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Alt.Latino: A Puerto Rican Power Trio, Miami Chillwave, Industrial Rosalía
Three generations of Puerto Rican hit makers join forces this week as Ricky Martin, Residente and Bad Bunny kick off our new music offerings. Rosalía continues her stellar run of singles and artists definitely deserving of more recognition are also represented.
Ricky Martin, Residente & Bad Bunny, "Cántalo"
Just days before the Latin Grammys air on Thursday, three of Puerto Rico's G.O.A.T.s released "Cántalo" on Tuesday. The salsa-reggaeton hybrid sounds almost perfectly calibrated to offset the criticism the Latin Grammys have received this year for shortchanging urbano in all categories except the urbano-specific one. A reimagined version of Hector Lavoe's "Mi Gente" with the help of giants like Johnny Pacheco, Rubén Blades and Danay Suaréz, "Cántalo" celebrates the uplift of the Puerto Rican people through music — a mission all three artists championed this year during the #RickyRenuncia movement. Their performance of the song at the Latin Grammys will provide a much-needed (if still lacking) urbano presence on that stage. — Stefanie Fernández
Rosalía, "A Palé"
Rosalía's 2019 has included collaborations with Ozuna and J Balvin, an EP half in Catalán, and a much-deserved conversation about appropriating Latinidad. Since her album El Mal Querer came out a year ago last week, the pop-flamenco singer has been trying on new identities in more ways than one. On "A Palé," produced by El Guincho and Frank Dukes (who both produced "Con Altura"), she gets a little more experimental with electronic sounds and her lower register, reverting to the industrial aesthetic inspired by the trucking industry of her childhood neighborhood. Even if I don't totally get it, I think I much prefer Strange Rosalía. (Though something's up with that false unibrow and gold teeth.) — Stefanie Fernández
MillionYoung, "Respiro"
Miami producer Mike Diaz has been serving delectable chillwave for a decade as MillionYoung, and his latest track is just as elegant. "Respiro" breathes with loops of synths, bongos, and bass that sound pulled from a Miami mall twenty-five years ago, colored with the pastel nostalgia that gave us vaporwave, but better. — Stefanie Fernández
Henry Cole & Villa Locura, "Caminando (feat. Tego Calderón)"
As a kid from the hip-hop generation, Henry Cole was inspired by Puerto Rico's rich drum history. The jazz drum set called out to him and he forged a path heavily influenced by the music he heard on the streets.
"Caminando" is a '70s funk-styled groove with reggaetonero Tego Calderón making a guest appearance not so much as a rapper or a singer, but as a spoken word artist.
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[HMM] For readers unfamiliar with Bloody Hammers, would you introduce the band and describe your sound?
[Devallia] Anders Manga writes and records all of the songs. I play the organ and assist with recording and mixing. Zoltan plays guitar, and we are currently between drummers.
The sound is heavy and melodic, with lots of fuzz and psychedelic riffs. Lyrically, the songs are inspired by horror. The inspiration not only comes from horror films, but also real life horrors of the past such as witch hunts, and other disturbing subject matter that emerges from the human experience.
How did you come to join the Bloody Hammers ranks?
That is a long story, but the short version is that I met Anders in late 2003 through a business venture not related to music, and we eventually got married. About a year after we met, he started doing a music project called Anders Manga, and we worked together on music videos. After a few gigs, he lost one of his keyboard players. He knew that I had some experience with keyboards when I was younger, so he asked if I could play the string sounds. I gladly accepted, and began learning the parts for his songs. When Bloody Hammers came about, it was released on the internet just for fun. When SoulSeller approached him with a record deal, it became more serious and we felt it was necessary to put a full band together.
Had you been involved in heavy metal prior to joining Bloody Hammers?
Memphis had a strong metal scene when I lived there in the 1990s, and still does. In 1995, some friends asked me to play bass in their band, but my participation in the project was short lived due to breaking gear and my own frustration with my level of skill. I didn't get involved with playing music again until 2005.
Is there a story behind the band's name?
It was a name that Anders had lying around from years ago before doing Anders Manga, which was inspired by Roky Erickson. We both felt it was a good choice for this project.
The band's self-titled debut album was just released in November and the feedback thus far seems to be all positive. I'm sure you're happy with the results! Has the majority of the feedback been from Europe or North America?
There has been a tremendous amount of feedback from Europe, and also from the United States. That's the great thing about the internet, so many people can find out about what you are doing in a very short amount of time.
Are there any plans to release the album on CD here in the States?
Yes, the release date for the United States is February 2013. All of our copies are sold out, so we might have to try to import more from SoulSeller. It would not be a good plan to play shows with no CDs. The vinyl was limited to 300 worldwide, and a couple of stores have already had to reorder CDs, so a reprint might be necessary by the time we get on the road.
Who came up with the concept for the album cover?
The album cover was my doing. Anders was spending the day writing Bloody Hammers songs, and I had scheduled a photo shoot with model Veronica Steam. We shot for most of the day, and she had already put on her street clothes when I remembered the goat mask in our living room. I asked if she would be interested in wearing it for a few pictures, and she agreed. When Anders saw the results, he knew right away that one of the pictures would be used for the album art.
Are there any plans to take the Bloody Hammers experience on the road?
We would love to play a festival or go on tour, but no such plans have materialized yet. This band is still very new, so right now we are concentrating on getting the word out. We have had some requests to play shows, but it would be inefficient to do one-offs. We are taking note of the invitations and hope to make it to those cities during a tour.
Is there a specific song on the album that you enjoy playing more than the others?
There were not many songs on Bloody Hammers that originally had keys, though most of the songs will have some organ parts when we play live. We wanted to add a new facet to the listening experience for the audience instead of playing the same exact arrangement as the album, but that is all that will change. "Fear No Evil" is really fun to play, as well as "Say Goodbye to the Sun" and "Souls on Fire".
As with many genres of music, heavy metal is a cyclical beast and it seems that psychedelic, occult-oriented heavy rock is definitely on the upswing. Why do you think that is?
There are followers of the occult, fans of psychedelia, and of course there will always be rock. It is the confluence of these elements that makes it so appealing. I don't think any of these things were ever in a downswing. Psychedelic music in general never went away for me. There are fans of psychedelic music and art around the world, spanning generations. The enthusiasts are always there, but as a style, it doesn't always have the spotlight.
A number of recent occult rock bands, Blood Ceremony and Castle for instance, feature female singers. Is that an element that might be incorporated in future Bloody Hammers releases?
It is unlikely that there will be any female vocals for Bloody Hammers unless there is a change in lineup. Anders writes all of the songs himself, so it really makes sense that he would sing them as well. My singing would be best described as auditory assault.
Is Bloody Hammers' style of rock and imagery something that you were personally into before joining the band?
I have always been drawn to dark or unusual art. Psychedelic elements are necessary for me to appreciate it. That is just the type of work that I genuinely enjoy. My personal musical tastes have been primarily electronic due to the versatility of synths, but when done right, rock is equally fulfilling for me. For Anders this all comes very naturally. He has always been inspired by classic rock. Though he is adept at electronic music, guitar oriented rock is his true calling.
How long have you been playing the keyboards?
Ever since childhood, I was infatuated with pianos, organs and keyboards. My grandmother had a piano at her house, and I would drive her crazy with it. She would ask if I could "at least try to play something that sounds like a song". I was only 5 years old, and we could not afford piano lessons, so she never got a proper song out of me. Due to my obsession with her piano, I eventually got a Casio sampling keyboard as a gift from my father, and played it for years. My bedroom in the basement flooded at my mother's house, and destroyed my little Casio, so I didn't own another keyboard until 2005.
Have you tried your hand at any other instruments?
There were times through my teenage years, and also fairly recently that I have played bass. The truth is I'm not very good at it. My first bass was a 1972 Les Paul recording bass that I bought from my uncle's pawn shop. There was a tiny crack and warp in the neck that eventually got worse, and I was too broke to get it fixed, so I sold it and went years without owning another bass. I now have a Brownsville bat bass that Anders gave me when we first met, but I feel it's better to leave the bass playing to the professionals.
Are there any particular musicians who inspire or influence you?
Anders, of course, has been the biggest influence in my life, and the greatest inspiration to me. I don't write any of the music myself, but have always loved music with a darker or more sinister feel. Coil would probably be my top choice because of the psychedelic element and dark subject matter. Pete Christopherson and Jhonn Balance had the ability to create fascinating and beautiful music that could also scare the hell out of me.
If there was one bit of advice that you could give to a woman with aspirations to be in a heavy metal band, what would it be?
There is a variety of listeners out there, and there will be a full spectrum of reactions to you and what you are doing. Be prepared for any type of feedback. Go out there and do what you love to do. This advice could apply to anyone really.
Finally, do you have any parting words for your fans and for those who may be reading about Bloody Hammers for the first time?
Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down...
Thanks for your time! I look forward to catching a Bloody Hammers show in the (hopefully) near future.

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Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], July 25 (ANI/PRNewswire): True to its coveted acclaim as India's top research-Intensive higher educational institution, Chandigarh University has taken an unparalleled lead when it comes to research and innovation, positioning itself among India's elite and prestigious universities.
The top-ranked private university in the country to file the highest number of patents in past three year, the University has continued to focus on imbibing amongst its students the ability to resolve new, original problems, who along with the faculty are working tirelessly to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals set by the United Nations, thus marking Chandigarh University's contribution in making this world a better place to live in.
Ever since its inception ten years ago, Chandigarh University has laid focused and pointed emphasis on inculcating the spirit of research and innovation amongst its faculty and students alike. The consistent efforts made over the years in this visionary direction has helped the varsity establish itself as India's number-1 Research-Intensive University, acclaim in which the institution takes immense pride.
In a testimony to its research prowess, the students and faculty of Chandigarh University have filed 1816 patents so far. Of these, as many as 832 patents have been published, while over 200 patents are in the first examination stage. Apart from this, 120 patents of the university have been granted. The numbers are tall, anyway one sees it but what makes those special are the fact that almost all of these patents are relevant, and practical and contribute to the better being of the citizens of this world in one way or the other.
In line with the vision of the University, more than 900 of these patents directly cater to one or the other of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals set by the United Nations General Assembly, thus marking Chandigarh University's remarkable contribution in ensuring a secure and prosperous future for the current and upcoming generations of the mankind, even as the rest of the SDGs are also being fulfilled by other patents in one way or the other.
As many as 180 patents pertain to issues and solutions related to Responsible Consumption and Production, followed by 166 patents pertaining to Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, while 161 patents relate to Sustained Cities and Communities. As many as 105 and 80 patents pertain to Affordable and Clean Energy, and Life Below Water, respectively, while other SDGs including Climate action (30), Decent work and economic growth(29), Good Health and Well-Being (70), Life on Land (80) and Quality Education (33) are also being fulfilled.
It is not for no reason that for the last three years, Chandigarh University holds the number one position among the private universities of the countries to file maximum number of patents, while it is ranked third in the number of patents published and granted. As per the latest Intellectual Property India annual report released by Office of Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks, Government of India, Chandigarh University was declared the leading stand-alone institution to file highest number of patents, beating any of the academic institutions including Indian Institutions of Technology (IITs) or even Multinational Companies such as TCS, CSIR or BHEL by a significant margin.
Taking a lead in the research, Chandigarh University earlier this year established Kalpana Chawla Centre for Research in Space Science & Technology (KCCRSST), the first-of-its-kind in North India, with the objective of training students in space science and satellite development and to meet future challenges in the area of space research. This state-of-the-art space centre would be the Ground Control Station (GCS) for the Chandigarh University's Student Satellite (CUSAT), an in-house developed nano-satellite being designed by the students of Chandigarh University, and a Geo Spatial Centre for research, besides other important projects.
The CUSAT will be among the 75 student-built satellites to be launched into space on the eve of the 75th Independence Day in 2022 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. With the CUSAT, Chandigarh University has become the first university in North India to design and develop its own satellite while after the launch of CUSAT, Punjab will become the first border state in India to have its own satellite in space. Not only will CUSAT collect data related to border intrusion detection, agriculture, weather forecasting, natural disaster forecasting and help in research and study of various problems in these areas, the GCS will help develop satellite research facilities and launch satellites in as many as 57 countries that do not have developed satellite technology, besides monitoring more than 380 satellites with over 810 transmitters in over 50 Countries.
The University Campus is home to IDC (Innovation and Entrepreneur Development Cell) and TBI (Technology Business Incubator), which have been set up by the Government of India. The TBI established in the university is one of the top 10 technology business incubators in the country, which provides training to students as well as provides financial assistance in addition to research, development and applications for patent registration. The University has 20 laboratories under industry collaboration, 30 state-of-art Research Centers, more than 60 research groups, where over 800 research scholars work on innovative research and innovation in various fields.
Another exhibition of the rich research prowess is seen in Punjab's first DGCA-approved drone training hub which was established at Chandigarh University in the month of April this year, along with a Centre for Excellence in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. While the training hub will provide a multitude of DGCA-certified Drone and UAV training courses mandatory for acquiring the Drone Pilot Certificate, the Centre of Excellence will develop Hydrogen Powered Drones, Surveillance Drones, Anti-Drone Technology, besides conducting research in Applications of drones in Agriculture, Disaster Management, Satellite Testing, Surveying, Heavy Payload Drones etc.
Besides, Chandigarh University has been conducting extensive research in the areas of Agriculture, Climate Change, IT, Pharma, Biotech, Healthcare, Automation, Women Empowerment, Environment, etc. Chandigarh University has earmarked a special budget of Rs 12 crores for the promotion of Research & Innovation in the year 2022, so that the economic problems do not become a hindrance for the budding scientists of the future.
Not only research, but the spirit of entrepreneurship as imbibed into the students has resulted in a number of successful businesses coming from the varsity. As many as 143 start-up's have born in the laboratories of the varsity of which 14--almost 10% have annual turnover of Rs 10 lakhs while as many as 9 start-ups have turnover above Rs 20 lakhs.
While a lot of students passed out of Chandigarh University have been earning great, while doing their bit for the society, there are many students who are receiving liquid funding in the tune of Crores, while still being a student, for their start-ups.
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So a lot of you are probably wondering, "What is a relationship expert and how did you become one?"
The short answer to how I got into this was that 12 years ago, I responded to a Craigslist ad for an internship at a dating company. The long answer is that, I needed dating help myself.
A late bloomer and a bit of a nerd growing up, I was always very shy when it came to guys. Whenever I try to explain this to my clients, they can't believe I once was shy because my personality and teaching style is SO IN THEIR FACE. But yes, it's true, I was once an awkward girl, bumbling through my high school and college years trying to navigate the dating scene. It wasn't that guys didn't like me...it's just that I would internally FREAK OUT when a guy did like me, even though that's what I wanted. And then when I liked a guy, forget it, I was OBSESSED. Literally, my biggest problem in life was that I thought every guy I met could be the one. Do you see how this could complicate things?
It wasn't until I moved to Seattle when I was 23 that I really began to meet and date men. I even started to look like less of a nerd! But as any of my friends can attest, I made a lot of bad decisions in the name of love. I also learned the crappy meaning of unrequited love.
Yet, while I was screwing up left and right with my own dating life, (or in the words of my mom "gravitating towards degenerates" lol) I knew I wanted to help others with theirs. IT DIDN'T MAKE ANY SENSE. When I think back to my very first client, I had NO clue what I was doing. Literally, no clue. Like I had no business giving someone advice about love. My only credentials were that I was a good listener, and I could pick up on things that weren't being said, simply by reading a person's face. Call it a sixth sense, but more often than not, my assessments were spot on. And since it's in my nature to be good at whatever I do, I learned how to help people.
For over a decade now, coffee shops have been my home. It is there that I sit across from men and women of all ages and backgrounds and listen to their problems about love and lack there of. By the power of time, I became regarded in the field and am often asked for my "professional opinion". Shockingly enough, even I started listening to my own advice!
So without further ado, my hope for this site is to help you get what you want out of your dating life - or at least to help you enjoy what you have. My stories will help you navigate what you're doing (or not doing) and point you in the right direction. We all get lost once in a while, sometimes it's just a matter of needing to be pushed...or lovetapped.


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November 27th – 28th , 2014, Ceremonial Hall, Main Building, University of Copenhagen
The symposium is a cross-disciplinary event with focus on the use and meaning of water in human adaptation to the environment in the Near East and Northern Africa from the earliest traces of human activities to modern times. The symposium brings together scientists of culture and nature in order to shed light on the most crucial challenge for survival, access to and use of water – physically as well as metaphorically.
Key note speakers are Prof. emer. Hans J. Nissen (FreieUniversität Berlin) and Prof. Zheng-Tian Lu (University of Chicago)
Twenty invited experts present their papers followed by questions and comments.
See list of speakers and titles here.
The symposium is open to the public, but because of a very limited number of seats pre-registration is required before November, 7th. Confirmation will be sent a few days later.
Sign up for the symposium here.
After the symposium the papers are expected to be published for a broad audience in the series Proceedings of the Danish Institute in Damascus.
Organizers and editors
John Kuhlmann Madsen
Chairman, Board of the Danish Institute in Damascus
Nils O. Andersen
Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
Ingolf Thuesen
Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen


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The Faces of Famine
Over and over, the pornography of African suffering simply rewards the oppressors
By Michael Maren
Here we go again. skeletal, starving Africans are back in the news, this time from Sudan. If you are moved--and you'd have to be heartless not to be--operators are standing by to take your check or credit-card number. If you have any doubts that your contribution will really help, the charities will assure you that food will reach these victims quickly and save their lives, at least until the next famine. It's that simple. Defeating hunger means getting food to this emaciated man, to his family, to his children. That requires money, your money. Now you can turn the page or change the channel with the warm feeling that you've done what you can to fight hunger.
I, too, feel like reaching for my checkbook when I see the photographs. But I know better. After spending nearly 20 years in Africa as an aid worker and journalist, I know that fighting hunger is anything but simple. And I've learned that any donation I might make may in fact insure that next year I will open this magazine and see fresh photographs of hunger.
Sudanese are not starving because crops failed or because a flood wiped out roads. And they're not starving because they lack Western technology and farming skills. They're starving because starvation is a weapon in Sudan's 15-year-old civil war. The government in Khartoum has been battling rebels of the Sudanese People's Liberation Army (SPLA) in southern Sudan, and the SPLA has been feuding with its own breakaway factions. Both the government and the rebels have choked off villages, stolen cattle and burned and looted crops. As a result, people have been living on relief food supplied by a consortium of U.N. agencies and relief groups known as Operation Lifeline Sudan.
Operation Lifeline Sudan relies on the good will of these groups to deliver its food. Last week the SPLA announced unilaterally that it would allow food into famine areas of Bahr-al-Ghazal province in the south. But what this means is that the SPLA in effect controls the food spigot. People are fed at their, or the government's, whim. And the people know it. Relief food is the flip side of starvation, the carrot and the stick. Both are weapons of war, nothing more than means to an end for men whose only passion is power and control.
It has been a hard-learned lesson in the relief industry that resources accrue to the powerful. While Westerners see bags of food as weapons in a war against hunger, belligerents in Africa see the food as a resource for fighting their own wars. Their motives for allowing relief food into a battle zone are rarely humanitarian. Their only concerns are strategic. Food goes into the bellies of the militias and is sold to purchase weapons and ammunition. When relief food lands in a war, it is the soldiers who are fed first. So the primary beneficiaries of charity are the people who caused the problem to begin with. They are thus energized to continue fighting and marauding and creating new scenes of starvation that will show up in newspapers and magazines and in ads for relief agencies trying to raise more money to send more food into the battle.
It's now an old story in Africa. In the refugee camps that sprouted up in Zaire after the Rwanda genocide, masses of relief food were commandeered by the very same leaders who planned the massacres of some 800,000 people. These leaders ran the refugee camps, controlled food distribution, sold as much as they could, rearmed themselves and began mounting an insurgency.
In Somalia, relief agencies fed the fighters, rented cars and houses from warlords and hired idle militiamen as bodyguards. It fed the fighting. No wonder Somalia's warlords are trying to get the aid groups to come back. For belligerents in these African wars, aid and relief are business. They try to lure relief agencies just as a small-town chamber of commerce might attract corporate investment.
I've spent hundreds of nights with relief workers in Sudan, Somalia and Zaire and watched them wrestle with these dilemmas over the years. After spending their days delivering food and supplies, they often sit and lament how saving one group of children can mean arming other children. Yet how is it possible to stand by when there is even a small chance that food can save the wide-eyed, swollen-bellied children they see every day? Aid workers never crack the conundrum. They go back home to Europe and America and let newer, younger aid workers wrestle with the same problems. Meanwhile, the executives who run these charities reinforce the notion that fighting famine means pouring money and food into the battle zone.
Hunger is political, and fighting it requires moral commitment on a higher level than writing a check or going out and buying the latest CD to raise money for charity.
The problem of commitment starts with our images of hunger. The face of famine in Sudan should not be that of a starving child. It should be the faces of the country's leaders, rebel leader John Garang and President Omar al-Bashir. And it should be the faces of the men in Washington and Tehran who have backed opposite sides in the SPLA's fight against the Islamic fundamentalist government in Khartoum. The faces of famine should not inspire pity, they should inspire anger and indignation at men whose personal and political priorities have led to the starvation deaths of more than a million people in the last 15 years in Sudan alone. And if these are the faces of famine, perhaps our first reaction should not be to reach for a checkbook, but to take to the streets or at least phone Washington.
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Saturday February 20, 2021By HASSAN BARISEA health worker in Somalia's capital says at least five soldiers were killed and more than a dozen people, mostly civilians, were wounded in violence related to protests over the country's delayed election
Security forces block a street with an armored personnel carrier during protests against the government and the delay of the country's election in the capital Mogadishu, Somalia Friday, Feb. 19, 2021. Security forces in Somalia's capital fired on hundreds of people protesting the delay of the country's election on Friday as at least one explosion was reported at the international airport and armored personnel carriers blocked major streets. (AP Photo)MOGADISHU, Somalia -- A health worker in Somalia's capital says at least five soldiers were killed and more than a dozen people, mostly civilians, were wounded in violence related to protests over the country's delayed election.
Abdi Bafo, a doctor at the Medina hospital, spoke on Saturday, the day after Somali security forces fired on hundreds of people peacefully demonstrating in Mogadishu over the delayed vote.
The capital was calm on Saturday, and streets were open again after being blocked on Friday.
The president has not commented publicly since Friday's events. Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble has said he was "very sorry" about what happened.
Some Somali elders have been shuttling between opposition and government leaders.
"Both sides have promised us peaceful means of resolving the crisis," one elder, Ugas Abdullahi, told reporters. "The government has been very suspicious of the opposition while stating that (extremist group) al-Shabab might infiltrate, benefiting from the chaos."
The international airport in Mogadishu, which diverted flights on Friday after being hit by a stray mortar round during the chaos, was operating normally on Saturday.
Friday's confrontation followed gunfire overnight near the presidential palace. Somalia's government blamed it on "armed militia" but former Somali president Sharif Sheikh Ahmed asserted that the government had raided the hotel near the palace where he and another former president, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, were staying ahead of the protest.
The goal of a direct, one-person-one-vote election in Somalia remains elusive. It was meant to take place this time. Instead, the federal government and states agreed on another "indirect election," with senators and members of parliament elected by community leaders — delegates of powerful clans — in each member state.
Members of parliament and senators then elect Somalia's president.
An alliance of opposition leaders, along with civil society groups, have objected, arguing it leaves them no say in the politics of their own country. And the regional states of Jubbaland and Puntland refused to take part.


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(WOMENSENEWS)–"I want my girls to be happy and kind,"my mother would often say to me, and on the face of it, who could argue with her? Happiness and kindness were states that generations of women in my family had aspired to, as evidenced by the ancient framed embroidery still hanging on the walls of the guestroom in her home.
"Cheerfulness breeds harmony,"reads one, in meticulous cross-stitch, and "Contentment is happiness,"the other. "What, no 'Happiness is a warm gun' to complete the trifecta?"a friend who stayed in the room once laughed. He had a point.
I think of those embroidered admonitions when I think about Sister Fa (proper name: Fatou Diallo), a Senegalese rap star whose Art Works for Change-supported Education sans Excision tour uses rap music to educate the West African public about the damage done to victims of female genital cutting, known as FGC, and gender-based violence. Diallo –who was herself a victim of FGC and rape–is not content, rarely seems happy and on many days is not what the world might call "nice." And therein lies a large part of her power.
When I spend 10 days touring with Diallo and her band throughout Senegal and The Gambia, she comports herself in much the same way that she raps, with staccato bursts of energy and an often impatient backbeat. She heads into regions where conservative Muslim groups have threatened her life because of her anti-FGC stance and wonders why others would hesitate to do the same. She eats rarely and little, sleeps minimally and seems unaffected by the 18-hour days and 110-degree heat, impatiently reminding the less hearty in her entourage that they, too, must be stoic in the name of activism.
At an anti-violence event at a middle school in the Kolda region of Senegal, I watch with a sort of shocked awe as she leaves the dais, walks up to the respected United Nations speaker addressing the crowd and whispers in her ear: "Be quick! You've been up here too long, and you are merely saying the same thing over and over." It may have been rudeness, or it may have been righteousness, but whatever it was, it worked: the speaker concluded her remarks, leaving time for a local woman to share her own story of FGC, rape and forced marriage–testimony that would prove to be the most moving point in the day's program.
Political is Personal
The political is as personal as it can possibly be for Diallo. Her lived experience with FGC, a practice that it is estimated over 92 million girls and women have undergone in Africa, informs all that she does. Brutal, painful and almost always performed without anesthesia, the generations-old practice of FGC was banned by the Senegalese Parliament in 1999. Yet what national law has rejected is often embraced or at least tolerated according to local customs, generating conflict within communities and families.
Diallo, who was cut at the age of 3 in a public ceremony, still remembers, vividly, that day. "I was with about 50 other girls in my village, and we were told this was a great celebration. We were laughing, dancing, playing–so free. This was the last time I ever again felt such freedom and trust. We were then taken into a room, one by one, where each of us was cut without anesthesia. I remember the blood and the pain even today. And I remember the feeling that my community had betrayed me. But mostly I remember feeling the betrayal of my mother. How could she allow this pain to come to me, her daughter whom I know she loved?"
"Over time, I came to understand that my mother was not cutting me to harm me, but because she felt that she was doing what was the best for me so that I could have a good future and could get married. The girl who is not cut is treated like an animal–she can't get married, cook or even give water to someone. She is too 'unclean.' My mother was weak, too much believing in tradition, to stop this from happening to me. It was easier once I understood this about her, but not so easy that the pain ever went away. I knew that one day I must speak out about this. And when I found music and began to have success as a singer, I did talk out. I am lucky that my creativity and my music have given me a voice. So many other Senegalese women will never have that, so I use this voice for them."
Further Violence
Cutting is not the only form of gender-based violence Diallo has endured. At the age of 6, she was sexually assaulted by a family member, an event that she almost never speaks of, but one that informs her anti-violence work in important ways. "So many of us African women who have been cut are also victims of other forms of sexual violence or abuse. I believe that those who do not understand what is wrong about cutting a girl may also be afraid to stand up against rape or incest if they are told that this is just all a part of 'how things are' for us. The mothers must be our first protectors. It is the mothers who must speak out about this, but it is the mothers who have themselves been harmed who are too silent, and we learn to be silent from them."
"I am not a total woman now," says Diallo. "I feel, how would you say, 'incomplete' in my body. I am angry that this cutting, this rape, this violence continues. Just weeks ago, I learned that they cut a girl in my own distant family. She was not yet 1 year old! People think that the national laws will solve the problem. But it is only the beginning of solving the problem if our mothers in the villages do not stand up in protection of their daughters. And we must educate those daughters to their rights, so that they know that they can also stand up for themselves."
"Sister Fa has been among the most powerful voices saying 'no' to FGC and violence against women in West Africa,"says Fatou D. Niang, a respected women's rights advocate at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization office in Senegal. "She succeeded as a musical artist here, and then in Europe. She could have turned her back on Senegal years ago, never coming home because of her success in rap in other countries. But she continues the fight here, and the young people and also older people are listening to her. They come out to hear the music and then they hear her message that FGC is against the law. But she also tells them that if they don't stand up for that law in their villages, the law will not matter. Someday this violence against our Senegalese girls will end. When it does, Sister Fa and her rap music will have played the largest possible role."
Excerpted from "Lived Through This: Listening to the Stories of Sexual Violence Survivors" by Anne K. Ream, (Beacon Press, 2014). Reprinted with permission from Beacon Press.


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Shell Gift Card Balance
How to Check Shell Gift Card Balance?
Are you confused about which gift you should give to your loved one on the special occasion? Don't know what your loved one really likes? If this situation seems similar to you, then gift cards are the answer to all your problems. With the exponential growth in the popularity of gift cards in recent, every other service provider is launching their own gift card to facilitate their loyal customers.
This fierce competition has helped consumers to select the best option and get the best value for their money. What's good to see that these gift cards are not restricted to departmental stores and restaurants but, every service you can think of now has a brand-specific gift card? The latest addition to this long list is Shell, who has introduced different gift cards for customers.
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I have a server running RedHat 9, that I do not keep a monitor or keyboard connected to. I want to upgrade it to Fedora Core 2, but it is such a hassle, having to connect it to a monitor, keyboard and mouse.
I would love to see someone make a "network video card". This would be a video card that does not actually connect to a monitor. It would actually have a ethernet port. Instead of rendering the video to VGA it would render it to VNC. Then anyone with a VNC client could look at the computer "screen". Also, I was thinking that this video card would have either a USB cable or a PS/2 mouse and keyboard out, so the clients could control the computer. This solution would allow remote controlling of all features, including BIOS settings.
In addition to the VNC server, this video card should implement a http server, for configuration.
Friday, October 29, 2004
VNC Video Card
Labels: Computer
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- Michael OhNovember 1, 2004 at 1:30 AM
There is such a device - see http://www.realvnc.com/products/KVM-via-IP/ReplyDelete
The KVMoIP devices are notoriously expensive.ReplyDelete
Building the VNC engine onto the video card would, in theory, reduce the cost and increase the signal quality, as the VNC engine would have direct digital access to the video framebuffer, eliminating the need for costly and lossy DAC/ADC engines and VGA framebuffers.
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Remember "The Dress?" Back in February 2015, the question of whether it was blue and black or gold and white became the most fiercely debated question online for a solid week, or a century in internet time. Well now, the dress has a sequel in the form of a brand new product that has people and their eyeballs all sorts of confused. Fittingly for 2017, the focus of the debate is one of the most popular sneakers of the moment: the Vans Old Skool. Except this time, the debate is over whether the sneaker is gray and teal or pink and white.
Personally, I'm one of the good guys who sees gray and white, though I acknowledge the sinners among us who see pink and white. Even more suspect? The folks, including some people in our office, who have the magical ability to switch between the two color schemes. And though we know you want to fight the urge to debate every person in your life about the correct color scheme, resisting these kinds of silly debates is impossible, especially in a world where everyone in screaming at each other anyway because of the president's most recent tweet. By comparison, a silly argument over the color of some damn sneakers is practically a mental vacation. So: which do you see? Pink and white, or gray and teal?


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The world's largest film industry's awards weekend will involve a four-day extravaganza in five cities. Rome wanted it. So did Hong Kong and New York. But Yorkshire saw them all off and the Bollywood Oscars, a glittering celebration of celluloid romance, song and dance, will come to the white rose county next year. The awards or, more properly, the International Indian Film Awards, were launched at the Millennium Dome in 2000 and have since travelled to cities including Amsterdam, Dubai, Singapore, and London. David Ward reports.
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Easy Reversible Vests
If you look back on the books we have posted about sewing and knitting, vests seem to be the fashion accessory. I honestly don't get it. I love quilts and quilting, I just don't want to wear one. The only person I can think of that pulled off the vest look was Diane Keaton in Annie Hall.
And yet I bring you another vest book. This time you will really get your money's worth with the whole reversible thing. If they were actual quilts instead of a "fashion statement" I would be all over the color choices and techniques. I think I am going to say that the quilted vest needs to be retired as a concept. (Right next to the fancy sweatshirts.) Make a lovely quilt for the guest room instead.


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Look, I get it, it's been a rough start to the year of PlayStation VR. A few weeks of drought finally ended last Tuesday when Resident Evil 7 launched, and the lack of big releases in December have some feeling the headset is starting to get left behind a little. Add to that the closure of RIGS developer Guerrilla Cambridge and you can understand the trepidation.
It's an understandable concern. Sony's previous support for platforms doesn't instill confidence; the wonderful PlayStation Vita seemed to be abandoned months after launch as the device was repositioned to support (brilliant) indie titles and not the AAA games the company had promised. PlayStation Move, too, had a meager life on PlayStation 3, with the company failing to ever produce a genuine system seller. Its attempt to get everyone playing in 3D too ended in failure.
If you're following these strands then, yes, it's reasonable to assume that Sony might let its headset fade into obscurity in the near future, but it's simply too soon to declare it dead, as many articles on the internet over the past few weeks have been tempted to do.
It's true, content for PS VR is looking a little sparse of late. As great as Resident Evil 7 is, it's not for everyone and its campaign will only last you so long. What we're experiencing, though, feels more like an unfortunate gap in the solid support indie developers have brought to the system since launch, likely spurred more by the unproductive holiday season rather than a desire to avoid the platform. I know developers that say their software sells very well on PS VR; no one wants to see it gone.
What it tells me is not that Sony is giving up on its device long before its shown even a hint of its true promise, but that it needs to sort out its content pacing and developer evangelism. Time and time again I talk to developers that say they'll bring their games to Rift and Vive first and then PS VR a few months down the line once they've got their certification systems sorted out and optimization sorted. True, these are small teams without the resources to do three versions of a game at once, but I feel like if studios knew the true value of being on PS VR, then they'd prioritize that version more.
And, yes, I'm sure the company is doing a lot in this field in reality, but it certainly doesn't help that it's been so quiet about it recently. December's PlayStation Experience was a big miss for the headset; a golden opportunity to show some exciting new content. Instead, the company showed a nice, if uninspiring new shooter. PS VR had several big announcements at E3, but by PSX most of them had been spent and, now that Resident Evil 7 is out, we're left wondering "What's next?"
Farpoint is one answer that I'm still very excited about, but it's the lone Sony-published VR game we know about right now. We need to see the company get out ahead of the current concerns and prove to us the $399 we spent on these headsets wasn't misplaced.
I don't believe it was for a second, but I'm starting to wonder just how they'll ease fears.


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If you want to create an electronic signature to use each time you send an e-mail, or electronic document, you can do so by simply following the steps below.
Step #1 sign on a plain paper
Sign on a plain paper. Scan the paper and save it as JPEG, PNG.
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Open you scanned signature on Adobe Photoshop. Crop the image to fit the signature.
Step #3 choose magic wand on Photoshop tools
On photo shop tools, choose magic wand. Make sure your image layer is unlocked by double clicking on the later window.
Step#4 Sign to select your sign background
Using the magic wand, click on your sign to select your sign background. Hit delete button on your keyboard to remove the background color and leave blank backdrop. Zoom in while using the magic wand tool to delete on the background colour. Once you are sure that no background spot is left, double click on the surrounding space to remove the highlights.
Steps#5 Save the image as PNG
Go to file and save the file as PNG. Close the file and you digital sign is ready. You can add your sign to any of your electronic documents.
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Mediterranean basics
A mediterranean line of bags entirely handmade in Barcelona and inspired in different landscapes of Italy: Tuscany, Lazio, Lombardy or Campania.
shot by Christian Colomer
This was a very casual shooting. Surrounded with friends.
Christian and Marina are very close friends for a while, so it was very easy to shoot, their connection was tangible. She is not a profesional model but she felt very comfortable with us and the results were amazing. We were looking for a clean and fresh shot where the bags and the light sun could be the main characters.
We spend a Saturday morning walking by El Poblenou district and doing the pictures in our favorite walls. Then, when the work was done, the four of us had a lovely lunch sitting in a terrace. Laughs, fun, pictures, drinks and tapas was all about this day.
The clothes used for this shoot were Marina's own white Levi's jean, basic boyfriend white shirt and a special unique latex trench coat by Spanish designer Xevi Fernández. Earrings by Levens Jewels.


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With two weeks to go until the start of training camp, the Nets signed three players yesterday to fill out their roster.
The Nets signed guard Stephen Dennis and forwards Carleton Scott and James Mays, pushing their training-camp roster to 18 players. All three are long shots to make the Nets' 15-man regular-season roster, however, as the Nets are expected to keep forwards Josh Childress and Andray Blatche — whom they signed last week to one-year, non-guaranteed deals — with their last two open spots below the 15-man threshold.
Scott, who spent three years at Notre Dame, and Dennis, who spent four years at Division II Kutztown University, both played for the Nets' entry in the Orlando Summer League in July.
Mays, a 6-foot-9 forward who played four years at Clemson, spent time in both Turkey and Puerto Rico last season.


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Hear from Wenhui Lim, founding director of SPARK Architects (Singapore) at the first session of the 2017 UQ Architecture lecture series.
Wenhui is responsible for the conception of many of SPARK's award-winning projects, including Fai-Fah in Bangkok, Starhill Gallery in Kuala Lumpur and CapitaLand's Raffles City Ningbo in China. After graduating from the National University of Singapore, Wenhui spent two years working for Singapore-based architectural practices prior to joining SPARK. Wenhui oversees the graphic identity of SPARK's studios as well as her parallel roles of design leadership and client liaison.
Read our Q+A with WenHui:
Tell us a little about your background, and what originally led you to architecture?
I was born, lived and studied in Singapore. I joined SPARK's studio after working for a local practice. I studied architecture as it was potentially one of the few degrees that encompassed an idea of art in its widest sense. Although the course turned out to be traditionally more restrictive, I continued to pursue other artistic endeavours that have found a home at SPARK.
Can you give us a little insight into what a normal work day looks like for you?
Usually a bit of a rush, especially if I'm travelling between our studios or trying to meet the often crazy deadlines of projects in Asia. I do my best to make time to develop ideas and narratives and discuss these with colleagues in Shanghai and Singapore for further development
What are some daily office rituals or habits you employ to enhance your productivity and creativity?
To try and see as much as possible (exhibitions, all sorts of new buildings / places / restaurants / hotels etc). I try to delegate and help people learn our particular methods of design development and story-telling, I try to find as much time as possible to draw and think.
What principles inform your work?
Making local connections, making cities better places to live and bringing some colour and texture to architecture.
Where do you go for design inspiration?
Can be anywhere, anything. Making the connection to architecture / design is the tricky but fun part. Isaac Asimov said that it is impossible to pinpoint the birth / SPARK of an idea
What has been a career highlight for you so far?
Winning the Great Women of our Times award for the Design category in Singapore last year.
Which Australian or international architecture people, practices, designers or similar do you admire?
Marc Newson, designer and Baz Luhrmann, movie director.
What are your top five favourite design books?
Envisioning Information by Edward Tufte
Views by Roger Dean
Collage City by Colin Rowe.
Most Japanese manga.
What can attendees to the APAF UQ Architecture lecture expect to hear and see?
SPARK's loosely defined "research" projects. Ideas we develop self-funded, in-house without a client that suggest how to change / reinvent the cities that SPARK lives and works in.


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"You'll never know unless you try."
This is advice we've all heard at some point in our lives and have very likely followed too. For Fred Penner, the simple phrase above has helped take his career in directions he never imagined.
A Member of the Order of Canada and one of the country's most beloved family entertainers, Penner wears many different hats as a singer-songwriter, actor, author and more. When chatting about his nearly 50-year-long career with us over the phone from his Winnipeg home he said, "Whatever came into my world, I would try it and see where it led."
Penner graduated with a degree in economics and psychology but neither of those fields excited him. Throughout his schooling, he'd played music and acted in different productions and really enjoyed both. So, after university, that's where he decided to focus his energy and began performing in lounges, clubs and at any other musical event he could get into.
In the late 1970s, Penner and his first wife started a children's dance theatre company. After one of their shows, a doctor and his wife approached Penner and asked if he had a record. He answered no, and said it wasn't something he'd ever considered doing. They responded that they loved his voice, that he should make an album and that they wanted to help. Although he didn't really have any concept of what that would involve, he thought why not try and see what happens.
"They essentially wrote me a blank cheque," Penner says. "I had not done any real recording at that point. I went to friends in the music world to help with the producing and in 1979 I made my first record, which was The Cat Came Back. I was able to pay that benefactor back within six months and my life took a whole new turn."
Along with his music, Penner is best known for his Fred Penner's Place TV program that ran from 1985 – 1997. That show – like his recording career – came about unexpectedly. Penner had been touring regularly in support of his albums when he received a phone call out of the blue from CBC. The network had been watching him for a while and was curious if he'd be interested in doing his own television series. What's the easiest way to see if something will work? Try.
"I've always had an adventurous spirit and wanting to try new things made sense to me," explains Penner. "Performing has so many facets so when someone offers a new idea that's already in that ballpark of getting on a stage and creating something, I'm open to it. That allowed me to step forward and try this one and try that one and then it just kept growing until it's forty-seven years later and I've made a multi-decade career out of exploring and playing and creating that doesn't seem to show signs of stopping."
The beauty of trying is that if something doesn't work out as planned, you can always make changes and do it again. It was that mentality that led to Penner's 2017 Juno Award-winning record, Hear the Music. A while back, he had worked together with different performers on songs but for various reasons the project didn't pan out. Wanting to give the idea another go, when it came time to create Hear the Music, Penner recruited a number of acclaimed Canadian musicians including Ron Sexsmith, Basia Bulat and Terra Lightfoot to collaborate with him.
Working alongside others brought about new concepts and also opened Penner's music to a new market with the album reaching the top spot on university campus radio stations.
"Watching how somebody else works in a creative situation is always inspiring because everybody has their own process and way of bringing things forward," Penner says. "Afie Jurvanen of Bahamas was such a delight to work with. He's a magnificent musician and brought a couple of unexpected ideas to the table. And it was just so neat to hear how my music brought a perspective out of him which ended up making it on the album. It's always a delight working with any other performer because you get to see their creativity unfolding in front of you."
Each and every one of us is a creative person but sometimes we struggle to unlock this trait. Does Penner have any advice on how to inspire creativity?
"I think putting yourself in a position to absorb the things around you is important," Penner says. "You also have to remember that not everything that you do is going to make it into the world as something you're going to sell. That's never the point. It's all about just finding that part of your being that allows you to express yourself. We all have that inside of us, and I think often it is thwarted by people who see it and don't really encourage it. So, then you think 'Well, I guess I'm not very good at that.' But you have to have enough confidence in yourself to just do something. It's about stepping in and trying it."
Before wrapping up our talk, we wanted to ask Penner a quick question about insurance. Given his career, has he collected any cool or interesting music paraphernalia over the years that he's had insured?
"Just a couple of guitars and actually I've let my insurance on my guitars lapse," he says. "So, this might be an impetus to get that done again."
You can learn more about Fred Penner on his official website here. He released a new single in February called "Somebody Believes." Check it out here.


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President Biden today called for governors to open coronavirus vaccinations to all adults within the next two weeks, speeding up a target he had previously set for May 1.
But recent polls and political tides, particularly in red states, suggest that if the country is to reach herd immunity, simply making the vaccine available may not be enough. A sizable minority of skeptics remain wary of being vaccinated, polls suggest, with questions about the vaccine's safety lying at the heart of their doubt.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, has said the country shouldn't expect to reach herd immunity — whereby a disease effectively stops traveling freely between infected people — until at least 75 percent of Americans are vaccinated.
Some states and businesses are starting to treat proof of vaccination as a kind of passport. Many cruise ships, for instance, are requiring proof of vaccination for passengers, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York last month announced the creation of Excelsior Pass, a way for state residents to easily show proof of vaccination using a smartphone. Proof of a shot is now required for entry into some large venues under New York's current reopening guidelines.
But the political picture is different elsewhere. Yesterday, Greg Abbott of Texas became the second Republican governor, after Ron DeSantis of Florida, to sign an executive order preventing companies from requiring their employees to be vaccinated.
Fauci made it clear yesterday that he and the Biden administration were likely to stay out of it. "I doubt that the federal government will be the main mover of a vaccine passport concept," he told the "Politico Dispatch" podcast. "They may be involved in making sure things are done fairly and equitably, but I doubt if the federal government is going to be the leading element of that."
But without a nudge, polls suggest that it could take a while to get the full country vaccinated.
Nearly half of American adults reported that they gotten at least one dose of the vaccine, according to an Axios/Ipsos poll released today, but there is reason to believe that the rise in vaccinations may taper off soon. Among those who had not gotten a shot, people were more likely to say they would wait a year or longer (25 percent) than to say they'd get the vaccine within a few weeks of it being available (19 percent). Thirty-one percent of Republicans said they were not at all likely to get the shot. Partly driving that is deep-seated wariness among white evangelical Christians, a core part of the Republican base, whom polls have shown to be among the most vaccine-averse populations.
A separate poll released today by the Kaiser Family Foundation and The Washington Post revealed that more than one-third of the country has little confidence that the Covid-19 vaccines have been "properly tested for safety and effectiveness." Health care workers tracked evenly with the rest of the population in terms of vaccine skepticism: Thirty-six percent of them were not confident.
When it comes to confidence, there's no stronger measure than whether you'd give something to your child. Fauci has made clear that herd immunity won't be possible without widespread vaccinations for young people, so any target for the country must include them as well. But nearly half of all parents polled by Axios/Ipsos said they probably wouldn't be first in line to get their children a vaccine when it became available.
Fifty-two percent of respondents with a child under 18 in the home said they would probably take advantage of the vaccine as soon as their kid's age group was eligible, but 48 percent said they wouldn't.
But even as some vaccine skepticism lingers, Americans are reporting convening in far higher numbers. Fifty-five percent of the country said they had been in the company of family or friends in the past week, more than at any point in the past year. Forty-five percent said they had recently gone out to eat.
Thirty-six percent said they hadn't been practicing social distancing at all over the past week.
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The Ezra Klein Show: Did the boomers ruin America?
On today's episode, Ezra spoke with the conservative writer Helen Andrews and the liberal journalist Jill Filipovic about why millennials are so mad at their parents' generation.
Filipovic and Andrews, both of whom are millennials (as is Ezra), agree that the boomers left their generation worse off; but they disagree on just about everything else. They discussed the value of generational analysis, the legacy of the sexual revolution, the impact of boomer economic policies, the decline of the nuclear family, the so-called millennial sex recession, the millennial affordability crisis, the impact of pornography, how much the critique of the boomers is really a critique of technological change and much more.
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Reviews of T H I S C L O S E
The press reception to T H I S C L O S E has been fantastic.
Here is a selection of recent reviews:"T H I S C L O S E, her fifth solo album, is Feder's most fully realized album, featuring nine haunting songs. She manages to create a intimate sonic atmosphere in each of these songs, still, each sounds as a distilled essence of a much larger and deeper musical idea, leaving the listener with lingering thoughts." ALL ABOUT JAZZ
"Of the nine tracks, three have vocals, Janet's voice being very pleasant and particularly suited to the sparseness of the songs, as on Crows where it has an "underwater" quality within a backdrop of echoed sounds that often verge on howling. It's a great opener, the listener immediately drawn in by the depth of the production. Ticking Time Bomb changes tack by adding banjo, the beautifully clear vocal supported by clarinet and accordion in an almost hollow sound that allows the air to get in. Towards the end the mood changes as the tranquillity is shattered, the space filled with dissonant smashing. Angles & Exits is beautifully melancholic with Janet's fragile voice the focal point. Just gorgeous and one of my favourite tracks on a spellbinding album." THE PROGRESSIVE ASPECT
"Her latest album T H I S C L O S E is a sonic expedition, playing instruments in an unorthodox fashion, focusing on textures and melody as equals. Feder picks her single notes carefully, sprinkling them on top of drone like tapestries (No Apology() or striking up a conversation with a jazzy piano (You As Part Of A Whole). The sparse, mostly acoustic She Sleeps With The Sky is a 101 for a complex composition dressing up as deceptively simple showcase." HERE COMES THE FLOOD
"T H I S C L O S E contains plenty of delicately crafted compositions, during which every odd nuance is employed not as a gimmick, but as key a musical component as chords and notes. On each of T H I S C L O S E's three vocal-led tracks, you can expect an intimate and disarmingly vulnerable voice delivering direct and haunting lyrics amid music as all-encompassing and unpredictable as weather patterns. This isn't music solely for the dusty archives of academia. It's music for the heart and soul." THE MUSICAL MELTING POT
"the playing is impeccable, but what counts most for me is the way this music has been enriched. Janet and her friends succeeded in creating timeless music that touches on a deeper level." YOUR MUSIC BLOG
"T H I S C L O S E is an album that I was happy to find in my mailbox…it's a very fine album, a 'sound object' that can offer listeners many interesting aspects that they will be quite glad to investigate." CLOUDS AND CLOCKS


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Saturday, November 18, 2006
OF Elijah Dukes Will Get Look at 1B for Devil Rays
Troubled Devil Rays prospect Elijah Dukes -- up until now primarily an outfielder -- will get a look at 1B next spring as the team seeks a replacement for mediocre journeyman Travis Lee, who hit just .224 with 11 homers in '06. With the Rays outfield set with Carl Crawford in left, Rocco Baldelli in center and Delmon Young in right, journeyman infielder Greg Norton has been awarded 1B job by default. But barring a spectacular performance next March, Norton has little chance to be anything other than a backup. Dukes is the Rays top prospect with the ascension of Young and B.J. Upton as starters. Dukes has been described as hard-working and multi-talented. But he has had numerous clashes with authority figures, most notably AAA Durham Bulls manager John Tamargo, who suspended Dukes five times last year. Ironically Dukes now has the last laugh on Tamargo. Tamargo has been fired along with Bulls hitting coach Richie Hebner and the entire Durham staff after the team's 64-78 record in a season tarnished by Young's 50-game suspension for throwing a bat at an umpire and Tamargo's 10-game suspension for bumping an umpire.


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Our logo is based on one of the many symbols found throughout our sanctuary called the quatrefoil. Quatrefoil is the Anglicization of the French phrase "quatre feuille" which means "four leaves." This symbol of course is common in nature and became prominent feature of Gothic architecture. A symbol of good luck in the Celtic world, where it represented "the wheel of being," the quatrefoil's ancient tie between the natural and spiritual worlds is still recognized today in our enduring affinity for the four-leaf clover.
The Christian church adopted the quatrefoil in its earliest days in Celtic Britain. Over many centuries, it has come to represent the four evangelists, the four beasts of Ezekiel, the four horsemen of the Apocalypse and the four ends of the earth.
Most importantly for Christians, though, it represents the Cross – the central symbol of our faith. But it is a different sort of Cross, one that has no sharp external edges, no corners, no partitions or divisions. It has been described as a suggestive Cross, rather than an obvious Cross. Because it features four conjoined circles instead of two crossed sticks, it is a model of proportion and balance. It has been called an elegant cross. As such, it is symbolic of symmetry, harmony and wholeness, all beautiful fruits of the Christian life
The four circles of this Cross represent God at the top, Christ and the Holy Spirit as its arms, and the Church at its foot. We are at its foot; yet we are an integral part of its design: God's perfect plan.
In recent years, the quatrefoil has been described as a "green" Cross because of its abundance in the botanical world. In that sense, it reminds us, gently and with reassurance, that God is never separate from His created world.
The colors in our logo represent the colors of the liturgical year—blue for the hope and anticipation of the Advent season, white for purity used on the holiest days such as Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and the season of Easter, purple for the season of repentance and preparation that precedes Easter, red for the power and presence of the Holy Spirit celebrated during Pentecost, and green signifying the growth of the kingdom of God.
For us at Centenary, the diversity of colors makes us think of our diversity as a congregation. At the center of the logo is the cross, where we all find our unity of identity and purpose. The logo reminds us not only of our unity in diversity, but also of our mission to proclaim the good news of God's love and grace here in the city of Richmond and to the ends of the earth.
Like any symbol, this logo has many layers of meaning. We invite you to reflect on what this symbol says to you.


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Remembering 2012 - Jonathan Daniel
What I learned …
By Jonathan Daniel
Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images
Derrick Rose #1 of the Chicago Bulls lays on the floor aftrer suffering an injury against the Philadelphia 76ers in Game One of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinals during the 2012 NBA Playoffs at the United Center on April 28, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois.
I learned that Canon finally figured out how to make a decent camera. It's wonder I still have a job after the last two generations of cameras. I learned how to work those cameras too.
I learned about global warming when it hit 80 degrees in Chicago in March.
I learned that Ron Vesely is in a "band." Nice he has the time to devote to it while the rest of us are actually working.
I learned that Brad Mangin has a cell phone with a camera.
I learned I was sitting in the right place when Derrick Rose leaped and blew out his knee right in front of me. Then I learned it was time to say "gooby" to the NBA season in Chicago.
I learned that Bruce Bennett knows how to shoot something besides hockey. Good thing too.
I learned how to tweet with the help of grandpa Chris Covatta who also taught me they make vodka in Dripping Springs, Texas.
I learned that no matter how long I live, I will always dream of never having to drive to Green Bay again.
I learned that no matter how long I live, the Cubs will always stink. Well, actually, I already knew that.
I learned that no matter how long I live, Notre Dame will have the worst sidelines in America to work. Well, actually, I already knew that too. Roll Tide.
I learned that Jay Cutler will never be an elite NFL quarterback because he's always trying to make a play while getting thrown to the ground by some big sweaty man.
I learned to despise the Brooklyn Nets and love "Phineas and Ferb."
I learned that when the news side at Getty Images asks me to work an election night rally, that I'd be on a scissors lift, wobbling for an hour and a half. And it would be a tremendous experience.
I learned that my friends and colleagues on the east coast, like my friends in New Orleans, are strong-willed survivors who deserve our help and support.
I learned that, top to bottom, I still continue to work for the best people in the business. I learned that if you give a 7 year old an inch, it'd actually be about 7 miles.
And…I learned how sad an event like what happened last week in Connecticut could make me feel. Here's to never having something like that happen ever again. Hug your kids every day with that in mind…even if they take 7 miles.
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Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO), a regional organisation headquartered in Tirana, started working in its full capacity on Tuesday, 4 July. RYCO Secretary General Đuro Blanuša will participate this year's Western Balkan Summit in Trieste together with the high-level officials of the region and EU member states on 12 July where he will present theread more
The first local branch office of the Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO) was opened in Podgorica on July 7th. The office in Podgorica was officially opened by Montenegro's Minister of Sports in charge for Youth Nikola Janović and RYCO Secretary General, Đuro Blanuša.Janović and Blanuša said that the local office in Podgorica will be aread more
The 4th meeting of the Governing Board of RYCO took place on 15 and 16 May 2017 in Tirana. The Meeting was opened and chaired by Ms. Olta Xhaçka, Minister of Social Welfare and Youth of Albania; Chair of the Governing Board, and Ms. Dafina Peci, Youth Representative of Albania and Co-Chair of the Governingread more
The Open Call can be found here. The detailed description and requirements for each job position can be found here: – Finance and Administration Officer (Head Office in Albania) – Office Manager (Head Office in Albania) – Programme Officer (Head Office in Albania) – Communication Officer (Head Office in Albania) – Finance and Administration Assistantread more
Please find the following documents here on our webpage: 1. The main conclusions of the 3rd Governing Board Meeting in Berlin 20-23 March 2. Provisional rules of procedure of the Governing Board of the Regional Youth Cooperation Office 3. Open call for Applications: Deputy Secretary General of the Regional Youth Cooperation Office 4. Open callread more
At its plenary session on March 30, Kosovo Assembly ratified the Law no. 05/L-149 on ratification of the Agreement regarding the establishment of the Regional Youth Cooperation Office between Kosovo, Albania, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Montenegro, Macedonia and Serbia with a vast majority of 92 votes for. Ratification of the Agreement by Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovinaread more


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Tuesday, September 20, 2016
On The Record - Music: Doug Gray From The Marshall Tucker Band Reminces On 45 Years Of Success
Doug Gray, original lead singer of The Marshall Tucker Band, discusses with us the secret to their success which has lasted for 45 years and how it feels to be honored by so many country artists who have named The Marshall Tucker Band as one of their early influences. The Marshall Tucker Band will be performing at the Infinity Hall Theater in Norfolk, CT on Sept. 22nd, Infinity Hall Theater in Hartford, CT on Sept. 23rd and then returning in December to play at the Mohegan Sun Arena.
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Crock Pot Italian Fagioli Soup
This soup was inspired by a copy cat recipe of Olive Garden's Pasta e Fagioli soup that a friend passed along to me. Her soup was delicious, but not SCD legal and also had a lot of ingredients that I can't eat right now (see my Facebook Post).
I substituted ground turkey and chicken broth for the ground beef and broth, making it lighter in calories and fat. I also made it in the crock pot, so it's a relatively maintenance free soup. It's so great to come home from work or errands and be enveloped by the glorious smell of a finished meal!
You'll also notice bacon the ingredient list. Don't fret, you'll be removing them before you serve the soup. My Grandma, whose mother came from Venice, has always put 2 pork chops at the bottom of the pan when she makes her spaghetti sauce. Since this was an Italian soup and has many of the same flavors of her sauce, I thought it would be a nice addition to the flavor profile.
I didn't have pork chops on hand, so I threw in 2 pieces of bacon in the last couple of hours of cooking. It adds just the perfect amount of smokiness and boldness to the soup and helps add the flavor that is lacking from omitting the beef and beef broth.
|Ingredients (serves 6)
1 pound ground dark meat turkey
Brown the ground turkey over medium heat.
Drain the meat, and put it into a slow cooker. Add tomato sauce, tomatoes, celery, garlic, carrots, squash, chicken broth, vinegar, seasonings, and salt and pepper. Set the crock pot to the low setting for 8 hours, or high for 4 hours.
When there are 2 hours left in the cooking time, stir in the 2 pieces of bacon and the beans.
When the timer goes off, remove the bacon. Test for seasoning, and adjust the salt and pepper if needed.
Serve with a sprinkle of Parmesan cheese.
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This really can't be labelled paleo as it has beans and legumes are a no-no in the paleo lifestyle.


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Sanofi and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals have signed a new collaboration to develop and commercialize novel antibody cancer treatments in immuno-oncology. Under this agreement, the newly partnered companies will advance a programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) inhibitor, which is currently undergoing Phase I studies, with a projected plan to launch clinical trials in 2016.
"The field of immuno-oncology has shown the potential to dramatically improve outcomes for patients with certain types of cancer. However, the field is still in its very early days," said George D. Yancopoulos, M.D., Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer, Regeneron and President, Regeneron Laboratories. "We believe the approaches most likely to deliver the best results to patients will combine multiple innovative therapies acting on different pathways and targets both in the tumor and the body's immune response – and will precisely target these medicines to the right patient. The efficiency and power of our suite of technologies, such as VelocImmune® and VelociGene®, combined with our human genetics capabilities, uniquely positions the Sanofi-Regeneron Alliance to accelerate the development of potential new immuno-oncology treatment options for cancer patients."
According to the terms of the agreement, Regeneron will be entitled to an upfront payment of $640 million, with both companies investing $1 billion in the discovery through proof of concept development of monotherapy and new combinations of immuno-oncology antibody products, to be financed 25% by Regeneron and 75% by Sanofi.
Sanofi will also pay Regeneron a one-time milestone fee worth $375 million if the sales of a PD-1 candidate and any other product of the collaboration exceed $2 billion within a 12-month period. The companies have also agreed to devote $75 million for immuno-oncology antibodies from Sanofi's $160 million yearly contribution as stipulated in the original collaboration, announced November 2009.
"The Sanofi-Regeneron Alliance has demonstrated its ability to translate cutting-edge science into groundbreaking medicines for patients with serious needs," said Elias Zerhouni, M.D., President, Global R&D, Sanofi. "With more than eight years of successful collaboration between us, I am confident in our ability to advance these novel programs. In addition to PD-1, the collaboration brings together a range of validated, innovative preclinical programs that have unique potential to help patients either as monotherapy or in combination approaches."
"Despite many advances over the last decades, cancer remains a leading cause of death and suffering around the world," said Israel Lowy, M.D., Ph.D., Vice President Clinical Sciences, Head of Translational Science and Oncology, Regeneron. "Although initial advances with immuno-oncology have helped certain patients, there is a tremendous opportunity to further unlock the potential of this new approach to help even greater numbers of people living with cancer."
Further details of the agreement between the two companies are as follows:
- Regeneron will be responsible for discovery, antibody generation and development through POC, at which time Sanofi will have the ability to opt-in for further development and commercialization. In the existing antibody collaboration, Sanofi has the opportunity to opt-in at the time of an Investigational New Drug application (IND).
- The companies will alternate serving as the lead development and commercialization organization after Sanofi opts-in to an antibody program.
- For programs where Regeneron is the lead, including REGN2810, Regeneron will serve as the U.S. commercial lead, including recording U.S. sales, and the companies will equally fund post-POC development. Sanofi will record sales and serve as the commercial lead for all countries outside the U.S. Sanofi will retain the right to co-promote in the U.S. and Regeneron will retain the right to co-promote outside the U.S.
- For programs where Sanofi is the lead, Sanofi will serve as the U.S. commercial lead and fund 100 percent of post-POC development, with Regeneron reimbursing up to 50 percent of such costs through the IO collaboration development balance, which represents the amount of development funding that Regeneron is obligated to repay out of its share of profits as described below. Sanofi will record sales and serve as the commercial lead for all countries outside the U.S. Regeneron will retain the right to co-promote in the U.S. and outside the U.S.
- Sanofi and Regeneron will share equally in worldwide profits from sale of collaboration immuno-oncology antibodies.
- As in the existing antibody agreement, Regeneron will repay the immuno-oncology collaboration development balance from its share of overall profits of the immuno-oncology antibodies, in an annual amount equal to 10 percent of the Regeneron share of profits.
This partnership will proceed for the next 5 years, with an option to renew the contract for specific research programs for another 3 years.


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Microsoft rolls out June Windows Updates for Windows 10 Build 10130 to fix security issues and patches for Audio playback and Core Editions
Microsoft rolls out June Windows Updates for Windows 10 Build 10130.
The Redmond company has released two bug fixing updates and three security updates, for users running Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 10130.
Windows Update KB3069069:
This update fixes issues related to audio playback, after users upgrade to Build 10130. This audio bug was reportedly a major one, and is believed to be one of the reasons why Build 10130 was not rolled out to the Slow Ring of Insiders.
Windows Update KB3070677:
This update fixes issues related to new builds of Windows 10 not being detected on computers running the Insider Preview. The issue is actually related to Core Editions of Windows 10, namely upgrades from Windows 7 Home/Starter editions and Windows 8 Core.
Security Updates for Windows 10 Insider Preview (June Updates)
Windows Update KB3070677 and KB3070675:
These two updates are important security patches, which fix vulnerabilities in systems running Build 10130. Microsoft has not posted knowledge base articles regarding these updates, so we do not know what issues were fixed.
Windows Update KB3065820:
This update brings fixes for security issues for Adobe Flash Player in Internet Explorer for Windows 10 Insider Preview.
All the above updates are available for computers running on Windows 10 Insider Preview. The updates will be automatically downloaded and installed. To check if your computer has received the updates, click on Start and open the Settings app. Now click on Update and Security, and click on check for updates.
All of the updates requires the user to restart the computer to finish installing.
Bugs in installing the updates:
If you click on Advanced Options > View your Update History, you may see a message below each update which says "Requires a restart to finish installing".
This is not the first time such a bug has been spotted. I have seen many of these messages, however they are falsely reported as not installed.
If you click on Uninstall Updates, a new Window will open, listing the installed Windows Updates. You will find that the new updates have been installed after all.
There are still several bugs in the current Build. You can read about the known issues in Build 10130 here, and also some issues which we came across in the hands on review of the same build, but are yet to be recognized as known issues.
Microsoft recently released Windows Update KB3070365 to fix an issue related to Taskbar and Start Flyouts in Windows 10 Build 10130. The WiFi issue in the build was recently patched in KB3069068.


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NEW YORK—Treating the frail, long-overlooked structures with an unparalleled display of compassion, Pope Francis reportedly inspired a crowd of onlookers Friday by laying his hands upon the ailing United States infrastructure. "My heart just melted when I watched the pope interrupt his address to walk over and gently embrace this disfigured bridge cross-girder that was covered in unsightly rust," said New York City resident John Reedy, one of thousands of observers reportedly moved to tears as the pontiff reached out to the weak and crippled metal framework, gingerly kissed the decayed surface, and then closed his eyes while blessing the neglected overpass. "Most people turn the other way when they see such mangled, hopeless infrastructure, but he showed it such tenderness and attention, like he was really willing it to heal. Who knows—maybe God will intervene and save these decrepit structures." At press time, the Vicar of Christ reportedly called upon the crowd to pray for the swift and painless passing of the terminally ill education system he had recently encountered.
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Welcome !
Monday, February 4, 2013
Healing of the Garasene Demoniac
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- AnonymousFebruary 5, 2013 at 11:03 AM
Janet, you reminded me of something about "guilt" that is important. There is such a thing as unhealthy guilt, in which our conscience convicts us of sin (real or imagined), but does NOT lead us to seek reconciliation with God—or, if we honestly asked for God's forgiveness, does NOT allow us to believe that we're truly forgiven. Scrupulosity is a type of unhealthy guilt. But after guilt has caused us, humbly and sincerely, to Seek God's forgiveness, it has served its purpose and is no longer needed or appropriate.ReplyDelete
(I don't remember my source for this...but it is appropriate at this time when our Archbishop is stressing the Love and forgiveness available to us in the Sacrament of Reconciliation.)
Blessings, Deacon Paul
Thanks Deacon Paul for putting a name to the problem! I think I read similar info in the Catholic Catechism on the sacrament of Reconciliation. I will look this up as living a life of guilt is not God's plan, I'm sure! Thanks!ReplyDelete