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Here is the neck carving presentation I prepared for January's meeting
Here is the neck carving presentation I prepared for January's meeting
This week's meeting topic on Tonewoods will be presented by Seattle Luthiers Group President, John Parchem.at Greg Scott's shop in Shoreline.
Presentation: https://seattleluthiers.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Alternative-Tonewoods-Autosaved.pdf Thank you John for last …More…
Tuesday January 12 Jay Hargreaves and Ralph Nord presented their methods for building custom guitar cases.
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In the April 2016 meeting Cat Fox gave a demonstration and tutorial for setting up a guitar. Check it out Cat Fox Guitar Set Up
April 14th, 2015 – Seattle Luthiers Group Website Introduction and Carbon Fiber Reinforced Falcate Braced Steel String and Classical Guitar
Presentation on the seattleluthier.org website. Including updating members information and optionally providing profile information.
Falcate design presentation
Making a Falcate Classical Guitar
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Label: Erstwhile Records
Format: CD
Genre: Experimental
In stock
Michael Pisaro and Taku Sugimoto are not generally closely associated, but have quite a bit in common. Both are composers whose primary instrument is the guitar, both have close ties to the Wandelweiser collective (Pisaro is a longtime member), and both have pursued their unique paths without much concern as to how the rest of the world will perceive them. 2 seconds/b minor/wave marks their first collaboration, but these aesthetic overlaps allow their independently conceived recorded parts to fit together remarkably naturally.
Michael Pisaro has been associated with the Wandelweiser collective since just after their formation in the early nineties. The departure points for his music were John Cage's ideas of the durational frame, Ben Johnston's work with alternate tunings, Christian Wolff's opening of the relationship between composition and performance, and Alvin Lucier and James Tenney's use of scientific hypotheses to explore sound phenomena. Pisaro has spent much of the last decade making field recordings, and occasionally using them in his work. Much of his recent composition, and especially the work with his primary collaborator, percussionist Greg Stuart, has concerned the massing and then the spatialization of sound to create "homemade" environments. Pisaro lives in Southern California, teaching at the California Institute of the Arts, running the Experimental Music Workshop, and curating his own recently launched recording imprint, Gravity Wave. This is his first recording for Erstwhile.
Currently Sugimoto's interest focuses on composition and its performance, rather than improvisation. With Taku Unami and Masahiko Okura, Sugimoto organizes the almost-monthly Chamber Music Concert at Loop-Line and the irregular Taku Sugimoto Composition Series at Kid Ailack Art Hall, both in Tokyo. He runs the label Slub Music, which in addition to Sugimoto's own recordings has released CDs by other Japanese musicians as well as Wandelweiser mainstays Radu Malfatti and Antoine Beuger. He has just issued the first four discs compiling the abovementioned Composition Series, a strong statement on two double CDs documenting his work over the past few years. This is his second recording for Erstwhile after 2000's seminal The World Turned Upside Down, and he also took part in the AMPLIFY 2002 festival in Tokyo and is featured on the box set of that event.
2 seconds/b minor/wave is a long distance collaboration, with each musician composing and recording their own parts, before hearing what the other had done. Pulse, pitch and wave were the three areas they wanted to explore on the three pieces, and loose rules/guidelines were agreed on beforehand, as follows: '2 seconds' was a unit of pulse, either as a basic unit or a point of departure; 'b minor' was a key, with Sugimoto playing harmony and Pisaro playing melody: and 'wave', with no further details, simply whatever that word brought to mind. This was the extent of the specific discussion between the two, and thus the entirely fluid melding of the results is a testament to their deep understanding of the other's aesthetic/s. Yuko Zama's intuitively empathetic design is a perfect symbiotic fit for the music contained within.

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Natural Gas Safety Tips
Natural gas is the cleanest burning fossil fuel. It moves silently, safely and efficiently through an extensive network of pipelines. Odorant similar to the smell of rotten eggs is added so leaks can be easily detected.
The DO's and DON'T of gas safety
The Fremont Department of Utilities recommends consumers remember these safety tips to protect them from potential dangers associated with natural gas usage.
* Use your nose. If you ever detect even a small amount of the odor of natural gas in the air, leave the premises. Then contact the Fremont Department of Utilities at 402.727.2613.
* Look for the blue flame. If the pilot light and burners have a steady, blue flame, they are operating correctly.
* Have all gas appliances, furnaces, vents, flues, chimneys and gas lines in your home or business inspected every year or two by qualified industry professionals for corrosion and blockages.
* Keep the areas around appliances and equipment clean and unblocked to allow for proper air flow.
* Clean or replace air filters in your heating system.
* Keep water heater air intakes, drain pipes, controls and flue unobstructed.
* Never sleep in a room with an unvented gas or kerosene heater. Vent heaters outside.
* Don't let small children play with or near natural gas appliances or pipes, even the knobs on the oven or cook top.
* Never move or install a gas appliance or change the connector in any way without professional assistance.
* Never store household chemicals or combustible materials near gas appliances.
* Never use fuel lines for storage. Items hanging from a fuel line can stress the joints in the pipe and cause gas leaks.
* Keep your gas meter free of debris, snow, ice and other obstructions at all time.


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"The possible election of a dedicated anti-Zionist to the U.S. Congress has thrown the Zionist influenced media and the Zio-political establishment in a tizzy," Duke says. "The Jewish-controlled New York media is now calling Barron the, quote, 'David Duke of New York,' unquote. I've been deluged by media inquiries as to whether I would endorse Barron because of his very strong anti-Zionist and anti-Israel positions."
"In a race for Congress between an anti-Zionist black activist and a black activist who is a bought and paid for Zionist Uncle Tom, I'll take the anti-Zionist any day," Duke explains — the "Zionist Uncle Tom" being Barron's opponent Hakeem Jeffries, the establishment favorite.
I have to think being called an "Uncle Tom" by David Duke must be the highlight of any Black politician's career.
Radley Balko joked on twitter that "It's a new morning in America when a white supremacist and a black nationaist can join hands in a shared hatred of Jews." Which I retweeted, because it's hilarious, but actually this sort of alliance is not all that new -- Black nationalists have been forging bonds with White supremacists dating back to at least Marcus Garvey, and one of the commonalities Garvey shared with White supremacists was mutual loathing of Jews.
Of course, part of what brought Garvey down was his ties to the KKK, which rendered him beyond the pale for nearly all Blacks. And one cannot imagine that a David Duke endorsement is helpful in this majority-Black district no matter how crazy things get.


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Compare two (2) methods that a company can use in order to finance international trade. Examine the advantages and disadvantages of financing with a portfolio of currencies. Provide two (2) examples of how companies or MNCs finance international transactions by using their own "bank" or by keeping currencies on hand (marketable securities).
Analyze Interest Rate Parity (IRP) and two (2) methods for forecasting exchange rates. Determine the primary manner in which they all affect a company's short-term financing decision. Support your response with one (1) example of the manner in which IRP and forecasting exchange rates methods affect a company's short-term financing decision.


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Mandarin Brazil: Race, Representation, and MemoryPosted in Asian Diaspora, Books, Brazil, Caribbean/Latin America, History, Literary/Artistic Criticism, Media Archive, Monographs on 2018-09-20 03:55Z by Steven
Mandarin Brazil: Race, Representation, and Memory
Stanford University Press
September 2018
256 pages
Cloth ISBN: 9781503605046
Paper ISBN: 9781503606012
Ana Paulina Lee, Assistant Professor of Luso-Brazilian Studies
Columbia University, New York, New York
In Mandarin Brazil, Ana Paulina Lee explores the centrality of Chinese exclusion to the Brazilian nation-building project, tracing the role of cultural representation in producing racialized national categories. Lee considers depictions of Chineseness in Brazilian popular music, literature, and visual culture, as well as archival documents and Brazilian and Qing dynasty diplomatic correspondence about opening trade and immigration routes between Brazil and China. In so doing, she reveals how Asian racialization helped to shape Brazil's image as a racial democracy.
Mandarin Brazil begins during the second half of the nineteenth century, during the transitional period when enslaved labor became unfree labor—an era when black slavery shifted to "yellow labor" and racial anxieties surged. Lee asks how colonial paradigms of racial labor became a part of Brazil's nation-building project, which prioritized "whitening," a fundamentally white supremacist ideology that intertwined the colonial racial caste system with new immigration labor schemes. By considering why Chinese laborers were excluded from Brazilian nation-building efforts while Japanese migrants were welcomed, Lee interrogates how Chinese and Japanese imperial ambitions and Asian ethnic supremacy reinforced Brazil's whitening project. Mandarin Brazil contributes to a new conversation in Latin American and Asian American cultural studies, one that considers Asian diasporic histories and racial formation across the Americas.


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Recap of Last Week
Basically, I ate a lot of soup this week. And ribs. And whiskey. And probably not enough vegetables.
Dinner Meal Plan for December 1-7:
- Tuesday: Lasagna Soup
- Wednesday: Bourbon and American Whiskey Tasting Dinner at Café Felix
- Thursday: Leftover Lasagna Soup
- Friday: Taco Night!
Followed by lots of sugary treats at the Flushing Candlewalk.
- Saturday: Ribfest 2013! Post coming soon.
Upcoming Week
Dinner Meal Plan for December 8-14:
- Sunday: Hot Chile Grilled Cheese, Brussels Sprouts
- Monday: Wing it
- Tuesday: Avocado Egg Salad Wraps, Sautéed Kale
- Wednesday: Salmon, Sweet Potatoes, Green Beans
- Thursday: Wing it
- Friday: Holiday Party
- Saturday: Holiday festivities


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Patricia Botton - Disco
It could have been the unusual entry I was waiting for to talk about composer/songwriter Frédéric Botton. But holidays on hold: we will preserve the light spirit of this disco summer B-side excerpt from his wife's discography and keep the Big One for september. Therefore, to follow very soon: Mr Botton, the elegant husband. Slightly strange string arrangements in this one ? The track is orchestrated by Michel Bernholc.
Bernholc, the man behind Les Bronzés' soundtrack, as well as countless hits by Françoise Hardy, Michel Berger, Claude François & many more also did a noteworthy library opus in the Patchwork serie alongside Vladimir Cosma. Plus, he looked cool.


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Today we did something that we have not done in all the previous 34 days of walking, and we did it only because we had no choice.
The Way from Bodalla to Moruya is wide, open countryside, with many lakes and creeks and rivers. The rural landscape is green, dotted with sheep and cows. The bellbirds sing in the trees. Here and there is a country church on a hill. In the distance is the blue expanse of the Pacific Ocean. We even had lunch in a pine glade on the shore of an inlet near an oyster farm. The only problem with this whole idyllic picture is that all day we were walking with our elbows less than a metre from constant traffic going 100km/hr in both directions on Australia's Highway No. 1, the Princes Highway.
There is no way we would have walked this if we had had any other choice. In fact, we did have other choices. We had a forest route all worked out that was about 32kms long. This route would have taken Bumbo Road to the left of the Highway about six kilometres down the Highway, and then up Western Boundary Road, Little Sugarloaf Road and Wamban Road into Moruya. But the problem with this was, aside from the distance, the burning off going on in the forest at the moment. We could have taken a route that Daniel recommended on Saturday night after about 14km along the Highway towards the coast on Bingie and Congo Road, but this would also have added about 7kms to the route. So in the end, we stayed on the Highway all the way until we came to Noads Drive, and then, with great relief, we took the back way into Moruya. The effect of stepping off the Highway and onto the country road was almost like yesterday when we finally stepped off the beach onto the bushland track. The constant roar of the traffic was akin to the constant roar of the ocean, and walking through weeds on the side of the road like trying to find a path through soft sand. Some of the weeds, by the way, are a real pain, especially a little daisy-like plant that has small spear-like seeds which stick to your socks and trousers. And, of course, there was the constant worry about snakes, especially after having seen a baby snake on the side of the road soon after we left Bodalla.
I woke quite early this morning, and began work on the blog. My iPad case external keyboard wasn't working for some reason (a little hissy fit in which the s key was totally non functional and the delete key made /// marks – it is back to normal now) so I had to type the whole thing on the iPad internal keyboard which, given I am using an iPad mini on this trip and I have very large hands, was a pain in the digits. So it ended up that the others were off exploring the town and having breakfast in the bakery before I joined 9am. The bakery is very good by the way – they don't actually serve breakfast, but they have nice pies and quiches and sausage rolls and, of course, coffee. We also bought sandwiches for lunch from there in presealed containers so they were fresh when we had them later on.
The Bodalla Dairy is an attraction for visitors. This time we didn't buy any cheese to take with us (I didn't need more weight in my pack) but we did taste the samples that were put out.
The REAL attraction for the ecclesiastically minded in Bodalla is the Anglican Parish Church of All Saints. This 1881 church is a real architectural gem. It was built at the cost of 13,000 pounds at the time (nb. by Moruya builder Ziegler, the same as the stone mason who made the tombstones in the Central Tilba historical cemetery that we visited – I was interested in this because my step-Grandmother was a Ziegler) under the patronage of the Mort family. There is an historical story here, because one of the Morts married a Catholic and they funded the building of the less grand, but still interesting, St Edmund's Catholic Church. (Nb. We didn't return the 1km down the road to look at St Edmund's in the daylight – it was too far and the church was closed anyway).
There was a "mini" labyrinth in the garden of the Church, and Josh is a bit of a devotee of this form of meditation. Given that the labyrinth is itself a kind of micro-pilgrimage, it seemed appropriate that we walk it. So I followed him as we chanted the Regina Coeli and Lord's prayer, which he followed up with a Latin hymn and some more versicles, which took just long enough to take us to the centre and out again. We then looked at the meditation garden and the memorial garden before going inside the church itself.
Which is a marvel. Just look at the pictures. They say it all. If ever we can achieve an ecumenical accord with our Anglican brethren and sistern, this is one bit of their patrimony which would fit perfectly in the Catholic tradition. If we are practicing Receptive Ecumenism, I want to receive this from the Anglicans. (Or am I breaking the 10th Commandment – Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house of worship…?). For good measure, we sang "Who would true valour see" and then, since we were indeed supposed to be being pilgrims, set of down the highway finally at 10:15am.
The first thing of interest that we saw along the road was a little black baby snake curled up on the edge of the bitumen. We kept a good distance, because I have been warned that these little buggers can be as venomous as their elders. But he was, to quote a joke I told Josh and Sean the other day about a sick mouse, "very small".
One reason we were coming this way around South Eastern Australia on the pilgrimage instead of on the "deadly Hume" was precisely to avoid the "deadly" bit. But I encountered three road-side shrines to people who had died on this stretch of the Princes Highway today. The youngest was for a little girl – Madeleine – who was born in 1997 and died in 2002.
Another surprise along the road that I was not expecting was the Coila Creek Service Centre, marked by a large "crashed" pink airplane. You can miss it driving let alone walking, but I had missed its existence on the map – possibly because I was not planning on coming this way. It would have been an excellent place to get lunch, but instead we had lunched by the oyster farm just down the road in Turlinjah on our bakery sandwiches. The Service Station sold prawns in 1kg bags for $25, and that would have made a very nice lunch for three – although Josh says "I don't eat bottom feeders". It also sells cold drinks, which would have saved us carrying a bit of water too.
After Turlinjah, you pass the turn off to Tuross Heads, which appeared very popular indeed, with many vehicles going in and out of the road in that direction. Interestingly, many of them were tradies, which seemed to indicate a growing population down the road. On a hill nearby is an old Church, very picturesque in its setting, but it seems to be disused. There is no sign, but at the same time no indication that it is being used as a residence either.
After that it was just a slog until we finally got off the HIghway at Noads Drive, which took us around the back onto the Congo Road and into Moruya from the East along South Head Road. At around Keightley Street, just as you pass the first homes on the edge of town, a really good bike path begins that takes you all the way into town. Just as we were thanking God for this treat, an even greater joy appeared: an abandoned Woolworths shopping trolley! Josh joked that we could put our backpacks in it an push it back into Moruya, and was a little scandalised when I did exactly this. Josh didn't want to look silly so he pushed on, but Sean accepted my offer to push his pack for him too. It must have been a miraculous trolley, because it travelled smooth and straight. I dropped it off in town when we passed Woolworths, so we made a better impression upon walking up Queen Street to the Church.
The Church and Presbytery are truly substantial buildings. Rachel, the parish secretary, met us and gave us "kind admittance" (as it says in the third Eucharistic Prayer) to the presbytery) and showed us our large upstairs bedrooms. I put a whole load of washing on for the three of us, and then had a very long hot bath. My shoulders are beginning to chafe from the backpack. I might look into getting something like wool covers for the straps next year. I did find some pieces of firm foam on the road today which I used to give some relief (again, "the Camino provides"). We went out to dinner at the Adelaide Hotel (it seemed appropriate for a South Australian), but although the food was good and well priced (I had salt and pepper prawns for $17) the menu was meagre and the meal was not large enough. Sean wanted to buy some stuff for breakfast so we went around to Woolies and got some porridge and milk and such, and also bought a pack of pasta and a container of carbonara sauce which we cooked up when we got home for "hobbits second dinner". As the beer choice at the Adelaide was also very disappointing, we also bought too large bottles of Guinness stout which we drank with our pasta (yes, a somewhat odd combination, but the others did not feel like red wine).
I did a bit of work on my blog and then Cathy called and we talked for a while and I ended up going to bed by about 9:30am.
Today's statistics
Planned distance: 26.07km
Measured distance by actual route (Gaia maps recording): 25.71km
Distance by iPhone Health data: 27.3km
Steps by iPhone Health data: 34,694 steps
"Flights climbed" by iPhone Health data: 11 floors
Up and Down (Gaia maps recording): 153m (-179m)
Highest altitude: 61m
Beach walking? No
Highway walking? Yes, almost the whole way – no alternative
Hours on the road: 7.5 hours
Distance covered from Eden: 197.02km
Distance covered from Fitzroy: 887.02km
Click here for the Google Photos album for today. And here is the map:


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'My first year at Quinnipiac has been the best year of my life'
April 28, 2010
How many things can change in one year? Well for starters, I have a new address, new friends, new living situation, new workout schedule, and I guess in general, a new life. I feel that within the first year of college, my life has made leaps and bounds in differences and progression, and it hasn't even been a year, only about seven months, right? Who knew so much could change in such a short time.
In these past few days, I've been thinking about how I used to feel about coming to college and all of the unanswered questions I had. I was so excited but equally nervous, and just had no idea what to expect. Upon the completion of my first year, I realize that all of my emotions, although natural for an incoming freshman, were just silly. There was no reason to be nervous, QU became my home the moment my parents left on move-in day and I felt comfortable right away.
If someone asked me this time last year where I would be now I don't think I would have guessed right. Granted, I knew I was coming to Quinnipiac, but I had no idea what it really had in store for me. The new (and at times crazy) things I never thought I would do, the people I now consider my family, and the lessons I learned. No, I never could have guessed it last year.
I can safely say that my first year at Quinnipiac has been the best year of my life. I've pushed myself, not only academically but socially, all while adapting to and embracing my new surroundings. I've accomplished and experienced so many new things, and gained a new perspective on life in general. I feel as though I have changed for the better.
For the most part I've managed to stay on top of my work, staying organized with my planner that has never left my purse and at the same time I've managed to have an amazing amount of fun. Whether it was a night in New Haven or hanging out on campus, every weekend I've always had a blast. It is no wonder no one wants to leave college.
In high school and younger years, our priorities differ. Situations both positive or negative that seem so significant at the time are really just petty and miniscule. As time goes on we learn what is important in our life; our family, our friends, our motivation to do well, the things that matter. From a young age till now, this list has evolved as we learn more about ourselves over time.
Going home this summer will be nothing similar to any other summer. Even being home for winter and spring break felt strange and even a little unnatural. I've established my life here at Quinnipiac, and I feel that being home just throws my life out of wack. Don't get me wrong, I love my home and family, and being from New York I miss being surrounded by all Yankee fans, but I've gotten so used to my new way of life that I don't want to leave it, even if it is just for a few months.
When people say time flies, they're not kidding. I feel like it was "just yesterday" the move-in crew was putting all of my belongings into my new home. Seriously, where did the time go?
I guess I can say the most important lesson I've learned is to embrace everything that comes your way. Take life one day at a time and don't let the seemingly endless amount of work bring you down. With my first year of college almost at its end, I appreciate life and take every day here with happiness and appreciation knowing that this year and the next three are and will be the best years of my life.


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'It's a plague': Croatian farmers incensed by wolf attacks
The wolf corpse hanging from a road sign outside a small Croatian town warned that farmers had been pushed too far -- attacks on their livestock were driving them to desperation.
Nobody knows who strung up the wolf, but the incident in April came just days after a local farmer saw roughly 90 of his sheep slaughtered by wolves.
Images of bloodied sheep carcasses were splashed across the newspapers and social media, shocking many and prompting increasingly strident calls from farmers for a cull on the predators.
"It's simply a plague," says Ivan Tesija, a cattleman.
"Wolves are everywhere, they are fearless, and people don't know how to defend themselves."
The animals have been protected by law since 1995 when they were on the verge of disappearing.
Although a culling quota was allowed from 2005, ministers reintroduced the complete ban in 2013 to protect dwindling numbers.
The prohibition is strongly backed by animal protection groups.
"We are the ones who created this mess, so we should be the ones to solve it and not make wolves pay for our mistakes," says Luka Oman, head of the Animal Friends NGO.
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Almost 3,000 domestic and farm animals -- primarily sheep -- were killed or injured by wolves last year, slightly above average, according to official figures.
About 160 wolves roam sparsely populated areas from the Adriatic coast hinterland to the mountains on the borders with Slovenia and Bosnia, the economy ministry estimates.
But farmers and hunters say the real figure is around 300. Too many, they say, for the habitat of 25,000 square kilometres (9,652 square miles).
The situation is complicated further by the presence of wolf-dog hybrids -- estimated by scientists at some 10 percent of the current population.
"Hybrids are a huge problem -- they are fearless, lack natural hunting instinct and go for easier prey," says veterinarian and hunter Boris Katic.
This means cattle or sheep rather than boars or deer, he explains.
Katic says some locals bred the animals as a hobby in the time of Croatia's 1990s independence war and its aftermath.
Josip Kusak from Zagreb University points out, though, that hybrid populations explode when male wolves are being killed, forcing females to mate with stray dogs.
But, they agree that wolf-dogs are bad news for the wolf genome.
Katic says all hybrids, that according to him could make up around a quarter of the current wolf population, should be killed and then a culling quota be reintroduced.
But the economy ministry said the number of wolves had "significantly decreased" when the quota was allowed before 2013, and culling did nothing to reduce attacks on livestock.
Experts and animal protection groups say farmers can thwart attacks with better electric fencing, herding their animals at night and monitoring them during the day.
The number of attacks "does not reflect the number of wolves but rather how many poorly kept cattle there are", says Kusak.
- Unendurable torments -
The issue is not only scientific. It has strong emotional and economic elements.
The farmers feel that their livelihoods are on the line.
"These are torments no one can endure," Kosa Galovic tells AFP, recounting how six wolves killed three of her sheep and five lambs last month, imperilling her finances.
Ivan Tesija says roughly 100 of his cows have been slaughtered over the past 12 years, and showed a picture of a calf that died in a recent attack.
The government offers compensation ranging from about 80 euros ($95) for a sheep or a goat carcass to 10 times that amount for a pregnant cow -- amounts dismissed as paltry by Tesija.
Animal protection groups, though, see it as a wider issue of humanity's relations with nature.
"The co-existence of humans and wolves is not only possible, it is necessary," says Luka Oman.
"If we want to preserve a genuine natural environment, it must contain wild animals too."
He argues that hunting could make the situation worse for farmers because killing a dominant male or female can destabilise the pack and lead to more attacks -- a view shared by the ministry.
But his appeals are unlikely to sway beleaguered farmers.
"You never know what the night will bring, people feel terrorised," Josip Subaric says, telling AFP that two of his calves were killed by wolves last month despite electric fencing.
"In our business, the wolf is the master of life and death."


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The original "Flowers In The Dirt" album was remastered at Abbey Road Studios, supervised by McCartney himself, and features a new stellar sound. The harmonizing on "My Brave Face," sound smooth and the beats of "Rough Ride" are strong and will certainly make an impact on your speakers. David Gilmour's guitar solo on "We Got Married" is striking as he brings in elements of later-day Pink Floyd into the world of this Beatle. The strings on "Put It There" are beautiful and the McCartney/Costello collaboration is felt in the R&B tones of "That Day Is Done." The cassette-only bonus track "Ou est le Soleil?" is also featured here with its remastered, electronic sound.
The second and third discs in the special deluxe edition feature the original demos that McCartney and Costello worked on at Paul's home studio in 1987. The quality of these demos are the best they've ever been, since they were only available in bootleg form prior to this release. The songwriting is amazing in this pure form as the harmonizing between Costello and McCartney will remind you of the early days of The Beatles. Only a few of the tracks featured on these discs in demo form made the final album, with some of the songs sprinkled on Costello's next studio album "Mighty Like A Rose" and even McCartney's next album "Off The Ground." You will instantly fall in love with these raw, loose demo recordings.
The DVD included in the deluxe special edition version of "Flowers In The Dirt" features the memorable music videos for 7 of the albums 13 songs, plus a video for the non-album single "Party Party." The DVD also includes a wonderful hour-long documentary on the making of the album and tons of unreleased footage of McCartney in the studio with his band and Elvis Costello. McCartney always has an uncanny sense of humor around the camera and it certainly shows in the home video like footage. There is also a short documentary into the making of the music video for "This One," which was groundbreaking for its time.
The new box set also contains 4 books. One book details the making of the album with 112-pages of essays and new interviews with Paul McCartney, Elvis Costello and others. It includes quite of bit of unpublished photos from the sessions and also artwork from the album and singles. The second book features Paul McCartney's hand written notebook of lyrics and notes of songs from the album and demo sessions. The third showcases the amazing photography of Linda McCartney and her photo shoot for the cover of the album. The final book includes 64-pages of images used for the "This One" music video.
Every CD included in the set is included as a digital download along with exclusive B-sides, remixes and edited single versions. Fans will not mind spending the extra cash for all this material, which has been made available for the first time in this box set. To find out more about this new deluxe special edition of Paul McCartney's 1989 album "Flowers In The Dirt," please visit paulmccartney.com.


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Have you found yourself wishing that you knew how to play a guitar? Perhaps you envision yourself joining the masses that have picked it as their musical instrument of choice. If that sounds like you, then you have found the right article. The paragraphs that follow here will give you the advice you need to begin playing the guitar well.
Don't feel like you need to learn it all at once. A steady pace will grow your skills and lead to success. Spend a bit of time daily for practice, and you will soon master the basics necessary to further develop key skills.
Stay persistent with learning the guitar. Set goals for yourself along the way, as you learn how to play. Ask around to see if anyone else you know would also like to learn how to play, and then you can meet up to play together. Reward yourself near the week's end after successful daily practices. Keep in mind that things worth doing will never be that easy.
Musical notation as well as guitar tabs are important. Music theory is useful for understanding how chords and scales work. This can help you to create music without stress. This information is useful as you start playing riffs as well as melodies.
You must gather all necessary items before learning to play guitar, including a good instrument. You may want to think about borrowing a guitar or renting one, if you can't buy one. A good guitar will make it a lot easier to produce beautiful sounds.
If you are learning to play the guitar, build calluses on the fingertips. You will find it much easier to play if your fingers are a bit tougher. You will build them up over time. There are also a few products available that may be able to help.
Learn as much as you can about the different parts of a guitar. Knowing this information will help should you decide to use instructional materials for learning. Learning the correct terminology will set you apart as an intelligent and serious musician.
Before you focus on learning to play the guitar, learn and memorize the various parts of the instrument. This helps when first learning to play since they are necessary for learning scales, string names, and chords.
Before you get calluses on your fingers they will get sore. It may hurt less playing a nylon-string or electric guitar. One of the most painful and difficult instrument to play for beginners is the acoustic guitar with steel strings. Although you can soak your fingers in rubbing alcohol, never use turpentine or other harmful substances.
Teach yourself to use different keys when playing songs. You can learn different chords by playing the same song over and over again but in different keys. In general, you will have a better idea about music as a whole, too. This is one thing that will help you grow as a musician.
There is a plethora of information regarding the guitar to learn. This is something that you can do though. The more you practice, the greater your skills will be. Use the tips here as a great start to a fun pastime.


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Ex-Texans find success outside Levelland
Marshall Henderson
For South Plains College basketball fans, last Saturday offered an extended window to catch up on ex-Texans.
Between mid-afternoon and midnight, there were opportunities to see Marshall Henderson playing for Mississippi on ABC, then Malcolm Miller with Southern on ESPN2, followed by Deshaunt Walker and Stephen F. Austin on ESPN2 and finally Greg Gainey with Texas-Arlington on ESPNU.
Eight former South Plains men's players were with NCAA Division I teams this season, all but one - LIU Brooklyn senior Brandon Thompson - having been part of the Texans' national championship team last year. They might have left Levelland and that 36-0 season behind, but they kept winning.
Each of the eight is on a team that's won between 17 and 27 games this season.
"I'm really happy for all of them," South Plains coach Steve Green said this week. "They did a lot for South Plains College. I'm happy that these guys have been able to go on and succeed at the next level. Good things happen to good people."
Three will be playing this week in the NCAA tournament, and three more will be in other postseason tournaments. Even the two that aren't - Stanton Kidd and Tymell Murphy, the starting forwards during the Texans' undefeated season - were first-team all-conference choices for programs that made their most successful showings in years.
Marshall Henderson
Ht./Pos.: 6-2 guard
Season to date: The star shooting guard of South Plains' 36-0 team hasn't missed a beat, jumping to the SEC and leading the conference in scoring at 20.1 points per game. Ole Miss went 26-8, finished in a three-way tie for second in the SEC at 12-6, then won the conference tournament. With his long-range shots and his over-the-top emotion, Henderson became a coast-to-coast story, one that will only grow if the Rebels keep winning.
Up next: Ole Miss faces Wisconsin at 11:40 a.m. Friday in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
Malcolm Miller
Ht./Pos.: 6-6 swingman
School: Southern
Season to date: Though he has come off the bench in all 31 games, Miller is the leading scorer (16.1 ppg) and second-leading rebounder (5.9 rpg) on a 23-9 NCAA tournament team. The Midland Lee product has been a deadly shooter - 52 percent from the field and 46.8 percent (87 for 186) from 3-point range. The Jaguars won the SWAC tournament after tying for second in the conference regular season.
Up next: Southern plays No. 1 seed Gonzaga at 3:10 p.m. Thursday in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
Brandon Thompson
Ht./Pos.: 6-1 guard
School: LIU Brooklyn
Season to date: Thompson started all 33 games, averaging 8.4 points and 3.0 rebounds for a 20-13 NCAA tournament team. Playing nearly 27 minutes a game, Thompson has committed only 28 turnovers and has made 56 3-point goals. The Blackbirds won the Northeast Conference tournament championship for the third year in a row after finishing in a three-way tie for second during the regular season.
Next up: LIU Brooklyn plays fellow No. 16 seed James Madison in an NCAA tournament play-in game at 5:40 p.m. Wednesday. The winner gets No. 1 seed Indiana at 3:10 p.m. Friday.
Deshaunt Walker
Ht./Pos.: 6-0 guard
School: Stephen F. Austin
Season to date: Walker is a backup for SFA, which went 27-4 and won the Southland Conference regular-season championship. Northwestern State claimed the conference's automatic berth in the NCAA tournament by beating SFA 68-66 in the Southland tournament championship game. Walker is averaging eight minutes per game and 2.6 points on a team that leads the NCAA in scoring defense, allowing 51.0 points per game.
Up next: Stephen F. Austin played a first-round National Invitational Tournament game late Tuesday at Stanford, the defending NIT champion.
Greg Gainey
Ht./Pos.: 6-5 forward
School: UT-Arlington
Season to date: Gainey is the fifth-leading scorer (7.0 ppg) and fourth-leading rebounder (3.6 rpg) on a team that made a run to the finals of the Western Athletic Conference tournament. The Mavericks tied for fourth in the WAC regular season and have a 19-13 record.
Up next: UTA hosts Oral Roberts at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the first round of the CollegeInsider.com tournament.
Derrell Edwards
Ht./Pos.: 6-2 guard
School: High Point
Season to date: Edwards started all 30 games - the only High Point player to do so - averaging 5.2 points. Playing nearly 26 minutes a game, he had 58 assists with only 39 turnovers. High Point (17-13, 12-4) won the Big South North Division title, its first league championship since moving to NCAA Division I in 1999-2000, and set a school record for Big South wins. Head coach Scott Cherry was given a four-year contract extension.
On deck: The Panthers play at UC-Irvine at 9:30 p.m. Wednesday in the first round of the CollegeInsider.com tournament.
Stanton Kidd
Ht./Pos.: 6-7 forward
School:North Carolina Central
Season to date:Kidd was named first-team all-Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference after being the second-leading scorer (14.5 ppg) and leading rebounder (6.9 rpg) on a team that finished 22-9. It was North Carolina Central's first 20-win season since 1992-93. The Eagles entered the MEAC tournament as a No. 2 seed, having won 16 of their previous 17 games, but suffered a 55-42 upset to North Carolina A&T in the quarterfinals. That cost North Carolina Central a shot at the NCAA tournament in only its second full season in Division I.
Up next: Despite its best season in 20 years, the Eagles aren't in a postseason tournament.
Tymell Murphy
Ht./Pos.: 6-5 forward
School: Florida International
Season to date: Murphy was the leading scorer (14.6 ppg) and rebounder (6.8 rpg) on a team that improved to 18-14 under new coach Richard Pitino after going 8-21 in Isiah Thomas' last year. The lefthander from Brooklyn, N.Y., became the first FIU player since 2005 to be a first-team all-conference selection and is among the nation's most accurate shooters at 57.3 percent. Western Kentucky beat FIU 65-63 in the Sun Belt Conference tournament title game, costing the Golden Panthers their first NCAA tournament berth since 1995.
Up next: FIU was left out of the postseason tournaments.
Compiled by Don Williams


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In the 18th century, the male aristocrat wore a three-piece suit conspicuous in make and style and equally as lavish as the opulent dress of his female counterpart; the 19th-century dandy made famous a more refined brand of expensive elegance; the 20th-century mod relished in colorful and modern styles; and the 21st century man—in an ultra-chic suit by day and a flowered tuxedo by night—redefines today's concept of masculinity.


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India-Pakistan: Indian military authorities report a week-long series of gun battles has been taking place in the central region of the Line of Control in Kashmir. Some 30 to 40 fighters crossed the Line on 24 September, up to 12 of whom have been killed by Indian soldiers. Five Indian soldiers have been wounded.
The infiltrators holed up in an abandoned village, which appears to be the location of the gun fights.
Although General Officer Commanding of the Army's 15 Corps Lt Gen Gurmit Singh had said it will be premature to say whether the Pakistan Army was involved in infiltration of militants, he said there were definite indications that some special troops were part of it.
"I can only say, analyzing the methodology of this infiltration, it was not a pure infiltration. It was a BAT [Border Action Team]-cum-infiltration. The number of militants who attempted this infiltration was rather large. In fact, Wednesday night 10 to 12 militants tried to sneak into the cordoned off area from across (the Line of Control)."
Pakistani authorities deny that an infiltration occurred.
Comment: A Border Action Team is a mixed unit of Pakistan Army special forces commandos and irregular forces including terrorists or Kashmiri militants. Allmost every time the top political leaders have a cordial meeting, a shooting incident occurs along the Line of Control.
Pakistan: A faction of the Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan [TTP] said today that no ceasefire has yet been reached and that the initiative for talks should not be taken as a sign of weakness, according to the TTP Mohmand Agency chief, Omar Khalid Khorasani.
Khorasani also accused the government of continuing to torture prisoners and of killing them. He named three of his colleagues whom he claimed were killed recently in Karachi. He said that talks cannot succeed in the prevailing situation.
One group also called for the withdrawal of government forces from the tribal agencies as a condition for talks.
Comment: The statements today are typical of the problems in arranging talks with the Pakistani Taliban. No one group speaks for all the fighting groups who are hostile to the Islamabad government. A comprehensive and binding ceasefire is not feasible because it is not enforceable.
Syria: For the record. Experts from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said Syrian documents handed over on Wednesday "looked promising". The team said analysis of technical diagrams would be necessary and "more questions remain to be answered".
Onsite inspections and arms disabling are scheduled to start next week. The exact schedule depends on the outcome of preparatory talks with Syrian experts which began on Wednesday.
Libya- Russia: The Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement on the evaluation of employees from the Russian embassy in Libya.
"On the evening of 2 October, the Russian embassy in Tripoli was subjected to an armed attack by a group of militants. According to available information, the direct cause of the aggressive actions against our diplomatic mission was the murder of a Libyan officer and the stabbing of his mother by a Russian woman on 1 October. Criminal proceedings have been instituted against the woman who is a Russian national. The Libyan side is to inform us about all the circumstances of this incident and the course of the investigation."
"What occurred provoked the relatives and friends of the murdered Libyan man to decide to 'avenge' his death with an attack on the Russian diplomatic mission. The armed assailants managed to break into the territory of the embassy, whose employees and their family members took refuge in safe rooms."
"The embassy's own security forces, with the support of a Libyan pro-government formation, forced the attackers out of our diplomatic mission. At the same time, Libyan International Cooperation Minister Muhammad Abd-al-Aziz, after visiting the embassy, informed the Russian ambassador that the Libyan side at this stage is not in a position to guarantee the security of the Russian embassy, and he recommended that its employees leave the diplomatic mission. In this situation, it was decided that all members of our foreign missions and members of their families should be evacuated immediately from Libya via Tunisia."
In a telephone conversation with Libyan International Cooperation Minister Muhammad Abd-al-Aziz, Russian Foreign Minister S.V. Lavrov demanded that the Libyan side take all measures to guarantee the appropriate security of all employees of the Russian diplomatic representation and members of their families, in accordance with their international obligations, during their unhindered travel to Tunisia, and also to restore as quickly as possible safe conditions for the Russian embassy in Libya to resume normal activity. M. Abd-al-Aziz gave assurances that the Libyan leadership would do all in its power. Assurances have also been received that the Libyan authorities will take measures to guarantee the preservation of the Russian embassy's removable property and real estate.
This demarche was also raised with the Libyan charge d'affaires in Moscow, who was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry.
All employees of the Russian embassy and members of their families successfully crossed the border with Tunisia during the day on 3 October. It is planned that they will return to Moscow on a special Emergencies Ministry flight on 4 October.
A group of Russian diplomats from the senior employees of the Russian embassy in Libya are temporarily remaining until issues related to guaranteeing the safe operation of our diplomatic mission in Tripoli are resolved.
In these conditions, the Russian Foreign Ministry recommends that Russian citizens refrain from trips to Libya.
Comment: Security conditions in Tripoli are so poor that a domestic altercation can escalate into a mob attack that succeeds in breaking into an embassy compound.
The head of the State Duma International Affairs Committee, A. Pushkov, said the attack on the Russian embassy in Libya is a natural consequence of the West's ill-considered actions to change the regime.
"It really surprises us, the Russian side, why the USA condemns the forces in Libya and Mali, the same forces that they are supporting in Syria. Those who are fighting against al-Asad in Syria are representatives of the same circles," he noted.
"The policy of changing regimes and supporting any opposition, as long as it is against a leader whom the West does not like, leads to such consequences - chaos, loss of control, and diplomats are subjected to threats," Pushkov added.
He said that "whatever is said about al-Qadhafi, he did not give extremists the opportunity to act on Libyan territory; he refused Bin-Ladin who asked for refuge in Libya; he cooperated, including with Western special services, in the fight against terrorism."
Comment: Pushkov is a senior deputy in the Duma who said the Navy Yard incident in Washington, D.C., last month disproved the notion of US "exceptionalism". He is a senior Duma member and a scholar. What is significant about his remarks is they typify the Russian judgment that the Syrian and Libyan crises are linked. The Russian leaders are determined to not lose another ally.
Venezuela-Russia: For the record. Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro said that President Vladimir Putin's efforts to prevent a strike on Syria make the Russian leader deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize.
"If anyone deserves the Nobel Peace Prize at this historic moment in time it is President Vladimir Putin, who helped stop a war that would have destroyed the lives of many who deserve to live in peace, like those of the Syrian people," Maduro said Tuesday on state television.
Putin's candidacy for the prize, which was put forward Tuesday by an obscure Russian public academy, has been supported by several State Duma deputies, RIA Novosti reported.
Maduro said Saturday that the head of Venezuela's parliament, Diosdado Cabello, will personally hand Putin a letter during a state visit to Moscow this week congratulating the president on "the role he plays in building a new world without wars."
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LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Kentucky men's basketball team has finalized game times and television network selections for the remainder of its schedule.
UK has confirmed times and television networks for the remaining games, all of which will be held in Rupp Arena:
– Nov. 11 vs. Stephen F. Austin – 7 p.m. on SEC Network
– Nov. 20 vs. Duquesne – 9 p.m. on ESPN
– Nov. 23 vs. Cleveland State – 1 p.m. on SEC Network
– Nov. 25 vs. UT Martin – 7 p.m. on SEC Network
– Dec. 7 vs. Valparaiso – 8 p.m. on SEC Network
With the completion of the schedule, Kentucky will be on national television (CBS, ESPN, ESPN2, SEC Network) in all 31 regular-season games, once again making the Wildcats the most televised team in the country. UK's exhibition games, Big Blue Madness, Blue-White Scrimmage and the Southeastern Conference Tournament will also be on national television.
The Wildcats' schedule is packed with marquee games, a number of battles with college basketball's blueblood programs and trips across the country.
UK's 13-game nonconference schedule, which was released over the summer, features eight teams that made it to a postseason tournament in 2015-16 and five teams who finished the year with a top 50 RPI ranking. Three of KenPom's top five teams from last season (North Carolina, Kansas and Michigan State) are among the heavyweights Kentucky will face in 2016-17.
The slate will take the Wildcats as far east as the Bahamas for the second game of a two-year deal with Arizona State (Nov. 28) and as far west as Las Vegas for a matchup with North Carolina in the CBS Sports Classic (Dec. 17). Kentucky will also travel twice to New York, first to play Michigan State (Nov. 15). UK's always highly anticipated home schedule includes rematches with UCLA (Dec. 3) and Kansas (Jan. 28). This year's annual rivalry with Louisville will take place at the KFC Yum! Center on Dec. 21.
Kentucky will play all 13 Southeastern Conference teams at least once during league play in addition to home-and-home dates with Georgia and Texas A&M, and permanent opponents Florida, Tennessee and Vanderbilt. UK's schedule is balanced with no road trip or stretch of home games lasting more than two in a row. Kentucky tips off the season on the road at Ole Miss to play in the newly-constructed Pavilion at Ole Miss for the first time on Dec. 29 – the earliest the SEC slate has opened since the 1987-88 season.
For the latest on the Kentucky men's basketball team, follow @KentuckyMBB on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, and on the web at UKathletics.com.


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Hundreds of election workers have died of overwork and almost 2,000 have fallen ill following the world's biggest single-day elections, held in Indonesia earlier this month.
Indonesian officials said over the weekend that at least 272 election officers had died since the April 17 vote, mostly from fatigue-related illnesses caused by the long hours they clocked counting millions of ballot papers by hand, Reuters reported.
Arief Priyo Susanto, a spokesman for the country's election commission (KPU), said Sunday that 1,878 election workers had fallen sick for similar reasons. Susanto said the government had urged health facilities to provide the best possible care to sickened election staff and had promised to adequately compensate the families of the deceased.
Indonesia's elections were one of the most complicated single-day votes ever undertaken.
For the first time in its history, the country chose ― for cost-cutting reasons ― to hold its presidential, parliamentary and local elections on the same day.
About 245,000 candidates competed for more than 20,000 positions and an estimated 150 million Indonesians — or about 80 percent of the country's eligible voters — flocked to more than 800,000 polling stations across the sprawling archipelago to cast their ballots.
More than 6 million election workers were involved in counting ballots and monitoring the election. BBC said workers were "expected to work through the night in sweltering conditions," causing many to fall sick with fatigue.
Critics have accused the KPU for creating unsustainable working conditions for election staff.
A spokesman for opposition presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto, who ran against incumbent Joko Widodo, said the election commission was "not prudent in managing the workload" of its staff.
Widodo and Subianto both declared victory following the vote. Initial counts, however, suggest Widodo will emerge as the victor. The final count is slated to be announced May 22.Also On HuffPost:


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Kegel exercises for men help to strengthen the pelvic floor muscles which can improve urinary incontinence as well as other benefits. Many men can also gain improved sexual performance by utilizing this simple exercise.
For men that have inontinence issues, bladder training would help to alleviate the problem. The muscles used and the purpose of kegel exercises is similar to that of women. For women, child birth, and aging are the primary causes for weakening of this area. For men, the cause for weakness could be related to a prostate problem, or aging.
For some men, this exercise could be the answer to erectile dysfunction. It could even possibly improve premature ejaculation.
Another great benefit of these exercises is that it can be done anywhere, anytime without anyone knowing what you are doing. Once you get the hang of the exercise,it becomes very easy to do on a regular basis.
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First empty your bladder fully. You could actually weaken the pelvic floor if you exercise with a full bladder.Tightly squeeze the muscles that stop the flow of urine.Squeeze for 3-10 seconds. Do three sets of 3-10 reps per day. You can do them while walking, sitting, or standing. Avoid holding your breath. Try to make it a part of your daily routine.
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On Real Time Friday night, Bill Maher took on white liberals and their reactions to racism. And it should be no surprise that the man who used to host a show called Politically Incorrect has some non-PC views on the discussion of race in America.
"We have to find some middle ground between racists and people who see racism everywhere," Maher said, adding that he is sick of liberals who "hate themselves because they are white."
"Watch any sitcom, commercial, movie comedy [and] the go-to punchline is always the tight-assed, limp-dicked, Docker wearing, tiny penised, bland food eating white guy. White men can't jump, they can't dance, they can't fuck. Really?," Maher asked, showing a picture of Mick Jagger. "He's 90 and he still does all of them." Word.
Citing people who said they were embarrassed to be white when Coldplay played the Super Bowl and those who complained that there are too many white characters on Girls, Maher argued that white people complaining about white people is not actually doing anything to fix the problems with race.


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Cop Escapes Charges After Shooting an Unarmed Man With His Hands Up on Video
Grapevine, Texas – Monday, a Texas grand jury chose not to indict a Grapevine Police Officer, Robert Clark, for the shooting death of an unarmed man. Ruben Garcia Villalpando, was killed by Clark as he had his hands on his head but was slowly moving towards the officer, contrary to the officer's commands.
The officer's dash cam video shows an initial police chase, as Villalpando attempts to evade Clark at high speeds, with Clark eventually holding him at gunpoint and orders him out of the vehicle after the chase concludes.
The officer then commanded Villalpando to put his hands on his head and walk backwards toward the front of the police cruiser. While Villalpando complies with the order to put his hands on his head, the obviously intoxicated suspect doesn't comply with the demands to walk backwards.
Instead of walking backwards, the suspect slowly shuffles closer to the Clark, as the officer continually orders Villalpando to stop walking towards him.
As Villalpando stepped out of the camera's view, Clark fired two rounds into him, subsequently killing Villalpando.
Toeing the standard blue line in cases such as this, Clark claimed that he feared for his life during the encounter and thus shot and killed Villalpando.
What is extremely troubling about this situation, aside from the fact that the grand jury didn't see fit to indict and allow a jury to decide guilt or innocence, is that Villalpando, while not fully compliant, was not in any way violent or aggressive towards the officer.
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An autopsy revealed that Villalpando had a .14 blood-alcohol level at the time of his death. It seems more plausible that his non-compliance was less about endangering an officer and had more to do with his inebriated state.
Was there no other way for this officer to deal with an intoxicated individual slowly approaching with his hands on his head other than shooting him?
Why are so many law enforcement officers either so afraid, or poorly trained, that they feel the need to pump bullets into unarmed people as their first option in a confrontational situation?
While Villalpando's actions were not fully compliant, and perhaps some use of force could be potentially justified, in a just society his killing would be recognized as unwarranted and someone would need to be held accountable for the taking of his life. Sadly, that is not the current system we live under, as those in positions of authority are shielded from real accountability.
Shouldn't those who are allowed to utilize the government's monopoly on force be held to the highest of standards, rather than the current paradigm where there is very little training required to become an officer, and even less actual oversight once you are initiated as part of the "thin blue line" gang?
Check out the police propaganda video below, trying to justify and excuse the heinous actions of their officer.
Jay Syrmopoulos is an investigative journalist, freethinker, researcher, and ardent opponent of authoritarianism. He is currently a graduate student at University of Denver pursuing a masters in Global Affairs. Jay's work has previously been published on BenSwann.com and WeAreChange.org. You can follow him on Twitter @sirmetropolis, on Facebook at Sir Metropolis and now on tsu.


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Choose settings from the menu that appears. In the sound settings, scroll down to the "other sound options" section, and then click the "app volume and device preferences" option. Your video should be 1gb or less, and no more than 15.
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[1]The beginning of this Epistle presents the experimental power of that which is doctrinally taught in Romans 5: 12 to chap. 8, and is extremely instructive in this respect. It is not so much Colossians and Ephesians; the practical fruit of the doctrine there is the display of God's own character. However we have in a measure what is taught in Colossians carried out.
[2] See chapter 3: 11.
[3] Or rather, "putting to death."
[4] This "we know" is in fact a technical expression for the portion of Christians, known to them as such. "We know that the law is spiritual," "we know that the Son of God is come," and so on.
[5] The truth is, the judgment-seat is what most brings out our assurance before God; for as He is, so are we in this world; and it is when Christ shall appear we shall be like Him.
[6] It should be observed that, in verse 20, the word "you" ought to be omitted. It was the way in which the apostle fulfilled his ministry to the world.
[7] The passage is a quotation from Isaiah 49: 8, which speaks of the blessing that should be brought to the Gentiles when Christ was rejected by the Jews, but through Christ's work and by the resurrection.
[8] What a blessed state is that of a man, who, when he is taken out of himself and a state of calm reflection, is entirely absorbed with, or turned towards, God, and, when he does think soberly and calculates, is occupied in love in seeking the good of his brethren, the members of Christ: who is either rapt up into the contemplation of God and communion with Him, or filled with Him, so as to think only of others in love!
[9] The reader may remark that the passage sets two things before us: that God is present in the assembly of those who are separated from the world, and walks among them, as He did in the case of Israel in the wilderness when they had come out of Egypt; and that the individuals who compose the assembly enter into the relationship of sons and daughters.
[10] Greatness of heart does not readily talk about feelings, because it thinks of others, not of itself. But it is not afraid, when occasion arises, to do so; because it thinks of others, and has a depth of purpose in its affections, which is behind all this movement of them. And Christianity gives greatness of heart. And besides, from its nature, it is confiding, and this wins, and gives unsought, influence this greatness of heart does not seek, for it is unselfish. His true relationship for their good the apostle did maintain.
[11] This chapter is altogether a striking one. We have Christians in the highest and lowest conditions; in the third heaven, and in actual low sin. In the first, a man in Christ (true in position, if not in vision, of us all), the apostle glories, and we are right to glory-that is a man in Christ. As to what he is in himself he has to be brought to utter nothingness. But neither the glorying in the man in Christ, nor his being made nothing of in flesh, is power: the latter is the path to it; but then, being nothing, Christ's power is with him, rests on him, and here he has power in service, the man in Christ his own place-Christ in, or His power on, the man, his strength to serve. So that we have the highest apprehension of the Spirit, the lowest failure in flesh, and the way of power in making nothing of the latter, Christ's power being thereon with us, practical power while in the body. But there will be the sense of weakness, the want of proportion between what we are as to the earthen vessel, and what is ministered and enjoyed. It is not merely what is evil but the earthen vessel in which the treasure is.


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Sad news today for MTV viewers.
TMZ reports that Christopher 'Big Black' Boykin, who was the other half of Rob Dyrdek's hit MTV show Rob & Big has died. A rep for the funny man revealed that Big Black passed away Tuesday morning, although the cause of death is unknown. MTV released a statement about the shocking loss, saying, "MTV is deeply saddened to learn the news of Christopher 'Big Black' Boykin's passing. He was a long time and beloved member of the MTV family and will be greatly missed. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends at this time."
Big Blacks' partner in crime, Rob Dyrdek, had a hard time coming to terms with his friend's death. He tweeted, "My heart is broken. I don't want write this post. I don't want to believe that this is reality. I am so thankful for you." Dydrek also took to Instagram to mourn the loss of his friend:
Although no official cause of death has been announced yet, multiple people connected to Chris believe it was a heart attack. Chris was known as Rob's best friend and bodyguard on their reality show, which ran from 2006 to 2008. Although the two had a falling out while filming Rob & Big, they rekindled their bromance and returned to MTV with Fantasy Factory.
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Engage your class or group in their learning with a visit to the movies. We've hosted kids and their teachers and leaders for book-to-film adaptations of everything from The Great Gatsby to The Hunger Games, history classes for all sorts of historical fare, Scout and Guide groups for badge work, and daycare groups for the wide range of children's films we screen. With affordable group admission and concession rates and the ability to host screenings any time of day convenient for you, this is an ideal option for any group.
We also have the ability to run popular films dubbed in the French language aimed at Oakville's many French immersion and FSL students. Contact us for available titles!
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Have your students made their own movies for class? What would be more fun and premiering them on the big screen!
Is there a documentary you feel is important for your students to see to understand a topic they are studying? Ensure their full attention by giving them the full movie experience!
Or maybe you are a parent council member looking for a unique community-building activity? Why not book a private screening of a highly-anticipated film and invite your families?
Whatever your needs, we have worked with a wide variety of public, Catholic and private schools for private screenings of current, older and student films.
"I would highly recommend Film.Ca as your venue of preference. We have found that they are extremely responsive to the needs of our students in that they accommodate our unique times, provide the option of booking our own theatre (which is vital when our students have programming that focus on learning the skills necessary to be within the community), excellent service, accessible and the most competitive in terms of their pricing."
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AbbVie & the International Myeloma Foundation Partner to Study Genetic Mutation
AbbVie are a research and development-based global biopharmaceutical company, and the International Myeloma Foundation (IMF) today announced they have entered into a collaboration to conduct a landmark retrospective chart review study to better understand and help manage multiple myeloma (MM), the second most common blood cancer.1
"There are significant knowledge gaps about multiple myeloma, and among these gaps is the role of genetic mutations in response to treatment, and the related outcomes for patients," said Brian G.M. Durie, M.D., IMF chairman. "This study has the potential to provide valuable real-world evidence that can help advance care for patients, and we are proud to join forces with AbbVie to further advance efforts in research and education in multiple myeloma."
The primary objective of the study is to determine the overall survival of patients with MM and the t(11;14) translocation, which is present in an estimated 16 to 24 percent of FISH-tested MM cases.2,3 IMF researchers from at least 30 participating sites across the world will retrospectively review and characterize the outcomes of 1,500 patients with the t(11;14) translocation identified on FISH, making this study one of the largest and most comprehensive MM studies to date. Secondary objectives include response rates, progression-free survival, time to progression, time to next treatment, duration of responses and overall survival with different regimens among patients with the t(11;14) translocation. Additional secondary objectives include determining prognostic factors for overall survival among MM patients with t(11;14) translocation and to identify the spectrum of co-existing genetic abnormalities among this patient population.
"The partnership with the International Myeloma Foundation underscores our commitment to meaningfully advance the understanding of blood cancers, and continue identifying scientific approaches that have the potential to improve care for patients with multiple myeloma," said Neil Gallagher, M.D., Ph.D., vice president and head, global oncology development, AbbVie. "We look forward to the findings and to continue strengthening our ongoing research efforts to provide transformative therapies for patients with multiple myeloma and other blood cancers."
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Multiple myeloma (MM) begins in the plasma cells in bone marrow. When plasma cells (a type of white blood cell) in the marrow become cancerous, they can grow uncontrollably and produce abnormal proteins (sometimes known as M proteins) and may also cause tumors, typically developing in the bone. When a patient has multiple plasma cell tumors, they have MM.4 An estimated 86,000 patients with MM are diagnosed globally each year.5 Approximate median survival ranges from 29 months to 62 months depending on stage at diagnosis.6
About the International Myeloma Foundation
Founded in 1990, the International Myeloma Foundation (IMF) is the first and largest foundation focusing specifically on multiple myeloma. The Foundation's reach extends to more than 525,000 members in 140 countries worldwide. The IMF is dedicated to improving the quality of life of myeloma patients while working toward prevention and a cure by focusing on four key areas: research, education, support, and advocacy. The IMF has conducted more than 250 educational seminars worldwide, maintains a world-renowned InfoLine, and in 2001, established the International Myeloma Working Group (IMWG), a collaborative research initiative focused on improving myeloma treatment options for patients. In 2012, the IMF launched the Black Swan Research Initiative®, a groundbreaking research project aimed at curing myeloma.
1 Kazandjian D. Multiple myeloma epidemiology and survival: A unique malignancy. Semin Oncol 2016;43:676-681.
2 Lakshman A, et al. Natural history of t(11;14) multiple myeloma. Leukemia. 2017;32:131-138.
3 Sonneveld P, Avet-Loiseau H, Lonial S et al. Treatment of multiple myeloma with high-risk cytogenetics: a consensus of the International Myeloma Working Group. Blood 2016;127:2955-2962.
4 American Cancer Society. What is Multiple Myeloma? . Accessed February 2018.
5 Becker N. Epidemiology of Multiple Myeloma. Recent Results Cancer Res. 2011;183:25-35.
6 American Cancer Society. Survival Rates by Stage for Multiple Myeloma.. Accessed February 2018. USA Outdoors


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|Always feeling low? Follow these 7 ways to be happier
Getting enough sleep:
In order to stay happy, it is important to get eight or nine hours of sleep. It is because enough amount of sleep reduces your stress levels and improves alertness and your general health.
Waking up earlier:
Getting up late when you have to go to the office causes a lot of stress in day to day life. Therefore, make it a habit to wake up 15 to 30 minutes before leaving for work. When you will have time to prepare for your day ahead without running around like a crazy person, you will see a major difference in your attitude.
Practice meditation:
For staying happy on daily basis, you must practice meditation. Even ten to fifteen minutes a day can give you inner clarity and focus for the rest of the day. Meditation allows you to detach from the habitual thought barriers and keep you stay in the present moment.
Learning something new:
Learning something new boosts your well-being and gives you the courage to take on new challenges. When you learn something new, it helps to build your confidence and keeps you sharp.
Disconnect from social media:
You waste a lot of time scrolling down social media. Your day remains busy just because of receiving the notifications that don't even matter sometimes. Therefore, disconnect from social media for some time and instead, pay attention to reading the news, playing a brain-boosting game, or listening to a thought-provoking podcast.
The act of kindness:
Even simple acts of kindness can bring happiness to your life. These acts do not necessarily be giving money, you can also show kindness by saying a few words of support to the people who are going through the hard time or physically help them with their work.
Do not gossip:
Many people take gossiping as fun but there is nothing that it helps you with. Instead of saying bad things about people, replace the negative words with something positive. Say nice things about people and it will bring positivity and happiness within you.