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BHM #22: It's Time to Stop Sugar-Coating Slavery
Jan 30, 2016 | Posted by	alimcollins | Books, Race & Racism	| 3 comments |
With Black History Month upon us, I thought I'd put together some more ideas for families, educators and social justice activists interested in addressing race, slavery and anti-blackness with young children. In my search for knowledge, I am coming across some great resources that I'd like to share with you!
(This is the twenty-second in a series of posts devoted to sharing the rich history of African-Americans. For this reason, I'm reposting this post from February 21, 2016. To see more posts in this series, click here.) Additionally, you can click here to see more posts about raising anti-racist children.
Newsflash! Being enslaved is NOT an enjoyable experience!!!
Nonetheless, it took a recent successful grassroots campaign that resulted in the recall of the children's book A Birthday Cake for George Washington and the related critiques of A Fine Dessert have brought more people into the conversation about how and when to talk to young children about the history of enslavement of Africans in the United States.
A firestorm erupted when Scholastic released a children's book early this month, A Birthday Cake for George Washington, by Ramin Ganeshram and illustrated by Vanessa Brantley-Newton, featuring smiling slaves baking a cake for George Washington. The back cover portrayed George Washington and his enslaved chef, Hercules, arm-in-arm, like best buddies. The image convinced many that this was an Onion parody and not an actual children's book published in 2016. The images of seemingly happy enslaved African-Americans working in the kitchen were underscored with Hercules's closing words when he serves the cake: "An honor and a privilege, sir… Happy birthday, Mr. President." The story never offers children a hint as to why it was not a "privilege" nor a smiling affair to be enslaved. Nor do readers learn that the conditions were so dire that Hercules escaped on Washington's birthday the following year, despite having to leave his children behind.
Even though the book was criticized by The School Library Journal as "highly problematic" and Kirkus Reviews described it as "an incomplete, even dishonest treatment of slavery" Scholastic made no moves to recall the book.
Great @npratc segment on #SlaveryWithASmile. Proud to be interviewed w/ @mattdelapena @allycrinerbrown & @dmenkart! https://t.co/dlsQ5kDLKx
— Ebony Elizabeth ??♀ (@Ebonyteach) January 22, 2016
Enter heroic librarians and social justice organizations, #BlackLIvesMatter activists and journalists to save the day! They began a grassroots campaign that went viral in just four days with the hashtag #slaverywithasmile (created by Leslie MacFadyen of the National #Ferguson Response Network.) Under tremendous pressure from petitions, op-ed pieces and commentary on social media channels, Scholastic finally recalled the book.
Uncle Hercules?
These protests are a part of a larger campaign for children to learn the truth about history and the world today. As Edith Campbell noted:
While this victory is empowering, the fight itself is disheartening because the battle against the portrayal of "happy slaves," of people who were less than human and who were being well cared for is a hundred years old. The need for accuracy, not for sweetening, with regards to the enslavement of Blacks in America is critical to this country. This era in American history has shaped our national identity and until we get it right, we will continue to be encumbered with racism.
[Read more here.]
The depiction of happy slaves is nothing new and fits into a much larger pantheon of Black caricatures such as the Mammy, the Brute (now labeled the "thug") and the Coon, that function to maintain white supremacy in the hearts and minds of many Americans. This is how we are taught to be racist.
Ever heard of Uncle Ben? How about Uncle Tom? As the Ferris State University's Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia states:
The Tom caricature portrays black men as faithful, happily submissive servants. The Tom caricature, like the Mammy caricature, was born in ante-bellum America in the defense of slavery. How could slavery be wrong, argued its proponents, if black servants, males (Toms) and females (Mammies), were contented and loyal? The Tom is presented as a smiling, wide-eyed, dark skinned server: fieldworker, cook, butler, porter, or waiter. Unlike the Coon, the Tom is portrayed as a dependable worker, eager to serve.
Within this historical context, one understands that Happy Birthday Mr. President is more than just a simple story of a cheerful Black chef who bakes for the president. It fits into a harmful narrative that negates the atrocities of slavery and justifies the enslavement of Black people. I mean, who wouldn't want to bake a birthday cake for the President? With this message in mind (and sugary treats to boot!)… who wouldn't want to be a slave?
The Ages and Stages of Talking about Slavery with kids…
On the contrary, it is understandable that adults would shy away from stories that would unnecessarily frighten young children with the raw truth about slavery. Is it developmentally inappropriate to discuss with a preschooler events that happened over a hundred years ago when the concept of time is already abstract enough. (Try discussing the difference between three days, three weeks, and three years with a three-year-old and you will see what I mean!) Add to this the frightening idea that enslaved families were separated and young children were taken away from their parents when they were sold off in slavery. Thus, talking about slavery the wrong way and you may have a toddler scared of being separated from mommy and daddy!
Nonetheless, it is important that in trying to protect our children from the atrocities of slavery, we don't gloss over the truth or reinvent history.
So, with Black History Month fast-approaching, when and how, do we talk with children about slavery in meaningful and developmentally appropriate ways?
Kids are developing rapidly during the preschool and early elementary ages. A four-year old is dramatically different from a six-year old in their ability to comprehend concepts like time and empathy. And of course every child is different. That said, it is important for educators, caregivers, parents and social-justice advocates to come together in learning communities to discuss ways to meaningfully engage about slavery with young children.
Questions to Consider when Talking About Slavery with Young Children
In that regard, Teaching Tolerance offers some helpful questions to get this conversation started with an article titled, When and How to Talk with Young Children about Enslavement: Discussion Questions for Educators by Louise Derman-Sparks and Julie Olsen Edwards. Below I have adapted questions for your school, aftercare or preschool community to discuss. (Click here for a downloadable copy to bring to your child's school or aftercare site.):
When are kids old enough to understand different aspects of slavery? What do we want kids at different ages to understand?
Do preschool age children actually understand the concept of "long ago"? Will talking about frightening aspects of history make them worry that these events happened yesterday or even today?
How do Black children think and feel about learning people like them were enslaved? How does it impact their sense of belonging? Identity? What do they think/feel when we read about it in books?
What do White, Asian, or Latino children think and feel when they learn about slavery? What do they think/feel when we read about it in books?
What will young children learn about slavery from movies, TV, books or other adults if parents or educators don't discuss it with them first?
How are families included this discussion? How do Black families and White families feel about how we teach slavery in school? How should we handle different beliefs about how slavery should be discussed?
What overarching concepts about fairness/unfairness or inclusion/exclusion do we want children to understand? How can we talk about slavery in developmentally appropriate ways without glossing over or sugar-coating its realities?
What values do we want to share? How can we use stories about slavery to teach compassion, empathy, perseverance and courage?
What responses do we want to model for children in teaching about slavery? How can stories about slavery serve as opportunities to talk about speaking up for others, or standing up for fairness or human rights?
Parents can download these questions to bring to their school or preschool and ask teachers to talk about them.
Teaching Kids About Slavery: Picture books struggle with the Task
Learn more about the protest and recall effort in this great NPR Podcast on All Things Considered
What do you think? Do you have any recommendations for talking with your caregivers or school community about when and how to talk about slavery with young kids? Share in the comments below!
Coming up next I'll post a list of tried and true resources for starting conversations about race with young children. (Check back with this blog or follow this blog for the next post!) In the meantime….
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Thanks for covering this important issue on your blog. What's really important here is the continuing battle to get books that accurately represent marginalized children published and into homes and libraries. The Cooperative Children's Book Center collects statistics that indicate about 13% of all children's books have main characters that are of children of color or Native American, and even fewer are actually written by these marginalized authors. It's important that parents begin (or keep!) requesting books with Native American or children of color in there bookstores or libraries. Don't assume that because you don't see the books, that they don't exist. It's important that parents question classroom reading selections because our children need to find themselves in books read at school so that the do indeed want to read. And, it's important that parents buy books and build libraries in their homes for their children.
If we're demanding the books that we want for our children and if we're aware of what's being published, hopefully we can eliminate these false and harmful portrayals.
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Thank you for your comment–I agree completely. I've been pushing this at my daughters school. We have a supportive principal and receptive staff. Nonetheless, it was never a school-wide priority to address this systematically. So, last year as the chair of the School Site Council I worked with the principal to make diverse books a part of the school site plan. He also created a budget for it. Thus, this year teachers worked with the literacy coach to work with all teachers to review classroom libraries and create purchase lists of books we lacked. If we want to eradicate systemic racism in our schools, we need to be systematic in our actions and not rely on one or two individuals to think/feel like doing the right thing.
I don't think kids are ever too young to be learning about slavery; it's just a matter of finding the appropriate terms. At the youngest ages, children learn about slavery in the negative as they establish ownership of their own bodies and develop empathy. It's important to teach children that slavery is an institution. People can be held in slavery, but people are not slaves. When it comes to talking about the history of slavery in the Americas, it's good to talk about the many different roles people played in slavery and to provide children with empowering images of sabotage, rebellion, and escape, without glossing over the fact that many people benefitted greatly from slavery both directly and indirectly. The most important thing is to listen to children and be open to surprising conversations and questions.
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I love my city. Yesterday I went into the deli that occupies a storefront of my apartment building in order to stock up on seltzer. The deli specializes in food like Twinkies and fried onion rings, so I try to avoid temptation and shop there as infrequently as possible. But I'm a big fan of their ATM machine, my closest possible source of cash. Since most of the deli's patrons show up to buy lottery tickets, I rarely have to wait on line. It's a businesslike kind of place, with few people hanging around for conversation.
Yesterday, however, I walked in as a ruddy-faced blonde gentleman in his 40s with a generous beer belly was grilling the Egyptian store owner who stood behind the counter.
"What do you mean, you don't know?" he said in a booming voice. "I bet the next person who walks in here would know!" As if on cue, the door opened and a young Asian man entered and headed for the magazines.
"Excuse me," bellowed the beer belly. "Who won the game today?"
"Mets," answered the Asian man. "But I don't know the score."
"Thank you!" said the beer belly." "See?" he smiled at the store owner.
The Egyptian man leaned intently over the counter. "And what sport is this?" he asked.
"Baseball," explained the blonde guy. "You see, there are two teams in New York, the Mets and the Yankees..." I paid for my seltzer as the men stood head to head on either side of the counter, deep in conversation. I wondered if the store owner would then give the beer belly guy a primer on soccer, er, football. I wondered if the leaders of their respective countries could ever be this congenial with each other. I wished I could invite those leaders, and a few others, over to the deli for a beer or two and a lesson on how to live with their neighbors.


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Apple CEO Cook backs comprehensive federal privacy laws in the U.S., warns data being 'weaponized'
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"The head of Apple on Wednesday endorsed tough privacy laws for both Europe and the U.S. and renewed the technology giant's commitment to protecting personal data, which he warned was being 'weaponized' against users," Kelvin Chan reports for The Associated Press. "Speaking at an international conference on data privacy, Apple CEO Tim Cook applauded European Union authorities for bringing in a strict new data privacy law this year and said the iPhone maker supports a U.S. federal privacy law."
"Data protection has become a major political issue worldwide, and European regulators have led the charge in setting new rules for the big internet companies. The EU's new General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, requires companies to change the way they do business in the region, and a number of headline-grabbing data breaches have raised public awareness of the issue," Chan reports. "'In many jurisdictions, regulators are asking tough questions. It is time for rest of the world, including my home country, to follow your lead,' Cook said. 'We at Apple are in full support of a comprehensive federal privacy law in the United States,' he said, to applause from hundreds of privacy officials from more than 70 countries."
"Cook warned that technology's promise to drive breakthroughs that benefit humanity is at risk of being overshadowed by the harm it can cause by deepening division and spreading false information. He said the trade in personal information 'has exploded into a data industrial complex,'" Chan reports. "'This is surveillance. And these stockpiles of personal data serve only to enrich only the companies that collect them,' he said… His speech comes a week after the iPhone maker unveiled expanded privacy protection measures for people in the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand, including allowing them to download all personal data held by Apple. European users already had access to this feature after GDPR took effect in May. Apple plans to expand it worldwide."
MacDailyNews Take: Kudos to Cook for pushing to protect users' privacy while other tech firms abuse it with abandon. Hopefully, a U.S. GDPR will happen sooner than later.
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Mark Zuckerberg loses $16 billion in record Facebook fall – July 26, 2018
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Wednesday, October 24, 2018 at 10:50 am
Tim Cook must have forgotten how Google and Facebook make tens of billions of dollars a year by collecting user data to sell to anyone who is willing to pay the price. There are a lot of powerful people who have investments in those wealthy and powerful companies and they're not going to do anything to prevent those companies from invading privacy.
The way Facebook operates, it's so easy to create false stories and spread them like wildfire. Wall Street doesn't care how a company makes money, so Facebook will continue to have lots of big investors backing the company. I doubt any U.S. regulators are going to stop Facebook from doing what makes it popular. Facebook has barely gotten a slap on the wrist in terms of fines for its data breaches.
Apple is going to be the only company actually concerned about protecting user privacy because they're not making money from selling personal data. Meanwhile Google and Facebook will continue to reap the financial benefits of selling user data to whatever companies want it. That data will be used by those companies to bombard consumers with constant ads and collect huge amounts of ad revenue. I'm sure that's not going away any time soon as long as there is plenty of money to be made.
If consumers don't care about their own privacy, then absolutely nothing will change. I'm certain that free services are far more important than privacy to most consumers as most consumers don't have much worthwhile data to protect. U.S. citizens are definitely happy to have access to all free services. I would think other countries' citizens feel the same way.
Tim Cook and Apple are not going to be praised for this privacy stance and will likely make a lot more enemies.
You really should watch the keynote video.
Wednesday, October 24, 2018 at 12:33 pm
Weaponized data, we need a warning for this? Heck Apple's home nation has been a war monger since 1776. What a loser country is has become, weaponized data, maybe it will help them in their quest for that weapons of mass destruction program in Iraq.
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Wednesday, October 24, 2018 at 8:08 pm
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So the RW mental obsession broken record problems continues unabated, tone-deaf and spewing more hatred for the USA. Have FIVE questions for you:
1) Name "terrorist nations" that cut off prisoner heads while they are still alive on video.
2) Name "terrorist nations" that burn bodies in cages while they are still alive on video.
3) Name "terrorist nations" that line up hooded Christian captives on a beach and execute them in cold blood on video.
4) Name "terrorist nations" that stone women in public.
5) Name "terrorist nations" that execute gay citizens.
MDN is in "Apple's home nation" so why do you come here to post the same HATE over and over if it so bad and repugnant to a liberal elitist living in a SUPERIOR country, hmmm? That makes absolutely no sense.
STFU already!…
Thursday, October 25, 2018 at 3:39 pm
That is rich coming from you Goeb, the principal agent of political hate on this site. You haven't condemned your buddy's pipe bombing because obviously you'd rather see half of Americans killed off to enable one party rule. You are blind to your own overconsumption of totalitarian xenophobic fact-free politique.
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Police are telling drivers in Devon and Cornwall to only travel if absolutely necessary due to snow and icy conditions.
A Met Office Amber Warning remains in place with freezing conditions and further snowfall expected in the region into Monday morning.
Many roads are still closed and police say some are still ignoring their advice.
A large number of drivers are currently stuck on the A30 at Sourton Cross/Whiddon down due to earlier collisions and the weather. Police are asking those motorists to move their vehicles to the side of the road to enable police and gritters to get through to assist.
A rest centre has been opened in Okehampton tonight.
In one hour today a total of 15 accidents were reported. Buses were also cancelled in Exeter and Torquay.
More than 1000 schools are closed in Devon tomorrow.
Areas of Devon and Cornwall have seen significant snowfall causing challenging conditions and some disruption on the road network, with a number of collisions and abandoned vehicles causing further problems.
The multi-agency operation to keep roads as clear as possible via gritting and ploughing continues.
Police are urging drivers to heed the weather warnings and the advice not to travel this evening or Monday morning unless absolutely necessary.
A police spokesman said: "We are concerned about rush hour traffic tomorrow and would advise the public to drive to the conditions of the road, slow down, keep your distance, and keep an eye on weather reports before you set off.


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GOTHAM CITY MONSTERS #5: Cue the Monster Mash
Written by Steve Orlando, with art by Amancay Nahuelpan, colors by Trish Mulvihill and letters by Tom Napolitano, Gotham City Monsters #5 presses pause to cue the big monster fight scene. While in many ways it would seem this is the point of a series like this, this issue feels like a regression. With loud moments and bloody splash pages, it revels in the monster genre. It settles for being the genre, instead of continuing to surpass it.
Orlando writes kitch well, and it's important to point out he knows what he's doing. The fights are gory and cheesy, but they know they are. Larger-than-life characters with unknown histories show up to serve as colorful enemies and be vanquished. Their role is to make a pretty mark on the pavement. With one issue left to go, it's unclear if Orlando seeks to push the limits of where these characters fit or embrace their given lot.
Nahuelpan's art is perfectly fitted to Orlando's approach. The blood and brains flying across the page are perfectly and gruesomely rendered. Melmoth's twisted grin as he fights off Frank and the gang is like seeing his soul painted in his expression. Slaughter Swamp oozes off the page so vividly it's hard not to feel you're wading through swamp water as you read.
Mulvihill's colors have their moments of brilliance. Yet this issue feels less nuanced. In previous issues, Mulvihill's coloring beautifully swayed back and forth between light and dark. In this issue, she settles into more of a greyish middle hue. The contrast is often lost, and the pages rarely feel cohesive. Perhaps it's that Mulvihill so perfectly sets the mood on some pages, the others seem to not quite meet the bar.
Napolitano continues to have a raucous good time. The many fonts assigned to each character, specifically crafted to say something about them. Napolitano even goes so far as to distinguish how one Frankenstein speaks versus another. Many of the sound effects, while serving similar purposes, are written very differently. No two sword slices may sound alike.
If you're looking for the monster brawl promised in the last issue, Gotham City Monsters #5 is for you. It's all the fun of slasher films, and classic creature tales rolled into one. While much of this series pushes these characters away from their stereotypical uses, this one plants them right back in there. We'll have to wait for the finale to see whether the monsters have a bright future, or whether they must settle for their lot in life.
Written by Steve Orlando, with art by Amancay Nahuelpan, colors by Trish Mulvihill and letters by Tom Napolitano, Gotham City Monsters #5 presses pause to cue the big monster fight scene. While in many ways it would seem this is the point of a series...GOTHAM CITY MONSTERS #5: Cue the Monster Mash


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I'm happy to announce that starting April 1st 2019 I will be joining Microsoft as a Senior Premier Field Engineer!
My time at Rackspace has been life changing. The past few years I had the opportunity to lead the technical vision of our Microsoft Private Cloud product, where we began to use more and more Azure to manage on premise resources. Prior to that I worked with some of our largest customers and help them make complex technical decisions about their architectures. And along the way I made some lifelong friends. But it is now time for the next phase of my career.
It's long been a career goal of mine to join Microsoft and I feel like now is one of the most exciting times to join. Over the past 5+ years I have worked very closely with many employees at Microsoft in a variety of different programs. In my new role I will be focused entirely on Microsoft Azure Technologies. I'll be helping customers navigate the complex landscape of cloud services so that they can have a successful journey. I can't wait to get started!
There will be a bit more travel involved in this new role so things here will tend to quiet down a bit. But I do still intend to share my experiences and things I've learned along the way. I'm looking forward to the new challenge!
Originally when I setup my blog on Static website hosting in Azure Storage I went with Azure CDN because I wanted to have an SSL endpoint. As of right now, you cannot do custom SSL with static website hosting unless you use Azure CDN.
But then I hit another snag, you cannot redirect the root domain and redirects in general were a bit too complex for a simple project like this one. There is a user voice suggestion for this feature but it remains under review. This started to bother me because I wanted to do redirects with SSL but couldn't because the I could not install the certificate generated by Azure CDN on the Linux VM I decided to do the rewrites on. All my previous articles were on https://hammertime.tech breaking all of my links from places like Google and Bing, or even worse resulting in the dreaded SSL error.
Fast forward a bit to Cloudflare. In a previous life I used their free plan to protect against attack but that free plan also offers 3 free redirects AND a free SSL endpoint. This meant I could now redirect https://hammertime.tech to www. where my CNAME is setup for Azure Storage. It also meant I could redirect a bunch of my other domains like hammertimetech.com and have all my URLs work how I wanted. Nobody else will probably notice this.. but it's one of those things I wanted in place - I am weird like that!
But I digress, now that I am on Cloudflare I wanted to make sure that the Cloudflare CDN cache has my latest content whenever I publish. This is probably overkill in some places because Cloudflare seems to pick up on new content fairly quickly. But at least at the end of my release pipeline I'll know everything is published on the CDN.
This guide assumes a few things are already done.
You've setup a Cloudflare account and your domain is pointed to their name servers for hosting. You can find instructions in Cloudflare 101.
You've already setup your CNAME to point to Azure Storage (or other endpoint).
You already have a release pipeline setup, see my previous article for more information.
One of the things that I wanted to be able to do was setup a full CI/CD pipeline for my blog. As someone once said If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing and it was in that spirit I configured Azure DevOps to deploy Hexo.
First off a short intro to Azure DevOps. Previously known as Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) it is a service that allows you to manage code repositories, boards, pipelines (which we'll cover here) and even test plans. You can also use Azure Pipelines with GitHub and while I did not do that here because I wanted all my repos to be private, there is no reason you cannot use GitHub as your source repo. Especially since two weeks ago they announced free private repos.
If you haven't used Azure DevOps before there is an article covering how to get started.
I will be assuming that a few things are already in place for the purposes of this guide.
You'll need to get Hexo configured locally and committed to a repo. I covered how to get Hexo running in the Windows Subsystem for Linux in a previous article.
Your site committed to an Azure DevOps or GitHub repository.
An Azure Storage Account provisioned and static website hosting enabled. This process would likely work for other services, but this article will explain how to do it with an azure account.
I had initially intended to publish this as part of my Azure DevOps entry, but it felt like it needed its own dedicated article. For my Hexo workflow I decided I wanted to use the Windows Subsystem for Linux from here on referred to as WSL. This works best for me because I am primarily a Windows user and I also have a fair bit of experience with Linux.
The first thing you'll need to do is get Hexo configured locally so that you can generate the static content for later deployment, and also run your local server to test your content. The basics on how to configure Hexo are available on their website, I'll cover how to do it on WSL specifically.
The first thing you need to do if you have not already is get WSL installed and running. Step by step instructions on this are available over on Microsoft Docs. The instructions below are specifically for the Ubuntu distro.
The below instructions assume a fresh install of the Ubuntu distro from the Windows store.
You'll need git for a variety of reasons, so let's just get it installed first along with all of the prerequisites.
This is using Node Version Manager by creationix on GitHub. There are many ways to install Node.js, I went with the Hexo documentation.
In this step we'll install the node package manager. npm is a package manager for node that will then allow you to install Hexo, plugins, and anything else you'd like to do with node.
At this point we are ready to install the Hexo cli which will allow you to finally build out a hexo environment.
You can actually customize the mount point noted below. For example you could change it to /c/hexo instead of /mnt/c/hexo by modifying wsl.conf. You can also use these steps if you find that your Windows drives are not mounted inside WSL.
Full documentation on settings available in wsl.conf is available here.
That's it! Now you are ready to configure your blog and start authoring content. Documentation for editing your site configuration can be found here.
Writing Content - This explains how to write new posts and pages as well as create drafts.
Miscellaneous Commands - This contains documentation on how to generate a static site, or launch a local server to test your newly created content.
I hope this article was helpful! You are now well on your way to publishing a Hexo blog in the wild. In my next article I will cover how to automatically deploy Hexo using an Azure Pipeline.
When the time came to relaunch my blog I spent a fair amount of time researching options. I wanted something that worked well for me that didn't require too much infrastructure. I also wanted to keep costs fairly low and not take on a large monthly recurring cost.
Ideally, I wanted static content that I could host in an Azure Storage account or some sort of static website hosting.
I wanted something that felt comfortable for me. I spend a fair amount of time authoring articles in Markdown and it has really grown on me over the past few years.
An application with a fair amount of plugin and theme options, I don't really want to get involved in creating a custom template. A reasonably sized community was a plus.
I evaluated a variety of different options before settling on Hexo. Obviously I'm sure there are more options out there, but this is what I looked at.
DocFX - I've had some experience with DocFX in the past and honestly, it is what I really wanted to use. But the lack of theme selection and the fact it's primarily focused on documentation meant it was not a great fit for what I wanted to do. It is the engine behind Microsoft Docs and it does that really well so I will continue to monitor the project.
Hugo - A close second, Hugo is very similar to Hexo. It is built on Go rather than Node.js. It generates a static site that you can publish in much the same way. The configuration seemed a little bit more involved, but in the end it was almost a coin flip. Now that my content is in Markdown and ready to roll I may still give Hugo a try to compare and contrast.
Ghost - Their hosted platform pricing was a bit steep for me. And while they did offer self hosting the config seemed fairly complex and the requirements were also steep. I also don't really need the fancy admin interface.
Medium - This is where my blog was before. It is a great platform for getting your content out there. But it's not really a great platform for the true technical blogging that I wanted to do. I do still intend to post opinion pieces.. but not enough that Mediums core benefit would be that useful.
Wordpress - Obviously this option is one of the largest out there. And there are definitely a ton of options for plugins and themes. And I have experience with it in the past. But for me it felt like using a bulldozer to solve something I could use a shovel for.


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Jennifer Lopez Talks About New Latino Channel NUVOtv [Video]
By Staff Reporter (staff@latinospost.com) | First Posted: Jul 24, 2013 03:56 PM EDT
Tags Jennier Lopez, jlo, NUVO TV, New Channel, Latinos, New Programming, hispanic
(Photo : NUVO TV/Promotional Image)
In a new interview released on NUVOtv's Youtube channel, Jennifer Lopez, who acts as the channel's creative director, spoke of the new programming designed specifically for Latino audiences in the United States. She hopes that the channel will help inspire Latinos by highlighting examples of succesful members of the community.
"The [new] programming will kick off with my biography, which is titled 'Jennifer Lopez: Her Life. Her Journey.' This will be the first episode of a series on Latinos. My story begins with my childhood. How I was chasing my dreams and having to make all kinds of decision, intertwined with my relationships, my family and romances, plus all the different things that have led me to where I am today," Lopez said in the video.
"Also, we are presenting a new series titled 'A Step Away,' which is very exciting. The show follows the dancers on my tour, placing them in the spotlight. Dancers are the unsung heroes that make icons and stars pop shine and look incredible. They are amazing performers, one sees all these dancers on stage, and yet we do not know anything about their lives, who they are or what they do during the day. It's a good series, a very interesting one of course, all of them are tremendous characters. It's a success," Lopez added.
"Speaking of characters, we also have a new series called 'House of Joy,' in which Rodney Jerkins, who is a multi-award winning music producer, who has worked on many albums over the years, including some of my own, (my first number one album among them) and his beautiful wife, Joy, who is a singer, are at home with their three children. She gave up her singing carreer after they married and she is now ready to take it up again. Obviously this situation has caused a lot of stress, drama and comedy in the family," Lopez said.
Lopez said the network will also air comedy specials such as Anjelah Johnson's "Homecoming Show." "One-on-One" with Mario Lopez, an interview program that will focus on Latinos from all different walks of life, is also one of the most highly anticipated programs on the network.
Lopez highlighted the fact that NUVOtv is the first television network specifically designed for Latinos with programming that will air entirely in English. "I'm excited because we're developing something very special," Lopez concluded.


The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the All Progressives Congress (APC) as winner of the two Lagos State House of Assembly seats in Badagry.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that David Setonji, the incumbent APC legislator, was declared winner of the Badagry Constituency 2, while Ibrahim Layode also of APC was re-elected for the Badagry Constituency 1.
The returning officer also announced that ABP scored 101; AD 400; ADC 107; ADP 131, while DPP netted 16 votes.
Also, Mr Kareem Bestoyin, Dept. of Social Science, University of Lagos and the Returning Officer of Badagry Constituency 1, declared Ibrahim Layode of APC as winner.
Bestoyin said that a total of 20,854 votes were cast with 1,534 votes rejected, while valid votes were 19,320.
He said that Layode polled 12,098 votes, followed by Gbenga Fayemi of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who scored 3,030 votes.
The returning officer also said A scored 8 votes; AD 228; ADC 527; ADP 151, while DA scored 9 votes.
Bestoyin declared Layode of the APC winner having satisfied the requirements of law and scored the highest number of votes.


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Undersung | Gabriela Mistral: The Archangel, The Wind — Julie Larios
Gabriela Mistral – Nobel Prize Ceremony – 1945
Icame to the poetry of Gabriela Mistral through the back door – that is, through her poems for children. As a teacher of graduate students who wanted to write for children, and as someone writing poems for children myself, I was drawn to her cradle songs, her "round dances" and "Tell-a-World" poems, and her "trickeries," especially the ones that offered up strange images or that went directions that contemporary American rhymes for children do not often go.
DAME LA MANO
A Tasso de Silveira
Dame la mano y danzaremos;
dame la mano y me amarás.
Como una sola flor seremos,
como una flor, y nada más.
El mismo verso cantaremos,
al mismo paso bailarás.
Como una espiga ondularemos,
como una espiga, y nada mas.
Te llamas Rosa y yo Esperanza;
pero tu nombre olvidarás,
porque seremos una danza
en la colina, y nada mas.
GIVE ME YOUR HAND
For Tasso de Silveira
Give me your hand and give me your love,
give me your hand and dance with me.
A single flower, and nothing more,
a single flower is all we'll be.
Keeping time in the dance together,
singing the tune together with me,
grass in the wind, and nothing more,
grass in the wind is all we'll be.
I'm called Hope and you're called Rose;
but losing our names we'll both go free,
a dance on the hills, and nothing more,
a dance on the hills is all we'll be.
[unless otherwise noted, translations are all by Ursula LeGuin from her book, Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral.]
Mistral's rhythms (especially as translated by LeGuin, who catches both sound and sense perfectly) remind me of the work of Walter de la Mare ("I must go down to the sea again, / to the lonely sea and the sky…."), another writer whose poems for children can inhabit and haunt us.
Most of Mistral's children's verses were published in a book titled Ternura (Tenderness); I found a dusty copy among her poetry for adults (and literary criticism about her work) at the graduate library of the University of Washington – my public library didn't have it. I searched that volume out because I wanted to study how Mistral did it, how she managed to make the leap and bring a certain oddness to her verses for children. While teaching at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, I often asked my students to try to "strange it up" in order to make their work less thin and Seuss-like, more haunting, less Hop-on-Pop. Mistral knew how to do that; it's a worthy goal for people who think, as Maurice Sendak did, that children can handle more than we give them credit for.
LA RATA
Una rata corrió a un venado
y los venados al jaguar,
y los jaguares a los búfalos,
y los búfalos a la mar…
Pillen, pillen a los que se van!
Pillen a la rata, pillen al venado,
pillen a los búfalos y a la mar!
Miren que la rata de la delantera
se lleva en las patas lana de bordar,
y con la lana bordo mi vestido
y con el vestido me voy a casar.
Suban y pasen la llanada,
corran sin aliento, sigan sin parar,
vuelan por la novia, y por el cortejo,
y por la carroza y el velo nupcial.
A rat ran after a deer,
deer ran after a jaguar,
jaguars chased buffalo,
and the buffalo chased the sea.
Catch the ones who chase and flee!
Catch the rat, catch the deer,
catch the buffalo and the sea!
Look, look at the rat in front,
in its paws is a woolen thread,
with that thread I sew my gown,
in that gown I will be wed.
Climb up and run, breathless run,
ceaseless chase across the plain
after the carriage, the flying veil,
after the bride and the bridal train!
We can almost see the children's game being played out on the playground there, but the poem has the combination of eeriness and sing-song cadences that Auden's "As I Walked Out One Evening" and James Fenton's "Out of the East" have. Mistral's poems for children are not always sweet and catchy, nor are they hyper-kinetic with wordplay. They might be called quirky and – at their darkest points – unsettling. That's true, too, of the oddest and most haunting nursery rhymes we have in English (think "Ashes, ashes, we all fall down.")
Gabriela Mistral – Her First Communion
EL PAVO REAL
Que sopló el viento y se llevó las nubes
y que en las nubs iba un pavo real,
que el pavo real era para mi mano
y que la mano se me va a secar,
y que la mano le di esta manaña
al rey que vino para desposar.
Ay que el cielo, ay que el viento, y la nube
que se van con el pavo real!
THE PEACOCK
What if the wind blew and bore away the clouds,
and there was a peacock flying in the clouds,
what if the peacock came to my hand
and my hand is going to wither,
and this morning I gave my hand
to the king who came to be married;
O for the sky, O for the wind and the cloud,
all gone with the king's peacock.
That poem has something of Wallace Stevens in it ("The palm stands on the edge of space. // The wind moves wind in the branches. / The bird's fire-fangled feathers dangle down") and something of George MacDonald (author of the classic At the Back of the North Wind.) There are folkloric elements, fantasy elements, and a strong flavor of the fabulous.
When Mistral published Ternura in 1922, she had already been teaching for twenty-two years but was only thirty-six years old. She had been supporting her mother and siblings since she was fourteen, managing to write and publish poetry while she did. A tragic love affair (her lover killed himself over accusations of embezzlement) led to the publication of a book of sonnets (Sonetos de la muerte / Death Sonnets) that won the Chilean National Poetry Prize and established her reputation throughout Chile, all this when she was barely twenty-five years old.
Some critics consider those sonnets her best work, and though they are technically accomplished and passionate, I find her later work more precise, more secular, less sentimental, less florid, and so more connected to the world of senses than to emotional abstractions or questions of religious devotion. After the publication of Ternura, she moved to Mexico, where she tried to help the new Obregon administration establish a post-revolutionary education and library system nationwide. She never again returned to Chile to live, though she represented it as a diplomat in many countries. Neruda studied under her at one point, and both of them, though well-known for their attachment to Chile, spent long years abroad. Though Neruda's exile was forced, Mistral's was voluntary. She died in New York in 1957.
As I say, I came to Mistral through the back door. Knocking on the front door, I would have encountered a steelier poet, a more complicated Mistral: Nobel Prize winner, self-styled exile but world citizen, diplomat and activist (the proceeds of the sale of one of her books went to help Basque children orphaned by the Spanish Civil War), renowned educator, and fierce guardian of her personal privacy. "Gabriela Mistral" was not actually the poet's name – it was used as the pseudonym of Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, born in 1889 in the Elqui Valley of Chile's Andean Mountains, in the small farming community of Vicuna. Lovely as the more poetic explanation of her pseudonym is (referring to the Archangel Gabriel and to the mistral wind which blows across France toward the Mediterranean Sea), most biographers suggest that the name was chosen to honor the Italian poet Gabriele D'Annunzio and the French poet and philologist, Frederic Mistral, also a Nobel Prize laureate.
Choosing an alternate way to approach her work allowed me to detour around some of her earlier sentimental work and arrive at what I think her strongest poems for adults are, those published later in her life. The series of poems called "locas mujeres" (crazy women), which includes some of my favorites, was published in Lagar (Winepress), Mistral's last book of poems. By then, she had lost not only her lover but several friends and a well-loved adopted son to suicide. I have an unpublished manuscript of poems for adults titled "The Madwoman"; it's only natural I would be drawn to those poems of Mistral's. Looking at a woman's perspective on the ordinary objects and routines of this world, once she has some kind of emotional and mental dislocation, is intriguing to me, though not quite as personally motivated as it was for Mistral. Randall Couch, author of the book Madwomen: The Locas Mujeres Poems of Gabriela Mistral (he translates the poems – a few of them uncollected at her death – as well as introducing them and addressing the task of translation, both in general and in particular) says that these poems are among Mistral's most complex and compelling, written "at the height of her powers." I agree. Couch goes on to say that Mistral "bends the bow of poetry, a frail weapon against the unhinging of consciousness, into strange new forms."
LA GRANJERA
Para nadie planta la lila
o poda las azaleas
y carga el agua para nadie
en baldes que la espejean.
Vuelta a uno que no da sombra
y sobrepasa su cabeza,
estira un helecho mojado
y a darlo y a hurtárselo juega.
Abre las rejas sin que llamen,
sin que entre nadie, las cierra
y se cansa para el sueño
que la toma, la suelta y la deja.
Desvíen el agua de la vertiente
que la halla gateando ciego,
espolvoreen sal donde siembre,
entierren sus herramientas.
Háganla dormir, póngala a dormir
como al armiño o la civeta.
Cuando duerma bajen su brazo
a avienten el sueño que sueña.
La muerte anda desvariada,
borracha camina la Tierra,
trueca rutas, tuerce dichas,
en la esfera tamborilea.
Viento y Arcángel de su nombre
trajeron hasta su puerta
la muerte de todos sus vivos
sin traer la muerte de ella.
Las fichas vivas de los hombres
en la carrera le tintinean.
Trocaría, perdería
la pobre muerte de la granjera!
THE FARMWIFE
For nobody she plants the lilac,
prunes the azalea,
for nobody carries buckets
of water that reflect her.
Turned towards someone taller
who casts no shadows,
she pulls up a wet fern frond,
plays at giving and taking back.
She opens the shutters though no one calls,
no one comes in, she shuts them,
and wears herself out in the dream
that takes, and frees, and deserts her.
Turn aside the water of the spring
that finds her groping blindly,
scatter salt where she sows,
and bury her farm-tools.
Make her sleep, put her to sleep
like a stoat or a weasel.
when she's asleep lower her arm
and blow way the dream she dreams.
Crazy Death goes reeling
across the world, drunk,
changes paths, twists fates,
makes earth his dream.
Wind and Archangel of her name
brought to her door
the death of everyone she loved,
and did not bring her own.
Living human poker chips
jingle as he runs.
He must have lost it on a bet,
the poor farm wife's death.
We all know that a poet, no matter how well his or her books sell in America, will be under-read. The readership for poetry in this country is so small and fiercely segmented, so specific to individual tastes and trends, that we assume a meeting of any poet's fan club will be sparsely attended (relative to the loyal fan clubs of Stephen King or Barbara Cartland.) This is as true for Billy Collins or Mary Oliver, whose books sell well considering they are full of poems, and whose fans include people who don't normally read poetry, as it is for a "poet's poet" like James Merrill or Elizabeth Bishop. Poetry, no matter how well it sells, is not a best-seller in America. So the idea of poet-as-beloved-symbol-of-her-people and "Mother of the Nation" is a bit hard to comprehend.
In 1945, Gabriela Mistral became the first South American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She was cited by the prize committee for "her lyric poetry which, inspired by powerful emotions, has made her name a symbol of the idyllic aspirations of the entire Latin American world." Or, as The Poetry Foundation puts it, "[Mistral] will always be seen as a representative figure in the cultural history of the continent." Scholarly books of criticism, written by critics who are well aware of the need to be politically correct, still use the slightly objectifying term "la Mistral" when referring to Gabriela Mistral (imagine Pablo Neruda being called "el Neruda"!) and she is often referred to simply as "Gabriela" in the Hispanic communities where her children's poems are sung as lullabies and read in school, and her reputation as an important educator is sustained. In some segments of Latin American society, Mistral's reputation paints her with such a saintly or other-worldly brush that she is basically desexualized, not unlike the "mistral" wind her name conjures up, strong but cold. In truth, very little is known about her private life, despite many poems and a large body of personal letters having been poured over for decades by scholars.
What we also know about Mistral is that in South America, at least, she is not undersung; in fact, she's ubiquitous. Schools are named after her, songs are sung in her honor, festivals and prizes (for poets and teachers) are named after her. Her image was placed on the 5000-peso Chilean bank note (now affectionately called a "gabriela") in 1981; it has also appeared on stamps throughout South America. When she died and her body was returned to Chile, the Chilean government declared three days of national mourning, and hundreds of thousands of people attended her memorial.
How can a poet born in the Western hemisphere, one who received the Nobel Prize for Literature mid-century, one whose work has been well-translated and reliably kept in print in English, one whose work still reads as modern and relevant, one whose gender might serve as a point of pride for feminists — how can she remain not only undersung among general readers of poetry but among American poets themselves? On the other hand, when I told my sister that I was working on an essay about the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral and that I was worried, as I had been about a previous essay in the Undersung series about Eugenio Montale, whether Nobel laureates could actually be labelled "undersung," my sister reminded me that 25% of all Americans believe that the sun revolves around the earth. I guess it's no surprise Gabriela Mistral is not a household name from Maine to California. Assuming that a large percentage of practicing poets actually know which heavenly objects orbit which, it's still true that many American poets have never read Mistral's work – certainly not in its original language.
We're a lazy bunch here in America, second-language-wise, despite the fact that whole sections of the government now print their official documents in Spanish and English. We're a bilingual country without a bilingual population – bilingualism is taking its own sweet time to catch on. Hurry up, I feel like saying to my compatriots, learn Spanish and be ahead of the crowd! The benefit of doing so would be not only the ability to converse with and stand together with a growing portion of our fellow countrymen, but the ability to read Octavio Paz, Pablo Neruda, Vincente Aleixandre, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Juan Ramon Jimenez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Camilo Jose Sela, Jose Saramago, Miguel Angel Asturias (all nine are Nobel Prize winners) and yes, Gabriela Mistral, in the language their work was written in. The current state of affairs seems to suggest that since Robert Frost said (I'm paraphrasing) that poetry is what gets lost in translation, we've given ourselves permission not to read translated poetry. After all, if Frost was right, what would be the point? Translated poetry would be an oxymoron. Thank God a few poets – oxymoronic, slippery fish – manage to reach our shores from time to time and make a contemporary splash: Wislawa Szymborska springs to mind, as do C.P. Cafavy and Czeslaw Milosz. But it's not the feast we might enjoy if we were less Anglocentric. We have an unfortunate history of undervaluing anything — or anyone — that is outside the mainstream, as Langston Hughes understood when he translated this poem by Mistral:
The green and yellow parrot,
the saffron and green parrot,
called me "ugly," squawking
with his devilish bill.
I am not ugly, for if I am ugly,
then my mother who looks like the sun is ugly,
the light that is part of my mother is ugly,
and the wind is ugly that sounds in her voice,
and ugly is the water that reflects her body,
and ugly is the world and He who created it…
green and shimmering parrot,
calls me "ugly" because he has not eaten,
so I take him bread and wine,
for I am getting tired of looking at him
up there always posed, always shimmering.
—Julie Larios
Julie Larios writes poetry for both children and adults; several of her poems have appeared in the pages of Numero Cinq but she is proudest of her faux-translation "A Cow's Life," submitted five years ago to NC's First Ever Translation Contest. She is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets prize and a Pushcart Prize, and her work has been chosen twice for The Best American Poetry series. Her Undersung series for Numéro Cinq has previously highlighted the work of R.F. Langley, George Starbuck, Robert Francis, Josephine Jacobsen, Adrien Stoutenburg, Marie Ponsot, Eugenio Montale, Alistair Reid, John Malcolm Brinnin, Ernst Jandl and The Poet-Novelist.
2015, Essays, NC Magazine, Undersung, Vol. VI, No. 9, September 2015
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Foleum, a hybrid wind and solar blockchain mining data centre, has announces a partnership with Nexus, a three-dimensional blockchain. Nexus is generating the next evolution of blockchain protocol by utilizing three different consensus channels – witnessing, stake weights, and proof-of-work – systems that work together to simultaneously verify and lock transactions into the chain and create blocks. Integrating advanced cryptography also makes the 3DC resistant to quantum attacks, creating an extremely secure digital currency. Nexus will be launching nanosatellites (cubesats) into low Earth orbit and building a ground-based support system to create a mesh network that links the blockchain with communications technology, providing a decentralized internet. The company focuses on three core principles: efficient and scalable code, enhanced security, and revolutionary hardware networks.
The Nexus 3DC claims to be the most energy-efficient consensus system to date. In addition, the Nexus Lower Level Database (LLD) provides dynamic data retrieval, enabling the partitioning of the 3D blockchain across nodes, reducing blockchain bloat. The company's concern for the environment and desire to minimize its carbon footprint have led to its partnership with Foleum, which will generate the majority of its own mining power with renewable resources. Foleum will provide Nexus with statistical data, environmental impact services, and other areas of work as the parameters of the Nexus project evolve.
Foleum is a community-based blockchain mining project designed to generate majority of its own power using green hybrid technologies, creating a decentralized blockchain future that is ecologically sustainable and profitable for the community. Both companies aim to benefit the community and the wider world, being for the people, and being positive forces for creating a changing world from economic, humanitarian, and environmental aspects.


In lieu of corporate Christmas gifts, ParkLane instead donated funds to Covenant House in December of 2009. Covenant House has been leading the effort to help homeless kids. And today, they are the largest privately-funded agency in the Americas that provides food, shelter, immediate crisis care, and an array of other important services to homeless, throwaway, and runaway kids. For millions of homeless kids, basic needs like a hearty meal, warm bed, and safe shelter are true luxuries. Instead of knowing the joys of childhood, every day these kids face the life-or-death dangers of living on the streets. ParkLane is proud to sponsor an organization who gives vulnerable youth a strong, helping hand.


Ramanthapur, Aug. 6: All the members of Child Protection Committees (CPC) of New Bhoiguda, Nampally and Ramanthapur for the year 2014-15 were present along with newly appointed members for the year 2015-16 and newly constituted members of DBPSS, Haythnagar. Formation CPC began last year. In certain extend, it worked out well for the children to express themselves and find a solution for some their problems. This programme we have organized on 6th August 2015 on the Birthday of T D John.
Under the chairmanship of Fr. Bellamkonda Sudhakar, Director of Don Bosco Navajeevan Homes in twin cities the committees were formed, namely Mrs Jeevan Jyothi and Ajith for Don Bosco Rehabilitation Centre, Ramanthapur, Sr. Victoria and Yadaiah for Don Bosco Navajeeva, Nampally, Mrs Rojamani and Vasu for Don Bosco Navajeevan, New Bhoiguda and Sr. Valsa and Fr Philip for Don Bosco Prem Seva Sadan, Home for girl children, Haythnagar. Fr. T.D John will continue to support with his valuable suggestions.
Fr. Sudhakar welcomed all the members of committees and briefed about the background of the Child Protection Committee. He also thanked the outgoing members of committees for their services and time as child protection committee members. In continuation, he said that the previous committee members were able to meet only twice for the past year due to other technical problems. But these members who were elected for the year 2015-16 will be meeting once in a month in their respective centres and once in two months all members of different committees will meet regularly on first Thursday of the month. The suggestion box as set up in Ramanthapur, similarly will be setting in all our homes, i.e., New Bhoiguda, Nampally and Haythnagar centres. The suggestions that were in Ramanthapur centre were solved and taken into consideration.
Fr. T D John read the document "code of conduct" for the members of committees and insisted to follow the rules. He had gone through the document as point by point and so as to make everybody to understand. Fr. Sudhakar asked for further suggestions and reviews and it was decided that there will be plan of action to be ready by the next meeting. There was discussion on Children clubs and plan for the clubs to be formed in all the centres will be taken into consideration and plan will be ready by next meeting. We continued to celebrate the Birthday of TD John with children and staff at Ramanthapur.


The levels above are how your student will be graded during band for the year. These levels represent 75% of your student's grade in band, while the other 25% comes from daily rehearsals. Performances are required and any absence from a performance results in the student dropping 1 letter grade for the semester. Grades for levels are input at the end of each semester (end of 2nd and 4th 9 weeks).


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Thermolam technology is an innovative method of producing a new type of thermal insulation panel for covering building facades.
It offers a unique combination of ceramic panels and insulating material with outstanding thermal, operational, assembly and aesthetic qualities.
The Thermolam system combines the advantages of all previously used insulation techniques for building facades.
Thermolam panel construction
Thermolam technology is based on the use of a specially selected mixture of PSUR polyurethane foams.
Thermolam technology offers the perfect combination of the unique elegance and beauty of LAMINAM ceramic tiles with an insulating material with market-leading properties.
Thermal insulation panels made with Thermolam technology form the basis for a modern and complete facade system that provides an unprecedented set of advantages.
The key components of Thermolam technology are its modern heat-insulating material – polyurethane-polystyrene (PSUR) composite – and the patented assembly method for panels, allowing installation in virtually all weather conditions!
Thermolam offers ready-made, complete facade and insulation panels, together with an integrated sling system for simple, quick and durable mounting on a building.
The outer side of the panel is a beautiful quartz sinter with very high functional properties, especially in zones with variable weather.
Main features and benefits of the Thermolam system
Thermolam facade panels have exceptionally favourable features, which include:
extremely low heat loss, Thermolam's coefficient of λ=0.025 W/mK is much lower than other insulating materials such as polystyrene or mineral wool, and the technology and assembly system eliminates the occurrence of thermal bridges. Thermolam panels meet the latest heat emission standard, which has been in force in Europe since January 2017.
very high use parameters: durability, frost resistance, chemical resistance, resistant to stains, scratches, graffiti, UV rays, high fire resistance,
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extremely low weight of panels (about 12 kg), which eliminates the need for costly substructures,
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very short time to install a facade compared to other systems,
long-lasting – 25-year guarantee for Laminam panels.
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The most tangible financial benefits and aesthetic effects are achieved in cases where the facade is chosen at the design stage of a building. The main advantages are:
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building work can be completed faster – thanks to the possibility of installing the facade irrespective of the temperature and rainfall, which means that it is not necessary to wait for spring to complete insulation and finish walls.
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Chicago Bears Hire Tim Holt As Offensive Line Coach
By Satchel Price Feb 8, 2012, 5:50pm CST
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The Chicago Bears have hired Tim Holt to be the team's new offensive line coach, as the team announced on Wednesday. He'll be replacing new offensive coordinator Mike Tice, who was promoted after the departure of Mike Martz at the end of last season.
Before joining the Bears, Holt had spent the past three seasons with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Last season, he was an assistant offensive line coach for Tampa Bay. Before jumping to the NFL, Holt spent 14 seasons coaching at the college level at schools such as Cornell and Southern Connecticut State.
The move fills out Lovie Smith's coaching staff for the 2012 season. He's now had four different offensive line coaches in his time at the helm in Chicago.
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Anguilla borneensis ist eine Art der Aale (Anguilla). Sein Verbreitungsgebiet ist auf den Osten Borneos beschränkt. Es erstreckt sich von den Flüssen im Distrikt Tawau im malaysischen Bundesstaat Sabah bis zum Einzugsgebiet des Mahakam in der indonesischen Provinz Kalimantan Timur. In seiner Lebensweise gleicht er weitgehend dem Europäischen Aal. Er lebt in den klaren, schnell fließenden Teilen der Flüsse, wo er unter Steinen und Felsvorsprüngen zu finden ist. Der Aal wird auf Borneo "Telakai" genannt.

Anguilla borneensis wird als phylogenetisch basale Art der Gattung Anguilla angesehen. Die geschlechtsreifen Tiere dieser Art müssen bei ihren katadromen Wanderungen nur eine Strecke von 480 km (von der Küste Tawaus) bis 650 km (vom Mündungsbereich des Mahakam) durch das Meer in ihr Laichgebiet in der Celebes-See zurücklegen. Die 4000 km bis 8000 km langen Routen, die die europäischen und amerikanischen Aale zurücklegen, sind also wahrscheinlich eine später im Lauf der Evolution aufgetretene Anpassung.

Gefährdung und Schutzmaßnahmen
Da diese Art nur ein kleines Verbreitungsgebiet aufweist, wird sie von der IUCN als Vulnerable (gefährdet) geführt. Für genauere Angaben zur Gefährdung und darausfolgenden Schutzmaßnahmen ist die weitere Erforschung der Art und ihres Lebensraumes erforderlich.

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Jun Aoyama, Sam Wouthuyzen, Michael J. Miller, Tadashi Inagaki und Katsumi Tsukamoto: Short-Distance Spawning Migration of Tropical Freshwater Eels. In: The Biological Bulletin (Biol. Bull.) 204. 2003, S. 104–108. (Online-Version, engl.)

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The UK is having its CCTV cameras switched off by councils who can't afford to keep them running, the government's surveillance camera watchdog said, warning of a deterioration in crime-fighting standards amid the government's biting austerity cuts.
For Tony Porter, the Surveillance Camera Commissioner, this is an alarming development. Britain is one of the most heavily-dependent countries in the world on CCTVs' ability to help police tackle street crime, with its 4-6 million cameras, according to The British Security Industry Association (BSIA).
Porter told The Independent that not only are select councils in England and Wales playing a "postcode lottery" in tackling serious crime, they are also threatening greater danger by cutting on training and hiring inexperienced camera operators, which often means inadequate training on legal issues as well.
A former counter-terrorism officer, Porter blames the Tory government's austerity cuts.
He has already written to council chief executives about the problem. At this week's CCTV User Group conference, he listed several examples in "large towns like Blackpool and Derby," where monitoring was cut around the clock by local councils, all without consulting the public.
The solution, for Porter, is for public service providers to face more accountability for their actions. Setting up a system with regular inspections could go a long way to achieving that.
Councils' current legal role only means they have to "encourage, review and advise," something Porter argues needs to be increased.
Despite the alarming claims, an unnamed government spokesman said that the "majority" of councils have been doing OK on budgets, while managing to maintain and even increase public satisfaction. He also referenced the latest Independent Crime Survey for England and Wales, which showed that the UK is the safest it has been in 24 years.
But even so, according to director of civil rights group Big Brother Watch, Emma Carr, the crime rate there isn't much lower than in countries with a small fraction of the UK's CCTV cameras.
Currently, about 84 percent of Britons support CCTV camera use in public spaces, according to official statistics.
Turning off one-third of its cameras could save a council up to a quarter-million pounds. And they need to find a way to cut some 2.6 million pounds in this financial year, under the cuts.
The British public has been coming out to protest the austerity measures, with some 2,000 gathering in Manchester on Saturday. Carrying banners and shouting slogans, the crowd included union members from across the country and local members of The People's Assembly Against Austerity.
Chancellor George Osborne has warned the cuts will continue under the Conservatives, who just won the general election. PM David Cameron will present the Tories' new legislative plan in the Queen's Speech on May 27.


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Opendoor has named Gautam Gupta its chief financial officer and chief business officer, critical roles as the business continues to alter the way in which homes are bought and sold. Uber's former head of finance, Gupta joined the $3.8 billion home-selling platform as its chief operating officer in 2017.
The company, which has raised more than $4 billion in debt and equity funding to date, is announcing several new hires this morning. Venrock's Tom Willerer has joined as the company's first-ever chief product officer. Willerer previously led product at Coursera and Netflix. He joined the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Venrock in 2017 and has since struck deals with edtech startups including Make School and Flockjay.
Opendoor has also hired Julie Todaro as its president of homes and services, another newly created role. Todaro, who spent more than a decade at Amazon, most recently as its vice president of consumer electronics, will oversee market operations, customer experience and home services.
Finally, Carrie Wheeler, a partner at TPG for 20 years, and Jason Kilar, the founding CEO of Hulu, have joined Opendoor's board of directors.
Founded in 2014, San Francisco-based Opendoor is backed by General Atlantic, Hawk Equity, SoftBank, Access Technology Ventures, Lennar Corporation, Fifth Wall Ventures, SV Angel, Norwest Venture Partners, NEA, GGV Capital, Khosla Ventures, GV and more.
Opendoor raises $300M on a $3.8B valuation for its home marketplace


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LA WEEKLY - Raised On TV Prepares to Unleash Season Two by Brett Callwood
Los Angeles alt-rockers Raised On TV play the Maui Sugar Mill this week, the final date on a 20+ gig tour that has seen them travel around the country. We chatted with guitarist/vocalist Keaton Rogers about it all…
L.A. WEEKLY: When and how did the band form?
KEATON ROGERS: We formed back in the summer of 2015. The drummer [Kacey Greenwood] is my brother, so we always wanted to have a band together, always thought it would be cool. At that time, we were both in different bands that fell apart and broke up by chance at the same time. The stars aligned and that was a chance for us to start a new band together so we brought in his best friend from high school, a guy named Ryan [Weiss]. We all got together in Ryan's mom's garage that summer and we jammed away, got about ten songs together, and then started playing shows around early 2016.
Describe the sound…
Since the beginning it's been influenced by a lot of '60s bands and a lot of '90s bands. So a lot of '60s psychedelia influence from Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Cream, The Zombies — a lot of guitar work from back then. And also, a lot of straightforward, grittier rock from the '90s — bands like Smashing Pumpkins and Nirvana. Some punk and also bands like Weezer. Some newer indie type stuff like Death Cab for Cutie. A lot of the songwriting was taken from the newer bands and then fused with the psychedelic '60s musical arrangements. That's how we started, and we're still very much on that page. Our sound has progressed and developed, but that's still very much what we are.
All kinds of stuff. I try not to limit myself too much as far as subject material goes. Recently I've been writing a lot about the struggle of pursuing the dream of music while trying to pay rent and being able to afford to eat and live while all the while putting all your energy into your music and work. A lot of the songs have that feeling in there. I also write about things that everyone writes about — relationships going well, relationships going poorly, losing friends, what it means to grow up and not lose the way you saw the world as a kid.
Do you enjoy van life and touring?
I enjoy it very much. I'm driving in the band's van right now that we just got for this tour we're about to go on. But even when it's gritty and dirty I enjoy it. We all love traveling to new cities and meeting new people.
What can we expect from the L.A. set?
You can expect a band that's gonna be really tight and practiced, coming off a string of 20+ shows. We might be a little tired but that's ok.
this tour is over, what else do you have planned for 2019?
Our big plans are releasing our second album, Season 2. We want to out that out in the fall so we're getting that together. We want to make some new music videos. Hopefully, plan some bigger shows back in L.A. and build our fanbase more.
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