What a difference three months can make. On September 24th, after Vladimir Putin’s announcement of his return to the presidency, analysts—both in Russia and in the West—were discussing whether his regime was being prolonged until 2024, 2030, or 2036. On December 24th, as tens of thousands gathered in central Moscow to demand free and open elections and an end to authoritarian rule, the question on most people’s minds was whether Putin’s regime will end within months, or whether it will be able to survive for another year or two.
This Moscow Spring, which began on December 10th with a mass pro-democracy rally on Bolotnaya Square, continued this past weekend, when between 70,000 and 120,000 people (the most precise headcount, by Novaya Gazeta newspaper, was 102,486) gathered on—symbolically—Andrei Sakharov Avenue, 1.6 miles from the Kremlin, to demand the registration of opposition parties, early parliamentary elections, and the immediate release of political prisoners, and urged fellow citizens not to give “a single vote to Putin” in the upcoming March presidential poll. Days before the rally, the Kremlin tried to appease the protesters—and reduce their numbers—by promising to reinstate direct gubernatorial elections and direct single-member district elections for Parliament; and to reduce the threshold for registering new political parties from 40,000 to 500 members, and the number of signatures required for registering presidential candidates from 2 million to 300,000. In addition, the authorities promised to install Web cameras at most polling places, and proposed to make ballot boxes transparent to prevent fraud.
The regime’s “too little, too late” advances failed: more people came to Sakharov Avenue on December 24th than to Bolotnaya Square two weeks earlier. “Our goal is not just to remove this or that person from power; our goal is to change today’s corrupt, venal, closed, deceitful, and illegitimate system,” liberal presidential candidate Grigory Yavlinsky declared at the rally, “We want to establish a system in which no one dares to call us sheep or monkeys; a system in which no one ever calls you, the citizens of Russia, ‘an Orange contagion.’” (“Monkeys” was how Putin recently called opposition supporters; “Orange contagion”—in reference to Ukraine’s 2004 Orange Revolution—was the Kremlin-friendly LDPR party’s description for the rallies.) “Four years ago, the Marches of Dissenters … were very small in number, and the authorities tried to convince us … that we are few, and they are many,” said opposition leader Garry Kasparov. “Today, we see that we are many, and they are few … They are afraid because we have lost fear.” In another marked retreat by the regime, the anti-Putin rally—including Kasparov’s speech—was covered on primetime state television; an inconceivable proposition just a few weeks ago.
By its sheer size and scope, the protest movement of December 2011 is being compared to the anti-Communist revolution of August 1991. In one respect, today’s movement is more significant. The protest against Communist rule was both political and economic: not just against totalitarianism, but also against the economic misery of Soviet socialism. Today, economic demands are non-existent: the December movement is unequivocally and consciously about political rights and civic dignity. The protests are led by Russia’s emerging middle class—young, successful, and educated—which has already achieved economic wellbeing, and which now strives for the rule of law. According to a survey by the Levada Center polling agency, 73 percent of the protesters are financially comfortable; 62 percent are university-educated; 56 percent are aged between 18 and 39. Sixty-nine percent describe their political views as democratic or liberal. Only 13 percent are communists; just 6 percent are nationalists.
The March 4th presidential election that, until recently, was considered a mere formality, is increasingly looking like a decisive moment. If votes are counted fairly, it is difficult to see how Putin can win in the first round (the latest national poll numbers put his support at 36 percent), while a second round—not seen since 1996—presents a real possibility of an “anyone-but-Putin” protest vote. If, on the other hand, the authorities attempt fraud on the scale of the recent Duma election, the opposition’s plans to bring out 1 million people to rallies across Russia may well be realized.
In public, the regime is still defiant: Vladimir Putin has rejected the calls for a new parliamentary election, while the judicial authorities responded to the demand for releasing political prisoners by sentencing prominent opposition activist Sergei Udaltsov, already in custody since December 4th and severely weakened by a hunger strike, to another 10 days in jail. Privately, Putin is already looking for an exit. On the eve of the rally, he met with longtime friend and former finance minister Alexei Kudrin to discuss a “dialogue” with the protesters. Kudrin, who attended the rally, has offered to act as a mediator between the opposition and the Kremlin.
The man who has ruled over Russia practically unchallenged since 1999 is finally waking up to the fact that all things, sooner or later, come to an end.
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Senior White House adviser Jared Kushner declared that all the "crazy" accusations leveled against him have “turned out to be false" in a rare TV interview.
Sitting down for an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham, President Trump's son-in-law was asked about a White House security clearance controversy that has ensnared him and others.
“Over the last few years that I’ve been here, I’ve been accused of all different types of things, and all of those things have turned out to be false,” Kushner said during the interview which aired Monday. “We’ve had a lot of crazy accusations, like, that we colluded with Russia. I complied with all the different investigations, whether it be the Senate, the House, the special counsel. I’ve sat for nearly 20 hours of interviews with them.”
"Over the last two years that I've been here, I've been accused of all different types of things. All of those things have turned out to be false." – @jaredkushner pic.twitter.com/XrJVy7jocf— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) April 2, 2019
The interview comes more than a week after special counsel Robert Mueller concluded his yearslong Russia investigation and sent his report to the Justice Department. According to a summary Attorney General William Barr sent to Congress, Mueller found no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
The summary did not, however, provide insight on whether Trump or any of his associates were compromised by Russia.
Kushner's contacts with Russians during the 2016 presidential campaign have come under intense scrutiny since he entered the White House, including by Mueller and congressional investigations.
Kushner, who is married to Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump, also emphasized that he has followed the guidance of the Office of Government Ethics since coming to Washington, D.C.
“When I came to Washington, I had a very successful business career,” Kushner said. “I had extensive holdings. I disclosed all of my holdings for the Office of Government Ethics, and what I did with them is they told me what to divest, what to keep, what rules to follow. We followed all that.”
Just hours before the interview aired on Fox News, House Democrats announced that a career White House security office employee turned to them as her “last hope” to divulge details on more than two dozen denials for security clearances have been reversed during the Trump administration.
The whistleblower, Tricia Newbold, claimed she encountered retaliation for cautioning her superiors that the clearances “were not always adjudicated in the best interest of national security.”
“I feel that right now this is my last hope to really bring the integrity back into our office,” she told the House Oversight Committee.
The committee, led by Chairman Elijah Cummings, D-Md., is examining the security clearances of Kushner and Ivanka Trump, and is prepared to start issuing subpoenas as part of the investigation. Media reports this year indicate that Trump instructed then-chief of staff John Kelly to approve a top secret security clearance for Kusnher.

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United Tribes NewsEndowment gift creates new UTTC scholarship
17 August 2004
A major gift to the United Tribes Technical College Endowment Fund has created a new scholarship and helped affirm a family's connection with its tribal heritage.
UTTC received a $50,000 gift from the family of the late Winifred and James Marvin, pictured at right, who once lived in McLean County, North Dakota. Over the summer, their children, who reside in California, made the donation creating the James and Winifred Marvin Scholarship Fund.
Having Cherokee ancestors, Mr. Marvin wished to support education for tribal people and strengthen family ties to tribal heritage. His children, pictured at left, from left, Danny W. Marvin, Darlene C. M. Lovell, and Ronald G. Marvin, were honored by the college with traditional gifts of thanks for their family's contribution.
"We're grateful for the friendship of the Marvin family," said UTTC President David M. Gipp. "Their generosity greatly assists us in serving Indian students and their families." The Marvin scholarship will be presented annually to a UTTC student.
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The world needs more art. The world needs
The Liberate Your Art postcard swap is in its 5th year of encouraging you to create, share and liberate your art into the world, where it can do its greatest good.
Join participants from around the world as we liberate our art through the mail and brighten the day of those near and far. See what good mailing your art can bring!
Who can participate?
Artists in any medium. Photography, painting, poetry, typography, jewelry, sculpture, knitting, cooking, illustration – you name it. If you can have an image of your art printed on a postcard, you are in!
What do I have to do?
You send 5 printed postcards of your art with a message written on the back, along with address labels and return postage. I swap them around, and you receive 6 postcards in the mail over several weeks: 5 from participants, plus one from me! The email you receive once you sign up will have all of the details on what to do.
Where do I need to live?
Anywhere in the world! Participants from all over the world are welcome. You send your postcards to me in the US and I mail them back out. Details for international participants are provided as part of the swap information once you are signed up.
When is the swap?
All postcards must be received by March 14, 2015. Swap sign up has closed for 2015. Sign up for the Kat Eye News monthly newsletter to be notified when swap sign up opens next year.
Why should I join?
Because it’s fun to get “happy mail” once in a while! It’s also a great way to learn how to reproduce your art, connect with artists around the world, and get out of your comfort zone and share in a new way. There is a wonderful feeling when you liberate your art into the world, knowing it is doing good.
How do I get more details?
Once you sign up for the swap email list, all of the details and lots of support are sent to you via email. Don’t worry, signing up for the list does not commit you to participate or generate any spam. You can check out the details and unsubscribe at any time.
A great part of this swap is making connections with other artists!
- You can join the Facebook Event Group to chat about what’s going on in the swap, ask questions and share experiences.
- You can visit participating artists who have shared their websites on the Participant List. In 2015 we added a Treasure Hunt through the Participants List with some fantastic prizes!
- Share and watch for hashtag #liberateyourart on social media.
- Read the swap updates on my blog to see the amazing art I’m receiving in the mail.
- Show your participation with a button on your blog! Button code is here.
About the Swap
I got the idea of the swap in 2011, when I was still living in Italy. I love getting mail, and I had this vision of a swap that would connect artists of different mediums from all over the world. It was cost prohibitive to do from Italy (a single postcard cost $2 to mail!), so I planned it for when I moved back to the US in July 2011. There were a few bumps along the way that first year as I worked out the process to do a swap this large, but the swap went fabulously and it’s become a yearly event. You can read more about the previous swaps by reading the blog posts found at this link.
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ASTANA, August 6 (Itar-Tass) - Fugitive ex-banker Mukhtar Ablyazov, wanted by the Kazakh law enforcement agencies, will spend 40 days in custody in France, spokesman for the Kazakh General Prosecutor’s Office, Nurdaulet Suindikov, told a news conference on Tuesday.
“On August 1, the court of French Aix-en-Provence sanctioned the arrest of Ablyazov for 40 days in line with the French criminal procedure legislation,” he said. “Ablyazov will remain in prison in the city of Luynes until all procedures connected with his extradition are finished,” Suindikov added.
“The Kazakh General Prosecutor’s Office makes every effort for the return of Ablyazov to Kazakhstan,” Suindikov said.
Suindikov also said the French law enforcement agencies consider at the moment Ablyazov’s extradition to Ukraine.
“France and Ukraine are participants in the European Convention on Extradition, while Kazakhstan is not in it,” the spokesman said.
Ablyazov was detained in southern France on July 31. He was initially hiding in Great Britain but later fled after the High Court of London ruled to sentence him to 22 months in prison for disrespect of the court, the press service specified.
Ablyazov led BTA Bank from 2005 to 2009, when he was removed from office and accused of fraud. In February 2009 he fled to Great Britain.


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81,300 people applied for asylum in Sweden last year, and nearly half of the asylum seekers came from the civil war-torn Syria.
According to sydsvenskan.se, 63,000 asylum seekers were granted residence, which corresponds to 77 percent, according to statistics from the Swedish Migration Board.
Sweden has not received this many asylum seekers since the war was raging in the Balkans in 1992, when just over 84,000 applied for asylum in the country.
Otherwise, one must go back to World War II to find a higher number of asylum seekers to Sweden.
Most from Syria
47 percent of last year's asylum seekers were Syrians and Palestinians who had fled the civil war in Syria.
Virtually all the roughly 30,000 Syrians and close to 8,000 Palestinians who came to Sweden from Syria, were granted asylum.
11,500 asylum seekers came from Eritrea, while 4800 came from Somalia and 3100 from Afghanistan last year.
While asylum seekers from Syria and Eritrea are almost guaranteed asylum in Sweden, rates range among asylum seekers from other countries.
74 percent of asylum seekers from Afghanistan were granted asylum, as did 70 percent of the asylum seekers from Somalia.
50 percent of the 2,700 Iraqis who applied for asylum were also accepted, as did 49 percent of the asylum seekers from Ethiopia.
Asylum seekers from Kosovo, Bosnia, Serbia, Macedonia and Albania however only rarely will be granted asylum in Sweden, the statistics show.
The Migration Board received an average of 1,500 asylum seekers every week last year, while the number at most were up to 2400.
Sweden is the country in Europe that welcomes most asylum seekers per capita, and only Germany welcomes a higher number of asylum seekers.
This year even more asylum seekers are expected to Sweden, and approximately 100,000 asylum seekers are expected to Sweden in 2015. The numbers will of course multiply once family reunions are granted.
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Final April, in a farm subject in japanese Virginia, Ann Richardson gathered with just a few hundred individuals for a celebration. It wasn’t a celebration, although. A number of individuals have been crying. Inside Secretary Deb Haaland was there. She was crying, too.
“I can’t actually describe it,” Richardson mentioned of that day’s occasion, which passed off alongside the shores of the Rappahannock River. “Unbelievable. Surreal. Emotional.”
“I felt like we have been surrounded by ancestors who had lived there hundreds of years in the past. We have been standing of their hopes and their goals for his or her individuals.”
Richardson is the chief of the Rappahannock Tribe, and on that Friday afternoon, her tribe took again greater than 460 acres of ancestral land alongside the river that shares her tribe’s title. Final month, her tribe reclaimed another 960 acres of its homeland, too.
It took 350 years. It took survival, after her tribe was pressured off of its homeland by English settlers within the 1600s, just about erased by white supremacists within the 1900s and endured centuries of persecution sanctioned by the U.S. authorities.
It additionally took a brand new sort of partnership with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, because the Biden administration forges forward with what it hopes will spur a seismic shift in the best way the federal government approaches managing public lands: inviting tribes to be co-stewards of the land their ancestors have been forcibly or illegally faraway from by the federal government.
Since President Joe Biden took workplace, Haaland and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack have signed off on practically two dozen co-stewardship agreements with tribes. There are one other 60 co-stewardship agreements in numerous phases of assessment involving 45 tribes. Haaland and Vilsack launched this effort in November 2021 with a joint secretarial order directing related companies to verify their choices on public lands fulfilled belief obligations with tribes. In November 2022, the Commerce Division signed onto their order as nicely.
The Fish and Wildlife Service, the Nationwide Park Service and the Bureau of Land Administration have since produced a co-stewardship steerage doc, too.
To make sure that their mandate trickled right down to the sensible, day-to-day actions of their tens of hundreds of federal staff, Haaland’s and Vilsack’s order particularly requires that co-stewardship efforts be mentioned in particular person worker efficiency evaluations.
President Joe Biden listens to Inside Secretary Deb Haaland communicate earlier than signing a proclamation restoring protections to Bears Ears that have been stripped by the Trump administration.
Why is that this a BFD? For starters, it doubtless means the U.S. authorities’s administration of tens of millions of acres of pristine public lands and pure assets might be higher with tribal voices engaged. They’ve in depth and conventional information of sustainably care for his or her land, and that, in flip, can play into efforts to mitigate local weather change.
“The historical past of federal public lands can’t be separated from the historical past of tribes,” mentioned Monte Mills, a legislation professor and director of the Native American Regulation Heart on the Washington College Faculty of Regulation. He wrote a 2020 white paper on tribal co-management potentialities.
“So one core place to begin for redefining this relationship is the historic and persevering with connections tribes have with these landscapes,” mentioned Mills. “To have tribal of us weighing in on choices on how lands needs to be managed advantages landscapes and advantages all of us.”
On a deeper degree, tribal co-stewardships are merely a matter of justice.
Because the nation’s founding, the U.S. authorities’s relationship with tribes and land has been virtually completely outlined by an infuriating collection of damaged treaties, dispossessions and exploitation of mineral-rich lands. Past that, the federal government has virtually utterly erased tribes from legal guidelines that govern how public lands are managed.
“The Nationwide Park Service, in its organizing act enacted in 1960, actually arrange this paradigm of park administration that handled parks as if no person had ever been there,” Mills mentioned.
“At its core,” he mentioned, “that is about justice and restoring the rightful, in my opinion, place of tribal voices and their connection to those landscapes.”
The solar units over Valley of the Gods in Bears Ears Nationwide Monument. So fairly.
Every of those land-sharing agreements is exclusive, and relies on the best way that tribes need to have interaction. There are distinctions between co-management, the place tribes share authorized authority with the federal authorities to make choices affecting the land or the species on it, and co-stewardship, the place they collaborate on actions like forest-thinning.
Co-stewardship can also be one in every of quite a lot of choices tribes can pursue to have extra say in how the general public land round them is used. Some tribes could also be extra involved in enhancing their session with state and federal governments. Others could also be targeted on reclaiming their ancestral lands completely, which faucets into the broader Land Back movement to place Indigenous land again in Indigenous palms.
“Co-stewardship is a pathway to land again, a pathway to justice, completely,” mentioned Nick Tilsen, the president and CEO of NDN Collective, an Indigenous-led activist group within the frontlines of the Land Again motion.
Whereas he praised the Biden administration’s “historic” efforts on co-stewardship, he emphasised it’s not the identical factor as returning land to tribes that was illegally taken from them. Giving land again is the one manner the U.S. authorities can actually restore justice for tribes, he mentioned, and it’s a difficulty prone to get congressional consideration within the close to future.
Co-stewardships stay “a step in the proper path,” Tilsen mentioned. “The extra we will handle land, it will increase the probability we get it again.”
The co-stewardship settlement with the Rappahannock Tribe, for instance, concerned land being given again to the tribe. It additionally took a network of Virginia-based partners. The Chesapeake Conservancy purchased it with assist from a non-public donor, related by musician Dave Matthews and The Wilderness Society. This donor needed to guard the land to honor her late husband, who liked water birds. The Chesapeake Conservancy supplied a everlasting easement to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and donated the land title to the tribe, which positioned it in belief with the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs.
An settlement with the Nez Perce Tribe in Idaho, in the meantime, concerned the Inside Division transferring all fish production at a nationwide fish hatchery to the tribe. Then there’s the memorandum of understanding between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and three tribes who share Lenape ancestry, which clears the trail for tribal members to rebury ancestral remains on federal land in Cherry Valley Nationwide Wildlife Refuge in Pennsylvania.
Indigenous rights protestors display in Keystone, South Dakota forward of a go to by then-President Donald Trump. They have been demanding that the U.S. authorities give again the Black Hills to the Lakota individuals.
Bears Ears Nationwide Monument in Utah is well the Inside Division’s most distinguished instance of a tribal co-stewardship. The Bureau of Land Administration, the U.S. Forest Service and 5 tribes collectively oversee this monument and the federal lands inside its 1.36 million-acre boundaries. The signal on the entrance options the logos of the U.S. governmental entities managing it ― alongside the insignias for every of the 5 tribes. Every of the tribes has written its personal plan for handle the land, primarily based on their greater than 10,000 years of historic connections to the place that all of them name by the identical title, one thing akin to Bears Ears in every of their languages.
This partnership makes for thrilling, if awkward, joint occasions with tribal leaders celebrating not being kicked off their land by the U.S. authorities for a change.
“Immediately, as a substitute of being faraway from a panorama to make manner for a public park, we’re being invited again to our ancestral homelands to assist restore them and plan for a resilient future,” Carleton Bowekaty, a former Bears Ears Fee co-chair and lieutenant governor of Zuni Pueblo, mentioned at the 2022 co-management signing ceremony alongside authorities officers.
“What is usually a higher avenue of restorative justice than giving tribes the chance to take part within the administration of lands their ancestors have been faraway from?” he requested.
The signal greeting guests at Bears Ears Nationwide Monument bears the logos of the U.S. governmental companies that handle the land ― and the insignias of every of the 5 tribal companions.
President Barack Obama established the Bears Ears monument proper earlier than he left workplace in December 2016, solely to have President Donald Trump are available in and dramatically scale it again in one of the largest reversals of U.S. land monument protections in historical past. Trump’s transfer opened the door for oil and gasoline drilling on the beforehand protected land, which tribes think about sacred.
When Biden took workplace, he fully restored the monument’s boundaries.
“It is a place that have to be protected in perpetuity for each American and each little one of the world,” Haaland, who’s the nation’s first-ever Native American cupboard secretary, mentioned on the time. “Immediately’s announcement, it’s not nearly nationwide monuments. It’s about this administration centering the voices of Indigenous individuals and affirming the shared stewardship of this panorama with tribal nations.”
Of course, a co-stewardship settlement is one factor. Securing the federal cash to successfully handle 1 million acres of land is one other. As a result of these sorts of partnerships are comparatively new, the Bureau of Land Administration didn’t have a system in place for transferring cash to tribes for labor prices at Bears Ears Nationwide Monument. So authorities officers scrambled to redo their course of so tribes might submit a proper request to the Bureau of Land Administration for funding.
Because the deadline was approaching, “very, very senior individuals” on the Bureau of Land Administration have been on the telephone with “very, very senior individuals on the tribal nations,” racing the clock to determine everybody’s goal prices, mentioned an Inside Division official who requested anonymity to talk freely concerning the chaos it took to drag off this settlement.
“We don’t have a course of. We don’t have individuals. We don’t have technical specialists within the bureaus for this,” mentioned this official. “We don’t have a playbook. We’re attempting to create the playbook.”
We don’t have a playbook. We’re attempting to create the playbook.an Inside Division official
Haaland has been forging forward with co-stewardships by utilizing authorities the inside secretary has had all alongside, however that earlier individuals in her place haven’t used. Some tribes have informed Inside Division officers they didn’t even know these authorities existed.
It’s additionally comprehensible why tribes would have a wholesome diploma of warning about making any agreements with the U.S. authorities, given their historic relationship.
The Inside Division particularly was “an enormous, big power in eradicating and making an attempt to sever tribes’ connections to land,” mentioned Hillary Hoffmann, a legislation professor at Vermont Regulation Faculty and a former co-director of the Bears Ears coalition.
However many tribes saved up their connections to their ancestral lands by means of storytelling, she mentioned. Within the case of Bears Ears, she mentioned a tribal chief within the space shared along with her that his uncle had by no means been to the monument however might describe a selected spot close to it, intimately, due to the tales handed down in his household.
“These tales have been saved alive for generations, the importance and the methods ancestors used these locations for medication or meals, subsistence, plant gathering, wooden gathering have stayed with tribes, regardless of all this historical past, the tried assimilation, the boarding colleges coverage….” mentioned Hoffmann, trailing off as she listed horrific injustices tribes have confronted.
“It’s outstanding and profound,” she added. “I’m not a member of any of those tribes. I’m not Indigenous. It’s emotional for me, so I can’t think about the way it feels for tribes.”
Rappahannock Tribe Chief Anne Richardson stands in entrance of a show of historic pictures on the Rappahannock Tribal Heart in Indian Neck, Virginia.
It’s exhausting to say how the Biden administration’s efforts on tribal co-stewardship will play out in the long run. Lasting coverage change takes time and dedication. There’s a variety of authorities paperwork concerned in overseeing public lands. Presidents and their political appointees come and go.
However for the second, Haaland has already opened up pathways for tribes to have an actual voice in managing public lands in a manner that hasn’t been seen earlier than.
“The potential for an actual paradigm shift is being doubtlessly realized,” mentioned Mills.
This motion towards co-stewardship can also be occurring amid a shift towards a broader coverage of revitalization for tribes, whether or not it’s in language, tradition or financial improvement. Two years into workplace, Biden has invested billions in tribal infrastructure and water rights settlements. He’s put file numbers of Indigenous individuals in his administration, the least of whom embody Haaland and Nationwide Park Service director Charles Sams. He’s additionally restarted the White House Tribal Nations Summit, which supplies tribal leaders direct entry to administration officers to speak about precedence points.
For Richardson, it feels just like the nation is in a defining second for reconciling its previous ― and in a manner that advantages everybody.
“The authorities is a endlessly accomplice for us,” mentioned the tribal chief. “As a result of they’ve stood with us in order that we will regain this land that was misplaced. They’re standing with us ― for us to show them our methods, for them to show us the science ― of why we look after the land the best way we do. To be capable to share that and educate that to the world.”


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While visiting a friend at the university of Minnesota last week i borrowed a copy of Taiwanese singer Sun Shumei 孫淑媚 CD from her, and i just fell in love with her singing.
Sun Shumei is such a good singer that i have decided to buy my own copy of her album.
Here are some videos of some of my favorite songs from her,the first video she features singer On Bozheng 安伯政.
愛你的機會(孫淑媚 & 安伯政)
In the next video she features another singer call XiulanMaya 秀蘭瑪雅.
After listening to these two songs all i could say was wow..... and i hope you guys felt the same way too... ENJOY FOLKS.


Threats to species continue
Article first published online: 3 JUN 2011
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Volume 90, Issue 45, page 411, 10 November 2009
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Of 47,677 assessed species, 17,291 are threatened with extinction, according to the latest update of the Red List of Threatened Species issued by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) on 3 November. The list indicates that amphibians are the most threatened group of species known to date, with 1895 (nearly 30%) of 6285 amphibians in danger of extinction. Thirty-nine are already extinct or extinct in the wild, 484 are critically endangered, 754 are endangered, and 657 are vulnerable, according to IUCN.


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Detection of relative dimer and rotamer concentrations of diacetamide in different solvents by FT-IR spectroscopy and DFT calculations
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The relative rotamer, dimer and tautomer concentrations of diacetamide have been studied by means of infrared spectroscopy, with the recorded spectra being analyzed employing results from density functional theory calculations. It is observed that the cis-trans monomeric form of diacetamide (1) is found to be the most stable isomer in all studied solvents, with trans-trans diacetamide (2) being found to be 20% of total diacetamide in methanol. While the dimer form of diacetamide (3) is present only in carbon-tetrachloride (about 34% of the total), its tautomeric forms (4, 5) are not favorable in any of the studied solvents.

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Morning Midnight Release New Album ‘Happy Hour’
Morning Midnight is a juxtaposition that makes sense from the jump, the bedroom-pop duo are made up of singer-songwriter Jordan Scott, whose personal lyrics and soaring vocals captivate, and Jess Pascal, whose background in piano, production and synthesis both ground and illuminate the group’s sound.
About the album the band say “When the world stopped two years ago we set up a studio in our front room with the idea to work on new music, and what started out as a couple of voice notes on my phone eventually grew into something that’s both exciting and surreal to announce; our debut album. It’s been a labour of love and we couldn’t be prouder of it, there’s been a lot of self reflection over these past few years and these songs have really helped us work through it. We hope it gives you as much as it’s given us.”
Their debut EP Swimming Lessons was an unfiltered work that drew you into a place of retrospective feeling, and has amassed two million streams on Spotify alone. Lead singles “You & I” and “Ancoats Junction” root the band’s unique harmonies and vocal layering with a raw electronic sound, weaving melancholic stories with a distinct sense of hope. Now, the new and upcoming debut LP Happy Hour is an ousting into the light. Elevating the textures and storytelling of “Swimming Lessons”, the duo’s new work is both fully realized and cinematic. Created entirely in the pair’s living room over lockdown, the album manifests the journey of soul searching that we’ve all been on and encapsulates the reflecion many people were forced to undertake over the past two years. The opening track ‘Blurry’ was featured as BBC Radio Scotland’s ‘Track of the Week’, whilst “Easy” has received airplay from BBC Radio 6.
Growing up in the suburbs of Merseyside in a house that was always playing music, Jordan Scott’s path as a singer/songwriter felt conventionally inevitable. His home provided a platform for the sounds of Stevie Wonder, Shania Twain and Jeff Buckley to make early impressions on his younger self. Although, it was at 15 when he started to find inspiration for his own sound amongst indie artists such as Death Cab for Cutie, John Martyn and Frightened Rabbit. Their self-reflective and poetic approach to songwriting inspired Scott to write his own songs from the comfort of his bedroom, playing to no one but himself and his insecurities.
At 22, whilst studying film, a Bon Iver show in Glasgow was the catalyst he needed to finally jump-start his career. Singing in front of people for the first time, Scott went on to play open mic nights and started recording demos to send to friends, quickly realizing that his music was resonating with them; with one of them being Jess.
Hailing from the sleepy town of Lancaster, but with Irish parents, Jess Pascal grew up in a turbulent home. Her parents were both keen players of traditional Irish music, with her dad playing the banjo and her mother playing the concertina. However, it was after hearing Michael Nyman at the age of 7 that Jess decided to start her own musical journey and learn the piano. As an introverted ‘tomboy’ at high school, Pascal found herself a social outsider after coming out as bisexual at the age of 15.
However, she found solace spending her lunchtimes in music rooms listening to pop music and learning Taylor Swift songs on piano. It was after starting college that she discovered dance music and finally found her people, having the likes of Bonobo, Four Tet and Burial on heavy rotation to soundtrack a new found love for music production. By 18, Pascal had her own tracks playing on Radio 1’s late night dance shows and moved to Leeds to start studying music production. It was during her first semester at Uni when she was sent one of Scott’s demos and was so moved by what she heard that she decided to quit her course the very next week.
Morning Midnight is the story of two individuals living on the outside who have brought themselves in. A duo whose music will make you feel every emotion like it was the first time, with hook-filled melodies that bring a familiar comfort weaving alongside a lyricism that creates a longing for introspection. Look out for their upcoming debut LP Happy Hour out tomorrow Faction Records.


Manufacturing sales rose 1.7 per cent in November: StatsCan
January 18, 2013
By The Canadian Press
Statistics Canada says manufacturing sales increased 1.7 per cent in November to $49.9 billion, the highest level since May 2012.
It says the largest gains were in the transportation equipment, primary metal and chemical industries.
Sales rose in 12 of 21 industries monitored, representing about two-thirds of the manufacturing sector.
Durable goods sales increased 2.7 per cent to $25.5 billion while non-durable goods sales gained 0.8 per cent to $24.4 billion.
Manufacturing rose in five provinces, led by Ontario, where sales were up 3.8 per cent to $23 billion.
Sales were down 1.8 per cent in Alberta and 0.9 per cent in Quebec
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Predicting and classifying effects of insertion and deletion mutations on protein coding regionsLearning ObjectivesStudents will be able to:
- accurately predict effects of frameshift mutations in protein coding regions
- conduct statistical analysis to compare expected and observed values
- become familiar with accessing and using DNA sequence databases and analysis tools
What do Bone and Silly Putty® have in Common?: A Lesson on Bone ViscoelasticityLearning Objectives
- Students will be able to explain how the anatomical structure of long bones relates to their function.
- Students will be able to define viscoelasticity, hysteresis, anisotropy, stiffness, strength, ductility, and toughness.
- Students will be able to identify the elastic and plastic regions of a stress-strain curve. They will be able to correlate each phase of the stress-strain curve with physical changes to bone.
- Students will be able to predict how a bone would respond to changes in the magnitude of an applied force, and to variations in the speed or angle at which a force is applied.
- Students will be able to determine the reason(s) why bone injuries occur more frequently during athletic events than during normal everyday use.
Using Place-Based Economically Relevant Organisms to Improve Student Understanding of the Roles of Carbon Dioxide,...Learning ObjectivesAt the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
- Describe the roles of light energy and carbon dioxide in photosynthetic organisms.
- Identify the effect of nutrients on the growth of photosynthetic organisms.
- Describe global cycles in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and how they relate to photosynthetic organisms.
Building Trees: Introducing evolutionary concepts by exploring Crassulaceae phylogeny and biogeographyLearning ObjectivesStudents will be able to:
- Estimate phylogenetic trees using diverse data types and phylogenetic models.
- Correctly make inferences about evolutionary history and relatedness from the tree diagrams obtained.
- Use selected computer programs for phylogenetic analysis.
- Use bootstrapping to assess the statistical support for a phylogeny.
- Use phylogenetic data to construct, compare, and evaluate the role of geologic processes in shaping the historical and current geographic distributions of a group of organisms.
An active-learning lesson that targets student understanding of population growth in ecologyLearning ObjectivesStudents will be able to:
- Calculate and compare population density and abundance.
- Identify whether a growth curve describes exponential, linear, and/or logistic growth.
- Describe and calculate a population's growth rate using linear, exponential, and logistic models.
- Explain the influence of carrying capacity and population density on growth rate.
Evaluating the Quick Fix: Weight Loss Drugs and Cellular RespirationLearning Objectives
- Students will be able to explain how the energy from sugars is transformed into ATP via cellular respiration.
- Students will be able to predict an outcome if there is a perturbation in the cellular respiration pathway.
- Students will be able to state and evaluate a hypothesis.
- Students will be able to interpret data from a graph, and use that data to make inferences about the action of a drug.
Cell Signaling Pathways - a Case Study ApproachLearning Objectives
- Use knowledge of positive and negative regulation of signaling pathways to predict the outcome of genetic modifications or pharmaceutical manipulation.
- From phenotypic data, predict whether a mutation is in a coding or a regulatory region of a gene involved in signaling.
- Use data, combined with knowledge of pathways, to make reasonable predictions about the genetic basis of altered signaling pathways.
- Interpret and use pathway diagrams.
- Synthesize information by applying prior knowledge on gene expression when considering congenital syndromes.
A clicker-based case study that untangles student thinking about the processes in the central dogmaLearning ObjectivesStudents will be able to:
- explain the differences between silent (no change in the resulting amino acid sequence), missense (a change in the amino acid sequence), and nonsense (a change resulting in a premature stop codon) mutations.
- differentiate between how information is encoded during DNA replication, transcription, and translation.
- evaluate how different types of mutations (silent, missense, and nonsense) and the location of those mutations (intron, exon, and promoter) differentially affect the processes in the central dogma.
- predict the molecular (DNA size, mRNA length, mRNA abundance, and protein length) and/or phenotypic consequences of mutations.
Authentic Ecological Inquiries Using BearCam ArchivesLearning ObjectivesStudents will be able to:
- conduct an authentic ecological inquiry including
- generate a testable hypothesis based on observations,
- design investigation with appropriate sampling selection and variables,
- collect and analyze data following the design, and
- interpret results and draw conclusions based on the evidence.
- write a research report with appropriate structure and style.
- evaluate the quality of inquiry reports using a rubric.
- conduct peer review to evaluate and provide feedback to others' work.
- revise the inquiry report based on peer feedback and self-assessment.
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By Madeleine Cuff
Pledge represents a doubling of its current five-year investment plans for low-carbon projects
The World Bank has today promised to double its investment plans for low-carbon projects to $200bn over the next five years, in a bid to accelerate action against climate change.
The announcement came as the first day of talks at the COP24 international climate negotiations got underway in Katowice, Poland, where officials from around the world are gathered to thrash out the details of how the Paris Agreement will work in practice.
The extra funding will cover the period 2021 to 2025, and is targeted at improving the ability of the world’s poorest countries to reduce emissions and deal with the impact of climate change, the bank said.
World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim said he hoped the increased ambition would encourage other institutions and businesses to follow suit and step up levels of low carbon investment. “We are pushing ourselves to do more and to go faster on climate and we call on the global community to do the same,” he said. “This is about putting countries and communities in charge of building a safer, more climate-resilient future.”
The $200bn represents a combination of $100bn in direct finance from the organisation’s two lending divisions, the IBRD and IDA, alongside combined direct finance from the International Finance Corporation, the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, as well as $67bn of private capital mobilised by the World Bank Group.
Private capital is becoming an increasingly important source of finance for the World Bank. Earlier this year the World Bank’s IDA body raised cash on the private capital markets for the first time via a $1.5bn bond issuance, which will in part be used to fund climate action projects. Speaking to BusinessGreen about the move, the World Bank’s head of investor relations and new product development Heike Reichelt said IDA was looking to raise around $10bn on the private market over the next decade.
Of the $200bn, some $50bn will be used to help poor nations adapt to the impacts of climate change, for the first time putting investments in this area on an equal footing with efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Investments will include support for high quality forecasts and early warning systems to help communities prepare for extreme weather events, and climate smart agriculture to reduce crop failure in the face of changing climates.
Climate finance is expected to once again be a fraught issue at this year’s summit. The deadline for rich countries to meet their promise to mobilise $100bn of climate finance a year for poorer nations by 2020 is fast approaching, and new figures from both the OECD and UN in recent days have revealed developed countries are still tens of billions of dollars short of the target.
Alongside climate finance, another key focus of COP24 is the theme of a ‘just transition’, which is being heavily promoted by the conference’s Polish organisers. Later today heads of state are expected to adopt the Silesia Declaration on Solidarity and Just Transition, which will call for countries to deliver a “fair and solidarity-based transformation” to a low-emission economy, that protects workers’ livelihoods and maintains economic development.


Since its initial release in 2002, ASP.NET has been updated by Microsoft at regular intervals. But Microsoft completely revamped the web framework in late 2014. In addition to making it open source, Microsoft further made it available for Mac OS X and Linux. The version 5 of ASP.NET also comes with several new features and enhancements to effectuate development of websites, mobile sites, internet applications, web services and web API. The new features also make ASP.NET one of the most demanded web frameworks in 2015.
Features that Make ASP.NET 5 One of the Most Demanded Web Frameworks
Three Runtimes: The developers have option to run ASP.NET 5 on three different runtimes, i.e., full .NET CLR, Core CLR, and Cross-Platform CLR. As the default runtime for Visual Studio projects, the full .NET CLR allows developers to use the entire API set, and maintain backward compatibility. As a cloud-optimized runtime, Core CLR enables programmers to build applications by including only the required features. The Cross-Platform CLR is the runtime for non-Windows platforms like Linux and Mac OS X. It enables developers to run ASP.NET applications on Mac and Linux devices.
A Unified Programming Framework: ASP.NET 5 comes with a unified programming model called MVC 6. The unified programming model makes it easier for developers to implement Web Pages, MVC and Web API together. The developers can now use MVC 6 to create application without reconciling three different programming frameworks. The unified programming framework further significantly reduces the duplication and inconsistencies.
Cloud Ready: While creating an ASP.NET 5 project, the developers have option to configure it to deploy to the cloud. Instead of using the web.config file, they can use the new environment configuration system provide by Visual Studio. The new environment configuration system can read values from XML, JSON, and environmental variables. So after deployment, the application can correctly read the value specified for each environment. The programmers can further use the diagnostic and tracing tools to identify and fix the issues associated with deploying an application in the cloud.
Host Agnostic: ASP.NET 5 comes with a new modular HTTP request pipeline that makes it host agnostic. The pipeline is optimized to effectuate deployment of the application on multiple platforms including Internet Information Services (IIS), Kestrel server, Open Web Interface for .Net (OWIN) based server, and self-hosted in a custom process. The ASP.NET 5 applications, however, do not talk directly to the web server. As feature interfaces like IApplicationBuilder are used to accomplish the host agnosticism, the applications can switch seamlessly from one host to another.
Dynamic Compilation: Visual Studio 2015 used Roslyn compiler to allow developers to take advantage of dynamic compilation. The feature enables programmers to see the impact of changes made to the code without rebuilding the project. They can simply modify the code, save the changes, and refresh the web browser to see code changes. In addition to using code editors, the developers can also switch from the interface to writing command line scripts and vice versa. The dynamic compilation feature further makes code writers more efficient and productive.
No Need to Modify Existing Applications: Despite revamping ASP.NET completely, Microsoft does not require organizations to rewrite their existing applications. ASP.NET 5 does not require users to port or update their legacy applications. The new .NET framework fully supports the applications developed using Web Pages 3, Web Forms, MVC 5, SignalR 2 or Web API 2. However, the organizations can update their application to take advantages of the new features of ASP.NET 5.
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INDIANAPOLIS - A study released this week puts Indiana in a top spot when it comes to the state’s number of teen driving deaths.
The study, done by the personal-finance website Wallet Hub, says Indiana has more teen driving deaths per licensed teen driver than any other state.
While Indiana is No. 1 in teen driving deaths, it ranks higher on the list when it comes to trying to protect those teen drivers, according to the study. The state ranks 26th from the top as far as laws protecting teens and the quality of roads they drive on.
The study also shows Indiana ranking in the No. 2 spot when it comes to the number of teens being ticketed for drinking and driving.
Longtime driving instructor Don Gross with AA Indiana Driving School in Carmel said he was not surprised by the study.
"Probably not a shock. I think maybe we are a little more casual sometimes in Indiana about some things. Our law enforcement may not be as rigid," Gross said. "One of the things that's a problem in Indiana, we are one of the lowest licensing ages for teenagers who do not take driver education. Many states have a licensing age of 17 if they don't take driver education."
So now, the question is: What do you do with this information? A panel of experts linked to this study said the big thing to realize is, every time your child gets behind the wheel, there is a risk.
Gross said kids often drive too fast for the conditions and disregard traffic laws, but the main problem is inexperience. Gross said parents need to be proactive with kids even after they get their license.
"We need to remember, just like the coaches, they don't give players the rules of the game and let them go play the game, they are continuously practicing, correcting, reinforcing, trying to improve the skills," Gross said.
As a parent, you can reduce that risk by putting your teen in a safe car -- one with working airbags, electronic stability control and other similar features.
An epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also suggests you share a family car with your teen, as teens who share a family car tend to take fewer risks while driving.
Another piece of advice: Experts say just because a teen is 16, doesn’t mean they need to be on the road. More and more families are waiting for their students to turn 18 before they get their driver’s license.

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I don't know anymore why I joined this wiki, but I know that apparently I can't write good creepypastas for shit. I've read the quality standards, I'm pretty sure I'm up to par. And so what my stories are a little cliché? Sometimes a cliché can assist a story. So let me ask YOU, administrators. 1. Why am I not good enough to write decent stuff? And 2. WHY AM I THE CREEPYPASTA WRITING EQUIVALENT OF GARY BUSEY?! i.e.. can't be taken seriously.Read more >
Hello. My name is, well you don't need to know. I'm looking for new pasta ideas, considering my first one, a spinoff of The Alice Killings, sucked big time. I'm open to any or all suggestions and ideas.
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RICHMOND, B.C. — The RCMP say they’ve reopened an area in Richmond, B.C., that was the site of an “active incident” Tuesday.
The Mounties say they responded to a report shortly after 9 a.m. of a person alleged to have a weapon at a residence.
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They asked members of the public to avoid the area of Kings Road between Shell and Seacote roads, while offering reassurance that there was no active threat.
The Lower Mainland Emergency Response Team assisted with the response and police say two people were located inside a suite in the residence.
The RCMP say one person remains in custody for an outstanding warrant on an unrelated matter.
Police say no one was hurt and the investigation is ongoing.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 19, 2020.


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I mean, it's a cool mod, but silenced guns don't sound like Star Wars laser weapons, like in SA. That's just reality. And I (and I think a lot of people here) am just aiming to get the most realistic GTA IV on my PC. A realistic silenced gun sound, like k6production's one, would help very well. Edited December 8, 2009 by EduardKoeleJuck.
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Silenced pistol would have been a helpful addition, maybe a Beretta 92 silenced or something like that (not too powerful for a silenced gun). Yah, I know it's already shipped and there's no point in making what-ifs and such, but it would have been cool as a special from completing Little Jacobs missions or getting a certain relationship level with him, as maybe an added perk or something.
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Our precious Boudreaux has gone to a better place. A place full of joy, friends and no pain. We will miss him terribly but he lived a very long, happy life and is now at peace. The beautiful young lady is our daughter Krista. He has another beautiful sister named Candace who doesn't happen to be in this picture of him. He was a good companion to all of us and a good guard dog for Isaac.
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Characterizing Atmospheres of Transiting Earth-like Exoplanets Orbiting M Dwarfs with James Webb Space Telescope
A number of transiting, potentially habitable Earth-sized exoplanets have recently been detected around several nearby M dwarf stars. These worlds represent important targets for atmospheric characterization for the upcoming NASA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Given that available time for exoplanet characterization will be limited, it is critically important to first understand the capabilities and limitations of JWST when attempting to detect atmospheric constituents for potentially Earth-like worlds orbiting cool stars. Here, we explore coupled climate-chemistry atmospheric models for Earth-like planets orbiting a grid of M dwarf hosts. Using a newly-developed and validated JWST instrument model—the JWST Exoplanet Transit Simulator—we investigate the detectability of key biosignature and habitability indicator gaseous species for a variety of relevant instruments and observing modes. Spectrally resolved detection scenarios as well as cases where the spectral impact of a given species is integrated across the entire range of an instrument/mode are considered and serve to highlight the importance of considering information gained over an entire observable spectral range. Our results indicate that detectability of gases at individual wavelengths is overly challenging for JWST but integrating the spectral impact of a species across the entire wavelength range of an instrument/mode significantly improves requisite detection times. When considering the entire spectral coverage of an instrument/mode, detections of methane, carbon dioxide, oxygen and water at signal-to-noise ratio 5 could be achieved with observations of several tens of transits (or less) for cloud-free Earth-like worlds orbiting mid- to late-type M dwarfs at system distances of up to 10-15 pc. When compared to previous results, requisite exposure times for gas species detection depend on approaches to quantifying the spectral impact of the species as well as underlying photochemical model assumptions. Thus, constraints on atmospheric abundances, even if just upper limits, by JWST have the potential to further our understanding of terrestrial atmospheric chemistry.
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|Dawn, Anzac Day|
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Living in Canberra in 1990, I went along to the 75th anniversary commemoration at the Australian War Memorial. Seeing the original Anzacs struck a chord. They were so young when they went, their faces still showed the pains of war. You hear stories of returned soldiers who refused to participate in the marches over the years, they didn't want to remember the horrors. I remember the way Vietnam Veterans were treated as second class veterans. It was a sad part of our history. The Vietnam War is embedded in popular culture and war and memory has mingled.
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|Writing about Anzac Day, |
Much of the day I do spend thinking about the mixed feelings one has on this day. Anzac Day is now commemorated on each 25 April (previously it had been the nearest Monday, thus making it a long weekend). I have friends from Japan who are similarly ambivalent about commemoration of war. The Japanese prime minister has today, again, asserted his rights to attend Yasukuni Shrine to pay respects to Japanese soldiers and yet that action engenders hostility throughout the region. And yet...
I look forward to a time when war is no more and is just (nothing but a) memory.

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HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — A state senator is proposing legislation that she claims will make roadways in Pennsylvania safer.
Senator Rosemary Brown (R-Monroe County) is pushing a bill that would prohibit the use of cell phones or any communication devices while driving in Pennsylvania.
Brown claims the legislation is not a punishment for drivers, but a form of protection.
“Again, this is not an effort to punish drivers, we are simply working to change behavior, build responsible driving, and of course public safety,” said Brown.
The legislation would allow drivers to use their phones as long as they are in Bluetooth mode and stashed away, not in the driver’s hand.


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Nice macro. What lens did you use to take this pic?
Thanks! Taken with the Oly 12-50mm that locks onto 43mm in macro mode. With care it can take quite decent photos :)
Love it. I love macro photos of lenses and that one is really good!
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As the Justice Department opens a civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting of a black man named Alton Sterling, who was fatally shot by police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, multiple people have started petitions to demand justice for Sterling.
According to a Washington Post database called "Fatal Force," Sterling was the 114th black man known to be killed by police in the first 186 days of 2016. In the past, the deaths of black men like Eric Garner and Michael Brown did not result in the indictments of the police officers who killed them, even though they were captured on video like Sterling's was, so petitions like those listed below are calling for more accountability.
Petitions are just one way to take action right now. Activists have taken to the streets in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and other parts of the country to protest Sterling's death at the hands of two white police officers. Others have organized vigils to honor Sterling and demonstrate solidarity with his family. There is also a GoFundMe page to raise money for a scholarship fund for Sterling's children.
Justice won't happen solely within the system, after all, and activists are responding to Sterling's deaths by both supporting his family and calling for systemic change. However, petitions can still have an important impact if a sufficient number of people sign them, and the four petitions listed below are a good place to start if you want to respond to this injustice.
ColorofChange/MoveOn: Justice for Alton Sterling
This petition, which is addressed to Attorney General Loretta Lynch, urges the Department of Justice to bring charges against the two police officers who killed Alton Sterling. The petition also calls for increased accountability, arguing that "these officers have no respect for Black life." You can sign this petition here or here; it currently has almost 23,000 signatures and is aiming for 25,000.
Change.org: Justice for Alton Sterling
This petition is addressed to President Obama and the Department of Justice, and it calls for action against police brutality. "We are humans with beating hearts that are bleeding from the treatment of our ancestors and relatives TODAY," writes Shanice Stewart, who started the petition. "We want Justice for Mr. Sterling, as well as the PAST AND FUTURE Mr. Sterlings!" You can access this petition here; it currently has 290 signatures.
Petition Site: Justice for Alton Sterling
This petition demands that the Department of Justice immediately "charge and arrest the two officers who murdered Alton Sterling in cold blood." The petition names the two officers and describes in detail the nature of Sterling's death. The petition currently has 4,346 supporters, and is aiming for 5,000. You can find this petition here.
We the People: File Charges Against The Officers Who Murdered Alton Sterling
This petition, which targets the Department of Justice, lives on the White House website, and only has 18 of the required 100,000 signatures so far. The petition's aim is clear: "We the People demand a swift and just investigation into this case and for charges to ultimately be filed." You can sign this petition here.
Signing a petition is an easy way you can help fight for justice in Sterling's death, and these are just a few examples of how you can help him and his family.


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Dive into a tropical paradise with our Crispy Coconut Shrimp Dream recipe. Picture succulent shrimp coated in a crispy golden-brown armor of shredded coconut, each bite delivering a symphony of textures and flavors that transport you to sandy shores and swaying palms. This dish is a celebration of coastal cuisine, blending the sweetness of coconut with the savory delight of perfectly cooked shrimp.
- 1 pound large shrimp, peeled and deveined
- 1 cup shredded coconut
- 1 cup panko breadcrumbs
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- Vegetable oil, for frying
- In a bowl, mix the shredded coconut and panko breadcrumbs. Set aside.
- In another bowl, combine the flour, paprika, salt, and black pepper.
- Dip each shrimp into the flour mixture, then into the beaten eggs, and finally into the coconut-breadcrumb mixture, pressing gently to adhere.
- In a large pan, heat the vegetable oil over medium-high heat.
- Carefully place the coated shrimp into the hot oil and fry until golden brown and crispy, about 2-3 minutes per side.
- Remove from the oil and place on a paper towel-lined plate to drain excess oil.
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Prep Time: 20 minutes
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The Casimir Effect is an Oregon-based alternative pop-rock band founded in 2014 by Luke Kazmierowicz, Daniel Czyzewicz and Alexandra Czyzewicz. Following the release of their debut album Don’t Blink, the band was joined by bassist Owen Hoffman-Smith, pianist Jono Neher, and drummer Jacob Ignacio. These six musicians released the album "All We Have is Today" in Feb. 2019. Currently the band's members, Luke Kazmierowicz, Daniel Czyzewicz, Ally Czyzewicz, Cam Brown, Jono Neher and Matt Sutherland are hard at work on album number three!
The Casimir Effect pulls from a diverse range of influences to create a unique sound which combines Pop melodies and vocal arrangements with rock and electronic sounds, hip-hop beats, progressive song formats and more. Lyrical and musical integrity are important to The Casimir Effect, who strive to put a unique twist on conventional song formats and provide Pop music with a much needed boost in depth.
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Many of the Game Informer staffers share similar passions to our readers outside of video games – whether that be films, television shows, books, comics, tabletop games, or watching clips of creepy people on YouTube. To round out our end of year coverage we decided it would be nice to share our favorite songs of the year with the community. You'll notice that all of these songs are from albums that came out in 2011. That essentially eliminates any selections from Dan Ryckert, who stubbornly believes rock 'n roll (and therefore all creative music) died in 1978. But as this Spotify playlist shows, he's dead wrong.
Click here to enjoy the playlist.
If you want to make a game of it, see if you can predict which editors selected which songs.
Email the author Matt Bertz, or follow on Twitter, Google+, Facebook, and Game Informer.
Hope there's some Primus fans at GI. Green Naugahyde is a great album!
sweet this is pretty cool
I'm. Ot gonna make a spotify account. Forget it
Is there anyway the tracklist can be typed out to view? I'm interested in Gameinformers' choices.
I was skeptical going off of what I've heard in replays and podcasts, but I was pleasantly surprised. A number of these are on my own playlists.
I apologize, I don't own a Spotify music account.
Death Grips, Guillotine is one crazy song!


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wins recall vote by solid majority
recall referendum over the Chávez Presidency was decided in favour of the
president on 15 August.
According to the final results from the National Electoral Council
(CNE), the president was re-legitimated for his post by 59.1% of voters.
Turnout was very high with 69.9% voter participation.
The results confirmed pre-election voter survey trends, which
indicated that the ‘No’ vote had clearly gained ground since February
of this year.
The results of the referendum were audited separately by election
observers from the Carter Center and the Organization of American States,
which both confirmed the results.
President Chávez will now carry out his term until the end of his
mandate following the December 2006 presidential elections.
A resolution to political division, however, remains far from being
Despite objective audits of the results, the opposition has charged
that the referendum was plagued by “massive fraud” and promises to
challenge the outcome in the courts.
For the time being, however, the importance of the opposition on
the political stage is likely to diminish.
Opposition parties are likely to regroup and organize for the
upcoming 31 October nationwide elections for governors and mayors.
Any halt to the political stalemate is likely to be temporary.
Nevertheless, the strong vote in favour of President Chávez’s
administration is likely to ensure that a significant change to the
current unorthodox, populist economic policy is unlikely to materialize.
The resulting continuation of lax fiscal policy is likely to
sustain the high vulnerability of the economy to a sudden deterioration in
the oil price.
activity robust but slows
the second quarter, gross domestic product (GDP) grew 13.6% over the same
quarter last year, which exceeded market expectations.
In the first quarter, GDP expanded by 34.8% on the back of a
devastating recession in the same period the year before, when a prolonged
nationwide strike had wiped a full month from the accounting books.
However, by the second quarter last year, the economy was on the
Unlike the first quarter of this year, when private and public
output alike experienced a strong growth push, the second quarter
expansion was driven by private sector activity (+ 16.1% year-on-year).
The public sector, in contrast, grew at a more moderate 5.9% pace
over the same quarter last year.
With the second quarter release, the Central Bank also published
revised numbers for GDP last year, according to which economic activity
dropped a lesser 7.6%, well below the originally reported 9.4%.
sector activity slows despite robust prices
in the oil sector experienced a strong slowdown in the second quarter, as
growth moderated to just 3.5% over the same quarter last year, which was
just a fraction of the 70.1% expansion observed the prior quarter.
The slowdown came as a surprise, as the price for the Venezuelan
basket of crude oils averaged US$ 30.09 per barrel in the second quarter,
34.7% above the level recorded in the same quarter last year.
sector bolstered by financial services, construction and commerce drive
growth in the financial sector, construction and commerce drove up
economic activity in the second quarter.
Growth in the financial services industry continued to be very
strong, as activity rose 32.4% over the second quarter last year.
Similarly, construction output grew 28.2%, while activity in
commerce was up 27.9% for the same period.
With the exception of electricity and water as well as mining,
where activity was up 3.5% and 8.0% respectively, all other sectors
experienced double digit expansions.

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Why Donald Glover Always Wanted To Play Lando In 'Solo: A Star Wars Story'
Long before Donald Glover became Hollywood's real-est renaissance man, he was a 7-year-old kid from Georgia with a Lando Calrissian action figure and a penchant for all things Star Wars. And now, almost three decades later, Glover stars as Lando himself in May 25's Solo: A Star Wars Story — and he's more than aware of how huge a deal that is.
“The fact that [Lando] was 'high-end' … like, he was high-brow. You know, Han is kind of the ‘lower-brow' kind of thing. It’s really cool," says Glover when we chat during Solo's recent press day in LA, his legs slung over the arm of a sofa chair. "You don’t really see a lot of black characters like that, where it’s like" — here, Glover briefly assumes Lando's trademark side-eye and smirk — "‘Look at my city. Eat my food. Enjoy yourself. You’re all invited, of course.’ It was really nice.”
Like so many others, Glover grew up watching Billy Dee Williams play Lando in the original Star Wars franchise, and he understands now just how important the character was to him during his formative years. “As a child, it was my first toy and I was really into the movies,” explains Glover. "I think the great thing about it was, I didn’t think it was abnormal. I didn’t look at it as, ‘Oh, somebody looks like me.’ I think that’s what’s good about being young and those things existing. It’s normalized. I was like, ‘Yeah, he’s the star of the movie.’ I never overthought that.”
For young Star Wars fans of color today, seeing Glover as Lando could be just as big a deal, but when asked about that possibility, the actor chuckles. "I just feel like, if it happens to them the way it happened to me, just me being there is enough," he says, adding that due to the scope of representation in pop culture today, young fans might not "need to rely on Lando like that anymore."
Glover himself has contributed much to the film and TV world's "normalization," as he calls it, most notably with Atlanta, his critically-acclaimed comedy that tackles issues like race and class in America. Yet even with that kind of content existing today, there's no question that the character of Lando having such a prominent role in Solo feels very much like a triumph for both the Star Wars franchise and its fanbase. Authenticity and representation matter, especially for young viewers who'll likely make up a large chunk of Solo's audiences.
And Glover does acknowledge how big a deal it is that he landed the part, considering the invariable slew of odds stacked against anyone angling for a leading role in a Disney franchise. The actor recalls how, before he was cast in the film, he told his agent that “If they’re doing a Han Solo movie, I need to play Lando.” The agent responded, “OK. But I don’t like your odds.”
Yet Glover, of course, went on to beat those odds. "It feels good. It feels like hard work pays off, which, I know it doesn’t always," he says now. "Sometimes you work hard and then you just learn a different lesson. But it was way easier for me to do the role after [beating those odds], because I just felt like I was supposed to have it, a little bit."
After watching Glover's charming, charismatic version of Lando take the reins in Solo, it's easy to see why the actor feels that way. When it comes to the role of Lando, maybe Glover truly was always supposed to have it.


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Contributor’s Note: Legendary concert promoter Danny Zelisko joined The Don’s Hit List with The Don & The Grizz for the 255th episode via FAB Radio International. In this episode, Danny Zelisko discusses his book “All Exce$$ Occupation: Concert Promoter”, which has a foreword written by legendary baseball player Kirk Gibson and received rave reviews from Rob Halford, Roger Waters and Larry LeBlanc of Celebrity Access. Here is what they talked about:
0:00 – We start with the musical intro from “Please Please Me” By The Beatles
We begin to his book: All Access: Occupation: Concert Promoter
We talk about how The Beatles “Please Please Me” was the song that sparked his love for music
How The Beatles appearance on Ed Sullivan was the moment he knew what he wanted to do.
How this led to finding the band that will break into the mainstream
07:15 – Danny talks about the “Three Venue Climb” bands like Jane’s Addiction, Bon Jovi, Alanis Morrissette, and Pat Benatar. The three venue climb is when a band starts with a small venue and then in one year they move to a mid level venue, and then to a full arena. Danny talks about how bands should return quickly to a market where they are getting hot especially when they are a young band. He talks about when the opposite happened with Hanson.
10:12 – We ask Danny if he was motivated by the love of helping bands or was it the love for money. He replies in detail.
14:20 – We asked Danny what was the fastest largest selling concert he had been involved with promoting. He answers in detail.
15:59 – Who else remembers camping out in front of a Ticketmaster outlet for getting tickets. Danny talks about camping out for Rolling Stones tickets. You should hear what traded 2 of the 6 tickets for…
17:15 – He talks about a 6 month period of some of the greatest concerts that you could imagine.
Humble Pie, King Crimson, YES, David Bowie, and Rolling Stones. As this was happening he thought to himself, I need to be involved with promoting concerns. Danny explains how he got to build on this to turn it into a career.
31:09 – Danny tells a great story about advice he received from The Allman Brothers where he told Danny to go to a show and blend into the road crew and start loading gear. This is a great story. This involved the band Yes and Bill Graham.
36:06 – Danny tells the story of the band that got away: Journey. This is a fantastic story and a life lesson.
Fans can pick up a copy of the book “All Exce$$ Occupation: Concert Promoter” by Danny Zelisko via Amazon here.
Fans can find this episode featuring Danny Zelisko via SoundCloud below:


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Have you seen an amount deducted every month from your pay slip for something called “Bituach Leumi” (ביטוח לאומי) and you didn’t understand what it was? Or maybe you just don’t understand why you’re paying for the Israeli National Insurance even though you’ve been told that as a B1 visa holder, you’re not eligible for it?
Here is why.
According to the Israeli National Insurance Law, employers of foreign workers must report the employment of foreign workers and pay an insurance premium for them. The coverage for foreign workers is limited and does not grant public health services. For this reason, the insurance premium is relatively small.
Who needs to pay and how much?
In the case of a foreigner working in caregiving or in household work, the employer has to pay the employee’s national insurance premiums himself (without deducting anything from the employee).
In all other sectors, the employer may deduct from the salary the employee’s share of the national insurance premiums.
This is how national insurance payments are calculated (for workers in the general sector, not caregiving or household):
From the part of your salary up to 6,331 NIS, the fee is as follows:
|National Insurance fee||% 0.59||% 0.04||% 0.63|
For the part of your salary from 6,331 NIS and up to 45,075 NIS, the fee is as follows:
|National Insurance fee||% 2.65||% 0.87||% 3.52|
Employers of foreign workers in caregiving or in household work, have different directives, and some exemptions apply. You can find more information about it here.
Please note that it is the responsibility of the employer to pay the above fees to national insurance, and no action is required by the employee.
What am I covered for?
As we mentioned above, the coverage for foreign workers who aren’t considered Israeli residents (as they don’t hold a visa that grants a residency status), is pretty limited and does not include public health services.
The National Insurance Institute provides foreign workers with insurance for:
- Work accident victims allowance
- Allowances connected to motherhood such as birth allowance, maternity grant, child allowance
- Liquidation or bankruptcy of the employer
- Casualties of terrorism acts
In addition, there are certain countries (mostly European countries) that have bilateral agreements with Israel, and therefore citizens of those countries are eligible for additional coverage. You can read more information about those conventions and the coverage here and here.
In the case of an insured event that meets the relevant criteria, the foreign worker will have to submit a claim to Bituach Leumi in order to get the allowance they are entitled to. For this, please reach out to your employer to get your Bituach Leumi file number.
Read more about the criteria for eligibility for allowance here.
We hope this article helped you understand your social rights as a foreign worker a bit better!