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On Friday 16 May six years ago, "2014 is Modi's year" declared a headline in the Guardian, the acclaimed UK newspaper reputed to be "a platform for liberal and left-wing" journalism [2], setting the tone for positive coverage to come. So enchanted and enamored was the media by the scale of the victory that it seemed to suffer collective amnesia about the murky past of the newly elected leader and his deputy from Gujrat. Barkha Dutt, usually known for her high standards and intrepid journalism, interviewed Amit Shah for NDTV – a fawning interview that echoed the rhapsodies of her psephologist boss back at the studio. The focus everywhere was the awesome scale of the success – "Historic election victory for Modi's Bharatiya Janata party transforms political landscape of world's largest democracy" screamed another headline. The New Yorker called it "stunning" and The Washington Post mentioned "shining India". As ecstatic crowds celebrated, and the future PM talked of "vikas"/development; many indeed chose to hope that N. D. Modi the PM, would be a more unifying force than Modi the CM of Gujarat. We forgot that development that is not sustainable or inclusive is no development at all.
In the months that followed, Modi's star rose and rose and he became the darling of international media. Aided of course by his propaganda machine. Apart from a few hiccups and slips, that included the death of Rohit Vemula which inspired student led Dalit resistance; and misjudged arrest of six students from JNU that gave the nation three fiery leftist youth leaders, Modi's luck held. He seemed charmed – nothing stuck against him. Neither demonetization that led to major pain among the poor, nor the mis-implementation of GST taxation rules that irked small traders, could stop the Modi juggernaut. Driven by his deputy Shah, it drove on, crushing all resistance. And the international media continued to sing his praises.
Lies piled up at home, and seeped into the international media. Dubious international prizes were paraded as acclaimed trophies and the sight of stadiums full of "Modi-toadies" shouting his name inspired awe at home and abroad alike. Modi's handlers used this to perfect his carefully crafted image. When elections came round in 2019, this propaganda machinery swung to action – so what if the economy was in doldrums, Modi was an international statesman, a "vishwaguru". Surely even he was not sure that this deception will work – that is why for good measure "Balakote" was manufactured. Together, the two fabrications ensured victory.
However, abroad at least, by the time of his reelection in 2019, the tune was beginning to change. CNN criticized the release of a biopic so close to elections. "Five more years of Narendra Modi will take India to a dark place" warned the Guardian just before the election, and " bad for India's soul" declared the same newspaper after the victory. As recently recounted in a well-researched article in The Wire, the praises for Modi were over, at least in the international media. Probably the most famous episode is the Time magazine article by Aatish Taseer, with the cover screaming "India's divider in chief". For his pain, Taseer got his overseas citizenship card, which enables a foreigner of Indian origin to enter India without having to apply for a visa, revoked. But the dam was broken. The recent mismanagement of Covid-19 lock-down started a deluge of criticism that is sweeping the foreign media. In addition to the miles of text written in English (List 1), the press in other languages has also started to take note (List 2 for French coverage).
The Emperor's new clothes have been exposed for what they are – non-existent. The foreign media has called him out. At home, a carefully groomed "godi" media continues to trumpet his lies, but a growing number of voices are joining the handful of journalists like Rana Ayub, Siddarth Varadarajan and Ravish Kumar who stood tall, and shone the beacon of light and truth, alone in the years of darkness. As it becomes more and more difficult to tell lies to people about themselves, newer and newer lies are being manufactured. As the whole country tried to calculate the colossal lie about 85% reduction of train fares for migrants, an even bigger lie involving 20 lakh crore of rupees was floated. Usual spending, loans, even existing tax breaks, all masquerading as part of emergency fiscal package. But it is not so easy to lie to people about their own misery. As the government harps on about one-nation-one-ration-card, migrants on the road are asking for food here and now.
The islamophobic cacophony can no longer mask the screams of agony. The first major famine of independent India is unfolding and the force of this reality is sweeping away the layers of lies so carefully built for seven long years. The tissue of lies is fraying at the edges. Will people now take the fabric of lies and rip it open to reveal the toxic waste that it hides? Expose the festering wound? Dare to look into the putrid mess that passes for morality in our times? Have the courage to treat the disease and stem the rot? Or are we destined to walk, shrouded in lies, in a blind dreamlike fantasy of greatness, which will ultimately lead to our destruction?
List 1: English (mainly UK and continental Europe)
- https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/mar/30/divided-delhi-under-lockdown-if-coronavirus-doesnt-kill-me-hunger-will
- https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/mar/30/as-the-wealthy-quaff-wine-in-comfort-indias-poor-are-thrown-to-the-wolves-coronavirus
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/01/india-coronavirus-cases-rise-amid-fears-true-figure-much-higher
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/30/india-wracked-by-greatest-exodus-since-partition-due-to-coronavirus
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2020/mar/29/india-lockdown-tragedy-healthcare-coronavirus-starvation-mumbai
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/24/indias-13bn-population-locked-down-to-beat-coronavirus https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-52063286
- https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000006963057/modi-muslims-india-citizenship-test.html
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/world/asia/modi-india-press-media.html
- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-india-muslims-insi/in-modis-india-virus-fallout-inflames-divisions-between-muslims-and-hindus-idUSKBN21Z0LN
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/13/coronavirus-conspiracy-theories-targeting-muslims-spread-in-india
- https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/03/02/india-muslims-delhi-riots-danger/
- https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-real-objective-of-mob-violence-against-muslims-in-india
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/13/coronavirus-conspiracy-theories-targeting-muslims-spread-in-india
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2020/mar/29/india-lockdown-tragedy-healthcare-coronavirus-starvation-mumbai
- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/16/india-targeting-dissidents-coronavirus-pandemic
- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/08/india-leaders-coronavirus-lockdown https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-52131338
- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-52306879
- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-52320900
- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-52147260
- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-52086274 https://www.dw.com/en/religious-tension-in-india-aggravated-by-coronavirus/a-53195228
- https://www.dw.com/en/arundhati-roy-claims-coronavirus-exposes-indias-crisis-of-hatred-against-muslims/a-53167812
- https://www.dw.com/en/arundhati-roy-warns-coronavirus-in-india-could-ignite-tensions-between-hindus-and-muslims/av-53161248
- https://www.dw.com/en/covid-19-lockdown-exposes-social-disparities-in-india/av-53148666
- https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/hindu-nationalism-india-s-quest-to-marginalize-its-muslims-a-317f1c8d-c2ae-4027-ba3d-e3076833994b
- https://www.france24.com/en/20200401-lack-of-compassion-more-than-resources-marks-india-s-deadly-lockdown-mismanagement
- https://www.france24.com/en/20200226-hindu-nationalist-bjp-modi-delhi-riots
List 2: French (France and Belgium)
- https://www.amnesty.fr/liberte-d-expression/actualites/inde-des-arrestations-pour-etouffer-la-dissidence
- https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2020/04/22/en-inde-le-virus-de-la-haine_6037359_3210.html
- https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2020/04/17/covid-19-en-inde-la-tragedie-des-migrants-invisibles_6036920_3210.html
- https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2020/04/16/malgre-la-pandemie-de-covid-19-l-inde-continue-de-pourchasser-ses-intellectuels_6036847_3210.html
- https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2020/04/15/coronavirus-en-inde-la-desesperance-des-pauvres-confines_6036653_3210.html
- https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2020/04/14/l-inde-invoque-la-magie-pour-sortir-des-tenebres-du-coronavirus_6036484_3210.html
- https://www.lemonde.fr/livres/article/2020/04/06/arundhati-roy-en-inde-le-confinement-le-plus-gigantesque-et-le-plus-punitif-de-la-planete_6035741_3260.html
- https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2020/04/03/coronavirus-en-inde-le-gouvernement-tente-de-museler-les-critiques-de-sa-gestion-de-crise_6035407_3210.html
- https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2020/04/02/coronavirus-en-inde-modi-tente-de-museler-la-presse_6035297_3210.html
- https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2020/03/27/coronavirus-en-inde-l-impossible-confinement-des-pauvres_6034596_3210.html
- https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2020/03/20/inde-les-intellectuels-museles-par-les-nationalistes-hindous_6033823_3210.html
- https://www.humanite.fr/en-inde-en-iran-ou-aux-etats-unis-lepidemie-est-le-pain-benit-des-integristes-687703
- https://www.humanite.fr/linde-une-puissance-mondiale-confrontee-une-honte-nationale-687560
- https://www.humanite.fr/inde-le-registre-de-modi-est-la-nouvelle-version-des-lois-allemandes-de-1935-denonce-arundhati-roy
- https://www.liberation.fr/planete/2020/02/26/a-l-origine-des-violences-un-nationalisme-hindou-d-etat_1779767
- https://www.liberation.fr/planete/2020/02/06/a-kalladka-dans-l-ecole-de-la-haine-de-l-autre_1777545
- https://www.liberation.fr/planete/2020/02/06/supremacisme-hindou-face-a-la-derive-du-pouvoir-l-inde-se-dechire-l-inde-en-pleine-radicalisation-mo_1777544
- https://www.liberation.fr/planete/2020/02/06/on-est-dans-une-sequence-qui-rappelle-l-arrivee-d-hitler-au-pouvoir_1777543
- https://www.lalibre.be/international/asie/dans-delhi-confinee-la-population-pallie-l-etat-defaillant-5ea5b9399978e21833e4568a
- https://observers.france24.com/fr/20200512-coronajihad-inde-musulmans-cible-fausses-informations-covid-19-coronavirus


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Oct 14, 2015
Think about how much work you do on the farm now. How much of that work is actually being done efficiently and effectively?
Are you making the best use of your time by focusing on the 20% of the tasks that generate the most return?
Getting rid of crops can actually be a good thing. It allow you to work more efficiently and effectively by focusing on the task at hand instead of always trying to keep you head above water. It's very hard for any one person to do many things well, but each of us can do a few things really well. Crops are no different. And odds are you can grow a few crops a lot better than you can grow a lot of crops.
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the movement of sound through a medium.
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Andrei Rublev, Trinity, c.1400 |
One of my favorite forms of art is that of Russian Iconography. I was only familiar and in love with the exquisite detail of their small oil paintings on wood (an example shown above). My relationship grew and my appreciation deepened last week when I was introduced to a new exhibition of work at the Russian Art Museum. Just as exquisite in miniature detail, the imageries were not painted, but instead cast in copper alloys such as brass and bronze. A few were then decorated with gilding and enamel.
While I learned about the history of Russia back then and the people who created these wonders, I also caught a glimpse of Artists' perspectives on creating their works. Not only did they embellish the fronts of a casted cross with detail and story, so they also paid attention to the backside with complimentary imagery. I loved being able to see some casts where both sides were exposed to me! And then knowing this unseen side existed, I loved the mystery to other casts throughout the exhibition where the backside was hidden.
This has gotten me thinking. As I have recently come across (in combining my studios) works in progress (specifically tri-fold paintings) where the story could so easily be suggested on the outside of the piece - complimenting what is going on within. I am eager to explore my works in progress further (perhaps this idea is what was needed for me to move a work in progress to completion?!) with what I have witnessed and learned from these 18th-20th century artists (thank you!). I look forward to sharing with you what comes about from this recent influence.......


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Washington D.C., Jun 25, 2021 / 16:10 pm
The Biden administration's expansion of Title IX protections could end up hurting women's sports and contradicting the purpose of the statute, legal experts critical of the new policy told CNA this week.
The Biden administration this week issued a "notice of interpretation" that it would enforce Title IX protections against sex discrimination in education to also protect sexual orientation and gender identity. The Education Department also sent a memo to educators detailing its policy shift. The memo was issued on the week of the 49th anniversary of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.
In a "Dear Educator" letter issued on June 23, the agency's Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, Suzanne Goldberg, wrote that her office "will fully enforce Title IX to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in education programs and activities that receive Federal financial assistance from the Department."
In an email to CNA, Ryan Anderson, president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, called the administration's announcement "bad policy," saying it would open up private spaces for women to biological males identifying as transgender females.


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Engaged couple sets their sights on gold at Special Olympics World Games
Mixed doubles tennis pair Brittany Tagliareni and Ryan Smith are ready for the competition.
The dynamic duo from Florida will be competing at this month's Special Olympics World Games being held in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. Tagliareni and Smith are also a couple off the court -- and are now engaged after meeting through the Special Olympics in 2013.
Together, they are ready to bring home the gold. The two spoke with "Good Morning America's" Robin Roberts to discuss their road to the games just days before the big event.
For the couple, it's all about the support from their families, coaches and especially each other -- a unique experience as they represent Special Olympics USA.
"I support him on the court by telling him 'good job' and 'you can do this,'" Tagliareni told "GMA."
"I never really thought I would meet somebody like her," Smith previously told CNN.
Diagnosed with autism, Tagliareni was nonverbal as a child and deals with sensory and visual issues and has since found her voice as a Special Olympics athlete.
"It has helped me make new friends [and] compete all over the world," she said. "My coach and teammates are very nice. I just have fun doing it."
Smith, who was also diagnosed with autism, has been involved with the Special Olympics for several years, winning two tennis gold medals during the Special Olympics' 2018 USA National Summer Games.
In preparation for the World Games, Tagliareni practiced up to five hours six days a week.
Together, Tagliareni and Smith hope to step onto the winners' podium before their walk down the aisle.
"I would like to accomplish being the best that I can be," Tagliareni said. And her dream in Abu Dhabi? She told Roberts, "To win the world title."
The historic Special Olympics World Games Abu Dhabi officially kicked today in the United Arab Emirates. It's the first time in the organization's 50-plus-year history that the games are being hosted in the Middle East.
The Special Olympics USA athletes come from 45 states across the country and will compete against teams from about 190 others around world, with more than 7,500 athletes expected to compete over the next week in 24 different sports.
"It's overwhelming, the energy, the countries are wonderful, the positivity -- we are so very blessed to be part of this," said Tagliareni's mother Catherine.
"Special Olympics has not only changed Brittany's life but has given Brittany a life," she added. "Brittany was nonverbal and now because of Special Olympics, she's not only confident, she's becoming independent and she's loving life, and we are forever grateful. And oh, by the way, can talk a lot now."


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Wellington Drive Technologies Funding Update
Wellington announces fully supported rights issue to fund continued growth
AUCKLAND, Oct. 25, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Wellington Drive Technologies Limited (Wellington), a leading provider of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions and energy efficient motors to the retail food and beverage industry, today announced its intention to raise approximately $5.3m of new capital through a fully supported pro-rata rights issue. This announcement is on the back of strong year-to-date results that demonstrates improving profit performance, plus an expanding array of growth opportunities, including the recently announced new North American IoT project.
Wellington's Capital Committee Chairperson, Gottfried Pausch commented, "With continually improving operating performance and an exciting funnel of growth opportunities the board believes now is the right time to increase the company's growth investment. We appreciate the support of those shareholders that have committed to support this rights issue and we invite other shareholders to also participate. This new capital will let Wellington accelerate its product development and business development capability, so that it can grow revenue consistent with its 2023 growth target and further increase earnings and cash generation".
Funding Details
To ensure Wellington can successfully execute new growth projects, continue to add the necessary skills in sales and IoT engineering and successfully launch new products planned for 2020, Wellington intends to raise approximately $5.3m from a pro-rata rights issue.
The key features of the offer include:
- Raise approximately $5.3m through a 1:5 pro-rata rights issue at 10 cents per new share;
- The offer is expected to close in November with the new shares issued early in December 2019;
- The issue is 100% committed with either underwrite agreements or firm pro-rata rights commitments.
Use of funds:
- New IoT business opportunity: Develop a new Connect SCS product and hire customer support resources for the new IoT business opportunity with one of the largest manufacturers of commercial coolers in the Americas (the opportunity previously disclosed in the company's 2019 Interim report). This new product has an approximate development cost of $1m to $1.5m. Revenue is estimated to start Q4-2020, with full production revenues estimated at $2 to $4m annually from 2021. This project is in the latter stages of negotiation. Wellington's confidence at this stage of negotiations stems from the fact there is an existing long-standing commercial relationship with this customer on another line of business. The Wellington board has approved the commencement of early development work on customer specific applications.
- New Product Launches: Ensure the successful completion and launch of other new products launching in 2020. New hardware includes the ECR2+, a new version of the successful ECR2 platform; Connect SCS Black, a Connect IoT device specifically targeted at large scale new build coolers; Connect Monitor, a new IoT device to allow retrofit in a broader range of coolers; Connect Network, a new 'always on' IoT device; and new apps including one that helps store owners manage the in-store cooler or display shelves.
- Develop the food service market: Fund entry into the food service market with new IoT hardware and data solutions. Market entry has already commenced in New Zealand with SKOPE Industries. Deploy sales and technical resources that are closer to the main USA market for food service.
- iProximity platform development: Market development in support of expanding the company's iProximity platform sales which includes technical marketing resources to explore new areas such as smart venues and non-refrigeration based digital marketing. The expansion of iProximity sourcing relationships to support the growth of proximity marketing devices used for non-refrigeration customers.
- Expanding sales and technical capability: Expanding the USA and Western European sales teams to win new customers for Wellington's IoT solutions, ECR2 and ECR2+ motors. Continue the expansion of the company's software and hardware teams to improve capability and accelerate time to market for new products.
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EverGrain through a proprietary process transforms the barley used in the brewing process into protein ingredients under the EverPro brand that may be used in foods and beverages. EverPro is Upcycled Certified and Non-GMO Project verified. Anheuser-Busch sources 98% of its ingredients from US farmers.
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An Opera And An Orchestra: You Don't Have To Leave Boston For Summer Music
If you live in Boston and its close environs, there's actually some good music you don't have to travel very far to hear in the summer. Here are some events by two local groups that I think you might enjoy.
Boston Landmarks Orchestra At The Hatch Shell
I heard the late Charles Ansbacher conduct the first concert of his Boston Landmarks Orchestra on the Boston Common in July 2001. It was Ansbacher's dream to bring music to the people who were least likely to go out of their way to hear it, and he delivered the goods.
That concert had a winning program: Rossini's bristling "Barber of Seville" overture and Bizet's ravishing but not often performed Symphony in C surrounding Max Bruch's First Violin Concerto in a rhapsodic performance by guest violinist Lynn Chang. Nothing too challenging for a warm summer night, but nothing facile or cheap or condescending either. The next concert would be at a little park in the Fenway, and I was eager to hear it.
Ansbacher died in 2010, and his replacement, Christopher Wilkins, has continued to carry out the founder's vision of musical accessibility and quality. He'll lead the first Landmarks concert of the summer at the Hatch Shell on Wednesday, July 19. It's another good program. Samuel Barber's setting of James Agee's nostalgic prose poem: "Knoxville: Summer of 1915," with the versatile soprano Sonja DuToit Tengblad; atmospheric and charming English music by Vaughan Williams, Delius and Elgar; a rarely heard piece by Swampscott native Peggy Stuart Coolidge (1913-1981); and the Winter and Summer movements from Verdi's ballet "The Four Seasons" that he composed for his opera "I Vespri Siciliani" ("Sicilian Vespers").
Here's the great performance of "Knoxville: Summer of 1915" by the legendary Metropolitan Opera soprano Eleanor Steber, who commissioned it.
Landmarks Orchestra will return to the Hatch Shell on Aug. 2 for an all-Beethoven concert featuring the "Egmont" overture, the Violin Romance in F, and nothing less than the Ninth Symphony, with an admirable cast of vocal soloists including soprano Michelle Johnson, contralto Emily Marvosh, tenor William Hite and baritone Ron Williams, with the Back Bay Chorale. The orchestra will continue at the Hatch Shell with "Anthems of the World" (Aug. 9) and "Landmarks Dance Carnival" (Aug. 23), as well as several concerts in the Boston neighborhoods.
Fleshing out the summer season will also be concerts by Landmarks guests: Mercury Orchestra in a program of symphonic music from Wagner and Strauss operas (July 26), and the Longwood Symphony Orchestra's "A Night In Vienna" (Aug. 16).
In my review of that first Landmarks concert, I was charmed to see a little boy in the audience conducting along with Ansbacher. Wilkins has now created what he calls the "Maestro Zone," off to one side of the stage, where "young people and the young at heart can follow the lead of the orchestra's associate conductor in leading the orchestra. Participants are given a straw and can even look at the score which is placed in front of them. Long lines await their turn to see what it's like to give a downbeat."
Boston Midsummer Opera
Boston Midsummer Opera has been around since 2006, for the last decade under the musical direction of the profoundly "musical" conductor Susan Davenny Wyner. She has tended to choose charming, "summery" works that time has passed by, though they were once repertory staples: Nicolai's "The Merry Wives of Windsor," von Flotow's "Martha" (whose hit song was "The Last Rose of Summer"), Smetana's "The Bartered Bride," and, last summer, Mascagni's "L'amico Fritz," with its enchanting "Cherry Duet" and deeply touching lovers who happen to be Jewish. Like the Nicolai and Smetana operas, "Fritz" was smartly and sensitively staged by Colombian-born director Antonio Ocampo-Guzman. It was a revelation.
This summer, Davenny Wyner and Ocampo-Guzman are re-teaming with a far better known commodity: Donizetti's most popular comic opera, "L'elisir d'amore" ("The Love Potion"), with its memorable tenor aria (made even more memorable by Luciano Pavarotti), "Una Furtiva Lagrima" ("A Secret Tear").
The farcical plot revolves around a naïve country bumpkin, Nemorino, who is in love with the wealthy, sophisticated and literary Adina. To make Adina fall in love with him, Nemorino buys an elixir (actually cheap wine) from a quack traveling salesman. He thinks it's working when all the other girls in the village seem suddenly smitten with him, but that's because they've found out that he's come into an inheritance. When Adina spitefully agrees to marry an army sergeant, Nemorino enlists in the army to get money to buy more "elixir." Finally, Adina realizes that she really loves her bumpkin and buys him out of his commission.
The famous tenor aria comes when Nemorino notices a tiny teardrop on Adina's cheek, and he realizes — before Adina admits it to herself — that she really loves him.
"A single furtive tear sprang from her eyes: she seemed to be envious of those young girls. What more need I look for? What more need I look for? She loves me! Yes, she loves me, I see it. I see it. Just for an instant I felt the beating of her beautiful heart I felt! And my sighs became fleetingly joined with her sighs! Her heart beating, her heart beating to feel our sighs joined as one... Heavens! Yes I could, I could die! More I can't ask, I can't ask. Oh, heavens! Yes I could! Yes I could die! More I can't ask, I can't ask. Yes I could die, if I could die of love."
Over the years, Bostonians have been blessed with or suffered through numerous productions of "L'elisir." Back in 1964, Sarah Caldwell (in the same season as her astounding production of Berg's "Lulu"!) staged a version with Beverly Sills as the perfect Adina and an over-the-hill Italian tenor who couldn't hit the high notes of the aria (he was so embarrassed, Sills had to drag him onstage for his curtain call). The Boston Lyric Opera has done it a couple of times, and Boston Academy of Music did it once.
I asked Ocampo-Guzman what he had in mind for this work already so familiar to us. That familiarity, he told me, "is a good challenge for a director — and a scary one." He compares his job to looking into a kaleidoscope — "the pieces are always the same, but each twist gives you a new and different perspective."
For this new version, one of the new perspectives is the size of the theater. "Most of us have seen countless productions in big theaters," he admits. But in the intimate theater at the Mosesian Center for the Arts in Watertown, "things will be happening everywhere. The audience will witness the singers up close and personal. It's a thrill to be so close to these voices."
And looking so closely, Ocampo-Guzman sees "the angles of relationships change." We usually take Nemorino to be a kind of fool. "But close up we see his eternal hope. He's an optimist — he's always been in love with Adina. It's not a journey for him. It's actually Adina who is the one who falls in love. It's her journey. She protests too much. She's fickle. And she's not kind to Nemorino. Hers is the interesting journey. He becomes her elixir of love."
I asked Ocampo-Guzman about the famous aria. "It's an interesting hybrid," he said. "The music is sad, melancholic, but the text is triumphant. Nemorino has achieved what he wants to achieve. There's a paradox. He's signed a contract to join the army — he knows his chances of doing well at war are not likely. But he knows Adina loves him — he has what he wanted most. We want to see someone win. Nemorino might die tomorrow, but — and there's a big shift in the chord — she loves me!"
Ocampo-Guzman, who teaches at Northeastern University, has directed numerous operas and plays, but he's now excited about directing his first musical in December: "Man of La Mancha," for the New Rep Theatre, "in the same intimate space!"
Boston Midsummer Opera's production of Donizetti's "L'elisir d'amore," sung in Italian with English supertitles, take place July 26, 28 and 30. An hour before each performance, former Boston Globe classical music critic Richard Dyer will give — I promise you — an amusing and informative talk about the opera. His talks are in themselves worth the price of admission.


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Jonathan Smoke is chief economist for Cox Automotive. Smoke leads Cox Automotive's economic industry insights team, which tracks the economy, new and used vehicle sales, supply, prices, retail and fleet demand, consumer credit and auto financing, and dealer sentiment to understand the key trends impacting both the wholesale and retail markets for vehicles informed by the proprietary data from all of the company's businesses and platforms including Manheim, Autotrader, Kelley Blue Book, vAuto, Xtime, and Dealertrack.
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Solute Partitioning
The TLP Phase Diagrams and Solidification explains the method for determining the concentrations and proportions of the phases formed in solidification of a binary alloy , from the phase diagram, assuming that equilibrium can be achieved, and the most thermodynamically favourable phases formed. This method is known as the lever rule.
Consider the case of a binary alloy, Al-5wt%Cu:
The phase diagram shows that the first solid formed, CS, at 650 °C, will be 0.5 wt%Cu, but the stable phase after total solidification is a complete solid solution with a concentration of 5 wt%Cu. Clearly there will need to be significant diffusion in the solid to allow the solute to distribute evenly, and for equilibrium to occur.
This diffusion can be described mathematically by Fick's laws:
\[J = - D\left( {\frac{{\partial C}}{{\partial x}}} \right)\]
\[\left( {\frac{{\partial C}}{{\partial t}}} \right) = D\left( {\frac{{{\partial ^2}C}}{{\partial {x^2}}}} \right)\]
The self diffusion coefficient in the solid phase, Ds, varies from about 10-10 to 10-14 m2 s-1 at the melting point, depending on the material in question, and also obeys Arrhenius' equation for temperature dependency:
\[D = {D_0}\exp \left( {\frac{{ - Q}}{{RT}}} \right)\]
Values of diffusivity in most liquid metals are significantly higher, of the order of 10-9 m2 s-1, but also obey Arrhenius' law.
The graph below shows how the self-diffusivity (diffusivity ) , D, varies with the undercooling below the melting temperature, Tm, in copper.
The interdiffusivity (diffusivity ) in the alloy will behave in a similar way, so we can see that unless the alloy is cooled very slowly, the diffusivity will drop off rapidly before significant diffusion can occur into the solid, resulting in "coring" of grains, with lower solute concentration at the centre, where the first solid formed; and higher solute concentration at the edges. If the solute partitioning is extensive enough to raise the concentration of the liquid to the eutectic composition (eutectic ) the remaining liquid will then freeze with that composition in a eutectic structure, as in the micrograph of an Al-5 wt% Cu (5% copper, and 95% aluminium, by weight) alloy shown below:
The pale areas are dendrites with a structure based on Al, getting darker towards the edges as the Cu concentration increases. The dark areas are the eutectic that forms in between the dendrites as fine lamellae of Al and CuAl2.
In order to obtain quantitative expressions for the way solute is distributed, we need to use a quantity known as the partition coefficient, k, given by:
\[k = \frac{{{C_S}}}{{{C_L}}}\]
This is the ratio of the concentrations at the solidus , and liquidus , CL, at a given temperature. It determines the extent to which solute is ejected into the liquid during solidification. If the solidus and liquidus are straight lines, then k is independent of temperature. The calculation of k is shown in the Bi-Sn phase diagram below:
In most cases, the liquidus and solidus are not straight lines, but they are often close enough that we can assume that k is independent of temperature. Also, it is often the case that k is less than one, so that the solid forming is of a higher purity than the liquid.


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A cameraman with Arise Television, Francis Ogbonna and a journalist with Premium Times, Ebuka Onyeji, were on October 11, 2020 assaulted while covering a news conference where Nigeria's Inspector General of Police Mohammed Adamu announced the dissolution of the Special Anti-robbery Squad (SARS), a notorious unit of the Nigerian Police.
According to Ferdinand Duruoha, another crew member of Arise TV, Ogbonna was hit several times on the head and his camera destroyed, while he (Duruoha) took to his heels after being intimidated.
Duruoha said he fled after hearing orders of "Shoot him! shoot him!" The crew was interviewing protesters who had gathered at the Police headquarters.
"Police pounced on anyone they could, with Ogbonna, one of many injured," Duruoha said
A video recording by Duruoha later showed Ogbonna's injuries, which resulted in blood gushing out of his head.
Ebuka Onyeji was also assaulted by police officers while covering the same #EndSARS protest in Abuja.
Onyeji reported how police fired teargas canisters at the protesters, who were marching in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, demanding the scrapping of the notorious police unit, FSARS.
He said he witnessed how protesters were violently dispersed with teargas and water cannons. Some of the police officers then alighted from their vehicles and chased the protesters including journalists covering the protest. Some of the protesters were beaten with huge sticks and iron bars by the police officers.
Onyeji, along with some activists were chased down and beaten too. This is despite Mr Onyeji clearly identifying himself as a journalist.
"God punish you, journalists," one of the officers said as he swung a big stick at the reporter aiming for his head.
The reporter was only able to block some of the hits with his hand as he ran away to avoid further beatings.
Meanwhile, the International Press Centre, IPC, Lagos, has condemned the unwarranted assault and attack by officers of the Nigeria police on the journalists.
IPC Executive Director, Mr. Lanre Arogundade said, "We condemn the attack on the journalist while carrying out his legitimate duty of covering a protest."
IPC, therefore, called on the IGP to intervene and ensure that the culprit is punished in accordance with the provisions of the law.


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Any mechanism that impedes two species from producing fertile and/or viable hybrid offspring.
Two barriers:
1. Pre-zygotic barriers
2. Post-zygotic barriers
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1. Pre-zygotic Barriers
a. Temporal isolation:
Breeding occurs at different times for different species.
b. Habitat isolation:
Species breed in different habitats.
c. Behavioral isolation:
Little or no sexual attraction between species.
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1. Pre-zygotic Barriers
d. Mechanical isolation:
Structural differences prevent gamete exchange.
e. Gametic isolation:
Gametes die before uniting with gametes of other species, or gametes fail to unite.
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2. Post-zygotic Barriers
a. Hybrid inviability:
Hybrid zygotes fail to develop or fail to reach sexual maturity.
b. Hybrid sterility:
Hybrid fails to produce functional gametes.
c. Hybrid breakdown:
Offspring of hybrids are weak or infertile.
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Induced when the ancestral population becomes separated by a geographical barrier.
Grand Canyon and ground squirrels
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Emergence of numerous species from a common ancestor introduced to new and diverse environments.
Darwin's Finches
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Result of a radical change in the genome that produces a reproductively isolated sub-population within the parent population (rare).
Example: Plant evolution - polyploid
A species doubles it's chromosome # to become tetraploid.
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Two theories:
1. Gradualist Model (Neo-Darwinian):
Slow changes in species overtime.
2. Punctuated Equilibrium:
Evolution occurs in spurts of relatively rapid change.
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Species from different evolutionary branches may come to resemble one another if they live in very similar environments.
1. Ostrich (Africa) and Emu (Australia).
2. Sidewinder (Mojave Desert) and
Horned Viper (Middle East Desert)


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Sirius Square
pattern available here:
Sirius is a large square worked in the mosaic crochet technique which can be used for making blankets or pillows. This is a traditional motif from my native Iceland which I love working, and I hope you will to!
you can use any yarn you like and you will need at least 2 colors.
For example, 100% Merino from Katia, which is what I'm using. Its DK weight, 100 % virgin wool and 50 g = 102 m.
Each square requires 32 g (16 m) of this yarn in color A and 22 g (11 m) in color B.
Or Lettlopi from Istex, then each square requires 42 g of color A and 37 g of color B.
Crochet hook
no 4 mm and 3.5 mm, if using suggested yarn. Otherwise ones that suit your yarn.
the size of the squares will vary depending on the hook and yarn you use. My Sirius squares are. 25 x 25 cm (10" x 10 ") large after blocking, using Merino 100% from Katia (DK)
Abbreviations (US terms)
ST = stitch
CH = chain stitch
SS = slip stitch
SC = single crochet
HDC = half double crochet
DC = double crochet
The motif I use here is very traditional in the Icelandic textile culture and I'm so very fond of it. In Icelandic we call this the 'Eight Petals Rose' and I've been working it for as long as I can remember. It's mostly used in embroidery and knitting, and it wasn't until recently that I managed to work it in crochet, using the wonderful mosaic technique. It's not exactly a Christmas motif, but it does have a holidaisy feel to it and kind of looks like a big beautiful snowflake or a star. This year I find myself far away from home during the holidays and I really miss the snow and my loved ones. That, and the fact that this motif always reminds me of home, made me decide to make the Sirius square my holiday project this year.
Sirius is one of the names for The Northern Star, the one that the Vikings used for guidance when sailing back in the days. So, while I crochet my Sirius squares, I imagine it's also guiding my thoughts and my heart back home to friends and family … and the White Christmases I'm used to.
General instructions
Each square is crocheted in the round from the center and outward. At the end of each round you connect with a slip stitch. The square is worked with the mosaic crochet technique and is therefor striped on the backside.
this is a written pattern with a step by step pic following each written round. the pattern also includes a chart, for support.
Work one round in color A (main color) and then one round in color
B (pattern color), alternating with each round. Each round is worked with a single color. I recommend using contrasting colors, that way the pattern pops more!
You can also use one color B in rounds 2-10, and another color B in rounds 12-22, see first photos. Or apply the intarsia technique combined with mosaic crochet in color B rounds 4-10, to get more colors in the middle part of the pattern. See photos here.
A join is always a join and you can never hide it completely without cutting the yarn between rounds, but there are ways to make it look good. So, when working the square there's no need to cut the yarn between rounds, you can carry it. Now, if you do this without modification, the join will not look very neat on the backside. To improve this, I always work the last SC stitch of each round around the next color of yarn. This way you can hide the strands when carrying them between rounds.
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I am having trouble deciphering some of this baptism record.
It seems to be a match for a William John Gifford, whose parents were William and Lydia, servants in Belgravia. I think there's a small note saying he was born two years earlier "Born the 20th Day of October 1841"? as this is for 23rd October 1843. And the address is something like No 15, West Pound Street?, or Millpond Street? in Kensington/Chelsea, London.
The church was Holy Trinity Brompton ( map )
So my three questions are:
- What does it say under "William John"?
- what was their Abode?
- Is the mother's name Lydia?
From mid-right of this page, for more context:
London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Reference Number: p84/tri2/003


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Jonathan Gold passes judgement on UMAMIcatessen downtown, the multi-concepted restaurant from Adam Fleischman of Umami fame. Not surprisingly, Gold bestows his highest praises for a pastrami sandwich from The Cure, located within:
The sandwich itself, designed by Micah Wexler of Mezze, the swank Middle Eastern restaurant on La Cienega's Restaurant Row, is fairly spectacular, reimagined as a kind of steak sandwich. The meat is sliced at least a quarter-inch thick, laid out in orderly rows instead of being arranged into the customary wedge on the rye bread, and seasoned with seeded Dijon mustard instead of the customary splash of the brown stuff. I'm not saying it is the best pastrami sandwich in Los Angeles, but it is the first sandwich I have encountered in a lifetime of pastrami eating that might keep Norm Langer up at night.For dessert don't miss And a Doughnut's foie gras doughnut, "the most luxurious peanut butter and jelly sandwich in the world." [LAT]
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Our Art & Wine founder, Jean Dahrieh, explains to us which way he prefers to use in his paintings and why. Stay tuned to know all the tips and tricks from him to create your own work of art!
When it's time to start working on your next painting, it's important to have the right tools for the job. But when paint is that tool, you have to make a choice. Do you want to use watercolor, acrylic or oil paint? Because there are so many different types of paint you can choose from, having multiple options for the type of paint can be a real headache for beginning painters.
Each painting has its own strengths. The key to remember about the different types of paints is that each one is ideal in certain situations. The same way, you cannot use one type of paint for every project. Each one is a good choice on the right surfaces and in the right conditions. Some of them dry faster than others, some of them handle wear and tear better, and some of them produce a distinctive image.
You can't use just one type of paint for every type of project.
While some paints are more likely to be used in a certain situation than others.
Only one type of paint should never be used for every situation. For example, never use watercolor paint for textile art. Because the paint is so delicate, you would risk washing off in the presence of water. This makes it an impractical option.
On the other hand, if you use acrylic paint on your textiles, it can dry quickly and resist any water you encounter, maintaining the integrity of the art for longer.
Watercolor painting
Watercolor paint is the least expensive type of paint out there. It is created by pigment suspended in water. Watercolor paint can dry quickly, but it is incredibly delicate when it comes to resisting even a single drop of water.
Because of this, watercolor paints are the least resistant option among paints. That said, it can be used to create unique images unlike anything else created with oil or acrylic, images that often have a quality of their own.
Regardless of the type of paint you want to use for your next project, the experts at Art&Wine will be happy to help you find it. We can show you what different types of paint look like in action and give you a complete rundown on which one will work best for any project. Just contact us to learn more about how Art&Wine can help you find the paint for your next project.
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Acrylic paint
Acrylic paint is different from oil in one key way. Instead of being made of pigment suspended in oil, it is made of pigment suspended in a polymer emulsion. This gives the paint very different properties than oil-based paint or watercolor.
Acrylic paint is best for people who want their paint to dry faster. Where oil paint can take a long time to dry, acrylic paint can dry in a matter of hours. It is also more resistant to water than watercolor or oil paint, which means it is less likely to be damaged by moisture in the short term.
The main disadvantage of acrylic paint is that it is much less versatile when it comes to mixing and matching colors than the other options.
If you would like to learn how to use acrylic paint, here you can see very easily explained how to paint with acrylic paint.
Oil painting
Oil painting has its roots long ago and has been used as the primary paint choice for many projects, dating back to before the Renaissance. Many famous paintings that we study today were painted with oil-based paints. The Mona Lisa is just one famous example of many.
Oil paints work by suspending pigment particles in an oil base. Due to its composition, it is an excellent option if you are thinking of bright and vibrant colors or if you are creating an image with depth.
They are also much easier to mix than acrylic paints, and mixing them often results in a much wider color palette.
The biggest downside to oil paints is that they take longer to dry than acrylic or watercolor paints, and they take days or even weeks to dry completely.
If you would like to learn to use oil paint, here you can learn different very useful techniques to get started.
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Star Trek star, George Takei has been accused of groping an actor in 1981.
Outspoken LGBT+ advocate and Star Trek icon George Takei has been accused of groping a 23-year-old model and actor, Scott R. Brunton in 1981.
Brunton spoke out against Takei to The Hollywood Reporter.
Brunton alleges that after a few drinks at Takei's home in California, in the early 80s, he fell asleep on a bean bag chair and when he awoke he found his trousers were around his ankles and claims Takei, who was 43 or 44 at the time, was groping him.
Speaking of the incident he told THR, "'No. I don't want to do this." and I pushed him off and he said, 'OK, fine.' And I said I am going to go and he said, 'If you feel you must. You're in no condition to drive.' I said, 'I don't care I want to go.' So I managed to get my pants up and compose myself and I was just shocked. I walked out and went to my car until I felt well enough to drive home, and that was that."
THR reached out to Takei's rep, Julia Buchwald, who was unable to reach her client for comment when the story broke and said that Takei was travelling to Japan and Austraila and was not available for comment.
When asked why Brunton was able to allege these activities now, he revealed that he felt that following the Harvey Weinstein allegations his voice would be heard. He said in the past that he felt no one would believe him and that it was "my word against his".
However, when Takei spoke out against Spacey during the Rapp allegations, when actor Anthony Rapp claimed that Kevin Space made "sexual advances" to him when he was just 14, Brunton felt it was time to come forward.
Out of all of this Brunton says he is only looking for an apology saying, "I don't want anything from him but an apology,
"I am sure he'll disown all this, I don't know, maybe not."
We'll update when and if George Takei makes a statement about these allegations.


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Chris Paul trade stained NBA's credibility
The coincidence was uncanny: Blind bidding on the amnesty waiver wire, several teams with a chance to claim Chauncey Billups, and somehow the Los Angeles Clippers made the highest offer. All these years owner Donald Sterling was the bane of the commissioner's existence, and now David Stern needed him in the worst way. All the times Stern let the creep slide on professional and personal indiscretions, the NBA knew the Clippers were the final, most legitimate suitor still standing to bail the league out of its own self-created Chris Paul debacle.
So, yes, the Clippers bid just north of $2 million on Billups, and the NBA has left everyone justified to wonder about the purity of that process. No one blinked. No one voiced a grievance. Nevertheless, this is the fairest question of the post-lockout NBA: From Stern to deputies Adam Silver, Joel Litvin and Stu Jackson, how can anyone ever be sure – despite denials to the contrary – that someone didn't tip Clippers management to make sure they placed the highest bid?
After all, Stern and his lieutenants were no longer playing commissioner and bureaucrats, they were playing basketball God in the NBA. This isn't to charge them with fraud, but to simply say: There's an appearance of impropriety that ought to be unsettling to everyone.
Under a different circumstance, we could simply give a nod to Clippers general manager Neil Olshey for such an astute move, but these are unprecedented times in the NBA and facts are facts: Until Billups was a Clipper, the Clippers were sluggish to include Eric Gordon into the trade for Paul. The uncertain deals behind this deal should forever haunt the NBA.
Make no mistake: The amnesty bids were shuttled through the same office – the same desk – as the bidding on the superstar point guard. Whatever the outcome the NBA truly wanted, the assignment of Billups played a critical role in the outcome of the trade. It doesn't matter that the NBA muscled a better deal than the one Hornets GM Dell Demps negotiated with the Los Angeles Lakers. Pro sports are forever a results-oriented business, but this time it's different.
The process matters.
The process was everything.
[ Related: NBA trades Chris Paul to Clippers ]
"That's our problem as a league now," one NBA general manager told Yahoo! Sports. "Everything they do gets thrown into question now, because they have conflicts everywhere. It all got exposed in this one – all came out in the public."
The NBA pushed aside a standing general manager, Demps, and the league office led by Stern (the commissioner), Litvin (an attorney) and Jackson (the failed GM of all GMs) ran the trade talks for the Hornets. They were no longer spectators to the machinations of the 30 teams' movements, but active participants, controlling the destiny of one of the NBA's major talents.
Jackson was the professed basketball man here, and he happens to go down as one of the worst GMs in the league's history. From signing Bryant "Big Country" Reeves to a $62 million extension to drafting Steve Francis when it was clear Francis would never play in Vancouver to trading the rights to the eventual No. 2 pick in the 2003 draft for Otis Thorpe, Jackson's run as GM stands as one of the most inept ever.
Now, Jackson was engaged in the Hornets' trade talks, helping peddle deals for one of the NBA's franchise players.
Demps wanted the Lakers trade to lift the Hornets into the playoffs, wanted a team of talent and made an initial deal that included Lamar Odom, Luis Scola, Kevin Martin, Goran Dragic and a draft pick. The Clippers had a young package on the table, but Demps believed it was important to win games, to sell tickets and get back to the playoffs again.
Demps had come from San Antonio, and he believed something strongly: He didn't want a bad team. He wanted to win. He owed it to his talented young coach, Monty Williams, to the fans buying season tickets in a small market. He wanted to trade Paul and still make the playoffs. That's considered a sin in this NBA, where small-market cap space and vague draft picks create an illusion of success in today's bottom-line financial climate.
For Stern to get on a conference call and force Demps, Lakers GM Mitch Kupchak and Rockets GM Daryl Morey to listen to him say, "Dell never thought the deal to be done," is beyond disingenuous and insulting. Stern can say it, and Demps, the Lakers and Rockets can't ever challenge him. Demps made the deal because no one had ever told him of the league's mandate to receive young players and picks for Paul until after they killed the initial Lakers trade, league sources said.
[ Related: Video: Are Clippers better than Lakers? ]
It never mattered to Stern the hundreds of hours that those teams and the Boston Celtics and Indiana Pacers invested into deals that Stern wouldn't have allowed anyway. All Stern ever cared about was freeing himself of lawsuit liability, keeping the NBA from another super-team perception with the Lakers and selling the Hornets for every final dollar. Everything else was someone else's mess to clean up.
The NBA let the deal reach fruition, and then abruptly canceled it. It wouldn't be long until Stern's underlings started to pass word onto league personnel that Demps hadn't been forthcoming to the league office on the Clippers offer, that he couldn't be trusted, that the NBA had every right to take over the talks. If Demps wants to keep a job in the NBA, you'll never hear him explain his side.
"Dell's problem was that every time he forwarded something to the league office, he felt it got leaked within an hour," said one friend of Demps. "That's why I think he became more careful of that."
The ripples of the NBA holding up the Paul trade have impacted teams beyond the Hornets. The Houston Rockets had worked for two full years to get into position to make a deal for an elite player like Pau Gasol. While the Rockets were stuck in this web, trade partners were falling off the board, committing to free agents and leaving the market. Had the Rockets been able to make the deal for Gasol, they would've had the space to sign Nene to the $67 million deal Denver gave him. Suddenly, the Rockets would've been a 50-, 55-victory team again and back in Western Conference contention. Now, they're reeling.
Once the initial trade was canceled and the whispers out of New York began to damage Demps' good name, teams soon became reluctant to deal with the non-decision maker of the process. The Hornets tried to revive the three-way trade with the Lakers and Rockets, but when the NBA contradicted what Demps told L.A. and Houston about what needed to change to complete the deal, those teams knew he had been rendered irrelevant.
"Once it was the NBA running things, it was no longer a negotiation process," one official said. "It was a shakedown."
The Hornets told trade partners it was likely they could accept the Rockets' and Lakers' packages with minimal changes: a first-round pick from the Lakers and minor assets from the Rockets, perhaps a second-round pick. As it turned out, the NBA demanded Kyle Lowry and Patrick Patterson be added to Houston's offer. Now, the Rockets had been told five of their top six players were needed to get Gasol in a trade.
The Rockets would've walked anyway, but the Lakers beat them to it. One league official says owner Jerry Buss' attitude basically was the NBA had gone too far, and he pulled his team out of the talks. Soon, the Lakers sent Lamar Odom to the Mavericks and it became clear: The NBA's machinations and maneuvering had dramatically impacted the Western Conference's balance of power.
[Also: Video: How Chris Paul stayed in shape during the offseason ]
In the end, Stern wouldn't allow the NBA to walk away without claiming a victory. This is Stern's NBA, where he's always believed the end justifies the means. For 30 teams competing, that largely should be the case. Yet, this wasn't the Hornets competing to make a deal. This was the league office forcing itself into the trade market, dictating NBA winners and losers and leaving too much carnage, too many questions, in its wake. Once the commissioner entered the fray, the embarrassment of losing was never an option.
The league insists this was a normal negotiation process, but it was nothing close. As an institution, it is easy to renege on a deal for a top-five player and seek out a better one because you never have to negotiate with these people again. That's an unfair advantage for the NBA, and purely destructive for those left in the job in New Orleans.
For all the suspicions those inside and out of the league have about the motives and agendas of those running the NBA, this was an episode to turn the cynical downright despondent. You win, Clippers. You lose, Lakers and Rockets. You win Chris Paul, you lose Dell Demps. The NBA waved its wand, and everyone else lives with the consequences. This was wrong, and Gordon and Minnesota's draft pick will never, ever make it right.
One minute, the Clippers wouldn't budge on trading Gordon and the 2012 first-round pick, and the next, the deal was done. Across Stu Jackson's desk, there passed the trade packages for Paul and the so-called secret amnesty bids for Billups. Always a nice, tidy completion for Stern.
Perhaps no one will ever know the truth about how Chris Paul became a Clipper, about perhaps where the lines blurred between a negotiation and a shakedown. Nevertheless, the star point guard gets to throw lobs to Blake Griffin in Hollywood, Demps gets to repair his credibility in the draft lottery, the Lakers and Rockets get shafted and Stern and his unforgiving, unrelenting Olympic Tower gang reminds the NBA once again: Our league, our whims.
"Let's not talk too much about how the sausage was made," Stern said late Wednesday.
All these years, all the episodes, and something never changes: David Stern never wants that curtain pulled back.
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Endless Pickup Rocket Shooter is a source project of a 3D endless style game for the unity game engine.
This game can be run on both Windows and Android operating systems, and mobile controllers are also included in it.
In this game, enemy tanks are moving towards your country and you have to destroy them BY before they cross the road. If any of the enemy's tanks pass through the passage, the life of your country will be reduced to the point where the country will eventually fall.
At the beginning of the game, the speed of the enemy tanks is slow, and the more tanks you destroy, the speed of the enemy's movement and their number will increase, and you will be promoted to a higher level.
The enemy tanks, soldier and pickup car have several parameters that can be changed to make the game harder or easier.
The character has the ability to sit, load, aim and shoot.
Camera has multiple parameters to view the player in different position so can be adjusted in the right place while moving, sitting and aiming.
The character settings are based on the humanoid character, so you can replace it with any other humanoid character.
The pickup car has a movement controller script with many parameters to allow you to customize the car according to your needs.
Also, this package includes a modular model of a cartoon soldier that you can create various models of a cartoon soldier by selecting multiple parts of heads, bodies, legs and adding military accessories.
Also, this package has cartoon Particle System for explosion, fire and smoke and a cartoon pickup car included.
The scripts are written in such a way that you can easily make the changes you need. You can also change the game from endless mode to level mode.
The road spawn system has the ability to restart to the starting point, and if the player goes too far from the starting point of the game, to avoid problems related to physics and lighting, the entire path and everything on it will return to the starting point!
The graphic style of the game is cartoon and polygonal, so you can replace the game models with many models that exist in this style. You can also create a realistic game with this project and replace cartoon models with realistic models.
Scripts are clean and well organized and variables names are understandable.
Also, this package contains dozens of lowpoly cartoon 3D models for making cartoon desert environments.
If you have any question or need further information about this asset don't hesitate to contact us!


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I have a scar on my neck as a result of operations to remove my thyroid gland and although it took some time to get used to, I now (and have done for many years) love it and wouldn't change it for the world. It proves that I have been through something life changing and I am here to tell the tale.
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You can always tell when someone is truly comfortable in their own skin versus someone who is lacking in inner confidence. When you're at ease with who you really are and the better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to big yourself up or boast about your achievements.
I wrote this next blog well before there was any talk of the Coronavirus and I wondered if I should change or edit it but I'm going to post it, as it is. Who knew when I was writing it that the pandemic could be, in it's own way a blessing and such a powerful lesson in slowing down, pressing pause on the distractions and to simply be….


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A leading Australian constitutional law expert has flatly dismissed the possibility of the Commonwealth imposing plebiscites on states to unwind controversial council mergers like those in NSW, despite $20 million pledge of Commonwealth funding for a popular vote from federal Labor leader Bill Shorten.
As political rhetoric over political fallout from NSW council mergers reaching fever pitch and crossing into the federal election campaign on Monday, seasoned observer Professor George Williams of UNSW says there are simply no powers that the Commonwealth could use to compel states to hold popular votes on councils.
Prof. Willams told Government News that although councils or state governments might be able to opt into federally funded popular votes, they couldn't be made to do so.
[quote]"To force a plebiscite on a state, I can't see that can be done. You can hold a voluntary thing, but you can't compel this. [/quote]
"There is no clear power at the Commonwealth level to legislate for local government."
Prof. Williams' comments aren't great news for Labor or the Greens who are locked in a pitched battle over a clutch of marginal federal seats where resentment over mergers is burning strongly – particularly Grayndler in Sydney's Inner West, where riot police were called to the first and subsequently aborted meeting of the new Inner West Council
Mr Shorten's entry into the NSW council merger controversy has been widely interpreted as an attempt to check a probable swing towards the Greens over local issues, especially where there is deep cynicism over state Labor's position on lightning-rod issues like the WestConnex freeway and Australia's offshore detention of refugees.
Greens NSW Local Government spokesman David Shoebridge has effectively accused Mr Shorten of pulling-up short on efforts to unwind council mergers, saying any popular vote needs to be binding.
"If the NSW Parliament can't be persuaded to restore democracy and agree to binding plebiscites, then we need to take a close look at Federal legislative powers to see if the Commonwealth can act," NSW Greens Local Government spokesman Mr Shoebridge said.
"It's good to give people a say in plebiscites, but to be more than just a political gesture there must be a commitment to legislating to enforce the outcome of any vote."
Prof. Williams noted Mr Shoebridge had "expressed his words carefully" in terms of taking "a look" at what could be done rather than saying it was possible.
"Well having taken a close look, I don't think it's going to help them. If [Mr Shoebridge has] said that they could do it, I'd say he's wrong – but he obviously hasn't said that. He's trying to raise an issue.
"Shorten's policy looks OK, but if he went further he'd be in trouble," Prof. Willams said.
A clearly irritated New South Wales Premier Mike Baird had less qualified interpretation of Constitutional reality.
Mr Baird immediately slammed the federal incursion on Monday – a public holiday in NSW –as a populist stunt "designed to drum up a few extra votes in marginal seats" that could never come to fruition thanks to direct state control over councils he's sacked.
The sacking of councils that have now been amalgamated also means that any decision to participate in a plebiscite, binding or otherwise, would be in the hands of Baird Government appointed administrators until fresh local government elections slated for September 2017, making a popular vote on mergers even more unlikely.
Mud-slinging between NSW councils and Macquarie Street is primed to escalate sharply, with administrators put in charge of new local governments reportedly digging into the activities of both councillors and staff surrounding expenses and pay increases prior to amalgamation.
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