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Queen Emily: Queen Bee
Having delivered her first solo performance at the tender age of five at her aunt�s church, Houston, Texas-born-and-raised Emily David - aka Queen Emily - finally came to belated national prominence after entering the 2008 auditions for top-rated TV talent show �America�s Got Talent�. All of which - following her making it to the final and ending up fifth - has ultimately resulted in this month�s release of her eagerly-anticipated self-titled debut album.
Released on veteran Jackson, Mississippi-based independent Malaco Records (home to the likes of Bobby Bland plus the now-sadly-deceased Johnnie Taylor and Z.Z. Hill, and today widely referred to as �The Last Soul Company�), �Queen Emily� finds a now-40-something Ms. David recording a mix of new compositions (like the pounding �Keep Gettin� Up�) alongside covers of such old skool soul gems as Bill Withers� funky �Use Me�; Dorothy Moore�s poignant �Angel In Your Arms�; and Johnnie Taylor�s emotive �Still Crazy� - all overseen A&R/production-wise by Malaco�s Tommy Couch, Jr. and Seventies Stax legend Frederick Knight.
Indeed, with Emily�s powerfully smouldering, downhome �soul woman� vocals having already been compared to Seventies Southern soul sirens like Dorothy Moore and Denise LaSalle, the album (released first in the UK) represents a fitting flagship release for Malaco�s current 40 Years Of Hits Anniversary - with its instrumentation coming courtesy of the legendary Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section. A collection of soul, R&B and country musicians based in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, whose line-up (including such �name� players as keyboardist Clayton Ivey; guitarist Jimmy Johnson; and drummer James Robertson) has over the years impressively played with such bona fide icons as Aretha Franklin, The Rolling Stones and Wilson Pickett.
All of which leads to �Blues & Soul� Assistant Editor Pete Lewis hooking up with a spirited and bubbly Queen Emily. Who enthusiastically discusses her aforementioned new album; her time on �America�s Got Talent�; plus how her now-thriving singing career was put on hold for years while she took time out to raise two daughters as a single mother.
PETE: What primarily did you want to achieve with your debut album �Queen Emily�?
EMILY: �Well, I knew that there weren�t too many people today singing this type of Southern soul that goes way back to the Seventies and Sixties. So I basically wanted to let people know that there ARE still some great soul singers out there and that they shouldn�t forget about this type of music. Because this is exactly the kinda music I grew UP with! You know, I remember running through the apartment with my mom sitting there with her friends, listening to Aretha Franklin, Bobby Bland, Z.Z. Hill� So yeah, the fact that that music is now coming out again, and that I�m the one that�s gonna have a lot to do with it bringing it back to the forefront, is a great FEELING! I mean, I recently did the Jools Holland show in London, where there were a lotta young people in the audience. And the fact they all thoroughly enjoyed what I was singing made me realise I�m definitely doing something right!�
PETE: The players on your album include the legendary Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section - who in the past have played with the likes of Aretha Franklin, The Rolling Stones, Wilson Pickett�
EMILY: �Well, the whole experience for me - in terms of being able to have these guys play behind me - was just PHENOMENAL! I mean, the fact that they�ve played for Aretha Franklin and other greats like Dorothy Moore was just a great FEELING! You know, the moment Malaco decided to call these gentlemen in was the moment I knew that this project was very special! Like when I first went in the studio and opened my mouth, Clayton Ivey - the keyboardist - was like �Wow! We have somebody in here that we don�t have to tune up! You have RAW TALENT!�.. You know, from the off he RECOGNISED that! And, though the fact that we were going through the songs so fast at first made me wonder if he was being impatient and just wanting to get it over with, what I later realised is that it was because he had CONFIDENCE in me and knew that I could do the project! It was like he was saying �We�re not gonna waste any time! This lady is great! Let�s just get TO it!�� And I really respected him for that.�
PETE: Equally interesting is the fact the album�s A&R/producers are Malaco Records� Tommy Couch, Jr. and Seventies Stax legend Frederick Knight�
EMILY: �Yeah, the fact that Tommy Couch specifically mentioned that I was very, very easy to work with was important to me. Because a lot of times in the studio I was tired. I was under a lotta pressure, because I was having to leave the studio and go straight to Vegas to join a show. And so we basically just did what we had to do. Then Frederick Knight also had the same attitude. You know, he was just a great guy - though we did record his songs a little differently, in that I had to sing the lines in exactly the way he told me to. So we�d do it like word-for-word, line-for-line; then we�d stop, and he�d be like �Can you sing this line right here like that?�... Which was very difficult for me. Because he was very firm and he didn�t play in the studio at ALL! He just got right down to business! But in the end I learnt a lot FROM him, and his songs came out sounding great... And fact that I was standing there with the man that wrote (1979 worldwide disco smash) �Ring My Bell� - a song I grew up with and that I�d been singing all my life - and he was writing songs for ME, was just a wonderful feeling!�
PETE: So let�s talk about your early background is the projects of Houston, Texas�
EMILY: �Well, I had a great childhood! You know, though we didn�t have much, my mother shielded us from a lot of the problems she was having and just allowed me and my sisters to have a great time as children. We went to the movies, we went to the swimming pool... I mean, while it�s not like that any more, when I was coming up there was a lot of LOVE in the projects - and I was very, very loved as a little girl. Like I can remember when I was in church, they�d put me up to sing - and I�d be so loud they�d have to take the MIC from me! But then - after I�d sung - somebody�d always come, take me by the hand, and sit me down in the church like I was something very, very precious! And at the time I was like �Why are they treating me like this? They�re not doing it to anybody ELSE!�� But looking back now I UNDERSTAND! I guess I WAS something precious!�
PETE: So when did you decide to pursue a career in music?
EMILY: �In school, any time there was anything going on with singing, I�d try to get INTO it. Like I was in the school choir, I entered talent contests - some I won, some I didn�t... But it wasn�t until 1999 - when I entered a competition in Houston, Texas and won a Sammy Davis, Jr. Award - that I began to take it very seriously as a career. You know, though a lotta people had seen it in me as a little girl, that was when I began to see it for myself and was like �Wow! I must really have something special!�... And so from there I began to pursue it as much as I could.�
PETE: So how did you then becoming a single parent with two daughters change your attitude towards your musical aspirations?
EMILY: �While I guess I could have pursued the singing thing while they were young, who knows what would have happened to them if I�d left them with someone else? You know, they�d probably have been abused. So I basically just said �OK, I can�t do both. My Children need a parent that�s gonna be in their life full-time�� So I just did what I had to do as a parent, and put the singing thing on the backburner - though I never put it out of my mind. It was always in my heart.�
PETE: Your dreams of a singing career then suffered a further set-back when you also become responsible for your two nephews�
EMILY: �Yeah, just when my daughters got to an age where I WAS able to get out and travel and do whatever I felt I needed to do, my sister came to visit me for a summer - and abandoned her children! You know, she just didn�t come back to get them! And so I was there with these young boys who were running away, behaving badly in school, fighting� And so a little bell went off in my head that said �If you wanna give these boys what you know they need, you�re gonna have to quit your JOB!�� So, because I had a theatre job in San Francisco at the time, I went to the supervisors, explained what was going on with my nephews, and told them I had to RESIGN! Everybody thought I was losing my mind - especially my daughters - because it was that job that had brought us out of poverty! But, because it involved staying sometimes until 12 at night and being gone all day, I knew I couldn�t just leave the boys home by themselves... So I resigned - and once again my music career got put on hold!�
PETE: So what was the story behind you then entering the 2008 auditions of �America�s Got Talent�?
EMILY: �One day I was flicking through the channels, and took a glance and was like �Hmm! Look at THAT show! There�s no age limit; you can have any talent you want; you can go on and show people what you HAVE! One of these days I�ll go on that show!�.. So then I got up, walked off, went away and did something else� But then later I started to look online to find out when the auditions would be - and ended up getting me, and one of my daughters, a Greyhound Bus ticket to go to Los Angeles for them... But then all of a sudden I got CHICKEN! I was like �This is gonna be another dead-end. Nothing�s gonna happen� - and I just changed my mind!.. But then my youngest daughter was like �Mom, do we already have the tickets?� - and when I said yes, she was like �Then we�re GOING!�!.. So, after me having encouraged my daughters all their lives, she turned it around and was the one who ended up encouraging ME to move forward, and to go on �America�s Got Talent�!�
PETE: You ended up in the final of �America�s Got Talent� and coming fifth. What was the experience like?
EMILY: �I was very emotional doing that show. For some reason, after all of the struggling and all of the trying and all of the other talent shows, I knew that that show - if I stuck with it - was gonna do something to my career that had never been done BEFORE! I just felt it all along - it was a feeling I had down deep on the inside� So I cried a lot, I was happy, I was full of joy� Because I knew that, even though it may be hard afterwards, this was �the one�!.. And sure enough, that�s how it turned OUT! It DID do something to my career that had never been done before! I got a RECORDING contract from that show!�
PETE: So how exactly did your current record deal with Jackson, Mississippi-based Malaco Records come about?
EMILY: �It was funny, because after �America�s Got Talent� I got calls from so many entertainment people - you know, Cirque Du Soleil called; people were calling wanting me to do movies... And I think around a year after the show, Tommy Couch from Malaco Records made a call to me out of the blue saying �We wanna record you, and we wanna give you a contract!�� And I was like �Get OUTTA here!� � You know, they had so much confidence in me, they signed me before even MEETING me! Like I signed the contract with Malaco talking to Tommy over the phone after he�d faxed it to me in Las Vegas! That�s how hard they wanted to sign me to the label!.. So yeah, it was great! And while for a minute - around maybe a year ago - I thought things were moving kinda slow and I started getting a little impatient, at the same time I thought to myself �Well, they didn�t sign me to the label for NOTHING! I�ll just have to be patient and WAIT!�� And sure enough, a year later things are definitely MOVING! I�ve been to London; I�ve been talking to a lot of great people like you� Plus they�re currently trying to work it out for me to perform on the BRITISH version of �America�s Got Talent� - which would be FANTASTIC!�
The digital EP �Queen Emily Sings� is released November 15. The album �Queen Emily� follows on November 22, both through Malaco Records
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The Israel Museum awards the first Shpilman International Prize
Posted by Nissan N. Perez on September 12, 2010 at 9:00
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, has selected artist Michal Heiman to receive the first Shpilman International Prize for Excellence in Photography. Created in partnership with the Israel Museum, the new biannual prize aims to catalyze and support international research projects exploring theoretical and practical issues in photography. Ms. Heiman was selected from a pool of thirty-five finalist candidates from nine countries by a jury of leaders in the field—including Peter Galassi, Chief Curator of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Marta Gili, Director of the Jeu de Paume, Paris. Ms. Heiman will receive $40,000 to support her newly conceived project investigating the contribution of art to psychoanalysis, and vice versa.
Michal Heiman (b. 1954) is one of the most prolific artists in Israel today, presenting exhibitions of photography, painting, installation, and video, drawing on her extensive research in the fields of psychology and philosophy. The Shpilman Prize will support new research exploring the interaction between art and psychoanalysis, concentrating on the role of photography and visual imagery as frequently used diagnostic tools. Ms. Heiman will follow steps of the creators of visual psychological tests and investigate aspects of photography—among them portraiture, stereoscope, and World War I documentary imagery—that influenced and were influenced by such tests and consequently her own work too. Ms. Heiman plans to build two test boxes, 'The Unthinkable I' – For the People of the 21st Century and 'The Unthinkable II' – The Archive of Simultaneous Movement, to be presented and "performed" in an exhibition that will conclude the project. The Israel Museum will also produce a publication documenting this work.
"Ms. Heiman's project is at once innovative and cross disciplinary. It is grounded in photography, but also touches upon psychology, sociology, and perception, with a solid theoretical basis and background,"
said Nissan N. Perez, Horace and Grace Goldsmith Senior Curator of the Israel Museum's Noel and Harriette Levine Department of Photography. "We are proud to recognize Ms. Heiman with this first Shpilman Prize, particularly because of the groundbreaking nature of her project."
Shpilman Prize submissions were reviewed by a pre-selection committee from the srael Museum to ensure that applications complied with the prize regulations and to assess the validity of the projects proposed. Seventeen applications were brought to the consideration of a jury of international experts in the field of photography, including, in addition to Mr. Perez:
Dr. Shlomo Lee Abrahmov (Yakum, Israel) – Artist, Researcher, and Lecturer, Holon Institute of Technology andShenkar College of Engineering and Design, representing the Shpilman family;
Mr. Peter Galassi (New York) – Chief Curator of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art; New York;
Ms. Marta Gili (Paris) – Director, Jeu de Paume;
Prof. Hanan Laskin (Tel Aviv) – Founder, Photography Department, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, and academic advisor to art schools and other cultural institutions in Israel.
"I have no doubt that the Shpilman Prize will be embraced as one of photography'smost distinguished honors, not least because it is designed to encourage newwork," said Peter Galassi, Chief Curator of Photography of The Museum of Modern Art. "It has an ideal home in the Department of Photographyof the Israel Museum, which has grown and been enrichednotably since the Museum's early years, under the direction of Senior CuratorNissan Perez, who so ably guided the jury process."
A lecturer and curator for the Bezalel Academy of Art and Designin Jerusalem,and the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Arts and the Advanced StudiesPsychotherapy Program at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Michal
Heiman's interdisciplinary practice includes installation, painting, photography, and video. Her work is often based on extensive research in the fields of psychology and philosophy and centers on the themes of psychoanalysis, clinical research, the history of art, politics, and the gender debate. Among her major works are the series Photo Rape (2003) and I was There (2005), as well as the video series Daughtertype (2006-2008) and Attacks on Linking (2003-2006). In 1997, Ms. Heiman represented Israel at Documenta X in Germany, where she first operated Michal Heiman Test (MHT) No. 1, arranged along the lines of the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)—a personality test used by psychologists in which viewers react to images presented in a box. Ms. Heiman continued her testing series with Michal Heiman Test (MHT) No. 2 – My Mother-in-Law – Test for Women, presented in France, Israel, and Japan. She is also recognized for her lectures on the British psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion (1897-1979) and on the French artists Claude Cahun, Christian Boltanski, and Sophie Calle.
Michal Heiman was nominated for the Shpilman Prize by Professor Hannah Naveh, Dean of The Faculty of Arts, Tel Aviv University.
The Shpilman International Prize for Excellence in Photography
Recognizing photography as a leading contemporary cultural medium, the Shpilman Prize was initiated by the Shpilman family and the Shpilman Art and Culture Foundation together with the Israel Museum with the joint objectives of stimulating, encouraging, and cultivating international research projects in photography and of broadening the range of photographic investigations which integrate theoretical issues with practical ones. The $40,000 prize is awarded by an international jury once every two years, resulting in a publication by the Israel Museum, and if suitable, an exhibition. Nominations for the 2012 prize will be accepted beginning October 1, 2011.
Prospective candidates include artists and scholars in photography with a proven record of past achievement who intend to undertake a research project of consequence in the field of photography. Candidates for the prize must be nominated by experienced professionals in art and/or photography affiliated with non-commercial artistic, cultural, or academic institutions. The projects submitted are reviewed and judged by an independent jury of internationally recognized experts. Prize regulations are available online at www.imj.org.il/shpilmanprize.
The Shpilman International Prize for Excellence in Photography is supported by an endowment gift of $1 million from the Shpilman Art and Culture Foundation, with the goal of expanding the core activities of the Museum's Noel and Harriette Levine Department of Photography. Mr. Shalom Shpilman, a philanthropist and businessman based in Tel Aviv, with a long-standing interest in the promotion of photographic scholarship and discovery has also recently founded the Shpilman Institute for Photography (SIP), dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of photographic knowledge.
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I have always thought that cheshbon hanefesh, literally a reckoning with one's own soul was a practice most appropriate at the beginning of Elul, the month that preceded Rosh Hashanah. To this end Rabbi Israel Salanter, founder of the nineteenth century Mussar revival, undertook a forty day period of silence annually, from the beginning of Elul, through Yom Kippur to review his past year's patterns of speech, to atone for wrongful speech and to recapture the awe and sacredness of each word uttered.
This type of introspection is appropriate of course all year long, but it is particularly poignant before Rosh Hashanah. In the same way a month before the summer begins many people go on crash diets, fearing how their bodies will look on the beach, so the month of Elul is figuratively the crash spiritual regiment that we can go on out of fear of how our souls might appear to God. This is a period of awe, not terror, infused with all of the promise that born out of the great compassion and love of God.
The last several years though I have become more and more convinced that a period of spiritual inventory taking and cleansing was even more appropriate from the mid point of the month of Adar through the middle of Nissan. Let's examine the reasons and possibilities of a pre-Passover discipline such as this, and then consider the process and ritual that might be undertaken.
First let's consider the two Shabbats that surround Purim, Shabbat Zachor and Shabbat Parah. Zachor (remember) is an exhortation not to forget Amelek the stealth enemy who attacked Israel's rear flank following our recent departure from Mitzrayim. Amelek is not only indicative of the many enemies that threaten us if we drop our guard, but is also symbolic of the sin and bad company that can overwhelm us and draw us away from Hashem if we fail to maintain constant vigilance. Shabbat Parah, which follows Purim, begins the preparation for Pesach.
Parah (literally cow) recalls the odd command to use the ashes of a Red Heifer for ritual purification, which is among the most enigmatic decrees in Torah. This is found in Numbers 19:1-22, the special maftir for Shabbat Parah. One could ask, why a red heifer in particular, or what is a red heifer (how red must a red heifer be), or most fundamentally why a she heifer rather than the usual male require for other sacrificial rites. I find this question the most fascinating. According to one tradition this is Israel's atonement for the Golden Calf, for just as a mother cleans up after her child, so the She – Heifer atones for the calf.
What Yochanon Ben Zakkai is indicating is that the purifying rite of the Red Heifer is not only enigmatic but also paradoxical. We read in this parasha that the water with the ashes of the Red Heifer purifies that which is defiled, but at the same time it defiles those who are involved in the process of preparation. To this theme the Talmud reflects that Torah forbids the drinking of blood, but an infant nurses from its mother, whose blood is transformed into milk as a source of life (Niddah 9a). This paradox can also be helpful while pondering that the holiest work of HaShem is not normally accomplished in one's own insular world of personal piety, but rather out in a world in need of help – recognizing that one may get a little dirty in the process. Though this might be the most enigmatic commandment in all of Torah, it is again a reminder of our need to separate ourselves from everything that might be destructive in our lives and walk carefully through life as we seek to do Hashem's work and be of help to others.
Next let's consider the preparation of our homes for Pesach. To properly rid our homes of chametz we must begin the process early and plan carefully. For a month prior we try to plan our meals carefully avoiding the purchase of larger quantities of prepared foods that we will have to discard. A week before Pesach we begin to gather unopened chametz for donation to food pantries and we package up more valuable food and drink for "sale" to our non-Jewish neighbors. All of this preparation is necessary so that we might be able to complete a thorough cleaning of chametz a few days prior to Erev Pesach when we perform bedikat. The point is that only through a long and methodical process are we able to search for the last of the chametz and recite with conviction a nullification of chametz.
Agreeing with our the tradition of our sages regarding the parallel between cleansing our homes of chametz and cleansing our lives of sin and bad associations, I would suggest that we undertake a similarly exhaustive regimen to prepare our souls prior to Pesach that we employ for our homes. The laws of removing chametz are elaborate and well defined. If we merely articulate our desire to remove sin from our lives without plan, process or ritual I am afraid that our best intentions might be set adrift in the Sea of Arbitrary. We cannot remove what we have not identified.
My recommendation is to begin a process of deliberate moral assessment a kind of spiritual bedikat chametz. Then when the search for both physical chametz and spiritual chametz is complete, recite a nullification of both, burning a written inventory of our moral shortcomings along with our household chametz. The question remains though, "how does one inventory character flaws and bad associations?" To do so we must know where to look. Flaws in character usually expose themselves in our relationships. So here are the steps that I would undertake in preparing for this unique search for spiritual chametz.
Make a list of relationships that in the past year have experience or created feelings of anger or anxiety. Include not only people but institutions as well.
Identify the exact nature of the problems or unsettled feelings in each relationship. For instance have you experienced resentment, shame, guilt or confusion? How have you felt threatened? Are there unhealthy patterns of activity, thoughts or associations in your life that you need to separate yourself from?
You may want to discuss this list with a trusted confidant, perhaps your chevruta, your spouse or your rabbi.
Song of Songs Rabba, an early Aramaic commentary that dates back to the Second Temple period, explains and augments the Divine voice stating compassionately, "My children, give me an opening of repentance no bigger than the eye of a needle, and I will widen it into an opening through which wagons and carriages will pass." Here the Holy One is pictured not as a harsh judge, rather as a loving father assisting His children who aspire to imitate his nature. The echoes of this statement can be heard in Yeshua's gentle admonition that, "It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." Certainly the Messiah was not advocating the self-inflicted poverty; rather he was suggesting a more God approved form of "bookkeeping", whereby we do not become weighted down by frivolity, self-sufficiency, false piety, base thoughts or unhealthy associations. By removing such excess inventory, we can become "lean and mean" making room for the "treasures of heaven, that can be achieved through the ethical standards of a Torah centered life.


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SuperValu has been accused of using the planning laws to "thwart competition", jeopardising employment, after the owner of one of the chain's supermarkets in a Cork town objected to proposals to expand a rival store across the road from his business.
Last month, Cork County Council had granted Lidl planning permission to demolish its existing 1,342 sq m store in Fermoy, and an adjacent 745 sq m unit that formerly operated as A Touch of Luxury, to make way for a new 2,167 sq m supermarket with ancillary off-licence and bakery.
On Monday, the Irish Examiner revealed the decision has been appealed to An Bord Pleanála by Michael Riordan — owner of the SuperValu supermarket directly across the road from the Lidl premises.
In his objection, Mr Riordan said the proposed development is not suitable for its Courthouse Rd setting, the main road into Fermoy from the east.
"This prominent gateway site demands a building of much higher quality and merit than is currently proposed," states Mr Riordan's submission.
Responding to the appeal, Lidl yesterday issued a statement in which it accused SuperValu of using planning law to target rival businesses.
"While the building design has been listed among its reasons for objecting, it is clear SuperValu is continuing to use the planning process as a delaying tactic to thwart competition and expansion plans that have been welcomed by local residents," states Lidl.
"The multimillion investment in the store rebuild will now be delayed by up to nine months while An Bord Pleanála's decision is awaited, resulting in undue delays to investment and employment in the local area.
"If approved, the development would create 100 jobs during the construction of the store in addition to a further 10 full-time retail jobs post completion.
Responding, Mr Riordan yesterday told the Irish Examiner that: "As a business owner who works and lives in Fermoy, I am fully supportive of the development of a thriving, sustainable community.
Riordan's has operated on Courthouse Rd since the 1980s, when it took over the former Top Hat dancehall premises. Lidl's store opened in 2001.


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EDRi's annual flagship event Privacy Camp took place yesterday, on 25 January, for the first time online. We hope many of you were able to attend and that you found the event just as inspirational as the in-person experience.
By EDRi · January 26, 2022
EDRi's annual flagship event Privacy Camp took place yesterday, on 25 January. Thanks to all of you who joined us to celebrate the 10th-anniversary edition of the conference.
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In this special anniversary edition of Privacy Camp 2022, we reflected on a decade of digital activism and thought together about the best ways to advance human rights in the digital age. #PrivacyCamp22 brought together close to 300 academics, activists and privacy experts who built on the lessons of the past and collectively articulated strategic ways forward for the promotion of everyone's digital rights.
All aspects of our lives have been subjected to rapid digitalisation, leading to the growing production of data in digital formats. In this context, corporate and government entities have gained unprecedented power. Internet services and digital technologies have developed within often inadequate and insufficient regulatory frameworks. As a result, many have been excluded from the benefits of the digitalisation process.
The digital rights field composition, organisational practices and methods have often left the people most affected by harmful uses of technologies outside of policy, advocacy or litigation work. This has resulted in siloed approaches to human rights in the digital age, or in overlooking the impact of digital infrastructure on marginalised groups and the planet itself.
During the event, we moved beyond empty calls to put 'the (undefined) human at the centre' into a genuine consideration of digital rights. We discussed why we need to stop data retention practices, how to include marginalised voices in the process of de-centering tech, and how AI-powered technology perpetrates harms in the criminal legal cycle. The panels explored the discriminatory practices embedded in the gig economy and migration control, the power dynamics between public and private data and tech dependency, and how collectives are challenging unequal power structures by working on alternatives such as a feminist internet, among others.
#PrivacyCamp22 in numbers
A total of 900 participants registered for the event. The event was led by 1 Mistress of Ceremonies, 16 moderators and 47 speakers who contributed to 13 panels and were representing 5 continents.
Since making the digital rights field diverse and representative was a priority, the line up of speakers at the event included women, non- binary people and people of colour bringing a variety of perspectives from different fields. Out of the total 63 speakers and moderators, 41 were women and non-binary people.
Thank you to everyone who sent us birthday wishes for Privacy Camp's 10th anniversary. We received over 100 messages from #PrivacyCamp fans. On Twitter, the #PrivacyCamp22 hashtag was used in 215 tweets with an approximate reach of 1.5M people, showing a growing interest in digital rights.
We would like to thank our co-organisers VUB's Law, Science, Technology & Society (LSTS) Research Group, Privacy Salon and the Institute for European Studies (IES) of Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles (USL-B) as well as the event funders epic.org, Kobler, EDPS, Nextcloud, NordVPN, Center for AI and Digital Policy, Clever cloud, Mysterium network, Vivaldi and Mojeek. We are grateful to all the session organisers, moderators, speakers and the audience, for making Privacy Camp 2022 a success. Finally we extend our gratitude to Senfcall for providing the infrastructure for the event to take place.
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Q: Continually updating value in textbox c# I'm doing some simple calculations within some textboxes after a number has been inputted. The code works fine if they are single digit numbers.
But it fails to run the calculations again if the number is two digits (10 and beyond for example).
I'm not sure if this is because of the TextChanged being used but any help would be great!
My code is:
private void textBox2_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
   if (textBox2.Text.Length == 0)
   {

   }
   else if (textBox4.Text.Length == 0)
   {
      percentage = Convert.ToDouble(textBox2.Text);
      percentage = double.Parse(textBox2.Text);
      percentage1 = percentage / 100;

      percentagecalc = percentage * total_loss;

      rate = percentagecalc / 0.5;
      rateString = System.Convert.ToString(rate);
      textBox4.Text = rateString;

      volume = rate * 0.5;
      volumeString = System.Convert.ToString(volume);
      textBox5.Text = volumeString;
   }
   if (textBox2.Text.Length == 0)
   {
      textBox4.Text = string.Empty;
      textBox5.Text = string.Empty;
   }
}

A: Check not by Length, but by means of TryParse:
private void textBox2_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e) {
  double p;

  if (double.TryParse(textBox2.Text, out p)) {
    // textBox2.Text has been changed and it contains double value - p
    percentage = p;

    percentage1 = percentage / 100;
    percentagecalc = percentage * total_loss;
    rate = percentagecalc / 0.5;

    rateString = System.Convert.ToString(rate);
    textBox4.Text = rateString;

    volume = rate * 0.5;
    volumeString = System.Convert.ToString(volume);
    textBox5.Text = volumeString;
  }
  else {
    // textBox2.Text has been changed, but it can't be treated as double
    // (it's empty or has some weird value like "bla-bla-bla")
    textBox4.Text = string.Empty;
    textBox5.Text = string.Empty;
  }
}

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Thomas, Michaels, Santa Cruz, Peres named All-Region
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Jakob Thomas was named ABCA/Rawlings NCAA Division All-West Region First Team, Nicholas Michaels was named to the second team, and Adam Santa Cruz and Christopher Peres were both named to the third team the American Baseball Coaches Association announced Tuesday.
The 2018 ABCA/Rawlings NCAA Div. III All-Region teams and Regional Players of the Year represent eight regions. The teams are voted on by members of the American Baseball Coaches Association and the process is led by the ABCA NCAA Div. III All-America Committee.
Thomas earns All-Region honors for the third straight season and first team honors for the second time. The La Verne Anthony P. Scafani Male Athlete of the Year award winner led the SCIAC with a .535 on-base percentage and .642 slugging percentage. He ranked third in the conference with four triples and finished in the top-10 with 37 RBI and 14 doubles. The graduate student added 49 hits, 54 doubles, and five home runs.
Michaels makes his way onto the All-Region list for the first time in his career. The senior capped off his time as a Leopard with the best performance of his career. He led the SCIAC in both RBI with 51 and triples with five, ranked second with 67 hits, and finished third with 18 doubles. The first baseman also finished in the top-10 in the SCIAC in slugging (.595) runs (40), batting average (.362)
Peres makes the All-Region list for the second season in a row. The junior was a force for the Leopards on the mound and at the plate. He led the SCIAC with nine saves and ranked third on La Verne's squad with 49 strikeouts. Offensively he added 22 RBI, 47 hits, and 33 runs.
Santa Cruz was a standout in his first season as a Leopard. The Victorville native led the Leopards and ranked second in the SCIAC with a .404 batting average and added 22 RBI, 44 hits, and 24 runs while leading La Verne behind the plate.
ABCA/Rawlings All-Region first-team selections are nominated for ABCA/Rawlings All-America honors. ABCA/Rawlings All-Americans will be announced on the evening of Thursday, May 24.
About the ABCA
The ABCA All-America team was first recognized in 1949 and now includes nine divisions. ABCA/Rawlings Gold Glove teams were first recognized in 2007.
The ABCA, founded in 1945, is the primary professional organization for baseball coaches at the amateur level. Its over 9,600 members represent all 50 states and 25 countries. Since its initial meeting of 27 college baseball coaches in June 1945, Association membership has broadened to include eight divisions: NCAA Division I, II and III, NAIA, NJCAA, Pacific Association Division, High School and Youth.
About Rawlings
Rawlings Sporting Goods Company, Inc. is an innovative manufacturer and marketer of sporting goods worldwide. Founded in 1887, Rawlings is an authentic global sports brand, trusted by generations of athletes of all skill levels.
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May 22, 2018 Thomas, Michaels, Santa Cruz, Peres named All-Region
May 11, 2018 Leopards recognized at Senior Blanket Awards
May 5, 2018 Baseball falls twice, eliminated from SCIAC Tournament
May 4, 2018 Baseball wins big in SCIAC Tournament opener
May 3, 2018 Baseball lands 6 on All-SCIAC teams
May 3, 2018 Baseball set for SCIAC Postseason Tournament
April 30, 2018 Michaels, Borden named SCIAC Athletes of the Week
April 28, 2018 Baseball wins SCIAC Chamiponship
April 27, 2018 Leopards beat Poets, stay in hunt for SCIAC title
April 21, 2018 Leopards split on the road, move into tie for 1st
April 20, 2018 Baseball rallies to beat Chapman
April 14, 2018 Baseball dominates Sagehens
April 13, 2018 Baseball takes game one at Pomona-Pitzer
April 9, 2018 Ligot, Phanomchai tabbed SCIAC Athletes of the Week
April 7, 2018 Thomas homers twice, Baseball wins at No. 15 Redlands
April 6, 2018 La Verne beats No. 15 Redlands in extra innings
April 2, 2018 Norman tabbed SCIAC Athlete of the Week
March 31, 2018 Norman deals, Leopards beat Oxy twice
March 30, 2018 Baseball falls short at Oxy
March 28, 2018 Michaels hits grand slam, Leopards beat Williams
March 24, 2018 Baseball beats Linfield twice
March 23, 2018 Baseball scores twice in 8th to beat Williams
March 18, 2018 Leopards earn win on Sunday
March 17, 2018 Baseball wins big twice
March 13, 2018 Baseball falls to Scarlet Raiders in 10th
March 12, 2018 Baseball beats Dickinson at home
March 11, 2018 Baseball falls to Endicott
March 9, 2018 Baseball beats No. 8 Centenary
March 5, 2018 Lee Kim, Thomas, Francis named SCIAC Athletes of the Week
March 4, 2018 Baseball overcomes five-run deficit to beat Stags
March 3, 2018 Baseball records 12 hits in big win over CMS
March 2, 2018 Baseball, Softball Games Postponed
February 24, 2018 Baseball sweeps Beavers
February 23, 2018 Baseball routs Caltech, 10-0
February 17, 2018 Baseball beats No. 2 Cal Lutheran, wins series
February 16, 2018 Leopards take down No. 2 Cal Lutheran in SCIAC Opener
February 9, 2018 Baseball falls to No. 16 Texas-Tyler on the road
February 8, 2018 Leopards drop opener to No. 16 Texas-Tyler
February 2, 2018 Baseball rolls in win over CETYS


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Maple Valley Dace's Rock 'n' More to go online with virtual music lessons
Dace's Rock 'n' More is going virtual with online music lessons.
By Kris Hill • November 2, 2012 8:00 am
Dace's Rock 'n' More is going virtual.
Music lessons will be offered online as will a library of instructional videos, both short stand alone clips on specific techniques or riffs as well as sequential, comprehensive series plus small class lessons using video chat services.
Founder of the non-profit music school Dace Anderson has produced a handful of videos for its website, www.rocknmore.org, while the first series which covers the first month of guitar lessons, will be online in December.
"Everything is more online for one thing," Anderson said. "We didn't want to be the only business that didn't have a good presence online."
Add to that the existence of a variety of useful video lessons online, Anderson said, he didn't want to lose business at either location in Maple Valley or Redmond.
Still, while there is a fair amount of video lessons out there, Anderson believes the teachers at Rock 'n' More could take it a step further, particularly with the comprehensive series of videos.
"We want to give people lessons that are higher quality than what we've seen online," Anderson said. "This is an opportunity for us to get in on the ground floor and make higher quality videos."
In essence, this will allow the school to offer a third location, a virtual school, so to speak with the added benefit of two brick and mortar locations for in-person help or support.
"We're covering all our bases," Anderson said. "If they're close and they want to come here, or if they're not close, then they can do individualized lessons online via Skype or FaceTime."
To start with, there's eight video lessons online that Anderson has recorded with the help of Arielle Young, a music teacher who helps Anderson with day-to-day running of the music school. That's just the beginning, though, as the plan is to offer a large category of short clips. Those videos are free but Anderson said the catalogue may eventually be offered as a subscription service.
Then there is the series concept. First up is, "Your First Month of Lessons." It will consist of exercises and videos of Anderson demonstrating those exercises, all the same lessons a student would get during the first month of learning guitar in person with Anderson.
Anderson said there are a number of larger subjects which could be covered in a video lesson series. Those will be produced and made available over the coming months. That offering will also set Rock 'n' More apart.
"You can't find anything like that right now," Anderson said. "The big idea is to be able to cover people whether they want to do in person or private or class lessons or online private or class lessons. Or if people just want to go online and mess around and learn different things. We want to have a business that caters to every different learning style, that has something for everybody."
There are some music schools, like Berklee College of Music in Ohio, which offers online courses but they're college level and, Anderson said, "pretty dry."
Anderson explained that the staff at Rock 'n' More wants to make the videos more entertaining than watching a guy sitting in his bedroom with a back drop of bare white walls while instructing on music technique in a monotone voice.
"I know exactly what I want to do," Anderson said. "It would be nice to get a bunch of money to do it right. There's nothing out there that really caters to the hobbyist."
Anderson said he is considering applying for grants to fund the project further so his vision of virtual music school in the Rock 'n' More mold of fun, accessible and laid back can become reality.
Another thing that would help is if people who are interested pre-ordered the first series online. It's $81 cheaper than a month of in-person lessons, Anderson said, which is ideal for anyone who wants to try it out without as much of an investment while having the option of taking lessons when it fits into their schedules.
"We'll hopefully sell enough of these to get started on the next phase," Anderson said. "Any time people can help us out, because we're a non-profit, it goes back into the community."
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 KTM's revolutionary fuel-injected 2-stroke technology coming this summer.
The Austrian manufacturer is well-known for its revolutionary advancements in technology and now the game-changer is finally here with fuel-injected 2-stroke Enduro models being launched as part of the 2018 EXC range. With KTM's unwavering commitment to being at the very forefront of off-road motorcycle sport, in which the orange brand has achieved many championship wins over the years, the latest, exciting development in technology has come to fruition.
It has been no secret that KTM's Research and Development department in Mattighofen, Austria has been developing fuel-injected 2-stroke technology, which offers considerable benefits over carbureted models including drastically reduced fuel consumption while also no-longer having the need to pre-mix fuel or alter a machines' jetting. What's more, the new fuel-injected 2-stroke models offer a completely new experience in terms of power delivery and rideability. As market leaders in this segment, KTM believes the new fuel-injected 2-stroke technology, known as TPI (Transfer Port Injection), is revolutionary. More information will be available during the international media launch, which begins on May 15, 2017.
Yes! This is the holy grail for hard-core offroad riders (except maybe an electric bike with batteries that last.) Using snowmobile experience as a guide, FI should give the bikes more power, about 40% better fuel mileage, and much less emissions. I love being able to fix a carb ith hand tools, but FI will make for much better bikes for us and for the planet.
Where are the Japanese brands? This is a nich that has been a pet pieve of mine for while. No 2 stroke Enduro. Waiting!


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Modern Pulp May 13 2010
Les yeux de la terreur had little going for it except Rachel Ward.
Les yeux de la terreur, aka, Terror Eyes is an unremarkable little thriller about a serial decapitator on a college campus. It isn't very scary, and it isn't very entertaining, despite its deliberate resemblance to classic Italian giallo. But opinions vary, and as you can see by looking at the above poster, it won the Jury Prize at the 1981 Avoriaz Film Festival, which goes to show that horror fans are so desperate for anything that resembles art they'll hear Edith Piaf in a victim's screams and see Jackson Pollack in his blood splatters. But one thing you don't have to look very hard for here is British bombshell Rachel Ward in her first film appearance. She would later star in the quirky but satisfying neo noir Sharky's Machine, the somewhat less satisfying noir rehash Against All Odds, the noir send-up Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, and the excellent modern Aussie noir After Dark My Sweet. That's a lot of noir, which is why she's a favorite actress around here. As a side note, she gave an interview a while back in which she confessed that as a result of aging a bit and losing some of her extraordinary physical beauty, she wished she'd done more nude scenes. Funny, we were thinking the same thing. Les yeux de la terreur—which would later become known in the U.S. not as Terror Eyes, but as Night School—premiered at Avoriaz in January, and in Paris today in 1981.
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Vintage Pulp Jun 26 2009
It's not easy eating Green.
When we wrote in our Planet of the Apes posting that Charlton Heston was capable of creating compelling film moments, his sci-fi mystery Soylent Green was the other film we had in mind. You see the French promo art above, and you'll notice this is another film that played at the Avoriaz Film Festival. The first screening was today in 1973, and though it was well-received, the film lost the Grand Prize to Steven Spielberg's made-for-television thriller Duel. Soylent Green's vision of the future may look a little retro now, but its depiction of smart business as bad morals remains relevant. It's also notable for being the last screen appearance of the legendary Edward G. Robinson, who died of cancer just three weeks after shooting ended. We recommend you check this one out. At the very least, it'll make you think twice next time you're in a crowd and someone starts making those mooing sounds.
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Modern Pulp Jan 21 2009
Hey, you wanna go for a ride?
When Blue Velvet opened in 1986 it received decidedly tepid notices from several high-profile reviewers, one of whom was aghast at the sexual humiliation endured by Isabella Rossellini. But it was clear David Lynch meant to shock, even if his totally nude wife was doing the shocking. His disturbing neo-noir freakshow went on to win a nice collection of festival and critic's awards, including the grand prize at France's now defunct Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival. Above you see the Avoriaz promo art. Blue Velvet premiered there in mid-January 1987, then went into wide release across France today.
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1950—The Great Brinks Robbery Occurs
In the U.S., eleven thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car company's offices in Boston, Massachusetts. The skillful execution of the crime, with only a bare minimum of clues left at the scene, results in the robbery being billed as "the crime of the century." Despite this, all the members of the gang are later arrested.
1977—Gary Gilmore Is Executed
Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed by a firing squad in Utah, ending a ten-year moratorium on Capital punishment in the United States. Gilmore's story is later turned into a 1979 novel entitled The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer, and the book wins the Pulitzer Prize for literature.
1942—Carole Lombard Dies in Plane Crash
American actress Carole Lombard, who was the highest paid star in Hollywood during the late 1930s, dies in the crash of TWA Flight 3, on which she was flying from Las Vegas to Los Angeles after headlining a war bond rally in support of America's military efforts. She was thirty-three years old.
1919—Luxemburg and Liebknecht Are Killed
Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps. Freikorps was a term applied to various paramilitary organizations that sprang up around Germany as soldiers returned in defeat from World War I. Members of these groups would later become prominent members of the SS.
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Most adults have experienced (or will experience) tooth decay at least once in their lives, largely because many of them don't understand it well enough to prevent it from forming. Fortunately, those who do develop tooth decay and the cavities that it causes have a variety of custom options for treating it. However, the damage that cavities cause is permanent, and to preserve a maximum amount of natural tooth structure, it matters to know how a tooth decays and what you can do to prevent it.
As the strongest parts of your body, your teeth are incredibly resilient, thanks in large part to the highly resilient enamel that surrounds them. Made almost entirely of mineral crystals (like calcium), enamel's main purpose is to protect your more vulnerable tooth structure, especially from harmful oral bacteria. However, when bacteria, plaque, and tartar overwhelm your teeth, the microbes produce acids that sap your teeth of the minerals they need to replenish enamel. Before long, acid attacks can create small holes in your tooth enamel, known as cavities, that grow larger as bacteria infect the main tooth structure with decay.
The best way to prevent tooth decay (and many other chronic dental health issues) is to properly control the buildup of oral bacteria. Brushing your teeth at least twice every day and flossing at least once can adequately control plaque buildup. Also, regular checkups and cleanings will give your dentist a chance to remove tartar and check for early signs of enamel erosion. If you do develop a cavity, then your dentist can help you stop it from growing larger by sanitizing the tooth and restoring it with a tooth-colored filling. In more severe cases of decay, root canal treatment may be necessary to fully restore the tooth.
If it's too late to prevent tooth decay, then let your dentist treat it before it's too late to save it all. To learn about your treatment options, schedule a consultation by calling Just Wright Dental in Corsicana, TX, today by calling (903) 225-2221.


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Earthquake damage on the after the Long Beach earthquake in 1933. The ground has cracked and ruptured in several areas, both paved and unpaved. There are road blocks on the highway.
St. Anthony Church, Long Beach, Cal.
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An exterior view of St. Anthony's Church building in ruins after the 1933 earthquake. The roof and the upper portions of the walls have caved in, and rubble surrounds the building.
Poly High School, Long Beach, Cal. after quake 3-10-33
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General conditions tributary to the town of Big Pine
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Compton Bank now open
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Thousand Oaks, CA - Officer Killed In California Bar Shooting Described As Hero
Published on: November 8, 2018 12:05 PM
This undated photo provided by the Ventura County Sheriff's Department shows Sheriff's Sgt. Ron Helus, who was killed Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018, in a deadly shooting at a country music bar in Thousand Oaks, Calif. (Ventura County Sheriff's Department via AP)
Thousand Oaks, CA - Friends are remembering sheriff's sergeant who was killed trying to stop a shooting rampage at a California bar as a "cop's cop" who didn't hesitate to run toward danger.
Ventura County sheriff's Sgt. Ron Helus died of gunshot wounds he suffered trying to stop gunman Ian David Long, who authorities say opened fire in a packed country music bar, killing 12 before police believe he turned the gun on himself Wednesday night.
Colleagues of Helus describe him as a friend and an exceptional man and officer.
"The fact that he was the first in the door doesn't surprise me at all," sheriff's Sgt. Eric Buschow said Thursday. "He's just one of those guys that wouldn't hesitate in a situation."
Helus was married with a grown son and took up fly fishing a few years ago, Buschow said. He loved fishing in the Sierra Nevada mountains with his son.
"He was just a great guy, a gentle soul," Buschow said. "Patient. Calm no matter what. When you call 911, he's one of the guys you want showing up."
He said Helus was on the SWAT team for much of his career and worked in narcotics and investigations.
"If you were a victim of a crime, you want him investigating the case," Buschow said. "He would go to the ends of the Earth to find a suspect. Just an awesome investigator."
He said he has no doubt Helus' tactics at the scene "were sound when he went in."
"But unfortunately, you go into the unknown, you know there's shots being fired, obviously the suspect was in there and ready for him," he said.
Sheriff Geoff Dean, who choked back tears while talking about Helus, said his friend had been talking to his wife when the shooting call came in.
"(He) said to her, 'Hey I got to go handle a call. I love you. I'll talk to you later,'" Dean said.
Dean said he has no doubt Helus and a California Highway Patrol officer who also was the first to respond "saved lives by going in there and engaging with the suspect."
He called Helus a hero.
"He went in there to save people and paid the ultimate price," he said.
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Hezbollah Presence Means Venezuela Is a Global Problem
Hezbollah supporters carry a banner showing Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah and Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez, top, during a Hezbollah "victory over Israel" rally, in Beirut's bombed-out suburbs, Lebanon, September 22, 2006. (Photo: Associated Press)
BY José R. Cárdenas|José R. Cárdenas
When federal prosecutors in New York unsealed an indictment against a former Venezuelan lawmaker in May 2020, it included the stunning charge that the accused, Adel El Zabayar, was part of conspiracy by the Nicolás Maduro regime to assist Middle Eastern terrorist groups Hezbollah and Hamas to commit attacks against the United States.
According to the indictment, El Zabayar is an active member of the Cártel de los Soles, a drug-trafficking syndicate tied directly to regime officials, including Maduro and Diosdado Cabello. (Both, incidentally, indicted by the U.S. in March 2020 on charges of drug trafficking, narcoterrorism, corruption, and money laundering.)
U.S. Navy Admiral Craig S. Faller, commander of U.S. Southern Command, testified in 2019 before a U.S. Senate panel that Iran's "proxy Lebanese Hezbollah maintains facilitation networks throughout the [Americas] that cache weapons and raise funds, often via drug trafficking and money laundering." (Photo: Getty Images/AFP)
Cabello said that the purpose was "to create a large terrorist cell capable of attacking United States interests on behalf of the Cártel de los Soles," according to the indictment.
It is about time that governments around the world recognize that the crisis in Venezuela is not just regional. It has dangerous global implications as well. To its credit, the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has been sounding the alarm on the presence of international terrorist groups such as Hezbollah attempting to exploit the Venezuela crisis to expand its reach and influence.
Speaking on the issue in February 2019, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo confirmed, "People don't recognize that Hezbollah has active cells. The Iranians are impacting the people of Venezuela and throughout South America […]. We have an obligation to take down that risk for America," he said. In another statement in June 2019, Pompeo said, "It is mostly a money-making enterprise. That is, it is designed to generate revenues for Hezbollah and its activities, which are largely conducted in the Middle East — to help them make payroll throughout the Middle East."
U.S. Navy Admiral Craig S. Faller, commander of U.S. Southern Command, testified in 2019 before a U.S. Senate panel, that Iran's "proxy Lebanese Hezbollah maintains facilitation networks throughout the [Americas] that cache weapons and raise funds, often via drug trafficking and money laundering."
A presence over decades
Hezbollah has maintained a presence in Latin America dating back to the 1980s. Hezbollah's criminal networks in Latin America allowed the group to finance itself, spread propaganda, recruit, and plan the horrific terrorist attacks against two Jewish targets in Argentina in the 1990s.
When Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rose to power in Iran in 2005 he immediately recognized the benefit in aligning with Venezuela's firebrand, anti-American populist Hugo Chávez for the purpose of sanctions evasion, terrorist financing, and ideological subversion. Caracas became an Iranian hub to launder money, acquire technology, and carry on a joint effort to undermine U.S. influence regionally and in the Middle East.
Where Iran goes, Hezbollah is sure to follow. It, in turn, exponentially expanded its criminal activities in the Americas, including drug trafficking, money laundering, and illicit smuggling. Margarita Island, for example, located off the coast of Venezuela, has established itself as a safe haven for Hezbollah operatives.
The extent of Hezbollah's expanding criminality in the Americas was revealed in 2008, when U.S. and Colombian forces took down an international cocaine smuggling and money laundering ring run by a Lebanese kingpin in Bogotá. "The profits from the sales of drugs went to finance Hezbollah," said Gladys Sánchez, Colombia's lead investigator, to the Los Angeles Times.
When Chávez succumbed to cancer in 2013, Ahmadinejad hailed him as a "martyr" and declared a day of national mourning in Iran. But with Chávez gone and Ahmadinejad no longer in power, the Venezuela-Iran-Hezbollah nexus has hardly withered; it has only grown and consolidated.
Tehran to Maduro's rescue
With U.S. sanctions now targeting the regime of Chávez's handpicked successor, Nicolás Maduro, it is now Tehran that is coming to the Venezuelan regime's rescue, with diplomatic and financial support.
Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez, right, talks to the media next to his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during an agreement signing ceremony at Miraflores Palace in Caracas January 9, 2012. When Ahmadinejad rose to power in Iran in 2005 he immediately recognized the benefit in aligning with Venezuela's anti-American populist Chávez for the purpose of sanctions evasion, terrorist financing, and ideological subversion. (Photo: Reuters)
In January 2019, Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami led a delegation to attend Maduro's tainted inauguration ceremony following his disputed re-election in May 2018 (it was this fraudulent event that allowed Guaidó, president of the National Assembly, to assume the interim presidency).
During the visit, Hatami reportedly discussed expanding cooperation and "security issues." In April 2019, Maduro's Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza toured the Middle East, seeking to break Venezuela's regional isolation by visiting Iranian allies in Syria and Lebanon. Local media reports stated he was also meeting with Hezbollah's Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah. In recent months, however, a fuller — and more troubling picture — has revealed itself through U.S. media reports.
In May 2019, The New York Times obtained a cache of internal Venezuelan intelligence documents cataloguing the deep connections between one of Maduro's closest confidents, Tareck El Aissami, and transnational organized crime networks, including Hezbollah.
El Aissami, the former vice president and now Maduro's oil minister — he was indicted in March 2019 in a U.S. federal court and sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department in 2017 for narcotics trafficking — has long-standing ties to Hezbollah.
The documents obtained by The New York Times include testimony accusing El Aissami and his father, a Syrian immigrant who worked with Hezbollah on return visits to his country, of recruiting Hezbollah members to help expand spying and drug trafficking networks in the region.
Informants told intelligence agents that El Aissami's father was involved in a plan to train Hezbollah members in Venezuela, "with the aim of expanding intelligence networks throughout Latin America and at the same time working in drug trafficking." El Aissami aided the effort by using his authority over residency permits to issue official documents to Hezbollah militants, enabling them to stay in the country.
In June 2019, in an exclusive interview with The Washington Post, Maduro's former director of the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (SEBIN, in Spanish), Venezuelan Army Major General Manuel Ricardo Cristopher Figuera said he saw intelligence reports indicating that Hezbollah had operations in the Venezuelan cities of Maracay, Nueva Esparta, and Caracas, apparently aimed at illicit business activities to help finance operations in the Middle East. Figuera learned those issues, like official involvement in narcotrafficking and the presence of Colombian armed groups in Venezuela, "were not to be touched."
Slowly, but surely, the United States is uncovering the layers of Hezbollah's illicit activities in Venezuela. When the U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned individuals in the Maduro regime's notoriously corrupt food-subsidy program, the Local Supply and Production Committees, better known as CLAP, it named Colombian Alex Nain Saab Moran as the ringleader of a sophisticated network of shell companies, business partners, and family members that laundered hundreds of millions of dollars in illicit profits around the world.
According to an October 2018 report in Colombia's El Tiempo, investigators suspect there is a Hezbollah connection to this corrupt web. Sayari, a U.S.-based company that scours the web to identify corruption and bad actors in emerging markets, discovered six companies registered in Lebanon with names similar to known CLAP intermediaries. Sayari believes the companies are likely linked to several Hong Kong and Panama-based entities that are known intermediaries for the CLAP program.
Illicit mining
Another sector where Hezbollah is reportedly extending its reach is in Venezuela's illicit mining sector. Due to its chronic shortage of foreign exchange, the Maduro regime has begun plundering the country's vast stores of gold reserves, resulting in devastating consequences for the environment. In early 2019, opposition lawmaker Américo De Grazia charged that Hezbollah had set up shop in the Orinoco Mining Arc, exploiting gold mines.
In early December, Vanessa Neumann, ambassador to the United Kingdom for Guaidó, repeated the charge, stating that Hezbollah is profiting from illegal gold mining, and then transferring the gold to Turkey and Iran.
According to the U.S. Treasury Department, Saab, in cahoots with the sanctioned El Aissami, is a key figure in liquidating gold and converting it into foreign currency. Turkish entities would purchase gold, after it was flown to the United Arab Emirates and Turkey, from the Maduro regime, depositing the money into accounts in Turkey, which in turn would transfer funds to an account the Central Bank of Venezuela held in Turkey.
A global problem
The fact that a transnational terrorist group like Hezbollah is using Venezuela's desperate straits to strengthen its operational capabilities means that the problem is not only regional, but global as well. Governments that believe in a secure and stable rules-based international order — such as the European Union and other large democracies such as India — need to join the Lima Group of Latin America governments (plus Canada) and the United States in implementing more robust action against the Maduro regime. They also need to pressure Maduro's enablers in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana to withdraw their support from that criminal regime.
The stakes are high. Venezuela is no longer just a regional migration problem. It is a consolidating hub for transnational organized crime and the potential source for terrorist activities against the United States-Colombia and in the Middle East. The time for diplomatic admonitions is over; it's time for concerted action in the way of increased global sanctions and even more aggressive law enforcement activities to mitigate this threat.
*Jose Cardenas served in several senior foreign policy positions during the George W. Bush administration, with a focus on Latin America and the Caribbean.
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My wife Valarie and I flew to Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon, during January 2019 to attend the wedding of our friend Bruce Shadorf and Nga. Bruce had mentioned his friend Alex multiple times over the years.
We finally met Chef Alex (Alejandro Torres Palacios) at the wedding. He and his Vietnamese girlfriend sat next to us at the wedding. We became instant friends as he shared many stories with us, most revolving around food. He learned at an early age to cook in Mexico. By age 16, he had ended up in the United States. He started as a dish washer in a Seattle restaurant. He became a chef by using his love of reading and an insatiable desire to learn all things culinary. He said as a dish washer in the kitchen he would study the cooks and say he could do that. Before long he started cooking various foods in the kitchen. He enrolled in culinary school once he knew he liked cooking. He worked tirelessly simultaneously going to school and cooking in restaurants. His hunger to learn more about food never wavered.
Alex invited us to Rico Taco to try his cooking. His culinary skills were spot on and every dish was alive with flavor and danced around your tongue. We started with his handmade corn chips and salsa. He was quick to tell us about the corn chips how he made the flour from Vietnamese corn.
He explained how cooking in a restaurant setting, almost every decision is a business decision. To keep costs low, he must substitute local ingredients to arrive at Mexican flavors. To import his flour and Mexican chilies, it would be cost prohibitive resulting in less business from the higher prices. He was very clear on his business model in the restaurant. He has to add items that appeal to other customers that may not be accustomed to true Mexican dishes. An example of this is his Mexican lasagna. He explained how he builds and layers the dish with Mexican ingredients, but the final dish is something more comparable to a dish a customer may have experienced before. He slowly builds up their culinary experiences if they are new to Mexican cooking.
The next dish we enjoyed was the chorizo and scrambled egg burrito. The flavors were spicy and sweet balanced with fresh avocado. The burrito was perfectly shaped and presented. He sat and talked with us the entire time our food was be prepared. He explained how learning to cook in large 300 seat restaurants he learned to build each dish around a system. He can now tell by feedback from the customer where the breakdown was in the dish. His current staff of cooks are trained on a system and each dish is prepared the same way. He said he spends the necessary time to get each dish correct by all those involved in the cooking process. Once they now the process, he can work "on" the business instead of completely "in" the business. Using this approach, he is able to work his way around the restaurant talking with customers.
We finished our lunch with a taco platter containing fish( sea bass) tacos, steak tacos, pork tacos and chicken tacos. Each taco was unique in flavor and completely balanced. My favorite taco was the fish taco with a beautiful mango corn salsa. Everything that came from the kitchen was thoughtfully designed and prepared. They were all served with burnt salsa which is similar to traditional tomato based salsa, but with a much more complex and smokey flavor. Interestingly, he explained he uses a blend of 6 local Asian chilies to arrive at that flavor. Once again, the business model challenged his skills as a chef to come up with an elegant solution by substituting local ingredients.
The flavors coming out of Rico Taco are closer to his home state of San Luis Potosí. The food served in an alfresco setting were inspired by the late Mexico City architect, Ricardo Legoretta.
We are thankful for Alex's culinary experience working in all the Latin American, French, Italian and Spanish restaurants. That hands on experience combined with his culinary education combine to deliver exceptional and memorable Mexican dishes from a tiny kitchen in District 3, Saigon.
He mentioned he worked at a food factory here in Vietnam for A notable English brand . He explained the challenges they were forced to deal with in preparing and freezing there product for air shipment to the UK. He explained how precise the PH must be for the dough to allow for freezing and then thawing under refrigeration.
It is this attention to detail and his cooking method experience that allows every dish to come out of the kitchen of Rico Taco to be exceptional and more importantly consistent!
We enjoyed our time talking about family, friends and food with Alex. We are hopeful you find your way to Rico Taco or any place Alex's culinary passion take him to in the future. You will be impressed by his passionate and warm personality and love of food! We highly recommend Rico Taco. Tell Alex we sent you!


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Der Wahlkreis Garbsen/Wedemark ist ein Wahlkreis zur Wahl des niedersächsischen Landtages. Er umfasst in der Region Hannover die Stadt Garbsen und die Gemeinde Wedemark.

Die 2022 über die Landesliste von Bündnis 90/Die Grünen in den Landtag eingezogene Djenabou Diallo Hartmann ist die erste afrodeutsche Landtagsabgeordnete in Niedersachsen.

Landtagswahl 2022
Zur Landtagswahl in Niedersachsen 2022 traten im Wahlkreis Garbsen/Wedemark sieben Direktkandidaten an. Direkt gewählter Abgeordneter ist Rüdiger Kauroff (SPD). Über die Landesliste zog zusätzlich Djenabou Diallo-Hartmann (Grüne) in den niedersächsischen Landtag ein. Der Wahlkreis trug die Wahlkreisnummer 31.

Landtagswahl 2017
Zur Landtagswahl in Niedersachsen 2017 traten im Wahlkreis Garbsen/Wedemark sieben Direktkandidaten an. Direkt gewählter Abgeordneter ist Rüdiger Kauroff (SPD). Über die Landesliste zog zusätzlich Editha Lorberg (CDU) in den niedersächsischen Landtag ein. Der Wahlkreis trug die Wahlkreisnummer 32.

! class="hintergrundfarbe5" | Partei
! class="hintergrundfarbe5" | Direktkandidat
! class="hintergrundfarbe5" | Erststimmen
! class="hintergrundfarbe5" | Zweitstimmen
|-
| CDU
| data-sort-value="Lorberg, Editha" |Editha Lorberg
|35,8
|32,5
|-
| SPD
| data-sort-value="Kauroff, Rüdiger" |Rüdiger Kauroff
|38,8
|39,3
|-
| Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
| data-sort-value="Grahn, Dirk" |Dirk Grahn
|6,6
|6,8
|-
| FDP
| data-sort-value="Birkner, Stefan" |Stefan Birkner
|7,0
|8,0
|-
| DIE LINKE
| data-sort-value="Strube, Clemens" |Clemens Strube
|3,5
|3,8
|-
| AfD
| data-sort-value="Kammler, Kammler" |Manfred Kammler
|7,2
|7,5
|-
| Bündnis C
| data-sort-value="Schönhoff, Martin" |Martin Schönhoff
|1,0
|
|-
| BGE || || ||0,1
|-
| DM || || ||0,1
|-
| Freie Wähler || || ||0,4
|-
| LKR || || ||0,0
|-
| ÖDP || || ||0,1
|-
| Die PARTEI || || ||0,4
|-
| Tierschutzpartei || || ||0,6
|-
| Piratenpartei || || ||0,2
|-
| V-Partei³ || || ||0,1
|}
Die Wahlbeteiligung lag mit 63,8 % über dem Landesdurchschnitt dieser Wahl.

Landtagswahl 2013

Zur Landtagswahl in Niedersachsen 2013 traten im Wahlkreis Garbsen/Wedemark sieben Direktkandidaten an. Direkt gewählte Abgeordnete ist Editha Lorberg (CDU). Über die Landesliste zog zusätzlich Stefan Birkner (FDP) in den niedersächsischen Landtag ein.

! class="hintergrundfarbe5" | Partei
! class="hintergrundfarbe5" | Direktkandidat
! class="hintergrundfarbe5" | Erststimmen
! class="hintergrundfarbe5" | Zweitstimmen
|-
| CDU
| data-sort-value="Lorberg, Editha" |Editha Lorberg
|41,5
|33,4
|-
| SPD
| data-sort-value="Kauroff, Rüdiger" |Rüdiger Kauroff
|38,7
|35,6
|-
| FDP
| data-sort-value="Birkner, Stefan" |Stefan Birkner
|4,5
|11,9
|-
| Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
| data-sort-value="Achterberg, Mona" |Mona Achterberg
|9,0
|11,7
|-
| DIE LINKE
| data-sort-value="Kelen, Sait" |Sait Kelen
|2,3
|2,5
|-
| Bündnis 21/RRP || || ||0,0
|-
| Die Freiheit || || ||0,3
|-
| Freie Wähler
| data-sort-value="Bienstein, Andreas" |Andreas Bienstein
|2,1
|1,4
|-
| NPD || || ||0,9
|-
| PBC || || ||0,2
|-
| Piratenpartei
| data-sort-value="Pfeilsticker, Rüdiger" |Rüdiger Pfeilsticker
|2,0
|2,1
|}

Landtagswahl 2008
Zur Landtagswahl in Niedersachsen 2008 traten im Wahlkreis Garbsen/Wedemark sechs Kandidaten an. Direkt gewählte Abgeordnete ist Editha Lorberg (CDU).

! class="hintergrundfarbe5" | Partei
! class="hintergrundfarbe5" | Direktkandidat
! class="hintergrundfarbe5" | Erststimmen
! class="hintergrundfarbe5" | Zweitstimmen
|-
| CDU
| data-sort-value="Lorberg, Editha" | Editha Lorberg
| 44,2
| 42,1
|-
| SPD
| data-sort-value="Mahner, Ulrich" | Ulrich Mahner
| 37,1
| 32,2
|-
| FDP
| data-sort-value="Birkner, Stefan" | Stefan Birkner
| 6,8
| 9,6
|-
| Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
| data-sort-value="Dalig, Annegret" | Annegret Dalig
| 5,1
| 6,8
|-
| Die Linke
| data-sort-value="Koch, Andreas " | Andreas Koch
| 6,2
| 6,3
|-
| Freie Wähler Niedersachsen
|
|
| 0,1
|-
| NPD
|
|
| 1,7
|-
| Ab jetzt
|
|
| 0,2
|-
| Demokratische Alternative
|
|
|
|-
| Die Friesen
|
|
| 0,2
|-
| Die Grauen
|
|
| 0,2
|-
| Republikaner
|
|
|
|-
| Familien-Partei
|
|
| 0,3
|-
| Mensch Umwelt Tierschutz
|
|
| 0,5
|-
| ödp
| data-sort-value="Jackowski, Gerlind" | Gerlind Jackowski
| 0,5
| 0,3
|-
| PBC
|
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| 0,2
|}

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Politik (Region Hannover)


Leroy E. Crawford, 84, Mars Hill, died Sept. 28, 2018, in Bangor with his family at his side.
MARS HILL, Maine – Leroy E. Crawford, 84, Mars Hill, died Sept. 28, 2018, in Bangor with his family at his side. He was born August 3, 1934, in Houlton, the son of Elden and Opal (Niles) Crawford.
He served in the U. S. Air Force, serving in Korea. He enjoyed hunting, fishing, watching NASCAR, westerns and wrestling, but especially spending time with his family.
He is survived by his wife of 55 years, Gloria (Hoyt) Crawford of Mars Hill; three children, Catherine Pelkey of Myrtle Beach, SC , Christi and husband, Michael Botting of Columbia, SC, and Roy and wife, Erica Crawford of Ludlow; four grandchildren, Jessica Pelkey, Leroy Otis, Candace Otis, and Savanah London; seven great-grand-children; two brothers, Roger Crawford and Robert and wife, Lois Crawford. He was predeceased by his parents and two sisters, Marlene Crawford and Marilyn Tackett.
A graveside funeral service will be held 1 p.m. Fri. Oct. 5th, at the Kings Grove Cemetery, Mars Hill, with the Rev. Mark Carter and Rev.Wesley Faloon officiating. Online condolences may be expressed at www.bowersfuneral.com.


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Andy had helped coach at London Wheelchair Rugby Club for years and in 2009 coached the Irish W/C Rugby squad, helping them qualify for the European Championships. He's also been involved with the Greenwich Unit for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, looking at how introduce inclusive sports days to schools. Andy regularly gives talks at local schools and other organisations, delivering motivational speeches to encourage health and well being through participation in sport and he's keen to use the skills he's learnt to continue working with young people in sport.
Andy Barrow has followed a successful career as an international athlete (see below for details) by building a business as an inspirational speaker and mentor. He is already a full member of the Professional Speaking Association and has become a "Team London" ambassador for whom he regularly speaks and recently delivered to a crowd of 12,000 people at Wembley Arena.
Andy's other project, the "Athlete Inspiration Programme", he runs a series of workshops for the schools in his home borough of Greenwich. This is now in it's third year and themes include wellbeing, nutrition, resilience and teamwork.
Andy Barrow also delivers bespoke speeches and workshops to numerous schools and colleges, using his story to illustrate the importance of a positive attitude and strong work ethic as well as teaching techniques to help students overcome challenges and perform under pressure. This role overlaps well with his work as a "Sporting Champion", where he draws on his previous experience as a Dame Kelly Holmes Trust athlete mentor to motivate and coach young people.
On the corporate side Andy Barrow has delivered keynotes and additional training for a number of organisations. He focuses on the theme of performance using his insights into what makes a successful team to help employees to approach their work as an elite athlete would. He can also show you how to apply the principles of marginal gain to maximize your output and add that extra percentage that will separate your business from the rest of the pack.
Andy Barrow also supports many different charities and initiatives in an ambassadorial capacity by appearing at fundraising events, giving prizes at award ceremonies or speaking at dinners. These include Right to Play, Charlton Athletic Community Trust, the RFU Injured Players Foundation, OCS and Greenwich Starting Blocks among others. He is also a trustee for volunteer charity "Imago".
As someone who has overcome great adversity, Andy Barrow has shown that success is achieved through hard work and perseverance. He also believes that in life, nothing will change unless you change it.
His motto is simply…. Take the opportunity!
Andy helped in making an impact to young people's lives and raising aspirations whilst working on the Sporting Champions programme, and is now looking to inspire your audience by sharing his secret of what it takes to be the best you can!
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Getting Tar Paper off Hardwood Flooring
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Tar paper is a common moisture barrier materiel installed underneath a variety of floor materials, such as hardwood flooring installed over concrete surfaces. And in the case of a previous layer of hardwood flooring that has had a layer of tar paper put down on top of it and then another layer of hardwood installed above, the tar paper will naturally bond to the first layer. If you ever remodel the floor and want to expose the first layer in the future, you will need to remove the layer of tar paper off the surface.
The putty knife is your weapon of choice when removing tar paper from a hardwood surface. Assuming that the layer of tar paper hasn't bonded completely with the surface of the wood, you can use the putty knife to scrape the tar paper off. Sections should come free by hand, but there will be areas where you will have to scrape with the knife to cut the paper away from the surface.
Wallpaper steamers can be used in the same manner to help heat up the tar paper and any of the residue that has bonded with the face of the hardwood floor. You may need to make multiple passes with the steam machine, but the point is to dampen and heat up the tar paper. When tar gets warm, it is like butter in that it softens and becomes less sticky and more manageable, eventually allowing for removal with the putty knife.
Some sections might have a little extra adhesive that the steamer and the putty knife can't remove. In those cases, you will have to sand the area to get the tar off the wood. The tar paper will leave behind a thin layer of dark stain on top of the surface of the hardwood that needs to be sanded off so you can refinish the floor. A large, two-handed sanding machine is the best bet, but you can also use a belt sander to help you get into corners. Work with 80-grit paper to start with and then smooth things down with a grit of 150 or more
Adhesive-backed Tar Paper
Some types of tar paper are self-adhering and have an asphalt- or tar-based adhesive used on the back to put them in place. If you come across this type, you should not sand it, as it can contain asbestos. Instead, the only option in is to use a wet strip method and hire out the project to professionals.
Wet stripping is a complicated and time-consuming task that involves working with chemicals. A special stripping solution specially designed to eat away at tar- and asphalt-based adhesives is applied. Then, after the solution sits on the tar paper for some time (based on manufacturer guidelines), a floor machine with a stripping pad is used to slurry the surface into a melted mass of goo. That is vacuumed up with a wet vac.
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Tim Anderson has been freelance writing since 2007. His has been published online through GTV Magazine, Home Anatomy, TravBuddy, MMO Hub, Killer Guides and the Delegate2 group. He spent more than 15 years as a third-generation tile and stone contractor before transitioning into freelance writing.
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