AirAsia set to fly to Zamboanga, General Santos and Dumaguete
January 23, 2020 | 12:01 am
PHILIPPINES AirAsia, Inc. is set to launch three more domestic routes this year in response to the growing volume of passengers in Zamboanga City, General Santos City, and Dumaguete City.
A news release on Wednesday from the city government of Zamboanga quoted the company's chairman, Joseph Omar A. Castillo, as saying that the low-cost carrier is opening its services in the city because it believes in the leadership of the local officials.
"We believe in the plans and programs of the city that it is one of the leaders in Mindanao that can push for economic development in this part of the region," he was quoted as saying in a press briefing there.
The city is led by its Mayor Maria Isabelle Climaco-Salazar and Vice Mayor Rommel S. Agan.
Mr. Castillo said the company, which operates under the trade name AirAsia Philippines, considers Zamboanga City as a market that it "cannot miss," noting that there has been an increase in the volume of airplane passengers travelling to the area.
The Zamboanga City government said further that the low-cost carrier "will open two flights" daily from the city to Manila beginning March 15. An 8320 aircraft, which has a capacity of 180 passengers and a single class accommodation, will be serving the Zamboanga-Manila route.
It added that the airline company will also be opening routes in General Santos City and Dumaguete City this year.
Mr. Castillo was also quoted as saying that airfares for Zamboanga-Manila flights could go down as what has been observed in other destinations, especially in Bacolod City where fares went down by 25%. The route was opened in October last year.
The company announced early this month that it was increasing the frequency of its flights in high demand domestic and international destinations this year.
Ricardo "Ricky" P. Isla, AirAsia Philippines chief executive officer, said the move is in line with the carrier's vision of allowing its guests to tick-off more destinations from their travel bucket list.
AirAsia Philippines operates more than 500 weekly domestic and international flights from its hubs in Manila, Clark, Cebu and Kalibo.
Among the flights that will have increased frequencies are those from Clark to Iloilo and vice-versa, which will have daily flights. Flights from Cebu to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and vice-versa will increase to four times a week.
Starting on March 29, the airline will have daily flights between Cebu and Puerto Princesa. Flights from Clark to Tacloban and vice-versa, will be four times a week.
AirAsia operates in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, India and Japan. Its services include hotels, holidays, activities and online shopping, as well as integrated logistics and digital financial services. — Arjay L. Balinbin
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Transgender Family Law
Gender Identity on Trial in Divorce Court
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Couples in divorce court often disagree on a whole host of issues – who should get the house, how much child support a parent must pay, who gets custody of the dog. But when James Allan Scott and Rebecca Robertson, his wife of 12 years, wound up in divorce court, there was a much more profound disagreement: whether James is a man or a woman.
James is transgender. Though he was born with female…
"I don't think divorce brings out the best in most people," Joy Ladin, an English professor at Yeshiva University's Stern College for Women in New York, remarks wryly.
And it can be even worse when one of the spouses is transgender. Insensitive exes, uneducated legal professionals and inadequate and sometimes biased laws can make it infinitely more painful for entire families, as Joy, who is…
Even after 13 years, Michael Kantaras easily recalls the urgency with which he searched for a lawyer with expertise in transgender issues during his divorce. His estranged wife moved to have their 10-year marriage voided and strip Michael of his parental rights, just because he is transgender.
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3. A gentleman consented to have his daughter married on New Year's day, and agreed to give her one dollar towards her portion, promising to double it, on the first day of every month for one year, what was her portion?
Ans. $4095. 4. A thresher wrought 20 days and received for the first day's labour 4 grains of wheat; for the second 12; for the third 36, &c, how much did his wages amount to, allowing 7680 grains to make a pint, and the whole to be disposed of at $1 per bushel?
Ans. $14187. 5. A sum of money is to be divided among 10
persons, the first is to have $10, the second $30 and so on in three fold proportion; what will the last have? Ans. $196830.
DUODECIMALS.
This rule is of great use to carpenters, joiners, &c. The name is derived from the latin words duo, 12 and decem, 10, and as the ratio is 12, it may with propriety be termed Duodecimals. As the French and other European nations divide their inch into 12 equal lines, so our American artificers, suppose the inch to be divided as follows:
DENOMINATIONS OF DUODECIMALS.
12 fourths make 1 third, fourths marked thus
12 thirds make 1 second, thirds
12 seconds 1 inch, seconds
1 foot,
EXAMPLES IN ADDITION.
The ratio being 12 the rule is evident.
F. 1. » »
F. 1. " Add 642.11.8.8
Add 6464.10.9 436.10.6.4
4243. 9.4
Add 6468.10.5
Add 9346. 7.3
4842. 9.4 3464.11.6
MULTIPLICATION.-Observe the following rules.
Feet multiplied by feet produce feet.
Feet multiplied by inches produce inches.
Feet multiplied by seconds produce seconds.
Inches multiplied by inches produce seconds.
Inches multiplied by seconds produce thirds.
Seconds multiplied by seconds produce fourths.
1. Multiply 5 feet 6 inches by 2 feet 4 inches.
F 1.
12.10.0 2. Multiply 8 feet 6 inches by 14 feet 9 inches.
Ans. 125 ft. * in. 6 s.
CASE II.
Rule.-Multiply by the component parts, as in compound multiplication, and take parts for the inches as in practice.
1. Multiply 208 feet 8 inches 4 seconds, by 24 feet 3 inches 9 seconds.
F. 1. »
Operation. 208.8.4
5073.10.7.3 Answer. 2. Multiply 4 feet 7 inches by 6 feet 4 inches.
Ans. 29 ft. 0. in 4 s. 3. How many square feet are in a floor 48 ft. 6 in. long, by 24 ft. 3 in. broad?
Aus. 1176 ft. 1 in. 6 s.
4. How many cubic feet of stone work are contained in 9 walls, each 30 ft. 6 in. long, 9 ft. 8 in. high and 2 ft. thick?
Ans. 5307 ft. 5. How many cubic feet in a cellar 30 ft. 3 in. long, 27 ft. 6 in. broad, and 8 ft. deep?
Ans. 6655 ft. 6. What is the content of a marble slab 6 ft. 7 in. long, 2 ft. broad, and 1 ft. 9 in. thick? Ans. 23 ft. O in. 6
7. What is the superficial content of a stone 4 ft. 9 in. long, and 3 ft. 9. in. broad? Ans. 18 ft. O in. 1 s. 6 t.
MENSURATION. IMPORTANT TO SHIP BUILDERS. A concise Rule to find the length of Masts. RULE 1.-Multiply the length of the keel by 2, and divide the product by 3, and then to the quotient add the breadth of the beam, and the sum will be the length of the main mast.
1. Suppose a ship to be 84 feet by the keel, and 31 ft. by the beam, what is the length of her mast? Ans. 87 ft.
2. Suppose a ship to be 108 feet by the keel, and 40 feet by the beam, what is the length of her main mast?
Ans. 112 feet. ANOTHER METHOD. When the length and thickness of Masts is required in
yards. RULE.—Add the breadth of the beam and the depth of the hold in feet together, and divide the sum by 1.5, and the quotient will be the length of the main mast in yards.
1. Admit a ship whose keel in length is 73 feet, and the breadth of the beam 28.5 feet, and the depth of the hold 12 feet, what is the length of her main mast?
Feet.
Ans. 81 feet. Breadth of the beam, 28.5 Depth of the hold, 12.0
1.5)40.5(27 yards or 81 feet.
Now to find the thickness, it is customary to allows of the length in feet for the thickness in inches; in that case, a main mast 81 feet long, must be 27 inches thick.
2. If a ship of 100 tons be 44 feet long at the keel, of what length must the keel of a ship be that carries 220 tons? tons. tons.
Say as 100 : 220 : : 443 (85184) 187404.80, whose cube root is 57.226, the length of the keel sought.
To find Ship's Tonnage by Carpenter's Measure. Rule.--For single-decked vessels, multiply the length and breadth at the main beam, and depth of the hold together, and divide the product by 95.
For double-decked vessels, take half the breadth of the main beam, and work as above directed.
1. What is the tonnage of a single decked vessel, whose length is 60 feet, breadth 20, and depth 8 feet?
Ans. 101 is tons.
Operation-60 X 20 X8 = 101 tons.
95 2. What is the tonnage of a double-decked vessel, whose length is 65 feet, breadth 21 feet 6 inches, and depth 10 feet 9 inches?
Ans. 1581} tons. TO FIND GOVERNMENT TONNAGE. GOVERNMENT RULE.If the vessel be double-decked, take the length thereof from the fore part of the main stem to the after part of the stern-post above the upper deck; the breadth thereof at the broadest part above the main wales, half of which breadth shall be accounted the depth of such vessel, and then deduct from the length
of the breadth; multiply the remainder by the breadth, and the product by the depth, and divide this last product by 95, the quotient whereof shall be deemed the true contents or tonnage of such ship or vessel; and if such ship or vessel be single-decked, take the length and
breadth, as above directed, deduct from the said length
of the breadth, and take the depth from the under side of the deck-plank to the ceiling in the hold, and the multiply and divide as aforesaid, and the quotient shall be deemed the tonnage."
1. What is the government tonnage of a single-decked vessel, whose length is 69 feet 6 inches, breadth 22 feet 6 inches, and depth 8 feet 6 inches?
F. I.
F. I. Illustration of the rule 69.6 breadth 22.6 Deduct 13.6
1232.0 6 in. is į 28.0
feet. tons. feet 1260 X 8.6 =
11216 2. Required the tonnage of a single decked vessel, by carpenter's measure, whose length is 70 feet 6 inches, breadth 24 feet 8 inches, and depth 9 feet 10 inches?
Ans. 180 tons. 3. What is the Government tonnage of a double-decked vessel of the following dimensions: length 82 feet 3 inches, breadth 24 feet 3 inches, and depth 12 feet 1.1 inches?
Ans. 20973 tons.
BOARD OR LUMBER MEASURE.
RULE:~Multiply the length in feet by its breadth in inches, and divide by 12 for the content.
1. What is the content of a board 24 feet long and 8 inches wide?
Ans. 16 ft. 2. What is the content of a board 30 feet by 16 inches?
Ans. 40.


A Jolly Good Fellows
Going from strength to strength with their watch sales, Alan takes a look at the top lots from Fellows' upcoming auction: Tuesday, 28 February 2017 (11am, GMT) by - Alan Seymour
Tomorrow (Tuesday 28th February at 11am GMT) will see British auction house, Fellows' next dedicated watch sale. Held at their Birmingham saleroom, one can also bid and follow the auction online at www.fellows.co.uk. Here are a few of the most interesting/intriguing lots offered:
Blancpain: Lots 8, 9, 10 and 11
These consecutive lots see four watches from Blancpain's current collection offered for sale: a L'Evolution Semainier Grande Date 8 Jours (lot 8), a Leman Reval GMT (lot 9), a Villeret Demi-Fuseau Horaire 8 Jours (lot 10) and a Villeret Quantième Complet Demi-Savonette (lot 11).
The L-Evolution Semainier displays day and date, annual week number and power reserve alongside the expected hours and minutes. The oversized 3 and 9 o'clock roman hour markers and stainless-steel 44mm case are also worth mentioning. Its estimate is £3,500-£4,500.
The Leman Reval GMT, on the other hand, features a rose-gold case measuring 41mm alongside GMT, alarm and date complications. The black dial also displays a power reserve indicator, seconds sub-dial and an on/off indicator and subsidiary dial for the watch's alarm complication. It's estimate is £4,500-£5,500.
The two Villeret watches are both also housed in rose-gold cases, with lot 10 combining an enamel dial, quickset date, second time-zone indication, and day/night indicator within its 42mm diameter. While lot 11 combines date, month and moon phase within its 40mm; an exhibition caseback beneath a hinged lid can also be found to the reverse of the watch. Lot 10's estimate is £3,000-£4,000; lot 11's estimate is £3,000-£5,000.
Jacob & Co.: Lot 107
Bear with me on this one. Upon first glance a quartz driven, stone-set steel, 46mm Jacob & Co. wristwatch is not the usual Revolution fodder. It is in fact pretty off-piste for us.
However, prominent and trendsetting New York rappers A$AP Rocky and A$AP Ferg (members of the 'hip hop collective' A$AP Mob) have both recently been spotted wearing Jacob & Co. Five Time Zone watches. Popular in the early 2000's – particularly in the hip hop community – the Five Time Zone has dipped considerably in desirability and value. But, perhaps with the renewed interest from admired pop culture figures the Five Time Zone will find a new lease of life. It's certainly worth keeping an eye on, if not only for the sake of curiosity. Its estimate is £1,400-£2,000.
Panerai: Lot 203
My personal favourite, lot 203 is 47mm of gentrified military-watch cool. A limited edition Panerai Luminor Submersible 1950 Ceramica dating from 'circa 2013'. Produced in a run of 1000 pieces, the watch boasts black ceramic case construction, an in-house self-winding P.9000 movement, vintage-style lume and a water resistance of 300 meters. This example includes a spare strap, screwdriver, box and a service letter dated July 2015 in its sale. Its estimate is £4,000-£5,500.
Vacheron Constantin: Lot 323
This lot will see the gavel fall on a Vacheron Constantin Patrimony Perpetual Calendar in platinum. Technical and design attributes aside, lot 323 could be considered worthy of note purely because of its rarity and value. With the highest estimate of the sale by a significant margin (£50,000-£80,000), the Patrimony Perpetual Calendar features a skeletonised dial, tasteful 39mm case size, an automatic movement and moon phase and namesake perpetual calendar complications.
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Hands-On with The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Ref. 15500
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the original Royal Oak in 2012, Audemars Piguet pulled all the stops to make sure that the RO was properly celebrated. This included the launch of two completely new sizes for the time-only models: the Royal by - Kevin Cureau
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The Story of Early Roger Dubuis
From 1995-2003 Roger Dubuis created some of the most beautiful chronographs the world has ever known under the Hommage family which also included non-chronograph models. These watches received the Geneva Seal and were certified as chronometers at by - Revolution
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Available In The Shop: The Limited Edition Audemars Piguet Royal Oak QEII Cup
Through our partnership with pre-owned specialist Watchfinder & Co., we will regularly bring you a selection of timepieces, and in each instance we will identify and offer the exact models that we think are the most collectable and the best by - Kevin Cureau
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Highway of Tears
Jessica McDiarmid (CA)
Format: Hardback Publisher: Doubleday Canada Publication Date: September 24, 2019
Highway of Tears CHRISTMAS DELIVERY IS NOT GUARANTEED. The item is on order and may take two weeks to arrive in our shop.
A searing and revelatory account of the missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls of Highway 16, and an indictment of the society that failed them.
For decades, Indigenous women and girls have gone missing or been found murdered along an isolated stretch of highway in northwestern British Columbia. The highway is known as the Highway of Tears, and it has come to symbolize a national crisis.
Journalist Jessica McDiarmid investigates the devastating effect these tragedies have had on the families of the victims and their communities, and how systemic racism and indifference have created a climate where Indigenous women and girls are over-policed, yet under-protected. Through interviews with those closest to the victims—mothers and fathers, siblings and friends—McDiarmid offers an intimate, first-hand account of their loss and relentless fight for justice. Examining the historically fraught social and cultural tensions between settlers and Indigenous peoples in the region, McDiarmid links these cases to others across Canada—now estimated to number up to 4,000—contextualizing them within a broader examination of the undervaluing of Indigenous lives in this country.
Highway of Tears is a powerful story about our ongoing failure to provide justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, and a testament to their families and communities' unwavering determination to find it.


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«Punk Rock» του Σάιμον Στίβενς στο Λονδίνο
20 Σεπτεμβρίου, 2009 – 1:11 μμ
Lyric Hammersmith
Lyric.co.uk
«Punk Rock». Το έργο του Σάιμον Στίβενς [Simon Stephens], στο οποίο ο συγγραφέας αγγίζει το πρόβλημα της βίας σε ένα βρετανικό λύκειο, φαίνεται να ανταποκρίνεται σε πραγματικά περιστατικά φονικής βίας σε σχολεία των ΗΠΑ και της Ευρώπης. Ωστόσο, το πραγματικό θέμα του είναι η αρρώστια του φόβου και του άγχους που απλώνεται σαν ίωση ανάμεσα στους εφήβους. Η παράσταση, σκηνοθετημένη από τη Σάρα Φράνκομ, έχει εγκωμιαστεί από τους κριτικούς, που τονίζουν τη ρεαλιστική ακρίβεια του έργου και την πειστικότητα των νεαρών ερμηνευτών (Τομ Στάριτζ, Χένρι Λόιντ Χιουζ, Τζέσικα Ρέιν). Ως τις 26 Σεπτεμβρίου.[Ματιές στον κόσμο, επιμέλεια: Αγγελική Στουπάκη, Η Καθημερινή, 20/09/2009]
Tom Sturridge (William Carlisle) and Jessica Raine (Lily Cahill) in Punk Rock at the Lyric Hammersmith. Photograph: Tristram Kenton
The Guardian,	Wednesday 9 September 2009
Simon Stephens's remarkable new play overcomes the burden of fortuitous topicality. Dealing as it does with violence in a Stockport school, it is bound to be compared with the case in the headlines last week. But what Stephens is really addressing is the way fear spreads virally amongst the young.
Intriguingly, he takes as his setting the sixth-form library of a high-achieving grammar school. But, however articulate the pupils, they seem plagued by uncertainty as they prepare for mock exams. William is a self-doubting fantasist who befriends newcomer Lilly, only to find she is seeing another boy; bullying Bennett masks his sexual insecurity by humiliating the coldly omniscient Chadwick as well as his girlfriend Cissy. None of these kids, including the muscular Nicholas and the teacher-besotted Tanya, is unduly deprived. Yet, as they conduct their own internal power battles, the threat of violence hangs in the air.
What is good about the play is the way Stephens combines individual portraits with gathering tension. You believe totally in these pupils as people: not least William and Lilly when they engage, as a way of hiding their nervousness, in a competitive contempt for the chavs they see on the Stockport streets. Even the noxious Bennett is driven, if not excused, by doubts about his masculinity. Best of all is Chadwick, who at one point delivers an apocalyptic speech which both squashes his tormentor and skilfully leads one up the garden path. The one false note, in a play based on a compassionate understanding of adolescent angst, comes in a defence of the young which sounds too like an authorial statement.
Punctuated by nerve-jangling bursts of rock by groups like Big Black and Sonic Youth, Sarah Frankcom's production is riveting to watch and superbly acted. Tom Sturridge, making his professional debut as William (left), intelligently uses his gangling physique to express his inner instability. Jessica Raine as Lilly offers an extraordinary blend of sexual assurance and self-mutilating panic. Henry Lloyd-Hughes as the lordly, bisexual Bennett, Sophie Wu as his panicky girlfriend, and Harry McEntire as the precocious Chadwick, give impeccable performances.
This play, co-produced with Manchester's Royal Exchange to which it travels next, gets a new regime at the Lyric off to a cracking start. One can't help contrast it with the earlier import of a musicalised Spring Awakening which attempted to capture the raw agony of youth, only to dwindle into sentimentality. Stephens's play, given a wonderfully spectral design by Paul Wills, confronts young people as they really are, and builds inexorably towards its tragic and violent climax.
Punk Rock, Lyric Hammersmith, London
Reviewed by Michael Coveney
Simon Stephens' powerful and compelling new play – which signals a new Lyric Hammersmith regime under Sean Holmes – does not quite deliver what it says on the tin. It's set in an old, traditional library in a fee-paying grammar school in Stockport and the music by Big Black, the Cows and White Stripes is only punctuation between scenes.
That is probably the point, or comma. The pupils are sixth formers sitting their mock A-level exams, and their number is joined by Jessica Raine's disturbing, self-harming Lilly, on whom the Hamlet of the reform, Tom Sturridge's blinking, oddly hair-styled William, immediately fixes.
Stephens is reunited here with his Manchester Royal Exchange director, Sarah Frankcom, with whom he brought his award-winning On the Shore of the Wide Wide World to the National four years ago; it's a dynamic partnership, and this brilliantly cast and acted play proves both a remarkable link with the Lyric's musical premiere of Spring Awakening last year and a mission statement of upcoming work for and about young people.
As in the Wedekind play and musical, we see middle-class pupils under peer pressure embroiled in sexual chess-playing and adolescent crisis with ultimately tragic consequences.
It's no accident that the Columbine High School massacre (echoed on our own doorstep the other week) also centred round a library, a terrifying update on the tradition of school plays stretching from Barry Reckord's Skyvers at the bottom of the education heap to Julian Mitchell's Another Country or Alan Bennett's The History Boys on the brink of future success.
These were not the happiest days of anyone's life, and it's a lovely coincidence that Tom Sturridge's father, the director Charles Sturridge, made his acting debut in Lindsay Anderson's If…, the first film to prophesy the sort of nightmarish scenario almost commonplace on school and college campuses these days.
Young Sturridge makes an astonishingly assured stage debut as a slightly more neurasthenic Ben Whishaw type, with a bob of unruly hair, a gangling physical expressiveness, a deliberately shaky grasp of his own domestic orientation – one minute he's an orphan, the next the son of a thriving oil millionaire – and a neat way of knowing that he's «the cleverest and funniest person in Stockport.»
The other sixth-formers, kitted out in blue blazers and grey slacks or skirts, include the regulation Steerforth school bully, Bennett (done with a wonderful ambiguous coldness by Henry Lloyd-Hughes), whose campaign of belittling sexual taunting is rebuffed by Harry McEntire's Chadwick, the class swot, with a dazzling rhetorical speech of apocalyptic prophecy that destroys his opponent and wins a round.
Lilly's arrival is the axis on which the play turns, and Stephens' sly way of stretching the time span allows for a development of relationships within the group that prosecutes the outcome as the exams loom larger. Settling in, Lilly is drawn to the sexually charismatic figure of the blond muscleman Nicholas – another remarkable stage debut, by Nicholas Banks – while Tanya Gleason's friendly Tanya and Sophie Wu's hard-edged Cissy stir the pot by behaving just as you'd expect them to.
Stephens sounds few false notes in giving all of these kids great dialogue and solo riffs, though I did wince at Lilly's speech about most young people living decent and admirable lives – she started to sound horribly like David Cameron – but I concede that the playwright, an associate director to Holmes at the Lyric, is passionately committed to young people's theatre. Good for him, and for Holmes, and a great start to the new Lyric campaign.
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Punk Rock at the Lyric, Hammersmith, W6
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From The Times, September 10, 2009
Hearing that a teacher has had a heart attack, one of the Stockport sixth-formers who gather in the library where Punk Rock is set isn't at all surprised. "They wander round like trauma victims," she says of the staff. "They sweat, they're getting ulcers, they're terrified."
To which the proper response is: no wonder, given the atrocity that comes at the close of Simon Stephens's cracking new play. Sadly, I mustn't reveal what this is, only say that it echoes sensational incidents reported from other countries, notably America.
The rationalist in me says that Stephens doesn't prepare for it too well. Yet the rationalist in me should probably take a walk, because his point is that irrationality, unpredictability, confusion stalk the places frequented by those about to take their A-levels. And that's why his play might be summed up as The History Boys meeting Spring Awakening, Wedekind's tale of adolescent alienation and angst — and both of them meeting Stephen King.
The six kids in Sarah Frankcom's superbly acted production are Britain's future: bright, in one case maybe brilliant, but also mercurial, turbulent, lost, even despairing. For a long time it seems that the main emphasis will be Jessica Raine's Lilly, a new arrival who is sharp, sexually smart, a bit cruel and contemptuous, saddled with an alcoholic mum and into self-harm. But as the evening proceeds she moves away from centre-stage, letting us pay more attention to the others, notably Harry McEntire's small, aloof Chadwick, who is being so bullied and humiliated by Henry Lloyd-Hughes's casually malicious Bennett that, when he turned, the first-night audience applauded. But that turning is strikingly unusual, consisting as it does of an apocalyptic speech in which he declares that human beings are "pathetic" and, citing flood, famine and much else, prophesises the end of the species. What will be his fate?
But then Stephens has enough command of sassy dialogue and tense situation to keep you wondering as much about his fellow-pupils, especially Sophie Wu's Cissy, who is scared that her failure to get straight As means she'll always be stuck in awful Stockport with a reproachful mum, and Tom Sturridge's William (pictured above left, with Lloyd-Hughes), a lively mind whose fantasies are verging on the delusional, who has the unrequited hots for Lilly and who worryingly combines swank with self-hatred.
Does Stephens explain, say, the Columbine school massacre? No, he doesn't. He's too honest to pretend anything of the sort. But he does see the bafflement, the contradictions, the hope, the despair. He's worried — and so, after seeing his play, should we be.
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Review: Upstairs – Town All Over Life
Posted byKerrie Sheedy June 1, 2020 New Music, ReviewsUpstairs
Big beats, swirly bass lines, Lou Reed style vocals and so much more come to mind when describing Chicago band Upstairs. Their new EP, Town All Over Life, is a prelude to their forthcoming release, I Could Die Whenever, due out in October. The record details their experiences on trains, planes and automobiles, as well as picking up on the undercurrent of political turmoil in the US.
Town All Over Life has a dreamy, jet-lagged quality to it that runs throughout most of the EP. The disorientating Airport Brunch starts with tribal sounding drum beats that are tightly woven together with a hypnotising and rhythmic bass line. This track is full of moody, delicate tones and textures with mesmerising guitars and violins that come in intermittently, throwing the listener into a dreamlike state.
Well Then carries on the subdued tones and dynamics of the record with a gliding, prominent bass line that seamlessly walks through this melodic song. The guitar takes on the wonderful and subtle features of the previous track with an almost alternative shoegaze quality to it. Although the vocals aren't exactly overly emotional and heartfelt, they have an organic laziness to them that's highly appealing and gives an original feel to the band's overall sound.
Next up, there's a slight change of pace to the EP, with Placebo Buttons blending together the sounds of Pavement and the Pixies. There is a free-flowing, energetic air about the song that is reminiscent of the '90s, with a hooky melody that's bound to stick in your head.
Antrim Glens breaks the energetic flow with a murky and uneven jazz-infused melody. The downtempo tone of the track has an atmospheric and ambient air to it. With a continuous punch of the bass combined with an uneasy horn arrangement and a monotone style vocal delivery, the whole song oozes espionage film vibes.
2013 2014 2016 ends the record on a high. It's punchier, punkier, and full of guitar-driven hooks; a complete shift away from the chilled-out sound of the other songs. The round style of the vocals gives a dynamic tone to the music, creating an energetic and catchy tune that has a somewhat live feel about it.
The essence of the material Upstairs have created with Town All Over Life definitely leaves a strong impression on the listener. Though there is an introverted nature to the music, it is also incredibly melodic and diverse, showing us that this is a band that has submerged themselves fully into the belly of the beast to create an exceptional EP.
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Former GE Female Worker Sues Alleging Discrimination
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New York Civil Rights Attorney Eric Sanders, Esq., of The Sanders Firm, P.C., alleges in a $50 Million Dollar federal lawsuit that GE through its affiliate GE Energy in Schenectady fosters a sexually and racially hostile work environment by promoting a 'White Male Only' corporate culture
June 25, 2012 (Albany-NY) – Yvonne W. Alex says that working at GE Energy was analogous to working on a 'plantation.'
Alex, who is African American, says that she started working at GE Energy in or around November 1981 and terminated on September 20, 2011, while employed she endured sexually and racially offensive behavior from several white supervisors, managers and co-workers. Of those who did not engage in such behaviors, they were indifferent to such offensive conduct.
Sometime after July 12, 2006, GE hired former Super Steel employees' Michele Lanoue, Christopher Boniewski and Michael Tomassone despite being implicated engaging in serious racially offensive actions against several African American employees' at Super Steel including the posting of offensive articles such as a "Hangman's Noose" Alex claims.
She says, it all started sometime in 2008, when then presidential candidate Barack Obama was campaigning to become president of the United States. Employees' would leave "Birther" packages on Alex's desk espousing hatred towards President Obama, immigrants, Blacks and other racial minorities while promoting "White Supremacy." Shortly thereafter, she and Judy Bennett observed a "Hangman's Noose" on the floor, it was removed by GE supervisor John Jordan but, never reported to Human Resources nor was there any investigation to determine who placed such article in the workplace.
Beginning in May 2009, former Super Steel employee Michele Lanoue along with decedent Frank Harris and others would post depictions of prominent persons of color throughout the workplace such as: "First Dog" referring to the First Lady Michelle Obama, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor with a "Grand Wizard Hat" and a "Swastika", "2012 Do Not Re-nig" referencing President Barack Obama, a caricature of President Obama that read "Jerk in the Box," graffiti posted which read "Obama does not want fatties" and a host of other racially offensive postings referring to persons of color as "terrorists" "Nig" and Nigger." They would also post depictions of firearms, shooting magazines etc., and would hold them up whenever she walked past them.
Other employees' such as Lizbeth Golab would send her anti-immigrant emails including a depiction of a Caucasian Male "Biker Guy" holding a gun with the slogan "I am a White Gun Owner, down with immigrants." They would leave gun magazine subscription cards and used rifle targets with burn holes indicating that a cartridge passed through it in her work area. Some were basic sighting targets; others depicted "Barney" referencing her weight.
Alex says that on January 12, 2011, former Super Steel employee Michael Tomassone displayed a brown monkey hanging by its blue cape on his locker. However, the article mysteriously disappeared before President Obama's advance team of Secret Service agents swept the building before his visit. She indicates that Tomassone has displayed other depictions of Anti-Obama and Anti-Muslim postings. That same day, former Super Steel employee Christopher Boniewski along with Tomassone and Josh Scranton along with others, were overheard in a discussion referencing African Americans as "Niggers." President Obama visited several days later.
On numerous occasions Alex claims, GE Supervisor Richard Boswell would read sexually and racially offensive jokes during the morning meetings such as: The Latest News Can Certainly Have This Effect, referencing how calling a suicide hotline may be routed to Pakistan, implying that Pakistanis would encourage the caller to become a suicide bomber. He would read others including: A Marine's Wife Confesses, referring to how during a twenty-one gun salute of President Obama, the Marines missed, implying that she is sad because they missed killing him and Apartment on Rent, implying the worth of an "unchaste" woman's vagina for a "short-stay" is only worth $250 instead of $500, because of "misrepresentations."
Throughout her employment, along with the racially offensive materials, playboy magazines, pornographic movies and other pornographic materials were openly displayed in the workplace.
In response to her complaints, Alex was transferred, received less overtime, relieved of her responsibilities as an Inspector, then eventually terminated for being a "disruptive employee."
"Whenever, African-Americans or other persons of color complain about discrimination and related conduct in the workplace their complaints are routinely ignored by the management" says Alex.
Sanders said that the management routinely violated federal and state civil rights laws by failing to take appropriate action to ensure that the workplace is diverse, and free of discrimination.
Eric Sanders, Esq., of The Sanders Firm, P.C., filed suit on June 25, 2012. The name of the case is: Yvonne W. Alex v. General Electric Company, et al., Docket No.: 12 cv 1201, filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York.
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Results will be published on January 25, 2023
Thousands of milk producers across the country, including approximately 500 producers in Arizona, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming will receive surveys from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), as the agency collects information for the January 2023 Milk Production Survey. (file photo)
LAKEWOOD, Colo. — Thousands of milk producers across the country, including approximately 500 producers in Arizona, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming will receive surveys from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), as the agency collects information for the January 2023 Milk Production Survey.
"The dairy industry is an important component of the Mountain Region's agricultural economy and it is crucial for all involved to have access to accurate data." said Rodger Ott, Director, Mountain Regional Field Office. NASS conducts the Milk Production survey every January, April, July, and October. The survey asks producers to provide the number of milk cows in their herd, cows milked, and total milk production for the first day of the month.
In addition to milk, the January survey will also ask producers to provide data on hay purchased to feed the dairy herd and herd replacement prices. By participating in the survey, milk producers can ensure that NASS provides timely, accurate, and useful data that all sectors of the U.S. milk industry can use to make sound business decisions.
"At NASS, we have a strong commitment to respondent confidentiality," Ott said. "We are required by law to protect the privacy of all responses and publish data only in aggregate form, ensuring that no individual producer or operation can be identified."
Survey results will be published in the quarterly Milk Production report released January 25, 2023. All NASS reports are available online at www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/.
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Cybersecurity and "Internet Freedom" Act: Who Are They Kidding?
Anytime Congress puts the word "Freedom" in the title of a bill, it means that it's about to curtail the freedoms of whatever other words show up in the title. For instance, the "Cybersecurity and Internet Freedom Act", will limit freedoms in both Cybersecurity and the Internet. Easy, see?
Considering that most Congresspersons can't be trusted to check Snopes.com before e-mailing their bank account numbers to Nigerian princes, I can't see how they think they have enough tech savvy to regulate the Internet properly. And if there's anything Egypt has shown us, it's that we should be making it as hard as possible to let Governments pull the plug on the Internet.
"But Eric! The United States isn't Egypt!! You're crazy to compare the two!!"
Tell that to the 84,000 domains (mistakenly!!) seized and shut down by ICE without so much as a notification to the site operators last month.
Olympia Snowe (Republican-ME) couldn't get this pushed through in 2009 with Rockefeller (Moron-WV), so her companion in the Senate Susan Collins (also Republican-ME) from Maine is trying again in 2011? I have to ask: "What's up, Maine? What lobby do you have up there that's pushing this?"
My take on the 2009 bill can be found here, and not much has changed. Except the title, of course.
unmitigated me February 21, 2011 at 9:14 AM
Moron-WV, indeed. My daughter has the same photo on her laptop but the caption reads, "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy..." Help us, Obi-Wan. You're our only hope.
mojo March 28, 2011 at 5:57 PM
Interesting. Found you via Smitty.
If you want to know how well a government "regulated" network would work, just look at Social Security.
"Give them a kill switch? What're you, effin' crazy? They can barely understand the web!"
Mojo - Thanks for visiting, and for letting me know who I owe the milk and cookies to!
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Presbyterians Today January 17, 2023
Transgender ministries are transforming churches
by Mike Givler | Presbyterians Today
A church in Hudson River Presbytery recently welcomed Mother Grace Wilgefortis Ferris, center, to preach at a pride service. (Photo courtesy of Susan DeGeorge)
"Welcoming all in the name of Christ" might be easy to write into a church's mission statement, but the challenge comes when faced with living it out and extending a hand to those in the transgender community. An inclusive, loving welcome is possible, though, with education and courage to open up those sanctuary doors.
People were being persecuted for their beliefs. They had to dodge rocks and shield themselves from spit being hurled in their direction. No, this is not a reference to a biblical story that occurred 2,000 years ago in Jerusalem. This happened in 2020 in a small, suburban area in the Finger Lakes region of New York, where the hatred was aimed at middle school youth who are transgender.
As word spread around the Auburn, New York, community about the bullying, leaders at Westminster Presbyterian Church started conversations about needing to provide a space for these teens. The church, which held its first pride service a year earlier, knew it had to step up to meet this demand in the community.
"The need for something was so much greater than we thought it was," said Chris Patch, the youth and children ministries coordinator at Westminster Church. "There was really nothing here for these youth. There was no real safe place for them to gather."
What came out of the talks was the Pride House, a space in Westminster Church dedicated to LGBTQIA+ youth ages 13–18 and their allies where they can come together, enjoy each other's company and create a bond between one another.
"I visited another facility, and after my conversation there they expressed to me that if we want to get these kids to keep coming, you have to build trust and a relationship first," explained Patch, who doubles as the director of the Pride House. "You're not going to get that by having another class of some kind."
A haven of acceptance
One day a week, the Pride House has an informal, drop-in format. The space has rooms equipped with a television, video games and art supplies, and the teens can stop in anytime they want during the three-hour window the Pride House is open. Pizza and snacks are also available at this hangout in the education wing of the church that brings on average 10–15 youth through the door.
"There's a lot of relationships that are developed there," said Patch. "We have kids from different surrounding areas that have all grown together now."
Pride House is working well because it is a concept that is driven by youth.
"What we've done is that we have really looked at this and had a lot of it be youth-driven. 'What do you need?' Instead of trying to give them what we think they need, we really engaged with them and said, 'What do you think you need? What's the next step?'" said Patch.
While located in a church, the Pride House is not pushing religion. While several of the LGBTQIA+ youth have started to become involved in the life of the church in programs like the annual pride service, this sort of participation is not expected.
"We're not trying to say this is a church function. We're not trying to get them to go to church," said Patch. "That was an important part for this ministry because a lot of these youth have come from varied backgrounds and have had a lot of religious trauma. A lot of them have been to churches where they have been persecuted, told that they're sinning, told they're not good enough. Now what they see is a church giving this care to them but without expecting anything back."
What is surprising, though, is that now a lot of the youth in the group have started asking questions about the church, which was something Patch and others from the church hadn't intended on.
"What the teens are seeing is how the church has supported them and how we work through God. They're starting to have questions and take more of an active role in the church," he added.
This past October, a second night at the Pride House was started. On this evening, educational programs were added to include classes focusing on things like culinary skills, sewing, judo and yoga. Patch hopes to continue to expand the availability of the Pride House going forward, adding days for LGBTQIA+ young adults (ages 18–24) and possibly even a parents group night.
"We want to provide a place where youth can just be themselves, where they can come, have fun, be safe and build relationships," said Patch.
Giving the LGBTQIA+ youth a road map to these experiences is key and something the Pride House is continuing to develop. "We're really trying to create this flow," said Patch, explaining that by starting with middle school teens, they can better navigate high school. And once they graduate from high school, the Pride House has a relationship with Cayuga Community College, where they can move those relationships.
"We're really trying to create this pathway for all the youth to develop relationships, feel safe and have that group of friends they can move from school to school with and hang out during the summer. We tried to think more about just having something on Thursdays. It's about this full circle of providing for youth," said Patch.
The Pride House hits close to home for Patch, who is the parent of a trans child. The same goes for Linda Webster, a member of the Pride House advisory board and weekly volunteer. Webster wishes something like the Pride House would have been around when her child was younger.
"It's wonderful work for kids to network, meet each other, spend time, get to know each other and have friendships even outside of school. The kids can know that there are other people in the school system who are like them, they can relate to and give them a core group of adults that they can trust. They know they can be themselves. They don't have to put on a mask and be anything other than uniquely themselves," she said.
Westminster Church has clearly been integral in the development of the Pride House, having donated the space to use while also providing funding to help with many of the early setup costs. The Pride House has also received funds from the Osborne Foundation that are assisting with programing costs. Fundraising efforts through things like T-shirt sales are ongoing to help the Pride House remain open.
'We're really trying to create this pathway for all the youth to develop relationships, feel safe and have that group of friends they can move from school to school with and hang out during the summer.' — Chris Patch
"If we didn't have the support of the church, the congregation and their hearts weren't moved by God to provide this for us, it wouldn't have been successful," said Patch. But not everyone's heart is open, and Patch admits there have been "a lot of raised eyebrows."
Initially, the location of the Pride House was not widely known to the community for fear of pushback. However, there hasn't been any resistance to the gathering place in its first 12 months.
"I've heard some things in the community that they don't like us, that we're pushing this agenda, but as far as anyone showing up at the church and giving anyone a hassle, we haven't had any of that," said Patch.
Patch is prepared, however, for any confrontation that could come his way. He knows there are many who feel catering to the transgender community is a sin. He simply doesn't see it that way.
"If you read the Bible, if you read it in context and you really want to get into original language and original history, you'll find that there isn't anything in the Bible that says anything against this. The Bible is a book of relationships and forgiveness and how we interact with that relationship with God," he said, adding, "Personally, I think any person who uses the Bible to discriminate against somebody, I don't think they're understanding what the Bible is about."
Equipping congregations
Just to the southeast of Auburn in the lower corner of New York, Hudson River Presbytery is also trying to help Christians promote the welcome of transgender and LGBTQIA+ people's viewpoints. The Presbyterian mid council has approved the establishment of HRPQueer — a partnership that formed in the summer of 2022 with the goal of equipping congregations in the presbytery with needed support and resources to help them become more welcoming.
The four organizers of HRPQueer — the Rev. Susan DeGeorge, the Rev. Ray Bagnuolo, Connie Knapp and Kathy Dean — are all out queer clergy or ruling elders. DeGeorge, the stated clerk at Hudson River, preaches in and visits many different churches throughout the year as part of her position at the presbytery. She regularly heard the struggles of churches on how to be inclusive and felt this was something the presbytery should address.
"As I talk to pastors, they say, 'I have one or two nonbinary kids and we don't know what to do,'" DeGeorge said. "'We're trying to be welcoming, but we don't have any resources and we're by ourselves.' We decided to roll this out in 2021 and see where it could go before we became a partnership."
The bond with HRPQueer has already created new awareness among some congregations in Hudson River to increase the number of churches holding pride services during the summer. Among the changes made for the pride services was the language in hymns to make them more inclusive.
For instance, in the Glory to God hymnal, a verse in the song "In the Midst of New Dimensions" says, "We are man and we are woman, all persuasions, old and young." The beginning of that line was rewritten to say, "We are cis and we are queer."
"It's small changes like that, but you have to look at the hymns and figure out how to make them in order to be more welcoming," said DeGeorge. "We're living into it and trying to live into each of these different directions, all of which need things to be done." And it doesn't stop with the hymns.
"You have to look at your prayers as well," said DeGeorge, adding that the Bible has a whole range of wonderful language for God. "One of the ruling elders in our presbytery said, 'We talk about God as a trinity — Father, Son and Holy Spirit — and 3-in-1, that's a "they." Why are we not using "they" and "them" pronouns as well for God?'"
For DeGeorge, it really comes down to paying careful attention, not just to language but to how people are welcomed and how they know that they are welcomed. "People assume, 'I'm a Presbyterian, people must know we are welcoming.' It's not that easy." DeGeorge knows this firsthand.
A long struggle
DeGeorge has been fighting the battle for inclusiveness for years. She was in the middle of the well-known Benton v. Hudson River Presbytery court case that dealt with the officiating of a same-sex marriage in the late 1990s. The Presbyterian denomination, in a landmark ruling in 2014, changed the definition of a marriage from "a man and a woman" to "two people" while also allowing pastors to perform such ceremonies where it is legal.
While many congregations thought this ruling had clarified gender issues in the church, much has transpired in the years since that marriage policy ruling to make the waters murky again for some.
"Nobody has really been doing anything to think about what's next," said DeGeorge, pointing out that most people have not gone beyond the marriage policy nor in broadening the traditional "LGBT" identifier.
DeGeorge and her wife, Kathy Dean, were part of the HRPQueer team that presented an overview about the program at Hudson River's September meeting. It was an eye-opening summation of the ministry for many in attendance.
"A mother talked about her experience raising a nonbinary child, then a queer pastor talked about how to work with these kids," said Dean. "People were clapping. A lot of us were crying."
"I could look at the range of people who were touched by the stories," DeGeorge added. "You could watch the response. I have real hope. It was very touching."
'God created all of us — good and beautiful. We need to be able to be our best selves, and our best selves are our truest selves, which include our sexuality and whoever God meant us to really be gender-wise. — The Rev. Susan DeGeorge
Hope is certainly a key ingredient for those who are looking to educate people who do not accept or scorn those who are different, but arming churches and communities with resources will help take the acceptance level up a few notches as well. It's a work in progress, something DeGeorge and Dean are graciously willing to accept as their calling at this time.
"Some see God as a rule maker and gatekeeper. That's just a worldview I can't adopt. I think our churches are not meant to be gatekeepers for who is to be welcomed. I think it breaks God's heart every time that happens," said DeGeorge, who prefers to see God as love.
"God created all of us — good and beautiful. We need to be able to be our best selves, and our best selves are our truest selves, which include our sexuality and whoever God meant us to really be gender-wise," she said. "And when we are able to be our true selves and are accepted, that's when the church becomes what it is meant to be: a radically welcoming community."
Mike Givler is the communications coordinator for the Synod of the Trinity.
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Mitch Glazier & Michele Ballantyne Begin 2019 As RIAA's New Leaders
Glazier rises to Chairman/CEO of the major label trade association and Ballantyne is promoted to COO
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Jan 2, 2019 - 1:16 pm
Change is in the air for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the trade body comprising the major music labels. Following the Dec. 31 retirement of its Chairman/CEO Cary Sherman, on Jan. 2 the RIAA welcomed its new leadership — Mitch Glazier is now Chairman/CEO and Michele Ballantyne is the new Chief Operating Officer.
The RIAA certifies Gold and Platinum sales achievements, such as recognition for Twenty One Pilots' Blurryface being all Gold singles. They also engage in national advocacy work and pursue litigation to protect not only record companies' interests but intellectual property and copyright law more broadly.
https://twitter.com/RIAA/status/1080517507939778560
NEWS: Mitch Glazier becomes Chairman & CEO of RIAA; Michele Ballantyne Promoted to COO https://t.co/PwqXcVAmMB pic.twitter.com/ow7xPB82DL
— RIAA (@RIAA) January 2, 2019
"I am honored to lead the RIAA during these exciting times as we fight for a music ecosystem that works for everybody," said Glazier, "from artists and fans to labels and publishers and songwriters and music services alike. That will require that we both embrace digital music innovations and protect what has always made music great — keeping the dream alive for the next generation of artists and music creators."
Glazier began his intellectual property work as a senior staffer on the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. He steps into his new roles having served previously as the RIAA's president.
The new chief operating officer, Michele Ballantyne served as Senator Tom Daschle's General Counsel, as Special Assistant for President Bill Clinton, and as Special Counsel for John Podesta while he was serving as White House Chief of Staff.
"By staying true to music and its creators even as we embrace change, we can help the men and women of the music industry achieve great things," said Ballantyne. "I look forward to advocating on behalf of our great community."
RIAA Chairman/CEO Cary Sherman, A Music Champion, To Retire
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Why Record Labels Matter In 2019 riaas-mitch-glazier-why-record-labels-matter-2019
RIAA's Mitch Glazier On Why Record Labels Matter In 2019
The jobs labels do have grown and changed, and a recent collection of interviews tells how it's working
Interviews with more than 50 label leaders by Professor Larry Miller of NYU's Music Business program reveal a positive picture of the current state of labels, enough so to raise a response from the Recording Industry Association of America's new Chairman/CEO Mitch Glazier. In his Jan. 10 column on Medium, Glazier outlines his condensed perspective, distilling Miller's work, and asserts, "The most listened-to artists are backed by labels."
Glazier compares the old-fashioned demands of being a record label with the multi-faceted teams of experts today, engaged in everything from A&R to data analytics. He encourages readers to download Miller's report — Same Heart. New Beat. — for themselves, which provides additional details.
The wide scope of today's music business activities boil down to the success labels help artists achieve, year after year, and the passion their teams bring to make that happen. The RIAA also configured a Rebooting The Label web page on their site, tracking the analysis in the report, and they are encouraging use of the #LABELSATWORK hashtag.
NEW 📽: Record labels' passion for music is at the ❤ of everything they do. Learn more about the invaluable role modern record labels play in bringing music to your ears (tip: 🔊⬆): https://t.co/KlttehMOYj #LABELSATWORK pic.twitter.com/mPUz14dUQu
— RIAA (@RIAA) January 10, 2019
Today's key players at labels are using "radically new means to support artists," Glazier explains. "The result is a growing, vibrant, and vital music ecosystem driven by label investment and action — one in which more artists are creating and more fans are listening. Labels have licensed hundreds of digital services around the world, delivering music to listeners virtually anytime, anywhere."
He refers to breaking, boosting and amplifying as independent activities, giving a sense of the perspective that draws labels' teams together toward the different challenges posed by new names, established stars, and artists with sustained followings. Larger labels means greater infrastructure to supporthe new marketing mechanics of the ever-changing music business.
Glazier goes on to cite the statistic of 658 new artists signed to major labels in 2017 as showing more than 12 percent growth from the 589 signed in 2014.
"As this report details, labels are seizing the moment," he said, "investing more in A&R, marketing and other artist support activities (like data insights) than ever before, and beefing up their teams to support a vastly more complex, personal, and fast-paced music economy."
Perhaps the key takeaway from today's perspective is "personal." Whether old-fashioned or newfangled, the challenges of being in the music business can distract an artist from what they do best, which includes being more personal than ever with fans online who desire personal access and connection. Keeping music business mechanics off an artist's back and helping with online communications is all ultimately meant to allow the an artist's art and artistry to break through.
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Cher Adds More 2019 North America Performances cher-adds-more-2019-performance-dates-north-america
Cher Adds More 2019 Performance Dates In North America
The diva adds to her demanding 2019 tour schedule while her recent albums chart at career highs
Cher's Here We Go Again Tour has added 14 new North American stops in November and December of 2019. This year is keeping the GRAMMY-winning diva busy as she finishes one of her residency series at MGM Resorts' Park Theater in Las Vegas tonight and tomorrow night.
Touring with special guests Nile Rodgers and Chic, Cher's first of the new dates is Nov. 19 in Portland, Ore. with performances in Chicago, Denver, Phoenix, San Francisco, and Toronto through the end of the month. Next stop is Madison Square Garden in New York on Dec. 3, then heading south through Philadelphia, Boston, Washington, D.C., and New Orleans. The beat goes on in mid-December at Houston and San Antonio, followed by the last of the new dates in Dallas, Texas on Dec. 19 at the American Airlines Center.
https://twitter.com/cher/status/1111629264867287043
New dates have been added to the Here We Go Again Tour with special guests @nilerodgers and @CHICorg! Presales start 4/2 at 10am local time.
Get more info here: https://t.co/RiEMuN5aAA pic.twitter.com/5Jr2Gk7NoJ
— Cher (@cher) March 29, 2019
If that sounds like a busy itinerary, glance at what Cher has going on before then. Beginning Apr. 18 in Pittsburgh, Penn., she'll be completing previously announced dates in North America and Canada through the end of May. In August, Cher returns to Park Theater in Las Vegas for another round of performances. Then from late September through early November she'll be visiting European capitals including multiple concerts in Germany and the UK including at London's O2 arena on Oct. 20 and 21.
After three Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 singles in the early 70's, as a solo artist, in 1999 Cher's "Believe" went to No. 1 again and won Best Dance Recording at the 42nd GRAMMY Awards. Both 2013's Closer To The Truth and 2018's Dancing Queen reached No. 3 on the Billboard 200 album charts, Cher's career high to date.
Tickets for Cher's Nov. and Dec. performances go on sale on April 5 to the general public at Live Nation's website, with pre-sales opening on April 2.
Cher, Reba McEntire, "Hamilton" Receive Kennedy Center Honors
Jerry Garcia and Mickey Hart
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Grateful Dead's 'Aoxomoxoa' Celebrates 50 Years grateful-deads-aoxomoxoa-reissue-has-remixes-plus-1969-live-recordings
Grateful Dead's 'Aoxomoxoa' Reissue Has Remixes Plus 1969 Live Recordings
50th anniversary reissue of the breakthrough third album shows their signature psychedelic style's beginnings
Mar 29, 2019 - 12:21 pm
Aoxomoxoa is the title of the Grateful Dead's 1969 album — a palindrome, it is pronounced the same way backwards as reading the usual way, left to right. That was "far-out" 50 years ago, and on the album's 50th anniversary the Grateful Dead and Rhino Records will reissue Aoxomoxoa including remastered versions of both the album's 1969 mix and 1971 remix by Jerry Garcia and Phil Lesh, as well as 1969 live performances of the songs at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco.
The album was a creative breakthrough, as the band broke from label guidance, explored acoustic-only arrangements and self-production, and also welcomed lyricist Robert Hunter. Hunter and Garcia composed all the songs on the album and were joined by Phil Lesh in creating Aoxomoxoa's first track "St. Stephen."
https://twitter.com/GratefulDead/status/1111330322954608640
Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of AOXOMOXOA with a DELUXE EDITION ft. two versions of the album — one fully remastered from the original 1969 mix and the other remastered from the definitive 1971 band-produced mix. Available on 2CD, 12" Vinyl Picture Disc, and digitally. pic.twitter.com/Pc7l7ti720
— Grateful Dead (@GratefulDead) March 28, 2019
A limited edition of 10,000 vinyl 12" picture discs will be released in addition to the 2-CD set. Both versions are now available for pre-order online.
Dead & Company continue to tour with Grateful Dead members Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann and Bob Weir as well as GRAMMY winner John Mayer. Their latest run of dates begins May 31.
Bob Weir Holds Court At GRAMMY U SoundChecks: "The Passion Is Up To You"
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Las Vegas Palms Readies "Unstatus Quo" Relaunch transformed-las-vegas-palms-counts-down-unstatus-quo-relaunch
Transformed Las Vegas Palms Counts Down To "Unstatus Quo" Relaunch
Guests get their first look at the $690 million renovation's results next week
Las Vegas, get ready to "Get On The Good Foot," as per the James Brown song providing both the promotional video soundtrack and the core philosophy behind the Palms Casino Resort's "Unstatus Quo" mega renovation. Set to open next week, the new Palms thinks of itself as "different by design" and seeks to share how they have "completely reimagined" the Las Vegas excursion experience, including the debut of their Kaos nightclub and dayclub venues.
The video, directed by GRAMMY winner Sam Brown, is a vision-statement featuring celebrities from sports and the fine arts as well as musical talents including GRAMMY winner Cardi B, Marshmello, Ezra Miller, Rita Ora, and Latin GRAMMY nominee Ozuna.
Anticipation during this lead-up is intense. The Palms invested $690 million to embody its bid for restored relevance as a cultural destination. Restaurants, gaming, luxury suites, multiple music venues and residencies, surrounded by museum-caliber fine art are about to be put to their first real-world test — combining graciously together into an unforgettable get-away.
https://twitter.com/Palms/status/1111276134983827456
Welcome to the new Vegas. What happens here resonates everywhere.
Starring @iamcardib @kblock43 @emrata @marshmellomusic @RitaOra @adrianalima @RyanSheckler and more...#UnstatusQuo #PalmsLV #artistsrightssociety pic.twitter.com/PNpXZzmk2E
— Palms Casino Resort (@Palms) March 28, 2019
A signed Cardi B microphone and one of Marshmello's signature helmets are among the giveaways in the "Unstatus Quo" video, which can be unlocked in daily YouTube Card promotions from Mar. 29 to Apr. 5. The Palms website has also been redesigned so that visitors' digitally interactive experience blends seamlessly with the Palms' on-site hospitality.
The attitude, vision and commitment are reassuring. The new Palms' first guests will judge their success in just a few days.
KAOS Las Vegas To Feature Sets From J Balvin, Bad Bunny, Ozuna, Deadmau5, Eric Prydz & More In April


The Griffith Park Experience
David Denenberg
Picking a weekend destination in Los Angeles can be a tough decision.' Things like affordability, good geographical location and quality are harder to find today.' Luckily, there are unique places like Griffith Park that operate with the people's best interest at heart.
Griffith Park was given to the people of L.A. as a gift from Col. Griffith J. Griffith in 1896. The municipal park provides an assortment of activities which entertain people of all ages.
Located in the Santa Monica Mountains, Griffith Park is a convenient destination for everyone in the Los Angeles County.
Griffith Park contains a state of the art observatory, planetarium, railroad museum, a 5,700-seat amphitheater, the Los Angeles Zoo, picnic and BBQ areas and some great trails for horseback riding, bicycling and hiking.
Griffith Park is the perfect place to go for people who are living on a tight budget, as you can fill up an entire day with fun, affordable experiences.
'When my girlfriend and I first came to Griffith Park, we were pretty shocked that some of the attractions were free,' said Greg Blessing, a 24-year-old Los Angeles Film School student.'
The zoo and railroad museums can be reached by exiting at Zoo Drive off the 134 freeway right before the 5 junction.
A day at the Los Angeles Zoo, which opened in 1966, will show you exotic animals such as komodo dragons, koalas and a species of zebra which only has about 3,400 of its kind left in the entire world.
'We take our mission very seriously here of inspiring people about wildlife and getting them to care.' We just don't show animals here, we teach people about them,' said Los Angeles Zoo Marketing Director Jason Jacobs.
The goal of the L.A. Zoo is to present wildlife diversity in interpretive exhibits that help people to learn about animals.' '
The zoo is one of the few attractions at Griffith Park that isn't free, but it's still affordable. Adult admission is $12 and the zoo is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.
Right down the street from the zoo is the Travel Town Museum. Admission is free and guests are allowed to observe and even climb on top of real steam locomotives and railroad cars.' The museum opened in 1952 and focuses on Western railroad transportation from about 1880 to 1930.' '
Another unique experience the museum provides is a ride on a miniature train.' This mini train ride is made possible by the Los Angeles Live Steamers Railroad Museum. LALSRM is located right next to the Travel Town Museum and is only open to the public on Sundays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.' During this time guests may take rides on scale-model trains which travel throughout Griffith Park.
On the third Sunday of each month, the club allows the public to get a closer look at some of the amazing railroad artifacts inside the museum.' One such artifact is the actual barn that Walt Disney used to create his own model railroad cars.' ' ' ' ' '
On the other side of the mountain, the Griffith Observatory can be accessed either directly from Vermont Road or Fern Dell Drive off of Western Avenue in Los Feliz, Calif.
The observatory is open every day except Monday from 12-10 p.m. on weekdays and 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on weekends.
Guests of this attraction enjoy free general admission and can choose if they wish to purchase tickets to the Planetarium Show or look at the different exhibits.' Ever since opening in 1935, the Griffith Observatory has allowed the general public to look through the Zeiss and solar telescopes.
All of these different attractions are only part of what makes Griffith Park such a desirable place to spend a day.' The park itself provides a serene setting for people to unwind and escape the fast-paced L.A. lifestyle.' It's open daily from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.
David Denenberg, Author


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robin.el
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;;; robin.el --- yet another input method (smaller than quail)
;; Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2005
;;   National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
;;   Registration Number: H15PRO 110
;; Author: TAKAHASHI Naoto <ntakahas@m17n.org>
;; Keywords: mule, multilingual, input method
;; This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
;; modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
;; published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at
;; your option) any later version.
;; This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
;; WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
;; General Public License for more details.
;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
;; along with this program; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
;; the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
;;; Comentary:
;; Functionalities
;; ---------------
;; Robin is a new input method for GNU Emacs.  It has three
;; functionalities:
;; 1. It serves as a simple input method.  When the user types an ASCII
;;    key sequence, robin converts it into a string.  This functionality
;;    is most likely used to input non-ASCII characters.
;; 2. It converts existing buffer substring into another string.
;;    This functionality is similar to the 1. above, but the input is
;;    buffer substring rather than key strokes.
;; 3. It offers reverse conversion.  Each character produced by a
;;    robin rule can hold the original ASCII sequence as a
;;    char-code-property.
;; How to define conversion rules
;; ------------------------------
;; Each conversion rule belongs to a robin package.  A robin package is
;; identified by a string called package name.  Use robin-define-package
;; to define a robin package.
;; (robin-define-package NAME DOCTSTRING
;;   (INPUT1 OUPUT1)
;;   ...)
;; NAME is a string identifying the robin package.  It often starts with a
;; language name and followed by a method name.  For example,
;; french-postfix, greek-prefix, etc.
;; DOCSTRING is a documentation string for the robin method.
;; Each INPUTn is a string.  It represents a transliteration of the
;; corresponding OUTPUTn.
;; Each OUTPUTn is a string or a character that is to be inserted as the
;; result of conversion.
;; Neither INPUT* nor OUTPUT* are evaluated.  Do not use a variable or a
;; function in those parts.  Instead, use a string or character literal
;; directly.
;; If multiple rules have the same input pattern but different output
;; patterns, only the latest definition is effective.
;; Example
;; -------
;; (robin-define-package "german-example"
;;  "An example for German
;; AE -> Ä   OE -> Ö   UE -> Ü
;; ae -> ä   oe -> ö   ue -> ü   ss -> ß
;; Repeat E or S to input itself.
;; AEE -> AE   OEE -> OE   UEE -> UE
;; aee -> ae   oee -> oe   uee -> ue   sss -> ss"
;;  ("AE" ?Ä)
;;  ("OE" ?Ö)
;;  ("UE" ?Ü)
;;  ("ss" ?ß)
;;  ("AEE" "AE")
;;  ("OEE" "OE")
;;  ("UEE" "UE")
;;  ("sss" "ss")
;; )
;; Using robin as an input method
;; To use a defined robin package as an input method, register it with
;; the register-input-method function.  For example,
;; (register-input-method
;;  "german-example"
;;  "german"
;;  'robin-use-package
;;  "de"
;;  "An example for German")
;; The first argument is the robin package name.
;; The second argument is the language environment for which this robin
;; package is used.
;; Use the symbol `robin-use-package' as the third argument.
;; The fourth argument is the prompt that appears in modeline when this
;; input method is active.
;; The fifth argument is a documentation string; it may or may not be
;; identical to the one that you specified in robin-define-package.
;; You can activate the robin input method by typing
;;  C-u C-\ german-example RET
;; Just like a quail package, only C-\ suffices for subsequent
;; invocation.
;; Using robin as a buffer translator
;; ----------------------------------
;; To transliterate buffer substring, use the following functions.
;; (robin-convert-buffer &optional name)
;; Convert the content of current buffer using a robin package.
;; NAME, if given, is a string specifying a robin package.  If NAME is
;; not given or nil, the value of `robin-current-package-name' is used.
;; (robin-convert-region begin end &optional name)
;; Convert the region using a robin package.
;; Reverse conversion
;; ------------------
;; If the output pattern defined in a robin rule is a character, robin
;; gives to the character a char-code-property whose key is the symbol
;; representation of the robin package name and whose value is the input
;; pattern of that character.  For example, with the "german-example"
;; definition above,
;; (get-char-code-property ?Ä 'german-example) => "AE"
;; etc.
;; If you do not want to assign a char-code-property to a character, use
;; a string of length one as the output pattern, e.g.
;; (robin-define-package "german-example2"
;;  "Another example for German."
;;  ("AE" "Ä")
;;  ("OE" "Ö")
;;  ...)
;; Then
;; (get-char-code-property ?Ä 'german-example2) => nil
;; If multiple input patterns in a robin package generate the same
;; character, the lastly used input pattern is given as the value of the
;; char-code-property.
;; There are two functions for reverse conversion.
;; (robin-invert-buffer &optional name)
;; Apply reverse conversion to the content of current buffer.  NAME, if
;; given, is a string specifying a robin package.  If NAME is not given
;; or nil, the value of `robin-current-package-name' is used.
;; (robin-invert-region begin end &optional name)
;; Apply reverse conversion to the region.  NAME, if given, is a string
;; specifying a robin package.  If NAME is not given or nil, the value of
;; `robin-current-package-name' is used.
;; Modifying an existing rule
;; --------------------------
;; Use the robin-modify-package function to modify a rule already defined
;; in a Robin package.
;; (robin-modify-package name input output)
;; Change a rule in an already defined Robin package.
;; NAME is the string specifying a robin package.
;; INPUT is a string that specifies the input pattern.
;; OUTPUT is either a character or a string to be generated.
;; The name of the game
;; --------------------
;; As stated in Murphy's law, it took longer than expected to develop the
;; very first version of Japanese input subsystem in NEmacs (Nihongo
;; Emacs).  So the subsystem was named "TAMAGO", which is an acronym of
;; "TAkusan Matasete GOmennasai" (Sorry to have kept you waiting so
;; long).  "Tamago" as a Japanese word means "egg", so the word "egg" was
;; also used for related filenames and function names.
;; Since it was designed to input CJK characters, Egg was rather big as a
;; subsystem.  So later in Mule (Multilingual Enhancement to GNU Emacs),
;; we designed and implemented a smaller input subsystem.  We had to give
;; it a name.  "So, what's smaller than an egg?"  "A quail egg, of
;; course."  Therefore it was named "quail".
;; As time went by, quail became more and more complicated.  That
;; tendency was inevitable as long as we support CJK input.  However, if
;; we can limit ourselves to non-CJK characters, a much simpler
;; transliteration mechanism suffices.  So I wrote "robin", whose name
;; was chosen because a robin is smaller than a quail.  I could name it
;; "hummingbird" or "nightingale", but those spellings seemed too long.
;;; Code:
(defvar robin-package-alist nil
"List of robin packages.
A robin pacakge is of the form (NAME DOCSTRING &rest RULES).
NAME is a string specifying a particular robin package.
DOCSTRING is a documentation string for the robin package.
RULE is of the form (KEY OUTPUT &rest rules).
KEY is a string.
OUTPUT is a character or a string.
For example, if you evaluate the following,
(robin-define-package \"test\" \"Uppercase input characters\"
(\"a\" \"A\")
(\"ab\" \"AB\")
(\"ac\" \"AC\")
(\"acd\" \"ACD\")
(\"ace\" \"ACE\")
(\"b\" \"B\"))
this robin package will be the following.
(\"test\" \"Uppercase input characters\"
(?a \"A\"
(?b \"AB\")
(?c \"AC\"
(?d \"ACD\")
(?e \"ACE\")))
(?b \"B\"))
;;;###autoload
(defmacro robin-define-package (name docstring &rest rules)
"Define a robin package.
NAME is the string of this robin package.
DOCSTRING is the documentation string of this robin package.
Each RULE is of the form (INPUT OUTPUT) where INPUT is a string and
OUTPUT is either a character or a string.  RULES are not evaluated.
If there already exists a robin package whose name is NAME, the new
one replaces the old one."
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(let ((iname (intern name))
(new (list name ""))		; "" as a fake output
input output)
(dolist (r rules)
(setq input (car r)
output (cadr r))
(robin-add-rule name new input output)
((not (stringp input))
(error "Bad input sequence %S" r))
((char-valid-p output)
(put-char-code-property output iname input))
((not (stringp output))
(error "Bad output pattern %S" r))))
(setcar (cdr new) docstring)	; replace "" above with real docstring
(robin-define-package): Make the expaneded form shorter.
`(let ((slot (assoc ,name robin-package-alist))
(newdef ',new))
(if slot
(setcdr slot (cdr newdef))
(setq robin-package-alist
(cons newdef robin-package-alist))))))
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(defun robin-modify-package (name input output)
"Change a rule in an already defined robin package.
NAME is the string specifying a robin package.
INPUT is a string that specifies the input pattern.
OUTPUT is either a character or a string to be generated."
(let ((tree (assoc name robin-package-alist))
docstring)
(if (not tree)
(error "No such robin package")
(setq docstring (cadr tree))
(setcar (cdr tree) "")
(robin-add-rule name tree input output)
(setcar (cdr tree) docstring)
(if (characterp output)
(put-char-code-property output (intern name) input))))
output)
(defun robin-add-rule (name tree input output)
"Add translation rule (INPUT OUTPUT) to TREE whose name is NAME.
Internal use only."
(let* ((head (aref input 0))
(branch (assoc head tree))
(sofar (cadr tree)))
(if (= (length input) 1)
(if branch
;; A definition already exists for this input.
;; We do not cancel old char-code-property of OUTPUT
;; so that n-to-1 reverse conversion is possible.
(setcar (cdr branch) output)
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;; New definition for this input.
(setcdr (last tree) (list (list head output))))
(unless branch
(if (characterp sofar)
(setq sofar (char-to-string sofar)))
(setq branch
(list head
(concat sofar
(char-to-string head))))
(setcdr (last tree) (list branch)))
(robin-add-rule name branch (substring input 1) output))))
;;; Interactive use
(defvar robin-mode nil
"If non-nil, `robin-input-method' is active.")
(make-variable-buffer-local 'robin-mode)
(defvar robin-current-package-name nil
"String representing the name of the current robin package.
Nil means no packages is selected.")
(make-variable-buffer-local 'robin-current-package-name)
(defun robin-use-package (name)
"Start using robin package NAME, which is a string."
(let ((package (assoc name robin-package-alist)))
(unless package
(error "No such robin package"))
(setq robin-current-package-name name)
(robin-activate)))
(defun robin-inactivate ()
"Inactivate robin input method."
(robin-activate -1))
(defun robin-activate (&optional arg)
"Activate robin input method.
With ARG, activate robin input method iff ARG is positive.
While this input method is active, the variable
`input-method-function' is bound to the function `robin-input-method'."
(if (and arg
(< (prefix-numeric-value arg) 0))
;; inactivate robin input method.
(setq robin-mode nil)
(setq describe-current-input-method-function nil)
(run-hooks 'robin-inactivate-hook))
(kill-local-variable 'input-method-function))
;; activate robin input method.
(setq robin-mode t
describe-current-input-method-function 'robin-help
inactivate-current-input-method-function 'robin-inactivate)
(if (eq (selected-window) (minibuffer-window))
(add-hook 'minibuffer-exit-hook 'robin-exit-from-minibuffer))
(run-hooks 'input-method-activate-hook
'robin-activate-hook)
(set (make-local-variable 'input-method-function)
'robin-input-method)))
(defun robin-exit-from-minibuffer ()
(inactivate-input-method)
(if (<= (minibuffer-depth) 1)
(remove-hook 'minibuffer-exit-hook 'robin-exit-from-minibuffer)))
(defun robin-input-method (key)
"Interpret typed key sequence and insert into buffer."
(if (or buffer-read-only
overriding-terminal-local-map
overriding-local-map)
(list key)
(let ((echo-keystrokes 0)
(input-method-function nil)
(start (point))
(tree (cddr (assoc robin-current-package-name robin-package-alist)))
(while (setq branch (assq key tree))
(delete-region start (point))
(insert (setq output (cadr branch)))
(setq tree (cddr branch))
(if tree
(setq key (read-event))
(setq key nil)))
(if (null output)
;; body of the `while' above was not executed
(if key
(setq unread-command-events (list key)))
(if (stringp output)
(string-to-list output)
(list output))))))
(defun robin-help ()
"Display the docstring of the current robin package."
(let ((buf (get-buffer-create "*Robin Help*"))
(doc (cadr (assoc robin-current-package-name robin-package-alist))))
(set-buffer buf)
(erase-buffer)
(insert doc)
(display-buffer buf)))
;;; Batch mode
(defun robin-convert-buffer (&optional name)
"Convert the content of current buffer using a robin package.
NAME, if given, is a string specifying a robin package.  If NAME
is not given or nil, the value of `robin-current-package-name' is
used."
(interactive "*")
(robin-convert-region (point-min) (point-max) name))
(defun robin-convert-region (begin end &optional name)
"Convert the region using a robin package.
(interactive "*r")
(or name
(setq name robin-current-package-name)
(error "No robin package specified"))
(let ((tree (assoc name robin-package-alist)))
(unless tree
(save-restriction
(narrow-to-region begin end)
(while (not (eobp))
(robin-convert-region-internal tree))))))
(defun robin-convert-region-internal (tree)
"Apply a robin rule defined in TREE to the current point.
Use the longest match method to select a rule."
(let ((begin (point))
end branch)
(while (setq branch (assq (following-char) tree))
(setq tree branch)
(forward-char 1))
(setq end (point))
(if (= begin end)
;; no matching rule found; leave it as it is
(forward-char 1)
;; replace the string
(goto-char begin)
(insert (cadr tree))
(delete-char (- end begin)))))
;; for backward compatibility
(fset 'robin-transliterate-region 'robin-convert-region)
(fset 'robin-transliterate-buffer 'robin-convert-buffer)
;;; Reverse conversion
(defun robin-invert-buffer (&optional name)
"Apply reverse conversion to the content of current buffer.
(robin-invert-region (point-min) (point-max) name))
(defun robin-invert-region (begin end &optional name)
"Apply reverse conversion to the region.
(setq name (intern name))
(let (str)
(if (not (setq str (get-char-code-property (following-char) name)))
(insert str)
(delete-char 1))))))
(provide 'robin)
;;; Local Variables:
;;; coding: utf-8-emacs
;;; End:
Changes from arch/CVS synchronization
Miles Bader committed Mar 16, 2005
;; arch-tag: ba995140-7436-4a57-b875-747fc340f605
;;; robin.el ends here


This Video Shows How Much Vaginal Discharge Is Normal (It's Way More Than You Think)
Good news: You can stop stressing about what you find down there.
By Kristine Thomason
Vaginal discharge is a topic of conversation you've likely filed away under "Things that stay between you and your panties." But that doesn't mean you're not curious or concerned about what you find down there. And if so, you're certainly not alone. San Francisco-based ob-gyn Jen Gunter, MD, says that over the last five years, she's noticed an increase in the number of women who are worried about the amount of discharge they see in their underwear. "Some women even believe that any vaginal discharge is abnormal," she wrote in her latest blog post.
That's what prompted Dr. Gunter to clear up confusion on the subject: "Vaginas are meant to be wet," she explains in the post. "Discharge is the by-product of the process that keeps everything in working order. It's not gross, it's normal."
According to studies and textbooks, women generally produce anywhere from 1 to 4 ml of vaginal discharge in 24 hours. The amount tends to vary on a day-to-day basis, often affected by factors like ovulation and birth control.
But how much is 4 ml anyway? Dr. Gunter filmed a short video to illustrate what qualifies as "normal." In the clip below, she fills a syringe with water mixed with iodine to simulate vaginal discharge. She then empties the liquid onto a panty liner, and it nearly fills the entire surface, showing that a healthy amount of daily discharge is probably way more than you thought.
If you're producing more than 4 ml a day, however, that could be a sign that you have a fistula, the STI trichomonas, or a bacterial imbalance known as desquamative inflammatory vaginitis. Profuse discharge might also mean there is a foreign object (such as a tampon or condom) left inside the vagina. You will likely have other symptoms as well, says Dr. Gunter, such as irritation, itch, strong odor, or pain with sex. If you're experiencing any of those issues—or irritation combined with 3 to 4 ml of discharge—check in with your doc, she says.