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The Pleistermühle is one of the most beautiful restaurants in Münster. Whether coffee and cake, delicious warm food or just a snack in the beer garden: the kitchen is great! You can also play mini golf and canoeing on the Werse. On weekends when the sun is shining, it is correspondingly full, but always worth a stop.
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The Pleistermühle is in a beautiful location, usually easy to reach for cyclists if you come from Münster. If you come from the east on the bike path to the Pleistermühle, you will first see many warning signs that you are using a private path. Motorists have no chance of reaching the Pleistermühle this way.
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She stared at the writing, picked it up and looked at him, but he was gone and the pods were his work table. She was tempted to run out after him and ask him why, but she couldn’t leave the simulations and she had to set up the samples to run the next day. Her work had to come first, it was all she had. Her work and Frigga. She worked through the rest of the shift. But at 1900 she appeared in the lounge, despite her better judgement, Frigga walking beside her, glancing up at Alexis frequently. Oddly enough she was in jeans and knit sweater and not in uniform. She glanced around spotted him at the table and hesitated, but she was already there. She didn’t sit down but placed the drawing on the table. “Why are you doing this?” Her voice cracked and she wasn’t proud of it, but there wasn’t much she could about it. “Is it really that funny to try and humiliate me?” She’d played nice, hadn’t she?
Kane was dressed in jeans and green v-neck shirt with a worn leather jacket over it. Oddly, his hair was brushed back and tied at the base of his skull with a silver clasp with some kind of engraving on it. When she spoke, his face clouded. He sat back and looked up at her, his fingers drumming on top of the picture. For almost a minute, he just looked at her, his green pupils burning between narrowed eye lids.
“Humiliate you, huh? So thats why you dragged your feet? Because having a dinner with me would be humiliating for you?” His question was delivered quietly, but there was an edge to his voice that caused his words to sound like an growl.
She blinked, well it was but not because she felt he was less, the other way around. She’d been told often she was not catch, she was too weird, too smart, but not too pretty. “No…that’s not…”
“I’m so sorry I didn’t go to the Academy at 17 and become the poster child for theoretical experimentation by 22. Some of us actually had to work to get where we are.” Kane stood up and looked down at Alexis. “I thought you were different, that’s why I asked you to dinner. And I don’t play games with people’s heads. Thats for cowards.” He looked back at the table. On it sat a bottle of wine, two glasses, and a PaDD.
She opened her mouth and closed it. She was wrong. Her body went so hot she was cold, and her ears were ringing. She misunderstood.
“Enjoy the wine. I won’t bother you again. And don’t worry. I’ll say you are playing nice if they ask. Wont be the first time I’ve lied to ‘em.” and he moved past her and towards the exit.
She touched his hand, barely as he moved past. “I’m sorry. I misunderstood. I…was afraid it was like before. I was young…” She didn’t think he’d let her explain but she had to apologize, he deserved it. She didn’t deserve to explain, “I’m sorry.” She wiped her face, where she’d started crying. Solis’ mocking laughter rang in her ears.
Kane stopped when her hand touched his and his head whipped around, the scowl on his face more than apparent. When he saw her tears, his scowl deepened, but it wasn’t anger based then… it was confusion.
“Before? Before wh-…” and he cut himself off and simply jutted his chin towards the table. “Sit. You don’t want to walk through here like that.” and he guided her to the table and took a seat. He handed her a napkin and said “Here. Now take a second and then maybe you can let me know what the hell is going on.”
She sat, taking the napkin with a soft thank you. The dog was pressed against her legs, nosing her head under Alexis’ hand. She licked her lips, “I…I was 20, three years into my first assignment. The work kept me busy, that’s all there is when you’re ‘smart.’ You’re too smart for your peers and too young for your intellectual peers. It was different, it was exciting, he was interested in my work, talked to me about it, he understood when I talked and never told me to dumb it down. He didn’t care that I read research journals instead of novels or watched shows. He didn’t care I was different, he liked me the way I was, but I misunderstood then too. He…he proposed. I was naïve, I was supposed to meet him for..for dinner but I finished the experiments early.” She could see it so clearly, like everything else she could recall in perfect detail. “He was kissing her good bye. When I asked him, he asked me if I honestly believed he’d go through with it…with marrying me.” She shrugs, “After awhile when everyone tells you you’re too strange, too smart, not present enough, too…” she swallowed hard, “inexperienced. You put the math together and find you are the common denominator.” And now he could laugh at her too.
Kane listened to her. He could infer parts that she glazed over or omitted… and he felt his jaw clench. He looked at Alexis and said “By the gods… what an a%$hole!” and he shook his head. “Seriously… the stones on that guy! Who the f#$% does that to somebody?!” and he leaned forward.
“Hey… Im sorry. Okay? I didn’t know about any of that bull%$@#. Sorry if I brought it back up. I literally just wanted to have dinner with you.” The scowl hadn’t left his face, but the edge to his words had definitely softened slightly. “Listen… if this isn’t your thing, that’s fine. But…” and his face showed his struggle within himself before he said “… but I dont care what anyone else did or thought about you. They can kiss my a##. You’re… well… you’re pretty damn frustrating… but you’re also pretty damn interesting. And I want to get to know you outside of the lab. If you want to do that, let’s eat. And if you don’t… really… no hard feelings. The choice really is yours… and if you need some more time, I’ll wait. Your call.”
“You didn’t…” she could tell him. He worked for intel too, right, maybe she couldn’t give specifics. “To be totally up front, the work I just returned from, he was in charge of the project. They didn’t tell me that till after I agreed and couldn’t back out.” She looked away, not that she was looking directly at him to begin with, when he said she was frustrating. She knew she was, she didn’t mean to be, it was just the way she was. At the word eat, Frigga whined very softly pressing hard into Alexis’ leg. Frigga got fed by the medical staff, lots of treats, she was never ignored, but the dog knew from experience that Alexis’ probably hadn’t eaten all day. She got involved in her work and forgot everything else.
She didn’t want him to offer because he felt sorry for her. But then again she didn’t think Solomon Kane did anything he didn’t want to do. If she was honest with herself, she came wanting to have dinner with him. She was intrigued. She’d changed into one of the few off duty outfits she’d had. She had no use for them, she was always working. She’d misunderstood though and assumed the worst. And that was very hypocritical of her, when she always hated how others judged her. She was intrigued and drawn in, which scared her, but he’d grabbed her undivided attention, and no person had ever done that before. Experiments, results, samples all had briefly, but never a person. She didn’t know if this, dinner, was her thing or not, but she would like to know him. This was all processed in seconds and of course he’d correctly told her that earlier she’d just been stalling, she knew what she wanted she just didn’t know if she’d go through with it. “I’d like to stay.”
When she said the guy that had treated her like crap had also been her boss, and that the bastards hadn’t told her before she was ‘recruited, he snorted derisively, but not at her. At the ones who did the recruiting. He was all too familiar with their tactics to get what they wanted… who they wanted. But when she said she wanted to stay, he just nodded and said “Good, I’d like you to as well.” and let the whole thing drop.
He opened the wine and poured her a glass and then himself one. He then leaned and looked under the table at the dog. “None for you. You’re too young.” and reached down stroked her neck softly a few times. “And I’ll make sure she eats, ok?” Kane had always liked animals. It was people he had issues with.
Frigga leaned into the scratches as far as possible, without actually moving away from Alexis. She was trained to recognize and react to distress. Alexis was distressed, or she had been,she was less so now. And she, Frigga, hadn’t done anything about it. But this man was not the cause of Alexis’ distress so Frigga had no problem with him. She stared into his face as he talked like she understood. She nosed his hand as if agreeing. Then, as if no longer concerned, she laid down, head on Alexis’ shoe.
Leaning back up, he looked at Alexis and said “So about those tattoos of yours…” and he gave her a half-smile.
Alexis accepted the glass but didn’t drink it. She had taken classes once about wine, just like cooking, dancing, warp core theory, botany, and many others. Simply because she needed to learn something, to do something, to let her mind focus on something to prevent boredom. Though the aroma was appealing she knew she shouldn’t have too much on an empty stomach. For in fact she’d skipped both breakfast and lunch that day. She knew what Frigga’s soft whine had been about, but it surprised her that Kane did as well. Her mind worked that over the training Frigga had received and what she thought she knew about him. He’d worked for NDFD, of that she was certain. Perhaps she had experience with working dogs…He was talking, and her mind had wandered, trying to solve the puzzle. But thankfully she didn’t miss anything, obvious by the fact her face turned a shade of pink. “What about them?”
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I am a djinn.
I would rend the sky,
Bring floods to the desert,
Even blackout the day,
Any terrible thing you could imagine,
If only you would speak the words.
I am jealous of the Sun, Who fils you with warmth. I am jealous of the Rain, Who touches you down to your bones I am jealous of the Wind, Who's fingers run through your hair, even now. I am jealous of the Earth, Who you trust to hold you up, when all else fails. I am jealous of the Eyes, Who have had the chance to behold you, for all your life. I am jealous of the Words, Who've never failed to make you laugh. I am jealous of the Lovers, who've you've allowed to open your eyes. I am none of these things. I am secret. Something that you can hold, That you can cherish, But you may never love, Out in the open.
Hear me, please.
I want to speak to you in words you understand Your language. Let me find your frequency, Hitting scan all day till you reply. What combination of knobs and levers. Will broadcast my soul directly into your airwaves If I were to whisper in your ear would you hear me in your dreams? Or am I just the black noise bouncing off the tin roof. WHY WON'T YOU HEAR ME!? Respectfully...
Learning Something New
When was the last completely new thing you learned. Was it hard for you to keep on task trying or was there something else pushing you forward? Was it putting a roof over your head or just getting out of a situation you didn’t want to be in? What was the hardest part for you?
I’m trying to find the space in myself to do this. It’s incredibly hard and I sometimes just feel like my brain isn’t up to the task… But I have to be I want to prove I can do this because I don’t want to be where I’m at forever. I need more than this. I want more than this. I feel more trapped than ever and that I can’t get the break I need.
So I’m learning to code and it’s so far from my wheelhouse but, I’m trying harder than I probably ever did at school. It just feels like I’m slamming my head against a brick wall waiting for the things to come together and some of it is, slowly. But I think this is one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do. Harder than writing a book, harder than telling my truth, harder than just getting out of bed.
I feel like a lot of what I’ve been doing, though difficult, hasn’t been beat your brain bloody difficult. Other people have done it so I can learn. I just don’t know that I’ll ever be as good as I want to be at anything I try. And a part of me just feels like I’m too old for this. That my brain doesn’t work like it used to, sucking up tidbits of knowledge like a vacuum so I could show everyone how smart I was for a few minutes. These past few weeks have been exhausting for more than one reason but, I’m glad to be doing this. I’m glad to be learning even if it’s been a thing right now.
Hey Readers, why not name the hardest thing you had to do in the comments. Something that really made you dig deep. I think if we share when things don’t come easy for us the hard things become a little easier because it’s not just us who feel like it was difficult. I want this job and I will do what I can to get it. Even if it takes a lot out of me.
Black Culture Month Part 2
I actually did it. I followed through and wrote a part two. Now that probably isn’t surprising for you guys but, if I’m honest my drafts are an absolute mess. I’m going to jump right in with my next couple of pics.
This YouTube video made me consider what Blackness is as a concept. Maybe I was a bit ignorant when I considered only African Americans as Black. Black is British, French, and anywhere else our people are in the world. I was reluctant to count them amoung because many of them seemed to be reluctant to count themselves among us. Seperating ourselves and gatekeeping really ruins our collective power in the world.
Cynthia Erivo’s self-hate tweets were classist, discriminatory, and White Supremacist. I don’t want to go over the whole thing but, it started with people getting up in arms about a Black British Woman playing the part of arguably one Black Histories greastest heroes, Harriet Tubman. Sitting there watching the movie with my mother, Super Hero Harriet Tubman was terrible. Please don’t pay to watch that movie. I’m not saying pirate it but, if you happen to find it lying around… Watch the movie, that made me question everything I knew about Mrs. Tubman and not in a good way
Now this book took me on a wild, contemporary, contemplative ride in the most urban of fantasies. With bit of plot there was cojent comentary on something to do with race, economics, immigration, you name it, if it was about the social justice of our world today then this book spoke on it, and well.
N. K. Jemsin might become one of my favorite writers, weaving in ideas that make your brain itch in the best way. The characters she gave in We Are The City Now are of viewpoints I haven’t heard yet. From an ederly, lesbian native woman, to a Middle-aged Black ex-rapper, a plus-sized, Immigrant woman and a Black, Queer sex worker expierencing homelessness. These characters were interesting in not just who they are but, in the diversity of lived expierences. It was a breath of fresh air and gives me the idea that my characters should be more distinct. I want more diverse characters in all types of fiction, so everyone can be seen.
While I don’t agree with everything that MelinaPendulum brings up in her video, I think it’s important to think critically of the things we love and for me that’s Brigerton. She speaks on the diversity, colorism, and that scene. I hope Brigerton fixes some of the problems in their next season. MelinaPendulum is great her takes are whip smart and continue to be one of the many places I go to to hear other Black people speak on pop culture.
Training school for Negro Girls scoured my soul. It was stomach churning, wild ride. Multiple times I felt a despair and defeat that was a different flavor than the one I was used to. I had to put it down many times just to make it through this collection. If this is how it feels to be a Black Woman… Then I have learned a bit of humility.
I say all of this not to deter you but, so you know what you’re getting into. This is well written and the kind of art and writing I only hope I can achieve. This work echoes with emotion and a matter-of-factness that gets to heart of what Camille Acker is trying to say. I hope if you choose to check it out you’ll have as challenging a time as I had.
There are others I haven’t gotten to but, these are some of the ones that have impacted me the most. The Black voice is beautiful and poingnant. We’re seeing it in more places and finally seeing a finally see the diversity of opininions and that we are in no way a monolith.
I might go back into more depth into some of the things I covered here. I haven’t gotten to Malcom and Marie or Black Judas yet and I know those are gonna be bomb. Maybe that’s how I’ll finish everything out.
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A New Destination
What do you do when someone puts into words a fantasy you didn’t know you’d long for? I mean everything else around you is just so complicated and this seems so right your breath catches. Is this what affairs are made of. Can two unattached people have an affair?
Have you ever wanted something so much you felt guilty? Like you were somehow cheating on all your dreams, things you used to want. Now you’re typing this and you can’t forget the words they said… Were you just settling for a life you thought you wanted?
Maybe it’s a pattern for me. Is it weird that I knew I wanted to write books in elementary school when someone else wrote one? Maybe I only wanted something because I watched someone else enjoying it. While that might be how it started, I know writing was made for me. Finishing a page makes me happy in ways I didn’t know I could be. The closer I get to completing a project the better I feel about my abilities. Now if only I could finish something.
Okay readers, I hope the start of your week goes well and your tax returns come swiftly. My friend is starting a new job and I’m so proud of her. It’s just nice to see that her hard work is finally being realized in the major way it should be.
Over the weekend, I did something that made me feel uncomfortable. It scooped my stomach out because I thought it was the right move. I believed that sacrificing my comfort was worth it to make someone else happy. And the worst part is I don’t know if it did.
I wonder sometimes why we do the things we do. Like why do we roll over our gut feelings and instincts to try and make people happy? I mean is it cause it makes us happy? I believe that answer is no. I think the reason we do this is because we can’t stand the tension. I think our fear of even a bit of tension in our lives leads us to do self-destructive things.
I don’t mean things like punching walls or cutting ourselves. Even those are symptoms of a problem built up over time. I mean self-destructive like refusing to apologize or leaving a bad situation. We try so hard to keep that tension inside that it ruptures our insides when if we had released it much earlier it would have been much less a problem than we probably made it out to be.
Now I’m not saying to steamroll over someone else’s feelings but, maybe what you think is a big deal isn’t real. Maybe you should trust your relationships with those people you care about to bear that bit of tension. Maybe they’ll surprise you by understanding and the people who don’t weren’t worth all that much worry anyway. I know that’s easier said than done, throwing out your bad relationships but, I will tell you that they lift so much weight and anxiety from your shoulders.
So good luck out there, Readers, dealing with your uncomfortable feelings but, maybe you have a better way of dealing with them than I do. I knew this was probably going to be a lot for me going in and I just didn’t listen to myself. Hopefully, you all are better listeners. Has anything made you uncomfortable recently? Maybe comment on this blog, get that feeling out. It’s quiet over here no many people listening but, you and me.
Has left the Earth,
And returned again
Fears no more
And yields even less
No longer will shrink,
Won’t even try
Soars in on wings,
of ambition and desire
Don’t let them catch you
Whatever you do
Has left the Earth,
And returned again.
A Poem About Unfettered Benevolence
I could have written my rage on the page
Dragged you in metaphor and smilie
Damned you in with grammar
and well constructed lines
But, I’m better than that
I’m not that guy
I wouldn’t do that
I won’t write an open letter,
listing all of your faults
Or compose poetry to your misdeeds
Tearing you down in couplets
Slamming you with soliloquy
Play you like a playwright
However, I’m a benevolent master of the written word
I won’t shame you here…
just know that I could
Hey this was meant to be a kind of funny tongue and cheek thing, I hope you like it while I finish up a few of my longer blog posts and maybe even debut a short story. Hope your week goes well damn, hope my does too.
Clippings of Conversation
I still remember your “Hey”s and sighs
I recite your dreams
Sing your tears
Can’t forget your heartbeat
But I only hear clippings of conversations
I remember my rage
Your sweet toxin
Hours of my life swallowed up in perfect lips
Only loose thoughts reach out
I remember pain and loss
But I only have clippings of conversations
Our time blurred
I am not the same man
But I wonder would you love me
Would your kisses taste the same
Even with just clippings
I have more than you
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Washington Free Beacon: China is engaged in large-scale theft of American research and technology from universities, using spies, students, and researchers as collectors, experts told Congress on Wednesday.
Compounding the technology theft, the administration of President Barack Obama weakened U.S. counterintelligence efforts against foreign spies by curbing national-level counterspy efforts, a former counterintelligence official disclosed during a House hearing.
Michelle Van Cleave, former national counterintelligence executive, said shortly after the creation of the office of the director of national intelligence in 2004, a national counterspy program against foreign spies was restricted during the administration of President George W. Bush.
“Unfortunately, the backsliding continued under President Obama.” more …
Opinion: On December 4, 2011, an American Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was captured by Iranian forces near the city of Kashmar in northeastern Iran. The Iranian government announced that the UAV was brought down by its cyberwarfare unit which commandeered the aircraft and safely landed it, after initial reports from Western news sources claimed that it had been “shot down”.
That the drone landed intact is highly suspicious since one would think that the US would have self-destruct mechanisms built into such sensitive technology, unless of course someone wanted the Iranians to have it.
Slate (.com) (here) December 7, 2011 “As reporter David Axe discussed in his book War Bots: How U.S. Military Robots Are Transforming War in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Future, the Pentagon was able to destroy its first generation of unmanned spy planes by remote control, in case they fell into enemy hands.”
On August 2012 , The Aviationist (here) published an article titled: Chinese delegation currently in Iran to copy the U.S. stealthy RQ-170 drone captured in 2011. A group of 17 Chinese experts had visited Iran not only to inspect, but also to collect and bring back to China some key components of the U.S. RQ-170 drone captured by Iran in December 2011.
Business Insider January 2, 2013 “A Fuzzy picture grabbed by Chinese forums shows a series of brand new UAVs (unamanned aerial vehicles) one of those resembles the famous Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel, one of those was captured in Iran in 2011”.
Connecting the dots: In 2011 the Iranians didn’t have the $1.7 billion in Obamacash that was sent to Iran without any Congressional investigation in 2015 …
… therefore it would make sense to ask the Chinese build a copy of the drone for them.
The question now becomes was it theft of US technology, or a gift?


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-- Gareth Bowles, Netflix
More than 36 million Netflix members worldwide view streamed content and access Netflix features delivered via cloud technology that the company has been developing since 2009. Netflix operates on a cloud platform based on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Over the years, Netflix engineers have developed numerous cloud tools and technologies, which the company has now shared with the development community as open source software.
While many companies may be leery of freely sharing core technology, Netflix sees several compelling advantages to the move. First, the company aims to establish its solutions as standards that are widely used throughout the industry. Second, improvements contributed by the community to improve performance or add support for other cloud services will improve the standard for everyone, advancing the platform robustness and quality. Third, the move will burnish the company's reputation as a technology leader, which was boosted in 2012 by winning an Emmy for Technical Achievement. Lastly, it will help Netflix attract, engage and retain expert engineers, because it can draw directly from a wide pool of proven contributors.
To help maximize these advantages, Netflix chose the CloudBees Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution to support the public builds of its NetflixOSS open source projects. "Open sourcing our cloud-based architecture projects is a way to reduce risk, improve our service and contribute to the broader cloud-based community," says Gareth Bowles, senior tools engineer at Netflix. "The CloudBees platform is helping us achieve these objectives by enabling Netflix engineers and external contributors to rapidly build and test changes, instantly see the quality of the changes being made and continue to realize the benefits of continuous integration with Jenkins."
Challenge: Simplify and Streamline Open Source Development
Netflix needed a way to transition dozens of internal projects to open source projects as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible. "We wanted to make our builds public, in a way that enabled everyone--including the Netflix engineers that would continue to work on the projects and the new external contributors--to see the effect of changes as soon as possible. We wanted the community to be able to assess the quality of each project at any point in time," says Bowles. "And because we were already very heavy on-premise Jenkins users, we wanted a Jenkins-based cloud service for continuous integration."
At the same time, the company was looking to keep costs and maintenance requirements down. "We are sharing our code with the community at no cost, and we needed a low cost way to do it that would not require extensive resources and ongoing maintenance," says Bowles.
A Solution for Rapid Feedback and Continuous Integration
Netflix transitioned its open source projects to the CloudBees DEV@cloud development platform.
Netflix engineers set up a few prototype builds with Jenkins, the CloudBees Platform and several key Jenkins plugins. They had everything up and running within two to three hours.
"The move was very easy and we had great support from the CloudBees technical team," says Bowles.
The team then began using the Jenkins Job DSL plugin to create new projects programmatically, updating the location of the GitHub repository that each project used. Once a project is open to the community, developers--both internal and external--can instantly see its current build status, which is displayed using the Jenkins Embeddable Build Status plugin.
Among contributors, the ability to build pull requests before they are merged into the main branch has been a much-appreciated feature. Made possible by the GitHub Pull Request Builder plugin, this capability provides virtually instant feedback when a pull request is made.
"This feature acts as an extra reviewer for the code changes that developers submit," says Bowles. "Our developers have been really impressed with the ability to get instant feedback on their changes."
The CloudBees Platform is also playing a central role in the Netflix Cloud Prize contest, in which participants fork one of the Netflix open source repositories on GitHub, implement an improvement or new functionality and submit their changes for judging to win a prize in one of 10 categories. Netflix will set up new builds on the CloudBees Platform for entries that use a compatible build structure.
Ultimately all Netflix open source projects will be built on the CloudBees Platform. Netflix has already migrated most of them, including Asgard (a web interface for application deployments and cloud management on AWS) and SimianArmy, which includes the Chaos Monkey resiliency tool that helps applications tolerate random instance failures.
- Immediate feedback on builds. "With the CloudBees platform, Jenkins triggers a build when changes are submitted, so developers get feedback on their submissions within seconds, instead of having to wait 15 minutes or longer. Plus, everyone can see the current build status immediately," says Bowles. "That benefits the entire developer community and spurs more contributions, because it reduces friction and makes the entire process smoother."
- Minimal maintenance overhead. "Once we've created a build job, we rarely need to change the configuration so minimal maintenance is required," says Bowles. "We don't need a full-time employee to manage all of these projects; we just check in a couple times a day. It's nice to know that CloudBees is handling the entire infrastructure for us, behind the scenes."
- Cost-effective pricing. "We are grateful for the CloudBees Platform because it has enabled us to keep costs to a minimum as we open source our code," says Bowles. "Since we are sharing our technology with the community for no cost, we appreciate that CloudBees has provided an affordable option for open source projects and that we can use the CloudBees infrastructure to publicly build those projects."


Are you questioning if Glock 19 Mags will fit into your Glock 17? You ‘re not alone. There is a problem with the fullsize mags tilting inside the smaller capacity handgun.
The Glock 17 is a semiautomatic pistol that features a 17-round magazine. Its parts are made from high-strength nylon-based polymer. It uses a 9x19mm Parabellum cartridge that is NATO-standard. In addition, it can use full-metal-jacketed and jacketed hollow-point projectiles. The 17 is a easy and reputable to use pistol.
Glock provides a large range of aftermarket devices for the Glock. There are tactical lighting devices, such as night sights, and polymer holsters that match with the Glock pistol.
The Glock 17 is created for expert usage. Furthermore, Glock provides a large range of personalized devices, which make it an outstanding option for bigger conceal bring weapons.
Another fantastic aspect of Glock magazines is that you can interchange them with various pistol models of the exact same caliber. If you own a compact handgun, the Glock 17 or 19 magazines will not fit in it. The smaller handguns can only accept smaller capacity Glock publications. How To Determine Manufacture Date For A Glock.
While the Glock 19 is a much smaller handgun than the Glock 17, it still has a greater capability. It is likewise lighter than the Glock 19.
The Glock is a popular handgun, which is available at almost every weapon shop. Thousands of individuals carry them as a main pistol and as a backup weapon. Depending upon what you ‘re utilizing your pistol for, you might choose a Glock or a Beretta. Make sure you pick one that will meet your requirements.
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Glock 19 magazines tilt when utilizing fullsize mags
The Glock 19 is an excellent handgun for concealed carry. It ‘s not as small as the Glock 43, however it ‘s an excellent compromise between a full-size gun and a subcompact. This pistol does need some adjusting of the grip.
One method to prevent this issue is to utilize sleeves that hold the publications in location. The polymer used for the magazines is effect resilient and resistant.
Using a Glock 19 magazine in a Glock 17 must not cause the weapon to breakdown. There are numerous reasons this issue takes place. Glock 17 magazines are not developed to fit full-size magazines. Second, the weapon may be too heavy.
How To Determine Manufacture Date For A Glock
Third, Glock 19 publications are more costly than the magazines for Glock 17. You ‘ll need a holster that can hold your weapon safely.
You can likewise buy high capacity publications for your Glock handgun. Some Glock pistols can utilize magazines that hold 33 rounds, while others can only utilize. You might need to inspect the laws in your jurisdiction for the usage of gun magazines.
Glock 19X is a crossover pistol
The Glock 19X is a hybrid pistol that uses the advantages of 2 popular platforms. It includes the compact Glock 19 slide with a full-size Glock 17 frame, and it is readily available in a range of colors. The pistol is chambered in 9mm Luger and includes a standard 17-round publication, two 17 +2-round magazines, and an integral lanyard loop.
The civilian Glock 19X was initially intended for responsibility bring by military workers, however civilian G19X models can be brought OWB or hidden. They have a large frame with an aggressive grip angle, as well as a 17-round publication.
Lots of Glock 17 holsters are designed to fit the larger G19 pistol, but that doesn ‘t mean that the Glock 19X holsters will work for the smaller weapon. It ‘s likewise crucial to discover one that has the ideal material, and that is tough and won ‘t fall off.
There are lots of factors to select an IWB holster, such as better concealment and much easier availability. An IWB holster can likewise accommodate a magazine, that makes it ideal for specific scenarios. For the majority of people, an IWB holster is the best alternative. The disadvantage is that the retention might not be as great as you ‘d hope, so it ‘s vital to inspect the retention before purchasing.
If you ‘re trying to find a hidden carry gun holster, you ‘ll want to consider one with a sweat guard. A sweat guard safeguards the weapon from the salts from body sweat that can lead to accidental discharges. The sweat guard will likewise assist secure the trigger guard and avoid foreign items from getting in.
The Glock 19X is a terrific carry gun, but it can likewise be a service pistol or bring pistol. It ‘s big, so some individuals find it hard to conceal it or bring comfortably. The Glock 19X is likewise offered in a vast array of colors and styles.
Those who don ‘t wish to spend a great deal of money on a Glock holster should choose one made from leather. Leather holsters use a range of carry designs, consisting of the conventional “pancake ” design. You can choose one that looks excellent and feels comfortable. Leather holsters are more comfortable and offer more heat than a plastic holster.
Think about the Incognito Concealment T3 if you ‘re looking for a holster to carry your Glock 19X. This is a lightweight IWB holster that features low-profile 0.08-inch Kydex sheets for improved concealability. It likewise includes a mod-wing attachment to help avoid the grip from tipping out while shooting.
Are you wondering ifGlock 19 Mags will fit into your Glock 17? While the Glock 19 is a much smaller handgun than the Glock 17, it still has a higher capability. Using a Glock 19 magazine in a Glock 17 ought to not trigger the weapon to breakdown. Third, Glock 19 magazines are more expensive than the publications for Glock 17. Numerous Glock 17 holsters are developed to fit the bigger G19 pistol, but that doesn ‘t mean that the Glock 19X holsters will work for the smaller weapon. How To Determine Manufacture Date For A Glock.


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The granddaughter of an illegally enslaved Indian woman, Rachel Findlay successfully sued for her freedom in the Wythe County Court and ensured the freedom of many of her descendants. The current Wythe County court house was built in 1902, eighty-nine years after her suit.
Rachel Findlay (ca. 1750–after August 17, 1820) was born into slavery early in the 1750s in the part of Virginia that later became Powhatan County. Her maternal grandmother was an illegally enslaved Indian woman and her mother possibly had both Indian and African ancestry. Virginia law dictated that the children of enslaved women were also slaves, so she and her children were born enslaved. Early in the 1770s Findlay, her brother Samuel, and her young daughter sued their owner, Thomas Clay, on the grounds that because their grandmother's enslavement was illegal, they were also illegally enslaved. The General Court ruled in May 1773 that they were free, but the Clay family sent Findlay and her daughter west before the court reached its verdict and in 1774 sold them to John Draper. He and his family held them in slavery in Wythe County.
In 1813, Rachel Findlay filed suit in the Wythe County Court to obtain the freedom to which she had been legally entitled but had never enjoyed. After seven years of delays and difficulties and the transfer of the case to the Powhatan County Court, she again won freedom for herself on May 13, 1820. Findlay's approximately forty children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren were therefore legally entitled to become free, too. Several of them successfully sued for their freedom, but others may have never known about the suit and its outcome. Findlay became free, but how long she lived as a free person is not known.
Reprinted with permission of the Library of Virginia.

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The engine is the powerhouse of your car, truck, or SUV. Without a properly functioning engine, you simply cannot go anywhere. That’s why it’s important to make sure that your vehicle’s engine is in tip-top shape at all times.
Many people don’t realize that engine maintenance is essential until it’s too late. The truth of the matter is that as long as you are taking care of your car and following these five steps regularly, you should be able to avoid many costly repairs down the road. If you want to learn more about how you can keep your vehicle running smoothly for years, then keep reading.
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1. Change Your Engine Oil
Changing your engine oil is the single most important thing a car owner can do for engine maintenance. You should do this every six months or 5000 miles, whichever one happens first.
Engine oil protects your engine parts from friction and overheating.
Check your oil level regularly at home or even with each fill-up if you take it to the gas station. You can do this by pulling off the dipstick and wiping it clean before putting it back into place. Be sure not to overfill as too much weight on top of an engine causes unnecessary friction, making performance worse.
Always make sure you use high-quality oils like Amalie oil.
2. Replace Fuel Filter
You may not know it, but the fuel filter is one of the most critical engine maintenance items. It keeps dirt and other foreign particles from getting into your engine. Dirt causes blockages in your fuel system, which can lead to expensive repairs or even replacement.
Make it a habit to change them every other time you change your oil.
3. Replace Spark Plugs
These spark plugs help create an electric arc inside the cylinder that sets off a combustion process in the engine. Over time they need to be replaced as their performance gradually decreases. At some point, they are no longer able to ignite gasoline efficiently enough to start your car.
You should change them every 40K miles (regardless of whether you’ve had recent problems or not). A clogged fuel filter can impact engine performance, which will increase the chances of wear or tear on other parts.
4. Transmission Fluid/Coolant Check
Every now and then, drivers need to check their transmission fluid levels or coolant level for things like shifts and engine cooling to work as they should. If they’re not changed out frequently enough, the chances of major engine problems will increase due to overheating or freezing.
5. Air Filter
Like the fuel filter, an air filter can also get clogged up with dirt. Eventually, it will restrict airflow into the engine starving it for oxygen. Checking this part every few months will ensure you don’t experience any performance issues later. Many drivers often overlook this step along with changing out fluids.
Never Ignore Engine Maintenance
Regular diesel engine maintenance is a must if you want your car to run smoothly and last longer. The five steps below will help keep your vehicle healthy for years. If you’re looking for more tips, check out the rest of our site for more helpful articles.


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Dr. Manohar Jethani is board certified in emergency medicine, bariatric medicine (obesity and eating disorders) and anti-aging medicine. He has been a practicing physician for over 35 years in Berwyn. He is affiliated with MacNeal Hospital, Berwyn and LaGrange Hospital. Currently Dr. Jethani is serving the community by offering affordable medical care at MFC’ Schaumburg and Naperville locations.
Dr. Manohar Jethani, M.D.
Lipidology & Emergency Medicine
Position: Medical Director
Phone Number: (630)-470-6602
1032 E Ogden Ave.
Naperville, IL. 60563
Karla Guajardo joined Metropolitan Family Care as a medical assistant in 2012. She received her Associates in Applied Science for Medical Assisting from Northwestern C...
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Ever since the nineties Evo Morales has been the top leader of the illegal coca growers` unions in Bolivia. These unions are his mechanism to exert pressure, mobilize, and threaten, with which he established a political party. Copying the logo from an ultra-right party known as Bolivian Socialist Party (Falange Socialista Boliviana in Spanish) similar to the MAS, Movement Towards Socialism (Movimiento al Socialismo in Spanish), and disguised as a “political party” when, in reality, it was only the political participation of groups who were involved in cocaine production and trafficking. The coca growers` leader took the government with his unions, sponsored and sustained by the Castro-Chavez scheme that we know nowadays as 21st Century Socialism (SSXXI) that comprised by Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Nicaragua declared itself to be anti-imperialist and claims “the war on drugs is the imperialism`s instrument of oppression” (speech of Evo Morales at the U.N. in 2016.
Cocaine is the most important alkaloid within the coca leaf. “The amount of cocaine extracted from fresh leaves range from 0.1% to 1%.” Cocaine, as a drug, starts with the drying of the coca leaf and the addition of chemical precursors and it is prohibited, penalized, and highly addictive because it is a “stimulant that directly affects the brain” and has become one of the most important illegal drugs. All the cocaine in the world is produced in South America in the Andes` region making Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia the main producers. The amount of cocaine production is directly linked to the amount of coca leaf cultivation. The most common ways of cocaine consumption is through inhalation or intravenous injection, causing “mental effects that trigger the loss of touch with reality, aggressiveness, increased alertness, and persecution mania.” Cocaine is a “hard” drug.
The U.N. reports that 94% of the coca leaf harvested by Evo`s unions in Chapare, Bolivia “does not go through the lawfully established market” in other words it is used for cocaine production. Production of cocaine has already been incorporated as an activity of the coca leaf growers who are members of the government`s ruling party. All evidence of wrongdoing is hidden to Bolivian and international public opinion by the government. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has been expelled and is demonized because Evo Morales wants to directly control the coca leaf production with the corresponding result of increased cocaine production that specialized agencies now report.
Morales from Bolivia has flooded with cocaine its neighboring countries. Argentina is now considered the world`s greatest consumer of cocaine. The nations of Chile, Brazil, Paraguay, and Bolivia suffer a dramatic increase in cocaine consumption. Venezuela and Bolivia are suspect to have become “narco-states”. In Venezuela, handling the FARC`s and Evo`s cocaine production, all narcotics trafficking appears to be centralized to the point of recently having its Vice President accused and the dictator Maduro`s nephews jailed for narcotics trafficking in New York. Evo Morales` anti narcotics czar is currently serving a jail sentence for narcotics trafficking into the U.S. The diplomatic narcotics` pouch incident from Ecuador is far from being cleared, Correa`s protection to the FARC was evidenced as a result of the bombing raid on Angostura. The shady character known as “pollo Carvajal” is a member of the dictatorship`s Venezuelan National Assembly. Arguments to defend narcotics trafficking have been ideologized by the 21st Century Socialism (SSXXI). For the SSXXI the subject of cocaine production is a matter of vital political importance, an “instrument against the empire” and this is why they have hidden –through a populist and nationalistic discourse against the United States- the expansion of narcotics trafficking. Placing this policy in practice Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador while violating international agreements have expelled DEA, USAID and U.S. Ambassadors. Currently we have no U.S. Ambassadors in Venezuela or Bolivia. Ecuador has physically removed the U.S. from the counter-narcotics base at Manta. Led by Cuba the whole of SSXXI has sustained, protected, and covered the FARC, the greatest worldwide producer of cocaine and who during the peace talks in Colombia is accused to have expanded coca leaf cultivation from 50,000 hectares to nearly 200,000 hectares.
If there was ever any doubt that Bolivia is a narco-state, Evo Morales just clarified it. There cannot be cocaine without the coca leaf. This is why the coca leaf is included by the U.N. in their conventions that deal with narcotics. For its traditional and medicinal consumption, Bolivia has set aside 12,000 hectares of legal coca cultivation although, according to an investigation financed by the European Union, only 6,000 hectares are needed. There is illicit cultivation for narcotics` production (coca-narco) that ever since the constitutional government was ousted in October of 2003 has expanded from 3,000 to 40,000 hectares by growers` unions that took political power under the leadership of Evo Morales and that now expand the legal cultivation to 22,000 hectares as an effort to legitimize coca leaf harvesting for cocaine production.
All this scheme of politicizing and defending narcotics trafficking by Evo Morales and all members of the 21st Century Socialism (SSXXI) have grave connections to Islamic terrorism. There are investigations and depositions indicating that “Hezbollah is generating hundreds of millions of dollars through a scheme to launder cocaine moneys in Latin America that provides it an endless source of funding for their terrorist operations”. Ships with Bolivian flag and carrying weapons and drugs, have been intercepted at different ports in terrorist`s zones. The link “coca-cocaine-21st Century Socialism (SSXXI)-Islamic Terrorism” is each and every time more evident for us to see and is now confirmed as Evo Morales advances with an “infamous law to legalize the first link of the cocaine production chain”.
Published in Spanish by Diario las Américas on Sunday February 26th, 2017.
*The opinions published herein are the sole responsibility of its author.*

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I have a number of questions, but before I begin you must agree that Subarus are miles ahead of Mitsubishis.
Look at this tyranny of machines: Subaru WRS STi may be outdone by the Evo, but the Forester will outdo the Outlander and the Airtrek. So, who is the winner in the ‘majority race’?
Now, to my questions:
The other day I got a chance to be in a Volkswagen Golf GTI ABT. What fascinated me the most was the top speed, which, if my eyes did not deceive me, is a sweet 300km/h. What does ABT mean, and what makes it better than a Volkwagen which has none?
Between the BMW X6 and the Audi Q7, which is the best in terms of fuel consumption, stability at high speeds and resale value?
When does a car consume more? When on high or low speeds? I asked someone who owns a Subaru Legacy B4 and he told me that at high speeds, he can make 10km/l but in traffic jams, he can end up with a painful 7km/l.
Finally, anybody who owns a Toyota Sienta as a family car must HATE his or her family. Sitting in the far-rear seats feels like sitting in a pan. No window, no nothing.
PS: I salute those guys who have dared bring the Rolls Royce and Lamborghini to Kenya. Kindly send me a contact if you know any of them ‘cos I really need a lift in one of those machines. I wonder why nobody has given us the Nissan GTR.
If you want to discuss who wins the ‘majority race’ between Subaru and Mitsubishi, I’d like you to first point out a Subaru lorry, a Subaru bus, a Subaru van, a Subaru pick-up and a Subaru SUV. No, the Tribeca is not an SUV because it won’t go off-road, so try again.
Also, point out a Subaru television — yes, Mitsubishi builds electronics too, such as TVs on which you can watch Subarus losing to Mitsubishis.
I didn’t think so.
The actual battle lies between the WRX STi and the Lancer Evolution. Leave the rest out of the argument for the time being. That said, I may bash on the little STi every now and then, but I believe I have mentioned here more than once that I might be a sucker for the Forester STi.
That may be the only Subaru I’d actively seek to buy: if I was to buy any other, it would be for lack of choice and/or desperation; which is the same thing really.
I know the Volkswagen Golf GTI’s speedometer has 300 scrawled on the exciting side of the scale, but it won’t do 300 — at least not without some major modifications to the engine.
This brings us neatly to the ABT you inquire about: ABT is not a spec level for the Golf; it is a tuning house that fettles German cars. What they do is take a boring briefcase, which is what most German saloon cars look like; then convert this briefcase into a fire-breathing chariot capable of moving at speeds normal people should not be moving at.
One of my neighbours has a Passat sedan with an ABT touch-up. It still looks like a briefcase, but one with bigger tyres and a Roman candle under the bonnet.
On the BMW X6 vs Audi Q7, both are rubbish. Depending on which engine you have opted for, both will guzzle. At least with the X6 you have the option of the X6 xDrive30d, which has a detuned 3.0 litre six-cylinder turbocharged diesel engine that can still move the car respectably fast if you so wish and return fair economy figures.
The Q7 comes with a large petrol engine that burns fuel at Arab-pleasing rates, or with a puny diesel engine that needs thrashing to eke out any semblance of motion out of it, so it will still send your money to the Middle East either way.
High speed stability is not bad in either car, but then these are big and heavy vehicles, maybe “high speeds” are not what you should be aiming for in them.
Also, at high speed the fuel evaporates in ways that make the stock price graphs in the Arabian financial index blink green and shoot skywards. Resale value? It will not be so great once the general public reads this.
A car consumes a lot of fuel at speeds below, say, 40-50km/h, consumes the least fuel at speeds between 80km/h and 120km/h, then the consumption goes up again from 120km/h onwards.
At 200km/h, it burns quite a lot of fuel. At 220km/h, it eats fuel in huge lumps. At 250km/h, the Arabs will send you t-shirts and Christmas cards.
There are a lot of caveats involved here though; the biggest ones surrounding engine size, transmission type and traffic conditions. Bigger engines are more economical at slightly higher speeds: for example, the Lamborghini you gush about later in your message is better off at 120 than it is at 80.
Smaller engines thrive at “non-motorised” pace: a 600cc Kei car is better at 70-80km/h than it would be at 120km/h.
Automatic transmissions may not allow short-shifting unless equipped with a manual override or has numerous ratios like the Range Rover’s 9-speed. So at low speed, it will likely be at a very low gear, possibly first or second, which is exactly when Shell and BP start awarding bonuses to employees. You may be better off maintaining 100km/h, give or take 15km/h.
Traffic conditions are fairly obvious: an open road is far better than a clogged one. Stop-start driving triples your fuel consumption as compared to steady-state driving.
These factors may apply in a variety of permutations, along with other variables such as vehicle weight, aerodynamic profile, right-foot flexibility, mechanical condition, and fuel quality, to prove one point I have been saying all along: fuel economy is not an exact science.
This is also why I nowadays refrain from quoting definite consumption figures for readers, because there is no telling what particular Arab-centric circumstances may be at play in a particular driving situation.
I have had people who revert like this: You said you did 25km/l in your stupid Mazda. Why can’t I achieve the same result? That is a difficult question to answer.
Interesting feedback on the Sienta. I will be careful not to get into the back seat of one. If Toyota reads this, then good for them. They will hopefully now install a window at the back of this car.
I may have the contact details of the chap in the green Lamborghini, but sadly for you I will not share them. That is proprietary information to begin with; and anyway, I want to get a lift from him too. The fewer of us lift-begging lowlifes there are banging at his door, the higher the chances of one of us actually getting to sit in that car.
In the course of looking for the man, do look around you in traffic. There are Nissan GTRs around; quite a number, in fact. I’d say there are more GTRs around than there are Lamborghinis. And yes, I have the contact details of some of the GTR owners; and no, I will not be sharing those either.
I bought a 1993 Toyota Starlet EP82 from my employer after she endured all manner of abuse from five different drivers for seven years.
She has done Mombasa, Loitokitok, Nyahururu, Kakamega, Murang’a, Nyeri, Nakuru, and Kisumu countless times.
She was also once hit from behind by a Mercedes in control of a drunken guy, but the little lady flew and perched herself atop a fence, with her rear wheels stuck to the body.
Her engine still holds and is strong. With four full grown men cramped inside her as she purrs uphill, she overtakes boys like Fielders, Airwaves, and Pajeros like a joke. I bought her because of the price, the fuel consumption and her power.
Recently, however, she started smoking in the morning like crazy! Grey and heavy smoke. She does this in front of other ladies who park overnight next to her, like Vitzs, Honda Fits and Duets, and she is the least remorseful.
Our parking lot slants 40 degrees, and yesterday I let her rest with her nostrils facing downhill towards the fence. I think she wasn’t happy; to get out, you have to reverse, look for space to turn and head to the gate at the top of the hill.
She embarrassed me so badly with her smoking that I needed full lights to see. I could even hear the other ladies nearby (Vitzs, Fits and Duets) choking.
At speeds of 80kph on Thika Road, if I sneak a peak on the rear view mirror I can see her smoking behind my back.
One mechanic told me to do an engine overhaul, another one said I change piston rings, another that I should replace the entire engine, and yet another that my lady is drinking oil, even though I religiously service her on due dates.
Please help save this relationship because, since I don’t smoke myself, I can’t live with her like this, not matter how much I love her.
Finally, I recently drove an Allion, 1800cc, dual VVTi to Loitokitok and back to Nairobi. It was amazing because, on average, he did 23km/l. The Starlet returns 16km/l on the same journey with the same shopping and passengers, yet I thought a bigger engine consumes more. Some of us fear big engines (by big I mean anything beyond 1,490cc).
Godfrey, I also once had an EP82 that gave me trouble-free operation until some idiot tampered with the wiring harness linking to the ECU and from there it was one problem after the other: stalling, poor consumption, lack of power… all this against the backdrop of an intermittent now-on-now-off ‘Check Engine’ light.
It was eventually sorted though, and shortly afterwards, the car found a new owner.
I’d like you to fit four grown men in that Starlet then challenge me to a hill-climb drive-off we see if what you say is true. I’ll bring a Pajero, possibly one with a 3.8-litre V6 petrol engine (I believe you listed a Pajero as one of your victims), and I’ll be alone in it.
Any readers out there who want to place bets on who reaches the mountain-top first are free to do so, but we split the winnings 50-50. Care to indulge?
Anyway, the smoke: the heavy grey vapours indicate either a blown head gasket (ruptured or cracked), which is letting water into the cylinder; water which is then burnt off as steam; or the vehicle may be burning ATF (automatic transmission fluid), if the vehicle is automatic.
Another cause could be oil and water mixing: either water is getting into the oil and the oil gets burnt, or oil leaks into the coolant, and the coolant in turn is leaking into the cylinders. Either way, that engine needs to be taken apart.
Now, that Allion. First off, it has VVT-i, which the Starlet lacks. That’s a plus.
Then there is the small matter of highway driving. You see, at highway speeds, bigger engines return better economy. It doesn’t apply across the board, I mean, a Bugatti Veyron is not the most economical car at highway speeds, but for motor vehicle engines between, say, 800cc and 2,000cc, at 120km/h the 2.0 litre will be most economical.
Why? Because it requires little effort to attain and maintain that speed. It will definitely have taller gearing, so 120km/h will correspond to roughly 3,000rpm in top gear.
Smaller cars will be revving higher and longer, therefore burning more fuel. The Allion is also more aerodynamic than the little hatch, it has a very pointy nose: so it encounters less resistance at those highway speeds. Less resistance means less engine effort to cut through the air.


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Opposition and Unity
January 12 to February 12, 2009
- Reception: Thursday, January 22, 6-8 p.m., gallery lounge; features classical Odissi dancer Gulapudi Raman Kumari at 6:45 p.m. and artist gallery talk at 7 p.m.
- Artist Lecture: “Art and Peace,” Thursday, January 22 at 1p.m., room D244
Solo exhibit addresses labor, domestic violence, nonviolence, education issues
Parkland Art Gallery will hold an exhibition of contemporary sculpture, prints, photography, and installation by respected artist Indira Freitas Johnson in January. “Indira Freitas Johnson--Hand in Hand; Opposition and Unity,” will open Monday, January 12 and will run through Thursday, February 12.
An artist’s reception scheduled for Thursday, January 22 from 6 to 8 p.m. in the gallery lounge will feature classical Odissi dancer Gulapudi Raman Kumari at 6:45 p.m. and a talk by the Chicago-based Johnson at 7 p.m. Earlier that day, Johnson will discuss her work involving conflict resolution in Chicago public schools as part of the Shanti Organization for Peace, at 1 p.m. in room D244.
During her visit to Parkland from January 20-23, Johnson will also collaborate in creating a Rangoli community project. The project, based on a South Asian folk art tradition, is designed to unite diverse communities together in a spirit of hope and friendship. Its main goal is to discover through dialog, art, and ritual the commonality of our human experience, and the spiritual potential inherent in all of us.
Inspired by Indian folk art practices, Indira Johnson’s art addresses issues of labor, domestic violence, nonviolence, and health education. The role of the artist in ancient India was to facilitate a major change in the consciousness of the spectator; Johnson continues this role in her artistic works, the most recent of which have focused on ritual as part of the female tradition in India. Within this context, she has provided a public voice for disadvantaged groups.
Johnson’s work reflects a complex dialogue of experiences and cultural understanding. She calls herself “an artist and cultural worker from India, who has lived and worked in the Chicago area for over 20 years while maintaining close ties with India. The influences of my mother, a social activist, and my father, an artist and a follower of Gandhi, have been predominant in my life and art, where I continue to deal with the same issues that have preoccupied me… the growth towards a spiritual existence as an individual and as part of the human continuum.” Johnson also incorporates handmade pieces from women who participate in MarketPlace Handwork of India, an organization that promotes economic development and personal empowerment, based in Golibar, a low-income area in Mumbai, India. Finally, the image of the foot, which she calls “a symbol that appears in practically every culture since the dawn of civilization… which gives us stability and grounds us to the earth,” dominates much of the artwork in this exhibition.
Indira Johnson received her BA from the University of Bombay, India, and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the recipient of several awards including the Illinois Arts Council Visual Arts Fellowship; the Governor’s Award for the Arts; Arts International Travelling Fellowship; and a Kohler Company Arts and Industry Grant from Sheboygan, Wisconsin. She has been in numerous solo exhibitions including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Indianapolis Arts Center, and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum. Believing strongly that art and activism are a powerful combination for social change, Johnson started the nonprofit Shanti Foundation in 1993 to address the rise of ethnic violence worldwide and foster the practice of nonviolence in everyday life. The foundation uses arts-based educational initiatives to offer students the means to develop conflict resolution skills and social justice strategies. Art forms used include drama, visual arts, filmmaking, playwriting, poetry, dance, puppetry and storytelling. To learn more about the work of Shanti Foundation go to www.shantifoundationforpeace.com.


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In a story about a drop in sales at local TV stations, the Merc’s Pete Carey points out that cut backs at newspapers get more attention from the media than budget cuts in television. Carey writes:
- Television stations and the major networks face some of the same problems that newspapers face, but they don’t say much about it, compared with the coverage by the print media about its problems.
A recent preliminary study by researchers at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania found that major newspapers reported far more often on the declining audiences for news, both for print and television, than the major networks.
Looking at a nine-year period, the researchers studied 26 major newspapers and compared their reporting to that of the news programs of seven major broadcast networks — ABC, NBC, CBS, CNBC, the Fox News Network, CNN and PBS. The papers ran 900 stories on the decline of print and TV audiences, while the major networks reported on the issue of declining TV news viewership in 22 reports, and an additional 38 reports focused on the decline in newspaper readership.
“It is not too great a leap to say that for all intents and purposes national television news has ignored its drop in viewership,” the researchers said.
Dean Singleton, chairman of MediaNews Group which owns the Merc, has been complaining about how the problems facing newspapers are covered. He told the Denver alt-weekly Westword:
- The problems of newspapers, in my view, are very mis-covered by media analysts today. They don’t understand the difference between a severe economic downturn, the most severe we’ve seen in my lifetime, and structural change. There are both going on. There’s structural change going on, and it has been for several years, and that will change our business model. But the majority of the revenue declines we’re seeing in 2009 are plain, old economic downturn.
… If you look at radio or television ad revenue for the March quarter, for the most part, they were down substantially more than print advertising. And they didn’t lose any business to the Web. So I think it’s unfortunate that the media wants to cover itself as if the sky is falling. The sky is not falling. It’s cloudy and we’re having severe thunderstorms, but the sky isn’t falling.


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There is no denying that Kate Middleton was positively glowing for her big day today. Her simple and natural beauty is going to be a look that brides (and pretty much everyone else) is going to be micking for months, if not years to comes. Here are the secrets to Kate Middleton’s royal wedding makeup and hair:
Kate actually did her own makeup for the big day. That is a brave move for a wedding that billions of people would be watching. Reports say she got lessons from makeup artist Arabella Preston in preparation. She chose a very light smoky eye with a thin line of black eye liner, pink blush in her cheeks and a pale pink lipstick.
Kate’s nails were done at Jo Hansford Salon. She created her pretty manicure with Bourjois nail polish in Rose Lounge and Essie nail polish in Allure.
For her hair, Kate stuck with her regular stylist James Pryce of the Richard Ward Salon and Metrospa and wanted to keep her hair simple. She chose a look that was partially up with curls hanging down around her face. Pryce was on hand with hairspray ready in case Kate has any hair emergencies during the course of the wedding day.

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Restaurant supplies coming from different countries
Japanese catering businesses in Shenzhen is feeling the effects of the recent nuclear emergency that happened in Japan, with fewer residents going out and dining at Japanese restaurants. The numbers of people eating at Japanese restaurants have dropped more than half.
People now are becoming cautious eating at Japanese restaurants after reports for food being tainted with radiation was reported in Japan even with the repeated guarantees from Japanese restaurants owners that the seafood they are using are coming from other countries and it safe to consume. One restaurant owner said it hard to import food from Japan after the earthquake because they are in short supply of food themselves and restaurant owners don’t want to risk bringing in seafood from Japan since they are already losing a lot of customers even with constant assurance of their food being safe.
Japanese restaurants are now buying their supplies from other countries such as Australia, Canada, Scotland and Norway. The quality of the goods are just as good as the Japanese imports but its a little more expensive since supply is short. Even with the price increase on food supply, restaurant owners still maintain their prices because they can not afford to lose their remaining clients.
If this continue many of the small Japanese eateries might be forced to close because of higher costs and fewer patrons coming in to eat.


One of sports’ greatest owners, Dan Rooney, has died while one of its worst, Francesco Becchetti, is killing his club.
After thirty years, I’m going to see my team. For the first time…
Is he fit for office? Does he have the ability, temperament and policy knowledge to be President? These and many other questions are being asked about Donald Trump. But there is another question, one no one’s asking at the moment: could Donald Trump make it as an NFL quarterback?
Failure has never been more popular. Not least among the wildly successful, who’ve been busily redefining this crucial part of life out of existence.
Enter any of Britain’s remaining bookshops and you’ll find whole tables offering libraries of praise for failure. Barely a self-help business management book or a celebrity boastography or a self-satisfied meditation on mindfulness is published which doesn’t hymn the wonder of defeat. Continue reading
Among the many unseemly aspects of the news that the self-proclaimed ‘Big 5’ had been caught discussing a breakaway European Super League, was the fact that they were discussing it with Stephen Ross, the owner of the Miami Dolphins. It led me to wonder why it is that it’s primarily the NFL’s worst owners who are most interested in the Premier League. (I’ve also written about why I think the league might actually be a good idea.) Continue reading
The NFL’s commitment to competitive balance isn’t an abstract idea. It will be taking the field for the Super Bowl shortly.
Something strange happened to me this morning. I found myself at my desk applauding a national football association. And not the kind of ironic slow handclap I reserve for Greg Dyke’s boneheaded pronouncements, but genuine appreciation for a piece of terrific work. Continue reading


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A Japanese policeman in Los Angeles uses an ancient magic sword to battle killers and an extortion ring. When a meteor crashes to earth in the ancient past, Japanese monks use it to fashion a magical, glowing sword. Now, in present-day Los Angeles, a cop named
Tadashi (Yamashita) and his very Irish partner Patrick (Gibson) are fighting not only police corruption, a sadistic pimp named Cain (Randazzo) and a paramilitary group led by camp commander Dirk St. John (Novak), but Tadashi agrees to try and find the missing
sword and return it back to its rightful owner, because it has been in his family for centuries. Not only that, but the daughter of the sword's owner, Satoko (Mika), has been kidnapped. It sure looks like there's a lot on Patrick and Tadashi's plate, but luckily
Tadashi "Is the best the Japanese have to offer" and he can "handle any weapon ever made". Does that include the...SWORD OF HEAVEN? We absolutely loved Sword of Heaven. It has that funny, insane, yet unwittingly (?) wacky sensibility we enjoy so much. It has
one of the best openings we've seen in a while, as Tadashi tears around the desert, popping wheelies on his motorbike - this after we actually see the materials for the sword coming out of space hundreds of years ago! The music that accompanies these scenes
and many others is triumphant and Superman-like, and the rest of the score is extremely catchy as well. There's even a song during a chase that sounds a LOT like ZZ Top's "Legs". The music, like the movie itself, is upbeat and fast paced.
While it may seem impressive that genre stalwarts Karen Sheperd, Bill "Superfoot" Wallace and Gerald Okamura have joined Tadashi, you truly haven't lived until you've seen Tadashi Yamashita - who looks like a Japanese Mitt Romney - executing his Martial Arts moves while (needlessly, which makes it funny) going undercover in a red dress. This when not on his awesome motorbike with a sword strapped to his back. His most noteworthy nemesis, in a movie full of them, is Joe Randazzo as Cain. He wears one glove like Michael Jackson and puts in an over-the-top, bonkers performance that on the John Miller scale of acting, rates about a 6.5 to a 7.
There's the token barfight (check out the pinball machines), absurd 80's insults are thrown around, and even though the kidnapped girl's name is Satoko, it REALLY sounds like all the characters are calling her "Sudoku". For half the movie we thought Tadashi really loved seeking out challenging number puzzles. But even though the movie is slathered in the loony goings-on you just have to love, there's plenty of great action and stunts as well, so the action side of our brains is fully satisfied. There's even a classic "hero goes in the woods and proceeds to kill goons" ending, each with different weaponry, which shows the movie's heart was in the right place all along.
During the infamous nightclub scene, a metal band is on stage called Ninja Warriors of Rock, playing a song called "War of Love". Released on VHS by TransWorld, do yourself a favor and see Sword of Heaven! The first hour of "Sword Of Heaven" is disjointed and nonsensical: we seem to be watching the "plots" of two different movies, one about an ancient sword with mystical powers made out of a comet (those powers don't seem to go beyond glowing in blue, however), the other about a serial killer whose victims are mostly rich people who have been blackmailed but refuse to pay up. An Irish police detective is on the serial killer case, and what do you know, his Japanese friend and martial arts instructor at the police academy is the one who has to protect the sword and deliver it to its rightful owner. The first hour is basically filler, but in the last 20 minutes we finally get some decent martial arts encounters as the hero, Tadashi Yamashita, has to fight a succession of henchmen one-on-one and sometimes one-on-two before getting to the main villain. Yamashita certainly has some moves, and there is a pretty neat beheading there as well. Also we get this amusing exchange:
- "Where did you learn all these acrobatics?"
- "Old Bruce Lee movies!"
- "You should be watching 007 instead"
The last 20 minutes almost redeem the movie. (*1/2)
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Bitcoin is becoming an “invincible” machine in the face of intensifying Chinese repression
The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) reiterated its longstanding anti-crypto stance and warned institutions not to offer services to crypto-related companies.
PNOC has shut the door a Beijing-based company that provides software services for virtual currency transactions and affirms that any company under it should not be involved in such transactions.
Both the PBOC and the Chinese government stepped up their anti-crypto rhetoric in May, adding to declining pressure on cryptocurrencies.
China’s crypto restrictions have dominated the headlines since mid-May and influenced market sentiment.
The National Internet Finance Association of China, China Bankers Association, and China Clearing and Clearing Association released a notice on May 18 confirming the ban on crypto services and ICO services in 2013 and 2017.
Bitcoin – the invincible machine
China’s crackdown on Bitcoin mining continues to face strong backlash in the crypto ecosystem. Nick Spanos, one of the earliest BTC exchange operators and co-founder of the Zap Protocol, says the raid only proves that Bitcoin is an “invincible” machine unless the world’s second largest economy can crush, devalue, and manipulate Bitcoin.
Spanos notes that crackdowns are becoming scarcer as there are fewer miners in relation to the volume of transactions, and highlights the increase in miners’ profitability while mining difficulties continue to decrease.
“Bitcoin’s algorithm adapts roughly every two weeks so that a block of transactions can be broken down every 10 minutes. This makes Bitcoin mining easier and more profitable. It’s a recipe for getting more miners back. “
Spanos said miners pulling out of China will look for a foothold in neighboring countries like Kazakhstan, Iran and Russia. Recently, one of the largest mining companies in China announced that it would leave the country and split its mining activities between the United Arab Emirates, Canada and the United States of America, Kazakhstan and Iceland.
Spanos noted that the price of bitcoin keeps rising as regulatory failings are “unearthed” by the community.
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During an immune response, mature B-lymphocytes undergo CSR, a deletional-recombination reaction that exchanges the C
µ constant region gene (CH
) of the expressed Igh
for one of a set of downstream constant CH
genes, such as C
ε or C
α. The B cell thus alters from producing IgM to one expressing a different effector antibody molecule such as IgG, IgE or IgA1
. CSR occurs between transcribed, repetitive 1–12 kb long DNA elements termed switch (S) regions that precede each of the CH
. Activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID), an essential enzyme for CSR2,3
, deaminates cytidines to uridines within transcribed S regions to initiate a cascade of reactions that generates staggered DSBs4
. Synapsis and end-joining of DSBs between two distinct S regions completes CSR.
The end-joining phase of CSR utilizes general DNA repair processes5
. C-NHEJ, which seals DNA ends with little (1–3 nucleotides) or no homology, is a major DSB repair pathway in somatic cells6
and was thought to be essential for CSR7
. However, recent studies have shown that mutations in several core C-NHEJ components including Ku70, DNA ligase IV and XRCC4 still allowed substantial CSR8–11
. The mutant cells though had a striking alteration in the nature of the switch junctions. While the majority of junctions in normal B cells were either blunt or had 1–3 base pairs of microhomology, those in the C-NHEJ mutants displayed a significant trend towards increased microhomology8–11
. Thus, CSR proceeds through a robust A-NHEJ pathway that displays a significant bias towards microhomology joins.
In addition to CSR, A-NHEJ has also been observed in a few other instances. First, several reporter substrates that measure joining of microhomologous DNA sequences have revealed the existence of A-NHEJ12–15
. Second, while C-NHEJ is essential for end-joining of DSBs generated by RAG proteins during V(D)J recombination, certain RAG mutations unmasked an A-NHEJ reaction that utilized microhomologous sequences for end-joining of reporter recombination substrates16,17
. Finally, interchromosomal translocations involving the Igh
locus frequently observed in C-NHEJ mutant B cells appear to use the A-NHEJ pathway9,18,19
. This process is predicted to involve a DNA end resection step to expose short single-stranded DNA stretches homologous to the other end being joined. Whether all or a subset of microhomology-mediated end joining constitute A-NHEJ is a matter of debate20
but it is clear that A-NHEJ preferably utilizes microhomology sequences. In this study, we have referred to all microhomology-mediated end-joining as A-NHEJ.
The factors required for A-NHEJ have not been elucidated; however, the end-processing proteins Mre11 and CtIP are thought to be involved12–15,21,22
. CtIP was originally identified as an interactor of the transcriptional co-repressor molecule CtBP and was thus thought to modulate transcription23
. It was subsequently shown to participate in cell cycle checkpoint control23
and DNA repair by homologous recombination (HR) through its ability to bind BRCA1 in a phosphorylation-dependent fashion13,24–26
. Additionally, CtIP and its yeast functional homologue Sae227
have been shown to be involved in resection of DSBs during homologous recombination, either acting directly as a nuclease and/or enhancing the nuclease activity of Mre1125,26,28–32
. Recently, studies using reporter substrates have demonstrated that CtIP participates in A-NHEJ12,13,15
, although the role of CtIP in HR and A-NHEJ are distinct as unlike that for HR, A-NHEJ does not require phosphorylation-dependent interaction with BRCA113
The overall model that emerged from these studies is that CtIP promotes processing of DSBs to reveal segments of homology that could be utilized for HR-based repair or stretches of microhomology for A-NHEJ. However, the majority of these studies, especially those that examined the role of CtIP in A-NHEJ, relied on the use of artificial substrates, which could potentially have a dominant effect on the nature of the end-joining reaction20
. In this study, we have used CSR as a physiological reaction to query the role of CtIP in A-NHEJ and demonstrate that CtIP plays a major role in microhomology mediated end-joining in normal as well as in C-NHEJ deficient cells.


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What do you do with your beloved metal lunchbox when it can no longer carry your PB&J to school? Send it your favorite art jeweler for recycling! Cass loved her Robot lunchbox and was sad when it needed to be replaced. Her mom thought it would be cool if we crafted a monster pendant out it. She was right.
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The 2018-19 influenza virus vaccine had an efficacy rate of 29%, which continued a negative trend that had been occurring over the past 25 years. Could this coming (Northern Hemisphere) season’s flu virus vaccine be the last for poor efficacy? Will it be the end of the line for the chicken egg-based vaccine?
In February of 2018, a United States Senate committee introduced (proposed) the “Flu Vaccine Act”
, which would invest $200 million per year over 5 years to create a universal flu vaccine that would provide a person with lifetime protection against a variety of influenza strains. In July of 2019, the USDHHS (US Department of Health and Human Services) was tasked and budgeted with improving the seasonal influenza vaccine and an executive order
appears to be forthcoming. This USDHHS order will include modernizing the flu strain identification and speeding up the manufacturing process. Improving both functions should improve on the trivalent and quadrivalent vaccine’s efficacy – which has been steadily declining since the mid 1990’s. Note that the technology already exists to drastically shorten the development time for flu and other vaccines. However, it costs more to make and payers have been reluctant to reimburse accordingly.
While the creation of a successful universal flu vaccine is an admirable goal, we believe that it is a long way from becoming available. A more focused effort on getting agreement to change the way seasonal flu vaccine strains are selected, using a “JIT” (just in time) selection process and mandating speedier and more effective flu vaccine production can be completed in a shorter time.
The Fitzpatrick Translational Science team has been publishing annual and historical flu efficacy blogs for the past 5 years. We have updated our files and calculations to include the CDC’s published combined efficacy for the 2018-19 influenza virus vaccine. Here are links to our prior flu publications:
- In August of 2018, we correctly predicted a poor match: https://www.fitzpatricktranslationalscience.com/news/164443420942603309
- In January of 2018, we explained WHY the H3N2 strain in the 2018-19 vaccine would not perform as poorly as it did in Australia: https://www.fitzpatricktranslationalscience.com/news/2502966253156433281
- In October of 2017, we incorrectly predicted that the 2017-18 would be more effective than in recent years (we based our data on the South American flu season): https://www.fitzpatricktranslationalscience.com/news/1251732411499863472
- In February of 2017, we described the declining efficacy of the flu vaccine and dire need for updating the archaic egg-based flu vaccine production capabilities: https://www.fitzpatricktranslationalscience.com/news/4688622446667024481
- In November of 2015, we discussed the linear regression correlation between poor flu vaccine efficacy and increased vaccination rates: https://www.fitzpatricktranslationalscience.com/news/4250645829936215805
- In October 2015, we predicted poor vaccine efficacy for the coming season: https://www.fitzpatricktranslationalscience.com/news/7487263737872303968
- In January, 2015, I described my Christmas vacation – fighting 6 violent days, suffering from the flu, DESPITE being vaccinated: https://www.fitzpatricktranslationalscience.com/news/962445406170876704
Last flu season’s efficacy (2018-2019)
was a paltry 29%, which is approximately the break-even point for being cost-effective and for vaccinating cohorts of healthy, working adults. We know this equation, as the Fitzpatrick team has created evidence-based pharmacoeconomic models for influenza.
Despite the continued poor efficacy of the flu vaccine, the CDC states that even more vaccine will be available this season
(162 – 169 million doses). At some point, the overall low flu vaccine efficacy may adversely affect the overall favorable flu vaccine advocacy and result in lower vaccination rates. The USDHSS and Congress need to get on-board and fund improved influenza virus vaccine strain identification and facilitate faster development processes.
Note that this season’s
vaccine will be somewhat delayed due to an unusually late decision by the CDC to change the H3N2 strain (which pushed out production by perhaps a month).
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The remarkable success of the Kickstarter campaign for Yooka-Laylee in June 2015 was slightly muted by the even greater success of Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. Yooka-Laylee would have become the fifth highest funded game ever on Kickstarter, but due to Bloodstained jumping straight into the number one spot it actually ended up in still impressive sixth spot – and also became the highest funded UK video game of all time.
As with Bloodstained the massive interest was generated due to the reputation of the development team. Playtonic Games only recently formed in 2014 and consisted of seven veterans from Rare Ltd, one of the most beloved development studios in videogame history. This instantly meant there was plenty of interest from the gaming community, which only intensified once it was revealed that Yooka-Laylee was in effect the spiritual successor to bona fida classic Banjo-Kazooie. In fact the rather modest target of £175,000 was smashed within 40 minutes of the Kickstarter project going live.
The final total ended up at £2,090,104 and also meant all stretch goals were met as well which ensures the final game will have a day one simultaneous release on all next gen-systems (along with PC/Mac/Linux), local co-op and multiplayer versus modes will be available, director commentaries, a full orchestral soundtrack, translation into multiple languages and even free DLC for all backers.
So what accounts for the massive popularity of the project? The campaign itself was extremely professional compared to most Kickstarter projects and benefited from liberal amounts of British humour (i.e. sardonic wit and references to farts), and the pedigree of the development team means there’s very little chance of the game not being a quality release. Three of the composers who worked on many of Rare’s most well-loved titles have already been recruited and Playtonic have confirmed their core team of seven will be expanding to 15 following the Kickstarter success.
The existing gameplay footage is also extremely impressive already and with Yooka (the big green chameleon) and Laylee (the little purple bat) we already have two memorable protagonists – and in fact both will be voiced by Project Director Chris Sutherland who also memorably voiced Banjo and Kazooie.
Although the Kickstarter campaign has now finished it’s still possible to contribute and receive the lower rewards via Paypal. £5 gets your name included in the thank you credits, £10 guarantees you the game via Steam digital download while £15 gets you a download on the next-gen console of your choice. With Yooka-Laylee due for release in October 2016 now is definitely the time to add your input to what’s sure to be another fantastic 3D platforming adventure.
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