FESTIVAL PROGRAM "Hommage to the Persteins - Music in Architecture"
Recital by a world-class pianist. The programme will feature, for example, Johann Sebastian Bach, Bedrich Smetana and the performer's own compositions.
Gala concert by a famous American tenor - the first in the Czech Republic!
Premiere of a children musical for soloists, choir and instrumental ensemble, libretto by Jan Tuma.
Violin virtuoso's project to the Baroque theme. The programme will include A. Vivaldi, J. B. Lully and a so far unknown violin concerto by J. K. Vanhal (staged in cooperation with Znojmo Music Festival).
Festival premiere of the magnum opus of verismo in opera. Opera in four acts, libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa.
Organist Jaromir Tuma and his guests interpret the music by J. S. Bach and composers inspired by him and his work.
A concert of a popular folk interpret.
CONCERT BY POPULAR REQUEST - DARK BLUE WORLD OF J. J.
The most popular songs and orchestra pieces from theatre performances, revues and films by Jiri Voskovec, Jan Werich and Jaroslav Jezek.
Concert of a renowned Japanese youth wind orchestra from Yokohama.
The programme will include also the Czech premiere of Prayer Music No. 1 - Dirge for Orchestra, written by Masaru Kawasaki thirty years after the bombing of Hiroshima.
Gala evening featuring the best choreography from the ballet ensemble repertoire.
Opera in four acts; libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy.
Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 7 in C major, Hob. I: VII "Le midi"
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 "Fate"
Arias and songs by Baroque masters; featuring also G. F. Händel, J. S. Bach, Tarquinio Merula, Antonio Caldara and others.
World premiere of orchestra songs by composer Sylvia Bodorova dedicated to one of the prominent contemporary baritones.
Evening programme in the Nove Hrady rococo chatelet with an opera performance to the libretto based on Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. The production was staged for the unique local Baroque open-air theatre, some parts of the opera will be performed in other areas of the chateau. The ticket price includes entry, refreshments and transport from Litomysl and back.
A new production of the opera in three acts that has been very well received by the audience and critique alike, libretto by Marie Cervinkova-Riegrova. Saturday early evening performance for parents with children.
Marie Fajtova in the leading role of the opera in three acts set to a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave based on La dame aux camélias.
THE RIGHT TO CHANGE A PROGRAM AND PERFORMERS IS RESERVED.
• The final program for Smetana's Litomysl to be announced by 24 February 2012.
• Tickets pre-sale will be launched on 2 March 2012.
• Tickets will be distributed by end-March 2012.


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Die Trompete ist in der Heraldik eine gemeine Figur. Das Musikinstrument kann als Wappenfigur im Wappenschild oder als Prachtstück neben, unter, hinter oder über diesem sein. Die spezielle Art des Instrumentes sollte blasoniert werden, ist aber in der Darstellung nicht immer eindeutig zu ersehen.

Der Begriff Trompete ist in der Heraldik doppeldeutig. In der Literatur wird damit auch die Wappenfigur Büffelhörner, Lohehörner oder Füllhörner bezeichnet.

Trompete im Wappenschild
Hier wird die Trompete einzeln oder auch bis zu drei Stück (mehr ist die Ausnahme) im Schild dargestellt. Die Lage ist in der Wappenbeschreibung eindeutig zu melden, wobei die Lage der Mundstückseite auch zur Bestimmung beitragen kann. Alle heraldischen Farben sind möglich, aber Gold oder Silber werden bevorzugt. Bei einer Darstellung eines blasenden Reiters oder Engel ist es nicht immer eine Trompete.

Trompete als Prachtstück
Hier wird das Instrument mit vielen anderen Prachtstücken zum Wappenschild drapiert. Gelegentlich werden Fahnen am Instrument befestigt und machen diese zur Heroldstrompete. Auch Quasten oder Schnüre können die Trompete zieren und sind in der Beschreibung zu erwähnen. Ist das Instrument hinter dem Schild, ist nur mit der Wappenbeschreibung Klarheit zu erlangen. Es könnte sich auch speziell um eine Posaune handeln.

Literatur
 Maximilian Gritzner: Großes und allgemeines Wappenbuch. Verlag Bauer und Raspe, Nürnberg 1888, S. 126 und Tafel 27 Fig. 6.

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This morning LIz and I were talking about the filming while we paint. I told her that yesterday I bought a new JVC HD video camera that fits in the palm of your hand for about $150 at Costco. It's an awesome little camera and great for filming in a studio because it's so small. She wanted to know how you do things like split screen and picture in a picture, which is really easy with iMovie. So I took just a few second of footage I shot in our kitchen yesterday and of FeeBee our nasty little cat. We have a nice cat too but this is the one that bites everyone. I was stunned when I played back the slow motion video of Feebee. I did NOTHING to the audio except slow it down. I was laughing so hard I was crying. I put some music to it. I hope you enjoy it as much as I am.
Say dear Mr, have you thought about the right in the image of Feebee ?
Wow! Does this mean if you speed up the sound of a tiger growling it will sound like a little cat?
Please don't encourage Garry...he will be at the zoo trying to climb in the big cat cage to get video of them roaring at him to speed up!
That's one of the reasons I love cats - they are THIS close to being one of their bigger, wilder cousins.


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The Ultimate Guide to Twin Cities Pride
Twin Cities Pride parade / Lucy Hawthorne
LGBTQ+ // Festivals & Events // Minneapolis-St. Paul // Article
By Brian Fanelli
Twin Cities Pride is the nation's third-largest free pride festival and takes place every June in downtown Minneapolis.
The modern Twin Cities Pride is a massive, annual, family-friendly party that celebrates the large LGBTQ+ community in Minneapolis-St. Paul. Like all pride celebrations, its roots can be traced back to the infamous Stonewall riots of 1969 and the ripples of unrest and protest that spread across America in response.
Approximately 50 people attended Minnesota's inaugural, proto-pride protest in 1972, on the third anniversary of Stonewall, but only about half of them marched down the Nicollet Mall; the other half waited in nearby Loring Park, ready to bail out their friends and loved ones if and when they were arrested.
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Pride is Back and Celebrating a Big Anniversary
Twin Cities Pride is celebrating its 50th anniversary in a big way. A week of celebrating Minnesota's large LGBTQ+ community kicks off with a free barbecue and games for kids at the Pride Family Fun Day from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Sunday, June 19, at Como Park. The 10th annual Pride Beer Dabbler will provide opportunities to sip and sample a variety of locally made beverages from more than 65 breweries and cideries from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. Friday, June 24, at the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden.
The main festival will feature food and live music from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, June 25, and Sunday, June 26, at Loring Park. The festivities on Saturday include a Carly Rae Jepsen concert within the hangar-like confines of The Armory and Sunday features a spirited march on Hennepin Avenue from 7th Street to the festival grounds.
Found on the southern edge of downtown Minneapolis, Loring Park is an urban oasis in the heart of the city / Mike Krivit Photography, courtesy Meet Minneapolis
Explore the Twin Cities' Main Gayborhood
Neither of the Twin Cities has an official "gayborhood"—our queer community makes its home across the entire metro—but if there were an official ruling on the matter, the Loring Park neighborhood, home of the Pride Festival, would likely take the title.
One of Minneapolis' distinctive downtown neighborhoods, the mostly residential streets of Loring Park are notable for their eclectic mix of historic brownstones, new apartments and condos, and the area's largest and most diverse queer community. To get a feel for this vibrant neighborhood, grab a coffee and treat at the queer-owned Muffin Top Cafe and take a stroll around the neighborhood's eponymous park. Sip your coffee from a bench overlooking Loring Lake and watch as countless rainbow flags flutter from the windows and stoops of the neighborhood's many homes.
Like all true dives, The 19 is cash only, but unlike some lesser dive bars, there's an ATM on-site.
Grab breakfast, lunch or dinner at the queer-owned Nicollet Diner, which stays open 24/7/365—but stop in before 1 a.m. to take advantage of the diner's full bar, complete with boozy milkshakes and other fun drinks. And of course, no visit to Loring Park is complete without a game of pool, a round of Big Buck Hunter and a pitcher of Grain Belt at The 19, everyone's favorite gay neighborhood dive bar—open since 1952. Like all true dives, The 19 is cash only, but unlike some lesser dive bars, there's an ATM on-site.
Brian Fanelli is a writer and editor for Explore Minnesota. When he isn't writing about life in The North, you'll find him browsing the sci-fi shelves in a local bookstore, biking one of Minnesota's spectacular trails or walking his Chihuahua around Minneapolis.
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Attack of the Sugar Monster!: Heidi's First Easter!
I dyed Easter eggs and participated in an Easter egg hunt for the first time! I love having friends who want to give me the experiences I never had as a child.
Popsicles in champagne = faux sangria!
A proper Southern lady ALWAYS wears a hat on Easter.
I have only just found your blog (I think I followed a link from tumblr) and have spent the whole day reading through your posts and enjoying every word. I just wanted to comment and say you are so wonderful and refreshing, keep being you.


Caedogender or Caedgender: A gender which has been "cut away" by a traumatic event. A gender that was once felt but has been damaged or lost due to trauma.
First time I've heard of this, but it pretty much describes my gender. Do you happen to know where it was coined?
No sorry, I;ve been doing some research to find the sources, I'll get back to you if I find this one!


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#LLAInterview: Sylvia Arthur, Founder, Libreria Ghana Says It is Important You Know Your Stuff
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"It's important for us to understand the scope of our presence in the world and our contributions to contemporary literature as this is so often underrepresented, particularly in the West but also in Africa, where our literature is restricted to the post-colonial writers."
Sylvia Arthur is a British-Ghanaian nonfiction writer whose work explores themes of identity, diaspora, politics, and place. Her writing has been published in The Guardian, the BBC, and The British Journalism Review and her essay, "Britain's Invisible Black Middle Class" was curated in the anthology, Know Your Place: Essays by the Working Class for the Working Class. She holds an MA in Narrative Nonfiction Writing. She has been awarded fellowships to Hedgebrook and Santa Fe Art Institute and received a grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation via 516 Arts to produce a publication on immigration and art produced in and about the US-Mexico border region.
Spirited about literary advocacy in Africa, Sylvia opened Libreria Ghana in December of 2017 to give Ghanaians access to books that weren't easily obtainable whilst amplifying the voices of African Black writers. Located in the well-to-do suburb of West Legon in Accra, the library houses a broad selection of literary fiction and narrative nonfiction by writers from across the world, but specialises in books by writers of African descent. Sylvia shares more about Libreria Ghana- its scope and the impact it has recorded since its creation.
While plans were underway in setting up Libreria Ghana did you ever think in terms of "this might not work" or "why will people want to read the books"?
No. I knew there was a need for this type of space in Accra, and in Ghana. My concern was about the model. I constantly had thoughts of "will the model work?" We're a subscription-based library, which means we charge for membership. People are used to libraries being 'free' but, of course, just because you're not being charged doesn't mean it's not being paid for somehow. Our charges are just explicit.
What was your greatest challenge setting up the Library?
Finding a space. I needed somewhere with the right ambiance for the right price and I eventually found it. But the location is a bit of a problem as we're not in the centre of Accra and traffic can be a nightmare in this city.
So tell us, what is the story behind Libreria Ghana?
I've always been a reader and, over the years, I'd accumulated a vast collection of books that were difficult to accomodate in my tiny London studio so I'd ship them to my mum's house in Kumasi, Ghana. One time, when I went to visit her, I saw all the books just there, not being read, and I thought it was an incredible waste that they weren't providing the same joy and knowledge that I got from them to others. So I decided to use them to start a library and open it to the public.
And the name? How did you come about the name?
I lived in Barcelona, Spain, for a while. Libreria means bookshop in Spanish and in Catalan (but spelt with two ls), and I spent a lot of time in bookshops while there. The name celebrates and commemorates that. I still have strong ties to Barcelona.
Can you share some impact Libreria Ghana has recorded since its inception?
In the 15 months since our launch, we regularly serve over 1000 children by giving them access to great books through two new Little Libreria, school libraries in underserved communities. We run reading and creative play sessions for the children of market women (Market Akenkan) and a barbershop/hair salon programme that rewards children with free hairstyles in exchange for reading (Read Well, Look Smart!). Our events with top writers and thinkers from around the world have attracted over 600 readers, not to mention the impact of our brand on the perception of books and reading in Ghana at large. In 2018, our #BookDropGhana campaign, aimed at Ghanaians in the Diaspora coming 'home' for Christmas, mobilised returnees and native Ghanaians, and created a movement, generating over 400 book donations in under four weeks. Our outreach work has been, and continues to be, the most rewarding aspect of the library. Our impact has been significant and we've punched above our weight.
Let's talk about your other Artistic pursuits- you write, you also speak. You produced a one-woman show which was part of "Talawa Firsts" in 2017. Did you know from the get-go that your gifting were aligned towards the Arts or did you evolve into it?
No, I've always been torn between the corporate world and the artistic world, and I still am. I work full-time in corporate communications, which I've done for almost 20 years, while doing the library and my other artistic work. It's a real balancing act. I've had to learn how to align the two. When I'm fully immersed in the arts, I miss the certainty and pressure of business, knowing that you have to achieve no matter what. When I'm in the corporate mindset, I miss the freedom and expression of the arts. So you have to come to an agreement with yourself about how to get the best from both worlds, and be comfortable with it.
As a speaker, what tips do you have for overcoming fear of Public Speaking?
Just do it. Know your subject, prepare, practice but, above all else, know your stuff. If, deep down, you have that well of knowledge on your topic gained through years of work or life experience, take that awareness of your confidence/authority from within and trust that you'll deliver.
What do you consider your greatest fear and how have you been able to manage it?
Public speaking-:) I overcome it by just doing it but, each time I have to speak publicly, I go through the same battle. In that sense, there's no overcoming it fully; you face it engagement by engagement.
What values drive you?
Fairness, equality, justice, and opportunity for all.
What keeps you going when the odds are against you?
Knowing that this is my God-given purpose.
3 women that inspire you?
My mum
What would you like to be remembered for?
Shifting the needle on illiteracy in Ghana and, eventually, the world and creating the largest repository of books by writers of African descent and helping to give African writers their well-earned due while creating a legacy for future generations.
5 book recommendations?
In no particular order, and my recommendations for today only-:)
Becoming by Michelle Obama
An inspiring tour-de-force through the life of our forever FLOTUS full of life lessons for all women.
New Daughters of Africa edited by Margaret Busby
An essential and comprehensive compilation of writing by 200 women from Africa and the diaspora.
Our Sister Killjoy or Changes by Ama Ata Aidoo
Writing at its best, prescient, in which African women take centre stage as self-assured agents of their own lives.
Baldwin remains the preeminent writer/chronicler of our time, over 30 years after his death.
The Chibok Girls by Helon Habila
Reportage at its best. It incorporates the personal and the political with razor-sharp analysis.
Your advice for young women who want to launch their dreams but are weighed down by self-limiting beliefs?
Go for it. Don't wait for the right time because it will never come. Believe in yourself and your vision. Know your purpose. And, remember, there's no such thing as failure; only life lessons.
To find out more about Libreria Ghana, visit instagram.com/libreriagh or libreriagh.com.
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Birth dearth: Millennials' rejection of parenthood could be lethal blow to Western civilization
Births plunge to record lows in U.S.
America has entered a demographic winter that should make every patriotic citizen shiver with concerns for their children's future.
That is, if they have any children.
It's a problem you won't hear much about in the media but it's been brewing for years. For many feminists, to even talk about it is tantamount to the unforgivable sin.
But all denials aside, this problem is as plain as the nose on little Johnnie's face: The birth rate in these United States of America is imploding.
After several lackluster years, the rate fell by a record amount in 2017, according to a new report put out by the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta.
U.S. birth rates declined last year for women across the board – in their teens, 20s and even in their 30s – leading to the fewest babies being born in 30 years, according to the CDC report released Thursday, May 17.
Thursday's report shows that the birthrate decline that started in 2014 was likely not a blip but the beginnings of a trend. America the global superpower has entered the clutches of a demographic death spiral from which it appears unable to pry itself loose.
The CDC report, based on a review of more than 99 percent of the birth certificates filed nationwide, counted 3.853 million births last year. That's the lowest since 1987.
The fertility rate now stands at 1.7 births per woman. For a generation of Americans to replace itself, it takes a fertility rate of at least 2.1 children per woman.
The U.S. was, until a few years ago, among a handful of developed countries that could muster the pivotal 2.1 threshold. That day is apparently gone, with millennials having a stronger aversion to large families — or even medium-sized families for that matter — than even the previous generations of baby boomers and gen-Xrs [who were not exactly prolific themselves].
A decade ago, the estimated rate was 2.1 children per U.S. woman. In 2017, it fell below 1.8, hitting its lowest level since 1978. "That's a pretty remarkable decline," John Santelli, a Columbia University professor of population and family health and pediatrics, told the Associated Press.
In my 2017 book, Stealth Invasion: Muslim Conquest through Immigration and Resettlement jihad, I pointed out the critical importance of birthrates to a nation's survival. Secular globalists teaching in our schools and universities have brainwashed students since the 1960s that smaller is better when it comes to family size. But in the Islamic world, there is no such taboo against having kids.
A 39-year-old Christian woman who has worked in Germany's migrant camps for years told The Express that Christians in those camps are harassed and intimidated. They thought she was a Muslim, so they confided in her.
"Some women told me, 'We will multiply our numbers. We must have more children than the Christians because it's the only way we can destroy them here.'"
U.S. Muslims have repeatedly boasted of the same strategy. In 2015, a Muslim mother lashed out in anger at a school board meeting in Jersey City, New Jersey, when the board refused to grant students the day off for the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha, warning that "We're going to be the majority soon!"
In the free nations of the West, a declining population is the norm, and any increases in population are due strictly to immigration from the Islamic world. A declining birthrate results in an aging population and leads almost without fail to a nation turning to mass migration to save its economic soul.
As a nation's young women opt for abortion and contraception in place of motherhood, that nation inevitably falls into a pattern of a slow decline.
If the low-birthrate trend continues, it becomes increasingly difficult to pay the Social Security pensions and healthcare needs of the previous "boomer" generations.
To head off the coming economic implosion, politicians look for a quick fix: Importing foreign laborers to pay for the mounting pensioners and to do the jobs that were once done by the indigenous population starts to look increasingly appealing. And you can count on the Chamber of Commerce to stand over the shoulder of elected leaders, whispering words of encouragement for them to dive into the foreign labor pool head first.
The United Nations also advises low-birthrate countries in the West to "replace" their aging native populations with Third Worlders [See Replacement Migration: Is it a Solution to Declining and Aging Populations, UN Archives, 2000]
Just ask the Swedes, the Brits and the Germans how well that formula has worked out for them.
If we want to know what our future will look like, just look across the pond: The call to Islamic prayer rings out over loudspeakers, surging migrant knife attacks, no-go zones, out-of-control sexual assaults against women and girls, and, finally, the widespread election of Muslims to public office.
These European nations started their decline long ago, soon after World War II, leading keen observers like Ben Wattenberg and Mark Steyn to warn that the U.S. may become the fading last remnant of a Western civilization based on Christianity, free enterprise, freedom of speech and religion. [Steyn authored America Alone in 2006 while Wattenberg predicted back in 1987 a forthcoming population decline in The Birth Dearth: What Happens When People in Free Countries Don't Have Enough Babies?]
I am not sure if a nation actually loses its will to survive, or if its inhabitants just become more self-absorbed as they become more educated and wealthy. Self-absorbed people tend to opt for pets over children. They don't talk back, they sit and shake hands on command, and can be counted on to return affection with affection. Children are far more unpredictable and can be exhausting.
Modern society also lacks the close extended-family relationships that previous generations counted on to help raise larger families. Children today are more likely to not even know their grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins, seeing them only infrequently due to the scattering of families across state lines.
Whatever the causes, we've seen what happens to an aging, declining nation whose leaders decide to delve headlong into mass migration as their economic panacea. Such a nation gravitates increasingly toward global governance, loss of sovereignty, and a multicultural worldview that seeks to punish one's own culture while promoting foreign cultures that have no history of appreciation for individual freedom. [News flash: This means saying adios to the First and Second Amendments to the U.S. Constitution].
The "politics of guilt and pity," as the late author Rousas Rushdoony called it, spells doom for any great power that becomes addicted to the toxic trifecta of foreign labor, a tax-funded welfare state and self doubt bordering on self hatred.
Germany, Italy, France, Greece, Sweden, Spain and the UK are all suffering the after-effects of drinking from this toxic cup. The governments of these countries, faced with aging populations, all turned to mass migration to fill in the gaps in their labor forces and temporarily prop up their economies. It's obvious now that this was fool's gold.
Yet, we see American politicians falling into the same trap — and it's not only Democrats. Jeb Bush argued for an increase in legal immigration, already at historically high levels, in his 2015 book Immigration Wars: Forging an American Solution, citing declining birthrates as his main justification.
You can argue whether mass-migration is the best solution to the birth dearth, but you cannot argue with the fact that our current economy is based on the concept of perpetual growth, and perpetual growth requires a steady stream of young workers entering the work force.
The options are limited: Either we find a new economic model based on moribund growth, like Japan seems intent on doing, we continue to increase the number of new immigrants, or we somehow convince our young women of the blessings of motherhood. The only way to do the latter is for men to release their spouses from some of the income-producing responsibilities. Many families in today's globalized economy have been squeezed to the point where they simply cannot survive without both spouses working full time. Yet, we all know of other families for whom the second income is a luxury, not a necessity.
According to the Associated Press, experts cited several factors contributing to a perfect storm of declining U.S. birthrates. Chief among them is "shifting attitudes about motherhood among women in their 20s and early 30s."
Births have been declining since 2014, but 2017 saw the greatest year-to-year drop – about 92,000 less than the previous year.
That surprised the report's authors, because baby booms often parallel economic booms, and last year was a period of low unemployment and a growing economy.
The CDC report also found the following fascinating facts:
The rate of births to women ages 15 to 44, known as the general fertility rate, sank to a record low of about 60 per 1,000.
Women in their early 40s were the only group with higher birth rates in 2017, up 2 percent from the year. The rate has been rising since the early 1980s.
The cesarean section rate rose slightly after having decreased four years. Studies have shown C-sections are more common in first-time births involving older moms.
Rates of preterm and low birth weight babies rose for the third straight year, possibly for the same reason.
Birth rates for teens continued to nosedive, as they have since the early 1990s. In 2017, they dropped 7 percent from the year before.
Birth rates for women in their 20s continued to fall and hit record lows. They fell 4 percent.
Perhaps most surprising, birth rates for women in their 30s also fell, dipping 2 percent for women ages 30 to 34 and 1 percent for women 35 to 39.
Leo Hohmann is a veteran journalist and author of the 2017 book "Stealth Invasion: Muslim Conquest through Immigration and Resettlement Jihad." If you appreciate this type of original, fact-based and independent reporting, please consider a donation of any size to this website. We accept no advertising and are beholden to no one.
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fred says:
Does the modern rejection of parenthood signal the end of Western Civilization or the rebirth of it? While it is true that Western liberals are not having children, Western religious conservatives are having children. Nobody pays attention to the birth rate divide because most of the large families are homeschooled or religiously private schooled and are therefore out of the public eye. Even more interesting is the fact that most of the (legal) immigrants to the West have been influenced by pro-family concepts through decades of Protestant missionary activity around the world and are more "Western" (i.e. monotheistic, entrepreneurial, hard-working) then most native-born liberal Westerners and are bolstering Western Civilization, not destroying it. What we are seeing is not the disappearance of the West, but the cultural suicide of Western liberals/progressives. Ironically, this entire paradigm is playing itself out in the daily news aging and impotent liberal Westerners violently lash out at the God-fearing, pro-family, pro-work-ethic people who make up both the majority of the West and the majority of our immigrants.
Can you imagine? A future where the West is again pro-God, pro-family, and pro-hard-work? The possibilities are limitless.
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I suspect the "women's movement" has a lot to do with this reality. I grew up in the 50s, when most moms were at home raising their brood and relating to their peers on a daily basis. Birth control was, for the most part, hit or miss and limited to rhythm or mechanical methods. When the 60s hit, along with Betty Friedan et al, the pressure for women to "self-actualize" escalated exponentially, and our kids took it in the shorts. But the long-term effect on the economy was just as bad, in the sense that, as household incomes rose (due to two wage-earners), demand also rose for goods and services, and consequently prices rose to parallel the demand. In those days, a minimum wage of approx. $3.50/hr, or $6720 annually, corresponded to about $12,000 for an average house. That's less than 2 years' annual gross income. Today's minimum wage of approx. $10 gets you $19,200 in annual income, but the average cost of a house is more like $240,000 in many parts of the country. Those same 2 years of work now get you $43,200 in gross income, but only 1/5 the cost of an average house, and more like 1/10 the cost in many localities. In other words, housing now costs 5-10 times what it used to, and that is largely due to increased family incomes (i.e., supply and demand). Good bargain? Hardly. But what would happen if millions of women opted to return home to raise their families fulltime and consequently dramatically lower their standard of living? Would prices fall? Possibly, slowly, but only at the cost of precipitously escalating default rates on every conceivable type of debt, leading to potential financial collapse on a scale never previously known. Which further drives the incentive for women to keep working rather than raising their own kids, or perish the thought, having MORE kids. So essentially we've imprisoned ourselves in a financial and social jail of our own making, all because we threw God's prescription for families out the window. Do we actually think God wanted children to be raised in daycare institutions and by godless public schools? (1 Tim. 2:15) But obviously the Almighty Dollar won the adulation of our souls and we are the poorer for it. And now, many millennials entering the workforce can't even afford rent in many of our cities, let alone a home of their own. The American dream has gone on hiatus, and consigned many of us to hopeless drudgery on the hamster wheel of life.
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Peter Shaw says:
I wrote a blog post on this issue about 10 years ago after reading a NY Times article on the same topic. That it is happening now in the US in 2018 is no great surprise. In fact it is a continuing tragedy.
http://workingclay.blogspot.com/2008/06/ignore-god-decrease-your-birth-rates.html
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I want to ask, is your figure stating the number of births in 2017 limited to births to American citizen mothers? Does it include births to noncitizen and illegal mothers? I keep reading articles stating that, today, the annual number of births to illegal alien mothers is about half a million, but have not seen any figures for births to Muslim mothers in our country. Another question, would the figures differ in different parts of our country, small cities as opposed to large, etc? I live in a small southern city. I have 3 neices, each have three kids. I, myself, know, personally, 5 young unmarried women with 1-2 babies. Our elementary schools are full. I see lots of young children every time I go out shopping. I realize this is not statistical, just observation, but I wonder about what babies were included in this count. If the count made no differences in births to American citizen mothers and noncitizen mothers, the actual numbers for Americans replacing themselves could be even worse. Anyway, turning our bation over to foreign third world illegal aliens and third world Muslims is NOT the answer if we wish our America, as founded, to continue for our descendants. Replacing our own people with foreign people totally different in all respects accomplishes nothing but the loss of ourselves along with all the freedoms and independence our ancestors built and left for us to fight for. Most all of my childbearing years were represented by the push to decrease the population in order to save the planet. But, another cause for most of us of my era in limiting our children to, usually 1 or 2, is being able to afford them, not just financially but also in time and attention because most of we mothers worked. We might have chosen, after marriage, to both work for a few years to get settled before starting a family, but birth control options then were not what they are today. I, personally, think we stopped having more children, if any, is because we have become, over the last 3 decades, more and more selfish and self centered and fixated on material things for ourselves as well as our children. I wonder is there any correlation between the start of fewer births and the beginning easy access to credit cards?
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Really interesting – keep up the good work!
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#NukeGate: SCANA Lawsuit Dismissed … For Now
Ruling sets stage for amended complaint, protracted legal battle …
In a meandering order replete with dense debate on the delicate balance of power between state and federal governments, U.S. district court judge Michelle Childs dismissed (in part, anyway) a complaint filed by crony capitalist energy provider SCE&G (a subsidiary of SCANA) related to the ongoing #NukeGate debacle.
Childs did not completely toss the case, though. Nor did she issue an opinion on its merits. Instead, she simply argued that SCE&G's initial complaint – filed earlier this month – "fails to plead any allegations" against the specific defendants it named, the individual members of the S.C. Public Service Commission (SCPSC).
Childs' ruling gives the embattled utility until 3:00 p.m. EDT on Friday, July 27, 2018 to file an amended complaint – which we presume will name members of the S.C. General Assembly (who are ultimately responsible for this high-stakes legal showdown) as defendants.
We presume motions to dismiss that complaint will be unsuccessful, as Childs covered much of the legal basis for upholding a complaint in her ruling.
Three weeks ago, SCE&G filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a new South Carolina law "significantly reducing company revenues from electric rates authorized by state law and previous orders of the (SCPSC)."
As we exclusively reported last month, legislative leaders reached a deal they claim will undo the damage they did over a decade ago in allowing two utilities (including one owned by the government) to squander more than $10 billion on a pair of now-abandoned reactors in Fairfield County, S.C. Of that sum, $2 billion was collected directly from ratepayers – essentially socializing a significant chunk of the investment risk related to the doomed V.C. Summer nuclear generating plant expansion project.
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The socialization of investment risk was accomplished via the now-notorious Base Load Review Act (BLRA) – legislation advanced by liberal state lawmakers and allowed to become law in 2007 by former governor Mark Sanford. Under the terms of this handout, SCANA was allowed to impose an eighteen percent "nuclear surcharge" on ratepayers – a charge they are still paying.
Government-run utility Santee Cooper – which is on the verge of a spectacular collapse – was also allowed to raise rates on consumers in connection with the V.C. Summer project.
Legislators' compromise – which left $1.6 billion in immediate ratepayer relief on the table – lowered the 18 percent surcharge to a little more than 3 percent, albeit temporarily. A separate offer advanced by Virginia-based Dominion Energy proposes to lower the rate more gradually while providing the aforementioned $1.6 billion in relief (roughly $1,500 for each SCANA ratepayer) as well as another $1.7 billion in debt assumption related to the abandoned nuclear project.
Dominion has made it clear the legislative plan is unacceptable and would likely result in the company rescinding its offer.
In SCE&G's suit, the utility claims the legislative plan "is unconstitutional and asks the court to issue an injunction prohibiting the SCPSC from implementing the new law." The suit further alleges that "the rate reduction and other aspects of the new law constitute an unlawful taking of private property, deny (SCE&G) due process of law, and constitute an unlawful bill of attainder, all in violation of various provisions of the United States Constitution."
Do they have a case? Yes …
In fact, a recent U.S. appeals court ruling in Florida highlighted the firm legal footing on which the utility (deservedly or not) finds itself.
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Nonetheless, Childs threw out the company's initial complaint – again, in part – on the belief the utility did not properly identify those responsible for the alleged constitutional violations.
"SCE&G has failed to state a plausible claim against the individual (SCPSC) commissioners, and without individual allegations against the individual commissioners, the court cannot infer that any actions by the commissioners violated SCE&G's constitutional rights under color of state law," Childs ruled.
She did, however, affirm that the utility "has the right to file its case in federal court" and that attempts to toss the case completely by state legislative leaders – who have intervened to be named as defendants in the action – are unlikely to be successful.
Moreover, the court affirms its authority to hear an amended compliant on the grounds that "an adequate and timely state review is not currently available to SCE&G."
That means legislative attempts to move the case to the S.C. Supreme Court – which is comprised of justices they appoint – is also unlikely to be successful.
Here is Childs' ruling …
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Q: Selenium not working properly if tab not visible in python I have created a browser scraping script which sends a message on WhatsApp web using selenium in python but yesterday noticed a that its sending half message or not sending messages. Debugged it and found that the browser window must be active to send messages my send message code as below.
def send_message(msg):
    whatsapp_msg = driver.find_element_by_class_name(send_messageClass)
    for part in msg.split('\n'):
        whatsapp_msg.send_keys(part)
        ActionChains(driver).key_down(Keys.SHIFT).key_down(Keys.ENTER).key_up(Keys.SHIFT).key_up(Keys.ENTER).perform()
    time.sleep(1)
    ActionChains(driver).send_keys(Keys.RETURN).perform()
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A: find_element_by_class_name simply retrieves the element from the DOM. It does not ensure, if it is visible.
For this use an explicit wait in conjunction with visibility of the element as expected condition:
selenium.webdriver.support.expected_conditions.visibility_of(element)

This will wait for the element to be visible until the specified timeout is reached. Here is an example with timeout of 60 seconds:
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EXP_CON

...

wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 60)
whatsapp_msg = driver.find_element_by_class_name(send_messageClass)
visible_whatsapp_msg = wait.until(EXP_CON.visibility_of(whatsapp_msg))

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Then simply run the command to install the theme you want (see below). If you're not using Ubuntu, click the DeviantArt links and follow the instructions to install the themes.
Besides the GNOME Shell themes mentioned above, the PPA also provides Ambiance Blue Theme Suite - a pack that comes with a GTK2, GTK3 and GNOME Shell theme, as well as Evolve GTK (2/3) theme.


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Single site tours can be done, include all above.
Tours, then drop off at International Airport can also be arranged; International Airport drop-offs for departure from Belize City add on $10US per person.


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Jeffrey Kagan-McCann is the Artistic Director and Founder of Pearwater Productions and the Hartford Fringe Festival.
This Hartford native, born on the North End, has been involved in theater since he was 7 years old. He wrote and directed his first play for a Elementary School production. His first acting role was at 14 in Artist Collective's Prodigal Sister. Later he was cast in the Hartford Stage Company Youth Theatre in Kiss Me Kate, Anything Goes and Of Thee I Sing, which were directed by Clay Stevenson. Then he was cast in Youth Theater Unlimited's production of Romeo and Juliet also directed by Clay Stevenson.
He joined the teen social theater group Looking In. He studied Acting at Center for Creative Youth (CCY) at Wesleyan University (1981). He was one of the founding members of CT Out Film Festival (formerly Hartford LGBT Film Festival) and the Hartford Children's Theater.
Jeff has worked at other Connecticut theaters in different theater positions: Goodspeed at Chester, Company One, Actor's Attic, Hartford Stage Company, Protean Theater and TheaterWorks.
And out of state: Northwest Actors Studio (Seattle, WA), Seattle Fringe Festival, A Contemporary Theater (Seattle, WA) Millbrook Playhouse (Mill Hall, PA) and Lucid Stage Company (Portland, ME).
Jeffrey has written, directed and produced several of his plays: A Fine Line, The Blue Moon Chronicles – three full length plays: Once in a Blue Moon, My Gay Son's Wedding and Goodnight Blue Moon, Sigourney Square Park, Black Irish, Bellevue Landing (A Soap Opera Spoof) and Will. He also directed Pearwater Productions' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Hillhouse Opera Company's first act of Madame Butterfly in New Haven, CT.
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What to expect from the witchcraft exhibition in the Pyrenees
Wax busts, medicine stones, and medieval documents illustrate profound history of witchcraft in Catalan mountains
'Se'n parlave…i n'hi havie' exhibition / ACN
First published: August 14, 2021 10:00 AM
Whether or not someone practices witchcraft is not exactly a common concern nowadays, with witch hunts mainly relegated to the realm of historical analysis and only recently seen through the lens of feminism and oppression.
The exhibition 'They were talked about…and they were there' ('Se'n parlave…i n'hi havie' in Catalan) illustrates the research carried out between 2015 and 2017 on the phenomenon of witchcraft in the Pyrinees.
The exhibition can be found in the Ecomuseum of Esterri D'Àneu, a town in the Pyrenees mountains in north Catalonia. It's been documented that in this territory, some of the first trials against witchcraft in Europe took place.
A wax bust of Catherine Desayes, known as 'La Voisin' (1640-1680), can be found at the exhibition, a French fortune-teller who made contract poisonings and was a professional supplier of witchcraft items.
Curators have also incorporated medicine stones and wax pieces with printed images of the Calvary of Christ that witches used as protective dowries.
You can also consult an excerpt from the book 'Ordinances of the Vall d'Àneu' written in 1424. It is the oldest Catalan legal document that refers to 'crime of witchcraft', and it describes what would have been the scene of the first legal conviction of the crime of witchcraft in Europe.
The location of the exhibition is ideal because in the Pyrenees there are still people who believe in it and even avoid talking about it out of fear.
There are houses where it is said that witches lived and the exhibition mentions two of them: Casa Rugall de Montrós, and Casa Tomàs.
The witch-hunt in Catalonia
Júlia Carreras, a philologist and researcher on witchery and ethnobotany, explained to the Catalan News Agency that these are often not just legends but real situations experienced first-hand by men and women until the early 1940s.
It is estimated that over one thousand people, mostly women, were prosecuted and sentenced for witchcraft in Catalonia between the 15th and the 18th century, more than any other territory in the Iberian peninsula.
Just the fact of having a With just a single indication of a that a woman was suspected of being a witch, local courts had the authority credit to convict her. For this reason, many women went into exile to other territories.
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Having wanted to visit Prithvi for ages, I almost jumped for joy when James and I received an invitation to try out their new Autumn Menu.
Often recognised as the best restaurant in Cheltenham, with it's reputation reaching far further afield, Prithvi has gained huge praise for it's sophisticated dining experience, regarding both the food and service.
Having only been open since 2012 it wasn't long before the five star reviews came flooding in, marking Prithvi as the number one place to eat in Cheltenham on TripAdvisor. Which is no mean feat considering how many people regard themselves as food critics these days. Food bloggers are entirely different I might add.
Prithvi has also been voted the UK's number one curry house, which is obviously great news for them but a little odd as the dishes we sampled were in a complete league of their own and probably wouldn't come under 'curry'. But I'll let you, the reader, be the judge of that.
On arrival we were warmly greeted by Melissa who had organised the event and Jay, owner of Prithvi. We were given a choice of drinks and then went in search of a table. The room was filled with other fellow bloggers, some familiar faces and some new.
We took a seat and began to look through our tasting menu, named the 'Prithvi Tour'. As we perused the menu, Jay made his way around the tables asking if we would like any wines or other beverages to go with the food. James and I had a glass of their white wine; which was wonderfully sweet – just how we like our wines.
Before our four course tasting menu began we were treated to an amuse bouche of crispy kale and mango chutney on top of a rice cracker. Followed by another of chickpea and tomato panipuri – this was flowing with a tamarind juice meaning you had to eat it all in one. Not a particularly big challenge for James and I.
For our first course, I had the Tandoor baked salmon with beetroot, cucumber and mango, whilst James who is not the biggest fish fan, enjoyed Tandoor baked beetroot with goats cheese.
The salmon was soft and delicate with all the spicy flavours you'd expect from Indian cuisine, balanced perfectly with the sweet, earthy beetroot and pickled cucumber. The Tandoor baked beetroot was a revelation, paired with a strong goats cheese the two flavours each packed a punch without being overpowering. The wine that had been chosen for us, was a great complement to the dishes.
Our second course was Welsh lamb, couscous and legumes. A beautifully presented plate of food, the lamb taking centre stage in both it's wonderfully pink colouring and the incredible flavours. The couscous and legumes helped soak up the juices of both the lamb and the sauces. A winning plate of food.
The third course was another showstopper in both the looks and taste departments: Venison with butternut squash, ginger and cinnamon reduction. Still carrying those wonderful Indian flavours we've all grown to know and love, the meat just melted in my mouth. The butternut squash added a sweetness to the dish and whilst I was sceptical about the ginger and cinnamon reduction, it all came together wonderfully. I know, how could I doubt these guys after the previous courses!?
A side of white truffle naan bread also accompanied the dish which struck the right balance of truffle which can often be overpowering.
Our final course was dessert, a plate of passion fruit cream, mango gel, coriander and a honey crumble. I don't often have desserts in Indian restaurants and if they're all this good, then I've definitely made some bad choices in life. However, I suspect Prithvi's take on puddings is something quite unique. This had all the makings of an A-star dessert with sharp, sweet, creamy flavours running throughout. Plus it was another feast for the eyes.
Cheltenham has a wealth of good Indian restaurants and if you're looking for all your usual curry dishes they'll probably suit you better. However, if you want something a little bit more special then look no further than Prithvi. A restaurant that takes pride in both it's excellent food and impeccable service, deserves the high recognition it has received since it's opening. The question James and I asked ourselves when we left was, when will Prithvi be awarded a Michelin star?
After the lunch we enjoyed, we can only hope and cross our fingers it's just around the corner!
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76-Year-Old Man Lives a Difficult Life with 10-kg Cyst He Carries on His Back
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MANILA, Philippines – For 40 years now, Tatay Jesus de Mata has been carrying a heavy burden on his back, literally. There's a huge cyst on his back that has grown so large and heavy that it is affecting how he moves around.
Tatay Jesus lives with his wife, Florentina de Mata, at their humble home in Talisay, Camarines Norte.
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When he was younger, Tatay Jesus worked in a copra farm where he would carry sacks of copra on his back, walking around 1 kilometer with the heavy load on his back. Because he wanted to complete the work faster, he would actually carry the copra sacks even if the contents were still hot.
He believes that this had somehow triggered the cyst that would grow on his back. At first, the cyst was small and unnoticeable, just about the size of a calamansi fruit. He went to the local health center and was prescribed some medicines which he diligently took but the lump did not go away.
Because he had no money to seek medical help from professional doctors, he went to a faith healer or quack doctor. But because the quack doctor did not really had any medical background, the guy injected something into Tatay Jesus' back.
The 'treatments' would eventually become painful and Tatay Jesus didn't return to the quack doctor but neither did he go back to the health center or seek help at the hospital. As the years passed, the lump grew.
It has grown so big that today, some 40 years later, it already weighs 10kg. The lump has also affected Tatay Jesus' life, making it harder for him to move. Even sitting down can be a chore because the cyst was too heavy. Sleeping is also difficult because he can only do so in one position.
Thankfully, his story got featured on Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho. He was brought to a doctor, a real one this time, for the lump to be checked. He underwent imaging and diagnostic tests. It was revealed that the cyst was not cancerous and it would be 'easy' to get it removed, the doctor said.
But the tests also showed that he has abdominal aortic aneurysm. The doctor said this should be treated first as it was more dangerous that the cyst on Tatay Jesus' back…
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Portrait of the Mexican artist who began painting at age 15 while convalescing from a serious accident. Frida Kahlo sent her work to the great Diego Rivera, whom she later married. Pain, which dogged her all her life, and the suffering of women, are recurring and indelible themes in her often shocking works. Characterized by vibrant imagery, many of her pictures are striking self-portraits.


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PRIVATE JET PRODUCTION has outpaced demand in recent years, creating a buyer's market for used jets. Above, a Citation Sovereign + from the Cessna branch of Textron Inc. / COURTESY TEXTRON INC.
NEW YORK – Corporate-jet makers are flooding the market, spurring deep discounts for new aircraft and fueling a three-year slide in prices of used planes.
Most major manufacturers, including Gulfstream and Bombardier Inc. – which is also contending with rising hurdles in its commercial-jet business – have pared production somewhat in the last couple years as demand for private jets has sagged. But that hasn't been enough to halt declines in aircraft values, say consultants, brokers and analysts in the $18 billion industry.
Gone is the optimism stoked by the election of President Donald Trump, a corporate-jet maven with his own Boeing 757, along with hopes for speedy tax cuts that would bolster plane purchases. Instead, the news has been full of setbacks. U.S. Health Secretary Tom Price resigned under fire for his frequent use of private planes at taxpayer expense. General Electric Co. is selling off its corporate fleet to cut costs.
"The Trump bump is over," said Janine Iannarelli, a Houston-based plane broker.
The jet glut is one reason pre-owned prices were down 16 percent in August from a year earlier. With bargains aplenty on machines with few flight hours, manufacturers are cutting deals to entice buyers to purchase new planes. Meanwhile, they keep churning out aircraft and introducing new models.
"It's a question of who wants to blink first," said Rolland Vincent, a consultant who puts together the JetNet iQ industry forecast. "Nobody – because whoever blinks, loses share."
A rise in demand for new company planes, which would help stabilize the market, isn't in the cards. Corporate plane-buying plans have hit a 17-year low, according to an annual survey by Honeywell International Inc. of more than 1,500 flight departments. Companies expect to replace or add planes equivalent to 19 percent of their fleets on average over the next five years, down from 27 percent in last year's survey.
Discounts Galore
The steep discounts on new aircraft are galling customers who paid closer to a full price, said Barry Justice, founder and chief executive officer of Corporate Aviation Analysis & Planning Inc. General Dynamics Corp.'s Gulfstream unit slashed as much as 35 percent off the price of its G450, which is being phased out as the new G500 aircraft nears arrival, Vincent said. The G450 had a list price of about $43 million, according to the Business & Commercial Aviation guide.
Bombardier has offered discounts of as much as $7 million on the Challenger 350's list price of about $26 million as it fends off competitors entering the super midsize space, he said. The weakness across the industry in private-jet sales is adding to the pressure on Bombardier, which is also struggling to sell its C Series commercial planes. The U.S. government slapped import duties of about 300 percent on the single-aisle jetliner in the last two weeks after a complaint by Boeing Co.
For corporate aircraft, the global market hasn't fully recovered from the last U.S. recession, when plunging demand popped a bubble that had flooded the industry with more than 1,000 new jet deliveries in both 2007 and 2008. A nascent recovery in 2013 and 2014 fell apart after the price of oil and other commodities collapsed, drying up sales in emerging markets such as Russia and Brazil.
Deliveries Fall
Deliveries of new private jets are forecast to drop to 630 this year, from 657 last year and 689 in 2015, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co. The number is forecast to rebound slightly to 640 next year.
The more conservative pace has done little to relieve the glut, creating a buyer's market for used aircraft. A five-year-old jet sold in 2016 was worth only 56 percent of its original list price, on average. That's down from 64 percent in 2012, according to a report by Jetcraft, a plane broker that expects to close more than 80 deals this year. The value retention was as high as 91 percent in 2008.
Prices for used aircraft right now are "insane," said Justice. Some companies and wealthy individuals are buying pre-owned aircraft for the first time because the bargains are too good to pass up, he said.
"There's a vast overproduction of large-cabin airplanes and there are only so many people in the world who are going to step up and pay $60 million-plus," he said. "What happens is, people are going to that pre-owned market."
More new aircraft are on the way. Next year Bombardier will begin selling the Global 7000, which will compete with the Gulfstream G650ER as the largest and longest-range business jet. Textron Inc.'s Cessna unit is close to beginning deliveries on a super midsize plane called the Longitude and is designing its largest-ever aircraft, the Hemisphere.
Cessna, which helps customers sell their used aircraft when purchasing a new one, is able to move those planes more quickly than before, said Rob Scholl, chief of sales and marketing with Textron Aviation. For new aircraft, Cessna is focused on "getting some price back into our products,'' Scholl said.
"We're seeing a change in the marketplace,'' he said. "The activity is really, really strong and I'm positive on where it's going.''
Gulfstream will begin selling the G500 early next year and the G600 later in 2018, both of which are large-cabin aircraft.
Small Planes
Smaller aircraft are feeling the pressure as well. Swiss planemaker Pilatus Aircraft Ltd. is set to begin sales of its first business jet — the PC-24 — building on the success of its single-engine turboprop. HondaJet began deliveries at the end of 2015, the first-ever business jet for the Japanese carmaker.
Those new models should help boost new aircraft sales because they will offer better performance and newer technology than the pre-owned models, which compete for buyers mostly on price, said Ben Driggs, Honeywell Aerospace's president for the Americas.
"We are projecting growth in '18 and growth in '19 and beyond" for new aircraft deliveries, Driggs said.
Reaping Gains
Bombardier pulled back production rates in 2015 after its inventory of new jets began to pile up. The slower pace helped the Canadian company boost operating margins and support pre-owned prices of its planes, spokeswoman Anna Cristofaro said in an email. Bombardier's sales from business jets were more than twice its revenue from commercial planes last year.
Gulfstream declined to comment.
"Our actions in 2015 have yielded results, and Bombardier's young pre-owned Global model aircraft continue to be among the top performers in the large category in terms of value retention and pre-owned inventory levels," Cristofaro said.
That's a step in the right direction. But the market as a whole will have to wait a little longer for relief.
Thomas Black is a reporter for Bloomberg News.
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Home // Press and News // Press Releases // 4/23/2008: Interop Las Vegas 2008: ARTEC Presents EMA® E-Mail and Document Archive Appliance
Device Addresses Compliance Issues Comprehensively
Karben/Germany, April 23, 2008. Business continuity specialist ARTEC seizes the opportunity provided by Interop to present its email and document archive appliance EMA® for the first time in the US. EMA® is a comprehensive archive appliance and covers the needs of all business sizes from small to enterprise. Unlike other existing products, EMA® is easy to deploy and does not require any changes on existing IT infrastructures. Equipped with a number of unique features like easy search, encryption, digital signatures, or the 4 Eye Principle, EMA® offers the right solution to solve the business needs of e-mail usability, single mail backup & restore, and compliant long-term archiving of e-mails and documents. With a fully new approach, EMA® is based on IT standards and allows working with any existing mail server and any storage technology such as NAS, SAN, iSCSI and FC.
EMA® will be presented at the upcoming Interop from April 27 through May 2 at Mandalay Bay Convention Centre, Las Vegas, Nevada. ARTEC welcomes visitors at its booth 2314. "We are thrilled about our market entry in the United States", says Friedhelm Peplowski, Director Sales and Marketing at ARTEC. "We are convinced that EMA® is going to be a great success, because EMA® is the right solution when dealing with compliant archiving, data protection, and ease of use."
EMA® archives all: incoming, outgoing and internal e-mails – in combination with any mail server including Lotus Notes. Unlike other solutions, which separate e-mails into the components header, body and attachments, EMA® archives all data in their original format as fixed content. An extensive security concept completes the solution: by means of digital time and date stamps, EMA® signs all documents while encrypting the content to achieve maximum data security. This security concept allows the prove of authenticity of archived data in a lawful manner. Every user will be the owner of their own archive with the ability to name delegates. In addition, the Print-to-Archive functionality expands the solution to become a complete document archive appliance.
The storage management concept and built in Volume Manager allows the integration of iSCSI, SAN and Fibre Channel devices. The Volume Manager combines and manages the different storage technologies so that a migration, enlargement, expansion or a deduction of volumes is now possible at any time.
Account Management Extended
EMA® automatically learns intelligently – and without the intervention of the administrators – all e-mail accounts after the system configuration. The latter is just a matter of minutes. On this basis, EMA® can manage all associated accounts, create groups and master-accounts. A feature quite useful after address adjustments, changes or for users with multiple e-mail accounts.
Single Sign-On Integrated
EMA® users can benefit from a Single-Sign-On-procedure (SSO). In other words: it is now possible to log on to EMA® directly out of Outlook or a browser without re-entering user data. User names and passwords do no longer need to be generated on-demand in EMA®. Instead they are being checked live against the running system. EMA® supports any SSO technology such as HTTP Clients Certificates, SmartCards, PKI, Cerberos, NTLM, or Ticket- Server
LDAP Support Expanded
ARTEC has significantly expanded EMA®'s' LDAP support functionalities (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol). The LDAP use may now be configured on detail and be adapted on the basis of each individual user. EMA® also supports any type of authentication method: from MS Active Directory, OpenLDAP, Lotus Domino Server, SSH, HTTP, Radius or even a Fileserver.
Enterprise E-Mail Import Assistant Transfers Existing Data to the Archive
The new Enterprise E-Mail Importer guarantees the archiving of huge volumes of existing e-mail data which may have accumulated over a longer period of time. The Importer accepts account lists in text files for iMAP-servers, searches entire file servers for PST-files and Outlook archives, and can automatically import complete Exchange Servers into the archive by the help of Active Directory queries. Moreover, the Importer provides automated assignment of accounts and files to EMA® accounts. A preliminary emulation secures the success, and an extensive final report documents the measures taken.
Consistency Check for Correct Archiving
The new Consistency Check feature lets administrators determine, whether data on external resources is properly archived. EMA® identifies existing problems and can resolve many of them right away. In addition, EMA® generates an audit report containing information about identified and resolved problems. This reporting procedure may be automated. But as it is being signed and archived as all the other data it may also serve as a piece of documented compliance evidence and thereby highlight the extra care applied when it comes to dealing with critical business data.
Delegation Feature Supplements Roles and Rights Concept
A new feature is the delegation function which supplements the existing roles and rights concept: users can thereby make their account available for other users. The function supplies means to set up from when to when access is granted and what functions (browse, download, export, etc.) the delegate may use. This provides a more effective management of multiple user accounts which can now be shared between several users.
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From the same author as the hugely popular best-seller book (and later a film by the same name) The Girl on a Train, Into the Water is written in the same thriller mystery genre and if you liked the first you'll no doubt enjoy this. It certainly has the feel of a book that will quickly be made into a film.
The two are very different in a few fundamental ways. Into the Water doesn't really go in depth into any one character, in fact it weaves it's way in between several characters' stories that all eventually intertwine.
Be warned though that it's easy to become confused with the several characters, but stick with it, it all comes together in time.
The book begins with a woman who, following the death of her sister, returns to their childhood town to look after her teenage niece whom she's been estranged from.
While the main character stays in town during the investigation of her sister's death, plenty of old wounds are opened and lots of secrets from within the town come to light. All foccussed around the "Drowning Pool" a historical spot infamous for it's very dark history.
It's certainly a page turner and is an overall eerie read with plenty of twists and turns.
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3 Ways M&A Is Different When You're Acquiring a Digital Company
Digital mergers and acquisitions are a different beast compared to traditional M&As — so much so that even experienced dealmakers may need to take a new approach. Specifically, digital M&As require refocusing around three key issues: financing, due diligence, and merger integration.
Even for experienced deal makers, a first digital acquisition is bound to be an education. Companies acquire to accelerate their overall strategy and digital transformation, as Publicis Groupe did when it acquired Sapient for $3.7 billion in 2014 to help it make the leap from a traditional advertising company to a digital one. But when companies turn to mergers and acquisitions (M&A) to help them deal with digital disruption, they usually discover not only how different a beast digital M&A is compared with traditional M&A, but also that everything they thought they knew about M&A may actually not help. They're also likely to be paying an even higher premium for the acquisition, betting on a fast—although uncertain—development.
Few executives appear prepared for the challenges of digital M&A. When we recently interviewed top M&A executives in Europe about their experience, fully three-quarters of them said that digital disruption has had a relatively large impact or even requires a complete overhaul of their M&A strategy. However, only 11% described themselves as being either "mature" or "advanced" on the learning curve.
So, what do you need to know to get up the learning curve? Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration.
Let's start with financing the deal. Determining the right valuation begins by understanding how the acquisition will affect your company's equity profile. The ultimate goal is to signal to the market that the digital acquisition is part of a series of moves that will help you adapt and win in the digitalization of your industry.
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Meanwhile, because digital targets tend to be expensive, acquirers are limited in their ability to use stock to finance a deal. The dilutive effect for existing shareholders would be too high. On the other hand, acquiring a risky digital target in a 100% cash deal may expose the company to overvalued goodwill and future write-offs. To mitigate the risk linked to the target's high multiples, you need to evaluate all potential financing solutions, considering adapted payment terms such as earn-outs or other deferred payment mechanisms. When your company ultimately becomes a more legitimate digital player, you can be more flexible in how you finance future deals.
In March 2016, Thales purchased Vormetric, the growing cybersecurity firm, for $400 million, which was 5.7 times Vormetric's sales. The acquisition communicated to the market that Thales was shifting its financial profile to the high-growth business. Over time, Thales' strategy, including multiple acquisitions in the cybersecurity space, will increasingly be captured in its price-to-earnings (PE) ratio and overall valuation, helping to attract growth investors. In fact, by the end of December 2016, Thales traded at a 21.8 PE multiple, a 15% premium over the aerospace and defense industry, which averaged 18.9.
Next, you need to understand how digital M&A turns traditional due diligence on its head. To get a good valuation, companies screen a target before value has actually been monetized, and must compensate for a lack of financials. Unlike the way traditional due diligence usually works, acquirers need to be much more forward-looking, using approaches that evaluate the potential success of the business model under different scenarios. The best acquirers build and manage a community of external experts, relying on them heavily to support diligence in areas that are hard to assess objectively.
Diligence starts by asking a fundamental question: Is the acquirer capable of becoming a strong corporate parent? Many executives think first about how an acquisition will help them transform their own business, instead of how they can accelerate the profitable development of the digital asset they are acquiring, through financial resources, access to market, capabilities or technologies.
Thankfully, there are digital tools to complement the traditional sources of information. For example, some companies use tools that can assess the perception and market recognition of the target. For sector and company screening, the data provider CB Insights helps develop information-rich company profiles, visualize competitive dynamics and uncover nonfinancial performance metrics.
For diligence into a particular company, web scraping provides indicators of market share and growth momentum, such as web-traffic analysis and geographic coverage vs. competitors over time by extracting location websites. Sysomos offers social media site analysis that could help an acquirer understand what people are saying about a target. Web scraping by Quad Analytix pulls assortment mix and price point data from multiple retail sites to help acquirers understand market dynamics. Acquirers may also turn to Glassdoor or LinkedIn to assess the culture, or rely on tools that provide insights into the operating model of the acquired company— moves that help them mitigate potential integration issues.
Indeed, integration of digital assets is a huge, thorny problem fraught with cultural issues. How do you absorb the new entity you acquired without killing it?
If the deal is intended to expand your company's scope with new customers, products, markets or channels, you are likely to require only selective integration. That means investigating where each company can benefit from the other in technologies, customer proximity, go-to-market access and other capabilities. After Microsoft acquired LinkedIn for $26 billion in 2016, Micro¬soft's CEO confirmed that LinkedIn would be kept autonomous, but that Microsoft engineers would be tasked with seeing how they could innovate with this new asset.
However, if your company faces a major business model disruption linked to digital and you have already done several acquisitions in the specific area, it may make sense to fully integrate the acquired company. You may also consider a reverse takeover approach, in which you give the leadership of the acquired digital asset a broader business or functional responsibility within the combined company — anticipating challenges of helping it adapt within a larger organization. After its acquisition of Sapient, Publicis effectively gave that company's executives greater responsibility in developing the digital part of its business. A few years later, it also created Sapient Inside, a network of Sapient digital specialists who help its traditional advertising agencies benefit from best-practice methods and tools. Publicis now gets 50% of its revenue from digital—that's ahead of its 2018 target.
In either case, acquirers need to carefully manage the transition in which leaders of the digital asset relinquish the entrepreneurial part of their jobs and become managers exclusively. Digital asset leaders are not always adept at navigating within the matrix organization of a large company, requiring specific coaching and support from the acquirer's leaders. Acquirer's must accommodate the inevitable differences in decision-making speed, and that may mean adjusting the acquirer's own governance or putting a specific governance in place to deal with the acquired asset or the business area affected by the acquired asset. More broadly, acquirers may face the need to diffuse a digital acquisition's risk-taking culture and mindset within their larger corporation.
Digital disruption will only intensify. As it does, companies in all industries will turn to M&A. But they'll need to evolve their deal-making skills for digital. The best companies will implement a feedback loop, learning from their inevitable rookie mistakes to improve and build consistent, repeatable capabilities for the future.
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RGB emphasis can be set separately for each of the components, so it's possible to end with a blue tint (I think there's a game that uses this to make translucent water).
Noah's Ark (E) is one game that does this.
But yeah, as far as I know that's a PPU register and not something that can be modified from outside (it should affect the signal the PPU itself generates), so messing with the PCB shouldn't cause emphasis to kick in. Probably something else screwed up.
Yeah it's unlikely, because even if a bit got corrupted during one PPU_MASK write, most games rewrite this register every frame so the setting wouldn't stay enabled for long.
Color emphasis makes everything look dark, like it's night time.
When all 3 bits are used, yes. What happens is that on the composite PPU, these bits actually de-emphasize the other colors (i.e. blue emphasis actually darkens red and green to make the blue stand out), so when you set all 3 bits, all 3 colors are de-emphasized equally, making the image darker. On the RGB PPU however, the emphasis bits increase the color components all the way up (i.e. blue emphasis puts blue at the maximum value and doesn't affect the other components), so when you blow all of them up you get white.
From the top of my head, I can only think of Noah's Ark, which uses blue emphasis in combination with the grayscale bit to create the water effect. They could have used some sprites on the surface (like in the Sonic games - even the ones on the Master system & Game Gear, which have the same sprite limitations as the NES - but I'm sure you know that ) to make it look better though, that black line doesn't look anything like water.
The Game Gear also has a much narrower screen, for 40% overdraw instead of 25%.
Doesn't Chemical Plant Zone act 2 in Sonic 2 rewrite the palette for the parts under polluted water? The NES can't really do that.
Sure, but the same games are on the Master System (OK, not Triple Trouble - officially at least), which has a display as wide as the NES.
The great majority of water levels in Sonic games rewrite the palette. The one exception I can think of is the beginning of Hydrocity Act 1 in Sonic 3, because of the "water filling up the tunnel" gimmick. As for the 8-bit games, I'm fairly sure Sonic 1 and 2 on the SMS/GG also didn't rewrite palettes, but Chaos, Triple Trouble and Blast did.
Anyway, I was only questioning what Noah's Ark does for the surface of the water (black line?), what it does for the actual water is fine IMO (the grayscale bit makes the things look pretty bright though, but I understand that the blue emphasis alone without any sort of effect on the surface would have been too subtle), it doesn't need to rewrite the palette.
I urge folks to update this with games they know use the bits, and to please add short descriptions where in-game they're used; if you aren't sure what to say/how to say it, use the Tricky-to-emulate games page as a guide.
I also added a link to this in the NES reference guide section, as appropriate.
You're missing at least Magician, Jungle Book and Lion King (I think both the official and pirate versions).
Didn't James Bond Jr. use all 3 bits like, the whole time just to darken the entire screen?
Didn't realize that account creation was enabled again on the wiki.
No way these $2001 writes could be filtered with some added hardware so that the top 3 bits were never set? D7 to PPU = D7 from CPU AND (address lines to PPU aren't 001)?
That would be a cool device if it's not a pain to make. For now I'm content with romhacking. Yesterday I mentioned this to spikeman and handed him my progress. Spikeman went into turbo spikeman mode and fixed the brightman stage. According to the original author of this hack dr cossack stage 3 lower route also has color emphasis which it does in a playthrough video I found. I'm unsure if our current fix also fixed cossack stage 3 I'm waiting for someone to play to that stage in fceux and make a savestate we can use for debugging.
If you're willing to rely on bus conflicts, sure!
After using spikeman romhacking + game genie codes I got to the spot in cossack stage 3 with color emphasis. I sent spikeman the savestate, he found the data, and it's changed. I wound up changing the rising / falling water from emphasis to grayscale. In the brightman stage the areas that you can't see are also changed from emphasis to grayscale. I burned the rom, plugged it into my mmc5 devcart, runs great on my rgb twin. I think this is done unless we find another part of the game that uses color emphasis. The author of this romhack only mentioned these two stages.
I am pretty sure that this is what I caused to happen, though. Here is a video of it happening by briefly touching a capacitor to a CPU pin(You can see it kick in at 0:33 right before the game crashes). If I find it, I have a video of a Famicom starting to act strange if I mash my palm on the underside of the PCB. It starts with the tint changing, the sync starting to waver, the jailbars becoming more pronounced, followed by usually a game crash, but occasionally just weird mis-writes that don't break it completely.


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Roaming wireless spammer escapes cell-time
Sophos is reminding computer users about the importance of securing their wireless internet access following the sentencing of a man who sent pornographic spam while driving around Venice, California.
According to reports, 40-year-old Nicholas Tombros has been sentenced to three years' probation and six months' home detention after emailing out thousands of advertisments for pornographic websites. The spam emails were sent from Tombros's laptop via unencrypted wireless internet access points he found while driving his car.
Tombros has also been ordered to pay a 10,000 USD fine as part of a plea bargain he reached with prosecutors after being charged in August 2004. At the time, the US Attorney's office had said that Tombros could face up to three years in prison if convicted. Further details of the plea deal, including why it took three years for Tombros to be sentenced, have not been made public.
"While the US authorities did a fine job in apprehending Tombros, the outcome of this case is hardly likely to send shockwaves through the spamming world. After an inexplicably long waiting period, probation and a stint of home detention simply won't be enough to convince cybercriminals, many of whom are currently raking in the cash, to throw in the towel," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos. "Sentencing needs to be swift and severe if the global spam epidemic is to be curbed, while home users and businesses must ensure that they have properly secured their wireless internet access or face the risk that criminals like Tombros will take advantage."


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Update On New Microsoft Edge Browser
Posted by emeraldtg On April 25, 2019
Microsoft is slowly inching closer to a mainstream release of a new version of its Edge Browser for Windows 10, this one based around Chromium technology.
Recently, Microsoft released Canary, a developer build for the new browser.
Any member of the Windows Insiders group can get access to the early build if they want a sneak peek at what's to come.
The company has promised beta builds in the months ahead, along with builds that are Windows 7.8.1 and Mac OS compatible.
If you decide to take a look at the current state of the code, it's important to remember that the new Edge should still be considered in pre-Alpha state and is focused on the basics for the time being. That means there's not a lot in terms of functionality just yet. In fact, at present, the new Edge looks more or less like the old Edge, minus language support, PDF support, tab sweeps and smooth scrolling.
Consider it to be a scaled back version of the current Chrome browser with built in MSN news feeds. As such, these early builds may be of interest to enthusiasts, developers and early adopters who want to start getting a handle on the state of things to come. Honestly though, a casual user won't find much of interest here.
While Microsoft has had a poor track record where its browsers are concerned, the hope is that their new offering designed with Chromium at the core, will be more of a success. They hope to leverage the vast strengths of industry leader Google. That, however, remains to be seen. Even so, there is undeniable value to developers and a few other select groups to get in on the fun now so they can develop a better understanding of the shape and direction of the new Edge as its contours begin to emerge.
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