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Q: Visual Studio 2015 enterprise crashes on startup, uninstall and repair How can I fix Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise Edition to install and work correctly?
During the installation, it had an issue installing Java SE. It was optional so I didn't think anything of it. I restarted my computer. Now whenever I try to open Visual Studio 2015, reinstall or uninstall, I see the logo briefly then it disappears.
I dug into the event viewer to find a message from Windows Error Reporting that points to a log in the following folder.

C:\users\{me}\AppData\Local\Temp\dd_vs_enterprise_20150720190843

It seems as though it's having difficulty creating the view. I have copied a portion of the log below.
[261C:12FC][2015-07-20T19:08:52]i000: MUX:  Detect Completed
[261C:12FC][2015-07-20T19:08:52]i000: MUX:  Wait for View to be loaded
[261C:1860][2015-07-20T19:08:52]i000: MUX:  Detect Completed, now create view
[261C:1860][2015-07-20T19:08:52]e000: MUX:  ERROR: The type initializer for 'System.Windows.Media.FontFamily' threw an exception.
[261C:1860][2015-07-20T19:08:52]e000: MUX:  Stack:    at System.Windows.Media.Typeface..ctor(FontFamily fontFamily, FontStyle style, FontWeight weight, FontStretch stretch)
   at MS.Internal.Text.DynamicPropertyReader.GetTypeface(DependencyObject element)
   at MS.Internal.Text.TextProperties.InitCommon(DependencyObject target)
   at MS.Internal.Text.TextProperties..ctor(FrameworkElement target, Boolean isTypographyDefaultValue)
   at System.Windows.Controls.TextBlock.GetLineProperties()
   at System.Windows.Controls.TextBlock.EnsureTextBlockCache()
   at System.Windows.Controls.TextBlock.MeasureOverride(Size constraint)
   at System.Windows.FrameworkElement.MeasureCore(Size availableSize)
   at System.Windows.UIElement.Measure(Size availableSize)
   at MS.Internal.Helper.MeasureElementWithSingleChild(UIElement element, Size constraint)
   at System.Windows.Controls.ContentPresenter.MeasureOverride(Size constraint)
   at System.Windows.FrameworkElement.MeasureCore(Size availableSize)
   at System.Windows.UIElement.Measure(Size availableSize)
   at System.Windows.Controls.Control.MeasureOverride(Size constraint)
   at System.Windows.FrameworkElement.MeasureCore(Size availableSize)
   at System.Windows.UIElement.Measure(Size availableSize)
   at System.Windows.Controls.StackPanel.MeasureOverride(Size constraint)
   at System.Windows.FrameworkElement.MeasureCore(Size availableSize)
   at System.Windows.UIElement.Measure(Size availableSize)
   at System.Windows.Controls.Grid.MeasureCell(Int32 cell, Boolean forceInfinityV)
   at System.Windows.Controls.Grid.MeasureCellsGroup(Int32 cellsHead, Size referenceSize, Boolean ignoreDesiredSizeU, Boolean forceInfinityV)
   at System.Windows.Controls.Grid.MeasureOverride(Size constraint)
   at System.Windows.FrameworkElement.MeasureCore(Size availableSize)
   at System.Windows.UIElement.Measure(Size availableSize)
   at System.Windows.Controls.Border.MeasureOverride(Size constraint)
   at System.Windows.FrameworkElement.MeasureCore(Size availableSize)
   at System.Windows.UIElement.Measure(Size availableSize)
   at System.Windows.Controls.Grid.MeasureOverride(Size constraint)
   at System.Windows.FrameworkElement.MeasureCore(Size availableSize)
   at System.Windows.UIElement.Measure(Size availableSize)
   at System.Windows.Controls.Border.MeasureOverride(Size constraint)
   at System.Windows.FrameworkElement.MeasureCore(Size availableSize)
   at System.Windows.UIElement.Measure(Size availableSize)
   at System.Windows.Controls.Grid.MeasureOverride(Size constraint)
   at System.Windows.FrameworkElement.MeasureCore(Size availableSize)
   at System.Windows.UIElement.Measure(Size availableSize)
   at MS.Internal.Helper.MeasureElementWithSingleChild(UIElement element, Size constraint)
   at System.Windows.Controls.ContentPresenter.MeasureOverride(Size constraint)
   at System.Windows.FrameworkElement.MeasureCore(Size availableSize)
   at System.Windows.UIElement.Measure(Size availableSize)
   at System.Windows.Controls.Decorator.MeasureOverride(Size constraint)
   at System.Windows.Documents.AdornerDecorator.MeasureOverride(Size constraint)
   at System.Windows.FrameworkElement.MeasureCore(Size availableSize)
   at System.Windows.UIElement.Measure(Size availableSize)
   at System.Windows.Controls.Border.MeasureOverride(Size constraint)
   at System.Windows.FrameworkElement.MeasureCore(Size availableSize)
   at System.Windows.UIElement.Measure(Size availableSize)
   at System.Windows.Window.MeasureOverrideHelper(Size constraint)
   at System.Windows.Window.MeasureOverride(Size availableSize)
   at System.Windows.FrameworkElement.MeasureCore(Size availableSize)
   at System.Windows.UIElement.Measure(Size availableSize)
   at System.Windows.Interop.HwndSource.SetLayoutSize()
   at System.Windows.Interop.HwndSource.set_RootVisualInternal(Visual value)
   at System.Windows.Interop.HwndSource.set_RootVisual(Visual value)
   at System.Windows.Window.SetRootVisual()
   at System.Windows.Window.SetupInitialState(Double requestedTop, Double requestedLeft, Double requestedWidth, Double requestedHeight)
   at System.Windows.Window.CreateSourceWindowImpl()
   at System.Windows.Window.SafeCreateWindow()
   at System.Windows.Window.ShowHelper(Object booleanBox)
   at System.Windows.Window.Show()
   at Microsoft.Devdiv.Bootstrapper.ManagedUx.RunUI(ViewModelCommonUi viewModel)
   at Microsoft.Devdiv.Bootstrapper.ManagedUx.InternalRun()
   at Microsoft.Devdiv.Bootstrapper.ManagedUx.Run()
   at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart_Context(Object state)
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
   at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart()
[261C:1860][2015-07-20T19:08:52]e000: MUX:  Exception: Info: InnerException: Info:
[261C:1860][2015-07-20T19:08:52]e000: MUX:  ERROR: The type initializer for 'MS.Internal.FontCache.Util' threw an exception.
[261C:1860][2015-07-20T19:08:52]e000: MUX:  Stack:    at System.Windows.Media.FontFamily.PreCreateDefaultFamilyCollection()
   at System.Windows.Media.FontFamily..cctor()
[261C:1860][2015-07-20T19:08:52]i000: MUX:  Metrics: ShouldSendData=True
[261C:1860][2015-07-20T19:08:52]i000: MUX:  Permission to upload: Yes
[261C:1860][2015-07-20T19:08:52]i000: MUX:  Preparing to serialize data.
[261C:1860][2015-07-20T19:08:52]i000: MUX:  Data serialized.
[261C:1860][2015-07-20T19:08:52]i000: MUX:  Number of SQM File queued: 1
[261C:1860][2015-07-20T19:09:14]i000: MUX:  SQM sent: True
[261C:1860][2015-07-20T19:09:14]i000: Setting string variable 'CEIPConsent' to value ''
[261C:1860][2015-07-20T19:09:14]i000: Setting string variable 'SqmOption' to value ''
[261C:1860][2015-07-20T19:09:14]i000: MUX:  Metrics: Configuration State

A: After quite a bit of research, I found two issues that were causing my installation and repair issues.
Font Oddity in the Registry

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*Open the registry

*Go to the font location in the registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontCache

*There was a particular font in my case, MT Extra (TTF), which had a long path rather than a filename like the rest of the fonts.

*I changed the font name to be just the filename MTEXTRA.TFF

*Restarted my computer

PATH longer than 2048 characters

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*I checked the path to find that it was longer than 2048 characters

*This is a known issue (even if difficult to diagnose)

*Removed certain entries to bring it down to less than 2048 characters

*Restarted

After completing both of these steps, I was able to repair from Programs and Features in the control panel and have a working installation.

A: I had a similar issue, and tried the other solutions to no avail. I even repaired the installation but that had no effect. I was able to resolve it by resetting all the user settings.
Navigate to the devenv.exe file; for me it was in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\.
Then open a command prompt there and run:
devenv.exe /ResetSettings

A: I had what seems like the same issue, this is what I did:

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*Cleared everything out of %temp%, which on my machine is "C:\Users[user name]\AppData\Local\Temp"

*Rebooted my machine.

*Cleared the rest of the locked files out of %temp% after reboot (this can probably be one step after reboot, but that's the order I went in).

*Deleted all the "Roboto" Fonts in my Android SDK folder for the highest version installed.  For me, the highest version was android-17:
C:\Users[user name]\AppData\Local\Android\android-sdk\platforms\android-17\data\fonts

Note that "Roboto-Bold.ttf" font was still in use even after reboot, so I didn't delete it. But the problem went away with all the others deleted.
Hope that helps...


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Science in an independent Scotland
Business as usual for science was the message from the Scottish National Party's 'blueprint for independence' released earlier today (26 November) by First Minister Alex Salmond MSP and Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon MSP.
The 670-page white paper highlights the international recognition of research undertaken in Scotland; around half of the research in Scottish universities has been assessed as world-leading or internationally excellent, and Scotland ranks third in the world (after Switzerland and the Netherlands) and ahead of all the G8 countries in terms of citations per researcher. Investment in research and development was also identified as a key component of driving innovation and supporting improved long-term economic performance.
The white paper sets out plans for how Scotland's thriving research base would be funded, maintaining a common research area including shared research councils, access to facilities and peer review. An independent Scottish Government intends to negotiate with the Westminster Government to ensure a fair funding formula for Scotland's contribution based on population share. It is predicted that this would allow Scottish interests to be better and more consistently reflected in the identification of Research Council priorities.
The SNP plans to ensure that levels of public investment in university research are sufficient to enable Scottish researchers and universities to remain internationally competitive, with current levels of Government investment in university research at least maintained as part of wider plans to harness increased funding from the private sector and other sources including Horizon 2020.
The white paper states that under independence, Scottish domiciled students would continue to have free access to higher education. However, the current policy of charging fees to students from the rest of the UK to study at Scottish higher education institutions would be maintained.
In the run up to the publication of this white paper many in the science community, including the Society of Biology, expressed concerns over the continuity of science funding in the event of a 'yes' vote. While the 'business as usual' plans shed some light on science in an independent Scotland, more details are needed, particularly on European funding in the event of a delay in ascension to the EU.

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Panel Discussion Replay: The Future of Fashion
The Interline was invited to lead a far-ranging panel discussion on the future of fashion at the inaugural Exthereal event. The full replay is now available to watch on-demand.
Header image artwork by Auroboros
On 29th November, The Interline was invited to host a cornerstone panel discussion as part of the first Exthereal event – a new virtual conference dedicated to exploring fashion's role in extended reality (XR), and to charting the course that the fashion industry will take as its digital transformation progresses post-pandemic.
Leading the panel was our Editor-in-Chief, Ben Hanson, whose opening statement captured the wide-ranging discussion that followed – emphasising the extent to which different areas of fashion are intertwined, and underlining how digitisation upstream can have a strong downstream effect, and vice versa.
Ben was joined by a multidisciplinary roster of speakers who each had a unique perspective on how the different disciplines that will contribute to the future of fashion will evolve and interact:
Raffaella Camera, Head of Brands & Advertisers Solutions, Epic Games
Erkut Ekinci, Head of IT, Hugo Boss Textile Industries
Natalia Modenova, Co-Founder, DRESSX
Linda Pimmeshofer, Industry Advisor, Microsoft
Daria Shapovalova, Co-Founder, DRESSX
Jill Standish, Global Retail Lead, Accenture
A full replay of the hour-long panel is embedded and timestamped below (it begins from 04:57:20 for readers who would prefer to watch the entire day's sessions in order on YouTube), and covers a great deal of ground in just over one hour – ranging from how the fashion industry can balance its environmental and ethical responsibilities against brands' and retailers' requirement to make a profit, to how the vision for a fully digital closet can be translated into a viable business model for brands looking to make the most of the Metaverse.
Stay tuned for recaps and reports of more of the series of events that The Interline helped host in the last few months of 2021 very soon, and look for a briefing on our upcoming Interline Initiators workshops and other industry events we're participating in early in the new year.
Greenwashing: Unfair Criticism or a Cause Worth Fighting For?
byLaurie Stewart
Disposable fashion has a huge environmental and human cost. Now brands are trying to put it right, are they trying hard enough, or is "greenwashing" a fair accusation?
From Push To Pull: How Technology Promises To Reverse The Flow Of Production
The long-standing "push" model of apparel production could soon be replaced, at least in part, by an all-digital data-driven "pull". Here's how that could happen.
Does Your Supply Chain Meet The New Fashion Market Trends?
byKornit Digital
Preparing to face the challenges of the future, for fashion, now means examining and restructuring your supply chain. Kornit set out five key things to understand.
ideation 2020 – The Interline report
Near the end of last year, The Interline spoke at and attended Gerber Technology's marquee event, ideation, which had been reimagined digitally. With the year behind us, we reflect on what ideation 2020 had to say, and what it meant for online industry events in general.
The Rise of the Conscious Consumer and the new Creative
byKatia Cahen
How technologies like 3D could usher in a new era of creativity and conscientious creation, preparing fashion for the next normal.
Automating The Impossible… From Your Kitchen Table
byShapeShifter
ShapeShifter set out some guidelines for reducing fabric and operational waste in the apparel supply chain.


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Thoughts on the current electoral conundrum
Edblog had to look after his kids on his own for three days, while his missus was away. He commented, as all do when put in this situation: 'It made me appreciate how hard it is to be a single parent'. Talking about that, we realised that you don't hear so much poisonous criticism of the demonic 'Single Mother' as you used to a few years ago. One might forget that people used to propose that children be taken away from single mothers and given to 'normal families' to adopt. One might forget that women who were abandoned, pregnant or with young children, and single handedly shouldered the job of raising those children, were treated as if they were committing an evil act rather than an heroic one.
Now, the fact I don't hear this is partly because I don't read the Daily Mail. But it's partly because discourse has moved on. And it's partly because the political climate has changed. There may not be enough help for those raising children in difficult circumstances, but there is massively more than there used to be. The people in charge of our government no longer regard mothers as enemies.
But this progress is not inevitable. Everything could be turned back. Homosexuality could be reviled in public once more. Abortion could be made illegal once more. Childcare provision could be rolled back. Minimum wage and maximum hours legislation could be repealed. Free health care could be downgraded. All this could happen; other things that seem unthinkable today could happen; we can see what has happened in America over the past four years. Some of these changes are likely short-term outcomes of the defeat of the Labour government. Others are long-term consequences of any drift in our political climate further towards a mid-Atlantic neo-conservative model, which would arise from the replacement of our Government with one that was more pro-American, more pro-market, more intolerant.
For this reason I would never cast a vote which might lead to the reinstatement of a Conservative government in this country. However, I also find myself greatly opposed to the war in Iraq. I find the current government too right wing, though less so than its rivals. For this reason in today's election I have decided to vote for the Labour incumbents in the local elections, and for the Green candidate in the Euro elections.


The Riviera Nayarit's efforts to diversify the markets continue.
So it was that in early February a group of directors and managers from 12 top Russian travel agencies made their way to the Riviera Nayarit so they could explore the region and its tourism offer.
The group was convened by the Good Times Travel agency, which after this FAM trip expects its fellow countrymen to visit the destination, as the agencies it represents are among the most respected by Russian travelers seeking exclusivity and adventure and nature experiences.
During their stay in Mexico's Pacific Treasure the visitors became acquainted with high-end luxury products, enjoyed the local gastronomy and the haute cuisine restaurants, and even experienced the traditional seaside villages firsthand.
The Riviera Nayarit Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) together with the Bahía de Banderas Hotel and Motel Association (AHMBB) created a very complete itinerary that included tours to the Islas Marietas National Park and Sayulita Pueblo Mágico, plus an amazing whale watching experience in Banderas Bay.
Agents also performed site inspections at some hotels in Nuevo Vallarta and Punta de Mita.
At the end of their stay in Mexico's Pacific Treasure, the travel agency representatives were pleasantly impressed not only with the destination's natural attractions, but also with its hotel offer, high-end tourist services, gastronomy, and culture, but most of all with the warm, pleasant hospitality of its people, as they always felt welcome and were very grateful for that touch.
The agencies on this trip to the Riviera Nayarit were: Good Times Travel (FAM trip organizer); Ves Mir Travel; Life Time Travel; Life Time Travel; Phoenix LLC Travel; Den Tour; Elegia Travel; Shop Fire Tour; Finisterra Travel; Monitor Line Voyage; Rossita Travel and Panaceya Travel, all of them located in St. Petersburg.


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Posteado por: Carli C4 | marzo 28, 2014
THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS AND THE CUBAN EMBARGO
The United States and Cuba have experienced a gradual crumbling of their political relationship ever since the island became communist in the early sixties. As a result of these tensions, the superpower has implemented diverse procedures in order to enfeeble and keep its close neighbor regimented. Some of these strategies have been extremely valuable when dealing with major crises, but others have proved to be totally unproductive and offensive to the international community. The Cuban Missile Crisis illustrates an instance in which the United States (especially John F. Kennedy and his advisors) was highly effective in dealing with a tense and potentially lethal emergency. This specific course of action was praised around the world and the American superpower was recognized for preventing a global catastrophe. The Cuban Embargo, contrariwise, has demonstrated that it is a profoundly incompetent and ignorant approach to the Cuban conundrum. The perpetuation of these inhuman prohibitions have received a strong wave of universal criticism. The examination of these divergent behaviors provides us with an insight into the ambivalent perceptions the international community has towards the United States.
Fidel Castro's victory in 1959 represented a substantial menace to the United States. The superpower was entirely immersed in a Cold War against the Soviet empire and its Bolshevik forces, and the paramount fear in the minds of the American leaders was the propagation of communism. The Cuban hazard was especially serious mainly because of its geographic position (ninety miles away from South Florida). All of these circumstances made the island a key player in the Cold War for both superpowers. In order to deter the Cuban threat, the United States launched a military invasion in 1961. The Bay of Pigs incursion was a complete disaster and the attackers were defeated in only three days. The disappointed invasion bestowed credibility and international admiration on Fidel Castro and its fresh administration, and also provided the Soviet Union with an excuse to safeguard its close ally. In 1962, a couple of months after the invasion, the soviets started to infiltrate missiles in Cuba, taking the United States by surprise. "[…] [T]he most senior Kennedy administration officials were uniformly convinced, with one notable exception, that Moscow would never introduce nuclear weapons on the island" (Cyr 2012:7). The Bay of Pigs invasion inadvertently led to the Cuban missile crisis of 1962; one of the most frightening episodes in human history.
In the early months of 1962 the United States started getting reports from its military and intelligence agencies stating that the Soviets were providing Cuba with nuclear armament. They were able to photograph SAMs, but the evidence was not conclusive in regards to offensive missiles. "Despite rising concern in Washington there was no clearly actionable evidence of a Soviet missile capability in Cuba" (Cyr 2012:8). The American superpower needed decisive proof indicating the presence of nuclear weapons on the island and the military started working intensely in order to achieve this purpose; but it was not until September that they were able to produce such confirmation. "On September 21, Washington received the first really reliable report to the effect that more than just SAMs were being unloaded on the docks of Havana" (Cyr 2012:7). This evidence needed to be analyzed by experts in order for Washington to be indubitably certain about the precarious nature of the situation. The investigation took nearly three weeks, and by October 15th, the United States' leadership was ready to take action.
Instead of utilizing his whole cabinet and all of his advisers to craft a strategy in order to deal with the threat, Kennedy handpicked the specific people that he wanted working on this situation. The group (that later became to be known as the ExComm) had deeply divided opinions: some wanted to use an airstrike against Cuba and others were convinced that a peaceful resolution was achievable. Against realist recommendations, the Commander in Chief decided to take a more liberal approach to the situation. "On October 18, President Kennedy met with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko" (Cyr 2012:12). The purpose of this meeting was to let the Soviets know that Washington did not want a nuclear war with its communist enemy and that their goal was to achieve a nonviolent agreement. The Minister assured the President that the reports were wrong and denied the existence of nuclear weapons. It seemed that the liberal methodology was not being effective. On October 22nd, Kennedy took a firm posture on his televised speech. He announced new measures to deal with the nuclear provocation, established explicit expectations, made clear that noncompliance would result in military action, and at the same time left a door open for political compromise. Both superpowers came to an agreement behind closed doors, with the United States promising to remove its offensive missiles from Turkey in a certain amount of time if the Cuban weaponry was dismantled. "On October 28, Moscow publicly accepted the American offer to provide a pledge not to invade Cuba if the missiles were removed" (Cyr 2012: 14.). Nuclear confrontation (and perhaps the end of the world as we know it) was averted.
John F. Kennedy and the ExComm dealt with this situation outstandingly. By utilizing both realist and liberal strategies they were able to intimidate the aggressor and at the same time call upon compromise and nonviolent resolution. The nuclear nature of this threat forced the United States to give in to some demands. Doing this behind closed doors was a major achievement that prevented the superpower from being perceived as impotent or ineffectual by the international community. To the contrary, the world applauded Washington's actions and the crisis arguably gave more credibility to their cause. There is no doubt that our planet came extremely close to annihilation in 1962; this did not happen in great part thanks to the way in which Kennedy and his team handled the chaotic situation. "The crisis has been described as President John F. Kennedy's 'finest hour' in a touchingly brief tenure in the White House" (Cyr 2012:5).
Unlike the policies implemented during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Cuban Embargo has been reprimanded universally for being both inhumane and ineffective. The economic sanctions were imposed by the United States right after Castro's successful revolution in 1959. While the commercial restrictions were initiated to a certain extent by Eisenhower, it was "Kennedy [who] imposed a full embargo on the island in 1962" (Borer & Bowen 2007:129). The chief motives behind the blockage were the nationalization without indemnification of key US industries by the socialist regime (the most prominent being the United Fruit Company and Texaco) and a reforma agraria (agrarian reform) that similarly affected US interests in Cuba. Fifty one years later, this realist course of action continues to mark the factual basis of Cuban – US relationships. Although the embargo was perhaps the right strategy to put in place in response to the Cuban violations, its perpetuity has been the subject of severe criticism by almost the entire world in recent decades.
The three chief arguments objecting the embargo maintain that it only hurts the Cuban people, that the ultimate goal (the removal of Castro and the annihilation of Communism in Cuba) is unattainable, and that the totalitarian administration benefits from these commercial restrictions. The economic constraints imposed on the island bring hunger and malnutrition to regular Cubans, not to Fidel Castro or the leadership of the preponderant Communist Party. Instead of revolting against the regime (the intended purpose), the people blame the United Stated for the scarcity because they have been indoctrinated to believe the government's rhetoric which blames the Yankis and their "genocidal" embargo for everything evil that happens in the country. The main purpose of an economic boycott in international relations is to "bring about behavioral change on the part of the target state by the state that withholds trade" (Borer & Bowen 2007:129). This has clearly not been the case with Cuba; the dictatorship continues to oppress dissidents and abuse human rights. The most troubling detail is that plenty of evidence exists corroborating that the outdated strategy allows the Communist monocracy to stay alive. "Maintaining the embargo allows Castro to squash all dissent based on the national security argument that Cuba is under threat from a hostile neighbor" (Borer & Bowen 2007:131). Furthermore, his authoritarian regime uses the commercial blockade as an excuse for the poverty and underdevelopment that have resulted from their disastrous economic, social, and political approaches.
Cuba, Venezuela, the European Union, and almost the entire world have denounced the embargo plenty of times in the past decades. Cuba's proposals to end the embargo in the United Nations have been approved almost unanimously. Since the United States is a member of the Security Council, the passage of these Gnocchi has no significance whatsoever. A venue that has proved to be especially effective in resolving issues of this caliber is the World Trade Organization. Although Cuba has been very vocal on their criticism towards the embargo in the UN, they have not utilized the WTO in order to resolve their quandary. "Castro's Cuba may have decided not to challenge U.S. sanctions within the WTO out of fear of being successful" (Borer & Bowen 2007:128). This substantiates yet more how the Cuban embargo is in fact in Fidel and Raul Castro's best interests.
The United States urgently needs to change their approach towards Cuba. The Cuban embargo is inhumane, absurd, immoral, and above all ineffective..The superpower needs to lift the economic blockade in order to leave the Communist tyranny deprived of excuses to blame their social, political, and economic fiascos on. Both Democrats and Republicans have to make a stand and be strong against the political pressures to maintain the embargo that will come from influential Cuban-American groups in Florida. This course of action is not in the United States or the Cuban people's best interests. By perpetuating an obsolete approach that has not been practical in over fifty years, the American superpower is only damaging its international image and helping its enemy hang on to power.
The United States, like any other country, has been both accurate and erroneous in their international policies and strategies. The Cuban Missile Crisis's management and the Cuban Embargo are illustrations of both an efficient and an unsuccessful policy. If the American superpower is able to amend its erroneous behaviors by utilizing the same principles and ideas that worked in previous occasions, it will be able to enhance its global image and conquer the minds and hearts of a vast part of the international community. As the sole democratic hegemon in the planet, the United States has an obligation to lead other governments by example. The only way to accomplish this goal is by reforming unpopular and opprobrious foreign policy conducts and emulating former procedures that brought honor, respect, and admiration to the great nation. Following this ethical and righteous course of action is in the United States and humanity's best interests.
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As G20 negotiations on a new regulatory blueprint bogged down, President Barack Obama pulled French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Chinese President Hu Jintao into a corner of a room in London's Excel Centre, according to press reports from London.
An Argentine president headed for the first time a ceremony in London commemorating the 27th anniversary of the Argentine April 2 landing in the Falkland Islands which triggered in 1982 the South Atlantic conflict with the United Kingdom.
United States senators from both parties, backed by activists and businessmen, began promoting a bill this week to lift travel restrictions to Cuba, and apparently have the necessary votes for approval.
Leaders of the world's largest economies have reached an agreement to tackle the global financial crisis with measures worth 1.1 trillion US dollars.
Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner strong lobbying for support from the Arab League in its dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands is proving to be a short lived pyrrhic victory since she involved Argentina in the Palestine question and infuriated the Jewish community.
Thousands of Argentines have marched and thousands more were queuing Wednesday night to render their respects to former Argentine president Raul Alfonsin, who died on Tuesday evening and has been enshrined as the man who following the defeat of the Argentine dictatorship in the Falkland Islands conflict, helped start in 1983 the longest period of electoral democracy in this politically turbulent country.
On the 27th anniversary of the Argentine landing in Falklands/Malvinas, which triggered the South Atlantic conflict in 1982, the Argentine government will commemorate Thursday April 2 the Day of the Veteran and the Fallen in the Malvinas War.
Two public opinion polls released this week ahead of Uruguay's June's primary election when political parties must choose their presidential candidates virtually coincide in the standing of the different hopefuls. However they differ dramatically regarding the overall vote: ruling coalition versus the opposition.


I planned on making that room my office, so the room was completely empty. I also kept the door shut for AC purposes. I also heard what sounded to me like soft footsteps as though maybe trying to walk lightly. I also heard what sounded like someone dropped a marble on the ground. When I went to investigate nothing was there. I had a bird dog that would find the room interesting, so he was always walking down the hall to the room and just stared at the door.
I am not saying it is a ghost. To be honest I am not sure what it is. When I have heard the music I have even gone to the neighbors to see if it is their music. It is not.
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Return of the Madhouse
by Sasha Abramsky
Last summer, some 600 inmates in the notorious supermaximum-security unit at California's Pelican Bay State Prison stopped eating. They were protesting the conditions in which the state says it must hold its most difficult prisoners: locked up for 23 hours out of every 24 in a barren concrete cell measuring 7 1/2 by 11 feet. One wall of these cells is perforated steel; inmates can squint out through the holes, but there's nothing to see outside either. In Pelican Bay's supermax unit, as in most supermax prisons around the country, the cells are arranged in lines radiating out like spokes from a control hub, so that no prisoner can see another human being--except for those who are double-bunked. Last year, the average population of the Pelican Bay supermax unit was 1,200 inmates, and on average, 288 men shared their tiny space with a "cellie." Since 1995, 12 double-bunked prisoners in the Pelican Bay supermax unit have been murdered by their cell mates. But near-total isolation is the more typical condition.
Meals are slid to the inmates through a slot in the steel wall. Someprisoners are kept in isolation even for the one hour per day that they'reallowed out to exercise; all are shackled whenever they are taken out of theircells. And many are forced to live this way for years on end.
Such extreme deprivation, the food strikers said, literally drives peoplecrazy. Many experts agree. But the protest died out after two weeks, accordingto the jailhouse lawyer who organized it; and though a state senator promisedthat he would look into the strikers' complaints, so far conditions at PelicanBay remain unchanged.
All told, more than 8,000 prisoners in California and at least 42,000 aroundthe country, by the conservative estimate of the Corrections Yearbook, arecurrently held in similar conditions of extreme confinement. As of 2000, Texasalone boasted 16 supermax prisons and supermax units, housing some 10,000 inmates. In Florida, more than 7,000 inmates were double-bunked in suchfacilities and the corrections department was lobbying to build another one (atan estimated cost of nearly $50 million) to house an additional 1,000 offenders.
Seven years ago, in January 1995, inmates at Pelican Bay won a class-actionlawsuit, Madrid v. Gomez, against the California Department of Corrections. Among other constitutional violations, U.S. District Court Judge Thelton Henderson found that the staff had systematically brutalized inmates, particularly mentally ill inmates. "The Eighth Amendment's restraint on using excessive force has been repeatedly violated at Pelican Bay, leading to a conspicuous pattern of excessive force," Henderson wrote in describing the severe beatings then common at the facility, the third-degree burns inflicted on one mentally ill inmate who was thrown into boiling water after he smeared himself with feces, and the routine use of painful restraining weapons against others. The judge ordered California to remove any seriously mentally ill or retarded inmates from the supermax unit, and he appointed a special master to overhaul the prison.
What Henderson didn't rule, however, was that the supermax model, per se,amounted to cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment.And so, while a new warden and new rules were brought to Pelican Bay, the basic conditions of sensory deprivation in its supermax unit have remained intact.Extremely mentally ill inmates are now held elsewhere; but critics say that lesssevere cases are still sent to the unit, where they often deterioratedrastically, for the same reasons that Judge Henderson originally identified:"The physical environment reinforces a sense of isolation and detachment from the outside world, and helps create a palpable distance from ordinarycompunctions, inhibitions and community norms."
Meanwhile, the prescribed method for dealing with uncooperative inmates who"act out" in a supermax is still to send a team of guards into the cell withbatons, stun guns, Mace, and tear gas. Thus, say critics, the chances forguard-on-inmate violence remain high at Pelican Bay, just as at other supermaxesaround the country.
The supermax model emerged out of the prison violence of the1970s and the early 1980s, when dozens of guards around the country, includingtwo at the maximum-security federal prison at Marion, Illinois, were murderedby prisoners. First, prison authorities developed procedures to minimizeinmate-staff contact; then they took to "locking down" entire prisons forindefinite periods, keeping inmates in their cells all day and closing downcommunal dining rooms and exercise yards. Eventually, they began to explore theidea of making the general prison population safer by creating entirely separatehigh-tech, supermax prisons in which "the worst of the worst" gang leaders andsociopaths would be incarcerated in permanent lockdown conditions. In the late1980s, several states and the federal government began constructing supermaxunits. California--which had seen 11 guards murdered by inmates between 1970 and1973, and a staggering 32 prisoners killed by other inmates in 1972 alone--openedCorcoran State Prison and its supermax unit in 1988 and Pelican Bay the yearfollowing. In 1994 the first federal supermax opened, in Florence, Colorado.Soon, dozens of correctional systems across the country were embracing thismodel.
Indeed, throughout the 1990s, despite year-by-year declines in crime, onestate after another pumped tens of millions of dollars into building supermaxprisons and supermax facilities within existing prisons--sections that areusually called "secure housing units," or SHUs. Defenders of supermaxes, likeTodd Ishee, warden of Ohio State Penitentiary (OSP), a supermax in Youngstown,argue that their restrictions provide a way to establish control in what isstill--and inherently--an extremely dangerous environment. "In 1993," he says,"our maximumsecurity prison at Southern Ohio Correctional Facility was host to ariot. One correctional officer was killed. A number of inmates were killed andseveral injured. Following the riot, the department made a decision that a500-bed facility of this nature was needed to control the most dangerousinmates."
But while it may be necessary to maintain such restricted facilities asprisons of last resort for some inmates, critics point out that far lesstroublesome inmates end up being sent to them. In Ohio, for example, a speciallegislative committee appointed to inspect the state's prisons in 1999 concludedthat fewer than half of the inmates at OSP met the state's own supermaxguidelines. State correctional-department data indicate that of the more than 350inmates currently incarcerated at OSP, 20 were ringleaders of the 1993 riot and31 had killed either an inmate or a correctional officer while living among thegeneral prison population; but the rest had been sent there for much less serious offenses (often little more than a fistfight with another inmate).
And Ohio isn't alone in this practice. According to a study issued by thestate of Florida, fully one-third of the correctional departments across thecountry that operate supermax prisons report placing inmates in them simplybecause they don't have enough short-term disciplinary housing in lower-security prisons. Given that the supermaxes' average cost to taxpayers is about $50,000per inmate per year--compared with $20,000 to $30,000 for lower-securityprisons--this is hardly an economically efficient arrangement.
Yet the available numbers suggest that casual overuse of these facilities iscommon. For in tough-on-crime America, imposing grim conditions on prisoners isall too often seen as a good in itself, regardless of the long-term costs. TheU.S. Department of Justice's 1997 report on supermax housing (the most recentavailable) found Mississippi officials insisting that they needed to house fully20 percent of their prison inmates in separate supermax-type prisons and another35 percent in similar units within existing prisons. Arizona claimed that itneeded to house 8 percent of its inmates in supermax prisons and another 20percent in SHUs. In Virginia, after Jim Austin, the state's nationally renownedconsultant on prisoner classification, told officials that they needed to putmore of their inmates into medium-security prisons, the state instead spentapproximately $150 million to build Red Onion and Wallens Ridge, two supermax prisons with a combined capacity to house 2,400 prisoners.
Proponents of the supermax system claim that its introduction has reducedviolence in the general prison population--both by removing the most hard-coremiscreants and also by introducing a fearsome deterrent to misbehavior. But thedata on this are, at best, mixed. Among Ohio's total prison population, forexample, there were more inmate-on-inmate assaults serious enough to be writtenup by officials in 2000 than there were in 1997, the year before the OSP supermaxopened for business (8 assaults for every 1,000 prisoners in 1997 compared with10 for every 1,000 in 2000). And even where lower-security prisons have beenmade somewhat safer, that safety has been purchased at a staggering financialand, ultimately, social cost.
Even the best-run of the supermax facilities seem to see highrates of mental illness among their inmates. For example, a study carried out bythe Washington State Department of Corrections, which is known as one of the morehumane, rehabilitation-focused prison systems in the country, found thatapproximately 30 percent of inmates in its supermax units show evidence ofserious psychiatric disorders--at least twice the rate in the overall prisonpopulation.
In Connecticut's Northern Correctional Institution (NCI), Warden LarryMyers presides over an inmate population just shy of 500 and a staff of just over300. With six mental-health professionals, a gradated three-phase programoffering inmates the possibility of returning to the general prison populationwithin one year, and relatively calm inmate-staff relations, Myers prides himselfon running a tight ship. Unlike staffers at many other supermaxes, once those atNCI identify an inmate as psychotic, they remove him to an institution thatcaters to mentally ill prisoners. Myers says that to avoid a "ping-pong effect," with inmates bouncing back and forth between NCI and mental-healthinstitutions, the prison has not accepted severely disturbed inmates since 1999.
Yet even in Myers's prison, psychiatrist Paul Chaplin estimates that 10percent of the inmates are on antidepressants or antipsychotic drugs, and severaltimes a month an inmate gets violent enough to be placed in four-pointrestraints. Last September, guards had to subdue prisoners with Mace on 12 occasions. As I toured the pink-painted steel tiers of level one, dozens ofinmates began screaming out their often incoherent complaints in a bone-jarringcacophony of despair.
"This is shitty," shouted one of the more intelligible of them. "We ain't gotno recreations, no space. If I try to sit back and motivate, you got peopleyelling." He said he sleeps for more than 10 hours a day, does push-ups, and sitsaround. "I have trouble concentrating," he yelled. Through the narrow Plexiglaswindow in the door of his cell, a 21-year-old shouted: "I'm in jail for behaviorproblems. My cellie has behavior problems. Why put two people with behaviorproblems in the same cell?"
The greatly disputed chicken-and-egg question is: Do previously healthyinmates go mad under these extreme conditions of confinement, or do inmates whoare already mentally unstable and impulsive commit disciplinary infractions thatget them shipped off to SHUs or supermax prisons, where they are then likely tofurther decompensate?
Some psychiatrists, including Harvard University professor Stuart Grassian,have testified in court that the sensory deprivation in a supermax frequentlyleads otherwise healthy individuals to develop extreme manifestations ofpsychosis, such as hallucinations, uncontrollable rage, paranoia, and nearlycatatonic depressions. Grassian and others have also documented examples ofextreme self-mutilation: supermax inmates gouging out their eyes or cutting offtheir genitals. Using the tools of the supermax prison, writes James Gilligan inhis book Violence, "does not protect the public; it only sends a human time bomb into the community" when the inmate is eventually released.
Other psychiatrists are more cautious, arguing that while some perfectlyhealthy people are driven insane by these dehumanizing prison settings, the morecommon problem is that mildly mentally ill inmates are often precisely the oneswho find it hardest to control their behavior while in the general prison population and who therefore get sent to the supermax or SHU. Judge Hendersonacknowledged this in his Pelican Bay ruling; and in Ruiz v. Johnson, a 1999 case involving Texas's use of long-term inmate-segregation facilities in its prisons, another federal court likewise found that "inmates, obviously in need of medical help, are instead inappropriately managed merely as miscreants."
In the large supermaxes of Texas, correctional bureaucrats have devised asystematically humiliating and, indeed, dehumanizing regimen of punishments forprisoners who elsewhere would more likely be considered disturbed: no real meals,only a "food loaf" of all the day's food ground together, for prisoners whodon't return their food trays; paper gowns forced on those who won't wear theirclothes. I myself have heard guards joking about "the mutilators" who slash theirown veins to get attention. According to Thomas Conklin, a psychiatrist andmedical director at the Hampden County Jail in Massachusetts who was called on toevaluate mental-health care in one Texas supermax, "All suicide gestures byinmates [were] seen as manipulating the correctional system with the consciousintent of secondary gain. In not one case was the inmate's behavior seen asreflecting mental pathology that could be treated." In most supermaxes, this kindof thinking still seems to be the norm.
Although prison authorities say that they provide mental-health care to theirsupermax inmates, prisoner advocates tend to dismiss these claims.Documentary-film maker Jim Lipscomb, who has interviewed scores of inmates inOhio's most secure prisons, reports that mental-health programs there oftenconsist of little more than in-cell videos offering such platitudes as "If youfeel angry at one of the guards, try not to curse and shout at him."
"That's called mental health!" Lipscomb says in amazement.
"The forceful rushes of this isolational perversion has pulled my essence intoa cesspool," wrote one inmate from a supermax in Pennsylvania to Bonnie Kernessof the American Friends Service Committee (ASFC). "This just ain't life,pathologized in a subsumed litany of steel and cement codes preoccupied with thedisturbing thrust of death." Accompanying the florid words was a penciled imageof a grown man curled into a fetal position against a brick wall.
The American Civil Liberties Union's National Prison Project is currentlyspearheading three class-action lawsuits against supermaxes in Illinois, Ohio,and Wisconsin. In the Wisconsin case, U.S. District Court Judge Barbara Crabbissued a preliminary ruling in October against the Supermax CorrectionalInstitute in Boscobel after hearing the testimony of various health experts,including Dr. Terry Kupers, a Berkeley psychiatrist and author of the book PrisonMadness. Kupers, who had been to Boscobel, told me that "there're a lot of crazypeople in here, and they need to be removed on an emergency basis because it'snot safe." In court, he testified that he had interviewed inmates who had beendiagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and who continued to hallucinate despitebeing given high doses of Thorazine.
Judge Crabb ordered prison authorities to remove five mentally ill inmatesfrom the facility immediately and to provide an independent mental-healthassessment to any inmate with symptoms of mental illness. "The conditions atSupermax are so severe and restrictive," Crabb wrote, "that they exacerbate thesymptoms that mentally ill inmates exhibit. Many of the severe conditions serveno legitimate penological interest; they can only be considered punishment forpunishment's sake." She also set a trial date in July 2002 to hear evidence onthe lawsuit's larger claim that the stringent conditions of confinement at thesupermax--the extreme isolation, extraordinary levels of surveillance, and tightrestrictions on personal property--constitute cruel and unusual punishment.
For advocates of prisoners' rights, this is the Holy Grail: a broad newreading of the Eighth Amendment that would prohibit supermax-styleincarceration. And a broad reading is warranted, they say, by the internationalconventions that the United States has signed--such as the International Covenanton Civil and Political Rights and the United Nations' Standard Minimum Rules forTreatment of Prisoners, which prohibit torture and regulate prison conditionsmuch more stringently than does U.S. case law. It's also a matter of humandecency, says attorney Jamie Fellner of Human Rights Watch. "The moral critiqueis this: Secure-housing units have been designed, at the best, with utterdisregard for human misery. At the worst, it's a deliberate use of human miseryfor deterrence and punishment."
Pending such a ruling, however, the filing of lawsuits provides virtually theonly public accountability for what goes on in the supermaxes. With the exceptionof the New York Correctional Association, there is no legislatively mandatedoversight agency watching the prisons--no civilian review board or independentombudsman--in any state with supermax facilities. And over the past few years, inresponse to a rash of critical media coverage and unfavorable reports byhuman-rights organizations, many prison authorities have stopped allowing outsideobservers to visit these prisons or interview their inmates. (In the past, I have visited supermax sites in California, Texas, and Illinois to report on them.For this article, only Connecticut opened its supermax doors to me; Arizona, NewJersey, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Virginia all refused to do so.) Says HumanRights Watch's Fellner: "It is incredible that it's sometimes easier to getaccess to prisons in closed regimes in third-world countries than it is in theU.S."
If nothing else, the lawsuits are keeping the human-rights questions on thetable. Supermax critics are also trying to call attention to the public costs,which are not just financial. Tens of thousands of inmates are now being held insupermax facilities, and almost all of them will be released one day. Indeed,many states are releasing such inmates directly from the SHUs to the streetsafter their sentence is up, without even reacclimatizing them to a socialenvironment.
Although no national tracking surveys of ex-supermax and ex-SHU inmates havebeen carried out, anecdotal evidence suggests that many prisoners have been mademore violent by their long-term spells of extreme deprivation and isolation.Bonnie Kerness of the AFSC talks about a whole new generation of cons coming outof supermax prisons with hair-trigger tempers. One former inmate at Rikers Islandjail in New York City, who now participates in a rehabilitation program run bythe Manhattan-based Fortune Society, recalls that prisoners routinely referred to"Bing monsters." (The Bing is the nickname for the Rikers Island version of theSHU.)
"The impact on society could be devastating," says Steve Rigg, a formercorrectional officer who worked at California's supermax prison in Corcoranduring the mid-1990s and blew the whistle on his fellow officers for organizingfights between rival prison-gang members. Corcoran's administration wasoverhauled after this, but Rigg warns that the underlying dangers inundermonitored supermaxes remain. "There's more [inmate] recidivism," he says ofSHUs. "They breed the worst."
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Sasha Abramsky
Sasha Abramsky is a senior fellow at Demos and a writer on social-justice issues.
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Mark Cuban Proposes Alternative to NBA Draft Lottery, Is It a Good Idea?
Mark Cuban was interviewed by CBC about the NBA Draft lottery, of which the Mavs owner is evidently not a fan. "I think it creates a race to the bottom," he said. "I think there's better alternatives. I know in the NBA I don't think it's gonna change anytime soon, but we've discussed having a slotting situation where rookies coming in would be free agents."
Under Cuban's alternative, the worst teams would have more budget to sign the best rookies, but those players would not be bound to whomever drafts them. Therefore, they could sign with better franchises, coaches, and teammates for less money. "I think that would cause teams to have to be better organizationally, and make the league better," he said.


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Louis Fürnberg, född 24 maj 1909 i Jihlava, död 23 juni 1957 i Weimar, var en tjeckisk-östtysk skriftställare, poet, journalist, kompositör och diplomat av judisk börd.

Han komponerade sången Lied der Partei, den officiella hymnen för det östtyska statsbärande partiet Tysklands socialistiska enhetsparti, SED.

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The unhurried side of music
The Songs of Will Oldham Cover Project
Damien Jurado Cover Project
Long May You Run, J. Tillman Revisited
Category: Best of 2013
Guest Post: Top Songs of 2013 according to Mr. Donovan Woods
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Donovan Woods, Canadian songwriter extraordinaire provides a list of songs that made his year. I think there is eleven.
slowcoustic 1 January, 2014 Best of 2013, Best of List, Guest Post
Slowcoustic Favourite Albums of 2013
Here it is! A random, mostly thought out selection of favourite musical albums of 2013 at Slowcoustic.
slowcoustic 8 December, 2013 Best of 2013, Best of List
Doc Feldman & the LD50 release 'Sundowning at the Station'
Remember the name: Doc Feldman & the LD50. Their "Best New Music/Best of 2013" album Sundowning at the Station is released today and you need it.
slowcoustic 17 July, 2013 Americana, Best New Music, Best of 2013, New Album, Video
What have I been listening to lately? Well, I am glad you asked…
It is a listening party with Damien Jurado, Night Beds, We/Or/Me, The Kindling and Small Sur!
slowcoustic 10 June, 2013 Best New Music, Best of 2013, Folk, New Album, Singer Songwriter, Video
Find your place at Frank Schweikhardt's Kitchen Table
New album from Frank Schweikhardt should be at the forefront of today. And tomorrow. And…
slowcoustic 14 May, 2013 Best New Music, Best of 2013, New Album, Singer Songwriter
New Album Giveaway – Kill County: "Dust In Wire"
You like vinyl? You like kick ass country-folk albums? Enter to win a copy of the latest Kill County album right here!
slowcoustic 22 April, 2013 Best of 2013, contest, New Album
You Should Know: Fred Woods
You Should Know: Fred Woods and his album Documenta. Why? Because this album is dark, beautiful and a complete package.
slowcoustic 5 April, 2013 Ambient, Best New Music, Best of 2013, Canadian, Folk, Singer Songwriter, Video
New Album Alert: Dust In Wire by Kill County, (pre-order now live)
New album from Kill County, Dust In Wire, has surfaced and is available for pre-order. Listen to the reason I started my 'Best of 2013' category!
slowcoustic 28 March, 2013 Alt-Country, Americana, Best of 2013, Folk, New Album
Donovan Woods performs "Sask" off of new album, Don't Get Too Grand
New video of "Sask" from Donovan Woods' new album Don't Get Too Grand.
slowcoustic 27 March, 2013 Best of 2013, Canadian, Singer Songwriter, Video
Best New Music: "Don't Get Too Grand" from Donovan Woods
New album from Donovan Woods, Don't Get Too Grand, finds itself as Best New Music!
slowcoustic 11 March, 2013 Best New Music, Best of 2013, Canadian, Folk, New Album, Singer Songwriter
Pickering Pick album (Tropic) released today!
New album (Tropic) from Pickering Pick is released on our Yer Bird Records label today. So, then let us take a listen in…
slowcoustic 15 January, 2013 Best New Music, Best of 2013, Folk, New Album, Singer Songwriter, Yer Bird Records
Night Beds opens pre-order, streams "Ramona". Slowcoustic starts a Best of 2013 overview…
So there is a pre-order available for Country Sleep from Night Beds that comes with the full album download a month early. Umm…done!
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Kill County launch Kickstarter for new album – Dust In Wire
New Kickstarter from Kill County is now live – help get this album out to the world. One of the 'Best of 2013' for sure!
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Fifteen games into his professional career, Isaiah Clark's career was put on hold. A knee injury forced the Brewers first-round pick to sit for the rest of that season - and the next.
"It was really the most terrible time of my life," Clark told The Milwaukee Journal in May 1986 of the surgeries and rehab. "I'd never had so many bad moments, so many downs. It really made me a mature person. I learned a lot."
Clark came back from that 1984 injury to play in six seasons, but they were seasons spent in the minors. Clark only got as high as AA, never making the majors.
Clark's career began that year in 1983, taken by the Brewers in the first round out of Crockett High School in Crockett, Texas.
Sent to rookie-league Paintsville, Clark played in just those 15 games, getting 10 hits in 57 at bats. Then came his knee injury.
Coming back nearly two years later, Clark played 1986 at single-A Beloit and rookie league Helena. He hit .277 with 12 home runs between them.
For 1987, Clark moved on to single-A Stockton. He hit just .230, with four home runs. It was his final full year with the Brewers system. He started 1988 back at single-A Beloit. Then, in May, the Brewers traded him to the Athletics, getting three players in return.
He played the rest of the season back in the California League at Modesto, hitting .265. Clark got two hits in one early June game, contributed to a run with a double in an August outing.
Clark moved on to the Padres system for 1989, playing at single-A Riverside. Clark finished out his career in 1990, with the Mariners. He started that season at single-A San Bernardino, finishing it with his only trip to AA at Williamsport.
While Clark never made the majors, two of his brothers did, Phil and Jerald Clark. Phil Clark played parts of five seasons in the majors, from 1992 to 1996. Jerald Clark played parts of seven, from 1988 to 1995.


For me, the release of Big Eyes, starring the eminently likable Amy Adams, is truly a "And now, the rest of the story..." moment, for the story of Margaret Keane and the waifs she painted and nearly lost as her own legacy help explain why big eyes to this day, as rendered by talented artists everywhere, do anything but simply evoke the ooohs and aaahs most commonly reserved for puppies and kittens.
Big eyes challenge the observer to "get" what the winsome sadness could possibly mean as kin to the art genre, Pop Surrealism, which is as dark as it is light, as morbid as it is sweet, as ugly as it is cute. In Keane's case, you can bet the subjugation she suffered played into the longing she imparted in the twin orbs of her subjects. Keane figures, made up as clowns, dressed in overalls, do indeed appear more simplistic to our 21st century eyes, having not borrowed from either dark irony or older, more classical story telling sources as do most Big Eye artists today, but they still are effective, despite the kitsch they touch on. Keane kids are eerie despite their greeting card presentation.
Those scores of sloe-eyed waifs represent Margaret Keane's more important role, that of godmother of the current Pop Surrealistic Art Movement genre commonly known as Big Eye Art. Sadly, Keane achieved all this while slave to the whims and charms of a cad she wed, a fake artiste who functioned as figurehead to Margaret's one-woman art industry. Arguably, buyers over the years have skewed the market to male artists, much in the same way too much to this day is still skewed, but Margaret at least fought back, which final battle is played out in the form of a paint-off in the courtroom, a wonderful scene that borrows from the greatest of story makers, reality.
In a sad, sad time where beauty and art default to back seat status in the global arena of news as regards cultures and their destructive expression, I thank Tim Burton for seeing fit to make a film that is equally about art and not giving up. And we are all in need of a reminder to look to art as a conduit for personal expression and societal connector, and that we must protect art so Mankind will have something not of destruction to look back upon. I as woman appreciate Margaret Keane's fighting on her own behalf, even if she was initially sidetracked by romantic love (how susceptible we all are!). She opened her own eyes and wide, fighting back when the fog of devotional delusion cleared. I likewise see this film's message as a chance to alert us to all artists and those who support them directly as patrons, for creators and dreamers must also eat and drink and pay their electric bills. When working into the wee hours of the morning, one needs to be able to keep the lights on.
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Save A Lot receives US$350m to accelerate business transformation plan
USA – Save A Lot, an American discount grocery store chain headquartered in Missouri, has received US$350 million in new capital to support the company's operations and acceleration of its transformation plan.
The company, which recently announced the successful completion of a comprehensive recapitalization of the business and significant deleveraging of the company's balance sheet, said that the financing was an important step in securing its long-term success.
The grocery store chain revealed that it had completed debt-for-equity and debt-for-debt exchanges that eliminated about US$500 million in debt and provided an infusion of US$350 million in new capital from a combination of new and existing lenders.
The refinancing is part of the Save A Lot's agreement with majority of its lenders that the retailer reached in January aimed at recapitalizing the business and deleveraging its balance sheet.
Under the previously announced terms of the agreement, Save A Lot was to receive US$138 million in new capital to strengthen the business and provide financial flexibility and benefit from a reduction of indebtedness of over US$400 million.
Kenneth McGrath, CEO of Save A Lot said that with the completion of the recapitalization, the retailer is moving forward with a substantially stronger financial foundation as it continues to execute its transformation plan
"Our ability to achieve this outcome through a fully consensual and out-of-court agreement is a significant achievement and reflects the confidence of our new owners and lenders in our business model and long-term growth prospects.
"We thank our vendors and retail partners for their trust and support throughout this process and we look forward to continuing to work closely with them into the future."
Save A Lot is owned by Canadian private-equity firm Onex Corporation and operates 14 distribution centers and has a retail network of more than 1,100 stores in 33 states, with the vast majority of the locations licensed by independent grocers.
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Russia's Putin is so powerful everyone is scared to tell him the truth
Russian President Vladimir Putin marks the Defender of the Fatheland Day in 2015 in central Moscow, Russia, with military officials surrounding him.
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President Vladimir Putin's immense power looks like it might now be a key weakness for the Russian leader, with those around him seemingly too scared to tell him the truth, or to question his rationale or strategy when it comes to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
"Putin systematically got rid of people who could have challenged him, leaving only the most loyal and fearful ones," Anton Barbashin, a Russian political analyst and editorial director of the journal Riddle, told CNBC on Thursday.
"Any autocrat or dictator, the longer he stays in power, eventually surrounds himself with people that are first loyal, and only then (even if so) are competent," he added.
"We have a fix for it — it is called the separation of power and office term limits, but Putin believed he could work around it. No one can. So we have both the nations of Ukraine, and to a lesser degree Russia, paying for it."
Newly declassified U.S. intelligence released on Wednesday suggested that Putin has not been given the whole truth about Russia's botched invasion of Ukraine and that the president feels misled by his military leaders who did not tell him key details about the war — which has not gone to plan with Russian forces bogged down in fighting in the north, east and south — because they feared angering him.
Barbashin said that while he was cautious about accepting the veracity of the U.S. intelligence update wholesale, it was likely that the information Putin receives — mostly coming from his security agencies or his own presidential administration — is biased and inaccurate.
Such information, Barbashin noted, "can and most likely is always manipulated by people around him."
"No one wants to deliver bad news and every agency that works for him wants to be the one that proves its value before him," he said. "We don't know what exactly is happening there. But clearly, judging by some noise … Putin is not happy with how war is going."
CNBC has contacted the Kremlin for a response to the intelligence report and is awaiting a response.
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a concert marking the eighth anniversary of Russia's annexation of Crimea from Ukraine at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow on March 18, 2022.
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Analysts say it's not just military commanders who are scared of Putin, and that it's a pervasive problem throughout Russian government circles, from the heights of Putin's inner circle to highly qualified civil servants who are scared to question the regime or the war in Ukraine.
"They're very much afraid — very much afraid," Vladimir Milov, a Russian opposition politician and former deputy energy minister, who now lives in Lithuania, told CNBC on Wednesday.
"Believe me, I have a lot of sources in the Russian government and nobody is actually supporting the war — maybe save for a few people in Putin's inner circle — nobody is supporting what Putin is doing."
"I would say that among government circles, support for what Putin is doing is near zero," he added.
When asked why many civil servants don't just quit their posts, Milov said most feel trapped and scared of the consequences.
"They have nowhere else to go. They will not be accepted in the West after essentially assisting Putin to launch the war, so most of them are really trapped and feel like they have no choice but to sit and wait."
Milov added that Russian government personnel have been "persecuted" to a larger extent than even opposition figures lately.
"Not a single day has passed where some deputy minister or some deputy governor [has not been] raided or arrested or so on. They're under 24/7 FSB security service surveillance, all of them, if they make one wrong move it's immediately reported and they could face, basically, jail time."
As the war in Ukraine enters its sixth week on Thursday, there is little sign of the invasion coming to a swift conclusion and every indication it is becoming a war of attrition, with each side trying to wear the other down.
Putin is widely believed to have expected Russian forces to easily occupy the country with the aim of unseating the Ukrainian government and installing a pro-Russian regime as Moscow looks to expand its sphere of influence over former Soviet states.
Russian forces in Ukraine have seen far more casualties than Moscow was expecting, analysts say. In this image, Ukrainian soldiers are salvaging equipment from the body of a dead Russian soldier after a Russian vehicle was destroyed by Ukrainian forces on March 3, 2022.
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Defense analysts have said that Russian troops were ill-prepared for the invasion but this may not have been communicated to Putin by military commanders eager to please, and reluctant to look incompetent — or indeed for the forces under their command to look incapable.
"We've seen Russian soldiers — short of weapons and morale — refusing to carry out orders, sabotaging their own equipment and even accidentally shooting down their own aircraft," Jeremy Fleming, the head of the U.K.'s cyber-intelligence agency GCHQ, said in a speech Thursday, stating that Putin "overestimated the abilities of his military to secure a rapid victory."
"And even though we believe Putin's advisors are afraid to tell him the truth, what's going on and the extent of these misjudgments must be crystal clear to the regime," he added.
No speaking truth to power
Experts are asking whether the invasion of Ukraine — which has had unintended consequences for Russia — could backfire spectacularly on Putin, leaving him vulnerable to an uprising at home, as living standards fall, or a coup led from within by members of his political and business elite.
Analysts note that there appears to be very little pressure on Putin to bring the war to an end, with little evidence that any members of Russia's political or business elite were mobilizing against the Ukraine war.
"Certainly Russia has suffered higher casualties than it expected … and certainly sanctions are more significant than Russia was counting on, but at the end of the day the Kremlin is insulated from much domestic political pressure," Christopher Miller, assistant professor of international history at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, told CNBC on Wednesday.
Whether these misjudgments have made him more vulnerable to a potential overthrow or coup is uncertain, however.
Putin is widely seen to have derived his power from protecting and enriching a business elite, as well as persecuting Russia's political opposition, among whom the most prominent figure is Alexei Navalny who was imprisoned on what are widely seen as trumped-up charges.
Putin is also said to be surrounded by "siloviki," or "strongmen," who were former colleagues of his in the KGB (the predecessor of the FSB, Russia's security service) or who come from the military and security services such as the GRU (the foreign military intelligence agency) or the FSO — the Federal Protective Service, a federal government agency believed to have around 50,000 personnel who are responsible for protecting high-ranking state officials, of course including the president.
As such, Putin is seen as having a cocoon of protection around him, making him virtually untouchable.
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Rebounding from chaos: trusting in young people and investing in their education
Prioritising education can help to build a brighter future. Here are students at Theirworld's Skills for Their Future programme, run by our partner BRAC at Temeke High School in Tanzania
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President, Theirworld and Executive Director, Global Business Coalition for Education
Justin van Fleet explains why 2022 needs to be the year when the world finally demonstrates its collective faith in and financial commitment to education. He is President of Theirworld and Executive Director of the Global Business Coalition for Education. Theirworld is celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2022.
A new year, but the same old fears. The latest variant of Covid-19 is rampaging around the world. Unequal vaccine access is underlining vast and growing inequities in wealth and basic services.
Global political tensions are high, as are threats to democracy and its institutions. The climate crisis continues unabated, with wildfires, floods and extreme weather continuing to affect everyday lives.
Yet amid all this turmoil, I continue to hold one strong belief that gives me hope not just for 2022, but the rest of the decade and beyond: that the passion of young people is an unstoppable force for creating a better world and that investing in this generation of young people is the key to unlocking that brighter future.
In communities and countries across the world, progress is being made, but this year we need to move much more quickly. 2022 must be the year when education truly takes off as a global issue capable of unlocking the solutions to our challenges and commanding the attention – and the investment – that it deserves.
Here are a few things that I can see happening – which indeed must happen – this year if we are truly to set the next generation up for success.
Early years education - a new global priority
Five years ago, calling for two free years of preschool seemed a dream. But more countries are realising the universal importance of investing in early childhood education and development for greater health, wealth and skills development.
Even in the US, where the Biden administration's signature "Build Back Better" plans are in peril, both Democrats and Republicans see the potential to pass a bipartisan early childhood education bill.
I foresee early childhood being a pillar of the United Nations Secretary-General's big education summit later this year – and an area for stronger collaboration between government, international organisations and the corporate world.
Happiness and Nila play at the Athens Comic Library Batyna Hub run by RTI. More countries realise how important early childhood education is
— Photo credit: Theirworld/Casia Anagnostopoulou
Building a health-education infrastructure
As Covid continues to test the strength of health and education systems, it is now universally clear that education, health and the economy are linked more than ever. Schools cannot reopen safely without vaccine equity, while there can be no return to a growing economy if schools are not up and running.
Look for further innovative partnerships between health and education systems to create more cohesive health and education ecosystems for communities, ranging from vaccines and school feeding to nutrition and mental health services.
Innovative finance for education - finally?
Any leader who wants to invest in building strong education systems should not be prevented from doing so by a lack of funding.
Compared to the successes in global health such as GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, the Global Fund for Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria, or the multi-billion-dollar funds combatting climate change, education has traditionally been unable to realise innovative ways of creating resources for strong public education systems at the global level.
Even some early innovation ideas conceived by the Education Commission have been adopted by climate change groups to support the very governments that might benefit from innovation in education finance.
With more countries facing a growing crisis of unsecured, high-risk debt, sustainable sources of guaranteed investment in education could prove even more attractive and necessary if the aim is to increase investment in the sector.
The International Finance Facility for Education is the only advanced concept to mobilise more resources for education from the international community alongside existing funds and to increase commitments from governments themselves.
With several donors already in line to back the fund, I see this as another big opportunity for the UN Secretary-General's education summit in September.
The power of local solutions and embracing new definitions of scale
Throughout the pandemic, we saw teachers and students on the frontlines of innovation, finding ways to deliver education and support one another.
At Theirworld, we recognised what was happening at ground level and introduced our new Innovation Awards to find promising community ideas and help take them to scale.
This year, I would like to see more trust put in local organisations to grow their efforts to improve education, alongside an increased understanding that scale is not only a matter of reaching more beneficiaries, but developing an idea to build deeper, more holistic solutions for young people in communities.
An example of this is the competition launched recently by the Global Business Coalition for Education in the US for Skills Friendly Cities, which is asking community organisations, city officials and business leaders to produce ideas to make their city more skills-friendly for young people and aims to create a community of innovative practice across the country.
Global Youth Ambassador Kehinde Odanye working with school students in Nigeria. We have 1,000 new GYAs at Theirworld
Change driven by youth
This cohort of young people is the most resilient we have ever seen. It has endured the pandemic to continue learning, sometimes against immense personal and family challenges.
We need to reward that resilience by demonstrating our belief in young people. I hope we start to see more of them involved in politics, non-profit leadership and start-ups and corporate boards.
This year at Theirworld we will redouble our efforts with our Global Youth Ambassador programme, which has just successfully brought 1,000 new campaigners into the network in less than a year.
There they will find the research, campaigning and networking opportunities needed to take their place on the frontlines of delivering change in education and their communities.
Finding strength through inclusion
The first quarter of 2022 will see a focus on inclusion, with the Global Disability Summit in Norway in February and the Winter Paralympics in China in March.
GBC-Education's disability task force will play its part by publishing a major report on how employers can support young people with disabilities to have a quality education and transition to a supportive and welcoming work environment.
It will also set forward actions to ensure how the talent and creativity young people with disabilities is proactively engaged by the business community.
Making ESG work for education
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) metrics are driving decision-making of corporate boards, consumers and investors. While the focus has been on environmental and governance practices and risks, the "S" element has yet to be fully harnessed, especially for education.
GBC-Education will be tackling this issue head-on with concrete opportunities for businesses to advance business and education goals while driving ESG ratings. This will be a growing space and contains a major opportunity for education.
Investment in education
For far too long, governments have though they could address big challenges without investing in education. But it's become even more clear that this is impossible if a population cannot read, write or possess the basic skills for effective participation in society and the workforce.
Education is key to solving every crucial issue - systemic inequality, climate change, racism, trust in democracy and institutions, and the pandemic that we have been living with for two years. Prioritising education will help us identify common bonds, develop long-lasting solutions and build a brighter future.
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