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Sunday, March 25, 2018
Saturday, March 24, 2018
Rand Paul Tweet
"It's a good thing we have Republican control of Congress or the Democrats might bust the budget caps, fund planned parenthood and Obamacare, and sneak gun control without due process into an Omni...wait, what?"
Friday, March 23, 2018
Afghan refugee shouting "Allah Akhbar" tries to attack Angela Merkel
Afghan refugee shouting "Allah Akhbar" tries to attack Angela Merkel, :25
https://youtu.be/lwOUfbaJeKM
https://youtu.be/lwOUfbaJeKM
Thursday, March 22, 2018
Ian Hunter, Mott The Hoople Sites
Roundhouse, 1969
Venues:
The Roundhouse, The Albert Hall, Paris Theatre, Hammersmith Odeon
Studios:
Regent Sound (4 Denmark Street), Basing Street Studios (8 Basing Street), Olympic Studios (117 Church Road, Barnes), Air Studios (214 Oxford St, 4th floor)
Residential addresses:
20b Lower Sloane Square, 17 Stonor Road, 9 Nemoure Road Acton
Lower Sloane Square and Stonor Road were MTH band flats, and 9 Nemoure Road was headquarters for Mott.
Other sites:
Waterlow Park (Highgate); The Pied Bull (1 Liverpool Road, Islington)
Trident Studios 17 St. Anne's Court, Soho (just off Dean st. / Wardour st). Hasker St Knightsbridge near Albert Hall. Also if you find yourself on Regent St take a look at the telephone box on Heddon Street, just off it - you might recognise it, although not the original one.
Venues:
The Roundhouse, The Albert Hall, Paris Theatre, Hammersmith Odeon
Studios:
Regent Sound (4 Denmark Street), Basing Street Studios (8 Basing Street), Olympic Studios (117 Church Road, Barnes), Air Studios (214 Oxford St, 4th floor)
Residential addresses:
20b Lower Sloane Square, 17 Stonor Road, 9 Nemoure Road Acton
Whose residences?
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Lower Sloane Square and Stonor Road were MTH band flats, and 9 Nemoure Road was headquarters for Mott.
Other sites:
Waterlow Park (Highgate); The Pied Bull (1 Liverpool Road, Islington)
Trident Studios 17 St. Anne's Court, Soho (just off Dean st. / Wardour st). Hasker St Knightsbridge near Albert Hall. Also if you find yourself on Regent St take a look at the telephone box on Heddon Street, just off it - you might recognise it, although not the original one.
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Mueller Cover-Up
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Monday, March 19, 2018
Sunday, March 18, 2018
Saturday, March 17, 2018
Germanic Spanish Names
RodrÃguez is a Spanish patronymic (meaning Son of Rodrigo) and a common family name (surname) in Spain and Latin America. Its Portuguese equivalent is Rodrigues.
The "ez" signifies "son of". The name Rodrigo is the Spanish form of Roderick, meaning "famous power", from the Germanic elements "hrod" (fame) and "ric" power). It was the name of Roderic, the last Visigothic King before the Muslim conquest, and the subject of many legends. The surname RodrÃguez could have originated in the 9th century when patronymic names originated.
Guzman
Guzman
In modern times the preposition dropped from the original toponymic form, leaving simply Guzmán.
There has been some suggestion over the course of time, that the name derives from a Gothic male honorific meaning "good man" (gus man, guz man); compare the archaic English honorific "Goodman", and the German honorific "Guttmann", both of which also survived as surnames.
Friday, March 16, 2018
Thursday, March 15, 2018
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
Monday, March 12, 2018
Sunday, March 11, 2018
Descartes
How do you know you exist? - James Zucker
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-do-you-...
How do you know you’re real?
Is existence all just a big dream?
Has some mad scientist duped us into simply believing that we exist?
James Zucker investigates all of these questions (and more) in this mind-boggling tribute to René Descartes’s "Meditations on First Philosophy." Lesson by James Zucker, animation by Stretch Films, Inc.
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-do-you-...
How do you know you’re real?
Is existence all just a big dream?
Has some mad scientist duped us into simply believing that we exist?
James Zucker investigates all of these questions (and more) in this mind-boggling tribute to René Descartes’s "Meditations on First Philosophy." Lesson by James Zucker, animation by Stretch Films, Inc.
https://youtu.be/LmxlcJFTaYU
Saturday, March 10, 2018
"Different" by Youngme Moon
Slick vid which tells you absolutely nothing about the content of the book.
Different
Youngme Moon of the Harvard Business School collaborated with XPLANE to create this video introducing her new book, DIFFERENT, an intimately drawn meditation on the meaning of business differentiation.
The book is published by Crown Business. For more information, visit youngmemoon.com.
Different
Youngme Moon of the Harvard Business School collaborated with XPLANE to create this video introducing her new book, DIFFERENT, an intimately drawn meditation on the meaning of business differentiation.
The book is published by Crown Business. For more information, visit youngmemoon.com.
Friday, March 9, 2018
Thursday, March 8, 2018
Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Edtech Startup Funding
edtech-startup-funding-research-education-technology-automation
As entrepreneurship gains traction nationwide, schools are eager to connect their students to job opportunities. Most startups don’t have the budget to recruit on college campuses but only 14 percent of college grads want to work at big companies. By creating a school partnership, vetted startups could be matched with colleges and universities that are willing to serve as product development test beds while also providing students with internships, jobs, and knowledge.
As entrepreneurship gains traction nationwide, schools are eager to connect their students to job opportunities. Most startups don’t have the budget to recruit on college campuses but only 14 percent of college grads want to work at big companies. By creating a school partnership, vetted startups could be matched with colleges and universities that are willing to serve as product development test beds while also providing students with internships, jobs, and knowledge.
Tuesday, March 6, 2018
Monday, March 5, 2018
Sunday, March 4, 2018
Friday, March 2, 2018
Mott The Hoople, Bowie Tribute Down Under
6:30
For those of you who don't follow the Ian Hunter To Tour Down Under Campaign thread :-) :-( As mentioned previously a couple of weeks ago during Record Store Day celebrations at Greville Records in Melbourne several music artists played acoustic versions of David Bowie songs. One of the artists, Tim Rogers of the excellent Australian band You Am I, included a great version of 'All The Young Dudes' in his set. He also gave Mott The Hoople a good mention during his intro. A friend, Harry Williams, filmed the performances and has posted some of them on Youtube. The Tim Rogers clip is attached. The whole video is worth watching but ATYD and Tim's intro starts at about 6.30 in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2TgBKEeRKI Tim Rogers was also interviewed on an Australian national morning TV show, 'Today Extra', yesterday talking about an upcoming David Bowie tribute show at the Sydney Opera House. His band will be playing 'All The Young Dudes' at the tribute show. Tim not only mentioned Mott The Hoople once during the interview, he mentioned them twice :-) :-) Hopefully the following link to the video works for international viewers :-) https://www.9now.com.au/today/2016/clip ... mxbv7zxysd As a little bit of music trivia for you the male interviewer is David Campbell who is the son of Australian music veteran Jimmy Barnes, the lead singer of the legendary Australian band Cold Chisel, who some of you might have heard of.
Thursday, March 1, 2018
You Can Be Brave: Breaking Barriers to Inclusion - I Am Awesome Trailer (January 2018)
You Can Be Brave
Official Trailer
Published on Jan 19, 2018“You Can Be Brave” is a feature documentary about one mother’s 15-year journey boldly fighting for her son (who has an intellectual and developmental disability) to be included in society. You will see how her perspective on disability evolved, and how she is continuing to break barriers to (dis)ABILITY inclusion. You will understand what it means to have a disability in our society, and what we as a community can do to take informed, intentional action to include people of all abilities. “My heroes are the parents of people with intellectual disabilities. They fight this fight 365 days a year, 7 days a week, all day, all night. Parents of kids with special needs are never done.” ~ Anthony Kennedy Shriver, Best Buddies International “There is no ‘us’ and ‘them’; there is only ‘us’.” ~ Tim Shriver, Special Olympics "You Can Be Brave: Breaking Barriers to Inclusion" is an Ability Revolution, Inc. Film in collaboration with Collaborate Films. Producer & Director: Dr. Jennifer Camota Luebke Cinematographer & Editor: Jaime Espiritu of Collaborate Films Music Director: Rich McCulley Narrator: Brian Shawn Title Song: Michael Riah
Original Music Featured in Film
Michael Riah Singer/Songwriter
Michael Riah is a soulful singer/songwriter who explores visceral human experiences in love and spirituality in his music. His delivery is vulnerable, yet sophisticated, raw, yet refined. Listen to Long Day, one of of the songs featured in the film.
Featured Song
Post-Production Sound Engineer: Mike Manuel Production Advisor: Kenni Camota Marketing & Distribution Coordinator: Christopher Luebke www.YouCanBeBrave.com Facebook Page: You Can Be Brave Movie Twitter: @YouCanBeBrave18 Instagram: @YouCanBeBrave2018
Official Trailer
Published on Jan 19, 2018“You Can Be Brave” is a feature documentary about one mother’s 15-year journey boldly fighting for her son (who has an intellectual and developmental disability) to be included in society. You will see how her perspective on disability evolved, and how she is continuing to break barriers to (dis)ABILITY inclusion. You will understand what it means to have a disability in our society, and what we as a community can do to take informed, intentional action to include people of all abilities. “My heroes are the parents of people with intellectual disabilities. They fight this fight 365 days a year, 7 days a week, all day, all night. Parents of kids with special needs are never done.” ~ Anthony Kennedy Shriver, Best Buddies International “There is no ‘us’ and ‘them’; there is only ‘us’.” ~ Tim Shriver, Special Olympics "You Can Be Brave: Breaking Barriers to Inclusion" is an Ability Revolution, Inc. Film in collaboration with Collaborate Films. Producer & Director: Dr. Jennifer Camota Luebke Cinematographer & Editor: Jaime Espiritu of Collaborate Films Music Director: Rich McCulley Narrator: Brian Shawn Title Song: Michael Riah
Original Music Featured in Film
Michael Riah Singer/Songwriter
Michael Riah is a soulful singer/songwriter who explores visceral human experiences in love and spirituality in his music. His delivery is vulnerable, yet sophisticated, raw, yet refined. Listen to Long Day, one of of the songs featured in the film.
Featured Song
Post-Production Sound Engineer: Mike Manuel Production Advisor: Kenni Camota Marketing & Distribution Coordinator: Christopher Luebke www.YouCanBeBrave.com Facebook Page: You Can Be Brave Movie Twitter: @YouCanBeBrave18 Instagram: @YouCanBeBrave2018
Category
License
- Standard YouTube License
Music
- "Just a Man" by Michael Riah Listen ad-free with YouTube Red
Digital Period Source
Periods
PeriodO is a gazetteer of scholarly definitions of historical, art-historical, and archaeological periods. It eases the task of linking among datasets that define periods differently. It also helps scholars and students see where period definitions overlap or diverge.
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
DOJ Says Atty. Gen. Used Alias to Conduct Official Business to Protect Security, Privacy
Illustrating how government hides information from the American public,
former Attorney General Loretta Lynch used a fake name to conduct official
Department of Justice (DOJ) business in agency emails obtained by Judicial Watch. As the
nation’s chief law enforcement officer Lynch, Barack Obama’s second
attorney general, skirted public-records laws by using the alias Elizabeth
Carlisle in emails she sent from her official DOJ account. In the records
provided to Judicial Watch, the DOJ explains it as necessary to “protect
her security and privacy and enable her to conduct Department business
efficiently via email.”
This begs the question of how many other government officials use fake names and whether those aliases are searched when agencies process Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. Besides Lynch, we have only discovered the use of such aliases among government operatives to conduct official business at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Obama’s EPA administrator, Lisa Jackson, famously used the alias Richard Windsor in a government email account to conduct official business and communicate with staff. Jackson even took required EPA computer training under the fake identity with the handle Windsor.Richard@epa.
In Lynch’s case, Judicial Watch requested the records as part of an investigation into the Obama administration’s involvement in a United Nation’s international law enforcement coalition called Strong Cities Network (SCN). The purported mission of the global coalition was to build social cohesion and community resilience to counter violent extremism. The DOJ masterminded the agreement and Americans found out about the U.S.’s participation when Lynch announced it during a U.N. speech on September 29, 2015. Lynch referred to SCN as a “truly groundbreaking endeavor” and assured the notoriously corrupt world body that the Obama administration was deeply committed to the new initiative. “The government of the United States is fully invested in this collaborative approach and we have seen the value of empowering local communities by promoting initiatives they design and lead themselves,” Lynch said.
Following the Attorney General’s fiery U.N. delivery, a New York newspaper reported that the city was joining a new global, terror-busting network to combat homegrown extremism. Civil rights groups quickly denounced the U.S. participation, expressing concerns about law enforcement abuses against Muslims. In a letter to New York Mayor Bill de Blasio 22 civil rights groups warned that other programs created to counter violent extremism stigmatized “Muslim communities as suspicious and in need of special monitoring.” The anti-terror initiatives have also made “the relationship between Muslims and schools and social service providers into security-based engagements,” the letter states. SCN assures however, that “violent extremism and prevention efforts should not be associated with any particular religion, nationality or ethnic group.” In a statement the DOJ also guaranteed that the SCN will safeguard the rights of local citizens and communities. The State Department also put its weight behind SCN.
In its mission to educate the public about the operations and activities of government, Judicial Watch filed a FOIA request with the DOJ on October 15, 2015 for documents related to SCN. Specifically, Judicial Watch asked for legal opinions and analysis prepared by the DOJ relating to the U.S. involvement in the program, documents that form the foundation for the decision for the country to participate in SCN, all international agreements and related records involving the commitment of U.S. resources or personnel to SCN and records of communication between officials in the Office of the Attorney General relating to the initiative. The DOJ claimed to have no records related to the SCN and billed Judicial Watch a startling $50,000 to conduct the search that didn’t produce a single file.
Though the DOJ recently furnished the documents with Lynch’s fake name, the records were part of Judicial Watch’s original 2015 FOIA request. The records also show that then Assistant Attorney General John Carlin touted SCN at an event sponsored by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), an extremist leftist group that helped a gunman commit an act of terrorism against a conservative organization. A year later Carlin would launch the Michael Flynn counterintelligence investigation and seek the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant now in question.
This begs the question of how many other government officials use fake names and whether those aliases are searched when agencies process Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. Besides Lynch, we have only discovered the use of such aliases among government operatives to conduct official business at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Obama’s EPA administrator, Lisa Jackson, famously used the alias Richard Windsor in a government email account to conduct official business and communicate with staff. Jackson even took required EPA computer training under the fake identity with the handle Windsor.Richard@epa.
In Lynch’s case, Judicial Watch requested the records as part of an investigation into the Obama administration’s involvement in a United Nation’s international law enforcement coalition called Strong Cities Network (SCN). The purported mission of the global coalition was to build social cohesion and community resilience to counter violent extremism. The DOJ masterminded the agreement and Americans found out about the U.S.’s participation when Lynch announced it during a U.N. speech on September 29, 2015. Lynch referred to SCN as a “truly groundbreaking endeavor” and assured the notoriously corrupt world body that the Obama administration was deeply committed to the new initiative. “The government of the United States is fully invested in this collaborative approach and we have seen the value of empowering local communities by promoting initiatives they design and lead themselves,” Lynch said.
Following the Attorney General’s fiery U.N. delivery, a New York newspaper reported that the city was joining a new global, terror-busting network to combat homegrown extremism. Civil rights groups quickly denounced the U.S. participation, expressing concerns about law enforcement abuses against Muslims. In a letter to New York Mayor Bill de Blasio 22 civil rights groups warned that other programs created to counter violent extremism stigmatized “Muslim communities as suspicious and in need of special monitoring.” The anti-terror initiatives have also made “the relationship between Muslims and schools and social service providers into security-based engagements,” the letter states. SCN assures however, that “violent extremism and prevention efforts should not be associated with any particular religion, nationality or ethnic group.” In a statement the DOJ also guaranteed that the SCN will safeguard the rights of local citizens and communities. The State Department also put its weight behind SCN.
In its mission to educate the public about the operations and activities of government, Judicial Watch filed a FOIA request with the DOJ on October 15, 2015 for documents related to SCN. Specifically, Judicial Watch asked for legal opinions and analysis prepared by the DOJ relating to the U.S. involvement in the program, documents that form the foundation for the decision for the country to participate in SCN, all international agreements and related records involving the commitment of U.S. resources or personnel to SCN and records of communication between officials in the Office of the Attorney General relating to the initiative. The DOJ claimed to have no records related to the SCN and billed Judicial Watch a startling $50,000 to conduct the search that didn’t produce a single file.
Though the DOJ recently furnished the documents with Lynch’s fake name, the records were part of Judicial Watch’s original 2015 FOIA request. The records also show that then Assistant Attorney General John Carlin touted SCN at an event sponsored by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), an extremist leftist group that helped a gunman commit an act of terrorism against a conservative organization. A year later Carlin would launch the Michael Flynn counterintelligence investigation and seek the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant now in question.
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Monday, February 26, 2018
Sunday, February 25, 2018
Saturday, February 24, 2018
Friday, February 23, 2018
Villanova Gift
Villanova University announces a $22.6 million leadership gift from William B. Finneran ’63, for the advancement of its strategic plan for a renovation of the Pavilion and programmatic support for its MBB program http://www1.villanova.edu/…/…/pressreleases/2016/0420-1.htmlless
Thursday, February 22, 2018
Archbishop Charles Chaput: Faith, State, and Society in a New World
Thursday, February 22, 2018 | 4:00, Location, Connelly Center Cinema
Speaker: Archbishop Charles Chaput | Religion and Public Life Lecture
Topic: “Things to Come: Faith, State, and Society in a New World”
Descrpition: We are honored to have Archbishop Chaput for our first annual Religion and Public Life Lecture. The Archbishop takes his title from the 1933 H.G. Wells novel which offers a “future history” that involves the explicit and deliberate suppression of organized religion. A good brain tease, the book is also a trigger for discussing the effects of the Cultural Revolution’s generation on the course of the country, which will be the substance of his talk.
The I-Thou of Transition
Martin Buber, the preeminent Jewish theologian, and job transitioning are never found in the same sentence but I will take the chance to do so.
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
People's Permission to Enact Change
If adherents of both major political parties are so disappointed with their respective party choices why not reach across the aisle and change D.C.? What do all of us in America want?
The Founders knew there would be a time when the Federal government would be out of control and this is that time.
We do not need to wait for a president or Congress to act.
Here is your permission to act granted to you by the Founders.
“Or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress;”
Excerpt From: States, United. “The United States Constitution.” iBooks.
This material may be protected by copyright.
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