Today I'm featuring Old Filth by Jane Gardam, which I borrowed from the library.
The Benchers' luncheon-room of the Inner Temple. Light pours through the long windows upon polished table, silver, glass. A number of Judges and Benchers finishing lunch. One chair has recently been vacated and the Benchers are looking at it.
Page 56: "'On sped the car. When they reached main roads conversation ceased."
My thoughts: Sir Edward Feathers is the title character, Old Filth. His fascinating life and career unfold in the pages of this novel, which is the first book of a trilogy.
From Goodreads: Sir Edward Feathers has had a brilliant career, from his early days as a lawyer in Southeast Asia, where he earned the nickname Old Filth (FILTH being an acronym for Failed In London Try Hong Kong) to his final working days as a respected judge at the English bar. Yet through it all he has carried with him the wounds of a difficult and emotionally hollow childhood. Now an eighty-year-old widower living in comfortable seclusion in Dorset, Feathers is finally free from the regimen of work and the sentimental scaffolding that has sustained him throughout his life. He slips back into the past with ever mounting frequency and intensity, and on the tide of these vivid, lyrical musings, Feathers approaches a reckoning with his own history. Not all the old filth, it seems, can be cleaned away.
Friday Focus: The Friday 56 & Book Beginnings #89 was originally published by Catherine for bookclublibrarian.com. This post cannot be republished without attribution. Retweeting and sharing on Google+ are encouraged and appreciated.


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Q: Need to print a swf static images from my aspx component I have a component in my application that show in my aspx page a x nurmbers of imagens get from my datasource of a repeater. I want to create a button and make this button print this images. I'd tried window.print() in my aspx, but it's only print the HTML information.

A: as far as i know,
u can't print directly to the printer.
u need to show the separate window with only img surrounded with div tag.
here is the eample:
<%@ Page Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/MasterPage2.master" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="PrintImage.aspx.cs" Inherits="PrintImage" Title="Untitled Page" %>
<asp:Content ID="Content1" ContentPlaceHolderID="MainContent" Runat="Server">

        <asp:Image ID="ImgMyPhoto" runat="server" Width="100px" Height="90px" />

        <input type="button" id="btnPrint" value="Print Image" onclick="PrintImage()" />

</asp:Content>

ref: this coding is get from Thirumalai_pm
Hope it works!

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Q: Discord Reaction Roles not working after the bot restarts Recently I decided to update my Discord Bot from V12 to V13 and I encountered a problem with my Reaction Roles.
It only works if the bot doesn't restart. It worked perfectly on discord.js 12.5.3 and now I'm using discord.js 13.5.0. Could you guys help me with the problem?
Here is my code:
const { MessageEmbed } = require("discord.js");
const Discord = require('discord.js');
const { Client } = require('discord.js');
const client = new Client({
  intents: 32767,
  partials: ['MESSAGE', 'CHANNEL', 'REACTION'],
   });
const config2 = require("../config2");

module.exports = async (client, message, args) => {

 client.on('messageCreate', async message => {
if (message.content.startsWith("22ar")) {

const embed = new MessageEmbed()
                .setColor('#FFA500')
                .setTitle(`Pick the roles`)
                .setDescription(` **- You unlock yourself.**
              ✅ **- You get access to the server.**
               **- You get notified for X things.**

             [, ✅] - obligatory.
             [] - optional.
             \`Wait at least 30 seconds and try again if you don't get the roles.\``)
     const msg = await message.channel.send({ embeds: [ embed ] })
      msg.react('')
      msg.react('✅')
      msg.react('')
   }
})

  const CHANNEL = config2.ROLECHANNEL;
  const UROLE = config2.UNLOCKROLE;
  const MROLE = config2.MEMBERROLE;
  const NROLE = config2.NOTIFYROLE;

  const unlockEmoji = '';
  const checkEmoji = '✅';
  const notifyEmoji = '';

  client.on('messageReactionAdd', async (reaction, user) => {
  if (reaction.partial) {
      try {
          await reaction.fetch();
      } catch (error) {
          console.error('Fetching message failed: ', error);
          return;
      }
  }
  if (!user.bot) {
    if(reaction.message.channel.id === CHANNEL) {
      if (reaction.emoji.name == checkEmoji) {
          const memberRole = reaction.message.guild.roles.cache.find(r => r.id === MROLE);
          const { guild } = reaction.message
          const member = guild.members.cache.find(member => member.id === user.id);
          member.roles.add(MROLE);
      }
  if (reaction.emoji.name == unlockEmoji) {
        const unlockRole = reaction.message.guild.roles.cache.find(r => r.id === UROLE);
        const { guild } = reaction.message
          const member = guild.members.cache.find(member => member.id === user.id);
        member.roles.remove(UROLE)
  }
  if (reaction.emoji.name == notifyEmoji) {
        const notifyRole = reaction.message.guild.roles.cache.find(r => r.id === NROLE);
        const { guild } = reaction.message
          const member = guild.members.cache.find(member => member.id === user.id);
        member.roles.add(NROLE)
}
}
  client.on('messageReactionRemove', async (reaction, user) => {
    if (reaction.partial) {
        try {
            await reaction.fetch();
        } catch (error) {
            console.error('Fetching message failed: ', error);
            return;
        }
    }
    if (!user.bot) {
      if(reaction.message.channel.id === CHANNEL) {
        if (reaction.emoji.name == checkEmoji) {
            const memberRole = reaction.message.guild.roles.cache.find(r => r.id === MROLE);
            const { guild } = reaction.message
            const member = guild.members.cache.find(member => member.id === user.id);
            member.roles.remove(memberRole);
        }
    if (reaction.emoji.name == unlockEmoji) {
          const unlockRole = reaction.message.guild.roles.cache.find(r => r.id === UROLE);
          const { guild } = reaction.message
          const member = guild.members.cache.find(member => member.id === user.id);
          member.roles.remove(unlockRole)
    }
    if (reaction.emoji.name == notifyEmoji) {
          const notifyRole = reaction.message.guild.roles.cache.find(r => r.id === NROLE);
          const { guild } = reaction.message
          const member = guild.members.cache.find(member => member.id === user.id);
          member.roles.remove(notifyRole)
    }
  }
}
  })
}
  })

}

I am not getting any error in the console and the bot continues to work as usual.
Thank you for your attention.

A: Messages sent before your bot started are uncached unless you fetch them first. By default, the library does not emit client events if the data received and cached is not sufficient to build fully functional objects. Since version 12, you can change this behavior by activating partials.
Official guide about this here (Listening for reactions on old messages).


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Q: What's a nice clean way to use an options hash with defaults values as a parameter in ruby Let's say I want a method which will be called like this:
 tiger = create_tiger( :num_stripes => 12, :max_speed => 43.2 )
 tiger.num_stripes # will be 12

where some of the options have default values:
 tiger = create_tiger( :max_speed => 43.2 )
 tiger.num_stripes # will have some default value

what's a nice idiomatic ruby way of implementing that defaulting behaviour in the method implementation?

A: It's usually best to encapsulate safe defaults in a Hash that's declared as a constant. For example:
require 'ostruct'
require 'ostruct'

class Tiger < OpenStruct
  DEFAULTS = {
    :num_stripes => 12,
    :max_speed => 43.2
  }.freeze

  def initialize(options = { })
    super(DEFAULTS.merge(options))
  end
end

tiger = Tiger.new(:max_speed => 19.95)

puts tiger.max_speed
puts tiger.num_stripes

It is important to note when merging Hash objects that String and Symbol keys are different and will not be combined as you might expect. In the Rails environment, you can always convert one to the other using Hash#symbolize_keys or by declaring them as HashWithIndifferentAccess which maps away the difference for you.

A: In case anyone is seeing this from google, this question is old and out of date. The modern and much cleaner answer (with Ruby > 2.0) is to use keyword arguments. They have several advantages.
1.) you can require the name of the key in the hash. (in ruby > 2.1)
2.) you don't have to "unpack" the hash in the function. The keys are simply handed to you as variables. (thus you don't have to do like speed = opts[:speed])
3.) It's cleaner
def foo(num_stripes: 12, **rest)
  print num_stripes, rest
end

foo({max_speed: 42}) # would print '12, {max_speed: 42}'

see full ruby docs here: http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-2.1.0/doc/syntax/methods_rdoc.html#label-Array%2FHash+Argument
and a good little blog post here: http://robots.thoughtbot.com/ruby-2-keyword-arguments

A: def foo(options = {})
  options = { ... defaults ... }.merge(options)
end

A: If you're using Rails (not just plain Ruby), a slightly shorter method is
def foo(options = {})
  options.reverse_merge! { ... defaults ... }
end

This has the added advantage of allowing you to do multiple lines a tad bit more cleanly:
def foo(options = {})
  options.reverse_merge!(
    :some_default => true,
    :other_default => 5
  )
end

A: Rails 6 (don't know what version is this available from) has a semantic alias:
def a_method(options={})
  options.with_defaults!(
    a_key: :a_default_value,
    b_key: :b_default_value,
    ..
  )
  ..
end


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Stark Gender Gap in Gun Ownership, Views of Gun Laws in U.S.
by Megan Brenan
U.S. men roughly twice as likely as U.S. women to own a gun, 43% vs. 22%
62% of women, 51% of men feel gun laws should be made stricter
Gender gap in gun-law preferences persists despite gun ownership status
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Men and women in the U.S. differ starkly in their propensity to own a gun and their preferences for the nation's gun laws. Gallup's trends show that gun ownership among men has consistently been at least double that of women, and women are much more supportive than men of stricter gun laws.
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The most recent findings, from 2021-2022, show a 21-percentage-point gender gap in gun ownership, with about twice as many men (43%) as women (22%) saying they personally own a gun.
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The latest data also find that 6% of men and 20% of women say another member of their household owns a gun, while 48% of men and 56% of women report there being no guns in their household.
Women More Supportive of Stricter Gun Laws Regardless of Ownership Status
Gallup's annual October Crime surveys have tracked Americans' preferences for laws covering the sale of firearms since 2001. Over that period, majorities of women have said they prefer that gun laws be made stricter in all readings except one (50% in 2011). At the same time, no more than 51% of men have favored stricter laws, aside from a 56% reading in 2019. In the latest readings, from an Oct. 3-20, 2022, poll, 62% of women and 51% of men think gun laws should be made stricter.
On balance, gun owners -- both men and women -- favor keeping gun laws as they are now, rather than making them stricter or less strict. However, women who own guns are more likely than male gun owners to support stricter gun laws, 40% versus 32%, according to aggregated data from 2018 to 2022 that allow for the analysis of smaller subgroups.
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"We want to create our industry ourselves": Why Switzerland's young games scene doesn't need an EA or an Ubisoft
Blindflug Studios
Okomotive
Pro Helvetia
Stray Fawn
May 2nd, 2019 - 04:33pm
By Alex Calvin, Editor - PC Games Insider
Switzerland might have one of the most unique games markets in the world.
Though it boasted a bustling community developing for the Amiga back in the 1980s - dubbed the 'demo scene' by Swiss nationals - this simply disappeared overnight. Those involved were young and ultimately went on to get jobs, killing what games community there was.
Thus the industry in 2019 is very young. There isn't the experience that most countries can lay claim to with older names like Id Software, Eidos or Creative Assembly.
According to stats shared in a presentation by SGDA president and Stray Fawn co-founder Philomena Schwab (pictured, top left), the vast majority of Swiss studios are less than ten years old.
"When looking at the amount of years in business, we can see that quite a few studios have been founded very recently," she explained.
"There are some that have been sticking around a bit but we can see that there is almost no 'old' industry here; we had developers making games for the Amiga, it was building up but it was mostly very young people who went on to get jobs and that removed the whole games scene from Switzerland and we had to more or less start up from nothing again, compared to other countries who actually made the transition."
Far: Lone Sails from Swiss developer Okomotive launched in 2018, published by Mixtvision
As such there isn't much in the way of experienced talent. Blindflug, of First Strike and Airtheart fame, might be one of the most established, with five of its own games - as well as a further five client projects - and five years under its belt.
Co-founder Jeremy Spillmann (pictured, bottom left) does point out that Switzerland was the first European country to have a publicly funded course for games design, yielding a wealth of young and talented developers.
"There wasn't a follow-up of game studios [after the democene]," he said.
"The oldest game developers that are still around now were founded around 2005; it's very young. But funnily enough, Switzerland did have the first public-funded university that had a game design course in Europe with the ZHDK. That means that there was a lot of new game designers and there's also the tech sector with ETC (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) so there was a lot of groundwork and now we're at the stage where there are dozens of young new companies being formed."
We want to create our industry ourselves in a way, but we really need to connect with other countries. We don't want to be self-contained, but we see a lot of potential here and we want to grow. Each studio wants to get big; if they do that then the whole industry grows
Don Schmocker, Okomotive
Don Schmocker (pictured, bottom right), one of the founders of Far: Lone Sails developer Okomotive - and a graduate of ZHDK (Zurich University of the Arts) - says that not all of these companies would succeed, but the more that stick around, the more experience the Swiss industry will gain.
"[The Swiss development scene] is young but very active," he said.
"We get more new studios with every year and a lot of them are students. Some fail, but more and more stay in the industry so we get more experience and we can share that. If we grow, we'll grow faster because we can help each other. And if the Swiss games industry is recognised more nationally and internationally, it may get more support long-term."
Perhaps unsurprisingly, many of these smaller start-up studios are one-person teams, but the average company size is between two to five staff - according to SGDA's research - and there are very few who have six or more people on-board.
For Blindflug's Spillmann, one of the main concerns about the industry is that many of the new studios that are emerging are working from project-to-project with little in the way of long-term stability. Blindflug, for example, makes games for clients in addition to its own titles, but the co-founder says there needs to be more support from the state as well as other investment to mediate the risk most studios are taking on.
"There's an inherent risk of studios working from title to title," he explained.
"There's a lot of potential in the scene growing and getting to a more stable point, but it is a bit shaky right now. Still, it's very creative and there's lots of games with a number of awards and accolades. It's interesting, but needs to think globally. We know that we can't develop for Switzerland alone; it's just not possible. The country is just too small. Music and cinema have the same problem, too. That's why everyone is so active in going to GDC and trying to meet people; thinking globally."
He continued: "What we need is public-private partnership; development subsidies for studios that get investment from angels. There are a lot of business angels in the country but none of them are from the games industry because there is no old games industry here. They might be vaguely related - from tech, for example - but a lot of them feel very uncertain about games, because it's not their area. This is where the government could help tremendously; all of these companies that are here now, they now need to get to a point where they can develop multiple projects and to spread out the risk because if we keep developing from project-to-project, a lot of these new young companies will die no matter how good their sales on the initial projects would be because it is a high-risk area of work."
Okomotive's Schmocker feels the government should provide more support, also, as well as greater insight and some big names to attract global attention.
"[To grow, the Swiss development scene] needs three things," he said.
"One is better funding from the state because compared to other countries we don't have that much support. We need more experienced people; they may come from the outside to share what they know, especially people who have specialised knowledge because we don't have that here really. And we need to create a really big studio or name that other countries will be able to go: 'Hey, that's Switzerland'. We have one in Giants, but they are very specialised on the simulation genre. There are a lot of simulation games made in Switzerland, but we also have really great indie games - we want to create high-quality games."
Unrailed from student developers Indoor Astronaut has been picked up by German publisher Daedalic
When looking at other games scenes, such as the UK, Canada and even Italy, one of the big ways that these countries have helped grow a development and publishing community is financial incentives such as tax breaks. For Switzerland, this is different due to its rather low tax culture.
As a result, many of the Swiss developers we spoke to say that the local scene - the small start-ups of today - is going to be the triple-A powerhouse companies of tomorrow. Furthermore, they don't see much value in having an Ubisoft or EA setting up development houses.
"I'd expect the local scene to develop. I don't personally see any huge value in a big company coming into Switzerland. It would create jobs, but in the end I would say you could end up in a situation like Finland had with Nokia," Spillmann said.
"We already have two studios who are on the brink. One of them, Giants, is already huge off the back of Farming Simulator, and there's also the folks from Train Fever, who are getting pretty big. Not everyone is going to survive but some of the studios becoming bigger and trying to go the route of a Supercell or something and having an influence on new teams that are coming up and being able to work for the specific needs that they have. That being said, the governmental support from Pro Helvetia [an organisation that funds art and culture in Switzerland] is already great. It's helping us with networking with the bigger studios, or having coaches trying to help us get our pitches and our sales better. There's a lot happening and that's the reason why it's making major strides forward."
Okomotive's Schmocker added: "We don't talk about getting big studios to come here really. It would be nice, but we had Ubisoft here and they left a few years ago. EA's presence here is really small. We want to create our industry ourselves in a way, but we really need to connect with other countries. We don't want to be self-contained, but we see a lot of potential here and we want to grow. Each studio wants to get big; if they do that then the whole industry grows."
But there is real talent in Switzerland with a development scene that unites creativity with cutting edge technology. Look no further than FaceShift, the Swiss company that was bought up by Apple in 2015 and whose work now powers the Animojis that Apple has featured since iPhone X.
Then there's Unrailed from indie studio Indoor Astronaut (pictured, above). This was a student project at ETH, which ended up being picked up by German publisher Daedalic.
There is a bright future ahead of the Swiss games industry, but it is going to get there on its own terms.
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All those internal Facebook emails that got handed to MP Damian Collins during the UK's fake-news inquiry, when he purportedly spooked Six4Three's managing director into whipping out a USB drive?
A California court agrees with Facebook: a judge said on Friday that the "I panicked" explanation from Six4Three's Ted Kramer could stand a bit of scrutiny. After all, Kramer handed over highly confidential documents, which he was explicitly told not to do during the company's legal battle with Facebook. The whole thing looks more like a plot to leak confidential data than a flustered moment in an MP's office, the court says.
Judge V. Raymond Swope, of the superior court of California, ruled that there was prima facie evidence that Six4Three had plotted to "commit a crime or fraud" by leaking the emails in violation of an earlier court order. Prima facie evidence is that which is sufficient to establish a fact or raise a presumption unless disproved or rebutted.
Six4Three's legal team had been trying to hide the developer's conversations with British MPs, claiming that they should be protected under attorney-client privilege. But given that prima facie evidence points to Six4Three having potentially leaked the emails, the court has ordered the developer to hand over all such records.
Six4Three, the former 'wanna-see-your-gal-pals-in-bikinis?' app developer, in 2015 launched a suit over Facebook's 2014 decision to shut down the Friends data API, through which users could allow thousands of third-party apps to track their friends' location, status, and interests.
No Facebook Friends API, no "pikinis" from Six4Three – a kicking-off-the-knees move that crippled the developer. In its suit, Six4Three alleged that Facebook turned off the tap as a way of forcing developers to buy advertising, transfer intellectual property or even sell themselves to it at a bargain basement price.
Why pull out a USB stuffed with confidential documents?
The story from MP Collins and Kramer: the two met in Collins's London office on 20 November. Collins told Kramer that he was under active investigation in the UK's fake news inquiry, that he was in contempt of parliament, and that he could potentially face fines and imprisonment.
In December, Collins's parliamentary committee published about 250 pages of internal emails showing how Facebook limited the data on users' friends that developers could see… at any rate, it cut off access to some developers. Facebook kept a whitelist of certain companies that it allowed to maintain full access to friend data.
The emails also showed that Facebook knew that changing its policies on the Android mobile phone system to enable the Facebook app to collect a record of users' calls and texts would pull in bad PR… so the plan was to bury it deep, "to make it as hard as possible for users to know that this was one of the underlying features of the upgrade of their app," as Collins characterized it.
The evidence reflects that Six4Three utilized the services of counsel to aid in committing a crime or fraud. It is apparent from the evidence that Six4Three's counsel was engaged in the 'heavy lifting' of analyzing and summarizing Facebook's confidential parties, and not merely acting in an advisory role.
extensive discovery of communications between [Facebook CEO Mark] Zuckerberg and numerous executives… that [they] believed is highly relevant to the Cambridge Analytica investigation.
The leaks in December were just the start. Since then, 60 more pages of unredacted legal documents were published on GitHub.
The second leak of internal emails revealed that Facebook planned to spy on Android users and that Facebook itself had what it called a near-fatal brush with a data privacy breach when a third-party app came close to disclosing its financial results ahead of schedule.
It's not clear how many more internal documents may have made it into the public domain or might still be destined to appear. Facebook's lawyers have been fighting to shut down the leaks and identify their source by pushing for Six4Three's legal team to be cross-examined under oath.


Anorak is a brilliant, quarterly magazine for kids aged between 6 - 12, although the amazing illustrators that they ask to contribute to each issue make it very appealing to gown-ups too.
As well as specially commissioned stories, articles and artwork there are plenty of colouring pages, word searches, counting games and a recipe for the yummiest toffee cake ever! Enjoy!


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The tapered joggers also feature two metal zips with zip pockets to the side and back. Adjustable draw cord waist and also featuring the 'Caution Conscious Content' embroidered patch.


Joromi crooner and a hot Nigerian Singer, Simi has just signed a endorsement deal with popular browser, Opera Mini. She will be their brand ambassador in Nigeria.
Nigeria is home to the second largest population of Opera Mini users. Search, social networking and sport are the most popular content consumed by Opera Mini users in this country.


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Home » The Clearinghouse's Blockchain Technology Exploration
Over the past five years, a lot has been written about blockchain and its possible impact on higher education. The Clearinghouse has been monitoring blockchain technology for years as it has matured and is investigating use cases that are the most pertinent to the education and workforce communities.
The Clearinghouse has begun working to evaluate the use of blockchain technology to produce a permanent, verifiable record of learning and skills certifications.
For those unfamiliar with blockchain, it is a secure digital ledger of transactions that allows students and institutions to maintain their academic records that can't be tampered with — while continuing to build on this record over time. Blockchain is a technology that is built in a database for the sole purpose of easing the process to share content across multiple parties in real-time.
The Exploration
The exploration of blockchain technology is being performed to further enhance and potentially evolve our existing service platforms. We are evaluating a national use case for this technology and will be able to provide updates on this evaluation in the coming months.
This evaluation cycle is designed to enable us to:
Development of governance and administration related requirements that create a highly trusted, secure, scalable and interoperable national network
Understand and learn from the unique set of blockchain use cases, that are identified
Understand our potential role in the blockchain environment and how we would apply this technology to best serve institutions and learners in a non-proprietary environment
Blockchain is one of many technologies that will be in existence to support the authentication of learner attainment. The Clearinghouse is committed to making sure that our platforms and portfolios are designed to support the multimedia environment. The Clearinghouse's mission of service to the education and workforce communities and learners are directly linked to supporting the development of the most appropriate use cases for this technology.
In the coming months, we will provide those who are interested an opportunity to receive updates on the Clearinghouse's progress in this blockchain exploration.
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CIA Director Says No More Waterboarding
CIA Director John Brennan appears at a House Intelligence Committee hearing on worldwide threats on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016.
The CIA will not use waterboarding to get information from a detainee anymore.
Waterboarding is a method that has been described as torture. It is used to force prisoners to give information.
Usually, the detainee is held down on a board, and water is poured on a cloth covering his face. It makes a person feel like they are drowning.
John Brennan, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, says the CIA would not use waterboarding even if a future president ordered the method to be used.
"Absolutely, I would not agree to having any CIA officer carrying out waterboarding again," he said in an interview with NBC News. Part of the interviewed aired Sunday.
Brennan said he would not use the tactics "because this institution (the CIA) needs to endure," or last.
It was part of a program the CIA used after the 2001 terror attacks.
Waterboarding was done by CIA employees to get information from terror suspects. They hoped to force suspects to reveal information about possible future attacks against the U.S.
President Barack Obama banned the techniques in 2009, calling them torture.
The U.S. Senate released a report in December 2014 criticizing the CIA's use of the harsh techniques. They include waterboarding; mock, or fake, executions; ice baths; sexual threats; and other methods used against captured al-Qaida members and other militants.
The Senate report said the interrogations using these methods did not produce any intelligence that saved lives.
But after the report's release, Brennan said that the interrogations had produced intelligence that helped stop attack plans and capture terrorists.
There has been much criticism of waterboarding in the U.S. Critics say the so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" are torture.
Others defend the program, saying it was necessary for national security. Former Vice President Dick Cheney served under former President George W. Bush. Cheney said they kept the country safe from more attacks.
Jose Rodriguez ran the interrogation program for the CIA. He said information obtained through the interrogations helped capture Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
Mohammed calls himself the architect of the September 11 attacks — the person who planned the attacks. He remains a detainee at the U.S. military detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. President Obama had said he would close the prison during his presidency.
The U.S. government has tried to bring some detainees to trial. But legal analysts say that is made more difficult because some of the prisoners had been subjected to enhanced interrogations, including waterboarding.
Two U.S Air Force psychologists designed the CIA's program. Now they are facing a lawsuit filed for three suspected terrorists who were detained, but never charged with crimes.
The ACLU, the American Civil Liberties Union, brought the suit last October, saying the psychologists took part in torture sessions that were "unlawful and its methods barbaric." The case is moving through the courts.
The use of waterboarding is also talked about in the current presidential race.
Last month, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he would "use every legal power" to stop terrorists, but would not order the military or others to violate the law. Earlier, he supported going "tougher than waterboarding."
His closest challenger in the Republican race is Senator Ted Cruz. He said in February he would bring back "whatever enhanced interrogation methods" are necessary to keep the country safe."
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interrogation - v. to question someone to get information
reveal - v. to make something known
harsh - adj. tough or severe
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tactic - n. a carefully planned action or policy
barbaric - adj. very cruel
interview - n. a meeting at which an individual provides information
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The following calculator built around a web form will give you a good estimation as to what your bullets ballistic coefficient is. It takes the diameter of the bullet, the grains, and the standard shape, and spits out the BC. What is the Ballistic Coefficient some may ask? The Ballistic Coefficient is the ability of a bullet to overcome or beat air resistance as it is flying through time and space, and this is basically the exact opposite of the negative acceleration.
Important: Since there are thousands of bullet shapes the Ballistic Coefficient calculations made below are not 100% accurate, if you are shooting out past 400-500+ yards your going to need to get the exact BC from the bullet's manufacturer. We are working on a massive list, but this list won't be ready for a few weeks or months.
The Spitzer is a very popular and aerodynamic bullet shape. This bullet is also called a spire point bullet by some people. The Spitzer has a BC modifier of 1.642 making it the 2nd best of the 5 in terms of it's ability to travel through time and space. There are also spitzer boattails...which gets a bit confusing in terms of generic BC values. If your bullet look like a sptizer but has a boattail (slanted end) then choose the Boattail from the form above.
The hollow point has a small hollow cavity that expands to increase the surface area of the projectile on impact. It's hard to see from the picture above, but easier to see in pistol rounds. It has a BC modifier of .875 making it the least aerodynamic.
The roundnose is a bullet that looks like it sounds...it has a round nose. It has a BC modifier of 1 and is the standard for our calculations. It is slightly more aerodynamic than the hollow point but worse than the spitzer and boattails. People often get caught up in new fads and forget about the roundnose. It is a classic round that has no frills attached, and is reliable and stable.


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Q: Show a $C^*$-algebra admits an approximate kind of identity. I'm reading the book "An invitation to $C^*$-algebra's" by William Arveson and I'm focused on the proof of proposition 1.3.1, which says:

Let $A$ be a $C^*$-algebra and $J$ be a closed two-sided ideal of $A$.
  Then for every $x \in J$ there is a sequence $(e_n)_n$ of
  self-adjoint elements of $J$ with
$$Sp_A(e_n) \subseteq [0,1], \quad  \lim_n \Vert xe_n - x \Vert = 0$$

The author provides a proof in the case that $A$ has a unit and concludes by saying that the case where $A$ has no unit follows by adjoining a unit, leaving the details to the reader.
So, suppose $A$ has no unit. Then consider the unitalisation $A_I:=A \oplus \mathbb{C}$.
Maybe I can show that $J$ is a two-sided ideal in $A_I$?
So, let $a + \lambda 1 \in A_I$ and $x \in J$ ( $a \in A, \lambda \in \mathbb{C}$). Then
$$(a+\lambda1)x = ax + \lambda x$$
and if I can show that $\lambda x \in J$, I can show that $J$ is also a two-sided ideal in $A_I$.
However, I don't see why this should be true.

A: Note that $A$ is a closed two-sided ideal in $A_I$, and that $A_I$ is unital. So there is an approximate $e_n$ unit in $A$ by what you have already seen. Note that $e_n x\to x$ for all $x\in A$, from which follows that $xe_n=(e_n x^* )^* \to (x^*)^*=x$ by continuity of the $*$-operation (ie a left approximate unit is also a right approximate unit).
Now let $J$ be a closed left ideal (in the ring-theoretic sense) of $A$ (or right ideal, or two-sided). It follows that $\lambda e_n x\in J$ (resp. $x (\lambda e_n)\in J$) for all $x\in J$. Since $J$ is also closed you have that $\lambda x= \lim_n \lambda e_n x\in J$ (similarly $\lambda x = \lim_n x(\lambda e_n)\in J$).


Chary started at the Financial Gym during Summer of 2017. She resides in Brooklyn, NY and has been working hard with her trainer, Crystal Martinez, to pay off her debt.
Through working with Financial Gym trainer Alicia Lazarto, Logan said she finally had a gut check partner whenever she wanted to make financial decisions, big and small.
One of our clients shares how putting herself first and saying "yes" to what she wants out of life changed her life and helped her achieve her best quarter at the Financial Gym yet!
Here's a very special Martinis & Your Money Happy Hour episode with three current members of the Financial Gym talking about their personal experiences and what the Financial Gym has done for their financial lives.
I tell all of our clients that they are unique and special; however, Steve and Donna's situation is one that we're seeing so frequently in the gym lately, that I feel as though they are more the norm than a one-off scenario.


Just how ignorant are we?
Here's a question for you: In 1950, would it have been possible for anyone to know all of the goods and services that we would have at our disposal 50 years later?
For example, who would have thought that we'd have cellphones, Bluetooth technology, small powerful computers, LASIK and airplanes with 525-passenger seating capacity?
This list could be extended to include thousands of goods and services that could not have been thought of in 1950.
In the face of this gross human ignorance, who should be in control of precursor goods and services? Seeing as it's impossible for anyone to predict the future, any kind of governmental regulation should be extremely light-handed, so as not to sabotage technological advancement.
Compounding our ignorance is the fact that much of what we think we know is not true. Scientometrics is the study of measuring and analyzing science, technology and innovation. It holds that many of the "facts" you know have a half-life of about 50 years. Let's look at a few examples.
You probably learned that Pluto is a planet. But since August 2006, Pluto has been considered a dwarf planet. It's just another object in the Kuiper belt.
Years ago, experts argued that increased K-12 spending and lower pupil-teacher ratios would boost students' academic performance. It turned out that some of the worst academic performance has been at schools spending the most money and having the smallest class sizes. Washington, D.C., spends more than $29,000 per student every year, and the teacher-student ratio is 1-to-13; however, its students are among the nation's poorest-performing pupils.
If you graduated from medical school in 1950, about half of what you learned is either wrong or outdated.
Say that you recently purchased a house. Was it the best deal you could have gotten? Was there some other house within your budget that would have needed fewer extensive repairs 10 years later and had more likable neighbors and a better and safer environment for your children?
What about the person you married? Was there another person available to you who would have made for a more pleasing and compatible spouse?
If you don't know, who should be in charge of making those decisions? Would you delegate the responsibility to Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Donald Trump, Ben Carson or some other national or state official?
Try this. Suppose you are a 22-year-old healthy person. Rather than be forced to spend $3,000 a year for health insurance and have $7,000 deducted from your salary for Social Security, you'd prefer investing that money to buy equipment to start a landscaping business. Which would be the best use of the $10,000 you earned — purchasing health insurance and paying into Social Security or starting up a landscaping business? More importantly, who would be better able to make that decision — you or members of the United States Congress?
The bottom line is that ignorance is omnipresent. The worst kind of ignorance is not knowing just how ignorant we are. That leads to the devastating pretense of knowledge that's part and parcel of the vision of intellectual elites and politicians.


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Critical Care 11
Interprofessional Approaches to Patient Safety.
J Interprof Care. 2006;20:455-571.
This issue includes articles that explore successful multidisciplinary efforts to improve patient safety, including medication risk assessment, system improvement, and patient involvement.
A hospital races to learn lessons of Ferrari pit stop.
Naik G. Wall Street Journal. November 14, 2006:A1. [reprinted on Post-gazette.com].
This story describes how hospitals in the United Kingdom have incorporated teamwork principles used by auto racing pit crews to improve patient safety during handoffs.
Perceptions of safety culture vary across the intensive care units of a single institution. Get Citation
Huang DT, Clermont G, Sexton JB, et al. Crit Care Med. 2007;35:165-176.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) recommends assessing employees' perception of the culture of safety on their unit in order to target patient safety efforts. In this study, the investigators surveyed personnel of four intensive care units at a single hospital using the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire, which evaluates perceptions of teamwork climate, stress recognition, and management commitment to safety. The perception of safety culture varied widely across units and across all domains of the survey. As found in prior research, nurses had a more negative impression of the safety culture than did physicians or managers. The authors conclude that analysis of safety culture at the institutional level may result in misleading impressions.
Alliance between society and medicine: the public's stake in medical professionalism. Get Citation
Cohen JJ, Cruess S, Davidson C. JAMA. 2007;298:670-673.
The authors discuss how medical professionalism supports safe, high-quality health care and the patient's best interest.
An epistemology of patient safety research: a framework for study design and interpretation. Get Citation
Brown C, Hofer T, Johal A, Thomson R, et al. Qual Saf Health Care. 2008;17(3, pt 1, pt 2, pt 3, pt 4):158-181.
Patient safety and quality improvement research is a relatively young field, and controversy exists about the most basic aspects of conducting studies in the field. While some have argued that patient safety research must be held to the same standards as other clinical trials, others have countered that challenges unique to patient safety research require a new paradigm for conducting and evaluating studies in this area. This four-part series explores all aspects of quality improvement research, including articles on conceptualizing and developing interventions, study designs, measurement of safety and quality, and the use of mixed methods studies. An accompanying editorial by David Bates, one of the pioneers of patient safety research, highlights the controversies that inspired publication of this series.
Bedside detection of awareness in the vegetative state: a cohort study. Get Citation
Cruse D, Chennu S, Chatelle C, et al. Lancet. 2012;378:2088-2094.
This study found that many patients were misdiagnosed as being in a vegetative state and that using a specific electroencephalogram method may assist with proper diagnosis.
The role of the medical emergency team in end-of-life care: a multicenter, prospective, observational study. Get Citation
Jones DA, Bagshaw SM, Barrett J, et al. Crit Care Med. 2012;40:98-103.
In this study, conducted at seven hospitals in three countries, nearly one-third of patients seen by a rapid response team ultimately had limitations placed on their care (such as do-not-resuscitate orders). This finding indicates a need for improved advanced care planning.
Challenges and opportunities to prevent transfusion errors: a Qualitative Evaluation for Safer Transfusion (QUEST). Get Citation
Heddle NM, Fung M, Hervig T, et al; BEST Collaborative. Transfusion. 2012;52:1687-1695.
This qualitative study evaluated the processes laboratories use to prevent transfusion of incompatible blood products, which is considered a never event.
Improving the quality of the surgical morbidity and mortality conference: a prospective intervention study. Get Citation
Mitchell EL, Lee DY, Arora S, et al. Acad Med. 2013;88:824-830.
Reorganization of a surgical morbidity and mortality conference to focus on patient safety issues using the SBAR format improved both participants' knowledge and the quality of the conference.
Comparison of intensive care unit medication errors reported to the United States' MedMarx and the United Kingdom's National Reporting and Learning System: a cross-sectional study. Get Citation
Wahr JA, Shore AD, Harris LH, et al. Am J Med Qual. 2014;29:61-69.
This study found significant differences in the types and severity of intensive care unit medication errors between hospitals in the United Kingdom and the United States.
Have we gone too far in translating ideas from aviation to patient safety? Get Citation
Rogers J, Gaba DM. BMJ. 2011;342:c7309-7310.
This two-part article debates the use of aviation safety techniques, such as teamwork, checklists, and simulation, to improve patient safety.
Cardiac surgery errors: results from the UK National Reporting and Learning System. Get Citation
Martinez EA, Shore A, Colantuoni E, et al. Int J Qual Health Care. 2011;23:151-158.
This study found that reducing errors associated with medical devices/equipment in the operating room (OR) was a key opportunity for error prevention, whereas medication safety was a focus for prevention outside the OR.
The role of theory in research to develop and evaluate the implementation of patient safety practices. Get Citation
Foy R, Ovretveit J, Shekelle PG, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2011;20:453-459.
The first decade of the patient safety movement has seen notable successes, but many highly publicized practices have been less impactful than anticipated. This AHRQ-funded expert panel calls for patient safety researchers to explicitly incorporate theories of individual behavior change and organizational improvement into the planning, implementation, and evaluation of patient safety research. Using established theoretical models has the potential to improve the odds of successful implementation of safety practices and increase the generalizability of successful strategies for other institutions. The importance of behavior change models in implementing checklists was discussed in a recent commentary, and Dr. Brent James—one of the nation's leading physician quality improvement experts—discussed his use of change theories in an AHRQ WebM&M interview.
National efforts to improve health information system safety in Canada, the United States of America and England. Get Citation
Kushniruk AW, Bates DW, Bainbridge M, Househ MS, Borycki EM. Int J Med Inform. 2013;82:e149-e160.
This narrative review examines literature and organizational resources related to health information technology (IT) use in three countries, including barriers to implementation, technology-induced errors, and initiatives to enhance health IT safety.
Disclosing medical errors: views from the United States and the United Kingdom. Get Citation
Kachalia A, Bates DW, Youngson GG. Surgeon. 2014;12:64-72.
These companion commentaries describe the status of efforts to promote and improve error disclosure in the United States and the United Kingdom. Each piece reflects on what makes these programs effective given the legal and organizational climate in each country.
Crisis management on surgical wards: a simulation-based approach to enhancing technical, teamwork, and patient interaction skills. Get Citation
Arora S, Hull L, Fitzpatrick M, Sevdalis N, Birnbach DJ. Ann Surg. 2015;261:888-893
This simulation study examined how residents respond to postoperative deterioration in the surgical ward. Residents improved in validated assessments of clinical performance, teamwork, and communication with patients compared to before the simulation. This work underscores the importance of simulation in patient safety education across multiple clinical settings.
Emotion and coping in the aftermath of medical error: a cross-country exploration. Get Citation
Harrison R, Lawton R, Perlo J, et al. J Patient Saf. 2015;11:28-35.
Physicians and nurses reported personal and professional disruption following a medical error, consistent with the second victim phenomenon. Nurses described more intense feelings of personal distress than physicians, and difficulties accessing support following an error persist despite the well-described need for such programs.
Human factors and ergonomics and quality improvement science: integrating approaches for safety in healthcare. Get Citation
Hignett S, Jones EL, Miller D, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2015;24:250-254.
Human factors engineering and quality improvement each offer promising strategies for designing patient safety interventions. This commentary discusses the value of cross-training individuals in elements of both disciplines to encourage integrated research, education, and professional development opportunities.
Safety incidents in the primary care office setting. Get Citation
Rees P, Edwards A, Panesar S, et al. Pediatrics. 2015;135:1027-1035.
Patient safety in outpatient settings is a growing concern. In this analysis of voluntarily reported safety events from the United Kingdom, researchers identified serious risks for children cared for in outpatient family medicine settings. Medication management, diagnostic errors, and errors in the referral process contributed significantly to patient harm, echoing prior studies about outpatient safety. The authors call for implementation of safety practices such as barcode medication administration, clinical decision support software, and electronic referral tracking, all of which remain incompletely implemented in ambulatory care. Given the known under-reporting of adverse events, this report likely underestimates the frequency of patient safety problems in this outpatient setting and emphasizes the need for active safety monitoring.
Exploring the role of communications in quality improvement: a case study of the 1000 Lives Campaign in NHS Wales. Get Citation
Cooper A, Gray J, Willson A, Lines C, McCannon J, McHardy K. J Commun Healthc. 2015;8:76-84.
This study examined how a quality improvement effort was communicated to frontline health care workers and found that structured communication enhanced awareness and knowledge of the planned safety intervention. The authors recommend that patient safety programs incorporate structured communication to frontline staff, but they suggest further study of its effects on safety culture is needed.


"Properly prepared, meat stocks are extremely nutritious, containing the minerals of bone, cartilage, marrow and vegetables as electrolytes, a form that is easy to assimilate. Acidic wine or vinegar added during cooking helps to draw minerals, particularly calcium, magnesium and potassium, into the broth" states Sally Fallon in Nourishing Traditions.
Place chicken or chicken pieces in a large stainless steel pot (or crockpot on low for 12-24 hours) with water, vinegar and all vegetables except parsley. Bring to a boil. Once it boils, reduce heat, cover and simmer for 6 to 24 hours. The longer you cook the stock, the richer, more flavorful, and healthier it will be. About 10 minutes before finishing the stock, add parsley. This will impart additional mineral ions to the broth.
Remove whole chickens or pieces with a slotted spoon. If you are using a whole chicken, let cool and remove chicken meat from the carcass. Reserve for other uses, such as chicken salads, enchiladas, sandwiches or curries. (The skin and smaller bones, which will be very soft if you cooked for 24 hours, may be given to your dog or cat.) Strain the stock into a large bowl. This can now be made into soups or just used as a nutrient dense broth for sipping. We often add a little miso just before serving. We use bone broth instead of water when cooking rice or quiona for the added nutritional benefits and rich taste.
You can add chopped burdock root (fresh or dried), chopped dandelion roots (fresh or dried), 5-7 small slices of dried astragalus root, or Shiitake or Reishi mushrooms to your soup for added medicinal immune support. All of these items or just one of each can be added to your soup pot while you are cooking down the bones.
MISO – a fermented soybean paste has many medicinal benefits and can be added to your bone broth just prior to eating. Caution, do not heat your miso under a high heat because it will destroy much of the nutritional benefits of the beneficial microorganisms.
Medicinal Benefits of Miso: It is a warming food that travels to the stomach, spleen, and kidney meridians. An anticarcinogen, it tonifies the blood and reduces the effects of radiation, smoking, air pollution, and other environmental toxins. Miso is an extremely nutritive food that aids digestions.
The longer fermented misos are the better varieties. The best miso is unpasteurized and naturally fermented and is usually found in the refrigerator section. Miso can be kept indefinitely in the refrigerator.
Our favorites are South River sweet white ( a traditional soybean miso), South River Dandelion Leek Miso, and South River Garlic Red Pepper Miso (fermented chick pea miso).
How much miso should one eat? Less is more! Eat small amounts 2 teaspoons a day versus a large sum once a week is best. So frequent small meals that include small amounts of miso will give you your best health benefits.
Note: Pasture Raised Chicken, burdock root, dandelion root, astragalus root, and South River Misos are all available at the Forrest Green Farm Store.


Conspiracy theories are shocking by their very nature, and Conspiracy Cinema delves into the history of cinema's most controversial genre.
While they remain marginalised by the mainstream media, conspiracy theories are a growing influence on the contemporary political imagination, thanks mostly to the unprecedented phenomenon David Ray Carter has entitled 'conspiracy cinema' — documentaries, freely available over the internet, that present a conspiratorial explanation for an event or series of events, including everything from 9/11 to the Kennedy assassinations, Roswell to HIV.
Incredibly, an estimated half a billion people around the world have watched one of these films at some time or other, yet this is the first book to exclusively address what is indubitably the definitive cinematic movement of the internet generation. And Conspiracy Cinema does not address it in a dry, academic fashion. Rather, it presents a light, sometimes funny, interactive (all the films addressed are freely available online) guide to this transgressive, intriguing and immensely popular form of modern entertainment.
Each chapter of Conspiracy Cinema offers readers an overview of a particular conspiracy theory (the Moon landings, 9/11 etc), with a synopsis of both the 'official' and conspiratorial positions, before moving on to consider a selection of the worst, the best and the most outlandish films that deal with the issue in question, both considering them as works of documentary filmmaking, and as arguments in their own right.


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Competition Law and Human Rights: A complex relationship
Amber Darr
This article explores whether human rights may be included in competition analysis. To do so it first explores the reasons for which modern competition law prefers certain individual rights over others. The article then investigates the connection between competition law and human rights with reference to the rights to health and food to argue that whilst there is merit in the argument that competition law may serve as a tool for realising these rights there are also obstacles in this regard, including the issue of justiciability of these rights, the difficulty of including non-economic factors in competition analysis, the question of institutional capacity and competence and, most importantly, the core philosophy of competition itself. The article concludes by arguing that even if the mechanisms for doing so are not fully clear, it is necessary for competition law of the future to look beyond consumer welfare to check the abuse of market power in whichever form it occurs.
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From Flames to Art
by Stowaway Magazine | Feb 7, 2017 | Culture, Winter 2017 | 0 comments
A red one, a pink one, a teal one—all squished together. Welcome to Olinda where the colorful homes welcome visitors to one of the cultural centers of Brazil just 20 minutes outside of Recife.
The area's picturesque situation, with the clear blue water and lush vegetation, won over Duarte Ceolho, who founded the city in 1535. Ceolho, a Portuguese nobleman working in sugarcane, also appreciated Olinda's strategic location at South America's easternmost bulge into the Atlantic ocean. At one point he exclaimed from the top of the hills, "O beautiful situation to build a town!"
But this Latin American paradise was destroyed when the Dutch sacked and burned the city in 1630. The Portuguese ousted the Dutch in 1654, but most structures in the city had to be rebuilt. Out of the flames of destruction came colonial architecture that today has earned Olinda the title of the best-preserved colonial city in Brazil along with the first Brazilian capital of culture.
Contrasting with the simplicity of the houses lining the streets, over 20 Baroque-style churches pierce the skyline with their heaven pointing spires. More than one of these churches have stories behind their construction that are just as fascinating as the architecture. For example, the Church of Miracles was supposedly built over the location where a cow miraculously found water during a drought. When the cow's owner found him, the whole town rejoiced at the discovery of the much-needed water. The city survived, and the miracle was memorialized by building a church. Many of the churches of Olinda have similarly fascinating stories.
These background stories and the architecture of the Olinda churches intrigue many visitors every year. In your wanderings through the picturesque streets of Olinda, be sure to not miss these three churches.
Catedral Alto da Sé
Catedral Alto da Sé, also known as Church of the Savior of the World, looks down from a hilltop and marks the highest point of Olinda. Duarte Coelho most likely made his famous statement about the beauty of Olinda on this hilltop. The back courtyard of the church is open to the public, and from this vantage point, visitors can take stunning pictures of the city and its meandering streets stretched out below.
The church is one of the many reason this city's historic center is a UNESCO World Heritage site. Construction began in the late 1530s and by 1676 it had become the cathedral of Olinda. Originally the church served as a Jesuit monastery and college.
If you take the time to attend a service there, take a moment to appreciate the religious art that fills the niches. And be sure to notice the columns that were originally built with rock from the nearby reef.
Mosteiro de São Bento
The next stop on this brief Olinda church tour is the Monastery of Saint Benedict. The dramatic centerpiece of the monastery is the massive cedar altarpiece. The beautiful curves, florid details, and intricate designs are covered in gold. The dimensions alone are awe-inspiring, measuring 13.6 meters high, 7.9 meters wide, and 4.5 meters deep. The gilded piece even caught the attention of the Guggenheim Museum and was dismounted from its home in Brazil for the Brazil: Body and Soul exhibit in New York in 2001.
Now that the altarpiece is safely back home, visitors to Olinda can continue to admire the piece along with the imposing rosewood doors, sandstone columns, and carved cedar walls of the monastery.
Next to the church itself, but still inside the complex, is the building where the first law school of Brazil was established in 1828. Although law classes are no longer held there, it remains a significant landmark for Brazilian law.
Behind the white, rather plain walls of this church lies a fascinating story that explores the issues of slavery and race in Brazil. Just the name, Church of the Rosary of the Black Men of Olinda, begins to tell the history of this structure.
The church was built in the late 1600s when slavery was in full force in Brazil. Black slaves weren't allowed inside churches, so they would gather around outside. Many slaves in Brazil integrated Catholic beliefs with their native traditions. Eventually, freed black slaves were allowed to form brotherhoods that built churches such as this one. The Church of the Rosary is the first of several Brazilian churches built by black brotherhoods.
During a restoration project in 1988, professionals found the original paintings on the wall. They had been crafted to resemble the gold and precious gems found in other churches that the brotherhood could not afford to place in theirs.
As the revelers dance in front of a backdrop of colorful street art and in between colorful masterpieces of architecture, the theme of Olinda's yearly art festival seems appropriate. "Olinda, arte em toda parte." Or in other words, "Olinda, art is everywhere."
—Heather J. Johnson
Photos by Prefeitura de Olinda


Here's where you'll find my "feature articles." Every once in a while, I'll pick one of my favorite topics and put together an article on it. My first article is about the Linux operating system. Much of the article is based on my Linux section from my old Barnett's Compupolis site.
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High Voltage Festival Day 1 Review
Words: A Harvey
Photos: Antony Roberts
6 things that ruled about High Voltage
1. NEUROSIS NEUROSIS NEUROSIS
2. It stayed sunny all weekend, unlike the downpours of Donington and Knebworth it made for an amazing dry weekend
3. Grand Magus being back in the UK again and playing a blinder of a set
4. They allowed the public to bring SLR's in onsite – more festivals should do this it makes it easier for smaller sites like us to cover them and get some shots. Serious Kudos to the organisers for this.
5. Judas Priest playing a 22 song set
6. Did we mention Neurosis?
6. things that sucked about High Voltage
1. The norway bombing/shootings. This absolutely tragic event put somewhat of a downer on the weekend. It also led to flight disruptions and so Electric Wizard were unable to get their flights and had to cancel.
2. The beer prices – Hey HV I know you're based in London but people from outside London don't earn London wages. £4 for a can of beer is ridiculous, and £4.50 for a cup isn't exactly playing ball.
3. Our photographer was shooting for a large print magazine and was going to give us spares. He'd had his pass confirmed then on the week of the festival had it cancelled as the PR company had "oversubscribed" passes. He was not a happy bunny as he was not going to get paid without photos for the mag but came along anyway and shot from the audience for us – thanks Antony you rock
4. No camping – this makes the festival very expensive as London hotels are not exactly cheap.
5. The sound – this being held in a residential area meant sound levels have to be kept to a "reasonable level" meaning at times it was pretty damn quiet. There were also some bad mixes for some bands most notably Queensryche.
6. The lack of ticket sales. (Presumably) due to low ticket sales there was a mass sale on with the build up to the festival. The weekend before Groupon were doing tickets at 60% off meaning quite a few friends picked up weekend tickets for £44, bargain. The week of the festival Live Nation were offering by one get one free. This is great for those that haven't bought tickets already, but for those of us that had got in early, supporting the festival and paying full price, it felt like a big fat hard slap to the face.
Large travel times to get from home into London meant we got into the festival late and had missed the first few acts, arriving to hear Skin on the main stage. They filled a gap whilst waiting for more substantial acts. Don't get me wrong Skin aren't particularly bad but they seem to play every single festival I go to and I guess familiarity breeds contempt.
Next up on the main stage was Rival Sons. They play 70's rock but the problem is it's already been done really, really well in the 70's. You need something to stand out and unlike say Witchcraft who have Magnus' strong and unique vocal style to make them unique (as well as some killer riffs) Rival Sons were a bit too pub band for me.
Queensryche took to the main stage and having missed them on every UK jaunt before I was excited but apprehensive about seeing them. Growing up on them I was too young to see them live in the heyday of Mindcrime. Recent live reports, particularly the shocking reviews of the lacklustre performance at Hard Rock Hell, left me nervous about ruining fond childhood memories. This was definitely not the poor live performances I'd read about the band, if the sound had been better it would have been a stellar set. Unfortunately though Geoff's vocals were too high in the mix. Finishing with Jet City Woman, Empire, Eyes Of A Stranger and then Anarchy X it felt like their set was over too quickly. Just as they were starting to play what I wanted to hear their set was over, and with a rock star group bow they left the stage.
The Legend that is Slash walked on to the main stage and drew the biggest crowd of the day so far. After starting with snakepit song "Been there lately" it was straight into the classics with "Night train" immediately followed by "Rocket Queen". Getting Myles Kennedy as vocalist was a brilliant choice, he has the range of Axl covered competently without all the rockstar posturing, hassle and arrogance of Slash's former bandmate. A few new songs and more snakepit tunes midset preclude the closing trilogy of "Sweet Child Of Mine", "Slither" and "Paradise City". You may have heard them a million times but today the classics ring out fresh, with the entire audience singing along.
Next up on the Metal Hammer stage was Sweden's Grand Magus. Words can not do any justice to how good their set was. if you were there you know. Songs like Iron Will and The Shadow Knows have some of the best riffs ever commited to record. Setlist was something like "Kingslayer", "Iron Will", "Hammer Of The North", "Silver Into Steel", "The Shadow Knows", "Ravens Guide Our Way". I think "Like The Oar Strikes The Water" was somewhere in that mix but I was too busy headbanging to the onslaught of riffs coming through the P.A. to take notes. They've been confirmed as one of the support acts for Cathedral's last ever show at HMV Forum in London on 3rd December. This was already going to be an essential show but now if you have any taste in metal you NEED to get a ticket.
Headline act Judas Priest had announced prior to their High Voltage this would be a farewell tour. Whether this is the case, only time will tell, so many bands farewell tours have happened again and again, year after year. With the performance they put on they are certainly not at a point that they need to retire. 22 songs were played tonight and what a performance. Even without KK Downing, Priest showed why they are revered in the metal community. Halford stalked the stage commanding the crowd and had more costume changes than a waif at a catwalk show. Saving his voice during "Breaking the Law" the band left the vocals to the entire audience who sang along to every word. Final pre-encore song Painkiller had Halford reaching his entire range screaming at the top of his lungs. 4 encores later with "Electric Eye", "Hellbent for Leather", "You've Got Another Thing Comin'" and "Living After Midnight" the night was over and a very, very happy festival crowd made their way home.
By Antony Roberts|2011-07-31T00:00:00+00:00July 31st, 2011|Gig Reviews|0 Comments
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We all like to be confident, poised, and comfortable in our own skin! It looks and feels good to be effortlessly upright rather than scrunched, hunched, or holding ourselves in a forced way. But for many people this kind of 'effortless good posture' can be elusive. Here are three things that contribute to this.
In a previous post I explained how, in order to allow our innate postural system to support us as it is designed to do, we need to let go of unnecessary muscular tension. Instead of holding ourselves stiffly in a 'correct' position we need to release into effortless, dynamic posture and poise. However when we are chronically emotionally stressed, worried and 'on edge' our nervous system is overstimulated which makes it difficult or impossible to let go.
We tend to take it for granted that the sense we have of ourselves and of our movement through space (our kinaesthetic sense) is accurate. However for many of us this is rather optimistic! As we go through life this sense of ourselves in activity can become unreliable. I often have pupils who believe that their feet, pelvis and head are aligned when they are in fact pushing their hips forward or back by several inches!
If I asked you to show me where your hip joints are where would you point to? I've been asking new pupils this question for many years and most point to somewhere on the crest of their pelvis—several inches higher and further forward than where the joint actually is. Can you feel the two bits of bone that stick out a little on either side at the top of you legs? These are at the top of your thigh bone (femur) and the joints are just a little bit higher and a couple of inches in from there.
Another common error people make is thinking that the joint between their head and spine is low down on the back of their neck. This is incorrect! The spine continues up to a point roughly between our ears. For most people this is a very unintuitive discovery!
Your postural and movement systems need an accurate 'body map' to function properly. If you have inaccurate ideas about your body's structure you may be unconsciously asking it to do things which are not physically possible, or which go against the way it is designed to work, resulting in distortion, rigidity and excess muscular tension.
As an Alexander teacher I help people to de-stress, quieten their nervous system, and regain an accurate kinaesthetic sense and body map, so that instead of fighting against themselves and against gravity they can release into the effortless, dynamic support their postural system offers. It's a delicious experience and a virtuous cycle. As we learn to live with less stress and tension we become more effortlessly upright, and as we become more effortlessly upright we experience less stress and tension. We look better and we feel better, and life is never quite the same again….
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