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Squash travels to San Diego for interim training
Squash is a one-on-one game, a sport in which two players enclose themselves in a court with just a ball and two rackets. Dartmouth’s varsity squash players work so hard during their matches that their heart can beat upwards of 180 times each minute. The intense, fast-paced play can make it hard to even think, let alone concentrate on the game at hand. But the players execute anyway.
And while the court is a solitary place, Dartmouth’s squash players are not really alone. They are members of a team that supports, coaches and calms them.
Building that vital connection between every member was what made the squash teams’ 11-day training trip to San Diego this winter break so important.
“Having the supportive team behind you makes it so much better when you’re playing on the court,” women’s captain Helena Darling ’15 said. “You know you have basically a family behind you cheering you on. Most coaches would say squash is 80 percent mental.”
Men’s captain Mark Funk ’15 added that having a tight-knit group is critical, particularly when the coaches can’t concentrate on or work with every player at once. The athletes have a mere 90 seconds between games to get advice and catch their breath. When coaches are working with other players, teammates have to step up to help out.
The training trip consisted of two practices a day. The athletes usually played on the court in the morning, leaving the afternoons for fitness training. Team members of all ages took the trip as an opportunity to get to know each other better and to work on their craft in a new environment.
The squad also visited alumni in Los Angeles and Irvine, Calif., and played squash with the graduated athletes to further hone their skills.
During their free time, some team members took opportunities to explore the beach, swim, sea kayak or play Spikeball. The team also managed to include a trip to the San Diego Zoo in between practices.
Of course, while the team managed to schedule in some time for fun in the warmer weather, squash training was the primary focus of the trip.
Funk said that while on the court, the team worked on technique, footwork and positioning the ball.
“Eventually, as we get further down in the season, these will become second nature, muscle memory,” Funk said.
The athletes practiced hitting the “right” shot, rather than the shot that just felt good, in a series of situations, head coach Hansi Wiens said. He explained that repetition will allow the players to execute the “right” shot when their heart rates begin to elevate so high that it becomes hard for them to think straight.
Wiens also had the team take part in a couple of challenging yet fun sessions of water training during their time in San Diego.
Assuming the teams stay healthy, both Darling and Funk said they feel good about Dartmouth’s positioning for the season thus far. Now that the season is underway, the athletes will focus less on technique and more on conditioning for long matches.
Aside from the training trip, both men’s and women’s squash competed in matches over break. The no. 9 men’s squad went 1-2 in three matches, with their only win coming at home against The United States Naval Academy on Dec. 6. For the no. 10 women, both of their two matches resulted in losses.
Dartmouth’s 5-4 win over Navy had plenty of excitement as several of the best of five games matches demanded for a fourth or fifth game. The five Dartmouth wins came from Funk, Brian Giegerich ’18, Kyle Martino ’16, James Fisch ’16 and Glen Brickman ’17.
Harvard bested the Dartmouth men on Dec. 2, 7-2 with two wins coming from Brickman and Harvey. Finally, No. 3 Trinity shutout the men’s team 9-0 on Dec. 7.
On the women’s side, Dartmouth was handed another shutout by no. 1 Harvard who bested the Big Green 9-0 on Dec.2. No. 2 Trinity handed Dartmouth a 7-2 loss on their home court on Dec. 7. , with Rebecca Brownell ’18 and Carloline Canning ’18 picking up both wins for the Big Green.
Coming up next for the green and white, both men’s and women’s squash will head south this Friday to face Drexel University at 3 p.m. Both teams will then travel to the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University Saturday and Sunday, respectively.


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North East London Cancer Alliance: Awareness Campaign
The NHS North East London Cancer Alliance, in partnership with The Eve Appeal (a leading UK charity raising awareness of and funding research for gynaecological cancers) recently launched the ‘You Need to Know’ campaign.
The aim of the campaign is to increase awareness of womb cancer and its symptoms to help women in the local area get diagnosed sooner, when their outcomes will be better.
Women who are Black, Asian or from a minority ethnic group have worse outcomes and are less likely to survive womb cancer in the UK. Because of this, the campaign specifically targets women over the age of 45 from Black African, Black Caribbean and South Asian backgrounds.
As part of the campaign the Alliance are are delivering hour long talks at community centres to allow women to get information directly and to ask any questions they may have.
- Do you have a space/established group of women who meet who would like to have this health awareness session delivered to them for free?
- The Alliance will also pay for venue hire and refreshments if required.
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NO wonder I keep seeing Rk's trying to kill me on rg with 2h sword. I just lul.
Well atleast this video makes me miss large scale woes. Idk if i should stop being a guild leader and xfer to a diff server @_@; 1 thing is for certain WoE isn't dead for sure. This merge will definitely be a major turning point in the game and I look foreword to it.
I've made about 8 or more +10's with that being said it took me nearly 12bil to do this and I regret every trying to make more. My advice is that you should only upgrade for Account bound items. Other wise sell your ores and buy the item already +10'ed.
Side note: I made all 8 of my gears +10 in under 1bil but I kept trying to get more +10 gears.

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Charles, Consider the book you mentioned "Seeds of Knowledge" about the teluric aspect of megalithic constructions and how the pyramids may have been built to resemble volcanos, or at least, dormant volcanos!
I recenly saw an exhibit at Chicago's Field Museum of natural history on Pompei, the city built around Mt Vesuvius. That volcano also had multiple eruptions in recorded history. Why is there a massive city around Mt Vesuvius even today?!
I think the "Seeds" authors are on to something. I ordered the book from Amazon. I can't wait!
PS Consider, was Mt Ararat a dormant volcano? Trust me, there will be revelations in the future from Thera.
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Pixar's own Lindsey Collins and Domee Shi have been promoted to leadership roles within the studio - announcement details here.
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Why is change so difficult?
Dozens of people. Times 12 months. Times 15 years. That’s how many people I’ve spoken to about their fitness needs since Arena Fitness opened in January of 2003. People inquiring about membership. Members sitting down with me for consultations. People outside of work, picking my brain. People hoping that personal training or some other form of supervised exercise and nutrition will help them.
I’ve spoken with thousands of people about their fitness needs over my career as a business owner, and that doesn’t factor in the 10 years prior to that as an independent personal trainer and gym manager. Thousands of people.
It’s not that we’re a huge company or that I’m an especially important person. It’s just a function of time; time served in a particular industry. Time served as the first point of contact for inquirers. The steady drip, drip of calls and internet submissions compounded over years has placed me on the line with a lot of people, discussing needs and challenges, sharing stories, answering a lot of questions.
And in every conversation, I’m going to ask one thing of whomever is on the other end of the line:
“Tell me about yourself.”
And most stories are stories of struggle. Of frustration.
I used to work out a lot, you say. Before I had kids, when I was in college. Before work took over my life.
I haven’t trained in a while, you say. I just can’t seem to stay on track.
I need motivation, you say. I have a hard time getting myself to work out.
I need someone to hold me accountable, you say. I need someone to kick my butt when I don’t want to go to the gym.
I don’t really like working out, you say.
I know what to do, you say, I just can’t seem to do it.
And in many, if not most, of the conversations, there’s a silent but ominous question running beneath your story. A question masked as a conclusion, a judgment.
What’s wrong with me? What in the hell is wrong with me that I can’t get it together?
If you’re one of the people stuck on that question, I want you to understand something:
There’s nothing wrong with you.
If you’re struggling to change your habits and behaviors, if you struggle to maintain consistency with your exercise and nutrition, it’s not your fault.
Listen to that again; it’s not your fault.
The Brain Science of Change
Your brain is an incredible piece of machinery; a supercomputer. But when it comes to change, when it comes to developing new habits, when it comes to proper exercise and nutrition, it’s not always working in your favor.
While your brain is an amazing supercomputer, it’s running a really old software program. Tens of thousands of years old, and, unfortunately, outdated. Your brain evolved through hundreds of thousands of years of scarcity and danger. The vast majority of the human experience has taken place during times when predators, weather, starvation, famine and disease posed clear and present risks to your survival. And your brain’s primary fixation is survival. Survival for YOU and survival for your species.
Change, real change, or variation of a routine that has resulted in survival for you, makes your brain very wary. If what you have been doing has resulted in continued survival, why change what you’ve been doing? That’s your brain’s line of reasoning. It can’t really discern between healthy and unhealthy or good and bad, except to the extent that it might pose a risk to your survival. Deviating from routine, doing something uncomfortable or unfamiliar makes your brain nervous and suspicious, and it will tend to nudge you back toward the familiar because it believes it to be SAFE. And SAFE equals SURVIVAL, and if the brain can lead you to survival it has succeeded in it’s job.
When you’re trying to change your habits, then, you are in some ways working against what the brain perceives to be in your best interest. You’re swimming upstream.
The other reason your brain resists change…
Another function our brain performs is as a strict energy auditor. Remember, our brain evolved during long periods of scarcity and famine, and it still considers those risks to be legitimate, although, for those of us in 21st Century America, they aren’t (except in cases of extreme poverty). Change requires more energy and effort than routine and homeostasis (basically, the body’s equilibrium) and the brain doesn’t like sparing unnecessary calories. More on this in the next post.
Don’t blame your brain. Remember, it’s what kept us alive as a species during really tough times. We aren’t really designed for a dangerous environment; we don’t have armor like a rhino, claws like a bear, speed like a gazelle, climbing ability like a monkey, teeth like a lion. We are thin-skinned, weak and slow, compared to other species. Our ability to work together with other humans and our highly developed pre-frontal cortex are our defenses against nature and they have done a bang up job.
So, where does this leave us?
Knowing that your brain isn’t necessarily on board when you’re trying to modify habits isn’t a death sentence. It doesn’t mean that you’re doomed to fail AND it doesn’t absolve you of the responsibility of striving to improve. After all, in a strange irony, the brain is also wired to reward progress as a survival mechanism, it’s just a matter of knowing how to access that reward cycle in order to produce results.
But it’s important to understand why the struggle is real so that you can:
- Stop berating and abusing yourself for having difficulty modifying deeply embedded habits and evolutionary tendencies
- Prepare a proper plan of action that will engage the brain’s reward system and override it’s compulsion toward maintaining the status quo.
There’s nothing wrong with you. Your struggle is normal, it makes you human. Stop beating yourself up.
If you want to reach your goals, you need a plan. We’ve said this many times before, but you need knowledge, a system and support. This is the process of:
- Clearly defining your Game Changer (long-term) goal, your Stretch (mid-range) goal and your Quick Wins (daily goals)
- Focusing on the Quick Wins as a way to encode behavior, establish new habits and activate your brain’s reward system
- Understanding the power of surrounding yourself with a community of support
In the meantime, remember; your brain is just doing it’s job. The challenge is that it’s job is not consistent with your present environment. Cut yourself some slack. You’re not broken.
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NEWBURY BLUES face early unbeaten front-runners Doncaster at Monks Lane tomorrow (3pm) looking for their opening National Division 1 win of the season.
Third-from-bottom Blues, yet to win in two outings, will be without top-scoring full-back Nick Defty, who suffered a cruciate ligament injury at London Welsh last Sunday.
Chris Ashwin covers and there’s a return to the squad for wing Martin Nutt, while Tom Radbourne replaces Gregor Hayter in the second row.
Player/coach Chris Sheasby misses Bracknell’s home clash with Cleve tomorrow (3pm) suffering from a muscle strain, so Kai Blankley fills in.
Full-back Andy Byett also makes his full debut having come off the bench during last Saturday’s opening-day win over Bournemouth, while new scrum-half Dan Ap-Dafyd is among the subs.
“We got to carry on where we left off last week and put up a good defence, frustrate Cleve and build our own game through the set-piece,” said skipper Ben Nowak.
Henley Wanderers hit the road again with a SW Division 2 East trip to Bletchley, a side still smarting from conceding 56 points last week.
It’s the second of four successive away matches for Adrian Smith’s side as Henley Hawks’ matches clash with their own home games over this period.
Midlands centre Anthony Grubb comes in, while Aussie prop Steve Smith is named on the bench.
“We’ll play a fast fluid game and see if we can outdo them,” said head coach Nigel Dudding.
Tadley visit Marlow for the first time in South West Division 2 East tomorrow for their first away game in their new league.
Paul Denning returns in the centre to partner Alex Pike, while Tadley hope flanker Gareth Green is over an ankle problem that forced him off last Saturday.
“They are all going to be tough, but these are the games we’ve got to be trying to get results in,” said skipper Tom Bailey.
Berkshire Shire Hall hit the road for the first time for their BB&O 1 South match at Harwell.
Tim Judge returns at scrum-half, while Matt Moir and Nick Malone take over in the centre.
“I think we are slightly better off than last week,” said coach Jon Merrin.
It’s all change in the backs for Thatcham who visit Oxford Harlequins in BB&O 1 South.
Ali Crouch returns at scrum half with Charlie Cox wearing the No 10 shirt and John Morgan taking over at full back.
Gary Libby also comes in at hooker and there’s a debut for flanker Kev Bowley.
“It’ll be tough but all the lads are well up for it,” said skipper Darren Osborne.
BRACKNELL: Byett; Vernon, Jones, Nowak (c), Shears; Jay, Manupenu; Mirza, Surman, Sloan; Barry, Borcherds; Sparks, Lovell, Blankley. Reps: Shelton, Leishman, Ap-Dafyd.
HENLEY WANDERERS: Sutton; Lee, Grubb, Fiander, Whittle; R Dudding, Metcalf; Pontin, Taylor, Jordan; A Smith (c), Downing; Paddison, Dupee, Carson. Reps: S Smith, N Smith, N Dudding.
NEWBURY: (from) Ashwin, Hylton, Hughes, Rees, Reay, Henderson. Walsh, Smaje, Simpson-Daniel; Irish, Carter, Dalgleish, Campbell,
TADLEY: Dennison; Smith, Denning, A Pike; Raymond, Bailey (c); D Pike, Choules, Lowe; Campbell, Harris; Seal, green, Heely. Reps: Craig, Collins, Nicholson.
THATCHAM: Morgan; Evans, Hudson, Mitchell, Rance; Cameron, Libby, Chambers; Langdon, Broughton; Evans, Bowley, Osborne (c). Reps: Lindsey, Hutchins, Hawkins, Jennings.


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George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Bill Clinton in the Oval Office. Credit: Flickr/Cal Almonds.
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- King Tutankhamun did not die in chariot crash, virtual autopsy reveals
- Easter Island’s ancient inhabitants weren’t so isolated after all
- Turin shroud was made for medieval Easter ritual, historian says
- Japanese Village Grappling With Wartime Sins Comes Under Attack
- Turning West, Historians Take a Wider View of Early America
- History to Launch Online Course for College Credit
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- Eric Foner debunks Underground Railroad myth
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Fans of Gossip Girl's Jessica Szhor can 'be the photographer', using a new iPad app from SoBe and Sports Illustrated.
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Szhor was filmed in Costa Rica, where agency Firstborn collaborated with renowned street artist, Gualicho, to paint a SoBe lizard themed mural in the middle of a San Jose street. Teaser media was then used to entice SoBe fans into trying to guess who the next Skinsuit model would be, in the build-up to the launch.

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In this sense, this book is my Bible. After the section on basics, there’s a section of “looks” developed for ordinary people male and female alongsid The obvious aim of this book is to show people how to apply make up, which it does very well. There is a section on basics, a before and after section, and then a part on specific looks, with directions.
His simple and yet detailed approaches make this book shine above the rest, worth purchasing even if you already h I don’t buy many beautiful related books anymore, as once you have a decent collection of them, they start blending together.
He’s too young to have done that. I bought this as I hoped it might give me ideas for wedding make-up but in the end I didn’t use it as I got a make-up lesson and bought the products from the artist. These were skimmed over.
The only discouraging thing I have to say is that I remember being disappointed that he didn’t list some of his favorite products. He even specifies what consistency each product should be, such as powder versus liquid blush, pencil eye liner versus liquid eye liner, and lip gloss versus lipstick.
So many beauty resources aimed at trans women seek to assimilate us into a cisheteronormative view of beauty; we are enticed with the promise that we too, if we learn how to use blush, can ascend into unremarkability.
Refresh and try again. Oct 09, Stephanie rated it really liked it Shelves: It’s mostly a make-up how-to book some of us missed that classwith a little bit of autobiography. This is a makeup book that shows specific kinds of makeup jobs, most of them very dramatic. It then goes on to show you a bunch of different looks you can achieve with makeup, and step-by-step instructions.
Fern Taylor really like Ambrose but Ambrose only made jokes about about her looks. Jadi bukan sekedar model kulit putih yang muda dan mulus saja, tapi juga orang kebanyakan. Maquillame to Book Page.
Feb 18, Charity rated it liked it. It starts out with basic maauillaje on how to make up your face, eyes, and lips. His “transformations” of normal people to make-up styles were really inspirational. I tried out two of the faces last night, and my boyfriend loved the smoky eye look on me! Artte book is great for beginners who want to get a brief but informative look into the makeup industry. Alasan lain adalah, buku ini menampilkan perempuan dari beragam usia dan etnis. I’ve never completed one of the looks featured in the book.
Aug 16, Lena Tumasyan rated it it was amazing.
Very few truly gifted artists pass our way, and he definately was wonderful. The first time I was allowed to wear makeup, I was artee. Sep 25, Sarah rated it it was amazing. This is what I mean when I say that I only read books with pictures, lots and lots of really really big and beautiful pictures. When Rita liked Ambrose, Fern was the one writing back and forth with Ambrose and signing rita’s name. It makes me sad to know he has since passed away – he had genius talent and most of all a wonderful nature, as comes across in this book.
Feb 07, Ashley Knight rated it it was amazing. The celeb pictures are stunning; look for Drew Barrymore, Winona Ryder and many others.
Maybe next Halloween may be the time to try another over the top character. The obvious aim of this book is to show people how to apply make up, which it does very well. Thankfully I repurchased a used version this summer.
A very informative, quick read with detailed pictures and instructions. Jika saya hanya boleh punya buku bertopik make up, maka buku ini yang akan saya pilih. Its presentation is excellent to be sure, but Kevyn’s artistry is absolutely astounding.
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If you have not yet seen the Netflix documentary, Making A Murderer, stop what you are doing right now and watch it. Getting through the day without hearing the name Steven Avery has been difficult in the past few weeks. And if you have seen the crime doc, you have likely been part of a conversation about Avery's guilt or innocence, the U.S. justice system or questioned part of the evidence.
Legal commentator and TV personality, Nancy Grace, has entered into the conversation and claims that Avery, who was found guilty in the 2005 murder of Teresa Halbach, is indeed, guilty. This goes against the opinion of millions who stand by Avery after seeing the documentary, which examines the defense of Avery as well as accuses the local police department of setting up Avery and his nephew, Brendan Dassey, who was also found guilty of murder.
So what evidence does Nancy Grace claim shows Avery's guilt? First, Halbach's bones were found in Avery's fire pit, and a burn barrel on the property contained personal belongings, such as her phone and a camera. Halbach's car key was also found in Avery's home behind a nightstand, and Avery's DNA was found on the hood latch of Halbach's car. Additionally, Avery had a cut on his hand, his blood was found in her car and bullet fragments from Avery's gun had Halbach's DNA on them.
Yes, there is a lot of physical evidence in this case and the prosecution had a lot to work with. Avery's supporters, however, are calling foul, and they believe that the police department set Avery up using his own blood. Why would they do this? Well, if you have seen the documentary, you know that there was some bad-blood, so to speak, between the parties. If you haven't, what are you waiting for? Start watching!
What do you think, PopWrappers? Is Steven Avery innocent or guilty?


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Helium balloons are so bittersweet. They are marvelously magnificent party favor, but their lives are so tragically short. Clementine Henrion's eternal helium balloons are an excellent investment if you have suffered the loss of too many helium balloons in your lifetime.
The metallic fabric which is stuffed with kapok makes for eternal helium balloons that will never descend, but rather live on forever and uplift spirits.
Implications - Clementine Henrion says that she designed the Helium Eternal concept while looking back on her childhood. She says that she remembers "the childhood memory of this magnificent, brightly shining balloon you proudly bring back from the park, but which will alas tragically deflate within few days." She wanted to be able to keep the glorious feeling of having a shining balloon forever.

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you only need take off the fan leaves (biggest leaves when they start to shade budsites underneath).
...Actually..IMHO, removing large healthy leaves can never be healthy or productive for a plant. The leaves are 'vital' for photosynthesis, for transpiration, and for moving/transporting water and nutrients throughout the plant as needed.
"I" don't believe pistills and small budleaf benefits as much from the direct light, as do the large fan leaves, nor benefit the plant as well.
I do think there can be some benefit by "skirting" or trimming some of the lower growth from underneath the canopy. It won't recieve the needed light to produce quality buds, and allows more resources to be used at the canopy, where light is abundant.
...not 'dissing' your growing ability or advice pkj, just a different perspective on the matter.


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"I'm not afraid. Israelis should be afraid. What are people without jobs to do?"
The residents of south Tel Aviv are less afraid of coronavirus than they are of its consequences: 10,000 refugees have been left without money for food and without a financial security net. Chaos is only a matter of time.
March 29, 2020
Anyone who had forgotten, ignored, or was uninterested in the already explosive situation in south Tel Aviv־made worse by the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic־received a horrifying sneak peek last Friday of the anarchy that could erupt in the area. Police officers trying to disperse a crowd of young asylum seekers at the neighborhood's stolen bike market met with angry opposition. A physical altercation ensued. Nobody, not the officers nor the rioting asylum seekers, were wearing protective measures such as gloves or masks.
Moti Katz, who lives near the old central bus station in south Tel Aviv and is a member of his neighborhood committee and other community organizations, got a close look at the brawl while accompanying Ynet News reporter Assaf Kamar. "The police went by the area maybe 10 times before the reporter got there and did nothing," Katz said. "When they saw the media had arrived, they probably wanted to show that there is enforcement, so they stopped and tried to disperse the youths, and that's what happened."
During a tour of the neighborhood on Wednesday afternoon, it appeared that the Israeli Ministry of Health's guidelines are, for the most part, being followed. Like in every other part of the world, it is the young people who are ignoring the rules. The problem is that in the central bus station area of Tel Aviv most of the residents are young men, asylum seekers from Eritrea and Sudan. They live in poverty and share crowded apartments, thus promoting the spread of disease and making any form of social distancing impossible. What's more, they sense the growing hostility and rejection from a society that has been trying to expel them in every possible way for the better part of the last decade.
Even in normal times, it would be hard to expect this group to show solidarity. But these days are far from normal. The coronavirus' economic tsunami is hitting asylum seekers with much greater force than any other group of people in Israel.
"There will be riots," said Moti Katz, who lives near Tel Aviv's old central station and is a member of his neighborhood committee. "Several police officers have told me that they let them go out for some air to prevent a violent outbreak. If people aren’t working for a while, the little money they have will run out and there will be anarchy."
"I anticipate a catastrophe," said Sari Bat־Ami, a social worker who runs the psychosocial department of Assaf, the Aid Organization for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Israel. "I'm afraid that a month from now, entire families will become homeless. Not just individuals־who we must also help of course־but entire families. We have already seen landlords who have chosen this time to increase the rent for their refugee tenants."
"Imagine a family of six, two parents and four children, and the parents are out of work," said Sari Bat־Ami. "There is simply no money to pay for rent, bills, and food. Another thing this population doesn’t have is health insurance. As long as they are working, they are covered by their employers, but the moment they stop working, they lose that insurance, and this makes them even more vulnerable."
Moti Katz, for his part, is more concerned about the moment when all the stress factors־the pandemic, the financial strain, the frustration, and racism־just blow up. "In the last week, for example, cafes that cater to the Eritrean community are working as usual. They just leave the blinds half־closed so they look closed. When the police arrive to tell the owners to close, 20 people come out of each one of these cafes. ‘We’re just cleaning!,’ they tell the police. I hope to see some arrests of lockdown violators, be they Africans or Israelis. They will only learn the hard way. That said, it is important to mention that Eritreans with families are behaving differently. They are very afraid, and they are all following the instructions. You won't see a single Eritrean kid on the street nowadays."
So what will happen here when the financial hardship intensifies?
"There will be riots. Some police officers told me that they let them go out for some air to prevent a violent outbreak. If people aren't working for a while, the little money they have will run out and there will be anarchy."
Restaurants, hotels, everything is closed
In Israel today, there are some 30,000 adult asylum seekers, half of whom live in the southern Tel Aviv neighborhoods of Shapira, HaTikva, and Neve Sha'anan. The number of children is anywhere between 7,000 and 10,000; no one knows exactly, because the Israeli Ministry of Interior does not have a separate category for the children of asylum seekers and the children of foreign workers. The entire population, whose socioeconomic status is one of the worst in Israel even on a good day, has now been left without any social safety net.
"What we are seeing now is that this population has been completely marginalized," said Sari Bat־Ami. "There are many unemployed, maybe even the entire community. The Israeli restaurant association has reported that 10,000 asylum seekers were laid off this week. I estimate that the actual number is much higher, because the majority of jobs available to asylum seekers are in restaurants, hotels, and cleaning and maintenance services־all sectors that have completely shut down."
"This means that a very large part of the community has found itself at home. We are talking about extremely high percentages of the population. All the means that we Israelis have at our disposal at this very complex time are simply not available to them. They cannot sign on for unemployment."
"Their very way of life־living in poverty in tiny apartments־increases the risk," said Sari Bat־Ami. "It means their ability to isolate is minimal to nonexistent, and that makes them a high־risk population. For single mothers, even if they still have a job, they cannot go because they have to stay home with their kids. There are many kids today who are at home without the option of remote learning. This is not the fault of the education system; they simply don’t have the means."
"If a family has three kids, you can be certain that they do not have three screens. The result is that all the means the government is providing us citizens to help us deal with this crisis are irrelevant to this population. Moreover, the regulations are not accessible enough to the Eritrean population. I'm experiencing a lot of stress from the community. I think people are less afraid of the disease and more afraid of the economic repercussions. Families that are not going to receive an income this month and maybe not even next month simply don’t have any reserves to fall back on."
"We are not afraid of corona, we’ve been through worse. But the government doesn’t take care of us, and I feel that no one there even remembers that we are here," said Berhe Teame, who runs the Eritrean Community School in Tel Aviv. "The first thing the government must do is give us back the money it is taking from us."
So what will happen?
"I have to say that the distress of this community will not impact only members of this community; it will impact all of us, especially those of us living in south Tel Aviv. I am not afraid of looting. This community does not have above־average crime rates. I am concerned about violence in general, because I can see that we are all under pressure, but not specifically within this community; here, I actually see a lot of mutual aid."
As a way of encouraging asylum seekers to leave and pressurizing them financially, the government has, for the past two years, collected 20% of the wages earned by asylum seekers into a special deposit fund that will only become available when they leave the country. Now, Sari Bat־Ami is calling on the authorities to return this deposit without the usual stipulations. In addition, she states, "We must make health insurance available to children and adults and allocate special resources such as setting up a designated quarantine area. We must establish an aid system that will answer all these special needs."
185 families on the "coronavirus list"
Berhe Teame, who runs the Eritrean Community School in Tel Aviv, said that members of the community are most frightened of starvation. "We follow the law and the health ministry’s directives," he said. "We are not afraid of corona, we have been through worse. But the government doesn’t take care of us, and I feel that no one there even remembers we are here. If something happens to us, history will remember that Israel did not help us. The first thing the government must do is give us back the money it is taking from us. This is our money! Think of the single mothers. They cannot work. They have to stay home with their kids with no money. Members of the community are trying to help, but there's little they can do because no one has work. Everyone is staying at home. Even if we want to help, there’s not much we can do."
Are you afraid of what might happen should the government keep holding on to the deposit funds?
"I am not afraid. Israelis should be afraid. You will be afraid," said Berhe Teame. "What are people without homes and without jobs to do? Do they have a choice? If a mother cannot feed her child and the community cannot help, what will the child do? Won’t the child do anything possible to bring home food?"
Over the last week and a half, social activist Yonit Naftali has done anything she can to try and stop members of the community from falling prey to starvation. The names and addresses sent to her phone multiply at the same rate as the numbers of confirmed Covid–19 cases. On Tuesday, her "coronavirus list" had 185 families signed up for food and assistance. In the few hours between morning and afternoon, 30 new families were added. In the coming days, the list, dubbed Food for the Soul, is likely to keep on rapidly growing.
"I anticipate a catastrophe," said Sari Bat־Ami, a social worker who runs the psychosocial department of Assaf, the Aid Organization for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Israel. "I'm afraid that a month from now, entire families will become homeless. We have already seen landlords who have chosen this time to increase the rent for their refugee tenants."
"Unlike us, asylum seekers don’t receive unemployment benefits. The moment they are out of work, they have nothing," Yonit Naftali said. "This week, we started getting more and more requests for financial support, and we put together a group of activists to collect donations and buy food. We are supported by another food rescue organization that is assisting us with storage and giving us fresh produce and bread to allocate."
According to Yonit Naftali, food deliveries are dispersed primarily to families with children. "You don't have upper and lower classes in this community; everyone is in a lower socioeconomic class, but the single mothers, many of whom live with other single mothers, are the first to feel the impact. They are single providers and the moment they lose their jobs, they have nothing to fall back on. The next in line are people suffering from health and social problems. My biggest fear is hungry children walking the streets asking for something to eat, and I am already seeing that happening. When an entire community goes hungry, and is concentrated in one place, people will venture out in search of food. There is no other option. That is why we need a systemic solution."
"I know that large organizations like the city authorities and other agencies can take some time to mobilize, so, in the meantime, we are doing what we can. There is a nice mobilization of the general public and of bakeries that donate bread, but that is not enough."
Naftali reports that, in her opinion, many members of the asylum seeker community are in a dire psychological state. "They are terrified of the coronavirus. They are less informed about the disease and are in great distress. They don’t have the things that even the poorest Israelis have, they don’t know when this will end, and they have nothing to rely on. These are people who have no credit cards. The moment they run out of cash, they simply won't have bread tomorrow. These are people who are already living hand־to־mouth, and now their hand is empty."
Is the Tel Aviv Municipality aware of the ticking time bomb in its back yard? It appears so. Still, when confronted with questions about aid plans for starving asylum seekers and homeless families and the establishment of isolation locations for people who live in crowded apartments, the municipality directed us to the interior and welfare services ministries.
The Tel Aviv Municipality is, however, more than happy to report on its information campaign. This includes thousands of posters in English and Tigrinya listing the health ministry's directives, PA system announcements in English and Tigrinya, and the production and distribution of informative videos to prominent members of the community. The municipality also told us that its inspectors are patrolling the area and breaking up public gatherings, sanitation workers are cleaning the area intensively, and the police have shut down the brothels in the neighborhood.
In response to a request for comments, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, and Social Services said: "In addition to the ministry’s intense workload during this period, it is collaborating with other government ministries to provide a humanitarian response to Israel's asylum seekers who are impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. In the upcoming weeks, we expect to release detailed guidelines for social services departments."
A response from the Population and Immigration Authority stated: "The issue is under discussion. It involves legislation, and we are trying to find a solution, but it is not solely up to us."
The desperate are more desperate than ever
For the drug addicts and the homeless, the despair has never been deeper
A problem unique to south Tel Aviv which is unsettling local residents is the many homeless people and drug addicts that have been flooding the area for years־all the more so in the last two years. The small strides made by the municipality and the local police to appease residents have now gone by the board. Drug use and trafficking in the area was particularly noticeable this week as the streets emptied and the local police directed their efforts to other more pressing tasks.
Those passing by the tough streets of the central bus station area this week could see how the pandemic is affecting those who live on the outskirts of society. The addicts, the homeless, and the sex workers־many of whom suffer from severe mental problems־seem more lost than ever.
Every now and then, one can witness truly surrealist displays, such as the filthy and miserable homeless man who walks down Gdud Haivri Street with no shirt and no shoes, wearing blue medical gloves. Most other people seemed truly overwhelmed by the new status quo. On Tuesday afternoon, an addict was trying to panhandle on the typically busy junction of Chlenov Street and Begin Road, talking to herself in despair about the fact that the few cars going by were reluctant to stop and roll down their windows.
The next morning, another addict could be seen wandering in the middle of the junction between Har־Zion Boulevard and Kibbutz Galuyot Road with a particularly desperate expression. Four times the light changed from green to red, and not a single car was willing to chance exposure and give her a handout.
Neighborhood committee member Moti Katz says that while the asylum seekers community mostly follows the social isolation directives ("unfortunately, the young people are behaving much less responsibly, but that is a global phenomenon," he said), the homeless and the addicts are roaming the streets undisturbed.
The issue is particularly grave at the methadone station on HaMasger Street, where dozens of addicts gather in a hopeless attempt to score. The city, which has been trying for some time to shut down and relocate the station, is aware of the situation but says there is little it can do other than file yet another complaint with the health ministry.
Sharon Melamed heads the Tel Aviv Municipality’s Department of Social Services which routinely assists the local homeless and addicts. "The city operates shelters that are following the health ministry's directives," she said. "Following the city's appeal to the health ministry and the social services ministry, we have prepared a space that is suitable for the isolation of homeless people. The space (Kiryat Shlomo Hospital) has 30 beds and meets all the criteria and guidelines."
Melamed is unaware of any coronavirus cases among the city's homeless population but also does not know if any testing has been carried out among them. " We are working at full capacity even during this period and are patrolling the streets to keep the homeless population informed. Regarding food, we didn’t distribute food on the street even before this. Those who come to the soup kitchen operated by the Lasova organization will still receive a meal; they just can’t sit there to eat now but have to take the meal away with them."

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On the game winning 90-yard touchdown drive, Gruden said he saw “poise and confidence” out of Kirk Cousins. Something that Robert Griffin III struggled with, getting through his progressions, is what Gruden credited Cousins with doing yesterday. Gruden believes that the “confidence that he’s starting to get” is leading to improved performances. Gruden also credited the offensive line and specifically now starting left guard Spencer Long for playing “great”, which can only help Cousins as he continues to develop.
Going into this season, there was probably less hope for the Washington Redskins than ever before in recent history. Robert Griffin III did not look the greatest, suffered a concussion, and was subsequently benched. Two weeks into the season, the Eagles and Giants were both 0-2 and the Cowboys were without their three best offensive players from last season (Romo, Bryant, and Murray). The Redskins had a chance to build momentum after an impressive 24-10 win over the St. Louis Rams, but instead came out slow and never recovered on their way to a 32-21 loss to the New York Giants.
After getting off to solid starts the first two weeks of the season with 10-0 leads, the Redskins decided to flip the script early. On the first drive of the game, Jordan Reed was penalized for pass interference, which Jay Gruden did not agree with, that not only negated a big play but stalled the drive into a punt attempt. I say attempt because the Redskins poor special teams reared its ugly head again as practice squad addition Terrance Plummer got blown up by running back Rashad Jennings leading to a block and safety.
After the big news yesterday that the Washington Redskins had waived 2013 second round pick David Amerson (who was quickly claimed by the Oakland Raiders), the Redskins lost another member of the defense as backup ILB Martrell Spaight was placed on the injured reserve list due to a concussion. Spaight is now the third of ten rookies to no longer take a snap for the Redskins this season joining WR Evan Spencer and CB Tevin Mitchel. Placing Spight on IR opened up a roster spot for the recently reinstated Chris Culliver who missed last week’s win due to a one game suspension. Although Terrance Plummer, formerly of the practice squad, will be active for Thursday’s game, head coach Jay Gruden said that if Perry Riley cannot go then Trent Murphy could serve as the emergency middle linebacker, similarly to the Packers’ Clay Matthews.
Elsewhere on the defense, Gruden said that veteran corner DeAngelo Hall is becoming more confident in his body with regular season games under his belt. Hall is coming off of two torn Achilles tendon and will turn 32 before Week 11 this season.
REDSKINS CUT TIES WITH FORMER SECOND ROUND PICK DAVID AMERSON
The big news out of Redskins Park today was that the Washington Redskins waived 2013 second round pick David Amerson in order to make a spot on the 53 man roster for defensive end Frank Kearse, who was sent down in order to make room for ILB Terrance Plummer. Amerson was due to make around $2.5 million over the course of this and next season but now will be a dead cap hit of just about $640 thousand. UPDATE: Amerson was claimed off of waivers by the Oakland Raiders just about 24 hours after he was released. It is not that Amerson cannot develop into a very good player as Gruden put it, but it was almost certainly not going to happen here.
In the first of two year without having a first round selection in the NFL draft due to the trade to draft Robert Griffin III, David Amerson as a second round draft pick (51st overall) was the Redskins top pick in 2013. The 2013 draft took place during a time of excitement as the Redskins had just won their first division title since 1999 behind the rookie of the year performance from RG3. There seemed to be little pressure on the Redskins to improve through the draft during the final year of the Shanahan regime with current President Bruce Allen acting as General Manager.
In preparation for a Week 2 hosting of the St. Louis Rams, Jay Gruden took a few questions from the media while defense coordinator Joe Barry was available for extensive question on both Week 1 evaluations and looking ahead. For all injury updates click here.
Head coach Gruden explained that moving the mandatory off day for players to Monday was implemented and has so far been a success because it allows all involved to digest events further. Moreover, it allows the film to have already been broken down by Tuesday’s practice.
Yesterday, Washington Redskins head coach Jay Gruden and starting quarterback Kirk Cousins spoke to the media about evaluations from last week and a preview of this weeks game against the St. Louis Rams. Here is what you need to know.
Trenton Robinson, who played nearly every snap after Duke Ihenacho suffered his season ending wrist fracture, was named the starting strong safety over ex-Seahawk Jeron Johnson. Gruden said that besides Johnson’s hamstring injury during training camp, Robinson’s speed also helps separate himself from the free agent acquisition.
The Washington Redskins take on the Miami Dolphins at FedEx Field at 1pm.
Probable: DE Frank Kearse (shoulder), C Kory Lichtensteiger (finger)
Inactive: QB Robert Griffin III (concussion), OLB Jackson Jeffcoat
Probable: T Branden Albert (knee), RB LaMichael James (shoulder), WR DeVante Parker (foot), CB Jamar Taylor (thigh)
Doubtful: T Jason Fox (concussion)
CBS: Ian Eagle (play-by-play), Dan Fouts (color commentary), Evan Washburn (sideline)
ESPN 980 Redskins Radio Network: Larry Michael (play-by-play), Sonny Jurgensen (color commentary), Chris Cooley (analysis), Doc Walker (sideline)
The Washington Redskins have announced the following inactives and lineup changes for today’s game against the Miami Dolphins:
The Redskins declared the following players as inactive:
o No. 10 QB Robert Griffin III
o No. 19 WR Rashad Ross
o No. 53 LB Jackson Jeffcoat
o No. 61 G Spencer Long
o No. 68 T Tom Compton
o No. 74 G Arie Kouandjio
o No. 85 TE Anthony McCoy
On Saturday, the Redskins signed No. 96 linebacker Houston Bates (6-3, 250) to their active roster from the team’s practice squad. The team released No. 73 defensive end Frank Kearse.
The Dolphins declared the following players as inactive:
o No. 29 CB Will Davis
o No. 36 CB Tony Lippett
o No. 38 RB Jonas Gray
o No. 58 LB Chris McCain
o No. 74 T Jason Fox
o No. 83 WR Matt Hazel
o No. 96 DT A.J. Francis
On Friday, the Dolphins signed No. 65 center Sam Brenner (6-2, 310) and No. 38 running back Jonas Gray (5-10, 225) to their active roster from the team’s practice squad. The team released No. 66 center/guard Jacques McClendon and No. 5 quarterback Logan Thomas.
For the last time before the Washington Redskins host the Miami Dolphins at FedEx Field, Jay Gruden spoke to the media and for the first time since early on in training camp second year offensive coordinator Sean McVay discussed expectations for the offense.
The breaking news came from team president Bruce Allen prior to Gruden’s media availability when he told WTOP radio that Robert Griffin III received written clearance from the league neurologist last night, three weeks removed from the concussion he suffered at the hands of the Detroit Lions pass rush. Gruden reiterated this news by telling the media that “Robert finally got cleared” and saying he will be listed as probable for Sunday’s game because he was still able to participate in non-contact practice, although not with the second unit. When asked about Colt McCoy‘s previous status as the backup quarterback, Gruden said that decision will be made when the team has to submit their 46-man active roster shortly before the game.
Although being demoted might bring on the worst feeling for a professional football player, Gruden has reiterated the feelings of others when saying Griffin has responded well to the situation and has not shown any frustration he may be feeling inside. McVay put it that Griffin “handled himself very maturely”, a credit to his character when faced with a “tough situation”. A full hour after practice concluded, Griffin was still putting in the work by running through drills with a team staffer.
Just three days away from the start of the Washington Redskins regular season, head coach Jay Gruden again talked to the media following a session by new defensive coordinator Joe Barry.
The team is still waiting to receive a written report from the league’s neurologist regarding Robert Griffin III‘s concussion that he sustained three weeks ago. Gruden says that he has “no idea” why it has taken this long and again wants all to know that this is in no way should reflect poorly on the Redskins as it is something out of their control. Because Griffin currently cannot participate in a regular season game due to the possibility of contact, Colt McCoy remains the backup quarterback to Kirk Cousins, however Gruden has kept the door open that Griffin could actually be the backup on Sunday if cleared.
If Griffin is made inactive Week 1, it could be that he has still not been cleared and/or the coaching staff believes McCoy has “beat out” the former rookie of the year. The difference between the two may not be known unless officially announced beforehand. [Read more…]
Prior to the Washington Redskins Week 1 matchup against the Miami Dolphins, head coach Jay Gruden and starting quarterback Kirk Cousins spoke for the first time since Sunday.
First, and something we of course could not forget to mention, is the status of Robert Griffin III. The former franchise quarterback was against limited in practice as he is cleared for non-contact activity, while the team waits for written, not verbal, results of the tests he underwent a few days ago. The written report should come in with the next day or so. Since the organization cannot be sure that Griffin will be ready to backup Cousins on Sunday, the mentality is that Colt McCoy will be QB2 and the depth chart behind Cousins will work itself out once everyone is healthy. [Read more…]


The converted EV called Metron 7, previously a Mazda5, drove 513 miles on one charge this week as part of WAVE 2015.
- Jun 16, 2015
WAVE 2015: Metron 7 EV Distance Record
- 2018 Honda Accord is sleeker, more efficient
- Mercedes X-Class pickup truck revealed
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Japan Airlines - A WOW Cargo Alliance Member - could delist from the NASDAQ stock exchange as a result from its merger with Japan Air System.
JAL said that its eligibility to list American Depository Receipts on the NASDAQ. It said it would probably lose a special rule which allows it to report results in a Japanese way - not fully compliant in some ways with US Standards (My note: Not to say the Japanese way is inferior - it's just different).
"It is our understanding that the Securities and Exchange Commission will probably not grant 'grandfather' status after the merger and the ADR will lose its standing on Nasdaq," said Kojiro Yamashita, an accountant at Japan Airlines.
"The SEC does not like grandfathered companies as it is a very specific grant to a very specific company," one lawyer said. "JAL's options are either to delist from Nasdaq or become a reporting issuer."
If Japan Airlines continues to list on the NASDAQ, it would have to report it's financial results to a US Standard.
More information at the Financial Times website

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ERFA’s Annual event, held on March 7th was a great success with over 100 delegates and was supported by representatives from both DG Move and DG Competition at the European Commission and the European Parliament’s Transport Committee. The event was dedicated to the actions needed to deliver further liberalisation following the finalisation of the the 4th Rail Package in December 2016.
The European Commission stressed its commitment to ending competitive distortions in the rail sector. DG Competition and DG Move are joining forces to ensure a more effective enforcement of EU market opening rules and EU competition rules, a move strongly supported by ERFA. ERFA’s new President, Lindsay Durham from Freightliner Group, highlighted the need to focus on the prize of increasing rail market share and the benefits to society and the economy that would deliver. She also supported more collaborative action between freight and passenger new entrants to accelerate the pressure for much-needed change in the rail sector. This new entrant appetite for growth and innovation is needed to keep rail ahead of the game.
As stated by Gert-Jan Koopman, EU Commission’s Deputy Director General for State Aid at DG Competition, despite successive rounds of liberalisation, state-owned incumbents continue to largely dominate the rail market and new entrants continue to struggle in setting up new types of service and routes to serve the European market. If rail wants to play a leading role in the EU’s sustainable transport vision, basic competition problems in the sector should urgently be tackled. Sian Prout, Head of Unit in the EU Commission’s DG for Mobility & Transport, for the Single European rail area, echoed Mr Koopman's views, highlighting that the top priority is to ensure effective and timely enforcement of existing EU rules on market opening and to fill the existing loopholes with implementing measures, particularly on access to facilities and timetabling.
Speaking on the subject of what rail needs to do to attract much-needed investment in the sector, Dominique Riquet, Vice-chair of the Transport committee in the European Parliament stressed that both open markets and targeted EU funding are the prime conditions needed to attract investment to the sector. One solution proposed would be to lower the risk for private investors by blending grants (for example from CEF) and EFSI. Duncan Clark, Strategic Development Director in GB Railfreight, highlighted that ensuring a non-discriminatory and transparent access to the essential facility infrastructures such as terminals, depots or stations is crucial to boost competition and market shares for rail.
The accessibility and availability of open data in the rail sector is another challenge that should be tackled by EU policy makers. As CEO of WestBAHN Erich Forster highlighted the basic timetabling and ticketing problems that exist in rail, limiting the ability for passengers to have details of all options for their journey. Tomi Lapinlampi, open data specialist in the Finnish Transport Agency, emphasised the benefits from more transparency, by describing the Finnish open data system as a cornerstone of an efficient, open and user-friendly rail system, which is a prerequisite to foster modal shift to rail.
ERFA’s Annual event was also an opportunity to introduce ERFA’s new President, Lindsay Durham, from Freightliner Group and to thank the outgoing President Irmtraut Tonndorf for her remarkable energy and dedication to improving rail’s marketability. Markus Vaerst is the newly appointed Vice-Chair of ERFA. ERFA also welcomes one new Board member, Andreas Mandl, Managing Director of LTE Transport and Logistics.


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Athens Jazz: Side events
The City of Athens presents:
Women in Jazz
23 – 29.05.2022
20 – 29.05.2022
Club program with live shows & DJ sets, an International Conference, 2 εκθέσεις φωτογραφίας, The Meet Market & open-air προβολές πλαισιώνουν το φετινό Athens Jazz!
Athens Jazz is back for a whole week, from May 23 to 29, at the Athens Technopolis and all around the city with Women in Jazz. The city's longest-running musical institution is changing, evolving, and, along with the 21 live shows of the main line-up, it goes beyond the boundaries of Technopolis, opening up to the city, enriched with new events, creating a total festival experience that we have missed so much...
A few days before its official opening, from May 20 to 22, Athens Jazz will host τthree days of open-air screenings at Parko Eleftherias in collaboration with the IN-EDIT Greece. Three music documentaries "narrate" the heart-wrenching stories of three women who left their indelible mark on music history, Billie Holiday, Patti Smith and Lila, a member of Slave to Sirens, the first all-female thrash metal band in the Middle East.
From May 23 and throughout the festival, the main side events of Athens Jazz, the photography exhibition of the METApolis photographic team, entitled #13 m.e.t.a.p.o.l.i.s, and the nomadic market of Meet Market will accompany the festival per se. Furthermore, during the same period, at the New Retorts, three photographers passionate about music and performing arts, Thrassos Irinis, Spyros Vangelakis and Costas Broumas, will present the women-related part of their work in a photography exhibition under the title Women in Jazz.
And because you cannot organise a festival without a party, Gazarte Roof stage will welcome the festival's Club Program with unique live shows and DJ sets! On Thursday, May 26, we will enjoy Makiko Hirabayashi, the talented Copenhagen-based artist from Japan, with her trio, which features percussion master Marilyn Mazur, known for her participation in the Miles Davis Group. The evening will be rounded off with a DJ set by the Athenian audience's favourite Matina Sous Peau, who promises - as always - to rock the house! Finally, on Saturday, May 28, the Jazz Kosmos Party, organised in collaboration with Kosmos 93.6, promises unforgettable moments. The explosive performer Idra Kayne and the multi-talented DJ and producer MCD, a duo that counts dozens of joint performances in Greece, intend to lure us into their colourful soulful world with soul, R' n' B and hip-hop grooves from their personal recordings and favourite international hits, while afterwards, an equally explosive DJ set from the station's producers promises to soar our mood.
Athens Jazz, having as its primary goal this year to highlight the issue of female representation in music and jazz, in particular, and promote the music and the stories of women, organises on Friday, May 27, a workshop on Women in Jazz, at INNOVATHENS. Two panels of great female musicians from Greece and abroad and renowned music industry professionals will discuss gender balance in the music and jazz, in particular, share their experiences from the European and international scene, showcase their stories, inspire and prepare the audience for the final three days of live shows of Athens Jazz.
Last but not least, on the same day, the one and only Lucy Woodward (US), with collaborations like Snarky Puppy, Pink Martini, Rod Stewart and Barbra Streisand, will deliver a fun and inspiring vocal masterclass not to be missed on how to build your personal vocal toolkit for a dynamic on-stage performance.
From May 20 to 29, with Technopolis as main scene, jazz spreads across Athens! Are you ready to jazz?


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Written in Stone: Messages on the Oregon Beach
Two friends joined us for a spring getaway to Beverly Beach near Newport. It was midweek, so only a handful of people passed us as we walked toward the Yaquina Head Lighthouse.
We love visiting the coast. The rhythm of the waves. The miles upon miles of sand beckoning us to take a run, a brisk walk or just a meandering stroll to look for treasures.
Oregon’s beaches aren’t covered with shells like Sanibel Island in Florida. Shells are rare and rarer still are sand dollars. It’s uncommon to find these flat sea urchins completely intact by the time they make it over the rocks and tumble ashore. But that day we found a whole one that was no bigger than a child’s fingernail.
We discovered another treasure in among a pile of jumbled rocks. These letter-like symbols were etched on this stone in a straight line. A curious message in an ancient language, maybe Sanskrit? The four of us quickly discounted that idea and were left intrigued by how and what sea creatures had made these unusual designs.


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Welcome to DBRL Next, the library’s blog for adults! Here you’ll discover authors, programs, area events and learning resources. Visit often and find your next good book. Unravel the mysteries of new technologies. Read about upcoming films, lectures and computer classes. Participate in Adult Summer Reading. Find a volunteering opportunity, a new hobby and more. What’s next? Scroll down to find out!
Editor’s note: This review was submitted by a library patron during the 2013 Adult Summer Reading program. We will continue to periodically share some of these reviews throughout the year. Thanks to all who participated!
I finally can say I’ve read my first Agatha Christie mystery. From what I understand, “And Then There Were None” is a great one with which to start. The book moves very quickly and never has a dull moment. The first chapter or two requires a bit of perseverance as there are 10 characters to quickly get to know and keep straight. The basic premise of the book is that 10 people are invited to an island and left alone as one by one they are murdered. (Or commit suicide?) It quickly becomes clear that one in the group is indeed the murderer. Try as I might, I was not able to determine who the murderer was as I read the book. It is an extremely creative plot and one I’ve never encountered. Now, I’m tempted to read the book again, this time in search for clues given as the story progresses. The underlying themes of the book are guilt for one’s past crimes and the execution of justice. I’m glad I read it and look forward to my next Christie book. I’ve heard “Murder on the Orient Express” is another one worth the time.
Three words or phrases that describe this book: suspenseful, thought-provoking, page-turner.
You might want to pick this book up if: You love a fast-paced mystery that isn’t easily solved while reading.
For twenty-five years, my American in-laws lived in the state of Washington, in a small town that looked like the town of Twin Peaks from David Lynch’s TV series – minus the waterfalls. I visited them there only once, six months after we got married, for, soon after that, they moved to Columbia to live with us. Unfortunately, I didn’t see much of the state during my first visit – a week before our departure, my husband began exhibiting symptoms of what I first thought to be the flu (and so did his doctor), but what later was diagnosed as mononucleosis. For those who don’t know much about mono, it is often called the kissing disease, because you can get it by kissing someone with mono (this, I sincerely hope, was not the case with my husband), although it’s entirely possible to catch if through coughing or sneezing.
In any case, by the time we got to the Twin Cities, my husband was feverish, had trouble holding food down (hard to handle in an airport ), and had a killer headache. Not realizing what was happening, we continued our journey, with my husband feeling worse by the minute. When our plane finally landed in Seattle, it was clear that sightseeing in Seattle was no longer an option, so my father-in-law, who met us there, took us directly to Port Angeles. There I, still a new bride, spent a week worrying about the possibility of becoming a new widow, and my husband – who was so debilitated that he could not get up for meals – discussed with his father, a retired professor of physiology with an MD degree, how to calm me down.
Since then, the desire to visit Seattle stayed with me for years, so when we decided to visit Mt. Rainier National Park (see my previous post), I made sure that Seattle would not be missed either.
This December library staff members are taking their book-recommending expertise to Facebook to provide personalized reading recommendations. On Friday, December 6, starting at 9:00 a.m., visit the library’s Facebook page. There you will see a post inviting you to let us know about two or three books or authors you’ve enjoyed. Post a comment naming those books, and we’ll suggest your next read.
Here are a few of the other great programs coming up this month. See our full listing of events for adults in our online program guide.
Monday, December 2 › 6:30-7:30 p.m.
Columbia Public Library, Friends Room
Comet ISON promises to be a spectacular sight in the early part of December. Val Germann from the Central Missouri Astronomical Association will tell us more about comets and when and how to best see them.
For me, Thanksgiving has always meant dinner with family and friends. When my husband was in the military, we couldn’t always visit our parents for the Thanksgiving feast, but we always spent it with other people either at our house or theirs. There is something comforting about sharing a meal and connecting with the other people gathered at the table, not just at the holidays but at any time of year.
In “Dinner With the Smileys” by Sarah Smiley, a military wife invited numerous people to take the place of her husband at the dinner table while he was deployed for a year. She invited different people each week and documented these dinners with photos and stories. She started out carefully planning everything but eventually realized mealtime didn’t have to be formal or elaborate. She and her children gained friendships, support and awareness of new concepts, activities and ideas from these experiences. The people who attended the dinners not only experienced a good meal but benefited from good company and conversation. A wonderful community support system was built.
When it comes to movies inspired by books, I tend to be something of a purist. I always try to read the book first, but considering the sheer volume of movies that are coming out this year based on books…well…I might have to pick and choose. Here are some of the titles to look for in the next few weeks!
Today, November 27th, “Philomena” opens nationwide. It is the true story, written by Martin Sixsmith, of an Irishwoman who became pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952. After she was sent to a convent, the nuns took her baby and sold him, like thousands of others, to America for adoption. Fifty years later, Philomena decides to find him.
If you want something with a little more bang (and by bang, I mean explosions) for your buck, try “Homefront,” also opening on November 27th. Based on the novel by Chuck Logan, this film follows Nina, Phil and their daughter, Kit, after they relocate to New Mexico. The family is soon in harm’s way when a spat between Kit and a boy at her new school escalates into a vicious scenario of lawlessness and provocation.
I love lists, and I love books, so I adore this time of year. Get ready to add lots of titles to your to-be-read pile, because the web is already awash with “best of 2013″ book lists. The picks are a bit all over the board, with not a whole lot of overlap among the lists so far. Here’s a handful of the books appearing on more than one list (and descriptions from their publishers), as well as links to the full lists themselves. Happy reading!
“A Constellation of Vital Phenomena” by Anthony Marra
In a rural village in Chechnya, failed doctor Akhmed harbors the traumatized 8-year-old daughter of a father abducted by Russian forces and treats a series of wounded rebels and refugees while exploring the shared past that binds him to the child.
“The Good Lord Bird” by James McBride
Fleeing his violent master at the side of abolitionist John Brown at the height of the slavery debate in mid-nineteenth-century Kansas Territory, Henry pretends to be a girl to hide his identity throughout the raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859. This historical fiction just won a National Book Award.

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This is a reference design of a thermoelectric Peltier controller using an high-precision AFE-mounted MCU, RX23E-A. It is capable of realizing measurement, calculation and the control necessary to perform temperature control with a single RX23E-A chip,
The Thermoelectric Peltier Controller (TEC) is a temperature controller for heating and cooling that utilizes a phenomenon called the Peltier effect. The TEC is widely used in consumer and industrial applications for temperature and has following features.
This reference design consists of the application note describing a control design, hardware design and software design, and the sample program. By using this reference design, you can easily try temperature control using RX23E-A.
We have test-manufactured a demo unit and evaluated response characteristics and control resolution. The temperature response of the Peltier module with temperature control shortened the time to reach the final value of 63.2% from 24.9 sec to 3.18 sec compared to the response without temperature control, indicating a significant improvement in responsiveness. In addition, it is confirmed that the Peltier Controller can be controlled in a resolution of 5m℃ or less because it responds to changes in command values in steps of 5m℃.
Renesas shows a Peltier cooler control demonstration using the high-performance, 32-bit RX23E-A Group microcontrollers.


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Kermit the Frog thought he had trouble. The iconic song sung by the beloved Sesame Street character then emcee for the Muppet Show, characterized Kermit’s struggle on being different..and green. A struggle which a certain type of rifle ammunition is facing, but for a vastly different reason. According to the B.A.T.F. (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms), the commonly used M855/SS109 .223 (5.56mm Nato) ammunition, which is the round utilized in the very popular AR 15 rifle platform (or “Black Rifle if you prefer) is now subject to abolition via Executive Order from President Obama. Why you ask? The President wants ”Green Tip” ammunition to be re-classified by our “friends” at the B.A.T.F. as “Armor Piercing”.
Firstly, let us look at a definition of “Armor Piercing” ammunition:
The term “armor piercing ammunition” means-
(i) a projectile or projectile core which may be used in a handgun and which is constructed entirely (excluding the presence of traces of other substances) from one or a combination of tungsten alloys, steel, iron, brass, bronze, beryllium copper, or depleted uranium; or
(ii) a full jacketed projectile larger than .22 caliber designed and intended for use in a handgun and whose jacket has a weight of more than 25 percent of the total weight of the projectile.
My apology for the metallurgical digression, but it is necessary. Let me explain: The M855/SS109 round has a steel penetrator tip (this is where the Progressives get ancy). The steel tip/lead core/copper jacketed ammo was designed in the 1970’s by Fabrique Nationale of Belgium (firearms manufacturer) for their new “Minimi” belt-fed machine gun. This newer weapon was chambered in .223 (5.56 Nato) and was to replace the venerable M60 machine gun chambered in .308 (7.62 Nato). The new steel tipped round was created so as to have more effective long range capabilities that the standard .223 (5.56 Nato) projectile at that time. In addition, it was meant to be able to penetrate the standard issue Soviet/Warsaw Pact metal helmets at long distances.
So now you ask…is this particular projectile armor piercing or isn’t it? If you look at the basic construction of the round, which is a steel tip, LEAD core and copper jacket…then the answer is an incontrovertible NO. This conclusion is based upon the above definition of how an “armor piercing” projectile is constructed. It is not “entirely constructed” of any of the aforementioned alloys or exotic metals nor does it have any components thereof.
So why the rush by the President to ban it? I believe the reason behind this potential ban is that the AR rifle platform has given birth to a “handgun” version of the popular weapon. The handgun version has a barrel that is shorter than 16 inches and does not have a shoulder stock...in fact it has no stock at all. It does however have a “Buffer Tube” to the rear of the firearm and is a part of the recoil system which, soaks up a lot of the kick (through accelerating its mass) and slows down the fast-moving parts of the action so that they don't damage either themselves or the frame of the rifle in which they are working. The firearms manufacturer Sig-Sauer created an add-on to the popular handgun. This add-on came in the form of a “stabilizing-brace”. The brace slides over the buffer tube and has a spot to slide your hand and forearm through so you can better control the firearm as it recoils. The B.A.T.F. had tried, and subsequently failed, to stop the addition of this brace as they sought to restrict people from using it as an ad-hoc stock, rendering the handgun into an S.B.R. or Short Barreled Rifle. Altering the design of the “handgun” would be illegal. Sig-Sauer fought this and won, as this is not considered a true alteration but an item to enhance control and make the firearm more accurate. This however, did not sit well with the administration.
It is my opinion that the Obama Administration, after being somewhat embarrassed by their “mishandling” of the handgun-brace issue, has decided to try banning the cheap and popular M855/SS109 Green Tip ammunition as it can be fired from the AR handgun platform, by reclassifying the ammo as “Armor Piercing”. I bolded and underlined the word handgun for a reason. By law, handguns are restricted from firing armor-piercing ammunition so as not to be able to penetrate the body armor utilized by law enforcement. However, up till 2015, this ammunition was NOT considered to be armor-piercing. Not until AFTER the handgun brace issue arose was this made a potential issue by President Obama.
Since my original writing of this piece (only 3 days ago), the B.A.T.F. has made a Mea Culpa of sorts. In what seems to be a stunning reversal, according to the 2015 B.A.T.F. Regulation Guide, it seems that a “mistake” has been made regarding the M855 ammunition. According to the Washington Times; “The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is apologizing for a “publishing error” in its regulations that suggested the agency had already banned AR-15 “green tip” ammo well before officials publicly announced a proposal to outlaw the armor-piercing bullets last month.” The ATF also added this statement; “ATF has not rescinded any armor piercing ammunition exemption, and the fact they are not listed in the 2014 online edition of the regulations was an error which has no legal impact,” the agency said in a statement. “ATF apologizes for any confusion caused by this publishing error."
Regarding the M855/SS109 ammunition issue, The B.A.T.F. has also said “The issues raised (so far) in the comments ATF has received to date will require further consideration, and fully processing all of the comments will take time. Given the overwhelming interest in this issue, and the issues raised in the comments received so far, ATF will not at this time issue a final framework.” (Link)
So now, we are left with two possibilities: #1. The B.A.T.F. made an honest mistake in the inclusion of the M855/SS109 ammunition as “Armor Piercing” (before it was announced by officials). OR #2. The 238 House members and 52 Senators who joined together in direct opposition of this potential ban, as well as the voices of the law-abiding American gun owners may have smashed-to-bits the attempt by the Obama Administration to circumvent the Second Amendment.
I try VERY hard not to be a fatalist…but the idea that the B.A.T.F. made a mistake on the exact type of ammunition that President Obama sought to ban is rather hard to believe. Despite this, I will instead laud the 52 Senators and 238 House members who chose to stand up for the Constitution and the Rule of Law! I will vociferously applaud all Americans who sent their comments to the B.A.T.F., excoriating them for this potential action. Finally, I will view this as a victory for the American people, the law-abiding American gun owner and for the Constitution. Molon Labe!
~Stephen R. Mauriello


10K & 15K SAS drives
Summary for Enterprise 10K and 15K SAS
- Best performance and reliability within enterprise hard drives
- Dual-port with full duplex operations
- Online firmware update through Dell's Update Package (DUP)
- High reliability
- Available in PowerEdge servers and PowerVault enclosures
SAS hard drives are true dual-port full duplex capable devices. This means that both ports on a SAS drive can simultaneously send or receive data (host dependent). Available in 2.5” and 3.5” form factors, SAS hard drives rotating at 10,000 and 15,000 RPM (revolutions per minute) are known as Tier-1, Online and Mission Critical devices. SAS drives at 10K & 15K offer the highest reliability of the the Dell enterprise hard drive offerings at a 1.6 Million hours MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) rating. Also described as Traditional Enterprise, 10K and 15K SAS drives deliver the highest performance plus the highest reliability available in a rotating media storage device from Dell.
These 10K and 15K SAS drives are developed for the exacting requirements of speed and reliability due in mission critical applications. In order to achieve this level of performance there are multiple features of these drives that provide an advantage over the Tier 2 class used in business critical applications. These frequently include:
These are just some of the features allowing these drives to have a better reliability (1.6 million hours MTBF) and higher performance than their Tier 2 cousins.
- Higher quality sealing to prevent contamination
- More shrouding and air control devices to maintain air pressure quality
- Smaller platters with higher spin rates reducing access times
- Faster seeks due to larger magnets, better bearings, and stiffer actuators
- Longer and more stringent factory test to ensure the best quality drives
- Higher quality motor to maintain the tight tolerances required at these higher speeds
- Better design margin to handle rotational vibration issues.
Available in both PowerEdge servers and PowerVault enclosures, Dell’s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface and SAS hard drives are the successors to the SCSI (Small Computer Systems Interface) and SCSI hard drives previously found in the enterprise. The key difference is that SAS is a point-to-point interface whereas SCSI was a Bus-based interface. Pont-to-point means each device has its own full-bandwidth connection based on each specific drive/controller match up in capabilities as opposed to a bus-based interface where the entire set of devices on a bus would have to negotiate down to the slowest device. Today's SAS drives transfer data at rates at 3gigabit per second moving to as high as 6 gigabit per second in December 2009.
Dell SAS drives also have controlled firmware that has been specifically developed and tested for compatibility with select Dell RAID controllers delivering high reliability along with the assurance of compatibility for your information. Combined with the Dell Update Package (DUP), hard drive firmware can be updated on most hard drives without taking down the storage subsystem. Less downtime means higher productivity.


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Mediation Perspectives is a periodic blog entry that’s provided by the CSS’ Mediation Support Team and occasional guest authors. Each entry is designed to highlight the utility of mediation approaches in dealing with violent political conflicts. To keep up to date with the Mediation Support Team, you can sign up to their newsletter here.
“The only page [of the Darfur Peace Agreement] that really matters is the last page, which has the space for the signatures of the parties,” explained Salim Ahmed Salim to the conflict parties. One Darfurian rebel leader eventually signed the agreement because of tremendous external pressure. The conclusion of the peace agreement was followed by rebel fragmentation and the civil war dragged on for many years to come.
Rebel soldiers in Darfur. Image by hdcentre’s photostream/Flickr.
A recent spate of violence in Sudan’s western region of Darfur has left tens of thousands displaced; humanitarian agencies say they are struggling to access populations in need of support.
An estimated 2.3 million people remain displaced by Darfur’s decade-long conflict.
A number of peace agreements – most recently the 2011 Doha Document for Peace in Darfur – have failed to halt the intermittent clashes between the government and rebel groups in the region. In early April, fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Sudan Liberation Army-Minni Minawi (SLA-MM) in East Darfur State displaced several thousand people; SLA-MM managed to capture took two towns – Muhajiriya and Labado – for ten days, but the SAF has since retaken them. » More
Sudan's long and winding path to peace, photo: WTL, flickr
With national elections just days away, a big push for peace in Darfur in recent weeks and a referendum on southern independence slated for next year, Africa’s largest country faces ample opportunities to usher in democratic reforms – or sink further into political turmoil.
This ISN Special Report contains the following content on the Sudan:
- David Lanz of swisspeace provides an Analysis of the promises and pitfalls of national elections in this vast, challenging political landscape.
- Julie Flint talks about why peace has remained elusive in Darfur in our Podcast interview.
- Security Watch stories about US-Sudan relations, the ‘Bashir burden’ and his ICC indictments and much more.
- Publications housed in our Digital Library, like recent papers from the International Crisis Group, the Atlantic Community and the US Congressional Research Service on the prospects for peace in the election’s wake.
- Primary Resources, including the UN Secretary General’s reports to the Security Council on the Sudan.
- Links to relevant websites, among them UNHCR’s web platform on the Sudan-Chad refugee crisis.
- Our IR Directory with relevant organizations, like the Harvard-based World Peace Foundation, dedicated to advancing the cause of peace through study, analysis and advocacy in numerous countries, including the Sudan.
Burnt Huts in Darfur, Sudan, photo: Radio Nederland Wereldomroep/flickr
Back in November 2008, I wrote a commentary piece on the Darfur conflict for ISN Security Watch (Sudan: China is Key) with the phrase, “the incoming Obama administration can show its resolve to combat genocide.” I can no longer say with conviction that this loaded term is an appropriate description of what transpired in the region.
I have eschewed the label in my analytical reports ever since. All the same, the debate is an important one and warrants further scrutiny. It also highlights the intersection of politics and law in international criminal justice.
What transpired in Darfur, for the most part between 2003-2006, was certainly a grave humanitarian tragedy and an abhorrent counter-insurgency campaign, but did it amount to genocide? » More


Keeping it au naturel
We spoke with MOMIX dancer Rob Laqui about his experience with the company and it’s current show Botanica. It’s in town for two nights only so catch it while you can. By the looks of it, it’s nothing short of amazing. Who knew fauna and flora could be this exciting?
DEETS: MOMIX: Botanica Winspear Opera House, 2403 Flora St., Sept. 10–11. 8 p.m. $19–$125., TITAS.org