MUMBAI: Global music giant, Sony Music Entertainment India and Zee Music Company today announced a strategic world-wide digital deal where in Sony Music will manage all digital assets for Zee Music’s upcoming Bollywood releases. The tie up further extends to exploring Publishing for Zee Music’s assets for the rest of the world through Sony/ATV. Apart from the Zee Music releases, Sony Music will also be working on also other tent pole films with leading production houses including Vishesh Films, Dharma Production and Fox Star Studios. This deal will cumulatively grow Sony Music’s digital market share by 15%.
Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited had recently announced its foray into the music label space with its venture, ‘Zee Music Company’ and acquired the music rights of over 20 major motion pictures. With this announcement Sony Music will have access to all of Zee Music’s releases including Holiday, Bang Bang, Bombay Velvet, Humshakal, Hawa Hawaii to name few.
Commenting on the same, Sanujeet Bhujabal, Marketing Director Sony Music India said, “In the past we have worked with leading content creators like YRF and Disney. This strategic association will provide a global foot print to all the prestigious releases. This is a huge opportunity and together we believe we will be able to provide the best of music entertainment to fans.”
Further adding on Anurag Bedi , Head Zee Music Company said, "We've had a great relationship with Sony Music in the past, and are excited to have them as the digital partner for some of our forthcoming films. Partnering with Sony Music will be mutually beneficial as we have a robust slate for this year which includes about 20-25 films, all of which are produced by leading production houses."
The soundtrack of Holiday featuring Akshay Kumar and Sonakshi Sinha will see Pritam collaborate for the first time with A. R. Murugadoss ad the songs are already creating ripples! Humshakals with Saif Ali Khan, Ram Kapoor and Riteish Deshmukh who will be seen in a triple role Sajid Khan promises to be a laugh riot with some crazy music by the effervescent Himesh Reshammiya. While Bang Bang the action thriller film directed by Siddharth Raj Anand and featuring nations heartthrob Hritik Roshan and Katrina Kaif will have music by the magical duo Vishal –Shekhar. The much talked about Bombay Velvet feature Ranbir Kapoor and Anushka Sharma in lead roles while Karan Johar plays the primary antagonist features Music director Amit Trivedi who began working on the soundtrack after the release of Dev D and adds that the music of the film reflects the age of 1960s Jazz era of Bollywood. The lyrics are being written by Amitabh Bhattacharya.


With his new album YANDHI set to arrive this weekend, Kanye West appeared as musical guest on the season 44 premiere of Saturday Night Live. Introduced by guest host Adam Driver, Kanye West took to Studio 8H to perform his latest hit “I Love It,” with surprise guest Lil’ Pump who was recently serving time in jail.
The two rap stars brought their comical music video to life, dressed as Fiji and Perrier water bottles. Later returning to the SNL stage, Kanye West was joined by Teyana Taylor where they performed the song “We Got Love.” The record, which features an outro from Lauryn Hill, was orginially set to appear on Taylor’s K.T.S.E. sophomore LP but for various reasons didn’t make the final cut. Watch Kanye’s appearance on Saturday Night Live below.
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He has a strategy for dealing with the GOP Congress. Or is it two strategies?
An indicted senator and Democratic disagreements made for a tough assignment.
Supporters of the Iran nuclear deal are frustrated about the situation.
In its current form, the president could sign the bill that would give Congress a chance to review the nuclear deal with Iran.
It would allow Congress to review and potentially reject a nuclear deal with Iran.
“We shouldn’t just count on the administration, who appears to want a deal at any cost,” Boehner said.
The bill is set for a 2:15 p.m. committee vote, where it is widely expected to pass.
The bill is likely to come to the full Senate floor this month, possibly as soon as next week.
He is seeking to balance concessions he makes.
He floats the proposal as an amendment to Bob Corker's Iran bill.
The aim is to influence them to support a bill granting Congress approval over the Iran nuclear deal.
She says Bob Corker's bill threatens the ongoing talks.
The President’s call to Corker comes as White House tries to soften opposition to the Iran deal.
Senate Democrats pitch changes to legislation the president fears could scuttle the nuclear agreement.
The top Democrat throws his weight behind legislation to give Congress power to reject a deal.
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Senate Republicans think they’re close to having enough Democratic support to move forward with the bill.
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There are several fish you catch in Far Cry 6 that you can bring back to Juan’s Arms Dealer stations to exchange for goods that you’ll be able to use at your workstation to modify your weapons. A fish with several hunting locations on Yara is the Barracuda, a fish that you’ll be able to turn in for Recycled Glass, or you can choose to bring it over to the La Cantina for cooking recipes. This guide details all the hunting locations you can find Barracuda in Far Cry 6.
There are three locations you can find Barracuda hunting spots. There’s one in the Zamok Sea, another in Sierra Perdida, and another at Barrial.
The Barrial Barracuda hunting Spot is in the southern part of Okú Creek, a rank seven region. It will be right on the border of La Joya, so you may want to check this area out after you’ve done several of the main quests in the game.
Similar to the Barrial location, the Sierra Perdida Barracuda hunting spot is very south of the area. Luckily, this is only a rank-three region, so you should be able to access this area once you reach the Yara and you’ve completed the first few missions.
The Zamok Sea Barracuda hunting spot is right next to Libertad Island, on the east side. You can access this area after you’ve left the first island, Isla Santuario. Because it’s right next to Libertad Island, you should feel pretty safe fishing for Barracuda at this spot, compared to the other locations.

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Scholar of Italian art; Finland's first professor of art history. He was born in Helsinki, Finland, which was formerly part of Russia. Tikkanen's father was the nationalist writer, journalist and co-founder of the newspaper Suometar, Paavo (Paul) Tikkanen (1823-1873) and his mother, Helena Maria Tengström (1829-1875), whose father (the boy's grandfather) was the Helsinki University professor of philosophy Johann Jakob Tengström (1787-1858). The death of both parents at an early age resulted in his living with his mother's relative. The household spoke Swedish, at that time the tongue of the educated class in Finland as the region was at that time an autonomous Grand Duchy within the Russian Empire; Tikkanen was educated in that language. After an initial interest in botony, he trained under the early Finnish esthetician and proto-art-historian Carl Gustaf Estlander, who taught occasional classes in art history. Estlander suggested Tikkanen to study art from the works themselves and consentrate on archives. He received his master's degree in 1880 beginning a friendship with the professor of art history at the Technische Hochschule in Berlin, Eduard Dobbert, who advised Tikkanen in his early career. Tikkanen studied both art history and studio art at the Akademie der Künste (Munich Academy of Art), the former under Moritz Carrière. He received his Ph.D in 1884 with a dissertation topic on Giotto under Estlander in Helsinki. The same year he was appointed docent (adjunct professor) of aesthetics and art history at the University of Helsinki, the first professional art historian in Finland, lecturing exclusively in Swedish. He also taught drawing at the Privata svenska flickskolan [school for girls] in Helsinki (to 1905). He travelled in Europe 1885-1889, meeting Martin Conway in Berlin. Everywhere Tikkenan went, he sketched his subjects, leaving vast visual notebooks for later reference. These notebooks were partially rersponsible for one of his two great contriubtions to art history. The first in 1889, was the similarity between the mosaics of San Marco and the illustrations of the fifth-century Greek manuscript, the Cotton Genesis. His second, the discovery of a manuscript of St. John Climacus (Vat. cod. graec. 1754) which had been overlooked by art historians. By 1897 he was solely professor of art history at the University. This allowed majors of art history at the University, which Tikkanen supervised. The following year he was appointed head of sculpture collection at the University, a position which he held until his death. He purchased and taught from casts of classical sculpture located in the museum. He began lecturing in Finnish in 1907--a language in which he was never completely fluent. Tikkanen wrote a vernacular art history survey, Kuvaamataiteet uudemmalla ajalla (Art History: Painting and Sculpture) in 1910. A chair of art history was established in Helniki in 1920 which he held with funds donated by Privy Counsellor Hjalmar Linder (1862-1921), known as the Linder chair. His art history survey was translated into Swedish in 1925. He retired in 1926 (age 69) and was succeeded by his student, Onni Okkonen as professor art history at the University of Helsinki. After his death, his student, the eminent Italo-sinologist, Osvald Sirén, wrote a monograph on Tikkanen. Among his pupils, Sirén became the first professor of art history in Sweden in 1908; another, Tancred Borenius, was appointed professor of art history at University College London in 1922, and Onni Okkonen, Tikkanen's successor. His son was the architect Robert Tikkanen (1888-1947) and his grandson the author/artist Henrik Tikkanen (1924-1984). Tikkanen left a voluminous correspondence and notebooks full of sketches of the art he studied, held in the department of art history at the University of Helsinki. Though Tikkanen held the first appointment in art history in Finland, he was not the first to teach it in either than country or Scandanavia. Previously, professors of esthetics had also lectured on the topic. These forbears included Estlander in Finland, Carl Rupert Nyblom (1832-1907), at Uppsala, and Gustaf Ljunggren (1823-1905). Tikkanen avoided the esthetic approach to art history as his mentor, Estlander employed (Vakkari, Shaping, 2007). Sirén notes a Vasarian view of art (styles reaching maturity and then decline), especially in Tikkenan's early writing. His position in the field of art history in Finland corresponded to the methodological and pedagogic approaches of Lionello Venturi in Italy. The art theory of Benedetto Croce and the Kunstwollen approach to art of Aloïs Riegl are also reflected in his writing. Between 1897 and his retirement in 1926, Tikkanen trained the first generations of art historians in Finland, establishing the principles of the discipline there. These were a strong pedagogic mission and the so-called scientific approach (documentation and adhering to less-subject analysis of art). Fifty years after Tikkenan's death, Kurt Weitzmann acknowledged him as responsible for the "the fundamental observation that there exists a very close relationship between the Genesis mosaics of the Narthex of San Marco and the miniatures of the so-called Cotton Genesis," (Demus, Otto. Mosaics of San Marco, 2, p. 105, 142).
[dissertation:] Der malerische Styl Giottos: Versuch zu einer Charakteristik desselben. Helsingfors: J.C. Frenckell, 1884; [collected studies] Studien über die Farbengebung in der mittelalterlichen buchmalerei. Borenius, Tancred, ed. Helsingfors: Akademische buchhandlung, 1933; Die Genesismosaiken von S. Marco in Venedig und ihr verhältniss zu den miniaturen der Cottonbibel, nebst einer untersuchung über den ursprung der mittelalterlichen Genesisdarstellung besonders in der byzantinischen und italienischen Kunst. Helsingfors: Druckerei der Finnischen Litteratur-Gesellschaft, 1889; Kuvaamataiteet uudemmalla ajalla. Helsinki: Otava, 1910; Die Beinstellungen in der Kunstgeschichte: ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der künstlerischen Motive. Helsingfors: Druckerei der Finnischen Litteraturgesellschaft, 1912; Die moderne bildende Kunst in Finnland. Helsinki: Druckerei des Statsraates, 1925, English, Modern art in Finland Helsinski: G.P.O., 1926; Borenius, Tancred, ed. Studien über die Farbengebung in der mittelalterlichen Buchmalerei. Helsingfors: Akademische buchhandlung, 1933.
Sirén, Osvald. Johan Jakob Tikkanen som konsthistoriker. Helsingfors: Mercator, 1933; Ringbom, Sixten. Art History in Finland before 1920. Helsinki: 1986, pp. 62 ff; Vakkari, Johanna. "Alcuni contemporanei finlandesi di Lionello Venturi: Osvald Siren, Tancred Borenius, Onni Okkonen." Storia dell'Arte 101 (2002): 108-17; Vakkari, Johanna. "J. J. Tikkanen and the Teaching of Art History." in, Suominen-Kokkonen, Renja, ed. The Shaping of Art History in Finland. Helsinki: Taidehistorian Seura, 2007, pp. 69-83; Vakkari, Johanna. Focus on Form: J. J. Tikkanen, Giotto and Art Research in the 19th Century. Helsinki: Vammalan Kirjapaino Oy, 2007; Hoffmann, Christian, and Vakkari, Johanna. Towards a Science of Art History: J. J. Tikkanen and Art Historical Scholarship in Europe. Helsinki: Taidehistorian Seura, 2009.

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Labor stage I and three steps of labor stage I 분만 1기의 3단계
1. Early or latent labor stage
When delivery begins, the cervix opens and the ovaries secrete the cervix, which causes the cervix to become wider.
Oxytocin is secreted from the hypothalamus, which causes the uterine wall to contract. In the obstetrics of natural delivery, for convenience, it has already been explained that the first stage of delivery is divided into stage 1, stage 2, and stage 3, and that stage 1 is divided into three stages: the initial stage of delivery (latent delivery), the stage of active delivery, and the stage of transitional delivery.
Stage 3 of the first stage of labor can be accurately distinguished in some deliveries and not accurately distinguished in some deliveries.
All natural childbirth occurs through the first, second, and third stages of childbirth. In other words, the first stage of delivery passes, the second stage of delivery begins, the second stage of delivery ends, the third stage of delivery begins, and the end of the entire delivery process ends.
During the first stage of delivery, the initial stage of delivery (latent delivery) usually lasts longer than the active stage of delivery or the metastatic stage. And the cervix becomes thinner and the cervix is widened to about 3~4cm.
He explained that the pain that occurs at this time is mild enough that most pregnant women can tolerate themselves.
For reference, it is common to say that the uterus contracts during delivery, but in fact, it is common that the uterus also contracts and at the same time, the uterus also bends. Whenever the uterus contracts, it is common for the uterus to be pulled upward and the entire uterus to contract so that the advanced part of the baby in the uterus descends toward the inside of the cervix (birth canal).
Before delivery begins, the cervix, which was thick and dry, softens and becomes thinner. Just before the start of the second stage of delivery, at the end of the stage of delivery, it is common for the thickness of the edge of the cervix to become as thin as the thickness of the edge of a paper cup. For the first time, pain comes every 20 minutes, and the pain usually lasts for 20 to 60 seconds.
A similar type of pain can last 6 to 8 hours.
However, as the initial stage of delivery (latent delivery) of stage 1 continues to progress more and more, the degree of uterine contractions becomes stronger, the duration of contractions becomes longer, and the interval between the previous contraction and the subsequent contraction increases.
It usually gets shorter and shorter.
At this time, the length of the cervix becomes shorter and the cervix becomes wider and wider, causing mucus metastases and the amniotic membrane to burst. In the early stage of delivery in first stage of delivery,
Broraxin Hikes contraction may occur, back pain may occur, urine may be dry, and feces may be dry.
In addition, the pelvis and perineum have a lot of strength, the amount of vaginal discharge increases, and leg cramps can occur.
Whether the pregnant woman has health problems, medical conditions, transportation, whether it is a first or multipara, it will depend on personal problems, but if you are in the initial stage of delivery (potential delivery) of the first stage, follow your doctor’s instructions.
You can get ready to go to the hospital to give birth while suffering the pain. In the past, it was recommended not to take any food orally even in the initial stage of delivery, but recently, it requires a lot of energy to deliver, and it is said that you can consume a little light meal for other reasons.
However, each individual and as directed by a doctor must make decisions about food after delivery has begun.
2. Active labor stage
At this time, it is common for the cervix to be open about 3cm when performing an earthquake examination. In the case of childbirth in the first birth, when the active childbirth stage comes, the cervix opens with more acceleration than in the previous stage.
At this stage, it is common for the cervix to open about 1cm per minute. At this stage, the pain can last for 45 to 60 seconds once every 5 to 7 minutes for the first few minutes, then every 2 to 3 minutes for the first time, and the pain comes more intensely.
It can cause shortness of breath, faster heart rate, sweating, and fatigue. At this time, you may fall into a state of exhaustion.
3. Transitional labor
When the metastatic delivery stage comes, the uterus contracts every 2 to 3 minutes, and the uterus contracts continuously for 60 to 90 seconds once, and the diameter of the cervix is 8 to 10 cm wide enough to allow a baby to be born. At this stage, the degree of uterine contraction is the highest, and the perineum is more powerful than before, and urine and feces can be wrapped.
You can be very tense, sweaty, increase your respiratory rate, vomit, and tremble.
At this time, you may say things that you do not understand and may even behave strangely. Fortunately, this stage doesn’t last long and ends soon, and the first stage of delivery is over. Copyright ⓒ 2014 John Sangwon Lee, MD., FAAP
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The global on fleet management software market was valued at $17.5 billion in 2021 and it is expected to reach $21.5 billion at a CAGR of 15.4% between 2022 and 2032. Several industries are focusing on adopting fleet management software to achieve higher operational efficiencies as well as to enhance vehicular safety. These are the major factors which are driven the growth of the global fleet management software market over the last few years.
Various modern technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data analytics and more are growing at present days across several industries due to the increased demand. Hence, these are anticipated to boost the growth of the fleet management software market over the forecast period. Multiple industry players are focusing on continuing to exhibit traction for IoT-powered fleet tracking solutions to track, optimize and assess operations. Moreover, the demand for multiple vehicle tracking systems across several manufacturing industries and transportation sectors would accelerate the growth of the fleet management software market. There are many key players across the globe which is focusing on creating partnerships with other companies and trying to develop business strategies in several developing nations. These key players are also investing to merge and acquire other subsidiary companies. This would give the market another benefit. However, over the two and a half years, COVID-19 negatively impacted the market. Hence, it changed the scenario of the overall market. Several industries had to work from home and it hampered the growth of the fleet management software market.
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Based on fleet type, the global fleet management software market is segmented into the commercial fleet and passenger cars. The commercial fleet segment holds the largest share of the market and is anticipated to accelerate it in the upcoming years. Multiple industries such as transportation, logistics, and manufacturing among others are highly dependent on the supply chain as well as on on-time delivery. This rising demand is projected to accelerate market growth. Moreover, the demand and usage of multiple cars and other vehicles are driving the market.
Based on deployment type, the global fleet management software market is categorized into cloud-based and on-premises. The cloud-based segment is accounted for the largest share of the market and is projected to boost market growth due to its cost-efficient and hassle-free capabilities. It has also offered other effective ways for managing fleet activity. For example, GPS tracking has become more popular among several industries which are associated with fleet management software solutions.
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Based on regions, the market is divided into North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and Africa. North America has been leading the global fleet management software market over the past decade. Most of the key players are located in several countries across North America, which are developing their business growth by implementing new strategies. Automobile companies are adopting this fleet management software for vehicle tracking systems. This would benefit the market to gain more growth. Besides this, Europe is another region that is expected to become the second-fastest market across the globe. Industries such as manufacturing and automobile are trying to make business strategies by adopting innovative fleet management software. This would drive the growth of the market.
According to the study, key players such as AT&T (U.S), Apollo Global Management (U.S), Azuga Inc (U.S), Cisco Systems (U.S), Fleetroot (UAE), Fleetmatics Group PLC (Ireland), Fleet Complete (Canada), FLEETCOR (U.S), GURTAM (Lithuania), Geotab (Canada), Holman Automotive (U.S), Inseego Corp (U.S), IBM (U.S), LeasePlan Corporation (Netherlands), Mix Telematics (South Africa), Orbcomm (U.S), Omnitraces LLC (U.S), Rarestep (U.K), Trimble (U.S), Zonar Systems (U.S), among others are leading the global on fleet management software market.
|Market Size in 2021||US$ 17.5 Billion|
|Market Volume Projection by 2032||US$ 21.5 Billion|
|Forecast Period 2022 to 2032 CAGR||15.4%|
|Historical Data||2019, 2020 and 2021|
|Forecast Period||2022 to 2032|
By Fleet Type: Commercial Fleet, Passenger Cars
By Deployment Type: Cloud-Based, On Premises
By End-User Type: Manufacturing, IT and Telecom, Transportation, Oil and Gas, Logistics And Others
North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, LAMEA
|Companies covered||AT&T (U.S), Apollo Global Management (U.S), Azuga Inc (U.S), Cisco Systems (U.S), Fleetroot (UAE), Fleetmatics Group PLC (Ireland), Fleet Complete (Canada), FLEETCOR (U.S), GURTAM (Lithuania), Geotab (Canada), Holman Automotive (U.S), Inseego Corp (U.S), IBM (U.S), LeasePlan Corporation (Netherlands), Mix Telematics (South Africa), Orbcomm (U.S), Omnitraces LLC (U.S), Rarestep (U.K), Trimble (U.S), Zonar Systems (U.S), & Others|
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If you try to call a local arts organization official today, chances are you'll get a voice mail message.
Arts officials from all over the state are taking buses to Tallahassee this morning in a last-minute effort to stave off budget cuts that they say could eliminate live performances, art shows, children's art classes and more.
"You know, it's devastating," said Art Keeble, executive director of the Arts Council of Hillsborough County. "I'm sitting here looking at $6.8-million that has already been approved for Hillsborough County. That would all be gone. The only things that will survive will be the major institutions."
At a time when thousands of Floridians face losing vital medical treatment to budget cuts, arts officials know they face an uphill battle. But a major part of their argument for legislators is that the arts are vital to propping up the state's sagging economy.
"The arts are tourism, the arts are economic development," said Patricia Caswell, executive director of the Sarasota County Arts Council. "Every dollar that the state invests in the arts generates $41. It's an investment, not a handout."
Judith Powers-Jones, executive director of the Pinellas County Arts Council, said that her county could lose more than $2-million in state arts grants. "The point is to explain . . . what last year's budget looked like and why it's important that the state continue to support arts institutions and programs."
Under Gov. Jeb Bush's proposal, the state would spend about $12-million for arts programs in the fiscal year that begins July 1. The Senate proposal calls for no spending at all; the House comes down in the middle with about $6-million. Already gone from all the proposed budgets is money earmarked for bricks-and-mortar projects that had totaled $18-million for the budget year.
Clearwater's Ruth Eckerd Hall was in the running for a $500,000 cultural facilities grant.
"And once we got that funding, it would be matched by 40 percent by a challenge grant that we got, so there's about another $200,000 that is dependent on that half a million dollars," said Robert Freedman, chief executive of the hall.
Also in jeopardy is $200,000 or so in programming dollars.
The cultural facilities grant was to buy new seats for the theater, which closes for renovation in May.
"Do we not do the seats and let the current ones fall apart?" Freedman said. "Do we not put the new sound system in and put the seats in? Those are the things we have to look at if this money goes away."
The long-term fear is that this year's budget cuts will continue to reverberate.
"The worry is that once the cultural trust fund goes away, we're not going to be able to get it back," said Judith Lisi, president of Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center. "It's going to go back to the old days when people tacked on turkeys by their local legislators. There's going to be no rhyme or reason to it."
Lisi blames some of the problem on term limits, which have diminished the Legislature's institutional memory. "This is what happens when you have new legislators," she said.
Already, organizations are planning to make do with less. At TBPAC, Lisi has cut back the number of productions by Opera Tampa, from two this season to one in 2003-04, and she eliminated a play series for next season.
At the Florida Orchestra, executive director Leonard Stone is bracing for the best-case scenario: losing half the orchestra's expected $115,000 annual grant.
Another hurdle is one of the arts groups' making.
"The art community has become complacent," Keeble said. "We've had crises before, but the money always appeared at the end of the session. It ain't gonna happen this time."
-- Times performing arts critic John Fleming contributed to this report.


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Venezuela protesters target Maduro, vow to keep up pressure
CARACAS, Venezuela – Thousands of protesters demanding new elections faced off with security forces who launched tear gas and stood shoulder-to-shoulder blocking roadways in the Venezuelan capital Monday.
Demonstrators covered their faces to protect against the plumes of tear gas that wafted through the streets of Caracas. A few threw rocks as they tried to make their way downtown waving Venezuelan flags and carrying signs decrying President Nicolas Maduro.
“We need to get out on the street and fight, to tell these people we don’t want them,” said Maria Guedez, a 67-year-old homemaker carrying a sign that read, “No more dictatorship.”
Now in their second week, the protests initially erupted April 1 after the Supreme Court stripped congress of its last vestiges of power, a decision it later reversed. Demonstrators and opposition leaders are angered at what they see as a government that no longer respects democratic institutions and is sliding toward authoritarianism.
Authorities squashed an opposition campaign to hold a recall referendum on Maduro last year, and a date has yet to be set for gubernatorial elections that were supposed to take place in 2016.
Maduro accuses the opposition of fomenting unrest and conspiring with international actors to destabilize the country. He was in Cuba on Monday for a gathering of the Bolivarian Alliance, a leftist coalition of 11 Latin American nations.
On Sunday the president called on the opposition to return to stymied efforts at dialogue and said he was eager for regional elections to take place. But opposition leaders renewed calls to take to the streets, saying Maduro’s words have no credibility until a full election timeline has been formally established.
“That’s the only way there will be peace in Venezuela,” said Julio Borges, president of the National Assembly.
Socialist party leader Diosdado Cabello said on Twitter opposition members who “use violence and terrorism to impose (themselves) on the majority who want peace” should face the consequences of the law.
“Enough with impunity,” he wrote.
Monday’s protest took place at the start of Easter Week, when many Venezuelans typically spend quiet time at home with family or go on vacation. Opposition party leaders urged people to put any beach plans on hold and instead get some sun while out putting pressure on the government.
Authorities shut down several metro stations citing security reasons, but thousands nonetheless walked to the march.
In some previous demonstrations, government groups have roughed up several opposition leaders and fired rubber bullets and a previously unseen reddish gas at crowds. One day a small group of young protesters unsuccessfully tried to set fire to a Supreme Court office, and another group snatched a camera from journalists working for pro-government state broadcaster VTV.
A dozen people were injured in the protest Monday, and opposition leaders shared a video they said showed an infant being whisked away after being overcome by tear gas. Opposition members also distributed a picture of an expired tear gas canister they said was found detonated at a previous demonstration.
Expired tear gas chemicals and solvents inside a cartridge could potentially react with each other or oxygen in the area and degrade, forming highly toxic gases, said Sven-Eric Jordt, a professor at Duke University School of Medicine. A degraded pyrotechnic charge propelling the cartridge could also lead to uncontrolled explosions, he said.
Overall, the unrest has left one person dead and more than 100 detained. Eighteen people were detained Monday, and Venezuela’s Interior Minister Nestor Reverol said officers would continue to be deployed around the country.
“The Bolivarian government stands by its commitment to guarantee the tranquility and social wellbeing of our people,” he said in announcing the detentions.
Popular singer Miguel Ignacio Mendoza, known as Nacho, was among those affected by tear gas in Caracas Monday.
“The repression is not an invention of the media,” he said, his eyes irritated by the gas. “I’m here to prove it”
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Lorraine Toussaint Teases 'Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark' Role
The actress also spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about bonding with her 'Village' castmates and her friendships from Netflix's 'Orange Is the New Black.'
Audiences have watched actress Lorraine Toussaint play a wide range of characters on screen, from social worker Patricia Davis currently on NBC's The Village to the manipulative and petrifying Vee on Netflix's Orange Is the New Black.
But she'll be taking on a role unlike any she's done before when starring in Guillermo del Toro’s anticipated adaption of Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.
The actress teased her role while sitting down with The Hollywood Reporter In Studio, saying, "I play an 80-year-old blind woman in the grips of a very violent vision. And when Guillermo del Toro calls, you say yes."
Continuing, "It was something that I've never done, playing that kind of age. And I was particularly flattered that he called me to play this 80-year-old woman. I hope you like it."
Before Toussaint terrifies audiences in Scary Stories, she’s wrapping up the first season of NBC's The Village, with the season finale airing Tuesday. She spoke on the chemistry with her fellow castmates, often finding time to bond over dinners and bowling when not on set.
"Some of the younger people hang out and they go out partying," Toussaint said. "We’ve actually made dates to go bowling, we've had cooking nights. I've actually had the cast and [creator] Mike Daniels over for dinner. We do a fair amount of hanging out."
Toussaint also looked back at her time on Orange Is the New Black to talk about the friendships she formed with the cast, admitting that she hasn't kept up with the series, which is coming to an end with the seventh season this year.
"It was a tough gig, but the part that wasn't tough were those ladies," she told In Studio. "They pushed me and I pushed them, and we all brought this level of authenticity and this level of work. Everybody brought their A-game every day."
The season finale of The Village airs Tuesday, May 21, at 8 p.m. on NBC.

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By: Faith Parkhurst/Junior Writer
Gary D. Schmidt, Author of the Young adult fiction Novel Orbiting Jupiter, tells a heartbreaking story of an underage father who just wants to see his daughter.
Jackson (Jack) Hurd narrates his experience during the time his family fosters fourteen-year-old Joseph Brook after his one-month sentence in the fictional Stone Mountain juvenile detention center after attacking his teacher after a friend gave him drugs. Throughout the story we see Joseph open up more and more to his foster brother as he tells his story. We learn that during one of his fathers (a plumber knew only as “Mr. Brook) visits the Joyce residence, the then thirteen-year-old Joseph falls in love with Maddison, or Maddie as he calls her. No matter the weather Joseph makes the seven-mile walk to madeleines house and forms a deeper connection to her. When her parents find out they are furious and send Badiline away to a boarding school where they learn she is pregnant, however, she doesn’t survive the birth. Furious and grieving, her parents use their lawyer abilities to draw up a contract where Mr. Brooks signs over custody of his granddaughter in exchange for enough money to buy a new work truck. Joseph, having no idea about this and having learned his daughter is staying at a foster home in the next town over, sets out to find her. After a long night of searching the Hurds eventually find Joseph and after seeing his daughter through a window, agrees to go back home. When the family returns home Joseph’s father is there with his new truck, wreaking alcohol. After Mr. Brooks pulls a gun on Jack, Joseph agrees to leave with him, and tragedy strikes. However, there is a mellow, bittersweet ending.
I would rate this book 5 out of 5 stars. It’s a short novel full of adventure, love, and heartbreak. It brings to life what some teens go through and that not all young parents get a choice. We follow Joseph’s story and redemption and many will grow attached to the cow hugging, ice skating, young father. The ending is quite sad so get the tissues ready and go give this book a read.

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- Created: Thursday, 15 February 2018 13:06
- Written by Sam Mcgill
2018 will be a crucial year for Venezuela. Amid crippling economic sanctions, inconclusive peace talks, ever-pressing debt repayment deadlines and sky-high inflation, the nation will go to the polls in presidential elections, probably before the end of April. Sam Mcgill reports.
The opposition MUD coalition is deeply divided. Extremists in the MUD led four months of violent street protests in 2017, leaving over 100 dead. Following the election of a constituent assembly, tasked with addressing the acute political and economic crisis, the violent protests fizzled out, failing to overthrow President Nicolas Maduro and the United Socialist Party (PSUV) government. October’s regional elections dealt the MUD a further blow, leaving the opposition with only four out of 23 state governorships.
Beaten at the ballot box and defeated on the streets, the three main opposition parties boycotted December’s municipal elections, handing a massive majority to the PSUV and its allies in the Great Patriotic Pole (GPP): they won 308 of 335 mayoral seats across the nation, securing 21 of 23 state capitals including the important Caracas district. Whether the MUD can unite around a single presidential candidate remains to be seen.
The PSUV have nominated Nicolas Maduro to stand for a second presidential term. However, December’s municipal election has brought the contradictions between reform and revolution to the fore of the Bolivarian movement. The PSUV was lambasted for failing to hold primary elections which would have enabled local activists to put forward their candidacies; instead the PSUV leadership handpicked the mayoral slate without consultation with the local branches and GPP bases.
With the opposition boycott eliminating the threat of a split vote handing power to the MUD, the municipal elections were seen by many as a chance to promote debate within the Chavista camp. In this context, several communes and revolutionary currents within the Bolivarian revolution defied the handpicked PSUV candidates and fielded their own representatives.
PSUV contradictions sharpen
From 2006, the PSUV, led by late socialist president Hugo Chavez, backed a drive to build popular participatory democracy, promoting the construction of communal councils and communes as a method of self-government in working class and rural communities. Chavez saw the communes as the key building blocks for transforming Venezuela from ‘oil-rentier’ capitalism to a sovereign socialist state. In the final speech he made before his death in March 2013, Chavez famously declared: ‘The commune or nothing!’
Although the initiative has produced mixed results, some communities have harnessed the creative and productive power of their members, developing successful communal enterprises, boosting local production, finding collective solutions to economic hardship and raising political consciousness to become the backbone of the Chavista movement. Often in conflict with the personal fiefdoms of mayors and governors, these communes have presented a collective alternative to bourgeois democracy. This has alarmed reformist trends in the PSUV, which is a cross-class electoral alliance containing revolutionary socialists alongside conservative business leaders who have secured juicy state contracts they are keen to keep within the framework of Venezuelan capitalism. Reining in the communes is crucial to the latter’s strategy of blocking the path to socialist revolution in Venezuela, preventing collective control of the economy and undermining their decision-making power. This contradiction has sharpened in the wake of the municipal elections.
There were some notable victories with ‘Chema’ Romero from the Bolivar and Zamora revolutionary current winning the Paez council in Apure, while communal activist Augusto Espinoza won Cajigal in Sucre province. However, obstacles faced by several candidates have raised doubts about the continuing support of Maduro and the PSUV leadership for the communes and project of participatory democracy.
A case in point is that of Angel Prado, a high-profile commune activist of the El Maizal commune. He secured the backing of 10 local communes and four parties from the GPP, including the ‘Homeland for all’ (PPT) party which agreed to run him on their ticket in substitution for their original candidate, the PSUV’s Jean Ortiz.
El Maizal is one of the most productive and politically conscious communes in the country. Built on land expropriated from absentee landlords, they have developed communal enterprises producing more than 4,000 metric tonnes of corn a year alongside vegetables, cattle, milk and cheese. This has generated finances to build 300 units of social housing and a school, expand electrification, pave roads, and expand dairy production; all overseen and administrated by 22 communal councils that form the commune.
Prado was blocked from appearing on the ballot paper by the electoral council, which stated that as a delegate of the National Constituent Assembly (NCA) elected in July, he needed NCA permission to run for mayor. The NCA leadership then refused to grant Prado permission. Controversially, other assembly delegates have stood in regional elections as PSUV candidates without issue. In response, thousands of commune activists mobilised to demand Prado be allowed to stand, travelling nearly 300 miles to Caracas, taking to the streets on consecutive days outside the Constituent Assembly. Despite this there has been no official statement or explanation from the Constituent Assembly or President Maduro.
On election day the commune mobilised for the PPT which received 57% of the local vote. Refusing to acknowledge Prado’s widespread support, the electoral council awarded these votes to Ortiz and the PSUV, prompting fresh protests. The commune has now filed an appeal with the Supreme Court.
Similar frustrations have developed in Monagas. The Communist Party candidate, Regulo Reyna, won 62% of the vote, only to be stripped of his victory after the election by the electoral council who argued that the Constituent Assembly, to which Reyna is also an elected delegate, did not give him permission to stand. Prior to the vote, Reyna’s candidacy had been accepted and his name was on the ballot papers. The Communist Party stood firm, refused to substitute an unelected delegate for Reyna, so the electoral council then appointed a provisional mayor instead.
Concerns have been raised by many including education minister and former vice-president Elias Jaua who demanded ‘differences in Chavismo be resolved politically’. Former Communes Minister Reinaldo Iturriza argued that: ‘Behind [these candidates] there are thousands of people who continue to see the Bolivarian Revolution as the possibility of putting into practice another form of politics, one that we learned with Chavez… It is normal that leaders with these characteristics are rejected by those who have turned the PSUV into a synonym of sectarianism and bureaucratism, imposing “leaders” severely questioned by the people. This should not intimidate us: we do not have any other alternative than to continue fighting to put things in their place.’
US sanctions bite
Transforming the political and economic landscape in Venezuela is an urgent task. 70% of the economy remains in private hands. Banking, food distribution and private media are controlled by oligarchs aligned to the MUD. As detailed in FRFI 260 these powerful networks are engaged in a vicious economic war, sabotaging production, boycotting supply, working hand in glove with imperialist sanctions to strangle the Venezuelan economy. Despite this the PSUV government continues to hand billions of dollars to private companies who deposit their wealth abroad and engage in speculation and hoarding, rather than distribute food and essential goods at regulated prices. Undermining currency controls imposed since 2003, the unofficial exchange rate, which drives up inflation and propels speculation, is manipulated by influential foreign websites like dolartoday. Food at regulated prices is often unavailable, forcing people to survive on monthly bags of basic items provided by committees of local supply and production while their salaries cover less and less of the products available in private supermarkets.
Oil has risen to $70 a barrel for the first time in nearly four years, and export revenues have risen to $32bn. Yet due to brutal economic sanctions imposed by the US, access to international credit is restricted, forcing Venezuela to spend more on debt servicing to avoid default. By October 2017, two months after Trump imposed the latest round of sanctions, imports had dropped 24%.
Problems accessing food and currency prompted unrest in January, with Guyana City experiencing three consecutive days looting of food, cleaning products and debit card readers. January is often a difficult month with bonuses depleted after Christmas and a lag in imports following the holiday shut down. A Caracas bakery was looted after customers complained the owners were refusing to sell bread at regulated prices whilst Guarico state saw a spate of private and state-run food warehouses and banks targeted. While these are currently isolated incidents born out of frustration, they correspond to a real need for the PSUV government to enforce price regulations and take control of import and production distribution. The Constituent Assembly now demands that producers print prices on the packaging of regulated items, though how this will be enforced will be crucial. The opposition forces behind the violent street protests in 2017 will be waiting in the wings to stir up any unrest in the barrios.
The situation is compounded by soaring inflation and bachaquerismo, where regulated items are bought in bulk by people paid to stand in queues, only to be resold for exorbitant prices on unofficial street stalls. Though the central bank has not released any statistics on inflation, the unofficial exchange rate surpassed 200,000 bolivars to the dollar in January while the preferential fixed rate remains at 10 bolivars to the dollar. The Petro, a new cryptocurrency backed by oil reserves, has yet to gain traction and the US Treasury is already threatening potential users with fines for breaking sanctions. Meanwhile, tightening the imperialist noose, the European Union issued sanctions on seven Venezuelan officials in January, marking the first time the EU has taken such direct measures against the Bolivarian government.
Workers at the ‘PetroCedeno’ state oil plant in Anzoategui state have begun protesting about their conditions, deploring a lack of food in the canteen, no soap to wash their hands, no protective clothing and their salaries outstripped by inflation. Determined to be serious critical voices within the Bolivarian revolution, they have so far refused to strike and are working hard to keep the plant producing oil, the life blood of the Venezuelan economy.
Workers’ representative Carlos Okoye stated: ‘There are no guarimberos [violent opposition protesters] here, just flesh and blood workers who are making their best efforts daily to maintain the plant’s production…No one can tell us that we are not revolutionaries. Here there is a workers’ council, the Che Guevara council, that has been at the forefront of political battles, but we can no longer remain silent in the face of injustice’.
Venezuela’s state oil enterprise has been dogged by corruption, evidenced in over 50 arrests of PDVSA officials in recent months. Opportunists in the state oil network have grown fat by creaming off the oil wealth through elaborate smuggling rings, overpricing scams and outright embezzlement. Pressure and oversight from workers’ collectives like the Che Guevara council will be crucial in pushing back, democratising the production of oil.
Despite all barriers, the PSUV government remain committed to preserving social investment. A programme of social welfare payments was announced at the turn of the new year, focusing on pregnant women and pensioners. 72% of 2018’s budget is set to be invested in social policies and the housing mission continues apace with a further 8,781 new homes handed over to families in December, bringing the total to over 1.9 million units of social housing built since 2011.
With presidential elections due this year it is crucial that progress is made to improve economic security. If the MUD field a candidate, Maduro will need to win around nine million votes to secure a victory. Popular assemblies to discuss the political programme of Maduro’s candidacy have begun in earnest. The extent to which the experience of the communes is given political space will be decisive. Democracy within the Bolivarian movement is key.
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News of the World has recently set up a £20m compensation fund in an effort to apologize to eight victims of illegal phone hacking. However nine other alleged victims of the hacking have been denied liability and will not receive compensation.
One of the alleged victims, who had been denied liability, is former MP George Galloway, who claims that the News of the World’s lawyers were a mere days away from seeing evidence of his being hacked.
In response, the newspaper wrote a legal letter stating: “In the event that such evidence is produced, our client will admit liability. If, however, no such evidence is provided our client will continue to defend the claim.”
Other victims have pursued out-of-court settlements for breach of privacy with News International, the parent company of News of the World, although the amount of the settlement remains unknown.
Among these out-of-court complainants are John Hewison, lawyer for the PFA; Jo Armstrong, PFA legal adviser; and Max Clifford, publicist.
Some prosecuting lawyers estimate that the phone hacking, which was investigated for the first time in 2007, affected over 7,000 victims.
Clive Goodman, the News of the World royal editor and Glenn Mulcaire, a private investigator were tried and imprisoned for the ordeal in 2007. Last week, two more NoW employees were arrested on suspicion of having unlawfully intercepted voicemail messages.
In the meantime, the mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has called for a ”truth and reconciliation” commission to get to the bottom of the predicament. The News of the World has said it will comply.

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What is Brain Training for Dogs?
Brain training for dogs is not regarding instructing your canine techniques. It has to do with encouraging your pet to find out exactly how to make decisions and solve troubles. This type of training needs you to utilize your imagination and also imagination. You’ll instruct your pet dog to concentrate, focus, as well as remember things. And it’s a great deal of fun.
The idea behind mind training is that pets are naturally curious creatures. They’re constantly trying to find out what makes things job, why things occur, and where points come from. When we offer our canines something intriguing to do, they’re able to use those same abilities they’ve been developing throughout life.
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If you want your pet dog to discover something brand-new, try out among these enjoyable, very easy, and inexpensive means to educate his mind. If your family pet is already trained, you can utilize these concepts to present him to new principles. For instance, you might show your pet dog to play bring with a round or pull playthings. Or perhaps he’ll appreciate finding out just how to drink hands with another pet. You can also show your dog methods like sit, surrender, drop it, stand up, and relax.
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A food processor makes chopping easier and less time consuming. Seed and cut the peppers into chunks, weigh them, then pulse the peppers into smaller pieces in the food processor. Add the chopped peppers to your saucepan. Chop your onions into pieces, weigh them, pulse in the food processor, and add to your saucepan. Skin your tomatoes, cut into smaller pieces, weigh them, pulse in the food processor, and add to your saucepan.
I have 2 Victorio brand steam canners that I love hard. They both have temperature gauges on top and show when you are in the correct temperature range to start timing. It’s been life changing! I had two other steam canners without the gauges that I got rid of and replaced with these. I have also found by watching the temp gauges that I can turn the heat down to med-low and still keep the temp in the correct range. Yay! It saves propane! (I can outside on my camp stove.)
I made this recipe yesterday. It was very labor intensive but I’m happy to report after sampling the salsa today that it was worth it. I have to admit that after tasting the salsa shortly after starting the cooking that I very skeptical it but the vinegar taste mellowed as it cooked and the flavors melded together beautifully. After 10 minutes of cooking, my onions and peppers still looked raw so I cooked it for about 30-35 minutes. I would recommend saving some of the tomato juice that drains off after preparing the tomatoes — my tomatoes ended up being on the dry side so I added a little juice back to the cooking salsa until it loosed up a bit and I was happy with the consistency.
Delicious!!! As far a second knowing how many tomatoes to use, you mentioned somewhere that it was three sheet pans of halved tomatoes. Using this information, I collected my garden tomatoes on my counter by placing them on my baking sheet. When I had my baking sheet full plus another half, I knew I had enough tomatoes (or at least that I would be close once I drained them). Turned out great!! Even my daughter who can tell handle spicy foods LOVES this salsa!
Hey Ann – I would recommend making the salsa and refrigerating (as a large batch), reheating on the day you want to process, and then putting the hot salsa into warmed jars before processing. Proper food safety for steam canning means the jars need to stay as warm as possible before filling, during filling, and right as they go onto the steam canner.
The only salsa recepie you’ll ever need, so stop looking, this is it!! It has the perfect blend of everything, I have an abundance of tomatoes this year and I am on my 4th batch, I have followed the recepie exact, except for the last batch I made and that was because I wanted a bit more heat. Easy to follow recepie, thanks, I hope to see more of your posts,
When processing time is complete, turn off heat and allow the canner to cool down and settle for about 10 minutes. Spread a kitchen towel on the counter; remove the cover by tilting lid away from you so that steam does not burn your face. Use a jar lifter to lift the jars from canner and place on the towel. Allow the jars to cool for 12 to 24-hours. You should hear the satisfactory “ping” of the jar lids sealing.
That said, it’s a solid base recipe to add to and tweak as you see fit in regards to ingredients and “feel”. I made this and added a few flourishes: cumin, Spanish smoked paprika (inauthentic, but fabulous), a few dashes of Tajin spice, and once the salsa was blended I added the zest of 1 lime and the juice of half of it. I felt that my tomatoes – out of season and not spectacular – needed some extra zing.
Thank you for a great salsa recipe! I’ve made it twice now. The first time I did vinegar as stated and it was great but the vinegar taste was a little strong….it will still be gobbled up! The second time around I researched the USDA guide for tomatoes and found it said you can add 1 tablespoon bottled lemon juice to each jar as you fill it! Now to test them and see which we like better!
Have sterilized pint jars and lids and screw caps ready (they should all be washed in very hot water). Use a canning funnel and ladle hot salsa into jars, leaving a ½-inch head space. Wipe rims clean with a damp cloth and carefully place lid on and screw cap in place. Process in a boiling water bath for 15 minutes, then place upright on counter for 24 hours (see recipe notes for link to USDA Canning Guidelines). You will hear popping sounds as the jars seal. If after 24 hours, any haven't sealed, put in refrigerator to use now.
Many people, not only in America but certainly across the globe have a warped perception of Mexican food. They either draw a likeness between Mexican food and Tex-Mex or they overly simplify things. Firstly, Tex Mex is not Mexican Food! Tex Mex is American food, made in America by either Latin American or American chefs drawing influences from a combination of American, Mexican and Latin American dishes. Now calm down, children, I’m not saying that proper Tex Mex is inferior to real Mexican food, I’m saying it’s a totally different animal altogether.
Spread a kitchen towel on the counter. Use your jar lifter to remove warm jars from canner, drain, and line up on the towel. Use your canning ladle and funnel and add the salsa to the warm jars leaving 1/4-inch headspace. Wipe the rims. Use your magnetic lid lifter to lift lids out of the warm water, center lid on the jar, and screw on band until it is fingertip tight.
This is the BEST salsa! The Verde is great too. I didn’t habe Serranos so used jalapenos. Salsa wasn’t “right” so sent son to store, added Serranos. Perfection! Note i use both peppers in recipe. When people come in and see tomatillos on counter they get very happy! This recipe had enhanced our lives bc it’s great. Freezes well and i can use non gmo organic ingredients. Thank you.
Was my first time canning salsa. I don’t like runny salsa this has a perfect consistency! right amount of spice that has a Kick but it doesn’t linger with you. Definitely will use this recipe again! The whole family loves it, even the kids! Thanks for all the tips… they all came in handy and I did the recipe exactly how it was. I got 4 pint jars and 3 quart size out of a batch.
Combine all ingredients except cumin, oregano, and cilantro in a large pot and bring to a boil, stirring frequently, then reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes. Add spices and simmer for another 20 minutes, stirring occasionally. Ladle hot salsa into pint jars, leaving 1/2-inch headspace. Adjust lids and process in a boiling-water canner for 15 minutes at 0–1,000 feet elevation, 20 minutes at 1,001–6,000 feet, and 25 minutes above 6,000 feet.

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PRINCE MANGOSUTHU BUTHELEZI MP
PRESIDENT OF THE INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY AND
TRADITIONAL PRIME MINISTER TO THE ZULU MONARCH AND NATION
Orlando Stadium: 11 April 2018
A tree has fallen and our nation mourns. In the days since her passing, Mrs Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has been honoured with many fine tributes from across the world. She has been remembered as the Mother of a Nation. Her personal sacrifices for our freedom have been celebrated, and her courage applauded. Words have been spoken of her resilience, her determination and her strength.
What can I add? I can only speak of the woman I knew, the woman who welcomed me into her home in Vilakazi Street, here in Orlando, when I visited with her husband throughout the night. Even then, she was more than Madiba’s wife. She was a passionate and lively ambassador for justice. She spoke with candour, and it was evident that beneath her words lay the coiled spring of action. Despite her youth, she was prepared to walk a path of collision with injustice.
I admired her tremendously. But I also grieved, for that path of collision secured for her years of persecution, detention, surveillance, torture, beatings and banishment. It is impossible to comprehend the degree of anxiety that was her constant companion.
With everything that she suffered in our struggle for freedom, her greatest loss was surely the simple joy of being a mother. She met Madiba while he was on trial for high treason and married him while he was under a banning order. While she could not have foreseen his 27 years in prison, she undoubtedly knew that they would suffer periods of separation. What she did not know is that her children would forfeit both their parents.
In this time of national mourning, my thoughts are with Zenani and Zindiswa. They were mere babes when their father was imprisoned, and in his absence they watched their mother’s endless persecution. Often for months on end she was taken away from them and held in detention. For more than a year she remained in solitary confinement, while her daughters longed for her presence.
There is no better way of describing their pain than with the words of Zindiswa herself. She wrote –
“A tree was chopped down
and the fruit was scattered
because I had lost a family
the trunk, my father
the branches, his support
the fruit, the wife and children
who meant so much to him
loving as they should be
all on the ground
the roots, happiness
cut off from him”
When we consider the extreme suffering of this family, and how the girls were deprived of their parents, it is remarkable to see the women they became. It is a tribute to Mrs Winnie Madikizela-Mandela that her daughters rose. How easily they could have sunk in the mire of sadness. Yet that tenacity of spirit that lived in their mother made a home in her daughters as well. They are so like her in courage and resilience.
And like their mother, Her Excellency Princess Zenani Mandela-Dlamini and Her Excellency Zindziswa Mandela-Hlongwane serve their country. Just as uMam’uMadikizela-Mandela was an ambassador of freedom, her daughters are ambassadors of a liberated South Africa.
It is fitting, and we are proud.
In her book, ‘491 Days’, Mrs Winnie Madikizela-Mandela wrote about her daughters. She said –
“Looking back as a parent, you feel you do not deserve this forgiveness because you cannot explain yourself to the children and you fear that they would never understand. You are lucky that they understand so much anyway…”
When we call uMam’uMadikizela-Mandela the Mother of a Nation, we acknowledge that we all who live in a liberated South Africa are her children. How much do we understand? How much have we offered forgiveness?
I ask these difficult questions because of the enmity that still lives in the hearts of many. uMam’uMadikizela-Mandela was carved by injustice. No one could have escaped being shaped by such experiences. Looking back now on a lifetime, some have brazenly asked: was she a sinner or a saint?
Let me give an answer. I believe, as Madiba did, that a saint is not someone who has never sinned. A saint is merely a sinner who dies trying. Here in Soweto, where Mama Winnie lived, and in Brandfort where she was exiled, and everywhere where she extended a hand to the poor, the downtrodden and the struggling, here she will be remembered as a saint.
As Zindziswa wrote –
“I need a neighbour who will live
a teardrop away
who will open up when I knock
late at night.”
For so many, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was that neighbour. They will mourn her passing, remembering the great tree under which they found shelter. Many more, whom she never met, will mourn, remembering how her journey inspired them to keep going in their own journey of hardship.
Her friends, among whom I am gratefully counted, will remember her lively and indomitable spirit, her candour and her commitment. We will miss her in the time to come.
But the deepest sorrow is reserved for her family, and it is for them that we express our sympathy and condolences. We pray that the Lord will bring healing and comfort. May you find strength in the words of admiration and gratitude.
Yes, a tree has fallen. But its fruit is not scattered. We are planted together, and together we will grow. This will be her legacy.
May Nomzamo Winifred Madikizela-Mandela rest in peace.


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1973 Jan. 28
Hampton (Va.) - Outlining the prospective proceedings of the dedication of the Hampton residence hall named in W. E. B. Du Bois's memory, and furnishing a brief bio of him.
1960 June 23
Soviet Union . Posol´stvo (U.S.)
Order of events for the ceremony of the presentation of the International Lenin Prize for strengthening of peace among the nations to Du Bois.
1952 Apr. 5
Teachers' Union of the City of New York
New York (N.Y.) - Outlining the proceedings of the Union's Sixteenth Annual Educational Conference, featuring the conferral of an award "for Distinguished Service in the Cause of Education for Peace and Freedom" to W. E. B. Du Bois, and outlining other addresses to be given thereat, along with their respective "problems for discussion."
1960 June 6
Morgan State College
Baltimore (Md.) - Outlining the proceedings of the College's 93rd commencement ceremony, at which W. E. B. Du Bois received an honorary degree; naming the graduates and their respective fields of study, as well as other award recipients and honor students. See also mums312-b151-i321.
1905 Sept. 25
Loendi Club (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Pittsburgh (Pa.) - Noting the menu served at the September 25th dinner in honor of W. E. B. Du Bois at the Club; citing from his remarks on the Niagara Movement; and bearing pencilled signatures of various guests or co-sponsors.
Paris (France) - Invitation to a "meal" served at a "Black American" restaurant -- featuring bullets, mules, and woeful "after effects" though with "plenty of cushions"; inside bears signatures and well wishes from Thomas J. Calloway, Ella M. Murphy, and Samuel E. Salem, among others.


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Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on Friday created a new process for reviewing and replacing derogatory names currently used on federal lands, and moved forward with immediately getting rid of one of those words: “squaw.”
The term is a slur that has been used to slur Native American women, and it was racist and sexist in the past. According to the Board on Geographic Names database, there are more than 650 federal units using the term. This federal board is responsible for naming geographical places.
“Racist terms have no place in our vernacular or on our federal lands,” Haaland said in a statement. “Our nation’s lands and waters should be places to celebrate the outdoors and our shared cultural heritage ― not to perpetuate the legacies of oppression.”
Two secretarial orders were issued Friday by the interior secretary to announce her plans.
The first order formally identifies “squaw” as derogatory and creates a federal task force to find replacement names for geographic features on federal lands bearing the word. Derogatory Geographic Names Task Force members will come from all federal agencies and diversity, equity, inclusion specialists from the Interior Department. This order requires the task force to consult with tribal leaders and take into account public comments on any proposed changes in name.
The second orderA federal advisory committee is established to solicit, review and suggest changes to derogatory federal land unit and geographic names. The Advisory Committee on Reconciliation in Place Names (ACRP) will be composed of representatives from tribes, tribal organisations, civil rights specialists, and historians.
These orders will effectively accelerate the review and modification of names on federal lands by the Board on Geographic Names. The board currently acts in a case by case basis. This means that proponents have to identify offensive names and propose a replacement. This process can take years and hundreds of names are currently in the docket.
Derogatory names on federal lands were identified by previous interior secretaries. Secretary Stewart Udall, in 1962, identified the N word as derogatory. She directed a procedure to get rid of it. In 1974, the Board on Geographic Names identified a pejorative term for “Japanese” as derogatory and eliminated its use, too.
A handful of states have passed bills prohibiting the use of “squaw” in the their official names of places, including in Montana, Oregon, Maine and Minnesota. There’s also legislation pending in Congress aimed at changing derogatory names on geographic features on public land units.


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Session: 641. Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemias: Basic and Translational: Poster II
Hematology Disease Topics & Pathways:
Lymphoid Leukemias, apoptosis, CLL, drug development, Diseases, Therapies, Lymphoid Malignancies, profiling
To address this challenge, we optimized high-throughput dynamic BH3 profiling (HT-DBP), a functional assay that rapidly measures the initiation of apoptotic signaling after ex vivo exposure to drugs, for interrogation of CLL samples. The main advantages of this assay over other ex vivo assays are: (i) rapidity - under 24 hours, which is especially important in CLL, where cell viability substantially decreases after 24 hours; (ii) miniaturization - a very limited number of primary cells are required; and (iii) scalability - allowing to conduct hundreds of drug response tests in parallel on one 384-well plate. These features collectively maximize the information yield from a given patient sample.
We recently identified prognostic genetic alterations and molecular subtypes of CLL, based on multi-omics profiling of >1100 CLL samples (Knisbacher et al., Nat Genet, in press). To determine if these molecular findings were associated with novel therapeutic vulnerabilities in CLL, we performed HT-DBP on 65 primary CLL samples previously characterized by exome, transcriptome and methylome profiling, using 42 FDA approved drugs that were selected for potential relevance to CLL biology. We isolated peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) and cultured them in conditioned media derived from stroma cells to reduce spontaneous apoptosis. Target cells were treated with a drug for 20 hours followed by BH3 peptide exposure. Mitochondrial outer membrane permeabilization (MOMP) was then measured on digitonin-permeabilized cells in response to BH3-only synthetic peptides that mimic pro-apoptotic BCL-2 family proteins. Mitochondrial cytochrome c release was quantified as a measure of MOMP by flow cytometry, gating on CD19+ and CD5+ cells. This assay measures if the cell has moved closer to the threshold of apoptosis after drug treatment and thereby identifies drugs that enhance apoptosis priming. The peptides used in each experiment were derived from BIM or PUMA to measure increases in overall apoptotic priming, or BAD and MS1 peptides that identified BCL-2 and MCL-1 dependence, respectively.
Our screen revealed differential drug-induced apoptotic priming for various drugs. As expected, venetoclax and ibrutinib were highly effective across CLL. Other drugs that demonstrated high priming included navitoclax (BCL-XL/BCL-2), nutlin-3 (MDM2), abexinostat (HDAC), gandotinib (JAK2), duvelisib (PI3K δ/γ), idelalisib (PI3Kδ) and cerdulatinib (SYK/JAK). The assay was robust, as indicated by an 0.92 median Pearson correlation across replicates. Additionally, the majority of drugs had greater effect on CLL samples than on healthy PBMCs (p<0.001, paired t-test), supporting their specificity.
We focused our analysis on the differential drug effects among molecular subtypes of CLL. First, we found that IGHV-mutated CLLs (M-CLLs) became more primed to apoptosis than IGHV-unmutated CLLs (U-CLLs) across the panel of drugs (p<0.001, paired t-test) and significantly in response to fludarabine and umbralisib (FDR<0.1, t-test). Second, we compared drug-induced apoptotic priming among 8 CLL subtypes (i.e. RNA expression clusters (ECs); Knisbacher et al.). Notable among the many drug priming-EC relationships was that within M-CLL ECs, venetoclax was most effective in EC-m3 (high IL-10 expression) and least effective in EC-m2 (low IL-10 and enriched in trisomy 12). Interestingly, EC-m1, associated with high TFEC expression and poor outcome, was most sensitive to nutlin-3. For U-CLLs, EC-u1 was most sensitive to gandotinib and EC-u2 to navitoclax. EC-i, associated with the intermediate methylation subtype of CLL, was the most resistant EC to ibrutinib but was very sensitive to navitoclax, more than to any other drug.
Altogether, we present a framework that links ex-vivo drug response with molecular features including expression subtypes to highlight new therapeutic opportunities in CLL.
Disclosures: Neuberg: Madrigal Pharmaceuticals: Current equity holder in publicly-traded company. Wu: Pharmacyclics: Research Funding; BioNTech: Current equity holder in publicly-traded company. Brown: Verastem/SecuraBio: Research Funding; Loxo/Lilly: Research Funding; Gilead: Research Funding; Rigel: Consultancy; Pfizer: Consultancy; Novartis: Consultancy; Morphosys AG: Consultancy; MEI Pharma: Consultancy, Research Funding; Janssen: Consultancy; Genentech/Roche: Consultancy; Catapult: Consultancy; Bristol-Myers Squibb/Juno/Celgene: Consultancy; Beigene: Consultancy, Research Funding; Acerta/Astra-Zeneca: Consultancy; Abbvie: Consultancy; Sun: Research Funding; TG Therapeutics: Research Funding; Invectys: Other: served on the data safety monitoring committee; Grifols Worldwide Operations: Consultancy; Hutchmed: Consultancy; iOnctura: Consultancy, Research Funding; Pharmacyclics: Consultancy; SecuraBio: Research Funding. Getz: Scorpion Therapeutics: Consultancy, Current equity holder in publicly-traded company, Other: Founder; SignatureAnalyzer-GPU: Patents & Royalties; IBM: Research Funding; Pharmacyclics: Research Funding; MSMuTect: Patents & Royalties; MSMutSig: Patents & Royalties; MSIDetect: Patents & Royalties; POLYSOLVER: Patents & Royalties. Letai: Zentalis Therapeutics: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Dialectic Therapeutics: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; AbbVie: Consultancy, Research Funding; Novartis: Consultancy, Research Funding; Astra-Zeneca: Consultancy, Research Funding; Flash Therapeutics: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees.
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Path out is a unique game, certainly unlike any I’ve ever played before. It takes gamification to a whole new level by making you play as a Syrian refugee trying to escape conscription into a civil war you don’t believe in or agree with. What makes it so unique though isn’t its approach to this sensitive subject, but the fact that it’s based on a true story, the refugee (Abdullah Karam) narrates certain parts of the game and that it’s designed with the look and feel of a classic JRPG.
I should have said from the start, it’s a very special game. The storytelling is done in such a compelling way that you feel like you’re being pulled through the game. This isn’t a jaunt in Syria, you literally have no choice but to continue playing to get to the end of the story. The narrator/protagonist (depending on if you’re talking about real life or the game) occasionally pops up into the top left of your screen to provide commentary on what you’re doing.
It’s looks like a YouTube set up but never feels like it’s jarring the experience – mostly because Karam is so genuine and interesting in his updates. The drama and shock that the first appearance of these little videos generates is enough to get you hooked. I won’t spoil it because I think it was my favourite moment of the game – it’s the moment you realise that you’re not just controlling a 2D character, you’re trying to complete the perilous journey that hundreds of thousands of men, women and in this case, children and young people have attempted in the last few years.
This is a game though, so let’s talk about the impressions of the actual gameplay. It’s actually pretty solid. The first chapter is a little bit point and clicky with you tasked with finding the items required to escape your home in Syria. While not particularly challenging or punishing, your tasks are gently interspersed with anecdotes that reveal an underlying threat. Take the part where you have to go and borrow a bigger light for your mum from your uncle. The game uses this little task to reinforce that Syria has always been troubled and reveal that your uncles wife (your aunt) died in the 1983 uprising. So it’s interesting that the basic elements of the game are elevated by infusing them with additional story.
And the story is harrowing. Karam is a teenage boy, just finished high school, who loves playing video games. That’s the character you’re trying to smuggle out of Syria and into Turkey. It’s intimidating and scary enough, but to make matters even more weighty the updates from the protagonist via pop in videos explain what each part of the journey was actually like. His description of what it was like to meet a man you’ve never met before, trust him to get you past the so-called Islamic State group and then be left by the man in place you’ve never been before is enough to open your eyes to what most refugees have gone through – if you didn’t already know.
Fortunately, given the game covers such a harrowing topic, there’s also a generous dollop of humour in here. From Karam damning a portrait for Bashar Al-Assad because power cuts have caused his Xbox to cut out before he could reach a save point to meeting a young ‘‘Marxist’ from America who is completely at his wit’s end because he’s lost his mobile phone (the very epitome of capitalism) – this game is littered with lighthearted humour. The best thing about this is that it never feels out of place. It lightens the mood while simultaneously helping you ground this story in reality.
Overall, first impressions of Path Out are overwhelmingly positive. I’ve only played the first chapter and I know I want to play more. But more than that, I want to find out more about the struggle that refugees across the world are faced with. It’s a game that you’ll enjoy playing, find the things it teaches you interesting and will hopeful inspire some people to look beyond their PCs and safe, warm homes to consider the misfortune that has unfairly visited some of the people – who are just like you and I – across the world.

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learn the skills to create your own gorgeous wall hanging in a 90 min evening class. it’s a great way to be present and to step away from your every day!
you will receive your own beautiful hardwood timber loom (300x400mm), all of the tools you will need as well as a lovely selection of yarns. we will progress through how to warp your loom and various weaving techniques and styles of knotting to set you up for a lifetime’s obsession with weaving! You will have plenty of materials to continue and complete your artwork at your leisure!
BYO tea, coffee and scrumptious platter.
friday 1st may 10am – 11.30 am (the class may go a little longer)

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Update to Urban and Small Stream Flood Advisories
The National Weather Service in State College, PA has extended its Flood Advisory until 11:30 P.M. However, now it only includes Dauphin, York, Lebanon, and Lancaster counties. Rainfall from the past 24 hours in addition to the possibility of more rainfall this evening, could lead to localized areas of flooding in urban area, small creeks, and small stream. Use caution if traveling this evening.