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A. V. Lunacharsky 1931
Translator: Y. Ganuskin;
Source: A. Lunacharsky: On Literature and Art Progress Publishers, 1973;
Transcribed: Harrison Fluss for marxists.org, February 2008.
We may hail in George Bernard Shaw one of the most brilliant master wits in the history of art.
When you read Shaw you are assumed, you find yourself constantly smiling or laughing. But, at the same time, you are horrified. A reader who is the target of Shaw’s arrows of mirth way well be horrified, a sympathetic reader will also be awe-struck when Shaw unmasks the gloomy essence of capitalist reality.
Shaw had a wonderful predecessor, a powerful and gloomy genius, whose humour reached the same virtuoso heights but was of a darker cast. He was a master wit like Shaw, though circumstances and the time in which he lived made him more morbid. This was the great satirist Jonathan Swift.
Swift knew how to laugh in a merry, graceful, tinkling way. His Gulliver’s Travels has long been a favourite of bourgeois and proletarian children alike, yet the very same Jonathan Swift proposed with frightening humour that the English bourgeoisie should consume infants born in such great numbers into the families of the Irish poor, and suggested ways of salting and curing their flesh and of preparing dainty dishes so as to turn the misfortune of over-population into a source of food.
If we compare the laughter of Swift with the laughter of Shaw we shall arrive at some very interesting conclusions. In general, a man laughs when he is victorious. Physiological laughter is the release of psychological and physiological tensions which we let go when we find that a seemingly insurmountable problem can be easily dealt with. When we laugh we are reflecting the nervous activity of the brain; we are converting it into movements of our face and muscles, thus relaxing our control.
Laughter is a magnificent instance of the body demobilising; when mobilisation is suddenly proved unnecessary, we burst into joyous laughter. Laughter is victory.
But we know that laughter does not always come from above, from the heights of victory, crashing down upon the heads of a vanquished enemy. It can come from below, aimed at the ruling countries, the ruling class, the ruling power.
But if laughter is a banner of victory, how can it emanate from classes and groups that are still oppressed?
Russian literature has a great satirist who can justly take his place beside Swift and Shaw – Saltykov-Shchedrin. Saltykov-Shchedrin is an unusually gay writer. You will laugh unceasingly as you read his works, but, as in Swift, there will be dark clouds threatening the bright sunshine of his laughter. You will find a terrible combination of laughter and wrath, hatred, loathing, calls to action; you will see him close to tears and sense the lump in his throat when he is laughing. How is such a mixture possible? You will hear such laughter when the oppressed individual has long since vanquished his oppressors morally and intellectually, when he regards them as fools, when he despises their principles, when the morality of the ruling class is no more than a conglomeration of absurdities to him, when he considers his own class a generation of giants compared with the Lilliputians (when he knows that lightning will strike the doomed), but when he is still politically weak, when he is not mature enough to bring the imminent economic upheaval to a head. At such moments he will experience this terrible churning.
If we compare Shaw with our own gloomy-jolly Saltykov-Shchedrin or with the eighteenth-century satirist, Swift, we shall find Shaw to be much gayer than they. Shaw senses the closeness of victory, he is confident that the absurdity of the bourgeois system cannot last long. He can even laugh lightly. He spends more time laughing graciously, teasing his enemies while his predecessors Swift and Saltykov-Shchedrin launched out at their enemies with a contempt that was nearly a torture.
A very talented American journalist who visited Lenin later wrote an interesting account of the interview. Part of it reads: “When I spoke to Lenin I was most amazed to see him laughing continuously, laughing ironically and merrily. It made me wonder. Why was this man, whose country was stricken by famine (as was the case at the time), who was surrounded by enemies and was in the position that might very well have seemed hopeless, why was he smiling and joking? I realised that this was Marxist laughter, the laughter of a man who was convinced that the social laws would bring him victory, this was laughter peculiar to people who are gently tolerant of children that have not yet perceived the significance of phenomena which are quite clear to adults.”
We find something akin to Lenin’s victorious laughter in Shaw’s works. However, we must not overlook Shaw’s poison. He laughs, but he knows full well that far from everything is funny: he laughs to burn out human failings with his laughter. He laughs venomously, cunningly, ironically, sarcastically. These are not innocent buds of humour. He is using a subtle and magnificent weapon of the new world aimed at the old.
During his stay here, George Bernard Shaw called himself an old revolutionary. It was he who wrote A Rebel’s Catechism, which is full of pointed, unusually sharp and direct attacks on our enemies. Some of these aphorisms were recently published in Literaturnaya Gazeta and anyone can see how truly revolutionary they are in spirit. However, Shaw’s chief satirical and revolutionary work is to be found in his plays.
Shaw has written an extensive series of plays, a great number of articles and many aphorisms, all of which give him the right to the attention of our countrymen and to a long life in the literature of the future.
George Bernard Shaw is seventy-five years old, he is entering the later period of his life at a time when capitalism, which he has so abhorred and censured, is entering its final stage. Never before have the very foundations of capitalist society been shaken as they are being shaken today. Its walls are shaking, they are crooked and cracked.
At a time when the adherents of the old world must tremble, for Judgment day has come for the sins and crimes of capitalism, George Bernard Shaw believes it is only natural for an intelligent, educated person to be a socialist, and that he who is not a socialist, no matter how intelligent and educated he be, is an odd being.
However, it is one thing to be a socialist by conviction, and quite another to contribute actively to the advent of socialism. The destruction of the capitalist world is not in itself socialism. The capitalist world might have crumbled not left an heir. In a speech in honour of Lenin, which Shaw delivered for a sound film in Leningrad, he said that quite a number of civilisations had crumbled with no one to save them, but now Lenin’s way promises salvation and a transition to higher forms.
You will understand why the seventy-five-year-old writer who has noticed dangerous ruts on the road he is following asks himself: Is there not something positive that can take the place of the crumbling old world? And he turns his gaze to the East, he comes to us, because he is seeking that change here. That is why when Shaw says that should the great socialist experiment of the U.S.S.R. prove hopeless or doubtful he would have to leave this world in sorrow, his words sound so solemn. Shaw must be confident that mankind is young, that the future les before it.

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Certain powerful nations with vested interests try to destabilize countries by installing puppet leaders as Heads of State, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said.
“These countries dislike seeing countries making progress on their own and are hell bent on dividing nations that refuse to bow down to their dictates,” the President said.
The President was speaking at a meeting with agricultural officers held at Temple Trees on Saturday (Oct. 18). The meeting was organized under the theme “Farmers to the fore under the Mahinda Chintana”.
“For those countries with sinister objectives, there is no difference between Libya and Sri Lanka, and the people should be vigilant of this fact. Countries which refused to accept the defeat of LTTE terrorism are now fixing labels on Islamic State (IS) terrorists,” the President added.
He further said that some Sri Lankan political leaders have met with the European diaspora and pro-LTTE lobby groups soon after the lifting of the EU ban on LTTE terrorism and the ban on Sri Lankan fish exports were imposed.
The President also said that the current era is witnessing the biggest transformation in agricultural production in the country. Although several past leaders had suggested that paddy fields be filled and made use for construction purposes, and that agricultural products be imported, the present government has invested a great deal of money in the development of the agricultural sector.
“Some administrations believed that importing agricultural products is the only solution to fulfill the domestic requirements,” he added. “They wanted to strengthen the wheat flour farmers abroad neglecting the local farming community,” President Rajapaksa said.
“No Government can bring prosperity to the country without boosting local food production. The Government has allocated large sums of funds to provide the fertilizer subsidy to farmers,” the President further said.
Three agro-scientists who rendered a dedicated service to the agricultural sector were also felicitated at the event attended by over 5,000 agricultural officers.


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Russian Soviet Award Veteran Of Labour With Original Ribbon & Hanger 1974 - 1991. The Medal "Veteran of Labour" (Russian: медаль «Ветеран труда») was a civilian labour award of the Soviet Union established on January 18, 1974 by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR to honour workers for many years of hard work in the national economy, sciences, culture, education, healthcare, government agencies and public organizations. All images are of the actual item. Price includes free standerd postage within Australia.

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Memories of Bishop Murphy
For half a century it was my privilege to know Philip Francis Murphy, who died Sept. 2 ("Bishop Murphy, advocate for justice, dies at age 66," Sept. 3) after 40 years as a priest and 23 years as auxiliary bishop of Baltimore.
If Christ was the winning face of God, Bishop Murphy was the beguiling face of Catholicism -- a structured religion whose officials too often seem cold and legalistic.
We first met in our teens as fellow students at St. Charles Minor Seminary in Catonsville. Even then, he radiated the unflagging cheerfulness, courtesy, kindness, patience and universal benignity which marked his 66 years of life.
Though he was proudly Irish, he embodied none of the cliches of the stern Celtic clergyman. The serious jest was that, in him, justice was tempered by Murphy.
After studying in Rome, he was appointed to the seminary faculty of his alma mater there. His special task was to be repetitor: A staff member who repeated in American the main points of the seminarians' theology classes. These classes were taught, but not always caught, in Latin.
As a priest, he was also a repetitor: By his words and deeds he repeated and clarified what it meant to be a genuine Christian.
Like Jesus, who sought out the marginal and the neglected, Bishop Murphy made his own the causes of minority groups in the modern church -- women who sought a greater role, married priests who still wanted to minister and laymen whose sexuality made them feel ostracized.
He befriended the poor -- of all faiths and none -- especially in Western Maryland, where he served as the Archbishop's Vicar.
He worked hard to make Protestants, Jews and other non-Catholics feel better understood and esteemed by their Catholic neighbors.
While some his Roman contemporaries rose to be Cardinals, Bishop Murphy was never entrusted with a diocese of his own.
It was often claimed that, because he espoused officially disfavored causes, he would never go anywhere in the church. I always liked to rejoin that he didn't need to go anywhere in the true church -- he was already there.
The eyes of faith will now see that he needs to go nowhere in the purified, unbureaucratic celestial church. He is already there.
Father Joseph Gallagher Baltimore
The writer is a retired priest of the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
As a Roman Catholic and a feminist, I am distressed that we liberated Catholic women have lost a brave soldier, who fought for the emancipation of women in the Catholic Church -- as well as for women struggling in poverty.
Bishop Frank Murphy was a man who loved God and believed all men and women are one and equal in being with the Father.
Larnell Custis Butler Baltimore
It is ironic that Bishop Frank Murphy left us just before the third millennium begins, as he was a man who embraced the future.
While committed to service through his beloved church, Bishop Murphy's deep integrity occasionally led to stands at variance with church practice.
He showed rare courage in advocating an equal role for women in the church, acceptance of gays and rejection of war.
He worked to bridge the gaps among religions and preached a philosophy of inclusion.
This gentle, listening man employed his priesthood to bring light to the dark corners, change where it is desperately needed and comfort to those lost in the storm.
As his Jewish friends would put it, Frank Murphy was a mensch.
Charles A. Wunder
For city to thrive, these goals are key
The following is a summary of "First Things First -- Setting Priorities for Strengthening Baltimore's Business Climate in the 21st Century," a report recently issued to the candidates for mayor by the Greater Baltimore Committee (GBC):
The future political leadership of Baltimore City must embrace the clear correlation between reducing crime, improving education and expanding Baltimore's population and economy.
Here are eight recommended goals for improving the city:
Reduced homicides and violent crime in Baltimore City by 50 percent by the year 2002. A Violence Reduction Task Force, comprising key city, state and federal law enforcement officials, has launched a "focused deterrence" strategy to dramatically reduce Baltimore's homicide rate.
Government leaders, public safety officials and the business community must continue to support collaborative intervention to reduce homicide in our city.
Reduce the total crime rate by 25 percent by 2004. Coordinate all public safety agencies, deter nuisance crime through the operation of a community court and strengthen preventive programs and youth programs, such as the Police Athletic League.
Fully fund effective drug treatment on request. Drug use produces crime and the most effective way to reduce that crime is a public health strategy that increases drug treatment and prevention.
Double the number of Baltimore City Public School (BCPS) students who score "satisfactory" on the Maryland State Performance Assessment Program (MSPAP) by the year 2004. Achieve the statewide average in MSPAP scores by 2006.
The new city school administration should carefully follow its master plan to improve instruction and nurture strong reading and math skills in the early grades, building subsequent student achievement on that foundation.
In doing so, school leaders should set clear, measurable interim objectives.
Increase school attendance to the statewide average by 2004 and increase the city's graduation rate to at least the regional average by the year 2011.
The school system's strategy must be founded on the principle that students can only learn if they are in school.
Increase local funding resources. Baltimore must commit to improve its education system by increasing local school funding to the fullest extent feasible. Meanwhile, it must find creative and effective ways to address the system's substantial capital and school renovation needs.
Population, economic growth
Slow and reverse Baltimore's population decline by 2004. Strategies should focus on creating a diverse and affordable housing market and attracting and keeping more middle class homeowners in the city.
Neighborhoods with strong residential home ownership must be fully supported with services.
Achieve positive job growth in Baltimore City by the year 2004. Strategies should include tax increment financing and other effective economic development tools. All the city's industrial and commercial areas should be included in an enterprise zone.
The city should also consider raising it's self-imposed debt ceiling to allow borrowing for key development purposes.
The city's future policies will impact not only Baltimore, but the economic health of the region. Strong evidence across the the country shows that regions with declining core areas do not perform as well as regions with healthy and viable ones.
Baltimore's potential is underscored by a resurgence of downtown commerce, strong growth among the city's major medical and academic institutions and a growing demand for city housing.
For the city to realize its full economic potential, the prerequisites are crystal clear:
Homicides and violent crime must decrease.
The quality of public education must improve.
Employment and residential growth must be nurtured.
Any plan to expand the city's economy and population that ignores the direct relationship between those goals and reducing crime and improving public education is destined to fail.
Despite its challenges, Baltimore is in a position to reassert itself as the region's economic and cultural catalyst.
To do this, the city's new political leaders must develop a vision and a comprehensive approach based on measurable goals and objectives.
Donald P. Hutchinson
The writer is president of the Greater Baltimore Committee.
How some readers plan to cast votes Tuesday
Editor's note: We asked readers to tell us who they were voting and why. Here are some of the responses we received:
Martin O'Malley is the best choice for mayor of Baltimore City.
I first met Mr. O'Malley when he was the statewide coordinator for Sen. Bob Kerrey's presidential campaign in 1992 and I was running to be a delegate to the Democratic National Convention for then-governor Bill Clinton.
The keen grasp of national issues Mr. O'Malley demonstrated as an advocate for Senator Kerrey showed me that he has incredible analytic ability and understands the economic impact public policy has on working people's lives.
In 1994, I was the statewide campaign manager for Democratic challenger Pat Smith in his bid for attorney general against Joe Curran, Mr. O'Malley's father-in-law. I had many occasions to meet Mr. O'Malley on the campaign trail, because he was Mr. Curran's campaign manager.
He was always friendly and respected me as a professional, even though I was working for Attorney General Curran's opponent.
This demonstrates Mr O'Malley's temperament; the kind of temperament that a mayor must have to govern a major city.
Although Mr. O'Malley has been a hard-nosed, no-nonsense prosecutor, he is also a humanitarian. He is a class act whose integrity is beyond reproach.
The people of Baltimore, as well as Maryland, will benefit if Martin O'Malley is elected mayor.
Baltimore is in crisis. We are losing as many as 12,000 residents a year. They are leaving for a better quality of life.
The reason is simple: City government has failed the middle-class, property tax-paying population.
This is not a race issue. If anything, it's a class issue. Those who can afford to leave are leaving, or have already left.
They are leaving because of crime and because of the state of our schools.
If they don't feel safe and they can't educate their children, why should they stay?
Overemphasizing downtown development, previous administrations neglected the city's neighborhoods, which fell one by one -- victims of grime and crime.
What the city now needs is a mayor who understands the issues and the need for balance. Downtown growth must fuel, but be balanced with, neighborhood development.
Safer streets and neighborhood development will stem the middle-class flight from the city. A stable middle-class would not tolerate inferior schools -- and thus the education system will be improved.
One mayoral candidate, Martin O'Malley, has the vision to see that such progress hinges on making people feel safe again.
Stopping even the nuisance crimes is what my community expects. It's what the city needs and what Mr. O'Malley can deliver.
My admiration for Councilman Martin O'Malley keeps growing.
It began when he was the only person with the guts to challenge Police Commissioner Thomas Frazier and State's Attorney Patricia Jessamy for giving the public misinformation and for the poor performance of our criminal justice system.
My admiration grew when he had the courage to announce his candidacy for mayor, knowing full-well his late start would cause him to be branded a political opportunist.
I truly believe the real reason Mr O'Malley is running is that he knows that Baltimore, with its myriad problems, would benefit from his leadership.
While his opponents insult our intelligence with cheap accusations, defensive rhetoric, lies and poor decisions, Mr. O'Malley continues to address the issues with a dignity and strength that this city desperately needs.
My wish is that Baltimore will look at Mr. O'Malley's intelligence, courage and desire to help the people of Baltimore -- not the color of his skin.
Carl Stokes keeps diversity thriving
Each of us live in Charles Village. The importance of the current mayor's race causes us to write.
We take pride in the diversity and eclectic nature of our neighborhood.
Over the last decade, Charles Village voters have crossed racial lines to elect representatives on the city and state levels. Charles Village has spawned some of the first "coalition tickets" to include both blacks and whites for city-wide office.
We continue this tradition by supporting Carl Stokes for mayor.
We support Mr. Stokes because we remember his commitment to constituent service while he served as a City Councilman from the 2nd District (1987-95).
Mr. Stokes is as at home in the Yellow Bowl on Greenmount Avenue as he is in Donna's on St. Paul Street.
We believe he has earned the support of Baltimoreans of all races, as a consummate bridge-builder and consensus-maker.
We also support Mr. Stokes because we believe his positions on education and city services, and his responsible approach to community policing, are embraced by people of all races.
In Charles Village, you will see signs supporting Mr. Stokes both in the yards of homeowners and in shops on Greenmount Avenue.
We look forward to a Stokes administration as rich and diverse as the neighborhood he once represented in the City Council.
Ms. Cobb is former president of the Abell Improvement Association. The letter was also signed by four other Charles Village residents.
A GOP voice in the Democratic wilderness
Irked that we Republicans haven't made a bigger splash and raised bigger bucks from special interests for this year's city election, Barry Rascovar has erroneously concluded ("City Republicans need a hero to inspire rebirth," Opinion Commentary, Aug. 22) that we are viewed as "liberal renegades" by state Republicans (they're actually very supportive); that Republicans are concentrated in affluent areas of north Baltimore (they're not); that we are not registering a significant number of young blacks (we are); and that we offer no real choice come November (we do).
As inaccurate as these assertions are, it is indisputable that we must further reduce the Democrats lopsided 8.7-1 registration advantage in the city and, working with other like-minded people, streamline of the archaic, gerrymandered City Council districting system before the local political landscape is likely to improve markedly.
Undaunted by these disadvantages and by the local media's deliberate slights -- it focuses virtually all its attention on the Democratic primary -- our mayoral candidates and our 15 City Council candidates are all knocking on doors and attending forums and festivals in order to hear what voters have to say.
Given the monumental problems which have grown and fes- tered under 30-plus years of Dem- ocratic rule since the revered Theodore R. McKeldin was mayor, Republicans are unwilling to concede that the November elections should simply rubber-stamp the results of the city's Democratic primary.
The last thing this city needs in November is a Democratic coronation, involving the same old players who got us into this mess.
Far from offering no real choice in November, as Mr. Rascovar contends, we will be offering the voters plenty of choices to chart a new course with refreshing new talent -- with especially capable candidates running for mayor, city council president and City Council.
All we ask is that voters give us a hearing, keep an open mind and vote accordingly in November.
Their votes could make the difference between perpetuating the status quo or embarking on a new beginning.
The writer is vice chairman of the Baltimore City Republican Party.

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Kylie Minogue is set to join the judge panel on The Voice Australia alongside Will.i.am, Ricky Martin and Joel Madden (of Good Charlotte and being Nicole Richie's husband).
There's no doubt the Aussie pop princess won't go down a total storm when the show airs. She's the kind of coach who really knows her stuff - 25 years in the business, baby.
And to get her super-fans hyped for the show Down Under, Kylie shared this super sexy photo on Instagram.
Pretty saucy, hey? And definitely a shot taken from her official 2014 calendar which FYI you can bag for yourself right now. It's that whole crochet hot pants on a beach thing that only Charlene from Neighbours could pull off. God, we love her.
Take a look through this gallery to see more from the very fabulous Kylie Minogue:

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Arrest made in the Murder of Police Officer Moses Walker Jr. [UPDATED PHOTO]
Friday, August 24, 2012, Rafael Jones, 23 years-of-age from the 3600 block of Warren Street, was charged in connection with the murder of Officer Moses Walker, Jr. Jones is charged with murder, robbery and related offenses.
Chancier McFarland, 19 years-of-age, from the 1400 block of N 23rd Street, has been arrested out-of-state in connection with the murder of Officer Moses Walker, Jr.
- To view the surveillance video: Visit The Philadelphia Police YouTube Channel or visit http://phillypolice.com/news
- If you see this suspect do not approach him, contact 911 immediately.
- To submit a tip via telephone, dial 215.686.TIPS (8477) or text a tip to PPD TIP or 773847.
- Use this electronic form to submit a tip anonymously.

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Department for Transport written question – answered at on 3 March 2016.
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Aamir Khan in Delhi Belly 2
With the phenomenal success of Delhi Belly, Aamir Khan has plans to make a sequel to it and also play the lead character. The sequel is inspired by Aamir’s item number in Delhi Belly and is titled Disco Fighter.
This film will be produced by Aamir Khan and will be directed by his wife Kiran Rao who made her directorial debut with Dhobi Ghat. The film features the three Delhi Belly actors Imran Khan, Vir Das and Kunaal Roy Kapoor along with Aamir Khan. Thus, Aamir and his nephew Imran will be seen together on screen for the first time.
Director Abhinay Deo and writer Akshat Varma of Delhi Belly have been entrusted with the job of writing the script for Disco Fighter.
Delhi Belly has already earned over Rs 30 crore within the first one week of its release.


Toyo Tire U.S.A. Corp.’s (Toyo Tires) Proxes RR DOT competition tire has been selected as the specified tire for the newly-announced Mazda Spec MX-5 Challenge Racing Series, and Toyo Tires is to be named the presenting partner.
This new series creates a single spec applying to multiple sanctioning bodies including NASA (National Auto Sport Association) and the SCCA (Sports Car Club of America). The symmetric, two-groove Proxes RR comes off-the-shelf with a 4/32nds tread depth.
The series targets the 2006-2015 Mazda MX-5 (the NC-generation Miata). Mazda Motorsports offers “kits” in various forms, whether converting an OE street car or converting a race car already built to meet an existing race class for a specific sanctioning body.
The Spec MX-5 Challenge presented by Toyo Tires will have a series of marquee events run in coordination with both NASA and SCCA. The preliminary 2020 racing schedule and event structure will lead to both regional and overall championships. Other opportunities to compete in the Spec MX-5 Challenge include series such as the World Racing League – GP3; ChampCar Endurance Series – EC; and American Endurance Racing.


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Super 3 Launch
Following the online reveal of Super 3, Morgan formally unveiled the model at the event hosted by Jonny Smith (The Late Brake Show, Fifth Gear), Steve Morris (Chairman & CEO), Jonathan Wells (Head of Design) and Toby Blythe (Head of Marketing). Following the unveiling, guests had the opportunity to get up close and view the three launch cars in more detail.
There is a short video of the event on YouTube.
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New Mathematica version coming soon
CHAMPAIGN – Wolfram Research founder Stephen Wolfram plans to announce today that a new version of the company's flagship product, Mathematica, will be released this fall.
Wolfram, in town for the annual International Mathematica User Conference, said Mathematica 7 will have about 2,700 functions, or roughly 500 more than the previous version.
The technical computing software's new functions include image processing, charting and automatic configurations for doing computations using parallel processing, he said.
The new version should be ready to ship in about a month and will range in price from $130 to about $2,500, depending on the user. Student versions are conventionally priced on the low end, while business customers pay more.
Though mathematicians were the principal users of the original software, Champaign-based Wolfram Research has enhanced subsequent versions to appeal to many academic disciplines, including physics, computer science, economics, biology, even music.
But some potential users may not realize the breadth of applications because of the Mathematica name.
"Communicating and connecting it to potential customers is the next challenge," Wolfram said.
Wolfram, who lives in the Boston area and visits Champaign a few times a year, said he was pleasantly surprised how quickly the new version came together. Mathematica 6 was released on May 1, 2007, and its successor is coming out 18 months later.
Wolfram called that "incredibly impressive. ... This level of innovation just doesn't happen." He credited the fast turnaround to processes honed in the company's efforts to build "a research-and-development pipeline."
Another new wrinkle in Mathematica 7: Developers tried to make it easier for first-time users to get started, putting more emphasis on the first five minutes of software use.
"What was hard for people in 1988 is not in 2008," Wolfram said, "and there are things people are confused about now that they weren't confused about then."
Today, Mathematica probably has more users in academia than in the corporate world, but revenues from the corporate side are greater than those from academia, he said.
The privately owned company does not release its sales figures.
Wolfram Research employs more than 300 people in Champaign, occupying the entire fifth and sixth floors of Trade Centre South at Kirby Avenue and Neil Street, as well as parts of the third and fourth floors.
Wolfram said he's not making specific forecasts of when users can expect Mathematica 8, given other projects the company is pursuing.
Sometime in 2009?
"We'll see," he said.

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Happy Feel-Good Friday!
Welcome to Mollie’s Feel-Good Feed, a place where each week Mollie King shares her round-up of the things bringing her joy in these strange and uncertain times. Check back each week for uplifting music, self care tips and, hopefully, a smile being put on your face.
Ok, big news – actually, it’s huge! Hair salons across England and Northern Ireland have finally officially opened, and plans for Scotland and Wales are in place too. With this news echoing across the UK, it feels like this week – for many of us – our moods have been slightly lifted as we can start considering what look we’re trying to channel this summer!
With lots of people striving to emerge from lockdown refreshed and ready to go after months of wearing joggers, maybe these next few weeks will give us that final push we might need. I for one am starting to look online for those fresh summer outfits that I thought only a few weeks ago may never see the light of day!
That said, I’m still spending every evening at home and always looking for those little wins across the week to finish off my day with a smile on my face, or start my day with my best foot forward…preferably in some fab footwear!
You might have noticed by now I’m a massive fan of big pop songs with harmonies that make you want to dance and sing at the top of your voice in the shower. However, I also have a love for more soulful laid-back tracks which sound perfect accompanied by a Sunday morning coffee or an early morning stroll. Singer song-writer Jones is my new go-to. She simply oozes class and quality and has even found herself a fan in Sam Smith. Her latest single Giving It Up is sensual and feel good at the same time, so I would really recommend adding it to your Spotify playlist immediately!
If you’re looking for a song to give you that extra kick during your last kilometre when running (or even something to blast out to make loading the dishwasher more enjoyable) Majestic’s Bodywork is going to spur you on that extra bit. With a similar feel to Endor’s Pump It Up, it will have you moving somewhere between a foot tap and a full TikTok dance routine!
This summer we have been graced with the fourth studio album from British pop superstar Jessie Ware. I’ve been a fan of hers right from the start in 2012 after hearing Wildest Moments. I loved how different it felt from everything I was hearing on the radio at that time and how atmospheric it sounded.
Eight years later she has gifted us with What’s Your Pleasure and I think it’s safe to say our answer to that is this very album! This triumph of a masterpiece transports us back to the disco era and will get even the most reluctant among us onto the dance floor.
With lyrics like ‘Last night we danced and I thought you were saving my life‘, how can we not feel like Jessie is exactly that friend we all want on a night out?
If you’re on the edge of your seat waiting for the next episode of Queer Eye, I can recommend the perfect addition to your life. From the very same creators, let me introduce you to Say I Do.
This new Netflix series watches couples get married with the help of 3 experts who style the participants, cater for the big day and help them turn their wedding Pinterest board into reality. The catch? The proposal is a complete surprise to one of the partners, and the time limit from proposal to walking down the aisle is just 24 hours! If you want feel-good with some happy tears, look no further!
With hair salons being back open I know it’s been a bit of a scramble trying to get in the chair for either a cut or colour!
It’s safe to say my roots were well and truly in need of a touch up even though I was trying to convince myself that an overgrown root was exactly the look I was going for! I did get lucky and managed to get them done this week.
Having not been able to go to the hairdressers for so long and seeing how much healthier it looks with the products they use, it’s definitely made me feel like I want to take more care of my hair now going forward. I picked up Kerastase’s Nutritive 8H Magic Night serum; it’s filled with vitamins and can be left on overnight without needing to wash it off in the morning. It’s still early days but from what I’ve seen so far it’s something I’d like to add to my routine as a little treat!
Thanks so much for reading this week’s Mollie’s Feel-Good Feed – check back on Marie Claire every Friday for more of my feel-good recommendations. Whatever you’re doing this week – be it a trip to the pub, a long-awaited meet up with friends, or just easing yourself gently back into our new normal life, stay safe, take care and enjoy!

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Pull this thread, click "read the full conversation on Twitter".
You will immediately understand why a multipolar world is a sweet simpleton's dream in a global world whose balance sheet of the banking system is based on the dollar.
Since 2008, Switzerland has been "held" by the USA because it is the United States that has the right of life and death over its international banks and therefore over the Swiss Franc.
This there are people who know it but what is little known is that we are exactly - and worse - in the same situation because of the greed of our banks which have made their money on the eurodollar and the overexposure to the American dollar in their balance sheets, we are dollar-dependent, with a single stroke of the pen/keyboard the USA puts us in the situation of Russia!
To hold on we need trillions of dollars that we will stop having if we don't kindly give the paw a wagging tail!
When I see the way the United States treats us like doormats and the lack of a burst of dignity from our political leaders, I have even more respect for Charles de Gaulle, he saw across the United States from the start, and more importantly, he resisted it.
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Halo 3 is the most popular shooter game. (I guess.)
Really, that's a matter of personal preference. Statistically, Halo: Reach was the most popular, mostly because of the hype Halo 3 created. Personally, I think Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 3: ODST were the best games in the series; Halo: CE for it's legendary franchise-starting storyline and ODST for its phenomenal music track. I mean, just listen to a couple of the songs in the ODST soundtrack, while imagining a rainy, gloomy, destroyed city at night, abandoned by all life except the Covenant's soldiers. The mood the music sets is amazing. Kudos to Marty O'Donnell and Michael Salvatori for what is, in my opinion, the best and most deeply emotional musical work in modern media. I'll put in some links to my favorite songs of the ODST soundtrack here, just to support my rant.

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I've used kernel 2.6.32 based on P2020RDB_20100429-ltib or P1020_P2020RDB_20101101_ltib for P2020 or P1011
Recently, I need to use PCI-e switch (IDT 89HPES5T5ZBBCGI ) to expand PCI-e slot of P2020/P1011.
But, I've never used PCI-e switch.
Can you know whether kernel 2.6.32 on P2020 or P1011 can support PCIe switch or not ?
Should I need to use higher kernel version for it?
Even kernel 2.6.32 can support it.


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Mass Effect Andromeda Innovation Takes Cues from ME3 Multiplayer
By the time Mass Effect Andromeda launches in March of 2017, it will have been almost exactly five years since the release of the last Mass Effect game. In efforts to maintain the reputation for excellence in story and evolving gameplay that the Mass Effect franchise has become known for, the game designers look to trending styles of the gaming industry as well as the continued support of Mass Effect 3’s ever so popular multiplayer mode for inspiration.
Today’s most popular games are “less of a stop and go style” and bring a feel of continuous action to the player experience. While Mass Effect is a third person shooter it is also above all a role playing game (RPG) experience. As such, naturally the developers at BioWare are focusing on creating and maintaining a field of depth in the story process much akin to the first installment of the series. However, unlike the first installment, which had incredible depth to story but not necessarily the smoothest transition between story elements and combat, Mass Effect Andromeda is designed to incorporate combat elements into our story in a way that creates a constant feeling of being an action filled sequence.
The key thing here is to balance between the accessibility, the sheer fun of the action, and the depth of [the] RPG system.
Andromeda producer Fabrice Condominas gave excellent examples of how they are altering the main campaign of Mass Effect Andromeda by reflecting upon elements of the Mass Effect 3 multiplayer experience. The first element of this “fix” is the way enemies respond and spawn in the single player campaign. While playing through the story as Commander Shepard it was easy to rely on a preformed strategy when entering combat. Enemies would, for the most part, spawn predictably allowing the player to make preconceived reaction when faced with combat. Mass Effect 3 multiplayer was a bit more sporadic with its enemy spawns. In order to achieve success players have to work as a team, watch each others backs, and maintain control of a defensible position, otherwise you run the risk of being cut-off from your squad or being flanked and destroyed. Objective rounds are always the hardest because you have to get to the objective quickly and that is hard to do when your pinned down by waves of enemies. Mass Effect Andromeda seeks to add this element of uncertainty to the single player combat to create a more interactive environment while in combat. You won’t have time to sit behind a crate anymore taking your time and picking them all off one one by one.
The idea is to keep constantly the momentum, and you keep moving. When you stop moving that’s for a very specific reason, you need to recharge shields, or there’s too many people, or I need to check on my flank what’s going on. Whatever it is it’s a very specific reason and we even push that adding some destructible aspect to the environment.
Not only do the developers for Mass Effect Andromeda seek to spice up the enemy encounters but the world itself will be much more conductive in aiding in keeping players on their toes. With the addition of the jump-pack ability as shown in the very first gameplay teaser, a new dimension will be added to the mechanics and combat experience. Not only that, but the developers are adding destructible elements to the environment in order to create an atmosphere of momentum to not only the enemies in combat but to the terrain as well.
There will always be lessons and crossovers between the two modes, and I think that’s very healthy.
We as fans are extremely excited to get to experience the new style of gameplay and story telling. We look forward to being able to enjoy the depth of story and the rush of adrenaline that the new Mass Effect Andromeda campaign will bring and are also very excited to see what the new multiplayer may have in store for us. We’d love to hear about your experience with Mass Effect multiplayer and Mass Effect in general. Stay tuned to Don’t Feed the Gamers for more Mass Effect Andromeda updates. In the meantime, check out this exciting look at the new alien race from Andromeda!
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Abu Salem sent to jail for 7 years by Delhi court for extortion
The court passed the order after hearing arguments on sentence by the prosecution and the defence lawyers. It had convicted Salem in the case on May 26.
In the extortion case lodged in Delhi, it was alleged that Salem had demanded Rs. 5 crore as protection money from businessman Ashok Gupta, a resident of Greater Kailash in south Delhi, in 2002.


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A pair of unrelated fires left an Elkton-area woman homeless and forced the evacuation of 10 W.L. Gore employees from a company plant in Cherry Hill over the weekend.
About 60 firefighters and emergency workers began battling a raging house fire in the 1900 block of Blue Ball Road about 8:20 a.m. on Saturday after neighbors in the area called 911.
Smoke billowing from the 50-foot-by-20-foot single-story home could be seen from about a mile away, according to Adam Wolle, a spokesman for Singerly Fire Co. of Elkton.
"When (first responders) arrived, the house was engulfed in flames," he said. "There was heavy fire in about 50 percent of the house and the porch. There were initial reports (from callers) of explosions, but we couldn't confirm that."
Wolle said the woman who lives at house was outside when firefighters arrived. As of Monday, fire officials had not released the name of the woman, who was being assisted at the scene by workers with a regional chapter of the American Red Cross.
Deputy State Fire Marshal Derek Chapman, who was called to investigate the blaze, could not be reached Monday for information.
Wolle said it took six fire companies from Cecil County and two from Chester County, Pa., about two-and-a-half hours to bring the fire under control. Firefighters used 32 pieces of equipment, including eight tankers, while battling the blaze, which closed a section of Blue Ball Road from Leeds Road to Hilltop Road for about three hours.
Later that evening, a laboratory fire in a W.L. Gore & Associates plant at 2401 Singerly Road forced nightshift employees outside for nearly two hours.
Fire officials said the small fire was mostly contained by a company fire response team, but could have raged out of control, if not for the building's sprinkler system.
"The sprinklers knocked (the fire) down and contained it to a lab/office area," Wolle said.
He estimated the fire caused about $150,000 in damages, while nearly $50 million in machinery, equipment and other property was spared thanks to the fire suppression system.
"I know $150,000 sounds like a lot, but if a building like that was taken out, it would have a dramatic impact on the company and the community," he said.
Company employees reportedly discovered the fire inside a laboratory/office area and called 911 at 10:10 p.m., fire officials said.
An in-house emergency response team called the Incipient Fire Brigade oversaw the evacuation of employees and later fought the blaze, Wolle said.
"The Incipient Fire Brigade is made up of Gore plant employees who, in addition to their regular jobs as accountants, engineers, (production) line workers and so on, are trained in firefighting," he said, adding that the company fire crew employs "state-of-the-art" firefighting equipment.
About 40 firefighters from three county fire companies responded to the call, Singerly Fire Chief Bill McCall said.
"The sprinklers were still on when we got there, and they had contained it pretty well," he said of the fire brigade. "There was just a small, smoldering fire in the lab area. We put a hose on the fire for about 10 or 15 minutes."
After extinguishing the small fire and turning off the sprinklers, firefighters also made sure flames had not spread into the walls and ceiling, according to Wolle.
He said industrial-sized fans were used to ventilate the building, while firefighters used meters to ensure no poisonous gases were in the air before allowing workers back inside the building.
Deputy State Fire Marshal Howard F. Ewing could not be reached for information Monday regarding the likely cause of the blaze.


Ryan Giggs reveals what Robin van Persie did better than anyone else at Manchester United
Ryan Giggs says he had a special telepathy with Robin van Persie which was like no other at Manchester United.
The Welsh legend played with a number of superstars during his time at Old Trafford but says his partnership with Van Persie stood out for special reasons.
In a recent interview the current Wales manager spoke about his transition from playing as a winger into a central midfielder, and in particular how he linked up with the forwards.
Giggs began by hailing the exploits of Javier Hernandez up-front before moving onto Van Persie and his natural understanding of the role.
"Robin van Persie was the best," Giggs told The Coaches' Voice.
"I mean the amount of goals, and the chances, that I tried to make for Robin. Because he knew, 'Giggsy when you get it on your left foot, I am peeling off to run into there (behind the defence).'
"I knew as soon as I got the ball, without even looking sometimes, I am playing the ball here, over the left centre-half's head. I am not worrying where he is, I am not even looking where he is, because I know that is where he is going to end up. So I don't need to look. I just need to play the ball in behind the left centre-half."


The NHL announced on Wednesday evening that the Washington Capitals have been fined $100,000 for violating the league’s COVID-19 protocols. The violation involved social interactions among team members who were in close contact without wearing masks.
NHL fines Washington Capitals $100,000 for violating COVID Protocols. https://t.co/yuw4d886OL pic.twitter.com/1ZgPbpazwa
— NHL Public Relations (@PR_NHL) January 20, 2021
Capitals center Evgeny Kuznetsov recently told Russian media outlet Sports-Express that the team received a warning from the league for violating the league’s COVID-19 protocols following the season opener in Buffalo.
“Someone either said or saw that we were sitting in the locker room after the game without masks. Well, news traveled fast and the league found out, instantly … But as an excuse, I will say that we did not deliberately violate, but simply forgot about all the rules. The first game, the first victory, there was no time for masks, emotions overwhelmed,” he said.
Pain does not exist in this dojo.#ALLCAPS pic.twitter.com/xONJnNyZVh
— Washington Capitals (@Capitals) January 15, 2021
It was announced later Wednesday evening that the fine and subsequent additions of Alex Ovechkin, Evgeny Kuznetsov, Dmitry Orlov and Ilya Samsonov to the COVID-19-related absences list stemmed from a recent incident at the team hotel.
The Capitals and Alex Ovechkin would later release a statement regarding the COVID-19 violations.
The Capitals are scheduled to host the Buffalo Sabres on Friday (7 PM ET, NBC Sports Washington). TSN’s Darren Dreger told NBCSN on Wednesday that there are no plans from the NHL to postponed any of the Capitals’ games.
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Wow, what a really lame statement. No time for masks because of first game victory and overwhelmed emotions?! Seriously Kuzy? Grow up and realize that we’re very soon gonna reach 1/2 million deaths here from this pandemic so grow up and find time to put your damn masks on 🤬 You won’t be having much fun if your games are cancelled due to COVID on the team, to say nothing of risking the health of everyone in your entire organization 🙁
Oh stop your crying, no one wears a mask diring echl games. Fans allowed, kuzy is the man and can do what the heck he wants too. It is all blown out anyways
It’s location based hazards, not league-based hazards. Don’t be ignorant
If non of the players have Covid than masks don’t really do
much but make a political statement.
Well, given how few people attend ECHL games, there’s probably plenty of room to social distance
Problem #1: Kuzy… Was he not the same person who said he didn’t use cocaine,that was until video came up of him in same room as “others using A white substance”!!
Problem #2: All players identified are Russian,seam like if I was in another country & broke/ bent rules I’d be kicked out or deported!
Funny how Money can cover-up any problem!!
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20 × 5s stacked
A set of 25 pictures at 5 seconds exposure, ISO 800, stacked (and around 3-5 dropped), with 25 black frames as well. A bit lower noise as a result.
An empty park
This actually looks much better than in reality; the long exposure and a bit of extra compensation in post-processing make me like the result very much!
A nice looking chocolate shop :)
… pass by …
V for Victory
… and fly away.
After the race: Scuol is not so bad…
This was an easy section :/
Finally at the top! Clipping in and…
Looking back: it's been a loong way up…
Going towards Livigno through the weird tunnel: many other people doing the biking thing…
Took me almost as long by public transport as by bike, but finally back in Livigno. Also nice!
At the finish, happy happy happy!
Flat route, good pavement. Can catch my breath, and take a another picture.
Look, nice castle! Stopping for a picture, and not because I was *dead tired* :)
A bit of a smile left. Yes, that's a smile, not a grimace!
Much later, climbing again.
I wonder how steep it will be going down…
Go! Smilling and happy!
I can see the top! …and the remaining steep meters to climb :(
So high already! Good legs :)


A professional recording studio in downtown Burlington, Vermont!
Future Fields Studios is a recording studio in downtown Burlington, VT.
Future Fields is owned & operated by Eric B. Maier & Walker Allen, a pair of professional musicians & producers interested in a wide spectrum of music.
From recording and producing to mixing and mastering, Future Fields offers a vibey environment to make music of the highest quality.
In the spoken word arena, we have experience with tape syncing, voice overs, remote projects and more!
Our recording studio runs Pro Tools, and utilizes both in-the-box and outboard solutions. Learn about our recording equipment here.
We utilize the full package from our local heroes & collaborators, SoundToys; complete FabFilter; complete Valhalla; selections from Universal Audio; and other software solutions!
Also under the FF umbrella are Future Fields Management & Future Fields Recordings. Both entities strive to give artists the tools & guidance needed to grow the business that is their art. Both take advantage of the recording studio aspect of Future Fields as well. Everything is connected in our industry. Contact us for more information.


With the crop harvesting season upon us, producers from all parts of the country will be spending numerous hours in the fields, working hard to provide the world with the food sources it needs to help feed a growing population.
While there are no shortcuts to success, there are some tools available that can simplify the crop harvesting process a bit, including a number of John Deere apps.
Here’s a list of six John Deere apps that can potentially make life easier for producers this fall.
When downloading the GoHarvest app, John Deere S, W, and T Series combine operators will gain the ability to optimize their equipment (2012 or newer) before heading out into the field. Operators simply have to choose their machine’s model and match it with the type of crop being harvested to receive suggested machine settings. The notes section and photo functionality make it simple for operators to document changes made during the crop harvesting process.
John Deere cotton harvester operators can download the GoCotton app to optimize their machines as well. Every minute in the field is valuable, so John Deere offers this app to provide operators with a quick reference tool for managing important adjustments, operation, and maintenance of the machine right from the palms of their hands. GoCotton also has notepad and photo functionality so operators can document their work.
With the MyAnalyzer™ app, John Deere equipment operators can put historical field data to work by reviewing prior jobs done on a field (including completion date). The app also allows producers to better understand current conditions such as yield, moisture, products, target rates, population, and as-applied data thanks to its map layers. Download this app to learn from the past and make better crop harvesting decisions as a result.
Harvesting crops in today’s day and age can be improved through the gathering of data. With this in mind, John Deere offers the Mobile Data Transfer app to allows its customers to transfer John Deere GreenStar™ 3 2630 Display files from their equipment to their John Deere Operations Center account using a wireless USB device and a smartphone data plan. This data allows producers to make educated setup change decisions at the last minute if needed.
Producers can’t be at every location at all times during the crop harvesting period. Thanks to the MyOperations app, they can now connect with the John Deere Operations Center to remotely evaluate job performance and machine utilization. Field insights can be gathered to help producers manage day-to-day logistics and productivity to ensure a successful harvest.
When it’s all said and done, the grain needs to be loaded into trucks and brought to preferred elevators. By downloading the GrainTruckPlus app, producers can track where team members are located at any given time, locate the nearest elevators, and get up-to-date information about wait times at the elevators.
All of the apps listed above can greatly improve the crop harvesting process as producers take to the fields this season. Visit the John Deere apps store for more useful Deere-related programs or take a look at these posts:


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Stoney Point Boat Launch provides a great view of Lake Michigan. A Fish Cleaning station and dredged waterways are available for easier access.
There is an entrance/launch fee of $2.00 at this location.
Parking Lot parking is available.
Public restrooms are available (Pit Toilet).
Developed boat access.
Length of access is less than 50 yards.
The sign for this site is along the road (visible from road).

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Israel Aerospace Industries' (IAI) Bedek Aviation Group and Mitsui & Co., Ltd. (Mitsui) have signed a contract to establish a joint venture company to perform conversion of B767-300 aircraft from passenger to special freighter configuration.
IAI and Mitsui intend to establish the fifty-fifty joint venture, M&B Conversions Ltd., in Ireland, in the next couple of months, and have begun developing a Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) in order to obtain U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and European Aviation Safety Agency approvals in 2008.
The global cargo freighter market is expected to triple in size over the next 20 years due to the booming demand in China, India and other countries. The number of cargo freighters is forecast to double to about 3,500 during the same period, and the ratio of medium-wide-body aircraft, including the B767-300, will increase. In particular, greater demand is anticipated for converted freighters than for built-to-order freighters. The conversion target is for 80 to 100 fleets in 10 years.
The B767-300 was introduced in the late 1980s, and currently there are more B767-300's in service than any other aircraft in its class. As increasing numbers of B767-300's are retired from passenger service, the cargo conversion market will see a steep increase in eligible aircraft.
Source: IAI and Mitsui Sign Contract to Establish Joint Venture to Convert B767-300 Aircraft from Passenger to Special Freighter Configuration
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Online gambling sites approached another revenue record in April, hauling in $36.6 million across poker and casino verticals.
Publicly traded in the UK, Paddy Power Betfair is positioned to become...
Despite the looming threat of the Department of Justice’s enforcement of the...
New Jersey generated over $39 million in online casino and poker revenue...
Since planting its flag in the world of online casino gambling, DraftKings has grabbed market share and transformed Resorts’ monthly revenue in New Jersey.
Arguments in the New Hampshire lawsuit challenging the Wire Act opinion begin in 10 days, and one of the litigants expects a fairly quick resolution.
Recent news, a comprehensive PokerStars NJ review, and answers to some commonly asked questions about PokerStars' New Jersey return.
A shortened month was the only thing that prevented New Jersey online casinos from posting another record-setting revenue report in February.
Two more states are attempting to join the legal challenge against the Department of Justice's latest interpretation of the Wire Act: Pennsylvania and Michigan.
Bet365 has rented New Jersey offices right on the Pennsylvania border. The company expects to launch NJ online sports betting in June.
NJ online poker reviews from a player perspective for all of the major New Jersey online poker sites along with traffic rankings, mobile info and...
Primarily known as a horse racing/betting powerhouse, Churchill Downs is prepared to attack full-scale online gambling in states with regulated industries.
WSOP.com put an ambitious nine online bracelet events on the summer schedule, but it's not yet clear if poker players in New Jersey will be...
Will poker players in New Jersey be able to participate in the nine online bracelet events on the 2019 WSOP schedule? Thanks to the DOJ,...
Golden Nugget online sportsbook is live in New Jersey, incorporated wtihin the company's market-leading NJ online casino platform.
New Jersey online casinos posted another record month in January, combining with NJ online poker sites to generate $33.6 million in total revenue.
New Jersey and Pennsyvania are pushing back against the new Wire Act opinion, including a FOIA request seeking records from the US Department of Justice.
In partnership with Evolution Gaming, DraftKings will soon add the trendy live-dealer games to its New Jersey online casino platform.
Ray Lesniak spoke candidly about the new Wire Act opinion that threatens the thriving New Jersey online gambling industry he helped create.
Online poker is unique in gambling, requiring the sort of interstate network that appears to be prohibited under a new Wire Act interpretation.
Just six months after launch, NJ sports betting has already spawned more controversy than online casino and poker have in five-plus years.
December revenue of $29 million represents yet another record for the NJ online gambling industry, boosting the lifetime total into 10-figure territory.
The buyers of Ocean Resort remain unidentified, but the New Jersey casino formerly known as Revel/TEN has once again been sold.
DraftKings' expansion into online casino games continues at a rapid pace, with several more games added to the sportsbook product in New Jersey as of...


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15th May – 3rd July 2015
to prepare the selected students (6 / partner university) for the intensive summer school
Moodle, managed by prof. Peter von Fragstein (Kassel), prof. Ewa Rembiałkowska & Dr. Dominika Średnicka-Tober (Warsaw)
- To get understanding of the principles of organic production with the perspective of potential peculiarities within the European frame.
- To get acquainted with the place the organic systems hold in own country.
Topics of e-materials (with responsible countries):
- Introduction into organic farming – Germany (Prof. Peter von Fragstein)
- Crop management* (incl. veg production ) – Italy (Dr. Roberto Mancinelli & Dr. Emanuele Radicetti)
- Plant protection – Estonia (Prof. Anne Luik and Assoc. Prof. Eve Veromann)
- Alternative crops – Czech Republic (Assoc. Prof. Petr Konvalina & Assoc. Prof. Jan Moudry)
- Food quality – Poland (Prof. Ewa Rembiałkowska & Dr. Dominika Średnicka-Tober)Q
- Marketing and environmental management – Spain (Prof. Teresa Briz and Prof. Maite Gomez– Spain (Assoc. Prof. Teresa Briz & Assoc. Prof. Maite Gomez)
- Environmental impact – Czech Republic (Assoc. Prof. Petr Konvalina & Assoc. Prof. Jan Moudry)
- Ecosystem services – Finland (Docent Irina Herzon)
* Animal husbandry will be covered at the summer course.
Tools/methods to be used:
- Online depository of resources for download:
- PP presentations / video lectures
- research papers
- On-line quiz
- On-line community/activities on-line:
- An introductory round for students and teachers (short hello + photo)
- Mid-way feedback round (forum)
- Group work
E-course = individual and group work:
Individual work: 15th May – 3rd July 2015. Students work entirely independently and asynchronously on the topics during the whole course period. They learn by (a) reading the literature, (b) looking through the handouts and presentations and (c) going through on-line quiz.
Group work: 24th May – 26th June 2015. Review of the organic sector from own country by students of the same country (= 6 students as a team). Topic: Place of the organic sector in the agriculture of our country. Issues to be covered:
(1) agricultural sector overall: production, environmental impacts, social impacts and values;
(2) organic production types, impacts, challenges, opportunities;
(3) if available, distribution chains;
(4) (potential) contribution of organic sector to addressing (some of the) problems.
Teachers advise on the sources to use (e.g. Eurostat, research papers, reports). The student groups submit drafts for feedback (1 page A4 plan with key findings) not later than on the 26th June 2015. The student groups prepare brief presentations (15-20 minutes) to be presented at the beginning of the summer course (presentations of 15-20 min. + 10 min. question/discussion per group x 7 groups = 210 min = 3,5 hours). Detailed instructions of the group work will be placed on the platform on the 24th of May.
E-learning lectures can be found under the below links:
von Fragstein und Niemsdorff_- IFOAM norms for organic production
Herzon_Ecosystem services and agriculture / Herzon_Video lecture on the ecosystem services
Moudry_Environmental impacts of agriculture
Rembialkowska&Średnicka-Tober_Organic food quality and safety
Briz_Marketing research applied to innovative products
Luik&Veromann_Control of pests and disease in organic production


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WETA Arts spotlights and celebrates visual and performing art in Greater Washington and around the nation.
Take beautiful classical music with you on-the-go with our new Classical WETA mobile app. Now available in the iOS App Store and the Google Play Store.
Arlington, Virginia's Fire Chief James Schwartz recalls the county fire department's milestones.
Caillou is an inquisitive 4-year-old who's constantly finding exciting new things in the world around him.
Do you know the bizarre story of how James McNeil Whistler's lavish "Peacock Room" came to the Smithsonian?
Enjoy this step through time charting WETA's history from its founding in the 1950s to becoming a major national producer for PBS.


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University of Canterbury
College of Arts
Classics / Ancient History
Christchurch, Canterbury 8041
PhD: Doctor of Philosophy - Classics, BA(Hons): Bachelor of Arts with Honours (equivalent to first year of Masters programme) Classics;, GradDipArts: Graduate Diploma in Arts - Classics; BA(Hons): Bachelor of Arts with Honours
UC has one of the finest collections of Greek and Roman antiquities in the southern hemisphere. The James Logie Memorial Collection includes vases and other pottery items from the Archaic period onwards, marble items of the Roman period plus some highly prized black-figure amphorae. The collection is a wonderful resource for students studying at UC.


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Maina, B. 2005. Monitoring and evaluation of support to decentralisation and local governance: Kenya Case Study. (ECDPM Discussion Paper 61). Maastricht: ECDPM.
In the course of the democratisation and institution reform efforts of the 1990s, support to democratic decentralisation and local governance, has become an important area for European development co-operation.
Decentralisation processes in Africa have been attracting support from a variety of European actors in development co-operation. Alongside bilateral aid agencies, the European Community and NGOs, sub-national and local governments in Europe have become increasingly active in supporting democratic decentralisation and experimentation with new approaches to local governance.
In the last years, there has been an increasing interest in the performance of development co-operation. However, as seminar reports and publications illustrate, assessing the effects and impacts of support to decentralisation on development still constitutes a considerable operational challenge for aid managers and their partners.
The ECDPM found it worthwhile to have a closer look at this issue and conducted research on approaches and tools for monitoring and evaluating support to decentralisation.The following paper analyses the present practice in Kenya, a country that has engaged repeatedly in decentralisation efforts and received support from a number of European donors.
The Kenya case study has been prepared by Betty Maina, a Kenyan national and independent consultant with a long experience of work in different projects and programmes supporting decentralisation and local governance in Kenya.
This paper forms part of a series of case studies exploring the approaches and experiences different actors in development have made with monitoring and evaluating development cooperation in the field of decentralisation. With these publications, the ECDPM aims to contribute to stimulate discussion and reflection on present practices and scope for innovation.


Tuesday, May 31, 2011
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Lebanese superstar, Carole Samaha<\/a>\u2019s new music video \u201cBon Voyage\u201d, has managed to earn 1.2 million viewers, after Lifestylez Studios production company released the music video on its official YouTube channel, on July 1st.\r\n\r\n\u201cBon Voyage\u201d is by the lyrics of Kamala KheirBik, Samaha, and Layone. The music video is composed by DJ Youcef and Yann Perrier. It is directed by Batoul Arafa.\r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/7aCyEBDi4aY\r\n\r\nThe 47-year-old superstar took to her social media accounts to promote the release of her new music video.\r\n\r\n\u201cIt\u2019s OUT NOW my NEW Music video #bonvoyage you can watch it exclusively on you tube channel by @lifestylezstudios Starring the amazing egyptian actor @basselalzaro\u201d she wrote on\u00a0Instagram<\/a>.\r\n\r\n\u201cBon Voyage\u201d featured Egyptian TV host and actor Bassel Alzaro as a model in the music video, which was filmed in a European style.\r\n\r\nIt also featured Samaha performing in the Lebanese and French dialects.\r\n
<\/figure>\r\n[caption id="attachment_135431" align="alignnone" width="1024"] \u201cBon Voyage\u201d cover art[\/caption]\r\n
Carole Samaha in focus<\/span><\/h4>\r\nIt is worth mentioning that Samaha, born on July 25, 1972, is a Lebanese singer, actress, and performer.\r\n\r\nShe has released six studio albums. Samaha has a master\u2019s degree in acting and directing, which she earned in 1999 from the Saint Joseph University of Beirut.\r\n\r\nIn 2004, she won the Arab Music Award for the best rising female singer. She has also won multiple Murex d\u2019Or awards and was nominated for the best Arabia New Act in the MTV Europe Music Awards 2008.\r\n\r\nThe 47-year-old superstar was a classical actress before starting her pop music career and worked extensively with Mansour Rahbani and Marwan Rahbani.\r\n\r\nThe Lebanese superstar returned in 2007 to the theater to play Zenobia in the Rahbani musical with the same name.\r\n\r\nShe appeared in the 2008 movie \u201cBahr al nojoum\u201d alongside other Lebanese stars.\r\n
\r\n\r\n[caption id="attachment_101327" align="aligncenter" width="846"] Carole Samaha[\/caption]<\/figure>\r\nSamaha starred in Lebanese legendary singer-actress Sabah biographical series \u201cAl Shahroura\u201d, which premiered in Ramadan 2011.\r\n\r\nIn 2013, she was a judge in the x-factor Arabia and she was the mentor for the bands such as Young Pharoz, Maraya, and Les Bledards Ninja.\r\n
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Samaha married Walid Mustafa, a divorced Egyptian with a daughter from a previous marriage, in a civil ceremony in Limassol, Cyprus following an 18-month love story, on November 1, 2013.<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\nShe gave birth to a baby girl, Tala, on August 31, 2015. She is a Melkite Catholic. From 2014, Samaha has been residing in Egypt with her husband.


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Pa.’s state-owned universities. (Via PASSHE website)
After years of decline, enrollment at universities in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) is starting to see those numbers rebound, according to PASSHE officials.
PASSHE reports that enrollment fell by 2.2% across the entire system from Fall 2022-23, but officials say this decline is “stabilizing” after years of dwindling enrollment.
In the 2012-13 academic year, PASSHE enrollment for undergraduates system-wide totaled 100,567, data shows. A decade later, the total enrollment for the 2022-23 academic year is 70,597, a 29.8% decrease.
For the academic year beginning Fall 2023, enrollment of new first-time students increased by 3.4% and is up a combined 10% for Fall 2022 and Fall 2023, according to PASSHE.
Dr. Cynthia Shapira, chair of the PASSHE Board of Governors, which oversees 10 universities across the Commonwealth, called the news “very encouraging,” adding that it was a sign that the strategies adopted by PASSHE to bolster enrollment at state schools are working.
“More freshmen and transfer students are choosing State System universities,” Shapira said. “The State System has frozen tuition and aligned academic programs to in-demand jobs, and two straight years of new-student enrollment growth shows that is what students want.”
PASSHE reports that seven universities in the state system have increased first-time undergraduate degree or certificate-seeking enrollment in Fall 2023:
- East Stroudsburg, 21.1%
- Cheyney, 15.2%
- Indiana, 15%
- Commonwealth, 11.8%
- Slippery Rock, 5.3%
- West Chester, 2.7%
- Shippensburg, 1.6%
Additionally, the total new first-time undergraduate degree or certificate-seeking student enrollment in those seven universities increased by 9%.
The increase in new student enrollment has also set some new records at several PASSHE schools.
For example, Slippery Rock University had its largest first-year class since 2019 and record enrollment of graduate students, West Chester University had its largest ever first-year class and had a 4% increase in out-of-state students, and Cheyney University, the first of the nation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), had its largest total enrollment since 2017 this year.
PennWest exceeded its first-year student enrollment goal by 1.1% and Commonwealth University’s new student enrollment is up 11.8%, according to PASSHE.
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Bright Plastics Inc. is bringing in three new presses, five automation units and more auxiliary equipment as it adjusts for a record year in sales, according to partner Kirk Sparks.
“Most of our top 20 accounts are up, year to date. We are seeing strength in medical and telecommunications,” Sparks said by telephone.
“We'll finish the year up 50 percent in sales,” he added.
The Greensboro, N.C., company has installed three new injection molding presses — an 85-ton Engel and two Nisseis of 390 and 720 tons — as well as robotic equipment from Wittmann and Star, and other auxiliary equipment in recent weeks.
The company is growing so fast that founder Steve Bright, who is retiring, has one task remaining: to find more room. He is researching whether to build an addition or find a new building. Bright started the firm in 1987.
Bright remains a partner, but Sparks said they have a management team now in place. Sparks handles sales and marketing, Joe Vest covers engineering and automation, and Todd Poteat oversees manufacturing.
Bright Plastics operates in a 78,000-square-foot facility. Last year, it opened a 42,000-square-foot distribution center about 11/2 miles down the road and is seeking more warehouse space. Its 31 presses have clamping forces of 60-1,100 tons. Bright has 117 employees and plans to hire more.
Sparks said the company has found the medical area to be particularly strong. It has 8,800 square feet of ISO Class 8 clean room space with Engel presses ranging from 60-200 tons. Two more Engels are expected in October.
Bright Plastics also is finding strength in telecommunications, consumer products, recreation, waste management and truck parts, Sparks said.
During the downturn in 2009, the company invested in training and machinery and that investment is paying off, said Sparks. He credits Vest with adding a system from software and training supplier RJG. He also said Poteat's efforts in machine maintenance have dramatically improved line performance.