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Parashah Vayishlach has very special significance for me. It was the portion on which I gave my first Dvar Torah during my first year in rabbinic school. It was the portion on which I gave my Senior Sermon during my last year of Rabbinic School. And now, I somehow find myself writing on parashah Vayishlach again this week. It happens to be my favorite Torah portion; one where the flawed human becomes more whole, where Jacob, over the expanse of one evening, becomes a better person, a better leader and returns to the core of self. Jacob is given a new name, which speaks to his true understanding of self. From the text: Genesis 32:25-29 And when he (the unknown assailant) saw that he could not prevail against Jacob, he touched the hollow of his thigh and the hallow of Jacob's thigh was strained. And he said to Jacob, "Let me go, for the day is breaking. And Jacob said, I will not let you go until you bless me. And he said what is your name." And he replied Jacob.
You shall no longer be called Yaacov; your name shall be Yisrael. Jacob himself bears witness to this name change, saying, "I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved." Jacob believes that this mysterious assailant is a divine messenger.
In order to discover more about the holy aggressor, we need to explore the context and psychological implications of the struggle. Here is the story line: in the dead of night, Jacob, having sent his wives and family, and all that he owned across the Jabbock river to insure its survival, is left alone with his thoughts and anxieties. Tomorrow, he would meet his brother Esau again after a 20-year separation. Twenty years since he stole his brother's birthright and blessing. Twenty years since he fled his brother's wrath. Twenty years since he was with himself in the wilderness of the darkness. His fears return. Would Esau still harbor hatred for Jacob? Would he want vengeance? Would Jacob survive the meeting? It is here, in the midst of Jacob's pressing anxiety that the mysterious being appears in order to wrestle with him. But just who is this mysterious being? And what does the unnamed being want from Jacob?
Yivarech oto sham, and he blessed him there.
I would like to take the Midrash a step further. If Jacob is looking for someone to assuage his guilt of 20 years, to free his trapped conscience, why can't the nocturnal assailant be even closer to him psychologically? Why can't it be Jacob himself? We can imagine the scene- Jacob lay thinking in the dark, a slab of rock as his pillow. The rush of the Jabbock River does not soothe his tortured soul; in fact it taunts him with his own anxieties. Sleep evades him. From the darkness he thinks he hears a voice and a question- what is your name? Vayomer alav mah shimcha?
Who are you? And Jacob realized that the voice was not from without but from within him. He realized the voice was his own. The question wasn't clear at first and Jacob may have struggled to understand. "Jacob, how could you have tricked your brother out of his birthright and blessing?" The rationalization which he had used for the past twenty years came quickly enough, after all it was part of his psyche- Esau was the one who traded his birthright for a bowl of soup, I just happened to be there. And mom set up dad to give me the blessing. None of it was my fault. I was the victim." In the stillness of the night, another, quiet voice answered, "be truthful, acknowledge who you are and what you have done." Jacob sits awake, and listens to both voices, the battle waging inside of him. Jacob is a patriarch, one chosen by God to parent the Israelite people, yet, in our text; he can't see the role that his choices have played in his destiny. He fears looking into the mirror and truly seeing himself, panim el panim, face to face, from the soul.
Abraham Joshua Heschel teaches that the first step to self- knowledge is self-doubt. There in the darkness, Jacob was seized by a great fear. Who am I?
It is a question we have all asked, we have all wrestled with. We look at ourselves through the eyes of our friends, lovers, colleagues, parents, teachers, and strangers. We are named and given qualities by those near to us without asking ourselves, "Who am I?" It is easier to accept the roles assigned to us then to delve deeply under the layers of fear and insecurity to discover our own true identities. We often protect and foster what has been created for us without listening to the still small voice within ourselves. What would those around us think if they knew who we really were? What would they think if they knew that sometimes our innermost thoughts were not holy? And so we push away those parts of our identity that are too difficult to acknowledge. Rabbi Larry Kushner explains that our past evils, our unholy parts, come back to injure and name us during the night. And since it is still a part of ourselves we cannot bear to acknowledge, when we sense it coming we become frightened and angry and project it onto someone else, feeling that we have torn it from ourselves." The question who am I truly is not easy to ask and the answer may not be what we need or want to hear. It may be more painful for us to bear. But when we listen carefully to the inner voice, we come to know our true name.


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Defense (three players): LB Leighton Vander Esch (first round); DE Dorance Armstrong Jr. (fourth round); and LB Chris Covington (sixth round).
Offense (six players): Guard Connor Williams (second round); WR Michael Gallup (third round); TE Dalton Schultz (fourth round); QB Mike White (fifth round); WR Cedrick Wilson (sixth round); and RB Bo Scarbrough (seventh round).
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WesPatterson.com: Was John & Margaret Black Patterson EVER in Pendleton Dist., SC?
NC state grants to Alexander Patterson in 1782 and 1786.
Witnesses to grants / deeds were Alexander Patterson (1783, 1788), Tryon Patterson (1788), Thomas Patterson (1789), and John Patterson (1792 x2).
1790 Census: Alex, Thomas, and John, with 2 additional adult males in Alex's household.
5/12/1810 - Elizabeth Patterson to Demsy Jackson - bondsman John Patterson.
9/26/1812 - John Patterson to Hannah York - William Patterson.
12/07/1802 - William Patterson to Ruthy Patterson - Charles Patterson.
March 181x - William Patterson to Sarah H---on - John Patterson.
Pattersons - William, Charles, David, John, William, James, Mary.
Based on these records, it seems to me that many of these folks WERE still in Randolph through the year 1800 and afterward. I do NOT think it likely that these Randolph Co NC Pattersons to be connected to the ones in Buncombe Co NC.


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Q: MS Access, Excel, SQL, and New Tables I'm just starting out with MS Access 2010 and have the following setup. 3 excel files: masterlist.x (which contains every product that I sell), vender1.x (which contains all products from vender1, I only sell some of these products), and vender2.x (again, contains all products from vender2, I only sell some of these products). Here's an example data collection:
masterlist.x
ID     NAME     PRICE
23     bananas  .50
33     apples   .75
35     nuts     .87
38     raisins  .25

vender1.x
ID     NAME     PRICE
23     bananas  .50
25     pears    .88

vender2.x
ID     NAME     PRICE
33     apples   .75
35     nuts     .87
38     raisins  .25
49     kiwis    .88

The vender lists get periodically updated with new items for sell and new prices. For example, vender1 raises the price on bananas to $.75, my masterlist.x would need to be updated to reflect this.
Where I'm at now: I know how to import the 3 excel charts into Access. From there, I've been researching if I need to setup relationships, create a macro, or a SQL query to accomplish my goals. Not necessarily looking for a solution, but to be pointed in the right direction would be great!
Also, once the masterlist.x table is updated, what feature would I use to see which line items were affected?
Update: discovered SQL /JOIN/ and have the following:
SELECT * FROM master
LEFT JOIN vender1
ON master.ID = vender1.ID
where master.PRICE <> vender1.PRICE;

This gives me the output (for the above scenario)
ID     NAME     PRICE    ID     NAME     PRICE
23     bananas  .50      23     bananas  .75

What feature would instead give me:
masterlist.x
ID     NAME     PRICE
23     bananas  .75
33     apples   .75
35     nuts     .87
38     raisins  .25

A: Here is a heads up since you were asking for ideas to design. I don't really fancy your current table schema. The following queries are built in SQL Server 2008, the nearest syntax that I could get in sqlfiddle to MS Access SQL.
Please take a look:

*

*SQLFIDDLE DEMO
Proposed table design:
vendor table:
VID     VNAME
1       smp farms
2       coles
3       cold str
4       Anvil NSW

product table:
PID     VID     PNAME       PPRICE
203     2       bananas     0.5
205     2       pears       0.88
301     3       bananas     0.78
303     3       apples      0.75
305     3       nuts        0.87
308     3       raisins     0.25
409     4       kiwis       0.88

masterlist:
ID  PID     MPRICE
1   203     0.5
2   303     0.75
3   305     0.87
4   308     0.25

Join queries can easily update your masterlist now. for e.g.:
When the vendor updates their prices for the fruits they provide you. Or when they stop supply on that product. You may use where clauses to add the conditions to the query as you desire.
Query:
SELECT m.id, p.vid, p.pname, p.pprice
FROM masterlist m
LEFT JOIN product p ON p.pid = m.pid
;

Results:
ID  VID     PNAME       PPRICE
1   2   bananas     0.5
2   3   apples      0.75
3   3   nuts        0.87
4   3   raisins     0.25

Please comment. Happy to help you if have any doubts.

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First Solar Struggles Amid Decline Of Thin-Film Solar Market
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Thin film solar technologies – such as the type used by First Solar – accounted for 11% of the global solar panel production in 2011, down from 18% in 2009, according to a GTM Research report released on Wednesday.
The decline points to how difficult it's been for First Solar and other thin film solar panel makers to compete against silicon solar panel makers, who dominated the market even before 2009 and have increased production and lowered their prices dramatically since then.
Just yesterday, First Solar, the largest thin film solar company worldwide, said it would close its German factory, idle part of a Malaysian factory and layoff 30% of its global workforce. The decision wasn't surprising given that the German factory in particular was more expensive to run than some of its factories elsewhere in the world, said MJ Shiao, a senior analyst at GTM and author of the report.
"It doesn't make sense to keep the Germany facility," Shiao said.
Thin film technology refers to the use of non-silicon materials to convert sunlight into electricity. When silicon was fetching $300 dollars per kilogram or more around mid-2000s, venture capitalists began to pump what would later add up to billions of dollars into companies that worked on various types of thin film technologies. Thin films promised to be cheaper to make because they would use less materials to make solar cells that would be thinner than silicon cells. But any new solar technology takes a lot of time and money to develop and bring to mass production, and producing it in large volumes is crucial for lowering production costs. Many startups who have attempted to do so have gone out of business or are still working on building their first or second large factory.
In the mean time, silicon solar manufacturers, from silicon producers to those who take the silicon and turn it into cells and then panels, have built many more giant factories. Prices for silicon fell to under $30 per kilogram earlier this year, Bloomberg reported. As a result, silicon solar panels are not much more expensive than thin film solar panels these days. The majority of the top 10 solar panel makers in the world produce silicon panels, and six of them have most of their manufacturing plants in China.
Thin film solar panel sales reached $4.43 billion in 2011, down about 2% from $4.53 billion in 2010, GTM said. The market research firm expects the sales to drop to $2.9 billion in 2012. Thin film companies actually increased the megawatts of solar panels they rolled out from roughly 2 gigawatts in 2009 to 3.87 gigawatts in 2011, but silicon solar panel companies boosted their production a lot more during the same period.
The three main types of thin film technologies use cadmium-telluride, copper-indium-gallium-selenide and amorphous-silicon to convert sunlight into electricity.
First Solar, founded in 1999, has been able to build a large fleet of factories that rivals the size of those owned by Chinese companies. The Arizona company excels at making cadmium-telluride solar panels efficiently and cheaply. It was a big deal when the company announced that its production cost had dipped below $1 per watt during the fourth quarter of 2008 while its rivals were far behind. Back in 2009, that production cost was about 50% lower than what major silicon solar panel makers could achieve, said Sam Wilkinson, a senior analyst at IMS Research. The difference now is around 10%.
An oversupply of solar panels over the past year has intensified competition. That glut caused overall panel prices to dive around 50% in 2011 alone. A trade complaint emerged last October to allege that some Chinese solar panel makers had been selling their products at prices that were far below production costs. Just about every solar manufacturer posted losses during 2011, and many closed factories and filed for bankruptcy, regardless of the types of technologies they used. U.S. companies such as Solyndra, Evergreen Solar, Energy Conversion Devices and SpectraWatt went bankrupt. The same has happened for Germany's Q-Cells and Solon.
Earlier this week, SunPower, which makes silicon solar panels, said it would close one of its factories in the Philippines.
First Solar followed with the factory closure announcement of its own. The company's chief financial officer, Mark Widmar, indicated during a conference call with analysts that the company would focus more on developing solar power plants and offering services to operate and maintain them rather than selling only solar panels. The company entered the power plant development business when it bought Turner Renewable Energy in late 2007, and it gave this new line of business a big push when it spent $400 million to buy a bunch of unfinished solar power projects in North America from OptiSolar in 2009.
"Based on where silicon prices are, it's harder for First Solar to convince traditional distributors to buy" only its solar panels, Shiao said.
If First Solar and other thin film technology companies survive the downturn, then their share of the global market could go back to the 2009 level by 2016, Shiao said.
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The Stranger remains steadfast
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There is no feeling that compares to that of addictive reading. Recently in the AP Literature and Expos classroom, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World was introduced to many MC seniors; some lapped it up with glee and others simply chose to depend on Sparknotes over the actual text. For those who relished its unconventional subject matter and its scarily-applicable social themes, perhaps in search for another novel of similar tone and text to satisfy their hunger. I myself have just devoured Albert Camus's The Stranger. It could be compared to Brave New World, as both novels have those titular moments of existential dread, or perhaps embrace.
The Stranger, originally written in Camus's native french tongue, follows the protagonist, Meursault, through a first-person perspective of his relatively simple life in the French Algiers. The novel addresses the fragility of life right from the start, with Meursault's mother's death. Upon returning to his life of normalcy, Meursault picks up his normal routine of sex, smoking, and easily floating through a life of mundane mediocrity. The novel increases in complexity when he comes into trouble with the law, but Camus's tone surprisingly remains unchanged. The unemotional narrator he created stays true to character, almost in an unhuman way. The conflict would in a traditional novel be capitalized and emotionalized to no extent. Camus's style of writing in The Stranger however, is anything but conventional. None of the turning points of the novel are accentuated as Meursault remains stoic throughout. The decision to make Meursault a reserved narrator was quite a clever choice, as his perceptions of his surrounding world are simple and clarified. The reader is transported into the setting, but through simple language rather than descriptive imagery. Easily readable prose is best suited for a novel that does regard existentialist thought, so that readers of all intellectual level can at least grasp at the concepts and Camus's opinion. Camus's commentary regarding the situation of man in this world does not become apparent until the near end of the novel. However, the theme hits hard. The feeling of helplessness, of drowning, of falling and grasping at pure nothing immerses the reader, although Meursault still remains his unfeeling self. Like John of Brave New World, Meursault comes to terms with the emotions we classify as being human. But his reaction is fresh and unexpected, making the ending of The Stranger that much more impactful.
The Stranger was published in 1942, but still remains at the forefront of existentialist literature today. Tackling common emotions regarding human purpose and subjecting everyday life to scrutiny is something Camus makes into an art. The language of The Stranger resonates with the common reader, and will remain so even with the progression of time.
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CIGI celebrated its 10th anniversary with an event -not intended to showcase its successes or talk about the business of global governance- by reflecting on the role they play in Canada, and more generally, in the world. They invited a bunch of people to their offices (more on this -they are stunning) in Waterloo, Canada, for a day of discussion and fun (more on this, too).
First of all, the CIGI campus is enviable. CIGI's offices have been built on top (and around) an old distillery (The empty barrels welcome you as you enter the building. It is just stunning). The design, according to the architects, reinterprets traditional colleges of Oxford and Cambridge with their centuries-old landscaped courtyards, in a contemporary glass, brick and stone building that recalls the industrial heritage buildings that formerly occupied the site.
At the heart of the campus is a courtyard: CIGI to one side, the Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA) to another, and a new teaching wing to the other. Across the road is the new Perimeter Centre (designed by Stephen Hawkings). Balsillie, by the way, is Jim Balsillie, one half of Research in Motion (of Balckberry fame). He is the engine behind CIGI. The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics is funded by his RIM partner Mike Lazaridis.
What a brilliant combination, if you ask me. Industry and academia working together.
The event started with a brilliant key-note speech by Roger Martin, Dean of the Rotman School of Management. Roger talked about what he called the paradox of think tanks: The reason why think tanks are ever more important is that the world is changing into a place where think tanks are becoming less relevant.
The world, he argued, is heading in a 'scientific direction' that prioritises (or gives sole right to) inductive or deductive logic in policymaking. However, he argued, new ideas never come from this type of logic (Aristotle warned about applied it to the world where things can often be other than they are -here, he said, we need rhetoric). Instead, new ideas come from abductive logic or "a logical leap of the mind".
The world we live in today however seems to want proof for everything. New ideas are not challenged on the ideas but on their evidence. I remember the fanfare around Dambisa Moyo's book a few years ago: all the criticisms (or most) were on her evidence (or lack of). But few engaged with her proposition: that African countries are addicted to Aid and that something must be done about it.
Think tanks, in his view, must make sure that they are places that not only allow and accept abductive logic but in fact make it central to their work. Abductive logic has a huge effect on how think tanks work. It is not just about coming up with new ideas but what one does with them. And what one does with them is embark in dialogue. One cannot proof or disproof these new ideas by looking back at data -this assumes that what happened in the past will continue to happen in the future (so what is new with that?) but only by bringing these ideas to life through dialogue and action.
This was a great start to the day and a very interesting conversation ensued. Do think tanks (and researchers) often hide behind 'evidence' and 'science' instead of saying what they actually believe in? (yes) I science being over stretched? (scientific method can, sometimes, tell us what has happened and why but cannot -and is not supposed to- tell us what to do) Can think tanks scape ideology? (no, but they should be able to shift as the world changes)What should we do? (we should strive to make things rightER).
Then there was a panel on policy innovation in the age of social media. Much of what was discussed resonates with the work that Nick Scott has been doing at ODI. My view is that we are still limiting the discussion by our own limited understanding of 'social media'. Often the presentations and questions went down the path of commenting on the relevance and usefulness of Twitter, Facebook, etc. The digital world is much broader and these are JUST tools. What matters is how we navigate through it -and not whether we can try to manage it (we cannot).
Chad Gaffield had some interesting points when he identified three conceptual changes in this new world: public discussion in real time, not defined by geopolitical borders, and creating new divides.
Alexandra Samuel, Director of the Social + Interactive Media Centre at Emily Carr University, provided a gem of an idea: Social media has been most successful not when it set out to change a policy but instead it developed to circumvent policy. Of course! Creative Commons is not an attempt to influence copy-right but rather to do without it. Political, economics, art, etc. blogging is not a way into a mainstream media column, it is saying, 'I do not need you". Policy change is a thing of the past.
Alexandra wrote a post right after : 6 questions about the impact of social media on think tanks.
To bring politics and politics (ideology and science) closer together we need to stop separating them -as if it was possible to leave our values at the door- and recognise that not one single player can do this. We need to invest in ALL institutions of democracy (political parties, the media, universities, the private sector, the state, etc.) and in the people who lead and staff them. Such is the complexity of finding the right balance between ideology and evidence that this cannot be planned in advance. We must learn to rely in smart and commitment people and lots and lots of opportunities for learning.
The last panel of the day (Policy influence -who has it and how to get it) was won over by Tiffany Jenkins of the Institute of Ideas (of Battle of Ideas fame) who said that their objective was NOT influence. A proper post on her presentation will come soon, I promise, but in the mean time: she argued that we live in depoliticised times where big ideas are off the agenda and where policymakers just as for 'technocratic' solutions to very specific problems (I think many think tanks having to answer to ToRs that start with "Demonstrate that" will be able to relate) and where influence, as a consequence, is easy. Of course it is: if the policymakers ask for the answer and you give it then how difficult can it be.
In the absence of political authority, she said, science has been brought in and overstretched (same argument as Roger Martin's). It is now used as a weapon and a substitute for political debate.
Patricio Meller, from CIEPLAN, talked about think tanks in Latin America. He presented an argument to use in leveraging more domestic funds for think tanks in the region. The experience of think tanks in Chile is worth looking into. Jeffrey Puryear's book: Thinking Politics is a must read.
It is worth mentioning that other leading minds in the world of think tanks were present: Lawrence McDonald, Vice President of Communications and Policy Outreach at the Center for Global Development, being one. Lawrence is a rare thinktanker: he does just 'do it' he also thinks about what and why he does it: Learning While Doing: A 12-Step Program for Policy Change.
And so the day went. We then had a cocktail in the CIGI campus and dinner. Steve Patterson provided some really good comedy during the dinner.
There was an interesting twitter discussion going on during the event in case you'd like to follow it.


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Taylor Swift and the Predatory Management Behind Her Re-Recordings
Taylor Swift is re-recording her first six studio albums after a battle over the rights to her masters with her former record label, Big Machine Label Group, led by mogul Scott Borchetta and owned by music manager and executive Scooter Braun. The re-recording of her four-time Grammy nominated "Red" is set to release in November, just seven months after the release of her four-time Grammy award winning "Fearless" re-record in April.
Why would Swift — now 31 years old — completely re-record the commercially and artistically successful albums she released in her teens and twenties? Essentially, Braun is holding them hostage. When Swift signed to Big Machine in 2005 at 15 years-old she entered a thirteen year-long contract that ensured her the tools she'd need in the industry, while the label would own the rights to the albums. As an aspiring singer-songwriter who'd mainly played in coffee shops in Nashville and Pennsylvania, Swift was bright-eyed and eagerly signed the agreement.
After soaring to undeniable it-girl status, Swift left Big Machine for Universal Music Group in 2018 where she could own the masters to the music she wrote, produced, and performed. She revealed in a 2018 Tumblr post that, "For years I asked, pleaded for a chance to own my work. Instead, I was given an opportunity to sign back up to Big Machine Records and 'earn' one album back at a time, one for every new one I turned in. I walked away because I knew once I signed that contract, Scott Borchetta would sell the label, thereby selling me and my future."
Swift left the label believing she'd have a later opportunity to buy back her masters. She had no idea the label would sell them without including her in discussions, let alone sell them to a known enemy of hers. She continued in the Tumblr post, "Any time Scott Borchetta has heard the words 'Scooter Braun' escape my lips, it was when I was either crying or trying not to." Somehow, the situation got even worse. Braun, now the sole owner of Swift's masters, entered discussions to sell the rights to the masters to private equity firm Shamrock Capital. After the company contacted Swift about these negotiations, her attempt to buy back the masters directly from Braun was thwarted. Just for a seat at the table at all, Braun stipulated that Swift must sign a nondisclosure agreement and never publicly speak ill of him again. She refused.
Through a contractual loophole, Swift announced in August 2019 that she planned to re-record the first six albums with Universal, thereby giving her rights to the new (Taylor's Version) masters. With an army of Swifties behind her, Swift expected the re-records to not only help her reclaim a sense of rightful ownership but also dilute the monetary value of the original recordings. Her life's work would no longer make Braun rich, and the possibility to reopen negotiations would be back on the table.
Braun sold the masters to Shamrock Capital.
But Braun isn't the only member of the boys-club that dominates the music management industry and perpetuates a culture of misogyny against female artists. Dr. Luke, record producer and friend of Braun's, has an even more sinister history of abuse against his former client Kesha. In 2013, Kesha filed a petition to be removed from Dr. Luke's label after he threw out over seventy songs she wrote for her album Warrior. Kesha filed a civil suit against Dr. Luke in 2014 alleging sexual, emotional, and verbal abuse that led to her rehabilitation for an eating disorder. In support, Taylor Swift donated $250,000 to Kesha's legal team. After a two-year-long battle in court, Dr. Luke withheld Kesha's royalties on all previous albums, financially attacking her.
Misogyny permeates the fabric of the music industry's hidden curtains, while its victims are forced to perform and bring revenue to the men that exploit them.
Movements like #FreeKesha shed light on the terrifying reaches of the patriarchy, but ultimately Dr. Luke and Braun still have their jobs and continue to make millions profiting off of not only Kesha and Swift but many other female artists. Deplatforming individual wrongdoers is impossible in an echochamber of men for whom the system was designed to benefit. Structural change and legal reformation of these predatory contracts is imperative to ensure that artists, specifically female artists, are granted freedom and dignity.
Despite a tremendous struggle behind the scenes, Taylor Swift proves to be a resilient and constantly evolving force of nature. "Fearless (Taylor's Version)," "Red (Taylor's Version)," and the "(Taylor's Version)" songs to come are not merely re-recordings born of contractual disputes, they are reinventions of her adolescence that remain true to her artistic identity while appealing to an ever-growing fanbase. With the inclusion of unreleased songs, a tighter production team, and now almost two decades of singer-songwriter experience under Swift's belt, her re-recordings are set to usher in a new era of Taylor with the material we fell in love with as second graders. Taylor Swift and her work transcend time, and they will undoubtedly transcend a little man's greed.
Photo by Eva Rinaldi (via CC BY-SA 2.0)
Baisier is a Sophomore in the College studying Justice and Peace Studies and Journalism and is our resident Swiftie


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Home Drama Combat Hospital – Stars Elias Koteas and Michelle Borth on how this...
Combat Hospital – Stars Elias Koteas and Michelle Borth on how this differs from M*A*S*H
Jul 8th, 2011 @ 8:53 am EDT
Rebecca Kincaid (Michelle Borth) and Colonel Xavier Marks (Elias Koteas) © 2011 Sienna Films, Photo by Kerry Hayes
ABC's new drama Combat Hospital is a fictional medical procedural set in Afghanistan in 2006. It chronicles the frantic lives of doctors and nurses from Canada, America and the U.K. in a makeshift hospital in Kandahar.
Elias Koteas (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) portrays as Colonel Marks, the head of the hospital, and Michelle Borth (Hawaii Five-0) plays Canadian surgeon Dr Rebecca Gordon.
The two paired up at an ABC press day to talk about their new series.
Give us a little sense of your characters and why you fell in love with them as actors?
Major Grace Pedersen (Deborah Kara Unger), Commander Will Royal (Arnold Pinnock), Rebecca Kincaid (Michelle Borth), Colonel Xavier Marks (Elias Koteas), Dr Simon Hill (Luke Mably) and Captain Bobby Trang (Terry Chen) © 2011 Sienna Films
Elias Koteas: He's really smarter than I am, so I get a chance to say things that I would never utter. Being somebody having to step up and make life and death decisions, it's written beautifully and the characters are complex, so all these elements to me were enough to jump in.
Michelle Borth: Going into the pilot season, I think I was looking for a strong intelligent confident character to play, who was also tragically flawed.
She's a woman in a predominantly male environment and so her vulnerability is in her sensitivities have to be masked, because she wants to be seen as an equal and she also wants to gain the respect as such a young trauma surgeon and I'm really young to be a Major, so I have a lot to prove, I think.
She was dumped by her fiancé two weeks before she was deployed, and she thinks she's pregnant, as she's flying there. There are moments when she's alone where you see her break, but when she's with especially Colonel Marks, she's tough with a chip on her shoulder and eager to please and have an opinion.
She's a fantastic character, and I really wanted to sink my teeth into it. But she's not just that, there's a sensitive side to her that you will slowly see as the show unravels.
Have you had opportunities to meet real life counterparts?
Episode 1.03 "It's My Place" - Colonel Xavier Marks (Elias Koteas) is forced to call for a walking blood bank © 2011 Sienna Films
Elias: There were a couple of guys from the Pentagon, and another guy from the army came in for the first week of production.
Michelle: I got to meet a trauma surgeon who was stationed at Kandahar from 2006 to 2009 and she was one of our first medical consultants and I would say, not that it's based on her but if there was anyone this woman, she was just a badass.
She's a military surgeon and so I was lucky to get to hang out with her for a little bit.
Why is this set in 2006 instead of today?
Elias: Because we wanted a time period that would convey a sense of urgency, when the world was still uncertain about our military presence, working out of makeshift hospitals without a lot of resources or technological advances.
How does this differ from M*A*S*H?
Episode 1.03 "It's My Place" - Rebecca Kincaid (Michelle Borth) depletes the blood supply © 2011 Sienna Films
Michelle: It's not M*A*S*H, but we do have funny moments. The content and the nature of it can be so heavy, so we are making a very big effort to find humor. Not so much make it comedic but find humor in real life moments.
My biggest thing is that people laugh at funerals, you can to find humor in everything, especially in such a close quarters environment, when things go wrong and relationships arise that are inappropriate. We find humor in it, and we're purposely trying to do that so that it's not just so heavy.
Is it intense too?
Michelle: Absolutely, it's a super, fast-paced, high-stakes environment because we're in a war zone, as opposed to medical procedures that take place in a hospital. Our lives are on the line every day when we're doing this, so the drama is intense when we have possible air raids coming, it adds to a much more dramatic feel.
Do you ever get out of the hospital and go into the field?
Michelle: With my character, the only time I go outside of the compound is a woman's clinic that they have, because women are not allowed to go to hospitals that are primarily male doctors, it's against [their religion], so I volunteer at a woman's clinic. It's the one out that I have on the base.
Do you get off base, Elias?
Episode 1.02 "Enemy Within" - Colonel Xavier Marks (Elias Koteas) © 2011 Sienna Films
Elias: No, not yet.
Michelle: Well, he runs it, this is his base and he's got to be there.
Elias: My character rides his bike around the base.
Michelle: It's a 185,000 square foot set, it's the biggest set I've ever been on. The whole backlot has been designed to the actual, original Kandahar airbase looks like.
Elias: It's phenomenal. It's just outside of Toronto.
A few years ago a show like this might have been tough to get on the air, why do you think now is the time that we are able to hear these kinds of stories?
Episode 1.04 "Wrong Place at the Right Time" - Rebecca Kincaid (Michelle Borth) and Dr Simon Hill (Luke Mably) © 2011 Sienna Films
Michelle: It's been a little out-of-sight, out-of-mind and I know that for my generation particularly who are more of a political state-of-mind than I think we've ever have been, so I want to know what's going on, I think that that lends a big hand to maybe why people would watch it now.
How do you feel you're representing these doctors?
Michelle: We focus on the difficult situation they are placed in and have to practice medicine to the best of their abilities. They are gifted and courageous people who can be calm in the midst of the storm around them.
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Home Armenian Genocide Israel Government Officially Calls on Knesset to Recognize the Armenian Genocide
Israel Government Officially Calls on Knesset to Recognize the Armenian Genocide
US, France and Russia Call for Peaceful Settlement of Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict
Published on 15 June 2012
An In-Depth Report and Analysis of the Political Process by Genocide Prevention Now (GNP)
Prepared by Israel W. Charny
The GPN report describes many of the nuances of the deliberations that you will not find in conventional news reports, presents an "Explanation and Analysis," as well as a section of direct quotations of many of the speakers. The GPN report concludes: "In spite of the clear risks of being very wrong, GPN's editor-reporter now predicts that the bill to recognize the Armenian Genocide will go the full route and will be approved by the Israeli Knesset."
In an historic session of the Israeli Knesset, a wide ranging spectrum of members of the Knesset, from 7 different political parties, overwhelmingly endorsed recognition of the Armenian Genocide. The session was led firmly and inspiringly by the Chair of the Knesset, Reuven Rivlin , who himself spoke with profound feeling of both a Jewish and an Israeli imperative to extend a long overdue recognition. The issue is a moral one, he emphasized over and over again.
"We must make our voices heard when other nations are targeted for destruction," Rivlin stated. "Those who drafted the Final Solution for the Jews figured the world would be silent as they were when the Armenians were murdered. The Knesset cannot ignore this episode that is factual. We cannot forgive nations who ignore our disaster and we cannot ignore the disaster of other," the Knesset Speaker added.
Although several speakers also reconstructed briefly familiar parts of the traditional Israeli rhetoric of past years of realpolitik — e.g., a chorus line that the government of Turkey in our time is not the Ottoman Empire that perpetrated the genocide — the old excuses were as if album memories of the language that prevailed in the past to explain and justify Israel's failure, and in all cases but one soon gave way to clear-cut affirmations of the validity of the Armenian Genocide and support for its recognition by the current government of Israel.
This reporter had to hold his breath during the beginning of the remarks by the official spokesman of the government before it became clear how positive the official position had become for Israel to recognize the Armenian Genocide at long last.
There was only one notable effort at a counter-proposal by a member of the Knesset, Robert Tiviaev, who made a disingenuous effort to call for a commission of historians to research 'what really happened,' and he pledged that if the commission then concluded that there had been a genocide, "I will be the first to call for recognition." Knesset Chair Rivlin made short shrift of the speaker and ruled that there was no point in generating a formal counter proposal and voting on it because it was obvious from all the earlier speakers that an overwhelming majority of the Knesset adamantly confirmed the historical authenticity of the Armenian Genocide.
Rivlin also concluded there was no point in calling for a vote on the resolution to recognize the genocide since the Knesset already had voted last year, unanimously, in favor of recognition. It was on the basis of that vote that the measure had been referred to the Knesset's Education Committee that held a several hour session in December 2011. (See the GPN article, "DIRECT QUOTATIONS FROM ISRAELI KNESSET HEARING, DEC 26 2011, ON RECOGNIZING THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE that was issued as a Special Bulletin by GPN and then incorporated in Issue 8 (http://www.genocidepreventionnow.org/Home/GPNISSUES/GPNBulletinISRAELIKNESSETSpecialSection8.aspx).
Knesset Chair Rivlin also said that today's session was a confirmation and extension of the original full Knesset resolution to recognize the genocide, and he then added forcefully that he now expected a continuation of deliberations in the Education Committee and a vote on the resolution.
The government was officially represented at the hearing by MK Gilad Erdan, a member of the National Union Party and currently Minister of Environmental Affairs, who is described by some press as a close friend of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It was Erdan's role to present the government's position (that will be described shortly) and to answer officially on behalf of the government proposed parliamentary motion not to recognize the genocide.
Erdan said clearly that the government had decided to recognize the Armenian Genocide, and even used what is normally the code word 'holocaust' in his remarks to describe what was done to the Armenian people. "I think it is definitely fitting that the Israeli government formally recognize the holocaust perpetrated against the Armenian people," Erdan, Israel's environmental affairs minister said.
For this reporter, Erdan's remarks also reflected the struggles of the long-since denialist Israeli government that is now coming around dramatically in a welcome move to recognize the Armenian Genocide. At first, Erdan made at least one totally inaccurate remark in defense of the State of Israel when he said, "The State of Israel has never denied the [Armenian Genocide]. On the contrary, we deplore the genocide." Erdan also temporized briefly about the meaning of the word 'genocide' when he noted that, "Not everyone uses the same dictionary when they refer to 'genocide'…" Yet in the end – though this reporter thought somewhat nervously and hurriedly – Erdan announced unambiguously that he was conveying the government's official position. First of all, he said on behalf of the government that, "One must support full open discussion of the issue." He also went on to refer to a deeper meaning of the Armenian Genocide for mankind and to link the meaning of the Armenian Genocide to the Holocaust of the Jewish people: "The government notes that mankind has not learned the full meanings of the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust." And finally Erdan announced the Israeli government calls for formal recognition of the Armenian Genocide which, as noted earlier, Erdan now characterized with the word 'holocaust:'
GPN Explanation and Analysis
Unlike the procedure in the US Congress, the Israel legislative sequence calls first for a vote in the plenum, and given a positive vote then the proposed resolution is referred for a hearing in one of the Knesset committees. Now, given a further positive vote in the committee, the measure returns once again to the plenum for three readings and a vote on each reading. At the successful conclusion of this process, the resolution becomes a legal decision of the Knesset.
In the case of the bill to recognize the Armenian Genocide, it is known that if the government maneuvers to send the bill to the secretive Committee on Foreign Affairs and Security, the bill will most likely be killed – and no information on who said what and 'who done it' may ever be forthcoming. When the present resolution was sent last Fall to the Education Committee, whose hearings are public, it was a major step toward a possible recognition of the Armenian Genocide. The December hearing in the Education Committee was widely hailed in Israel as the first-ever extended consideration of the genocide in Israel's legislature.
However – a very big however – as reported by GPN at the time, after several hours of a rich and quite moving session, the Chair of the Education Committee at the time, Alex Miller, a member of Knesset for the Yisrael Beitenu Party that is headed by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman (the Foreign Ministry continued in its traditional opposition to recognize the genocide) as if broke the spell of the session that overall would clearly have produced a vote for recognition, and announced preemptively that the session was over. Bang! Miller then promised that there would be a continuation session in the future, but in fact has never made a move to schedule such a session, and GPN has learned privately over these months from the leaders of the Armenian community in Israel that Miller has said that he refuses to convene such a session.
It now remains to be seen whether the government will act on its newly announced support of the recognition by working to have the Knesset send the measure once again to the Education Committee for a continuation of the hearing – there will be a new Chair of the Education Committee in the coming weeks.
What is clear is that Knesset Chair Reuven Rivlin will do everything in his power in the behind-the-scene decision-making process to have the bill referred back to the Education Committee, but we do not know how to evaluate the range of his influence.
If the government arranges for the bill to go to the secretive committee where it is likely to be killed or in any other way stops the unfolding of the full process, we will know that the statement made by the government's spokesman on June 12 was still another maneuver in the history of Israeli realpolitik – notwithstanding the fact the even this statement itself represents a major precedent in the tortured process that has taken place in Israel over so many years.
One puzzle for this reporter in the day following the hearing is that so much of the press in Israel and in the U.S. too failed to report loudly and clearly what for us is the very big news – and therefore GPN's headline. The Government of Israel did state officially that it supports recognition. Wow. As I reviewed press today, I discovered to my amazement that most missed the point. Haaretz in Hebrew didn't even report the story of the hearing. The English edition of Haaretz this morning featured the hearing as its lead Page One story but still didn't convey the main point of the victory. Neither did the Jerusalem Post or the Los Angeles Times in their fairly full stories. One minor new service in israel, Arutz Sheva, did publish a small statement that the Minister Erdan "spoke for the government…" and quoted him saying in the first person (which could be one source of the confusion that has been showing up as to who he represented), "I believe it would be appropriate for the government to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide." In Istanbul, the newspaper Today's Zaman got it more correctly than some of the major Israeli papers and quoted the minister basically correctly, BUT added that he said Israel's government had not changed its policy, and in general erred very badly in saying the hearing was initiated in response to this minister's remark rather than that the minister came as the official government representative to the hearing initiated by the Knesset. The one source we have found so far that got it really right was the Chicago Tribune which clearly credited Erdan as speaking for the government.
Why so much clouding of information? At the moment GPN's analysis is that it's a whopper of a correction for Israel to make after so many years and its hard to believe. As we reported, even the minister seemed nervously unsure!
In spite of the clear risks of being very wrong, GPN's editor-reporter now predicts that this bill to recognize the Armenian Genocide will go the full route and will be approved by the Israeli Knesset.
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Location — Swindon
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The Harlers are a three-piece Alternative Rock band from Swindon, UK.
Formed at the beginning 2015, Chris Pritchard & Jamie Warren started rehearsing song ideas which would become the bands signature style, with Electric Guitar and Drums, the pair gained an intimate musical understanding mixing Blues Rock with an Alternative twist with personal tales about love and loss.
The duo went on to release their first demo "Eyes On You", which received a strong reception. The band followed up with their debut single "Get Away".
In June 2016 The Harlers released their next single "Your Love". A video quickly followed and the bands reputation as a live band grew with wild, eye catching performances.
In March 2017 The Harlers expanded the band to a three-piece, adding Mitch Malone on Bass guitar providing the growling bottom end to push the band to the next level.
At the end of September the band released their debut EP 'Morning Light' to a sold out crowd at The Victoria, Swindon. The band have since gone from strength to strength, rehearsing and playing shows around the South West and booking festival slots for the summer of 2018.
With influences such as The Black Keys, Royal Blood, QOTSA & Gary Clark JR the bands sound of foot-stomping drum grooves, growling bass tone, piercing guitars, powerful & vibrant vocals create a modern Garage Rock sound.
The unique sound of the band is DIY, using various, out of the ordinary techniques and equipment. Consistently trying to push their musical boundaries with sound.
Spring 2019 will see the band entering the studio to record their follow up EP, to 'Morning Light'. Recording a number of tracks from their set, releasing a darker sound with their individual hands on approach.
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Beautiful Antique Chinese Carved Jade Sculpture. A very impressive Chinese Jade carving. The intricately carved piece featuring a man strggling with a dragon. The man is presumably Nantimitolo, or The Taming Dragon Louhan. In his hand, Nantimitolo holds a pearl and a bowl as the dragon attacks him. A lovely, intricately carved piece. Some natural cracks and fIssures.
Would surely benefit from a cleaning. Cork is obviously only used for taking photographs. Width: approx 4.8 cm.
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This conference invites the delegates from universities, research field, hospitals, healthcare, public authorities to discuss and explore opportunities related to diagnostic microbiology and infectious diseases.
The main topic of the conference – Expanding and Exploring the Possibilities of Diagnostic Microbiology in Infectious Diseases. The event assembles the scientific sessions with keynote speakers, plenary lectures, oral and poster communications, and roundtable discussions, panel discussion, debates and workshop along with an exhibition and networking opportunities.


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Sept. 21, 2011 • U.S. Dept. of State Briefing on U.S. Child Abductions to Japan
ASSISTANT SECRETARY KURT CAMPBELL: "The President also very strongly affirmed the Japanese decision to enter into The Hague Convention — asked that this — on Child Abduction — asked that these steps be taken clearly and that the necessary implementing legislation would be addressed.
He also indicated that while that was an important milestone for Japan, that — he also asked the Japanese prime minister and the government to focus on the preexisting cases, the cases that have come before. The prime minister indicated that very clearly, he knew about the number of cases. He mentioned 123. He said that he would take special care to focus on these particular issues as we — as Japan also works to implement the joining of The Hague Convention, which the United States appreciates greatly."
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Pratham Virtual Open Schools is a Solutions Initiative launched by Pratham, India's largest education NGO, in partnership with the SDSN as a 2 year pilot aimed at providing high quality education content and teaching to children who have dropped out or are struggling within the education system. The project, launched in June this year has opened 4 centers in the Indian state of Rajasthan where over 120 children in the age group of 14-18 years gather thrice a week to learn English and Math through virtual classes run on Skype and offered by teachers in different parts of the country. The virtual teaching is supplemented with online content and quizzes that allow children to practice and learn at their own pace.
In its initial stage, the project seeks to identify the best pedagogical and operational model to provide high quality content and teaching to children without access to either currently. The goal over these 2 years is to reach 1500-2000 students across 20 centers, both urban and rural.
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I see a Common Stock round for each of my companies, but I didn't create them. Why are they there?
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Q: Hide the Android Notification bar on a Sencha Touch 2 app I've successfully got my application compiled into an apk file, and deployed to my Android devices.
But when I run it there, the notification bar is present and I'd like it to be fullscreen, without the notification bar.
This is the bar at the top of the screen, with the battery usage, wifi/3G connection, new email icon, etc.
How do we hide this in our compiled apps with Sencha Touch 2?
I have set fullscreen: true in the config of the first view which is loaded (the log in screen), and have also set:
Ext.application({
   viewport: {
      autoMaximize: true
   }
});

A: You could change this in your AndroidManifest.xml:
<application>
  <activity
    android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen" >
  </activity>
  ...
</application>

A: You can actually modify the AndroidManifest.xml template in the SenchaCmd to get this, as explained in the Sencha forums.
That file will be in Sencha/Cmd/<CmdVersion>/stbuild/st-res/android/AndroidManifest.xml. You need to set the theme property on the application tag like this: android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar"
with the whole tag looking like:
<application android:icon="@drawable/icon" android:label="%s" android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar">

However, this solution is still extremely crappy and I'd love to see something that works without patching Sencha's code.

A: Simply add this to make the screen fullscreen this.setTheme(android.R.style.Theme_NoTitleBar_Fullscreen); before super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
OR
add this.requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE); and
this.getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN, WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN) before setContentView
For example:
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState){
/**sets Theme and Style (must be set BEFORE super.onCreate)*/
this.setTheme(android.R.style.Theme_NoTitleBar_Fullscreen);
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);

OR
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState){
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
/**Changes Window. Removes title and/or notification bar (must be set BEFORE setContentView)*/
this.requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
this.getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN, WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN);
setContentView(R.layout.main);

(Or you can do it via the Manifest as what homer_simpson said.)


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As UK Establishment Whores Itself To China A TV Report Exposes Orchestrated Army Of Support For President Xi Jinping
tibettruth 21 Oct 2015 21 Oct 2015
Anyone else checkout via the internet the scenes on London sidewalks yesterday as the British Establishment groveled to China's President Xi Jinping. The route taken by his cavalcade was swamped with an army of adoring supporters, all carrying that symbol of human rights, compassion and freedom, the Chinese national flag! The dissenting protesters, Tibetans, Uyghurs, members of Falun Gong were overwhelmed, caged in by the cops, and it would seem denied certain actions, which pro-China activists appeared to enjoy without restriction. Looking at events there it was obvious this was no impromptu outpouring of adoration towards the Chinese leader but a carefully staged and well funded effort to effectively dominate and suppress any attempt to raise issues such as Tibet and human rights concerns.
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Behind the cheery smiles of the army of Chinese supporters, all wearing pro-China branded clothing was an agenda to propagandize, manipulate and take control of any media coverage. The game was busted by a BBC crew who discovered boxes of such merchandise that had been shipped in from China, as shown in the video above. Meanwhile the UK authorities, who have decided to jump into bed with China's regime in exchange for profit, looked to have extended advantages and concessions to these loyal Chinese 'supporters' which are being denied to Tibetans and others protesting against the visit of President Xi Jinping.
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H Wilson says:
22 Oct 2015 at 11:02 pm
So much for the respect for a host nation …….drowning out free speech. Welcome to Big Brother
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Arirang TV è un canale televisivo satellitare sudcoreano che trasmette in lingua inglese. La sua programmazione è generalista, con cartoni animati, serie televisive, documentari, talk-show e altro.
L'emittente è ricevibile dall'Italia attraverso il satellite Hotbird.

Il nome Arirang deriva dal titolo di una canzone tradizionale coreana.

La fondazione di Arirang TV è avvenuta nel 1996.

La programmazione
Arirang TV si suddivide in Arirang World, Arirang Korea e Arirang Arab.
Lo scopo di questo canale è quello di illustrare la storia, la cultura e le curiosità della Corea.
I programmi che vi si possono trovare spaziano infatti da documentari sulla storia o sulla cultura coreana (Documentary World), a talk-show con personaggi appartenenti a qualsiasi campo (Heart to Heart). I conduttori delle trasmissioni parlano in inglese; in alcune serie televisive gli attori parlano in coreano, ma la visione è sempre corredata da sottotitoli in inglese. Arirang TV intrattiene il pubblico anche con programmi sulle curiosità e la cultura pop della Corea odierna (Showbiz Extra o Pops in Seoul) e trasmette anche un canale per dare agli spettatori alcune nozioni di lingua coreana (Let's speak Korean!).

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Reti televisive sudcoreane

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These days, it seems like everybody—male, female, young, and old—wants a tattoo. But choosing the right design isn't always easy. Tattoo Johnny to the rescue! Culled from the world's leading tattoo Web site, this in-depth resource offers more than 1,000 designs in a wide range of styles, all by renowned artists: angels, devils, flowers, pirates, pin-ups, religious images, stars, zodiac signs, and more. Whether readers are getting their first tattoo, or a second, third, or tenth, this is the ideal place to find the perfect pattern.


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Gastonia Police investigate double shooting
Police said two people were hospitalized after an overnight shooting in Gastonia.
Officers responded to the call around 11 p.m. at a home on Carpenter Street.
They said one man showed up at a local hospital with multiple gunshot wounds and was rushed into surgery.
A woman was also shot but is expected to be OK, according to investigators.
Detectives have not said what led to the shooting or if anyone was in custody.
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The band launched in 2011 with the single 'Animals', the fully produced and mastered track is accompanied by a professional music video shot around the hometown of the duo, and taking advantage of the natural beauty of Cape Town. This single, one of the early compositions, captures the unique and new sound of this fresh face of SA music. Not content with the ordinary approach, Veladraco has continually pushed to evolve their sound and in 2015 took to the stage as a 5 piece live ensemble. Members include Alain Martheze of Enmity, Sean Martheze of international touring act Ironstein Psytrance, Ricki Allemann of local heroes Facing the Gallows and Nic Smal & Gareth Allison of Gravity Wins Again & Derrick Watts and the Sunday Blues. Despite their recent entry into the live music scene they have played alongside South African favourites: Jack Parow, Shortstraw, Grassy Spark, The Plastics, Crash Car Burn, The Rudimentals, Tweak and more.
Taking advantage of their world class in-house studio and the services of South Africa's top audio engineers, the band has been refining their debut EP and music video which is set for released on all major music and video platforms from 29 November 2016.