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KANSAS CITY - Just when the Royals were threatening to make a charge, Brian Dozier got in the way.
Dozier, the Twins' second baseman, dove and started a crucial double play that helped the Twins stop the Royals' five-game winning streak, 8-3, on Sunday with an Easter crowd of 17,710 at Kauffman Stadium.View Full Game Coverage
KANSAS CITY - Just when the Royals were threatening to make a charge, Brian Dozier got in the way.
Dozier, the Twins' second baseman, dove and started a crucial double play that helped the Twins stop the Royals' five-game winning streak, 8-3, on Sunday with an Easter crowd of 17,710 at Kauffman Stadium.View Full Game Coverage
"That's a game-changer," said Twins third baseman Trevor Plouffe.
Plouffe did some game changing himself with two doubles, a triple, two RBIs and two runs.
It was Plouffe's two-run double that helped Royals rookie Yordano Ventura's day get off to a bad start. Dozier opened the first inning with a single, Joe Mauer walked and Plouffe's double to deep right center scored both of them.
Ventura's first Major League victory, last Tuesday at Houston, pulled the Royals out of a three-loss ditch they suffered at Minnesota and launched their five-game streak. But he couldn't get them to a sixth win.
Dozier's big play came after the Twins had gone ahead, 5-0, in the fifth inning. Alcides Escobar opened the Royals' half with a double and, after an out, Omar Infante singled him home. Eric Hosmer singled and there were two on base.
That's when Salvador Perez hit a shot up the middle.
"As soon as I hit the ball, I thought it was going to get through. He made a pretty nice play," Perez said.
Dozier dove, made the grab and, off balance, flipped unerringly to shortstop Eduardo Escobar at second base to start a double play that ended the inning.
"There's no telling what would have happened if that ball goes through right there," Royals manager Ned Yost said. "Salvy hit a ball as hard as you can hit it on the ground and Dozier made a great play."
Twins pitcher Phil Hughes escaped with just one run home.
"Salvador has been hitting the ball really well. He hit it hard and those are fun plays," Dozier said. "It was a play to get us out of the inning. It could have been a big inning."
By then, Ventura was already out of the game. He was pulled with no outs in the fifth inning after Plouffe's leadoff triple banged off the center-field wall and Chris Colabello singled him home. Ventura's line included four runs on six hits and four walks along with six strikeouts, not including a wild pickoff throw and wild pitch.
His control was off.
"He really struggled on repeating his mechanics. On days when he's going to be off, he's going to be off on his command," Yost said. "When he is off and when he has trouble, he flies open and drops his arm slot a little bit which creates kind of an upward appearance of the ball. When he's good, he stays closed and is strong downhill. He had trouble repeating that today."
Ventura knew it.
"I tried to concentrate and make adjustments throughout the game, but I'm not going to have good days every day," he said. "I was trying to make all the adjustments to try to go deep in the game and help us win."
Louis Coleman relieved Ventura in the fifth and, after a double play, gave up a solo homer to Josmil Pinto.
That ended the Kansas City bullpen's stretch of scoreless innings at 14 2/3, and was also the first home run given up by the 'pen in 41 innings this season.
Then the Royals shifted to Justin Marks, a left-hander up from Omaha making his Major League debut, and later used another rookie in Michael Mariot.
"At that point of the game, I knew I had to get through the game with Marks and Mariot," Yost said. "It was a case where I didn't want to use any of my big guys when we were down five or six runs."
Marks got through a scoreless sixth inning with two strikeouts, but gave up three runs in the seventh and the Twins were ahead, 8-1. Mariot finished up with two scoreless innings.
There was one last flurry for the Royals in the seventh. Justin Maxwell's single was followed by Escobar's home run, his second of the year. Escobar is hitting just two ticks under .300 as he strives to recover from a .234 average in 2013.
He's intent on getting back to the .293 average he experienced in 2012.
"Something like that -- and better. That's what I'm looking for," Escobar said.
That includes Billy Butler, who continued his climb out of a lengthy slump with two singles on Sunday. He's 6-for-14 in the last four games.
"Billy's almost back to being Billy a little bit," Yost said.
And the Royals feel like they're almost back to being the Royals they thought they were when the season began.
If nothing else, the five-game winning streak served to erase the stigma of three straight losses at Minnesota last weekend.
"The last week, we've played really good baseball," Yost said. "The three days before that we played bad baseball. And the seven games before that we played really good baseball. It was just that we strung together three bad games, but we came back and played two great series."


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The Australian had started the day with a two shot lead but was dragged into an epic tussle with playing partner Poulter down the back nine of the Serapong Course, the 2005 and 2006 winner eventually emerging with the narrowest of leads.
The 30 year old signed for a round of 69 to sit 14 under par, while Poulter carded two birdies and an eagle in a round of 68.
"It wasn't easy out there today," said Scott. "It was hot and it was a long round and I wasn't feeling on top of a lot of aspects of my game at times but I am just happy to have got back to the clubhouse with 69 which is always a good score - it's respectable."
Poulter was pleased to have reduced the deficit after a round which took over five hours to complete.
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"I think I missed one green and that was about five feet out so I actually hit about 18 greens in regulation. But Adam played well as well so I think tomorrow is going to be a great day."
World Number 567 Kang is also right in the frame having seemingly been out of the running when he ran up a double bogey seven at the seventh - only to respond with a brilliant back nine 30 which included five unanswered birdies.
Both Scott and Poulter opened their accounts with birdies at the par three second, the Englishman hitting his tee shot to within six feet.
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Six-time European Tour winner Scott went back in front with a birdie at the seventh after hitting his approach to four feet, but there was a decisive swing at the tenth as Poulter went ahead for the first time.
The Ryder Cup star sunk a 20 foot birdie putt, while Scott missed his par effort from five feet.
Poulter, as so often is the case, produced a masterclass in clutch putts, but there was nothing he could do to rescue par when he mis-cued his tee shot at the par three 14th.
And Scott regained the outright lead when he drained a 12 footer at the 16th for birdie.
The former World Number Three could have held an even bigger advantage - at the par five last Poulter caught a flyer with his approach and was left with a near-impossible downhill birdie putt from the back of the green, while Scott's magnificent approach stopped five feet from the pin.
But the Australian misread the line, and Poulter once again bravely holed from a similar distance to save par and tee up an enthralling final day.
"At the 18th, I just over-read the putt a little bit but the course played hard on the back nine and it was hard to get it close, so I was happy to shoot par on the back nine," said Scott.
"I'd love to go out tomorrow and play really solid and whatever happens, happens. If I play solid I think I can get it done but if it's not enough then I will have to come back and try again next year."
Poulter added: "Hopefully I can go out there and play just as well and roll a few more putts in and who knows - I might just get my hands on the trophy again.
"We are mates off the golf course, I have known Adam for about 12 years. You get 40 or 50 seconds to stand over your shot, concentrate, and pull the trigger. Obviously you have time to relax between shots and Adam is a great and nice guy to talk to."
It is far from a two-horse race, however, with Kang's masterful approach to within three feet on the 18th highlighting the 27 year old's talent in a 67 that included eight birdies.
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Dane Anders Hansen produced a best-of-the-day 65 to hold fifth on 11 under, one shot ahead of Wales' Jamie Donaldson.
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Ed3 wrote:The Excluded Middle is: (Not (Not A)) → A. If this is not the case then is it true that the following proposition is also true: (A ʌ -A)?
I am working on a post which has Brouwer /Constructivism as major subjects.
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Ed3 wrote:Hi Carleas,
I'm sorry!!! I did screw up the representation of my question.
I should have written – (NOT (NOT A) → A) imply (A Ʌ -A)
It appears that you have written the correct form.
Apologies - Ed
Carleas wrote:As I understand your question, it's \( \neg ( \, \neg (\neg A)) \rightarrow A) \overset{?}{\rightarrow} (A \land \neg A) \)
i.e., if it's not the case that [not not A implies A], then [A and not A].
Ed3 wrote:The final ")" belongs after the arrow and not after the first ")".
Ed3 wrote:Hi James,
I meant to ask the following:
Does the negation of the Law of the Excluded imply (A and Not A)?
If it does then it would be a giant disaster for Constructivism. (You can go to Wiki and search for the Principle of Explosion to see a proof that for all propositions, Q, (A and not A) imply Q). But I think you already knew that.
Thanks Ed
Meno_ wrote:But the law of the excluded middle has very important philosophical implication, therefore, so does the law of identity.
Existentialism has direct connections to the law of the excluded middle. The philosophy in that sense can derive the logic which underlies the existential argument. Historical inevitability reduces to that logic.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- Nearly 6-in-10 uninsured U.S. adults could get low-cost, high-value health insurance for less than $100 per month under healthcare reform, officials say.
Under the Affordable Care Act's Health Insurance Marketplace, those uninsured or underinsured might be able to buy health insurance for the first time or buy it at a lower cost than they are currently paying.
"You'll see the amount of savings you're eligible for when you fill out your Marketplace application beginning Oct. 1," the website Healthcare.gov said.
"These lower costs are handled with a tax credit called the Advance Premium Tax Credit. But these tax credits can be applied directly to your monthly premiums, so you get the lower costs immediately."
Individuals will be able to get a rough estimate of health insurance costs and savings under the Affordable Care Act before Oct. 1 by using the Kaiser Family Foundation calculator: http://kff.org/interactive/subsidy-calculator/.
An individual's savings on health insurance will depend on personal income and family size. In general, if a person's income falls within the following ranges they'll qualify to save money on health insurance premiums in 2014, the website said.
"The lower your income within these ranges, the more you'll save," Healthcare.gov said. The amounts below are based on 2013 numbers and are likely to be slightly higher in 2014:
-- $11,490 to $45,960 for individuals.
-- $15,510 to $62,040 for a family of 2.
-- $19,530 to $78,120 for a family of 3.
-- $23,550 to $94,200 for a family of 4.
-- $27,570 to $110,280 for a family of 5.
-- $31,590 to $126,360 for a family of 6.
-- $35,610 to $142,440 for a family of 7.
-- $39,630 to $158,520 for a family of 8.
"If your income falls below the amounts shown, you may qualify for coverage under your state's Medicaid program," Healthcare.gov said. "But if your state is not expanding Medicaid in 2014 -- and you don't qualify for Medicaid under your state's rules -- you can't get lower costs on Marketplace coverage based on your income. You'd have to pay the entire cost of a Marketplace insurance plan."


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People sometimes get hurt in the business of living. The human body is subject to disease, injuries and various mishaps of accidental or intentional character.
Throughout the ages, religions have attempted to relieve Man's physical suffering. Methods have ranged from prayer to the laying on of hands, and many superstitions arose to account for their occasional effectiveness. It has been a commonly held belief, however, no matter the method used, that the spirit can have an effect on the body.
Today, medicine treats the body when there is something wrong with it. But it overlooks almost totally the relationship of the spiritual being to his body and the effect the former has on the latter.
The fact is, after any necessary medical treatment, the individual himself has an enormous capacity to influence the body and its well-being or lack of it.
L. Ron Hubbard developed numerous applications of his discoveries for the mental and spiritual aspects of a person's physical difficulties. And as more and more techniques evolved, a new body of technology came into use, called "assists."
The ways assists can be applied are almost limitless. They always help and often have miraculous results. Dozens of assists exist today for a wide array of conditions, and several of the most basic and widely used are included in this course and corresponding booklet.
Ease of Study
This course is laid out in a step-by-step manner, with a sequence of reading assignments, essays and practical exercises.
Before you begin, you create your own personal account on the Volunteer Ministers website. Once logged in, the online program will guide you through each step of the course to full completion, with all course materials provided from within the Volunteer Ministers website.
Length of Course
4 to 6 hours. You may, however, do the course at your own pace. In other words, it is not timed. The course is our service to you, free of charge.
Booklet: Assists for Illnesses and Injuries
or The Scientology Handbook
Your course materials are also integrated within the online course. In other words, once logged on, you may read the materials from within the online course program as you do each step. We do, however, recommend that you download for free or purchase the booklet, to review and refer to when you are not logged into the course program.
Through the length of your course, you will receive supervision from your personal online course supervisor, who will help to ensure you understand and achieve the maximum benefit from the course materials. The end result is that you are fully able to apply the data contained therein. If you have any further questions, contact us here.
Each assignment you turn in will be graded by your course supervisor. In the event that any of your assignments need correction, your supervisor will send them back to you, with direction on what to review and correct.
Course Completion
Upon completion of The Assists for Illnesses and Injuries Course, you will receive a hardcopy certificate by mail.
The services of our online courses are always available to you. If at any time you need assistance with your course assignments, do not hesitate to contact your online course supervisor, whom you can reach using the 'Need help?' button in your online course program.
"I have continued to search until I found Scientology and its assists. I can say now that I have found what I was looking for. Since I have applied the assists, I have had the capacity to help and to influence the body and its well-being.
"It is a wonderful thing to see people get well and change their lives. Now I have more friends and I have started to teach about assists in the organizations I belong to.
"Now my life has a practical motivation, and I know that I will be helping people for a long time, because I have found a powerful way to contribute not just to my community but my whole country." — F.N.
"Thanks to this class I am now able to sleep again. Before there were many times when my four-year-old son had pain in his legs. Usually he used to have that kind of pain when I was tired myself and did not have any strength left to handle him.
"But when I learned about the assists and started applying them, I could handle him and put him back to sleep in often less than five minutes. This has helped us a lot. He was able to sleep seemingly painlessly, and I have been so relieved to have found a way to help him and my entire family (because they suffered, too). It is so easy, when you know what to do. I wish everybody would know about this and try it." — M.H.
Would you like to help someone who is ill?
How can you or anyone recover faster from an injury?
When faced with the illness or injury of a friend or family member, we'd all like to help bring them some relief. There are techniques you can learn so you can do just that. They are called "assists" and they're easy to learn and simple to do. In conjunction with medical treatment, assists can greatly speed healing and recovery time. And by delivering an assist to another, you can have the satisfaction of knowing you helped.
On the free online course, Assists for Illnesses and Injuries, find out:
- The principles behind assists
- Assists for alleviating pain and suffering
- An assist for an unconscious person and another for making a drunk person sober


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|Basutoland was renamed the Kingdom of Lesotho upon independence from the UK in 1966. The Basuto National Party ruled the country during its first two decades. King MOSHOESHOE was exiled in 1990, but returned to Lesotho in 1992 and was reinstated in 1995 and subsequently succeeded by his son, King LETSIE III, in 1996. Constitutional government was restored in 1993 after seven years of military rule. In 1998, violent protests and a military mutiny following a contentious election prompted a brief but bloody intervention by South African and Batswana military forces under the aegis of the Southern African Development Community. Subsequent constitutional reforms restored relative political stability. Peaceful parliamentary elections were held in 2002, but the National Assembly elections of February 2007 were hotly contested and aggrieved parties disputed how the electoral law was applied to award proportional seats in the Assembly. In May 2012, competitive elections involving 18 parties saw Prime Minister Motsoahae Thomas THABANE form a coalition government - the first in the country's history - that ousted the 14-year incumbent, Pakalitha MOSISILI, who peacefully transferred power the following month. MOSISILI returned to power in snap elections in February 2015 after the collapse of THABANE's coalition government and an alleged attempted military coup.
Landlocked, completely surrounded by South Africa; mountainous, more than 80% of the country is 1,800 m above sea level
|Southern Africa, an enclave of South Africa
|Geographic coordinates:
| total: 30,355 sq km
land: 30,355 sq km
water: 0 sq km
Size comparison: slightly smaller than Maryland
|Land Boundaries:
|total: 1,106 km border countries (1): South Africa 1,106 km
|0 km (landlocked)
|Maritime claims:
|none (landlocked)
|temperate; cool to cold, dry winters; hot, wet summers
|mostly highland with plateaus, hills, and mountains
|Elevation extremes:
|Natural resources:
|water, agricultural and grazing land, diamonds, sand, clay, building stone
|Land use:
| agricultural land: 76.1% arable land 10.1%; permanent crops 0.1%; permanent pasture 65.9% forest: 1.5%
other: 22.4% (2011 est.)
|Irrigated land:
|30 sq km (2012)
|Natural hazards:
|periodic droughts
|Current Environment Issues:
|population pressure forcing settlement in marginal areas results in overgrazing, severe soil erosion, and soil exhaustion; desertification; Highlands Water Project controls, stores, and redirects water to South Africa
|International Environment Agreements:
| party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Life Conservation, Ozone Layer Protection, Wetlands
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
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| noun: Mosotho (singular), Basotho (plural)
adjective: Basotho
|Ethnic groups:
|Sotho 99.7%, Europeans, Asians, and other 0.3%
|Sesotho (official) (southern Sotho), English (official), Zulu, Xhosa
|Christian 80%, indigenous beliefs 20%
|1,953,070 note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality, higher death rates, lower population growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2016 est.)
|Age structure:
| 0-14 years: 32.4% (male 317,933/female 314,849)
15-24 years: 19.56% (male 181,907/female 200,113)
25-54 years: 37.58% (male 358,643/female 375,313)
55-64 years: 5% (male 52,016/female 45,549)
65 years and over: 5.47% (male 54,466/female 52,281) (2016 est.)
|Dependency ratios:
| total dependency ratio: 67.3%
youth dependency ratio: 60.3%
elderly dependency ratio: 6.9%
potential support ratio: 14.4% (2015 est.)
|Median age:
| total: 24 years
male: 24 years
female: 24 years (2016 est.)
|Population growth rate:
|0.3% (2016 est.)
|Birth rate:
|25.1 births/1,000 population (2016 est.)
|Death rate:
|14.9 deaths/1,000 population (2016 est.)
|Net migration rate:
|-7.1 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2016 est.)
| urban population: 27.3% of total population (2015)
rate of urbanization: 3.05% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)
|Major urban areas - population:
|MASERU (capital) 267,000 (2014)
|Sex ratio:
| at birth: 1.03 male(s)/female
0-14 years: 1.01 male(s)/female
15-24 years: 0.91 male(s)/female
25-54 years: 0.96 male(s)/female
55-64 years: 1.14 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 1.03 male(s)/female
total population: 0.98 male(s)/female (2016 est.)
|Mother's mean age at first birth:
|21 note: median age at first birth among women 25-29 (2014 est.)
|Maternal mortality rate:
|487 deaths/100,000 live births (2015 est.)
|Infant mortality rate:
| total: 47.6 deaths/1,000 live births male: 51.2 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 43.8 deaths/1,000 live births (2016 est.)
|Life expectancy at birth:
| total population: 53 years male: 52.9 years
female: 53.1 years (2016 est.)
|Total fertility rate:
|2.68 children born/woman (2016 est.)
|Contraceptive prevalence rate:
|47% (2009/10)
|Health expenditures:
|10.6% of GDP (2014)
|Hospital bed density:
|1.3 beds/1,000 population (2006)
|Drinking water source:
| improved:
urban: 94.6% of population
rural: 77% of population
total: 81.8% of population
urban: 5.4% of population
rural: 23% of population
total: 18.2% of population (2015 est.)
|Sanitation facility access:
| improved:
urban: 37.3% of population
rural: 27.6% of population
total: 30.3% of population
urban: 62.7% of population
rural: 72.4% of population
total: 69.7% of population (2015 est.)
|HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
|22.73% (2015 est.)
|HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
|308,100 (2015 est.)
|HIV/AIDS - deaths:
|9,900 (2015 est.)
|Obesity - adult prevalence rate:
|11.9% (2014)
|Children under the age of 5 years underweight:
|10.3% (2014)
|Education expenditures:
|13% of GDP (2008)
| definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 79.4%
male: 70.1%
female: 88.3% (2015 est.)
|School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education):
| total: 11 years male: 10 years
female: 11 years (2014)
|Unemployment, youth ages 15-24:
| total: 34.4% male: 29%
female: 41.9% (2013 est.)
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|Country name:
| conventional long form: Kingdom of Lesotho
conventional short form: Lesotho
local long form: Kingdom of Lesotho
local short form: Lesotho
former: Basutoland
etymology: the name translates as "Land of the Sesotho speakers"
|Government type:
|parliamentary constitutional monarchy
| name: Maseru
geographic coordinates: 29 19 S, 27 29 E
time difference: UTC+2 (7 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
|Administrative divisions:
|10 districts; Berea, Butha-Buthe, Leribe, Mafeteng, Maseru, Mohale's Hoek, Mokhotlong, Qacha's Nek, Quthing, Thaba-Tseka
|4 October 1966 (from the UK)
|National holiday:
|Independence Day, 4 October (1966)
|previous 1959, 1967; latest adopted 2 April 1993 (effectively restoring the 1967 version); amended several times, last in 2011 (2016)
|Legal system:
|mixed legal system of English common law and Roman-Dutch law; judicial review of legislative acts in High Court and Court of Appeal
|18 years of age; universal
|Executive branch:
| chief of state: King LETSIE III (since 7 February 1996); note - King LETSIE III formerly occupied the throne from November 1990 to February 1995 while his father was in exile
head of government: Prime Minister Pakalitha MOSISILI (since 18 March 2015)
cabinet: Cabinet elections/appointments: the monarchy is hereditary but under the terms of the constitution that came into effect after the March 1993 election, the monarch is a "living symbol of national unity" with no executive or legislative powers; under traditional law, the college of chiefs has the power to depose the monarch, to determine next in line of succession, or to serve as regent in the event that a successor is not of mature age; following legislative elections, the leader of the majority party or majority coalition in the Assembly automatically becomes prime minister
|Legislative branch:
| description: bicameral Parliament consists of the Senate (33 seats; 22 principal chiefs and 11 other senators nominated by the king with the advice of the Council of State, a 13-member body of key government and non-government officials; members serve 5-year terms) and the National Assembly (120 seats; 80 members directly elected in single-seat constituencies by simple majority vote and 40 directly elected in single-seat constituencies by proportional representation vote; members serve 5-year terms)
elections: last held on 28 February 2015 (next to be held in 2020)
election results: National Assembly - percent of vote by party - DC 38.4%, ABC 37.8%, LCD, 9.9%, BNP 5.5%, PFD 1.7%, RCL 1.2%, NIP 1.0%, MFP 0.6%, BCP 0.5%, LPC 0.3%, other 3.1%; seats by party - DC 47, ABC 46, LCD 12, BNP 7, PFD 2, RCL 2, NIP 1, MFP 1, BCP 1, LPC 1
|Judicial branch:
| highest court(s): Court of Appeal (consists of the court president, such number of justices of appeal as set by Parliament, and the Chief Justice and the puisne judges of the High Court ex officio); High Court (consists of the chief justice and such number of puisne judges as set by Parliament); note - both the Court of Appeal and the High Court have jurisdiction in constitutional issues judge selection and term of office: Court of Appeal president and High Court chief justice appointed by the monarch on the advice of the prime minister; puisne judges appointed by the monarch on advice of the Judicial Service Commission, an independent body of judicial officers and officials designated by the monarch; judges of both courts can serve until age 75
subordinate courts: Magistrate Courts; customary or traditional courts; military courts
|Political parties and leaders:
|All Basotho Convention or ABC [Motsoahae Thomas THABANE] Basotho Congress Party or BCP [Thulo MAHLAKENG] Basotho National Party or BNP [Thesele MASERIBANE] Democratic Congress or DC [Pakalitha MOSISILI] Lesotho Congress for Democracy or LCD [Mothetjoa METSING] Lesotho Peoples Congress or LPC [Molahlehi LETLOTLO] Marematlou Freedom Party or MFP [Vincent MALEBO] National Independent Party or NIP [Kimetso MATHABA] Popular Front for Democracy of PFD [Lekhetho RAKUOANE] Reformed Congress of Lesotho or RCL [Keketso RANTSO]
|Political pressure groups and leaders:
|Media Institute of Southern Africa, Lesotho chapter [Tsebo MAT�ASA] (pushes for media freedom)
|International organization participation:
|ACP, AfDB, AU, C, CD, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITU, MIGA, NAM, OPCW, SACU, SADC, UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
|National symbol(s):
|mokorotio (Basotho hat); national colors: blue, white, green, black
|National anthem:
| name: "Lesotho fatse la bo ntat'a rona" (Lesotho, Land of Our Fathers)
lyrics/music: Francois COILLARD/Ferdinand-Samuel LAUR
note: adopted 1967; music derives from an 1823 Swiss songbook
|Diplomatic representation in the US:
| chief of mission: Ambassador Eliachim Molapi SEBATANE (since 2 November 2011)
chancery: 2511 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008
telephone: [1] (202) 797-5533
|Diplomatic representation from the US:
| chief of mission: Ambassador Matthew T. HARRINGTON (since October 2014)
embassy: 254 Kingsway Road, Maseru West (Consular Section)
mailing address: P.O. Box 333, Maseru 100, Lesotho
telephone: [266] 22 312 666
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Small, mountainous, and completely landlocked by South Africa, Lesotho depends on a narrow economic base of textile manufacturing, agriculture, remittances, and regional customs revenue. About three-fourths of the people live in rural areas and engage in animal herding and subsistence agriculture, although Lesotho produces less than 20% of the nation's demand for food. Agriculture is vulnerable to weather and climate variability. Lesotho relies on South Africa for much of its economic activity; Lesotho imports 90% of the goods it consumes from South Africa, including most agricultural inputs. Households depend heavily on remittances from family members working in South Africa, in mines, on farms, and as domestic workers, though mining employment has declined substantially since the 1990s. Lesotho is a member of the Southern Africa Customs Union (SACU), and revenues from SACU accounted for roughly 44% of total government revenue in 2014. The South African Government also pays royalties for water transferred to South Africa from a dam and reservoir system in Lesotho. However, the government continues to strengthen its tax system to reduce dependency on customs duties and other transfers. The government maintains a large presence in the economy - government consumption accounted for 37% of GDP in 2014 and the government remains Lesotho's largest employer. Access to credit remains a problem for the private sector. Lesotho's largest private employer is the textile and garment industry - approximately 36,000 Basotho, mainly women, work in factories producing garments for export to South Africa and the US. Diamond mining in Lesotho has grown in recent years and may contribute 8.5% to GDP by 2015, according to current forecasts.
|GDP (purchasing power parity):
| GDP (purchasing power parity): $6.019 billion (2016 est.) $5.878 billion (2015 est.) $5.717 billion (2014 est.)
note: data are in 2016 dollars
|GDP (official exchange rate):
|GDP (official exchange rate): $1.806 billion (2015 est.)
|GDP - real growth rate:
|2.4% (2016 est.) 2.8% (2015 est.) 3.4% (2014 est.)
|GDP - per capita (PPP):
| GDP - per capita (PPP): $3,100 (2016 est.) $3,000 (2015 est.) $3,000 (2014 est.)
note: data are in 2016 dollars
|Gross national saving:
|27.8% of GDP (2016 est.) 24.1% of GDP (2015 est.) 23.4% of GDP (2014 est.)
|GDP - composition, by end use:
| household consumption: 70.4%
government consumption: 27.2%
investment in fixed capital: 30.2%
investment in inventories: -1.6%
exports of goods and services: 40.9%
imports of goods and services: -67.1% (2016 est.)
|GDP - composition, by sector of origin:
| household consumption: 70.4%
government consumption: 27.2%
investment in fixed capital: 30.2%
investment in inventories: -1.6%
exports of goods and services: 40.9%
imports of goods and services: -67.1% (2016 est.)
|Agriculture - products:
|corn, wheat, pulses, sorghum, barley; livestock
|food, beverages, textiles, apparel assembly, handicrafts, construction, tourism
|Industrial production growth rate:
|0.7% (2016 est.)
|Labor force:
|919,900 (2016 est.)
|Labor force - by occupation:
| agriculture: 86% industry and
services: 14% note: most of the resident population is engaged in subsistence agriculture; roughly 35% of the active male wage earners work in South Africa (2002 est.)
|Unemployment rate:
|28.1% (2014 est.) 25% (2008 est.)
|Population below poverty line:
|57.1% (2010 est.)
|Household income or consumption by percentage share:
| lowest 10%: 1%
highest 10%: 39.4% (2003)
|Distribution of family income - Gini index:
|63.2 (1995) 56 (1986-87)
| revenues: $835.9 million
expenditures: $978.3 million (2016 est.)
|Taxes and other revenues:
|46.3% of GDP (2016 est.)
|Public debt:
|53.4% of GDP (2015 est.) 47.8% of GDP (2014)
|Fiscal year:
|1 April - 31 March
|Inflation rate (consumer prices):
|Inflation rate (consumer prices): 8.3% (2016 est.) 3.2% (2015 est.)
|Current account balance:
|-$144 million (2016 est.) -$178 million (2015 est.)
|$851.6 million (2016 est.) $844.1 million (2015 est.)
|Exports - commodities:
|manufactures (clothing, footwear), wool and mohair, food and live animals, electricity, water, diamonds
|$1.688 billion (2016 est.) $1.737 billion (2015 est.)
|Imports - commodities:
|food; building materials, vehicles, machinery, medicines, petroleum products
|Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
|$812.5 million (31 December 2016 est.) $904.2 million (31 December 2015 est.)
|Debt - external:
|$948.8 million (31 December 2016 est.) $866.7 million (31 December 2015 est.)
|Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:
|$438.2 million (31 December 2016 est.) $376.2 million (31 December 2015 est.)
|Exchange rates:
|maloti (LSL) per US dollar - 16.15 (2016 est.) 12.76 (2015 est.) 12.76 (2014 est.) 10.85 (2013 est.) 8.2 (2012 est.)
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|Electricity - production:
|500 million kWh (2014 est.)
|Electricity - consumption:
|800 million kWh (2014 est.)
|Electricity - exports:
|0 kWh (2013 est.)
|Electricity - imports:
|300 million kWh (2014 est.)
|Electricity - installed generating capacity:
|80,000 kW (2014 est.)
|Electricity - from fossil fuels:
|0% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
|Electricity - from nuclear fuels:
|0% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
|Electricity - from hydroelectric plants:
|100% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
|Electricity - from other renewable sources:
|0% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
|Crude oil - production:
|0 bbl/day (2015 est.)
|Crude oil - exports:
|0 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Crude oil - imports:
|0 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Crude oil - proved reserves:
|0 bbl (1 January 2016 es)
|Refined petroleum products - production:
|0 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - consumption:
|5,000 bbl/day (2014 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - exports:
|0 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - imports:
|5,121 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Natural gas - production:
|0 cu m (2013 est.)
|Natural gas - consumption:
|0 cu m (2013 est.)
|Natural gas - exports:
|0 cu m (2013 est.)
|Natural gas - imports:
|0 cu m (2013 est.)
|Natural gas - proved reserves:
|0 cu m (1 January 2014 es)
|Carbon dioxide emissions from consumption of energy:
|300,000 Mt (2013 est.)
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|Cellular Phones in use:
|total: 2.237 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 115 (July 2015 est.)
|Telephone system:
| general assessment: rudimentary system consisting of a modest number of landlines, a small microwave radio relay system, and a small radiotelephone communication system; mobile-cellular telephone system is expanding
domestic: privatized in 2001, Telecom Lesotho was tasked with providing an additional 50,000 fixed-line connections within five years, a target not met; mobile-cellular service dominates the market and is expanding with a subscribership now over 110 per 100 persons
international: country code - 266; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2015)
|Broadcast media:
|1 state-owned TV station and 2 state-owned radio stations; government controls most private broadcast media; satellite TV subscription service available; transmissions of multiple international broadcasters obtainable (2008)
|Internet country code:
|Internet users:
|total: 313,000 percent of population: 16.1% (July 2015 est.)
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|24 (2013)
|Airports (paved runways):
| total 3
over 3,047 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 1
under 914 m: 1 (2013)
|Airports (unpaved runways):
| total 21
914 to 1,523 m: 5
under 914 m: 16 (2013)
| total 5,940 km
paved: 1,069 km
unpaved: 4,871 km (2011)
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|Lesotho's declared policy for its military is the maintenance of the country's sovereignty and the preservation of internal security; in practice, external security is guaranteed by South Africa
|Military branches:
|Lesotho Defense Force (LDF): Army (includes Air Wing) (2012)
|Military service age and obligation:
|18-24 years of age for voluntary military service; no conscription; women serve as commissioned officers (2012)
|Military expenditures:
|1.94% of GDP (2012) 2.3% of GDP (2011) 1.94% of GDP (2010)
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|Transnational Issues
|Disputes - International:
|South Africa has placed military units to assist police operations along the border of Lesotho, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique to control smuggling, poaching, and illegal migration
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Source: CIA - The World Factbook


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White House ramps up talks on gun control measures
The Obama administration is making a big push this week to gather ideas for a comprehensive plan to curb gun violence, amid reports that the Vice President Biden-led task force is homing in on a host of gun control measures.
Biden plans to meet Wednesday with gun safety organizations and gun violence victims' groups, a White House aide told Fox News. The next day, he plans to meet with gun ownership groups as well as advocates for sportsmen.
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney confirmed Tuesday that the National Rifle Association was invited -- the NRA later confirmed to Fox News that they will be sending a representative. Biden has also scheduled a meeting with representatives from the entertainment and video game industries.
The administration has vowed, by the end of the month, to produce a comprehensive plan for addressing gun violence in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., school shooting massacre in which 20 children and six adults were killed. The administration says mental health and the entertainment industry also may be examined.
But much of the discussion, and proposals from Democratic members of Congress, continue to center around gun control.
The Washington Post reported over the weekend that President Obama was considering measures beyond reinstating a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. According to the paper, the task force is considering measures like universal background checks for gun buyers, a national gun database, strengthening mental-health checks and tougher penalties for people carrying guns near schools or giving them to minors.
Asked Monday about the report, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney reiterated that Obama wants to "close the many loopholes in our background check system" and "supports congressional actions right away."
Accelerated efforts to draft new gun control measures have alarmed gun rights groups, including the NRA, at the national and local levels. A separate last-minute effort to craft a restrictive semi-automatic weapon ban in Illinois was put on hold amid a tight deadline and intense opposition. On Capitol Hill, California Sen. Dianne Feinstein is again pushing a renewal of the federal assault-weapons ban.
But Congress is also slammed with a pressing set of deadlines regarding a host of fiscal issues -- the debt ceiling, automatic spending cuts and the federal budget itself.
Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell, the top Republican in the Senate, said the next round of fiscal deadlines will occupy the attention of Congress and push off the consideration of gun legislation for at least three months.
"There will be plenty of time to take a look at their recommendations once they come forward," McConnell said of Biden's upcoming proposals during an interview Sunday on ABC's "This Week."
Obama aides say the president still plans to act quickly on Biden's proposals. They worry that as the shock of the Newtown shooting fades, so, too, will the prospects that pro-gun lawmakers will work with the White House to tighten restrictions.
"I believe most Americans would disagree with the idea that in the wake of what happened in Newtown, Conn., that we should put off any action on the issue of gun violence," Carney said Monday in response to McConnell's comments. "It's certainly not a sentiment the president supports."
Biden's recommendations are likely to include proposals for legislation, as well as executive action Obama can sign into law without lawmakers' approval.
The president already has called on Congress to reinstate a ban on military-style assault weapons, close loopholes that allow gun buyers to skirt background checks and restrict high-capacity magazines. While the president may consider additional gun control measures, he also has ordered his administration to examine ways to improve mental health coverage and consider cultural issues like violence in video games and movies.
Pro-gun lawmakers on Capitol Hill have said any comprehensive effort to respond to the Newtown shooting must include more than just tighter gun control.
In addition to Biden's meetings this week, Education Secretary Arne Duncan will meet with parent and teacher groups, while Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will meet with mental health and disability advocates.
The White House said other meetings are also scheduled with community organizations, business owners and religious leaders.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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Soft Error Resilient QR Factorization for Hybrid System," University of Tennessee Computer Science Technical Report, no. UT-CS-11-675, Knoxville, TN, July 2011. (1.39 MB)"
Soft Error Resilient QR Factorization for Hybrid System with GPGPU," Journal of Computational Science, Seattle, WA, Workshop on Latest Advances in Scalable Algorithms for Large-Scale Systems at SC11, November 2011. (965.88 KB)"
Three-dimensional parallel frequency-domain visco-acoustic wave modelling based on a hybrid direct/iterative solver.," To appear in Geophysical Prospecting journal., 00-2011. (1.04 MB)"
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Accelerating the Reduction to Upper Hessenberg, Tridiagonal, and Bidiagonal Forms through Hybrid GPU-Based Computing," Parallel Computing, vol. 36, no. 12, pp. 645-654, 00-2010. (1.39 MB)"
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Analysis of Various Scalar, Vector, and Parallel Implementations of RandomAccess," Innovative Computing Laboratory (ICL) Technical Report, no. ICL-UT-10-03, June 2010. (226.9 KB)"
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Blas for GPUs," Scientific Computing with Multicore and Accelerators, Boca Raton, Florida, CRC Press, 2010. (1.05 MB)"
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A Class of Parallel Tiled Linear Algebra Algorithms for Multicore Architectures," Parallel Computing (to appear), 00-2010. (612.23 KB)"
Collecting Performance Data with PAPI-C," Tools for High Performance Computing 2009, 3rd Parallel Tools Workshop, Dresden, Germany, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, pp. 157-173, 00-2010. (4.45 MB)"
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Over the course of five years—and with seemingly limitless access—Richard Ross has been making thought-provoking pictures of architectural spaces that exert power over the individuals within them. The visually cool Palacio de Lecumberri is part of a larger body of work titled Architecture of Authority—a comprehensive sociopolitical investigation of architectural spaces, both exterior and interior, that exert psychological power over individuals. From civic spaces to religious institutions, Ross points out how individuals are strategically manipulated through carefully planned design. What is particularly ironic in this stately, somewhat romantic image of the Palacio de Lecumberri is that there is no residual evidence of its former identity as a prison. Ross's photographs are aesthetically sophisticated, emotionally charged, and visually compelling. His approach to photography is to show you an idea and then ask you to think it through.
Richard Ross (born 1947, New York) has taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara, since 1977. He has photographed for the New York Times Magazine, Discover, Vogue, and Frankfurter Allgemeine and is represented by ACME Gallery in Los Angeles. His work is in the collections of the Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; British Museum, London; Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; and Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal. Ross has published nearly a dozen books, including Museology (Aperture, 1989) and Waiting for the End of the World (Princeton Architecture Press, 2004).


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MySQL Connector/C Developer Guide
Connector/C is a client library that implements the C API for client/server communication. It is a standalone replacement for the MySQL client library shipped with MySQL Server distributions. See MySQL C API Implementations.
To see which platforms are supported, visit MySQL Connector/C downloads.
Reasons to use Connector/C:
If you need only the client library, Connector/C provides everything required. There is no need to compile or install the MySQL Server package, which is much larger.
Connector/C does not rely on the MySQL Server release cycle. Bug fixes and new features can be distributed independently of MySQL Server releases.
For documentation of the C API implemented by Connector/C, see MySQL C API.
For notes detailing the changes in each release of Connector/C, see MySQL Connector/C Release Notes.
The following discussion covers these topics:
Connector/C versions and supported platforms
Connector/C distribution contents
Obtaining and installing Connector/C
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An Introduction to Tampa, FL
Known for its beauty and proximity to the Gulf of Mexico, Tampa boasts a vibrant downtown area with excellent museums, concerts, dining, events and much more. Living in Tampa can mean lazy weekends on the beach, great shopping, or outdoor adventure. Culture, sunshine, fun and the urban environment make apartment living in Tampa an ideal choice, and many rentals place you close to the best the city has to offer.
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Diverse attractions and local sports teams, such as the Buccaneers, make Tampa a fun place to live. Busch Gardens Tampa Bay and Adventure Island are perfect for days of fun, especially for families with kids. The Straz Center for the Performing Arts offers exciting performances, and the Tampa Museum of Art is the ideal place to spend an afternoon. The Florida Aquarium gives visitors an up-close look at Gulf Coast sea life and promises educational fun. For golfers, Tampa is a putter's paradise, home to many challenging courses at various price points.
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Ludwig Museum Opens PowerGames - An Exhibition by Danish Artists
Denmark's Crown Prince Frederik visits the Power Games exhibition at the Ludwig Museum in Budapest. REUTERS/Karoly Arvai.
The PowerGames exhibition aims to approach art from various aspects and the questions of its link to social and political forces and its effect exerted on the community. Featuring already existing and commissioned new works made by Danish artists and artist groups, the exhibition endeavours to open a dialogue and to give Hungarian audiences access to attitudes that shape collective thinking and responsible behaviour, exploring critical points on relevant and topical social and economic issues.
PowerGames wishes to challenge our understanding of nationality, tolerance, responsible social and political thinking, and the role of contemporary art in our changing world. The exhibition attempts to investigate and reflect on a number of themes, ranging from distribution of power in society and the social construction of identity, through economic and environmental issues to the boundaries between the public and the private space. It also attempts to address the issue of emerging nationalism, as well as the relation and interaction between history and memory and how they are constructed notions.
The works featured at the exhibition investigate the territories and borderlines as they appear in the social landscape of today while showing new, alternative scopes of action in our relation to society, challenging a number of power structures in various ways.
Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragsets When a Country Falls in Love with Itself is the opening piece of the PowerGames exhibition. The image displays the Little Mermaid, Denmarks national symbol. Sitting on a rock, instead of gazing across the sea, her eyes are diverted by her own reflection. The simple artistic intervention subtly indicates that self-celebration often comes to revolve around national symbols with the less fortunate consequence that the perspective on the world is narrowed down. The work points out the necessity of self-scrutiny and facing the past. This is crucial for a society to find its identity and determine its own future.
An attempt to face the past and to undergo self-scrutiny has been made in Jens Haanings work Recent Danish History (2008). The series of postcards is based on press images of eight events, selected from Danish history and public life between 19972008. The controversial events on the postcards represent various political and social issues, ranging from the inauguration of the Øresund Bridge connecting Denmark and Sweden, through Denmarks participation in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to the history of the autonomous Freetown Christiania. The subjective selection of the artist problematizes the constructions of common history and collective memory influenced by the mainstream media.
The riots of 2007 in Copenhagen, depicted on the last piece of the postcard series, inspired the Superflex artist group to create their film work Burning Car (2008). Hundreds of young protesters clashed with police during the demonstrations organised against the clearance and demolition of alternative left-wing community house, Ungdomshuset. The film focuses on civil unrest today and the fascinations around this: How are these situations being represented in the media?
Tanja Nellemann Poulsen also deals with social tension and the role of the media, its power to influence public opinion and the public sphere. Her new installation is focusing on the phenomenon of radicalism and nationalism, which are on the upswing in Hungary as well as other countries throughout Europe. Please teach some new tricks to this old dog called nationalism she says still pointing out guiltiness on the ghost of Europe. Departing from the naïve perspective of news consumers, she focuses on the way extreme right events are distilled through the filters of the media.
Ann Lislegaards sound and light installation focuses on the painful effort of self-scrutiny and the reinterpretation of the past. Its intention is to make us face the lies of the past and clarify our role and position in the world. Slamming the Front Door (2005) is built on the last scene of Henrik Ibsens play A Dolls House, when the protagonist, Nora, realizes that the idyll of her entire family life so far has been built on self deception and lies, and so she leaves her husband and children in order to try and find her true self liberated from the roles enforced on her. At the end of the play she slams the door and leaves walking towards the future with all the potential and dangers this act involves. But where does she go and what kind of emancipation can we expect?
What was once a novelty in Ibsens A Dolls House is practically self-evident today: womens independence in social and economic life. While Nora wants to find her place in society first of all as a human being, the Noras of today primarily want to assert themselves as women. This is very well demonstrated by Jens Haanings 33 Page 9-girls (2009/2010), considered by the artist as an ethnographical document of the Danish people and their relation to the female body. 33 Page 9-girls are selected from Ekstra Bladet tabloid paper. The photographs are accompanied by Hungarian translations of the interviews with them. The pictures, blurring the boundary between private and public spheres, seems pornographic at first, but observed with scrutiny it is a unique sociography that gives a picture of a segment of Danish society, of the reflections of these people on themselves, on sexuality, on their relationship and career opportunities.
Bosch & Fjords exhibition project, Free Zone Budapest (2010) focuses on the boundaries between private and public spaces within the cityscape, inviting debate about the public space and its functions: what is allowed, and what is not allowed in public space and why/why not? The exhibition project involves some 50 signs that are placed, apart from in the exhibition space, throughout Budapest city centre focusing on the 5th and 8th districts following the suggestions of the visitors. The signs create free zones where one is allowed to deviate from conformity. Each zone surrounding a sign is defined by a white line. Inside the zone one is permitted to sleep, play, pray, listen to each other, profess the sexual diversity etc. This project is an encouragement to see art as something that affects everyday life, a tool that can help change our everyday life and give us influence on the community we live in.
Tue Greenfort too trusts that art is capable of inducing if not revolutionary, at least gradual changes in society. The idea that urges responsible thinking and direct action is often coupled with a satirical tone in his conceptual work. His installation Kaviar Bar (2007) explores the connections between the survival of endangered sturgeons and the control of the caviar trade. The work is closely related to the history of sturgeons once so important in Budapest life and culture, as a city on the River Danube, with special regard to the issues concerning the habitats and fishing of the beluga sturgeon in Hungary, and is also linked to local environmentalist programs for saving sturgeons. Adjusting to the context of PowerGames, Tue Greenfort prepared an entirely new version of the installation. The Kaviar Bar is marked by a neon sign and a surreal fish head moulage, referring to historical and environmental issues surrounding the beluga sturgeon, while the projection intends to reflect social and market (power) relations, documenting the artists provocative intervention.
Superflex film of four episodes addresses the changes of financial power relations in a singular manner. The Financial Crisis (Session I-IV) (2009) reflects on the financial crisis and meltdown from a therapeutic perspective. A hypnotist guides us through our worst nightmares to reveal the crisis without as the psychosis within. During four sessions we can experience the fascination of speculation and power, fear, anxiety and frustration of losing control, economic loss and personal disaster.
What is Capitalism? asks Katya Sander the passers-bys on a field stretching out into the horizon resembling the typical setting for movies of the Western genre. Although all of the responses are different, describing different relations, all of the passers-by speak in normal everyday language and all of them express the difficulty of putting capitalism into language. The video installation from 2003 is referring to the impossibility of defining the nature and notion of the worlds prevailing economic system.
The exhibition has been realised in the framework of the Budapest Spring Festival 2010 with focus on Denmark.
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Fletcher Jones Motorcars of Fremont's used vehicles are carefully inspected by our Mercedes-Benz service technicians to guarantee quality for our Fremont customers. We are continually receiving vehicles for our used car inventory, so check back often. Visit our used car and pre-owned Mercedes-Benz inventory page to browse through the Fremont used cars we currently have in stock. If you see something you like, give us a call at (888) 259-6929 or stop in and see us at 5760 Cushing Parkway, Fremont, CA, 94538. We are also proud to serve the surrounding areas of San Jose, Santa Clara, Milpitas, Hayward and Union City with new and used Mercedes-Benz cars.
Financing a New Mercedes-Benz or Used Luxury Car in Fremont | Serving San Jose, Santa Clara, Milpitas, Hayward, and Union City, California.
The finance staff at Fletcher Jones Motorcars of Fremont will help you get the car loan or Mercedes-Benz lease in Fremont that meets your needs. By working with a network of lenders for our auto loans, we make our customer's dreams of owning a Mercedes-Benz a reality. Get a car loan that you can afford by filling out our secure online finance application.
Mercedes-Benz Repair and Parts in Fremont
Fletcher Jones Motorcars of Fremont is here to serve all of your automotive needs including Mercedes-Benz service, repair and auto parts in Fremont, CA. If you need Mercedes-Benz repair, let our skilled auto repair technicians diagnose and repair your vehicle. Complete our Mercedes-Benz service appointment form and we will get your car, truck or SUV into our service facility as soon as possible. Our Mercedes-Benz auto parts department has the component you need to repair your car, truck or SUV. Whether you need brakes, mufflers or the latest air intake, our Mercedes-Benz car parts staff will get you what you need. For added convenience, you can complete the Fletcher Jones Motorcars of Fremont auto parts form and order your Mercedes-Benz car parts online.
See one of our new or used cars in person by visiting our Fremont dealership at 5760 Cushing Parkway, Fremont, CA. Come to Fletcher Jones Motors and see why our customers from San Jose, Santa Clara, Milpitas, Hayward and Union City choose us for their sports and luxury car needs. Give us a call with any questions, and check out our about us page. We are looking forward to serving your automotive needs.