With the first phase of the restoration of the Dayton Arcade nearing completion, ThinkTV, the Dayton Metro Library and Cross Street Partners have teamed up for a week-long celebration of the history and future of the iconic Dayton Arcade.
An exhibit of the Dayton Arcade’s rich history will be on display at the Dayton Metro Library, 215 E. Third Street. The exhibit, featuring memorabilia from the early history of the Arcade and the Save the Arcade campaign, will be on display through February in the Dayton Room on the Main Library’s second floor. The photographs, art and artifacts can be viewed in the windows of the Dayton Room. Visitors who wish to go inside the room should call the library at 937-463-2665 to schedule a time for their visit.
“We’re pleased to host this look at the Arcade’s grand past,” said Special Collections Manager Jamie McQuinn. “The Dayton Room is home to hundreds of vintage photos of the city of Dayton, and the Arcade has long been one of its greatest gems.”
To continue the week-long celebrating, ThinkTV will premiere the first of their three-part documentary – Dayton Arcade: Waking the Giant – at 9pm on Monday, November 16, on ThinkTV16. It will also be made available on the ThinkTV website and on the PBS Video App. The first part of this exclusive, local documentary gives a behind-the-scenes look at the beginning phases of the restoration of the Dayton Arcade with the remaining two-parts of the documentary expected to premiere later in the year of 2021.
“The Dayton Arcade documentary is a story that reflects the hope, resilience and future of the Dayton community. Capturing this story while this transformation has been happening behind historic walls has been nothing short of a privilege for our team to work on,” ThinkTV President and CEO Kitty Lensman said.
Excitement is stirring in anticipation of the reveal of the Dayton Arcade’s transformation. Cross Street Partners oversaw this massive project from the beginning and have worked to ensure that the historical beauty has been preserved while maximizing functionality.
“Cross Street Partners, Model Group and McCormack Baron Salazar are working to recast the building in much the same way it was initially developed in the first decade of the 20th century — with a mix of retail, offices, event space and apartment housing. The first phase of the project, the South Arcade, will consist of an innovation center with the University of Dayton as a higher education partner in addition to a 110-unit residential LIHTC and market rate development for artists and creative entrepreneurs. The second phase, the North Arcade, will include a shared commercial kitchen program, a marketplace retail and restaurant environment, and micro-lofts or hospitality user space,” said David Williams, senior director of development of Cross Street Partners.
To learn more about ThinkTV’s three-part documentary, visit www.thinktv.org/dayton-arcade. For additional information about the Library’s exhibit, visit www.DaytonMetroLibrary.org or call 937-463- 2665. Details about the renovation of the Dayton Arcade can be found at www.arcadedayton.com and @DaytonArcade on social media.


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BOLTON missile-maker MBDA has won the prestigious Queens Award for Enterprise in the innovation category.
It has scooped the gong for developing the Brimstone radar guided anti-armour missile.
The converted weapon becomes the Dual Mode Brimstone and is regarded as a great British success story by defence industry experts.
According to MBDA, it has been accomplished through a combination of technical advances, cost effectiveness and the re-use of existing Brimstone missiles already in the the Royal Air Force (RAF) inventory.
MBDA’s executive group director technical and managing director UK, Steve Wadey said: “As the highest business award in the UK, an accolade of this significance and recognition is a tremendous achievement and one that we take huge pride in.
“The technology at the heart of Dual Mode Brimstone is truly world beating and is symbolic of the difference innovation can make for our customers and the crucial role MBDA products have in delivering enhanced military effectiveness.”
The innovation was achieved at a fraction of the cost of procuring a new weapon system and in significantly reduced timescales.
The system was available when most needed by the RAF as MBDA were able to replenish stocks quickly during simultaneous military operations in Libya and Afghanistan because it is a UK-sourced weapon and MBDA had a surge production capability.

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Premio Balzan 2016 per relazioni internazionali: storia e teoria
Discorso di ringraziamento – Berna, 17.11.2017 (video + testo – inglese)
President of the Swiss Confederation,
Members of the Balzan Foundation,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
It is a great honor to receive the Balzan Prize in International Relations: History and Theory. My mentor, Professor Stanley Hoffmann, was awarded the Balzan Prize twenty years ago, which makes this occasion even more meaningful for me.
Observers of international politics have emphasized for hundreds of years that sovereign states, legally recognized by other states and with autonomy over their domestic institutions, are the dominant actors. Those states that are capable of doing so control their borders, determining who and what can move in and out. States can make treaties but they also make war. As a result, world politics is conventionally referred to as a realm of “anarchy” – denoting lack of common government and often implying an absence of international cooperation.
Although this account of world politics has been accurate for some periods of history, it offers little explanation for the rapid growth of formal international organizations in the 20th century. International organizations are entities established under international law with a bureaucracy and at least three sovereign states as members. By one careful count, there were no such organizations in 1850, 25 in 1900, 50 in 1920, 100 in 1950, and 350 by 2000. That is, during the 20th century, the number of formal international organizations doubled roughly every 25 years.
The contrast between the theory of “anarchy” and the reality of extensive cooperation generated the puzzle that I sought to resolve. How could we explain institutionalized cooperation among sovereign states having no common government? Clearly, states remained important and their interests often clash, so there is more discord than harmony. Yet despite that discord, institutionalized cooperation has become quite common.
My explanation assumed that states make broadly rational strategic choices, which implies that these cooperative networks and organizations served their interests. I developed what I called a “functional theory” of international cooperation: states create institutions because they perform coordination and regulatory functions that are valuable for states. In particular, these institutions provide information to states, and reduce the costs of transactions among them, in situations where policy coordination is mutually beneficial. The more dense the pattern of mutually beneficial economic and social relationships among societies, the more valuable multilateral institutions are.
During the second half of the 20th century, interdependence has expanded rapidly, producing what we now describe as “globalization.” The aggregate benefits of globalization are substantial, and so are the benefits from the multilateral institutions that help to regulate it. Without institutions there would be less cooperation. Without cooperation, discord would generate conflict and likely precipitate the collapse of relationships in trade, finance, and direct foreign investment, as well as efforts to cope with collective problems such as refugee movement, climate change policy, and terrorism.
This argument reveals the shallowness of the claim frequently made – not least by the current US administration – that states pursue their own interests in competition with one another. Indeed, they do pursue their own interests and they do compete. But the key questions are: How do they define their interests and through what means do they compete? States can compete by trying to make their societies more attractive to others – what Joseph Nye has called “soft power” – or by using military force to coerce others. The soft power world is likely to be a much better world than the hard power world. Ironically, following policies that equate self-interest with trying to compete on a hard power basis is unlikely to achieve self-interest in the end.
Although neither states nor self-interest are about to disappear, they don’t have to. Leaders and publics should recognize that far from being antithetical to self-interest, institutionalized cooperation is in the interest of all governments that are focused on the well-being of their own peoples. We need the World Trade Organization to prevent a cycle of protectionism and trade wars. We need the United Nations Security Council to provide a channel for pressure on North Korea short of war and to organize peacekeeping within countries torn by civil war. We need the G-20 and central bank cooperation to promote measures to reduce the risks of another financial collapse. We need the UN High Commissioner for Refugees to encourage states to admit refuges in a relatively fair way. Multilateral cooperation is neither an idealistic enterprise nor a naïve fantasy. On the whole, it promotes our interests, it may encourage us to define our interests in a positive way, and it softens the edges of discord.
I am currently engaged in thinking about how to encourage interstate and transnational cooperation to solve the pressing problem of climate change. With my Balzan Prize money, I hope to encourage higher quality and better-focused research by younger scholars on this issue. Once again, let me indicate my profound gratitude for the confidence placed in me by the Balzan Foundation and the Selection Committee.

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Seoul and Beijing continued sparring over Chinese Ambassador Xing Haiming’s recent controversial remarks, with President Yoon Suk Yeol questioning whether the envoy “has an attitude of mutual respect or friendship befitting a diplomat,” according to multiple sources Tuesday.
Yoon reportedly made the remarks at a Cabinet meeting Tuesday morning during the closed-door portion of the meeting, suggesting that the ongoing diplomatic row between Seoul and Beijing over the ambassador’s recent criticism of Korea’s foreign policy amid flaring Sino-U.S. tensions could escalate further.
Officials who took part in the meeting told Yonhap News Agency that Yoon also said that “the Korean people are displeased with Ambassador Xing’s inappropriate behavior.”
Seoul is waiting for Beijing to “take the appropriate measure” following Xing’s controversial remarks, a senior presidential official told reporters later Tuesday.
The official pointed out that the ambassador’s actions ran contrary to diplomatic protocol and logic, noting that diplomats are required to abide by the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. The convention stipulates that diplomats have a duty to respect the laws and regulations of the receiving country and not interfere in the internal affairs of their host country.
During a Thursday meeting with Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung, Xing said in a speech in front of reporters that “some are betting that the United States will win and China will lose,” and warned that “those who now bet on China’s defeat will surely regret it later.”
Xing’s remarks, which have been interpreted as a warning to Seoul against siding with Washington over Beijing, quickly ignited a huge political storm in Korea, with some lawmakers in the conservative People Power Party (PPP) calling it the “worst diplomatic disaster” the country has faced.
The remarks led to both countries’ foreign ministries summoning their top envoys to lodge protests.
Lim Soo-suk, a spokesman of the Korean Foreign Ministry, said in a press briefing Tuesday afternoon that the problem with Xing’s remarks “lies in intentionally criticizing our government’s policy with inaccurate information.”
In a press briefing Tuesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin didn’t immediately respond to the Korean government’s request for “appropriate action” against Xing.
He instead expressed “regret” over recent Korean news reports on Xing, including allegations that the ambassador received free accommodation at a luxury resort operated by a Chinese company in Korea.
Wang said it was Xing’s duty “to engage and interact with various figures from different circles” in Korea as a diplomat and enhance understanding and promote cooperation.
It is interpreted that China virtually rejected the Korean government’s request for action against Xing.
When asked about Beijing’s response, another presidential official told reporters later Tuesday, “I believe our Foreign Ministry will respond appropriately to the position issued by the Chinese Foreign Ministry.”
The official however didn’t elaborate further on if appropriate action demanded by Korea means the replacement of Xing as ambassador to Seoul.
“Korea-China relations have always been conducted with the principles of mutual respect, promotion of friendship and pursuit of common interests,” he added.
On Monday, the presidential office gave its first remarks on the controversy. A presidential official told reporters regarding Xing that if an ambassador’s “bridging role is not done appropriately, it may harm the national interests of the host country, as well as that of the home country.”
The White House National Security Council in turn referred to Xing’s remarks as a “pressure tactic,” highlighting that Seoul is a “terrific ally” that has the right to make foreign policy decisions deemed appropriate on its own.
“It certainly appears as if there was some sort of pressure tactic here used,” said John Kirby, a U.S. National Security Council spokesman, in a press briefing Monday in Washington. “South Korea is a sovereign, independent nation; a terrific ally; and a great friend not just in the region, but around the world. And they have every right to make the kinds of foreign-policy decisions they deem are appropriate.”
He had been asked by a reporter if Xing’s comment that South Korea would “regret” siding with the United States was an attempt to retaliate against Seoul.
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Back when I was in the planning stages of my January break I knew that I was going to spend some time in Portugal with Kiara but I didn’t know how I should get back. She had to return to work at Les Grands Ballet in Montreal 3 days before I had to return to France. 3 precious days. In Europe.
Well thanks to some flight cancellation snafus 3 days turned to 2 which wasn’t a problem because it meant more Mafalda time in Lisbon! (and the extra day we used to go to Sintra which I loved). Using my superawesomely-honed flight search skills I compared Places to Go with Places that are Cheap and Easy to Get To and the matrix settled on Madrid.
To be honest Madrid has never loomed large on my list of places I wanted to go. I’d been to Barcelona and it became my first favorite city (a distinction now shared with New Orleans and Paris) but somehow it’s demure big sister Madrid never called to me. But then again neither had Prague and I ended up adoring Prague.
Being the third largest city in the EU I knew I had my work cut out for me with only 36 hours. But after all those steep Portugese hills (14% grade!) and vegan buffets (yes- you can get overstuffed on vegan food) I was moving a little slow. I embraced a casual pace and still managed to cover a ton of ground in quite the eclectic manner. Generally a trip falls into a certain category like food, adventure, culture, relax/ leisure. Mine was all of those things rolled into one still leisurely package. I even took an hour long joyride the wrong direction on the metro! (The Madrid metro is fantastic by the way). Some days are just longer than others. The only thing I didn’t do was take part in Madrid’s famous nightlife culture or you know, ride a duck boat, but to be honest those things are probably never going to be on my list.
So let’s get started!
My AirBNB host gave me a very strange look when I asked him on my arrival (this was 9pm) if there were restaurants still open nearby. “Yes everything will be open until midnight.” Well I didn’t know! I live in a country where things are shuttered at 7pm. Anyway, he was giving me weird vibes so I dropped my bag and headed out to the closest vegetarian restaurant I could find, a place called Viva Burger. It is always when I am in a country that does not speak English or French that I realize that my French really has come a long way! Looking at the menu in Spanish (they don’t cater to English tourists with English menus like they do in Portugal) I just gave up because I was in a vegetarian restaurant after all. I just pointed to whatever and it was seriously amazing.
My first stop on my one full day in Madrid was coffee (duh) and I ordered the traditional tosta con tomate for breakfast. I was surprised that the tomato was not sliced but more of a marmalade in a tiny jar. Then it was off to my epic walking tour to hit up all the “must-see” sites in Madrid. Many markets, some palaces and about a million plazas. And a nice respite in the Parque del Buen Retiro as a highlight.
On my walking tour I decided that Madrid is basically plazas, parks and palaces. And statues. At one point I stopped at La Mallorquina, a famous bakery that has been open since 1894 and for good reason. This napolitana is the best thing I’ve ever eaten. Except maybe that salad up above. Seriously the only thing more rampant than my love for sweet foods is my love for vegetables. This place was bustling with locals and tourists. You order at the counter when you can elbow your way in and stand there and eat at the counter. This was like the best warm chocolate chip cookie you’ve ever eaten but with a flaky, buttery croissant texture. Heaven.
After my walking tour of the sites I chunked Madrid out into neighborhoods. In Chueca, the so-called gay neighborhood, I really had to go to the bathroom so I went in the closest place near me. Turns out that sometimes the call of nature brings you to unexpectedly delightful places. Bee Beer was a cozy brewpub where I ended up talking to the daughter of the master brewer for quite a long time about different types of beer, lifestyles in Europe vs the Americas (she is originally from Venezuela and like me, took time adjusting to the slower pace of European life) and our dreams for life.
Earlier in the day I’d stopped in at the cultural museum. Now I was going to hit up the Prado Museum, Madrid’s biggest museum and considered the finest collection of European art in the world. Best of all it’s free from 6pm- 8pm. I didn’t mind waiting in the long line for free admission- it made me happy that so many people wanted to get their art on! Once inside I immediately made a beeline for the temporary exhibit of Cai Guo-Qiang, a Chinese artist who uses gunpowder to create fascinating pieces of art.
My stomach was not feeling so hot on this trip to Madrid – possibly because of all the hunks of animal parts that seemed to hang from every window. My trip to a reputedly “radical feminist vegan cafe” was underwhelming. It seemed like an ordinary cafe with a few …anatomically womanly…pictures on the wall (if you know what I mean). But I persevered and got the famous churros at Chocolateria San Gines and was treated to a spectacular street performance. The buskers in Madrid are so over-the-top and passionate, I love it. One woman even threw herself to the ground in a passion while she was singing.
My legs were a bit fatigued after nine days of adventuring in the sun so before dinner I took a stop at a hammam- a traditional Turkish bath. I was a bit disappointed that it wasn’t nude but I’ve already had one experience in Spain where I was naked when I wasn’t supposed to be so…. The rental suit was too big however so I may have flashed some derrière after all.
After an hour soaking in hot baths I strolled down the famous Calle Cava Baja in La Latina district to find tapas. I ended up in this perfect little tapas restaurant where my glorified grilled cheese and Spanish wine put the perfect cap to my time in Madrid.
Madrid is known for tapas, flamenco, bull-fighting and football (that’s soccer to you Americans). I didn’t partake in 3 of those 4 things so maybe I didn’t get the true flavor of Madrid. It seemed to me like any ordinary City. I can’t help but see a city in relation to others. Having just come from the crumbling beauty of Portugal where relics from the 1100s still stand, Madrid seems positively new. Streets full of shops like H&M and Taco Bell didn’t put me in the mood of wow European grandeur! But hey, it’s a modern city and we can’t expect it to remain a fairytale village just to suit my American tourist dreams. And also that’s a little unfair- there are definitely plenty of beautiful and old sites in Madrid. Some cities you just vibe with and others you’re like, OK I’m glad I went but I’m not going to rush back.
Side note: One thing that is really cool about Madrid is there are free climbing walls dotted throughout the city- on underpasses, on the sides of buildings, anywhere you can drill a few holds! It’s really neat!

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MEXICO CITY -- Mexico and the United States agreed in principle Thursday to open U.S. highways to Mexican long-haul trucks, ending a lingering safety dispute that prompted Mexico to impose more than $2 billion in retaliatory tariffs on U.S. exporters.
"After nearly 20 years, we finally have found a clear path to resolving the dispute over trucking between our two countries," President Obama said at a White House news conference with Mexican President Felipe Calderon at his side.
The agreement calls for Mexico to lift 50 percent of its retaliatory tariffs immediately while Mexican truckers undergo safety, language and driver training.
Obama said that he would move ahead "in a way that strengthens the safety of cross-border trucking, lifts tariffs on billions of dollars of U.S. goods, expands our exports to Mexico and creates jobs on both sides of the border."
U.S. Rep. Doc Hastings said the announcement falls short of what the area's agriculture-based economy so desperately needs.
"This administration has had almost two years to resolve this issue, and I encourage President Obama to conclude these negotiations and bring an end to these tariffs immediately. Washington state growers and processors simply cannot afford any more delays," Hastings said in a statement.
The agreement takes a major step toward removing a crushing burden on Washington farmers, said Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash.
"Resolving this dispute will boost Washington exports and agricultural jobs. With the removal of these barriers, Washington farmers would be better able to compete fairly in the Mexican market," she said in a statement.
But Teamsters union President Jim Hoffa charged that the agreement "caves in to business interests," adding that "Mexican trucks simply don't meet the same standards as U.S. trucks."
And a group representing 152,000 independent truckers said the agreement would make their struggle to survive amid a sour economy even more difficult.
"Simply unbelievable," Todd Spencer, executive vice president of the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, said in a statement. "For all the president's talk of helping small businesses survive, his administration is sure doing their best to destroy small trucking companies and the drivers they employ."
The 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement that binds Mexico, the United States and Canada authorized U.S. and Mexican carriers to cross the border, but Washington imposed a ban after the Teamsters union and its allies in Congress claimed that Mexican trucks were unsafe.
Mexico later won a NAFTA dispute settlement saying the ban violated the treaty, but it didn't impose retaliatory tariffs until 2009.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Trucking Association praised Thursday's move, while the Teamsters said an accord would bring danger to U.S. highways.
"It is long past time for the United States to live up to its trade commitment and allow cross-border trucking services. This delay put more than 25,000 jobs at risk," the chamber's president, Thomas J. Donohue, said in a statement.
A trucking agreement would end "job-killing tariffs" by Mexico, he added, and offer "certainty to trucking companies and shippers throughout North America."
Hoffa, however, said the accord wouldn't benefit U.S. trucking companies.
"Given the drug violence, there's no way a U.S. company would want to haul valuable goods into the Mexican interior," Hoffa said.
A White House statement said the two nations agreed on "a phased-in program built on the highest safety standards."
Once a final agreement is reached, Mexico will reduce punitive tariffs by 50 percent, removing the remaining 50 percent when the first Mexican truck is granted permission to enter the U.S.
Mexican truckers will have to abide by U.S. motor-safety standards, undergo periodic screening for illegal drug use and comply with U.S. rules on how many hours each day they can drive.
The agreement will require approval from Congress.

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The blog is dead, long live the blog!
The past week has been in the 90’s here, and without air conditioning or a range hood, I’ve been cooking during the cooler nights and stocking the refrigerator with cold salads.
My favorite new food item is wheatberries (whole wheat kernels minus the hull). I had seem them for a long time in the bulk section of natural food stores but dismissed them as something only a health nut would choke down. I was finally persuaded to try them by Mark Bittman in How to Cook Everything Vegetarian who wrote that they were one of his staple ingredients, ranking them as good as polenta. So there! I cooked them simply by boiling them in water, always making sure they didn’t dry out. They took about an hour but by the end they were deliciously nutty and chewy and left a sweet aftertaste sort of in the same way artichoke hearts do. Does that sound unappetizing? I don’t mean it to–I should instead them as having a texture between brown and wild rice, with a nuttier flavor. That sounds better. If I was reading this and was not yet convinced to try them, this would be the place to mention they cost less than a dollar a pound and are really good for you…
My favorite recipe so far is a wheatberry salad with cabbage and course mustard from Bittman (HTCEV p. 85). So refreshing, flavorful, and crunchy, I made nearly two gallons of it and it was gone in less than two days. Besides cooking the wheatberries the night before, it was a snap to make using pre-shredded cabbage from TJ’s. (Lazy, I know…) I intend to try the rest of his wheatberry recipes before the end of summer and will report back.
My refrigerator+cabinet surprise/recipe of the week was a pasta salad: whole wheat penne with broccoli and shaved parmesean tossed in walnut oil, a little greek yogurt, lemon juice, salt, hot pepper flakers, and lemon zest, which added a nice complex flavor. Due to a pasta-draining mishap, the ratio of penne to broccoli was 1:1 and although this wasn’t my original idea, I think it was pretty good. Nice layered flavors, right amount of acid/salt/cheesiness…. I’d go on but after remarking that she liked it, Deb noted it was reminiscent of cold mac and cheese. I might tinker with it a bit next time and skip the urge to make the dressing creamy.
Although it was not a salad, I have to endorse Mom’s advice for the bag of fava beans we got from our CSA earlier this month. Rather than laboriously prepare them in the kitchen for a small pile of parboiled, shelled, and sauted beans, we ate them raw according to specific direction. We sat outside with a bottle of Chianti, a baguette, a wedge of Parmesan, butter, and sea salt and just shucked and nibbled for two hours over conversation. I could do it weekly, but sadly, their season is just about a week long. Till next year!
Plans for the rest of this hot weather week include wild rice salad with roasted peppers, green olives, and corn, baked kale with peaches and balsamic (unless that’s vetoed as too weird), and sweet potato/apple burgers with a butter lettuce salad. Any ideas for what to do with a box of figs purchased impulsively?

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NEW YORK (CBS.MW) - Sprint FON, -10.00% pcs said at its annual investor meeting that it while it continues to face significant competition and pricing regulation challenges, it sees its financial and operating performance improving in 2004, amid signs of an improving economy. The telecommunications giant said it expects losses of 13 to 18 cents a share at its PCS Group and earnings of $1.37 to $1.42 at its FON Group in 2004, vs. current average analyst estimates compiled by Reuters Research of a loss of 20 cents and earnings of $1.38, respectively. For 2005, PCS expects to earn 20 to 30 cents a share, and FON expects earnings growth in the "high single-digit to low double-digit" percentage range. PCS shares closed Tuesday down 11 cents at $8.13 and FON shares fell a nickel to $17.95.
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Carolyn Cagney says a faulty digital printer cost Five Star Print more than $6m in lost business and almost brought down the whole company.
The Kodak Nexpress SX, bought at PrintEx in 2011, was supposed to cut costs for the Adelaide firm’s digital operations and bring it into the offset market.
Instead, the 15-year-old side business Graf-X Pty Ltd was put into administration last week after a long-running dispute with suppliers over the performance of the printer.
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Cagney, managing director of the company, told ProPrint revenue collapsed as poor print quality and constant mechanical issues forced an exodus of clients and contracts.
“We had a good little digital business and it was completely destroyed by one lemon press – we went from a turnover of $1.5m to only $200,000 in three years,” she says.
“It cost $800,000 in repayments and $300,000 for clicks but most of the work jammed, or the quality was so terrible it went straight in the bin.
“We lost business, clients, contracts, ruined our quality and reputation. It just about sunk the whole of Five Star. I sat here in tears so many nights wondering what to do.”
Cagney would not say what the printer is or which company supplied it because she is considering legal action, but the suppliers have confirmed to ProPrint the model in question.
According to Konica Minolta, which sold Five Star the machine, Kodak has certified it as being in working order and administrators have already found a buyer.
“The manufacturer has inspected it and found nothing wrong with it. In our view the problem was operator error, not the printer,” a Konica Minolta spokesman says.
Cagney says Five Star staff spent years trying to get the printer to work properly and she even had to give clients back about $70,000 because it could not deliver.
“I can’t believe they would say it was operator error,” she says. “We worked our arses off, my operator tried so hard to make it work and he is so upset by that suggestion.
“Even the manufacturer’s own tech people couldn’t get it running.”
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Cagney also claims the manufacturer has charged Five Star for 30,000 clicks in a recent four week period when the machine has been turned off in resignation for the past three months.
She claims the manufacturer refuses to service her CTP equipment, which it also supplied, until Five Star pays up.
“I can’t believe they are just going to walk away from all this. Their attitude is ‘just try and fight us, we are bigger than you’,” Cagney says. “We told ASIC and the ACCC but they have done nothing.”
Cagney says all creditors from Graf-X Pty Ltd will be paid in full by the main Five Star business and all employees will be transferred over to run its digital operations using two new digital machines – a Fuji Xerox Color 1000 Press and a Versant 2100.
Cagney started Graf-X in 1990 as a prepress house and then added digital in 2000. Before buying the Nexpress it used a HP Indigo 5500.
She bought Five Star in 2003, registered as Tone Block Pty Ltd under which the company will now solely under, and today uses three Heidelberg presses for offset work.
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Strengthening the dance ecosystem in Romania (May-December 2023)
Instead of introduction…
If a documentary were made about contemporary dance in France or Germany, it would be a film about great creative figures, about performances that have made history and about aesthetically revolutionary approaches or styles.
In Romania, however, it would be a film about the stubbornness of a few artists to overcome their lack of means, about their success, beyond expectations and obstacles, in getting dance institutionally recognised as an art in its own right – by setting up a national dance center – about the constant struggle for visibility and recognition despite precariousness.
The Goethe-Institut and the French Institute in Romania have been running cultural cooperation projects for several years, co-financed by the Franco-German Cultural Fund, a fund whose mission is to support initiatives through which artists and structures from France and Germany collaborate with artists and structures from other European countries, including Romania.
This year, in partnership with the CNDB, the Goethe-Institut and the French Institute in Romania have conceived and are implementing a project dedicated to the Conemporan dance: Gestures Blooming – Strengthening the dance ecosystem in Romania. The project aims to stimulate the local scene and creativity through the transfer of knowledge and practices in dance, drawing on the expertise of artists and structures in France and Germany.
In concrete terms, Gestures Blooming has 2 main axes:
For dancers and choreographers:
- Exploratory visits
Two choreographers and dancers from Romania, Eliza Trefaș (Ro) and Mariana Gavriciuc (Ro-Md), took part in the Camping programme at CND Paris from 21 to 30 June, with the support of the French Institute of Romania. This format, which is organised annually by the National Dance Centre – CND Paris, includes a substantial series of workshops for professionals, performances, film screenings, meetings, access to theoretical and specialist resources, as well as advice on becoming a professional dance artist.
CND Paris Camping 23 presentation HERE.
- Dance workshops
Intensive workshops in Targu-Mures, Iasi, Bucharest, Constanta
Info on workshops HERE.
For dance teachers:
- Intensive camp
Advanced contemporary dance pedagogy camp (Teach the Teachers) coordinated by Lauriane Madelaine, Pierre Chauvin, Sunia Asbach and Nadja Raszewski.
Info about the camp courses HERE.
The dance ecosystem in Romania faces many challenges – from infrastructure and educational content to means of production and public presentation – but this does not mean that it is devoid of artistic potential and international connections. The present project was conceived starting from systemic needs but also from existing positive points and aims to contribute to the strengthening of the local dance scene through various forms of intersection, transfer and connections with artists and structures in France and Germany.

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With Kotei season about to begin, I though this would be a good lesson to talk about for those players wanting to move up from casual level to competitive level.
L5R is a complex game but understanding metagaming is a lesson on its own.
“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.” – Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Let’s start with a definition of metagame. In competitive gaming, the metagame is a breakdown of an environment.
The L5R metagame can be broken down by win condition, by clan, and by specific deck design (occasionally). Even by doing so, predicting the metagame can be difficult for competitive L5R players.
Meta Cards tend to fall into one of two categories, cards that are used for specific match ups and those for more broad applications.
Narrow Meta tends to be used against a particular win condition, archetype, or even a specific strategy. Let’s look at some examples of narrow meta.
Marriage of the Emerald Champion
Marriage of the Emerald Champion is a non-Unique Event which was designed to hurt dishonor decks by not allowing them to dishonor or cause honor losses to a target personality for 3 turns.
A Time for Action
Another example of a narrow meta card would be A Time for Action. This event was designed to slow down honor decks by having them lose 5 honor if they have 21 or more honor.
A Fever in the Blood
A Fever in the Blood is a great event against Military based decks as it reduces Personalities and Followers force by 1 until your next turn begins.
Resist Magic is perfect example of a narrow meta card. It is designed to be used in a heavy Monk, Shugenja, and Spell environment.
The Turtle’s Shell
The Turtle’s Shell is another narrow meta but an important one in this format.
Tea House is a holding that is designed to negate Chi penalties until end of turn.
Narrow meta are much better when you have a better idea of what players are playing in a particular area. This can be no easy task without the proper information.
Broad meta tends to be more useful. These type cards are generally better against multiple different archetypes, win conditions, or strategies.
A New Alliance
Victory Through Deference
Cards like these are more than just normal meta cards. These cards have multiple applications. These are what you would call broad meta cards.
Yes, even a card as simple as this can be meta cards.
Bandwagon vs. Clan Loyalty
One reason it can be difficult to metagame is because of the number of players that choose to win by switching to a clan that is winning (called bandwagon) and the number of players that chose to play their clan regardless (called clan loyalty) can be hard to predict.
Some areas of the country are known for their clan loyalty. For example, the Chicago area is known for its high density of Crab and Unicorn players. This gives you a better idea of what to focus your metagame against knowing that you will see decks from those clans.
Even with clan loyalty being a thing in L5R, there are still many players who will band wagon and play a clan that is better suited to winning in an environment.
North American Style vs. Euro Style
Another thing to consider is the fact that there is really two unique styles of deck building and play.
The North American Style is “play to win.” We typically play a more aggressive game and most players take more risks.
The meta choices that we make in deck construction are usually made to help our deck’s matchup against decks that we expect to see at an event. With the North American Style, this tends to be against our weakest matchup for a particular event.
The Euro Style is much more defensive in nature. They typically play a more patient game. Most of the time the Euro Style is “play not to lose.”
With the Euro Style, they tend to play meta cards for every matchup.
An Example of Metagaming
During last year’s Kotei season, the players from Midwest part of the US got to a point where Ranged / Melee attacks had been so meta’d against that players had to find another way to win battles other than by shooting things.
Honor players who had been hit hard by the power of military and dishonor so far in the arc so most players were not even attempting to play the deck style.
James Matthews, after speaking to some friends before the St. Louis area Kotei, put together a deck for that event, went with a strategy most other players weren’t even trying.
He won the Kotei with the following deck (with tournament report here):
The Eternal Temple of the Phoenix
# Dynasty (40)
Bamboo Harvesters – exp
3 Bountiful Fields
2 Carpenter Shrine
3 Famous Bazaar
3 Nexus of Lies
Oracle of the Void – exp
3 Productive Mine
3 Temple of Serenity
Asako Kaitoko – exp
3 Isawa Amihiko
3 Isawa Genma
3 Isawa Kamiko
Isawa Kaname, Advisor to the Ruby Champion – exp
3 Isawa Kido
2 Isawa Kosea
Isawa Shunryu, the Infinite Eye
3 Shiba Kakei
# Fate (40)
3 Sparrow Clan Aide
Ring of Earth
3 Fear the Thunder
3 In Awe of the Earth
3 Kiyoshi’s Wrath
2 Seeking the Way
3 Suitengu’s Embrace
3 Trembling Earth
3 Ward of Air
2 Yojimbo of Earth
A Game of Dice
2 Breaking the Rhythm
2 Defending the City
3 Final Sacrifice
2 Pack Tactics
2 Versatile Army
2 Way of the Phoenix
James had put together this list with the help of Bob “The Wave” & Kenneth Martin and Daniel Briscoe that defied the logic up to this point in the season.
First off, this is a purely defensive honor deck. This deck style works out great in Military heavy fields but is terrible against other honor and dishonor decks. James was betting the house on him not playing against an honor or dishonor deck since he ran no Meta cards for either matchup. Lucky for him, he only played 1 honor deck (Luke Gregory in Top 4) and played against no dishonor decks.
The second major design change that he made was that he went to an overload strategy. The overload strategy is designed to overload your opponent with the same kind of action so that the few cards that he normally has to fight such a strategy. In James case, he used bowing as his overload strategy. His attempt was to bow as many of his opponent’s attacking cards as he could, win the battle, and gain a ton of honor. Most decks could not deal with that type of strategy.

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"I’ve been awaiting this book for years, and now I rejoice to hold it in my hands. Kim Stafford has distilled into these pages the wisdom of his long practice not only as a writer and teacher, but also as a son and husband and father, and as a citizen of the great community of Earth. Part minstrel, part wizard, he shows us that writing begins in listening, to outer as well as inner voices, and listening begins in wonder. If you want to stir up your art and soul, sit down with this inspiring book."
—Scott Russell Sanders, author of Hunting for Hope and The Force of Spirit
"Son of poet William Stafford, Oregon writer Kim Stafford offers a brief, gem-packed primer on the writer’s craft, drawing largely from his experiences as writer, teacher, and ‘professional eavesdropper.’ . . . A rich resource for any writer, but particularly for those who value writing as a path to personal fulfillment."
"This slim volume is a lyrically written treatise on Stafford's writing principles, which deal with all stages of development, starting with the first stimulus (or 'muse') and ending with the finished piece. . . . The book could be described as a series of impressions, beautifully composed and abstract enough to force the writing student to sense intuitively what the author wants to convey."
"The air in The Muses Among Us is rich with the scents of earth and what grows upon it. . . . Stafford has composed a handbook that will lead writers or would-be writers away from the esoteric details and back to the source: ‘a sense of abundance—rich knowledge and boundless curiosity.’ The Muses Among Us is a quick read with a lasting lesson."
"The book is a joy to read, offering both practical and abstract advice."
"A delightful invitation to listen to the unlikely. And although it can be read as a "how-to" for the writing instructor or writing student, it is more in that it inspires through Stafford's personal anecdotes and thoughtful and philosophical reflections."
—North Dakota Quarterly
"The Muses Among Us doles out philosophy from the writerly trenches. As an author and a teacher, Stafford has been there—this compassionate book may well guide others through the thickets of self-doubt to a place where writing is a pleasurable opportunity."
—Barbara McMichael, Tacoma News Tribune
Informing The Muses Among Us are Stafford's own convictions about writing—principles to which he returns again and again. We must, Stafford says, honor the fragments, utterances, and half-discovered truths voiced around us, for their speakers are the prophets to whom writers are scribes. Such filaments of wisdom, either by themselves or alloyed with others, give rise to our poems, stories, and essays. In addition, as Stafford writes, "all pleasure in writing begins with a sense of abundance—rich knowledge and boundless curiosity." By recommending ways for students to seek beyond the self for material, Stafford demystifies the process of writing and claims for it a Whitmanesque quality of participation and community.
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was played on: February 4th, 2017
in: Fort Atkinson , WI United States
“No more winter blues for us ”
We built an indoor fort using the Fort Kit we received as a Christmas gift. We added extra pillows for comfort and string lights for lighting.
Stop 1 of this card’s journey.

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Donna Jean Johnson, age 78 of Galesburg, Ill. died Monday June 16, 2014 at 3:30 am at the Knox County Nursing Home Knoxville, Ill.
Alice Marie Arnold, age 67 of rural Gilson, died at 3:01 pm Sunday, June 15, 2014 at Galesburg Cottage Hospital.
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois High School Association is accepting bids from cities that want to host the annual state high school basketball championship tournaments for 2016 through 2020.
NORMAL, Ill. (AP) — Illinois State University says former Indiana quarterback Tre Roberson has been added to the Redbird roster.
Some funds were allocated Monday night to a firm looking to redesign Rotary Park in Galesburg.
It will officially open in about a year’s time: the City of Knoxville’s brand new assisted living facility.
Police in Henry County are providing few details, but say they are investigating the theft of funds from a church in Galesburg.


Although on Thursday morning the common European currency traded against the US Dollar near the previous two trading session levels, which is above the 1.1250 mark, there is an additional detail to the rate. The currency exchange rate plummeted in the hour, which began at 10:00 GMT. The pair fell as low as the 1.12 level, and that event most likely triggered a lot of orders, as during the fall, which was clearly fundamental, the rate retreated below all this week’s relevant levels of significance. However, by 14:00 GMT the Euro was back above 1.1250 mark against the US Dollar. It is most likely that the fundamentals will continue to dictate the pair’s movements during the day, as the ECB is publishing their updated rate and hosting a press conference.


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Preeclampsia is a dangerous hypertension related complication of pregnancy.
In this video blog I include an an overview of the condition along with signs and symptoms of this condition. The seriousness of preeclampsia requires that this information be understood not only by moms-to-be, but also by partners, family, friends and caregivers. The complications of this condition can be life threatening.
Please take six short minutes to watch and learn the basics. At the end of the video there are some suggestion for discussion with your care provider.

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Well hello there peoples,
This last week has been a fun one for us in Picture Atlantic. Getting knee deep in album art, working on the final tweaks and turns for our new album, getting ready for some amazing shows (most notably our Mod themed Rock Hop on the 26th of this month). All in a weeks work.
We’ve also been doing really well, thanks to all your help, with our Kickstarter for the new album. We’re already at %73 completion and it’s only been 10 days. Really really really thankful for that, so a huge hug to all of you who are helping us make this happen. Definitely check out our Kickstarter here if you wanna donate to help us finish our new album: http://kck.st/KKLtCe
Lastly we’d like to say a quick word about our really good friends Please Do Not Fight. It was announced today, officially, that our long time comrades and brothers (+ sister) in arms will be disbanding as a group. We’re really sad to see such a huge part of our band’s history and life go away, but at the same time we’re extremely grateful for all the time we’ve spent with them.Without them I can think of a lot of great times that wouldn’t have been had. I’m personally consoled in the fact that I’m sure we’ll see music from them very soon, albeit under another name or in another form,but none the less I am excited to see what comes forth. Without a doubt it will be golden.
Much love to you all!


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How political spin and boredom foretold the Obama-Romney story
The reporter’s charge includes navigating the dense waters of spin alley.
Former Republican Congressman Rick Lazio
Democratic U.S. Sen. John Kerry from Massachussetts, left, and former Republican New York Gov. George Pataki both claimed the debate as a win for their candidate.
Republican Rep. Peter King
Romney supporter Jim Wilson’s iconic white pickup truck, which he uses to follow the Republican candidate from coast to coast.
Democratic U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer
Citi Field was the location last Saturday for gingerbread, dancing elves and Santa Claus at …
The annual Holidays on the Avenue celebration brought the spirit of the season to Downtown J…
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Dennis Weaver stars in this TV movie as a blue-collar family man who has earned his own keep for 40 years. He holds down a well-paying job at a Massachusetts factory–until one day, when he is summarily dismissed. The reason? He has spent his adult life harboring a terrible secret: he has never learned to read or write.
It’s 1969, and 17-year-old David Milgaard’s car has stalled near an alley where a woman is stabbed and murdered. Now he’s the main suspect and soon faces a life sentence for a crime he didn’t commit. His mother, Joyce, crusades for his release, but every attempt for appeal or parole is denied because he won’t admit to the crime he didn’t do. As David’s will to survive erodes, his mother’s determination to maintain her son’s innocence and fight to win his freedom thrives. Based on a true story.
A view of man’s perpetual struggle for self-destruction, in which we glimpse a world where rockets are part of everyone’s lives. In the end the red button is accidentally pressed by a careless caretaker, expressing the fear in all our minds.
A half-cast used cars salesman wants anything from the white society and is ready to do anything to get it. But when he is accused of murdering his half-sister who was killed with his rifle, he flees to an indian village. He doesn’t feel any more at home there than in the white city. He decides to go back to find and punish the killer.
A woman and her delinquent rebellious teen daughter return to their small hometown after the death of the woman’s distant father. Old wounds reopen quickly but they soon find a reason to stay. Will they find peace or more scars?
David takes his autistic child to a new therapy center and meets Dr. Rachel Lindsey. Their chemistry results in an affair that doesn’t help her already-shaky marriage.
Frac, a mime who is suffering from a severe bout of depression, happens to meet a troupe of circus entertainers and immediately falls in love with one of the stars, Giulietta. But while his affection for Giulietta and admiration for the performers gives him a new lease on life, Giulietta’s father, the leader of the troupe, opposes the relationship and is determined to keep them apart. Meanwhile, Frac and Giulietta discover a gang of children who are held prisoner by a criminal leader who forces them to do his bidding, and they devise a plan to win the kids their freedom.
This animated film paints a vivid portrait of two strangers intimately linked by the shared ceilings, floors and plumbing of their apartments. When an unexpected problem arises, these comfortable connections are compromised. Wendy Tilby uses a painstaking animation process involving painting on glass and stop-action filming.


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This educational article shows the versatility of an 1826 identity due to Niels Hendrik Abel by using it to derive a large number of corollaries, not all of which are particularly well-known. The author thinks that a brief review of what one can do with Abel's identity might be useful.
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Please, cite this online document as:
Sykora S., An Abel's Identity and its Corollaries,
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BHOPAL/JABALPUR: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Kailash Vijayvargiya on Monday said he doesn’t want to say anything more on his controversial ‘Surpanakha’ remarks, saying that everyone knows what he meant.
“Even my opponents know what I meant and I don’t want to give any new statement on it,”
Vijayvargiya said on Monday, declining to speak on the opposition Congress’s sharp reaction to his comment on Friday.
In a widely-circulated video that emerged on Friday, Vijayvargiya is heard saying: “We call women and girls Goddesses but girls wear such inappropriate clothes that you can’t see Goddess in them. Instead, they look like Shurpanakha”. The BJP general secretary went on to ask parents to inculcate the right values in children when they are young. “I am very worried about it,” he said in the video clip. HT cannot verify the authenticity of the video clip.
Sakshi Shukla Daga, president of the Indore unit of Madhya Pradesh Mahila Congress, said there were serious problems in the state including the challenge of drugs trafficking but he only comments on clothes worn by women. She said they have demanded the BJP leader’s apology.
MP Congress women president Vibha Patel asked the chief minister to speak up on this issue.
“Why is the chief minister silent on the insult of his sisters?” Patel asked rhetorically, before proceeding to answer her question. “BJP leaders are silent on this insult because this is their thinking about women. If Vijayvargiya doesn’t apologize, we will intensify our protest on the streets,” she said.


In the middle of a volatile cryptocurrency market, you might not care that Iranians have greater financial problems than citizens of the privileged world. For years, there have been considerable bans on Iranian nationals' activity – from access prohibition to the blocking of users and assets – on various crypto platforms.
Mahzad Elyassi is a journalist, writer and anthropologist from Iran.
Crypto exchanges such as Coinbase, Kraken, LocalBitcoins and the Blockchain.com website have restricted access to their platforms for all Iranian users. Crypto exchange platform Bittrex froze millions of dollars of Iranian users' crypto funds from 2017 to 2019 without any prior warning or explanation.
In a similar move, NFT (non-fungible token) marketplace OpenSea removed Iranians from its platform overnight in March 2022. There is no direct financial exchange on OpenSea, and yet not only have the NFT assets of Iranian artists and creators vanished, but also Iranian art buyers have lost their property without any warning.
Meysam is one of the creators who has lost his NFTs on this platform:
Against the ethos of decentralized finance (DeFi), decentralized exchanges such as ShapeShift and IDEX have banned Iranians from their platforms. The Uniswap front end has excluded Iran from the website, but the protocol itself – based on smart contracts hosted on the Ethereum blockchain – is still accessible to Iranians. The Uniswap ban was apparently discovered via a change on a code posted on GitHub, not by an official announcement on the website.
This is not just about crypto exchanges or NFT platforms. ConsenSys, the Ethereum software powerhouse, suspended the enrollment of 50 Iranian students in the middle of its online course, and Gitcoin, a crowdfunding platform, discontinued a campaign funded by grants aimed at helping Farsi-speaking women students (including women from Afghanistan) learn Ethereum coding.
This is what Salman Sadeghi, one of the Iranian students who received the scholarship from ConsenSys, wrote about the incident:
Iranian residents of Europe and the U.S. haven’t been exempt from such policies. Binance customer service allegedly mentioned that Iranians “by blood” were banned from the platform regardless of their place of residence. This could be a mere language mistake by a non-English-speaking employee, and yet no formal apology or explanation ever followed this shocking statement.
U.S. regulators' requirements come from the sanctions imposed by the U.S. government following its withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (commonly known as the “Iran deal”), which is supposed to target the assets and activities of Iran’s government as part of the Office of Foreign Assets Control’s sanctioned nations.
In practice, however, the restrictions have barely affected the regime’s agenda. Western countries have been insensitive to the fact that the closed crypto accounts belong to real human beings with hopes and dreams. It is easy to dehumanize people who are under sanctions, but some lives have been seriously affected by the bans.
“It's more than four months and my Bittrex enhanced account is disabled. They don't give me the right answer. I got a loan from the bank and invest in coins in Bittrex but they don't give back my money. I am losing my money and my house because of Bittrex,” said a 2018 tweet with the hashtag #bittrex_disabled_accounts from a user desperately trying to voice his loss.
Additionally, the scams have been growing in Iran’s crypto market thanks to the black market revolving around third parties claiming to be experts in bypassing sanctions by creating fake IDs. Surely, there would be those who are rightfully targeted by sanctions among the users, but indiscriminately targeting a country's whole population is comparable to bombing a wedding to kill a couple of terrorists lurking among the attendants.
I am working in Tehran in a shared space consisting of more than 600 startups, mostly staffed by a younger generation of educated people who are trying to think and work globally. Nevertheless, they are doomed to wrestle simultaneously with the restrictive internet-filtering policies imposed by their government and geo-blockades of blind obedience to international sanctions.
These talented people have been excluded from the news headlines and removed from international consideration. We are simply trapped in the political conflicts of governments. Banning all the users of a country not only blocks accounts but also wipes out a nation, culture and engagement – in a nutshell, freedom of expression.
The 1996 manifesto “A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" written by John Perry Barlow now sounds more like a fantastical utopia than ever before. We can repeat that the five pillars of blockchain tech are open, public, borderless, neutral and censorship-resistant, but while the exchange platforms are still abiding by fiat institutes’ monetary rules, it is dishonest to call bitcoin decentralized money for exchange.
Far from utopia
We are far away from the distributed ledger technology utopia once portrayed by enthusiastic users of blockchain forums. There is no genuine Bitcoin “community” as long as a part of the community shrugs off another part. It is hypocritical to pretend to function as an open-community decentralized platform while using the trend as an attraction, and then discarding the idea after reaching a considerable capital virtue that is required to be “regulated.”
Since we have accepted the surveillance of governments out of terrorism fears (which are usually created by those very governments), no wonder the dominance will grow increasingly stringent even for U.S. citizens and others dwelling in the “free” world.
Now that people from Iran, Venezuela and Cuba are barred from the community, tomorrow the community might shrink to even fewer “acceptable” users, cutting off crypto's nose to spite its face.
Iran’s economy is imploding under unprecedented sanctions. Inflation rates are hammering the middle class, which represent the main defenders of values such as freedom and democracy. But some people are concerned about peace and freedom, no matter from which country or nation citizens come. These people need to recognize one another and establish a dialogue.
As activists, we know that dehumanization begets aggression, discrimination and violence. The case of GitHub proves that geo-bans shouldn't be taken for granted – whereas defending the rights of all users will result in the free flow of information. Sanctions need more-efficient bureaucratic procedures, but the easier way, unfortunately, is to eliminate all people of a country rather than incur the cost.
As internet activists and believers in decentralized core principles, we should emphasize finding a solution to the prior presumption of innocence, not vice versa. We should react and protest against the irresponsible behavior of regulators who are supposed to provide services for cryptocurrencies. What we are doing right now will shape the future of cyber rights.


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You Gotta Hear This Album 1: Rod Stewart's Every Picture Tells a Story
There is mystery and there is tragedy, and when the two mix, there is a sorrow you never quite shake. That combination flows through much of Rod Stewart’s Every Picture Tells a Story, but it more obviously soaks Stewart’s career. I grew up with Rod the sad loser, the washed-up joke howling such disco-tinged atrocities as Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?, a moment aptly parodied on Saturday Night Live with two senior citizens giving performances about as good as the horrid song merits. He was the man who managed to turn Tom Waits’ moving Downtown Train into sappy easy listening fodder, and then, just to prove he had a knack for this sort of feat, he did the same to Van Morrison’s Have I Told You Lately? Even now, he hasn’t improved much; his last release was the currently trendy last gasp of has-beens, the standards collection. Volume two arrives in October.
So surely, one can forgive me if I have used old Rod as the butt of many of my best high school and college jokes. After all, the geezer scored huge hits with all three of the songs I mentioned in the last paragraphs, so nobody could escape him. Additionally, this mulleted goofball ran through blonde-haired women like whiskey, so frankly, he was ripe for abuse and begging for it.
The early and mid-nineties saw the release of an unplugged effort, and with it, Rod returned to airplay with weakened versions of many songs usually claimed as classics, so any music listener younger than myself can be immediately excused for laughing at pathetic Rod and staying clear of his albums. The vast majority of the man’s output deserves that response. I have had quite a bit of fun at the bum’s expense.
One listen to Every Picture Tells a Story, however, and I chocked on those chuckles. Rod’s pivotal work is frankly one of the best damn albums ever released, and the contrast of the brilliant artist who gave birth to this incredible work of raw yet intricate beauty and the used-up relic of the last twenty years belting out tired lounge tunes is startling and unspeakably sad. I know of no sharper decline in the history of rock music.
Rod has some great work before this record, but as the title above hints, this is not a history of Rod, but an attempt to twist your arm to give Every Picture Tells a Story a listen, even if you think of him in the terms I already described. If so, you are not prepared for this album. Stewart may well be quite calculated and synthetic now, a plastic mold cast of an aging star, but this album is alive and throbbing, steeped in earthy strains of folk traditions while shot through with the wild electricity of rock and roll. This album breathes with the fire of youth while conjuring the same rich, rooted traditions The Band mined on their early work, and while that baffling combination reads like a confused contradiction, it sounds natural and organic, and that is the key to Rod’s genius.
You can hear this the moment the disc spins. Slow, languid chords lazily stretch out of the speakers, beautifully sounding of a lost America of dreams, before falling asleep for a few seconds only to be awakened by a powerful, mushy gut-bucket drum beat racing with a wild, rollicking rhythm. The song, which gives the album its title, is a jubilant celebration of a young man’s lusty journey to see the world, a modern Fielding jaunt with comic episodes of danger and desire. With its insistent beat, tickling roadhouse piano rolls, and classic rhythm and blues backing vocals, it is a joyous, addictive celebration of a former boy out to conquer to world as a wild young man, and although the band is pretty much all acoustic strings and turn of the century instruments, it rocks in a way folk never did.
What you won’t hear, at least not at first, is just how world-weary and tired this lively lad can sound at times, even while roaming with the bloom of youth. In the future, you’ll spin this song again and again, and yet, you’ll never quite figure out how Rod manages this. Sure, there is something to that voice, but that still doesn’t quite explain it, not entirely. It is a mystery, and it is only the beginning.
You’ll notice this odd element throughout the first side, as Rod fills it refashioning three songs by other writers into his very own. Seems Like a Long Time starts with that same ancient piano from the previous song playing in the back of the room, followed by a drum roll that dies unexpectedly into a hushed, quiet song. Rod begins wishing for the light of day; perhaps he is that same youth from Picture now heart-broken and craving the end of a lonely night. Those background singers return, however, lending some of the weight of years to the chorus. A stinging guitar and rousing singing follows, but by the end of the song, Rod is singing, “War time is only the other side of peace time / But if you’ve ever seen how wars are won / You know what it’s like to wish peace time would come,” and somehow, that fresh red-cheeked lad sounds like he is a thousand years old.
It takes nerve to cover the tune that brought Elvis to fame; it takes something much more rare to make you forget that fact. Rod’s That’s All Right takes the bluster of the famous shrug-off and, with hints of a oompah-band, a few twangy guitar lines, and that ragged voice of his, manages to hint at an old blues master finally worn out and accepting his woman’s straying ways as he leaves town while retaining the invigorating rush Presley gave the tune. Next, he tackles Dylan’s Tomorrow is Such a Long Time, opening it with a country-gospel guitar, no doubt brought on to the porch of the church fresh off the fields, and runs through a few lines of Amazing Grace before shifting to the newer tune. Banjos and slide guitars plant the song into the dust of the rural West as Rod and his sad backing singer yearn for lost love. The language is old, the music is traditional, but the singer’s age remains elusive throughout the longing lyrics.
The remake of Dylan’s tune ends up the first side, and if you’re lucky and listening to this album on vinyl, you’ll flip the platter at this point. Sit down after setting the needle. Even after absorbing those four terrific songs, you are not ready for what you are about to hear, for while Every Picture Tells a Story, taken as a whole, may not be the greatest rock album in history, as a side, the second half has no equal. None. Bluntly, it is probably the best side of music any album by any rock artist has to offer, and you are in for a revelation.
Listen to those outdated plucked strings, sounding at least a century out of place here. The music is classical, but the instrument is from the country. It is festive, perhaps, but also, maybe, harboring hints of regret. It only lasts about thirty seconds or so, and it is just introducing the glory to come, but it is already feeding you clues as to how to hear the next four songs. See? They are already over.
The next sound you hear is, I swear, straight from heaven. Glorious chords of strummed mandolins ring out, measured and at ease, just like those guitar notes that started the first side. Also just like those notes, the glorious chords are brought to a halt as that soggy drum bangs in again, kicking off the mysteriously moving tale of a college-aged boy and the older woman named Maggie May.
That lad, you see, has yet to return from summer vacation to the groves of Academe because of Maggie. He is madly in love. He can even see the age in her face, no, past that age, and he cannot leave the woman he sees behind it. He knows it is a crazy affair; she, with her experience, simply does not have quite the obsessive hunger he has, and the relationship is doomed. Still, he fantasizes that he could leave school and, somehow, carve out a living in order to stay with the woman. It is a simple story, but the calling and answering lines of low and high guitar, the cushioning chords of organ, the returning mandolin chimes, and the aching longing in Rod’s young, ragged voice transports the listening back to the time when love was as new as each breath and already as old as generations of laughing lovers long buried in the ground. It is a hell of a song, and it is probably still Rod’s most popular one, but be patient. It is not his best song. That one comes next.
Mandolin Wind slides over, immersing the listener intangibly as the breeze itself. It is a frontier declaration of love from a farmer for his wife who stayed with him despite nearly freezing to death once. He is simple, and he is not writing a poem. He has seen her, frail and starving, and he expresses his shame, grief, and tender love as best as he can, while the gorgeous, mournful mandolins and slide guitars cry for every tear he cannot let go. A rising drum shifts this quiet tone into an incredibly powerful conclusion. “No mandolin wind couldn’t change a thing, couldn’t change a thing…. The coldest winter in almost fourteen years / Could never, never change your mind / And I love you.”
(I Know) I’m Losing You is a fiery, raging remake of the Temptations’ classic tale of lost love (a very close cousin to I Heard It Through the Grapevine). Again, Rod, here joined a rocking Faces, tears through the tune and erases any memory of the original. It is a killer song, with a pulverizing drum solo, cutting buzz cuts of guitars, and smoking blues piano fills, and it is guaranteed to shake the house down.
The album closes with Reason to Believe, Tim Hardin’s tribute to a lying, cheating lover he still desires. Even that sorry Unplugged version cannot mar the gentle, melancholy charm of the version here.
Side 2 is a study of sadness, yet no song is simply sad. Every song mixes shades of sadness, of regret and loss, with the devouring obsession of love, and no tint entirely wins out. The entire set of songs works uncertainty, setting up tensions that refuse to wrestle to resolutions. That all these opposing, combating emotions, sounds, and desires can struggle endlessly while achieving such a unity and cohesion is the core of Every Picture’s magic.
Maggie May and Mandolin Wind sound perfect together, and yet one is the tale of youth while the other is a declaration from the wisdom of age. The two songs’ narrators mirror the sound of the record. Rod has found a way to inject the august music of the past with the juice of rock’s electric present, and the miraculous victory is here is no balance claims equilibrium. Each song manages to sound both entirely old and entirely young at the same time. It is not a mix. It is an alloy.
Stewart’s voice, here an incredible, peerless instrument, encompasses this delicious paradox. Raw and pulsating with the bursting vigor of bawdy youth, it is also ragged and worn down by the abrasive sandpaper of years. He does not sound simply young at one moment and then ancient at another. He sounds young and ancient with every note he wrings. This bizarre cohabitation, this impossible, breathing contradiction is the mystery of Every Picture Tells a Story, and the melancholy generated from the proximity of the poles of age and youth is the beautiful tragedy of the album. It is the sorrow you never quite shake, and it is the unique triumph of Rod Stewart’s masterpiece.
Rod Stewart made two great albums before Every Picture, and he would make a carbon-copy sequel that still managed to approach the greatness here, especially in the classic You Wear It Well, but afterwards, the only comparable mystery and tragedy he would ever create is that of his own decline. I still have difficulty grasping that the cynical, dried-up, pathetic loser I have grown up howling at is the man who created this glorious album. But if over the last few decades Rod has pissed away his talent, nobody, not the Stones, not Costello, not the freakin’ Beatles, not even the mighty, untouchable Bob Dylan, nobody has ever recorded a one-two punch as awe-inspiring as Maggie May followed by Mandolin Wind, and I’m not even convinced anybody has created a side as marvelously moving as the second half those two songs kick off. And if that sounds like the craziest statement you’ve ever heard me make, then please, I dare you, I BEG you to buy this album and defy me. Search the used bins and buy the older, Denis Drake mastered disc (it doesn’t say Remaster on the spine), or better yet, grab the vinyl. You can yell at me or, more likely, thank me later. Cause you gotta hear Rod Stewart’s Every Picture Tells a Story.

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Don’t you hate the people who watch concerts through their phone and record more then they actually watch? Well, Apple wants to fix that.
They have been granted a patent for iPhone-camera canceling technology.
The patent allows it to develop technology used to stop iPhones from taking photos or video. The most practical applications of the technology would be at concerts, or movie theaters to stop bootleggers.
It sounds like Apple just wants you to enjoy a concert, not your phone.
The technology will work via transmitted infrared signals, which would command an iPhone to block the camera’s functions.
The patent filing states that phones would only be disabled if it’s pointed in a certain direction. So people could take photos of their friends in the crowd, but not the stage.


Caroline Flint says small communities need a say in the £1.6 billion Stronger Towns Fund.
Earlier this week the Government announced new regional funding, including £197 million for Yorkshire and the Humber.
Welcoming the new fund, the Don Valley MP told Secretary of State for Communities, James Brokenshire: “It shouldn’t have taken a referendum and Brexit to hear the focus we are hearing today on towns.”
“I want to be reassured that there is going to be a voice, not just for elected representatives and businesses, but the ordinary, everyday, people who don’t feel the projects at the end of their street are being attended to. Will he confirm that for them match funding will not be required to secure a bid.
“This debate on new funding for Britain’s towns is long overdue. Whether it is investment or new infrastructure, there is a strong feeling that funding is monopolised by a handful of major cities at the expense of our towns".


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