 will see if that leads to greater success in the playoffs or not.
Is pressure getting to Torts once again?
A year ago, the Columbus Blue Jackets authored one of the top stories in the league as they turned their team around and finished third in the Atlantic Division and the Eastern Conference with 108 points, and they were virtually assured of a playoff spot early in the season.
Its’s quite a different story this year. The Blue Jackets are currently in the eighth and final spot –the No. 2 wild-card – with 69 points. They are trying to hold off the New York Islanders and Florida Panthers, with 65 and 64 points, respectively.
Head coach John Tortorella appeared to check his emotions a year ago when things were going well for the Blue Jackets, but that’s not the case this season.
In Monday night’s 5-1 victory over the Washington Capitals, Tortorella got into it with Washington superstar Alex Ovechkin. Ovie went down in the first period after getting hit in the face by Matt Calvert of the Blue Jackets, and that resulted in Calvert receiving a match penalty.
Tortorella mocked Ovechkin with a diving gesture prior to the start of the second period, and Ovechkin started arguing with the tempestuous coach. It was not a dignified scene.
After the game, Tortorella took on a regretful tone, saying he shouldn’t argue with an opposition player. However, recognizing a mistake is not Tortorella’s issue. It is his tendency to get involved in these situations, and it is not likely that that he will suddenly turn into a good citizen.
Expect more fireworks – and potential embarrassments — along the way from Tortorella.The Greenlandic work, Shaman, which was performed at the Etoiles Polaires Arctic Culture Festival 2004-05, is based on an old legend from Thule and is performed on stage by an international ensemble under the direction of the composer, Mads Lumholt.
The hour-long work breaks new ground in many ways in Greenlandic cultural circles. Not only the scale but also the stylistic combination are unusual for a Greenlandic musical work.
The starting point for the work is the old Greenlandic culture and its musical traditions, which are couched in a cultural expression of modern times, musically as well as technologically. Thus the work includes not only pop, rock, improvisation and electronics, but also visual media and effects.
In this way Lumholt is seeking to allow the traditional Greenlandic culture to be communicated through contemporary cultural language in such a way that respect for the original culture is preserved on the one hand yet passed on to a broader, contemporary audience on the other hand.
The composer, Mads Lumholt, has a foot in each culture and age. He was born in Greenland but has lived in Denmark since 1984 where he has worked as a musician, teacher, choir leader and actor for many years.
Amongst other things he has been part of the inter-Nordic orchestra Northern Voices, and at the moment is a singer in the orchestra Nowhereland and in the vocal group No Offence.
At the same time Lumholt grew up with traditional Greenlandic musical culture, especially the work of drum singers and dancers, which his mother collected from old Greenlanders. He drew on this background when he participated in the 2002 production of the opening song for the Arctic Winter Games.
Shaman, is a Greenlandic/Belgian/Icelandic co-production, which has since been performed in Reykjavik, Ghent and Nuuk, amongst others.- More
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A desirable note in and of itself that is well printed and has respectable margins on both sides, this note in addition has the signature of Benjamin Levy, the only known Jewish signer of Continental Currency. This was the last of the three issues that he was a signer of. The emblem and motto display great detail and this lovely note earned the Premium Paper Quality designation from PCGS.)Leila Mouammar bears little physical resemblance to the emotionally charged, rock-throwing Palestinians on CNN. She is a poised and stylish Concordia University student with a PhD. Her distinction, however, is her connection with other Palestinian refugees. Like them, activism is at the core of her political identity.
This was evident on Sept. 9 when Mouammar was among 50 Concordia students who entered the Hall Building to protest the speaking engagement by former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The heated exchange between Palestinian and Israeli supporters led to an intervention by riot police, leading the university to place a moratorium on activities relating to the Middle East until at least mid-December.
Mouammar viewed Netanyahu’s speech as a provocation by pro-Israeli groups. She and other members of Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) intended the protest to be an exercise in free speech, claiming they had been denied freedom of assembly.
Raised in Toronto with a keen political identity and Christian upbringing, it was during the Gulf War that Mouammar noticed biases in the media’s portrayal of Arabs and Jews. She was drawn to activism on a 1996 visit to Israel and the West Bank. There, the harsh realities of the Middle East crisis became clear.
Mouammar’s political identity was sharpened after seeing where her parents were raised. The sense of loss she experienced from not having grown up in her Palestinian homeland inspired Mouammar to publicize a more balanced viewpoint than what students in North America received from American news sources.
Mouammar returned to Canada and started Students for Awareness in the Middle East (SAME) at McGill with a Jewish student, Dan Bitton. SAME provided students with a nonpartisan forum to discuss Middle East politics which rapidly increased in popularity.
After finishing her BA in humanistic studies at McGill, Mouammar moved to New York to complete a master in humanities and social thought. There, Mouammar remained active with Palestinian student organizations through the Internet. Through her web server she wrote letters in defense of Laith Marouf, a Palestinian student at Concordia, who was expelled for writing pro-Palestinian graffiti on university property.
In New York, Mouammar says she was threatened for admitting she was Palestinian. As a result, she decided to move back to Canada where she thought her freedom of speech could be exercised freely.
Despite the outward intensity of political demonstrations, Mouammar wants others to know that political activism is not about violence, but understanding.
Maker Protocol’s stability fee is voted into existence with MakerDAO’s governance mechanism. The stability fee is what helps keep DAI’s peg afloat, and the confirmation of a reduction to 5.5% signifies a positive outlook on demand for DAI. As the price of ETH moves up, adoption metrics for DeFi protocols continue to chug along in tandem, October 28, 2019.
MakerDAO is governed using native MKR tokens, so it goes without saying that there is a correlation between MKR and DAI. But having been built on Ethereum, DAI shares a lot of fundamental relationships with ETH. In order to open a collateralized debt position (CDP) and mint DAI, one has to lock up 150 percent of the DAI loan amount worth of ETH.
MKR holders are rewarded as more CDPs are opened by way of stability fees. When arbitrage opportunities on DAI appear in the open market (exchanges), the stability fee is used as a means of keeping the peg stable. If DAI is falling below $1, fees are increased to stop people from mass minting DAI and incentivizes them to buy it on the open market. If the peg goes above $1, the stability fee is reduced so people can mint cheap DAI and bring the price closer to the $1 target.
Opening a CDP is profitable during ETH bull markets, and as the price has risen the last few days, DeFi has staged a comeback, reaching an all-time high for ETH locked in financial dApps.
Close to 2.2 percent of the entire supply of ETH is already invested into open finance protocol;. the United States M2 money supply is $15 trillion; 2 percent of that is $150 billion.
In that context, there is already a lot of ETH on these protocols, and issuance on Ethereum is far lower than the United States Treasury’s. If more ETH accrues to DeFi, and the price of ETH gains value along the way, it will make today’s viewpoint of capital in DeFi look like an illusion.
But, if ETH price appreciation is the driving factor for DeFi capitalization, as opposed to a scenario where protocols thrive because more absolute ETH is locked into DeFi, it will mean that usage hasn’t grown – only the base amounts in USD terms will have. This results in a network where wealth is largely concentrated with a few entities.
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