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Baptist World Aid's 2021 Ethical Fashion Report finds lingering gaps in wages, sustainability.
Fashion companies are investing more than ever in ethical sourcing, but their efforts still aren't reaching garment workers, according to the 2021 Ethical Fashion Report launched by Baptist World Aid Australia this month.
The Christian development organisation has released its latest fashion scorecard for close to 100 Australian fashion companies representing 428 brands, including its first new A+ to F grades in over two years.
Twenty companies received an A+ or A, 55 received a B or C and 23 received a D or F this year.
"Consumers have influenced hugely positive progress in encouraging the fashion industry to become more ethical and sustainable," said Peter Keegan, Baptist World Aid's Director of Advocacy. "But these scores show us we're not there yet."
Forty percent of companies improved their score in 2021 compared to 2019, with positive shifts in supply chain tracing and transparency and use of more sustainable fabrics.
Because Baptist World Aid is committed to caring for the world's most vulnerable, this year's report is troubling due to the industry's lack of progress in initiatives to empower garment workers. The average company scored a D for their actions on wage improvement, worker unions and complaints processes.
The number of companies paying some workers in their supply chain a living wage dropped from 20 percent in 2019 to 15 per cent in 2021, a decline attributed to the economic impacts of the COVID-19 crisis. Consequently, garment workers in countries where Baptist World Aid works like Bangladesh lost more than US$16 billion dollars in wages.
In addition to the pandemic, the report reflects the industry's need to reduce its impact on climate change. Though the number of companies with a commitment to reduce emissions has risen by 10 percent since 2019, the total with a climate strategy is still less than half of those assessed in 2021.
Also new this year is an explanation of how a company's score out of 100 aligns to the familiar A+ to F grades, with the average company scoring 33.6. Keegan says this shows that although the industry is moving in the right direction, it still has a long way to go.
"We want to encourage people to continue to choose more ethical brands to buy from," he said. "And to keep encouraging their favourite brands to do better for garment workers."


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How we helped a paralyzed woman return home
A phrase I often use when referring to Rebuilding Together Muscatine County's work is "it just needs done." There are so many neighbors in Muscatine County, and across the country, who need home repairs, but they simply cannot afford them. Jessie and Rick are just one of the many families we have served that needed work done.
50-year-old Muscatine County resident, Jessie, recently suffered from a heart attack and stroke. Unfortunately, due to the stroke, Jessie became paralyzed from the waist down. This meant that she would be bound to a wheelchair with no time to prepare. Jessie has spent time in an assisted living facility while learning how to use a wheelchair. Her husband, Rick, worried for when Jessie eventually comes home, because knew that their house was not wheelchair accessible. Rick could not afford to make major home repairs since he had to quit his job to take care of Jessie.
Rick contacted his Senator, who put him in touch with Rebuilding Together Muscatine County. After hearing about Jessie and Rick's dilemma, we knew we had to help.
There was no way to attach a wheelchair ramp to the front of their home, so we had to get creative. We decided with Rick that we would build a ramp off their side porch. The ramp ended up being over six feet high and almost 90 feet long. In order to make the ramp up to ADA standards, it had to be that long. Unfortunately, Jessie is still in the hospital facing medical complications. When she can return home, Jessie will be able to get inside without any added risks. Their family recently hosted a Zoom get-together where they thanked us and were crying tears of joy. We are hopeful that Jessie will have a speedy recovery, and that she will feel comfortable and safe entering her home on her new ramp.

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Drafted by US Army veteran Andrew Kordonowy the resolution was presented to the board for consideration, and passed unanimously. The County Sheriff Cory Lee also made commit that he was proud of the resolutions passing.
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Suriya's Singam directed by Hari is a big summer release.
Anushka shares the screen space with the actor.The film will taken on a worldwide release on May 28th..
Director Hari, who makes commercial mass masala films, is bringing out this big-budget action entertainer.
A complete action entertainer, this is Surya's silver jubilee (25th) film.. Director Hari is at the helm of this project.. Racy screenplay and songs will be the crowd-pulling factor of the film and is sure to create waves..
Devisree Prasad has scored the music, while cinematography is by Priyan. Nasser, Prakash Raj, Radha Ravi, Manorama are in supporting roles..
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The global healthcare cloud computing market is mostly trending in the use of mobile devices in order to deliver healthcare services. The other cloud based healthcare applications include radiology information systems, electronic medical records, pharmacy information systems, laboratory information systems and picture archiving and communication systems.
According to reports, there are still many challenges to overcome in cloud computing for healthcare organizations. Lack of privacy, security of patients and the high cost of clinical information systems are some of the factors that restrain the global healthcare market from fully accepting cloud computing. Moreover, the interoperability issues have a negative effect on the growth of the market.
Advantages of cloud computing
In order to fully understand the advantages of cloud computing, it is essential to know what the cloud is. Cloud is a wide collection of interconnected computers that provide broad network access, on-demand service, measured service, rapid elasticity and resource pooling. Due to these factors, cloud computing delivers benefits far greater to the traditional information systems.
Users are free to access their personal data along with other services with the help of cloud computing no matter where they are. Thus, cloud computing serves as storage medium for the complete database along with its regular maintenance.In this way, the burden shifts to the cloud service provider to maintaining the complex Health Information Technology systems.
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Cloud is providing the best method of reducing technology and treatment costs in healthcare. Various states and municipalities are developing cloud based health information exchanges that will allow an easy exchange of information between hospitals, clinics, physicians and health systems.
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A hallmark of an effective evidence-based Positive Education program is the interpretation of wellbeing data to inform decision-making about the goals, objectives and measures of success for the efficacy of professional practice and learning educational programs. But, what does this look like in reality? In this workshop participants will explore how data links with decisions on a wellbeing framework, lessons taught in the classroom, and how this can be supported in co-curricular programs. Using examples of objective and subjective group data collected from St Peter's College - Adelaide from 2011-2017 this workshop will focus on Positive Education strategy and programs for Years R-6 (n = 510). Participants will have the opportunity to explore challenges, discuss a decision-making process, reflect on data and discussion program developments. The objective is to help workshop participants become critical readers of positive educational programs and consider how these link to existing school strategies.
About David
David Kolpak is Head of Junior Years – Wellbeing & Administration at St Peter's College Adelaide. He is responsible for Student Wellbeing and overseeing the Positive Education programs from ELC – Year 6. In 2012, David participated in the University of Pennsylvania Positive Education Training Conference. In 2013 he attended the International Positive Psychology Association World Congress as a presenter and participant. David has co-created the scope and sequence of the four Positive Education programs taught in the Junior School and works with Teachers to create links with the Australian Curriculum. David has presented at four Positive Education Schools Association (PESA) Conferences – locally and nationally (in Adelaide and Sydney) and at the 4th Australian Wellbeing & Positive Psychology Conference in Melbourne. This year David presented at the National Boosting Mental Health and Wellbeing conference in Melbourne and is currently writing an iBook on each of the 6 Character Strength Virtues.
About St Peter's College Adelaide
"Our vision is to be a world-class school where all boys flourish."
St Peter's College is an Anglican boys' school located in Adelaide, South Australia. We are uncompromising in our commitment to be a world-class school at the forefront of boys' education. At Saints, we provide rigorous and extensive academic and co-curricular programs, while always maintaining a focus on shaping the character of the boys and young men in our care.
Our mission is to provide an exceptional education that brings out the very best in every boy. We do this within an intellectually and spiritually rich environment that nurtures international-mindedness, intercultural understanding, respect and a commitment to social justice.
At Saints, developing a boy's character is as important as fostering his intellect. Wellbeing is central to all that we do. We understand boys and the specific learning and emotional needs that they have.
Our teachers are committed to providing the best care for each and every boy; care that focuses on developing their inherent strengths and talents, and providing an environment where they are safe to be themselves. We believe that teaching our boys the skill of resilience is essential in equipping them for the challenges of the future.
Our wellbeing strategy builds upon the traditional pastoral care model already applied within the School. We focus on teaching preventative mental health strategies throughout a boy's time at Saints.


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HSSB712: Behind the great door
Zhou Haosheng's face was livid as he wielded the Soul Brocade Banner, striking out towards Luo Zhiyuan with a full-powered blow!
Boundless dimness obscured the area, the chaotic space seemingly descending completely into darkness at this moment.
Radiance and heat all vanished, only extremely coldness left within the air.
It was like the universe was reaching its end, everything cold and desolate, also seeming like when the heavens and the earth had just been split apart, the universe born of the primordial darkness.
The next instant, the primordial darkness was extinguished, the very first light radiating forth!
A supreme martial art of the Dim Darkness Sect, Primordial Darkness Extinguishing!
This full-powered blow of Zhou Haosheng's targeted Luo Zhiyuan's vitals in order to extricate the Dim Darkness Adept and the Dim Radiant Lamp from their precarious plight.
Yet, golden armour appeared all around Luo Zhiyuan's body, the mid-grade Sacred Artifact, the Inextinguishable Light Armour forcibly taking on the full powered-blow of Zhou Haosheng who wielded the Soul Brocade Banner.
Meanwhile, he did not cease in his actions as the Sun Moon Wheels locked the Dim Darkness Adept and the Dim Radiant Lamp in place before he continued unleashing his third technique.
Luo Zhiyuan lined his index and middle fingers into a sword, quick as flashing lightning as he executed a Radiant Light Sword, stabbing towards the brow of the injured Dim Darkness Adept.
If this sword hit, the Dim Darkness Adept would immediately perish.
The Dim Darkness Adept barely raised its hand to block Luo Zhichao's instant Radiant Light Sword, its palm being directly pierced through by Luo Zhichao's fingers.
At the same time, Zhou Haosheng used the Soul Brocade Banner as a spear, sweeping along indestructible radiance which mightily struck the Inextinguishable Light Armour.
The dazzling radiance was instantly extinguished!
A mighty mid-grade Sacred Artifact, the Inextinguishable Light Armour, was directly destroyed by the full-powered blow of Zhou Haosheng and the Soul Brocade Banner!
A mid-grade Sacred Artifact was ruined completely just like that!
However, the Inextinguishable Light Armour had won sufficient time for Luo Zhiyuan whose Radiant Light Sword changed into the Great Radiant Light Sabre, domineeringly chopping off the arm of the Dim Darkness Adept which was clutching the Dim Radiant Lamp!
The martial practitioners of the Dim Darkness Sect all howled unresignedly as they could only watch the Dim Radiant Lamp which had almost been refined by Zhou Haosheng become ownerless again.
The black patterns on the lamp's surface faded like the tides of the sea, swiftly dispersing.
Yan Zhaoge circulated the true essence of his entire body, connected with the Myriad Dragon Palace and the stone door behind him as it was hard for him to pay attention to other matters.
The light dragon formed of the Myriad Dragon Palace had already virtually merged completely with the stone door.
Yan Zhaoge's expression was calm and heavy as he surveyed the overall situation.
With the price of a mid-grade Sacred Artifact, the original slight advantage that the Dim Darkness Sect had possessed had been caught up to, even being overturned!
After destroying the Inextinguishable Light Armour, Zhou Haosheng immediately struck out once more, continuing to attack Luo Zhiyuan.
However, the Sun Moon Wheels which had been freed turned back into immeasurable radiance, blocking Zhou Haosheng.
This time, it was no longer so easy for Zhou Haosheng to break through his enemy's defences.
Luo Zhiyuan repelled the heavily wounded Dim Darkness Adept with another blow before grabbing out towards the Dim Radiant Lamp.
Instantly, the black patterns dispersed, bright patterns spreading on the Dim Radiant Lamp's surface!
"Finally…the Emperor's accompanying Sacred Artifact!" Luo Zhiyuan raised his head and roared towards the heavens, the Sun Moon Wheels transforming back into the great golden sun and the bright silvery moon as they shone together above his head, seeming eternal and inextinguishable.
Despair and unwillingness appeared within the gazes of Zhou Haosheng and the other Dim Darkness Sect martial practitioners.
They had worked so hard, yet ended up losing it to the Radiant Light Sect in the end!
How would they be able to stand against a Radiant Light Sect which possessed two great high-grade Sacred Artifacts
The winds of change blew swiftly, the attacking and defending sides being overturned as the initiative completely changed hands.
Now, it was the Radiant Light Sect that was in the lead.
Now, Zhou Haosheng and the others had to interfere with and prevent Luo Zhiyuan from refining the Dim Radiant Lamp.
Yet, with the Sun Moon Wheels protecting him, the difficulty of this was much higher than when Luo Zhiyuan had been fighting from the lamp earlier.
Luo Zhiyuan did not have to fight with Zhou Haosheng at all now.
He was already on stable footing now, victory practically being assured.
In just a short period of time, he would be able to refine the Dim Radiant Lamp!
Having already been at an advantage in terms of strength before, the Radiant Light Sect would directly crush the Dim Darkness Sect experts, brutally slaughtering all of them without question!
Zhou Haosheng's eyes appeared on the brink of imploding as he was forced to consider a problem of true practicality.
They virtually had no hopes of succeeding now, of breaking through the defences of the Sun Moon Wheels before Luo Zhiyuan could refine the Dim Radiant Lamp.
Like this, they could only watch Luo Zhiyuan refine the Dim Radiant Lamp.
Afterwards, all of them would unquestionably die here without a ground of burial.
Since that was so, shouldn't they make use of the short gap of time when Luo Zhiyuan was still refining the Dim Radiant Lamp and hurriedly retreat, fleeing from the Dim Radiant Mausoleum
For the Chief of the Dim Darkness Sect, this would undoubtedly be an extremely humiliating choice.
As Luo Zhiyuan refined the Dim Radiant Lamp, he smiled coldly at Zhou Haosheng's group, "Your sole choice is to flee now while you can.
You might just be able to leave this place alive."
"Still, your Dim Darkness Sect's main altar has already been destroyed.
There is no longer any place for you to hide; we will be able to find you whenever we want.
How long can you hide, I wonder"
"Traitors of the Dim Darkness Sect, your end has arrived!"
He gazed around at their surroundings, sighing at the heavens, "The Emperor's relics belong to our sect.
The mausoleum will be left to our sect to worship in the future.
As the Emperor's most orthodox lineage, it is only right that this happens.
The late Emperor will surely feel consoled by us descendants cleaning up the impurities for him, executing you lot of rebels!"
The faces of Zhou Haosheng and the other Dim Darkness Sect martial practitioners were livid while the Radiant Light Sect martial practitioners were all in high spirits.
Their fight of so many years was finally going to reach a conclusion!
Looking at the Dim Radiant Lamp in Luo Zhiyuan's hand, Yan Zhaoge knit his brows slightly as well.
"Brat, it is good that you are here as well," Luo Zhiyuan's gaze now turned towards Yan Zhaoge as he said in a tone that was cold to the extreme, "I was not able to deal with you before, allowing you to leap all about in continuously wrecking things for my sect, even killing many of our experts."
"I too must admit that I have never seen any first level Martial Saint stir up as major a disturbance as you before.
Still, it is much too early for you to stand in opposition to our sect.
It is not by your own skill that you have been able to be carefree for so long.
It is merely because our sect has never truly focused our attention on you before."
Luo Zhiyuan said coldly, "Your good luck ends now."
He tilted his head slightly, "Junior apprentice-brother Guo, this matter began with that youngster you had set your eyes on.
Your disciple who had yet to enter our sect long since died by his hands.
Today, you should be the one to take care of things."
Radiance illuminated the body of a Radiant Light Sect Elder as he forcibly traversed the chaotic flows of space, gradually approaching Yan Zhaoge.
A major figure of the Radiant Light Sect, the Head of the Eternal Light Hall Guo Song.
He was at the fifth level of the Martial Saint realm, being a mid Seeing Divinity stage expert.
Back then, if Huang Jie had come to the World beyond Worlds, it had been decided that he would enter this person's tutelage.
Facing his gaze that was like that of an eagle's, Yan Zhaoge raised his brows slightly, "This is the third time we are meeting."
When Yan Zhaoge had informed the anti-Xuan coalition about the Grand Xuan Dynasty's retreat previously, he had also seen Guo Song during that standoff with those of the Radiant Light Sect.
Still, only now did he learn that he was Huang Jie's Master from the Radiant Light Sect up in the Worlds beyond Worlds.
Guo Son said mildly, "It is also the last time."
He stared fixatedly at Yan Zhaoge like an eagle, "A youngster even more outstanding than Huang Jie- how he died to you is only natural.
However, a youth like you who doesn't know his own limits dying at this old man's hands today- that is even more natural."
Saying thus, he struck mightily with a palm towards Yan Zhaoge, immeasurable radiance illuminating space!
Yan Zhaoge was neither shocked nor afraid as he smiled composedly, "You think too much."
With but a thought on his part, he retreated backwards.
The stone door behind him abruptly opened!


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Your pet will be housed indoors in our spectacular "Fuzzy Butts Cottage". This cottage is kept cool in summer but snug in winter. For all our fuzzy
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Fuzzy Butts are housed in individual custom created cages, these are safe, secure and roomy with hidey-holes for the shy and retiring. Your pet
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Playtime and activitie time is set aside each day for one-on-one interaction with our caretakers for cuddles and lots of fun for all, including a
leg-stretch and a roam within the cottage for those with a desire to explore. Each pet has the opportunity for a free-range exercise-ball to run
around within the cottage. We provide cardboard box mazes, tubes, exercise-balls and hiding places to make life more interesting.
Food and Water
We offer home grown herbs, and supply quality species appropriate foods, if this is not the usual diet we ask that you bring along your usual one,
each cage is equipped with a water drip bottle.
Large deck covered atrium floor, great for exercise balls
Bright spacious individual cages with personal sleeping quarters
Pellet-mix full of protein, fiber, carbohydrates appropriate for each species
Fresh feeder insects with vitamin supplements for our insectivores
Water bottles with fresh spring water daily
Hygiene: Cages are cleaned and freshened as needed, each cage is disinfected between friends.
Hedgehogs: Hedgehogs are insectivores so we offer mealworms, hornworms, silkworms, earthworms and the occasional
pinkie mice. Both dry and moist food is provided such as Mazuri, or Insect Eater Diet and small amounts of beta-carotene
rich veggies and eggs, a vitamin supplement is added to their feed.
Hamsters: We provide a quality hamster food mix complete with all the minerals, vitamins and nutrients these omnivores
require. In addition, carrot, lettuce, sunflower seeds, peanuts and cabbage are fed. A well-rodent vitamin supplement is
added to their feed.
Gerbils: We offer a complete gerbil food bursting with delicious, nutritious ingredients, like alfalfa, pumpkin seeds, and
carrot. It includes protein (for growth), carbohydrates (for energy), fiber (for digestion) and vitamins and minerals (for healthy
bones and teeth). A well-rodent vitamin supplement is added to their feed.
Fancy Mice: We offer a complete mouse food bursting with the best combination of clipped or rolled oats, mixed corn, laked maize and dried crushed peas. Dog biscuits give the mice something extra to gnaw on and are quite nutritious. Root
crops such as carrot, turnip and swede are good and filling. Occasionally a bowl of bread soaked in mice milk provides
a welcome change being a good source of vitamin B and calcium. A well-rodent vitamin supplement is added to their feed.
Fancy Rats: We offer a complete dry rat mix full of protein, fiber, carbohydrates, oils, vitamins and minerals, this gives them extra nutrition and provides good exercise for their teeth. A well-rodent vitamin supplement is added to their feed.
Degus: We offer a mixture comprising of 25% chinchilla diet of alfalfa, yucca extract. 25% guinea pig diet of timothy hay
based pellets. 25% rabbit diet of barley, rosemary, dandelion leaf, and 25% rat diet of whole brown rice, oat groats, and wheat
bran complete foods. Carrots, sweet potatoes, other vegetables are given as treats. A well-rodent vitamin supplement is added
to their feed.
Jirds: We offer a mixture comprising of 50% hamster diet and 50% gerbil diet complete foods. Favorites are sunflower seeds
digestive biscuits and raisins. A well-rodent vitamin supplement is added to their feed.
Chinchillas: We offer a complete pellet ration that has an exciting mix and texture bursting with delicious, nutritious
ingredients, like alfalfa, yucca extract, timothy hay, and rose hips which is low in fat and high in protein and fiber to keep peak
condition. This is augmented with a supply of fresh hay to provide essential roughage. Chewing on pieces of untreated, wooden bfacilityes and pumice cubes is something they love to gnaw and helps to keep their teeth nice and short. Supplemented with
fresh water daily.
Flying Squirrels/Sugar Gliders: We offer a variety of nuts, seeds, fruits and both dry and moist foods like Mazuri and
Insect Eater Diets such as mealworms, hornworms, silkworms. A variety of fresh veggies and the occasional treat of hard boiled
egg adds a bit of protein to their diet, a supplement of calcium cuttlebone and vitamin D3 is provided in the cage with water in
a shallow open bowl.
Ferrets: These carnivores require regular high levels of dietary protein and fat to develop strong muscles, healthy bones and
to prevent illness with a negligible need for carbohydrate and fiber. We provide a complete dried food that contains all the
nutritional requirements your ferret needs. Ferrets are fed throughout the day eating small frequent meals, this is due to the
fact that they have an extremely short digestive tract and food passes through within 3-4 hours.
In every ferret cage is two no-drip water bottles, under each water bottle we keep another bowl with water
to catch the drips so the cage blankets stay dry.
1 Ferret per night litter-pan ................. $24.00
2 Ferrets per night litter-pan ............... $36.00
3 Ferrets per night litter-pan ............... $42.00
1 Small Fuzzy Butt per night aquqrium/cage .................................. $20.00
2 Small Fuzzy Butts per night aquqrium/cage ................................ $30.00
3 Small Fuzzy Butts per night aquqrium/cage ................................ $35.00
1 Large Fuzzy Butt over 12in. per night aquqrium/cage ............... $24.00
2 Large Fuzzy Butts over 12in. per night aquqrium/cage ............. $36.00
3 Large Fuzzy Butts over 12in. per night aquqrium/cage ............. $42.00
Please place boarding request as far in advance as possible due to limited space.
Reservations are required for all our boarders Dragonfly Exotic Boarding facility is very popular. If you must cancel your reservation, please do soat least 48 hours prior to the drop-off date.
Drop-off and pick-up times for boarding (except for Saturday's & Major Holidays)
Drop-off times:
Monday - Friday from 7:00am - 6:00pm
Saturday - CLOSED NO DROP-OFF/PICK-UPS
Sunday 9:00am - 5:00pm
Pick-up times:
Monday - Friday 8:00am - 6:00pm
Saturday - CLOSED NO DROP-OFF/PICK-UPS
Sunday 10:00am - 4:45pm
Holiday Hours
We are closed every SATURDAY and Major Holidays, there are no tours on Saturday or Holidays.
If different drop-off/pick-up times conflict with boarding hours please ensure that you have made special arrangements in advance so that we
are available.
Again, you can email us with boarding concerns or changes firstname.lastname@example.com or contact Dragonfly Exotic Boarding directly by
calling 907-854-2651
Grooming & Hygienic Shampoo
After a day of lots of fun and play, we'll send your pet home looking their best and smelling fresh, we offer a selection of grooming
and bathing services through our grooming salon and can schedule an appointment for you before your pet's departure.
We schedule grooming and nail trimming appointments for your pet
Wednesday through Friday
Small Mammal Vaccines:
In order for your Pocket Pet to board with us, we require a licensed veterinarian exam within the last year with a clean bill of health, a fecal
test with no parasites seen is also required, your pet friend can have no changes in health since the last examination.
Ferret Vaccines:
6 to 9 weeks old
Stool sample to check for intestinal parasites
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Earlier this week, Måneskin headlined a sold-out show at London's O2 Arena. Now, the Italian rockers have shared a pair of live videos from the concert.
The clips, which premiered via NME.com, capture performances of "Kool Kids" and "I Wanna Be Your Slave." For "Kool Kids," Måneskin invited members of the crowd onstage to dance with them, while frontman Damiano David sang in his "best British accent."
"Absolute insane," Måneskin said of the O2 show. "Left our hearts there forever."
Måneskin played London as part of their ongoing world tour supporting their new album, Rush!, which dropped in January. The outing comes to the U.S. in September.
In other Måneskin happenings, the group is releasing a new live EP this week. It was recorded during their performance on Amazon Music's City Sessions series earlier this year.
The EP drops Friday at midnight Central European Time, which is Thursday at 6 p.m. ET.
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马太福音-Matthew 1章8~9节
1:8 |
亚撒生约沙法,约沙法生约兰,约兰生乌西亚, And Asa begot Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat begot Joram, and Joram begot Uzziah, |
1:9 |
乌西亚生约坦,约坦生亚哈斯,亚哈斯生希西家, And Uzziah begot Jotham, and Jotham begot Ahaz, and Ahaz begot Hezekiah, |
Verse 8 says, "Joram begot Uzziah." Compare this record with 1 Chronicles 3:11 and 12, which say, "Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son, Amaziah his son, Azariah" (who is Ozias or Uzziah—2 Kings 15:1, 13). Matthew omitted three generations which are found in 1 Chronicles—Ahaziah, Joash, and Amaziah.
This must have been due to the evil marriage of Joram to the daughter of Ahab and Jezebel, which corrupted his descendants (2 Chron. 21:5-6; 22:1-4). Ahab was the king of the northern kingdom, and his wife Jezebel was a wicked woman who was fully related to idols. Because she was one with the Devil, she corrupted her husband. They brought forth a daughter, and Joram, one of the kings of Judah, married her. This woman taught Joram to worship idols, to be one with the idols. Thus their family was corrupted. According to Exodus 20:5, three generations of Joram's descendants were cut off from the generation of Christ. Exodus 20:5 says that anyone who forsakes God and worships idols corrupts himself and will suffer God's curse for three or four generations. Therefore, three generations of King Joram were cut off from the genealogy of Christ. Here we must learn a lesson. If we would be associated with Christ, we should never be involved with anything related to idols. God is a jealous God and He will never tolerate idolatry.


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From the Archives (2/19/09)
The following post originally appeared February 19, 2009.
I found the above photo in the Library of Congress archives. I tinted, burned, dodged, and cleaned it up a little. There seem to be precious few public photos of the now destroyed Dewey Bridge. But I'd guess that there are albums and film rolls stashed in attics and bookshelves that tell a detailed and vivid history of one of the American West's great engineering accomplishments.
And still, I cloud over in nostalgia when I see the bridge. I miss it. Which seems silly, even ridiculous. My only explanation is that the Kokopelli Trail so consumed my emotional and physical energies that anything to do with it now carries an imbalanced degree of attachment. I feel similar emotions when I see Salt Creek, or Rose Garden Hill, or Entrada Bluffs.
But Dewey was different. Dewey held me in an odd trance, a mysterious sway that was firm in its grasp. Perhaps it was simply because that spot on the trail was so anxiously anticipated. Crossing the bridge was such a milestone, and in itself a very rewarding experience. Even walking across, when not riding the larger trail, had persuasive and gratifying qualities.
It was, to be precise, a very neat feature in the colorful, history laden, mysterious world known as Moab.
I'll continue to search for photographic remnants of Dewey Bridge. And I will probably continue to be overtly sentimental about it. Even before it burned to the ground I considered it one of my favorite Utah landmarks. But now that it is gone, I have seemed to elevate its status even more. Probably overly than needed.
But it seems appropriate, given the zenith of bike riding experience it is associated with.


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August 30, 2021
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Hi Monero Fam, it is me, Douglas Tuman, best known as the host of the Monero Talk YouTube show, and passionate supporter of Free Speech Money! I am seeking funding from the community to bootstrap a leap from my 9-5 career to working on Monero related projects all day everyday! This is my first CCS proposal. It is long. I wanted to make sure I was being as transparent/informative as possible.
Foremost, Sunita aka Sunchakr (my biz/life partner) and I are truly thankful for all the support we have already received from:
We would never have gotten this far without you. You have given us the confidence to take our Monero projects to the next level!
Currently, we both work part-time on our Monero Projects. From streaming shows weekly and editing, to traveling to Guatemala to hook-up coffee workers with Monero wallets and selling coffee on the streets of NYC — everyday we eagerly work on Monero. We wake up early before work some days, we figure out how to put hours in during the day, and we dedicate endless hours on nights and weekends. We are motivated by a pursuit of obtaining unconfiscatable liberty and a genuine desire to positively disrupt the world with the mass adoption of true digital cash. We know if we can shift to making our Monero Projects our only job, we can greatly accelerate our progress and Monero's too.
The plan is for Sunita to continue to work her day job and part-time on Monero, while I take the leap full-time. This will provide us the healthcare and basic security we need for our family (my 7 year old daughter included), while letting me take the risk of leaving my career of 18 years for working for payment in Monero on projects that are not guaranteed to pay our bills.
This would be a dream come true — to focus all my energy on helping Monero succeed and grow, without distractions. I am confident that if provided funding from the community for 6 months to a year, I can catapult a few Monero related projects to a level that will yield significant marketing gains and organic adoption for Monero. Additionally, it will allow Sunita and I to get a few projects to the stage of generating enough revenue to be self-sustaining, putting us in the position to BOTH work full-time on our Monero Projects and on growing Monero's global adoption.
Below you will find a description of who I am, a list of what Sunita and I have already accomplished, milestones of what we intend on achieving in 6 months, and a request for the funding I need to make the leap.
Known as Chowbungaman from my more active Monero Reddit days, I am a digital cash maximalist who has been in crypto since early 2014 and involved in the Monero Project since 2017. I am driven by a pursuit of fighting for liberty and a desire to disrupt centralized power structures. Ultimately, I value the freedom to be an individual above all else, and I believe Monero is one of the best tools we have for preserving our individuality in the digital age.
So wait aren't you super crypto rich? Not yet, but I do have a nest egg of Monero. In fact, in terms of investments, I am and have been 100% Monero for years now. I literally own no other asset. No property, no stocks, and sold my Jeep Renegade for cash for Monero. (I drive around in my parents old Volvo). For better or worse, I am happily all Monero. This may not be proof of financial intelligence, but it is proof of my dedication to the project. And yes, Sunita is ok with this, which is why I recently asked her to marry me ;) She said yes!!
Despite getting in on early prices, stacking was slow for me given that I never had much disposable income to invest. My salary always went to my family's living expenses and my student loans (engineering undergrad and law school) etc. I also burnt a lot of my own funds on keeping our Monero Projects going, including running for Congress. So to be completely honest — Could I technically sell a chunk of my Monero and use it to live off of for a year? Yes, but I am not ready to do that in addition to sacrificing my steady career, plus I think we as a community should strive to collectively fund contributors and bootstrap Monero projects to distribute risk and keep people incentivized to work on Monero for payment in Monero.
I am currently the Commissioner of Engineering at the Town of Hempstead. I have worked in municipal government my entire career and have worked my way to the "top". I recently ran for Congress as a pro-Monero candidate in 2020 while maintaining the day job and trying to keep Monero Talk going. Once again, Sunita was pivotal in all of this. After our run for Congress, we got back to regular scheduled Monero Talks, started MoneroTopia as a community oriented live show, and relaunched Gratuitas.org (described below). I am a NY registered attorney and Professional Engineer. I have no dev/tech/cryptography skills but I believe I understand systems well. I am not the most eloquent and I lack a British accent, but I like to think I'm good at asking pointed questions and revealing the truth. I am good at dreaming up creative ideas and lean-launching them. I hustle and because I'm motivated by creating an impact over all else, I'm not deterred when monetary rewards are delayed or don't come at all. I am in it for the revolution. I have many shortcomings but thankfully Sunita makes up for most of them. For example, her abilities to keep us organized, focused, consistent, and likable! Below is a list of Monero related projects Sunita and I have worked on and what we have accomplished.
QwkMonero- started in December 2017 this was actually our first attempt at launching a Monero project. QwkMonero was intended to be a way to effectively purchase Monero with cash at your "corner store". We designed and printed up QwkMonero gift cards (with scratch off codes) and launched a simple mvp website for redeeming Monero with the card codes. We gave cards away to friends and family. The goal was to distribute these cards in local NYC bodegas etc. Unfortunately, we balked at moving further ahead due to unclear regulations and a lack of resources to properly navigate the regulations. We may more seriously attempt this again (see below).
MoneroTalk- started in July 2018 we have consistently aired weekly interviews all related to Monero. In addition to our weekly shows we have attended a few conferences a year where we live interviewed countless guests in the Monero and Bitcoin space. We currently have 5.33k YouTube subscribers, 6k Twitter followers, and 214k podcast downloads. This promo video sums up our progress nicely.
Gratuitas.org- initially started in August 2019, Gratuitas sells products like coffee and allows the customers to send Monero tips to the people that produce the products. We tested the concept at Defcon 2019 with a coffee farm from Brazil. We remotely setup the workers with their own paper wallets with the help of the farm owner's daughter who we spent time with in NYC teaching her about Monero. It wasn't perfect but it allowed us to test the concept. The test was a success. We sold brewed coffees at Defcon 2019, continued to sell bags online for a few months, and the workers got tips. We ultimately stopped shipping coffees when running for U.S. Congress intervened. After the run we sparked it back up. We found a new farm in Guatemala with amazing coffee, through someone I met locally during my race. This time we did it right. We personally visited the farm to teach the workers about Monero and gave them their own paper wallets. We established a good relationship with the owner and some of the workers, allowing us to reliably receive shipments of fresh coffee direct from the farm and to check-in to make sure the workers are getting their tips and not mishandling their wallet seeds. You can view an update interview with one of the workers here. The coffee sales have been consistent and slowly growing. 2 bags are being shipped out per week to customers, a few people purchased monthly subscriptions, we have had success selling brewed coffee on the street in Brooklyn, at Porcfest, and Defcon 2021. To date the 18 workers at the farm that were provided Monero wallets have each been tipped approx. $30 worth of Monero. Here is our recently launched promo video, edited by our friend Untraceable.
US Congress- I ran for US Congress in New York's 4th CD in 2020. While holding down our day jobs, Sunita and I worked on the campaign from March through November. For 8 months, 7 days a week, we went nonstop, during the Covid outbreak, with my daughter Frania along for the ride. We built up a team of local supporters, opened up a HQ, sent out thousands of letters, drove around with big signs on our cars with my phone number on it, texted directly with thousands of constituents, had fundraisers, ran a strong social media campaign, and even produced and aired a local TV ad. We ran a true grassroots campaign and we did better than any recent non incumbent in this district. The hope was to be the first vocally Pro-Monero rep in office and we got closer than anyone expected. The National Republican Congressional Committee now thinks it is a flippable seat. We believe it is because of what we achieved.
MoneroTopia- Started in January 2021, after the campaign, we sparked up a new show in addition to Monero Talk. MoneroTopia is a live show hosted by Sunita and I that airs weekly with well known community members and which encourages anyone from the community (from noob to expert) to join us live on stage to discuss anything Monero related. Our subscriber numbers are the same as for Monero Talk since it is on the same channel. Here is an episode of us live from Miami in June.
Conferences, Meetups, and Parties- Since 2018, Sunita and I have hosted meetups and attended various conferences as Monero Talk and in effect to represent Monero including:
The following is a list of projects I would like to continue to focus on, new ones I may possibly start, milestones we aim to achieve within the first 6 months of my funding, and tasks I may pursue to reach these milestones. After 6 months I will issue a report updating the community on what was actually achieved. I will also be updating the community along the way during episodes of MoneroTopia. I may pivot as I go, so the tasks worked on may not reflect the ones listed exactly, but the general milestones I am aiming for should stay the same.
Monero Talk & MoneroTopia YouTube shows and podcasts
Attend Conferences
Host Meetups
MoneroTopia Fest
Concept: Organize a "decentralized conference" in March in Puerto Rico. Theme being opting into a privacy preserving "MoneroTopia" — a village like experience where you can freely live in "paradise" as a Monero using individual among Monero friends. We have ideas for how to make the event a purely Monero one where attendees will be able to use Monero from travel and stay to cab rides and buying water/cervezas at the local bodega.
Other ideas I may start pursuing during this 6 month time period
I will be working full-time on Monero so it is possible that I will be able to explore a few of these ideas in addition to focusing on the projects above. I am not setting any clear milestones/tasks for these. These are just additional fun projects I'm interested in exploring.
I am seeking to receive funding from the community to cover my full-time devotion to these projects for 6 months. I will have no other source of income during this 6 month period other than any profits we manage to bring in from the projects. If successful and still necessary, I will seek funding for a second 6 month period. My hope is within 6 months to a year, some of these projects will be self-sustaining enough to allow Sunita and I to BOTH work on them full-time and live off of the proceeds. We are not seeking funding for Sunita's continued part-time work (approx. 25hrs per week) or to cover any of the expenses listed above.
My current yearly salary is 155k before taxes and not including healthcare, benefits, and vacation/sick days paid etc. I currently work 40hrs per week at my day job, plus approx. 21hrs per week on Monero. I am seeking to leave my current job and earn 140k for a year of full-time work (approx. 50-60hrs per week) on Monero Projects allowing us to safely cover all our current living expenses.
PAYOUT- ~$70k (240XMR) paid out in 3 bi-monthly milestone installments
Remember, in addition to me working full-time, you get Sunita working harder than ever too. We are greatly humbled that you are even considering funding us. We know how vital it is that this open source project succeeds and how valuable each donation is. If we are successfully funded we promise we will work tirelessly to complete these milestones and are certain they will directly yield growth in positive Monero awareness and adoption.
View community discussion, comments, and proposal updates on GitLab
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Completion date: 13 December 2023
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Completion date: 13 December 2023
To be paid: 80
Completion date: 13 December 2023
Funds Awarded: 240
Date: 11 January 2024


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It's always worth a few minutes to catch up with Ray Mouton.
The following update was published on May 8. I wish all the best to the Moutons — it's been far too long between chats.
Clergy sex abuse in my home diocese in the beginning and now, today.
The clergy sex abuse crisis ignited in my home diocese in Lafayette, Louisiana and provided the basis for my book "In God's House."
Thirty-one years later, I find myself living as an expatriate near the Atlantic coast in southern France, in a mountain village, a region that appears as a peaceful, pastoral paradise, dotted by steeples of Catholic churches. There are four Catholic churches within two miles of my home here, but only two have priests as France has few priests left and they are aged. No one wants to be a priest here anymore.
This page has reported on the huge scandal involving the cardinal in Lyon, France on the eastern edge of France – he covered up crimes of priests and the Vatican took no action against him despite his admission of guilt.
One May 6, all the way across France from Lyon, in the archdiocese where I reside, the Archdiocese of Bayonne, France, the front page news in all the newspapers is a story about the archbishop of Bayonne having covered up crimes of pedophile priests.
The crisis and scandal is literally everywhere there is a presence of the Roman Catholic Church.
The clergy child sex abuse crisis and scandal has engulfed the Roman Catholic Church for three decades, and it has followed me from south Louisiana to southern France.
Thirty-one years ago, I first naively believed that Fr. Gilbert Gauthe in the Diocese of Lafayette, Louisiana, was surely sui generis, the only priest who ever sodomized hundreds of boys, a man who was obviously mentally ill or so I thought, for in the beginning I simply could not believe the bishop and other superiors of the priest knew he had been raping seven to ten year old boys for years.
Then I obtained knowledge that this Louisiana diocese had harbored over a dozen sex abusing priests.
Joining up with Fr. Tom Doyle and Fr. Michael Peterson and traveling through dioceses all across the United States, I learned the then unknown, submerged crisis and scandal was immense, far larger than anyone could imagine.
In subsequent decades it was revealed this horror existed in every Catholic diocese on earth.
Yet, sometimes even I am somewhat surprised by how pervasive the crisis and scandal is. When I read the news that there was a crisis and scandal that has arisen in the archdiocese where I reside today, I was not so much surprised as I was again saddened to receive another confirmation that just about every bishop, archbishop, and cardinal in the world continues today to cover up clergy sex crimes.
The issue is framed in IN GOD'S HOUSE, a very clear and simple issue it is.
It is children versus criminals!
Ray Mouton, author of "In God's House"


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Yevgeny Yufit (also known as Evgenii Iufit) was born in 1961 and died on December 13, 2016.
He was a Russian filmmaker, photographer, and painter, born in Leningrad.
Yufit was a founding member of Russia's Parallel Cinema movement.
He first became famous for his macabre short films, which, like the films of Guy Maddin, often looked as though they had been made during the 1920s or 1930s.
In the 1990s, he began making features similar in style to his shorts, with plots often centered on genetic experimentation and pseudoscience.
Yufit was often described as a necro-realist.
He died in Petergof.
Yevgeny Yufit passed away at 55 years old.


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To Our New-Old Office..
Just merely four weeks ago, we mentioned that we're moving out of the old office to a temporary office. Now we're back in business in a new refreshed and revamped environment.
Here's a sneak peek of how it looks like now..
Director's Office
Main Office Space – Sales Dept
Open Space – Support Dept
Hold your horses for we're not done yet! we're still in the midst of the finishing / decorating process.
Stay tune to see the final outcome! 😉
Meanwhile, here's my own space which I am happily catifying!


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Information technology (IT) industry executives and leaders attending CompTIA ChannelCon 2017 were encouraged to hone their communications and organizational skills to set a strong foundation for success in bringing new ideas to life, engaging with customers or recruiting new employees.
CompTIA ChannelCon 2017, the IT industry's premier annual event for education, networking and partnering, continues today in Austin, Texas.
Tuesday's business keynote was delivered by Scott Belsky, a serial entrepreneur, innovator and best-selling author. He spoke on bringing great ideas to life, but acknowledged that the large majority of ideas never happen.
"When a new idea strikes energy and excitement is really high. Everything else comes to a standstill and we get subsumed," he related. "Then we enter the project plateau, not pushing one idea to completion."
Belsky offered several actions that business leaders and owners can take to counter this, including
- Creating a window of non-stimulation each day to focus on two to three things that are important for the long term.
- Spending energy on getting organized.
- Having a relentless bias toward action.
As part of the Channel Executive Interview Series, Alyssa Fitzpatrick, general manager, worldwide channels sales, for Microsoft, discussed strategies and tactics that channel partners can employ when helping customer transition to cloud-based technology solutions.
"You have to be able to articulate what is the art of the possible in the cloud," Fitzpatrick advised. "Work with your customers, understand your customer so that they can move to the cloud in a very predictable manner. Listen to your customers, let them guide you."
Focus on Emerging Technologies
Several of Tuesday's educational sessions at ChannelCon focused on emerging technologies, including smart cities, big data and artificial intelligence.
A panel on smart technologies included representatives from Austin, Texas, and Orlando, Fla., two of the five cities that won Smart Cities Council Readiness Challenge Grants earlier this year.
Orlando is developing a comprehensive smart city plan that fully integrates multiple city departments – police, fire, transportation, and others – and regional stakeholders across Orange County.
Austin is designing smart strategies to tackle the two biggest issues facing the city – affordable housing and mobility; issues that have been heightened by rapid growth, a booming tech sector and attractive quality of life, according to Jay Boisseau, director of the Austin City Up Consortium.
"For 40 years we've been one of the fastest growing cities in the country, so our infrastructure is always behind," he said. "Our two greatest issues are directly linked to each other."
Channel companies will have a big role in making smart cities and communities a reality, panelists said.
"The networks are going to have to be built up, not only by the carriers, but within the smart cities and the venues to give people what they want," said Kurt Jacobs, director of global markets, alliances and solutions for JMA Wireless.
"The channel community is very familiar with selling telecommunications," added Damian McCabe, general manager, Americas, Eseye." IOT, smart cities and smart grid is nothing to be scared of. It's a very simple transition."


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MUTE FEMALE FINCHES: a satire by Stephen Ira
Dramatis Personae:
LOU SULLIVAN was a
gay trans activist
who passed away
in 1991
ANDREW SULLIVAN is an
English-born American author
editor and blogger
DAVID TOMLINSON was
best known as Mr. Banks
in Mary Poppins (1961)
Special Thanks:
George Michael
(Lights up on LOU SULLIVAN, alone, impassioned.)
I feel so unsure!
As I take your hand, and lead you to the dance floor.
(The smoke of dry ice is general.)
As the music dies! Something in your eyes!
calls to mind a silver screen
and all
its sad
(Some smoke, stage left, clears, revealing ANDREW SULLIVAN, who is sitting down.)
It is possible to tell who has won a tennis contest not by watching the game, but by monitoring testosterone-filled saliva samples throughout.
So I'm never gonna dance again!
Guilty feet have got no rhythm!
Though it's easy to pretend,
I know you're not a fool!
I have always tended to bury or redirect my rage. I once thought this an inescapable part of my personality. It turns out I was wrong.
(LOU SULLIVAN is becoming visibly upset at these interruptions.)
ANDREW SULLIVAN: Other scientists theorizing that it was—
(LOU SULLIVAN retrieves a large net from a bag)
ANDREW SULLIVAN: —testosterone that enabled the male zebra finches to sing—
(LOU SULLIVAN creeping up on him)
ANDREW SULLIVAN: —injected mute female finches with testosterone—
(LOU SULLIVAN catches ANDREW SULLIVAN first try)
(Frustrated, from within the bag, but not to be silenced:)
Sure enough,
the females sang.
A Bookseller's Reading Snapshot
I like to hear about people's reading habits—not just what they're reading, but how. In the middle of the night, first thing in the morning, on the train, on the toilet, three books at a time, strictly poetry, in a deep musician biography phase—whatever. I like to hear when people are struggling to read—maybe because they can't find the time or can't find a book that holds them, maybe because they're in the throes of grief or just having too good a time. It occurs to me every once in a while that some people just don't care about books the way I just don't care about, say, golf. Part of my job, if I'm being completely honest, is to make books look good, and make the reading life look good. I need people to buy in to the idea that owning stacks of books is important, that books are worth spending money on, especially since it's entirely possible to own zero books and read as many as you want for free. I love this challenge. I hate capitalism but I love selling books, talking about books, and trying to learn as much as I can about why and how people read.
The place, generally speaking, where I feel most "free" to read, is in bed, before sleeping, after I've written in my five-year journal. I started my Tamara Shopsin journal three years ago and I cannot sleep until I've written something down—it's a mental logging off for me, downloading my day somewhere safe and physical, which frees me to read without Bowsers from the day sneak-attacking my brain, enticing me to regret what I said to so-and-so or how I handled xyz parenting situation. Not now, Bowser! I'm reading. I also work hard to clear swaths of daytime hours on the weekend at least a couple of times a month, actually schedule this as I would a doctor's appointment. Otherwise it won't happen. The rest of my reading happens catch-as-catch can, while I'm waiting for other things, when I have a surprise thirty minutes, etc.
I read a lot because that's my job, and it's my job, in many ways, because I read a lot. The reading a lot part came first, and led me down a very winding path to where I am now. Here's what I've been reading:
READ MORE >Classic Memorable Lines
Note from Sebastian:
I first became aware of Mark through HTMLGiant. He seemed wild and purified from the disgusting world. I sent Mark an email, never speaking directly with him beforehand, saying that I would like to write a book with him some day. He said yes. A few years passed, and then one day I received an email from Mark saying that he was ready to start writing this book together. We discussed a few ideas. One (via Mark) was to write a book called What Should Our Book Be About?. We would discuss ideas for what our book should be about until that itself filled the length of a book. I liked this because it meant that the book had already started, without our knowing it. We then had the idea that we would write a book composed solely of the kind of "classic, memorable lines" one finds in famous novels. People get tattoos of these lines on places like their neck or bicep. Mark said that critics would say "This book is full of classic, memorable lines."
We sent emails back and forth for a few months during the summer and early fall of 2016. The project was never completed as Mark was tragically killed by a driver as he was walking across the United States for the second time—this time barefoot. He was raising money for a collective dedicated to addressing climate change. A movie about Mark's life titled Barefoot: The Mark Baumer Story will be released digitally on October 27th, via Deadline. Though I only had the privilege of knowing Mark briefly, I thought he was a beautiful person, unlike anyone I'd ever met before, or will likely ever meet.
by Mark Baumer & Sebastian Castillo
A group of teenagers were complaining about the air quality in their lives while a parental guardian looked on and dropped spoonfuls of raisin yogurt in a bottle of ice tea which was later spilled on a rented laptop.
One day, Jonathan printed out every email he had ever received in his life on industrial cardboard and built a large boat with the collection of them, sailing around the world six or seven times—the long trail of Hewlett-Packard printer ink fatally poisoning a small percentage of the planet's aquatic animals, though Jonathan only realized this years later, when he was eating a fillet of fried cod at his favorite local restaurant, and found the fragment of a note he had once emailed to himself, reminding him to send an apology to a friend whom he had engaged in petty argument, a task Jonathan never completed, damaging their friendship in a vague manner neither could articulate any longer.
As I was falling asleep in a meeting this afternoon, a project manager named Stu said, "I need a bowl," and walked out while Kathy was describing how to delete orphans from a lost database she found in the utility closet behind the box of sweaters and unclaimed post-its.
Because I narrate everything I do—Nick eats cereal, Nick turns off the computer, Nick kneels—I wonder how many verbs I have left in my life, and what I would change if I knew the total number, if anything.
A person with a large bag of groceries began walking across town as they slowly emptied the bag by placing food items in various mailboxes and other containers.
No music itself has ever had a standard duration of time because if one were to play the music slowly, it would last longer—maybe even for centuries, if a player were talented enough to do so and live through the slowness of their own actions, which can be difficult to understand.
The five potted ferns on the floor of this one particular woman's bedroom did not seem to grow during the first eight years they inhabited the space together which sometimes upset the woman though she also realized she herself was no longer growing so she tried not to get too upset at objects that basically were unable to openly react to her emotions, but as it turns out one afternoon during a very bad financial meltdown the ferns seemed to change their minds about growth and began investing in the development of themselves which I guess would have been something of a happy ending if the woman had somehow been able to mimic her ferns' new life decision.
The church was on a hill, which was on a white, flat plain, which was on a burial ground that stretched from one end of the known universe to the next, and even beyond that, though this was seldom mentioned by parishioners entering the church's wet doorway, looking for a floating mouth to say cold, enchanting things.
A few hours before the movers showed up to empty out my uncle's condo, a deer with one blue eye and one yellow eye lay down in the driveway and died.
I looked outside my window (I was told I had to do this), and noticed that it was a different season.
Our company was having a holiday party, but the DVDs of the pasta bar didn't arrive in time so everyone sat on the floor of the banquet hall and drew noodles on their own palms with permanent markers.
Ron walked to the office's water cooler and said, "Words in translation are often insulting like what language is this even," and walked away from the water cooler.
For the majority of second grade Heather moaned just soft enough that no one ever asked her to stop or if she was in pain.
For the invisible village who live within Nestor's Super Mario Bros. 3 cartridge, the ritual of blowing a healthy wind into the frame required to make the technology work is closer to annihilation than renewal—but even then they chant, "No hope, no fear, no castles, no green tubes through which we can escape."
A musical instrument burning at the bottom of a moist, anxious canyon thought, "I don't know how to have creative emotions anymore."
Mark's favorite operating systems, in order, where: cabbages, Windows '95, anchorite dietary practices, tenor saxophone, and anti-Linnaean taxonomies.
This one is a little bit erotic because I'm technically almost a baby vulture and my husband is too busy water-logging oracles with his leftover speedboat meat to write thank you notes to everyone who showed up at our basement party so I guess it's up to me to address all those dear metro horses.
Hell is boring and filled with 2,000 swimming pools for the bats to cool themselves in before their daily chores; no one else is allowed to use the pools except for successful lawyers, and only on Sundays.
When I got to work, one of my coworkers said, "Hey, I got a new tongue," but when I looked closely at this coworker I realized it was a chair.
An entire orchestra was stationed in the bed next to me at the hospital: the violin players were bleeding; the cellists and trumpetists coughing, sagging over their own bodies; the drummers had holes in their heads the size of overripe grapefruit—and still, they managed to play a feeble tune, something that reminded me of songs I'd heard back in kindergarten, and I told them so, that it felt like my soggy memory was arriving to this cold, antiseptic place, though they didn't hear me over their moribund din, the conductor's baton striking instruments both medical and musical.
The personality test asked me to list all one-hundred possible uses for a brick, but I only came up with thirty-two: shoe, balloon, helmet, deodorant, fish, wall, toothbrush, phone, car windshield ice scrapper, ski pole, tennis racquet, celebration tool for when they're playing your song, baseball, toilet brush, hair dryer, comb, halloween mask, bean masher, ice cube, door knob, pillow, ear plug, camera, bookmark, bikini fastener, underwear filler, snowman melter, washcloth, wire toucher, dj equipment, email, karaoke microphone.
Delillo is Dad
On the morning of 9/11 I ate buttered toast at the kitchen bar of my dad's house while we all watched the smoking tower on network news. I asked my dad what was happening and he frowned and shrugged and said he didn't know. On the drive to school we listened to country music, and at school some of my teachers had wheeled out TVs for us to watch and they said things like "oh my god" and that the world would never be the same.
I've noticed people like to use the word 'corny' now, when talking about writing that's straightforward or sincere, that lacks a kind of technical obscurity or contains information that might be useful to people who didn't grow up with stuffed bookshelves in a study. Writing that feels fitted to the time we live in, in which events, if they are to be remembered as events at all, need to swell like orchestral music in time with some grander narrative that everyone can see. A story gets slotted into memory tissue that way, at the expense of skepticism for the books that generate collective feeling, or that try giving a name to the panic and dread beneath the products and vacations and posts.
Don Delillo was the first adult that ever spoke to me about what television was really doing, and why I had these scattered image-thoughts, and what really happened to our nuclear waste, and the perfectly American violence of organized sports, and the danger of where it was all headed. My own dad dropped us off at school that Tuesday and went back to work in the woods with his dad, my grandfather, who once drove a massive wooden peanut on a flatbed truck to Jimmy Carter's White House to protest the designation of old growth redwood forest as protected land, out of reach of local loggers like them.
A lot of people in America still think the American Dream is something real and attainable, that they won't have to trade their sanity or literal life to get close to it. They don't wonder about nuclear fallout or how screens, clearly and inarguably, are making us all insane. They love to watch football, except for the national anthem part (now). They think we were justified in invading Iraq. They have kids, and this is what they teach their kids, and if the kids are lucky then one day they find Don Delillo, who tells them something else.
I get the urge to tear down the massive Macy's Day Parade balloon of Don Delillo, shadowing as he does for writers of novels and stories the whole landscape of post-war America because he wrote about the psychotic malaise of NYC creative directors way back in 1971. I get that White Noise only really hits before you turn 23, and I agree that you can't say he's your favorite living novelist, even though he is mine. But why do we dunk, really?
Maybe we dunk not what we fail to understand, but what we understand too easily. I don't think it's corny to point out a hot plate to a child, to mouth the word hot, and to suggest we don't touch. I'm okay with Delillo making millions off of this, and receiving awards for it, and I'll happily exchange his lack of intimacy for some thoughtful takes on what the fuck is going on, delivered by a person who insists, strictly, on using a landline. I'm grateful to him for delivering his lectures from a distance, which is what a dad should do. And personally, I look forward to reading whatever vision he has for the day our screens collectively and finally go out.
Pretend Interview with Nicolette Polek
This past January, I accompanied Nicolette Polek to California for events related to the release of her first book, Imaginary Museums, out now from Soft Skull Press. On our drive from Berkeley to Los Angeles, we listened to Matthew Zapruder's Otherppl interview, in part because we'd read with Matthew the night before, and in part because Nicolette was going to go on Otherppl when we were in LA. When we stopped listening, Nicolette asked me if I could pretend to interview her, so she could get used to answering questions, which she would also have to do at her event with Kathryn Scanlan the next day. I secretly recorded the pretend interview. What follows is an edited selection of her answers during our "interview."
I feel like what people refer to as surreal is what I maybe just view as surprising… or, strange juxtaposition… a smiling person… or… for example…
See? That was a good pause.
It was the start of something…
READ MORE >Guided Meditation 1: Sponge
*Read gently, with contemplative pauses between each paragraph*
Hello. My name is Dan, and I'll be guiding your meditation today.
Now, I don't usually do this, but Charlene, your usual guide, was feeling a bit anxious today, and that wouldn't have been good for any of us.
Anyway, how are y'all doing?
Good, good, good.
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France's Amir Haddad, who represented the country at the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest, has made a trip to Hong Kong to film his latest videoclip.
Amir visited the exotic Hong Kong, joining in the hustle and bustle of the metropolis to shoot his new music video, directed by Anthony Ghnassia and produced by SPOA Paris.
Although it is yet a surprise which single from his latest album Addictions will be released next, Amir shared pictures and a video of the set on his official Twitter account:
French-Israeli singer-songwriter Amir (born Laurent Amir Khlifa Khedider Haddad to Sephardic Jewish parents from Tunisia and Morocco, Paris, 1984) has enjoyed massive success in France and beyond since his respectable 6th place in the Grand Final of Eurovision 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden, earning 257 points with his hit entry J'ai cherché.
Amir's career is going strong. Besides releasing his acclaimed platinum-certified album Addictions and venturing on a successful tour, he is recently one of the judges for France's selection for Eurovision 2018, Destination Eurovision.


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Studio Osk will design and build a temporary sculpture/pavilion for events showcasing the work of local and international artists based at the ZK/U. The pavilion will be a piece of public infrastructure, somewhere amid art and architecture, a lively platform to hold exhibitions, workshops, performances and film screenings.
It will be built using materials directly associated with construction sites, scaffolding, security fencing etc. Materials generally used as a means to provide or deny access to a construction site, will become the building itself. To erect scaffolding is to alter that part of the city which lies beneath, like a cocoon around a moth or a surgical blanket over a patient. This construction paraphernalia has become so common in the urban environment that we can barely walk a kilometre through a city without expecting to pass beneath some scaffolding, around a temporary fence or past a new development. The effect this has can be overwhelming to those who feel nostalgic about our cities pasts and are resistant to change. The intention of the cube is to relate to those feelings of awkwardness, insecurity and fears of change, as well as to provide an arena for discourse and contemplation over the manic alterations happening to cities on a global scale.
This construction is temporary, once the scaffolding is removed the site will exist exactly as it had before, but the change to the city we hope to encourage is not to its physical façade, rather to its inhabitants awareness of their own insecurities and fears.


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Nose: Peat with a capital P! You definitely get huge wafts of sweet peat when you first nose it and it hides the high alcohol content well. After awhile it opens up with a little maltiness.
Palate: A stiff jab of peat with that 61.4% alcohol following right up after. It does fade rather quickly though. You can tell it is a youngin' and that it needs more time – but only 4 months old? Really? A hint of nutmeg/spice. It is not all that complex, straight forward peat as advertised. More of a nasal and back of the tongue alcohol feeling.
Finish: Short and fades fast.
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- (NYSE: TYG) Tortoise Energy Infrastructure Corp.
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LEAWOOD, Kan. April 10, 2014 --(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tortoise Capital Advisors, an investment manager with broad experience in the energy sector, today announced the launch of an educational website. The new site is designed to be a resource for the investment community, educators and the general public.
"There is an increasing need for relevant information about North American energy," said Michelle Kelly, a managing director at Tortoise. "This portal allows investors to uncover topical and timely information to better understand the dynamics within the energy sector. For example, many people are unaware of the progress the United States has made towards greater energy independence and the catalysts that are driving it. Launching this site is part of our commitment to promote education and knowledge about the energy sector."
The site, uncoverenergy.com, launches with 10 compelling themes that trace North America's integral role in the energy value chain, highlighted through video, text and graphics. Articles include:
- Uncovering North American energy: America's path to greater energy independence
- Energy, the stuff of life: The role of fossil fuels in societal evolution
- Hail to the shale: Ancient North American rock is a treasure trove of oil and gas
- The will to drill: How technology unlocks North American natural resources
- Black gold, Texas tea: North America's crude oil reserves are vast, inexpensive and accessible
- Buried treasure: Meeting North America's natural gas demands with domestic resources
- Liquid gold: Natural gas hydrocarbons have many applications
- Pipelines: The toll roads of energy
- From shale to sale: An overview of the energy value chain
- Beyond energy: Our economy, jobs, national security
View Featured Video: The Energy Value Chain Upstream – Midstream – Downstream
The new site furthers Tortoise's decade-long dedication to serving as a leader in energy investments. Following Tortoise's inception in 2002, the firm formed the first NYSE-listed closed-end fund focused on energy infrastructure MLPs in 2004 – the first of Tortoise's 10 registered funds. Today, Tortoise is one of the largest investment managers of registered energy infrastructure funds, managing investments for a wide range of clients that includes closed-end funds, mutual funds and separate accounts.
To request integration of this content into educational programming, please contact Tortoise at (866) 362-9331.
About Tortoise Capital Advisors, L.L.C
Tortoise Capital Advisors, L.L.C. is an investment manager specializing in listed energy investments. As of March 31, 2014, the adviser had approximately $15.5 billion of assets under management in NYSE-listed closed-end investment companies, open-end funds and other accounts. For more information, visit www.tortoiseadvisors.com.


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Australia One leader Riccardo Bosi is among the hordes of Australians who want an answer to why overpaid commentators on Australian television channels are swooning over Prime Minister Scott Morrison and the premiers like teenage girls once did over the Bay City Rollers.
"The so-called National Cabinet has been an unmitigated disaster and the true cost of its uncoordinated, ill-informed, and unnecessary actions will become apparent in the months and years to come unless immediate action is taken to open Australia," Mr Bosi said.
"If the mainstream media was doing its job instead of stroking the egos and boosting the polls numbers of utterly useless politicians from all the major parties, it would have asked them the following questions.
• Why are more and more respected medical professionals from around the world discrediting the official narrative surrounding COVID-19 and effectively calling it a hoax?
• Why are patients being officially diagnosed as suffering from COVID-19 based only on their flu-like symptoms which have many other causes?
• Why is the reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) being used to test for COVID-19 when it doesn't actually test for COVID-19 but rather tests for genetic material that could be present for many other conditions?
• Why is the RT-PCR being used to diagnose COVID-19 when the inventor of the test, biochemist and Nobel Laureate Kary Mullis, said the test should not be used to diagnose infectious disease?
• Why have the four postulates of physician and microbiologist Robert Koch, the internationally accepted gold standard for over two centuries for establishing whether a microorganism causes a disease, never been applied to COVID-19?
• Why do pictures of what are alleged to be the COVID-19 virus look exactly the same as exosomes, which are released by cells as part of the natural human immune system response when cells are poisoned by toxicity, poisoned through stress and fear, or poisoned through electromagnetic radiation?
• Why have the number of COVID-19 deaths allegedly spiked internationally, yet the number of deaths globally from all other causes has decreased by the same number?
• Have causes of death on death certificates been reclassified from the real reason to COVID-19?
"And is it true that figures from Italian health authorities indicate 99 per cent of people classified as having died from COVID-19 were actually suffering from up to four other life-threatening diseases, any of which could have been the real cause of death?"
Mr Bosi said the list of questions goes on but we have not heard these questions being asked by anyone anywhere?
"Do Australians feel as though we might not know the whole truth?
"Are we being taken for fools, being played?
"If so, by whom and why?
"Don't bother asking the media, they won't tell you."
He said it was time we ignored the fake news and started finding out for ourselves what was really going on.


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These patriotic teens are telling the stories of war vets before they're lost forever
Recently-released data from Department of Veteran's Affairs shows that on average, 492 World War II veterans die each day.
So a couple of California teenagers have taken it upon themselves to tell these stories before they're lost.
Rishi Sharma of Agoura Hills, California, has set up the website Heroes of the Second World War. At the time of writing this article, he has interviewed, recorded, and published 360 interviews.
On his website, Rishi states "These men are my biggest heroes and my closest friends. I am just trying to get a better understanding of what they had to go through in order for me and so many others to be here today and to get a better appreciation for how good I have it."
After just over 14 months, he has traveled all over the country and sits down with each WWII veteran for the interview. He sends the Library of Congress' Veterans History Project some of the videos. With the veteran's permission, he posts videos on Heroes of the Second World War's Facebook page.
He doesn't profit off the project, nor will he ever. He has a GoFundMe page that he uses to pay for the expenses of travel, maintaining the non-profit, and production costs. Currently, he is just shy of his initial goal.
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Meanwhile in North Texas, Andy Fancher has launched a YouTube series to also share the stories of veterans.In his video series "Andy Fancher Presents," Andy has published many videos highlighting the life of the veteran. He goes in detail about their service, life after the military, and the impact of battle.
His series doesn't focus specifically on World War II, but he does get into the mindset of the people he interviews. The stories get emotional. He told NBC5 Dallas-Fort Worth, "I realized that I didn't have much of a strong stomach. I've teared up a lot behind the camera."
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Poland's Prime Minister Beata Szydlo easily survived a no-confidence vote in parliament today called by the opposition. There have been rumors however that the leaders of the Law and Justice Party (PiS) would like to see her replaced by finance minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, who may have a better hand in guiding the economy towards higher growth.
Poland Says Europe Must Wake Up To Clash Of Civilizations
"Lawmakers voted 239-168, with 17 abstentions, to defeat a motion to topple Szydlo's government which had been called by the opposition party Civic Platform. The centrist party accuses the current leadership of harming Poland with new laws that it says are anti-democratic and distancing the country from the European Union. The outcome of that vote was never in question given that Law and Justice, led by Jaroslaw Kaczynski, has a majority in parliament," reported Associated Press.
EU Council President Tusk Bashes Poland In Public
Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the head of PiS and shadow-leader of the Polish state, also may want a different individual to deal with the challenges faced by the aggressive tactics of the European Union against Poland. More information could come out later today as party leaders meet into the night to discuss Szydlo's future.