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Food is an important instrument of culture, the beginning of sharing. The Kitchen of Diversity thus becomes an open workshop for exchanging ideas, habits and opinions. An informal impulse that connects people and brings them together. It functions as a platform for confronting experiences regarding migrations from other parts of Europe.
The Kitchen of Diversity will find its physical home in the Benčić complex, in the new Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. It represents specific cultural programmes of national and other minorities, learning about different cultures, cooperation between religious communities, a place to meet travellers, and more.
We need the kitchen because contemporary Europe is faced with the trauma of migration which presents a challenge for the Union. We must build the capacities to learn how to ethically and efficiently manage the migration waves flowing into European cities. Culture is the true response for the challenge of migrations because it allows us to contemplate the issue from different perspectives – nomadic, cosmopolitan, subcultural, as well as ethnic and religious.
Impulse: Millions are on the move. Wars, natural disasters, poverty and political oppression are forcing them on the road, but some are also motivated by curiosity and a desire for adventure. Employment, family and educational opportunities are the main reasons for migrations, the most powerful factors in our unstable geopolitical environment.
The experience of crossing the border and starting a new life is not a new thing in human history. Rijeka used to be the departure point for emigrants moving to the Americas in the early 20th century. As a port city, an important maritime centre for Central Europe, Rijeka was witness to a massive wave of emigration to the New World. Once known as Fiume, it has always been a city balancing between Italian and Croatian influence. After World War II, a period that was a huge turning point for the city and for Europe, more than fifty thousand citizens, mostly Italians, moved away as part of the so called Istrian exodus. The people of Rijeka became migrant workers in Northern Europe, seeking better jobs and better conditions. At the same time, Rijeka became an important immigration destination in the region because of the growing industry.
Rijeka knows the story of diversity and the loss of home well.


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This is one of these edits that I'd always said i would do... Such a perfect summer track but 2'30 is a bit short, especially when it shines like gold. Despite its original title, I haven't turned it into a moody burner. This is sugary pop funk at its best, probably one of the best of that rare breed I had heard in years.
and the best and worse about it ? the (major) label who commisionned it did not give it a full release. As scandalous as the non-release of Pilooski's remix of Jarvis Cocker's 'Angela'. We may come back on this one but in the meantime:
Saturday, 17 July 2010
for the remaining summer days
Labels: beach funk
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Hey IvanReplyDelete
Thanks for the edits! Blog is ace.
Just to say it's a scandal no more. The Pilooski edit was released as Disco Song - the edit is available in 320 quality and for free from his website.
oooppsss... wrong file, the right one will be on in 10 minutes. thanks a lot. still a scandal that the label did not want it...ReplyDelete
great oneReplyDelete
any chance to get the original title ?
I had forgotten the repeat function but this one enjoys my shiny days. Start replay!..ReplyDelete
Blinder - great great tune. Would love to hear a set of just these kind of sounds...ReplyDelete
Thank you Ivan. This is brilliant.ReplyDelete
Not at all what I was expecting, really like it (thanks). xReplyDelete
anyone know what this is / was?ReplyDelete
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I can't seem to get my pneumatics to shoot a 2" spud as far as my two largest combustion cannons ,even using the same barrel a 5' by 2" ,they interchange, If I had a faster valve I believe it could be accomplished.
When shooting smaller object like marbles ,rubber balls,lug nut etc. the pneumatic is 4 or 5 times more dangerous.
The pneumatic might need a longer barrel to deliver its full potential.
get that guitar out of your ass. pnumaticscan be more powerful but they are expensive and more complicated where as a inexpensive combustion can be much more powerful than an equally expencive pnumatic
Where is your head?
Besides, why bother reply to a topic that hasn't been posted in for 6 months.
its been answered how much psi to use, but who do you tell how much psi is in there. Will the pump you use tell you or can a gauge be added. If so How do you install a gauge to this gun.
Yeah PCGUY didnt make it he just posted it as admin. The desgin is all over the web.
i forgot but can u hook up propane to this im sure u can but i forgot sorry if its a noob question but i kinda need to know
there is a button up the top of the screen ok. it says search. its between rules and chat. the reason you mite not get many replys is because these questions have been thoroughly answered many times before. just try a search mate. not having a go at you but thats wat its there for ok.
and if you are a 'noob' i think it would be wise not to mess with compressed air. because there is alot of danger involved.
and if you don't understand a sprinkler valve why ask how to make a semi auto.
try a search. then just make a very simple pneumatic cannon and work up from there. if you start trying to make a semi auto you will spoil your fun with it because it would be very hard and confusing.
good luck
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Studiosproutsantacruz needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 75 designs submitted by 16 freelance designers.
Studio Sprout
Studio Sprout is a children's art studio and discovery garden. Studio Sprout in Santa Cruz is a fun place where toddlers can experience art and garden classes. At Studio Sprout, we provide a welcoming and fun environment equipped with all sorts of innovative art and garden activities for toddlers where experimentation is encouraged. Our ultimate goal is to provide projects and activities that are fun for kids.
This will primarily be used on website header for http://www.studiosproutsantacruz.com
Also on postcard marketing.
I am open to incorporating some art object like a paintbrush.
Also incorporating the name into the graphic of the Sprout....for instance it could connect to the S, but this is just an idea at this point.
The target audience will primarily be women, mothers, btwn 25-45 years old. They will be looking for art projects or art classes for their children.
The tagline for the header is:
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Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Guy Wehman of WENG-AM Suncoast Live Interviews Dr. Paul Ruggieri.
Dr. Ruggieri spoke with Guy Wehman about Joan River's routine throat operation and how it should have been a non-event. They also discuss the Affordable Care Act, his new book and life as a surgeon.
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Curtis Axel (Previously Michael McGillicutty) Net Worth
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Source of Wealth:Wrestling, WWE
Birth Place:Champlin, Minnesota
Marital Status:Married
Full Name:Joseph Curtis "Joe" Hennig
Date of Birth:October 1, 1979
Occupation:Professional Wrestler
About Joseph Curtis "Joe" Hennig
Curtis Axel is the ring name of an American professional wrestler in the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) who has an estimated net worth of $2 million. Born Joseph Curtis "Joe" Hennig on October 1, 1979 in Champlin, Minnesota, he earned his net worth as a professional wrestler. He was a member of The Nexus and the WWE Tag Team Championships with his tag team partner David Otunga.
He made his professional debut on July 13, 2007 in Waterloo, Iowa for World League Wrestling (WLW) with Ted DiBiase Jr. to defeat Dinn T. Moore and Brandum Tatum by disqualification. He later went on a nine-month winning streak in LWL before he suffered his first single loss to "Wild" Wade Chism. Hennig previously wrestled at their developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW) and was part of the second season of WWE NXT.
Joe Hennig is a third generation professional wrestler. He is the grandson of Larry "The Axe" Hennig and the son of "Mr. Perfect" Curt Hennig who are both professional wrestlers. His sister Amy is also a professional wrestler. He and his wife had a son named Brock in 2009. He enjoys ice fishing and fantasy football. In the 2011 National Football League (NFL) season, he won the WWE Magazine's Fantasy Football League. He has trained with The Rock to prepare for The Rock's WWE Championship match against CM Punk at the Royal Rumble. He has also trained with Brock Lesnar to prepare for Lesnar's match against Triple H at WrestleMania 9.
In 2013 he was rebranded as Curtis Axel, a mix of his father's name "Curt", and his grandfather's nickname "The Axe".


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Happy Mother's Day!
And not just to the mom's that have kids, I wish every women out there that has every hugged, encouraged, uplifted or helped another human being a Happy Mother's Day, because really, you are mothers too. We women are good at mothering when we show kindness and encouragement.
Also, Just a reminder while I haven't done a lot of posts on here, my Etsy shop is still open. We are heading into wedding season and I've been making a lot of these:
And for my local peeps, I'm excited about this one, August can't come soon enough!
Front with Temple and back with name and date!
I've also still be crafting up some bots. Sorry for the photo, this was just shot with my phone. I call him my They Might Be Giants bot as he has a "little bird house in his soul!" This guy was given away as a gift but if you'd like a robot of your own, I do take custom orders through Etsy
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Today we are beyond excited to premiere a brand new track from the soundtrack of the upcoming film Bridge and Tunnel. Slip on your pirate boots and swing your oversized beer-mugs along to Dan Pursino's swashbucklingly sentimental "Wild Hogs" below. While you're at it, check out some commentary below regarding the song's significance to the film from Dan and director of Bridge and Tunnel, Jason Michael Brescia.
Dan Pursino:
"I was on set a few times overnight at the Leaky Lifeboat in Seaford and Stingers in Rockville Centre and I saw what hard work they put into this film, so I wanted to write a song that gave almost a celebration vibe to it for the cast and crew to enjoy. I'm a big fan of the Dropkick Murphy's and Flogging Molly and I know Jason's a huge Andrew WK fan so I wanted to make something that drew from that but also fit with the seafaring theme that possesses much of the soundtrack."
Jason Michael Brescia:
"So much of Bridge and Tunnel takes place in bars, the way so much of my life on Long Island has. On the surface "Wild Hogs" may seem like absurd pirate-rock however, within the context of the film the bar that the main characters hang out and work at is called Captain Kidd's, an ode to the 17th century rogue British naval officer of the same name. I designed much of the soundtrack inside Captain Kidd's to have the intensity of traditional bucaneer music fused with the energy of pub rock."
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Migration controls at the external EU borders have become a large field of political and financial investment in recent years – indeed, an 'industry' of sorts – yet conflicts between states and border agencies still mar attempts at cooperation. This article takes a close look at one way in which officials try to overcome such conflicts: through technology. In West Africa, the secure 'Seahorse' network hardwires border cooperation into a satellite system connecting African and European forces. In Spain's North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, advanced border fencing has joined up actors around a supposedly impenetrable divide. And on the EU level, the 'European external border surveillance system', or Eurosur, papers over power struggles between agencies and states through 'decentralized' information-sharing – even as the system's physical features (nodes, coordination centres, interfaces) deepen competition between them. The article shows how such technologies, rather than 'halting migration', have above all acted as catalysts for new social relations among disparate sectors, creating areas for collaboration and competition, compliance and conflict. With these dynamics in mind, the conclusion sketches an 'ecological' perspective on the materialities of border control – infrastructure, interfaces, vehicles – while calling for more research on their contradictory and often counterproductive consequences.
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'Hardwiring the Frontier? The Politics of Security Technology in Europe's 'Fight Against Illegal Migration'' by Ruben Andersson in (2015) Security Dialogue comments
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27 April 2017
'The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Quest for Consumer Comprehension' by Lauren E. Willis in (2017) 3 Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 74 comments
To ensure that consumers understand financial products' "costs, benefits, and risks," the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been redesigning mandated disclosures, primarily through iterative lab testing. But no matter how well these disclosures perform in experiments, firms will run circles around the disclosures when studies end and marketing begins. To meet the challenge of the dynamic twenty-first-century consumer financial marketplace, the bureau should require firms to demonstrate that a good proportion of their customers understand key pertinent facts about the financial products they buy. Comprehension rules would induce firms to inform consumers and simplify products, tasks that firms are better equipped than the bureau to perform.'Literacy Requirements of Court Documents: An Underexplored Barrier to Access to Justice' by Amy Salyzyn, Lori Isaj, Brandon Piva and Jacquelyn Burkell in (2016) 33(2) Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice comments
We know that members of the public find court forms complex. Less is known, however, about what in particular makes these documents difficult for non-legally trained people to complete.
The study described in this article seeks to fill this information gap by deploying a "functional literacy" framework to evaluate court form complexity. In contrast to more traditional conceptions of literacy, "functional literacy" shifts the focus away from the ability to read and towards the ability of individuals to meet task demands. Under this framework, an individual is assigned a literacy level by virtue of the complexity of the tasks that he or she is able to complete. As a result, the framework focuses as much on tasks (and associated documents) as it does on the capacity of the individual.
Four different Ontario forms needed to initiate three different types of legal proceedings were examined: (1) a Plaintiff's Claim (Form 7A) that an individual would need to start a claim in Small Claims Court; (2) a Form T2-Application about Tenant Rights that an individual would need to seek relief against a landlord before the Landlord and Tenant Board; and (3) an Application (General) (Form 8) and Financial Statement (Property and Support Claims) (Form 13.1) that an individual would need to seek a contested divorce that would include a contested spousal support claim and division of property. With respect to each court form, it was assumed for the purposes of the study that the individual using the court form would also be referring to the relevant government-published guide to completing the specific court form. Both the court forms and the guides examined were those in use as of July 2015.
The results of the study are described in significant detail in the article. Some of the identified sources of challenge include requirements to: generate information that requires expert legal knowledge; infer the meaning of technical legal terms; and move between multiple information sources (including, for example, searching on a website to find a correct court address). Another set of identified challenges was reflected in "distractors" contained in the court forms that risked confusing the reader, such as broad requests for information or the use of unclear terms. Although the associated court guides provided some guidance on the above types of issues, we found that such guidance was often incomplete and also potentially difficult to access given the overall complexity of the guides themselves.
Although proposing comprehensive solutions was beyond the scope of this study, the article concludes with a preliminary discussion of possible solutions, including form redesign, the use of dynamic electronic forms and the provision of unbundled legal services.
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NonHuman Animal Personhood
'Litigating Nonhuman Animal Legal Personhood: Amicus Curiae Brief in Nonhuman Rights Project, Inc. v. Lavery' by Richard L. Cupp Jr comments
The debate over nonhuman animal legal personhood, until recently only an academic controversy, has moved into the courts. Since late 2013 an animal rights organization named the Nonhuman Rights Project, Inc. ("NhRP") has initiated several lawsuits in New York's state courts arguing that as particularly intelligent animals, chimpanzees should be viewed as legal persons. The lawsuits seek to utilize common law writs of habeas corpus to require that the chimpanzees named in the lawsuits be moved from their present environments to sanctuaries that the lawsuits assert would provide greater freedom for the animals. The lawsuits do not assert that the conditions in which the chimpanzees are being kept violate animal welfare laws. Rather, they argue they argue that courts should declare chimpanzees to be legal persons with interests that require moving them to a sanctuary that the NhRP argues is a less restrictive environment. None of the NhRP's lawsuits have been successful at any level thus far. In late 2015 the NhRP filed a second petition for habeas corpus regarding one of the chimpanzees, arguing that a published appellate decision from another department wrongfully rejected their first habeas corpus petition seeking legal personhood for the chimpanzee. The second petition was also denied by the trial court, and oral arguments on the NhRP's appeal were heard in March, 2017. In its appeal the NhRP stated that the previous appellate decision they challenged "relied almost exclusively" on two law review articles written by the author. The amicus curiae brief below argues against the NhRP's appeal, asserting that courts and legislatures should focus on enhancing human responsibility for animals' welfare rather than adopting the radical and dangerous concept of animal legal personhood.
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Labels: Animal Law, Identity, Theory
US Conceptual Art
The provocative 'Copyright's Illogical Exclusion of Conceptual Art' by Zahr Said in (2016) 39(3) Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts 335-354 argues that
copyright illogically excludes conceptual art from protection on the basis of fixation, given that well-settled case law has interpreted the fixation requirement to reach works that contain certain kinds of change so long as they are sufficiently repetitive to be deemed permanent. While conceptual art may perhaps be better left outside the scope of copyright protection on the basis of its failure to meet copyright's other requirements, this Essay concludes that fixation should not be the basis on which to exclude conceptual art from protection. There are of course both normative and descriptive questions around the copyright-ability of conceptual art; this Essay addresses itself primarily to the descriptive question of fixation, and whether works of art that contain change, by design, must be excluded.
Part I surveys the rationales for the fixation requirement and discusses the case law holding that works of art that change may still qualify for protection, culminating in the puzzling decision to the contrary in Kelley v. Chicago Park District. Part II offers a taxonomy of different kinds of conceptual art that could be seen as "inherently changeable," and argues that these categories should be understood and treated distinctly. Finally, this Essay concludes that Kelley's overly broad "inherently changeable" test threatens to exclude from copyright protection many different kinds of conceptual art on the basis that their changing or changeable nature renders them unfixed. Some of these works are analogous to the changing works that have been protected through copyright in spite of their internal change, like the video games, and some of them diverge in ways that might or might not be relevant for copyright law. I conclude that courts should be wary of relying on Kelley and should treat different kinds of conceptual art differently depending on what kind of art they are adjudicating.
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Labels: Copyright
Search, consumer protection and discovery
The incisive 'Profiling the Australian Google Consumer: Implications of Search Engine Practices for Consumer Law and Policy' by Angela Daly and Amanda Scardamaglia in Journal of Consumer Policy (forthcoming) comments
'Social Data Discovery and Proportional Privacy' by Agnieszka McPeak in (2016) 65(1) Cleveland State Law Review notes that
Against the legal backdrop of proceedings against Google in various jurisdictions regarding the layout of its search results page, this article presents the results of a survey of a representative sample of 1014 Australian consumers, investigating their use of the Internet and specifically Google's search engine, and the implications of these findings for consumer law and policy concerning the operation of search engines. The study is the first of its kind in Australia, despite litigation against Google in this jurisdiction for alleged misleading and deceptive conduct.
The survey findings indicate consumers have a lack of understanding about the operation and origin of the different elements of the Google search engine. In particular, the findings show particular confusion in relation to the operation and origin of Google's related vertical services. Such confusion seems to be more pronounced among older respondents and those without higher education qualifications, although the survey revealed some more surprising and unexpected results in terms of the demographics of confusion.
These findings are important for several reasons. Firstly, they identify and point to a gap in consumer knowledge about Google search that should be addressed, presenting an opportunity for consumer education in this area. Secondly, this research challenges the widely held assumption that the average (Australian) Internet user has a basic understanding about the operation and function of the Google search engine. Thirdly, the results leave open the possibility for further proceedings against Google in Australia on the basis of consumer law, the decision in Google v ACCC notwithstanding. This points to the potential for a more active role for consumer law in the digital ecosystem to address problems emanating from large and powerful platform providers such as Google than it previously has occupied.The Daly & Scardamaglia article is highly commendable.
'Social Data Discovery and Proportional Privacy' by Agnieszka McPeak in (2016) 65(1) Cleveland State Law Review notes that
Social media platforms aggregate large amounts of personal information as "social data" that can be easily downloaded as a complete archive. Litigants in civil cases increasingly seek out broad access to social data during the discovery process, often with few limits on the scope of such discovery. But unfettered access to social data implicates unique privacy concerns — concerns that should help define the proper scope of discovery.
The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, as amended in 2015, already contain the tools for crafting meaningful limits on intrusive social data discovery. In particular, the proportionality test under Rule 26 weighs the burdens of discovery against its benefits, creating important boundaries on discovery's scope. Privacy burdens should be part of the proportionality analysis. By considering the privacy implications of social data discovery, courts can fashion fair and meaningful limits on its scope.
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24 April 2017
'India's Aadhaar scheme and the promise of inclusive social protection' by Amiya Bhatia and Jacqueline Bhabha in (2017) 45(1) Oxford Development Studies 64-79 examines
the promise of inclusive social protection central to India's Aadhaar scheme, a national initiative using biometric information to allocate unique identification numbers to Indian residents. Aadhaar has reached over one billion people and promises to expand access to basic identification, improve enrolment in social protection and financial inclusion schemes, curb leakages, reduce corruption and address other gaps in India's social protection architecture. However, the establishment of a national identification scheme does not of itself guarantee social protection. This paper assesses Aadhaar's aims to achieve inclusive social protection through personal, civic, functional and entrepreneurial inclusion, and explores whether Aadhaar indeed fulfils these goals. Although it is too early conclusively to evaluate Aadhaar as a transformative contributor to social protection in India, there is much to be learned for transnational social protection from the scheme's efforts to create a more inclusive system and to address the critical questions of privacy and state surveillance at stake.The authors conclude
It is too early conclusively to evaluate the inclusiveness of Aadhaar as a transformative contributor to social protection in India. Certainly, the scale of initial voluntary enrolment is impressive, the range of functions brought within the scheme is expanding (with central government support and backup), and so far, despite some public statements to the contrary, Aadhaar eligibility has not been limited to citizens or even to legal residents of India. More quantitative and qualitative research is needed in order to understand how Aadhaar is being used in a range of contexts, and to what extent it delivers on the early promises of inclusion. And further work is needed to ensure Aadhaar does not compromise India's birth registration system. If Aadhaar is not paired with improvements to social welfare programmes in India, there is a risk that biometric technology may become a data collection device, instead of facilitating social protection programmes aimed at reducing the economic and social vulnerability of poor and marginalized groups.
Aadhaar offers the benefits of technology to India's social protection system – efficiency, scalability, a mitigation of corruption and leakages, improved data systems, and a portable system with national-level commitment and financial support. Evidence presented in this paper, however, suggests some early warning signs. Geographic enrolment remains uneven, mirroring national patterns of inequality and under-provision with the least well-served populations, regions and states also the least enrolled. Some reports highlight the disproportionate rate of Aadhaar registration among convicted populations in tribal areas against a backdrop of extremely low tribal enrolment overall. One study raises serious questions about the inclusiveness of Aadhaar for urban homeless populations lacking a permanent abode or intact ngerprints. Aadhaar addresses many delivery challenges, yet the questions of how social protection is designed, whether it is targeted, and how a beneficiary is defined require changes which lie outside the realm of improved technology and authentication. Aadhaar's technology has also created the largest biometric database in the world without a corresponding codification of data protection provisions.
Serious concerns exist about the scope for surveillance and control generated by the massive expansion of potential government access to personal data without the necessary legal or accountability framework. Lyon (2009) describes the 'social sorting' that ID card systems enable and opportunities for surveillance which come from having access to searchable and interconnected databases and to data mining techniques. A nine-country study of public perceptions of ID systems highlights the tension between public support for an efficient ID card system and anxiety about potential data misuse. In Canada, USA, France, Spain, Mexico and Hungary, there were acute public concerns about risk of misuse of data in relation to ID cards, when ID cards were associated with national registry databases containing additional data (Lyon, 2009). In the UK, public dissent defeated proposals for an integrated ID card as concerns were raised based about 'data creep' and potential privacy risks stemming from the possibility of integrating di erent databases (Beynon-Davies, 2006; Davies, 2005). In Greece, information about religion, profession and residence was initially included on ID cards and later removed by the national regulator (Davies, 2005). Although many countries have ID cards, only a few publicly disclose information about costs, implications, effects on civil liberties and the penalties of non-compliance (Davies, 2005). No such information is available for India, where at present. Enthusiasm for the inclusion potential of Aadhaar seems to far outstrip any concerns about surveillance or threats to personal privacy. Whether such concerns will grow as the system becomes entrenched and in the absence of a robust oversight and appeals mechanism remains to be seen.
Many have argued that Aadhaar is changing the logic of India's social welfare system, and that biometric identity and the possibility of interoperability – one authentication system which can be used by many di erent institutions – signal a shift in governmental rationality in India (Sarkar, 2014): 'computerised biometrics, like its paper-based predecessors, is driven by the fantasy of administrative panopticism – the urgent desire to complete and centralize the state's knowledge of its citizens' (Sarkar, 2014, p. 518 quoting Breckenridge, 2005, p. 271). is search for the perfect enumeration or 'legibility' of a population can be connected to eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century ideas that subjects represent wealth and good governance requires measuring and counting (Merry, 2011). However 'seeing better' must be linked with 'serving better' for population knowledge to improve the delivery of social protection: "the premodern state was, in many crucial respects, blind; it knew precious little about its subjects, their wealth ... their very identity". (Scott, 1998, p. 2)
India's operationalization of state welfare schemes is predicated on a newly transparent relationship between the state and its citizens. Biometric data and enrolment and enumeration efforts have created new hierarchies and allowed a series of interconnected actors to act as gatekeepers and stewards of India's social protection system, and for bene ciaries or consumers to be governed by the use of biometric identification. These changes are influencing how social welfare is delivered and have triggered a shift towards cash transfers and the creation of a welfare market, with multiple state and non-state actors providing, regulating and transferring welfare benefits (Khera, 2011; Sarkar, 2014). Although it is unlikely that Aadhaar alone will address the structural weaknesses in India's social protection systems, universal identification can enable greater efficiency and transparency, helping schemes to reach their intended beneficiaries, and influencing the ease and delivery of these state-to-citizen welfare transfers. The changes Aadhaar catalyzes also have the potential to give banks and financial providers a much larger role in the delivery of education, health and employment services or subsidies as these providers become the distributers of cash. The state may shift from being the direct supplier of social welfare schemes to disbursing funds or coupons (Sarkar, 2014) through a larger network of actors from both the public and private sectors, each of which brings their own agendas to the provision of social welfare.
It is possible that the current struggles to maintain the voluntary nature of Aadhaar enrolment will be unsuccessful, and obligatory Aadhaar registration may well follow. Future administrations may also insist on restricting Aadhaar eligibility to citizens or legal residents, a move which would signi cantly dent the programme's universal and inclusive impact. For positive social protection objectives to be achieved in tandem with growing Aadhaar registration, the package of social protection schemes linked to the programme must be carefully designed and robustly implemented to bene t from Aadhaar. Transformative social protection can be a ordable while contributing to the fundamental policy goals of pro-poor economic growth and improved social equity (Devereux & Sabates-Wheeler, 2004). To have a sustained and decisive impact on prevailing inequities, underlying vulnerabilities need to be examined and resources reliably transferred through social protection programmes (Devereux, Mcgregor, & Sabates-Wheeler, 2011). For a comprehensive effect on the most vulnerable populations, these measures must proceed in tandem with a comprehensive strengthening of public services and programmes in order to address broader inequalities – efforts which Aadhaar, if appropriately utilized, could powerfully enhance.
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Comparative Nudges
'Behavioral Insights All Over the World? Public Attitudes Toward Nudging in a Multi-Country Study' by Cass R. Sunstein, Lucia A. Reisch and Julius Rauber comments
Nudges are choice-preserving interventions that steer people's behaviour in specific directions while allowing people to go their own way. Some nudges have been controversial, because they are seen as objectionably paternalistic. This study reports on nationally representative surveys in eight diverse countries, investigating how people actually think about nudges and nudging. The study covers Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Japan, Russia, South Africa, and South Korea. Generally, we find strong majority support for nudges in all countries, with the important exception of Japan, and with spectacularly high approval rates in China and South Korea. We connect the findings here to earlier studies involving the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, Denmark, France, Germany, and Hungary. The largest conclusion is that while citizens generally approve of health and safety nudges, the nations of the world appear to fall into three distinct categories: (1) a group of nations, mostly liberal democracies, where strong majorities approve of nudges whenever they (a) are seen to fit with the interests and values of most citizens and (b) do not have illicit purposes; (2) a group of nations where overwhelming majorities approve of nearly all nudges; and (3) a group of nations with markedly lower approval ratings for nudges. We offer some speculations about the relationship between approval rates and trust.'The Curious Case of Choice Architect: Examining the Philosophical Inconsistencies of Libertarian Paternalism' by Francis Kuriakose and Deepa Kylasam Iyer comments
Classical economics works on the principle that individuals are rational and make decisions to maximize their self interest. However in real situations, individuals face a conflict between rational and irrational selves leading to decision making that does not leave them better off. Libertarian paternalism proposes a solution to this rationality problem in an individual by conceiving a choice architect. Choice architect is a third party capable of arriving at what a perfectly rational choice would be and 'nudges' an individual towards making that choice. Libertarian paternalists claim that choice architect does not interfere with the freedom of an individual because the choices he offers are easily reversible, i.e, an individual can reject it at any given point in time. Libertarian Paternalism seems to offer the third way between absolute autonomy of individual choice (libertarianism) and third party intervention (paternalism). This paper argues that the conception of a choice architect comes out of a hasty commitment to reconciling libertarianism and paternalism by placing perfect rationality and autonomy in two separate individuals in the case of a single decision making process. The paper proposes alternatives to confront the rationality problem.
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Q: Should I call you Jim Guckert or Jeff Gannon?
My Amex card still comes in the name of James Guckert, but I want to be called Jeff Gannon. That is who I am.
Or rather it is the pseudonym under which you gained access to White House press briefings for two years, until your identity was revealed. Why do you think they let you in?
I don't know the answer to that. I don't know the criteria they use. I asked to be let in, and they allowed me to come. I was very fond of all the people in the press office. They treated me well. They probably treated me better than I deserved.
Are you suggesting that Bobby Eberle, the Republican operative who hired you to shill for his Gopusa under the guise of his Talon News service, has special access at the White House?
I just don't know the answer to that question.
Scott McClellan, the press secretary to President Bush, called on you and allowed you to ask questions on a nearly daily basis. What, exactly, is your relationship with him?
I was just another guy in the press room. Did I try to curry favor with him? Sure. When he got married, I left a wedding card for him in the press office. People are saying this proves there is some link. But as Einstein said, "Sometimes a wedding card is just a wedding card."
You mean like "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar"? That wasn't Einstein. That was Freud.
Oh, Freud. O.K. I got my old Jewish men confused.
You should learn the difference between them if you want to work in journalism.
I'd like to get back into journalism. I'm hoping someone will offer me a job as a commentator or one of those political analysts that you see on the news shows all the time.
What are we supposed to make of the fact that before reporting for Talon News, you had never had a job in journalism and apparently earned your living running a gay escort service?
Don't let that confuse the issue. We have driven so many good people from public service through the politics of personal destruction. People on the left who disagreed with me decided that I needed to be punished by any means necessary.
How did you get your job at Talon News?
I had submitted some opinion pieces to Gopusa. I believe they were picking up wire feeds, and Bobby Eberle wanted to supplement that with original reporting. He came to Washington for some business, and he called me. It was a breakfast meeting.
Were you paid for your pieces?
Yes. I received a kind of stipend.
I assume Eberle fired you after you asked that now-famous question of President Bush at a press conference in January, suggesting that Democrats had "divorced themselves from reality."
I wasn't fired. I resigned. I made the decision by myself after I learned that my family had received threatening phone calls. I decided this is what had to be done to try to make that stop.
What do you mean by your family?
My mother. She is 72. I am a big boy. I can take this. But it's so hard on my mother. She has to reconcile all of these things, and it's difficult.
Do you find it hard to be a gay conservative in this country in light of the right-wing hostility to gay rights?
I prefer that to be a private issue. I am more interested in national defense, taxation and immigration than in personal issues. I would like people's personal lives to be behind the barrier once again, like they used to be.
Still, it seems fair to ask about your position on gay marriage.
My position is that I can't imagine that gay marriage would be something that I would be interested in in the first place. I actually like being alone. I have decided that is how I want to live. I have a dog named Winston. I am still the same to Winston, no matter what, and there is comfort in that. Winston doesn't watch the news.
But for those of us who do watch the news, are you interested in defending one's right to pose in the buff, as photographs on the Internet indicate you have done?
We do have tremendous freedoms in this country, and one of the drawbacks of that is that people are free to take images of me and manipulate them however they want. At some point in the future, everyone is going to have a picture on the Internet that they are unhappy about. Deborah Solomon


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Obama Compares Fox News to Talk Radio, Says He's Not 'Losing Sleep' Over Controversy
President Obama spoke publicly for the first time Wednesday about his administration's portrayal of Fox News as an illegitimate news organization -- only to say he's not "losing sleep" over the controversy.
Obama, in an interview with NBC, at first attempted to deflect a question about the White House's criticism of Fox News, saying "the American people are a lot more interested in what we're doing to create jobs or how we're handling the situation in Afghanistan."
The interviewer then pressed, noting that Obama's advisers have targeted the network openly.
"I think that what our advisers simply said is, is that we are going to take media as it comes," Obama said. "And if media is operating, basically, as a talk radio format, then that's one thing. And if it's operating as a news outlet than that's another. But it's not something I'm losing a lot of sleep over."
Several top White House advisers have gone on other channels to criticize Fox News' coverage of the administration, dismiss the network as the mouthpiece of the Republican Party and urge other news organizations not to treat Fox News as a legitimate news station.
And on Tuesday, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said White House officials "render (that) opinion based on some their coverage and the fairness of that coverage."
But asked how Fox News was different from other news organizations, Gibbs mentioned the channel's 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. shows, in an explicit reference to "Beck" and "Hannity" -- even though those two shows represent opinion programming.
Informed that those hours are for opinion programming, Gibbs said: "That is our opinion."
Michael Clemente, senior vice president of news for Fox News, issued a statement Tuesday defending the company.
"Hundreds of journalists come to work each day at Fox News all deeply committed to their craft. It's disappointing that the White House would be so dismissive of their fine work and continue their vengeful war against a news organization," he said.


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Space exploration is an unbelievable achievement for mankind. The ability to land on the moon really is the stuff of science fiction. Using satellites that orbit the earth in ...READ MORE +
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Latest Ankara Styles For Breastfeeding Mothers - 5 Styles
Latest Ankara Styles For Breastfeeding Mothers - Trendy Formal Dress, Maxi Dress For Nursing Lady For Special Occasion or Wedding.
Breastfeeding your baby in the public can sometimes be unacceptable especially when you are a classy and learned woman - It's is because of this that you might go online to search trendy Ankara fashion styles to sew for a special occasion and still look nice.
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Here are 5 latest Ankara styles and idea you can tell your tailor to design.
This Ankara style is great for corporate ladies who have office functions to deliver or are in the midst of colleague discussing office-related issues.
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How to Create Smart Groups in Snow Leopard's Address Book
Mac OS X Snow Leopard's Address Book provides you with a method of organizing your cards into groups. A group usually consists of folks with a common link, such as your family, friends, co-workers, and others who enjoy yodeling.
To create a group, choose File→New Group or press Command+Shift+N. Address Book creates a new entry in the Group column, with a highlighted text box so that you can type the group name. After you type the group name, press Return to save it and then click and drag the entries that you want to add to the New Group icon.
After you create a New Group, you can instantly display members of that group by clicking its icon in the Group column. To return to the display of all your contacts, click the All Group button.
You can also create a Smart Group, which automatically adds new contacts you create to the proper group, depending on the criteria you specify! To create a Smart Group, follow these steps:
1Click File and click New Smart Group.
A dialog appears, ready for you to give your new Smart Group a name.
2Type a name for the new Smart Group.
For example, you could set up a Cell Phone group that you can use when syncing data with your Bluetooth cell phone.
3Click the Card pop-up menu and choose the item that will trigger the action.
For example, you can choose to automate a Smart Group according to the contents of each new card, a company name, or a particular city or state.
4Click the Contains pop-up menu and choose the criterion for the item.
An item might contain (or not contain) a specific string of characters, or it might have changed in a certain amount of time. You could set up a Smart Group that automatically checks the Company field in every new card for a contact's company name and adds that contact card to a group if a match occurs.
5(Optional) To add another criteria line, click the button with the plus sign at the end of the first text field.
If you decide you have one criterion line too many, click the button with the minus sign next to the offending rule.
6After your Smart Group criteria are correct, click OK.
The Smart Group name appears in your group list. Voilà!


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hello there!
it's been a full day here for me :o)
prepping for a one day business road trip. new tires on my car and and oil change. fixing my brake light. eating leftovers. waiting on a phone call. trying to keep up with my ever growing to-do list. dreaming about a massage. etc. etc.
so anyway... here are some dark side photos from the DOJ files!!
polaroids never fail!
in a web.
ghost cathedral.
not creepy at all.
this is a good shot.
out of focus.
tree hugger.
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Rachel Larson of On The Grind!
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Special thank you to Stephanie of Classic Girl Vintage and to everyone who entered!
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A Study on Customer Satisfaction on Airtel
P - No I. Chapter - 1
On the job training 1-3 Introduction 5-11 Industry profile 12-14
II. Chapter – 2
Company profile 14-24
III. Chapter – 3
Summary 25-26
IV. Chapter – 4
Product profile 27-31
V. Chapter – 5
Objectives of study 32-33
VI. Chapter – 6
Methodology 34-48
VII. Chapter – 7
Limitations 49-50
VIII. Chapter – 8
Analysis interpretation 51-75
IX. Chapter – 9
Findings 76-78
X. Chapter – 10
Suggestions 79-81
XI. Chapter – 11
Conclusion 82-83
XII. Chapter – 12
Annexure 84-85
➢ On the job training takes place in a real job environment. ➢ The major advantage of this method is that the trainee will get practical experience. ➢ This will also help in better application of the knowledge and skills gained during training session. ➢ Disadvantage of OJT IS that as the trainee is still going through the learning process any mistake he commits on the job might result in loss to the organization.
Primary objective.
➢ Primary data was collected through market survey
➢ We approached the customers directly through questionnaires. ➢ A study on customer satisfaction on airtel and creating awareness in customers towards airtel features regarding to the land line & broadband services. ➢ To know the company performance in different department on customer feedback.
Secondary objective;
➢ To obtain the customer satisfaction levels on Airtel. ➢ To identify customers problems & preferences.
➢ Launching and promotion of airtel land line in other regions of Hyderabad.
My company guide assigned me the following targets:-
➢ Meeting five customers daily and get their feed back.. ➢ Face to face interaction with the customers of Airtel. ➢ Interviewing them on phone to know their satisfaction level and their problems regarding towards AIRTEL landline &broadband services.
➢ Meeting the customer directly to know their satisfaction level &problems of AIRTEL landline broadband services. ➢ Taking interview on phone.
➢ Data was collected from the customer database to reach maximum customers in the limited time.
➢ I have collected the feedback of 150customers of Airtel. ➢ We have done analysis for that data and submitted to the company guide. ➢ The analysis was presented to the company officials by the company guide. ➢ The officials were very much impressed by the report.
➢ Based on that analysis the company taken few steps to satisfy the customer.
➢ We are unable to meet some customers directly because of insufficient address ➢ So we decide to make a call to know their feedback on airtel.
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One of the my favorite, most telling quotes from the martial arts movies is a scene from Bruce Lee's "Way of the Dragon" (also known as "Return of the Dragon"). He goes into the back of the restaurant where the staff is practicing martial arts, and they ask him for a demonstration. He politely declines, and when they press him, he genuinely warns them: You might get hurt…
I love that.
See, when the martial artist is properly trained, he cannot fully do his martial arts because of a sincerely concerned for his opponents. There is a joke in the arts, that when a martial artist is unskilled, he avoids sparring because he doesn't want to maim or kill his opponent. Yet for some, this is a real concern. It's sort of like when you spar with kids, how you play around and tone down what you are capable of doing 90% because you don't want to hurt him. When the skilled martial artist is sparring even with other Black belts, he must hold back because of safety. It's not in your mind; this is a reality that some martial artists must live with when he is of the highest caliber.
To illustrate, take a look at the following video (embedding is disabled. you'll have to go to youtube to view it):
Had this been any other man being interviewed, the dynamic between interviewer and expert would be completely different. Size is irrelevant; I am speaking solely of the differences between their skill levels and ability. Even if the interviewer wanted a match with Iron Mike, he could never oblige or fight him as if he were an opponent.
Here is my point. I have seen some martial artists who fight with novices and people on the street, and defeat them easily. These men are not of the caliber I am speaking of. Although they may dominate their opponents, they are of the lowest level of "experts" because of the quality of opponents they choose to accept. Can you imagine Mike Tyson accepting a fist fight from a random drunk in a bar? How stupid is that? In fact, Tyson has more to lose by fighting such a man, as it will ruin more than his reputation–he could be sued or have to carry the guilt of killing a man over something insignificant. The martial artists of the highest order does not accept such fights because they are beneath him, and for him to beat an unqualified opponent is a waste of energy and time. This is why any Black Belter who comes into my school and asks for a match with my students is automatically treated as a beginner, because he is either mentally or physically inferior to me or the instructors under me. The Black Belt who sees beginners as possible opponents either has poor skills or he lacks the maturity to match his ability.
The martial arts expert of today, however, is often not cut of this cloth anyway. He is rarely skilled and knowledgeable enough to have the need to warn others of his skill. He often lacks the confidence a man of his level should possess. I blame this is on the impatience many teachers have in promoting new Black Belters and certifying "experts". Most so-called instructors have spent less than 5 years studying their arts and have neither the strength nor the experience to dominate his peers. He boasts of multiple fields of expertise, and often is not much better skilled than most of his advanced students. He has never had the pleasure of being proven the top fighter in his community. So many others carry the same rank he has, that the title "expert" or Black Belt, in his case, is meaningless. In some styles, grown men have the same certificates from their masters as 12 year old boys–yet they want to be respected as equal to the real experts.
The first thing a martial artist must do is to train his skills to its limit. I have a suggestion on how to accomplish this:
- pick 10 techniques and 10 attack or counter combinations
- train those 10 items 100 repetitions per training session
- give yourself 100 training sessions to develop basic ability in those 20 items
- at the end of the 100th session, change to another 20 items
- do this with everything in your arsenal
I consider this to be necessary for one to be considered an intermediate in the art. When you're ready, get with me and I'll give you my ideas on the advanced and expert level.
But wait! Mustafa, didn't you say "train to your ability's limits"?
Yes, I did. But I am positive no one reading this blog has ever done this first step, and you damn sure can't expect to start at the top, do you? LOL. Yes, you DO…. And that's the problem, my martial arts brothers. You're in too much of a rush to call yourselves Black Belts and experts, but you haven't achieved the skill level of an expert yet. I know some of you personally, and I have seen you bypass learning the hard way and opting to take easy classes from seminar trained experts or just taking seminars yourself. What I want you to do, is give yourself 100 workouts to improving your skill level to a point that 99% of your peers will never arrive to. 100 workouts. Train every day, and you will be there in a little over three months. Do it 4 days a week and get there in about 7 months. You were in a huge rush to strap on the title "Instructor", so how much of a rush will you be in to have the skill to accompany that title?
And I haven't even touched on the fact that you purport to be an expert on fighting, but remind me again of how many fights you've actually had?
Yeah, exactly. So, when some guy asks you for a match or a demonstration of your martial arts ability–and you warn him that he might get hurt, you don't really mean that, do you?
But you know how dangerous you really are, don't you? Take 100 workouts, and call me when you're done. Thanks for visiting my blog.


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The poisonous lies that came from Norway spread out and infected an entire sub-culture. In Norway the entire society was soaked in lies about me, but abroad only the black metal sub-culture was infected. At least initially. And all of this happened whilst I was in prison, often knowing nothing about it, always being unable to do much – if anything at all – about the little I got to know about. I was in prison anyhow, so I had other concerns. I spent 10 years on isolation, and another 6 years amongst criminals, and just trying to survive mentally was a big enough challenge. Why would I worry if some arseholes – pardon my language – pretended to be me on the outside, and said stupid things in my name? I thought people were smart enough to understand that they could not be me, and that what they said could not be true. Alas! The naivity… Alas!
The lies from Soviet Norway grew and multiplied, and they were allowed to be cultivated pretty much sans objections from me. Naturally I tried to object, when I could, but when I did I was not heard. I tried to speak up, but who would let me? The Norwegian media only wanted negative news, filth, to support their image of me as an 'evil incarnate'. Some did let me speak, but their magazines were small and rare, and it was to little avail – and when I did try to defend myself I was 'of course' attacked for that too: for being an attention whore. The lies prevailed. Their fictional image of Varg Vikernes prevailed.
In 2003 I received a letter from a Russian gentleman, who wanted to help me amend this situation, by making a Burzum website that was supposed to fight the lies, by concentrating all the truths on one website. That way all the lies spread by others, about me or in my name, would be at least weakened in force. It was a start, a good start, but we were fighting against all odds. What would one website be able to do against the might of the propaganda machine of Soviet Norway, and the hordes of duped metal-heads spreading their vile lies? Some of them even did it thinking they helped me by doing so!
Now, do you think that was what I wanted to spend my time on, when I finally got out of prison, in 2009? Should I spend all my time arguing on different forums, write articles and give interviews, to expose the many lies? No. I had better things to do. Trying to argue with trolls, complete idiots with no life of their own and individuals working actively to just spread lies about you is in any case useless. It most of the time will even be counter-productive.
At times though, I still spend some time trying to correct and explain – like I do here and now. It is not in my nature to accept injustice. Hopefully a day will come when the truth is appreciated, when justice will prevail, and even though nobody will care to listen today, then perhaps better men will listen in the future: dig up old information and find the truth, under the many layers of lies.
As you can understand, I say this now because next week I will go to court in Paris, the 3rd of June, at 13:00, and I risk not only the lies of the prosecutor, ordered by certain politicians in France to present false evidence against me in order to harm me as much as possible, but also the lies of the propagandists of the mainstream media. I know that some of them are aware of the injustice I am being exposed to when I am charged with "racism, anti-Semitism and apology for war crimes and crimes against humanity". I know that some few of them are there to tell the truth, and I hope that many – or even most – of them will do the same, but wise from harm, I have no expectations, and I wish to warn you in advance, of what might come.
The wind is turning though, the enemies of Europe are losing the battle, and more and more Europeans, even journalists and editors of mainstream media, have started to at least try to do the right thing – to stop letting small groups of ruthless anti-European gangsters dictate what and how they are going to report.
Europe has a proud history of justice, only interrupted for short periods of time every now and then, by periods of injustice – coming from the 'head', but never reaching all the way down to the 'toes'. We are in one such period of injustice, it is mostly at the 'head' level and we are at the end of it – and we are because the injustic is so extreme and so random, it is harming Europe and Europeans so much, and it is so massive that it beomes harder and harder for ordinary Europeans not to see it – as clear and bright as the blue sky itself. The good thing then, when individuals like me are being viciously attacked by politicians who hate Europe and everything European and whose loyalty lies elsewhere (quand même!), is that it becomes so clear and so obvious that we need a change: we need to return to and embrace Justice!
Fellow Europeans, good men and women, gentlemen and ladies, journalists and editors; no matter what happens to me the 3rd of June, use it for all it is worth to disarm the enemies of Justice – the enemies of everything European.
Hail Justice! Hail Europe!


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2 Chronicles 4:1-6:11 New International Version (NIV)
The Temple's Furnishings
4 He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.[a] 2 He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits[b] high. It took a line of thirty cubits[c] to measure around it. 3 Below the rim, figures of bulls encircled it—ten to a cubit.[d] The bulls were cast in two rows in one piece with the Sea.
4 The Sea stood on twelve bulls, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south and three facing east. The Sea rested on top of them, and their hindquarters were toward the center. 5 It was a handbreadth[e] in thickness, and its rim was like the rim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It held three thousand baths.[f]
6 He then made ten basins for washing and placed five on the south side and five on the north. In them the things to be used for the burnt offerings were rinsed, but the Sea was to be used by the priests for washing.
7 He made ten gold lampstands according to the specifications for them and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north.
8 He made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north. He also made a hundred gold sprinkling bowls.
9 He made the courtyard of the priests, and the large court and the doors for the court, and overlaid the doors with bronze. 10 He placed the Sea on the south side, at the southeast corner.
11 And Huram also made the pots and shovels and sprinkling bowls.
So Huram finished the work he had undertaken for King Solomon in the temple of God:
12 the two pillars;
the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars;
the two sets of network decorating the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars;
13 the four hundred pomegranates for the two sets of network (two rows of pomegranates for each network, decorating the bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars);
14 the stands with their basins;
15 the Sea and the twelve bulls under it;
16 the pots, shovels, meat forks and all related articles.
All the objects that Huram-Abi made for King Solomon for the temple of the Lord were of polished bronze. 17 The king had them cast in clay molds in the plain of the Jordan between Sukkoth and Zarethan.[g] 18 All these things that Solomon made amounted to so much that the weight of the bronze could not be calculated.
19 Solomon also made all the furnishings that were in God's temple:
the golden altar;
the tables on which was the bread of the Presence;
20 the lampstands of pure gold with their lamps, to burn in front of the inner sanctuary as prescribed;
21 the gold floral work and lamps and tongs (they were solid gold);
22 the pure gold wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, dishes and censers; and the gold doors of the temple: the inner doors to the Most Holy Place and the doors of the main hall.
5 When all the work Solomon had done for the temple of the Lord was finished, he brought in the things his father David had dedicated—the silver and gold and all the furnishings—and he placed them in the treasuries of God's temple.
The Ark Brought to the Temple
2 Then Solomon summoned to Jerusalem the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes and the chiefs of the Israelite families, to bring up the ark of the Lord's covenant from Zion, the City of David. 3 And all the Israelites came together to the king at the time of the festival in the seventh month.
4 When all the elders of Israel had arrived, the Levites took up the ark, 5 and they brought up the ark and the tent of meeting and all the sacred furnishings in it. The Levitical priests carried them up; 6 and King Solomon and the entire assembly of Israel that had gathered about him were before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and cattle that they could not be recorded or counted.
7 The priests then brought the ark of the Lord's covenant to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, and put it beneath the wings of the cherubim. 8 The cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and covered the ark and its carrying poles. 9 These poles were so long that their ends, extending from the ark, could be seen from in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are still there today. 10 There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the Israelites after they came out of Egypt.
11 The priests then withdrew from the Holy Place. All the priests who were there had consecrated themselves, regardless of their divisions. 12 All the Levites who were musicians—Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun and their sons and relatives—stood on the east side of the altar, dressed in fine linen and playing cymbals, harps and lyres. They were accompanied by 120 priests sounding trumpets. 13 The trumpeters and musicians joined in unison to give praise and thanks to the Lord. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals and other instruments, the singers raised their voices in praise to the Lord and sang:
"He is good;
Then the temple of the Lord was filled with the cloud, 14 and the priests could not perform their service because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled the temple of God.
6 Then Solomon said, "The Lord has said that he would dwell in a dark cloud; 2 I have built a magnificent temple for you, a place for you to dwell forever."
3 While the whole assembly of Israel was standing there, the king turned around and blessed them. 4 Then he said:
"Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, who with his hands has fulfilled what he promised with his mouth to my father David. For he said, 5 'Since the day I brought my people out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city in any tribe of Israel to have a temple built so that my Name might be there, nor have I chosen anyone to be ruler over my people Israel. 6 But now I have chosen Jerusalem for my Name to be there, and I have chosen David to rule my people Israel.'
7 "My father David had it in his heart to build a temple for the Name of the Lord, the God of Israel. 8 But the Lord said to my father David, 'You did well to have it in your heart to build a temple for my Name. 9 Nevertheless, you are not the one to build the temple, but your son, your own flesh and blood—he is the one who will build the temple for my Name.'
10 "The Lord has kept the promise he made. I have succeeded David my father and now I sit on the throne of Israel, just as the Lord promised, and I have built the temple for the Name of the Lord, the God of Israel. 11 There I have placed the ark, in which is the covenant of the Lord that he made with the people of Israel."
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Romans 7:1-13 New International Version (NIV)
Released From the Law, Bound to Christ
7 Do you not know, brothers and sisters—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law has authority over someone only as long as that person lives? 2 For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law that binds her to him. 3 So then, if she has sexual relations with another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.
4 So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. 5 For when we were in the realm of the flesh,[a] the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death. 6 But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.
The Law and Sin
7 What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, "You shall not covet."[b] 8 But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead. 9 Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. 10 I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death. 11 For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death. 12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.
13 Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! Nevertheless, in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it used what is good to bring about my death, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.
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Psalm 17 New International Version (NIV)
Psalm 17
A prayer of David.
1 Hear me, Lord, my plea is just;
3 Though you probe my heart,
6 I call on you, my God, for you will answer me;
10 They close up their callous hearts,
13 Rise up, Lord, confront them, bring them down;
15 As for me, I will be vindicated and will see your face;
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Proverbs 19:22-23 New International Version (NIV)
22 What a person desires is unfailing love[a];
23 The fear of the Lord leads to life;
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Y'know, Ed's right. I've seen him live maybe 20 times now, and despite my persistent blogging, it really is word of mouth that fills the seats. Despite this, we asked Ed to do his best to impart what you're in for—blog-style:
"They've asked me to Blog a bit as to what you can expect to see if you were to choose to see my show. Hell if I know. First of all why are you reading this? Do you have too much time on your hands? Are you scrutinizing each and every blog by each and every fringe act? Are you familiar with my work and wanna see what kind of wackiness I'm gonna write? I'll give you some basics and I'll shoot from the hip. It's a one man show, pretty biographical, got a lot of hard hitting music, a bunch of social commentary, and you should, if all goes well, be pretty entertained, challenged and laugh your ass off. It's a reality show. Not like the ones on T.V. that are scripted and insult your intelligence. I'll respect your intelligence and tell you the truth, albeit in a humorous way. I've been kicking around doing my potty mouth anarchistic folk punk for about 10 years and decided a couple years ago that I would script and mold it into a more theatrical setting. Hired a really great director, Kate Valentine who was a heavy hitter in the New York City Art/Burlesque scene and signed onto new management, "The Invasion Group" who brought the world the great comic genius Bill Hicks. My good buddy Ani DiFranco produced the entire venture and we brought our show over to Scotland for The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the largest in the world. I was honored to have won the coveted Herald Angel Award. Three thousand acts and they only pass out seven of those babies so it was extremely flattering. Now we tour the States and Europe with the production and we'll be bringing it to Washington. Looking forward to it. But the real deal is as follows: Opening night will be a fair showing. How big is the venue? 120 seats? I'll have 40. But those 40 will tell their friends because maybe they're punk rockers and they respond. Or maybe they're artists with a dream who toil away at a thankless job and they need a shot of inspiration and so they get it that night and tell their friends, "I don't know how to explain it but you got to see this guy". Because were you to tell me, "Hey, he's bald, he plays the guitar like he did a kilo of Red Bull, he yells at the crowd, he's got a foul mouth and I laughed until I pissed my pants but then he made me cry and sing songs about genitals with my parents" I don't know that I'd be buying a ticket to wait in line either. Or maybe you got elderly parents and you don't know how you're going to afford to take care of them or you just lost your job and you don't know how you're going to keep your house and you just want 75 minutes, (or how ever long they're going to let me explode) to forget all your troubles. Then I'm your guy. And you're going to tell your friends and I can guarantee by the last night we're gonna have a full house. Blogs ain't gonna sell it. I could wallpaper my bathroom with 5 star reviews from The New York Times, Playboy, Rolling Stone, the Village Voice, The London Times and if truth be told that ain't gonna sell it. Word of mouth sells it. So...I hope you come out, I give 150% every night and I hope you spread the word. Watch the sparking demons escape from my brain."
Catch Ed Hamell's 'The Terrorism of Everyday Life' as part of the Capital Fringe Festival this weekend at The Warehouse—Saturday, July 25, at 9:00pm, and Sunday, July 26, at 3:00pm.
Friday, July 24, 2009
TVD Recommends | Ed Hamell's 'The Terrorism of Everyday Life'
Posted by Jon at 7:47 AM
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Great piece, stellar artist. Highly recommended if for no other reason than his complete honesty, demonstrated in this piece. We hosted a house concert, and I can tell you that everyone there will remember it for the rest of their lives. Hamell is truly an artist at their peak.
Thanks TVD!!!
Kristoffer Carter
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- July 24, 2009 at 9:48 AM
Saw Hamell over the weekend. LOVED HIM!
- July 27, 2009 at 6:16 PM
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A Brief History Of Music is the name of a Live And Local show at Holloway's Florence Nightingale Memorial Hall, on Thursday, May 7, at 7.30pm.
It is to be performed by the talented duo Blast from the Past.
These are two skilled historical music performers who bring to life half a millennium of music with warmth and wit.
Between them, Chris and Sophie play over 30 instruments, and fit in numerous costume changes to deliver 600 years of music in a mere 90 minutes.
The show is fast and fun with long-forgotten tunes sitting alongside old favourites.
During the show you will be able to enjoy the raucous mixing with the courtly and sublime, and stately medieval music leaning up against flowery Victoriana.
Add to that the wit of Blackadder and 1066 And All That and the stage is set for a night of great good humour where you'll learn something without even realising it.
A Brief History Of Music is suitable for those audience members who are aged eight and over.
Tickets and further information for A Brief History Of Music are available by calling Dave on 01773 856545.


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Microsoft Office Labs is a group within Microsoft with the sole purpose of experimenting with ideas and building prototypes to see how well they work.
One of their projects is called pptPlex and takes the form of a plug-in for Powerpoint 2007. This week they have added a link to their website that allows you to download and try it out. So what does it do?
Basically, it adds some much needed extra functionality to Powerpoint presentations that allows you new ways to view content based around a zooming feature. For example, say you have a timeline for a project you are building that covers several months. On a single slide you can't really show much detail for each month of development and would have to click through to other slides to add more detail. You then have to remember where the timeline was in the chain of slides if you intend going back to it.
pptPlex changes that and makes it a much more fluid experience. Instead of loading up the next slide you can click on the month in the timeline and Powerpoint zooms in to that slide-within-a-slide and all the extra information contained within it. Got more information to expose within that month? Just click and zoom in again to expose it. When you are done you can zoom back out to the timeline with a couple of clicks.
Office Labs believe this offers a much more fluid way of navigating and keeps the information in context. You can see it in action via the multiple demo videos on its website.
Read more at NetworkWorld.com
Matthew's Opinion
I watched the main demo video and it is clear to see how useful pptPlex is in presentations. It's going to make it much easier for viewers to grasp how things fit together if you are going into detail on certain subjects.
I'm hoping that this ends up being a free addition to Powerpoint and that they don't wait for the next version of Office to make it available for use. With growing competition from other office suites Microsoft need free additions like this to help keep their user base happy.
The feedback so far on the Office Labs discussion forums is a mix of praise and details of issues. So if you try it be prepared for a few stumbling blocks. It requires Powerpoint 2007, but works with both Windows XP and Vista.


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Alexi Lubomirski / Kensington Palace
From the moment Prince Harry met Meghan Markle in the summer of 2016, he was smitten.
His choice to take her to Botswana for their third date, so they could camp out under the stars in the African bush, was all the evidence his friends needed that he had finally met someone exceptional.
It's not hard to see why he fell so quickly for the American actress. Aside from the obvious, that she's beautiful and intelligent, she also has a robust empathetic streak, a personality trait we also associate with the fifth-in-line to the throne. Harry's easygoing and caring nature is often credited as an inheritance from his mother, Princess Diana, and has undoubtedly played a role in his massive popularity.
But there's something else, a shared experience, that might have strengthened their bond: both are the offspring of couples who fell out of love.


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WASHINGTON — Senator Bernie Sanders met with President Obama on Thursday and said afterward that he would do everything within his power to stop Donald J. Trump from becoming president — and would work closely with Hillary Clinton to make that happen.
After the meeting with Mr. Obama, which lasted more than an hour, Mr. Sanders gave no indication that he was ready to leave the race just yet, insisting that he would compete in next week's primary contest here in Washington. However, he made clear that party unity was on his mind.
"I will work as hard as I can, to make sure that Donald Trump does not become president of the United States," Mr. Sanders told reporters, saying the Manhattan businessman "makes bigotry and discrimination the cornerstone of his campaign" and would be a "disaster" as commander in chief.
He said he would continue fighting for the issues that animated his campaign, including enhancing Social Security benefits, college affordability and restoring the nation's crumbling infrastructure.
"These are the issues that we will take to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia in July," Mr. Sanders said, declining to answer reporters' shouted questions about whether he would leave the race.
Shortly after their meeting, Mr. Obama endorsed Mrs. Clinton in a video. He also praised the campaign that Mr. Sanders ran.
The visit came a day after the senator huddled with his team at his headquarters in Vermont to discuss the fate of his candidacy.
If You Think the Democratic Primary Race Is Close, the 2008 One Was Even Tighter
How the 2008 Obama-Clinton race could inform Sanders's path forward.
Mr. Sanders, who requested the meeting with the president, pulled into the White House grounds at 10:56 a.m. after stopping at a nearby Peet's Coffee for a scone. Mr. Obama and Mr. Sanders strolled down the colonnade next to the Rose Garden on their way into the Oval Office, chatting inaudibly and grinning broadly. Nearby, a thick line of cameras and cluster of microphones were assembled in the driveway outside the West Wing, where journalists peppered the Vermont senator with questions.
Mr. Obama was trying to negotiate, however gently, with him to exit the Democratic race without inflicting damage on efforts to unite the party.
"My hope is, is that over the next couple of weeks, we're able to pull things together," Mr. Obama said during a taping of an appearance on the "Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" on Wednesday in New York. "There's a natural process of everybody recognizing that this is not about any individual."
Briefly posing for photographers before his meeting in the Capitol with Senator Harry Reid, the minority leader, Mr. Sanders ignored three questions about Mr. Obama's endorsement of Mrs. Clinton.
His face flushed, Mr. Sanders did not speak at all. But Mr. Reid gently scolded the assembled journalists for asking questions at what was supposed to be just a photo opportunity.
After his meeting with Reid, Mr. Sanders made a quick exit through a back hall on his way to meet with Senator Chuck Schumer of New York. He was also scheduled to meet with Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.
After Mrs. Clinton won Tuesday's California primary, Mr. Sanders refused to quit the race, despite Mrs. Clinton's wide margin of victory and the fact that she had the support of enough delegates for the nomination. But some of his supporters have started to walk away, prompting growing calls that it is time to bring the party together to defeat Mr. Trump.
On Wednesday, Mr. Sanders sent out a fund-raising email asking for contributions of $2.70, and at 7 p.m. he will hold a rally outside of R.F.K. Stadium in Washington, where he will discuss his plans for getting big money out of politics and making public universities tuition free.


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Sport Management Major
The Sport Management program includes a Bachelor's degree in Sport Management and an Interdisciplinary Sports Studies Minor. These programs provide a foundation of study in business applied to the sport industry, its products, and its services.
The primary goals of the program are (1) to develop an in-depth knowledge of planning, organizing, leading, and evaluating (the core management functions) within the context of a sport business organization; (2) to develop competent leaders for the various professions that focus on sport, with an emphasis ethical leadership and social responsibility; and (3) to provide the foundation for students who desire to continue their study in graduate or law school.
The program provides the theoretical and practical framework for a number of professions that focus on leadership roles, including youth, amateur, and professional sports; recreation, college, and university sports; sport commissions and governing bodies; marketing, sales, operations and finance management for professional sports organizations, sporting goods manufacturers, and event and facility management.
A well-rounded business degree with a focus on sports management skills is essential in this rapidly growing field. The course content within this program strongly emphasizes a critical analysis of ethical decision making as it applies to sport industry management.
|Sports Management degrees allow students to seek many career opportunities. Students have the possibility working in:
|franchise operations
|player relations
|sports law
sports product development.
Sport Study Minor
The Sport Study minor will be attractive for Secondary Education majors who may wish to lead K-12 athletics events as part of their future teaching career. Also, the minor will serve well Communications Majors who wish to enter a Sports-related Communications profession. With numerous professional, collegiate and amateur sport industry organizations in our local area, our students will have ample access to job shadowing opportunities to complement their classroom learning.
Sport Management Faculty
Christine Hagedorn


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Ken Hensley - 1973 - Proud Words on a Dusty Shelf
Release Date: 1973 | Label: Mercury Records SRM 1-661 | Tracks: 10 | mp3 192VBR or EAC image
Genre: Rock | Style: Hard Rock, Progressive Rock
Uriah Heep's all around utility man just had too much energy and material so he got his mates to back him on his first solo effort. And what a grand album it is. Ballads, quiet moments, and heartache are combined with powerful guitars and Ken's emotional vocals. The version of 'Rain' presented here is quieter than the Heep recording, but I think the instrumentation and vocals allow it to tell a better tale here. The gatefold cover has the library book in question displayed prominently. The slightly psychedelic inner cover has a few photos of Ken posing and playing. Always dynamic with the Heep, this time Ken goes it alone and hits the mark square on dead center.
Track Listing
Side 1
When Evening Comes
From Time to Time
King Without a Throne
Proud Words
Side 2
Black-Hearted Lady
Go Down
Cold Autumn Sunday
The Last Time
Line Up:
Bass Guitars: Dave Paul and Gary Thain
Drums: Lee Kerslake
All other instruments and vocals Ken Hensley
mp3 192VBR 59.9 MB
Proud Words on a Dusty Shelf
EAC image 231 MB
Proud Words on a Dusty Shelf
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RAR + 3% recovery record
Password: uriah heep
P.S. Other Ken Hensley posts at AvaxHome:
The Last Dance 2003
The Wizard's Diary Vol. 1 2005


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Glory Now to Thee be Given (Opening Hymn)
My name is Chuck. For as long as I can remember, I have had a love for the sound of a pipe organ. I started playing them when I was about 8 years old. Sitting at the pipe organ practicing and playing for hours at a time is my favorite past time. I've been a lifelong member of the Lutheran Church (Missouri Synod) and attend Immanuel Lutheran Church.
On my page, I want to share with you some of the wma files I've made along with some MIDI files dedicated to pipe organ music.
If you don't have an MP3 Player, you can either download WinAmp or you can just use windows media player.
If you are using Internet Explorer, have a reasonably good connection speed and/or cable, you can stream these files in full stereo. If you are using Netscape or would like to save them for future listening, click on the name of the piece and save it to your hard drive. Winamp or Windows Media Player can then be used to play them. The players that are grayed out have hymns that are hosted on Geocities. Geocities claim they support .wma files but obviously they don't. You'll have to click on the hymn title to hear these.
Please email me at
My page was last updated on March 13, 2002.
people have enjoyed listening to my Organ Music!
My page was last updated on March 13, 2002.
people have enjoyed listening to my Organ Music!