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Did Scott Walker open the door to a GOP convention challenge?
If the race for the GOP presidential nomination ends with a contested convention in July, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) believes the nominee will be someone who isn’t already in the race.
“I think if it’s an open convention, it’s very likely it would be someone who’s not currently running,” Walker told The Capital Times of Wisconsin Thursday.
If Scott Walker thinks that he can be elected president despite receiving exactly one vote in the entire race for the Republican presidential nomination (as a write-in in the New Hampshire primary, finishing behind, among others, Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, Vermin Supreme, Joe Biden, Ron Paul, Mike Bloomberg, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, Darryl Perry, and Tom Brady), I’d love to know what he’s smoking. Walker wrecked Wisconsin’s economy by busting unions, appointed virulent bigot and adulteress Rebecca Bradley to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, and suggested building a U.S.-Canada border fence. Now, he’s hinting at seeking a Republican convention challenge for their presidential nomination. Bernie Sanders would handily defeat Walker if it’s a Bernie vs. Walker matchup.
Milwaukee County (WI) Circuit Judge and Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Joe Donald has made his claim of being an independent-minded jurist pretty much his entire campaign for state supreme court.
On Friday a WisPolitics report (unfortunately hidden behind a paywall) highlighted Judge Joe Donald’s past support of Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley. According to the report Donald, one of two challengers vying to unseat Bradley, served as a reference on Bradley’s application for an appointment to the 1st District Court of Appeals and endorsed her campaign to retain a seat on the Milwaukee County bench in 2013.
When Rebecca Bradley, one of the most far-right judges in the entire country, ran for public office for the first time (for election to a full term to a Milwaukee County circuit judgeship that she was originally appointed to by Scott Walker), guess who was one of her biggest supporters…Joe Donald. When Rebecca Bradley sought a political appointment from Scott Walker to a seat on the Wisconsin Court of Appeals, guess who Bradley listed as her reference…Joe Donald.
The truth of the matter is that Joe Donald is too connected to the political old boys and girls network in Milwaukee, which also includes people like Rebecca Bradley, Chris Abele, and Scott Walker, to be a truly independent justice. There is only one candidate who will be a truly independent justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court if elected, and that candidate is JoAnne Kloppenburg. Unlike her opponents, Rebecca Bradley and Joe Donald, Kloppenburg will interpret the U.S. Constitution, the Wisconsin Constitution, and federal and state laws if elected to Wisconsin’s highest bench, not engage in any kind of judicial activism or making political decisions from the bench.
The non-partisan primary for Wisconsin Supreme Court is February 16. The top two candidates in the primary (likely Bradley and either Kloppenburg or Donald) will advance to the April 5 general election.
President Barack Obama recently pledged to use executive action (fact sheet here) requiring, among other things, licensing of the dealer and background checks on the purchaser on all gun sales in the United States. This executive action is clearly designed to make it much harder for criminals to obtain firearms.
Now, Scott Walker, the Governor of Wisconsin and a failed Republican presidential candidate who dropped out after his own party firmly rejected him on the national stage, is asking Brad Schimel, the Republican Attorney General of Wisconsin, to sue the federal government in an attempt to overturn the president’s executive actions.
Should federal courts side with Walker and Schimel, it would, once again, be ridiculously easy for a known criminal or someone else who is not legally allowed to possess a firearm to obtain a gun and kill people. For example, in 2012, Zina Haughton and two of her co-workers were shot and killed at a Brookfield, Wisconsin spa by her estranged husband, who purchased a gun online despite being under a restraining order that legally prohibited him from possessing a firearm. Had there been a strictly-enforced requirement of background checks on all gun sales in 2012, Zina Haughton would almost certainly be alive today.
Scott Walker and his far-right political allies in Wisconsin want to make it easier for criminals and others who shouldn’t be allowed to possess firearms to obtain firearms. That is absolutely asinine, and the vast majority of Americans think that it’s asinine as well.
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2019-04-24T10:27:45Z
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https://progressivemidwesterner.wordpress.com/tag/scott-walker/
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Arts
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Reference
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nj
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Patti Sapone/The Star Ledger Emilia Medina a bilingual poll clerk, right, stands by to assist a Spanish-speaking woman in the voting booth, left, at Lord Stirling School on Carmen Street in New Brunswick.
Election officials report light turnout for today’s primary elections, even in counties with competitive local and congressional races.
“So far it’s very light,” said William Heine, a spokesman for Monmouth County, after he checked with the county board of elections. Monmouth County makes up part of three congressional districts, all of which have contested Republican primaries today.
More than 5 million New Jersey voters are eligible to cast ballots in today’s primary: 1.75 million Democrats, 1.05 million Republicans and 2.44 million unaffiliated voters who would have to declare a party affiliation when they show up to vote. But only a small fraction are expected to turn out.
That’s typical for primary elections in New Jersey when there are no candidates for president on the ballot.
Since 1990, statewide voter turnout in primaries for House and U.S. Senate candidates has ranged from 8 percent to 13 percent. In 1998, the last time that only House seats were on the ballot, only 8 percent of those eligible to vote in the primary cast ballots.
In addition, a Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind poll released Monday found 14 percent of registered voters correctly identified June as the next time they'll have the opportunity to vote for office holders.
Monmouth University pollster Patrick Murray said low turnout generally adds some unpredictability to the election results, since small, determined groups can have more of an impact than they would with a larger turnout.
Fourty-seven candidates are running in the state’s 13 congressional districts: 29 Republicans and 18 Democrats.
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2019-04-21T20:06:29Z
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https://www.nj.com/news/2010/06/election_officials_report_ligh.html
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Arts
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Reference
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fanpop
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charlotte Casiraghi in Rio. . Wallpaper and background images in the princess charlotte Casiraghi club tagged: princess charlotte casiraghi.
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2019-04-21T09:04:59Z
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http://tl.fanpop.com/clubs/princess-charlotte-casiraghi/images/18190033/title/charlotte-casiraghi-rio-photo
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Arts
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Reference
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emory
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In this talk, we address the following question: Given a nonlinear equation u' = f(u) and a basis of fixed dimension r, find the best Galerkin model of dimension r. We present the answer proposed by our group for reduced order models (ROMs), supporting numerical results, and open questions. Specifically, we propose a data-driven correction ROM (DDC-ROM) framework, which can be formally written as DDC-ROM = Galerkin-ROM + Correction. To minimize the new DDC-ROM's noise sensitivity, we use the maximum amount of classical projection-based modeling and resort to data-driven modeling only when we cannot use the projection-based approach anymore (i.e., for the Correction term). The resulting minimalistic data-driven ROM (i.e., the DDC-ROM) is more robust to noise than standard data-driven ROMs, since the latter employ an inverse problem (which is sensitive to noise) to model all the ROM operators, whereas the former solves the inverse problem only for the Correction term. We test the novel DDC-ROM in the numerical simulation of a 2D channel flow past a circular cylinder at Reynolds numbers Re = 100, Re = 500, and Re = 1000.
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2019-04-24T16:23:15Z
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http://math.emory.edu/events/seminars/seminar.php?SEMID=1267
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vibe
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Available for pre-order now on iTunes, fans who purchase in advance receives a free download of track No. 5 “Holy Ghost.” Produced by Don Cannon and Lyle LeDuff, listen to the eerie cut as Jeezy goes into classic hood storytelling mode.
Due September 2, Seen It All features appearances from Jay Z, Rick Ross, The Game, Akon, Lil’ Boosie, YG, and more.
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2019-04-25T17:50:40Z
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https://www.vibe.com/2014/08/new-music-young-jeezy-holy-ghost
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Games
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livejournal
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I just took this 40 question quiz to find out how good my English is. If nothing else, it's fun.
to understand things that most people don't. You have an extensive vocabulary, and you're not afraid to use it properly! Way to go!
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2019-04-19T18:18:45Z
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https://kittytech.livejournal.com/143034.html
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Recreation
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tripod
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Arol enterred the tavern as quietly as he could. He didn't like this section of the city, but he really didn't see as to there being any other choices. This tavern was where the merchant had arranged for their meeting. As much as he hated it, he had to go here. Otherwise, he would never be able to afford to get out of the city, as both Arol and new bride must.
All this was running through Arol's head as he stepped into the tavern. It was as plain as the look of distress bordering on disgust on his face as he glanced around the bar, looking for me. The slight bulge on his hip showed that either he brought the goods or he planned on double-crossing me. Arol, however, was not a malicious man. Such a pity that he had made the mistakes that brought him here tonight.
He found my table quickly enough. Breathing a deep sigh of relief, he approached and sat down in the seat opposite me in the dark booth. He nervousness screamed its existence as he sat across from me, tapping his fingers on the table. He nearly jumped when I called the waitress over to get us some meat. The waitress left and returned with a platter of spiced meats for each of us. As she smiled and left again, I turned back to him.
"Where is it?" I asked, going directly to business.
"Show me the payment first," Arol responded, his voice belying the tough facade he tried to show.
I produced the small pouch. I pulled the drawstring on the bag and let its contents of a few dozen small gems spill out onto the table. Arol drew in his breath sharply at the sight. It was the agreed upon price, but I doubt the child of a peasant had ever seen such wealth in his life.
"The sword?" said I, referring to his end of the bargain.
Never taking his eyes from the jewels in from of him, he reached beneath his worn cloak and produced a magnificent shortsword. The blade shone with its sharpness even in the dull light of the tavern. The hilt had a few gems set within, paltry things to the untrained eye, but priceless to an expert. The gems, however, drew one's eyes away from the several runes carved into the hilt and blade. Again, paltry to the untrained, but it radiated power to those who knew what to look for. I reached out to take a hold of it. Arol kindly obliged.
Arol scooped up the gems and placed them in his pouch. As he rose to leave, I motioned him to stop. Sitting back down, he looked at me curiously.
"Sit," I said, producing a bottle of wine that had been on the seat next to me. "We have a platter of fine food and fine wine. Sit, and enjoy the meal. I will tell you about myself."
Arol sat and began to eat some of the meat. His hunger was apparent, so I poured him a glass of wine to wash down the spices that burned his palate. He thanked me as he finished his glass.
"I've had this knife for as long as I can remember. It is made out of a dragon's tooth. It is the only link to my past that I have. I never knew my father, but I think this was his. My mother died before I could speak, so I never learned what my name was supposed to be. Orphaned and on the street, I made a name for myself. Longtooth, they call me. They named me after my knife.
"I suppose you can't understand what it's like to grow up alone on the streets of the city. To survive, one must be willing to do anything, and I mean anything. I turned to picking pockets early. After 11 summers that I remember, I was a thief extraordinare. I could walk into a crowd and walk out rich. But always there was someone bigger. They would take from me the gold and gems for my "protection". The bastards."
As he sipped another cup, I sheathed my knife and took out a gem of the purest quality. I let the torchlight of the tavern shine in every facet as I held in before him. He stared at it, entranced, as I continued.
"Since before I can remember, I liked gems. Somehow, their beauty just always entices me. It is that enticement that led me to my first burglary. I sneaked into the jewel shop late at night and filched a few gems, all without getting caught. By now I had a small reputation. People started coming to me with jobs, with gold or favors as payment. By my 15th summer, I was working almost every night on one job or another. The theivery didn't make me anymore happy, but it kept my belly full and me alive. Then one night, something went wrong.
"I was employed to sneak into a merchant's house and procure some items of interest. My emplyer had told me that the merchant had left. He had not. I snuck into the small mansion, avoiding the guards, but I ran into the merchant just where I was supposed to get the items. As the merchant was about to scream for help, I react. Drawing my knife, I threw it and got him in the throat. He collapsed without a sound. Shaken, I took back my knife, grabbed the items and ran.
"When I rendevoused with my employer, I was half-way tempted to kill him too for endangering me. He approached me and smiled. He then told me that he had planned it all along. He doubled my pay as a result. I realized then that there's more money in assassination than there ever was in burglary. It had been felt... wrong to kill, but I could live with feeling wrong. I couldn't live without food."
Arol still stared at me, enraptured. He still hadn't peiced things together. I almost felt sorry for him. Almost. I decided it was time to cast aside the masquerade.
"Recently, I was approached by a man. He was a very rich merchant. He told me a story. It turns out that his daughter had run away with a little peasant boy. That had angered him, but had that only been it, he would simply let her bespoil herself if she wished. He didn't care for her at all. What he did care about was that she took a priceless sword from him when she ran away. So he hired me. I was to retrieve the sword and kill both his daughter and her lover to send a message that he would not tolerate theft of his property."
Arol started shaking before I was finished. He looked around for something, anything to stop the killer sitting across from him in a dark tavern in a run-down section of the city. I was almost amused by his franticness, but again the pity surged with his ignorance of his fate. I pushed them both away as I calmly told him of his death.
"Don't even try to attack me. You would be dead before you moved an inch. But you're dead already. The wine you drank was poisoned. I would say you have about enough life left in you to make it to your house and see your wife one last time before you die. Run."
He took my advice and bolted out of the tavern. He ran through the streets, the poison slowing his steps and blurring his mind. He managed to find the house that his wife was in before he died. Enterring, he smelled the thick iron smell of blood.
Frantic he ran from room to room, searching. He finally found her. Slipping in blood, he fell without the strength to rise again. Looking up he saw her. Her throat had been slit and she was left lying on the ground, near where he fell. Crawling on his side, tears rolling freely, he pulled himself close enough to kiss her lips one last time and caress her face before the void claimed him.
Emerging from the shadows, I placed the gem I showed him within his pocket. Maybe somebody who cared might find the bodies. The gem should pay for a funeral, not the pretty glass peices I gave him in the bar.
I had trailed him through the streets, and watched from the shadows of his house as he spent his last moments. At the scene of such love, something shifted within me. I ignored it. Somewhere, deep inside me, I wondered if I mourned for the two lovers who I killed, who's only mistake was being born in the wrong families. For an instant I wondered. For an instant.
I pushed aside the emotions, just as I always did. When I died, there would be no mourners. I will be killed like how I killed them. There will be no records of my passing, no fond memories of friends. That is the life I lead. I am alone. I have always been alone. I always will be. That is just the way things are.
I faded back into the shadows.
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2019-04-21T08:13:46Z
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http://quazi2020.tripod.com/fiction/portrait.htm
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Arts
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Business
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whitney
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Listen to an audio guide highlighting selected works in Frank Stella: A Retrospective with narration by students from PS 33 Chelsea Prep and Whitney Museum educator Mark Joshua Epstein.
Mark Joshua Epstein: My name is Mark Joshua Epstein. I’m an educator at the Whitney Museum and I’m here with some fifth grade students to take a look at the Frank Stella retrospective today.
Shumit: Hi. My name’s Shumit.
Isabella: Hi. My name is Isabella.
Uma: Hi, my name is Uma. And we’re all in the fifth grade at PS 33 Chelsea Prep.
Mark Joshua Epstein: The Frank Stella retrospective covers about sixty years of Stella’s career. It’s over ninety works of art, and it gives us sort of an in-depth look at a bunch of different series that he’s done over the decades.
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2019-04-25T16:49:02Z
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https://whitney.org/audio-guides/26
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Arts
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Arts
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arizona
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Brett Francis Larson graduated from the University of Arizona with a bachelors in Creative Writing (Poetry) and French, and later an MA in English as a Second Language.
Technological advances continue to define and redefine the ways in which teachers and educators look at design, implementation, and assessment of learning in higher education. José Antonio Bowen, current president of Goucher College in Baltimore, musician, and joint PhD-holder in humanities and music from Stanford, is the author of Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology Out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning (2012) , a recent publication attempting to address various issues related to technology in the university classroom. His book, a body of roughly 300 pages of text, is separated into three parts which address the digital landscape we now live in, the practical applications of technology in (and outside) of university classrooms, and finally advice for administrators currently employed in higher education as to the educational market in terms of online versus traditional face-to-face delivery methods for learning. In this paper, I will break down each part by summarizing the main points from each chapter, then include a synthesis of the goals and themes for these three sections of the book before finishing with a general discussion of the successes and areas of weakness found therein. Finally, the field of second language acquisition (SLA) has an established specialized field studying the use of technology in the teaching of languages, and I will attempt to approach the statements presented in Teaching Naked with a view toward their applications and potential dissonance with SLA pedagogy.
First, we will begin with a general introduction to the stated goals and audience of the novel. The book begins to shed light on these in its preface, mentioning its dual audience of "higher education faculty and administrators-with the dual purpose of illuminating both the why and the how of our technological and pedagogical feature" (p. xiii), and asserting that "technology is a technique, not a strategy" (p. xiv). Bowen then relays his goal "to show how new technology can support best practices in pedagogy" (p. xiv), and that this technology "is most powerfully used outside of class as a way to increase naked, nontechnological interaction with students inside the classroom" (p. x, italics in original). After explaining the structure of the book, the closing section of the preface reflects on the author himself, including the concession that "like most faculty, I have not been trained in pedagogy" (p. xvii), but quickly follows this by mentioning his discussion of the ideas in the book with pedagogy experts.
Now, we shall turn to look at the chapters in-depth and begin summarizing the work as a whole.
As noted above, the book is split into three parts comprising eleven chapters. Part One: The New Digital Landscape includes chapters one "The Flat Classroom and Global Competition," two "Social Proximity and the Virtual Classroom," and three "Games, Customization, and Learning." Continuing to the lengthier Part Two: Designing 21st-Century Courses, we have chapters four through eight, named "Designing College More Like a Video Game," "Technology for Information Delivery," Technology for Engagement," "Technology for Assessment," and "The Naked Classroom" respectively. The final part, Part Three: Strategies for Universities of the Future, rounds out the remaining chapters with titles "The Educational Product in the Internet Age" for chapter nine, "The Naked Curriculum" for ten, and finally "The Naked Campus" for chapter eleven. A traditional bibliography and index follow the body of the text. For the purposes of this review, we will split the chapters into the same three parts described in this paragraph, beginning with part one.
The book opens with a state-of-the-union like address on the classroom and education as it stands after the Digital Revolution, pointing to the ubiquity of electronic forms of learning by way of a long list of examples of "flat-screen classrooms" (areas where learning has been primarily delivered on various technological screens), concluding that "The point here is not that online learning is better but just that it is here" (p. 9). Bowen utilizes the metaphor of 1970s General Motors (and their inability to take seriously the threat of foreign auto companies) to parallel the state of competition in American higher education and also faculty set in traditional face-to-face delivery methods. It becomes clear throughout this chapter (and holds true throughout the remainder of the text) that the focus for the book will be on American universities and their particular brand of education, using world markets and foreign universities more as a point of comparison to highlight aspects of the American market. Next, Bowen poses the question of "learning or credentials?" (p. 14) and notes rankings reports for American universities mostly concentrate on input factors such as SAT scores and selectivity, and include only "indirect at best" output factors like rate of alumni donation. Bowen continues by examining the pricing structure and noting that "it is at best a paradox, at worst appalling, that although we say we want to develop critical thinking skills, we structure most of higher education around delivery of content" (p. 20) before summarizing the four business models of education. First, the free model (which Bowen says will continue to grow); second the elite university (Yale, Harvard, etc.) model which will survive on brand recognition; third the for-profit and community college "results-oriented, flexible, convenient, and jobs-focused" model which students will continue to pay for; and lastly, the traditional university (sometimes referred to in the text as 'middle universities') without elite status and becoming increasingly expensive, whose future is more in the balance than the other models (p. 23).
Chapter two, "Social Proximity and the Virtual Classroom," introduces the reader to the nature of social interaction in the digital age and makes the case for embracing new technology by providing examples of positive applications of Facebook, Twitter, and Skype. Additionally, the introduction of a key component of the book labeled 'implementation' sections begins to add the practical side with specific, concrete illustrations of the uses of each new piece of technology as it is presented. These implementation sections are less frequent in Part One of the book, but quickly become the core of the work in Part Two, as will be discussed later. Another noteworthy moment in chapter two shows a honing of the audience for the book, as Bowen writes "for many of us, going to concerts, lecture, the movies, or social activities provided time to be disconnected from other demands. Our students, however, find requests not to text during these activities strange, annoying and downright silly" (p. 28), giving weight to the notion that mostly scholars past the Millennial generation (a dichotomy of Millennials and non-Millennial teachers returns several times in the remaining chapters) will be reading this book. Closing the chapter is the concession that "more contact is not automatically better contact, but the potential for increased reinforcement and application is there….The talking head is dead, but the need for thought and reflection will only increase" (p. 47), and calling for an awareness that "we engage and provoke students best face-to-face if we focus on human interaction. The best courses will make the best use of social and physical proximity" (p. 49), supporting the theme of his book that we maximize time in class with more non-technologically-enhanced human interaction.
Chapter three focuses mainly on presenting an extended metaphor of video games design to illuminate how we should design learning. Pulling primarily from James Paul Gee's work and presenting a large body of research enumerating the many hours students are devoting to video games, Bowen introduces the concepts of customization and how the general structure of video games can teach us much about built-in incentives and lower consequences for risk-taking. Additional examples come from the world of mobile applications or 'apps,' and Bowen presents the many advantages of utilizing apps for education to extend beyond the physical sphere of the college campus. The final lines of the chapter state the potentially controversial declaration that "we need to make college more like a video game" (p.71), and part one draws to a close here.
Summary and critical reflections of Part One. Overall, Part One is mostly used as an argument for the inclusion of a wider variety of technology to keep up with the current market. The audience appears to be professors stuck on PowerPoint and lectures as their only delivery method, and teachers who are already proponents of technology might not benefit much from this introductory section of the book. Still, there is a wealth of resources and the inclusion of implementation sections beginning in chapter two is helpful for those looking for new practical ways to use the technology they may already be familiar with, but there is little attention given to the potential negatives of increased technology in and outside the classroom. The fast-paced nature of technological advancements also brings into question the staying power of the advice presented here as new updates and changing software is sure to quickly replace the recommendations offered. The scope of the book remains broad so that it can be applied to a wide range of disciplines, and a consequence is that there is no discussion of how certain disciplines might benefit more from this shifting of technology outside the classroom versus others that may have gains from keeping it inside. There is a stark lack of student voice included as support. Many statements are made as to the wants of the students (and to a lesser extent, parents), but they are almost exclusively generalized declarations without quotes or research cited to back up that this is truly a desire expressed by the student population. For so much discussion about the market and the value of education for students, the consumer's voice is missing.
Part Two starts immediately where we left off with the title of chapter four "Designing College More Like a Video Game. This chapter mostly functions as the theoretical framework for the book, building on the presentation of Gee's work and adding Zull (2004), Bain (2004) and the update on Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives provided by Fink (2003) (a central theory referenced with regularity in subsequent sections of the book). The headings in this chapter move from brain development, to models of intellectual development, models for designing educational experiences, to contexts for learning, and a look at the nature of motivation. The chapter heavily fluctuates between exposition and 'implementation' subsections, with nearly half of the chapter's information delivered in the latter. Bowen's call is to better integration and use of technology to motivate change (with repeated use of the video game metaphor established in chapter three) and creating "pleasantly frustrating" tests and constant low-stakes tasks "that motivate students to persist" (p.97). In closing, Bowen turns his focus on how "we now need to determine which technologies can most enhance learning and when and how we can use them to motivate change" (p. 102), the central questions of the following chapter.
Chapter five, "Technology for Information Delivery," is the start of the most practical section of the book, and again we find implementation subsections occurring frequently. Bowen shows us tips for freeing class time with e-communication to deliver announcements; summaries; reading, files, notes, and handouts; and additional content 'outside' or before class begins, plus how to utilize email as a teaching technique with a concrete example from one of his classes. His central aim is to move first exposure to a subject from the PowerPoint-delivered lecture in the classroom to technology students view before coming to class (a variation on the educational concept of flipped classrooms). Next, Bowen thoroughly explores podcasts which he believes are "better than lectures," both in that teachers can find a wealth of existing podcasts or create their own, and the benefits (mostly found on pages 114-116) they have over video-captured lectures. Separating these podcasts into modules, Bowen believes, will help make "the role of the professor in the future…less about creating new presentations of old content and increasingly about curating, assembling, and guiding students through existing materials," or as he suggests, following "one of the maxims of the new media…'Do what you do best and the link the rest'" (p. 124-125). It is possible that this might create the added strain, however, of having teachers become experts on a wider body of online information so students do not find example modules with inaccurate or problematic information. Bowen assures us that "most of us object to meetings with 40-minute PowerPoint presentations followed by 10 minutes for questions. What we really want is to see the presentation in advance with some time to ponder it" (p.126), and it is on this premise that the technology-flipped classroom thrives.
the need for more nontechnological face time, but it is unpractical and perhaps even foolish to think that we can design assignments for which students will simply choose not to use the greatest resource ever created for scholars. If you want students to learn to do something longhand that can be done in a fraction of the time on a computer or the Internet, you should have good reason (p. 146).
Whether we are educating citizens, job seekers, or scholars, it makes sense to ask students to memorize less and analyze more. Whether we call it digital literacy or critical thinking, future students must be able simultaneously to find information and evaluate it. Making tests open book and open Internet creates a situation that is much more like the real world, but it also requires a radical rethinking of the notion of testing. We can still use multiple-choice question, but rather than ask questions that are about only pieces of information we need to design questions that test thinking skills (p. 178).
"The Naked Classroom," chapter eight, begins with another heavy declaration that "we have a national problem: college is boring, and students are not graduating," pointing its finger at the lecture-only classroom as a significant cause for this boredom (p. 185). The first few headings in the chapter investigate the place of lectures, exposing their good qualities (good at showing the correct entry points for content, excellent at motivation, providing role models, and at making connections and better questions), and challenging our common-sense assumptions about them (see implementation: picking the right pedagogy, page 190). Bowen then suggests alternative activities to happen in classrooms instead of lectures, mostly revolving around collaborative tasks, structuring good discussions, lab and studio work, and searching for ways to integrate service-learning projects. Also, tips are presented for what to do with students' technology use in the classrooms and Bowen comments on the long-standing debate of banning laptops and cellphones (his stance: "respect students enough to make class interesting and worth the time to stop texting," and "make some use of technology but have consistent policies: think about what your policies say about your attitude toward the modern world" [p. 209]).
Summary and critical reflections of Part Two. This section truly is the meat of the work as a whole, addressing the how-to and practical side that is implied by the subtitle of the book. Whereas Part One seems to lean heavily on only the positives of technology in the classroom, Part Two feels significantly more balanced and dives further into questions of what might arise when executing the suggested pedagogical implementations. The overall focus appears to be an attempt to shift the elder faculty audience Bowen continues to appeal to toward these new methods. A concern with this, however, is if the audience of this book has mostly been on teachers who are non-tech users, the switch to all these new gadgets might be a steep learning curve that would require even more time for new users to acquaint themselves with all the bells and whistles and subtleties that Bowen promotes. Teachers already accustomed to the platforms mentioned, however, may find this section most helpful in discovering potentially new uses for these familiar aspects of their teaching.
After endorsing technology and exploring its driving force of change in Part One, and demonstrating in Part Two how it can transform and improve on learning, Part Three opens with chapter nine's "The Educational Product in the Internet Age" which attempts to "address the more administrative and financial issues confronting face-to-face high education and will argue that teaching naked is a vital strategy for its survival" (p. 217). Once again, Bowen utilizes extended metaphors by looking at the evolution of music, journalism, and the selling of books to give historical insight into how the digital revolution might change education. Pointing to a cycle recurring in these three spheres, Bowen lists three lessons learned-that the product can change, customization and social isolation will increase, and more choices will create new gatekeepers. He then defines our product as an experience, as local, as a hybrid, and as unique, challenging higher education to "distinguish the real product from its unnecessary packaging" (p. 231), limit the online strategies of middle universities (those not associated with elite brand names) to local regions, "replace larger lecture sessions with brand-name online podcasts and instead have local faculty interact with students in smaller face-to-face sessions" (p. 236), and "emphasize naked human connection across the curriculum and in all learning" (p. 239). The key, Bowen states in the close of the chapter, is in finding the right hybrid. "The best course of the future will combine both online and physical instruction, but in different amounts. The best curriculum will combine common courses from cheap online sources and physical courses that are offered only locally. The key will be discovering the right hybrid for your institution" (p. 241).
Moving into chapter ten, "The Naked Curriculum," Bowen continues to zoom out to the larger administrative issues that we saw in chapter nine. Again he targets the middle universities, asking them "to choose whether to become part of a larger supply chain or grow a more unique local product." The remainder of the chapter tackles the daunting task of how to make changes from the top down, with headings such as "turn professors into curators," "rethink the units of learning," and "improve curricular progression." A particularly detailed implementation section entitled 'how deans can foster better teaching' (pp. 247-252) is one of the strongest in the book. Bowen's discussion of what is the unit of learning we should be looking at analyzes the idea of badges and credentials, then asks us why we continue to view the bachelor's degree as 120 units or if there might be better alternatives. This subsection culminates in the assertion that "the degree is a unit of packaging, not the product. The real product is learning" (p. 259). The chapter ends with a push to improve curricular progression, stating "the current assumption in American higher education is that the course is the learning unit and that courses are additive and interchangeable: 30 credits makes you a sophomore, and 120 credits means you can graduate," and further down "What this says about American education is that we are focused on content. If all we require is that any student complete the final exam to a sufficient standard in a certain quantity of courses, we signal that there is only a single level of thinking available or required" (p. 261, italics in original) and not the progression of more and more advanced critical thinking skills that universities claim is their mission and best case for their place in the educational market. He urges administrators to reflect on the nature of sequential learning ("why would we not require juniors to have better writing skills than sophomores in every class?" [p. 262]) that is or is not built into their curriculum.
The final chapter, "The Naked Campus," moves to an even wider view of the state of bureaucracy in higher education, and considers the economics of the university educational system. Headings in this section promote integrating infrastructures, integrating learning, reconsidering price discounting, creating learning-based pricing, becoming curators of risk, and identifying the market so as to best serve it. How will this flipped-technology classroom change the nature of the buildings and classrooms we use if it is applied globally across all disciplines on campus, Bowen asks the reader. More large lecture halls might become available to be split into smaller, more experimental classrooms with moveable furniture instead of merely rows upon rows. Pricing based on learning outcomes might make faculty worried and afraid about administrators measuring 'effective teaching,' Bowen notes, but "if higher education priced its product…and delivered guaranteed learning for a fixed price, we would at least be consistent in our logic that educated students are the product" (p. 279). His advice for the "crowded" market of middle universities-"market differentiation will be essential in the future. Focus on the intersection of your core strengths and your core market and find something to do well" instead of fighting to make it or move higher on Top 50 rankings (p. 283). In the end, Bowen claims it becomes a necessity that "we…maximize the learning per square foot: it all needs to be naked" (p. 286).
Summary and critical reflection on Part Three. Considering Bowen's history as Dean of the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University and his role as current president of Goucher College, it may come as no surprise that the strongest area of this book is in the administrative section of Part Three. Where many books might be content to praise the new technology and offer advice on how to use it in a classroom, it is to our great advantage that Bowen includes this final view toward integration of these practices into higher levels of the academic world. For those professors and scholars already tasked with extra administrative duties, this will likely provide substantial aid in advocacy for the significant changes Bowen presents throughout parts one and two. For younger professionals not currently as involved in the administrative process, this section proves insightful for the various concerns administrators face when attempting to incorporate new pedagogies or wide-spread modifications to existing systems.
As mentioned above, the book does not endeavor to enter the discipline-specific benefits or applications, but most of the implications lead to a belief that the majority of the teachers reading this operate with a mostly sage on the stage, lecture-driven-only teaching style (since, Brown contests, most faculty have not received training in pedagogy) and "little to no training in course design" (p. 99). The language learning classroom, however, presents a different atmosphere, and in the following paragraph I attempt to analyze some of the points of Teaching Naked in view of this specific discipline and its typical classroom.
Bowen does address the foreign language education discipline in an implementation subsection in chapter three (see 'implementation: foreign languages,' pages 57-58) and also the market for flat-screen foreign language education on page 6, however briefly. Mostly, though, the text promotes a push toward more task-based activities and student production and discussion in the live classroom while technology is utilized outside the class. The propensity to find communicative methods as the dominant teaching style for many language classrooms in the United States means that a vast number of language teachers are already employing more student discussion and face-to-face interaction with their students (as opposed to the PowerPoint-driven lecture). Virtual communities, computer-assisted language learning (CALL), social-media sites and online aids for language learning have been a frequent point of discussion and research in the field of second language acquisition for decades, and the best practice tips in Part Two might not be as new to those who've attended large conferences of professional organizations in the field like TESOL International and other language pedagogy events. Additionally, many language textbooks in the introductory classes are mandatory and the insistence on utilizing pre-built podcasts from others' courses and other universities might not overlap as well and could create resentment from students who buy the book and never use it. A positive to the pre-recorded podcasts and materials, though, might exist for non-native speaking teachers of a language where they could employ more native-speaker speech (and from a potentially wider range of dialects or geographical areas) for their students. Chapter seven's use of technology for before-the-class assessment might be most applicable for language teachers in providing new ways to better prepare students for the day's lesson. Chapter eight's question of motivation for students to come to class instead of sitting at home is weaker in view of the fact that for many students of a certain language, however many hours a week they are in class might be the only chance they get to interact with other speakers of the language (either other students or native-speaker teachers).
The main criticism with this work is its lack of student opinion and student voice throughout. As mentioned earlier, the support of the voices of our students that these are true desires for their education could greatly strengthen the points made in the text. Two research projects cited in the book appeared to have some feedback from students built in, but the only direct quote from a student appears nearly two-thirds of the way through the book on page 193. So much of this text depends on the truth that students want to see this kind of larger integration of technology outside of the classroom. Bowen says in chapter six "students like to distinguish between the classroom and the real world, and if you interact with students only in the classroom you reinforce this false dichotomy" (p. 136) and that technology "offers faculty the chance to change how much and how often students think about course content outside of class" (p. 30), but some students might not want to receive notifications, questions, and academic problems when not on campus. Some students do not want to mix social media, games, and other 'fun' activities with the feeling of academic 'work.' Without student voices represented, it is hard to know if these assumptions are truly catering to our students in the ways they are seeking. The subsection 'implementation: sample reading introduction' provides us with a nearly three-page example email in an attempt to show how email can be used as a first introduction to a topic before class starts, but one cannot help but wonder if students will apply the same logic as when they "might go to the library between classes, but most students could (and still) get by with just the class notes and maybe a glance at the textbook" (p. 127), skimming these email introductions for the necessary questions to pass the before-class assessment and ignoring the rest. Also, certain communities might be better built for access to technology and more accustomed to learning this way, while others might not. In the end, I believe it will come down to the assessment of needs of our students before utilizing this as a long-term pedagogy.
Teaching Naked appears to be most beneficial to scholars who have been working (mostly lecturing) in academia for long periods of time without pedagogical training, who have previously not attempted to incorporate technology, and who are in administrative positions. Many professors accustomed to technology in conjunction with teaching may find it best to skip Part One and focus primarily on Part Two for new ideas of implementation and assessment. Revisiting the goals and the audience as described in the preface of this book, I believe Bowen succeeds in speaking mostly to the readers he planned on addressing and presenting arguments for the pedagogical move of taking technology outside the classroom. In conclusion, as teachers with a wide range of student populations and student needs, it is up to us to monitor the evolution of online education and technology and decide if the flipped-technology classroom is the best model for us. If it is, Bowen's Teaching Naked will be a good place to start and a great resource as we embrace this unique pedagogy.
Brett Francis Larson, MA in ESL, is a graduate of The University of Arizona. He is currently a French Cultural & Linguistic Specialist at Concordia Language Villages, a program of Concordia College at Moorhead.
Bowen, J. A. (2012). Teaching naked: How moving technology out of your college classroom will improve student learning. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, a Wiley imprint.
Zull, J.E. (2004). The art of changing the brain. Educational Leadership, (62) 1, 68-72.
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https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/itet/article/view/18430/18213
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I am Graduate from Huddersfield University, where I studied BA (Hons) Costume with Textiles. I am now looking to gain more experience working in Film and T.V doing costume standby. Through the previous placements and jobs I have had I have experience with working on set, continuity and being on stand by as well as sourcing costume and dressing actors. I really enjoy working within a running wardrobe and I would like to gain more experience so that I can pursue a career as a costume supervisor.
Through my course at university I have learnt how to pattern cut and I am confident in making. I have specialised in embroidery so I have a good understanding in different embroidery techniques. I have a basic knowledge in tailoring and have experience with making corsets. I am confident with using the adobe suite; especially Photoshop and I have a full, clean driving licence.
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2019-04-25T04:28:57Z
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https://www.mandy.com/theatre-professional/profile/rosie-lorenz
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DARPA's super-resolution vision system (SRVS) works as a super-sniper rife scope. The device allows a sniper to actually see through atmospheric turbulence caused by heat ("heat shimmer") to resolve a distant target.
SRVS uses signal processing to take raw images and pick out the ones that are taken during moments of relative clear seeing. This turbulence-generated micro-lensing then stitches these good frames together to provide a clear view of a target.
Those DARPA guys are always thinking ahead; perhaps they could take a tip from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. In Field of Fire, an episode broadcast in 1999, a crew member is killed under mysterious circumstances.
The TR-116a Tactical Sniper Rifle) was equipped with a micro-transporter, which allowed him to beam the bullet into another room only 8-10 centimeters from its target and an exographic targeting sensor which allowed Chu'lak to scan through walls and target victims anywhere on the station from the safety of his quarters. The station's counselor, Lieutenant Ezri Dax, later used a similarly modified rifle to non-lethally stop Chu'lak.
From Wired; see also the Visibuilding program.
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2019-04-26T08:38:45Z
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http://technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=1885
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trouserpress
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What's the Trouser Press Record Guide?
So what reviews will I find here?
Can you give me some tips for searching the site?
What are those abbreviations in the discographical headings?
What happened to the first trouserpress.com?
For old time's sake, can I still buy the books?
Is there a new book or CD-ROM in the works?
How do you decide which artists get reviewed here?
Can I write reviews for the site?
Will you correct a factual mistake I've spotted?
Can you sell me a record I’ve read about or help me track down a copy?
What's a trouser press anyway?
How are things going for Yo La Tengo?
Trouser Press was a New York-based rock music magazine that specialized in a number of genres British Invasion history, new wave, progressive and independent-label releases during its existence, which was from 1974 to 1984. In 1983, the editors of the magazine authored the first of a series of record guides. Those books are the basic content of this site.
Five books of album reviews have been published under that name, and their content forms the basis of this site.
The first edition, quaintly titled The Trouser Press Guide to New Wave Records, was published in hardcover and paperback in 1983 and covered the music's roots in groups like the Velvet Underground, New York Dolls, Flamin' Groovies and Stooges up through the techno-poppers of the early '80s.
The New Trouser Press Record Guide, published in 1985 in hardcover and paperback, greatly expanded and updated both the stylistic and chronological scope of the coverage, taking into account the increasing popularity of CDs and other developments.
The third edition was issued under the same title (but only in paperback) in 1989, reviewing more than 6,000 records by nearly 2,000 artists in 658 pages.
The fourth edition was published in paperback in 1991. With all the updates and revisions, it ran to 764 pages, covering 2,500 artists and nearly 10,000 records. We had reached a dead end in terms of the ability to keep adding entries and updating entries ad infinitum, so we decided to start from scratch.
The Trouser Press Guide to '90s Rock, published in early 1997, was an 846-page paperback containing almost entirely new material 2300 bands and 8500 records from the era that nominally began with Nirvana's Nevermind. Read the preface.
The archival contents of the first four Trouser Press Record Guide books (written in the '80s, covering everything from the '60s roots of punk and new wave to the end of the '80s), which were online in a previous Trouser Press website launched in the mid-'90s in partnership with SonicNet. Also, the content of The Trouser Press Guide to '90s Rock, which was published in 1996. And a whole lot of updates and new entries.
The search engine is literal. If you don't match names correctly, the entries won't turn up. Spelling and punctuation (but not capitalization) count. Try typing only the first part of a name if you're not confident in spelling the whole thing.
Articles. By Trouser Press convention, articles in band names are typically omitted from the headings unless they are an integral part of the name (The For Carnation, A Band Called Bud), intentionally misspelled (Thee Hypnotics, Th Faith Healers), unlikely to be correctly presumed in context (the The) or in a language other than English (Los Lobos, Die Toten Hosen), so when you search, generally omit articles like "the."
Secondary headings (like Tin Machine under David Bowie) are searchable as well.
Try the alphabet. Another approach to finding what you want is to scan the alphabetic listings of entries.
Click here to view an explanation of the abbreviations used on the site.
Ira Robbins. I was one of the three founders of Trouser Press magazine and the editor of all of the Trouser Press books. If you care to know more about it, here's a lengthy online interview for your perusal. Of course, I'm not alone here in cyberspace. The site was built by Jim Glauner, one of the folks behind the excellent (but defunct) publication Oculus. The home page was designed by Kristina Juzaitis.
Over the years, many fine writers have contributed to the Trouser Press books and have reviews posted on this site. And, now, many more critics will join them here for the first time. Click here for a complete list of contributors.
The site we created in partnership with SonicNet in 1997 was unceremoniously taken down at the end of 1999, after SonicNet was acquired by MTVi. They were very nice about sorting things out with us, and that enabled us to create the second TrouserPress.com, which took a frighteningly long time to do. This version is owned and operated independently, joining the content of the old site (but not the bulletin boards, which got lost on a server somewhere) with a second section of more modern reviews for your edification and irritation that has never been online before.
Only The Trouser Press Guide to '90s Rock is currently in print. Amazon sells it online, and occasionally lists copies of earlier editions as well. Copies come up on eBay occasionally, so that's worth checking.
No. We'll stick with the Internet for right now.
It's a highly refined scientific process that involves weighing numerous factors, listening to diverse arguments, gathering critical assessments and then making a seat-of-the-trousers decision, subject to ignorance, bias, time and energy.
Perhaps. E-mail us for submission guidelines.
Sure. E-mail the info to us.
At the top of each entry, next to the artist name, you'll see a link that reads (Buy CDs by this artist). Hit that and you'll be connected to Insound, a New York based oniline music retailer, to see what they can supply by that artist. If it's in print, independent label or major, chances are good they can sell it to you.
As for out-of-print, obscurities, rarities, collectible releases, etc., you might try looking in eBay or putting up a query on the Trouser Press message board to see if any of your fellow TP visitors can help you find what you're looking for.
On a related note, several organizations in the US and England began using the Trouser Press name for publishing enterprises after we did. None of them has anything whatsoever to do with us, and they should find names of their own. Granted, we took it off the Bonzos, but it was our idea to make it a publishing moniker and we trademarked it as such.
While it's confusingly true that both Iras play first base in the same Manhattan softball game every summer, that's where their career overlap ends. Ira Robbins is a journalist who plays in Utensil, while Ira Kaplan is the ex-journalist in Yo La Tengo.
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2019-04-20T00:51:58Z
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http://trouserpress.com/faq.php
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Are acts of terror always evil? The answer to this question, oddly enough, depends on a rather ill-understood moral principle, invented by Catholic casuists in the Middle Ages, called the doctrine of double effect.
The decision to reserve “terrorism” for nonstate acts of terror, or to extend it to state acts, is a semantic one. Morally, it does not matter whether the murderers of civilians are wearing uniforms or not. What might be morally relevant, though, is the cause behind the act of terror. If the cause is a bad one—revenge, say, or a war of aggression—then the act of terror is obviously bad: evil in pursuit of evil. But it is logically possible for the cause to be a good one. Ignatieff cites General Sherman’s murderous march through Georgia, which was intended “to bring the Civil War to a speedy conclusion.” Since Sherman’s intention was good, Ignatieff argues, he was not a terrorist. But this ends the debate too hastily, making terrorism evil by definition. The interesting question remains: Can the use of terror in a good cause, whether by a state or nonstate agents, ever be morally justified?
If the killing of noncombatants were absolutely forbidden, then almost any military action (excepting sea battles and desert wars) would be morally out of the question. When naval dockyards, munitions factories, and supply lines are bombed, civilian carnage is inevitable. That is where the doctrine of double effect comes in. Though it is always wrong to kill innocents deliberately, this doctrine says, it is sometimes permissible to attack a military target with the certain foreknowledge that some noncombatants will die as a side effect. It may even be permissible to bomb a hospital where Hitler is lying ill.
Acts of terror involve the deliberate killing of noncombatants as a means to an end. Thus they are forbidden by the law of double effect, specifically by condition 1). But is this doctrine really valid? Why not leave out intentions and simply judge the rightness or wrongness of an act by its consequences, the way utilitarians do? Take the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Between 120,000 and 250,000 civilians were deliberately executed en masse to cow the rulers of Japan into submission. Truman claimed in his memoirs that the alternative, an invasion, would have cost half a million American lives. If he was right (a big “if,” as revisionist historians will tell you), the net savings from these acts of terror amounted to around a quarter of a million lives. Why, one might ask, let medieval scruples about intentions get in the way of that?
There are plenty of contemporary moral philosophers who are unhappy with the doctrine of double effect. Some (Peter Singer, for example) reject it because they think the distinction between directly intended effects and inevitable side effects is a contrived one. If you ask the terror bomber why he is killing civilians, he will say, “To win a just war.” He might even say that he does not need the civilians actually to be dead, but only to be thought to be dead until the war is over to demoralize the other side. If his victims could be miraculously brought back to life after the end of the struggle, he would not object. In this sense, he does not really intend their deaths. (This point has been made by the philosopher Jonathan Bennett.) To take a different case: If I can kill Saddam Hussein only by shooting him through an innocent human shield, do I intend harm to the innocent shield or not?
A second problem with double effect (raised by the English philosopher Jonathan Glover) is identifying the class of evil acts that can never be justified by their good effects. It is not hard to imagine a case in which lying to an innocent person might save a life. Would the doctrine of double effect forbid this? Presumably not, but then why does it forbid the deliberate killing of an innocent person? Even supposing that killing is a million times worse than lying, if you can lie to save a life, why can’t you kill to save a million lives?
Finally, there is irrelevance of intentions to the harms caused by an act. The incidental victims of a strategic bomber are just as dead as the intended victims of a terror bomber; their surviving family members are no less grief-stricken. A civilian threatened by a strategic bomber has just as strong a moral claim to be rescued as a civilian threatened by a terror bomber.
The debate over the doctrine of double effect, though philosophically interesting, is mostly moot. It is possible to think up hypothetical cases where an evil act is a means to a disproportionately good outcome—”If you boil this baby it will save 10 lives.” But in the real world, acts of terror are rarely efficacious in a good cause (somewhat less rarely in a bad one). That is not surprising when you think about it. Deliberately killing noncombatants does not weaken an enemy militarily, precisely because they are noncombatants—children, the aged, and so forth. Far from having a demoralizing effect, the bombing of civilians both by the Germans and by the British during World War II seemed to stiffen the sinews of each side. In The Lessons of Terror, Caleb Carr produces ample historical evidence that terror is especially impotent when it comes to fighting terror—witness the sorry experience of the French in Algeria. All of which suggests an empirical counterpart to the doctrine of double effect: To act knavishly in a good cause is to act foolishly.
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2019-04-23T08:52:29Z
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https://slate.com/culture/2002/04/terrorism-and-the-philosophers.html
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bobvila
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While some cities rose to prominence early in our nation’s history and stayed there, others sat in the driver’s seat of progress for a narrow window of time, yet had an indelible impact on American life. Scroll through for a look at some of the overlooked cities that have had a tremendous impact on American history.
During the War of 1812, this burg served as the military headquarters for American forces posted on the Niagara frontier. Although it was burned to the ground by British forces during the Battle of Buffalo, the town eventually rose from the ashes to serve as Erie Canal's western terminus. By the turn of the 19th century, Buffalo had transformed itself into a boom town replete with flour and steel mills and railroads that proved pivotal for trade with the West.
Washington, D.C. may be our nation's capital today, but did you know that this humble city in southeast Pennsylvania once served as the seat of government? After the British captured the temporary capital of Philadelphia during the American Revolution, the Continental Congress fled to Lancaster, making it the capital for 24 hours. Alas, the designation didn't stick; on the run from the British, Congress hightailed it again, this time to York, Pennsylvania.
Founded in 1741, York served as the temporary capital of the Continental Congress and served as the site of the drafting of the Articles of Confederation in 1777.
Older than America itself, Detroit was founded as a bustling fur-trading post in the early 18th century, but earned its fame and fortune as the Motor City, the seat of America's automobile industry. Unfortunately, lack of diversification in the local economy paired with uncertainty at the "Big Three" auto makers—Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler—led to economic hardship from which the city is still recovering.
Cleveland earned its place on the map when it became a critical junction on Lake Erie for the shipment of raw materials like iron ore and copper. But it really hit the big time in 1870 when John D. Rockefeller chose Cleveland as the home of his company Standard Oil, which would eventually oversee more than 90 percent of the country's oil refineries.
Eight out of ten Americans live in the suburbs, a trend that might never have emerged if not for Levittown. Born out of the post-World-War II housing boom, the town became the first mass-produced suburb in the U.S. in 1951. Although contemporary architects and urban planners have adapted Levittown's original layout of cookie-cutter homes to feature dwellings with more architectural variety, the city remains an archetype for modern suburban developments.
In a bid to ease housing shortages and create a cooperative community of middle-income federal workers, this experimental town was founded in 1937 as the first and largest of three planned communities born out of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. The innovative 6-square-mile town, which included a cafe, grocery store, and housing that was filled by involved interviews with housing applicants, serves as a model for modern-day public cooperatives.
"The Insurance Capital of the World," as Hartford is known, sold its first policy for fire insurance way back in 1794. By 1950, when the city's population had grown to 177,000, Hartford was home to insurance giants ranging from Aetna to The Hartford, many of which remain in the Asylum Hill neighborhood to this day.
Albany made a name for itself during the late-18th to early-19th century as a center for transportation—both by land and sea. The city's location at the eastern edge of the Erie Canal, coupled with its rapid development of turnpikes and railroads, led it to become a major exporter of iron and lumber, offer a large number of industrial jobs, and serve as a stopover for pioneers headed for Buffalo and Michigan.
It was Atlantic City's thriving tourism industry in the late-19th to early-20th century that would eventually earn it the nickname of "The World's Playground." The city's distinct architectural and cultural innovations (including a boardwalk in 1870, and the invention of saltwater taffy in 1883) cemented its reputation as a resort town. Although tourism declined after World War II—and took the city’s fortunes with it—the rise of its casinos in the 1970s allowed it to regain prominence as a gamer's paradise.
If you've ever looked in awe at a towering skyscraper, you have Bethlehem to thank. Bethlehem Steel Corporation, founded in 1857, developed the "I-beam" widely used in steel skyscrapers. The company's impressive output, which included armor and warships for U.S. troops in both World Wars, made it the second-largest steel producer in the country between the mid-18th and mid-19th century.
As the eastern terminus of the National Road, the first major highway in the country built with federal funds, Cumberland facilitated westward migration between the early- to mid-19th century to lands newly acquired after the Louisiana Purchase. The 620-mile road also established Cumberland as an industry-rich town with sizable coal, iron, and timber stores.
Before the Galveston Hurricane made landfall in 1900 and devastated the city's infrastructure and industries, Galveston was Texas' largest city and one of the largest ports in the country. The "Queen City of the Gulf," as Galveston was known during at its heyday in the early to late-19th century, the city established the first naval base, cotton press, parochial school, and insurance company in the state.
The Florida East Coast Railway, completed in 1885, transformed St. Augustine into a winter resort town for American high society through the early twentieth century. Between 1887 and 1888, industrialist Henry Flagler oversaw the construction of the Moorish Revival-style Ponce de Leon and Hotel Alcazar, which established this city as the east coast's American Riviera.
Baltimore is the home of many important firsts, including the first U.S. post office in 1774, and the first telegraph line in 1844. However, Baltimore's Inner Harbor proved to be an important first for countless immigrants in the 19th and 20th centuries, who can count the site as where they took their first steps on U.S. soil.
Founded in 1620 by Pilgrims as the first permanent settlement in New England, Plymouth was the capital of the Plymouth Colony until it was integrated into the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1691. The city, named after the English town from which the Mayflower ship sailed, hosted the first Thanksgiving, and the laws and social norms of the townspeople are thought to have influenced the framers of the U.S. Constitution.
Hamptons demonstrated its military might throughout the 21st century with the establishment of the Langley Air Force base. During the Vietnam War, Langley Air Force base served as a waiting area for Air Force families to hang tight until their enlisted loved ones returned stateside.
While the Confederates and Union slugged it out on the battlefield, a quiet literary revolution was taking place in this New England town. Between the mid-19th to early 20th century, the city served as a meeting place for the Fireside Poets—a group of New England writers including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and William Cullen Bryant whose morality-laced poems so captivated readers that they made a habit of gathering by the fire at home to pore over them.
Portsmouth established itself as a preeminent architectural retreat between the 17th to 19th centuries by using the spoils of its long-running success in the shipbuilding industry to fund the construction of an array of exquisite Federal, Colonial, and Victorian-style buildings.
Following the Civil War, the then thriving maritime town of Providence turned its sights to manufacturing. Between the postbellum era and the start of the 20th century, the population grew threefold as the city became home to mega-sized manufacturing plants that produced highly-sought after goods such as textiles, jewelry, and machinery.
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2019-04-23T20:42:26Z
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https://www.bobvila.com/slideshow/20-towns-that-used-to-run-america-52431?slide_name=buffalo-new-york
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A conversation with Malik Muhammad, a Houston-based organizer with the National Black United Front.
Many Hurricane Katrina victims from New Orleans relocated to Houston and have had to go through this all over again. They are seeing almost the exact same response.
As Hurricane Harvey breaks the U.S. record for rainfall in a single tropical storm, reports are emerging that heavy flooding is debilitating hospitals, shuttering schools, deluging nursing homes and leaving tens of thousands in the Houston area in need of emergency shelter. Amid the devastation, which has killed at least 13 people, the U.S. Border Patrol continues to operate checkpoints—escalating the climate of fear for undocumented residents.
Like the floundering aid response, the severe storm itself is the product of social failure. It is well-established that, as human-made climate change sets new records in temperature, droughts are becoming more severe and storms becoming more frequent and extreme. Meanwhile, the corporations driving global warming are compounding the disaster: ExxonMobil admitted on Tuesday that the tropical storm damaged two of its refineries, releasing dangerous pollutants into nearby areas.
Malik Muhammad, is the national vice chair of organizing and training for the National Black United Front (NBUF), which he describes as “an organization of African descendants that is pro-black and dedicated to empowering, protecting and advocating on behalf of black people in America.” Malik is based in Houston’s Third Ward and involved in NBUF’s Houston chapter. I spoke to Malik, right before he was setting out on an aid and rescue mission, about the conditions that paved the way for the current crisis and the heroic efforts of ordinary people who have been largely abandoned by society and the state.
Sarah Lazare: What do you want our readers to know about what’s happening on the ground right now in Houston?
Malik Muhammad: First of all, there is a long history of neglect as it relates to city officials preparing for this flood and the storms we get on a regular basis in Houston.
We are also seeing gentrification, and many condo developers are not putting retention ponds in place as they should, so that the water will be able to drain back naturally to its proper place. You have communities that historically didn’t flood, but now water is going to those areas.
The mayors of Houston have, in large part, neglected the people of Houston and the city of Houston by not allocating money to fix the drainage issues in the city.
Sarah: As the disaster unfolds, is aid being evenly distributed?
Malik: You’re seeing some of these larger aid agencies, like the Red Cross, going out into the more affluent communities and leaving a lot of the more impoverished communities without resources.
We have military helicopters flying around, and there is a large police presence. As far as ICE intimidating people, a lot of the people who are affected by SB4 [a new rule outlawing sanctuary cities, yet to go into effect] are definitely afraid to call for help, due to the political climate we are in right now.
There isn’t as much assistance as people would like there to be. In my neighborhood, the Third Ward, I haven’t seen people in boats. In the more affluent communities, that’s where the resources are going. That’s where all the personnel are going. In our communities, people are left to fend for themselves. They are coming together.
We have flooding right next to one of our bayous in the Third Ward. Water is going through the bayou into the neighborhood and streets. People are stuck in their homes. It’s up to neighbors to reach out and help one another. We at NBUF are headed over there right now.
Sarah: What’s it like to provide direct aid? Can you describe the scene?
Malik: On the very first day of the hurricane, I was driving around my community. We couldn’t get out of our neighborhood. We were able to help several people, including homeless people. This was two days ago.
People were stranded, searching for high ground, walking through water, in their homes with ceilings collapsed. Elderly people were panicked and afraid and looking for some kind of assistance. There were children out here who have lost everything, as well as adults, looking to start their lives over. Many Hurricane Katrina victims from New Orleans relocated to Houston and have had to go through this all over again. They are seeing almost the exact same response.
We have a large SUV and a boat with trailer attached. We’ve been going out to rescue people yesterday, the day before, and now today.
Sarah: What resources are in place?
Malik: We have the Third Ward Multi-Service Center that we are referring people to in our neighborhood. The George R. Brown Convention Center is over-crowded. I hear people can’t locate their loved ones and it is causing panic. Many facilities have not been opened by the city. The city could have done a better job of opening facilities for people who lost everything. We have an astrodome, a soccer stadium, churches—they should be opened up.
Volunteers in the Third Ward are the ones getting people to the Multi-Service Center. I was there yesterday, and it is very wet. People are in need of shoes and clothes. They had wet feet and wet clothes. People looked pretty down-and-out. They’ve lost so much, and they’re afraid. It’s pretty depressing. There are about 100 people at the Third Ward shelter.
Sarah: For people who live far away and want to take concrete steps in solidarity, what is your recommendation?
Malik: My recommendation is that you find a credible organization where any money you send will be received and used well. We don’t advocate the Red Cross or Salvation Army, due to the fact that they have a track record of money not reaching the people who need it the most.
We have a long track record of being in our community and addressing issues that affect our people. We don’t need to go out into the community and build relations—we already have those relationships. We believe in being self-sufficient in our communities as a people. We need to provide for ourselves. In this day and time, if someone is under the illusion that the government is going to come in and save us and allocate resources to us, they are 100 percent delusional. This government has a long track record of not coming to our communities and not doing for us what they do for others. Allocating resources to our own people from our own people—that’s what we’re promoting.
Everyone is working together in our community to make sure everyone is safe. People are checking on their elders, neighbor to neighbor, making sure everything is okay. I see neighbors outside removing debris, going grocery shopping for people who don’t have automobiles. I see children being babysat, people opening their homes, allowing people to seek refuge. The storm is bringing our community a lot closer. We want to make sure everyone is okay and that we come out healthy.
Sarah, do you know whether Malik or NUBF have set up an Amazon wish list or if they have an address or another way to direct funnel donations to the folks in the Third Ward? If so, can you please add the link to the article or comment? Would like to provide assistance, and I am sure others would too.
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2019-04-26T00:46:12Z
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http://hostmaster.inthesetimes.com/article/20466/Houston-Hurricane-Harvey-Climate-Change-poor-working-class-Texas
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(1) Directive 90/435/EEC(3) introduced common rules in relation to dividend payments and other profit distributions, which are intended to be neutral from the point of view of competition.
(2) The objective of Directive 90/435/EEC is to exempt dividends and other profit distributions paid by subsidiary companies to their parent companies from withholding taxes and to eliminate double taxation of such income at the level of the parent company.
(3) Experience gained in the implementation of Directive 90/435/EEC has revealed different ways in which that Directive might be improved and the beneficial effects of the common rules as adopted in 1990 extended.
(4) Article 2 of Directive 90/435/EEC defines the companies falling within its scope. The Annex contains a list of companies to which the Directive applies. Certain forms of companies are not included in the list in the Annex, even though they are resident for tax purposes in a Member State and are subject to corporation tax there. The scope of Directive 90/435/EEC should therefore be extended to other entities which can carry out cross-border activities in the Community and which meet all the conditions laid down in that Directive.
(5) On 8 October 2001 the Council adopted Regulation (EC) No 2157/2001 on the Statute for a European Company (SE)(4) and Directive 2001/86/EC supplementing the Statute for a European company with regard to the involvement of employees(5). Similarly, on 22 July 2003 the Council adopted Regulation (EC) No 1435/2003 on the Statute for a European Cooperative Society (SCE)(6) and Directive 2003/72/EC supplementing the Statute for a European Cooperative Society with regard to the involvement of employees(7). Since the SE is a public limited-liability company and since the SCE is a cooperative society, both similar in nature to other forms of company already covered by Directive 90/435/EEC, the SE and the SCE should be added to the list set out in the Annex to Directive 90/435/EEC.
(6) The new entities to be included in the list are corporate taxpayers in their Member State of residence but some are considered on the basis of their legal characteristics to be transparent for tax purposes by other Member States. Member States treating non-resident corporate taxpayers as fiscally transparent on this basis should grant the appropriate tax relief in respect of revenue which forms part of the tax base of the parent company.
(7) In order to extend the benefits of Directive 90/435/EEC, the threshold of the shareholding for one company to be considered a parent and the other as its subsidiary should be gradually lowered from 25 % to 10 %.
(8) The payment of profit distributions to, and their receipt by, a permanent establishment of a parent company should give rise to the same treatment as that applying between a subsidiary and its parent. This should include the situation where a parent company and its subsidiary are in the same Member State and the permanent establishment is in another Member State. On the other hand, it appears that situations where the permanent establishment and the subsidiary are situated in the same Member State, can, without prejudice to the application of the Treaty principles, be dealt with on the basis of national legislation by the Member State concerned.
(9) In relation to the treatment of permanent establishments Member States may need to determine the conditions and legal instruments in order to protect the national tax revenue and fend off circumvention of national laws, in accordance with the Treaty principles and taking into account internationally accepted tax rules.
(10) When corporate groups are organised in chains of companies and profits are distributed through the chain of subsidiaries to the parent company, double taxation should be eliminated either by exemption or tax credit. In the case of tax credit the parent company should be able to deduct any tax paid by any of the subsidiaries in the chain provided that the requirements set out in Directive 90/435/EEC are met.
(11) The transitional provisions are no longer applicable and should therefore be deleted.
- to distributions of profits by companies of that State to permanent establishments situated in another Member State of companies of the same Member State of which they are subsidiaries."
"2. For the purposes of this Directive the term 'permanent establishment' means a fixed place of business situated in a Member State through which the business of a company of another Member State is wholly or partly carried on in so far as the profits of that place of business are subject to tax in the Member State in which it is situated by virtue of the relevant bilateral tax treaty or, in the absence of such a treaty, by virtue of national law."
- tax such profits while authorising the parent company and the permanent establishment to deduct from the amount of tax due that fraction of the corporation tax related to those profits and paid by the subsidiary and any lower-tier subsidiary, subject to the condition that at each tier a company and its lower-tier subsidiary meet the requirements provided for in Articles 2 and 3, up to the limit of the amount of the corresponding tax due."
"1 a. Nothing in this Directive shall prevent the State of the parent company from considering a subsidiary to be fiscally transparent on the basis of that State's assessment of the legal characteristics of that subsidiary arising from the law under which it is constituted and therefore from taxing the parent company on its share of the profits of its subsidiary as and when those profits arise. In this case the State of the parent company shall refrain from taxing the distributed profits of the subsidiary.
(c) In paragraph 3, the first subparagraph shall be replaced by the following:"Paragraphs 1 and 1a shall apply until the date of effective entry into force of a common system of company taxation."
(a) Paragraph 1 shall be replaced by the following:"Profits which a subsidiary distributes to its parent company shall be exempt from withholding tax."
6. the Annex shall be replaced by the text in the Annex to this Directive.
1. Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive by 1 January 2005 at the latest.
When Member States adopt such measures, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or shall be accompanied by such a reference on the occasion of their official publication. The methods of making such reference shall be laid down by Member States.
This Directive shall enter into force on the 20th day following the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
(1) Opinion delivered on 16 December 2003 (not yet published in the Official Journal).
(2) Opinion delivered on 29 October 2003 (not yet published in the Official Journal).
(3) OJ L 225, 20.8.1990, p. 6. Directive as last amended by the 1994 Act of Accession.
(4) OJ L 294, 10.11.2001, p. 1.
(5) OJ L 294, 10.11.2001, p. 22.
(6) OJ L 207, 18.8.2003, p. 1.
(7) OJ L 207, 18.8.2003, p. 25.
(p) companies incorporated under Council Regulation (EC) No 2157/2001 of 8 October 2001 on the Statute for a European company (SE) and Council Directive 2001/86/EC of 8 October 2001 supplementing the Statute for a European company with regard to the involvement of employees and cooperative societies incorporated under Council Regulation (EC) No 1435/2003 of 22 July 2003 on the Statute for a European Cooperative Society (SCE) and Council Directive 2003/72/EC of 22 July 2003 supplementing the Statute for a European Cooperative Society with regard to the involvement of employees.
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2019-04-22T13:10:32Z
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https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32003L0123:en:HTML
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The most striking thing about History at Oxford is its extraordinary range and the enormous amount of choice offered to students (there are over 100 different options), reflecting the breadth of interests and expertise among those who teach here. Oxford is rightly celebrated for the broad chronological sweep of its courses. You can study options on any part of British, European and Global History from the fading years of the Roman Empire to the present day. All undergraduates are encouraged to confront periods and concepts beyond those encompassed by a narrow chronological focus. Students are given the opportunity of seeing things not just in their immediate context but also in the perspective of long-term developments. History can be studied either as a Single Honours course, or as a Joint Honours course in combination of one of five other subjects: Ancient History, Economics, English, Modern Languages, and Politics.
Every undergraduate is a member of a college, under the personal guidance of a tutor who is also a lecturer in the Faculty of History and an active research historian. Your tutor will take a keen interest in your welfare and intellectual development, organizing your teaching to ensure that you are directed to the appropriate experts. Because individual tutors are more closely involved in the selection of undergraduates than in most other universities and because colleges exist in a friendly rivalry, tutors are committed to realizing the full potential of their students.
Tutorials are at the heart of undergraduate learning at Oxford. Students have at least one tutorial per week, for which they are expected to write an essay, which is then discussed with a specialist. Tutorials usually involve pairs of students working with a tutor, and they therefore offer an opportunity for an in-depth mutual exploration of a topic.
Although Oxford historians believe that there is no substitute for the intellectual rigour of the tutorial system, tutorials are complemented by seminars and lectures. Seminar groups in Oxford are small (usually between eight and sixteen members) and give students an opportunity to discuss each other’s work by the presentation of papers in turn to the group. Lectures are provided on the Faculty’s courses, and the size of the Faculty means that on many of your options you will be able to hear a variety of contrasting viewpoints. History at Oxford is therefore a subject of energetic debate: debate between your tutor and yourself, debate between you and your fellow students; and debate between your tutors themselves.
In addition to Oxford’s specialists in British and European history, recent appointments have been made in non-European fields, and this is reflected in popular student options on North American, Latin American, Asian, and African themes. Oxford historians have also been in the vanguard of the assault on a narrowly Anglo-centric approach to British History, and there are new options on the English and the Celtic peoples in the later twelfth century, on Irish Nationalism from 1870 to 1921, and on the Northern Ireland Troubles.
Oxford historians are also encouraged to adopt a variety of interdisciplinary approaches to their studies. Among the more popular first year options is a course on Approaches to History which explores the cross-fertilisation between history and other disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, economics, archaeology, art history, and gender studies.
For those who are interested in the development of historical thought a first-year option looks at the work of historical writers from Tacitus, the chronicler of the corruption of early imperial Rome, to Max Weber, the founder of modern sociology and second only to Marx in his influence on historians.
Read about what studying History @ Oxford is really like.
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2019-04-21T14:04:06Z
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https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/undergraduate-admissions
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Mississippi State continues to rank among the nation's top research universities, according to new data from the National Science Foundation.
"These significant totals are the result of very hard work by our faculty, and they represent the commitment we have as a university to providing innovative solutions, creative works and new scholarship that address pressing local, state, regional, national and global needs," said David Shaw, the university's vice president for research and economic development.
At 48 percent, MSU's research expenditures accounted for nearly half of the total for Mississippi institutions, the survey found.
Additionally, the university had more than 4,000 research personnel -- accounting for 60 percent of the total for the state.
"We have an innovation ecosystem in place on campus that is leveraging our research to grow capacity and the economy by creating jobs, enhancing quality of life and providing new opportunities in communities around our state," Shaw said.
The full NSF report is online at www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf13325/pdf/nsf13325.pdf.
In addition to its NSF status, Mississippi State is designated by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as a "Very High Research Activity University," which represents the highest level of research activity for doctorate-granting universities in the country. MSU is the only school in the state with the distinction, and one of only 108 nationwide.
Visit www.research.msstate.edu to learn more about Mississippi State's research and economic development activities.
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2019-04-21T06:28:02Z
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https://www.research.msstate.edu/rresources/news.php?id=2665
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adobe
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Ekatirina first turned to meth to cope with loss, but the drug only took more. By 2015, she and her daughters had no transportation, no food, no electricity and, finally, no home. “My mom had given me an eviction notice. I had nowhere to go.” Ekatirina knew she needed help to get her life back on track.
A family member offered to care for her daughters out of state while Ekatirina sought treatment. To earn extra money prior to entering treatment, Ekatirina set up a moving sale at her house. Soon there was a persistent knock at her door.
A woman she never met stood on her doorstep. “She said, ‘I am not here for your moving sale. I was going somewhere else and my GPS brought me to your house. I don’t know what is going on in your life but God’s telling me I need to help you.” Ekatirina broke down in tears and told her what had been happening in her life. The woman, who happened to be a pastor, told Ekatirina about Simonka Place and offered to drive her there.
After service, the pastor asked her if she would be interested in moving to Simonka Place, and Ekatirina said yes. She knew this time would be different. “My main goal here is to get closer to Him and build that strong foundation. He is so tangible to me. It’s amazing!” Thanks to your care, Ekatirina graduated from the New Life Fellowship program September 6.
October 1, 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of Simonka Place. In 1968, Executive Director George Simonka, at the urging of his wife June, started a revolution! Considering the needs and issues of women in 1968, the first shelter for women and children on the West Coast was created and God has been transforming lives ever since.
That’s the purpose of Simonka Place—to be a home where broken, desperate and hurting women can come to find peace, comfort and opportunities for life change. It is only through the transforming grace of Jesus Christ that true and meaningful life change can happen and I have seen that grace change lives here every day. Women who were bound by fear are set free; unemployed women find careers; the addict is released from the oppression of substance abuse; families who never thought they would have a home are housed, but most importantly—women and children realize their value and worth as they find their identity as children of God!
Last year 18 women graduated from the New Life Fellowship program, 48 women found jobs, and 57 women and families found housing. The majority of these women are connected to their community through church and neighborhood community groups. Children are engaged in school and their mothers are volunteering there. People who thought they could or would ‘never really amount to anything’ are shining as ‘lights in the darkness’ all because of the vision of one man’s wife. Thank you, George and June Simonka!
A self-proclaimed compulsive gambler, liar and cheat, George Simonka thought he was headed north that rainy night in 1949. Hungry, destitute and tired, he decided to climb aboard a smelly box car. To occupy the time, George turned to his only diversion—a copy of the Gospel of John which he received at a Mission. As he read the words of Jesus, George decided he wanted what was in that book—a life of purpose, love and peace. In an abandoned box car, he got down on his knees and asked Jesus to come into his life.
George then made his way to the Seattle UGM, ready and open to change. God gradually equipped him not only for the day, but each day for the years to come. While pursing his education, he met his wife June. God filled their hearts with love for Him and for others. Two years later, he became the Executive Director of the UGM in Bellingham, Washington and in 1954, God led him to lead UGM of Salem.
After years of working at UGM Salem, George and June began to see the great needs of women and children experiencing homelessness. June prompted George to open the first women and children’s shelter on the West Coast and the doors opened in October 1968. Fifty years later, Simonka Place has provided a safe home, hot meals and recovery care to thousands of women and children. However, Simonka Place’s primary function was, and remains, to share the transformational gospel of Jesus Christ.
After his retirement in December 1989, George continued to minister to those in need at the mission, his church and in his community. He never forgot the transforming power of the gospel of Jesus Christ to change lives and he kept his Gospel of John close in his inside pocket.
Celebrate 50 years of service to homeless women and children. Join us as we celebrate Simonka’s impact as the first women’s shelter on the West Coast and praise God for the thousands of lives who have been impacted over the years!
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2019-04-24T17:45:47Z
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https://spark.adobe.com/page/B6MslgP3himrp/
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Australian publishers are reeling after being told one of the country's biggest book store chains will not stock their books unless they pay thousands of dollars within weeks.
The publishers are calling it blackmail.
The book retailer - the long-established Angus & Robertson - says it cannot afford to stock books that do not generate enough profits.
Congratulations to the directors of Angus & Robertson. You've just succeeded in finally convincing me not to shop at your stores.
I've been tossing up the notion over the last few years, as I watched the space available to science fiction and fantasy books reducing and reducing, along with the diversity of authors. I've been watching as more and more shelf space is devoted to a few "well known" authors, rather than offering someone new a chance. It's scary when a shop's remnants tray has more diversity than the actual genre shelves, to be honest. But you're an Australian company, and I've stuck by you, more out of habit than out of actual liking.
However, this is the last bloody straw.
Why? Well, I'm an Australian who writes, and I'm well aware of the diverse number of Aussie publishers out there... but I'm also aware most of them are small publishers, and they wind up staggering financially from title to title. Australia is a small market. Congratulations, you're going to be pushing a lot of these more marginal publishers to the edge. You're also going to be making it harder (as a knock-on effect) for anyone who *isn't* an existing big-selling author to break into the market. Thanks ever so. Make my life harder, why don't you?
So, in return, I'm going to be going to Dymocks. Or Borders. Or W H Smiths. Or Elizabeth's second-hand. Or indeed to any one of a number of small science fiction specialist shops, wherein I can be reasonably certain of getting hold of books I'm interested in. What I *won't* be doing is heading into the nearest Angus & Robertson's, because with this particular tactic, you've managed to completely piss me off.
PS: There's now a link to this whole debate over at Making Light. Given both of the Neilsen-Haydens are known to be editors of some reknown in the US publishing scene (which is larger by far than the Australian one, and would therefore possibly be used to these tactics), it's interesting they point out this *isn't* standard industry practice.
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2019-04-21T20:10:07Z
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https://megpie71.livejournal.com/172574.html
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Arts
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Shopping
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khou
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Ready yourself for a murder adventure hosted by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark, two lifelong fans of true crime stories. In each episode of the podcast, the girls tell each other their favorite tales of murder, and hear hometown crime stories from friends and fans. Check your anxiety at the door, 'cause Karen & Georgia are dying to discuss death.
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2019-04-23T08:43:39Z
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https://events.khou.com/My_Favorite_Murder_Live/336272629.html
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Reference
| 0.492967 |
arizona
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American Red Cross Learn-to-Swim is made up of six levels of swim and water safety instruction. As participants progress through the upper levels 4-6 and develop these skills, they become safer and better swimmers. By now you are seeing your child perform a variety of skills with ever-increasing levels of quality and confidence.
Level 4 takes place in the northern area of the shallow end of the Campus Rec pool which is 4-4.5ft. deep and is temperature controlled to a range of 81-84 degrees year round. Instructors may move to another area to practice specific skills such as head first entries.
Prerequisites for Level 4 include swimming front & back crawl for 15 yards, treading water and jumping into deep water. Additionally participants must be 5+ years old.
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2019-04-24T17:59:36Z
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https://rec.arizona.edu/activity/aquacub-swim-lesson-level-4-0
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Causes & Treatment | Help! My Baby Is Allergic To All Food!
Help! My Baby Is Allergic To All Food!
Allergies, autism spectrum disorders, asthma, and ADD/ADHD all stem from common causes and those underlying causes are the key to treatment, healing, and recovery.
In order to treat food allergies, the underlying causes must be treated. That begs the question, “What actually causes food allergies?” And that is what I’ve been researching the answer to for 23 months (Jordan’s nearly 24 months as I write this). I will list here in summary form the causes and treatment and expand on them on the other pages or tabs on this site. These causes and steps of treatment also apply to disorders such as asthma, ADHD, and Autism-type disorders. They are all linked. So if someone in your family or someone you know struggles with any of these things, this is where to start. There is hope! These disorders can often be greatly improved or even completely reversed, if caught early enough!
I have found 4 causes: toxic overload, an improperly functioning immune system, the yeast factor and heavy metal toxicity. These causes are not necessarily totally separate, individual causes, but are linked and intertwined.
One main cause of allergies and these other disorders is an overload of toxicity in the body. The body gets so overloaded by toxins that it cannot function properly and cannot detoxify (dump the bad stuff out) faster than it is coming in to give the body a chance to maintain it’s current level of health, let alone have time to heal, recover, and function normally. It becomes too bogged down or impaired by the toxins to operate effectively and this results in disorder and disease. The body, specifically the immune system gets so overloaded that it can’t deal with the normal everyday stuff that most people can deal with and reacts to normal substances as foreign invaders.
“Overload of toxins? What? Where would that come from, especially in a baby?” That is what I thought when I first read about this idea. I thought, “I’m not around toxic chemicals, I eat pretty healthy…I’m not sure this applies to us, but just in case, I’ll look into toxicity.” Whoa, I was not prepared for what I found. For more information look at my Toxicity page.
The third possible cause of allergies is what I’ll call The Yeast Factor. I call it a factor, because it plays into the first two causes I listed above. Everyone is suppose to have yeast in their digestive (GI) tract. However, sometimes a certain form, or strain, of it gets out of control and overgrows so that there is too much of it. It can get out of the digestive tract into the bloodstream and wreck havic in your body. Yeast put off a byproduct that, in large amounts, is toxic to your body as well. Sometimes yeast can change forms into a fungus that grows tentacles. These tentacles can grow into the wall lining of the intestinal tract. The wall lining is like a mesh, it is suppose to have teeny tiny holes so that nutrients your digestive tract pulls out of your food can transfer into your bloodstream and be transported throughout your body to where they are needed. However, when yeast turns fungal and the tentacles grow into the intestinal wall lining, it puts large holes in it. Holes in the intestinal wall lining is called Leaky Gut Syndrome. These holes allow foods that are not fully broken down to enter into the bloodstream as large particles. The immune system does not recognize these large particles as foods (and this particularly happens with proteins) since foods are suppose to be smaller, they actually look more like an invading bacteria or virus, so your Th2 immune system does what it is suppose to do and attacks it! It effectively takes care of it, ridding the body of it. And, just to be prepared for any future invaders, develops antibodies to it so it will recognize it and take care of it even quicker next time that pesky thing invades. Except that pesky thing is actually food, not a bacteria or virus. And your body has very effectively developed a food allergy. This is what happened with Jordan. When we started introducing him to solid food at 10 months old, the first time he’d try a food he’d be fine, but the 2nd time, watch out! This can also go full circle to where if the allergic food (or foods) is continually introduced into the body, it will continually activate the Th2 immune response and can actually cause the overreaction of Th2 and the suppression of Th1 on a more permanent basis. How does yeast overgrow? That goes back to a poor diet (sugar, refined white flour, etc), poor digestion, antibiotic use, use of birth control, an infant born to a mom with yeast problems, and several other things.
The fourth cause of alleriges is heavy metal toxicity. If you have metals, you will have yeast. And, until you get rid of the metals, you will not be able to eradicate the yeast no matter how many yeast treatments and diets you do. And by eradicate, I mean from all the places in your body where it shouldn’t be – the overgrowth (some yeast is necessary, but should be contained in your intestines).You can control it, but never overcome it until you get the heavy metals out of your body. And, if you decide to detox metals, be aware that you will have yeast flare-ups as you do that and take measures at the same time to specifically control the yeast. Where do metals come from? All over – the air, water, food, food packaging, vaccines, pots and pans for cooking, medications (both prescription and over the counter such as antacids), etc. We all know the dangers of lead and mercury, but aluminum, arsnic, tin, etc can be just as damaging and their dangers and sources are not as widely publicized. In fact, much cookware is made from aluminum, we grill on aluminum foil, etc. Be aware – it’s a significant health hazard!
So, what do you do? Lighten your body’s load! Give it time, opportunity, and the tools it needs to clean house and heal. The more toxic you are or the older you are, the longer that can take.
To simplify it: First, stop putting bad stuff in! Second, only put good stuff in! Third, get the old toxic build-up out!
Stop Putting Bad Stuff In: junk foods, sugars (especially faux sugars – splenda, nutrasweet), chlorinated water, foods the child is allergic or sensitive to, cleaners used in the house, soaps and lotions loaded with chemicals, air fresheners and perfumes, be wise and educated about vaccines – if you give them and on what schedule, etc.
Only Put In Good Stuff: feed the best, purest nutrition possible, especially good fats! Use supplements like probiotics, digestive enzymes, coconut oil and coconut milk, multi-vitamin (a good one based on whole foods, such as spirulina, dulse, or kelp, not one from the grocery store). Use only non-toxic cleaners, soaps, detergents, insect control, etc.
Get the Toxins Out: yeast treatment, clear out the detox/elimination pathways, heavy metal detox, etc – through supplementation and/or foods!
Take care of any heavy metal toxicity.
Help the Body Detoxify Faster and Function Appropriately, (this is where you may need outside help). I’ll explain more about these later and in other places on this site. Acupressure or acupuncture (I know I thought this was CRAZY). Cranial Sacral and Chiropractic Neurology (absolutely amazing!!!). I was very unsure about this one too when I first heard of it. DAN! (Defeat Autism Now) Doctors treat Autism from the biomedical approach. That means that they view Autism as being secondary to other medical issues going on in the body, not as a primary neurological condition. They can vary A LOT in how they view things and what they do, so check them out carefully before jumping in! At the link I’ve included above, you can find a registry of DAN! doctors. Another option for detox, strengthening the immune system and correcting faulty functioning of the body are alternative health care practitioners including: naturopathic doctors, homeopathic practitioners, herbalists, and chiropractors who specialize in detox and neurotoxic conditions.
Additional Therapies such as speech, occupational, ABA, etc. These are certainly helpful, but notice where they place on the order of doing things. Cleaning up the inner environment and giving the support it needs through nutrition, detox, and supplementation is crucial. To skip right to this one would be like putting a roof on a house, but neglecting to lay the foundation and build the walls first…you just have a pyramid on the ground. Would it be better than no shelter? Yes. But is it a fully functional house? No, far from it.
Moms and Dads, if you have young kids struggling with these issues; and you want to have more kids, you need to work on this too. Although I don’t agree that it’s mainly genetic, toxicity can be “inherited”. So check out my “Prevention” page in addition to this other information.
**Note that I am NOT a doctor and this in no way constitutes medical advice. I’m simply relaying the research I’ve found in recovering my son from multiple food allergies, developmental delay, and behavioral problems when all normal doctors failed me. (I must say I’m thankful that all the doctors I checked with failed me and were bold enough to not give me answers when they didn’t have them, rather than to give Jordan pharmaceutical drugs. If that had been the case, he may never have recovered or at least not to the extent that he has.) This research comes from books written by various doctors, experts in the field of interest, empirical research studies that have been conducted, and reputable online resources such as the Environmental Working Group.
I’ve been reading your blog. Thank you very much for posting this information.
last week she was constantly reactive to foods.
I want to know what you did next when your son could only eat a sweet potato without reacting. What did you do next to get him to eat other foods w/out reacting?
I feel your pain. Sounds like she is already eating foods, so the first things are to clean up what you are feeding her so you don’t add insult to injury – ORGANIC, no genetically modified foods: corn, soy/soybean oil, and no processed foods. No pork. Those are things that create an allergies. Think very basic – grassfed meat, organic veggies and fruit, seeds, rice, etc.
The thing that helped us when we were at the point where all he could eat was sweet potatos was an acupressure technique. We found an acupuncturist who did a combination of NAET and BioSET. We tried a chiropractor who did NAET first, it didn’t work and was going to take innumerable appointments. When we found the acupuncturist, she made a huge difference. That to say, it depends on the skill, and training of the person doing it and how well they know there stuff. If you can find more than one person who does this type of things, I would check around and ask about their procedure and compare what you can find out. It is completely noninvasive and painless. It sounds crazy and it’s hard to believe it works, but it does! Our practitioner was able to test over a hundred things our first appointment and projected it would take 8-10 appointments to treat him, and it did. It didn’t take care of all foods, but gave him enough so he could eat a full spectrum, and I learned the basic technique so I can take care of treating him for simple, one food item type of things.
That was the first step, then we worked on nutrition and other supplementation to strenghten his over-reacting immune system, decrease the inflammation, control his yeast overgrowth, decongest his liver, improve his digestion, etc. Which of these things are important can be individual specific.
I appreciate the time you have taken to put this website together, thank you.
I haven’t really read much of your blog yet. My mom sent me a link to your blog when she was looking up food intolerances. My son is 5.5 years old and has autism and ADHD. His food allergies/intolerances are nowhere near as severe as your child’s. However, one thing I came across that makes a lot of sense to me is the Brain Balance program by Dr.Melillo. He describes in his book The Disconnected Kid how problems like ADHD, Autism, and so on area actually a problem of the two brain halves not communicating in sync because one of the two is weaker (for whatever reason). The function of the immune system is divided up over the two brain halves. If the right half is weaker (which it often is in ASD kids) it doesn’t keep the left side in check. And with the left side producing anti-bodies to foreign substances without it’s counterbalance it starts attacking things that aren’t harmful…thus the food allergies. The way he suggest one can fix it is through the brain balance program, i.e. strengthening the weaker side (and only the weaker side). When it’s up to speed, the problems go away. For those who can’t get their ASD kids to do the exercises he suggests, there is from what I understand also the HANDLE program that you can administer that should help with that. Also the Neurofeedback training supposedly takes care of the same issue.
Anyway, judging from my quick review of your writing, you probably knew about this already, but on the off chance that you didn’t, I hope it can be of service.
Thank you for your comments. Yes, I am familiar with Dr. Melillo and his programs. I think it’s phenomenal and can provide so much help. We have taken Jordan to a Chiropractor Neurologist trained through the Carrick Institute and by Dr. Melillo as well. This was a huge part of Jordan’s treatment and Jordan wouldn’t have recovered nearly as fast nor as thoroughly without this treatment. I can’t sing it’s praises enough!
I would like to say though, that it is NOT the COMPLETE answer. The gut flora MUST be addressed. More than 60% of neurotransmitters are created in the gut. Allergies also originate in the gut with leaky gut and/or poor gut flora. Yeast must be killed and the gut needs to be repopulated with beneficial bacteria/probiotics. Be careful not to overlook the importance of this!
Thanks! Good info! Did you take digestive enzymes whil BF? If so, what ones. I have no idea where to start there are so many!!
No, I didn’t take them when I was BF, I didn’t know about them then. If I were to do it again, I would take them, and probiotics. I have a brand I really like, but it’s a practitioner only brand – Enzyme Formulas. So, I’d go to a health food store and ask the opinion of someone there to see what is the best of what they carry.
My 2 month old is allergic to all food through nursing except quinoa.I am so happy I found your site. d you nurse him or was he on formula? The only food she isn’t allergic to through nursing is quinoa. Every other food causes her a lot of blood in her stool and crying in pain. Any advice would be great.
Wow, are you eating anything with these foods that could be causing a reaction, butter, soy?
I strictly nursed him, he would have been in big trouble if I hadn’t – he could not have tolerated any formula. If it were me, I would start taking digestive enzymes and probiotics with every meal and probiotics morning and bedtime too. Does he/she show any signs of a yeast overgrowth – thrush, bulls-eye rash on his/her bottom or rash in the creases of arms or legs, stinky feet (even shortly after washing), cradle cap, did you have a yeast infection during pregnancy or around the time of birth. If so I would use herbs for killing yeast, or the enzyme cellulase, in addition to the probiotics and digestive enzymes.
If those things didn’t help after one month, I would look into finding a NAET or Bioset practitioner to do allergy elimination treatments and a naturopathic doctor/herbalist who can work on detoxing the liver – very gently at this age (or eat/juice A LOT of beets, if they don’t cause a reaction).
I would also hold off additional vaccinations until this is turned around.
Is your son able to eat everything now? My son is allergic to almost eveything; blood work came back positive to dairy, oats, barley, wheat, chicken, beef, pork, egg, fish. He was also tested positive for rice and soy but when we did a food challenge, allergist didn’t see any reactions. He also had rashes all over his body and a staph infection around 4 months. We have been to so many doctors, pediatricians, dermatolgists, allergists. He is now 18 months and can only tolerate fruits, veggies, rice, and soy. He is listed 50% in height and less than 5% in weight. He was 80% at birth. I wonder if this all started because of vaccinations. I am worried that he is not gaining weight. How is your son doing now?
for a link back to mine. Please send me an email if interested.
I’m not sure exactly why but this blog is loading very slow for me.
there, to the detriment of comparison web sites organically.
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Despite president’s recent sympathetic comments about their plight, many so-called Dreamers fear they too could face deportation.
For nearly 2 million so-called DREAMers — undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children or young teenagers — the initial weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency have been anxious ones.
DREAMers like Brenda, who spoke on condition that she only be identified by her first name out of concern for being targeted, and their advocates say their apprehension has grown amid conflicting signals on immigration and the fate of DACA sent by the new president and his administration.
Trump has backtracked on a campaign promise to end DACA and has hinted he is open to the possibility of a compromise on illegal immigration that could provide permanent legal status to those brought into the country as youngsters by parents or other relatives.
“DACA is a very, very difficult subject for me, I will tell you,” he said at a Feb. 16 news conference, adding that there are “some absolutely, incredible kids” in the program.
At the same time, he has dramatically expanded immigration enforcement efforts nationwide. And though his executive orders did not roll back DACA, at least two undocumented immigrants who participated in the program have been taken into custody by federal agents in recent weeks.
That has some legal experts urging eligible immigrants to refrain from signing up for DACA, which requires applicants to provide personal information, fingerprints and undergo an extensive background check, until the situation becomes clearer.
“(Applicants) should get their individual situation assessed to weigh the pros and cons and understand the ramifications,” said Amy Rose, legal director of ACLU of Nevada.
Michael Kagan, a UNLV law professor and director of the school’s Immigration Clinic, was more blunt.
“This is not something that someone who is at risk of deportation would want to do because you are essentially telling the Department of Homeland Security, ‘Here I am,’” he said.
That concern has been evident at recent immigrant community events, including one Tuesday at Rancho High School in support of the BRIDGE Act, a bipartisan bill that would provide all DREAMers with DACA-like protections that could only be repealed or altered by Congress.
That event was attended by some DACA participants, but friends with U.S. citizenship spoke on their behalf.
Astrid Silva of Las Vegas, who has emerged as a national spokeswoman for the DREAMers because of high-profile appearances on behalf of the Democratic Party, said such concerns are understandable given the political climate.
The DACA issue has divided conservatives. Some hard-liners have urged Trump to act on his campaign promises to remove anyone who illegally entered the U.S.
“The administration isn’t being hard-line enough on the DACAs because Trump campaigned saying that DACA was an illegal program and would be ended on day one,” said Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies.
Other Trump supporters, like Tori Alby of Reno and Niger Innis of North Las Vegas, say they agree with the president that the DREAMers deserve special consideration.
Despite such sentiments, those in DACA remain concerned that Congress and the administration could end the program and revoke their temporary legal status, which must be renewed every two years.
Francisco, another Las Vegas DREAMer, who was brought to the U.S. from Mexico at the age of 2 by his parents, said being undocumented wasn’t a big problem when he was a kid, attending Clark County public schools.
But as he aged, he began to encounter situations where his undocumented status was problematic, such as taking the SAT, applying for college scholarships and getting a driver’s license, all situations where he was asked to supply a Social Security number. He said he began avoiding such rites of passage.
That changed after President Barack Obama enacted DACA in June 2012.
With the work permit and protection from deportation it provided, he also was able to pursue the American dream in earnest, earning a bachelor’s degree at UNLV, excelling in his career and last year buying a two-story, 2,500-square-foot home in Las Vegas.
Her renewal came through without a hitch, she said, allowing her to continue with her studies at UNLV and pursue her goal of becoming a high school guidance counselor working with minority and undocumented students.
Contact Lucy Hood at lhood@reviewjournal.com or 702 387-2904. Follow @lucyahood on Twitter.
Last week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents detained Dreamer Daniela Vargas after she denounced ramped up immigration raids, including the arrests of her brother and father, at a news conference in Jackson, Mississippi. Vargas had enrolled in DACA, but her status expired in November because she could not immediately afford the cost of renewal, her attorney said.
As Vargas’ case unfolded, Dreamer Daniel Ramirez Medina was well into his third week in custody after ICE agents arrested him at his father’s home outside Seattle. In court filings, the Justice Department claims Ramirez admitted to having gang ties, while his attorneys say he is a law-abiding father who, as part of the DACA renewal process, passed two background checks determining he was not a threat to national security or public safety.
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Not sure if this will help you with batch mode, but have you checked out Audacity? http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ It's free, there are usually a couple of versions available for Mac, PC, Unix, etc - one is the most recent stable version, the other is the current Beta.
What kind of wave editing do you have in mind, or is it just EQ and normalization? For audio cleanup, Audacity has an exemplar-based noise reduction algorithm that works pretty well (especially for free software), but you can't run it in batch mode. It's interactive all the way.
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http://www.synthzone.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/38122/Audio_Editor
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Airbus SE secured a US$35 billion jet deal from China during a state visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) to the French capital, dealing a fresh blow to Boeing Co as it grapples with the grounding of its best-selling jet.
The mammoth order consists of 290 A320-series narrow-body planes and 10 A350 wide-bodies, Toulouse-based Airbus said after the transaction was announced in Paris on Monday.
The deal’s value is almost double that touted by French President Emmanuel Macron in January last year during a trip to Beijing.
The US planemaker is also struggling with the fallout from a China-US trade spat that has seen sales to the Asian nation dry up, just as Airbus bolsters its position with an offer to expand production facilities in Tianjin.
China has become the world’s most important aviation market as its fast-growing middle class spurs demand for travel.
The country has traditionally sought to keep a balance between the two western planemakers as it seeks to jump-start manufacturing on its own soil, but Chicago-based Boeing’s order prospects have been complicated by the trade clash.
Macron originally put the value of a likely order at US$18 billion. A firm order failed to materialize last year, despite a second French state visit in June and a delegation of top Airbus executives in September.
The deal announced in Paris is to include both Neo — for new-engine option — and so-called classic or CEO versions of the A319, A320 and A321, although the majority would be A320neos and A321neos, officials said.
China typically orders planes in large batches and allocates them to airlines later.
The latest A320neo model has a list price of US$110.6 million and the A350-900 sells for US$317.4 million before discounts.
Airbus’ incoming chief executive officer Guillaume Faury told a news conference that construction of the A320s would take place both in Tianjin and Europe, adding that the deal is “a sign of the confidence” from China.
China would need 7,400 new passenger and freighter aircraft in the next two decades, representing almost 20 percent of total global demand, according to Airbus estimates.
The purchase provides a boost for Faury, who takes over from Tom Enders next month.
Airbus sales have had one of the slowest starts in the past decade, with the planemaker registering 103 cancelations and just four new orders in the first two months of this year.
Separately, China is looking at excluding Boeing’s troubled 737 MAX jet from a list of US exports it would buy as part of a trade deal with the US, people familiar with the matter have said.
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What do you use R for, and what tools/packages do you use ?
I use R for predictive modelling and data mining. Also find it useful for visualisation and graph plotting. I'm a novice using R and find it a bit of a steep learning curve.
Hi I'm Phil and own Tiberius Data Mining - using R for predictive modelling and data mining.
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The workshop, held on 26 and 27 June 2009 at the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies was organised by Dr. Elisa Tullia Bertuzzo and Dr. Patrick Desplat.
Opening lecture by Prof. Abdelkader Tayob (synopsis).
Prayer in the city (synopsis).
Download the programme of the workshop.
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In this 21-day devotional, Masey McLain will encourage, challenge and strengthen your faith in Jesus. Life is hard, but you were made for a purpose. You were made to follow Jesus and discover the life of faith. 144 pages, paperback.
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http://christian-book-store.christiansunite.com/554426/It's-Worth-It:-21-Day-Devotional.shtml
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OTTAWA — Canada’s top general is promising better support for victims of military sexual misconduct, but says he will not get rid of a regulation that Canada’s auditor general has warned discourages some victims from coming forward.
The “duty to report” regulation compels service members to report any type of inappropriate or criminal behaviour — whether sexual or not — to higher authorities, which begins a formal complaint process.
Military police have previously cited this requirement as having helped increase the number of reported cases of sexual misconduct brought to their attention, particularly from bystanders or other third parties.
However, auditor general Michael Ferguson reported in November that the requirement had contributed to underreporting of sexual misconduct among victims who did not want to trigger formal complaints.
In an interview, defence chief Gen. Jonathan Vance said military officials are looking at ways to ensure victims are better supported and empowered when they or someone else reports misconduct.
Eradicating sexual misconduct has been a top priority for military commanders since a series of devastating reports several years ago uncovered a highly sexualized culture where misbehaviour was ignored or hidden.
A CH-147F Chinook helicopter lands on the McNaughton parade square at Canadian Forces Base Kingston during a training exercise for forces deploying to Mali in Kingston, Ont. on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2018.
The auditor general did not specifically call for the regulation to be rescinded, but emphasized the importance of providing adequate support to victims when they do come forward given that some do not do so willingly.
Vance admitted the Forces had fallen short on that count in the past, but said the military is now looking to address those shortfalls and ensure that victims of sexual misconduct don’t go through more hardship than they already have.
Exactly how remains to be seen. The military’s sexual-misconduct response centre is seized with the problem, Vance said, while outside experts are being consulted to determine the best way forward.
The head of the response centre recently revealed that the organization was planning to start providing victims with case workers who will provide continuous support from the moment an incident is reported to the end of the case.
Vance suggested victims could also be given more power over when a formal complaint is launched after an incident is reported to a commanding officer or using alternate-dispute resolution rather than launching a formal hearing.
In addition to the duty to report, the auditor general also flagged concerns with a lack of specialized training for chaplains and military health professionals to support victims.
Most criminal cases took more than seven months to be closed by military police, who were also found to regularly skip procedures — including providing victims with support packages or referring them to assistance.
The audit also found that poor training for all service members had produced only a vague understanding of what constitutes inappropriate behaviour, which actually threatened to undermine military cohesion and esprit de corps.
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https://o.canada.com/news/canada/no-plans-to-eliminate-duty-to-report-for-military-sex-misconduct-vance/wcm/9ba400fe-991b-4c2b-8149-6f70d23bc401
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The Sherman Players is committed to making theatre affordable, that's why we offer a Half-Price Preview Night the Thursday before the opening of each production.
All performances start at 8:00 pm. Tickets are only $12 per person for plays and $15 per person for musicals. No reservations required and it's on a first-come-first-served basis. Cash, check or credit/debit cards accepted. We suggest you arrive early as these nights fill quickly.
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https://shermanplayers.org/preview-night.php
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This entry was posted on novembro 20, 2008 at 2:13 pm and is filed under Massaroca. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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Penn State students from Abington, Lehigh Valley and University Park campuses will present their research at the state Capitol in Harrisburg, PA.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Pennsylvania Capitol will be bustling with undergraduate students eager to share their research with the public and state legislators at the Undergraduate Research at the Capitol Conference on April 5.
Colleges and universities throughout Pennsylvania are invited to participate in the conference, but only two posters are permitted for every 10,000 undergraduates at each institution, according to the conference’s website. Twelve Penn State students from the University Park, Abington and Lehigh Valley campuses, representing eight research teams, will make the journey to Harrisburg.
Beyond presenting their research, the conference also offers students an opportunity to meet with state legislators and hear a keynote lecture presented by Bryan Krock, assistant director of the division of genomic diagnostics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a strong advocate for advancing undergraduate research. Krock graduated from Penn State University Park and began his college career at Penn State Lehigh Valley.
For Jacqueline McLaughlin, an associate professor of biology at Penn State Lehigh Valley and co-chair of the organizing committee for the URC-PA event, Tuesday's events represent the capstone celebration for undergraduate research throughout the Commonwealth.
Crowe said participating students have the opportunity to meet with their state legislators and are typically brought into the Senate or House chambers to be recognized and applauded. “Our students are thrilled to share their work in that setting and interact with state government officials,” Crowe said.
Madison Miller, a senior at University Park and a Schreyer Honors College Scholar, was one of the students selected to participate in the conference. The Berwyn native is pursuing a degree in corporate innovation and entrepreneurship from the Smeal College of Business. She is also majoring in community, environment and development in the College of Agricultural Sciences.
Miller’s research is the basis for her honors thesis, which will explore the issue of equity in the public education system.
“Her thesis work is very important research in the context of cross-cultural understanding, perspectives on diversity, and bringing those considerations to young people in the course of their educational experiences and their intellectual and cultural development,” said Ted Alter, Miller’s thesis adviser and a professor of agricultural, environmental and regional economics.
Alter stressed that events like the Undergraduate Research at the Capitol Conference and undergraduate research projects are not just “academic enterprise.” In the thesis class he advises, Alter notes how undergraduate research provides a platform for exchanging different opinions and viewpoints. Students take on intellectual leadership and teaching roles as they share their expertise and discuss their experiences with one another.
Learn more about research opportunities for undergraduates supported by Penn State Undergraduate Education at undergradresearch.psu.edu.
The URC-PA Poster Conference is sponsored by Pennsylvania State Senate President Pro Tempore Joseph B. Scarnatti III and the Senate Republican Caucus.
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https://abington.psu.edu/story/9002/2016/05/13/penn-state-students-selected-undergraduate-research-capitol
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Companion CD of exclusive Gilli related tracks.
Absolutely the last few copies, found in a Voiceprint cupboard. Produced to accompany the initial run of her Historico, Politico, Spirito book on the History of Gong. Offered here for any of you who have purchased the book alone and want to complete the package.
Comes in a zip-seal plastic bag with a self-adhesive strip so you can attach it to the inside of the book.
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https://planetgong.co.uk/bazaar/cd/histopolispiri.shtml
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Shopping
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oulu
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Brugada syndrome is an inherited arrhythmia disorder that predisposes to sudden cardiac death. It is characterized by its distinct ECG pattern. The purpose of this thesis was to study the phenotype and genotype characteristics of subjects with Brugada syndrome type ECG.
The first study population consisted of 2479 young male Air Force applicants and 542 healthy middle-aged subjects. The 12-lead ECG was analyzed to assess the prevalence and prognosis of Brugada pattern in Finnish population. The second population consisted of 168 patients with AF. The ECGs of the patients with family history of lone AF were analysed in order to characterize the ECG features of familial AF. The third population consisted of 200 patients with Brugada syndrome and their ECGs were analyzed for detection of distinct ECG characteristics. In a substudy, the H558R variant was genotyped and the clinical presentation of this variant was evaluated. The clinical characteristics were collected of 47 patients with induced Brugada ECG during fever or medication.
The prevalence of type 2 or 3 Brugada ECG was 0.61% in the young population and 0.55% in the middle-aged Finnish population. In a retrospective analysis, none of the Brugada ECG carriers had died. In the AF study, the prevalence of type 2 or 3 Brugada ECG was significantly higher among the subjects with lone AF compared to the healthy controls (p < 0.001). Many of the Brugada ECG carriers had a family history (> 30% of first-degree relatives) of AF. In patients with Brugada syndrome, the prolonged QRS duration was associated with previous symptoms. The R allele carriers in H558R variant had a trend towards less symptoms (p = 0.067) and had less conduction disturbances in 12-lead ECG than the HH genotype carriers (p < 0.05 in all ECG analysis). Among the subjects with induced Brugada ECG, 51% exhibited arrhythmic symptoms during the medical condition that had provoked the ECG pattern.
In conclusion, type 2 and 3 Brugada ECGs were found to be benign in the Finnish population since no mortality occurred during an extensive follow-up period. On the other hand, these ECG abnormalities seem to be a marker of familial AF. Among patients with the Brugada syndrome, a prolongation of QRS is associated with prior symptoms. The variant H558R R allele seems to be a protecting genetic modulator. Induced Brugada ECG is a medical emergency since the patients are at high risk of sudden cardiac death.
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2019-04-21T14:19:50Z
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http://jultika.oulu.fi/Record/isbn978-951-42-8770-1
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Health
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longcountdown
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I'm a long-term British expat in Japan. My interests are mainly Japanese culture, teaching, website design and internet marketing, but lately I've been reading a lot about the "new world order" so will touch on that, too.
LongCountdown.com is a personal blog for me to share my thoughts on the things above, and the things I still long to achieve in life - hence the name "long countdown".
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2019-04-22T00:43:47Z
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http://www.longcountdown.com/author/admin/
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deviantart
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Reminds me more of the mini-series version of Kurt Barlow, which was inspired by Nosferatu.
It is like you get to know him. That is inspiring and terrifying too.
I put this in a facebook page with the link and credits. hope you don't mind.
Absolutely gorgeous... in the tradition of the best painted movie posters and pulp covers. WOW. Completely masterful ans inspiring!
My favorite vampire film for sure!
Fantastic! You're work truly captures the sadness and loneliness of Dracula.
Really awesome work! I loved the remake with Klaus Kinski.
It's a masterpiece of film!
I love your work! Klaus Kinski was magnificent in the Nosferatu remake.
awesome work and a well-deserved DD!
I always love it when I favorite a work of art long before it gets picked for a DD!! Congratulations!!!
Awsome!! I just picked up a poster of that movie when it first came out. I am so happy to have it and I just LOOOOVE!!! Your painting of him! So well done!!
HELP ME! I NEED A GOOD DENTIST! I CAN'T WHISTLE!!!
Ok im joking! Don't hurt me.
This has a very eerie look to it! Sends shivers up my spine!
Grats on the DD; it's completely well-deserved!
Omg I love this, what a great rendering of Nosferatu!!!!
This is so super creepy, I love it!
I just want to give him a hug. Then maybe kill him and throw him in an alley.
Really nice, I thought it was The Master from Buffy The Vampire Slayer when I first saw the icon before clicking it.
I LOVE THIS FREAKIN MOVIE! Great job man!
WOW. This is a very stunning rendition, indeed.
You captured very well the creepiness of Kinski's interpretation, and the palette is very reminiscent to the atmosphere of the movie.
A DD well deserved. This made my day.
I love the amount of detail you put into this.
It's fantastic, even though it's creepy, but that is obviously what this character is about.
You created a perfect painting of Nosferatu.
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2019-04-23T19:10:29Z
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https://www.deviantart.com/bloodedemon/art/Nosferatu-213175304
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Arts
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Arts
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sff
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Sarajevo Film Festival is offering a possibility of receiving an accreditation for students.
For this category we have provided a limited number of tickets for all Festival programmes, access to the Festival centre, press conferencess, pannels, public interviews and other Festival side activities.
For BiH Dramatic Art Students: €15/30 KM. VAT rate included in accreditation fee.
For College and High school Students: €30/60 KM. VAT rate included in accreditation fee.
The number of accreditations for this category is limited.
Your request will be processed by the registration office.
You must validate your form by clicking on the button below.
Copyright (c) 1995-2018 Obala Art Centar. All rights reserved.
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2019-04-24T06:17:31Z
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https://my.sff.ba/en/student-registration/
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emu
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A 2001 alumnus of Eastern Mennonite University has been named the chairman of the Virginia Association of Community Banks.
Brian Plum, the president and CEO of Blue Ridge Bankshares, Inc. and CEO of Blue Ridge Bank in Luray, Virginia, was installed as chairman on Monday, Oct. 15. During his one-year term he will lead the association’s efforts in advocacy, education and training for the community.
Plum assumed the presidency of Blue Ridge Bank in 2014, becoming the 11th in its 125 years. He joined the bank as its chief financial officer in 2006, having worked for PBMares, LLP, an accounting firm in Harrisonburg. He continues to maintain his certified public accountant license.
At EMU he majored in accounting and economics and minored in political science. In 2003, he earned a master’s degree in accounting from James Madison University.
As a seasoned business leader, he has a wealth of advice for recent graduates: Work hard, but never let work define you. Be true to yourself. Act justly and uprightly at all times; don’t fall into the trap of thinking there is a difference between you the person and you the businessperson. Find a mentor, someone you look up to in business and trust for guidance in your career – and use them as a resource. Accept that you will make mistakes, but commit to learn from them. Be grateful.
He notes as a guiding principle the Scouts charge from Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell – “Leave this world a little better than you found it” – and sees immense potential to do that through community banking.
Congratulations, Brian. I remember your student days.
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2019-04-21T06:24:41Z
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https://emu.edu/now/news/2018/brian-plum-01-named-chairman-of-the-virginia-association-of-community-banks/
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Business
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unh
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Less than half of New Hampshire residents can name both of their U.S. Senators. Even fewer can name their member of Congress, State Senator or State Representative.
Survey Center, UNH, "NH Could Use A Civics Lesson 2/7/14" (2014). All UNH Survey Center Polls. 165.
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2019-04-19T22:14:34Z
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https://scholars.unh.edu/survey_center_polls/165/
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Society
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dragonmount
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no!!! little mermaid come back!!!
How can you people possibly want to hurt a snuggly, cuddly teddy bear?
Hurt Mulan. Heal Winnie the Pooh.
Hurt The Princess and the Frog. Heal Toy Story.
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2019-04-26T04:26:42Z
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https://dragonmount.com/forums/topic/91590-game-best-disney-movie-elimination-game/page/4/
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Kids
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wordpress
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This entry was posted on July 29, 2016 at 6:05 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Hello Jan, I am interested in the November, 2016 retreat. Would you please send information about the cost and class.
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2019-04-23T14:04:34Z
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https://carolinafiberfrolic.wordpress.com/2016/07/29/fall-2016-retreat-registration/
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Recreation
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lambgoat
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Michiel Eikenaar, vocalist of black metal bands Dodecahedron and Nihill, passed away late last week, reportedly from cancer. Eikenaar was 42 and leaves behind a wife and two young children.
"The Dodecahedron set at Roadburn festival should be a very heavy today. Their original singer and founding member, Michiel Eikenaar, passed away yesterday. All our thoughts are going to his family. Despite the exceptionally tragic context. The band decided to play the show has an homage. RIP Michiel, and thank you for the music."
"It is with devastating sadness that I share the death of my brother on the left hand path, our singer and black metal icon Michiel Eikenaar.
"Loved and respected by his peers and the international #blackmetal community. A commanding frontman and fantastic lyricist, a great visual artist, but above all, a big friendly loveable guy. Death comes for all of us. It comes for the strongest, the brightest and the most loved, and Michiel was all of those things and much more.
"He leaves two small, beautiful children, a sweet and lovely wife, a close family that supported him through these difficult times and an international inner circle of friends and admirers that will miss him every hour of every day.
"We were working on a fifth album, to be called 'Seven Trumpets Of Doom'. Those recordings will join him in the great beyond. Nihill will cease to exist today, right now. I will continue as Ulveblod. Jelle will continue with Terzij de Horde. Our live aids Michel and Jasper will continue as/with Dodecahedron.
"Burn a candle, raise the chalice, wield the scythe. Rest in peace my friend."
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2019-04-22T19:05:35Z
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https://lambgoat.com/news/31418/Dodecahedron-and-Nihill-vocalist-Michiel-Eikenaar-dies
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princeton
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The illustrations are simply amazing throughout and you couldn’t ask for a better guide than Joseph Forshaw — the text is impeccable.
I will post another sneak peak later this week. I have two page spreads in mind — African lovebirds and Pionites Parrots. More to come on this.
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2019-04-20T07:50:58Z
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http://blog.press.princeton.edu/2010/09/29/sneak-peak-at-parrots-of-the-world-by-joseph-forshaw-illustrations-by-frank-knight/
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Arts
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Arts
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ifar
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Turin : Editions des Archives, 1996.
As the French title ("Témoignages") states, volume 4 consists of photographs and other material documenting the artist's life and work. As such, it is independent from the other four volumes, which constitute the catalogue of works (v.1-2, v.3, v.5).
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2019-04-20T03:06:45Z
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http://www.ifar.org/artist_book_detail.php?bookid=2753&nameid=711
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Arts
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Arts
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cornell
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The ADA was enacted in 1990 as law to prohibit discrimination against Americans with disabilities. As part of the original act, employers are required to provide reasonable accommodations to employees with disabilities, and accessibility is required at public places. The ADA covers both physical and mental medical conditions.
Title II of the ADA prohibits discrimination by all public entities, including school districts, municipalities, cities, counties, and states, and requires physical access to all programs and services offered by those entities including, as described by the Foundation for Pavement Preservation, “access to pedestrian routes in the public right-of-way.” This has typically been accomplished by the addition of curb ramps at pedestrian cross walks when streets, roads and highways are altered.
With the advent of MAP-21 and its clarification on what types of pavement preservation practices are eligible for federal funding, came a Technical Assistance (TA) memorandum in 2013 from the US Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Department of Justice (DOJ). This TA mandates that curb ramps are required when streets, roads, or highways are altered through resurfacing. Under the 1990 ADA, actions considered alterations were reconstruction, rehabilitation, resurfacing, and widening, and did not include maintenance activities. The 2013 TA memorandum separates treatments to identify which activities are maintenance and which are alterations, in an effort to help define the requirements of the ADA compliance. This memorandum applies to all roads, public and private. Many activities that had previously been considered maintenance are now considered alterations. The table below identifies the classification of pavement treatments as identified by the TA.
As one can see, many of these treatments considered alterations are similar to some of the treatments typically considered maintenance. A cape seal is identified as an alteration, while the chip seals and slurry seals are not. A cape seal is chip seal with a slurry seal placed over it to improve the surface ride.
While the concept of pavement management is the application of the right treatment at the right place at the right time, there have been too many cases where the needs of the handicapped have been overlooked. The bright line defined in the TA was drawn to compel agencies to put ADA access into their plans when doing work on a highway. Of course, it would be good to think about the needs of the handicapped in every case; the TA just provides a clear answer in when action is necessary.
If you are making any “alterations” as defined by the 2013 TA memorandum and you have sidewalks, you are required to comply with the ADA regulations. Since the most popular means of protecting your curb reveal is to mill the pavement prior to adding more, you will be required to add or upgrade your pedestrian curb access point. There have been reports of an additional 10-30% increase in expenses of a project when compliance is provided.
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2019-04-22T04:23:46Z
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https://www.clrp.cornell.edu/nuggets_and_nibbles/articles/2016/ada.html
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AutObsessions offers NJ and PA residents the areas ONLY high end automobile detailing service. We offer unmatched expertise utilizing the industries finest products, procedures and equipment. We offer unmatched results, personalized service and convenience. AutObsessions services numerous exotic and high end vehicles regularly; we also encourage daily drivers to see the AutObsessions difference for yourself!
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2019-04-21T08:15:52Z
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https://businessfinder.nj.com/5277594/AutObsessions-Detailing-Cherry-Hill-NJ
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dpreview
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*ist D, FA31, f8. Stitched together from 8 vertical images.
After some forum members suggested PTGui as a very good panorama program, I decided to give it a try, had a look at the result from the trial program and was so impressed I bought it!
I am going to get a roll of A4 Epson photo paper(210mm wide x whatever length) and print it up to see how it looks. I will check how it looks on the smaller photo paper rolls which are 100mm wide first though.
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2019-04-20T10:48:14Z
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https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/15524012
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Shopping
| 0.458765 |
newgrounds
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I made one a while back that was.... meh.
Now after practicing I made this awesome new flick!
this is a prime example of a classic 8-bit flash!
Hey whats the First song of the first Scene " Zeldas Safety Blanket"?
Ive been trying to find out that song for a while now.
Pretty good. However, the Bit and Bot thing got old.
That was. I liked where bot went up and was cryin and the song was just fabulous.
I have GOt to make me one o THESE!!!
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2019-04-26T12:04:48Z
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https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/474533
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Arts
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News
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typepad
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deal architect : Unfair to NetSuite?
For a fleeting moment I felt guilty I am not at SuiteWorld. Mark Hurd was talking about shipments from Shanghai and inventory allocations while in transit. I perked up at the webstream. But just as quickly he was talking about recruiting. And his comments were from a decade ago when he was at HP. I went "here we go again - like at Oracle MBX/MCX couple of weeks ago, finance and HCM seem to be Oracle's comfort zone. They are allergic to talking operational applications in the cloud".
The next session I was told to watch was about NetSuite products but the stream did not work. I can see from Albert Pang's tweet they are talking operations "Allison Auclair, VP Product Mgmt of Oracle NetSuite, outlines what it takes to do next-gen manufacturing & retailing, covering everything from sourcing to online selling and from ordering to warehousing in its stepped-up effort to improve commerce & CRM experiences." Just my luck. I will try and watch a replay.
This is the first SuiteWorld I have missed in years. I much prefer analyst summits but NetSuite has never held one - I have asked multiple times. Oracle has moved away from them. I feel I am intruding on customer time when I go to user conferences. When I do go, I like a schedule which has plenty of customer and executive time. Oracle has not been able to deliver that so I have been watching their events from afar. Sorry, NetSuite.
I hope Oracle and NetSuite convene an analyst summit like I requested here. Every one of their competitors does one and they keep getting better each year.
I WILL show up for such a summit. If I am invited, and if the agenda does have operational and vertical functionality.
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2019-04-25T10:55:43Z
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https://dealarchitect.typepad.com/deal_architect/2019/04/unfair-to-netsuite.html
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webs
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A set of works by famed photographer Gordon Sparks are set to go on display later this month.
Gordon Parks: Segregation Story, a collection of his photographs, will show at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia beginning this Saturday.
Rediscovered in 2012, six years after he died of cancer, these photos take a look at life in Alabama in the 1950s through the lens of three different families.
The photographs were taken while on assignment for the September 1956 Life magazine photo-essay The Restraints: Open and Hidden.
He would later go on to shoot famous subjects including Malcolm X, Barbara Streissand and Muhammad Ali for Life, working with the magazine for 20 years.
He also became one of the first African-Americans to ever shoot for Vogue.
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2019-04-20T04:22:18Z
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https://caronbowman.webs.com/apps/blog/show/43036644-shotguns-sundaes-and-segregation-gordon-parks-stunning-photos-of-families-in-1950s-alabama-provide-a-poignant-and-unique-look-at-life-during-the-civil-rights-era
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Arts
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Arts
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kxxv
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The New Jersey man's phone has been inundated with texts and calls from well-wishers ever since his sons bought him a billboard near Atlantic City.
The sign reads, "Wish my dad a happy birthday" and includes Ferry's photo and phone number.
The billboard went up on March 6, and Ferry has already received more than 15,000 messages from all over the world wishing him a happy 62nd birthday -- even though the actual day isn't until March 16.
"(My dad) drove immediately to the sign and took a picture with it," said Ferry's son -- also named Chris.
Ferry's two sons, Michael and Chris, were stumped on what to get their dad for his birthday this year.
When they were young, they used to tell waiters at restaurants that it was their dad's birthday to pull his leg and maybe get free dessert, the younger Chris Ferry said.
"I called my brother (Michael) and said, 'What if we put dad's picture right on the billboard and say wish him a happy birthday?' The prankster in me came out," Chris Ferry said. "My brother said he loved it -- he was dying laughing."
He added, "It's go big or go home."
"We thought people in the local area and his buddies would call in, and this would be a fun memory," the younger Chris Ferry said. "We did not know that it was going to be like this."
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2019-04-20T02:47:36Z
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https://www.kxxv.com/lifestyle/son-pranks-dad-for-his-birthday-by-putting-phone-number-on-billboard
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wikibooks
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The latest reviewed version was checked on 22 May 2017. There is 1 pending change awaiting review.
This page was last edited on 17 November 2018, at 14:37.
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2019-04-20T20:13:16Z
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https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Template:AlbanianLanguage
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state
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Disclaimer: Licensing and registration records are made available on this website by LARA to provide immediate access to information for the convenience of interested persons. This information is updated once a day. All users have the responsibility to determine whether information obtained from this site is still accurate, current, and complete. LARA assumes no responsibility for any errors or omissions, or for the use of information obtained from this site.
The Disciplinary Action section shows if a licensee/registrant currently has an open formal complaint and a listing of any final disciplinary action after January 1, 2005. The date of compliance may not be listed for disciplinary actions occurring prior to January 1, 2005.
Disciplinary documents are posted to the Documents section as required by Section 333.16216(6) of the Public Health Code. Final administrative disciplinary action is subject to judicial review.
NOTE: EMS PERSONNEL ARE NOT LICENSED BY LARA BUREAU OF PROFESSIONAL LICENSING. PLEASE VISIT THE DHHS PERSONNEL LICENSURE AND EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS PAGE TO VERIFY A LICENSE FOR EMS PERSONNEL.
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2019-04-18T11:20:43Z
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https://w2.lara.state.mi.us/VAL/License/Details/785201
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Arts
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Health
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amiright
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Misheard song lyrics (also called mondegreens) occur when people misunderstand the lyrics in a song. These are NOT intentional rephrasing of lyrics, which is called parody. This page contains all the misheard lyrics for U1 Jewel Style that have been submitted to this site and the old collection from inthe80s started in 1996. For more information about the misheard lyrics available on this site, please read our FAQ.
There are 3 misheard song lyrics for U1 Jewel Style on amIright currently.
The sky is blue in Canada.
Guide you through the cave of love.
Guide you through the cakes of pies.
Why you knew you came alive.
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2019-04-19T10:58:44Z
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http://www.amiright.com/misheard/artist/u1jewelstyle.shtml
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bbc
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Media captionRayouf Alhumedhi wants an emoji to represent Muslim women who wear headscarves.
The proposal comes as countries across Europe wrestle with the issue of the Muslim veil - in all its forms.
Rayouf Alhumedhi told the BBC it was during a group chat with her friends on social media that she had realised there was no emoji to represent her, a headscarf-wearing woman.
After reading an article on emoji design, she wrote an email about her idea to Unicode.
Intrigued, a member of a Unicode subcommittee replied, offering to help her draft a formal proposal.
"In this day and age, representation is extremely important," she said of her reasons behind the project.
"People want to be acknowledged... and recognised, especially in the tech world. This is massive. Emojis are everywhere.
"There are so many Muslim women in this world who wear the headscarf. It might seem trivial... but it's different when you see yourself on the keyboard around the world. Once you experience that, it's really great."
To boost support for the initiative, Mr Ohanian hosted a Reddit live online discussion on Tuesday where Reddit users could ask Rayouf Alhumedhi about the new idea.
Some wanted to see whether they could get involved while others questioned the need for the hijab, saying it was a tool to oppress women.
The drafting committee hopes to present a final version of the proposal to Unicode in November.
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2019-04-20T14:28:07Z
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-37358719
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Arts
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Computers
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wordpress
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During my trip to Woodlawn this year with Linda and Ginny, I picked up a Canvas Connection Golf Bag (3″ x 4″) (GB-556) from Waste Knot (4502 Lee Hwy, Arlington, VA) to stitch for Bill. I love the little clubs!!!
I stitched some while he was out golfing this summer and finished it while I was on my way to and from Seminar in New Orleans this year. Since he didn’t come along this year (too hot to golf), this is a surprise gift for Christmas! I’m so happy with the finishing – Karen at Nimble Needle in NJ has a fantastic finisher.
Santa also dropped off a book for me – Sandra Arthur’s Shapes of Needlepoint Series Volume I. I am looking forward to getting time to read it once the Christmas turkey is in the oven. Merry Christmas!
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2019-04-21T04:24:27Z
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https://melitastitches4fun.wordpress.com/category/melitas-other-completed-pieces/canvas-connection-golf-bag/
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Arts
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wikipedia
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^ John W. Morgan & Edward Anders (1980). "Chemical composition of Earth, Venus, and Mercury". Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 77 (12): 6973–6977. Bibcode:1980PNAS...77.6973M. doi:10.1073/pnas.77.12.6973. PMC 350422 . PMID 16592930.
^ Rouault, Tracey A. (2003). "How Mammals Acquire and Distribute Iron Needed for Oxygen-Based Metabolism". PLoS Biology. 1 (3): e9. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0000079. PMC 212690 . PMID 14551907.
Halaman ini terakhir diubah pada 5 Maret 2019, pukul 17.00.
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2019-04-22T16:13:24Z
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https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Besi
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Arts
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Science
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fleetwoodmac
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This is an original press photo. Billy Burnette, GuitaristPhoto measures 8 x 10inches. Photo is dated --none.
This vintage photograph is offered for sale as a collectible item and conveys no transfer of copyright.
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2019-04-19T00:17:42Z
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http://ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/vintage/Press-Photo-Billy-Burnette-Guitarist-spp41772_303095488166.html
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Arts
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Arts
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fantasyflightgames
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Welcome back! This week we’re going to look at some of the game mechanics in more detail, and give you a better idea of how the game play flows.
If this is the first article you’re reading about Warhammer: Invasion, I suggest you refer to last week’s article The Invasion is Coming part 1, and the explanation of what a Living Card Game™ is to get caught up.
We’ve mentioned the warfare management on the description page, and given you a taste of each section of your empire. Now we look at the troops and buildings you will be bringing in, and how the various factions combine together.
Loyalty IconsThere are three different races per side (Dwarfs, Empire, and High Elves make up Order and Chaos, Orcs, and Dark Elves make up Destruction), and you may mix and match allied races in any deck you build.
Each race-specific (as in not neutral) card has a number of loyalty icons. These cost an extra resource per loyalty icon. However, you can “discount” each loyalty icon penalty by having a card from that race already in play (this includes your capital). For example, the Orc unit Ironclaw’s Horde has two orc icons. Its base resource cost is 5, so you’re paying up to 7 for it unless you have two or more Orc cards in play. If you’re playing the orc capital, that discounts one of them, but you’ll need an additional orc card in play (either a unit or support) to offset that other loyalty icon.
Most cards have one or two loyalty icons, and can be included in almost any deck. Troll Slayers add a fair amount of punch to the forces of the Dwarfs, but can be added to Empire or High Elf forces easily, as they have only one loyalty icon. You may use a single faction to get the most out of that faction’s strengths, or you can add allied cards to increase your versatility. There are some cards, the most noble of heroes and most foul creatures, that are very difficult to ally with. The Bloodthirster has five loyalty icons, and while it is an awe-inspiring sight, it is best left to a force solely dedicated to the Ruinous Powers.
Blend the ForcesAs each side, Order or Destruction, has three different races to choose from, how do you decide what you want to build your deck with? Each race has specific talents and abilities that they are best at, which are highlighted, once again, on the description page. For example, the Dwarfs are the masters of armour and feature some of the toughest fighters to ever walk a battlefield, or kingdom for that matter. They have great support, and can weather almost any storm. They do however, lack mobility. Mobility is something the Empire is known for. To increase the possible options, some Empire cards have been added to the Dwarf deck. This will give them a boost in mobility, but remember, each Empire card added has its own loyalty icons that must be paid for if they aren’t present in any of the Dwarf zones.
To assist in this noble idea of alliance, there are support cards that can be added to your deck. These Alliance cards feature two loyalty icons, one for each faction represented in the alliance. As these cards are neutral, they don’t require a loyalty icon to be played, and only cost two resources. These can provide your deck with a potent speed boost, as you wont have to wait for the resources to buy those extra loyalty icons.
Defense and Development There are a few other wrinkles in the game you need to be aware of. As mentioned earlier, your capital is divided into three zones. Each zone can take eight points of damage before it is burned down. You lose the game the instant two of your three zones burn.
In addition, each turn you may play any one card from your hand face down into a zone of your choice. This face down card is called a development, and it increases the amount of damage that zone can take before burning down by one. There are also many card effects that increase in power if you have a certain number of developments in that zone, adding another wrinkle to your resource management. As seen above, Troll Slayers gain two extra power if you have two developments in the zone they occupy. Another card that keys off of developments is the neutral Forgotten Cemetery, which also gains power based on developments.
The Play is the ThingTo recap: during each of your turns you gather resources based on how well your kingdom is built, then draw cards depending on the number of power icons in your quest zone, then play cards and finally, attack your opponent based on the strength of your battlefield.
Though the basic rules of the game are very simple, the choices you make with each card play are quite involved. How do you want to develop? Where do you have to defend? Are you able to adjust your strategy and tactics to take advantage of an opponent’s weakness or to shore up your own in the face of devastation?
On top of this are the card abilities themselves. Each race has its own distinct play style and flavor, which include exclusive card abilities and sometimes even keywords. I’ll be writing an article for each individual race in the coming weeks, so you can judge for yourself.
That’s it for now. Join me next time when we talk design philosophy.
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Discussion in 'Member Introductions' started by scratchNdentPrestige, Nov 12, 2018.
My name is Dave, I am 50 and have been playing guitar and bass since I was 16. I was in a decent metal cover band in my late teens/ early 20's that was made worse by my subpar lead playing. We covered Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Metal Church, Iron Maiden, Motorhead, Accept, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, etc.
The last 4 yrs or so I have been playing in a classic rock-ish type band (which somehow plays about 10 Ramones covers), and having a lot of fun.
In the years between I have played bass and rhythm guitar in a few other bands that were some sort of rock or metal. I find I really enjoy playing bass live with a band.
Like lots of people I still listen to stuff from my youth (see the above mentioned bands), but lately have been into stuff that utilizes various degrees of lower tuning - Ghost, Arch Enemy, The Agonist, Carcass, etc. Because of this I have a couple of 6 strings dedicated to C standard, and one for D standard. I also have a Schecter KM-7 FR-S which I bought on a whim during a Stupid Deal sale that I actually ended up real liking.
Anyways, I have lurked here a bit - and decided to say hello.
Hi Dave, I bought that same Stupid Deal and also love playing that thing. All of my carbon fiber is good to go too. Gonna keep the Nazgul?
I really like the Nazgul, it was one of the selling points of this thing for me. I had a Jackson 8 string for a month or so before I returned it, couldn't handle the 8 strings - but loved the Nazgul/Sentient set it had. I have a couple of inexpensive 6 strings I have retrofitted with Nazguls (Nazguli ?).
Is there a issue with the carbon fiber binding on these guitars? Haven't had any issues yet on mine.
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Björklunden* vid Sjön, Swedish for "Birch Grove at the Lake" (but commonly translated to "Birch Forest by the Water") is a 441-acre estate on the Lake Michigan shore just south of Baileys Harbor in Door County, Wisconsin. A place of great beauty and serenity, the estate was bequeathed to Lawrence University in 1963 by Donald and Winifred Boynton of Highland Park, Illinois. Since 1980, Lawrence has offered a series of adult-education seminars at Björklunden, interrupted only by a 1993 fire that destroyed the estate’s main lodge. In 1996, construction was completed on a new and larger facility, and the Björklunden seminars resumed.
Following the 2007 expansion project, the splendid two-story, 37,000-square-foot lodge contains a great room, multi-purpose and seminar rooms, dining room and kitchen, as well as 22 guest rooms. There are two lakeside decks, a second-story observation deck, an elevator and a computer lab. The entire facility has wireless Internet access and plenty of parking.
This magnificent, year-round facility also allows Lawrence University’s mission as an undergraduate liberal arts college and conservatory of music to extend to Björklunden through a popular series of weekend student-faculty seminars which have been running since 1996.
The Björklunden office is open Monday - Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Hours may vary in the winter.
The office is generally closed on Saturdays and Sundays. If you call on the weekend, please leave us a voicemail and we will get back to you the following Monday.
While the estate is open to the general public, we ask that you refrain from visiting on the weekends out of respect for our weekend event guests. Please try to visit us on a weekday when we'll be here to greet you and show you around. We encourage you to call the office before you come to ensure someone will be here to assist you.
Watch as Terry Moran '82 revisits and reconnects with Bjorklunden.
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In the following diagram, each blue line is 24 centimetres long, and the red line is 16 centimetres long. Assume the shape in the centre of the circle is a perfect square, and it is exactly centred in the circle. Also assume that all three coloured lines are parallel to each other.
What is the radius of the circle, in centimetres?
Working in centimeters, call x the distance from the center of the square to any of its four corners. Then the radius of the circle is 16 + x. Draw the radius that goes from the center to the point where a blue line touches the circle. This is the hypotenuse of a right triangle whose leg lengths are 24 and x. So x^2 + 24^2 = (16 + x)^2, so x = 10. Thus the radius is 26 centimeters. How does that sound?
Cosmologicon wrote: Working in centimeters, call x the distance from the center of the square to any of its four corners. Then the radius of the circle is 16 + x. Draw the radius that goes from the center to the point where a blue line touches the circle. This is the hypotenuse of a right triangle whose leg lengths are 24 and x. So x^2 + 24^2 = (16 + x)^2, so x = 10. Thus the radius is 26 centimeters. How does that sound?
You should probably also invoke some sort of symmetry argument to show that the red line lies along a radius of the circle, since this isn't stated in the original problem.
The red line must be an extension of a diagonal of the square, or the blue lines which are parallel to it wouldn't be equally long.
First I thought that because the line intersected the corner at that point that it had also intersected the diameter and was therefore halfway across the circle.
So if we draw another line from the edge of the circle we get a 45-45-90.
x=12(2^.5) is one side of the square.
I think found my mistake.
My triangle doesn't have to be a right triangle.
If that's not it can someone please tell me?
Marbas, I don't understand your third diagram. It looks like you're assuming that the point where the blue line touches the edge of the circle is a continuation of the side of the square.
shill wrote: Marbas, I don't understand your third diagram. It looks like you're assuming that the point where the blue line touches the edge of the circle is a continuation of the side of the square.
Yeah... I noticed that. Didn't you read the 'EDIT' part?
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Our department is both devoted to literary study and committed to making your degree count for success in the real world. With a first-class faculty, a global approach to literature, a wide array of course offerings from Medieval Drama to the Harlem Renaissance, and a valuable alumni network, our graduates carry with them not only a literary education second to none but also a range of valuable skills and resources that prepare them for life after college.
As you decide whether – and in what capacity – to join the Rutgers English Department community, we invite you to consider the strengths of what we can offer to our engaged and well-supported students, both during and after their time at Rutgers.
In the English Department at Rutgers, we pride ourselves on offering students both a world-class faculty and an unwavering commitment to undergraduate education. Our professors have consistently taken home the university’s top honors, like the Susman Award for Excellence in Teaching – won by professors in our department in 13 of the last 30 years. And with a large faculty, we are equipped to offer a wide range of courses to suit almost any interest, including emerging fields like the digital humanities and the graphic novel.
Our students are challenged to develop their thinking, encouraged to be curious, and given the necessary resources for success. Opportunities like the certificate in creative writing, support for study abroad, and one-on-one work with distinguished faculty as part of our honors program allow students to tailor their expectations to best suit their individual interests and goals. And programs like the Writers at Rutgers reading series ensure that students both study literature and meet it at its forefront.
The courses we offer – to both majors and non-majors—help develop a universal set of skills. The quality of how you read, how you write, and how you speak are qualities that can make or break a job application, personal or professional communications, or a first (or subsequent) impression. That is why our alumni have gone on to successful careers in a huge range of fields, from journalism and publication, to law and medicine, to marketing and finance.
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UCF's Tom O'Neal speaks at the opening of the Volusia County incubator in 2011.
The University of Central Florida Business Incubation Program has been named a finalist for the National Business Incubation Association’s 2013 Incubator Network of the Year award. This is the first year for this new award category.
The winner of the prestigious award will be announced April 9 at NBIA’s 27th International Conference on Business Incubation in Boston.
The mission of the UCF Business Incubation Program, a university-driven community partnership that includes nine business incubators in Central Florida, is to provide early-stage companies with the enabling tools, training and infrastructure to create financially stable, high-growth enterprises leading to positive economic impact within local communities.
Business incubation programs like those in the UCF Business Incubation Program’s network catalyze the process of starting and growing companies by providing entrepreneurs with the expertise, networks and tools they need to make their ventures successful. NBIA estimates that in 2011 alone, North American incubators assisted about 49,000 start-up companies that provided full-time employment for nearly 200,000 workers and generated annual revenue of almost $15 billion. Approximately 7,000 business incubators operate worldwide.
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Anyone try a Egnater/Rocktron TOL? Opinions?
d-tar mama bear - who has one?
motivate me to buy a new amp... PLAESE!!
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Ahmed do we have to get it attested from the UAE embassy in Isb as well ?
Khurem! No you dont need to get it attested from UAE Embassy in Islamabad. Just bring the original one with you after attestation from MoFA Pakistan and rest will be done here.
I am sponsoring my Husband I have been told that i have to attest first from UAE embassy and then from MoFA from Pakistan. Is this right?
Yes. That is correct. Now you have to get it attested from Union council where your Nikkah is registered then from MoFA of Pakistan IN Pakistan and then from UAE Embassy in Pakistan then from Pakistani counsulate in UAE (Dubai) and then from UAE’s MoFA in UAE. Good luck!
This indeed is very helpful and thanks for further clarifying that one need to attest it from UAE embassy as well now.
Also, I have my wife’s new CNIC, but do I need to apply for her NICOP as well? or her old CNIC (urdu version) reflecting the husband name is enough?
Its good to get NICOP for every overseas Pakistanis.
MoFa means, ministry of Forign Affairs ????
no need to attest from UAE embessy in islamabad, need Attestation from UAE embessy from uae only.
and point no 6 i could not understand explain Plz?
Yes, MoFA means Ministry of Forign Affairs.
can you explain about the application and form mentioned in point 11 .. what application and form is this ?
Just go to typing center – They will give you a printed paper with your details on it. Just double check all details and proceed further.
I want a slight clarification if I have changed by job from one company to another and had to come from Oman to Pakistan Karachi to go back to Oman for the new job, what is the status of my old Protectors stamp?
Do I need to get a new Protector stamp before I go out of Pakistan?
Do I need new medical tested and get it attested from Oman consulate in Karachi.
Really very informative and helpful post.
Can you also provide the detail of documents required for kids/children travelling on father visa??
Birth certificate is also required to be attested from foreign office in Pakistan, Pak Embassy UAE and MoFA UAE?
I have Birth certificates for my four kids and one Bay form listing all of my four kids details issued by NADRA please guide me about whether this bay form can work for residence apply in UAE or I have to attest birth certificates.
What about the Bay form issued by the nadra listing all the details of children????????
may this work instead of Birth certificates or birth certificates for each child should be required to attest???????
Got residence visa for my wife and children in Dubai. Im now arranging for the tickets now.
I wanted to inquire if I need to obtain a protector for my wife.
I spoke with some other Pakistani expats and they have informed me that it is required.
Can you please provide some information about this?
Hi muneeb I want to ask I ve my marriage certificate attested from foreign affairs in pak shud I need to get it attest from uae embassy in islamabad?because somebudy in uae has told my husband dat its necessary?
Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge. I have query regarding point 6, what if we don’t go for new CNIC and Passport to replace Father’s name with husband’s name? Is it prerequisite of getting UAE visa or we can apply for it at Pakistan Consulate Dubai after arrival of wife at UAE? Your valuable comments will be highly appreciated.
is it compulsory to change wife’s name?
On your wife’s passport – husband name should be there to prove relationship in case if required. Its not necessary to change her second name but husband name is must. I hope it answer’s your query. Good luck!
Is replacing Father’s name on CNIC and Passport with Husband’s name is pre-requisite or we it is only good to have?
A) I have got the marriage certificate of my wife attested from MoFA, but i am still asked by the relatives to get that attested from Uae embassy in pakistan. Though I know that you clarified it a number of times above; but is it a new rule or not a requirement?
B) The MoFA attested marriage certificate has spellings of my father name different than what are mentioned on my CNIC. Do you think that it can cause problem while its being sent to uae embassy?
No need to get your marriage certificate attested from UAE embassy in Pakistan. Just get it attested from your union council where your nikkah is registered and then from MoFA of Pakistan. Then bring the original computerized marriage certificate here in UAE and then get it attested from Pakistani consulate in UAE and then from MoFA of UAE in UAE. Bring the original one with you. Thats it.
Thanks for the quick reponse.. Could you also reply on point B?
I hope, it should not be a problem for you but you should have got the right spellings at the first place. Good luck!
I am from Pakistan and have moved to UAE 5 months ago. I have a UAE resident visa valid for 2 years. I am planning to bring my family here on a visit visa in the month of August for arranging my marriage ceremony here in Abu Dhabi. My question to you is that, can i get married in UAE with my fiancee who will be coming here from Pakistan on a visit visa especially for getting our marriage done here? Can you tell me that will my marriage here be registered? Can you tell me the process for getting it registered here? I am currently not planning for my wife’s permanent residency as i dont currently have a family status. I have planned to bring my wife on 3 months visit visas instead.
Although, I have not experienced anything like this myself but I think you can register your marriage in UAE. People do get married here in UAE but you need to get more information from concerned authorities on this before you start your process. Good luck!
Thanks for shairnig such a useful information I have all the documents attested from mofa but when I sent these to UAE embassy in pakistan by Ups the Ups spokesperson told me that on ur marriage registartion certificate their is no stamp of union councel it is just signed but my concern was that then why mofa attested this so in this case what should I do shoul I tell my faimly to send me documents here because it is attested by mofa of pakistan and then submitt through the process mentioned by you.
I need complete process for which documents required for spouse & children visa for uae.
I have already done following process.
Marriage certificate attested by MOFA Pakistan.
For children which documents required for admission in school in UAE and from where?
I am not sure about children visas and the process. I have no personal experience so far. You need to figure it out yourself. I am sorry. Good luck!!
Is there any one who recentely processed spouce visa in UAE. Is attestation from UAE Embassy must or it only has to be attested from minitry of foreign affairs?
in this forum its clealry written that no need of any attestation from UAE embassy but I am being told that attestation from UAE embassy is also required.
As far as I know, attestation of Nikkah Namma (Marriage certificate) from UAE Embassy in Pakistan is not required. Just get the Nikkah namma (marriage certificate) attested from union council in which you NIkkah is registered and then from MoFA of Pakistan in Pakistan and then bring it here to get it attested from Pakistani counsulate in UAE and then from MoFA of UAE in UAE.
If your wife’s visa is a ‘Residence’ visa (check on the visa paper) then she does not need protector.
You need to submit original visa at the airport after ‘OK to board’ stamp from the airline. Good luck!
But she did protect .now plz tell me i ll take a trouble or nothing to worry.
Sorry i mean it ll create any problem or nothing to worry.because she did protect her residence visa now.
U r doing great work….thumbs up….
NO, that’s NOT true that your wife needs a tourist visa prior to residence visa. The steps which I have explained are the ones which I experienced. Just submit all required documentation and they will give ‘Entry Permit (pink visa)’ for your wife. Once, she is here then do her medical and Emirates ID and then apply for her IQAMA on passport. Thats it. Good luck!
As far as I remember (there could be some slight differences) . . .
Tickets are other than that. Good luck!
First of all i would like to thank you for sharing such information. I also have a confusion regarding the CNIC and passport of wife under husband name.It is already clear in your reply but i need more clarification from your side if you don’t mind.
My wife is having passport and CNIC under her father name, i already completed all paper work like attestation of Nadra marriage certificate from MOFA in Islamabad and other related documents.Now i am going to apply for visa using her passport that is under her father name, and having plan to changer her CNIC and Passport once she arrived in UAE.
Do you think is there will be any problem if i apply before changing her new passport and CNIC under my name?
If you change her CNIC and passport once she is in UAE then her VISA will be null & void as visa is issued against her passport and if details of passports gets changed then visa gets null & void so my suggestion is don’t do it. Do it in Pakistan (Get her name changed with your name as Husband’s name) and then do the same for her passport and once her passport arrives then apply for her visa. Apply everything in urgent. Good luck!!
1. Get Nikah nama attested by Mofa, UAE Embassy in Pak and Mofa in UAE.
2. No need to change passport and apply for her visa.
3. Keep attested nikah nama as annexure documents for all the visa matters untill there is a stamped visa on her passport.
Once its stamped on her passport, there wont be any issue any more.
Thanks for the pointer. You can send your original computerized Nikkah namma to your family in Pakistan who can contact with SASHA company in Islamabad. They will get it attested from UAE Embassy. I am not sure about which documents are required but copies of CNIC and passports of both (husband and wife) would be mandatory. Good luck!
i got the documents attested from MOFA and UAE Embassy Islamabad so whats next now can you please advise as id and passport are in the name of husband so should i jump to point.7 then.
As per Fahad statement why Marriage Certificate can’t be attested from UAE now ? what happened ?..I have Family Registration certificate from Nadra and attested from MOFA PAK as well…Sasha is taking one month and i was thinking to bring documents in UAE and attest it from here…But after Fahad point i am thinking what to do ?
They have changed the rules. New rule is all Pakistani documents MUST be attested from MoFA of Pakistan in Pakistan and UAE Embassy in Pakistan and then finally from MoFA of UAE in UAE.
Now MoFA of UAE in UAE do NOT attest any documents which are NOT attested by UAE Embassy in Pakistan.
I hope your all queries all answered well here. Good luck!
Keep copy of your IDs and passports and original with you all the time. Good luck!
Thanks Muneeb,my elder brother met someone in UPS agency like Sasha in ISB,They said that the following documents required and attested for Wife and one kId residency.
All above three will be attested to get UAE visa..
But here my PRO(Public Relation officer) Said Marriage Certificate (Attested from MOFA Pakistan & UAE Embassy Pakistan + Foreign office UAE) and Kid’s Birth Certificate (Attested from MOFA Pakistan & UAE Embassy Pakistan + Foreign office UAE) required ..
So I am confused what is the actual requirement for Family Visa for my wife and 10 months old baby?
Follow whatever SASHA is saying. Don’t worry about what others are saying… Good luck!!
I have attested my marriage Certificate from MOFA from Pakistan & MOFA from Uae before, but I din,t apply Visa for my family now my papers are complete, I can apply visa ?
and my my baby same procedure has to b follow means birth Certificate need to attest Mofa Pakistan & Uae embessy Pakistan then from here ?
Dear Muneeb. Everywhere you mentioned to attest the computerized marriage cert from union council then MOFA Pak then UAE Emb Pak. My question is that all this need to be done on the photocopy of computerized marriage certificate???? Am I right? Because the original document remains with me, right??
2nd question: I heard that all documents which are submitted should be in Arabic and not English…any comments..?
First reply: NO. All attestation needs to be done on the original computerized marriage certificate.
Second reply: NO. That’s neither true as well (as far as I know). But you need your nikkah namma in English and Arabic as well.
I am in Ajman. We have our NADRA marriage certificate translated in English and Arabic and Attested it from MOFA and UAE Emabssy in Pakistan.
Do I have to get it attested again from Pakistan Consulate and UAE Embassy here in UAE?
The Utility Bill is an issue as my building is on Generator and the bill comes under the owners name, that cannot be changed. I have Etisalaat Bill under my name and my current address.
Also do I have to get the marriage certificate translated in Arabic as well?
I am not sure about that bill thing. I came across it for the first time. Please check with concerned authorities. Good luck!
Are you sure that there is no need to attest marrige certificate from UAE embassy islamabad?
YES! Now it is required. It was not required few months back but now it is. BTW, you need to have Urdu, English & Computerized (NADRA) versions of your Nikkah namma as well.
Get it translated to Arabic and also get computerized Nikkah Namma from NADRA and get that one attested. Good Luck!
Thanks for your timely and informative response.
Keep copy of your IDs and passports and original with you all the time. Good luck.
Nikkah Namma in Aarbic, Urdu and English version is also required now. Keep all 4 format and get the computerized one and Arabic one attested.
First of all, I would like to appreciate your continuous effort in educating fellow Pakistanis of this important information. There is really a lack of accurate information on the internet regarding this.
I am a mechanical engineer that has recently got job in Abu Dhabi (before working in KSA) and waiting for employment visa now in PAK. My job specifics will allow me to bring my wife to UAE and that is why I have done early Nikah only to expedite the paper work.
1) I contacted SASHA and they have said that they will require original urdu nikahnama, english translation of nikahnama on translator letterpad, and marriage registration certificate (MRC) stamped by UC secretary and one copy of NIC/ PP for wife and husband to attest the MRC from UAE embassy.
a) Is MRC issued by UC or NADRA because NADRA helpline says that they no longer issue MRC/ computerized certificate and it is done by UC.
b) I saw one sample MRC long time ago and it had both english and urdu in it. So when you say urdu, arabic and english translation of nikahnama, do you mean the arabic and english translation of the original nikahnama or MRC?
c) Sasha guy told me that they will only attest the MRC and not the arabic translation. So should I pursue other means if attestation for arabic translation is necessary?
2) For wife’s NICOP making with husband name instead of father name, does husband have to provide his own NICOP/ NIC too? NADRA helpline guy said that they will require urdu NIC of wife, her passport, parent’s NICs, MRC but he said requirements may vary at the NADRA centre and he is not too sure. (Wonder why they call it ‘Help’ line).
Thank you reading this rather lengthy post!
Thanks for your appreciation. Here are your answers.
1) Do whatever SASHA advises and keep all original documents with you all the time. I advise you to get your marriage certificate translated into English and Arabic and get computerized one from it is issued now.
a) Now sure about it. I got mine from NADRA.
b) Urdu Nikkah Namma is the one which you signed during NIKKAH ceremony -Normally at the same time, they get the English one signed as well. There is copy of same in English. Then get it translated into Arabic. Then once, your nikkah gets registered in union council both English and Urdu attested from them.
c) Yes, get it translated into Arabic. It will help later. But get the computerized one attested through SASHA.
2) YES. You have to either go with your wife or give her your original NIC/NICOP. Please go to NADRA executive centers. They have updated information.
Lastly, I would suggest to keep all original documents (including CNIC & Passport) with you all the time. Apply for few things in Parallel. It will save time. Also keep copies your parent ID cards and her parent ID cards with you all the time. Later while applying for protector you need copies of ID card of your siblings too. Good luck!
Yes, now it is required to get it attested from UAE Embassy in Pakistan and they do required Arabic translation of everything now. Good luck!
Please get your Nikkah Namma attested from union concil where your NIKKAH is registered. If it is Karachi then you have to do it from Karachi and MoFA of Pakistan in Pakistan and UAE Embassy in Pakistan through any attestation service provider in Pakistan.
Please make sure you get copies of your Nikkah namma in Urdu, English, Arabic and computerized one too and get all copies attested. In your case, I am NOT sure about computerized Nikkah Namma (you might require your Pakistani ID card as well – I have no idea about this process).
Dear Muneeb, plz accept my felicitations for doing a wonderful job.
My query is ‘Do i need an arabic translation of NADRA issued MRC or of the one signed by me & wife at the time of Nikkah?
Secondly, is it true that MRC and Birth Certificate of my kid (both Issued by NADRA having Details in Eng. & Urdu) are also to be attested from UAE Embassy in Pakistan after MoFA?
Please advise if NICOP is also required or only new CNIC with husband name is enough.
After receiving wife’s entry permit protector certificate / insurance is required for wife as well ?
As far as I know, Protector is only required in case of employment visa/entry permit. Your wife must be coming on residence visa so protector is NOT required in this case. But check with authorities before you leave. Good luck!!
can u xplain me how my husband will get residence visa for spouse on tourist visa of uae.. without taking exist to pakistan.. can i take xist to somewhere else near UAE.
There are many airlines which provide visa status change services (air-arabia “Sharja-Kuwait-Sharja” is one example). You can directly contact airlines for it. No need to go to Pakistan again. Good luck!!
I do not have any personal experience with legalities involved, so i can not advise you anything at this point in time.
I am not sure about location of MoFA Karachi. Fees was around 7000 PKR the last time I applied.
Same as wife’s visa. Difference is only that you need to get B-Forms attested in case of children.
I just need to clarify one this. my marriage take place in 2012 i have my wife NIC under my name also her passport under my name and i have translated my nikah nama in English but that one is not from NADRA.. and get attested already from MOFA and UAE embassy. from Pakistan.
My only question is do i really need to take that computerized Nikah Nama from Nadra or. that will work which i already have. to take my wife residence VISA in UAE.
As far as I know you need computerized Nikkah nama attested from MoFA and UAE Embassy.
Yes, you need to go to same union council where your nikkha is registered. Good luck!
Dear Ms Mehwish, you don’t need to go to union Council. Sin e I recently did it, so what you can do is go to NADRA local office and they’ll process your Marriage Registration Certificate in 30mins at PKR 500/-.
This is only possible if your cnic is on your husband name.
imran bhai mera passport cnic husband k naam se hai lakin nikah jis city mein howa hai udhr hum nai hain lakin nadra office idher jaise apne bola hai register kar den gay jati hon kisi b NADRA office se na?
Yes just go to any Nadra office they’ll give you the MRC and thats it. It would hardly take 30mins.
I have all required docs from pak and gonna apply for residence visa here in dubai in next week (as per the same process you mentioned above).
BUT I have one question in mind related to change of name, my wife name has changed on passport & NICOP (not only as husband but also last name with my name).
1) when she will apply for job here in UAE?
2) shall we face any issue, if we apply for immigration in future (Canada or Australia) because of name mismatch on Passport & Education certificates?
if you recommend me to change her last name again with her father name (on NICOP first then Passport), then would be possible to do this work here in dubai? as she will be here by mid of dec.
As far as I know, it should not create a problem for your wife. Moreover, name change while staying in UAE.
I had asked you a question on this forum before as well. However, today I have a different question. My wife has already obtained MRC from Karachi (as Nikah nama registered in Karachi). I called SASHA to confirm the list of pre-requisites for the attestation. I learned today from them that we can also get the MOFA and UAE attestations from Karachi itself using FEDex or Gerry’s. They get it attested from UAE consulate in Karachi, according to SASHA it is much quicker.
My question for you is, do you know if UAE consulate attestation is as good as UAE embassy attestation. Do you know anyone from Karachi successfully this process? If this is also valid, then I think its much safer and faster to do it from Karachi?
I did from karachi through fedex, its much easier and my wife is already in UAE now.
After getting nadra nikkah nama, You can do only MOFA from pakistan, other all attestation you can do in UAE.
I was really surprised to read on their website that Fedex take only 2 days to get the UAE consulate attestation for Sindh/ Balochistan region. My father-in-law can do that without any problem. Which other attestations are you referring to? My company just asked me to give them the attested MRC, passport copy, pictures and tenancy contract and they said they will do the rest of the work.
Other attestation like i did MOFA and UAE EMBASSY in Pakistan and then i did attestation from Pakistan embassy in UAE and in the last MOFA in UAE.If your company can do the rest for you that it is good for you.May be they will do the rest attestation for you. Just confirm with your company if they will do the rest or you have to do it in UAE.
I have another question if you could answer. Someone told me that I can have the scans of the MRC (attested from MOFA and UAE Emb, Pak) emailed to me and start the process here. Is it true? Or do I need to bring the original with me and then only I can get the e-visa? Thanks.
I dont have idea about it, better bring original all documents,cuz they have to see original at the time of issuing of visa. Be patient and apply once you have all original attested documents to avoid rejection.
Wife’s First residency address on CNIC from Lahore and husband residency is from sahiwal. now please guide if is it mandatory to change residency address on CINC & Passport then it is compulsory to change it from sahiwal or can be change from Lahore?
As far as I know, its not required but your name should be on her ID as husband name. Good luck!!
does UAE embassy object on this?
I am not an expert on legal matters but here is good post on Khaleej times which can help you clearing some doubts.
There is too much confusion about this process. First everybody keeps saying that “NADRA marriage certificate” is required: there is no such thing as a NADRA marriage certificate. Marriage certificate is issued only by union council while NADRA issues an FRC (Family registration certificate) based on union council marriage certificate. Every single person I ever tried to get help from misguided me with this information.
I think bottom line is that there should be an attested document showing yours and your wife’s marrital status with names of both same as that on passports. Since wife’s name might have changed after marriage and same reflected on new CNIC and passport, union council marriage certificate wouldn’t work since it has wife’s older name on it. FRC is mandatory in that case otherwise even union council marriage certificate (FRC is issued based on wife’s new CNIC) should be sufficient.
Dont be confused. Its simple thing. You need computerized Nikkah namma (people also call it NADRA marriage certificate). Get it attested from UC where your nikkah is registered then from MoFA and finally from UAE Embassy in Pakistan through any service provider like SASHA/UPS etc. Bring original computerized Nikkah namma after attestation with you and get it attested from MoFA of UAE in UAE and Pakistani consultant in UAE. Thats it.
Can you please confirm immediately what is minimum salary requirement to apply for spouse visa?
As per my knowledge it is 5K AED per month but please check with concerned authorities as rules are changing very frequently. Good luck!!
Thanks Ahmed for the reply one more question this 5k is basic?
Hope you are fine. I have a few more questions for you.
I have the original MRC with me in UAE. Its already attested from MOFA Pakistan and UAE Consulate in Pakistan. What is the next step? Can I now get the MOFA UAE attestation on it and be done or its compulsory to get the Pak Embassy in UAE’s attestation? If yes, what is the procedure for getting Pak embassy in UAE’s attestation?
Brother, I have twice applied for wife’s visa. But it keeps getting rejected due to ‘security reason’. My wife has never travelled to UAE before and no other reason makes sense. Hows can I remove immg.’s misunderstanding and clear up the security reason. Do you know anyone who deals with this sort of cases or someone whose wife also got rejected due to security reason? Look forward to your help. Thanks.
hi, i have provide my wife name wrong (new name” but she is using old name on all official papers ID, etc , now i want to make passport for her, will this be a problem ?
Name mismatch will create issues. Please make sure you correct all your documentation and provide exact & correct information. Good luck!
My husband and I both work in UAE and got married recently. While I have quit my job, my husband is still working and I need to get on his VISA.
Issue is that my husband actually moved in to my apartment. So all documents (DEWA/Tenancy) are in my name.
Since, this blog is based on my personal experiences and I never came across such scenario before so cannot pin point on this. However, as far as I know, DEWA & TENANCY must be on the name of sponsor person. When I applied for my wife’s visa (as a sponsor) they asked for all documents and all contracts (on my name). Good luck!!
Aoa. Sir if my visa in my hand (wife and child visa.. i need protector n english visa needed??
Hi Ahmed, i need one advice. I m in uae right now on visit visa. My husband got a job here so he is waiting for his emirate ID then, will apply my dependent visa. Do you have any idea if i go to Pakistan and apply spouse visa from there rather than doing it here from UAE. I have some family commitment for which i need to go to Pak in this week but i am also scared as i dnt know how much time the whole process will take in Pakistan. Please note as soon he ll get his emirate ID we ll rent the house and our nikah nama is already attested.
Kindly let me know how much time it takes in pakistan.
My recommendation is to get everything done here and then go to Pak. Rest decision is all yours.
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Through Department of Labor Internships, Law School Students Tackle Unemployment in the U.S.
It was an experiment: Assemble a team of first-year law students and deploy them to New York City’s One-Stop Career Centers, where every day New York State Department of Labor staff serves long lines of the city’s unemployed.
For the program’s director, this was a new twist on a long-standing project. Over the past decade, Harold Oaklander, an alumnus of Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR), has sent some fifty Cornell students on four-week winter internships to assist the departments of labor in their home states. Not long after he and Roger Gerby of the New York State Department of Labor established the Department of Labor/Alliance for the Prevention of Unemployment (DOL/APU) program, about twenty percent of applicants were coming from the Law School.
As the 2012 internship season approached, recruitment from the ILR faced some difficulty, but, says Oaklander, “interest among the legal community in the legal problems of workers forced out of homes and/or jobs was peaking.” Working with the Law School’s Karen Comstock, Assistant Dean of Public Service, and Angela Cornell, Director of the Labor Law Clinic, Oaklander reconfigured the program as a nine-week summer internship exclusively for Law School students. The National Employment Law Project also started providing staff for after-hours discussion sessions with the interns.
That’s just the sort of response the program’s organizers hoped to illicit. "College courses addressing the unemployment issue are just not found in the U.S.” says Oaklander. The DOL/APU program stands out as an opportunity for students to learn about and address these issues. The experience also fulfills new pro bono requirements by the state of New York for anyone taking the bar exam.
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Strongly consistent queries guarantee the freshest results, but may take longer to complete.
Eventually consistent queries generally run faster, but may occasionally return stale results.
In an eventually consistent query, the indexes used to gather the results are also accessed with eventual consistency. Consequently, such queries may sometimes return entities that no longer match the original query criteria, while strongly consistent queries are always transactionally consistent. See the article Transaction Isolation in App Engine for more information on how entities and indexes are updated.
Ancestor queries (those within an entity group) are strongly consistent by default, but can instead be made eventually consistent by setting the Cloud Datastore read policy (see below).
Non-ancestor queries are always eventually consistent.
Fetching an entity by key, which is also called "lookup by key", is strongly consistent.
Learn how to specify what a query returns and further control query results.
Learn the common restrictions for queries on Cloud Datastore.
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In an exclusive interview with ABC News host Diane Sawyer, kidnap survivor Jaycee Dugard talks about how giving birth to her first daughter, locked up and alone, gave her a purpose.
"I was still locked up at that time, and I was scared," Dugard, who was 14 at the time, told Sawyer. "It was very painful, but then I saw her. She was beautiful."
The 31-year-old continued, "I felt like I wasn't alone anymore, I had somebody that was mine and I knew I could never let anything happen to her. I didn't know how I was going to do that, but I did."
Dugard's mother, Terry Probyn, also opened up to Sawyer, revealing her anguish over not saying goodbye the day Jaycee was taken... because she was late for work. "I chose not to go in and kiss my girls goodbye that morning. I wanted to be on time. For 18 years, I kicked myself for not kissing my baby goodbye."
Terry added, "But it's a good lesson, you know, take a minute for your kids. Do that extra thing, it may be an inconvenience to you, but it's important to them."
Watch Diane Sawyer's exclusive interview with Jaycee on Sunday, July 10, at 9:00 PM on ABC.
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Effective income tax rates do start to decline at the highest income levels.
OTOH, the effective income tax rates at those levels remain well above those for most lower-income categories.
These points are graphically illustrated in Figure 1, which gives the effective income tax rates for various Adjusted Gross Income categories in 2008.
Granted, Fig. 1 only considers income taxes. However, as Figure 2 shows, the aforementioned points remain valid when we include other federal taxes (e.g., FICA, excise, corporate).
I find it hard to get excited about the very-very-rich paying a somewhat lower federal tax rate than the very-rich, when rates for both groups remain higher than those for most other income categories.
The effective income tax rates for the categories between $1 & $50k, and between $500k & $10 mil, were calculated using the Adjusted Gross Income data in col. 2 of this IRS table, and the “Total income tax” numbers in col. 41 of this table.
The effective income tax rates for the categories between 50k & 500k were calculated using the AGI & “Total income tax” numbers from columns 2 & 62, respectively, of Table B in IRS Publication 1304 (Rev. 07-2010).
The effective income tax rate for the “Top 400” was calculated using 2008 AGI & aggregate income tax data from Table 1, pp. 1 & 10, of this IRS report.
The aggregate AGI for the “$10 mil+ ex Top 400” category was calculated by subtracting the AGI for the top 400 from the AGI of the “$10,000,000 or more” category in this table; the same procedure was used to calculate the aggregate income tax for the “$10 mil+ ex Top 400” category.
Figure 2 was generated using the 2005 Total Effective Federal Tax Rate data in Table 1 of this CBO report.
This year, households making more than $1 million will pay an average of 29.1 percent of their income in federal taxes, including income taxes and payroll taxes, according to the Tax Policy Center, a Washington think tank.
Households making between $50,000 and $75,000 will pay 15 percent of their income in federal taxes.
Lower-income households will pay less. For example, households making between $40,000 and $50,000 will pay an average of 12.5 percent of their income in federal taxes. Households making between $20,000 and $30,000 will pay 5.7 percent.
The latest IRS data is a few years older and it’s limited to federal income taxes but it shows much the same thing. In 2009, taxpayers who made $1 million or more paid on average 24.4 percent of their income in federal income taxes, according to the IRS.
Those making $100,000 to $125,000 paid on average 9.9 percent in federal income taxes. Those making $50,000 to $60,000 paid an average of 6.3 percent.
Given my previous forays into tax-distribution issues, these results do not surprise me.
I have heard it claimed recently that, if the current debt ceiling is not raised, the U.S. would not be able to cover the interest currently due on our national debt and other immediate obligations and would immediately default. . . .
I have also heard it claimed recently that . . . current U.S. Treasury receivables are easily sufficient to pay such current obligations many times over.
What is the true situation, as best you can discover?
What follows is my attempt at an answer.
Inability of the government to pay obligations besides federal debt, such as salaries, entitlements, tax refunds, etc.
Since “default” is commonly defined to mean “failure to meet financial obligations,” either of the above could be characterized as “default.” Given that federal outlays currently exceed receipts by a considerable margin, default on non-debt obligations appears highly probable absent a debt-limit increase or massive tax increases. This may well be highly unfortunate, but I doubt it would induce the financial catastrophe that would likely result from a default on the national debt. It is this sort of default that I – and methinks many others – have in mind when they worry about the federal government defaulting. Default on the national debt, however, is probably avoidable even if the debt limit stays constant. Preventing debt default would have two aspects: rolling over the current stock of federal debt, and paying interest on the debt.
2. Rollover: When a given portion of the national debt comes due, Treasury rolls it over: it sells new issues of bonds & bills, and uses the resultant proceeds to pay off maturing debt issues. These rollover operations could still continue even if fedgov hit the debt limit. Since the debt limit provision merely establishes an overall limit on outstanding debt, and does not specifically prohibit new issues of debt, ISTM Treasury would still be able to issue new debt to “roll over” existing debt issues as they expired.
Total Receipts were ~$1.02 trillion through March 2011, and were estimated at $2.17 trillion for the full fiscal year.
Gross interest payments were ~$216 billion through March 2011, and were estimated at $430 billion for the full fiscal year.
It therefore appears that Treasury could continue paying interest on the national debt even if the debt limit weren’t raised.
4. Of course, the foregoing analysis assumes that Treasury prioritizes debt rollover & payment of interest above other obligations. Arguably, Sec. 4 of the Fourteenth Amendment mandates such prioritization, by mandating that “The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law . . . shall not be questioned.” ISTM Treasury also has the power to prioritize in this manner. Although I’m unaware of any court cases addressing this question, a 1985 GAO report did conclude that Treasury is “free to liquidate obligations in any order it finds will best serve the interests of the United States.” A 1981 OMB memorandum implicitly concurs, by outlining which governmental functions that would continue during a lapse in appropriations. Finally, even though a recent statement by Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Neal Wolin deemed prioritization “unworkable,” it stopped short of asserting that Treasury is prohibited from prioritizing in this manner.
Even if the government continued paying interest, it is not clear whether creditors would retain or lose faith in the government’s willingness to pay its obligations. If creditors lost this confidence, the federal government’s interest costs would likely increase substantially.
The probability of such a crisis in confidence depends on the psychology of those holding Treasury securities. I have insufficient data to guestimate this probability.
Recently, a rather odd concern came to my attention: apparently, some people are worried that Obama might someday declare a bank holiday. Admittedly, there’s a smidge of truth to this concern, but it’s almost two years too late: In the depths of the credit crisis, some pundits did suggest temporarily closing the nation’s banks, evaluating them for solvency, and reopening only those proven to be solvent. However, this never ended up happening; nor do I think it likely to happen anytime soon. Still, since I like to think about weird things, I got to pondering whether the President still has the power to declare a bank holiday nowadays. FDR did so in 1933, but using a statute that has since been amended. Does such authority still exist? The tentative answer of this non-lawyer is “Yes.” Sort of.
(A) investigate, regulate, or prohibit, any transactions in foreign exchange, transfers of credit or payments between, by, through, or to any banking institution, and the importing, exporting, hoarding, melting, or earmarking of gold or silver coin or bullion, currency or securities . . .
by any person, or with respect to any property, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States . . . .
In general, this text seems significantly broader than the 1933 version. Currently, the Act not only encompasses “transfers of credit between or payments by” a banking institution, but also “transfers of credit or payments between, by, through, or to” such an institution. Paragraph (3) allows the President to define not only “banking institution” (as was the case in 1933), but also “any and all terms” of the statute. If the 1933 version of § 5(b) was broad enough to authorize FDR’s bank holiday, it would appear that the Act’s current, broader incarnation allows Obama to do the same.
Or does it? Notwithstanding the above, the current § 5(b) is narrower than its 1933 counterpart in one respect. The 1933 version not only applied “[d]uring time of war,” but also “during any other period of national emergency declared by the President . . . .” However, since this “national emergency” language was removed in 1977, the Act has been limited to wartime. We must therefore consider whether the United States is currently in a state of war.
In Kaufman v. Holder, a federal district court held that the term “state of war,” as used in a citizenship-renunciation statute, encompassed the dates of July 2004 & September 2008, owing to the existence of wars in Iraq & Afghanistan, and the passage of the 9/11 AUMF & Iraq War resolution.
In United States v. Prosperi, a federal district court held that, for the purposes of the Wartime Suspension Limitations Act, the United States was “at war,” owing to the 9/11 AUMF, the Iraq War resolution, and the existence of the Iraq & Afghanistan wars.
Qualls, Kaufman, & Prosperi are particularly noteworthy, since each was unconcerned with war powers questions (e.g., preventive detention, targeted killing). Rather, each involved legal provisions which – like the Trading with the Enemy Act – just so happen to become operative during a “time of war” or “state of war.” On the basis of these precedents, and the others mentioned above, it would appear that the United States is currently in a state of war. It follows that the provisions of the Trading with the Enemy Act are currently operative; and that, therefore, the President has the authority to proclaim a bank holiday under existing law.
See, e.g., William Greider, Time for a Bank Holiday, Nation, Dec. 8, 2008, at 3, available at http://www.thenation.com/article/time-bank-holiday; New Deal democrat, FDR’s solution to the Banking Crisis – a model for Obama, The Economic Populist (Nov. 22, 2008, 1:21 PM), http://www.economicpopulist.org/content/fdrs-solution-banking-crisis-model-obama.
Proclamation No. 2039, 48 Stat. 1689 (Mar. 6, 1933).
50 U.S.C. app. § 5(b) (2006).
50 U.S.C. app. § 5(b)(1)(A) (2006).
Compare 50 U.S.C. app. § 5(b)(3) (2006), with 50 U.S.C. app. § 5(b) (1940).
Both the executive & the judiciary took this view. Although FDR followed the Emergency Banking Act of 1933 with a second bank holiday proclamation, this merely “extended” the holiday declared by the first, while also declaring that “all the terms and provisions of said Proclamation of March 6, 1933, and the regulations and orders issued thereunder are hereby continued in full force and effect”. Compare Proclamation No. 2040, 48 Stat. 1691 (Mar. 9, 1933), with . A subsequent decision by the Mississippi Supreme Court, while noting the questionable legality of FDR’s first proclamation, also took the validity of the second for granted. See Anthony v. Bank of Wiggins, 184 So. 626, 628 (Miss. 1938) (“[A]lthough the banking institutions of the United States, out of a commendable spirit of co-operation in a time of economic crisis, generally obeyed the Presidential Proclamation of March 6, 1933, there was no authority in law for the issuance of such a proclamation until March 9, 1933.”).
50 U.S.C. app. § 5(b) (1940).
Act of Dec. 28, 1977, Pub. L. No. 95-223, § 101, 91 Stat. 1625, 1625 (1977).
Authorization for Use of Military Force, Pub. L. No. 107-40, § 2(a), 115 Stat. 224 (2001).
542 U.S. 507, 518 (2004). (“We conclude that detention of individuals falling into the limited category we are considering, for the duration of the particular conflict in which they were captured, is so fundamental and accepted an incident to war as to be an exercise of the necessary and appropriate force Congress has authorized the President to use.”). Implicit in this conclusion is the notion that the struggle with Al Qaeda & its allies is a “war”, and that as such, it is appropriate to look to the laws of war when determining the scope of the power granted by the AUMF.
553 U.S. 723, 771 (2008).
479 F. Supp. 2d 85, 114 (D.C. 2007).
Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002, Pub. L. No. 107-243, 116 Stat. 1498.
357 F. Supp. 2d 274, 284 (D.C. 2005).
686 F. Supp. 2d 40, 43-45 (D.C. 2010).
573 F. Supp. 2d 436, 450-454 (Mass. 2008). Admittedly, the judge in this decision also opined that the Afghan war ended on Dec. 22, 2001, when “the United States formally recognized and extended full diplomatic relations to the new government of Hamid Karzai”; and that the Iraq War ended with President Bush’s May 1, 2003 speech announcing the end of “major combat operations in Iraq” Id. at 455. This portion of the opinion, however, is obviously open to serious dispute on factual grounds, given the continued existence of counterinsurgency operations in both Iraq & Afghanistan well beyond the dates mentioned in the opinion. Indeed, the opinion implicitly admits this, when it notes that “a strong case can be made, given the continuing expenditures and loss of life in Iraq and Afghanistan, that the United States remains at war.” Id. at 454. Moreover, the opinion’s designation of “Termination of Hostilities” for either of these wars is arguably non-binding dicta, since the same result could have been reached if the judge had simply (and probably correctly) deemed the wars in question “ongoing”. See also Doe v. United States, No. [deleted], 2010 U.S. Claims LEXIS 886, at *1 (Ct. Cl. Nov. 22, 2010) (“A novel takings issue is presented—whether an Iraqi citizen can maintain a Fifth Amendment takings claim for the occupation of his home by the United States military during the Battle of Fallujah, a question that requires a determination as to whether the military necessity doctrine precludes invocation of the Fifth Amendment for a military occupation during wartime….”) (emphasis added).
5 U.S.C. § 551(1)(G) (2006).
Al Odah v. United States, 321 F.3d 1134, 1149-1150 (D.C. Cir. 2003) (Randolph, J. concurring), rev’d on other grounds sub nom., Rasul v. Bush, 542 U.S. 466 (2004).
1. Sharia: I’m fine with courts enforcing Sharia-based arbitration agreements, or consulting the laws & courts of Muslim states under normal choice-of-law principles. Granting Muslims special exemptions from criminal laws on account of their religious beliefs does make me cranky; but I feel the same way about exemptions for Christians. I’m just glad that New Jersey court decision was amenable to reversal on appeal; unlike, say, United States v. Lynch, 952 F. Supp. 167 (D.S.D.N.Y. 1997), where a judge acquitted two devout Catholic abortion-clinic protesters on the basis of their religious beliefs, and the Second Circuit found its hands tied by that pesky Double-Jeopardy prohibition. That said, methinks occasional screwups along these lines are inevitable in a country such as ours, which has a long history of exempting people from generally-applicable laws on the basis of sincere religious convictions. Personally, I don’t think such exemptions are mandated by the Free-Exercise Clause; and weirdly enough, the Supreme Court seems to agree with me. But then, I’m not a constitutional lawyer, so it’s possible I’m totally off-base here.
2. Pearl Harbor: Historically, I’ve made a point of commemorating Dec. 7 in some way. This year, not so much – I blame sleep deprivation. FDR’s Dec. 8 war address is one of my all-time favorites (along with Lincoln’s Second Inaugural). I do sometimes wonder how the Pacific War might’ve turned out if Japan hadn’t doomed itself attacking Pearl Harbor. E.g., if they’d just ignored the Philippines, and gone for the rest of the Co-Prosperity Sphere, could FDR have talked the America-Firsters into defending Europe’s Asian colonies?
3. I’m not overly concerned by the dismissal of ACLU/CCR’s Al-Aulaqi lawsuit, since I view these sorts of targeted killings as constitutional.
4. Rush Limbaugh: I was once an avid fan, in high school. Not so much nowadays. I occasionally wonder if I should tune in just to monitor what he’s feeding his audience. But I don’t think I have that much time to spare.
5. Wikileaks & Warfighting: In a country such as the United States, public support is a sine qua non for any successful war effort. The collapse of public support can make it much more difficult for the US to continue fighting, and may ultimately contribute to either an outright defeat, or the acceptance of otherwise-unacceptable terms of peace – in the same way as a long string of battlefield defeats might. (See, e.g., Vietnam) Insofar as disclosures like those made by Wikileaks erode public support for the wars in Iraq & Afghanistan, they may thus be likened to war of a sort.
I do wonder why Wikileaks has provoked such an uproar this time around, given that their latest disclosure (of Foggy Bottom cables) seems to have been the most innocuous of their recent leaks.
6. I recently came across an intellectually-honest liquidationist, who frankly admitted that his preference for avoiding the Fed/Treasury/TARP bailouts of late ’08, and putting the various recipient institutions through bankruptcy (ala Lehman), would’ve led to a “depression”. (His term, not mine. Not sure how this would’ve compared to the original.) He didn’t seem to mind limited bailouts for investors in money-market funds, however – which struck me as interesting, given the role MMFs played in funding the institutions he wanted to put in bankruptcy. It’s not clear to me whether this strategy would’ve led to a better outcome than what actually happened.
7. I also recently came across this website, and found it quite entertaining. Though I’m not sure I know enough about either the law or comic books to truly appreciate it.
With several of my co-bloggers raising the issue of how income & federal tax liabilities are distributed among different income levels, I figured I’d reacquaint myself with Microsoft Excel, and gin up some semi-relevant charts. Fortunately, the Congressional Budget Office already did the heavy-lifting back in December ’08; responding to a query from Sen. Baucus, they drafted a letter providing historical data for various income categories, with particular attention to higher-income ones. Chart 1 plots the total federal tax liability for each of several income categories, as a % of household income. Charts 2 & 3 plot the proportion of federal taxes paid by said categories; while Charts 4 & 5 plot the proportion of income earned by each category.
It occurred to me that, when drafting the above, I neglected the top 10%. Chart 6 plots relevant historical stats for that particular category.
The CBO publication in question is Historical Effective Tax Rates, 1979 to 2005: Supplement with Additional Data on Sources of Income and High-Income Households (December 2008), available at http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/98xx/doc9884/12-23-EffectiveTaxRates_Letter.pdf (hereinafter Historical Tax Rates).
Data for this chart comes from Table 1 of Historical Tax Rates, under the heading “Total Effective Federal Tax Rate”. For “Percentiles 81-99”, I calculated – as weighted averages – pre-tax and after-tax incomes for each year, using data from Table 3 regarding numbers of households and average household income for each of “Percentiles 81-90”, “Percentiles 91-95”, & “Percentiles 96-99”. I did the same for “Top 1%”, using data for “Percentiles 99.0 – 99.5”, “Percentiles 99.5 – 99.9”, “Percentiles 99.9 – 99.99”, & “Top 0.01 Percentile”.
Data for Charts 2 & 3 comes from Table 2 of Historical Tax Rates, under the heading, “Share of Total Federal Tax Liabilities”. Each datapoint for “Percentiles 81-99” sums “Percentiles 81-90”, “Percentiles 91-95”, & “Percentiles 96-99” for that year. Each datapoint for “Top 1%” sums data for “Percentiles 99.0 – 99.5”, “Percentiles 99.5 – 99.9”, “Percentiles 99.9 – 99.99”, & “Top 0.01 Percentile”.
Data for Charts 2 & 3 comes from Table 3 of Historical Tax Rates, under the heading, ” Share of Income (Percent)”, and the subheading, “Pretax Income”. Each datapoint for “Percentiles 81-99” sums “Percentiles 81-90”, “Percentiles 91-95”, & “Percentiles 96-99” for that year. Each datapoint for “Top 1%” sums data for “Percentiles 99.0 – 99.5”, “Percentiles 99.5 – 99.9”, “Percentiles 99.9 – 99.99”, & “Top 0.01 Percentile”.
As with “Top 1%” in Chart 1, I calculated the “Total Effective Federal Tax Rate” for each year by calculating – as weighted averages – pre-tax and after-tax incomes for each year, using data from Table 3 of Historical Tax Rates regarding numbers of households and average household income for each of Percentiles 91-95″, “Percentiles 96-99”, “Percentiles 99.0 – 99.5”, “Percentiles 99.5 – 99.9”, “Percentiles 99.9 – 99.99”, & “Top 0.01 Percentile”. I summed the relevant percentages for these categories from Tables 2 & 3 to calculate “Share of Pretax Income” and “Share of Federal Tax Liabilities”, respectively.
1. On a strict apples-to-apples comparison, the headline of the Tapscott piece – which implies (to me) that ARRA (the Obama stimulus) has already cost more than Iraq – is incorrect. Per CBO, direct costs of the Iraq war did indeed total $709 bn from 2001-2010. However, ARRA to date cost $180 bn in 2009, and $392 bn in 2010, for a total of $572 bn.
2. Of course, ARRA is slated to continue expending cash for some time, to the tune of $242 bn from 2011-2019, for a total of $814 bn. It is this number that Hoven & Tapscott are concerned with. However, if one is counting future expenditures, ISTM one should also consider similar expenditures for Iraq. Alas, the aforementioned table only goes to 2010; for 2011-2020, p. 25 of the CBO report only estimates the combined costs of Iraq & Afghanistan, w/o providing a breakdown of said projections for the two theaters. Note that it would require annual Iraq expenditures of only $12 bn/yr to make Iraq’s overall budgetary cost (through 2019) higher than that of ARRA.
4. From where I stand, it’s a bit early to declare the stimulus a success or failure. One problem with such pronouncements is our unfortunate lack of an alternate universe in which we can run controlled experiments. We can guestimate the probable effects of stimulus using economic models. I leave the question of said models’ reliability as an exercise for the reader.
5. To some extent, this isn’t a question of numbers, so much as one’s opinions re. Iraq & the stimulus. If one thinks Iraq justified and the stimulus ineffective, then of course the former was worth the expenditure & the latter a big waste of $. And vice-versa.
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A new powerful ministry dealing with policies on science, information and IT is finding it difficult to set sail due to political wrangling, more than a week after the Park Geun-hye government was inaugurated on Feb. 25. President Park proposed the establishment of the so-called Ministry of Future Planning and Science to embody her vision of a “creative economy.” But the proposal for government reorganization has failed to win approval from the National Assembly in the face of objection by opposition parties to allow the ministry to control broadcasting-related policies.
The ruling Saenuri Party and the main opposition Democratic United Party have failed to narrow their differences on the government reorganization plan. The scheme gives more power to the Future Planning and Science Ministry, which takes over some functions from the state telecom and broadcast regulator Korea Communications Commission ― a move opposed by the DUP.
The new ministry, which focuses on building a “creative economy,” would be in charge of devising policies involving developing future growth engines in information communication technology as well as science.
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2019-04-24T14:57:42Z
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https://nostkorea.wordpress.com/2013/03/07/new-giant-ministry-mired-in-political-wrangling/?shared=email&msg=fail
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©Mark W. Skinner. United States, TX, Big Bend National Park. July 14, 1982. Usage Requirements. Any use of copyrighted images requires permission of the copyright holder.
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Lord Byron, in English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, 1809; Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1898-1904) 1:372-73.
Expert in science, more expert at puns?
Requires no sacred theme to bid us list.
Whose Helicon is duller than her Cam.
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"1965 Asian Mission Workshop, Ibaraki, Japan, 1965"
A group of American missionaries to Asia from a cappella Churches of Christ attend a conference in Ibaraki, Japan to fellowship, discuss strategy, and share resources. The picture was taken in front of the Home Economics building. Back row left to right: Bob Davidson, Ruth Betts, Bob Buchanan, Charlie Davis, Unknown, E. W. McMillan, Dorsey Traw, Terry Giboney, Robert Yarborough, Ray Brown. Second row left to right: Unknown, Elizabeth McCaleb, Bess Wheeler Rhodes, Unknown, Mrs. E. W. McMillan, Joan Gurganus, Norma Doyle, Barbara Buchanan, Unknown, Edna Pendergrass, Dixie Yarborough, Susan Giboney, Unknown, Barbara Bixler. Front row left to right: L. T. Gurganus, Unknown, Unkown, Parker Henderson, Unkown, Akio Limb, Joe Betts, Unknown, Ken Rideout, Dean Bixler, Unknown, Pence Dacus, Unknown.
photographic print, 15 x 20 cm.
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2019-04-23T14:18:49Z
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https://digitalcommons.acu.edu/coc_missions_photos/69/
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Basket Of Good Wishes is a painting by Anne-D Mejaki - Art About You productions which was uploaded on January 15th, 2010.
This artpiece is pleasant and whimsical with the chariot of happenings and a basket filled with joyful wishes.
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Please go to dcxmuseum.org to view the new site.
In 1995 I became interested in interactive websites. Technology was still in its infancy but I developed what was the first version of Corpsreps.com. The site was a hobby/learning project, limited to the Top 12 DCI corps, and run off my company website. I used this site to show a client how interactive websites worked and pitched the idea of an insurance system that ran in a web browser. Shortly after launching my junior corps site, I was contacted by my good friend Ron Allard about doing the same thing for senior corps. I copied my setup and put his site under my company website. In 1997 we decided to merge the two sites and I bought the domain Corpsreps.com. The site continued to grow beyond anything I originally planned. Scores were added, pictures, narrative history. Twenty years into this project, I partnered with Steve Vickers of Drum Corps World, collector and historian Bill Ives, and others to create Drum Corps Xperience.
DCX leverages the data I've spent a couple of decades collecting along with collections from Vickers, Ives and others to create the biggest historical resource for fans of the drum corps activity. With an all new mobile-friendly interface, DCX presents this historical information in the concept of a virtual museum. You navigate through DCX by going into different galleries as you would with a museum. But unlike a physical museum, the same item might appear in multiple galleries. Interested in 1970s drum corps? Go into the History by Decade gallery and find the 1970s gallery where you will find repertories, photos, scores, uniforms, a nd other historical resources from that era.
Curious about what drum corps looked like in the 1930s? Go into the Shows gallery and pick Historical Videos. Do you want to see some cool uniforms? Try the Collections gallery and pick Uniforms. Would you like to read the extensive history books created by Steve Vickers? They are here in full in the Publications gallery. Or would you like to see what we have on your favorite corps? Just enter the corps name in the search box in the upper right, then explore repertoires, scores, photos, collections and other items.
I am very excited about this evolution of Corpsreps and hope you will find hours of enjoyment at DCX.
For now, the Corpsreps Facebook page will continue to exist. Over the next few months (or years) I will be thinking about how to repurpose Corpsreps.
Copyright © 1996-2019 Maher Associates, Inc.
Hosted by Modotech, Inc. - specializing in Internet applications for insurance.
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Different methods of installing laminate flooring will vary depending on exactly what you're installing that flooring on. Find out about the different methods of installing laminate flooring with help from a Foreman for Lighty Contractors in this free video clip.
Good day, everyone. I'm Joshua Clement with Lighty Contractors, and today I'm going to talk to you about different methods for installing laminate flooring. Now when it comes to installing laminate flooring, there's two main ways that people install laminate flooring. One, is perpendicular with the wall. The other is actually at a 45 degree angle from the corner. This here is a perpendicular way that you install laminate flooring. It is the most common way that people install laminate flooring and one of the cheaper ways for installing it because when you start in the corner and you run across the room, the end that you cut off, you pick up and you bring it right back over to the corner and you start with that piece here instead of throwing it away and wasting it. This is one of the better ways to install it if you are trying to save some money. The other way is to go in here and cut a 45 off of each side of your laminate flooring and then go ahead and you put it back into the corner and what that does is it makes all your grains run on a 45 from your corner but you are wasting a lot of material on the pieces that you cut off and it gets rather expensive when you are doing a large room. Running it perpendicular with the wall is definitely cheaper, but running it on the 45 is a lot more showy so it kind of depends on which way you prefer running it on the 45 is definitely going to be more expensive. I'm Joshua Clement with Lighty Contractors and we just talked about different methods for installing your laminate flooring. Thank you all for watching and good luck with this project.
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https://homeguides.sfgate.com/different-methods-installing-laminate-flooring-81880.html
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1 – Bring broth to a boil in large saucepan over medium-high heat. Add carrots; cook 10 minutes.
2 – Add soup, rice, thyme, sage, and pepper to saucepan; bring to a boil. Stir in spinach, chicken, and half-and-half; cook and stir 2 minutes or until heated through.
*Note. Half of a rotisserie chicken will yield about 1 1/2 cups of cooked meat.
Yield: 6 to 7 servings.
1 – Puree 1 cup of the cooked beans and combine with the whole beans.
2 – Heat the oil in a soup pot over medium heat. Sauté the onions, bell peppers, jalapeños and garlic in the oil until the onions are translucent, 4–5 minutes.
3 – Add the bean mixture and broth. Stir constantly until the beans are thoroughly heated, 3–4 minutes.
4 – Add the vinegar, tomatoes, and salt and remove from the heat when hot. Stir in the cilantro just before serving.
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2019-04-19T20:33:20Z
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No Catamount Community Radio today for the obvious reason that I'm out of town. I gave the manager a show on two CDs from 2008, but told him that it wouldn't bother me if he decided not to play it.
I know what you're thinking ... well, I don't know exactly what you're thinking, I'm only human after all, but I can hypothesize: "Boy's been on the move." Ain't that the truth. I left Lexington at about one p.m. on Friday, drove the five hours (mostly in the rain as far as Knoxville) and made it home around six. I had a few hours to rest and pack, but I needed to get up at three in the morning, because my flight out of Asheville was leaving at 5:30 in the morning. Jeez, what I haul off and done that for, huh? I made it, again driving in the rain. At least there's not much traffic at four in the morning. Mostly just the lonely semi trucks. By ten in the morning yesterday, the plane had touched down in Florida. I see that I left tornados and destruction behind me in Carolina. I do admit that 39-minute flight between Asheville and Charlotte was pretty bumpy!
You can imagine that I was tres fatigué, hecho polvo, which is to say tired, by the time I checked into the hotel. I took a nap and chilled the rest of the day, surfing the web and reading the James Brown Reader. I'll be sure to review it when I'm finished reading it. I actually met one of the editors in Seattle a few years back, Nelson George. He was nice to me and I enjoyed talking with him (unlike Robert Christgau, who left me planted the day before when he realized that I was nobody and that I knew nothing). I told Nelson George how I flew to NYC and walked down 125th St. past the Apollo Theater the day Brown died, Christmas Day, 2006. Only now do I realize now that that walk down 125th Street was on my previous trip to New York. My mind was playing tricks on me.
The reason for my trip to Florida is to give a lecture on Cervantes tomorrow at Palm Beach State College. Unlike the talk I gave in Kentucky, this one is aimed at the general public, rather than at specialists. After listening to X.Ray and Glen, I'll probably sit by the pool and tweak the talk.
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2019-04-24T01:51:35Z
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Market demand has sized, shaped and launched the newest member of the Boeing widebody family, the 777. The airplane design offers features, innovations and approaches to aircraft development that set the standard for delivering value to airlines. The 777 -- the world's largest twinjet -- is available in three models: an initial 777-200 model, a 777-200ER (extended range) model and a larger 777-300 model.
On Feb. 15, 1996, the 777 was named winner of the prestigious Robert J. Collier Trophy by the U.S. National Aeronautic Association. The award honored the 777 as top aeronautical achievement of 1995.
Initially, United Airlines, All Nippon Airways, British Airways, Japan Airlines and Cathay Pacific were among a number of carriers with whom Boeing held intensive discussions, including many group sessions, to define and develop the new airplane's configuration. The participating airlines represented a full range of operations in terms of route structure, traffic loads and service frequency. Their input to the design process helped ensure that the final product has the broadest possible application to the needs of the world's airlines.
In every respect, the 777 design responds to market needs and customer preferences. The result is an airplane offering cabin spaciousness and flexibility found in no other jetliner and many features to enhance reliability and productivity -- all with lower operating costs. The 777 provides the most payload and range capability and growth potential in the medium-size aircraft category.
Another benefit of the intensive customer dialogue was a consensus that many items traditionally offered as optional, or special request, features on other airplanes should be standard (or basic) equipment on the 777 because they are so frequently specified by most airlines. About 80 such items -- including satellite communication and global positioning systems -- are basic to the airplane. This reduces variability during design and production, while providing the airlines with a more economical equipment package.
The 777 wing uses the most aerodynamically efficient airfoil ever developed for subsonic commercial aviation. In a further refinement of designs introduced on the Boeing 757 and 767, the 777 wing features a long span with increased thickness while achieving higher cruise speeds. This advanced wing enhances the airplane's ability to climb quickly and cruise at higher altitudes than competing airplanes. It also allows the airplane to carry full passenger payloads out of many high-elevation, high-temperature airfields.
Fuel volume requirements for the 777 are accommodated entirely within the wing and its structural center section. For the initial airplane, fuel capacity is 31,000 gallons (117,335 L), while the longer-range model and the 777-300 model can carry up to 45,220 gallons (171,155 L).
Airlines helping to design the 777 encouraged Boeing to commit to the performance capabilities of an optimum wing, which has a span of 199 feet 11 inches (60.9 m).
The three leading engine manufacturers have developed more efficient and quieter turbofans to power the 777, and all three have been selected by 777 customers. Engine selection by the airlines is split by roughly one-third for each of the engine manufacturers.
For the initial airplane, these engines are rated in the 73,400- to 77,000-pound thrust class. For the extended-range model and the 777-300, these engines will be capable of thrust ratings in the 83,600-to-98,000-pound category. The engines could be developed to even higher thrust ratings, depending on future payload and range requirements.
All three engines offer excellent fuel efficiency, while allowing the 777 to be as quiet as a 767, even though the 777 engines provide 40 percent more power. Key factors in this performance are new, larger-diameter fans with wide-chord fan blade designs and bypass ratios ranging from 6-to-1 to as high as 9-to-1. This compares to the typical 5-to-1 ratio for the engines of previous twin-aisle jets.
Pratt & Whitney is offering the PW4000 series of engines, General Electric is offering its all-new GE90 series, and Rolls-Royce is offering the Trent 800 series of engines.
New, lightweight, cost-effective structural materials are used in several 777 applications. For example, an improved aluminum alloy is used in the upper wing skin and stringers. Known as 7055, this alloy offers greater compression strength than current alloys, enabling designers to save weight and also improve corrosion and fatigue resistance.
Progress in the development and fabrication of weight-saving advanced composite materials is evident in the 777. Carbon fibers embedded in recently available toughened resins are found in the vertical and horizontal tails. The floor beams of the passenger cabin also are made of these advanced composite materials.
Other composite applications include those on secondary structures such as aerodynamic fairings. Composites, including resins and adhesives, account for 9 percent of the 777's structural weight, compared to about 3 percent on other Boeing jets.
In response to airline preference expressed during the prelaunch definition phase, the layout of the 777 flight deck is in a horizontal format similar to that of the 747-400. Principal flight, navigation and engine information is presented on six large display screens.
Although these displays resemble conventional cathode ray tube (CRT) screens, they incorporate advanced liquid-crystal display technology. The depth of the new "flat-panel displays" is about half that of CRTs. In addition to saving space, the new displays weigh less and require less power. They also generate less heat, which contributes to greater reliability and a longer service life. The displays do not require the heavy, complex air conditioning apparatus needed to cool equipment on current flight decks. Pilots appreciate that flat panel displays remain clearly visible in all conditions, even direct sunlight.
Three multipurpose control display units (CDU), installed in the center aisle stand, provide data display and entry capabilities for flight management functions and are the primary interface with an integrated Airplane Information Management System (AIMS). The CDUs have color displays, again in response to market preferences. Adding color allows pilots to assimilate the information more quickly.
AIMS provides flight and maintenance crews all pertinent information concerning the overall condition of the airplane, its maintenance requirements and its key operating functions, including flight, thrust and communications management.
The flight crew transmits control and maneuvering commands through electrical wires, augmented by computers, directly to hydraulic actuators for the elevators, rudder, ailerons and other control surfaces. This three-axis "fly-by-wire" flight-control system saves weight, simplifies factory assembly compared to conventional mechanical systems relying on steel cables, and requires fewer spares and less maintenance in airline service.
A key part of the 777 systems is a Boeing-patented two-way digital data bus, which has been adopted as a new industry standard: ARINC 629. It permits airplane systems and their computers to communicate with one another through a common wire path (a twisted pair of wires) instead of through separate one-way wire connections. This further simplifies assembly and saves weight, while increasing reliability through a reduction in the amount of wires and connectors. There are 11 of these ARINC 629 pathways in the 777.
The 777 was the first Boeing model to be equipped with the Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System (EGPWS) as standard equipment. The EGPWS displays potentially threatening terrain and gives an audible alert up to a minute in advance of possible terrain conflict, compared with 10 to 15 seconds for previous systems. It incorporates a proprietary digital terrain map, which it continuously compares to aircraft position data from the navigation system.
One new feature in the 777-300 flight deck is the addition of a Ground Maneuver Camera System (GMCS), designed to assist the pilot in ground maneuvering of the 777-300 with camera views of the nose gear and main gear areas. The cameras are on the leading edge of the left and right horizontal stabilizers and the underside of the fuselage and are used during ground maneuvering. The images are displayed at the Multi-Functional Display positions in the flight deck in a three-way split format.
In 1993, the 777 flight deck received accolades from the Industrial Designers Society of America. For the second year in a row, the 777 received the society's Industrial Design Excellence Award for its flight deck design..
In addition to being one of the most spacious passenger cabins ever developed, the 777 interior offers operators unsurpassed configuration flexibility. Flexibility zones have been designed into the cabin areas specified by the airlines, primarily at the airplane's doors. In 1-inch increments, galleys and lavatories can be positioned anywhere within these zones, which are pre-engineered to accommodate wiring, plumbing and attachment fixtures. Passenger service units and overhead stowage compartments are designed for quick removal without disturbing ceiling panels, air conditioning ducts or support structure. A typical 777 configuration change is expected to take as little as 72 hours, while such a change might take two to three weeks on existing aircraft.
Large overhead compartments provide passengers with increased stowage capacity. Outboard as well as center stowage units are designed to open downward for convenient loading. When closed, they fit neatly into the streamlined contours of the interior architecture and allow ample overhead clearance.
For improved, more efficient in-flight service, the 777 is equipped with an advanced cabin management system. Linked to a computerized control console, the cabin management system assists cabin crews with many tasks and allows airlines to provide new services for passengers, including a digital sound system comparable to the most state-of-the-art home stereo or compact disc players.
A 1992 Industrial Design Excellence Award was awarded to the passenger cabin of the new Boeing 777 jetliner, the first time the Industrial Designers Society of America honored an airplane interior.
A survey of nearly 6,000 passengers flying on long-range routes to and from Europe in first, business and economy classes revealed an overwhelming preference for the 777. The survey, conducted in 1999 by six airlines based in Europe and the Middle East, found that the Boeing 777 was preferred by more than three out of four passengers who had flown aboard both the 777 and the Airbus A330/340 airplanes.
The fuselage cross-section of the 777 is circular and large enough to accommodate not only a spacious passenger cabin, but excellent capacity in the lower hold. The lower-hold mechanized cargo-handling system is compatible with all unit load devices (ULD) and pallets. One of the container arrangements utilizes LD-3s loaded side by side. The 777-200 can accommodate a maximum of 32 LD-3 containers plus 600 cubic feet (17 m3) of bulk-loaded cargo for total lower-hold volume of 5,656 cubic feet (160.17 m3). The 777-300 can accommodate a maximum of 44 LD-3 containers plus the same amount of bulk-loaded cargo as the -200 model for a total lower-hold volume of 7,552 cubic feet (213.8 m3).
The main landing gear for the 777 is in a standard two-post arrangement but features six-wheel trucks, instead of the conventional four-wheel units. This provides the main landing gear with a total of 12 wheels for better weight distribution on runways and taxi areas and avoids the need for a supplemental two-wheel gear under the center of the fuselage. Another advantage is that the six-wheel trucks allow for a more economical brake design. The 777 landing gear is the largest ever incorporated into a commercial airplane.
New design and testing initiatives helped ensure the highest possible levels of reliability on the very first 777, compared to what had been possible on previous jetliner introductions.
Design/build teams, which bring together representatives of the diverse disciplines involved in airplane development, as well as suppliers and representatives of airline customers, allowed team members to work concurrently on the 777 structural and systems designs.
Continuing the "market-driven" approach, four 777 customers had on-site representatives working side by side with Boeing designers to ensure that the new airplane filled their needs. United Airlines, All Nippon Airways, British Airways and Japan Airlines had teams of between two to four engineers on site, who were actively involved in developing the 777.
For the first time, digital computers were used by Boeing engineers to design and electronically preassemble the entire airplane, increasing accuracy and improving quality. New laboratory facilities enabled the various airplane systems to be tested together as a single integrated entity in simulated flight conditions -- before the first jetliner took to the air. This allowed a smoother transition to flight testing and service introduction.
Among other initiatives, standard certification flight tests were supplemented with 1,000 flight cycles on each airframe-engine combination for the initial 777-200 model to demonstrate reliability in simulated airline operating environments. The Boeing-United Airlines 1,000-cycle flight tests for the Pratt & Whitney engine were completed on May 22, 1995. In addition, engine makers and the many suppliers of parts for the airplane intensified their own development and testing efforts to ensure that their products met airline requirements.
This thorough test program demonstrated the design features needed to obtain approval for extended-range twin-engine operations (ETOPS). All 777s are ETOPS-capable, as part of the basic design. To ensure reliability, the 777 with Pratt & Whitney engines was tested and flown under all appropriate conditions to prove it is capable of flying up to 180-minute ETOPS missions. On May 30, 1995, the 777 became the first airplane in aviation history to earn Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approval to fly ETOPS at service entry. On May 4, 1998, the 777-300 achieved another historic milestone by becoming the first commercial airplane to receive type certification and 180-minute ETOPS the same day.
The skills and resources of a number of international aerospace companies contributed to the design and production of the 777. Firms in Europe, Canada, Asia/Pacific and the United States provided components and portions of the structure to Boeing.
The largest single overseas participant is the Japanese aerospace industry. Led by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Fuji Heavy Industries, this group of companies is continuing its long-standing business relationship with Boeing. Together, these firms helped design and build about 20 percent of the airframe structure.
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First of the several portraits for San Jose Comic Con in Sep!
Just about forgot to look at it right side up, but I like the hair!
It seems I thought I'd finish Stark over a weekend due to some silly sched issues...I'll have to pause at Fury for the #SanJoseComicCon portraits.
Sadly, I'm behind schedule again...happily, 2 more to go!
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http://sfknittery.weebly.com/weekly-blog/archives/07-2015
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Sectoid Commanders are similar to Sectoids, but much tougher (10 health) and with the added psychic power of Mind Control as well as stronger Plasma weapons. This terrifying ability allows a Sectoid Commander to take immediate, long range control of an X-COM soldier. While Mind Controlled, the soldier will fight relentlessly against teammates. Control is only broken after three turns or when the Sectoid Commander is dead. Wounds and increased distance from the controlled trooper will not break the link between the two. Sectoid Commanders are physically tough, relative to the early-game weaponry, and, combined with their mind control powers, they present a lethal threat to inexperienced players and teams. A single Sectoid Commander in cover can wreak havoc on an entire squad.
The very first Sectoid Commander you encounter will be inside the Alien Base, alone. It's important to know that the squad member that becomes mind-controlled by the Sectoid Commander may not move or attack on the turn he or she is controlled. If you move quickly enough to neutralize the Commander on that turn, before your friendly soldier can turn on your allies, you can end the threat before either that soldier or the Commander has a chance to attack.
With 10 health, the best chance inexperienced squads have of accomplishing this is to rush the Commander, ignoring cover and allowing the entire squad to attack the enemy.
The ideal method would be to enable the Assault soldier's Run & Gun ability in order to quickly close the distance between your squad and the Sectoid Commander. Snipers enabled with Squad Sight should then be able to finish it off. If you fail to kill the Sectoid on that initial turn, a good backup plan is to use a Sniper's Disabling Shot to neutralize your Mind-Controlled squad member or use a Support soldier's Smoke Grenade to cover your vulnerable squad members.
Later, you'll begin to encounter Sectoid Commanders in pairs. Typically one of these two will open fire on your squad while the second engages his Mind Control power. Your tactics should not differ when engaging a pair of these enemies other than you should prioritize the Commander that is attempting to Mind Control.
For laughs: (Only possible with a Psi-enabled soldier). Once a Sectoid Commander has taken control of your squad member, use a friendly's Mind Control to take control of the second Sectoid Commander. Then use that Commander's Mind Control to re-take posession of your squad member.
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https://www.ign.com/wikis/xcom-enemy-unknown/Sectoid_Commander
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The tabloids have been whispering about trouble in Bachelorette Paradise for some time. Even though Ali and her guy, Roberto Martinez showed a united front as co-judges on the recent Bachelor Pad there were still whispers.
Ali even used the excuse that she was on crutches and need to postpone the wedding to Roberto until she could have surgery.
But many insiders reported that Ali and Roberto didn’t really get along well, they often fought and would only be lovely dovely when the cameras were rolling. There were also rumors that Ali was very ambitious about developing a Hollywood based career while Roberto had settled into San Diego. Quite a commute.
Although Ali made the engagement seem real, ultimately the couple didn’t make it and announced today via their rep that they were moving on without each other.
It’s commendable that the couple lasted together for over one year, but obviously there were just too many issues to take it to the next level.
This entry was posted on Monday, November 21st, 2011 at 8:49 pm and is filed under Celebrity News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
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Cleveland’s current three-year reign in the Central is the club’s longest since winning five straight from 1995-99. The Indians became the first team this year to clinch a division and the second assured of the post-season after Boston, which will be no worse than a wild card.
Mike Clevinger (12-8) allowed one hit in six innings, and Yonder Alonso added a two-run homer as Cleveland’s offence awakened from a late-season slump.
The Mets, who had won four straight, took a 3-1 lead on Brandon Nimmo’s three-run homer in the fourth. With two on in the fifth, Bradley lined a ball that bounced off the top edge of the wall and up, back toward the field. Although the umpires signalled for him to circle the bases, Bradley was sent back to second base when replays showed it didn’t completely clear the red line that signifies a homer.
Paul Sewald (0-6) intentionally walked Rafael Devers, Drew Smith replaced Sewald, Holt hit for Sandy Leon and, on the first pitch, lined one off the Monster in left-centre to score both runners and make it 5-3.
Boston’s 102 wins is third-most in franchise history, passing the 1915 World Series championship team.
The Dodgers moved a half-game ahead of Colorado in the division following the Rockies’ 3-0 loss to San Francisco.
ATLANTA (AP) — Washington 19-year-old rookie Juan Soto become the youngest player to steal three bases in a game, had an RBI single and scored the tiebreaking run as Washington stopped Atlanta’s season-best, six-game winning streak.
Seeking their third straight division title, the Cubs moved 2 1/2 games ahead of second-place Milwaukee, which lost 3-1 to Pittsburgh. Chicago has won three straight and four of five.
New York maintained its 1 1/2-game lead over Oakland for the top AL wild-card slot. The Athletics lost to Tampa Bay 7-5. The Yankees are just 6-7 this month.
Oakland remains 1 1/2 games behind the Yankees for the top AL wild card after New York lost to Toronto earlier in the day. The A’s have dropped two of three since winning six straight.
Philadelphia overcame a 4-0 deficit and closed within 6 1/2 games of first-place Atlanta in the NL East with 15 games left. The Phillies remained five games back for the NL’s second wild-card spot.
Colin Moran hit a tying homer in the second. Pittsburgh scored its final run in the sixth when Starling Marte doubled and came around when Josh Bell stole his first base since June 22 last year, and catcher Erik Kratz’s throwing bounced into centre field for an error.
The Astros managed 12 hits — including 10 singles — and drew seven walks. Coupled with Oakland’s 7-5 loss at Tampa Bay, the Astros extended their lead to 3 1/2 games over the Athletics in the division with 14 games remaining.
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Robinson Cano hit a go-ahead three-run double to cap Seattle’s rally from a four-run deficit.
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2019-04-23T10:38:49Z
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https://nationalpost.com/pmn/sports-pmn/baseball-sports-pmn/indians-blank-tigers-clinch-3rd-straight-al-central-title
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The world's largest plane manufacturer plans to cut more than 4500 jobs by the middle of the year to reduce costs.
A Boeing spokesman said most of the layoffs were set to come from its commercial aircraft division, as customers cut back on orders.
The cuts accounted for almost 3 percent of Boeing's workforce, which stood at 161,000 people at the end of last year.
New orders for passenger jets had been falling, and the American company was also losing market share to its rival, Airbus.
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2019-04-20T01:22:35Z
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https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/bites/300309/boeing-to-cut-4500-jobs-after-poor-sales
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The KISS Sonic Boom Over Europe Tour officially began on May 1, 2010. KISS played in Milan, Italy on May 18, 2010.
Click the button below to add the 2010 Sonic Boom Tour Milan Show Used Drumheads to your wish list.
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http://www.kissarmywarehouse.com/2010-sonic-boom-tour-milan-show-used-drumheads/
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Frederick Loewe, composer of Broadway musicals.
Welcome to the new edition of the Fritz Loewe Community bulletin. Feel free to contact us with any news or comments relating to the music of Frederick Loewe.
NY Times article on the premier of My Fair Lady.
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2019-04-25T11:42:18Z
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http://frederickloewe.org/wordpress/?m=201107
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I hope you enjoy this site. Be sure to send e-mail to let me know what you think (or to contribute articles or ideas). I'll be updating frequently, so check back often!
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2019-04-25T22:23:10Z
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http://florencecert.tripod.com/
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Lowes, Sara, Nathan Nunn, James A Robinson, and Jonathan Weigel. 2015. “Understanding Ethnic Identity in Africa: Evidence from the Implicit Association Tests.” American Economic Review 105 (5): 340-345.
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https://scholar.harvard.edu/jrobinson/publications/understanding-ethnic-identity-africa-evidence-implicit-association-tests
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Shower drains are prone to clogging from normal shower usage. Hair, soap, shampoo and cleaning products all go down the drain, creating a goop that sticks to the inside of the pipes, eventually slowing or clogging the drain. Rather than using a traditional pipe snake, which may be too bulky to use in your shower drain without disassembling the drain, you can make your own from easily obtained materials. Homemade snakes also eliminate the need for harsh chemical drain cleaners.
Disassemble the coat hanger by unwinding the looped end of the wire from the hook part of the hanger. If the wire is stiff, use needle-nose pliers rather than your bare hands. Straighten all areas of the hanger as much as possible, using the pliers as a straightening tool.
Fold a quarter inch or so of one end of the hanger onto itself to create a nub. The former hook is likely more flexible since it won't have the kinks from the twisted end. Use the pliers to fold and squeeze the nub into shape.
Cut about a 1 inch piece of the scratchy part of the hook and loop tape. Remove the backing material from the sticky side. Press the sticky side onto the nubbed end of the coat hanger, slightly above the nub, wrapping the material around itself snugly to create a pad on the wire. Squeeze it onto itself as you work to ensure it will stay in place when in use.
Push the pad end of the homemade snake into the shower drain, wiggling the snake up and down and side to side as the snake travels downward. Lift it out when it feels as if it has reached a clog. If part of the clog comes out when you lift the snake, tap that end over a trash can to remove the goop. Push the snake back into the drain to remove more of the clog. Continue doing this until the clog has been removed.
Run hot water in the shower -- use water from the tub faucet in a shower/tub combo for better water pressure -- to rinse the drain area and to determine whether the clog has been removed. If not, repeat Step 5 until the clog has cleared.
Clean the shower floor thoroughly with your favorite household cleaner.
You may wish to cut off the used end of the snake rather than trying to clean it for future use. Simply make a new hook and loop pad for it when you need to use a snake again, or make an entirely new one, as needed.
Another method is to cut notches in a long zip-tie cable to form "teeth," and then shove one end in the drain to remove clogs. Several zip ties can connect together to form a longer snake.
Keep the trash can nearby as you snake the drain; this will decrease the likelihood of goop getting on the floor. Cotton swabs and tissue can also help remove goop that drops partially in and partially out of the drain.
Use care when snaking a drain so the end near the drain doesn't whip up and hit you or fling drain scum.
Adams, Kathy. "How to Make a Snake for Unclogging a Shower Drain." Home Guides | SF Gate, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/make-snake-unclogging-shower-drain-31939.html. Accessed 23 April 2019.
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Frank Outlaw was a supermarket manager who founded the Bi-Lo supermarkets in South Carolina. He played a supermarket manager in "Raising Arizona."
This quote is widely attributed to "Frank Outlaw" on the Web, but no actual other corroborating confirmation actually confirms that this is the correct source.
Popular quotation books - including Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (17th ed., 2002), Roget's International Thesaurus of Quotations (1970) and The Harper Book of Quotations (3rd ed., 1993) - DO NOT include this quote or any reference to Frank Outlaw.
In July 2003, a woman named "Elizabeth C.," claimed to have written it in 1998 and sending to members of an e-mail group of people living with lupus.
According to legend, her words were: "these few lines have since taken on a life of their own via the Internet. I was honored when someone asked if they could post it on their work bulletin board. From there it ended up as a desktop theme. It has traveled everywhere."
Your quote is from Charles Reade (1814-1884).
There is probably no such person as Frank Outlaw (though he may be a character - I haven't read any Reade :-).
Here in Germany it gets credited to the Talmud all the time, but Jewish authorities on the Web say this is not true.
I have heard from my colleague that this quote is very exact form a saying in Thai by a famous Thai monk, Achann Chaa of Wat Po Pong (1918-1992). Many of his sayings were known abroad during 1960s and 1970s.
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2019-04-18T21:10:27Z
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For nearly 50 years, SOPTV and public stations throughout the United States have provided trusted programming and content for viewers and for supporting teachers in the classroom.
PBS was founded to use the power of media to educate, engage, and inspire all Americans. In fact, PBS and local stations are arguably the largest educational institution in the country!
PBS’ Ready To Learn service has helped parents and teachers prepare millions of children for success in school. PBS stations across the country broadcast extended blocks of children’s TV programming and conduct thousands of local workshops for parents and caregivers. More than half of SOPTV’s weekday program schedule is dedicated to children’s programming.
To connect with viewers wherever they are, PBS has innovated and expanded its o erings beyond television. Today we make our high-quality children’s and adult programming available through broadcast, mobile, and digital services. In a review of ELA (English language arts) studies, 97% show that PBS content had a statistically significant impact on student learning.
PBS content and programming is the #1 source of classroom video programming. PBS and local stations provide teachers with resources like PBS LearningMedia, which includes lesson plans tailored to state curriculum standards and professional development. Students using PBS content showed signi cant learning gains in 94% of in- school learning studies, and 97% of studies of PBS STEM resources showed significant learning outcomes.
Benjamin Franklin noted, “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” As our work with the Teacher Community Program continues, I will share more about our work with the educational community.
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2019-04-18T12:57:45Z
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Who better to design a student leadership program than a student leader? Arianna Figueroa, a senior sociology/anthropology major, is the student architect behind Passport to Leadership, a new program in Student Life.
Working with Anna Gonzalez, dean of students, Figueroa created the program to help undergraduates make meaning of their leadership development at Lewis & Clark and translate it to future endeavors.
Passport to Leadership launched during the 2014–15 academic year. It grew out of a desire to make the leadership skills students were already gaining through their work in clubs and classes more tangible. “We wanted to give students ways to think critically about leadership, put it into practice, and engage with other members of the Lewis & Clark community,” explains Figueroa.
The program is in the form of a series of workshops inspired by the core competencies in the Student Life division: leadership, diversity, career, and wellness. Participants attend a minimum of seven workshops related to these topics over the course of an academic year, tracking their progress through the program with a passport. Upon successfully completing the program, participants receive a notation on their transcript and a certificate and honor cord at graduation. They also attend an awards ceremony and banquet to celebrate their accomplishments.
Last fall's program facilitators included (from left) Rocky Campbell BA ’00, director of the Career Center; Asha Jordan, head women's basketball coach; Harold McNaron, director of Student Leadership and Service; and Angela Buck, area director.
And the student reaction? Overwhelmingly positive. More than 100 students are participating in this year’s program. “It’s giving students a chance to reflect and engage with their own experiences and to understand they don’t need an official title to be a leader,” says Figueroa. As Passport to Leadership grows, more and more Pioneers stand to benefit from it, demonstrating the effect that one strong leader, like Figueroa, can have on her community.
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2019-04-20T20:51:39Z
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https://www.lclark.edu/live/news/32124-passport-to-leadership
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrives in a police vehicle at Westminster Magistrates court on Thursday in London. He was arrested by Scotland Yard police officers inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in Central London.
Not only did Ecuador withdraw protection for Assange, according to wire service reports, the government has arrested a person who is allegedly close to WikiLeaks. Reuters quotes Interior Minister Maria Paula Romo as saying the person was picked up in Ecuador while trying to travel to Japan.
British authorities have received a request to extradite Assange, they said. He is expected to appear at a hearing on May 2.
Justice Department investigators have described the key role that they say Assange and WikiLeaks played in the Russian attack on the 2016 election, but the charges announced on Thursday allude to an earlier chapter in his long-running drama.
Manning was tried and convicted for the role she played in releasing U.S. government secrets to WikiLeaks; she served more than six years in prison before her sentence was commuted by President Barack Obama.
More recently, Manning was ordered into custody again after a judge found her in contempt of court. Manning reportedly refused to give evidence to a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia in a case also connected to Assange.
It wasn't clear whether the revelations about the existence of that grand jury proceeding could mean there is another indictment in store for Assange. The one unsealed against him was dated March 6, 2018.
Manning's attorneys said on Thursday that the Justice Department's ability to file the charges showed it didn't need her to provide evidence and demanded that she be released.
"Grand juries may not be used for the sole and dominant purpose of preparing for trial, including questioning potential trial witnesses. Since her testimony can no longer contribute to a grand jury investigation, Chelsea's ongoing detention can no longer be seriously alleged to constitute an attempt to coerce her testimony," said lawyers Moira Meltzer-Cohen, Vincent Ward, Chris Leibig and Sandra Freeman.
There had been suggestions in the past that a case against Assange was in the works. The Justice Department said it did not plan to release any additional information about Assange on Thursday.
President Trump, who professed his love for WikiLeaks during the 2016 campaign when it revealed material that embarrassed Democrats, said at the White House on Thursday that he didn't have any knowledge about the charges against Assange.
"It's not my thing," the president said.
What happens next is up to Attorney General William Barr, Trump said.
Assange had been holed up at the embassy in London since 2012, after Ecuador granted him asylum to avoid extradition to Sweden in connection with sexual misconduct allegations.
One of the Swedish cases against Assange expired, but another may still pose a legal threat to him.
British authorities respected the customs associated with the privileges each nation affords to another's diplomatic facilities and did not venture inside to arrest him.
That changed on Thursday when Ecuador's ambassador said that Quito had revoked its asylum for Assange. Metropolitan Police officers could go in to serve their warrant. When they came back out, video footage appeared to show them carrying a bearded Assange to a police vehicle.
Last week, people gathered outside the embassy after WikiLeaks announced that Assange might be "expelled" from the building within "hours to days."
On the day of Assange's arrest, WikiLeaks pleaded for his protection, tweeting that "Powerful actors, including CIA, are engaged in a sophisticated effort to dehumanise, delegitimize and imprison him."
Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno described the government's decision to withdraw his asylum, describing his "aggressive behavior."
Moreno accused Assange of installing prohibited electronic and distortion equipment, blocking security cameras, mistreating guards, accessing embassy files and threatening the Ecuadorian government.
He also said Assange had intervened in international affairs by working with WikiLeaks to publish leaked Vatican documents.
In Moscow, Vladimir Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, expressed hopes that "all his rights will be respected."
Russia's military intelligence agency, the GRU, gave Assange data it stole in cyberattacks in 2016 so that he could release it as part of Russia's interference in the presidential election, prosecutors say.
Assange also once hosted a talk show on Russia's state-backed media network RT.
WikiLeaks first gained notoriety in 2010 when it began to release troves of U.S. government secrets about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and Washington's conduct of diplomacy around the world.
The files also revealed the identities of people who had worked with Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan, leading officials to warn their lives may have been put in danger.
Assange and his supporters have long maintained that he is a journalist and that WikiLeaks is a news organization like those protected by the First Amendment and other free-press laws around the world.
Assange's revelations about the conduct of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the internal discussions within the State Department and other such matters amount to journalism and accordingly he has never committed any crime, boosters argue.
While the indictment against Julian Assange disclosed today charges a conspiracy to commit computer crimes, the factual allegations against Mr. Assange boil down to encouraging a source to provide him information and taking efforts to protect the identity of that source. Journalists around the world should be deeply troubled by these unprecedented criminal charges.
Prosecutors' choice to focus their case on the alleged cyberattack suggests the Justice Department's case against Assange may depend less on questions about journalism or reportage and more on the technical aspects of what happened.
Critics argue that any claim Assange could make to being a journalist has been voided by the work he did serving as an arm of Russia's "active measures."
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the vice chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, said Assange is overdue for a reckoning in an American court.
Julian Assange has long professed high ideals and moral superiority. Unfortunately, whatever his intentions when he started WikiLeaks, what he's really become is a direct participant in Russian efforts to undermine the West and a dedicated accomplice in efforts to undermine American security. It is my hope that the British courts will quickly transfer him to U.S. custody so he can finally get the justice he deserves.
Assange's trial may answer many other questions about the other chapters in his story.
For example, in January 2019 the Justice Department announced charges against GOP political consultant Roger Stone connected with what authorities called work by him and others as alleged intermediaries between WikiLeaks and Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
Stone has pleaded not guilty to the charges, including lying to Congress and obstructing its investigation. Stone says he hasn't done anything wrong.
Stone's trial and Assange's eventual trial may reveal more about the nature of the contacts they and others carried on in 2016.
All the same, Attorney General Barr has said that special counsel Robert Mueller has not established there was a conspiracy between Trump's campaign and the Russians who interfered in the election.
Washington and the world are waiting to learn more from a redacted copy of Mueller's full report, which is expected next week.
NPR reporter James Doubek contributed to this report.
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2019-04-20T10:28:06Z
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https://www.kosu.org/post/julian-assange-arrested-faces-us-charges-related-2010-wikileaks-releases
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Based on a true story, Steven Russell (Jim Carrey) is a happily married policeman with a beautiful wife and a lovely daughter. Problem is he's also gay. After being involved in a car accident, Steven decides it's time to make a change; he moves to Miami and starts living the high life with his lover Jimmy (Rodrigo Santoro). To pay for their flamboyant living, he starts defrauding insurance companies and it's not long before he finds himself in jail. But prison isn't as bad as it seems, especially when Steven meets the love of his life Phillip Morris (Ewan McGregor) and finds himself going to extraordinary lengths to achieve his happily ever after.
Jim Carrey's unique comic skill complements the crazy schemes and unwieldy genius of Steven Russell; but at the same time, he sympathetically conveys the loss and sadness Steven feels. Ewan and Jim make a surprisingly convincing couple, especially in the later, more-emotional scenes, which will make you cry, as well as laugh.
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https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/film-i-love-you-phillip-morris
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Dr Graham Daniel is Senior Lecturer in Educational Psychology in the School of Teacher Education He has a background in Primary teaching, school leadership, and as a school consultant. Graham’s research interests include family-school engagement and children’s schooling experience with a focus on inclusion and the early years of schooling.
Graham’s research interests include family-school engagement and children’s schooling experience with a focus on inclusion and the early years of schooling. Graham’s research also includes an interest in preservice initial teacher education. Graham is currently involved in research on family school partnerships analysing national longitudinal data, investigating the practice of repeating (retaining) students in the early years of schooling, and in a project on preservice teacher preparation with local primary and secondary schools.
Graham teaches in undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the areas of Educational Psychology, Child Development and Educational Research. Graham also supervises students in Honours, Masters and PhD programs.
Bergin, C., Bergin, D., Walker, S., Daniel, G.R., Fenton, A. & Subban, P. (2018). Child and adolescent development for teachers. Melbourne: Cengage.
Daniel, G. R., Wang, C., Murray, E., & Harrison, L. J. (2017). School choice and parent involvement among Australian children starting school. In S. Dockett, W. Griebel, and B. Perry (Eds.), Families and the Transition to School. London: Springer.
Daniel, G., & McLeod, S. (2011). “I can’t say words much”: Listening to school-aged children’s experiences of speech impairment. In S. Roulstone & S. McLeod (Eds.), Listening to children and young people with speech, language and communication needs. London: J&R Press.
Daniel, G. R., & McLeod, S. (2017). Children with Speech Sound Disorders at School: Challenges for Children, Parents and Teachers. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 42(2), 81-101.
Daniel, G. R., & Wang, C. (2017). Inclusion and the practice of repeating Kindergarten in Australia. Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 22(1), 57-69.
Daniel, G. R. (2016). Parents’ experiences of teacher outreach in the early years of schooling. Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 36(4), 559-569.
(2015 Impact Factor 0.531 Ranked 182/219 Scimago Rank Q2).
Daniel, G. R. (2015). Patterns of parent involvement: A longitudinal analysis of family-school partnerships in the early years of school in Australia. Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 40(1), 119-128. (2014 Impact Factor 0.308 Scimago Rank Q3).
Auhl, G., & Daniel, G. R. (2014).Preparing pre-service teachers for the profession: Creating spaces for transformative practice. Journal of Education for Teaching, 40(4), 377-390.
(2014 Impact Factor 0.634 Ranking: 119/219 Scimago Rank Q1).
(2014 Impact Factor 0.216Scimago Rank Q2).
Daniel, G. R., Auhl, G., & Hastings, W. (2013). Collaborative feedback and reflection for professional growth: Preparing first-year pre-service teachers for participation in the community of practice. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 41(2), 159-172. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1359866X.2013.777025.
(2014 Impact Factor .717 Scimago Rank Q1).
(2014 Impact Factor: 1.449Scimago Rank Q2).
Daniel, G. (2011). Family-school partnerships: Towards sustainable pedagogical practice. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 39(2), 165-176.
Barr, J., McLeod, S., & Daniel, G. (2008). Siblings of children with communication impairments: Cavalry on the hill. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 39(1), 21-32. (2014 Impact Factor 1.435 Scimago Rank Q2).
Daniel, G., & McLeod, S. (2006). Listening to the voice of children with communication impairment. In G. Whiteford (Ed.), Proceedings of the Qualitative Research as Interpretive Practice Conference 2005, Voice, Identity & Reflexivity (pp. 187-200). Charles Sturt University: Albury.
McLeod, S., Daniel, G., & Barr, J. (2006). Using children’s drawings to listen to how children feel about their speech. In C. Heine & L. Brown (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2006 Speech Pathology Australia National Conference. Speech Pathology Australia: Melbourne.
Daniel, G. R. (2005). Parent involvement in children's education: Implications of a new parent involvement framework for teacher education in Australia. Proceedings of the Australian Teacher Education Association Conference 2005, Teacher education: Local and global (pp. 141-148). Surfers Paradise: Griffith University.
Daniel, G. R. (2004). What about justice? School Councils, equity and social justice. Refereed proceedings of Education Research Conference: 11-12 October 2003. Parramatta: University of Western Sydney.
Daniel, G. R. & McLeod, S. (2012, June). Listening to children with speech and language impairment: Implications for teachers of young children. Paper presented at the University of the West of England, Speech & Language Therapy Research Unit, Special Seminar: Listening to Children & Young People with Speech, Language & Communication Needs, University of the West of England, Bristol.
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https://arts-ed.csu.edu.au/schools/teacher-ed/staff/profiles/lecturers/daniel_graham
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I head over the glorious Golden Gate bridge northwards to Fairfax, self-styled birthplace of mountain-biking. I’m there to meet Margaret Kadoyama. For thirty years Margaret has worked in museums (within organisations and as consultant), taught the J.F.Kennedy Museum Studies program and in recent years, been deeply involved in the US Museums and Race initiative. When I catch up with her, she’s putting the finishing touches to a forthcoming book on Museums and Communities (to be published by Routledge later this year). I’m there to talk to her about the role and future of museums, civic engagement and leadership. I want to know more about the issues facing US museums.
Margaret tells me how activism is increasing in the field and points to collectives like Museum Workers Speak as change-makers who show the way for the wider sector. #MuseumWorkersSpeak is an action-oriented platform for social change at the intersection of labor, access, and inclusion. Formed as a collective of activist museum workers, they interrogate the relationship between museums’ stated commitments to social value and their internal labor practices.
We talk about similar initiatives in the UK and how, amongst some museums, there is a discernible shift towards becoming more pro-social and activist. I’ve taught on a post-graduate Museology course in Manchester for nearly a decade now, Margaret for double that time and we’ve both noticed a shift in the motivations and interests of students towards wider social impact.
When I ask how she views her role, she laughs. “San Francisco is not exactly short of activists. It’s in our DNA. So I am an activist, but I also think about myself more in terms used by author Debra Myers, as a ‘tempered radical‘”. She believes in quietly pushing things forward. Since Trump, however, even she has become more vocal. I sense a reluctance and even slight fatigue that she’s felt compelled to do this. But, we both discuss, its no longer enough to be the platform or fora for debate in today’s world. Now is the time for museums to step beyond this, play a more active role.
Which leads me back across town to the Yerba Buena Centre for the Arts (YBCA), a multi-disciplinary contemporary arts centre with a truly compelling mission; to generate culture that moves people. It describes itself as the Center for the Art of Doing Something About It. I love this. I meet with CEO Deborah Cullinan and Jonathan Moscone, Chief of Civic Engagement and what is clear, from the outset, is their fundamental belief in the power of people and art to create more hopeful, equitable solutions. Since joining in 2013, Deborah has fostered a “culture of invitation”, supporting staff and partners to coalesce around the vision of YBCA as community centre and civic asset.
“Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) is the Bay Area’s creative home for civic action. We believe that culture precedes change, and it is the responsibility of arts organizations to spur and support societal movement.
YBCA have a commitment to supporting the arts ecosystem and believe one of the most effective ways to do this is to be part of the broader civic conversation. This is something Ive been thinking about alot in the last couple of years. For several months, on secondment to the public health team’s Greater Manchester Ageing Hub and now, as Strategic Lead (Culture) I regularly participate in those civic conversations and culture plays a significant role in shaping the city-region’s wider ambitions for ageing. I know colleagues from other sectors value the perspective, solutions and ideas culture and the arts bring. Exploring how museums and arts organisations can be part of that wider civic conversation, has in large part, driven my thinking and research during my Clore fellowship. Not surprising then that my interests and values align so strongly with YBCA. Their vision and programme is impressive, consistent and I’m so pleased to have found them. I’m glad they are doing this work. I hope others follow.
The only disappointment is how the building and spaces don’t yet reflect their purpose. Although the staff are warm, friendly and soon put you at ease, the building feels cool and exclusive. Also, there are real constraints on activities in the urban park outside and entrance area so their threshold is not as inviting as it should be. Both Deborah and Jon are upfront about this and as you would expect, are doing something about it. “We’re going to overhaul our spaces, experiment with them a bit. There is so much reverence for architects. So we’re looking to a design studio skilled at working in public realm like shopping malls, to help us turn YBCA into a community centre, a voting place.” Increasingly they’re not just interested in hosting others but in making and leading their own activism. I’m curious and excited to see what and how this develops.
After leaving YBCA, purely by chance, I come across one of their projects; a People’s Garden in the Tenderloin District, one of the only neighborhoods in the city of San Francisco without a full-service grocery store, making access to fresh, affordable food a daily struggle for the many low-income residents of the Tenderloin. Over 30,000 residents, including families and children, live there.
In 2010 a vacant lot near San Francisco’s City Hall transformed into what is now a thriving community garden. In partnership with YBCA, it was created as part of the Neighbourhood Development Corporation’s work for food justice and brings together hundreds of volunteers to grow food and build community. That’s what you call the Art of Doing Something About It.
My final museum visit in the Bay Area is in Oakland, the Oakland Museum of California, neatly summarised as “the Museum of Us”. I’ll confess, I fell slightly in love with this place.
From outside, it may look like a car park or bunker, but once inside, its a stylish modernist concrete building with terraces for sculpture, planting, views galore and large oak and glass doors leading you into and out of galleries of natural science, history and American art. There’s a sunken park, even a fishpond. It felt so relaxed and informal (the sunshine does help) and the collection displays are both conversational in tone and thought-provoking. For me, all this makes for a great museum visit.
I spend a day there and meet up with Kelly McKinley, Deputy Director of Oakland Museum and several of her colleagues. Oakland is the third largest city in the Bay area and the most ethnically diverse in the US. The Museum sits next to Lake Merritt, which Kelly tells me a decade ago, was little more than a muddy puddle. Today, its a locus for the city. She tells me more about what matters to the museum.
Again, a real focus on equity, that I encounter time and again as a visitor. Not least in the Dorothea Lange retrospective commemorating her personal archive, gifted to the museum 50 years ago. I’m excited about this and have been looking forward to it. I’m not disappointed. Its a deeply moving exhibition, with striking (and many unfamiliar) images and a clear narrative focusing on her activism and the emotional and political impact of her work.
From documenting the plight of Dust Bowl migrants during the Great Depression to magnifying the grim conditions of incarcerated Japanese Americans during World War II, Lange’s photographs demonstrate how empathy and compassion—focused through art—can trigger political action.
Kelly tells me how they’ve shifted in recent years, from trying to be a Museum for the whole of California to primarily “being fabulous and beloved at home” for the people of Oakland. This means building the confidence and courage of the staff, cracking out of the curatorial-driven model and the “paralysis of perfection” so prevalent, especially in art museums. One of their programmes – Friday Nights at OMCA has led this shift. Its “Oakland’s most talked about food truck party” and every Friday, hundreds of local people go to this family-friendly event with music, art, dancing and of course food. I meet its organiser-in chief Cynthia Taylor, Associate Director Public Programs, and for two hours, beside the Koi carp pond, we chat about the role of museums as social spaces, advocating for social change, Trump, artists, developing exhibitions about the subjects people really care about (most recently at OMCA these have included the story of the Black Panthers and marijuana legalisation) and of course, equity and care.
What I admire about Oakland Museum is both their commitment to change and their recognition of the time and energy it requires. Evolution, not revolution. They may experiment (often with radical intent) but their public is engaged with and part of the process. I wish more museums did their thinking in public. The big issues of equity, creativity and social change underpin all I’ve seen on my visit and so they should. Kelly reminds me of Michael Spock’s warning that ‘your museum will close if it can’t be for people rather than about stuff’. But of course, the very best museums (like Oakland) are those that do both.
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