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Dir: Bruce LaBruce. Canada. 2013. 82mins
Controversial Canadian filmmaker Bruce LaBruce, whose previous films have largely been of the underground low-budget variety veering between art and porn, takes a step into the sort-of mainstream with this rather delicately handled romantic drama that delves into a gay May-to-September love affair.
Though challenging at times, there are no real surprises.
The film, which premiered in the Venice Days section of the Venice Film Festival, is gently challenging (it is the first of LaBruce's films without any sexually explicit content), beautifully shot and rather engaging at times. Some of the performances may lack a certain spark or depth and it lacks the consistent sense of humour to put it into the non-traditional rom-com bracket, but it is a bold and provocative piece of film making (it aims to be very much in the Harold And Maude bracket) with LaBruce shooting with confidence in a rather more traditional filmic format.
Just so there should be no confusion, the title says it all. 'Gerontophilia: noun – the love or sexual preference for the elderly'. A subject often tackled in cinema, though far more usually in the simplistic 'older-man-younger-woman' romance, but here dealing with the burgeoning homosexual romance between an 18 year-old and an elderly and ill man about to turn 82.
Lake (Pier-Gabriel Lajoie) is in a sort-of relationship with girlfriend Desiree (the vivacious Katie Boland) – they engage in noisy kissing, but little else – but he comes to realise his interests lie elsewhere. This is particularly evident when he gets over-excited in his lifeguard job at a local pool when he has to give the kiss of life to an elderly man.
He gets a summer job at a nursing home, where he starts to develop an increasingly tender relationship with Mr Peabody (Walter Borden). He becomes more and more obsessed with the gently charming older man, and when he finds Mr Peabody over-medicated and strapped down one day Lake decides that they should make their escape.
The pair head off on a cross-Canada road trip aiming to make it to the Pacific (one of the places Mr Peabody says he wants to see again), stopping off at motels to consummate their relationship, and also engaging on a little light shoplifting to help manage their budget.
There are moments when Gerontophilia makes strong attempts at humour – they genial playfulness of Mr Peabody when they are the road; him claiming to be just 75 when another young man chats to him in a gay bar; the massive photograph of an elderly Gandhi sat above Lake's bed looking down on he and Desiree as they kiss etc – but often the balance is not quite right. There are smiles to be had, but no real laughs.
Acclaimed Canadian theatre actor Walter Borden grows into the role of the playful and nicely complex Mr Peabody, though newcomer Pier-Gabriel Lajoie has problems at times keeping up with him, and never really manages to convey the depths and turmoils that his character needs to exhibit. Katie Bolland is a breath of fresh air when she is on screen, offering a quirky sense of fun and left field humour.
At one point LaBruce looks as if he may be taking the film into dark and more disturbing territory as Lake has a dream scene in which he snuggles in bed with Mr Peabody and proceeds to lick and kiss open wounds on his back, but the film smartly pulls back and keeps on its more mainstream romantic May-to-December structure. Though challenging at times, there are no real surprises…apart from that fact that it is clear that Bruce LaBruce, the maker of cult films such as Hustler White, Skin Flick and L.A. Zombie, is a romantic at heart and more than capable of making a film beyond his usual borders.
Production companies: 1976 Productions, New Real Films
International sales: Mk2 Films, www.mk2.com
Producers: Nicolas Comeau, Leonard Farlinger, Jennifer Jonas
Screenplay: Bruce LaBruce, Daniel Allen Cox
Cinematography: Nicolas Canniccioni
Editor: Glen Berman
Music: Ramachandra Borcar
Main cast: Pier-Gabriel Lajoie, Walter Borden, Katie Holland, Marie-Helene Thibault


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Fall November 4 – 5, 2023
The Sisters invite you to join them on a spiritual retreat that includes Holy Mass, Divine Office, Rosary and the opportunity to enjoy time with the Sisters. You will hear conferences given about Mary and the Eucharist, as well as on the specific theme of the retreat. Please note: Vocational Discernment Retreats are for young women between the ages of 16 (high school juniors) and 30.
So what are the vocation retreats really like?
Why do so many young women, often numbering well over a hundred, come for a twenty-four hour retreat? What is it that attracts them from all parts of the United States and Canada? For each young woman, the answer is different and the experience unique.
The following are a few glimpses of the retreats in the words of the young women who have experienced the retreats themselves:
"…I have to say that your retreat was more intense than any retreat I've ever gone on…."
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INDIANAPOLIS --The NCAA Division I Men's and Women's Swimming and Diving Committee announced Tuesday the participants in the 2014 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships.
The championships will be held March 27-29 at the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center in Austin, Texas. Texas will serve as the host.
A total of 270 participants (235 swimmers and 35 divers) will compete in the championships. Student-athletes qualified for the swimming portion of the championships by meeting the established minimum time for the events in which they entered. Divers will be determined by performances achieved at the Zone Diving meets March 10-16.
The complete list of all swimmers competing in the championships is available at www.usaswimming.org/ncaa. Selected divers will be added to the website Sunday.
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yppasswd - change your network password in the NIS database
yppasswd [username]
The yppasswd utility changes the network password associated with the user username in the Network Information Service (NIS) database. If the user has done a keylogin(1), and a publickey/secretkey pair exists for the user in the NIS publickey.byname map, yppasswd also re-encrypts the secretkey with the new password. The NIS password may be different from the local one on your own machine.
yppasswd prompts for the old NIS password, and then for the new one. You must type in the old password correctly for the change to take effect. The new password must be typed twice, to forestall mistakes.
New passwords must be at least four characters long, if they use a sufficiently rich alphabet, and at least six characters long if monocase. These rules are relaxed if you are insistent enough. Only the owner of the name or the super-user may change a password; superuser on the root master will not be prompted for the old password, and does not need to follow password construction requirements.
The NIS password daemon, rpc.yppasswdd must be running on your NIS server in order for the new password to take effect.
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
keylogin(1), login(1), NIS+(1), nispasswd(1), passwd(1), getpwnam(3C), getspnam(3C), secure_rpc(3NSL), nsswitch.conf(4), attributes(5)
Even after the user has successfully changed his or her password using this command, the subsequent login(1) using the new password will be successful only if the user's password and shadow information is obtained from NIS. See getpwnam(3C), getspnam(3C), and nsswitch.conf(4).
The use of yppasswd is discouraged, as it is now only a wrapper around the passwd(1) command, which should be used instead. Using passwd(1) with the -r nis option (see NIS+(1)) will achieve the same results, and will be consistent across all the different name services available.
The update protocol passes all the information to the server in one RPC call, without ever looking at it. Thus, if you type your old password incorrectly, you will not be notified until after you have entered your new password.
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NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has scheduled a press conference for Tuesday afternoon to discuss the league's investigation of racist comments purportedly made by Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling during a recorded conversation with a female companion. While the voice has yet to be independently verified as Sterling's, Clippers coach Doc Rivers and Sterling's wife are among those who say they believe it is him speaking.
It is Silver's first true test as NBA commissioner, and he vowed the league would "move extraordinarily quickly in our investigation."
A breakdown of the key elements heading into the press conference:
— SILVER'S AUTHORITY: Silver said last weekend that he has broad authority to address issues with owners that threaten the game's best interests. But it remains unclear how far Silver's powers can reach so early in the process.
— SUSPENSIONS: There is precedent, in the NBA and other professional sports leagues, for an owner to be suspended. If Sterling is suspended, he would be unable to attend games or team functions for the duration of the suspension and would likely have to appoint someone to take over the day-to-day operations of the team.
— FINES: The league's bylaws allow for Silver to levy a penalty of up to $1 million without needing the approval of other owners if he deems Sterling's actions have damaged the league as a whole.
— OWNERSHIP REVOCATION: This is a very unlikely outcome, at least right away. The league's owners are wary of forcing Sterling to sell his team, even if it would bring him a financial windfall. The league took over the New Orleans Hornets from previous owner George Shinn, but that was because of financial difficulties. The Clippers are a profitable team and Sterling is worth a reported $1.9 billion, so money is not an issue in this case. Plus, taking such measures would almost assuredly bring a lawsuit from Sterling and a long, expensive legal fight.
— POSSIBLE SCENARIO: Given that only a few days have passed since the recording first was made public by TMZ, it would be hard to imagine a definitive move being made by Silver on Tuesday. The most likely possibility would seem to be an indefinite suspension while the NBA conducts a thorough investigation into not only this incident, but Sterling's past as well to try to determine if a pattern has developed. Silver could also issue a fine right away while leaving open the possibility for additional financial penalties pending the outcome of the investigation.


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Tone Manual
Tone: it's the concept that gear-obsessed guitarists discuss more than any other, and the Tone Manual is the first book to take this hallowed concept seriously. In the course of breaking down the individual components of the electric guitar rig, the book both examines the ingredients in any given piece of equipment that contribute to superior or inferior sound, and offers tips on improving and making the most of the gear you've already got - all with reference to interviews with name artists and manufacturers. In addition, the Tone Manual discusses the evolution of the guitarist's concept of good tone. It provides an extensive guide to recorded examples of playing generally considered tonally superior, citing examples from the early days of electric jazz, blues, country, and rock and roll; from the classic rock, blues rock, and heavy rock heyday of the late 1960s and early '70s; and from myriad contemporary artists. Throughout the Tone Manual, a series of more than 30 Tone Tips will offer quick, digestible, practical info bites to help readers improve their sound and better understand their equipment. The Tone Manual also includes a cover-mounted CD.


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ACPI, firmware and your securityMonday, March 17th, 2014
ACPI comes from an era when the operating system was proprietary and couldn't be changed by the hardware manufacturer.
We don't live in that era any more.
However, we DO live in an era where any firmware code running on your phone, tablet, PC, TV, wifi router, washing machine, server, or the server running the cloud your SAAS app is running on, is a threat vector against you.
If you read the catalogue of spy tools and digital weaponry provided to us by Edward Snowden, you'll see that firmware on your device is the NSA's best friend. Your biggest mistake might be to assume that the NSA is the only institution abusing this position of trust – in fact, it's reasonable to assume that all firmware is a cesspool of insecurity courtesy of incompetence of the worst degree from manufacturers, and competence of the highest degree from a very wide range of such agencies.
In ye olden days, a manufacturer would ship Windows, which could not be changed, and they wanted to innovate on the motherboard, so they used firmware to present a standard interface for things like power management to a platform that could not modified to accommodate their innovation.
Today, that same manufacturer can innovate on the hardware and publish a patch for Linux to express that innovation – and Linux is almost certainly the platform that matters. If Windows enters this market then the Windows driver model can evolve to give manufacturers this same ability to innovate in the Windows world, where proprietary unverifiable blobs are the norm.
Arguing for ACPI on your next-generation device is arguing for a trojan horse of monumental proportions to be installed in your living room and in your data centre. I've been to Troy, there is not much left.
We've spent a good deal of time working towards a world where you can inspect the code that is running on any device you run. In Ubuntu we work hard to make sure that any issues in that code can be fixed and delivered right away to millions of users. Bruce Schneier wisely calls security a process, not a product. But the processes for finding and fixing problems in firmware are non-existent and not improving.
I would very much like to be part of FIXING the security problem we engineers have created in our rush to ship products in the olden days. I'm totally committed to that.
So from my perspective:
- Upstream kernel is the place to deliver the software portion of the innovation you're selling. We have great processes now to deliver that innovation to users, and the same processes help us improve security and efficiency too.
- Declarative firmware that describes hardware linkages and dependencies but doesn't include executable code is the best chance we have of real bottom-up security. The Linux device tree is a very good starting point. We have work to do to improve it, and we need to recognise the importance of being able to fix declarations over the life of a product, but we must not introduce blobs in order to short cut that process.
Let's do this right. Each generation gets its turn to define the platforms it wants to pass on – let's pass on something we can be proud of.
Our mission in Ubuntu is to give the world's people a free platform they can trust. I suspect a lot of the Linux community is motivated by the same goal regardless of their distro. That also means finding ways to ensure that those trustworthy platforms can't be compromised elsewhere. We can help vendors innovate AND ensure that users have a fighting chance of privacy and security in this brave new world. But we can't do that if we cling to the tools of the past. Don't cave in to expediency. Design a better future, it really can be much healthier than the present if we care and act accordingly.


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Part 1: Overview of Monetary Policy and the Economic OutlookMonetary Policy Report submitted to the Congress on February 27, 2008, pursuant to section 2B of the Federal Reserve Act
The U.S. economy has weakened considerably since last July, when the Federal Reserve Board submitted its previous Monetary Policy Report to the Congress. Substantial strains have emerged in financial markets here and abroad, and housing-related activity has continued to contract. Also, further increases in the prices of crude oil and some other commodities have eroded the real incomes of U.S. households and added to business costs. Overall economic activity held up reasonably well into the autumn despite these adverse developments, but it decelerated sharply in the fourth quarter. Moreover, the outlook for 2008 has become less favorable since last summer, and considerable downside risks to economic activity have emerged. Headline consumer price inflation picked up in 2007 as a result of sizable increases in energy and food prices, while core inflation (which excludes the direct effects of movements in energy and food prices) was, on balance, a little lower than in 2006. Nonetheless, with inflation expectations anticipated to remain reasonably well anchored, energy and other commodity prices expected to flatten out, and pressures on resources likely to ease, monetary policy makers generally have expected inflation to moderate somewhat in 2008 and 2009. Under these circumstances, the Federal Reserve has eased the stance of monetary policy substantially since July.
The turmoil in financial markets that emerged last summer was triggered by a sharp increase in delinquencies and defaults on subprime mortgages. That increase substantially impaired the functioning of the secondary markets for subprime and nontraditional residential mortgages, which in turn contributed to a reduction in the availability of such mortgages to households. Partly as a result of these developments as well as continuing concerns about prospects for house prices, the demand for housing dropped further. In response to weak demand and high inventories of unsold homes, homebuilders continued to cut the pace of new construction in the second half of 2007, pushing the level of single-family starts in the fourth quarter more than 50 percent below the high reached in the first quarter of 2006.
After midyear, as losses on subprime mortgages and related structured investment products continued to mount, investors became increasingly skeptical about the likely credit performance of even highly rated securities backed by such mortgages. The loss of confidence reduced investors' overall willingness to bear risk and caused them to reassess the soundness of the structures of other financial products. That reassessment was accompanied by high volatility and diminished liquidity in a number of financial markets here and abroad. The pressures in financial markets were reinforced by banks' concerns about actual and potential credit losses. In addition, banks recognized that they might need to take a large volume of assets onto their balance sheets--including leveraged loans, some types of mortgages, and assets relating to asset-backed commercial paper programs--given their existing commitments to customers and the increased resistance of investors to purchasing some securitized products. In response to those unexpected strains, banks became more conservative in deploying their liquidity and balance sheet capacity, leading to tighter credit conditions for some businesses and households. The combination of a more negative economic outlook and a reassessment of risk by investors precipitated a steep fall in Treasury yields, a substantial widening of spreads on both investment-grade and speculative-grade corporate bonds, and a sizable net decline in equity prices.
Initially, the spillover from the problems in the housing and financial markets to other sectors of the economy was limited. Indeed, in the third quarter, real gross domestic product (GDP) rose at an annual rate of nearly 5 percent, in part because of solid gains in consumer spending, business investment, and exports. In the fourth quarter, however, real GDP increased only slightly, and the economy seems to have entered 2008 with little momentum. In the labor market, growth in private-sector payrolls slowed markedly in late 2007 and January 2008. The sluggish pace of hiring, along with higher energy prices, lower equity prices, and softening home values, has weighed on consumer sentiment and spending of late. In addition, indicators of business investment have become less favorable recently. However, continued expansion of foreign economic activity and a lower dollar kept U.S. exports on a marked uptrend through the second half of last year, providing some offset to the slowing in domestic demand.
Overall consumer price inflation, as measured by the price index for personal consumption expenditures (PCE), stepped up to 3-1/2 percent over the four quarters of 2007 because of the sharp increase in energy prices and the largest rise in food prices in nearly two decades. Core PCE price inflation picked up somewhat in the second half of last year, but the increase came on the heels of some unusually low readings in the first half; core PCE price inflation over 2007 as a whole averaged slightly more than 2 percent, a little less than in 2006.
The Federal Reserve has taken a number of steps since midsummer to address strains in short-term funding markets and to foster its macroeconomic objectives of maximum employment and price stability. With regard to short-term funding markets, the Federal Reserve's initial actions when market turbulence emerged in August included unusually large open market operations as well as adjustments to the discount rate and to procedures for discount window borrowing and securities lending. As pressures intensified near the end of the year, the Federal Reserve established a Term Auction Facility to supply short-term credit to sound banks against a wide variety of collateral; in addition, it entered into currency swap arrangements with two other central banks to increase the availability of term dollar funds in their jurisdictions. With regard to monetary policy, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) cut the target for the federal funds rate 50 basis points at its September meeting to address the potential downside risks to the broader economy from the ongoing disruptions in financial markets. The Committee reduced the target 25 basis points at its October meeting and did so again at the December meeting. In the weeks following that meeting, the economic outlook deteriorated further, and downside risks to growth intensified; the FOMC cut an additional 125 basis points from the target in January--75 basis points on January 22 and 50 basis points at its regularly scheduled meeting on January 29-30.
Since the previous Monetary Policy Report, the FOMC has announced new communications procedures, which include publishing enhanced economic projections on a timelier basis. The most recent projections were released with the minutes of the January FOMC meeting and are reproduced in part 4 of this report. Economic activity was expected to remain soft in the near term but to pick up later this year--supported by monetary and fiscal stimulus--and to be expanding at a pace around or a bit above its long-run trend by 2010. Total inflation was expected to be lower in 2008 than in 2007 and to edge down further in 2009. However, FOMC participants (Board members and Reserve Bank presidents) indicated that considerable uncertainty surrounded the outlook for economic growth and that they saw the risks around that outlook as skewed to the downside. In contrast, most participants saw the risks surrounding the forecasts for inflation as roughly balanced.


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Edwidge Danticat, (born January 19, 1969, Port-au-Prince, Haiti), Haitian American author whose works focus on the lives of women and their relationships. She also addressed issues of power, injustice, and poverty.
By the time she was four years old, her mother and father had moved to the United States, leaving Danticat and her brother behind with an aunt and uncle. She joined her parents in 1981, but, with her Creole language and Haitian dress and manners, she found adapting to life and school in the United States difficult. Partly as a way to escape these unpleasant situations, she wrote stories, a practice she had started at an early age.
Although her parents had hoped that she would have a career in medicine, Danticat graduated from Barnard College in New York City in 1990 with a B.A. in French literature. She worked briefly as a secretary and then in 1993 received an M.F.A. degree from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Her master's thesis, a partly autobiographical account of the relationships between several generations of Haitian women, was published as Breath, Eyes, Memory in 1994. The following year Krik? Krak!, a collection of short stories, was published. The collection, which took its title from a call-and-response phrase common in Haitian storytelling, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her second novel, The Farming of Bones (1998), used as its title the Haitian term for harvesting cane. It was set against the background of the massacre of Haitian emigrants by Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo in 1937.
Danticat received numerous honours, including the Pushcart Short Story Prize and awards from magazines such as The Caribbean Writer and Essence. In 1998 Breath, Eyes, Memory was picked by talk-show host Oprah Winfrey for her television book club. With the selection, Danticat gained a wider audience and greater commercial success. She continued to explore Haitian history in The Dew Breaker (2004), a series of interconnected stories about a Haitian immigrant who had tortured and murdered dissidents during the repressive rule of François Duvalier. Her memoir, Brother, I'm Dying (2007), won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Danticat also penned Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work (2010), a collection of essays concerning the hazards of writing about Haiti while living in the United States. She wrote a segment of the film Girl Rising (2013), a collection of 10 parables about young women from around the world seeking education under difficult circumstances. The novel Claire of the Sea Light (2013) spirals outward from the disappearance of a young girl to tell the stories of the friends and neighbours searching for her in the Haitian seaside town of Ville Rose. Mama's Nightingale: A Story of Immigration and Separation (2015) is a children's book about a young Haitian immigrant to the United States whose mother is incarcerated for not having proper documentation. Untwine (2015), a novel for young adults, concerns the ramifications of a tragic accident that befalls a pair of twins. In The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story (2017), Danticat recounted her own mother's passing and explored how other writers have depicted death in their work. Everything Inside (2019) is a collection of short stories.


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Lil Wayne :: Rebirth
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Author: John-Michael Bond
The roar of people who didn't know what to do with Lil Wayne's self professed rock album started when singles like "Hot Revolver" and "Prom Queen" leaked, but didn't truly reach their apex until the record landed on the internet in December. When people don't know what to do with a record they pretend they do and, more damagingly, they pretend based on their preconceived notions of what they think they're hearing. This has lead to reviewers for respected publications, publications I look up to as a writer, comparing "Rebirth" to bands like Linkin Park. Any article that says Lil Wayne's "Rebirth" sounds anything like Linkin Park is written by someone who has never actually listened to a Linkin Park album. But that criticism has become part of the narrative of "Rebirth"s story, and I worry such laziness will inadvertently condemn "Rebirth" to being written off unfairly until kids finally discover it on their own years from now in bargain bins. Apparently hip-hop now has its own version of Jawbreaker's "Dear You."
So first off let's clear the air, "Rebirth" is a rock album that features a heavy hip-hop influence, but it isn't a rap rock album. It isn't fucking nu-metal, and if you never listened to nu-metal beyond the Limp Bizkit songs you heard on the radio please kindly stop making this connection. The only connection between "Rebirth" and nu-metal is that each feature lots of power chords, but so does pretty much every major flavor of rock so this comparison is akin to saying Common and the Geto Boys sound the same because they both use programmed drums. "Rebirth" isn't a perfect record by any means. At times it is downright awkward. Considering it's the product of an evolutionary soup of cough syrup, what has to be literally tons of weed at this point, ego, and a creative desire to no longer be just the greatest rapper alive who can honestly say they're surprised it's uneven?
Yet uneven doesn't mean bad. The album's lead off track "American Star" could have easily fit anywhere on the "Carter III" even with its heavy blues guitar foundation. Wayne's rapping isn't as detailed as his mixtape work, perhaps in fear of overshadowing the music he had a hand in composing, but he's still adept at playing both paranoid and playboy in his Auto-Tuned raps. "Prom Queen" takes the basics of one of rock and roll's most treasured song types, the ballad, and filters it through the crushing drum and bass groove of hip-hop. In doing so it sets the theme for "Rebirth." What happens when someone only knows enough about rock and roll to reproduce the basics of song structure and fills in the blanks with what they do know?
The answer strangely seems to be punk rock. "Rebirth" has moments of genius, and those moments almost always coincide with coupling fiery emotion with punk's propulsive rhythm. People bitching about the lack of rap on the record apparently missed "Ground Zero," which easily ranks among his finest material. The simplicity of its guitars is misleading as Wayne rides the pulsing wave with the kind of street preacher free associating lunacy that made so many love him in the first place.
"I know a girl named Crystal her last name Ball
I look into her eyes and I can see it all
I see it when she cry, I'm there when she call
Cause I live inside of the mirror on the wall
Kill 'em all, die in the spirit of the war
Thinkin what am I being spiritual for?
Huh shit, cause aint no love die while America drink your blood
It aint no hurricane it aint no flood
This some other shit we aint know of
Make that money yeah make that money!
Then watch the goverment take that money
But we gon' raise hell, motherfucker get well
Laws get passed and economies fail
Love, hate, emotion, compulsion, addiction, fiction, virgins
Dixons, means, mixing, swinging , switching, swagging
Sweets, freets, faggots, flame, fashion, planes crashing.. ground zero"
"Ground Zero," "Get a Life," "Drop the World" featuring Eminem, "The Price Is Wrong," hell even the Cars homage "On Fire" show if not the influence, then definitely a kindred spirit with punk's early roots. The Ramones wrote sped up Phil Specter pop songs. Black Flag took heavy metal's gravitas and took it in a direction that actually made it as dangerous as parents worried. Or how the jazz fusion band Mind Power mutated reggae with hardcore, leaving jazz behind and forming the Bad Brains. Only those bands developed out of sight, allowing their awkward early recordings time to mature, as opposed to having a multimillion dollar investment riding on the outcome of a dude who's been teaching himself guitar for the last few years between recording several hundred songs, playing several hundred shows, and the general chaos of being one of hip-hop's last true super stars.
The aforementioned "Drop the World" seems to address the criticism and pressure that comes with going in a different direction than the maddening crowd wants you.
"You keep the sunshine, save me the rain
I search but never find, hurt but never cry
I work and forever try, but I'm cursed, so never mind
And it's worse, but better times seem further and beyond
The top gets higher the more that I climb
The spot gets smaller, and I get bigger
Tryna get into where I fit in, no room for a nigga
But soon for a nigga it be on, mother fucker
'Cause all the bullshit, it made me strong, mother fucker
So I pick the world up and I'ma drop it on your fuckin' head"
Wayne's been called everything from a genius to a junkie, but for all his bravado his raps betray a sense of self doubt that few of his peers are ever willing to dive into. Want to see what he's talking about when he says "the top gets higher the more I climb?" Just check out the gleeful reaction of the press when "Rebirth" didn't sell a million its first week, as if a weird crossover experiment was ever going to bring out as many rap fans as the actual rap album they know is coming. For all his effort Wayne seems to know people aren't going to see "Rebirth" for what it is rather than what its story is. Perhaps this is why he chose not to release it as a double disc with "The Carter IV" as originally planned.
With so few people who know what the stress of being a creative cash cow as well as artistic force in the hip-hop is like the inclusion of Eminem on "Drop the World" adds a fascinating layer to the song. Both artists really hit a national stage in 1998, but Em is a good ten years older than Wayne, who's been part of a rap collective since he was child. The way these two have dealt with stress over the years seems rooted in their over twelve years in the game from completely different starting points, Wayne on a major at 15 and Eminem grinding at the underground's glass ceiling until he popped out in Dre's field of vision. Lil Wayne is known for acting out against those in positions of authority over him while Eminem's years of hustling to build his name on his own find him folding into himself when faced with trouble. Despite their different lives Eminem might just be the one rapper on Wayne's level willing to drop the shields for a moment and let you see the insecurity that drives him. His verse on "Drop the World" compliments Wayne's by addressing the stress of a writer fighting the media narrative of his career. Eminem doesn't want to be remembered as the best white rapper ever, he wants to be remembered as a classic rapper, just like Wayne wants to be remembered as a genius instead of the best rapper alive.
"Man, it feels like these walls are closing in
This roof is caving in, oops time to raise it then
Your days are numbered like pagers and
My book of rhymes, got 'em cookin', boy
This crooked mind of mine got 'em all
Shook and scared to look in my eyes
I stole that fuckin' clock
I took the time and I
Came up from behind
And pretty much snuck up
And butt-fucked this game up
Better be careful when you bring my name up
Fuck this fame, that ain't what
I came to claim but the game
Ain't gonna be the same on the day that I leave it
But I swear one way or another I'ma make these fuckin' haters believe that
I swear to God, won't spare the rod
I'm a man of my word, so your fuckin' heads better nod"
The backlash against Lil Wayne was bound to happen eventually; after all you can only stay on top for so long. What's surprising is that it's "Rebirth" that caused it. Sure if people who went to see Lil Wayne live in the last year were denied the hits because he just wanted to rock out I could see it, but his work on a rock album lead to shows with a full backing band that added layers to his pre-existing hits. And you still got to hear "A Millie." You're still going to get "The Carter IV," dude just took a pit stop to try something new. The fruits of that effort are a truly punk record. There are moments that don't work in the construct of a rock song as it's commonly known, but that make perfect sense if you're building one without a lot of history as your blueprint. It still manages to have one of the best radio power pop songs in the last two years with "Knockout," something the guys in bands like All Time Low haven't been able to write with years of trying under their belts. Is it perfect? No, but its charm is in that imperfection. You wouldn't laugh at a kid who fell of his bike when he was learning to ride it, but you'd be impressed as hell if you watched him ride for an hour and 3/4ths of the time he was riding the guy managed to pull off a back flip or wheelie, before falling on his ass. There are definitely scabs here, but it's never boring watching Wayne fall down as he figures out rock n' roll.
Music Vibes: 7 of 10
Lyric Vibes: 7 of 10
TOTAL Vibes: 7 of 10
Originally posted: February 9, 2010
source: www.RapReviews.com


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I try to do the "balancing game"- The have a heavy lunch and light dinner. Or have a slice of cake for lunch sort of deal. This soup was made when hubby and I had a big lunch and decided on something warm and hearty for dinner instead. Did I mention this is also another way to use up your left over veges?
I am always on a lookout for bargains and cannot resist it when roast chicken goes on sale towards the end of the day. I think it costs around AU$8 for an extra large roast chicken. The chicken meat is then shredded and freeze for future use (or current use). For instance my spicy chicken enchiladas, Stir fry noodles and Feta, Chicken and Spinach Pasta are all inspired by a roasted chook. I am also impressed by a recent post by Amy from Very Culinary who posted two other posts on Roast Chicken-2 Ways. Looks like great minds think alike!
Healthy Spicy Chicken Soup
100 grams of shredded chicken meat
1 tsp of garlic
1 chilli chopped with seeds in for ours
2 carrot sliced
1 cup of chopped button mushrooms
1 big red capsicum
3-4 stalks of celery diced
2-3 cups of chicken stock
1 tsp of chili powder or flakes for the extra kick!
Heat 1 tsp of oil and fry garlic and chilli. Add all veges and stock till it boils. Add chicken. Taste test and add salt/pepper as needed. We wanted the extra punch so we added in 1 tsp of chili powder. Serve with toasted bread.
Thank You Baking Cottage for sending me this award! How pretty this is!
The Kreativ Blogger Award comes with some rules:
1. You must thank the person who has given you the award.
2. Copy the logo and place it on your blog.
3. Link to the person who has nominated you for the award.
4. Name 7 things about yourself that people might find interesting.
5. Nominate 7 other Kreativ Bloggers.
6. Post links to the 7 blogs you nominate.
7. Leave a comment on which of the blogs to let them know they have been nominated.
Just like baking cottage- I have previously posted things about myself so I'm going to "follow her footsteps" and post 7 cooking/baking disasters!
1) My cracking cheesecakes- I do not have a light in my oven so after around 1 hr, I would hv to open the door to check if it is done.. which of course leads to it being cracked.. :( Chocolate is the best way to cover it up I learned.
2) Cupcake frosting- argh, need I say more? My frosting just wouldnt set and then I had difficulty pipping it too.
3) My Tasteless char siew bao dough which my grandmother said the filling was nicer (because she made the filling!)
4) I recently made a chorizo pilaf and used a wrong size baking pan hence the rice turned out mushy on the bottom and uncooked on the top of the pan!
5) The classic-added salt instead of sugar to some of my stir fry dishes!
6) My bits and pieces of Thosai pancake- I am still trying to learn how to flick one properly!
7) This one is one that hubby will remember. My first attempt in cookies resulted in tasteless cardboardish rock cakes.. my poor housemates actually ate them just to encourage me to do better!!!
My nominations are:
Amy from Very Culinary- Love her style and more importantly her dishes!
Skinny mum- for her dedication to her kids
Noobcook- Her photos are amazing and I love how all her dishes are so healthy.
Mochachocolata-Rita- Her sense of humour with heaps of Indonesian/HK food posts is mouth watering.
BeachLover Kitchen- I have been following her blog for ages. I love it when bloggers started slow and then you slowly see the progress one makes on dishes/recipes. Everyone can do it!
Singairishgirl- check out all her bento meals. I'm so envious of her little girl!
Teczcape Tiger Fish- I love the way she uses seasonal produce and how she manages to cook across continents.


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Harvard: Eating Healthy Costs $1.50 More Per Day
The healthiest diets cost about $1.50 more per day than the least healthy diets, according to new research from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). The finding is based on the most comprehensive examination to date comparing prices of healthy foods and diet patterns vs. less healthy ones.
The study will be published online December 5, 2013 in BMJ (British Medical Journal) Open.
"People often say that healthier foods are more expensive, and that such costs strongly limit better diet habits," said lead author Mayuree Rao, a junior research fellow in the Department of Epidemiology at HSPH. "But, until now, the scientific evidence for this idea has not been systematically evaluated, nor have the actual differences in cost been characterized."
To address this question, the HSPH researchers conducted a meta-analysis of 27 existing studies from 10 high-income countries that included price data for individual foods and for healthier vs. less healthy diets. They evaluated the differences in prices per serving and per 200 calories for particular types of foods, and prices per day and per 2,000 calories (the United States Department of Agriculture's recommended average daily calorie intake for adults) for overall diet patterns. Both prices per serving and per calorie were assessed because prices can vary depending on the unit of comparison.
The researchers found that healthier diet patterns—for example, diets rich in fruits, vegetables, fish, and nuts—cost significantly more than unhealthy diets (for example, those rich in processed foods, meats, and refined grains). On average, a day's worth of the most healthy diet patterns cost about $1.50 more per day than the least healthy ones.
The researchers suggested that unhealthy diets may cost less because food policies have focused on the production of "inexpensive, high volume" commodities, which has led to "a complex network of farming, storage, transportation, processing, manufacturing, and marketing capabilities that favor sales of highly processed food products for maximal industry profit." Given this reality, they said that creating a similar infrastructure to support production of healthier foods might help increase availability—and reduce the prices—of more healthful diets.
"This research provides the most complete picture to-date on true cost differences of healthy diets," said Dariush Mozaffarian, the study's senior author and associate professor at HSPH and Harvard Medical School. "While healthier diets did cost more, the difference was smaller than many people might have expected. Over the course of a year, $1.50/day more for eating a healthy diet would increase food costs for one person by about $550 per year. This would represent a real burden for some families, and we need policies to help offset these costs. On the other hand, this price difference is very small in comparison to the economic costs of diet-related chronic diseases, which would be dramatically reduced by healthy diets."
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"Today, more than ever, we need political leaders who can see the big picture, who understand the relationship between the economy and its environmental support systems." –Lester R. Brown, Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization
Chapter 13. The Great Mobilization: A Response to Failing States
If the number of failing states continues to increase, at some point this trend will translate into a failing civilization. These declining states threaten the political stability of the international system. Somehow we must turn the tide of state decline. One thing seems clear: business as usual will not do it.
Failing states, a relatively new phenomenon, require a new response. Historically, as noted in Chapter 1, the principal threat to international stability and the security of individual countries has been the concentration of power in one country. Today the threat to security comes from the loss of power and the descent of nation-states into anarchy and chaos. These failing states become terrorist training grounds (as in Iraq and Afghanistan), drug producers (Afghanistan and Myanmar), and weapons traders (Somalia and Nigeria).
The goals discussed earlier of stabilizing population, eradicating poverty, and restoring the earth are indispensable, but we also need a focused effort to deal specifically with states that are failing or at risk of doing so. The United Kingdom and Norway have recognized that failing states need special attention and have each set up interagency funds to provide a response mechanism. They are the first to devise a specific institutional response. 35
At present, U.S. efforts to deal with weak and failing states are fragmented. Several U.S. government departments are involved, including State, Treasury, and Agriculture, to name a few. And within the State Department, several different offices are concerned with this issue. This lack of focus was recognized by the Hart-Rudman U.S. Commission on National Security in the Twenty-first Century: "Responsibility today for crisis prevention and response is dispersed in multiple AID [U.S. Agency for International Development] and State bureaus, and among State's Under Secretaries and the AID Administrator. In practice, therefore, no one is in charge." 36
What is needed now is a new cabinet-level agency—a Department of Global Security—that would fashion a coherent policy toward each weak and failing state. This recommendation, initially set forth in a report of the Commission on Weak States and U.S. National Security, recognizes that the threats to security are now coming less from military power and more from the trends that undermine states, such as rapid population growth, poverty, deteriorating environmental support systems, and spreading water shortages. The new agency would incorporate AID (now part of the State Department) and all the various foreign assistance programs that are now in other government departments, thereby assuming responsibility for U.S. development assistance across the board. The State Department would provide diplomatic support for this new agency, helping in the overall effort to reverse the process of state failure. 37
The new Department of Global Security (DGS) would be funded by shifting fiscal resources from the Department of Defense. In effect, the DGS budget would be the new defense budget. It would focus on the central sources of state failure by helping to stabilize population, restore environmental support systems, eradicate poverty, provide universal primary school education, and strengthen the rule of law through bolstering police forces and court systems.
The DGS would deal with the production and international trafficking in drugs. It would make such issues as debt relief and market access an integral part of U.S. policy. The DGS would provide a focus for the United States to help lead what it can be hoped will be a growing international effort to reduce the number of failing states. This agency would also encourage private investment in failing states by providing loan guarantees to spur development.
The United States might also benefit from the creation of a U.S. youth service corps, which would provide for one year of compulsory public service for its young people. Young people could serve at home or abroad, depending on their interests and on national needs. At home, they could teach in inner-city schools, work on environmental clean-up programs, plant trees, and help restore and maintain the infrastructure in national parks, much as the Civilian Conservation Corps did in the 1930s. In developing countries, they could contribute in many ways, including teaching and helping to organize family planning, tree planting, and micro-lending programs. This program would involve young people in helping the world while developing a sense of civic pride and social responsibility. 38
At a more senior level, the United States has a fast-growing reservoir of retired people who are highly skilled in such fields as management, accounting, law, education, and medicine and who are eager to be of use. Their talents could be mobilized through a voluntary senior service corps. The enormous reservoir of management skills in this age group could be tapped to provide the skills so lacking in failing-state governments.
There are already, of course, a number of volunteer organizations that rely on the talents, energy, and enthusiasm of both U.S. young people and seniors, such as the Peace Corps, Teach for America, and the Senior Corps. But conditions now require a much more ambitious, systematic effort to tap this talent pool.
The world has quietly entered a new era, one where there is no national security without global security. We need to recognize this and to restructure and refocus our efforts to respond to this new reality.
35. Commission on Weak States and U.S. National Security, On the Brink: Weak States and U.S. National Security (Washington, DC: Center for Global Development, 2004), p. 27.
36. The U.S. Commission on National Security in the 21st Century, Road Map for National Security: Imperative for Change (Washington, DC: February 2001), p. 53.
37. Commission on Weak States and U.S. National Security, op. cit. note 35, pp. 30–32.
38. " Roosevelt's Tree Army: A History of the Civilian Conservation Corps," at www.cccalumni.org/history1.html, viewed 18 October 2007.
Copyright © 2008 Earth Policy Institute


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Two decades ago, Sony and Nintendo were prepared to partner on a CD-ROM drive for the SNES. Things went sour. The deal fell apart. And Sony went their own way, eventually launching the PlayStation and paving their own path to success.
Today, the two companies almost seem like best friends. BFFs! And as a dedicated best friend, Sony has decided to do everything that Nintendo does.
Take last night, for example. Sony shared the news that you'll be able to remotely play PlayStation 4 games on your Vita. "Say you're in the middle of an epic battle on PS4, but your kids have just taken over the living room," said Gaikai's Dave Perry as he took the stage to talk about the system's remote play feature. "What do you do?"
The answer? Turn off your TV and play it on the second screen in your hands. Aw! Just like the Wii U! Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, after all, and Sony does want to flatter their buddy Nintendo. Perry didn't add anything about Sony's respect for the Nintendo Wii U—which has a tablet controller that lets you play games on the second screen in your hands—but the message was implied. It was a love letter to Nintendo.
Of course, last night was simply the latest symbol of Sony's undying love for the Mario makers. Remember the PlayStation Move? Sony wanted to honor Nintendo's Wii so much that they released their own version of the Wii controller with a ball on the end. In Japanese culture, balls represent love.
Nevermind that Nintendo accused Sony of stealing their ideas. They're friends! Right? Friends! Would you steal from your best friend?
And what of last fall? Knowing that Nintendo had no plans to release a mascot fighter or kart racer, Sony decided to release their own mascot fighter and kart racer, helping fill the void with PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, their Smash Bros, and LittleBigPlanet Karting, their Mario Kart. Imagine how pleased Nintendo must have been when they realized they wouldn't even have to release their own games last year. They could all go on vacation.
Sony loves Nintendo so much, they even draw up ideas that nobody will ever see, like the Vita's "Near" application, a loving tribute to the 3DS's Street Pass function. Sony rarely talks about this function, and most Vita owners have no clue that it exists, which brings a tear to my eye. Sony's love for Nintendo knows no bounds.
It's rare to see this kind of camaraderie in the cutthroat industry of video games, so to Sony and Nintendo I say kudos. May you stay best friends forever.


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There was a guy at the Problogger Event wearing Google Glass. He talked about what they can do - make him see and interact with the internet using his voice, ear, eye and brain. This is the future and we are in it. Amy Porterfield, Facebook marketing extraordinaire, said Google Glass is like having a baby or a puppy - they're a total chick magnet. Here's Problogger chatting on the couch to Google Glass man.
Pip Lincolne and I had a photo taken with Google Glass man. We stood next to The Future.
His name is Trey Ratcliff - a photographer and blogger (that's his amazing photo above and below) and Google Plus expert (with over six million G+ contacts!), and to be honest, I was more interested in his beliefs than the highly technical and slightly distracting eyewear.
At times, the Problobber Event was a little evangelical. In a good way. So much was said that made me want to shout hallelujah or fist pump the air. Instead, to avoid looking like the only evangelical one in the room, I madly tweeted the things that resonated with me. You might have noticed that I've been writing a lot about dreaming, taking the leap and making great plans for myself. I'm often in a sense of wonder, realising the potential. And Trey Ratcliff's keynote address and photos at Problogger made me dream big, realise my potential and make more plans. People at Problogger just got it. They got the excitement of blogging, they got the drive and passion it brings. They understood and emphasised the feeling that blogging and creative pursuits are valid career paths.
Trey's keynote address on the second morning of Problogger had me fist punching, despite my throbbing headache from cider flu (read - a hangover from shenanigans the previous night). He spoke off the cuff, regaling funny stories that all had strong messages - the stories were chosen by the roll of a dice. His photos were magical, adding to the power of realising our potential. He spoke a lot about being different ("We don't want our kids to grow up 'normal' because interesting things happen on the edges of the bell curve.") and living in the moment ("I found peace through living in the now. I make more memories this way.") and being true to our dreams - getting out of situations that make us unhappy and dispassionate, and getting into situations that make us happy and passionate. He said he manages a small number of employees who are all passionate - and he'd rather this than managing a large number who are dispassionate.
"You can accidentally get good at a life you don't want And you end up trapped", Trey said. I feel this way a lot, and recently I've realised it's time to make changes. But I've also been thinking 'reasonably', wondering if my feelings are too self entitled, like I'm special. And then Trey said "We all have the gentle throbbing in the back of our heads that we're meant to do great and interesting things", followed by "I might not be much but I'm all I can think about." And I imaginary fist punched the air so hard. Trey said: "The question is not what's the worst that could happen?, but what's the best that could happen?" What is the best that could happen when you follow your dreams? That you are happy and fulfilled?
(Pic by Trey Ratcliff via Problogger's Facebook)
Trey also spoke about those who doubt you, who don't understand your passions - the haters, if you like. He said that in the photography industry, he does things differently - post edits his photos, but he doesn't let the critics get to him because he believes in what he does. "Begone with everyone that doesn't like what you have to say. Let the rocks they throw at you fall", he said. I've felt, in recent times, that I've burnt a few bridges with people. I realise I cannot please everyone, and have not taken things to heart as I may have done previously.
In blogging, and all creative pursuits, there's self doubt. Blogging and digital media is new, there's a high level of uncertainty and distrust. And there is the notion that following your dreams is unrealistic, selfish, frivolous, irresponsible and self entitled. I have read a little about the self entitlement and expectations of Gen Ys lately, and have worried I am the type of Gen Y that the journalists are describing. But those who have made the jump before us just get it. They will support your dreams. "Stop worrying what others think", Trey told us. "Be yourself. People that should be in your world will come into your world."
Pip Lincolne said "If you hang out with the right people, all kinds of possibilities present themselves. Ideas spark all over the place and you can feel yourself being grounded and growing like a vine, all at the same time." And I strongly believe this. The people in my life are bringing out the best in me, giving me ideas and support, and a great energy that makes me want to do more.
In Trey's keynote speech, there was so much validation that blogs are valid and worthy. They're a way of expressing ourselves and also exploring our thoughts and feelings. "A blog is probably the greatest self discovery tool of our age. It's a digital version of ourselves", Trey said. I've certainly felt that I've come to know myself better through blogging - I've grown personally and professionally. Writing this blog has helped me to know myself and know where I want to be. I'm more aware of the path I want to take than I've ever been.


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Summary & Analysis of The Culture Code by ZIP Reads
What are the three secret ingredients to a winning team? Here's a hint: talent isn't one of them.
Author Daniel Coyle shares his secrets to creating a successful organizational culture. Drawing from various examples, Coyle shows that everyone–from companies to comedy troupes–can have success with three simple conditions.
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Daniel Coyle's The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups asks the question, "What characteristics do successful organizational cultures share?" After conducting research of his own, Coyle finds that there are commonalities between groups as different as movie studios, jewel thieves, shoe companies, and basketball teams that make all of these groups among the best in their respective industries. It turns out that the most successful groups are not necessarily the smartest, biggest, or best equipped. A highly approachable read rich in insight, Coyle's book is a guide that will prove valuable to any grouping seeking to create a more productive, enjoyable culture.
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text: SOS Children's Village Stübing/Styria SOS Children's Village of Stübing, in the province of Styria, is about 10 kms from the provincial capital, Graz. The SOS Children's Village consists of 15 family houses and the castle of Stübing which is situated on the edge of the woods. The family houses were built in front of the castle and fit very well into their environment. The castle houses the Village offices, the Village Director's apartment, the kindergarten and various communal rooms for music, extra tuition, etc. In addition to all this, Children's Village of Stübing has a very attractive leisure centre, where children can pursue all kinds of activities. The children of school-age attend the nearby local schools and are well integrated into the surrounding neighbourhood. The teenagers live at the SOS Youth Facility in Graz.


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Three Gorges Dam, dam on the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) just west of the city of Yichang in Hubei province, China.
A straight-crested concrete gravity structure, the Three Gorges Dam is 2,335 metres (7,660 feet) long with a maximum height of 185 metres (607 feet). It incorporates 28 million cubic metres (37 million cubic yards) of concrete and 463,000 metric tons of steel into its design. When construction of the dam officially began in 1994, it was the largest engineering project in China. At the time of its completion in 2006, it was the largest dam structure in the world.
Submerging large areas of the Qutang, Wu, and Xiling gorges for some 600 km (375 miles) upstream, the dam has created an immense deepwater reservoir allowing oceangoing freighters to navigate 2,250 km (1,400 miles) inland from Shanghai on the East China Sea to the inland city of Chongqing. Limited hydroelectric power production began in 2003 and gradually increased as additional turbine generators came online over the years until 2012, when all of the dam's 32 turbine generator units were operating.
Those units, along with 2 additional generators, gave the dam the capacity to generate 22,500 megawatts of electricity, making it the most productive hydroelectric dam in the world. The dam also was intended to protect millions of people from the periodic flooding that plagues the Yangtze basin, although just how effective it has been in this regard has been debated.
History And Controversy
First discussed in the 1920s by Chinese Nationalist Party leaders, the idea for the Three Gorges Dam was given new impetus in 1953 when Chinese leader Mao Zedong ordered feasibility studies of a number of sites. Detailed planning for the project began in 1955. Its proponents insisted it would control disastrous flooding along the Yangtze, facilitate inland trade, and provide much-needed power for central China, but the dam was not without its detractors.
Criticisms of the Three Gorges project began as soon as the plans were proposed and continued through its construction. Key problems included the danger of dam collapse, the displacement of some 1.3 million people (critics insisted the figure was actually 1.9 million) living in more than 1,500 cities, towns, and villages along the river, and the destruction of magnificent scenery and countless rare architectural and archaeological sites.
There were also fears—some of which were borne out—that human and industrial waste from cities would pollute the reservoir and even that the huge amount of water impounded in the reservoir could trigger earthquakes and landslides.
Some Chinese and foreign engineers argued that a number of smaller and far-cheaper and less-problematic dams on the Yangtze tributaries could generate as much power as the Three Gorges Dam and control flooding equally well. Construction of those dams, they maintained, would enable the government to meet its main priorities without the risks.
Because of these problems, work on the Three Gorges Dam was delayed for nearly 40 years as the Chinese government struggled to reach a decision to carry through with plans for the project. In 1992 Premier Li Peng, who had himself trained as an engineer, was finally able to persuade the National People's Congress to ratify the decision to build the dam, though almost a third of its members abstained or voted against the project—an unprecedented sign of resistance from a normally acquiescent body.
President Jiang Zemin did not accompany Li to the official inauguration of the dam in 1994, and the World Bank refused to advance China funds to help with the project, citing major environmental and other concerns.
Nevertheless, the Three Gorges project moved ahead. In 1993 work started on access roads and electricity to the site. Workers blocked and diverted the river in 1997, bringing to a close the first phase of construction.
In 2003 the reservoir began to fill, the ship locks—which allowed vessels of up to 10,000 tons to navigate past the dam—were put into preliminary operation, and the first of the dam's generators was connected to the grid, completing the second phase of construction. (Following completion of this second phase, some 1,200 sites of historical and archaeological importance that once lined the middle reaches of the Yangtze River vanished as floodwaters rose.)
Construction of the main wall of the dam was completed in 2006. The remainder of the dam's generators were operational by mid-2012, and a ship lift, which allowed vessels of up to 3,000 tons to bypass the ship locks and more quickly navigate past the dam, began operating in late 2015.


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HackerTool/Suixin is classified as a Hackertool.
Hacker Tools are pieces of software utilized for subverting host or network security.
The Fortinet Anti-Spyware Research Team is currently in the process of creating a detailed description for this Spyware.
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2013 Detroit: Toyota Corolla Furia concept【Video】标签: concept car, Detroit Auto Show, Japanese, Toyota, Video 0 评论
Toyota has revealed Corolla Furia concept at 2013 NAIAS in Detroit.
The car is 4620mm long, 1805mm wide and 1425mm high, with a wheelbase of 2700mm giving it relatively short overhangs.
The exterior are full LED headlights and 19-inch wheels with orange and carbon fiber accents. LED accent light "eyebrows" extend all the way toward the center of the car's front end, and are complemented by vertical LED light strips at the corners of the front fascia.
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TORRANCE, Calif., Jan. 14, 2013 – Toyota revealed the Corolla Furia Concept at the 2013 North American International Auto Show in Detroit. This exciting compact sedan concept hints at the styling cues consumers can expect to see on the next-generation Corolla. The concept represents an exterior styling study by Toyota designers, and it builds on the brand's product development priority to develop more dramatic, expressively designed vehicles.
"The Corolla Furia Concept is an early indicator of where our compact car design may lead in the future," said Bill Fay, group vice president and general manager of the Toyota Division. "It blends a heightened emphasis on dramatic design and modern elements of high technology to generate curb appeal that will surprise a lot of people."
The Furia is designed around a theme of "Iconic Dynamism," which uses pure and simple surface elements to create a confident, decisive and recognizable appearance appealing to more youthful consumers. It features a more provocative, dynamic interpretation of a compact sedan that displays a more stable, athletic stance with 19-inch allow wheels pushed to the vehicle's corners with short overhangs to help emphasize its long wheelbase.
The Corolla Furia design includes a swept windshield, with a sloped roofline and pronounced fender flares, to help communicate a sense of motion even when the car is stationary. The aggressively styled front fascia, with a blacked-out grille treatment, helps highlight a pair of sculpted front LED headlamps that combine with the rear composite LED taillight assemblies to add a sense of advanced technology to the Furia's impactful exterior. Carbon fiber accents adorn the Corolla Furia Concept's wheel wells, rocker panels, and rear valance, which includes ornate metal exhaust outlet surrounds to add a sense of modern athleticism.
Toyota Corolla Furia Concept
Overall Length 4620 mm/ 181.9 inches
Overall Width 1805 mm / 71 inches
Overall Height 1425 mm / 56.1 inches
Wheelbase 2700 mm/ 106.3 inches
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Sinead O'Connor
Sinéad O'Connor ranked among the most distinctive and controversial pop music stars of the alternative era, the first and in many ways, the most influential of the numerous female performers whose music dominated airwaves throughout the last decade of the 20th century. Brash and outspoken -- her shaved head, angry visage, and shapeless wardrobe a direct challenge to popular culture's long-prevailing notions of femininity and sexuality -- O'Connor irrevocably altered the image of women in rock; railing against long-standing stereotypes simply by asserting herself not as a sex object, but as a serious artist, she kick-started a revolt which led the way for performers ranging from Liz Phair to Courtney Love to Alanis Morissette.
O'Connor was born in Dublin, Ireland, on December 8, 1966. Her childhood was often traumatic: her parents divorced when she was eight, and she later claimed that her mother, who was killed in a 1985 automobile accident, frequently abused her. After being expelled from Catholic school, O'Connor was arrested for shoplifting and was shuttled off to a reformatory; at the age of 15, while singing a cover of Barbra Streisand's "Evergreen" at a wedding, she was spotted by Paul Byrne, the drummer for the Irish band In Tua Nua (best known as protégés of U2). After co-writing the first In Tua Nua single, "Take My Hand," O'Connor left boarding school in order to focus on a career in music, and began performing in area coffeehouses; she later studied voice and piano at the Dublin College of Music, and supported herself delivering singing telegrams.
Upon signing a contract with Ensign Records in 1985, O'Connor relocated to London; the following year she made her recorded debut on the soundtrack to the film The Captive, appearing with U2 guitarist the Edge. After scrapping the initial tapes for her debut LP on the grounds that the production was too Celtic, she took the producer's seat herself and began re-recording the album, dubbed The Lion and the Cobra in reference to Psalm 91; the result was one of the most acclaimed debut records of 1987, with a pair of alternative radio hits in the singles "Mandinka" and "Troy." Almost from the outset of her career, however, O'Connor was a controversial media figure; in interviews following the LP's release, she defended the actions of the IRA, resulting in widespread criticism from many corners, and even burned bridges by attacking longtime supporters U2, whose music she declared "bombastic."
However, O'Connor remained a cult figure prior to the release of 1990's chart-topping I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got, a harrowing masterpiece sparked by the recent dissolution of her marriage to drummer John Reynolds. Boosted by the single and video "Nothing Compares 2 U," originally penned by Prince, the album established her as a major star, but again controversy followed as tabloids took aim at her romance with black singer Hugh Harris while continuing to attack her outspoken politics. On American shores, O'Connor also became the target of derision for refusing to perform in New Jersey if "The Star Spangled Banner" was played prior to her appearance, a move which brought public criticism from no less than Frank Sinatra, who threatened to "kick her ass"; she also made headlines for pulling out of an appearance on the NBC program Saturday Night Live in response to the misogynist persona of guest host Andrew Dice Clay, and even withdrew her name from competition in the annual Grammy Awards despite four nominations.
O'Connor also continued to confound expectations with her third album, 1992's Am I Not Your Girl?, a collection of pop standards and torch songs that failed to live up to either the commercial or critical success of I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got. However, any discussion of the record's creative merits quickly became moot in the wake of her most controversial and damaging action yet: after finally appearing on Saturday Night Live, O'Connor ended her performance by ripping up a photo of Pope John Paul II, resulting in a wave of condemnation unlike any she'd previously encountered. Two weeks after the SNL performance, she appeared at a Bob Dylan tribute concert at New York's Madison Square Garden, and was promptly booed off the stage.
By then a virtual pariah, O'Connor's retirement from the music business was subsequently reported, although it was later claimed that she had merely returned to Dublin with the intent of studying opera. She kept a low profile for the next several years, starring as Ophelia in a theatrical production of Hamlet and later touring with Peter Gabriel's WOMAD festival. She also reportedly suffered a nervous breakdown and even made a half-hearted attempt at suicide. In 1994, however, O'Connor returned to pop music with the LP Universal Mother, which, despite good reviews, failed to relaunch her to superstar status; the following year she announced that she would no longer speak to the press. The Gospel Oak EP followed in 1997, and in mid-2000 O'Connor issued Faith and Courage, her first full-length effort in six years. Sean-Nós Nua followed two years later, and was widely hailed for its return to the Irish folk tradition as its inspiration.
O'Connor used the press exposure from the album to further assert her pending retirement from music. In September 2003, the two-disc She Who Dwells... appeared through Vanguard. It collected rare and previously unreleased studio tracks, as well as live material culled from a late 2002 date in Dublin. The album was positioned as O'Connor's swan song, though official word was not forthcoming. Collaborations followed in 2005, a compilation of appearances on other artists' records throughout her long career. Later that year she released Throw Down Your Arms, a collection of reggae classics from the likes of Burning Spear, Peter Tosh, and Bob Marley that managed to reach the number four spot on Billboard's Top Reggae Albums chart. O'Connor returned to the studio the following year to begin work on her first album of all-new material since Faith and Courage. The resulting Theology, inspired by the complexities of the world post-9/11, was released in 2007 through Koch Records on the artist's own imprint, That's Why There's Chocolate & Vanilla. O'Connor's ninth studio, How About I Be Me (And You Be You)?, tackled familiar subjects like sexuality, religion, hope, and despair, all of which were subjects that dominated her post-Theology personal and public life. After a relatively quiet period, O'Connor found herself once again embroiled in controversy in 2013 after a personal dispute with singer Miley Cyrus, who O'Connor wrote an open letter to warning her of exploitation and the dangers of the music industry. Cyrus also responded with an open letter, which seemed to mock the Irish singer's documented mental health issues. O'Connor's tenth studio album, I'm Not Bossy, I'm the Boss appeared in August of 2014. Inspired by a Lean In's female empowerment campaign, Ban Bossy, the album was a rock-oriented and melodious affair as heard on the lead single "Take Me to the Church."
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Young 5s
Children enter school with a variety of experiences. We offer options to meet their individual needs. Younger learners who turn 5 between June 1 and December 1 may be a good fit for our Young 5s program. We are glad to accept the Michigan waiver for incoming Kindergarten and Young 5s students. This waiver allows students 5 years old on or before December 1st to apply for either grade level.
We created Young 5s to support younger learners who may benefit from a transitional year. Children adjust to the social and academic demands of school in a fun, hands-on environment. Young 5s provides 'the gift of time' so younger learners can succeed in Kindergarten. Teachers help them develop social, motor and academic skills necessary to prosper in a regular kindergarten class. Students who complete their first year in the Young 5s program will be promoted to the regular kindergarten program the following year.
If your child is ready for a more rigorous program, then Kindergarten may be the right choice. Kindergarten moves at a faster pace than Young 5s. Children should enter Kindergarten with the basic personal, social, emotional, motor and academic skills necessary to succeed in school. We know it can be a difficult decision, so we provide options to help you choose what's best for your child.
When Can My Child Start Kindergarten?
If you're wondering when your child can start kindergarten, you're not alone! Every state has its own age requirements for starting kindergarten, and they vary.Kindergarten Calculator
NHA operates schools with kindergarten programs across nine states. Use our kindergarten calculator to help determine when your child can start kindergarten at an NHA school.
Y5 Curriculum
English Language Arts
Y5 Curriculum
English Language Arts
Children learn to identify and sound out letters and words. Retelling stories helps children learn to communicate clearly, and build active listening skills. Writing skills progress from letters to simple phonetic spellings.
Y5 Curriculum
Children learn basic number concepts like counting, number value, and basic addition using real objects. We study and identify shapes to build geometry skills. Students also learn the days of the week, and how to use money.
Y5 Curriculum
Building on their natural desire to explore, children learn how to identify and use their five senses. Using their senses, they observe and gather information, studying themes like plants and animals. As young scientists, they describe similarities and differences found in the natural world.
Social Studies
Y5 Curriculum
Social Studies
Learning about communities, students discover the roles and virtues of good citizenship. We practice these skills in the classroom and community.
Y5 Curriculum
Children study art, music, physical education and technology.
Grade-level Placement
Here are some tips to help your child have a positive assessment experience:
- Take time to review the sample practice assessment with them.
- Make sure they get a good night's rest.
- Lay out their clothes the night before.
- Set an alarm to give yourself plenty of time to get ready.
- Eat a meal or snack before the assessment.
- Arrive early for the assessment so you're not rushed.
- Have fun!
We're More Than Academics
Strong hearts and minds impact the world in amazing ways. Virtues such as respect, perseverance, compassion, and courage are essential to what kids need to succeed and an essential part of what we teach. We make them part of every school day. This helps students learn the importance of making good decisions and doing the right thing in life. Moral Focus is so integrated into everything we do:
- We created a curriculum specifically around Moral Focus.
- We celebrate a "virtue of the month" every month.
- Our students create a class contract where students agree how to treat their teacher and each other.
- Students are recognized and celebrated for how they live out Moral Focus every day.
I love the emphasis on moral focus each month. Not only is my child receiving an education, but you are also teaching her qualities to be a good person.
Monthly Virtues
Use good judgment to make decisions
Treat others the way you want to be treated
Appreciate the kindness and generosity of others
Manage your emotions and behavior to stay calm
Persist through difficulties until you reach your goal
Despite fear, do what you believe is right
Motivate others to have confidence in themselves
Help and care for others during times of need
Do what is right, honorable, and good
A Deeper Dive Into Moral Focus
Over the years National Heritage Academies has seen how our moral focus emphasis in the classroom makes our schools safer, more caring places. We trust these important personal skills spill out into our students' homes, communities, and futures. Keep reading to learn more about the benefits that come from developing a strong moral backbone and why NHA takes them to heart.More on Moral Focus
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Linux is widely referred to as a free and open source operating system, but most Linux distributions, or flavors, aren't actually entirely free.
Yes, they're certainly free in price (unless, of course, you choose to purchase commercial support or other services), but when it comes to the other sense of "free"—namely, your freedom to share, study, and modify it—most don't quite make it thanks to the presence of occasional proprietary firmware, drivers, and applications.
There are a few exceptions, however, and they're essentially the only ones of which the Free Software Foundation fully approves. One of the better-known examples is called Trisquel, and it just rolled out a major new update.
Long Term Support
"Trisquel 6.0 LTS 'Toutatis' has arrived," read the official announcement last weekend, marking the first big update to the software since last April.
A number of new additions to the operating system make this latest version a particularly compelling one, including the fact that it's a Long Term Support (LTS) release, offering bug fixes and security updates until 2017.
In fact, "we have decided to change our release schedule from this point on: we will no longer publish short term support versions every six months, but focus on giving the best possible support to the LTS release, providing backported improvements to core packages like the kernel, the browser, and the X.org Server, among others," the project team explained.
So, point releases will come out every six months that include all improvements done to the system in that time.
A classic desktop experience
Also especially nice about Trisquel 6.0, which is based on Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" and GNOME 3.4, is that it offers a classic desktop experience by default, delivering a welcome alternative to those weary of the many mobile-inspired interfaces currently on the market.
The Linux-Libre 3.2 kernel provides the core of the OS, which also features LibreOffice 3.5 and version 19 of Abrowser, a Firefox derivative that does not recommend non-free software but offers full HTML5 video support and can display PDF files without a plug-in.
Ready to give Trisquel a try? It's now available as a free, 700MB download on the project site in 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Also available is "Trisquel Mini," featuring the lightweight LXDE desktop in a 500MB CD .iso image.