Learn more about the commemorative plate wall that ceramist Molly Hatch created for "Present Tense."
Published on Tuesday, October 11, 2016.
Molly Hatch with her plate installation, SCOPE, created for ACC's 2016 "Present Tense" conference.
After months of planning, we're excited to gather the craft field together at Kaneko in Omaha, Nebraska, this week for our national conference, "Present Tense."
One of the things we're especially looking forward to is seeing the commemorative plate wall installation created by ceramist Molly Hatch to recognize all of our conference supporters. Hatch used imagery from the ACC Library and Archives as inspiration for SCOPE, and we asked her to share a bit more with us about her process and the finished installation.
What was your process like for exploring the archives for inspiration?
I approached sourcing inspiration for SCOPE as I do most of my work. I typically research online, in museums and museum archives, as well as libraries for inspiration. In this case, I worked with the ACC to develop the concept and overall direction for the piece, which helped a lot in sourcing imagery in the ACC archives in Minneapolis. I spent an afternoon looking through the past catalogues from exhibitions, conferences, and the magazine to get a sense of the overall feeling of the history of the publications by the ACC.
What stood out and how did you decide?
It became clear that throughout the history of ACC publications, covers have been consistently graphic in nature, often a pattern or pattern reference was used. So I thought I would approach designing SCOPE to incorporate a selection of covers. I was excited to see how many worked well together in a linear way — creating a new composition from past covers. In the end, I unified the graphics by making the overall composition monochrome, the gold was something I added later, as I felt it needed one more element to complete and unify the composition.
What do you hope people take away from the finished installation?
A sense of unity despite material — that metaphorically the donors and active members and community that makes up the ACC are each integral parts to making up a whole. Without any single one of us, the composition isn't complete — yet each of use stand on our own as individuals within the whole. I am excited to reference the amazing ACC Library and Archives. It's an incredible resource that I hope more people will take advantage of. Finally, I hope that viewers see this as a celebration of the ACC and its past, present, and future.
I am continuing work in my studio as an artist making one-of-a-kind wall installations and also as a designer working to develop product. I am working on a large installation for the Newark Museum in New Jersey. That will be my largest installation to date with more than 500 plates in the installation. The piece will be on public view in summer of 2017.
What are you most looking forward to at the "Present Tense" conference?
I am most excited about the conversations in the community. I am curious about what is on our community's mind, how folks are doing, and what is happening out there in the American craft scene. I am entering the conference with excitement and an open mind!
See SCOPE in person at the "Present Tense" conference in Omaha, Nebraska, on October 13-15. ACC thanks Molly Hatch for her incredible work and Todd Merrill Studio for sponsoring her work of art.
Join us in Nebraska this fall for "Present Tense," the ACC's 12th national conference.


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Mark Kilstofte (born 1958) is an American composer, and professor at Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina, reared in Pueblo, Colorado.

Life
Kilstofte was trained as a singer at St. Olaf College and also studied conducting in addition to his compositional studies. He earned his doctorate at the University of Michigan. His primary composition teachers were William Albright, Leslie Bassett, William Bolcom and Eugene Kurtz.  Before coming to Furman, Kilstofe taught for two years at Wayne State University.

Kilstofte's works are characterized by a respect for, and a firm command of, earlier styles and compositional processes; and his work  often superimposes creative harmonic structures on lyric lines.  Kilstofte has received a number of prestigious compositional awards, including the Rome Prize, the Rudolf Nissim Award, the Goddard Lieberson Fellowship and the Charles Ives Scholarship, the Aaron Copland award (twice), the Francis and William Schuman Fellowship, and the Composers' Award for String Quartet.

His works include orchestral compositions, pieces for band/wind ensemble, chamber works, and choral compositions.  The music of Mark Kilstofte is published by the Newmatic Press, Boelke-Bomart, Inc., Gordon V. Thompson Music, Kjos Music Company, Roger Dean Publishing Company, and Equilibrium Recordings.  Some of his works have been recorded.

External links
Furman faculty biography
Greenville News, March 17, 2010.

American male classical composers
American classical composers
20th-century classical composers
1958 births
Living people
St. Olaf College alumni
University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance alumni
Furman University faculty
Wayne State University faculty
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20th-century American composers
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How to resolve the so-called "paradoxes" of quantum mechanics?
It might be helpful to read Lubos Motl.
Quantum mechanics also has a lot of serious weirdness wired into it that is not particularly paradoxical (and not at all controversial, with consequences that are pretty close to direct experimental observation, not hidden deep behind arcane statistical analysis of difficult experiments) just weird. Besides the famous example of things acting both like particles and waves, consider antimatter, and the Pauli exclusion principle.
AFAIK the "paradoxes" people like to fuss about generally aren't paradoxes, they are mostly people refusing to believe what the equations say, mostly unreasonably (i.e., in regimes where the experiments can be done and lo, turn out like the equations say) and occasionally sorta justifiably (in regimes where the equations simply break down into nonsense, as in the interaction between QM and cosmically cataclysmically superstrong gravitational fields, or in regimes where maybe the fundamnental equations don't break down but we still have great difficulty solving the equations very well, as in QCD).
The closest thing to an exception that I can think of is the paradoxes related to the "Einstein/Podolsky/Rosen paradox", in which the equations are conceptually hard to reconcile with Einstein's plausible intuition that information doesn't travel faster than the speed of light. That's not quite a paradox — Einstein's intuitions don't have to be right, they merely had a respectably good batting average — but at least worth poking around in very carefully. And so naturally, it has been done… The resolution is fairly typical quantum weirdness in that it is clearly mindblowing (more or less: the elves running the show conspire faster than light behind the scenes, while you in the audience still cannot take advantage of this behavior to send messages to other audience members faster than light) but unambiguously what the equations say and lo, what the (difficult) experiments turn out to say as well.
It is not unheard of for physics to be surprising or unintuitive once it gets away from the experiments that children can do with sticks and puddles and marbles and rubber bands. Admittedly uantum mechanics carries this to a new extreme, but even electromagnetism shows this pretty well, and even thermodynamics shows it a little bit. E.g., even though in hindsight the first and second laws of thermodynamics show up in everyday experience, they were not AFAIK foreshadowed by anyone's informal common sense. And the way that magnetic fields curve around electrical currents, while changing magnetic fields induce electrical currents, also seems to take people by surprise. And the way that Maxwell's equations accommodate magnetic monopoles on the same footing as electrically charged particles, but the universe just seems to have none of them anyway, seems at least as annoyingly unintuitive as the EPR paradox. But despite the traditional name for the EPR paradox, neither EPR nor missing monopoles are truly a paradox, and AFAICS there isn't anything to resolve, it's merely the universe flaunting its prerogative to behave in its own peculiar way regardless of whether that's what you might reasonably anticipate.
The blowup where fullblown general relativity (superstrong gravitation) meets QM is a real problem, but it's not a paradox, or at least it's not an idiomatic use of the word paradox. It's halfway closely analogous to the old "ultraviolet catastrophe" in the pre-quantum statistical mechanical analysis of black body radiation. The closely analogous half is that then as now, the equations blow up so badly in that regime that they really can't be right. The entirely unanalogous part is that experiments on the relevant regime for the ultraviolet catastrophe (both variants of black body emission, and other heat-and-EM-radiation experiments like the famous photoelectric effect) were straightforward to do on a tabletop with a reasonable budget, while the QM-vs-GR problems generally arise in "thought" experiments involving utterly insanely extreme conditions like the Big Bang (or, e.g., first procure two black holes heading toward a very near collision…) that are completely out of reach of current experimental tech.
Quantum mechanics isn't that surprising.
What's very surprising is that gyroscopes know which way to precess. How do they know the right-hand rule? They don't have hands, let alone brains.
Similarly, a wire loop with a current being driven by a Lenz's law type interaction both has a voltage and has no voltage. It must have a voltage, as current is being driven. W = V*A. It can't have a voltage, because the situation is rotationally symmetric, so the potential must be the same everywhere.
Faster than light travel or communications must be forbidden to preserve causality. FTL means no causality. And that is the issue for physicists.
Finally, it has been noted that Einstein's theory of General Relativity is the last flowering of classical physics, and that Einstein is the last great classical physicist. While General Relativity has been confirmed numerous times, it has to be pointed out that classical physics failed its tests, particularly in the case of the ultraviolet catastrophe. Quantum mechanics was developed in response to its failures.
Schantz, whose book I am currently reading (good Heinlein) is evidently a multi-worlds Bohmist (of pilot wave fame).
Causality strikes me as a human conceit, a demand to the universe that it make sense, an imposition of order where there is none.
The general idea of causality is that it is a mechanism whereby you are prevented from creating paradox by way of changing something when you travel in time, something you are bound to do when you set out to subvert the limitations of light's speed. Presumably, to do that, you will have to step outside the framework of our universe, and then return. Having done so, what makes anyone think that the return is going to be at the same point in time? Outside the framework, time is just another variable, and there is no reason you would automatically come back into the framework at the same point in time you left it.
Which puts causality into a bit of a quandary; how does it handle the new information your return represents? My guess is that we are going to find that it doesn't care–Go back in time, kill your grandfather, whatever; causality police are not going to chase you down and erase you. Too much work; instead, you are now severed from consequence because of that trip through whatever lies outside of spacetime, and represent a new reality where your murder of grandpa is immaterial to your actual existence. Grandpa's dead, and everything he contributed to making you is irrelevant, because for the purposes of causality, your existence in this frame wasn't brought about by your birth, but by your entrance into it from outside the current spacetime framework that causality works within.
Breaking the lightspeed rules will have consequences way past what we are thinking, and I suspect that our classic hard-and-fast view on causality will be one of them. And, of course, the scale of the thing is going to make it really hard for classic views on causality to work–Say that getting to Proxima requires traveling back in time a few thousand years, along with spanning the distance. How is "changing the past" going to affect anything here, at that remove?
I appreciate the interest in my fictional and scientific work. In real-life, I'm not a "Many-Worlds" proponent. It's merely a great fictional justification for an alternate history science fiction tale. There are, however, overlooked "hidden truths" in electromagnetics that could have been uncovered a century ago. You'll find a summary of my electromagnetic ideas in this blog post: Dirac's Big Mistake. Alternatively, here's a video lecture I presented at a conference a few years back.


Originally trained as a Landscape Architect at the University of Sheffield, Rowan has worked within the consultancy, charitable and private sectors both in the UK and abroad. Her experience stems from roles varying from strategic landscape planning, volunteer management, marketing and Corporate Social Responsibility. She has always been interested in how local people shape the communities they live, whether it be through practical engagement or ideas generation. She loves maps and her bike.
Adele has a wide experience in working with volunteers both in the UK and abroad as well as an extensive Customer Service background. While studying design in France, Adele worked in a landscape agency before creating her own kite company. She has always been interested in being part of events and activities in outdoor areas. She started working with volunteers when running community events and especially in China for the World Kite Championships. She moved to London in 2012 and has been caught in the excitement of the Olympic and Paralympic Games ever since.
Ian was born in Chile, grew up in Brazil, and has a Swiss Mother and British father. For over 35 years Ian worked in Aviation, arranging chartered flights for a range of customers and clients. This included helicopters, executive jets and up to Boeing 747s. The Olympic and Paralympic Games saw Ian join the Team London Ambassadors which marked the beginning of a career change working at the Green Park Pod. Like many others he was inspired by the volunteer movement and when the opportunity arose to become a Park Champion volunteer, he signed up and became a Team Leader. He has been an avid volunteer ever since which led to him joining the team as a Duty Manager. He continues to spend much of his spare time volunteering including within the Lee Valley, and on match days you'll often see him at Saracens Rugby matches.
Alison originally trained in hotel and catering management at Westminster College London and Oxford Polytechnic and more recently spent 5 years on the frontline as a GP receptionist. Having started volunteering at sporting events as a London 2012 Gamesmaker, she has continued to volunteer as a Park Champion and also as a London Ambassador for Team London. She is also a core volunteer at her local parkrun which encouraged her to start running. This has all contributed to her experience in customer service and has led to employment as Customer Services and Volunteer Duty Manager at the Park. In 2016 she went to Rio as a volunteer and she now also works for West Ham United Football Club as a Supporter Liaison Officer Area Supervisor on matchdays.


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ICE District: Episode 2: Districts that Shape the Future of Cities
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IMAGINE YOUR FUTURE AND SHAPE YOUR CITY!
FutureCite® has launched a series on FutureCite.com to cover cool communities and districts in all jurisdictions, and how they shape the way cities evolve and adapt to the digital transformation – where the human creativity of citizens, communities and companies play key roles in shaping future Living and Lifestyles in cities! We launched the first episodes in Edmonton – recognized as a resilient City (Eden Strategy Institute), and the top City in Canada for employment of Youth (Youthful Cities Index).
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SO WHAT MAKES THIS CITY'S DOWNTOWN CORE VIBRANT?
We look at ICE District and its 5 to 10 year vision – how it can continue to help shape the future of Edmonton's downtown.
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ICE DISTRICT
In FutureCite® IanO'Moments™ Sneak Preview 2.1 on Districts that Shape the Future of Cities, we continue our conversations with the people behind the scenes, and how ICE District continues to attract a new demographic of youth, families and empty nesters who are looking for walkability and easy access to the arts, entertainment, sports and food venues.
In Episode 2 Bob Black, EVP of the Katz Group (ICE District), and Ian O'Donnell walk us through what it takes to infuse new vibrancy in the livability and lifestyle buzz of the City's urban downtown for a new growing demographic.
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We also catch a quick commentaries from Jeremy Hayward, CEO of Salut on digital workforce talent, and Ritchie Lam, Co-CEO Westrich Pacific Group on residential for youth, boomers and yes families.
About ICE District
ICE District, also referred to as the Edmonton Arena District, is a $2.5 billion mixed-use sports and entertainment district being developed on 10 hectares of land in Downtown Edmonton, Alberta.
ICE District Joint Venture announced that Loblaws CityMarket™ will be the anchor tenant in Block BG of the District – formerly the old Greyhound terminal site in Edmonton.
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The store is slated to open in 2020, providing an urban concept grocery store for all food lovers alike.
Loblaws CityMarket™ will provide shoppers quality, fresh food and grocery items, including chef inspired grab 'n' go meals for lunch and dinner, and a wide selection of products to suit a variety of dietary needs.
Rogers Place Arena and ICE District development catalyzed a movement to revitalize the City's downtown, and spurred over $5 billion in current development – providing walkable pedestrian friendly access for residents and businesses to the arts, entertainment, sports and dining venues.
The planning and development of Ice District involved the collaboration of several key private sector companies, the City of Edmonton, and communities in the district.
When completed, ICE District will be Canada's largest mixed-use and entertainment district.
About Bob Black
Bob Black is Executive Vice-President of Edmonton Arena Corp, Chief Project Development Officer for the Oilers Entertainment Group, and directly represents Darryl Katz, one of Canada's most influential businesspersons, investors, and philanthropists. Bob was a senior partner with Alberta law firm of Brownlee LLP. In October 2009, Bob assumed the position of Executive Vice-President of Rexall Sports & Entertainment for the Katz Group, the parent company of Rexall Sports and Entertainment and the Edmonton Oilers. He has since assumed the roles of Executive Vice President of Edmonton Arena Corp and Chief Development Officer for the Oilers Entertainment Group. Bob was also lead in the rezoning and master planning of ICE District and leads a number of ongoing special projects relative to ICE District.
About Ian O'Donnell
Ian O'Donnell is the Executive Director of the Downtown Business Association for Edmonton Alberta, and brings with him his passion for building livable urban communities, and his experience as a project manager for architecture firm Manasc Isaac, and as a volunteer with the Downtown Edmonton Community League and other boards. Ian's passion arises from being a downtown resident, a community builder and the fearless leader of the Downtown Business Association. He wears many hats, and for his series, you will hear, see and feel the sounds, sights and visions of citizens, communities and companies going through the impact of the digital transformation – in how they will live at work and home, and how they will spend their leisure time.
About the Eden Strategy Institute
This fifth edition of the index analyzes the level of development of 165 cities from 80 countries, across nine dimensions considered key to being a smart, sustainable city: human capital (developing, attracting and nurturing talent), social cohesion (consensus among the different social groups in a city), economy, environment, governance, urban planning, international outreach, technology, and mobility and transportation (ease of movement and access to public services). The index is prepared by IESE Business School's Center for Globalization and Strategy under the direction of professors Pascual Berrone and Joan Enric Ricart.
About the Youthful Cities Canadian Index
Youthful Cities Canadian Urban Work Index —a report funded by RBC Future Launch. Youthful Cities said it used a "youth-driven" definition for work that included education, entrepreneurship, affordability and employment. Edmonton's greatest strength was its consistency in all four themes, according to the report.
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The artists are present at CRÉER DES PONTS!
Mark Hamilton is the community director for QueerMTL, an internationally-touring musician with his projects Woodpigeon and Frontperson and a graduate studies student of history researching LGBTQ+ activism in the city. He's lived in Montréal since 2015, during which time he's most often spotted atop a BIXI bike usally running a few minutes late.
Montréal is a city that lives and breathes art – between its world-class museums, murals and public installations, there's an eye-popping example of local expression around every corner. And this summer, Art Souterrain's CRÉER DES PONTS' 60 emerging artists-in-residence will create artworks throughout downtown Montréal, while simultaneously inviting the public into the process.
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Putting space to good use
CRÉER DES PONTS (or "building bridges" in English) brings arts to the street, through unique uses of space in downtown Montréal. Reconfiguring 30 vacant storefronts as artist ateliers, passersby will have the opportunity to observe the artists at work between July 15 and October 15, 2021. Working in a range of mediums, these artists-in-residence will create works for public display and installation, including viewings within 10 specially constructed exhibition cubes. Operating at the ground level, CRÉER DES PONTS aims at a rare meeting point between artist and audience, allowing interaction and mutual inspiration.
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Performance art on tap
CRÉER DES PONTS won't only present static artworks, but also includes an exciting schedule of 24 performance pieces to take place from July to October. Demonstrating Québec's rich history of public performance, these works will guide attendees through another method of remaining the city's landscape. With this focus on varied artforms, CRÉER DES PONTS both brings together some of the province's most exciting new artists as a united community, while also educating the public on the breadth and depth of the multidisciplinary arts worlds at work in Montréal.
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I have an Alt-Az mounted LX200R - 14" telescope. I use DSI Pro II for imaging. I am not sure that my settings when using Envisage are correct. The value that I should enter for the "correction gain" is confusing. I have the impression that when I set it to lower values ( 0.10 - 0.15 ) the quality of longer exposures are improving. Is it my imagination?
Another intriguing value is the "focal length". I know that my telescope's focal length is 3556mm. What happens when I use a f/3.3 focal reducer? Should I divide the focal length by 3.3 and modify the FL in mm ? Or should I leave it as it is?
The gain settings will vary for each scope.
So it is something you will have to play with to get the proper gain settings.
If your guide scope has a focal reducer on it calculate the mm for the focal reduction and set that to the mm in envisage.


Do you think things can never be too big? Well, good news for you! From now on, you can have your collages printed on canvas in an extra large size.
This increases the largest size for collage prints on canvas available at EasyCollage to 120 x 80 cm (3'11″ x 2'7.5′). Collage posters will still only available in sizes up to 80 x 60 cm (2'7.5″ x 1'11.5″) for now.
All basic collages - the ones where you can set your own layout - will now be available in this new largest size on canvas. For designer collage templates, the available sizes depend on the specific design. You can look up the available size options for the design you want in the collage creator.


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Gymnopedie sheet music (No.1)
A short history of Gymnopedie sheet music
Erik Satie Biography [Gymnopedie sheet music composer]
VIDEO PERFORMANCE of Gymnopédies sheet music below
The music name is a French name, which also refers to Trois Gymnopédies. The Gymnopedie sheet music was written by a well-known French pianist and music composer "Eric Leslie Satie." In my last post, i revealed a link to download Earfquake sheet music.
Best gymnopedie no 1 in pdf & video performance
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Download erik satie gymnopedie 1 music in pdf and mp3
Get the satie gymnopedie music score of Eric Satie
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The name of the song was originated from a French name, "Gynmopaedia." The title refers to the earliest Greek word for an annual celebration. This festival allowed young men to dance nude. Satie and his best friend, who also a French Critic and music Composer "Alexis Manuel." They decided to use the title "Gymnopedie" after concluded reading Gustave Flaubert's novel.
Éric Alfred Leslie Satie, who is professionally known as Erik Satie. He composed the music sheet of Gymnopedie, which the third and first were released in 1888. Erik was born in the year 1866 of May 17th and dead in 1925 of July 1st.
He was professionally known as a professional french pianist and music composer. He was born in northwestern France, "Honfleur." His father's name is Alfred Satie and Mother Jane Leslie.
Erik's family relocated to Paris when he was four years old, where his father "Alfred" was offered a new job in the state. At the age of six years, His mother "Jane Leslie" died in 1872. Erik and his brother"Conrad" was relocated back to Northwestern France to live with his grandparents.
Birth Name Éric Alfred Leslie Satie
Date of Birth 17th of May 1866
Date of Death 1st of July 1925 (59 years old)
Erik Satie Father's Name Alfred Satie
Erik Satie Mother's Name Jane Leslie
Erik Satie brother's Name Conrad Satie
Buried Area Cemetery in Arcueil
He started his music lesson with a local organist in the year 1878. His grandmother died when he was twelve years old. In the year 1880, Erik began his composition career with his stepmother.
Get the full sheet music with lyrics below:
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Editorials: Medical boards; and Should Dems run on race?
Striking physicians assemble in Panama City a few years back. That was an argument mainly about pay and benefits, but the doctors also worked and sometimes fought for years to get a professional licensing system with which they AND their patients could live. Now some legislator wants to change that and didn't even ask them about it? Big provocation. Archive photo by Kermit Nourse.
Dumbed down health care on the National Assembly's agenda?
Q: "Why couldn't Jesus get a license to raise the dead in Jerusalem?"
A: "'Cuz he got nailed on the boards."
A joke doctors' kids would tell on the Sunday school bus
way back when, especially around the time of Holy Week
The problem? As a PRD legislator from Colon, Mariano López, puts it: "Many doctors come out of the universities and are not permitted to become interns because they have to take an exam that some don't pass."
So now we are told that Law 43 of 2004, as amended in 2008 and with implementing regulations decreed after that, must give way some as yet unspecified bit so that those Panamanians who flunk the certification or recertification exams can get job in Panama's public and private health care system.
Panama's public and private health care systems have their problems, which are amenable to various solutions that might work. One of which is not eliminating or dumbing down the Technical Council of Health's certification exams. Demagoguery may be a specialty but it's not one of the healing professions.
Anyone with any knowledge of US society and history knows what it's all about — he's spouting racism to mobilize white voters in places and social strata that he figures would be important to get himself re-elected. The racist violence that he incites he will deny in one way or another. The question is how Democrats respond. Do we reject this stuff and defend our people, but mainly talk about what we would do for the country? Or do we make 2020 an identity politics election and focus mainly on the constituencies whom Trump has insulted?
Should Democrats run on race in 2020?
Really, it's a suggestion brought up by very few Democratic candidates or leaders. There are candidates touching issues like reparations for slavery, the fate of undocumented people who have been in the USA for years, past stands on issues like mass incarceration for drugs that have disproportionately affected racial minorities and whether association with Barack Obama insulates a candidate from hard questions.
But leave the outright racial appeals to Donald Trump and his party. Within the Democratic Party leave the unseemly assertion of identity politics to the most insecure and grasping of the apparatchiki who, like in 2016, are already calling dibs on hack jobs and consulting contracts, the spoils arising from victories yet to be won and far from assured.
The Democrats, however, have a large and talent-rich field of presidential primary candidates. Assurances will be given to constituencies with this or that identity that their members will not be short-changed or brushed off in order to play to the prejudices or demands of some other group deemed more important. But the questions around which Democrats' primary choices will be made and on which the campaign will be waged in the fall of 2020 are on their bottom lines economic. How does American confront ever more severe climate disasters – who gains what and who eats which losses? How does America fix the world's most expensive but far from the best health care system? Can America afford a tax system in which the rich hardly pay? Can America afford wars all over the place with no notion of what victory even is and certainly no end in sight? Can Americans have an education system that gives individuals the freedom and capacity to decide what to do with their lives and also gives the collective nation a well trained and creative talent pool that can compete in any sphere with any other nation?
Let Trump and his crowds hurl the racial insults. The would-be Democratic presidential nominees have their various homeland renovation plans.
Within the Democratic ranks, let those who play variations on the "I'm ____ – you owe me this nomination / job / contract / party leadership post" theme be quietly checked off as unqualified. But let's not eliminate anyone from consideration over some identity politics pecking order, either.
Yes, if you identify yourself as an Aryan nationalist, Democrats WILL dismiss you. Democrats reject all of those ugly hatreds. But the issue is America's future. Look for that in the upcoming debates.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
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Bear in mind…
Literature is huge — they can't fit her even into the Library of Congress, because she keeps not talking English.
Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away.
There can't be a republic in which the people are not secure in the exercise of their own faculties.
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Iran Trains Terrorists in Venezuela
Iran Trains Terrorists in Venezuela, Hides Behind Mercenaries
Drug-Money Laundering "Equal to the Budget of Some Countries"
by Anna Mahjar-Barducci
"Iran is trying to take advantage of the uprisings in the Arab world to spread its influence. The Kuwaiti daily Al-Seyassah reported that Tehran is recruiting and training Shiites from Gulf countries, such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain, which are oppose their Sunni-dominated regimes.
Iran is trying to push the Arab uprisings in countries with a Shiite population from anti-government protests to sectarian violence, with the aim of toppling Sunni-dominated regimes to have new governments under the Iran's influence. Saudi Arabia understands that sectarian violence could endanger Sunnis' rule, especially in countries like Bahrain which has a Shiite majority. In order to safeguard the borders of the Sunni-world, therefore, Saudi Arabia is deploying its troops in Bahrain to prevent the ousting of the Sunni regime there. The ultimate battlefield, though, between Shiites and Sunnis over the rule of the Muslim world will be in Iraq.
Tehran is already preparing for this scenario with the help of Latin American countries such as Venezuela. Al-Seyassah has published reports about Iranian training camps on the border between Venezuela and Colombia, where Shiites from the Arab world are taught to make bombs, carry out assassinations, kidnap people and transport hostages to other locations. These training camps are run by Iranian Revolutionary Guards in cooperation with Hezbollah and Hamas.
The newspaper reports that the Shiite trainees fly to Caracas via Damascus, probably on the Venezuelan airline Conviasa, which covers the Caracas-Damascus-Tehran route. The weekly Conviasa's flights to Tehran are a cause for concern in Washington, due to the lack of transparency about what or whom they might be transporting.. The Kuwaiti paper mentions as well the trainees' presence in Colombia. The Iranian government allegedly enjoys in Latin America the support of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of the Colombian group, the FARC, which derives its primary source of income from drug trafficking. It is not a coincidence, therefore, that Al-Seyassah mentions that Iran finances its militias through narco-trafficking.
Iran's support in Latin America should worry the US. The Iranian regime is expanding its ties and its influence in the US's backyard, and helping groups such as Hezbollah and Hamas finding new safe havens for their terrorist activities. Recently, Uruguay also showed strong interest in strengthening relations with Teheran. The Uruguayan Foreign Minister even went so far as to hail Iran's role in the promotion of human rights in the world.
From the Middle Eastern press:
Speaker of Venezuela's National Assembly: Islamic Revolution has influenced freedom-seeking movements in the world
"Iran's Revolution is a main symbol and role model"
Iran trains Kuwaiti, Bahraini and Saudi opposition in Venezuela
Hamas' support to Iran
Iran finances its militias through drug trafficking
Iranian FM: "Iran and Venezuela can complete each other's role in the Middle East and Latin America"
Uruguay resisted Bush's pressure over relations with Iran: Uruguayan FM
Uruguayan FM hails Iran's promotion of human rights
Iranian, Uruguayan Officials Urge Expansion of Bilateral Ties
Uruguay is seeking profound and strong relations with Tehran
Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution has deeply and strongly influenced independence and freedom-seeking movements in the world, the Speaker of Venezuela's National Assembly, Fernando Soto Rojas, stressed. The Venezuelan lawmaker raised the issue in a meeting with Tehran's Ambassador to Caracas, Abdolreza Mesri […]. Rojas described the Islamic Revolution as the most important independence-seeking move and development during the last 100 years.
"Iran's Revolution is a main symbol and role model for those nations that are seeking to get rid of the reign of imperialism to rely on their national power and potentials," he repeated. He further lauded Iran's economic and technical achievements, and the Iranian nation's resistance against the US expansionist policies and attitudes.
During the meeting, the Iranian diplomat pointed out that the two countries enjoy the needed capacities to further expand their bilateral ties; and underlined that Tehran is resolved to boost its relations with Venezuela in all fields. […] The strong and rapidly growing ties between Iran and Venezuela have raised eyebrows in the US and its western allies, as Tehran and Caracas have forged an alliance against the imperialist and colonialist powers and are striving hard to reinvigorate their relations with the other independent countries which pursue a line of policy independent from the US. Fars News Agency (Iran)
Iran's Revolutionary Guard is allegedly training a large number of Kuwaitis, Bahrainis and Saudis in a private training camp located in […] a remote area near the borders of Venezuela and Colombia, and intends to use them to carry out terrorist activities within their respective countries and other areas across the world in case Iran is attacked militarily, [Kuwaiti] Al-Seyassah daily quoted a reliable source as saying.
The trainees are first sent to the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, or the Colombian capital, Bogota, via Damascus; and from there, they are sent to the border region in cars, one of the militants who broke away from the Iranian group told the daily.
Hamas's support to Iran
Reportedly, the training camp is run by some Iranian intelligence officers and others affiliated to the Revolutionary Guard, in cooperation with Hezbollah and Hamas. The trainees were given courses in making bombs, carrying out assassinations, kidnapping people and transporting hostages to other locations.
The trainees have been instructed to act in case there is a war against Iran. According to the plan, all embassies of the Gulf countries, Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, and in Latin America were to be targeted. These bombings, however, will not be carried out by Iranian Shiites, but mercenaries from poorer countries like Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia, I addition to some other supporters from Hamas and other individuals, so that Iranian involvement will not even be suspected.
When asked about the financing of this militia, the source said the money Iran makes through drug trafficking, and that money laundering is equal to the budget of some countries. […] Arab Times Online
Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi and his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro stressed expansion of mutual ties. "Iran and Venezuela can complete each other's role in the Middle East and Latin America for sure," said Salehi in a meeting with Maduro in Tehran […]. Nicolas Maduro arrived in Tehran on Friday for talks with Iranian officials. Salehi then called for the international community to consider regional realities such as criticizing unfair policies and adoption of dual-track policy by the West on regional developments, and particularly on Libya and Bahrain. […] ISNA (Iran)
'Enemies cannot mar Iran-Ecuador ties'
Ecuador's National Assembly speaker says "the negative propaganda" by the enemies of Iran and Ecuador will not be able to harm Tehran-Quito ties. [Ecuador's National Assembly speaker] Fernando Cordero Cueva said that those who oppose close ties between Iran and Ecuador have launched a propaganda campaign aimed at marring the positive relations between the two states. "But this negative propaganda cannot prevent the expansion of ties between Iran and Ecuador," he was quoted as saying by Fars news agency […].
In February, the Iranian president, in a meeting with Cueva in Tehran, described Iran and Ecuador as two "revolutionary nations" seeking to achieve "lofty ideals." During that meeting, the Ecuadorian National Assembly speaker said the two countries are on the same front when it comes to fighting imperialism, and that Tehran and Quito follow common goals in the international arena. Press TV (Iran)
The Uruguayan foreign minister said that Uruguay resisted the pressure exerted by former U.S. President George W. Bush's administration to reduce ties with Iran. [Uruguayan FM] Luis Leonardo Almagro Lemes made the remarks during a meeting with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran […]
"After Bush delivered a speech against Iran in Uruguay, a U.S. delegation visited our country (to pressure it over its relations with Iran). But despite all efforts and pressure, Uruguay is seeking to promote its ties with independent governments and nations like Iran," Almagro stated. Although Iran is currently the target of criticism from certain Western countries, Montevideo is keen to promote its cooperation with Tehran, he added.
The foreign minister of Uruguay also hailed Iran's efforts to promote social justice and human rights. Ahmadinejad said, "The future belongs to independent and justice-seeking nations, so the two nations (Iran and Uruguay) will stand by each other forever." The two countries should promote their cooperation and utilize their great potential to help promote a new world order, he stated. Ahmadinejad added that both states are opposed to injustice and oppression, and that this has brought the Iranian and Uruguayan nations very close to one another. […] Tehran Times (Iran)
The Chairman of the Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, Alaoddin Boroujerdi, and Uruguay's visiting Foreign Minister. Luis Almagro, in a meeting here in Tehran […] called for the enhancement of ties and cooperation between the two states. At the meeting, Boroujerdi noted the two countries' growing relations, and said, "All conditions are present for taking long strides towards the expansion of relations between the two countries in the different political, parliamentary, economic and technical grounds." […] Almagro, for his part, attached much importance to the development of his country's relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran, and said that the increased exchange of visits between the two countries' officials indicates Tehran and Montevideo's political will for expanding ties in different political, trade, cultural and technical fields. […]
[…] Almagro met with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, where the Iranian chief executive underlined Tehran's resolve to further increase all-out cooperation with Montevideo. "Under such conditions that the oppressive order ruling the world is moving towards demise and the world needs a fair order, the two countries can have further cooperation with each other in various fields," Ahmadinejad said at the meeting.
Pointing to Iran and Uruguay's positive and constructive relations in recent years, he said, "All the existing potentials have not been utilized and the current conditions necessitate us to activate all our capacities in the interest of our nations."
During the meeting, Almagro referred to the positive and age-old relations between the two countries, and said that despite the pressures and an allegation raised against Iran by certain world powers, Uruguay is seeking profound and strong relations with Tehran. […] In January 2011, the Iranian president met with the visiting Speaker of Uruguay's House of Representative, Ivonne Passada, […] in Tehran. During Passada's Tehran visit, Iran and Uruguay signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on boosting parliamentary cooperation between the two states. Fars News Agency (Iran)"
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Q: Tricks to get reverse-order cumulative histogram in matplotlib I am wondering if there is a (better) trick to reverse a cumulative histogram in matplotlib.
Let's say I have some scores in the range of 0.0 to 1.0 where 1.0 is the best score. Now, I am interested to plot how many samples are above a certain score threshold.
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

d = np.random.normal(size=1000)
d = (d - d.min()) / (d.max() - d.min())

plt.hist(d, 50, histtype="stepfilled", alpha=.7)

By default, matplotlib would plot the cumulative histogram like with 'number of samples <= score'
plt.hist(d, 50, histtype="stepfilled", alpha=.7, cumulative=True)

What I acutally want is the cumulative histogram not show  'number of samples <= score' but  'number of samples >= score'
I could do it like this, but then how would I get rid of the "minus" sign on the x-axis?
plt.hist(d-1, 50, histtype="stepfilled", alpha=.7, cumulative=True)

Any better ideas?

A: Pretty sure you can just use cumulative=-1 in your function call:
plt.hist(d, 50, histtype="stepfilled", alpha=.7, cumulative=-1)

From the matplotlib hist() docs:

If cumulative evaluates to less than 0 (e.g., -1), the direction of accumulation is reversed.

Take a look at the third example image here; I think it does what you want.

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Days after announcing plans to host the upcoming G-7 summit at his private golf resort near Miami, President Donald Trump tweeted Sunday that he'd dropped the plan "based on both Media & Democrat Crazed and Irrational Hostility." Last week the White House touted the Trump National Doral Golf Club's virtues, while many officials in Washington cringed at how the executive decision would enrich the president.
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Prime Minister Saad Hariri has announced a package of reforms in the wake of Lebanon's biggest anti-government protests since 2005. On Sunday, hundreds of thousands of people across the country joined in the fourth day of demonstrations, initially sparked by a tax on messaging apps, with demands including the resignation of Hariri's government. The protests are seen as a reaction to a crumbling economy that seems to have had little effect on ruling elites. Among the slated reforms are huge pay cuts for officials.
Where could this lead? Officials have cautioned against the instability of a leadership vacuum, while the public dissent brings to mind 2011's Arab Spring protests — many of which were met with violent crackdowns.
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"We are at war." So said Chilean President Sebastián Piñera on national television yesterday, describing the violent clashes that have rocked his country in recent days. Protests over an increase in subway fares erupted two weeks ago but turned deadly over the weekend, when at least seven people were killed during arson attacks. Piñera said the state of emergency he enacted in the capital Santiago on Saturday would be extended to other cities.
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Social media posts that reportedly insulted the Prophet Muhammad spurred 20,000 Bangladeshi Muslims to protest Sunday in Borhanuddin, about 120 miles south of the capital, Dhaka. Police fired on demonstrators, who were said to be throwing rocks, killing four and injuring 50. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged restraint, claiming that a Hindu man's Facebook account was hacked to "spread lies."
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In one of the biggest such discoveries since the 19th century, Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities announced Saturday that archaeologists had uncovered 30 sealed wooden coffins containing perfectly preserved mummies near the city of Luxor, site of the ancient capital of Thebes. The coffins have been labeled the "cachette of the priests," since some of the mummies appear to have been priests buried around 3,000 years ago.
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Thanks to the film's now-famous dance scene, Instagrammers are flocking to a flight of stairs at the corner of Shakespeare and Jerome Avenues in the Bronx, where they're mimicking Joaquin Phoenix's cinematic villain. But locals warn that real-life larceny and bodily harm are risks that come with the authentic fire-escape-framed urban canyon. Meanwhile, Joker continued to make a killing at the box office this weekend.
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This workshop is designed for beginners and self-taught intermediates wanting to gain a much deeper insight into image organising and editing with Lightroom. You will be working on sample images, or your own if you prefer, in a small group. Your tutor Adrian is an Adobe Certified Expert and delivers training on photo editing and printing all over the country. He has a very engaging teaching style and is a very patient tutor so you will be in good hands.
If you are looking for a way to organise a growing collection of images and a tool that provides powerful and intuitive editing, Adobe Lightroom is your best choice. It's modestly priced and easy to use but most of all, it allows you to easily manage huge collections of images with ease. It can be used stand-alone or as part of Adobe's growing mobile system to allow sharing and editing on-the-run.
Despite Lightroom's ease of use, getting started with any new program can be daunting. So why not make it easy by joining us for a day packed full of help and advice. We will tune your set-up ready for the thousands of pictures you will be loading and editing over the years to come. By the end of the day you will be confidently importing images and performing a wide range of adjustments ready to export as high quality files for print, email or social media use.
• How Lightroom works and why it's different from other editors.
• Creating and understanding the catalogue.
• Importing your images and selecting the right options.
• Organising and finding your images.
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• We will fix blemishes and look at creating Black & White images.
• Finally, we will cover exporting your images to the highest quality for print, email and social media.
The group size is limited to 10 places to ensure that each participant receives plenty of help and support. You will need to bring your own computer loaded with your own copy of Lightroom. Each participant will receive their own detailed printed workbook so you will not have to write anything down, however it is a great place to take extra notes if desired. All the sample images will be provided on the day.
Adrian Beasley will be leading the class. Adrian has been teaching photography for 15 years and digital editing for 10 years with the UK's leading photo tours company. He is an Adobe Certified Expert and has been working with us here at the Joe Cornish Gallery for the last four years. Adrian has a deep understanding of the software with a patient and engaging teaching style, ideal for both beginners and more advanced pupils alike.


Open a teminal and copy/paste the command below into a terminal and you'll get a description of the alsa-tools-gui software which will include the lines relating to hdspconf and hdspmixer.
Note! the $ symbol is showing that your logged on as a user, you don't copy/paste the $ symbol. Just the text e.g.
[...] hdspconf - GUI program to control the Hammerfall HDSP Alsa Settings.
[...] hdspmixer - tool to control the advanced routing features of the RME Hammerfall DSP.
Install alsa-tools-gui ... (copy/paste) the commands below.
You'll be asked for your user password. type it and press enter.
You should see some text relating to your hardware and be presented with the hdspmixer gui.
You will also see the hdspmixer and hdspconf icons in your desktop user menu.
You can use these from now on to open the hdsp conf and mixer.
Or maybe just find that package in the software-center?
However getting to know the terminal and the basics of apt is something I'd recommend if your new to Debian/Ubuntu.
It will make it easy for you to copy/paste info about your system into text files or back here on the forum.
Debian/Ubuntu, Apt software really is a gem, once you get a little comfortable with it.
If you are new to unix/linux the secret is to take your time, there's no rush.
I like using nano for text editing with system files but gedit is cool for desktop notes.
This little tweak will help you a lot.
More info about your setup is needed.
What computer do you have?
Did you get hdspconf and hdspmixer installed ok?
Here's some more commands for you to checkout.
Sound information (post some output back here).
This is a nice tool for gathering info on Debian/Ubuntu systems.
Run lspci -n and paste the output into the box and press the 'Check' button.
Linux Mint and Ubuntu are built on a Debian Base. So all the commands will be fine.
When i'm not using music software I spend most of my time playing around in a terminal. Probably my favourite apps are the Terminal and Apt package manager. When I first installed Linux (2003) things were very different, most of the time a fresh install resulted in a failure to configure the graphics card, so the first boot up resulted in being dumped into a black screen with a flashing prompt, so using the command line was essential to get to a desktop. Things are very different today, Linux has moved on and improved tremendously.
Linux Mint is a beautiful desktop i have it on my laptop. If you want to get the most out of your soundcard a real-time or low-latency kernel is the way to go. I gave up building my own real-time kernels years ago as most of the studio distros install them as default.
Nice! Also you can install the ubuntustudio essentals on ubuntu based distros.
I tend to stick to the Long Term Support (LTS) version of ubuntu.
It really is difficult to help without knowing more about your computer and setup.
Copy text from the terminal simply by left click selecting it and left clicking directly into a text file.
There's no need to copy/paste in linux, simply select it and click where you want to paste it.
You can pipe the output of a command straight into a text file very easily using >> and then read the contents of the text file in the terminal by running cat.
Left click drag and highlight each command below then left click at the command prompt in the terminal.
The Terminal really is a time saver.
What make/model of computer ?
Thanks but I have also had problems with Ubuntu Studio, also there are too many different elements than Windows .. Unfortunately I have not found good .. I will return to the same Windows .. Thanks for the help.
You're welcome Maybe you'll try again at a later date.
While you're in install mode you could install windows then defragment the disk to compact files.
Then boot your live linux disk and create partitions for multibooting.
3 Partition for your files, projects and documents (shared Windows & Linux) Make this the largest partition!
If you install windows first, Linux will find your windows OS and your good to go.
This gives you the chance to play around with linux while you still have your windows system for studio use.
Keeping all projects and documents on partition 3 means you can reinstall at any time and keep your OS systems clean.
Most of the modern linux distros will find your windows OS without problems, so you can distrohop untill you find the one you like. Multibooting like this gives you the chance to slowly get to grips with linux at an enjoyable pace.
There are no official developments for Linux drivers? Why do not you develop them?


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I had a revelation over my winter break. My students need more time to share with each other what they are doing. That is why I love reading and writing workshop (this curriculum hasn't been implemented at my current job, but I have taught it in the past, and I am itching to get back to it!).
When student's share their work, they are able to articulate exactly what they are learning and doing at school. They also learn from each other. Better presentation skills, better listening skills, it just makes better learning.
One thing I am going to aim for during the second half of this school year is to give my students more time to share. It is something that easily gets forgotten in the hustle and bustle of getting every lesson in. I have a lot of instructional time since my school only has one 45 minute special class per day, time to take advantage!
Which is what I have started to do this first week back in school. My students are learning how to compliment each other's writing (the constructive criticism will come much later ^^), read in a clear voice, and talk about the details of their story and what they are going to write next. They are excited to share their stories too, I just absolutely love it.
What are some ways you have your students share their work? I bet there are so many creative ways from the younger students to the older elementary students. More posts to come on ways I get my students to share!


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Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings' final studio album, Soul of a Woman is a lush, orchestral masterpiece. A true testament to the life and career of Daptone's fearless leader and one of the world's greatest performers. In the year prior to her death from pancreatic cancer in 2016, Sharon Jones toured and performed tirelessly, and was also the subject of Miss Sharon Jones!, an acclaimed documentary by Oscar-Winning director Barbara Kopple. Yet somehow, the beloved and heroic soul singer found time to complete a studio album. Soul of a Woman features eleven songs which reveal that the emotion, dynamics, and drama of Jones' voice remained at full power until her final days.
The songs on Soul Of A Woman exemplify two distinct sides of the band s sound. Side One showcases the grittier, bluesier material like Matter Of Time and Sail On giving Sharon the room to flex her vocal prowess, creating a liveness that few studio albums posses. Side Two takes on a more sophisticated orchestral mood. Tracks like When I Saw Your Face and These Tears (No Longer For You), capture a soft vulnerability in Sharon's vocals that draws you deep inside, and yet they remain nuanced with the signature toughness that never allow you to forget she's steering the ship. The finished product is an album that captures a band and a singer at their peak.
Label: DAPTONE
Genre: R and B/Soul
Artist: Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
CD - Deluxe
1. Matter Of Time
2. Sail On!
3. Just Give Me Your Time
4. Come And Be A Winner
5. Rumors
6. Pass Me By
7. Searching For A New Day
8. These Tears (No Longer For You)
9. When I Saw Your Face
10. Girl! (You Got To Forgive Him)
11. Call On God


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import CachedTwitterService from './lib/cached-twitter-service'
import S3TweetRepository from './lib/s3-tweet-repository'
import EventSsmlConverter from './lib/event-ssml-converter'
import Alexa from 'alexa-sdk'
import moment from 'moment'
import bunyan from 'bunyan'
const log = bunyan.createLogger({name: 'alexa-skill'})
const ssmlConverter = new EventSsmlConverter()

const createApp = async () => {
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const currentClock = () => (process.env.CLOCK === 'NOW' ? moment() : moment(process.env.CLOCK)).utc().format()

const wrapErrorHandler = handlers => {
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const HELP_REPROMPT = 'What can I help you with?'
const STOP_MESSAGE = 'Goodbye!'

const getLatestEventMessage = async () => {
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const getRecentEventsMessage = async (duration) => {
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  },
  'GetLatestEventIntent': async function () {
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  },
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})

const handler = function (event, context, callback) {
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My son and I were looking up facts about WWII's Pacific Theater, because we had been talking about my father's service there. It is always a shock to re-encounter the scale of that war, especially the loss of lives, materiel, vehicles, vessels, labor, and natural resources. If you have ever been on a naval vessel you know the hard, heavy feel of it; the stench of diesel; the crammed-in purpose. They are being-dense vessels, and to think of the forces needed to destroy them is sobering.
I think we saw that 11 destroyers and five carriers alone were lost in that theater. When I pull up the Wiki page for US total ship and boat losses for the war, the numbers are staggering—hundreds of purpose-built craft, and all their sailors, lost forever. Yet somehow the world moved on after the war, including the families of those men and women. My feeling has been at times, even on leaving Hiroshima: What's the point, we can accommodate anything.
Facebook must have seen I was searching the topic. Today it fed me several WWII history posts. One of them was a color photo of Hitler with 13 Luftwaffe aces in dress uniforms, at his place in the Alps. The text points out that just eight of the men before Hitler were responsible for "1,486 aerial kills."
Someone left a comment on the site: "Are we trying to proudly spread positive images of the 'aces' of 1944 Nazi Germany visiting the Commander in Chief? Just reading the description of those Air Force officers and their 'accomplishments' makes me feel full of rancor and disgust. To me it smacks of cheap Julius Streicher propaganda."
I feel disgust too, at the photo, and some fear, and it is a relief to feel the emotion. Though some will say the men were warriors and were (obviously) good at their deadly work, as an American father I can too easily imagine my family living then, and my losing a son over some European field. The Nazi officers served evil, madness, the purest waste. I do not care if they were clever pilots, that they were decorated, or were thought to have honor. Imagine how their roles served to extend and expand that war, and how Hitler must have gloated. Imagine what might have been for the men they killed, and future generations that may have profited from those lives. I start to long for the time machine that would put me in their midst while they were gathered in one place.
The question has been on my mind since I was a soldier, then a student, corporate cube worker, teacher, writer: What system do I serve? Furthermore, how does it profit from me? And what do I gain—and others lose—by the association? When I see Americans in the streets, claiming allegiance with Nazis and other such movements, I am glad to still feel disgust.
Today would have been Emmet Till's 79th birthday. As you know, he was tortured and murdered at the age of 14, on a trip to see family in Mississippi, after a white woman claimed he accosted her in a grocery. She admitted later she lied about those details. His murderers were tried but acquitted. The jury knew they were guilty.
"This is what institutionalized racism looks like," human-rights attorney Scott Horton wrote on social media today, about the Till case. In one sense, he meant something very contemporary: What system do you serve?


Located in Goulburn Valley, Ky Country Roads Motor Inn is within a 5-minute drive of Edis Park and Kyabram Golf Course. This motel is 1.3 mi (2.1 km) from Kyabram Fauna Park.
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Daniel Gillies and Katharine McPhee Top Lifetime's The Lost Wife Of Robert Durst
Carissa Pavlica at May 22, 2017 3:22 pm .
Elijah may be dead (for now) on The Originals, but Daniel Gillies is still a busy man!
Gillies will be joining Scorpion's Katharine McPhee in the upcoming Lifetime movie titled The Lost Wife of Robert Durst.
Durst will be Durst against McPhee as his soon to be missing wife, Kathie.
If you're not aware of Robert Durst, you need to start Googling him now. He's an absolutely fascinating subject, a billionaire and heir who seemed to get away with multiple murders for years.
After an HBO documentary that captured the attention of the nation (seriously, where were you?) titled The Jinx, Durst was captured and finally expected to be held accountable for some of his past sins.
The movie is based on a book by Matt Birkbeck, A Deadly Secret: The Strange Disappearance of Kathie Durst" and centers on McPhee's titular character of Kathie.
Young and wide-eyed, Kathie fell in love with charming, yet quirky, real estate scion Robert Durst, only to find their marriage turning stranger, darker and more disturbing as time passes.
When Kathie vanished in 1982, her family and friends were deeply disturbed that her disappearance wasn't taken seriously by police.
After all these years, nothing is known about what happened to Kathie.
Durst is in jail awaiting trial for the murder of one of his closest friends, journalist Susan Berman. The evidence has always pointed to Durst, but he has either had alibis (since rescinded) or evaded capture for years.
The Jinx examined Durst's life and ability to ride out criminal culpability on several different crimes for most of his life, including those of Berman and his wife, Kathie.
Most shockingly, he was tried and acquitted for the murder of a neighbor who was also dismembered and tossed into plastic bags in the ocean while residing in Galveston, Texas.
During the filming of The Jinx when Durst supposedly didn't know he was still wearing a hot mic, he mumbled to himself about the predicament in which he found himself, eventually revealing to no one in particular, he "killed them all, of course."
That was the catalyst for the end of Durst's gallivanting around the country living like a pauper with the resources of a billionaire and with the non-verbal support of his family.
There was a time when Lifetime movies were nothing but camp, but now the camp has risen a level.
With Will Farrell and Kristin Wiig's movie, A Deadly Adoption, getting acclaim for the satire it brought with it (and even bringing Will Farrell to the ATX Television Festival this June) and now upping the ante with Robert Durst as a subject, Lifetime is getting a lot of things right.
Gillies has so much fun with so many topics on social media. I have a feeling he's going to bring a very interesting energy to his version of Robert Durst. I cannot wait to see how it plays out. Watch out, Katharine! I mean, Kathie...
Keep an eye on Lifetime movies you guys, they're going to be the talk of social media with The Lost Wife of Robert Durst, once again!!
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