeling like a total princess.
Whether we're talking clothes shopping, food shopping or simply window shopping, shopping in New York on the weekend can be stressful. Like most other activities, everybody's doing it. On an easy Tuesday, however, it's so peaceful it's almost, dare I say, therapeutic. I took the liberty to skim thrift-store racks for some new spring clothes (sans the dressing room wait) before navigating empty aisles of full shelves at Trader Joes. On the way home, I slowly enjoyed the magnificence that is Columbus Avenue in the sunshine, without being shouldered by pedestrian traffic. Though, it's admittedly always a little calmer on the Upper West, this was even surprisingly enjoyable for me. In the evening, I dressed up in my new spring finds and crafted a delicious spread of charcuterie and wine for dinner... on my own couch, in my own little apartment.


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René A. Torrado, Jr., a former President of the Chicago Bar Association, is a distinguished and respected member of the Chicago legal community. A 1969 graduate of the University of Notre Dame and a 1973 graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, René began his legal career as a law clerk for U.S. District Judge James Lawrence King in the Southern District of Florida. Following his clerkship, he participated in the U.S. Department of Justice Honors Program as a trial attorney in the Antitrust Division and as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia.
After completing his government service in 1978, René represented plaintiffs in antitrust matters and defendants in criminal prosecutions in a Washington, DC law firm. In 1981, René moved to Chicago and continued his trial practice with Reuben & Proctor and then formed his own firm. In 1987, René joined Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz, where he remained as a trial lawyer until joining Corboy & Demetrio in 2003.
René has represented individuals and corporations in a broad spectrum of civil matters. His clients have included corporate executives in executive compensation matters, class actions, shareholder derivative actions, and securities litigation; and individuals in trade secret and business tort litigation. As a trial lawyer, his representation has included matters involving antitrust, securities, RICO, contract, and fraud claims.
He has also represented Chicago area professional sports teams in workers' compensation claims and personal injury actions. On behalf of trade associations, he has both prosecuted and defended commercial claims such as antitrust matters, contract claims, and constitutional claims.
His courtroom successes include a $20 million judgment on behalf of a commercial financial institution in a lawsuit against corporate and individual defendants accused of violating RICO, committing fraud, and breach of contract and an $8 million judgment on behalf of an inventor against a multi-national healthcare product manufacturer.
Active in the Chicago Bar Association, (CBA), René has served as General Counsel of the Association from 1988 to1995, President from 1995 to1996 and chair of the Appellate Review Committee of the Judicial Evaluation Committee, where he is currently a member. With René as General Counsel, the CBA was successful in its constitutional challenge to proposed voter initiative imposing term limits on members of the Illinois General Assembly. René currently serves as President of the Chicago Inn of Court. He is a member of the Special Committee on the Illinois Constitutional Convention and is active in the Center for Conflict Resolution and the Chicago Inn of Court.
René is listed in "The Best Lawyers in America," an invitation-only, peer-selected publication. He is one of the top 5% of Trial Lawyers in Illinois as determined by the Leading Lawyers Network, is an Illinois Super Lawyer, and has an AV rating - the highest possible for any attorney - from the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory.
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3HO is a family of healthy, happy, and holy people. Do you understand the word "family"? If, under all longitudes and latitudes, we keep our nucleus together, that is a family.
Yogi Bhajan -Aquarian Times
Golden Temple with Dr. Harjot Kaur Singh
by. SS. Harjot Kaur Singh
In March of 2016, while meditating at the Golden Temple, I received a phone call from the Prime Minister's office. Given that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was recently elected along with 17 Sikh MP's, there was going to be a large celebration for Vaisakhi on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada. I was requested to sing Kirtan and do the Ardas for the Diwan. I was honored and felt very grateful to the Guru that I had been asked to participate in such an important day for Sikhs in Canada. When I contemplated the Shabad that I would sing that day, I realized that the specific tune had come to me unexpectedly one Sunday evening after teaching yoga class several years prior. Jetlagged and just 2 days after arriving back from India, I found myself on a flight to the Canadian capital.
The following day, I briefly met the tabla player. We only had enough time to sing 2 lines of the Shabad acapella while he practiced the tabla taal on the MP's office desk.
The Akhand Paath had already started on Parliament Hill and the Bhog and celebration of Khalsa Day program was to be on April 11th. Although Akhand Paaths had been done yearly for Vaisakhi since Sikh MPs had been elected, this year was special given the scope of the celebration of Khalsa Day. Gurdwara Presidents from across Canada were invited to attend, and the entire program was being broadcast live by the media to India and worldwide. It was a very special program and I could feel the excitement, and the pressure building. To me, it seemed like the vision of the Siri Singh Sahib ji of Sikhs being integrated within mainstream Canadian Society was coming to fruition for Canadian Sikhs.
10th Anniversary Celebration
of the Life & Legacy
of the Man Called Siri Singh Sahib ~ Yogi Bhajan
October 3-6th, 2014
By M.S.S. Krishna Kaur
It was a beautiful fall weekend in Espanola, New Mexico and there was a definite buzz of anticipation in the air. It was as if we were gathering once again after ten years to sit at the feet of our beloved teacher, The Man Called Siri Singh Sahib ~ Yogi Bhajan. In essence, that is exactly what we did for four glorious days. We sat in his gardens, played the music he loved, meditated deeply as a family, bowed to the Guru, sang stories of old times and chanted mantras in gratitude for his life and legacy.
People came from places around the world, drawn to share the moment even though some had never met the Siri Singh Sahib. Others were attending one of our Dharmic events for the first time, for reasons they themselves didn't totally understand. It was a calling! A calling many of us have heard and answered over the years that brought us together yet once again.
The feeling everywhere was joyous, relaxed and full of reverence and appreciation just to be a part of the celebration. Our opening presentation on Friday the 3rd was a kriya by Ardas Kaur from our Mexico community. Our Bhangra troupe led by Ravi Kaur kicked off the evening with grace and excitement to whoops and hollers from the audience followed by an evening of Oldies but Goodies by our grey bearded youngsters. Livtar Singh, Gurutrang Singh, Guru Singh, Guru Ganesha Singh, Dev Suroop Kaur, Harbhajan Kaur, Guru Sangat Kaur, myself and a host of us "Old Timers" reminisced with song and laughter during that opening night. From the stage we heard that Vietnam was getting our live feed, as was Russia, Australia, New York, India, Canada and more. The weekend was launched just the way Yogi Bhajan would have liked, and there was no looking back.
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'Caught in Time' continues to triumph at China's box office
Updated 20:38, 01-Dec-2020
Hong Yaobin
Emperor Motion Pictures' crime thriller "Caught in Time," directed by Hong Kong filmmaker Ho-Leung Lau and starring veteran actors Daniel Wu and Wang Qianyuan, again topped the box office over the past week (November 23-29), raking in about 192.5 million yuan ($29.3 million).
The movie's total box office revenue has exceeded 400 million yuan within 10 days of its release, according to box office tracker platform Maoyan.
A poster for the film "Caught in Time" is seen in a theater in Beijing, November 22, 2020. /CFP
The American comedy animation "The Croods: A New Age," ranked second by taking in 125.3 million yuan ($19 million) in revenue.
The animated adventure picture made its China premiere on Friday, earning about 19.5 million yuan on its opening day.
Films from different genres to be shown
Stunning cast-led war epic "The Sacrifice" and "Find Your Voice" starring Hong Kong actor Andy Lau ranked the fourth and fifth with 40.3 million yuan ($6.1 million) and 17.5 million yuan ($2.7 million) in takings, respectively.
Poster for film "Balloon." /Douban
At the helm of award-winning Tibetan director Pema Tseden, the critically acclaimed title "Balloon" grossed over 2 million yuan (over $300,000) during its opening weekend despite a limited number of screenings. Many netizens have called the theaters to arrange more screenings for the arthouse title.
The film was screened in the Horizons section at the 76th Venice International Film Festival and made its North America premiere during the Toronto International Film Festival last year.
Four films of different genres are set to be released this Friday, including the new domestic fantasy "Soul Snatcher," starring up-and-coming actors Li Xian and Chen Linong, as well as Paul Anderson's adventure drama "Monster Hunter" and Leigh Whannell's latest thriller "The Invisible Man."
"Pokemon: Mewtwo Strikes Back – Evolution," the 22th installment of the popular Pokemon series, will also get a theatrical release in China on December 4, more than one year after its Japanese debut.


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Verbs conjugate into various modes or moods and an overview of these is presented on this page. Tenses such as the future tense and the past tense are discussed as well.


Is your cat peeing anywhere but the litterbox?
You can be sure if cats suddenly start to pee outside their litterbox, that there is something really bothering them and you'll need to find out what it is.
If you are having this problem, you have probably explored lots of possibilities, but let's have a look at some reasons why cats sometimes start peeing elsewhere than in their very own litterbox! Here are 7 good reasons why they might be doing this (with thanks to floppycats.com).
This is the first set of possiblities to check out, as they're the most serious reasons likely to affect your cat. A UTI can be dangerous, so take good care and get your cat to the vet as soon as you can. If there is an underlying infection, cats may associate the box with pain, and prefer to go elsewhere to try to get away from the issue.


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Prevalence of Sexual Risk Behaviors Among U.S. High School Students Declined Between 1991 and 2007
In 2007, 48% of U.S. high school students had ever had sexual intercourse, according to findings from the national Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS).[1] The proportion of students who had ever had sex was higher among blacks than among Hispanics and whites (67% vs. 52% and 44%, respectively). Between 1991 and 2007, the proportion of students who had ever had sex decreased, as did the proportions of those who had had four or more partners during their life and who had had sex at least once in the three months before the survey.[2]
Conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the national YRBS monitors priority health risk behaviors among adolescents and young adults. Data collected in the survey are used to determine the prevalence and co-occurrence of risk behaviors, and to monitor trends in behaviors over time. They also are used to measure the nation's progress in achieving 15 national health objectives for Healthy People 2010.
The school-based survey has been conducted among students in grades 9–12 every two years since 1991. For the 2007 survey, 14,103 self-administered surveys were completed by a nationally representative sample of students in 157 schools; the final sample comprised 14,041 students. All data were weighted; prevalence estimates were computed for all variables. Analysts used t tests to assess differences in prevalence, and logistic regression to assess changes over time.
Nationally, 48% of students had ever had sex, 15% had had four or more partners during their lifetime and 35% had had sex in the three months before the survey (i.e., were sexually active). Among sexually active students, 62% had used a condom and 16% had used the pill at last sex; 23% reported drug or alcohol use before last sex. Ninety percent of all students had ever been taught about AIDS or HIV in school.
Similar proportions of males and females were sexually active (34% and 36%, respectively). Male students were more likely than female students to have ever had sex (50% vs. 46%), to have had sex for the first time before age 13 (10% vs. 4%), to have had four or more partners (18% vs. 12%) and to have been hit, slapped or physically hurt on purpose by a boyfriend or girlfriend in the year preceding the survey (11% vs. 9%). Male students were less likely than female students to have been tested for HIV (11% vs. 15%) and to have been taught about AIDS or HIV in school (89% vs. 90%). Among sexually active students, males were more likely than females to have used alcohol or drugs before last sex (28% vs. 18%). Female students were more likely than male students to report ever having been physically forced to have sex (11% vs. 5%); sexually active females were less likely than males to report condom use at last sex (55% vs. 69%).
Black students were significantly more likely than Hispanic or white students to have ever had sex (67% vs. 52% and 44%), to have had sex before age 13 (16% vs. 8% and 4%), to have had four or more partners (28% vs. 17% and 12%) and to be sexually active (46% vs. 37% and 33%). Black students overall also were more likely than Hispanic or white students to have been physically hurt by a boyfriend or girlfriend in the year before the survey (14% vs. 11% and 8%). Black and Hispanic students were more likely than white students to ever have been forced to have sex (11% and 9% vs. 7%). Twenty-two percent of blacks had been tested for HIV, compared with 13% of Hispanics and 11% of whites. Sexually active black students were significantly less likely than comparable Hispanic or white students to have used alcohol or drugs before last sex (16% vs. 21% and 25%).
Time Trends
Between 1991 and 2007, the proportion of students who had ever had sexual intercourse decreased (from 54% to 48%), as did the proportions reporting four or more lifetime partners (from 19% to 15%) and current sexual activity (from 38% to 35%). The proportion of currently sexually active students who drank or used drugs before last sex increased between 1991 and 2001 (from 22% to 26%), but then decreased until 2007 (to 23%). Similarly, the proportion of all students who had been taught about AIDS or HIV in school increased between 1991 and 1997 (from 83% to 92%), but then decreased to 90% in 2007. The proportion of currently sexually active students reporting condom use at last sex increased between 1991 and 2003 (from 46% to 63%), but did not change in the subsequent survey years.
Among whites, changes between 1991 and 2007 generally mirror those among the full sample.[2] One notable exception is that the proportion of sexually active white students reporting condom use at last sex increased throughout the period (from 47% to 60%).
While the proportion of all black students reporting four or more lifetime sex partners decreased between 1991 and 2007 (from 43% to 28%), the proportion who had ever had sex decreased between 1991 and 2001 (from 82% to 61%) and then remained unchanged through 2007.[2] The proportion of blacks who had been taught about AIDS or HIV in school changed from 84% in 1991 to 90% in 2007; the proportion of sexually active black students reporting condom use at last sex increased from 48% in 1991 to 70% in 1999 and stabilized at that level.
Relatively little change occurred in sexual risk behaviors among Hispanics.5 Between 1991 and 2007, the proportions of Hispanic students who had ever had sex, who had had four or more lifetime sexual partners and who had been taught about AIDS or HIV in school were stable. However, the proportion of sexually active Hispanic students reporting condom use at last sex increased from 37% to 61%, which about matches the proportion among all students.
The analysts note that although the prevalence of a number of health risk behaviors has fallen substantially among U.S. high school students since 1991, many young people "continue to engage in behaviors that place them at risk for the leading causes of mortality and morbidity."[1] They suggest that "more effective school health programs and other policy and programmatic interventions are needed to reduce risk and improve health outcomes among youth."
1. Eaton DK et al., Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance—United States, 2007, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2008, Vol. 57, No. SS-4.
2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Trends in the prevalence of sexual behaviors, National YRBS: 1991–2007, <http://www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/yrbs/pdf/yrbs07_us_sexual_behaviors_tren..., accessed June 9, 2008.


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C-Notes
7 Concerts to Catch in Cleveland This Weekend
By Jeff Niesel on Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 3:30 pm
FRIDAY, FEB. 16
Talib Kweli/NIKO IS/DJ Spintelect/Muamin Collective/Doc Remedy
Known to some degree for his engaged social commentary — particularly since the shooting death of Michael Brown in 2014 — Talib Kweli has always held a finger to the pulse of the American consciousness. From the late-'90s hip-hop duo Black Star (with Mos Def) through years of a successful solo and collaborative career, Kweli has studded the rap game with thinking man's songcraft that keep listeners' heads bobbing and toes tapping. He pulls fans into this dark and uncertain decade with tracks like "Rare Portraits" and "The Wormhole," tunes that blend autobiographical chops with a harrowing awareness of how twisted — and beautiful — this world can be. (Eric Sandy), 9 p.m., $25. Grog Shop.
John 5 & the Creatures/Ego
Cut from the same musical cloth as six-string shredders such as Randy Rhoads, Yngwie Malmsteen and Jake E. Lee, guitarist John 5 embraces a much wider range of music than your typical guitar hero. Earlier this year, John 5 released his first live album, It's Alive! Recorded at a gig in Sellersville, Pennsylvania, the album happened "by accident" but the guitarist and his backing band deliver the musical goods. The opening track "Guitars, Tits and Monsters" is an epic jam, and the Planet of the Apes films inspired the shimmering tune "Here's to the Crazy Ones." Expect to hear these tracks and more at tonight's concert in support of the release. (Jeff Niesel) 8 p.m., $17 ADV, $20 DOS. Beachland Ballroom.
SATURDAY, FEB. 17
AWOL Nation/Nothing But Thieves/IRONTOM
Led by charismatic singer Aaron Bruno, AWOL Nation, an electronic/indie rock act, scored big a few years back with "Sail," a soaring anthem that found its way into TV shows. commercials and films. With 2015's Run, the band slows things down. With its cooing vocals and piano melody, "Fat Face" could pass a Beach Boys tune, and "Jailbreak" comes off as soul/R&B. Of course, it's not all mellow stuff. The band cranks up the guitars on "Hollow Moon (Bad Wolf)," a song that finds Bruno practically screaming. Songs such as "Here Come the Runts" and "Passion," tracks from the group's new album, the just-released Here Come the Runts, emphasize the industrial rock side of its sound. Expect the band to show off its range at tonight's show. (Niesel), 8 p.m., $31.35 ADV/$36.75 DOS. House of Blues.
Rachel Brown and the Beatnik Playboys
Singer-songwriter Rachel Brown's religious parents regularly listened to old-time country music and that left a lasting impression. As a result, the Medina native grew up listening to George Jones, Merle Haggard and Loretta Lynn. Initially, it took years for Brown to issue her studio debut, 2012's Just Look My Way. But she's become more prolific in the wake of that release. Her new album, last year's Look Who's Back, represents her third album with her backing band, the Beatnik Playboys. Brown & Co. recorded Look Who's Back with engineer Paul Hamann at his Suma Recording Studios in Painesville. Brown's supple voice sounds terrific on tunes such as the twangy "Blue Diamond" and "Texas Moon," a song that features the Cleveland Orchestra violinist Emma Shook, whom Brown met through the side project Sisters in Song. Shook plays on four songs. Tunes such as the rollicking title track feature bar room piano fills and bluesy vocals. It's good stuff. (Niesel), 8 p.m., $15. Bop Stop.
SUNDAY, FEB. 18
COIN/The Aces
Members of this Nashville-based indie pop band have said they became more "self-aware" for their second album, last year's How Will You Know if You Never Try. The snappy "Talk Too Much" features an '80s pop feel with its retro synths that sound like they could've come from a Flock of Seagulls song. While the group hasn't yet announced a release date for How Will You Know If Never Try's follow-up, will first release a new single, "Growing Pains." With its rattling percussion and trippy synths, "Growing Pains" possesses a greater degree of sonic density than previous COIN tunes. It'll likely make it into tonight's set. (Niesel) 8 p.m., $20 ADV, $25 DOS. House of Blues.
Reina Del Cid/Alexia Gray/Hannah Stakolich
On Sundays, singer-songwriter Reina del Cid regularly posts a video on her YouTube channel. Sometimes, she and her various bandmates play covers; other times, they play originals. She also likes to tell fans about her Minnesota-based existence and the pitfalls of being a performer. Tonight, fittingly on a Sunday, del Cid and her band come to Cleveland to play songs that are calm, cool and collected. On the group's newest effort, Rerun City, del Cid isn't so much a showy singer as she is warm and inviting. Her alto vocals don't offer a lot of range, but she makes up for that in gorgeous musicality and thoughtful storytelling. Her latest effort delves into the downside of living in a modern digital world while still offering hope for humanity. This is a group that's not afraid to make you think. (Laura Morrison), 8 p.m., $8-$12. The Winchester.
Portugal.The Man/Twin Peaks
Early on, indie rockers Portugal.The Man took what a "Beatles in Hamburg" approach and tried to play as often as it could and release as an album a year. In 2010, that approach yielded great dividends, and the band signed with Atlantic Records and began to see its popularity increase with each album. In the wake of the release of 2011's In the Mountain in the Cloud, it would hit the festival circuit and perform at Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza. For 2013's Evil Friends, it took another giant step forward and worked with shit-hot producer Danger Mouse (Black Keys, Jack White, Broken Bells). Last year's Woodstock yielded "Feel It Still," the band's biggest hit to date. (Niesel) 7 p.m., $35 ADV, $40 DOS. Music Hall.
Jeff Niesel
Jeff has been covering the Cleveland music scene for more than 20 years now. And on a regular basis, he tries to talk to whatever big acts are coming through town, too. If you're in a band that he needs to hear, email him at [email protected]
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is one of my favorite days of the year. In honor of this day and my love of Techno here is one my favorite record's by some Detroit legends.
First released in 2000 Octave One's "Black Water" is an upbeat track with great strings. In 2002 Terrence Parker weaved in Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech for his truly amazing "Spirit of Detroit" mix. Enjoy and be excellent to each other.


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Romance Books for Teenagers
Children's Health Books
Pretty Wanted
Pretty Crooked Trilogy
By (author) Elisa Ludwig
Pretty Wanted is Elisa Ludwig's rollicking finale to the Pretty Crooked trilogy, a series filled with moxie, romance, and heart that's perfect for fans of Ally Carter or Sara Shepard.
When Willa skipped probation and hit the California highway to find her mom, she discovered a dark family secret: Joanne Fox is not who she says she is--and neither is Willa. Now Willa and her hot partner in crime, Aidan, must race to St. Louis, Missouri, where they hope to find answers about Willa's past. But uncovering the truth requires solving a decades-old murder case. Unfortunately, the perps are still out there . . . and willing to do whatever it takes to keep the case cold.
Willa's only hope is to find the truth before it finds her first.
For ages 12-17
Publication date 17 Mar 2015
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Imprint HarperCollins
Publication City/Country New York, United States
Pretty Sly
Elisa Ludwig
Back cover copy
Willa Fox promised to turn herself in.
But you can't take a thief at her word. . . .
Willa's string of good-hearted but ill-conceived thefts at her former high school Valley Prep catapulted her into a life she hardly knows. She became a cult hero, but soon afterward her mom disappeared, leaving only a cryptic message. When Willa hit the California highway to find her, she discovered a dark family secret: Joanne Fox is not who she says she is--and neither is Willa.
Now Willa and fellow troublemaker Aidan must race to St. Louis, Missouri, Willa's birthplace. There, they hope to find answers about Willa's past. But uncovering the truth requires solving a decades-old murder case.
Unfortunately, the perps are still out there . . . and willing to do whatever it takes to keep the case cold. With Willa's face on the nightly news and the police hot on her trail, it might not matter that Tre and Aidan are there to help. Willa's only hope is to find the truth before it finds her first.
Pretty Wanted is Elisa Ludwig's rollicking finale to the Pretty Crooked trilogy, a series filled with moxie, romance, and heart.
"A pretty twisted, modern-day Robin Hood story."--Melissa de la Cruz, New York Times bestselling author of Blue Bloods "Packed with romance, humor, and adventure, Pretty Crooked will steal your heart."--Sarah Mlynowski, author of Ten Things We Did (But Probably Shouldn't Have) "Tantalizing. For fans of Sara Shepard's Pretty Little Liars books."--ALA Booklist Praise for the PRETTY CROOKED series: "Fans of mystery and suspense will enjoy the fast-paced style of the Pretty Crooked series. Readers who enjoyed Ally Carter's Heist Society and love romantic tension will relish this second entry and look forward to the conclusion in the last book."--Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA) "A satisfying close to this trilogy that began with a clever high school prank and morphed into a full-scale action adventure."--Kirkus Reviews "Ludwig's Pretty Crooked series comes to a close in this thrill-a-minute conclusion. Willa Fox is on the run with boyfriend Aidan, investigating her mother's murder. The pacing is relentless and Ludwig keeps the drama high throughout. Series fans will be satisfied."--School Library Journal "Crackling-good adventure."--Kirkus Reviews
About Elisa Ludwig
Elisa Ludwig enjoys writing about teen outlaws, even though she herself has never been one. Pretty Wanted is the final novel in the Pretty Crooked trilogy. Elisa lives in Philadelphia.


Attendees of the upcoming Toy Story That Time Forgot first-look panel on July 24 at Comic-Con are in for a special treat. Guests will receive an official poster from Pixar's second television special which they can also get autographed by Pixarians, Steve Purcell (Director), Galyn Susman (Executive producer) and Derek Thompson (head of story).
TVLine first shared the poster this afternoon and also reported that Michael Giacchino will be on hand to moderate the 1-hour panel session at Comic-Con. Does this imply that he will be scoring Toy Story That Time Forgot, much like he did for Toy Story of TERROR!? We would certainly think so - why else would they ask him to moderate?
The greenery popping out behind the lead dino-action figure in the new poster, Reptillus Maximus, really plays well into our expanding theory that this short will take inspiration from Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Land That Time Forgot book (the first in a trilogy) which takes place inside of a lush, green island known as Caspak, which is full of dangerous dinosaurs and other terrifying natives.
More details on the basic plot line as well as the vocal cast can be found by clicking the Related Posts links below.
What are your thoughts on the poster and the television special? Leave a comment below or chat about it with other Pixar fans in the Pixar Post Forum post about the short. As a side note, thanks to forum users maxxie03 and TOM-4319 for uploading the image of the poster in the forum - you even beat us to our post!


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Чотрул Дючен (, Вайли: Cho-'phrul Dus-chen) или Праздник масляных лампад — праздник, принятый в тибетском буддизме. Приходясь на полнолуние первого месяца, он завершает двухнедельный цикл новогодних обрядов, посвящённых привлечению счастья в наступившем году.

Этот праздник установлен в честь следующего события из жизни Будды. 6 глав индийских философских школ вызвали Будду на соревнование. В течение 15 дней с Нового года Будда демонстрировал новые сверхобычные явления каждый день и так все его противники признали себя побеждёнными. Многие видевшие это обратились в буддизм. Последний день отмечает это событие.

В этот день все посвящают себя добрым делам и пожеланиям, потому что считается, что позитивный и негативный эффект любого действия, предпринятого в этот день, возрастёт в 10 миллионов раз.

Даты
 В 2010 году Чотрул Дючен приходится на 28 февраля.
В 2019 году Чотрул Дючен приходится на 19 февраля.

Новый год в Азии
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Tag: Maxwell Land Grant
U.S. Agency Triggers Colfax County War
On Wednesday, January 28, 1874, the U.S. Department of the Interior issued the order that began New Mexico's Colfax County War.
The Department had decided to designate the approximately 2 million acres claimed by the Maxwell Land Grant and Railroad Company as public land, not private. This meant that the former Beaubien/Miranda land grant was now open to settlement under federal homestead laws.
The Interior Department's decision was part of an ongoing dispute over the size of the Land Grrant. According to the Department, until that matter was settled in Federal Court, the land was public and therefore available to qualified homesteaders.
But the Land Grant Company wasn't about to let anyone settle without payment on acreage they claimed as their own. And that payment certainly wasn't going to go to the U.S. government.
In fact, the Company was already fighting settlers on the vast acreage they claimed. Their attorney, Frank Springer, was hard at work in New Mexico's Territorial Courts, evicting anyone the Board believed shouldn't be there. With evictions already occurring, opening the Grant lands to federal homestead claims was simply asking for more trouble.
And it came. If the Company couldn't get rid of "squatters" through the courts, they'd try other strategies. This all cost money, of course, something that the Board was often short of. But even as the Company teetered on the edge of bankruptcy, its board members continued the fight. If this required extra-legal methods, then so be it.
Right about the time the Department of the Interior announced its decision, another factor arrived in Colfax County. His name was Reverend Franklin J. Tolby. Tolby believed that the Maxwell Land Grant and Railroad Company was taking more than its share of local resources. In fact, he advocated that some of the acreage in dispute be handed over to the Native Americans who'd hunted and lived there long before anyone even thought that American capitalists would have a use for it.
Tolby was articulate and people listened to him. This put him solidly in the sights of the Company's board members. A lot had happened on the Grant up to this point: legal and extra-legal evictions, miners' protests in Elizabethtown, meetings of concerned citizens in Cimarron, heated newspaper articles for and against the Grant Company. But none of that compared to what occurred after January 28, 1874. The Colfax County War was about to begin.
By the time it was over, Reverend Tolby and others would be dead, homesteaders would be burned or run out, and the Land Grant Company would be on the verge of yet another reorganization. The grant never did return the profit its investors had hoped for.
As with most wars, everyone got hurt in the end.
Source: David L. Caffey, Chasing the Santa Fe Ring, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 2014; Moreno Valley Writers Guild, Lower, Lower, and Legends, a history of northern New Mexico's Moreno Valley, Columbine Books, 1997; Victor Westphal, Thomas Benton Catron and His Era, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1973; Stephen Zimmer, editor, For Good Or Bad, People Of The Cimarron Country, Sunstone Press, Santa Fe, 1999.
By lorettamilestollefsonin American West, Colfax County, Historical Tidbits, New Mexico, New Mexico Territory, Northern New Mexico, Old West January 28, 2019 December 3, 2018 527 Words
In March 1867 Larry Bronson, Peter Kinsinger, and R.P. Kelley returned to Willow Creek and the gold they found there the previous fall. Now they were back, even though others were there before them. But even though they weren't first on the scene, they still managed to do well by themselves, with five 200 foot claims near their original discovery point.
It's not clear whether anyone had yet contacted the man who owned the land that they were so busily excavating. Willow Creek ran from Baldy Mountain into the canyon of the Cimarron River. All of the land in question was part of the Maxwell land grant owned by Lucien Bonaparte Maxwell and his wife Maria de la Luz Beaubien, whose inheritance it was.
Bronson, Kinsinger, and Kelly took out 14 ounces of gold that summer alone, then contracted for water rights from Bear and Willow Canyons so they could proceed on a larger scale. This involved moving from gold pan mining to hydraulic equipment. With 40 inches of water and 6 inch hoses to spray the rocks out of the hillsides, the company they formed became one of most productive operations on Willow Creek.
In the end, even Lucien Maxwell and his wife did well, partly as a result of the value of the Baldy Mountain area mining. In early 1870, they sold the entire land grant to a consortium of European investors, while retaining key portions of the grant, including mining claims on the east side of Baldy and water rights along Willow Creek. The men who bought the grant seem to have been confident that they also would do well from the gold and silver mines. However, things didn't pan out quite as they'd hoped. The Maxwell Land Grant and Railway Company was in default by the early 1880s.
But then again, right from the beginning, mining in the area had been based on "every man for himself."
Sources: Moreno Valley Writers Guild, Lure, Lore and Legends of the Moreno Valley, Columbine Books, Angel Fire, 1997; Larry R. Murphy, Philmont, A History of New Mexico's Cimarron Country, UNM Press, 1972; Leo E Oliva, Fort Union and the Frontier Army in the Southwest, Division of History, National Park Service, Santa Fe, 1993; J. Rush Pierce, Red River City, JRP Publications, Red River, 2008; 1870 U.S. Census Records, Elizabeth City precinct; 1880 U.S. Census Records, Baldy/Ute Park precinct.
By lorettamilestollefsonin Historical Tidbits, Moreno Valley, Northern New Mexico, Old West March 17, 2018 February 21, 2018 394 Words
New Mexico's Rep Issues Warning About Americans
In January 1826, Santiago Abreú, New Mexico's representative in Mexico City, sent a letter to the government officials in Santa Fe. In it, he cautioned them to be wary of the Americans in the province, especially those who wanted to settle, buy land, and marry without first obtaining the appropriate citizenship papers. In addition, the letter asked officials to record the activities of all non-Mexicans in New Mexico. This governmental policy of monitoring the Americans continued into the next decade, including after Abreú himself was appointed Governor in 1831. His duties included enforcing the laws that governed the americanos' activities, including the regulations related to trapping and trading.
Jesus Abreu, Santiago Abreu's son and Lucien B. Maxwell brother-in-law Source: Louis Felsenthal by J. D. Meketa
Ironically, Governor Abreú was the father of Jesús Abreú, the man who would become Lucien Bonaparte Maxwell's brother-in-law and fellow heir (through their wives) of a substantial portion of the Beaubien-Miranda land grant east of Taos. Although Canadian-born Carlos Beaubien, Jesus Abreú's and Lucien Maxwell's respective wives, had become a naturalized Mexican citizen prior to the grant's being made, there is no record that Lucien Maxwell, ultimate owner of most of the land, was ever a naturalized Mexican citizen. However, by the time Beaubien died in 1864, Maxwell's citizen was a moot point. The thing Santiago Abreú had feared, that the Americans would eventually take over, had occurred 18 years before and many of his countrymen were in eminent danger of losing their patrimony to the men who were flooding in from the eastern States.
Sources: J. Rush Pierce, Red River City: A history of Northern New Mexico 1800-2000, JRP Publications, 2008; Marc Simmons, Kit Carson and His Three Wives, UNM Press, 2008; Jerry D. Thompson, A Civil War History of the New Mexico Volunteers and Militia, UNM Press, 2015; David J. Weber, The Taos Trappers, U of Oklahoma, 1971; Stephen Zimmer, ed., For Good or Bad, People of the Cimarron Country, Sunstone Press, 1999.
By lorettamilestollefsonin American West, Colfax County, Historical Tidbits, New Mexico, New Mexico Territory, Northern New Mexico, Old West January 30, 2018 December 28, 2017 336 Words
Who Shot Manuel Cardenas and Why?
On Wednesday, November 10, 1875 Manuel Cardenas was shot and killed by an unknown gunman in the short distance between the Colfax County jail and courtroom in Cimarron, New Mexico Territory. Cardenas had been on his way to tell the justice of the peace what he knew about the mid-September death of Methodist missionary Franklin J. Tolby. Because Cardenas died when he did, the mystery of who shot Reverend Tolby, and why, was never solved.
Tolby had been a bur under the Maxwell Land Grant Company's saddle since he'd arrived in the Territory in early 1874. He pointed out that Congress had thrown the grant land was open to homesteaders and objected strenuously to the Company's program against the settlers they called "squatters." Because of Tolby's status as a minister of the gospel, people listened to him and resisted the Land Gant Company's enforcers.
When Tolby was killed in the Cimarron canyon in September, many thought Civil War veteran Cruz Vega was responsible. As a result, Vegas was tortured and killed, but before he died, Vega fingered Manuel Cardenas as the man who'd shot Tolby.
Cardenas, in turn, claimed that the now-dead Vega had killed the minister. More importantly, he asserted that three prominent members of the community—men who were believed to be part of the Santa Ring—had ordered the killing. Since members of the Ring had a controlling interest in the Maxwell Land Grant Company, Cardenas' claim made a lot of sense to many Colfax county residents.
However, Cardenas had yet to make his accusations before the County Court. And he died before he could do so. Since his killer was never identified, questions about Tolby's killing and its aftermath remain to this day: Who killed Manuel Cardenas and why? Was it a Cruz Vega adherent, revenging the aspersion on his good name? Was it Clay Allison or a member of the vigilante group that killed Cruz Vega, seeking vengeance for Reverend Tolby's death? Or did the Santa Fe Ring send out a killer to take out their killer before he could officially name names? For that matter, who killed Reverend Tolby? Was it Cruz Vega or Manuel Cardenas? And did members of the Santa Fe Ring really put them up to it? If so, how far did the conspiracy go? The Governor's office? Unless new evidence shows up now, 142 years later, we'll never know for sure.
And so the saga of Reverend Tolby's death ends with more questions raised than answered. This is the stuff that novels are made of!
Sources: Chuck Parsons, Clay Allison, portrait of a shootist, Pioneer Book Publishers, 1983; David L. Caffey, Chasing the Santa Fe Ring, UNM Press, 2014.
By lorettamilestollefsonin American West, Colfax County, Historical Tidbits, New Mexico, New Mexico Territory, Northern New Mexico, Old West November 10, 2017 November 7, 2017 454 Words2 Comments
Reverend Tolby Assassinated!!!!
On Thursday, September 16, 1875, 142 years ago today, the body of Methodist missionary Franklin J. Tolby was found lying beside the Cimarron Canyon road near the mouth of Clear Creek, shot in the back. He'd been there two days, killed while returning from church services at Elizabethtown. His horse was tethered nearby and none of Tolby's goods were missing. It was clearly a case of assassination and many people believed they knew why he was killed. But who did it and who'd ordered the killing? Those were the burning questions that some people believe were never answered.
Tolby had begun preaching vehemently against the Maxwell Land Grant & Railway Company almost as soon as he'd arrived in Colfax County in early 1874. The Company had bought the Beaubien-Miranda Grant from Lucien B. Maxwell and his wife four years before. The fact that the Grant boundaries were disputed wasn't going to stop them from maximizing their profits from every bit of its roughly 1.9 million acres. They would use whatever means necessary to keep anyone they deemed a squatter off the Grant, even people the Maxwells had work/share agreements with prior to the sale.
Source: Las Vegas Gazette, Sept. 18, 1875
The 33 year old Reverend Tolby preached that the farmers and ranchers were more in the right than the Grant people. After all, the U.S. Department of the Interior had ordered the grant land to be treated as public, which made it available to homesteaders.
In addition, Tolby advocated that part of the grant be set aside a reservation for the bands of Utes and Arapahoes who traditionally hunted there. And he said so quite strongly.
Tolby became increasingly annoying to the Company, whose board of directors included Dr. Robert Longwill (Colfax County Probate Judge), Stephen B. Elkins (New Mexico Territorial delegate to Congress), and Thomas B. Catron (U.S. Attorney for New Mexico Territory), all members of the Santa Fe Ring and working hard to extract as much money as possible from the Territory in general and the former Maxwell Grant in particular.
Any of these men and their associates, including Cimarron Attorney Melvin W. Mills and its part-time Justice of the Peace (who was Mills' office clerk) had reason to wish Tolby dead. After all, the Reverend was interfering with their business interests! But consensus among the anti-Grant folks in the County was that none of the Ring men were likely to dirty their hands with the actual deed itself. In fact, many suspected substitute mail carrier Cruz Vega of killing Tolby. After all, Vega's Tuesday, September 14 mail route took him through the Cimarron Canyon, but he hadn't reported seeing a body. This seemed mighty suspicious. Clearly, he knew something.
But Vega spoke only Spanish, which was a problem for the primarily English-speaking men who suspected him. They couldn't find out what he knew. And they weren't getting much help from the County's Spanish-speaking population.
But there was another stubborn Methodist minister in Cimarron, and this one would prove to be even more tenacious than his predecessor. Rev. Tolby's assistant Rev. Oscar P. McMains was now in charge, and he was hell bent on finding out what Vega knew. It would take six weeks before that confrontation occurred, and when it did it would create even more havoc. Stay tuned . . .
Sources: David L. Caffey, Chasing the Santa Fe Ring, UNM Press, 2014; Moreno Valley Writers Guild, Lure, Lore and Legends of the Moreno Valley, Columbine Books 1997; Chuck Parsons, Clay Allison, Portrait of a Shootist, Pioneer Book Publishers, 1983; Stephen Zimmer, For Good or Bad, People of the Cimarron Country, Stephen Zimmer, Sunstone Press, 1999.
By lorettamilestollefsonin Cimarron Canyon, Colfax County, Historical Tidbits, New Mexico Territory, Northern New Mexico September 16, 2017 September 15, 2017 616 Words
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Exhibitions, a series of publications, conferences, and events connected with the tradition of "new art for a new man" – this is how the Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź will commemorate the 100th anniversary of Polish avant-garde. On this occasion we will recall the relevance of the avant-garde art movement for the development of visual arts, literature, film or theatre; we will show how important Poland was as the centre of avant-garde and how vivid its traces are in the oeuvre of contemporary artists.
Exhibitions that present the legacy of the avant-garde, inspired by the movement or engaged in dialogue with it, will constitute the heart of these celebrations. Their goal is not just to bring Polish avant-garde art closer to the domestic audience but also to re-introduce it into the lifeblood of the world's scene of art. Such is the idea behind the monograph exhibition of the works of Katarzyna Kobro and Władysław Strzemiński – the key personalities of the Polish avant-garde of the interwar period in Poland. The exposition will be co-organised by Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid as the first so significant monograph exhibition of this couple of artists considered by many to be the major representatives of the European avant-garde. The exhibition will open in March and run until September 2017 at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid.
The history of avant-garde will be reminded in four presentations arranged in the exhibition space of the Muzeum Sztuki. Between February and May next year in Ogrodowa 19 visitors will see the exhibition "Natureculture. Avant-garde and Environment" designed to shed new light on artistic accomplishments of avant-garde of the first half of the 20th century from the viewpoint of one of its fundamental terms: organicity. It will be the first exhibition ever to so broadly present avant-garde artists' interest in nature. The exposition will show works by the main artists of European avant-garde, e.g., László Moholy-Nagy, Hans Arp, Max Ernst, Franz Marc, Paul Klee or Władysław Strzemiński, including masterpieces that have never been on show in Poland. The exhibition will demonstrate how the progress in biological sciences influenced avant-garde art during the interbellum and how the latter posed still pertinent questions about the relationships between culture and nature.
In June the exhibition "Enrico Prampolini and the Theatre of Mechanical Constructions. Futurism and Staging Techniques of the Polish Avant-garde" will open also at ms2. It will be the first attempt to demonstrate relationships between Futurism and Polish avant-garde and to juxtapose scenographic experiments of Polish Constructivist groups: Blok, Praesens, and the circles of "Zwrotnica" (Switch) magazine with the works of one of the most recognisable representatives of Italian Futurists, theatre reformer and initiator of theatrical exhibitions, Enrico Prampolini. Curators will discuss at length the usually marginalised relationships between Italian Futurism and avant-garde movement of Central Europe showing them in new light and paying attention to multilayer and ambiguous history of European avant-garde.
"Montages. Debora Vogel and New Urban Legend" is an exhibition, which reveals linkages between aesthetic concepts of Debora Vogel, a writer and art theoretician, with avant-garde practices of the interwar period, inter alia, with the oeuvre of artists from the Lviv Artes group, Leon Chwistek, and Władysław Strzemiński. A friend of Brunon Schulz and Witkacy, Debora Vogel wrote poems about living in modern urban space subordinated to the principles of rational organisation. The exhibition will show works that make reference to popular iconosphere of pre-war Lviv filled with advertisements of commercial world and the emerging consumerism. It will display documentary photographs of Lviv from the 1930s side by side with contemporary images of the city and propose the experience of moving across urban space demonstrating the scale of Vogel's theoretic reflection at that time. The exposition will run from 27 October 2017 until February 2018 at ms2.
The 2017 will also mark the one hundredth anniversary of De Stijl, one of the most prominent and influential European avant-garde groups. On this occasion, Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź will present the exposition "Life Organisers. De Stijl and Avant-garde Design in Poland", whose fundamental elements include works by Gerrit Thomas Rietveld, eminent architect and furniture designer from Utrecht. The exhibition that will show selected pieces by De Stijl will also relate to practices of Polish avant-garde inspired by Dutch art, such as, projects of the "a.r." group (including Władysław Strzemiński's Neoplastic Room designed to present the artworks from International Collection of Modern Art). The exposition will be on show at ms1 from the end of November 2017 until February/March 2018.
Still this year two exhibitions will open at the museum, both inspired by the oeuvre of Katarzyna Kobro and writings by Władysław Strzemiński. The first one, "Moved Bodies. Choreographies of Modernity" will run at ms1 from November 2016 until February 2017. It asks questions concerning corporeal and motional experience of modernity having the artworks of Katarzyna Kobro, which will be shown in the context of choreographic practices of her contemporaries, as the starting point. The exhibition will present archive materials from the oeuvre of artists, such as: Valentine de Saint-Point, Martha Graham, Rudolf Laban, Giannina Censi, Oskar Schlemmer, Mary Wigman, Noa Eshkol, Jane Dudley or Rosalia Chladek. Integral part of the exposition based on processed archive material will also include, e.g., workshops in movement where participants will be able to attend, inter alia, movement training workshops; visitors will experience the exhibition in multisensual ways in especially arranged spaces of the Museum.
A similar experimental spirit will permeate the second exhibition, "Museum of Rhythm", which will be open from November 2016 until March 2017. The project initiated by Natasha Ginwala in 2012 as part of the Taipei Biennial, enriched with new elements will be on show at ms1. The exhibition discusses the key notion of modernity: rhythm. It will present works of visual artists, such as: Erick Beltrán, Juan Downey, Ken Jacobs, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Channa Horwitz, Katarzyna Kobro, Hans Richter, Lis Rhodes, and Ericka Beckman, as well as documentaries and excerpts from feature films, music scores, inventions, and objects from various cultural circles used to dictate rhythm.
Conferences accompanying selected exhibitions will importantly complement celebrations of the one hundredth anniversary of Polish avant-garde. Expositions will also provide the starting point for publications that will make a multiple volume series. There will also be publications directly connected with the anniversary, which will present the major personalities of the Polish avant-garde and the most important phenomena in the 20th century art. Plans for 2017 also include the publication of two books: one devoted to an extremely important Polish painter, graphic artist and photographer Karol Hiller (written by Max Cegielski) and the other one about Ewa Partum (author: Paulina Rejter), one of Polish major female artists.
On top of that, Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź has published the re-edition of the "Theory of Vision" by Władysław Strzemiński, one of the major theoretical writings of Polish Modernism and an unusual testimony of theoretical consciousness of the artist who left a lasting impact on the development of fine arts. The book teaches us how to look at changes in artistic perception over time, explains relationships between the evolution of society and changes in art, and acts as a link between artistic education and the history of art. The masterpiece re-edited by the Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź after more than 60 years from its first public presentation (at a joint exhibition of Kobro and Strzemiński in Łódź), has been annotated by Prof. Iwona Luba who also wrote the Introduction; in the autumn it will be translated into English, which will surely contribute to the popularisation of avant-garde art across the world.


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Turkish Cargo signs e-commerce joint venture with ZTO and PAL Air
Turkish Cargo has signed a joint venture with ZTO Express and PAL Air to create a global express company focusing on the global e-commerce market.
The partnership promises not only to be a huge strategic step for Turkey prior to the opening of Istanbul New Airport but a game changer for global express business, was sealed and signed by Turkish Airlines chairman of the board and the executive committee, Ilker Ayci; ZTO Express chairman, Mei Song Lai; and PAL Air vice chairman, Vivian Lau.
The services of the new Hong Kong-based global express joint venture will include all door-to-door logistics activities; trucking, collection and distribution, freight transportation, cross docking and final mile delivery, as well as warehouse management, order and supply chain management when necessary.
Ayci says: "The Joint Venture, after reaching quickly to fully functional and operational levels, is expected to take place within the world's largest integrators. In five years' time it will generate over $2 billion of revenue. The growth is expected to continue gradually parallel to the e-commerce demand."
He adds that the new Istanbul Airport will open on 29 October and provide Turkish Cargo with up to four million tonnes of cargo capacity. "The flow of e-commerce products globally with this Joint Venture and via Istanbul Mega Hub; will provide maximum value to our customers worldwide."
ZTO distributes 28 million parcels a day and Alibaba Group has announced it will buy 10 per cent through an investment of $1.38 billion in a deal expected to close this month.
Speaking at the ceremony, Lai says: "The cooperation between the three partners will form synergy by combining strong core competencies and integrating key resources, and will undoubtfully effect positive progress in the areas of global express delivery, warehousing, cargo freight, and aviation route development and more, and will ultimately benefit traders and consumers globally."
PAL Air has launched B2C wholesale postal express services including last mile fulfilment to the retail express service providers in Hong Kong, China, Thailand, Vietnam, India and the USA.
Lau adds: "PAL is honoured to have played a role in creating a three parties venture that will unleash the best of three worlds, together with two global giants, Turkish Airlines and ZTO. Turkish Airlines, ZTO, and PAL looks forward to the creation of a world class integrator."
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No assessment of demonetisation, GST impact on workers: Centre informs Parliament
New Delhi, Dec 31 (IANS) The Narendra Modi government on Monday informed the Lok Sabha that it has not assessed the impact of demonetisation and the GST on workers engaged in the organised and unorganised sectors, including agricultural and contractual labourers, in the country.
In response to a question by Hyderabad MP and AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi, Minister of State for Labour and Employment Santosh Kumar Gangwar informed the Lok Sabha that no such assessment has been made.
"However, the Labour Bureau, Ministry of Labour & Employment, has been conducting quarterly quick employment surveys in eight sectors, namely manufacturing, construction, trade, transport, accommodation and restaurant, IT/BPO, education and health," Gangwar said in his reply.
The Centre on December 14 had also informed the Lok Sabha that it has done no assessment or study on the impact of demonetisation on the economy.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 8, 2016 had announced demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes.
The Reserve Bank of India in its annual report later had said that 99.3 per cent of the total banned notes had returned to the banking system.
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The Automotive Researchers' and Journalists' Conference of Japan, also known as (RJC), is a non-profit organization established in 1990, consisting of Japan-based automotive critics and journalists.

The RJC holds a yearly conference, where they bestow awards regarding:

Person of the Year (related to the automotive world)
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RJC Car of the Year is one of the prominent Japanese automobile awards, the other being Japan Car of the Year.

Winners

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 List of motor vehicle awards
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Ward's 10 Best Engines

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