Activators - MIDI Lights and Faders

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Two prominent gun control organizations said Thursday that they will host a forum for Democratic presidential candidates in Las Vegas on Oct. 2, the day after the city marks the second anniversary of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

The Giffords group and March For Our Lives said the forum focused on gun violence will be the first of its kind for presidential hopefuls and will be open to all candidates who meet the Democratic National Committee's polling and fundraising thresholds for the September debate.

The organizations did not yet have details on which candidates would be attending. They have until Aug. 28 to qualify for the September debate.

Guns are a complex issue in Nevada, an early voting state that will be the third in the U.S. to weigh in on the 2020 Democratic field. Firearms and gun culture are popular in the Western swing state, which hosts the gun industry's biggest annual conference and counts Democrats among local gun owners.

But the state became the home of a grim milestone on Oct. 1, 2017, when a gunman opened fire on a crowd at a country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip. The shooting killed 58 people, injured hundreds of others and spurred state officials to make new calls to toughen gun control measures.

Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head in a 2011 mass shooting in Arizona and went on to form the Giffords organization, said the forum will give the candidates an important opportunity to talk about how they're going to make the country safer.

"If we're serious about tackling the biggest problems facing our country, we need serious conversations about solutions," she said in a statement.

David Hogg, a survivor of the last year's shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and co-founder of March for Our Lives, said the groups want to see the candidates in Las Vegas discuss "bold and holistic plans" that tackle all aspects of gun violence, including suicides and other shootings that don't receive as much attention as mass attacks.

Today we were flighing from Kathmandu to Delhi. Security was taken extremely seriously as our passports were checked even before entering the airport and at least four more times inside. Also the lugagge was scanned even before the airport entrance. Several hand luggage scans and thourough checks of its contents and its owner made the way to the aircraft much longer than expected. The flight itself was not very pleasant and quite shaky. Moreover some of our indian flight-mate's behaviour were a bit irritating: talking on cell phones until only seconds before airborne, running around aircraft to go to the toilet only seconds after the machine had touched indian grounds...

Delhi airport howere made a surprisingly positive impression: the cleanest toilets (with toilet paper!!!) we've seen in months and extremely friendly immigration officers who were trying to convince us to get married in an indian temple because it would bless us with all the luck of the world ;-)

We were then not only welcomed by Neeraj, Max's friend's driver, but also extremely thick, humid air of 38 degrees - apparently very nice and refreshing for the locals who had experienced temperatures of up to 45 degrees just a couple of days ago. The given comfort for the next days eased our acclimatision to the elevated temperatures.

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Two prominent gun control organizations said Thursday that they will host a forum for Democratic presidential candidates in Las Vegas on Oct. 2, the day after the city marks the second anniversary of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

The Giffords group and March For Our Lives said the forum focused on gun violence will be the first of its kind for presidential hopefuls and will be open to all candidates who meet the Democratic National Committee's polling and fundraising thresholds for the September debate.

The organizations did not yet have details on which candidates would be attending. They have until Aug. 28 to qualify for the September debate.

Guns are a complex issue in Nevada, an early voting state that will be the third in the U.S. to weigh in on the 2020 Democratic field. Firearms and gun culture are popular in the Western swing state, which hosts the gun industry's biggest annual conference and counts Democrats among local gun owners.

But the state became the home of a grim milestone on Oct. 1, 2017, when a gunman opened fire on a crowd at a country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip. The shooting killed 58 people, injured hundreds of others and spurred state officials to make new calls to toughen gun control measures.

Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head in a 2011 mass shooting in Arizona and went on to form the Giffords organization, said the forum will give the candidates an important opportunity to talk about how they're going to make the country safer.

"If we're serious about tackling the biggest problems facing our country, we need serious conversations about solutions," she said in a statement.

David Hogg, a survivor of the last year's shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and co-founder of March for Our Lives, said the groups want to see the candidates in Las Vegas discuss "bold and holistic plans" that tackle all aspects of gun violence, including suicides and other shootings that don't receive as much attention as mass attacks.

Today we were flighing from Kathmandu to Delhi. Security was taken extremely seriously as our passports were checked even before entering the airport and at least four more times inside. Also the lugagge was scanned even before the airport entrance. Several hand luggage scans and thourough checks of its contents and its owner made the way to the aircraft much longer than expected. The flight itself was not very pleasant and quite shaky. Moreover some of our indian flight-mate's behaviour were a bit irritating: talking on cell phones until only seconds before airborne, running around aircraft to go to the toilet only seconds after the machine had touched indian grounds...

Delhi airport howere made a surprisingly positive impression: the cleanest toilets (with toilet paper!!!) we've seen in months and extremely friendly immigration officers who were trying to convince us to get married in an indian temple because it would bless us with all the luck of the world ;-)

We were then not only welcomed by Neeraj, Max's friend's driver, but also extremely thick, humid air of 38 degrees - apparently very nice and refreshing for the locals who had experienced temperatures of up to 45 degrees just a couple of days ago. The given comfort for the next days eased our acclimatision to the elevated temperatures.