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Fast becoming one of the UK’s brightest and exhilarating young emcees, ArrDee is on a path to stardom. Having recently bagged his highest charting single and first top 5 as a solo artist with latest track Flowers (Say My Name) - which debuted at number 5 on the OCC singles charts, he now boasts 4 of the UK top 10’s (2x solo, 2x collabs) this calendar year.
His charismatic style has already won audiences across the country but now he’s ready for more. ArrDee’s always been driven to be an MC ever since he was a child and now, more than ever is his moment. Hailing from Brighton, on the UK’s south coast, he has always been inspired by the city’s vibrant and diverse music culture, growing up on UK hip-hop, drum & bass, garage and grime. He’s still young, at 19, ArrDee had the world of UK rap at his feet and his relatable sound has already begun to capture the scene’s attention.
His single ‘6AM In Brighton’ has already amassed 7.5 million YouTube views and with the video also filmed in his hometown, it showed his audiences an alternative side to UK rap. Since his arrival on the scene as a new voice to be heard, ArrDee swiftly gained support from 1Xtra’s Tiffany Calver and Charlie Sloth at Apple Music. He has also been crowned as VEVO’s DSVCR artist to watch for 2022, as well as YouTube’s AOTR for 2022.
ArrDee’s influence has now stretched far beyond his hometown with his feature on Russ and Tion Wayne’s ‘Body Remix’. With 73 million YouTube hits and 180 million Spotify streams, it became the first drill track to top the UK Singles charts, proof that he can stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the scene’s best.
Since then he has enjoyed a rapid ascent through the musical ranks. His Silver-certified debut single ‘Oliver Twist’ spent a full month in the UK ‘Top 10’, with the video garnering 24 million YouTube views and over 56 million Spotify streams. Going one better was recent releases ‘Wid It’ alongside Tion Wayne, which broke into the UK Top 20 alongside ‘Wasted’, a ‘Heartbroken-by-T2-sampling collab with fellow UK rap talent Digga D that went straight into the UK ‘Top 10’ at number 6, making it an incredible three UK top 10’s in three months. ‘Flowers (Say My Name)’is the latest in a long line of ArrDee bangers that have seen the Brighton artist become one of the most in-demand rappers on the UK scene


Nokia has officially announced the Lumia 900, the third handset in its Windows Phone 7-powered series – inhabited by the Lumia 800 and 710. It says the phone is designed specifically for the North American buyer, and is an LTE 4G phone headed exclusively to the US AT&T network. Not much use for us UK folk, then.
Are we missing out on much? If you’re a Lumia 800 fan then yes, actually. The Lumia 900 has a very similar design to its predecessor, with a similarly lovely curved colour body made of the same high-end plastic. Where the Lumia 800 featured a 3.7in screen, the Nokia Lumia 900 is 4.3in across. Like the 800, it uses a “Clear Black” AMOLED display, which offers great black levels and vivid colour.
On the back of the handset is a f2.2 28mm wide angle camera sensor, which is equipped with a single-LED flash. There’s also a user-facing camera, which has an f2.4 sensor – which in theory should outperform most front cameras. Nokia did not reveal the megapixel count of either camera in its presentation. We’d guess the handset matches the Lumia 800, with an 8-megapixel main sensor – we’ll confirm the details as soon as possible.
Like the Lumia 800 before it, though, the Lumia 900 makes the limitations of the Windows Phone platform glaringly obvious, if you look close enough. The 1.4GHz processor is a single-core model and the screen has a mere 800 x 480 pixel resolution. In the HTC Titan, we found that Windows Phone 7.5 is carefully optimised enough to keep the interface looking sharp, and the single-core processor fast enough. But head to a less carefully-controlled environment, such as the web browser, and the lower pixel density will become apparent.
That the Lumia 900 is a US-only LTE device makes us sad pandas, but we’re sure it won’t be too long until an iteration upon this design appears in other areas of Europe, including the UK. Nokia CEO Stephen Elop stressed the importance of the relationship with US carrier AT&T in the company’s CES 2012 conference, indicating it’s a decision based on inter-company politics rather than technology.


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Paul Breslin’s views on REITs’ lackluster results
By Paul Breslin CHA, CHE, ISHC on August 15, 2016
Paul Breslin, Managing Director of Horwath HTL Atlanta, USA, was interviewed by Kerry Medina of HotelManagement.net for her latest article: Sharing economy contributes to REITs’ lackluster results.
Nevertheless the sector maintains a core of stalwarts, said Paul Breslin, managing director at Horwath HTL. “If you look at the fundamentals of hotel REITs themselves, they’re excellent investments, particularly Host Hotels, Ashford Hospitality Trust and Sunstone Hotel Investors,” he said, adding that revenue-per-available-room growth is an inaccurate indication of a given hotel stock’s growth or contraction because it does not account for market cap value.
But he also acknowledged that several lodging REITs haven’t fared well this year and partly attributes that to the end of a strong run and the start of a renovation cycle that “is costly and doesn’t show well on [profit-and-loss] and balance sheets” while also noting the sharing economy’s impact on hotel business. “There are headwinds in major markets like New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Miami where the shared-economy model is causing stress on compression,” he said.
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ICON, the 3D-printing home company that I wrote about a few months ago, has just launched a new global architecture competition called Initiative 99. As the name starts to suggest, the goal is to generate new ideas for “accessible, beautiful, and dignified 3D-printed homes that can be built for under US$99,000.”
The competition is open to all: architects, designers, builders, students, and/or people who are just interested in finding new ways to deliver affordable housing. However, the current website does ask for a zip code. So maybe you need to live in the US.
In any event, if you’re selected, you might get money and you might get to see your design built. The total prize fund for the competition is US$1 million and ICON has also committed to building a selection of the winning designs. Registration begins May 23, 2023, but if you’d like to enter your zip code now and “stay informed,” you can do that here.

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The Hunger Games Trilogy Increases Scholastic’s Earnings
In a call held with investors and analysts regarding Scholastic’s earnings for this first quarter of the commercial year, “The Hunger Games” trilogy was often credited as one of the reasons Scholastic’s earnings is increasing.
We’re pleased to have achieved a strong start to fiscal 2012, putting us on plan to meet this year’s financial goals … Third, best-selling Scholastic books and e-books, including The Hunger Games trilogy, drove double-digit percentage growth in retail sales.
… In Trade, sales increased 10% from a year ago driven by several best-selling Scholastic series. First, The Hunger Games trilogy continues to sell very strongly in both e-book and print formats, partly driven by enthusiasm for the first movie in the series due out next March.
… We believe the continued success of our best-selling series, our pipeline of new titles, including Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick and The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater, as well as the release of much anticipated movie versions of War Horse, The Hunger Games and The Invention of Hugo Cabret, will drive continued strong sales over the course of the year.
… Just as we have grown education sales over the past 10 years with new digital products and solutions, we continued moving forward to profitably grow Scholastic’s Children’s Books businesses through e-books and e-commerce …Scholastic’s own publishing remains a key source of best-selling quality books for our eReader as evidenced by the success of series like The Hunger Games.
I’m sure once “The Hunger Games” comes out in March 23, 2012, the publicity will drive more people to purchase the books to see what’s the fuss about besides watching the movie in cinemas and theatres alike!
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A comparison with Sri Lanka and India
Russia moved in its troops, without any national, formation or regimental markings on their uniforms, mounted on Russian vehicles and bearing state-of-the-art Russian weapons and communication equipment, into the Southern Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea and rapidly annexed the region into the Russian Federation.
The United Nations General Assembly condemned the move, and at the UN Security Council, Russia vetoed a Resolution condemning the move. China abstained from voting in the Security Council. While the troops were in place in Crimea, a referendum was conducted in which the majority of Crimeans voted to join the Russian Federation.
Slights to the status of the Russian language by the Ukrainian Government and fears of discrimination against people of Russian origin in Crimea by the Ukrainian administration were the ostensible reasons given by the Russians for the move.
Historically, Crimea was a part of the old Soviet Union, which had been taken away by the autocrat of the USSR, Khrushchev and ‘given’ to Ukraine, which at that time was a satellite state within the USSR. The world is split on old Cold War era lines over this change of national borders by the use of force, which was the first time it had taken place in this manner after the end of World War II.
The USA and the European Union condemned the move, with the rest of the world falling in line with their old Cold War inhibitions. China was the exception, having abstained in the UN Security Council vote. The analogies to Tibetan and Uighurs minorities within the People’s Republic of China were too close for comfort. India, surprisingly, took a mild, pro-Russian stand; being a huge weapons buyer from Russia is probably the reason.
Sri Lanka vacillated, seemed to support Russia, then probably saw the possible analogy with the North and East Provinces and Jayalalithaa’s (Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu) calls for a referendum in the Tamil-speaking provinces of Sri Lanka, together with India’s position on the 13th Amendment Plus and/or Minus, and took what our foreign policy pundits thought was a ‘non-aligned’ stand.
Russia massed troops on its eastern border with Ukraine and conducted war games, which were termed provocative. The international community was alarmed at this new development to change the accepted borders in Europe by force of arms.
An emergency meeting was set up between US Secretary of State John Kerry and the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov. Their talks followed a late night telephone call from Russian President Vladimir Putin to US President Barak Obama, when the two discussed potential diplomatic solutions to the Ukraine crisis.
Foreign Minister Lavrov at this meeting restated the demand he made two weeks earlier when Russia moved incognito troops into Crimea. The demands included the future military neutrality of Ukraine, a federal structure for Ukraine’s Constitution, and the status of an official language for Russian on par with the Ukrainian language. President Putin, in a TV interview, cited the UN’s Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine as justification for his move.
Ukraine’s Government expressed outrage on the Russian proposals. Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry in a statement said: “Russia’s proposals for federalisation of Ukraine, Russian as a second official language for Ukraine and others are viewed in Ukraine as nothing less than proof of Russian aggression against Ukraine.” They went on to describe Foreign Minister Lavrov’s demands as an unacceptable ‘ultimatum’. Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry pointed out that Russia, in effect, demands only one thing: ‘The complete capitulation of Ukraine, its dismemberment, and the destruction of Ukrainian statehood’.
After the phone call between President Putin and Obama, the US White House issued a statement stressing the possibility of a US-Russian compromise if Moscow ‘pulls back its troops and does not take any steps to further violate Ukraine’s territorial integrity and sovereignty’.
The US has been pressing for international monitors to be deployed in Ukraine with a mission from the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe and for early elections in Ukraine. Russia, on the other hand, issuing a statement on the telephone call between the President Putin and Obama, stuck a completely different note, saying that in the call President Putin had repeated to President Obama the previous warnings by Russia on the behaviour of ‘extremists’ in Ukraine who were alleged to be ‘committing acts of intimidation against peaceful residents and certain government agencies with impunity’.
Diplomatic circles commenting on the Kerry-Lavrov talks say that the Russian Foreign Minister did not appear to have given any negotiating flexibility or space to Kerry over Russia’s demands. In an interview on Russian television, Lavrov denied that Russia had any plans in invade Eastern Ukraine. But reports continue of pro-Russian mobs attacking Ukrainian Government institutions and rampaging in a number of major cities in Eastern Ukraine, including Donetsk.
In the interview, Lavrov repeated the demand that Ukraine be federalised and that Russia be made an official language, which he stated that the Ukraine Government in Kiev had rejected. Lavrov went to the extent of quoting Ukraine’s Foreign Minister who he alleged had said that “the Russian proposal was unacceptable because federalisation goes against the fundamental principles of Ukraine’s state set up”.
Lavrov continued: “It is not clear why. I do not know anything about such principles. Secondly, the idea of making Russian Ukraine’s second language was also rejected by the Ukrainians as unacceptable.”
Lavrov concluded: “If the Ukrainian leadership persists in rejecting the idea of federalisation… if they continue to ignore the ethnic Russians and the Russian language, the constitutional reforms that they have begun will not yield any sensible result.”
On the unrest being fermented in Ukraine’s eastern region bordering Russia by pro-Russia elements, local Ukrainian residents have coined a rhyming proverb to brand Russia’s blatant attempt to exploit deeply-persistent but until now manageable regional and linguistic issues. They say, “Tyesto myesto, a drozhzhi russkie” in Ukrainian, meaning, “The dough is local, but the yeast is Russian!”
A federal constitution
In countries which gave a number of ethnicities and linguistic groups within national borders, a federal or quasi federal system is a well-recognised tool to create unity in diversity, holding together the fabric of a single nation state, yet allowing the diversity to bloom in regions.
A federal constitution distributes the powers of a sovereign state among different bodies, both at the centre and in the regions, each coordinate with an independent of others. Federalism entails a definite sacrifice of sovereignty by participating entities to the federal authority, at the same time retaining their own legislatures and governments for certain agreed-upon matters. The constitution lays down the parameters of this division of powers.
Regions, provinces and states within a federation retain their specific identity but renounce certain powers which they could have in favour of the federal body. Differing form a federation, in unitary nations, sovereign power is vested in a single legislative body. A unitary country is where power is undivided. Ukraine up to this time has what can be described as a unitary constitution. That is why the Ukrainians are incensed that the Russia is trying to twist their arms to change to a federal state.
In Sri Lanka, we went through this same process, at the time that the 13th Amendment to the Constitution was enacted. Many said that India was using untoward pressure on the Government of Sri Lanka to impose a federal constitution. However the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka has determined that the 13th Amendment was consistent with the unitary state as the government at the centre had certain specific powers over the provincial councils.
In deciding whether a given constitution is federal or unitary, the amount of power the centre has over the regional legislatures in crucial. Ever since the major political party representing the Tamil minority in the north and east Sri Lanka called itself the Federal Party and demanded a federal constitution, the majority Sinhala people have been consistently opposed to a federal system, preferring a unitary system of government. This, notwithstanding the fact that even leaders like S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike in their early years supported federalism as a probable solution for Sri Lanka’s diversity.
On 17 January 1926, Bandaranaike speaking in Jaffna, under the auspices of the Jaffna Students’ Congress, described the country’s traditional form of government which existed in pre-colonial days as ‘decentralised,’ similar to a loose federation. Bandaranaike explained that the British introduced a centralised form of government, which he said was unsuitable for a country like Ceylon. Bandaranaike said that a federal system based on provincial autonomy would be the only solution to the island’s political challenges.
Prior to this in May and June 1926, Bandaranaike, authored a series of six articles in the Ceylon Morning Leader articulating his views on a federal system of government for Ceylon. In 1927 the British colonial government appointed the Donoughmore Commission to ‘report on the situation in Ceylon and proposals for revision of the constitution’.
The ‘Kandyan Claim’
The Kandyan National Assembly made submissions before the Donoughmore Commission, advocating a federal Ceylon, with three provinces, similar to the administrative arrangement prior to the Colebrooke-Cameron Commission, which had earlier unified the administration of the island.
The Kandyan Sinhala people viewed themselves as a nation and in their submission to the Donoughmore Commission said: “Ours is not a communal claim or a claim for aggrandisement of a few: it is a claim of a nation to live its own life and realise its own destiny. We suggest the creation of a federal state as in the United States of America… A federal system… will enable the respective nationals of the several states to prevent further inroads into their territories and to build up their own nationality.”
The Donoughmore Commission dealt with what they referred to as the ‘Kandyan Claim’ in a separate and distinct chapter of their report. They expressed sympathy for the concerns expressed by the Kandyan Sinhalese but rejected the claim for a federal Ceylon mainly on the basis that the country needed to be united. Ethnic and cultural identity needed to be transcended and what was most important at this stage of Ceylon’s constitutional evolution, leading towards independence from Britain, was a philosophy of a united Ceylonese mentality.
It is interesting to note that in 1938, British colonial civil servant Leonard Woolf, who had served in Ceylon in the district administrations of Kandy, Jaffna and Hambantota, and therefore worked with all communities in all the geographical regions of the country, based on his experience, proposed a Swiss model Cantonal system for Ceylon, with five Cantons, one each for the Kandyan Sinhalese, the Low Country Sinhalese, the Tamils of the north, the Tamils of the east and one for the Tamils of Indian origin.
In April 1951, the Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kadchi at its first national convention articulated the desire of the Tamil people for a federal union with the Sinhalese. In 1957 the Federal Party through the Bandaranaike-Chelvanayagam Pact, agreed to accept proposals for establishing Regional Councils. The pact was later unilaterally abrogated. In 1965 the Dudley-Chelvanayagam pact was entered into to deal with problems faced by Tamil people, but was abandoned after three years without any progress.
In 1970 there was a Constituent Assembly, appointed to formulate a new constitution and the Federal Party proposed a Model Federal Constitution with five separate units: 1. The Raja Rata; 2. The Kandyan Provinces of UVA, Central and Sabaragamuwa; 3. The Southern and Western Provinces; 4. The Northern Province, Trincomalee and Batticaloa Districts and; 5. Ampara. This was rejected by the Constituent Assembly.
In May 1976 the TULF adopted the Vadukkodai Resolution, which marked the commencement of the struggle to establish a separate state of Tamil Eelam. Recent events in Sri Lanka have led to a concentration of power at the centre, in the hands of the Executive Presidency. Constitutional amendments and centrally-driven programs such as Divi Neguma have seen the marginalisation of the second and third tiers of government.
India is an example of a gradual process of federalisation. Nowhere in the Constitution of India is the world ‘federal’ mentioned. India is a Union of States, in which the Constitution delineates the power of each tier of government – the Centre, the States and Panchchayats and Municipalities. The Seventh Schedule of the Constitution of India delimits the subjects to each level of government by three lists.
Indian federalism is unique, in that it is asymmetric. Article 370 makes special provision for the State of Jammu and Kashmir. Article 371 makes special provision for the States of Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Goa, Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland and Sikkim. The President of India by Article 356 can impose President’s Rule on any state, where no party can form a government or where there is violent disturbance. This gave the Centre immense power over the states.
Moreover when the Congress Party controlled both the Central Government and the States, this together with the powerful overwhelming affect of the all India services, the Indian Administrative, Service, the Indian Police Service, the Judicial Service, made the Indian Union for all practical purposes a Unitary State.
However, over time, India has virtually federalised. The first and foremost reason for this was the capture of power in the states by regional political parties. In Tamil Nadu, in Kerala, in Andhra Pradesh, in West Bengal, in Jammu and Kashmir, voters no longer vote for a nationally-dominant party such as the All India Congress or the BJP. Regional satraps, through their state party formations, now control the states. This has resulted in weak coalition government at the centre in Delhi.
The Central Government on Delhi is virtually controlled by political parties controlling the states. In the 2014 Parliamentary elections, which are going on now, it has been predicted that no single party will get an absolute majority. Coalition politics and a weak centre will continue.
Abuse of Article 356
The second reason was the that Supreme Court of India placed severe restrictions on the President of India’s power to dissolve state government and impose President’s Rule using Article 356. The author of India’s constitution, Dr. Ambedkar, Chairman of the Drafting Committee, when commenting on this Article 356, called it the dead letter of the Constitution.
When in the Constituent Assembly discussion on this Article, it was argued that Article 356 is liable to be abused, Dr. Ambedkar responded: “I share the sentiments that such articles will never be called into operation and that they would remain a dead letter. If at all they are brought into operation, I hope the President who is endowed with these powers will take proper precautions before actually suspending the administration of the provinces. I hope the first thing he would do would be to issue a mere warning to a province that has erred that things are not happening in the way that they were intended to happen in the Constitution. If that warning fails, the second thing for him to do will be to order an election allowing the people of the province to settle matters by themselves. It is only when these two remedies fail that he should resort to this article.”
In fact what happened was quite the opposite. Delhi-based central governments advised the President to dissolve state governments opposed to them at will. One is reminded of that famous comment by a British Law Lord of 30 years standing at his farewell speech, that in all his experience on the Bench, there is only one law he absolutely believes in: ‘The Law of Unexpected Consequences’!
Article 356 was probably the most abused Article in the Indian Constitution, until a one-time Chief Minister of Karnataka S.R. Bommai challenged the dissolution of the state government by the President under Article 356, in what has gone down in history as the ‘Bommai Case’. The Supreme Court held that the President’s order dissolving the State Assembly is subject to judicial review. This placed a clear limitation on the central government’s power.
Unitary or Federal question
The question of Unitary or Federal revolves around the question of the powers the central government has over the secondary level institutions.
In practice, constitutions which are unitary in character may undergo changes through legislative amendments brought about through free internal choice, due to the influence of a powerful neighbour. In others the judiciary may through interpretation of the constitution place limits of the centre’s power and thereby federalise a constitutional regime.
Politically by the state level secondary level, electing a political party opposed to the party in power at the centre may place ‘political’ if not legal limits on the unitary nature of the constitution. Also a constitution which has some aspects of devolution may see powers being centralised through later amendments or through centrally-driven programs implemented without a role for provincial and divisional institutions.
In Sri Lanka, today we see a Chief Secretary belonging to the Sri Lanka Administrative Service, challenging the power, through the Judiciary, of the Chief Minister of the Northern Province, controlled by a political party, opposed to the party in power in Colombo.
It is interesting to note that whatever the Judiciary lays down in this regard on chief secretary-chief minister relationships will not be confined only to the Northern Province; it will apply to the relations between all chief secretaries and chief ministers in all nine provinces of Sri Lanka. The Law of Unexpected Consequences at work! No constitutional arrangement, like everything else in this world, is permanent; change is inevitable, driven either by national sentiments, external pressure or judicial interpretation.
Russia is trying to federalise Ukraine through external pressure. On 7 April, after a summit meeting between the US, Russian and Ukrainian Foreign Ministers and the Foreign Policy Chief of the EU, a statement was issued that there was agreement on Ukraine embarking on a process of constitutional reform designed to foster regional autonomy, local self government and the protection of minority rights (federalisation?) among other matters in an inclusive, accountable and transparent manner.
Meanwhile Russian forces are conducting war games near eastern Ukraine’s border. Ukrainian authorities admit they have lost control over eastern Ukraine and the Ukrainian Army is on a war footing.


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In advance of the 2021 legislative sessions, NORML will be providing a more detailed break down of legislative efforts in various states across the nation that are poised to enact significant marijuana reforms next year. This is the first in a series of blogs examining where state-specific reform efforts stand.
With Democrats now holding nearly two-to-one majorities in both chambers, the incoming House Speaker has publicly estimated the chances of lawmakers legalizing adult use marijuana in 2021 at “50-50.”
Most recently, Speaker Ritter committed to having lawmakers place the issue before voters as a ballot referendum should legislators fail to pass legislation next year. He said: “[I]f we do not have the votes, and I’m not raising the white flag, I want to be very clear: We will put something on the board to put to the voters of the state of Connecticut to amend the state constitution to legalize marijuana.”
Lawmakers have previously debated adult-use legalization measures in prior sessions, and Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont has recently promoted the issue, acknowledging: “Right now, [Connecticut is] surrounded by states — New Jersey and Massachusetts — where marijuana is already legal. I don’t need a lot of people driving back and forth across the border. We’re trying to keep people close to home as best we can right now. I think legalizing marijuana — doing that safely and making sure that no poison is laced in — I think is one to keep people closer to home.” He also said previously that reform in the state is “inevitable.”
Connecticut lawmakers introduced marijuana legalization legislation early in 2020, a proposal backed by Gov. Lamont and other high-ranking state officials. The measure received consideration by a key legislative committee, but never advanced.
Connecticut’s legislative session begins on 1/6/21. Lawmakers can pre-file legislation until 12/29/20.
According to statewide polling data, 63 percent of Connecticut residents support ending marijuana prohibition in the state.

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I Slept In Your Arms And It Felt So Right.This is how I felt when I first was held by you, and what I long for the longer we are apart. One day my love, we will be together again and then I will allow myself to relive those first moments when I found I love you.
"A recognition deeper than flesh, beyond the conscious, ordinary awareness of the senses. Almost instinct, the way an animal knows the members of it's pack, a baby knows her mother, two people flood with a mysterious urge to embrace as lovers. How could I have known when I first brought you to me that your body is a veil, that I would want it to fall away and feel the pure element underneath embrace me in return?" (from The Mercy of Thin Air by Ronlyn Domingue rearranged by me to create this passage)
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Prominently featured on Revolt Radio‘s Booth-sponsored Revolutionary Riot Report mixtape series, Nu Revolution duo Kontact & Black Knight are preparing to step into the Eye of the Storm on a collaborative mixtape of their own. On Free, the inaugural leak off the project, the duo let listeners know just how much they treasure their liberty, flowing over a string-led beat by Benny Rome. Craving more? You’ll find what you seek on the twosome’s forthcoming street album, due out July 25.
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The 3rd Annual Rhythm & Blues Music Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony was a major hit in the Motor-City
LaMont Robinson the Founder/CEO of the Official Rhythm & Blues Music Hall of Fame Museum may be in line to be the next Berry Gordy. The 3rd annual 2015 Rhythm & Blues Music Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony in Detroit, MI was a major hit this past weekend at the Charles H. Wright Museum to a sold-out packed house on hand were legends from Motown Duke Fakir of the Four Tops, Martha Reeves, of the Vandals Dennis Edwards of the Temptations, actor/singer Melba Moore. Aretha Franklin was inducted and received The Greatest Vocalist of the 20 Century Award.
The night stared with a stellar tribute to Jackie Wilson. Then the fans saw inductees get inducted into the Official Rhythm & Blues Music Hall of Fame from the likes of The Temptations feat Dennis Edwards, The Contours, The Miracles, Spyder Turner, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Johnnie Taylor, Chuck Jackson, The Undisputed Truth.
Each inductee was inducted with a gold record. Duke Fakir praised Founder/CEO Robinson for the work he has done and the vision he has to honor and to preserve the history of rhythm & blues and its legends.
Founder Robinson said this is a great night and I am happy to see so many of the legends come out to support this event. This is our 3rd induction ceremony were we have inducted over 100 legends to date.
At the end of the induction ceremony The Temptations feat Dennis Edwards and Melba Moore, brought the house down with singing and dancing.


The flexibility of op5 Monitor creates new business opportunities for the Network Operations Center (NOC)
GDM Konsult AB in Sundsvall operates a 24-hour-manned Network Operations Center (NOC). There are currently approximately ten customers connected and they have about 1,100 objects to be monitored. Some time ago, the step was taken to standardize their processes in connection with the Swedish-developed monitoring system op5 Monitor from op5 AB.
“In op5 Monitor, we have found a stable, flexible solution that simplifies our work to a very high degree,”, said Gusten Hoffman, ICT/infrastructure consultant at GDM.
Traditionally, monitoring tools have been so big and complex that they have taken many months to install, learn and get started with in production. So many resources were needed to put basic monitoring in place that the value of the tool is lost before you get started.
op5 Monitor provides a collected overview of the entire IT infrastructure, from hardware to software and services. This applies regardless of whether the services are located on local hardware, are outsourced or are run in virtual environments or as cloud services.
“op5 Monitor is based on a widely distributed open source platform, which means that there are enormous amounts of knowledge and plug-ins available. It is also pretty easy to make your own plug-ins, which gives us great flexibility when we are faced with customer-specific requirements”, said Hoffman.
Since the decision to go for op5 was taken, the producthas been expanded in later releases by new, useful features, including load-balancing and distributed solutions.
“One of our customers has a data center in Asia with a number of offices in the region connected to it. We have set up a distributed poller there that gives us the possibility to compile data in Sundsvall on availability and response times between the data center and the connected offices”, said Hoffman enthusiastically.
An example of the flexibility is a customer whose website had performance problems. GDM could, with the help of op5 and a web injector, make measurements over time and then present in detail what went wrong. This means that op5 is used not only as a monitoring platform, but also for troubleshooting.
One of GDM’s customers is SCA Forest Products, who use op5 Monitor to monitor approximately 1,600 objects in its network. Switches, routers and firewalls, but also servers, services and approximately. 350 forest machines (harvesters) communicating via the GSM network.
SCA Forest Products has outsourced the monitoring of about 300 objects to GDM, who now act on alarms according to set SLA’s. Measures are taken according to predetermined criteria and are escalated as needed to duty technicians at SCA via e-mail and SMS alarms.
SCA previously worked with several distributed monitoring tools, which in 2008 were replaced by op5 Monitor. This meant that everything was gathered in one system, with total overview and uniform working methods.
“One important advantage is that op5 Monitor has an interface that everyone can work with. Those who monitor networks, servers and services get the presentation in a way that suits them, while industrial operators have their own screens with their specific views”, said Marcus Holmberg, who is technically responsible for networks and communication at SCA Forest Products.
Adaptation to a changing infrastructure
“The infrastructure changes all the time, which means that we continually have to adapt our monitoring. op5 provides good flexibility in this regard. We appreciate above all the possibility of being able build up reciprocal relations between different objects, which facilitates the isolation of errors enormously”.
“Another advantage is early warnings. For example, you can see whether a fan in a server breaks down, so it can be taken care of before the damage spreads. op5 Monitor also collects operational statistics that give you a good picture of how individual objects have functioned over time. You can zoom in on objects and get graphs drawn during the desired period of time”, Marcus continued.
SCA is now facing a major upgrade of its monitoring system. With the support of GDM, they will raise the general performance of the system and make it redundant using double monitoring servers. Part of the picture is that SCA, with its high demands on availability, has double data rooms.
“When we get a job like this, op5 gives us good support. They are well up on their field and are also sensitive to our wishes”, concluded Gusten Hoffman.
About GDM Konsult AB
GDM, which is an op5 Professional Partner, has been an IT supplier to the forest and paper industry in central Norrland since 1992. They are well-schooled in industrial thinking and understand the importance of maintaining a production-critical IT environment. Today, they work with customers in everything from the forest and process industry, national, municipal and property-based activities to pure IT consultancy companies with GDM as a strategic operational partner. See www.gdm.se


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A collection of photos that explore the human geometry of our urban environment. All of the angles, equations, lines, networks and systems that we install to organize our day-to-day.
If you're a more tactile person, I have this series available as a book. Just click here for more info. Artificial Perfection Book.

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Kid Konnection: Remarkable
Everyone in the town of Remarkable is, well, remarkable, except for Jane Doe and her grandfather John. No one has time for Jane because everyone’s so busy pursuing their talents. All the students in Remarkable attend the gifted school, except for Jane. She is the lone student at Remarkable’s public school until the Grimlet twins are suspended from the gifted school and forced to join her there. The twins’ schemes cause a lot of chaos, reveal long held secrets, and help Jane realize her strength.
I started Remarkable, by Lizzie K. Foley, with high hopes that were probably unrealistic, so I was a little disappointed. I thought the premise sounded fun, and it is, for a while, but I got tired of some of the silliness about half way through. At times, it felt like the book was trying too hard to be whimsical. Young readers may not feel that way, though.
I think the thing that bothered me the most about the book was that while everyone was extraordinarily talented, they were also extraordinarily self absorbed and looked down on others who didn’t share their talent. Maybe that was the point of the book – to show young readers that a lack of compassion isn’t attractive. Jane does figure some things out, but it seemed to me that her talent wasn’t appreciated like it should have been.
Even though I didn’t love this book like I’d hoped to, I think it might appeal to young readers more than it did to me – I have a feeling I’m too old to really get it. I did appreciate Foley’s writing and think she has a talent for whimsy, so I look forward to reading her next book.
For more children’s books reviews, go to Booking Mama’s feature, Kid Konnection. If you’d like to participate in Kid Konnection and share a post about anything related to children’s books (picture, middle grade, or young adult) from the past week, leave a comment as well as a link on her site.


TV advertisers are well familiar with the “Upfronts,” events where broadcast television stations showcased their up-and-coming shows and seasonal line-ups to media and advertisers in order to secure advertising for premium primetime slots. The Upfronts have been around since 1962. But the NewFronts are gaining in momentum.
Much like their counterpart, the Upfronts, the Newfronts are a way to draw in advertising dollars. Media companies present their digital content over a series of events in May to a select audience of advertisers. Publicis Groupe’s Digitas is credited with creating the first “NewFront” in 2012. It was billed as a “programmatic upfront” event, and AOL, Digitas, Hulu, Google/YouTube, Microsoft Advertising, and Yahoo!, the largest players in the game at that time, joined in to host. Today, leading media publications such as Adweek, Digiday and Ad Age give as much weight to the Newfronts as they do the Upfronts.
Did you know that the average TV viewer in 2021 had 5 or more streaming subscriptions?1 If you look at the graph below, that number has steadily increased since 2018. This is probably due to both more streaming options becoming available and the increase of culturally relevant and prestige TV being offered exclusively through streaming services.
Take, for example, the viral Netflix docuseries, “Tiger King.” The show was exclusively on Netflix and spawned a flurry of memes, media commentary and is currently being adapted into a dramedy starring SNL’s Kate McKinnon. Hulu exclusive, The Handmaid’s Tale, is also a pop culture mainstay. With passionate voters on both sides of the aisle invoking it to illustrate their political concerns.
The ultimate point being that in 2022, consumers need access to some kind of streaming service in order to participate in pop culture. The same just cannot be said for broadcast television in this particular moment. Just as the number of streaming subscribers is consistently rising, the number of people canceling their cable subscriptions is steadily increasing. In 2019, 4.9 million people canceled their cable subscriptions and in 2020, 5.1 million followed suit. Experts predict that around 5 million will “cut the cord” in 2022.2 CTV is also the preferred channel for younger consumers. With studies finding that nearly all Americans aged 25-34 access TV content through the internet and 90% of them prefer to stream content.3
Someday there might not be a difference between the two. The rise of CTV and streaming services means that the wall between the two forms of entertainment might fall. In fact, it’s already started. Streaming giant Hulu announced they would participate in the Upfronts, instead of the Newfronts in 2022.4
In 2021, advertising revenue reached $52.9 billion for non-linear video achieved across CTV devices5 and companies are looking to grab their share of the pie in 2022.
Want to learn more about how to advertise on CTV and get your brand noticed? Download our CTV advertising playbook and sign up for our CTV webinar on June 15th.
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Porter is very solid and has produced the best companions for the families that have added one of his kids to their home.
Porter will be “visiting” the following female poodles in 2015 and producing our wonderful Malt-Poo’s.
This is Dottie West. In 2014 Porter and Dottie had a beautiful family of 2 girls and 2 boys. Each one has a wonderful family of their own now.
Dottie and Porter repeated their past love affair with the “kids” that arrived in May 2015.
These Malti-Poo grow to about 8 pounds as an adult.
Miss “Ruby Dee” toy poodle is expecting her last family March 7, 2016. After her time at mommy-hood she will be retired and selecting a family to share her life with.. Ruby is a little spoiled and sleeps in bed with Elaine. She is on the lap each time someone sits down.. She never met a stranger she didn’t like and is not “yappy”. BUT she will chase and harass a cat!! So if you have a feline child please do not apply to give Ruby her forever home.
Ruby will be spayed by Veranah Pet Hospital and up to date on all vaccines when adopted.
This is our lovely Miss Emmy Lou – She is our Charcoal colored Toy Poodle.
Emmy sleeps in bed with her people every night and is the sweetest, most loving and devoted of all the “kids” (we don’t share this info with the others).
Lori looks white but has areas of cream. Her mom was white and her dad is apricot. Lori and Elaine look forward to your visits as the new litters grow up.
Introducing “Miss Minnie Pearl” , female toy white poodle (8 pounds).

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Age at diagnosis: 30
I am: My parents eldest daughter , a granddaughter , a sibling and an auntie.
Ovarian cancer stage/type: Stage 1C Low-Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer
The cancer was found when:
In 2021 I started noticing frequent bloating and urinary frequency . I told myself that the bloating wasn’t real “my body is just built this way”. I recall thinking my body was just changing with age. The urinary frequency I put down to the weather – “ it’s just cold today” and the best thing I told myself was “ It’s all in my mind”.
Nevertheless I visited my GP and after some discussion I was given a referral for an internal ultrasound. I put this off for a few months but eventually went in – to be told I had bilateral complex ovarian cysts. Not suspicious enough to warrant immediate attention, it was recommended I wait approximately 8 weeks for another internal ultrasound to see if these “complex cysts” had rectified on their own. They had not . I had also requested a CA-125 test to check my tumour marker levels – which returned as slightly elevated .
This prompted my GP to refer me to a gynaecologist, due to the pandemic and restrictions in place, I wasn’t seen until 5 months later. I was eventually seen by a gynaecologist who told me the risk of anything concerning was low according to the online “Risk of Malignancy Index” tool.
I was offered a bilateral ovarian cystectomy purely due to the fact I had painful periods. I remember thinking I shouldn’t have the surgery and that there wasn’t any point in putting my body through that. Well… I’m glad I did . Three months later I had surgery where my left
ovarian cyst was removed. My right ovarian cyst could not be found. After surgery I received a phone call that my complex cyst was in fact a serous borderline ovarian tumour (sBOT). I was referred to a gynecologic oncology team who explained that sBOTS aren’t cancer but have the potential to turn into low-grade serous ovarian cancer.
I had another internal ultrasound to help identify what our next surgical plan was to be . At this stage my right ovary still showed a mass. After I had a recurrence on my left ovary I underwent another cystectomy aiming to remove the masses from both ovaries, but unfortunately my right mass was “not there” again, whilst my left ovarian mass returned as a sBOT.
I remember feeling defeated and saying to myself that I couldn’t do another surgery . My oncology team were recommending I remove my left ovary and keep my right ovary as imaging reports indicated it was a complex cyst. I strongly disagreed with this and told them I didn’t think I should keep my right ovary, as I had a feeling it was something more.
Two months went by, and I had another internal ultrasound. This time I was told the mass on my right ovary looked suspicious. So for the 3rd time in 18 months I underwent surgery, this time to remove my right ovary .
Four days after my surgery I had a call from my surgeon. They said “ I’m so glad we opted to remove your ovary, it has come back as low-grade serous ovarian cancer”. I told her “ I’m not surprised, to be honest I’ve prepared for this “.
My oncology team sent me for a PET scan to find out what stage I was. Prior to the scan I recall asking whether my low-grade serous ovarian cancer was there the entire time. They didn’t know, but were confident it was confined to my ovary. The duration from asking that question to the day of my PET scan was 6 weeks. Those 6 weeks were pretty tough, I found out I had Stage 1C.
What I want people to know about ovarian cancer:
Ovarian cancer can affect woman of any age. Don’t ignore symptoms associated with ovarian cancer. Voice your concerns and if you’re not heard find a doctor who will listen.
The biggest challenges about ovarian cancer:
The biggest challenge for me throughout my ovarian cancer journey was making future plans. I was fortunate in this unfortunate diagnosis that the cancer was confined to my ovary, so fertility sparing treatments were an option.
Any good things about the diagnosis:
The only good thing that has come from my diagnosis is that some of my family have rekindled their relationship in support of me . This means more to me than they’ll ever know.
My hope for the future:
I hope myself and other woman touched by ovarian cancer can live a life without the stress of reoccurrence . Some days a random sharp pelvic pain is enough to alter my mood for the rest of the day. I understand there are currently promising treatments for low-grade serous ovarian cancer, so I suppose my hope for the future is that front line medical staff like GPs and gynecologists are better educated and equipped in identifying and considering the possibility of ovarian cancer in younger woman.
What I would say to someone else going through this:
Being diagnosed with ovarian cancer is scary. It forces us to consider future plans and places us in a state of uncertainty . I suggest not looking too far into the future, try stay in the present and do things to help ground yourself. Your mental wellbeing will be tried so take care of that.

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Avenue President Vargas
For: Larcio Becker, of Curitiba-PR Morales of los Rivers Son informs that the industry of roofing tiles and first bricks was one of a if to establish in Rio De Janeiro. Before this, the first roofing tiles of Rio De Janeiro, used in the sentry boxes of the bastion of the Old Village, had come of Are Vicente. After that, the inhabitants had started to use to advantage the satiated existing raw material in the region. First in the edges throughout the Carioca river. Later in the river Catumbi, the island of the Governor, the barrier of the franciscanos, the lagoon Rodrigo de Freitas, the Topsail etc. Brazil Gerson he defends that the pottery that gave to name to the station age of property of Antonio Gonalves Rome, father of general Aparcio Gonalves Rome. However, other sources indicate another origin.
He consists that, for 1820 return, Francisco Jose Pear tree I water bought lands that went of the Way of the Matrix (currently, streets Diomedes Trota the Itarar) until the immediacy of the Church of the Penha. There, it and its wife, Clear D., if dedicated to agriculture and the cattle one, until they had decided, with aid of children Antonio, Joo and Joaquin, to use to advantage the red adobe and the rocks of good quality to install two potteries: a ware producer, another one of roofing tiles. Therefore, the region was known as of potteries. some streets of the quarter had gained the name of members of the family. Up to 1892, it only had an official abatedouro in Rio De Janeiro, that was in Santa Cruz. The meat came for train (of EF D. Peter II) until the Cold storage room Is Diogo, that was where today it is the Avenue President Vargas. It was then that the trader Custdio Nunes got of the city hall the permission to abate cattle for its aougue.


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Statement by Senate Democratic Leader Zach Wahls
on Texas Abortion Ban
“Earlier this week, Governor Reynolds issued a statement saying, ‘I believe and trust in Iowans to make the best health decisions for themselves and their families. I will continue to support individual liberty over government mandates.’
“The truth is that Governor Reynolds and legislative Republicans have consistently undermined the freedom of Iowans to make their own health care decisions. Today’s news from Texas puts the right to abortion at risk in Iowa and other states.
“The Roe decision ended a horrific chapter of American history and affirmed the freedom of all women to make their own decisions about their bodies and lives without interference from politicians. It’s time for Iowans to make their voices heard in opposition to the extreme laws supported by Governor Reynolds and legislative Republicans.”

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Codon optimization reveals critical factors for high level expression of two rare codon genes in Escherichia coli: RNA stability and secondary structure but not tRNA abundance
2004 (English)In: Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications - BBRC, ISSN 0006-291X, E-ISSN 1090-2104, Vol. 313, no 1, 89-96 p.Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Expression patterns in Escherichia coli of two small archaeal proteins with a natural content of about 30% rare codons were analyzed. The proteins, a histone-like protein from Sulfolobus shibatae (Ssh10), and a glutaredoxin-like protein from Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum (mtGrx), were produced with expression plasmids encoding wild-type genes, codon-optimized synthetic, and GST-fusion genes. These constructs were expressed in BL21 (DE3), its LysS derivative, and modified strains carrying copies for rare codon tRNAs or deletions in the RNAseE gene. Both Ssh10 and mtGrx expression levels were constitutively high in BL21(DE3) and its derivatives, with the exception of the LysS phenotype, which prevented high level expression of the Ssh10 wild-type gene. Surprisingly, a codon-optimized mtGrx gene construct displayed undetectable levels of protein production. The translational block observed with the synthetic mtGrx gene could be circumvented by using a synthetic mtGrx-glutathione S-transferase (GST) fusion construct or by in vitro translation. Taken together, the results underscore the importance of mRNA levels and RNA stability, but not necessarily tRNA abundance for efficient heterologous protein production in E. coli.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2004. Vol. 313, no 1, 89-96 p.
Archaeal proteins, Fusion protein, Heterologous protein expression, Rare codon gene, RNA stability, Structural genomics, bacterial protein, bacterial RNA, glutaredoxin, glutathione transferase, histone, messenger RNA, ribonuclease, transfer RNA, article, codon, controlled study, Escherichia coli, expression vector, fusion gene, gene construct, gene deletion, gene expression, genetic analysis, Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum, nonhuman, plasmid, priority journal, protein secondary structure, RNA translation, Sulfolobus, wild type, Artificial Gene Fusion, Circular Dichroism, Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial, Genes, Archaeal, Methanobacterium, Protein Biosynthesis, Protein Structure, Secondary, Recombinant Fusion Proteins, RNA, Messenger, RNA, Transfer, Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization, Archaea, Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus, Sulfolobus shibatae
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
IdentifiersURN: urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-23241DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2003.11.091ISI: 000187745900015PubMedID: 14672702ScopusID: 2-s2.0-0346850783OAI: oai:DiVA.org:sh-23241DiVA: diva2:715600

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Kelly joined MHBC in 2015. Prior to joining MHBC, Kelly worked as a policy planner for a regional municipality where she worked as part of a multi-disciplinary team to complete long range planning projects including a comprehensive employment lands strategy and an affordable housing strategy. Kelly provides urban and regional planning, analysis and research support for all aspects of the firm's activities, having worked on a variety of projects for municipalities and private sector clients throughout Southern Ontario. She has experience in preparing due diligence reports, planning justification reports, planning assessment and evaluation reports, secondary plans and policy studies. She also has experience coordinating the submission and approval of various planning applications including Official Plan Amendments, Zoning By-law Amendments, Minor Variances and Site Plan Approvals. Kelly has successfully completed a number of major redevelopment projects in Hamilton, Oakville, Burlington and Mississauga as well as significant policy projects for municipalities in Niagara and Halton Region.
Kelly received an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Geography from McMaster University in 2011 and Master of Urban and Regional Planning from Queen’s University in 2013.


The Greening of the Labor Movement
Author: Gregory N. Heires
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The New Crossroads
Thousands of union members participated in Sunday’s People’s Climate March, which is believed to be the largest demonstration by environmental activists ever to take place in the United States.
National, statewide and local unions played a big role in organizing the New York City march, and unions contributed significant resources to guarantee its success.
A New Movement?
Green activists are hopeful that the march marks the beginning of a movement that will unite a broad alliance of labor, community and traditional environmental groups dedicated to protecting the environment. Unionists who marched say the demonstration shows that the decades-old division between environmentalists and labor over the issue of jobs is finally breaking down.
“I would hope that a new movement will grow out of this,” said Jon Forster, a vice president of District Council 37, the largest public-employee union in New York City. Forster, who heads the union’s newly formed Climate Change Committee, worked with the 70 unions that helped organize the march.
“Building new community alliances is important, not only for creating jobs to but also to address social justice issues,” he said. “Climate change discriminates. Hurricane Sandy hurt the city’s minority and poor communities disproportionately.”
“This is really a class issue,” said Joshua Barnett, who works for the New York City Pubic Housing Authority. “The communities of New York City are unequally affected by asthma and pollution. The highest percentage of garbage dumps, sewage treatment plants and lead paint are in poor communities.”
Labor activists gathered for a lively rally at Broadway and 57th Street before the march kicked off in the late morning. Organizers estimated 350,000 workers, parents and children, human rights and peace advocates, youths, students, people of faith, politicians, celebrities and community activists participated the march, which filled dozens of blocks and extended over 2 miles until the demonstrators gathered between 34th and 38th streets for a block party.
Union leaders and rank-and-file members underscored how climate change is an existential issue for workers.
“Our members work and live in the coastal cities of the East of the United States,” said Hector Figueroa, who is the president of Local 32BJ, which has 145,000 members, who work in the city’s buildings as cleaners, maintenance laborers, security officers, window cleaners, building engineers and doormen. “They all are at risk with climate change.”
As noted by Figueroa, buildings account for a significant part of the city’s gas emission and electrical output. The local, an affiliate of Services Employees International Union, set up a training program for its supervisors to make the buildings they work in more environmentally friendly by conserving water and using electricity more efficiently.
Henry Garrido, an associate director of DC 37, which is an affiliate of the American State, Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, recalled how Hurricane Sandy devastated the union’s downtown headquarters, which was closed for nine months because of damage. Many DC 37 members were among the thousands of residents displaced by the hurricane.
But while DC 37 members were direct victims of the storm, they also were on the frontlines in helping residents, Garrido said.
EMS workers tended to people injured in the storm. Members in the public hospitals evacuated patients. Social workers and clerical employees ran shelters. And mobile libraries became outposts to help residents of storm-ravaged communities charge their cell phones, learn about emergency services, and find shelter and shower facilities.
The Profit-Motive Leads to Environmental Devastation
Some unionists expressed little hope that climate change is possible without significant political and economic changes.
Barbara Bowen, president of the Professional Staff Congress, which represents professors and other staff in the city’s public universities and colleges, said that because “capitalism cannot solve the climate problem,” it is up the unions to be a leading force in advocating the public policy and economic changes that are needed to deal with environmental problems.
“It’s our for-profit system that will lead to the devastation of our planet,” Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez, president of the New York State Nurses Association. She recalled that the administration of former Mayor Michael Bloomberg was unprepared for Hurricane Sandy in 2012. It was up to public employees like nurses and community activist groups like Occupy Sandy to come to the aid of residents in the first week after the storm, she said.
Stanley Sturgill, a retired underground coal miner from Kentucky, was one of the speakers at the People’s Climate March press conference in the morning.
“We have already lost thousands of jobs,” Sturgill responded when asked about the historic rift between labor and environmentalists over the issue of jobs. His observation suggested that with the decline of traditional industry, the union movement is better off focusing on creating green jobs and other employment.
Organizers of the march pointed out that 20 percent of the world’s electricity now comes from clean energy sources. Uruguay, Norway and Germany have adopted carbon-free policies. In May, Germany reached a landmark when nearly 75 percent of its peak power demand was met by renewable sources of energy.
In the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency seeks to cut carbon dioxide emissions of coal plants by 30 percent by 2030. Nearly 200 coal-fired plans have closed in the United States.
More than 1,500 organizations organized the People’s Climate March in New York City. On Sunday, more than 2,700 marches took place around the world.
The People’s Climate March was timed to pressure world leaders who will gather this week at the United Nations for a climate summit. The meeting will set the groundwork for the Paris United Nations Climate Summit in 2015, when world leaders are supposed to sign a new international climate treaty.
Fight Corporate Greed by Creating Green Jobs
“In New York City, labor can help create new programs to protect our infrastructure, protect the environment and develop alternate sources of energy,” said Juan Fernandez, president of DC 37’s Local 154, whose members include human rights workers. The city’s big public sector—with engineers, scientists, public health workers and emergency services workers—is uniquely qualified to help the city become safer by adopting green policies and projects to help protect the infrastructure of the local economy, according to labor activists like Fernandez.
“Labor is always on the frontline when there is a disaster,” said Jeremy Sanders, president of Zoological Employees Local 1501, whose members include workers at the world-famous Bronx Zoo. “We are going to be on the ground when the next disaster hits. Without the public employees, the city would grind to a halt.”
“We have to fight greed and create green jobs,” said Natasha Isma, who heads a committee of young activists in Local 1549, which represents city clerical workers.
“We need more environmental-friendly products. We have to protect our children and our children’s children. If we don’t act, we’re not going to have any planet left.”


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Despite the fact this year’s show clashed with Hannover Messe (visited by President Obama) and Nepcon China in Shanghai, Mesago Messe Frankfurt GmbH managed to host a strong event at SMT Nuremberg, as it colloquially known.
Exhibit numbers were a little lower because of the event clashes, but visitor numbers appeared strong. Occupying 26.200 m² of exhibition space, the event hosted 420 exhibitors and 36 represented companies, attracting approximately 15,000 visitors.
On the show floor, many companies displayed a wide range of innovative new technologies, despite the fact that most are working on extended lead times.
ASM ASSEMBLY SYSTEMS announced the opening of their Competence Centre in Munich. Customers can bring boards and NPI products to trial them in a real-time environment, before introducing them into production at their own facilities.
MIRTEC announced they were going direct to manufacturers in the UK and Ireland. “The European headquarters are in Plymouth, UK and it makes sense to work directly with customers in this territory”, said David Bennet, Managing Director, Mirtec
Europe. Bennet also claimed they had almost sold out of their MV-6 special allocation and were considering whether to repeat the popular offer.
KURTZ ERSA introduced their novel void reduction system, currently used in their reflow ovens to their rework systems. The system can easily be added to rework stations in the field and uses the high frequency oscillation to remove virtually all voids from soldered devices. This is particularly useful in rework as manual assembly attracts a much higher level of voiding than automatic systems.
FUJI displayed a new bulk feeder cassette that inserts into the head assembly, removing the need for reels, tapes and potential lost components.
ESSEMTEC had two new major innovations. The Fox pick and place machine can have up to 180 feeder lanes, needs only 1sqm of floor space and can process PCB’s of up to 305 x 406 mm. The Spyder is a fast jet and general dispenser, rated for up to 150 000 dots per hour. It dispenses 3D patterns, lines and a variety of dot sizes.
YAMAHA exhibited the YSM-20 mounter, which is now 20% faster. The other new product on the stand was the Vi AOI system.
REHM exhibited a range of new and existing technologies. These included their vacuum technology used in reflow to eliminate up to 98% of voids. The vacuum technology also extends to their Condenso vapor phase system, which provides optimum uniformity of solder joints and interconnections. Rehm also introduced a new LED dispensing and curing line on a small footprint and a new range of thermal chambers called Securo – and Securo +which has a load and unload cycle time of 15 seconds.
JASON SPERA, President and CEO at Aegis Corporation has been appointed Chairman of the newly form IPC committee for Smart Factory automation. This key new committee is tasked with specifying and establishing a standard for electronics factory integration. The committee will start by tightly defining what Industry 4.0/Smart Factory automation comprises for electronics manufacturing companies.
Bob Willis hosted the IPC REWORK CHALLENGE. This was the third in the Series, following its introduction at NEW 2016, in Birmingham, UK and the electronics show in Stockholm, Sweden last week.
SEHO SYSTEMS introduced a novel new pre-fluxer unit that uses a plasma technology to apply dry flux to specific areas of the board prior to going through the wave soldering machine. The pre-fluxer is very precise and boards do not need to be cleaned after soldering. SEHO also demonstrated some improvements to their latest wave soldering machine, including individually controlled pre-heating elements, independent dual solder pots and underside inspection of solder joints and bar codes.
TRANSITION AUTOMATION released the latest squeegee blades for the H.I.T. Automation stencil printers for LED applications. The blades traverse the boards from left to right. Transition Automation have their full range of blades available through their new German distributor, ANS GmbH.
INVENTEC promoted their range of non-toxic acrylic conformal coatings and their latest range of UV cured coatings for LED applications, capable of providing varied coating thicknesses.
SMT WERTHEIM demonstrated three versions of their successful CUBE thermal test chambers, which are used for testing loaded board assemblies that operate in harsh conditions, such as the automotive environment. The three chambers offer a hot function test, a cold function test and a room temperature test.
PANASONIC focused on their total line solution. At APEX the company showcased a wide number of partners that can connect their equipment to the PanaCIM software hub to integrate with a Total Line Solution. At SMT/Hybrid/Packaging they had a similar theme, but with European partner companies.
VISCOM promoted their 3D AOI systems which capture greater amounts of data and detail from the 8 angular cameras, providing a holistic view of the device or component under inspection.
NORDSON DAGE launched their latest x-ray system called the Quadra 7, their 4th generation x-ray fitted with a new tube offering 100nm resolution at up to 10 watts. The new closed tube has a warrantied lifespan of 5,000 hours. The Quadra also has a new 7 megapixel detector, an updated sample carrier system and new software platform based on Windows 10 technology.
SMT/Hybrid/Packaging 2017 will make a hall change next year to the west side of the exhibition centre and will be held alongside Mesago’s sister event, PCIM on May 16-18. Let’s hope it will be a little warmer next year!


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Description: (Foreword by Warren W. Wiersbe) Great Cloud of Witnesses by E.W. Bullinger is a classic exposition that includes an examination of the great heroes of the faith. Full of rich, practical applications. In this excellent and truly classic exegetical study, distinguished scholar E. W. Bullinger examines great heroes of the faith: Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, and many others. Their shining examples show believers today how faith can be lived daily and purposefully. In Great Cloud of Witnesses, Bullinger provides a trustworthy and encouraging read that will strengthen the minds and hearts of preachers and followers alike.
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As tensions between President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson continue to spill out into the public, the administration appears to be readying a substantial shake-up.
According to Axios, the White House is still considering replacing Tillerson with CIA Director Mike Pompeo, but now a loyal supporter of the president has emerged as a top candidate as Pompeo's replacement: Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.).
Trump views Cotton as a rare ally in the Senate, according to the report. The pair speaks regularly, and the president often takes the senator's advice.
Cotton recently threw his weight behind the president amid the controversy over Tillerson, urging anyone in Trump's cabinet to resign if they have issues with the administration's agenda.
“When you're a cabinet member, when you're a senior adviser in the White House, and the president is right, you should help him achieve his objectives and run with his thinking,” Cotton said, adding if you disagree and ”you feel strongly enough, then you have to resign.”
MSNBC and conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt told Axios that the swap would make sense because both Pompeo and Cotton “like and listen to the president” and “accept his realism in foreign affairs.”
Tillerson over the weekend again refused to definitively refute calling Trump a “moron,” instead blasting CNN's Jake Tapper for “making a game” out of the controversy.
“I'm not making a game out of it,” Tapper fired back. “I'm trying to seek clarity because saying that if I said that my boss was a moron, that would be a serious issue.”
“I'm not dignifying the question with an answer, Jake,” Tillerson said, dodging whether he questioned his boss's intelligence. “I'm a little surprised you want to spend so much time on it when there are so many important issues around the world to deal with.”


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