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[Africa News Update: Uganda]
After a four month trial, four men including a Ugandan were found guilty of involvement in terror training activities on the territories of the United Kingdom.
Press reporting restrictions were lifted Tuesday, February 26, when the sentences were announced. It was then revealed that Muhammad Kyriacou, 19, and a Ugandan born Yassin Mutegombwa, 23, had pleaded guilty on Tuesday on charges that they attended the training camps, at a separate hearing.
Under Section 6 (1) of the U.K. Terrorism Act 2006, receiving training in terrorism is illegal.
Kyriacou and Mutegombwa, who both came from South London, were both given a three year and five months lenient jail sentence. Yassin is an elder brother to Hassan, 21, who was convicted at an earlier Old Bailey Court trial last November 2007, for allegedly seeking funds for terrorism training overseas while at one of the camps and given a 10-year jail sentence.
That younger brother, Hassan, was stopped from boarding a British Airways flight to Nairobi when the airliner was alerted by British authorities after obtaining information that he had borrowed some money from an undercover agent named "Douda." His family denounced the verdict saying he was convicted with no evidence.
Whilst Hassan who was charged with one count of procuring funds for alleged terrorism activities was given a 10 years jail sentence, his elder brother Yassin who pleaded guilty of the three counts of receiving terrorism training of weaponry at Woodland areas near Matleywood Caravan and camping site, Beaulieu, Lyndhurst, near Southampton was given the relatively light sentence.
Yassin's first two charges were that he received terrorism training in 2006, at woodland area near Matley Wood Caravan and Camping site, Beaulieu Road Lyndhurst, Hampshire. The third charge was the he received terrorism training near Pondwood Farm, White Waltham, Berks on June 18, 2006.
The Ugandan brothers were arrested September 1st, 2006, during Scotland Yard's anti-terror raids across London and charged days later. They have since been detained at the UK's most protected jail HM Prison Belmarsh.
The leader of the group, Mohammed Hamid, called himself Osama bin London, it is alleged. Before his arrest, Hamid had boasted to his followers that he had been organizing terror training camps in Britain for thirteen years, it is alleged.
Hamid was found guilty by a jury at Woolwich Crown Court of three counts of "soliciting to murder" and three counts of providing terrorist training.
However, he was found not guilty of two other counts of soliciting murder and not guilty of providing training in weaponry. He was also found not guilty of possessing a document containing information useful to a terrorist.
Four others had been on trial with him. It took 22 days of deliberation for the a jury to convict three of these individuals - Kibley Da Costa, Muhammad al-Figari and Kader Ahmed guilty of attending terror training camps in Britain. 41-year old property developer Mousa Brown was found not guilty, and was freed from custody.
Mohammed Hamid was born in 1957 in Tanzania to Muslim parents who had come from India. Aged five, he came to Britain with his family, settling in the town of Heckmondwike and later Batley in West Yorkshire. He came to London while only 12, moving into a home with his elder brother.
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What's happening today in the Olympics, and a recap of Monday's top headlines.
Happening today
- Team USA men's basketball plays Tunisia tonight at 5:15 EDT. Basketball games will take place all day.
- The U.S. women's soccer team plays their final game of the first round at 12:15 p.m. The U.S. has already qualified for the second round but is looking to finish atop their group.
- In diving, the women's synchronized platform final is today.
- Beach volleyball, gymnastics and many other sports are on tap. See a schedule of Tuesday Olympics events here.
In case you missed it
- Winners and losers from day 3 of the Olympics.
- On Monday, the future officially arrived when U.S. swimming phenom Missy Franklin earned her first individual Olympic gold medal by conquering the competition in the 100-meter backstroke in London. If Franklin's rapid ascent up the global swimming step ladder is any indication, it's the first of many Olympic awards that will eventually hang from the bright-eyed superstar's neck.
- France's Yannick Agnel has been Ryan Lochte's demon at these Olympics. After catching the American to capture France's first Olympic gold medal in the 4x100 free relay, Agnel outswam the field in the 200 free, winning by nearly two seconds.
- Also in swimming, Matt Grevers of the U.S. won gold in the men's 100-meter back. Fellow American Nick Thoman won silver.
- Everything seemed perfect for the U.S. Olympic men's gymnastics team not long ago. But then all that anticipation turned into disappointment during Monday's team finals. China blew the U.S. gymnasts out of the water. Great Britain, Japan and Ukraine were left fighting for the final two podium spots, while Team USA finished fifth. What exactly went wrong for Team USA that left them off the podium? Here's a look at the 10 things that went wrong for the U.S. men's gymnastics team. - Another day, another beach volleyball win for Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh. In their second match of Olympic group play, the duo that is actually only ranked third in the world rolled to a straight-set win over Kristyna Kolocova and Marketa Slukova of the Czech Republic.
- In one of the strangest moments of the 2012 London Olympics, South Korean fencer Shin A Lam lost a highly controversial decision in the semifinals and then refused to leave the arena as her team scrambled to make an appeal. Shin was tied with German Britta Heidemann in the semifinal match of the women's individual épée when a clock error occurred. Details here.
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IntroductionIn this tutorial, we will create a simple CRUD application using Spring 3.1 and Neo4j. We will based this tutorial on a previous guide for MongoDB. This means we will re-use our existing design and implement only the data layer to use Neo4j as our data store.
Table of ContentsPart 1: Introduction and Functional Specs
Part 2: Java classes
Part 3: XML configuration
Part 4: HTML (with AJAX)
Part 5: Running the Application
- Spring core 3.1.0.RELEASE
- Spring Data Neo4j 2.1.0.M1
- Neo4j Kernel 1.6
- Neo4j Cypher 1.6
- Neo4j Cypher DSL 1.6
- See pom.xml for details
To access the source code, please visit the project's Github repository (click here)
Functional SpecsBefore we start, let's define our application's specification as follows:
- A CRUD page for managing users
- Use AJAX to avoid page refresh
- Users have roles: either admin or regular (default)
- Everyone can create new users and edit existing ones
- When editing, users can only edit first name, last name, and role fields
- A username is assumed to be unique
Here's our Use Case diagram:
DatabaseIf you're new to Neo4j and Spring Data Neo4j and coming from a SQL-background, please take some time to read the following references:
In its simplest form, Neo4j is a NoSQL graph database containing nodes and relationships.
What is Neo4j?
The Neo4j data model consists of nodes and relationships, both of which can have key/value-style properties. What does that mean, exactly? Nodes are the graph database name for records, with property keys instead of column names. That's normal enough. Relationships are the special part. In Neo4j, relationships are first-class citizens, meaning they are more than a simple foreign-key reference to another record, relationships carry information.
Source: Spring Data Neo4j - Chapter 4. Learning Neo4j
What is a Graph database?
A graph database stores data in a graph, the most generic of data structures, capable of elegantly representing any kind of data in a highly accessible way.
"A Graph —records data in→ Nodes —which have→ Properties"
"Nodes —are organized by→ Relationships —which also have→ Properties"
"A Traversal —navigates→ a Graph; it —identifies→ Paths —which order→ Nodes"
"An Index —maps from→ Properties —to either→ Nodes or Relationships"
"A Graph Database —manages a→ Graph and —also manages related→ Indexes"
Source: What is a Graph Database?
From Java to Neo4jWe have two Java classes representing our domain: User and Role. Here is the Class diagram:
In Neo4j, User and Role are nodes, and the link between the two is a relationship. In Part 2 we will demonstrate how to declare them as nodes and how to create the relationship.
Here's the Activity diagram:
ScreenshotsLet's preview how the application will look like after it's finished. This is also a good way to clarify further our application's specs. Note: These are the same screenshots you will see from the Spring MVC 3.1 - Implement CRUD with Spring Data MongoDB guide (We're reusing the exact presentation layer).
Entry page
The entry page is the primary page that users will see. It contains a table showing user records and four buttons for adding, editing, deleting, and reloading data. All interactions will happen in this page.
Edit existing record
When user clicks the Edit button, an Edit Record form shall appear after the table.
When a user submits the form, a success or failure alert should appear.
When the operation is successful, the update record should reflect on the table.
Create new record
When a user clicks the New button, a Create New Record form shall appear after the table.
When a user submits the form, a success or failure alert should appear.
When the operation is successful, the new record should appear on the table.
Delete record
When user clicks the Delete button, a success or failure alert should appear.
Reload record
When user clicks the Reload button, the data on the table should be reloaded.
When user clicks the Edit or Delete button without selecting a record first, a "Select a record first!" alert should appear.
NextIn the next section, we will write the Java classes and discuss the application's layers. Click here to proceed.
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Grind Time Midwest battle at The Bassment in Chicago, IL between G Souldier from St. Louis and Moodswangz from Chicago.
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Disney's "Zootopia" scored the fourth biggest March opening ever, debuting to $73.7 million over the weekend.
The animated story about a rabbit who joins the police force ranks as the biggest Disney Animation launch (though not the best Pixar debut), outstripping "Frozen," the 2012 blockbuster that bowed to $67.4 million. With no major family film opening until "The Jungle Book" lands on April 15, "Zootopia" is well positioned to be the de facto choice for moviegoers with children for the next month.
"There's an absence of competition," said Dave Hollis, Disney's distribution chief. "We are set up to have a big, big run."
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Disney did not release a budget, but most animated films cost in excess of $100 million. "Zootopia" screened in 3,827 locations.


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For the purpose of this Policy, the "End User" will be the person or entity that contracts with us, accepting the Terms of Service, providing content that will be made available on DMS (that is, "Digital Music Services"). "We" or "Us" are the provider of the service, MEDIA FAMOUS.
The purpose of this policy is to provide:
This document is intended to provide guidance and should be read in conjunction with:
Table of Contents:
For the purpose of this policy, Fraud is defined as (but not limited to) the unauthorized exploitation of material protected by copyright (Copyright Infringement); the use of (modified) artist, band or label names or artwork which may create confusion or false expectations related to content which is served to consumers by DMS (i.e., Musical Spam); the use of automated digital bots or other means to "click" on payment-generating links pretending to be consumers (i.e., Click Fraud), producing unnatural and fraudulent incomes; the upload of distorted music also to generate revenues and other unauthorized activities coming from disloyal users.
Fraud in all its forms is wrong, and is unacceptable to us.
This is because where fraud occurs:
Our objective is that fraudulent usage of our Services is eliminated. Any indications of fraud will be rigorously investigated and dealt with in a firm and controlled way.
What DMS are doing about it
Most DMS use a mix of algorithms and humans to scan their catalog to avoid potential fraud or unauthorized use of their service. Once they have identified fraudulent streaming they take down the actual content and inform us about the case, reserving the right to withhold from future payments the amounts previously generated through suspicious activities.
What we are doing about it
We are actively taking action in the following fields:
How we deal with suspected Fraud
The consequences of Fraudulent use of our Platform or Services
Severity, 3-Strike Policy and Blocking of Accounts
Either during our QC process or during the sales confirmation process, our system may alert issues on possible fraudulent content or accounts.
We divide these issues into 3 severity tiers:
F0 and F1: Critical issues related to an End User Account, Issues related to Click Fraud
Once possible fraudulent content or accounts are detected, End User Accounts will be blocked preventively in the following cases which we consider very severe:
F0: Applicable cases
F1: Applicable cases
F2: Issues related to Musical Spamming and Copyright issues
F2: Applicable cases
An account receives a strike when one or more of the following problems are detected:
A release contains compound artist names, using (a mix of) famous artist names added to the release in order to attract consumers to click.
A release contains copyrighted material from someone who is not the Account holder.
We received a content infringement ticket from a DMS.
In case we detect one or more of these factors in an End User account, the End User will receive a ticket or notice, indicating we have detected potential infringing or unauthorized activity and the corresponding account is blocked preventively while information from the End User is required.
Unblocking an account
In case an End User provides the requested information within 5 working days, and the information can be verified, the account can be unblocked.
We may request End Users to take the following steps in order to unblock the account:
Blocked account policy
Three strike Policy
In case We detect an F1 or F2 issue in an End User account, a strike is applied to the account and the End User which uploaded the content will receive a ticket or notice, indicating we have detected potential infringing or unauthorized activity and additional information from the End User may be required.
In case an End User cannot or refuses to provide the requested information within 5 working days, a Strike will be applied to the account. We can apply up to three strikes which have the following consequences:
Once an End User has received three Strikes, we will block the End User's account.
Resolving a Strike
Once a Strike has been applied, we may request End Users to take the following steps in order to release the strike and reduce the risk of blocking their account and/or takedown of the uploaded tracks:
In case we deem, at our sole discretion, that the provided information suffices, the Strike will be resolved. In case the information requirements are not met, the Strike will be applied.
Withholding Royalties ("Escrow") for blocked accounts:
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Shelley's our milking champion
GYMPIE Times reporter Shelley Strachan has come from underdog to milking champion after winning the celebrity milk off at the Gympie Show.
Shelley's family used to own a dairy farm but she admitted she was a bad milker even as a child.
Her competition was Dairy farm owner John Cochrane, who had a handicap (not just his arm in a sling) but started later than the other competitors.
Even though he owns a dairy farm John said he had not milked a cow by hand for a number of years.
During the competition he was even more disadvantaged, his cow kept knocking over his bucket!
Also having a go was Krystle Johnson the Dairy Showgirl and Bankwest's Travis Brockman.
Travis admitted he had not milked a cow in years.
Krystle was a little disadvantaged by the fact she doesn't drink milk, but she was not scared of the cow, unlike Shelley, having grown up around horses.
"I've never milked a cow before, but I've milked a horse," Krystle said.
The cows for the milk off were donated by Nambour High.


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Aubrey O'Day might not be the go-to girl on the subject of intelligence, but in an interview on Fox, she named two men she considers brilliant: Hitler and Fidel Castro.
O'Day, who made her mark by joining and then getting kicked out of Diddy's girl group Danity Kane last year and went on to bare her surgically-enhanced assets in the March issue of Playboy, told Sean Hannity and his panel that she has met and "worked with" the Cuban dictator.
"I'm not defending his behavior in many instances but I do have to say I will 100 percent agree he is an incredibly brilliant man," she opined.
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When an incredulous Hannity asked her if she knew of Castro's murderous record, she said, "I'm sure I've known a lot of murderers."
Hannity, who presumably had O'Day on his show to tap her knowledge of history and politics, asked her if she thought Hitler was brilliant, too.
"Listen, I don't condone Hitler one ounce, but yes, he was a brilliant man," she said.


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Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is the most anticipated new drama, according to TVGuide.com users' Watchlist adds.
The ABC superhero drama, from Joss Whedon and starring Clark Gregg who reprises his Avengers role, is the most-added freshman drama on TVGuide.com's Watchlist, followed by ABC's Once Upon a Time spin-off Once Upon a Time in Wonderland and Fox's futuristic buddy cop series Almost Human from Fringe duo J.J. Abrams and J.H. Wyman.
Add new fall shows to your Watchlist now!Watchlist users have correctly predicted the new seasons' hits: Over the last two years, eight of the 10 most-added new shows received full-season pickups. What are Watchlist users looking forward to this year?Check out the Top 10 new dramas below:1. Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (ABC)2. Once Upon a Time in Wonderland (ABC)3. Almost Human (Fox)4. Dracula (NBC)5. The Blacklist (NBC)6. Sleepy Hollow (Fox)7. Intelligence (CBS) (midseason)8. The 100 (The CW) (midseason)9. The Tomorrow People (The CW)10. The Originals (The CW)Want to make your voice heard? Watch this video to find out how a Watchlist will simplify your TV life. Then, create your own Watchlist and add your favorite shows, celebs, movies and teams. And be sure to download our mobile app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, and our new mobile app for Android, where you'll be able to access your Watchlist.


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October 3rd, 2008
American Tennis: USTA, Fans Asking 'Who's Next?' and 'When?'
If the Williams sisters were to retire with Davenport as of this writing, the U.S. would have no women in the Top 40, and three players in the Top 100 (including the 30+ Jill Craybas, and Ashley Harkleroad who is pregnant). In other words, by the time the Williams retire, U.S. women's tennis will virtually retire with them.
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Otis celebrity photographer Ken Regan dies of cancer in New York
The photos that hang on the walls of The Dream Away Lodge in Becket showcase a legendary party held there in 1975, attended by the likes of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez.
But the man at the party behind the camera lens, Otis photographer Ken Regan, is arguably just as legendary in his field.
Regan's photos are as iconic as their prominent subjects: Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Muhammad Ali. A list of famous faces that don't appear in his online portfolio would probably be shorter than the list of ones that do. His snapshots have graced the front covers of "Entertainment Weekly," "Sports Illustrated" and "Time."
Regan died of cancer Sunday in New York City at the age of -- actually, nobody ever knew his age, even when he was alive.
"He was 'The Ageless Photographer,' " said Tom Justino, who has worked at Regan's Camera 5 studio in New York City for about 15 years.
"I grew with him through the years, and as the industry changed, we changed," Justino said.
Though Regan often rubbed shoulders with musicians, actors and politicians at rowdy A-list functions, he always found himself back in the quaint Berkshire hills. There was, however, that less-quaint Nov. 7, 1975, party at The Dream Away Lodge.
The story, according to former Time magazine and Entertainment Weekly Editor Don Morrison, is that Regan was traveling on the Rolling Thunder Revue bus when Dylan and Baez asked him where to stop for a discrete bite to eat. The love affair between Baez and Dylan is legend unto itself.
Per Regan's request, Dylan and Baez, alongside beat poet Alan Ginsberg, stopped at the lodge at 1342 County Road in Becket. The quaint dinner turned into a party, and a photoshoot for Regan.
"Ken was a great friend of the house," said Daniel Osman, the lodge's current owner. "Shortly after I bought it [in 1997], he said he was so thrilled that someone was saving the joint. He loved the place."
The party is featured in the 1978 film "Renaldo and Clara." Dream Away Lodge hosts a party every Nov. 7 to honor the anniversary of the Rolling Thunder Revue party, Regan's photos from the 1975 bash hanging as a reminder.
Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards wrote the foreword for Regan's 2011 book, "The Rock & Roll Photography of Ken Regan: Dylan, The Stones, Hendrix and More."
"When I know a lot of photographers and they all have a personal style. When I see Ken in front of me, I know what he's waiting for... the moment," Richards' foreword reads.
Regan's career may have been made from his still photographs, but according to Berkshire International Film Festival Founder Kelley Vickery, "Ken was a real film guy. That was his medium."
Regan served alongside Vickery on the festival's founding board in 2006.
"He was a real supporter and champion of the festival," Vickery said. "He never missed a BIFF, except for one."
Morrison, who has retired from his editorial positions and now divides his time between Becket and Paris, recalled how accessible Regan was in the Berkshires, cruising the streets in his expensive cars but remaining "accessible, available and enormously sympathetic."
"His real secret was that he was enormously likable, the nicest guy you'd ever meet," Morrison said. "He made people, and I think especially the famous people he dealt with, very reassured. Ken was very discreet."
Morrison said that he was a "great photographer with a wonder eye," and one of the favorites at "Entertainment Weekly."
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My first foray into video editing! I managed to compile the footage and stitch together some audio as well. There are enough boss strategy videos out there that explain what the overall raid needs to be doing on different encounters. My focus here was to target the individual who was healing. I'm not the perfect, top-tier Priest so you'll catch a glimpse of several misplays throughout the video that I've made. All the while, I'll be narrating the things I'm doing and why I did them. Therefore, it is assumed that viewers know the mechanics of the encounter.
You can tell by listening to the first several seconds that I'm extremely nervous and it took a few retakes when I was recording before I managed to calm my nerves.
The narrations will sound different periodically because I was experimenting with different amplification levels and microphone distances. Initially, I started writing down what I wanted to say at different points and then just recording it into Adobe Audition before importing them back into Movie Maker. About halfway through, I just gave up and recorded the rest of it in one shot on the fly without any serious scripting at all. We used to play a game in drama class that involved doing a bit of improv so I figured I could wing the rest of it. It's the same thing during any sort of in-class skits, right? Get the rough outline and improvise the rest of it on the fly.
The various voices you'll hear throughout the video is chatter from vent. I decided to leave them in there largely because I haven't figured out how to strip them. Also, it's there as a glimpse into the way my raids operate.
Next video is on Sindragosa which I hope will be infinitely better.
Things I need to improve on
Problem: Expanding into high-def or widescreen at least
Solution: No idea yet
Problem: It'd nice if I could freeze frame for a few seconds
Solution: Software issue? I'm using Movie Maker, but I'm going to see if I can grab an educational copy of Vegas from school at some point
Problem: Zooming in and drawing football-style X's and O's
Solution: Ditto the above
Problem: Too tense and nervous
Solution: Two beers
Your thoughts? Again, this is my first video so be nice. Once I get better and more polished, I'll put subsequent ones on the WoW dot Com Youtube channel. I didn't feel that this one was particularly up to snuff yet. But, I wanted to at least get my feet wet.
Software: Adobe Audition, Movie Maker, Fraps.


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Welcome to Wisconsin and to the English Language Transition Program for ESL students at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls ... a GREAT place to learn English!
The mission of the English Language Transition (ELT) Program is to assist non-native English learners to develop and strengthen the knowledge and language skills necessary to achieve their academic, professional, and personal goals. The ELT Program provides a supportive learning environment for students while fostering social and intercultural understanding.
The goal of the ELT Program is to strengthen student's academic skills. This goal is accomplished by a variety of classroom activities including:
UW-River Falls offers ESL courses at the following levels: intermediate and advanced. Students are placed in classes based on the ELT Placement Procedures. Students can start at the beginning of the semester or in the middle of the semester.
An important part of the International Student experience is to learn about the people and customs of the United States. The UWRF Office of Student Life has many opportunities for students to be involved on campus and in the community.
Students can use the English as a Second Language Center for Speaker's Corner or extra tutoring help. Information on hours are located on the website.
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Recently Google+ revamped its policy on names -- no real name, no service -- around the same time that some people noticed an addition to the new network -- Apple founder and chief executive Steve Jobs.
While it's unknown if this was the real Steve Jobs, it used his likeness and numerous Jobs buzzwords in the "About" section: "I'm looking for a fixer-upper with a solid foundation. Am willing to tear down walls, build bridges, and light fires. I have great experience, lots of energy, a bit of that 'vision thing,' and I'm not afraid to start from the beginning," according to CNET.
But by late Wednesday, the account seemed to be missing from Google+. So did Google ax Steve Jobs? Or was it merely ridding the social network of another fake name? If so, it still hasn't gotten rid of "False Steve Jobs"
While we don't really think the account was from the real Steve Jobs (he could never be that self-deprecating,) it does make us wonder how Google+ knows who's authentic and who's not? Chances are they don't either . . . until they get complaints.


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Pre-Imagine meet up with Orange Collar Media- Techies on the Strip!
Orange Collar Media
Sunday, April 22, 2012 at 5:30 PM (PDT)
Event Details
Who: Orange Collar Media Presents: Techies on the Strip! Join us for a pre-Imagine Meet-up
What: Meet up for Imagine attendees
When: Sunday April 22nd 5:30pm
Where: Eyecandy Soundlounge & Bar
Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
3950 Las Vegas Blvd. South
Las Vegas, Nevada 89119
Join us for a casual get together at the Eyecandy Lounge in Mandalay Bay! This will be a great opportunity to connect with those who are attending the Imagine conference before our busy schedules begin on Monday.
We look forward to seeing you all!
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The Scarecrow 2013
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Postcard Paintings 2013 - 2015
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Pro-abortion advocates traveled to Albany the other day to push for the passage of the Governor's abortion expansion proposal, which is embedded in the "Women's Equality Act". This plan first saw light as the "Reproductive Health Act". The Senate has already passed nine out of the ten parts of the WEA, which deal with such issues as domestic violence, pay equity, etc. But the Assembly refuses to pass the valuable and good elements of the WEA, because their leadership insists on including the abortion expansion plan.
In conjunction with the pro-abortion rally in Albany, the Assembly voted once again to pass the entire WEA, with the abortion expansion plan included. Editorial boards of newspapers around the state have been voicing their support for the WEA. In response to one such editorial, I submitted the following letter to the editor:
I am writing in response to your editorial calling for the passage of the full 10-point "Women's Equality Act." In your editorial, you note that the bill stalled in the Senate last year due to the provision that related to abortion. But you mis-characterize that section of the bill, claiming that it would merely "codify existing federal abortion rights as affirmed in Roe v. Wade".
In fact, the Governor's proposal is much more radical, and would expand abortion rights beyond current federal and state law. It would remove any obstacles to late-term abortions, and would allow non-doctors to do surgical abortions, even late-term abortions up until the moment of birth.
The bill also ignores regulations on abortion that have already been codified in federal law and that enjoy wide support among the public — like restrictions on public funding, a partial birth abortion ban, the criminalization of violence against unborn children, and robust conscience protections for medical practitioners who don't want to participate in abortion. It likewise ignores reasonable regulations of abortion that enjoy wide public support in our state and across the nation. Polls consistently show that wide majorities of New Yorkers oppose late-term abortions and permitting non-doctors to do surgical abortions, and they support reasonable regulations like parental notification requirements and full informed consent provisions.
The Senate rejected the abortion provision of the Women's Equality Act because the people of New York State don't want an expansion of abortion. Most New Yorkers realize that 110,000 abortions are already far too many, and that too many men and women have been wounded by abortion.
The Legislature could pass the beneficial and uncontroversial provisions of the Women's Equality Act at any time — the individual components have been introduced in the Assembly and the Senate has already passed them. They shouldn't be held hostage to a radical agenda that seeks to expand abortion.
Abortion activists will never compromise in their efforts to enact this abortion expansion plan. They will accept no limitations on abortion, and are not even satisfied with the current status quo. Pro-life people, and those who consider themselves "pro-choice" but are uncomfortable with abortion expansion, need to make their voices heard. The best way is through the New York State Catholic Conference's Action Center.
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The quirky new film Somebody Up There Likes Me takes place in a world in which people are numb to their existence and in which time, in the ordinary sense of the word, does not seem to exist at all. We are told that time progresses, and characters live their lives and die, but everyone seems to remain as indifferent to their own existence and oblivious of the outside world by the movie's end as at the beginning. The story's main character, Max (Keith Poulson), is the main offender, perhaps because in the scheme of the film, he does not age at all over the many decades that the story takes place, but remains perpetually youthful. His youth, however, belies the fact that his life is essentially a joyless, largely indifferent progression through the motions. He is not only babyfaced but perhaps the ultimate blank slate. When we first meet Max, we learn that he has already been married and divorced to an equally youthful-looking woman (Kate Lyn Sheil), who, when she married Max, wore yellow because "it wasn't her first rodeo."
Both of these characters seem far too young to have been married once, yet alone twice, but, as we are to learn by the end of the movie, in this world, every relationship is doomed. Max is a waiter at an upscale steakhouse, and he takes a shine (as far as he as capable of having enthusiasm for anything) to a co-worker, Lyla (Jess Weixler), the daughter of a corrupt cop (Marshall Bell), whom he soon marries. When we first meet her, Lyla is not only fresh faced, but she seems to have a childlike innocence. The movie intermittently flashes forward every so often to "five years later," but because Max doesn't age, we develop his perspective and not only have no sense of time, but seemingly no sense that anybody has changed in any way. Lyla becomes cold towards Max, who remains the walking yet seemingly anesthetized person he was when they first met. He is chillingly callous towards their young son Lyle ("maybe we should send this one back", he says in his presence,) but he manages to move on sexually to a fixation with a young woman, Clarissa (Stephanie Bell), whom he first propositions on a street from his car and turns out to be the babysitter that Lyla has hired while they go to dinner while Lyla's father tells them that he has liver cancer. After the father's death, he leaves them a fortune in pilfered money, and Clarissa becomes the family's nanny, five years later, of course. Along for the ride is a Max's best friend, another waiter at the steakhouse, Sal (Nick Offerman, who produced the film as well), who moves into their guest house when they find prosperity. Fortunately for Lyle, he finds a father figure in Sal (though Lyle later identifies him as "avuncular"), and a mother figure in his nanny. When Max comes out to the back yard, where Clarissa and Lyle are seated poolside, he motions her to get away from Lyle, not so he can sit down next to him, but so they can steal away to the poolhouse to have sex. Eventually, Max's marriage to Lyla ends, and his subsequent relationship with Clarissa ends, too, with a twist that is both funny and incredibly depressing.
The movie's writer/director, Bob Byington (is that his real name?), sees perpetual youth not as a blessing of health and good looks, but as a curse of eternal callowness. Relationships are almost congenitally doomed, though he never gives us his characters any reasons why they would feel strongly enough to pursue a relationship in the first place. When Lyla betrays Max with Sal, it hardly seems like a betrayal, yet her increasing coldness towards him manages to be quite a depressing development. The movie is mannered in the style of a Wes Anderson, but the movie whose spirit most hangs over Somebody Up There Likes Me is that of Synecdoche, New York, Charlie Kaufman's 2008 directorial debut. In that movie, time moved forward (though in that film we could actually see the progression of
age in the characters,) but the main character, played by Philip Seymour Hoffman, was incapable of realizing it, and Kaufman merely skidded over the major events and changes in his protagonist's life. Byington uses the same approach, such as when Max and Sal decide to open a restaurant that serves only pizza and ice cream. The scene when Sal, who's done all of the legwork for the business, finally encounters the business's first customer, only to be frustrated by both the customer's inane questions and Max's hectoring that he adapt appropriate language that indicates that "we" are serving you, is by far the most memorable scene in the movie. However, the business takes off to meteoric hights, five years later (of course!), and we have absolutely no sense how the business took off, and, of course, it had no effect on the characters. It's one thing to condemn people for being callow, but it's another thing together to make the characters nothing.
Given the fact that they had very little to work with, it's hard to expect much from the actors. As Max, Keith Poulson may have been a bit too blank, which is saying something, given the nothingness that is how the character is conceived. His acting was too amateurish to give Max any sort of inner life. Jess Weixler was, at first, a simple yet lovable presence, but over time, she hardened to the same state of numbness; I preferred it when she was just simple. The same thing happened to Stephanie Bell's Clarissa, and Max's first, unnamed ex-wife, who seemed to be bitter when we meet her. Is this Max's effect on people, or is Byington saying that we come to see women (or maybe just people in general) for who they really are over time? I have no way of being sure. The only person who seemed to breathe life into his charater was Offerman, who plays a reliable and loyal friend to Max, even when he's angling to sleep with his wife. In the scene when he and Max conceive of the restaurant and Offerman kisses him on the cheek, it seemed as if he couldn't resist letting us know that he was having fun. The movie is filled with little touches; in fact, one might say that it's composed of nothing but little touches. Byington is a clever writer, perhaps too clever. I enjoyed many of the scenes of banter between the character, and the mixture of visual and verbal gags, but with few exceptions, most of them dissolved in my mind shortly after I saw them, so that even after seeing the movie, I couldn't remember them. There's a good deal of imagination here, and quite a few laughs, but ultimately, when a story is conceived in which the characters are this hollow, it hollowed me out too.


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I have now uploaded The Royal Puzzle to the games section (http://www.adrift.co/game/1478). The Royal Puzzle is one of the most famous puzzles in interactive fiction. People tend to either love it or hate it. If you have never played it, give it a try.
The game is an ADRIFT conversion of The Royal Puzzle contained in the game ZORK from 1979, also known as Dungeon. Later on the puzzle was included in Zork III.
One of Zork III's challenges, the Royal Puzzle, is often singled out as Infocom's hardest. [Nick Montfort]
For this reason a hint sheet is available here: http://www.emsolutions.dk/adrift/RoyalPuzzleHintSheet.txt
Finding the minimum number of moves required to solve it was a popular pastime among dedicated Zorkers for a while. [Tim Anderson & Stu Galley]
For this reason the game contains a high score list which will be updated whenever people send in their high score (fewest number of moves).
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When BlueAnt introduced the BlueAnt V1 last year, we were blown away by BlueAnt's unique voice user interface, making the V1 the world's first voice-controlled Bluetooth headset. Indeed, we could pair and manage calls just by going through a series of voice prompts, without ever having to look at the manual. The sound quality wasn't too shabby, either. BlueAnt has not stopped there, though. This year, it introduced an updated version of the V1 with the BlueAnt Q1, a headset with the same voice user interface plus a new design. We encountered a few issues with it; however, it's overall a quality headset with great performance. The addition of voice controls and incoming caller ID is particularly helpful in places with hands-free calling laws for drivers. The BlueAnt Q1 will be available in May for $129 MSRP.
One of our criticisms of the BlueAnt V1 was its less than remarkable design. BlueAnt seems to have taken that to heart, as the Q1 looks dramatically different from its predecessors. Measuring 2.17 inches long by 0.63 inch wide by 0.27 inch deep, the Q1 has a sleek gunmetal design that's slightly curved outward. On the front is large multifunction call button with the BlueAnt logo on it, while the volume keys are on the right side. All buttons are easy to press, though the volume increase key is a bit on the small side.
On the back of the Q1 is an earpiece covered in a soft silicone ear bud. The ear bud is slightly tapered toward the bottom to fit snugly in the ear. The Q1 comes with two different size ear buds for different size ears. There's also an optional ear hook for additional stability. We found the ear bud to fit quite comfortably, but we admit that it does take a bit of fiddling so that it fits just right. This is especially important since the dual microphones on the Q1 needs to line up with your mouth for the best performance. Wearing the right size ear bud is quite crucial to this--wearing one that is too small or too large might result in the Q1 shifting ever so slightly away from this alignment. When the alignment is off, the voice controls won't work as well.
We paired the BlueAnt Q1 with the Apple iPhone 3G and the Samsung Blackjack. Like with the V1, there was no need to refer to the manual to know how to pair the devices. Just wear the Q1, turn it on, and follow the voice prompt tutorial to pair and connect your phone. When you first turn it on, the Q1 automatically goes into pairing mode. However, if you want to do it manually, just say "Pair Me" as a voice command. The BlueAnt Q1 has multipoint technology, which means we could connect to both the iPhone and the Blackjack at the same time. Bear in mind that you have to press the multifunction button every time you want to say a voice command.
The voice user interface is definitely one of the highlights of the BlueAnt Q1. There's no voice recognition tutorial; it'll recognize your voice right away. If you feel lost and want some clues on how to use the voice interface, just say "Teach Me" for some tips and tricks. Other voice commands include "What can I say?", which will just list the different voice commands, and "Phone commands," which will activate the voice command feature on your phone. You can say, "Answer" to answer a call, "Ignore" to reject it, "Redial" for last number redial, "Check Battery" for battery status, and you can say "Call" followed by one of eight speed dial numbers. Unlike the V1, you cannot map the "Call" command to specific words like "Home" or "voice mail." There isn't a "Call GOOG-411" service either.
We did encounter a couple of problems with the voice controls. As we mentioned, angling the headset toward the mouth is the best way to get the voice commands to work. If the alignment is off, we found the voice controls not to be as good. For example, we would say something like "Settings Menu" and it would redial a number instead. This also sometimes happened if we were in a very noisy environment, since your voice needs to be louder than the surrounding noise in order for the voice controls to work properly.


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воскресенье, 29 января 2012 г.
Cranberry&Nut Pie
I think cranberry is real winter berry. In a duet with sugar or icing sugar it can become a pleasant treat for children and grown-ups, and the whole berries will decorate even the most ordinary pie just like scarlet beads.
Sugared cranberry is a sweet which I remember from my childhood. Although its sweetness is a moot idea. I like the contrast of the flavors: sweet at the beginning and pleasantly bitter when the berry splits.
Another perfect combination is cranberry, nuts and dark chocolate. Especially if it is on the spicy shortcake. A piece of such cake will be good addition to morning coffee or evening tea. And I don't mind having it at lunch.
пятница, 27 января 2012 г.
Double Peanut Cupcakes
понедельник, 2 января 2012 г.
Chocolate&Nut Cookies
It came!
Happy New Year, my friends! Let this year give you much luck, joy and happiness. Wish you strong health and inspiration. There are a lot of plans, there is much more willing to realize the dreams. I believe that everything will come true!
And now...now is the first day of the New Year. Let yourself be a bit lazy, eat delicious food, observe the presents - do all what you want!
суббота, 31 декабря 2011 г.
Persimmon&Honey Panna Cotta
Creamy Persimmon&Honey Panna Cotta will become a great weekend breakfast. You'd better cook it in the evening - then you can treat yourself with a tasty dessert in the morning. Of course, if somebody very bright didn't walk into your kitchen at night and didn't regale yourself ahead of time.
The dessert is bright and cheerful and will be a good decoration of a festive table. Light and tender desserts lovers appreciate it, I promise you.
четверг, 22 декабря 2011 г.
Black currant cupcakes with coconut frosting
Sweet lovers, exult! Today there will be cupcakes. Not ordinary cupcakes. Their originality is thanks for home-made blackcurrant jam, hidden inside, and airy coconut and cream-cheese frosting. They are incredibly tender, aroma and beautiful - the best present for your friends and parents. But don't tell what is hidden inside. Let it be a pleasant surprise!
воскресенье, 18 декабря 2011 г.
Green olive baked chicken
Today there will be a chicken recipe. With cherry tomatoes and olives. What should I do if I like it so much? More than that it takes so few actions from you - the oven makes the main work. It's especially actual now. It's time to "walk" your new snow-white skates, skis or even snowboard. Or borrow sleds from your little brother or sister and, happily screaming, slide from the mountain. With snow falling on the face, red cheeks, sparks in the eyes and a big desire to do it once more. All what you want except cooking! Thanks for those people who invented such easy, quick and tasty recipes.
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Indiana had a hell of a season. Beat Kentucky. Beat Ohio State. Beat Michigan State. Lost to Kentucky in the regional semis. Still, a spectacular showing, and the Hoosiers are preseason No. 1s and prepared to do even greater things. So why not treat that 2011-12 season as a prelude, as just the start of a dynasty?
Or you can hand out commemorative rings the night before the season opener. What better way to celebrate how you made it to just four wins from a championship? Sophomore guard Remy Abell posted his, and they're lovely. "Sweet Sixteen" engraved on the front, "27 Wins Defeating #1 #2 #5" on the side. This is the sort of thing a Cinderella CAA team does. The Big Ten is going to be dominant in hoops this year—I'm sure the students of rival schools won't mockingly bring this up throughout the season.
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I've been a fan of Matt Damon's since Good Will Hunting. In the thirteen years since that film got released, Damon has starred in countless films and even though he is known the world over, every time that I've been fortunate enough to talk to him, he's always been beyond cool and willing to answer any question. So when I sat down to talk about his new film The Adjustment Bureau for our partners at Omelete, I figured I was in for a good conversation. However, no matter what I was thinking when I walked in, I left the room even more impressed with Damon. That's because when I first walked in he told me how much he loved my Goodfellas t-shirt and then we spent a few minutes talking about Martin Scorsese and Goodfellas. He was going to tell me a Godfather Part 2 story when I actually forced him to switch gears. However, after telling me some great stories about making The Adjustment Bureau, Damon gave me updates on Cameron Crowe's We Built a Zoo and Neill Blomkamp's Elysium.
But I've left out the best part.
At the end of the interview, I told him I'd love to hear his Godfather Part 2 story and then he smiled and proceeded to tell me an awesome story about the making of The Godfather Part 2 which he must have heard from either Scorsese or Francis Ford Coppola. I'm a huge fan of the Godfather films and had never heard what he told me. If you're a fan of Damon's, or just want to hear an awesome actor geek out like the film nerd that he is, you definitely want to hit the jump:
Finally, for more on writer-director George Nolfi's romance/thriller The Adjustment Bureau, click here to watch 7 clips. The film also stars Emily Blunt, Terence Stamp, John Slattery and Anthony Mackie.
Matt Damon
- We talk about my t-shirt
- What are some of his favorite films. He talks about Goodfellas
- We then talk about The Godfather Part 2
- How did he get involved with The Adjustment Bureau
- We talk about how the film balances a love story and sci-fi
- How is working with Cameron Crowe on We Built a Zoo
- What's up with Neill Blomkamp's Elysium. Says he shoots this summer
- Ends the interview with an AWESOME Godfather Part 2 story


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Pork & rosemary lasagne
Nutrition and extra info
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal425
- fat7g
- saturates2g
- carbs45g
- sugars0g
- fibre3g
- protein41g
- salt1.03g
- 1 tsp olive oil, plus extra for greasing
Olive oilol-iv oyl
Probably the most widely-used oil in cooking, olive oil is pressed from fresh olives. It's…
- 400g lean minced pork (less than 5% fat)
- 1 onion, finely chopped
Onions are endlessly versatile and an essential ingredient in countless recipes. Native to Asia…
- 2 sticks celery, finely chopped
A collection of long, thick, juicy stalks around a central, tender heart, celery ranges in…
- 1 tsp dried rosemary
Rosemary's intense, fragrant aroma has traditionally been paired with lamb, chicken and game…
- 150ml white wine
- 425ml chicken stock
- 2 tbsp tomato purée
- 400g can chopped tomato
A member of the nightshade family (along with aubergines, peppers and chillies), tomatoes are in…
- 1 tsp cornflour
- 2 x 250g tubs quark
This is a soft, smooth curd cheese with a refreshingly light acidity. It ranges from low-fat…
- 250ml skimmed milk
- freshly grated nutmeg
One of the most useful of spices for both sweet and savoury…
- 10 dried lasagne sheets, about 175g/6oz in total
- 15g/½oz freshly grated parmesan (about 5 tbsp)
Parmesan is a straw-coloured hard cheese with a natural yellow rind and rich, fruity flavour. It…
Preheat the oven to 190C/Gas 5/fan oven 170C. Heat the oil in a non-stick pan, add the pork and quickly fry until starting to become brown and crumbly. Add the onion, celery, rosemary and wine and bring to the boil. Cover and gently cook for 10 minutes, until softened.
Add the stock, tomato purée, canned tomatoes, and season. Stir well, then bring to the boil, cover and simmer for 30 minutes by which time it will be nicely pulpy. Blend the cornflour to a paste with a few drops of water, then add to the pan and cook briefly until slightly thickened. Remove from the heat.
Tip the Quark into a bowl. Give it a stir, then stir in the milk, nutmeg, seasoning.
Brush a 1.4 litre/2½ pint oblong dish with a little oil. Spoon a third of the meat over the base, then cover with 2 sheets of lasagne, breaking them to fit, if necessary. Try to avoid overlapping. Spread with a third of the sauce, a little parmesan, then 2 more sheets of lasagne. Repeat layers twice more, omitting the last layer of lasagne and finishing with the sauce.
Sprinkle with remaining parmesan and bake for 30-35 minutes, until golden and tender.


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Trying to ID this pin that belonged to my mother. Can't find any markings on the back, there is one red stone missing in one of the red flowers. The piece has green enamel paint leaves and a burnt orange enamel paint stem. Does anyone every seen anything like this pin?


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Black Women and Beauty Culture in 20th-Century America
Maxine Leeds Craig
Black beauty culture developed in the context of widespread disparagement of black men and women in images produced by whites, and black women's exclusion from mainstream cultural institutions, such as beauty contests, which defined beauty standards on a national scale. Though mainstream media rarely represented black women as beautiful, black women's beauty was valued within black communities. Moreover many black women used cosmetics, hair products and styling, and clothing to meet their communities' standards for feminine appearance. At the beginning of the 20th century, the black press, which included newspapers, general magazines, and women's magazines, showcased the beauty of black women. As early as the 1890s, black communities organized beauty contests that celebrated black women's beauty and served as fora for debating definitions of black beauty. Still, generally, but not always, the black press and black women's beauty pageants favored women with lighter skin tones, and many cosmetics firms that marketed to black women sold skin lighteners. The favoring of light skin was nonetheless debated and contested within black communities, especially during periods of heightened black political activism. In the 1910s and 1920s and later in the 1960s and 1970s, social movements fostered critiques of black aesthetics and beauty practices deemed Eurocentric. One focus of criticism was the widespread black practice of hair straightening—a critique that has produced an enduring association between hairstyles perceived as natural and racial pride. In the last decades of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st, African migration and the transnational dissemination of information via the internet contributed to a creative proliferation of African American hairstyles. While such styles display hair textures associated with African American hair, and are celebrated as natural hairstyles, they generally require the use of hair products and may incorporate synthetic hair extensions.
Beauty culture provided an important vehicle for African American entrepreneurship at a time when racial discrimination barred black women from other opportunities and most national cosmetics companies ignored black women. Black women's beauty-culture business activities included beauticians who provided hair care in home settings and the extremely successful nationwide and international brand of hair- and skin-care products developed in the first two decades of the 20th century by Madam C. J. Walker. Hair-care shops provided important places for sharing information and community organizing. By the end of the 20th century, a few black-owned hair-care and cosmetics companies achieved broad markets and substantial profitability, but most declined or disappeared as they faced increased competition from or were purchased by larger white-owned corporations.
Black Women's Internationalism from the Age of Revolutions to World War I
Brandon R. Byrd
Black internationalism describes the political culture and intellectual practice forged in response to slavery, colonialism, and white imperialism. It is a historical and ongoing collective struggle against racial oppression rooted in global consciousness. While the expression of black internationalism has certainly changed across time and place, black liberation through collaboration has been and remains its ultimate goal.
Since the emergence of black internationalism as a result of the transatlantic slave trade and during the Age of Revolutions, black women such as the poet Phyllis Wheatley and evangelist Rebecca Protten have been at its forefront. Their writings and activism espoused an Afro-diasporic, global consciousness and promoted the cause of universal emancipation. During the 19th century, black women internationalists included abolitionists, missionaries, and clubwomen. They built on the work of their predecessors while laying the foundations for succeeding black women internationalists in the early 20th century. By World War I, a new generation of black women activists and intellectuals remained crucial parts of the International Council of Women, an organization founded by white suffragists from the United States, and the Universal Negro Improvement Association, a global organization formally led by Jamaican pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey. But they also formed an independent organization, the International Council of Women of the Darker Races (ICWDR).
Within and outside of the ICWDR, black women from Africa and the African Diaspora faced and challenged discrimination on the basis of their sex and race. Their activism and intellectual work set a powerful precedent for a subsequent wave of black internationalism shaped by self-avowed black feminists.
The 1960s
Robert O. Self
Few decades in American history reverberate with as much historical reach or glow as brightly in living mythology as the 1960s. During those years Americans reanimated and reinvented the core political principles of equality and liberty but, in a primal clash that resonates more than half a century later, fiercely contested what those principles meant, and for whom. For years afterward, the decade's appreciators considered the era to have its own "spirit," defined by greater freedoms and a deeper, more authentic personhood, and given breath by a youthful generation's agitation for change in nearly every dimension of national life. To its detractors in subsequent decades, the era was marked by immature radical fantasies and dangerous destabilizations of the social order, behind which lay misguided youthful enthusiasms and an overweening, indulgent federal government. We need not share either conviction to appreciate the long historical shadow cast by the decade's clashing of left, right, and center and its profound influence over the political debates, cultural logics, and social practices of the many years that followed.
The decade's political and ideological clashes registered with such force because post–World War II American life was characterized by a society-wide embrace of antiradicalism and a prescribed normalcy. Having emerged from the war as the lone undamaged capitalist industrial power, the United States exerted enormous influence throughout the globe after 1945—so much that some historians have called the postwar years a "pax Americana." In its own interest and in the interest of its Western allies, the United States engaged in a Cold War standoff with the Soviet Union over the fate of Europe and no less over the fate of developing countries on every continent. Fiercely anticommunist abroad and at home, U.S. elites stoked fears of the damage communism could do, whether in Eastern Europe or in a public school textbook. Americans of all sorts in the postwar years embraced potent ideologies justifying the prevailing order, whether that order was capitalist, patriarchal, racial, or heterosexual. They pursued a postwar "normalcy" defined by nuclear family domesticity and consumer capitalism in the shadow cast by the threat of communism and, after 1949, global thermonuclear war with the Soviet Union. This prevailing order was stultifying and its rupture in the 1960s is the origin point of the decade's great dramas.
The social movements of that decade drew Americans from the margins of citizenship—African Americans, Latina/o, Native Americans, women, and gay men and lesbians, among others—into epochal struggles over the withheld promise of equality. For the first time since 1861, an American war deeply split the nation, nearly destroying a major political party and intensifying a generational revolt already under way. Violence, including political assassinations at the highest level, bombings and assassinations of African Americans, bombings by left-wing groups like the Weathermen, and major urban uprisings by African Americans against police and property bathed the country in more blood. The New Deal liberalism of Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman reached its postwar peak in 1965 under President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and then retreated amid acrimony and backlash, as a new conservative politics gained traction. All this took place in the context of a "global 1960s," in which societies in Western and Eastern Europe, Latin America, Africa, and elsewhere experienced similar generational rebellions, quests for meaningful democracy, and disillusionment with American global hegemony. From the first year of the decade to the last, the 1960s were a watershed era that marked the definitive end of a "postwar America" defined by easy Cold War dualities, presumptions of national innocence, and political calcification.
To explain the foregoing, this essay is organized in five sections. First comes a broad overview of the decade, highlighting some of its indelible moments and seminal political events. The next four sections correspond to the four signature historical developments of the 1960s. Discussed first is the collapse of the political consensus that predominated in national life following World War II. We can call this consensus "Vital Center liberalism," after the title of a 1949 book by Arthur Schlesinger Jr., or "Cold War liberalism." Its assault from both the New Left and the New Right is one of the defining stories of the 1960s. Second is the resurgence, after a decades-long interregnum dating to Reconstruction, of African American political agency. The black freedom struggle of the 1960s was far more than a social movement for civil rights. To shape the conditions of national life and the content of public debate in ways impossible under Jim Crow, black American called for nothing less than a spiritual and political renewal of the country. Third, and following from the latter, is the emergence within the American liberal tradition of a new emphasis on expanding individual rights and ending invidious discrimination. Forged in conjunction with the black freedom movement by women, Latino/as, Asian Americans, Native Americans, and homophiles (as early gay rights activists were called) and gay liberationists, this new emphasis profoundly changed American law and set the terms of political debate for the next half century. Fourth and lastly, the 1960s witnessed the flourishing of a broad and diverse culture of anti-authoritarianism. In art, politics, and social behavior, this anti-authoritarianism took many forms, but at its heart lay two distinct historical phenomena: an ecstatic celebration of youth, manifest in the tension between the World War II generation and the baby boom generation, and an intensification of the long-standing conflict in American life between individualism and hierarchical order.
Despite the disruptions, rebellions, and challenges to authority in the decade, the political and economic elite proved remarkably resilient and preserved much of the prevailing order. This is not to discount the foregoing account of challenges to that order or to suggest that social change in the 1960s made little difference in American life. However, in grappling with this fascinating decade we are confronted with the paradox of outsized events and enormous transformations in law, ideology, and politics alongside a continuation, even an entrenchment, of traditional economic and political structures and practices.
Women and Religion in Colonial North America and the United States
Catherine A. Brekus
Historically, women in colonial North America and the United States have been deeply influenced by their religious traditions. Even though world religions like Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam are based on scriptural traditions that portray women as subordinate to men, women have made up the majority of most religious groups in America. While some Americans have used religious arguments to limit women's legal, political, and economic rights, others have drawn on scripture to defend women's dignity and equality. Women's religious beliefs have shaped every aspect of their lives, including their choices about how to structure their time, their attitudes toward sexuality and the body, and their understanding of suffering. Unlike early American Catholic women, who saw their highest religious calling as the sisterhood, most white colonial women identified their primary religious vocation as ministering to their families. In the 19th century, however, white Protestant women become increasingly involved in reform movements like temperance, abolitionism, and women's suffrage, and African-American, Native American, Asian-American, and Latina women used religious arguments to challenge assumptions about white racial supremacy. In the 20th century, growing numbers of women from many different religious traditions have served as religious leaders, and in some cases they have also demanded ordination. Despite these dramatic changes in religious life, however, many religiously conservative women opposed the Equal Rights Amendment during the 1970s and early 1980s, and in the first decades of the 21st century they have continued to identify feminism and religion as antithetical.
Women in the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements
Christina Greene
Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X are the names that come to mind for most Americans if asked about the civil rights or Black Power movements. Others may point to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, both of whom backed pathbreaking civil rights legislation. However, recent scholarship suggests that neither black male leaders nor white male presidents were always the most important figures in the modern struggle for black freedom. Presidents took their cues not simply from male luminaries in civil rights organizations. Rather, their legislative initiatives were largely in response to grassroots protests in which women, especially black women, were key participants. African American women played major roles in local and national organizing efforts and frequently were the majority in local chapters of groups as dissimilar as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Black Panther Party. Even familiar names like Rosa Parks and Coretta Scott King have become little more than sanitized national icons, while their decades-long efforts to secure racial, economic, and gender justice remain relatively unknown. Aside from activists and scholars, even fewer of us know much, if anything, about the female allies of the black freedom struggle, including white southerners as well as other women of color. A closer look at the women who made enormous contributions to both the modern civil rights and Black Power movements sheds new light on these struggles, including the historic national victories we think we fully understand, such as the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision and the 1965 Voting Rights Act. In short, examining women's participation in the "long civil rights movement," which historians increasingly date to the New Deal and World War II, calls for a redefinition of more conventional notions of leadership, protest, and politics.
Women's Rights, Abolitionism, and Reform in Antebellum and Gilded Age America
Faye E. Dudden
The U.S. women's rights movement first emerged in the 1830s, when the ideological impact of the Revolution and the Second Great Awakening combined with a rising middle class and increasing education to enable small numbers of women, encouraged by a few sympathetic men, to formulate a critique of women's oppression in early 19th-century America. Most were white, and their access to an expanding print culture and middle class status enabled them to hire domestic servants; they had the time and resources to assess and begin to reject the roles prescribed by cultural domesticity and legal coverture, or the traditional authority of husbands. A critical mass of these rebellious women first emerged among those who had already enlisted in the radical struggle to end slavery. When abolitionists Sarah and Angelina Grimke faced efforts to silence them because they were women, they saw parallels between their own situation and that of the slaves. The Grimkes began to argue that all women and men were created by God as "equal moral beings" and entitled to the same rights. The ideology of the women's movement soon broadened to encompass secular arguments, claiming women's part in a political order ostensibly based on individual rights and consent of the governed. At Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848, and at subsequent women's rights conventions, the participants articulated a wide range of grievances that extended beyond politics into social and family life. Almost all the leading activists in the early women's movement, including Lucretia Mott, Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, were trained in "the school of antislavery," where they learned to withstand public or familial disapproval and acquired practical skills like petitioning and public speaking. The women's rights activists' efforts were complicated by questions about which goals to pursue first and by overlap with other reform efforts, including temperance and moral reform as well as abolition and black rights. Women and men related to the movement in a range of ways—activists were surrounded by a penumbra of non-activist contributors and an interested public, and much grassroots activity probably went unrecorded. After the Civil War destroyed slavery, Reconstruction-era politicians had to define citizenship and rights, especially the right to vote. Realizing this opened a rare window of political opportunity, the women's movement leaders focused on suffrage, but their desperate efforts uncovered ugly racism in their ranks, and they betrayed former black allies. Disagreeing over whether to support the 15th Amendment, which guaranteed the vote to black men only, the women's movement fell into two rival suffrage organizations: Stanton and Anthony's National Woman Suffrage Association, which did not support the 15th Amendment, faced off against the American Woman Suffrage Association, led by Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell. Stymied in their political moves, the suffragists then found their judicial strategy, the "New Departure," checkmated by a conservative Supreme Court. By 1877, the moment of radical opportunity had passed, and though the women's suffrage movement could count a few marginal successes in the West, it had stalled and was increasingly overshadowed by more conservative forms of women's activism like the Women's Christian Temperance Union.


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With the highest bankruptcy figures ever recorded in Australia, all the Area Managers at EC Credit Control are constantly reinforcing the VITAL necessity of registering a security interest in your clients that you extend credit too, as well as stock, materials and equipment on a client's site or premises.
Sadly I received a call from a highly distraught client Eddie, who is a Plasterer based in Peakhurst, at 8.45pm last Tuesday 14th June. Eddie had been reliably informed regarding the impending liquidation of KEYSTONE PROJECTS. Although Eddie has Terms of Trade allowing him to make a valid registration in order to become a secured creditor, he failed to do so. Thus rendering him completely unsecured, dramatically reducing his chances of recouping any or all of the $150,000 he is owed.
It was whilst watching the news that night the story broke to reveal pictures of hundreds of tradies on multiple building sites frantically grabbing anything that belonged to them as the site was being locked down by the liquidators.
This is the sad face of the reality of our current economic climate. There are only 3 groups here, those that will lose something ,those that will lose everything…..and then there are those who have taken on board the advice offered and actioned it, giving them the best chance of coming through these far too frequent situations unscathed.
The question to ask yourself is simply "Which group are you in?"


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