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How Aretha Franklin Earned Her Crown As the Queen of Soul
The spirit, fire, and audacity behind one of the greatest voices in history
Aretha Franklin performs onstage circa 1968. Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images.
by Jason King
Aretha Franklin was the best of us. More than just a national treasure, she seemed like an elemental gift sprung from the building blocks of the universe itself. Though she left us today after years of struggle with illness, Aretha was arguably the most accomplished and sublime vocalist in the history of 20th century recorded pop. No one made music that better tapped into the core of our elemental humanity, confirming our cosmic belonging on the grandest scale imaginable.
Born in 1942 in Memphis and raised in Detroit during World War II strife, Aretha didn't just become a soul music icon—she became the preeminent standard bearer for superior music excellence in and beyond the 1960s. She is as close as we will ever come to genuine royalty in pop, a woman who came by her totalizing "Queen" and "Lady of Soul" monikers through copious perspiration and creative genius rather than by way of clever marketing. Nobody has ever sung any of her classic songs—"Respect," "Think," "Chain of Fools," "Dr. Feelgood (Love Is a Serious Business)," "(You Make Me Feel Like a) Natural Woman," "Ain't No Way"—with more verve, authority, and deep feeling, and nobody ever will. Think of all the singers that Aretha influenced: a partial list would have to include Chaka Khan, Natalie Cole, Luther Vandross, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Oumou Sangaré, Celine Dion, Mary J. Blige, Yolanda Adams, Jill Scott, Alicia Keys, Christina Aguilera, Kelly Clarkson, and Beyoncé. Maybe a better question is: Who wasn't influenced by Aretha?
In 1950s Detroit, factories cranked out automobile parts, Berry Gordy's Motown label cut its first records, and civil rights demonstrations raged on countrywide. The daughter of famous preacher C.L. Franklin—nationally known for his soul-rocking sermons—Aretha honed her singing chops as a youngster, accompanying herself at the piano in her father's living room. Mother Barbara, a commanding gospel singer herself, separated from Aretha's philandering father in 1948, and relocated to Buffalo; she unexpectedly died of a heart attack when Aretha was only 10. Back in Detroit, Aretha hobnobbed with her father's friends, who also happened to be gospel music's elite, including Mahalia Jackson, Lou Rawls, and Arthur Prysock. Even in her early teens, Aretha was an unimpeachable "stone" singer: She modeled her style absorbing gospel dynamo Clara Ward's stop-and-start phrasing and R&B/jazz chanteuse Dinah Washington's steely ferocity.
Aretha Franklin sometimes sang about material things, and she sang a lot about romantic desire and sex. At her core, however, she was a spirit worshipper, an anointed vessel for divine energy incarnate. The power that girds her singing is rooted in her faith, her profound sense of belonging to God; every vocal utterance she ever made was to confirm and be confirmed by spiritual energy. At her live best, Aretha transformed her audience into a congregation, bringing down the spirit of the Holy Ghost, and fervently bringing people together on one single, soulful accord.
At the end of the day, Aretha's best album might be 1972's Amazing Grace, her astounding live-recorded gospel set featuring contributions from James Cleveland and the Southern California Community, along with Albertina Walker and the Caravans, and Clara Ward. Released at the height of Aretha's success to remind secular skeptics of her sanctified roots, Amazing Grace remains the greatest demonstration that spiritual gospel and emotional pop have long been indelibly interconnected. If the contemporary black church is no longer today the centerpiece of racial community it once was, Aretha remained a gospel singer connected to her Baptist beginnings until the very end.
Aretha Franklin poses for a portrait in 1964. Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images.
Six decades after anyone first heard it on wax, it's still hard to fully account for the sublime command and powerful life force—what the Yoruba call àshe—of Aretha's voice. On songs like "Don't Let Me Lose This Dream" and "The Weight," to name just two, Aretha's put-your-foot-in-it, spill-your-guts-out singing is ferocious, resolute, and assertive. Capable of sustaining long legato lines, Aretha could also creatively improvise with melodies, showing off with nimble, dexterous runs for days. In her airy, plaintive mid-register, like in the first verses of songs like "Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool for You)," "Share Your Love With Me," "Angel," or "Call Me," there's a tear, a silent fire sob, that can break your heart while compelling you to move closer to the speaker.
But then there's Aretha's universe-rattling upper register—muscular, resilient, and marked by unbridled lung capacity. Her legendary wail can really take you out: It's like the crackle of volcanic lightning or like a 200 mph tropical cyclone coming straight at you, exploding out of the microphone and vibrating against your eardrum. Rangy, intense, and dynamic, Aretha's chitlinized, ham-hocks-and-gravy vocalizing does not allow you to be immobile or unmoved—you can feel it in your heart, in your spleen, under the soles of your feet, in your bone marrow, in your atoms. Especially in the '60s and '70s, Aretha's hard-driving, divine-force sound was also the direct expression of black feeling and consciousness at a profound moment of racial self-determination.
To honestly account for the primal power of Aretha, you have to acknowledge the underexplored history of African pre-colonial aesthetic genius; you have to understand how the global slave trade brutally remade the world; how that brutal institution violently turned dispossessed black bodies into commodities and chattel; how black women in particular were whipped, flayed, defiled, raped, and diminished, their labor stolen and exploited, and their wombs hijacked to breed future profits for slave owners. W.E.B. Du Bois once called the culture of glorious Afro-Christian black music that emerged out of the dung of slavery that barbaric institution's only great redemption; as black folk, we transmogrified traumatic experience into field hollers, work songs, and ring shouts; and eventually, over time, into the stylized blues and jazz of artists that directly inspired Aretha Franklin, including Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, and Sarah Vaughn, and Dinah Washington. When Aretha opens her mouth to wail, all of that unassailable tragic-beautiful black history, those soul-shocking scenes of subjection that are at the horrific core of American history, comes barreling at you. That's the essential root of her sound.
Some folks, often white ones, tend to exoticize and simplify Aretha's talent by reducing her sound to "pain." But I hear the widest possible range of emotions, moods, and sensibilities in her music, from abject lonesomeness ("Tracks of My Tears") to quiet resignation ("Don't Play That Song") to sassy indignation ("When the Battle Is Over") to blissful contentment ("First Snow in Kokomo") to sly flirtatiousness ("Something He Can Feel") to unfettered exuberance ("Freeway of Love"). James Baldwin once called the confluence of freedom and unfreedom that defines African-American existence "ironic tenacity"—our audacious optimism borne out of a terminal, unredeemable suffering. During a bitter period in American history—marked by destructive race riots, by the repressive tactics of the Nixon administration, the disillusioning assassination of key civil rights leaders, and the terrible moral failure that was the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War—few artists made tenacious music more rich with emotional gravitas, full of moral heaviness, or brimming with utopian possibility. Few artists gave us the gift of music that made people, especially black people, love each other, more forcefully than Aretha Franklin.
Legendary A&R executive John Hammond signed Aretha to Columbia Records in 1960, but he mostly hemmed in her talent with buttoned-up, apprehensive jazz and pop repertoire. By 1967, she hopscotched to Atlantic Records, where visionary producer Jerry Wexler put her on a plane to Muscle Shoals, Alabama, assembled a biracial studio band at FAME Studios, and delivered the groundbreaking I Never Loved a Man The Way I Love You. Each of Aretha's successive "golden period" albums released on Atlantic between 1967 and 1976–including 1968's Lady Soul, 1968's Aretha Now, 1969's Soul '69, and 1971's Young, Gifted and Black—are the distilled essence of blues-soaked soulfulness and musical excellence, emblematic of the ongoing political and social changes in black culture.
Aretha's Atlantic era remains among the greatest in all of recorded music history. During those years, she created so many cherished new standards—from chugging confections like "Sweet Sweet Baby (Since You've Been Gone)" to pressure cooker startlers like "Rock Steady" to cloud-parting power ballads like "Natural Woman"—songs that still endure at open-mic nights and karaoke bars, and on TV singing competitions to this day. Working with the likes of producer Jerry Wexler, arranger Arif Mardin, and engineer Tom Dowd (who effectively recorded the velocity of her belt), Aretha consistently received (or created) better material than pyrotechnical peers like Etta James, Tina Turner, and Mavis Staples. A creative and savvy arranger, Aretha reconstructed covers of tunes like Simon and Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" to the degree that they sometimes excelled beyond the originals, and she could also pen originals like 1971's soothing "Day Dreaming" and seismic "All the King's Horses." Even the most sublime voice needs the right material in the right musical context to make it legible to a wider audience, and Atlantic Records—who supported Aretha with incredible personnel on those classic albums like musical director King Curtis, pianist Donny Hathaway, bassist Jerry Jemmott, guitarist Cornell Dupree, and drummer Bernard Purdie—provided a substantial musical context in which we could finally hear the total range of Aretha's tonal majesty and her masterful interpretive abilities, changing the course of popular music along the way.
There's no question that Aretha was a masterful balladeer and crooner: listen to the sheer drama she can generate on tunes like "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man" and "Ain't No Way." (Aretha always sang better when she accompanied herself on piano—she's an underrated player in a similar sphere as peer Valerie Simpson. One wishes she'd recorded at the keys with a stripped-down trio or quartet in her later years). In the late '50s and early '60s, it was still remarkably risky for sacred singers to seek popularity singing about sex and desire, but Aretha Franklin went there with aplomb, ripping our hearts out of our chests with tunes about love lost and gained. (1981's underrated Love All the Hurt Away, on Arista Records, is one of her most romantic and heart-wrenching albums.)
Beyond ballads, Aretha had serious rhythmic dexterity: you can hear it on her self-penned funk grenade "Rock Steady," but also on insouciant 1980 patter track "School Days." By the late '70s, the disco craze nearly did her in—her 1979 La Diva album was a low point—but she later made good with '80s synth pop like Detroit-retro finger snapper "Freeway of Love," as well as house-inspired pop with Clivilles & Cole's 1994 "A Deeper Love," and hip-hop inspired production on her 1998 A Rose Is Still a Rose set, featuring behind-the-glass contributions from Lauryn Hill and Jermaine Dupri. Aretha was adept at nearly every persona of soulful black music at which she tried her hand.
Aretha Franklin performs onstage circa 1977. Photo by Waring Abbott/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images.
Even by the late '60s, as she rose to mainstream visibility in the funky black power era, Aretha was the black female singer most beloved by the white establishment, next to Nina Simone. That's partly because she covered songs by rock artists like the Rolling Stones and the Beatles. Her saucy 1980 film cameo in The Blues Brothers is a reminder of how deeply she ingratiated her artistry into the lives and imaginations of white communities throughout her career, even as she became an emblem for '60s and '70s racial and gender identity movements. Aretha was never a feminist in any explicit sense—and she certainly had her share of disastrous and abusive relationships with men, including first husband Ted White. She nonetheless delivered some of the most world-defining feminist anthems in pop history, from raucous "Think" to "Respect" to Eurythmics collab "Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves."
On another level, Aretha's remarkable audacity as a singer contributed greatly at the intersection of feminist power and black power, emblematized in her deployment of MLK's "Thank God almighty I'm free at last" in her cover of B.B. King's relationship-gone-sour tune "The Thrill Is Gone." In the '60s, she lent her impressive talents to numerous civil rights causes, and she was an outspoken supporter of Angela Davis. She also famously sang at the funerals of Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks, not to mention her contributions to Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama's respective presidential inaugurations. Aretha delivered all-purpose, intersectional anthems that any dispossessed community could adopt as their own: "Respect" is an equal rights anthem for anyone who ever had a dream of being more than a second class citizen.
Along the way, Aretha became the soundtrack of moral affirmation to black communities during an especially turbulent era. She was never a conventional beauty nor was she consistently marketed as a sex symbol per se—by the '80s she'd begun making eccentric, quixotic fashion choices, to put it mildly. In the '60s and '70s, however, she defined and represented that which was most beautiful about black culture at a time when we needed it most. Moving from wigs and processed hair to natural hair to the Nina Simone-esque Afrocentric fashion choices on the covers of Amazing Grace and Young, Gifted and Black, and then later into sequined glitz and gown glamor that defined much of the rest of her career, Aretha captured the democratic diversity of black style. At a time when some artists felt they needed to curb their blackness to reach lucrative white audiences, Aretha was unabashedly black in her sound and image, at least during those Atlantic Records years when it mattered most. Aretha showed many of us that it was possible to maintain racial dignity while striving for inclusion and acceptance in a country founded upon systematic anti-blackness. Perhaps "Respect" also became Aretha's signature anthem because we gave her so much of it.
Some critics felt that Aretha's foray into strategic duets and slick, digitally-programmed music on the heels of her '80s move to Clive Davis' Arista label diminished her legacy, even as it brought her successive hits and lots of bank. After 1976, Aretha's albums are a mixed bag, but she still delivered lots of cherished material, from the post-disco funk of Luther Vandross-produced 1983 "Jump to It" to the evocative MTV-inspirational-pop of 1987's George Michael duet "I Knew You Were Waiting for Me." A longtime smoker, Aretha's voice thickened significantly by the mid '80s; the natural progression of age striated it even more by the '90s. Still she never lost her verve, and glimpses of her vocal greatness show up consistently until the end (even on her better-than-expected 2014 Aretha Sings the Great Diva Classics).
Aretha's entire career is a commentary on resilience from trauma and adversity: It starts with the early tragic loss of mother when she was ten years old, and then to a series of successive deaths, including her father and all of her brothers and sisters during the '80s, '90s, and 2000s. Taken as a whole, these deaths must have exacted a serious toll. Though she eventually publicized herself by way of a hardscrabble soul survivor image, Aretha never made an exposing, confessional album à la Joni Mitchell; instead, she remained intensely private, aloof, and unknowable, in a way that's fairly consistent with the head-high composure of some regal women in the black church. Sometimes Aretha's intense need for opacity, mixed with her occasional penchant for pettiness and self-interested behavior, could get the best of her: In 2015, David Ritz's scorched-earth unauthorized biography bit the bullet to expose a lot more about Aretha than she'd ever cared to talk about publicly.
Aretha had a bit of a dark side. She was full of competitive insecurity and unexamined trauma, and forever in squabbles with friends and loved ones, including her sisters Erma and Carolyn, her pal and producer Luther Vandross, and friend Dionne Warwick. Aretha earned her "diva dues" and wasn't afraid to let anybody know it, at any time. That meant everything from shading younger competitor-to-the-throne Natalie Cole in the '70s, to subtly throwing shade at Taylor Swift (asked by a reporter in 2014 to give commentary on a range of pop singers, Aretha had complimentary things to say about artists like Whitney Houston and Adele; she could only come up with the obfuscating "great gowns, beautiful gowns" for Swift.) If Aretha's now become a cherished meme for her unfiltered facial expressions, that's partly her own doing. I have no sense of what it must be like to stand in for an entire community as a racial emblem for decades, or to have to feel compelled to keep up one's regal status as the queen of anything all the time: I'd imagine it could damage the spirit irreparably. But Aretha fans always wanted to see her at her best, to watch her emerge triumphant, like when she belted out her last-minute rendition of "Nessun Dorma" at the 1998 Grammys or flung off her fur coat at that astonishing 2015 Kennedy Center "Natural Woman" performance. She certainly earned her stripes as the singular materfamilias of black popular music for six decades, and we were all happy to keep her in that role.
For the most part, Aretha stuck to R&B, gospel, pop, blues, and jazz: She never did a tangential rock album, never really tried her hand in alternative or underground genres, and she never cursed on record. You could never describe her as a poser or a scenester, and there's not an ironic or postmodern moment in her entire career. That's not to say that Aretha was immune from musical trends—just the opposite, she enlisted Clive Davis to help her seek them out with zeal in the '80s and beyond—nor is it to say that she didn't deploy the latest hipster jive in songs like "Rock Steady" or in those hilariously rapped, improvised lyrics in "Jump to It" and "Who's Zoomin' Who." Aretha was always her eccentric, sometimes kooky self, no matter how many people she pissed off along the way.
In listening to Aretha's best songs—songs that innervate the nervous system and rattle us to our bones—we're reminded of who we are at the spiritual level and how we are all deeply, and even maybe inconveniently, interconnected as souls. That's what soul music is, that's what soul music does—it illuminates the path to our mutual interdependence. Aretha's feelingful back catalog remains a prescription for how we might find ways to move away from the depressing atomization and fragmentation of modern life into soulful cooperation, getting togetherness, toward a funky "Soul Train" style dance with each other.
Mother, sister, lover of Jesus, the Queen of R&B by anyone's standards, Aretha has gone back home, to creation, back to the universe, back into dust, and spirit. Maybe because of the fact that she was beset by her own personal troubled waters, her spiritually rich music helped a lot of people get through. Sometimes, when my own soul looks back in wonder, I wonder how I got over, and I remember the magnanimous, therapeutic example of Aretha Franklin's music and how it sometimes served as a soundtrack to my own most powerful personal experiences. A lot of us who grew up on her music, or discovered her along the way, feel that way. For that alone, much respect to the Queen. Amen, and peace go with her.
Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated the location of Aretha Franklin's birthplace. She was born in Memphis, not Detroit.


Since I posted How's It Goin'?, here's part of a planned online comic I made in the same year using the same character.
"Your piece is really good. It's got that weird 'Getsiverse' feeling where people speak in ideas rather than thoughts, plus some really interesting design and page use."
"Huh? Not crazy about. Interesting effects on people in first story. Gimmicky."
"Hmm. I'm not so sure what's going on here? I feel like the people in the last panel.. What might have been cool is if those panels set into the grid acted as a narrative inlay. Or is that what you're going for?"
"I liked "The Future" a great deal; it was well-drawn and punctual in its "get in/tell the story/get out" efficiency. I wonder what a longer piece by Mr. Getsiv would look like?"
"Interesting weirdness. Great compositions in the first story. (Marred only by the out of place looking gigolo type on the last page.)"
""Future": Short and sweet, like your previous one."
"I liked "The Future." What part of that is computer and how much of it did you draw? I have a sneaking suspicion it's not as much as I think, in which case I'm impressed."
"You are a weirdo-- in a good way! Weird stuff there, but I love it."
"Loved the silhouette look you give all the figures in the first piece, starkly contrasting against the white background."
"The Future was one of the most effective meldings of drawn and 'putered stuff in the book. That font that was used on the last page was pretty bad though. Personal taste I suppose, but *shudder*..."
"I like Mike Getsiv's stuff. A lesson to us all. Interesting use of lettra set on everything."
"Total pop art, man! I dig it!"
"Exactly why you elected to create a comic about the last two years of my life I cannot imagine."
"Okay, it's interesting and, I guess, innovative, and maybe some other high-falutin words I'm too dense to come up with, but the one that comes to mind is 'yuck!' What are they, robots? (Maybe it's the white pupils. Are they blind? Stoned? Out of ink?) Call me a philistine (please!) but it couldn't have left me colder."
"I love a lot of your other stuff, as you know, especially Eyeballs and the piece in Swell, but this one I just didn't quite get, even after reading it a couple of times through. And I kind of see your formal point with the dot screens, but it makes the story a bit hard to get into..."
"Getsiv, again, what can I say. Very different to Eyeballs, but still very therapeutic. I like the what do you call it, the technical illustration style."
"I feel like I've seen this thing your working on, this structure of "Futurevision" -or whatever you call it- really begin to emerge from the various spots I've seen it in. I know you aren't looking for warmth, but there is more weight and give to your figures, which I think ups the dissonance with the rest of the-- um, I'd use the word "superflat" except that's already taken and now doesn't mean what I want it to mean-- linework (backgrounds, etc.). The fat blacks of the other figures and the stretched and distorted parts really punch it home. Separation, alienation, the mechanical/instructional comics vibe, de-juxtaposed panel transitions, balloon placements, All of it really pushing on the reader. Great vibe!"
"Those zip-a-tone dots hurt my eyes. In a good way."
"Loved the dots all across everything, I bet there's a technical term for it that I show my ignorance of. In the second panel I thought he was asking how it went in rather than how's it goin'. I liked the story, the bit about the suitcase was well judged. The pay off line, was it a comment on the pair of them? In that he went out just to get on telly and say hi to his room mate? I mean, that's pretty mental too, in it's own way."
I first read this comic a long time ago. It makes more sense now (and I like it more). Thank you so much for posting the comments! Especially the negative ones! It is so interesting and funny to read what people don't like. And why! The more I read it the more I like it as a whole - the 'Technical Illustration' style, the two tones (more specifically what is black and what is white), the layout (the panels as tv and the panels in the sky in transit), the humor (Tony Manero as inspiration for the lead character), and also the concepts of what the future may look like (I feel like the guy in the chair looking at the screen because as I write this ... I'm sitting in a chair looking at a screen). So yea! The Future! I wish more people had visions of the future like this (that we could learn important lessons about ourselves in gentle ways).
OK Mike, I'm hooked! I want more of "The Future"! I figured the whole 'code' thing out ... 'Travel Further' is only one "episode" (for lack of a better word) in the Bigger Picture which is "The Future" (the thing on display in the middle panel of the intro piece). I don't know why you didn't start with 'Welcome Everyone', but I don't think jumping to 'Travel Further' spoiled anything for me. I can't wait for 'Natural Technology' or 'Intangible Currency'! I like how you grouped the ones on the left and then the ones on the right. Is this in a book yet? I'd kinda like to read it in it's natural flow climaxing with 'Real Love' and ending with 'Familiar Home'. Nice planning. Nice future mike, when does it get here?
Thanks to both of you clones.


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Officials: Massive Rim Fire Won't Be Contained Until October
Rim Fire Yosemite by Bay City News | September 23, 2013 9:32 am	| in News | 0
A massive wildfire burning near Yosemite National Park since last month is 84 percent contained, with full containment now predicted to occur by Oct. 1, the U.S. Forest Service said.
The Rim Fire, which started Aug. 17 at Jawbone Ridge in the Stanislaus National Forest before spreading into Yosemite, has consumed 257,126 acres as of Sunday, officials said.
Containment was initially predicted to occur by Sept. 20, but that date has since been pushed back.
The fire has destroyed structures including 11 homes and 98 outbuildings, as well as the Berkeley Tuolumne Family Camp, and caused 10 injuries, officials said. It also damaged San Francisco Public Utility Commission hydroelectric powerhouses and power transmission lines.
Saturday's rains and higher humidity in the area may limit the fire's spread, but also caused some erosion and rock and debris falls in the burned areas, forest service officials said.
The fire has cost $122 million to fight so far, officials said.
Sara Gaiser, Bay City News

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Mensch and Menschkeit
The key concept in the 1996 movie City Hall is menschkeit. In Yiddish a mensch is someone of noble character and dignity, someone who does what is right and what is responsible. Menschkeit (or menschlichkeit) is the set of properties that make one a mensch. Mensch and menschkeit are terms that, in New York at least, have been assimilated into English. Mayor John Pappas, whose background is Greek rather than Jewish, refers to menschkeit as "about honor and character" and "the space between a handshake."
Intrinsic to Pappas's role as a politician is deal-making: literally hundreds of deals, closed by hundreds of handshakes. How does a politician maintain nobility of character and a sense of what is ethical in all the many deals? The movie refers to three types of deals: public-private partnerships, deals involving public policy, and deals with the devil (in this case, the Mafia).
The public-private partnership (though the movie didn't use the term) involved Mayor Pappas finding the money in the city's and the state's budgets for expressway and subway access to a proposed financial center in Brooklyn. Undertaking the project will make both the developers and the citizens who will get jobs there better off. This partnership is comparable to the infrastructure partnerships the Harper Government in its Economic Action Plan.
Deals about public policy involve politicians voting for a policy or program that constituents or interest groups desire, in exchange for their political support in terms of votes, campaign donations, or both. That's how politics works, particularly in systems such as the US, where individual politicians are more or less free agents. Campaign finance laws may constrain these deals in terms of who is permitted to give, and how much.
The third type of deal is a compact with the devil. Mayor Pappas did a favor for one of his city councilors who was beholden to the Mafia. Pappas phoned a judge to persuade him to give a Mafioso who had sold narcotics to minors parole rather than the long prison term he ought to have received. What the mayor did was flat-out illegal. The movie didn't disclose what the other side of the deal was – the benefits the mayor and councilor received (or pain they avoided) in exchange for influencing the judge.
Why, in the first place, would any politician do deals with known Mafiosi? By definition, they are not people of character or people who know what is right or what is responsible. A Mafioso cannot be a mensch or display menschkeit. I have no first-hand knowledge of this, but my assumption, drawn from The Godfather, is that their modus operandi is to pretend to be people of character, and to do favors for politicians that incur obligations that, at some future point, can be called in.
Pappas's protégé, Kevin Calhoun, who investigated a shooting causing the deaths of the paroled Mafioso, a police officer, and an innocent child, found that the trail led straight to the mayor. The movie concludes with Calhoun's confrontation with Pappas. While he forcefully pointed out Mayor Pappas's ethical and legal failings as a public servant, he did it with sympathy and respect for John Pappas, the human being. Here Calhoun was the true mensch and it was his behavior – not Pappas's deal with the devil – that showed true menschkeit.
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Kwaku Mark says:
Insightful analysis of the movie. Pertinent to some of my research courses


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News-Wire.com » Free Press Releases » Every A-10 Thunderbolt II Of The Maryland ANG Took Part In An 'Elephant Walk' At Warfield ANGB
16 A-10Cs taking part in the MD ANG "Elephant Walk" (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Christopher Schepers)
16 A-10 Warthogs took part in a Mission Generation Exercise and staged a nice "Elephant Walk".
"Elephant Walk" events are becoming increasingly frequent at air bases in the U.S. and all around the world to test the squadrons ability to launch large formations of aircraft at short notice. If you search in our archive you will find many articles with photographs of aircraft taking part in this kind of drills, where all types of combat planes (including tankers or mixed formations) taxi all together (more or less…) in the same way they would do in case of a minimum interval takeoff, and then, depending on the purpose of the training event, they either take off or return back to their parking slots.
In the military aviation community, this process is known as an "elephant walk," a term that originated among the U.S. forces during World War II when hundreds of aircraft would taxi in single-file lines that resembled elephants walking to a waterhole.
Actually, most of times, these "walks" are staged just to get some nice shots (and this is perfectly fine, because the photographs generate much more interest), as the exercise's goal is obviously not to taxi along the runway in close formation but to assess the ability launch as many aircraft as possible, in the shortest time possible.
The latest in this long series of mission readiness drills took place on Nov. 3, 2021 and involved the Maryland Air National Guard, that carried out a mission generation exercise at Warfield Air National Guard Base in Middle River, Maryland, that involved 16 A-10C Thunderbolt II aircraft, that is to say every Warthog (as the A-10 is nicknamed) assigned to the 104th Fighter Squadron.
16 A-10C Thunderbolt II aircraft assigned to the 175th Wing, Maryland Air National Guard, conducted a mission generation exercise and an "elephant walk" at Warfield Air National Guard Base at Martin State Airport, Middle River, Md., November 3, 2021. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Christopher Schepers)
"Seeing our entire fleet on the runway, it's just an awesome display of combat power," said U.S Air Force Col. Richard D. Hunt, vice commander of the 175th Wing in a public release. "Our maintainers are some of the best in the Air Force, and this is concrete proof of our ability to bring the full force of our airpower to bear whenever it is needed."
"Our ability to generate combat airpower at a moment's notice helps promote regional stability because we can immediately respond to any threat," said U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Paul D. Johnson, commander of the 175th Wing. "The 175th Wing is always ready to answer our nation's call and defend our country from our adversaries. We know they are watching, so it is good for them to know we can bring the fight at any time. I'm proud of our Airmen's ability to generate and employ with the highest level of excellence in a contested environment and with complete [operational security]."
Aerial view of the Elephant Walk (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Christopher Schepers)
In fact, what is particularly important during this exercises is to test the unit's preparedness to face a surge in operations that might occur when the squadron is requested to deploy to theatre, evacuate the airfield under attack or launch as many sorties as possible at short notice. During the mission generation exercise, maintainers prepared the aircraft and pilots then started the engines of the A-10s and taxied away, forming a line half a mile long before getting into a tight formation on the runway.
David Cenciotti is a freelance journalist based in Rome, Italy. He is the Founder and Editor of "The Aviationist", one of the world's most famous and read military aviation blogs. Since 1996, he has written for major worldwide magazines, including Air Forces Monthly, Combat Aircraft, and many others, covering aviation, defense, war, industry, intelligence, crime and cyberwar. He has reported from the U.S., Europe, Australia and Syria, and flown several combat planes with different air forces. He is a former 2nd Lt. of the Italian Air Force, a private pilot and a graduate in Computer Engineering. He has written four books.
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"Towards Bridging Digital India's Gender Divide"
With an aim to "transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy", the India government's Digital India programme was launched on July 2nd, 2015 and has since then been prioritized in most policy agendas in India. Centered on three principal components namely, Digital Infrastructure as a Core Utility to Every Citizen, Governance and Services on Demand and Digital Empowerment of Citizens, the programme seeks to bring about inclusive growth by ensuring that several products and services along with government services are made available to citizens electronically with coverage extended to rural areas.
However, in spite of concerted efforts over the last two years, the digital gap in India is still vast, not to mention the gaping digital gender divide. This digital gender divide is largely attributed to the lack of access to digital resources and the absence of digital literacy skills (Subramanian, 2017). Several studies have shown that women's access to mobile phones and/or the internet is significantly less as compared to men both in rural and urban India. This gender gap in access should be interpreted "as symptomatic of underlying structural inequalities – especially in education and income – between women and men; and refrain from naive digital divide analyses that will result in ineffectual 'give-access-get-empowerment' solutions" (Gurumurthy & Chami, 2014). Otherwise, "digital technologies can act as tools of control and surveillance, not empowerment" (Aneja & Mishra, 2017). Moreover, an understanding of the digital gender divide requires a deeper consideration of not just economic factors but the deeply entrenched social and cultural values that restrict and discourage women's access to and use of digital technologies (Subramanian, 2017).
Does a 'digital India' result in women's increased agency and productivity?
Will the ease of acquiring information and knowledge, better connected markets have an impact on women? Will women's structural marginalization disadvantage digital equality?
On the positive side, can women use digitization to change gender relations in their favour? Can the networking possibilities be used socially and politically, and in turn, enhance women's position within home and outside.
Or does it mean increased surveillance, control, towards strengthening of misogynistic forces and violence in the Indian context.
How effective are the recourse mechanisms (if any) provided by the State /independent institutions/judiciary when rights are violated. How does India fare on this vis – a – vis other countries (Asia, Global North/South)?
Aneja, U., & Mishra, V. (2017). Digital India Is No Country for Women. Here's Why. The Wire .
Gurumurthy, A., & Chami, N. (2014). Digital Technologies and Gender Justice in India: An analysis of key policy and programming concerns. IT for Change.
Subramanian, S. (2017, May 29). Why are there so few women on the Internet in India? Hindustan Times.


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This is the little-known story of Heavy Panzer (Tiger) Battalion 507 told through the recollections of the men who fought with the unit.
The book was conceived during a reunion of the 507' at Rohrdorf in 1982, where it was agreed to set up an editorial committee under Helmut Schneider, himself a veteran of the battalion, to search for as many survivors of the unit as possible and gather their reminiscences.
The resulting account is a treasure trove of first-hand material, from personal memories, diary entries and letters to leave passes, wartime newspaper cuttings, Wehrmacht bulletins and more than 160 photographs.
The account follows the unit from its formation in 1943 and the catastrophic events on the Eastern Front, through battles on the Western Front and engagements against the American 3rd Armoured Division to the confusion of retreat, panic-stricken flight and Soviet captivity in the closing stages of the war.
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2004: Professor of Toxicology and Head of the Institute of Toxicology, University Medical Center, Mainz
2003: Appointed Professor of Toxicology and Chair of General and Medical Toxicology at the Medical Center, University Göttingen, rejected
1993: Professor of Toxicology and Head of the Division of Applied Toxicology at the Institute of Toxicology, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz
1990: Habilitation, University Karlsruhe
1987-1993: Group Leader at the Institute of Genetics and Toxicology, Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe and University of Karlsruhe
1985-1987: Guest Researcher at the German Cancer Research Center, Department of Biochemistry, Heidelberg
1984-1985: Grant Holder of the C.E.C. (Communities of European Countries) at the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, State University of Leiden, The Netherlands
1976-1984: Postdoc and Scientific Co-worker at the Central Institute of Genetics and Cultural Plant Breeding, Academy of Sciences of DDR, Gatersleben, East Germany
1977: PhD in Genetics, University Halle
1975: Diploma in Biology, University Halle
Most relevant publications by Bernd Kaina
Roos WP, Jöst E, Belohlavek C, Nagel G, Fritz G and Kaina B (2011). Intrinsic anticancer drug resistance of malignant melanoma cells is abrogated by interferon-ß and valproic acid. Cancer Res, 15, 4150-4160
Wirtz S, Nagel G, Eshkind L, Neurath M, Samson LD and Kaina B (2010). Both base excision repair and O6- methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase protect against methylation-induced colon carcinogenesis. Carcinogenesis, 31, 2111-2117
Batista LFZ, Roos WP, Christmann M, Menck CFM and Kaina B (2007). Differential sensitivity of malignant glioma cells to methylating and chloroethylating anticancer drugs: p53 determines the switch by regulating xpc, ddb2 and DNA double-strand breaks. Cancer Res, 67, 11886-11895
Briegert M and Kaina B (2007). Human monocytes, but not dendritic cells derived from them, are defective in base excision repair and hypersensitive to methylating agents. Cancer Res, 67, 26-31
Roos WP, Christmann M, Fraser ST and Kaina B (2007). Mouse embryonic stem cells are hypersensitive to apoptosis triggered by the DNA damage O6-methylguanine due to high E2F1 regulated mismatch repair. Cell Death Diff, 14, 1422-1432
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A scientist from the UK doing research using the lab's 45 tesla hybrid magnet.
Oftentimes research gets divided into basic and applied research. It's not a clear-cut separation, but more basic research would be more explorations of how nature works without really knowing how we might be able to use that knowledge to our advantage. Early basic research in gravity that Einstein did, for example, nobody had any clue how that would be helpful sometime in the future. But now, in fact, it's being applied so that GPS satellites will work. Similarly, at the Magnet Lab, the basic research that we're doing here is seeking to understand how some new superconductors work – materials that conduct electricity without any heating, without any energy loss. Until we understand why they're superconducting, it's difficult for other researchers to come in and figure out how we can use that knowledge. So, applied research is often taking basic research and applying it to everyday problems that we'd like to solve.


I've listened to and been part of numerous presentations focused on how drone technology is being utilized in a variety of industries, and that's the main reason Hector Ubiñas' presentation at Drone World Expo last year stuck out to me so much. Rather than focus on the potential or possibilities around how the technology could impact the approach San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) is able to take, he showcased the pilot program they initiated that was designed to specifically detail when and how drone technology would make their approach to a given task faster, cheaper or safer when compared to traditional methodologies.
Hector Ubiñas giving his DWE presentation.
As a brief example of the kind of detail Ubiñas talked through during the presentation, he mentioned that utilizing drones meant SDG&E inspectors could use these tools and thus avoid rattlesnakes, which are a big issue in the backcountry of southern California, especially during the summertime. That kind of insight should resonate in a way that talk about "safety" with drones does not, especially in a region of the United States that is especially hilly and contains a variety of wildlife.
That kind of intangible value can be coupled with measurable increases to efficiency and reduced costs to define why and how adoption makes sense for an organization. Being able to document specific measurables related to costs and efficiencies is key though, and SDG&E's pilot program established when and where it made sense for them to use drones, as well as when and where it didn't make sense to deploy them. The technology defined the value proposition of drones for SDG&E, which isn't going to be exactly the same for anyone else, but there are countless lessons that can be learned about their approach to quantify and qualify what it can and will mean for them to adopt the technology.
We've previously detailed the efforts SDG&E has undertaken to create and scale a drone program, and their focus on embracing all of the tools at their disposal comes back to their impressive track record around keeping the power on in the region. Covering 2 counties and 25 communities for electric power means this is no small feat, which meant their pilot program needed to specifically establish how drone technology could help when directly compared to the approaches and tools they've been using.
The details the pilot program established in terms of the financials, reliability, efficiency and safety of drone technology allowed Ubiñas to make a confident, educated decision moving forward on the given use case. Doing so meant establishing and working off of some important assumptions.
The pilot program also assumed the UAS crew would include two people, a PIC and observer. What wasn't assumed was having a Qualified Electrical Worker (QEW) in the field to interpret the information being gathered by the drone. It was assumed that the QEW would interpret the data back at the office, which means there could be some efficiencies with having that QEW out in the field.
Of course, having the QEW out there in the field saves on the post analysis time, but if the job takes four hours, that's four hours of their time versus one hour back at the office when they could be doing other things. Which approach will ultimately create more efficiency? How does that calculation change if the pilot can also function as the QEW?
We've often talked about thinking of drones as another tool in the toolkit in terms of using the technology when it makes sense to use it, and using something else when it makes sense to take a different approach. What's the best way to figure out what to use and when though? SDG&E's pilot program was designed to determine exactly that.
Their efforts to compare UAS versus helicopters show the distinction in approaches in plain detail, and demonstrate how UAS can be competitive for them in small scope work, but pushes back on many of the assumptions that come with the technology. Many people think you can take a drone out and get the same thing as a helicopter, but they don't take into account the two-hour drive to get to a location, and the two hours it takes to return. Being able to consider these details has allowed them to develop a strategy around when drones make sense to deploy, and when it doesn't.
Assumptions and details related to the time it takes just to get people and equipment in position are often glossed over whenever talk about drone efficiency comes up, but time is money both in terms of salaries and what kind of financial impact occurs every minute power is out. Being able to repair issues as quickly as possible, even if that means utilizing a helicopter, can provide more value because of the speed associated with this approach.
The time it takes to capture the necessary data isn't the only factor though. How much time is being spent to process all this information is just as critical, and the pilot program demonstrated why a conscious effort to be disciplined about what's being captured is so critical.
One of the major benefits of utilizing drone technology is that it allows organizations to create a record of the condition of various pieces of equipment. Many SDG&E inspectors are currently doing visual inspections without taking any pictures, which means drones can create a permanent record when they capture the information required for an inspection. This allows an organization to refer back to the condition of a variety of pieces of infrastructure, but there are dangers with being undisciplined when creating these kinds of records.
Even when limiting themselves to 4 pictures for a pole, things add up quickly. That underscores the importance of having a data management tool ready to ingest everything and organize it. It's a point that illustrates data discipline isn't just about taking only the necessary amount of pictures, but also having that data management piece figured out so that everything can be easily organized, distributed and referenced.
The efficiencies SDG&E has been able to create on account of having this kind of data discipline in place has been calculated to an exact figure, but they've already been able to consider how capabilities related to machine learning and AI will further augment these efficiencies. Being able to utilize software and algorithms that will be able to identify broken insulators or strands that are frayed opens up an entirely new value proposition, and this pilot program puts them in a unique position to take advantage of those opportunities.
What's the Value Proposition for Your Organization?
Organizations of all sizes and types are working to figure out what works best for them when it comes to drone adoption, and that's the main reason SDG&E's pilot program is so important to highlight. Their examination of issues related to cost-savings, efficiency, safety, reliability, capability and environment have clarified where and how the technology can benefit them in the present, but they know consistent savings on cost is something that's going to happen in the future. That's a value proposition that works for their organization, but is that enough for stakeholders elsewhere to seriously look at adoption or put together their own pilot program?
SDG&E's pilot program is an incredible example of what it means to consider how drone adoption can and should be approached at a macro and micro level. While the value and measurables they were able to document won't be the same for other organizations that are working under different assumptions, in different environments, and within different industries, the lessons here are as insightful as they are eye opening.
Effectively defining the value proposition of drone technology for an organization stems from dedicated efforts to look at comparisons like the ones SDG&E laid out. No matter how well those comparisons are outlined though, advocates need to remember that technology and regulation will continue to evolve and change these value propositions. Some might use that as a reason to hold off on adoption, but making an investment around understanding where drones can work is the only way to really understand what kind of a difference the technology can make in the present and future.


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Could graduation ceremonies come in the form of seniors submitting a selfie video to be loaded onto the district's website?
Midland ISD Superintendent Orlando Riddick said Thursday that he doesn't know yet but that the district is taking suggestions to make the most of a graduation season impacted by coronavirus.
Chief of Staff Katie Atkins said Tuesday there will not be traditional ceremonies because of the COVID-19 pandemic. She said Midland ISD has joined Midland College as having canceled the end-of-the-year ceremonies to celebrate student accomplishment.
Riddick repeated Thursday that the traditional ceremonies at Chaparral Center will not take place as scheduled on May 23. He said MISD is receiving information and listening to what districts around the state, region and nation are planning. He wants to hear from seniors and their parents, as well as other Midlanders,about what alternative should be.
Riddick said the district has set up on its website a place for seniors -- www.midlandisd.net/seniors2020. He said information received at the commencement 2020 section and through other communication will help create the next best option for students who have "worked very diligently and hard since pre-K or kindergarten to get to this point."
Riddick said he is a parent of a senior at Early College High School, so he can relate to other parents who are disappointed about the process.
"We want to provide this pivotal moment," Riddick said. "Whether it be some form of a stage, some form of picture-taking, some form of an intimate time with your student and a parent done in a social distancing way, to what it is to prescribe a selfie video from a student that gets brought to us and loaded, we're looking at a number of factors on how we can drive what that looks like."
There won't be traditional graduation ceremonies for the Midland ISD Class of 2020, according to the school district.
Chief of Staff Katie Atkins said Tuesday during the Unified Command Team press conference that the school district will opt for a "virtual" ceremony to honor graduates. Graduation ceremonies for Midland High and Lee High School were set for May 23 at Chaparral Center on the Midland College campus. Atkins said details of the virtual graduation have not been determined.
"Based on everything we know at this point and time, (graduation) will not be moving forward in its traditional manner," Atkins said. "It was a difficult decision for us to make. We did not come to it lightly."
The district has determined that it cannot "in good conscience" put families, students and staff members at risk for coronavirus, which has led to the deaths of four residents of Midland County, according to the Midland Health Department. Midland College already had canceled its ceremonies, also scheduled for May. Atkins said a number of options were considered, including an outdoor or open-air graduation ceremony. She said the first and foremost priority is the health of students, families and the community.
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This is a revised competing renewal application for a RO-1 in its 12th year, with the overarching goal of investigating the function of the CD14-TLR4 pathway in the liver. The liver is a central regulator of the systemic immune response following trauma, warm ischemia/reperfusion (I/R), or sepsis, and is the primary site for clearance of bacterial endotoxin (lipopolysaccharide: LPS). The CD14-TLR4 receptor system is now known to mediate innate immune responses to both microbial invasion and sterile tissue injury. We hypothesize that this innate immune recognition system in the liver serves at least 2 functions. First, CD14-TLR4 permits recognition of danger, whether from pathogens or damaged tissue. Second, the system is utilized to rapidly clear microbial products such as LPS. Both functions require components of the CD14-TLR4 system and both lead to downstream signaling events that impact on cell type-specific functions. We will address these issues in 2 interrelated aims.
In Aim 1, our overarching goal is to determine the mechanisms for LPS clearance by the CD14-TLR4 pathway in the liver.
In Aim 2, we propose to determine the mechanisms of TLR4-mediated inflammation in hepatic warm I/R. For both Aims, we will utilize mice to take advantage of strains defective in components of TLR4 function and signaling. To study specific aspects of cell function and signaling, we will carry out experiments using primary (hepatocyte [HC[ and nonparenchymal [NPC]) cell culture as we have for nearly 2 decades. Where feasible, confirmation of the in vitro observations will be performed in vivo. To discriminate between the contribution of NPC and HC in vivo, we will use chimeric mice as we have done in the past. Our design will be specific to the hypothesis.
For Aim 1, we will study only LPS uptake and processing.
For Aim 2, warm I/R will be used as the model system of local tissue injury. Insights gained from these studies should significantly enhance our evolving understanding of the common responses of the liver to sudden disruptions of homeostasis, both from pathogens and from damaged tissue. ? ? ?
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Q: Custom Case Status Publisher I'm developing a visualforce page exactly same as the standard case status publisher page.
My page works OK to publish the case comments and it updates the case status as well. However, I want to see the updated case status without reloading the parent case page.
How can I refresh the case details view (case status especially) without reloading the whole page??
I'm using following tag to call the action function:
<apex:actionFunction
       action="{!addComment}"
       name="statusChange"
       rerender="out"
       oncomplete="refreshFeed();"
 />

Java script function is as follow:
function refreshFeed() {
    Sfdc.canvas.publisher.publish({name : 'publisher.refresh', payload : {feed:true}});
 }

A: I've done some experimenting and it looks like this works:
Sfdc.canvas.publisher.publish({name : 'publisher.refresh', payload : {feed: true, objectFields: true, objectRelatedLists: {}}});

I couldn't find it anywhere in the documentation, though.
Hope that helps!

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Driver escapes injury after youths throw brick through car window in west Belfast
A councillor said someone could have been killed in the incident.
The brick was thrown through a passenger side window of a moving car. Credit: PSNI
September 21 2019 19:12 PM
Police have slammed the "disgusting" behaviour of a group of youths who threw a brick through a moving car's window in west Belfast.
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/driver-escapes-injury-after-youths-throw-brick-through-car-window-in-west-belfast-38520641.html
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/incoming/d34af/38520640.ece/AUTOCROP/h342/Brick_car.jpg
The incident happened at around 11.25pm on Friday night after a group of young males congregated at the roundabout on Lagmore Avenue before throwing a brick through the passenger side window of a car.
A police officer, posting on PSNI West Belfast, said: "This behaviour was extremely dangerous as the brick could have struck the driver and caused serious injury to him or any other road users had he swerved into oncoming traffic, and has caused a financial inconvenience to him as he has to have the damage repaired."
The officer added: "This behaviour is disgusting. If you are reading this and know you were involved in this incident, then you should be ashamed of yourself. This was not big and not clever and actions like this have no place in our community.
"A full investigation has now commenced and we hope, with your help, to bring a suspect before the courts. Many thanks for your assistance."
Sinn Fein councillor Daniel Baker, who represents the area, tweeted: "I am absolutely disgusted by the behaviour of a few young males last night in Lagmore Avenue. They threw a brick through a passing car at 11.30pm last night. If anyone has any information please contact myself or the PSNI. Those responsible could have killed someone."
Anyone with information about the incident should contact Woodbourne LPT officers by calling 101 and quote serial number 2425 of 20/09/19.


It starts with a line. Whether made by the tip of a pencilor the blade of a skate, the magic starts there.
And magic once again flows from the pencil and imagination of internationally acclaimed artist Suzy Lee. With the lightest of touches, this masterwork blurs the lines between real and imagined, reminding us why Lee's books have been lauded around the world, recognized on New York Times Best Illustrated Books lists and nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest international honor given to children's book creators. This seemingly simple story about a young skater on a frozen pond will charm the youngest of readers while simultaneously astounding book enthusiasts of any age.


Poster of the Insurgent movement in Barcelona, 600 x 650mm. The poster dates from shortly after July 19, when the successful resistance to the military uprising could be used as a propaganda weapon. It was issued by the Generalitat de Catalunya, the autonomous government of Catalonia, and designed by Anarchists from the CNT, the organization that emerged from July 19 as the main power in the city. Drawing Matter Collections.
Architecture and Representation is a collaboration between Het Nieuwe Instituut, The Berlage, and e-flux Architecture that investigates the power of representation within and beyond the field of architecture, featuring Pier Vittorio Aureli, Jess Bier, Mark Cousins, Peggy Deamer, Mpho Matsipa, Joan Ockman, Hilary Sample, Samuel Stewart-Halevy, among others. The lecture and publication series brings to light the powers, biases, and histories embedded in the most essential formats and devices of architectural representation, and question how they disseminate into the world at large to shape social, political, and economic imaginaries.
Architecture and Representation assembles a wide palette of techniques—from isometric drawings, computer renderings, and cartography to legal contracts, notational short-cuts, and building codes—that each in their own way translate phenomena into relatively fixed, conveniently sized, and orderly documents. The ability to turn architectural representation into operative metaphors is a power not only available to architects and engineers, but also to governments, banks, militaries, and scientists. From border walls and climate models to five-year plans and trickle-down economics, the architect's toolkit is ripe for strategic appropriation, subversion, and cooperation.


Community based risk education and victim assistance project work for to reduce the threat of every type of explosive ordnance by making people aware and to adopt safety behavior from risky. This program is stared inn FATA science 2013. First it was started in Mohmand Agency and later on it was proceeds to Bajaur, Khyber and Kurram Agency as will.
One Project Officer at PHQ FATA.
One Agency Officer, two educators and one driver in each Bajaur Agency, Kurram, Khyber and Mohmand Agency of FATA.
We have one vehicle GLI in each cited four Agencies too.
We have conducted 5785 sessions in which 127270 people were made aware of mines risks in tribal areas.
Four International mine awareness days have celebrated.
Three International days of persons with disability have been celebrated.
One training has been conducted for religious scholars.
Artificial limbs have provided to 85 disables hailing from parts of tribal agencies and frontier regions.
Have conducted 24 CBRE orientation sessions to key stakeholders across FATA.


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You'll get a fun and friendly dose of writing advice. Grammar Girl covers everything from punctuation and grammar to style and voice.
Young women are leading language change again! This time, it's dropping T's in words like "Vermont" and "important." Also, we look at how "snuck" is sneaking up on "sneaked."
Doppelganger, estival, and funambulist. Jane Solomon shares the story behind her new book, "The Dictionary of Difficult Words."


Ok, that's a lie. Thank you for reading.
Kidding. But only a little. I was reading through Paul's story, thoughtful about the state of things. Our political world feels like a nightmare squeezed into a garbage disposal with a fish head and a ten day old piece of chicken no one knew fell behind the couch. It's not good.
I can only speak for myself when I say I am fearful. Not about where our country is going. It's going to go wherever God allows it. Having fear that reeks of sin and faithlessness. I trust God. Especially since I've studied so much about the presidents from our past. Holy weirdos, Batman, we have had some doozies. We just never had social media to boost it up so much.
No, the fear that's eating at me is all about losing my rights. I find that animal rearing it's prideful head inside my chest anytime I give in to curiosity and read a political article. Why do I do it. That isn't even a question, that's how "not for me" I think those articles are. Media is going to be media–stop being surprised by that.
I've realized I am so concerned with my rights. My. Me. Oh the selfishness revealed. I should probably write a thank you note to these very politicians for helping me see how selfish I really am. At least they wear their junk out in the open.
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A 1-hour session where the practitioner assesses your body constitution and your current imbalances. This will result in a plan to restore one's original body constitution (dosha). This plan involves the client's active participation in improving diet, lifestyle, mental state and sometimes detoxifying practices – depending on the season.
An Ayurvedic Cleanse is a 10-14 day protocol for detoxifying the body passages and helping to reset the metabolism. Usually done twice a year: in spring and autumn, it's a natural time to decongest the lymphatic system, reset your digestion, release aches and pains and increase energy.
determine the Prakruti/Vikruti paradigm through taking the pulses, we can restore people's health by reestablishing one's original constitution, your blueprint.
Ayurveda regards food as medicine if digested and assimilated properly. The same food though, if not digested or assimilated, will create imbalance in the system, leading to various conditions. It's essential to understand what food is appropriate to your body constitution to antidote your current imbalances. Similarly, the lifestyle will have to match the person's make-up. For instance, if an individual is sluggish, we'll antitode it with more dynamic activities, such as specific yoga sequence, breathing practice and other.


The Construction module develops children's ability to plan, to articulate what they have planned, to analyse the structure of objects (e.g. buildings, bridges, fences and so on) and to analyse the relationships between their different parts. To do this, they learn to use an important mental tool. This is a scheme (a drawn plan or a structure) which acts as a visual model of a structure that the children will build for themselves using a set of modular building blocks. With the use of a range of schemes in a variety of tasks, children learn to look at objects from different perspectives and to think carefully about what they need to do to build a given structure before they start building.
One of the most important characteristics of successful adults is that they see themselves as architects of their own lives; they do not act on impulse alone, but are able to set themselves goals, make plans that will allow them to achieve those goals and then execute those plans. The Construction module aims to foster goal-directed behaviour, and to help children to master their impulsivity.
The Construction module offers structured activities that help young children to use building blocks to develop key cognitive abilities. There are tasks that involve using symbolic representation, for example, substituting 2D shapes on a drawing for 3D blocks, and then using the arrangement of such shapes as the visual model – the plan – for constructing a specific structure. There are tasks that demand a combination of logical analysis and symbolisation. For example, the children may analyse a plan to work out which blocks they will need and how they will need to place them to create the 3D structure represented, or they may create their own visual models to represent 3D structures that others can build.
Further tasks develop logical analysis and creative production. For example, the children devise their own solutions to overcome such problems as building a road wide enough for two vehicles, or a bridge tall enough to allow a big boat to pass beneath it. To do this they must understand the relationship between the design of the structure they are to create and its function, plan and build a design that actually works, set criteria for judging that the completed design does, in fact, work and then check their own and others' work against these criteria.
A key feature is the opportunity to develop mathematical concepts and language because the module demands the use of a rich mathematical vocabulary in a practical, visual context. As they talk about their work, the children have the chance to access vocabulary that includes: the names of the building blocks and the 2-D shapes to which they correspond in plans; names for concepts such as edge, side, corner, face, flat, solid, straight, curved, plan, elevation; for actions such as balance, build, connect, put together, take apart, stack; for prepositions and prepositional phrases such as on top of, to the left of, to the right of, next to, under etc. The children also acquire a practical understanding of the physical properties of the shapes – not least a practical understanding of their relative sizes that should facilitate their understanding of measurement.
The work that the children are able to accomplish during structured sessions can be enhanced if they are provided with information and stories relating to the types of structures they are being asked to create. For example, you could take them out to look at a bridge or a building site, or read a relevant story. They will also benefit from access to the building materials during free play and encouragement to plan and give shape to their own visions.


Those who rest in Santa Clara Cemetery have found their place in history. Established in the 19th century, it is the oldest Archdiocesan Cemetery. Santa Clara is steeped in history, but also equipped for the best modern memorials. Santa Clara Mortuary, built in Mission style, seats 160. Visitation rooms have flat-screen video monitors for memorial tributes. Join us for special Masses and prayer events during the year.


Mary Alice Wimmer continues to enchant the viewer with her Vanitas compositions of specimens from earth, sky, and sea. Long captivated by the natural world, Wimmer an avid traveler and collector, paints vibrant, highly detailed watercolors that convey the transient nature of life. Also a skilled silverpoint artist, new drawings using this early Renaissance technique will be included in this exhibition.


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Kanada

 Rivière Doucet (vattendrag i Kanada, Québec, lat 49,22, long -71,81),
 Rivière Doucet (vattendrag i Kanada, Québec, lat 47,30, long -72,40),

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
All About Jazz is celebrating Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis' birthday today!
Eddie Lockjaw Davis was one musician who provided a link from the big band era through to the soul jazz phenomenon of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Davis developed one of the most unmistakable tenor sax sounds in post war jazz. With a full bodied yet reedy tone that was equally at home in rhythm & blues settings as more modern contexts, his playing always had a direct... Read more.
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If you are a database administrator, you come across thousands of database objects like stored procedures, tables, views, functions, triggers, etc. So, it's not possible to remember name of each of these objects. So, how will you find out a particular object?
In SQL Server 2000, there is good search facility for searching database objects. It can be launched by pressing F4 in SQL Query Analyzer or from Tools -> Object Search -> New.
The screen shot of Object Search window is shown below.
You can type name of object or part of name of object included between % signs in Object name filed and check the type of objects like User table, Stored procedures and finally click Find Now to get the search results. The interesting thing in search result window is that you can right click in particular object and select option to delete or script object.
You can search for stored procedures and functions by using keyword sp_stored_procedures like given below. It works for current selected database only.
This command when executed in query browser will list out stored procedures and functions with name containing word rep_proc. If sp_stored_procedures is executed alone without any arguments, then it will list out all stored procedures and functions of current database.
Also, you can search for tables and views by using keyword sp_tables like shown below. It also works for current selected database only.
This command when executed in query browser lists out tables and views with name containing word tmp. If sp_tables is executed alone without any arguments, then it will list out all tables and views of current database.


The St. Mark's Reading Group will meet on Monday, March 19, at 6:00 p.m. in the Parish Hall to discuss Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng.
All are invited to join in the discussion. Pizza and wine will be provided. Please bring $5.00 to offset the cost of the pizza and wine.


The only restless spirit in the Ghost Master assignment Haunting 101 is Weatherwitch. She is also one of the easiest restless spirits to lay to rest. Below is a list of her powers and a link to the Haunting 101 Ghost Master Walkthrough featuring Weatherwitch.
Need help finding and freeing Weatherwitch? Check out these two walkthroughs for Haunting 101.
Our Ghost Guide for Weatherwitch from Ghost Master was created playing Ghost Master on Pc.


Python is a widely used high-level programming language for general-purpose programming. Python's elegant syntax and dynamic typing, together with its interpreted nature, make it an ideal language for scripting and rapid application development in many areas on most platforms. And it's simple but have an effective approach to object-oriented programming.
This program will teach you Python in a practical manner. It is a classroom-based program that covers the essential topics to start programming with Python. Even those who have no existing knowledge on Python programming can join and become a software developer using Python.
Our program will teach you the core concepts of Django, starting from the basics and moving towards the advanced.
Our expert instructors use an experiential teaching method focusing mainly on hands on exercises to give you a complete hang of the language so that you will be ready to code your way into a great Python career by the end of this program.


It's no secret 4th of July is one of my favorite holidays and my favorite choice of fabric and quilt patterns. I own a quilt or two of red, white, and blue. Would you like to see one or two?
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#### Published in
Bihangtill K. Svenska Vetensk. -Akad. Handl. , Afd. 3 23(no. 10): 15 (1897)

#### Original name
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package org.hammerlab.bam.spark.compare

import org.hammerlab.bam.test.resources.TestBams
import org.hammerlab.cli.app.MainSuite
import org.hammerlab.test.matchers.lines.Line._

class TimeLoadTest
  extends MainSuite(TimeLoad)
    with TestBams {

  test("1.bam 230k") {
    checkFirstLines(
      "-m", "230k",
      bam1
    )(
      l"spark-bam first-read collection time: $d",
      "",
      "spark-bam collected 3 partitions' first-reads",
      "hadoop-bam threw an exception:",
      l"org.apache.spark.SparkException: Job aborted due to stage failure: Task 1 in stage 0.0 failed 1 times, most recent failure: Lost task 1.0 in stage 0.0 (TID $d, localhost, executor driver): htsjdk.samtools.SAMFormatException: SAM validation error: ERROR: Record 1, Read name , MRNM should not be set for unpaired read."
    )
  }

  test("1.bam 240k") {
    checkAllLines(
      "-m", "240k",
      bam1
    )(
      l"spark-bam first-read collection time: $d",
      l"hadoop-bam first-read collection time: $d",
      "",
      "All 3 partition-start reads matched",
      ""
    )
  }
}


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Runnin' from my Roots
Following a very public fall from grace, country music star Faith Winters seeks refuge in her rural Texas hometown, where she rediscovers feelings for her high school sweetheart, the local…
Dirty White Lies
Julia Alexander, managing a struggling art gallery, wants to save her marriage with Tony, a successful, but unfaithful plastic surgeon. The British ex-pats live luxuriously with their 10 year old…
Division 19
In 2039, jails have been turned into online portals where the public gets to choose what prisoners eat, wear, watch and who they fight. So successful is Panopticon TV, it…
Four couples traverse the modern dating scene in Los Angeles utilizing popular dating apps.
Three characters make the realization that none of them have ever felt true-fear, so over the course of one night, they set out to trick each other into feeling it.
On the outskirts of a kingdom, a quiet but fierce medieval warrior protects the realm from monsters and the occult. His gruesome collection of heads is missing only one –…
A woman named Kit moves back to her parent's house, where she receives a mysterious invitation that would fulfill her childhood dreams.
Alien Contact: Outer Space
Many people think of Space as a quiet and desolate vacuum of emptiness, but new evidence reveals that space is rife with activity beyond our comprehension. Just as we sent…
C'est la vie!
Max is a battle-weary veteran of the wedding-planning racket. His latest — and last — gig is a hell of a fête, involving stuffy period costumes for the caterers, a…
A dramatization of the life and death of Montreal mob boss Vito Rizzuto.
In an imaginary world where vehicles are the citizens, one underdog cabbie attempts to become king of the road in his hometown, Gasket City. He soon discovers that staying true…
A dramatization of Nelson Mandela's struggle to overturn apartheid in South Africa.
The Wild Boys
At the beginning of the 20th century, five teen boys, lovers of the arts, but also attracted by sin and transgression, commit a brutal crime driven by an unleashed deity…
Nemesis 5: The New Model
It is the year 2077 and terrorist organization known as The Red Army Hammerheads now dominate the Earth. The fate of humanity now rests in the hands of The New…
Nowhere Mind
Ivan uses experimental meditation to induce out-of-body experiences that might make it possible for him to escape a mysterious illness. His training takes an unexpected turn when he finds himself…
Miss Fritter's Racing Skoool
Enjoy blindsided testimonials from the Crazy 8's, touting the transformative impact Miss Fritter's Racing School has had in reshaping the direction of their lives.
Selling Stupid
Two women working for an advertising firm have to come up with a campaign for a new video game.
American Circumcision
Circumcision is the most common surgery in America, yet America is the only industrialized country in the world to routinely practice non-religious infant circumcision. Why does America continue to cut…
The Godfathers of Hardcore
Follows the two of the most respected men in underground music, Roger Miret and Vinnie Stigma of the band Agnostic Front.
Stranded in the suburbs, student filmmaker Chloe begins to make a documentary about her family's troubled past. Whilst filming, she and best friend Ed, witness an hysterical girl appearing to…
The Take Down
When Jack, a hit man from London, gets given his life back and the opportunity to save his daughter, it becomes a race against time to kill or be killed.
Beyond the Clouds
A hedonistic teenager in Mumbai is busted for dealing drugs and goes to his estranged sister for help, but complications land her in jail.
Immortal Fist: The Legend of Wing Chun
Kaya Cohen abandoned as a baby, and raised by her foster mom, learns she is the last remaining descendant of the Wing Chun bloodline.
A mother struggles to take control of her life in the face of advanced Parkinson's disease, while her son battles his sexual and emotional identity amongst the violence of Alberta's…
Fanged Up
A young rogue is thrown into prison for the weekend, unaware that the guards are blood-sucking vampires and the inmates are their victims
It's 1958 Manhattan and Miriam "Midge" Maisel has everything she's ever wanted – the perfect husband, kids, and Upper West Side apartment. But when her life suddenly takes a turn…
Years it has waited, now someone's moved in. Through the eyes of the evil within we witness a broken family desperately seeking a new beginning, in a new home, but…
When Jon returns on his first trip home from college, he inadvertently triggers events that inspire him to embark on an auspicious journey through the night to return a lost…
A hermit farmer discovers his late father's secret journal containing plans to a magnetic powered machine that could change the world, while unexpectedly becoming custodian of his gifted 6 year…
Troubled teens in a 2nd chance 'bootcamp' program encounter a group of terrorists trying to take out a rural nuclear power plant. Stuck in remote area with no skills or…
Brampton's Own
A struggling minor league baseball player retires and woefully returns to his small hometown, carefully dodging old wounds until confronted with the one that hurts the most – the girl…
The Empty Hands
Half-Chinese and half-Japanese Mari Hirakawa is the daughter of a Karate coach. Since her childhood, she was forced under her father's training, and has resented Karate for as long as…
In 1636, the Qing dynasty attacks Joseon. King Injo and his retainers, including Choi Myung-kil and Kim Sang-hun, hide in the mountain fortress city of Namhansanseong. They are isolated from…
A filmmaker discovers a box of video tapes depicting two students' disturbing film project featuring a local horror legend, The Peeping Tom. As he sets out to prove this story…
Two men team up to rescue their families from a tropical resort after becoming convinced an American timeshare company has an evil plan to take away their loved ones.
Skidding into middle-age, a stay-at-home dad must drive for an Uber-like rideshare company (DriverX) to help support his working wife and two young daughters. But low pay and wild LA…


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En la cama és un llargmetratge de l'any 2005 del director xilè Matías Bize. Es tracta de la seva segona pel·lícula i en ella tracta el seu tema recurrent: les relacions de parella. Va ser escollida per representar Xile als Premis Oscar de 2006 com a Oscar a la millor pel·lícula de parla no anglesa, però la seva nominació no fou acceptada.

Sinopsi
La pel·lícula transcorre completament en un motel de Santiago i descriu una trobada amorosa casual ens dos joves de classe mitjana. Es van conèixer mentre sortien d'una festa i no es coneixen els noms l'un de l'altre. L'home i la dona acaben dient-se els seus noms; ell és Bruno i ella és Daniela. A mesura que avança la nit mantenen relacions sexuals, comparteixen més detalls de les seves vides, penes i pors. Bruno fingeix que la seva xicota, que el truca al mòbil, és la seva ex i admet que es trasllada a Bèlgica per estudiar postgrau. Daniela admet que el seu xicot pot ser violent, però de totes maneres es casarà amb ell. Des de la passió inicial han passat a confidències, fins i tot a la tendresa, però insisteixen en que continuarà sent la seva última fugida abans del matrimoni.

Repartiment
 Blanca Lewin - Daniela
 Gonzalo Valenzuela - Bruno

Versió teatral
En la cama ha estat portada al teatre per Tamzin Townsend. Roberto San Martín i María Esteve interpreten els papers principals. Amb música d'Antonio Orozco, l'obra està produïda per Producciones Come y Calla.

Premis
 Espiga d'Or de la Seminci de 2005.
 Gran Premi del Festival Internacional de Cinema de Viña del Mar
 Festival Internacional del Nou Cinema Llatinoamericà de l'Havana: premi al millor guió, premi Gran Coral i Casa de las Américas.

Referències

Pel·lícules eròtiques
Pel·lícules dramàtiques de Xile
Pel·lícules dramàtiques del 2005


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Q: How do I list my activities in Google+ with the API? How do I see a list of my Google+ activities through the API? I couldn't find a method in the API Explorer.

A: Here's a link to the API Explorer with the activities list configured to display all of your activities.
Since the me userId is your private data, you'll need to click on the OAuth 2.0 switch in the upper right side of the screen and authorize the API Explorer to know who you are on Google+ before submitting the query.

A: If you are using PHP, with the Google-provided php client library, it looks like this:
$collection = 'public';
$client = new apiClient();
$client->setDeveloperKey($api_key);
$plus = new apiPlusService($client);
//$person = $plus->people->get($plus_id);
$results = $plus->activities->listActivities($plus_id, $collection);