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After Anti-Trans Law, NCAA May Ban College Championships in Mississippi
by Ashton Pittman
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves signed the first state bill in the U.S. in 2021 banning transgender athletes from competing on female sports teams, as supporting lawmakers gather behind him, Thursday, March 11, 2021, at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss. AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis
Mississippi could lose out on college championships and millions in revenue after Gov. Tate Reeves signed a law effectively banning transgender athletes from high school and college sports. The NCAA said today that it is examining future plans for championships in states that have passed or are considering trans exclusionary laws.
"The NCAA Board of Governors firmly and unequivocally supports the opportunity for transgender student-athletes to compete in college sports," the organization said. "This commitment is grounded in our values of inclusion and fair competition. … When determining where championships are held, NCAA policy directs that only locations where hosts can commit to providing an environment that is safe, healthy and free of discrimination should be selected."
The move comes less than a year after lawmakers retired the state's 1894 Confederate-themed state flag, partly in response to pressure from the National Collegiate Athletic Association and other sports leagues who said they would not hold championships in Mississippi unless the state retired the Lost Cause symbol.
'The Mississippi Fairness Act'
With the lieutenant governor and Mississippi House speaker surrounding him, Gov. Reeves signed Senate Bill 2536, titled "The Mississippi Fairness Act," into law last month, claiming it would "ensure young girls are not forced to compete against biological females." When asked if he could cite any examples of that being an issue in Mississippi, he could not.
"I can't personally give you any examples, but that's the reason the Fairness Act is in place—to ensure it doesn't happen in the future," he said.
The law bars transgender athletes from playing on teams that correspond with their gender identity, meaning transgender boys and men may only participate in school sports if they play on girls' or women's teams; transgender girls and women must play on boys' or men's teams.
Supporters of the law did not address the fact that transgender individuals often undergo hormone replacement. One study in the British Journal of Sports Medicine "found that between one to two years of hormone-replacement therapy was sufficient to allow equitable competition between trans-women and cis-women even at elite Olympic levels, to say nothing of high-school level sports."
Practically, that means Mississippi's law could have the effect of placing transgender boys and men on girls' and women's teams—even if their strength and physical performance is equal to that of cisgender male athletes.
In 2017, Texas high school student Mack Beggs, a transgender teen boy, made headlines after he dominated in high school wrestling, winning back-to-back 6A 110-pound girls' wrestling state championships. The teenage wrestler had been forced to compete on girls' teams because a University Interscholarstic League Policy, approved by state superintendents, required transgender students to compete on teams that matched the gender they were assigned at birth.
Because Beggs was assigned female at birth, the league restricted him to compete only against girls—despite the fact that he had been undergoing hormone-replacement therapy, resulting in him having strength akin to a cisgender boy his age. Like the Texas UIL policy, Mississippi's new law could similarly require transgender teen boys like Beggs to participate only on girls' teams, potentially producing the exact scenario Reeves and other supporters of the new law said it was needed to avoid.
'Inclusion and Fairness Can Coexist'
In an April 9 press release, Human Rights Campaign President Alphonso David said the nation is at "a moment of national crisis where the rights and the very existence of transgender young people are under attack."
"These bills are nothing more than a coordinated effort from anti-LGBTQ extremists spreading fear and misinformation about transgender people in order to score cheap political points," he said.
Sen. Angela Hill, R-Picayune, seen here speaking on the Mississippi Senate floor in 2020, was the lead sponsor for Senate Bill 2536, which the Mississippi House sent to the governor's desk on March 4, 2021. Reeves signed it into law, banning transgender athletes from playing on the sports teams that correspond with their gender identities. AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis
Arkansas, Tennessee and West Virginia have also adopted anti-trans laws in recent weeks. Additional states are considering other anti-trans measures. Some bills in other states are functionally identical to the Mississippi law, which was itself based on a 2020 Idaho bill that the anti-LGBTQ Alliance Defending Freedom helped lawmakers there write. The Southern Poverty Law Center has classified the ADF as "a hate group"—a charge the organization disputes.
In its statement today, the NCAA noted that it has "a long-standing policy that provides a more inclusive path for transgender participation in college sports" that "requires testosterone suppression treatment for transgender women to compete in women's sports." The policy, the organization says, "embraces the evolving science on this issue and is anchored in participation policies of both the International Olympic Committee and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee."
"Inclusion and fairness can coexist for all student-athletes, including transgender athletes, at all levels of sport. Our clear expectation as the Association's top governing body is that all student-athletes will be treated with dignity and respect. We are committed to ensuring that NCAA championships are open for all who earn the right to compete in them," the organization said.
But the association has not yet decided to blacklist Mississippi or any other state.
"The Board of Governors continues to monitor the situation and has not made a decision regarding championships," NCAA associate Director of Communications Michelle Brutlag Hosick said after the Mississippi Free Press asked for clarification on what today's announcement means for the state.
'I Am Not A Threat To Women's Sports'
Today's statement from the NCAA follows a public-pressure campaign from WNBA and NCAA coaches and athletes, Catholic clergy and other supporters of transgender rights.
"As a trans athlete, first of all, I am not a threat to women's sports because I am a woman. The joy and beauty of finally embracing myself and being in a sport that I love and being on that line with the women I'm supposed to be with, it's enlightening," CeCé Telfer, a former NCAA champion and transgender athlete, said in a statement with the Human Rights Campaign on April 9.
In the same statement, Zooey Zephyr, who was a transgender athlete at her high school in Montana, said all kids "deserve opportunities to become better athletes and better people."
"I can with the utmost certainty say that I am the woman I am today thanks to the sports I played in my youth and the sports I continue to play in adulthood. Trans girls are girls. Trans boys are boys," she said.
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Award-winning News Editor Ashton Pittman, a native of the South Mississippi Pine Belt, studied journalism and political science at the University of Southern Mississippi. Previously the state reporter at the Jackson Free Press, he drove national headlines and conversations with award-winning reporting about segregation academies. He has won numerous awards, including Outstanding New Journalist in the South, for his work covering immigration raids, abortion battles and even former Gov. Phil Bryant's unusual work with "The Bad Boys of Brexit" at the Jackson Free Press. In 2021, as a Mississippi Free Press reporter, he was named the Diamond Journalist of the Year for seven southern U.S. states in the Society of Professional Journalists Diamond Awards. A trained photojournalist, Ashton lives in South Mississippi with his husband, William, and their two pit bulls, Dorothy and Dru. Follow on Twitter @ashtonpittman. Send tips to [email protected]
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What makes education innovation succeed?
An education nonprofit argues it comes down to five conditions
by Tara García Mathewson
Editor's note: This story led off this week's Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers' inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today!
What does it take to make educational innovation succeed? Schools are constantly trying new things to improve student outcomes. Sometimes they work; sometimes they don't. Sometimes they get a strong start, but too often they peter out.
Transcend, a nonprofit that advises educators in the process of transforming their schools, has been testing and refining what it takes to achieve sustainable change, and just published a list of the five conditions it believes are necessary for innovation to flourish: conviction, clarity, capacity, coalition and culture.
The 5Cs, as they're called, present a holistic approach to laying the groundwork for successful school transformation. First comes conviction, that change is needed and that the specific transformation plan can achieve it. Next is clarity, about the school's current context, the goals of the change and the strategy for achieving them. Capacity seems obvious, but important: schools should ensure there is enough money, staff expertise, and time to dedicate to the initiative. Change should be supported by a coalition of committed leaders, educators, families and community members. The final "C," culture, refers to being learner-centered, allowing risk-taking, prioritizing continuous improvement, and offering opportunities for collaboration.
Tyler Thigpen, a partner at Transcend, said the nonprofit hopes the framework both grows the supply of successful school models and increases demand for them.
"Our mission is supporting communities to build and spread extraordinary, equitable learning environments," Thigpen said.
Though Transcend recommends school leaders pay attention to all of these conditions, the nonprofit is continuing to study them, and hopes to gather enough evidence to say which ones are most important and how they're connected.
Transcend isn't the only organization trying to crystallize the core elements of success in educational innovation. KnowledgeWorks, a nonprofit that, among other things, advocates for personalized, competency-based education, identified three essential elements of successful new school models: 1) Exceptionally strong vision, created with input from school leaders, teachers, students, parents, community members and school partners. 2) A collaborative culture that empowers individuals and encourages risk-taking. 3) Complete transparency about what is expected of students and what roles adults in and out of school should play in working toward the vision.
Virgel Hammonds, chief learning officer for KnowledgeWorks, said schools tend to rely on educators to do all the work, but that far-reaching changes to schools come when the wider community is involved.
"It's amazing to see not just a level of buy-in but a level of commitment that's made across the community," Hammonds said.
The recommendations from these nonprofits overlap. Both sets emphasize collaborative change efforts rather than top-down mandates, widespread support for the initiatives, and a focus on fostering a culture that supports innovation – with all the ups and downs it tends to entail. And both organizations argue that school leaders should set the right foundation from the start, no matter what type of ambitious innovation they attempt. The Conditions for Innovation Framework describes the "5Cs" as the fertile soil that nurture whatever initiative is planted.
Importantly, the recommendations offer school leaders a north star to come back to along the way, making sure innovation can continue to flourish.
"We've seen conditions change over time and get strengthened or challenged," Thigpen said. "We believe they need to be attended to at every step."
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SCHUMER: FEDS TOO SLOW AT GETTING BAD FOODS OFF SHELVES; FOOD RECALL PROCESS ONE BIG MESS; NEW FED REPORT & RECENT MASSIVE RECALL CONFIRM CONSUMERS AT RISK OF CATCHING STOMACH-TURNING BACTERIA FROM VARIETY OF FOODS; SENATOR PUSHES FOR CHANGES IN FOOD RECALL PROCESS
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Schumer: Delays In Getting Bad Food Off Store Shelves Is A Recipe For Disaster That The FDA Must Fix
U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer today called for major changes as it relates to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) food recall process. Schumer wants to ensure the agency is doing absolutely everything it can to prevent future contamination-related food illnesses. Schumer's push comes following a recently released preliminary report conducted by the Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) which suggests that the FDA has taken far too long to initiate food recalls, therefore allowing potentially contaminated foods to remain on store shelves and putting the public's safety at risk.
"Delays in getting bad food off store shelves is just a recipe for disaster," said U.S. Senator Charles Schumer. "That's why the FDA must come to the table with a healthy, new plan, detailing how they will revamp and execute a reformed food recall process. One that gets potentially contaminated food off the shelves before Americans risk getting sick, not after. We expect our everyday food purchases from the local supermarket to be safe to eat, but following a recent Inspector General's report, it appears many Americans are getting a sour deal and sour stomachs. The food recall process too slow and unduly exposes countless Americans to food that can make them sick – or even kill them. In some cases, the FDA waits months before issuing recalls on potentially contaminated food products. That's why I'm urging the FDA to conduct a top-to-bottom review of their contaminated food recall process with an eye towards speeding things up."
Just this week, an additional 15 million pounds of flour was recalled due to a 21-state E.coli outbreak. The first confirmed case of the outbreak began in December 2015, however, after allowing ample time to initiate a voluntary recall, the first mandatory recall wasn't issued until May of this year; 45 million pounds of the flour have now been recalled. Schumer today said that these kinds of delays in getting bad food off store shelves is a recipe for disaster that must be fixed by the FDA.
Schumer said that many everyday food products have been recalled this year, including some in New York. For instance, a company that ships to New York recently recalled 3,500 pounds of beef products following E.coli concerns. Additionally, in February, a New York company recalled 3,000 pounds of chicken products used in chicken salad due to concerns of Listeria.
According to the FDA, since May 31st, there have been at least 57 recalled products issued due to listeria, salmonella and other bacteria. Recalled products include: cheese, frozen vegetables, cereal, biscuit mix, cake mix, sunflower seeds, raw macadamias, granola bars, rice, ice cream, and more. According to the CDC, approximately one in six Americans or 48 million people get food poisoning each year.
Currently, the Food Safety Modernization Act allows the FDA authority to issue mandatory recalls, however, the agency must first provide food companies with the opportunity to issue voluntary recalls. Since the Food Safety Modernization Act passed five years ago, the FDA has only issued two mandatory recalls. In February 2013, the FDA recalled pet food because of salmonella and in November 2013, the FDA recalled an adulterated dietary supplement. New FDA regulations issued as a result of this law require companies to be in full compliance with the rules regarding recalls by mid-September of this year.
A recently released Inspector General preliminary report examined extreme instances of food recalls from the last few years. The results suggest the FDA's recall process can be improved and does not "have an efficient and effective food recall initiation process that helps ensure the safety of the Nation's food supply." According to the report, inspectors audited 30 voluntary recalls between October 2012 and May 2015 and found that, often times, the FDA worked to encourage companies to issue voluntary recalls months before issuing a mandatory recall despite identifying potentially dangerous contamination in the product early on. For instance, the FDA inspected nSpired, a food company, in February 2014 and confirmed the presence of salmonella in its nut butter on March 7th. Seventeen days later, the agency learned that two people had fallen ill from this strain of salmonella. In August, months later, the company issued a voluntary recall. By that time, at least fourteen people in 11 states had fallen ill. The Inspector General says that the firm did not initiate the voluntary recall until 165 days after the FDA became aware of the potential contamination in part due to a lack of established recall procedures and timeframes at the agency.
Similarly, in July 2014, the FDA found listeria in cheese products from Oasis Brands. Later that month, the company recalled just one specific product. In October 2014, a full-scale voluntary recall of all potentially contaminated products was issued. By that time, at least 9 illnesses in 6 states—including one infant who died--- were linked to the tainted products. The Inspector General says that the firm did not initiate the voluntary recall until 81 days after the FDA became aware of the potential contamination.
Overall, the Inspector General concluded that the FDA does not have adequate policies and procedures in place to fully protect consumers from obtaining tainted products and getting sick. Specifically, the Inspector General has suggested that the FDA update its policies and procedures by instructing its recall staff to establish set timeframes for the FDA to request firms voluntarily recall their products and firms to initiate voluntary food recalls.
Schumer today said that the FDA is far too slow when it comes to getting potentially contaminated food off store shelves. Schumer urged the FDA to take action and quickly conduct a top-to-bottom review of its food recall process to ensure that products are being recalled in a timely manner so that future consumers are kept safe from tainted food.


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A letter regarding Mr. West.
The first question I usually get asked is—Why Kanye? The answer is a little lengthy. Years before I began writing poems about Kanye, in 2007, in November, Kanye's mother died. At that time, my grandfather was sick with brain and lung cancer, and it was clear he wouldn't get better. My grandfather lived with my family for most of my life, always in the room next to mine. He died in February, 2008. After that I wrote many poems about his death. It was part of how I grieved for him. In November, 2008, Kanye released 808s & Heartbreak, which I've always viewed as an album of grief, mourning both his mother and his breakup with Alexis Phifer.
The first thing that struck me was how I had grieved privately and here he was grieving publicly. Even if I wanted my poems to be read widely, they never would have the audience Kanye's album had. My loss would always be private, while Kanye's loss would always have a public element to it. (Donda's presence is even in a law now—the Donda West law, passed in California in October, 2009.)
The second thing that struck me was the negative reception of 808s & Heartbreak. While the album is now respected as highly influential to hip-hop music that quickly followed (by artists like T-Pain, Lil Wayne, and Drake), many of the initial reviews were not good. Rolling Stone called it a "noble failure of an album." To me, it felt like his grief was being criticized, almost invalidated. I hated that. Suddenly, I was glad my poems couldn't be read widely. I was glad I'd never hear criticism of those poems. I realized that being able to grieve privately was a luxury, one that Kanye couldn't have. And I thought him very brave.
I was finding all these different dimensions to sadness in myself—having lost someone so close to me, being so involved with his treatment decisions—and I couldn't believe there were these other dimensions, too, that Kanye experienced. But no matter our differences, I will always feel connected to Kanye because we lost people close to us at nearly the same time and we grieved with our art.
In 2010, I knew I wanted to write about hip hop. I love how hip hop is rooted in the present. I love its mixed diction, its humor, how it's political, how much collaboration is involved. When I tried to write about it directly, I couldn't. So I decided to write about an artist. While there are many artists I admire, Kanye is the only one I feel a connection to. The first poem I wrote about him was "Kanye West's Circulatory System" about the two year anniversary of both Donda's and my grandfather's deaths. I never knew if the poems would keep coming. I just kept reading about Kanye in the news and I kept listening to his music, and the poems kept surprising me.
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WSTale » World News » Supreme Court says it still has not found source of bombshell leak
Supreme Court says it still has not found source of bombshell leak
Trump calls for journalists who broke the Roe v. Wade draft to be JAILED until the source of the leak is found – after Supreme Court revealed they have still not identified who is responsible
Trump called for Politico's editorial team to be arrested
Supreme Court said it can't find person who leaked opinion to news outlet
'Arrest the reporter, publisher, editor – you'll get your answer fast,' Trump said
Donald Trump on Thursday called for the Politico journalists who broke the news that the Supreme Court would overturn abortion rights to be jailed until they revealed who leaked the draft opinion to them.
'Arrest the reporter, publisher, editor – you'll get your answer fast. Stop playing games and wasting time!,' he wrote on his Truth Social platform.
The former president issued his arrest call after the Supreme Court announced on Thursday that it cannot identify the person who leaked a draft of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the opinion that overturned Roe v. Wade, to the news outlet.
The high court released a 23-page report on its investigation into the leak, which rocked the political world when Politico published the draft opinion in May. The court has been seeking to identify the person behind it and is continuing its probe into the matter.
Investigators, however, also found fault with court itself, saying its security policies were out of date and much of the system was built on trust, which made it 'too easy to remove sensitive information from the building' – an indication the mystery of the person may never be solved.
Donald Trump called for the Politico journalists who broke the news that the Supreme Court would overturn abortion rights to be jailed until they revealed their source
Donald Trump weighed in after the Supreme Court said it can't find the leaker
It also did not rule out a printed out copy of the opinion was simply left lying around.
'It is not possible to determine the identity of any individual who may have disclosed the document or how the draft opinion ended up with Politico,' the report states. 'No one confessed to publicly disclosing the document and none of the available forensic and other evidence provided a basis for identifying any individual as the source of the document.'
Timeline on leak as published in Supreme Court report
February 10: The draft Dobbs opinion was sent via email to a distribution list of 70 people consisting of law clerks and permanent court personnel who work on opinions.
March 22: Eight more permanent personnel received the draft opinion via email. Later, investigators found that two additional permanent personnel accessed the draft opinion electronically by separate means.
May 22: Politico publishes draft opinion
May 23: Chief Justice Roberts confirms its authenticity when he orders an investigation into the leak
Trump, in a long post on Truth Social after the report was released, blasted the Supreme Court and its investigative team.
He appointed three of the justices that sit on the current court.
'The Supreme Court has just announced it is not able to find out, even with the help of our "crack" FBI, who the leaker was on the R v Wade scandal. They'll never find out, & it's important that they do. So, go to the reporter & ask him/her who it was. If not given the answer, put whoever in jail until the answer is given. You might add the publisher and editor to the list. Stop playing games, this leaking cannot be allowed to happen. It won't take long before the name of this slime is revealed!,' he wrote.
Politico reporters Josh Gerstein and Alexander Ward wrote the bombshell story that revealed the court's intentions.
Trump also called for their arrest shortly after their story was published on May 2, 2022.
The final opinion released in the Dobbs case was strikingly similar to the draft opinion that Politico published. The publication resulted in fury from Democrats over the expected setback in abortion rights and suspicions from Republicans the leak was done to ensure the draft opinion stood.
A cyber security breach was also ruled out.
The Supreme Court announced that it cannot identify the person who leaked a draft of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization
The U.S. Supreme Court justices: Seated (L-R): Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., Samuel A. Alito, Jr. and Elena Kagan. Standing (L-R): Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Neil M. Gorsuch, Brett M. Kavanaugh and Ketanji Brown Jackson
The leak of the draft opinion sparked outrage and protests
'While investigators and the Court's IT experts cannot absolutely rule out a hack, the evidence to date reveals no suggestion of improper outside access.' the court's report said.
'After examining the Court's computer devices, networks, printers, and available call and text logs, investigators have found no forensic evidence indicating who disclosed the draft opinion,' the report stated.
They also could not rule out an accidental breach – such as a copy of the draft simply left lying around.
'Investigators also cannot eliminate the possibility that the draft opinion was inadvertently or negligently disclosed – for example, by being left in a public space either inside or outside the building,' the report noted.
Politico's publication eight months ago of the draft opinion by Samuel Alito was the first time an opinion became public before the court was ready to announce it.
Chief Justice John Roberts ordered the investigation the next day into what he called an 'egregious breach of trust.'
'To the extent this betrayal of the confidences of the Court was intended to undermine the integrity of our operations, it will not succeed,' he said at the time. 'The work of the Court will not be affected in any way.'
The investigation was conducted by the court's marshall. It found 80 people had access to the draft opinion. And 34 people said they printed it out – sometimes more than once.
As part of its probe, the court's team conducted 126 formal interviews of 97 employees, 'all of whom denied disclosing the opinion,' the report said. Investigators also went through laptops and cell phones, including call and text logs.
Several court employees did admit they had told their spouses or partners about the draft opinion, which is a violation of the court's confidentiality rules.
It wasn't determined that any of those discussions led to a copy of the draft opinion becoming public.
Investigators are still conducting their search.
'To the extent that additional investigation yields new evidence or leads, the investigators will pursue them.' the report noted.
The five conservative judges on the court overturned Roe – the landmark case that legalized abortion – with the ruling, which was authored by Justice Samuel Alito.
Roberts sided with the court's three liberals on the matter.
But the leak shook the court to its foundations. The secretive body took pride in its lack of leaks. And it frayed relationships among the justices.
Alito called the leak a 'grave betrayal of trust by somebody, and it was a shock' that led to a 'changed' atmosphere at the court. Justice Clarence Thomas compared it to infidelity.
The decision also led to protests outside the court and threats to several of the justices. Alito and Justice Brett Kavanaugh had protesters outside of the D.C. area homes.
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'Love Is Blind': Who got married and who broke up?
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The show features strangers who get engaged without ever seeing each other — instead "dating" by chatting through walls. Once engaged, they meet in person, vacation, move in together and prep for their wedding. But of the five couples who were still together going into the finale, only two came out married.
Spoiler alert! Here's where everyone stands, in the end.
Lauren Speed and Cameron Hamilton
Lauren and Cameron captured the internet's hearts — so much that Shonda Rhimes tweeted about it. "When I saw there were only 3 episodes available of #loveisblindnetflix after I already got obsessed with Cameron/Lauren love? No lie, I thought: 'So a show gets me addicted then makes me wait for new episodes only on Thursdays? Karma is a b#tch,' " she wrote.
Luckily, they were one of the two couples that actually made it to "I do." All along the way, they were honest with each other about the fact that Cameron was Lauren's first white partner, and they discussed the ins and outs of an interracial relationship. The main issues standing in their way were Lauren's fear of losing her independence, and her dad's disapproval, since he wanted her to marry a black man.
But all's well that ends well, because Speed exclusively tells The Post that they now have Sunday dinners with her dad every week.
"We are [still together,] happily married, with a little fur-baby puppy," she says.
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Damian Powers and Giannina Gibelli
Damian turned out to be the show's dark horse: He seemed ordinary, maybe even a little bland for someone on a dating reality show. But beneath his mild exterior hides a messy guy who lives for drama. Because when he and the opinionated Giannina made it to the altar, he broke it off, while she ran out, distraught. He didn't seem to mean his "I don't" as a permanent breakup, since he tried to talk to her after. He even told her he wanted to stay friends and keep dating.
But Giannina was understandably annoyed and not having it. Really, what did he think was going to happen when he flaked on their wedding? We'll have to find out at the March 5 cast reunion.
Mark Cuevas and Jessica Batten
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Mark and Jessica were one of the more drama-fueled couples. He was earnest, all-in and 25 years old, but 34-year-old Jessica was filled with doubts on all levels. She feared commitment, she feared their near-decade age gap, and she seemed like she was more into Barnett than Mark. So it was no surprise to viewers that they fell apart. As Jessica runs out of the room in her wedding dress, leaving Mark alone at the altar, you can hear someone in the crowd say, "This is so embarrassing for her."
Amber Pike and Matt Barnett
Amber and Barnett seemed to have a strong physical connection, bragging about their bedroom exploits to everyone else. But that doesn't always make for lasting love.
Their main issue was Amber's debt, making Barnett the major breadwinner in their household. Jessica also seemed to have eyes for Barnett, which Amber was not happy about. Surprisingly, they are the only other couple aside from Lauren and Cameron to make it to "I do."
Kelly Chase and Kenny Barnes
Kelly and Kenny were mostly smooth sailing throughout the show, not having arguments or drama. So it's surprising they didn't last; they seemed like a match. They were like-minded and fit into each other's families. But they petered out on the wedding day in a mild way (compared to everyone else). "I absolutely adore you and love you," Kelly said. "But I don't." Instead of crying, after she walked out, Kenny told the crowd how complex the situation was. So, maybe there's hope they were a good match and just weren't ready for marriage. We'll find out whether or not they reconnected after the botched wedding at the "Love Is Blind" reunion special.
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MOTUC Eternian Palace Guards - and how to win your own!
In my effort to get myself caught up with reviews of Mattel's Masters of the Universe line, I'm moving on to something different for the line which came out in January. The Eternian Palace Guards Two-Pack is the first "army builder" set in the MOTUC line, and I'll say at the outset that those who love to amass huge numbers of these types of figures should be very pleased with Mattel's efforts.
One of the features of this set is the two additional heads that are included. This gives you the option of light and dark skinned humanoid guards, a reptilian guard and a feline guard. These are a real treat, as each one not only has a different look, but quite a different expression as well. Of course, this inclusion is probably designed to encourage people like myself to buy multiple sets, but as figures like this is designed for army building, it provides many options for making the warriors look different. This is accentuated by the inclusion of removable mouth guards which can attach to the helmets, further increasing the possible combinations within your throng of guards.
I have mentioned before that I am not overly interested in accessories, and don't have a huge interest in keeping track of them, so the way in which most accessories for the MOTUC figures can either be held on kept in the "snap on" attachments most figures have on their backs is a huge bonus for me. Each figure comes with a shield and a long handled axe / staff, and then one has a small axe while the other has a mace. The unused weapon can be stowed on the back, and the options mean that army builders can put a fair bit of variety into their display. Any product that can make me care about something I normally am not really interested in is a winner - and that's certainly the case with the weapons that come with this set.
One final inclusion is a snap on "damaged" breastplate for each figure. This is a throwback to some the original figures which had a rotating insert that could be flipped to show battle damage, and it gives the army builder a final set of variables to play with. Since there's nowhere for the extra breastplates to be stored on the figures themselves, however, mine will al stay as is.
All up, this is a really pleasing set which can be used to add some depth to the MOTUC display and is sure to be delight with dedicated army builders. I'm happy with my two sets, and having now seen the extra heads in person I'm very glad I did order the additional set - I like all the different visages and want to have them all in my display. This two-pack gets two thumbs up from me!
Now I teased in the title of this post that there was a chance to win a set of these for yourself. It's not just a tease - it's real! Just keep your eyes out for my next post, which will detail a new ongoing at AFB. The prize for the winner will indeed be an unopened box of MOTUC Eternian Palace Guards, but be warned - you're going to have to get creative to win this one! Stay tuned!
You can see more pics of these and the rest of my MOTUC figures at Facebook, discuss this at the AFB Forum, and comment on this post to enter the March AFB Comment of the Month Contest.
What a neat idea. Good to see Mattel thinking about stuff like this. Great review too Andy!


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Der Ambler River ist ein rechter Nebenfluss des Kobuk River im Nordwesten des US-Bundesstaats Alaska.

Er hat seine Quelle am Nakmaktuak-Pass in den Schwatka Mountains, einem Teilgebirge der Brooks Range.
Von dort fließt er in südlicher Richtung aus der Gebirgskette heraus, wendet sich anschließend nach Westen und später nach Südwesten. Er nimmt den ebenfalls aus dem Gebirge kommenden rechten Nebenfluss Redstone River auf.
Bei dem Ort Ambler erreicht er nach 120 Kilometern den in westlicher Richtung fließenden Kobuk River, in den er von Norden kommend mündet.

Siehe auch
 Liste der Flüsse in Alaska

Einzelnachweise

Northwest Arctic Borough

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Well-known Swedish film director Daniel Lind Lagerlöf, 42 years old, has been missing since Thursday, somewhere in Bohuslän in southern Sweden.
"He's not in the area," said police spokesman Björ Blixter to news agency TT.
The production company Tre Vänner's press officer Gilda Romero confirmed that Lind Lagerlöf is missing.
"Naturally his family has reacted with shock and dismay," she said to TT.
On Thursday, Daniel Lind Lagerlöf went to the nature reserve Tjurpannan together with two colleagues, to prepare a thriller film based on one of Swedish author Camilla Läckberg's books.
The colleagues went off in separate directions, but Lind Lagerlöf never returned. An extensive police search of the area went on for nearly 48 hours, but on Saturday evening the search was called off.
According to Björ Blixter, police spokesman, they judged that it was inconceivable that the missing man was anywhere in the search area.
"We've found nothing. He's not in the area," he said.
Daniel Lind Lagerlöf was one of Swedish film and TV's most versatile directors. He did everything from blockbuster productions such as thrillers Beck and Johan Falk, and TV series Skärgårdsdoktorn, to artsier series such as Bibliotekstjuven and Mannen under trappan, both received to critical acclaim.
The movies Breaking Out (Vägen ut), with Björn Kjellman in one of the leads, Making Babies (Hans och hennes), with Jonas Karlsson and Johanna Sällström, and Miffo, also with Jonas Karlsson, made him famous to a wider audience. All three of these films were made together with his wife, Malin Lagerlöf.
If new information surfaces regarding the missing film director, the police will renew their assessment about continuing the search for him, whether on land or at sea.
While searching for Lind Lagerlöf, the police made another discovery just north of the nature reserve Tjurpannan. This find was considered so interesting that the area was cordoned off, and forensic technicians were called in to investigate.
The investigation is still ongoing, and police are unwilling to disclose any further information about it.
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» World Revolution - 2007
» World Revolution no.306, July/August 2007
ICC'S 17th Congress: Welcome to a new generation of revolutionaries
Submitted by World Revolution on 8 July, 2007 - 21:52
At the end of May, the ICC held its 17th International Congress. Because revolutionary organisations don't exist for their own sake but are expressions of the proletariat and active factors in its life, they have a duty to give an account to the whole of their class of the work done by their most essential organ - the congress. This is the aim of the present article.
All ICC congresses are obviously very important moments in the life of our organisation. However, the first things that has to be said about the one we held in the spring is that it even more important than the ones before it, because it marked a very significant step in over thirty years of existence[1] .
The presence of groups from the proletarian political milieu
The main illustration of this fact is the presence at our congress of three groups from the international proletarian camp: OpOp from Brazil[2], the SPA from South Korea[3] and the EKS from Turkey[4]. Another group was also invited to the congress, the Internasyonalismo group from the Philippines, but despite its strong wish to send a delegation, this proved impossible. However the group sent greetings to the congress and took written position on the main reports submitted to it.
The presence of several groups from the proletarian milieu at an ICC congress is not a novelty. In the past, at the very beginnings of its existence, the ICC welcomed delegations from other groups. Thus, at its founding conference in January 1975 there were delegations from the Revolutionary Workers' Group in the USA, Pour Une Intervention Communiste in France and Revolutionary Perspectives in the UK. At its second congress in 1977 there was a delegation from the Partito Comunista Internazionalista (Battaglia Comunista). At its third congress in 1979 there were comrades from the Communist Workers' Organisation (UK), the Nucleo Comunista Internazionalista and Il Leninista (Italy), as well as an individual comrade from Scandinavia. After this, unfortunately, this practice was not continued, for reasons independent of our will: the disappearance of certain groups, the evolution of others towards leftist positions (such as the NCI) and a sectarian approach by the groups (CWO and Battaglia) who had taken it on themselves to sabotage the international conferences of the groups of the communist left which were held at the end of the 70s[5]. As a result, it's been over a quarter of a century since we have been able to welcome other proletarian groups to one of our congresses. Just in itself, the presence of four groups at our congress was therefore a very important event.
The significance of the 17th Congress
But the importance of this congress goes beyond the fact that it was able to renew a practise that had been characteristic of the ICC since its beginnings. What's more fundamental is the significance of the existence and attitude of these groups. They are part of a historical situation which we already identified at our previous congress: "A central concern of the congress was to examine the revival in the struggles of the working class and the responsibilities this confers on our organisation, notably in response to the development of a new generation of elements moving towards a revolutionary political perspective" (https://en.internationalism.org/ir/122_16congress).
At the time of the collapse of the eastern bloc and the Stalinist regimes in 1989,
"The deafening campaigns of the bourgeoisie about the 'failure of communism', the 'definitive victory of liberal democratic capitalism', 'the end of the class struggle' and even of the working class itself, led to an important retreat by the proletariat, both at the level of its consciousness and its militancy. This retreat went deep and lasted more than 10 years. It marked a whole generation of workers, resulting in disarray and even demoralisation.... It was not until 2003, notably in the shape of the big mobilisations against attacks on pensions in France and Austria, that the proletariat really began to emerge from the retreat which had affected it since 1989. Since then, this tendency towards the revival of class struggles and the development of class consciousness has been further verified. Workers' struggles have affected most of the central countries, including the most important of them such as the USA (Boeing and New York transport in 2005) Germany (Daimler and Opel in 2004, hospital doctors in spring 2006, Deutsche Telekom in the spring of 2007), Britain (London Airport in August 2005) France (notably the movement of university and high school students against the CPE in spring 2006) but also a whole series of struggles in the periphery such as Dubai (building workers in spring 2006) Bangladesh (textile workers in spring 2006) Egypt (textile, transport and other workers in the spring of 2007)" (Resolution on the international situation adopted at the 17th congress).
"Today, as in 1968, (at the time of the historic resurgence of workers' struggles which put an end to four decades of counter-revolution) the recovery of class combats is accompanied by a deep reflection, and the appearance of new elements who are turning towards the positions of the communist left is just the tip of the iceberg" (ibid).
This why the presence of several groups from the proletarian milieu at the congress, the very open attitude towards discussion shown by these groups (which is a real break from the sectarian attitude of the 'old' groups of the communist left) is not at all accidental: it is an integral part of the new stage in the development of the combat of the world proletariat against capitalism.
The work of the congress, in particular through the testimonies offered by different sections, confirmed the reality of this tendency, from Belgium to India, in the central countries as well as those in the periphery, both at the level of the immediate struggle and of the development of a process of reflection among elements heading towards the positions of the communist left. A tendency which has also taken the form of the integration of new militants into the organisation, including in countries where there haven't previously been any new integrations for several decades, but also in the constitution of an ICC nucleus in Brazil (see the article in this paper).
The discussions at the Congress
Given the particular circumstances in which this congress was being held, the first point on the agenda was the question of the class struggle, while the second was the new revolutionary forces appearing or developing in the present period. We can't give an account in this short article of the discussions which took place: the resolution on the international situation (to be published in International Review 130) provides a synthesis of its main elements. What we want to underline here are the new and particular features of the present development of the class struggle. It was shown in particular that the gravity of the crisis of capitalism, the violence of the attacks now being made on the class, and the dramatic stakes of the world situation in general, characterised by the drift towards military barbarism and the growing threat to the planetary environment, are all elements which will tend to politicise the workers' struggle. The situation is somewhat different from the one we saw in the wake of the historic resurgence of struggles in 1968, when the margin of manoeuvre still available to capital made it possible to maintain illusions that 'tomorrow will be better than today'. Today such an illusion is no longer possible: the new generations of workers, as well as the older ones, are more and more aware that 'tomorrow will be worse than today'. Because of this, even if such a perspective can be a factor leading to demoralisation and demobilisation, the struggles which the working class is being forced to wage against the attacks will more and more lead it to become aware that these struggles are a preparation for a much bigger struggle against a dying system. Even now, the struggles we have seen since 2003 "are more and more incorporating the question of solidarity. This is vitally important because it constitutes par excellence the antidote to the 'every man for himself' attitude typical of social decomposition, and above all because it is at the heart of the world proletariat's capacity not only to develop its present struggles but also to overthrow capitalism"(ibid).
Even though the principal concern of the congress was the question of the class struggle, other aspects of the international situation were also dealt with. Thus it devoted a lot of time to the question of the economic crisis, examining in particular the present growth of certain 'emerging' countries like China and India, which seems to contradict the analyses made by our organisation, and marxists in general, about the definitive bankruptcy of the capitalist mode of production. Following a very detailed report and an in-depth discussion, the congress concluded that:
"The exceptional rates of growth we are currently seeing in countries like India and China in no way prove that there is new life in the world economy, even if they have made a considerable contribution to the high rates of growth in the last period. At the root of this exceptional growth is, paradoxically, once again the crisis of capitalism.... Thus, far from representing a breath of air for the capitalist economy, the 'miracle' in China and a certain number of other third world countries is yet another embodiment of the decadence of capitalism. ...Thus, just as the 'miracle' of the two figure growth of the Asian tigers and dragons came to a sorry end in 1997, the current Chinese miracle, even if it does not have identical origins and has far greater assets at its disposal, will sooner or later be confronted with the harsh reality of the historic impasse of the capitalist mode of production" (ibid).
Finally, the impact on the bourgeoisie of the dead-end reached by capitalist society and the resulting descent into decomposition was the object of two discussions: one on the consequences of this situation inside each country, the other on the evolution of imperialist antagonisms between states. On the last point, the congress pointed out the failure of the policies of the world's most powerful bourgeoisie, that of the USA, above all since its adventure in Iraq, and the fact that this reveals the general impasse faced by capitalism: "In fact, the arrival of the team of Cheney, Rumsfeld and Co. to the reins of the state was not the simple result of a monumental mistake in casting by the ruling class. While it has considerably worsened the situation of the US on the imperialist level, it was already the expression of the impasse facing the US given the growing weakening of its leadership and more generally given the development of the 'every man for himself' in international relations which characterises the phase of decomposition" (ibid).
More generally, the Congress underlined that "the military chaos developing around the world, plunging vast regions into hellish desolation, notably in the Middle East but also and above all in Africa, is not the only manifestation of the historic impasse reached by capitalism, nor even the most dangerous for the human species. Today it has become clear that the maintenance of the capitalist system brings with it the threat of the destruction of the environment which made the rise of humanity possible" (ibid).
This perspective underlines all the more the decisive importance of the workers' struggles now developing on a world wide scale. It also emphasises the fundamental role of revolutionary organisations, and notably the ICC, in intervening in these struggles in order to develop an awareness of what's at stake in the world today.
Here the congress drew a very positive balance sheet of the intervention of our organisation in the class struggle and in response to the questions it raises. It underlined in particular the ICC's ability to mobilise its forces on an international scale (articles in the press, on the internet, public meetings, etc) to disseminate the lessons of one of the major episodes of the class struggle during the recent period: the combat of the student youth against the CPE in the spring of 2006 in France. It was noted that our website had seen a spectacular rise in audience during this period, a proof that revolutionaries not only have the responsibility but also the possibility to counteract the blackout that the bourgeois media systematically organises around proletarian movements.
The intervention of revolutionaries implies that they are capable of producing the most profound and pertinent analyses and of defending them effectively within the working class in order to help develop its consciousness. It was with this concern that the congress gave some its time to discussing an orientation text which had been circulated in the ICC several months previously (and which will be published in the International Review). The congress gave its full support to this text, which emphasises that the capacity to develop a real culture of debate in proletarian organisations is one of the major signs of them belonging to the class, of their ability to remain alive and to keep up with the needs of the proletarian movement. And this is the case because it is through its own discussions, especially through its general assemblies, that the working class is able to draw the lessons of its experiences and take its consciousness forward. Sectarianism and the refusal to debate, which today unfortunately characterise a certain number of organisations in the proletarian camp (some of whom even advocate 'monolithism'), is in no way proof of their 'intransigence' in the face of the bourgeoisie or of confusion. On the contrary it is an expression of their fear of defending their positions and, in the final analysis, of their lack of conviction.
This culture of debate informed all the work of the congress. It was expressed in particular in the fact that a significant number of interventions were made by the invited groups who obviously don't share all of the ICC's positions. This fact was underlined by the delegation from Korea, one of whom made known that he had been "struck by the spirit of fraternity, the relations of camaraderie, which was not something he had been used to in his previous experience and which he envied". More generally, one of the major elements of the success of this congress, and of the enthusiasm expressed by all the delegations at the end, was precisely the participation of the invited groups. In particular, the delegations from OpOp and the EKS made very interesting interventions about the imperialist policies of the Brazilian and Turkish bourgeoisies, which enriched the discussion for the whole congress[6].
Two international meetings were held a few days apart in May: the G8 summit and the ICC Congress. The contrast between these two meetings is striking from the point of view of their circumstances, their goals and their way of functioning. On the one hand you had a meeting behind barbed wire, with an unprecedented employment of police and police repression, and where a series of declarations about the 'sincerity of the debates', 'peace' and the 'future of humanity' were just a smokescreen to cover antagonisms between capitalist states, prepare new wars and preserve a system which has nothing to offer humanity. On the other hand you had a meeting of revolutionaries from 15 countries, combating all the smokescreens, all the false appearances, engaged in really fraternal debates in order to contribute to the only perspective that can save humanity: the united and international struggle of the working class aimed at overthrowing capitalism and installing communism.
We know that the road that leads to that goal is long and difficult, but the ICC is convinced that its 17th Congress was an important step along the way.
ICC, July 2007.
[1] On the history of the ICC, see International Review 123, '30 years of the ICC', https://en.internationalism.org/ir/123_30years
[2] OPOP: Oposicao Operaria, Workers Opposition. This is a group implanted in several cities in Brazil, formed at the beginning of the 1990s, in particular by elements breaking from the CUT union federation and the Workers' Party of Lula (the current president of the country) to take up proletarian positions, notably on the essential question of internationalism, but also on the union question (denunciation of these organs as instruments of the bourgeoisie) and parliament (denunciation of the 'democratic' masquerade). It's a group which is active in workers' struggles (notably in the banking sector), and the ICC has been holding fraternal discussions with it for several years, organising joint public meetings in Brazil (see in particular 'ICC Public Meetings in Brazil: A strengthening of revolutionary positions in Latin America' World Revolution 292, https://en.internationalism.org/wr/292_brazil_forums.html ). A delegation from OpOp previously took part in the 17th congress of our section in France in spring 2006. See World Revolution 297, (https://en.internationalism.org/wr/297_ricongress )
[3] SPA: Socialist Political Alliance. This is a group which has given itself the task of making the positions of the communist left known in Korea (in particular by translating some of its basic texts) and of animating discussions between groups and elements around these positions. The SPA organised an international conference to which the ICC, which has been discussing with this group for about a year, sent a delegation: see 'Report on the conference in Korea, October 2006' in International Review 129, https://en.internationalism.org/ir/129/korea-conference) It should be noted that the participants at this conference, which took place just after the nuclear weapons tests by North Korea, adopted an 'Internationalist declaration from Korea against the threat of war', https://en.internationalism.org/wr/299/internationalist-decleration-from....
[4] EKS: Enternasyonalist Komunist Sol, Internationalist Communist left, a group recently formed in Turkey, which situates itself resolutely on the positions of the communist left. We have published some statements by the EKS on our website: https://en.internationalism.org/wr/295_eks_basicpositions ; https://en.internationalism.org/node/1772
[5] This didn't however prevent the ICC from inviting the International Bureau for the Revolutionary Party (IBRP) to its 13th Congress in 1999. We felt that the gravity of imperialist conflicts at the heart of Europe (it was the moment when NATO was bombing Serbia) meant that revolutionary groups should set aside their squabbles and come together in the same place to examine the implications of the conflict and perhaps produce a common declaration. Unfortunately the IBRP turned down this invitation.
[6]. This contribution can be found on http://eks.internationalist-forum.org/en/node/51,
http://libcom.org/forums/organise/situation-turkey , and on ICC Online
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Михайловка — опустевшая деревня в Большеберезниковском районе Мордовии в составе Пермисского сельского поселения.

География
Находится на расстоянии примерно 22 километра по прямой на запад-юго-запад от районного центра села Большие Березники.

История
Известна с 1869 года как владельческая деревня из 37 дворов. Названия варьировались: Нерлей (по местной речке), Новый Выселок, Михайловка (по имени владельца в XIX веке Михаила Голицына).

Население

Постоянное население составляло 6 человек (русские 100 %) в 2002 году, 3 в 2010 году.

Примечания

Населённые пункты Большеберезниковского района


PART OF A CARVED ZUSHI In circular form depicting Kwannon. Diameter 4 (10 cm)."
LOT OF FIFTY WOOD STANDS Sizes and designs vary.
TWO CARVED BONE AND SILK PANELS In butterfly and flower design. 18 x 17�" (46 cm x 44.5 cm) and 21" x 15" (53.3 cm x 38 cm)."
WOOD-CASED OPIUM SCALE With bone balance rod and brass scale pan. Length 9� (24 cm)."
PIETRA DURA-INLAID BOX With decoration of a child riding on an elephant with bats and clouds. Length 5� (14 cm)."
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GOURD BOTTLE In natural form with jade ring and silk cord mount. Length 13� (34 cm)."


Players can fight against enemies utilizing a wide array of gadgets and weapons, and by using the abilities granted by the Nanosuit. They can utilize an invisibility cloak to evade enemies, prevent themselves from being detected, or to perform silent takedowns. The nanosuit also has an armor mode, which reduces the amount of damage taken, in exchange for slower movement speed. New weapons are introduced in Crysis 3, such as a compound bow. Players can use the bow while in cloak mode. When using other firearms, the cloak is disrupted and can no longer function until it cools down. Arrows can be collected by players after use. Players can hack into enemies' technology, one of the game's new features. In addition, players can hack security codes, weapon boxes, Ceph technology, mines, lasers, and sentry turrets, which can all be used to fight against enemies. Players can also upgrade and customize their weapons and the Nanosuit. They can change the attachment and ammo types for their weapons. For instance, players can change between explosive arrows and electric arrows for their bow. The Nanosuit can be upgraded by collecting different suit upgrade modules scattered across the world. These upgrades can increase the suit's properties, and strengthen or unlock new abilities for players as they progress through the game.


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Q: Kubernetes - Specify env_file We are using Kubernetes v1.1.0-beta and I am curious if Kubernetes supports env_file, like Docker Compose? On Pod/ReplicationController creation it would read in the file specified by env_file and set the variables on that pod. Is this a thing or just env map?

A: No. Kubernetes does not support evv_file as of now. You will have to specify key=value pairs for env variables.

A: You can use a config map to achieve this. So you deploy a configmap with the key value pairs you want, this stays stable across deployments. You can even deploy multiple config maps, so you could have different values for different environments.
Then in your pod yaml file, you would do something like this to expose the configmap values as an env variable
      env:
        # Define the environment variable
        - name: SPECIAL_LEVEL_KEY
          valueFrom:
            configMapKeyRef:
              # The ConfigMap containing the value you want to assign to SPECIAL_LEVEL_KEY
              name: special-config
              # Specify the key associated with the value
              key: special.how

Read more here:
https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-pod-configmap/#define-container-environment-variables-using-configmap-data
If there is any sensitive data (like passwords, db connection URIs etc), you should use secrets instead. Unlike configmaps, secrets are obscured.
More info here -> https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/secret/


Have You Ever Seen Such A Beautiful Scarf Bag?
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This is a special handbag I bet you never seen before–Celine Scarf Bag. Funny name, isn't it?But you might have already guessed,they turned a scarf into a bag.Let's just take a look at this Celine Scarf Bag From Spring 2018 Collection.
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Each Silk Scarf Bag is embellished with different beautiful prints, so they're unique. Choose one that matches to your personality. The top comes with a flat but strong leather strap for hand carry. This leather handle can be removed anytime you want. You can also carry it on your shoulder.It's 87% from textile and 13% from calfskin.I think this Scarf Bag is perfect for the summer. It can be used as an everyday bag, a beach bag and picknick bag. And it's even more ideal because the Silk is so feminine-soft.
About its interior,there is only one compartment, but it's big enough to store all your personal stuff and more. Because of the silk, it's also very flexible.
Who does not want to have such a soft bag to spend a nice summer?What do you think?Leave me a comment or email me to talk about it.Thank you for reading,please contact me if you have any question.


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Artist Cory Arcangel Dives into the New Web Series CULTURESPORT
By Asher Penn
Illustrated by John Michael Boling
CULTURESPORT
CULTURESPORT represents the fourth seismic career change for Internet artist John Michael Boling, previously known for his work as a music video director, associate editor at Rhizome, and co-founder of the social network are.na. A 3-D animation studio operating entirely on the open source software Blender, CULTURESPORT has been making waves with their highly recognizable commercial work for Telfar, Supreme, and Kenzo, while building a cult following on Instagram. This has all been in anticipation of a mysterious pilot episode, which has finally been released for free in support of their seriously extra Kickstarter (spoiler alert – the campaign was a success). "Rotterdam 1995" – the first installment of a transhistorical series about the genesis of a chatbot that leads an army of teenagers to take over the world – took five years to make, but was well worth the wait. To find out more about CULTURESPORT, the artist Cory Arcangel spoke with Boling about Internet videos, weaponized memes, and the power of parameters.
ASHER PENN: Could describe or define what CULTURESPORT is?
JOHN MICHAEL BOLING: I originally came up was that word combination when I was working at Rhizome. I can't remember exactly, but I was doing a write-up for a blog post and I was thinking about Internet art and making stuff for the Internet, and what my relationship to that was. In thinking of what it means to make a thing and put it out in the world, I came up with this concept of CULTURESPORT. It's basically like putting a media object into the world, but thinking about it like a sport. That was the departure point. We're five years in now. We're putting out this animated series, but we've also worked with arts organizations in the Netherlands. We've done music videos, we've worked on marketing campaigns and advertising campaigns. What can we say? How can we treat all these different layers of culture across mediums? How can we, with this project, play it like a game?
PENN: I was curious about how you guys first got to know each other, and how you've watched this genesis take place.
CORY ARCANGEL: The first incarnation that I knew John Michael from was from his web project, 53 os, which was a collaborative website. It had Internet art, that's a complicated term, because sometimes it doesn't feel like art. It's like sometimes it's kind of fun.
BOLING: At the beginning it was anonymous. I started it in response to my being disenchanted with art school and the art world, and I did it for fun. I thought if anybody ever ends up typing 53 os into Google, in their pajamas with microwaved lasagna, they'll find this and it will really blow their minds. That was my highest hope for it at that time.
ARCHANGEL: I saw it originally through Delicious, which was a social network where people would share links to things they were interested in. You could easily find other people who are interested in the same things as you. At the time, the Internet was more open, and most everything resolved to a unique URL.
BOLING: It was a special time for the Internet, because Web 2.0 just kind of happened. Myspace was still bigger than Facebook. Tumblr didn't exist. Twitter was maybe just starting to be an SMS service for bike messengers. This would've been 2000. The main 53 os stuff was from 2005 to 2008. I stopped making stuff when I switched to Rhizome full-time. I didn't want to be some sort of gatekeeper. I wanted to make a clear distinction between making stuff and supporting stuff. I think I got a little nervous, because when I first started making stuff for 53 os, it was really fun. It was really free form. And then, when it got attention, and I was starting to get offers to be in shows and getting press and having people contextualize it as fine art, it kind of gummed up my creative engine. It started to feel a little alien to me.
ARCANGEL: Can you talk about "Four Weddings and a Funeral"? That was the thing on 53 os that blew my mind apart.
BOLING: YouTube had just come out. YouTube, for me, is one of the biggest social keyframes from that decade. This new psychological landscape where everybody is now. Everything was on there and you immediately have access to it. It went from, you could only see the most amazing thing you've ever seen once a year, to seeing it 10 times a day. "Four Weddings and a Funeral" was in a series of YouTube collages. Visualize an HTML page, and on the top were four embeds of YouTube videos of weddings people had uploaded, and right below that was one video of a funeral. The idea was that, as people take these videos of weddings down, I'll be able to replace them. The HTML follows instructions for a piece that could be recreated 20 or 30 years from now. I remember it feeling really weird at the time that somebody had uploaded a funeral to YouTube. It doesn't feel weird anymore. I think that with the art from that time, there's no way you could put it in a gallery. It's not the same. The experience is totally different.
ARCANGEL: It was a joke work, but it was also meaningful. It was right at the edge of what was possible. I remember thinking that this is what art should be now. After Rhizome, you do something like completely different, which is you basically start your own social network.
BOLING: 53 os was me and Javier Morales, who consequently has the world's best Instagram and YouTube account to this day. Are.na was after.
ARCANGEL: Do you wake up one day like, 'I need to start a social network with my friends?'
BOLING: I started it because Yahoo bought Delicious and fucked it up like they do with everything they buy. I felt a real hole in my heart and soul for what Delicious was and what it could do. I felt a real need to replace it. I came across the word Are.na, and the domain was available, which was amazing to me. A-R-E-dot-N-A. That period of interacting with Are.na, collecting reference and interacting with the community was pretty key to a lot of the stuff that worked its way into CULTURESPORT. It was like a really intense research and reference, but without knowing where I was going to go.
ARCANGEL: How long did it take you to understand that you wanted to do an animated series?
BOLING: It was six months of pretty much non-stop, in the studio, learning Blender. When I left Are.na I had just enough money saved up, so I knew I had six or seven months where it's all I had to do. I wanted to get back to my original dream, which was to make movies and TV. There was this one that I kept coming back to, which was "Best Friends Forever," which is a story about a chatbot that becomes self aware and recruits an army of teenagers to take over the world. It was originally supposed to be live action, but it was going to be expensive to do. I starting to make concept art for it in Blender, and at the same time through Are.na, I had been put into contact with a lot of really good anime. I was thinking about the story, and then I thought, well, what if I could make this? Anime is this beautiful form, and it's totally economical. I spent a month working on what was the original formula for CULTURESPORT, and by the end of the month, I thought, "This is it. I can do this." But I couldn't do it in New York, because it's too expensive. I talked to my brother, and he and I had been wanting to work on a project together for a while. I told him if he wanted to put a few thousand dollars into the production, then I'll move down to the family farm for three months and come back with a pilot. He was down to do it. A week-and-a-half later, I had my birthday party at my apartment and told everybody that I was going to Georgia. I set up the first office for CULTURESPORT in this general store, which had no Internet, and went to the task of building up the world, coming up with the story, and figuring out the characters. A lot of the way we do CULTURESPORT is with duct tape maneuvers that I would figure out because I couldn't get the real answer. A lot of the references for the characters in this world were based on what was at hand in the general store, which was my 500 or 600 VHS tape collection from when I was in middle and elementary school. If I needed to have a reference image for a city street, I would put on Coming to America and I would pause it. There was also a really cool volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica, so that was my Wikipedia. That's one of the things that was really cool about that phase, having to figure out how to do things because I couldn't Google it.
ARCANGEL: It really shows in the first episode. It's impossible to understand the era. The references in the episodes were kind of ad-hoc – they didn't seem like they were coming from the Internet.
BOLING: Limitations are so powerful. That's one of the things I worry about, the fact that we're not at the farm anymore. Being there, my Internet habits totally changed. The first few weeks was really strange. Then myself, Joe Kubler and Jason Coombs, who are principle 3D artists on CULTURESPORT, we moved to Athens because it was too cold in the general store. I had a kerosene heater next to a computer to try to warm us up.
ARCANGEL: I feel like your friends were a little worried about you at this point.
BOLING: They definitely should've been. The thing I like a lot about the Rotterdam episode is that took all the building blocks of the CULTURESPORT universe and imposed another limitation, which was being in the Netherlands in 1995. I didn't know anything about the Netherlands before this project.
ARCANGEL: Why the Netherlands?
BOLING: There's a pretty cool arts organization in Rotterdam called Showroom Mama that emerged in the '90s out of street art, and they did some really good net art shows too. The curator there, Marloes de Vries, reached out, and they wanted to do an exhibition. At this point, I was still loathe to place CULTURESPORT in a fine art context, but it's the Netherlands, and they support art there. They said, "We can give you a grant, and then you can work for a few months." So if we know they're going to pay for three or four months of studio time, let's do a site-specific episode instead of doing an installation in the gallery. We'll use Rotterdam as a sort of limitation or reference for a storyline in a CULTURESPORT universe. CULTURESPORT is very music-driven at its heart. So I was Googling Rotterdam, and found out that hardcore techno kind of came out of Rotterdam in the early '90s. And that was it, there we go. We'll make an episode in the Gabber scene in 1995. Then I just thought, where is my bad guy? Where does he go in 1995, how do I get him to the Netherlands? What kind of like black magic computer science would be up to? The technological and cultural landscape of CULTURESPORT allows us to have an alternate technological pathway for developments. Storylines that happen in 2006 can be more futuristic in different ways than our experience of 2006 was in this reality. So much changed so quickly. That period from 2005 to 2012, things were done that cannot be undone, technologically speaking.
ARCANGEL: I think that young people have this really incredible sense for the social world online.
BOLING: So much has changed that it's impossible to even categorize it all. I think people today socialize differently – like communicating with memes. I think the best work being made right now are memes. It's like watching really quickly weaponized neuro-linguistic viruses. Communications can happen immediately and deeply through an image macro in a way that could never happen before. The meme culture gives me hope.
PENN: Do you consider CULTURESPORT to be an artwork, or do you consider it to be the latest foray of a highly creative person?
ARCANGEL: Something is an artwork if enough people think it's an artwork. Art can be a game. What I like about the first episode of CULTURESPORT, the Rotterdam '95, is when I saw it on YouTube, I could imagine what it's like to wander onto it. That's the most mind-bending aspect of CULTURESPORT. It's like you've wandered onto some lost television show. For me, it's important to maintain an identity as a fine artist, because I like the game of art. I like making things and trying to convince people that they're art. John Michael, what's your preferred context for CULTURESPORT?
BOLING: I don't know if I've figured it out yet. I would say with CULTURESPORT, time will tell. It's going to be a sort of a sum of all its parts, wherever it goes. I'd see that question in five years, and then maybe I'll have an answer.
ARCANGEL: If the Internet even exists in five years.
BOLING: The Internet will be our blood in five years.
ARCANGEL: The world will be on fire in five years.
Jason Lee of Hollywood Unlocked Isn't Going to Pay Your Rent


The third book in the "Snow White and Rose Red Trilogy" featuring the adventures of Blanche, Rose, Bear, and Fish finally tells the story of Rose's long-lasting love for Fish. Unbeknowst to lovelorn Rose, Fish has been struggling with problems that make him want to keep his distance from Rose, problems he doesn't think she could understand or appreciate it. But when circumstances throw them together as a nasty rival stalks Rose, Fish finds himself revealing more and more to Rose.
But it's only after a tragedy strikes that threatens to separate Rose and Fish forever that Fish realizes that he could truly love her ... and that maybe, just maybe, he has a second chance.
READ CHAPTERS 1-4 of Waking Rose: a fairy tale retold by Regina Doman New 10th Anniversary edition available!


Re: Double checking grub-install ??
Subject: Re: Double checking grub-install ??
> use of fixmbr will blow away my grub.
previously put GRUB on there, you'd lose it.
something else to undo it.
restoring it again the same way).
(stage2 will still be where it was before).
Type a "root (hd1,0)" command line (second drive, first partition).
Type a "setup (hd0)" command line (first drive MBR).
one disc in this box.
Running "embed /grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"...  23 sectors are embedded.
not sure if that's down to the terminal on Fedora 9, or something else.


Inheritance Vineyards is a family-owned and operated vineyard and winery out of Modesto, California. It began out of a passion for farming. The Beard Family has farmed in California's fertile central valley for over 100 years. Rodney Beard, the third generation, greatly expanded the family's farming operation and began growing grapes in a river-fronted estate, located within a unique micro-climate ideal for producing delicious red wines. The family tradition remains. Now in its sixth generation, Inheritance wines are our way of offering the fruit of our passion and experience.
We produce Rhone varietals, Petite Sirah and Syrah as well as Cabernet Sauvignon and delicious blends of all three. We are involved from grape to bottle in the creation of our wines. Carefully harvested, barrel-aged and meticulously crafted, we know wine lovers will enjoy the quality, complexity, and elegance of our family's wines.


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