Nobody knows how life got started on Earth. The normally accepted theory is that various molecules got randomly combined in the energy rich environment and then evolution automatically took place of the rest. The "organic soup" experiment did show that organic compounds could be produced with relative ease but the pure odds of them combining into something capable of replicating itself are astronomical and unless there is some factor making replicating compounds more likely, would be incredibly unlikely to happen. within the lifetime of the universe.
That there is some unknown chemical relationship making life bearing compounds more likely so that the formation of life by accident is likely - it would have to be a considerable effect to bring the odds down from unlikely on millions of planets in the life of the universe to likely on 1 within merely hundreds of millions of years.
That life originated elsewhere and has been carried, at bacterial size, everywhere - if so such life should be endemic everywhere there are or have been conditions that can support it. This is known as Panspermia and fits what we know. Thus we should expect to find bacterial type life on Mars whenever humanity gets off its arse and seriously looks. The probes so far have produced results which cannot be explained as finding life as we know it, nor explained as having found nothing. In this case the level of our ignorance is plain, and considering that we are willing to spend trillions killing people, inexcusable.
That we live in a multiverse with an infinite number of universes, or at least potential ones. In that case we are bound to live in a universe where life formed because otherwise we wouldn't be here to see it. I believe we do live in such a universe. However in such case there is no particular reason life should have formed so quickly. We will always now be 4 billion years from the creation of life and there would be no real difference if the Earth had been around for 4 billion years rather than 0.5 bn. It would mean that we only had 2.5 bn rather than 5 to go before the sun explodes but that does not affect our ability to investigate the universe now. If this, rather than the panspermia theory were true we would not expect to find life on Mars.
I dunno. This is more complicated than saying how the world can be run.
However what also strikes me is that the formation of life may not be the difficult trick.
0.5 bn years, or less, possibly much less for life to form.
1 bn to develop a cell nucleus.
1 bn to produce multi-cellular life.
0.5 bn to get up to the reptiles.
0.2 bn to get to dinosaurs and mammals.
& 0.005bn - maximum time to get from the chimpanzees to us.
Looks to me like the difficult and improbable stuff wasn't the formation of life or the evolution of humans but the evolution of anything bigger than a microbe. Go figure.


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Maroon 5's Super Bowl halftime show missed the mark for viewers — here's what they're saying
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Maroon 5 performed at the 2019 Super Bowl with Travis Scott and Big Boi.
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Maroon 5 headlined the 2019 Super Bowl halftime show at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia on Sunday, and people weren't impressed.
Fans were disappointed by the brief "Spongebob Squarepants" tribute, which the band previously teased on Twitter.
Others felt that it was unnecessary for front man Adam Levine to take off his shirt, jacket, and coat during the performance.
Maroon 5 headlined the 2019 Super Bowl halftime show, and fans were left feeling disappointed by the band's performance.
The Los Angeles-based group, which is comprised of Adam Levine, Jesse Carmichael, Mickey Madden, James Valentine, Matt Flynn, PJ Morton, and Sam Farrar), performed at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia on Sunday. They also brought out rapper Travis Scott to sing "Sicko Mode" and Outkast member Big Boi to belt out the words to "The Way You Move."
Following their halftime show, viewers took to Twitter to react to the performance, which they thought was lackluster.
Many people found the overall show to be boring and said that it was the "worst" of all time.
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The "Spongebob Squarepants" tribute angered fans.
Many people were led to believe that there would be a nod to one of the show's most well-known episodes titled "Band Geeks," where the characters form a band and play the halftime show at the "Bubble Bowl." People also signed a Change.org petition to have the group perform "Sweet Victory, and even Maroon 5 hinted at a "Spongebob" segment in a video shared on Twitter.
Considering that the show's creator, Stephen Hillenburg, died in November, fans were hoping that Maroon 5 was going to pay tribute. Instead, a few seconds of the "Spongebob Squarepants" episode played during the halftime show and Travis Scott interrupted to sing "Sicko Mode." Needless to say, fans weren't impressed that they didn't get to hear the song "Sweet Victory" during the show.
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Reflections on CeBIT 2019; or, WTF is an electric H-D good for?
Harley-Davidson LiveWire. Um, no thanks!
Seeing an electric H-D LiveWire in the flesh at CeBIT today really set me off. WTF is that about?
The first time I went to CeBIT the event was huge. This year, it was significantly smaller. The original CeBIT in Hanover, Germany, ended last year but Australia decided to push on with the branded local event. I'm not sure if I will go again.
Steve Wozniak was a keynote speaker. This year the keynote speakers in the sideshows provided an open-plan version of the restricted audience by using headphones for those with paid tickets.
There was an interesting budget hologram display at the British Industry stand and lots of virtual reality and AI displays. But it was clear the major exhibitors have moved on.
Some displays reminded me of Expo '88 in Brisbane where what was then the latest technology is now somewhat laughable in the manner of watching early aviation enthusiasts.
The saddest display was Harley-Davidson's e-bike, the LiveWire. A review in the AFR in June suggested the bike had some positives but two weeks ago H-D "pulled the plug" on sales and production due to some problems with the bike.
There is something just not right about an electric H-D. Sure, times are changing. But the "progress" thesis is running out of steam in my view.
The idea of human progress as a linear, inevitable improvement in the lot of humans has some validity, but it also tends to be uneven if you are starving in sub-Saharan Africa. And whether the Middle Ages were an improvement on the glory days of the Roman Empire is arguable.
What I saw at CeBIT was the tired leftovers of earlier technological advances. Much like the Millennium Falcon, things are looking a bit shabby chic. Not that the technology hasn't improved or that things haven't advanced, but to what end?
The H-D LiveWire had me thinking, "what's the point?" Granted, it is better for the environment and die hard H-D fans are no longer turning a profit for the company that is over 100 years old. But a H-D that makes that annoying Formula E zing zing sound? Progress, really?
It would seem that when we talk about the future of work, there is less and less work to be done. And when speakers talk about technology and leadership, what's so new about it all?
Two key things emerged for me at CeBIT. First, technology is replacing humans in everyday life. Who needs to speak to wait-staff or a cashier when you can order and pay for food on your phone? I used me&u for the first time today.
Second, the other technologies that featured heavily at CeBIT were meeting and corroboration tools. But meeting and collaborating to do what, exactly? With production and manual labour roles now taken care of by technology, what exactly are people discussing in all these meetings?
It is becoming obvious that it is all a con-job. Meetings are about saying, "see, I'm here!" and ticking off the attendance box. Skype is the same thing except it's, "see, even though I'm not there, I'm still working!"
The use of tech in healthcare and for first responders is important, but it made we wonder: Just how important is all this other work that we do?
I fear that, like the electric H-D, we've lost the point. We are meeting about things that we don't produce, to lead people who don't produce anything. If this is the case, why are there so many meetings?
Cal Newport has shown the way for the future of work. In the meantime, the noise of the H-D has been replaced by the noise of bureaucrats meeting. My key lesson from CeBIT? Don't believe the hype.
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Essay Notes: "Clouds, Clocks, and the Study of Politics" by Gabriel Almond and Stephen Genco
Almond, G. A. & Genco, S. J. (1977). Clouds, Clocks, and the Study of Politics. World Politics, 29(4), 489–522.
Written in 1977, this article considers the scientific turn in political science. Traditionally, political science focused on descriptions of political systems, laws, and history. I have discussed Charles Merriam, founder of the "Chicago School" of political science, in an earlier "journal note". Along with Harold Lasswell, Merriam encouraged greater scientific rigour in political science research. Almond was notably a product of the "Chicago School" of political science, earning his PhD in 1938, the year Harold Lasswell left and two years before Merriam retired. The adoption of the scientific method of the hard (or natural) sciences, which had influenced psychology and economics, and, by this time, was influencing political science, is the subject of this article. Almond and Genco bring to the attention of political scientists the issue of…
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Moodle is an open source educational platform that has a global reach with millions of users worldwide. As part of this open source experiment, many Australian educational institutions have adopted Moodle as their primary Learning Management System (LMS). Unlike proprietary LMS, which tend to be pedagogically neutral, Moodle's "social constructivist" underpinnings have changed the nature of how education is delivered in these institutions. But is the change for the better?
Open source versus proprietary software
Unlike proprietary or commercial software, "open source" means that the software code is freely available and institutions do not have to pay licence fees based on the number of users. However, institutions pay for support services such as their own (or third-party) help-desks and technicians to implement and manage the software on their servers (whether owned by the institution or controlled by a third party).
In contrast to commercial LMS, Moodle has…
T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land": Pound for Pound
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After reading Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust, the title of which is derived from T.S. Eliot's modernist poem, The Waste Land, I was compelled to read the poem and to learn more about Eliot. Up until today, my knowledge of Eliot was limited to what I had gleaned from Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris.
I have read all around Eliot, including Djuna Barnes (whom Eliot admired)1, Ernest Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Sherwood Andersen, Ford Madox Ford, and Virginia Woolf. But I have shied away from poetry until only recently.
After reading the poem, I listened to the BBC's In Our Time podcast episode, "The Waste Land and Modernity". There was much interesting discussion about the original book version of Eliot's poem. Apparently, the poem itself was too short to be a book and the publisher asked Eliot to pad it out.
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On Naturalism: Guy de Maupassant and literary cloning of humans
Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant
In his review of the 2012 movie version of this novel, New York Times reviewer Stephen Holden refers to Georges Duroy as:
...the coldblooded social climber who seduces his way to the top of Gallic society in Guy de Maupassant's 1885 novel, Bel Ami, is one of the nastiest pieces of work in French literature. Sure, Holden says this so he can point out how lame Robert Pattinson (of Twilight fame, apparently - I wouldn't know, I can't stand teeny-bopper nonsense. Besides, Georges had a moustache, maybe Pattinson was too young to grown one) plays the part of this cold-blooded social climber. Yet Georges reminds me of almost everyone I work with, and everyone around me, including myself. Or at least how everyone wants to be. For he has a major chip on his shoulder, one borne by being of a peasant family. But Guy de Maupassant is regarded as a "naturalist", in that he tried to depict human nature as it really was, rather …
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does anyone have the address for the contest site? Without plugging it into my GPS I am a lost soul.
Since the competition is at the Canada Southern Railway Station, which appears to be at 750 Talbot St, my guess is that is where we have to go. Do you think we can find our way there Darrin?


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Microsoft outlines how it will phase out Adobe Flash support on Edge and Internet Explorer
By Andy Weir Senior News Editor Neowin @gcaweir · Jul 25, 2017 13:34 EDT · Hot! with 26 comments
Today, Adobe announced that it will end support for Flash in 2020. The company will continue to support Flash until then - with security updates, and by maintaining OS and browser compatibility - before discontinuing all support just under three and a half years from now.
Like its leading rivals in the browser market, Microsoft has already started phasing out its support for Flash. With the Windows 10 Creators Update, its Edge browser introduced Click-to-Run functionality, blocking Flash content by default. Newer web standards now offer similar capabilities to Flash, without the security concerns, weakened performance, and poor battery life with which the Adobe product has become synonymous.
Coinciding with Adobe's announcement today, Microsoft announced its plans to completely phase out Flash support from Edge, and from the older Internet Explorer browser, by 2020:
Through the end of 2017 and into 2018, Microsoft Edge will continue to ask users for permission to run Flash on most sites the first time the site is visited, and will remember the user's preference on subsequent visits. Internet Explorer will continue to allow Flash with no special permissions required during this time.
In mid to late 2018, we will update Microsoft Edge to require permission for Flash to be run each session. Internet Explorer will continue to allow Flash for all sites in 2018.
In mid to late 2019, we will disable Flash by default in both Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer. Users will be able to re-enable Flash in both browsers. When re-enabled, Microsoft Edge will continue to require approval for Flash on a site-by-site basis.
By the end of 2020, we will remove the ability to run Adobe Flash in Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer across all supported versions of Microsoft Windows. Users will no longer have any ability to enable or run Flash.
Microsoft pointed out that its timeline for phasing out Flash support is consistent with plans outlined by its rivals' browsers - including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Apple Safari.
Microsoft's John Hazen, Principal Program Manager Lead for the Edge browser, acknowledged that Flash "led the way on the web for rich content, gaming, animations, and media of all kinds, and inspired many of the current web standards powering HTML5."
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I'm going to a wedding on Friday.
And strangely, I'm excited. For a long time, I have believed that no one should get married. Marriage is an archaic institution. At best, it is a legal agreement. At worst, it is codependent, abusive, and unhealthy. Weddings have freaked me out for a very long time. In my mind, they symbolized the beginning of a horrible hell, but something has changed in the last couple of months... And I blame the bride-to-be.
When I met her, she was going through an awful divorce. She wanted out - He didn't want to let her. All divorce is hell... but in my experience, the hell part was the back and forth before the divorce. In her experience, the hell was the years long legal battle they went through after she had filed for divorce.
I watched her go through having her kids shun her, because they were angry at the choices she was making (combined with the stories he was telling). I watched her decide that she couldn't wait for them to decide to want to be in her life. She loves them and she wants them around, but she's going to live her life and let them live theirs. It both saddened and inspired me. My family didn't make me choose between doing what was best for me and making them happy. Her family did. She chose to do what was best for herself. In my mind, that was the much harder choice.
She started talking about a friend she'd met online. Then she brought him over for dinner. I liked him from the first moment I met him. (He reminds me of my old therapist: easy-going teddy bear, with a tough streak. On several occasions, I have almost called him Paul (therapist's name) instead of by his name.) Although weeks went by between times we saw each other, he remembered what we'd talked about and we just picked up the conversation where we left off. And it was obvious to me that he liked her.
I remember her saying once, "I just want to fall in love. I want to know what it's like to love someone instead of needing someone. I want to know what it feels like to want to be with someone and have them want to be with me." Watching them together, I felt like she was on the path to find what she wanted. That made me happy.
Then they got engaged. Whenever anyone has gotten engaged recently, I have wanted to go off on them about why they shouldn't. I never shared my thoughts, but it was very loud inside my head. This time, I didn't even feel the urge to go off on why I didn't believe in marriage. Instead, I just felt happy for her.
When I told BJ about my internal reaction, he asked if that meant I wanted to get married someday. HELL NO. I don't.
What does it mean? It means I have finally gotten comfortable enough in my own decision, that I don't need to tell other people what to do. I don't need to tell people why MY choice is the better choice. I can just live my life; make my choices; and let them live their lives and make their choices.
So, maybe I can't blame her for my change in perspective. Maybe, the more comfortable we (meaning people) are with our own choices, the less we need to control others.
What if telling other people what to do is just a way to help us make peace with our own choices?
I feel like I just discovered something important, but it makes my brain hurt. At moments like this, I love insights from others. Your thoughts?
People at their core nature just want to belong. People also enjoy feeling empowered. When people can showing the belong by making everyone agree with them it fulfills both longings. It's a double whammy of positive feeling energy to their feel goods.
Belonging is so important... Feeling loved and accepted is one of the best feelings ever. Knowing that, the more I try to make people fit into MY ideas of what they should do, the less accepted and belonged they feel.
I like this journey I am on. As I learn to love and accept myself better, I can naturally love and accept others. And then we all belong, even if we are all very different. That world sounds very peaceful.


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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has expanded how it defines the "primarily health-related" benefits that insurers are allowed to include in their Medicare Advantage policies.
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Q: TFS Automated Build with different platform I am quite new to TFS Automated Build. I am having some issues to get automated build up and running.  Below is the detail..
I have a solution with 4 projects. 3 of them build on x86 and the 4th project build on Any CPU.
When I set up a new build definition, I configured the platform for x86 ( I am not sure if I can set up individually). Since the 4th project requires Any CPU, the build failed. The 4th project is a third party that we purchased with source code. Changing the 4th project to x86 causing millions of errors.
The question here is , how do I configure the build definition such that it knows the correct platform for each project. In other word, can I assign platform to a specific project individually?

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I'm really, really excited about the forthcoming anthology You are Here: Tales of Cartographic Wonders, from SFFWorld. Yes, I'll admit that this is in part because my story "The Shape of the World's Skin" will appear in it. But I've been poking around the websites and catalogues of my fellow authors, and discovering I'm in the company of a lot of talent and some accomplished writers. This should be a very interesting collection.
You are Here has a tentative release date of November 12. Watch for it, or just keep watching here, because it's a pretty safe bet I'll continue to promote it.


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The Shaggy Dog, and The Shaggy D.A.
*** / **
DVD review by Ryan Hurtig
Nothing like going to the ol' vault to promote a studio's new movie like Disney has with Tim Allen's new Shaggy Dog vehicle. But such a move could backfire when viewers see how dated some of the old special effects are compared to Mr. Allen's canine-inspired CGI antics.
The Shaggy Dog
An ancient ring transforms Wilby into a sheepdog that can talk and drive a car
The Shaggy D.A.
Dick Van Patten
The Shaggy Dog Kids
Fred MacMurray - With Fondness
audio commentary with the film's surviving stars
Putting On The Dog
The Good, The Bad and The Funny
audio commentary with Tim Conway along with Dick Van Patten and Jo Anne Worly
DVD scorecard
Picture: ***
Sound: ***
Extras: **
Overall: ***
Picture: **1/2
Sound: **1/2
Overall: **
The original Shaggy Dog (1959) was Disney's first live-action film. Ironically, it holds up much better than D.A., especially when you compare plots and contexts.
In The Shaggy Dog, Wilby Daniels (Tommy Kirk) is your typical shy teenage boy, better at shooting rockets through the ceiling of his house than talking to girls, much to the chagrin of his dog-hating father Wilson (Fred MacMurray). Wilson is a mailman, so to him, dogs are a natural enemy.
But Wilby stumbles (literally) upon an ancient ring with an inscription that, when read aloud, transforms Wilby, and only Wilby for some strange reason, into a sheepdog. A big, shaggy sheepdog that can talk and use ladders and door handles as if he had an opposable thumb. And drive a car.
Yes, it is silly, but what is considered "family entertainment" allows for a lot of artistic license, and The Shaggy Dog spares no expense. It holds up well with its plot involving international espionage and a running gag involving two policemen running into Wilby in his speaking-dog form. It also has virtually no "Gosh Wally" or "Gee Beaver" moments that made'50s movies embarrassing, so the story could still work today.
Resorts to Tim Conway too much to keep the movie from lagging
Not so with The Shaggy D.A. (1976), which introduces us to the adult Wilby (Dean Jones), so fed up with local crime condoned by corrupt District Attorney John Slade (Keenan Wynn) that he decides to run for the position himself. Unknown to Wilby, that same pesky ring gets stolen from a museum, falls into the hands of an ice cream pusher played by Tim Conway, who reads the inscription, and the hilarity ensues.
Made when Disney's live-action efforts were in decline and before the studio's Touchstone was created, D.A. tries way too hard to get laughs, mostly at Conway's expense. He has made a career out of his physical comedy, but D.A. resorts to it too much to keep the movie from lagging.
As for our suspension of disbelief, well, the movie asks for a lot here. Now Wilby can stand upright in dog form and even compete in a roller derby event! And drive an ice cream truck. And talk to other dogs who sound like the cast of "The Maltese Falcon."
Neither movie explains how, when Wilby changes from human to dog and back to human, the clothes he was wearing are back on him again. Sorta like in vampire movies, when vampires are shown not reflecting in a mirror, and their clothes do not reflect either.
Picture and Sound
The sound and picture look pretty good for the DVD transfer, but stay away from the absolutely awful colorized version of The Shaggy Dog.
DVD Extras
The other extras include audio commentary and small featurettes by the surviving members of the cast mostly reminiscing about their work.
Kids today are likely to not give either of these much of a look, but if you grew up on TV's The Wonderful World of Disney, it is worth at least one more visit. But trust me on the colorized version! Ugh!


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Former 'Jersey Shore' star suing city of New York, alleging sexual harassment
Posted 10:46 am, September 19, 2019, by CNN Wire
Angelina Pivarnick, a "Jersey Shore" reality star turned emergency medical technician, filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against the city of New York, where she's been working as an emergency responder since 2016, a court document shows.
In the suit filed Monday, Pivarnick alleges she was sexually harassed by two supervisors while working for the New York City Fire Department's Bureau of Emergency Medical Services on Staten Island and retaliated against for filing internal complaints.
In the complaint, Pivarnick says she was the victim of "unwelcome sexual advances, degrading comments about her body, vulgar sexual comments, inappropriate questions about her private relationships and, in one instance, the groping of an intimate part of her body without her consent."
Lt. Jonathan Schechter, the complaint alleges, repeatedly texted Pivarnick about her body and made advances. The complaint says that on one particular occasion, Pivarnick met Schechter in a parking lot outside the station and "grabbed and squeezed her buttocks, putting his hand so low that he also made contact with her vaginal area."
According to the complaint, "Pivarnick made it clear that he should never touch her." After she left, Schechter allegedly sent her a text that read, "That ass! If you only knew the thoughts in my mind."
Pivarnick was inspired to become an EMT by her aunt, who held the same job, and other members of her family who were firefighters, according to the complaint. Shortly after completing her training with the FDNY, she was injured on the job in November 2016 before returning to the job in the summer of 2017. She was reinjured, according to the complaint, in November 2017 and returned to work in March 2018, reinstated to light duty. It was during that light duty, she alleges, that she was harassed by Lt. David Rudnitzky, who is not a defendant in the case but was named in the lawsuit. In 2018, Pivarnick appeared on several episodes of a "Jersey Shore" revival. She originally appeared in the first two seasons of the show, in 2009 and 2010.
The complaint says Rudnitzky spoke to her at work "in sexually graphic and vulgar terms," asking her about her sex life in front of other coworkers. According to the complaint, in one instance Rudnitzky asked Pivarnick, in front of one of her male EMT colleagues "how many guys on Jersey Shore" she had had sex with (using more vulgar language).
Phone calls to Schechter and Rudnitzky went unreturned Wednesday.
The FDNY referred CNN to the City Law Department and spokesperson Nick Paolucci told CNN it will review the case.
According to the lawsuit, Pivarnick filed a complaint with the FDNY's Equal Employment Opportunity Office (EEOO) against both men, and in the case against Rudnitzky, the EEOO office informed her it found "credible and corroborating evidence" and would refer Rudnitsky for the "appropriate discipline." Rudnitzky would also receive counseling about workplace behavior according to the complaint. According to the complaint, Pivarnick also received a letter from EEOO which acknowledged "sufficient credible and corroborating evidence" that Schechter too engaged in discriminatory conduct. CNN has not independently verified the existence of the EEOO letters.
Pivarnick is requesting a jury trial and asking for damages.
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Zounds! The High Library has been selected as the ONLY site in Pennsylvania that will host First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare, a national traveling exhibition of the Shakespeare First Folio, one of the world's most treasured books. The Folger Shakespeare Library, in partnership with Cincinnati Museum Center and the American Library Association, is touring a First Folio of Shakespeare in 2016 to all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico.
Why 2016? Next year marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death.
What else will the exhibition include? The First Folio's pages will be opened to the most quoted line from Shakespeare, "to be or not to be" from Hamlet. The exhibition will also include several panels that explore the significance of Shakespeare, then and now, with additional digital content and interactive activities. Finally, the High Library will partner with various departments, offices, and affiliates — like the Elizabethtown Public Library — to offer numerous programs and events for the campus and the surrounding community. Stay tuned for more details!
Why is the First Folio important? Many of Shakespeare's plays, which were written to be performed, were not published during his lifetime. The First Folio is the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays. It was published in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare's death. Two of Shakespeare's fellow actors compiled 36 of his plays, hoping to preserve them for future generations. Without it, we would not have 18 of Shakespeare's plays, including MacBeth, Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, Antony and Cleopatra, The Comedy of Errors, and As You Like It. All 18 appear for the first time in print in the First Folio, and would otherwise have been lost.
How can I help? Thank you for your interest in the First Folio Exhibition! If you have programming ideas, general suggestions, or questions, please contact Louise Hyder-Darlington (hyderl@etown.edu) or Sarah Penniman (pennimans@etown.edu).
First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities (Exploring the Human Endeavor), and by the generous support of Google.org and Vinton and Sigrid Cerf. Sponsorship opportunities of this major exhibition and the Folger's other Wonder of Will programs commemorating the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death are available. Learn more at www.folger.edu.
Folger Shakespeare Library is a world-renowned center for scholarship, learning, culture, and the arts. It is home to the world's largest Shakespeare collection and a primary repository for rare materials from the early modern period (1500-1750). The Folger is an internationally recognized research library offering advanced scholarly programs in the humanities; an innovator in the preservation of rare materials; a national leader in how Shakespeare is taught in grades K-12; and an award-winning producer of cultural and arts programs–theatre, music, poetry, exhibits, lectures and family programs. Learn more at www.folger.edu.
The American Library Association is the oldest and largest library association in the world, with approximately 58,000 members in academic, public, school, government and special libraries. The mission of the American Library Association is to provide leadership for the development, promotion and improvement of library and information services and the profession of librarianship in order to enhance learning and ensure access to information for all. ALA's Public Programs Office provides leadership, resources, training and networking opportunities that help thousands of librarians nationwide develop and host cultural programs for adult, young adult and family audiences. The mission of the ALA Public Programs Office is to promote cultural programming as an essential part of library service in all types of libraries. Projects include book and film discussion series, literary and cultural programs featuring authors and artists, professional development opportunities and traveling exhibitions. School, public, academic and special libraries nationwide benefit from the office's programming initiatives. Additional information can be found at www.ala.org/programming.
Image from the First Folio of Shakespeare. Credit: Shakespeare First Folio, 1623. Folger Shakespeare Library.
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Drug menace is a serious problem : Amit Shah
New Delhi, Dec 21
Union Home Minister Amit Shah said in Parliament today that the drug menace is a serious problem which is destroying generations and the profits being made from drugs are utilised for terrorism as well.
The Union Home Minister Amit Shah was replying to the debate in Lok Sabha under rule 193 on the "Problem of drug abuse in the country and steps taken by the Government."
He said that Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) can conduct probes across the country. "NCB is ready to help each and every State if there's a need to do an inter-State probe. Even the NIA can help the States if the probe needs to be conducted outside the country," he added.
Shah also reiterated the Centre's zero-tolerance policy against drug abuse. "Our Govt policy is very clear: those consuming drugs are victims. We should be sensitive towards them and give victims a conducive atmosphere for their rehabilitation. But those involved in drug trafficking should not be spared," he said.
Shah urged the States and Union Territories to work in synergy against the drug menace. "All the States and UTs have to together fight against the drug menace. We need to stop the entry of drugs through borders, ports and airports. The Revenue Department, NCB and anti-narcotics agencies have to work against the menace being on the same page," he said.
"Our Govt has a zero-tolerance policy towards the issue of drugs. Those countries promoting terrorism in our country are using the profits from drugs for the same. The presence of this dirty money also gradually makes our economy hollow," he added.
"We have mapped the drug network across the States. No matter how big the criminal is, in the next two years there'll be a situation that they'll be behind bars," he said. ANI


Save the Redwoods League: David Cumpston, Landis Communications, Inc.
San Francisco, Calif. (April 16, 2018) – Save the Redwoods League (League), the National Park Service (NPS) and California State Parks (State Parks) today announced a new commitment to heal previously-harvested redwood forests through a collaboration known as Redwoods Rising. One of the goals in the coming decades is to bring back stands of towering coast redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) on 80,000 acres of public lands in Redwood National and State Parks (RNSP). Redwoods Rising creates an unprecedented level of collaboration between these three organizations to restore the redwood forests and ensure the parks' entire 120,000 acres exist as a connected forest ecosystem and a thriving landscape that supports and protects the natural and cultural treasures found there.
Located 325 miles north of San Francisco, Redwood National and State Parks are a UNESCO World Heritage site comprised of Redwood National Park, and Prairie Creek Redwoods, Del Norte Coast Redwoods, and Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Parks. The parks are home to 45 percent of the world's remaining protected old-growth redwoods and half of the world's tallest trees. However, surrounding the primeval redwood stands are large swaths of younger forest that were once heavily harvested. Old logging roads spread invasive species and erode sediment into nearby streams, threatening coho salmon and steelhead trout.
Coast redwood forests store more carbon per acre than any other forest on the planet — by at least three times. One of the exciting and environmentally important aspects of accelerating the growth of massive redwoods is that these trees are climate change fighters. So, as we restore the redwood forests, we increase their ability to absorb more carbon. Also, because the trees are so resistant to rot, they hold onto their carbon for a very long time even after they die. This is an effective, natural form of carbon sequestration.
By 2022, the Redwoods Rising collaborative will conduct restoration forestry activities across 10,000 acres of the forested watersheds of Mill Creek and Prairie Creek within RNSP. These forests were clearcut prior to the parks' establishment, and actively restoring them will reconnect precious remaining old-growth areas, improving habitat quality and resiliency.
The League has already raised over $2.26 million towards the $5 million goal needed to fund initial projects, including support for the Forest Fellows program, which mentors the next generation of conservation foresters, and a $1 million grant from the S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation. Going forward, Redwoods Rising collaborators will work together to cultivate new private philanthropic and public support for the project, with the League as lead and fiscal administrator.
Please visit RedwoodsRising.org for additional information and opportunities to support this exciting new initiative.
Note to editors: a celebratory event is scheduled for Friday, April 27. Please contact Ashley Boarman, Landis Communications, Inc. at (415) 359-2312 or via email at redwoods@landispr.com for event details or a helicopter tour.
One of the nation's oldest conservation organizations, Save the Redwoods League is celebrating 100 years of protecting and restoring redwood forests, connecting generations of visitors with the beauty and serenity of the redwood forest. Our 19,000 supporters have enabled the League to protect more than 200,000 acres of irreplaceable forest and help create 66 redwood parks and reserves. For more information, go to SaveTheRedwoods.org, or to sign up for updates, please visit SaveTheRedwoods.org/signup.
The National Park Service (NPS) (external link) preserves unimpaired the natural and cultural resources and values of the national park system for the enjoyment, education, and inspiration of this and future generations. The national park system includes 417 areas covering more than 84 million acres in every state, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. The NPS cooperates with partners to extend the benefits of natural and cultural resource conservation and outdoor recreation throughout this country and the world. The variety and diversity of park units throughout the nation require a strong commitment to resource stewardship and management to ensure both the protection and enjoyment of these resources for future generations.
The California Department of Parks and Recreation (external link) protects and preserves the state's valued natural, cultural, and historical resources while providing recreational opportunities, including hiking, camping, mountain biking, horseback riding, boating and off-highway vehicle activities. The department achieves its mission through grant programs and a network of 280 parks, which include beaches, trails, wildlife areas, open spaces, off-highway areas, and historic sites.


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Q: Programmable, mobile device I have been searching for this since about a month now, and it is beginning to drive me crazy!
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*At least 2 buttons as an input

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(I would be already happy if you could display Hello World with the device on a button press, or draw a line, or even play a homebrew tetris)
As you can see from the list, my requirements from the device are quite low. I'd be happy with something like a pocket computer from the 80's.
I have looked into programmable (graphing) calculators, but the problem is that they're just so expensive for what I'm trying to do. I really can't afford something like them.

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A powerful story of love and sacrifice that The Boston Globe calls an "extraordinary achievement by an emerging playwright." Sonia, a Cuban exiled during Castro's rise to power, is forced to relive her tumultuous childhood when her only son enlists in the military following 9/11. Using humor and sensitivity, SONIA FLEW paints a lyrical portrait of two families in two countries over a 40-year span.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Philip Casnoff, Hector Elizondo, James Martinez, Rachel Nicks, Isabelle Ortega and Elizabeth Pena.
The Boston-based playwright Melinda Lopez is author of numerous prize-winning plays, including Caroline in Jersey, God Smells Like a Roast Pig and Sonia Flew, winner of the Elliot Norton Award for Best New Play and the IRNE (Independent Reviewers of New England) Awards for Best Play. She teaches playwrighting and theatre at Boston University an Wellesley College.


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Explain Kaleidoscope Ending: Is The Heist Successful?
kaleidoscope ending: Kaleidoscope, starring Giancarlo Esposito, was selected by Netflix to kick off the new year because it had one of the service's most innovative formats in recent memory. A dramatic thriller that follows a motley crew of crooks as they plot one of the largest heists in recent memory.
In order to provide each viewer a unique perspective on the events leading up to and following the robbery, creator Eric Garcia uses a creative episode-formatting gimmick in which the order of the series' eight episodes is chosen at random for all Netflix accounts.
However, the last hour of the series always concludes with the "White" episode, which features the real theft. Some viewers may be left wondering what on earth is going on with all the characters because of the show's unconventional premise.
We'll explain what happened during the robbery, who got the $7 billion, and what happened to the crew members who carried it out so you can have a better grasp of the situation. This is it! kaleidoscope ending.
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Is The Heist Successful?
Your definition of success will determine how you respond to this query. If the goal was to steal money from an organization without getting caught, then the heist was a success. The plan to steal $7 billion in bearer bonds from Leo (Giancarlo Esposito) and his crew is successful.
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This is a fun procedure to watch if you like heist movies. The most audacious and resourceful plan is probably Leo's use of a mask that mimics Roger Salas' (Rufus Sewell) exact facial features to get into the vault.
The bees are used to block the gait sensor inside the building, and the underground safe area is flooded to normalize the temperatures in the area. All those billions have been taken with no one being held accountable. However, there is still a large sum of money to distribute.
Hannah Kim (Tati Gabrielle), daughter of Leo, tries to throw a monkey wrench into the preparations by stealing the cash before it can be transferred to the truck RJ (Jordan Mendoza) will drive out of the building.
She intends to reinvest the bonds into the income streams of the wealthy elite, bringing about a return to normalcy for everybody concerned. The group as a whole is disappointed because no one gets the sum of money they anticipated. Instead, Hannah left the crew a few thousand bucks so that no one would suspect her of anything.
As far as this metric is concerned, the heist was a total bust. What happens to the characters after the heist only highlights how bad their decisions were. kaleidoscope ending.
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In the first place, we may say that the heist was successful. Against all odds, Leo (Esposito) and his ragtag group of criminals are able to steal the bearer bonds and evade capture by the authorities.
Leo used a Mission: Impossible–style mask to fool the complex facial recognition system, and we get a hilariously detailed analysis of the nuances behind their achievement, including the deployment of bees to block the gait sensor in the building and flooding the subterranean safe to confuse heat sensors.
Hannah, Leo's daughter (Tati Gabrielle), decides to throw a wrench in the plans. Hannah's plan is to return the stolen money to the world's richest people, so she intercepts the cargo before it can be given to the truck. kaleidoscope ending.
She believes that stealing such a large sum of money will disrupt the equilibrium of the universe and that this cannot be tolerated. The crew members were expecting millions and billions, but instead, they were given only a few thousand dollars each.
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Srinagar:The Kashmir Working Journalist Association (KWJA) and Kashmir Journalist Association strongly condemned the summoning of a Srinagar based journalist Auqib Javed Hakim by National Investigative agency and threatened to stop working terming it as intimidation and harassment of Kashmiri journalist.
Hakim, an accredited journalist working with daily Kashmir Observer has been summoned to New Delhi by NIA, apparently for what appears to be a story he reported.
A joint statement from the associations, condemning the move, said the summoning reflects the highhanded approach of the federal agency to ascribe motive to journalists' professional work and summon them like criminals.
"It is also highly regrettable that Aqib has been summoned, out of the station, at a very short notice, without giving a damn to how he manages to do it," the statement said.
"The NIA's ham-handed approach towards journalism has earlier also been exposed in its detention of the Kashmiri photojournalist Kamran Yousuf, last year, in whose case, the NIA even tried to define journalism by its own skewed standards," the statement further read.
"It would be in the national interest for the federal authorities, as well as J&K, to improve their record for press freedom, rather than resort to authoritative measures, that further malign the image of the country," the statement said.
"We also realize that the latest summon seems to part of a larger conspiracy to muzzle press freedom in Kashmir," the statement said.
"The journalist fraternity in Kashmir cannot take the act lying down and is watching the developments keenly. We also appeal to the Honourable Governor J&K, N N Vohra to intervene in the matter, and ensure an end to harassment and intimidation of Kashmiri journalists by the policing agencies, failing which the journalists would be forced to stop working en-masse in protest," the statement said.


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Microsoft Power BI - A Complete Introduction
Learn how to use Microsoft's Power BI Tools, including Power BI Desktop, Power BI Service and Power BI Developer
You want to analyze data from single or multiple sources? You want to create your individual datasets based on these sources and transform your results into beautiful and easy-to-make visualizations? You also want to share your results with colleagues or collaborate on your projects? Finally, you want to be able to access your data from multiple devices?
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Merging Queries Applied (7:24)
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The Next Steps (1:05)
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Райхон (, настоящее имя — Райхон Отабековна Ганиева, ) (род. 16 сентября 1978 года) — узбекская певица и актриса. Заслуженная артистка Республики Узбекистан.

Биография
Райхон Ганиева родилась 16 сентября 1978 года в Ташкенте (Узбекская ССР). Отец — Oтабек Ганиев — известный артист кино, внук великого кинорежиссёра, основоположника узбекского кино Наби Ганиева. Мать — заслуженная артистка Узбекской ССР — Тамара Шакирова.

Талант Райхон Ганиевой открылся очень рано. Она любила рисовать, петь, танцевать. Было решено отдать девочку в музыкально-художественную школу искусств для одарённых детей, которую Райхон успешно окончила в 1996 году по классу фортепиано. Будучи ученицей 9 класса, она была удостоена чести исполнять сольную партию на фортепьяно с Большим государственным симфоническим оркестром под руководством дирижёра Захида Хакназарова. Это были концерты Сен-Санса. Серия концертов с маленькой Райхон в концертном зале «Бахор» имела большой успех. В те годы это был настоящий «храм» классического искусства. В школе Райхон написала свою первую песню под названием «Жить…».

Артистка окончила Институт мировых языков по специальности «Английская филология». На третьем курсе она организовала вокальный дуэт «Хаёл». С 2000 года начала карьеру сольной певицы.

В 2002 году Райхон выступила с сольным концертом в Большом академическом театре оперы и балета имени Алишера Навои, где её объявили лучшей певицей года и выдали первую премию «Нихол». После этого она дважды получала данную премию, в 2004 году — конкурс «Тарона» и в 2006 году на номинации M&TVA.

В 2003 и 2005 году Райхон получила премию «За лучший альбом года». В декабре 2007 года её песня «Кечир» из одноимённого фильма, в котором артистка выступила в роли сценаристки и в качестве главной героини, была объявлена лучшим саундтреком года. В 2009 году Райхон получила премию «M&TVA» в номинации «Лучшая песня года».

22 февраля 2012 года умерла Тамара Халимовна Шакирова, мать артистки.

В декабре 2012 года Райхон вновь получила премию «M&TVA» в номинации «Лучшая певица года». А незадолго до этого, 16 ноября 2012 года, в ресторане «Версаль» состоялась свадьба певицы. Избранником стал студент Ташкентского театрального института, начинающий актёр Йигитали Мамаджанов. На торжество были приглашены многие звезды узбекской эстрады и кино.

Вскоре Райхон стала матерью двойняшек, Ислама и Имрана. Однако семейная жизнь Райхон и Йигитали не сложилась, и в 2015 году супруги подали на развод.

В 2016 году в сети появилась информация о том, что Райхон состоит в отношениях с Фарходом Алимовым. Позже эти слухи подтвердились. Осенью того же года пара провела обряд "никах", после чего новоиспеченные супруги отправились в свадебное путешествие в Объединëнные Арабские Эмираты.

Концерты
  - «Baxtli bo'laman» - «Буду счастливой», Большой театр оперы и балета им.Алишера Навои
 2004 - «Sevgilim» - «Любимый», Дворец Дружбы Народов
 2005 - «Faqat muxabbat» - «Только любовь», Дворец Дружбы Народов
 2006 - «Yolg'izim» - «Мой единственный», Дворец Дружбы Народов
 2007 - «Sog'indim» - «Скучаю», Дворец Дружбы Народов
 2008 - «Doimo» - «Всегда», Дворец Дружбы Народов
 2009 - «Orzuingga ishon» - «Верь в свою мечту», Дворец Дружбы Народов
 2010 - «Tabassum qil» - «Улыбайся», Дворец Дружбы Народов
 2011 - «Sevaveraman» - «Буду я любить», Дворец Дружбы Народов
 2012 - «Sevgi... bu nima?» - «Любовь... Что Это?», Дворец Дружбы Народов
 2013 - «Oyijon» - «Мама», Дворец Дружбы Народов
 2015 - «RayhonShow 2015», Дворец Дружбы Народов
 2016 - «RayhonShow 2016», Дворец Дружбы Народов
 2017 - «RayhonShow 2017», Дворец Дружбы Народов
 2018 - «Hamma jam» - «Все вместе», Дворец Дружбы Народов
 2020 - «RayhonShow 2020», Дворец Дружбы Народов

Певица отличается от других артистов своими грандиозными концертными шоу в Ташкенте, которые проходят каждый год, начиная с 2002 года (кроме 2003, 2014 года из-за беременности и 2019 года). Самые ожидаемые концерты в Узбекистане — это, конечно, концерты Райхон. Она также давала концерты в России, Китае, Казахстане, Турции и многих других странах мира. Её концерты отличаются грандиозными шоу-программами, многими новыми песнями, новыми дуэтами с разными яркими певцами Узбекистана, лучшими танцами во всех песнях (хореограф певицы Эля Муликова) и главная тема всех концертов — это «Любовь». В 2015 году главной темой была «Кинематография». Концерты проходят каждый год в феврале во Дворце «Истиклол». Несмотря на холодную погоду зимой, все билеты продаются за несколько дней до концертов. Начиная с 2015 года компания «Proart» является организатором концертов. Ещё одним главным событием в рамках концертов Райхон является премьера релиза нового студийного альбома певицы. Альбом поступает в продажу с первых дней концерта в самом Дворце «Истиклол», и после концертов альбомы появляются в магазинах страны и в «iTunes Store».

В 2012 году проходил Юбилейный концерт певицы под названием «Севги… Бу нима?», это был по счёту десятый год, как она начала проводить концерты. Сначала объявили 3 дня концерт, но по многочисленной просьбе был добавлен ещё день, но за день концерт был отменён из-за состояния мамы певицы. В течение 3 дней концерты прошли удачно, несмотря на очень холодную погоду. В концерте она спела дуэты с 5 певцами. Были яркие танцы, фонтан-шоу и много интересного.

В 2013 году Концерт по названию «Ойижон» был посвящён памяти мамы певицы — заслуженной артистки Узбекистана Тамары Шакировой (умерла в 2012 году). Концерт прошёл в апреле из-за подготовок. Поп-дива выходила на сцену в Японском стиле и исполняла песню, посвящённую маме. Также самыми интересными моментами концерта были танец Танго с бывшим мужем Райхон, разные сцены полёта и другие. Концерт прошёл весьма удачным. На следующий год певица из-за беременности не смогла проводить концерт.

В 2015 году концерт не имел названия, но он проходил при поддержке альбома Райхон «Излама». Она всегда называла концерт одинаково с альбомом того года. Главной темой концерта стала «Кинематография». Концерт был разделён на 5 частей, первая часть про ретро-фильмы, потом жанр триллеры, национальный, жанр мелодрама и современный. В концерте были представлены самые продаваемые хиты певицы, а также новые песни. Также проходило лазерное шоу. Гостями концерты были певица Лола и солист группы Болалар Тохир Содиков. Самым неожиданным моментом концерта стал дуэт с Лолой, где её образ (красное платье) получил отрицательные отзывы критиков и широких масс, из-за которого впоследствии произошло скандальное обсуждение, и певица Лола потеряла лицензию (позже опять вернула её).

В декабре 2015 года певица объявила о 5 концертах, которые пройдут в феврале 2016. После завершения работы с афишами им не разрешили опубликование этих афиш в городе. Причиной стало то, что на картинке изображено много цепей (по данным из сайта www.sayyod.com). Но в скором времени  афиши были изменены и опубликованы. Все концертные дни прошли отлично. В начале Райхон вышла на сцену в виде Королевы Египта. Декорации, костюмы — всё было, как положено, в стиле Египта. Затем были сцены в виде Девушки-Гангстера, и другие. Было много новых песен, и обработка старых хитов в новом направлении; почти весь концерт прошёл вживую. Концерт закончился её хитом «Дилимо», во время которого на экране сцены показывали песню в исполнении фанатов и знаменитостей. В этом году во время концерта не было представлено нового альбома, по этому поводу певица сообщила в социальных сетях, что альбом будет выпущен через год. Критики оценили концерт положительно и сказали, что она всегда умеет удивлять, и никто, кроме неё, пока не смог представить такое шоу. Но всё-таки в социальных сетях концерт стал самой обсуждаемой темой, все фанаты других певцов обвиняли певицу в копировании многих элементов концерта у других знаменитостей, таких как Beyonce, Katy Perry, Michael Jackson, Britney Spears и т. д. В ответ на эти обвинения журналист Сардор Камилов ответил, что концерт — это не программа открытия.

Дискография
  — «Sensiz» — «Без тебя»
 2002 — «Baxtli bo'laman» — «Буду Счастливой»
 2004 — «Sevgilim» — «Любимый»
 2005 — «Faqat Muhabbat» — «Только Любовь»
 2006 — «Yodingdami» — «Помнишь»
 2007 — «Sog'indim» — «Скучаю»
 2008 — «Doimo» — «Всегда»
 2009 — «Orzuinga Ishon» — «Верь в свою мечту»
 2010 — «Tabassum Qil» — «Улыбайся»
 2011 — «Sevaveraman» — «Буду я Любить»
 2012 — «Sevgi… Bu Nima?» — «Любовь… Что Это?»
 2013 — «Oyijon» — «Мама»
 2015 — «Izlama» — «Не Ищи»
 2017 - «Javob ber» - «Ответь мне»
 2018 - «Tomchi» - «Каплями»

Фильмография

Видеоклипы других исполнителей

Награды
 2002 год — премия «Нихол» «Лучшая певица года»
 2003 год — премия «Тарона Рекордс» за «Лучший альбом года»
 2004 год — премия «Тарона Рекордс» за «Лучшая певица года»
 2005 год — звание «Заслуженный артист Узбекистана»
 2005 год — премия «Тарона Рекордс» «Лучший альбом года»
 2006 год — премия «Тарона Рекордс» «Лучшая певица года»
 2006 год — премия «M&TVA» «Лучшая певица года»
 2007 год — премия «M&TVA» «Лучший саундтрек года»
 2009 год — премия «M&TVA» «Лучшая песня года»
 2012 год — премия «M&TVA» «Лучшая певица года»
 2015 год - премия «Йил кушиги»
 2016 год - фестиваль «Star of Asia»
 2017 год - премия «Golden Panther Awards» «Best Central Asian Act» queen

Примечания

Ссылки
 Официальный сайт певицы
 Официальный фан-сайт певицы
 Официальный канал Райхон в Youtube
 Официальный канал певицы в Mytube
 Официальная страничка певицы в Инстаграме
Официальная страничка певицы в Фейсбуке
 Официальный микроблог певицы в Твиттере
 Официальная страничка певицы в Myspace
Официальный канал Райхон в Telegram

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Could Bulgaria be the first country to leave the EU?
Well with severe financial penalties on the way for failing to sort out corruption might we see the departure of bulgaria? I have to ask why we allowed her in! Corruption should have been substantially eliminated first.
Greenland left the then EEC in 1985.
They are doing very well, thanks very much.
And what a cheek from the EU. It is so corrupt its accounts haven't been signed off for the last 13 years.
For Heaven's sake, the entire EU Commission had to resign at one stage.
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. The EU, Bulgaria, they're both corrupt as hell.
What corruption exactly are you referring to?
should be a sure sign of corruption. Don't you agree?
Especially when you describe it like that.
We will never live this down.... :?
Perhaps a distraction from EU corruption?
We, Eurosceptic? By that do you mean we the EU, including you. Glad to have you aboard. Time to change your name and your avatar.
Guess we'll have to play along with Bulgaria or it will be ingested by mother Russia.
Brussels itself is extremely corrupt (13 yrs without budget signed off) and as such has little moral authority with which to judge Bulgaria, though I also believe Bulgaria should be held accountable for corruption in them,is use of EU funds. But on the question of withdrawal as opposed to this specific case, I think it may well take a country seceding from the EU to bring the Eurocrats and politicians to their senses in terms of not taking the European project beyond what the peoples of Europe are prepared to tolerate. If it happens it will be their own fault for not listening. A Bastille moment may yet arise. Attempting to foist Lisbon on 2 nations that rejected it may bring it closer. They should read their history-books.
Where is the corruption exactly?
The community's budget for each year needs to be discharged by the Parliament following its report by the European Court of Auditors. It had only done so previously in 1984. Towards the end of 1998 the Parliament's Committee on Budgetary Control initially refused to discharge the community's budget for 1996 over what it saw as the arrogance of the Commission in its refusal to answer questions relating to financial mismanagement. Paul van Buitenen, a whistle-blower working in the Commission, had sent the Parliament a report alleging that widespread fraud and cover ups, stating: "I found strong indications that . . . auditors have been hindered in their investigations and that officials received instructions to obstruct the audit examinations . . . The commission is a closed culture and they want to keep it that way, and my objective is to open it up, to create more transparency and to put power where it belongs - and that's in the democratically-elected European Parliament." In response, the Commission suspended him on half pay for releasing details of an inquiry.
PES leader Pauline Green tabled a vote of no confidence in the CommissionHowever it eventually supported the discharge 14 to 13 on 11 December, recommending that the plenary support the discharge. It was taken to plenary for debate four days later however the assigned rapporteur publicly went against the Committee's official position and urged the plenary to reject the discharge motion. President Santer announced that the Commission would treat the vote of discharge as one of confidence. In a vote on 1998-12-17, the Parliament denied the discharge.
In response, on the basis it was tantamount to a vote of no confidence, the President of PES, Pauline Green, announced she would put forward a motion of censure. However PES would vote against its own motion, as there is no method for a motion of confidence. During this period, the Parliament took on an increase government-opposition dynamic, with PES as a party supporting the Commission and the EPP renouncing its support and acting as a de-facto opposition party to the executive. This is in part because the allegations centred on Édith Cresson and Manuel Marín, both from the Socialist party (PES). It was seen by some that it was an attempt by the People's party (EPP) to discredit PES ahead of the 1999 elections. This led to hesitation from the PES leadership, who were the largest group in Parliament, to support the allegations. Motions tabled by the two groups outlined the differing stances the EPP favouring individual responsibility (just those whom the main allegations are against) and PES favouring an emphasis on collective responsibility (so EPP members such as the President, as well as PES members, would be forced to resign). The PES resolution also proposed establishing a committee of independent experts to investigate the allegations.
On April 26, 2006, daily 20 Minutes revealed that "in May 2005, MEP Paul van Buitenen was shocked by Frits Bolkestein's presence to Menatep's international consultative council, a sulfurous Russian banking establishment, and by his work for Shell, British-Dutch petrol company. Two firms 'detaining secret accounts in Clearstream' ... van Buitenen, also Dutch, then asked for 'clarification' to the European Commission and the opening of a parliamentary investigation. The Commission's president, José Manuel Barroso, answered that these facts "don't bring up any new question" and that it is not known "if Menatep took contact with Bolkestein while he was in his functions". No investigation thereby took place." The free daily underlines that "in 2001, it was Bolkestein himself that announced the Commission's refusal to open up a parliamentary investigation on Clearstream", following Harlem Désir's requests and accusations that Menatep had an "undeclared account" at Clearstream. Bolkestein refused to answer any questions by the newspaper.
Fianna Fail, Fine Gael to be banned from EU.
Dream on ES. Why would Bulgaria want to leave? To go back in with the Russians? The EU is it's only hope.
As for the reason for their quick accession (alongside Romania) I'll venture an important reason was to integrate vital oil pipeline territory directly into the EU. Apart from that, they might not have got in so quickly. But they would have got in soon enough anyway.
When are we getting chucked out so?
I'm pro-EU, but kicking out the Bulgarians (and the Romanians as well possibly) would be nothing but beneficial for Europe..
They've contributed nothing, and all they do is beg (Romanians) or form highly organised criminal rings (Bulgarians).
Have you ever been to either country??