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Reporting Live: ayumi shibata promoting "Babyrock" at Kanayama Asunal (August 6, 2015)
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It seems that this weekend is Up-Front Group Weekend! I talked about Morning Musume's first English song on Friday. Then I saw Ciao Bella Cinquetti yesterday, performing a mini-live at a mall in central Nagoya. And now I am going to talk about a former Hello! Project member, ayumi shibata.
This sweet-sounding singer got her start in 1999 after passing the 2nd Morning Musume and Michiyo Heike Little Sister Audition with three other girls: Hitomi Saito, Megumi Murata, and Masae Ohtani. These four then-teenagers formed the group Melon Kinenbi and released their debut single and one of my favorite songs, "Amai Anata no Aji", in the winter of 2000. While releasing material with the group and going on various concert tours, ayumi also participated in various project in Hello! Project like 11WATER, Tanpopo, Elegies, and others.
However, she left Up-Front Group for another agency, Trick Function, a month after Melon Kinenbi broke up in 2010. She changed agencies in order to start a solo career with a clean slate. She performed her first self-penned song, "YOU&I", during a small event held in Tokyo a few months later. ayumi wouldn't release a physical debut single until a year later when "believe" was released.
"Babyrock" is the newest digital single released by this artist under the label SMC Entertainment. It is described as a pop-rock tune with a lot of girly rock flavor packed inside. You could say that this song is more upbeat than a Kana Nishino song while slower than one from Ai Otsuka. But what makes "Babyrock" different from other girly pop-rock songs is that this piece is very upbeat, has a summer-like flavor, and always presents a positive feeling. The nature of the song makes you want to stand up and bounce to the beat during the chorus as it's so refreshing and makes you feel totally happiness.
As the blog Selective Hearing mentioned in their review, "Babyrock" is actually similar to the pop-rock music that Melon Kinenbi was doing at the end of the group's career. So if you were fan of that side of Melon Kinenbi, you would most definitely love "Babyrock". Plus, it really suits ayumi's vocal skills. Although her vocals are not the best and can be too nasal sometimes, they mesh pretty well with the instrumental. ayumi wasn't my favorite Melon Kinenbi member (That honors goes to Masae Ohtani, who had amusing song names) but she is pretty decent and got some decent material for a solo career.
During late July and August, ayumi went around to various malls, radio stations, and venues to promote her new single. One of the places she visited was Kanayama Asunal, which was holding a tenth anniversary special live for a weekly @FM radio program on August 6th. She was one of three guests who appeared at the live event along with the mall's own idol group Juliet and an acoustic version of T.M. Revolution, Bokota.
I was able to find a seat in the bench section that was located in front of the stage thirty minutes before the live's start time. It was very hot during that time and I really didn't want to stand up for the entire time. During the long wait, Juliet came on to do a mic check and to practice their songs.
Then the live event started promptly at 6:30 pm. The event was formatted like a radio program where the artists would perform a couple songs while getting interviewed by the show's hosts in between. The first group up was Juliet, whom I didn't bother to pay any attention to because they were not my cup of tea. Their vocal skills were weak and I felt like they had bad makeup and/or fashion. They looked like unflattering Barbies. This group didn't really appeal to me when I watched them perform.
Thirty minutes after the show started, Juliet exited the stage while the show's hosts then introduced the one person I came to see. This singer started off her mini-live by singing a fast-paced song. ayumi sang about four songs in total during her time on stage. I don't know exactly what were the songs but I suspect that the majority of what she sang came from her single "Hito Kakera no Kiseki". I just remember that she sang a beautiful ballad that almost brought me to tears as it was so touching. She closed the program by singing "Babyrock" which she rallied up the audience to clap along.
After she finished, I decided that I wasn't going to stick around for Bokota as I was too hungry to stay. I went to Chieco Kawabe's Hawaiian-themed pancake shop "88 Huit Huit". While Chieco is my favorite Sailor Mercury ever (besides Ayako Morino), the restaurant has tasty food and great drinks.
If you are into the likes of Carly Rae Jepsen, Kana Nishino, Ai Otsuka, or other pop-rock female artists, then you should absolutely out "Babyrock" below with no hesitant. It's an upbeat song that leave you with a good feeling inside and outside.
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World Belarus scraps short-lived mask mandates amid virus surge
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is opening a new front in the war over vaccine mandates, setting up a showdown with the Biden administration.Abbott on Monday issued an executive order banning COVID-19 vaccine mandates by any "entity in Texas," including private businesses. That order conflicts with a forthcoming federal regulation announced by President Biden to require that businesses with 100 or more employees ensure their workers are vaccinated or get tested weekly.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Belarusian authorities on Friday abolished mask mandates, less than two weeks after their introduction for the first time during the pandemic and a day after the country registered a record number of new coronavirus infections.
© Provided by Associated Press FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021 file photo, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko listens to World Health organization Director for Europe Hans Kluge during their meeting in Minsk, Belarus. Belarusian authorities on Friday, Oct. 22, 2021 abolished mask mandates less than two weeks after their introduction for the first time in the pandemic after Lukashenko dismissed them as unnecessary even as the country faced a spike in contagion. (Maxim Guchek/BelTA Pool Photo via AP, File)
The decision came after Belarus' authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko dismissed the measures as unnecessary during a meeting with officials earlier this week.
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"It's just over the top to send police to track down those who aren't wearing masks," Lukashenko said. "We aren't the West."
The mask mandates were introduced on Oct. 9 amid a new wave of contagion. Belarusians had been required to wear medical masks in all indoor public areas, including public transport and stores.
On Thursday, the country reported 2,097 new confirmed infections, the highest number so far.
When the pandemic struck, Lukashenko had dismissed concern over the coronavirus as "psychosis" and refused to impose any restrictions. The country was the only one in Europe to keep holding professional soccer games with fans in the stands while the outbreak was in full swing.
© Provided by Associated Press Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko leads a cabinet meeting in Minsk, Belarus, Friday, Oct. 22, 2021. Belarusian authorities on Friday abolished mask mandates less than two weeks after their introduction for the first time in the pandemic, after Lukashenko dismissed them as unnecessary even as the country faced a spike in contagion. (Nikolay Petrov/BelTA Pool Photo via AP)
The 67-year-old former state farm director advised Belarusians to "kill the virus with vodka," go to saunas and work in the fields to avoid infection. "Tractors will cure everybody!" he proclaimed.
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Belarus is accused of taking revenge for EU sanctions by offering migrants tourist visas, and helping them across its border. The BBC has tracked one group trying to reach Germany. © BBC The mobile phone camera pans left and right, but no-one moves. The exhausted travellers lie scattered among the trees. Jamil has his head in his hands, his wife Roshin slumped forward next to him. The others look dead.Late afternoon light slants through the forest, the pine trees forming a dense natural prison. They've been walking since four in the morning.
His cavalier attitude to the coronavirus amid soaring contagion and deaths angered many Belarusians and contributed to the public outrage over Lukashenko's re-election to sixth term in an August 2020 vote — which the opposition and the West have rejected as a sham.
Belarusian authorities responded to months of massive protests with a ferocious crackdown that saw more than 35,000 people arrested and thousands beaten by police — a repression that triggered bruising Western sanctions.
While announcing the abolition of the short-lived mask mandates, Lukashenko, who has run the ex-Soviet nation of 9.5 million for more than 27 years with an iron hand, earning the nickname of "Europe's last dictator" in the West, added a touch of sardonic humor, saying: "This is the advantage of a dictatorship — whoosh, and a wrong decision is no longer valid."
Lukashenko's statement came even as daily infections have topped 2,000 in recent days, prompting Belarusian authorities to halt other medical services to allow hospitals to concentrate on treating COVID-19 patients.
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Several states across the U.S. have prohibited face mask mandates, while the CDC has advised staff and students to wear face coverings in schools.The U.S. has seen COVID hospitalizations more than triple over the past month. It recorded 127,108 news COVID cases on Thursday, which was up from the 112,270 seen in the country on Wednesday. The country has now recorded a seven-day average of at least 100,000 new cases over the last week.
Lukashenko offered his own advice to medical workers to avoid hospitals from being overwhelmed, suggesting they should discharge patients more quickly.
"You shouldn't keep people who don't need long hospitalization for 7-10 days," he said. "If you see that a patient is getting better and no longer needs intravenous injections and other things, just send him home."
In a further bizarre twist, Lukashenko said Belarus has seen a reduction in the number of cancer patients during the pandemic and speculated that COVID-19 could be a "remedy from oncological diseases."
He added that doctors first thought the drop in cancer patients was linked to fewer people turning for medical assistance during the pandemic, but claimed that the explanation wasn't sufficient. He didn't provide any facts to support the strange claim, which has caused a barrage of critical comments.
Belarus has registered a total of more than 580,000 infections and 4,482 deaths. Only about 20% of the population have been vaccinated, with Russian and Chinese vaccines.
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In the wake of his recent decision victory over Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone, rising welterweight contender Leon Edwards called for a fight with Jorge "Gamebred" Masvidal.
"At the time, he was No. 6 in the rankings and I was going down in the rankings and everyone else was matched up, so why not take out another old gun?" Edwards said, explaining why he called out Masvidal. "Masvidal, he's been around again, a long time, so why not go in there and take him out?
Masvidal then agreed to this potential fight, though he didn't sound particularly excited about the matchup.
"People are always calling me out," Masvidal told MMAjunkie. "I don't give two shits who calls me out. I just want a big fight.
Since then, however, Masvidal has shifted his attention to reality television, competing on the Spanish reality television program Exatlon Estados Unidos.
With Masvidal currently unavailable, Leon Edwards is now eyeing fights with former welterweight champion Robbie Lawler and former lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos.
"I went over to the U.S. ahead of that press conference. We had a meeting [with the UFC] and we really tried to get that Masvidal fight, but it didn't work out," Edwards told MMA Fighting.
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B-North partners with Wiserfunding for SME credit risk assessment
Eleanor Hazelton July 13, 2020
B-North, the firm building an SME lending bank for the UK, has chosen Wiserfunding as its risk grading partner. This key element of B-North's underwriting strategy will help the lender become more confident when assessing the credit profile of SMEs and, consequently, turn customer cases around faster and more accurately than other market participants – whilst also supporting B-North underwriters to make better informed lending decisions.
Wiserfunding is a market-leading credit risk assessment solution which adopts the use of AI and cloud technology to source the most up to date structured and unstructured data and generate the Altman SME Z-score, used to predict a company's viability. With a strong focus on small to medium enterprises (SMEs), Wiserfunding has 90% prediction accuracy when assessing the credit risk of SMEs. B-North will use tools such as Wiserfunding's prediction solution alongside traditional 'human' underwriting methods, all with the aim of making better informed lending decisions.
Tapping into the UK SME lending market valued at over £150 billion per year, B-North's model is built upon the premise of operating regional 'lending pods' which include specialist lending bankers, underwriters and valuers across the UK. These regional teams build face-to-face relationships with growing businesses and finance intermediaries to deliver debt capital efficiently. Through its model of rich client relationships and utilisation of cloud banking technology B-North aims to deliver lending up to 10x faster than the market standard.
The partnership follows the recent news of B-North's appointment of Rebecca Owen as Regional Managing Director for B-North's first lending pod, due to open in Manchester in 2020. Wiserfunding is the latest addition to B-North's sophisticated tech-stack: other solutions include Mambu's banking engine, nCino's cloud-based loan and deposit origination solution and Trunarrative's regtech platform for compliance and onboarding.
B-North continues to make strong regulatory, commercial and technical progress and expects to commence lending activities later in 2020.
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Texas Democrats call for a $15,000 teacher pay raise amid wrangling over budget surplus
Edward McKinley, Austin Bureau
"We hope this is the beginning of a conversation," Rep. James Talarico, D-Round Rock, said Tuesday as he filed legislation to give public school teachers pay raises that would bring Texas more in line with the national average.
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Texas House Democrats unveiled a proposal Tuesday for a $15,000 pay raise for public school teachers, using at least $20 billion of the tens of billions of unallocated funds available to the Legislature this session.
"Hoarding this surplus while educators and children are suffering is immoral, and it's also bad business," said Rep. James Talarico, a Williamson County Democrat who filed the legislation, noting that education investment is valuable for the future of the state.
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"We as Democrats are putting this forward as our proposal, but we hope this is the beginning of a conversation" with Republicans, he said. Talarico said he's discussed the idea with House Speaker Dade Phelan, R-Beaumont, but would not say where the speaker stood on it. A spokeswoman for Phelan declined to comment.
Teacher salaries in Texas trail the national average by about $6,000, according to the most recent figures from the National Education Association labor union. Labor market economists have suggested that raising pay is the most direct way to boost retention and teacher recruitment.
Lawmakers have at least $32 billion in additional funds to work with this year, thanks to federal pandemic funds and from high inflation and energy prices. Republican leaders in the House and Senate are already proposing to set aside $15 billion of that to trim homeowners' property tax bills, as well as another $4.6 billion for border security over two years. They have also discussed investments in infrastructure and public employee retirement benefits.
Like other states, Texas is grappling with a massive teacher shortage. Surveys and polls among teachers show widespread job dissatisfaction, with many teachers feeling underpaid, underappreciated and overworked.
A 2018 online survey of educators by the Texas State Teacher's Association, a chapter of the NEA, found that about 39 percent of respondents said they needed second jobs during the school year to supplement their salaries; 56 percent said they had summer jobs when school is not in session. A former teacher himself, Talarico said he used to have colleagues who drove Uber at night or donated blood plasma to make extra cash.
Last year, Gov. Greg Abbott started a task force comprised of education experts, teachers and administrators to issue recommendations about how to fix the problem. The group is expected to issue a report next month.
A spokesman for the Republican governor declined to comment on the bill, but said Abbott will "continue working with the legislature to support our teachers." He pointed to school finance reforms that Abbott and the Legislature passed in 2019, which were billed as "one of the biggest teacher pay raises" in Texas history.
A report released last April by the Texas American Federation of Teachers union and the left-leaning think tank Every Texan, however, found that wages among teachers have essentially stagnated over the past decade when adjusted for inflation — even after the reforms.
Plopping a thick stack of white papers on the podium, its side riddled with earmarks, Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer invoked the adage that budgets are "moral documents," their line items having very real impact on people's lives.
"Every term that I have been here, there has been no shortage of good ideas — there has always been a shortage of revenue," he said, adding that shouldn't be an excuse this year.
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Rep. Gina Hinojosa, an Austin Democrat and former member of the Austin ISD board, said her son is in fifth grade and wasn't assigned a teacher because of staff shortages. His class was instead lumped into two already full classes.
"The teachers and parents are holding on, hoping against hope that help is coming," Hinojosa said.
A poll released Tuesday by the Charles Butt Foundation, a nonprofit that supports public education, found increased concerns among Texans about school safety, likely driven by the mass shooting last year at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde; about a third of parents who responded named school safety as a top issue in their communities. The survey also found strong support among Texans for public education generally — and there was a lot of evidence that Texans are sympathetic to the plight of public school teachers.
Nearly three-fourths said that teachers are undervalued in society today, and two-thirds said teachers are overworked. Nearly 90 percent of parents said they were very or somewhat satisfied with the education their children receive in public schools. The same proportion of respondents said they supported teacher pay raises.
The poll was conducted in September and included 1,211 Texas adults, 340 of them parents of children of schooling age. The margin of error for the full sample was 3.7 percent, and among just the parents, it was 6.4 percent.
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Deepening Vietnam-France strategic partnership
General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and French PM Edouard Philipe, March, 2018. (File photo: hanslucas.com).
NDO - French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe arrived in Hanoi on November 2, to begin his three-day official visit to Vietnam at the invitation of Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc. The visit, which coincides with the celebrations of the 45th anniversary of the diplomatic ties and the fifth anniversary of the strategic partnership between the two countries, aims to deepen the economic, trade and investment relations and promote bilateral relations in a deeper manner.
>>> French PM Edouard Philippe begins official visit to Vietnam
France is the fifth largest economic power and the third largest exporter of services in the world. France has a long tradition of industrial invention, high quality education system, high level researchers, huge investment in research and development, and high labour productivity. As the leading European producer and exporter of agricultural products, France enjoys an annual trade surplus of US$6.6 billion in agricultural products alone.
France carries out a comprehensive foreign policy, acting as a bridge and pioneer in dealing with global issues. The European country also promotes economic diplomacy and boosts French images and products through cultural values, French language, its heritage, tourism and sports. France contributes 10% of the world's total in development aid and ranks fourth in the global donor league table.
Vietnam and France established diplomatic relations in April 1973. Since the late 1980s, France has taken the lead among Western countries in building up their relationship and forgiving debt for Vietnam, helping to settle debts with its creditors who are members of the Paris Club.
The two countries signed a joint statement on the establishment of the Vietnam-France strategic partnership during Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung's visit to France in 2013. The positive political relations between the two countries are marked by high-level visits, particularly the visit to Vietnam by French President Francois Hollande in 2016 and the visit to France by Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong in March 2018. The two countries have maintained many cooperative mechanisms, notably the annual dialogue on security and defence strategy and the annual high-level dialogue on economy.
It is pleasing to see that the economic cooperation between Vietnam and France is growing well. France is the Europe's fifth largest trading partner of Vietnam with bilateral trade of US$4.6 billion in 2017. Two-way trade volume in the first six months of 2018 reached US$2.3 billion. In 2017, France ranked third among European countries and 16th out of 114 countries and territories investing in Vietnam, with 512 valid investment projects posting a total registered capital of US$2.8 billion. Vietnamese businesses have so far invested in nine projects in France with a total investment capital of over US$3 million.
In terms of development cooperation, France is the leading bilateral official development assistance (ODA) donor for Vietnam, with Vietnam ranking second among Asian countries to receive French ODA, with total pledges of up to US$18.4 billion since 1993. France has so far provided preferential loans of EUR2.2 billion to Vietnam.
Education and training cooperation between the two countries has been established and boosted since the early 1980s. France always considers education and training a priority in its cooperation activities in Vietnam, focusing on French language teaching and human resources training at undergraduate and postgraduate level in various fields, including economics, banking, finance, law, and new technology. Vietnamese students in France have increased by 40% over the past 10 years with more than 7,000 Vietnamese students currently studying in the country.
France also ranks seventh among countries and territories investing in the tourism sector in Vietnam, with 14 projects worth a total US$188 million. Vietnam also identifies France as its key tourist market. The bilateral cooperation in the field of science and technology, security-defence, cooperation between localities, and health has left many imprints. As members of the International Organisation of La Francophonie (OIF), the two countries have implemented many cooperation activities within the OIF.
The Vietnamese community in France, which formed after the First World War, arrived at various times and circumstances. Over 300,000 Vietnamese people are currently living in France, most of whom have French citizenship. Knowledge is the strength of the Vietnamese community in France with about 40,000 Vietnamese holding university or postgraduate degrees. The Vietnamese Association in France has made significant contributions to the struggle for national independence and reunification in the past as well as the current cause of national construction.
The official visit to Vietnam by the French Prime Minister, Eduardo Philippe, aims to further promote the Vietnam-France strategic partnership, while creating favourable conditions for the two countries' businesses to approach and learn about each other's market, potential, and demand. May the French Prime Minister's visit to Vietnam be a success, contributing to peace and stability in the region and the world.
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NASA has postponed the super balloon launch from Central Otago because of strong winds blowing in the wrong direction.
The balloon, the size of a sports stadium, will be used to carry equipment to test everything from atmospheric conditions to the origins of the universe.
Once airborne, it will allow scientists to test groundbreaking instruments before they are considered for spacecraft.
The launch had already beeen postponed for a week because of Cyclone Pam and was expected to take place this morning at Wanaka Airport. The next attempt is likely to be on Thursday or Friday.
Organisers have said it took 24 launch dates before a similar balloon in Sweden was able to get off the ground.
The giant balloon is expected to take between one and three weeks to circle the Earth, depending on windspeed.
NASA hopes the balloon's flight will beat the current record of 54 days and says it is possible it could stay afloat for up to 100 days given the right conditions.
The countdown is on in Wanaka as NASA gets set to launch a giant balloon into the upper atmosphere from the outskirts of the Central Otago town.
A multi-million dollar NASA scientific balloon the size of a football field will be launched from Wanaka next weekend.
A multi-million dollar scientific space balloon has crashed on take-off in the Australian Outback, destroying its payload, tipping over a car and sending observers running for their lives.


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C* (or C-star) is an object-oriented, data-parallel superset of ANSI C with synchronous semantics.

History
It was developed in 1987 as an alternative language to *Lisp and CM-Fortran for the Connection Machine CM-2 and above. The language C* adds to C a "domain" data type and a selection statement for parallel execution in domains.

For the CM-2 models the C* compiler translated the code into serial C, calling PARIS (Parallel Instruction Set) functions, and passed the resulting code to the front end computer's native compiler. The resulting executables were executed on the front end computer with PARIS calls being executed on the Connection Machine.

On the CM-5 and CM-5E parallel C* Code was executed in a SIMD style fashion on processing elements, whereas serial code was executed on the PM (Partition Manager) Node, with the PM acting as a "front end" if directly compared to a CM-2.
The latest version of C* as of 27 August 1993 is 6.x.
An unimplemented language dubbed "Parallel C" (not to be confused with Unified Parallel C) influenced the design of C*. Dataparallel-C was based on C*.

References

General
 C*: An Extended C Language for Data Parallel Programming, John R. Rose and Guy L. Steele, Jr., in Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Supercomputing, vol. II, L. P. Kartashev et al. eds, May 1987, pp 2–16.
 C* User Guide, Thinking Machines Corporation, 1991
 C* Programming Manual, Thinking Machines Corporation, 1993.
 The Art of Parallel Programming (2nd Ed.), B. P. Lester, 1st World Publishing, 2006.  (A downloadable version of the "C* Compiler and Parallel Computer Simulation System" is available at the publisher's Web site.)
 C*, Guy L. Steele, Jr., in Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing, D. Padua, ed., Springer, 2011, pp 207–212.

Concurrent programming languages

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We just love this music video for David Byrne's "Everybody's Coming To My House". The students of the Detroit School of Arts really transform the song and make it their own… and sound so good doing it!
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I am pushing the pause button on the Cake Book Challenge and I'm going to be realistic. I can't cook through a book in the amount of time I originally said I would.
I still have 47 recipes to cook through. And I will. But only at a more realistic phase!
So it is with a lot of sadness that I step away from the Cake Book for a while.


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Senator Joe Lieberman on Intelligent Design & the "Anti-Science" Label
https://episodes.castos.com/id/IDTF-20131111-Senator-Joe-Lieberman-on-ID.mp3
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On this episode of ID The Future, host David Boze interviews former vice-presidential candidate Senator Joe Lieberman on seeing the hand of a designer in nature and the label of "anti-science" being attached to those who see evidence of design in nature. Lieberman also relates anecdotes from his recently co-authored book The Gift of Rest with Discovery Institute senior fellow and Evolution News & Views editor David Klinghoffer.
Get more information on The Gift of Rest.
David Boze is communications director for Washington Policy Center. He has been a long-time fixture in Seattle radio, having hosted morning and afternoon drive shows during his fifteen years on the air.
Global Warming Dissenters: Same Attacks, Different Issue
On this episode of ID The Future, we explore how attacks on skeptics of man-made global warming are similar to those against proponents of intelligent design. Host David Boze talks with Casey Luskin about recent examples of these attacks, why they are happening, and how to handle them. Says …
Defending Critical Analysis in Cross-Examination: Dr. Stephen Meyer Answers Questions in Texas
This episode of ID the Future features Dr. Stephen Meyer responding to his critics during a questioning period before the Texas State Board of Education in 2009. Listen in as philosopher of science Meyer cuts through the rhetorical strategies in this debate and exposes the strengths and weaknesses …


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Harald Johann Friedrich Leupold-Löwenthal (* 6. August 1926 in Wien; † 13. März 2007 ebenda) war ein österreichischer Psychiater, Neurologe und Psychoanalytiker.

Leben
Leupold-Löwenthal wurde in Wien geboren. Nach der Kriegsmatura 1943 im Gymnasium Stubenbastei und kurzem Wehrdienst studierte er Medizin an der Universität Wien und nahm 1951 eine Stelle an der Wiener Psychiatrischen Universitätsklinik an. 1953 und 1954 studierte er in London, ehe er 1959 die Anerkennung zum Facharzt für Psychiatrie und Neurologie erhielt. Von 1961 bis 1963 war er am Psychiatrischen Krankenhaus der Stadt Wien tätig. Gleichzeitig absolvierte er auch eine psychoanalytische Ausbildung und seine Lehranalyse. 1964 eröffnete er eine eigene Praxis. 1963 wurde Leupold-Löwenthal Mitglied der Wiener Psychoanalytischen Vereinigung, von 1967 bis 1973 war er deren Sekretär, von 1974 bis 1981 ihr Vorsitzender. 1982 habilitierte sich Leupold-Löwenthal an der Universität Wien und erhielt die Lehrberechtigung für Psychotherapie und Psychoanalyse mit Berücksichtigung der klinischen Psychotherapie.

Zusammen mit Friedrich Hacker und anderen war Leupold-Löwenthal Mitglied des Gründungsvorstands der 1968 gegründeten Wiener Sigmund-Freud-Gesellschaft, 1971 war er bei der Einrichtung des Sigmund-Freud-Museums in der ehemaligen Wohnung Sigmund Freuds in Wien federführend. Von 1976 bis 1999 war er Präsident der Sigmund-Freud-Gesellschaft.

Leupold-Löwenthal starb im März 2007 an einem Herzstillstand. Er wurde am Wiener Zentralfriedhof in einem ehrenhalber gewidmeten Grab bestattet.

Gedenken
In Gedenken an ihn unterstützt seine Ehefrau Ida di Pietro Leupold-Löwenthal den Verein NierenKinder Berlin e.V. (ehemals Dialysekinder)  und die St. Anna Kinderkrebsforschung. Im Februar 2021 wurde von seiner Ehefrau der "Priv.-Doz. Dr. Harald Leupold-Löwenthal Stiftungsfonds in der Stiftung zur Förderung der universitären Psychoanalyse" aufgelegt, mit dessen Mitteln die Internationale Psychoanalytische Universität Berlin gefördert werden soll.

Schriften (Auswahl)
 Handbuch der Psychoanalyse. Orac, Wien 1986, ISBN 3-7015-0047-9.
 Ein unmöglicher Beruf. Über die schöne Kunst, ein Analytiker zu sein. Arbeiten zur Psychoanalyse. Böhlau, Wien 1997, ISBN 3-205-98412-9.
 hrsg. mit Inge Scholz-Strasser: Die Sigmund-Freud-Vorlesungen 1970–1988. Böhlau, Wien 1990, ISBN 3-205-05242-0.

Literatur
 Hans Lobner (Hrsg.): Psychoanalyse heute. Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag von Harald Leupold-Löwenthal. Orac, Wien 1986, ISBN 3-7015-0048-7.
 Sylvia Zwettler-Otte, Albrecht Komarek (Hrsg.): Der psychoanalytische Prozeß. Festschrift zum 70. Geburtstag von Harald Leupold-Löwenthal. Turia und Kant, Wien 1996, ISBN 3-85132-122-7 (mit Bibliografie).
 Daphne Stock, Ernst Lürßen: Zur Aktualität der Psychoanalyse. [Festveranstaltung im Wiener Rathaus am 17. Juni 2006 zum 80. Geburtstag von Harald Leupold-Löwenthal]. Picus, Wien 2007, ISBN 978-3-85452-529-5.

Film
 Christian M. Kreuziger (Regisseur): Harald Leupold-Löwenthal zum 80. Geburtstag. Eine Annäherung. Cinecraft, 2006 (Trailer).

Weblinks

 Nachruf auf Harald Leupold-Löwenthal in ORF ON

Einzelnachweise

Psychoanalytiker
Psychiater
Neurologe
Mediziner (20. Jahrhundert)
Österreicher
Geboren 1926
Gestorben 2007
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City lacks evidence to block coal shipments, judge finds
Photo: Scott Morris/Hoodline
By Scott Morris - Published on May 16, 2018.
City efforts to prevent coal shipments through the Port of Oakland were dealt a major setback on Tuesday when a judge blocked a 2016 law from applying to a project at a former army base.
U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria found that the city had violated its agreement with Oakland Bulk & Oversized Terminal LLC, a company formed by Oakland developer Phil Tagami to develop the army base, when it tried to restrict coal shipments through the terminal.
According to the judge's 37-page order, Oakland lacked sufficient evidence to support its conclusion that coal shipments would pose a danger to local health and safety.
The contract with Tagami's company only allows for the city to enact new regulations for the project in the case that it has found "significant evidence" of a danger to health and safety. The City Council spent months collecting evidence in 2015 and 2016 and heard hours of testimony.
In his order, Chhabria wrote, "In fact, the record is riddled with inaccuracies, major evidentiary gaps, erroneous assumptions, and faulty analyses, to the point that no reliable conclusion about health or safety dangers could be drawn from it."
The city has been trying to develop the army base, which is near the Port of Oakland and the Bay Bridge, for nearly 20 years. The army vacated it in 1999 and began transferring the land to the city. Since then, the city has heard numerous proposals for the land, including as a car dealership, amusement park and movie studio.
The city first reached an agreement with Tagami to develop the land as a bulk goods terminal in 2012. After that, Tagami contracted Terminal Logistics Solutions, a company headed by former Port of Oakland Executive Director Jerry Bridges, to design and manage the terminal.
Documents submitted to the city in 2015 indicated that TLS was considering shipping coal and coke through the terminal. TLS was reportedly negotiating transporting coal via train from Utah.
TLS is owned by Bowie Resource Partners, a company which primarily owns coal mines in Utah, according to Chhabria. Roughly 5 million metric tons of coal or coke could be shipped through the terminal each year.
With public concerns mounting over the health effects of shipping coal through the port, in September 2015 and May 2016 the City Council held hearings to receive testimony and evidence in the matter.
A consultant hired by the city, Environmental Science Associates, summarized the public record for a report published in June 2016. Based on that report, the city enacted a new ordinance prohibiting the storage and handling of coal at Oakland facilities.
Tagami's company then sued Oakland in December 2016, arguing that the evidence was inadequate for the city to restrict coal shipments. Chhabria held a bench trial in January and ruled on Tuesday in favor of Tagami's company.
The judge found there was significant gaps in understanding for the report, for example that it did not take into account the Bay Area Air Quality Management District's role in regulating the project.
It anticipated pollution at greater levels than existing state regulations allow, omitting that the air district could require trains to use covers to mitigate coal dust, Chhabri found.
According to the order, the city could pursue future regulations that comply with the contract, but the evidence it has now doesn't warrant changing its agreement with Tagami's company.
Oakland could also appeal the order, but hadn't made any decisions as of Tuesday afternoon, according to Alex Katz, a spokesperson for the Oakland City Attorney's Office.
"The city takes its responsibility to protect the health and safety of residents very seriously, particularly children whose health will be directly impacted by storage, handling and shipping of coal and coke through our neighborhoods," Katz said.
Oakland BBQ star Matt Horn opens new fried chicken sandwich spot Kowbird
Fried chicken fans have a mouth-watering new option in Oakland as rising star barbeque chef Matt Horn expands his footprint with a comfort-food favorite.
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Oakland welcomes new restaurant specializing in fresh tofu and banchan
A new deli-style Korean restaurant specializing in handmade tofu and unique banchan offerings is now open in Oakland.
Renowned soul food restaurant Brown Sugar Kitchen in Oakland has gone out of business
A beloved 15-year-old restaurant in Oakland known for its delicious spin on soul food has now permanently closed.
Oakland brasserie Luka's Taproom forced to close after 18 years, as new landlord doubles rent
One of the first dining destinations in Uptown Oakland's restaurant revival is ending their 18-year run, after their new landlord attempted to double their rent, but the restaurant vows that their efforts to feed unhoused neighbors will go on.


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Joyce Lawson Moore
Joyce Lawson Moore passed away peacefully at her home in Brick, New Jersey surrounded by her loving and devoted family and friends in the early hours of Sunday, December 19. Widow of Adrien (Ace) D. Moore Jr, she was born in Trenton at Mercer Hospital. The only child of J. Milton and Lulu V. Lawson, she was a lifelong Trenton/Ewing resident except for her recent years at the Jersey shore. Joyce graduated prep school from George School (class of '44) in Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania and obtained her BA from Mount Holyoke College (class of '48) in South Hadley, Massachusetts – the first of the Seven Sisters consortium of prestigious East Coast liberal arts colleges for women – the equivalent to the once all male Ivy League schools. Joyce's professional career evolved around state politics. Active all her life in local Republican politics, in the beginning of her career, she enjoyed her work as Executive Assistant to the New Jersey State Republican Committee Chairmen. Her part-time work as an Assistant and Legislative Researcher for the State of New Jersey's General Assembly Legislative Minority Staff gave her entre into a twenty-seven year career she loved as the Manager for one of the most prominent lobbying firms on West State Street during the administrations of Governors Byrne, Kean, Whitman, DiFrancesco and McGreevey. After retirement Joyce traveled the world and enjoyed discovering new places, cultures and always making new friends. She had a special interest in re-visiting countries in Southeast Asia. Her impressive intelligence and zest for life that Joyce demonstrated throughout her lifetime cannot be overestimated. She will be greatly missed by everyone that knew her. Raised in Trenton's Prospect Street Presbyterian Church, Joyce became a Member of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Trenton with her husband in 1962 and brought their children up as parishioners there. The Lawson family was prominent in Trenton's pottery business in the late 1800's early part of the 1900's. Lawson China decorating company merged in 1914 to form the firm of Tatler and Lawson. The firm imported English china and finely decorated it at its establishment on Monmouth Street in Trenton. During that time, the company was one of the top fine china suppliers for John Wanamaker's of Philadelphia. The Tatler and Lawson families stayed friends throughout the years. Daughter of the late James Milton and Lulu V. Loepsinger Lawson and wife of the late Adrien (Ace) David Moore Jr., she is survived by her two sons: A. David Moore III of Brick, Keith Lawson Moore of Alexandria, Virginia, Daughter-in-law Bernadette Keenan Moore of Brick; three grandchildren: A. David Moore IV and wife Krysta Peregrin Moore of Little Egg Harbor Twp., Marie Erin Moore and Paige Lawson Moore of Brick, and two great grandchildren she adored during her last years: Adrien David Moore V and Raeya Michelle Moore. Calling hours will begin at 11:00 with Service at noon on Thursday, December 30th at All Saints Chapel of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 801 W. State Street, Trenton. Burial will be in Ewing Church Cemetery. Charitable contributions to the charity of your choice in Joyce's name are most welcome. Arrangements are under the direction of M. William Murphy Funeral Home, Ewing.
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The MOVE Program is a team approach delivering a successful top-down, activity-based framework for teaching children and adults with severe physical disabilities.
A data collection system that demonstrates acquirement of gross motor skills.
MOVE (Mobility Opportunities Via Education/Experience) is an activity-based program used in homes, schools, day programs and the community. Using a top-down approach, MOVE combines the individuals' present abilities with an instructional process during motivational activities to help the individual improve their mobility skills of sitting, standing, walking, and transitioning – leading to improved health, independence, dignity and inclusion of the individual in the family and community. MOVE is a way of life!
Increased choice making for individuals.
Increased independence for individuals in moving about their environment.
Reduced lifting on the part of family members and support providers.
Promotes better health with increased upright positioning.