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The Electric City Experience once again presents a big problem that no one seems to complain about.
There are too many great acts over a few short days. There's no way to see them all.
"We really try to have a diversity of music and styles in our lineup," said Jason Lipsky, an organizer of the festival. "We want to have something for everyone to enjoy."
The Electric City Experience runs from June 8-11 in downtown Kaukauna and will feature more than 50 acts across five stages. It's free to attend.
The festival is centered at Hydro Park and the Kaukauna Farmers Market lot. Festivities begin with the Live from Hydro Park kickoff party on Wednesday, June 8. Bobby Evans and the Dairyland Kings – an act that features some of the best guitarists in the Fox Valley – headlines the opening show.
Thursday brings Kids Carnival Day with $1 rides and a hip hop/R&B performance from Ill Genesi.
On Friday and Saturday, music fans would be wise to bring a game plan.
Jazz fans, for instance, have a few big time slots to work around.
Two of Wisconsin's jazz greats will offer an early evening performance that promises to deliver big on beauty, precision and intricacy. Janet Planet and Tom Theabo will perform at the smaller, more intimate Pavilion Stage at 6 p.m. on Saturday, June 11. The Erin Krebs Quintet – featuring the 2019 WAMI Female Vocalist of the Year – will follow with a Saturday main stage performance at 8 p.m.
Pegasis will make their Electric City Experience debut on Friday, June 10.
Based out of Green Bay, the group performs original music with tight harmonies that blends pop funk, latin and jazz. They consist of Dominican sisters Marvelis, Rissel and Yaina Peguero and are joined by jazz guitarist Matt Hillman.
Pegasis is performing as part of the WIJAM Showcase along with Ifdakar and Disconapse.
Hometown favorites Kyle Megna and the Monsoons will headline the main stage on Friday.
Are you looking for some bluegrass? Catch a light version of Biscuit Creek at 5 p.m. on Friday and stick around for Homemade Brew at 6:30 p.m.
Are you in the mood for acoustic guitars, great voices and all your favorites? A-Town Unplugged perform Friday at 10 p.m. at the St. Paul Elder Services Park Stage.
Maybe you're looking for an Irish party. You could do far worse than a night of drinking songs with Sheamus Fitzpatrick & the McNally Boys. They perform at 10 p.m. on Saturday at the park stage.
Fans of rock and hard rock would do well to catch sets from Leading the Blind, Bad Haji, The Lately
The festival's Cafe Stage has some nice surprises.
Walt Hamburger will make his return to the festival at 4 p.m. on Saturday. The hometown show follows his recent tours of both Canada and Europe.
Singer-songwriter Amelia Ford – a 2018 Nash-Next finalist – will make her debut at Electric City Experience on Saturday at 9 p.m.
Reggae fans will want to be on hand on Saturday night.
Luma Knotty, a funk, rock and reggae act based in Green Bay, will perform at 5 p.m. Unity the Band, the 2021 WAMI Artist of the Year, will bring their reggae sounds to the Saturday night headline slot. They perform on the main stage at 9:30 p.m.
Electric City Experience also does well to showcase young and up-and-coming artists. Make a point to catch some songs from artists including Amelia Grace, Elizabeth Lamine, Hailey Jacobson, Parker Collar, Lilie and Callisto Verhalen.
Everyone has their favorites.
But make no mistake: there are no bad choices to be made. It's also a great strategy to simply walk around, listen and discover.
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Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury and Atcham) (Con): Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Danny Alexander: I will give way to the hon. Gentleman, with whom I expected to be in the Falkland Islands today.
Daniel Kawczynski: I thank the hon. Gentleman. He is right: we were meant to be together in the Falkland Islands today.
Many young people in Shrewsbury tell me that they are not taking out pensions because of the huge tax increases levied on them by the Government. Does the hon. Gentleman agree that it is worrying that the younger generation are not arranging private pensions, as he said they should, because they simply cannot afford to?
Danny Alexander: I believe that one of the main reasons why many young people are not making their own pension provision is the spread of means-testing, which in a sense devalues that additional saving.
Mr. Hunt: Does the hon. Gentleman agree that although money is an important element of the
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eradication of poverty—an aim that is shared throughout the House—we must also consider the need for a simpler system that does not remove incentives to work? Does he also agree that while the Government may have increased funding for poverty eradication programmes, they have not succeeded in introducing policies that would make the system simple enough to understand, while retaining incentives for people to return to work if they are able to do so?
Danny Alexander: I intend to say something later about the disincentives to work that will continue if the orders are passed.
People outside may look forward to receiving uprated benefits or pensions. How those benefits are delivered, and whether people will be able to take advantage of them, is an issue of fundamental importance. The Minister will know that some 4.3 million people receive the benefits in pensions that we are discussing via a Post Office card account. He will know, because we discussed it in Westminster Hall yesterday—
Madam Deputy Speaker: Order. I hope that the hon. Gentleman is not going to enter into a debate on the Post Office card account, given that the order concerns the uprating of social security benefits.
Danny Alexander: I do not intend to enter into a great debate on the Post Office card account, and I am grateful for your guidance, Madam Deputy Speaker.
Mr. Alan Reid (Argyll and Bute) (LD): If pensioners living in remote areas find that because of Government policy their pensions increase only in line with average prices, and if because of Government policy their local post offices have to close and they face a longer journey to collect their pensions, they will face greater financial burdens as a result of Government policy. That is not reflected in the pension increase that the Government are giving them. If the Government adopt a policy of wholesale post office closures, surely they should give pensioners in remote rural areas larger increases because of the greater distances that they must travel.
Danny Alexander: My hon. Friend makes an extremely good point. If, as a result of the Government's policy, the means of access to benefits and pensions—local post offices in rural areas or deprived urban areas—is removed, the uprating should include an amount that makes it possible for people to gain access to those benefits and pensions. Otherwise, while there may be a superficial uprating, increased costs will mean an overall downrating for those people. I hope that the Minister will address that issue, and particularly the question of when people living in such areas might lose the ability to access benefits in the manner of their choosing. I hope that the Government will provide time in the near future for a full debate on this issue, because Ministers have so far been unable to address it on the Floor of the House.
I come to the future of disability benefits, with which the orders before us also deal. We Liberal Democrats will make a formal submission on this subject in response to the Government's Green Paper on welfare reform, but there are a few points that are worth making in the context of today's debate. Although we endorse,
for example, the various forms of support being offered to people on incapacity benefit to get them back into work and, therefore, off the benefit currently provided in the pathways to work pilot areas, if such support is to be extended throughout the country to all people in receipt of incapacity benefit it needs to be properly funded. The Government estimate that the pathways to work project costs some £400 per claimant. Based on the latest annual figures for people commencing incapacity benefit claims, it would take some £220 million a year to fund a national roll-out at the same level. Yet the Government are offering only £360 million over two years. If the resources are spread too thinly, we will not see results and we will let down all those claimants who want to find work. That is especially true at a time of rising unemployment.
Conditionality of benefits has been a major feature of the debate on the future of benefits such as jobseeker's allowance and incapacity benefit. That debate continues.
Mr. Ruffley: This seems something of a groundhog day, in that the hon. Gentleman is repeating the speech that I attempted to make a few minutes ago. Does he share my concern about the funding of proposals aimed at getting incapacity benefit recipients back into work?
Danny Alexander: I am grateful, I think, for that intervention. If the hon. Gentleman had been paying closer attention a couple of minutes ago, he would have heard me make exactly that point. Perhaps he was too busy re-reading his own speech to listen to mine.
On benefit sanctions and conditionality, I am concerned that the Government have so far been unwilling to make public detailed clear evidence of the success of such sanctions in encouraging people off benefit and back into work. I have asked the Minister on a number of occasions to provide the body of evidence to which he referred in support of the Government's claim, but so far he has been unable to do so. According to the Green Paper, they
"do not intend to make changes to Disability Living Allowance as part of these reforms".
That is a great disappointment, because the benefits paid to disabled people that are covered by this order—disability living allowance, incapacity benefit and so on—need to be reviewed in the round if we are to establish an effective overall structure that targets resources to need.
The Government's own research—the Department for Work and Pensions working paper No. 21—suggests that the disability living allowance as currently structured is not sufficient to meet the extra costs faced by people with disabilities. What are the Government doing about that issue? They have missed an important opportunity to consult on it. Indeed, they dodged giving a straight answer to a written question on it just a few days ago. Will the Minister explain clearly how the Government intend to respond to this finding, rather than following the example of the parliamentary written answer that I received and simply restating the research's conclusions?
Mr. Hunt: I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, who is being very generous in giving way. Is he aware of
research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, which quantifies the cost of being disabled at an additional £200 per week net of any extra benefits received, or £118 per week for someone in employment? Is he concerned, as many disability charities are, that the structure of the Government's proposed incapacity benefit reforms seems to assume that some people are completely incapable of work? For many people with severe learning disabilities, working even one or two days a week could well be the way out of dependency and of regaining some self-respect.
Danny Alexander: I am grateful for that intervention and I am aware of the excellent research to which the hon. Gentleman refers. I will turn shortly to the question of how the uprating of benefits affects those who are able to work only a few hours a week.
Some important issues need to be considered. For example, the current disability living allowance does not provide support for the communication needs that many disabled people have. Some 4,000 disabled schoolchildren with such needs have been fortunate enough to receive support from the communication aids project, which is funded by the Department for Education and Skills. Unfortunately, such funding ends in March and the Department has no plans to renew it. A review of disability living allowance could—indeed, should—consider whether support for communication needs should be given, in addition to support for care and mobility.
In his opening remarks, the Minister pointed out that disability living allowance applies whether one is in work or out of work, and it is true that that is one of that benefit's potential strengths. However, in the experience of many organisations that help benefit recipients back into work, a return to work can often quickly trigger a new review of entitlement to disability living allowance. That issue needs to be addressed.
The uprating of benefits inevitably increases the sums lost to the Exchequer through error and fraud in the benefit system. Although some progress has been made in tackling fraud, it has been insufficient to prevent the Department being criticised strongly by the National Audit Office and the Public Accounts Committee. The latter says that the Department has
"a long way to go"
in this regard. On errors, the picture is even more unclear. In fact, it seems likely that the number of benefit payment errors is increasing. They now account for more losses than does fraud: some £1.5 billion, according to the PAC's estimate. In a recent debate, the Government pointed out that the figure is actually £1.7 billion. Perhaps the Minister will give the House the Government's latest estimate of the amount that will be lost through errors in the benefit system as a result of the upratings before us today.

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Maranga Mai! Education — what needs to change?
By Mary Longmore
About a third of Aotearoa's nursing workforce is comprised of overseas-trained nurses, nurse vacancies are into the thousands and an estimated one in three nursing students are dropping out — with even higher rates for Māori and Pacific1. In the first of a series exploring Maranga Mai!, NZNO's campaign to fix the nursing crisis, Kaitiaki looks at what needs to change in nursing education.
Anna Clarke
Nursing student Anna Clarke
"They realise they're not struggling alone." Culturally safe clinical placements, support for out-of-town learners, mentoring and earning while studying are key to retaining Māori and Pasifika nursing students, says third-year NorthTec bachelor of nursing (BN) student Anna Clarke, (Te Aupōuri, Te Rarawa and the Tongan village of Vaini).
Accommodation: The temporary closure of NorthTec's marae due to COVID was identified by Māori and Pasifika students as the biggest challenge for out-of-town tauira.
Mentoring and peer support: NorthTec's tuakana-teina hui each term provides a supportive space with other students and graduates. "It gives them the opportunity to open up. Then we can get in there and help."
Culturally safe placements: "Sometimes a 'do what we say' attitude pushes students away and there can be a bit of an issue around cultural safety."
Fees-free: Fees-free study or paid clinical placements would make nurse training more viable.
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Nursing lecturer Pipi Barton
Grants, earn-as-you learn, an indigenised nursing curriculum and flexiblity for transient students are key to recruiting more Māori into nursing, says NorthTec nursing lecturer and PhD student Pipi Barton, (Ngāti Hikairo ki Kāwhia).
Grants: "The number one issue is economic hardship particularly for Māori and Pasifika . . . we need to alleviate hardship immediately by giving grants to Māori and Pacific students, introduce earn-as-you-learn, first for Māori and Pacific, then for everybody."
Indigenised curricula: "The curriculum is very Euro-centric — polytechs enrol Māori but don't retain Māori . . . nursing programmes are going to become more indigenised, with Te Pukenga".
A unified curricula across schools: "A unified curriculum so no matter where you are, if you move around, it's not going to impact on you negatively or have any additional costs"
— Barton is involved with writing the unified nursing curricula for Te Pukenga
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Pacific nursing educator Tania Mullane
"Curriculum can be transformational." An indigenised curriculum, wraparound support and culturally safe placements are crucial to the success of Pasifika students, says Whitireia's head of Pacific nursing, Tania Mullane.
Curriculum: "An indigenised curriculum reflects the learner. . . and makes sure our grads are able to be culturally competent, confident and able to meet the needs of populations who need it most."
Wraparound care: "We have more face to face classes, we offer a lot more support. . . we wrap around — we address whatever we need to do to what we think the students are needing to make them successful."
Culturally safe placements: "We identify places for individuals and we pull them from areas which are not supportive or culturally unsafe for them."
Financial support, culturally safe environments and flexible nursing study are crucial elements to growing more of our own nurses — especially Māori and Pasifika — into Aotearoa's nursing workforce, say educators, nurses and tauira (students).
Financial support — paid placements, grants & no fees?
Economic hardship has been identified as the "number one issue" for nursing students, particularly Māori and Pasifika, says NorthTec nursing lecturer Pipi Barton, (Ngāti Hikairo ki Kāwhia). "Māori are often economically disadvantaged anyway, because of the whole system and colonisation, so there's that inter-generational transfer of poverty and economic hardship."
Barton's PhD research is examining the Māori nursing workforce, particularly why it has remained static at 6-7.5 per cent of the registered nurse (RN) workforce for 40 years against a Māori population of 16.5 per cent. She is also involved in nursing pipeline work at Te Whatu Ora.
Barton suggests alleviating hardship "immediately" by giving grants to Māori and Pasifika tauira and introducing "earn-as-you-learn" clinical placements — first for Māori and Pasifika then for everyone. "Our students are having to work long hours, full-time jobs as well as study full-time. Particularly in the economic environment we have at the moment, it's really hard, particularly if they have families to support and they're sometimes the only breadwinner in their families."
NZNO Te Rūnanga Tauira representative Anna Clarke, (Te Aupōuri, Te Rarawa and Tongan), has seen nearly a quarter of her class drop out this year – most of whom were Māori. "I have seen my classmates struggle and four of them have left the BN altogether – not all of us have support." Fees-free and earning on clinical placements like a trades apprenticeship would likely make nurse training much more attractive, she says. "No-one here in New Zealand seems to be attracted into becoming a nurse. . . I'm not too sure why nobody wants to be a nurse, it's an amazing career!"
"It shows that they're appreciated, they can contribute at a high level. . . and it just seems punitive, almost, to not reward them."
Karole Hogarth
Karole Hogarth, Otago Polytechnic head of nursing and representative on education leadership group NETS (Nursing Education in the Tertiary Sector), agrees lack of financial support is the "number one" barrier for students. "If you want to increase the workforce, then you have to provide some kind of support for students in health care, when they're in clinical practice."
Paid clinical placements, particularly for second and third-years, "had merit", Hogarth said. "Certainly that big 360-hour placement at the end that all BN students have to do would be the perfect opportunity, as they're really ready to enter the workforce. It shows that they're appreciated, they can contribute at a high level. . . and it just seems punitive, almost, to not reward them."
And with students sent away to placements for up to six weeks, doubling up their accommodation costs and adding transport expenses, "if you could mitigate some of those. . . then that takes a huge amount of pressure off".
Nursing Council chief executive Catherine Byrne said the council was supportive of "all initiatives that would retain students, particularly Māori and Pacific, in the nursing programmes", including paid clinical placements, as long as the quality of the placement was maintained. "That's really our focus, that the clinical placement is a quality experience."
Tina Smith
Hogarth said fees-free enrolled nurse (EN) training from 2020 had given EN numbers a real boost. "If we could do that with the BN it would be amazing . . . we could do it for five years, get a whole bunch of graduates through over the next decade – that would be amazing for health care."
Tertiary Education Union (TEU) national president Tina Smith says more student grants or payments would be a "godsend" for nursing. Student teachers could access $16 million in scholarships over five years – more than $3 million per year. "That would be an absolute godsend to our nursing students who spend a huge amount of time on practicum."
Particularly in their second year, students "really struggle to balance home, study commitments, being in practicum, having no money and trying to do some paid employment. So having some funding would be so much better".
Accommodation support
NorthTec's campus in Whangārei provided accommodation on its marae to students, some of whom traveled from as far afield as Kaitāia – 150km away, student Anna Clarke says. However, that had closed since the COVID pandemic – a loss identified by Māori and Pasifika students at a recent hui as the biggest challenge for out-of-town tauira. Work was now underway to have it re-opened.
Mentoring support and 'wraparound' care
NorthTec's tuakana-teina hui each term was compulsory, giving tauira the chance to mix with other students as well as graduates, says Clarke. "It makes the students realise they're not the only ones who are going through it, that everyone in their study journey have gone through it too and they can give advice. . . 'don't give up, you'll get through it, you can graduate and go to work . . . you don't have to just give up just because things are hard at the moment'."
Whitireia's head of Pacific nursing Tania Mullane says the BN Pacific enjoys higher than average graduation rates – almost 80 to 90 per cent compared to around two-thirds nationally — to which Mullane attributes a "wraparound" approach. "We do things differently – we have much more face-to-face classes, we offer a lot more support, even on non-teaching days we offer tutorials – we wrap around," she says. "We know that for half the class, English won't be their first language – it's a double whammy."
NZNO professional nurse advisor Sandie Bayliss, who spent 18 years in nurse education, says mentorship – including study groups or tutorials — is really important to help students connect and clarify material.
An indigenised curriculum
The mainstream nursing curriculum is very "Eurocentric" says Barton, who is also involved with writing the three new unified nursing curricula for new mega-polytech Te Pukenga – bachelors of nursing (BN), nursing Māori (BNM) and nursing Pacific (BNP). "Te Pukenga identified that the polytechs are not meeting the needs of Māori – they enrol Māori but don't retain Māori," says Barton. "So nursing programmes are going to become more indigenised and the hope is we're going to see Māori retention improved because their programmes are more reflective of them."
"If a student's coming back and saying 'as soon as they heard I was from the BN Pacific, their attitude changed'. . . we know what that is, and it's not for us to fix it."
Barton said the new mainstream BN – due to be launched mid-2023 — would use more local models and more Māori content such as te Tiriti, cultural safety and kawa whakaruruhau.
Whitireia's Tania Mullane — also working with Te Pukenga on the new unified BNP — due to unroll in 2024 — agrees. "We have a programme that meets their needs, so they're able to see themselves in the curriculum." A big part of students' first year is finding out who they are, then their relationship to their community, then their relationship to the profession of nursing, she says. "Individual to whānau to professionalism, then back again."
National nursing curricula & flexible study
Having unified nursing curricula nationally would help Māori, who tend to be more "transient", says Barton. Currently it costs "a whole lot of money" to have prior learning recognised. "So Te Pukenga is unifying curriculum, so no matter where you are, if you move around, it's not going to impact on you negatively or have any additional costs."
Sandra Bayliss
Barton would also like to see the BN Māori and BN Pasifika programmes (currently only delivered at a handful of sites) more widely available. "So that means that Māori will have access to a programme that's very much about being Māori within the BN."
Hogarth agrees that "streamlined" nurse education would allow more people to qualify. "It would be great to look at nursing as a whole, from level 4/5 up to post-grad, and being able to step in and out of programmes at whatever point you need to, dependent on your life, abilities and the like. . . There would have to be some boundaries put in but it's not an impossible scenario and would actually work quite well."
Extending the time limit for students to complete their BN from five to six years would also be helpful to keep those who need to study part-time or take a break, Hogarth says.
"You can feel when someone really wants to support you and someone doesn't."
Only about a quarter of first-year nursing students were school leavers — most were older and had "complex lives" with families, overheads, and needed flexibility, says NZNO's Bayliss. "So I think part-time options are really important."
Barton says the problem begins early, with schools not serving Māori well, meaning they tend not to come out with the same qualifications. "So Māori are so disadvantaged in so many different ways and this contributes to our ability to recruit and retain Māori in nursing education."
Quality, culturally safe clinical placements
Culturally safe placements are crucial for students to thrive, says Mullane, and Whitireia immediately pulls them out if this is not the case. "We identify best places for not only the BNP but individuals and we pull them from areas which are not supportive or culturally unsafe for them. If a student's coming back and saying 'as soon as they heard I was from the BN Pacific, their attitude changed'. . . we know what that is, and it's not for us to fix it."
Student Anna Clarke says some clinical placements can be "alienating", particularly for tauira Māori. "Sometimes a 'do what we say' attitude pushes students away and there can be a bit of an issue around cultural safety. . . You can feel when someone really wants to support you and someone doesn't."
TEU's Smith says accessing consistently high quality clinical placements had always been a struggle "across the rohe". Models varied wildly, from dedicated education units to staff juggling precepting alongside other demands, "so students are occasionally seen as an added burden, rather than, as they should be, a future asset for nursing and health".
Teachers successfully fought for an allowance to mentor students and new graduates, while nurses get "nothing. . . it is considered part of their professional responsibility", says Smith.
Co-chair of Auckland's regional skills leadership group, Robert Reid asked nursing schools if they could increase their intake. "They said they would love to but they can't find enough practicums for the students they have now."
A blockage in getting more clinical placements "really needs to be addressed, and that is not addressed by getting more funding from the Tertiary Education Commission, but from getting better systems in the DHBs/Health NZ to ensure those places exist," Reid said.
Train up COVID vaccinators & testers
Those who stepped up to become COVID vaccinators and testers could be supported into nursing if there was some financial support, says Reid.
"We now have through the testing and vaccination, literally hundreds – particularly in Auckland — of young Māori and Pasifika rangatahi and older people too who would never in their wildest dreams think they'd have a job in health, but have," he said. "We need to work with them, whether it is more of an EN nurse model, or even if it is a BN model, they will only pick that up on an earn-while-you-learn model."
Niuean health workers at an Auckland vaccination drive in 2021.
Nursing pipeline programme
The national nursing pipeline programme is looking into ways of better matching nurse numbers to need, across all areas, "with a particular focus on growing workforce diversity, Māori and Pacific nurses," Margaret Dotchin, who co-chairs the group with Nadine Gray, told Kaitiaki.
It is investigating how to:
Support Māori and Pacific nursing students to complete their nursing studies and thrive in the early years of their nursing career.
Develop a nationally consistent process for staircasing, recognition of prior learning and support, for example from HCA to EN to RN.
Develop an early career framework (years one to three post-registration) to support growing new graduates into advance practice roles.
Improve clinical placement access, co-ordination and experience for all nursing students.
A Te Whatu Ora spokesman could not put a time on any of the initiatives, but hoped to in the "near future".
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Q: how to append data in mongo db using rails I am using rails 4.1.8 along with ruby 2.1.2p95 and mongo-2.0.4 gem to    connect to mongo db v3.0.3. I have read this document but it doesn't provide how do we append the data in the existing row of a document. Also, can anyone provide the any other link of document which provide the extensive syntax to connect to mongo from rails.
following code will not append the data, rather it will create a new row:
 mongo_con.find(:chatid => 5678).update_one('$set' =>  {:chat => 'this is  are you'})

Code :
require 'mongo'
db = Mongo::Client.new([ '192.168.56.102:27017' ], :database => 'stackoverflow')

After inserting the following row :
 { "_id" : ObjectId("55698e906e6172193f000001"), "id" : 5678, "message" : "Hey, how are you", "type" => 1, "timestamp" => 4567723456789 }

I want to append this row in the previous one:
{ "_id" : ObjectId("5561d03f7979393062b18bf9"), "id" : 5678, "message" : "I am good", "type" => 2, "timestamp" => 654313687989 }

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Q: What's wrong with my PyQt animation? So I've got a pair of buttons, one with a label, the other with a "delete" icon. The delete button will eventually delete some files, but right now I'm playing with the UI. The buttons are in a GridLayout with a spacer between them. I figure if I shrink the size of the button with the label, it'll "compress" as the spacer enlarges to fill the space. At least that's how it works in Qt Designer.
My button size definition is very simple:
ui.labelbutton.setMaximumSize(QSize(315, 50))

So I figure the animation should be relatively simple as well. I followed the format of another answer I found here, and I've got this:
def anim(self):
    animation = QPropertyAnimation(self, b'maximumSize')
    animation.setDuration(3000)
    animation.startValue(QSize(315, 50))
    animation.endValue(QSize(10, 50))
    animation.start()

    self.animation = animation

I pass it one of the label buttons (after extracting it from the layout - it's dynamically built). And I get an error:
animation.startValue(QSize(315, 50))
TypeError: startValue(self): too many arguments

According to all the examples and documentation I can find, that should be correct - a QSize is really just one argument, isn't it?
Anyone have a guess at how I can add some pointless eye candy to my application? Thanks.


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LAX, A Line: Metro News Now, Nov. 6
by Steve Hymon , November 6, 2019
•Thoughts on Service #1: we're glad that regular train service between Long Beach and DTLA has been resumed on the A Line — and that six-minute peak hour service has [continue reading]
Crenshaw/LAX Line pics and getting to and from LAX: HWR, June 13
by Steve Hymon , June 13, 2019
Art of Transit: A trio of pics of Crenshaw/LAX Line edition, which is scheduled to open next year. I took these pics just before landing at LAX on Tuesday — [continue reading]
Fresh pics: Crenshaw/LAX Line construction in July
The above are photos were shot over the last month of ongoing construction work on the Crenshaw/LAX Line, the 8.5-mile light rail project that will run between the Green Line [continue reading]
The 2024 Los Angeles Summer Olympics bid and Metro
We're less than a year from learning whether Budapest, Paris or Los Angeles will host the 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics. The International Olympic Committee will pick a city next [continue reading]
Measure M: Green Line extension to Torrance
One in a series of posts that will look at projects and programs that would receive funding from the Measure M sales tax ballot measure going to voters on Nov. 8. What [continue reading]
How We Roll, April 19: the new train to the plane in Denver
Reminder: there's a community meeting at 6 p.m. tonight in Palmdale about Metro's potential ballot measure. More info here. Things to read whilst transiting: •If you need proof that apes will one day surely rule, look no further than Buzzfeed, which actually has a post about what's trending on Amazon. If [continue reading]
Ballot measure: what you need to know about the Airport Metro Connector
by Steve Hymon , April 8, 2016
One in a series of posts that will look at projects and programs that would receive funding from the sales tax ballot measure that the Metro Board has approved to send [continue reading]
Measure M: the Airport Metro Connector
One in a series of posts that will look at projects and programs that would receive funding from the Measure M sales tax ballot measure on the Nov. 8 ballot. What [continue reading]
Q&A: everything you need to know about the Gold Line extension to Azusa
by Steve Hymon , March 2, 2016
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Along with black British artists decades long struggle for greater and more sustained visibility in the gallery spaces of the country, there has been a concurrent struggle for access to opportunities to work in museums and galleries. It was not until the early 1990s that the issue of greater representation in the art world work place, became an aspect of artists' struggle and gained greater traction. Such a development was perhaps inevitable. After all, any given gallery, museum or arts institution seeking to serve the public is a failing one, if said institution does not adequately address issues of broader representation in its program, its work force and its audiences.
At every turn though, there are issues that further complicate matters. Art historian Gen Doy has recalled, in one of her books, her experience of visiting Tate Britain, and seeing no black people beyond those in a few paintings themselves or in guards' uniforms. Such institutions have a history of embodying systemic failings, regarding audience development. Arguably however, the situation in the US is hardly better, when black audiences only turn out (or are attracted) in significant numbers to major museums or galleries when retrospectives by the likes of Bearden or Lawrence are on view. Simply put, black people, in large numbers, do not maintain – month in, month out, healthy relationships with mainstream visual arts institutions, and are oftentimes only coaxed in if a black show is on offer. Perhaps we can hardly expect healthy patterns of employment within otherwise dysfunctional institutions — as far as the development of black audiences goes.
... To a large extent, the struggles of black people for arts employment must be put into treatment under the law and greater civic and societal participation. Though far from perfect, the landscape for arts-related employment opportunities for African Americans is a marked improvement on the situation, as it existed half a century ago.
Here again, complications abound. African Americans working in sizeable US galleries or museums tend to be employed in fields such as audience development, education, community outreach, and so on, rather than in senior curatorial positions. Institutions have tended to respond to challenging issues of employment and representation the only way they know how – by making token appointments, more often than not, in the areas of community outreach mentioned. A not unrelated matter is the staffing of black museums in the US. Part and parcel of the plethora of civil rights-related struggles taking place in the US in the 1960s and 1970s has been the presence of institutions dedicated to African American arts and culture. Though not entirely unproblematic, such institutions have often been responsible for creating important and useful employment opportunities for ambitious black people committed to working in the arts. Here again, there is much that activists in the UK can learn from earlier US struggles. Despite the stream of initiatives dedicated to 'training' black British people for senior careers in the arts, at the present time the only British visual arts institutions with specific remits for cultural diversity etc are headed up by white people – a situation, one imagines, that would perhaps be untenable and unthinkable in the US.
... The wholesale or widespread failure of equal opportunity training schemes has had the effect of solidifying the notion that only white Britons of a certain social standing can successfully access jobs in the arts. This rather dispiriting conclusion is compounded by an apparent pathology in which only ambitious black people from elsewhere in the world can stand any real chance of diversifying the white British arts workplace. Perhaps the situation will improve markedly if or when larger numbers of black students opt for degrees in such fields as art history, visual culture and critical theory, museum and curatorial studies, art education, and cultural anthropology, thereby possibly putting them in viable positions to seek professional employment in museums without going through supposedly dedicated training programs that yield, at best, decidedly mixed results.


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Rudd letter calls for increased disability funding
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The Fred Hollows Foundation has endorsed an open letter requesting increased government funding for development projects that benefit people with disabilities in the next Federal Budget.
Kevin Rudd, Minister for Foreign Affairs, is the recipient of the letter from the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID), which leaders of development organisations including The Foundation's CEO Brian Doolan have signed.
"We believe there needs to be an urgent injection of $100 million into specific disability-inclusive development support as well as support through other aid areas," the letter says.
"Several ACFID member agencies and other key organisations working towards poverty alleviation of the world's largest minority, people with disability, have joined ACFID in this letter calling for the aid program's ongoing disability-inclusive development support."
It is estimated that 39 million people across the world live with the disability of blindness. Vision impairment restricts their ability to participate in everyday activities including education, employment and family and community life. Three out of four people who are blind don't have to be, and with access to the right treatment can have their sight restored.
Health services, rehabilitation, education and research benefiting people with disability are some of the key areas the signatories have called for investment in through the upcoming Federal Budget, to be released next May.
Addressing disability is strongly linked to the promotion and protection of human rights and to the alleviation of poverty and social exclusion. In 2009 The Fred Hollows Foundation, through the support of Australian donors, contributed to the global fight against avoidable blindness by restoring sight to 195,406 people in 18 countries.
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Q: Decryption using Public Key in Python The question is asked repeatedly, but I am unable to get work done so posting again.
I am shared a public key file, which is in format of

-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX -----END CERTIFICATE-----

Using this file, in PHP I am able to perform decryption and obtain decoded message using openssl_public_decrypt(). Now I am trying to perform decryption process in Python. I have tried with:
Crypto - gives 'valueerror: rsa key format is not supported' when RSA.importKey() is called.

python-rsa and M2Crypto also didn't help.
For M2Crypto I referred this link, but RSA.load_pub_key_bio(bio) line of code gives error.
Any help is really appreciated. Thank you.

A: You can do this with the cryptography library's hazmat layer (note that cryptography is now the back-end library used by pyOpenSSL; while pyOpenSSL is convenient for some uses, cryptography provides a much more complete OpenSSL binding as well as useful higher-level (safer, better) cryptographic primitives and bindings to other cryptographic libraries as well).  Before you do, note that it's very easy to shoot yourself in the foot with the hazmat layer and the cryptography team won't apologize if you do.
You should be sure you understand what's going with these operations before you rely on the code to provide any kind of security.  Also, if you control the full stack - from encryption to decryption - stop doing it this way.  Use something like PGP instead.
>>> from cryptography.hazmat.backends import default_backend
>>> from cryptography.hazmat.primitives import serialization
>>> with open("key.pem") as key_file:
...     pkey = serialization.load_pem_private_key(key_file.read(), password=None, backend=default_backend())
...
>>> from cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric import padding
>>> ciphertext = pkey.public_key().encrypt(b"asdasd", padding.PKCS1v15())
>>> print repr(ciphertext)
'*\xf3\x8e2T\x8f\x93\xae}\x18\x9f7\x00\xbcw\xbd$\x14\x9f6\x9a\xc3\xa1\xa8\xf3\xa5\xcc\xae\x89\x17]\x91\x1d\x85\xb0.\xf7&\x12w\x0ca\x1cN\xd2\x8f\xf5\xf7\xfe\x93\xfbL\x17#\xc6g\x1dj\x84\xc3ET\xd1\x92 \xd2u\xc7AF\xa9<4i`d\xdb\xc0%\xae\x06\xc4\xeeJsC\x06\x80\xc9* \x11\x99P\xdc\xa9S\xad\xe2\xe5L\x9f\x9f\x0c\x04\xef\x95\xd7:*\x06@\r|e\xcdL\xfe9\x80R\x82c\x00\xc0\x9as\xea'
>>> pkey.decrypt(ciphertext, padding.PKCS1v15())
'asdasd'
>>>


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Gov. Christie will be the GOP Keynote Speaker, Not the Candidate, professor says
by Kevin Mooney
Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey will be the keynote speaker at the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, not the nominee, a political science professor at Rider University in Lawrenceville, N.J. has concluded.
Christie has been the subject of intense speculation on the part of high profile political commentators that he may yet enter the race before the end of the year. Tucker Carlson, co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Daily Caller, for instance, said during an address in New Orleans last week that he expected Christie to declare his candidacy by October and that the N.J. governor would most likely win the Republican nomination.
Carlson was one of the main speakers featured as part of the American Legislative Exchange Council's (ALECs) annual meeting. Although Christie has repeatedly denied any presidential intentions, he will find it difficult to resist "the pull of history," Carlson said.
But Ben Dworkin, who serves as the director for the Rebovich Institute for New Jersey Politics, said in an interview that he does not expect Christie to be a presidential candidate in 2012. Instead, Christie will remain a visible and forceful figure within the Republican Party and keep his options open for 2016.
"Every decision he makes has the added element of signaling to a national audience," Dwokin observed. Christie is a very smart politician and he is trying to burnish his credentials. But I don't think his ambitions are for 2012. I see him as the keynote speaker at the [Republican] convention, and this is something he will be good at."
Dworkin outlined three main scenarios for Gov. Christie.
Christie does run in 2012 as Carlson and others have suggested.
Christie looks ahead to 2016 and runs for re-election as governor of N.J.
Christie does not run for re-election as governor and instead tours the country with a record of accomplishment giving speeches and raising his profile.
"Christie is not a slam dunk for re-election as governor," Dworkin observed. "There is a key group of swing voters that decide late and Christie could have trouble with this group, they are suburban women."
Moreover, Democrats continue to enjoy a substantial registration advantage, Dworkin noted. The latest figures show there are about 800,000 more N.J. residents registered as Democrats than as Republicans. While Christie has received Democratic support for some his most important initiatives, such as reforming the pension system, he does have make very careful political calculations on certain issues, Dworkin said.
This is most certainly the case on environmental policy.
In May, Christie announced that he was withdrawing his state from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), which included cap and trade provisions. But, at the same time, the governor also embraced several green initiatives and said that "no new coal would be permitted in New Jersey." Christie also said he was willing to "defer to experts" who believe human activity is responsible for global warming. But just a few months earlier during a town hall meeting in Toms River, Christie had expressed skepticism toward the idea of man-made global warming.
"Gov. Christie's views on the environment must be viewed within a broad context," Dworkin said. "He must navigate his way between the strong, pro-environmental views of his state and with a national Republican Party that is much more conservative than the average New Jersey voter is on the environment."
N.J. environmental groups are very well-funded and wield significant influence on both parties. Three of the state's Republican congressman voted in favor of the "Waxman-Markey" cap and trade bill that passed the House in 2009 and Christie himself was endorsed by the NJ Environmental Federation.
But Dworkin is not convinced that Christie has suddenly gone green.
"Just because he has been all over the map [on environmental issues], doesn't mean he is actually looking for a place in the middle," he said. "Christie came in for severe criticism after the talk in Toms River and realized he needed to pull back a bit."
Christie is an ideal pick for the keynote and will deliver a strong address that appeals to the Republican base and helps to position the NJ governor for a future run, Dworkin said.
Up until now, I've held that view that Christie needs to finish what he started in my home state as a lot of heavy lifting still needs to be done. But after listening to T. Carlson in New Orleans I'm beginning to warm to the idea that the country can't wait until 2016 to get started on restoring its financial standing. It's also worth noting that there could be more openings on the U.S. Supreme Court. I don't know too much about Gov. Rick Perry of Texas who sounds like he's running. I do know that if he doesn't catch on there is an opening for someone else.


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FDA Clearance for Breathe Technologies' NIOV System for use with Compressed Gas
Breathe Technologies, Inc. has announced that the U.S. FDA has granted a fifth 510(k) clearance for its Non-Invasive Open Ventilation (NIOV) System, opening up the potential for it to be used with a compressed air supply for non-oxygen dependent patients. The previous four FDA clearances cover the use of the Breathe NIOV System with compressed oxygen for home and institutional use, and include invasive and noninvasive patient circuits.
Neuromuscular disorders can ultimately weaken the muscles that are essential for breathing, making it difficult for patients to move air in and out of the lungs effectively. Respiratory failure, often in association with an infection, is a frequent cause of death for people with neuromuscular diseases.
The Breathe NIOV System is a small, non-invasive mechanical ventilator that can be use in homecare and institutional settings. The system utilizes novel venturi principle technology in a comfortable facial interface that can be worn while talking and exercising. The company says its device's inbuilt technology reduces the overall size of the ventilation system and supports patient mobility and independence.
This is the first and only FDA-cleared, wearable, ventilation system for people with respiratory insufficiency. It provides augmented tidal volume and supplemental oxygen, which reduces the work of breathing for people with respiratory insufficiency caused by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), including Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency. Patients that may receive similar benefits include those with pulmonary fibrosis, interstitial lung disease, cystic fibrosis and most respiratory conditions that result in activity-limiting shortness of breath.
The new FDA clearance for use of the Breathe NIOV System with compressed air allows for the wearable ventilator to be used to assist patients with neuromuscular diseases, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and multiple sclerosis. The new clearance also allows for the use of the Breathe NIOV System with compressed air in patients with non-oxygen dependent respiratory diseases such as scoliosis.
The Breathe NIOV System reduces the work of breathing by unloading the ancillary respiratory muscles. Data from the seven studies that support the efficacy of the Breathe NIOV System demonstrate that the device reduces dyspnea, increases oxygenation, enhances exercise endurance, and unloads respiratory muscle activity.
"As neuromuscular diseases progress, patients may need augmented ventilatory support in order to breathe. The Breathe NIOV System offers a lightweight and wearable design that couples the efficacy of mechanical ventilation therapy with the benefits of mobility for spontaneously breathing patients whose muscle strength and overall mobility is compromised. It is also a welcome therapeutic addition for patients with non-oxygen dependent respiratory diseases," said Robert McCoy, RRT, FAARC, General Manager, ValleyAire Respiratory Services, Apple Valley, Minn.
Company comments
"With five distinct FDA clearances, we have demonstrated that Breathe Technologies' NIOV System has broad applications to help patients with respiratory insufficiency diseases become more mobile and independent. Our newest clearance allows many patients with neuromuscular disorders to have access to our technology as well," said Larry Mastrovich, president and CEO of Breathe Technologies.
Source: Breathe Technologies, Inc., PR Newswire
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ECE ILLINOIS graduate student and research assistant Matthew A Grawe (BS '15, MS '17) recently received an Outstanding Student Presentation Award from the American Geophysical Union. The award recognizes the quality research of students' in the Earth and space sciences and is only presented to the top 2-5% of participants. Grawe previously won an award at a different conference for his work in tsunami detection through the use of remote sensing. However, his research has transitioned into a new topic that focuses on space hazards affecting the power grid.
Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) occur when an eruption on the Sun results in a ball of plasma hurling off into space. If a CME impacts the geospace environment, it causes variations within the Earth's magnetic field. These variations generate currents in power lines, and if they are large enough, they can damage the power grid. A host of instruments operated by NASA and NOAA are stationed on satellites at the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrange point (about 1.5 million kilometers from the Earth towards the Sun) and take measurements of the plasma that is coming towards them. Measurements from these satellites reveal information about the intensity of an incoming CME before it impacts the Earth's magnetosphere as it takes about 30 to 60 minutes for the CME to travel from the L1 point to the Earth.
Grawe's work is conducted as part of a National Science Foundation-funded project led at Illinois by ECE ILLINOIS Professor Jonathan J Makela and Professor Farzad Kamalabadi in collaboration with researchers at several other institutions. A particular focus of the work at Illinois is on making "L1-to-ground" predictions of the geomagnetically-induced currents (GICs) that are induced in power lines caused by space weather (e.g., a CME travelling towards Earth) before it arrives. According to Grawe, "this is a particularly difficult problem for a variety of reasons; the system separating the L1 point and the surface of the Earth is highly complex and guided by physical processes that are not fully understood. Additionally, the ground conductivity structure extending hundreds of kilometers beneath the power system impacts both the intensity and predictability of GICs."
Although there are many challenges that arise, Matthew Grawe is making significant progress in this area. He was invited to speak about his work at the 2018 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting that occurred in December and stated that winning an OSPA was an honor and recognition of his diligent research efforts.
ECE ILLINOIS Professor Jonathan Makela serves as Grawe's graduate advisor.


The Supreme Court of the United States effectively rewrote the text of Obamacare to save the legislation.
By a 6-3 majority, the Court upheld the Fourth Circuit's decision in King v. Burwell and decided that federal subsidies were available on state Obamacare exchanges, even though the text of the so-called Affordable Care Act said that such subsidies were only available on "State" exchanges.
The majority acknowledged that the word "State" was, at best, "ambiguous." And it rejected the idea that an executive agency, in this case the Internal Revenue Service, could decide the meaning of that term.
Rewriting the law is evidently meant for the courts, not the administration–or Congress.
And the context was that Obamacare had to be saved from itself. After all, Congress could not have meant to pass a bad, self-defeating policy, could it?
The dissent, by Justice Antonin Scalia, was blistering.
"Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is 'established by the State,'" he wrote.
If a law was badly formulated, that was not the Court's problem, he argued. It was up to Congress to rescue the subsidies for Obamacare, not the Justices. And if people did not like it, tough: that was why the Justices were meant to serve life terms. They were meant to be above politics.
Instead, Scalia noted, the Court had adopted a particular political bent.


As a customer or medical marijuana patient, there are many considerations that run through your head before you make a purchase in a dispensary. How good is the product? Is the dosage enough for me? Will it satisfy my dietary needs? How long will its effects last?
However, the one question that often makes or breaks the decision is, how much does it cost?
When you walk into a cannabis dispensary you are confronted with an array of products from flowers and concentrates to capsules and brownies. As a buyer you must make a quick calculation – you must decide how much you are willing to pay for a specific product.
This is not as simple as it sounds; the consumer's decision depends on the quality of the product and the quantity of cannabis contained in said product. Its potency compared to its price will determine if this is the right cannabis product for the consumer. Depending on each of these delivery methods, your cost analysis may be swayed in favor of one product over another.
However, the most influencing and determining factor in your cost analysis is the price per milligram. It is crucial for both the seller and the buyer because it influences everything else – from how the product is produced, marketed, sold, and bought. When it comes to the various delivery methods for cannabis, the cost per milligram of some products are inevitably more than others due to its makeup and method of production, thus creating barriers of entry for many smaller cannabis companies.
In the cannabis industry, edibles traditionally have a higher cost per milligram compared to capsules for a myriad of reasons. The first reason is that producing edible products, such as brownies or chocolate bars, demand a lot more than producing capsules. For instance, edibles not only require a detailed recipe for both the consumable and for the cannabis oil, but also require experienced personnel overseeing and running the production process. One seemingly insignificant miscalculation with the raw ingredients and the entire production can easily be tainted. In other words, there are many ways in which one can mess up an edible. In contrast, one can produce large quantities of capsules with a very simple procedure that does not demand as much effort and has very little room for mistakes. Since there is a positive correlation between difficulty of production and final sale price, edibles naturally have a higher cost per milligram and thus a greater barrier of entry.
Another factor that affects the barrier of entry of a product is the facilities and equipment required for production. To produce edibles you need a fully equipped commercial kitchen, which is quite costly. Additionally, there are more steps required to produce edibles. For instance, you must cook raw materials for infusions which takes time and requires numerous ingredients; adding to the cost of production. While edibles require all of these – ingredients, recipes, kitchens, machines, and human skill – the requirements for capsule production pale in comparison. To produce a cannabis capsules all one needs is a clean-room that complies with guidelines-such as having proper ventilation, and clean machinery – which most standard facilities already have. Since capsules are very simple by nature, comprised of just a fill material and a shell, the process is uncomplicated and as a result enables the cost of production to remain low. With CannabisCapsules' equipment, producing capsules is done in one simple step – all you need is a RoboLQ™, which is an ultra cost effective liquid capsule filling machine and is more than easy to operate.
As explained above, because the cost per milligram is the major deciding factor for customers, it is important to provide them with products that aren't costly. Therefore, instead of producing edibles at a high price per milligram and thus deterring customers, it is more beneficial to produce capsules which maintain a low cost per milligram. CannabisCapsules is here to provide you with the means to do just that – by keeping the production process effortless and at a minimal cost, your company will be able to provide the market with the capsule products your customers want!
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Busan Metropolitan City (or Pusan), on the southeastern-most point of the Korean peninsula, with around 3.6 million inhabitants, is South Korea's second largest city, its largest port city and the cultural, educational and economic centre of its region. It is known for its beaches, like Haeundae, on the north east side of Busan and Geumjeongsan, its highest mountain on its north side, from where the whole city can be seen.
Busan was already a trading port with Japan from the early 15th century and a Japanese settlement was permitted here. During Japanese rule it developed into a hub trading port with Japan and also today it is the port from where daily ferries connect it to the Japanese cities Shimonoseki and Fukuoka.
During the Korean War, Busan was one of only two cities in South Korea not captured by the North Korean army within the first three months of the War in 1950 and became a refuge for thousands of people fleeing the carnage. It became a temporary capital of the Republic of (South) Korea when Seoul was occupied by the Communists. After the war Busan, like Seoul, became self-governing and in 1963 it separated from surrounding Gyeongsangnam-do province to become a Directly Governed City; in 1995 Busan finally became a Metropolitan City.


Genghis khan Death and burial In August 1227, during the fall of Yinchuan, the capital of Western Xia, Genghis Khan died. The exact cause of his death remains a mystery, and is variously attributed to being killed in action against the Western Xia, illness, falling from his horse, or wounds sustained in hunting or battle. Some historians maintain that he fell off his horse during a horseback pursuit from the land of present day Egypt due to battle wounds and physical fatigue, dying of his injuries. The Galician-Volhynian Chronicle alleges he was killed by the Western Xia in battle, while Marco Polo wrote that he died after the infection of an arrow wound he received during his final campaign. Later Mongol chronicles connect Genghis' death with a Western Xia princess taken as war booty. One chronicle from the early 17th century even relates that the princess hid a small dagger and stabbed him, though some Mongol authors have doubted this version and suspected it to be an invention by the rival Oirads.
In 1939 Chinese Nationalist soldiers took the mausoleum from its position at the 'Lord's Enclosure' (Mongolian: Edsen Khoroo) in Mongolia to protect it from Japanese troops. It was taken through Communist-held territory in Yan'an some 900 km on carts to safety at a Buddhist monastery, the Dongshan Dafo Dian, where it remained for ten years. In 1949, as Communist troops advanced, the Nationalist soldiers moved it another 200 km farther west to the famous Tibetan monastery of Kumbum Monastery or Ta'er Shi near Xining, which soon fell under Communist control. In early 1954, Genghis Khan's bier and relics were returned to the Lord's Enclosure in Mongolia. By 1956 a new temple was erected there to house them. In 1968 during the Cultural Revolution, Red Guards destroyed almost everything of value. The "relics" were remade in the 1970s and a great marble statue of Genghis was completed in 1989.


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'Umbrella revolution' escalates in Hong Kong
Pro-democracy protesters hit with tear gas, dragged off by riot police
Published September 29, 2014 at 8:39am
(NBC NEWS) The "Umbrella Revolution" is not going anywhere. If anything, it is spreading.
Pro-democracy protesters again defied Chinese officials and took to Hong Kong's streets Monday. They carried umbrellas and wore goggles to protect themselves from police batons and tear gas amid the worst unrest the former British colony has seen in decades.
The protesters had one advantage: momentum. Dramatic scenes of thick tear gas clouds and young protesters dragged away by riot police have captivated Hong Kong and the world, evoking memories of the 1989 demonstrations the culminated in the bloody Tiananmen Square crackdown. China limited reporting of the Hong Kong protests mostly to official statements that condemned them as "illegal action" and blocked images of the unrest from appearing on social media sites.
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Julia Cameron, Author of The Artist's Way on Glambition Radio with Ali Brown
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Are you ready for an inspiring conversation with a creative icon? When Julia Cameron wrote The Artist's Way over 20 years ago, she had no idea it would spawn a creative resurgence around the world. Her "way" showed us all that creativity wasn't just for artists — it's the key to a newer, healthier, and more joyful way of being. On this week's episode of Glambition Radio, you'll hear how Julia's own remarkable career as an artist and author of 35 books, selling 4 million copies worldwide, has allowed her to change the way people live and work through The Artist's Way.
The Artist's Way grew out of Julia's own struggles and what she calls the "creative injury" — or discouragement to be creative — she saw in other artists. One of her first discoveries was writing three long pages of thoughts first thing in the morning ("morning pages") allows us to shut out the negative soundtrack that slows us down, and gives us the room in our head to simply tune into ourselves. The process gives you three basic tools: direction, inspiration, and integration.
By clicking the button below you can hear how the "valentine" Julia wrote for her partner at the time became The Artist's Way phenomenon in our Glambition Radio interview.
Many women entrepreneurs have lost touch with their creativity – or haven't been encouraged to be creative in their careers. But, there's a shift in thinking and people are realizing a creative drive is essential in both business and personal life. Julia's books, which include The Artist's Way for Parents and The Artist's Way to Work, will guide you to the right next steps as an entrepreneur.
On this episode of Glambition Radio, Julia and I discuss how morning pages, artist's dates, and walking can lead to life-altering experiences. I know you'll get a lot out of this episode. So click the play button below and listen to this episode of Glambition Radio now.
Adisha Kariyawasam says
Really great interview Ali. I am a great fan of Julia Cameron's books 'The Artistt's Way' and 'The Right to Write'. Both books are superb and this interview is a really insightful and a lovely follow up that reinforces some of the key themes on creativity. #MorningPages and #EveningNotes are key. Thank you very much for sharing!