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Paul Street in a new article - An Idiot's Guide to Why They Hate Us - in the Counterpunch.org has tried to revisit the case. It is worth reading, which can be accessed by clicking here.
Here are some excerpts from his writing:
An "Aerial Traffic Jam" of "One-Sided Massacre" (1991)
"No sense of reason or respect for human life"? Seriously? Among the countless episodes of mass-murderous U.S. savagery in the Muslim world, one that I can never seem to forget occurred a quarter-century ago. I am referring to the epic carnage wreaked by the U.S. military on Iraq's notorious "Highway of Death," where U.S. forces massacred tens of thousands of surrendered Iraqi troops retreating from Kuwait on February 26 and 27, 1991. The Lebanese-American journalist Joyce Chediac testified that:
"U.S. planes trapped the long convoys by disabling vehicles in the front, and at the rear, and then pounded the resulting traffic jams for hours. 'It was like shooting fish in a barrel,' said one U.S. pilot. On the sixty miles of coastal highway, Iraqi military units sit in gruesome repose, scorched skeletons of vehicles and men alike, black and awful under the sun…for 60 miles every vehicle was strafed or bombed, every windshield is shattered, every tank is burned, every truck is riddled with shell fragments. No survivors are known or likely…. 'Even in Vietnam I didn't see anything like this. It's pathetic,' said Major Bob Nugent, an Army intelligence officer…U.S. pilots took whatever bombs happened to be close to the flight deck, from cluster bombs to 500 pound bombs…U.S. forces continued to drop bombs on the convoys until all humans were killed. So many jets swarmed over the inland road that it created an aerial traffic jam, and combat air controllers feared midair collisions…. The victims were not offering resistance…it was simply a one-sided massacre of tens of thousands of people who had no ability to fight back or defend." (Ramsey Clark et al., War Crimes: A Report on United States War Crimes Against Iraq to the Commission of Inquiry for the International War Crimes Tribunal,testimony of Joyce Chediac, emphasis added).
Less than a year after his forces conducted this colossal slaughter, U.S. President George H.W. Bush proclaimed that, "A world once divided into two armed camps now recognizes one sole and pre-eminent power, the United States of America. And they regard this with no dread. For the world trusts us with power, and the world is right. They trust us to be fair and restrained. They trust us to be on the side of decency. They trust us to do what's right" (emphasis added).
As Noam Chomsky noted in 1992, reflecting on U.S. efforts to maximize suffering in Vietnam by blocking economic and humanitarian assistance to the nation it had devastated after the Vietnam War ended: "No degree of cruelty is too great for Washington sadists. The educated classes know enough to look the other way."
"A Prodigious Effort"
Uncle Sam was only getting warmed up building its Iraqi and Muslim Body Counts in early 1991. As Sheldon Richman recently noted onCounterPunch:
"It takes prodigious effort to maintain an air of innocence about San Bernardino and Paris, because no one who claims to be informed can plead ignorance of the long history of U.S. and Western imperialism in the Muslim world. This includes the CIA's subversion of Iranian democracy in 1953, the U.S. government's systematic support of compliant autocratic and corrupt Arab monarchies and dictatorships, it's empowering of Iraqi Shi'ite Muslims, and its unconditional backing of Israel's brutal anti-Palestinian policies. (The savage 2014 war on Gaza killed many noncombatants.)""In the 10 years before the 9/11 attacks the administrations of George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton bombed Iraq while maintaining an embargo, most especially on equipment for the water and sanitation infrastructure the U.S. Air Force had destroyed during the Gulf War. Half a million children died. This was also when U.S. officials promised, then reneged on the promise, to remove U.S. forces from the Islamic holy sites in Saudi Arabia.""From the air Americans routinely kill noncombatants in Syria and Iraq, most recently this week, when 'at least 36 civilians, including 20 children, in a village in eastern Syria' were reportedly killed, according to McClatchyDC….Things like this happen all the time. The U.S. attack on the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, was especially egregious against this background of war crimes….The U.S. government has conducted war by remote-controlled drones since 2001 in a variety of places, including Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan."
"A Price Worth Paying"
Five years after "the Highway of Death," Bill Clinton's U.S. Secretary of State Madeline Albright told CBS News' Leslie Stahl that the death of 500,000 Iraqi children due to U.S.-led economic sanctions imposed after the first "Persian Gulf War" (a curious term for a one-sided U.S. assault) was a "price…worth paying" for the advancement of inherently noble U.S. goals. "The United States," Secretary Albright explained three years later, "is good. We try to do our best everywhere."
In the Streets of Fallujah
In a foreign policy speech he gave to the Chicago Council of Global Affairs on the eve of announcing his candidacy for the U.S. presidency in the fall of 2006, then-U.S. Senator Barack Obama had the audacity to say the following in support of his claim that U.S. citizens supported "victory" in Iraq: "The American people have been extraordinarily resolved. They have seen their sons and daughters killed or wounded in the streets of Fallujah." It was a spine-chilling selection of locales. In 2004, the ill-fated city was the site of colossal U.S. war atrocities, crimes including the indiscriminate murder of thousands of civilians, the targeting even of ambulances and hospitals, and the practical leveling of an entire city by the U.S. military in April and November. By one account:
"The U.S. launched two bursts of ferocious assault on the city, in April and November of 2004… [using] devastating firepower from a distance which minimizes U.S. casualties. In April…military commanders claimed to have precisely targeted…insurgent forces, yet the local hospitals reported that many or most of the casualties were civilians, often women, children, and the elderly… [reflecting an] intention to kill civilians generally…. In November… [U.S.] aerial assault destroyed the only hospital in insurgent territory to ensure that this time no one would be able to document civilian casualties. U.S. forces then went through the city, virtually destroying it. Afterwards, Fallujah looked like the city of Grozny in Chechnya after Putin's Russian troops had razed it to the ground" (Michael Mann, Incoherent Empire,New York, 2005).
U.S. deployment of radioactive ordnance (depleted uranium) in Fallujah also helped create a subsequent epidemic of infant mortality, birth defects, leukemia, and cancer there. But, of course, Fallujah was just one especially graphic episode in a broader arch-criminal invasion that led to the premature deaths of at least one million Iraqi civilians and left Iraq "a disaster zone on a catastrophic scale hard to match in recent memory" (Tom Engelhardt, Tom Dispatch.com, January 17, 2008).
The Pentagon's near leveling of the city was consistent with its early computer program name for ordinary Iraqis certain to be killed in the 2003 invasion: "bug-splat" As it turned out, Uncle Sam's petro-imperial occupation led to the death of at least 1 million Iraqi "bugs" (human beings). According to the respected journalist Nir Rosen in December 2007, "Iraq has been killed…the American occupation has been more disastrous than that of the Mongols who sacked Baghdad in the thirteenth century" (Current History, December 2007).
The Most Extensive Terrorism Campaign of All Time
Chomsky has recently and rightly called Barack Obama's targeted drone assassination program "the most extensive global terrorism campaign the world has yet seen." The program "officially is aimed at killing people who the administration believes might someday intend to harm the U.S., and killing anyone else who happens to be nearby." As Chomsky ads, "It is also a terrorism generating campaign – that is well understood by people in high places. When you murder somebody in a Yemen village, and maybe a couple of other people who are standing there, the chances are pretty high that others will want to take revenge."
Given the remarkable geographic scope of the cowardly U.S. drone war, Obama's terrorism campaign has spread jihadism across vaster terrain than any tool or tactic to date. George W. Bush may have Obama beat on total body count in the Muslim world. But Obama takes the prize when it comes to the geographic scope of jihad-fueling U.S. terrorism – and when it comes to instilling a ubiquitous sense of fear of instant mass death from the sky across much of that world.
"Pure Evil": Nightmares That Remind
It isn't just about body counts and science fiction-like technologies of mass murder. The natural desire for revenge among many in the Muslim world draws heavily on the hideous and perverse humiliation and torture that racist U.S. forces have carried out in that world. A remarkable teleSur English essay by Vincent Emanuele, a former U.S. Marine veteran of America's arch-criminal Iraq invasion and occupation, is titled "I Helped Create ISIS." By Emanuele's account of his enlistment in an operation that gives him nightmares more than a decade later:
"I think about the hundreds of prisoners we took captive and tortured in makeshift detention facilities staffed by teenagers from Tennessee, New York and Oregon. I never had the misfortune of working in the detention facility, but I remember the stories. I vividly remember the marines telling me about punching, slapping, kicking, elbowing, kneeing and head-butting Iraqis. I remember the tales of sexual torture: forcing Iraqi men to perform sexual acts on each other while marines held knives against their testicles, sometimes sodomizing them with batons.""However, before those abominations could take place, those of us in infantry units had the pleasure of rounding up Iraqis during night raids, zip-tying their hands, black-bagging their heads and throwing them in the back of HUMVEEs and trucks while their wives and kids collapsed to their knees and wailed. Sometimes, we would pick them up during the day. Most of the time they wouldn't resist. Some of them would hold hands while marines would butt-stroke the prisoners in the face. Once they arrived at the detention facility, they would be held for days, weeks, and even months at a time. Their families were never notified. And when they were released, we would drive them from the FOB (Forward Operating Base) to the middle of the desert and release them several miles from their homes.""After we cut their zip-ties and took the black bags off their heads, several of our more deranged marines would fire rounds from their AR-15s into their air or ground, scaring the recently released captives. Always for laughs. Most Iraqis would run, still crying from their long ordeal at the detention facility, hoping some level of freedom awaited them on the outside. Who knows how long they survived. After all, no one cared. We do know of one former U.S. prisoner who survived: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS.""Amazingly, the ability to dehumanize the Iraqi people reached a crescendo after the bullets and explosions concluded, as many marines spent their spare time taking pictures of the dead, often mutilating their corpses for fun or poking their bloated bodies with sticks for some cheap laughs. Because iPhones weren't available at the time, several marines came to Iraq with digital cameras. Those cameras contain an untold history of the war in Iraq, a history the West hopes the world forgets. That history and those cameras also contain footage of wanton massacres and numerous other war crimes, realities the Iraqis don't have the pleasure of forgetting.""Unfortunately, I could recall countless horrific anecdotes from my time in Iraq. Innocent people were not only routinely rounded-up, tortured and imprisoned, they were also incinerated by the hundreds of thousands, some studies suggest by the millions….Only the Iraqis understand the pure evil that's been waged on their nation…""….The warm and glassy eyes of young Iraqi children perpetually haunt me, as they should. …My nightmares and daily reflections remind me of where ISIS comes from and why, exactly, they hate us. That hate, understandable yet regrettable, will be directed at the West for years and decades to come. How could it be otherwise?" (emphasis added)
"You Haven't Begun to see…the Things Done to Children"
The award-winning journalist Seymour Hersh told the ACLU last year about the existence of classified Pentagon evidence files containing films of U.S. soldiers sodomizing Iraqi boys in front of their mothersbehind the walls of the notorious Abu Ghraib prison. "You haven't begun to see [all the]…evil, horrible things done [by U.S. soldiers] to children of women prisoners, as the cameras run," Hersh told an audience in Chicago in the summer of 2014.
The United States tries to do its best everywhere.
"Humility and Restraint"
Why Do They Hate Us?! It's an idiotic and childish question, as moronic as anything "The Donald" ever says. The media doesn't call Trump him on this one, however, for a very simple reason. It is itself deeply complicit in selling the "American exceptionalist" myth of the United States as a noble and benevolent force in the world and therefore in regularly and systematically denying the savage and criminal behavior of the American Empire abroad.
"We lead the world," presidential candidate Obama explained eight seven years ago, "in battling immediate evils and promoting the ultimate good…. America is the last, best hope of Earth." Obama elaborated in his first Inaugural Address. "Our security," the president said, "emanates from the justness of our cause; the force of our example; the tempering qualities of humility and restraint"—a fascinating commentary on Fallujah, Hiroshima, the U.S. crucifixion of Southeast Asia, the "Highway of Death" and more.
Within less than half a year of his Inauguration, Obama's rapidly accumulating record of atrocities in the Muslim world would include the bombing of the Afghan village of Bola Boluk Ninety-three of the dead villagers torn apart by U.S. explosives in Bola Boluk were children. "In a phone call played on a loudspeaker on Wednesday to outraged members of the Afghan Parliament," the New York Timesreported, "the governor of Farah Province…said that as many as 130 civilians had been killed." According to one Afghan legislator and eyewitness, "the villagers bought two tractor trailers full of pieces of human bodies to his office to prove the casualties that had occurred. Everyone at the governor's cried, watching that shocking scene." The administration refused to issue an apology or to acknowledge U.S. responsibility.
Reflecting on such atrocities the following December, an Afghan villager was moved to comment as follows: "Peace prize? He's a killer…Obama," the man added, "has only brought war to our country." The man spoke from the village of Armal, where a crowd of 100 gathered around the bodies of 12 people, one family from a single home. The 12 were killed, witnesses reported, by U.S. Special Forces during a late night raid.
A "Mainstream" Orwellian Triumph
"We are good…We use our power with decency, humility, fairness, and restraint." Every modern U.S. President (none perhaps with more audacity than Barack Obama) and Secretary of State (including Hillary Clinton) has said and still routinely says things along the same psychotic and nationally narcissistic lines. They do so without facing any more criticism from U.S. "mainstream" media than Soviet rulers faced from Pravda, Izvestia, and Soviet state television when they described their nation and its Eastern European satellites as "great socialist people's democracies." U.S. media elites, being members of the properly "educated classes….know enough to look away" from the reality of what Uncle Sam does in and to the world.
No wonder so many US-of-Americans are befuddled by the anger the U.S. evokes around the world (particularly in the Muslim world), darkly clueless when it comes answering the pathetic question "Why Do They Hate Us?" In the US, and indeed across much of the West, "mainstream" media and in the reigning intellectual culture the record of ongoing US criminality is airbrushed out from official history and the mass culture even as it occurs. It is instantaneously tossed down George Orwell's "memory hole." As Harold Pinter noted in his acceptance of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature, dominant Western cultural authorities behave as if US imperial violence does not exist and never has. "Even while it was happening," Pinter said, it never happened. It didn't matter. It was of no interest." Pinter was speaking of the Cold War era. Nothing has changed in this regard since the collapse of the Soviet Union. It's very much the same today.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something," Upton Sinclair once noted in an oft-quoted statement, "when his salary depends on his not understanding it." No doubt, some of the talking and writing media heads enlisted in the project of airbrushing Uncle Sam out of the global criminal record (no small act of distortion and deletion) know very well that "good" Washington's role in the world is very different than what they report. They also know that telling even small truths about US imperial arrogance and criminality could cost them their jobs and future employment prospects. It is difficult to get a reporter to reveal his or her understanding of the real US role in the world when his or her salary depends on that reporter not revealing that understanding.
Millions of Americans are consequently left in a dangerously childish state of abject ignorance about the actions and evil of "their" nation's military in the Muslim world and elsewhere and thus about the origins of anti-American Islamic jihad and terror abroad and at home. Whether "the Donald" himself is one of those millions is an open question, though there is reason to suspect that he knows better. The bigger issue is that he and the rest of the presidential candidates of both parties – "two wings of the same bird of prey" (Upton Sinclair, 1904) – will never be corrected by a corporate US war media that no more deserves the title "mainstream" than did Soviet state media in its day.


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They tell me that it comes at night, but does it really? There are some pretty good reviews for It Comes at Night on official critic websites, but when it came to user reviews, there was a lot of hatred and confusion as to why the critics praised it. Whenever you have such a big difference between the two, I feel obligated to hand in my two cents about the film and if I personally understand the love. Well, let's get into that. Let's first start with the plot.
Secluded in their boarded-up house nestled deep in the gloomy and dangerous forest, Paul, his wife Sarah and their son Travis are hiding from the world, condemned in a strict self-quarantine after the sudden outbreak of a virulent and fatally communicative disease. Under those circumstances, interaction with the outside world is brief and only when necessary, however, the already fragile balance of things will be abruptly disturbed, when a family in distress seeking food and shelter will inevitably settle in Paul's house. In the end, as the uneasy coexistence between the two families drags on, mistrust and then paranoia will begin to prevail, in a volatile environment where the enemy could be anyone, even themselves. – IMDb
The first thing you have to understand is that the critics didn't rate it as highly as most people think. Both Metacritic and RottenTomatoes have it scored in the mid-70s range, which is still decent. However, you still have a lot of hate from normal theater attendees. You have to ask yourself if the movie is actually bad or if it is more high-brow and confusing to some folks. In my experience, high-brow isn't really something you need in horror films. Simplicity is better for horror, so what exactly do we have here?
I believe this film mostly focuses on anxiety and paranoia rather than fear, but it misses out on one major thing – telling us what's out there. Look, I'm all for the use of our creative minds to come up with the worst possible scenario, but you have to give us some kind of idea. Just saying people are getting sick isn't enough. You need to know what happens after the sickness settles in. Do they just die, are they just contagious, do they turn into zombies, what happens? Unfortunately, the film does very little in explaining what's going on in the world. The movies that don't show you anything usually do a good job explaining a legend or something to kick start your creative thinking. The Blair Witch Project told us the tale of the witch, Paranormal Activity showed us website articles about the different kind of demons, telling us exactly what kind of demon they are dealing with. This really didn't do anything…which made a majority of the film seem like a waste.
These are just my first impressions, though. Let's go ahead and break It Comes at Night down to interpret the stars!
Title – It Comes At Night
Year – 2017
Genres – Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Possible Awards – Disappointing
Acting – 2|Characters – 1|Casting – 1|Importance – 1|Chemistry – 1
First up, we have the people category, starting off with the subcategory of acting, and thankfully, the acting was noticeably great. The characters were okay, but I won't be remembering them forever. I think everyone did a fine job in the role, but that doesn't mean they were the only actor for the job. In this film, there were characters that certainly held independent importance and purpose, but not enough. The main characters basically held the importance while everyone else sorta of blended together. As far as the chemistry goes in this film, there wasn't much of it. While it was fine, no one really cares about the relationships in this film.
Dialogue – 1|Balanced – 1|Story – 1|Originality – 1|Interesting – 1
Next up, we have the writing category, starting off with the dialogue subcategory…which was as unremarkable and forgettable as the meal you had last Tuesday afternoon. Now, this film isn't as well-balanced as it could've easily been. It loses its own focus here and there, making the film feel a little bit longer than it should normally feel. When it comes to the actual story, I can't really say it's the best. It's got a few things here and there that I think a lot of people will enjoy, but it's certainly not the greatest story ever told. Is the film original? Well, I think elements of the film definitely feel fresh and new, but there's always an itching feeling that we've seen this film before…so it's not as original as it could've been. I'd say I was interested enough to watch the film, but as I watched the movie, my interested died down pretty rapidly and was gone before the film ended.
Visuals – 2|Directing – 2|Editing – 1|Advertisement – 1|Music – 1
Next up, we're taking a look behind-the-scenes, starting with the visuals, and the visuals were pretty darn great here. Somebody knew what they were doing. The director actually did a really good job here. Completely based off of what they did, the movie looks and feels great and authentic on a different level. Well done! Nothing challenging or difficult in the editor's desk, folks. They stitched the movie together just fine, but there's nothing else to report here because even a kid could probably do it. When it comes to the advertisement, you might expect the film to be slightly different than what it is, but it's not something terrible…just different. There wasn't anything fancy or memorable about the music. It was basically as good as it needed to be in order to keep the tone in place…and that's what they did here, as well.
Introduction – 2|Inciting Incident – 1|Obstacles – 2|Climax – 1|Falling Action – 0
Next up, we're chugging right along into the narrative arc category, which is one of the easiest categories to score highly in. First up, we're looking at the introduction, which did perfectly. By the inciting incident, we knew who everyone was, the basic setting, and what's going on in these people's lives. How about the inciting incident? It was okay, I'll put it that way. It wasn't really all that clear because you never really feel like there is a 'never going back' moment, but it is what it is. How were the obstacles? Totally fine. There were plenty of clear obstacles in the way, just as you'd come to expect. How was the climax? It was okay, a little anticlimactic overall because it didn't feel like any culmination of everything else put together. Finally, what about the falling action? Truthfully, the movie really just ended right there. There was no real calming down moment, nor a return to the new norm, so…take that as you will.
Rewatchability – 0|Fun – 0|Impulse/Buy – 0|Impulse/Talk – 0|Sucks Audience IN – 1
Now, we get to ask the age-old question on if this movie is even entertaining! It's not the best start since I wouldn't rewatch it if my life depended on it. Okay, that's a bit harsh, but I honestly don't see me ever looking for it in order to see it again. What about its ability to b fun? Sorry, but this movie is about as boring as it gets. I didn't have fun watching it, I wanted to stop it and leave! Do I have any impulse to buy it? No way, Jose! What about talking to somebody about the film that hasn't heard of it? I really have no impulse to tell anybody about it, honestly. Does this suck you in, though? Maybe in certain parts, but definitely not throughout.
Horror – 0|Mystery – 0|Thriller – 0|Title Specific – 5|Halfway Decent – 5
Onto the specialty questions that I asked before seeing the film. First of all, the three genres IMDb places this film under is horror, mystery, and thriller. I would like to know how these genres work out for this film. Number one, horror. There isn't anything in this film that feels scary or worthy of the horror name. Next up, we have mystery, and the only mystery we have in this film is…why? Which doesn't count. Next, we have the thriller genre, and the film is more boring than thrilling. So, what genre should it fit under? Maybe drama, but even that's a little wonky. Okay, so what comes at night? I guess…a guy? But who cares? You think something else will show up at night, but it's really just a guy – half points there. Next up, we ask if it's halfway decent. For that, I'll just say it's a quarter decent, so only half points there. If they had just explained a few more things in the film, it'd probably be halfway decent, but it doesn't.

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Lopez provisionally wins 2016 WTCC title
Jose Maria Lopez is the provisional World Touring Cars Championship title winner after good results achieved at Twin Ring Motegi. The Citroen driver has an advantage of 120 points what should be enough for the title if the WTCC Race of Thailand will be canceled, as it is expected.
Opening race
Hondas occupied the front row and both started well. Norbert Michelisz kept his lead, followed by Rob Huff while the championship leader Jose Maria Lopez moved up to the 8th. Ferenc Ficza had problems with his car before the first race at Twin Ring Motegi while Hugo Valente retired on lap 1 after the collision with Gregoire Demoustier who got a drive-through penalty, just as Mehdi Bennani who had a false start.
In a meantime, Lopez moved up to the 6th position. The Argentinian was resolute to clinch the third consecutive title in Japan and looked unstoppable. Thed Bjork in Volvo was in great shape as in the middle of the race sat in third place but soon after Tiago Monteiro passed over him so we had three Honda on the top with five laps to go.
On lap 9, the black-white flag was shown to Nicky Catsburg and that was a really harsh decision, made after contact he had with Lopez in the battle for fourth. In the same time, Michelisz's lead was never in doubt and the Hungarian scored his first win of the season.
Huff and Monteiro finished 2nd and 3rd respectively, followed by Lopez and Muller. Bjork, Catsburg, Tom Chilton, Nestor Girolami and Gabriele Tarquini also scored points in the first race.
Main race
Pechito Lopez started from pole in the second race of the day, followed by Muller and Mehdi Bennani, but Monteiro moved up to the 3rd right after the start, trying to keep a battle for the championship crown alive.
The only question was whether Lopez manage to finish the race and take another title. He had a comfortable lead and a help from his teammate Muller who kept Monteiro at the distance. However, it wasn't a surprise when Lopez allowed Muller to overtake him on the penultimate lap and to win the race for the first time in 2016.
Lopez finished 2nd but definitely he was the man with the most reasons to celebrate, while Monteiro had to settle for 3rd place.
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Sinfonia Varsovia Centrum – a new cultural venue for Warsaw
Buro Happold is providing structural and building services engineering for Sinfonia Varsovia Centrum – a new cultural venue in Warsaw, centred around the Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra.
Sinfonia Varsovia Centrum complex includes five historical buildings, a new concert hall with a surrounding lattice frame and a garden.
The comprehensive conceptual design covering the entire Sinfonia Varsovia Centrum complex, including five historical buildings, a new concert hall with a surrounding lattice frame and a garden have now been approved. The cultural venue design expands on the functionalities of the individual buildings, the concept for the garden, as well as the architectural form of the frame which has evolved to become more translucent.
One of Warsaw's cultural icons, Sinfonia Varsovia plays, educates the city's residents musically, and is part of the city's cultural landscape. Improving the conditions of its operation in its new home at Grochowska Street and the previously announced construction and commissioning of a modern concert hall designed by Thomas Pucher is one of the most important, and most interesting challenges for our City – says Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, President of the Capital City of Warsaw.
We are happy that architect Thomas Pucher has taken into account comments from Warsaw residents when working on the conceptual design of the Sinfonia Varsovia Centrum. However, he did this in such a way so as not to lose sight of the original vision which has delighted the jury of the international architectural competition in 2010 – comments Janusz Marynowski, director of the Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra. Suspended 3 metres above the ground, the frame surrounding the will now be translucent, so the main historical building will be visible from Grochowska Street – Marynowski assures us.
Not just a concert hall
The new complex not only houses the largest concert hall venue in Poland, it also includes space for young artists (Sinfonia Varsovia Academy, artists' residences, rehearsal halls), a recording studio, conference hall and educational facilities for various age groups. There will also be space simply to relax, including a café combined with a music store, a restaurant, a garden which merges with the Obwodu Praga AK Park and a terrace situated 20 metres above street level, which will allow visitors to enjoy a panoramic view of the city.
Warsaw follows the example of other European cities which have located important cultural institutions in areas covered by urban regeneration programmes.
Michał Olszewski, deputy president of the Capital City of Warsaw.
Sinfonia Varsovia Centrum is a flagship project in the Programme for the Revival of the Praga District. It is of enormous importance to the development of Warsaw on the eastern bank of the Vistula river. By adopting this approach, the capital follows the example of other European cities which have located important cultural institutions in areas covered by urban regeneration programmes. Music is an excellent platform to build and strengthen community ties. I hope that Sinfonia Varsovia Centrum will be an important place for the local community, a space in which residents will feel at home, of which they will be proud. I am convinced this will be a place of attraction for tourists and artists from all over the world – says Michał Olszewski, Deputy President of the Capital City of Warsaw.
From an engineering point of view Sinfonia Varsovia is a great challenge, and this is why it is a very interesting project for us
Zbigniew Czajewski, group director at Buro Happold
Zbigniew Czajewski, Group Director at Buro Happold comments "From an engineering point of view Sinfonia Varsovia is a great challenge, and this is why it is a very interesting cultural venue project for us. The concept of the concert hall combining a "shoe box" solution and a "vineyard" seating arrangement with unique balconies is exceptional, but also the very characteristic frame surrounding the whole property is unusual. We are looking forward to seeing the project progress and eventually attending a concert in a brand new venue in Warsaw."
Construction work is scheduled to begin on the cultural venue at the end of 2018. With completion of the first stage and opening of the three buildings facing Grochowska Street expected in spring 2020. Completion of stage two and the opening of the concert hall is scheduled to take place two years later in spring 2022.
The project is financed from the budget of the Capital City of Warsaw. In 2010 the construction cost was estimated at approximately PLN 460 million. This value will be revised upon completion of the design work. The city budget has earmarked an amount of ca. PLN 280 million.


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The candidates' claims center on hot-button issues in this red state: blame for the opioid crisis and single-payer health care.
Each week until the 2018 midterm elections, "What The Fact" breaks down the claims made by candidates in races that could decide control of the House and Senate.
In Tennessee, Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn and former Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen are facing off for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Bob Corker.
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Our first $1 million grant under the Australian Brain Cancer Mission (ABCM) has been allocated to amazing research projects. The ABCM will contribute a total of $4.5 million to 4 new clinical trials to improve treatments & discover cures for highly fatal Glioblastoma, high-grade Glioma & improve effectiveness of chemotherapy treatments for children. We are proud to partner with the Australian Government & Mark Hughes Foundation in co-funding these incredible projects.
CB4BC have committed $5 million of our fundraising over the next 5 years to the ABCM.
The ABCM is a $107m fund which aims to double survival rates of people living with brain cancer over the next 10 years and provide better quality of life for those suffering from this terrible disease. Survival rates haven't changed in 30 years, the ABCM brings hope in the fight against this horrible disease. The Mission's long term goal is to defeat brain cancer through world-wide collaboration.


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Hygain live sound reinforcement is a mobile sound service which provides sound reinforcement service in any venue in Calgary and surrounding areas. We offer an experienced sound engineer with a fully digital 24 channel console, frequency buster, a full array of Fx such as compression, EQ, Limit and gate on every channel, four monitors and 5000 watts of program speaker power, including sub woofer.
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This week we mark our 9th birthday as a radio program. To celebrate, we featured some of our favorite in-studio interview sessions with new and emerging artists that we've had over the years. To hear these sessions again, check out our PODCAST page, or see Video of exclusive sessions from our website.
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[Andrew Belle interview and performance of The Ladder from 2011]
[The Rocketboys perform We Are A Lighthouse; Rare Triumphs of Love and Fortune from 2010]
[:19 break Old Dehlonega :59 Homer Hiccolm & The Rocketboys Live at Antone's]
[William Fitzsimmons interview excerpt-talking about the new album and performances of Beautiful Girl and Tide Pulls From The Moon from 2011]
[Matt Morris interview and performance of The Un-American from 2011]
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[Lindsay Katt interview and performance of Focus from July 2012 (previously unaired)]
[Elliott Park and George Pendergrass perform People Get Ready from 2011]
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[Mindy Smith interview and performance of Tennessee and Jolene from 2012]
[Listener Testimonial-Betty Hukill]
Once Was Love 3:35 Ingrid Michaelson Everybody
[(:19 break) You Will Find Me 0:59 Micah P Hinson Micah P. Hinson & The Red Empire Orchestra]
[Micah P Hinson interview and When We Embrace from 2008]
[Listener Testimonial-Aaron Nunn]
Bottle Of Tears 4:14 Elliott Park Fly Boy
[Elliott Park interview session from 2010]
The Old Man and the Clock 2:39 Elliott Park Fly Boy
[(:39 break) Return To Me 0:59 O Scarlet O Scarlet EP]
[Listener Testimony-Michael Granberry; Rock Calhoun]
Is It You Lindsay Katt Picking Out Boxes
Long Walk Home 4:34 Bruce Springsteen Magic
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Throw It All Away 3:44 Brandi Carlile Brandi Carlile
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Reader RS pointed me at this article at sans.org by Lenny Zeltser. It's a good read and lists many of my pet peeves about INFOSEC 'professionals'. I've listed a few here - but you need to click and read the article for the whole enchilada.
From the article:
Security Policy and Compliance
- Ignore regulatory compliance requirements.
- Assume the users will read the security policy because you've asked them to.
- Use security templates without customizing them.
- Jump into a full-blown adoption of frameworks such as ISO 27001/27002 before you're ready.
- Create security policies you cannot enforce.
- Enforce policies that are not properly approved.
- Blindly follow compliance requirements without creating overall security architecture.
- Create a security policy just to mark a checkbox.
Security Tools
- Deploy a security product out of the box without tuning it.
- Tune the IDS to be too noisy, or too quiet.
- Buy security products without considering the maintenance and implementation costs.
- Rely on anti-virus and firewall products without having additional controls.
- Run regular vulnerability scans, but don't follow through on the results.
Risk Management
- Attempt to apply the same security rigor to all IT assets, regardless of their risk profiles.
- Make someone responsible for managing risk, but don't give the person any power to make decisions.
- Ignore the big picture while focusing on quantitative risk analysis.
Security Practices
- Don't review system, application, and security logs.
- Expect end-users to forgo convenience in place of security.
- Lock down the infrastructure so tightly, that getting work done becomes very difficult.
- Say "no" whenever asked to approve a request.
- Impose security requirements without providing the necessary tools and training.
- Focus on preventative mechanisms while ignoring detective controls.
- Have no DMZ for Internet-accessible servers.
- Assume your patch management process is working, without checking on it.
Password Management
- Require your users to change passwords too frequently.
- Expect your users to remember passwords without writing them down.
- Impose overly-onerous password selection requirements.
- Use the same password on systems that differ in risk exposure or data criticality.
- Impose password requirements without considering the ease with which a password could be reset.
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The facility area is 9 thousand square meters, the volume of total investment in the construction exceeded 440 million rubles. This was reported by son of the company founder, supervisory board chairman Hans Peter Stihl at the opening ceremony, which was attended by Vice-Governor of Kuban Vasily Shvets, Deputy Chairman of Legislative Assembly of Krasnodar Region Sergey Altukhov, Mayor of Krasnodar Evgeny Pervyshov.
"For us it is important and significant that such a well-known concern, as STIHL, which entered out city in 2014, develops, opens its own logistics center, which will carry out the deliveries to 20 regions of Russia. Thank you for the appreciation of Krasnodar as a stable economic partner. Beginning from 2014 Krasnodar has supported the investing company, and today we see the result — the first in Russia its own logistics center. I very much hope that the development will continue, and from now forth you will make the same way as your neighbour — the company CLAAS, which has already launched the second stage of the agricultural machinery production plant," said Evgeny Pervyshov.
As stated by the Mayor of Krasnodar, currently about 300 companies with foreign capital work in Krasnodar. This clearly demonstrates the attractiveness of the city for investors, the existence of favourable conditions, venues and infrastructure for the implementation of projects.
"In recent years Krasnodar Region has consistently and firmly strengthened relations with German business partners, and it brings good results. Today in our family we take the company STIHL with its own logistics centre, the largest one in the South of Russia. Move only forward to new heights, success and achievements!" said Vasily Shvets.
Logistics center opened at the address St. Zapadny Obkhod, 36/1 — near the plant of another large German investor — the CLAAS Group. The opening ceremony was also attended by member of the Board of Directors of the company Norbert Pick, CEO of the Krasnodar representative office of STIHL Südwest LLC Andrey Gubenko, Chief of the department of investments and development of small and medium-sized businesses of administration of Krasnodar Region Yuri Volkov, Deputy Mayor of Krasnodar Dmitry Logvinenko, partners and dealers of the STIHL company in Russia.
"Employees of subsidiary in Krasnodar have the greatest potential: since the foundation of the company in 2014 they not only built and expanded the dealer network, but also improved its quality indicators. We guarantee the highest level of service to buyers of STIHL products who acquire our equipment in the dealer centers. That is why in our new building we have created a modern training center for mechanics and sellers. Our high turnover, achieved in Russia in recent years, suggests that we do all right," said Hans Peter Stihl.
Hans Peter Stihl said that since 2014 the company functioned in the leased premises, now it has own logistics center. The area of the land plot is 0,9 hectares, volume of investments amounted to about 440 million rubles. A land plot of 1,2 hectares is provided for further development of the company. Since 2014 the company's subsidiary STIHL Südwest LLC has been engaged in logistics, sales and technical service of the products.
In accordance to the tradition of the STIHL company, in honour of the opening ceremony the participants cut a specially prepared tree trunk with chain electrical saws.
Together with the honoured guests Evgeny Pervyshov examined the facilities, assortment of products in the showroom, technical novelties of the company. The logistics center has also a training class for representatives of service centers. Since 2014 the center has trained more than thousand professionals — mechanics and sellers from across the country. The ceremony ended with the planting of the first three trees in the lane of the STIHL company.
The STIHL Group is the developer, manufacturer and marketer of motorised tools for forestry, agriculture and construction. It is founded in 1926. The STIHL production is sold through a specialized sales and service network, which includes 38 distribution and marketing companies, more than 120 importers and about 45 thousand dealers in more than 160 countries.
Since 1971 STIHL is the best-selling brand of chainsaws in the world. In Russia, the first representative office was opened in 1994. Currently the company employs 16 thousand people worldwide, an annual turnover is 3,8 billion euros. The production centers are located in six countries — Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Brazil, China and the United States.
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WEST KELOWNA - A 34-year-old man has been charged with three counts of exposing his genitals to a minor in West Kelowna.
The details of the charges and names of victims are protected by a court-ordered publication ban, but according to public documents, Joseph Drew Perkins, born in 1982, remains in custody ahead of a March 2 bail hearing.
When police were called to the Johnson Bentley Aquatic Centre at 7:20 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 25., they found Perkins still in the change room, according to an RCMP media release.
Perkins refused to identify himself when police arrived, but was taken into custody without incident. Police were later able to identify him using his fingerprints.
"Staff of the facility were quick to call the police, which allowed our officers to make an arrest before others could be further victimized," Staff Sgt. Lesli Roseberry says in the release.
Since 2008, Perkins has been arrested and charged with minor crimes in several B.C. cities including Maple Ridge, Port Coquitlam, Nelson, Abbotsford, Kamloops and Sidney. In Kelowna in 2010 he was convicted of theft under $5,000 and in 2012 of possession of a controlled substance, as well as numerous breaches.
Investigators think there may be more victims from who witnessed the incident on Saturday.
"We suspect there may be other members of the public who were at the pool, who may have witnessed this man's behaviour prior to or after the alleged incident, or may have been victimized themselves," Cpl. Jesse O'Donaghey says in the release.
If you witnessed this incident and have not yet spoken to police you are asked to contact West Kelowna RCMP at 250-768-2880.
To contact a reporter for this story, email Jenna Hickman or call 250-808-0143 or email the editor. You can also submit photos, videos or news tips to the newsroom and be entered to win a monthly prize draw.
We welcome your comments and opinions on our stories but play nice. We won't censor or delete comments unless they contain off-topic statements or links, unnecessary vulgarity, false facts, spam or obviously fake profiles. If you have any concerns about what you see in comments, email the editor in the link above.


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Studying in the business administration program at Florida College gives Stuart Maness a variety of opportunities to learn and prepare for his future career. Whether he is attending business expos, practicing his interviewing skills or networking with business professionals, Stuart takes full advantage of those opportunities.
"The business program has given me great opportunities to network and to be around professionals," Stuart said. "I've been able to really learn from them and see how they handle their businesses."
One of Stuart's favorite networking opportunities is provided through the Distinguished Speaker Series. Each year, Florida College invites individuals who are successful in their fields to address the student body and eat lunch with upper-division students as a part of the series. Several of the most recent guests have been business professionals. Stuart especially enjoyed getting to network and learn from Brian Haskett, a former partner and executive with IBM Global Services and current vice president and practice director for application development and maintenance organization at Ciber.
When Stuart came to Florida College from Pennsylvania, he didn't realize the number of learning opportunities that would be available to him on campus. In fact, he intended to transfer to another institution after his freshman year.
"My plan was to go to Florida College for a year and transfer," Stuart said, "but I ended up loving the people, loving my professors and just enjoying the overall college experience more than I would anywhere else."
As a self-proclaimed extrovert, Stuart is actively involved on campus. He has been involved with the chorus, Rotaract Club, SBGA, Sower's Club, Alpha Club and Camp Friends. He has participated in society activities with Zeta Phi Epsilon and Phi Sigma Chi. He has also served as a telecounselor and an academic ambassador. This year, he will serve as a senior senator with the reorganized Student Body Government Association. Being involved with so many activities has allowed Stuart to build relationships with like-minded friends. He is especially grateful to be surrounded by people who all share the same goal: to serve God and get to heaven someday.
"You're all here to serve a greater purpose, to work hard and to be a servant," Stuart said.
Stuart has built meaningful relationships not only with his peers, but also his professors. Unlike professors at some other institutions, Florida College professors make time to get to know their students outside of the classroom. Stuart enjoys that one-on-one time and learning more about their perspectives on business and life in general.
"It's such a blessing, and it's so cool to see how their minds work and appreciate the motive from which they speak every time they talk to you about business," Stuart said.
Through networking, staying involved on campus and building relationships with his peers and professors, Stuart is learning both inside and outside of the classroom.
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InfoQ Homepage Kotlin Content on InfoQ
Redmonk Language Rankings Sees Rapid Rise for Kotlin and Swift
Industry analyst company Redmonk has published the Q1 2018 results of their quarterly programming language rankings. The top 5 are JavaScript, Java, Python, PHP and C#. Python's position above PHP and C# is also echoed in the Stack Overflow 2018 Developer Survey. C++, CSS, Ruby and C take the next four spots, then in joint tenth place are Swift and Objective-C. Kotlin has also seen a sharp rise.
Kotlin 2017 Roundup and 2018 Outlook
Since the release of Kotlin 1.1 in March 2017 by JetBrains, Kotlin has made huge gains in adoption all around the world. 2017 brought many exciting announcements, and the momentum continues into 2018. InfoQ recently sat down with Hadi Hariri, the team lead for developer advocacy at JetBrains.
SpringOne 2017 - Day 2 - Juergen Hoeller on Spring's Mission
The SpringOne Plaform Conference Day 2 keynote was well organized and replete with surprises, including keynotes by SpringFramework lead Juergen Hoeller and Microsoft Distinguished Engineer - one of the Gang of Four - Dr. Erich Gamma, among many notable others.
Kotlin 1.2 Introduces Multi-Platform Projects
The latest version of Kotlin makes it possible to share code for the JVM and the JavaScript platform using multi-platform projects. Additionally, it includes a number of language and library improvements, and better compiler performance.
Kotlin Native Adds Objective-C Interop, WebAssembly Support
Kotlin/Native 0.4 makes it possible to build native apps for iOS and macOS, writes Nikolay Igotti, Kotlin/Native tech lead at JetBrains. Additionally, it introduces experimental support for the WebAssembly platform.
Fresh Async with Kotlin: Roman Elizarov Presents at QCon SF
Roman Elizarov, team lead in Kotlin libraries at JetBrains, presented "Fresh Async with Kotlin" at QCon San Francisco. Elizarov demonstrated how Kotlin addresses the difficulties faced in writing asynchronous code in languages such as Java, C# and Javascript. Async code in Kotlin looks very much like the normal synchronous code that most developers are used to writing in languages such as Java.
Kotlin Use for Android Apps is Growing, Getting More Google Support
In the six months since Google announced official support for Kotlin as a first-class language for Android development, Kotlin usage has more than doubled, writes Google product manager James Lau, and more than 17% of Android Studio 3.0 projects now use Kotlin.
Spring Framework 5.0 Released
Spring Framework 5.0, featuring a new reactive web framework, was released on September 28, 2017. With this release, Spring 5.0 has its entire codebase based on Java 8 source code level. Spring 5.0 is compatible with JDK 9 for development and deployment.
IntelliJ IDEA 2017.2: Smarter, Neater, and Faster
JetBrains recently released IntelliJ IDEA 2017.2, the quarterly release of its flagship Java IDE. Trisha Gee's blog post about this release notes that there are many usability enhancements; new classes of warning like if you are creating empty collections or Strings or if a number is out of range on an array. It also has improved analysis around nulls.
Kotlin Is Now a Supported Android Language
Announced during Google I/O 2017, Android Studio 3.0 adds full support for Kotlin which is to be moved from JetBrains to an independent non-profit organization for future development.
Kotlin 1.1 Adds Coroutines, Type Aliases, Improved JavaScript Support
Kotlin new version introduces a number of new language features – most notably coroutines – and improved support for its JavaScript target, writes Kotlin marketing manager Roman Belov.
JetBrains Releases Kotlin 1.0
JetBrains has announced the first stable release of Kotlin, their new JVM-based language compatible with Android. As the maker indicates, the language is meant to be a "good tool", driving design decisions towards pragmatism and interoperability. The language promises to address many of the issues that can only be fixed in Java through libraries and external tools.
Q&A with Andrey Breslav on the Kotlin 1.0 Release
After three months in beta, the Kotlin team has announced the release of Kotlin 1.0, which aims to stabilize both API and ABI of the language. InfoQ has spoken with Andrey Breslav, lead Kotlin designer at JetBrains.
Community-Driven Research: What's Your Next JVM Language?
InfoQ's research initiative continues with an 12th question: "What's Your Next JVM Language?". This is a new service we hope will provide you with up-to-date & bias-free community-based insight into trends & behaviors that affect enterprise software development. Unlike traditional vendor/analyst-based research, our research is based on answers provided by YOU.
Kotlin Open Sourced
JetBrains have open-sourced their Kotlin language, compiler and have offered a free plugin for IntelliJ users to write Kotlin code. The language is also buildable with Ant, Maven and Gradle builders. How does it compare to the other JVM based languages on the scene? Read on to find more.
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Amazing quotes to go with your beautiful photos~ Hope all is well dear friend! xXxReplyDelete
hey sorry for not responding to you earlier on my post burst of creativity and art post.
thank you for your kind words.
i plan on posting about my art projects soon but a very important exam kept me busy. looking forward hearing from you :)
Peaches, bless you, will come a pay you a visit, its been a while!
Ella, hey there, you've been a busy one, will connect soon no doubt you take carexx
Jay, no worries, I know what it is like looking forward to seeing your project, and good luck in your exams!
The full flower garden on day 190 is just amazing!!
Thanks for sharing : ) Michael
beatiful images of flowers!
I love the flowers because are colors, mouvement and life!
Ciao ciao, Floriana
I like the idea of showing ourselves love. Beautiful photos. I can smell the flowers :)ReplyDelete
Micheal, its an amazing place, behind a railway station, and they have a pond, grow herbs and lovely displays, an oasis surrounded by flats!
Floriana, I have been able to capture a wonderful range of flowers with some amazing colours and scents.
M Pax Showing ourselves love can be hard and takes time to get use to it, I guess its the same for allowing ourselves to be creative....
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The proposed Bylaws change (Dues Increase) passed by a large margin. The changes have been sent on to the IO and must be approved prior to implementation. We are hoping to receive the approved Bylaws back from the IO for a January 1, 2019 effective date. We will notify the membership and contractors prior to implementation.


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Consistently rated by Frommer's Travel Guide as the "Best Value in Fisherman's Wharf," The Wharf Inn offers guests affordable hotel accommodations with FREE parking in an incredibly convenient location, walking distance to many iconic sights in the city. If you're headed someplace further, historic Cable Cars, Caltrain, Muni, and lightrail transit are all no more than 2 blocks away as well. Come stay with us, take advantage of our location and see all that San Francisco has to offer.
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The Internet is changing the world of business. If you are not online then you are no longer internationally competitive. Many companies are thus confronted with the challenge 'eBusiness or out of business', however there is currently a lack of trained experts that can lead companies through this difficult transition.
The study programme in eBusiness provides the skills, knowledge and relevant key qualifications that are necessary to harness the potential of the internet for industries and to place them in a globally competitive position.
Professional Fields of Activity
- Design of web-based organizational processes and web-based workflow
- Creation of business models on the Web
- Economic analysis of e-business projects
- Development of marketing strategies and communication concepts on the Web
- Design of internal and external information flows for businesses
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DW Designed Around the World ISES Gala
DesignWorks had the honor of designing ISES' annual gala themed "Around the World". An eclectic mix of travel nostalgia filled the sun soaked venue with style and grace. If a photo speaks a thousand words, ours speak a million. Take a peek at our favorite moments captured by Allée Photography.


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These are all of the latest common cosmetic items that we have found in the Fortnite game. You can see the rarity detail of each item and information on how to get the common item in the game.
Common Items in Fortnite Battle Royale are the 5th most common tier of Fortnite Weapons, Back Blings, Emotes, Gliders, Outfits, Skins, Pickaxes and Umbrellas that you can get in the game. The common items are given to you for free in the game by default.
Common items are given to you by default in the game with some common items being unlocked as you progress through the game.
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Does counseling affect parental postpartum depression?
Introduction and objectives: During pregnancy and after childbirth, parents experience new roles and responsibilities, which may affect their mood and lead to postpartum depression. The present study examines the effects of counseling on postpartum depression in parents.
Materials and methods: The study is a clinical trial on 76 couples from Urmia, Iran. The samples were chosen from week 34 of pregnancy to 6 months after childbirth and randomly assigned to control (38 couples) and intervention (38 couples) groups. The control group received routine care, while parents in the intervention group received routine care plus five counseling sessions. All the women and their spouse in the control and intervention groups were assessed with the Edinburgh Postpartum Depression Scale at the beginning of study, 2 and 6 months after childbirth. Descriptive statistics tests and t-test were used to extract the results. P-values less than 0.05 were considered significant.
Findings: Mean Edinburgh depression score 2 months after childbirth was higher for control group mothers (10.18 ± 1.53) as compared with the intervention group (8.21 ± 1.43). This was statistically significant. The mean Edinburgh depression scores for fathers in the control and intervention groups were 6.92 ± 1.51 and 6.36 ± 1.42, respectively, but this difference was not statistically significant. Also, the mean Edinburgh depression scores 6 months after childbirth were found to be higher for the control group mothers (p = 0.001) and fathers (p = 0.019), and this was statistically significant.
Conclusion: The results of this study showed that couple-based counseling significantly decreased depression scores of nulliparous women within 2-6 months after delivery. However, the interventions failed to have effects on fathers within 2 months after childbirth and only proved statistically effective after 6 months.
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More than 1 million hectares of thicket vegetation in the Eastern Cape, South Africa have been degraded by goat farming over the past century. The change in the landscape is startling: a dense, virtually impenetrable forest is transformed by the goats into an open, desert-like landscape with a smattering of intensively pruned trees. This is desertification in its most extreme form. Soils are exposed to the impact of raindrops and rapidly erode, with entire topsoil horizons ending up in rivers and dams. The animals and plants of the forested environment are largely absent. The few trees that remain are the "living dead" because their seedlings cannot survive in the baking sun. The desertified landscape is a mere shadow of its former self. In wet years this human-induced desert is transformed into a lush green pasture of annual grasses and shrubs, and livestock thrives. But in dry years (which are common in the Eastern Cape), the land's surface remains brown and pickings are slim for herbivores.
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Tuesday, January 10, 2017
The progressive letting it all hang out
...The time for civil discourse and debate is over, they say; the only course left now is resistance. A few of us are talking, after a couple drinks, about buying guns; if it comes to a fascist state or civil war, we figure, we don't want the red states to be the only ones armed.
From someone who probably screamed 'Insurrectionist!' or something similar when someone pointed out the real purpose of the 2nd Amendment.
And just how much time do you think they'll spend at the range learning to use the guns they despise? Assuming they actually buy them.
Like a lot of people, I'm still trying to figure out what policy to adopt, and what marginal role I can play, in the incoming dystopia. My official policy toward a Trump administration is straightforward enough (even if implementing it won't be): Defy, paralyze, and undermine it in any way I can. What's going to be more complicated is formulating some coherent attitude toward the 62 million of my fellow Americans who elected that administration. How to reconcile my convictions with the actual human beings — family, friends, colleagues, and neighbors — who voted for this man?
From one of the people passing around that poster that 'Saying you'll work against the President is TREASON!'
Of course, that was when a Democrat was President.
A vote cast for Trump is kind of like a murder; there may be context to consider — a disadvantaged background, extenuating circumstances, understandable motives — but the choice itself is binary and final, irrevocable. There's a case to be made that it's indefensible; that his supporters have forfeited any right to be respected or taken seriously.
'Taken seriously' is the least of his contempt.
The conservatives of the heartland have lashed back against the coastal elites' condescending, classist prejudices by defiantly confirming them: that they're pathetically dumb and gullible, uncritical consumers of any disinformation that confirms their biases, easy dupes for any demagogue who promises to bring back the factories and keep the brown people down.
Ignorance and bigotry are actually the best possible motives for having voted for Trump — they are at least honest, if not honorable. But I don't believe all Trump voters are ignorant, or bigoted; most of them are just evil — evil being defined not as anything so glamorous as beheading journalists or gunning down grade schoolers, but simply as not much caring about other people's suffering.
And there's the final: if you voted for Trump, you're EVIL. And you can do anything to fight Evil, right?
Toward the end he tries to- somewhat- soften this, but I don't really buy it; he'll give some tolerance to the two people he knows(that he knows of) who voted for Trump, but that's probably it. After all, he knows what's Right and Wrong, and everyone who cast a wrong vote is WRONG, and must be made to suffer for it.
Asshole would probably have been a fine commissar back in the Soviet Union, when he'd be able to kill people guilty of wrongthink and be praised for it.
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I hate both parties for the most part, but went with Trump to see the libtards cry like the whiny bitches they are.
I have no problem telling most people that I'm glad I never joined the military since few of them have a life or property worth defending.
Liberal heads exploding.
I can't think of anything more fun than that! I really hope that the 2018 congressional races bite them in the ass too.
- Jerry The Geek said...
Tell the truth and spite the devil; I voted for Trump because the only alternatives were (1) vote for another damn Clinton, or (2) don't vote at all.
In the event, I voted for the least despicable candidate; and I admit that the choice was quite clear, if uncomfortable.
The two-part punch-line to this joke of an election is that (A) people are now trying to make me feel guilty because I voted for Trump, and (B) if I had voted for Hillary, I would feel guilty without any outside help at all.
And if there is any such thing as a three-sided joke, it's that a lot of people who supported Clinton are posting on the internet as if that bitch is some kind of a saint.
Which only confirms that I made the correct (if difficult) decision. I have grown accustomed to voting for Liars and Charletons, but I'm glad I didn't have to vote for a Clinton!
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When Tracy told me she'd read my blog recently, I felt a stab of shame. Not because I haven't written all year, but because of what I HAD been writing before I stopped. Oh dear, this written record of my inner struggles is how new people I meet are getting to know me! As if I'm not perfectly capable of scaring them off in person!
|They ALL look like angels at Christmas-time!
What I remember of 2014 is anger and fear. I was not in a good place - physically, emotionally and spiritually. I'm afraid to look back at what I was writing. Two blogs I had to remove because they were hurtful. I wasn't funny. I was bitter, nasty and sarcastic.
Now the question is whether a happier me will actually be boring and proselytising.
Hold on a moment while I go look that up and see if it means what I think it does!
|God Aidan (and Captain Matthew and his warriors) backed up by brother Ian.
Nope. To try to convert to one's particular religion or sect of a religion. Definitely not what I had in mind. Although we HAVE joined the Church of Christ this year.
Now the question is whether a happier me will actually be boring and moralizing? Or if I need to haul out a thesaurus. And if I should be spelling that with an s or a z. Still pronounced zee in my head, not zed. So that I think I will stick with it.
The other question is whether my wandering attention span is a sign of attention-deficit-disorder or a stroke of brilliance.
|Tayah and Andrew narrate the story behind Christmas.
Ahem! Attention! Over here! To think , write or speak about matters of right and wrong, often in a self-righteous or tedious way.
Who ME?!
Romans 5:3-4 on adversity: "Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope..."
I don't know about that, Romans. I bitched and moaned through my sufferings. My suffering produced hypothyroidism, anemia, adrenal fatigue and bitterness.
|Dayna watches over the angels!
Did I endure? Certainly not in a sense of fortitude; the ability to endure with patience. I am NOT patient. I am whining and snivelling and demanding.
But I am still here. And I DO have character. Or AM a character. But I am tired of getting up off the sofa to check the dictionary.
|Scratch a warrior, find a lover!
What I do have - for 2016 and for good - is hope. I have no doubt that Dayboro, Australia is the haven I have been searching for. Heads up Penn Vet - turns out I was looking farther east than Africa!
So yes, Gary, I have finally opened my gift.
|"BA RUM PUM PUM PUM," boys, "BA RUM PUM PUM PUM!"
In the words of my four boys: "I have these gifts for you. They're up in my bum."
If God really IS anything like Aidan (who portrayed Him in our Christmas nativity skit this past Sunday), 2016 will be filled with madness and mayhem. But also lots of hugs and love.
|Turns out God uses a toilet paper roll covered in tin foil to view the earth!
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Based in Liverpool, Jo Herring and Laura Caldwell met in 2007 through friends; a meeting that resulted in an explosion of creativity where songwriting, musicianship and visual art collided to create SeaWitches.
The band gig regularly in Liverpool, where they've played Sound City, Music Week and interestingly, the Green Party Conference as well as hosting their own nights supporting other well known bands like Eagulls and Giant Drag.
2012 saw Tilo Pirnbaum joining the band on drums, and SeaWitches entered the studio to record their first EP Spacegun, which received positive reviews and helped secure a loyal and diverse fanbase. They also began to play outside Liverpool, securing gigs in Manchester and London.
Jamie Jenkin was recruited on guitar in 2014 and, seven years in the making, the line up is complete and the band are ready to take their music to a wider audience.
Prolific songwriters, they work collaboratively with each member bringing a diverse set of influences.
Hailed as one of the most exciting bands to emerge from Liverpool's music scene is recent years, SeaWitches are the latest signing for Edge Hill University's The Label Recordings run by Carl Hunter of The Farm and assisted by media students. An experiment that has led to huge success for previous signing Hooton Tennis Club, who are now with Indie label Heavenly Recordings and who they'll be supporting in The Shipping Forecast on the 20th of February.
They're releasing 'Stars' as a single on February 16th and it's 'poppier' than some of their previous, slightly moody work and it's been played recently on Ralph's Radio KC Indie Show.
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CRUZ, Antonio M; PRESIGA-LUCENA, Ana M and RODRIGUEZ-CORTES, Isabel C. Measuring the Datum or Pugh method's efficiency for selecting biomedical technology. Rev. salud pública [online]. 2009, vol.11, n.5, pp.766-773. ISSN 0124-0064.
Objective Determining the Pugh multicriteria method's effectiveness as a selection tool when acquiring new technology. Materials and Methods The state of the art regarding multicriteria method use was studied; the Datum or Pugh method was selected. The size of the sample of experts participating in the trial was calculated and characterised; a data sample of 23 experts was thus obtained. Electrocardiography technology was selected by using the selected decision-making method; 5 models from different providers were used. Results 46 tests were conducted. The model labelled "3" was selected as referent in most cases, whilst the model labelled "5" was selected as being the best option in most cases. Conclusions The Pugh method was effective as a method for decision-making when selecting biomedical technologies as the same model was always selected by the experts as being the best option in 87% of the tests applied.
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