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Musicians » Cecil Brooks III
A contemporary drummer and aggressive, polyrhythmic stylist, Cecil Brooks, III has worked in the New York area with such musicians as Greg Osby, Geri Allen and Lonnie Plaxico. He recorded his debut album as a leader for Muse in 1989, subsequently releasing efforts including 1990's Hangin' with Smooth, 1993's Neck Peckin' Jammie and 2000's Our Mister Brooks in addition to session work in both a hard bop and bebop setting. The intimate setting of Live at Sweet Basil (2001).
His father was a drummer and a grandfather a concert pianist, Brooks recalls that music just flourished through the house. ... It was there to partake in anytime I wanted to. Philly Joe [Jones] used to come by, and Art Blakey. I played on Blakey's drums when I was 10 years old.Read more
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Tuesday's Jubilee event in the Park will be one to remember – so why not join us to welcome the Queen and celebrate Wild London
The Wild London Diamond Jubilee event to be held in the Park on 15 May will feature a wide range of activities in zones covering volunteering, conservation, education, recreation, therapy and inspiration.
Her Majesty the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh and Princess Alexandra are set to visit the Park during the course of the day.
The Friends will be well represented, and we hope as many members as possible will turn out to welcome the Royal party and to visit the displays and events that we have organised, including:
The event will be open to the public from 10.30am and close at 5.30pm. At 12 noon actors from LAMDA will recite selected poems from Poems in the Park in the VIllage Green 'Talks & Demonstrations' area. At 1pm Sir David Attenborough will inaugurate the Jubilee Pond and launch the Ponds & Stream Conservation Programme appeal. The poetry recital will be staged again at 3pm.
Over 50 Friends have volunteered to help out in various capacities from stewarding to supplying information to selling books.
More details about the event here.

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The battle for control of the New York State Senate got even more bizarre yesterday. After talks of a power-sharing arrangement broke down, Democrats locked themselves in the Senate chamber, Republicans tried to conduct business on their own and none of the "people's business" got done. As incredible as it may seem, pictures obtained by CBS 2 HD are of the Democratic senators who locked themselves inside their chamber so they could be "first in" for Gov. David Paterson's special session. The pictures, shot through the window of a Senate door, seem to show that it was all about taking possession of the podium.
Yonkers Sen. Andrea Stewart Cousins is seen standing there to prevent the Republicans from taking over. The move came shortly after Democrats said talks of establishing a bi-partisan operating agreement fell through because a Republican coalition insisted the Senate president be Bronx Sen. Pedro Espada.
"We do not concede that Pedro Espada is the Senate president. We have offered to put aside the issues of whether the president of the Senate is Sen. [Malcolm] Smith or Sen. Espada," said Sen. Eric Schneiderman, D-Manhattan.
What happened next was equally incredible. With the Democrats in their seats, the Republicans marched in and tried to take the podium. They were rebuffed, so they held a session from the well of the chamber and passed dozens of bills by acclamation.
The odd thing was when Republican senators start the session with the pledge of allegiance. The Democrats didn't stand to participate and when one tried to stand, he was pulled down.
After the Republicans gaveled out, the Democrats gaveled in their special session. The problem was Sen. Smith said they couldn't proceed because they didn't have the governor's bills
The big question is when or if they'll ever be able to pass anything.
"At this time, no one in this chamber is holding the governor's business back, other than the governor's office not having the material needed on time," Smith said.
Paterson was furious. His aides said the bills were sent to the Senate chamber at 1 p.m.
"I've been a public servant for over 20 years and what I've seen in the last two weeks in the Senate disgusts me. Their inaction is a dereliction of duty. I pledge as governor there will be no more tolerance of these delays and these distractions."
Paterson said this week that he would call special legislative sessions every day, including on weekends and holidays, until the two sides could come to an agreement. Senators would have to attend such sessions, but they would not have to vote on any bills. Who would preside over the sessions remains unclear.
Paterson has lashed out at senators for the ongoing soap opera. It's been two weeks since the state Senate accomplished anything and the governor said enough is enough.
But his mandate seemed to make little impact considering Tuesday's madness.
Meanwhile, the Assembly adjourned at 2 a.m. Tuesday after passing hundreds of bills. Most of the measures have companion bills pending in the Senate.
Those affected by the delay include Mayor Michael Bloomberg and all New York City residents.
He's pushing for a renewal of mayoral control of city schools, citing recent favorable performance data. Like so many other local officials across the Empire State, Bloomberg is anxiously waiting for a break in the legislative deadlock.
"I think everybody understands that mayoral control really has been the key to all of this," Bloomberg said. "It has given us the ability to make the tough decisions and hold people accountable for results."
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It wouldn't be CES without at least one ridiculous bit of glass would it? Nikon are stepping up to the plate this year with the Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 180-400mm f/4E TC1.4 FL ED VR Lens, a lens who's size rivals the number of acronyms in the model name!
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Domesticated furry family members are more than just pets – they are little pieces of our hearts walking around outside of us and keeping our pets happy is a main priority for many a pet owner.
As such, people love them and naturally desire to keep their pets happy and stress-free as possible. It's an exchange they gladly make, while considering the joy and companionship their pets bring to their lives, but what happens when people have obligations that do not include their pets? When dogs and cats are left idle, they can experience anxiety and boredom leading to mischievous behavior, and even stress related health issues. Pets are used to looking out for and providing companionship to their owners, and while owners are busy working or taking a much-needed break, they need to make sure that they provide a vacation for their pet as well. This helps to ensure the productivity, happiness and peacefulness of all involved.
When dogs and cats are left idle, they can experience anxiety and boredom leading to mischievous behavior and even stress-related health issues. Pets are used to looking out for and providing companionship to their owners, and while owners are busy working or taking a much-needed vacay, they need to make sure that their pets are kept busy and not left idle. This helps to ensure the productivity, happiness and peacefulness of all involved.
Keeping Your Pets Happy with the Right Care!
When people cannot be available for their furbabies, they provide alternate care of course, but how do they determine the best option for their pets' needs? Pets are used to being productive. Whether they are protecting their environment, providing companionship or just being cute and happy, they need to matter to someone and feel that they have a purpose. Whether an owner chooses the option of kenneling, daycare or petsitting in their absence, they should think about how their choice will relate to their pets' productivity.
Who doesn't want a happy pet? Having needs met such as rest, water, play and companionship all contribute to a furbabies' ability to remain content, as well as the environment. Animals left to themselves for too long can wreak havoc, a familiar environment with visits from a trusted care provider allows for pets to not have to be transported or placed in unfamiliar settings. This helps eliminate stress in their owners' absence.
Finding The RIGHT Care in Order to Keep Your Pet Happy While You Are Away:
- Determine which service is best for you and your furbaby. There are daycare services, kennels and petsitting services all ranging in fees. Understanding your pet's personality can help you decide on where your pet will be happiest while you are travelling!
- A scheduled interview to acquaint the owner and pet with the care provider helps you AND your pet build rapport with the caretaker.
- Make an educated choice based on that which is important to you (your pet's happiness and peace of mind, price, location, etc.).
While it is hard to leave pets behind for extended periods of time, it is important to be able to relax and enjoy much needed time away, without feeling related stress for either pets or people. Owners with a responsible plan in place will be able to ensure their pet is as productive, happy and as peaceful as possible while they are away.
Keep your pets happy!
Janna Elliston,


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Salman or Shahrukh Khan were no ideals or role models for community. actors release their films on Eid to earn money during the festive season but never contribute anything to the better of the community. so dont keep their name for children said, Qari Shafiq-ur-Rehman after Eid ul Fitr namaaz in Lucknow.
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The following are a series of thoughts that often began as ingots on my twitter, @paulkneale
I realised that in accordance with the epiphenomenal nature of media flows, my thoughts were no longer appearing in what could be considered an essay format. A moment on Wikipedia will confirm that this format, long venerated by the western academic tradition, came to prominence by no particular necessity, and is a kind of accidental regime. Good riddance. By the same token, anyone who disagrees on form but finds here or there an interesting idea is welcomed to expand upon them. LMK
The scope of things that are easily accepted as reference points in contemporary art works. This may include subjects such as technology, surface, subjectivity, performativity, networks, abstraction, ennui, classicism, design, nature and ecology, psychology, sex, critical theory, text and others. In a limited sense, these 'plausible reference(s)' are subjects which may escape their perception as subjects, aiding in the creation of a 'light' or 'open' atmosphere in the work or installation.
The approach to exhibiting artworks, championed by blogs such as ________________y, where the dramatic staging of the exhibition within an architectural space is itself the subject and focus of the digital images that document it. This approach is differentiated from what was formerly called 'installation art', to the extent that there is not necessarily a reflexive or critical dimension to the engagement of the architecture, and also that the staging is optimised for photographic reproduction rather than physical experience of the work. This work is aware of its ultimate transmission as a digital image, and often has a 'minimal' or sparse composition in order to not be overpowering when viewed in the browser environment where it will inevitably be flanked by banner ads and open programs on one's personal computer. This work makes space for advertising. There's also a subtle but significant attention to the specific details of the architectural space that encode it as one particular gallery or another. Rather than neutralizing the historical context of the architecture as the 'white cube' approach to exhibition spaces initially intended, 'unique dramaturgic interiors' give us the feeling of specificity, but one that is emotionally restrained. A well trained servant whose dignity becomes a regulating presence in the background environment of the enlightened decor.
Mainstream fetishism is the current vogue in art practice for appropriating objects and images that are neither 'high' nor 'low' but rather culled from the middlebrow western capitalist existence, which reproduces itself as ahistorical, eternal, egalitarian, functional and answering to desire and fantasy. Objects images and scenarios which might fall into these categories may include : athletic shoes (either new and flashy or used), home appliances, various plastic substrates -- in particular clear perspex, 'hobbyist' artistic mediums such as watercolor or intaglio printing and ceramics, cosmetic products and beauty treatments including the 'spa' universe, references to popular television shows, the aesthetics of end-user software interfaces such as photoshop deployed in an amateurish but aspirational manner, office furniture and supplies, workout clothing,
The use of such materials is not 'critical' in the deconstruscitvist sense -- they are not displayed in such a manner as to reveal to the viewer their functioning in order to desublimate this function and produce an antagonism to the producer of the sublimation. Rather, 'Mainstream Fetishism' mines a vague but palpable territory of popular attitudes toward these subjects, regardless of the political implications (for example the cheerful antipathy toward sweatshop labor used in big-brand clothing) and attempts to use the subjects as demonstrations of this attitude. It could be said that Mainstream Fetishim is thus a kind of cognitive dissoance in the 'art' style. It goes without saying that Mainstream Fetishism is particularly well suited to being staged as 'Unique Dramaturgic Interiors'.
the old adage 'a picture is worth a thousand words' -- passed into common phraseology at the beginning of the 20th century. It was often encounter in 'trade' publications pertaining to the print industry. In this capacity it heralded new image reproduction technologies as surpassing text in its ability to convey content and meaning.
Today however, image reproduction technologies have resulted in an extreme excess of images. To compensate for this excess, language has reappeared as an organising and descriptive-ordering element in relation to images in the form of the #. On tumblr for example, the # functions to give generalised descriptions of images, corralling them into categories and flows. While any image may have 'a bunch' of has tags that describe it, it is no longer 'thousands'.
Autism: a variable developmental disorder that is characterized by impairment of the ability to form normal social relationships, by impairment of the ability to communicate with others, and by stereotyped behavior patterns. Production: the action of making or manufacturing from components or raw materials, or the process of being so manufactured. AUTISTIC PRODUCTION: output formats in art where there is discrete subjective continuity but no obvious ability or effort to produce or negotiate relationships with other artworks.
In 1968 Robert Smithson wrote a brief piece titled 'a provisional theory of non-sites'. He begins :
By drawing a diagram, a ground plan of a house, a street plan to the location of a site, or a topographic map, one draws a "logical two dimensional picture." A "logical picture" differs from a natural or realistic picture in that it rarely looks like the thing it stands for. It is a two dimensional analogy or metaphor - A is Z."
The extension of this 'logical picture' into the mindspace of the viewer where it functions as 'the metaphor between the syntactical construct and the complex of ideas' neatly describes the experience of what you could generally describe as conceptualism in late 20th century art. Far from being strictly immaterial Smithson's strategy places the two physical places, the site, or location of the work, and the reproduction of it as a 'logical drawing' at the service of the metaphor, which becomes primary. However today, many works which draw on this conceptual legacy of metaphorical primacy as experience, are drawn not from any place as physical or specific as the Spiral Jetty. Rather, the 'sites' that inspire much of today's art have more in common with the so-called BLACK-SITES run by the CIA and its enabling client states within the 'Global War on Terror'. These secret prisons, where 'detainees' exist in a State of Exception, without rights under national or international laws, are not places in the traditional sense of being definable by either geographical features or social systems. They are both ambulatory and a-cultural, despite consisting of known physical entities -- namely persons, and the military and security apparatuses -- guns, barbed wire and concrete walls, surveillance cameras, a kitchen and infirmary... therefore to 'draw a logical picture' of these places would, to follow Smithson's thinking, result in a metaphor with a shifting reference, a talismanic real. This non-site of a black-site I think could characterise a common contemporary approach. To begin with a state of exception (the non-objective contemporary human) and proceed to a talismanic real (the logical map of this human experience that masks and distorts it).
This process is like the 'Aqua' credit-card that openly advertises its usurious 35% interest rate -- rather than the typical associations with 'silver' 'gold' and 'platinum' that insinuate credit cards into familiar material systems of value, the 'aqua' card references water; ubiquitous, mysterious, essential yet uninhabitable and hostile in large quantities -- the other -- because of course the applicant to this card has no delusions about the abstract and dangerous nature of credit. They have surely experienced some of its lightless depths. It is at once a state of exception from currency, and a system of metaphor that describes that exception in a shifting flow.
how can one be in a constant state of becoming without intent? or is it actually the natural law of the universe? how to let happen what you already are? or how to not be a screen, a facade? you change to see your wanting that is already manifest. you strip away the baggage of centuries of religion and politics. you feel the desire for desire itself.
portmanteau of TERMINATOR SEED and SEED FUNDING. Terminator seeds are genetically modified seeds developed by biotechnology corporations such as Montsanto with the cooperation of the United States Department of Agriculture. The terminator seed has been genetically modified so that the second-generation of the seed will be sterile. Seed funding meanwhile, is a form of investment whereby an investor purchases part of a company which is at an early stage of their development, a form of venture-capital. If we conflate these two ideas, TERMINATOR SEED FUNDING could be a type of investment that prevented a company from second-generation development. This could be used as a form of attack against undesirable enterprises. A group of investors could conspire to buy a portion of a company at a very early stage, only to very quickly liquidate or disrupt that companies function. This would of course result in the loss of the investment. But like the Terminator of the Hollywood franchise, TERMINATOR SEED FUNDING would self destruct in order to protect the future.
Its a common misconception within pop-cultural depictions of the so-called 'middle ages' that the period came about all of a sudden. Rather, the fading away of humanistic knowledge and scientific inquiry of Ancient Greece was gradually replaced by a new fad, Christianity. Perhaps the key ingredient was that the new religious thinking could be unifromly applied to all aspects of life. The content of every waking (and dreaming) though and action was crucial toward securing one's eternal place. This had a levelling effect, whereby all forms of enquiry were shaped toward a known horizon, a bodily transcendence and moment of moral judgement. In essence, this was the blueprint for today's online networks, which offer a totalising agenda for participation, a rubric of visibility and common values expressed by likes, favorites, reblogs etc. Just as the growth of Christianity and its total, vertically integrated, end-user-system quashed the rich humanistic period before it, so too today are we facing a new period of 'darkness' brought about by the innundating, levelling, and immersive effects of mediation. Today, in aesthetic discourse, many would candidly admit that they simply 'don't have time' to read the long, dense, deconstructive and analytical writing that appeared as a vital explanatory component to the artworks of the early to high postmodern period. In this period journals such as October published analysis of current practices that had the depth and rigour of formal academic studies, formerly reserved for already cananoical works and artists. Today, October is still a venerable journal, however there's been an explosion of capacity in publishing output, leading to the proliferation of a model that does not privilege 'critical discourse' to the extent that the model developed in the late 20th century did. This new model, which inhabits digital networks but also produces physical publications with the logics of digital networks, is much closer to the believer's totalised model of early Christian/late Roman times. Could the result be a hyper-electric dark age? A dark age visible from space? And are we already building it's Gothic Cathedrals?
just as the urban landscape is in a constant process of ghettoisation and gentrification, so too we now experience the virtual creative ghettos that are any number of so-called 'startup' sites being bought up by mega-corporations. To what extent these sites designed themselves toward this uptake is specified by the case. But we can say that with our Tumblr Dark Age there is an ongoing process of consolidation whereby the various temples built for regional gods are consolidated into a few archdiocese managed by the major powers. What if anything is lost in this process is hard to say. Just as it seems wrong to positively identify some aspect of urban blight as a pre-gentrification element worth preserving, so too is the 'open' character of immaterial pre-gentrification hard to define and defend. With the recent acquisition of Tumblr by the ailing giant Yahoo, many have worried aloud that Tumblr's plethora of pornography would be nixed in accordance with yahoo's reactive, American-conservative political stance. However one is hard pressed to imagine the Internet as being short on pornography. It is therefore questionable what would be lost. Perhaps there is a more vague, psychological trauma involved in the knowledge that one's beloved blog on whatever subject is owned by such an entity, regardless of what actual changes are entailed by the switch. The concept of freedom is laced with undifferentiated potential. You can smoke it as a rock or a powder.
The 2013 theme of the Metropolitan Opera's annual costume ball was 'punk'. A New Yorker Magazine cover devoted to the subject features the godmother of fashion, Vogue's Anna Wintour, with a purple streak added to her signature helmet-bob, a nose ring, an a shade of burgundy lipstick that would have looked on trend at the original Lilith Fair. Superimposed in a sans serif font near the bottom of the portrait: 'Punk.'
Certainly the past decade has seen a hyper-proliferation of ultra-specific identitarian concepts that have often been the subject of fierce debate. Recent memory indexes Rihanna and Azelia Banks' appropriation of the so-called 'sea-punk' aesthetic as one such event. However the photoshopped punk of The New Yorker's Wintour cover speaks to something entirely opposite. Rather than positing a constellation of references and symbolic declarations of cultural affiliation as a matrix from which a subject emerges, here the punk aesthetic is isolated and relative, yet strikingly sincere. We are not directed to believe the deployed symbols as constituting the subject's essence, nor are we left feeling the lack of phenomenological trace is a deficit resulting in deception. Rather the subject who is constituted of a series of abstract performances is also positivistically envied with aura. Rather than a pre-benjaminian aura derived from a material localisation in a space/time, this POST-AUTHENTIC AURA is produced from a perpetual movement around an empty Center. And it's auratic quality comes as a byproduct of its radical fidelity to its own time-presence.
In Ridley Scott's 1984 noir classic Bladerunner, the protagonist, Rick Deckhard, played by Harrison Ford, is tasked with 'retiring' escaped androids known as 'replicants'. These advanced machines are human-like in almost every capacity save for their marked inability to feel empathy. This is of course, an intentional decision on the part of their programmers, allowing them to perform with maximum efficientcy while maintaining other human appearances. Today, a great deal of aesthetic output could be characterised as having such an 'empathy free' surface. It could be argued that rationalism in art preserved itself as a discourse packet well into the postmodern period by virtue of its readability as a 'surface event' or causal trace that strains to present itself as a descriptive telos: this mark from this process; this skein of this time. However, outside of a medium-specific discourse that endeavours to present itself as continually progressive, these free-floating rationalisms acquire an ashen hue. It would be safe to say that at the present moment, not only are such medium-discourses virtually exclusive to certain established tropes of painting, but indeed the entire engagement with culture as an event (and thus coterminous with human finitude; demanding empathy) has dissipated in large part due to recent developments in the structures of exchange platforms that have (for reasons of power and capital) privileged phatic, reiterative communication of mainstream culural strata to the extent that subjectivity has collapsed beneath it. Replicant aesthetics is the mode that illustrates and gives rise to this condition.
one possible way to answer the age old riddle 'what came first? the chicken or the egg?' could be 'the subjective position that frames discrete entities in language apparatuses in order to conceptualise their relations'. This is a slightly cumbersome answer, but it could be an anti-zen riddle to draw the mind into the clusterfuck that is its inability to escape the essence of attention. 'try to think about not thinking'. An obvious contradiction. But the phatic operation of digital platforms is in this sense a piracy of biological function. we look because we look, and that's what were looking for.
In his semen-all essay Athletic Aesthetics Brad Troemel argues that today the importance of a work is determined by its visibility as a photograph in social networks, accruing likes and reblogs as a representation of how legitimate it is as an episode in the centuries long tradition of Art. Surely this evaluation has something in common with Athletics. An ego driven endeavour to learn the rules of a limited sytem of moves, master them, and win in front of an adoring audience. However Aesthetics here are far less in play. Rather the author makes the mistake of ascribing BATHOS to a condensed spectre of what comprises aesthetics, or the philosophy of beauty. This bathos, or the inscription of the pathetically quotidian upon an otherwise elevated subject matter, is illustrative of a far greater misidentification of semi-passive agreement for value. The way in which 'likes' could be considered to be a form of value is in the manner of the companies that create the commercial websites upon which these likes are registered, who then sell them back to advertisers as data that can be interpolated for product development and marketing.
And while these demonstrated predilections expressed as passive behaviour by those captured on such networks surely have a commercial value, and possibly a sociological one (although without a control group the findings are less than rigorous) -- what their relationship is to aesthetics is wholly unclear. The iterations themselves exhibit the aesthetic that is specific to the particular business website -- and the imagistic capacity here is primarily functional -- readable modern font texts and various frame systems to delineate between the flow of posts.
IPOification / CREOLE IPO
Just as almost every aspect of daily life and social relations now comes under the sickle of what's know as economisation (for example ascribing a value to thought -- 'cognitive labour' or friendships -- 'return on relationships' these thought forms which displace the abstract dimensions of thought and feeling into the parallel abstract of currency systems are also invading art. The IPO or initial public offering is an stock market idea that has recently returned to the popular consciousness via high profile IPO'd by facebook (a spectacular failure) and twitter -- not bad.
A classically liberal economic theory would determine the value of a company by measuring their assets and profits, taking into account planned future contracts, products and market sector predictions. The IPO however, begins with these calculations and then brings them to the public casino of a stock exchange. While the classical liberal valuation of the company would essentially require breakup and liquidation for the estimated value to be confirmed, the IPO invites the public to participate in a speculative valuation. The creation of value through a collective agreement which will be constantly modified -- much the same way a given term in a language means only what the group of its users agree -- even while it undergoes constant modification through both mainstream use and creolisation. The result is that a company, such as facebook, has the ability to achieve a price that far exceeds its revenues and assets. The original float price for the facebook stock valued the company in the region of 100 billion dollars. While in the year before the IPO their net revenue had been just over 1.4 billion, and asset in server infrastructure and office space adding perhaps another 1-2 billion. Therefore, by conservative estimates, the IPO asked the public to purchase the company for nearly one hundred times what it was demonstrably worth.
Art has recently seen a shift towards such self-created speculative value. Whereas in the past the achievement of value was wracked up by critics and museum curators who passed it along to dealers, today there is the possibility to offer the product uncapitalised, direct to the public (and any circling sharks). The critic and curator (lets call them the accountants of art) are increasingly cut or bought out of the deal, often as their traditional roles in creating agreement and facilitating circulation of the work are supplanted by so called 'social' media. This IPOification then has the effect making discourse arbitrary, or at least doomed to relativism as the hierarchies supporting the social tranches of judgement are eroded. the effect is also to produce a bubble. however this bubble is not only about the recuperative potentials for investors -- rather it destabilises the very fundamentals of the markets. And similarly to stocks its the greed of the little person that acts as a soap solution to the market-makers plastic wand.
ALL FORMATS CODIFY SUBMISSION TO FORMAT (open list):
avi, jpeg, mov, tiff, mpeg-4, CSS, installation shots, ebook, girlfriend, painting, highway, dropbox, entree, workday, pro-forma invoice, feature film, dealer, therapist, personal assistant, gif, zip, raw, outfit, costume, breakup, FLV, hookup, sleep, white lie, html5, boredom, arousal, missed call, funding application, evite, missed connections, casual encounters, confession, download, late fee, eternal return, baptism, emoticon,
The cumulative effect of too many hours spent with reports about meteorites nearly hitting the earth, a million new shows in various good taste capitals across the first world, and an update from Tech Crunch about a new microfibre that might change the way surgeons perform aortic bypasses that seems to be the concern of a good number of artists in your feed. False urgency raga often provides the subject matter for reactive aesthetics, although its not strictly reactive. Rather it operates from a vague zone of anxiety where former hierarchical systems of valuing new information have been both overwhelmed and dissipated through logics of visibility and group thinking. Total awareness = awareness of your unawares. The reaction is often to simply output any phatic communique, sometimes in elaborate and aesthetic modes that situates the issuer as verifiably within the flow. Be here now or whatever.
The process by which the assignment of topics to flows of experience, either social or psychological (or some hybrid of both as is most often the case) distorts and shapes or prefigures the dimensions of certain phenomena and prepares them like a product, to be circulated in discourse. This relates often to the structure that develops between contemporary art practices and metanarratives of society from the mediasphere. As concepts like 'big data' become topics, they begin to frame art practice, now well outside of the framing strictures of historical and medium discourses, within themselves. The result is that certain works are instrumentalised to illustrate these topics, rather than standing for themselves or provoking discursives nexus' and by doing so, create precedent for more works that begin with the proposition of operating in the way.
>>>concept big data >>> looks for works that describe >>> now there's 'big data art' >>> people make new art trying to copy/take part >>> critical appraisal of big data art
Similarly to the concept from economics, The Law of Diminishing Returns, "if you add more units to one of the factors of production and keep the rest constant, the quantity or output created by the extra units will eventually get smaller to a point where overall output will begin to fall", TOPICAL DIFFRACTION -- as the frenetic, big-business driven news-cycles and discussions infiltrate the terms of art discourse and production, while the latter maintains its constants of display and aesthetics, its inevitable that the 'return' from art -- that I might personally state as anything from imaginative autonomy to visions of counterhegemonic dreamspace, to (add your own) -- will be diminished by the necessity to correspond to these mega-corporate topics.
The new condition of discourse affirmation, whereby the technological forms which are most omnipresent as a result of their profilgation by some of the worlds largest corporations, are taken to be coterminous with relevance, or value. This scenario at once suggests an erosion of the evolutionary or ethical dimension of cultural value (how attention to a given subject would be read against the position that subject occupied within an agreed upon dynamic known as 'society') and also the passing of these mega corporations into our most primary mental processes. SEARCH. IMAGES. VIDEO. MORE. CLOUD.
In Nicolaus Baurriauds Relational Aesthetics eulogising exhibition 'the anyspace whatever', the anyspace whatever heralded not the anyspace, but the whatever. it signalled the ascendency not of negative spatial dialectics, but of complete capitulation to capital. We enter the dawn of a new time where a subjects mass popularity can function in formerly intellectual circles and publications, as sole and autonomous arbiter of its import. This is a shift in cultural intellect. Artist's today produce discourse in a format that isn't essentially different to celebrity culture: they preen and pose for the camera, then positions these exploits as a form of content for the web-lurking voyeur. What is novel is that this form of content has shifted into art institutional contexts.
the neoliberal condition, a productive subject beloved of artists to a seemingly greater degree than economists, refers to an era fiscal policy specific to the central banking policy of a handful of highly industrialised nations. In this period, the purely laissez faire policy of classical liberalism was publicly confronted with the need for nation states to intervene in their markets in order to balance the destabilising effects of emerging economies, preserving their imperial dominance, which after the second world war was deemed to be sub-optimally managed through warfare alone.
This period signalled to the public that individual governments were in fact still sovereign, concerned with managing the monetary superstructure that allowed the citizens inside their neatly drawn borders to carry out daily transactions, breed and buy property. Today's reality is radically different. As borders have become merely conceptual fences for the management of economic classes, and a global oligarchy of cleptocapitalists and megacorporations has vastly overpowered the 'elected' representatives of the hypothetical states, the management level of consumer economies and its manifestation as public messaging has gone from NEO to EMO.
EMO -- the style that arose from the ashes of the possibility of subculture, following punks dissolution into corporate grunge -- EMO is the transference of the 'anger of the disenfranchised' to the 'abject of the dream real'. EMO signals young people who are aware of their subjectivities being captured within a capitalist mechanism, yet the mechanism is no longer local or state. Its Global. And its hopeless. EMO is the external style of the psychological self-harm that is the only balm for being a hopeless subject in the gears of global capital. EMOLIBERAL are the consumer chooses and artistic subjectivities that we purchase under this failed mind-state. The early fashion signifiers of the ideology were appropriately a mixture of punk and glam, depicting the movement from anger to abandon. However today its far more likely that the EMOLIBERAL subject styles themselves in a curious blend of high capitalist symbols (often cheaply found in athletic wear) and touching personal effects like necklaces and rings and extreme hair styles.


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Many of ICE concentration camps are run by for-profit corporations, so clearly some people are making lots and lots of money off the booming business of keeping human beings in cages See; [Ray Downs]. Among these human beings, it is a former military service men Domingos Jose de Oliveira who served this country honorably and most unfortunate, his being detain at one of the Core civic concentration camps in Otay Mesa despite the prevailing circumstances that his case that form the basic for his detention is on direct appeal. The Board of Immigration Appeals and many Federal Courts have long required that for a criminal conviction to trigger the criminal provisions of the immigration laws, all direct criminal appeals of right must be exhausted or waived. Only then can a criminal conviction render an immigrant deportable subject to civil immigration detention, or barred from applying for relief from deportation or for lawful status. (Matter of Ulices MONTIEL) Consequently, the Immigration Court seeks to undermine this finality rule as Oliveira still face a prolong civil detention hence his conviction is under direct appeal.
Oliveira is a 53 years-old year native of Portugal who was admitted into the United States as an immigrant in New York City on or about or about December 18, 1972. He became a lawful permanent resident (LPR) on March 16, 1973. Oliveira's siblings have lawful statues in the United States and his children are United States citizens. He also owned a property in Spring Valley which was paid off in 1999, however due to prolong "civil detention", he was forced to sell his property. Oliveira served in the United States Army in the 1980's. While in service in 1983, he filed an application to obtain citizenship, however, he was ordered to Germany three days later. Upon his return, he contacted the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) about the status of his application and was informed that his application had been lost. Due to lack of funds, Oliveira was unable to reapply for citizenship at that time.
On July 1, 2011 following a jury trial, Oliveira was convicted of violating California Penal Code section 653f, subdivision (b), and section 422, with an additional enhancement under section 422.75, subdivision(a). He was sentenced to seven years and four months in state prison. After the guilty verdict and again after sentencing on August 01, 2011 Oliveira reminded his Counsel before leaving the court room to file the appeal for his conviction, at this moment his Counsel had promised to see Oliveira in a holding cell for further discussion but failed to show-up. His Trial Counsel later communicated to Oliveira's daughter that he was in the process of filling the appeal, but it could take as long as long as two years to be resolved. Oliveira relied upon his counsel's representations, although his repeated attempts to contact trial counsel were unsuccessful. On September 22, 2014 Oliveira on his earliest possible released date was released from state prison and taken into Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody and later was transferred to CCA Otay Mesa Detention Facility in San Diego (Core Civics). At some point in January of 2015, Oliveira learned that his appeal had never been filed. His Trial Counsel had filed a notice of appeal in state court after statutory period of 60 days (CalRule31); however, it was rejected as untimely.
Since is a duty of the trial Court to afford every defendant in criminal case a fair and impartial trial is duty of the Court to correct matters by granting a new Trial transcends statutory limitations (People v. Oliver) (1975) Cal. App 3d 747, 751 (120 Cal. Rptr. 368] in Strickland v. Washington. 466 U. S. 668 (1994) the Supreme Court held that criminal defendants have a Sixth Amendment right to "reasonably effective "legal assistance, and announced a now-familiar test; A defendant claiming ineffective assistance of counsel must show (1) that counsel's representation "fell below an objective standard of reasonableness," and (2) that counsel's deficient performance prejudiced. A Notice of Appeal is generally a one -sentence document stating that the defendant wishes to Appeal from the Judgment moreover filing such notice is a purely ministerial task that imposes no great burden on Counsel. As here, at no point did Oliveira's Trial Counsel attempt to remedy his mistake or even inform him about the error, rendering these critical stages constitutionally inadequate, in violation of state and federal rights to the effective assistance of counsel, due process, and a fair trial. This error was fatal to Oliveira's right to appeal. 'Thus, the trial counsel failed to fulfill the constitutionally-imposed duty to consult with Oliveira about appeal.
Under California Rule of Court, the reviewing Court for good cause may relieve a party from a default occasioned by any failure to comply. Oliveira used due diligence to pursue his right for appeal to which the courts should evoke excusable neglect doctrine. Delay in filing this petition should be deemed timely filed under the theory of "constructive filing. The Court in Benoit; the doctrine of constructive filing based upon a promise or representation made by each defendant's attorney that he would timely file a notice of appeal on his client's behalf. (Benoit, supra, 10 Cal.3d at pp. 86-87, 109 Cal. Rptr. 785, 514 P.2d 97.) We relied in part upon the circumstance that the assurances had been made by the defendants' trial counsel, noting that "the prisoner would be more justified in relying on his counsel who had represented him and might have some continuous concern for him …" (Id. at p. 86, 109 Cal. Rptr. 785, 514 P.2d 97.) In contrast to this present case, Oliveira did seek and receive assurances from his original trial counsel that he would prepare or file his appeal. On December 23, 2017, Oliveira through his Immigration Counsel; Attorney Jamahl C. Kersey filed for constructive notice of appeal which was granted by San Diego Superior Court on January 12, 2017. Meaning that Oliveira case it is on direct appeal not to be confuse with collateral attack.
The Court in a precedent decision, decided that when an immigration judge is deciding whether to deport someone based on a criminal conviction, deportation cannot occur unless and until the direct appeal of that conviction has been resolved. (Orabi vs. Attorney General). During a bail hearing held on April 10, 2017 Immigration Court did not base its decision on its finding that Oliveira have a pending direct appeal, but rather on its determination that a conviction is final for immigration purposes. See: transcripts;
[U]nder section 101(a) (48) (A) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C.§ 1101(a) (48) (A), the term "conviction" means "a formal judgment of guilt of the alien entered by a court, however in this particular case, a conviction does not attain a sufficient degree of finality for immigration purposes until direct appellate review of the conviction has been exhausted or waived. In emphasis, prior to the passage of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 ("IIRIRA"), it was "well established that a conviction does not attain a sufficient degree of finality for immigration purposes until direct appellate review of the conviction has been exhausted or waived. (In-re-Ozkok) see also Planes, 686 F.3d at 1037 (Reinhardt, J., dissenting from the denial of rehearing en banc) (citing "the longstanding rule that a conviction is not final for immigration purposes until the immigrant has exhausted or waived his direct appeal as of right"). The IIRIRA defined the term "conviction," for purposes of immigration removal as: a formal judgment of guilt of the alien entered by a court or, if adjudication of guilt has been withheld, where . . . (I) a judge or jury has found the alien guilty or the alien has entered a plea of guilty or nolo contendere or has admitted sufficient facts to warrant a finding of guilt, and (II) the judge has ordered some form of punishment, penalty, or restraint on the alien's liberty to be imposed. 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a) (48) (A). Thus, the IIRIRA"s amendment, which focuses solely on the term "conviction," sought to broaden the scope of that term, but in so doing, it did not refer to, amend, change, or even mention doing away with the need for appeal to acquire finality of judgment. Understandably, 1196 Section 322 as recalled in the Conference Committee Report of the House of Representatives, addressed only adjudications that were "deferred" (a product of numerous state procedures) and instances in which the subject alien has violated a term or condition of probation. (104 Congress). The 1996 IIRIRA amendment was designed to correct a myriad of provisions for ameliorating the effects of a conviction" by giving effect to the "original finding or confession of guilt . . . to establish a conviction for purposes of the immigration laws. Moreover, the Court in Orabi did not agree that the IIRIRA eliminated a direct appeal from the finality rule in its definition of conviction.
While Congress "adopted almost verbatim" this definition of "conviction" in the IIRIRA, the statute explicitly eliminated the finality requirement for deferred adjudications. See 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a) (48) (A). That is, "for immigration purposes, a deferred adjudication [as distinct from a pending direct appeal] would be considered a conviction if three elements were met, the third of which consisted of a finality requirement." Planes, 686 F.3d at 1040. Nothing in IIRIRA or its legislative history suggests that Congress intended the phrase "formal judgment of guilt" to be interpreted any differently from how it always had been interpreted prior to the enactment of the statute. . .. The elimination of the finality provision for deferred adjudications, along with the failure to make any change in the language regarding direct appeals as of right . . . demonstrates Congress" intent to retain the finality rule for the latter category of appeals. 686 F.3d at 1039-40 (Reinhardt, J., dissenting from the denial of rehearing en banc); (Reinhardt, J., dissenting from the denial of rehearing en banc) (emphasis added).
Given that Oliveira's s appeal was one of right and that no deferred adjudication is at issue here, IIRIRA"s elimination of the finality requirement in the case of deferred adjudications does not disturb the longstanding finality rule for direct appeals recognized in Ozkok. INS section 1228(c)(3)(A)(iii) (providing that before a district court may enter a judicial order of removal at the time of sentencing against an alien who is deportable, there must be a valid waiver of the right to appeal, the expiration of the period to file a petition for review, or the final dismissal of an appeal from such a conviction); The Court in precedent decision, Orabi v. Attorney General of the United States 738 F.3d 535 (2014) decided that when an immigration judge is deciding whether to deport someone based on a criminal conviction, deportation cannot occur unless and until the direct appeal of that conviction has been resolved. It is within our fundamental right to assert that due process guarantee of fundamental fairness derives from belief of uniform Federal Law and that Justice cannot be equal simply as result of Respondents Jurisdiction. Accordingly based on above contents of transcript, Immigration Judge decision should be reversed with instructions that the Government release Oliveira, particularly were public interest is implicated.
Credit: to Attorney Jamahl C. Kersey
Works Cited
No. Cal. Rules of Court, Rule 31 (a). n.d.
104 Congress. "H.R. Conf. Rep. No.828." WL 563320 at 496-97. 1996.
In-re-Ozkok. No. 19 I&N. Dec.546,552 n.3. BIA. 1988.
Matter of Ulices MONTIEL. No. 26 I&N Dec. 555(BIA 2015). Board of Immigration Appeal. 17 04 2015.
Orabi vs. Attorney General. No. 738 F.3d 535. 3rd Circuit. January 2014.


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AbstractWe witness two trends in educational game design: a Problem-Based Learning and Drill & Practice Training approach. The general assumption appears to favor Problem-Based approach above Drill & Practice, in regard to players' motivation. However, the differences between the approaches are seldom studied.
We examined the motivational impact of one game consisting of a Problem-Based-, and a Drill & Practice learning mode. The first presents players with an ill-defined problem and offers various solutions to a challenge. In the Drill & Practice mode there is only one correct answer.
Secondary school students played the game and completed a pre- and post questionnaire about their experienced regulatory style for studying mathematics. Results suggest that the Problem-Based game may decline the experience of feeling controlled by others to engage in mathematics learning. In comparison, players of the Drill & Practice game reported increased intrinsic motivations towards mathematics.


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Beshalach - Wanted: Stonewashed Rugged Faith
by Rebbetzin Malkah
When the Baal Shem Tov was young, he lived in the mountains of southern Russia. From time to time he would walk to the top of a mountain, and lose himself in thought. Lost to the world, lost to himself, but found to G-d.Deep in this lostness and this foundness, he once began to walk where there was no ground to walk on. As he put his foot down, he was stepping into an abyss.
Stonewashing is a process in the textile industry that is used to give a new denim cloth garment a worn-out appearance. This process also helps to increase the softness and flexibility of otherwise stiff and rigid fabrics such as denim. This process entails what the name implies: washing the denim with large stones to roughen up and soften the cloth. As stones represent an obstacle or hardship, the denim is likened to B'nei Yisrael's fabric of faith. The challenges that Hashem places before B'nei Yisrael as they travel through the wilderness are meant to tenderize and increase their faith. Moshe, Mashiach Yeshua and the Baal Shem Tov all prove to us that through this stonewashing comes a small seed of faith that can rise above the evil, chaos and doubt that prevail in our midst. Not only can we move mountains, but we can be a conduit of faith and possibility to those around us, even in the most impossible of circumstances.
A Sea of Doubt
Water. It gives life to plants, fish, and humans. Too much, we drown. Too little, we die. Both extremes lead to certain death. But something in the middle brings life and a flourishing society. As B'nei Yisrael approaches the Sea of Reeds and finds Pharoah's army at their back, how do they make peace with the water? The water is merely a test of their faith. As the army of doom draws near, it is clear that the people have great doubt and are paralyzed with fear.
"Do not fear! Stand fast and see the salvation of Hashem that He will perform for you today; for as you have seen Egypt today, you shall not see them ever again. Hashem shall make war for you and you shall be silent." -- Shemot 14: 13-14
According to the Midrash, the sea would not part until the Israelites had enough courage to enter the waters first. However, one man by the name of Nachshon ben Ammindav from the tribe of Judah (and, according to the rabbis, Aaron's brother-in-law), had faith greater than any seed of doubt. He stepped forward and walked straight into the waters of the sea and thus they began to split. To this day, the rabbis attribute faith and courage to Nachshon ben Ammindav. For him, the Sea of Reeds was like a stone in the stonewashing of his faith. He allowed himself to be malleable to the divine will and submitted himself to the test in order to soften his will. Rather than fall into despair, he used the moment to turn the sea of doubt into a moment to commune with Hashem.
As Hashem brings B'nei Yisrael though the wall of water, Egypt's greatest warriors are consumed by the water. As the multitudes stand on the shore and observe, they receive a great injection of faith. But it won't be enough as they encounter their next obstacle. Their garments of faith aren't finished being stonewashed. There are yet to be more stones to transform their faith.
Water, Water Everywhere and Not a Drop to Drink
As the parasha continues, we encounter B'nei Yisrael in the midst of the wilderness with the opposite predicament. Instead of standing before a sea of water, they stand before a sea of sand in Marah and a pool of water that is bitter and undrinkable.
He [Moshe] cried out to Hashem, and Hashem showed him a tree; he threw it into the water and the water became sweet....He[Moshe] said, "If you hearken diligently to the voice of Hashem, your G-d, and do what is just in His eyes, give ear to His commandments and observe all His decrees, then any of the diseases that I placed in Egypt, I will not bring upon you, for I am Hashem, your Healer." They arrived at Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy date palms; they encamped there by the water. -- Shemot 15:25-27
The Baal Shem Tov says that even with water before them, the doubt and bitterness within their souls after three days of wandering have spoiled the water and made it undrinkable. Their own negativity and inability to see beyond themselves sour even their environment. Moshe Rabbeinu, however, calls out in faith to sweeten the waters for the people, almost like giving a candy to a wailing child to sooth and assuage. What is interesting is the use of the words chuq u'mishpat - literally decrees and ordinances. Mishpatim tend to be easier to follow since in many cases they are logical. Following the decrees - chuqim - which at times don't always have a logical component, would be the litmus test. Despite the decrees, would they possess even a shard of doubt that would hamper their ability to obey?
HaMan or Haman?
The next challenge B'nei Yisrael encounters is hunger. Quickly forgetting the date palms and the water at Elim, they believe they are going to perish for lack of food. Moshe again implores Hashem on their behalf and the mannafalls from the heavens. This food, spiritually necessary and easily assimilated, would be the key to purifying their souls and honing their ways. They would gather a day's worth of manna and enough on the sixth day to carry them through Shabbat. How then could any doubt remain in their hearts if they were sustained daily with heavenly food in the harshest of conditions? The answer is that when they gathered the manna, they did so with reservation. They proved this when they disobeyed the decree not to gather manna on Shabbat.
It happened on the seventh day that some of the people went to gather, and they did not find. Hashem said to Moshe, "How long will you refuse to observe My commandments and My teachings? See that Hashem has given you the Sabbath; that is why He gives you on the sixth day a two-day portion of bread. " -- Shemot 16:27-29
From here on, we see again the reservations of B'nei Yisrael as they continue on and camp at Rephidim. Their doubt brings the absence of water as well as an adversary known as Amalek and his army. This attack comes not because Hashem wanted to test them, but because B'nei Yisrael lacked the ability to trust in Hashem. Their refusal to obey the commandment of manna showed that they lacked "spiritual water", or Torah precepts, and this doubt brought about not only their physical lack but also their ultimate enemy.
HaShem maintains a war against Amalek from generation to generation. -- Shemot 17:16
While Hashem could have certainly defeated Amalek, it is evident that this is not the job of our Creator. As our rejection of manna continues on today through our flippant adherence to the Torah, Hashem will continue to allow our struggle with Amalek. This is a stone to tenderize us for a lifetime. Is it a coincidence that the word for manna - HaMan - is spelled the same way as Haman? Through our rejection of the decree of the manna we seeded something else quite disastrous. As we received Haman, a descendant of Amalek, during the time of Esther, so too have other figures in history come against B'nei Yisrael with the same spirit. Amalek is the representation of doubt and unbelief in G-d's existence; his name is equal to 240 and is synonymous with the word doubt - safek - which also equals 240. Amalek, and all who operate in his spirit, are the absence of faith in the miracles of G-d and also the denial of His authority in men's affairs. This is the stone that will continue to brush against our faith and either cause us to become stronger, or ultimately become our demise if we fail to trust in Hashem.
Closing the Gap
Mashiach Yeshua declares that the smallest amount of faith is enough to accomplish even the greatest feats.
I tell you that if you have trust as tiny as a mustard seed, you will be able to say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move; indeed, nothing will be impossible for you. -- Matthew 17:20
Then Kefa called to him, "Lord, if it is really you, tell me to come to you on the water." "Come!" he said. So Kefa got out of the boat and walked on the water toward Yeshua. But when he saw the wind, he became afraid; and as he began to sink, he yelled, "Lord! Save me!" Yeshua immediately stretched out his hand, took hold of him, and said to him, "Such little trust! Why did you doubt?" -- Matthew 14:28-31
Just as Moshe stretched out his hand many times and was a conduit for miracles and faith, so too did Yeshua stretch out his hand and continues doing so to us today. While we are not the ones who experienced the miracles of our forbearers directly, we must believe the power of the Holy One and stamp out doubt. For if we doubt, we grow weak and the spirit of Amalek has dominion in our lives. Our faith needs to be like a pair of stonewashed jeans.... flexible, transformed and enduring. May our faith be like the toughest Levi's - up to the job, reliable and prevailing in all circumstances of life.
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Since 2014 I have been contributing to WordPress core. In my adventures I've learned a lot about what goes into an Open Source project, how to write code while looking to the future, especially how to write code while looking in the past, and how to look at the big picture.
wp-tools was written to be able to manage WordPress installations en mass. On the WordPress team at Bluehost, we used this tool to update more than 2 million WordPress installations. More information can be found here.
Dashboard xkcd
This simply displays the latest xkcd comic in the WordPress dashboard. It's probably my favorite plugin.
Remove Admin Notices
Yoast tends to follow some bad practices regarding admin notices in the WordPress Dashboard. I am quite annoyed by this, so I wrote a plugin that removed the annoying things Yoast does. I'll keep this updated as long as annoying things continue. The name recently changed because Yoast all but threatened me for "using his brand". Although it was generally considered fair-use, I'm not in the mood for a lawsuit.
Seriously Simple Spam Blocker
A very simple WordPress plugin used to protect your site from spam. It uses the StopForumSpam.com API to check for spam. Give it a try and leave some feedback.
Still a serious work in progress, DockerWP is going to be a simple and easy to use local development environment. Docker is wonderful for apps and keeping separate components modular for greater control.


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Parallels Remote Application Server comes with two particular contracts which may be bound to a license key, i.e.:
Upgrade insurance(usually referred to as Maintenance) as well as a Support Contract
Upgrade Insurance: During the duration of the Upgrade contract, if a new major version is released, one is allowed to upgrade to it for free with the existing license key. This applies to going to new major releases. This information is applicable to the Parallels Remote Application Server. Parallels RDP Clients are provided for free.
Support Contract: allows you to contact technical support and get actual technical support should you run into issues with the product.


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The Knox County school system is looking for a new headquarters facility, in anticipation of a possible sale of the Andrew Johnson Building. KNS
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Join us for the most enjoyable Christmas Day in the Hunter Valley, we have the perfect option to help you celebrate the festive season with your family.
CIRCA 1876 Christmas 5 Course A La Carte Lunch
Tuesday 25th December 2018
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Enjoy an exquisite Christmas 5 course a la carte lunch in the historical multi-award winning CIRCA 1876 Restaurant. Indulge in a sumptuous Christmas feast using the freshest local ingredients complete with the traditional Christmas decorations, and bon bons.
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Trump and Netanyahu ready united assault against Iran nuclear deal
Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu will meet in New York on Monday, at the start of a week in which they intend to launch a concerted assault at the United Nations against the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran.
The US and Israeli leaders are expected to use their speeches to the UN general assembly on Tuesday to highlight the threat to Middle East stability and security represented by Tehran.
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While anxiety about Iran's expansive role in Syria, Yemen, Iraq and Lebanon is widely shared, Trump and Netanyahu's antipathy to the multilateral deal agreed in Vienna two years ago binds them together, even as it sets them apart from the overwhelming majority of other world leaders attending the annual UN summit.
Western allies in Europe – most notably the UK, France and Germany, co-signatories of the 2015 deal – remain committed to the agreement and have signalled they are willing to disagree sharply and openly with Trump on the issue.
Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the UN who made herself the principal channel for the president's critique of the deal, has been a lonely voice against it on the security council.
The stance taken by Netanyahu and Trump has also set them apart from their most senior national security advisers.
On a visit to Buenos Aires on Tuesday, the Israeli prime minister declared: "Our position is straightforward. This is a bad deal. Either fix it – or cancel it.
If you had any questions on what foreign government actually runs Middle Eastern US foreign policy, wonder no more.
Everytime these guys get to gether, I become extraordinarily nervous.
I hope President Trump understands that precisely what Tel Aviv wants him to do, is to create an atmosphere which makes it so impossible for Iran to stay in the P5+1, that they will have to abandon it, and will, of course, resune their nuclear program.
That, in turn, will create "regime change" fervor, and be whipped into a frenzy of demonisation against Iran, so that when such a break from this treaty happens, (courtesy of the Occupied Unhinged Surveilled States of America), that war will again be touted as "the only way" to handle this alleged "rogue nation."
Mr. President, I wish to politely, but strongly caution you at this moment, right after you have just met with Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu: the guy is crazy for regime change in Tehran, but only at the costs of American blood and American money.
Kindly keep that in mind, please.


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PetroFrontier has an average working interest of 87% in 14.1 mm gross acres of land in what management believes to be the most prospective hydrocarbon region of the Southern Georgina Basin. The hydrocarbon window within these lands ranges from oil mature to gas mature. These lands cover four Exploration Permits: EP 103, EP 104, EP 127 and EP 128 and Exploration Permit Applications: EP 213 and 252. The permits are relatively close to oil and gas markets and infrastructure with a gas pipeline to the north coast, rail connections north and south and public roads to a refinery at Alice Springs.
PetroFrontier's strategy is two-fold -- to unlock unconventional and conventional resources in the basin:
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We regret to announce the death of Mr Duncan Mwangi Muriuki, father to Catherine Mburu (Mama Ken) of McKinney TX and Florence Mwangi of Spokane WA.
He was father in law to Francis Mburu (Baba Ken) of McKinney, TX, Stephen Kimani of Spokane, WA and Patrick Ndei (Worcester, MA).
He was uncle to Antony "Jambo" Karanja (McKinney, TX), Josephine Kigo (Centerville,VA), Isabel Macharia (Canada) and many others in Kenya.
He was grandfather to Ken Mburu (McKinney, TX), Lucy Mburu (McKinney, TX) George Guara (Boston, MA), Nahashon Gachahi (Spokane, WA), Isabel Kigo (Centerville, VA), Gloria Mimo (Centerville, VA and Nairobi, Kenya), Eva Kigo (Centerville, VA and Nairobi, Kenya), Gladys (Gigee) Nyaga (Virginia, US)
He was a great grandfather to many.
Friends and family are meeting on Monday, October 30 and Tuesday, October 31 beginning at 6pm for prayers and encouragement.
The meetings will be held at the Mburu's residence located at 6225 Dark Forest Dr, McKinney TX 75070.
For those who may not be able to make it and would like to support the family financially, you can do so via Cashapp at phone numbers 214-808-5600 and 214-773-1306
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The Foreign Aid Conundrum
Canada is slashing its foreign aid payments while calling on other countries to increase theirs. The cuts would be hypocritical if the payments were effective at reducing world poverty, but they have not been.
Rory Leishman
Freelance journalist, author of a weekly national affairs column for The London Free Press and Sun Media Newspapers in London, Ontario. Mr. Leishman's work also appears in various other journals, and he operates his own web site where others of his essays can be viewed. He can be reached via e-mail at email@example.com.
That was a bold move by Prime Minister Jean Chretien to call upon the G-8 leaders of major industrial countries to increase their spending on foreign aid by five to 10 per cent. Since 1991, Canada has slashed its own spending on so-called development assistance by close to $1 billion.
Moreover, most of the cutbacks have occurred since the Chretien government took office in 1993. This year, Canadian foreign aid will amount to about 0.26 per cent of gross domestic product, down from 0.5 per cent in 1988 and a far cry from the target of 0.7 per cent of GDP that the Chretien Liberals have promised to achieve in the last two elections.
Granted, in relation to GDP, Canada still spends a lot more on foreign aid than the United States. The total foreign aid budget for this year is about $16.3 billion in the United States as compared to $2.2 billion in Canada.
Still, is not Chretien right? Given the enormous wealth of the G-8 countries, should they not collectively increase their development assistance to the most impoverished countries on Earth by at least five to 10 per cent?
The answer would be clear, if there were compelling evidence that most foreign aid has proven to be an effective means of combating poverty and fostering economic growth. However, that is not the case. There is better reason to believe that much of what Canada and other donor countries have handed out in foreign aid to Third World countries has been wasted.
Consider the dismal record of failure in Tanzania. While presided over by the late dictator, Julius Nyerere, Tanzania received more foreign-aid per capita than any other less developed country. With this money, Nyerere, the darling of Western socialists, built himself a new national capital, Dodoma; he imposed collectivized agriculture on his people; and he maintained a vast army of socialist bureaucrats whose huge costs and misguided policies stifled economic growth.
The abuse of foreign aid in Zaire was even worse: The late dictator, Mobutu Sese Seto, stole much of the money. A good chunk of it went into the construction of 11 presidential palaces, while most Zairians languished in abject poverty.
The annals of Canadian foreign aid, in particular, are replete with scandal. The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) spend a small fortune shipping brand-new, high-tech harvesters from Western Canada to the desperately poor farmers of Tanzania, only to have the machinery rust away, for want of spare parts and knowledgeable mechanics.
Of course, some foreign aid has been put to good and effective use. That's particularly true of food, medicine and other forms of humanitarian aid that Canada has rushed to the victims of war, floods, earthquakes and other calamities around the globe. However, disaster relief comprises only 2.7 per cent of Canada's foreign aid budget.
Maria Minna, the cabinet minister in charge of CIDA, has announced plans for a new social development agenda that will shift Canadian foreign aid away from economic megaprojects and handouts to governments. Instead, she wants to have CIDA, "focus its energy and resources on key areas of social development: health and nutrition, basic education, HIV/AIDS and child protection."
That's a sound idea. Even better is Minna's promise that her new agenda, "includes concrete goals so that Canadians can measure our progress, and understand what they are getting for their tax dollars."
Gurmant Grewal, a foreign aid critic for the Canadian Alliance, has charged in the Commons that the Chretien government, "delivers billions of dollars of our foreign aid unaudited, without transparency, without parliamentary review and without compatibility with our national interest." He's right on all counts.
Minna, like many of her predecessors, has promised to rectify these serious deficiencies. She should get on with the job. It will require the closure of entire departments within CIDA and the elimination of millions of dollars in wasted spending that does less to aid the poor overseas than to shore up Liberal support among contractors in Canada.
Meanwhile, Parliament should hold the line on foreign-aid spending. There should be no major funding increases for CIDA until Minna or her successor can come up with solid evidence that most of the billions of dollars that Canadian taxpayers are already providing in foreign aid is being put to good and efficient use in helping the neediest.


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A masters is the first level of graduate coursework and can be obtained after you receive a bachelor's degree. Earning a masters usually requires two years of full-time study, which amounts to 36 to 54 semester credits.
Sales can be a competitive and challenging aspect of the business world. People who study sales learn how to use interpersonal and communication skills as well as gain a background in finance, economics, and marketing to aid in the selling of services or products, usually in a retail, manufacturing, or industrial capacity.
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Partial view is a reusable view (like a user control) which can be embedded inside other view. For example let's say all your pages of your site have a standard structure with left menu, header and footer as shown in the image below.
For every page you would like to reuse the left menu, header and footer controls. So you can go and create partial views for each of these items and then you call that partial view in the main view.
Creating Partial view and consuming it
When you add a view to your project you need to check the "Create partial view" check box.
Once the partial view is created you can then call the partial view in the main view using "Html.RenderPartial" method as shown in the below code snippet.
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Osswald Parfumerie: Luxury Scents
Do you like the smell of luxury? The scent you wear sets the tone for the impressions you make throughout your day, These featured scents will keep you covered no matter the climate you're in. Always be prepared no matter where you go. Less is always more.
Here are my top 3 picks that will grab everyone's attention.
Phaedon Tabac Rouge is a perfect scent for the Midwest or anywhere for that matter.
This french, scent provides a warm, masculine edge scent with notes of ginger, vanilla and tobacco. It's an improvement on Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille
Profumum Roma Acqua Viva is an awesome scent for that West Coast vibe.
This italian scent has an unusually high concentration of citrus notes (in this case lemon) that last for hours and hours which is a plus in warmer weather. Also, it includes a travel atomizer (great for those who do a lot of traveling back and forth!)
Stephane Humbert-Lucas 777 2022 Generation Man is essential for that East Coast feel.
This french fragrance is a perfect transition for (day-to-night/office-to-lounge). With notes of Yuzu (a Japanese citrus fruit that smells like a cross between lime and grapefruit) lending a unique take on citrus. This powdery oud gives a sexy, cozy woody vibe without being overwhelming.
What scents are you wearing this season?
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Short description of Blackmores St John's Wort 90T
A clinically trialled dose of St John's wort to support healthy mood balance.
Features of Blackmores St John's Wort 90T
Traditionally used in western herbal medicine for mild anxiety and nervous restlessness
Supports healthy mood balance
Benefits of Blackmores St John's Wort 90T
Life's demands and challenges can sometimes leave us feeling troubled, nervous and sad. Blackmores St John's Wort contains a clinically trialled dose of Hypericum perforatum (St John's wort) and supports healthy mood balance.
Suggested dose of Blackmores St John's Wort 90T
Adults - Take 1 tablet 3 times daily with meals, or as professionally prescribed
Children (under 12 years) - Only as professionally prescribed
Ingredients of Blackmores St John's Wort 90T
(per tablet) Hypericum perforatum (St John's wort) - extract equivalent to dry flowering herb top 1.8g
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- Not recommended for use during pregnancy or breastfeeding
- May rarely cause photosensitive skin rash, mild gastrointestinal symptoms, tiredness or restlessness
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These ain't your mama's pork chops! These Reverse Sear Smoked Pork Chops will forever change your mind about the days of the hockey puck pork chops.
Sometimes when I hear people turn their noses at the idea of pork chops, I can't help but ask them why they dislike such an amazing cut of meat. Without fail, I hear the classic story of growing up and family overcooking pork chops almost like a hockey puck (that's the kind of pork chops I grew up with anyways… SHHHH DON'T TELL MY MOM!). So when that happens, I try to turn on my charm and convince them to rethink the classic pork chop oven bake, and try it out on a grill or smoker.
Pork chops have a bad rap, and I'm fully dedicated to bringing back the love for the pork chop. And when cooked right (not overcooked), and paired with a good wine, you've got yourself (dare I say) a fancy meal worthy of date night!
Like I said, these ain't your mama's pork chops!
For this we're doing the reverse sear method to make sure you get that gorgeous slow smoke infusion, then finish on the grill, or in this case, a hot cast iron pan, for that great sear and char.
What is a Pork Chop? The Cut
The pork chop essentially is the rib eye steak of pork. You can get them bone in or boneless. I love bone in for flavor and presentation and I like the butcher to cut me a thick piece, like 1 ½ to 2 inches thick.
It is relatively lean unlike its beef cousin, but you will still want to look for good marbling.
The Prep
This is really low maintenance. You may want to trim excess fat on edge of meat if there is any.
The Seasoning
You can always go salt and pepper. We like our basic rub recipe for pork. It is what it was made for. It has a little sugar, a little savory and a little spice.
Technique for Reverse Sear
We are going to reverse sear to lock in a little bark with the rub, then finish in a cast iron pan with a butter bath or baste as some call it. Place it on your smoker at 225 degrees (F) until the internal temperature of the meat is 135 (F), then remove.
You can finish it on a hot grill, but for added flavor we finish it on a hot cast iron pan until our desired temperature of 145 degrees (F).
Throw into the butter your favorite herbs or ingredients and spoon it over the top for extra flavor. For more information on this technique you can see our reverse sear smoked ribeye post.
You guys! Try this and tell me you don't love pork chops!
- 2 Bone in Pork Chops, thick cut, roughly 1 ½ pounds total
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 2 tablespoons dry rub
- 4 tablespoons butter
- 4 sprigs of fresh thyme
- 4 leaves of fresh sage
Preheat smoker to 200 – 225 degrees (F) using oak or apple wood.
Coat pork chops with olive oil and liberally apply the dry rub.
Place the pork chop on the smoker and cook until internal temperature is 135 degrees (F) and then remove (they will be on about 45 minutes - 1 hour).
When your temperature gets close to 135 degrees (F), preheat large cast iron skillet on stove top.
Place pork chops into the skillet and add the butter and fresh herbs.
Butter will melt quickly, be sure to quickly start basting the pork chops with the melted butter in the pan and then flip after 2 minutes and repeat the basting for 2 more minutes.
Remove pork chops from pan and let rest for 10 minutes tented with aluminum foil to let the juices redistribute.
Cut and serve with your favorite sauce, we used the brown butter sauce from the pan.
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Wine Pairing
Pork works great with so many red wines (Pinot Noir comes to mind). But it also works great with white wines, especially barrel aged white wines like Chardonnay. Not only does the butteriness and creaminess of a barrel aged Chardonnay a fantastic match for the pan sauce we created, but the oak notes are also a nice match for the sweet apple wood we used in smoking the meat.
William Hill Estate 2014 Benchland Series Chardonnay (Napa Valley, California)
This was just the style we were going for. Rich and full bodied with spice, baked apples, a bit of pineapple and pear, rounding out with more toast, creaminess and spice. This definitely complimented the juicy savory meat with those sweet smoky undertones and great crust from the pan searing. 14.9% abv | $40 (media sample)
What about you? What are your thoughts on pork chops? Do you love 'em? Hate 'em? Find them indifferent?
For more tasty recipes, BBQ tips and tricks, check out the Recipe Index.4