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Patreon Claimed They Kicked Conspiracy Theorists Off. QAnon Still Flourishes
EJ Dickson
Both aspiring and well-established QAnon influencers are directly profiting off the paid subscription service platform Patreon, despite the website publicly cracking down on accounts pushing the conspiracy theory last winter.
Rolling Stone found nearly a dozen examples of creators on the platform using language that identifies them as followers of QAnon, the far-right extremist conspiracy theory baselessly positing, among other things, that President Trump will arrest and execute a cadre of left-wing political figures who are secretly pedophiles. Some of these creators are making thousands of dollars a month by selling exclusive content to subscribers that promotes extremist conspiracy theories, explicitly marketing their content using such QAnon-related terms as "dark to light," "the great awakening," and "wwg1wga" ("where we go one, we go all").
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Patreon is a subscription-based platform that allows creators to offer exclusive content to subscribers for a monthly fee. Because it is a mainstream platform primarily geared toward creatives, Patreon is a way for QAnon influencers to "pull people into the movement more softly," subtly presenting the central tenets of the conspiracy theory versus more fringe platforms like Telegram or Gab, says Kevin Grisham, associate director for the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism. "Because it's a way for artists to get their work out there, it's a way to pull people in from the art community or the meditation and yoga communities — places you traditionally wouldn't have seen lots of overlap."
Last October, after Media Matters published an investigation into the platform, Patreon publicly announced that it would be banning those who promoted the QAnon conspiracy theory from the platform, removing the pages of many of the influencers who had been identified by Media Matters.
Yet some of the creators specifically cited in the Media Matters report, such as Redpill78, a popular vlogger and podcaster, are still on the platform, posting and profiting off such content as livestreams from the pro-Trump DC rally right before the attempted insurrection and livestreams titled "the storm is upon us," language that alludes to the QAnon conspiracy theory. Redpill78 (a reference to the term "red pilling," which refers to right-wing radicalization), has 481 patrons and is making $2,585 per month on Patreon, according to their page.
In response to Rolling Stone's request for comment, Patreon sent the following statement: "We are currently ramping up proactive review of this QAnon-related content. Our content reviews are done by real humans and therefore can take time. When we discover a page that is not in compliance with our guidelines we place that page in a state of suspension and work directly with the creator to bring them back within our guidelines. In extreme cases where the page's sole purpose is to propagate disinformation, we remove the page as a last resort."
Another hugely popular and influential QAnon creator who is still on the platform is Tracy Beanz, who has followed QAnon since the very beginning of the conspiracy theory and markets herself as an independent journalist. Since the capitol insurrection, she has used her Patreon page to promote conspiracy theories about what happened on that day, including a video for her more than 650 patrons titled, "Was the Russia Hoax a Chinese Operation? Were the Chinese Involved in the 2020 Election Fraud?" and "The Media is Not Telling the Whole Story About January 6."
Another influencer, the radio host Sarah Westall, uses her Patreon to push conspiracy theories about the January 6th attempted insurrection, such as the baseless theory that antifa was posing as rioters and that "Washington DC tunnel systems are frequently used by the elite Luciferians [to] increase the riots and destruction in Washington DC." In one link to a post on her now-defunct website, she appears to be referring to the prospect of non-peaceful uprising, in a post titled "Election 2020 Report: United States Out of Peaceful Options," accompanied by an image captioned, "Civil War: Preparing for the Unimaginable." She has 1,636 patrons who pay between $5 and $20 per month for her content.
Following the attempted insurrection at the Capitol, which left five people dead, social media platforms have taken action against far-right extremists such as adherents to the QAnon conspiracy theory, who were out in full force at the riots. Earlier this week, for instance, Twitter removed 70,000 QAnon and QAnon-adjacent accounts from its platform, in addition to suspending the account of President Donald Trump (who has retweeted and promoted QAnon accounts) last week.
Despite these actions, however, Mike Rothschild, a QAnon expert and the author of the book World's Worst Conspiracies, says he is unsurprised that QAnon creators are still turning a profit on Patreon, noting that it previously took the platform months to remove accounts for major Q-drop aggregators, or websites that aggregated the original posts of Q, the anonymous individual or individuals at the center of the conspiracy theory. "We've seen over and over how slowly the major tech platforms move when dealing with extremism," he tells Rolling Stone. "There's no reason for these people to be able to continue to profit off pouring poison in the ears of vulnerable people."
"It's not a Patreon-specific problem, but there's no excuse for these people to be able to monetize Q anymore," he adds. "Everyone knows what this is and how to help reduce its influence."


Can I get gel hair loss? Yes you can in fact anyone can, in this article I will tell you the causes of hair loss due to gel as well as how to prevent this from happening to you.
Have you ever used hair gel or other hair styling products and see your hair fall in the sink after applying it on your hair? If this is you, keep reading.
How can I get gel hair loss?
Answer: Getting hair loss from gel or another hair styling product is actually quite common since almost everybody uses hair products in their hair even if it is simply to shampoo and condition your hair as everyone does since birth. Gel hair loss is caused from the toxic ingredients listed below.
How so you ask? In different ways, the toxic ingredients end result leads to different bad things that can happen to your body one of which ends in hair loss.
These harmful ingredients in your hair styling products, shampoo, conditioner, and other beauty products are terribly bad for you.
Styling tools that are heated to style your hair may also cause hair loss slowly but surely through time.
The heated styling tools can create breakage and dryness which will weaken hair follicles and may cause hair loss over time especially if used daily.
FYI: Hair color and bleach can also cause hair loss due to the chemicals being used on your precious hair follicles by weakening the hair and causing hair loss breakage.
How do you know how much hair fall is normal vs how much is not normal?
Answer: Just so you know, you can rest assure that hair fall on a daily basis is completely normal. Anywhere between 100 to 200 hairs shedding off of your scalp can happen every day without getting hair loss.
Yet more than this number can start to create hair loss.
What are the best ways to prevent hair loss from gels and other hair products?
Answer: Look for hair gels and other hair styling products that list words such as "alcohol - free" or "no parabens" in the product descriptions.
When reading the ingredients lists, I always say the less ingredients the better but make sure those ingredients are not on the harmful hair product ingredient list above!
That is the best way to prevent gel hair loss and other product hair loss too!


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Tesla's S&P 500 Debut Is Set to Put $100 Billion in Trades in Motion
The Elon Musk-led company is about to shake up the market.
Cents Team
(Vitality Karimov)
As the largest company to ever join the index, Tesla's S&P 500 debut is expected to set $100 billion in motion and cause headaches across Wall Street, WSJ reports.
A Quick Refresher: After Tesla announced its fifth consecutive profitable quarter, overcoming cash flow issues and defying skeptics, S&P Dow Jones Indices announced the electric vehicle maker would join the S&P 500 on Dec. 21.
Tesla stock has soared more than 40% since mid-November. It's grown 7x on the year alone. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 is up 13% this year.
Tesla is expected to make up at least 1% of the index and be the sixth-largest company in the S&P 500 at its current value.
How It Will Happen: Index funds will have to offload in smaller stocks ($60 billion to $80 billion in market cap) already in the S&P 500 to pick up shares of the EV company. In total, Goldman Sachs said in a recent note, "Actively managed funds benchmarked to the S&P 500 are projected to buy $8 billion of Tesla shares."
Here's The Problem: Putting aside Tesla's high volatility, the $555 billion behemoth is the largest company ever to join the index. As a result, S&P "polled big investors polled big investors on whether they would prefer adding Tesla's weight all at once on Dec. 21 or split over two trading days in December — an unprecedented move."
The consensus appears to favor the two-day option, accounting for Tesla's size and volatility of the company and a Covid-19-sensitive market.
The Final Word: How the stock gets added falls on S&P, which should announce the "results of the consultation" Monday. Industry experts expect demand for Tesla to heat up even more based on inclusion to the index.
If demand fades ahead of inclusion, however, Tesla's shares could sink dramatically. Both Yahoo and Qwest Communications serve as cautionary tales, peaking upon inclusion to the S&P 500 and no longer trading today.
Tesla ($TSLA) has ripped past my target range of $450-500 and has, by all accounts, proven itself to be more unstoppable than I thought. The valuation continues to look more and more stretched, which is why it's not a core position on the Big Board, but I would be remiss if we sold all our $TSLA shares. Sometimes, it's nice to be along for the ride, even if not in large size.
Nicholas Weinmiller November 30, 2020
I'm in Tesla for the long haul. Guessing it will continue to rise until it's in the S&P 500 and then it will dip. Do you think we should buy now on the way up, or wait for the dip? Or just DCA whenever because it's so unpredictable.
General Motors Co. is launching a new electric-truck business geared toward delivery services, the latest in the company's efforts to commercialize battery technology it is developing in-house
Zoom is planning to raise $1.5 billion in an upcoming stock offering.

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Baahubali Prabhas wants to work with this Bollywood actress, director!
Edited By Odishatv Bureau Published By Pradeep Singh Last updated Apr 22, 2018 - 12:56 PM
Hyderabad/Bhubaneswar: Baahubali 2: The Conclusion, which hit screens in April last year, is still making headlines as it will soon be released in China. One more thing for which Baahubali continues to be in headlines is Prabhas. The actor, who was having millions of fans, now has become the heartthrob of many Bollywood actresses. But Prabhas revealed his crush in the B-Town.
Baahubali Prabhas dedicated nearly five long years for the SS Rajamouli's magnum opus movie series. He was so much into the project that he didn't even sign any movie during the period. And, his hard work paid off! His work in the movie was as much appreciated as Rajamouli's direction.
Besides, Prabhas reportedly postponed his marriage due to the project. Now, he is getting thousands of proposals and his marriage has become national news with fans eagerly waiting for every news related to him.
Last year during the promotion of the movie, when Prabhas was asked about the Bollywwod actress he wants to work with, the Rebel Star revealed that he wants to work with Deepika Padukone. Similarly, about director he named Rajkumar Hirani.
Of course, he named the two most talented persons from the B-Town who are presently ruling the industry with their hard work and dedication. Fans will definitely pray and love to watch a Prabhas-Deepika-Hirani combination in future.
Baahubali 2: The Conclusion, starring Prabhas, Anushka Shetty, Rana Daggubatti, Tamannaah Bhatia, Ramya Krishnan, and Nassar, Sathyaraj in key roles, is expected to make good business in China too.


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Q: Como unir duas listas diferentes usando LINQ e where? Tenho três classes:
class Cid
{
        public string cid  { get; set; } //importo esse campo via txt
        public string descricao { get; set; } //importo esse campo via txt
}

class Relacionamento
{
        public string cid { get; set; } //importo esse campo via txt
        public string codigo { get; set; } //importo esse campo via txt
        public string procedimento { get; set; } //PRECISO DESSE CAMPO
}

class Procedimento
{
        public string codigo { get; set; } //importo esse campo via txt
        public string procedimento { get; set; } //importo esse campo via txt
}

Criei uma lista para as classes: listaCid para a classe Cid, e listaProcedimento para a classe Procedimento
Depois das classes criadas, o usuário clica em um item da listaCid.
Após clicar, a listaRelacionamento é filtrada usando where Cid.cid = Relacionamento.Cid. Até aqui tudo bem.
Quero saber como faço pra incluir na listaRelacionamento (após o filtro), o campo Relacionamento.procedimento vindo da listaProcedimento

Pela imagem, vocês podem ver: O usuário clica no grid de cima que recebe a listaCid (nesse caso, recebeu o código A013) e passa pro grid de baixo listaRelacionamento (vejam que filtra todos os campos onde cid = A013), mas a terceira coluna fica vazia.
Quero preencher a terceira coluna do listaRelacionamento pelo campo pintado de azul (procedimento)

A: Penso que se percebi bem a tua pergunta o que queres é isto:
 List<Relacionamento> result = (from relacionamento in ListaRelacionamentos
                    join procedimento in ListaProcedimento
                         on relacionamento.codigo equals procedimento.codigo
                    select new Relacionamento()
                    {
                     cid =   relacionamento.cid,
                      codigo =  relacionamento.codigo,
                       procedimento = procedimento.procedimento
                    }).ToList();

Mas recomendo usares entity framework e objectos ... por ex: da só terias que navegar dentro do objecto ao fazeres o filtro.
 class Relacionamento
 {
     public string cid { get; set; } //importo esse campo via txt
    public Procedimentos procedimento { get; set; } //importo esse campo via txt
}

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Breathe in… breathe out…
Carolyn Kavita Tauro - CNS
As we stand at a pedestrian crossing or walk by a bridge, and a vehicle passes by, letting out a cloud of smoke in our face, our immediate reaction is to fan it away with our hands. We are also quick to give the driver of the vehicle a stare and even make a comment about how unclean and unsafe the air in the atmosphere around us is.
That would be the air outdoors which is polluted every moment due to poisonous emissions from fuels of cars, buses and trucks. But have we ever paused to think about how safe is the air which we breathe inside enclosed spaces like our workplaces, homes, restaurants/pubs, schools, campus hostels and public transport? Indoor air pollution most commonly includes tobacco smoke and smoke from the combustion of solid fuels. Apart from these, other indoor air pollutants could be cooking oil smoke, kerosene smoke, incense smoke, mosquito coil smoke and pesticides.
Do we see no harm in smoking in front of our two year old child? Does the smoke exhaled by the passenger in the taxi have no affect on the taxi driver? How bad can that be? It's just a bit of smoke. Exposure to second hand smoke (SHS) causes a high burden of disease as does the direct use of tobacco. This burden is higher in low-income countries and affects women and children most of all. The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) rightly avers that there is no safe level of exposure to tobacco smoke.
Worldwide, passive smoking or second hand smoke causes about 603,000 premature deaths in non-smokers every year. Women are at least 50% more likely to be exposed to SHS than men. While adults suffer from lung cancer, heart diseases and chronic respiratory diseases, children suffer from asthma, other respiratory infections and sudden infant death syndrome as a result of this totally avoidable exposure.
Some countries have introduced laws forbidding smoking in public areas. But what really matters is how well these laws are followed. Strong anti-smoking legislations have to be backed by equally strong implementation, which alas does not happen often. Surely, many of us have had our building corridor smell of smoke that is coming from the neighbour's flat. Many of us must have also enjoyed the sweet odour of the flavoured sheesha/hookah from the table next to ours in an outdoor restaurant. But then if we have smelt it, we have inhaled it. How many of us smoke in our home verandah and then take our 3 year old in our arms the very next minute?
In an online survey held recently, 26.7% of the respondents said that they smoked in enclosed public areas where smoking wasn't banned. 9.68% said they smoked in the car, taxi or auto rickshaw. About 10% smoked at their workplace and inside the house. While 57.14% said they would move away from other people who were not smoking, 17.86% said they would only do that if the others objected.
According to Kathryn Seymour, Communications Officer at International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), "Every person has a right to breathe clean air that is not contaminated by carcinogens and other harmful substances. Smoke free indoor public places are one of the key measures that can be implemented to protect this right. Under the smoke free policy, bans on smoking should be implemented in all indoor and crowded outdoor areas, as well as campus vehicles. Designated smoking rooms within these areas should not be allowed because there is no truly efficient means of containing or extracting tobacco smoke. In order to improve compliance, it is strongly recommended that managers of facilities consider offering cessation support to staff who smoke or referring them to a separate cessation service. Banning the sale of tobacco products and banning tobacco advertising will also help with compliance."
Solid fuels and biomass
The other most common form of indoor air pollution, especially in low income countries, is the pollution due to the combustion of solid fuels like coal and biomass such as cow dung and firewood. Globally, about 50% of all households and 90% of rural households use solid fuels as the main domestic source of energy.
Data from the Indian Census 2011 shows that 87.2 % of rural families and 33.6% of urban families in India use pollution creating cooking fuels. However, there has been a migration toward the use of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) especially in the urban areas in recent years. Most of urban India now uses LPG and Piped Natural Gas (PNG) while rural India still relies on solid fuels and biomass. This is not so much due to a lack of awareness but more due to lack of availability, accessibility and, most importantly, affordability of cleaner fuel options.
Sunita (name changed), who lives in a slum in Mumbai, says that most slum dwellers have changed from solid fuels to LPG or kerosene in the past few years, "It used to be very difficult for us when we used cow dung to cook our food. The house was always full of smoke and we were constantly coughing. Now that we have the LPG cylinders our visits to the doctors have decreased, although the cylinders are expensive to buy".
Efforts aimed at the prevention of airborne diseases for children under 5 years of age, will not only improve the general health of our future generation but also reduce the child mortality rate in the country. Along with this, interventions to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution will also help us in the realization of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) -- the end to the requirement of collecting fuel for cooking will help women by decreasing the time burden promoting gender equality and empowerment (Goal 3); it will also result in more time being made available for education and other activities that could help them generate more income to help eradicate poverty (Goal 1); a nation's progress towards environmental sustainability can also be monitored through the proportion of the population using solid fuels (Goal 7).
Air has been taken for granted far too long. Everyone has a right to breathe in clean and safe air and so every person has the responsibility to provide themselves, their families and their communities this right. Along with legislations that aim to reduce indoor as well as outdoor air pollution, let each one of us do our bit to contribute toward a cleaner and safer environment.
Carolyn Kavita Tauro, Citizen News Service - CNS
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This lovely community will feature a neighborhood clubhouse with a swimming pool, outdoor grilling areas and the traditional McLain welcome home feeling. On top of the ridge and at the heart of this exclusive neighborhood sit the majestic oaks that once shaded the property's original plantation home. These beautiful oaks and many other native Louisiana trees have been preserved along with a small piece of our Louisiana history.
Arbor Trace is less than one mile from Highway 90 at the Zoo of Acadiana and is in the city of Broussard. There is a small pond with a beautifully lit fountain and walking area. The entrance to the subdivision is enhanced with beautiful fencing, two arbors and landscaping.
Hybrid camellias, 100-year-old live oaks, cypress knees waist high and a nature trail around a two acre lake set the scene. The lake is accented with four lighted fountains, a softly lit boardwalk through the nature area, and several spots with park benches and fishing banks. The trees are too numerous to count and are laced with Louisiana iris. There are specimen trees like elm, birch and even a very rare golden oak tree. The location is simply breathtaking.
Quaint and cozy with forty-eight home sites, a park, cypress picket fences and a small playground for young children.
Ella Trace offers the convenience of location as well as its own market. It is McLain's vision of the old country store. It will have all the convenient items of today but with the comfort of yesterday. The market will not only be stocked with essentials, but also with added specialty items like chicken, quail, boudin, cracklins as well as luxury items such as select wine, cheeses and condiments.


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Q: Something interesting about two overloaded constructors of FileInputStream in Java 7 API Before talking about FileInputStream, I am starting with a scenario where there are two perfectly valid, overloaded methods but where the compiler will get confused and then report a compile-time error in response to certain inputs.
Here are the methods.
double calcAverage(double marks1, int marks2) {
   return (marks1 + marks2)/2.0;
}

double calcAverage(int marks1, double marks2) {
   return (marks1 + marks2)/2.0;
}

Here is the complete code showing the use of the methods:
class MyClass {
  double calcAverage(double marks1, int marks2) {
            return (marks1 + marks2)/2.0;
  }
  double calcAverage(int marks1, double marks2) {
           return (marks1 + marks2)/2.0;
  }
  public static void main(String args[]) {
          MyClass myClass = new MyClass();
          myClass.calcAverage(2, 3);
  }
}

Because an int literal value can be passed to a variable of type double, both methods are acceptable candidates for literal values 2 and 3, and therefore the compiler fails to decide which method to pick.
This is where I get confused when I take the above concept with me, dive further into the Java 7 API to the FileInputStream class, and study about two overloaded constructors of that class.

*

*public FileInputStream(String name) throws FileNotFoundException {.....}

*public FileInputStream(File file) throws FileNotFoundException {.....}

According to the Java 7 API source code, the definition of the version that takes a String object as the argument is:
public FileInputStream(String name) throws FileNotFoundException {
       this(name != null ? new File(name) : null);
}

Now, if "name" is indeed null, this(name != null ? new File(name) : null); evaluates to this(null); which in turn is equivalent to invocation of FileInputStream(null); but then both FileInputStream(String) and FileInputStream(File) become possible choices to be invoked with a null value. Does it not give rise to ambiguity? So, isn't there a compile-time error for that?
I do understand that eventually a FileNotFoundException is raised, but it is a separate issue which comes later. How is the ambiguity resolved before that?

A: Your error is here:

Now, if "name" is indeed null, this(name != null ? new File(name) : null); evaluates to this(null); which in turn is equivalent to invocation of FileInputStream(null);

It actually evaluates to this((File) null) -- that is, a null value explicitly typed as File. This is because the expression name != null ? new File(name) : null has to have a type, and that type is the most specific type of the two alternatives. In this case, one alternative is typed as File and the other is typed as null, so the most specific common type is File.
That's why it's able to unambiguously resolve it to the FileInputStream(File) constructor. It's analogous to:
File file = null;
new FileInputStream(file);

A: The type of the result of the conditional operator is File.
The JLS defines:

If one of the second and third operands is of the null type and the type of the other is a reference type, then the type of the conditional expression is that reference type.

So there is no ambiguity about which constructor should be called


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This seminar will provide an opportunity to hear experts discuss the latest legal trends, procedural pitfalls and opportunities in anticipating, avoiding, and ultimately successfully defending security breaches and data privacy.
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MICHAEL SANDERLING IN CONVERSATION WITH GREGOR TASSIE
24/02/2020 04/04/2018 by Gregor Tassie
Michael Sanderling talks to Gregor Tassie
Michael Sanderling (c) Marco Borgreeve
There are several dynastic families in the world of conducting; perhaps most prominent is that of the Estonians Neemi, Paavo, and Kristjan Järvi who have all achieved major careers across the globe, there are too the Latvians of Arvīds and his son Mariss who were both educated in Leningrad and developed international careers; Arvīds Jansons was guest conductor at the Hallé Orchestra and Maris is currently at the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. However, the German family of Sanderlings have straddled world music since the 1930s when Kurt Sanderling began working as a repititeur at the Deutsche Opera in Berlin before he was forced out and he took up the conductorship of the Kharkov Philharmonic in 1939. He became second conductor at the Leningrad Philharmonic to Mravinsky and he toured with them to the West in 1956 before settling in East Berlin in 1960. His first son, Thomas was born in Novosibirsk in 1943 (where he is now chief conductor of the Philharmonic), and his two other sons Stefan (1964) and Michael (1967) were born in the German Democratic Republic and studied there. Both Stefan and Michael started their careers as musicians before advancing to taking up the baton following their father. Stefan Sanderling after starting as a pianist and clarinettist, currently is chief conductor of the Liechtenstein Symphony Orchestra following appointments with several American orchestras. A notable event was in 2005 in Florida when Stefan directed Michael in the Shostakovich Second Cello Concerto with his mother, Barbara playing the double-bass and his wife Isabelle was in the cello section!
Michael Sanderling studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin in cello studies and studied with William Pleeth. He became solo cello with the Leipzig Gewandhaus in 1987 and later with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra before switching to conducting in 2000, and in the last decade and a half, he was worked with orchestras world-wide, since 2006 he was artistic director of the Kammerakademie Potsdam, and as of 2011 he was appointed chief conductor of the Dresden Philharmonic with whom he has toured America, Europe and the Far East and have a series of new recordings for the Sony label. He teaches at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt, and also works with the Federal Youth Orchestra and the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra. He has given notable opera performances of The Fall of the House of Usher by Phillip Glass at Potsdam and Prokofiev's War and Peace at Cologne. Following two previous successful tours in recent years, in May Sanderling will be touring with the Dresden Philharmonic in the United Kingdom.
GT: There are many former string players who have achieved success as a conductor in their later careers, notably Oistrakh and Menuhin and among cello players, Rostropovich, so why did you decide to take up this most difficult profession?
MS: Well I don't think that I am in that league of players, they were great musicians, but I can say that I didn't plan to become a conductor as it happened entirely by accident. I didn't want to disturb my cello career, but it happened in 2000 when I was engaged to play with the KammerorchesterBerlin chamber orchestra for a series of concerts and it was all for fun leading the orchestra from the cello. Afterwards I discussed it with the Intendant and we agreed on future concerts. It seemed to spark a fire within me to conduct.
GT: Your father was one of the great conductors in the 20th century and he made many fine recordings of Shostakovich. Did his career influence you in your own career, and in your repertoire?
MS: First of all, I think everyone is influenced by their parents, of course my father was a big influence on me, but it was most of all the pleasure of being introduced to music and it wouldn't have happened without him.
GT: Your father lived in Leningrad for many years. Did he ever tell you something about his life there that sticks particularly in your memory?
MS: My father didn't speak much about his time there, but what came out was general things such as the suffering, the loneliness, that he experienced in the Soviet Union, but he helped me to know and understand the composers of that period in the Soviet Union, and to know the music of Shostakovich, he spoke about his living circumstances. Of course, I got to know Mariss, and also Arvīds [Jansons]. I try to keep in contact with him.
GT: You were born in the DDR and your musical education was also there, how do you think we should regard the heritage of classical music in the DDR, does it have good memories for you?
MS: I feel this is a complicated question, and there are always two sides to this, a good side and a bad side, the good side was that it was very concentrated, and focused intensely on the music. We knew the socialist system was keen to show its potency, so either you became a sportsman or an artist and this was much supported by the state. I really felt supported by an audience, I think that the concentration remains in ones' memory most.
GT: How important is teaching in your career, do you find this helps you in working with your orchestra and other ensembles?
MS: This is my job, and an important part of it, but as a person, and there is an element where one can be exhausted by constantly repeating one and the same repertoire, however, if one can use an example, if I am conducting Brahms Fourth for the 125th time, rather than becoming exhausted, I feel like I need to share this experience, to feel it anew for me, so both sides can help each other, as a teacher and have a sound, more than teaching the basic subjects, so teaching scales is something else, how do you use scales.
GT: You have conducted some opera in your career, do you have an ambition to work more in the theatre or do you prefer symphony orchestra conducting?
MS: I will finish my contract in Dresden in 2019, so I want to go back to opera, I enjoy it very much, and recently there has been so little time for opera, I have almost done performing opera, and want to do much more opera. I have only Hänsel und Gretel booked for Frankfurt in 2020, but currently am planning for more.
GT: From an early period, with the Potsdam Kammerorchester, you made recordings of Shostakovich, and most recently you started a series combining the symphonies of Beethoven and Shostakovich. This is a very interesting choice mixing the symphonies of these two composers. Why did you decide to do this series?
MS: The simple reason is that I love both Beethoven and Shostakovich and I wanted to do something for the 250th anniversary [of Beethoven in 2020] which would be different, and I thought about this for a very long period, Beethoven was the first composer to reflect on the social and political life of his time and period, and Shostakovich was the last one to reflect on the social and life of his day. Although they are quite different composers, I think there is something that may be linked in several of the symphonies reflecting on the storm and stress of their times. Of course, it is not possible to match them in recordings through Beethoven's Nine symphonies and Shostakovich's Fifteen symphonies, but we have already done it with Nos Three and Ten, and we think there are links between the Ninth of Beethoven and Shostakovich's Thirteenth that are actually corresponding with each other.
GT: Do you have any favourite musicians that you most like to work with?
MS: Oh, there are so many, its difficult to mention someone without offending anybody else by missing them out.
GT: You work with an orchestra with a great tradition and from a city with a glorious musical history. Do you think conductors working with as many as three major orchestras on different continents has led to some orchestras losing their identity and tradition?
MS: Yes, but I think the world has changed so much and the relationship has completely changed between the players and the conductor, music education is much better, and the role of the conductor has changed radically, for instance, my father was a conductor and an educator. But today its different, my time is so limited that a chief conductor only has something like twelve weeks across the season while other conductors work with the same orchestra over the other periods. I don't think I need to teach the orchestra now. The times have changed now with the orchestra, its quite difficult to change this system now. Ansermet worked with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande for 49 years, and the orchestra after him lost its identity. I remember what the Leipzig Gewandhaus was like when I was there as the concertmaster so many years ago, under the baton of Riccardo Chailly, more sound patterns and colours – that are already well-known throughout the world were added and now one cannot tell it apart from the orchestras in Stuttgart, Hamburg or elsewhere, it's our life.
GT: On June 3 in Dresden, you are giving the world premiere of a piece called the Requiem for Syria, can you tell us something about this music?
MS: It's a piece by a very good conductor and composer George Alexander Albrecht who used to be the director in Hannover and in Weimar, he was very much troubled by the events of the last years in Syria, now in 2018 it is still so violent, and it is in a human message, like Beethoven's, about the theme of universal brotherhood, the texts are from the bible and from other religions, Monzer Masri, Nazmi Bakr, Edward Said, and from Goethe. The message is that we are all the same and we should take care of each other, it has a big chorus and three soloists.
GT: When you started your musical career, the world has changed fundamentally, sometimes we think it has become a more dangerous place, how do you see the present place of classical music in today's world?
MS: It has changed fundamentally, still divided between rich and poor, the same corrupt practices, and abuses of power, but for us musicians it is possible that music should help bring people together, I think we are ambassadors without words, like Shostakovich Thirteenth and Beethoven's Ninth – they are my statement.
For details of Michael Sanderling's concerts in the UK please see these websites – Usher Hall click here and Dresden Philharmonic on IMG Artists click here.
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Rex Tillerson's first visit to Moscow showed that the Trump-Russia lovefest is dead
By Zack Beauchamp@zackbeauchamp Apr 12, 2017, 4:10pm EDT
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You might have expected the first press conference in Moscow featuring both a Trump administration official and a Russian official to be something of a victory lap. After all, Trump was Russia's preferred candidate in the 2016 election; he had promised to realign US foreign policy to work with Moscow. He even picked Rex Tillerson, an oil magnate and a man to whom Vladimir Putin personally awarded a Russian state medal, to be secretary of state.
But you'd be wrong. Secretary Tillerson's Wednesday afternoon press conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was a tense, awkward affair at which the two men barely acknowledged each other — and spent much of their speaking time taking shots at each other's countries.
Tillerson, who came into the meeting after a nearly two-hour face-to-face meeting with Putin himself, called on Bashar al-Assad, Russia's ally in Syria, to step down. He said the Russian interference in the US election was a "serious issue, one serious enough to attract additional sanctions" — even though the goal of said Russian interference had been to help his boss get elected.
Lavrov, for his part, accused the United States of secretly sympathizing with al-Qaeda-affiliated fighters in Syria. He described statements on Russia by unnamed US senators as "hysterical." He went on a lengthy tirade listing previous US efforts to oust dictators, all of which he described as failures. "There was another dictator, Saddam Hussein, who was hanged. I think we know how that invasion went," Lavrov said.
Clearly, the Trump-Russia relationship is not going as planned.
The most obvious reason why is the US attack on a Syrian airbase after Assad's regime used chemical weapons last week. The Russians do not like it, to put it mildly, when the United States attacks their client.
But the truth is that the tension started well before last week's bombing, and speaks to broader disappointments Moscow has with American foreign policy under Trump. Putin seems to be experiencing an intense case of buyer's remorse, and nothing Tillerson did during his Moscow trip seems to have done anything to change that.
The Trump administration hasn't been what Putin wanted
If you look at the Trump administration's record on Russia-related issues, even prior to the attack on the Syrian airbase, there haven't been any meaningful shifts away from American policies that Moscow dislikes:
Sanctions on Russia resulting from its invasion of Ukraine remain in place, as do sanctions put in place by the Obama administration in response to Russian interference in the US election. At Wednesday's press conference, Tillerson said he had "discussed no change in the status of sanctions" during his meetings with Putin or Lavrov.
US troops are still stationed in Eastern Europe and the Baltic states. In fact, Trump has ordered 900 new US troops to go to Poland as part of a NATO mission explicitly designed to deter Russian military adventurism.
The US hasn't reduced its military or financial commitment to NATO.
"There has been very little interaction between the administration and Russia," Ivo Daalder, former US ambassador to NATO and current president of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, told me last month. "There is no deviation from the line that existed prior to January 20."
The Syria bombing, of course, pushed the US and Russia even further apart. The one area where it looked like the Trump administration and Russia agreed — the status of Bashar al-Assad — has become a key point of conflict, with Trump administration officials like Tillerson, who had previously suggested Assad could stay, changing their tune after the strikes.
It's easy to see why this is happening: Trump's staff, with the possible exception of Tillerson, are all Russia hawks.
Secretary of Defense James Mattis is a Russia hawk who took a hard line on Russia in his confirmation hearing. So did Tillerson, who said he would maintain Russia sanctions despite his long history of doing business in that country while employed by Exxon Mobil.
"We have in effect multiple Russia policies"
Vice President Mike Pence famously undercut Trump's line on Russia in the vice presidential debate, and traveled to Europe while in office to reassure NATO allies of America's commitment to the alliance. UN Ambassador Nikki Haley gave a fiery speech at the UN Security Council condemning Russia's annexation of Crimea, vowing that "our Crimea-related sanctions will remain in place until Russia returns control over the peninsula to Ukraine."
Because Trump is so uninterested in policy detail and day-to-day management, these deputies are left to determine what the US's Russia policy should be and use their own powers to make that a reality.
"I don't think there is currently a Russia policy," Mark Galeotti, a senior research fellow at the Institute of International Relations Prague, tells me. "What that means is, in the void, we have in effect multiple Russia policies."
And then when we got to an actual crisis where Trump had to weigh in, he chose an option sure to displease Moscow. Whatever this is, it's not the kind of pro-Russian revolution in US foreign policy that Trump was promising during the campaign.
No wonder it seems like Tillerson didn't make any progress in Moscow. The new administration is just not shaping up to be what Putin wanted.
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Martin Scorsese's Bob Dylan Tour Doc Gets Netflix Release Date
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorcese is out in June
ROLLING THUNDER REVUE: A BOB DYLAN STORY BY MARTIN SCORSESE (Netflix)
In January, Netflix announced that the legendary Martin Scorsese would direct a new concert documentary following Bob Dylan's iconic Rolling Thunder Revue tour. Now, a release date has been set. Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese will hit the streaming platform as well as select theaters on June 12.
Described as "part documentary, part concert film, part fever dream," the film will feature on-camera interviews with Dylan and footage of the 1975-1976 tour that saw the singer-songwriter perform with artists such as Joan Baez, T-Bone Burnett, Mick Ronson, and more. Check out the new poster below.
The performances found in the Netflix doc will also be compiled on a new box set, Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings. The 14xCD collection will gather 148 tracks from the five Dylan sets that were professionally recorded. It arrives June 7 as a companion piece to the film.
Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly spelled Martin Scorsese's last name. It has been corrected.
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UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot : 75 Retinitis pigmentosa 19: A retinal dystrophy belonging to the group of pigmentary retinopathies. Retinitis pigmentosa is characterized by retinal pigment deposits visible on fundus examination and primary loss of rod photoreceptor cells followed by secondary loss of cone photoreceptors. Patients typically have night vision blindness and loss of midperipheral visual field. As their condition progresses, they lose their far peripheral visual field and eventually central vision as well. RP19 is characterized by choroidal atrophy.
Disease Ontology : 12 A retinitis pigmentosa that has material basis in mutation in the ABCA4 gene on chromosome 1p22.
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The Brother P-Touch Project: Episode 1 – How Tough Are Those Labels?
We here at The Dad Jam are all about bringing you news about cool products that can help you make your life as parent easier and more organized.
So we are happy to take part in a series of adventures in getting organized with Brother P-Touch. We'll be putting Brother P-Touch labels to the test, and using them to get organized. We'll report back to you how we get along with the labeller and labels, and if they live up to The Dad Jam's toughness tests.
Here, in Episode 1, we'll put some Brother P-Touch labels through the ringer and see if they stay stuck and maintain their integrity. Then, in Episode 2, we'll show you how we used the labels to get ourselves organized. In Episode 3, we'll wrap it all up and let you know how the labels are holding up against everyday use.
Episode 1 began with the arrival of our Brother P-Touch Extreme Test Kit.
The test kit included: P-Touch Sample Labels, a Plexi-Glass Block, Nail Polish Remover, bleach, a brush, and a scrubber sponge.
Our mission: to see how well the label would hold up to some intense scrubbing and an abrasives.
After - Still looking Great!
After the test - still looking as good as new!
As you can see, we couldn't do anything to break these labels! The text was totally unaffected, and the labels did not come off at all!
The only thing that was damaged in this whole process, were our fingers. They were totally red from all the scrubbing and chemicals!
This testing did more damage to our fingers than to the labels!
So there you have it. Looks like we have some really tough labels on our hands. Looking forward to using the labels to get organized, and putting them to the test in our house. Stay tuned for Episode 2!
Nota Bene: I wrote this review while participating in a campaign by Mom Central Consulting on behalf of Brother P-Touch and received a product and gift card to facilitate my review and a promotional item to thank me for taking the time to participate.


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Morocco Bans Anti-Normalization Protest in Rabat (VIDEO)
December 15, 2020 Blog, News, Videos
File photo of pro-Palestinian protest in Morocco. (Photo: via Facebook)
Authorities in the Moroccan capital, Rabat, have refused to authorize an anti-normalization demonstration that was scheduled to take place yesterday outside parliament, local sources have said.
Six Moroccan associations issued a joint statement condemning the decision as a "dangerous step".
The statement said that "the official Maghreb, Arab and African regimes provide a free service to the Zionist entity, at a time when imposing international sanctions and isolating it have become necessary".
The signatories are the Réseau Démocratique de Solidarité avec les Peuples, the Moroccan Coalition for Human Rights committees, the Moroccan Association for the Support of the Causes of the Nation, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS), the Moroccan Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (MACBI), and the Committee of Solidarity with the Palestinian People in Al-Bayda.
On Thursday, Moroccan King Mohammed VI announced that Rabat would sign a peace deal with the occupation state of Israel and initiate official bilateral and diplomatic relations with Tel Aviv "as soon as possible", according to a statement issued by the royal court.
#Morocco Joins Other #Arab Countries, #Normalizes with #Israel https://t.co/soluhgwsch via @PalestineChron pic.twitter.com/H9VvAiO5fv
— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) December 15, 2020
The Moroccan monarch emphasized that this step "does not affect in any way Morocco's permanent and sustained commitment to defend the just Palestinian cause and active engagement for the establishment of a just and lasting peace in the Middle East."
Morocco and Israel started low-profile relations in 1993 after the conclusion of the Oslo Accords, yet Rabat suspended its ties with the occupation in 2000 after the outbreak of the Second Intifada.
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By Ramzy Baroud 2017 will be remembered as the year that the so-called 'peace process', at least in its American formulation, has ended. And with its demise, a political framework that has served as the […]
Palestinian Officials Hold Sit-in against Israel's Ban of Palestine TV in Jerusalem
Top Palestinian officials, including Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh, participated today in a sit-in outside the headquarters of the Palestine TV in Ramallah in protest of the Israeli occupation authorities' decision to ban the work of […]
Tunisia's PM: Normalization with Israel 'Not on Agenda'
December 15, 2020 Blog, News
Tunisia has no plans to match Morocco's decision to recognize Israel, Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi said, insisting that establishing relations with the Jewish state was "not on the agenda". Last week, Morocco became the fourth […]
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Most leaders of the Middle East
do not represent their citizens.
They are corrupt, weak, worthless.
May they disappear into the sands of quick time.
May Allah Bless Iran, Syria, Hezbollah.


Shamima Begum, the London schoolgirl who ran away to join Isis in Syria, has said she wants to keep her baby with her if she returns to the UK.
As her family pleaded for the teenager to be allowed back to Britain "as a matter of urgency", the 19-year-old who is nine months pregnant said she understood the controversy and intense media scrutiny a return to the UK would bring.
But said she did not want to be separated from her child.
"I don't want it to be taken away from me, or at least if it is, to be given to my family," she told The Times.
They said the pregnant 19-year-old and her unborn child should be allowed to return home to Bethnal Green and be "dealt with under the British justice system".
Their plea came Britain's counter-terrorism chief Neil Basu warned that any British nationals returning from Syria could expect to be investigated and would have to live under stringent limitations.
He said anyone returning from the war-torn country would be assessed to determine whether they had committed "any terrorist or other criminal offences".
Ms Begum's family said they were prepared for the teenager – currently in a camp where almost 40,000 Isis fighters' family members are being held – to face questioning by the British authorities.
"We welcome an investigation in what she did while she was there under the principles of British justice and would request the British government assist us in returning Shamima and her child to the UK as a matter of urgency," the family told ITV News. "As a British citizen, Shamima has every expectation to be returned to the UK and be dealt with under the British justice system.
Ms Begum, who left London in 2015 with two friends, is currently living in at a refugee camp in northern Syria.
She told The Times earlier this week that she would "do anything required just to be able to come home and live quietly with my child".
Her case has received high-profile backing, with former MI6 chief Richard Barrett saying the teenager should be given a chance to return "if we are to stand by our values".
But the government has indicated it will not be contacting local authorities to negotiate her passage out of a camp.
Home Secretary Sajid Javid warned he "will not hesitate" to prevent the return of Britons who travelled to join Isis, while security minister Ben Wallace said he would "not put British lives at risk" to help Ms Begum.
Mr Basu, appointed national counter-terrorism chief last year, explained what was likely to happen to any UK nationals returning from Syria or Iraq if they had gone in support of any proscribed terrorist group.
"Any investigation is carried out with an open mind and based on the evidence available," he said. "This is to determine if individuals have committed any terrorist or other criminal offences, regardless their motivation, and to ensure that they do not pose a danger to the public or the UK's national security.
The former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation Lord Carlile has argued that if Ms Begum has not gained a second citizenship of another country, she will have to be allowed to return because under international law it is not possible for a person to be made "stateless".
Mr Barrett, a former director of global counter-terrorism at MI6, suggested it would be "unreasonable" to expect the Syrian Defence Force to look after her indefinitely at the detainee camp.