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To whomever put up those posters, YOU GOT PRESS!
So as you know, I designed this poster, and asked people to put it up around their towns.
I know of at least one person that did this, and just a few towns over from my own!
Thank you anonymous hooligan for doing that! You got press coverage! Check it out:
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Why this is so cool: People are working together, anonymously, through the internet, spilling into the real world, and are achieving message amplification and multiplication together.
One person designs a poster, somebody else puts a bunch of copies of it up (huge copies! They are like 3'x5'!), and a third person writes an op-ed piece in a newspaper about it.
And the kicker is, none of them even know one another.
That, to me, is amazing.
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Two separate acts of graffiti. Two mixed messages for Portland.
By Bob Higgins
For the few that did not stay up until the wee hours of Monday morning, the news that Osama Bin Laden had been killed in a raid on a compound in Pakistan came as a shock. For at least one Portland resident, it didn't.
This half-witted knucklehead grabbed a can of spray paint, and decided to do a little graffiti action all over the exterior walls of a mosque on Andersen street.
To the person that did it, I express this simple message. You are a congenital idiot. Your actions made about as much sense as painting the word "pedophile" on the walls of a church. If you want to scare residents of this neighborhood, show them your I.Q. score. Your dumb move ranks you as about as intelligent at those knuckleheads who protest at funerals.
The Somali and Bantu population in Maine moved here to get AWAY from the Taliban and Al-Queda elements, remember? You just showed them that stupidity travels faster than tolerance.
Another graffitti showed up on Tuesday morning. Less than 36 hours after the announcement Sunday night, the overpass on Forest Avenue and I-295 was plastered with at least a dozen posters, each about 2feet by 5 feet. Huge lettering read "Bin Laden Dead — Troops Come Home."
I happened to see that one on my way into work. My brother caught me at the bus stop, and offered me a lift into town. My first reaction on seeing those posters was simple. I reflected to myself that wow, it really didn't take long [after the news of Bin Laden's death] for 9 years of frustration about kids coming home in boxes to make someone get their message of frustration out.
I popped down after work to get a photo, and just seven hours later all the signs had been ripped down and shredded on one side of the street, save one. Apparently, whoever tore those down was unwilling to play "frogger on Forest" to get to the other side to rip those down.
Two messages, one of hatred and one of hope. One water-blasted by a city contractor, one destroyed by someone who apparently likes kids getting shot at.
Some history for you, the reader. In 1978, President Jimmy Carter signed an "aid agreement" with the initial group that would become the Afghan insurgency. We would pass them aid, and supplies, and hopefully, they would manage to suck Soviet troops into what US Secretary of State Zbigniew Brzezinski called "The Afghan Trap."
Eventually, that group became funded by Reagan and Bush. It was a 9 year long war that killed 14,453 soldiers. Eventually, Gorbachev saw that there was no winning, and decided to pull his troops.
Nine Years. We've been at it for nine and a half, lost 2538 people, and had over 10 thousand wounded. Somebody call that former Secretary Of State and ask him about that whole "trap" thing.
Two messages, both politically "unacceptable." One more so than the other, as it involves hate speech. One torn down because if you don't "support the troops," you are scum.
Last week, I was watching this older movie "Gardens of Stone," a grim story of the burial detail at Arlington National Cemetery. In it, one character wants to get to Viet Nam, to where the "action" is. He relates a story of a helicopter coming back covered with arrows, laughing at the indigenous people using such crude methods. He gets straightened out buy a tough old sergeant. "Can you win against an enemy that is willing to fight you until all that is left is bows and arrows?"
This week, with the killing of Bin Laden, perhaps we as a country have had that "Aha!" bow and arrow moment.
Both messages were similar in this single respect. No matter how we as a city pride ourselves for being included on "best this and that" lists, we still have not learned much.
(Bob Higgins is a regular contributor to The Portland Daily Sun.)
The people who put up the posters made a video and linked to it on the blog post where I first posted the design. A video news release (VNR) perhaps?
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Why Brave New World is No Longer the Terrifying Dystopia it Used to Be
George Dvorsky
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Brave New World used to be one of the most terrifying stories about a false utopia. It gave us the concept of "test tube babies," and its name became synonymous with technological progress run wild. But many of the things Aldous Huxley predicted are coming true, and it turns out they're not so scary.
Ranked fifth by the American Modern Library among its 100 best novels, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World remains an enduring classic of speculative fiction. Set 600 years in the future, the novel anticipates a number of key advancements, including powerful reproductive technologies (such as in vitro fertilization, human engineering, and cloning), classical conditioning, neuropharmaceuticals, and psychological manipulation. Horrifyingly, these technological and scientific advancements are used by a quasi-totalitarian regime to keep its population subservient and under control.
Some 80 years after this novel's debut, it's clear that our world has not unfolded precisely as Huxley imagined it would—but many of the things he talks about in his book are now reality, or they soon will be. What's more, a number of advancements portrayed in the book, whether they be technological or social, aren't as scary as they seemed back then. And in fact, they're increasingly being seen in a positive light.
Time-stamped
Brave New World was very much a product of its time—a reflection of the many fears and concerns emerging in the early part of the 20th Century. As the grandson of the biologist T. H. Huxley (who was known as "Darwin's bulldog" for his vociferous defense of evolutionary theories) and the brother of Julian Huxley (the evolutionary biologist and eugenicist), Aldous Huxley was firmly rooted in the zeitgeist of the time.
It was through his brother that Aldous was introduced to the work of the controversial British biologist J. B. S. Haldane, who in his seminal 1923 work Daedalus; or, Science and the Future, presented his vision of a future world in which scientists would use biotechnology to reshape humanity. It was Haldane, and not Huxley, who first speculated about biologically engineered humans, clones, in vitro fertilization, and artificial wombs.
Left: J.B.S. Haldane (Credit: EB/PD)
Indeed, like many of his contemporaries, Huxley was horrified by these predictions, and he would use many of Haldane's ideas to give the frightening society depicted in Brave New World its shape.
But the novel was far more than just a biotech nightmare. Huxley was also railing against the totalitarian threat.
Vladimir Lenin giving a speech in Moscow (Credit: G. Goldshtein/PD)
The Soviet Union was only 14 years old when Brave New World was written, a time when Marxist idealism was flourishing. Huxley, like many others, was concerned about the loss of human individualism and autonomy—a concern reinforced not just by the threat of communism, but by the rise of Big Bureaucracy and the proliferation of Henry Ford's "Fordist" industrial ideal.
A central theme of Brave New World—which takes place in 632 A.F ("After Ford")—is the deliberate homogenization of the human species by the state in a manner reminiscent of a factory assembly line. What's more, as an admirer of Thomas Malthus, Huxley was also concerned about human overpopulation, a problem he feared would be dealt with in a draconian manner by an authoritarian power.
Lastly, Huxley was also reacting to changing social norms. With the 19th Century fixed firmly in the rearview mirror, Huxley's society was witness to unprecedented change. As Victorian and Christian values weakened, new and modern ideas were on the rise, including secularism, feminism, and a greater sense of sexual liberation.
This was the context in which Brave New World was written. And while many of Huxley's concerns still resonate, the advantage of time has shown us how many of his fears were not just overstated, but also out of tune with the general direction of history.
Biotech Bugbears
Humans in Huxley's fictional society no longer produce live offspring. As the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning explains, surgically removed ovaries produce ova that are fertilized in artificial receptacles, and then incubated in specially designed bottles.
Fetuses are engineered to conform to their ultimate station in life, and are classified under a caste system: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon. Gammas and Deltas are subject to the Bokanovsky Process, which allows scientists to induce eggs to produce up to 96 identical embryos, which go on to form 96 identical humans, or clones. These Gamma and Delta clones go on to spend their lives performing identical tasks at identical machines. (Notably, this is a future that doesn't include advanced robotics, which would eliminate a lot of the need for these Gammas and Deltas.) It's all in the service of the state's motto: "Community, Identity, Stability."
There's something unquestioningly disquieting about these technological advancements. Innovations, particularly those in biotechnology, often elicit a sense of repugnance, or the feeling that the natural world has been violated in some way. As Haldane himself admitted in Daedalus:
The chemical or physical inventor is always a Prometheus. There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god. But if every physical and chemical invention is a blasphemy, every biological invention is a perversion. There is hardly one which, on first being brought to the notice of an observer from any nation which had not previously heard of their existence, would not appear to him as indecent and unnatural.
As we've seen time and time again, however, advances in biotechnology are often met with repulsion, only to be supplanted by acceptance once they're proven safe and effective. As bioethicist James Hughes wrote in "Back to the Future: Contemporary biopolitics in 1920's British Futurism":
The response to Brave New World reflected the polarization between techno-pessimists and -optimists. [British philosopher Bertrand] Russell welcomed it, because the novel highlighted the deep-seated suspicion of engineered health and happiness, and of a well-ordered world. Russell acknowledged, however—as the defenders of the "wisdom of repugnance" do today—that this "yuck factor" is basically irrational: a desperate, although necessary, clinging to illusions. Although we object to the brainwashing techniques in Brave New World, all parenting and education are efforts to mould children: "we do not object to molding a human being, provided it is done badly; we only object when it is done well"
As Hughes correctly notes, the objections raised in Brave New World are illustrative of the long-standing tensions within the Enlightenment tradition as it pertains to optimism and pessimism about technology.
The Evening Independent Newspaper, 1978
The introduction of in vitro fertilization in 1978 provides a good example. This powerful assisted reproductive technique was was initially met with great trepidation, giving rise to the derisive term "test tube babies." Today, it is a widely accepted process that produces millions of new lives each year.
Today's biotech bugbears include three-parent IVF, the advent of cheap and powerful genetic cut-and-paste tools, such as CRISPR, and the world's first genetically altered human embryo. While potentially alarming, these biotechnologies and others currently in development hold great promise. Advances in genetics will serve to eliminate a host of genetic diseases, while offering humans the opportunity to forgo the haphazard genetic roll of the dice when it comes to determining the traits of offspring. A strong case can be made that it's both our duty and right to develop these technologies.
IVF (Credit: Eugene Ermolovich (CRMI) | CC BY-SA 3.0)
Today, we no longer fear that in vitro fertilization will lead to the rise of genetically engineered brainwashed working class clones. And we're starting to get over our fears of the next generation of tools, such as IVF and CRISPR.
The End of the Totalitarian Experiments
Very importantly, Huxley's totalitarian fears proved unwarranted—though it didn't appear that way until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989 (not to mention the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945). In fact, the relative success and infamy of the Soviets and Nazis in the decades following the publication of Brave New World helped to endow Huxley's book with a false sense of urgency.
Fall of the Berlin Wall (Credit: Daniel Antal/CC)
In today's democracies we're poised to use advances in biotechnology and medical science in ways that serve their own personal and family interests.
Eugenics, as a top-down imposition, is dead. So it's unfortunate that Huxley's book has perpetuated the fear that governments will use such advances to keep its populace subservient and productive for its own ends. The reality, however, is that these technologies are—and increasingly will be—tools made by the people, for the people.
Citizens in Huxley's New World are infantilized and rendered harmless through the regular intake of "soma," a readily available pharmaceutical that alleviates depression and keeps people in a perpetual state of calm.
Soma is described as being "euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant," while having all "the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects." A "gramme is better than a damn," say the New World's citizens, adding that there can be "no social stability without individual stability." New Worlders attend "solidarity services," a mock religious activity that more closely resembles a modern drug-infused rave.
Dystopian? (Credit: Pixabay/CC0 PD)
Some commentators today complain that antidepressants are akin to Huxley's soma, but it's an accusation that's not entirely fair. Millions of people benefit from medicines like Paxil and Lexapro, which allows them to resume normal lives without losing any of their personality.
Even the burgeoning use and acceptance of marijuana can be seen as a Huxleyesque development—but again, the hysteria against this recreational drug is starting to wane. If anything, cannabis has been proving its value as an effective means to reduce physical pain, while also serving as an acceptable substitute for alcohol—a socially accepted drug that Huxley's contemporaries would have been all too familiar with.
In the same way we no longer fear a government that uses drugs to control us, we no longer fear drugs as a way to control and alter our emotional and conscious states.
Sex and the Family
Huxley's future dystopia also features mandated sexual promiscuity, which is yet another state-driven initiative to keep everyone happy. Women wear birth control pills on their belts as a fashion item, and abortion is readily available. With human reproduction relegated to the lab, sex has become more than just a recreational activity—it's something Huxley's state has learned to use as a psychological control system.
Where There's Smoke There's Fire by Russell Patterson (Credit: Library of Congress/Public Domain)
New Worlders also enjoy date nights at the "feelies"—what's known today as pornography. A typical date night ends with a dose of soma and a meaningless hook-up (sounds suspiciously like Tinder). Writing in the Toronto Star, columnist Nancy Wigston puts it well by referring to the indulged New Worlders as the "great-grandparents of today's texters and sexters."
All this dulling of the human experience serves a very important purpose, of course. As Huxley writes, "most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution."
Huxley's prescience here is remarkable, even if these social trends and political developments haven't unfolded exactly the way he described. People, particularly those in Western cultures, have most certainly become more sexually liberated since the 1930s, the result of declining Victorian and Christian values. Not to mention the rise of feminism, and the sense that people shouldn't be shamed for their sexual behavior.
Families are different as well, though not exactly in the way that Huxley imagined. Relationships and family dynamics have changed in ways that aren't frightening to us anymore. We no longer speak of "broken homes," for example, nor do we fret as much about the demise of the "nuclear family." At the same time, we don't worry that the state will outlaw the family, as portrayed in Brave New World.
In fact, Huxley's vision of a false utopia seems grossly old-fashioned and moralizing to our modern eyes. Eight decades later, many of his concerns about sex and reproduction can be interpreted as a conservative reaction to changing social mores and the ongoing effort to control women's bodies.
Malthusian Matters
As already noted, Huxley shared the concerns of Thomas Malthus, a 19th century sociologist who warned about the perils of human overpopulation. It's a concern that's still relevant today, though many experts say it's grossly overstated.
A population bomb? (Credit: Ngo Trung/CC BY 3.0)
The government in Huxley's New World addressed this problem by imposing a population measure in which people are euthanized once they reach the age of 60 and are no longer considered economically useful. Aging still exists in this world, but only at the cosmetic level. Elderly folks are "youthful and taut-skinned, slim and upright," but once they reach the age of 60, "then crack! the end." After death, people are cremated, where "a kilo and a half of phosphorus per adult corpse" gets harvested for use as fertilizer.
Today, the idea of a government killing off its elderly seems far-fetched. Rather, scientists, technologists, governments, and institutions are working to decrease our individual carbon footprints, while increasing access to birth control. And a huge turning point in our discussions of population control has come from the recognition that the best way to produce fewer children is by raising standards of living and giving women more access to education, not through coercive mechanisms. The answer to a growing human population is not an authoritarian boot to the face, but sensible humanitarian measures.
Email the author at george@io9.com and follow him at @dvorsky. Top image by iurii/Shutterstock


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Q: Why does my website has no "install app" option on chrome Android even after linking a web manifest, registering a service worker and hosting on https I'm learning how to create PWAs.
I hosted an example page on webhost000 with a webmanifest file and service worker.
The website passed the Chrome Lighthouse test and there are no errors in the console.
However, there are is an "Add to homescreen" Option instead of the "Install App" option which PWAs typically have.
Browser - Chrome Android
Here is the link for my website.
And here is the source code
Can anyone help me on how to get the "Install App" option on my website?
I'm fairly new to coding. So excuse my questionable coding skills.
I added a webmanifest.json file in the root directory and linked the icon png. Registered a service worker with a file named sw.js in the root directory. And hosted it via Webhost000 with https.

A: Your manifest does not currently have a display property. For further edits please open the applications windows inside a chromium browser. It will tell you exactly what you are missing. Also, the chrome lighthouse is a good tab to check for this.

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Address to Lieutenant Governor Hutchinson Requesting the Return of the General Court to Boston, 7 June 1770
Address to Lieutenant Governor Hutchinson Requesting the Return of the General Court to Boston
7 June 1770. MS (M-Ar), in an unidentified hand. Printed: Mass., House Jour. description begins Journals of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts [1715–], Boston, reprinted by the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1919–. (For the years for which reprints are not yet available, the original printings are cited, by year and session.) description ends , 1770–1771, p. 22. Prepared by a committee appointed 6 June composed of Samuel Adams, JA, John Hancock, James Warren, and Daniel Leonard, and reported to the House "by Mr. Adams."
After the House adopted its resolutions of 6 June by which the members refused to conduct business outside Boston, JA was named to this committee charged with preparing an address to Hutchinson, "praying that he would be pleased to remove the General Assembly to the Town House in Boston" (Mass., House Jour. description begins Journals of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts [1715–], Boston, reprinted by the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1919–. (For the years for which reprints are not yet available, the original printings are cited, by year and session.) description ends , 1770–1771, p. 16–22). The committee's draft address, submitted 7 June, was approved by the House and delivered to Hutchinson by a committee of which JA was a member. The Address asserted that convening the General Court in Cambridge was "a very great Grievance" and concluded with a request that Hutchinson return the legislature to Boston because of the House's claim that "it is by no Means expedient" to conduct business out of that town "and as there are Matters now lying before the Assembly of very great Importance."
MS (M-Ar), in an unidentified hand. Printed (Mass., House Jour. description begins Journals of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts [1715–], Boston, reprinted by the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1919–. (For the years for which reprints are not yet available, the original printings are cited, by year and session.) description ends , 1770–1771, p. 22).
"Address to Lieutenant Governor Hutchinson Requesting the Return of the General Court to Boston, 7 June 1770," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-01-02-0082-0002. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 1, September 1755 – October 1773, ed. Robert J. Taylor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977, pp. 241–242.]


The rapper and actor known as Tone Loc, famous for his "Wild Thing" song, pleaded not guilty Thursday to felony possession of an assault weapon and domestic violence charges.
Anthony Smith, 45, entered the plea in Burbank Superior Court, said Deputy Dist. Atty. John Allen Ramseyer of the district attorney's Glendale Area Office.
The case arose from a June 18 domestic violence incident investigated by the Burbank Police Department. During the investigation, officers learned Smith was in possession of a Colt AR-15 Sporter that was not registered.


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Q: Include variable in text string in Python I am trying to include the date in the name of a file. I'm using a variable called 'today'.
When I'm using bash I can reference a variable in a long string of text like this:
today=$(date +"%m-%d-%y")
output_dir="output_files/aws_volumes_list"
ofile="$output_dir"/aws-master-ebs-volumes-list-$today.csv

How can I achieve the same thing in python? I tried to do this, but it didn't work:
today = datetime.today()
today = today.strftime("%B %d %Y")
output_file = '../../../output_files/aws_instance_list/aws-master-list-'today'.csv'

I tried keeping the today variable out of the path by using single quotes.
How can I include the date in the name of the file that I'm creating when using Python?

A: You can add the strings together or use string formatting
output_file = '../../../output_files/aws_instance_list/aws-master-list-' + today + '.csv'
output_file = '../../../output_files/aws_instance_list/aws-master-list-{0}.csv'.format(today)
output_file = f'../../../output_files/aws_instance_list/aws-master-list-{today}.csv'

The last one will only work in Python >= 3.6

A: In Python you use + to concat variables.
today = datetime.today()
today = today.strftime("%B %d %Y")
output_file = '../../../output_files/aws_instance_list/aws-master-list-' + today +'.csv'

A: Give a look to: Python String Formatting Best Practices

A: Not quite sure if thats what you mean, but in python you can either simply add the strings together
new_string=str1+ str2

or something like
new_string='some/location/path/etc/{}/etc//'.format(another_string)

A: The closest Python equivalent to bash's
ofile="$output_dir"/aws-master-ebs-volumes-list-$today.csv

is
ofile=f'"{output_dir}"/aws-master-ebs-volumes-list-{today}.csv'

Only in Python 3.7 onwards.


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Entertainments Tax Act 1946
Act No. 5 of 1946 as made
An Act to repeal section six of the Entertainments Tax Act 1942-1944.
Date of Assent 13 Apr 1946
Date of repeal 01 Oct 1953
Repealed by Entertainments Tax Abolition Act 1953
ENTERTAINMENTS TAX.
No. 5 of 1946.
An Act to repeal section six of the Entertainments Tax Act 1942–1944.
[Assented to 13th April, 1946.].
[Date of commencement, 11th May, 1946.]
BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—
Short title and citation.
1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Entertainments Tax Act 1946.
(2.) The Entertainments Tax Act 1942–1944, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Entertainments Tax Act 1942–1946.
Duration of Act.
2. Section six of the Entertainments Tax Act 1942–1944 is repealed.


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'Omar' (2013) directed by Hany Abu-Assad
Friday, May 23, 2014 by londoncitynights
Omar is an emotional experience. You'll feel fear, exhilaration, pride, envy, hate, sadness and anger. Especially that last one. Like the characters in the film you'll both bristle at the injustice and feel utterly impotent, getting mad as hell and not being able to do a damn thing about it. Set in occupied Palestine, Omar gives us a taste of how living under a military cosh mutates social structures, twisting friends into enemies, enemies into allies and love into hate.
Our hero Omar (Adam Bakri) becomes the metaphorical battlefield over which the wider conflict is fought over. He's a preternaturally handsome, athletic young Palestinian with an easy smile and a boyish crush on Nadia (Leem Lubany) that contrasts nicely with his adult revolutionary ambitions. After suffering humiliation at the hands of the IDF, he retaliates, concocting a plan with his best friends Amjad and Tarek to assassinate an Israeli soldier. But soon consequences come knocking and Omar is banged up in a nightmarish torture camp where he undergoes intense psychological pressure to try and get him to turn collaborator for the occupying forces.
The most obvious point of comparison is Gillo Pontecorvo's 1966 masterpiece The Battle of Algiers. Pontecorvo's film (and if you haven't seen it drop everything right now and go watch it) is the go-to cinematic text on urban insurgency, asymmetric warfare and the morality of revolutionary acts, so highly regarded it was screened at the Pentagon in 2003 as an warning of problems that would be faced by Coalition Forces during the Iraq War (not they apparently paid much attention to it). Omar and Algiers share a lot of filmic DNA, a visually similar setting, willingness to emotionally engage with both sides and, most importantly, a ballsy commitment to exploring violence as a valid response to oppression.
Nadia and Omar
Over the course of Omar we realise that these characters and their respective countries are caught in an inescapable cycle of violent activity. The casual (and occasionally murderous) brutality of the IDF breeds resentment in the Palestinian people, which bubbles over into ambushes, assassinations and suicide bombings. This in turn causes Israel to tighten the screw ever more on the beleaguered country, which results in further retaliation - and so forth.
After a half century of this, both sides are ten kinds of screwed up. Israel has twisted itself into a monstrous oppressive force: able to argue in favour of bombing hospitals and schools, bulldozing people's homes and conducting programmes designed to starve the Palestinian people, who appear to be regarded as little more than subhumans by the extreme right-wing government. Faced with this military might, many Palestinians feel justified in strapping explosives to themselves and suicidally taking out their frustrations on the Israeli population in general. The two countries have become deformed by violence: Israel, founded as a safe haven, has become genocidal and Palestine simmers with antisemitism and religious extremism.
This situation is too big, controversial and unwieldy for cinema to tackle directly - so Omar pares everything down to the personal level. At the core of the film is the relationship between Omar and Nadia, two performances shot through with fevered, unrequited passion. In happier times they'd be starcrossed lovers, destined for a long and happy life together. Here, we see their affection perverted by war, trust undermined with suspicion: in military eyes love becomes just another variety of bomb. Omar is sprinkled with these perversions of affection, the conflict warping everything that's good and kind about humanity into something horrible.
Leem Lubany is particularly great: tragic and beautiful.
The darkest the film gets are the nightmarish torture sequences. Omar is suspended naked by his wrists in an infinite dark space that recalls Glazer's recent Under the Skin. Here he's beaten to a pulp, sexually humiliated and mentally manipulated. These sequences have a ring of 1984's Room 101 with Omar and Nadia playing Winston and Julia. Abu-Assad goes to great lengths to show us a situation where there is no right decision. Whether you're innocent or guilty the end result is the destruction of the self, followed by being tossed into a dark box and forgotten. In many ways it's a riposte to Zero Dark Thirty, here we identify with the man whose testicles are being burnt rather than the one doing the burning.
Make no mistake about it, Omar is a deeply partisan film, coming firmly down on the side of the Palestinian people - though its representation of events is so clear minded and grounded that it resists easy classification as propaganda. Abu-Assad neatly sidesteps religion to the extent that I don't think the words 'Jew' and 'Muslim' are even spoken in the script; the involvement of individual political entities within Israel and Palestine are similarly minimised, with just a few scant mentions of Hamas and Al-Aqsa. Again, this all works reduces the conflict to the bare bones; the oppressors vs the oppressed.
Omar is an outstanding piece of cinema; beautiful, heartfelt, political and intelligent. It never sags over its 98 minute run time, none of the actors put a foot wrong and the core romance of Adam Bakri and Leem Lubany is devastatingly well-executed. Testament to this is that, as the credits rolled, the audience sat still in stunned silence. Omar presents no easy answers; the Israelis effortlessly dominate the Palestinians through technology, finances and firepower, the human consequences of their occupation misery, distrust and death. With the West squarely behind this oppression their only possible response is fragmented desperate acts of violence. Omar will leave you angry and sad - angry that we live in world where oppression like this is tacitly accepted for diplomatic reasons, and sad that the end of this country's hardships isn't even a faint dot on the horizon.
Omar is released on May 30th.
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Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume IV: Beyond the Law: Lawyers and Business in Canada, 1830-1930
Saskatchewan, Corporate and Commercial Law, The Legal Profession (incl. Legal Education)
edited by Carol Wilton. Published with Butterworths Canada, 1990.
Beyond the Law has been called "the first full-length collection offering a serious scholarly treatment of the role of the legal profession in any aspect of Canadian history". These essays explore new ground in tracing the increasingly complex involvement of lawyers in Canadian business during a critical period of economic development. They demonstrate how lawyers across the country served not only as technical advisors to business figures, but as business leaders in their own right. Moreover, these essays demonstrate how lawyers advanced business interests through their multi-faceted involvement in the political process. Contributions by distinguished British and American scholars add a comparative dimension to this study of the relationship between lawyers and business during the industrial age.
Reviews of Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume IV: Beyond the Law: Lawyers and Business in Canada, 1830-1930
This book builds on these two scholarly traditions in examining the connections between lawyers and the business world, and is also the first full-length collection offering a serious scholarly treatment of the role of the legal profession in any aspect of Canadian history. Jim Phillips, Canadian Historical Review, vol 74, 1993, p. 281.
This superb collection of essays illustrates how the relationship between lawyers and business evolved in Canada during the period from 1830 to 1930 .... They illustrate clearly how lawyers had immense opportunities open to them to use their professional standing as springboards to business endeavours. Anthony F. Brown, Ontario History, vol 84, 1992, p. 70.
The collection constitutes a wonderful means to widen the legal imagination and to awaken a sense of historical perspective. The takes of new professional challenges, riches, power and scandals in the face of economic change make for interesting leisure reading.... This collection is of relevance to a wide-ranging readership and breaks new ground for further research. Barry Wright, Canadian Business Law Journal, vol 21, 1992, p. 146.
Christopher English, Canadian Historical Review, Vol 79, 1998, p. 602.
Margaret McCallum, McGill Law Journal, Vol 37, 1992, p. 352.
Carol Wilton
Carol Wilton, formerly Assistant Professor of History at Brock University, has written and edited a number of books on Canadian legal and political history. After being called to the Bar of Ontario in 2002, she worked in both legal clinics and private practice. She has been involved in many community organizations, including the Poverty Action… Read more »
R. ROY McMURTRY and PETER N. OLIVER xi
Preface xv
Contributors xvii
1 Introduction: Beyond the Law – Lawyers and Business
In Canada, 1830 to 1930
CAROL WILTON 3
2 Law Practice and Statecraft in Mid-Nineteenth-Century
Montreal: The Torrance-Morris Firm, 1848 to 1868
G. BLAINE BAKER 45
3 Dimensions of a Law Practice: Brokerage and Ideology in
the Career of George-Étienne Cartier
BRIAN YOUNG 92
4 Lawyers as Members of Urban Business Élites in
Southern Ontario, 1860 to 1920
ELIZABETH BLOOMFIELD 112
5 McCarthy, Osler, Hoskin, and Creelman, 1882 to 1902:
Establishing a Reputation, Building a Practice
CURTIS COLE 149
6 E. E. A. DuVernet, KC: Lawyer, Capitalist, 1866 to 1915
JOHN D. HONSBERGER 167
7 International Corporate Law from a Maritime Base:
The Halifax Firm of Harris, Henry, and Cahan
GREGORY P. MARCHILDON 201
8 The Lawyer as Entrepreneur: Robert Home Smith in
Early-Twentieth-Century Toronto
JAMES H. GUNN 235
9 'It is Every Man for Himself': Winnipeg Lawyers and
the Law Business, 1870 to 1903
RICHARD A. WILLIE 263
10 Lawyers, Finance, and Economic Development in
Southwestern Alberta, 1884 to 1920
HENRY C. KLASSEN 298
11 Richard 'Bonfire' Bennett: The Legal Practice of a Prairie
Corporate Lawyer, 1898 to 1913
LOUIS A. KNAFLA 320
12 Ideology, Social Capital, and Entrepreneurship: Lawyers and
Business in Red Deer, Alberta, 1900 to 1920
JONATHAN S. SWAINGER 377
13 'High-powered Lawyers, Veteran Lobbyists, Cunning
Propagandists': Canadian Lawyers and the Beauharnois Scandal
T. D. REGEHR 403
14 A Perspective from the United States
ROBERT W. GORDON 425
15 Lawyers and Business in England, 1750 to 1950
DAVID SUGARMAN 437


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Tag Archive: Happy Birthday Muddy Waters
Daily Dose Of Blues 4.4.15
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Happy Birthday To Two More Giants Of The Blues , Mr Muddy Waters & Mr Gary Moore
Muddy Waters – Live Dortmund, Germany 29.10.1976
" 01. Intro & After Hours
02. Soon Forgotten
03. Howlin' Wolf Blues
04. Hoochie Coochie Man
05 Blow Wind Blow
06 Can't Get No Grindin'
07 Long Distance Call
08 Got My Mojo Workin'
09 Got My Mojo Workin' (First Encore)
10 Theme
11 Got My Mojo Workin' (Second Encore) "
Gary Moore – Live Blues (1993) Special Guest B. B. King – Full Concert
Uploaded on Nov 25, 2011
" Track list :
Live Blues (30-04-1993) – Live at the Town and Country Club, special guest B. B. King
01. Cold Day In Hell
02. Walking By Myself
03. Story Of The Blues
04. Oh Pretty Woman
06. Separate Ways
07. Too Tired
08. Still Got The Blues
09. Since I Met You Baby
10. The Thrill Is Gone
11. The Sky Is Crying
12. Further On Up The Road
13. King Of The Blues
14. Jumpin' At Shadows
15. Stop Messin' Around "
Fans of Muddy & Gary can see our expanded birthday celebrations of both superstars here (for Muddy) and here (for Gary) . Enjoy .
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Happy Birthday Muddy Waters
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Happy Birthday Muddy
" Although in his later years Muddy usually said that he was born in Rolling Fork, Mississippi in 1915, he was actually born at Jug's Corner in neighboring Issaquena County in 1913. Recent research has uncovered documentation showing that in the 1930s and 1940s he reported his birth year as 1913 on both his marriage license and musicians' union card. A 1955 interview in the Chicago Defender is the earliest claim of 1915 as his year of birth, which he continued to use in interviews from that point onward. The 1920 census lists him as five years old as of March 6, 1920, suggesting that his birth year may have been 1914. The Social Security Death Index, relying on the Social Security card application submitted after his move to Chicago in the mid-1940s, lists him as being born April 4, 1913. Muddy's gravestone gives his birth year as 1915."
" Muddy's grandmother, Della Grant, raised him after his mother died shortly following his birth. Della gave the boy the nickname "Muddy" at an early age because he loved to play in the muddy water of nearby Deer Creek. Muddy later changed it to "Muddy Water" and finally "Muddy Waters".
The shack where Muddy Waters lived in his youth on Stovall Plantation is now located at the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He started out on harmonica, but by age seventeen he was playing the guitar at parties, emulating two blues artists who were extremely popular in the south, Son House and Robert Johnson."
" On November 20, 1932, Muddy married Mabel Berry; Robert Nighthawk played guitar at the wedding, and the party reportedly got so wild the floor fell in. Mabel left Muddy three years later when Muddy's first child was born; the child's mother was Leola Spain, sixteen years old (Leola later used her maiden name Brown), "married to a man named Steven" and "going with a guy named Tucker". Leola was the only one of his girlfriends with whom Muddy would stay in touch throughout his life; they never married. By the time he finally cut out for Chicago in 1943, there was another Mrs. Morganfield left behind, a girl called Sallie Ann."
Muddy Waters Official Website
"Growing to manhood there, in the very heart of the region that had spawned this magnificent music, Waters was drawn early to its stark, telling, expressive power. He had been working as a farm laborer for several years when at thirteen he took up the harmonica, the instrument on which many blues performers first master the music's rudiments. Four years later he made the switch to guitar. "You see, I was digging Son House and Robert Johnson."
" The two were the undisputed masters of the region's characteristic "bottleneck" style of guitar accompaniment. With this technique the Delta bluesman could utilize the guitar as a perfect extension of his voice, the sliding bottleneck matching the dips, slurs, sliding notes and all the tonal ambiguity of the voice as it is used in singing the blues.Within a year, Waters recalled, he had mastered the bottleneck style and the jagged, pulsating rhythms of Delta guitar. He had learned to sing powerfully and expressively in the tightly constricted, pain-filled manner that characterized the best Delta singers."
" By the time a team of Library of Congress field collectors headed by Alan Lomax visited and recorded Waters for the Library's folksong archives in 1941 (they were looking for Robert Johnson at the time, unaware of his death three years earlier), returning to record him further the following year, he had had several years' local performing experience behind him.Providing the musical impetus for dancers at rough-and-tumble back country dances, in juke joints, and at picnics, houseparties and other rural entertainments had sharpened the young bluesman's vocal and instrumental abilities to a keen edge. The recordings show the strikingly distinctive power of the young Waters, both as singer and master of Delta bottleneck guitar."
" In 1943 Waters—like millions of other African Americans in the South who moved to cities in the North and West during the Great Migration from 1916 to 1970—relocated to Chicago. There he began playing clubs and bars on the city's South and West sides while earning a living working in a paper mill and later driving a truck. In 1944 he bought his first electric guitar, which cut more easily through the noise of crowded bars. He soon broke with country blues by playing electric guitar in a shimmering slide style. In 1946 pianist Sunnyland Slim, another Delta native, helped Waters land a contract with Aristocrat Records, for which he made several unremarkable recordings. By 1948 Aristocrat had become Chess Records (taking its name from Leonard and Phil Chess, the Polish immigrant brothers who owned and operated it), and Waters was recording a string of hits for it that began with " I Feel Like Going Home " and " I Can't Be Satisfied. " His early, aggressive, electrically amplified band—including pianist Otis Spann, guitarist Jimmie Rodgers, and harmonica virtuoso Little Walter—created closely integrated support for his passionate singing, which featured dramatic shouts, swoops, and falsetto moans. His repertoire, much of which he composed, included lyrics that were mournful (" Blow Wind Blow, " " Trouble No More "), boastful (" Got My Mojo Working, " " I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man "), and frankly sensual (the unusual 15-bar blues " Rock Me "). In the process Waters became the foremost exponent of modern Chicago blues."
" Tours of clubs in the South and Midwest in the 1940s and '50s gave way after 1958 to concert tours of the United States and Europe, including frequent dates at jazz, folk, and blues festivals. Over the years, some of Chicago's premier blues musicians did stints in Waters's band, including harmonica players James Cotton and Junior Wells, as well as guitarist Buddy Guy. Toward the end of his career, Waters concentrated on singing and played guitar only occasionally. A major influence on a variety of rock musicians—most notably the Rolling Stones (who took their name from his song " Rollin' Stone " and made a pilgrimage to Chess to record)—Waters was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987."
" By the end of the '50s, while Waters was still making fine music, his career was going into a slump. The rise of rock & roll had taken the spotlight away from more traditional blues acts in favor of younger and rowdier acts (ironically, Waters had headlined some of Alan Freed's early "Moondog" package shows), and Waters' first tour of England in 1958 was poorly received by many U.K. blues fans, who were expecting an acoustic set and were startled by the ferocity of Waters' electric guitar. Waters began playing more acoustic music informed by his Mississippi Delta heritage in the years that followed, even issuing an album titled Muddy Waters: Folk Singer in 1964. However, the jolly irony was that British blues fans would soon rekindle interest in Waters and electric Chicago blues; as the rise of the British Invasion made the world aware of the U.K. rock scene, the nascent British blues scene soon followed, and a number of Waters' U.K. acolytes became international stars, such as Eric Clapton,John Mayall, Alexis Korner, and a modestly successful London act who named themselves after Muddy's 1950 hit "Rollin' Stone."
" While Waters was still leading a fine band that delivered live (and included the likes of Pinetop Perkins on piano and James Cotton on harmonica), Chess Records was moving more toward the rock, soul, and R&B marketplace, and seemed eager to market him to white rock fans, a notion that reached its nadir in 1968 with Electric Mud, in which Waters was paired up with a psychedelic rock band (featuring guitarists Pete Cosey and Phil Upchurch) for rambling and aimless jams on Waters' blues classics. 1969's Fathers and Sons was a more inspired variation on this theme, with Waters playing alongside reverential white blues rockers such as Mike Bloomfield and Paul Butterfield; 1971's The London Muddy Waters Sessions was less impressive, featuring fine guitar work from Rory Gallagher but uninspired contributions from Steve Winwood, Rick Grech, and Georgie Fame."
" Curiously, while Chess Records helped Waters make some of the finest blues records of the '50s and '60s, it was the label's demise that led to his creative rebirth. In 1969, the Chess Brothers sold the label to General Recorded Tape, and the label went through a long, slow commercial decline, finally folding in 1975. (Waters would become one of several Chess artists who sued the label for unpaid royalties in its later years.) Johnny Winter, a longtime Waters fan, heard the blues legend was without a record deal, and was instrumental in getting Waters signed to Blue Sky Records, a CBS-distributed label that had become his recording home."
" Winter produced the sessions for Waters' first Blue Sky release, and sat in with a band comprised of members of Waters' road band (including Bob Margolin and Willie "Big Eyes" Smith) along with James Cotton on harp and Pinetop Perkins on piano. 1977's Hard Again was a triumph, sounding as raw and forceful as Waters' classic Chess sides, with a couple extra decades of experience informing his performances, and it was rightly hailed as one of the finest albums Waters ever made while sparking new interest in his music. (It also earned him a Grammy award for Best Traditional or Ethnic Folk Recording.) "
Rock Hall Of Fame
" Waters also capitalized on the folk-music craze of the late Fifties and early Sixties with a series of albums that found him assaying acoustic blues on such albums as Muddy Waters Sings Big Bill (a tribute to rural bluesman Big Bill Broonzy, released in 1960), Muddy Waters, Folk Singer (1964) and The Real Folk Blues (1966). Less successful were attempts to contemporize his sound with such ill-advised efforts as "Muddy Waters Twist" (a 1962 single) and Electric Mud (an album of psychedelic blues from 1968). More satisfying by far were a couple of albums – Fathers and Sons (1969) and The London Muddy Waters Sessions (1972) – that found Waters accompanied by such vanguard rock musicians as Mike Bloomfield and Eric Clapton. His thirty-year tenure with Chess Records ended in 1975 with the release of The Muddy Waters Woodstock Album. From here, he moved to the Blue Sky label (a Columbia subsidiary). "
" Waters' audience grew exponentially following his electrifying performance in The Last Waltz, a film documentary (produced by Martin Scorsese) of The Band's farewell concert. Staged at San Francisco's Winterland ballroom, the Thanksgiving 1976 event was a star-studded affair. Water's scalding rendition of "Mannish Boy" – on which he was accompanied by The Band and Paul Butterfield on harmonica – was an unforgettable highlight. Subsequent to that, he kept the momentum going with a series of uncompromising albums for Blue Sky that were produced by longtime fan Johnny Winter. These included Hard Again (1977), I'm Ready (1978), Muddy Mississippi Waters Live (1979) and King Bee (1981). All were critical and popular successes. "
" In addition to his musical legacy, Waters helped cultivate a great respect for the blues as one of its most commanding and articulate figureheads. Drummer Levon Helm of The Band, who worked with him on The Muddy Waters Woodstock Album and at The Last Waltz, had this to say about him in a Goldmine magazine interview: "Muddy taught us to take things in context, to be respectful, and to be serious about our music, as he was. He showed us music is a sacred thing."
" Waters, who remained active till the end, died of a heart attack in 1983. He was 68 years old. In the years since his death, the one-room cedar shack in which he lived on the Stovall Plantation has been preserved as a memorial to Waters' humble origins"
Muddy Waters At Newport 1960
 ◄ (16 versions) Chess 1960
Muddy Waters Sings "Big Bill"
 ◄ (7 versions) Chess 1960
Folk Singer
 ◄ (16 versions) Pye International 1964
Down On Stovall's Plantation
 ◄ (4 versions) Testament Records 1966
Muddy, Brass & The Blues
More Real Folk Blues
Bo Diddley, Little Walter, Muddy Waters – Super Blues  ◄ (10 versions)
Checker 1967
Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters & Bo Diddley – The Super Super Blues Band  ◄ (8 versions)
Checker, Chess 1967
Electric Mud
 ◄ (16 versions) Cadet Concept Records 1968
 ◄ (6 versions) Cadet Concept Records 1969
Muddy Waters / Otis Spann / Michael Bloomfield* / Paul Butterfield / Donald "Duck" Dunn / Sam Lay – Fathers And Sons ◄ (18 versions)
Chess 1969
Bo Diddley, Little Walter, Muddy Waters – Super Blues  (LP, Album)
Bellaphon 1969
"Live" (At Mr. Kelly's)
 (LP) Chess 1971
Back In The Early Days Volumes 1 And 2
 (2xLP) Syndicate Chapter 1971
Rare Live Recordings Vol. 2
 (LP) Python 1972
The London Muddy Waters Sessions
Mud In Your Ear
 ◄ (2 versions) Muse Records 1973
Can't Get No Grindin'
Muddy Waters & Howlin' Wolf – London Revisited  ◄ (2 versions)
"Unk" In Funk
The Muddy Waters Woodstock Album
Hard Again
 ◄ (16 versions) Blue Sky 1977
Muddy "Mississippi" Waters Live
 (LP, Album) Cleo 1980
King Bee
Hoochie Coochie Man
 ◄ (2 versions) Blue Sky 1983
B.B. King & Big Mama Thornton & Muddy Waters – Live At Newport  ◄ (4 versions)
I Can't Be Satisfied
 ◄ (2 versions) Showcase 1985
Live In Paris, 1968
 (LP) France's Concert 1988
Live In Antibes, 1974
 (LP, Album) France's Concert 1988
 (CD) Roots (6) 1990
 (LP) Roots (6) 1990
Goin' Home (Live In Paris 1970)
 ◄ (2 versions) Last Call Records 1992
 ◄ (4 versions) Orbis 1994
Otis Spann With Muddy Waters & His Band* – Live The Life  (CD, Album)
Testament Records 1997
Live In Chicago, 1979
 (CD, Album) Altaya 1997
Champion Jack Dupree / Muddy Waters – Me And My Mule  (CD, Album)
TKO Collectors 1999
 (LP) Past Perfect Silver Line 2000
 (LP, 180) Blind Pig Records 2008
Live / Fillmore Auditorium – San Francisco 11/04-06/1966
 (CD, Mud + 2xCD, Rol + 3xCD, I'm + 4xCD, The + 5xDV) Proper Records Ltd. 2009
Blow Blues Blow
 (CD, Album, Dig) Music Avenue 2010
The Rough Guide To Blues Legends: Muddy Waters: Country Blues
 (LP, Ltd, RM, 180) World Music Network 2011
Muddy Waters & Rolling Stones, The – Checkerboard Lounge, Live Chicago 1981  ◄ (5 versions)
Eagle Vision 2012
 (LP) Doxy 2013
 (LP, Album) Epic Unknown
I Hear The Blues-Memphis Slim, Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson, Lonnie Johnson-Granada TV
Blues and Gospel Train – 1964 – Muddy Waters, Rosetta Tharpe, Sonny & Brownie, Cousin Joe Pleasants
Muddy Waters – Live At The Chicago Fest 1981
Messin' With The Blues [live '74]
Johnny Winter & Muddy Waters Soundstage 1974
Muddy Waters Blues Summit in Chicago
Muddy.Waters.Live.68.-.78
Muddy Waters Interview
Links , Fan Pages Etc…
Muddy Waters – Listen to Free Music by Muddy Waters on …
Muddy Waters Biography – Facts, Birthday, Life Story – …
iTunes – Music – Muddy Waters – Apple
Muddy Waters | Bio, Pictures, Videos | Rolling Stone
Muddy Waters – Profile of Chicago Blues Legend Muddy Waters
Free Music Online – Internet Radio – Jango
Muddy Waters – New World Encyclopedia
Trail of the Hellhound: Muddy Waters
Muddy Waters – wolfgangsvault.com
Muddy Waters, a Mississippi musician – Mississippi writers …
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Hosts Russia continue goal spree despite return of Egypt's Salah
Players of Russia greet the audience after a Group A match between Russia and Egypt at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Saint Petersburg, Russia on June 19. Russia won 3-1. – Xinhua Photo
SAINT PETERSBURG — World Cup hosts Russia continued spectacular performances on Tuesday in their second World Cup group match with an impressive 3-1 over Egypt although Mohamed Salah returned to the pitch and worked really hard.
Russia now stand top of Group A on six points while Uruguay and Saudi Arabia take on each on Wednesday in the other Group A second round match.
The first goal came two minutes after beginning of the second half, when Russian Roman Zobnin's off-target shot was met by Egyptian captain Ahmed Fathi.
The latter, disrupted by Artem Dzyuba, turned the ball backward into his own gate. Then in the 59th minute, Mario Fernandes blitzed down the right and delivered the volley to Denis Cheryshev. The Villarreal left winger lashed it home. It was his third goal at the World Cup.
Two minutes later, Artem Dzyuba touched the ball with his chest, turned and prodded it into the bottom right corner of the net.
Fresh from a 5-0 rout of Saudi Arabia, Russia appeared aggressive at the beginning, trying to dominate the pitch and find some chances in the Egyptian half.
In the 18th minute, Cheryshev poked a shot from distance, only to see the ball flying over the bar. Meanwhile, with Russian defenders engaging, Liverpool forward Salah only touched the ball five times.
Egypt, eager for a victory in their sixth match at the finals, grew into the game gradually.
Before the halftime stroke, Salah, receiving a low pass from Abdelshafy, swept a left-foot shot but missed the gate.
His first World Cup goal was in the second half, when he was brought down in the box. Egyptian players called for VAR before the judge ruled for a penalty. Salah sent the ball into the net.
After 17 matches, the World Cup has already seen 10 penalties. But the goal alone was not enough to shift the balance.
Russia, who last advanced into the knockout stage in 1986 as the team of Soviet Union, moves another step closer to qualifying in the last 16 of the World Cup.
"We have learned from our mistakes that did not allow us to be more successful in the past," said the coach Stanislav Cherchesov.
"We analysed the situation in terms of preparation and selection of players. Now we are happy we have two wins on our belt and that we are giving this joy to our supporters."
"We have a group of solidarity. We need to rest well and see who is ready to do what and prepare ourselves well for the next game," he said.
While hope for the Egyptian team, who are in their first World Cup since Italy 1990, was dampened in the rainy evening.
In the opening World Cup Group A match against Uruguay, the Pharaohs lost 1-0. Salah, who was the recipient of the Premier League Golden Boot in the 2017-18 season, scored 44 goals in all competitions for Liverpool last season and netted 70 percent of all Egypt's goals in qualifying, missed the game due to shoulder injury.
"I think nobody can deny his importance," said the Egyptian coach Hector Cuper.
"He was feeling good to play... We would have all preferred his injury to not occur." He said that the team did well in the first half.
"There are 10 to 12 minutes when we did very badly, making some mistakes. That is why we lost," said the 62-year-old Argentinian tactician.
"Our players have done their best and made enormous efforts," he said.
"I am proud of them. Maybe we lack a little extra things to win, but I must recognize the great efforts they had after 20 years in which Egypt did not take part in the World Cup."
After the game between Uruguay and Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, Russia and Egypt will have their last group match next Monday, before the groups who will advance to the knockout stage will be finally decided. — XINHUA
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While the water boils and pasta cooks, roll the turkey sausage meat into about tiny little meatballs. Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the meatballs and cook, turning occasionally, until browned and cooked through, 5 to 6 minutes (internal temp should be about 160-165°F. Drain on paper towels.
Cook zucchini noodles for a few minutes in the skillet until they get a little softer. Sprinkle with garlic powder for some flavor. Set aside in a bowl or plate until ready to mix into the pasta.
Add to the skillet the remaining 3 tablespoons olive oil, the garlic, red pepper flakes and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Cook over medium heat, stirring, 1 minute. Add the pasta, broccolini, meatballs, and zoodles.
Whisk the egg with the reserved 1 cup pasta water in a small bowl, then add to the skillet and stir quickly (to not scramble the egg!) until the sauce thickens slightly. Season with salt and pepper.
Divide the pasta among bowls. Sprinkle with the cheese and drizzle with olive oil if desired.


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ACADEMY AWARD WINNING ACTRESS GEENA DAVIS TEAMS UP WITH EQUALITIES MINISTER TO CHALLENGE PORTRAYAL OF WOMEN IN THE GLOBAL MEDIA
Published on Monday, 27 February 2012 10:54
Last Updated on 27 February 2012
For the first time, the impact of popular culture on self-esteem will be discussed at a global level, as Equalities Minister Lynne Featherstone travels to the United Nations summit where she will host an event on body image.
The discussion will focus on how UN countries can use education to battle negative body image and gender stereotyping, which evidence suggests are placing significant pressure on women and girls. Fifty five per cent of young women believe that the pressure to look like a celebrity causes them stress, 50 per cent of women feel under pressure to look good at all times and 46 per cent of women feel under pressure to lose weight.
Lynne Featherstone said:
"Every day, women across the world are surrounded by body images which bear little or no resemblance to reality, whether that be the 'size zero' or the 'perfect hourglass'. These images can cause real damage to self-esteem.
"In the UK, I am working with the media and other industries to reverse this trend and promote more honest depictions of women. Education also has a role to play if we are to empower people to challenge the status quo.
"But this has to be a global effort. If children continue to grow up in a world filled with images of uniform beauty and airbrushed perfection, future generations will never be happy in their own skin. This is why I am bringing the debate to the UN."
Geena Davis, Academy Award Winning Actress and founder of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in the Media, welcomed the UK's body confidence campaign. She said:
"I'm so pleased to be working with Lynne Featherstone and the UK government on body image and the way women are portrayed in the media. For the first time, this topic is being discussed at a global level and that's hugely important.
"Hollywood and the media have the power to shift attitudes and achieve social change, particularly in how our children value themselves and each other. There is a real need to dispel the myths of the 'perfect' body that just don't match up to the real world.
"Too often children are shown fictional worlds where there are far more male characters than female, and the female characters are valued most for their appearance. Boys and girls take this in, they internalize it, and come to see girls as less valuable to society than boys. Children need to see more female characters with varied occupations and aspirations, doing interesting, challenging things."
The body image event is one of a series of high level activities during the two week UN Commission on the Status of Women, which will cover a range of issues affecting women.
International action to tackle violence against women and girls will be top of the Minister's agenda, with statistics showing that around the world one in three women and girls has been beaten or sexually abused in her lifetime. As the UK's Overseas Champion for this issue, Lynne Featherstone will set out action the UK government has taken to strengthen the law to protect victims of domestic violence, increase convictions for rape by ensuring every report is treated seriously, and highlight the protections in place for those facing forced marriage.
The Minister will call for more international work to uphold the rights and freedoms of LGB&T people, with homosexuality still illegal in over 70 countries worldwide and punishable by death in eight.
Combating the barriers faced by rural women, including access to education and finances, will be the theme of formal discussions. Women living in rural areas are playing an important part in the UK's economic recovery, which is why the Government recently announced that £2 million would be allocated to support female rural entrepreneurs to set up or grow their business.
The 56th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women takes place at UN headquarters in New York from 27 February to 9 March 2012. Its role is to prepare recommendations and reports on promoting women's rights in political, economic, civil, social and educational fields and on urgent problems in the field of women's rights.
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What a beautiful place that I happen to call home. Canada! So much nature, very WoW, much fun! People travel from all over the world to visit Banff and Kananaskis and I have access to these wonderful places a short hour away from my back yard.
Victor K. a good friend of mine have been planning to hike to Ribbon falls since at least the beginning of the year. So, we decided last month to hike it. And it was a blast! My oldest boy "H" joined us as well and even though he is only 5 years old he managed to complete a good 50-60% of the hike on his own. The other half was a good long shoulder ride… Most of the other hikers were a little jealous. I think the most standard comment was "That's the way to do it!" and "I wish I could get a free ride like that".
You can check out more about The Ribbon Creek Trail here.
The trail is 8.1 km one-way to Ribbon Falls with an additional 2.0 km to Ribbon Lake. The first 8 km of trail is a spectacular valley hike hemmed in by massive cliffs of Mt. Kidd and Mt. Bogart. Ribbon Falls Backcountry Campground is located at the falls. To reach Ribbon Lake and the Ribbon Lake Backcountry Campground from Ribbon Falls, one must climb a cliff with two sections of chain to assist. The climb up the cliff is a serious undertaking – likely not possible if you suffer from vertigo. Climbing down the cliff, especially in wet weather, is even more challenging.
According to my Garmin watch – The total hike was 17.72 K/M so a little longer than the Alberta Parks website claims. However this could be due to the fact that The Ribbon Creek Trail was seriously damaged in June 2013 due to extensive flooding. The lower part of the trail is now closed and the new route takes you along the Terrace trail through some spectacular forest with log benches along the way to rest.
Below is a screen shot of my Garmin Stats. The spectacular scenery, the sheer size of the mountains and the fact that you are nearly always hiking near cascading white water, makes it nearly impossible to keep any resemblance of a good pace. So be prepared for an extra long day, especially if you are a photographer.
Random Kananaskis Fact O' the Day! – The name Kananaskis comes from John Palliser who led the Palliser expedition from 1857-1860 across western Canada. He names the pass after hearing a story of a first nation's man who survived an axe attack. His name was Kananaskis. You can check out 9 more Kananaskis facts here.
Yes, this is an actual photo (absolutely no photoshop, lightroom or filters applied). I took this facing west in the parking area in front of the Ribbon Creek trail head. Amazing!


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Topics:3G, Auction, Finance Ministry, India, Policy, Telecom Operators, TRAI1
3G Roundup: Auctioneer Selection; TRAI & Finance Ministry Differ With DoT; CDMA Auction
The agency which will conduct India's much hyped 3G spectrum auctions should be finalized by the end of September; auction can only begin after that. As per the guidelines issued by the Department of Telecommunications, the first e-auction will be held within three months of the signing of the contract. Auctions would be conducted from time to time, within a period of one year.
More details, and the application form may be downloaded here.
However, the TRAI guidelines themselves have raised a few eyebrows: The Finance Ministry had asked the Telecom Ministry to put the 3G policy on hold, saying that the spectrum pricing, reserve price for the auction, penalties for hoarding spectrum etc were determined without taking into account its opinion. The Telecom Secretary has countered this objection in typical government-speak, implying that the Finance Ministry shouldn't interfere with what is the Telecom Ministry's mandate. Minister of State Jyotiraditya Scindia has said that the Telecom Ministry will "answer their queries".
Meanwhile, the TRAI has criticised the DoTs proposal to allocate 3G spectrum to CDMA operators on the basis of subscriber base, instead of an auction. At the same time, GSM operators have to bid for licenses. This move favours Reliance Communications. In response, the DoT has said it's "open" to auctioning CDMA spectrum as well, though we don't know whether that means that the CDMA auction in imminent.
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Q: orator migrate command not working in django When i'm running orator migrate command then with giving config path like
orator migrate -c db.py
Then the result is comming Command Cancelled!
I have installed orator in django
Orato 0.9
Python 3.9.7
django 4.0.5
I create a migration and model in the mean project that you can see my code and set the connection but when I'm running migrate command
db connection
from orator import DatabaseManager, Schema
import environ
env = environ.Env()
environ.Env.read_env()

databases = {
    'mysql': {
        'driver': 'mysql',
        'host': 'localhost',
        'database':  env('DB_DATABASE'),
        'user': env('DB_USERNAME'),
        'password': env('DB_PASSWORD'),
        'prefix': ''
    }
}
db = DatabaseManager(databases)
schema = Schema(db)

migration file
from orator.migrations import Migration

class CreateProductsable(Migration):

    def up(self):
        """
        Run the migrations.
        """
        with self.schema.create('products') as table:
            table.increments('id')
            table.integer('category_id').unsigned()
            table.timestamps()

            table.foreign('category_id').references('id').on('jobs').on_delete('cascade')

    def down(self):
        """
        Revert the migrations.
        """
        self.schema.drop('products')

model file
class Product(Model):

    __table__ = 'products'


Someone is celebrating her birthday this month.
Anyway, so we're wishing her a happy birfday today cuz Mommy made us.
Dude, Allie's bigger than you. Probably a good idea to do something nice once in a while so's she doesn't whup your tuchus.
Doesn't have anything to do with my WAND Toys, does it?!?
We're not exactly sure what day Allie was born but Wayside Waifs estimates October of 2008.
So, happy birth-month, Little Princess!
Allie received a very nice card in the mail yesterday.
*horrified look* Maxie...It's from...THE V-E-T!!!
Winner of the Flexi-Joints and Omega Glossy Coat Supplement Giveaway!
Wish you a HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY , Princess Allie !
Princess Allie, happy birthday! Have a great day full of pets, 'nip, love and treats!
Happy Birthday little Princess. We wish you a swell day. Have a super Sunday.
Happy birth-month Allie. It's good that you get a long celebration because you have to put up with those meowthy boys all the time.
Happy Birthday Allie - we hope you have a great day with lots of presents, hugs and kisses.
You look most fetching in your tiara, Allie. All our good wishes for a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
OMC, I can't believe Allie got an ecard from the vet! My human thought it was cool, but I think is a little bit creepy! Happy birthday, Allie! And I hope that you don't have to get any birthday wishes IN PERSON from the vet anytime soon!
Happy Birthday Allie. You look very pretty in your tiara.
Happy Birthday Allie! Make sure the boys all do your bidding today!
Happy Birthday to Princess Allie!!!!!
Happy Birthday from all of us!!!
Happy Birthday, Princess--you keep those boys in line!
Happy Birthday Allie!! Hope you had a fun day!
A very happy Birthday to you Allie. We sure hope you have a great day and many more of them. Be sure to watch those boys and make them behave. Have a good one. Take care.
Happy, happy birthday beautiful Allie!
Happy, Happy, Happy Birthday to you Princess Allie!
Happy Birthday, Allie! What a fun card you got!!
Allie! Yous is the bestest Acolyte ever!
Me has comed by to sing yous the birthday song!
Oh dear Cod, NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! From the V-E-T?? At the ::shhhhh:: Stabby Place???? That's the most horrifying thing I have efur heard!
P.S. - Hi Faraday and Maxwell!
ALLIE!!!!!! Glogirly was at BARKworld and made me miss your birthday! Don't worry, she's gonna PAY. Hope you had a perfect day and those two *other* cats were nice to you. I don't want to have to come over there.
ps - that video card is HILARIOUS! ...and scary, given it came from the V-E-T.
Happy Belated Birthday Dear Allie! And many more...I'z got my jazz paws going for ya bigtime beautiful lady! Hope your whole B-day month was great!


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# isNotClickable

`fun isNotClickable(): `[`Unit`](https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin/-unit/index.html)

Matches the view that is not clickable


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128 parts in light grey and clear with fine recessed panel lines.
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Victory! Japan's Proposal to Bring Back Commercial Whaling REJECTED
Home » News » Victory! Japan's Proposal to Bring Back Commercial Whaling REJECTEDBy Carly Day | September 16, 2018
The International Whaling Commission (IWC) has rejected a proposal from several countries — led by Japan — calling for the ban on commercial whale hunting to be lifted.
The pro-whaling nations argue that the ban — which has been in place since 1986 — doesn't take into consideration the species of whales that have healthy populations and complain that the IWC is too focused on conservation. Their proposal, entitled "The Way Forward," suggested creating a "sustainable whaling" program.
Fortunately, the motion was denied by a vote of 41 to 27. Iceland and Norway were two of the countries who voted in favor — not surprisingly, as they are the only countries that continue to hunt whales commercially in objection to the moratorium — but the vote was also supported by Cambodia, Kenya, Cambodia, Morocco, and several other nations.
"This decision sends a clear message to governments around the world that the exploitation of animals will no longer be tolerated, and animals must be protected at the highest level," said Kate Nustedt, global director of wildlife at World Animal Protection. "All eyes are now on Japan to respect this decision. Neither commercial nor scientific whaling have any place in the 21st century, and we urge all governments to increase pressure on Japan to end its whaling once and for all."
Japan's proposal to the IWC included a request for permission to hunt minke whales — one of the few species of whales not currently in danger of extinction. The nation claims that minke whaling is part of their economy and history. Although Japan technically — and reluctantly — adheres to the moratorium on commercial whaling of minke, they do still catch and kill hundreds of these whales every year, claiming that the whales are killed for research purposes. Japan's quota of minke is 333 per year, while Iceland and Norway are estimated to slaughter around 600 each year.
However, the IWC has now agreed to stop supporting Japan's excuse of hunting whales for "scientific research," putting the pro-whaling nation further at odds with the commission.
Following the rejection of the proposal, Japan has hinted that it may withdraw from the IWC.
"If scientific evidence and diversity is not respected, if commercial whaling is completely denied … Japan will be pressed to undertake a fundamental reassessment of its position as a member of the IWC," said Japan's vice-minister for fisheries, Masaaki Taniai.
But for now, animal activists are breathing sighs of relief after the IWC decision to maintain the whaling ban.
"Japan's proposal to resume commercial whaling would be like jumping from a plane without a parachute," said Claire Bass, director of Humane Society International. "Whales face so many threats in our increasingly degraded oceans; it's critical that the IWC focuses its time and resources on tackling the many problems that we create for whales, such as entanglements in fishing gear and pollution."


'The last couple of years it has been repeatedly pointed out that it is essential to perform replication studies.' This is the first line of a Dutch article by Annie van Bergen, written in 1963 for the Nederlands Tijdschrift voor de Psychologie en Haar Grensgebieden (Dutch Journal for Psychology and her Border Areas). I first heard about it one month ago, when a group of researchers were giving short presentations about the value of replication research, and Ruud Abma cited some lines from this article. I was able to order a copy of the journal from an antique bookstore (I've scanned in the article for those of you who read Dutch, or want to check the references, and you can download it here). Allow me to continue translating the article for you – you will find it surprisingly familiar, even though it was written more than 50 years ago.
'Duijker (1955) even went as far as to call psychology a true science only when studies are replicated regularly. De Groot (1961) focused on the bad habit – íf they are performed in the first place – not to publish replication studies. Sterling (1959) and – following him – Tullock (1959) denounced the habit of editors of American psychological journals to primarily accept research reports which describe significant results. This policy provides, in the absence of replications, a reasonable likelihood that Type 1 errors (wrongly rejecting the null hypothesis) appear in print (Sterling, 1959, p 34). One could make a doleful sound in response to the independent tests collected by Hanson (1958) of propositions and hypotheses previously published – even though these were not direct replications. The number of non-verified hypotheses was 36 (out of a total of 99 tests).
She then continues by discussing how, when repeating an experiment, one might encounter some unclear or even erroneous issues in the experiment that need to be corrected – however, this no longer makes the replication study a direct replication. Furthermore, there are cultural challenges when replicating an experiment in a different culture. Finally, she highlights the difficulty of drawing strong conclusions from a replication study, especially when it had low statistical power.
She then writes: 'Finally the researcher needs to be aware of the experimental design and the results of the original study. Most publications are insufficient as a guideline for a well performed replication. This applies especially to recent publications, which seem to primarily have to adhere to the demand of brevity. One thus contacts the author of the original manuscript and asks for the exact instructions and experimental set-up, the scoring procedure, the basic results, etc.. Regrettably, establishing this contact is not that easy. Sometimes the replicator will receive a meaningless short scribble from a secretary, but oftentimes the original researchers seems to belong to the Willem Parel-fans judging by their 'don't respond to it Lena' policy. (Willem Parel was a character created by the Dutch stand-up comedian Wim Sonneveld).
She the continues with: 'This for science fatal (or laughable) situation would not exists to this extent if the habit would exist to perform replication studies. Every researcher would than keep in mind that his work is repeated at a certain time. This would first of all mean that the basic materials would be stored for other researchers, and furthermore this tradition would have as a consequence that analyses are performed with more care, even if only to avoid the risk of being exposed later on.
It is understandable that a researcher who is too busy with commissioned research cannot make time available for replications. What would be possible, is that PhD students and students who have to write a thesis are stimulated to perform replication studies.' She ends with some examples on how people have incorporated replication research in teaching or PhD projects, and ends with the statement she hopes more people will follow.
I think all of this sounds eerily familiar. The fact that someone working at my university more than 50 years ago wrote something so very similar as I've written recently (e.g., Koole & Lakens, 2012) makes me a little proud and a little sad at the same time. However, as Alison Ledgerwood writes in her introduction to the special section on Advancing Our Methods and Practices, this time, 'online communication, media attention, and a series of conference symposia and journal issues kept the critiques and concerns front and center.' We are finally seeing some changes, such as the Special Issue of Social Psychology on Replications of Important Results in Social Psychology that will appear online May 19th that Brian Nosek and I edited. I'm sure Annie van Bergen would have been thrilled.
P.S. After repeatedly being asked whether it was possible to leave comments at my previous blog on my site, I've moved my blog to Blogger so you can comment. Please be nice.